Chapter III
Operation: Bomb Planter
Operation: Cherry Bomb 2000
With the photos of Professor Platypus's Headquarters, Bentley formulated a plan to stop Prof. Platypus from polluting the river. The first mission would be for my father and I to go to Lemon Hill and paraglide to the top of the Waterworks. Once on top, my father would splice the connection from the radio antenna so that Bentley could tap into the Prof.'s plans. While my father did that, I would climb into the ventilation shaft, find the pump room, and plant a remote triggered bomb on the main valve.
The plan went off almost without a hitch. My father tapped the line while I found the pump room. However, when I entered into the pump room, I forgot to take measures of the security set up in the place. Fortunately, I found the main security box and smashed it before it could sound an alert. Then I prowled around the room, looking for the main pipe that was pumping all the garbage into the water. I planted the bomb and made my way to the exit… almost. While walking to the door, I noticed a shiny silver safe marked, "Blueprints" and I figured, "what's the harm of cracking the safe to get Bentley the blueprints." So after five seconds of listening to the tumblers clank around inside, I opened the safe and swiped the prints and replaced them with the famous Cooper Family calling-card. Then I made my way out, back to the safe house.
Bentley couldn't be happier to see the main blueprints to the whole operation. It saved all of us the trouble of either finding them later or creating our own with more recon photos. In fact, you could say that we were all dumb struck at the fact that the safe would be close to the main valve! Of course we figured that that was just a lucky coincidence and that we might not get lucky again with this major heist.
The next day, Bentley studied the blueprints as well as the data transfers that my father tapped into. However, even with all these sources, Bentley needed something a bit more personal about Prof. Platypus. Thus he figured it was time to hack his personal computer, "you can't get more personal than that," I thought to myself. However, hacking this computer wouldn't be easy because of the fact that Bentley can't actually access the computer. He would have to wirelessly connect to it, and doing that would take figuring out the encryption code to the wi-fi card.
So we all took a ride to the waterworks in Murray's van and parked in the parking lot. Bentley used his computers and other high-tech devices in the back on the van to hack into Prof. Platypus's computer. Being sort of tech. savvy, I helped him out. After 5 minutes one of the computers reported out the code to Bentley. Next, Bentley took that code and created an injection equation. He fired the code into the main server at the waterworks and then in a few seconds, a warning message came up stopping Bentley from getting any farther, however, Bentley just yawned and typed a code into another one of his computers… that code stopped the error message and allowed Bentley to continue one what his was doing. In two minutes, Bentley's computer was streaming with all the data from the platypus's computer. Bentley was truly an unstoppable hacker.
After Bentley was done, Murray drove us back home to the Safe house… where we all sat down and planned the next mission.
"Well guys, since I now have all of the sources that I could get my hands on, I think it's time for the main heist" Bentley reported.
"Wait just a second Bentley," I interjected, "when are we going to take out the main pollution valve? We've yet to set off the bomb!"
"Don't worry about that Rick… I have the perfect time to set that off." Bentley replied
"Ok… well, then, I guess it's time to go fight the Professor!" Murray exclaimed
"Well, not yet Murray, there's still one last thing to do before we engage in a physical battle." Bentley said
"Well, what is it?" My Father asked
"Well Sly, I've agreed to an exchange with the old Russian mob of the North East to get us a Cherry Bomb 2000" Bentley explained
"Wow! That's a heck of a lotta kick! Why do we need it?" I asked Bentley.
"Well, Rick, the bomb is going to be used as trap triggering device." Bentley explained
"Trap? What do we need to trap?" Murray asked while eating a hotdog
"It's the only way we can stop Professor Platypus. I read on his personal computer that he has a robot patrolling the inside of his HQ." Bentley reported
"So we blow the robot up with the Cherry Bomb 2000" I said.
"Yep! You're 100% correct, Rick!" Bentley exclaimed
"Wait, wait, wait… Bentley, what are we trading for the bomb?" My Father asked.
"Ah, Sly… I thought you'd never ask. We're going to be trading the old USA Mint nameplate on the front of CCP" Bentley reported.
"But why? Why would the Russian mob want an old nameplate to the Mint?" I asked with a high level of confusion.
"That, I do not know, Rick… but quite frankly, it's none of our business anyway… at least not right now it's not." Bentley said.
"Wait Bentley… wait… what's the plan again?" Murray asked
"Well Murray, we're going to trade a sign for a bomb to stop the Professor's robot. Then you can stop the professor." Bentley explained in laymen terms.
Oh, ok… leave the defeat of Professor Platypus to me and The Murray's thunder flop… which knows neither friend nor foe, only destruction." Murray exclaimed
"Ok gang," I said,. "I think it's time we get ourselves a sign!"
