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TEAMCLAW
EPISODE II
--------------------------Securing the
Sewer Pipes------------------------------
Version 3.0 Part 1 Last edited on 6/16/05 Part 2 Last edited on 6/16/05 Part 3 Last edited on 6/23/05 Originally story by Jeremy Blake (www.jerbl.com) Rewritten and Illustrated by Mike Blake(Monisawa) ![]() _____________________________________________________________________________________________ © 2005 Mike
Blake (Monisawa), Jeremy Blake (www.jerbl.com); All
rights and
privileges reserved.
Finally
pulling up the e-mail, Nemo wished that he had not bothered.
"He is
tracking you," Is what the message said.
It did not
take Nemo long to figure out whom 'he' was; Nemo knew that 'he' was
referring
to Viktor. Turning the communicator off,
Nemo pushed the button again and secured the air conditioner back into
the
ground. Scanning his eyes across the
yard, he made sure no one had been watching, but happened to miss two
green
eyes staring at him from the tall plants in the flower garden that were
right
next to the house. Turning back
around,
he sat down on his haunches while trying to devise up a plan. Nemo did not know what to do.
Glancing at the setting sun Nemo sighed
heavily, he knew that if Viktor did find them, they would have to
relocate. Nemo had lived at this house
ever since he had become an agent…which was about the time his actual
memories
started.
Figuring
that he had about an hour before Viktor would be theoretically close,
Nemo
tried to t decide how Viktor might be tracking them.
Though to Nemo, as he thought to himself, he
was more interested in taking Viktor on again in a fight.
Nemo was very curious about how remembering
the dreams helped him do the moves that he had done last night, because
after
Yoru and Tsuki had gone to bed, Nemo had tried remembering more dreams
to see
if he could do what he had done, but had failed. Nemo
decided to himself, that the dreams only
surfaced when he was in trouble, or when his life was in danger. Though it was still strange why it had not
done it before.
Turning to
walk across the boards that rimmed the garden, Nemo was met face to
face by
another cat. “How could you let him find us,” hissed Duchess,
who is formally known by the humans as Momma Kitty.
“It seems that once again your wreck-less
attitude has led us into trouble. I have
been here too long to be forced to relocate.” She
coy-fully stepped out of the flower garden, sat down,
and brought
her eyelevel to his. Nemo
rolled his eyes. The all but too familiar
voice that taunted him
every time he made a mistake had emerged from her slumber.
“I don’t know,” Nemo admitted, “but I do know
that he has not found us yet. So just
get off my back, and remember that we are all in this together.” Keeping
her glare as icy as
possible, she bared down her discontent on the answer, “…Together? We have never been together. We may have
worked at the same time, but I am NOT part of your team.
And unlike you, I am retired, and am trying
to enjoy a life of peace and relaxation.” “Ms.
Kitty, I realize that this is
very unfortunate, but I have no control over it.” She
tilted her head farther forward
in annoyance, “Find him and FIND HIM NOW!” Her fur was bristled on end,
while
her eyes a narrow slit. Nemo
was flustered; he did not have
time for another fight with Duchess. “Duchess,
you know standard procedure, I can’t do anything until nightfall. I can’t even scan the area for him to see the
device that he is using to track us.” While
trying to be as respectful as he could, without
getting angry,
Nemo knew that this was a serious situation. Nemo
also knew that Duchess had been here for over 11
years, and she had
every right to be angry, but he did not need an older cat to tell him
about the
reality. Letting his mind slightly
wander, thinking back to Duchess’s first and only relocation, Nemo was
saddened. Rumors had it that her parents
had died in an
earlier mission; back in the days that involved Tenalt.
Smiling, Nemo thought about Viktor, and was
very glad that he had not inherited his fathers ruthless behavior, as
of yet. Unfortunately
Ms. Kitty also saw
the smile and was very aware of the fact that she was being ignored. Getting up into his face she hissed at him,
“It would be easy for you to relocate now, but I don’t ever want it to
happen
again.” She grew strangely sad for a
moment. Caught
off guard by the confession,
he looked at her, “I am sorry, I didn’t mean to…” Nemo was cut off when
she
looked back at him with her a sad expression, but immediately flipped
back to
her icy mode. “You
had better do something right
now. Whether or not you follow
procedure, Viktor is not going to wait for nightfall.
You should know that.” Momma
kitty turned from Nemo and walked
away. Obvious that old age was creeping
in, she limped as she turned the corner and disappeared from sight. Thinking
a little harder, Nemo
realized that Duchess was right. Even
with the added cover of nightfall, Viktor would not wait for the
regulations of
HQ, so Nemo and his team could apprehend him. Suddenly,
Nemo’s ears clicked
towards the direction of the front of the house. Racing
across the lawn, he effortlessly leapt
over the fence and landed on the other side. Glancing
up at the door, one of the smaller humans was
coming home from
a friend’s house. Racing up the stairs
and to the door, Nemo waited for her to open the door.
Making her way up the stairs, the girl smiled
at Nemo and opened the door to let him in, while following in after. Thinking
to himself, Nemo knew he
had the hard part coming up; getting to the control room.
Racing to the main entrance to the bathroom,
Nemo halted and scurried back as one of the bigger family members was
occupying
the entrance. Knowing that the bathroom
parallel to this one, on the other side of the wall, was still under
construction, nemo dashed into the master bedroom and into that
bathroom. Twisting his way through the
mess, he found
the uncovered heater vent, and squoze his way down into it. Coughing from the dust, he slid his body
through the narrow passage until he finally came the desired spot
beneath the
floor. Pressing the side of the heaters
pipes, it easily was pryed open. Stepping
out of the door that had been previously made,
Nemo quickly
brushed off the dust, and spider webs that had cluttered the vents
passages
over the years and watched as the lights once more flickered on in the
control
room. There
were many passages to get to
one place in this house, Nemo smiled and thought to himself. Getting
serious, Nemo stared at the
computer and contemplated again, not wanting to break the standard HQ
rules. There was a lot at stake here, so
Nemo finally decided that he did not want to let his fellow agents at
this
house down. Loading
up the main screen he
waited for it to load and when it did, he immediately opened up the
scanning
program. Figuring that Viktor might have
stuck some kind of tracking device on him, Tsuki, Yoru,
or their equipment, Nemo decided to search
the house first. Scanning the house, the
inquiry brought nothing up. Changing the
settings on the program, he tried once more, but once again brought
nothing
up. Wanting to make sure that it had not
been anything in the house that would give away their position, even
though all
the power in the house would flicker off for a second, Nemo cranked the
settings to max. Finally the computer
beeped and came up with a reading. Clicking
on the icon, the computer stated that there was a
radio tag
down stairs and in the storage closet, which was underneath the cage
that Tsuki
and Yoru called home. “That
is strange,” thought Nemo, “it
is old technology and the radio tag doesn’t even transmit anything…
Thinking
harder, the answer immediately hit him like a brick. “Because if it did
transmit,” Nemo figured, “the control room would have instantly alerted
him of
it.” The radio
tag was used more like a blinking
marker that could be viewed by a larger unit that would transmit and
scan for
it. Widening the scan on Nemo’s computer to
include the entire rural region, Nemo grinned as he got his results. Zooming in on the computer, he noticed that a
couple blocks off was the transmitter. Moving slowly, because the
person was
most likely in the sewer, but definitely coming. Thinking
quickly, Nemo did not have much time
to act. Thinking
as to what he should do,
Nemo dashed out of the cupboard entrance and quickly headed down the
stairs. At this point Nemo did not care
what the
humans thought of him. Ignoring the
strange stares, he raced down the stairs to the basement and over to
the cage
where Tuski and Yoru saw him. Knowing
that something that was up, they immediately stopped their wrestling
match,
since part of their assignment was to act like they didn’t get along
very well
at times, they watched intently as he approached their cage. Quickly
establishing the fact that
none of the humans were down in the basement, Nemo hurriedly commanded
Yoru and
Tsuki to watch the stairs. Waiting
for
them as they dashed out of their cage, to secretly watch for the human
family’s
movement, Nemo found the hot spot on the floor and pawed it. Snapping, the hot spot recognized Nemo’s
touch and a grinding noise commenced as the two foot slab of concrete,
hissed
out of the floor. Lifting back, it
revealed their equipment closet that Nemo had grabbed the invisible
pack last
night. Holding the scanning pad forward,
of which he had grabbed from the control room, Nemo looked at it
intentionally
as he hovered it over the items from last nights mission.
First
of all they were confused by
the break in HQ’s protocol of only working at night, unless stated
specifically
do to do so, but second, they had no clue of the impending doom that
was coming
closer. Holding up one of the Velcro
boots that Nemo had given them, Nemo called them over to explain. As
usual Tsuki was there
first. Noticing the equipment and
thinking about what Nemo had just said, Tsuki discovered what he was
doing, “I
guess we should have know that he was going to pull something else. I mean, COME ON,” Tsuki exclaimed!! “He was
trying to blow us and the power plant sky high, just so people would
not wake
up?! “ “Of
course,” Said Yoru, “Viktor
probably stuck it on one of us as he ran away. He
sure acted different when he saw you fight like you did.
And when you grew dizzy, he acted like
he
was going to take you down…” Finally
making his way completely he laid down. “So
what did he use to track us,”
asked Tsuki? Nemo
nodded to Tsuki’s and Yoru’s statements,
“Viktor used a radio tag. HQ picked up
info that Viktor was tracking us and because Viktor used a Radio Tag,
the
control room didn’t pick it up because radio tags do not send out
frequencies. Since you guys are a bit
young, I will explain. A good example is
how a bat picks up food. When a bat is
flying at night, since they are
naturally blind, they use a high pitch sound that emanates from their
mouth. The sound bounces off of all
objects, and depending on how soon it bounces back, the bat knows that
there are
objects there, by hearing the sound return. So
when it is hunting food, it does it in the same manner,
and is
quickly able to find its food by screeching and listening to its
frequencies.” Holding up the Radio Tag
Nemo continued, “This Radio Tag is rigged to where when the transmitter
sends
its searching wave of info, it creates a ping that will be picked up on
a
transmitter, but cannot be interpreted as information being sent.” Continuing in his explanition, Nemo concluded,
“If there was a radio tag, it would then need something to transmit to
it, or
in other words, the bat. That person, or
in other words, the creature is now looking for this and we don’t have
much
time.” “Viktor,”
Yoru depressingly stated. “Yes,”
Nemo chided in to affirm his
conclusions. “Though he is still a good
distance off, if he finds us, not only would we have to transfer, but
we would
be putting the humans in danger.” Tsuki
and Yoru looked at each other
in fear. They loved the humans and first
of all didn’t want them getting hurt, but even more, did not want to
lose them
and move away. They had been here since
they were tiny kittens, and it had been because of being brought to
this house
by one of the humans, that they were now part of HQ.
After they had been brought here, Nemo had
inducted them and trained them…and the whole process was done here. There were many fond memories for both of
them here, with Nemo, and the humans. Letting
them mull over the facts
for a second, Nemo peered at the boot, rolling it back and forth in his
paws
looking for the tag. Frustrated, Nemo
could not find where the tag had been stuck. Trotting
over, Tuski, as Nemo was
intently looking at the boots, glanced at it for a second, reached
towards it
and popped out the radio tag. Nemo
looked at her in disbelief as she handed it to him.
Trying to hold back his surprise, he turned
his attention the chip that was the size of a
pin head. Discussing
what they should do with
the chip, Nemo and his team decided that it was obvious that getting
the tag
out of the house was the best idea, but to get it out without Viktor
knowing it
was the hard part. Nemo
placed the tag on the scanning
pad that he had just used. The pad
hummed for a moment as it analyzed the tag and its inner workings. Finished, it projected a light image around
the tag that pulsed every twenty seconds, as the diagnostics started to
appear. Looking
at the reading, Nemo
decided, “It looks like that from the second we move the tag ten or to
fifteen
feet, we have about twenty seconds to do whatever we can to get it out. If not, Viktor is going to be able to realize
that there was a shift in location… Nemo broke off as one of the Humans
started
to descend the stairs. Dashing into
their cage, Yoru and Tsuki slammed the door shut, while Nemo looked
around and
headed for one of the couches. Suddenly
Tsuki squealed and pointed, “The closet Nemo, THE CLOSET!” Grabbing
the carpet with his claws,
Nemo back end twisted over his head as the gravitational force of his
run
continued to go towards the couch. Tearing
towards the closet, he punched the button and
scuttled to the
couch. Climbing underneath Nemo watched
anxiously as the closet door closed. Hissing
at Yoru and Tsuki to fight, so as to mask the
sound of the door
closing, Nemo then became completely quiet as the human rounded the
bend of the
last stair. Walking over to the cage
where Tsuki and Yoru were, the two cats stopped fighting and turned
their
attention to the human and meowed at him. Perfectly
playing their parts, the life form seemed happy
and popped
open their cage and continued to his bedroom, which was just beyond. After the Human closed the door, Tsuki and
Yoru wandered over to the couch and sprawled down. Talking
to him from up above, Tsuki
said, “So what are we going to do Nemo?” Pulling
the scanner out from
underneath himself, where he had stuck it, Nemo said, “I was about to
say that
we could transport it out, but it is too early before sunset; too many
humans
awake.” Secretly
adjusting the scanning
pad, Nemo noted Viktor’s location. “He
is still a good distance away, but we don’t have enough time to wait
for the
life forms to go to bed. On top of that
we have a twenty second window to get it out of here once we move it. I am
fast, but with the humans still awake, I am not sure that I could make
it out
of the house or even to the closet in time. “What
if…” Thought Yoru out loud,
“what if we teleported it to every house in the whole city?!” Tsuki
looked at him as if he was
stupid. “What kind of plan is
that?! You know that the teleporter is
only one way and on top of that, it teleports to REGIONS, not specific
locations.” Ignoring
Tsuki’s comment, Nemo
thought about the possibilities. HQ had
once told him that they had installed an experimentory feature in the
teleporter,
which they were planning to give to the rest of the agents worldwide. This option was the ability to be able to
pull objects that it had teleported back to that same machine that had
sent it. This feature never made it past
experimental
because living creatures never survived the transfer back… “Considering
the length of time,” Nemo
concluded, “that will have to do. Both
of you guard and try everything you can to the keep the humans from
going up or
down the stairs. Tsuki,” Nemo commanded,
“you get the upstairs and Yoru, you get down below.
Move OUT!” Dashing up the
stairs Tsuki was gone, while Yoru walked
over and sat on
the last step. Whizzing by him, Nemo
bolted
from the underneath the couch, with scanning pad in hand and raced up
the
stairs. Opening
the transporter door, he
popped the control panel out and quickly programmed it to teleport and
to bring
itself back from the region in the whole city simultaneously. Even if it would be sent to the same
region
twice, it would teleport to a different part every single time. Pulling
the radio tag from his
scanning pad, he threw it into the tiny matter transporter room and
shut the
door. Waiting for the coordinates to
load, he glanced at his pad; just five more seconds.
Looking back at the coordinate panel, Nemo exclaimed,
“Perfect timing!” Jamming down the send
button, he listened to the machine begin to repeatedly work. If this didn’t work Nemo and his team would
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