Devon left the castle as well after changing into some proper clothes and taking the extra few minutes to pack up all of his things, fearing that the Kids Next Door would confiscate or steal his possessions. He used his armor to fly back to the dog park and landed near the tree slide. He deactivated his armor and put his hand on the trunk of the tree. His hand was scanned and the entrance to his underground lair via slide was opened. He slid down the slide and landed in his lair. He got up and was greeted with the sight of a cleaner lair, a visual on Sector V's treehouse, inside and out, on the many monitors and the four members of his first pack sitting in their chairs in front of the giant keyboards.
"Hola, alfa." Jose greeted as he swiveled his chair around, he was a short and skinny Hispanic young man with dark short hair in his human form. "Look!" He said, gesturing to the many monitors happily. "It took all night, had to install an updated program, repair some broken buttons on the keyboard, get past a bit more advanced KND firewalls and cyber security, but I finally hacked into their cameras and their entire treehouse." He said.
Devon set his bags down and walked up to the monitors slowly and nervously, trying to think of how to tell the werechihuahua that his efforts may have been in vain due to recent events.
"What's wrong, did I not do what you asked?" Jose asked, thinking he was at fault.
"No, no, no... It's just that some things have changed... We could make use of what you did in some way, I'm sure." Devon told him.
Jose's mood changed from proud and happy to confused with a sinking feeling that his alpha may just tell him some awful news. "What are you saying...?" He asked.
"I had no idea this would happen. I made an ally out of my brother and he's agreed to keep his sector off our backs. So-" Devon began to tell him.
"That's great!" Gregory said, standing up and patting his alpha's back as a job well done. He was a man with light skin and little muscle, he had medium length black hair.
"Wait! So, I did all that work for nothing?" Jose asked.
"We probably won't be using what you did for its intended purpose, spying on the KND. But I'm sure we can use it for something. Numbers 70-74 won't be sector V for much longer, Kevin is turning 13 this month. So, he won't be of much help for long, but at least it's something. If he doesn't get recruited into the TND, then we'll have to find another way to make allies out of all the other kid friendly organizations." Devon said.
"Make allies out of organizations like the GND and all that? How? Every one of them hates our kind." Fifi said, she was a skinny woman with extremely light blonde hair in her human form, and a bit taller than Jose.
"I don't really know. But if this alliance with Kevin goes well, then it's one step closer. I just hope he doesn't mess this up." Devon replied.
"Mess what up?" Fifi asked.
"I managed to give the Count one of Common Cold's Goddess awful diseases and he's so weak he can't even get out of his coffin. Figured that the Kids Next Door could capture him and send him on a one way trip to Saturn's moon." Devon said.
"Making an enemy weak and then using that enemy's weakness against them, effective and smart." Riley said.
"Thanks. How are our weapons around here? Our remote controlled drones. I think we should offer Sector V some assistance when they attack the castle tonight. Recently they've been losing battles against the Count and this would be a really bad time to lose." Devon said.
"Yeah, some of our drones are still in perfect condition, even after two years of not being used." Jose said.
"How many?" Devon asked.
"Five of them, one for each of us if we wanted to control one manually." Jose answered.
"Alright, do we have any garlic? Of any kind?" Devon asked.
After exchanging a few glances at one another, the four weredogs shook their heads no. "No, Devon. We only left the lair to get some food and a few changes of clothes since we thought that we're gonna be here a while." Gregory replied.
"The KND are most likely going to be firing every bit of garlic they have left at that castle tonight... I have noticed the Count getting more resistant to garlic. Maybe he just thought that he was a complete wimp when it came to garlic because of a lack of confidence... And his boost of confidence was because of me. He's sick, weak and frail, but he can still have something up his sleeve... We should take no chances. Extra fire, or in this case garlic, power can't hurt. Gregory, take my bike and get as much garlic as you can find. Avoid stealing from large public areas if you can. I'll give my bike a notice that you're allowed to use it." Devon said, activating his watch. He barked into it a few times and the watch gave a beep as a response. "Ok, Greg, you can now use my bike. Goddess' speed." He told the werehusky.
Gregory nodded, stood from his chair, saluted him and went to the surface using a tree elevator.
"I'll go up as well to find all of the drones that we can use." Jose said, getting up. "Riley, I could use your nose to help sniff them out. Still remember what they smell like or where we buried them?" Jose asked.
"Yes, of course." Riley said, standing up to go with Jose.
Jose looked at Devon. "Do you have the Fix-O-Matic with you? It'd be a good idea to have all of our drones operational." He asked.
Devon walked over to where he put his things and opened his duffle bag. He took out the Fix-O-Matic and gave it to his friend. He watched Jose and Riley get in a tree elevator and head up to the surface. He then sat down in one of the chairs and tried to relax for a spell.
"You are tense, I can sense it all over you." Fifi said, concern in her voice.
Devon sighed heavily. "I did something today that'll probably bite me in the ass later, most likely. Well, two things. I attacked the Count, or at least tried to, the coward hid in his coffin before I had the opportunity to sink my claws and teeth into him." Devon said, unsheathing his claws for emphasis before putting them away. "But, luckily the Count might be dealt with tonight, so he won't be a problem anymore. I attacked someone else, at our elementary school. They hired a disciplinarian who was trying to turn the school into something like a private school, with uniforms and paddlings... The man had a paddle collection and a weird barrel with legs and belts to restrain children. He tried to paddle me after I went into his office in disguise and tried to debate him on the ethics of spanking."
"What exactly was your plan there? Debate him and try to make him do a 180 on his morality? Doesn't sound like you." Fifi told him.
"I sort of came up with a plan when the Count was punishing me with corner time, but I couldn't go through with it as I had lost control when the paddle happy human assaulted me. I ended up throwing him out of the office in my human form and then wolfing out." Devon said.
"Did you kill him?" Fifi asked.
"Not this one... I don't know how I had the self control... But I just told him to get out and never come back. I doubt he'd have the courage to come back after that." Devon said.
"Then what happened?" Fifi asked.
"Children came out of their classrooms and apparently saw what I did. They cheered me as a hero, have to admit, being celebrated feels good. Even being celebrated by probably mostly straight or cis children." Devon responded.
"You said that a problem might emerge because of your actions? Your mother?" Fifi asked.
"Yes. As Bradley pointed out when I met him and Boyd in the hallway, I couldn't disguise my scent. I was out of there pretty quickly, but my scent can linger. That and the security cameras... Doubt they could see past my disguise, but my wolf form isn't invisible on camera... Maybe the Delightful Children will recognize me on the security footage and report me to Father... And he'll incinerate me or something!" Devon said. He leaned back in the chair, put his hands on his face and sighed in frustration. After a few seconds, he sat up, looking like he perked up. "What the Hell is wrong with me? I'm a hacking genius!" He said, turning his chair towards the keyboard and a monitor. He started typing and clicking the mouse like mad after he opened up a program. Thanks to Jose's upgrade, he was hacked into the school's security cameras in no time. He watched the security footage from the point of view of the camera that was in the main security room, he rewound the footage to earlier this morning. No Delightful Children, not even a security guard was in that room at the time Devon was in the school or after he left. He fast forwarded the footage to see if that changed. He sighed in relief when he saw that no one was even in the security room this morning, no one that would cause him much trouble saw what he did. "Oh, thank Asenath!" Devon said, a wave of relief coming over him. "Now, we have to make sure that no one sees any footage from this morning. Wanna help cover up my data erasing with a little power outage?" He asked, looking at Fifi with a smirk.
"Do I!" Fifi said, starting up the same program that Devon was running and hacking into the school's power generators.
Devon prepared the security footage from today to be erased. "Ok, are you in?" He asked.
"Yes. I'm in." Fifi replied, ready to shut off the power.
"Let the power come back on after we're done, as much as I want all those kids and weredogs released from school early, that would mean my mother would also get out of work early." Devon said.
"I only have control of the main generators, not touching the backup ones, didn't think I'd need to." Fifi replied.
"Ok, good. Ready? On my mark... Do it!" Devon said.
Fifi shut off the main power to the school, while Devon deleted the security footage for today.
Devon looked at their accomplishment. "We did it!" He cheered and laid back in his seat, sighing heavily in relief. "Now all we have to worry about is my mother, but even that's not too concerning now that I think about it. All those children who saw me hurt the disciplinarian, all their individual scents will mask my own. So it'll be harder for her to pinpoint or even smell my scent. But... Kevin was there at the time, he saw me... Mom could question him about it... She'll threaten him with Count Spankulot, the kid will sing like a damn canary... If he does try to lie the kid's terrible at it, mom'll smell the fear and nervousness on him..." Devon said, sighing heavily. A few seconds later he perked up again, getting another idea. He took off his shirt and tank top.
Fifi watched her alpha in confusion.
"Here." Devon said, giving her his tank top. "I have my father as a disguise on there. Call Galagher Elementary, ask for Kevin and keep him talking for as long as possible. The command for my dad disguise is 'activate dad disguise one'. I need to call The Dark Side of the Moon." Devon said, putting on a pair of headphones and adjusting the mic. The headphones were shaped like paw prints and the mic was shaped like a little bone. He used the mouse, which looked and felt like half a tennis ball, to click out of the hacking program and activate a video chat program. He deactivated the video part and just made an audio call, didn't want anyone important to see him shirtless. Father's scientists in the former Moon Base have been making plenty of strides in evil science and diabolical technology, surely they'll have something to help him.
(Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I lost momentum in this Fanfic and I was working on a Classic Spyro Fanfic as well. I do want to continue this fanfic. But expect chapters to come months apart. I appreciate all of my readers.)