Title: refers to the many females with power featured in this chapter.

Episode Twenty

"Girl Power"

"Stay right where you are!" The Police Chief Jorge Ricardo Gonzales-Gonzales shouts as he and numerous other officers point their weapons at the crazy glowing, floating, red-eyed chicken before them. However, the chicken does not stay where she is. In fact, she begins to hover in their direction, followed by a slightly blackened Giraffe, Poodle and Canary as well as a mass of chickens on the ground.

The officers, being those big manly things they are, open fire on the strangely unnerving sight before them, and find themselves to be in even more of situation when their bullets magically stop in midair by forces incomprehensible to their small little human minds. Tatiana 2.0 is now feeling rather unhappy.

Meanwhile,

Naomi walks the streets of London, all short and happy and humming "Total Eclipse of the Heart". She finds herself drawn to a strange shininess in a shop window down yonder way and crosses the street to get closer, when suddenly a large red double-decker bus comes screaming around the corner and plows right into her! Naomi flies through the air and bounces and tumbles down the street, right into an open manhole and down into the rank depths of the London sewers.

Elsewhere,

She observes the various progressions from her hidden Headquarters and finds things to be going a little less than to Her taste. "Agent 023," she says to a nearby operative. "Search the files acquired from our distant friends."

"Yes, Hoxaab. What shall I search for?" Agent 023 asks.

"Search for all information pertaining to the Gemini," She commands and clicks to enlarge the livefeed in Cairo International.

Meanwhile,

Nimphadora has now descended into the lower concourses to expand her search to include Hikari as well as Pizoku and she has begun to believe some rather negative things in regards to the Japanese and their apparent lack of direction, when she suddenly comes upon a short green alien like creature dragging/pulling the apparently unconscious body of Hikari along on a cart behind him.

Nimphadora freezes in place and the little creature plainly can tell she recognizes the girl. "I can see plainly that you recognize this girl," He states slightly redundantly, "So I will now be generous and quite willing to offer you great things, if you agree to help..."

To Be Continued...

Trivia and Spoilers: This is the first episode written after Denver. I now write solo from here on.

-Tatiana continues to get around despite being a possessed dead chicken. A new police chief is introduced in this chapter.

-I attempted to off Naomi in this chapter, but deliberately left it ambiguous so she could be brought back if necessary.

-She makes her first appearance in the story. Her identity and location remain secret, as does the identity of Agent 023.

-I can no longer recall who is meant by 'distant friends'. I have an idea, but it may not be right.

-The Gemini are Ziv and Zev Bowtani, the characters referred to in the title American Boys.