Iron Claw

The figure approached him. As it stepped into the light, he got a good look at her. She was a tall, slender Jaguar. She had shiny black fur and yellow eyes. She was wearing a red outfit with a black vest. She also had a gun on her belt. All the while she was smiling at him as though she knew something he didn't.

"So, you've finally decided to wake-up?" she said

Her voice was low, but feminine.

"Who are you? Why have you brought me here?" demanded Bugs

"Now, now, that isn't polite," she said putting her hand under his chin, "you should ask me nicely."

Bugs glared at her.

"So rude," she said letting go and turning her back on him. She turned suddenly and slapped him with the back of her hand. Bugs merely shook off that cheap shot.

"You'll find out soon enough, Agent Bunny," she said

"What?" he said

"Don't play stupid with me, I know who you are. You're Agent Bunny, one of the best agents from the Force,"

"Flattery will get you nowhere,"

"I intend to do more than that," she said walking away, "pretty soon the experiment will commence. And, guess who's gonna be the guinea pig…"

She smirked evilly as the doors closed behind her.

"She tinks I'm the Agent. I better keep up da act until da real Agent Bunny gets here. I sure hope Lola finds me before dat goil experiments on me," he shuddered at the thought, "that's why I joined PETA."

Outside…

There was a group of guards outside facility putting out the fire caused by the crashing of Lola's ship. They saw no signs of life in the wreckage. They dumped water from small, blue water trucks. Two of the guards were controlling the hose. A shadow passed over them, and they looked up. Next thing they knew a black object crashed into them, rendering them unconscious. The other guards heard the crash, and went to see what happened. They found them on the ground and tried to revive them, and then they were hit hard in the back of the head. They were all knocked out. The object then landed in front of them. It was a seat, equipped with thrusters. And from it, Lola Bunny unbuckled herself and stepped off of it.

"That was close," she said

She then looked at the facilities around her. Her scanner showed her that there were surveillance cameras all over the place. She knew she couldn't fly up there on her chair. She had to go there on foot. She gave her jet one last disappointed glance, before she went to the first, and largest facility.

With the information given to her from her scanner, she was able to sneak past the cameras. There was one guard in gray attire at a side door. She snuck up against the wall, toward him. He didn't hear her or notice her at all. She came from behind him and did the sleeper move on him by karate chopping his neck. He fell into a heap on the ground. She picked him up and flung him into a bush. She picked the lock and entered the facility.

The corridors were large and spacious. There was no place to hide under, nor behind. Lola proceeded with caution towards the north. There were no doors or any other corridor. She kept walking for a few feet until she heard footsteps. She looked around her but there was nothing. She then had an idea. She did a spin change into a guard's outfit. It was gray pants, shirt, and hat. She then pretended to be casually walking by. A group of about three guards came walking towards the south. They glanced at her and saluted her, she saluted back and they continued on their way. Lola picked up the pace and started in the direction they came from.

She reached a 'fork in the road'. She decided to go right. It led to another seemingly endless hallway. As she began walking down it she encountered a large doorway. It had a label next to it, which said 'Control Room'. She approached it and it automatically opened. She saw rows of computers and people working at them. There were guards in the catwalks above her. She stepped inside. No one at the desks even looked up. They were so absorbed in their work. She saw that there were plans of some sort of device. It looked like some sort of a band or collar. There were also blueprints of a building. These blueprints were of The Force Headquarters. They were planning an infiltration of its defenses.

Just then she heard someone over the public announcement…

"All scientists, report to the manufacturing floor NOW!" said the female voice.

Five scientists arose from the largest desk at the front of the room. They exited the room. She followed them. When in the hallway, she followed a few paces behind them. They went into an elevator and went down, she remained outside. Lola observed that they went to the last floor. She looked for the stairs and sure enough, they were around the corner. She walked down the steps.

Upon reaching the last floor, she opened the door slowly. She looked around and saw that the coast was clear. She stepped out and found the elevator. She looked for signs to where the scientists may have gone. She listened closely and heard a low rumble. She followed its source. As she walked down the dark, damp hallway, she came upon a row of glass windows. The rumble was coming from the room on the other side. She looked for a door and found it, but a guard was in front. He saw her.

"Hey, it's about time you got here!" he said, "its your turn to be on watch."

"Right," murmured Lola as she saluted him.

He went away towards the elevator and went up. Lola stood in front of the glass automatic door. She was able to hear everything said inside.

"This is the final product of your research, gentlemen," said the woman, "perfect to your specifications."

The woman was the Jaguar in the red suit.

"Now all that is left is to test it, come with me to the laboratory,"

"But, I already went to the bathroom," said a scientist

"The lab," she said bluntly, "not the lavatory."

"Oh…"

The automatic doors opened and the Jaguar walked past Lola, followed by the scientists. The Jaguar was holding a strange metal collar in her hands. As soon as they were out of sight, Lola went into the room. There was a huge machine in there creating the same strange device. There must have been thousands of them there.

"Whatever this is, it can't be good," said Lola

She looked around and noticed a camera in the room. She looked as casual as possible. She then strolled around the room. While adjusting her hat, she accessed her communicator.

"Computer," she whispered, "install viral program SABOTAGE into the machine."

Lola edged over to the machine and made it seem as though she dropped something. She produced a cable from her sleeve. She found a port in the machine and let the Computer install the program.

"Download complete," stated the computer

She hid the cable back into her sleeve. She kept walking around and went back outside. She walked down the hallway to where the others went before. As soon as she left, the machine was overloading. It was spitting out those collars by the thousands. They were flying all over the room and crashing into the walls. It was utter chaos.

She kept walking and came upon two large steel doors. There was only a panel near the side. It required identification and a password to open the doors, both of which she did not have. She was about to hack into the security system went she heard commotion from down the corridor. There were guards at the out-of-control manufacturing room.

"What the…" said one

"Somebody get tech support down here!" said the other

"Hey, there was a guard in here, she went that way," said the third who just got off his walkie-talkie.

She heard their footsteps coming closer. She wasn't going to be able to hack the security system. She looked around for a place to hide. She saw a vent above her on the left wall. She took out her gun, put it on silence, and fired on the covering. She caught the covering before it crashed. She swiftly jumped from one corner to the next to reach the vent. She climbed in and silently placed the covering back on. The guards came and found no one there.

"I could've sworn there was somebody here…" murmured the first looking around

"Let's go and check on surveillance," suggested the second

They left back the way they came. Lola followed the vent system to the other side of the door. Inside she made a call on her communicator.

"DJ," said Lola

"Yeah?" answered DJ

"I've infiltrated the place. Something big is going down here,"

"Really? What?"

"I'm not sure yet, but I've stalled them. But I think they're catching on to me, better send back-up before things turn ugly."

"As good as done,"

"Over and out,"

Lola found another covering. She crawled towards it and took it off. She climbed down and saw that she was on the other side of the steel doors. There was a smaller corridor on this side. And further down, she saw another pair of metal doors.

What could be behind those doors?