Alpha Squad: Evolution

Chapter 10

-Ogganal Dallari POV-

This was a problem. A very big problem. "Ok" I said. "Are you sure that is the exact message in your head?"

"Yes! Help me. IP Underground SL 46 SP. That's what it said.", Paleum replied. Oh god. If that is the message sent, then we were in trouble.

"Sir? What's the problem?" Crimson piped up. He titled his head, a confused expression on his face. He seemed to be thinking hard as if he should know something about this but couldn't remember.

"This is the location of a secret Cosmos base. The location is using UPIA code.", I said. Crimson's face tilted up.

Melody piped up, "But isn't that a good thing? Someone needs help and they've just sent a message showing their location!"

"No." I replied, "This is a very dangerous location. It's directly underneath the Indigo Plateau. Lab 46 Special Projects. This was an old UPIA Base that was abandoned to form the Indigo Plateau. It appears Cosmos have found the base and put it back up and running. I'm going to have to shut it down. You need to stay here."

"What?!", Paleum protested, "But we can help! We've been training!"

"Paleum, we've only been training a week.", reasoned Melody, "You can't think we are ready to take on fully-fledged agents who have been doing this for ages! We aren't ready!"

"But...", Paleum spluttered.

"Alright, you stay here. Continue training. I'll have Rotom on surveillance. Rotom!"

"Zzzzz... I'M AWAKE! I'M AWAKE!" came a voice from the speakers "WHAT DO YOU NEED ME FOR?".

"Rotom! I need you to keep an eye on the kids right now. Make sure they don't run off, 'kay?". I turned around and looked at them. "I'll be back".

-POV Change: Crimson Aquilon-

"We aren't listening to him, are we?". I turned around and faced the others. "We need to go after him. There's no way he can survive a base full of Cosmos agents".

"What the hell do you mean Crimson?!" exclaimed Melody. This was one of the first times I had seen her surprised "We can't go storm a secret base! We're like 14, you idiot!"

"Well, what if we don't? Agent Dallary could be captured or worse!"

"Yes, on one hand we could look at this like naïve little children, go and by some stroke of luck we lucky little teens could take down a base full of most likely highly trained members of Team-Rocket-Done-Better or we could look at this more realistically and die within three minutes."

I was so engrossed with arguing with Melody that none of us noticed Paleum had exited the room long ago. He slammed open the door and walked back in.

"Well how about I give the deciding vote then?" he said, "We're going." Melody started to protest but Paleum cut her off. "Look my parents have been taken and I need to get them back. Your friends have been taken aswell and you want to get them back. This place apparently used to be a UPIA base right? So, wouldn't the map of the base be somewhere in the UPIA files? We could get the plans for the base, find what is most likely to be the most heavily guarded entrances and sneak through the less guarded ones! We could even go all Mission Impossible and be like Ethan Hunt and his Haunter and sneak through the air vents or something!". Melody looked at him, surprised.

"That's actually a good idea.", she said "Let's try and find the plans and plan our attack". For the next two hours we scoured the entire base for anything that looked like it would be important for the mission until Paleum shouted out:

"Guys! Aerodactyl found something!". We rushed towards the noise and saw Paleum and Aerodactyl with a USB stick. He had plugged it into a computer, and it was full of plans and design for nearly all the UPIA bases. "We can use this to go and help Oggi!" he exclaimed, "Thanks for the help Aerodactyl! Return!". Melody took the USB out and put it into her pocket. Just as we were about to leave, Paleum froze.

"Did you guys hear something?" he whispered.

"No?" I replied, but as I said it I definitely heard voices come from the entrance. They were coming closer, but that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that I recognized one of the voices.