Chapter 2: TIPA Attacked

"Don't drop that, you dunderhead!" The boss said to his followers as they approached the door to the main building of TIPA. "You want to send us all up!"

"No sir!" He said as he got a better grip on the package he carried.

"Besides, we wouldn't want to break our little gift for the Lightning Warriors, now would we?" The boss said with a quick smile. "Now, let's get inside!"

"But boss, it's a fortress, how do we get in unnoticed?" One of his other lackeys said as he looked through the windows of the building.

"You'll get in over here, you idiots!" A voice called them over to a side door. "Hurry up! The next security patrol will be here any minute!"

"There's our ticket! Is everything ready?"

"Just as you requested, master! The virus is set to go off as soon as we finish the procedure."

"I heard a mission went out. I thought I told you to make sure we had a window open."

"I got the council hold off the missions, but one slipped through. It doesn't matter, once the mainframe goes down and we sever the links, he won't be any trouble."

"Excellent! Let's proceed with the plan."

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Taryn was over an airfield near a city known as Metropolitan Heights in that dimension, when he finally found the last temporal sprite. "I got you now!"

The sprites were the unfortunate effect of inter-dimensional travel. They were demons from the Underverse that had been released accidentally when the dimensional seal was broken. Some were hideous, but this one seemed…harmless…cute even! This is what Taryn thought as the little devil smacked him in the head with its tail.

"That was sneaky! Oh well, seeya! CAPTURE!" Taryn activated his digimetric capture device and aimed it at the sprite. With a howl, the sprite became ensnared in the light net and immediately was drawn into the device's internal tank. It's a good thing that it was nighttime, because this was a spectacle. "Whew! There we go! Last one!" Then, activating his radio headset, "Taryn to base, mission complete, over."

He heard nothing but static on the line. He tried again. "Taryn to base, do you copy?" Again, nothing. "This isn't good!"

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"Well, well, well! Working late, aren't you?" The boss said to a technician whose throat he currently had in his hand. "You could come in handy. Tell me, where can I download your precious research information from?"

In a half choked voice, "Terminal…there!" He pointed to a terminal across the room. The boss dragged the technician with him.

He looked to the insider. "Well, any time!"

"Yes, master!" He responded simply and immediately started typing the keyboard. "Here it is." He placed a reader on the terminal uplink and started the download. Suddenly, the screen went blank. At the same time, an explosion went off. "Crap! What was that?"

"Those idiots! They blew the bomb too early!" The boss said as he looked out of the control room window at the archway as it fell to the ground. "NOOOOOOO! My plan! It's ruined!"

"The mainframe is down! I can't get anything!"

"NOOOOOOOOO! Curses! Curses!!! CURSES!!!!!!" The boss's hand tightened around the technician's throat. "You better tell me there's another archway!"

"No, none." The technician choked out, and as the boss's fist raised up, "but we have an experimental jet. It has inter-dimensional technology, but it hasn't been tested!"

"Well, it's about to be!" The boss released his grip on the technician. He looked to the insider. "Where is it?"

"Hangar 15. We have to run; the guards will be coming soon."

"Let's go, now."

"What about him?" The insider pointed to the technician.

"We don't need him." The boss charged an energy shot in his hand, and blasted the technician through the chest. He fell limp.

As they left the control room, an alarm went off. "WARNING. WARNING. LINK SEVERED. WARNING…"

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Taryn's controller started to spark. "What the…AHHHHHHHH!" The D-controller began to shake Taryn wildly. What is going on! He thought. The D-controller began to thrash him about, and he felt as though he was instantly in a rodeo, and the D-controller was the bull. His body was helpless to stop the device's movements.

Then, the bio-controller accidentally activated. He felt the bio-controller begin to turn him into some animal, and began to shrink. As the world grew around him, he felt a strange sensation from his back end.

The D-controller raised him high into the sky, maybe a hundred feet. He floated there for a second as the D-controller began to calm down. Suddenly, it exploded violently, sending him crashing into the ground in front of an old, broken down airplane hull.

As he lay there, to his surprise, a small light went on in the airplane. He thought he was seeing things; the plane must have been junked. Just then, a small door opened in the front of the cabin. A blond female came out through the door and ran towards him. She stopped in front of him.

"Golly!" She asked "Are you alright?"

"Ugh…you've got big ears!" And Taryn blacked out.

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"Well, did you get any information?" The boss asked as they flew the experimental aircraft through the air.

"I'm looking, I'm looking! Here, I've got one! Key information, name, species, and dimension coordinates. It's not much, but…uh-oh!" A tone of concern came over the insider's voice.

"What do you mean 'uh-oh'?" The boss asked. The insider remained silent. "Well, OUT WITH IT!"

"It's the dimension. It's the same as the one Taryn went to!"

"ARGH! YOU SAID IT WAS NOTHING! YOU SAID HE WOULDN'T BE ANY TROUBLE!" The boss's anger grew.

"And he won't be. I'll take care of that!" The insider said in a sinister tone. "I've been waiting for this for a long time!"

"You take care of him, while I find the key, and use its power to open the lock and revive our fallen leader." The boss cackled. "Tell me the information."

"All it says is that the key is a great pilot, species mus musculus? It's a mouse, master!" A puzzled look came over the insider's face. "How could a mouse be a great pilot?"

"It's the dimensions; you should know that anything is possible. These D-controllers will come in handy. What's the name?"

"All it says is 'Hackwrench.' Interesting name."

And with a blinding flash, the craft produced a dimensional tear in the air in front of itself. It then created a link between their current dimension and RR117, their destination. They plunged through the tear, and were gone.

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