Glass flew everywhere when Ned came crashing through the sky light. The three armed men whirled around. Two were taken down almost immediately by Ned landing on their shoulders. Before they could drop to the ground Ned back flipped, Landed on his feet and struck a fighting stance. The third kidnapper swung at Ned, but Ned ducked under the blow. The kidnapper knew some Karate and tried a wheel kick. Ned ducked under the kick and swept his leg out from under him. The kidnapper went down hard. Before he could recover Ned delivered a hard fast punch to the center of his forehead. He slumped to the floor unconscious. After cuffing them he stood up and walked over to Lady Katherine.

"Are you alright Miss?" he asked as he took the gag out of her mouth. She looked up at him wide-eyed and at first just nodded her head.

"You're Nightshade, Aren't you!" before Ned could answer there was a loud thump behind them Ned whirled around to find that one of the kidnappers had tried a sneak attack on him only to have Moze land on him. Moze drove her elbow into his groin and the left him doubled over on the floor. Ned smiled.

"Thanks," he said. Moze smiled back,

"No sweat."

Ned turned back to Lady Katherine,

"Let's get you out of here." Putting one arm around Lady Katherine and the other around Moze, Ned shot up into the air through the skylight. A second later they touched down in the alley.

"Ned," said Moze, "you can only put two people on your motorbike."

"I know," said Ned, "That's why we're taking the car." He turned the ring on his belt buckle the opposite direction from before. Suddenly around the corner came a Jet black Pontiac Banshee. Electric blue light glowed from under the car and brightened when the car accelerated.

The Car did a 180 and came to a stop less than an inch away from where Ned was standing. Ned didn't even blink. He reached down and opened the door.

"Get in." he said. The two girls piled into the car. Inside the car Moze' Mouth dropped open. The car looked cool enough on the outside. Inside it looked like a spaceship.

"This car would make James Bond Jealous," Said Moze as they shot down the road.

"Just don't tell him okay." Said Ned with a smirk. Suddenly the computer voice in the car spoke.

"WARNING, WARNING, hostile vehicle approaching at a high rate of speed." Ned looked at the scanner.

"Man these guys don't give up!" he grumbled, "wasn't that beating at the warehouse enough." Ned reached down a pressed a button on the dashboard and a glowing orb shot out of the back of the car like a missile and struck the pursuing car. The hood was blown of the car and the car stopped dead in it tracks.

"Target Neutralized," said the computer voice.

"Computer," said Ned, "Contact headquarters, tell them to come and hall the Blunder brothers in for questioning."

Moze looked all around her in wide-eyed wonder. The Omega Sector headquarters was unlike anything that she had ever seen outside of a movie. Ned was in the Next room for debreifing. Suddenly the sound of door opening brought Moze back to reality. It was Ned. He said down, looked at Moze, buried his face in his hands and sighed.

"I suppose an explanation is in order." He said

"Yeah," said Moze, "I'd say so. Does Cookie know about this?" Ned shook his head,

"No," he said, "Cookie doesn't know and he doesn't need to know. With penchant for trying stupid things to impress girls there's no telling what he'd do to himself or the greater township if he got his hands on any of the ultra advanced equipment that we have around here." Moze chuckled. She had to admit that he had a point.

Ned leaned back in his chair, took a deep breath and began his story…

"Two years ago I began friends with a Proffessor Emil Rodan. He had designed a collection of ultra advanced equipment for secret agents. The first was this black tactical suit that I'm wearing. It looks like leather but it's actually a secret pollymer that he designed which makes me virtually invunerable as well as hightening my strength and agility, not to mention the phase converter and the reverse magnetation systems.

There was also the motorbike and the car. As well as some other stuff but you get the idea. He called his work, Project Nightshade."

"But what does that have to do with you being a spy?!" Asked Moze

"I'm Getting to that," said Ned, " as Professor Rodan got closer to completing the Nightshade program he became convinced that someone was trying to get there hands on Nightshade technology. It seems that his suspicions were justified because two years ago this past month he was found dead in his laboratory. However much to his killer's shagrin and to my shock he had made provision for keeping the technology out of the wrong hands. He had program it all to work only for the one person that he trusted."

"You," Said Moze, Ned Nodded

"Me," Said Ned, "And that's how I became Agent: Nightshade."

"But why didn't you tell me about all this? didn't you trust me?" Said Moze looking hurt.

"No," said Ned, "That's not it at all."

"Then why," Asked Moze. Ned sighed again and ran his fingers through his hair, "Nightshade has a lot of enemies and as long as these people thought that you didn't know anything you were safer from them. Knowing about Nightshade could make you a target. They could use you to get to me." Moze smiled

"I'll take my chances," she said as she leaned against his shoulder. "Besides tonight was kinda cool we rescued a diplomats daughter, rode an awsome motorbike and cool car. Ned Smiled

"The bike and the car are pretty cool aren't they. There's just one thing that bothers me."

"What," Asked Moze,

"Why was rescuing the ambassadors daughter so easy?"

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