I apologize in advance for any errors. This story was not checked by a Beta. I welcome all constructive reviews. Guest reviews are subject to deletion.

In a previous fanfiction I had a few guest reviews after reading only the 1st chapter in a multi-chapter story. I will paraphrase, "story plot was dumb." This was hilarious but upon hindsight it was sad by highlighting a small reflection of our society. Judging before you have all the facts to make an informed decision or state an opinion.

I do not have to agree with you to like you and respect you, please afford myself and others the same courtesy.


Chapter 9

Somewhere outside of Los Angeles

During the course of Agent White's assault he managed to incapacitate a guard. The remaining guards restrained him and removed the third unconscious guard. The remaining two guards spent the next hour brutally abusing Agent White.

As the guards prepared to leave they removed the restraints from Agent White's arms and legs and checked to make sure he was still breathing. Upon opening the door Agent White jumped off the bed quickly snapping the neck of one guard and breaking the back of the other. He runs to the adjacent room and releases Conch from the chair.

They drag the guard with the broken back to the security panel and use his fingerprint and eye to open the secure door to their holding area. Agent White snaps the neck of the guard outside the holding area and Conch removes his duty belt containing: handcuffs, pistols, extra magazines/pistol rounds, tasers, mace/OC pepper spray, flashlights, handheld transponder device, baton, knife and multi-functional tool, keys, basic first aid items, lighter, and disposable gloves. They also grab the guards cell phone and wallet. The men look for an exit to the facility and spy an elevator up ahead. Two guards are approaching from the opposite end of the hallway and one triggers an alarm.

Agent White shoots one guard between the eyes and the other in the knee. Conch removes their duty belts and any communication devices. Realizing that they need a distraction to escape they drag the guards bodies near a waiting area outside the holding cells with a couch and a couple of chairs. Setting the pepper spray by the guard's legs they set it on fire. They place a can of mace on the each guard's belly. As they run to the elevator, the guard shot in the knee is screaming and thrashing about engulfed in flames as the mace ignites.

They enter the elevator and disable the camera. Traveling upwards they brace themselves for a confrontation when the doors open. They are surprised that the elevator opens up inside one of ten chicken houses adjacent to the chicken house where he met Mollusk. Agent White and Conch escape to the outside. Conch is about to hug Agent White when the agent shoots him in the leg stuffs mace in his mouth and set it on fire. He then walks away without looking back.


As Agent White and Conch were making their escape in another part of the facility the alarm sounded and Penny was quickly transferred above to a specially equipped tractor-trailer to be transported to another Committee facility per Taj's orders.


Wil was alerted to activity from a motion-activated surveillance camera set outside the chicken house. He sent out an urgent notification to the Team to meet in the communications room and displayed the camera's video feed to the large screen. He also notified the field operatives to investigate and called up satellite images of the area. All of the Team members were on Campus and rushed to the comm room with all eyes on the screens. They observed Agent White exiting the facility and his merciless execution of Conch and escape through the adjacent cornfields.

The Team, switch their focus on previous activity around the chicken houses. They observe a farmer entering and exiting unloading feed. A few minutes before Agent White exits a tractor-trailer leaves the area. They are unable to determine a license plate number and the truck has no identifying markers.

Sheldon directed Leonard, Taylor, Rajesh and Agent Feldon to investigate. Perry having entered with Howard expressed a desire to go and assist with computer forensics. Sheldon and Amy nodded their approval. Max, Alex, Howard, and Wil put their efforts into tracking the tractor-trailer.


The Mollusk was notified earlier that the guards had finished with Agent White. Deducing that the steroids in their system must have reduced the effectiveness of the ED drugs. Roughly twenty minutes from the facility he received the alarm that the facility had been compromised. An incoming encrypted message was displayed on his cellular device from Taj that read: Your services are no longer required.

"SHIT!" That was code for the order is out for my termination. My only hope is to retrieve the Caseros. I am 90% positive they are still alive probably somewhere around Singapore.


The Team met up with the field operatives an hour later outside the chicken house. While in route the field operatives discovered the opening to the underground compound and dispatched ten robots to investigate and map the underground facility. The robots transmitted the layout and video feed concurrently to the field operatives and the Campus communication room. All observed the two bodies smoldering in an area adjacent to four rooms that appeared to be holding cells. They observed a couple of sparse offices and a huge medical laboratory with a medical multi-functional stretcher in the center.

Perry directed the operatives to zoom in on the digital clock on the wall. It appeared to be a digital timer not a clock. The timer indicated five minutes remaining and all assumed an explosion was imminent and evacuated the area. The robots were all loaded into the elevator with one minute remaining. As the doors closed behind the robots aboveground all on-site felt the ground trembling. Each of the ten chicken houses imploded. The smell of roasted chicken permeated the air.


Agent White managed to stumble upon a nearby home that operated an egg farm. A sign outside the home boasted the Gowan's Egg Farm home of 40,000 transitioning chickens, San Dimas, California with a caption drive to the side of the barn for drive-thru service. As soon as he stepped on the property flies seem to follow him everywhere. He spotted an unlocked Ford 150 truck underneath a carport parked beside a Toyota Prius. He heard a door from the house opening and a man yelling, "I won't forget to pick-up the 10 pounds of sugar and vanilla extract." As the man approached the truck, Agent White knocked him out from behind with the butt of his gun and laid him on the ground next to the Prius. Grabbing the man's keys he left heading towards the airpark used by INTERPOL's agents.


The tractor-trailer carrying Penny heads towards a private runway operated by the Committee. Penny is loaded onto an aircraft. There is a delay in lift-off due to a storm front.


The Caseros is successful in penetrating the firewalls and scramblers and is able to lock onto Penny's signal. Unbeknownst to the Team, the Caseros only notify Perry of her whereabouts.


As the Team sift through the debris for any clues Perry receives a message from his parents. It is the coordinates for Penny's present location. He unobtrusively steps into the adjacent cornfield and keys in a weird sequence on his cell and disappears. He reappears outside of the aircraft and reprograms the device. As he enters everyone and everything appears to be frozen in time. He makes sure he stays out of camera view and lifts Penny from the stretcher. He activates the device again and he and Penny disappear. The doctors and technicians within the aircraft are stunned. Their patient disappeared within the blink of an eye.

Perry transports Penny to an underground facility located in Antarctica. He places her on a stretcher and gives her the antidote for the coma-inducing drug. Once administered it will take twenty-four hours before she is conscious. He sends a message to his parents that he has Penny and she appears to be fine.


Taylor looks around the debris and the immediate area but see no signs of Perry. Taylor transmits via communicator, "Leonard, Rajesh, Agent Feldon has anyone seen Perry? I don't see him anywhere." They all respond with a negative. Leonard directs the field operatives to search for Perry. Rajesh notifies Max to have him look at the imagery for a clue to Perry's location. The last image is of Perry checking his watch and moving into the cornfield as if he heard a noise. After an hour search it appears he has vanished from the site.


An hour later Agent White arrives at the airpark. He is unaware that INTERPOL has been made aware of his rogue status and directed to alert the Team of his activities. Upon arrival he grabs a secondary ready bag that was stored at the airpark. He directs the INTERPOL flight scheduler to fly to Singapore immediately and to notify him when aircraft is ready.

Amy receives the notification from INTERPOL regarding Agent White's whereabouts. She gives the approval to proceed but orders them to wait an hour and a half before lift-off so that their field operatives can follow him.


Sheldon heads to the lab to notify the Caseros that Perry and Penny are missing. Upon entering the laboratory he quickly updates the couple on the latest developments. Rafael signals for Sheldon to follow him into the soundproof Faraday cage they constructed within the lab. When both men are inside, Raissa confirms that the cage is secure. Rafael states "Trust me when I state my children are fine. We all will proceed as if they are missing following the appropriate protocols. We wish to help neutralize the Committee. Perry may or may not return in three days." Rafael walks out leaving a bewildered Sheldon following.


An urgent message is patched through to the Committee's chamber. As all the Committee members focus on the video screen, Penny's doctors notifies them that she has disappeared. They swear she disappeared in the blink of an eye and offered their surveillance tape as proof. Taj is livid she disconnects the videoconference and orders that the doctors, technicians, trailer and all associated with the kidnapping operation be removed from existence. Taj contemplates, This must have something to do with the rumored Casero's breakthrough. Taj addresses her second and orders, "find the Mollusk, Agent White, and the Caseros."