Ashley Sparks

> I stuck that landing! I stuck it!
>
> Ashley yelling at Erica Hale in *Evil Spy School*

**Ashley Sparks** is one of three Evil Spy School students taught by SPYDER in *Evil Spy School*.

## Ashley Sparks

### Occupations:

Gymnast (formerly)
 SPYDER agent (formerly)

### Aliases:

Glitter Girl (by Zoe Zibbell)Ashley Spritz (by mistake)

### Relationships:

Benjamin Ripley (former crush)
Warren Reeves (former boyfriend)

### Friends:

Benjamin Ripley (formerly)
 Nefarious Jones (formerly)
 Murray Hill

### Enemies:

Benjamin Ripley
 Erica Hale
CIA
 Olympic Judges

### Strengths:

Hand to hand combat
 Using combined words
Gymnastics

### Last episode:

SSBI

Ashley's motive to work for SPYDER was due to her missing the cut at the Olympic Trials. She claims to have been misjudged and was decked a one hundredth of a point for "not sticking the landing." Warren Reeves later sympathizes for her and agrees she did stick it, but Erica Hale claims that Ashley blew it.

After Ashley didn't make it onto the Olympic team, her disappointment transitioned into anger and a thirst for revenge. In *Evil Spy School*, she claims that she had been training for the Olympic moment since she was a child; she had never eaten a single piece of candy, and her parents had spent most of their money on her training. Ashley exclaims how it all turned out to be a "complete waste." Thus, she turned to SPYDER for a life of crime and revenge.

At the end of *Evil Spy School*, Ashley is confined to a cell at the Cheney Center For Information Acquisition by the CIA. In *Spy School Secret Service,* however, Ben and Erica go find her and try to bargain information about SPYDER for her freedom. She accepts the deal, but turns on them and makes a run for freedom. She gets re-arrested by the end of *Spy School Goes South.* Later, she escapes when Ben and his friends try to spring her in exchange for information about SPYDER's evil plots.

## Appearance & Personality

Ashley Sparks has bad intentions, as she had joined Evil Spy School. Having trained in gymnastics since she was little, Ashley is very physically fit and short but surprisingly strong. When in a good mood, she is exceptionally perky, with a big smile and bright eyes. She often wears glitter in her hair and has rainbows painted on her fingernails which match her bright leotard.

## Skills & Abilities

Ashley is extraordinarily good at gymnastics, so SPYDER made a specialized form of hand-to-hand combat that involved the sport. Therefore, she is extremely dangerous when fighting, and she was one of the only people to ever come close to beating Erica Hale. She is also very good at combining words, such as "jidiot" (jerk+idiot), "hisgusting" (horrible+disgusting), and "swawesome" (sweet+awesome), and smoothly adding them into sentences.

## Relationships

### **Benjamin Ripley**

In *Evil Spy School*, Ashley admires and has a crush on Ben, and she proposes they go to Disney World together after graduating from Wiseman Preparatory Academy. They eventually have a falling out after Ben refuses to cooperate in the missile control room underneath Hidden Forest rec center and Ashley's feelings are obviously suppressed/diminished after that.

### **Warren Reeves**

In *Spy School Goes South*, after Warren has defected to SPYDER, Ben sees him and Ashley holding hands. It is later found out that they are a couple. Warren is embarrassed at the end of the novel because he admits that he still loves Zoe Zibbell. Thus, Ashley blows up at him. Warren and Ashley are not seen together in the following books.

## Trivia

* Ashley is famous for combining words, such as:
	+ "swawesome" = sweet + awesome
	+ "jidiot" = jerk + idiot
	+ "blinks" = blows + stinks
	+ "slame" = slow + lame
	+ "doosers" = dorks + losers
	+ "ferd" = freak + nerd
	+ "midiots" = morons + idiots
	+ "hisgusting" = horrible + disgusting

* She thinks Mike is a "jidiot by association."
* She thinks of Erica as a "ferd."