Infiltration

"Well, well, well! What do we have here? Seems like someone finally slipped up." said Demitri. His personal spacecraft was idly drifting around in space when a message popped up on a screen. An energy spike had been picked up by his craft's sensors. It wasn't as large as the spike he was trying to find but it had come from the same area and was big enough to be worth an investigation. The engines whirred into operation and the craft began travelling towards planet earth.

It was a relatively short trip until the craft activated it's cloaking and landed on top of a large mountain over looking a small island. A small town sat on the southern coast and the rest of the island was covered in forest apart from a few clearings in the forest. One clearing caught his eye as three object seemed to be moving around so he slid down the mountain into the forest. A few jumps from tree to tree lead him to the clearing he had spotted.

Standing in the clearing were three people. A tall man with black hair was clapping like a metronome while a younger boy and girl were stepping in time holding their arms in the air on opposite sides. It seemed like they were trying to do the waltz but it was so bad Demitri nearly laughed. He moved around the clearing to try and get a better look but froze when he saw the boy's face.

"That kid! Oh this is going to be fun!" said Demitri under his breath as a dark purple haze slowly formed around him. He waited patiently like a hawk watching the three of them until they started to walk back towards the town. Demitri leaned forward on the tree and began falling towards the ground. As he hit it, his body passed into the shadows and he blended in perfectly. His new shadow form followed closely behind the small group. It was getting quite late allowing him to pass from shadow to shadow without being seen while he followed them into a pub and upstairs. They each said goodnight to each other and went into separate rooms.

Demitri reformed and went back down the stairs. He looked around and spotted the bottles behind the bar. A short vault over the bar landed him directly in front of a large bottle that he picked up, flicked the cap off, and poured a bit into his mouth. He screwed the cap back on and placed the bottle back just as someone started walking down the stairs. Demitri dropped back down into the shadows as the man with black hair walked around behind the bar and went through a door.

Demitri followed him over to the far corner where the man opened a fuse box and then a hidden panel inside it where he typed a code into a keypad. The concrete floor began to drop forming a stair case leading deep under ground. Demitri couldn't believe his luck. Not only had he found the traitor that escaped but also a lead on the scientist. He followed the man down the stairs to a large metal door. It opened and Demitri continued to follow the man but alarms began beeping as he passed through the door.

The door slammed shut and the man spun around spotting the blob of shadow with green eyes on the floor. He ran towards a group of shelves and grabbed a ceramic plate off of one. Demitri reformed once again with his hands raised.

"Hey. Let's settle down now. I just want to ask you a few questions about some stolen property..." Demitri's speech slowly dropped as he looked to his right a saw the towering device taking up the rest of the already humongous room. He dropped his hands and his mouth fell open a little bit as he walked up to the glass divider to get a better look. "Did you build this?! I must say they didn't expect it to be built at!"

"Who are you? Who sent you here?!" called the man. He passed his arm through a strap on the back of the plate and held it like a shield.

"I must apologise. My name is Demitri and I work for Dark Nebula just like the boy you have upstairs. But oh well. What is your name my... culinary knight?" Demitri said something else under his breath but it was too quiet and hidden for the man to hear or even notice.

"My name is Joseph." replied Joseph on edge. Demitri chuckle to himself a little.

"OK Joseph, meet Sentra." A hexagonal screen formed over Demitri's eye as he said the name. Joseph swung the plate on his arm around to face the concealed turret sitting in the corner of the ceiling as it fired a purple projectile out at him. The plate deployed a large rectangular shield that rammed spikes into the ground holding it in place as the projectile struck it.

Joseph yanked his arm free from the strap and grabbed a ball from another shelf. He pressed a button on top and threw it at Demitri. The ball split into eight pieces that landed at equal points of a circle around Demitri and formed a bubble of blue light around him. With Demitri trapped, Joseph turned back to the turret just as it fired it's third projectile that blast a hole in the shield. Joseph grabbed a baguette from a shelf, pushed it through the hole in the shield and twisted the end. The end that was on the other side of the shield launched a beeping disk that wedged itself inside Sentra and blew them apart.

Triangular panels rained down over Joseph as he picked a took a tin can from a shelf and threw it's contents over himself. A black full body suit covered everything over than his head while he took a small knife and a large metal wrist band. He swung the knife causing it to extend into a sword and slipped the wrist band onto his left wrist. Demitri wrapped his arms around his body like he was hugging himself and then swung them out releasing a thick cloud of purple haze which burnt its way through the blue bubble. Demitri stepped out from the haze through the hole it had created and smiled.

"You really like playing with toys don't you?" he mocked as he slowly began raising up off the ground. His head moved as if it was glitching in a video game and twitched to the side randomly. Joseph's field of vision started to become narrower as the purple haze began leaking into the room and closing in on him. He put his arm through the strap of the shield and the spikes retracted letting Joseph put it between himself and Demitri. The shield shrunk down into a dome shaped shield with rings in the centre. Joseph pressed a button on the back of the shield and it began pulling air into itself. Suddenly, it released a powerful blast of air in Demitri's direction sending Joseph backwards into the shelves from the recoil and throwing Demitri onto the blue bubble.

Joseph regained his footing but Demitri had already recovered and punched him in the gut causing Joseph to drop his sword. Demitri grabbed Joseph by the throat and began pounding away on the side of his head with punch after punch. Joseph's vision began to blur and darken as he fell out of consciousness but something inside him hung on. Joseph jammed the palm of his left hand into Demitri's side and the wristband fired two prongs that sent electricity through Demitri's side. I crippled him for long enough so that Joseph could kick him backwards. Demitri pulled the prongs out and went to drop back down into the floor but Joseph was already in front of him and kicked him upwards. Demitri struck the ceiling and came tumbling down only to have time seemingly slow down as Joseph reached back, clenched his fist, and punched Demitri in the stomach. On impact his fist ignited into blue fire which added even more force to the punch resulting in Demitri slamming into the metal door.

Before Joseph could continue, the triangular panelling wrapped around him allowing Demitri to recover. The panelling threw Joseph to the other side of the room and then retreated back to Demitri who dropped down into the floor and escaped into the shadows.

Demitri arrived back at his spacecraft still parked on the mountain and grabbed a bottle of pills from the medical box. He swallowed two and sat down as the painkillers went to work.

"Of course, HE had to be the lucky one. This is a neutral discovery though. It's good because we found the aspect of James we need... but they are much more powerful and crafty than anticipated. Let's just hope Omeganu knows what he's doing. For now, we'll stay here and see if we can come up with a plan." said Demitri as he began to drift into a deep sleep.