I feel so bad that one of my reviewers, Jillian has to move... But I wish him a good one. Okay, so I got a lot of requests, asking me to give out a little more info. on Alpha. So... here you go! :) Sorry I didn't do the half and half thing, I'll do it other time though. =D
Chapter 36
Alpha walked down the hallway, heading for the medical center to retrieve her monome player. She then heard someone running behind her. When she turned around, she was surprised to see Chad heading for her. "Hi Chad, what's up?"
He stopped right in front of her. "Alpha?" She nodded. "Yes?" He hesitated. "There's been a slight mishap with the relocation. We can't start at Argon, I'm afraid we'll have to start with Gallium instead." Alpha sighed in frustration.
"Why Gallium? I thought we were supposed to take the fight directly to Clu." He nodded. "I know, I know. We'll just have to go with the flow and right now, Gallium needs our help more desperately than Argon. You didn't tell anyone about the relocation yet, did you?"
Alpha shook her head. "Nope, I'm just gonna go fetch my monome and pack up… and head to Gallium." Chad gave her thumbs up. "Great, be sure to not tell anyone about this yet. I'll organize who's going to Gallium and who's staying behind to keep an eye on the facility."
Alpha turned and walked away towards the medical center again. As she neared the door, she heard a faint beeping. She started running, getting closer. She didn't acknowledge the black guard as the doors slid open the moment she got close.
When she entered, she saw on the monitor, a large ship heading towards Bismuth to reclaim the city. She studied the large ship. It was pretty small compared to others she's dealt with. She could take on an entire fleet if she wanted to, but she wouldn't be that foolish.
Alpha turned towards the nearest program. "Could you please assemble a squad of soldiers to accompany me on this undercover operation?" She nodded and ran out of the medical room to go get a small group of black guards to assist her during this field mission.
It's about time that I got something to do outside of this facility. I'll make the most of this thrill ride before relocating to Gallium. As Alpha neared the doors to exit the hospital, the program came rushing back, out of breath.
"They're ready for you ma'am, standing inside the main entrance and will depart the moment you ask them to." Alpha nodded. "Thanks." The doors let her out again. She quickly rushed to her bedroom to fetch something before she left.
Her bedroom door opened and she ran inside. She opened a small drawer to get a small golden armband, and a small radio that would release a distress signal in case anything went wrong. Chad had been bothering her to get one since she had become the leader.
She turned and exited her room and marched to the main entrance, where the small squad of black guards was waiting for her. She noticed that among them, was that one black guard who she treated on the hospital for the past few cycles. He nodded a friendly hello to her as she got closer.
Alpha stopped in front of them. "Before we leave, I recommend that we change our circuitry colors so we… blend in better. 'Operation: 'Internal Takedown'." They nodded and drew their disks to change their colors to the government orange.
Alpha only changed her circuitry color, not her designs, so now she looked like an occupation scientist… except for the really high heels that she always wore. That specific feature always made her stand out from the other medics.
I look a little like Keller used to. She had known about Keller. Keller was an occupation scientist who defected from Tesler's army and tried to escape to Bismuth. Unfortunately, she never got away.
Alpha put the golden armband on her right arm. It had a unique symbol on it, showing that she was a government medic, and she carried lots of government authority over soldiers.
When they were all done with their disguises, they took out their batons and rezzed their bikes. They rode through the streets, heading for the nearest ship. Things were about to get more exciting!
Alpha knew that she would have to only knock the heads of the drivers and turn the ship around without having her disguise identified. This was her favorite occupation outfit to wear, and she didn't want to cross this off the list as well.
They entered the large ship casually on their bikes. Alpha took off her bike's visor and saluted to the watchman, who nodded to her and let them pass. They're so gullible. Alpha rolled her eyes. They were always so easy to trick when you were dressed like them.
They stopped their bikes and turned them back into batons. As they marched through the hallways of the base, Alpha strode next to the young soldier. "You know, I never got your name." He glanced at her, but she couldn't tell his facial expression behind his mask. "My name is Skipper."
Alpha held out her gloved hand. "Nice to officially meet you, Skipper." He nodded and whispered under his breath. "Same for you Alpha. It's a true pleasure to work with you on the field, I won't let you down."
She let go of his hand. "I'm confident that you won't." She abruptly stopped and held up her hand for the other soldiers to stop as well. She turned around and looked at two black guards. "You two stay here until I return, we'll try to do this quietly and effectively. And we shouldn't be gone for too long."
She then turned to Skipper. "You and I will continue on with them to knock some heads and rig this monster to fly all the way back to Tron City where it came from. We'll use this strategy throughout the mission on this ship unless I say not to."
The rest of the soldiers nodded and stood tall, either guarding the vent that the others would sneak into, or preparing to climb inside after her. Alpha was the first to crawl inside, Skipper followed, after him were some extra black guards.
After five nanocycles of crawling, Alpha stopped and pulled out a map. She sighed with relief, she was worried that they had gotten lost, but she was going in the right direction the whole time. Alpha's infiltrated these types of ships before; it had just been a while since she last did something on the field.
Skipper looked at the map. "We're almost there, you must know your way around these bases. I assume it's from lots of experience?" Alpha smiled under her mask and nodded. "Yeah, but it's been a while since I last did a field mission Skip-"
Alpha turned and looked at him. "You know what; could I call you Sky during the field missions?" He tilted his head to the side, thinking about his new nickname. He nodded soon after. "Yeah, I actually like that new name. I'd love to be called that."
Alpha then turned and started crawling again. They were almost there… Oh! They were now located just above the drivers. Alpha turned to her team and made a series of coded symbols with her hands, quietly telling the group about her plan.
Sky nodded whispered. "Got it." The soldiers and Alpha moved to their positions. On Alpha's mark, they broke through and took out every soldier and pilot quietly and effectively. They were so fast that they were a blur of black and orange.
Alpha was better than all of them. She was so good at this; she made ninja assassins look like amateur babies. Though programs didn't know what babies were, because it wasn't on their list of many definitions.
Once every occupation soldier and pilots were knocked out, they were all cuffed and locked in a closet. Thankfully, no alarm was triggered or set off, or there would have been drastic results. Alpha then ran over to the pilot's controls to rig this ship to not stop flying until it got all the way back to Tron City.
A little surprise gift for Clu when he gets back. Alpha thought to herself, smirking. When she was done, she turned to the other guards. "Alright, someone give me a boost so I can slide that vent's panel back into place."
One of the black guards knelt down and locked his fingers together to give her a boost. Alpha placed her foot in his hands and he lifted her off the ground. Alpha had very good balance, so standing in his laced hands without gripping anything for support, was just the little things she could do, she wasn't even wobbly.
When she moved the thin square of metal back into place, she stepped down and helped the black guard back onto his feet. The base was already starting to turn around. Sky cleared his throat and spoke up. "Um… not meaning to rush you Alpha, but we're starting to turn around.
Alpha rested her hand on his shoulder. "I know, we'd better get going before we're noticed. In fact, we might need to walk really fast before this thing gets too fast to jump off of." Sky looked at her. "Wait… what?" She looked at him as she started walking towards the door.
"Oh… yeah. I rigged this thing to move at a speed so fast that anyone who'd try to escape would get derezzed. The soldiers on this base would be trapped on this base until it reached its destination." The doors slid open, and they all walked out in an orderly fashion.
When they got to the landing zone, they opened a panel in the floor and one by one, they jumped through and activated their wing chutes. Alpha realized that she'd forgotten one.
She turned to go and grab one, but someone grabbed her wrist… it was Sky. "What are you doing?" His voice was no louder than a whisper. Alpha turned to face him directly, she noticed that it was just her and Sky on the ship now. "I forgot my wing chute, I'm gonna quickly grab one."
He pulled her towards him, gripping her firmly. "There's no time to get one." Alpha tried to pull herself out of his grasp, but he was too strong. Sky turned and pulled Alpha down through the small hole with him, closing the panel behind them.
He adjusted his grip on her, and got ready to jump. Alpha had no idea how strong he really was it was so weird, but then again, she shouldn't judge programs by their appearance, but by their actions. She suddenly felt the rush of air around her and the feeling inside her told her that they were falling.
Sky opened his wing chute, and they both landed carefully on the ground. Alpha looked up at him. "Next time, let me know when you're going to grab me and do that again." He laughed and let go of her.
Alpha took a few steps back and looked around. She couldn't see the rest of the soldiers anywhere. Sky lifted his mask and shrugged, clearly not knowing where his fellow comrades were either. "Let's look around and try to find them." He suggested.
Alpha nodded and began walking through the streets, pulled along by the arm by Sky. Sky suddenly stopped and held her back. "What is it?" She asked. "Shhhh…" Sky quietly replied. Alpha remained silent as they tried to make out the sounds that were gradually getting louder.
Turns out it was just the squad of black guards, but they changed their circuitry back to white. Sky had his mask off, so they recognized him. "Oh good you're both okay, we were worried that you never made it off the base."
Alpha laughed under her mask. "I always make it out of a situation." She turned and looked at the large base that she infiltrated, which was definitely going fast because it was almost too small to see now.
She saluted her accompanists, who did the same for her. "It was great working with you, soldiers. We should get back to the base now before Chad gets too worried about me." They all stifled their laughs, they all knew how overprotective Chad was to Alpha.
As they walked back into the facility, Chad was leaning against the wall, waiting. Alpha groaned. "Oh boy, here we go." This lecture wasn't going to be very fun.
Oh boy, Alpha's really gonna get it! Anyways, there's lots of romance in the air for Beck, Ally, Paige, Zed, Mara, Alpha, Sky (Skipper), and Chad! Who loves romance? I do! Expect more chapters soon! I'm gonna add a little twist to my story in later updates! You'll eventually figure it out! TRON LIVES! XD
