Chapter 5: Premonition
The City of Frank, Lymph Nodes, 3rd Precinct 1:00 PM
"And at the top of the news this week is the unexpected death of Frank's daughter, Shane. Shane died last night at approximately 11:30 PM in Providence Memorial Hospital. Doctors say that she was taken by a mysterious and sudden fever that killed her in less than 32 hours. Doctors say that her death was definitely caused by a virus." The NNN reporter said, trying not to cry.
Inside the Precinct there were cells coming in from all over asking about Shane's death. The whole City of Frank was saddened and deeply effected by this tragedy. The Chief of Frank PD was holding an emergency conference with some of his best officers, including Drix, the famous cold-pill and Osmosis Jones, the immunity cop that saved Frank.
"As a result of Shane's death, I have doubled security in the brain and all around the body. We don't know if that virus that killed Shane is gone for good or if he's coming here. Hell for all we know he could already be here!" The Chief speculated. "Can any of you tell me where we stand?"
There was silence from the group of officers.
"Ozzie!" The Chief yelled.
Osmosis did not respond. His eyes were wide, he was staring down at the floor and he looked as if he was clearly in another dimension.
"Ozzie!" The Chief yelled again.
No response.
"OSMOSIS!"
"Huh? Yeah, what?" Osmosis said, snapping out of his trance.
"Ozzie, is there something on your mind?"
"No Chief, nothing at all."
The Chief grunted.
"Fine then. If none of you have anything to say, well then I'm adjuring this meeting. You can all leave, um, except you Ozzie. You stay here."
All of the officers left the conference room, including Drix but Osmosis Jones stayed behind.
"No Ozzie. I can tell that you have something on your mind and it's really bothering you. Why don't you tell me what it is?" The Chief asked.
"What's bothering me is something that Thrax had said to me when he had me pinned down to that falsie."
"Thrax? But Ozzie, Thrax is dead. You said you saw him die yourself. You remember you told me that you saw him fall into a beaker of Alcohol. No one could survive that, not even Thrax and you and I both know it."
"I know, I know Chief but his last words to me were chilling. Those words are the kind of thing that you can't forget. They just seem to stick in the back of your mind."
"What did he say?"
"I remember it completely. He said 'Too bad you won't be here, to see me break my record, when I take down Frank's pretty, little girl.'"
"Wow. That is creepy Jones but I don't think he had anything to do with Shane's death. Like I had said before, he's dead."
"I know. I know. But I'm keeping an open mind to all of the possibilities, that's all."
"Why don't you go home Jones? I think having the day off might do you some good."
Suddenly the cell working on communications came bursting into the room.
"Chief! We have an emergency. It seems the Johnny Streptococcus of the Melanoma family has just called for a war between his family and the flu shots."
"Damn. I thought that we cleared up the problem already?"
"I guess not sir."
"Damn. Ozzy?"
"Yeah."
"I'm going to need almost every cop on the force to stop this thing, you up for it?"
"You bet!" Ozzy said, jumping up from his chair. "I'll go get Drix!"
And with that, Osmosis Jones ran out the door, ready to take down the bad guys and unfortunately for Frank, forgetting all about Thrax and his final words.
Somewhere in Providence, Maine 1:55 PM
There was a knock on the door of the transport chopper.
"What?" Draco yelled from the inside.
"Zion's got the plan ready and he needs you're approval, as well as Thrax's before he can run it by the team." Diego replied.
"Well there goes our private time." Thrax murmured in disappointment.
"We'll be out in a minute." Draco shouted.
Thrax began kissing her again. Draco broke away and shouted, "Make that two minutes D."
"Alright." Diego replied, shaking his head and smiling as he walked over to Xion.
"They'll be out in a few."
"Okay D, sure thing."
"How are our two dead bodies doing?" Diego asked with a chuckle.
"Well Spike and Rip fixed them up but I can tell you that our snipers aren't too happy about being beat up by what they refer to as an amateur." Xion replied.
"An amateur huh? Ha! Those two are just sore losers."
"Yeah, I know. They're pretty pathetic aren't they?"
"Yeah. They are Xion. They are. You think those two would learn to mind their own businesses by now but no. I mean look at them; they got their asses kicked, again. I'm just glad that they don't do this stuff while we're pulling off a mission."
"If they did, they'd screw us all. But you gotta admit D, they are the comic reliefs of the team."
"That's true." Diego said with another chuckle. "At least their good at it."
"Aside from being total idiots, they are the best damn snipers I've ever seen." Draco said from behind.
"Hey. You two have fun?" Diego asked as he heard the door to the transport chopper slam shut.
"Yeah. It was a blast." Draco replied as she put her coat back on and walking over to a table that had been set up by the nose of the nearest attack chopper.
"Wouldn't have missed it for anything." Thrax said putting his coat back on as well. "So what do you boys have for us?"
"Well Thrax, I've got the plan." Xion replied.
"Well lay it down baby."
"You got it. I figured that the best place to enter the body would be through an open wound. Well since I couldn't find one, I decided to go for the next best thing. Seems that Frank had several new pimples, most of which are in easy to see places and almost all of which, are starting to bother him. I'm thinking that he's going to pop one soon."
"And what if he doesn't?" Thrax asked raising an eyebrow.
"Then we blow the head and make ourselves an entrance. If we move in fast enough, we probably won't be noticed."
"And if we are?" Draco asked.
"We won't be. When we enter, the chopper blades with be on quiet mode so that they won't make a sound."
"Nice. What's the plan from there Xion?"
"Well commander, from there we're going to head to a warehouse in the liver where we can safely land and park the choppers. As a distraction, I've already taken the liberty of calling a few allies that we have to start a gang war so to speak. The cops will be too busy with that so our chances of pulling phase one off is at almost 100 percent probability."
"That's what I like to hear. I'm assuming that there's a phase two to your plan?"
"That's right Thrax. I'll run that by the team when we complete phase one. If you guys want to know about phases two and three now I can tell you."
"Surprise me." Thrax said with a grin.
"That'll be all for now Xion. You can tell us about the other phases later, after we complete Phase One, just in case we run into problems you'll have some time to fix it." Draco agreed.
"Okay, sounds great." Xion replied.
"Now, there's the little problem with our snipers that I have to attend too. By the way, how are those two?"
"Just fine now Drac." Rip said from out of nowhere.
"Are they awake?"
"Yeah, they are. Awake and unhappy."
"I would be too but then again they'll learn from their mistakes. What are their injuries?"
"Nothing too serious that they won't recover from in a days time. Those two are die hard if you know what I mean."
"Yeah, I do."
Just then, the two snipers came walking around from the temporary infirmary that had been set up by Rip and Spike behind another one of the attack choppers. They both had bandages on their faces as well as other parts of their bodies. Raven was rubbing the right side of his face while Shade was complaining about his arm. They walked over to the group but when they saw Thrax, they froze.
"Hi boys." Draco said with a smile.
"Hey commander." Raven muttered.
"Have you two kung fu masters learned something today?" She asked.
"Yeah. Don't piss off and then get into a fight with a guy who's been drinking coffee." Shade replied, rubbing his arm.
"I think you two are missing the lesson here."
"No we got it. The lesson is not to piss of someone who's bigger, taller and meaner than you are." Raven said.
"Sort of, but I think you guys got the picture anyway."
"So what was that you two said about me being an 'amateur'?" Thrax asked extending his deadly claw.
Shade and Raven's eyes went wide.
"We didn't mean anything by it, honest." Raven said backing up.
Thrax stepped forward, towards them.
"Seriously man, we're sorry!" Shade cried, eyeing Thrax's claw.
"Sorry huh? I outta kill you two just for that insult!" Thrax shouted, stepping towards them.
Suddenly a hand was placed on Thrax's shoulder. Thrax turned around to see Draco.
"C'mon baby. Leave them alone. They've already been beat up enough today and trust me, you'll want them alive. I mean they are great at what they do, possibly even the best." She said.
"You mean being royal pains in the ass?"
"Well they can be, sometimes, but what I meant is that they are the worlds best damn snipers and who knows, their skills may pull your ass out of the water once or twice during this mission. They've done it for me many times in the past."
Thrax's eyes softened and he retracted his claw.
"All right baby, just for you, I won't kill them."
"Thank you Thrax." Draco said, kissing him on the cheek. "Alright boys, now that that's been settled, let's saddle up and move out!"
"Yeah!" The members of Stryker Team Alpha shouted. Everyone packed up the rest of the gear, loaded it onto their choppers and took off. Draco and Thrax were in Attack Chopper 1 although this time Thrax was in the pilot's seat.
"I'm going to teach you how to fly this thing. The skill may come in handy one day." Draco said from the co-pilot's chair. "You ready?"
"You bet I am baby, let's ride." Thrax said starting up the chopper and following Draco's instructions for take off. The team was on their way.