Susan leaned back in her seat for the millionth time, an annoyed look spread across her face. "Where are we headed anyways?"

Katz paid only ½ attention as he continued to read over his notes. "M.O.L.E unit, are you fully charged?" he asked.

"Fully charged," Mole said confidently, doing a solute.

Katz didn't miss a beat, "that's good, now I need you to do a full systems shut down until further notice."

Mole looked at him surprised, "shut down? I haven't been shut down since I was activated nearly 18 years ago."

"This is for your own good," Katz said as he pressed Moles "M" emblem for 3 seconds, the light in Moles eyes extinguishing.

Susan looked at him unamused.

"what ?" he asked unsure what he had done. "This is for his own good. If the files collected from Vein's computer are correct, as soon as we get closer to his base, well be hit by an EMP that is designed to fry all active electronics."

"Where are we headed?" Susan asked sternly.

"A location of the coast of Florida. A location that is commonly known as The Devil's Triangle."

Susan looked at him stunned. "As in the Bermuda Triangle?!"

"Indeed. Vein has been using an island in the heart of the triangle as some sort of base."

"Is it his only base," Susan asked hopping, but knowing the answer.

"No."

"And your plan was to fly a plane through it?"

Katz just looked at his watch. "Do you really think that was my plane," he said as he rose from his seat, Susan following behind him to the back of the plane.

As they passed through the door separating the storage room from the passenger's seats, Susan quickly noticed the small raft under a tarp.

"Simple," Katz started, "we ditch the plane once the EMP hits, paddle the rest of the way, infiltrate Veins using disguised as guards, locate the Poppyfields, free them, and commandeer one of Veins ships or planes. In and out."

Susan looked at him quizzically. "You got that all from your notes?"

Katz looked sad for a moment. "I have been looking for Xero's parents for a long time. She needs them. And I needed you here on this mission."

Her face turned firm at his comment. "Is Vein going to be on the island?"

"No. But you are back up just in case."

"And what about all the other prisoners?"

Katz turned away for a moment. "They will have to wait."

She looked at him shocked. "We're going to abandon them?"

"No, just come back for them at a later time. It going to be difficult to rescue two of them, much less a prison full of them."

"You know just as well as I do that if Vein finds out, personally or from one of his henchmen, that outsides infiltrated and broke out two of his most wanted, the rest of the prisoners will be distributed to other unknown, untraceable bases. They may never be seen again! This may be their only way of escape too!"

Katz avoided eye contact. "We are only here to rescue the Poppyfields, no one else. We are here to rescue our friends."

"By abandoning countless others? That's what the Poppyfields would have wanted!"

"How would you know what they would have wanted!" Katz yelled back.

Susan was silent for a moment, contemplating all she had said and heard. And she hadn't heard. "What did the council say about all this?"

He looked away again.

"You didn't get their approval, did you. You've gone rogue."

"They would never understand. If anything they would only bomb the island. And you know this."

She silently nodded her head in agreement. After a moment she asked what she had been dreading. "What if we do encounter Vein?"

Suddenly the plane started to shake as a blast of energy could be heard outside.

"No!" Katz yelled shocked, "This isn't right, it's too soon," he said as he through the tarp off of the small boat.

"What happened," Susan asked as she could feel the plane start to go into a free fall.

"The EMP is early," Katz said as he started to untangle the small boat.

Susan quickly turned and ran back to the passenger seats.

"No," Katz yelled, "It's too late."

She quickly ran to the seats and scooped up both of their travel bags, the deactivated Mole, and two life vests.

The duo quickly jumped onto the small boat, unhinged it and dropped through the drop door of the plane, now adrift at sea. They both watched as the plane nose-dived into the sea and then below it.

Katz searcher frantically through his notes. "This was not supposed to happen."

"Well, it happened," Susan said as she pressed on Moles emblem to reactivate him. "So either you notes are no longer correct… or Vein knows were coming."

Vein looked with concern in his eyes and fear in his mind, fear of which case they were now facing.

Suddenly the light in Moles eyes glowed back to life as he sat up from the floor of the small boat. "What did I miss?"