“Oh my god, I can’t believe its really you! I’ve been trying to get in touch with you for forever!”
“Really?”
“Yep”
“Oh. So, what are you doing these days?”
“Well, I’m a chemist, I work over a Hubert Greenly lab.”
“Wow, you work there now?”
“Yeah, so, I was thinking……….. maybe since your back in the area you’d wanna stop by for a visit? I mean, if you not busy.”
“Yeah, that would be great”
“Great, you remember where it is?
“Ah. Yeah, I think so”
“Okay, great, so, I guess I’ll see you soo--”
“Wait, do you mind if I bring my team?”
“Your team? Yeah, I guess it’s okay if they come”
“Great, we’ll be there in a few hours.”
“Okay, see you soon, buh bye.”
“Bye”
Alex turned around to hang up the phone and saw Rikki standing there. Alex jump back a little startled.
“Oh, hi Rikki”
“So, Alex, who’s this Dr. Laura Kaminski?”
“Just an old friend from high school.”
“Oh, yeah. What’s see doing way out here?”
“Rikki, this is my home town”
“Really, I thought you were from phoenix.”
“Nope, I just went to collage there. But, hey listen, we’re gonna go visit her, wanna come with me?”
Rikki thought for a moment.
Rikki squinted his eyes. “YOUR GONNA INTERIGATE ME AREN’T YOU? You wanna know what’s up with Fidget and me?”
“No, I wanna---”
“I’m not going!”
Rikki then proceeded to dramatically run away from Alex and tripped over a chair while doing so.
“Okay Rik?”
“Yeah”
Alex hung up the phone a bit confused and a bit excited. He remembered Laura from high school. They had history together, she sat behind him. Once they did a project together on WWII. She was really spirited and cute, kinda like fidget. FIDGET!! He totally forgot about her. He rushed to the bedroom and saw her sitting on her bunk…talking to Grinder.
“Hey A-man, who was on the tele?”
“Just an old friend, she wanted me to come visit her, wanna come?”
“Nah, I’ve still gotta do some stuff here.”
“Will the engine work?”
“Probably, need a lift?”
“Nah, I’ll drive. Hey Fidget? Do you wanna come with me?”
“Is Rikki going?”
“Ah, I don’t think so”
“Yeah, sure, I’ll go”
A few minutes later, Alex and Fidget hoped into the Silver Speeding and drove off.
“So, Fidget, what’s up with you and Rikki?”
“Alex, I don’t really wanna talk about this”
“Come on Fidge, you’ll feel better once you’ve talked about it”
“Okay, well, yesterday, um, Yesterday Rikki, well, Rikki told me that he had, um, feelings for me. And well, I had to tell that I don’t like him like that. He’s been really rude to me ever since”
Alex was shocked.
“Rikki, likes you?”
“Yes”
“But you don’t like him, right?”
“Why, you jealous?”
“No”
“Is that it?”
Fidget pointer to a flat white building that rested about 20 yards away from a cliff.
“Yeah, that’s it.”
Alex pulled into the parking lot and hopped out of the car Fidget not far behind him, with her camera in hand. They walked out of the heat and into the nice cool air-conditioned building. A head of them was a security guards desk and a security guard sitting unconscious in a chair, Alex and Fidget rush over to him. Right under his name tag was a burn mark, a big one. Alex promptly checked his pulse.
“He’s alive”
“What about you friend?”
Alex grabbed the keyboard off of the desk and typed in ‘Laura Kaminski’. Lab 11 popped up on the screen. With that Alex run down the hall towards lab 11, Fidget followed. When they reached lab 11 they found a woman sprawled out on the floor. Alex rushed over to her and made sure she was alive.
“Laura? Can you hear me?”
“Ohhh”
The woman’s eyes fluttered open.
“Who are you?” “It’s Alex”
“Alex? Alex! You’ve gotta get out of here! He took the poison! We gotta leave!”
“Whoa, whoa, shhh, who took the---”
“That poison is deadly! One drop can kill two people!”
“Hey, Fidge, come here”
“Yeah Alex, what’s up?”
“Look after her okay, I’m gonna go look for whoever it was who took this poison”
“No need action jock!”
Tempest stood in the doorway holding a flask of orange liquid. "That’s it!"
Laura pointed to be flask.
"That’s the G-12! Give it back!"
Tempest raised his lightning rot and shot out a bolt of lightning. It hit Fidgets camera out of her hand and sent it flying to the other end of the room.
“HEY! You have to pay for that!”
"I think you camera is the least of you worries"
He tucked the G-12 away and pulled out a small detonator. With that he slammed the door and hit the lock with a jolt of electricity, thus locking Alex, Fidget and Laura inside. Tempest ran. Fidget jiggled the handle.
"Alex! We’re locking in!"
"Stand back Fidget."
Alex ran towards to door and kicked it down. All three of them ran for dear life. Alex grabbed the guard and they cleared the building just as it exploded. The blast sent them all flying. Debris falling all around, Alex used his body to protect the guard while Fidget did so to Laura. When everything was calm again. Alex stood up.
"Everyone okay?"
"Yeah, I’m just PEACHY!"
"I’m okay"
"Okay, Fidget, you get Laura and the guard to the car, okay? I’m going after Tempest”
"Sure"
Fidget And Laura carried the guard to the Silver Speeder and once they were all settled, Fidget grabbed a head set from the glove compartment and ran off to help Alex. She arrived on the scene just in time, Tempest had Alex cornered. One side the cliff, the other side the storm.
"HEY!!!!"
Fidget screamed out to Tempest. She needed to distract him long enough for Alex to make his move. Tempest didn’t shoot at her like she had expected. Instead, he charged at her. Hit her full force and knocked her down. He was on top of her, he had her pinned to the ground. Tempest held the lightning rod close to her face
"You know, I always thought you were kinda cute."
He was about to kill her when Alex slammed into him knocking the lightning rod from his hand. Fidget laid there for a second, stunned.
"Grinder? are you there?"
"I’m here luv."
"We need some help here!"
"On it"
Big air was about to take off when an arrow hit the wing, I exploded taking out the engine.
"GRINDER!"
"Ah, Fidget?"
It was Rikki.
“What is it Rikki?”
“Ah, we can’t take off!”
"WHAT! I thought grinder fixed the engine!"
“Yeah, well he did.”
“AHH!”
Fidget looked over Alex had just been hit, he was TO close to the edge of the cliff. A few yards away, Tempest was preparing to finish him off. The Blue lightning shot out of the silver rod and with out thinking Fidget ran and pushed Alex out of the way. The Lightning hit her and she flew backwards off the cliff.