Chapter 19 - Child's play

One week has passed now, since the city of Karodo got destroyed. There is a lot of ruckus being made about Summers. Everyone has heard of him by now. Many hedgehogs run away as far as possible. But... they don't get it. It's futile to run away from such a powerful creature.

The Malicious, on the other hand, is not planning to run away. No, he still wants his power. He's about to begin the final stage of his plan. The backup plan he had for when Hero wouldn't succeed in absorbing the power of Summers. He saw what he could do against Summers, and that was barely anything. But Hero is still needed. It's the only option of getting the power he needs, he thinks. He heard that about a genius hedgehog having some emeralds that can absorb a lot of power. Not only that, they can also give it. He supposedly is a friend of Hero. Getting him to let Hero use the emeralds to drain Summers empty isn't so hard. He'll also need another backup plan. Even if Hero fails again, if he dies it's all over. The things they need for it are in hidden government facilities.

The Malicious and his loyal henchmen all gathered info about the whereabouts of them for the past days. Now it's time to get the stuff.

Infiltration #1: The professionals

They're standing in front of the facility. It doesn't seem to big, but most of it is underground. "So, Jackal distract, you infiltrate?" Jackal asks Zero. "Yes. Don't do anything to suspicious. You're a great actor. Don't screw up." Jackal walks in front of Zero when entering the building. Once inside, Zero jumps up and crawls through the air-vents. Of course, they saw Zero behind Jackal on a camera when Jackal entered, but Zero was gone when Jackal was in the sight of the 2nd camera. 3 Security guards run up to Jackal, questioning him immediately. Another one climbs up in the vent that Zero entered. "Identify yourself!" one of the guards yells to Jackal. Jackal acts like a gentleman from a high status. "I am Jim Dustworth." He whips out a fake identification card. "I have orders to close down this research facility." One of the 3 guards grabs his fake ID and goes off to check it. "Wait here, sir. As we identify your ID." Jackal takes out the papers. Their fake, but they look exactly like the real thing. Jackal is a pro when it comes to these things. The guards read them.

Zero quickly grabbed the things they needed, and returns. The guy that followed him gets hit uncounscious on Zero's way back before he can even see him. Killing him would raise too much suspicion. He takes another way out, and ends up at a vent near the top of the building. It's unreachable from the outside. From there, he jumps down. About now, the ID got confirmed to be the real deal, and the guard tells his fellow guards that. Even the call he made confirmed that the research facility has to close down. Jackal leaves the papers, and takes the fake ID back. Jackal and Zero then peacefully left, without killing anyone, or making any ruckus. "Jackal, the way you set up things and act never ceases to amaze me. How the hell did you get away without your cover being blown?" Zero asks. "It was easy. Just Jackal way. And they shut down research facility now." Zero frowns upon hearing that. Jackal sure knows how to handle these things. "Jackal hungry. Eat some junkfood?"

Mission success!

Infiltration #2: Ah... infiltration

The facility Revenant has to infiltrate isn't underground at all. Everything is above. It's a very tall and broad building, the MI2 secret government organization. Of course, it's all a covered up not to let anyone suspect anything. The things she needs to get are on the 63rd floor. There are 70 floors in total. And she has no plan at all. That's probably the reason The Malicious send her.

She runs into the building, straight into an elevator. She then rips the top part of it, and climbs up. After climbing 20 floors she has to run to the other side of the building and take another elevator. Once she's on the 60th floor there are no elevators anymore. She has to take the stairs, running back and forth all the time. She's about to reach the 63th floor, when someone beats her down, with some kind of big metal object. She thought that she left everyone chasing her in the dust. It's a guy, and he has very long spikes. His right arm is a gun, and doesn't have any fur. He looks a bit like a robot. He takes a good look at her. "Hmm... whatever it is you need. It must be important. I won't stop you, go ahead." Revenant quickly runs up to the 63rd floor, grabs what she needs, and jumps all the way down. She doesn't have any scratch when she lands, with her being an undead hedgehog and all. She quickly runs away, while everyone who's chasing her are somewhere high up in the MI2 building. But why would that one guy just let her pass?

Mission succeeded!

Infiltration #3: One cat and many mice

The Malicious took on the hardest mission himself, of course. That is his responsibility as leader of the bad guys. It's an outside, open facility. Many snipers around too. But that's no problem for his energy shields. He just walks in, pushes everyone away that bothers him, grabs the things he needs, and goes away again. But when he's at the exit, an unexpected guest arrives. A guest named Summers. How did he get there? He flies very slowly into the camp, and no one is able to hurt him. Then all the hedgehogs there run away. The Malicious gets ignored by Summers. It seems Summers is heading towards the middle of it all. Probably wants to blow it up. The Malicious hastily runs away, and not much later an explosion blows him away. Luckily, he has his energy shields to protect him. After that he goes to his base.

Mission completed!

What did they gather? Zero and Jackal stole some hoverboards. Revenant grabbed a few coats them makes one invisible. The Malicious grabbed a gun that can shoot very strong energy rays, and an emerald that is supposed to power it.

End of chapter