fiss84 | Flea-va, Las Vegas! Part Three

"You can dance, you can jive, having the time of you life, whooo-oo-oo," Miss Kyle sings as she finally makes her way to the hotel's pool. After the alien invasion and worse yet, that long airplane ride, she is looking forward to a nice long soak in the hot tub and one of those too-large drinks. "See that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the dancing..."

"It's about time," Zodon says rudely interrupting her song and day. In shock she looks around and quickly spots him sitting at one of the pool's tables eating a steak with...Poly and Julie? "It took a while to find you, but this is the only hotel offering complementary poker chips and a steep discount to teachers with free shuttle service to the Strip and the airport. I probably could have just googled 'Vegas', 'hotel' and 'cheapskate.' Isn't it nice to be so well-defined? By the way, do you know who's staying in four twelve? I've been charging stuff to their room while we waited for you to show up."

And then Julie is flying towards her pleading, "Please, please don't quit teaching at PS238, Miss Kyle!" and Poly is lunging out of her seat saying, "We'd miss you and it wouldn't be the same without you!"

Stunned, Miss Kyle raises her sunglasses off her face. "Poly...? Julie...? Here?"

"We heard you say you'd wanted to leave for months, so we came after you to try and make you want to stay." Julie says floating at eye level.

"Please say you're not going to quit your job and leave us!" Poly adds.

"Oh, no! I wasn't talking about leaving my job, sweetheart. I was talking about taking a vacation!" Miss Kyle says to Julie before sparing the stink eye for Zodon. "Which I'll bet someone knew all along..."

"Maybe this will teach you not to push people into drooling alien creatures, 'Mom'. Sigh, this steak is about as medium rare as a shoe..."

"'Mom'?" she asks still in a bit of shock.

"I'm thinking that as much as it'll drive us both crazy, you're in charge of us. 'Unaccompanied minors' sounds so bad at a performance review, doesn't it? Where's the dessert cart?"

"So we did it! She's staying! We can go home now, right?" Poly asks Julie.

"It's getting dark, and we'd have to go back to the airport and grab onto another plane," Julie muses.

"You rode on my plane? But I didn't see you." Miss Kyle says overhearing.

"We were outside. Could we get tickets this time?" Poly replies.

"Not on her salary. Maybe after I hit the casinos," Zodon adds.

"I don't believe this. I need to think." Miss Kyle says sitting in a chair before her legs give out.

"That looks like a hot tub over there. Would that help you think better?" Julie adds helpful as always.

"Bad idea. She might decide to go under and not come up," Zodon interjects.

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Later, after Miss Kyle has recovered and the kids finish eating, she takes them to her room. As they walk the hallway she says, "I'm going to have to call your parents. Why didn't you girls talk to me back when we were at PS238?"

"Well...you rushed off so fast after you said you didn't want to be there..." Julie replies, beginning to get worried she was in trouble or that she did something wrong.

"And everyone was so busy fixing everything, and we didn't know where you lived..." Poly adds.

"But who gave you the idea of following me to..." Miss Kyle says before her brain catches up. "Never mind. I'm a little slow today."

"Innocent until proven guilty," is Zodon's reply as they stop before her hotel room. It's then that she realizes she left the key in the room.

"And I left my key in the room! Darnit!"

"If only someone could flatten themselves, slide under the door and open it from the inside." Zodon muses.

"Hey! I bet I could do that!" Poly says excitedly.

"You can? Stand back as I shoot surprise out of my pores."

"Do not do this to other people's rooms," Miss Kyle lectures as Poly bends and flattens herself to slide under the door.

"Are you sure this room is yours?" Zodon asks with his ear pressed to the door.

"Positive.

"Then run," he says turning to do just that, though he does grabs Poly's legs first.

"Wait, why are we running?" Miss Kyle says as she and Julie catch up.

"Because when Poly went into your room, I heard her ask, 'Who are you guys?' and 'Are those guns?'"

"Maybe Miss Kyle has friends staying with her." Julie suggests.

"Let me explain something to you about Miss Kyle..." Zodon starts to say before an explosion interrupts him.

"Who are they?" Miss Kyle says stopping to turn and face the two figures in golden, high tech looking armor who are stepping from her room...or what was left of it.

"Don't worry, I'm a nin-su-later! Electric stuff doesn't hurt..." Poly says as her upper half catches up with them.

"I thought nobody could fight in Las Vegas." Julie says confused by the rule breaking.

"Maybe nobody read them the irrigating rules at the airport!" Zodon says as he turns to grab Poly's arm and Julie's cape to get them to continue running.

"Everybody run and find a police officer. Ask them for help. Don't worry about me, just go." Miss Kyle says switching to superhero mode.

"But..." Poly says while Julie gets a "We..." out before Miss Kyle yells, "Go!"

"Sounds great! Write us if you win!" Zodon says pulling Poly and Julie with him as he makes it to the outside exit.