Chapter 7: Fresh Wound
I can't believe that this story is so well done for the first one I had published. Anyways enjoy this new chapter.
The following days, Charlie added new features to the Linerunner. The day after that was done, Charlie continued training against Kitty, eventually getting her to break a sweat. The final training session ended when Kitty kicked Charlie into the training dummy, which slung him back at Kitty, Kitty rolled out of the way and Charlie hit the wall hard. Kitty came over worried that Charlie was injured by the collision, but he got up and brushed off the debris, like he does everytime Kitty wins the sparring match. "Well, you are getting better Charlie, but you are still a long way from beating me." Kitty says walking next to Charlie. Chief called the agents into his office.
Charlie and Kitty bust down the doors with a twin kick. Charlie headed to a side window. "Is someone threatening to blow up the supports to HQ, Chief?" Charlie says looking out the window. "No, Agent Cheetah. You and Agent Kattswell may calm down now." Chief says with an annoyed face as that was the second door that Kitty's group had destroyed while at Tuff. "It seems that Chameleon and Snaptrap are stealing scrap metal from the dump." Chief says looking at Dudley running around trying to grab his own tail. "I think that is the new villain low for the two of them," Charlie says shrugging his shoulders, "but how does that concern us? I doubt anything there is any real use."
"Both of those villains are taking what they stolen from the dump to the same spot, an peninsula near the wharf." Chief says still looking at Dudley who now has a chew toy in his mouth. "From what you told us, I can assume a couple things. First, they are working together to build a massive army of robots or something like that to destroy tuff. Second, they are going to build massive armies of robots or something of that nature and will fight for control of that point, and the winner would work to gather up a humongous army to destroy the city." Charlie says thinking of what the Snaptrap and Chameleon could do if they work together.
"It doesn't matter what they are up to, it is still trouble for tuff and the city, so you three are assigned to stop this theft of metal." Chief says looking at the agents. Kitty and Charlie get up and look around for Dudley but don't see him. "Is having Dudley on your team ever a good thing, Kitty?" Charlie says looking at Kitty. "You can count on him whenever it really matters, but other than that no." Kitty says still looking for Dudley. Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Dudley is drinking from the toilet. Dudley comes into the room and sees that Charlie, Kitty, and Chief are ticked. "Let's go, you walking death-trap, we need to stop Snaptrap and Chameleon from destroying each other and the city." Charlie says to Dudley.
The agents head to the Linerunner and get in, Charlie puts on the neural interface. Charlie signals Kitty and Dudley to turn their chairs to face the center during the journey. "Okay, I added two new features to the Linerunner, one will be helpful especially for this mission due to the location. The other one is one that will allow the two of you to use this in case something happened to me. Just say anything, and the Linerunner will do it if it can." Charlie says looking at the GPS system in the helmet's interface. "Grape soda." Dudley says as soon as Charlie was done talking. A grape soda can appears out of a drawer. "How did I know he was going to do something like that?" Charlie says.
When the agents are within viewing distance of the base, Charlie stops the Linerunner. "Okay, time to test this out. Linerunner activate the subterannean drill." Charlie says making sure they aren't seen by the few henchman that are patrolling the area. The Linerunner drills underground, with Charlie uses a map to pinpoint their location in regard to the base. "Surface now."
Charlie says when they are near the middle of the base. The Linerunner comes back up. Charlie and Kitty silently get out of the Linerunner while Dudley jumps out making a lound noise during the landing. Charlie and Kitty jump thinking it is a giant robot, but are extremely annoyed when they find out it is just Dudley. Charlie hears something from above and looks up. "MOVE!" Charlie says as he rolls out a bit. "What?" Kitty and Dudley say as they couldn't hear him. A metal cage drops down around Kitty, Dudley and the Linerunner. "Activate the laser blade Linerunner and set it to 70% of the maximum." Charlie says looking around for any henchman. The Linekrunner starts to cut a bar.
Charlie hears something coming from a door. "Hold tight, you two, this will be a good time to do some recon. I will need the Linerunner to stop cutting the bars to make it seem like it doesn't have anyway of cutting them and therefore, the two of you are trapped in there is that okay with you?" Charlie says looking at the two of them. They both nod in agreement. Charlie hops on from crate to crate and eventually onto a rafter near the ceiling, being hidden by the shadows.
Out from a door enter Chameleon and Snaptrap. They are walking toward the cage talking to each other. Charlie presses a button and a small robot pops out. "Okay, activate the audio receptors and get close to the villains to hear the conversation." Charlie whispers to the robot. The robot gives three silent beeps and crawls around, using the crates to avoid being spotted and gets close to the villains. "I told you the trap would work, Chameleon, now we have the two best tuff agents and Agent Puppy." Snaptrap says with an evil grin. "Yeah, yeah, you deal with the traps and I deal with the main part, remember that Snaptrap." Chameleon says annoyed as the two of them look at the cage.
"Where is your boyfriend, Agent Katswell?" The Chameleon says looking for Charlie. "He got injured during a sparring match and he will be resting for about a week." Kitty says annoyed since this is the third time she got trapped by a metal cage with Dudley. "Oh well, there goes a perfectly good robot. At least I will have you two out of the way." Snaptrap says spinning his eyes in opposite directions. "What are you talking about Snaptrap?" Dudley says trying to knock the cage over but just hurts his head. "We created robots that will get your memories..." Snaptrap says with an evil grin. "I made duplicates of my suit so that they can assume you identities and will help us to destroy tuff and you two will be blamed for it." The Chameleon says now looking for some bugs to eat. "Charlie will stop you two, after he has recovered." Kitty says trying to cut the bars with her claws, only making scratches. "Actually, Charlie is..." Dudley says before Kitty elbows him in the arm.
"You two are coming with us." Snaptrap says. "I don't think so." Kitty says baring her claws while Dudley gets in the "beef with broccoli" pose. Snaptrap presses one button then another. The cage becomes covered with metal plates and gas starts coming out of the top of the cage. Kitty and Dudley fall asleep. Snaptrap presses one button a second time and the metal plates come off.
"Larry take the agents to the memory transfer room or perish." Snaptrap says when Larry runs in. "Why can't Francisco?" Larry says before holding his mouth. "Oh, so you would rather go to the shark tank." Snaptrap says before pressing a third button. A robotic hand grabs Larry and stuffs him in a cannon. The cannon fires and Larry flies into a shark tank. "Oh the teeth." Larry says as he becomes shark food for who knows how many times now. "Francisco, Ollie, take these agents to the memory transfer room or perish." Snaptrap says as Francisco and Ollie come running. "Sure boss." Ollie and Francisco says while the cage comes up. Ollie picks up Dudley who is drooling on the ground, while Francisco takes Kitty. The four head back to the door they entered from. The drone follows them.
Charlie hops down and looks around before entering the Linerunner. Charlie starts driving to the door but stops near the shark tank. Charlie tosses in a salt and pepper shaker and some ketchup and mustard in. Charlie starts driving again when he hears a whistle from the shark tank. He looks back and one of the shark waves its fin in gratitude. Charlie nods in reply and starts driving. Charlie arrives near the door and hops onto the rafter above it. Charlie takes out a mini-laser blade from his pocket and turns it on. Charlie cuts out a small rectangle out of the wall and then a large one connected to the small one. Charlie pushes the small rectangle and it falls out. Charlie sticks his hand in the rectangular hole and slowly pulls out the large rectangle. He sets it down on the rafter behind him. Charlie enters the next room through the hole.
When Charlie is in the other room, he sees that it is practically empty, except for a room with see through windows. Guarding that room is Francisco and Ollie. Charlie re-activates the mini-laser blade and cuts out two small parts of the rafter and tosses them in separate directions.
"Stupid mice. Ollie you check out that side and I'll check out this side. We need to make sure that we haven't been infiltrated, otherwise we'll be joining Larry." Francisco says pointing to where one sound came from and then to where the other sound came from. Charlie moves along the rafter and jumps down onto the ground, landing softly. Charlie silently walks behind Francisco and knocks him out. Charlie then walks to the side of the room. Ollie heads back to his posts and realizes that Francisco hasn't returned. "He must have been knocked out by something that fell since of the mice." Ollie says heading over to Francisco. Charlie follows behind Ollie silently. Ollie looks around and doesn't see anything near Francisco. "Wait if there is nothing that knock him out that means..." Ollie says turning around and sees Charlie. Charlie kicks Ollie into a wall, knocking him out, but the collision makes a loud noise.
Inside the room the noise is heard by Chameleon and Snaptrap. "He's here. We've been tricked and infiltrated. Where's the start button?" Snaptrap says looking around for the START button, button only sees a button that says TRATS. Charlie lays on the floor and crawls to the door to the room. He sets up a explosive with a smoke bomb on top of it. Charlie then crouches and runs away from the door, then he presses the trigger button. The door blows off and a smokescreen fills the entire room and part of the bigger room. Chameleon can't see and hits the TRATS button and the machine starts transferring Kitty's and Dudley's memories to the robots. "Who is stupid enough to put an upside-down Start button on a machine?" Chameleon says as he is unaware at the facts that both Charlie is behind him and the entire machine is upside-down.
When the smoke clears, Snaptrap sees Charlie behind Chameleon. The Chameleon turns around and sees Charlie. The Chameleon jumps back and shoots his tongue at Charlie. Charlie moves to the side and grabs it while the Chameleon retracts it. Charlie pulls the Chameleon right in front of him. "Hello, Chameleon, I heard you are transferring memories from tuff agents to robots. Are any of them my girlfriend?" Charlie says looking the Chameleon right in his eyes. Charlie's eyes show a raging fire. "What if we are transferring you girlfriends memories to a robot?" The Chameleon says scared. "If I had been a villain, what I have in mind for you and Snaptrap would make the two of you wish I was still on your side. If I was only a hero, then you two would wish that you both were still in Petropolis Jail." Charlie says angrily as he pushes the Chameleon back, but Charlie is still holding the Chameleon's tongue. Charlie spins the Chameleon around and throws him at Snaptrap, knocking them both out.
"Okay, since they are knocked out they won't realize I did this until it's too late. Chief send some tuff agents here to block off every exit point possible, including the one that was made by the Linerunner during our entrance." Charlie says into his wrist-com. Chief nods in agreement then ends the communication.
Charlie hears a sound saying Transfer Complete, then he hears Kitty starting to wake up. "Kitty, Kitty, are you alright?" Charlie says after he runs over to Kitty. "Yes, but who are you?" Kitty says looking around. "I was to late to prevent the process from completing but luckily the robots and my partners are still bound to the metal boards. I will only have to worry about reprogramming the machine." Charlie says punching a wall. Charlie heads over to the back of the machine with some tears in his eyes. "Seriously, these guys can't tell when a machine is upside down? Now I will fear mechanics if they all turn evil." Charlie says looking at the back of the machine which is already opened. "I just hope I remember everything 'he' taught me." Charlie says pulling out some cords adn placing them into different spots.
Charlie then presses the start button. When the machine says Transfer Complete, Charlie heads back over to Kitty. "Kitty, Kitty, do you know who I am?" Charlie says still with tears in his eyes. "Of course, your my partner Charlie, and my name is Dudley." Kitty says. "Okay, I have the memories in the agents except they are in the wrong agent. So, I just have to place the cords back where they were and then move the other cords into the same spots." Charlie says as he heads over placing a small device on the metal restraints on Kitty and one on Dudley's restraints. Charlie punches some keys in his wrist-com.
While he was doing that, the Chameleon and Snaptrap woke up. "No, we need to escape before we are defeated by the agents." Snaptrap says stopping the Chameleon from shooting his tongue at Charlie. The Chameleon reluctantly nods in agreement and the two run to the entrance. When they get outside they are arrested by tuff agents and taken to jail. "I will now plot my revenge." Snaptrap says from one of the inmate transports. "None of the agents that stopped you are in this area, you fool." The Chameleon says angrily from another transport.
Charlie tries seven different cord combinations until he finds the right combination to get the right memories to the right agent. The bug then destroys Kitty's and Dudley's arm restraints. Kitty gets out her laser and blast the rest of the restraints, Dudley just slumps, sleeping partially in the air. Kitty aims her laser at the left leg restraint on Dudley. "Can't we leave him like that? This way he is the most help to us." Charlie says to Kitty. Kitty gives Charlie an annoyed look. "Fine, let's free the cause of our own doom." Charlie says as he gets out his laser and aims at the other restraint. Kitty and Charlie blast the restraints on Dudley's legs. Dudley falls to the floor and wakes up. "Huh, what happened?" Dudley says looking around. "You two were put to sleep with knockout gas. Snaptrap and Chameleon tried to transfer your memories to robots, that with duplicates of the Chameleon's suit, would destroy tuff, and you two would be blamed for it." Charlie says briefly. "Thinking of those two where are they?" Kitty says looking around for Snaptrap and Chameleon. "They should be over there. Hmmm, they must have hid somewhere in the room where we entered." Charlie says when he sees a new message from Chief.
"Good work, Agents Katswell, Cheetah, and Puppy. Snaptrap and the Chameleon had tried to escape, but due to your quick thinking they only managed to go a few feet from the entrance before they were apprehended." Chief says with a big grin. "Actually Charlie dealt with the entire mission on his own. Dudley and I were put to sleep by a metal cage that sent out knockout gas." Kitty says proudly, but a bit embarrassed. "How did he not get knocked out?" Chief says baffled. "I heard the trap falling and rolled out of the way. I told them to do the same, but they couldn't hear me. I hid in the shadows and did some on the job recon with a drone." Charlie says blushing from embarrassment. "Good work Agent Cheetah, you definitely have proven you are the second best tuff agent." Chief says giving another grin. "Wait, why ain't I the second best tuff agent?" Dudley says offending by the compliment that Charlie was given. "Agent Puppy, you would need to have nine lives and need to train through all of them just to gain a small part of Agents Katswell's and Cheetah's skills." Chief says briefly. Kitty and Charlie blush with embarrassment from the compliment.
Chief was about to end the communication when Charlie stopped him. "Actually, I had a bit of training even before tuff. The members of the Oblivion Squad taught me some of what they know a couple of years ago." Charlie says to Chief. "WAIT! Did you say Oblivion Squad?" Chief says surprised. "Yeah, why?" Charlie says calmly. "They are the only villains that managed to elude me after every crime they pulled." Chief sadly says. "Who is this Obllivion Squad?" Dudley says interrupting the conversation.
"The Oblivion Squad are a group comprised of the most evil villains in the entire world. The police had such a hard time trying to catch even one of them, that they put a bounty on the head of each member. The bounty of one member is bigger than the annual income of tuff." Chief says. "Yeah, as my father was a member and the leader. My father asked each member to teach me what they know about six years ago. The Squad is made of six members, each who specialize in a field or two." Charlie says before taking a breath. "My father was the tech expert and that is why I am so adept with machines. Each member also had a code name. My father was known as Demon Blade. Dark Angel's code name is just that. There is also a master hacker who is known by Blackmail. Then there is a heavy weapon master known as Devastator. Also, there is a excellent saboteur as well as a spy who is known by Abyss. Finally there is an expert interrogator in case a job goes wrong and a member is captured. His name is Terror. The members use a special frequency that my father designed with an encryption mechanism. You guys think it is a bunch of gibberish, when it is actually the code in use." Charlie says exhausted from the description.
The agents head home and rest for the night, especially Charlie who had to deal with his first solo mission.