Hey Guys, here's Chapter Two! Enjoy!

The Real Game Begins

"The time has finally come," Mr. PoodleX450 announces to his TAG agents. "Dr. Steve has finally calibrated the machine and we are ready to begin the transfers."

Mr. PoodleX450 stood up and starts to address the citizens of Club Penguin.

"Attention citizens of Club Penguin, I am Mr. PoodleX450, Director of the Tech Galactic Alliance, and now Ruler of Club Penguin. Everyone must obey my command or be destroyed."

Mr. PoodleX450 looks at the crowds of penguins, not a single one is paying attention to him.

"Ahem, attention!" He yells, "I am..."

"Yeah, yeah we know Mr. PoodleX450, Director of TGA" interrupts a green penguin wearing a baseball cap and carrying a skateboard.

Mr. PoodleX450 squints in the sunlight to see the rude bystander.

"What is your name?" Mr. PoodleX450 demands. "How dare you interrupt me! I am the ruler of Club Penguin!"

Now a crowd of Club Penguin citizens gather to watch the scene unfold. The green penguin just smirks.

"Others have stated to taking over this island," the penguin began. "What makes you think you're any different?"

"What do you mean by that?" Mr. PoodleX450 snaps. "Who are you?"

The penguin casually leans on his skateboard, unaffected by the armed TAG agents standing near him.

"What I mean is..." the penguin drops his skateboard and then does a mocking bow. "Oh Mr. PoodleX450, ruler of Club Penguin, how do you plan on maintaining your reign over this island?"

Mr. PoodleX450 is caught off guard by this strange question.

"Wh...What do you mean by that?" He stammers, angrily. "I've got my agents and I've got more advanced technology than you. What else is there to worry about?"

The penguin stands up straight and there's a small gleam in his eyes.

"Us." The penguin exclaims, gesturing to all the citizens of Club Penguin.

Mr. PoodleX450 laughs.

"You think that...ordinary penguins...like you...can defeat us?" He sneers. "You're joking?"

The penguin shrugs, as if giving up.

"Don't say I didn't warn you," he announces coldly.

Mr. PoodleX450 had enough of this annoying penguin.

"Agents, arrest him!"

Before any of the agents could move, the penguin had disappeared into thin air.

"Where'd he go?" One TAG agent asked.

"I don't. You were closer." Another stammered.

Mr. PoodleX450 looks on at the confusion, with a growl. There's only one way that penguin could have escaped that fast. They were an Elite Penguin Force agent.

Michael's POV

I had already gone to see the other captured EPF agents. Only of them, I didn't recognize but the rest are all here. I can only guess what their missions was and it would not succeed.

"So you finally decided to come and join us?" Asks Matt, level 1 TAG agent.

"I didn't think you'd show." remarks Rachel, level 1 TAG agent. "Why the change? I thought you weren't interested in anything to do with the Elite Penguin Force."

"I'm not," I confirm as I sit down at one of the chairs in the office.

I look at the monitor than turn on a switch that controls the volume in another room, an interrogation room. The penguin being held there has been here for two weeks now. I watch the interrogation, silently.

"So last time we talked you told me that Alex and you worked on a certain security software for the mainframe computer. Both of you guys reasoned that you needed to upgrade the security after Operation: Blackout. You said, since Herbert managed to infiltrate the mainframe twice, Alex decided to create a way, where if an unauthorized user entered the computer, the system would shut down preventing the hacking. It was made through a series of different systems and firewalls." A lime green penguin wearing a propeller hat questions as they talk to a dark blue penguin sitting in the chair across from him.

"Correct," the penguin nods.

"Now tell me about all you know that the EPF knows on TAG." The interrogator asks.

The blue penguin begins to look uncertain about the question.

"I'm sorry," he apologizes. "I'm just having a hard time figuring out how these questions are relevant to Article 15, Section 4. Also shouldn't this all be over with by now?"

The lime green penguin shakes their head.

"No, I don't believe you understand the full extent to Article 15, Section 4." They declare, "we have to do a thorough investigation to make sure you are not working for another organization."

The blue penguin takes off his glasses, cleans them, then returns them back onto his face.

"Very well then," he nods. "We learned very little about TAG unfortunately. Alex had an informant tell him only about a threat from TAG. The informant only laid out the points and not on the whole organization. When Alex suddenly disappeared, the Director sent out a group of agents to find him."

"And?" The penguin prompts.

"And that's it." The dark blue penguin confirms, "I know nothing else and neither does most of the Elite Penguin Force. It was kept confidential for only the eyes and ears of the Director and the group involved in the TAG incident."

"Surely you would have known," the lime green penguin stresses. "You've got a higher level of any of the agents."

"True, but even I have boundaries to stay out of." The blue penguin answers.

The lime green penguin looks down at his notes and then back at the penguin.

"Tell me about the crystal."

"What crystal?"

"The crystal that one of your fifth class EPF agents brought back on of their missions several years ago."

"Oh that crystal? Well not much is known about it either."

"Why's that?"

"We only had it in our possession for a mere few days and I didn't have enough time to analyze it because I was working on a machine to record it's radioactivity and..."

"Gary, where's the crystal?"

Gary the gadget guy looks up and stares back at his interrogator.

"You know where it is, Rookie" Gary replies.

"You still have to answer." Rookie stammers.

"It's gone." He answers, "the crystal was stolen by some thief and we haven't been able to track them down since."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes, the thief went under the radar and seems to have disappeared. The crystal hasn't been seen since."

I turn turn the volume off and frown. I look at the other agents.

"I've got to tell Sarah about this new development." I inform

As I leave, I could have sworn I heard snickering coming from back in the room.

"Sarah, come in. Over." I say into my earpiece.

"What's up? Over." A familiar voice responds.

"They don't have it. Over." I inform.

"Who doesn't have what? Over." Sarah asks.

"The crystal. They never had it. Over." I answer.

"Impossible. They had a file on it. Over." She states in dismay.

I watch the walls as I walk down the hallway.

"They only had it for a few days but it's no longer with them. Over."

"Well then where is it? Over."

"Some thief stole it. Over."

"A thief? You're joking. Over."

"I'm not. Over."

"Okay who? Over."

"No clue, but I bet there's something about it in that file. Over."

"...I don't have it. Over."

"Well, where is it? Over."

"With those EPF rookies. Over."

"How did they beat you to it? Over."

"They had back up. Over"

"Who? Over."

Silence.

I stop where I'm walking and wait for a response.

"Sarah, come in. Who helped them? Over."

"Ace, over."

When she said that name, I instantly connected the face. Ace, he used to be one of the top agents at TAG. You could say he's the counterpart to Alex at the Elite Penguin Force, only he's much more mysterious. When Adam disappeared and we discovered Club Penguin, Ace began to feel more distant towards the agency than ever. Then after that incident that set TAG back several years of work, Ace disappeared too. We've always known where he was though. We knew he was hiding somewhere in Club Penguin and it was only a matter of time before we got him to show up again.

"Be careful, Sarah. Over." I finally respond.

"I know. Over and out." Sarah exclaims.

So all the players are out now, I think to myself as I walk back to my office. What are you planning to do about it, Director?

So, I wonder what Michael meant when he said the players are all out...Oh well don't look at me, I'm not going to tell you. What are the remaining EPF agents doing? So far it looks to me, they're just antagonizing the TAG agents. What could they be planning? Well come back September 11th for the next chapter!