My Kids are Saving the World: #5, in Which Devyn Frees the NSA

Devyn's long flight back from Tiniabonita took almost a day, and when he got off his flight in LA he changed his ticket to Detroit, because he knew that was where the poor nice folks who run the NSA where being held by the evil kidnapping cell known as ABOE, the American Big Oil Executives. They chose Detroit, because they wanted to make it look like it was the Big Auto Execs, in case they were ever caught.

Because Devyn knew that ABOE would have all the planes watched, and since he was a famous Robotier, having make the headlines in Google News even, he jumped out of the airplane as it descended into Detroit's Windsor Airport. He didn't have a parachute, so he just spread out his arms and legs to slow down. When he finally got close to the ground, he thrust out his chest, tossed his suitcase full of robot supplies clear of his splashdown point, initiated a beautiful swan dive and sliced into Lake Erie with nary a splash. Devyn later said the force of hitting the water made his shoulders feel like they were at his ankles. He went down 50 feet. Devyn swims like a fish, so he grabbed his suitcase, which sunk like a rock, then took off immediately for shore, dragging the suitcase behind him. He couldn't see hardly anything in that polluted lake, though, so he ended up in Cleveland and had to turn around. He was exhausted by the time he reached Detroit. He hadn't slept in three days, just swam a hundred miles and ate only airline food, mostly peanuts.

Devyn whipped out his suitcase, one of the reasons he was so tired was that his suitcase weighed as much as he did, even though all his robotic parts were made of an expensive titanium alloy and individually weighed less than feathers, pound for pound. Feathers, though, is the name of Devyn's 120 lb Dobermann Pinscher. Hence, the suitcase was heavy. Really heavy. And it didn't float. Good thing Devyn was on the swim team at school.

Devyn whipped together worker robot that in turn quickly built Devyn a spy robot that would, in a mere day, analyze every house in Detroit, scanning for a group of people duct-taped together in the basement. Devyn programmed in the chemical scent of duct tape glue -- on the plane he googled "duct tape smell" and learned that all duct tape manufacturers buy the glue they use to make their tape sticky from the same evil cartel run by the ABOE! Then Devyn instructed the worker robot to set the spy robot loose and checked into the fancy Hyatt Regency Dearborn where he slept for two days and nights, waking every couple of hours to eat delicious and inexpensive room service food.

Then his spy robot returned, but Devyn had forgot to implant knowledge of how to use a revolving door, so it got stuck and the doorman called -- yes, at fancy hotels even revolving doors need doormen -- to ask him about it. Apparently it kept playing a recorded message of a holograph of Devyn dressed in white robes and saying "Help us Obi Wan, you are our only hope." So Devyn went down, retrieved it, and found out that the NSA guys were tied up in the basement of a house only three blocks away!

Devyn went next door, grabbed a bagel, cappucino and plastic knife from one of the six Starbucks on the same block as the Regency, and ate while he walked the short distance to the captives basement prison. He snuck in and non-chalantly cut them loose using the plastic Starbuck's knife, which had just been recalled that very morning because they were actually razor sharp and hard as steel. Devyn made a mental note to go back for more to use in his robots.

The NSA people were all very thrilled to again be free to spy on Americans, which of course they only do by accident. Because the most notorious American covert spy agency couldn't be known to have been kidnapped and tied up in a basement for two weeks, it was all kept hush hush, or you would have read about Devyn in Google News. Unfortunately, the ABOE got away, but Devyn is hot on their trail.