Jack practically ran down the steps of their underground operations. Seeing his team already there, he prepared himself for an onslaught of questions. Honestly he had thought of many different scenarios to tell them that he had involved an innocent woman into breaking into hard drive because none of them could figure it out, though it was not like he had meant to, he just knows where they'll succeed and where they'll fail. And they had already failed to break the code a few times already, and if it weren't for the young woman, it would have been to late.
Not to his surprise, Aster speaks first. "How'd you break the code?" The man asks gruffly.
"Well you are not gonna like what I have to say." Came younger man's response.
"Oh what the bloody hell did ya do now?" Aster scowled with his arms crossed.
Jack took a moment before replying to his awaiting comrades. "I involved a civilian to break the code." As he expected, their reactions grew worried with question while Aster simply cursed.
"Now why in the hell would ya do that? Do you have any idea what you've done?" Aster growled out, but Jack did not waver.
"None of us were even close to breaking that code. We couldn't even figure it out. But she did."
North stepped closer. "And by 'she', do you mean Elsa?" Jack nodded. The elder man shrugged. "She is very smart when it comes to computers, I'm not very surprised she was able to figure it out." There was a gleam of pride showing in the man's eyes.
Aster raised his hands up mid-air as if to pause every movement in the group. "Can we just take a second to realize that a innocent civilian was involved with no idea what we do or that our organization even exist, and you're okay with that?!" He said with disdain at the older gentleman. A shrug from the shoulders was all he got.
"I'm not saying I'm okay with it, but he does have a point."
Before Aster could retort, they were interrupted by Tooth. "Okay! We get it. We'll deal with it later, let's just focus on the job at hand, we're losing enough time as it is. Now, since Syndrome has a robot on a remote island that is getting ready to be launch and attack the city in less than an day, how do we get there with out being detected and fast."
"There's no way we can get there without getting detected." Aster responded. "There's a very high chance he has a radar. From one weapon's expert to another, he's likely to have missiles ready to fire at us."
The four members stood in silence, trying to quickly come up with a solution before time runs out. They were pulled from their thoughts when another voice sounded. "So take the risk." They all looked towards the stairs to see Sandy making their way towards them. They were mildly surprised to see him, but glad none the less.
The golden haired man continued. "North and I will stay here to give you back up in case the launch procedure is a go, we'll figure something out for the time being. The three of you should go." Sandy motioned to Aster, Tooth and Jack. "Take a plane, jump out before the missiles come close to hitting, make your way to the island, disarm the launch and stop Buddy Pine."
Aster looked at Sandy with disbelief. "That's a hell of a lot easier said than done Mate."
The other man merely shrugged. "It's really all you can do at this point. If we had more time, we could've done this another way but there isn't. Besides, the three of you are faster then North or myself."
With a nod of approval from the three of them, they quickly grabbed their belongings while North called in for a fast plane.
Tooth looked nervously at the plane door that was currently opening. She had absolutely no problem flying, she loved it, jumping out of it however, she was not too fond of. Both Aster and Jack already had their parachutes on and were ready to jump. Tooth on the other hand, she didn't have a parachute. Both men knew that she wasn't going to jump, and if she was, she would be stalling. Which was why they agreed to have her go with Aster.
After hooking her harness tightly to his, Aster pushed Tooth towards the open door where the wind was blowing wildly inside.
A loud beeping noise of warning was sounding off in the plane. With a quick glance to the radar Jack made his way towards his friends. "Missiles are closing in! We gotta jump now!" Jack shouted over the wind. He adjusted his goggles then jumped out without a second thought. Aster tried to follow suit but Tooth suddenly held out her hands to the sides of the plane.
"Wait!" She shouted as she fearfully looked below. "Can we count to three!?"
Aster placed his hands on her waist. "Sure! Three!" Then he forced both of them to jump out the plane with Tooth screaming on the way down. He adjusted their flight position to dive down faster to catch up with Jack.
There was a loud explosion coming from above them. The missiles hit the plane and now the debris was hurtling towards the skydiving team. Lucky for them, Jack and Aster are experts at jumping out of things and avoided any collision. Reaching a certain altitude, they pulled the lever of the parachutes. When they were gliding down towards the ocean, Tooth decided it was appropriate to disturb the sudden peace that befallen them.
"Aster I'm going to kill you when this is over!" She shouted. But the man merely laughed.
"What? I counted to three." He said with a grin.
"You only said the number!"
"Isn't that the same thing?" He teased. The woman crossed her arms as a small growl escaped her, causing both men to laugh.
The sun had finally set just as the three of them hit the waters. Discarding their parachutes and harnesses, they began to swim two miles in the ocean to reach the island. They were aware of uncharted territory and the possibility of sharks or poisonous eels and jellyfish which was why they swam as fast as they could, using the waves as a boost to push them further towards the island and fighting against the tides that kept pulling them in.
When they made it safely on land, they discarded the jumpsuits they wore before the jump. Though they were still soaked their equipment remained safe in waterproof seals. Even though the three of them were a bit tired from the swim at the same time freezing to their bones, they ran towards the jungle and sought shelter in a cave. Quickly starting a fire, they settled to dry and get a bit of rest before they infiltrated Pine's hidden hide-away.
When nearly two hours of complete silence passed, they were nearly dry enough to move freely without any restriction. Aster put out the fire while Jack loaded their weapons and Tooth did a quick charge of electrical bugs to shut off any computer when attached.
With their identities concealed, the three left the cave. With the moon as the only source of light, they ran through the jungle. After a while of ducking under low branches and jumping over bushes and rocks, the three spotted a bright source of light ahead of them. They followed the illuminated lights that lead them to Syndrome's hideout. Hiding behind the trees, Jack and Aster counted the numbers of guards they would have to bypass.
"I've counted 28." Muttered Aster.
"Same here." Jack responded. "And that's only on the outside. Can't imagine how much more there'll be on the inside." He grumbled with displeasure.
"Hopefully there's a secret entrance we can sneak into to bypass the guards. The bad guys usually have those- the paranoid ones especially, so that's mostly a bonus for us if we get lucky." Aster mumbled aloud.
Jack chuckled quietly. "Guess luck is on our side then. Look at that over there." The white haired man pointed at the edge of the building, furthest from eyesight and closer to the trees. Obviously meant to be hidden by intruders as there were no guards stationed to protect it to make it less obvious that there is actually something hidden, but not so less obvious as there were a few guards near by making rounds every few minutes looking at the back passage.
The three began moving again, avoiding the bushes that might give away their location and expose them. Avoiding the eyes of the guards, the three of them made it to the lowest level of the hideout. Leaning against the wall, they waited for the guards making their rounds to leave. Once it was clear, Jack was the first to start climbing the wall quick and quiet. Reaching the top, he pulled himself over the ledge and quickly scanned the area of anyone that could catch them. It was still clear. Glancing over the edge, Tooth is nearing the top herself. Quickly as possible Jack reached over and helped pulled her up. The sound of footsteps and voices caught Jack's attention. He looked over the ledge to see Aster nearly at the top.
Jack silently cursed. "Aster!" He quietly shouted at the man. "Don't move."
With a quick nod of understanding, Aster stopped climbing the wall. Jack grabbed Tooth by the arm and ran to the darkest corner of the building. Crouching down low as possible, Jack pressed Tooth against the wall using his body to shield her. Though it wasn't the best place to hide if at all, it was all they had and with it being dark out helped all the more.
The voices were getting closer. Jack instinctively pulled Tooth closer to his body to shield her if worst came to worst if they got caught. This way he could take any damage himself and she could get out of it unharmed and away from the danger.
The guards arrived and the two of them tensed. Out of the corner of their eyes, they watched the two guards converse with each other as they drew nearer, but as it was the men didn't even glance their way as the two armed men turned around with smiles on their faces as they walked away.
Both Tooth and Jack let out quiet sigh of relief while the young man rolled his eyes. "Seriously," He mumbled as the two stood up. "Syndrome needs to higher better guards because they suck at their jobs."
Tooth giggled. "Or we just got lucky they missed us."
"Or they just really suck as their jobs." He repeated.
Tooth quickly went to inform Aster to continue his climb while Jack broke into the lock of the hidden pathway. It only took the white haired man a couple of seconds to unlock it without triggering any alarms.
Jack wondered how things went wrong. They managed to find a lava wall that lead to a secret computer, they got information from said computer then left quietly without anyone finding out they were there. But then suddenly the alarms went off and then the next thing they knew they were being chased by guards. Then Jack suddenly had this stupidly brilliant idea where he used himself as a decoy so that Tooth and Aster could escape. They had no idea that he had purposely fallen behind, shutting a door behind them, then waiting for the guards to catch so that they could see him and chase after him instead. He knew he would get caught but he had been hoping with a small amount of he would be able to escape... Guess his luck had run out.
So here he was, suspended in air trapped by an electrical current that was holding up by the arms and legs. Really he thought it was brilliant little jail cell where he can't use his arms or legs and there was nearly a constant supervision. He really had to applaud Syndrome about it, though he'd never say it aloud lest he boost the man's inflated ego.
As it is, the short ginger-haired man was currently pulling away his mask and Jack could do nothing to stop him.
A large smile grew on short man's face. "Oh no. No way!" Syndrome laughed like he just discovered the funniest joke in the world. "Jack Frost? Oh this is too good to be true! You're one of the vigilante's that's been messing up my plans? Ya know I have to admit what you and you're other buddies do is pretty clever. I mean you actually go out into the streets at night parading in a make shift costume capturing the bad guys! You have the fast car and the weapons! Oh what a classic comic book story!"
Syndrome punched the air in childlike glee. A smirk grew onto his face as he looked at his prisoner. "Really you're very clever Mr. Frost, I never would have thought it was you in a life time. Ya know this would be the part where I would be asking you questions 'cause this sort of thing excites me but... You just had to go and ruin everything. You got into some of very important information and sent it out to a source I can't track. Who did you send it to?"
Jack merely narrowed his eyes and remained silent. Syndrome rolled his eyes and looked over to his lovely woman with silver hair. She turned a knob that sent a slight electrical charged into their prisoner. Jack groaned in pain but he refused to scream.
"Who are your contacts!?" Syndrome demanded. When Jack refused to answer another stronger electrical charge shot through to him but not enough to kill him. Biting his lip to stop the scream that nearly escaped him, blood dripped down to his chin.
Another smirk grew onto the short man's face. "I wonder what the people would think when they find out that their fun-loving CEO of DWE is actually a vigilante running around in the streets stopping the bad guys and ya know, saving hormonal drunk teenagers. And not only that but you actually have death in your ledger! Exactly how many people have you killed? Then again who cares, murder is murder and still illegal. I'm sure the RGPD will be more than willing to take you in a very secure prison and the people in Radiant Garden will be angry that their fun-loving CEO is actually a murderer which will also backlash onto DreamWorks Enterprise then they go into bankrupt and many workers will sadly be laid off because of you." The ginger-haired man laughed loudly.
"Then it would be the perfect opportunity to buy out DWE from under it, that will not only give you more money but also raise your status. Isn't that right, Buddy Pine?" Jack sneered with anger.
Syndrome turned to face the white haired man. Rage surging through his veins and with a snap of his fingers, Jack screamed in pain before his vision went dark.