A Talenny Story: Book 1 ✔

Chapter 2: "Oh, MAD!"

Talon POV

I looked out into the crowd of new evil henchmen. Those poor, naive innocent kids who have no idea how to be evil. Except of course, in order to be accepted into MAD, you have to at least do a crime that will get you into jail. So I guess the new recruits aren't entirely innocent but ya know..... There were a couple of girls but mostly guys and all were wearing the equally hideous MAD uniform. No matter how many times I begged my Uncle to design a new one, he refused.... Something about "the academy" [hehe sorry imagine agent monogram saying that from Phineas and Ferb]. Oh well. At least I wasn't forced to wear one.

Penny POV

As I looked at Talon from the crowd, a swarm of butterflies did synchronized flying in my stomach. No! What are you thinking, me? No, ok? Focus. The stupid suit and body odor from the MAD agent HQ stole it from was obviously making me nauseous. Duh. Suddenly, what sounded like MADcat hissing, began to play from the loud speakers. The meeting was about to start! Out of the blue, the henchmen stood up and saluted a flag with MAD's symbol on it. What suspiciously sounded like the Canadian national anthem began to play.
With a few twists:
"Oh MAD! Oh MAD! We are evil and bad! Oh MAD! Oh MAD! We will make you sad!"
I jumped to my feet and copied what the others were doing. It sounded horrible. Everyone was off-key and those same lyrics were replayed over and over again. It couldn't have sounded worse if MADcat herself came with some more alley cats to sing it.
Finally, the song came to an end. The henchmen looked so proud of themselves but even on stage, Talon was cringing too. I noticed he didn't do the song. That was good. I really didn't want to know if he has a frog croaking in the throat. He cleared his throat and began to start his stupid speech.

Talon POV

My speech didn't have a lot of effort in it. Why would it? I didn't want to do this.

"Hello, MAD's newest henchmen! Welcome to MAD, blah, blah, blah. You guys are a ton of losers but if you don't do what Uncle C or I say," here I pretended imitate his voice, "IT'S TO THE SHARK TANK WITH YOU!"

My fellow evil-doers all snorted, they liked making fun of Uncle C, even though they are terrified of him. Some of them nodded their heads a bit to eagerly, as if they are trying to please me. I looked at them skeptically, then smirked. They were all girls.

"Anyway, as you all know, I am amazing. I have excellent combat skills and I am a genuis. Graduated college at the age 13, I came to work for Claw. We are evil, all of us. And we work against our sworn enemies, HQ, Inspector Gadget, and my cru- uh I mean, archenemy Penny."

Suddenly, I saw a girl in the back roll her eyes. She had done it earlier too when I was talking about my incredibility. I saw her eyes, and they were brown. Hm, I would've thought it was Penny but I would know her eyes anywhere. Those bright, blue, pretty eyes. I smirked, yeah pretty. Like the nickname I gave her, Pretty Penny.

"I believe that we have a doubter here folks. Someone here doesn't think I'm good enough," I pointed straight at the newbie with the brown eyes, "Come on up."