The Crop Circle Syndrome

Part Five: Scrubbing Out Alien Scum

Things looked hopeless from where Chase was dangling, over a vat of bubbling poison from Gent's home world. If it weren't for the gag in his mouth he would've inhaled so many of the fumes that he'd have passed out again.

'He's done this to distract the others from that spaceship over the fields.' Chase was kicking himself for getting captured. 'At least Di got out safe. Not that that does me any good.'

Grinning Gent stepped out of the shadows and starred up triumphantly at his captive. "Saying your prayers agent?"

Chase mumbled insults at Gent through his gag and glared at the smug expression on his scaly face.

"Don't worry, it'll be quick and painless---make that slow and agonizing." Gent chuckled.

He was stopped from gloating further when a dot bleeped on his radar device. "Looks like company's coming."

Chase started to sweat, and this time it wasn't because of the heat. It was Di, he knew it. She was walking right into a trap and there was nothing he could do to warn her.

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"Can't this thing go any faster?!" Di shouted over the roar of the engine as the vehicle sped through the alleyways.

"I've already pushed the little red button as far in as it will go!" Agent T shouted back. For someone who thought so little of her partner Di certainly did seem to care about him a lot.

"Well floor it T!" Di cried impatiently, reaching into the backseat and pulling out her Series 4 De-atomizer.

They spun into the back parking lot of the empty building and cautiously entered through the side.

"It's awfully quiet in here." T murmured.

Di was looking at the screen to the tracer for the chip that had been implanted into her partner's standard issue MIB watch. Just another security measure thought up by Yazmine, one of the newest staff additions to the MIB's lab.

Chase struggled against the chains as he watched Di and another agent enter the building and search for a light switch.

"There has to be a switch around here somewhere." Di grumbled.

"Well hurry up," T whispered, "I can barely see an inch past my-"

Before T could utter another syllable the lights flickered on all at once.

"-thanks."

"I didn't do it." Di muttered uneasily, raising her weapon and edging over to T.

"Then who?"

"Ah ladies, so nice to see you." Gent sneered and stepped out in front of them with his own weapon raised high. "But correct if I'm wrong, aren't they called the Men in Black?"

"I say we clubber him just for that." T scowled.

"Sounds good to me." Di took aim and fired, her blast was deflected by some sort of force field surrounding Gent.

The scaly menace laughed harshly, "You fools! Did you honestly think I wouldn't be prepared for your predictable attacks?"

"Did you honestly think we hadn't planned on that?" T countered, taking a device out of her suit pocket and pressing a button. The device sent out a high pitch frequency designed to scramble the circuits of certain alien defenses causing them to malfunction.

"What?" Gent starred in shock as the barrier around him flickered and then vanished.

"Now Di!"

Taking aim once more Di fired, this time, Gent was knocked back to the other side of the building. Collapsing after he hit a cement wall Gent fell to the floor.

"You handle Gent," Di called, racing for a nearby ladder to the rafters, "I'll free Chase."

"Right," T nodded and raced over to the fallen alien.

Chase looked up as his partner crawled across the rafters and reached down to pull him up. Grabbing the chains Di realized this wasn't going to be an easy task. She yanked as hard as she could and nearly lost her balance before she was able to pull Chase up. "Not to sound cruel Chase, but you have GOT to go on a DIET!"

Pulling the gag off he replied sarcastically, "My hero."

"Don't tempt me to shove you!"

"No time," he stood up and started making his way to the ladder, "we've got to stop those aliens before they make a clean getaway."

"A simple 'thank you' would be nice." Di grumbled.

"Alright Sir," T finished talking to the chief and closed the communicator. "Listen you two, I'm staying here and waiting for the containment crew so we can take Gent back to headquarters but the boss wants you to go out to that field and take down those aliens."

"I plan to." Chase answered dashing out the door.

"HEY!" Di shouted, "Did you forget? You have a PARTNER!"

She barely managed to buckle up before Chase slammed his foot down on the accelerator and sped out of the parking lot.

"I don't suppose I could convince you to release me?" Gent asked T from inside the building, "You know, I could make it worth your while…"

T raised her leg and kneed the slime ball in the stomach, "Quiet creep! Or this Woman in Black will use you for a punching bag!"

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