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[A story that follows Jewelry Bonney as she adjusts to life under ACME, chases Chase Devineaux and derails into a battle of Egos against a certain magic based enemy and his cohorts]

Jewelry Bonney also known as Strange-Fate wiped sweat from her forehead. She would rather carve out her own guts than admit she was nervous. After all she was inside Acme HQ home to some of the best in the business. But her thoughts were interrupted by the sudden fact she still needed to get Achilles to her room. Plus interacting with Agent Nevon might soon become awkward if he found out Achilles's and hers secret. But at least after she dropped of Achilles she'll get food and see some of Chase Devineaux's hideouts. But for now on to the task at hand.

((Ace start, mate!))

 

 "No thanks. I doubt you could lift it." Strange-Fate answered coldly to the well-meaning agent's offer. And it was true enough for Achilles weighed several tons, what with all the stuff he carried. The only reason she was having a tough time was because she wasn't used to moving him and Achilles didn't like change. "Besides you should introduce yourself to a lady before offering to share her burden." she said matter-of-factly, though she was only messing with the agent.

Nevon realized the new girl was right, no one introduced themselves yet.

 

 "Achilles is not a pot. He is a Cauldron, there is a difference. And I don't care what you do." Strange-Fates mood was becoming more and more volatile as Achilles had increased his weight which was his way telling her to hurry up. "But ifyou wish to be helpful guide me to Rm 1313 because I can't reach the map."

((Mates, I'm looking at the Dorm map, and there isn't a room 1313, but I'll just pretend there is, no one's gonna kill me, ai?))

 

 Strange-Fate put Achilles down with a loud thud. And drew herself to her full height which resulted in a loud *crack!*. "I swear he goes directly out of his way to make things difficult for me" She said aloud. Strange-Fate barely caught the question her guide asked of her. She wondered how much she should tell; "Tracking, explosives and guns." She answered promptly.

While the other two were talking, Nevon was at the lobby of the dorms with his communicator.  He had gone to the service center and one of the techies transferred whatever information they could from the old card to a new one. That solved his "error: reinsert card" warnings.  Now he was just playing Pacman.

"Now if you'll excuse me agent Wes. I must get to work. But before you go here, take one and give the other to Nevon." Strange-Fate handed to agent Wesdon what looked to be two Playing Cards. Each card depicted her in a different action pose with a different handgun and her name on the bottom of the picture. "Use these if you wish to contact me. Just place your hand over either the picture or the name and either say my name or say it in your mind. If I answer a projection of me should appear right in front of you. Thank you for your help and see ya." Strange-Fate after handing Wesdon the strange gift pushed him out the door and locked it.

"Whew! That was close. Are you happy now Achilles? We're all settled in." Jewelry Bonney adressed the chauldron.
"It's about time! Not telling you what and how to do things is worse than death."  Achilles responded. "By the way why didn't you tell them your other specialty?" He asked. "Because. My skill in Alchemy must remain a secret from everyone. After all it's such a sensitve thing. Like religion and Politics." She replyed drily. "So you don't intend on telling anyone? Even that Chase fellow?" Achilles demanded slyly. Jewelry Bonney remained silent. Achilles sniggered. "Alright enough! Remember why we are here. To catch Emmesey Squire and his cohorts!" She shouted at the Cauldron. "Oh, and Carmen Sandiego too." She added as an afterthought.

Nevon stopped playing Pacman when Pete showed up to give him the card and tell him about its ability to call Strange-Fate.  He then watched his friend worry about being crazy.

"This card is probably temporary, Pete," Nevon suggested, "maybe she hasn't been assigned a communicator and number yet." 

"And then maybe she's just trying to fit in," he added, "I heard her say she wanted to find Chase Devineaux, she probably just wants a mentor, like I did when I started out here." Nevon actually started ACME recently, and has made it his personal goal to win Detective Devineaux's approval.

"Well what next?" Achilles asked Jewelry Bonney. "We add our new friends to the files." She replied, holding out two vials containing hairs belonging to the two agents who had offered to help her. "Old Lightning hands strikes again." Achilles said fervently. Jewelry grinned and poured the contents of the vials into Achilles.

A few minutes later she came out of her room to find Nevon. Since she could easily track him down anywhere it didn't take her long to find him.

 

 "Indeed." Strange-Fate replied. A thought had occurred to her, "I wonder if Chase would be impressed if I caught the Jersey Devil?" she wondered aloud.

Nevon blinked at Strange-Fate with both disbelief and a teeny bit of jealousy.  Could she really capture the Jersey Devil? And if Nev could do the same, would Chase be impressed with him too?

"She has a cauldron too," Nevon added, "it's cool."