Agent Marci Banks

chapter 1: Welcome to Prison

    

   My whole body shook with silent sobs as I hid in the cup board, watching the man in front of me hit my mother with a gun to her head through the wooden cracks. My father lay flat on the ground dead with a pool of blood surrounding him. His once white shirt stained a velvet color and his skin pale as paper, although there was a sickly yellow tinge to him now.. The life in his eyes gone. I wanted to yell and cry for help, but I knew if I did they would find me and I know that my parents wouldn't want anything to happen to me.

"Where is she!" he yelled with his nostrils flaring angrily, hitting my mother across her face so hard, the pain went through me all the way to my bones.

   He was talking about me. But my mom knew better than to say anything or look my way.

"Fine then I guess you want to die!" he pulled back the trigger and suddenly, it was like everything was in slow motion.

   I could hear each part of the gun clicking into place just to fire that single bullet into my mother.

   The boom sound that had followed had woken me up with a start, panting. The thing about this dream was that I never really got a good look at his face and I never will either.

   After calming down, I glanced at the alarm clock. I have an hour until I go to prison. Or school.    But I prefer prison.

It's funny how many times I've sent people to prison and yet I go to one

   With a chuckle, I sat up and headed to the bathroom to take a long relaxing shower.

   Last night was the easiest job yet. Jake felt bad for not being able to help me with the techno laptop crap so he is going to get me coffee today.

Yay..... caffeine

   Finished with washing my hair with my watermelon shampoo, I got dressed in a blue blouse that flowed around me when I walked and a pair grey short shorts. Slipping on my black ankle boots and my tan leather jacket, I moved to my vanity.

   I put my hair in a waterfall braid that made my brown wavy hair look tamed. I checked the time once more.

40 minutes left

   With a sigh, I went to the back of my closet and waved my hand on the wall. There appeared a panel with a hand mark on it. Placing my hand there, I watched it scanned my fingerprints to make sure it was me or anybody else I put on the 'let in' list(Which included my family).

   With a ding, the wall opened to a set of stairs that led me underground. It paused at a point where you were level with the garage so I could get my vehicle fast but I was heading to my home base (or my bat cave) so I continued on.

   I did the panel thing again and this time it checked my eyes and made me put in a code too, so the wall opened to a bigger room. There was a spiral metal staircase that lead to a large balcony floor which held a variety of books and a small lab. It looked like it was empty inside but that is just far from the truth. I have a training place here too, and it has everything you would ever find in a normal spy training base. I also have a snack area and a giant walk in closet. Then behind a desk was a whole wall the opened up to give you rows upon rows of weapons.

   There was a huge empty wall and across from that was the same desk with a swivel chair. I sat down and began to hit keys on my keyboard. The empty wall turned on to reveal that it was in fact a huge TV. I had the whole house wired with cameras, microphones and other safety things. I also put a camera in the aquarium upstairs in the house so I could put that cool image on the screen making it seem like I was underwater.

   I opened up the channel for the kitchen to see what was for breakfast. My 7 year old sister, Maya, played with her pancakes making lazer sounds. 

"Marci! come down to eat." Katarina, the chef, called placing bacon, eggs and pancakes on the table. 

   She also made fresh chocolate chip muffins, oatmeal, and a fresh pot of coffee. My parents were rich enough to have maids, chefs, a nanny, personal trainer, and enough to build this house made for spies with hidden places and bases like this. I know I'm the only spy in the family but it doesn't help if they are in danger too. 

They might not be my really family but they still were family

   I quickly typed 'I'll be there' and hit send. 

"Kitchen sink Neri please." I say. 

"Yes Marci." The computer, Neri says back.

    I look back to the TV and see the message on the little screen above the kitchen sink. Katarina nods knowing that I'm watching her. 

"Time until school Neri please." I say. 

" 32 minutes until school Marci." 

I get up and the TV turns off. 

"Inform me if I get a new mission, oh and Neri. Please do bring out number 37 in the garage for school please." I say still heading to the exit of my batcave. 

"Yes Marci. Of course." 

   The whole house was controlled by the computer and that my friends, is awesome.

   Instead of going back to my room I decide to take a short cut. It's like there is a tunnel around the entire house and trust me you can get lost.

So glad Jake found me, I shudder.

    I open another door and appear in the living room behind the fireplace. (it moves out of the way to make a door.) I quickly walked to the kitchen and kissed Katarina on both cheeks. She's french and enjoys speaking in her native tongue.

 "Bonjour! Allez-vous ce matin! Ohh la nourriture sent bon. Merci Katarina. Avez-vous vu maman ou papa ce matin?" (hey! How are you this morning! Ohh the food smells delicious. Thank you katarina. Have you seen mom or dad this morning?) I said sitting down at the table. 

   She came and sat near me with a smile on her face.

   She liked that I spoke to her in french and i do it often. One of many languages in can speak fluently. 

"Ils sont partis tôt ce matin pour le travail mais votre mère dit merci pour le lait et votre père a dit qu'il voulait vous parler de quelque chose. Il a mentionné Nicolas vous voulant pour une mission importante. Il a dû vous le dire en personne pas par courriel." (They left early this morning for work but your mother said thank you for the milk and your father said that he wanted to talk to you about something. He mentioned Nicholas wanting you for an important mission. He had to tell you in person not through email.)She said filling up my plate.

   Nicholas was the head of the spy league even though he was only like 4 years older than I am. I nod thinking over what might be so important he had to tell my father before telling me. 

"Maintenant se dépêcher de manger! vous avez l'école à y assister!" (Now hurry up and eat! You have school to attend.) she said placing the plate in front of me.

Ahh prison

   Stuffing my mouth and stomach up, I finished eating and took the tunnels to the garage. There was an old dirty car that i'm not even sure what model it was anymore. I hit a button on the wall and the car flipped to reveal number 37 in my car list. I have a total of 53 cars. This one was one of my favorites though. It was a dodge challenger.

   It was the exact model car as Dom's black car from the fast and furious movies. Yep that's the car. I love dodges so I have like 23 more. But they are all different in a way. Anyhow, I got in and drove off to jail. Oops I mean school.

Ahh who am I kidding it's the same thing