The T & P'S Society: Stolen Crown (part 4)

"TERRY!!!!!!!"
Perry the panda's voice echoed through the vast and almost empty halls of the headquarters. "Terrence Cornelius Ichabod Turtle. You get your sorry butt here right now!" Perry yelled. Saying that Perry was mad was an understatement, the panda was more fuming and steaming at the moment. "What exactly do you want to tell me about this?"Perry asked, the moment Terry came, and then pointed at the screen in front of him. It was a security camera tape of the night before, somebody had just stolen the T & P'S Society motivator (a strange device that motivated the whole society to keep on working), and that someone had a strange resemblance to Terry Turtle. In fact, it was Terry on the screen, but the turtle had been nowhere near the headquarters at that time. "Well Terry? Are you going to hand over the motivator now?" Perry asked very impatiently.
"No. Because I never took it in the first place."
"Whaddya mean 'No'? I'm pretty sure that is you on the security tape."
"How could that have been me? First things first, I don't wear balaclava masks, they give me pimples."
"That's besides the point! Why on Earth would you sneak in and steal the motivator. You of all people should know that is what our whole company depends on."
"I'm telling you, I did not steal the motivator!"
"Prove it then."
"We live in the same apartment."
"So, you could have came back after me."
"You drove me back."
"How do I know that was you. How do I know that wasn't some robot or stuffed toy?"
"We talked the whole way there about company secrets and friendship goals."
"Uhhh, you could have programmed the robot."
"It wasn't me you dumbo! Don't you realize? This is her distraction."
"Who's distraction?"
"Detective Hassen-Lochen's, she's trying to separate us and then steal the whole company. She's in cahoots with Professor R!"
"I don't get it."
"Uuuuuuu!"
Perry did actually understand, but he was just in shock of how logical and smart Terry sounded. Usually Perry was constantly proving Terry wrong.

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Terry sulked to his office as his mind mulled over the fact that in the security tape, there really was a turtle that looked exactly like him. He got to his office, but there was a crisp white envelope sitting on his desk. Terry carefully opened the envelope and read the note. His eyes widened while reading and rushed out of his office on this Segway. In all the hurry, Terry had forgotten to lock his office and a small figure slunk into the room without anyone noticing them.

The T & P'S Society: Stolen Crown (part 3)

"Well, here's the thing Terry." Perry chuckled nervously "I got to work early, and I was hungry. So I looked through the fridge and the only thing there was a jar of pickles, but you know how much I love pickles, so naturally, I had to open it. But when it tried to open it, the lid wouldn't budge. Soooooo, I know how great you are at opening jars, and yeah..."

"Perry! That's the reason you called me here?! We have a jar opener designed specifically for you sitting on your desk. I put a tag on it saying 'Perry do NOT call me to open a jar for you, use this instead'. Are you kidding me?" yelled Terry and then stormed off to get some food for their fridge...

Stories Alive

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Hero Callihan. We were expecting you. I believe you have something that sparks my interest, and I want it."
"Looks like it is your bad day, because you're not getting anything but defeat from me."
"We'll see about that."
and with that, she attacked. I fought my best against her but then again, I wasn't fully trained before they started their attack against Earth. I threw a punch in her stomach, and she groaned in pain. I tripped her using the moment to the advantage. I held her down. "I though you said I was a 'worthy opponent'?" She gritted her teeth and struggled but I only strengthened my grip. "BLANCHE! WAKE UP!" That's weird, what kind of command was that? "WAKE UP! THE SCHOOL BUS IS LEAVING IN A FEW MINUTES!" Oh, no. The light bulb finally turned on in my head. I was dreaming, well of course, I'm not some butt-kicking extraordinaire who was devilishly smart and named Hero Callihan. I was smart, but I was nowhere close as cool as Hero. I urged myself to wake up before mom brought out the ice cold water.

My eyes fluttered open just before the water poured on to my face. I spluttered and rolled of my bed and on to the floor. "Mo-o-o-o-om! I was getting up! You didn't need to bring out the water." I said grumpily. "Well you were asleep for more than 30 minutes after your alarm, that's the deal Blanche." My mom looked at me smugly and walked out of my room. I dried my self as well as possible gulped down a glass or orange juice and gulfed down some scrambled eggs. I grabbed my backpack, put on my shoes and sprinted down to the bus station. To my luck, the bus had already left. Just wonderful, I now had to sprint back home and wait 30 more minutes until mom would be able to drive me to school.

The bell rung in the distance as my mom slowly moved the car forward in the traffic and I groaned. "Just great, the fifth day late in a row. Late for school for a whole week. Great reputation and more days to add on my report card. Yep, real great." I scowled and my mom looked at me using the mirror and rolled her eyes. "Really, Blanche dear, it's not my fault, you should have woken up earlier. Perhaps when your alarm rang?" I scowled again.

"Now class, today we have a new project and it will involve research from the library." The whole class groaned except me, I loved doing research in books. I mean I love technology and all, but I'd rather use books. "Settle down everybody, it's not all that bad. Wait for it, you are doing a book report on your favourite book and author!" Ms. Fairweather sounded really excited for this project. Well, I don't blame her, she spends all her free time in the library. Anyways, we trudged up to the library to choose our books. I wanted to do a Hero Callihan book, maybe Hero Callihan and The Lost Treasure of Orchard Woods. I searched through the 'New Books' section and grabbed my book and set to work on reading it. Livia, my friend, asked me if we could work together on the book, so I said yes and we took turns reading out loud to each other. Livia read the first half of the book and I started to read the second half. I finished soon as possible and got to work with the story. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" screams echoed in the hallway and I raced to see what it was. Some figure in a trench coat was speeding down the hall and another figure was chasing it. The second figure seemed to have combat boots, a short hair bob of brown hair and a leather jacket. It occurred to me that the second figure had a weird resemblance to Hero Callihan and then it hit me, it was just like in Hero Callihan and The Enchantress of Isla, I had read the characters right out of a story and into real life. I know, I know, I sound really gullible but I'm sure. Unless you know some person ridiculous enough to actually break rules at my school. Of course, knowing what happens in the book and leaping at the chance to meet, I sprinted down the halls taking my chances of breaking school rules.

I skid down the hall and turned left just to see Hero in hot pursuit of The Masked Master. I ran down the other hallway and made a quick right just in time to corner The Masked Master. I leapt at him knowing that he was vulnerable from behind. I knocked down The Masked Master and held him in a headlock until I awkwardly looked at Hero, but she looked at me as if I was the hero. "Well, well, looks like we got a JR. cadet here don't we?" I blushed and beamed with pride. "Oh it was nothing, the least I could do." I said. "Say, do you know where I am?" Hero asked. I thought of what I was supposed to say to her, I couldn't explain to her the whole concept of she's a book character and I read her out. I would just tell her she was in Vancouver, British Columbia, where we actually were.
"We're in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada."
"Thanks cadet, I'll see you soon I hope!"
"Y-y-yeah I hope!" I stammered. I was so-o-o-o-o embarrassed. But Hero Callihan was talking to me! Blanche Carson! The next thing I knew, Hero was gone and I was alone in the halls and even The Masked Master was gone.

I excitedly snuck back into the library like nothing was wrong and told Livia what happened. We grabbed Hero Callihan and The Dice of Doom and started to read aloud...

The T & P'S Society: Stolen Crown (part 2)

Terry the turtle dragged himself out of bed in the morning, ate his breakfast and headed to work on his brand new Segway 9.4. The day before had been extremely hectic, what with all the Detective Hassen-Lochen stuff, Terry barely had time to breath! Today they were going to do some "investigating at the crime-scene" as Perry would call it. Perry and Terry had been buddies since the beginning of time. Not literally but you get what I mean. They started the company a few years back and it had grown into an immensely popular hiring site. Not because people were always quitting or getting fired, but because they just didn't have that many associates. Strangely enough, all the associates, including the co-presidents, names rhymed! Except for Bob the ladybug. He was always grumpy with being teased about being called a ladybug and being the only one with the name that didn't rhyme. Terry and Perry had tried loads of ways to try to make Bob feel better but so far, none of them had ever worked. Terry sped along the Segway lane on the highway until a huge bird swooped down and picked up Terry and his Segway and flew away.

Terry was scared to death. The first fact you would probably learn about the turtle would be that he had and irrational fear of birds. As Terry dangled dangerously from the birds claws, he thought about all the fun he had with Perry. The turtle closed his eyes and wished he was on solid ground. "Terry?" a familiar voice called. "Well that worked faster thank I thought it would." he thought. Terry opened his eyes and it was Perry. "B-b-b-bird....carried....highway..." Terry droned off trying to explain what had happened to him. "Umm, heh heh. Funny story..."started Perry. "We kinda mighta maybe sent Millie the bird to pick you up faster, so yeah." the panda looked embarrassed and shameful. "It was an emergency! We had to take extreme measures! I knew you would take long to get here because of the traffic!" Perry protested. Terry rolled his eyes. "Alright, since it was so important that you had to use one of our associates and one of my worst fears to pick me up from the middle of the highway, what did you need to tell me?"