Chapter 6: Face off with the OWCA agents

It was amazing what you can do with a bit of gadgets not found in the dump. I mean, seriously, most of the materials I needed for my various inventions came from there. Not only that, the gadgets I swiped from the OWCA building had a lot of complex parts that can never be found in places like dumps. So for the few hours, I had been making a lot of improvement to my own inventions and even made a few new ones. And they worked great; the improved equipment were now a little smaller, yet they could work with more efficiency.

Well, that was the good part of my trip. The bad part was the replication ray emitters. They could work, yes, but to a limit. One problem was that the emitters could only replicate simple gadgets like grappling guns and to an extent, PDAs, but not stuff like jetpacks and hovercars. Maybe it's because there were many parts in those things and it's too much for a simple computer like mine to just sort out the individual parts from the photographs. Not only that, it took a lot of power just to create a grappling gun from the atoms and molecules in the air in an instant.

All in all, going to OWCA wasn't a total loss. Actually, I just can't wait to break in there again tonight. I just hope nothing would go wrong though…

3rd person POV:

Major Monogram stood in front of ten agents in a meeting room. "Agents, as you knew, there had been a break-in in the Gadget Room last night. A lot of our equipment were stolen, but the video camera had recorded what happened then." Sighing, he knew that the agents wouldn't like this. "Carl," he ordered. "Show them the footage!" The intern immediately played the video. The video began showing the room, then a dog began walking into the camera's vision, taking anything of interest to him. The ten agents widened their eyes in surprise, gasping as they recognized the dog in the video as one of them, an agent. "He may once be an agent and suffered some kind of a memory loss, but right now, he's a Level 4 threat."M.M began ordering the agents. "Ambush him in the Gadget Room, he's bound to show up there again. Remember, he's a rouge agent now. Dismissed!" The agents immediately stood up, saluted and left.

Nicolas' POV:

Night time, the best time for a break-in, I thought as I climbed the same window back into the building. Walking sneakily past a few rooms, I entered the Gadget Room, where the lot of cool things waiting for me to swipe them away. Happily, I began taking the many ray guns and other nifty things when I heard a voice behind me.

"Stop this right now, Agent R!" Turning my head towards the direction of the voice, I saw a man wearing a green coat with the initials M.M on his right and seven animal agents starting to surround me with another three right behind them, acting as backup. Oh crud, I sighed as I turned around and faced them. "We've got you surrounded!" A dog agent barked.

"I can see that, but may I ask what does the 'R' stands for? And who are you?" I asked, stalling for time as I frantically thought of a way to escape. "It's your name, Rover, and I'm Agent D." The dog agent stated.

"Rover!" I replied indignantly, "I'm no Rover, my name's Nicolas!" I looked around for something that might give me a chance to escape, something that might serve as a distraction.

"You!" I walked over to a raccoon agent, sizing him up. The agent tensed up, alert to every movement I made. "Are you Agent R as well?" I asked him. "Yes?" The agent answered, confused.

Perfect, just what I need. Immediately, I grabbed him and dragged him till I was in front of Agent D. The other 8 agents became very alert, knowing that I would make my move soon. Agent D narrowed his eyes, ready for anything.

"Well, sir, you want an Agent R? Here you go!" Quickly, I pushed the raccoon towards him, ran past them and sprinted towards the exit, leaving my swiped goods behind. The other agents, caught by surprise, immediately chased after me. The three agents in the back; a cat, monkey and a duck, began attacking me. They were good, but luckily I managed to block most of their blows and landing a few blows of my own, beating them easily. With that, I kept on running.

"There must be a way out, come on!" I ran down the hallways with the ten agents chasing after me. I was faster than them and managed to increase the distance between us, but they had managed to force me to run up the building, cornering me. Reaching a stairwell, I ran up to the top floor and knocked down the door, revealing the roof top. "Oh crud!" I cried as I frantically searched the rooftop for a way down.

"Come on, there must be a way down!" I screamed as I ran all over the place, panicking as I knew the animal agents would be here any second now. Then, I spotted a window below, about two stories down at the far side of the rooftop. A tree was in front of it. Maybe, just maybe...

"There's no where left to run, Rover!" Spinning around, it was that dog agent. The rest of the ten agents began to approach, ready to pounce at the first sign of a fight. Looking back at the tree with that branch, I made my decision. There was no other choice but this, a slim one at that. I jumped.

"Made it!" I barked in delight as I rolled across the floor of the Gadget Room. When I jumped from the rooftop, I spun around quickly and landed on the branch. As the sudden weight made the branch swing downwards, I ran towards the end, using the branch as a springboard to launch myself though the window. Now, as I stood up from the roll, I looked around for anything that could distract the pursuing agents for a while. Anything... like a decoy! Grabbing what I needed, I ran to the circuit breaker and switched it off, plunging the room into darkness. And there I laid in wait, hoping this would work.

3rd person POV:

"Don't!" Agent D cried as he saw Nicolas jumped from the rooftop. Quickly, he and the other nine agents sprinted forward when they heard a smashing sound. At the end of the rooftop, they saw a window that was smashed and a tree with a branch that was still swinging vertically. Thinking quickly, he realized that the window below led to the Gadget Room. "Hurry, he's in the Gadget Room! We mustn't let him escape!" Agent D ordered as he led the chase back to where they came from.

Nicolas' POV:

In the darkness, I strapped a makeshift bundle to a jetpack and aimed it at the window. Hopefully, the agents would not noticed the difference and went after the decoy. While waiting, I grabbed as much as I could into my getaway hovercar since I knew I wouldn't be coming back here for a time. Then, the door to the Gadget Room swung open and in came the ten agents. In a rush, I think they didn't expect the room to be dark. Quietly, I made my way to the decoy jetpack, activated it and fled back into the safety of the darkness before any of the agents noticed me. The jetpack immediately took off and flew towards the window.

"Look, there he goes!" shouted one of the agents. " Quickly, before he escapes." Agent D barked as he grabbed a jetpack and flew out of the window as the rest of them followed, pursuing the decoy. when the coast was clear, I cut a hole in the retractable rooftop above with a laser before driving the getaway hovercar out and away as soon as I could.

However, a few minutes later, as I was driving towards the hospital, I heard a bark behind me. Turning around, my eyes widened in surprise as I saw the ten agents found me. Worse, they were catching up to me. "Give it up, Agent R! You can't escape us." Agent D barked. Panicking, I noticed a switch that was labeled 'Turbo'. Hoping for the best, I turned on the switch and immediately the hovercar went faster. How in the world did they find me so fast?! I silently screamed as I turned towards the park. Spotting a drainage cover, I immediately got an idea. Landing near it, I opened the cover, grabbed a grappling gun and drove the hovercar into it. Climbing back up and closing the cover, I hid behind a tree just as the chasing agents were in sight. But still I wondered, how did they see through my decoy so easily?

3rd person POV:

Agent D and the other 9 agents were chasing the rouge agent escaping on the jetpack when Agent D's watch began beeping. "Agent D," M.M image appeared on the watch. "Rouge Agent R is escaping on a hovercar. Go after him now. Monogram out." "But if Nicolas is on a hovercar, then who are we chasing?" Agent D asked. Then, the jetpack crashed into the tree and exploded, revealing the decoy as it dropped onto the pavement below. Agent D immediately activated the radar on his watch, which showed a red dot. "This way! Activate the Turbo!" He ordered as he led the chase, following the signal from the activated tracker on the hovercar.

A few minutes later, they spotted the hovercar. "There he is!" Agent D barked. Nicolas turned around, looked panicked and drove faster, turning towards the park. Nicolas turned around and panicked as he activated the turbo and sped off towards the park, with the ten agents chasing him.

Nicolas' POV:

When the agents arrived, I heard one of them exclaimed. "But we saw him landed here! How could he just vanished with the hovercar?!" I took a peek and saw Agent D checking his watch then spoke. "The radar isn't picking up anything. He must have switched off the engine and ran off." Radar, I thought, so that's how they did it! "Even so, where is the hovercar? It should be right here but it's not!" The duck agent stated. "Look around, there must be some tracks here that could tell us something." Agent D ordered.

The ten agents landed and started searching around for clues. I simply stood still, hidden behind a tree, hoping for the best that they didn't find anything. Luckily for me, they didn't. After a few minutes, they gave up and regrouped. "I can't believe he'd gave us the slip! We were so close to him, he shouldn't have gone far!" Agent R fumed. Agent D switched on his video communicator and the image of the man whom I had seen back at the Gadget Room appeared. "What's your status, Agent D? Have you caught Agent R?" The man asked. Agent D shook his head, saddened, and barked. "No sir. We also couldn't find the stolen equipment too, sir." The man immediately sighed and shook his head. "Alright,come back to HQ for a debrief." The ten agents immediately took off in the direction of the OWCA building. Once it was safe to come out, I walked to the drainage cover, heaving a sigh of relief. "Now THAT was a close-call," I murmured as I removed the cover. Taking out the grappling hook, I hooked it to the hovercar and reeled it in. It took a while, but it worked. After I got it out, I disassembled the GPS system, tossed it in the bag and started up the hovercar. While driving towards the hospital, I pondered about what happened at the rooftop of the hospital. It was really a close call back then; if the tree wasn't there, I would have been arrested. However, I knew I had to go back there eventually, but this time I wouldn't be that lucky.

But, if I really had to go back there, I needed something. Something that can take me out of a tight situation easily. It didn't have to be flashy, but it had to be small, handy and within reach. When I landed next to the hospital, I began thinking on how to hide the hovercar when I found a solution to my problem. I smiled; it was that simple. I began planning what I needed for my new invention, the hover rings.

A/N

Well, here's the next chapter, hope you like it.

Oh, I won't be posting any new chapters for the next two weeks. I need to revise for the tests in the second week, so yeah. After the exams would be the holidays, which is sadly for only two weeks. During that time, I would be spending family time in China, touring. I will be doing some drawing, painting on PaintSAI, and maybe even plot the next few chapters. But I won't be posting any chapters, maybe after the exams. So until then, the Puppy Doctor bids you farewell.

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