Chapter 22 – An Important Meeting II

(15 minutes later)

They all came out of the hedge maze with Betty reaching first and Kim narrowly in second.

"I so won fair and square!" she proclaimed to Kim.

"But you're jinxed!" Betty grinned, "You owe me a soda!"

"So will, Doctor, after this meeting!" Kim insisted.

Cajunbear and Sentinel, whom were last in the maze, groaned.

"Why did the maze have to be so long?" Sentinel complained.

"You were the one who insisted on not following the arrows!" Cajunbear countered.

"Would you two shut it?" Kim insisted at the pair, "Now...I am going to ring this doorbell here and see if anyone answers."

She pressed the doorbell and it made the sound of trumpets heralding.

"At least she has good taste in doorbell chimes." Ron admitted before the door opened.

The doorman, whom goes by the name of Servant 194, opened it.

"Ahh..Miss Possible, I presume!" the servant said before Ron cleared his throat.

"Uhh...dude, don't you see our wedding bling?" Ron smirked as he and Kim showed off their wedding bands on their dog tags.

"Ohh...my apologies, Mr. and Mrs. Stoppable." 194 said, correcting himself. "Do come in with your party! All of you will be seated in the Rockwaller Library! Tightlips himself will be with you shortly."

Servant 694 clapped his hands as four more servants: numbers 534, 345, 423, and 501 all came. They were all wearing identical suits with the Rockwaller family coat of arms stitched onto their breast pocket with a golden R initial on top of it.

"Gentlemen, escort our guests to the Library." Servant 194 commanded them. The lower the number the servant was, the higher the ranking they were. The other four lower-ranking servants obeyed their superior and escorted the guests to the large Rockwaller Library.

As the party walked into the library, they were captivated by the extremely large Rockwaller book collection. There were a grand total of 30,000 books in that one library stacked neatly on shelves on two floors by the Dewey Decimal System. There were also seating areas, fine light fixtures, and about 20 globes of the world from the past.

"Ooooh! It spins!" Ron giggled, playing with the globes.

"Ron! No touchy!" Kim commanded, grabbing his hand and leading him away from the globes. "We're on official GJ business here!"

"Sorry, Kim! How hard can it be not to be attacted by all these globes!" Ron admitted.

"Come on...the sooner we'll know who the new Fannies host is, the sooner we can leave here!" Kim replied.

Most of the party was impressed by this collection, key word being most.

"I didn't know that the Rockwallers were good readers!" Agent Trepid said, amazed.

"This must have taken decades for all these books to be collected!" Electronique added.

Servant 345, whom headed the escort, replied, "This used to be the private library of Master Rockwaller. He, like his ancestors before him, used to travel around the world to find the rarest of books.

But Kim wasn't impressed, blowing dust off of a shelf of books, "Doubt if even Bonnie reads these books." Many of the books, though, haven't been touched in years, given the amount of dust it has collected.

"Her grades in high school reflect on it." Cajunbear agreed. "She wasn't really the smartest bulb in the room!"

"CB, that's what happened when she conforms to those stupid cheerleading stereotypes I talked about in my flashback." Kim replied.

345 continued, "Ah yes...um, Her Majesty doesn't come into this area very often. She is usually in the spa area, in the eastern part of the mansion."

Ron then looked at one particular book that caught his eye.

"Oooo! Look at what book I've found, Kim! Brief History of Cheese!" Rufus came onto his owners shoulder and shrilled "Cheeeeeese!"

"Ron...put the book back!" Kim commanded her husband.

Ron groaned and put the book back on the shelves.

"Don't you remember the memory we had with the book?" the blonde recalled, "And one person's vailant efforts to defeat not one, not two, but three villains to get that book back to its rightful owners!"

"I had solitary confinement to the library, Ron." Kim whined, "It's a good thing these books are not organized by the Hatchet Decimal System." She shuddered upon those words, even though that event took place 13 years ago.

Rufus folded his paws, chittering in frustration with Miss Hatchet's inability to chase the mole rat through the school.

"Poor girl!" Electronique said, sympathizing with Kim, "Did they even make you do the labels?"

"Every book in that library, Electronique..." Kim sighed, "Many of my good taste buds died that day!"

"We cannot dally any longer!" Servant 345 said, impatient at the stoppage ! "Her Majesty wants you to come to her sitting area."

"The thing is, which sitting area?" Betty asked, "There must be hundreds of them!"

"It is the one closest to her personal spa." Servant 345 answered.

"Then where is the spa?" Electronique questioned.

"It's on the other side of the mansion, in the newest wing." 345 answered while taking out his calculator, "...which is about...8,519 steps away from our current location."

All of the members of the Global Justice party groaned loudly, including Sentinel and Cajunbear.

"We're going to need Sherpas at this point!" Ron complained. "Her mansion is like Mount Everest...only that it's long...and all hallway-ey!"

"And the doors..." Ken gasped as she stared at the very long hallway. "So...many...doors!"

"We're not just going to stand there and complain!" Kim insisted, "We came here to do whatever business Miss Rockwaller wants us to do...and to see the new host of the Fannies!"

"I'm with Agent K Stoppable on this!" Betty agreed.

"We actually do have carts in the rental room right here, but there are just five one-seaters and one two seater." Servant 345 said.

"And there are eight of us in our party." Electronique said.

"Plus, one naked mole rat!" Ron added, counting Rufus.

"So one of us will have to walk the 8,000 steps to Bonnie's spa by foot." Betty informed the agents. "And that will be Agent Trepid!"

"I can power my way through this!" Ken said confidently.

"So what do you say, ol' buddy?" Cajunbear asked.

"Hoofin' it on a scooter is much better for my feet!" Sentinel replied.

"Looks like we may need Wade to map out this place." Kim said, pulling out her built-in Kimmunicator version 5.0.

Wade came on-screen in the form of a hologram.

"Hey, Kim! How's the meeting going with Bonnie?"

"We're like rats in a maze here. Can you map out Bonnie's spa in relation to our current location?" Kim asked to her longtime tech friend and important cog in Team Possible.

"Your Kimmunicator has a built-in GPS that has a tracking laser that would guide your group to its intended destination!" Wade explained. "Good luck on the Fannies meeting with Bonnie."