Science Fair by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Author:Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson [Barry, Dave & Pearson, Ridley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1423113241
Amazon: B001U3YE4Y
Publisher: Disney Editions
Published: 2008-10-14T07:00:00+00:00

Jungle Norman’s Pizza Party Place was now swarming with heavily armed federal agents wearing black SWAT-team uniforms. Most were from the FBI, but there were also personnel from a half-dozen other agencies, including two men who were with the CIA, although if questioned they would claim they were with the Department of Agriculture. The various agents had formed a perimeter around the stage area, taking cover behind video games. A few parents and staff members had noticed them but thought they were there to entertain one of the birthday groups. In the general wildness of Jungle Norman’s, the agents had not yet created much of a stir.

The agents were under the command of a veteran field operative named Blount. He was monitoring the situation on night-vision binoculars from behind the Dance Dance Revolution machine. Blount raised his wrist to his mouth and spoke quietly into a microphone, which would transmit his voice to earpieces worn by the agents inside, as wel as those outside on the barricaded street and others in cars and in the helicopters—there were now four of them—hovering overhead.

“The two individuals have approached the goril a,” he said. “There are three other individuals in the vicinity of the goril a. We wait for the exchange, people. I repeat, we wait for the exchange. We move only on my command.”

Both Agent Turow and Agent Iles clipped their FBI identification shields to their orange-crusted suit coats at about the same time. On opposite sides of the same building, they grabbed the door handles, ready to rush inside. They’d spent two days fol owing these suspects; they wanted to be part of the takedown.

Toby, Tamara, and Micah watched as Vrsk put his foot up on the stage, as if preparing to get on it. The man looked around nervously. Toby was convinced this guy and his friend had something to do with the IMs he’d received. Why else would he be here, hanging around the goril a?

Vrsk now was up on the stage. His eyes scanned the crowd and met Toby’s. Toby made a decision and stepped up on the stage with him.

“Are you looking for me?” Toby asked.

“What?” said Vrsk. “Who? Me?”

“Are you SecretAgentMan?”

“Who are you?” said Vrsk. He said it in Krpsht, so it came out sort of like spitting.

“Hey!” said Toby, wiping off his shirt. Tamara and Micah quickly climbed up onto the stage to back up their friend.

“Sorry,” said Vrsk, switching to English.

Now Drmtsi was also clambering up onto the stage. “Who is this?” he said in Krpsht, waving his pizza slice at Toby.

“Hey!” shouted a voice from the crowd. “You’re not al owed on the stage!”

Toby, Tamara, Micah, Vrsk, and Drmtsi looked down to see a waiter in a safari outfit glaring at them.

“I said, off the stage!” the waiter hol ered over the music. “You’re not al owed to…uhhh.”

The waiter staggered sideways as his right buttock was penetrated by a smal but potent tranquilizer dart fired from behind a Skee-Bal machine by an FBI sharpshooter acting on orders from Field Commander Blount.

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