Operation: Failed Experiment
Sydney, Australia 8: 39 PM
Forest
Ace put the sonic bead on his swords. Walking to a nearby tree, he banged the blades on the wood; using his super hearing to make sure Rajan was coming near. After a few moments of silence, Rajan snuck up behind Ace.
"Experiment 626! You've returned! Excellent; now we can rule Australia." He chuckled.
"My name is Ace McBark, and I'm not your creation anymore." He snapped.
"Come on, 626, it was just business. I couldn't have you ruining my friend's reputation. After all, if everyone knew that I bought this stuff from Dr.M, and had a failed experiment, they'd ridicule me."
"Yeah," Ace barked, "And after getting pounded by an overweight hippo rocks for brains, they definitely wouldn't laugh at you."
Taking this as an insult to injury, Rajan leaped at Ace with his staff. Ace blocked, and used his other sword to sweep Rajan off his feet. He then ran to a tree, jumped off, and kneed Rajan in the chest with the end of his sword three times. Rajan lifted Ace and threw him off the cliff. With hot tail burns and pure clichéd movies running through his mind, he stuck his swords in the rock and used them to climb back up.
Interpol Station
"Come on, Murray, we've gotta hurry and find a place to hide!" Penelope called.
With Penelope on his back, Murray ran as fast as he could to Rajan's lab. After several gunshots and one overweight joke too many, Murray stopped at the lab entrance and used the wall sneak move in the shadows. The cops ran straight into the lab and stopped at what they saw.
"Holy crap chief," one cop said, "whoever owns this place is doing some illegal work."
"You're right," Chief Spike said," So we'll have to find out who owns this joint."
"Rajan!" Murray cried.
The cops looked around for a voice but after hearing nothing, the chief replied, "Thanks, mystery far-off voice. Now come on boys, let's find this Rajan."
What Murray forgot was that Penelope was on his back and had accidentally squished her. Her body bounced up and down like an accordion.
Caves
Sly gathered about ten diamonds. He needed two more, and the last cave was about to collapse. He jumped down and ran through the whole thing before finding the last two.
"You're a real gem," he joked as he took the final one.
A loud whining sound rang through his head. That last diamond was rigged and the cave was set to go off. He had exactly three minutes to get out. Running as fast as he could, he jumped through all the equipment and grabbed all the wall hooks in a minute and a half.
Bentley propped the diamonds inside the gun, and went mutant hunting. In half an hour, he blasted all guards that were mutants.
"Murray, Penelope, head for the van, I'll meet you once I get Ace." He called.
Forest
Ace had Rajan down on his last leg. Rajan was almost knocked out; one hit would do the trick. He bent down to Rajan's face and whispered, "Goodbye… father." Ace merely kneed Rajan in the gut before taking off with Bentley.
Van"Nice work, Ace." Sly complimented. "I didn't think you'd be able to take down your own dad."
"He's not my dad… not anymore." Ace turned his head away in shame, but Sly swore he saw tears in his eyes.
"While I didn't want to patronize Ace anymore, I had the distinct feeling that he didn't want to do as he wanted. The next day, news spread that Rajan and his thugs were arrested, and Sydney was once again in the right hands. We hung around in some of their hotels for a few weeks, then headed back to Paris to plan our next job."
Next time: returns, Guru learns something, and a monkey may know more than he tells. Get ready for sooner updates, more BentleyxPenelope, and some weird Murray.
