Chapter 4 - Discovered Too Late
FIVE HOURS LATER
Mark's POV
That agent should've counted himself lucky that he died by my own paws instead of either of my brothers'. Rufus was ruthless and merciless and Shadow has followed in his pawsteps, while I was quite merciful. After I finished off the agent, I went to my office, which I wouldn't really call an office, since it was half-destroyed, and booted up the computer. On the screen, two glowing red dots appeared on a map of the city, I smiled, 'good thing they were cowards', I thought to myself, 'now I don't have to put together a plan to get them alone'.
'They never knew that I implanted trackers on them and now D.O.G.S. won't have any trouble tracking them', I thought, as I prepared to send the transmission frequency to D.O.G.S. and made sure that they couldn't trace it back to me. Not that it mattered if they could, this computer was just for communication and I was going to be long gone by the time they got here. I sent off the transmission frequency and shut down the computer, then left the building and headed back north. My mission was done...for now.
Diggs' POV
While Director Lou was at home for the night, a few select agents, myself included, had shifts watching over everything until he returned the next morning. I was on my shift right now, because Mark somehow disappeared and Mr. Tinkles and Kitty Galore didn't return, so I came back to D.O.G.S.. 'I like this chair', I thought to myself, as I slowly spun around in it, 'I'd get one for myself, but I prefer to be out in the field than sitting behind a desk'.
I only get the shift that's around midnight, because nothing usually happens around then, since everyone's supposedly asleep, but evil never sleeps. Actually, I was grateful that I have the midnight shift, because I don't really want an entire agency relying on me if something big happens. Once I stopped spinning, I laid back in the chair and tried to get some shut-eye, since I was pretty tired, but Director Lou's computer suddenly beeped. I groaned in exasperation, "great", I muttered, "so much for not having to do anything".
I turned on the computer and expected to see a message from somewhere, but instead there was a transmission frequency that was sent.
"What is this?", I asked, as I activated it and two glowing red dots on a map appeared on the screen. One of the dots was labelled 'Mr. Tinkles' and the other was labelled 'Kitty Galore', "I have to tell Butch", I said, then ran out of the office to find him.
SOME TIME LATER
I found Butch and told him what happened and we were now back in Director Lou's office waiting for Director Lou to arrive. We heard the door open and close, "alright, this better be important", Director Lou said, clearly annoyed at us for interrupting him at home.
"We received a transmission frequency that appears to be tracking Mr. Tinkles and Kitty Galore", I said.
Director Lou widened his eyes, "did you find out where it came from?", he asked, now forgetting what time of day it was.
"No, Director", I answered, "but when we traced it, the signal did the exact same thing as when Shadow sent off the copies of our files to who-knows-where".
"Bounced around the world and ended up somewhere in the north?", Director Lou asked.
"Yes, exactly", I said.
Director Lou went deep into thought, "Director?", Butch asked, "what are you thinking?".
"I'm thinking...that whoever sent this, whether it came from the same place or not, is the same person that our files were sent to eight months ago", Director Lou said, "but why would they help us apprehend Mr. Tinkles and Kitty Galore...unless…".
"Unless...what?", I asked, confused.
"Unless the two of them were intended to distract us from something bigger", Director Lou finished.
"Bigger?", Butch asked, "like what?".
"Bigger like the mole in D.O.G.S.", Director Lou answered, "think about it, if Kitty Galore ever returned, D.O.G.S. and M.E.O.W.S. would team up again to take her down, right?".
"Of course", I replied, "if we didn't, she would succeed in her plan".
"Add Mr. Tinkles into the mix and you've made sure that D.O.G.S. and M.E.O.W.S. begin working together", Director Lou added.
"But why would any enemy of ours want us to work together?", Butch asked, "it would just make us stronger".
"I don't know", Director Lou answered, "but it must be something that has to do with us working together".
"Wait, what's the first thing that we do when D.O.G.S. and M.E.O.W.S. start working together?", I asked.
"We send an agent to M.E.O.W.S and they send an agent to us", Director Lou answered, "it's standard procedure".
I raised an eyebrow, "eight months ago, Shadow's goal was to retrieve all our files", I continued, "he succeeded, so why hasn't Mark, whom we suspect he was working with Shadow and he currently has our files, acted yet?".
"They didn't just want our files", Butch surmised.
"They wanted M.E.O.W.S' as well", Director Lou finished, "and to do that, they need a mole in M.E.O.W.S.".
Suddenly, Director Lou gasped, "why didn't I see it before?!", he exclaimed, "Skye requested that we send her sister Ashley to M.E.O.W.S., I know for a fact that Ashley wasn't in this agency until a couple days ago, Skye forged her ID".
"Was that why you wanted us to investigate Skye?", I asked, "because you believed she could've been the mole?".
"Not could've", Director Lou corrected, "she is the mole".
Butch and I ran out of the office without being ordered to and started searching for Skye to arrest her.
Skye's POV
"That's all of them, Skye", Ashley said. The algorithm I wrote just finished copying and sending all of M.E.O.W.S.' files directly to me and Ashley video called me to let me know.
"Thank you, Ashley", I replied, "I'll take it from here and you get yourself out of there".
"Understood, Skye", Ashley said, "and same to you, as soon as you send that off, they'll be onto you".
I shrugged, "it doesn't matter, they already are", I said, "I'll be fine, you just go".
Ashley nodded and ended the call, then I collected all the files and put them together. 'Eight minutes from...now', I thought, as I clicked 'send'.
Suddenly, my office door burst open and I saw Butch and Diggs standing in the entranceway. "Something wrong?", I asked, innocently, even though I knew I would be found out in seven minutes.
"Yes, there's something wrong", Diggs answered, "you're the mole".
I chuckled, "no, I'm not", I said, "I would never betray my favorite agency".
"You requested to send your sister, Ashley, to M.E.O.W.S. and we just figured out that those who were working with Shadow also wanted M.E.O.W.S's files", Butch said, "there's no use denying it, you are the mole".
I smiled, "you're right, I am the mole", I replied, "but you're too late, M.E.O.W.S.' files are already gone and I'm not going to tell you where".
Diggs approached my side, "come quietly and-", he started, but I whipped around and kicked him across the jaw. Butch came in to help him subdue me, but I did a frontflip over him and ran out the door. I kept running until I found Director Lou and a dozen other agents blocking my way, "it's over, Skye", Director Lou said, "give up".
"You know, I'd love to, but I gotta get home", I replied, "I'm sure you understand".
Director Lou seemed unfazed by that comment, "arrest her", he ordered, and a few of the other agents approached me. Once the first one was close enough, I jumped and did a frontflip landing on top of him and quickly bashed his head on the ground, knocking him out, all in less than a second. The others looked at me in shock and I smiled, "who's next?", I asked, tauntingly.
Director Lou's POV
I couldn't believe it. The mole was right under my nose the whole time and I didn't realize it. Now Skye was beating up my agents in the hallway, trying to escape, but I still had another trick up my sleeve. While she was distracted by the others, I grabbed a pair of paw cuffs and snuck around her. Once I was behind her, I gripped the paw cuffs and jumped onto her back. Sure she was bigger than me by a long shot, but I managed to stay on without her throwing me off. She was considerably stronger than me and faster, but I managed to get the cuffs on one of her paws before she threw me off.
I cuffed my own paw and we were now cuffed together, "why you little-", Skye growled, but was quickly pinned down by the other agents, since she couldn't move as fast with me cuffed to her.
"Lock her in a cell", I ordered, then I transferred the cuffs to another agent and they took her away. I went back to my office and contacted M.E.O.W.S., Catherine's face appeared, since she was watching over things there until Tab Lazenby came back. "Director Lou?", Catherine asked, "I thought you'd be at home?".
"I was", I said, "until we received a transmission frequency a couple hours ago, tracking Mr. Tinkles and Kitty Galore".
"And you're only telling us now?", Catherine asked, slightly annoyed, "you keeping something from us?".
"No, we had to deal with a little inside trouble first", I said, "when the frequency was sent, we figured out that Skye was the mole and she put up quite a fight".
"Probably because you didn't want to harm a fellow agent", Catherine said.
"No, she quickly defeated a dozen of my best agents", I said, making Catherine widen her eyes in surprise, "where is she now?".
"We subdued her and she's in a cell right now", I answered, "I wanted to know if you wanted to interrogate her".
"Why would you want us to do that?", Catherine asked.
"M.E.O.W.S. has the experience interrogating dogs", I explained, "if you agree, I'll send her over with the dozen agents watching her".
"That many?", Catherine asked.
"I don't want to underestimate her", I said, "Diggs did and now he's injured".
"Alright, we'll get what we can out of her", Catherine replied, "but you do know she could give us important information about D.O.G.S.".
"At this point in time, I don't care what she tells you about us", I said, "I'm more concerned with stopping her and whoever she's working with, which reminds me, you should arrest Ashley too".
"Why her?", Catherine asked.
"She's working with Skye as well", I answered, "as far as we know there's four, or was four, Skye, Shadow, Ashley, and Mark".
"Well, it's going to be difficult to arrest her", Catherine replied, "she left M.E.O.W.S. a few minutes ago and the office we gave her was cleared out".
I sighed, "they're slippery", I muttered, "get what you can and let me know".
Catherine nodded, then ended the call and I sent an order to the agents guarding Skye to take her to M.E.O.W.S. for questioning.
Rufus's POV
I watched down from my office, as the wolves in the room below prepared for this morning, while Shadow slept in the corner. My computer beeped, then I turned my head and saw a huge file transfer in progress, which put a smile on my face. "Finally", I said, "we now have everything we need".
The computer beeped again and it was a message received from Ashley, I tapped Tab Lazenby's computer and found out Skye's been captured and being taken to M.E.O.W.S., it said, What do you want me to do?.
I went over to the computer and typed back, Don't worry about Skye, she can handle herself and we'll free her when we head to M.E.O.W.S., in the meantime, I want you to go to Jasper and tie off any loose ends.
The computer beeped, What sort of loose ends?, Ashley asked.
The former wolf agent Humphrey, I typed back, finish him, at any cost, and eliminate anyone who gets in your way.
Understood, Rufus, Ashley replied.
"Everything is going according to plan, Shadow", I said to his sleeping form.
"What about Skye?", Shadow asked, his eyes still closed, "did she get out?".
"Okay, mostly everything is going according to plan", I replied, "but we'll get her out in a few hours".
Shadow opened his eyes and sat up, "what do you want me to do?", he asked.
"Take our forces and destroy M.E.O.W.S", I answered, which put a smile on Shadow's face.
