Chapter 11- Infiltration
Fire was slammed back into a wall. He winced at the sharp pain that was going up his spine.
"You are so going to regret what you have done." Heba said in a menacing voice.
Fire gulped, scared to death of what Heba would do to him. However, he wouldn't betray Pegasus. "You can do whatever the hell you want to me. I'll never tell you where they are." Fire growled.
"Fox. Tiger. Mutt." Heba said.
"Yeah." Joey said.
"Tell me, were they wearing the necklaces I asked you to give them?" Heba asked.
"You mean the star-shaped ones?" Ryou asked.
"Yes." Heba said.
"What about them? It doesn't matter that they were wearing those damned things! They'll be dead before you find them!" Fire snarled.
"So, they were wearing them when you handed them over to Falcon's thugs." Heba said.
"So what if they were?!" Fire spat.
Heba smirked. "Because your boss had no idea that those necklaces were actually tracking devices. We can track them without you." Heba said.
Fire's eyes widened in hear.
"Iron rod!" Heba called.
'Yes, Leader." Iron rod said as he entered the room.
"I want you to watch him. Have a gun trained on him at all times. The other three members of your team are to be outside the door. If he tries to escape, you have my permission to shoot to kill. Don't let him get away. He's a traitor and will be dealt with later when we get back." Heba said, pushing Fire into a chair.
Iron rod pointed his gun at him. "He'll have to kill me to get away." Iron rod said.
"Come on!" Heba said.
Ryou, Malik, and Joey followed Heba out.
"Ryou, get on the computer. Find them." Heba said.
"Right." Ryou said, running off.
"We're gathering a team together. We'll be moving out the second that Ryou has their location." Heba said.
The group headed to get the tea, together.
Within fifteen minutes, they had the two hummers that would be taken ready.
Ryou ran up and said, "I got it. They are in the Industrial Illusions building."
"Leader!"
Heba turned and saw one of Iron rod's team running to him. "Bluestreak, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be guarding the door."
"Leader, Fire tried to escape and Iron rod took him down. In his pain, he told us that they were being kept in an underground chamber under Industrial Illusions." Bluestreak said.
"Good. Go back to your duties." Heba said.
Bluestreak nodded and ran off.
"Let's go. We know what we are looking for now." Heba said.
Everyone got into the hummers and headed out.
In their prison, the group was getting antsy.
"I cannot take this much longer! I have to get out of here!" Akefia said.
"Being in the base with them doesn't sound that bad now." Atemu said.
"No. It doesn't. It sounds wonderful." Marik said.
"We can't just give up. We have to try and figure out a way to get out of this mess." Seth said.
"How? We have no way to get out. Not one of us knows how to use a gun. We don't even have a weapon to use. They have guns and who knows what else." Atemu said.
"There must be something that we can do." Bakura said.
"Like what? It's not they put some kind of tracking device on us to let them find us." Yami said.
Aknankanon sighed. "We just have to wait and see what they do." Aknankanon said.
'Heba, I know that you don't want anything to happen to us, so please come and help us. We need it.' Amara thought, hoping that Heba and the others would arrive in time to aide them.
Vulture and his group were waiting in a room.
"What are the targets doing?" Vulture asked the one at the monitor.
"Nothing. I think that they're going out of their minds from being locked up." the man replied.
"Doesn't matter. They'll be dead once Falcon gets here." Vulture said.
The rest of them were playing card games.
"I wish that we could go ahead and shoot them." one said.
"Yeah. It would be so much fun to do that." another said.
"We have our orders. We are to wait for Falcon to come before we kill them. Once Falcon gets here, we'll deal with them." Vulture said.
Pegasus was sitting in his study. He was drinking a glass of wine.
Croquet walked into the room and said, "Mr. Pegasus, the limo is ready to take you to Industrial Illusions."
"Thank you, Croquet. It's time to deal with the last of the competition." Pegasus said.
Pegasus left the room, and Croquet followed him.
Outside, the limo was waiting. The limo driver had the door open for Pegasus. Pegasus got in, and the limo driver closed the door.
Croquet and the limo driver got into the front of the limo and drove off.
"Where to, sir?" the limo asked.
"My office now." Pegasus said.
The limo driver headed that way.
Pegasus got comfortable since it would be an hour drive to his office building.
The two hummers parked a few blocks away from the Industrial Illusions building.
"Okay. How do we do this?" Joey asked.
"We're going to have to get in there undetected. I'm sure that there are security cameras everywhere." Heba said.
"You know, I think that I might be able to do something." Ryou said, taking out his laptop and started typing.
"What are you doing?" Heba asked.
"I can use a satellite to relay a signal that would temporarily disable every security system that Pegasus has in his building. They would only be disabled for about ten minutes, but that might be enough to get us to where we need to be." Ryou said, not pausing in his typing.
"It's the best chance that we have." one of the agents said.
"Do it." Heba said.
Ryou continued with what he did, and before he knew it, he had hacked into the satellite. "Okay. Almost there. Everyone needs to be ready to move in the second that I say." Ryou said.
"You heard him. Everyone, get ready to move in!" Heba ordered.
"Yes, sir." was the reply as every started getting what they needed together.
Ryou managed to get the satellite to hack into the Industrial Illusions security system. He initiated the program, and in a few moments, the words INDUSTRIAL ILLUSIONS SECURITY SYSTEM DEACTIVATED flashed across the screen.
"Move it!" Ryou ordered.
The agents spread out and headed in through several different entrances.
"Look for the way into that underground level." Heba ordered.
There didn't seem to be a way in.
"I got an idea! Head to Pegasus's office!" Ryou ordered into the communicator on his ear.
"You heard him!" Heba said.
All the agents did as ordered and headed for the stairs.
After heading up several flights of stairs, everyone arrived at the door to Pegasus's office.
Joey tried to turn the knob, but it wouldn't budge. "Locked." Joey said.
"Let me." an agent said. She kneeled at the knob and used a set of tools to pick the lock.
Ryou went in and connected his laptop to Pegasus's computer.
"Fox. What are you doing?" Heba asked.
"I'm tapping into every file that Pegasus has on his computer. If there is a way to get into that underground level, it will be in his computer." Ryou said.
It wasn't long before Ryou managed to tap into Pegasus's computer. He soon found the plans.
"We can get to it from here. There's an elevator that will take us there as well as a set of stairs." Ryou said.
"We'll take the stairs. Everyone, get your guns ready. We're dealing with trained assassins like us. We take no chances." Heba said.
"Yes, Leader." everyone said.
Ryou hit the button under Pegasus's desk that opened the secret panel to the stairs that would lead down to the underground level.
Carefully, the group of agents headed down to the underground level, keeping their guns trained in front of them so that if someone came up on them, they would be ready to fire.
"Vulture, we've got a bit of a problem." the assassin at the computers said.
"What's that?" Vulture asked, engrossed in the card game.
"The security cameras are all down." the assassin replied.
Vulture looked up. "What do you mean all the security cameras are down?" Vulture demanded.
"Just what I said, sir. All of the cameras are down. In the building and down here." the assassin said.
"What do we do about the targets, sir?" another assassin asked.
"We'll get them and bring them in here. Don't forget about our orders. We don't let any harm befall them. We have to wait until Falcon gets here for that." Vulture said.
The men groaned at being reminded of that detail.
"I'd love to just shoot them, too, but we have our orders, and we have to follow them. We'll get to kill them once Falcon arrives." Vulture said.
The men got up and headed to the cell.
Yami, Atemu, Amara, Aknankanon, Seth, Seto, Marik, Mariku, Akefia, and Bakura were surprised when the metal doors were opened.
They weren't surprised, however, when they found that guns were trained on them.
"Tie them up." Vulture ordered.
The men entered the room and tied everyone's hands behind their backs.
"Out." Vulture ordered.
Knowing that they couldn't do anything else, the group did as they were told and left the cell, being led into a large room.
"Sit down against the wall." Vulture ordered.
The group did as they were told.
"Stay there. You have until Falcon arrives to enjoy being alive." Vulture said before he and the others returned to the card game.
"Great. We are really dead." Akefia muttered.
"I wonder how long before Pegasus gets here." Marik said.
"It doesn't matter. I'd rather now know." Aknankanon said.
Heba and the others had made it to the bottom of the thirty-floor stairwell down to the underground level.
Once at the door, Heba and Joey got on either side of it.
Heba nodded, and Joey opened the door.
Carefully, Heba and Joey walked into the hallway first, pointing their guns each way to make sure that they were not being watched.
Heba made a motion, and everyone headed down the hall.
"Which way?" Malik asked.
"I'm not sure. There's no way to know which way they are." Heba said.
"If we can find a computer room, I can find out." Ryou said.
"Look in the rooms. Be careful. There could be assassins in any room." Heba said.
The agents all spread out and started looking in each room, looking for the room that held a computer.
"Leader. Here." a male agent said.
Heba and Ryou walked to the room.
Ryou walked over to the computers and hooked his laptop up. Within a few minutes, he had their position.
"Let's go." Heba said.
The group headed back down the halls.
Heba had seen the map, so he led them through the halls and to where they knew that their protectorates were being held captive.
When he knew they were close, he stopped them.
"What wrong, Leader?" Joey asked.
"We don't know if the protectorates are in the room or not. When we move in, we need to be careful. We also don't know how many assassins are in there. Getting the protectorates out alive is the main objective. If you're near them, protect them." Heba said.
"Yes, Leader." all the agents said.
The group continued on down the hall.
Pegasus looked out the window as they drove down the highway. 'Soon, the last of my competition will be dead. We'll leave the bodies where they can be found, and I'll take control of the last few gaming companies to make mine the only one.' Pegasus thought.
Pegasus then looked forward.
"We will be arriving in half an hour, Mr. Pegasus." Croquet said.
"Good. We can deal with this-problem, soon." Pegasus said, not wanting his limo driver to know what was going on.
'Soon, very soon, I will have exactly what I want, and there is no way that anyone will stop me.' Pegasus thought.
Heba and the other agents arrived at the door that led into where the assassins were.
Carefully, Heba opened the door, making sure that the door didn't make any noise as he did so.
The group carefully made their way in.
Unfortunately, one of the assassins decided to look up at that moment.
"Intruders!" the assassin shouted.
All of the assassins jumped up with their guns drawn.
Heba started firing, and the other agents followed suit.
Yami, Atemu, and all the others were startled when the gunfire started, and they were all trying to move back even thought they couldn't.
Heba fired and hit Vulture right in the chest, sending Vulture down to his the ground. Another shot killed Vulture.
Ryou was close to them and ran over to help them.
"R-" Bakura started.
"Bakura, don't use my real name here!" Ryou ordered.
"Why?" Akefia asked.
"Now's not the time!" Yami exclaimed, getting scared.
"He's right." Ryou said.
A few other agents got over to them and started to untie them.
Heba ran to the side as he continued to fire. A shot hit near Heba, and he was knocked back into a wall, hitting the side of his head hard. Ignoring his injury, Heba continued firing.
It wasn't long before all of the assassins working for Pegasus were dead.
"Man. That wasn't as easy as I thought." Malik said.
"All of you all right?" Heba asked as they walked over to where the others were.
"Yeah. We're fine." Atemu said.
"Any idea if they have vehicles here or something?" Heba asked.
"Yeah. There's a secret way in. Why?" Yami asked.
"Lead the way." Heba said.
The group led them down the hall and to where there was a bay of vans.
"What now, Leader?" one agent asked.
"Simple. We get rid of all this stuff. Fox. Mutt. Get them out of here and to the hummers." Heba ordered.
The two nodded, and led them out.
"Set up the charges." Heba ordered.
The agents started to set up dynamite all around the vehicles.
"Why are we doing this?" Malik asked.
"Simple. It'll be harder to get anywhere with no vehicles." Heba said. He turned and said, "Spike."
"Sir?" Spike replied.
"Did you set all of the charges up throughout the hanger?" Heba asked.
"Yes. When you set off the detonator, every inch of this underground level will blow. Because of the way the lower level was designed, only this level will be destroyed. No one could tell that we did anything by looking at the building itself." Spike replied.
"That's good to know." Heba said.
"Sir, all charges are set." another agent said.
"Good. Move out! Head back to the hummers!" Heba ordered.
Everyone headed out the hanger entrance and went toward the hummers.
The agents got into the hummers where Ryou, Joey, Yami, Atemu and all the others were waiting.
Heba got into the front with Ryou while Malik went to the other hummer.
"Drive." Heba said to Ryou.
Ryou did as he was told.
Heba then hit a red button on a stick.
All of the charges of dynamite that had been set up were blinking red.
The indicator was set, and all that was left was for the charge to go off.
Few moments later, the entire underground level at Industrial Illusions exploded, destroying everything in the underground hanger.
Since the underground hanger was reinforced so that there was no way anyone could know it was there, the explosion could not be heard anywhere else.
Unless someone entered the underground hanger, no one would have known what had happened.
Pegasus frowned. He had tried to call Vulture, but had received no answer.
"Is something wrong, sir?' Croquet asked.
"Yes. I am unable to reach my associate. He told me that he would available by phone, but I cannot reach him at the moment." Pegasus said.
"Perhaps he is merely busy with dealing with the problem that arose at the office." Croquet said, making sure that the limo driver did not know what he was really talking about.
"Possibly. I will see when we arrive." Pegasus said, putting his phone away.
At the base to the Guild, Heba and everyone else got out of the hummers.
"All right. Help anyone injured to the medical ward. I want them looked at now." Heba said.
Any agent that was injured headed for the medical ward, although some needed help getting there.
Heba pressed a hand to the side of his head. It was killing him from where he had the wall during the shootout.
"Listen. That Fire is a traitor. He's the one who let us walk into that trap." Yami said, wanting to warn them.
"We know. We figured that out before we left. He's being watched by several agents who will shoot him if they have to." Heba said.
"Heba, you okay?" Ryou asked.
Heba moved his hand from his head and saw the blood. "No. I'm one of the injured." Heba said.
"What happened?!" Joey exclaimed.
"Hit the wall hard. Must have hit harder than I thought." Heba said, wincing at the pain he was beginning to feel.
"Here. Let me have a look. I'm a doctor." Seth said.
"Sure thing." Heba said.
Seth looked at the injury. "It's nit as bad as it could be. With a medical kit, I can tend to it, though I would suggest that you don't fall asleep for at least six hours." Seth said.
"Not planning on it." Heba said.
The group headed for the wing they stayed in so that Seth could take care of the injury Heba had.
Pegasus's driver pulled up at the Industrial Illusions office building.
The limo driver got out and opened the door for Pegasus.
"You can just drive around for awhile. I'm not sure how long this will take." Pegasus said.
"Yes, Mr. Pegasus." the limo driver said.
Pegasus and Croquet headed into the office building. They took the elevator up to Pegasus's office.
Pegasus took out his key and unlocked the door.
Heba had locked the door after they were all in the office so that suspicion was not aroused in case Pegasus went there while they were still in the middle of the rescue.
Pegasus went to his desk and hit the button that opened the elevator doors that led to the underground level.
Heba had also had the computer turned back off so that Pegasus would not know they were there.
Pegasus and Croquet stepped into the elevator and headed down.
"Very soon, all of my hard work will have paid because once I deal with Atemu Sennen and Seto Kaiba, their companies will be mine for the taking." Pegasus said.
"Yes, sir. Japan will have only you to provide them with gaming technology/" Croquet said.
"Exactly. I can't wait to see how they act when they realize that their time is up. Those enemy assassins might have managed to prolong their deaths, but at least I have them. I will soon be ready to get rid of them and expand my empire." Pegasus said.
The elevator doors opened, and Pegasus and Croquet walked out.
The two were shocked beyond words at what they saw.
The hallway they were in was black with ash. Everything had been destroyed.
Pegasus walked down the hall, stepping over the debris. "This can't be. Everything is destroyed." Pegasus said.
Croquet couldn't believe it, either. "There is a state of the art security system here. Whoever did this will be found." Croquet said.
"Go gather all of the security tapes." Pegasus said.
Pegasus entered the room where the shootout had taken place and found the burned, shot-up bodies of his assassins. 'I do not know who did this, but they will pay for interfering in something that did not concern them.' Pegasus thought.
Pegasus headed on to the hanger and found that everything there was gone, too.
Pegasus looked at everything for fifteen minutes.
"Mr. Pegasus." Croquet said.
Pegasus turned to him. "What is it, Croquet?" Pegasus asked.
"I'm sorry, sir, but the security tapes didn't help." Croquet said.
"Why not?" Pegasus demanded.
"The security cameras went out for ten minutes a half hour ago. Whoever got in here would not have been caught on tape." Croquet said.
"Search everywhere. See if Atemu Sennen and Seto Kaiba are among the bodies." Pegasus said.
Croquet did as he was told and searched everywhere. 'Nothing. There is no trace of them. They were not here when this place exploded.' Croquet thought. He knew that Pegasus would not like this at all.
"What did you find?" Pegasus asked when Croquet returned.
"I didn't find anything, Mr. Pegasus. If they were here, then they got away." Croquet said.
"Not one of them could have done all this. They don't have the knowledge or skill to do something of this magnitude." Pegasus said.
"Perhaps the ones that were protecting them found them ands saved them." Croquet said.
"Yes. I would agree with that assessment. That means that whoever they are, they are talented and serious." Pegasus said.
"To have been able to do all this, they are better than any of the ones who worked for you." Croquet said.
"Yes. I have a feeling that they are not done. They know who I am since they tracked them here." Pegasus said.
"I'll get the private place ready. No one knows about your island. They won't find you there." Croquet said.
"Alert the staff there. Tell them to be ready." Pegasus said.
"Yes, sir." Croquet said.
'I am dealing with pros who are better than the ones I have. It means that I am in danger. I will just have to hide until all this blows over. I can work from my island anyway.' Pegasus thought.
Pegasus and Croquet left, not wanting to get caught there.
The limo driver drove them right to the airport, where Pegasus and Croquet boarded Pegasus's private plane, and the place flew to Pegasus's island to hide from their predators.
Hope you liked it. Yes, Pegasus is a coward running scared.
Next: Recovering from the rescue. Also, Fire will probably be dealt with.
R&R.