case of the missing broom 5

"What's going on here?" It was Prince Terry's voice that broke the silence.

"I can see it now, King Julian W. Granthinthon, ruler of Jupiter II, deceased.  Cause of death: murdered for the breaking then stealing of a most special broom."  King Julian sunk to his knees, his gaze lost on the floor.

"Don't say that Julian; I'm sure if we explain to Argos what happened, he will understand." King Alex came over to where the other king lay on the floor. "He is a good friend. He will forgive you Julian."

"I'm sure he would if I hadn't broken his mop last week or the cleaning-bots the week before, or accidentally dirtied his audience chamber." King Julian brought both his hands up to his face.

I can understand why King Julian is acting so dramatic over the broom accident.  King Argos is very proud as a king.  His honor is most important to him.  There is no one that has challenged it and gone unpunished.  If King Argos believes this incident to be an intrusion to his honor, there is no telling what he will do.  But, anyways...even the cleaning robots were broken by King Julian?!

King Alex gave a hopeful smiled to his friend, "Julian I'm sure there is a way to fix this without getting Argos terribly upset." He knelt down next to King Julian.

King Alex is by far the shortest of the 2 kings. At 6.3" he looks puny right next to King Julian.  However, it is remarkable that a short male like King Alex has as much power as he does.  

He is the shortest of all the Liodon kings and his built, although muscular, is not heavy.  Most of the time he acts lay-back and a little silly but there is no doubt in anybody's mind about 

his great intellect and cunning strategies. It is no coincidence that his sons are so smart. However, In my opinion, it is the King's pure heart rather than his absolute capability that 

make everybody follow him as the Supreme King of the Liodons.

"Okay. Julian this is what we are going to do for now..."

the case of the Missing Broom 4

The two kings in the room gave each other a nervous glance.  It is a good thing that I haven't materialized and stayed in my matrix form, listening and seeing through the room speaker and monitor connected to my central network.  Had the King seen me grinning devilishly, I would get scolded again.  But, I can't help it if my trouble-maker creator gave me a trouble-maker personality.  This will be good.

After a brief pause, King Alex looked up and said, "Arquimitris put Argos through in speaker mode only."

In a moment a desperate voice reverberated through the room.

"Alex! it's terrible!  A complete disaster!"

"Argos, what's wrong?" King Alex asked the voice coming from the intercom.

"Alex. I have been robed! The humiliation! Right under my nose, someone took my precious RX3000!"

"So-someone took your broom?" King Alex tried to act surprised.

"It is not just a broom Alex!" cried the voice in the intercom. "It is a prototype.  One of Verchau's newest creations.  There is none other like it in the galaxy!"

I could see that the King of Jupiter II was getting increasingly nervous.

"Alex. I, King Argos, ruler of Neptune II swear to find the culprit and I want your help in this endeavor."

"Me?!" King Alex's eyes opened wide.

"Yes, you.  After all, you are the Supreme King.  You govern over all of us and as such I want you to help me save my honor."

"Well, you see, maybe..."

"NO EXCUSES!" The sudden yell gave everyone in the room a fright, "Alex, when I tried to contact Verchau he didn't pick up my call.  I don't know how but I think he might suspect I lost his creation.  I can't have him mad at me.  He is my top tech supplier."

"So you are worried that Verchau might be mad at you?" King Alex was a little relieved and confused.  At least the clean-freak King Argos wasn't too focused on his precious broom.

"Yes, I am worried if Verchau cancels my contracts but I also want my broom back though.  The culprit won't get away with insulting me.  I will finish something here and then head over to Diamondmoon.  We will solve this Alex!"

"ha? Argos wait!" Too late.  King Argos had already cut communication.

A deep silence came over the room as the King of Diamondmoon stared blankly at the intercom to the right of his desk.  The King of Jupiter II stared blankly at King Alex and the Prince simply stared from one king to the other.

case of the missing broom 3

"Therius Kaziel Altobelli Granshester!" King Alex's voice had the strength of a parent about to give a lecture.  "You just destroyed my study, again, today!"  The King pointed to the place where his desk would have been.  "I was giving the morning broadcast just 15 minutes ago.  I could have been there!"

It was a sight; the King's tidy study was upside down and so was his son.  There was a hole in the roof about 5 ft. wide.  The desk at one end of the room was split in two, smoke rose from it to the hole in the roof right above it.  The blue velvet curtain behind the desk had holes going through it and the edges were burned.  The window was smoked and the debris from the roof flooded the majestic gold and blue carpet.

Amidst all the debris, lying feet up on the sofa to the other side of the room, was Prince Terry.  His long legs spread on the backrest of the sofa and his head hanging off the seat.  His pale skin was darkened from the explosion.  His eyes, that were closed until now, opened abruptly and he straighten himself up, falling off the sofa.

"Damn it. It exploded!"

"Yes. I noticed that son." King Alex crossed his arms and gave his son an exasperated look. 

"I was so close to find it too!" The Prince busied himself taking pieces of the roof off of his glorious white shiny hair, now covered in dirt. "I have to start from the beginning, analyze the compounds, measure more carefully, isolate my reactions before combining the whole...that's it! that's what I forgot!" He started pacing the room. "My notes, has anybody seen my notes? Don't tell me they burned with the rest of the room!"

"Have you checked in the drawer son? you know, right next to the chair!"

Price Terry looked back to the drawer to the right side of the desk where the legs of the King's chair lay protruding from the inside.

"Dad. I know I ruined your study but I was so close to finding my answer, I couldn't stop."

"Terry your study up there" the King pointed to the hole in the roof, "is for reading only.  I have told you that.  If you do your experiments up there, things like this end up happening." The King spread his arms pointing at the destruction in his study.

The King of Jupiter II was too used to this to be bothered by the mess. "Anyway, Terry where is your brother?" He asked very calmly as he helped Terry take dust off his head and shoulders. "Kaz is still in the palace right?"

"I'm not sure.  I haven't seen him today."  Prince Terry finished dusting himself off then stood next to his father. "Arquimitris, the mess!"

"Yes sir!" I replied and proceeded to realign the room.  Thanks to a preprogrammed scheme of the palace and a regeneration enchantment, all the objects in the palace can be reconstructed when they break.  As long as nothing breaks into minuscule particles, the objects will automatically regain their form.  Now, that hole in the roof is going to need some fixing.  I can close it, but it won't be a safe place until it is reinforced manually.

"Arquimitris, call maintenance immediately.  I want that hole reinforced before someone upstairs falls down  through to my office."  The King walked back to his desk, now fixed, and sat down.  All the furniture was now back to normal; the books were in their place, curtains looked like new and the tiny vacuum robots were cleaning the dust off the carpet.

"See father," Prince Terry walked over to the desk hopping over a vacuum-bot, "All fixed. There was nothing to worry about."

"Because we can fix it doesn't mean you should break it son."

The King of Jupiter II moved over next to the Prince trying to get out of the way of the retiring vacuum-bots. 

At that moment, one of my internal beacons started to buzz.  I announced trying to suppress my excitement 

"Your majesty, you have an external call.  It is his majesty Argos, King of Neptune II."

 

The Case of the Missing Broom 2

"But I don't understand, how did you break it?" King Alex shook his head as he held the two broken pieces. "I mean, he wouldn't leave it lying around and he wasn't at your planet."

"I went to visit him and brought a present for his exhibit.  As I passed by the exhibit room, I tripped and knocked over the broom."

King Alex tried to smile in sympathy but I know what he is thinking.  In fact, I'm thinking it as well.  My goodness! he knocked over an exhibit energy beam. Those things are set to the strength of 8! IT would knock over ANYONE who touched it! and the king not only went through it but broke the content as well.  I have to strengthen the security energy beams around the palace before something gets broken in here.

"BOOM!!" 

A giant echo vibrated around the palace to the courtyard where the kings were.

"What was that?" The King of Jupiter II jerked his head in the direction of the palace.

"Seems that Terry is up." King Alex sighed, "sometimes I think my sons are set in destroying my palace one of these days."

YES! Explosion!! I have been waiting for that! Let me explain; the King of Diamondmoon has twin sons Terry and Kaz.  Both of them have great intellects and are rabid scientists.  I am one of master Kaz's single-handed creations.  Prince Terry is more of a chemistry wizard and by the sound of it, one of his experiments went wrong today.

"Lets head back.  I need to see what was wrong this time."

"Alex, maybe Kaz can help us."

"If you are willing to risk whatever consequences that entails!"

"The way I see it, anything is better than an angered Neptunian army."

"...I wonder."

Yep.  The way I see it, the day is just about to begin.

The Case of the Missing Broom intro

The day started as normal in the peaceful planet of Diamondmoon.  Yep, everything was normal in this beautiful morning which was about to begin.  Our day starts like it does on uneventful occasions like this; with our glorious King rising up and soaking in the morning air.  I can see the picture clearly: the King lazily stretching and yawning, gets out of bed and opens the big curtain to his upper level room window.  The King likes this floor length window facing east.  He gets to see the rising sun every morning when he opens the thick curtain.  

After stretching a little, the King closes his eyes and pauses for a moment.  This is the time he uses to check the status of his whole planet with the help of his psychic powers.  The King does this every morning without the knowledge of his staff.  Well, without the knowledge of most of his staff.  I'm obviously an exception since I'm telling you this! There is barely little details about the King that scape my sight and knowledge, since it is my job to watch over him.  

After the usual greeting of good morning, he asks for a status report.  Ha! as if I didn't know he had check himself already! No amount of my factual sheets and numbers can quite compare to his power.  There is just something mystical about that psychic connection he shares with this planet.  I don't think that any of Diamondmoon's most acclaimed scientists will ever figure it out, and thus, I'm limited as well only to the established knowledge within my intricate circuitry.

When he is done with the report, the King proceeds to the morning broadcast to his subjects for his usual greeting and status report of the weather and such.  According to my database, the king of a whole planet giving a weather broadcast is rather funny and unnecessary.  However, the King insists on closeness to his people in whatever means necessary.  Thus, the morning proceeds in a normal fashion. 

Yep.  Another peaceful morning in this peaceful planet of this peaceful galaxy.....what a drag, no explosion today.

In Diamondmoon you don't have to wait too long for entertainment.  Mine came, during the King's morning stroll, in the mighty voice of his Most Honorable Highness, King of Jupiter II.

"Alex! Save me!!"

His Highness Alex, King of Diamondmoon, flinched at the sudden interruption of his peaceful stroll.

"Ah, good morn...eh! why are you crying?!"

"Alex" uttered the King of Jupiter II, with way too many A's and X's. "Alex, I broke it.  I felt down and it broke.  It was an accident I swear!"

"I don't understand.  What did you break?"

Holding up his hands, the mighty King of Jupiter II revealed a piece of a broken broom on each hand.

"The RX3000!!" King Alex cried in disbelief.

Yes indeed, It was the RX3000.  The five in one, ultra high power cleaning device that his Highness King of Neptune II was bragging about just yesterday.  

The King of Neptune II's famous obsession with cleaning is another constant source for my amusement.  I have to admit that during visits, I have placed cleaning supplies in front of him just to see his delighted reaction as he starts cleaning everything on his path.  The RX3000 was his newest most prized possession, no wonder the King of Jupiter II was crying.  All eight feet two inches of him.

"Don't worry" King Alex reassured, "maybe we can do something; this is Verchau's creation right? I bet he can fix it! He is the King of Mercury II, the most technologically advance planet in our galaxy! He will be able to repair his own creation right?!"

"I already asked..."

"Huh? what did he say?"

"He passed out..."

"....."

hahaha! King Verchau was probably  shocked at seeing his creation destroyed.  I bet the RX3000 was a prototype!

"Don't tell me he can't fix it" King Alex sounded troubled.

"I think it would take him weeks.  He started crying after he woke up.  He called me a brute too..."

"Don't take it to heart." King Alex patted his friend on the shoulder.

"I know..."

The King of Jupiter II is the tallest of the Kings.  He is one of the strongest and his brutal strength gets the best of him from time to time.  As if to mock his sinewy, chiseled body, he is also the calmest, peace-loving, nice-all-around guy of the group.  He is a softy.  A softy with an iron body, who just broke his best friend's favorite toy and is now crying like a grade-schooler.