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Chapter 4

The white rabbit who stood in the dusty room in which the alphas of S under D gathered had all eyes on him as he began his report on the new alphas.

"My partner Scratch has always had exemplary talents but never had a need to use them. When the boss approached me about a promotion to being an alpha he also knew of Scratch's abilities. He set it up. When I went down like I did Scratch put the blame all on himself like I knew he would and he did. He started showing his real talents and rose to the top of S under D. The boss gave his approval recently and even started to read in Scratch. I was woken up when Scratch left for his current mission; I will be joining that mission after this meeting."

Ademine was the first to respond. "Interesting. So you were that young hot shot we heard about? Hmm I think it is acceptable that you two join our ranks but what about that other one Jeff? Where is his partner?"

Robert stopped Marquis from responding to the question. "I can answer that. His partner is Benjamin Ville who we suspect has fallen into Exile's hands. Benjamin has some skills, some good skills. He eluded the best enforcers and recruiters for seven years. Even when they caught him he managed to escape. Great instincts and is very resourceful. The day he was caught he was going straight to a training facility."

Brett smirked a bit. "Robert weren't you on that mission? As I recall you were someone he trusted until you failed to capture him and he jumped off the bridge? I wonder what the boss thought about that?"

Robert growled as he turned to Brett. The snow tiger was irritated by the fox's comments. "You know why he got away from me! I was supposed to act like a regular recruiter to assess Jeff. If I could have captured him using my alpha skills then sure he would have been easy to capture maybe a bit troublesome as he had some good chemist skills but I could have captured him handily."

Brett just shrugged. "I bet the rest of us could have caught him without blowing our cover. You are an easy target for anyone to take advantage of. Guess we should come to expect that from you still surprised after a failure like that the boss has not sent you to punishment."

Robert growled louder. "I told you there was nothing I could do and there was sure as hell nothing you could have done under those circumstances. Don't try and act like a big shot because you certainly are a small fry."

Brett rushed over and grabbed the tiger by the collar of his shirt. "Who you calling small? You probably forget who the senior here is. Let me remind you!" Brett clenched his paw into a fist and was about to punch Robert.

"Stop this nonsense THIS instant!" A voice yelled out. Brett froze in his tracks and let Robert go. Robert quickly got to his feet as all the alphas in the room reacted to the voice. Soon the source appeared. It was a white lion dressed in a lovely black suit and tie. He had the aura of dominance around him one expected of such a towering figure.

"You are alphas not children. You are the best S under D has to offer. Start acting like it! Brett, Robert I expect much better from the two of you." The lion said out loud.

"Yes sir." Both the fox and the Snow tiger responded as the split apart and went back to their respective mates.

"Good because we are going to need your strength. Julius has informed me of a few developments. Benjamin Ville has reappeared at the party down in Texas to kick off the campaign. He appears to not be in the best of states and still has his chemist skills. Robert, David, Brett and Louis will go there to track and retrieve Ben. Marquis you will join your mate in Spain. A plane is prepared here at the local airport to take you there. You should arrive there by Sunday morning local time, leave now. Barnes and Leroy will also go to provide support. The team we sent their originally has been incapacitated. I received the notice about ten minutes ago that their investigation had suffered a setback. Jeff and Scratch are overwhelmed at the moment but they have confirmed that the enemy is most likely Exile." The lion lectured.

Those who heard their names nodded and quickly vacated the building to head out on their missions. Ademine and Alsez were left there by themselves with the lion.

"And for you two, I have a special mission for you. Nancy Lu and her partner Cindy Time escaped recently. They have lots of information due to having been in contact with the boss's son. I need them neutralized this instant. If they fall into Exile's hands with the information they have then we could be put in a pinch."

Ademine and Alsez nodded. "Sir might I ask why the others have not been brought out yet? Only half of the Alphas have been called out. As one of the wing men you should be able to tell us why." Ademine asked.

The lion sighed. "Yes as one of the wing men I do know why. And you should have figured it out. He are preparing for war. The others are going to try sure up our defenses and prepare the enforcers and recruiters for what is to come. You have been chosen to go on some missions to tie up loose ends before Exile makes their move. Just obey the orders I have given you."

"Yes sir." The two huskies said and then they two left quickly.

"I swear Julius you better not get yourself into too much trouble after all S under D needs you more than anyone else." The lion said to himself as he slowly left the meeting place.

Back in Spain however Scratch and Jeff were waiting in a conference room for a phone call from the boss. The phone soon rang and Jeff picked up.

"Jeff Ville here."

"Jeff Ville huh? Nice to finally talk to such a famous recruiter. I am Antonio Messi, one of the five wing men." The voice said from the other side of the line.

"A wing man? Really? I guess I should not be surprised since it was the boss is in on this. But down to business. Did Scratch's request for back up get approval?" Jeff asked.

"It did. I sent the rooster list to your phones. Two alphas and one recruit like you two are. They should arrive by tomorrow morning. We have also begun to pool our resources and mobilize them against Exile. You two are in need of some major support but perform at your highest level until the reinforcements get to you."

Jeff looked at Scratch as the two smiled with the news that they were getting the help they need.

"We will do our best sir." Scratch responded this time.

"Good. I have to go now I have much to do on my end. I must bid you adieu." Antonio hung up the line from his end.

Jeff smirked as he became his confident self again and began to check the names on his phone he might have heard about these guys before. He checked the list three names. Leroy Smith, Barnes Smith and Marquis Victory.

Jeff turned to scratch. "Hey ever hear of these guys? I sure haven't!"

Scratch raised an eyebrow. "Let me hear the names. I doubt I have heard them either but let's see."

"Alright. Leroy Smith and Barnes Smith along with Marquis Victory." Jeff said but as he finished he noticed that Scratch had frozen in place.

"What kind of prank are you pulling? Cut the crap, Marquis is the hospital and you know that!" Scratch yelled out in response to Jeff's supposed joke.

"No really! Check your phone, his name is on the roster list!" Jeff said in defense.

Scratch checked his cell phone for any messages and he found two. The most recent one was the roster list and just as Jeff said Marquis's name is on the list. Scratch growled and then stormed out of the room.

"What was up with him?" Jeff asked nobody in particular.

Scratch was squeezing his phone as he dialed a number. He was totally furious.

"Saint July memorial, how may I help you?" Said a female voice from the other side.

"This is Scratch Victory I would like to be put on to Doctor Oliver please." Scratch asked the female trying to hide his rage for the moment.

"Ah Doctor Oliver is no longer working for us. He retired this morning finally after his last patient was discharged yesterday."

Scratch stammered a bit. "But he was still in Acoma on Thursday. How was he discharged so quickly?"

"Sir I am not allowed to divulge personal information like that over the phone. I am only allowed to say that the patient was discharged and so Doctor Oliver has retired. Is there anything else I can help you with?" The female was clearly aggravated at Scratch's tone.

"No never mind then." Scratch hung up his phone and growled. What the hell was going on? Marquis on his way here? He was still bed ridden and in Acoma! Who the hell was behind it?

Scratch punched a wall in frustration not realizing that Jeff was already standing behind him.

"Scratch? What the hell is going on with you? You went berserk since you heard the roster names." Jeff asked.

Scratch looked at his rival fox and growled again but relented. "You already know about my mate Marquis right?"

"Yea, don't tell me that the marquis being sent here is yours?" Jeff bit as gasp he remembered about Scratch and his mate.

"He should still be in bed sick. He should not be able to walk around like this. This makes no sense. And how is he an Alpha recruit? He has been out of commission for so long." Scratch barely held things together even so he could not stop the stream of tears.

Jeff reached over and patted Scratch on the shoulder. "Hey take some time off. Head to bed there is nothing more we can do here tonight. We can only wait until our reinforcements arrive tomorrow."

Scratch hated to do it but he needed to get his head in order this was just too much. He slowly walked off to his room. Jeff could only stare but he was sure he heard someone stifle a laugh somewhere close.

'Could it be? Someone was watching us the entire time?' Jeff thought to himself. Just stayed in the hallway and started whistling and snapping his fingers. To anyone passing by it was if he was signing a song in his head. But weirdly there was no sound coming from his mouth.

Meanwhile Scratch had arrived at the room he was provided during his stay. He setup a few security measures just in case someone tried to get to him while he slept but that is all he could do presently. His mind was just in a haze at the thought of Marquis. He did not know whether to be happy Marquis was okay, whether to be worried that he wasn't or even the reason why Marquis had suddenly woken up.

"Marquis? What is going on? What are they not telling me?" Scratch said to himself he so wanted to call the boss and ask a few questions but he knew that how he was now would get him nowhere and just probably hurt him in the long run.

Soon thought Scratch remembered that he did not check his second message that was left for him. He quickly checked his phone again and realized the second message was a video file. Before he could even press play Scratch was frozen in place at the sight of Marquis.

As he pressed play he could feel his heartbeat.

"Hey Scratch been a while hasn't it? For both of us. You never visited me in the hospital! I hope you are ready to answer for that. Well I am on my way, can't wait to see you again. I hope you have not gotten yourself into too much trouble while I was gone because I expected you to behave. Anyway I know you must feel horrible right now and have lots of questions just wait for me. I will answer them all once I get to you. I see you then have a good night's sleep." And with that the video ended.

Scratch shivered a bit as the video was over but he knew that was Marquis. That was the rabbit he loved and that was the same one he got hurt. Well there were lots of things he wanted to talk to marquis about but for now he just needed to rest.

He threw himself into his bed and tried to sleep. He would need it. Tomorrow would prove to be even more annoying than before. He would deal with marquis when his partner arrived.

Jeff however was not taking the night off. He had set a trap and it had caught its prey as he expected. He was still whistling and snapping his fingers. But this time there was sound. Not from Jeff but from his prey. His prey did not realize it but whoever it was, was whistling along as well and Jeff was pinpointing their location.

He found it and then walked over to the hallway where the noise was coming from. There was no one there. Or so it would appear if Jeff did not have the location down. The poor soul probably did not realize what he was doing.

Jeff then got to his target he kicked the figure hard sending him into a wall. The invisibility cloak that the white raccoon was wearing soon faded but the Raccoon was clearly knocked out. Jeff smiled as he started to restrain the raccoon.

'I hope no one else was around. Because it would be problematic if someone else listened in. but I got him. I captured one of the exiles.'

Jeff dragged his captured raccoon down to the prison cages where he would find the perfect cell to keep such a crafty raccoon. Jeff started to cut off the raccoons white robes and strip him of his devices. He needed to find out what these did and he also needed to keep things quiet. He had already locked the prison door and stripped the raccoon of all his belongs and now he just needed to find a suitable cell.

He opted for the high security interrogation one. He put the raccoon into the cell and placed six steel rings on the raccoon. One on each wrist, one on each ankle and one on the neck and of course one on the base of the penis and balls. Those were meant to shock the raccoon and they were also extremely hard to remove.

He just waited for the raccoon to wake up. And soon he was rewarded with the raccoon regaining consciousness. The raccoon groaned a bit as he came to and looked at his surroundings.

"Well good morning my good sir!" Jeff said as he looked at his prisoner.

"How did you capture me?" The raccoon yelled out.

"I just kicked you and knocked you out. Your cloak doesn't protect you from that does it? And you seem to think that I don't have the skills to take you down. Well here you are, in front of me naked and powerless the way I like my prisoners." Jeff liked his lips as he saw his prey start to struggle.

"You cretin you dare imprison me like this! This is an insult to one of my stature. I will ensure that you will pay the price when I capture you." The raccoon growled out at Jeff.

Jeff just smiled. "Like you can do anything." Jeff paused. "You don't get the situation you are in so let me show you."

Jeff cleared his throat and prepared his voice. "Tell me what your mission is right now."

The raccoon wanted to refuse to answer Jeff's questions but he could not Jeff's voice was just so irresistible that he had to obey what it said to him. "My mission is to capture Jeff Ville and disable this facility in the process. I was to setup and make my move tomorrow when my reinforcements arrive to pick me up."

'So I am there target? What would they want with me?' Jeff thought to himself.

"What is your group's purpose?"

"We are here to spread the word of our greatness. S under D is no longer representative of our goals. We were sent here to ensure that the world was made into the image that we prefer. Our ideals must be spread to all living things." The raccoon practically recited.

"Well that serves me little good. But at least we know what we are up against. And I have tons more questions for you."

Jeff continued his interrogation of the raccoon for a few more hours well into the early hours of the morning. He worked well into the morning but there was another person not sleeping tonight.

Fred was working hard checked for the raccoon he lost track of earlier but came to the realization that Jeff had already caught him. His partner Jamison was already sleeping not his surprise anyway Jamison could not stay awake to save his life.

'Well he is better than I thought. I never expected him to stop that guy. This turns our plans inside out. I was focusing on exile not Jeff. But this makes things complicated; I would rather not face these 'Alphas'. I know S under D had tricks up their sleeves but not something this complicated.' Fred thought to himself as he sent a message to Ty to find out what his next move should be.

"Jamison wake up!" Fred said out loud. When he got no response he tried again. "Jamison!" Fred was now annoyed he picked up the remote for the TV and threw it straight at the sleeping black panther. The panther while still sleeping caught it.

"If you wanted to have sex you could have just done it without throwing things at me." Jamison said as he was waking up slowly.

"It's not sex I want. Even though you look hot right now I have bigger concerns. Ty just messaged us back and we are to leave now. We cannot face the Alphas like this especially since Exile has been caught." Fred was erasing his computer as to cover up any evidence.

Jamison groaned. "What happened?"

"While you were asleep Jeff captured that Raccoon I fought with. No doubt he will turn on us to draw some attention away from himself. And I am no sticking around to face those 'Alphas'." Fred said as he started putting away some of his things in a bag pack.

"I never heard of them. What is the big deal?" Jamison started rubbing his eyes and as soon as he finished he started snapping his fingers.

"That is the problem. We have no Intel on them but form what I gather they are the top recruiters and enforcers. And they know more about S under D than the regulars. And they have access to technology that could be on par with ours. I really don't want to face them like this. We don't have our stuff and we are quite vulnerable. We could learn something but Ty thinks it is better for us to retreat for now and just steal the information S under D got later." Fred finished packing his bag and also Jamison's bag. He also started snapping his fingers after handing Jamison his bag.

"So we are leaving tonight? Alright, our bugs should self-destruct as soon as we leave. Let's get to the beach." Jamison continued to snap his fingers.

"Hey why are you snapping your fingers?" Fred finally took notice of the fingers snapping.

"I don't know. And I cannot stop! And you are doing it too!" Jamison pointed out.

"Wait I am?" Fred looked at his right hand and realized he was also snapping his fingers.

"What is going on?" Jamison asked.

"You guys are my prisoners that is what!" They heard a voice say as he entered their room. It was Jeff using the same technique he used before.

"How did you?" Fred said as he tried to move but all he could do was snap his fingers.

"You should have done better research. You guys have not learned of the voice techniques yet." Jeff said looking triumphant as he circled the room and took Jamison's and Fred's bag packs from them.

"I know full well about it. You need some time to warm up and a special liquid that is unique to different species. It is a technique used only for interrogation because it affects anyone within its range. I have used it once." Jamison said as he watched Jeff go through his stuff.

"Well I need little warm up and no liquid. And guess what you guys are already under my power." Jeff said as he looked at more of Fred's stuff.

"That explains how you broke that Raccoon so fast." Fred remarked.

"Yep, breaking someone is actually quite easy for me although I try not to use this often. And what do we have here." Jeff found some interesting communication devices.

"Activate this for me please. I know that is not a game system." Jeff handed Jamison a hand held game.

Against his will Jamison showed off the hand held's secrets. It was a video viewer that allowed them to check on their secret cameras that they placed all over the island.

"Interesting. You guys have most of the island covered in these huh. Few blind spots it seems. No wonder you were able to find that raccoon so quickly. Since you know so much you guys will also be answering my questions." Jeff started snapping his fingers and Jamison and Fred realized that their snapping was in total rhythm with Jeff's

The two felines looked at each other in fear as they realized they had already been caught horribly in Jeff's trap. The fox was grinning so wide it was showing his fangs. Jeff had caught all his enemies in one night. After everything looking so horrible this afternoon he now had his prey caught.

"Follow me to your new rooms. The prisons." Jeff said as he led the two felines away. The walk was a long one for Fred and Jamison as their bodies moved without their consent. There was nothing they could do.

After a few minutes they reached the prison cells where Jeff carefully locked the door behind them as he had heard from the raccoon that a few of the furs around were already under Exile's control. He ordered Fred and Jamison into two cells and locked them in. He also cuffed them so that they would not escape. And so he began his interrogation.

It was nearly four in the morning when Scratch unlocked the door to the prison cells. He too locked the door behind him as he approached Jeff.

"What did you find Jeff? And what were you doing instead of trying to get some rest?" Scratch asked the fox. Both were clearly sleepy but Scratch was because of being woken up Jeff was sleepy from not sleeping yet.

"I managed to break this case wide open. But I need someone to watch these guys while I get some sleep." Jeff yawned as he pointed to the three cells where his prisoners were sleeping.

"You!" Scratch sputtered out. "How did you catch these guys so easily?"

"That raccoon slipped up when he overheard our conversation. My ears picked up on it and my voice did the rest. And as for those two well it is all in my report." Jeff threw a folder full of hand written notes at Scratch. There must been over fifty pages of information. Jeff Yawned again. "I need some sleep."

Scratch looked over the folder and realized Jeff must have been at it all night. He watched as the fox went over to one of the empty cells and threw himself into a bed. Scratch smiled as he knew he needed to type out the reports. He sat down at Jeff's laptop and started to type out the reports. He smiled though when he looked over at Jeff.

"Welcome back Jeff. It is good to have the real you back." Scratch said to himself as he started to type out the reports.