Author's Note: Hope this is good, I tried my best on this chapter, only because I wasn't really sure how to write it. Enjoy.

Chapter 2: Morning After

The Master sat in front of his computer, checking it over to see if there were any updates on the break in from earlier in the night. When the Rovers came back they gave their report of what happened and how nothing was taken, he didn't believe that at all. There was something more going on and he had to find out what it was before anything bad happened. Currently it was noon and the Rovers were asleep, when they got back he could see how drained they were and told them to go ahead and sleep in. That was a common this to happen whenever the Rovers had gone out on a late night mission, The Master couldn't have his team nodding off in case he needed them.

Sighing he sat back in his chair; he was getting nothing so far and decided to take a small break. He then started to think back to what the Rovers said last night, how when they managed to chase the intruders off only to find out nothing was touched. Why would they break open a safe and not take anything? It didn't make any sense. They had to be aiming for something, but what could it be? Whatever it was it had to be found fast.

Inside the rec room Sierra and Shadow were sitting on the floor, watching as their grandson crawled. They had taken the responsibility of watching him as his parents rested. It did well for them and plus it allowed them to spend more quality time with him. Both grandparents had smiles on their faces as it amazed them as to how much he resembled his parents. He looked almost like Hunter except he had Colleen's blue eyes. Also his fur was a mix of both parents making it a golden brown.

"Come on Christian, come to Grandma," Sierra urged the child as she held her arms out. The toddler's eyes lay on his grandmother and slowly started to make his way towards her. Over course he was only starting out so he had a little trouble.

Shadow shook his head as he saw him softly fall to the ground, "Don't worry kiddo, you'll get it soon." He moved over and picked him off of the ground, cradling him in his arms.

They both turned heads as they heard the door open, in came both Hunter and Colleen. "Good afternoon you two," Sierra spoke, greeting her children.

"Yeah, we thought you'd be sleep longer," Shadow commented next as the two hugged both of them and sat down on the floor next to them.

"We thought so also, but we woke up and just couldn't go back to sleep," Hunter responded.

Colleen smiled as Shadow handed Christian over to her, she held him in her arms as the child snuggled into her arms. "How are you my little angle," She spoke to her son as they watched him make soft cooing noises, little hands reaching for his mother. That just warmed their hearts seeing him do that. "Hope he wasn't any trouble for you two."

"No, he wasn't, he's such a delight to watch."

Hunter chuckled as his response, "Well that's my boy." Sierra couldn't help but smile at the comment, it felt like yesterday when she said the exact same thing, and now her son is saying it to his child. It just warmed her heart knowing that.

Ariel walked into her room and was surprised to find Axel on the floor meditating. It was something he picked up from their friends, the Mighty Ducks. Ever since he was introduced to this he did it whenever he was stressed or needed to think things over, but mostly he used it to help relax himself. It really did help him; he got a lot calmer and was more happy because of it. Walking over she sat next to him, back against their bed, "Axel is there something the matter?"

He came out of his trance when he heard his wife's voice, "What?"

"Is there something the matter?"

"Well…I guess," He responded, moving himself so he could be next to Ariel. "I just got to thinking about something…last night when we were in that safe…something didn't feel right."

"What do you mean?" She asked.

He signed as he looked up at the ceiling, "It was like something was out of place, you know like something wasn't supposed to be there."

"Like what?" She asked curious as to hear what he was getting at.

He shook his head, "I'm not really sure, but I think our enemies were a step ahead of us this time."

"How so? Please tell me."

"With the amount of time they had before we got there, plus the small amount of time they stalled us, I'm pretty sure that they could have found what they were looking for and get it before we could notice."

The more Ariel thought over Axel's words over the more it started to make sense, but yet they left with nothing, so why would something be off? Whenever Axel had these kinds of thoughts she knew that they should be taken seriously. But yet they really didn't have anything to go on right now so it pained her that they had to leave it at that. "That does make sense, but I'm not really sure if we can do anything right now about it."

He sighed, knowing she was right, "I know, I guess we should keep alert in case something related pops up." Not saying anything else both of them stood up and left the room, even though they talked about it the subject of last night left their minds.

Unknown Location

Skeam walked through the halls of Havoc's hidden base, while carrying a weighted rough sack. Having a sour look on his face he passed a few of his subordinates until he came to a large door. He knocked loudly and waited, once he got confirmation he entered. He walked into a well-furnished office and in the center of the room was a desk with Havoc right behind it. Noticing that it was Skeam he turned his attention to him, "Did you get it?"

He nodded as he moved closer, "Yes sir, but it wasn't easy, we lost seven of our best men because the Rovers showed up."

Havoc scowled at the response, but then straighten himself again as he remembered that sacrifices had to be made in order to get what he needed. "It's unfortunate but still you got it."

Skeam then placed the sack on the desk and opened it, inside was a large glass container that held an odd looking flower inside. It had a slim mint green stem that held one leaf, with jagged edges. The petals were long, with various swirls of colors on them. The outer parts were red and blue while the inner petals were burnt orange and violet. The center, where the pollen was stored, seemed to glow a golden like light.

Havoc smiled at what he saw right before that he couldn't help but laugh, finally he had what he needed and there was no one to stop him. "Good work Skeam; this is exactly what I needed. Now I suppose that the scientist back at the research center don't know it's missing?"

He nodded, "Yes sir, we managed to replace the real thing with the replica that was given to us. Before they even know its fake it'll be far too late."

"Excellent, now take this down to our scientists, and make sure that they don't breathe in the pollen from this plant."

Skeam raised his eyes in curiosity; he didn't really know anything about this plant so he wouldn't know if there are any dangers to it. "And why is that?"

"All will be explained in time, but for now all you need to know is that this thing is a valuable pawn in my plans."

"And what is it you are planning with this?"

All Skeam got was a wicked smile from his leader, followed by a laugh, "You'll see soon, Skeam, you'll see soon enough."

He decided not to ask any more question, whenever he saw that smile on the Colonel's face he knew he had a sure fire plan up his sleeve. After covering up the case he lifted it off and walked out of the office, whatever was planned must have been something good.

A/N: Hope you like, Like I said I really didn't know how to write this so I did my best. Now things should start to pick up from here. I thank you so far for sticking with me. Next one will be out soon.