Chapter 11. The Case of the Red Emerald
In an alleyway, a field of electricity began to form, as an effect papers began blow away, and with a bright flash our heroes appeared, less disoriented then they were back when they landed in Haven City
"I'm sort of getting used to this" Sonic said.
"You've only teleported with the MTM 2 times Sonic" Hobbes pointed out.
"That doesn't matter right now" Ratchet said "We need to find the Chaos emeralds that are on this planet."
Just then Calvin grabbed a piece of paper that was blown away when they were teleporting in and he was surprised by it "Uh guys we may not have to look far to find it."
He then showed them the paper, and everyone was surprised by it.
It said See The Red Emerald Our New Exhibit in the Museum.
"How can that be" Hobbes asked "Calvin and I were only gone for..." He paused to check his watch "3 hours"
"Well time flies when your finding objects of power" Tails said.
"We need to find that museum" Jak said "It's our only hope of finding that emerald."
While they were talking Calvin was deep in thought, and when Calvin was deep in thought his imagination usually took over.
You see Calvin has a very strong imagination, and in times like these he almost becomes a different person.
Right now instead of a city alleyway he was in a office wearing a jacket and a hat, his feet on a desk, and now a monologue began.
There are two types of people in the world who use weapons, those who use them for crime, and those who use them for justice. I'm part of the people who use the weapons for justice, my name is Bullet, Tracer Bullet, and I'm a private eye.
He then Grabbed a piece of paper that had the Red Chaos Emerald.
Right now my newest client had a unique emerald stolen from them, unlike most emeralds this one is red, and the thief has hidden it into a museum. A clever place to hide a emerald since there are a lot of rare gems there, However he didn't specify which museum he's hidden it in. Tiger Eye as well as a few friends he brought with him are going to help me locate the museum with that emerald in it.
There was a knock on the door, and Tracer looked up.
"Must be Tiger Eye" he muttered "You may come in"
Tiger Eye entered the room, "How's it going with finding the museum?" he asked.
"I think I have a good guess on where it is" Tracer said putting his feet off the desk, and standing up.
"Then shall we go?" Tiger Eye asked putting a jacket on.
"Agreed" Tracer said. "Let's find that museum."
And with that the duo exited the room.
Let's return to reality now shall we.
Calvin came out of imagination land, just as Sonic asked Calvin "Do you have any idea here this museum is Calvin?"
"I think I know where it is" Calvin said. "I once went there with a few friends."
"Alright lead us to it." Ratchet said.
Then they exited the alleyway.
For Calvin unsurprisingly no one reacted to a blue hedgehog, a tiger, an orange weasel, and an alien coming out of an alleyway, they just passed by it like it was just another day for them.
"Why aren't they reacting to us?" Jak asked as he looked at them pass by.
"To put it simply." Calvin said rolling his eyes "This is the most unobservant town in the world"
"Oh" Ratchet said.
They crossed the street until they came to the museum Calvin went to.
It was what museum's usually looked like, white stone building with pillars holding it up.
"So this is the museum" Sonic said looking at it.
"Yep" Hobbes said.
"Well we found it let's go get the emerald." Ratchet suggested.
"Hold on Ratchet" Sonic said. "Museum's usually have security that prevents people from stealing their exhibits."
"Also we don't really know where the emerald is in that museum." Jak pointed out.
Ratchet thought about it for a moment. "Fine" he sighed.
"Hobbes and I will go inside the museum and find the emerald" Calvin said "Once we find the emerald we'll make a plan to get it back."
"Good plan Calvin." Tails said "We'll wait outside and keep watch in case any enemies attack us"
"Thanks guys" Calvin said.
And with that Calvin and Hobbes went into the museum to find the emerald.
Let's head into the museum with Calvin and Hobbes with the MTM.
After the MTM made tickets for them to get into the museum, they got the map to the building, and started searching.
Lets slip back into Calvin's imagination as Tracer Bullet
We managed to find the museum that had the emerald in it, now we had to find out where in this museum the emerald was. Because Tiger Eye and I knew this place very well, we left the rest of our friends outside to make sure no goon's come up and take the emerald from us.
The detective duo continued looking around the museum trying to find the emerald.
Just then they bumped into a couple of people.
"Oh sorry" Tiger Eye said "We didn't see you there"
The people they bumped into grumbled in response.
They continued on their way.
Those two people looked a bit suspicious, was it possible that our enemies had found us? If so we had to find the emerald fast.
Tracer went into the rare gems section knowing that if there was a rare emerald it must be in the rare gem's section.
"Of course if there is a rare gem it must be in the Rare gem's exhibit" Tracer said deciding to lampshade the obvious.
"There's a lot of gem's in here" Tiger eye said looking around "Let's get our Detector out"
"Good idea" Tracer said, and he got out the Detector.
Allow me to describe the Detector, it's the Tracer Bullet version of the MTM so the picture can't be hard to describe.
Tracer and Tiger Eye walked around the Gems looking for the emerald.
After a few minutes the detector beeped.
"We must be near it" Tracer said. "Tiger Eye look around and see where the emerald is."
Tiger Eye slowly spun around to see where the emerald was.
"There it is" he said pointing it out where he was looking.
Tracer looked at where Tiger eye was pointing at, it was the red chaos emerald.
Tracer smiled.
I knew the detector would be useful one day, and when that didn't specify where it was, Tiger Eye's keen eyes managed to find it for me. When we get that emerald back to our client, he deserves a few cans of tuna.
"Come on Tiger Eye" Tracer said. "Let's examine what the security on this area is like and then we'll go notify our friends."
Now we shall return to reality.
Remember those two people that Tracer and Tiger Eye bumped into earlier back in that moment where Calvin's imagination took over, well those were actually alien's in disguise, and they were watching them as they observed the case with the emerald in it.
One of the aliens bought a radio to his mouth "This is Biff, the earth potentate has found the Chaos Emerald, I repeat the Earth Potentate has found the Chaos Emerald."
"Good" Earl's voice said over the radio "Do not attack them observe them, we'll attack them later."
"Roger that" Biff said.
"Alight it appears the alarm isn't set up in this case" Calvin said scanning it with the MTM. "But we can't be too sure."
"I agree, because according to a schedule their installing the alarm tomorrow." The MTM said.
"We're going to have to sneak in tonight" Hobbes said "and it's not going to be easy too, because even though this town is unobservant, they sure are not going to let a 6 year old boy and his friends walk out with their newest exhibit."
"You have a point there Hobbes" Calvin said "That's why we need a plan, Now shall we reunite with out friends."
"Yes we shall" Hobbes said "But let's take one last look around the museum."
So Calvin and Hobbes took one last look around the museum before heading out to report their finding's.
Meanwhile our villains were watching them.
"Well, we know where the next emerald is." Dr. Nefarious said.
"Agreed I can send out a robots to grab the emerald before they can get to it." Erol said.
"Patience Erol" Eggman said "Let Earl have his chance to take down his enemy, and that requires waiting until night."
"Fine" Erol muttered annoyed at the fact he wasn't going to attack the heroes yet.
"Thank you Eggman" Earl said "This would be a great opportunity to use my improved aliens"
All four of them then burst into evil laughter.
After Calvin and Hobbes reported their findings to the rest of the heroes, they began got around in a circle.
"Let's start making our plan to get that emerald" Calvin said.
"But we don't have the blueprints to the museum" Jak pointed out.
"Oh is that why i'm here" The MTM asked. "To get the Blueprints?"
It them pulled out the blueprints to the museum.
"MTM how did you.." Calvin began
"I simply grabbed the most recent blueprints from time and duplicated it." The MTM explained. "Now then, continue to try to make a plan that doesn't involve you getting arrested."
"Fine" Calvin said rolling his eyes.
They observed the blueprints as they made their plan to get the emerald.
"We can enter the exhibit that the emerald is in though the roof" Jak said pointing at the roof part of the blueprints.
"But from what I can tell they hvae security cameras in the museum" Hobbes said remembering seeing camera's when He and Calvin were going though the museum.
Ratchet then pointed to the security room. "The Cameras and cases to the exhibit appear to be controlled from this room, I think I can hack to them to disable the cameras, and the case where that chaos emerald is."
"Ok I think I have your job pretty much set." Sonic said to Ratchet "What about you Calvin?"
"I think i'll send Hobbes to protect Ratchet while he's hacking" Calvin said.
"Whoa Whoa Whoa wait a sec." Hobbes said holding his hands up and then pointing at Ratchet. "I have to protect him?"
"Look do you want Ratchet to get jumped and us getting caught or not?" Calvin asked.
Hobbes though about it for a moment.
"You have a point" He said finally.
"Good, now the rest of us will go in the exhibit section and find the emerald" Sonic said as Calvin folded up the blueprints and stuffed them in the hypercube. "We'll break in when night falls, If we can get though this smoothly, we can get through this with no trouble at all."
However a drone was watching them from the sky.
Now you would probably guess from the previous two times that we would cut to the villains.
Nope we shall cut to someone we haven't seen for a while now.
It's the mysterious man who hired the villains again. Watching our heroes
Right now he was smiling because he had gotten a call from eEgman that I won't give away just yet.
"Oh Sonic, you and your group of heroes may be in good hands right now but just you wait. Soon everything shall come tumbling down on you" he said watching as the heroes exited the drones camera.
A few hours latter the sun had shined it's last rays of light for the day.
Our heroes climbed up to the roof of the museum, after getting to the window that was closest to the Rare gems exhibit.
After getting there Ratchet and Hobbes went to the vent that led to the security room. Before Hobbes and Ratchet went in he turned to Calvin.
"Good luck" he said, and then he and Ratchet jumped into the vent.
Then Calvin managed to open the roof window to the exhibit and they jumped inside the museum.
The heist had begin.
Authors Note: Apologies for the short Chapter length, not really much happening except for them finding the emerald and planing how they are going to get it.
Anyway I guarantee a longer chapter next week.