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replied.
    “Probably D.C.,” Bones said.
    “That’s where we’re heading,” Pep said.
    “So are we,” said Mya. “We’ve got to stop him before he hurts anybody.”
    “How are we going to do that?” asked Coke.
    “We don’t know,” Bones replied.
    “How are we going to find him?” asked Pep.
    “We don’t know that either,” replied Mya.
    “You don’t know a whole lot, do you?” said Coke.
    “We’ll be in touch,” Bones said. “You kids can relax now. Try to enjoy your vacation. Have fun with your parents. Mya and I will head for Washington. Hopefully this whole thing will be over before you get there.”
    “Can you give us a cell phone number or some way to reach you?” asked Pep.
    “Too dangerous,” Mya replied. “We are constantly being monitored.”
    “Here,” Bones said as he reached into the maid’s cart and handed the twins a plastic bag, “take some of these.”
    “You’re giving us little bars of soap?” Pep asked as she looked into the bag.
    “It’s not plain old soap, you dope!” Coke told her. “It’s exploding soap, right? You throw it at somebody and it can take their head off. Like a hand grenade. That stuff is cool .”
    “It’s not exploding soap,” Bones told him.
    “I know,” Coke said. “It’s special GPS soap. You plant it on somebody and then you can track them, even when they’re in the shower. And then it melts away without leaving a trace. How do you people come up with this stuff? It’s brilliant!”
    “Uh, no,” said Mya, “there’s no such thing as GPS soap.”
    “I know,” Coke said excitedly. “You put two of them over your eyes and they function as night-vision goggles, right?”
    “It’s just soap ,” Bones said wearily.
    “What are we supposed to do with plain old soap ?” Coke demanded.
    “You wash yourselves with it,” Bones said. “I figured it might come in handy in your RV.”
    “How do you expect us to save the world with little bars of soap?” Coke asked. “We need some weapons, and preferably cool weapons, like the kind they have in action movies.”
    “We don’t have any cool weapons,” Mya said. “This is strictly a low-budget operation.”
    “Hey, you’re the ones who are geniuses,” Bones told them. “You figure it out. We need to go now.”
    “Before we leave I need to ask you something,” Mya said. “Did you tell your parents anything about The Genius Files?”
    “We tried to, but they didn’t believe us,” Pep replied.
    “Good,” Mya said. “They must not know. Ever. If they find out, their lives will be in danger too.”
    “Hey, one last thing we need to know before you go,” Coke said. “Is Dr. Warsaw dead or alive?”
    “We think he’s dead, but we’re not sure,” Bones said. “We searched for his body in the woods around The House on the Rock, but by the time we got there, it was gone.”
    “Good luck,” Mya said, hugging each of the twins. “Be careful. We are with you always.”
    “If you’re with us,” Coke said, “you would give us some of those Frisbee grenades you have, or a flamethrower, or something that we could actually use to defend ourselves.”
    “Goodness no,” said Mya. “That would be dangerous!”
    “Then at least clean our room,” Pep said. “It’s a mess.”

Chapter 6
LET’S KILL TWO
     
    M rs. McDonald checked out of the motel while her husband loaded up the RV and consulted his road atlas. Everybody piled in and Dr. McDonald pulled onto I-294 South. Des Plaines is only about half an hour from downtown Chicago.
    The kids amused themselves in the back while Mrs. McDonald fired up the GPS. Then she reclined her seat a few inches and began to leaf through an Illinois guidebook.
    “Look, Ben,” Mrs. McDonald said, “the grave of Robert Earl Hughes is in Illinois.”
    “Who was he?” Pep asked, not quite sure she wanted to know the answer.
    “Robert Earl Hughes was the world’s heaviest man,” her mother explained. “He weighed over a