9 Welcome to the Family

Chapter 9 Welcome to the Family "Congratulations," Bones said as he shook hands with each twin enthusiastically. "Welcome to the GF family." Pep wrinkled her nose. She had enough problems with her own family. She didn't need another one, and she wasn't at all sure she wanted to be part of this one. Bones pulled aside a large piece of cardboard on the floor of the garage. There was a wooden door underneath. He yanked it open, revealing stairs that went down. Bones climbed into the hole and beckoned the twins to follow. "So this is where you keep the real spy stuff, eh?" Coke said, looking around. There were cameras, tools, and all kinds of equipment lining

“祝贺你，”骨头一边说一边热情地和每一个双胞胎握手。 “欢迎来到GF大家庭。” 佩普皱起了鼻子。她自己家里的问题已经够多了。 她不需要另一个，她也不确定自己是否想成为这个世界的一部分。 骨头把车库地板上的一大块纸板拉到一边。 下面有一扇木门。 他猛地拉开门，露出了通往楼下的楼梯。 骨头爬进洞里，示意双胞胎跟着。 “所以你把真正的间谍物品放在这里，是吗？”可口可乐环顾四周说。 里面有相机、工具和各种各样的设备

the shelves of the walls in the cramped room. "You might say that." Coke picked up two staple guns. "What do these shoot," he asked, "laser beams?" "Put those down!" Bones said sternly. "They shoot staples, you idiot!" Pep told her brother. "Okay, okay, relax." "We have a very short, uh... initiation ceremony that all new recruits have to go through," Bones told them. "I hope you don't mind. It's no big deal." "It doesn't involve jumping off a cliff or setting our school on fire, does it?" Pep asked nervously. "No, no! Nothing like that," said Bones. "All you have to do is turn around to face the wall and make the sound of the letter Z with your throats." "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz," the twins said.

在狭窄的房间里，墙上的架子。 “你可以这么说。”可乐拿起两把订书机。 “这些发射的是什么，”他问，“激光束吗？”“把它们放下！”骨头严厉地说。 “他们会射订书钉，你这个白痴！”佩普告诉了她哥哥。 “好吧，好吧，放轻松。”“我们有一个很短的，呃…… 这是所有新兵都要经历的入会仪式。”Bones告诉他们。 “我希望你不介意。这没什么大不了的。” “这不会涉及从悬崖上跳下去或者放火烧我们的学校吧？”佩普紧张地问。 “不,不!不是那样的，”骨头说。 “你所要做的就是转过身来面对墙壁，用喉咙发出字母Z的声音。” 这对双胞胎,“Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz说。

While they were making the sound, Bones picked up the two staple guns Coke had been fooling with. He placed them gently against the back of the children's heads and pulled the triggers. "Owwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Are you crazy?" Coke said after spinning around to see Bones holding both staple guns. "What is your problem, man?" "You stapled my head!" Pep shouted. "I can't believe you would do that!" "I did not staple your head," Bones explained calmly. "I implanted tiny GPS devices in your scalps. They're harmless. Now we can track you more easily." "Why do you need to track us?" Pep asked. "It's for your safety," Bones explained. "If you're in trouble anywhere in the world, we'll be able to find you. This GPS is accurate within three feet. Dr. Warsaw designed it personally. Someday everyone will have one." "Great," Coke said glumly, rubbing the back

就在他们发出声音的时候，骨头拿起了科克一直在摆弄的两把钉枪。 他轻轻地把枪放在孩子们的后脑勺上，然后扣动扳机。 “Owwwwwwwwwwwwwww !你疯了吗？”可乐转过身来，看到骨头手里拿着两把钉书钉枪。 “你怎么了，伙计？”“你把我的头钉住了！”Pep喊道。 “我真不敢相信你会那样做！”“我没有把你的头钉住，”骨头平静地解释道。 “我在你的头皮上植入了微型GPS设备。 它们是无害的。现在我们可以更容易地跟踪你了。” “你为什么要跟踪我们？”Pep问道。 “这是为了你的安全，”骨头解释说。 “如果你在世界上任何地方遇到麻烦，我们都能找到你。 这个全球定位系统精确到三英尺以内。 华沙医生亲自设计的。 总有一天，每个人都会有一个。” “太好了，”可口可乐一边揉着后背，一边闷闷不乐地说

of his head. "Isn't that an invasion of privacy?" Pep asked. "Strictly speaking, I suppose it is," Bones admitted. "But we feel the advantages outweigh the dis-advantages." "Hey, why did you tell us to make the Z sound?" Coke asked. "So you wouldn't notice the staple guns," Bones said. "Listen, before I send you home, I want to give you something. A small token of our appreciation." "You already implanted a small token of your appreciation in each of our heads," Pep said. Bones went over to a shelf and came back with a shopping bag. "What is it?" Coke asked. "Some kind of a gun that's hidden inside a candy bar or something?" "Goodness no," Bones said. "We can't be handing out guns to children, now can we?" He pulled a Frisbee out of the bag. It said TGF FLYING HIGH on it. "You're giving us a Frisbee?" Pep asked,

他的头。“这不是侵犯隐私吗？”Pep问道。 “严格地说，我想是的，”骨头承认。 “但我们觉得利大于弊。” “嘿，你为什么要告诉我们发Z音？”可口可乐问道。 “这样你就不会注意到订书钉枪了。” “听着，在我送你回家之前，我想给你一样东西。 这是我们表示感谢的一点心意。” 佩普说：“你已经在我们每个人的脑子里植入了一个表示感激的小纪念品。” 骨头走到一个架子前，拿着一个购物袋回来。 “什么事？”可口可乐问道。“某种藏在糖果棒里的枪之类的东西？”“天哪，不，”骨头说。 “我们不能把枪发给孩子们，对吧？”他从袋子里掏出一个飞盘。 上面写着TGF FLYING HIGH。 “你要给我们一个飞盘？”Pep问道:

puzzled. "We had some left over from the company picnic," Bones explained. "You have company picnics!?" Pep asked. "I thought this was a top secret organization?" "It was a top secret picnic," said Bones. "It's not a Frisbee, you dope!" said Coke. "That lady Mya had one of these up on the cliff. Remember? It's a Frisbee grenade! We can throw this sucker at bad guys and totally waste them." "Mya's Frisbee grenade was a prototype," Bones told them. "They cost fifty thousand dollars each. We could never afford to hand them out casually. Budget cuts, you know. And they're very dangerous, too. You haven't been trained to use them." "Then I'll bet the Frisbee shoots lasers, huh?" Coke said. "Like, you throw it and it zaps everything within fifty feet. That is cool! Where's the on-off switch?" "It doesn't shoot lasers," Bones said. "It doesn't

困惑。“我们还有公司野餐剩下的一些，”博恩斯解释说。 “你们有公司野餐！？”Pep问道。 “我以为这是一个绝密组织？”“这是一次绝密的野餐，”骨头说。 “这不是飞盘，你这个笨蛋！”可乐说。 “米亚女士在悬崖上有一个。 还记得吗?这是一个飞盘手榴弹！我们可以把这玩意儿扔给坏人，彻底浪费他们。” “米娅的飞盘手榴弹是个原型，”骨头告诉他们。 “每个花了5万美元。 我们可不能随便把它们分发出去。 预算削减，你知道的。而且它们也很危险。 你没有受过使用它们的训练。” “那我打赌飞盘会发射激光，对吧？”可口可乐表示。 “就像，你把它扔出去，它会把50英尺内的一切都摧毁。 太酷了！开关在哪里？”“它不会发射激光，”Bones说。 “这并不

turn on or off." "Then it must give off a magnetic force field or something, right?" Coke asked. "Or when you throw it, it sprays some vile stuff like a skunk does." "It doesn't give off a force field," Bones said. "It doesn't spray anything. You just fling it." "I get it," Coke guessed. "After you chuck it, razor blades pop out of the sides. When it reaches the victim, it can slice a man's head off like a knife going through a hunk of cheese. That is awesome!" "No, no! It's nothing like that," Bones told Coke. "It's a toy. You throw it to somebody and they catch it. Then they throw it back to you. Something fun for you to play with in your travels. The only thing you can kill with it is time."

打开或关闭。”“那么它一定会释放出磁场之类的东西，对吧？”可口可乐问道。 “或者当你把它扔出去的时候，它会像臭鼬一样喷出一些恶心的东西。” “它不会产生力场，”Bones说。 “它不会喷任何东西。 你就把它扔了。”“我明白了，”科克猜测道。 “你把它扔掉后，刀片会从侧面弹出。 当它到达受害者时，它可以像刀穿过一大块奶酪一样切下一个人的头。 太棒了！”“不,不!事实并非如此，”Bones告诉Coke。 “这是一个玩具。你把它扔给别人，然后他们接住。 然后他们又把它扔给你。 给你旅行时玩的好玩的东西。 你唯一能用它消磨的就是时间。”