Alice turned to
escape but not before stealing a glance at Dana, who was bending over the
railings to pull Tonya up. “Nice arse” Alice muttered,
feeling completely unnerved by these strange new feelings.

Back at the
parking lot, Alice jumped into
Shane’s ’69 Rambler. Tires squealed as the red-stripped white beauty made for a
loud but quick getaway.

“*****,
she’s here!”

Shane looked
confused. She could barely balance Mr. Jenks in her hands and drive manual at
the same time. “Man, stick is so not for me what’d you say? Who’s here?”

“Fairbanks! I think I
under-estimated her. She’s onto me, Shane.”

“Wh–
she’s into you?! You figured that out in five minutes! Some *****-dar.”
Shane was amused, but the Milky wasn’t.

“She’s onto me onto my plan! God, you’d think that, being a super-villain, I’d at
least get a decent Scud!”

“Huh? A
what?” Shane still looked confused.

“Nothing.
Listen, we still need a diversion and I know just the person to help us. How
fast can this rumbling beast get us to CABBA Headquarters? We’re gonna have to
get Miss Bette to meet us there.” Diversion-plans formed themselves in Alice‘s milky head
as Shane shifted gears and sped off in the general direction of CABBA.

“She’s a
Rambler. Ms. Wiggles is a Rambler!”

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Dana sat at
her desk, pretending to be hard at work on her computer. She couldn’t stop
thinking of Alice and their
encounter. Of all the research and information gathered on her, no one had ever
said she’d be so nice.

“Dana-kins!”
Tonya had a way of squeaking every time she said her name and it always made
Dana cringe. “So what’s next on the plan? Where are we gonna chase her to
this time?” Dana gave her a look.

“Uh,
excuse me. I chased, you fell off a roof! We’re just lucky her next stop is the
Second Level.” Dana pointed at her screen, relieved to finally have
something on Alice.

“Second
level? Falling from that height would still hurt wouldn’t it?” Tonya
looked scared but Dana just rolled her eyes.

“It’s a
restaurant, Carter!” They both turned to find Director Kennard approach
them, chocolate bar in hand.

~Chocolate ~
Chocolate ~ Chocolate~

“Yeah,
it’s the restaurant of the underground community. Its THE hip and happening
place for criminals.” Dana explained. “Any intel on what the Milky’s
doing there?” She asked the Director