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Chapter XII: Model Citizens.
Last Time.
"Alex, do that again" Sam exclaimed as Alex rubbed her head.
"No way! That hurt!" She exclaimed.
"It cracked your pod," Naruto said, looking over. "That could be our ticket out of here!"
Alex then hit the spot before breaking out as the others followed. An alarm went off before the spies dropped tubes on the men that ran in before W.O.O.H.P. Agents ran in and arrested everyone as Alex pushed the intelligence back into the kidnapped people by jumping on Percival's car-sized head.
"I guess we need to get back for our quiz." Naruto shrugged as Clover looked at him. "I dropped out of the play before you tried out."
"Why?"
"Mandy was auditioning for the role opposite of me. I didn't want to risk her bribing to get on." Naruto shrugged before Clover hugged Sam for an apology.
Beverly Hill High School –10:53 AM.
Naruto walked with the others, all holding their quizzes that all had A's on them. And walked by the auditorium where Mandy got Sam's role instead. "Told ya," Naruto said before Sam and Clover hugged him.
Now.
Somewhere In Greece –11:00 AM
Female models were having their pictures taken at the ruins of a temple before a large helicopter flew up and captured them in a cage before flying off.
Beverly High Mall –08:00 PM.
"Clover, where are you taking us?"
Alex asked as Clover led her, Sam, and Naruto to a store blindfolded.
Naruto's wearing a short-sleeved jean shirt over a white shirt, with dark blue jeans and sneakers.
Sam's wearing a light green shirt and dark green skirt with heels.
Alex's wearing a light green vest over a white button shirt and green pants with strappy high heels.
And Clover's wearing a red handkerchief, red dress, and dark red knee-high boots.
"Last time she did this we ended up at the Body-Piercing Hut, remember?" Sam asks before hearing Naruto.
"Last Time for me was her tricking me to watch her try on… Inappropriate clothing."
"Relax, guys, this surprise is totally piercing-free. Now take off your blindfolds." Clover smiled as they followed and saw a smoothie cafe. "Ta-da!"
"The Groovy Smoothie Shack?" Sam asks as she and Alex cross their arms.
"I don't get it, Clover. Are you thirsty or something?" Alex asks.
"No. I'm here to sign up for the Miss Groovy Smoothie beauty contest and you're here to support me." Clover smiled at them.
"A food court beauty contest?" Naruto asks, looking around and fixing his shirt.
"You're kidding, right? I mean, you know beauty's only skin deep." Sam states as Clover smiles and stands in front of her.
"Of course. I'm not kidding! And, judging by the competition, I'd say I'm a shoo-in for victory."
"Um, not so fast, Clover."
They blinked and looked to see Mandy being carted in with a group of photographers. "This is my competition and mine alone. Nothing or no one is gonna stop me from becoming Miss Groovy Smoothie and launching my modeling career." She said before laughing.
"Is that a fact?" Clover asks, eyes narrowing.
"Yes, it is. Cos everyone who's ever won this contest has gone on to bigger and better things. And I intend to join them, thank you very much. Now, why don't you and those cheap shoes of yours just step off? Naruto~ maybe after I win, you can take me on a celebratory date~?
"The only thing that's cheap around here is your pathetic attempt at trying to get me to back down. Now outta my way!" Clover stomps past them and to the sign-up sheet before coming back. "Come on, guys. Let's go plan my victory party."
They all then walked to the elevator. "Can you believe the nerve of that girl?" Clover asks as Alex nods.
"Tell me about it. I mean, how dare she accuse you of wearing cut-rate shoes!
"I say we ditch the mall, grab a mani/pedi, and forget all about boring old Mandy."
"Deal!/Deal!"
"If it means I'm not carrying any crap, I'll second." Naruto sighed before getting in the elevator, before Sam hit a button.
And had them drop fast down below the ground as they all screamed before the doors opened to show a tunnel. "Holy shit! I thought we were gone… Not unlike that nurse in that one anime, I watched." Naruto panted holding his chest. The girls just look at him at that. "What? Needed a break from marathoning my favorite movie series…"
"Which is?" Alex asks him.
"Land Sharks, the one about the Nevada town dealing with giant underground worms." Naruto shrugged before they were picked up by a subway car and saw Jerry.
"Hello, spies."
"Jerry. Should have known."
Nice to see you too. Now, allow me to brief you about your new mission." Jerry said before sitting down as models came up on the screen. "We've just been informed that approximately a dozen models from all over the world have been stolen within the last 24 hours."
"Don't you mean kidnapped?" Naruto asked, crossing his arms as he saw a video of the Greece incident.
"We're currently en route to New York, where you'll go undercover as journalists at Fashion Week, a hugely important industry event where you'll have access to everyone who's anyone," Jerry spoke, ignoring the question.
"You want us to see what we can find out about the abductions?" Sam asked as Jerry turned and nodded.
"Precisely. And now for the gadgets. This time you'll be utilizing the magnetic spring-loaded bungee belt in faux snakeskin, the ultra-inflatable nylon tek vest, a pair of hologram-projecting mood rings, the titanium drill-heel boot for impromptu tunneling, and last, but not least, the M-Ray contact lens in aquamarine. Naruto, you'll have the cloaking device, impact webbing, web bomb, and taser webs."
"'M-Ray?'" Alex blinked as they all were handed their gadgets.
"For seeing through metal. Now, goodbye and good luck, spies." Jerry hit a button and had the spies detach to go to another tunnel. "I'll be in touch!"
New York – St. Mark's Place –08:00 PM.
Naruto wearing a black vest over a blue button shirt and black pants stood with the girls looking at the extreme security for the show.
All three girls are wearing pink vests with Clover wearing a pink button shirt and green pants.
Sam's wearing a green button shirt with blue jeans.
And Alex's wearing a pink T-shirt with green pants.
"I've heard of fashion police, but this is ridiculous," Clover commented, looking at the others as Sam walked up and dropped her heart bag on an x-ray machine.
"Must be because of the abductions."
They then walked in and saw the large crowd. "Man, talk about a mob scene!" Alex commented before hearing a voice.
"Everyone's here to see the new modeling phenom, Gazelle."
They turned to see a woman with tanned skin, messy brown hair, brown eyes, and wearing an aqua blue button shirt over a pink top and aqua blue skirt.
"Gazelle?" Naruto asks, raising an eyebrow.
"She arrived on the scene overnight. The witch is already getting all the available modeling work. Me and the rest of the supermodels are pretty much out of luck."
Suddenly the lights turned on the stage as the curtains opened. "I think we need a better view," Sam commented as people stood up and started clapping.
They used their grapple belts as Naruto used his webs to pull himself up to the rafters. They looked down to see a woman with light brown hair, tanned skin, who had lost her freckles, and full lips, and her eye shape was catlike and light brown. She also has a mole on her upper left lip, wearing a pink dress, shoulder gloves, and knee-heeled boots.
"I've never seen anyone so… So perfect. It's unbelievable!" Clover exclaims as Gazelle walks back
"Better keep an eye on her, Alex," Sam said as Alex put the contacts and saw through the wall with a red tint.
"Right."
She saw Gazelle take her gloves off, revealing her arm and fingers were stitched, and the fingers and arm were each different skin tones. "What's she doing?" Clover asks leaning over.
"Taking off her gloves. Hmm... now that's odd."
"What?" Naruto asked, holding onto his webbing.
"The skin on her arms and hands… It's all sorts of different colors."
"As in her tanning bed's on the fritz?" Clover asks.
"'Different colors' as in the Bride of Frankenstein. Maybe she's not so perfect after all."
"How about we go backstage for a closer look?" Sam asks before they drop down. Later, they got to the dressing trailers before Sam looked at them. "Now remember, we're supposed to be journalists so act professional."
As she said that, Gazelle walked out without her gloves showing her stitches. "Ew! Nast!"
Sam sighs at Clover's outburst. "Not exactly the professional demeanor I had in mind, Clover… Hi, Gazelle. I'm Sam from Trend Of The Moment magazine. I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the show."
"Thanks. But the truth is I owe everything to my agency. Really. I wouldn't exist without them." Gazelle replied before a man with tan skin, short brown hair, and a mustache goatee combo in a suit walked up and draped a towel on Gazelle.
"Yes, and we wouldn't exist without her. I'm Helmet from Picture Perfect. I represent Gazelle. She's single-handedly put our agency on the map."
"You're a modeling agent?" Clover asks jumping up to him.
"That's right."
"So you'd know if I had what it takes to be a model?" She asked as the other girls sighed.
"My philosophy is that everyone has something about them that's perfect." Helmet said as Clover took a step back. "In your case, it's your legs."
"So, you're saying I'm model material?!" Clover smiled before Helmet walked to Gazelle and took her away.
"Sorry. Not quite. Come on, Gazelle. You need your beauty rest."
Alex saw something drop before walking up as the two disappeared. "Gazelle, wait! You dropped your (Gasp!)" She kneels to pick it up and gasps as she holds an ear. "...Ear?" She then feints at that.
Later, in their hotel room, Naruto was looking out the window before hearing Sam. "I've sent the ear to W.O.O.H.P. for analysis. Our next move is to investigate Picture Perfect."
"Picture Perfect, please." Clover scoffs as she turns to them. "I mean, what kind of pathetic agency are they, anyway? Take that Helmet guy, for instance. He calls himself an agent? He wouldn't know a model if she sashayed right into him!"
"Come again?" Alex blinked as she sat up with an ice pack on her head.
"No matter what Helmet says, I know I'm model material," Clover said before there was a knock at the door.
"Special delivery."
Clover opened it and saw a man from the hotel holding flowers. "It's from the Groovy Smoothie Shack."
Clover took the flowers, looked at the card, and took a smoothie. "It says I'm a finalist in the Miss Groovy Smoothie beauty contest! This proves it, I am model material!" She closed the door and lowered the flowers, scratching her right leg. "Ouch!"
"Are you OK?" Naruto asks, looking over.
"I'm fine. It's just a scratch."
"We wouldn't want anything to happen to our potential beauty queen." Sam smiles before a helicopter flies to the window and shoots a rope at Clover, pulling her out.
"Clover!"
Naruto, catsuit appearing over him, ran over and jumped out shooting his webs to cling onto the copter. Looking up, he saw a Picture Perfect logo on the tail before it turned and had Naruto hit a building and crashed through a window, cutting the line. He rolled into the room before slowly getting up to walk to an elevator. Going in, he pressed a button and went down several stories before it stopped.
The door opened and a man with a basset hound looked at Naruto. The blonde stepped to the side and let him in. As the door closed, the man looked at Naruto. "Cool outfit."
"Thanks," Naruto said as the elevator started going down.
"Where'd you get it?"
"I… Made it," Naruto replied.
"Looks uncomfortable." The man said as Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, it gets kind of itchy. And it rides up in the crotch a little bit too."
They stood in silence as the elevator slowly went down before Naruto tapped the button again. "It doesn't help I do that all the time."
"Real slow elevator."
"Yeah."
Later, Naruto got back to the room as Sam called Jerry on her compowder. "Hello, spies. How's the Big Apple?"
"Rotten, Jerry. Clover's been kidnapped." Alex says as Jerry sighs.
"Oh, dear. That's the second time this month."He says before Naruto looks down.
"What do you know about the Picture Perfect Modeling Agency? The logo was on the helicopter."
"Let's see... apparently it's run by an ex-model named Tuesday Tate. Their headquarters are in Sydney, Australia." Jerry replied, bringing up a woman with fair skin, brown hair, and in a purple dress with a cane.
Sydney, Picture Perfect Agency –01:27 PM
"We're journalists from Trend Of The Moment."
Sam said as all three were in their disguises to a woman with fair skin, messy red hair, and freckles in a red business dress.
Alex glances down and sees she has scratches in the same place as Clover did before being kidnapped. "You aren't on Miss Tate's schedule. You'll have to leave." She said to them, before two female guards escorted them out.
"That was uncalled for," Naruto said glancing back to the building.
"Is it me or is there something very familiar about that woman?" Alex asks as Sam looks over.
"Not to mention something very rude. Looks like we're gonna have to enter Picture Perfect the hard way."
Later, they're digging under the ground. "Never underestimate the power of a good accessory," Sam said before they got inside.
Walking to a door, they saw a very high-tech operating room. "Looks more like some kind of high-tech clinic than a modeling agency," Alex commented as they walked to an office and saw pictures of Gazelle and another model in a red dress and blonde hair and freckles on the back wall. "Hey, check that out!"
"Those are both Gazelle?" Naruto asked, looking at the name on the blonde "Man, talk about a split personality."
Sam meanwhile was looking at the computer. "Jackpot! Gazelle's 'donors.' Stacey, Aimee, Anna, Kelley, Gretchen…" She stopped as her compowder went off before answering it. "Sam here."
"Hello, spies. I thought you'd be interested to know that the ear you sent me belongs to a model who was abducted last week. Her name is Gretchen." Jerry exclaimed as Alex gasped.
"Sam, that's... that's one of the names on the donor list!"
"Donor list?"
"I know what it seems like, Alex, but how could it be possible?" Sam asks before hearing a woman clear her throat.
They looked up to see Tuesday Tate. "Can I help you, ladies?"
"Uh, yes. Yes, you can. We're journalists from Trend Of The Moment and…" Sam trailed off before Alex picked up.
"And we're here to interview you!"
"OK. But you'll have to make it snappy. I'm leaving soon for a model search in New Zealand."
They sat on a couch as she limped to her desk. "So... I hear that you used to be A model, Miss Tate. Why did you quit?"
"I injured my leg at a photo shoot two years ago. It was a circus theme and I was to play the role of lion tamer. Unfortunately, the lion tamed me. Now I have this." Tate explained pulling her dress up and showing her right leg was metal.
"Why don't you tell us about Picture Perfect and how it is that you've achieved this sudden success?" Sam asks before Tate's phone rings and she answers it.
"Tuesday speaking."
"..."
"Oh, I see… Would you mind moving to the waiting room down the hall while I take this call?"
"Not at all," Alex said as they walked out while Helmet walked in.
"Those two are definitely trouble."
"Well, then, we'd better eliminate them," Tuesday says before hitting an alarm.
Outside, the spies heard the alarm before Naruto disappeared as the others left their holograms and ran to a vent. They slid down to a large room with tubes in the walls, with Clover in one lying down, head outside.
"Clover!"
"What happened to you?"
"Picture Perfect steals body parts! That's how they created Gazelle!" Clover says as they pull her out and show she has muscular legs. "Right now there's someone else out there running around with my perfect legs!"
"Don't worry. We're going to get all of you out of here," Sam said before guards ran in and grabbed them, and a man grabbed Naruto.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that. We can't just let you leave and risk you telling the world about our little secret." Tate said walking in.
"Why are you doing this?" Sam asks as Tate walks up to her.
"It's simple. I want to create an army of perfect models so that I can dominate the industry that destroyed my career."
"Couldn't you just steal yourself a new leg instead? I mean, it seems like a lot less trouble." Alex said to her.
"You've got a point. But somehow my evil revenge plan just sounds like more fun." Tate smiles at them as Sam glares.
"Well, it'll never work."
"Perhaps you'll feel a little differently after my demonstration, darling," Tate said as the woman with Clover's legs walked in.
"Hey, those are my legs!"
"Correction. They were your legs. Now they belong to Picture Perfect. Just like your friends' body parts are about to." Helmet said as the three were thrown into a tube before mist covered them as the woman went into one herself with a man.
"Prepare to be modernized."
Once it was done, Sam gained the freckles and braces as Alex got the red hair before the woman walked out with Sam's face and Alex's hair.
"And I thought I had it bad," Clover mutters before Tate and the others leave with Naruto and the girls.
Later, the group is in a cargo plane in a cage with the other models as Naruto keeps losing his balance. "What's wrong Naruto?" Sam asks as Naruto falls.
"Not used to walking with something so small… It's throwing me off!" Naruto replied as the girls and the models looked at his crotch and blushed as Clover chuckled perversely and muttered to herself, remembering the accident from their vacation test.
Sam used her drill again to cut a hole before she and the girls attacked the female guards. Naruto got out and fell again. "Damn it!"
Getting up, he saw the pilot running out before he used his impact webbing to stick him to the wall, before doing the same to the other guards. Naruto then got in the cockpit and piloted the plane.
Auckland Convention Center –06:37 PM.
"Oh, that skin, it's magnificent. We can definitely use you."
Helmet said to a woman with tanned skin as he stood beside a large device
"I'd say your toes are among the loveliest specimens I've ever seen. You're Picture Perfect material for sure." Tate said to another before Helmet put several women in the device as the guards got on the other side.
Suddenly, their plane crashed through before Naruto swung out and landed on Hamlet and webbed him to the floor as the girls got Tate by the broken glass. "Now hand over the key to the modelizng machine!" Sam exclaimed as Tate pulled her necklace off with the crystal key and tossed it in the glass.
"You want the key? Go get it!"
"Great. This is gonna be like trying to find a nail file in a haystack." Clover sighed as Tate smiled.
"Well, you'd better hurry because once the modelizing process is complete, it'll be irreversible. Just a new feature I've added to the machine."
Sam walked up and turned her compowder on. "What are you doing?" Alex asks her.
"Trying to locate the key with the compowder fingerprint scanner… Bingo! Now let's get back to the girls!" Sam picked the key up as W.O.O.H.P. came in.
Beverly High Mall –04:21 PM.
"So... you're sure about this? You're definitely dropping out?"
Alex asked Clover all of them back to normal as Naruto leaned on the railing at the shop. "Absolutely. I've decided that I've had enough modeling and beauty contests for one lifetime. The whole scene's just way too evil. Besides, ever since I got my legs back, I remember how gorgeous I truly am. I don't need anyone else's validation." Clover smiles at them.
"I always knew you were beautiful and smart," Sam said before they heard a male voice.
"Well, that's too bad because you would have won."
They turned and blinked at the judge for the contest. "But since you dropped out, I'll be awarding the first runner-up your $25,000 cash and your brand new convertible Sports car. Congratulations, Mandy!" They looked to see Mandy on top of a car with her picture being taken just as Clover grabbed the man's legs to keep him still.
"$25,000? Wait, I was only kidding! It was a joke! I want to be Miss Groovy Smoothie!"
"Oh, well. So much for Clover thinking the whole scene is evil." Sam smiles at the scene as Naruto walks up to them.
To Be Continued.
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