THE ZILLIONAIRES II

(The stolen computer files)

"Well," Ryan said to Keith as they were walking down the halls of their Omega Sector to their offices, "I hope this mission will be better, not to mention easier, than the last one."

"Hey, don’t sweat it, it will be easier than the last one. Max told me when he called me this afternoon. This time we’re going all over Europe to find out where the C.O.W.’s (Criminal Organization of the World) secret base is." Keith said, "Max also told me they stole our computer files on all of the spies in our CIA, FBI, and in our Omega Sector."

"What?! What happened?!"

"The badguys stole all of our computer files. That’s what happened."

"WHAT?! HOW IN THE WORLD CAN THOSE GUYS DO THAT?! AND BACK TO EUROPE! LAST TIME WE ALMOST GOT KILLED!!!!!" Ryan exclaimed.

"But we scared most of the badguys into going straight."

Ryan started to calm down and said, "Well, I guess we better get going, or we’ll never get there. Don’t forget, this is one of the busiest weeks of the year. I mean, it’s almost Christmas. By the way, have you gotten anything for Allison yet?"

"Yeah, Ryan. I got her a two million dollar diamond ring, a new Mercedes, and a lot of nice stuff. I also am having our room and bath remodeled. What did you get for your wife?"

"Nothing yet. I’ll get her something when we get back from this mission."

"It’ll probably be after Christmas before we get back."

"Oh. Then I’ll get her something now."

"Like what?"

"Well," Ryan said, "maybe that sports car she wants. It’s only $300,000."

"Cool."

Then the went to say goodbye to their families.

They gave their kids early Christmas presents.

Eric, who was only five, got a toy Plasma Rifle that shot out infrared laser beams that could shine on an object up to 25 miles away.

Ryan Jr., who was also five, got a toy Dual Blaster. It had over a 150 foam disk that it shot out.

Sarah, who was 4, and Lauren, who was 3, both got a toy Super Sonic Shield Ray and a Laser Sword.

Keith and Ryan gave their wives their present for them. Allison and Andrea liked them.

After they said bye, they left to go on their mission.

Unlike the last time, they used their X-29's to travel to Europe. Keith had just recently designed the super-jets on his Z.C. Super Computer. It had a 12 Ghz Zintium 2 processor, a 120x DVD CD-RW, 20 gigabytes of RAM, and a 300 terabyte hard drive.

Keith was an expert at electronics and computers and Ryan was a martial arts expert. Keith was also an expert at creating cool weapons and awesome vehicles for land, air, and sea.

Keith and Ryan worked out by fighting badguys, then they went on the mission.

After they had been in the air for a few hours, Keith heard Ryan talking to him over the radio.

"Let’s land over there and grab a bite to eat, O.K.?" Ryan asked.

"Sure thing." Keith answered, "Meet you there."

They flew in low over the army base in the Azores and landed on the runway. As they walked toward the restaurant, they noticed the sign. It read, "The Doughnut Shop".

When they got in, there was a long line of satisfied customers waiting to get more. After about ten minutes, it was time for Keith and Ryan to order.

Keith had an extra large strawberry/vanilla milkshake, two double bacon cheeseburgers and six dozen assorted doughnuts for the trip. He got 18 glazed, 18 crullers, 18 chocolate-covered vanilla-cream-filled, and 18 raspberry filled.

Ryan got a Mondo Gulp Mr. Pibb, a hamburger, and six dozen doughnuts for the trip. He got 36 glazed and 36 crullers.

The two brothers ate and went back for more. After that, they got extra drinks to take back with them on the mission.

When they finished their meal, they flew to Italy to find out if the Mafia had anything to do with the stolen computer files. They didn’t. Keith and Ryan decided not to arrest the mafia then because they had more important stuff to do. Instead they exterminated the head guy, John Paul III.

Then they went to Switzerland and found it clean too.

While Ryan and Keith were flying to Belgium, they heard a radio distress call from a town nearby that was having a bank in it robbed.

Keith heard the call, put it through his translator, and told Ryan. They landed in an open parking lot nearby. Ryan took a chain out of the back of his jet and punched out the diver who was waiting in the robbers’ getaway van outside.

He tied the chain up to a light pole and to the back of the van. Ryan put on the driver’s clothes and pretended to be the driver.

When the robbers came back, they got in the van. One of them shouted, "VIA!!! VIA!!!"

Ryan sped away and was stopped short by the chain. Ryan was the only one of the people in the van that was wearing a seat belt so he was the only one that didn’t get knocked unconscious from the whiplash.

When the chain was pulled taunt, the body of the van with the engine still attached flew off of the base of it and skidded down the hilly street, which was very steep. It made tons of sparks and screeched all the way down. No one was hit.

"Look out!!!" Ryan yelled at the people around the bank, "It’s a runaway van!!! Look out!!!"

People that were walking across the street heard Ryan’s frantic cries. Then they saw the skidding van. Everyone jumped out of the way just in time. Some of the people were even hit by the sparks but they were not hurt.

Finally, the top of the ruined van, which was going at about 45 mph, stopped as it hit the side of a parked bus. The kinetic force knocked it over, sending the bus rolling down the hill.

The huge bus rolled and tumbled down the road and crushing empty cars. All of the town citizens had gotten out of the way of the bus.

One car blew up when the bus ran into it. Because of that, the front end of the bus, the one that hit the car, got knocked up into the air from the explosion.

It crashed down onto a telephone wire, and then it crushed on the ground. The telephone poles on either side of the street were pulled down and skidded down the hill with the bus. One of them smashed through an empty pawn shop, destroying everything on display in the window.

The other pole hit a flower cart, sending through the air and into an apartment window, frightening the elderly occupants inside.

Finally, the bus crashed into a condemned building at the end of the street on the bottom of the slope. The building collapsed and crushed the bus. Cars that had been hit by the bus still rolled down the hill. One of the cars ran into the fuel tank for the bus and caused an explosion. It blew up the whole block and knocked out windows for hundreds of feet in all directions from the concussion wave. The explosion blew up the base of the building, which happened to be sitting over a cave. The ground was blown up and everything left on the lot fell into the cave and into the water in it. The water was hundreds of feet deep so it all sank to the bottom. All that remained was a huge hole and 50 feet below that, a deep, deep underground lake.

"Oops." said Ryan.

The robbers were taken to jail and all of the bank’s stolen money was returned to the bank. Ryan paid for all of the tons of damage that he had inadvertently cause while trying to stop the robbery. He ended up paying more money than was stolen. Ryan didn’t care, though. He knew that it was the principal, not the money, that was the most important.

When Keith and Ryan got to Belgium they found it clean too! They searched every country in Europe about five times except for Germany.

When they got there they found out that they had been tricked. None of the countries in Europe had anything to do with the robbery.

Ryan and Keith went back to their secret headquarters only to find Max gone! There was a note that said, "If you want to see your boss again, then bring the Chac Fool to our secret base in Moscow, Russia."

Keith and Ryan were shocked.

"If Russia stole the disk," Keith asked, "then why did Max tell us that someone in Europe had?"

"I don’t know, Keith. Maybe he didn’t know."

"I guess you’re right. C’mon. Let’s go save Max and kick some Russian butt!"

"All right!"

They left, without the Chac Fool, and flew to Moscow, all the while eating doughnuts.

For three days, the rich brothers searched for the secret base. Finally the found it. They expected to find a welcoming committee. What they got was poison darts in the neck.

They were taken to a dungeon and put in chains. They woke up a few hours later.

"Well," Keith said, "I guess we didn’t get much of a welcoming committee."

"I’d say not Keith." Ryan answered in his best Sherlock Homes voice.

"Well," said Keith, "I guess there’s only one way out of here."

Then Ryan took out his pocket chain cutter from his watch and cut the chains. Then he cut the chains off of Keith.

They blew the door away with a sonar detonator that Keith had invented.

"Hope we don’t have to blow up many more doors. You know I don’t have very many of those detonators. Hey, wait a minute. How did you get those detonators? I made them and hid them." Keith said.

"Chill. When you were out, I went down to your lab and told the computer to make 5,000 of these babies. I left about 4,900 more back home. The rest are here in my backpack, see?" Ryan said, getting his backpack off his shoulders and opening it so he could show Keith the detonators.

"So that’s what you’ve been hauling around in that backpack of yours." Keith said.

"What did you think was in here? Cup cakes?"

"No, but I didn’t think that you had stolen my detonators. I thought you were above that."

"I am. And I didn’t steal these detonators. I just told the computer to make them."

"You told my computer to make them. And you made it use my stuff to do that. And you trespassed. That’s against the law."

"Hey," Ryan said, stunned, "you’re my brother. Wouldn’t you let do that?"

"Not without permission from me. If I catch you in my lab again, I’m going to have you arrested."

"What? I’m your brother. You wouldn’t have me arrested, would you?"

"What do you think?"

"Can we do this later and get on with the mission now?"

"O.K." Keith said, "But when we get home, we’ll have a talk about this. Right now though, let’s just put it behind us a get a move on."

"No problemo."

"Thanks for seeing it my way."

"Sure."

Then they went out the door, only to find 20 guards with machine guns in front of them.

"Actung! We vill now take yu back to zee dungeun." said one of the Russians.

"Ahh, shut-up, you moron. You ain’t taken us anywhere." said Keith.

"Shut up Keith, I got an idea," Ryan whispered to Keith.

"Allsvight, enuf with zee backtulk. Yeu vill pay fer yur incompitance," said another Russian.

"Fine. Take us back to the stupid dungeon. But, if your going to do that, you’ll have to catch us first. RUN KEITH RUN!!" Ryan shouted.

Ryan and Keith took off running as fast as they could. They heard bullets hitting the walls behind them. Some how they got separated.

Ryan came to a stop right before he smashed head first into a brick wall. He heard some Russians coming down the hall. ‘Come on, come on, there’s gotta be a secret door around here somewhere.’ Ryan thought to himself.

Meanwhile, Keith was slowing down because he saw a light ahead of him. When he got to the light, he saw it was a sewage drain going to the outside. That’s when he realized he was knee deep in the Russian’s sewage.

Now, the Russians were almost to Ryan. Ryan frantically started shoving the walls looking for a trap-door or something to hide in. When he pushed the wall to his left he fell down a pipe. When he came out of the pipe he landed on Keith, and fell down and got the wind knocked out of him.

Then Ryan and Keith got up and Keith instantly started puking. They jumped out of the drain they were in and landed in another stream of sewage.

"At least we didn’t land on the hard ground." Ryan said, trying to get out of the muck.

They started walking down the drain until they came to the spot where another drain was connected to the were in. They followed it because there was no smell or liquid in it. It came out at an air vent in a shower room.

They broke through the grating and took showers to get the waste off of themselves.

"I think I’ll never be clean again!" Keith exclaimed, then puked some more. When they were done they found some clean clothes and boots and put them on. Ryan and Keith torn open all of the doors and cabinets and found some guns.

Keith looked in one cabinet and found some helmets. He put one on and instantly jerked it off.

"WHEW!!!" Keith exclaimed, "I smells like something died in there!" He took the helmet and flung it behind him so hard it bounced off of a sink and into the extra large mirror that ran the whole length of the wall. Keith and Ryan cringed as the mirror shattered.

"You idiot." muttered Ryan.

"Sorry."

They burst out of the room and into a hall to find a guard with a gun.

"Valt Or I’ll vhoot!" he said, "Vany vast verds?"

"Uh, yeah." Keith said, "See ya!" he shot the guard in the head, "Give my regards to the kaiser! HA HA HA!"

They followed the hall until they heard voices.

"I think that there is a mess hall or something up ahead." said Ryan.

He was right. They came to a door that said, "Mess Hall" in Russian.

Keith looked through the window and said, "There are a lot of guys in there. There’s about 25 enjoying there last meal."

"We aren’t going to kill them, Keith."

"Fine. We’ll just stun them."

"That’s better."

"I thought it would be."

"What do you mean you thought it would be better?"

"Exactly what I said."

"But you said they were enjoying their last meal."

"Forget it."

"I will thank you."

Ryan and Keith burst into the room and stunned the men.

When they were done, Keith said, "Well, this really is a mess hall."

Then they ran across the room and out of the door. It led into a hallway. As the raced down to the end of the corridor, they came to a door.

Inside was Max, tied to a chair, and about 15 Russian guards!

"Now what do we do Mr. Sarcastic?" asked Ryan.

"How should I now Mr. Detonator?"

"Thanks, Keith. You just gave me a great idea!"

He took one of Keith’s detonators out of his backpack and put it on the door. Before they went away, he set it for ten seconds.

When it blew up, some of the door pieces hit the guards and knocked out 6 of them. What Keith and Ryan thought to be the remaining guards charged out of the doorway and around the corner only to be shot by Keith and Ryan. They were all shot in the legs and couldn’t walk. They tied them up and duct taped there mouths. The brothers ran in to Max and Keith cut his ropes.

"Come on, Max. We got to get out of here."

"Actung!" someone said from behind them. It was a guard with a gun. "Ve vill now take yous vack to zee dungeun."

"I guess we have no choice." replied Ryan.

The Russians took Ryan’s back pack and put it on the outside of the dungeon. Ryan, Max, and Keith went back into the dungeon.

"O.K., Ryan." said Keith, "Now what do we do?"

"Hold on a minute here." butted in Max, "You brought those detonators with you and let the badguys have them? Now they can blow up this place with us in it!!! This is just the greatest thing that had every happened to me!" he said sarcastically, "I get a great education, am a retired general from World War III, and I have to die in a dungeon in Moscow, Russia, because my brainless friends here let us get captured. This is just great!"

"Will you just shut-up you stupid old fool?!" Ryan said, "We are not going to die and I certainly wouldn’t let the badguys have all of the detonators. I buried some of them right below my feet. Now if I can just dig them up, assuming that you would just shut up for 3 lousy minutes, O.K.?"

"I just want to get out of this stinkin’ place."

"Fine."

When no-one was looking though, Max stole 3 detonators out of the hole.

An hour later, Ryan had his backpack and he, Keith, and Max were on their way back to San Diego, California.

When they got there, they reviewed the facts.

"The badguys have stolen our computer files." said Ryan.

"We know that already." Keith said.

Ryan ignored him. "We have no idea where the badguys took it, how they got it, and who did."

"Let’s check the video camera files."

"Good idea, Keith." said Max.

All three of them went to the control center and took out all of the tapes. They played them one by one until the fifth one was all black.

"Hey, what is this?" Ryan asked.

"I don’t know." answered Keith.

About 5 minutes later, the tape changed from black to the picture. As it came back on, it showed the back of someone running out of the computer file room.

Keith and Ryan instantly recognized who it was.

The robber was Max.

Max saw that he had been found out. He hopped out of his chair and dashed out of the room towards the vehicle garage.

Ryan and Keith raced after him.

"He’s getting away!!!" screamed Keith.

"We have to catch that traitor!!!" shouted Ryan, "MAX!!!"

Ryan ran to the security pad and locked down all the doors in the house.

Max jumped into a jeep and took off, getting out just as the door closed.

"I’m gonna kill that guy!" Keith said.

"Calm down, Keith. We have to catch him."

"How are we going to do that?"

"You’re going to finish you tracking device and then we’ll catch him!"

"Good idea!"

They raced to their houses and into Keith’s huge secret lab.

Keith took out his tracking device and went to work on it. In about 4 hours, it was finished.

Ryan and Keith raced to their super jets and got in.

Ryan put on his helmet and said, "Actovision activate. Ryan Hall Carter, 2974063598." His jet turned on.

Keith put on his Cyberspace helmet and said, "Actovision activate. Keith Matthew Carter, 7693471281." The his jet started up.

He put the tracker into his Z.C. Super Computer. It only took up 2 gigabytes on his system.

"Now to find Max!" Keith said into his radio.

He turned on the tracker and tracked down Max.

"I got ‘em!" Keith shouted.

"So where is that disgraceful traitor?"

"I don’t know if this is right or not, but my computer system says that he is in Pisa, Italy. How could he get to there that fast unless... That traitor stole one of our Tiger Helis!" Keith exclaimed.

"Come on." Ryan said, "If he stole on of our Tiger Helis, we’ll catch him no problem. Those old things won’t be able to withstand our new technology that you invented. If we use your weapons and radars, we could catch him in 2 hours."

"We can do that, but let’s stay here and have Christmas. Then we’ll go on the mission."

"All right."

They went to there houses and had lunch.

Keith had his delicious lunch, which was an extra-large pizza that his wife made. His whole family ate it up. Keith had a quart of his favorite drink in the world, Mountain Dew.

Ryan had an extra-large pizza and ate it up all by himself. Then he drank up a quart of Mr. Pibb.

After Christmas, Keith and Ryan flew to Pisa, Italy. The tracker said that he was near the tower.

Keith and Ryan went to the walled-in part of the city, which is where the tower is. They couldn’t find Max so Keith turned on the tracker. He was only 15 yards away, in the same crowd as them!

They found him wearing a yellow, flower-covered shirt with baggy green shorts and sunglasses. He had to be freezing. It was 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Max had a camera around his neck and a hat made of straw. He wore tennis shoes.

"Looks like one of those stupid cartoon tourist." Keith murmured.

"Let’s just grab him and finish this mess, O.K.?"

"That’s what we came here for."

Keith walked up to the traitor and put his arm on his shoulder. "Well, well, well. Fancy meeting you here. Are you here on vacation on are you trying to get away from us?"

Max fearfully looked at Keith and sprinted away. He ran through the crowds and into building beside the tower. He went in and looked around.

There was no place to hide. Ryan and Keith came into the building and saw Max. Keith took out his gun and aimed. He opened fire. Max screamed and fell to the ground, skidding. He hadn’t been shot, but had ducked out of the way. Keith had accidentally shot the catacombs and blasted the bodies of the dead popes into dust.

Max got up and went out the back way. His pursuers followed.

Max ran to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and took a detonator out of his pocket. He threw it at the fence and it blew up. Then he took one and put it on the tower’s door.

"Stop!" Keith shouted, just as the door blew up.

Max ignored him and raced into the tower. Keith and Ryan were hot on his trail. Max jumped out of the door to the roof and onto the balcony. He hid behind the door and stuck a gun at Ryan when he came onto the roof.

"Now I’ve got you right were I want you." Max said, "you’ll never get away alive. You have found out that it was me who stole the files. You would have arrested me."

"Duh." Ryan mumbled.

"What?" said Max, "You act rude to me? Maybe you should be the first to go."

"Please," begged Ryan.

"Ah, a change of heart. Do you want to be rude to me again?"

"N-No, sir. I d-don’t." Ryan was trembling.

"No sir? When did you last call me sir?"

"I never ha-have b-before."

"You haven’t? Maybe you should work on that. You wouldn’t want me to kill you, now would you?"

"No."

"Good. Now we will get back to discussing what we discussed before. You know that I stole the files and you would have arrested my. I intend to stop that from ever happening in my entire life."

"Why did you steal the files, though?" asked Keith, "You were our boss. We would have given you a raise if you had asked for one. Why did you do what you did?"

"Are you a fool? I could make billions off of it. That’s why."

"But you don’t have to kill us!"

"I’m sorry, but I can’t let you live now. You know my plans and I have to eliminate you or you will tell. Also, I have to kill your families too."

"No!" exclaimed Ryan.

"No what?"

"You can’t kill our families! Please! I’m begging you, please!"

Ryan and Keith were down on their knees begging Max.

"I’m sorry," said Max, "but I have to kill you and your families."

He aimed the gun at Ryan. Keith closed his eyes and almost cried as he heard the gun and Ryan’s screams.

"NNNNOOOO!!!" Keith screamed with all of his lungs.

He looked at Ryan and saw that he had not been shot!

‘What happened?!’ Keith and Ryan thought at the same time. Then they looked at Max and saw that his body had been blown off of the building. They looked over the edge and saw his body sprawled out in the grass in a pool of blood. He had a 4 inch hole blown clear through his head!

"How did that happen?!" Keith exclaimed.

Keith and Ryan saw a shadow cover them. They looked up to see Allison and Andrea in Keith’s jet, hovering above them!

"Holy cow!" Keith exclaimed.

"This really is my lucky day!" Ryan shouted.

Keith called the morgue and the police and went home with is wife. Ryan did the same.

When they got to their houses, they learned that Allison and Andrea had hid in Keith’s plane and they had shot Max with a Super Charge Mini-Missile to save their husbands!

Keith and Ryan were so grateful and they said that Andrea and Allison could hide in their planes whenever they wanted.

"Well," said Ryan, "the badguys don’t have the disk and neither do we."

"Wanna bet?" Keith said as he pulled it form his pocket, "Max dropped it when he ducked in that building by the tower."

"I guess that wraps up this mission."

"Yeah, I guess so. But hey, maybe there will be another mission for us to take care of, but I don’t want that to be any time soon!"