Chapter 48 – Capture

(10:05pm)
After Britney Spears' song ended, Sharper resumed his position on stage.

"Welcome back to the 12th KP Fannies where we are almost three-quarters of the way through the ceremony. And hopefully, we can get it done on time before the Queen has an image of her carved on the side of Mt. Rockwaller! And before the storms come as well!"

Sarah added, eating some more gummie bears "And hopefully many more moments of Kim and Ron!"

"Settle down, Sarah. Why don't you show the audience some of the famous KP gadgets that Kim was well known for?"

"With pleasure, Sharper!" Sarah smiled as she took out her knapsack and took out the Kimmunicator.

"This is one of the two devices that Kim was known for, the Kimmunicator. Now, thanks to the help of Wade, it has been re-purposed into the Sarah-municator!" Sarah explained when she took out her Sarah-municator. "Whenever I get lost, all I have to do is to press a button and Kim and company can find me instantly! And what gear would be complete without her hairdryer grappling gun?"

Sarah was about to fire the grappling gun when Sharper got ahold of it.

"Sarah, can you save it for when you take on your first villain with Kim?" Sharper insisted. "Why don't you go backstage so that you'll be presenting the best Short Story award in a few minutes?"

"Okay, Sharper!" Sarah smiled. She headed backstage, playing with her Sarah-municator.

"But before we get to our next pair of awards in this segment, we have to talk about an in-house announcement of a particular Fannie award..."

As Sharper was about to say which award it was, the power went out in the auditorium...again.

"What?! Seriously?! That's two power outages in the last hour! What the Hell is going on here!" Sharper exclaimed in frustration.

Kim and Ron also noticed the outage.

"Weird...the power suddenly cuts off 30 minutes after it came back on!" Kim said, scratching her chin.

Rufus curiously looked around his eyes.

"Yeah...and no one said Macbeth!" Ron said.

"You're going to curse the entire ceremony, aren't you, Ron..." Kim sighed.

"Relax, KS, it's just a theater superstition! An old wives tale!" Ron chuckled.

The doors suddenly flung open, revealing to be Agent Trepid and Slam.

"Oh...guess who decided to crash the party!" the Queen scoffed, "Mr. Red Goatee and the weird-marked Green Alien-man!"

"That's Mr. Green Alien-man to you, brunette!" Slam bit back.

Betty got up from her seat and proceeded to the two agents.

"Dr. Director..." Agent Trepid shouted, out of breath from running all across the Rockwaller Mansion to the opera house. "we...we...have to..."

"We have a very severe problem on our hands, Dr. Director!"

"May I ask you two why are you out of your assigned positions? You were supposed to be watching for any signs of intruders!"

"We did!" Slam replied. Obviously, he was in much better physical shape "Gemini and his goons are going to crash the party...RIGHT NOW!"

"That just the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Betty said, obviously not pleased with the report. "We have every single square inch of the surface of the Rockwaller mansion covered! There is no way that my sworn enemy, the second-in-command of the Worldwide Evil Empire, is going to penetrate our defenses!"

"Frankly, I wondered why they use that unfortunate acronym." Ron said from his seat.

"It's not actually the surface that Gemini and his WEE agents are going to attack from." Agent Trepid said before turning to the computer-tech genius.

"Wade, do you have a visual scan of the entire mansion?" Kim asked. "I think both Trepid and Slam may be onto something."

"Indeed I do, Kim!" Wade said as he activated a holographic image of the mansion. It took up half of the auditorium.

Kim stood up from her seat and analyzed the projection Wade created. "We have agents crawling all over the place: as is Miss Moneybags's private guard and the local police."

The redhead's eyes widened upon the fact that there was a key detail missing from that Fannies meeting nine months ago.

"That's what I've been trying to tell you, Agent Trepid. Gemini can't strike from the surface!" Betty said. "Now get back to your position or Human Resources will have a field day with you for dereliction of duty!"

Agent Trepid got scared of the fact that he was going to get demoted.

"With all due respect, Superior Director, Agent Trepid is right!" Kim gasped.

"What do you mean, Agent K Stoppable?" Betty asked where the best agent in GJ was going with this intel.

Kim concluded, "Gemini and his WEE agents aren't going to crash the party from the surface...they're going to crash it from beneath!"

"Ridiculous!" Betty scoffed, "It'd have to take a huge drill or..."

"...an underground system of tunnels!" Kim interfered, revealing the system of tunnels that ran through the entire mansion.

Rufus gasped in disbelief.

Betty was in a state of shock. She had been deceived.

Turning to the Queen, she shouted, "You told me that every part of the building was totally secure! You NEVER told us about an underground tunnel system during that Fannies meeting!"

"FYI, I wanted to keep the supply of food running to my mansion to feed my servants!" Bonnie countered back, "It's hard to feed 2,000 mouths on a constant basis! Have you even SEEN the food bill they rack up! That's why I usually put light security in that area right near the access road because I trust the companies that feed the servants!"

Betty couldn't believe the words uttered from the Queen's mouth.

"You've just put everyone in danger, Miss Rockwaller, and whatever damage racked up is going to be on YOUR hands!" Betty shouted.

"I got enough money to pay for it!" Bonnie huffed. "After all, I am a multi-billionaire!"

"It's worse!" Servant 409 rushed in to the Global Justice team. "Agent Trepid, I've received a report that all the guards right near the access road have been knocked out!"

Bonnie gasped, but not because of the security lapse. She was obviously more concerned with the Rockwaller family name and the brand.

"The entire mansion is honeycombed with them!" Agent Trepid gasped, looking at the scope of the network.

"What time did you spot Gemini, Agent Trepid?"

"Around Nineteen Thirty, ma'am!" Agent Trepid said, "Gemini was spotted with three 15-passenger vans and two 18-wheelers disguised as food vending trucks used to normally supply Miss Rockwaller's servants!"

"Nineteen hundred hours? Is it some parallel dimension that I don't even know about?" Ron questioned.

"It's military time, hubby!" Kim sighed. "Nineteen hundred thirty means 7:30pm in regular people time."

"Ohh...my bad!" Ron apologized.

"Miss Rockwaller..." Betty asked, trying to keep her cool of the former cheerleader's deceit. "...how long does it take for someone to access the tunnel system from the entrance of the access road to the opera house?"

"It takes some...I dunno...hour and a half, hour forty-five to get there. That is, if they follow the signs!"
the Queen replied.

"Wait...if Gemini and the WEE agents entered through that way at 7:30...then that means.."

"...they're under the opera house at this very moment!" Kim exclaimed.

Sharper then realized a great blunder he made. "Oh no! Sarah's back there!"

Rufus shrieked in horror.

An explosion came forth from the ceiling and, all of a sudden, Gemini appeared before the audience and before Global Justice. Four of his henchmen stood right behind him.

Some of the members of the audience began to flee for their lives. The Global Justice team, however, stood their ground.

"Sheldon Director..." Betty growled, "...I should've known that you were going to crash the party!"

"As your intelligence reports from the 'enemy agency' would've suggested, Betty, you were correct!" Gemini chuckled, slyly avoiding the Global Justice name "But the glaring flaw in that report is where the attack was going to come from! Hidden tunnels are an effective way to take the enemy by surprise!"

"You're not going to try and get away from us this time!" Betty exclaimed. "And I WILL find out who your so-called 'Number One' leader is!"

"Oh, but I already have! And you'll get to meet Number One in due time!" Gemini cackled while a rope lowered from the hole in the ceiling. "And I'm taking someone with me!"

Two more henchmen carried Sarah, whom was gagged and handcuffed behind her back. She was trying to scream but it was muffed by the gag.

Sharper gasped, "Sarah!"

"I would love to stay and have a chat with you, my fraternal twin, but I have a Doomsday device to run!" Gemini said as he grabbed onto the rope. The henchmen opened up a second hole in the ceiling, utilizing their jetpacks and flew out with Sarah in two.

Kim, Ron, and the rest of Global Justice tried to catch them, but Gemini and the WEE agents escaped.