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Chapter 2
It took about 45 minutes for everybody to get there, but I didn’t have my entire “army” present in my basement. It was only the ones who had passports. This is why I mentioned the ones to focus on were Sonic JAM, the Martian Freedom Fighters, and True Blue and Li’l Foxy. (Her dancers were included on the list as well, and when she sings with True Blue, they dance.) However, the SWAT Kats were also present because they also discovered they had their passports revoked. They were dressed as their superhero selves, but seemed to have marching band music on their minds, since they were marching when they entered the basement, and keeping in step until stopping when T-Bone called out, “Company, halt!” A few seconds later, he said, “At ease.” The two then relaxed.
“Well, first of all, thank you all for coming,” I said.
“Thank you for calling us,” Razor replied. “Do you have that newspaper?”
“I do.” I showed it to them.
“Well, it looks like a legit edition of USA Today,” said Knuckles, “but I didn’t know they did samples.”
“Neither did I,” Super C replied. “But just before I came in here, I gave a phone call to the post office and the other authorities in charge of passports, and they said nobody among you has done anything worthy of having your passports revoked. Not to mention, with Leo as our President, the newspapers are now holding their reports to a much higher standard. What I can’t decide, however, is if CNG did this on its own, or if there was a terrorist or criminal doing this. That’s assuming this is a fake newspaper.”
“Have you called USA Today about it?” Sonic asked.
“I haven’t, but I plan to do so.”
“I’ll do a Google search on the phone number,” I said, and I booted up my laptop and brought up Google so that I could find the phone number. Once we found it, Super C dialed the phone number and waited for someone to answer. I then went upstairs to see if the real newspaper I had a subscription to, the Daily Growl, arrived yet, and it had. It was just late because its drivers were told to wait until the fake papers had been all passed out. It also helped that the mouse known as Thunderstorm Sam, one of the editors for the newspaper, discovered the deception when the head of the Golden Shots, Captain Crossbow, called him to let him know about it. How did Captain Crossbow know about it, you ask? In a historic first, CNG decided to act totally out of character, and summoned a blue blank index card with the crime and its information on it.)
Over at USA Today, the bosses were furious with the staff because they demanded to know who the guilty party behind this fake story was. All the employees denied it, but the bosses weren’t accepting it. Fortunately, the Cat of Steel’s phone call came in, and it ultimately saved the employees from termination. (It also helped that the boss remembered to keep calm and carry on with the call.) “Yes; hello?” one of them answered.
“This is SuperCat calling,” Super C began after he put the app on video mode. (This meant the people at USA Today were also using the G-52 app.) “I have reason to believe CNG has infiltrated your newspaper, because somebody was throwing newspapers to me, my recruits, and specific allies of the G-52s, claiming all our passports have been revoked because we aren’t using proper transportation, but instead our powers or by summoning portals. Why is that a reason to revoke somebody of his or her passport? That’s almost blasphemy!”
“We were just investigating that ourselves,” the newspaper boss replied. “We had never been this angry before; ever since the people, although with CNG’s help, voted President Zanicchi into office, we’ve been holding our journalists and employees to a much higher stand or reporting. We couldn’t find the guilty party because everybody was denying the claims. But now that you’ve come in and said CNG was to blame for this, we feel dumber than ever before.”
“Well, do not blame yourselves for it. I was really calling to ask your help in answering a question my gut instinct is asking. CNG may have been involved, but did it A) act on its own, or B) lure a criminal or terrorist to his death by assisting him or her with the act? My initial reaction was to say option B.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s that second option, but I’ll add a third one and say the criminal is not dead yet, and he may not even have used the CNG. Okay. I guess that’s four options.”
“Right.”
“Who all is involved besides you?”
“It’s all the American G-52s except the President and any G-52s in his administration, plus everybody you see here.” Super C held his smartphone up so the staff of USA Today could get a look at who was present. “Oh, dear; this is worse than we thought,” said the editor. “I think your hunch was correct if your hunch was that second possibility about somebody using the CNG to help them create a fake version of our newspaper.” We watched the editor turn back to the rest of the staff and say, “Somebody stop the presses! Right this minute we need to print a new edition!”
“The presses aren’t going; they’re broken down,” somebody else replied.
“They’re broken?” The editor turned back to Super C. “Could you get your friends over here to help us investigate this?”
“We’ll be there on the double!”
“Thanks.”
“No problem.” The call ended, and Super C had me summon portals so my “army” could jump through. However, to make it easier on the staff so that nobody would get scared or suffer a heart attack, they didn’t arrive directly at USA Today’s HQ building. Instead, they just appeared back at their home or home base before traveling to the headquarters of USA Today. The HQ building, by the way, is located at 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Virginia, 22108. While Sonic and Shadow physically ran to the building, the others either flew in Tails’s plane, the Tornado, or joined True Blue in taking the underground maglev trains. The Biker Mice and Charley flew their tri-fighter (their bikes adjusted into a flying craft) to the place, but out of habit, the mice did a backflip after taking off, with Vinnie laughing his signature laugh, and Charley lamenting, “Ugh! Do we really have to do that?”
Super C and I, alongside the other G-52s who could fly, just flew to the building.
At the White House, Leo was in the middle of a press conference acknowledging this issue. “When a single citizen of this country isn’t free to use their First Amendment rights, one of which is freedom of the press, without CNG getting in the way,” he commented, “then is any one of us truly free? The day after I was elected, as you all well know, I told everybody that I wanted the press to tell the truth, and not twist it around to match their bias and agendas that once preached you’re a racist if you’re right-wing, or a communist if you’re left-wing. Sometimes one side has the winning argument; sometimes the opposing side does, and sometimes what’s truly right in the eyes of God falls somewhere in between. Whether or not CNG was involved, we cannot have this happen again, people of the press!”
No sooner had Leo gone off the air when NBC announced that while the regular NBC was remaining on the air, as was the NBC Sports Network, CNBC and MSNBC were going off the air forever. “I just hope CNN never comes back,” one ex-MSNBC employee lamented, “because we clearly had stooped down to their level.”
“I’m amazed Fox News and its spin-offs made a comeback,” said another, “because they were showing the same problems CNN was showing, but from the other side of the coin. This was a frustrating place to work. If WBC has any openings, I’m moving to Wildcat City, even if all I do is film one of their game shows.”
The next day, just before we arrived, USA Today held a press conference of its own to verify this was a prime example of fake news. Unintentionally referencing an old Batman episode, the president of the newspaper said on camera, “Here’s a statement from our editor-in-chief. The headline about the G-52s and allies losing their passports was entirely untrue.” She then held up a piece of parchment with the exact words she just said in silver lettering, with a red seal underneath it. “There; see that? It’s signed and notarized.”
The other press present took notes of it, although bugging the president with their photography. “Could you go easy on the flash?” she requested.
Soon we arrived to discuss the problem with the newspaper. All the while, the post offices were making sure our passports were still up and running, although they issued us new ones as if we had wanted to renew them, but at no cost to us.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Chapter 2
It took about 45 minutes for everybody to get there, but I didn’t have my entire “army” present in my basement. It was only the ones who had passports. This is why I mentioned the ones to focus on were Sonic JAM, the Martian Freedom Fighters, and True Blue and Li’l Foxy. (Her dancers were included on the list as well, and when she sings with True Blue, they dance.) However, the SWAT Kats were also present because they also discovered they had their passports revoked. They were dressed as their superhero selves, but seemed to have marching band music on their minds, since they were marching when they entered the basement, and keeping in step until stopping when T-Bone called out, “Company, halt!” A few seconds later, he said, “At ease.” The two then relaxed.
“Well, first of all, thank you all for coming,” I said.
“Thank you for calling us,” Razor replied. “Do you have that newspaper?”
“I do.” I showed it to them.
“Well, it looks like a legit edition of USA Today,” said Knuckles, “but I didn’t know they did samples.”
“Neither did I,” Super C replied. “But just before I came in here, I gave a phone call to the post office and the other authorities in charge of passports, and they said nobody among you has done anything worthy of having your passports revoked. Not to mention, with Leo as our President, the newspapers are now holding their reports to a much higher standard. What I can’t decide, however, is if CNG did this on its own, or if there was a terrorist or criminal doing this. That’s assuming this is a fake newspaper.”
“Have you called USA Today about it?” Sonic asked.
“I haven’t, but I plan to do so.”
“I’ll do a Google search on the phone number,” I said, and I booted up my laptop and brought up Google so that I could find the phone number. Once we found it, Super C dialed the phone number and waited for someone to answer. I then went upstairs to see if the real newspaper I had a subscription to, the Daily Growl, arrived yet, and it had. It was just late because its drivers were told to wait until the fake papers had been all passed out. It also helped that the mouse known as Thunderstorm Sam, one of the editors for the newspaper, discovered the deception when the head of the Golden Shots, Captain Crossbow, called him to let him know about it. How did Captain Crossbow know about it, you ask? In a historic first, CNG decided to act totally out of character, and summoned a blue blank index card with the crime and its information on it.)
Over at USA Today, the bosses were furious with the staff because they demanded to know who the guilty party behind this fake story was. All the employees denied it, but the bosses weren’t accepting it. Fortunately, the Cat of Steel’s phone call came in, and it ultimately saved the employees from termination. (It also helped that the boss remembered to keep calm and carry on with the call.) “Yes; hello?” one of them answered.
“This is SuperCat calling,” Super C began after he put the app on video mode. (This meant the people at USA Today were also using the G-52 app.) “I have reason to believe CNG has infiltrated your newspaper, because somebody was throwing newspapers to me, my recruits, and specific allies of the G-52s, claiming all our passports have been revoked because we aren’t using proper transportation, but instead our powers or by summoning portals. Why is that a reason to revoke somebody of his or her passport? That’s almost blasphemy!”
“We were just investigating that ourselves,” the newspaper boss replied. “We had never been this angry before; ever since the people, although with CNG’s help, voted President Zanicchi into office, we’ve been holding our journalists and employees to a much higher stand or reporting. We couldn’t find the guilty party because everybody was denying the claims. But now that you’ve come in and said CNG was to blame for this, we feel dumber than ever before.”
“Well, do not blame yourselves for it. I was really calling to ask your help in answering a question my gut instinct is asking. CNG may have been involved, but did it A) act on its own, or B) lure a criminal or terrorist to his death by assisting him or her with the act? My initial reaction was to say option B.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s that second option, but I’ll add a third one and say the criminal is not dead yet, and he may not even have used the CNG. Okay. I guess that’s four options.”
“Right.”
“Who all is involved besides you?”
“It’s all the American G-52s except the President and any G-52s in his administration, plus everybody you see here.” Super C held his smartphone up so the staff of USA Today could get a look at who was present. “Oh, dear; this is worse than we thought,” said the editor. “I think your hunch was correct if your hunch was that second possibility about somebody using the CNG to help them create a fake version of our newspaper.” We watched the editor turn back to the rest of the staff and say, “Somebody stop the presses! Right this minute we need to print a new edition!”
“The presses aren’t going; they’re broken down,” somebody else replied.
“They’re broken?” The editor turned back to Super C. “Could you get your friends over here to help us investigate this?”
“We’ll be there on the double!”
“Thanks.”
“No problem.” The call ended, and Super C had me summon portals so my “army” could jump through. However, to make it easier on the staff so that nobody would get scared or suffer a heart attack, they didn’t arrive directly at USA Today’s HQ building. Instead, they just appeared back at their home or home base before traveling to the headquarters of USA Today. The HQ building, by the way, is located at 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Virginia, 22108. While Sonic and Shadow physically ran to the building, the others either flew in Tails’s plane, the Tornado, or joined True Blue in taking the underground maglev trains. The Biker Mice and Charley flew their tri-fighter (their bikes adjusted into a flying craft) to the place, but out of habit, the mice did a backflip after taking off, with Vinnie laughing his signature laugh, and Charley lamenting, “Ugh! Do we really have to do that?”
Super C and I, alongside the other G-52s who could fly, just flew to the building.
At the White House, Leo was in the middle of a press conference acknowledging this issue. “When a single citizen of this country isn’t free to use their First Amendment rights, one of which is freedom of the press, without CNG getting in the way,” he commented, “then is any one of us truly free? The day after I was elected, as you all well know, I told everybody that I wanted the press to tell the truth, and not twist it around to match their bias and agendas that once preached you’re a racist if you’re right-wing, or a communist if you’re left-wing. Sometimes one side has the winning argument; sometimes the opposing side does, and sometimes what’s truly right in the eyes of God falls somewhere in between. Whether or not CNG was involved, we cannot have this happen again, people of the press!”
No sooner had Leo gone off the air when NBC announced that while the regular NBC was remaining on the air, as was the NBC Sports Network, CNBC and MSNBC were going off the air forever. “I just hope CNN never comes back,” one ex-MSNBC employee lamented, “because we clearly had stooped down to their level.”
“I’m amazed Fox News and its spin-offs made a comeback,” said another, “because they were showing the same problems CNN was showing, but from the other side of the coin. This was a frustrating place to work. If WBC has any openings, I’m moving to Wildcat City, even if all I do is film one of their game shows.”
The next day, just before we arrived, USA Today held a press conference of its own to verify this was a prime example of fake news. Unintentionally referencing an old Batman episode, the president of the newspaper said on camera, “Here’s a statement from our editor-in-chief. The headline about the G-52s and allies losing their passports was entirely untrue.” She then held up a piece of parchment with the exact words she just said in silver lettering, with a red seal underneath it. “There; see that? It’s signed and notarized.”
The other press present took notes of it, although bugging the president with their photography. “Could you go easy on the flash?” she requested.
Soon we arrived to discuss the problem with the newspaper. All the while, the post offices were making sure our passports were still up and running, although they issued us new ones as if we had wanted to renew them, but at no cost to us.
TO BE CONTINUED
Cripto's Army: The Passport Caper (Chapter 2)
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