Piece By Piece

The Plan

From Zeta's balcony, the heist team looked over the operation room. Ice balls filled with lava began to roll down the track and into the superweapon. Silver's eyes were aglow. Through Silver Vision, she could see every element of her plan coming together.

“That's the heart of the superweapon," she explained. “And if you look closely, you can see that it's powered by air pressure. The moisture around the composite volcano instantly vaporizes and it sends a plume of highly pressurized steam to the surface. That steam is contained by the pressure chamber, and that's the part we need to destroy."

Silver looked around to make sure the team was listening.

“Only problem is it's surrounded by armed guards," she said, pointing to the eagles with ice spears. “Bomb, do you think you can take out those guards? Some of them look kinda tough, it won't be easy."

“Yeah, right," he answered nervously. “Of course. Got it."

“Chuck, I need you to disable the security cameras," Silver added. “There's a bunch of them, so you'll have to work fast."

“Fast?" Chuck said confidently. He zipped out of view for a second, and returned in a flash with a black briefcase. “Don't even worry about it, sis!"

“Red, you and I have to get inside one of those ice balls."

“Inside an ice ball?" Red asked skeptically. “Uh, sure. Okay."

“Leonard, Courtney, Garry, do you see that giant lever near the orange lava tube?"

Leonard nodded. “Copy that."

“I need you to pull it all the way down. That will create a ramp so that when Red and I roll down in the ice ball, we will be launched through the air at the perfect trajectory to take out the superweapon! Cool, got it?"

“Now, you're talking!" Leonard cheered.

“Great plan, Silver!" Red praised.

“Mama would be so proud," Chuck cried happily.

Each member of the team had different strengths, but Silver knew if they worked together, they would be way more powerful than any of them would be on their own.

“Okay, everyone put your wings and hooves in," Silver said, placing her wing down. The rest of the crew joined in.

“Go team!"

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In super stealth mode, Chuck began his part of the plan. He zipped around the superweapon main floor, dodging the guards and security cameras. Luckily, Garry gave each team member a smart watch so they could communicate with one another.

“Chuck, let us know when you've disabled the cameras," he heard Silver say.

“Okay, on it," Chuck whispered. He pulled out his briefcase, hid behind a rock so Hank wouldn't see him, opened the briefcase and pulled out... crayons and Post-It notes.

In the surveillance room, Carl was reading the book “Crazy Rich Avians" when something odd in the video feed caught his eye.