I Now Realize

Chapter 6: A Double Spy? Lives At Risk (part 2 out of 3)

Next day...
You're hogging the stove!" Shade yanked a yellow bowl of eggs from Jake. "No, you're hogging the stove. You make the pancakes while I make the eggs!" Shade froze. "Those poor unhatched chickens." Jake scowled. "The hatchlings of chickens are breakfast, anyway. It's called food!" Shade and Jake made eye contact and bursted in laughter, earning a loud BOOM, making them jump and accidentally dump the eggs. Jake lowered his ears when he saw a very annoyed Alue standing three feet from them, glaring at the boys and the kitchen mess. "Explain?" Shade pointed at Jake. "He did it!" Jake scoffed. "You kept nagging to help." Alue shook her head. "I swear, when you two are asleep, I am going to haunt both of your butts." Jake smirked, "wow, I never thought my butt was sexy to follow." Shade and Alue snickered. "Jake," Alue stared at him. "Why would your butt be sexy when it probably smells like crap from doing number two? If I use Febreze on you, then I consider your butt as sexy..." The three laughed. "That's nasty." Shade said in a laughing voice. Alue shrugged. "So what if I'm being graphic? Everyone has a butt." Jake hugged Alue. "You're crazy. But I love it." As Shade watched, he felt a sting to his heart and cleared his throat. "Um... I'll get the mop." He cleaned up the mess while Alue made breakfast.

"So how are the others?" Alue glanced at Skull while she ate. Skull smiled. "The mood over there is up and down, but we keep going, you know? Things haven't been the same since you guys left." Alue and Jake nodded. "But I guess the somewhat bright side of this situation is it's reuniting old friends." Jake grinned. Skull smiled in agreement. "Hopefully, things will get better..." Tony said. Alue looked at the boys and cleared her throat to get their attention. "I'm going to need you guys to help me make plans..."

With Casey--

Astoroth gave a list to Casey. "If you can, get me those blueprints. You've been doing your job pretty well and I suppose you deserve some slack." Casey nodded and went out of the base.
'This is my chance to visit Alue and several people. I'm sure she will pummel me, but it's worth for what I've been planning.' Casey walked with his midnight blue hoodie covering half of his eyes. He then noticed a silver haired woman who was motioning for him to come closer. He went to where the girl was and kissed her. "Hey, Eira." Eira smiled back and hugged him. "How are you?" She asked. Casey cringed a bit and made a stern look on his face. "Not so good. A lot of people are at risk, lets put it that way. But I will somehow fix it." Eira's eyes softened. "Mind if I walk with you?" Casey grinned. "I don't mind at all. It's been a while since we have been together." They both walked to a 'Lets Go Techno' electronic and mechanics store. "What is Astoroth up to, now?" Eira asked. Casey ruffled his hair. "Um... I will tell you that in private. Ok?"he wrapped his arm around Eira's shoulders. She nodded and went to the cashier. "Hey, Natalie." The brunette girl grinned and waved at Eira. "Hey, girl! Hey Casey! It's been a while. What do you guys need?" Natalie's bubbly face lit with happiness seeing her friends. "Um...can you take us with 'you know who'?" Case asked. Natalie nodded and gave Casey and Eira a white and yellow card. "Go to the mechanics section," Natalie whispered. "You guys will see a small neon light blue button. Press it, then pull that curtain so that no one will see you, ok?" The couple nodded and Eira hugged Natalie. "Thank you. It's a big emergency." Natalie smiled. "Anytime, guys. See you again!" The couple quickly went to the mechanics section and did what Natalie instructed. They then heard a computer voice say, "Please enter I.D." Eira placed the card in a detector box. As the box lit up a green light, a passage was opened and they walked in. "Hey! Blackraven!" Casey looked around for his comrade until he popped up upside down out of nowhere, making Casey jump and accidentally hit his head under a crow bar that hung on the ceiling. The caucasian male was hanging upside down, smirking at the couple and spoke with a slight Russian accent. "Privyet" Casey scowled, putting his hand on the bump on his head. "Hello to you too, Russian..." Eira checked the bump on Casey's head, and figured he will be fine. "Hello, Blackraven." The caucasian male landed and shook hands with Eira. "Nice seeing the couple again." Eira forced a smile. "N...nice seeing you, too." Blackraven looked at Casey and patted his head. "How much info do you have about the base?" Casey took out a small recorder and handed it to Blackraven. "You should see ALL of it. It's shocking how Astoroth is the leader. The system of that base is going to be corrupted if we don't prevent his plans and make a detour." Blackraven narrowed his silver and onyx eyes. "What do you mean by 'make a detour'...?" Casey sighed. "You remember Tony and Alue, right?" Blackraven nodded. Casey continued. "Ok. They're not the only ones who are in trouble. But relatives, friends, who knows how many people are involved in this situation! Astoroth could crush most of them if he can. That's why I'm trying to make a plan so that Astoroth can catch them in the act, but not kill them." Blackraven just stood with his eyes widened...
Eira, Casey and Blackraven stayed silent. Blackraven blinked several times, in shock of the situation. "Um... I don't know what to do, but that doesn't mean I won't try." Casey nodded. "Ok. If those people do get 'caught on the act', I can make a few predictions where Astoroth might keep them as prisoners or quickly execute them." Casey held a tablet, which showed a hologram of the base. He clicked on a small section of the base, showing the prison chambers. "Section five, prison chamber number one, west side of the base. The security of those prison chambers is high tech. But in one of those chambers, there is a passage. I will figure something out when I'm actually in that chamber. Question is...what do we do with Astoroth?" Blackraven and Eira were thinking until one of them broke the silence. "He uses that laptop a lot, no?" Blackraven asked. Casey nodded. "Ok...good. Eira? Do you have 'that' bug?" Eira nodded. "Now that you mentioned," she held out a hard drive and a memory chip. "These 'bugs' should create a non reparable virus in Astoroth's laptop. Casey, just be careful when you use it. This chip should inject the virus. But before that, use the hard drive to store what Astoroth is planning." Casey nodded and took the hard drive and chip. "I hate to say this, but I have to go, Eira." Blackraven's face hardened and hugged Eira and Casey. "You two be careful, a'ight?" The couple nodded. "You too, Blackraven." Eira said as she and Casey walked away...