Ethan
Me and ace were shivering from the cold, I looked around the room no ACs, how was the room so cold? Plus the hay didn’t help at all too. I had so many questions in my mind, where were we? (I know we are in the school, but were?) Where did this hay come from? How was Adam not feeling cold?
“Adam, don’t you feel cold?”I asked. Adam didn’t reply, “Adam?”Ace questioned. Still no reply. “ADAM!”I yelled. “Uhh, What did I miss??”Adam uttered “Nothing. You were just knocked out for a second” Ace replied cooly but still shivering. Before we could say anything else the room started to fill with babies of our age and older, wearing tuxedoes, ties, sunglasses and holding some type of zapper or gun or a zapper gun and then everything went black, totally black.
I finally woke up, my arms and neck surprisingly didn’t hurt and I wasn’t on a chair tied with a rope across my legs or something like that with a big villain sitting in front of me and laughing like a madman it was nothing like that. Instead, I was on a very comfy couch in a huge room with a pleasant smell. I looked at my side the A’s were waking up too, I chuckled funnily the two boy’s name started with ‘A’ what a coincident I will call them ‘The A’s ‘, I hope that will annoy them. I spotted a ladder in a corner, a big one, I looked up. I was right! there is a duct or something like that there. “We can get out of here!!” I suddenly screamed. “Aww man, I was liking it here!” Adam said. “You are surely a strange person” Ace spoke, “Agreed” I replied.
Before we could talk more the door opened, A blonde boy of our age walked in followed by a short red-headed girl. “I see you have woken up.” The boy said, he continued “Let me introduce myself as we are not allowed to reveal ourself I must say that I am a secret agent, Agent H, highest of the society and this is my assistant, Agent Ruby” He pointed to his left. “Hello” Ruby said. Adam whispered to me “Good name, suits her. Did you get it? she’s red-headed with Ruby as her name and ‘ Ruby’ means red jewel! ” I replied “Yeah, I know. I’m not stupid!”
Ruby cleared her throat and said, “We have been observing Adam and we thought that he would be a great addition to our Agency since, Ace and Ethan are also here we may let them go on only one condition, that you may never tell anyone that you both were here.” I gulped. Were they threatening us? Agent Ruby continued “We will always keep a watch on you and if you spill the beans….” she waited for it to sink in. Then a thought occurred to me but, there was something off about it. Aaha, got it. It was Ace’s voice, it said “Are they bullying us?”
Wow, I never thought Ace could transfer his thought to my head. My dream world was broken by Agent H speaking to Ruby “Ruby, We are the good guys not the bad ones. You can’t just threaten anyone. Plus, the leader of SAC always wanted to have as many Agents as possible, It won’t do any harm if we have two more Agents working for us. They just have to pass the test”
As expected Ace was very excited he started asking questions, mostly dumb once as he does always. “What? Oh wow, Ethan did you hear that we are getting hired by SAC!! Wait, what is SAC? will you pay money? How much? When will we get that cool looking sunglass and the tux? And ooooh test of secrecy, What a cool name! What will we have to do to pass the test? When is the test? do we have to be prepared? At what time? What date? Wait once again, were you spying on Adam?” The last one made him frown.
“Yes, Ethan did hear that he isn’t deaf. SAC stands for Secret Agent Company. We can’t pay you money because we are kids. You will get the sunglasses, ties and tuxedoes once you prove yourselves worthy of being an Agent. The test is yet to be scheduled for you both, you can be prepared if you want to. We will let you know when is the test. We were not spying on Adam just OBSERVING him.” Agent H replied.
“But, Doesn’t Adam need to have a test?” I questioned. Ruby replied for Agent H “No, because he has passed our test. We sent bullies after him and he stood up for him and his friends and even made them regret going after him.” “Hey! That put me in a lot of trouble….. But it was worth it” Adam added quickly.
I didn’t expect that we would be hired by SAC on the first day of our new School AKA Meadows Pre-School (MPS). It’s strange, right? Plus what’s more strange is that Agent H answered every question Ace asked. We took the bus from school to home with our sis. Let me tell you she’s not a bit annoying even though she sometimes says that she will take our toys from us if we did that again and we become angry and bite her which happens rarely, okay it happens often you see we are just cute, little monster babies. Our sis is great coming up with ways to entertain us she even lets us comb her hair.
We reached home and mom asked us how was our school I did a little dance to show her it was great and she laughed at the response. She turned to Ace who was already sitting on the bed telling her the whole story of how he came to the HQ of SAC, Simone (our sis) had put on her face which said- what’s he speaking? and was looking like she’s gonna burst any moment. Mom burst into giggles causing Simone to laugh. Ace became furious, he screamed at sis “Do you think its funny? I’m an Agent!” but it only came out like “GOO GOO GAGA!!” He went towards her and quickly and bit her on her right arm before she got a chance to get away “AHHHH” sis let a short screech, as I watched the scene unfold in front of me.
(NEXT DAY AT SCHOOL)
Ace
The next at the playground Adam came towards us with a glum face “Why the swollen lip?”Ethan asked pointing towards Adam’s lips. “Swollen lip? He doesn’t have a swollen lip” I answered.”Silly, It was meant to be a joke! It means his lower lip looks like it is swollen, but it’s not! He is just sad.” “Whatever, Adam why are you sad?” I inquired. He said “I am not talking about that. The SAC wants you to know that the test is today at the same place and they want you to report now.”
“Oh, yessss!!” I shouted on top of my lungs. Ethan frowned “We should be excited but, not too excited. here Adam has a sad face and you are celebrating?”. “Yeah. I’m celebrating cant you see? Anyways Adam can use some alone time.” I mocked back. Nothing in this whole wide world can upset me. “How about the SAC cancels the test? That will upset you.”Ethan spoke. I glared hard at Ethan, does he truly want the test to be cancelled? “Ethan, Can you stop reading my mind? and let’s go. You can come unless you don’t want to be working with SAC” I said sweetly. “I can never pass the offer of working with SAC” Ethan said.
Ethan
We were in the Headquarters of SAC, where our test was due. Ruby came in and explained everything we had to know “There will be two tests, both will be easy. the first one you have to watch the video and solve the riddles and the second one will be ‘the ball under the cup’. your test shall start now.” with that she walked away. A screen lowered and a video started “we will be listening to your answers” Agent H said from behind the glass.
They were riddles, the first one was: There was a spy on the ship and the Captain had three prime suspects, from the sailors. Timothy, 18-year-old: I have just started my work here just a few months ago, and I’m definitely not a spy. Harry, 24-years-old: I can’t be a spy, I am too weak for that. I can’t even swim!. Sam, 39-year-old: I am not a spy. I have been working here for 13 years. After the captain heard all the statements he quickly figured out who was the spy. who is the spy? The clock was ticking, think fast Ethan. I slapped my forehead, still no answer.
“Man, How are we supposed to know? we are not sailors” Ace moaned. “There must be some facts.” I told him. “Like what being seasick?” Ace asked running his stupid brain. “No, Ace. Sailors can’t be seasick because they will lose their job.” I stated. “But what is a sailor who can’t swim?” Ace asked. I tried to think of some excuse to deny it as I turned to the video screen. Aaha! “A sailor who can’t swim is a spy.” I proudly declared. “Great. Got the answer.” Ace agreed “Because of me” He added quickly.
The next riddle was: A man put a hundred dollar bill on the table and when he came back it was gone. at the time there were only three people at the house. the maid, the butler, the gardener. He asked them did they see the note. The maid said: I saw the note and kept it under the book. The butler said: I saw it sticking out of the bottom and kept it between page 11 and 12. The gardener said: I kept it between page 12 and 13. Who took the note?.
“How are we going to solve it?” Ace moaned. He is always complaining because he can’t solve most of them. As a bookworm, I had a feeling that something is off. I imagined the book in my hand and the note in my other hand. I first kept it under the book then, in the book taking note of the page number. Then I tried to put it in between page 12 and 13 but I couldn’t. Guess why. Because the pages have two sides. so if the gardener wants to put it in between he won’t be able to. “The gardener is the thief” I said loudly. “How?” Ace asked. “My book-loving mind” I said pointing to my brain. “What is a gardener doing inside?” Ace asked. “Stealing” I said. “I never thought that you two would solve the riddle.” Agent Ruby said. “Never underestimate anyone” Ace said.
Ace
Wow. It felt soo good to say something good. Makes sense to you? Cause it doesn’t to me. I didn’t even know the meaning of the word-“Underestimate” I just know that it is a famous saying. I was snapped back to reality by Ruby’s voice “Now for your next test. The one in which has a ball under one glass and u have to guess which. And there are no rules.” “No Rules?” I asked raising my eyebrows. “Well. we have to behave.” Ethan said.
We went to a table with two chairs on one side and a boy sitting on the other side. There were three glasses kept upside-down, there was a small red ball kept on top of the middle one. The boy sitting on the other side kept the ball under the middle glasses, he switches the last glass and the first one and continues to do it with other glasses getting faster and faster. I didn’t think any human can be this fast and not mess up. I noticed something, that he was only switching the end glasses, and only switched the middle glasses 4 times.
“Wait” I said. Surprisingly, He did wait. “Why did u stop?” I ask him. “Now, that’s weird. I am a robot, I obey humans and that is my job.” Oh, so that was the reason his hand were so fast. “Which glass has the ball?” said the boy. Er… I mean robot, he looks like a boy tho. I looked at Ethan, he looked dazed. So, it was up to me “Umm….the middle one” I said hoping that it is the correct answer. I waited for a moment for him to announce that it was the wrong answer, squeezing my eyes shut and crossed my fingers. “Did I guess the answer?” I asked.
“Nope” said Ruby. “Honestly I had my hopes very high for you brothers. Its so sad that you will be zapped”
WAIT WHAT?!
“Come on Ruby, no need to scare poor Ethan, just tell us the truth.” I said, very confidently. I am smart and Ethan is twice smarter than me, surely we couldn’t have failed? “I know this may come as a shock… but you are not what we are looking for..Im really sorry for this” Ruby said with a sad smile. “Sorry for wha-”
All I felt was a sharp pain on the back of my head. I began to start losing my breath and fell unconscious.
When I woke up I was sitting up on the bottom of the slide. I guess I must’ve been day dreaming, It happens. I got up and yelled for Ethan, he replied from the top of the slide. He came down and we went to our classes. We met Adam, he asked “How was the SAC?”. “Sac? whats that?” I laughed. “Its probably some silly joke Adam came up with!” said Ethan. I nodded and ignored Adam as the teacher entered the class.
The End