A genital shake woke him up. Basil slowly blinked away the sleep. He was sitting on the ground with his back against a wall.
"Basil come on. Where at the castle." Dad whispered. He stood up but still felt the grogginess. But under that he felt refreshed and ready. Now that's what I needed! He stretched his arms over his head.
"Anyone want to tell me what the plan is?" Basil dropped his arms.
"We didn't find anything in the town so we figured something must be happening to the king." Johan explained.
"But we don't know what that is yet." Katherine added. Basil nodded as Dad checked around the corner. He waved them over. Two guards just walked away from the doors heading around the other corner.
"This is disgraceful! This wouldn't be happening under my rule!" Chip murmured angrily.
"Your enemies' disadvantage is your strength." Basil whispered back. Chip nodded his head in agreement. But Basil wasn't done yet, "Only if you know how to exploit them." The he ran around the corner using his martial arts to stay virtually silent. He almost didn't want to be invisible because he trusted his training that much. But it was handy in case he slipped up. Basil stayed closed the guards' backs. Once they rounded the corner he waited for them to give him some space. Silently grabbing the Metal Edge off his belt he threw it aiming at the large tree near the other end of the courtyard. It flew as quiet as an owl even as it knocked down leaves off the tree and returned to him before the guards saw it. As they went to investigate he waved the other to the door. Dad pressed the something on the Elucidator then he slid the door open without a sound. Chip and Dad led the way up the castle to the higher rooms. They stopped in front of two large double doors.
"This is king's room. Henry should be in here." Dad informed keeping his voice down but it wasn't a whisper. Something told him they were in for a shock. Dad opened the door without a squeak. King Henry was sitting in a chair staring at the opposite wall with a black look on his face. A strand of drool hung in the corner of his mouth. There was a glazed look over his eyes.
"This has to be the other anomaly!" Dad said not bothering keeping voice down.
"JB keep your voice down or he might hear you!" Johan whispered the warning. Dad shook his head.
"I don't have to worry because he can't hear us! He's been the medically induced to be in hypnotic state. Someone from our time has done this to him. This kind of medical science hasn't been achieved in the twenty-first century." Dad looked at the king. Now the question was who. Who would want to have the king of 1490 like this? A shiver crawled up his spine. He spun around to the wall the king was looking at to be right in time to see two people appear. Two people he'd seen before. Gary and Hodge.
"Should've known you would be the one causing us trouble JB." Hodge spoke getting everyone else to turn around.
I can't believe you would do this! Do you have any idea on how many time law this violates?!" Dad shouted. Gary just shrugged to say so what?
"What do you think you're doing?" Katherine spoke next her voice still carried the anger but it wasn't a shout.
"Duh! Getting ourselves rich!" Gary spoke to her in a mocking tone. Basil thought it best to take a chance.
"So your new boss has you two as his errand boys." He kept his voice leveled. It was quick and subtle but he could catch the look of dread of fear on their faces.
"Let's get this straight kid, we work for no one but ourselves!" Gary covered. Basil raised his eyebrow in challenge.
"Are you?" He questioned. He didn't want to show all of his cards yet.
"Huh here I thought you'd be the smart one in the group!" Hodge scoffed. Basil picked up on all the secrets they just let out. How could they have known he was the smart one if someone hadn't told them to keep an eye on them? And when they arrived Hodge said he should've known it was Dad causing trouble. How could they have known they were here when they hadn't done anything yet? His eyes caught something on the back of Hodge's belt. A gun from their time. Did they always have that or did their new boss think they should have that? Not even they were dumb enough to kill someone here. Not with time still moving and king right there.
"How is doing this to the king help you get rich?" Matt challenged.
"Details, details." Hodge waved off the question. So it's not their idea, it's the boss's.
"JB have I ever told you what a cute family you have? Maybe we should bring the others here." Gary taunted. He couldn't imagine Mom and Bridgette here. That would only add to the stress and two more people to worry about. And another parent to worry about him.
"Don't you dare bring them into this!" Dad took a step forward rage on his face. "They shouldn't even be involved!" He pointed at him and Matt.
"Don't you think we agree? The more of you there are the more trouble it is for us. But you know what's it's like when time is screwed up, or should I say what you don't know." Hodge shrugged. Dad looked ready to punch them in face, hard. He even had a rock hard fist at his side. Easy Dad don't you know they're playing you? Let me deal with their mind games.