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Coming full Circle

Micheal walks down the corridor where they left Gary, only to find that Gary wasn't there. Great, just great! Micheal checks the security cameras and finds Gary. He watches asthe escaped agents hurry away with Gary. Fine, I'll let them go. He watches as Rebecca hands Gary some medicine that seems to clear his head a little.

*Flashback*

"You don't have to do this," Micheal states as Alex starts to hack into TAG's mainframe computer. "We can just leave."

"I've to find the machine," Alex mutters. "It's got to be completely erased. It's too dangerous to be in TAG's hands. The other EPF agents will be on their way soon."

"Actually...they're here," Sarah calls out.

Alex freezes and spins around.

"Sarah, why did you bring them here!" He hissed, "I told you to hide them in Micheal's room!"

"Nice to see you too," Joe remarks bluntly. "So tell me the plan."
*Flashback ends*

Micheal gets up from his office and sighs. Everything wasn't going exactly as planned. Sarah was gone. Alex became her knight in shining armor again. Mr. PoodleX450 was becoming more of a pain. Absolutely nothing is going right!

*Flashback*

"I want to destroy the machine," Alex reveals. "It's a danger to everyone."

"And how are you going to do that?" Joe asks.

"I've already erased most of the files pertaining to the project. I'm almost finished. Next I will have to overload the machine's system." He explains.

"And it will explode?" Joe fills in, skeptical.

Alex gives a small nod.

"Don't worry it won't be a huge explosion. No one is going to get hurt. It will only destroy the machine and hinder TAG's process."

"What does the machine do?" Joe inquires.

"I'd rather not say at the moment," Alex admits.

"Very well, what do you want us to do?" Joe states.

"I need time. Once I hack deeper into the mainframe and alarm will go off and agents will come running in. I need you to stall them. Don't kill any of them." Alex pleads.

"Understood," Joe nods.

"Do we have means of escape?" Alex inquires.

"Yeah, we hijacked a helicopter a few hours ago."

"Okay."

Alex turns toward Sarah and Micheal.

"I want you two to head back to Micheal's room and grab our gear. Then I want you to head to the helicopter"

"What?" Sarah asks, confused.

"Sarah." Alex pleads.

"No, come on Alex. Let us help you!" Sarah insists.

"There's nothing you can do here." Alex states, "besides we're almost done here."

"Alex," Sarah exclaims.

"Sarah, please. I'll be fine." Alex reassures her, "after this I'll show you around Club Penguin."

"Promise?" Sarah asks still uncertain.

"Promise," Alex nods.

Sarah walks over and gives Alex's fin a squeeze. They exchange a silent conversation between the two of them before she heads out the door with Micheal.

*Flashback ends*

Micheal turns off the alarm that signaled escaping prisoners. The noise bothered him. He sat back at his desk and leaned back, closing his eyes. Fine, I'll let everything fall into place first.

*Flashback*

The alarm sounds the minute Alex breaks the first firewall. He frowns.

"What's wrong?" Joe asks, noticing his frown.

"Nothing," Alex lies. "I just didn't expect the security to be this advanced."
Joe catches Alex's small movement of closing a file UA.

"Sir, they're coming!" Warns an EPF agent.

Joe listens to hear yelling and running footsteps.

"At arms!" Joe commands.

*Flashback ends*

Joe wands the familiar hallways until he spots his EPF agents.

"This is really good!" Rookie exclaims cheerfully, munching away on fish chips.

Joe watches as Rebecca checks on Gary.

"How are you feeling?" She asks.

Gary glances around, weary eyed.

"I don't get it!" He states, "where are we? Why are you guys here?"
Lake Blue offers Gary the gadget guy a hand in standing up.

"It's a long story," Lake Blue nods. "But first thing's first, we need to head back to Club Penguin. They need our help.

"Already taken care of," Joe announces stepping out of the shadows. "I contacted an old friend. Our next objective is finding and rescuing all the other Elite Penguin Force agents. They've got to be someplace around here."

"Where have you been?" Jetpack Guy questions.

"Just looking around..." Joe answers casually, his eyes landing on Rookie's bag of chips. "For some food."

Rookie looks at him with a look of approval.

"See! I told you! I'm not the only one that is hungry!" Rookie protests while looking at Lake Blue.

She shakes her head in disbelief.

"At any rate, where do you recommend we search first?" Rebecca asks calmly. "Have you seen my brother yet?"

"No I haven't." Joe admits, "I think we should start where the rest of the prisoners are kept."

Joe starts to walk toward a door which leads to another hallway.

"This way," he nods.

The door opens and the group walks inside.

*Flashback begins*

EPF agents dodged left and right, trying carefully not to kill any TAG agents.

"This is difficult!" States one EPF agent, "Trying not to kill them while all we have is our wearpons!"

"Unfortunately, they don't have the same idea," answers another agent.

"This would've helped if we actually had some stun guns!" Yells one tactical agent.

The EPF agents fought against the TAG agents, trying to keep them from Alex.

"Are you done yet?" Joe asks Alex, dodging another laser.

Alex's fins fly across the keyboard at lightening speed.

"Not...even half way through," he answers a little discouraged.

"That's not good enough," Lake Blue exclaims.

"I KNOW!" Alex yells back, through all the noise.

The battle continued for a few more minutes before Rookie lays down on the floor.

"Rookie?! What in the world are you doing?" Yells Dot trying to pull Rookie, off the ground. "There's a battle going on!"

"No wait," Rookie insists.

Dot continues to try to pull Rookie up from the floor.

"Do you feel it?" Rookie asks.

"Feel what?" Dot questions.

Rookie gets up from the floor, calmly.

"The ground is moving," he states.

Under normal circumstances, Dot would have laughed at that statement but suddenly even she felt the vibration.

"Rookie? What is going on?" She asks.

Rookie shrugs his shoulders. Dot looks over at Jetpack Guy who also senses the moving ground. Jetpack guy hurries over to Joe and says something to him that Dot can't hear over the noise. Joe nods and quickly runs over to his comrades.

"It's time to go," Jetpack guy exclaims as he walks over to Dot and Rookie.

"Do you think...?" Dot started to ask but his eyes only confirmed it.

"Yeah," he answers. "There's a huge explosion happening below us. I believe it's where the machine is. We've got to leave now!"

Dot, Rookie, Jetpack Guy, and the rest of the EPF agents slowly started to back up and escape through a doorway. A couple of agents stayed to cover the rest, this included Joe.

"Alex, it's time to go." Joe remarks.

"But...I'm not finished yet." Alex states, "you guys leave. I'll be right behind..."

"No," Joe yells. "It's over now, can't you see that? Can't you feel that explosion? Let's go!"

Alex looks at him and nods.

They rush out the exit, blocking the door behind them. They start to run down the hall. Joe hurries outside, counting the EPF agents coming out. Alex stops running and turns to look back at TAG headquarters.

"I didn't start that explosion!" He yells back, "and I don't see Sarah and Micheal out here yet!"

The helicopter starts it's engine. Alex turns to look at Joe with a look of worry and despair before running back into the building. Joe mutters something before rushing after Alex.

*Flashback ends*

So that was interesting. Now that we know what happened that day, what do you think was the after effects after that? What was Joe (in the present) looking for? What is Micheal (in the present) thinking? What's his motive? What's going to happen next? Find out next time, February 29th. Oh look it's leap year! How cool. Anyway, bye for now!

RR:

Brusselsprout fiction: Maybe yes or maybe no. This chapter got a whole lot more interesting, don't you think?

ICanDoWhatever: Thanks for the information. It sounds really interesting, I'll look into it later.