Chapter IX
Operation: River Current
This is it… everything fell into place for this to work right… hopefully. We all piled into the van and drove over to the water works. We decided to enter in from the front door and chase Prof. Platypus down into his attack shelter, otherwise known as the filter room.
My father picked the lock to the front door. We all charged in and, to our surprise, there was a bunch of guard ducks running towards us. We all pressed an attack on the ducks. Murray used his fist, Bentley used his bombs, my father and I used our canes, and the Panda King used his Flame Fu. Penelope was the only person who didn't fight physically, she was using her RC chopper to stop the ducks. After a couple minutes, the ducks were all knocked out. Just then, Prof. Platypus came and showed himself for the first time. He was a big Platypus with a mean expression on his face. He was also wearing a lab coat. He yelled at us,
"Arg! Why must you guys attack my Head Quarters? There's nothing here that belongs to you"
"No so fast, we know about the pages of the Thevious Raccoonus that you have on your desk!" I retorted
"And we're here to stop the water pollution, too!" Bentley added.
"Ah, you want your pages back, eh? Well it just so happens that I do have them… but I'm not willing to fork them over" He replied
"What are ya gonna do, stop us with a robot?" Murray yelled
"Well, that was my plan… however, some hooligans destroyed my robot without even triggering an alarm." He retorted, "but instead… I'm gonna run."
He started to run and we chased him right into our trap, he ran into the filter room and slammed the door and laughed,
"Ah ha ha ha ha! Didn't see that coming, eh? Hah!"
Just then, Bentley went over to the control room and opened the intake valve. The professor yelled,
"Ha! You think that's gonna stop me, I can swim and I have the pages to your precious book!"
"That's not gonna stop you… I am" I yelled.
I told Bentley not to open the outtake valve until I was out of there. I opened the door and jumped into the water. I swam towards Prof. Platypus and head-butted him in the water. I tried to reach for the pages in his waterproof lab coat, but I was running out of air. I swam back up, got a good breath, swam back down again to head-butt him, and almost got the pages, but I needed more air. I swam back up to get more. I was catching my breath on the surface when the Prof. grabbed me by my tail and pulled me down. I tried getting myself free from his grip, but he was too strong. Fortunately, I had my cane. Which I pulled out of my backpack and hit Prof. Platypus on his arm. He let go of me and I swam back up for air. I dived back down towards the platypus, but instead of head-butting him; I stuck my hand out and reached for his waterproof lab coat. I managed to rip off the pocket where the pages were safely air-tight sealed. I swam back up and jumped out of the water. Prof. Platypus was not far behind, I managed to push him back in the water and close the door just before he got out. Then Bentley fired up the old pump, opened the outtake valve, and sent Prof. Platypus down the river, where the police boats were. I guess they must have known we were trying to stop him.
Before we left, Bentley blew up the garbage valve and stopped the pollution once and for all. That was the official end for this mission. I was kinda glad it was all over; this city has too many memories of my past. The pages I got from Prof. Platypus were, in fact, lost pages from the Thievous Raccoonus. The pages didn't have new moves in them, but they did have stories of old adventures that my Ancestors had.
Before we packed up and left Philly, I decided the gang could use a break. Thus, I "rented" the Movie, Bolt, from a local video store and got some popcorn. The gang and I sat back, watched Bolt, and enjoyed some popcorn.
A couple of laughter filled hours later, we all packed up and headed back to our main safe house in France.
The End
Rick Cooper's up coming adventure: Rick Cooper and The Lord of Bandits.
