From: JQFMelissa@aol.com OK, I had posted a ittle first part of this sometime in Janusry, so that's here with a bunch more. Disclaimer: I don't own JQ, or anything related to it. Please take pity. Don't sue. Category: Alt WARNING this is in a compltelly different universe, so things can be very different. To Take Over the World by Melisssa The Emperor of India was mad. He pounded his fist on the desk in front of him. "That's not good enough!" he roared. The short, timid man in front of him fiddled with his tie nervously. "B-but sir-" he started. "I want the Quest kids and I want them now!" he pounded on the wooden desk again and papers went flying onto the blue carpet. "Emperor, sir -um-I can explain-" "I need no explanations!" The Emperor reached across the desk, grabbed the man by his throat and lifted him into the air. "Sir, if you just listen-" With one foul swoop the emperor threw the man through the window wall behind the desk. "Ahhhhhhhhhh-" It was a long twelve stories down for him. "Nayak!" the Emperor shouted. A tall, confident looking man walked into the Emperor's office. "Yes, your Highness," he said. "You are now my number one," the Emperor said. Moving his eyes to the window for a second he added, "Narayan and I had a slight difference of opinion." "I see, sir" Nayak said smiling. "Anyway," the Emperor began as he started shuffling through his papers, "I need you to get this window fixed and set up an appointment with RB." "Yes, sir." Nayak said and turned to leave. "Oh, also." The Emperor looked up from his papers and Nayak turned around. "Take care of the mess in the courtyard below my office. I doubt it's a pretty sight." Nayak smiled again. "Yes, sir." The Emperor sat down in his black chair when Nayak left. He put his feet up on the desk and smiled. The Emperor of India, Hadji Singh, was beginning to feel happy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jessica Surd lifted her head and fixed her green eyes in the Hindu overseer in front of her. Despite the blood trickling down her check she said, "You cow-eating scum." Her words were as fiery as her red hair. But the Indian overseer didn't act like he'd heard the insult. He just hit her across the face with his gun and said, "Get back to work. And I don't want any of your outbreaks happening tomorrow when the Emperor comes to inspect his gardens." He turned and left not even bothering to check if Jessica had picked up her trowel and started digging. Fury raged in Jessica's eyes as she watched him go. A tall, black haired man got up from his knelling position twenty feet behind her. He walked over and put his hand on her shoulders. "You can't let them get to you like that," he said "I know, dad," replied Jessica, and she turned around to face him. "But I just can't stand it." Jeremiah Surd sighed as he looked at his daughters face. "I can't either, honey," he said, then glanced around him, "But we'll talk about it tonight. With Mom." Jessica's eyes moved to her mother who was pretending not to watch her husband and daughter. "Yeah, with Mom" she said. As her father left to get back to work, Jessica knelt down and began digging. Her mother, she thought, who's spirit and hair used to be as fiery as her daughter's. But after their enslavement Estella Velenquez's spirit had begun to break and her hair to gray. Despite this, Estella was the only thing that kept the Surd family together. If it weren't for her,"I'd be dead by now," Jessica whispered. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Aww, Bandit's on the fritz again." The blonde haired boy lifted a white dog half covered with metal plated circuity onto the kitchen table. He shined a penlight into the dog's uncovered eye. "Le'me see Jonny." Anna Quest lifted a metal plate from the back of the dog's neck revealing a small control panel backrounded by various colored wires. She picked up a pencil from the table and punched some codes into the control panel. "J-Onny, you were in the water with Bandit for THREE hours!" "Yeah, so?" Jonny said. "So, I told you after I installed Bandit's waterproof plating and circuitry that he could only be in water for two hours until the tests show that his memory has accepted the new programing. "I'll be more careful next time." Jonny responded. Anna, obviously annoyed, flicked her blonde pony tail bak and entered more codes into Bandit's control panel. She also had blue eyes, if she wasn't two years younger, she could have been his twin. "If the new programing fails Dad and my project will be set way behind, not to mention the fact that other joint programing could, fail, overload, setting me and Dad behind-" "Relax, I won't let that happen." Jonny picked Bandit up from the table. "Hey, what are you doing?" Anna asked. "Taking him outside." Jonny walked to the door and Anna followed. "Nooo. I told you I wanted to do stuff with him this afternoon," Anna whined, "besides you had him all morning." "Well, you can have him tonight." Jonny walked outside. "Hey!" Anna yelled, standing in the doorway, "get back here," She hit the doorframe, "He's my dog too!" and ran after him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "So everything is taken care of?" Hadji asked as he put his feet on his desk. "Of course," the white-haired man in front of him replied, "I don't like a botched job." He already had his feet on the desk. "Then my plan is falling into place perfectly. Once I have those brats, they'll do whatever I want, I will the technology I need, and then" he spread his arms out "the world." "An ingenious plan." "You don not know the half of it. And don't think you will, RB, I have not gotten this far by reveling my every move." RB took hid feet off the desk, obviously not happy. "You didn't get this far without me." "True," the Emperor put his fingertips together as he thought, "you did help considerably with the unfortunate-ah-'accident' that befell my father several years ago, but," he looked out the one-way glass were Nayak sat. "-not everyone can be trusted." RB still looked unhappy, and was about to speak. "Well," Hadji said, "now that work is done, perhaps we can have some tea." He pushed a button on his desk. "So RB," the Emperor began," tell me-what is your real name?" RB's expression seemed to lighten. "It's Roger Bannon," he said ,"but my friends used to call me Race." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Benton!" A familiar face appeared on a large flat monitor the kitchen. "So, 'Zincy', what's up?" Benton turned to the screen with a smile on his face. Zin's face looked serious. "Benton, something's happened." Dr. Quest's smile faded. "No comment about the nickname? What's the matter?" "Anaya's been kidnapped." "What!? And Melana-" "The broke into the house while she was at Lea's soccer game. But Benton: *Where are Jonny and Ana*?" "Huh? Well why-" "I think whoever got to Anaya is after your kids, too." "Well they're-" Before Benton could finish, Rachel came running through the kitchen door from outside. "Bento-" she gasped "Anna and Jo-Jonny and Bandit-" Benton's face turned dead white as he looked back to the monitor and into Zin's equally terrified face. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Yeah, I know, who could RB have been but Race? anyway questions? comments? Just e-mail me. Melissa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Share the wealth! http://www.ONElist.com Tell a friend about ONElist's 115,000 free e-mail communities!