Chapter 10- Pieces in Motion
Hirotaka and Fukushima were both sitting in the back of the Global Justice BMW M-5 that Will owned as they drove towards the residential area of Middleton. Both of them wishing that they were somewhere else as they were on the receiving end of one of Will's vents. The morning had not gone well, the only thing that actually went according to plan was the press conference and even then…
One Hour Before
"Thank you ladies and gentlemen, that will be all for today," Hirotaka calmly said and walked off the stage followed by Fukushima.
As they walked behind the curtains that Global Justice had set up to hide the mess of people and refreshments, Will Du stopped them and together they walked away from the herd of people who were frantically tearing down the stage.
"You two care to tell me what it was that you were thinking?" he asked in a calm, yet very deadly tone.
Gulping and glancing at Fukushima, Hiro decided to play innocent, "Thinking about what?" he asked, but suddenly found himself pressed up against a wall and staring into the eyes of a very angry Will Du.
"You had Team Possible in your grasp and you let them slip away? How dense are you?" Will hissed, but was interrupted as his PDA suddenly beeped, signaling an incoming call.
Shooting Hiro a death glare that said We're not done yet, Will pulled out his PDA and asked in a calm and collected voice, "Special Agent William Du. How can I be of service today?"
"You can start by explaining why it was you told that lie to the news," Dr. Betty Director said.
Will released Hiro and walked away from the two. He answered with in a defensive tone, "I felt that a little fudging of the lines would get the people to feel good."
"And if the truth comes out?" she replied.
"Faulty information or Hirotaka's incompetence. Take your pick," he offered.
"Will, you're playing a dangerous game, you know that right?" she said with a slight detachment in her voice.
"Is there any other game to play?" he asked with a smile.
"Just be careful Will, when I retire, you'll be taking over but you can't do that if you've been fired from Global Justice," she cautioned before hanging up.
Will smiled and put the PDA back in his pocket, everything is coming into play, he thought happily, but lost his mood when he saw those two dunderheads standing off to the side, how Sensei ever trusted them to do anything is beyond me. If only we could've recruited Jack.
Walking back to the two who hadn't moved from their spot, Will asked them, "As 'leaders' of this investigation, what do you suggest we do now?"
Hiro looked at Fukushima and asked, "Take out all the safe havens for Team Possible?"
"Good," Will answered as if one were congratulating a dog on bringing back a stick.
"Let's go. On the way, I want you to explain everything that happened this morning," Will commanded as the trio walked out a door that led to the parking garage, letting the door slam shut behind them.
Present
"You mean to tell me that you two got to the house before the rest of the squad. Then you decided to take them down yourself? Without back up? Do you have any idea who the FUCK they are?!" Will yelled as the Black BMW stopped in front of a yellow house in the Middleton Suburbs.
Hirotaka and Fukushima both cringed as Will threw the car into park and turned to stare at them before continuing, "They're Possibles: a rocket scientist, a brain surgeon, two MIST graduates who haven't even hit puberty yet and -"
"But I thought they go to Middleton High School," interrupted Hirotaka, instantly regretting it.
"That's a cover you fool! They both graduated when they turned nine and now they design our weapons at Global Justice. I'm surprised that they didn't disintegrate you when you both barged into that house. Oh, and why did you do that? That only prompted Possible and Stoppable to make a run for it. If you had waited 30 fucking seconds for backup, you could have taken them in without any problem. But Noooo, you both had to be the badass cops that bust through the doors, guns blazing and save the day. Well now, they're who knows where, and I'm stuck with you two making up excuses on what happened," Will paused to take a breath, "Now, we also have to bring in his family. It was going to happen eventually, but on MY schedule, not yours! What the hell were you thinking? Please tell me that the bus and train are at least ready for tonight," he finished as he rubbed his temples. She's going to get pissed at me, getting all worked up but B has never had to deal with these two before. I swear, they're going to turn this headache into brain hemorrhage, he thought angrily.
"Yes, boss they are. All we need is the time and we'll provide you with something that will rival last night," Hiro said.
Will was about to answer, but stopped as his PDA buzzed, looking at the message on screen, Recommend pushing back festivities to tomorrow night and replacing original show with second feature. B.
Will thought it over, She wouldn't have written this unless it was necessary, he thought before texting back, Agreed, proceed to Headquarters and wait for me to get there. W.
Looking up he said, "Change of plans, we are going to put the bus and train on hold for the time being and instead focus on plan B. Fukushima, you ready to go through with it?"
Contrary to popular belief, when one is castrated after puberty, their voice does not grow to a humorous high pitch, but instead the voice remains the same. That was why Fukushima answered in his grating voice, "I have looked forward to this night for a long time. When does my flight leave?"
Will smiled as a Global Justice silent V-Tol hovered above the parked car, "Now. See you tomorrow when the deed is done."
Fukushima slid out of the car and climbed the rope ladder that had been dropped. Within seconds, the ladder was retracted and the V-Tol left, causing an eerie silence to descend on the neighbor hood.
Will turned to Hiro as GJ agents swarmed into the neighborhood, "You ready to show me why I chose you to lead this investigation Hiro?"
Smiling, Hirotaka pulled out his 9 mm handgun and cocked it, "Nothing would give me more pleasure."
Gene Stoppable and Hana Stoppable were play wrestling in the living room when the knock on the door shattered them from their rough housing.
Hana looked at Gene with a slight pout in her features, "Don't worry Hana, probably just the Possibles asking if we're all right. Ron's probably with them."
Hana's face lit up as her older brother was mentioned. She cooed and tottered up to her room to grab a new toy as Gene got up from the floor to answer the door. Watching her stagger away, Gene thought, They grow up so fast. He was joined at the door by Barbara Stoppable and sighing, answered the door.
Instead of Ron, some 20-year-old man holding a blue sheet of paper with 20 men backing him up was waiting for them, "Gene and Barbara Stoppable?" asked the man, as all the officers behind him cocked their weapons.
Taking a step forward to protect his wife, Gene answered, "Yes, I'm Gene, this is my wife Barbara. How can we help you officer?"
He found himself pushed back into the house and thrown to the ground as Hirotaka slapped handcuffs on him, while Will was following suit with Barbara who was now screaming.
"Shut Up!" Will shouted at Mrs. Stoppable, who instantly stopped screaming. Seeing no resistance, Will spoke, "Gene and Barbra Stoppable, you are under arrest for aiding and abetting two known fugitives of the law. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot provide an attorney, one will be provided of you. Are any of these rights unclear?" he asked.
"No Officer," Gene answered. Pulling them both roughly to their feet Will and Hiro handed the Stoppables off to a pair of officers who shoved them into squad cars. Will and Hiro walked into the house looking for any clue as to where Ron and Kim had gone. Not seeing any, they both stiffened as a door slamming upstairs caught their attention. Drawing their guns, they both ascended the stairs and crouched outside room whose door had slammed: Hana's nursery.
Giving Hiro a nod, Will braced himself as Hiro kicked the door in, and both dove into the room, guns drawn, ready for anything. Standing to their feet, both lowered their guns and looked at each other in confusion as they saw Hana Stoppable sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed in the center of the room with a soft, blue glow surrounding her. Opening her eyes, she saw the two men standing before her and giggled softly. Hiro reached to pick her up, but as his hand was about to make contact with her middle, she grabbed him by the thumbs and flipped him over and into a wall. Will reached over to grab her, but was also dropped as she grabbed him by the wrist and executed a perfect judo throw. Giggling to herself, she clapped her hands twice and disappeared in a blinding flash as if she had never been there.
"All right," Will groaned as he pulled himself to his feet, "What just happened?"
Sitting on the couch in the living room, Ron asked Yori as she inserted the DVD into the player, "So Jack created this DVD knowing full well that he was going to be captured?"
"Yes Stoppable-San, that is what I believe. A couple weeks before Jack left Yamanuchi, Hirotaka, Jack and Sensei talked alone for hours in the Glade of the Sensei's. No one knows what went on during those hours, but when Jack came back, he was a different man, I can't explain it, but it's…He was confident to a fault, but extremely protective of me. I mean, he wouldn't let me fight Hirotaka, instead he trained me hard. Harder than I've ever trained before. Then three weeks later, he left, almost as if he had never been there. Two days after he left, that glider went missing and we found out that someone had downloaded the Global Justice Security mainframe onto a thumb drive. GJ said it was Jack, and Hirotaka left immediately after that I don't know when Fukushima joined him, he was banished after giving me this," Yori pointed to the scar that was covered by her headband.
"I thought you got it during a mission," accused Kim.
"I did, a mission to protect Jack, but when you strike the granddaughter of a Sensei with intent to kill..." she trailed off, "that gets you banished."
"Wait...so you're Sensei's grandaughter?" Ron asked in disbelief.
"Yes," she replied simply
"Well, that explains why it was always you that I dealt with on Yamanuchi matters," Ron reasoned.
Yori nodded and continued, "I was sent to Middleton in a hope that he would try to make contact with Possible-San," she shook her head in confusion, "I don't know, it's almost like he planned the whole thing and knew everything that was going to happen." She pushed the DVD in and waited for it to start.
"And what of Hiro? What happened after that day with Sensei? You said that Jack became more confident but protective, what happened to Hiro?" asked Kim.
"He grew more confident, more egotistical and annoying. We couldn't figure it out but Hiro was also changed," Yori explained as the DVD was scanned. Within seconds, Jack's face appeared on screen.
Speaking with a slight indifference in his tone, he said, "Hello all. I am under arrest and residing in the Middleton Global Justice Security Branch, if I wasn't you wouldn't be watching this right now," he shrugged his shoulders and continued, "I know you three are watching this and that Rufus right now is hiding out with your sister, so don't worry Ron."
"OH MAN, I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT HANA AND RUFUS!" Ron shouted as he jumped to his feet.
"Ron, I said don't worry about it. And if I know your sister well enough, I'd say that they're both at Yamanuchi right now with Sensei. They'll be fine, although the rest of your families are in here with me," Jack replied causing Kim and Ron to stare at the screen in shock, Yori just sighed, already used to Jack's unique ability.
Jack continued, "Kim, Ron your families have been arrested by Global Justice. Don't try to be the heroes and break them out because it won't work. However, I can help you get them out; but I will need your help though to pull this off. So you can't save them, but I can. To accomplish this, you'll need to get me out of this holding cell that I am currently in. To do that, you'll have to work with Yori. I've sent Yori a different message detailing everything and she now trusts you, you should do the same."
He paused to collect his thoughts, "I know this is weird, talking to a T.V. but I need your help with this. We have the chance to not only clear your names, but also take down those people who are corrupt within Global Justice. I already detailed a plan for my escape, so get to work busting me out," He reached off screen and pulled over a board, much like the surfboard he was flying on earlier, "Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go to school lover, oh and sorry about the bruise" He smiled and the message ended.
Kim stared at the screen as she felt the bruise on her lower back that Jack had left on her yesterday and then turned to Yori, "How did Jack-"
"It's just one of his gifts," Yori replied, "Now we need to get Thompson-San out of a Global Justice prison."
"Riiiight, you want to break old Jacko out of a Global Justice Detention Facility," Kim started, "Do you have any idea as to how much security is going to be there? Breaking into Drakken's lair when he doesn't have any air vents installed is a cake walk compared to this."
"Yes Possible-San, I do know how much security is there," she took a breath and recited from memory, "To start off, you can only access the facility itself with a key card, which I can't get, then enter to enter the administrative offices without being detected, which is impossible to do, you then need to get past the laser trip grid that GJ installed last week, which is impossible to defeat," Yori took another breath, "then you have to go down an elevator shaft which can only be accessed with a key card, and then you have to go through a large vault to access the cells themselves. After that, it's relatively easy from there, just the squad of guards with MP5s and the best training in the world and the fact that you have to go back the way you came. Apart from that, nothing stops you," Yori said in a voice that betrayed how scared she was of the situation, training at the Yamanuchi School since I was Four, Jack's personal instructor, his lover…we broke into top secret facilities, but this makes them all look easy. If we can't get past them all, how does he expect to get out of the prison?
"Think, what's the only way we can beat this system and get in to break Jack out?" Kim asked, mind racing as she struggled for an answer.
"Hmmm," Ron thought for a second, then in an instant, the answer came to him, "Aha! What do all the alarms and traps and everything have in common?"
Yori thought for a second as a smile graced her face, "Electricity."
"So if we can cut the power, we can bust Jack out," Kim finished.
"Actually Possible-San, that won't be necessary, Jack said if he can be given 3 minutes, he can meet us out front," Yori added.
"And how would he do that?" Kim asked in disbelief.
"Let's just say that you aren't the only one who can do the impossible," Yori finished cryptically.
"All right, so we cut the power, that still leaves us with the question as to how we leave the power offline. You see, Global Justice is built up on a power grid that counterbalances each other. You disable one, another takes its place instantaneously," seeing the looks of wonderment directed at him, Ron held up a diagram labeled Global Justice Electric Mainframe, "Jack had this lying around. Anyway, the way I read it, we'd have to cut all the power at the same time and fight it actively as the system tries to restart itself. While we'd be keeping the power off, a Global Justice satellite office would be tracking the signal and within minutes, they'd be swarming the location and arrest us. Who do we know that can hack into mainframes and disable all their power at the same time and leave it off and have untraceable software?" Ron asked.
Now it was Kim's turn to smile, she answered, "Wade."
"Ahhh, Wade."
"Kim I don't know, I mean you two are wanted for murder and you saw what happened to Ron's parents," Wade said over the speaker telephone. Kim had dialed Wade and on the first ring had picked up sounding breathless.
"Wait, what about my parents?" asked Ron panicky.
"Ron, your parents were arrested earlier this morning after the press conference. The reason is that your parents aided two known fugitives-" he was cut off by Ron.
"But that's impossible! GJ knows that I was with the Possibles all morning and haven't even seen my family since yesterday!" Ron could feel the anger rising in him. His eyes glowed blue for a second as he thought of his parent in prisons and Hana-
"OH SHIT! Wade, what happened to Hana?" arresting the parents was one thing, but taking his sister, heads would be rolling on account of that.
"Hmmm," everyone could hear the sound of the keyboard tapping, "That's funny, no mention of her, just some passing report to her disappearing and the finding of Hirotaka and Will Du beaten up in her nursery. From what I'm assuming, she beat them up and vanished," Wade didn't know what else to say.
Ron, his fears still there, but lessened for the moment asked, "Wade, where are our families?"
"They're in a holding facility that GJ uses to process criminals…That's weird," he said.
"What?" asked Kim.
"Oh, just that your families have been put here in the Middleton Branch, along with our boy Jack," Yori's eyes lifted at that, "It seems that they've all been put on the same floor. I can transfer them all next to each other if you'd like," the boy genius offered.
"Please and thank you. However, you still haven't answered my question: Will you hack the Global Justice mainframe, take their power offline long enough for Jack to escape and help us expose Global Justice?" Kim asked.
There was silence on the other end as Wade pondered it over. He looked around his room at all the computer screens and servers he had in his room. Fish or cut bait…Fish or cut bait, that old saying rolled around in his head as he continued to think it over. If he helped, GJ would probably track him down, take all his software and arrest him. They hadn't yet because Wade designed their computer systems and was believed to be a "Good Guy". On the other hand, if he didn't help out Kim and Ron when they needed him most, his actions would haunt him to the end of his days. He looked around his room one last time and braced his feet against the floor, sighing, as he knew what he had to do.
He kicked away from his desk and rolled toward the door of his bedroom, opening the door he leaned out and called to his mom, "Hey Mom, I want you to go to Aunt Marie's for the week. I don't care what it is that you are doing, I just want you to go," she started to protest, but he cut her off, "Just trust me on this Mom. Take a vacation and be with Dad, but don't stay here," he spoke with such an authority that his Mom stared at him in shock for a second before she went up to her room to pack.
Wade wheeled back to the phone on his desk and replied with the enthusiasm he exhibited only on missions, "What do you need me to do?"
Will and Hirotaka were pulling into the Middleton Branch of Global Justice, which was actually several hours from Middleton, when Will received another message on his PDA: 10 hours out from target, request final orders. F.
Will typed back, Primary target is Alpha, if you get a chance to destroy Beta, take her out as well. Stealth is key. Eliminate Alpha then return. We need you to take over the bus tomorrow. W
The reply was instantaneous, And the outsider's sister?
Shaking his head, Will responded, Bring her back for processing, but no killing. Beta is one thing, Babies are another.
Very well.
Shutting down his PDA Will turned to Hirotaka who still had ice on his thumbs. That Stoppable girl was something that they hadn't counted on, but no matter, they had the parents and as Hiro had said on the drive back to the Global Justice offices, "If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground for it to go to." Will had taken that belief and followed it, now that the Possibles and Stoppables were both in the cells along with Jack, it would only be a matter of time before the amateurs were found and captured.
Something kept bothering Will however, they hadn't brought Wade in yet and Du didn't trust him, All that time with Possible, he might be willing to help them out in a pinch. I'll see to it that he doesn't have clearance to anything after I get back to my desk. But first, he thought with glee, we get to interrogate Jack.
Stepping out of the car, Will looked at Hirotaka and asked, "Would you like to help interrogate Jack?"
Hiro's eyes lit up as Will asked him the question, "Of course, it would be my honor to filet him like a fish."
Will understood immediately that something big must've happened between both those men and was about to ask, but was answered by Hirotaka before he could ask it, "When the time is right for you to know, I'll tell you."
All right, that's just freaky, thought Will, It's almost as if he knew what I was going to say.
Jack sat alone in his cell, fingering the flower pendant he wore around his neck while reading his book, The Golden Man, when he heard a loud commotion outside his cell. Sighing, he marked his place, zipped up his orange jumpsuit that he had been assigned, set the book down and walked to the cell door to see what the entire ruckus was about. Looking into the hallway, he saw the Possibles and Stoppables, all clad in their own orange jumpsuits, being put into their own cells down the hall from him. Shaking his head, he turned his back on the events occurring in the hallway as he silently made his way back to his book. Two minutes later, two Global Justice Officers opened his door and said, "Get up, you're moving."
Checking his spot in the book, Jack rose meekly with the words of Sensei still ringing in his ears.
Yesterday:
I'm surprised that you came out all this way to visit me. I didn't think that you cared for me that much," Jack said as he straightened up, knowing that Sensei would bail him out of this mess.
"Save your breath Jack," Sensei walked up to Jack and leaned in close. Before he spoke, he looked around and everyone gave them space for a private conversation.
He spoke quietly into Jack's ear, "Thompson-San, you do realize what you have done, right?"
"Yes Sensei," Jack replied, not as confident as he had been that Sensei was going to bail him out.
"After this incursion, what do you know?" Sensei whispered.
"There is a mole, I haven't been able to figure out who. I didn't have time to find out, so I downloaded the entire list onto my thumb drive. The list was encrypted by GJ, so we'll need to find someone who has a computer as powerful, if not more powerful than a Global Justice encryption program. Sensei?" Jack asked while starting to look a little scared.
"Yes?"
"You do know what will happen to you if you go through with this?" Jack prayed that Sensei would answer no and the whole mission would have to be scrapped.
"Yes, I do. That's why I asked you to do this assignment and why I trust you to run Yamanuchi in my absence," Sensei answered calmly.
Looking shocked, Jack hushed, "Sensei, I can't…I mean, I'm a gaijing. There's no way for me to run that school!"
"You will or you won't. Sooner or later, a seed must become a tree or it will die," was the enigmatic reply.
"Remember what the Time Stream showed you," cautioned Sensei as he pulled back from Jack, "You were like a son to me Thomson-san. No more. You are malignant, like a cancer and must be cut off. From this day forward, you are not welcome in my house. Furthermore, you will be hunted like the dog you are should you ever escape. I hereby banish you from Yamanuchi and her outlying provinces and should we meet again, I will kill you myself. You are now my enemy and everyday I will praise Buddha for your capture."
Present
Jack smiled to himself as he was led into a cell next to where the Possibles and the Stoppables resided. So far, his disguise hadn't been detected and the guards still believed that he had blown a fuse on what Sensei told him. Good, the Art of Disguise is about making sure your opponent doesn't see who you really are or what you are doing. If you can convince them of something that you're not…you've won, he thought as Sensei's teaching rattled around in his head.
The families turned to Jack as he shuffled into his cell and walked to the corner bench. Sitting down wearily, he pulled his book out and continued to read.
The two families sat at one end of their cells talking, while Jack lay on a bed on the other side of the bars.
Keeping an eye on Jack, James Possible asked Gene, "Why are you here?"
"Global Justice felt that we were helping Ron," Gene explained. He quietly added, "I wish they were right."
"Ron stayed with us last night and early this morning the two of them escaped," Ann Possible explained, "What happened to Hana?"
"I don't know. They handcuffed us and took us away without even letting us see Hana. Why are they doing this?" Barbara said as she broke down sobbing. Ann Possible led her off to the side to comfort her while the fathers conversed.
"while we were being led away, a flash came from Hana's nursery, and then Will came out and started questioning us about Hana and where she had gone," Gene stopped as he saw Jim and Tim listening in, "Why are they in here? Shouldn't they be in a juvenile prison."
"They'd break out in two minutes," James said with a bit of pride in his voice, "that and they wanted us to be kept together for some reason," he hatily added
Jim and Tim took their leave at this moment and walked over to where Jack was reading his book.
Sticking their arms through the bars Jim asked, "Who-"
"Jack Thompson, Yes, the surfer who was captured yesterday. No, I don't know where your sister is, No, I did not do whatever it is they told you I did. No, I don't feel like talking and I just want to read before I escape in," Jack checked a clock outside the cell, "8 hours 26 minutes and 18 seconds and no, I will not explain what I just did," He turned back to his book.
"Did you just-" started Tim.
"-Answer all our questions before we asked them?" finished Jim.
"Yes, I did. Book," he turned back to his book.
"How could you? I mean that would mean that you can predict the future," said Tim.
"You could call it that, I prefer to think of it as a possible, no pun intended, outcome."
"How do you do it?" asked Jim.
"What did I just say? I don't want to talk about it," seeing the look on their faces, Jack sighed and closed his book, "Trust me boys, you don't want the gift. I thought it would be an amazing thing to have, instead it only hurts those you love," Jack's eyes took on a far away look and he fingered a pendant around his neck, "Look, just let me get back to my book."
"One final question?" asked Jim.
He sighed, but didn't look up from his book, "Lets have it."
"How many fingers am I holding up behind my back?" questioned Tim.
"Four, three, two, five, one, four, seven, nine. Satisfied?" Jack answered as the boys changed their fingers, without looking up but continued reading throughout the entire demonstration.
The tweebs left Jack in awe and walked back to their parents, while Jack thought about all he had left behind. All this happened because I had to ask to see it. Didn't need to, but I had to ask. Now all this is happening. Why God did I have to be curious?
Disclaimer I don't own Kim Possible, Disney does, I just write about it.
Next Chapter up when it's ready (which will be soon). Please Review, I can't fix something if I don't know what the problem is. Thanks to everyone who constantly reviews. I genuinely appreciate all those reviews and they make my day that much brighter.
Author's Note: The Golden Man is a real book by Philip K. Dick. You should check it out sometime. Sorry if there are spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes, I had blood drawn today and as such, am a little out of it.