Chapter One
Out of the Blue
"You think we'll survive this?" seventeen-year-old Joe Hardy asked his older
brother as he felt the muscles in his back tense up.
"I don't know." Frank Hardy stood grinning, surrounded by shopping bags. They
were everywhere. "They've got us outnumbered four to one. It does look
hopeless."
"It wouldn't be, if you two would stop procrastinating and load those bags," a
stern voice insisted.
Frank and Joe smiled sheepishly. The voice belonged to their ever-efficient aunt
Gertrude, their father's only sister. "It's four o'clock, and we still have
three more stops to make before dinner."
The two brothers quietly groaned and finished loading the shopping bags in
through the rear of their custom van. The boys often used the van to chase down
crooks, but things had been quiet lately, as if all criminals had taken a
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