Lockness Nessgray - Master Carson’s office - Shortly before Numbers 4, 5 and Wellingpar’s departure.
I listen as Number 5 tells his story to Master Carson and then watch on as Wellingpar leaves, preparing to depart. I really want to go with them, I don’t want to just sit around on the sidelines waiting for some news, I want to get out there and help at least a little. Making up my mind I face Master Carson.
“Sir, I would like permission to join Number 5 and the others with this mission, I can’t just sit around here waiting.”
“That’s fine with me, Number 5?”
“No objections, was hoping you’d be willing to join us on this drug bust.” replied a smiling Number 5, I give him a nod back and start checking over my gear, I haven’t taken anything off so all my combat gear is ready to go.
“Very good” replies Master Carson, “As you might expect Wellingpar will be in command. So in total there will be how many?”
Number 5 replies listing them off with his fingers, “Wellingpar, Lockness, Myself, Number 4 and 20 of the Kage Team, all of them Coblousceene between F and E Rank, in total twenty four.”
Silent nodding comes from Master Carson as he thinks upon the situation, “I would ask that we collect as much as we can as evidence and capture anyone there.”
He is interrupted by a crystal embedded in the desk glowing for a moment before he places his hand upon it. After listening for a moment he looks back at us.
“Wellingpar is almost ready and will meet you at the Teleport Platform, you leave right now. Hope, direct them please.”
We start to get up and walk out of the office leaving Numbers 1, 2 and 3 behind. If anything else is needed they should be able to handle it. “Follow me” says Hope as we jog back down toward the Hoist and rapidly descend past the main lobby/entrance.
Going down a little further we arrive at another long corridor that runs straight ahead for a few metres before ending in a large room area covered in opal carvings and steadily glowing with Mana.
As the team and Hope arrive in the room we find Wellingpar standing up to the far wall upon which has several crystals embedded into it. He tosses a communication crystal to Hope before she then backs out of the room.
“All here?” asks Wellingpar. With a quick head count we nod, Wellingpar quickly reaches into his pockets and hands us all a communication crystal of our own, linking us (Including Hope and Master Carson) together.
“Ready?” Wellingpar’s question is answered with nods and the drawing of weapons, my Lightning Sword, Michael’s clones draw needles and Wellingpar draws a small short sword.
At which Wellingpar presses a crystal and our bodies instantly become energy, it feels like how I do when I feel the pull of the lightning using my Lightning Travel Power. In a moment we arrive in an identical looking room, empty and with no one around.
Voicelessly, Wellingpar talks over the communication crystal. “Cover the doorway.” he orders and we obey, I walk over with the others to the doorway, miming to them not to go past the open door, past the door is another long hallway and after a few metres another Hoist.
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Wellingpar has moved over to the crystals that are on the wall, the controls for the Platform. After a moment he comes alongside us and sees that there is nothing there.
“Follow behind me, we are going to split into teams; Lockness is with me, Numbers 4 and 5 are your own team. We’ll split the Kage in half, ten each. Remember, we need answers so our objective is to capture. Understood?”
“Understood” is our only reply as we make our way to the Hoist room, Wellingpar gets us to stand against the wall so that we are not seen from the doorway and slowly fills the Hoists crystal with mana, making it slowly go up. Ah, he’s mimicking the automatic levelling system where it will slowly move to its main floor. Which in our case is the main floor of the sewer system.
As we arrive, the Kage move out of cover to take a peek around the door frame. Number 4 tells us there is nothing but boxes in the way. At this we move out again, walking through the sewer tunnel as we duck over and through pipes. Some of these boxes are in impossible locations, wedged between pipes in such a way that the pipes would have had to be added after the boxes.
I am silently watching the boxes to see if anything is in them but Number 4 has already sent Kage into the boxes.
“I can still communicate with the Kage mostly clearly” Says Number 4, “Nothing in these boxes but those drugs, we can grab them later.”, “Understood” is Wellingpars reply.
Hold on, Number 5 did say that the two people from before had a Power that allowed them to move through solid objects. It obviously worked for their clothing so maybe it also worked for anything they carry? Give’s them more places to store the boxes at least.
As we move forward the lights turn on and off as we pass, making a dead giveaway, but we silently push forward hoping that we might be able to catch up with them if they do spot us. Unfortunately we don’t have a way to stop the lighting system from going on/off.
Nor do we have an easier time walking down this tunnel, with so many crates and so many pipes in the way it’s lucky there is space for us to squeeze through! As the Kage go through more and more of the boxes the situation becomes clear. The amount of vials in one box alone is ridiculous. But all these could power an army!
After a few moments of walking an entrance appears to the left, I and Wellingpars side of the tunnel, it is also filled with boxes, floor to ceiling and wall to wall, there is no way to tell how big the room is as it is blocked off by the amount of boxes in the way, we only know it goes deeper thanks to the Kage passing through it.
Number 4 speaks through the communication crystal, “I’ve had one of the Kage count up the number of boxes in here, we know that there are about a hundred vials in each box and we just passed the 70 mark. There could be as many as 7000 vials in just the ones we have passed by, there could be another hundred boxes down here for all we know.”
Wellingpar pauses at this, thinking as he squeezes between pipe and box, “Why have this many? They are all in vial form so it’s likely they are going to be given to people to drink but who, and why here?... We need more information, we can’t make assumptions right now.”
“Understood” we reply, but I know for a fact that it does not keep our minds away from thinking up what might these be used for.
After what felt like an hour but was only ten minutes we reached the end of the tunnel, the exit covered in iron bars and a cloth.
“This is the spot I think” says Number 5, “I was hiding behind that cloth when I found this place.”
“We’ve come across no other tunnels or rooms aside from the one from earlier and the Kage said it did not have an exit.” Says Number 4, “Did they just leave all this here?”
“It could be that they went through the Teleport” I say, “If that’s the case they could be unloading right now and then will come back through again soon to grab more, maybe even with more people.”
“I agree” says Wellingpar, “Master Carson, I request additional resources down here to secure these vials, in the meanwhile we will lay a trap for them.”