FHIF Project SX Chapter 2

The suspense was calm, but killing, Mac and Mike had reached the attic.  The sun was slowly setting, and a whispering breeze passsing through the roof.  Bloo stayed behind the entrance door, eavesdropping of course in their conversation.  

"Okay Mac, it's like this", Mike explains his story in a serene, informative manner.  "There is this factory a mile from downtown, which seems to be active late at night.  Several trucks from some bio-lab company have been gathering around the factory, shipping an extremely hazardous product.  It has been going on for about two weeks."  Mac tries to figure out why this was happening, which brings him to asking what kind of factory he and his friend wanted to check out.  He receives an answer, "Wait, a sugar factory?"  Hesitant as Mac was, he continued on the conversation,  "When you said a hazardous product, what exactly were they bringing?  What's also important, who would be doing such a thing, and why?"  A stern look was present in Mike's face as he nodded down.  He tried to swallow his nerves, and began to break the ice.  "Mac, do you know anything about……chemical X??"  Their two hearts pounded like drums, by just hearing that word could bring a reminder of how three heroes were created to serve justice, and fight out monstrous demons.  In this manner, they would be referring to The Powepuff Girls!   But to anyone else with the wrong intensions, would remind them of catastrophic events, upcoming eras of chaos.  Mike continues to say his piece.  "You see, there is this group of people who believes in seeking power to dominate the world, not really destroying it, but finding a capability in doing so to seek control.  They call themselves, A Unit of Boundless Power, whose goals are to collect pieces of artifacts that contain a source of energy, light or dark, like curses, it's a bit complicated to go into depth. Somehow, they extracted some spills of Chemical X in the form of blood, from some other factory in Townsville about 2 years ago."  Mike elaborates about a scientist who consumed an entire bottle of Chemical X, in which became power-hungry for more.  He was trying to use this chemical to make his own Powerpuff Girls, but was betrayed by the replicants, and ended up getting destroyed himself.   "Is this some sort of terrorist organization", Mac asks.  "It's unclear as of this moment my friend."  Mac also wondered why they shouldn't wait until The Powerpuff Girls could sort this out.  Unfortunately, the girls had their hands tied up with monsters constantly entering Townsville in sporadic numbers.  To make the situation clear, they were on their own with this case.  After sometime, Mac agreed to help Mike with his mission.  "I have to warn you Mike, it's been a while since we did something like this.  I'll invite Bloo too, for he's been dying to go on an adventure again, and I bet he was listening to our conversation as well."  The two boys shook on it, and the stage was set for the night.

Nightfall came, and it was 2AM.  Considering it was going to be a stealthy mission, Mac had kept his black pants, and sweater, waiting for the right time to wear them again.  He also tried to fit a foot long ruler sword, which he made in order to defend himself, incase he was caught or ambushed.  Originally, the sword he made was supposed to match his Rambo outfit, but he didn't want to take any chances.  He quietly moves out of his apartment.  By coincidence, he sees his brother Terrence sneaking out as well, wearing a cape shaped like batwings, a blindfold with holes for eyes, a black shirt with a tie, and blue jeans slanted down the waist, showing the front of his boxers.  A quiet laughter broke out of Mac, "Terrence?  Where are you going, and what the heck are you you wearing?"  "That runt, is none of your beeswax, I mean, it's not like I'm heading to the junkyard for a peeing contest or anything!  And I thought you were done robbing banks at this time of night!"  Mac couldn't reply fast enough after hearing those words. "I….I'm not robbing banks….it….it's just a…..we're just sneaking into a factory to see something, nothing else."  With that, Terrence shrugs his shoulders and the two brothers go their separate ways.  Couple minutes later, at the corner of 9th Street and Belleville, Mac rendezvous with Mike, who is also wearing the same attire, as well as Bloo, expect for the red mask.  Mac just smacked his forehead, and just replied, "(sigh), Let's just go."

"Operation Sugar-Seeker" was the name of their infiltration mission.  A huge sugar factory, not usually active during the late nights, was shining bright red lights out the window.  The three boys concealed their presence behind the surrounding buildings.  They were waiting for the southeast gate to open, for they were expecting a shipment of Chemical X to arrive.  Within the outpost, a heavily guarded soldier keeps watch.  The three boys suspected this was no ordinary lookout, especially with they were holding an assault rifle.  Mike leads his friends towards the incoming truck, slowly moving into the gate.  According to Mike, the crate was black, convenient enough for them to hide behind and avoid detection.  They mounted themselves on the sides, thanks to the silent suction gloves they were wearing, helping them stick on the surface.  They enter the gate, and into the factory.  They then snuck into a dark hallway, trying to find their way into the heart of the factory.  In addition to the suction gloves, the boys were also equipped in night vision goggles hidden underneath their masks.  Mike and Mac crawled their way on ceilings, passing a strolling guard.  Bloo however, took another approach, and grabbed the guard while holding onto a wet cloth full of some sleeping potion.  He had the schismatic of the entire factory in his satchel.  They were able to get into the heart of the facility.  On the 4th floor, they enter the manufacturing department, housing all the sugar in refinery-shaped containers on the bottom floor, with several catwalks leading them to the observation deck / computer room.  They saw some barrels hooked onto the chains from the roof of the warehouse, containing, horrified of the contents of Chemical X pouring into the sugar-filled containers!  Bloo seemed shocked at the scene, thinking of a horrific outcome.  "Geez Mac, your sugar condition would be a lot worse if you ate some with Chemical X!"  "Heh, don't remind me", Mac replies with a shiver coming from his face to his waist.  Mike looked at Mac with fear, thinking of a moment like that, hoping it wouldn't come to that.  The next room was within their range, in it were 3 scientists maintaining the fluxuations in the chemical reactions between the glucose contents and the X.  They were caught by surprise, and had been knocked out.  The real mission was about to begin, for the boys not only had to investigate their experiment, but they had to cease their production before they gain the ability to spread the mixed contents on all of  the company's bagged containers.  Mike held on to a USB, in an event to research the mixtures, and anything else involving the experiment.  Mac and Bloo were seeing clips of the experiment, as the computer images showed a simulation of a person consuming the mixed content.  The figure was undergoing a transformation, that couldn't be controlled for a long period of time; in the results, it would give the person superhuman strength.  Only backfire would be a servere degeneration of the body from the inside, a regeneration of mutated cells if an overdose was current, transforming them into something mosterous!  The simulation also spoke about a missing link from the mixed chemicals, which was needed to balance out the effects, maybe canceling the second regeneration process of mutated cells, and acting as a time limit.  A formation of DNA cells was needed to fill in the gap, according to the last clip of the video.  Mike had finished recording all the data onto his USB, including the simulation program.  Bloo then accessed another computer, linked to the maintenance program in balancing the contents of X, and sugar.  His mission was to cause a meltdown in the reaction, terminating the mixture process for good, and hoping to destroy the Chemical X.  It had to work in a way that the two chemicals wouldn't spread in the air after the explosion.  Mike went over the reaction with the two.  "Okay, once the chain reaction begins, we'll only have 30 minutes to escape the factory, before the alarm could be triggered.  The contents won't spread as long as I close the valves in the containers at the same time.  Once they figure out our sabotage plan, it would already be too late."  With relief, they start the meltdown, and escape the room.  On their way back to the catwalk, flashes of red lights were mounted on the path.  Suddenly, Bloo heard a beeping sound underneath the path, increasing by volume and speed.  He assumingly cried out "BOOOOOOMMMBBB!!!!"  The path exploded, but the boys were out of the way on time!  More of the alarms were about to sound off, they knew they had to hightail out of there!!  More bombs went off, they avoided them again.  As they try to escape, someone on the support railings was watching them.  This unknown figure triggered a grenade on his hands and threw it at their path.  The bridge exploded, was was about to collapse!!!  The boys had nowhere to go.  Bloo was in a huge panic, so was Mac and Mike!  They were about the fall towards the first floor, unless something was done to ensure they make it out alive!!!!