Chapter 14

The SWAT team loaded up into the van. Their M16's locked and loaded. It was a rare day that they actually got to do any real SWAT work and they were agitated.

Captain Dogooder promised to fill Sportacus and Stephanie in when they returned. Sportacus didn't want to stay behind but he knew Anna had been right. What if something happened to him? He couldn't do that to Stephanie.

The van left and Agents Brynja and Sindri briefed them on how they wanted things to go down. On the road through FunTown, the other SWAT team joined the van on the road. They took the short road to SleepyTown and met up with the last SWAT team. Climbing out of the vans, they were briefed by Captain Dogooder.

"According to Eysteinn, there should be about fifty guys at their complex. We need to be careful they are all armed and dangerous." The Captain told them.

"Let's fan out and surround the building when we arrive. Hopefully we can catch them off guard and grab everybody. All right men, let's lock and load!" Anna called out. Quickly they loaded back into the vans and headed off for the SleepyTown woods.

"What did Agent Sindri mean by 'They're a branch of The League of Shadows'?" Stephanie asked her husband as she made herself comfortable in Captain Dogooder's office.

"The League of Shadows is an organization that has lasted throughout many centuries. Their whole purpose is to keep the world in a state of ideal environmental equilibrium. The best way to do this is apparently to eliminate most of humanity. Supposedly they had a hand in the fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death (Bubonic Plague), and the Great Fire of London. It was even speculated that they were on both sides during the Second World War. I heard that they tried to destroy Gotham. But of course, Batman foiled them." Sportacus explained as he paced around.

"Whoa, information overload. How do you know all this? You know Batman?" Stephanie said completely amazed.

The SWAT teams found the killer Shadows hideout without difficulty. Quietly they surrounded the building. Agent Brynja was with the LazyTown division when she got a message from her partner.

"My team has spotted movement inside the building. Should we move in?" He asked.

"On my signal." She told him. It was then that she saw movement too.

"Execute! Execute! Move in on the target!" Anna ordered. The three SWAT teams moved in.

Busting through doors and windows, the teams began rounding up people. Each room was searched thoroughly. Finally, all the people were brought into the main room.

"We've counted all the men we captured. The total comes to forty-nine. We're short one." A FunTown SWAT man told Captain Dogooder. He relayed this information to Agents Brynja and Sindri.

"Are you sure that none of them is the boss?" Sindri asked in his horrible English. The Captain nodded.

"Damn!" Anna exclaimed. "Well round up the men and put them in the vans. I have to explain this to Sportacus and Stephanie."

"I hear all the information through the Hero network. It keeps everyone in the loop about what's going on. That way if we are needed, we don't have to be updated. We can just help." Sportacus told his wife.

"Ok, that makes sense. But you know Batman? Who else do you know?" Stephanie asked. Sportacus was about to answer when the Captain walked into his office.

To Be Continued…