Our Favorite Detective Duo
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*is...*
Not Russian Enough
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**A quick note from the author**
I already know how this story may seem from the start, but I promise
that I planned this story and it's basic plot for a long time. This
story is **not** meant to be a political statement. [See this
important information](https://friller.works/oldsite/NAVAL.shtml).
This story is based off an old joke from this site, and is not a
statement in either direction about what the Russian government may or
may not be doing right now.
Apologies to my gopher users, but the article linked above is really
complicated to try and transfer to text file format due to all the
russian characters contained within. For now, you'll just have to view
it on the main site. I might later put an HTML version in here for
those that are here just to escape https.
Anyway, now that that's out of the way, enjoy.
Chapter 1: Are we going to fix this problem yet?
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Mustard problems... Buildings disappearing... Water poisoning... Oh,
what else?
"Hey guys, what's been going on?"
Yeah, finally. This is the one where we actually deal with the
Richard issue.
I guess I should recap that for you, shouldn't I?
My talented co-worker Cynthia used to work for a mustard factory...
kind of. She actually was an employee there, and did take pride in her
work producing quality mustard, but she was also involved in something
else. I'm still not quite sure what that something else was, I don't
think my brain was quite working right at the time, but it was
something evil. Except she wasn't actually doing evil. She got
involved in order to tip me off, and get a stop put on the bad guy.
Because of this, I managed to get the police department to hire her as
an assistant, and eventually to become a detective herself.
She's actually a great detective, but she's only ever had one case,
and it's been open for a really long time. The problem is that it's a
missing person's case for a child... well... he's not a child anymore,
and we weren't sure if it was even possible to find him. He's not
exactly found yet, but recently someone who claims to be him made
brief contact with his mother. Since we're not exactly sure whether
it's him or not, the case is still open, and because of that, Cynthia
can't pick up new cases.
This poses an advantage for me, however. Chief Geordi recognizes that
Cynthia's case might not get solved, and that's there's not much of
leads to pursue with it. He also recognizes that we work well
together, so he's been letting her help me with the stuff I've been
assigned to. This was nice for her until I blew it.
One day a bunch of buildings went missing. Water tower, our town's
biggest and most main building was one of them. Cynthia was inside,
and I said something about that in the wrong place. After we got the
buildings back, her husband Richard went inside after her, and didn't
find her where he thought he should.
Cynthia never let him know that she changed jobs, and this is how he
found out.
This is a problem. She hasn't said exactly why, but he's in danger
now because he knows this. I guess he's safe inside my office for some
reason, but he's not allowed to leave at all. It was okay for a little
bit, but it's *really* getting time to do something about this.
Oh yeah, while we're catching up on stuff... In between when he got
stuck in the office and now someone poisoned the water for the whole
city and a dude dies and we've just been way to busy dealing with all
of that that we haven't even been able to really properly deal with
this issue, and I know that that's got to bothering Richard pretty
bad, even though he's been really nice about it.
Yeah, it's really time to do something about this.
*Hey-o! It's me: The guy who's job it is to complain about
cliffhangers after every chapter. I really don't know what to do now,
as we're at the end of chapter one and the story hasn't really even
started yet. I guess I could do my actual job and say, "Tune in next
time and find out what they're going to do on the next episode of Our
Favorite Detective Duo".*
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