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acosta pèrez josè ramiro: I seem to have got a mixed reaction to Brendan. You will have to wait for a while before you see what happens to Catherine though. I see your point about Babs just spin-changing into her dress, thanks for pointing that out.
PurpleCobra247: As I said above, I got a mixed reaction to Brendan. The reason he was kicked out was because he hurt Petunia and Catherine. Brendan will be explained a little in a later chapter. I'm just curious, but why are you surprised that this is a semi-sequel to "Another Code: Toon Memories"? Either way, I'm glad you like my stories.
Rock Raider: The reason I'm not making Jacob Crow Zach's father is 1) It fits the story slightly better, and 2) it would raise a few moral issues. For Crow to be Zach's father, he'd probably have to rape a rabbit. I know he's mad enough to do that but I just think it's too wrong to even contemplate. To answer your question, I would be horrified to learn that my dad is an immortality-obsessed freak. If I've offended you by not using your ideas, I apologize.
Nightw2: Glad you liked that chapter. This story is actually pretty much finished; I just have to post the chapters. Again, sorry about the delay but the opening times at the IT suit are extremely iffy, and I have a few other projects to do. I'll update as fast as I can.
Cat-nappedAfter the party and when everyone had gone to sleep, Jessica, Zach, Plucky and Shirley met up in the Foxcave. Egghead Jr. was in one of the workshops working on the FoxFang and cub outfits. During the day, he had completed the suit defence systems and was busy fitting them to the suits. They were designed so that Only Jessica, Zach, Egghead Jr, Plucky and Shirley could remove the masks. If anyone else tried, it would fire a powerful electric charge into the hand of the offender. It was purely for defence in case someone came too close to unmasking them. Everyone else was gathered near the main computer. King was lying down next to Shirley. He was looking around blankly and allowing Shirley to stroke his back. Everyone else was looking at Jessica. She originally had only one thing to say but she now had two things to say. Soon after the party, she had come up with a reason for the fear that had awoken within her earlier during the party. Jessica was still troubled by what she had realised. Her parents had asked if anything was wrong but she refused to answer on the grounds that it might give her identity away, something that she did not want to do. It was only now that she could safely talk about what was on her mind.
"Ok, the first thing I'd like to talk about that argument in my room." Jessica began.
"I thought that was sorted out." Plucky protested.
"There's a bit more."
"What else is there to say?"
"Look, Buster doesn't know how strong I am and he pushed me over the edge. If I hadn't stopped myself, I would've hurt him seriously."
"Yeah. I did make it look that I was holding him down telepathically to throw a bit of confusion." Shirley replied.
"I noticed." Zach said.
"Oh, thanks Shirley." Jessica replied.
"No problem." Shirley said.
"Now, what is your point?" Plucky asked.
"What I'm saying is that, for their own safety, it might be worth letting Buster and Babs in on our little secret." Jessica replied. Everyone gasped.
"Are you serious?" Shirley asked.
"Look, if Buster and Babs knew, they wouldn't try and get into a fist-fight with me. Besides, they might be helpful."
"I see your point, but are you sure we can trust them?"
"I don't know. It's their safety that I'm concerned about. If I hurt them by accident, I'll never forgive myself."
"I'm not sure if they would forgive themselves if they hurt you either."
"So, what do you think we should do?"
"I have mixed feelings about it."
"Ok, if we think about it for a while then make the decision."
"Now, what was the second thing?" Plucky asked.
"It's about Petunia's daughter."
"What about her?"
"About how Brendan treated her."
"Yeah, after watching the incident, it brought out a nameless fear within me."
"I had it too." Zach added.
"So what's the point?" Plucky asked.
"While I was on my way here, I came up with a reason for my fever."
"And?"
"I realised that there is a possibility that she may, like Petunia after that car accident, turn into the Pranker." Everyone gasped in horror at the thought. They still remember what Pranker did last time she was around. She threatened the city; she nearly killed Jessica's parents and could have caused some severe chaos had she stayed around. They looked around each other. None of them wanted Pranker to return, as they knew that it cause some severe trouble if she did.
"So, what do we do?" Shirley asked.
"Well, I'd like to find Catherine and give her the antidote we developed last time."
"Jess, there's no guarantee that she will become the Pranker. Besides, look how young she is." Plucky protested.
"And besides, if we just go to their house they're bound to question it." Zach added. Jessica then sighed.
"I suppose you're right. What do we do about this?" Jessica asked.
"Well, I say we wait and see what happens. If Pranker does return, we can stop her and eliminate her for good." Plucky replied.
"Hang on, the Pranker was able to learn my Identity. What if she blows my cover?"
"How does she…" The discussion was interrupted by the Fangwave sounding. Everyone looked up at the computer and saw that the computer was bleeping at a house near the centre of the city.
"Ok, there's a disturbance at 29 Swiss street." Shirley said, looking at the screen.
"Isn't that Sylvester's house?" Plucky asked.
"Yeah, something's wrong." Zach replied.
FoxFang and Cub used the Fangmobile to reach Sylvester's house. When they arrived, the police were there so they kept back. They hid near the building on the back of the roof, far enough to avoid notice but close enough to keep an eye on things. King was left in the car and had been instructed to fend off any police office that came too close. While they were there, they noticed the back door was open so they crept inside. They quietly approached the lounge and peeped into the room, keeping out of sight. Detectives Richard and Rebecca were inside the house observing the scene. The living room was devastated, all the furniture was turned over and most of the ornaments were scattered on the floor. Some were broken and some were still intact. Richard and Rebecca continued to look around the room.
"Hmm, obvious signs of a struggle, and no sign of Sylvester." Rebecca began.
"And no ransom note. What is going on?" Richard asked.
"Who knows. We should go out and get some forensic experts to search the area."
"There are some outside. Let's go and get them." Richard and Rebecca left the room and went outside to get some forensic detectives. FoxFang and Cub took this opportunity to enter the lounge and have a look around for themselves.
"Hmm, nothing obvious." FoxFang muttered.
"But if we use our hair scope…" Cub added. He clicked the utility belt around his waist and pulled out a small black tube. FoxFang did the same. The scope was designed to show minute hairs as red lines. They both looked around and eventually saw a hair on a desk that had been tipped over. FoxFang took out a pair of tweezers from her utility belt and picked up the hair carefully. They both had a close look at the hair.
"Hmm, it looks either brown or black."
"We'll give a further analysis when we get back." FoxFang put the hair in a plastic bag and attached the bag to her utility belt, along with the tweezers.
"Agreed, now let's see…" FoxFang was interrupted by the sound of a door opening. They both turned and looked towards where the sound had come from and saw Richard and Rebecca standing there.
"Look FoxFang." Richard said.
"Get him!" Rebecca ordered.
"Ok foxes, come quietly and you won't get hurt." Richard was slowly walking towards FoxFang and Cub, who were backing away slowly.
"Look, we don't want to hurt you, but if you continue, we may have to." Cub warned. Richard stopped in his tracks and pulled out a handgun from his belt.
"Look, I am trying to give you a fair chance. All you have to do is give up and you won't get hurt." Cub then released a Fox glare to the floor and dazzled the two officers. By the time they regained their eyesight, FoxFang and Cub were long gone.
"DAMMIT!" Richard shouted. Rebecca came up to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"They sure are tricky. We're going to have to find some way to avoid those flash bangs." Rebecca replied.
"But what was he doing here anyway?"
"Apparently, they appear anywhere there's trouble."
"He's a crime starter then?"
"No, they're vigilante's. But under current law, they're still criminals."
FoxFang and Cub had made it back to the Fangmobile. King was there waiting patiently for their return. No police officer had come by the Fangmobile and he was getting lonely. Cub jumped into the drivers' side of the Fangmobile while FoxFang leapt into the passenger side. King was still in the back compartment. Cub drove away while King fell asleep. FoxFang was bust thinking about the confrontation that they had just had with the police.
"I don't get it. What has the police chief got against us?" FoxFang asked
"Wish I knew. If we knew why he didn't like us, we could do something about it." Cub replied.
"I suppose not having the police on our back would make our lives much easier."
"But how do we do that?"
"Right now, we have more important matters, like where is Sylvester."
"Yeah, we should scan for him when we get back."
"That's two things for us to do later."
"And, if Sylvester had been kidnapped, find out who took him."
"Firstly, we need to figure out who would want to."
"A jealous ex-girlfriend?"
"You mean Sylvia?"
"Yeah."
"Somehow I doubt it. She was always a law-abiding citizen. Sylvester has been dating Penelope for a while now and, to my knowledge, she hasn't moaned about it."
"Do you think it could have been that Brendan guy?"
"The way he acted at the party, I wouldn't out it past him." Cub just nodded and continued driving.
While they were driving, FoxFang pulled out her Fangwave and opened communications to Shirley. At that current moment in time, finding him was their number l priority. When Shirley responded to the call, she could tell that something urgent had happened.
"FoxFang, what is it?" Shirley asked. She dared not say FoxFang's true identity just in case someone had cracked the Fangwave's frequency. As it stood, nobody had cracked it yet because no one had thought to try.
"I need you to try and locate Sylvester." FoxFang replied.
"Why?"
"I fear he has been kidnapped."
"Kidnapped?"
"His house was a total mess and there was no sign of him."
"Ok, I'll do a search." Shirley quickly spoke to Egghead Jr and they turned to the computer. After a minute, Shirley returned to the Fangwave.
"You won't believe this, but he isn't in the city." Shirley said.
"What?" FoxFang asked.
"He's not in the city. Whoever took him, they took him somewhere where they think he won't be found."
"But what troubles me more is that there was no ransom note or anything."
"Hmm, very strange."
"We did find some kind of hair. It might be the kidnappers."
"Maybe. Come back to the cave and we'll have a look."
"Ok, we'll be there in a minute."
By the time they returned to the Foxcave, Jessica was being plagued by a guilty conscious. The group were currently sitting near the computer. Egghead Jr. was doing a DNA analysis of the hair they had found. Jessica was feeling very upset that she hadn't reached Sylvester in time. She was sitting down with her head in her hands crying gently. Zach was next to her with a hand on her shoulder. He was wandering how the police had arrived on the scene before they had. He was slightly upset with the confrontation they had with the police. The chief was seriously after them and he knew that it would take a lot to get him to change his ways. Plucky and Shirley were with them. They were shocked by what had happened to Sylvester and didn't know what to think. He had been taken out of the city and nobody knew where he was. King was sitting next to Plucky. He was just looking around wondering what was going on.
"I just don't get it, how did the kidnapper get away with Sylvester before anyone got there?" Plucky asked.
"I'm beginning to wonder if there was some kind of aerial transport used." Zach replied.
"You mean a helicopter?"
"Possibly."
"Then how do we track them?"
"That I don't know. We can't travel back in time so all we can do is look at the analysis of that hair we found." Egghead Jr. soon came back holding a slip of paper. The piece of paper contained the analysis of the piece of hair. Jessica looked up. She was much calmer now and she took the piece of paper and had a look at it.
"Well, what do you get?" Zach asked.
"It looks like a hair from some sort of rabbit. If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like it came from a black rabbit." Jessica replied.
"Could it be from that Brendan?"
"It could be. Shirley, can you locate him?" Shirley went to the computer and began having a look. She had learned how to locate certain people from trial and error and Egghead's tutoring. Although he was mute, he was an expert teacher. Shirley had a look at the screens for a few minutes.
"Nope, he isn't in the city either." Shirley said.
"Could he be the kidnapper?" Plucky asked.
"Jess wouldn't put it past him." Zach replied.
"I think he deserves further investigation." Shirley said. Zach looked around and noticed that Jessica was gone. She was heading back towards her house. Zach leapt to her feet and ran after her. He put a hand on her shoulder to gain her attention.
"Are you going home already?" Zach asked. Jessica turned around and looked at him.
"No. I needed a bit of time to myself."
"Why?"
"Because of Sylvester."
"Jess, there was no way we could've gotten to him in time if the kidnapper used a helicopter."
"Unless we used the FoxChopper."
"But there was no way we would've known they had a helicopter."
"I guess you're right."
"But what can we do?"
"The only thing we can do is join the search tomorrow."
"Yeah." Jessica looked at Zach dead in the eye. She was feeling much better now. She no longer felt that it was her fault that Sylvester had been kidnapped. She wrapped her arms around Zach and pulled him closer to her.
"Zach, thank you for cheering me up." Zach looked back at her. He could see love in her eyes. He cared for Jessica more than anyone else. Likewise, Jessica cared for him more than anyone. Zach wrapped his arms around Jessica and they kissed tenderly. They held onto each other as tightly and held their kiss for as long as possible. 10 minutes passed and they were still kissing. Plucky and Shirley were watching the sweet display from a distance. They were now very used to Jessica and Zach kissing all the time. It actually warmed their hearts to see the sweet displays. Jessica and Zach's kiss lasted for about 20 minutes. By the time they had finished, they had fallen on the floor, with Jessica on top of Zach. From a distance, Plucky and Shirley were giggling at the situation. When they realised the situation, Jessica rolled off Zach and looked at him. They both giggled a little.
"Jess, do you think we're getting better and better?"
"I think each kiss we share gets better."
"How long are you going to stay for?"
"If we stay until 2:00, we might be able to wait and see if Sylvester reappears."
"Yeah, good idea."
A/N: Ok, hope you liked that. I had this chapter written when I posted the last chapter. I just delayed posting this it to give you guys a chance to review. Anyway, please review.