[Give me the mic Sadie!] Okay, Carter here.
I woke up to the sound of an alarm blaring. I got out of bed and saw dogs lined up against the wall. Some were typing on computers and pulling papers out of printers while others dialed in phone numbers and called up whoever.
"Do you mind?" Sadie complained. The dogs ignored her and kept running around. Zap gave her a quick glance and returned to giving out orders.
"Um, what's going on?" I asked him.
"We're on alert. My arch enemy Doggo Slobbermouth is plotting something with the most evil student here, Luna R. Eclipse." he told me.
"Luna R. Eclipse? What does the R. stand for?" I inquired, even though I was pretty sure I didn't want to know.
"Reeper. Reeper of Souls. She likes to eat souls for snacks." Zap said like it was no big deal. Yes, I wished I hadn't asked. "She's a Shadow Cat. Not like a Shadow Wolf. She can turn from solid to shadow and she's much more evil. She's the queen of the Lunar Shadow Cats."
"Why would Embarkida let her go here? She's evil and a cat." This was actually kind of scary.
"Well, evil needs to learn how to use magic too, don't they? And since she's part shadow, she doesn't have any true form, her shadow just takes the form of a cat. Zip knows her pretty well. Luna also has this 'friend', a dog named Emma, but we know she's not a dog. She's a vampire." Zap whispered the last part.
I was going to have nightmares. If I ever slept again.
"What are they plotting?" Sadie had been there the whole time.
"Not sure yet. We just know it's something. Zip's not just our scientist, he's our double agent. He found out the info, but we're sending him back in." Zap looked over at Zip who was opening files on the computer and sending them to who knows where. Zap saw me looking at him. "He's sending away all our files just in case our computers get hacked."
"Where's he sending them to?" Sadie asked.
"Well duh! I obviously can't tell you that! It's paged top secret! Now go agents go! Print out that info and discard our files! Go! We don't have all day!" Zap barked.
"Won't everyone hear the alarms?"
"No. The floor and walls are soundproof."
Rocky walked up to Zap. "Umm, dude? We got a problem."
"Uh, yeah?"
"Someone's hacking our system."
"Oh my dog! Get the best tech agent in there that you can!"
"That leaves another problem. You sent our tech agents out to our other secret base to shutdown the system."
"Oh, not good. I'll do it." Zap dashed away to the nearest computer. We followed.
Zap was typing in random streams of numbers. "Yes! I overrided the hack! Let me see if we picked up any viruses."
"Does Zap know a lot of stuff about computers and junk?" I asked Rocky.
"Yeah. Zap, can I tell them the story?" Rocky looked at Zap.
"I would say yes, but you'll have to tell them about Dog. H.Q. Just do it." Zap looked a little nervous.
"For this to make sense, Dog. H.Q. is another top secret organization that helps fight the spread of radical feline incidents. Me Zap and Ivy worked there before we came here. We fought evil cats. We were secret agents." Rocky explained.
"So what's M.E.O.W.S.?" Sadie demanded.
"Mousers Enforcing Our World Safety. Cool acronym, huh? They're the good cats, who D.O.G. made an alliance with. See, when Zap was being trained, we needed tech workers. Zap wanted to be a field agent, but he decided to take tech training and work part time. But he didn't have to because we got a few new recruits, including the best tech agent Dog H.Q. ever saw, Peek." Rocky told us.
I didn't say anything. This was just getting weirder and weirder.
"Oh great. A science geek and a tech nerd." Sadie said under her breath.
"No viruses in the system." Zap said, pretending not to hear her. "Oh wait! There's a video coming on!"
"Hello my little friends. I am here to tell you that the plot being created is so great, that not even you will be able to stop it Bolt." A voice said. We couldn't see who it was coming from.
"Who are you?!" Zap snarled.
"I am an old friend Bolt. A kind old friend. Maybe not to you, but to others in this room." Zip looked away when the voice said this. "Beware, because I am coming for you." The signal was cut off.
"That had to be Eclipse. That just had to be. Let me see if I can get the location of where the video was taped." Zap started typing away again.
"Hmm. It seems the signal was transmitted from... Oh my good dog! The Black Wolf's den! Zip, we can't send you there alone! I'll go with you and Rocky, you too." Zap was really worried now.
"What about us?" I pointed to Sadie and the rest of them.
"Stay here. Except, jackal, come." Anubis followed Zap and the others out of the room.
"Something really weird is going on." I whispered to Sadie.
Hi guys- Just wanted to thank two of my friends for the Luna and Emma characters! They were a big help in planning this book, and creating Zip's character.
