***The Magician***
                        ***Fantasy***
                      ***By: Shawna***
 (Breanna is my own character Copyright of Shawna LaDelpha)


*Upon the Magic Express Ace and Cosmo are in the middle of
preparing for the next show*

"Are you sure that you're ready for this dude?" Cosmo
questioned his friend.
Ace looked at him and replied, "Cosmo, I know that it's
dangerous but I have to make it perfect for tomorrow;
everyone is expecting this to be good."

Cosmo sighed and pulled the lever downward.  Bright beams of
colored light shot out from the floor. Ace covered himself
with his cape and disappeared, and reappeared in a box full
of spikes coming closer by the second. Just then the phone
rang.

Vega appeared on the large sized screen ", Hello......anyone
home?"

Cosmo turned around, "Hey, We were just practicing the
magician's new trick"

Vega sitting at his desk rubbed his beard and said, "Well
tell Ace to meet me at my office when he's finished."

Cosmo smiled and agreed. When Cosmo turned around Ace was
just coming out of the box.

"Who was on the phone?" Ace asked.

"It was Vega, he said to meet him at his office. It sounded
urgent," Cosmo answered scratching the back of his neck. Ace
left the room Cosmo following right behind him. They crawled
into the Magic Car.

Ace and Cosmo walked in Vega's office. Vega and his daughter
Breanna sat in his chair going over a file. Vega looked up
to see them enter.  Vega stood up and handed a picture to
Ace", This is Mel Hunter, the crook that has been setting
fires to the schools." Suddenly Vega's pager went off. "Ace,
let's go; they have the guy surrounded in the private school
downtown. Bree.....stay here, watch some t.v I shouldn't
take more than an hour or so." Breanna smiled and picked up
the remote.

Ace looked at Cosmo and said", You too; make sure she
doesn't get lost she doesn't know her way around......if she
leaves, you leave a note and go with her."

Cosmo agreed; plus she thought that she was kind of cute.
Ace and Vega left and headed toward the Magic Car. Breanna
turned on the television and flipped through the channels.
She stopped on something that caught her eye.

"Hey, Cosmo.....doesn't that look fun?" She asked staring at
the screen.

Cosmo listened and answered", Don't even think about trying
to drag me into going to that."

"Okay!!" She said retying her sneakers.

"Hey, where do you think your going?" Cosmo said jumping out
of his seat.

"I'm going to check out the new virtual reality club that
was on t.v" She replied, "Are you coming or not?"

Cosmo quickly wrote a note to Ace and Vega and gave it to
Miss Lasauge. "Do you think that this is a good idea? We
might get in trouble for this" Cosmo asked as the left the
police department.

Breanna looked at him and said", Cosmo, don't worry......of
course I'm not going to sit around my dad's office for an
hour or more. Plus Ace said that if we wanted to leave then
to leave a note! So it's not like we are going to break the
law!"

Cosmo shrugged his shoulders and agreed that hey aren't
doing anything wrong. Breanna took a piece of paper out of
her pocket. "Okay," she said stopping", This is it."

She opened the door and walked in. Inside was a large, walls
were painted light blue with a white border and there was
about four doors on each wall. Cosmo rang the bell at the
front desk. A woman in about her early thirty's with blonde
hair and blue eyes came out of one of the doors. "How may I
help you?" she said staring at him.

"Ummm......" Cosmo paused", We would like to try out a
game." The woman sat in her chair and looked
up at him again and said", Do you want to play together or
in separate games?"

Cosmo looked at Breanna. She moves closer to the desk and
says "Well I guess together, since it our first time."

She passed them each a clipboard ",You have to fill out
these forms for safety reasons and to get a membership
card." They went and had a seat to fill out the form.

"I can't believe that he got away. No one came out of the
building and there is no access to the sewers, but through
the facilities," Vega stated a point as him and Ace walked
back into the police department.  They strolled into the
empty office. "Great! now I lost my own daughter!" Vega took
a seat in his chair. Just then Miss Lasauge walked in with
two cups of coffee. She passed it out. "Any word from
Friedricks?  or did they find out how that kid got away from
us?" Vega asked all stressed out.

She shook her head ",Hold on a second there was something
left for you Mr. Cooper."

She left the room. Vega put the his coffee cup on the desk
and said, "You don't know how bad I need a vacation."

Ace laughed. Miss Lasauge came back in holding a piece of
paper. She handed it to him. He read it silently, "Vega,
Cosmo left us a note saying that Breanna wanted to check out
a new virtual reality club downtown."
Vega's pager went off. "Come on, there's a robbery at the
Electro City Bank!"

"Wow, this is so cool! It looks so real. Man, imagine if
this WAS real!!" Breanna said to Cosmo who was also having
fun.

Cosmo smiled back at her and replied ", Ace would kill me!!
Plus I wonder, who owns this place?"

Breanna silenced him to be quiet, "Listen; COPS!!!!!  Let's
get out of here."

Just then the game turned off. They took off their helmets.

"Oh man, I wasn't done yet!" Cosmo said taking off his suit.

"How about we come back tomorrow?" Breanna suggested.

Cosmo nodded, "Well if Ace will let me; we have a show to do
tomorrow, and wasn't your father going to take you to the
movies?"

"Oh yeah!!!" she said frowning.

Cosmo walked into the Magic Express and threw his jacket
down on the couch. Ace walks into the room startling him,
"So, tell me about the new club."

Cosmo turning around answered, "It was fun, but a little
strange though. So did you catch that guy?"

Ace shook his head, "No, some how he just disappeared, and
while you were having fun there was a robbery at the Electro
City Bank!"

Cosmo rubbed his chin ", That's strange, because the mission
that Bree and I played was robbery too."

Ace left the room and headed down the hallway. Cosmo bored
decided to go in his room and play some video games. Ace
took off his cape and laid it down on the back of his bed.
Just then the phone rang. It was the owner of the DNA Club,
"Hello, Mr. Cooper about tomorrow's performance? I have to
cancel; due to fire downstairs in the casino this
afternoon."

Ace sat up strait ",What do you mean? How was this fire
started?"

The man shrugged his shoulders, "We haven't found any clues
yet."

The man hung up. Ace walked to Cosmo's room to tell him the
news. The opening of the door gave him Cosmo's attention,
"The show is canceled for tomorrow, there was a mysterious
fire at the DNA Club this afternoon."
Cosmo turned off his game and said concerned, "Was anyone
hurt?" Ace shook his head.

Ace and Vega sit in the computer room of the Magic Express
trying to link up the robbery and the fires, while Cosmo and
Breanna decided to go back to the club to play another
round.

"This is so strange. I can't seem to link them up in
anyway!" Ace said getting ready to give up.

Vega suggesting, "Well we could try and find the building
and see if we could try and find out some more clues."

Ace accepted the plan.  They arrived there shortly. The
woman at the desk turned around and asked, "How many I help
you?"

Ace stepped forward and answered ", We were wondering if you
have seen a certain boy and girl that came in here?"

The women said cutting him off, "Did the boy have orange
hair and crystal blue eyes?"

Ace nodded, "Yes, that's Cosmo all right. Is it possible
that we could talk to him?"

She shook her head, "We can't turn off the program till it's
over for safety reasons, but you are welcome to take a seat
and wait."

Vega came forward and asked ", One more question......who
owns this company?"

The woman handed him a brochure; "Mr. Jack Malone." He took
the brochure and then he headed for the door.

Ace thanked the woman for her time and followed Vega back to
the Magic Car.

"We got our information that we want," Vega said.

Ace smiled and said stating a fact ", Yes, but not all of
it.  If it is owned by BlackJack then there is a catch."
They hurried back to the Magic Express to consult with
Angel.

"Cosmo, how long have we been here?" Breanna asked looking
at her watch.

"About an hour or less, why?" Cosmo answered.

"Well, my dad told me not to be too long," she said.

Cosmo not wanting to leave reasoned, "How about we finish
this then we'll go?"

She nodded.  Getting back to the game Cosmo finished
deciphering the code to the large vault that was owned by
Millionaire Sonnyboy.

"I've almost got it," Cosmo said pressing the last button on
his laptop computer.  The door opened.

"Give me five!!!" Breanna yelled. They walked inside there
was rows and rows of cash. They quickly started stuffing it
into bags, till Cosmo stepped on the security lasers.

"We gotta get outta here fast!" Breanna yelled. They turned
around and there was Sonnyboy and his men with two dozen
police officers. They were all holding guns and pointing
them strait at Cosmo and Breanna. Just then the game turned
off. Cosmo and Breanna took off their helmets.

"It happened again. Just like yesterday the computer turned
off when the police come," Cosmo said annoyed. Breanna
didn't care she had to get home.  They left and went back to
the Magic Express.

"Ace, are you home?" Cosmo said walking into the living
room.

"In the computer room," he replied. Cosmo and Breanna joined
Ace and Vega still trying to make the puzzle go together.

"So, how was the game?" Vega asked his daughter and Cosmo.

She looked at him and said, "Well, the game turned off when
we were at the part when we have to make our `Great Escape'
Just like yesterday." Cosmo nodded.

"So whenever you get in trouble the game turns off?" Ace
questioned her.

She nodded. Just then Angel interrupted, "Ace we have
visitors coming into the Magic Express."

Ace looked at the floating purple and white crystal, "Who is
it?"

She circled him and answered him, "It's Sonnyboy, his men
and about two dozen police officers!?"

The four of them left the room.

"Sonnyboy, how may we help you?" Ace said trying to keep his
cool.

Sonnyboy stepped forward, "I want my money back! Those two
stole it."

Ace looked at Cosmo who was more shocked then Ace.

"You have the wrong kids, Sonnyboy!  My daughter would never
do such a thing," Vega said getting protective.

"Everyone here saw it, here look at the security videotape!
They took quite a bit and then disappeared!!" Sonnyboy said
getting really pissed off.

Ace walked up to Sonnyboy and said, "Did you just say that
they disappeared?" Sonnyboy nodded. "I don't know why I
didn't see this before, BlackJack is using this as a way to
all his dirty work.  Cosmo, you said that the game turned
off.....well then the money would go to BlackJack."

Sonnyboy turned around and got into his car and drove off
toward the Croesus Palace. Ace and the other three got into
the Magic Car and followed.

Ace hurried through the doors. SonnyBoy had already got up
there.  When Ace and the others got upstairs right there on
the floor was all the stole money, gems etc. Everyone broke
out into a fight. Vega called for backup. The police arrived
in no time. BlackJack and his men got away, but all the
money and other possessions were returned. BlackJack was
once again caught, but not convicted of anything.