Ch.8: Help From Professor Z
Minutes later both Finn and Holley found themselves being locked in at Mater's old cell, by their once fellow other British agents. Raptor had left sometime ago to file a report of their capture. Grem and Acer couldn't help but joke at the predictament of the two spies, while Professor Z and Axelrod just remianed silent.
"Grrr!" said Holley, angrilly " darn that Gear!"
At the mention of the black car's name Grem and Acer's laughter became silent, and Professor Z's eyes grew wide. Carefully, Professor Z drove up close to his bars and peered at the two spies.
"Did you say Gear?" said Professor Z.
"Yeah," said Holley.
"You know him?" asked Finn.
"Of course" said Professor Z " one doesn't run around in the criminal underworld without knowing the King of crime. Not if you want to live at least. He came in here sometime last night, dragging off that two truck pal of yours,"
"So it's true" said Finn " he does have Mater. But what does he plan to do?"
"What do you about this Gear?" asked Holley.
"A car with an incredibly high intellegence, a heart for toture, and a thing for games" said Professor Z " he was my main inspiration after I started my criminal craze. His most horrific deed as I recall is when he destroyed an entire spy car's family, right in front of his very eyes,"
Finn frowned at this and his eyes instantly displayed sorrow. Tears threatened to leak from his windows. That memory was a horrible thing for him to bear. Holley noticed her partner's look, but decided not to dig into it until after she got more answers.
"Where did he go?" she asked Professor Z.
"Out the same way he came" said Professor Z " I was the only one to witness it. Not to long after a servallince tape turned up with both of your images on it,"
"He faked the tape" said Holley " that scoundrel,"
"I think the main question is" said Finn, finally breaking out his somber mood " why would he want to keep Mater alive? What does he plan to do with him?"
"Whatever it is" said Grem " he won't survive for long,"
"Then we're getting out of here now," said Finn, activating his lock pick on the cell. Minutes later the door swung open allowing him and Holley to slip out.
"Thanks for the info gents" said Holley " tally ho!"
"Hey what kind of thanks is that!" shouted Grem as the two spy cars drove off.
"Okay" said Holley, once she and Finn were out of the cellblock " we got out, but now where do we go now? We can't go anywhere without running into another agent,"
"Which is why we're going to try out that new piece of hardware we recieved from Tomber just last week" said Finn " activate the cloaking device and follow me to Raptor's office. There's a secret passage there that Jack had installed to get to the kitchen faster,"
Following Finn's lead, Holley activated her cloaking device and followed her partner all the way to Raptor's office. Luckily, for both of the spy cars, the orange and black car was not in the room.
Deactivating the devices, Finn started looking around for the passage while Holley rolled over to the computer on Raptor's desk. One file had been opened called Operation: Striker.
Curious, Holley's eyes scanned the information, and her mouth opened in shock at the info. Quickly she downloaded the info into her harddrive just as Finn found the lever for the secret passage, and pulled it making him and Holley go down into the floor.
One quick rush through the kitchen later and the spy cars escaped HQ to live another night. They both didn't stop until they reached the safety of the warehouse district, where they quickly hid inside one of the stalls trying to catch their breath.
"Finn" said Holley " you're not going to believe what information I found,"
"Shh, what's that?" asked Finn, listening quietly.
Confused, Holley listened as well. For a few seconds there was nothing but silence, but then suddenly a familiar scream echoed through the night, making both spy cars stiffen in fear.
"That's Mater!" shouted Holley, immediately driving off, with Finn not far behind.
Within seconds Finn and Holley were busting into another warehouse about five doors down to lay their eyes on a shocking sight and a grinning Gear.
"To late McMissle" said Gear, moving aside to reveal his latest creation. A highly customized black Mater with yellow flames and burning green eyes. " Operation: Striker is now complete,"