Club Penguin: EPF: Outdone…
Chapter 7:
Alright, so, in the last chapter, basically, they interrogated Gemini and they got word that there was a bomb at the Ice Rink. They also learned that Chill and "Sir" were going to meet up at midnight in the mine tunnels. After they told the Director, Toasty had introduced herself and the Director became the next victim of believing in Toasty's psychic abilities (I'm sure you're going to think what you want to think about if she's real or a fraud). The Director promoted Toasty to the leader of the squad at the end…
"Why are we the only squad out here? It's almost midnight. There could be gunmen here. There could be drug-dealers. There could be…" Rookie paused to think of something else. "I can't think of anything else. But why is it just us? Why can't we call in any other squads like – squad number two?"
"Because we don't need them. We have me." Toasty said, acting like the real leader. "And me is good enough."
The squad, minus Jet Pack Guy, had arrived at the Ice Rink to investigate the bomb. They had twenty-five minutes before they needed to head out to the Mine.
"Where on earth is the bomb?" asked Dot.
"It's gotta be around here somewhere," Rookie said.
Rookie and Dot started searching around for the bomb. Toasty, on the other hand, looked around and began bringing her senses together to get a psychic reading.
Meanwhile, Rico was sitting in the bleachers, still shocked at what had happened only ten minutes earlier.
"Rico, why are you sitting down? This is a case. You always participate. Even when you're sad. Why are you not helping?" asked Rookie.
"Rookie, please," Rico said.
"Whatever," he went back to searching.
"Rico," Toasty came up next to him in the bleachers. "We need your help."
"No, you don't."
"Yes, we do."
"You know WHY you don't need my help? Because you have you. And if you have you, then you have your 'gift'. And if you have your 'gift', then you have the ability to solve this case on your own." Rico said. He turned his head away.
"No, Rico, we need all of the help we can get." Toasty said. "You're part of the squad."
"And that means what?" asked Rico.
"That you should be helping us. We're trying to stop the island from exploding. All you are doing is sitting around in the bleachers. It's like you want this to happen." Toasty answered.
"You know why I don't want to help? Because of you. You've taken my squad, you've taken the Director, and you've taken criminals. You took them all and brought them in as victims of your ability, which, I really don't care or believe. You always have some lie to come up with to impress penguins. I told you when I hired you I told you specifically 'you're not here to outdo me like you always do'. What did you end up doing? You outdid me. You took my position as leader of the number one squad in the EPF." Rico said.
"I didn't come here to outdo you, I came here to work," Toasty said. "You called me in. I came to help. It wasn't my fault the Director decided to put me in charge of the squad."
"YES it is. You know why? Because you're faking this stuff. I know you are. There's no way in hell that a penguin like you could do such a thing. Look at your past, Toasty. Look at what you did then! And now you're telling me, 'it wasn't my fault'. Yes it was! If you wanted my position so bad, why didn't you just ask? Sure I would've said 'no'. But I wouldn't have had to go through this."
"Whatever. We have to deal with this later. You need to get out there and help us save the island. If you don't, I will have to remove you from the case." Toasty said.
"Oh, you're not going to remove me from the case…" Rico said.
"Then get out there and help us…" Toasty replied.
"I'm not going to be bossed around by my sister…" Rico replied.
"I got bossed around by you. Now it's your turn." Toasty said.
"Not anymore," Rico said. "Tell the others I'm not working here on the case, and the squad, anymore. I'm done here," He got up.
"So you're going to leave the case because of me?" asked Toasty.
"Why not? I'm not getting overthrown or bossed around by you." Rico said.
"Fine, leave. I won't be hiring you back on to anymore cases," Toasty said, standing up with him.
"You won't need to…" Rico said as he started for the exit of the stadium.
"GO BE LIKE THAT." Toasty yelled after him. "QUIT THE SQUAD. QUIT THE EPF. JUST REMEMBER WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN I QUIT AFTER YOU…!"
Rico stopped waddling and turned around suddenly. "What…?"
Toasty came towards him. "I'm going to quit the EPF eventually, too. Just remember what will happen when there are only three penguins on your squad,"
"How…how on earth…?" Rico said. "How did you…?"
She smirked at him.
His expression turned to its worse. He looked like he was going to say something. He was steaming. Instead, he turned around and waddled out of the Ice Rink.
"Yeah, that's right…" Toasty mumbled.
"Toasty, while you two were arguing, I believe we found the bomb," Rookie said. "Well, I did, Dot was too busy…"
"What he means is," Dot interrupted Rookie who was trying to impress Toasty. "I found the bomb."
Toasty stood there for a moment. "W-where is it?" she asked, confused.
"Oh, yeah, right. It's under the ice." Rookie said before Dot could get a word out.
"Wait, what?" Toasty asked.
"Let me explain," Dot said. "First off, we could hear the ticking of the bomb. Rookie was able to tell it came from underneath the ice. Second, if you remember back to when Herbert planned on heating the island with the magnifying glass back in 2010, he used ice from the Ice Rink. He cut out the ice in a circle. The ice came from where the bomb is. What I can imagine is, since the repair crews didn't refill the ice until June 2010, the bomb has been sitting there since before it was repaired. That means that the bomb has been sitting here for nearly three years."
"Wow, you both figured that out?" Toasty said, shocked.
"Yes, why?" Rookie said.
"No reason," Toasty replied.
"Alright, well, we have to get going the Mine…I'll report our finding to the Director." Dot pulled out her phone.
"Alright." Toasty said.
One long phone call later…
"The Director is going to get Rory out here to cut the ice out. She's also going to send out some EPF officials to investigate the bomb. Let's get moving." Dot said.
"Alright, did she mention anything else?" asked Rookie.
"No, but she said that Rico had gone to our office." Dot replied.
"Alright, that's good enough for me." Rookie said.
"Let's go…" Toasty replied as they pulled out their spy phones. They headed to the Mine.
Two minutes later…
The three had arrived in the Mine. There were no mine carts. Since there were usually two, Rookie easily assumed they had been taken by Chill and Sir.
"Chill took one," Toasty said. "She avoids waddling wherever possible."
"That must mean she's here…" Dot said.
"Alright, let's get going. Stay along the wall and avoid getting hit by mine carts, although I doubt there will be any." Toasty said. She headed into the area where mine cart rode. Rico had provided Dot with a map just a few hours earlier before Toasty had been promoted.
"I have a map," Dot said. "Just if we get lost,"
"Great…" Toasty said.
The Cart Surfer caves were very barren and quite spooky. They were dark and barely had any light. They led to the Mine Shack if you took the main way. If you didn't take the main way, you'd either end up back in the Mine, or you end up at a dead end – the location that gangs hung out.
"This is…scary…" Rookie said, freaked out.
"Indeed…" Toasty said. "But we're almost to the end. And when we get there, we're going to hide behind something. Do you both have your weapons?"
"Yes," Dot opened up her coat and revealed a bunch of weapons.
"Uh…" Rookie opened up his Hawaiian shirt to reveal the fact he needed to start lifting weights and that he had a few weapons inside.
"Alright," Toasty said.
They arrived at a fork in the path. There were two signs. One had the words "TO THE MINE SHACK" on it, and one had the words "BACK TO MINE" on it. They easily assumed the third path was where the gangs met.
"This way," Toasty whispered. They followed her as she did these weird tactics like a barrel roll and a back flip.
They stopped as they heard voices. One of them was easily identified by Toasty as Chill.
"If we're going to do this, we're going to need to find the perfect trap." Chill said.
"Those EPF agents should be happy we're doing them a favor. We're almost bringing a criminal to justice. Heh, but then we have us, still running around as the real suspects." Another voice, possibly Sir, said.
"Alright," Chill said. "The bomb goes off in twenty-four hours. If we are lucky, the EPF was led to the one at the Ice Rink."
"Why's that?" asked Sir.
"That one is a ruse." Chill said. "It is to direct them away from the real one."
"Smart," Sir said.
Toasty peeked through an opening in the rocks. Chill and Sir were there. Sir was the same penguin from the Mine a day before. Chill was the same Chill she had known all of these years.
"This plan seems to be going perfectly…" Chill said. "As long as that stupid one doesn't watch over us, he'll never know what hit him. Who will be the real winner in all of this? Who will be the real one to have the perfect crime? Us."
"Not," said Toasty, revealing herself.
"WHAT THE?!" shouted Sir.
Toasty back flipped out of the rocks and pulled out her gun with a perfect landing. "The time has come,"
"For you to die," Sir pulled out his gun.
"Don't shoot her yet, S," Chill said.
"Yeah, don't shoot yet…" Rookie made an attempt to back flip out of the rocks but failed. Dot quickly jumped over them with her gun.
"Alright, now you can shoot," Chill said. They both started firing at Rookie and Dot.
Toasty fired back at them several times. Bullets were flying everywhere. Chaos was breaking out. All of this came from 5 penguins. It was insane.
Rookie got shot in the flipper but he didn't care. Dot was able to shoot both Chill and Sir but they still didn't stop shooting.
Suddenly, a bunch of EPF officials came in out of nowhere.
"Put your flippers up, Chill!" said one of them. It was the same official that had come to Rico's aid when a penguin threatened to kill him in the hospital. His name was Emrys.
"Oh great," said Sir.
"Sir, you don't move either," said another who had his gun pointed straight at Sir.
Chill and Sir came quietly towards Emrys and the other official. It was like they wanted to surrender.
"It's like Bonnie and Clyde," Emrys looked at the other official.
"All true," the other official responded.
"Take them to the prison." Toasty said. "It's what they need, truly."
"Anything else?" asked Emrys.
"If you see Rico, could you tell him that we caught them?" asked Rookie.
"Sure," the other official said.
"Alright, get going. I don't think they deserve a trial for what they've done. We've got to get back to work on some other cases," Toasty said.
"Indeed," Emrys replied.
The two officials left with Chill and Sir. The case was still not over, however.
"Alright, now we need to cover the base on where the real bomb is," Dot said. "We have to tell the Director that it is NOT at the Ice Rink."
"Toasty, are you getting any readings on where it is?" asked Rookie.
"I…I…I think…" Toasty said.
Suddenly, Rico swooped down out of nowhere.
"Rico!" Rookie said. "You're back!"
"I'm back indeed," Rico said. Two officials came down behind Rico.
"Hey, where are these penguins coming from?" asked Dot. "Why is everyone appearing from up there?"
"There is a ledge up there out allows us to come down from there," Rico said. "You can access it from behind the Mine Shack."
"Wait, what? Why didn't we ever know that?" asked Rookie.
"Because I never got a chance to tell you," Rico said sarcastically, trying to move away from that subject.
"Alright, well, Chill and Sir admitted that the bomb was not at the Ice Rink. We don't know where it really is…" Toasty said.
"We're trying to get Toasty's instincts to work." Rookie said.
"She should know," Rico said.
"Why?" Toasty said as the officials slowly came towards her.
"Toasty, you are under arrest for the attempted destruction of the island, the theft of several items around the island, the murder of an innocent penguin, the leader of two groups of gangs and for being a fraud-psychic through all of this." Rico said.
"What?!" Toasty said, confused.
The officials came at Toasty with flipper-cuffs. They put her flippers behind her back and cuffed them.
"You've been a fraud. You were in charge. You're not 'psychic'. You were in charge of everything that was going on. You were the leader of both groups. That's why you knew everything." Rico stared at her like she was a new organism. "I can't believe I missed it. What was your next idea? To lead us to our death? End the island? Nobody knows from you. I can't believe…"
"That's not it, Rico," Toasty said as the officials began taking her out of the area. "You'd do anything to get your squad position back and you know it,"
"You disgust me," Rico said. "Take her back, I don't want to…"
"You disgust me, Rico," Toasty said. "Leading a squad for community service. Never telling the squad that you were hired for community service. You've been playing them."
"What?" Rookie asked.
"Take her," Rico said. "She's lying."
"I'm not lying and you know it. You actually got arrested for something. You were added to the EPF for community service. And now what? When your community service expires, what are you going to do then? Quit? You don't care about the island. You don't care about your squad. You never cared about the EPF. You're just a convict. You're just a convict waiting for your term to be over," Toasty said. "And maybe being squad leader was good for me and good for you. Because then you'd never have to return to the EPF."
The officials took Toasty away.
"Commander, is…is that true?" asked Rookie. "Are you really a convict?"
Rico closed his eyes solemnly. The others had to prepare for his answer, whether it was good or bad. The answer that they received shocked them.
"Yes," Rico said.
So now we end the chapter. *dun dun dun* There aren't many chapters left after this. But I may go up to ten and end it there. I'm not sure. I've got a really good story, in my opinion, coming. I really want to do it after this story. I was intending for it to come in March but there's no way I can wait that long. The story? Well, it's coming together perfectly and it'll be really exciting one it is here.