Cassandra

Figuring it out

"Have you got any good ideas?" she asked.

"All I can say is, that it must have been someone quite smart, because not everybody can make a remote-controlled car to destroy the city." Of course, they could have threatened someone to do it for them.

"Since I haven't done an IQ test on every villain, this doesn't really help at all." There was really no need for that. There weren't many bad guys in this city, that I knew of, that could be called intelligent.

"How about we find out, if something else was going on at the same time. Maybe that will give us a clue." Although I actually had a pretty good idea already, who was behind it.

We went through all the police files and traffic cameras, but couldn't find anything.

"Maybe it wasn't a distraction," guessed Aurora.

"Or maybe nobody has noticed the robbery yet." I was sure of it.

"What makes you think it was a robbery?"

"Because this is what my father does!" I just blurted it out and regretted it immediately.

"Wait... Your dad is behind this?" I didn't get why she was so surprised. After years of fighting each other, she should have seen it coming.

"I don't know for sure, but it sure looks that way. He always likes to do something big, that captures everyone's attention, but he always runs away from the consequences. Like the chemistry lab fire. He is up to something big and stupid again."

"You just said, that the person, who can make a remote-controlled car, has to be pretty smart and now you say your dad is stupid."

"He is not that kind of stupid. Making big, scary machines, planning robberies, always knowing how to escape – thit is what he does well. He is stupid, because he doesn't know when to give up and he always runs away from responsibilities. How many times does he have to fail to understand, that he is never going to rule the world?"

"He will continue until we stop him and that is what we are going to do. You know him well, if that was him behind the car, then what do you think he was really after?"

"He needed some chemical from the chemistry lab, so it is possible that he was after some other chemical now or some piece for a machine."

"Hey, you guys. I just got a call from my dad. He said, that the cameras in the science center were out for about five minutes this morning and one of our new exhibition pieces is missing," said Alice, who had just stormed into the room.

Aurora and I looked at each other in understanding. Aurora quickly looked up the science center's recordings to find my dad in any of them.

"There, that's him," I pointed at a guy, who didn't look like my dad at all.

"You sure?" asked Aurora with serious doubt. She and Alice looked at me with confused faces, but for different reasons.

"Yep, he must have used some face changing thingy, but I gave that tie to him."

"Tie? Seriously? A lot of people can have the same tie," said Alice. "Who are we talking about anyway?"

"Cassy thinks her dad was behind the car thing this morning. He used that as a distraction to rob the exhibition piece from the science center."

"That makes no sense. How was that distracting anything that was going on in the science center?"

"Probably because everybody was watching it live on the news, so they didn't really pay attention to the fact that someone disabled the cameras for five minutes. Not even you."