Chloe McQueen: Spy Car: Chapter 6: The Search for Grem
When Cooper landed at Charles De Gaulle Airport, Chloe and Rod went straight for the Black Markets.
"Alright, so we turn left after the roundabout, go through Chimney Avenue, cut across the back warehouse district and we'll be there." Chloe said.
"You seem to know your way around Paris." Rod said.
"My mom's French, so we go here sometimes on family vacations. I was told never to come this way." She said quietly.
"Well anyway, this isn't any vacation; remember what we went through on the way here?"
Chloe drew nearer to Rod and whispered "Yeah, no pictures or ID scans because they'll get overloaded and don't look or talk to anyone and most importantly no idling."
"Great" Rod commended. They both then turned a corner just before the market and put on their lemon disguises.
"Okay, Tomber will lead us on a chase on purpose to get to a more secluded place, he's a three-wheeled blue car."
"You mean like that one?" Chloe nodded to the three wheeled car driving away."
"Yeah." Rod grunted as they both drove after him.
Tomber tried to 'lose' them, but Chloe took advantage of a moving truck with a ramp on him to block his path.
"Not so fast sir."
"You really like to be formal to scumbags." Rod laughed.
They "dragged" Tomber to an empty warehouse where they both took off their lemon disguises.
"Agent Redline" Tomber smirked, "Nice to see you."
"Aren't you going to react to me still being alive?"
"When you've seen what I've seen it's not so bad."
"Anyway, I want you to meet my rookie partner."
"Hey there."
"Rookie eh, by the way she acted towards me I thought she was a first class agent compared to McMissile's partner. She electrocuted me for nothing. I don't see why Finn keeps her as a partner. Too bad Leland... never mind, how's this one."
"Not too shabby I'll say, got a long way to go though."
"If I, a Key West resident can stand 5 winters in Detroit I say I'm game."
"An American eh?, I prefer that new car smell over British, something about their new..."
"You smelled me?" Chloe said, disturbed.
"Back to the point guys," Rod said, "Tomber, you know what we're looking for right?"
"But of course, all I can tell you is that the car is male with a really bad purple paint job. He hangs around here around this time of day."
"Thanks, we'd better go before the other cars get suspicious."
As they left Chloe asked "He smells cars?"
"It's best not to think about it." Rod said.
They both drove through the market to find several purple cars selling hoods and gears. Rod spoke to each one in a French accent while Chloe wondered how to find him. She suddenly let her mind wander and found herself backing up toward another purple car. Like instinct, naturally she flipped him.
"Ow! The car said. The others didn't take much notice; they were used to violence in the black market.
"I am so sorry sir, I was…" Chloe said, and then she noticed the purple car looked a little like a gremlin model.
The gremlin looked at her with more and more interest as he picked himself up.
"It's alright, in this place it's easy to get spooked in this place and my name's Paul by the way."
"I'm Julie; I should apologize to you anyway."
"Well, if you really want to…" Frank said raising his eye hoods "You can go with me on a date tonight later on."
He then wrote her his phone number on a piece of paper, made a 'call me' signal to her and drove off.
"Well it looks like you made a new friend." Rod said.
"Sorry, but I think that was a gremlin in disguise. Did you see that mock frame coming off?"
"Yeah, I can see it as a souvenir." Rod said as he picked up a piece of the frame.
"I'll try to analyze this back at the hotel; meanwhile you'll have to get ready for that date."
"Alright, I'll be on my guard." Chloe whispered as they left.
They both had a feeling that they knew who that car was, but they didn't know someone was watching them exiting the market.
"'Crap, they're already here, I'll just have to get rid of them separately." And the car drove off.