day fifty-seven and the Spy gets away

"Pssst!”

Ron and Benny looked and saw Fred and all the other spiders on the table where they had been doing tai chi. Now they were standing quite still with most of their legs in the air.

”What happened?” asked Ron. “Where did she go?”

Fred gestured with his head and Ron and Benny looked back as the door closed shut and the Spy stepped out from behind it.

“What the....?!” said Benny, for the third time in about two minutes.

“Put your hands up!” said the Spy, pointing the re-loaded harpoon gun at them.

“How did you get free? You were all tied-up!” said Benny.

“I'm a spy!” said the Spy. “I can get out of being tied-up all right, thank you very much!”

“What do you want?” asked Benny.

“You know what I want, you stupid bustard!” shouted the Spy.

“You never give up, do you?!” said Ron.

“No, and if you value your lives you will give me the beetroot soup recipe right now!” said the Spy. “And no tricks this time!”

“What's so special about the beetroot soup recipe, anyway?” asked Ron.

Benny glanced at Ron, slightly offended.

The Spy ignored the question and threw Benny a notebook and a pencil. 

“Write it down!” said the Spy.

Feeling responsible for the lives of Ron, Fred and all the other spiders, Benny wrote down the recipe in the notebook and threw it back to the Spy.

“Good!” she said. Keeping the harpoon-gun trained on Ron and Benny, and looking up every couple of seconds to check they hadn't moved, she memorised the recipe with her highly-trained spy's brain. Then she tore the page out of the notebook and ate it, swallowing with a loud “Gulp!”

“Right, all of you, get in the pantry!” she demanded.

Ron and Benny and the spiders all went into the pantry and the Spy shut the door and locked it from the outside. A minute later they heard the sound of an engine starting.

“She's taking the autogyro!” said Benny. “Waggling walrus willies! She's getting away!”

© David Severn 2012