Chapter 13: Firefights
Stars and Natalie were sitting on the floor of the bare room in the warehouse. Agolo was standing by the door with a pistol in his right hand.
"So," Natalie said breaking the silence, "what are we going to do?"
"We have three opinions," Agolo said. "First is we stay here and wait for Special Forces,"
"Pass," Stars said.
"Second is we try and escape," Agolo said.
"And the third one?" Natalie asked.
"We stay and fight."
"If you want my honest opinion," Stars said, "I don't like any of those."
"Well, you have to pick to one."
"Can't we tried and let Natalie escape and we take on the guards for a while?" Stars asked.
"We can see."
"Do I have a say in this at all?" Natalie asked. "I can help you!"
"I just don't want to you to get hurt," Stars answered.
"BOLLOCKS!!" Natalie shouted back at him. "You're just sexist! I am able to fight."
"It's not because you are a woman," Stars said. "It's because I love you."
"Lover tiff," Agolo joked.
"SHUT UP!" both star-cats shouted.
"Look," Stars said to Natalie, "I just don't want you to get hurt."
"You know we can get hurt when trying getting her to escape," Agolo said.
"Thanks a lot," Stars said bitterly.
"As long as we stay together there is less chance we'll get kill," Natalie said to reassure Stars. "Is that right Agolo?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, we'll stick together," Stars said.
"Good," Agolo said. "We'll go in a few minutes."
The troops were lying in wait. They have planted the bombs onto the walls and were just waiting for orders to attack.
The rebels were still firing at the embassy but only with small arms. They have caused a lot of damage to the street, especially the embassy; it was going to cost a lot of money to repair all this.
Captain Connery, a large tortoise, had set himself up in the local police station and had to rely on what his sergeants was telling him about the situation on the ground.
All of them told them they were in position and ready for attack.
"All units," the Captain said, "Operation Local Strom is now on."
The bombs when off and the troops in the garden knocked down the back door.
The rebels within the building were taken by surprise and some were knocked off their feet. There were only seven of the rebels in building who were unsure what was happening and wondered how they could miss a counter attack by the either the Gualish or Freemantlish forces.
There were three rebels on the third floor and the reminding four were on the top. Their leader, a hyena, ordered that two rebels from the third floor and two from the fourth to go to the stairs where the three reminding rebels were firing at the embassy.
The troops were especially trained for close quarter combat and knew how to deal with an assault on buildings.
A bomb on the forth floor went off and the rebels turned round pointing there guns at the disintegrated wall.
The troops threw a flashbang into the room. The rebels just fired randomly in air.
One of the rebels was shot in the leg and another in the elbow. Both men screamed in pain; but no one could hear them.
The other two rebels were forced down on the ground and handcuffed.
The troops from the second floor threw a flashbang up the stairs and caused panic with the reminding three rebels. They were confused and scared. The rebels fired there guns randomly; but couldn't tell where the troops were coming from.
Some of the troops from upstairs ran down the stairs to help. The rebels were easily tackled and handcuffed; ready to be questioned by MI6 and the Gualish Counter-Intelligence Service.
In Camblie barracks fifteen SAS troops were waiting for there commander to them their briefing.
Lt. Col. Leon Dalo entered the room to give his second mission briefing of the day.
"Good Afternoon Gentlemen," the leopard said. "We have a mission to in Diamond."
A young man at the projector turned it on and an Ariel photo of the eastern half Diamond came up on the wall of the room.
"This is the building in question," Dalo said, pointing to the warehouse. "Already there are snipers and MI5 officers are at the scene gathering intelligence. There are also three officers in the building.
"Also an MI5 officer is gathering intelligence for us from the cameras set-up by one of the officers in the building.
"It is estimated that they are thirty men, some are former SAS." Dalo had to mention. "So we'll enter through the sky-light and whiles at the same time another team will set up bombs around the building.
"Here are the people already in the building," Dalo said as three file pictures came up on the wall. "They are Agolo Kwowo, Stars Staray and Natalie Laser; shoot them and you have a hell of a lot to answer for.
"Also in the building is this man," Dalo said and a black-and-white picture of a kangaroo standing on a city street. "This is Mount Hammal. We need to capture him; he is the second-in-command of a major fascist organisation."
"What are the rules-of-engagement?" a 22-year-old silver monkey asked.
"Preferably MI5 wants us to capture everyone," Dalo answered. "However these people are heavily armed and we are going to have to kill some people."
"I'VE SEEN THEM!!!" a male voice shouted.
"Shit!!!" Stars said. "Got any other bright ideas?" he asked Agolo aggressively.
"Do you think you could come up with anything better?" Agolo answered back.
"DUCK!" Natalie shouted. She had her arms out at full stretch.
The two men obeyed her. The red star-cat focused and two wide red beams of energy came out all her figures. They hit the guard and he forced him into the wall. He grunted in pain before falling unconscious.
"Go to the second floor," Agolo ordered. "I'll join you in a minute."
Stars and Natalie did what the gorilla ordered and started to move.
Agolo went to edge of the walkway and started to search for targets.
In the building opposite the MI5 officers heard the gunfire.
"Okay," Sonic said. "I'm calling Marie."
Claws was working on a laptop, using an infrared-red camera and software. He was sending the information to an MI5 technician in Emerald; however he could make a good guess himself.
"What I think is happening," Claws said, "is that this bloke, properly Agolo is trying to be a decoy whiles the other two here," he pointed to two red figures running down stairs, "are trying to get escape or at least get into safety."
"As interesting as this is bro," Jessica said, looking over Claws' right shoulder, "but how is this useful to us?"
Claws looked at his sister; she now was wearing black sport trousers and army boots. "Well Jess, it can be very useful for us and Special Forces because we know where they are."
"Fare enough," Jessica said.
"Special Forces are on they way," Sonic said hanging up on Marie. "They will be here in twenty-five minutes and give us a briefing."
"That something to look forward to," Ninja muttered.
Hammal was in his office packing up as much of things as possible. He knew the game; MI5 would want him and do anything to get to him alive. His boss liked him and knew how important he is to they organisation but he wouldn't risk a rescue attempt.
His escape plan was simple: he will go up to the roof of building and use the fire exit to get back onto the ground. He would then shrink so that snipers can't find him and then make it to a car park where he would steal a car and leave the city as fast as possible.
He took out his pistol from his jacket and checked it was fully loaded and working.
The kangaroo didn't want to leave his men but they were not needed; the Eye could survive without them.
He checked to make sure he had everything of importance in his backpack and put it on.
Mount picked up his mobile phone and rang a man in the building. He told him to erase everything off the computers.
The MI5 technician was watching the images he was getting from Claws' laptop. On his ear was an earpiece with a microphone attached; he was able to speak with Marie Kingsley and the Inspector in charge of the snipers.
The technician was looking at a figure walking up the stairs to the fourth floor. This figure was unusual; everyone in the building seem to be running around like headless chickens, but this man seem focused and controlled.
After two minutes the technician saw what the man was doing. He was walking up another flight of stairs towards the roof of the building.
"SHIT!" the technician shouted. He putted the earpiece deeper into his ear. "Marie, Inspector," he said, "a man is trying to leave the building through the roof. He'll be out in seconds."
"Thanks Pete," Marie said.
The police were in buildings all around the warehouse. They were ten snipers and all of them were in the command of Inspector Ian Cummings. His experience had been mainly dealing bank jobs, arm robberies and people with weapons. Toby never did a job for MI5.
"Inspector," a woman's voice said in the lion's ear, "a man is coming out the roof, shoot to wound."
"PC Murray," Ian said into his radio, "shoot to wound."
"Roger."
Everyone watched the building and waited for the man to come out. The door opened and Murray fired a bullet at the man's arm.
Then the most unusual thing happened; the man shrank to the size of a wild rodent.
"FUCK!!" Ian shouted. He pushed his earpiece in. "Marie, we lost him."
"How the bloody hell did you lose him?!"
"He was an evolver, he changed his size."
"That's Mount Hammal," Marie said in shook. "Get someone there; we need to question him!"
"Mr. Prime Minister," a male voice said over the speakerphone, "good news: we captured the terrorists with no casualties. MI6 and Gualish Intelligence are going to question them as soon as possible."
"Thank you Mr. Ambassador," Edward Bear said.
"How much is the damage to the embassy going to cost?" George O'Tinnal asked.
"A rough estimate; half-a-million pounds," Toby Jenkins answered.
"Damn," George said to himself.
"We'll find the money somewhere," the Chancellor said.
"We also have another problem," Dame Caroline Walters said, "is the fact that we been attacked by the rebels; that means we're a target and we have to get involved in Gualand. This could mean a change in our whole Foreign Policy in the region."
"I create the foreign policy here," George said in his strong Irish accent.
"I'm just stating the facts," Caroline said to her boss.
"Anyway we got more important things to worry about here," Sir Daniel Lord said, hanging up on his mobile phone. "Winston has told me that he has ordered Special Forces to raid a warehouse in the city. His intelligence show that a leader of a major terrorist organisation is in the building."
"Oh this day is getting better and better," David Johnson muttered with sarcasm.
"We struck in the same situation again," Stars said to Agolo.
"Great detective work," Agolo said with sarcasm. "I see MI5 searched high and low for people like you."
"Listen here monkey boy," Stars answered. "We are in the shit and need to get out. Now do you have any ideas to get us out of here." He was struggling to keep calm.
"I think getting out this building will be a bad idea."
"Why?" Natalie asked.
"Besides from it being very difficult to get out of here, we'll possibly be shot when we leave the building."
"That's a point," Stars admitted.
The door to the room opened and a male horse entered. He fired a shot a bullet. Agolo screamed in pain.
The gorilla held his stomach and fell to the floor.
The horse pointed his pistol at Natalie and was prepared to fire when Stars shot two bullets in the horse's head.
The horse fell. He died instantly.
Natalie shut the door whiles Stars bent down to Agolo.
"Lift up you hands," he said to the gorilla.
Agolo obeyed. It was nasty. The bullet went deep into Agolo's liver and he was bleeding heavily. But Stars couldn't remove the bullet; it would cause more problems.
"You have to hold onto you stomach," Stars said. "As tight as possible."
Natalie took her mobile phone out of her pocket and rang Marie.
"Hello," Marie said.
"Agolo been shot!" Natalie answered.
"Is he dead?"
"No," Natalie said, "but it doesn't look good."
"I can't rush Special Forces; but I'll send a medical team."
"Okay," Natalie said and hung up. She walked towards Stars and bent down to his level. "Marie said she's going to send an ambulance."
"That's the most she can do at the moment," Stars answered. "I did the only thing I can do."
Natalie looked at Agolo's stomach. Stars stuck a patch of Agolo's shirt over the wound.
"I'm going to keep the guards busy," Stars whispered in Natalie's ear. "If he starts to bleed again hold onto the wound tightly and put another patch over it like I have done.
"Don't let him fall asleep. Talk to him."
Stars stood up, checked his gun and his magazines. He then picked up Agolo's semi-automatic and the horse's pistol.
"Love you," he said to his girlfriend.
"Wait," Natalie snapped. She stood up and kissed him. She put her arms around his body and she didn't want it to end.
"Sorry Nat," Stars said, "I got to go."
In the building across street the MI5 agents looked at the screen with shook. They could all tell that someone was shot and another person was trying to take on the guards.
"Oh God," Jessica said.
"Don't worry babe," Ninja said holding her in his arms.
"I think Stars is the one that running around like a mad man," Claws said. "That stupid twat!" he spat.
A second later a policeman, a white fox, was standing in the doorway. He cleared his throat and the agents turned round to look at him.
"Hi," he said, "I'm PC Brookes from the ARU. I've been told to give you all these." He pointed to a trolley full of black clothes, boots and goggles and special earphones. "The SAS wants you to help them with the raid.
"You should change now."
"What are the goggles for?" Jessica asked.
"They are going to use flashbangs and your files show that you don't have any experience with them."
Sonic went up to the trolley and picked up the clothes marked with his name.
"May as well get it done now," he said. He took off his blue sweater and put on the black sweater on. He then took off his trainers and jeans and put on the trousers on followed by the boots.
"Don't put the goggles and earphones on let," PC Brookes said.
"When are Special Forces arriving?" Ninja asked.
"In about fifteen minutes."
"Let's get changed then," Claws said and went up to the trolley.
Natalie was worry. She had never seen anyone die like this. There was so much blood on the floor.
The closest thing she had experienced was watching her granddad die of cancer when she was eleven. She was so scared and upset at the time and she was now having the same feelings again.
"Is it okay to ask you something?" Agolo asked in a week voice.
"Go ahead," she answered.
"Are you related to Jack Laser?"
"What?" She was taken aback by the question. "How did you know?"
"You just have a similar look. You know, red fur, blood hair, I just put two and two together."
"Oh right," Natalie said. "He's my brother."
"It's going to be good when his knee is heeled; he has the world of football at his feet. Your parents must be proud of him and you. What university course are you doing?"
"Law."
"Any area you especially interested in?"
"Criminal Law. I want to become a Barrister."
"So you get to wear a funny wig," Agolo said and chuckled.
Natalie managed a smile. "Are your children Diamond Utd fans?"
"They like them," Agolo answered.
"If you want I could get Jack to send them a sign photo. I know it isn't much …"
"Yes, they'll like it."
In the distance they heard gun-shots. Agolo could tell it was his semi-automatic.
"Tell me about your children," Natalie said.
"My eldest is my daughter. She's called Tinerry and is nine-years-old. She's a bit of a tomboy but I like that about her. I would have loved to have seen her during the World Cup." Gualand had they best performance in the World Cup, making it into the Quarter Finals where they were beaten by the winners Freemantle. "My sons are called Fredrick and Saga. They are four and six. Both of them want to be footballers. It would be great if they did; they would love to play here."
Tears were in Agolo's eyes and he was on the edge.
"Don't cry," Natalie said. "You need to save your strength."
"It's just that I miss them so much."
"Have you told Michael and Felicity?" Amy asked.
"We haven't had the chance," Lord George answered. Michael was her older brother. He just finished university and started a job as a political researcher. Felicity was Amy's fourteen year old sister who went to boarding school.
"Call them now," Amy said.
"They wouldn't be much point dear," Theresa said, "they won't be able to come because of the curfew and they'll only get worried. We had to talk Mrs. Staray out from coming with us."
"But they my brother and sister; they need to know."
"Theresa," Lord George said, "go and call them; Amy is right; they need to know."
Theresa left the room; she felt mad that her husband undermined her infront of their daughter and ignoring what she thinks.
Lord George shut the door behind her and then sat on the chair next to Amy's bed.
"I need to tell you something," he said to Amy. "Something very important."
"What is it Daddy?"
"Plant told me that Sonic proposed to you."
"He did."
"I can't let you get married to him," Lord George said. "I know Sonic is a good man but you're both still so young. He is a person who acts before his thinks; like the time he brought the Porsche."
"It wasn't something he did on the spur of the moment," Amy answered back. "He put serious thought into it and took me by complete surprise."
"But it was only a few months ago when you two broke up."
"That was only for two weeks. Anyway Daddy, you didn't object to Sonic and I living together."
"You're living with you friends though," Lord George said.
"Some dads would object to that as well."
"I'm willing to accept you two living together but you know how I feel about you two getting married. I want to get a degree and get yourself set up with a job and a home before letting you marry Sonic."
"You can't stop me," Amy said. "I'm a growth woman now; I can do what I want."
"You're my daughter," Lord George said, "I'm only saying this because it's for the best. Please at least reconsider; put it off for a year and if you two are still committed then you could consider it."
"It's my life Daddy. I bet you wouldn't be so concerned if it was Michael; in fact you'll possibly throw a party and be extremely happy."
"You know that's not true. If he was eighteen I would have said the same thing to him."
"But you wouldn't be so critical just because he's a man."
"Now you're just getting silly."
"You have to let me lead my own live. If it doesn't work out then we could just let it be."
Lt. Col. Dalo entered the room with two soldiers, a badger and a white porcupine. All three were dressed in their black battle gear and were carrying army machine guns.
Sonic and Claws were taken aback; they thought that they would never see him again. They gathered themselves very quickly and pretended they didn't know who the leopard was.
Dalo had worked with spooks before and found it easy to act as if he didn't know them.
"Good afternoon gentlemen," he said then noticed Jessica. "Madam.
"My name is Lt. Colonel Leon Dalo. I'm here to give you a mission briefing.
"We are going to have three teams assault the building. The first is lead by Lt. Wilson and his team with attack the warehouse from the ground. The second group is lead by me and I'll be entering through the skylight. The final group is you lot. You'll enter through the roof and these two gentlemen will be with you all the way." He pointed the badger and the porcupine. "They'll give you full details in a moment, but first, any questions?"
"Who's in overall command?" Knuckles asked.
"I am, but Captain Kennedy will give orders and useful information."
"Do we get any weapons?" Sonic asked.
"Yes, M-16s and they'll be given to you in a few minutes," Dalo answered. "Anything else?"
No one asked any more questions.
"Very well," Dalo said. "Good luck to you all."
The leopard turned around and left the room.
"I'm Lt. Charlie Jones," the badger said, "and this is Sgt. Pete Davies.
"As Lt Colonel Dalo had said we'll be entering through a door on the roof. Sgt. Davies will lead us and I'll be at the end of the line when we enter the door. Once we are in the building we'll split us and check all the rooms for guards then look for any useful information."
"If you see anyone try to get them to surrender first," Sgt. Davies said. "If they fight back then shoot to wound unless you have to kill to save yourself."
"Is everyone clean?" Lt. Jones asked.
Claws quickly looked around to see everyone's faces and said "crystal."
Stars stood behind a crate of guns. The guards didn't see him go there during the confusion.
Stars checked the magazine of Agolo's gun. Damn Stars thought. He ran out of bullets.
The star cat put the machine gun on back and pulled out his pistols.
He used his psychic powers to find out where the guards were and then took a deep breath before going out to face them.
Turned his back away from the crate and ran into the empty space in the middle of the floor.
He turned left and shot two bullets at a guard. He then aimed his pistol in his right hand at another guard.
The other guards started to shoot at Stars. He created a psychic shield and the bullets fell harmlessly to the ground when they hit.
Stars ran and fired bullets at positions where he knew guards were when suddenly a line of fire when infront of the star-cat. He was lucky that he stopped in time.
"SHIT!!" Stars swore.
He turned his head right and saw a white-fur male mouse in his mid-twenties.
"Nobody shoot him!" he ordered. "I want this to be between him and me!"
"Fine by me," Stars said and turned his body to face the mouse.
The mouse put is arm out at full stretch and aimed his palms at Stars. Two streams of fire went toward the star-cat.
Stars formed a psychic shield round himself and the fire dissolved when it hit the shield. Stars then swiped at the air with his right hand. The mouse felt his left leg being hit and felt to the ground.
Whiles the mouse was falling he shot another stream of fire. Stars jumped out of the way of the fire.
The stream continued and hit a crate. The crate caught fire straight away.
"FUCK!!!!" a guard shouted. "Put that fire out now! Explosives are in it."
"Kill that fucking star-cat!" another guard shouted and they started to aim they guards at Stars.
Stars ran towards the crates on the other side of the floor.
Moment later the contents of the crate exploded. Three guards were injured and splitters of wood when everywhere causing more crates to set alight.
"SHIT!!" the MI5 technician shouted. He picked up his phone and called Marie. "Their has been an explosion. We need to get the SAS in now."
"What actually happened?" Marie asked.
"It looked like an evolver tripped and hit a crate and now the fire is spending."
"Thanks for the info," Marie said and was about to hang up.
"WAIT!" the technician shouted. One of the crates was glowing white and then exploded. "Shit!"
"What is it?"
"Another explosion."
"Alright," Marie said. "I get the SAS to go in there now."
Lt. Col Dalo was standing on top of the building. He heard the explosions and was ready to go into the building without orders but stepped back from doing that move. It had been a long day, the time was 5:27 pm and the sky was starting to turn dark.
He heard his radio and picked it off his shoulder and brought it towards his mouth.
"We have conformation," a male voice said.
"Thanks," Dalo answered. He tuned his radio to all channels. "GO! GO! GO!"
The bombs around the building exploded and the MI5 agents smashed through the fire door.
Dalo smashed the windows on top of the building and threw in smoke bombs and flashbangs. They put on they gas marks, attached they ropes to the edges of the windows and all of the started to lower themselves down to the lower levels of the building.
On the way down the SAS troops shot at any guards they saw on the way down before they reached to the glass.
"SHIT!!!" Stars shouted when he saw the SAS troops landing on the glass. He knew they were going to blow up the glass and make it go everywhere, causing a lot of injuries. The only thing he could do was wait and use a psychic shield.
He also heard gun shots coming from outside and was worried that he could get shot by an SAS troop confusing him for a guard.
"CLEAN!!" He had heard and all the troops jump up from the glass. Stars created a shield just as when the glass started to fall.
The guards had run for cover and the ones that got injured only received cuts.
As the SAS troops were going down they were throwing flashbangs and smoke bombs to add confusion to the situation for the guards. The troops from outside started to storm the building, shooting bullets and adding more flashbangs and smoke bombs to the mix.
Stars just shut his eyes and tried to use his psychic abilities to find a way out; but the unable to because of the flashbangs and smoke bombs were taking up too much of his attention.
"GET DOWN!" a male voice shouted.
Stars felt someone put him in the back and he fell forwards on his stomach. He felt a person sit on and grabbed his heads together. Stars struggled and shouted: "I'M ON YOUR SIDE YOU TWAT!!!"
He was ignored and he felt his hands tied together with a plastic tie. He then felt the butt of an army issue gun hit in him the head and fell unconscious.
On the top floors the SAS troops and MI5 agents were knocking in all the doors and check out every room for guards and information.
They spilt into three teams; Sonic, Jessica and Lt. Jones (Group 1), Claws and Ninja (Group 2) and Knuckles and Sgt. Davies (Group 3). Group 1 was checking the West side of the fourth floor, Group 3 were looking at the East Side and Group 2 were went down to the third floor.
Ninja kicked down the door of one of the rooms and stormed it.
"It's clean," Ninja said.
"The way it seems we won't find anything of use," Claws said.
Suddenly gunshots were heard and bullets hit the rail and the wall.
"SHIT!!!" Ninja shouted.
There were four guards; two on each side and they were closing in. Both agents pointed their M-16s at the guards and started to shoot at them. But the guards did not stop and were coming in faster.
"Go into the room," Claws said. "We can handle them in close fight."
The wolf moved into the room first, followed very quickly by the star-cat.
In the room both agents put their backs against the wall and put their guns to their sides. Claws extended his claws and was prepared for the guards to enter the room.
The first guard to enter the room was a rhinoceros. Claws turned round ninety degrees and stabbed him in the chest. The rhinoceros screamed and Claws threw him into the room. The second guard, a barn owl, entered the room and receive a karate chop to his stomach, then a punch to the face by Ninja. The owl moved backward and hit the rail.
The other two guards, a boxer dog and a red deer rushed into the room. Ninja kicked the dog into side of the wall. The deer aimed for Claws. The deer charged at Claws and pinned him to the wall. Claws reacted by headbutting him in the deer and forcing him to back off. The deer aimed a right hook at Claws' face. He blocked it with his left wrist and punched him in the face.
"You bastard!" the deer shouted.
He attempted another punch to the face and Claws blocked it again. The deer tried aimed a punch to the chest and Claws simply grabbed his fist. The deer's reaction was to kick the star-cat in the groin.
"AH!!!!!" Claws yelled. "You fucking bas…" Claws stopped. The deer was aiming a pistol at his head and the star-cat stood up straight.
"Now ask yourself punk; do I feel lucky?"
Claws extended his claws on his right hand. He quickly moved his right hand up and stabbed it through the deer's wrist.
"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" the deer yelled.
Claws moved his hand back then forward and cut the hand off the deer.
Claws put his fingers on his left hand against the deer's throat.
"You watch too many movies," Claws answered coolly and extended his claws through his throat.
The deer choked; he put his left hand on his throat and started to cough up blood.
Ninja was on the gangway. The owl was behind him whiles he was facing the dog. Claws walked out of the room and when behind the owl.
Ninja punched the dog in the face and he was forced to take two steps back. Ninja then kicked him in the chest and forced him back further. The dog admitted a charge at the wolf. Ninja did a karate chop at the dog's throat and forced him into the wall. He then did a sleeper grab and the dog fell asleep.
Ninja turned around and the saw the owl was unconscious and Claws was standing behind him.
"I took care of him for you," Claws said.
"Thanks," Ninja answered. "Now let's continue with the search."
"What do you think if Diamond United brought Monday Kogo?" Agolo said. He knew he had to keep talking to stay conscious; but also to keep both his and Natalie's minds off the battle that was going on outside.
"Diamond Utd don't need anymore strikers," Natalie answered. "Fu is good, so is Kev Goodsum and Robert Zamora. Kogo may struggle to get into the side."
"But if one of them is injured then they are in the shit."
"If that happens then I bet that Peter Kenyon would buy someone like Chris Beck."
"You don't know what you're missing," Agolo said. He started to cough and blood was coming out of his mouth.
"Do you need anything?" Natalie asked.
"There is nothing you can do," Agolo said. "But I you promise me one thing?"
"What is it?"
"If I don't make it can you promise me that you'll let my family know how much I love them and miss them?"
"I'm sure they know that already."
"No, they don't. I just ran out on them six months ago. I thought it could prevent them from getting involved in this dirty business I got involved with; but I was wrong. Please Natalie, do this for me, please." Agolo started to cry; he loved his family and his has had a rough time during his life.
"Okay, I promise if the worst happens I'll make sure that your family will get the message."
The door behind them was smashed open. Natalie half twisted her body and pointed her left index figure at a fox dressed in black.
"Don't come any closer!" she shouted. "Or I'll shoot."
"Miss Laser?" the troop asked.
"Yeah."
"My name is Sam Cartwright," he said. "I'm a Corporal in the SAS. I'm on your side."
"Why I believe you?"
"Because MI5 sent for us."
"I need evidence."
"That lawyer part of you," he joked.
"What?"
"We were given a brief; full name is Natalie Samantha Laser, sister of Jack Timothy Laser, born on the 23rd of July 1980 and doing a degree in Law at Diamond Uni."
"Impressive."
"What's wrong with the man?"
"Agolo was shot in the stomach; he's losing blood quickly."
"Luckily for you I'm trained in first aid," Sam said. He bent examined the gorilla. "Stand at the door and keep guard."
She obeyed his orders.
"What happened to Stars?"
"I'll find out latter."
Up on the forth floor Sonic was entered a room. It had a PC and a file cabinet in it. He decided to look.
Sonic tried to open the top draw. Damn he thought; it was locked. He quickly looked around and saw a paperclip. He picked it up, made it into a straight line and put it in the lock.
After a couple of second he unlocked it and opened the draw. He took a quick look in the draw; it was mostly financial documents and plans of targeted buildings. One file that took Sonic's interest was a file marked 'Atomic'. He picked it out and was about to read when felt a man punch him in the back of the head.
Sonic turned around. He couldn't see anyone but felt a punch to his face.
Shit, it's an evolver, Sonic thought; a tough one as well.
Sonic felt another punch and then another. Sonic knew that he had to fight back. He tried a punch but only hit air. He tried another and got the same result. It was third time the charm for the hedgehog when he kicked into the air and twisted his body when he hit the person in the side of his stomach.
"Fuck!" a male voice said.
"Got your," Sonic said.
He grabbed the throat of the man with his right hand and started punching him in the face repeatedly. After a couple of seconds the hedgehog could see blood out of the man's head.
Sonic dropped the man; he couldn't stand and fell on his right side. Sonic decided to kick the man repeatedly. He hit him in the stomach and head and completely lost it. He attack the man with such fury that anyone that knew him would have been taken totally by surprise.
Two minutes of hard kicking the man fell unconscious and relieved that it was a black monkey in his early twenties.
"What in the hell happened here?" a male voice said.
Sonic turned round saw Lt. Jones and Jessica were behind him.
"He attacked me," Sonic answered. "He put up a struggle. Anyway MI5 and Special Branch might want a look at that." He pointed to the filing cabinet.
Lt. Jones took out a notepad and a pencil from his trouser pocket. He made a quick note and put them back in his pocket.
"We got work to do," Lt. Jones said. "Stick together!"