Chapter 7: Hot Pursuit
Day 5, 9:25
New Mobotropolis, Port Elias
Weather: Rainy
Situation: Knothole Force's operator Ace was assigned by Harvey Who for a solo snatch and grab mission on a MLA suspect believed to be smuggling Dr Thorn's men and weapons into New Mobotropolis for the upcoming terrorist attack.
At port Elias on the Eastern side of New Mobotropolis, container shippings have came and went for almost a week, all of them were crew by a mix of Overlanders and Mobians crew, they unloads containers with secretive cargoes inside them. The cargoes were loaded on container trucks and transport trucks and drove to a whare house somewhere in the city. But all the times that the cargoes were unloaded, a Mobian Hyena was there to over see the operation and then made a call to his mysterious boss. Silver was station near the same pier where the containers were unload, he saw the hyena that he has to chase down through his binoculars, sitting comfortably inside his white Mistubishi Pajero, he waits patiently for his opportunity to strike came.
"Remember, we're here for Wiiphone, not blowing his head off." Harvey reminded the white hedgehog on the intercomm, suddenly the hyena rush into his tan Land Rover and starts to drive away from the harbor, "Shit! He must be expecting us! Time to punch it!" Silver cursed at the sudden reaction of the hyena, he hit the gas and quickly chase down his target through out the harbor. "He's leaving the harbor. Westm he's going to the residential area. Get his ass move!" Shard relayed the information of the predicted path that the hyena was going to take. Silver immediately applied the hand brake and make a hard curve around the exit of the harbor. He then release the brake and accelerate his car, the two speeding vehicles exit the harbor front and rush into the apartment residentual quarter of the city, there Silver have to dodge innocent pedestrians and avoid hitting other cars driving on the road.
"He's heading for the market stalls, be careful, you don't want to ran over the civilians." Silver acted quickly on Shard's intel and keep on pursuing the tan Land Rover through the apartment blocks, he chase the hyena down to the roads where the both of them must deal with traffic jam and avoid hitting other cars on the rad or they'll be come prime targets for the cops. Finally the two found an opening on one side of the traffic flood, they steer off in to the alleyway and speed up through the market stalls. "Out of the way!" Silver honk his car and drove right through the market square, running over venders, tables and chairs but the civies there were at least safe from the two Mobians that were chasing each other like cat and mouse. "He's going to the slums, there's no way out of there that's easy."
Silver continues the chase through the wealthy quarter of Mobotropolis and into the tight alley ways of the slums. His target tried to use the hard turns and various enviromental hazards to either stall down and cut Silver's line of sight. The hyena took a left turn too soon for Silver to react and now the hyena was running on an alley way pararell to Silver's route. "He's coming straight to you on the next turn, nail him there." From Shard's over watch view, he pointed to Silver an adjacent turn where Silver and the hyena's routes will meet, Silver slow down his van a bit, wait until the hyena to show up first and then ram him. "He's right in front of you nail him now!" Silver quickly hit the gas and ram into the hyena's land rover, causing the tan vehicle to row over and its driver became dizzy. "Grab his Wiiphone now!" Silver jump out of his car and open the door of the land rover, the white hedgehog took the flat, black smart phone with 24 inch touch screen from the hands of the hyena.
The hyena was recovering from his crash, when he look at Silver, he was punch in the face and became unconscious. Silver took the opportunity and drove away while connecting the Wiiphone with Shard's signal triangulator device. "This is Ace, i got his Wiiphone, patching it into triangulator now. Over." Shard and Nicole on the Paladin uses their triangulator device and zero in on the last cell phone call of the hyena with Dr Thorn, they pinpointed the location where Thorn was calling from. An apartment over looking the city's water purification facility. "Yes of course. My poison will work this time with the water purification facility to transport it all the way to every single house inside the city. You just need to make sure that they smuggle the poison inside the city." The last words of Dr Thorn in the telephone conversation confirms their worst nightmare, the Consortium was planning to attack the water purification facility and use its linking hub capability to poison the water supply and all citizens of Mobotropolis. And with the water purification facility under their control, nothing will stop them from killing massive numbers of civilians.
