7Seven Secret Space Guppies
Good day, you! Time to get back into the story! Enjoy!
Chapter 6: Planified infiltration
WPP outpost Sigma. 100 kilometres south of Sinus Iridum
The ETS and Lieutenant Moon arrived at the mission location.
"Can you intercept the signal of that buggy, Nonny?" Molly asked via radio. Nonny was busy on a monitor in the security room of the outpost. The rest waited outside.
"Difficult. Their security systems got an update... I must decrypt these letters..." He said.
"Let's hurry, or we will miss it! In 1 hour it'll be too late." Moon said.
"5... A7... Okay! Got its location. It is moving to the North... A consistent pattern. Interesting! Hear this, they are auto guided by beacons all around the surface of the Moon. Destroying them will disrupt their autopilot. I suggest you destroy the beacon behind and in front of the buggy." Nonny told.
"Perfect work. Stay there to guide us." Molly said.
"Sending the coordinates of the beacons." Nonny responded.
"You guys go and intercept it, then I'll come with my squad. You 7 operate better alone." Moon said. Molly nodded.
The group split up. Goby went for the beacon behind, Zooli for the one in front. Deema was used as a medium between Nonny's situation updates and the rest of the group. The rest prepared an ambush in between the 2 tech-pillars.
"I'm ready, honey!" Goby said to Deema via radio. Molly gave the order to blow the beacon.
"Und Kaput!" Goby said pressing the detonator.
"Are you good too, Zooli?" Deema asked.
"Neutralized with my energy blast!" Zooli answered.
"Nonny, what's the situation now?" Molly asked, approaching Deema's radio tool.
"It stopped moving. No autopilot any more." Nonny answered.
"Let's encircle the thing and take it." Molly ordered. The ETS regrouped behind a dune, where they could see the buggy. All the OD personnel went out.
"Okay, let's go." Gil whispered. Molly realized something.
"Wait! What if they have an energy shield like us? Will our laser rifles be enough?" She questioned. The rest looked at her.
"Just shoot their weapons and just... shoot, more, on their body." Gil proposed. Zooli giggled.
"There must be a weak point somewhere..." Molly mumbled, ignoring the rest.
"Well... They copied the WPP designs, so... I don't think so..." Deema answered.
"Screw it! Let's rely on our combat strategies, then." Molly said, and everyone deployed.
Molly, Goby and Zooli attacked from the front, killing the driver and some soldiers. The enemies were tougher with the suits. Gil, Deema and Oona took care of the confused lobsters at the other side.
"Lieutenant, the buggy is ours." Molly said via radio.
"Understood, we're coming with your teammate." Moon responded. A couple of minutes later, they all arrived. Gil took the wheel, Molly and Moon sat next to him. The rest went in the back.
"If you continue in a straight line, we'll encounter the outpost." Nonny said.
"Hmm what would this button do..." Gil pressed it and the buggy jumped.
"Don't do that EVER AGAIN!" Deema screamed from the back. She hit her head against the roof.
"Sorry, hehe." Gil said.
30 minutes later, the WPP infiltration team arrived at the outpost.
"It's there, right in front of us. Go to that big gate." Moon pointed.
"Oh no, Gil must do the convincing. We're screwed!" Goby said sarcastically. But the rest stood ready for, in case of it gets wrong.
"Greetings, we are transporting personnel to this outpost. May we enter?" Gil asked the guard.
"You are late, we expected you half an-hour ago. I have a feeling the WPP might attack us." The guard said.
"Oh, then we come in handy." Gil answered.
"You look very young for a soldier..." The guard said, suspecting something. Molly took her pistol in her hand, in case of. Gil started sweating.
"Oh eh, heard that multiple times haha. Probably just this helmet."
"What's your name?" Gil gulped. Molly looked in the glove box and found someone's OD identifications. Gil read it.
"Pjotr Kosh?" Gil said.
"One moment please." The guard left into a building next to the gate.
"Okay, he's gone. I suggest you guys already leave and enter the outpost. I'll stay here and fix this guy!" Gil whispered.
"Not the plan, but we can't lose any more time. Go squad." Molly whispered. The 6 left and walked to the outpost. The camouflage worked. They all reached the airlock on the left, like planned. Then, they entered the outpost.
"Keep the space suits on until we find those hazmat suits." Molly said. They continued walking along the light grey hall with red as decoration here and there.
"This is it." Nonny said, pointing at a door. Laboratory was written on top of it. The group entered it and found an OD scientist.
"Hey! Who are you? What do you do..." Zooli hit him and he fell unconscious. They put him in a locker with a tissue in his mouth.
"Retract your spacesuits and put the hazmat suit over it. Now it's the next phase, we must split up." Molly explained.
"My map indicates that 2 hallways cross each other. We can split up from there." Nonny said.
"Nonny, when someone finds it, go to his location and use the hacking module. The rest, go back to the buggy if we haven't been spotted. Let's start this." And the 6 left the laboratory.
Back at Gil. He was still waiting for the OD guard to come back.
"Pfff this is boring! I wanna be in the action!" Gil complained.
"Operations of the WPP aren't always action-packed battlefields or infiltration. Sometimes it's hours of observation or waiting. Like now." Moon said. Gil sighed.
"Humhum, sorry for the waiting captain Kosh," The guard said, "go to the second garage on the right. Park it there." Gil nodded.
"Captain?" Gil thought.
"I stay here, it's more discreet if you go alone." Moon said to Gil, and he stepped out of the buggy. He greeted the guard.
"It must have been a long voyage, no problems on the road?" The guard asked. He gave a sign to Gil that he had to follow him.
"Yeah, it was..." The 2 entered the outpost. "This wasn't the plan." Gil thought.
"There's a briefing in a couple of minutes, and you, as captain of the Andergo utpost, must assist. Same region, you probably know better how it works." The guard replied.
"Even better... Sigh." Gil thought.
After going through the airlock, the guard removed his space suit.
"Aaah, those spacesuits are annoying. I'm always glad to put them out," The guard said, "by the way, my name is Ron."
"...Okay..." Gil thought.
"You should remove that suit." Ron added. Gil hesitated.
"Ehh ehh, is there a bathroom somewhere? I need one immediately." Gil said.
"Second door left. Hurry a little, please." Gil thanked him and disappeared. He locked the door, retracted his suit and went to the mirrors.
"I can't risk that someone recognizes me with my hair. Okay..." Gil took his knife and cut parts of his hair on the sides of his head. Gil actually liked it.
"More of a soldier look, this!" He thought. He looked around the room. An air vent was spotted by him.
"I gotta colour my hair, maybe in the laboratory, quickly!" He climbed into the air vent and followed the maze. Soon he found a room and jumped into it.
"The lab, what a luck!" Gil started looking in all the lockers and found several bottles of unknown substances. He randomly took a red potion and read the instructions on its back.
"Hmm hmm hmm, okay, pretty safe. Side effects, stains are hard to remove, that's good!" Gil went to a lab sink and pulled the liquid in his hair.
"Oh no! It wasn't enough!" Gil's hair was now partially blue and red. But the time was thinking. He had to return immediately.
"Here I am..." Gil said to the guard.
"You sir, have, special hair," Ron said, "I recognized that blue from somewhere." Gil grinned.
"Yeah, I tried a new hairstyle, shall we go now?" He said. Ron nodded.
"You can store your space suit in this locker. It's not comfortable to carry it everywhere." Ron said. Gil obeyed.
Gil arrived at the briefing room. Important OD personnel of the region were present. An OD officer looked at Gil suspiciously, but Gil threw a nasty look at him.
"Captain Kosh." An OD lobster in a dark suit said. The rest stood up. Gil gulped. He looked behind him, but Ron disappeared. Gil turned his head to an adult guppy. He was pointing at a seat. The guppy had straight dark hair and was wearing an OD officers suit. It was dark grey, with red on the shoulders and at the end of the sleeves.
"It's been a long time since we saw each other. I don't think I remember how you looked. I had a whole different person in my head. Back on Earth then... Oh well. I'm Colonel Cesario, in charge of the Sinus Iridum area if you didn't remember." The guppy added. Gil nodded.
"Y yes. I try new hairstyles sometimes, this one failed miserably..." Gil said impulsively.
"I hope everything is alright at the Andergo outpost. I heard there were some problems with the WPP." Gil stared around, he had to talk. He gulped once.
"O Of course, the WPP executed a couple of, scouting missions, and eh a sabotage attempt. Fortunately, we dealt with them..."
"Good, now that everyone is present, we need to discuss some essential things. First, the attack on the H..."
At the same time, our infiltrated Guppies spread themselves all over the facility. Oona and Molly were searching on the upper floors, Goby and Deema on the ground floor and Nonny and Zooli went to the underground part.
"Has someone found something yet?" Molly whispered to her radio through the hazmat suit.
"Nothing."
"Nope."
"I'm sorry, no." Everyone said. Molly sighed. On the same floor as her was Oona. She arrived in a hallway with one wall being made out of glass. It was the briefing room. When she looked inside the room, she didn't believe what she saw.
"Molly!" She said through the radio.
"Oh gosh, you're so loud. What, Oona?"
"Gil is here... In the briefing room, having... a briefing."
"I'm coming, wait there."
"His hair... It got cut on the sides, and why is it red? Oh no, they tortured him!"
"Of course not," Molly said, just arriving, "I think the officer of the buggy we killed had to attend this briefing. They think it is Gil. No idea what happened to his hair... Let him do his thing, we'll regroup later." And the 2 continued searching.
Gil looked behind his chair and saw the 2 girls in hazmat suits.
"Well... Here I am..." He thought.
"Captain, per favore, we are discussing important subjects. Those are just scientists doing their work." Cesario said, "It's your turn to speak. What will Andergo Outpost do to prevent enemy attacks?" Everyone present looked at Gil. He hesitated.
"Speak. We listen." Cesario added.
"I... The security of our bases, is already very good. We should instead think about, how to spot spies quicker. To prevent sabotage, and such." The rest started to mumble.
"Aaand, how would you do it in practice, Captain?" Cesario asked. Gil rubbed his nose.
"We're here to discuss it together, on how we can do it..." Gil said. Cesario nodded.
"Any propositions, on how to work out this idea?" He asked, looking around. Someone wanted to speak.
Back at our infiltrated friends. They regrouped on the upper floors.
"We searched the whole complex, I marked every location we checked." Nonny said.
"Where the hell is that thing?" Goby asked himself. Oona was thinking.
"There's one room we haven't checked," She said, the rest listened, "the briefing room."
"True, but there is a briefing right now. And Gil is present too. They must think he's an officer or something, someone that must participate to the briefing." Molly explained. The rest were confused.
"We should just wait until it's over..." Deema proposed.
"Nonny and Deema, you go there and keep an eye on the briefing. Tell us when it's over." Molly said pointing at two hazmat suits.
"Eh, actually I am Nonny. You just pointed at Zooli..." Nonny commented.
"Whatever, go." Molly ordered, and the 2 vanished.
Deema walked down the hallway, Nonny was leaning against the wall. The briefing went on for 20 minutes.
"We have an agreement. The budget will be spend on preventing infiltrations." Cesario announced.
"I suppose the briefing is over." Gil said.
"I'd like to add one last thing... Captain Kosh, your proposition was a very good choice, we will immediately make use of it. Take him!" Cesario ordered. 2 guards took Gil.
"Hey! What is this, some kind of a joke? Release me immediately!" Gil screamed, trying to play his role. Cesario approached him with a grin.
"You really thought we didn't recognize you? Gil, Gordon. Second in charge of the ETS, WPP. Wasn't a very good plan, trying to infiltrate us. You even messed up your beautiful hair." He said playing with it. Gil looked mad at him.
"You will pay for my hair!" Gil responded.
"Ohhh hahaha! I'm scared! How desperate is the WPP to send teens? Is there a manpower shortage hahaha?"
"E stands for Elite! You know my identity, so do everyone in the OD! You all know how what this group of teens did to the OD!"
"Yes... Very impressive! But that was only the top of the iceberg. You don't know anything about us, kid. We do about you. Take him away to the undergrounds." Cesario ordered.
Nonny and Deema saw the whole scene and were ordered to stay from Molly.
"Goddamnit Gil." She said.
"They tricked him into thinking it worked. It's not his fault." Zooli answered.
"Girls it's not time to argue. We must safe Gil." Oona said.
"Girls?" Molly thought. She nodded. The alarm went off.
"We gotta move. Nonny, Deema, we're coming." Molly said. They regrouped shortly after.
"Nonny and Goby, get in the briefing room and search for the control panel. We will search for Gil."
"They brought him to the undergrounds, I heard that freak say." Deema said. Molly nodded and she ran to the stairway.
"So, we're basically spotted... Explosives?" Goby asked.
"The door wasn't even locked..." Nonny added. The 2 entered the briefing room, empty. They started searching.
"Where could it be? Hmm, maybe in that room." Goby thought. He entered a bureau, Cesario's bureau. Goby looked behind a monitor at the desk.
"Nonny! I found it! This is it!" Goby shouted. Nonny joined him and accessed the panel.
"Just need to insert it... Perfect. System error, no reboot possible. We took control. 2 left to go." Nonny explained.
"Molly, we've done it. Where do we go?" Goby asked via radio.
"Already? Regroup with Moon outside. Don't get spotted. Everyone is looking for us..."
"Understood, Goby over."
"They must be in scientist suits. That's what he told..." A voice said. OD soldiers! Nonny crouched to the door and locked it. Shots were fired at it.
"Is there a weapon somewhere around? I can't take my pistol, it's under this suit!" Goby complained. The boys started looking around in every closet. All they found was a sawed-off shotgun with 2 shells.
"He must've been a hunter... Hunting! Goby..."
The soldier was pushing against the door. It ceded by force. Goby stood in a corner with his hands up.
"On the ground!" The soldier ordered whil approaching him. "Where's your friend?"
Nonny stood up from behind the bureau. "Here!" And he shot.
"The hunter becomes the hunted. And the hunted is dead." Goby said picking up his weapon. The 2 left the bureau.
The girls arrived at the stairways to go to the underground floors.
"Damnit! The door is locked!" Molly complained. Zooli looked around.
"We can use the elevators perhaps." She proposed.
"No time to lose, let's go." And the 4 girls entered it.
"Underground level, hmm. Here." Deema pressed the button. They went down, for 10 seconds, until...
"It stopped moving! We're stuck!" Oona noticed.
"Never trust elevators in hostile territory," A loudspeaker said, "Now be well behaved and wait until we come to 'liberate' you."
"Stupid of us! We must find a way out." Molly looked up at the emergency trapdoor and opened it. They climbed on the elevator.
"Where do we go now?" Oona asked, holding the cables. Deema spotted a ladder going down, so they took it. Finally, they arrived at the underground floor.
"Now we still have to found Gil. Nonny, you have his location right? You have everyone's location?" Molly asked.
"Oh, yeah let me check... Forward and to the left, there must be a room." He said.
"You 3 guard the stairway entrances. I'll go for Gil." Molly ordered, and here she went, moving cautiously through the hallways. No enemies yet. Suddenly, Molly heard some noises.
"I'm approaching..." Molly whispered. She arrived at a little glass door. Molly looked through it and saw Gil attached at a chair. He was making the noise. Molly impulsively ran into the chamber.
"Gilly!" She said hugging him.
"Molly! Let's leave quickly!" He answered.
"Oh, you are leaving already? That's not very nice." A voice said. Molly turned around and saw Cesario and 2 OD lobsters. She didn't saw the other entrance.
"The bait seemed to work. My plans always work. Addio idioti!" He added, and he shot multiple times at Molly.
"NOOOO!" Gil screamed.
"Hahaha! Che bravo attore. He will fit in perfectly."
Here you go, already a sixth chapter done. I hope you enjoyed it, and see you later!