"WHAT?!" Lina yelled in shock. "Gavin has been kidnapped?! How did it happen?! Where did it happen?! Who did it?! What do they want?! Where has he been taken too?!"
Everyone all looked over to Amelia with questioning looks.
"It happened over in eastern district. Me and Gavin were patrolling like we have been doing for the past few days. We stopped at this section because it was very vacant for some odd reason. So we went to check it out. We heard this noise in an alleyway but when we went to investigate we didn't find anything. Just as we turned around to leave these men in black suits jumped us. The knocked Gavin unconscious and took him away in a car. I demanded to know where they were taking him and one of the men said that they said that they were taking him to a place that I wouldn't be going. They also said that they were going to do something to him! Miss Lina what are we going to do?!" Amelia cried out.
"I don't know... What the hell do they want with Gavin?! And who the hell are they?!"
"So is he ready?" The head black suited man asked his cohorts.
"Almost Sir."
"Excellent. Once he's ready it's time to release him." The man said with an evil smile.
An hour later Lina and company were back in Blitz's office trying to figure out what to do.
"You mean Gavin has been kidnapped by people dressed in black suits? Who are they?" Blitz asked in a rather hotly tone.
"I wish I knew. I've never heard about a criminal organization that goes around dressed in black suits. Have you?" Lina asked.
"No, do you think that Ozer or Vernas could have a hand in this?" Leviathan looked to his twin with an exasperated expression.
"But what reason would they have to kidnap Gavin?"
And again they were back to square one.
"I think the more important question is not who kidnapped Gavin, but more of how to get him back. Since we haven't received a ransom note then there must be another reason on why they want him."
"That still doesn't help us with trying to figure out how to get him back."
"Well what about Xellos or De Tanga? Their monsters right? Maybe they could find them."
"That's worth a shot." Blitz typed in a few things into his communicator and the projection screen. "Heidi can you get Xellos and De Tanga into my office ASAP?"
"Sure Boss."
Meanwhile everyone's favorite villains, Ozer and Vernas sat in their little hideout wondering what was going on themselves.
"Hey Ozer do you know who these black suited guys are?"
"No and I'm a bit surprised at that. Now what could they possibly want with the youngest Inverse child?" Ozer mused in thought. He found it rather intriguing that these people in black suits had managed to pull a stunt as they had. The reason that they had found out about the kidnapping incident was because one of Ozer's spies told him about a mind control device that the men in black suits had used to get everyone in certain areas of eastern district to leave their homes.
"Annoyed that you didn't think of it first Ozer?" Vernas said with a laugh. Ozer on the other hand didn't find that very amusing and was glaring at him with the evilest of looks. And if there was one thing you didn't do then it would be getting Ozer angry at you. "Um joke, Ozer. It was a joke." Vernas said with a nervous laugh. Ozer mentally smiled at the fact that he could cause fear in someone with just a look.
De Tanga teleported into the medical labs right behind Xellos.
"Hello Xellos." De Tanga said with a smile. Xellos on the other hand jumped. Even though Xellos was a monster De Tanga somehow always was able to sneak up on him.
"AHHH!!! And what do you want?!"
"My, temper, temper. Xellos you and I have to go to Blitz's office. Right now." De Tanga's tone was rather serious for his normal way of talking.
"Oh and what is the matter? Something to do with happened today?"
"I really don't know, I wasn't given any details. We'd best go there and find out."
Because they are monsters and not humans they teleported to Blitz's office rather then walked.
"Hello there Mister Inverse. What have you called us for?" Xellos said in his regular playful tone.
"Xellos, De Tanga I'm going to make this sort. Gavin has been kidnapped. We don't know where he is, why he was taken or who took him. All we know is that the people who did it were men in black suits. We need your help to find him."
Xellos looked over to De Tanga. "Should I try first?"
"Go right ahead."
Xellos concentrated very hard on trying to locate where exactly Gavin was using his monster abilities. Only for some weird reason his powers were being blocked by some unknown force. "As odd as it might seem I can't find him."
Everyone looked at him with shock.
"What do you mean you can't find him? You're a monster, shouldn't you be able to find him?"
"Not all monsters have good abilities to find people, especially for finding people far away. Like De Tanga, due to his varied non-monster type abilities some of his monster abilities are limited. My monster abilities are very good."
"Then why can't you find him?"
"Because for some weird reason I'm being blocked. Must be some weird protection field. But De Tanga you might have a better chance."
De Tanga was quiet for a few moments and looked up to see everyone looking at him. "Well first I need an item of Gavin's. Does any of you have something I could use?"
Lina, Leviathan and Blitz thought for a moment. And then Blitz went fishing around his office and handed De Tanga a glove that Gavin had left in Blitz's office last winter.
"Okay now let me see..." De Tanga closed his eyes and concentrated very carefully. He was starting to get an image until he felt this sharp searing pain that caused him to stop his search. He nearly collapsed on the floor from the pain.
"De Tanga are you alright?"
Everyone rushed around the monster and De Tanga just waved his hand. "No, no I'm fine. Just a block that was a bit painful. Whoever this is that took Gavin is very good and very cautious."
And back to square one they went.
"So Sir what are we planning to do with the boy once we are done with him?" One of the cohorts asked the black suited man in charge.
"Well we are going to give him back of course. He wouldn't be of any use to us if we kept him here." The leader of course spoke with an evil smile.
"But what would he be able to do for us if we let him go?" The cohort was confused. But then that wasn't abnormal. Most of the leaders' men were a bit in the dark about what his plans were. The only ones who had any bit of an idea of what the leader was planning where the scientists who did the experiments the leader asked them to do.
"Oh so you mean you aren't sure why we are doing this?"
"No Sir."
"Good. Just follow my orders and everything will out, hopefully in our favor." The leader just patted his cohort on the back and went walking down the halls. He was making his rounds seeing how everything was doing. He stopped at a door and went in. He was in the observation room. And what was being observed? Gavin Inverse laying on a table in a comatose-like state.
"Well once you are ready you will serve our purpose nicely..."
Another one of the leaders cohorts came into the room. "Sir he's ready to go."
"Excellent. Let's get the preparations started."
Lina, Blitz, Zelgadis, Leviathan, Martina, Gourry, Zangulus, Xellos and De Tanga were still trying to figure out a way to get Gavin back when someone alerted them of something happening outside. When they got there what they found was an unconscious Gavin laying on the pavement.
"Hurry we have to get him to the medical labs!"
Minutes later Gavin was being seen over by Rezo, Filia, Xellos and some of the other various yellow agents.
"Is Gavin alright?"
"From what I can tell he's perfectly healthy only I have no clue on why he's in a coma-like state. And what purpose did those people kidnap him for just to give him back on the same day?" Rezo mused while looking over Gavin. I was strange they didn't find any weird chemicals in his body, or at least ones that would shed light on his condition and what had been done to him. "I can't say for sure when he'll come to, or even if he will come to at all. I'm really in the dark here. I swear with all the trouble we've been having with Vernas we sure don't need something else to have to deal with."
They all could agree with him. They didn't know anything about these people in the black suits and as they sure weren't helping matters.
"So I guess the only thing we can do for now is sit and wait to see if he'll wake up. Geeze first Luna now this..." Lina grumbled.
The high STF officials again met at their conference room. Only this time, they weren't meeting to discuss Ozer and Vernas.
"I heard that the youngest Inverse kid was kidnapped earlier today." Senator Dynast started off the meeting.
"Yes it was in the eastern district of Vald city. It's pretty odd too, they kidnapped Gavin Inverse but didn't bother to kidnap Amelia Sailune, the mayor's daughter."
"Meaning what they were after wasn't money."
"What were they after? I heard that the boy was return in an unconscious state."
"Yes he was. It's very interesting, so many little mysteries few so little answers." Senator Deep Sea said with a content smile. Everyone just gave her a funny look.
"Ahem. And one mystery would be how they managed to get all those people out of their homes."
"Well that isn't so much a mystery. I have the answer to that one." Everyone turned their attention to Lillian Greywers whom was also sitting on the meeting. "It's quite simple actually. They used mind control."
"You mean they have special powers to get people to do their will?" Senator Gaav said with evident sarcasms.
"No I was talking about a machine. Of course no one on record has ever been able to accomplish such a goal as to make a machine like that work. But just because we don't know about it doesn't mean that someone has succeeded. What I'm more concerned about is how these mystery people were able to know where Amelia Sailune and Gavin Inverse were going to be patrolling." Lillian said with a frown. If my line of thinking is correct then that's a scary thought...
"What are you implying that wasn't a coincidence that Gavin was kidnapped?" Senator Fibrizo asked with a disbelieving expression. Everyone looked over to Lillian with similar disbelief displayed on their faces.
"If so then why didn't they take Miss Sailune as well? And why not another area of Vald? Why that specific section of eastern district? No they wanted Gavin and Gavin alone."
"But then what you are saying is that these people knew Gavin's work schedule? The only way they could do that is if..." Senator Celesta's voice trailed off. She couldn't say even think to say the rest.
"If they had some way to breech STF security and gain access to some of the files."
"No that couldn't be possible!"
"You mean someone getting past STF security?" Lillian knew that even though STF had been breeched before they still thought of the structure as being impenetrable. Lillian herself couldn't really figure out how Ozer managed to do it or how the people the black suits managed to do break in. But then at the same time she could be ignorant and believe that STF headquarters was impenetrable.
"We would have known of it if someone had!"
"Yes but Ozer managed to get past STF security so why can't someone else?"
"But even though Ozer got past our security he still ended up being detected."
"So whose to say that someone couldn't get in without being detected?"
"But that would mean that these people would be smarter then Ozer..." What a horrifying thought, a organized group of criminals smarter then Ozer the acclaimed notorious and most ingenious criminal in STF history.
"That's right." Lillian Greywers said with an emotionless face. Everyone else's expressions in the room darken. Well except for Deep Sea was still smiling contently.