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CHAPTER 1
Monday, June 5th
"Have you read the article about the disappearance of the shoryu in this weeks neopian times?"
"No, what happened?"
"Some poor pet was kidnapped and the guy who they think did it claims to be the shoryu."
"He kidnapped him and tried to steal the shoryu's life, what a wacko."
"That's not even half of it. The kidnapper is a faerie grundo and doesn't even look like a shoryu. Had a weird story about a blinding flash and being changed. The owner of the shoryu is offering a 3,000,000 NP reward for any information about the missing pet."
Pleidies flew away from the two friends slightly depressed. Who would kidnap a pet and then try and steal their identity. The world was in a sad state. Not even a draik waiter at the Golden Dubloon could see that story happening in real life, and he saw a lot of stuff at his job.
At the same time, a kougra on the other side of restaurant was thinking the same thing. "Life is depressing. Why do I even try? Another day, another bank heist and I am sick of it," he told his companion.
"Oh lighten up Beale. You have a great life. You rob banks, you give the money to Ritchie who pays you more back, you do the occasional scare job on some poor unexpecting rich slob who owes Ritchie some money, and you don't have to worry about taxes and what not. I mean, look at that poor pathetic Lupe in the corner over there. Grouder comes in here day after day, all-alone with no friends. He sits there and stares at all the people more lucky than him," replied the gelert.
"Sure, at least his friends haven't been the reason he was in jail on 10 different occasions. I suppose life in the Broken Wing Clan is easy when you are a strong, egotistical, gelert, Haugen. But for me, nothing goes right. Life is just horrible." Beale whined as a third pet sat down, "And take Jon here, he won't even ask me how I am doing today because he knows how horrible my life is. He is one smart Bruce."
Actually, Jon didn't feel particularly smart at the moment. As soon as he sat down, he felt a needle enter his back and someone pull his chair backwards. His last sight before falling asleep was seeing the face of Theo the Blumaroo, the handy man of a rival gang. Theo ran away quickly shouting, "Flaming Logs forever!!!"
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Bart the Poogle had done it again. Here was another 500 NP out of a bank owner's pocket. It was getting harder for him to hack into other people's accounts, but he still had his touch. Jenny beside him wasn't having as much luck. For the seventh time today she had come up empty handed. She couldn't even coax a password out of a week-old neopian user who had seemed unusually stupid. "This is one Kacheek who is done for the day," she said to no one in particular.
"Wait," replied that no one, "we still have to plant the virus today. Go grab that disk over there." Jenny grabbed the disk Bart had been talking about and threw it at his head.
"You know I hate viruses, someone always sends it back to me." Jenny was good at whining.
"That is why this one I made perfectly and we are the only two to have a firewall that will work for it. Tomorrow you will wake up and the Internet will be in chaos, but we will be immune."
Both the pets snickered a little before heading to their separate, and quite different, bedrooms.
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It had been a tough day for Molvar. Most Lennys would envy her job, but she hated it. There was not a part of being a teller at Tribucks Bank that she enjoyed. It paid all right, and it wasn't hard work, but it was boring. Even today was boring, and strange things had happened today. Ritchie had deposited 1,000,000 NP into Blake the Skeith's account. Watching gang leader put money into accounts wasn't unusual at a bank, not even in large sums like this. But Blake happened to be the owner and manager of the bank. Molvar sighed. Even when you find out your manager is a little corrupted it wasn't on exciting day. What she needed was sleep. Lots of glorious slumber with dreams of the day that lennys would be the first pet to colonize a distant galaxy full of wonderful creature called polfurs that had feathers like a bird but looked more like the jelly chia. Oh well, it might happen one day.
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Star_bright666 had herself two things before turning in for the night. One was a nice hot cup of hot cocoa. The other was a long hard laugh. She had seen the events of the afternoon and thought it was quite humorous. She had watched Jon the Bruce as he was injected with Ugga-Ugga. She had seen Grouder save his life by rushing him to the hospital. The fact that Grouder even cared had amazed her. She had seen the waiter's face when it all happened and he was so shocked he couldn't even blink. Theo had gotten out of there like a bolt of lightning, but it didn't matter. She saw him. She knew that Jon had seen him. She also knew that Pliedies had seen him. She was one happy ixi. Tomorrow she would make lots of neopoints and cause a whole lot of problems for the draik waiter, and the two gangs he had seen fight.
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It was going to be a long night at work for Grace the Chia. She hated it when the gangs decided to give her extra work by making her have to deal with another incident at the Golden Dubloon. She knew the boss was going to call her at any minute and ask her to take the case. Why shouldn't he, she was only the best chia cop ever. Such was life. At least the bruce had lived, that way she wouldn't have to do a murder investigation. It would be twice the work to do that. She quietly sat, and sure enough the all came. The boss wanted her to go to the hospital immediately. She was to interview the half-awake Bruce and see what she could pull from his sick sleepy lips. Such was life. Tomorrow, she would sleep. She would sleep all day long.
CHAPTER 2
Tuesday, March 6th
Star_bright666 had a fresh start to the day. She woke up, ran to the nearest coffee shop, downed four venti espressos, and ran to her first appointment of the day. She wouldn't keep Ritchie waiting. Especially not since it was because she was getting paid. Ritchie was her usual self, grumpy, tired, loud, and generally very irritable. "Ooh," thought Star_bright666, "this is going to be one big check."
Conversation started in the usual way, it didn't. They sat there waiting for Ritchie to speak for 5 minutes or so until finally Ritchie could not remain silent any longer. "So you have some info for me, is it good, bad or one of those weird arrangements of both?"
"Well, both I guess. First off, the guy who did the job yesterday was one they call Theo."
"Isn't he the blumaroo who works for Merry the Tonu?"
"Same guy, but this time I don't think Merry had much hesitation in his orders. They were quite clear. He took out Jon just to get even with you over that bank job you got to first. Turns out, you made him lose quite a bit of money on a very large bet."
"You are telling me that Merry actually ordered to assassinate one of my men. That, my friend, is bogus."
"That's what I thought too. After five years of peace between these two clans, I figured it was just Theo getting brave and wanting to get some thing personal done. Turns out, Theo broke down about it and told the boss off. At this point, Merry told him if he didn't do it, Theo would lose his tail. Anyway, it isn't a pretty sight. However, Theo still did it, I think he is more afraid of Merry than of an all out gang war."
"Once again you have proven yourself very valuable, here is your check."
Star_bright666 was right, it was a large check.
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She was gorgeous. She was bald, had rather pointy fingers and toes, great big teeth, and had very dry lizard like skin. Yet, she was the most gorgeous draik he had ever laid eyes on. Pleidies wasn't one to brag about Drea's good looks, but that wasn't the point of dating someone anyway. A nice quite dinner followed the movie they had seen. Pleidies had suffered through yet another awful chick flick in the name of love. It was a good thing he paid more attention to Drea than the movie, otherwise he would have fallen asleep just before the girlfriend in the movie was diagnosed with leukemia and found that her father was the only one who could save her. In the movie, the girl's father died. Pleidies enjoyed this part. Pleidies is not a sick or twisted draik, but he definitely enjoys it when he has plenty of cuddle time with Drea. The dinner went very well also. Nothing about the sick Bruce came up, there was no Chia Policewoman trying to force information about the identity of the attacker, and best of all, Drea was there. After dinner, Pleidies took Drea home where they spent a nice quite night involving a couch, a blanket, some soft music, and a large variety of awful chick flicks for Pleidies to enjoy.
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Stick_smicky2 didn't hate her job, but it wasn't the best job in the world either. There were moments when she could save a little pet's ability to fly and she had only herself and hard work to thank. But then there were times like the present when she had to watch someone suffer. The policewoman next to her didn't seem to mind that there was a very sick bruce on the bed in front of them.
"Has he woken up since I last talked to him?" wondered Grace.
"No, what ever was in that injection wasn't the normal strain of ugga-ugga. He seems to be violently allergic to it at times, but his body doesn't fight it away, it just lets it do the damage it wants. It is quite sad."
"I think I will go now, but please page me when he wakes up; I really need to question him on the attack. Thank you."
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Kitty had done it. Everyone had called him mad, his parents, his peers, and even his employers. Actually, his employers called him mad genius, but still. Now the world would bow in the greatness of Kitty, the greatest Techo Scientist ever!!!!
And all any one else in the room could say was, "You are one weird guy mister, just put the weapon down and we will get you those tranquilizers you are so fond of."
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Star_bright666 went to see Merry next. This meeting was going to be better than the first. Conversation started off the usual way. It started off quite different than with Ritchie. The moment Star_bright666 stepped into Merry's office, the Tonu screamed with rage. "What is going on and where have you been. I have been waiting all day for you to show up!!"
"Point one, as usual, I am five minutes early. Point two, since there was no appointment set, I had to search through you log book to get this slot. Point three, after I tell you what I know, you will owe me a very large sum of money."
Dealing with Merry wasn't far from dealing with a very large, very angry, and very loud rhinoceros. In fact, that is exactly what it was like. He continued to rant, "I have one guy who for some reason attacks my rival's clan member, doesn't even have the guts to tell me about it first, and now I am getting calls from every newspaper in the city. Now you tell me, what is going on!"
"It really is quite simple. Theo thought that he could take revenge on Jon without you figuring out it was him. Unfortunately there was a witness besides me. A draik by the name of Pleidies works as a waiter at the Golden Dubloon and saw Theo's face. Theo could have problems with him. Jon isn't likely to wake up again so we are fine there. However, Ritchie thinks this whole attack was your idea. I suggest trying to ease the situation very carefully. A gang war right now would make both of you look very bad. Also deal with Theo, I have reason to believe that he may strike again."
Star_bright666 left shortly after that, and she was even happier with her latest check. It had been a good day, and the war she was starting seemed to be progressing nicely. Now only one minor problem to deal with was left.
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Jenny woke up mid afternoon. She then woke up Bart. Bart woke up the computers. They had a virus to check. As usual, Jenny had managed to get the virus on her computer, but Bart's firewall quickly deleted it. Bart got to work right away. He had many people to break into their accounts
and take some NP from. Jenny did too. She was hoping for at least one successful try today. She got her wish, sort of. About two hours later, she found a rather large account of one very rich and boring bank owner. This would be a good hack if she could pull it off. Luckily, this boring bank owner had gotten the virus. One of the nice things about the virus is that it would change a password of someone's account the moment they logged off of it. Since Jenny now had full control of the account, she became very, very rich. She also accomplished to other things. She made Blake the Skeith and owner of Tribucks bank very, very angry, and she gave Ritchie the biggest headache known on this side of the planet. The only headache that compared to Ritchie's was that of Beale the depressed Kougra, but he doesn't count.
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Noah didn't particularly like his headache at the moment either. Yet another new virus was out and it was his self-proclaimed job to deal with it. This one however was a very odd one indeed. It took him two hours just to capture the virus in a software loop. Than another two hours to decode the information on it. Only a mere 7 hours after that did he finally find the routing information he was looking for. As far as Kacheeks go, Noah wasn't known for his patience. He was very tired of the whole ordeal before the first hour was up and had to sit through another 10 hours of boredom after that. However, he was very pleasantly surprised by what he found. The virus was traced back to one Jenny the Kacheek. He had been looking for her for a while. Noah knew that Jenny couldn't even bypass a standard subroutine window box on an average hard drive accelerator in an old GigoWhat Compositor. He was after her brother. This time Bart would go down. Or so thought Noah. It wasn't until another hour of uneventful searching through loopholes, viruses, and passwords that he found Blake the Skeith's account in Jenny's files. The NP flow there made him immediately contact the authorities. They laughed at him. So he contacted his mother. She laughed at him. Then he formulated a plan to stop Blake. Then he ditched the plan because it was not likely to succeed anyway. Then he decided to call up Jenny. He was very happy he did so.
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Noah wasn't the only one to watch Blake's account. Molvar happened to be logged into it still when Blake logged out of it. It was her job to watch the account while Blake was away. She quickly wrote down the new password and then pretended not to have it. This is the point that Blake became angry. By the time he had walked from his seventh story office to the main lobby area where Molvar was, three people now had access to an account that he owned. It wouldn't have been so bad except that this account had a particularly important sum of neopoints in it and one gang leader would not be to happy to hear it was gone.
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Grace wasn't too happy either. She didn't know anything about an account with over 1,000,000 NP in it but she wished very much that she did. Instead, she was following Pleidies home after he left from Drea's house. She had watched their very pleasant evening and decided not to interrupt it by taking Pleidies aside during the middle of it. Even though she wanted to now, she couldn't. Evidently, someone had told Merry of the only witness to the attack by Theo. This didn't make crime lords too happy so Pleidies was in a serious amount of trouble without even knowing it. Fortunately, Grace had seen this trouble coming from a mile off. Literally, Grille was walking down the alley about a mile away. He was thinking how much faster he could travel if Merry had let him use a bicycle or something. But no, Grille had to instead walk, using his very short krawk legs to catch up with a draik who didn't mind flying.
Unfortunately, it wasn't Grille who was the trouble. It was the rather large form of Arsenal behind him. Arsenal wasn't a particularly nice Mynci. Most clan members weren't. He also didn't particularly mind doing in one of his own clan members. Theo had said that the krawk had betrayed them and there were orders from Merry to take him down. However, taking down a krawk usually takes a considerable amount of noise. This time was no different. Purposely, Arsenal had been wearing the logo of the Broken Wing clan instead of his own, the Flaming Log clan. Theo said that this would be a very good idea. Arsenal didn't see how, but he wasn't one to think. He just followed whoever would give him orders and a paycheck. Grille the Krawk didn't even stand a chance. Very soon, a laugh grenade hit him. That was the beginning of a very painful time for him.
For the second time, Pleidies watched a gang member being attacked by another gang member. He was becoming quite tired of all this violence and wished it would go away and bug those awful chick flicks he had enjoyed this evening and leave him out of it. Unfortunately, Arsenal the Mynci didn't seem to agree. There was very little time for Pleidies to even begin to run, but run he did, right into a wall. Very little happened after that, Grace had sufficiently deterred the mynci with a blast from the wand of dark nova she always carried incase of emergencies like every good chia policewoman did. Then she carried the now snoring Draik to a hospital. The trip was quite bumpy for everyone involved due to the fact that on Grace's other shoulder was a drooling mass who now thought he was a grape fruit being peeled in a very funny manner. There was something lightly odd about that laugh grenade that had been thrown.
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JeCasseLeTete wasn't too happy tonight, in fact, he was quite depressed. Two days in a row, he had had to clean up after some petty gang squabbles. It was getting quite annoying. Why couldn't janitors just have normal every day lives like everyone else?
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Star_bright666 had completed her final task. Theo the Blumaroo had disappeared and it would be a while before he resurfaced. She didn't mind. After she had given him that ugga-ugga injection to use on Jon, she no longer needed his help. Since there was no evidence to link Theo's disappearance to her, it didn't matter.
CHAPTER 3
Thursday, March 8th
Jenny smiled widely at her brother Bart. Then she picked up her coat, walked out the door, and left her poogle brother sitting at his computer amazed that she might actually have somewhere to go.
Jenny, the nerdiest, most pathetic kacheek she had ever met, if being you qualified as meeting, had a date. Not just any date, but a date with Noah, a kacheek who liked computers as much as she did, but actually had skill with the stupid machines. Noah had sounded like quite the guy. He had a deep voice that Jenny got chills just listening to. He had that smart guy quality about every thing he said. Best of all, she was sure he was single. Jenny smiled inwardly.
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Noah was thinking very different things. Jenny had also caught his attention. She sounded smart, reasonably amiable, and very pleasant. Except he was sure she was dating someone, and he had little interest anyway. He carried his rather large masculine kacheek body from his house to the Golden Dubloon only two blocks away, and was panting heavily when he got there. One big lupe glared at him as he walked in, and Noah cowered like any self-respecting kacheek would have done. He was early, as usual, but being early was a good thing since he was about to catch Bart the Poogle, notorious hacker, master mind behind several viruses, and the guy who had stolen Noah's computer. Jenny turned out to be everything Noah had imagined. She was quite the kacheek, perfect stance, sparkling eyes, and a very attractive smile, but Noah didn't know what these were. Instead he saw a woman with a great personality and an even better ability to talk her way through things. The very type of woman he liked dealing with because she actually knew very little and held herself as more important than anyone else. She would be very easy to get to cooperate.
Jenny was also pleased with what she saw. Noah wasn't big and bulky, but he had a sweet and gentle air about him. His voice was deep and calming. Most importantly, he treated her like she was the most important kacheek ever, and she was, wasn't she.
Both of them thought that lunch went very well.
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Grouder watched the two kacheeks eating lunch from his corner of the restaurant. The girl was obviously attracted to the boy, and the boy obviously had no clue as to what attraction meant. He knew the boy as Noah the Computer Genius and had plans to ask him for help after he had finished his dinner. He needed someone to go online for him and find out where the strain of Ugga-Ugga had come from that Jon the Bruce had been injected with. He also needed to figure out whom the Krawk that had been captured last night worked for. All of this went down the drain.
Pleidies walked in the restaurant with Drea, his girlfriend, and Angie the Lupe, Drea's bet friend. Pleidies did his usual original sign in and then went to the back to start getting ready for work. Angie and Drea took the table next to Grouder. Angie was, in Grouder's eyes, the best-looking Lupe ever. Not only was she good looking, but she also smiled as if she were ready to pop a few chias in her mouth in the name of fun. As a secret agent, this is what attracted Grouder to a girl.
Angie was also looking at Grouder. Immediately, she invited him to eat with her and Drea. This made things easier for the two lupes. They sat and talked together for what seemed like a long time while Drea quietly got up and moved to Grouder's old table, smiling greatly at her friend. Pleidies walked out with a few orders. He served the Kacheeks first, then gave Angie hers and Grouder his. Then he sat down by Drea where they sat and talked. Every time a new customer came in, Pleidies quickly rushed to there side leaving Drea to smile happily at her friend.
Randomly, Noah got up and headed to the men's room. Grouder saw this and followed him. Pleidies decided that this was as good of time as any to take his own break. In the name of all things random, Molvar decided that this was the time to enter the restaurant and join Drea at the back table. Seeing a chance to meet someone new, both Angie and Jenny decided to move to the table with them. The girls got to talk as girls do. "Then that happened and we were over there. It was so romantic. The thing flew up there and knocked that by there. I could have watched it all night."
"I know what you mean. I saw it to. He laughed when that hit this and went sprawling there under that. The best was when they overturned that and lit up that behind there."
Pleidies, Grouder and Noah had had their own interesting conversation in the restroom, only with more nouns. "I need you to check up on Grille the Krawk, he was hit with a laugh grenade in an alley last night," Grouder asked to Noah.
Pleidies had to chime in, "I was there. I saw it. That pesky chia policewoman was asking me questions most of the night about it. What was so special about that grenade."
"The krawk is still laughing about being the pilot of the great ship U.S.S. 'I am a Nutcase'. There was something peculiar about the mix put in it. Anyway, I need it checked into. Also look up anything on a new strand of Ugga-Ugga."
"Isn't that what the bruce was injected with when he was here?"
"That's it."
Noah finally spoke up, "Grouder, do you know anything about Blake the Skeith? He had 1,000,000np put into his account by Ritchie the leader of the Broken Wing Clan."
"I hadn't heard that yet. I will check on it, keep me posted."
Not expecting to sit anywhere other than where they were before, only Pleidies was surprised by where the girl he was last talking sat. Having so many important people in one table can only mean two things. One, they all ended up telling each other exactly who they were and what they were currently doing. This didn't make Noah happy because it meant he might have to work with Jenny and her brother instead of against Bart. Two, it meant that one mischievous little ixi had heard the whole thing.
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Ritchie was going slightly crazy. One of her men had been attacked randomly. She was then told that one of her men had attacked a guy from the same clan that had attacked her. This was going too far. First, Merry had ordered an attack and now he was blaming her for attacking him without cause. She hadn't even done anything yet. Merry was not going to be happy when she was through with him. It was time to put a call to a little scientist techo. After that, She would call Merry.
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Merry was also going nuts. One of his guys had attacked someone for no reason. Then, Ritchie obviously orders an attack on another of his guys as revenge. There was a little Draik running around that had seen both attacks and no one could manage to do away with him. Last night, Theo, his weapon mastermind had disappeared. And even after all of this, Ritchie had asked him to a quite truce dinner down town. He hadn't wanted to go, but he was a sucker when it came to a pretty voice.
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"Here Kitty, Kitty. Here Kitty, Kitty." His mother was calling him again. Kitty hated it when his mother called him, it made all the other young mad scientists laugh at him. He went anyways. He had a phone call. It was from Ritchie. He always enjoyed phone calls from Ritchie. They usually included getting to hurt someone.
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"He has the largest case of depression I have ever seen. He is as hopeless as flies trying to have a volley ball game on a lit Bunsen burner. Take him away from me before I become depressed too."
This was the third psychiatrist that Beale had been to and they had all said the same thing. Well, mostly the same thing. Some had said flees instead of flies, but the overall picture was the same, minus flees. Beale couldn't stand it. He needed something to make him happy, but couldn't find anything. Haugen had suggested a few things, but Ritchie hadn't liked them. The two were headed back to Broken Wing HQ. Ritchie had called them. Haugen had seemed very excited to be getting another job. Beale, well he just mumbled about another bank robbery. He couldn't be more wrong. Instead, Ritchie had planned an ambush on poor old Merry as he left from the truce meeting. This had once again made Haugen very excited. Beale wanted to be sick and not have to go. Ritchie wouldn't allow it and the ambush was set for the following night.
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Sticky_smicky_2 was getting sick of the sick. Now she had two patients under her care. One was the blasted bruce who reused to try and heal himself. The other was a krawk who wouldn't stop calling himself Mr. 'I need a vacation'. Neither was making any progress. Sticky_smicky_2 had almost given up of ever curing them when a third patient was brought to her. This one didn't make her any happier.
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Grace the chia policewoman had been keeping an eye out on Pleidies. The others had told her just to let him go, but she would not. It would make her look bad if the gangs actually got him once. Besides, who better to use as the experiment. He was after all, a draik. She decided her reputation needed a break.
CHAPTER 4
Friday, March 9th
Star_bright666 for once in her life, did not know what to do. She had overheard the discussion of Haugen and Beale on the life of Merry the Tonu and leader of the Flaming Log Clan. She knew that Merry would give her large sums of money to tell her this information, but she also knew that if Merry were taken out of commission, Arsenal the Mynci would probably take his place. Arsenal was far more gullible and very easy to convince to start a war with the rival Broken Wing Clan that Haugen and Beale belonged to. After all, she was being paid to start a gang war wasn't she?
It didn't take her too long to decide. She placed the call to Merry quickly and then went to collect yet another very large check. At this rate she could buy her solid diamond house pretty soon.
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Molvar was very happy with herself. She had been deputized by a secret agent lupe named Grouder. Pleidies, Drea, Angie, Noah, and Jenny had also been deputized, but that hadn't lessened Molvar's mood right now. For a Lenny, her modest salary of 1,000 NP a week hadn't been bad at all. Grouder had doubled her pay. She was supposed to be monitoring all of Blake the Skeith's accounts. He was the owner of Tribucks bank and as his employee, who better to watch his accounts when it was already her job. Bart the poogle had given her a program to tell her when any of Blake's two hundred fifty seven accounts received a large amounts of NP or used a large amount of NP. Before she installed it, she told Blake that she had found his account he had previously lost and he could now use again. He was quite pleased with this because he found that all his NP had remained there and he no longer had to tell Ritchie the leader of the Flaming Log Clan that it was missing. He was so pleased that he also doubled Molvar's paycheck. Her modest earnings of now 3,000 NP's a week seemed very good to her indeed.
Molvar had to neomail all the account passwords from Blake's different accounts to Grouder. Neopets almost disabled her account except that Grouder neomailed them a short message with some very forceful word in it that made them change their minds about the whole thing. Then she installed Bart's program.
This seemed to be a mistake. Once the program was installed, two hundred fifty eight windows appeared on her screen. The two hundred and fifty eighth window read, "Due to a sudden opening of two hundred fifty seven windows, your computer has run out of memory. It will now shut down."
The computer shut itself down. It then placed a sticky note on the monitor saying, "Please remove all the windows from off this computer before attempting to turn on again."
Molvar called the construction crew. All of the other bank tellers watched as they removed all two hundred fifty eight very nice looking stained glass windows from on top of a single computer. Molvar then went to find a psychiatrist. She had just seen her computer sticky note itself and felt as if she should leave before it started talking.
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While Molvar visited a psychiatrist who then visited his psychiatrist, the rest of the deputies to Grouder were also working. Side by side, Jenny and Noah worked on two separate machines. Noah was working on finding a place where the souped up laugh grenade and the ugga-ugga injection had been engineered. Jenny was trying her best to set up a trap. She had successfully installed a neopoint tracker into the account that they had given back to Blake the Skeith. The virus hooked itself onto a set of NP in someone's account and then followed it, sending a message to the installer of the virus telling him or her where it went. Then, Jenny decided to test it. She sent 1 NP from Blake's account to her own and her computer immediately started to sputter and die trying to tell itself it had just received one neopoint from Blake the Skeith. The message however, bounced off the firewall Bart had set up and returned to Blake's account only to bounce of his firewall and come back. The bouncing message ended up multiplying and eventually got sick of bouncing and just stopped at Jenny's computer and made it crash. The computer cried out in pain briefly before turning itself off. Noah had to stop what he was doing to help turn Jenny's computer back on. Jenny thought this was very sweet of him and kissed the kacheek's cheek. Noah didn't understand what this meant and just took as a nice compliment.
Pleidies, Grouder, Drea, and Angie were all working on a much more tedious task. They had decided to let Pleidies and Drea be kidnapped by whoever was trying to kidnap them. So while Grouder helped Pleidies get into a wide assortment of seeing and hearing devices that would allow Grouder to see and hear everything that Pleidies did, Angie did the same with Drea. Hopefully, no one would suspect that Drea had the devices and even if Pleidies had all his removed, Drea would still have contact with someone on the outside. All of them were thoroughly ready. None of them had a clue as to how to get Pleidies and Drea kidnapped.
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Stick_smicky_2 was really tired, really cranky, really fed up with the strange illnesses that had landed in her lap. She had one bruce with a new strain of ugga-ugga, one krawk with a bad case of laugh grenade poisoning, and now a half korbat and half usul. The poor creature looked exactly like the usulbat plushie from the deserted fair grounds. What kind of weapon had done this? How would you fix it, and when did they change Chia flower into Usul flower. Something very strange was happening somewhere in neopia and she wanted to know what. She called Grouder and let him know of the new patient.
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Grace the chia policewoman Grouder's problem for him. Only she was trusted enough to approach Pleidies and Drea, slip them both with the sleeping gas, and carry them to wherever they went. Sadly, she didn't even check for the devices they were wearing and ended up showing Grouder the exact route. It wouldn't have mattered. The exact same moment, Noah discovered the source of the weapons that had used against the gang members. Lastly, all the transactions, which Blake had made when Molvar's computer crash, went to the same place. Smuggler's Cove, or more precisely, the inside door, third from the left, about halfway down the tunnel to Smuggler's cove. Grace didn't care, no one could have made it in even if they had known exactly where it was, which they now did. More importantly, no one would want to try. Grace was wrong again. Someone would be very upset to find that their hideout was discovered.
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"Grrrrr!!!" exclaimed Kitty the Techo. His last experiment had started as a grarrl, but now was neither that, nor the peophin it was supposed to come out like. Instead, he now had a giant Ganuthor in his lab. At least he could sell it as a very rare petpet to some unsuspecting customer on the black market. Then the phone rang. His mother opened the door, looked at the oversized petpet and said those dreaded words she said whenever she wanted kitty. Maybe Kitty would experiment on her next. The phone call was from Grace. She had his next subject, and everyone would be happy to see him go.
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JeCasseLeTete was getting quite sick of cleaning up messes. This time it was from a terrible battle between the two opposing clans. What had started as a nice little dinner had turned into a nightmare as two thugs from the Broken Wing clan went after the leader of the Flaming Log Clan. Merry didn't appreciate this, being the leader of the Flaming Log clan and had his own Arsenal defend him. Arsenal the Mynci easily handled Beale the depressed Kougra. Beale would become the next patient for sticky_smicky_2. Haugen however, was a much bigger problem. He wrestled with Arsenal for a good half hour. Then they took a break, shook hands, and wrestled for another half hour. They kept this up until neither one felt like wrestling any more and both went home quite happy with the activity they had involved and agreed to repeat the fun tomorrow night. Merry had other problems. He had run into Ritchie the leader of the Broken Wing Clan, and she did not look happy. Merry didn't understand why, they had spent a nice evening together eating dinner and talking about a possible allied bank heist. Now, she must have decided that dinner was bad after all. Ritchie actually liked dinner and decided not to do away with Merry. He might be a nice guy. Star_bright666 had disagreed. There stood Star_bright666 the ixi and former information gatherer for both clans with her asparagus powered ray gun pointed at both of the two clan leaders. Just then, out of the blue came a very mad and disgruntled Theo, who had not bee in the story for the last chapter at all and decided it was time to come back out of hiding and settle things with the ixi. Theo quickly tied the ixi up, pulled out his own fire and ice sword and did away with his former clan leader. He and Ritchie picked the two unconscious or tied up pets and placed them in a large black van. Ritchie asked Theo, "Did you have to hit Merry? I was growing quite fond of the idiot."
Theo laughed.
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If the last part of the story confused you, it also confused Bart. He was watching only because he had been kicked out of the house for the evening for the first time ever. Jenny had wanted some time alone to work with Noah, and had actually gotten her wish from her brother. Bart saw the battle this way just to make it clear.
Arsenal the Mynci from the Flaming Log Clan beat up Beale the Kougra from the Broken Wing Clan. Haugen the Gelert from the Broken Wing Clan then wrestled with Arsenal for a long time and became good friends with the Mynci. Merry the Tonu and leader of the Flaming Log Clan had fled the scene only to run into Ritchie the Jetsam and leader of the Broken Wing Clan. Both of the leaders were held at gunpoint by Star_bright666 the spy gal ixi. Theo the Blumaroo from the Flaming Log Clan (the same one that stas_bright666 had thought she had already done away with) came out of his hiding spot, and tied up star_bright666 and knocked out Merry. Theo and Ritchie evidently already knew each other and threw the other two into the back of a van. After seeing all this, Bart took Haugen to the hospital.
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If you still don't understand the scene above, good, at least you have the same understanding of it as the author. As a warning, I don't pretend to make the rest of the story make any more sense until the very end so keep reading, nodding, and pretend you know what is going on anyway. Seeing that I have already confused you enough this chapter, I will end it now.
Chapter 5
Saturday, March 10th
JeCasseLeTete hated cleaning. This time it was because of the same people deciding to abandon their old secret lab to find a new one. They left all sorts of stuff all over the place. The worst part was they seemed to have a rather large petpet woh was not yet trained. JeCasseLeTete knew he was going to have to do another cleaning job for these people. Since there was no way he could possibly know this, some nice little eddies formed in the temporal wevae we call time. Actually, his name was Steve, but since no one could talk to a rift in the time continuum unless in it, no one knew this but JeCasseLeTete. This made JeCasseLeTete very sure about his two things. One, he was going to have a terrible mess to clean up in chapters 7 and 8 and maybe a few smaller ones in 6. It also made him know that he was doomed to be placed in an asylum in the next few months. Pets just don't get away with talking about Eddies named Steve.
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Author's note: I could have introduced Steve any number of ways. It is common thought that he is actually created because of one of Kitty the Techo's fellow young mad scientists trying to perfect an egg salad sandwich. No one will know however, because that same young mad scientist is now enjoying running from giant crabs of the Crambian Era. At this point, I want you to forget about Steve because he has no real interest in what we are saying and therefore wishes to be left out of it. Thank you for your cooperation.
P.S.: Yes, JeCasseLeTete did bite me for his position in the story. If someone has a few very large band-aids, I would appreciate their help.
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"Where am I?" pondered an awaking Pleidies.
"Oh how lame can this story get?" inquired Drea next to him on a different table. "People don't just wake up and say 'Where am I?' They look around first and gradually open their eyes. Then the evil bad not-so-nice guy comes out and laughs manically. Get with it author."
At this point, I, sunshine_glider, the author take my only active role in the story by placing a large piece of duct tape over Drea the draik's mouth.
To make Drea happy, Kitty the Techo scientist entered the room with Blake the Skeith. Kitty, being only a very young child by pet age, did not laugh manically. Instead, he made a very loud high pitched squeal, "Oooooooooooooooooooooooooohhh, goody. Finally a draik to work on that I know I can make miserable. Hmmm..... I think I will save the programable lab ray for the female, lets play with some bionics and such with the male."
Once again, Pleidies was knocked unconsious. This was unfortunate for two reasons. It meant that Grace the Chia hit him on the head quite hard and caused him a lot of uneccessary pain. It also meant that once again, Pleidies would have no clue where he was when he woke up. This second one I will skip because it will only make Drea upset about the whole 'where am I?' thing again. But elsewhere, there are less annoying things to tell.
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Grouder, Angie, and Pillar_of_fire were preparing to rescue Peidies and Drea. Pillar_of fire has not been formerly introduced yet because this is the first chapter he is in. He his a largish fire draik that happens to be on the secret agent's version of a SWAT team. actually, he more or less was the whole team. This time, he consented to work with Grouder and Angie. Noah and Jenny tagged along. Noah came because he could deal with the electronic locks and security alarms. Jenny came because I needed someone to place in a pridicament that would make turmoil for the rest of the team. She thought it was because she wanted to be around Noah.
Pillar_of_fire approached the door of the entrance of the Smugler's Cove secret lair. He first tried to open it and found it locked with a password. Noah worked for about 10 minutes on trying to reprogram the door, but only succeeded to making the door very perturbed. Angie then had a wonderful idea and pushed the open button while being very kind to the door. Not surprisingly, it worked. Pillar_of_fire took charge again and entered the room brandishing a laugh grenade laucher. I know I made this weapon up, but he needed something to put down a large room-full of pets without harming possible prisoners. Anyway, he managed to put JeCasseLeTete into a laughing fit and then realized that the place was empty of anything but the janitorial staff. Pillar_of_fire felt a little balked by this and quickly appologized to JeCasseLeTete before asking him to clean up the mess that had been made. Grouder then did a thourough search of the place. He made sure to warn them about booby traps. Jenny did her job of creating turmoil by setting off everyone of them.
Jenny didn't mean to be so clumsy, but she was just naturally good at it. She set off the first trap. It was a simple laser beam. Noah quickly dived into her and saved her life. He thought that there was something about her he liked. By the time he had saved her fifteen times, he wasn't so sure.
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By this time, Haugen and Beale were getting ready to go wrestle with Arsenal the Mynci. Beale whined, still having a bump on his head from the last time. This time, both teams had instructions to do as much damage as possible, but contain it to the Golden Dubloon Restaurant. Beale complained more about having to tear up his favorite place to eat. He then complained about how awful the food was at his favorite place to eat. He went on further to give a speach about his taste buds going dull because they had not truly been used for a long time. I would keep summarizing his monologue, but it was very long and not quite explainable. He ended with wondering why he could never find another kougra who wanted to be companions with him and take him to movie, say kind things about him, and enjoy his peanut butter art sculptures. It is best to leave it at that.
Arsenal was ready for the tangle. He was ordered not to actually hurt anyone, just give the appearance of an actual fight. He could not wait. Besides yelling at helpless people for no apparent reason, fighting was his favorite thing. Haugen agreed with him.
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Pleidies woke up, now we are skipping to the better part. He looked like a freak. His normally blue skin was now covered with splotches that made him look like a robot paintbrush had only covered small portions of his body. He also felt different. He knew he had better sit up carefull as to not trigger any of the strange devices placed in his body. Theo the Blumaroo was in the room with him and gave him a large manual. "Read this, it will tell you everything you need to know."
Like all pets, Pleidies enjoyed reading and soon the book vanished in a puff of no smoke at all. He had thoughts conjuring in his head about which of his abilities he would use on Kitty the Techo until he came to the very end of the book. There was a section there about the remote located in Kitty's wrist. Pleidies was under Kitty's control whenever the juvineille wanted him to be. He found this out the hard way and was forced to walk to another chamber and then watch as they readied Drea for the programmable lab ray. Instead of using it now, Kitty had to think a while and started pondering exactly what he wanted Drea to become. Mostly he was thinking which one his recent repairs to his design would be the easiest to pull off, but that took him a while. Too long in fact. His mother soon called him in for bed time.
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Fortunately for Grouder, Drea had not been searched for listening devices because Kitty had not been mature enough to try and check a female for them. Instead, Drea was able to tell Grouder exactly where they were and how to get there. Pillar_of_fire readied for the next attempt to save the couple in captivity.
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