Chapter 6: Testing the Defense System

We were almost done at the house but one thing was still lingering in my mind. This was the defense system. We found it to have been tampered with and this gave Fluffy Hater an advantage. We still didn't know how he did it. This lead to us testing it. Plus it would be good evidence to put into the case. "Ok," I said. "As you all know, we must see how Fluffy Hater was able to tamper the defense system if it was him cause I believe there would've been no other way to kidnap Crystal. Either way, we need to see how it was done."

"Oh," exclaimed Boob. "I can help with that."

"How so," I questioned them.

"Cause there are some safe spots," answered Boob. "There is a different set o traps for when you walk up to the front door compared to walking up to it not along the path."

"That could explain why it didn't trigger at Puppers and Fluffen's house," I added.

"Yes," exclaimed Boob. "When walking up to the front door properly, we will be notified so we can determine if there is a threat. Puppers must've not seen you as a threat right away. It could've been because Potion was there."

"That may well have been the case," I added. "Either way, we need to test all the traps including those at the worst possible level. Boob, you'll need to show me how to activate them and where the safe spots are."

"But you can get seriously injured," Boob answered. "Or death is a risk too. I can't let that happen to you. Horn has to do it."

"Why me," questioned Horn.

"Cause you can't die in this case," answered Boob. "Only when Crystal dies, you would die as well. So it needs to be you."

"Can you do this for us," I questioned Horn.

"Fine," answered Horn. "But just to let you know, I may not die from this. However, I can still feel pain. Though I will do it for Crystal."

"That's the spirit," exclaimed Potion. Boob showed me the controls of the defense system to see if anything had to be there but nothing seemed damaged enough to have been tampered with. I did notice that it seemed burnt.

"It is all fried up," I said. "I think Fluffy hater could've shortened it out. He may have stopped the mechanisms causing the control panel to overheat and short out. I'll have to put this in my notebook." I jotted it down as possible evidence. Next Boob showed me where all the traps were positioned and where the safe spots were. "Alright Horn, your up. We need to test every trap and safe spot." Horn agreed and started at the potential painful ones fist so the pain would lower as they went. I was looking very carefully at all the traps and how they failed with Horn doing every possible way to approach them. All Boob could focus on though was how much pain Horn could've been in. This was the same reaction by Potion. Finally, we were only at the front door traps now. "Your doing great Horn. We just have the front door traps now."

"Phew," exclaimed Horn in relief to themself. "We are almost done. I don't know how much more pain I can experience." Horn walked up to the door and waited for the trigger.

"Ah," I said. "The notice that someone is at the door seems to be working fine. Ok Boob, whenever your ready, fire up those traps." Boob flipped the switch and the traps activated. Horn saw these traps and was like oh crap. I couldn't look away cause I needed to see how Fluffy Hater got through while Boob and Potion saw only large comic like scenes and yelps of pain. I finally seen enough and asked Boob to power it down. When he did, Horn walked into the kitchen very angry and smoking with burn marks all over their fur.

"I am never doing that again," said Horn.

"I'm so sorry," I said. "I had no idea those would be bad." I waited for a bit for Horn to settle down and then went into my findings. "Ok, this is what I found. First, I think Fluffy Hater tested where the traps and safe spots were by throwing something at certain places. Next, he went in for the kill. Not literally of course. The third step was to keep it going until it stopped thus triggering it to overheat and short out. After they were successful, they had to get to the front door. Boob said that there is a motion senor of some sort to trigger if someone at the door is a threat or not."

"But we saw that that element was working fine," interrupted Boob."

"Yes," I continued. "But after the system shorted out, it thought the threat was eliminated already. So this meant that Crystal wouldn't have known Fluffy Hater was at the door. I also noticed this glitch as Horn was testing the traps."

"So what do we do now," questioned Potion. "Have we solved the case yet?"

"We are far from solving this case," I answered. "And to answer the other question, we need to inform the police about our findings."

"Great," said Potion. "Then let's go see Sraivo." So, we went on our way to see the cop but we didn't expect the ending to our meet up.

Time to introduce Sravio. What will he say to us? Will we be able to convince him to help out? Will anything else happen at the police station? Find out in the next chapter.

TO BE CONTINUED