Chapter 5 – The Boys (and Girls) From Brazil

After completing his call to the Chairman, Macker gives final instructions to his Brazil based elimination clone team.

"Now remember, clones! I want those two WOOHP agents eliminated! The crocodiles won't mind a meal of WOOHP agent!"

"Yes, sir!" the clone team responds, as they head off to fetch Alex and Stan. They can be identified by the red cape they wear over their left shoulder. With that, Macker heads to his VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) jet, takes off and heads for his Control Facility in the French Alps.

Macker's elimination plan for the two WOOHP agents is for his clones to take them by boat to the center of a crocodile infested portion of a nearby river about three miles away, and toss them in! The crocs should make quick work of them, and there won't be any evidence of the deed!

But Alex and Stan aren't about to wait around in their cell for Macker to decide their fate.

"Ok, Stan! I've lasered the lock on the door, and the coast is clear!" remarked Alex.

"All right, Alex! Let's use the vents again, but we'll stay together this time!" responded Stan. So saying, they bungee up to the nearest vent, removed the cover, crawled in, and replaced the cover, to keep their escape route secret.

Their timing could not have been better! No sooner had they replaced the vent cover, and the clone elimination team rounded the corner. They quickly saw the cell door open! One of the Alex clones quickly runs to an alarm annunciator button and activates it! Soon alarms throughout the factory were sounding!

"Well, Stan! I guess they know we're not in our cell!" whispered Alex.

"That's all right, Alex! We may be able to use that to our advantage!" responded Stan quietly.

Carefully, Alex and Stan crawl through the vent system until they arrive at the Clone Production Facility.

"Look at that!" gasped Alex quietly. In the facility, they see at least one hundred human sized test tubes on line nurturing new Alex clones!

"Well, Alex! If you ever wanted a sister, you can go and claim one, two or one hundred straight out of the test tube!" teased Stan.

"No thanks, Stan! I know some sisters don't get along, but these would be REAL bad news!" responded Alex.

"So how do we stop the operation, Stan?"

"Destroying these tubes is only half the battle! We need to destroy the control room as well!"

"But how do we get in?" asks Alex.

"Simple. We ask!" replied Stan. Alex gave him a quizzical look, as he explained the plan, and opened the vent cover. Alex grabs a cloth lying on the floor.

Unfortunately, Stan is quickly captured. An Alex clone, wearing a small gray cape over her left shoulder identifying her as a guard, has him and approaches the Alex clone guard, at the Control Room door.

"I have recaptured one of the prisoners! I want to take him to Macker!" The guard clone at the door agreed and stood aside, as Stan and his captor enter the Control Room.

Now the only clones that know that Macker is no longer at the facility are the ones he instructed, in the elimination squad. All of the others still think he is in the Control Room.

Stan's capturer is stunned to see that Macker isn't in the Control Room! But soon a member of the elimination squad appears in the Control Room and closes the door.

"Macker is not here! He left for the Control Facility. But he gave us our orders! I will take this prisoner and carry out his plan! You must continue to search for the other prisoner!" The elimination squad clone steps forward to take Stan, but he unleashes a well-placed karate chop, rendering the clone unconscious!

"Quickly, Alex! We must incapacitate this clone!"

"Right, Stan!" replies his captor, who is the REAL Alex. The gray cape nicely hid the Sea Foam nail polish on her jumpsuit, thereby fooling the other clones.

In minutes, the elimination squad clone is bound, gagged and put in a closet, and the WOOHP agents are looking over the control panel.

"Stan, look at this!" says a curious Alex, as she shows Stan a wadded, discarded piece of paper. On it is scrawled "Remember to update the Committee!"

"Committee? What Committee?" asks Alex.

"I'm not sure, Alex! We'll have to ask Macker, when we catch up to him! But let's take this facility down, first!"

Alex breaks out her laser lipstick and Stan his laser pen. They open up the covers on the control panel, and begin lasering all the wiring and circuit boards. All of the sudden, ANOTHER different sounding alarm goes off! Quickly, Alex puts on the elimination squad clone's cape, and Stan replaces the control panel covers. Stan also hides in the closet, just as the guard clone enters, with her laser rifle drawn!

"Quickly!" Alex tells the clone, as she rubs her head. "That other guard clone was the REAL Alex! She and the prisoner escaped through the vents, after they struck me! They must have tried to do some damage to the control panel! I'll make the repairs! You go after the escapees!"

"Right!" said the guard clone, and quickly ran off to organize a search party, to search the vents.

"Phew! That was close!" remarked Alex, as Stan exited the closet.

"Let me disconnect that alarm, and we can finish our job here!" remarked Stan. Stan inspected the alarm wires, and traced them to the annunciator panel. He quickly disabled the panel, and the alarm falls silent.

"Great, Stan! Let's finish off this control panel!" remarked Alex. Soon she and Stan had again removed the control panel covers, and started lasering everything. Within 15 minutes, not one wire was connected to anything, not one circuit board was usable, and not one monitor was operable! This did not mean that they had incapacitated the clones, however. They would still function, because this isn't the Control Facility – that's in the Alps. It just meant that Macker's clone growth process had come to a halt!

"Ok, Alex! Now we have to take out those test tube Alexes!" said Stan, as he and Alex exited the control room and re-entered the cloning room.

"And I have the perfect solution!" responded Alex with a smile. She quickly pulled out the electronic Walkman field disperser and activated it. Stan and Alex cover their ears as the disperser does its work. Every test tube shatters, every clone in the making is destroyed and the entire apparatus has been rendered inoperable!

"Great job, Alex!" congratulates Stan.

But Alex looks out the now windowless room, and says, "We're going to have company!"

"Quick, Alex! Act like the red caped clone!"

"Right!"

Soon the room is teeming with Alex clones. But Alex plays her part. "I have this prisoner!"

Another Alex clone approaches her and says, "We must implement the elimination plan for this one! Quickly! Let's get him to the boat!" Soon Stan and Alex are surrounded by the elimination squad. They take Stan to a waiting vehicle. They will drive him to the boat and carry out the plan, while the other clones search for Alex, not realizing that she is right here!