Hiya, sorry I've been awhile; I have lost this chapter once, I had exams and was finding it hard to focus. But this chapter is now up and I'll focus on this as much as possible.
Anyway, enjoy.
Chapter 10: Closing the Web
"Can someone tell me what the FUCK happened?!" Edward ordered. The FFCI had just made him look a fool on national television.
At the same time the Home Secretary, Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Party Chairman, Party Whip and Intelligence chiefs were on their mobile phones, finding out any information.
Sir Daniel Lord hung up from his phone and told the Prime Minister: "Okay; Winston told me that they were two field agents with them. They decided to act against them and tried to undermine them. I have ordered him to send armed police to area."
"Ah," David Johnson said. "I just told Chief Constable Thomas to send armed police as well."
"I've told the army to mobilize more quickly into the city," the Defence Secretary said, "I feel we need to get a presents in Diamond."
"And I got GCHQ to check the authority of the broadcast," the deputy head of GCHQ said.
"Do you know who did this?" Edward asked.
"We're finding out know," Sir Daniel said.
"You know the media is going to have a field day on this," the Health Secretary said.
"If you haven't got anything useful to say then don't say anything at all," Edward said. His voice was filled with anger. It took the Health Secretary by surprise; she normally had a good relationship with the Prime Minister and she was one of his main supporters.
"I think the best course of action is to brief some ministers and get them ready for interviews on TV," the Party Chairman said. "We might need to use one of us; if that happens I recommend either David or Tom."
"Wow," Ninja said after watching the broadcast.
"Give them hell, that's what I say," the black Labrador said.
"Who's that?" Ninja asked.
"The government of course," the Labrador answered. "Bunch of wankers."
"I'm surprised they pulled it off," Terry said.
"What do you mean?" Ninja asked.
"Nothing to concern you," the Labrador said.
"I want to know," Ninja said.
"There's something I don't like about you," the Rottweiler said. He looked at Ninja for a moment when his thoughts clicked together and said: "YOU'RE A SPY!!"
Both Ninja and the Rottweiler stood up and the Rottweiler aimed a right hook at Ninja's face. Ninja blocked the punched, grabbed his wrist and pulled the Rottweilier's arm behind his back.
The Labrador got up, knocking his chair down onto the floor. He charged at Ninja. When he came close Ninja did a karate chop on his throat. The Labrador fell down, holding his throat in pain.
At the same Terry got up from his seat and started to run towards the fire exit. Claws was watching him all the time and charged towards Terry. Claws rugby tackled into Terry, knocking him onto the floor. Claws then got on top of him and extended his claws.
"You're coming with me," Claws said.
Behind him was a large black rat. He smashed a chair on his head and the star cat collapsed. Terry used it as his opportune to run.
Ninja saw the rat ready to hit Claws once again and the wolf decided to act. Ninja pushed the Rottweiler towards the rat and bold the dog and rodent fell to the floor.
Claws was getting up from the floor; his healing abilities made him able to recovery quickly.
"GO!!!" Ninja shouted. "GET TERRY!!!!!"
Claws did as he said and went out through the fire exit.
In the pub all the men were surrounding Ninja. Ninja knew they only hope of getting Terry was if he kept the men distracted.
"Bring it on!" Ninja said.
A large panda charged at him. Ninja did a left punch at his face and the panda fell. A grey furred rabbit charged at Ninja's side. Ninja kicked him into the chest. The rat then went towards Ninja. He reacted by doing a karate chop to his throat.
The fire exit led out into an alleyway. In a person went right they would go out into the street; however Terry Gibson didn't know the area very well and when left into a network of alleyways.
Claws was close on Terry's trail. At the same time he was on his mobile phone.
"Police please," he said, panting. It took a moment for him to be connected. They asked him where he is and what he needed. Claws relied: "Devil's Hand pub; my mate is being assaulted by the people they. Come quick."
Claws hung up and ran faster to catch up with Terry Gibson.
During the chase Terry turned right into what he thought was a way through to streets. Unfortunately it was a dead end and when he turned around Claws was blocking the exit.
"You're coming with me," Claws said. "We can either do this the easy way or the hard way." He extended his claws as he said that.
Terry looked around on the ground to find anything of use to him. He saw a broke beer bottle. He picked it and charged at Claws. As he got close Claws sidestepped and grabbed his arm. Claws pinned Terry's arm behind his back and put his left index figure claw against Terry's throat.
Terry elbowed Claws in his side forcing him to let go. Terry then span round and smashed the bottle in Claws' face and screamed in pain.
Terry then punched him in the face.
"Not so tough now," Terry said and kneed him in the stomach. "SCUM!!!"
The pain in Claws' eye started to numb; he had a piece of glass still in his eye and had his left eye closed. The cuts healed up and fur grew back over the skin.
Terry was to about to punch Claws again. As his fist was coming towards Claws, the star cat grabbed the bulldog's wrist and stabbed him in his left side.
"As I said you're coming with me," Claws said and then muttered "bastard".
"That was really FUCKING stupid!!!" Jessica shouted at Knuckles when they both got behind a large steel box on the roof. The guards were shooting at them at the time and Jessica and Knuckles could hear bullets hitting the metal.
The guards were shooting for a minute when they stopped and one said: "are they dead?"
"I'll check," another guard said.
Knuckles quickly looked to see a young lizard with a semi-automatic machine gun.
Knuckles made sure his face wasn't visible by moving it after from the edge of the box. He put his right hand on Jessica's stomach forcing her to put her back against the box. Knuckles put his left index figure against his lips to indicate to be silence.
Knuckles removed his hand off Jessica's stomach and when into a fighting stance. His fist started to glowed purple and waited for the guard to come enough for him to attack.
Jessica noticed the door to the stairs. She knew it was in running distance and looked at Knuckles to see his response.
Knuckles mouthed 'wait'.
The guard was now close enough for Knuckles to attack. He turned around 90 degrees and punched the guard in the face with his right fist. He then did a karate chop to the guard's neck and with his left hand he rammed the guard against the box. Knuckles gave the guard a right hook, knocking him unconscious.
Knuckles took the guard's gun and started to shoot at the reminding guards.
"RUN!!!" he shouted at Jessica and she obeyed his command.
It took her fifteen seconds to do the run to the door. Once she was in the small area at the top of the stairs she put her back against the wall to make herself a hard target.
The mobile phone in her pocket started to ring and Jessica picked it up.
"Hello?" she said.
"Hi," a male Liverpulian voice said. "My name is Sgt. John Gerrard, Armed Response Unit."
"Police?" Jessica asked.
"Yeah. We need intelligence about the situation."
"Pretty shit," she answered quickly.
"I mean how many men, where they are, what weapons they have."
"About ten men on the roof with semi-automatics," Jessica answered. "But they are possibly more in the lower levels monitoring CCTV and the like."
"That's all I need to know for now," Sgt. Gerrard said. "I'll call back if I need to. My men have been told what you look like so won't shoot when they see you."
Sgt. Gerrard hung up and Jessica put the phone in her pocket.
Seconds later Knuckles ran into the door backwards shooting at the guards. He shut the door and checked his gun. The magazine was empty so snapped off the trigger and use it to lock the door by putting the gun through the door handle and bars on the wall next to it.
"Okay," Knuckles said. "Downstairs now!"
In an area of the city with lower lying flats and terrace houses Stars was driving with Natalie and Agolo. They were not going anywhere; it was just so that they were able to talk to eachother in privacy.
"So why were you sent here?" Natalie asked Agolo.
"It's a long story," Agolo answered.
"Go ahead," Stars said to the foreign gorilla.
"Okay," Agolo took a deep breath and started talking. "When I was 16 I joined Gualand's army. At 20 I was in Special Forces doing secret missions. I was very successful in my job and I was brought in my country's counter-intelligence service. At the same time General Yobani built up his forces and started the civil war. I integrated myself within Yobani's council and was able to get information and foil attacks for three year before I was found out.
"General Yobani gave me three options: become a double agent; become a commander in his army; or my family and I suffer a horrible death. I choose to be a commander and I became a wanted man.
"Two months ago the government launched a raid against me. I was close to being arrested when General Yobani's forces and the Eye saved me.
"I had to leave the country and man named Mount Hammal offered me a way out."
"Mount Hammal?" Stars asked.
"Yeah," Agolo said. "That was his name."
"Kangaroo? In his early 30's? Able to change his size?" Stars asked.
"Yeah."
"SHIT!!!!" Stars shouted.
"What is it?" Natalie asked.
"I had to do mission against him February and we all pissed him off," Stars said.
"Anyway," Agolo said. "Mount offered me a chance to come here, but I had to work for him."
"What did he make you do?" Stars asked.
"Train his guards, make and plant bombs, teach them communication monitoring and jamming, things of that nature," Agolo answered.
"So where did you plant your bomb?" Natalie asked.
"I'll tell you if you meet with my conditions," Agolo relied.
"Or we could not and I can read your mind," Stars said.
"They are reasonable."
"We're not the people to talk to," Natalie said. She took her mobile out of her pocket and looked in the phonebook for Marie's number. She put the phone next to her ear and it rang two times before being answered.
"Hello?" Marie said.
"We got Agolo," Natalie said. "He wants to speak to you."
She turned round and gave Agolo the phone.
"Hi," Agolo said. "This is Agolo Kwowo."
"What can I do for you Agolo?" Marie asked.
"I've got information and I'm willing to give it to you; but I have so requests I need you to comply first."
"MI5's position is not to negotiate with terrorists," Marie answered.
"First I'm not a terrorist," Agolo said. "Second I know how MI5 works and you are willing to do pretty much anything if you thought it could save a large number of lives."
This guy knows his stuff Marie thought. She was way over her level of experience and had to give this to her senior officer.
"Could you a wait a moment?" Marie asked.
"Okay," Agolo wasn't should what was going to happen.
Agolo had to wait two minutes before being connected to another MI5 agent.
"Agolo, this is Mets," a male voice said over the phone. "If you got demands you talk to me."
"Fair enough," Agolo answered. "My demands are first I want my family to be safe; either to in an embassy or in another country. Second I want to be free of prosecution if or when this goes to court."
Winston took a moment to think about what Agolo requested. He could tell by Agolo's voice that he was a good man and should be help. Winston also needed to know where the bomb was; he couldn't risk anymore lives lost.
"Okay," Winston said. "I have contacts in the Foreign Office and MI6; they can bring your family to our embassy. I assume you are in trouble with fascists in Gualand."
"Yeah," Agolo said.
"That's good because I know General Yobani doesn't want to piss off foreign countries.
"Secondly; I'll try to make a deal with the police and my superiors but I'm not likely to make you free from prosecution: however because of you cooperation and the fact that you were forced into this you'll only get a light sentence of one or two years in prison."
"That's properly the best I could hope for," Agolo answered. "But do you promise to make sure that my family are safe."
"I promise."
"The bomb is at Radcliff College, in the main hall. A good bomb disposal expect can easily disarm the bomb.
"But I must warn you, the bomb is chemical, so your men will have to be careful," Agolo finished off.
Agolo hung up and gave the phone it back to Natalie.
"Now turn left here," Agolo said.
"Why?" Stars asked.
"Because we're going to Mount's base."
When police arrived to the Devil's Hand they were surprised to see that Ninja was able to beat back a pub full of angry people.
The police brought two paramedics incase they was anyone suffering from serious injury. The most they had to deal with were broken bones and torn muscles.
The only people standing were Claws, Ninja and Terry.
"What happened here?" one officer, a young male raccoon asked in shock. He had been to the Devil's Hand before and he never seen it way Ninja and Claws have left it.
"I was defending myself," Ninja answered.
"You did all this?" the officer asked.
"I have a black-belt in karate. I can defend myself very well."
"Anyway we got Terry Gibson," Claws said, indicating the bulldog in-front of him, holding his fists behind his back. "Check if you don't believe me."
The officer turned his head slightly to his radio and pressed the button on.
"This is PC Sellers," the officer said. "Is there an arrest warren out for a Terry Gibson?"
Claws and Ninja were both hoping for Marie or Mets told the police to bring Terry in, otherwise they were buggered.
"He's to be brought to Central Diamond Police Station for questioning," a female voice relied.
"Thanks Trace," PC Seller said into his radio. He grabbed Terry and said; "you're coming with me."
The police officer took Terry out of the pub and into the back of a police car.
After a moment a paramedic, a young grey-blue fluffy cat went up to Claws.
"What happened?" she asked, grabbed his face and forcing his eye open.
"That wanker smashed a bottle in my face," Claws answered.
"And a piece of glass is still in your eye." She kept the open with one hand and used her mini torch to look in his eye. "The good news is there's no permanent damage…"
"But the bad news?" Claws asked.
"Is you're going to suffer a lot of pain," the paramedic said as she put her figures in his eye and putted out the glasses.
Claws screamed: "SHIT!!!" He held his eye and was blinking. Blood was running down his face, drying in his fur. But his eye was healing and he removed his hand from his eye. He was still blinking but it was only natural for him to do it.
"I'm Abby by the way," the paramedic said.
"Claws."
"How old are you?" she asked.
"Twenty."
"What is you occupation?" she asked trying to sound official and making her questions seem routine but was clearly interested in Claws.
"Uni student, final year."
"What in?"
"Computer Studies; I know, I'm sad like that."
"It's properly going to earn you more money then I ever will," Abby said. "Anyway, where do you live?"
"14 Earling Road," Claws said. "Can I borrow your pen and paper?"
"Sure," Abby said and gave him the notepad and biro in her hands.
Claws wrote a number on the paper and gave it back to Abby.
"That's my mobile number," Claws said. "Call me when you next get a chance."
"We have to go back to the house," Ninja said to Claws.
"Okay," he answered back. "Hope to hear from you later," he said to Abby and both Claws and Ninja left the pub and headed to back towards 7 Imperial Road.
The doctors were running tests Amy and advised Sonic to leave them and have a walk outside.
Before he went out into the hospital garden he brought a packet of cheese and onion crisps, a chocolate bar and can of Coke-Cola; all of that was his lunch for the day.
When Sonic was walking in the garden he thought it was relaxing place for him to be in: it helped him keep his mind off the worst cast scenario; Amy being paralysed for life.
Sonic found a bench to sit on and open the crisp packet. He also reached into his pocket, brought out his mobile phone and turned it on. He only did that because the doctors and nurses said they would call him if Amy needed or requested him.
Sonic opened his can of Cola and took a slip to wash down the taste of the crisps when his phone started to ring. He looked at the number; it was 901, his voicemail.
The blue hedgehog answered it. An automated-voice told him he had a message and then the next thing he heard was a female voice: "Hi Sonic, my name is Marie and I work for MI5. Mets told me to call you and we need you to come to Seven Imperial Road as soon as possible. We need every agent available for what we are about to face."
Shit was the first word that came to Sonic's head. He didn't want to leave Amy but it must have been serious for MI5 to call him. The only thing he could think of doing was wait for Amy's parents arrived which and they were over an hour away.
So he decided to continue eating and drinking before going back up and wait for Amy.
The Armed Response Unit (ARU) of the police hacked into Buro Business Park surveillance system. They knew where the guards were and saw Jessica and Knuckles running away from the guards and were trying to aim downstairs.
Sgt. Gerrard, a 42-year-old red squirrel, was worried. He didn't want to lose any men in the assault and he saw from the camera footage that guards were looking for the MI5 agents, blissfully unaware of the ARU were ready to strike the building.
Sgt. Gerrard took his mobile phone out of his pocket and typed in Jessica's number. It took three rings before she answered.
"Hello," she panted.
"This is Sgt. Gerrard again," he said. "I need you and your colleague to stay in the building as long as possible."
"ARE YOU MAD!!?" Jessica yelled forcing the Sergeant to hold the phone away from his ear.
"We are planning an assault on the building and we need the guards to be distracted so to make it as easy as possible."
"So you want me and Knuckles to be target practice!"
"No, we want you alive; I don't want to be in the shit with Chief Constable Thomas and MI5. I'm going to give you to a camera operator and he'll tell you how to avoid the guards."
Gerrard gave his phone to the camera operator and hoped to God they would stay in the building.
Gerrard would have to wait fifteen minutes for a helicopter full specially trained armed police. Gerrard's plan was sandwich the fascists by attacking the ground floor and the roof at the same time. His officers were armed with semi-automatic machine guns designed only to wound. If his attack was to be successful he had to do a lightening strike with the guards taken by surprise.
When the helicopter arrived and started to hover over the building Sgt. Gerrard ordered all his officers to enter the building. He had ten men entering the ground floor and ten entering the roof. He had another fifteen as reserves and snipers in surrounding buildings.
From the intelligence Gerrard got from Jessica and Knuckles and from the camera it was estimated that there were twelve to fifteen men armed with semi-automatics.
When the police entered they split into teams of five. All the policemen had an earpiece linked to the camera operator who told them were to go.
Once the suspects were arrested and sent to Central Diamond Police Station the forensic team and Special Branch would take over the building and look for evidence.
It wasn't long when the police took the guards out with their hands cuffed and being sent into police van with officers waiting to question them.
"HANDS ON YOUR HEADS!!!" a policeman, a large Dalmatian, shouted at the red echidna and green star cat with blond hair.
Knuckles and Jessica obeyed the order. The policemen were all pointing their guns at their head but had no intention to use them. They were told what species and their fur colour was; however they need to check everyone that they were the MI5 agents.
"LIE DOWN!!" the policeman shouted and again Knuckles and Jessica obeyed. Another two policemen frisked them. "Names?"
"Knuckles Echidnal."
"Jessica Staray."
The policemen took their guns away from them and bagged them up. However MI5 wouldn't be pleased if the police took their guns.
"Okay, Sgt. Gerrard will want to see you," the Dalmatian said whiles two officers picked them off the ground and put them back on their feet.
Shijo Ajiu was setting at his desk in his office. In his hands was silver pistol and on the desk was an empty shot glass. He wasn't a family man; he never married and had no children. His family disowned him when he converted to Christianity and joined the Shojan Army, a far-right paramilitary organisation in Koati.
When he was in the Shojan Army he was in some key attacks against Trade Unions, large businesses and factories and the assassination of his country's Finance Minister. It was after the assassination of the minister he felt the country and worked as a freelance terrorist. He had closed links with Robotnik and the government of Ferutme.
Now he was waiting for the police and he was undecided whether to surrender, fight back or commit suicide. Unfortunately for him he couldn't make the decision.
A sniper in the building behind him shot bullets at Shijo. One hit the glass and two went into his desk. It was an amateur mistake sitting by a large window when the police were surrounding the building.
Shijo jumped over the desk and used it as a shield as he was shooting blinding at any possible locations where the sniper could be.
Seconds later the five heavily armed policemen when into his office and rushed towards him. Two officers grabbed his arms and cuffed his hands whiles another took his gun and bagged it as evidence.
"Shijo Ajiu," one of the officers said. "You are under arrest for committing acts of Terrorism, conspiracy of committing terrorist acts and possession of a fireman. You have the right to remind silence but anything you do say can and will be against you in a court of law. Do you understand?"
"Yes," Shijo answered and the policemen took one of the worlds most feared terrorists down to the police van and then to be taken to the Police Station for questioning by MI5 and MI6 agents.
In the underground tunnel Winston Drake sent one of his agents to search the area. Drake also sent an agent to search the sewage system for bombs, weapons or suspects. Winston's theory was that a good hiding place was underground, but the police were overstretched so had to send two young agents to look for him.
The agent in the tunnel was called Jamie Radstock. He was a 26-year-old white leopard, a former marine and someone Winston Drake saw great potential in him. He thought that Jamie could become a useful field officer but believe he needed to be educated more and so was doing an Open University degree in Psychology.
Jamie was armed with a torch and a small pistol which he had in his hands. He had a radio earpiece and he was reporting back to his headquarters ever twenty minutes; even though he had nothing to report.
Jamie finished doing his report back to MI5 and continued with his search. This was a big job for one man to do. He went forward into the darkest, looking at every possible grab a bomb could be hiding.
After another five minutes Jamie looked down a corridor at the side of the tunnel. He was walking down it. It looked like there was nothing there.
Suddenly Jamie felt pain in the back of his head and fell forward. He felt the pipe hit his head again and he fell unconscious.
Graham Selmon dragged the MI5 agent out from the corridor and onto the dead rails. Waiting for Graham was a Jaguar that was glowing green around his body.
"Do we kill him now?" Graham asked.
"No," the Jaguar answered in an American accent. "He may be useful to us."
"Are you going to get Vicky out?"
"Of course we will. But there is a complication," the Jaguar answered.
"What's that?"
"She has been taken by the police. We are also losing men to the Security Services."
"What about the bomb? When is it going out?"
"When everyone leaves the city. I'll set it off myself. This is going to be a great day for us you," the Jaguar finished off slightly tapping Graham's face.
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