Now as we all know Bobby's maternal grandparents are former
ECHELON secret service agents working for the USSR during the \Cold War.\\Natasha was a
field agent,much like Double 007 ,except in her case
ECHELON's Collective Master Spy Igor had his team of red haired assassin girls
taking out crazy American and British tycoons with secret space missiles on top of\Mount Everest and the
like.
Even as a gray haired granny,she was still fairly stout and traces of red ran through her hair,
Boris was much thinned and had spent his professional secret agent years
building the secret agent weapons his wife Natasha used on that secret Mount Everest base.
Boris's pride and joy was a 1977 Lada 1800 Specially Equipped
(much like a 1960s Italian Fiat)
and both he and Natasha drove south of the border with Bobby annual
for a Secret Agent Meet Greet and Flea Market.
So the two former spies swept into the living room where their grandson
Bobby sat with the shoebox sized Chronivac 4.0 and
"Bobbi,ve go to the land of Capitalist Yellow Running Dogs now!"
and scopped up the excited kid
Bobby dropped the antique machine onto the sofa in his excitement
and as Boris went to retrieve it and
Nathan the pythoness the secret weapons maker said
"We're going to DeSmet,South Dakota Bobby,I'm hoping to get some weapons grade plutonium at the flea market this time"
And so soon all four of them were puttering along the highway heading south .
At the Sasketwean/South Dakota border crossing
the Canadian officials were letting people through
but on the American side the surrounding buildings were stuffed full of
suspected bad people the Yanks had caught.
Natasha fretted over the delay and issued a few Soviet era swear words
under her breath,but their ECHELON forgered
identity papers easily fooled the Americans ( along with Natasha's
disarming (I'm just a granny driving my Lada Super Car only
on Sundays) and soon they were on their way to DeSmet.
In the seat beside his wife Boris was examining the antique
Chronivac.
The version numbers stood for the year it first entered
the ECHELON secret service ( the Americans making something
called the American Eagle TransMorph
and Sir James B. MI-6 using the Royal TransMat.)
None of these shape and reality shifting machines had been available\to the public for most of the twentieth
century,but with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
the stocks of Chronivacs ( made in a secret room at a Zenit Camera factory near Stalingrad)
had quickly been sold to western dealers to bringling Mother Russia
much needed cash....