The opening ends with Charlie strumming the guitar. The guitar takes off. Charlie rides on the guitar like it is a snowboard till the screen turns black.
Purest Evil
It has been a full year since Charlie has joined tuff. Charlie was walking with Kitty and Dudley toward the cafeteria. Kitty got her food as well as her partners' food. Charlie finished his food pretty quickly. Dudley finished after Charlie. "Hey Charlie, it's been a full year since you joined us. So that means you worked with us during your birthday. When is your birthday anyways?" Dudley says looking at Charlie. Kitty looks at Charlie as well waiting for the answer. Charlie looks down for a while. A while later, Kitty notices tears falling down onto Charlie's hands. "Look what you did Dudley. You don't have to answer that Charlie." Kitty says punching Dudley in his arm. "No, it's fine Kitty. I am not sad, I am happy. It has been 18 years since anyone last asked me when my birthday was." Charlie says lifting his head. Charlie's eyes still has tears in them, Charlie rubs his eyes on his right shirt sleeve. "When is your birthday, Charlie?" Dudley says becoming even more anxious for the answer. "My birthday is..." Charlie says before he is interrupted by an alarm.
"All agents report to the main area of hq immediately." Chief says. All the agents gather up in the area. "It seems someone is trying to hack into our database. Don't worry, though, my firewalls shall destroy the vir...us. This isn't possible, the hacker is already past all of the nine firewalls." Keswick says as his face turns from pride to disbelief. A face of a German Shepherd shows up on the screen.
"I am looking for my leader's son. I know he is he and I need to talk to him and him alone." The man says throughout the buidling. Charile begins to head to the entrance. "Where are you going?" Kitty says looking at Charlie. "He says he wants to talk to me and that is what he gets." Charlie says still walking to the entrance. "He may knock you out and use your knowledge to destroy the city." Kitty says trying to keep Charlie from going outside. "He isn't able to do that. Also, normally he hacks into computers from his laptop. If he is here in person, that means it is serious." Charlie says approaching the front entrance. "That is correct. Now hurry up, I need to talk with you. Don't worry, tuff agents he'll be back in a while." The voice says.
Charlie heads outside and the monitor screens all turn black. After a couple minutes, Charlie comes back in and the man leaves. Charlie holds two pieces of paper in his hands, one in each hand. "Who was that man and what did he want?" Kitty says while the other agents run over to see if Charlie was alright. "That man is the hacker for the Oblivion Squad, Blackmail, and he has a job for me and my partners. He says in return for doing this for him, he will retire and join my father at his house." Charlie says trying to gets some elbow room. "What's with the papers then?" Dudley says looking at the papers.
"The one in my right hand is for Chief, the one in my left is a written version of what he told me. On the other side of the left paper is a picture of what he wants. It is his own creation and he somehow had it stolen. Birdbrain now has it." Charlie says handing the right paper to Chief. "I'll see what this says in my office." Chief says as he hops off with the paper. Charlie, Kitty, and Dudley head into the cafeteria.
Charlie opens up the paper and slides it face down to Kitty. "I am Blackmail and I am the hacker for the Oblivion Squad. The rest of the Oblivion Squad members and myself wish to retire and join our leader in his mansion. We shall approach our leader's son at one point or another, asking him to get our most powerful pieces of equipment that was somehow stolen from our hq while we were doing a job. Some of us will join him, the rest will not. I will not join you agents. On the other side of this paper is my equipment with the general outline of how it works and its uses. Get it back as soon as possible. Sincerely, Blackmail." Kitty says reading the paper. Kitty turns the paper onto the other side and sees something that looks like bird's beak. "Well, now we know why Birdbrain has it. But what use does it have here?" Kitty says wondering why Birdbrain would have a hacker's tool. "Let me look through the database of imports and exports to the city and see if I can see something he may want to steal." Charlie says as heads back to the computer as his cubicle.
Seven minutes later, Charlie comes back with another sheet of paper. "I found something that I say Birdbrain wants. It seems that a massive import of bird seed has just come in and is heading to a storage facility to be held for it to be used as a potential power supply. Birdbrain will use the Gold Piece to hack into the supply records and change them so that all the bird seed is sent to him, possibly to be used as a power source for a weapon." Charlie says making sure he gave his opinion. "Or he could just eat it all. Either way we need to stop him. But what is with that paper, Charlie?" Kitty says looking at the paper.
"This paper contains the path the truck with the bird seed will take to get the storage facility. We have one of two choices. First, head to the storage facility, pose as guards, hides in the bird seed and use it as cover to get to Birdbrain's lair. Second, we can head to the storage facility, counter hack and change it so that he gets something thinking it is bird seed.' Charlie says showing his partners the route the truck will take. "Or we can just head to his lair. It wouldn't be our first time stopping him." Dudley says thinking of a simple solution.
"I never faced Birdbrain yet, so Kitty should drive us to the lair if that is the plan." Charlie says putting the paper away. "Why can't I drive?" Dudley says sad since he can't drive. "First of all, we need to get their in one piece. Second, we need to get their while keeping a low profile. Finally, we need to get their with few or no pit stops. Kitty told me how recklessly you drive." Charlie says as he and his partners head to the Linerunner. Kitty puts on the neural interface and they head to Birdbrain's lair. They only had to make one pitstop at a restaurant to go to the bathroom.
When they get their they see the bat guarding the entrance. Charlie starts walking right to the door. Dudley starts getting worried that Charlie will blow their cover. Dudley gets even more worried when he sees Kitty doing the same thing. "What are you guys doing?" Dudley yells over to his partners. The bat looks around and begins to head to Dudley. Dudley sees the bat coming. He throws a bag of chips he found in the back seat away from the linerunner. The bat follows the sound. During that time, Dudley runs over to his partners. "You idiot, you nearly blew our cover." Charlie whispers angrily while he and Kitty look at Dudley annoyed. "Yeah, the bat is blind so all we have to do is walk up to the door." Kitty whispers making sure not to get the bat's attention. Charlie pops out the claw on his right and puts it into the lock for the door.
Charlie moves the claw around for a while until they hear a click. Charlie slowly opens the door. Kitty and Dudley tiptoe inside. When they enter they see Zippy and Birdbrain next to the device Blackmail wants. The three agents head behind the crates. "Okay, I have a pretty good plan. Since Birdbrain doesn't know me, I will pose as someone deciding to be a new henchman for him. I will need you two to be in a bunch of tight rope, so you can't escape. I will ask of him to let me demonstrate the devices abilities. What Birdbrain doesn't know that I will be using the device to hack into the laser control system. I'll use it to free you guys, claiming it to be a malfunction in the circuits." Charlie says explaining the general outline.
Zippy hears something coming from the crates and she heads to check it out. She sees the tuff agents talking inside Birdbrain's lair. "Birdbrain, we have intruders." Zippy says over and over flying to Birdbrain. "Minion, get the intruders." Birdbrain says trying to get the Gold Piece to work. "Who?" the owl for a henchman says. "The intruders." Birdbrain replies. Birdbrain and the owl repeat the same thing for several minutes until Birdbrain gets tired of saying the same thing over and over again. "I'll deal with them myself." Birdbrain says pulling out a laser. Birdbrain fires seven times before hitting the crates. The agents are startled by the fact that the were discovered, Charlie was the least surprised.
"Time for Plan B, get the device and arrest the dumb genius." Charlie says pointing his finger at Birdbrain. "Is he dumb or a genius?" Dudley says confused. "I am a genius, I plan to make a set of giant bombs using the seed as the power source. The EGGS-plosions will make everybody in the city EGGS-tinct. HAHA, this is EGGS-iting." Birdbrain says firing his laser. "Dudley's shenanigans are funnier than Birdbrain's puns." Charlie says standing since Birdbrain's lasers are going everywhere except at the agents. Birdbrain finally manages to shoot his laser at Charlie. Charlie does several backflips and does a sudden roll to the side. Charlie stops the roll and runs to Birdbrain. Zippy flies up to Charlie and starts pecking Charlie's head.
Charlie keeps running while trying swat Zippy. Zippy flies away and Charlie sees that not only did he run right by Birdbrain, but he was heading right into a wall. Charlie jumps up and does a flip, landing on the wall. Charlie pushes himself off the wall and heads right at Birdbrain. Even when Charlie is in Birdbrain's face, Birdbrain still misses Charlie. Kitty sees that the bat is heading in, so she just sneaks up behind the bat and handcuff it. Dudley rams into the owl, and the owl gets sent flying into Zippy, knocking them both out.
Charlie has his hand on the Gold Piece. Birdbrain tries to kick Charlie but Charlie does a vertical kick, that knocks the Gold Piece out of Birdbrain's hands as well as knocks Birdbrain into the air. Charlie runs and climps up the wall and tries to grab the Gold Piece but he can't reach it. Kitty and Dudley try to grab it but instead start fighting since Dudley kept just flailing his arms around and he kept hitting Kitty. Charlie tries to reach it, but Birdbrain grabs it instead. When Birdbrain lands on the ground, he accidently presses the only button on the beak. Something resembling the end of a dart appears. "Thanks tuff agents, now I can use this." Birdbrain says plugging the dart end into the computer. Birdbrain punches in some keys and the computer screen shows the words Destination Changed. Heading to New Destination.
Charlie runs over and kicks Birdbrain out of the way. Charlie takes the Gold Piece out of the computer, and hits some different keys. "Destination returned to original target." the computer says. Birdbrain tries to punch Charlie, but Charlie grabs Birdbrain's hand with his spare hand, and spins Birdbrain around and around several times. When Charlie stops, Birdbrain is extremely dizzy and is turning a bit green. Charlie walks up to Birdbrain's back and taps it with his finger. Birdbrain falls on his face. Charlie grabs Birdbrain's arms and puts them in handcuffs.
"I shall EGGS-act my revenge. HAHA, I am EGGS-ellent at being funny." Birdbrain says trying to be seriously. "Then you should be a comedian. Oh wait, you will still stink." Charlie says as he makes sure that Birdbrain doesn't try to escape. "Chief, we have what Blackmail wants." Charlie says over his wrist-com. "Well done, Agent Cheetah. You head there and return the equipment while your partners talk to me about what was on the paper." Chief says grinning. "Understood." Charlie says. Kitty, Dudley, and Charlie head into the Linerunner with the villains in the containment area. They make one stop to drop off the villains at the prison. Charlie drops off his partners at hq and starts heading for the spot Blackmail told him to drop off the Gold Piece.
Back at hq, Kitty and Dudley headed toward Chief's office. "What is so important to keep us from our partner?" Dudley says trying to actually act mature. "Agent Katswell read through this rather lengthy piece of paper." Chief says hopping over to Kitty, giving her the paper.
"Today is Charlie's 26th birthday. His father asked him last year if there was anything Charlie wanted, anything at all. Charlie says a new workplace. When Charlie told his father about going to join tuff, his father agreed on one term. That he cannot come home once he becomes an agent. Charlie agreed to the term without hesistation. Charlie is a young man whose heart has become encased in stone, preventing him from feeling most emotions. This is due to his father's strict rule on emotions during jobs. Break through the stone that guards his heart and you will see Charlie's entire being grow. His skills shall improve dramatically revealing why he was feared by all the people he fought. He shall finally have the freedom he seeks. P.S. We have all left him something at his house. Sincerely, Blackmail." Kitty says tired from reading the entire paper.
"Wait, if his birthday is today, how can we throw him a birthday party on a Wednesday. No one knows his schedule after work." Dudley says getting excited for throwing another birthday party, but the excitement ended when he realized about Charlie's mysterious schedule after work. "Well, he does head to the gym after work every Friday." Kitty says. "We need some way to keep him busy long enough for us to get the party set up." Keswick says trying to think of a solution. "Keswick, rearrange all the files, that should keep him busy for a long time." Chief says getting an answer. Keswick heads off to get started on the file rearrangement.
Charlie finds the spot Blackmail wants the Gold Piece left at. Charlie sees that Blackmail is actually there. Charlie gets out of the Linerunner, grabs the Gold Piece and walks over to Blackmail. "The other members and myself left some presents at your place for your birthday" Blackmail says, "including your father." "You guys always did come over to my birthday since my seventeenth birthday when you were guys weren't busy with a job like during my twentieth birthday." Charlie says. "Sorry, about that, but you know about work." Blackmail says looking a bit embarrassed. "Don't worry. Now, I have given you what you have requested. Do you need directions to my dad's house?" Charlie says getting bored of the conversation. "No, I still now the way. Oh, our presents symbolize our hopes for you to surpass us. They are extremely good meaning we have high hopes for you Sabre." Blackmail says. "That was my name from when I worked for my father and the occasional times you guys let me join you on a mission." Charlie says giving Blackmail the Gold Piece. Charlie starts to head back for the Linerunner. Meanwhile, Blackmail takes out his laptop. "Nearly forgot to tell Charlie's partner something." Blackmail says as he rehacks into tuff's mainframe.
Back at tuff, Blackmail's face shows up on the monitors. "One last thing tuff members. Charlie's skills are actually at their peak when he works alone or when he is working on dangerous missions where failure means death. I should know, Charlie actually saved me on several occassions where I was captured while trying to hack into a database." Blackmail's face says before the screens go black. Kitty stares into the distance for a while. "What is it Agent Katswell?" Chief says looking at Kitty. "It is one line in this letter. 'He shall have the freedom he seeks.' What does he mean by that?" Kitty says looking at the paper. "I have no idea. It might mean he may choose to show his full skills." Chief says stumped by the sentence. "Does that mean he was holding back?" Kitty says thinking of all the sparring matches. Keswick arrives back from rearranging the files so Charlie has something so the others can setting up the party. "There we go, Chief, that should slow him down for a while."
Charlie arrives at tuff hq. He enters and sees that everyone isn't at their usual spots. "Agent Cheetah, I need to have a word with you in my office." Chief says holding back a look of excitement. Charlie heads to Chief's office and sees all the other agents in that room. "What is on the letter?" Charlie says waiting for an answer. "It doesn't concern you, but it seems that the files have become disorganized. You will reorganize them." Chief says getting Charlie to do the work. "On it, Chief." Charlie says as he heads off.
"Okay, everyone. Who knows where Agent Cheetah lives?" Chief says looking for someone with the answer. "You don't remember Chief? It is an apartment in a fancy hotel." Kitty says walking to the Linerunner. "Kitty, no. Charlie usually uses that to get home. He'll think that something is up if it isn't there when he's finished." Dudley says finally provided for the group. "Agent Puppy's right, we need to use the tuff mobile. But how do we get in?" Chief says looking at Dudley with a sense of pride. "Easy, this fell out of his pocket while we were fighting against him while he forgot who we were." Dudley says twirling around the key to Charlie's apartment. "Okay, but how does he get in if you have the key?" Kitty says getting ready to pound Dudley. "Easy, he'll use the key that is under the welcome mat." Dudley says with a face of pride. "Then why don't we use that?" Kitty says getting even closer to pound Dudley. "Oh yeah." Dudley says with a face showing embarrassment and stupidity.
Dudley runs off and finds Charlie. Dudley hands Charlie his apartment key. "Thanks Dudley. But where did you find this?" Charlie says wondering how Dudley could find Charlie's key. "Uhhhh..., you dropped it while you were changing back into your regular uniform." Dudley says thinking of something that will fool Charlie. "Thanks again, Dudley, without this I would have resorted to the back up key. Good thing I always change its location after everytime I use it." Charlie says before heading back to work. "What?" Dudley says surprised by the last sentence. "Don't you know? I always move the key after I use it. This way no one else can use it." Charlie says proudly. "Where is it now?" Dudley says holding back his excitement somehow. "In the left plant, hidden in the bushes, why do you ask?" Charlie says wondering what Dudley could want with his house key. "Just want to see how your apartment is right now." Dudley says on a roll of fooling Charlie. "Okay, but don't ruin the place. I have some work I need to do when I get home." Charlie says before heading back to work again.
Dudley runs back to the group and head to Charlie's apartment, the person at the register give the agents the number and floor of Charlie's apartment. When the agents arrive at Charlie's apartment the look under Charlie's welcome mat for a key, but don't find it. "Where is the key, Dudley?" Kitty says holding back her anger. "Charlie moves it after every use. It is in the bushes of the left plant." Dudley says looking through the bush, eventually finding the keys. The agents enter the dark room. The agents spread out to look for a light switch. Dudley feels along the wall and pushes down on a hidden panel. Not only do the lights turn on, but a hidden room opens up. The agents look inside and see all the devices Charlie has been working on. "So this is what Charlie has been doing after work. The devices are either under work or are being tested." Keswick says at the amazement of how hidden the room was.
The agents set up the party. Three minutes after they are done they hear the unique sound of the Linerunner closing in. "Positions everyone. It's go time." Keswick says getting to a hiding spot. The agents struggle to find a suitable hiding spot in Charlie's room. Charlie walks up the stairs and approaches his door. Charlie hears noises on the other side. Charlie takes out two lasers which he now keeps with him for protection. Charlie slowly turns the doorknob with his right hand. Charlie enters the room after putting a laser in his right hand. "SURPRISE!" All the agents yell when Charlie enters the room. Charlie fires both lasers all over the place. Most of the agents are knocked out as the lasers hit them in the stomach. Keswick approaches Charlie with a birthday cake. "Happy...birthday... Ch..arlie." Keswick says before passing out.
Charlie slaps himself in embarrassment. "You guys should know that was going to happen if you scared me. I have to protect myself if someone or something enters my room while I am not here. Especially what happened with Dark Angel." Charlie says helping the agents up. Charlie heads over and gets a first aid kit and heals everyone's bruises. Charlie looks over and sees that the door to the hidden room is open. "How did you guys find that room, especially in the dark?" Charlie says looking at the machines that are still in progress. "I hit a hidden panel and it opened when the lights turned on." Dudley says embarrassed. "Fine, but that is my work area. I work on the cloning machine as well as the teleporter there." Charlie says. Charlie snaps his finger. The room closes and the lights turn off. Charlie claps and the lights turn back on but the room doesn't open up.
The party was so amazing that the manager had to tell them to turn down the music... fifteen times. "Wait, now that I think about it. How did you guys know that it was my birthday? I never even told Chief when it was." Charlie says as he sits down on a couch. "That paper contained when your birthday was and some stuff about you." Chief says handing Charlie the paper. "Blackmail, why do always have to tell them stuff that they don't need to know. I might as well tell you about the work I did before I joined tuff." Charlie says putting the letter down.
"Okay, I started out as a receptionist for my father when I was eight. Within two years I could easily organize all the paper I was given. When I turned twelve, my skills actually started to emerge, so my father decided to let me do some jobs for him. The first five I failed. My dad was understanding since I was getting started, but he said three more failed missions and I would head back to dealing with paper work. Two jobs later I could easily do the low level work my dad gave me. He gave me harder missions during my sixteenth birthday, and halfway through my dad realized that even that was too easy for me. He introduced me the Oblivion Squad during my seventeenth birthday, and they taught me some of what the knew for half of that year." Charlie says before taking a break. "My dad gave me hard missions but not the really hard missions during my eighteenth and nineteenth birthdays. My dad was doing a job with the Oblivion Squad during my twentieth birthday so I was all alone. During my twentieth-second birthday I became my dad's right hand man. He every now and then let me do jobs with the Oblivion Squad. Do you guys know about the seven stone tiger that was stolen from China?" Charlie says before relaxing.
"Wait, you took part in that job? Seriously, the cops said that the inside man for the job was a man who had training in arts that were unable to be understood." Chief says since he took part during the mission that involved the seven stone tiger. "Chief, do you know the cards that we left at every crime scene for some reason? Do you know what it said on the one during that job?" Charlie says surprised that he was running from his future employer. "Yeah, I kept the card with me. Trying to get a break to catch them all. Keswick go get it." Chief says before hopping to Keswick. Keswick runs to get the card. Half an hour later, Keswick returns with the card. Keswick hands Kitty the card. "The Oblivion Squad was here. Deal with it. Signed Demon Blade, Dark Angel, Abyss, Blackmail, Terror, Devastator and Sabre." Kitty says reading the card. "Wait, but you never told us about the person whose code name is Sabre?" Chief says baffled by the last name. "The reason is that you are talking to the person whose code name was Sabre." Charlie says with an emotionless face.
"Wait, I saw that name at least a dozen times. But the Oblivion Squad has pulled hundreds of jobs." Chief says becoming even more confused. "Yes, I chose my code name since a saber is a weapon that is rarely used, but is extremely useful when it is used." Charlie says ending the Chief's confusion. "Wait, but it says in this letter, 'he shall have the freedom he seeks.'. What does that mean?" Kitty says still pondering that sentence. "Sorry Kitty, but I don't know what it means either. The members became like family to me after my nineteenth birthday, but even they aren't always right." Charlie says before thinking about something.
The agents partied for the rest of the night. At one point, Keswick brought in a robotic pinata. Charlie put on the blindfold, was span around. Charlie waited for a while before striking the pinata. Some candy was sent out, but most was sent out the window along with the actual pinata. "Did I hit it?" Charlie says before taking off the blindfold. "Note to self, don't hit a pinata with a side slash." Charlie says slapping himself in the face. Dudley sees the pinata falling along with candy. "CANDY!" Dudley says before jumping out the same window the pinata broke. Kitty slaps herself in embarrassment. Charlie shrugs his shoulders.
Kitty is on the left side of the screen and Charlie is on the right side. Dudley falls from the top and after he is no longer on the screen, the screen shakes. Kitty and Charlie look down at where Dudley was falling.