Chapter 14

Disintegrated

The real Theobald Williams met up with Ainsley who is tied to a chair in one of the warehouses in the harbour. Ainsley was incredibly pissed. "You took long enough."

"You know that there's a dead man impersonating me," reminded Williams. "The same one who used some of my cronies in that abandoned building that's underneath sea water with 1/50th of Rejoice. And he sent some of them just to be six feet under."

"The bitch that looked like she fucked her own parents will be returning in a short time. You better untie me before she returns."

Williams found a large shard of glass and rubbed the sharpest edge against the ropes. Ainsley felt the scratches on his arms and legs, he didn't mind that he loved receiving pain where by accident or on purpose. Williams has something Ainsley needs to know about. "I have someone who will cover your trail."

Ainsley was confused "What about yours?"

Williams gave him a severe look telling him he's the leader. "OK Williams, you know how to escape without a trace."

"Not only that but I also brought another someone who can manipulate the justice system."

Two familiar faces entered the light which didn't surprised the terrorist. Williams didn't like the idea of having surprises for the people he's working with. Those figures were Geoffrey St. John and Dylan. Ainsley felt sceptical on the hired persons. He doesn't have faith in the people chosen by others who assist him. He chooses his associates by his tastes over experience.

"I have Sir Charles hostage," Dylan told Williams.

Ainsley was far from impressed. "You sure know how to manipulate minus the suspicion. I heard about you St. John, I don't think you could have saved those passengers in that subway train."

"It was a difficult task, the explanation on how I saved them was a lie." Geoffrey didn't think that Anthony and Nazo would believe him. They didn't hear his full sentence just as they were about to kill High Man.

Another figure approached it was Oscar "Porker" Lewis, a pig who's a close friend to the late Johnny Lightfoot. He wasn't the traumatised Freedom Fighter he used to be after he was captured and almost got killed.

"So, another guest has been invited," thought Ainsley.

"I came for revenge," said Porker.

"Didn't you resign from the Freedom Fighters after that traumatising abduction?" wondered Dylan.

"I was. The ones responsible for taking me prisoner were the Brotherhood of Metallix. I was at the Miracle Planet for an entire month thanks to them. But since they were defeated by Chaotix and rescued me, I decided to put my vengeance on another evil entity that also took me hostage, Rouge the Bat."

"Where were you taken when Rouge got you?"

"I was held up in the Haunted Hill Zone. I hired Ridenburgh to take down SWAT and Rejoice in a disguise I myself made."

Porker opened a huge bag and pulled out a costume with a mask. Inside revealed circuit boards in both outfit and mask. Porker is a technical genius when he was a member of the freedom fighters.

"This disguise I made can make the user become any person he impersonates depending on the DNA being used."

"So you're the person responsible," realised Williams. "Of course this means that I have to silence you permanently." He made his statement sound like a threat.

Porker tried to persuade him. "I think I can pay your debt by working with you which I highly doubt since I claimed to be responsible for being involved in using people."

"Now that GUN is on our hands Ainsley should take charge as one of the SWAT squad leaders," ordered Dylan.

Ainsley liked that idea, can't say the same for Porker. "Listen council of shit faces, I'm about to make amends-"

"Nobody's interested in your fucking details!" angered Williams. "GUN's about to have my ass baked and all you could think about is trying to negotiate with me? If I were you I would listen to whoever's in charge and ask later."

Porker now knew not to mess with the big boss in any form. He had experience with Sonic the Hedgehog as the leader, he used to be his friend back then. He agreed to Williams' statement and got his shit together.

"Now that we got this debate sorted," said Ainsley. "Shall we head to our guest?"

"Sir Charles, right," embarrassed Dylan. He's sometimes absent-minded whenever he's not part of the council.

There's an escape boat outside, what Geoffrey knows and the others don't is that he rigged the fuel line to leak slowly, so that he can light the gasoline and kill all those on board. Geoffrey has a plan in store. He's not planning to take over Williams' organisation, what he is planning however seem consequential.

Archibald McOulen wasn't pleased with the outcome, even Hershey knew that he'll be pissed. SWAT left the premise leaving Archibald alone with Hershey. The emptiness in the building filled his mind which made him distracted. A slow beeping can be heard behind Hershey she turned and noticed and blinking green light with brown and purple wires. She ran, grabbed Archibald's arm, busted through the door and leapt off the ground just as the warehouse became incinerated.

Anthony and Nazo arrived on the scene and ran to check on them. Rouge, Mina, Tikal & Kes also came to them in an SUV. Nazo helped Hershey on her knees and Anthony assisted Archibald. Nazo whispered what Kes told him in her ear, Anthony made sure Archibald doesn't know about what the hedgehog is giving to the cat. Kes went over to check on them, Anthony walked over to them and asked him something. "How did you know the uniforms in that van?"

"When I was undercover, I saw Gar and another crony loading the van with counterfeit GUN uniforms. I also found that the Rejoice uniforms are real," informed Kes.

"What do you know about the illegal shipments?" asked Nazo.

"Based on the files I looked over back at HQ, they explained that those shipments were originally supposed to be delivered to Williams but some group of humans and mobians hijacked and gave the goods to Rejoice. There wasn't enough evidence to prove to that they hired the group or they acted on their own."

Tikal's phone rang, after answering it she received bad news. "Phil Peters just called, he said that Sir Charles was kidnapped."

"How's that possible?" asked Mina.

"Phil said Dylan shot Penelope Platypus just before an armed group of men broke in and snatched him."

Archibald went back to his car and it drove off in a fast speed. Anthony and Nazo helped Hershey into their vehicle. Rouge told them about the kidnapping and both vehicles drove in the opposite direction of where Archibald is going.