Ryder rushed to the controls and hit a button on the panel to answer the call.
“Hello?”
The screen was very fuzzy and the transmission was hard to make out, but Ryder saw that Tuck, Ella, and the Cat Pack were all present in front of the camera. Although the speech was garbled, he managed to distinguish Tuck’s voice.
“Ryder, do you read me?”, he asked.
“Tuck, stand by. I’m getting tons of interference.”, Ryder replied.
Skye and Liberty sprang into action to clean up the transmission. Once the screen was cleared up and the voices weren’t garbled anymore; Ryder called back to Tuck.
“Okay Tuck, I can hear you more clearly now. What’s going on?”, he asked.
“Ryder, we’ve got a serious emergency here. Shade captured some rather frightening footage while spying on Humdinger and his kittens a short while ago. I think you should have a look.”, replied Tuck.
Shade turned the camera to face a monitor and then put in a disc. The footage showed the following images.
As Shade got close to Adventure Bay to get a close look at what Humdinger was up to, she saw Mayor Goodway running her errands. She continued to look around for any sign of Humdinger and she spotted his police kitten shoot its net at Mayor Goodway, causing her to trip. Moments later, Harold jumped out from behind a bush and shot Goodway with a stun laser, knocking her unconscious. Realizing this was terrible, Shade turned her camera off.
“After I had turned my camera off, I shot a tracking device that attached itself to Goodway’s purse, and then I started rushing back to our hideout. Unfortunately, I was spotted by Humdinger himself as I ran through the woods. He tried to catch me, but I got away and successfully shared the footage with everyone. Three minutes later, Tuck powered up our communications array and started calling out to you.”, Shade explained after she turned the camera back.
“The bottom line is that Humdinger has captured Mayor Goodway.”, said Ella.
“Now he’s gone WAY too far!”, screamed Ryder.
Chase snarled and growled loudly.
“You’ve got the idea, Chase. Time to get ready.”, Skye hissed furiously.
Everyone nodded their heads and started planning how they would strike back.