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The beep of a card reader goes off as Agent Phoenix swipes his I.D, before walking into the agency building. They’ve been out for about a month, on medical leave, after the whole Operation: KABOOM incident, but boy they are happy to be back. As they walk to their office they wave at a few of his coworkers, happy to see that they’re still kicking it. Phoenix walks into his office and locks the door, a habit of his, immediately Phoenix sits in his office chair and lays his head on the desk. They missed this office space, they haven’t been in it in awhile, thanks to the whole Juniper incident, then being on a remote agency building on an island. The clunk of the mail tube in their office makes the agent sit up and look at it. They’ve been advised to use their implant in moderation, they haven’t used it in the past month, so why not test it now. Phoenix reaches out and uses his implant, to grab the capsule and bring it to himself. Looks like I still got it, he thought to himself. They put the capsule in the opener, noticing how dusty his office is as he does.

The Capsule opened revealing an Earpiece, a small blue box with the agency logo on top, along with a sticky note on the box, saying “Welcome back :)”. Phoenix took the box out and opened it, revealing a small strawberry shortcake, smiling, they picked up the fork included and took a bite. As they eat the cake, they take the earpiece out and put it in. After waiting a few seconds, Phoenix grabs a pen from his desk and clicks it a few times next to the ear piece.

Out came a familiar voice, “Oh Agent! Welcome back, I sure did miss you. How was the medical leave?” Reginald asked, to which Phoenix related with only a loud sigh, causing the handler to chuckle. “Sounds like it was a blast for you, are you enjoying the strawberry shortcake? I made it myself, so I apologize if it’s a bit messy, it was my first time making one.” Phoenix simply replied to a small nod, as he finished eating it.

Oh how Reginald missed Phoenix, he had quite the scare when they had passed out after Operation:Kaboom. He also noticed how quiet it felt around the agency without him, even though that was far from the truth.

“Well Agent, I hate that they are asking me to send you a new mission so early but, it’s a very simple one. Granted I did say that about going to Dr. Prism’s house and look what happened, but this is a very simple job I promise.”

Phoenix perked up immediately, he's only been back in the office for about 30 minutes but he was already itching to go back on the field. They heard Reginald chuckle in his ear, somehow he always knew what Phoenix was thinking, even if he couldn’t see him at times.

“Alright agent, this is a simple in and out, you need to steal some documents from an office building in London. I’m not sure what’s in the documents, the Agency wants them. I’ll send you the mission details along with what you will be pretending to be.”

Phoenix hummed a response, spinning in his chair, happy to go on the field again.

“Agent, it sure is nice to have you back, now let's get to work shall we. Hopefully without you needing to rise from the ashes again” Reginald chuckled.

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There he is pushing a cleaning cart through the halls, rushing to get to the room where these documents are stored. Phoenix is constantly checking the doors looking for the room they need. They’re pretty sure they’re on the right floor, it only took them a million elevator stops. Eventually Phoenix sees the room he needs, it’s one of the higher ups' offices. Phoenix pushes the cart over to the room, pretending to be cleaning staff was a great idea, nobody has even noticed his existence. Upon reaching the door Phoenix notices a new problem, while yes he did steal this cart and uniform from the actual cleaning staff, and they do have the keys, he has no idea which key goes to this door. Maybe he could ask someone, claiming he's new to the job, and doesn’t know, but that runs the risk of blowing his cover if he happens to be called out on their lie. He decides to just walk up the door and try all the keys on the key ring. Sure it is the boring way to do it, but he can’t risk being seen just picking the lock.

After maybe five minutes of trying keys, Phoenix gets annoyed and walks over to the cleaning cart. They hide a few of their tools under some supplies, one of which is their lock picking kit. They grab the picks they should need for the door and walk over to it. After a few seconds the door is open. Phoenix puts his picks back into the kit and hides it once again, before pushing the cleaning cart into the room and closing the door. Once they’re 100% sure the coast is clear, they turn their earpiece on, letting Reginald know that he is in the room.

“Ah, Phoenix, I was wondering if you got lost in the building or not, alright according this the documents you’re looking for are in a file with a…unique logo on it” Reginald states, “Huh, wonder what makes this logo so ‘unique’ well good luck agent, i’ll keep an eye out for anyone come into the office”

Phoenix nods, looking around the room for anywhere these documents could be. He immediately walks over to the desk and sits down in the chair, before he starts opening the drawers. Most of the drawers were just full of papers, pens, or other office supplies, once Phoenix opened the bottom on however, he found under more clip boards and papers, what looked to be a combination lock.

Seriously!? Why can’t this ever be simple? Phoenix thought to themselves before looking around the room. There didn’t seem to be anything of note, no pictures of family with a date on the back of it, the calendar didn’t have anything circled on it in red, there seemed to be no way to find the code in here. He looked back down at the lock and noticed it was a number combination lock, but a letter combination lock. He wasn’t sure if that made this harder or easier, Phoenix let out an annoyed sigh. Maybe it’s this guy's initials? Phoenix wondered. Phoenix looked up at a camera in the room and waved hoping it was one of the cameras Reginald was looking through.
“Oh, yes Phoenix? What do you need?” Reginald asked

“Whose office is this? Does your case file say?” Phoenix signed, hoping Reginald had an answer

“Let me check” Reginald replied, “Give me a minute, just play the cleaning staff act if someone walks by”

Phoenix sighed, if the guy's name isn’t in that file, then he’s screwed on this mission. He decided to get up and walk around the room checking other things just in case that code is completely irrelevant to the mission. Mostly just the plan old office things, plants, a picture on the wall of some random guy, probably the CEO or something, but not one name plate. What kind of office doesn't have a name plate on the desk?! Phoenix thought, baffled by that, even they had a name plate in their office. Well it wasn’t their name plate, it said ‘HiveMind’ on it but it was still a name plate in the agents office. After searching the room the agent gave up and sat back in the chair, before noticing a bottle of champagne in the corner of the room. Without hesitation Phoenix brought the bottle over himself using his implant, and started drinking straight from it.

“Alright Agent I- Are you drinking on the mission Phoenix?” Reginald asked, not shocked by this, it wasn't like it was the first time.

“..No” Phoenix signed

“Sure. Anyway, it says here in the file that the owner of the room is Forest Tevin Franklyn, that's quite a unique name isn’t Agent” Reginaled chuckled.

Phoenix gave the camera a thumbs up before going back to the code lock and putting in the letters FTF. A click was heard and Phoenix saw that picture of some guy open a bit. They got up from the seat and opened the picture all the way, and that the picture was just the door to a wall safe, at least he didn’t have to crack another safe. The first thing Phoenix saw was a lighter and a pack of cigars. They took one of the cigars and lit it before popping it in their mouth. He started to dig around the stuff inside this safe, there was money, some jewelry, keys to something, and lastly the file Phoenix was after. They grabbed the file and looked at it, then immediately, they considered blowing themselves up, because on the file was none other than the Zoraxis logo. Phoenix Signed and held the file to the camera for Reggie to see.

“The Zoraxis logo? On this file? Well, the mission did say it was a ‘unique logo’ “ The handler signed pitching the bridge of his nose, “Well get out of there Agent. We need that file.”

The Agent nodded before closing the safe and hid the file in the cleaning cart. He quickly cleaned the office up and put stuff back where it was, or at least where he thought it was, before leaving the room, pushing the cleaning cart to the elevator. Why must all my missions lately circle back to Zoraxis? The agent thought. Clearly tired of putting up with Zoraxis.

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Phoenix pulled up to the agency in yet another car given to them by the agency [Let’s hope this one sticks around a bit longer]. He gets out of the car and quickly gets inside the building, not wanting to risk being attacked by a Zoraxis operative. They’re clearly annoyed, no matter how much he tried, the agent can’t seem to get away from Zoraxis, only twice did he purposely go into missions knowing Zor was related to it, and the other time he happened to fight a bunch of robots, one who poisoned and they kept trying to kill him over and over. Now, some random file he was tasked to get has the Zoraxis logo on it, front and center. The agent didn’t know what to think, not like he knew who this guy working for Zor was, it was just a random file in a random guys safe, unless Forest Travis..whatever it was, was Zoraxis. That can’t possibly be Zor’s real name, The Agent thought to themselves. Phoenix walked to the mail room and went over to a tube that was assigned to go to Reginald, he didn’t feel like being the one explaining to Morales about Zor. So why not send his handler through that hell? Phoenix quietly chuckled to himself as he took the file out his jacket and put it in the mail capsule and sent it off. 

“Phoenix! I’ve been wondering where you were!” A voice piped up from behind Phoenix, confused Phoenix looked back and saw Agent Clover.

Agent Clover, was quite the agent, he wasn’t a bad agent, but sometimes, he shouldn’t be alive, Phoenix one time heard he had gotten blown up and left the scene with no more than a few scratches and cuts. Clover was his code name for a reason after all, they had gotten it due to the fact they are extremely lucky. Phoenix is pretty sure if he hadn’t adopted ‘Phoenix’ from John Juniper calling him it, he probably would’ve had a similar code name. Phoenix and Clover got along quite well, they didn’t get to talk much due to, you know, all the Zoraxis missions they’ve been forced to deal with. 

“Clover!” Phoenix signed walking over to him, “how have you been?”

“I’ve been good, you know i just recently had my first mission where nothing went wrong” Clover replied

“Really? you had a mission where nothing went wrong? When was this?” Phoenix asked skeptically, Clover had a mission that went 100% perfectly? Sure. Not even they had missions go100% perfectly 

“Last week man! Honestly!” Clover insisted, “I had a mission where nothing went wrong”

“Do you have a witness to this? Or did you think you could make up something like this just because I've been back for a few hours now” Phoenix signed, giving Clover a look a mom would give a child whose lying 

“Ah ha! I do! Agent Copper” Clover replied with the same attitude as an attorney who has a break in a case.

“Clover’s telling the truth, Phoenix!” Agent Copper yelled from a little ways away.

Phoenix thought that Clover must be telling the truth if Agent ‘dad’ was backing him up. Agent Copper [A code name Phoenix doesn’t know how it came about] was basically the agency dad, mostly because he was buzz kill sometimes, and talked to them like a tired dad talks to his kids every now and again. Yes, there is an Agent ‘Mom’ her name is Agent Secret Shadow, or just Shadow. Phoenix Assumed that her code name came from her being able to hide in the shadows with ease, she’s done it to them many times. Scared the shit out of them every time.

“Well anyway, now that you know I was telling the truth, where did you go man? You just got back from saving all of us then you vanish again, already sent on another mission?” Clover asked leaning in his chair

Phoenix sighed, “Yeah, I had to steal documents from some random office building” the agent began to sign, “But, I have a feeling, I'm gonna get roped into something much, much bigger. Again”

“Oh boy, I have a feeling you found this guy had a certain connection to someone?” Clover asked, seemingly as annoyed as Phoenix.

Phoenix just nodded in reply. They were happy to have small moments of rest, where they could just talk to his co-workers when not on any missions. 

After about an hour and half of talking and catching up with the other agents who were happy to see Phoenix back in the building, lots thanked him for saving them all. Phoenix had almost forgotten about Project:KABOOM, so he was confused why they were saying thank you. While walking back to his office he saw a series of pictures on the wall. He walked past it all the time, but now he stopped to look at it. After the whole Dr.Prism thing, they’ve been wanting to look at these pictures again. A bunch of high level or highly respected people within the agency, it’s also the only picture he’s ever seen of Reginald. Phoenix wondered where Dr.Prism was, hoping she was okay, sure she tried to kill him. However, if it wasn’t for her, he’d be dead in that volcano, he wanted to thank her. He doubted he’d ever see her again though. Phoenix looked at the pictures for a few more seconds before continuing the walk back to his office.  

Phoenix walked into his office, and immediately sat in his chair. They stretched before laying his head down on the desk, they were weirdly exhausted. They figured a little nap wouldn’t hurt, so Phoenix ended up falling asleep.

A few hours later Phoenix was awakened by someone shaking him, causing him to jolt awake and grab the arm of the person in a moment of fight or flight.

“Easy Agent! It’s just me” Reginald said, looking at Phoenix.

Phoenix relaxed and let Reginalds arm go, taking a deep breath as he did.

“Sorry Reggie, you scared me, usually you just yell into my earpiece to wake me up” Phoenix signed

“I tried that, but you must’ve became a heavier sleeper while you were gone, not everyday a handler has to go and wake their agent up themselves” Reginald chuckled, “I guess since i’m right here, i should give you and update on the documents you stole”

Phoenix perked up and looked at Reginald, he was really hoping this wasn’t going to turn into another cat and mouse chase with Zoraxis.

“Turns out the documents were for Zor, as we had feared. However, they’re coded, the EOD has other agents working on decoding them. I saw the files for a second. If you ask me, from the diagrams that were in the file, it has something to do with a device. I wasn’t able to look at it long, but the device looked familiar like I've seen it before. I just can’t think of where.”

Phoenix thought for a second before listing some things, such as The Death Engine, The Mimic mask, or Kinesium. None of which matched what Reginald thought it was. Phoenix was worried if it didn’t look like anything they dealt with before, they were hoping they’d be able to get a better look at this device once everything was decoded. 

“Well that’s all I had to tell you for now Agent, I should get going. Get some sleep when you get home, you look like you need it.” Reginld said as he left Phoenix office.

Phoenix gave him a thumbs up, before looking at the clock. He wasn’t done with work for about two hours. Phoenix gave a dramatic sign before setting his head down on his desk again. If the Agent had one weakness it was being stationery, they hated it, but without a mission to do what were they going to do? Read? Drink? Smoke? All three? Well..Drinking didn’t sound so bad.

Phoenix was left alone with his thoughts, the longer he was alone the more worried they got. What could Zor be planning? Another way to kill all the agents at the agency? Yeah that was probably it. Despite how much Phoenix has done against Zor he never knew why, why Zor wanted revenge against the agency. Maybe he was like Dr.Prism and he and the agency had different views on something. 

Phoenix was getting ready to leave the agency for the day, he’d gotten no new mission plans or even an update on the documents he took. They grabbed their keys and coat before leaving their office and heading out to the car. Just before they could unlock the door to their car, they heard someone running and calling for him. Looking behind him he saw another agent from the agency, well they think at least, Phoenix has seen them around but was never sure if they were an agent or some a secretary or something. 

“Agent Phoenix! Agent Phoenix! Thank goodness I caught you just in time!” The person shouted as they ran over, before stopping to catch their breath once they reach Phoenix

“What's wrong?” Phoenix signed 

“I..i'm sorry I don't know sign language” The person said catching their breath still

Phoenix immediately took out a notepad from their pocket and took a pen from the person's shirt pocket using his implant, before writing down what he had signed. The person read it and immediately replied. 

“There was an update on those files you took, they want you back inside the agency Mr.Phoenix”

This isn't gonna go horribly wrong at all. Phoenix thought to themselves to themselves before walking back to the agency building

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“Agent Phoenix, I apologize for having you come back after you were about to leave” Said Morales as he walked up to Phoenix, before holding his hand out to shake Phoenix's hand

Phoenix just stared at him. It’s not every day the Agency Director comes up and talks to you directly. The agent just shook Morales hand before following him as he walked away.

“Listen, Agent Phoenix. You’re one of the best agents we have left. While on the surface this information and mission seems simple. We’ll need you to be careful, whatever Zor has planned could be dangerous.” Morales said with seriousness

Phoenix looked forward, he was confused, how dangerous could this be compared to Operation: Kboom? He didn’t say anything, just kept following Morales to his office. Morales unlocked the door to his office and held the door open for Phoenix. Once Phoenix walked in he saw a few more of the higher ups talking. Mr.Jenkins, The Head of Public Relation. Mrs.Jingyi, The Head of Operations. And, Reginald Crane, Lead Support Agent. Phoenix was now very concerned for what they found in those files. What could possibly have planned to cause almost all the higher ups to come together? Phoenix hasn’t even met them outside of a celebration and even those are rare. 

“Everyone, The Phoenix is here” Morales said as he walked to a desk and sat down.

Everyone looked at Phoenix. The agent suddenly felt like a little kid who's been put on the spot during a presentation. They gave a wave to the higher up as they looked at Reginald, who was equally worried as everyone else in the room.

“So, What is going on exactly..?” Phoenix signed

“Agent Phoenix, we are sorry to drag you into this, but you are our best agent. Zor has come up with something that could cause him to grow more.” Mrs.Jingyi stated

“That doesn’t really answer my question Ma’am, I don’t mean to be rude but I need to know what Zor is doing”

“Of Course Phoenix.” Reginald said before walking over to the desk Morales is sitting and taking a file off it, “These are documents you stole from that office, remember? We’ve deciphered them and the information is worrying I'll admit.”

Reginald handed the file to Phoenix. They looked at the file trying to think what could possibly be in this to make everyone worry as much as they are. Once Phoenix opened the file they saw a few things, a piece of paper with a deciphered word on it the word being, e sprit , what looked to be blueprints for a device with translations about details on it, and a card with the Zoraxis logo, seemingly to be able to get into wherever Zoraxis lab is. Phoenix looked over the blueprints, he’d seen this before, but where? Suddenly, they realize where they’ve seen this.

Phoenix looked at Reginald and mouthed the words, “The giant squid from the Underwater Zoraxis lab”

“Yes, I realized that too Phoenix.” Reginald replied, “It seems Zor is working on making it so he can use that tech on people, according to the translation of a note in the file, he’s calling The Hivemind”

Phoenix looked over everything thinking about it. They closed the file and handed it back to Reginald before looking around. ‘The Hivemind’? The same name as that bee guy? Phoenix was confused, why everyone was so panicked about this, they were acting like he was planning another Kboom.

“Okay, I understand how this is all a problem, but don’t you all think you’re overeating?” Phoenix signed, now that he didn’t have the file in his hand.

“Overeating?! Agent Phoenix you’re acting like this a simple problem to deal with” Mr.Jinkens claimed

“Agent Phoenix, we understand it looks like it’s not that big of a problem but, Zor’s not above kidnapping people. If he uses this device on kidnapped people then we could have a very big problem in the near future.” Mrs.Jingyi stated

“Yes, I understand that, but you made me think it was another, killing all the agents at once, problem.” Phoenix replied, “Granted, it might not seem like a big deal to me after that problem. Look I will help with this mission, i’ll make sure to shut down Zor plan again”

“Thank you Agent Phoenix, remember, you’ve shaken the wasps nest, so watch out for the wasp with the shaken nest” Morales says looking at Phoenix

Phoenix was about to question what the hell he was talking about before he was stopped by Reginald.

“Phoenix don't bother questioning, we don’t know what he means sometimes. I’m assuming he means, you’ve made Zor mad enough, so look out” 

Phoenix nodded, “So where am I going tonight?” The agent questioned.

“We tracked down the location of a Zoraxis lab through that keycard in the file, we need you to sneak in and find any information on this ‘Hivemind’, try not blow the place up Phoenix.” Reginald explained

“We’ll set the autopilot in your car to take you there Agent, I’d recommend bringing something to do on the drive. It’s quite far.” Jinkins said as he left the room. 

“Oh thank you for helping us Phoenix, I knew we could count on you” Mrs.Jingyi said before she also left.

Phoenix looked at Reginald, “Well let’s get back to work” They signed.

Reginald smiled and patted Phoenix on the shoulder, before He left the room. Phoenix followed shortly after. While Phoenix could see they were worried about this, he was sure it was nothing. Well better grab some stuff so I don’t get bored on the way there . The agent sighed, they were getting tired of all these missions, they’ll have to look into a vacation, and * Actual* vacation. Well no time to complan, he has a factory to get to.

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The car pulled up a few buildings away from where Phoenix needed to go. The agent, who was currently working on a crossword from the newspaper, looked out towards the supposed lab he needed to break into. Zor you’ve gotten bold putting your lab building in the open. Especially since the world knows about you now. Phoenix thought to themselves, sighing. The agent put his crossword down and grabbed his items for the mission. Their earpiece, a silenced handgun, that Zoraxis keycard from the file, an Argus C3 camera, and their brown leather gloves they found at that base they were in, while dealing with Dr.Prism. Phoenix got out of the car, making sure to hide anything that could reveal they are from the agency, before walking towards the Zoraxis lab. They put earpiece in once they got close to the building, tapping it to let Reginald he's ready.

“Ah Agent, let’s get to work shall we? Looks like the best way would be through the..front door? Well that just feels like a trap for the agents.” Reginald said before sighing, “Alright agent give me a second to find a less..trap seeming way in”

Phoenix looked around the building and noticed a fire escape on the left of the building, thankfully facing an alleyway. I can either, A.stand here and wait for Reggie to find a way in, then get to whatever room I need to get to…or B.I go up this fire escape, make my own entrance, possibly get shot, and get to whatever room I need to get to. What to do..What to do Phoenix pondered, Fire escape.  The agent walked over to the fire escape and jumped up to the ladder that was partly up, catching the last bar of the ladder before climbing up. Once He got to th first landing he looked up at how high the fire escape went, debating if they should just break in now then take the elevator or walk up all those stairs. 

They chose to break the window.

An alarm started blaring where the window was, [To the shock of nobody], Phoenix quickly climbed in and looked around for anybody, thankfully there was nobody here, yet at least. The Agent ran down a hallway looking for an elevator that they hoped existed. Due to the alarm, it didn’t take long before Phoenix saw a couple Zoraxis operatives. There wasn’t anywhere to hide, so fight it was, the agent grabbed a painting off the wall with their telekinsis and threw it at the head of one of the Operatives, before pulling his gun out of their holster and shooting the other operative in the chest. Phoenix quickly ran to the other operative who was dazed from being hit with a panting and quickly putting them in a chokehold, holding it long enough to render them unconscious, or dead, Phoenix didn’t really care which. It’s not like killing the Zoraxis operatives is against the rules of the EOD…right? Oh well!

Luckly for the agent the elevator isn't too far from where the now most likely two dead Zoraxis operatives were. Only problem now is that Phoenix wasn’t 100% sure what floor he needed to go on. He assumed the top floor, but that might be wrong for all he knows there’s nothing but a storage closet full of buckets up there. However, before The Phoenix could even press a button Reginald tunes back in.

“Agent! What are you doing! I leave you alone for five seconds to look at the cameras and find a way in, and you break in, and kill two Operatives!?” Reignald exclaimed clear annoyed with the agent.

Phoenix looked around for the closest camera to him, once he found it he signed back to Regienald.

“I got bored.”

“Bored!? Serious-” Reginald sighed, cutting himself off, “Well whatever, you’re in now. I see you’re at an elevator, there's an office on the 30th floor, belonging to one of the higher ranked in this building, so be careful.”

Phoenix gave Reginald a thumbs up before getting into the elevator and selecting the 30th floor. While waiting Phoenix was thinking of anything that could possibly happen on the way to this office, or at the office. Getting attacked by Operatives, getting caught before being able to to find any information that could be useful to the EOD, not being able to find anything at all that could even be considered useful, dying. Phoenix gently shook his head at the thought of dying, despite surving sudden death three times, the idea of death still scared Phoenix. They had always been scared of their life getting cut short, funny that they chose being an agent as a job with that fear. * I really need to take a break after this* .

Once the elevator reached the 30th floor Phoenix realized that the whole office was the 30th floor. * What with Zoraxis high ranks and making their whole office one floor?* Phoenix stepped out of the elevator and immediately got to work searching  the office. They noticed a chalkboard near the desk, walking over to it they noticed that the bored had a small diagram on it, nothing super detailed but enough, sure enough, It was ‘The Hivemind’. Phoenix took the camera out of an inside pocket of his jacket and took a picture of the bored, before walking over to the desk and sitting down as they sat the camera down on the desk. They examined the desk, noticing some paper on a clipboard in a corner of the desk. They pulled the clipboard over to themself and read what was on the papers. It seemed like it was a seris of reports on how experiments went.

12/27/1967

Fail. Subject was electrocuted by wires in the shackles

12/30/1967

Fail. Subject was killed by Smitherson  due to a failure to comply with the experiment.

01/04/1968

Fail. At first the shackles seemed to have worked, however due to some malfunction the subject was deemed dead. They lasted longer than everyone else so far

01/09/1968

Fail again. Subject decided to steal a knife from a guard and try to pry at the shackles, causing the explosive fail safe within the shackles to activate.

01/15/1968

Success. Finally, after many modifications to The Hivemind we finally got it to work on a subject. The Doctor will be glad to hear that we can now control people like animals. More experiments will be run still.

Phoenix quickly took the papers off the clipboard after reading the logs, folded them up and put them in his inside coat pocket. They started to dig through the drawers for more information, finding nothing that seemed to be useful, until they grabbed a book from the bottom drawer. The book happened to be attached to a cord, it was too late when the agent noticed the cord, causing an arrow to hit the agent in the shoulder. Son of a bitch!  Phoenix held his shoulder where the arrow was. 

“Agent! Are you okay? Is that an arrow?” Reginald asked confused, not everyday you see an agent get shot by an arrow now a days, “Quickly agent, find where that arrow came from, I have a feeling it wasn’t the only one waiting to be fired”

They quickly looked up and around for where the arrow came from and noticed a hole in a portrait. They grabbed a lighter that was on an accent table with the telekinesis and used it to burn the Portrait revealing a small hidden compartment, similar to the one of John Juniper's jet. There was a small hole in the wall, perfect for an arrow to go through, just in case Phoenix grabbed  a book from a shelf and covered the hole, having it float there so it doesn’t fall. Taking a deep breath, ignoring the pain from the arrow, Phoenix went back to examining the room looking for anything that could lead to more information.

They tested a few things, pulling the book hoping for a secret door, pulling the desk drawers out at different amounts, even just lighting random things on fire. There wasn't anything the agent could find. Phoenix sighed and leaned back in the chair, before noticing what looked to be a button high up on the wall. Using his telekinesis he pressed the button, causing a bookshelf to open up like a door. So there WAS a secret door.  Phoenix got up and walked to the entrance. 

“Careful agent, we don’t know what could be in there, and don’t forget about that arrow in your shoulder.” Reingald reminded Phoenix

“Okay Dad” Phoenix signed to the camera Reginald was looking through

Reginald just sighed, how is he just wanting his agent to be careful to make him a dad. He never understood his agent sometimes. Phoenix looked around this room as he took out his camera and took pictures of everything he could in there, anything that could be useful. They noticed a computer and walked over to it, before turning it on. It needed a password, of course it did. Phoenix stared at it for a minute of what the password could be. They suddenly remember that word from the file he took.  esprit . Phoenix decided to type it in, and it worked.

Welcome Luina Whitesent

Luina Whitesent? Must be whos office this is, whatever i’m in now. Phoenix looked through the files on the computer, he was happy this wasn’t like the modified computer from Dr.Prisms house, it was alot easier to get through. Eventually, Phoenix found emails between Luina and what seemed to be her team. They were talking about the Hivemind experiments, and how they were planning to use them. One email however caught Phoenix’s attention.

Date:01/19/1968

To: ALL

From: Luina Whitesent

Don’t forget to make sure they all work properly, we need a lot of those shackles. If this all goes according to plan we will finally be able to get rid of that agency, and what’s a better way to stop them, then to control their own agents. So make sure we have enough, and that they are durable enough. I don’t want a single defect to slip through this shipment

’Control their own agents?’ They’re planning to control agents with these shackles? Not civilians? Okay maybe this is a big problem and not as small as I thought. Phoenix hadn’t grabbed his notepad so he decided to just snap a picture of this email. They quickly left the room, they were pretty sure they had enough information for now, it was only a matter of time before someone came up here, and they really needed to get their shoulder looked at.

“Agent! Wait! You’ll need to find another way out of the building, there are Zoraxis operatives currently in the elevator on the way up to this floor” Reginald shouted panicked

Shit. Phoenix immediately looked at the giant window behind the desk, and waalked over to it before looking out the window. They were on the 30th floor, they wouldn’t survive the fall, it was just free fall and not in an elevator, and this window wasn’t facing the fire escape, in fact there wasn’t a window to the fire escape on this floor. *That has to be a safety violation.* Phoenix sighed and pulled their gun out, shooting at the window, breaking it.

“Phoenix! What are you doing!? Do not and I mean do NOT jump out that window.” Reginald exclaimed

Phoenix looked at the camera and signed, “Do you see another way out of here?” 

“No. However, I have an idea. Hide. The elevator is almost there, so hide somewhere and wait til the operatives are out of the elevator and away from it. Then run into the elevator and use it.”

Phoenix just stared at the camera, basically just having a look that said, “seriously? That's dumb”

“Phoenix, it’s either that or you become paste on the sidewalk, and we aren’t able to get the information you found”

Phoenix sighed and ran to hide behind a chair in the room. It was somewhere in the room, where he couldn’t be seen from the elevator and was able to get a clear shot of the elevator. It wasn’t long before the ding of the elevator went off, Phoenix sat next to the chair watching and waiting for his chance to move.

“Quickly! Check everywhere! We can’t let those agents steal anything” An Operative barked

Phoenix only moved when he needed to stay hidden, slowly moving around the chair when the three operatives walked around. When he was in the clear he quickly moved and hid behind another piece of furniture when one of the operatives started to turn around. They held their breath the closer the operatives walked to them. They were so close to the elevator, just needed a chance to bolt. Eventually they operatives noticed the broken window and ran over to it to inverstagate. Phoenix saw his chance and ran into the elevator and pressed the button to the ground floor. Only to see on a small screen within the elevator,

PLEASE INSTERT YOUR ZORAXIS KEY CARD

If the agent could talk he would’ve started cussing out of annoyance. A Zoraxis key card? They didn’t have a Zoraxis keycard. Why did the elevator suddenly need one now? Of course. The base is in lock down mode now because I broke in. 

“Agent! What are you doing!? You have a key card remember! The read card stole from that file” Reginald stated, “now hurry up and use it”

Phoenix quickly reached into his jacket pocket, pulled the keycard out and put it into the slot below the button and started to spam the button for the ground floor.

“HEY!” Phoenix heard an operative shout, causing the other two to turn and look at them.

Phoenix grabbed a vase with his telekinesis and hit it over an operatives head. The door closed mer seconds after, but almost immediately after he heard two gunshots. One bullet hit the agent in the leg, the other grazed his head, thankfully it landed in the wall behind him. Phoenix leaned against the wall of the elevator, he could feel the wound and it stung, but it didn’t hurt to much, yet at least. Phoenix knew that the second that his adrenaline rush worse off, he was in for a world of pain. 

“Phoenix, are you alright?!” The handler asked worried

Phoenix didn’t bother responding, they were focused on getting out of here with the papers and their camera intact. 

Once the elevator reached the ground floor, Phoenix bolted out, running straight for the doors not wanting to face another operative. To the relief of Phoenix, he got out without running into another operative, they wouldn’t taken a breath, but they just started running to where his car was. Once they were in their car, they turned it on and tried to drive it. Of course the auto pilot was still on. Phoenix hit his head on the steering wheel causing the horn to go off for a second, before Phoenix jolted up from it.

“Don’t worry Phoenix, the auto pilot sound be starting any second now. Now patch yourself up the best you can. Can’t have my best agent bleeding out in his own care.” Reginald said in a calm tone, “I’ll be waiting for you back at base, there sound be a medkit in the glove box.”

Phoenix opened the glove box and pulled the medkit, they reclined their seat all the way back so they could have move room to move and work on themselves. They started with the arrow in their shoulder. Grabbing some gauze from the medkit before grabbing the arrow. Taking a deep breath, they ripped the arrow out of their shoulder and quickly pressed the gauze on the wound, with their free hand they grabbed bandages out of the medkit and wrapped it around the wound as well as he could with one hand. Once he was down with that he started to wrap bandages around his right leg that had been shot. Phoenix didn’t even notice that his head was bleeding from the bullet that grazed him until he felt something warm on the side of his head. They grabbed more gauze and some medical tape, before tapping the gauze to the side of their head and laying down in the fully reclined seat. Taking a deep breath, trying his best to ignore the pain. At least the mission was successful, at least they hoped so.

Before closing his eyes to get some rest on the way back to the base, Phoenix suddenly felt sick and dizzy. The agent was confused as to why, then it clicked in. *That fucking arrow was slow acting posion*. Phoenix quickly grabbed the news paper he was doing a crossword on, on the way to the mission. He wrote down on it, ‘POISON TIPPED ARROW’, just in case he passed out on the way back. They set the news paper in the passenger seat, carefully grabbed the arrow and set it next to the news paper. Phoenix just signed, before laying back down in the reclined seat.

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When Phoenix opened his eyes and found himself staring at the ceiling of the clinic within the EOD. He let out a sigh of relief, it put him at ease knowing he was still alive. He didn’t even remember closing his eyes in the car. Phoenix sat up in the medical bed, letting out a quiet groan. They looked at their shoulder, now properly bandaged and treated, same with their leg and head. Looking around the area they notice their area was closed off by the curtains around. On the table next to the bed was a small vase of flowers with a small card that said, ‘Get better soon Phoenix! :3”. Phoenix chuckled, immediately knowing who dropped them off, Clover always left that small cat face of notes like that, but it made Phoenix question how long he's been unconscious, that it gave Clover enough nice to find out, get flowers, make a small note, and leave it on the table. Before the agent could even think about how to escape the clinc, the curtains were pushed back by one of the doctors.

“Agent Phoenix, up already?” The doctor chuckled, “So a poison arrow, and gunshots wounds this time, quite tame for you. Thankfully we dealt with the poison in your system almost immediately upon your arrival.”

“When will I be able to get back on the field Flamebug?” Phoenix asked the doctor

“I'm never having that nickname leave me, am I?’ Flamebug chuckled, “To answer your question, thanks to you being shot in the leg, a month minimum. If you actually listen to me this time Phoenix”

“A month?! I have to deal with Zoraxis, Flamebug” phoenix replied upset

“Talk to Mr.Crane about it then, but i’m warning you Phoenix, if you decide to push yourself, you’ll only get hurt more.”

Flamebug left the room shortly after. Phoenix flopped back on the bed, he knew Reignald would never agree to let him on the field, or at least it’ll be hard to convince him. They’ve done it before of course, it’s how they managed to gather so much intel in the past. What could I say this time? Maybe I should wait till they process what i did get from that office before trying to convince him.

Phoenix was left alone for maybe an hour, he figured Reginald was busy with the information he got. Eventually he heard the footsteps and the curtains open. Looking over he was greeted with none other than Agent Clover. Who looked happy to see him

“Phoenix! Nice to see you awake, did you like the flowers I left?” Clover asked 

“Clover, hey, yeah I did, they're nice, how long have I been out cold?”

“Oh, only about 12 hours.”

“Did Reggie get my information?” Phoenix asked

“I think so, not sure, Mr.Crane isn’t my handler, I’d assume so though.” Clover replied thinking about it, “It’s nice to see you up and conscious though Pheonix.”

“I have to rest for at least a month. A month! Can you believe that?” Phoenix exclaimed annoyed, causing Clover to laugh

“Oh relax Phoenix, you’ll be up and moving soon enough” Clover reassured, “I know you want to work on taking Zor down, but even you have to stay down.”

Phoenix just sighed annoyed. They hate being in bed rest especially if there’s a problem like Zor out there. As much as they hated it, they knew they weren’t getting out unless he can convince Regienld to sign him out. Which was about a 72% chance of it happening, like Flamebug said, these are very tame injuries for him. 

“So Phoenix, I have some questions for you” Clover started, “We’ve been friends for awhile, so i’ve been wondering a few things about you.”

“Really? With how long we’ve known each other I can’t think of anything you wouldn’t know that you’d what to ask” 

“Phoenix, I really don’t know alot about you, like sure I know your favorite desert and that, but you’re quite secretive een if you don’t mean to be”

“Oh-” Phoenix stared at Clover for a second, kinda shocked, “well ask away my friend”

“Okay! So, Whats a fear of yours? I’m assuming it’s death?”

“Not really, Its actually the ocean..being deep underwater freaks me out”

“But you’ve done many mission underwater”

“I have to prep myself everytime, but hey, I get the mission done in the end”

“You sure do, now one i’ve been wondering for awhile, why do you call Mr.Crane Reggie?”

“It annoys him, that all really”

“Sounds about right for you Phoenix”

Clover and Pheonix talked for awhile, going back and forth, Clover asking, Phoenix answering. They both got off tract at one point and started talking about randoms things. Clover was happy he got to learn about Phoenix, but he had to cut it short because his handler tuned it and told him he had a mission. Clover waved phoenix goodbye before he left. Phoenix sighed, he was alone again. Welp time to plan my escape. Phoenix looked around where he was in the clinic, noticing he was away from the door and any windows. Its almost like…they planned for them trying to escape. Damn it. Phoenix decieded to try and get some rest, not like he could do anything else in here. 

Phoenix woke up hours later to talking. He sat up and stretched as the curtain opened, he looked over and saw Reginald who was talking to Flamebug about Phoenix.

“Ah Agent phoenix you’re awake, well I guess i’ll leave you and Mr.Crane alone. Don’t start trying to leave just because Mr.Crane is here” Flamebug said as she stared at Phoenix

Phoenix rolled his eyes as Flamebug left, leaving him and Reginald.

“Nice to see you awake Agent, you had me worried, finding you unconscious with ‘Posion tipped arrow’ written on a piece of newspaper, nearly gave me a heart attack” Regienld said as he sat in a chair

“Thankfully it seems like it was a weaker poison right?”  

“No no, it was quite strong actually”

“Of course it was” Phoenix rolled their eyes, “So..Can i get signed out Reggie?”

“I don’t know Agent, if it wasn’t for you leg, i’d say yes.”

“It’s just a gunshot wound, not like it broke bone”

“Phoenix that takes a long time to heal you know that.” Reginald stated

“Whatever, were you able to get the information I got?”

“Yes, we are working on getting those pictures you took developed. It is worrying though, with the paper you got listing the experiments. Not to mention that they succeeded at an experiment”

“They’re working on a shipping more out to Zoraxis labs. They’re planing to use them on agents”

“What!? That wasn’t on the paper!”

“It was in an email I found, I took a picture of it however since I couldn’t write it down.”

“I’ll let Director Morales know. Thank you Phoenix”

Phoenix sighed. They were for sure stuck here in the clinic on bed rest, unless he had to follow a car, he’s not going on the field for awhile. Phoenix was trying to think of any way he could help on this mission though, maybe he could help Reginald be a handler to the agent that’ll take his place on the mission…wait no he can’t talk. Maybe he could..no no he has no experience with public relations, or anything else around the agent, except what he was trained in. He’d probably get stuck on the more office work of the agent, in his office, putting stuff in the computers, going through files. Ugh! That sounds so boring . Phoenix looked back Reginald, thinking of what to ask

“What are you gonna have me doing then? Since i’m on bed rest” The agent asked

“Either filing or i’m sending you home”

“Filing. I’ll do Filing, please I don’t want to lay around home being useless to the agency”

“You are something Phoenix. If you sure you wanna just sit in your office and work on whatever files we can send you, then i’ll talk to Morales about switching you there for the time being” Reginald explained, “i must be going now Agent, i’ll come by your office later”

Phoenix gave Reginald a thumbs up as he left the room. Why the hell did I just agree to doing files!? Ugh. Phoenix was upset at himself for that, nothing he could do about it now though. The agent laid back down and just stared at the ceiling trying to think of something to do to pass the time till they were cleared to go to their office. It was a while before that happened, maybe an hour or two, but eventually Flamebug cleared Phoenix of going to his office, not before giving him some crutches to walk with.

After a bit of struggling, Phoenix made it to his office and sat down at the chair. Finally back with all my stuff . The first thing Phoenix did was grab a cigar and light it. Phoenix looked at the lighter, engraved with “Agent Phoenix’. They took it with them when they escaped Juniper's death set, which he made to kill the agent, it was one of the ways he realized he wasn’t back at the EOD, because he didn’t have a lighter with his name on it. Hell he didn’t get his code name til Juniper. It wasn’t long before the mail tube went off, dropping a capsule. Once it opened, Phoenix grabbed it with his TK implant, pulling it over to him, and placing it in the opener. Inside was, well, paperwork. What else did he expect? Phoenix groaned before grabbing the paperwork and going through it. Power through Phoenix, just some papers. Just some papers. 

The agent was there for hours, doing non stop paper work, mostly paper work that was meaningless and had to be shredded, had to be sent to someone else, or he just had to look through before sending it to Reginald. While looking through one of the stacks of paperwork he noticed a small packet within the stack, it was talking about an incident within the EOD, if a name hadn’t caught Phoenix’s attention he would’ve assumed it was another, ‘shooting through a mail slot’ incident. The name that caught Phoenix’s attetion was none other than, Roxana Prism. They knew this was supposed to get sent off to someone else to get checked, but he couldn’t stop himself from reading. 

It didn’t take long for Phoenix to realize it was about the whole, ‘giving the Kinsium research to Zor’ problem, it detailed almost everything, from when Robutler tried to kill him in the house, to Project: KBOOM, and how Prism saved him. Phoenix then wondered where Prism was; last they heard of her, she ran off after getting him to that beach because she didn’t want the agency to find her. He wanted to see her again, and hoped she was okay. Zor most definitely wasn’t happy with her after the whole, helping them stop Project KBOOM. After going through the pack a few times, he sent it off to Reginald, since he was the Handler on that mission. Phoenix set his head down on the desk, tired, bored, and annoyed. I should’ve just said go home. I should’ve just gone home . Before Phoenix could get back to storing the rest of the papers his earpiece went off. 

“Agent Phoenix come in. We were reviewing your pictures that were developed. This Luina Whitesent in these Emails. Jinkins managed to track her already. Although I advised him against it. Director Morales is requesting you to go on this mission. Come to Morales office to go over the mission”  Regianld chimed in over the ear piece, clearly annoyed.

Director Morales? wants me on a mission despite my leg? Must be serious. Phoenix got up from his seat, grabbed his crutches and left his office, heading to Morales' office.

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“I don’t agree with this Morales. Phoenix just got back and he can’t walk without crutches due to his leg.” Reginald is ticked off by Morales wanting to send Phoenix on a mission.

“And I understand that Reginald, but with the information Agent Phoenix has found, we need to work on stopping Zoraxis as quickly as we can” Morales rebuttal

“Director Morales if I may,” Jinkins chimed in, “I agree with you, we need to stop Zor quickly, but Reginald is also correct, Agent Phoenix is in no shape to go out on the field right now”

“Do you have any other agents we could send in Jinkins?” Morales questioned, “Phoenix is the best we got”

“Yes, I understand that sir” Jinkins replied, “And, no I don’t have anyone else we could send in”

“How about that Agent Clover?” Jingyi offered, “He gets his missions done quite well doesn’t he?”

“Agent Clover, while a good agent, got his codename ‘Clover’ for a reason.” Morales refuted, “He’s lucky, we can not risk his luck running out.”

As the four were going back and forth about the current issue at hand, Phoenix had entered the room. They didn’t notice him, and honestly Phoenix didn’t want them to. The agent was surprised by the scene in front of him, especially hearing and seeing Reignlad so upset by whatever he walked in on, Reignald was usually calm and collected and avoided getting into debates such as this.

Phoenix just stood there, not knowing if he should step out, or announce his presence. He was hoping someone would just notice him, but they were all just bickering about a problem Phoenix wasn’t sure what it was, he could guess it was about him best on Reginald mentioning him going on the mission.

Eventually Phoenix awkwardly knocked on the door loud enough to grab the attention of everyone. The four in the room look over at Phoenix, Reginald had looked at Phoenix with a look of worry.

           “Ah Agent Phoenix, apologies we were just having a small discussion about the mission we have for you” Morales said as he stood up from his seat

           “The mission you have for Phoenix. Don’t drag me into this dumb idea.” Reginald corrected

There was a hint of tension between Morales and Reginald all of a sudden

            “..moving on!” Mrs.Jingyi shouted, “Agent Phoenix, we looked into the information you collected, Luina Whitesent is a name I haven’t heard in a long time. She is one of highest ranks in Zoraxis, and you broke into her office.” 

           “Oh great, what trouble am I getting into now?” Phoenix mouthed

           “Whitesent deals with the creation of the tech Zoraxis uses, think the Fabricator, but not making only luxury death traps” Reginald answered

           “So she is basically Zoraxis’s Dr.Prism?” Phoenix asked as he found a chair to sit in

The room went silent. Right, I forgot they are still on shakey ground with Prism.

           “Yes,” Reginald started, “you could say that, anyway—“ 

           “We need you to go to her main testing lab” Morales interrupted, “We need blueprints in more detail then what we have so we can figure out a weakness for The Hivemind.” 

Phoenix looked over at Reginald, he looked like he was going to hit Morales. Phoenix took a deep sigh before signing

           “So..how do you expect me to do this? Director Morales, I am not one to turn down a mission, but I am recovering from a gunshot wound that’s barely 24 hours old, getting grazed by a bullet, and being shot with a strong poison tipped arrow. For the safety of this mission, I’d recommend someone else.” Phoenix stated.

           “Yes, I understand that Agent Phoenix, you are the only agent I can think off to pull this off” 

           “You sound like you’re trying to trick me into getting killed Director Morales, no offense”

           “I apologize if that’s how I sound Agent, but you understand why I believe you’re the only agent for this mission”

Usually Phoenix would jump to anything to get out of rest, but he knew when he had to stop for a bit. Sure he’s survived a lot worse, but he had more time to heal after those worse incidents. Phoenix didn’t know if he should agree to this or go against it. He thought about it for minutes before answering.

           “Give me a week sir. Give me a week to heal, then I’ll do the mission, that’s the only way I’ll agree to this.” 

Morales was taken aback, from what he heard Phoenix would never like to heal over doing a mission, Reginald was equally shocked, probably thinking his agent had brain damage. After thinking about it Morales agreed to Phoenixs terms. 

Phoenix got up from their chair, using their crutch to support themselves, and left the room.

           “Well..that was.. new form Phoenix” Reginald said

           “What was Reginald?” Mrs Jingyi asked

           “For as long as I’ve known Phoenix he’s never said to wait from him to heal for a mission. I usually have to fight with him to get him on home rest”

           “Well, maybe your agent realized how serious this is.” Mrs Jingyi said smiling, “Hes one hell of an agent, Reginald”

Phoenix was walking to his office to grab his personal item when he was stopped by Agent ‘dad’ Copper, he had a confused look on his face.

           “Already? Your getting sent in a mission?” Copper asked

            “Yes and no, I said I’d do the mission, only after a week, so I don’t have to be on this stupid crutch” Phoenix mouthed

            “ You? Saying you need to rest first?” Copper asked surprised, “shocker”

            “Yeah yeah,” Phoenix rolled his eyes, “I got to grab my stuff and get going Copper, see you next week”

            “Alright, bye Phoenix, get rest, I mean it” 

            “Okay dad”

Phoenix walked off to his office, grabbed his personal items (stole a bottle of whiskey from his office that wasn’t his), grabbed the keys to his car and left. He was just gonna be resting for a week at home. Great, this will be fun .

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It’s been a week, Phoenix is getting ready to head back into the agency. Well more like just getting up, he’d gotten used to sleeping in over the past week. They sit up, their alarm ringing, giving them a slight headache. They get out of bed and stretch, Time to get ready and get used to my work schedule. Phoenix went to their bathroom to take a shower and brush his teeth.

The agent lived in a small apartment, payed by the agency obvisually but it wasn’t your usual agency home, when the agent got the house. After growing up in big home with most of their family living together, siblings, parents, his grandparents, an aunt, they were willing to expect a downgrade to a small apartment all to themselves. 

Phoenix got out of his sleepwear and hopped into the shower, an ice cold shower, just how they liked it. After their shower they got themselves together for the day, brushing their teeth, and dressing in their uniform, a black dress shirt, red suspenders, black dress pants and of course his jacket, with the lapel pin with the agency logo on it. Phoenix walked around his apartment, he didn’t need the crutch anymore, well it was recommended he’d use it, but they were fine, they had just been walking with a limp. Where the fuck are my keys? I can’t be late now, Reggie will kill me. 

Phoenix walked around their apartment for a few minutes looking for his keys, until he found them in his pocket, where else would they be? After taking a few seconds to stare at his keys that were in his pocket the whole time, he left the apartment and went to their car. 

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Phoenix parked the car outside the agency and quickly got out and rushed inside. Alright Phoenix! You have a mission to get done, you already pushed it off a week, and might’ve caused problems but you’ll be fine! Phoenix ran to his office where he left their ear piece, running past Clover and a few other agents who were confused why they were running like it was the end of the world.

Once Phoenix got to his office, they jump over their desk, (because why not) fell, reached up and opened the drawer where they kept their ear piece, then got up from the floor. They grabbed it and put it in.

           “Well, that’s certainly an entrance Phoenix” Reginald tuned in before sighing, “Well welcome back, I’m sending you the mission statement Jinkins put together”

Phoenix gave a thumbs up the camera and sat in his chair waiting for the capsule to appear. Once it did Phoenix grabbed it, put it in the open-o-matic, and took out the plans for the mission

           “We’re sending you to a Zoraxis lab, you remember that right? This is Luina Whitesent’s main testing lab. We need you to get in, find anything you can that gives us more detail on The Hivemind devices. Good luck agent, and try not to get too injured please”

Phoenix leaned back in his chair listening to Reginald talk about the mission. While this wasn’t a big mission, they knew this was important. They were ready to get back on the field. Alright Phoenix a quick mission; get in, steal more info on these shackles and ditch, and try not to get poisoned again.

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“You know, agent, when I said to break in, I didn't expect you to sneak in a cart of supplies, get the cart into the lab, and wait for the workers to go to lunch. But you know what? It works so keep doing whatever it is” Reginald said

Phoenix rolled his eyes, he had to admit, this wasn’t going 100% to plan, the Zoraxis operatives were taking forever to go to lunch. There they were, laying uncomfortably in a cart, hiding under many supplies, hoping nobody actually started to use the stuff in the cart. I should’ve brought a book or something if I knew it would take this long for a damn lunch break . Phoenix couldn’t tell you how long he was there until he heard an alarm go off, followed by a female voice over the intercom

All Zoraxis employees. Go to your permitted 30 minute lunch break. You don’t go. You don’t eat.

Phoenix let out a sigh of relief, he wasn’t sure how much longer they were going to be able to lay in the cart. They waited at least 3 minutes before climbing out of the cart, ready to knock anybody out if need be, thankful, there was nobody around. The agent looked around, for where any important information could be held, then they saw the control panel for the lab. 

Quickly Phoenix ran over to it, the operatives had turned everything off so they can leave, it was impressive they all managed to shut down and leave for lunch in 3 minutes but eh, Phoenix knows Agents who can basically vanish when they can leave for lunch. 

“Alright Agent, looks like that is the main control panel for the section of the lab, see if you can turn it on. If we can get even one part of The Hivemind it’ll help us a lot” Reginald told Phoenix, “I’ll keep an eye out on the Zoraxis Operatives.”

Phoenix looked at the control panel, it needed a key and letter code to unlock the button needed to activate the lab. They noticed a button nearby and pressed it, it did nothing, so Phoenix figured it was powered off. The agent looked around the area, marking down the area, there was a section where they assumed was where The Hivemind tech was built, seeming by hand, the main testing grounds where..there was a concerning amount of dried blood on the ground, and just a bunch of areas where Zoraxis operatives would observe the experiments. Phoenix figured all he needed to do was turn on the control panel and he could get a part of the tech from the building station. Alright Phoenix, find a key, and a code.

Phoenix started opening some lockers nearby with the TK implant. Empty, Empty,...’Z+X’ whatever that means. Ah ha! Bingo. Phoenix had found a lab coat in one of the lockers and saw a key sticking out the pocket. Using the TK implant they grabbed the key and pulled it over to them. 

“Ah nice job agent! Seems irresponsible to leave the key to your lab in your pocket, but oh well.” Reginald chimed in, Phoenix tried to use the key in the key hole, it didn't fit, “oh..well that's a problem, this might just be a poor man's house key”

Phoenix sighed and floated the key in the air just in case he needed it for something else. They noticed a toolbox sitting on a chair and pulled it over to them. Please have something useful please have something useful. Phoenix opened the toolbox, finding wire cutters, a sandwich (which they promptly ate), a piece of paper, and a soldering iron. He took out the paper and read it, it had small notes on it, ‘Buy more pens’ and ‘stop taking my clipboard hofferman’ . Nothing important was in the little notes, so Phoenix read the full thing.

• Test the new model of The Hivemind

• Make sure the next model does not explode immediately 

Get the? Get what? Why did they scribble it out? Also what could that code possibly go to!? All I have is a letter code. A Three letter- oh my god its ‘Zor’ isn’t it. Phoenix put ‘ZOR’ into the code and it unlocked that section. The agent just started at the green light with a lot of annoyance at the code. Phoenix took a deep breath and looked around for where the key could go. Phoenix them noticed there was a key hole towards the bottom of the control panel, so they grabbed the key from the air and put it in the hole. It worked. Phoenix opened the drawer and found another clipboard, and under it, a key. Phoenix took the key and used it on the key hole on top of the control panel. Unlocking the button readying it for use.

“Good job Phoenix, now hurry up and turn it on, you only have 15 minutes left.” Reginald alerted Phoenix. 

Phoenix pressed the button. Turning the lab on and everything on. It also turned an alarm on.

“Well change that too, you only have a few minutes now, agent. Please hurry and get out safe”

Phoenix panicked for a few seconds before looking at that button that didnt work earlier. He pressed it, it caused the building area to turn on, causing loose parts of the hivemind tech to come out. Phoenix quickly ran over to the area, hopping a railing (that didn’t feel too good thanks to his leg), and he started to grab some of the tech. He didn’t bring a bag or anything to carry it in so he grabbed that tool box with his implant and shoved as many parts as he could in it. 

“Agent! Get out of there! They are almost there!” Reginald shouted over the ear piece

Phoenix looked around for a way to leave. They looked at the cart they had climbed into to sneak in originally. Maybe he could hide in there again, but what if they don’t move it at all, or use it. He’ll get caught. There weren’t any windows he could jump out of. Screw it! Phoenix ran to the door and pushed through it. They ran as fast as they could through the halls, looking for the emergency stairwell to get out.

“HEY! YOU STOP!” A Zoraxis operative shouted towards Phoenix

Phoenix didnt stop. They were running as fast as they could, trying to ignore the pain from their leg, eventually pushing open the door to the emergency exit. They quickly ran up and out of view of the door. After a few moments, a couple of Zoraxis operatives pushed open the door and ran down the stairs. Phoenix peeked out after a few seconds and quickly went to the door and went back out to the hallway. The agent quietly walked around the hallways hiding behind whatever he could, eventually they found the normal staircase and quickly ran down the stairs. When they reached the bottom, he bolted it to the door. Shockingly they made it out, without getting shot.

The agent quickly ran to their car and climbed in, catching his breath.

“Oh thank goodness you’re okay Phoenix, you had me worried there.” Reginald breathed a sigh of relief, “Well get out of there and get back to HQ”

Phoenix took a deep breath, set the toolbox full of parts down in the passenger seat and drove off. I need a fucking Vaction. 

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Phoenix immediately went to the tech department once he got back to HQ. They gave the toolbox full of parts to the current head of technology who had replaced Prism after the whole..leaving The EOD to join Zoraxis thing.

“Wow…I must say Agent Phoenix this is quite the hull you got” The head of the department said looking at all the parts Phoenix shoved in the box.

“Be careful examining these. A paper I took from a lab said there is an explosive fail safe in these” Phoenix alerted him

“I see, well thank you for letting me know Phoenix” He smiled, “Well, i’ll get to work figuring these out. You can get going”

Phoenix left the room and went to Reginalds office. Reginald was sitting at his desk, going over paperwork while drinking his coffee. Phoenix didn't even knock; he just walked in and sat in a chair across from Regield.

“Hello to you, Phoenix” Reignald said, looking up from his papers, “Have a good mission?”

“Minus the hiding in a cart for like 30 minutes, and having to run and avoid 100’s of Zoraxis operatives, it was fine Reggie” Phoenix mouthed

“Well I didn’t tell you to hide in the cart of Zoraxis tech part” Reginld chuckled, “but it is nice to see you alive and not injured Phoenix”

The two stayed silent for awhile, Phoenix just staring off into space, while Reginald was filling out papers, mostly about agent deaths and missions. The agent around the office, they didn’t hand out here much, but when he did he enjoyed all the things around it. Small trinkets from Reggies field agent days, pictures on the wall of what looked to be all of him and the other department heads. Nothing with family, or any other friends Regianld could have outside of work. Phoenix always wondered why he didn’t have pictures with anyone else, they just assumed it was for security reasons. The handler also had a small stuffed chicken sitting on a shelf, it has a small note on it.

‘I remembered you trust chickens a lot, so here you go Reginald ~Roxana

Phoenix had a faint memory of Reginald saying that he doesn’t trust chickens anymore after Project:Kaboom. He didn’t hear the full story due to Prism turning into his ear piece to talk to him. They really wished they could see her again, even if its just to thank her for saving his life. Phoenix looked out the window, Reginald had two giant windows in his office, similar to their office. While looking out, they saw something, on a rooftop. Is that a robot?

“So Phoenix,” Reginald started, pulling Phoenix out of his thoughts, “We gonna need to play it safe on these next missions, if anything goes even a little bit wrong then the EOD could be done for.”

“Relax Reggie, i’m the agent Phoenix, I got this” Phoenix mouthed, leaning back in his chair

“Yes yes, I know you ‘ the Agent Phoenix’ but still, you need to be careful and prepared for whatever comes next”

“Okay okay, i’ll careful on the next mission”

“Now, We probably wont have anything for the next day or two, since tech has to look through the part you stole, you can get going home, unless you have anything to report” 

Phoenix thought for a few seconds, remembering the clipboard from the lab

“There was this clip board back in the lab. It had a few things on it. One being ‘Get The-’ but it was scribbled out. 

“ ‘Get the-”? And what they wanted was scribbled out? That's pretty sketchy.” 

“Yep. Welp-” Phoenix got up from the chair, “I'm going to get going, bye Reggie” 

“Goodbye Agent, get home safe.” 

Reginald waved the agent on as they left, before sighing, and looking out the window

“He almost got caught Roxana”

“ Yes yes I know! I didn’t expect Phoenix to look out the window, Reginald!” None other than Roxana Prism had tuned in to the headset Reginald was wearing.

“ Sorry Mr.Crane I didn’t realize how out in the open I was” Robobutler yelled over the headset

“It’s fine, Roxana just please try to make sure Robo..whatever hes called again is more hidden, Morales will chew me alive if he knows i’m talking to you and having you keep an extra eye on Phoenix” Reginald sighed

“ I know Reginald, I gotta go now since Phoenix is done today” 

“Yes Yes, goodbye Roxana”

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It’s been a few days since Phoenix stole that tech from the Zoraxis testing place/lab, for the past few days they’ve been sent on smaller missions like, being a bodyguard for some rich guy, tracking down people, he was sent to kill some people too it had been awhile since that. However, for the most part he was stuck in his office, sometimes he came out to talk to the other agents who hung around waiting for assessments, were on break, or just weren’t field agents. Phoenix was worried though, for the past few weeks agents have been dropping off and going missing. Not a lot had gone missing, at least that Phoenix knew off. Maybe 5-10 agents so far, but it was enough to worry Phoenix about what could be happening to them. He was actually looking into it himself, at least just reviewing the files for the agents that went missing, and the missions they last went one. They all have one thing in common: they weren’t agents that were on the high-priority list, usually newer or bad agents are on that list. Meaning the agency wasn’t looking for them that much.

Phoenix was once again looking through the mission reports when Reginald came into their office. Phoenix wasn’t supposed to have the files he did so they immediately closed the files they were looking at and threw them under their desk, before looking at the door, acting like he wasn’t doing anything.

“…I’m not going to ask, anyway, come along agent, we have an update about that tech you stole” Reginald told Phoenix, before leaving, Phoenix following him shortly after.

Phoenix had followed Reginald to the main office of the head of tech. All the heads had shown up, Phoenix wasn’t shocked they had all been getting into this case so makes sense everyone is here.

“What have you found, Pinker?” Mrs.Jingyi asked

“Well Jingyi,” Pinker started, “Turns out this tech that, Agent Phoenix stole, has at least two placements for them,” he gestured to some of the tech on a table, “if you look at those, it seems like one goes around the neck of the person, and at least one on the wrists or maybe ankles of a person.”

“Two.” Phoenix signed, “Two go on the wrists or ankles”

“Really? How do you know that Agent?” Morals asked

Phoenix stared at him, before looking at Reginald, basically asking him to explain. Reginald looked at Phoenix and sighed before starting

“Back when Prism was still working with Zor, we had a run in with a.. Colossal..mind control.. Squid.” Reginald said this with a straight face while looking at the tech on the table.

“That wasn’t in any reports Crane!” Morales exclaimed 

“Yes it was.”

“Ahem,” Pinker cleared his throat, “may I continue?”

“Yes, Yes. sorry” Reginald apologized

“Thank you, now. As I found out quite painfully, there are some fail safes built in the take, all of which explode if tampered with. However, I did figure out how to break them up, and it is quite a design flaw, simply smashing them is enough to short circuit them.”

“Well that's great Pinker, thank you” Jinkins replied 

“Wait wait! I’m not done! There's something major about these. They react around Kinesium. I found that out when creating a TK implant for a new agent.”

Phoenix stared at Pinker. It..reacts to Kinesium? Like..the stuff in my head? Just Kinesium? But how? Phoenix panicked. If this stuff reacts to Kinesium and Kinesium only then every single agent is the target of Zor again just this time trying to control them now kill-... the missing agents. Phoenix didn’t know what to say, he was frozen. They now had a theory about those missing agents. They were newer agents, meaning they were as prepared or skilled yet, easy targets for kidnapping, but if they said something they would for sure get in trouble for looking at and stealing files they weren’t supposed to take. 

“Agent Phoenix?” Reginald piped up, snapped Phoenix out of his thoughts, “are you okay?”

Phoenix nodded trying to calm himself before looking back at the tech on the table. Okay Phoenix. Whatever you do. You need to shut down the production of these things before Zor can use them on more people. 

“Well we should start working on finding shut on these factories. Before Zor can produce more of these” Jinkins said, “I’ll go start looking for the main lab behind all of these” he walked off 

“Should we worry about the Kinesium Pinker? What if something happens to the agents” Mrs.Jingyi asked worriedly, she was always worried about the agents in the agency, it always shocked Phoenix whenever they heard her talking about the agents

“We shouldn’t have to worry about anything. From the blueprints we got from Phoenix and the way these parts look, they are still in the early phases. We should have plenty of time” Pinker replied reassuring her

“We’ll be heading out now, thank you Pinker” Morales said as he left, Mrs.Jingyi followed behind

Reginald left the room as well, leaving Phoenix there in the lab, he had realized they were alone, besides Pinker being in there. Many things were going through the agents head, how he’s gonna stop Zor, what if they fail to stop him, what would happen if-

“Agent Phoenix?” Regainld questioned, startling Phoenix. Regainld had came back into the room after noticing Phoenix hadn’t left behind him.

Phoenix look at Regainld, and quickly left the room, Reginald following behind. Phoenix stopped walking suddenly, before turning around and facing Reginald.

“Phoenix? What’s going on with you? What Pinker said about the tech in there seemed to have shaken you. I understand it’s connected to Kinesium I’m worry about it too, you however, seem almost scared about something” 

“I think Zor is taking agents and testing the tech on them” Phoenix signed 

“What makes you say that agent?” Reginald wondered shocked to hear that

“I’ve been reading the files..of the missing agents. I know I should have been but I have been. And think about it, a bunch of newer agents are missing, and this tech of Zors is made to react to kinesium, and I found thoses test reports that said that the failed experiments have died” 

“Hm..I guess when you put it like that..it adds up..I won’t rule it out, but Phoenix don’t go reading files your not supposed to have” Reginald stated

[A/N:…I’m so god damn sorry for how this chapter is written. P q I forgot for a bit to write and lost my flow]

Reginald thought about what Phoenix had said for a minute, it was totally possible that that’s what been happening to the missing agents. 

“I’ll bring this up to Morales, I’ll just say I thought about it, unless you’re okay with facing whatever consequences you might face for snooping in files you shouldn’t have Phoenix”

Phoenix thought about for a bit, was it worth it? I could get removed from this mission for it. Morales isn’t always the most forgiving with agents snooping where they shouldn’t. Phoenix eventually decided it might be for the better if Reginald claimed he thought about it not them. After agreeing on that they went their separate ways, Regainld went  to Morales' office and Phoenix to their own. Where Phoenix promptly fell asleep at his desk, they hadn’t slept well for the past few days, granted that normal at this point. 

[A/N:im so sorry for how this is written. And how much info is coming at once]

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Robutler zooms over to a workbench, holding a small plate of food and holds it up to Roxana. Roxana had been working all night making prototypes for new gadgets she doubted would ever get out of the testing phase; she looked at the plate of food Robutler had made her, ever since a certain agent came around and helped her she rebuilt only Robulter and made it so he could do stuff without her asking. He mostly used it to make food, drinks or sometimes do a puzzle he'd had Roxana for.

“Oh thank you Robulter, that was nice of you” Roxana thanked taking the plate and setting it down on the workbench

“You’re welcome Dr.Prism, happy to help” Robulter replied in a somewhat cheery voice, “do you think I can get another puzzle soon?”

“What? You already finished your other one? I made sure that one had a lot of pieces to keep you occupied” Roxana sighed, “I’ll get you some more tomorrow when I go out for groceries”

“Thank you Dr.P” 

Roxana quickly turned around and went back to the gadget she was working on, not touching the plate of food Robulter had made her [rude]. Robutler didn’t move almost like he was waiting for something. Roxana glaces back at Robutler confused why he  hadn’t left. 

“Is something wrong Robutler?” She asked confused

“You need to take a break and eat ma’am, working for long hours with no breaks damages your health, including sleep and sometimes nutratians”

“Don’t worry Robutler I’ll take a break soon” Roxana reassured her creation 

Robutler left the room and went to the living room, they still had the home given to Roxana when she was working at the agency. They weren’t sure if the agency forgot about the home or just didn’t care, but they didn’t bother saying anything, still a free home. Robutler went over to the tv and turned it on, seeing if one of Roxana’s favorite shows were on to hopefully get her away from her work.

There wasn’t anything on that would get Roxana away from her work bench, Robutler decided to just stay with Roxana for the time being. Eventually she took a break, after some forcing of course. They decided to watch Tv while Roxana ate the food Robutler made her, it was mostly cold by know but she didn’t care. 

While they were on the couch, watching Tv half asleep, there was a buzz of the doorbell. Shit, Roxana thought, not many people knew where this house was so Roxana knew it was mostly likely someone from the agency.  Hesitantly Roxana got up from the couch and walked over to the front door, leaving Robutler who’d powered off by now. Stopping at the door she questioned if it was a good idea to open the door, if it was someone from the agency she was most definitely be forced to leave the house. Taking a deep breath she opened the door.

“Good afternoon Roxana, hope i’m not disturbing your work”. Reginald said cheerfully

Roxana let out a sigh of relief seeing Reginald. 

“Reginald, Jesus you scared me. I thought you were going to be Moreles or worse Jinkins” She stated leaning on the door.

Reginald laughed, “well my apologies Roxana, may I come in?”

“Yes Yes come in” Roxana said moving out the way so Reginald could come in.

Reginald walked in and took his coat off before putting it on the coat rack. He looked around, it had been awhile since he had been inside Roxana’s house but he could tell it hadn’t changed in the slightest.

“What brings you by, Reignald?” Roxana asked, “I thought we agreed we wouldn’t really meet in person unless it was necessary”

“Yes we did agree on that, and it is necessary. We have a major problem” Reignald state looking at Roxana.

Roxana and Reginald went and sat in the living room. There Reggie filled Roxana in on everything, the tech that zor was making, what it did, and that it reacted to Kesium. Roxana was horrified by the Kesium part. Zor most differently still had her Kesium research. 

“Shit. None of that is good” Roxana said putting her head in her hands

“Yes I know.” Reignald Started, “Phoenix said something too. He had a theory about those missing agent I told you amount”

“He did?”

“Yes, He believes that Zor is taking the agent and testing the Hivemind Tech on them it would make since, he haven’t been about to find them at all”

“Good lord.”

Roxana and Regianld sat in silence for a few minutes. They didn’t know what to say about this. Roxana was shocked, and felt guilty she felt responabile for this, she did give Zor the research after all. 

“God..I’m sorry Reginald, this is my fault” 

“No it’s not Roxana. Well…no it kinda is your fault for giving Zor the Kensium research back then. I hate to say it, but this isn’t what you expected to happen, you didn’ expect Zor to do anything he did with your research” Reginald tried to comfort Roxana

“That’s exactly why its my fault” Roxana sighed, “I gave him my research and this is the second time I might get agents killed or worse”

“Don’t worry Roxana, We’re sending Agent Phoenix on a mission soon. Which once again I need you to watch over because I can’t see everything that happens”

“Is that really a good idea? To send an agent with Kenisum in his head on this mission? There are agents without it in their head.”

“I know I know, but it wasn’t up to me. It was Morales”

“Of course it was” Roxana sighed, “me and Robutler will be there just let me know when Phoenix is leaving”

“Of course Roxana.” 

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It had been a day since Reginald came to Roxana’s house. Barely twelve hours after he had left Reginald called Roxana, tell her that Phoenix was going to be leaving soon. Currently she was getting ready for the long trip to Phoenix’s mission location. This was a big mission, if gone correctly Phoenix should be able to shut down this project.

“Ready to go Ms.P?” Robutler asked holding a bag

“Yes, remember Robutler, when we get there stay out of Phoenixs sight he can’t know Regainld has use watching him” Roxana replied grabbing her keys, “he almost caught us once remember”

“I know sorry Ms.P”

“It’s okay now let’s go” Roxana gestured for Robutler to follow her.

Roxana and Robutler left the house and went to head to the mission location. This was gonna be one high risk mission.

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The car door slammed shut as Phoenix bolted to the Zoraxis building. This was it! The final mission, if everything goes correctly they should be able to stop the Hivemind tech once and for all. 

“Okay Phoenix, remember you have to get to the control unit on the top floor.” Reginald reminded Phoenix

Phoenix nodded as he ran to a side window on the Zoraxis building, he pushed it open and climbed in. It didn’t take long before they saw a Zoraxis guard on the way to an elevator.  Looking around Phoenix saw a computer, the power button in view. The agent quickly used his telekinesis to turn it on, the Zoraxis guard looked over at the computer as it powered on, confused and seemingly annoyed they walked over to turn it off.

Seeing his chance, Phoenix snuck up behind the guard and hit him over the head with the back of his pistol, knowing them out effectively. They dragged the body of the guard behind a desk and quickly undressed them and took their clothes, and whatever gear they had. Looking around, he grabbed the wire from the computer and unplugged it from the wall and the monitor and tied the guard arms behind his back. 

Phoenix picked up the clothes and gear from the guard and ran to a side room. After opening the door and confirming the coast was clear, they blocked the door with a random chair and started to undress. Changing into the Zoraxis guard's clothes and putting his gear on, they shoved their own clothes into a box in the room and threw it out a window so they could get it when they left. If they leave without a fiery explosion again.

“Shit. Phoenix something is wrong with my end. I’ll be right back. I have to figure it out, I think there's something blocking them.” Reiganld said, before the coms shut off.

Phoenix acknowledged that, and walked over to the door.After taking a deep breath, he unblocked the door and walked out, and looked around, before walking off to find an elevator up. Okay Phoenix remain calm, a small break of composure and you're screwed. Phoenix looked around the halls as he walked, surveying for an elevator. They couldn’t seem to find one. Does this building not has an elevator for some reason? Isn’t that a safety hazard? 

“Yes yes it is agent” Reginald chimed it, 

Phoenix looked around confused, he hadn’t signed at a camera so how in the world did-?

“Don’t question it Agent, I know you well enough” 

That’s kinda disturbing. Phoenix just shook that off, good to know Reggie figured out the problem with his end quickly. THe agent ran off to go and find an elevator 

“Hey!” A Zoraxis operative shouted, Phoenix froze immediately and looked over, “your supposed to be guarding the damn elevator so that Phoenix doesn’t get to it! If he get in”

Phoneix stared for a few seconds before mouthing, “I’m new here. I’m trying to find that damn elevator”

“Oh great! They send the newbie to my building! Fantastic!” The operative shouted clearly angry, “go down this hallway and turn right! And don’t leave the post!” The operative stomped off

“Well he just seemed full of joy” Reginald scarstly said.

Phoenix just nodded before walking down the hallway and following the directions given to him. Upon walking up to the elevator, they looked around one more time before pressing the up button. Okay, top floor, shut down everything somehow, and get out. Simple, but will turn into something insane as usual. He stepped into the elevator once it opened and pressed the button to the top floor.

Halfway up the elevator suddenly stopped, oh no. The doors opened and a lady stepped in, she was shorter than Phoenix, jet black hair and she was in a Zoraxis uniform. She seemed to be part of the head of their building. Phoenix glanced at her badge, and read her name, his eyes widened once he did.

Luina Whitesent.

Luina..Whitesent, the one behind this operation!? Shit! Phoenix was panicked, Lunia Whitesent had entered the elevator and was most definitely going to the same floor as him. What were they gonna do now.

“You aren’t atharozised to go up to the top floor” Luina scolded, looking at Phoenix 

Phoenix just started forward at the door to the elevator, trying to think of anything to do. Luina pressed a button,  about ten floors below from the top floor. Oh no . 

When the door opened again, Phoenix was shoved out by Luina. 

“I’ll be having a talk with you, when we finished our operation.” Luina stared at him as the door closed 

Phoenix stood there, not knowing what to do. He looked around the floor he was one, its either wait for the elevator again, or run up a stairway Phoenix. I’m going to have to use the stairs. Phoenix ran down the hallway to find the stairs.

“Agent! Take a left! The stairway is that way, go!” Regainld shouted over the ear piece 

Phoenix nodded and took a sharp left down the hall. Seeing the door to the stairs he pushed the door up and immediately ran up the stairs. It took maybe 45 minutes before Phoenix got to the top floor. Catching his breath, he pushed open the door, to his surprise there were no guards near the stairway door. Whatever makes it somewhat easier for Phoenix. 

“Okay Agent, listen closely from where you are, take a right then keep going straight.”

Phoenix nodded and did just that, he followed the directions that Regainld gave him to the control room. Once he reached the room and pushed the door open, he was shocked to see it empty. Luina must’ve left before he showed up. He walked over to the control in the middle of the room and got behind it, it looked complicated to use, but also simple to use. 

They looked around the room, for any papers that could be a clue on how this works. They had found a clip board and grabbed it, reading it seemed to be how to activate the control panel. That’s a start . Phoenix floated the clipboard and looked back at the control panel. There were switches, buttons and a screen, that phoneix figured displayed any information once turned on.

“Hm, Agent try following whatever directions are on the clipboard. Let me know if you need help” 

Phoenix gave a thumbs up assuming Reginald would see him in the camera. Phoenix looked at the clipboard.

Blue red blue yellow red yellow.

Could that be the sequence to turn it on, seems simple. They looked back at the control panel then pushed the buttons that matched the colors in order, at least he started to. When he got to yellow, he stopped, there wasn’t any yellow buttons, but there were yellow switches, so he pulled switches, then the last red button and went to pull another yellow switch, but there was only one yellow switch. The agent was stumped and confused, this can’t be the code of this if there’s not enough of the colors needed.

What the hell? What could it be if there’s not enough for this code . Phoenix looked around the room hoping for more clues but all he could find was a compartment under where he was standing labeled ‘ Gas Mask ’. Okay yeah keep that in mind Phoenix probably gonna be helpful for something. Taking another good look at the control panel Phoenix thought for a few seconds before he just started to mess around with the control panel. Eventually he hit a blue button twice and red button twice and pulled the yellow switch twitch.

Welcome Luina Whitesent

Bingo! Phoenix pumped his fist in the air as he looked at the screen. There were a few options on the screen. Phoenix opened the frist option and it pulled up a few different emails that Phoenix read, didn’t seem to have anything important. Phoenix looked through the other options and couldn’t find anything that seemed to be useful for the Hivemind tech.

After going through everything at least three time over, and seeing nothing useful, the screen displayed a message. 

Hello Agent Phoenix. Did you really think we didn’t expect you to show up? 

Phoenix frozen upon reading that. Shit! It’s a trap! Phoenix looked at a camera to get Reginald’s attention and alert him.

“Oh boy..isn’t that shame Agent” Reginald said, however..it suddenly didn’t sound like Reginald 

They decided to just run. Didn’t even bother to finish reading the message on the screen. He ran to the door and tried to open it. Locked. God damn it! Phoenix looked around and saw a window. Screw it. I need out of here fast. Phoenix ran to the window and went to open it but it was bolted shut. It was like the planned ahead for every escape plan he could think off. Suddenly the intercom turned on.

“Hello Agent Phoenix. So nice to meet you, it’s a shame I can’t shake your hand, let me introduce myself. I’m Luina Whitesent. I’m sure your heard of me, I wasn’t a huge fan of you breaking into my office. That’s besides the point now, I can’t wait to see you outside of that stole uniform and it something more official”

Phoenix flipped off a camera hoping that she could see him, something more official? I don’t wanna find out what that means. Phoenix walked over to a table and grabbed something to break the window so he could just take a running start and jump out, before he could though black smoke started to fill the room. Phoenix panicked, and covered his mouth, immediately running over to that compartment labeled gas mask, and opened it. It was empty. Just a letter that said ‘Better luck next time Phoenix’. SON OF A BITCH !

Phoenix ran back to the window to break it, he started coughing and stumbling on the way, before he fell to the floor covering his mouth. Trying not to breathe anymore of this stuff in. It was too late though he already inhaled too much and was losing consciousness.

“Phoenix! Come in Phoenix!” The real Reginald shouted over the ear piece, “God damn it, of course I get blocked out and this happens. Hey! We got a code…”

Reginald's voice had become too muffled for Phoenix to understand. The last thing he managed to make out was a ‘Hang in there Phoenix’ from some lady he thinks..maybe Mrs.Jingyi. Eventually Phoenix's vision went black.

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It had been a few hours since what happened during Operation Mastermind. Reginald had sent a team to recover Phoenix, however, once they got there the agent was gone. Reginald was currently pacing in Morales' office with Jinkins, jingyi, and obviously Morales. 

“Reginald what on earth happened on the mission!? Our top agent got kidnapped!” Morales Shouted

“I don’t know Morales, like i’ve already said I couldn’t hear anything, and I could only see a few of the cameras.” Reginald replied, annoyed having explained this a few times now

“Zoraxis knew we were coming, and this time planned ahead Mr.Morales, there wasn’t gonna be much Reggie could do” Jingyi said, trying to ease the tension in the office

“Don’t call me Reggie Jingyi, but she's right, how could I have known they would’ve planned ahead like this” 

“Because Whitesent is working with Zoraxis now!” Morales slammed his hands on his desk as he stood up, “You know how Whitesent is Crane!”

“Well sorry!”

Reiganld and Morales kept going back and forth, with Jingyi trying to calm them and jinkins debating on jumping on the window in the office to escape this. While all the yelling was going on, Agent Clover had opened the door and slowly walked into the office. He was holding a file. He stared at the scene before him, not sure if he should say something, that was before Jinkins saw him. 

“Agent Leaf! My Favorite agent!” Jinkins shouted over Reginald and Morales, before walking over to Agent clover and wrapping an arm around his shoulder

“Um..It’s Clover..anyway, Mr.Crane, they got the lab back on that stuff we found at the scene that sprayed around the room” Clover said, frozen like a deer in headlights, nervous to be in the same room at four of the biggest people in the EOD

“Ah, thank you Agent Clover” Reginald walked over and took the file from him, before opening it

“Mr.Tapin also wanted me to say it the same stuff they found at the scene of other agent kidnappings, and-”

“The time Juniper kidnapped Phoenix?”

“Yes sir”

Reginald stared at the file, the containers that were found as traces of fucking chlorform, and other chemicals that they’ve found in other cases of agent being kidnapped by Zor, its a special formual, keeps the person unconscious for hours at a time, making it easy for Zor to do experiments on if he wanted. God Damn it! Reginald about through the file on the ground. His agent had been kidnapped by Zor and with the HiveMind Tech yet to be destroyed he could use it on Phoenix. They needed to find Phoenix and fast. 

“Mr.Jinkins can you please…let me go” Agent Clover asked

“Oh yeah-” Jinkins let Clover go, “-sorry”

“Can I go now Mr.Crane?”

“Uh, yeah yeah, you’re dismissed Agent Clover” Reignald said clover the file, “Oh and Agent clover met me in my office before you leave for the day, I know i’m not your handler, but we need to talk”

“Got it sir, see you before I leave for the day!” Agent clover quickly left the office.

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It had been about 6 hours now since reginald got that file on what they found in whitesents office, and 8 hours since Phoenix went missing. Reginald was sitting in his office, review the footage he had to see what could have possibly happened to Phoenix. It was turning up short, the cameras got shut off shortly after Phoenix passed out. While Reginald was rewinding and rewatching all the footage there was a knock at the door.

“Come in”

In walked Agent Clover, with a satchel on, looking nevours as ever.

“..you said you wanted to see me before i left Mr.Crane”

“I did, Agent Clover, you and Agent Phoenix are quite close, correct?” Reginald asked.

“I’d like to think that we’re pretty good friends yes” 

“I know I'm not your handler, but I'd like your help on this case. You’re another good agent we have.”

Agent Clover stared at Reginald surprised, he was just offered to work on what is going to be a high-profile case within the agency. Agent Clover thought for a minute of course, this would have to go through his handler, but he would love to help.

“Of course, Mr.Crane! I’d love to help you on this.” Agent clover said cheerfully 

“Okay. Thank you Agent Clover, you can be on your way, i’ll talk to your handler about a temporary transfer. Have a good night”

“You too, Mr.Crane, don’t be up all night, Phoenix told me you have a bad habit at that” Agent Clover replied waving before leaving the office and closing the door

“Of course he did.” Reginald sighed, “Where are you Phoenix.”

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It had been a few days now since Agent Phoenix went missing, and Reginald was working hard to find him. He sent Agent Clover and a few others to investigate the now empty Zoraxis building where Phoenix went missing and they have found nothing. Reginald was getting desperate at this point, it has been days now Zor could’ve killed Phoenix by now. Reginald was going over the information Phoenix was able to steal from past missions and what they recovered for that Zoraxis building, hoping for something to tell them where Phoenix is.

“Mr.Crane?” Agent Clover announced his presence

“Hm?” Reignald looked over, “ah, Agnet Clover is something wrong?”

“Mr.Morales is asking for you, he wants to have a meeting with you and the other heads about what you should all do about Agent Phoenix, he's waiting in the meeting room not his office”

Reginald sighed, he knew this was going to be a difficult meeting. “Alright, thank you Agent Clover, I'll head over, could you actually look over everything I have out? See if you could find anything that could’ve missed?”

“I’ll try my best sir” Agent Clover nodded up for the task

Reginald thanked Agent Clover before leaving to head to the meeting room.

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Reginald opened the door to the meeting room and walked in, looking at the heads sitting at the table. He walked to the table and sat in his chair, before looking over at Morales.

“Reginald, nice of you to join us.” Morales started

“Can we just get to it Morales? The more time we waste the more Zoraxis could do to Phoenix.” Reginald snapped

“We have looked into your theory about those missing agents. Turns out all of them were last in buildings where Whitesent was in charge” Jinkins said, looking over his notes

“So it's likely that she's been using those agents as test subjects with the hivemind tech.” Jingyi continued 

“Fan fucking tastic” Reginald took his glasses off and pitched the bridge of his nose

Those missing agents were taken by whitesent. Reginald was getting anxious and angry, Whitesent was using their agents, and now they have Phoenix, the agent they most likely wanted the most. Great.

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Agent Clover currently is sitting at Reginalds desk and staring at the wall of stolen information eating a lollipop. He was writing down whatever he could figure out and connect from the info he had. There wasn’t much that wasn’t new however, almost everything he could find wasn’t new, except a few small seemingly useless details. Clover started spinning in Reginalds’s chair, he was getting worried about Phoenix, but he couldn’t do much with the agency not knowing where Phoenix could be.

Okay okay, think what could I do while I wait for Mr.Crane. I’ve already looked at that info about 100 times, I don't have any cases to work on. Hmm . Agent Clover then looked over at one of Reginald's monitors, and had an idea. You see, for some reason, whether it be something all support agents have just Reginald, but he had access to the cameras around the agency. It wouldn’t be a problem oif i just took a look around the agency would it? Nobody will know. Agent Clover scouted the chair up to the desk better and turned on the monitor.

“Alright let’s see-” PASSWORD NEEDED. “Mr.Crane understands passwords?” Clover started a the screen. Unlike Phoenix, he didn’t know Reginald that well so he couldn’t think of anything immediately other than his own name, and ‘Agent Phoenix’...neither worked. Clover hit his head on the desk, this wasn’t his thing, he wasn’t the best at inverstaging and figuring out information, hence why he became hitman/bodyguard. Was it worth it? Was digging through everything just for a password guess worth it despite him not being good at that and risking getting in trouble? 

Clover started digging through the desk drawer, hoping for a birthday card, and photo, an anniversary data, anything. However, he couldn’t fight anything, until he opened the bottom drawer, their seemed to be more personal items in it. Agent Clover peeks over the desk and looked at the door and checking before he started to look through the drawer. There seemed to be a picture of Reginald with all of the heads and that lady Agent Clover never got a chance to meet. Wasn’t that lady with Zor? Oh well none of my business. After a bit of digging he found what seemed to be a birthday card in an envelope. Finally!  

Agent Clover took the birthday card out and opened it. It wasn’t for Reginald it was for a ‘Roxanna Prism’.

“Happy Birthday Roxanna.

I hope you’re enjoying your birthday.

~Crane”

Mr.Crane must be close to this Roxanna lady to write her a birthday card. However, Agent Clover was confused why it wasn’t sent. He looked at the envelope and luckly he saw a date in the corner, clearly hand written. Bingo. ‘04/10/19xx’’. Clover looked back at the Computer and typed in the date on the envelope. Surprisingly, it worked. Now Agent Clover had access to the cameras within the agency 

[A/N:I-is this too much? Is this taking away from the chapter? Be honest. I just wanted to bring Clover in more. I'm sorry.]

Agent Clover started to flip through the cameras, seeing his co workers like this was kinda funny, seeing Agent Copper trying, and failing to flirt with one of the female agents, but then he gets to the camera in Morles office. He was surprised Morales even had a camera in his office, with how secretive he is. Just as Clover was about to switch the cams, he noticed someone in the office. It definitely wasn’t Morales or even Reginald. 

“What in the?” Agent clover said confused and looked closer at the screen.

The person in the camera seemed to be looking for something on Morales’ computer, it didn’t take them long to get into the computer. Clover stared at the computer as he got up before realizing who it is. 

It was..Phoenix? It’ seemed like he was a Zoraxis operative outfit, it was hard to make out but anyone could recognize that symbol on an outfit. Clover quickly ran out of Reginald's office and, dashed to Morales’s office, only to find it locked when he got there. Thinking fast he tried ramming his shoulder into the door, to hopefully break the door down. Which didn’t seem like a good thing to Ricardo Morales and the other heads who just got out of that meeting. 

“AGENT CLOVER!” Morales shouted, causing every agent nearby to look over and stare.

Agent Clover quickly looked over and Morales, who wasn’t happy at the scene in front of him, and Reganild who just confused but the scene in front of him.

“W-Wait! Me.Morales before you get angry at me, i have a good reason!” Clover tried to quickly explain

“What reason could you possibly have to rn you shoulder into the directors door, Agent Clover” Reginald asked, starting to get suspicious of Clover

“Agent Phoenix! He’s in there i saw him on the cameras”

“You- You were on Cranes computer?” Jingyi asked

“What do you mean Agent Phoenix is in my office”

“What do you want me to say Mr.Morales! Just open the door, you have key dont you”

Morales glared at Clover as he reached in his pockets looking for his keys. It was taking a bit too long for Regainld, and he walked over to the door. Bracing himself, he rammed his shoulder into the door. It didn’t take more then 4 attempts before the door broke open.

“Pays to be an ex-field agent-” Reginald looked in the office and saw Agent Phoenix staring at him.

There he was. Agent Phoenix, in a Zoraxis outfit, standing next to a broken window, holding a floppy disk clearly from Morales' computer.

“Agent Phoenix. What on earth are you doing”  Reginald asked, confused.

Reginald didn’t get a chance to do much before a sudden BANG . Agent Phoenix had suddenly shot Reginald, thankfully he only hit him in the shoulder. Clover reacted quickl and pulled his hand gun from his holster and pointed it at Phoenix.

“Phoneix what the fuck!” Clover shouted.

Phoenix rolled his eyes before he jumped out the window. Leaving everyone in the office. Jingyi quickly went to Reginald and added pressure to the wound. Agent Clover went to quickly investigate what the hell Phoenix could’ve possibly stolen, while everyone else got Reginald help. Morales came over and shoved Clover out of the way before looking through his computer clearly pissed off. You know, ‘excuse you’ is a statement Mr.Morales . Clover kept that thought to himself however, because there was now a lot more going on. Firstly Why, the fuck was Phoenix wearing a Zoraxis Opertive outfi!?

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Phoenix sat up, rubbing his eyes. They’d just woken up, after training the day before with his new coworkers, so he was a bit sore but oh well. Phoenix got up and out of his bed and went to go get ready for the day. Taking a shower, brushing their teeth, the usual stuff you know. Once he was done he grabbed his clothes and put this on. A mostly red and black outfit, with the Zoraxis seal on it. Looking at the clock, they decided they should get going and grabbed the last of his things, his satchel, earpiece, and something small to snack on, and headed out the door to work. 

The Operative wasn’t sure what was in store for them today. Two days ago he stole information from Morales office. He wasn;t sure what it was but it was important and he didnt question it. 

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Phoenix opened the door the Whitesents office. She had called for him almost immediately after they showed up. Whitesent was sitting at her desk, looking at where Phoenix stood. 

“Operative Phoenix, Nice to see you. Come have seat” Whitesent gestured to the chair infront of her desk.

Phoenix walked over and sat down before asking, “What did you need Ma’am?”

“Well Phoenix, You remember the HiveMind Tech correct?” Whitesent started, “That was just a cover up for the real plan, however it worked up much..much better then i could’ve expect”

“If that was just a cover up, then was is Zoraxis actually planning?” Phoenix asked confused

“Zor has decided to make another plan, this time however, not to destroy the world, or take it over. Yet at least, this time it’s to get rid of that crooked agency.”

Phoenix listened to Whitesent intently, finally they were going to get rid of the agency that betrayed him. Without him helping them, they weren’t going to be able to stop Zor this time. Turns out Zor has planted explosives under the agency building, and they wanted Phoenix to set it off. Phoenix didn;t understand why, but who are they to ask questions about what Zor want.

Whitesent sent Phoenix out and told them to go to the location where the detonator is. They were going to blow up the building in two days, but Whitesent wanted him to go and get used to how everything worked there, so there were not mistakes on the day of the detonation. 

When Phoneix go to his car, they felt someone watching them. They looked around the area, and up at the buildings. On top of one of the buildings he saw on of Prism's robots, with who looked to be an agency agent. With almost no hesitation Phoenix took his hand gun out of his holster and fired at them, causing the two to duck behind the ledge of the building. He quickly got into his car, and drove off, deciding to just head home. He can’t risk them following him to the detonator.

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Agent Clover peered over the ledge of the roof and saw Phoenix’s car drive off. He quickly turned on his ear piece.

“Mr.Crane, bad news we got spotted, and Phoenix is on the move” Clover informed Reginald 

“Great. Well good thing Robutler put that track on the car.”

“Well that was close! Wasn’t it Agent Clover” Robulter chimed in.

Clover looked at Robulter slightly annoyed. 

“Yeah. Very close” Agent Clover replied. Maybe don't stand in the open and on top of the ledge next time!.  “Let’s get going, Mr.crane is asking for us back”

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“I still can’t believe i agreed to let Roxana help us.” Morales grumbled pitching the bridge of his nose. “Not to mention you had her watching Agent Phoenix without our knowledge through this operation!”

Reginald sighed annoyed. A couple of days ago, when Phoenix went missing he called Roxana, and told her he needed help and to come to the agency.  Needless to say, it wasn’t going over well, but they needed all the help they can get. Currently Roxana is in the lab with Robutler doing a quick repair, while Reginald and Agent Clover were in Morales Office. 

“Look Mr.Morales I understand that you are unhappy with Ms.Prism but she has proven helpful in the past before she quit last time.” Agent Clover started, “however, I will say, I don't want to be partnered up with Robobutler or whatever he's called. He’s gonna get me killed if he doesn’t understand he can’t just stand in the open.”

“I know how you feel about Robutler Agent Clover, but you two are the best we got right now” Reginald sighed

“That is bullshit! Pardon my language Mr.Crane, but there are so many great agents here, and not to mention, doesn’t Phoenix know how to take down Ms.Prism's robots?” 

Reginald was slightly taken aback by the slight outlash from Agent Clover, he’d never seen that before. 

“I know I know, but please Agent just…can you please work with it for the time? This shouldn’t take too much longer.”

“I will. It’s just, we don't know how to get Phoenix back to our side yet. I saw him and he just looks kinda dead if that makes sense”

Reginald  sighed, Agent clover did have a point. Even if they did get their hands on Phoenix, they aren’t hundred percent sure how to fix him. While he was thinking about it, Robutler came in with Roxana, all fixed up.

“We’re back” Roxana announced,

“Hello Ms.Prism” Agent Clover replied

“So what are you all talking about now?”

“We’re still aren’t sure how to get Phoenix back,” Reginald explained, “even if we can get him over to the agency, we still need to figure out what they did”

“It was probably that Hivemind stuff you were looking into Mr.Crane!” Robutler chimed in from behind Roxana

That’s when it hit everyone at once. The answer was so obvious, they had been looking into it this whole time. Reginald pitched the bridge of his nose, frustrated with himself for not putting something so obvious together. This brought up a new problem though, they dont know how to safely remove the hivemind tech. Everything Phoenix found made it seem like there wasn’t an easy way to remove it from people, without it exploding. 

“Roxana can you try and see if they’re any way to destroy the hive mind satchels, we have some blueprints and pieces of the tech that Phoenix stole” Reginald asked

“I’ll see what i can find Reggie” Prism said, “come on Robutler we have work to do” Roxana left the office with Robutler following her like a duckling.

“Agent Clover, come on. Let’s go over the plans, now that we have Phoenix location tracked” Reginald said leaving the room, Clover following close behind not wanting to be in the same room as Morales any longer.

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It’s now nighttime, Agnet Clover was prying open the window to the Zoraxis HQ that Phoenix now worked. After a bit of work, the agent got the window open and climbed in, they crouched down and slowly walked to the stairs, being careful of any Zoraxis operatives, or worse Phoenix if he's here. Clover was admittedly nervous, they don’t typically do these types of missions, he usually does bodyguard and hitman work. The agent quickly ran up the stairs once reached, his only goal was to get to Whitesent’s floor. To see if there is any information that could be help the agency, simple and basic mission. 

Once Clover go to the top floor where, Whitesents office was, he noticed the two guards stationed out of the door. He quickly crouched down, looking around he didn’t see anything he could grab with telekinesis, which left only his handgun.

“Mr.Crane permission to use my pistol? There nothing i can use to knock these guards out here” Clover whispered into the ear piece

“Do what you must Agent”

With that, Clover took his handgun out of his holster and shot both Operatives in the head. Quickly he ran into Whitesents office and locked the door behind him. The agent looked around, in a mild awe, he’d never seen a Zoraxis office up close and in person before. Focus Clover, i’m here to find information, not admire the decor. Clover walked over to whitesents desk, and stared at it, it was shockingly clean and organized. The agent thought for a moment about where he should start looking, so he decided to check the drawers first. 

The frist drawer did not contain much, just HiveMind blueprints, and a couple small snacks, however once he took that all out he noticed he could open a small door on the bottom of the drawer. Once he did, there was a key in there, to where the agent wasn’t sure, and just in case he didn’t touch it for now, and closed the first drawer. The second drawer wasn’t really a drawer, it was a place to into a code for something, Clover sighed. This wasn’t his thing but he had no choice. Keeping the second drawer open he walked over to the othe ride of the desk and looked through those drawers, but there was nothing in there. 

Then the agent noticed a small calendar on top of the desk, if anything the code would be on there. He grabbed in and started to scan through the dates and flipping through it. Looking for something that could be considered important. When he found a birthday, he’d put the mouth and day into the code, after a few different birthdays it worked. 12/13 keep that in mind, just in case I do something stupid. When the code was imputed, a door on the underside of the desk opened and lowered a compartment  so Clover could access it. It need a keep to open, so Clover opened the first drawer again and hesitantly took that key out of its place, then inserted it into the keyhole, opening the compartment.

This compartment seemed to be where the important information was kept, by all the blueprints and plans in it. Clover started going through it all, most of it seemed to be about the hivemind tech, stuff they agency already knew. However, Clover, frozen upon reading something, he’d found the plans to explode the agency tomorrow. 

“Mr.Crane! We have a problem!” Clover practically shouted into the ear piece

“What did you find?”

“They’re planning on blowing up the agency tomorrow, the hivemind stuff was just a distraction for us”

“Shit..Okay agent, grab all the information you can on this and run, i’ll tell Morales this, so your on your own for the rest of the mission”

“Okay Mr.crane” 

Clover started grabbing everything he could find on these plans and folded them up into his pockets. Clover was panicked, he didn’t know what to do and just froze for a moment after he grabbed everything. He’s killed high ranking people, and this is what started to freak him out? The idea of the agency building blowing up, when he knew they would mange to get everyone out before they blew it up. Come on agent! Move damn it. You dont have time to stand here like an idiot! The thing that made Clover snap out of his thoughts was banging on the door. It sounded like the Zoraxis operatives realized he was there. He looked around, there wasn’t a window or any other exit in the room, meaning the only way out was through the door. 

Agent Clover took a deep breath, and drew his gun,pointing it at the door. He waited for a moment for the banging to start again, then fired. There was a thud then nothing else. Bullseye. The Agent walked to the door, unlocked it, then opened it. There was the now three dead operatives on the ground. Clover looked around and noticed a small stairway down the hall going up, and walked to it. It most likely led to the rooftop but the door at the top was locked. Hearing loud footsteps coming from the other stairwell, he took out his lockpicking set out of his back point and worked on opening the door. It didn’t take long, he has to do this often during his hitman missions, [A/N:Or is that just an assasination? Is there a difference??] it took long enough for an operative to find him however. Clover got the door open and ran through onto the roof before the Operative had a chance to shoot him through. Of course it was a dead in, it was the roof top after all.

“Well nowhere to run now agent” The Zoraxis operative said pointing a gun at him

“What is this? A really bad spy movie?” Agent Clover chuckled, “You are right however, there is nowhere to run.” the agent was backing up the edge to the roof, ”There is somewhere to jump. So have a good night you brain dead moth” With that Agent Clover jumped off the top of the building…the 15 story building. There was a loud crash as the agent fell into a dumpster, then silence 

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All the agents were sent home, and all the higher ups were standing outside away from the agency building, all of them panicking about what Reginald was told by Agent clover. Agent Clover was no where to be seen, it’s been a few hours since Clover went offline, the last thing Reginald heard was a loud crash, he assumed Clover jumped out a window like Phoenix does, at least he hoped. Clover had a habit of jumping off roofs to escape from missions. 

“If there is explosives under the building, what are we going to about it?” Jingyi asked

“That’s what we need to figure out”  Jinkins replied

“Figure what out!?” Another higher up shocked, “Zoraxis managed to put explosives under our building! How are we going fix this before tomorrow!”

Reginald was close to ripping his hair out with the arguing between the higher ups. Reginald started to try and calm the arguing down and get everyone to relax somewhat. While the higher up’s were all panicking, a car pulled up and loudly screeched as it stopped. The car door slammed open and stumbling out was Agent Clover. 

“Agent! There you are” Reginald exclaimed 

“Hi Mr.Crane..I got the information, i’m also in pain” Clover said walking over.

“Agent Clover what did you find” Morales said

“Well Sir, besides what I told Mr.Crane, I looked over the info I took on the way back. They’re gonna have Agent Phoenix do this, and we have the location from tracking the car Zoraxis gave him.”

“Why Agent Phoenix?” Jinkins asked, “Seems like a risk in itself”

“They’re betting on us showing up to stop him. Which is what were going to do. Jinkins can you set up a van so I can help Agent Clover tomorrow” Reginald stated 

“You are not going to do anything Reginald” Morales objected

“Excuse me? We need to disable the detonator we need to get to work now.”

“I don't care. All they are going to do is blow up the building. On top of that they are probably going to kill Phoenix before we can fix him. Theres no point”

Reginald stared at Morales like he was insane. That was the dumbest thing Reginald had heard and Morales was serious about it. Reginald wanted to punch him, however, he didn’t get a chance too. Agent Clover suddenly punched Morales on to his ass, causing everyone to stare at him in shock.

“Are you fucking kidding me!?” Agent Clover shouted, “Phoenix is stupidly loyal to you and this agency! And your not gonna let us go save him!?”

“Agent Clover-” Reginald tried to step it

“Shut it Mr.Crane not now!” Clover looked back at Morales, “We are going to get Phoneix back and to stop Zoraxis for destroying my fucking work place! And back to you wanting to ditch Phoenix, He has pushed himself so far to save you people! Disabling nukes and stopping John Juniper and saving the heads of state, stopping Dr.Prism and stopping a shit ton of kinesium from exploding and killing all of the agents, he faced so much fucking injury for that, he lost his eye by pushing his implant beyond causing him to black out and almost die in a fucking valcono! And how about the Fucking Death Engine! We are getting Phoneix back! Are you aren’t gonna do shit about it.” Clover looked at Jinkins, “Get Mr.Crane a van ready. Im going to cool off” With that Agent Clover walked off, having let Morales a piece of his mind

“Well…You heard the man Jinkins, get me a Van please and thank you” Reginald said looking at Jinkins

Jinkins just nodded before walking off to get a van set up for Reginald. Reginald walked off to go and check on Clover leaving Morales to process what Clover just did. Once helping him relax and breath he and Clover went to get everything ready, in mere hours they’re gonna have to fight Phoenix, and fix him at the same time. This is fine