Team Chaos - Chapter 4

Team Chaos - Chapter 4: High Tech
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They all continued down the path, towards the factory. Along the way, Shadow and Sly had explained to the others about the situation on Eggman. They laughed the first time they heard his name, as a matter of fact, they laughed the whole freaking way to the factory.

They finally reached it, after an extremly long walk.

Sly quietly opened the door and looked around to see if the coast was clear. It was dark and quiet inside. Sly waved to the others that it was safe to enter. They walked a little ways further inside, until they came to a point where the hallway split.

"Okay. Shadow you go down the hallway to the left, keep going until you find a red door. Enter it quietly, head up the stairs and find the safe. Stay hidden and wait there, until we come. Be sure to observe the guard, doing so will probally make snatching the code out of his pocket a little easier. The rest of you wait here and watch our backs, while I go down this hallway to the right and steal half of the combination code from the guard in employee break room. Does everyone understand?" Sly said.

They all nodded.

Shadow ran down the left hallway and Sly zipped down the right hallway.
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Shadow came to a red door with a small glass window on it. He peaked throw the window to see if the guard wasn't looking. He saw a tall, lanky, skinny dude watching over the items that were being produced on an assembly line. Shadow quietly opened the door and crawled up the stairs. He saw the safe at the very top. It was a pretty big safe, big enough for him to hide behind. He positioned himself behind it and kept a close watch on the guard.
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The hallway that Sly had taken had many different doors. He had to keep checking all of them to find out which one was the employee break room, which happened to be the twenty-eighth door. As he opened the door slowly, he noticed a very fat man sleeping on a couch. It was going to be a challenge getting over to him, since there was potato chips all over the floor. But nothing's ever a challenge for Sly Cooper. Sly leaped on to the coffee table that was a few feet away from the door.

He then jumped on to the back of the couch that the fat guy was sleeping on. But he had no pockets anywhere on him. Sly looked around the room, and noticed a coat rack that had a wide work jacket on it(obviously it belonged to the fat dude). Sly leaped over to it and spired on the tip of it. He picked around in the pocket of the jacket. After removing several candy bars, he eventually picked the piece of paper out of the pocket. He jumped to the back of the couch, leaped onto the coffee table and flew out the door.
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Back in the production room, Shadow was getting tired of waiting for Sly and the others to show up. "I can't wait around for them all day! This would be quicker if I used chaos control...which is what I'll do." He thought to himself as he sat behind the safe. He pulled out his chaos emerald and quietly said, "Chaos control!" Time stopped, but he only had a few seconds to get that code. He ran over to the guard, quickly grabbed the code out of thehis pocket and dashed back up the stairs. He looked at the code. "1256709."

He dialed the code and opened the safe. He grabbed the two keys and the combination code, closed the safe and dashed behind it. Time unfroze. The guard looked up at the safe. Shadow could see him from a small slit underneath the safe. He had an ugly and scary look on his face, he looked like a peach colored Frankenstien. The guard turned his attention back towards the assembly line. Shadow gave a sigh of relief. "I thought he had noticed me there for a second."
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Sly ran down the hall to meet up with the others. "Okay guys, let's go meet up with Shadow. He's probally found a way to jack that code off of the other guard by now." Sly said as he ran past the others.

They all followed close behind.

They got to the red door and opened it quietly. They all walked very carefully up the stairs and saw Shadow leaning against the safe.
"Hey buddy. Have you found a way to steal the code from that guy, yet?" Sly whispered to Shadow.

"Yes I have. And I already got the items out of the safe." He whispered back.

"You did! But...but, how?" Sly asked trying to keep his voice at a low tone.

"I just used chaos control, snatched the code from that guy over there, unlocked the safe, grabbed the items, closed the safe and dashed back behind it."

Sly tilted his head to the side. "Chaos control?"

Shadow nodded. "Yeah. It's a special ability that allows me to stop time for a couple of seconds, and when I'm in a hurry, I can warp from place to place."

"Well that's a very useful technique. Now we just have to get out of here and head to the 'secret' technology room without being noticed." Sly said as he watched the guard down below.

"I've been studying him while you all took your precious time getting here. He looks at the safe every three minutes, then turns his attention back to the assembly line. And we have thirty seconds to get the hell out of here before he looks at the safe again starting...now!"

They all understood what Shadow meant.

They crawled down the stairs and left the room.
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They ran down many different hallways until they all reached a light green door. "This is it." Sly said as he opened the door. It was true about the heavy security...there was lasers everywhere!

"You said the smallest of had to get to the other side, right? Well the smallest of us is...Daxter." Shadow said as he watched the little ottsel from the corner of his eye.

"Uh...I don't think so dark boy. There is NO way I'm going through those!" Daxter said as he tried to make a run for the door.

Jak picked Daxter up, and tossed him under the lasers like a fluffy bowling ball. Daxter got himself up off of the ground. His eyes widened as he saw hundreds of lasers in between him and the others.

"Well, 'weasel', we're waiting for you to deactivate the security." Shadow said as he shot a devilish smile a Daxter.

Daxter walked over to the button and pressed it. The lasers slowly disappeared. Sly and Shadow ran over to the safe at the edge of the room. They pulled out the two pieces of paper they each had. Shadow's piece of paper had 1, 3, 5 written on it, and Sly's had 2, 4, 6. They looked at each other. Shadow input 123456 on the safe and put the two keys in their slots. Shadow held one key and Sly held the other.

"Okay, on my count turn the keys. One...two...three!" Shadow and Sly turned their keys at the same time and the safe opened. Inside was 27 special goggles. They had 'scouter' written on the side of them. Sly did not hesitate. He grabbed all of them and stuffed them into his pack. Amazingly, they all fit. "Alright. Now let's head to the finalized technology room and jack what ever we can find. Don't worry, my pack can hold alot more than this." They went out of the room and ran three doors down. Sly opened the third door. There was a stair case leading downward.

They went down the stairs, which went a long way down. When they finally got to the bottom, there was thousands upon thousands of different gadgets. Ratchet started to drool a little bit. Sly pulled out five large cloth bags. "Okay, everyone take what you want."Sly said as he handed Shadow, Fox, Jak and Ratchet a bag.

They each got multiple items(just incase new members were added to the team later on) There were jet packs, swing shots, tracking devices, watches that served 70 different purposes, packs that could hold alot more stuff(some what like Sly's) and special guns that can copy 80 different guns and turn into them(Ratchet's weapons is what everyone decides to copy). These are a few items that everyone took. They ran back up the stairs and exited the factory.
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Along the way back to the ware house, the newest members of the team talked about how grateful they were. "We really owe you two for letting us join your team and giving us a place to stay. Is there any way we can repay you two?" Fox asked as they walked down the path.

Shadow was willing to create a super strong team, in which, he hatched an idea. "Yes there is. I want you three..." He said as he pointed to Fox, Ratchet and Jak. "...to teach me all of your special abilities. Which are...?"

Fox smiled. "I know how to use a staff, I could teach you how to use it." He said as he pulled out a blue staff that had white tips at each end.

Jak pulled out a gun. "I'm an expert gunner. I can teach how to operate any kind of gun and use it like a pro."

Ratchet pulled out two wrenches (his old omni wrench 8000 and the upgraded one he has on Ratchet & Clank 2 and 3)"And I can teach you how to use one of these wrenches as a weapon."

Shadow gave a slight smile. "Wow. The stronger our team becomes in numbers, the stronger I become in skills. It's perfect." He thought. "Alright, it's settled. You all teach me your skills and your debt will be repayed." Shadow said to them as he walked off.

"Wow, that's all we have to do to get a roof over our heads?" Daxter said as he sat on Jak's shoulder.
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They arrived at the ware house, but they now call it the Team Chaos Base. They entered and placed what they had collected down.
"Hmm...I'll be back, I forgot something." Fox said said as he went back outside.

"Nice place...could use some food and furniture." Ratchet said as he viewed the tools that were hanging on the wall.

"Don't worry about that, I'll 'gather' some food tonight, and we can probally jack some furniture from somewhere, tomorrow after we all have rested." Sly said as he organized the gadgets they had stolen ealier.
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Several minutes had past by, when they heard a loud noise outside, it sounded like a plane had landed. They rushed outside to see what it was. There was a ship in front of them. Fox jumped out of it.

"This is my ship, the Arwing. With those parts and tools inside the ware house, I can upgrade it to where all of us can fit into it at once. It can be useful for traveling to many different places."

Luckily, the door to the ware house was big enough for the arwing to fit inside.