Pelican Bay State Prison
August 12, 2000
Kassandra stepped out of the C-5 corridor. 'Cell 75,' she thought.
'That's Uncle Lee's number.' Checking her watch, it read 2:20 AM. 'Uncle Lee
might be sleeping right now, but who cares. There are plans to be started,
damages to seek, and havoc for the adrenalin rush.'
Banging on the door, Kassandra looked through the window slot. Lee
was asleep. 'Damn...' She banged harder. "Uncle Lee! Wake up!" she whispered.
Inside, Lee stirred. "Hm? Who's calling me?" he mumbled, sitting up
on his bed and rubbing sleep from his eyes. Going to the door he saw
Kassandra was banging on his door.
"Kassandra! Quiet down, you'll alert the guards!" he hissed.
Kassandra stopped rattling the door, and looked at him. "What is it that you
want?" he asked.
"Let me in, there's no time to explain anything," Kassandra answered.
Lee opened the door, and Kassandra slipped in closing it behind her.
"What the hell are you doing here, Kassandra? It's dangerous!" Lee
said.
"Uncle Lee, shut up. Do you really want to spend the rest of your
life behind bars?" Kassandra asked, giving him the cold eye.
Lee looked at her, surprised.
"That's better." Reaching into her backpack, she handed a spare
outfit to Lee. "Put these over your prison clothes. We're using the C-5
corridor to get out of here."
After Lee did so, Kassandra activated the C-5, and the two left the
cell.
Kassandra's home
San Francisco
"Are you sure your mom's not here?" Lee asked.
"Uncle Lee, I'm sure. Mom's back in Chicago watching our apartment,"
Kassandra answered, her voice confident.
Lee looked at the photographs on the mantle. 'The years go by so
fast,' he thought. A picture of Kassandra as a baby, Kassandra from a karate
tournament when she was seven, Kassandra's ninth birthday party...
"Here's a spare bedroom. You can sleep here for tonight," Kassandra
shouted from the second story.
Lee shrugged. "Okay."
Acme
August 13, 2000
"Our top news is a prison break from the Pelican Bay State Prison
in..." the TV blared.
The news caught Zack's attention. "Hey you guys! C'mere!" he shouted.
Ivy, Armando, Tatiana, and Maria came over. "What happened?" Tatiana
asked.
"Shh!" Zack shushed Tatiana.
"Last night, Lee Jordan broke out from prison with the help of an
unknown female. The break was caught on surveillance around 2 o'clock in the
morning. Prison guards who viewed the jailbreak say one of Acme's detectives
may be invovled with Jordan, though the Chief has refused to name who," the
news continued.
"No way." Ivy was stunned.
"And I think we know who helped Lee break out from prison," Zack said.
"Kassandra," Tatiana and Maria said at the same time.
"But why? Why would she turn her back against Acme and help Lee
Jordan?" Armando asked.
"Good question," Ivy said. "I don't see how Lee is connected to
Kassandra."
While Armando and Ivy were discussing about Lee, Zack noticed a CD
lying on a desk. "What's this?" he asked.
"It's not marked," Maria answered. "I think it's best we leave it
alone, Zack."
"Yeah, we should...but I can't help feeling we could uncover some
important information if we looked into the CD," Zack replied, hesitant. "Who
thinks we should leave the CD alone?"
Maria and Tatiana raised their hands.
"Who thinks we should look into the CD?"
Zack, Ivy, and Armando raised their hands.
"Decision decided." Zack popped the CD into the computer. Typing
something in, Zack clicked on one of the files.
"I'm FREE! Woohoo!" a voice crowed.
"Chief?" Ivy was surprised. "Whoa, wait a sec. Zack, check to see if
anything was different from the one we encounted a week ago."
"Ivy, everything's the same in this CD. Carmen's a thief, we're the
detectives, all our rosters are here, including Kassandra's," Zack answered.
"Chief, what happened?" Armando asked.
"Kassandra stuffed me into her CD. We had a couple conversations in
her laptop while the imposter Chief was creating trouble," the Chief
explained.
"Speaking of trouble, we think Kassandra bailed Lee Jordan out of
Pelican Bay State Prison. The only thing that doesn't make sense is how
Kassandra's related to Lee," Ivy said.
"While you guys were having stakeout problems with her, I found she's
related to him," the Chief said.
"What?" "You're kidding!" "No way!" The five detectives looked at
each other with worry.
"I'm not joking here." The Chief had a serious tone in his voice.
"Chief, what's there for us to know about Kassandra?" Zack asked.
"Kassandra fabricated everything on her dossier--she's an expert on
forgery. She dropped out of high school and worked in a software company for
some time," the Chief explained. "That's all I know of her."
"But how could Lee Jordan and Kassandra Morrow be related to each
other?" Tatiana wondered out loud.
"Lee's Kassandra's uncle," the Chief answered.
A silence hung over everyone. Then Ivy broke the ice. "I think this
is only going to get worse," she said.
"Why?" Zack looked at Ivy.
"Kassandra has a goal: She wants revenge on me for beating her at
that martial arts tournament ten years ago. She wants revenge on Acme for
putting Lee Jordan in prison. And she wants revenge on Carmen for helping
Acme put Lee away. I'm guessing she somehow knew about Lee's involvement with
Acme when I was partnered with him, his time with Carmen, his exile from VILE
and attempted theft of the US Mint, his jail breakout, Avalon's kidnapping,
Carmen's blackmailing, the incident in Beijing, and most importantly, his
plans of taking over VILE and creating a group of supercrooks," Ivy explained.
"So you're saying Kassandra wants Lee's plans to come true," Maria
said.
"Exactly."
"But you guys put Lee away when he tried to rob the mint! Why would
Kassandra want revenge on everyone in Acme?" Armando asked.
"Easy. Revenge on me because of what happened ten years ago. Revenge
on Zack because he's part of Acme. Revenge on Carmen because she kicked him
out of VILE when she found out Lee was pulling off robberies without her
knowing. Revenge on VILE as a whole because he wanted to rise to Carmen's
rank--the leader. Revenge on Acme as a whole--we put him away for breaking
away from Acme, for joining VILE, for the theft of the Mint, for kidnapping
Avalon, and for destruction of public property," Ivy detailed out her
thoughts.
"Whoa, wait a sec! If Kassandra broke Lee out of jail so she can
avenge his retribution, what are the chances she'll help break out Cruiser
and Lee's cohorts?" Zack asked.
"Pretty big, comrade," Tatiana said.
The computer started beeping. Billy Running Bird appeared on the pink
screen. "You guys! Kassandra and Lee Jordan just appeared out of the Colorado
State Penitentiary. I think they're gonna bail Cruiser out!"
"Zack, you stay and restore the Chief to the central system," Ivy
said. "I don't want you to get killed or anything."
"I'll go with you," Armando said.
"I'll stay here," Tatiana said.
"Me too," Maria said as well.
"Chief, C-5 me and Armando to Billy Running Bird's coordinates," Ivy
said.
The C-5 opened up and Ivy and Armando disappeared.
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