Quest for the Crystals chapter 44

Sorry it's late I have a really sore throat😥

Anyways, uh the information of were the Wingfeathers are in the world gets reveiled, why did I pick this city? Well, I thought it would go with the contest thing I set up in the story....

Anyways See ya later iggyfeathers!

Chapter 44 A Day In Milky Way 

They all walked up to the woman holding the sign, when they got close enough to the woman, she said in her best commercial voice, “Buttons and Needles clothing store is now hiring. Would you kind people like to be hired for a wonderful job that pays minimum wage?” The woman had bright blonde hair and the tips were dyed pink. She had green eyes, freckles, she was blowing a big pink piece of bubble gum, and her outfit seemed to be the Buttons and Needles employee uniform. 

“Sure we would love to!” Kalmar said, smiling. 

She looked at him like he was out of his mind but then she remembered something and said “Well you four can't work here, but we do have a junior employee program that you can join. The rest of you can work here if you would like.” She said. 

“Thank you so much! you don't know how much this means to us!” Nia said in her best queenly voice. 

“Come with me, it's just this way.” the woman said, as she turned around with her sign and led the Wingfeathers to the clothing store. 

It looked like pretty much all the buildings that they had seen before on the outside, at least, were painted purple with white trim. The door was clear and on the door written in Gold lettering was the words “Buttons and Needles Clothing Store”. The woman opened the door and held it open for the Wingfeathers as a little tiny bell rang. 

They walked in to see that inside, all the walls were painted a dark purple color with again, white trim, and there were gold swirls painted all over the walls. There were countless stands and mannequins wearing different clothing items that looked honestly quite flat to the Wingfeathers and kind of boring. To the left of the room pushed near the corner was a little desk with another woman who had black hair pulled tight in a bun, a white blouse that had black polka dots, blue jeans, a tape measure hung around her neck, red glasses and a pincushion bracelet. 

“Ms Ling, I have for you…” the woman said as she paused, looked at the Wingfeathers and then counted each one of them and turned back to the woman, Ms. Ling. 

“Nine new employees!” she said, when she was done counting them. The woman at the front desk, eyes sparkled and she walked over to the Wingfeathers. “Hello, my name is Miss Ling and I own Buttons and Needles Clothing Store. Meagen, I see we have some junior employees for the program,” she said, turning to the blonde-haired woman. 

“Hello, Miss Ling, we are the Wing…” Kalmar started but as soon as he said the word Wing, Janner put his hand over his mouth and said, nervously, “What my brother means to say is we are the Igibys.” 

Janner tried to look cool when he said this. Even though his mouth was covered by Janner’s hand Kalmar still managed to say, “Really we're back to that again? Are you kidding me?” 

At this Janner just glared at him and then turned back to Miss Ling and smiled awkwardly. 

“Well I'm so glad you are all here. We've had a very high demand on clothing lately and we haven't had nearly enough staff to take care of that demand..” Miss Ling said. 

“Mira, please get the Igibys their new uniforms.” She directed as a girl who had brown curly hair that faded to mint-colored hairs came from a back room holding a large stack of shirts, all in different colors. 

“So because we work here now does that mean we can take some clothes?” Kalmar asked, looking strangely at all of the very strange clothing that was in the store. 

“Well, when I pay you, you can. But you have to work first.” Miss Ling said and then she looked at their clothing. 

“My you all are wearing such magnificent clothing!” she exclaimed. 

“We are?” Janner asked for these were just regular old clothes. 

“Yes, yes of course you are all quite ahead of the fashion curve, if you know what I mean. Just seeing this makes me want to design a whole new line of clothing. I'm thinking medieval chic.” Miss Ling said as she put her hands in the air and threw them apart dramatically. 

“Oh yeah.. that uh… fashion curve we are so curving the fashion, there's not even a straight line, it's just a curve. It's like a swivel line, that's how not straight it is, cuz we are so.. on the fashion curve...” Kalmar said, smiling awkwardly, trying to figure out what the fashion curve meant. At this, all  Janner could do was laugh and shake his head at his silly, silly little brother. Miss Ling looked at him strangely, shook her head, and then went about with her business. 

The girl whose name was Mira came back from the room holding a stack of Buttons and Needles uniforms for all of the Wingfeathers who were apparently going by the name of Igiby as of today. 

“There are dressing rooms right over there," Mira pointed towards a hallway that led to dressing rooms as she handed them the uniforms. When they changed they felt very weird. The uniforms were jeans and a soft blue t-shirt that said on it “Buttons and Needles Clothing Store.” It was absolutely nothing like anything they had ever worn in their entire lives. 

“It's so flat and quite boring and itchy,” the kids complained. 

“I would tell you not to complain about what you're wearing but honestly I have to agree with you.” Nia admitted looking in the mirror at the strange clothing that she was wearing.

When they entered the main room, they were surprised to see that hanging on the wall was a little black box-like thing that lit up and on the face of the box was a human. A woman, actually, who was talking, and pictures were showing up in the box. 

“What is that?” Kalmar asked curiously, staring at the black box with the woman inside, wondering how she got in there. 

Miss Ling laughed and said, “Oh you're a funny one aren't you?” Then she looked at them again to see that they really didn't know what the black box was. She squinted at them and explained that the black box with the woman showing images of different things was a TV. 

“That's a TV?” Janner asked, wondering how his life story was once broadcasted on one of those tiny little things. 

“Yes, it's currently showing the  local news around Nashville.” Miss Ling explained.

 “Where's Nashville?” Sara asked as Miss Ling's eyes widened and she looked at them like they were from outer space which in a way, if you really think about it, they sort of were. 

“Nashville, Tennessee. It's where we are right now. It's the state we're in, you know, in the United States of America?” she said questionably. 

“Oh right yeah um.. Tennessee.. Totally knew that.” Sara said, trying to sound convinced. Miss Ling shook her head and went about creating a new design that she was working on. 

A few hours later they were put to work doing things like putting new strange flat clothing on display or helping shoppers find something they wanted or polishing the mirrors. Then something on the TV came up that made them all turn their heads to look at it. 

It was the local news and the lady on the screen who was wearing a very professional outfit said, “I’m Lacy and coming to you live from Nashville, Tennessee. Research science centers including NASA headquarters have been ransacked by a crazy, high-tech woman! And the elusive Dragalumium element has been stolen! We have no idea what this strange woman is looking for, but we do know what she looks like. Apparently whoever this is, has forgotten about security cameras.” Lacy said, as the screen turned to a  moving picture of different places that were apparently around Nashville in research centers that the strange woman was ransacking. “The woman who has been doing this has dark black hair. The ends are like a plum purple color and it is pulled up into a bun with two strands hanging out and she is wearing a dark purple top and jeans and dark purple sneakers. We have no idea who this strange woman is but she appears to be around the age of 25. The state officials and the police are on her trail but it seems like no one can find her. Somehow this strange woman, who no one's ever seen before, has been cracking the code on all of the top level security cameras without anyone even realizing it. And that is live news for you, coming to you live, from Nashville, Tennessee.” Lacy said. 

She seemed to forget that  the camera was still rolling as she said excitedly, “Yes! Finally something exciting is happening around here for once. I've been stuck with the sympathetic stories and the boring pointless stories for so long and finally, now, I have something actually interesting to report about!” 

“Um.. I'm still rolling.” The camera man said. The woman turned around and blushed as she put her hand over the camera, and  said through the side of her mouth,“That would have been a little more helpful 30 seconds ago, Gary!”

The Wingfeathers all exchanged a glance at each other as Miss Ling walked over to them with a little box-like thing in her hand and clicked the button on it that made the TV turn off. 

“Isn't it crazy what people do these days?” Miss Ling asked as she put the little box-like thing that was in her hands back on the desk. 

“I mean I have no idea why anyone would ever want to break into a research center, or break into anything at all.” she said. 

“um… we have to go now…sorry but yeah we got to go.” Kalmar said quickly, extremely nervous about what he just saw on this screen. “Well that's fine, just you have to change back into your old clothes. You can't wear my uniforms outside.” Miss Ling said. 

They turned back to the dressing rooms and as fast as lightning, put the old clothes on, changed out of their uniforms and bolted out the door so fast that the door swung in and out as the teeny, tiny bell rang like madness. 

“Kids these days!” Miss Ling said, as she shook her head and went back to sewing a new design.