Joy Mommy took an afternoon off to take us to the pool. Not the city pool where we usually swim, but a fancy indoor pool at a resort. Daddy rented the pool for three hours so that we had the whole thing to ourselves. And of course, Spirko and Vance came too. Since the bad guys grabbed us at the park, they came everywhere with us. Which was kind of okay. Vance was fun, and Spirko was… Well he was Spirko. Daddy wanted Spirko to come out of semi-retirement and take over the vacant beta position. Spirko insisted he was too old and “irrelevant” (whatever that means) and he would rather continue working as our head of security. Daddy also tried to convince Vance to take a promotion, but Vance said he could never give up his position as Gamma, not now that he had a Luna. That made Daddy huff,

