Hello everyone. Sorry for the wait. I was really busy. So anyway, here's chapter 5.
Chapter 5
The next morning, Linda went to the news department and told her boss Raul Rosario who agree to have a word with her in private as she told her other employees that she would be right back.
Linda was feeling very nervous since she wasn't sure if Raul was going to believe her or even willing to listen to what she had to say but Linda knew this was her chance for a top story.
"Gunderson alright, what was so important that I had to get here?" Raul asked.
"Okay, are you ready?" Linda asked.
"Yeah," Raul answered.
"Okay, you know how I saw the vigilantes?" Linda asked.
"Yeah," Raul replied.
"But I had no photos or evidence to show you, so I just sounded crazy," Linda said.
"Yeah," Raul said.
"Okay but I saw him again, well I didn't see him I actually saw them because there's four," Linda said. "There's not just one but four and I was standing as close to them as you are to me right now."
"What do they look like?" Raul asked.
"I show you," Linda said while getting the photos out of her bag and showing them to Raul.
"What?" Raul asked.
"Like this" Linda said.
"Like birds?" Raul asked, confused.
"Well they don't look like birds because they ARE birds, they are over six feet tall and they speak English" Linda said.
"Oh my god" Raul said.
"I was awake all night please look, I was awake all night googling all of the thwarted crimes over the past three months and this symbol appeared at every single one," Linda said while pointing at the symbol of a elder Spix Macaw. "Look every single one of them. This one look. Here, here, here, here, here and it's an ancient Japanese symbol meaning 'family', wait it's on my laptop," Linda said, getting her laptop and turned it on.
"I can't believe that you brought me here to do this!" Raul said as Linda then showed her a science lab.
"It's here, it's here this is my father's lab," Linda said. "This is the same lab where these things were born or mutated or I don't know the terminology but will you please just look at what I am showing you and listen to me, it's all connected, the birds are the vigilantes and the vigilantes are the birds."
"Pizza has cheese, tomato, all your favorite stuff. Eat it. You guys need nutrition or not," Young Linda said in the video that the present Linda had clicked on.
"I just want to be clear, you are now telling me that there are four six foot talking birds walking around Rio and no one has saw them but you?" Raul asked.
"That's what I'm telling you," Linda said.
"I mean to laugh but is there anything else we need to know about them?" Raul asked.
"They're ninjas," Linda answered.
"I'm sorry what?" Raul asked.
"And they do karate," Linda said.
"Okay, get out," Raul said, showing Linda the door.
After getting fired, Linda had exited the news department after she had been fired by Raul and she was very upset that Raul wouldn't believe her even after she had shown her both the video and the photos.
Lucky for Linda, she still had someone from her now former job who might still believe her although she knew that it was highly unlikely that even Steve would believe what she had seen.
"GUNDERSON!" Steve shouted which caught Linda's attention since she was now walking over to him. "Don't worry about it, it could have gone worse."
"I just got fired Steve, how would it be worse?" Linda asked.
"Maybe it's good, maybe you should take a little time off and take care of yourself," Steve said before opening the passenger side door of his news van. "Come on, let me give you a ride."
"Not unless you're going to the Nigel Sacks estate," Linda said.
"I'm not giving up on this story," Linda said, defiantly.
"You gotta put that to bed," Steve insisted.
"Would all of those other great reporters that you worked with, would they have wanted to put their great story 'to bed'?" Linda asked.
"No, that's different," Steve answered.
"How is it different?" Linda asked.
"They all started where I am, right?" Steve asked.
"I'm not driving the channel 6 news van onto the Sacks estate," Linda said.
"Who asked you to do that?" Steve asked.
"Uh you did and a 'thanks' would be nice," Linda answered.
"Maybe one day, you're gonna be thanking me," Steve said. "So what do you want with Nigel Sacks?"
"My dad used to work for him, he's the only person that's gonna be able to tell me whether I'm crazy or not," Linda said.
"Crazy about what?" Steve asked.
"I don't need you laughing at me also," Linda said.
"Oh come on Linda, This is the Fenwick express," said Steve. "A cocoon of safety."
"Promise?" Linda asked.
"I'm insulted that you would suggest otherwise," Steve answered as he and Linda drove to the Nigel Sacks estate.
Meanwhile in the sewer, Nightfly along with Groundfly and Skyler who with Sparky were in the Hashi serving their punishment for disobeying Banderas when they went above ground.
Speaking of Banderas, he was walking between testing their place and see if any of them would break which he knew at some point one of his students was going to tell him what they were doing above ground.
"11 hours in the Hashi, are you sure none of you want to tell me where you were last night?" Banderas asked.
"How are you holding up Fellas?" Nightfly asked while trying to balance two table tennis balls on two table tennis bats while doing the 'splits'.
"I ain't breaking if Skyler ain't breaking," Groundfly said while trying to knit a piece of fabric while balancing on a tricycle.
"Experiencing intense nausea but not breaking," Skyler said while battling a table tennis ball onto two tennis bats without dropping it while balancing on a board.
"Guys?, I'm in the zone there is literally nothing that could break me right now-" Sparky said while doing a headstand on the edge of a chair when Banderas threw down a Pizza box in front of him. "-starting to breaking."
"Of course, you have all tasted the five-cheese pizza but this cheesemongers have speculated of it's existence for centuries, Da Vinci's masterpiece," Banderas said while stroking the pizza box before opening it. "I submit to you...The 99-cheese pizza."
"Oh, it's not possible," Sparky groaned in shocked.
"Sparky it's a trap!" Skyler warned. "A pizza with that variety of cheese is a culinary impossibility."
"Shall I list the ingredients?" Banderas tempted while walking towards Sparky while holding a piece of pizza towards him.
"No," Sparky said.
"Cheddar...provolone..." Banderas said.
"Sparky, don't you it," Groundfly threatened.
"Asiago," Banderas said.
"Keep it together," Skyler said.
"Taleggio," Banderas said.
"I have no idea what that is," Sparky said.
"Mozzarella of course," Banderas said until Sparky finally cracked.
"Alright, alright, alright," Sparky said. "We left the lair because the Pure Ones were taking hostages and we kicked some serious butt and there was this girl Linda Gunderson who took our picture but we took care of it."
"Idiot," Groundfly muttered, angrily.
"Oh no, my worst fears have been realized," Banderas said.
"Don't worry about it master, Skyler erased the picture," Nightfly said. "We're not in danger."
"NO, it's Linda Gunderson who is in danger" Banderas replied while Sparky takes the slice of pizza out of Banderas wings. "Find the girl, bring her here."
"But sensei, you said not to go-" Skyler said, before being cut off by Banderas.
"Find the girl!" Banderas shouted.
"Find the girl," Sparky said in a dreamy voice before taking a step back in worry when Banderas had glared at him.