CHAPTER 6: THE DISCOVERY
The situation has been dragged on for too long. Clover has been being the Ice Queen of Beverly Hills High for way too long and Sam and Alex decided to finally do something about it. They couldn’t bear to see Clover taking such burden on herself and isolate herself from everyone else. They had to make her back into the old Clover they once knew and get her back on the spy team and back into WOOHPS.
So one day, they followed quietly behind Clover to the cafeteria. Good thing that their spy training in stealth worked out; Clover hadn’t noticed them. Or maybe she did, only she didn’t want to bother about it. Either way, Sam and Alex succeeded in not losing sight of Clover. They tried to sit in a spot as inconspicuous as possible so that Clover wouldn’t noticed that they were there spying on her. They watched as Clover ate her sandwich and pudding in silence, ignoring everyone that was looking at her or trying to talk to her. They were so engrossed in their spying at their own best friend that they didn’t care how terrible the tofu pudding or the prunes in their tray taste like.
Finally when Clover was done with her lunch and left the tray on the table, Sam and Alex rushed quickly towards the tray before anyone else does. It was very weird thing that people would still want to help Clover clear the table even though she didn’t care a hoot about them. They took Clover’s spoon that she had just used to eat her oatmeal and slipped it into a plastic bag Alex brought from home. They left the rest of the tray alone for those love-crazed men to clear and rushed towards the toilet. They hid themselves in one of the toilet cubicles and waited until the toilet was completely empty before Sam took out her Com-powder to check out the spoon. They ran the spoon on the scanner of the Com-powder and the test results revealed the Ice Queen virus in her saliva on the spoon. Sam pressed a few buttons and the Com-powder printed out the results in a miniature paper.
“It looks like the Ice Queen virus is still in her system,” Sam said worriedly. “And check this out. Although Clover was controlling her emotions really well and all, the virus is still continuing to spread throughout her body. It’s as if although she wasn’t showing any emotions from the outside, her heart still has an inkling of feelings towards the outside world, and that makes the virus continue to infect her in small doses.”
“You…You don’t mean…?” Alex asked worriedly, fearing the worst.
“Yes,” Sam confirmed her worries. “The virus is now taking over all of her body and that means even if she just smiles a little bit, it would mean the death of her.”
“Oh no! And I was hopeful that she still concerned about us! But why aren’t we infected? We were close to her 24/7 and yet Jerry couldn’t find any signs of the Ice Queen virus in our system.”
“I don’t know,” Sam admitted. “It’s still a mystery to me.”
“What are we going to do now? We can’t just let her continue to be like this! This is terrible! If she ever becomes the normal Clover we once knew, she’ll die and it’ll be all our fault!”
“That’s why I’m opting to go to WOOHPS lab and help out the experts in there to find a cure for Clover. I still have her spoon and they must’ve kept some DNA samples of her. I’m going to ask Jerry to allow me access of the lab so that I can help find the antidote for Clover’s ailment.”
“I wanna help too! Clover is our best friend and I’m not going to stand here watching her become the world’s coldest woman!”
“Alright, but we must hurry,” Sam said as she unlocked the cubicle of her door. “Time is of the essence and the clock is ticking on Clover’s lifeline.”
While they walked out of the toilet and towards their English class, they saw Clover being surrounded by a lot of guys trying their luck on wooing her heart and trying to get her to smile at them just a little bit and as usual, Clover just waved them away with her cold face and a gesture of her hand, giving them that I-don’t-care-about-you-now-go-away type of attitude. Surprisingly the boys liked it even more and got even more charged up to get an emotion out of her. Mandy was glaring venomously at the background at all the guys who were practically ignoring her, the Miss Popular of the school.
“That Clover is getting on my nerves! How can she, an insignificant girl and with those ugly blonde bangs could defeat me, the most popular girl in Beverly Hills High?! This is so not fair!” Mandy was growling to herself and her henchwomen were nodding and agreeing her every complaint.
“Looks like you’ve found your match now, haven’t you, Mandy?” Alex said, giving a smug sideways look at her. Though the fact that Clover being cold and all bothered her, she couldn’t help feeling triumphant to see Mandy being hurt for once than hurting them as usual.
“It must that stink gas I’ve sprayed at her! It’s giving her more good luck than the bad I expected!” Mandy complained. “Maybe I should spray some of them on myself so that…”
“Wait a second,” Sam suddenly turned to Mandy. “Did you say the stink gas that you’ve used on Clover last Science exam?”
“Yup, that’s the one. What? Why do you ask?” Mandy eyed at them suspiciously.
“It’s not something you’ll understand anyway,” Sam waved away Mandy’s question. “Do you still have it with you?”
“Well, duh!” Mandy replied haughtily, shaking the bottle of stink gas at Sam’s face. “Ever since that incident, I carry it everywhere just to see if I can spray at anyone that annoys me. So far the only person annoying me now is your best friend Clover!”
“Can I have that bottle, please?”
“What? And let you hog all the glory your best friend has right now?! Get real! I’m going to use it on myself…”
“Look here, Mandy!” Sam hissed as she grabbed Mandy’s hand while she was attempting to spray the stink gas on herself. “This is not some good luck charm game, and I’m in no mood for jokes. This is a life or death situation here and I need that bottle! Either you give it to me, or you’ll regret in your deathbed that you have ever tried this stink gas!”
“Al…Alright, alright already,” Mandy said timidly before letting Sam take the bottle from her hand. Her henchwomen were as surprised and shocked as Mandy to see Sam reacted in such way.
“Thank you,” Sam said as she quickly dashed off with the bottle of stink gas. Alex followed suite.
“You seemed so determined,” Alex said in a surprise tone as she followed Sam into her car that was going towards the direction of the HQ of WOOHPS. “Do you have any leads?”
“As a matter of fact, I do,” Sam replied determinedly. “And I bet that it’s got something to do with this stink gas and the virus Clover’s having.”
The lone figures of Sam, Alex and Jerry were in the WOOHPS lab with Sam leading the research. The trio looked really solemn and serious as Sam mixed and matched the chemicals and scientific stuff that was laid before her on the science table. She took a drop of the stink gas liquid from the bottle and mixed it with a little solvent and chemicals from other bottles labeled with scientific symbols that only Jerry and Sam could make sense of. Then, mixing Clover’s blood sample she got from one of the scientists in the lab, she slipped the glass slide into the microscope device and turned on the power. She pressed a few more buttons and the images were projected onto the screen across the lab.
“Amazing! The entities in the stink gas are actually filled with the Ice Queen virus DNA,” Jerry said as he watched the entities in the stink gas liquid rambunctiously swarmed Clover’s DNA and attacked it. “And they are actually trying to feed off and destroy Clover’s DNA and demolish it as if it’s some kind of a sweet delicacy. It’s like the scene where a horse fell into a river filled with piranhas.”
“Exactly. The Ice Queen virus is actually mixed together with the stink gas liquid in Mandy’s science project,” Sam replied. “And it only attacks Clover’s DNA and no one else.”
“What do you mean? That this Ice Queen virus thingy is actually designed to attack only Clover and not us?” Alex asked, curious.
“Watch,” Sam said as she took out a needle. She pricked her finger and put a drop of blood onto a new glass slide and did the same on Alex and Jerry onto separate slides. She then took out more samples from the stink gas bottle and dabbed it onto their blood samples. She slid the slides one by one into the microscope and proved her point—the stink gas entities immediately dispersed and kept a certain distance away from their DNA, leaving it untouched. Alex and Jerry were even more amazed.
“This is incredible!” Jerry said as he stared intently at the results. “It truly is designed to only attack Clover’s DNA and not anyone else! No wonder none of us has the symptoms Clover has. It has no effect on us!”
“But that’s impossible!” Alex exclaimed. “There is no way a normal person could be able to concoct such a high-tech virus as this! Mandy would have to be a super genius to do that…unless she is a genius and is hiding that from us so that she could get back at Clover! This is too much! I’m gonna kill her myself for doing that to…”
“Or it could be someone else,” Sam remarked. “Remember when she tried to spray the stink gas on herself? She doesn’t have a clue that this virus existed in her stink gas. If she does, she wouldn’t have tried to experiment it on herself if she knows what’s good for her. She wouldn’t even dare to try her own cooking during Cooking Class. Someone must’ve tampered with her stink gas while she’s not looking.”
“But who would have such a grudge on Clover and would want to tamper with Mandy’s stink gas to get back on her?”
“Girls,” Jerry finally voiced out. “I have a feeling we need to sort out both your school records and the Dakota health lab for this one.”
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