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Chapter Nine: The plan for the search
"Erm…Captain Sasha?" asked a nervous ranger.
"Yes?" replied Sasha.
"We've….found little information on Dr. Heinous."
Sasha sighed. "Well, better little than nothing. What have you found?"
The ranger pulled out a folder and took out a piece of paper, from it.
"All we found out is that," said the ranger, "his full name's 'Jeremiah Francis Heinous IV', he's a scientist, he's currently forty-nine years old, he has a blarg butler, named 'Albert', he's single and he's…," the ranger stopped.
"He's what?" asked Sasha, now loosing her patience.
"…a relative of Dr. Nefarious."
"Hmm. I guess evil runs in the family. Anything else?"
"No," replied the ranger.
"What about his home planet?"
"That information has been deleted."
"Okay then. That is all. You may return to work."
The ranger saluted Sasha and left the Bridge. Sasha could feel the stares of the staff members, who were present when the ranger gave the announcement. She then looked at all of them and they returned to work.
About an hour later, a group of four staff members entered the room. One of them was Al, another was a local of Planet Novalis, Ed, and the other two were locals from Planet Rilgar, Will and Jane.
"Excuse us, Captain Sasha," said Al, "we've come up with an idea to defeat Dr. Heinous."
"I'm listening," said Sasha.
"We form an alliance whit Nefarious," said Ed.
"What?.! Are you crazy?.!" Sasha couldn't believe her ears. "I can think of a thousand reasons not to form an alliance with Nefarious! Besides, he's dead, or destroyed, or whatever."
"Not quite, Captain. No parts, belonging to Dr. Nefarious or his butler, had been recovered after the fight. It's impossible for the parts to have sunk in the planet's quicksand, because our experts had drained them. And another huge detail is that Nefarious' butler, Lawrence, can teleport," Will explained in one breath.
"What are you saying?" asked Sasha.
"We're saying that Dr. Nefarious is still out there, somewhere," said Al.
"Then why hasn't he attacked yet?"
"Maybe, because he's stranded somewhere, out of range for teleportation."
"Even if Nefarious isn't gone and we're trying to find him, how will we?"
"I'm glad you asked, Captain," Jane said, "Only ten butlers were ever created by Gadgetron. Lawrence was the first butler to be sold. Gadgetron have trackers for all the electronic products they make. Every product has its very own specific circuit pattern. All we have to do is go to Gadgetron, ask for the tracker for Lawrence, get it for Lawrence, search for Lawrence, and when we find Lawrence, we'll find Dr. Nefarious."
"Sounds good, except there's just one more problem. How's Nefarious going to team up with us? Encase you didn't notice, he hates organics and we're organic!"
"Don't worry, we already have it covered," said Will. He took out something that looked like a computer chip from his pocket. "We just put this baby into Nefarious' CPU…and he'll become good, but he won't be a mindless zombie, meaning that he'll still have his memories, etcetera."
Sasha had one more question. "What about Ratchet?" she asked, "I'm sure he can defeat Dr. Heinous."
"Ratchet broke both of his legs," said Ed, no faith whatsoever in the lombax.
"Ratchet, Clank and Dr. Nefarious can all fight against Heinous together," said Will.
Sasha had no further questions. She said, "Alright, we'll try team up with Nefarious. But, if he refuses and your chip fails, don't come crying to me."
Al, Ed, Will and Jane smiled, but Sasha didn't.
"Don't worry, Captain, this chip is flawless," said Jane.
"Okay, we'll go the Gadgetron HQ to get the tracker. Hopefully, the attack didn't destroy everything," said Al.
"Right," said Sasha.
Al, Will, Ed and Jane left the Bridge.
"Skidd, Helga," called Sasha.
"Yeah?" said Skidd, who had been woken from his nap.
"I'm verking! Vot is it?" Helga bellowed, annoyed.
"Come. I have a job for you two," said Sasha.
Helga angrily made her way to Sasha. Skidd sleepily did the same.
"Since evil has reared its ugly head again," explained Sasha, "we'll need all the help we can get. I'll need you two to go to Holostar Studios and bring Clank and Skrunch to the Phoenix. I'll call for a dropship, take you there."
Skidd was happy that he had permission to leave the Phoenix. The computers were 'cramping his style' and he wanted out.
Helga was also happy. She was dieing to get off this 'pitiful excuse of a ship' and stretch her robotic legs.
The two left the Bridge and headed for the dropship that was waiting for them. Three rangers where also in the dropship. The back-door of the Phoenix opened and the dropship left the Phoenix, heading for Holostar Studios.
Okay, so this chapter was just conversation. At least, the plan makes sense.