Agent 3: Execution

A cold breeze swept through the woods, creating a rustling sound among all the trees in the dead of night. The night in these woods wasn't so dead, however, as despite it being around 1 in the morning, multiple Octolings were navigating through the trees, in full armor and with chargers ready to shoot, which were complete with flashlights.

They mostly found nothing so far, at least nothing that they were looking for, but eventually, they came across something. "Get Ayesha over here!" The Octoling who noticed called out.

Within a few moments, Ayesha walked over curiously, having been looking with them. "Found something, babe?"

"I found this..." She held up a discarded Splattershot that had Jessica's black ink in it, that was disabled.

Ayesha took it and examined it, before looking at the ground by where the Octoling had found it, kneeling down by the leaves. Although it was kind of hard to tell, there was some black ink there, and the grass was a bit folded as if someone had been lying there for a little while before taking off.

"Looks like Agent 3 did indeed super jump here... and was injured..." The Octoling continued. "Orders, ma'am?"

Ayesha grinned, feeling some of the ink with her fingers before bringing it up to her tongue and licking it. "She tastes good... like I imagined..." She then stood up, looking around. Unfortunately for them, Jessica hadn't exactly left a trail. "Get Ward's permission to send out the choppers and we'll find her."

"Should we get the Executioner in on this, ma'am?"

"Danny boy is on his own mission, leave him be. We can find her perfectly fine."

The Octoling nodded and went to do as she said, as Ayesha and a few other Octolings continued searching the woods.

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The Lab

Flashing red and blue lights paired with the screech of police sirens pierced the otherwise dark and quiet night, as a couple police cars pulled up to the now abandoned laboratory. Detective Grant Johnson quickly opened his car door and stepped out, eyeing down the mess before him. "...Holy shit."

Not only was the laboratory abandoned, it was absolutely destroyed now. Metal spikes were protruding from all around the building, having cut through all the walls before they stopped growing, and any and all windows had been shattered as a result, leaving the building surrounded by the shards as a result. They walked up to where the front door used to be, and although it was hard to see inside, it looked like all the indoor hallways were completely overtaken by whatever these spikes were.

"Check the perimeter!" He called out to a couple other police officers, while he and his partner stayed to observe the building. "Every time we think we've seen it all... What the hell do you think happened here?"

"Looks like some kind of... advanced technology... like these... spikes grew out from inside the building." She observed. "...I'd suggest something like... nanotechnology, but..."

"Yeah, no. Shit like that is fiction." He sighed. "...If those blueprints we found that led us here are indeed tied to the Underdogs, then... this case just got a whole hell of a lot weirder..."

"Nothing is impossible these days, sir." She commented toward his 'fictional' remark.

"It'd make our job easier if they were." He said, beginning to walk around the building. It didn't take them long to come across something a little bit shocking. "Hey, we need some medical attention over here!" He said before he got a good look, but once he did get a better look, he sighed. "...Never mind..."