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The elderly man put his two way radio back in his pocket and stared blankly at Mr Davies
“Why did you over rule me sir” Mr Davies asked in a confused manner, “They are loose ends and we don’t need them”
“Mr Davies, my dear boy” The elderly man began, “The use of an executive sanction is not something to use lightly, and we use it sparingly if at all, usually against terrorists or those of hostile intent to our country, someone, if it came to a hearing we can at least make some semblance of justification”
“But Sir” Mr Davies countered, “This just hamstrings us, it stops us from clearing things up and getting the job done”
“How long have you been my aide Mr Davies”
“Five years this Fall” Mr Davies replied.
“And yet you still have not learned anything”
“I don’t understand”
“Indeed you don’t, my dear boy”
“What do you mean?” Mr Davies asked, “I have learned all sorts of things by being your aide”
“Sometimes when we rush into things we can end up making more of a mess”
“I still don’t follow sir” Mr Davies replied, “I was just about to clear up this mess made by the colonel, which you yourself approved of”
“By executing two women who work for us and destroying our own property?” the elderly man queried
“Two potential security leaks, Sir, and we don’t need this base; the organisation should have been in DC all along”
“And what were you going to do with the colonel and the commander?” The elderly man asked
“How about, shot in the back trying to escape?” Mr Davies responded, “It would save the problem of a troublesome court marshal”
“Is that your response to everything, Davies my dear boy?” the elderly man asked, “killing everyone in sight, or shall I say having them killed”
“Sir, remember what Napoleon said about omelettes and eggs?”
“And if I remember my history, Davies My dear boy, where did he finish up?”
Mr Davies for some reason was feeling annoyed with his one time superior and mentor. “Listen
Sir”,
he deliberately emphasised the sir, “We played it the way of the Committee and the Colonel, Be nice to these alien invaders into our universe and the potential fifth columnists hybrids they leave with us, and look where it has got us. Seventy five killed in a lorry bomb in London of all places. You yourself sir said you did not trust them.”
“And you would add how many more to the body count?”
“I would do what ever it takes, to keep our country safe, Sir” Dr Davies retorted
“Which is why, Davies my dear boy, I have continually vetoed your request to be on The Committee and why I blackballed you when it was either you or the colonel who were short listed to take over at The Facility”
Mr Davies was shocked by this revelation, “You” he shouted, “You hypocrite, you wanted the Chairman’s position just as much”
“And I am glad, that I was not Saddled with it” the elderly man replied, still keeping tight rein on his temper, unlike Mr Davies, “Sometimes, Davies my dear boy, not getting what you want can be the best thing to happen to you”
“Stop calling me boy” Mr Davies insisted, and then he stopped to catch breath, “It’s not just me who think like this”
“Oh” interjected the elderly man
“Yes, sir” Mr Davies sneered, “There are a number of us, ready to replace those weak and pathetic excuses on The Committee, it is only a matter of time, Old Man, and then we will show those IDE’s who is boss”
The elderly man nodded, “I suppose you have a point” then after a pause, “Have you tried to contact any of them recently?”
“Yes, but they have been unobtainable so…” Mr Davies replied, before his words came to a stop in a cold realisation, that something might be untoward.
“The last one was dealt with, a few hours ago and now it is just you” The elderly man replied, “You were all so amateurish at this”
“You Judas” Screamed Mr Davies, “I followed you, I looked up to you, you taught me not to trust any IDE’s”
BANG
Suddenly Mr Davies felt a searing pain as a bullet penetrated his upper abdomen and went through his heart. He sank to his knees, and died
“And you, Davies, my dear boy, reminded me that humans can be even more untrustworthy” the elderly man commented as he pulled his revolver from his right coat pocket, then he added, “And I accept your resignation”
The rest of the clean-up squad appeared on the scene quickly responding to the gun shot, and the leader seeing the elderly man stopped and saluted.
“Are Miss Green and Miss Wang still alive?” The elderly man asked
“Yes sir” the squad leader replied, “but a few seconds later and it would have been too late”
“That would have been most unfortunate, I am so glad they are alive, especially Miss Wang”
“Why’s that sir?” the squad leader asked
“I don’t want her to know, but she is my daughter, it was me who got her this job and I would hate for something to happen to her”
The squad leader sucked his teeth and shook his head, “I’m so sorry sir, I didn’t know”
“You weren’t to know” the elderly man told him, “I met her mother first when we were clearing out of Saigon in seventy five, and I used some of my British contacts to place her here in England”, then he pointed down at the dead body of Mr Davies “Be a good man and clean that up”
The elderly man then opened the door to the van, “Release them” he ordered, and then added, “and if it is not too late revive and release the leprechaun”.
After the colonel and the commander were released from the van, the colonel glared at the elderly man, “You!” he exclaimed with some venom.
“Yes it’s me” the elderly man replied, “I am so sorry about my aide, he has of course been fired”
Just then another van arrived and two men got out, they were Jason and Pete back with the new server “What’s happened?” Pete asked.
“There was a bit of a misunderstanding by my aide” the elderly man answered, “Please go and see that Miss Wang is ok Mr Smith, I know you and her are an item, as you put it over here and I approve, just don’t mention at this time about my aide’s sudden exit”
At this Pete ran to the Annexe
“Commander, you had better go and see to Miss Green” the elderly man then said, “And like I told Mr Smith, she need not know yet that I have dealt with Mr Davies”
“Ok” Mark said warily and left, leaving the colonel alone with the elderly man.
“Why?” the colonel asked, “I thought you and Mr Davies believed the same thing”
The elderly man looked up into the sky, “Do you know Colonel, what the Good Lord said about a house divided?”
“Yeah sure” Samuel replied, “It can’t stand”
“Precisely, it was my aide, who was the problem; he had us at each other’s throats and was prepared to split what remains of the organisation in a time of great emergency, when we should have been dealing with who ever attacked the Facility”
“But I thought you shared his belief, that IDE’s were not to be trusted, you first recommended Mr Blue to run the Facility”
“I am merely sceptical about all our allies Colonel, human or otherwise, plus he ordered the death of my daughter, and I could not let him do that”
“She’s a good worker” Samuel said in a more sympathetic tone, “If she were not so wedded to this place, she would have been on my team”
“And she would have been killed by who ever destroyed the Facility”
Samuel let out a sigh, “Along with a lot of my other people”
“As for Mr Blue, well he was, so I heard, possessed, by a major spirit of vice” the elderly man continued, then said “Colonel, with what ever authority I may still posses back with The Committee, I want you to find out who took out the Facility and take action to neutralise the threat”
“That was what I was going to do before your aide showed up”
“And if it turns out to be an IDE”
“Then we will handle it with our troll allies, and yes I do still trust them, after all who ever planted the bomb designed it to take them out as well and they lost people there too, including Captain Strang”
“OK Colonel” the elderly man replied, “I have to return so I will leave to you to it, just watch your back. I may have seemed bad, but as you can see, there are others waiting in the wings, making trouble for those of us who have been wary of this alliance with another world populated by beings with dangerous powers, and some are more extreme than Mr Davies was. And by the way, I understand my colleagues have taken some remedial action concerning the Sands and the Schneider girls and they have been released.”
“By the way” Samuel asked, “What about that artificial wormhole generator”
“Oh I am sure Sue-Lim can produce another one for you if you need one, as for the one she has already constructed, I think it would be best if it went back with me, after all I still think we need the capability to travel to IDW01 at our own choosing should we need to, rather than being dependent on the trolls or the leprechauns. You have my word; it will not fall into the wrong hands”
“For what that’s worth” Samuel uttered, before he could stop himself
The elderly man just smiled, “You are still sceptical of me Colonel, well there’s hope for you yet”
With that the elderly man got into a clean up squad van and left.
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It was about an hour before Hogan O’Brian had recovered from his tasering and sedation, and he was not happy at all, but at least he was glad that Jenny and Sue-Lim were still alive, from what he had heard.
Samuel had asked Sue-Lim and Jenny if they wanted to go home, given that they had been on the point of an execution, But Sue-Lim was adamant, that that would for her mean they had won, Jenny after some hesitation opted to stay.
“Ok“Samuel replied, “But the offer is still there”
Finally they were all back sitting in the conference room, Samuel, Mark, Jenny, Hogan Sue-Lim and Pete. Pete refused to leave Sue-Lim’s side, and it was obvious to Jenny why she had always preferred the annexe out of the way down in Kent, it was where her boyfriend Pete lived, and sat with his arm around her shoulders. Jenny grasped at Mark’s hand under the table, and it seemed that Mark was reluctant to let her go too.
Did he feel the same way, she had been feeling about him?
Jason was elsewhere trying to set the new server up
“So” Samuel asked, “This cult or sect, you think they might be responsible?”
“Indeed we do” Hogan replied
“I have to agree” Samuel then said, “especially as an elf with a strange tattoo tried to kill me at the airport” Samuel then sketched the tattoo he had seen, a T superimposed on an M
“That is definitely their symbol” Hogan replied after the colonel had showed everyone the drawing
Suddenly Pete spotted an item on the floor and picked it up, it was some kind of metal square with characters on it.
Hogan spotted this, “Oh that’s some trinket we found on an orphaned dwarf child, we wondered if it had belonged to those humans who brought in that poison for the Yataxal troll clan”
“Uh Uh” Pete responded, ”This is not Colombian, this is Russian”
“Maybe the drug gang had Russian items with them” Mark suggested
“Not really Commander, I recognise this, this is from a
Yastreb
“And what pray tell is one of those?” Hogan asked
“It’s an early Russian Space Suit from the days of the Cold War”
“Russian Space Suit?” came a voice from the door, it was Jason, “I came to see if Pete could help me install the new server, but I could not help over hearing, you found a part from a Russian space suit on IDW01”
“You mean the Mystical Realms” Hogan cut in
“Whatever” Jason said, holding his hands up in submission.
“What of it?” Samuel asked.
“Colonel” Jason began, “I have a friend, who is bit of a conspiracy theorist”
“Swell” Mark interjected, “Just the kind of friend to have when you work for an ultra secret organisation”
“Well at least it allows us to keep tabs on them Commander” Jason retorted, “But anyway, my friend is convinced that he found a recording of an intercepted communication with a Russian space craft that was launched in 1969 that disappeared in space.”
“That never happened” Samuel replied, “The fatalities were on launch or re-entry”
“Well I told him it was probably a fake” Pete continued, “especially as it referred to a rip in space and the last part where the alleged cosmonauts were speaking referred to two suns”
“Sam” Jenny cut in, “The Mystical Realms, it has two suns”
Samuel asked Pete to hand him the piece of metal, which he duly did.
Samuel looked at it, and then asked, “Can I get to hear that recording”
“Sure” Pete replied, “I digitised it for my friend from the original tapes so I have a copy on my memory stick, and once we have the server up I can play it for you”
“But what has this got to do with that sect?” Hogan asked
“Possibly nothing” Samuel replied, “But I have a gut feeling about this, what is a piece of space debris from the old USSR doing in your world?”
Suddenly Hogan went pale, “Oh my, the alignment”
“What alignment?” Mark asked
“Around the same time as your 1969” Hogan explained, “All our moons lined up, one behind the other”
“And?” Mark pressed
“And the same thing is due to happen in a weeks time, because the Sect have been banging on how justice will be served at the next alignment, and the last time this sect plagued the Mystical Realms was before the time of the Lord Low Troll, at the time of that alignment” Hogan continued
“That settles it” The colonel interrupted, “We don’t have much time we have to go to Karam Tag Chou and find out more about this sect, as I have a bad feeling about this”
To be continued