It is said that some people never learn, and that those who ignore history are destined to repeat it.
The book of Ecclesiastes says “there is nothing new under the sun”
Many years ago the British took the lead in dealing with incursions from the Mystical Realms. They had a simple policy, summed up in three words:
Incarcerate
Interrogate
Exterminate
Then the Brits were seen to have made a fatal error and allegedly mistook the daughter of a dead Irish war hero for a creature from the Mystical Realms and subjected her to degrading prisoner abuse in the secret headquarters of the organisation set up to address the issue of incursions from that other world.
The scandal saw the Americans take over, only for the main UK headquarters of that organisation, known as the Facility to be destroyed by a lorry bomb months later.
For political reasons, the organisation was headquartered in Washington DC, but then after they managed to defeat a plan to conquer Earth by rouge forces on the Mystical Realms, the members of the organisation became unpopular with the new administration in the Whitehouse.
This left the Brits free to take up where they had been forced to leave off, before the American take over
But then the situation was different, the direct link to the Mystical Realms had been severed, all there were, were the odd Mystical Realms entities trapped on Earth to be mopped up and eliminated, to protect humans from creatures with who knows what special powers they might deploy against humans.
Even then, those creatures were small and almost insignificant. Apart from routine monitoring of any possible, but unlikely incursion into our world, for all intents and purposes, the threat from creatures with magical powers was under control and well on the way to eradication.
Wasn’t it?
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Previously in the Mystical Realms Sagas and Tales
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Spoiler:
On the top deck of a London Bus
The streets of South London
England
Gregory O’Doyle sat on the top deck of the London bus as he spoke with an officer from MI5 who had ordered the bus to stop and had taken a bag from him containing firearms.
“And how do I know, you won’t just end up sucking up to him like many did the first time” Gregory demanded to know
“Let’s just say Mr O’Doyle” the MI5 officer went on, “The game has changed and we have our own reasons to deal with Sir Sidney, in fact we already have someone on the inside” The MI5 officer then looked Gregory in the eye, “So Mr O’Doyle, visit your daughter or return straight to Dublin, what’s it to be”
“It’s been a while since I last saw my daughter” Gregory went on, “What is Cromer like this time of year? I’m sure Debbie and Kyle would like to see me after all this time”
The MI5 officer smiled, “Good choice and a perfect cover for your sudden trip over here”
“Like I said before” Gregory replied, “Always glad to help our colleagues in MI5. Just make sure you get the b*****d”
“Oh yes” the MI5 officer replied, “We will”
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Spoiler:
Outside a ware house on the Banks of the River Thames
London, England
“OK, get in the van Brigadier General” a man with a gun ordered, “Or I shoot one of the ladies”
“It’s Captain Andrews isn’t it?” Brigadier General Samuel Peters asked the man
“Correct, well done, now in the van” the man answered
There was the sound of a gun being cocked.
Samuel turned around and headed for the van, “I’m surprised Captain that you threw in your lot with Sir Sidney” Samuel said as he stepped into the van, “I mean I thought you didn’t want us to have anything to do with IDW01 and Sir Sidney here wants to exploit it like some companies exploit the third world”
“What makes you think its Sir Sidney we’re working for” the bodyguard sneered. Suddenly Samuel felt a searing pain on the back of his head and everything went black
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Spoiler:
A Roll’s Royce
Driving through London
The woman in her thirties pulled out from her purse what looked like an empty old fashioned cotton reel, which alarmed the elderly man sitting next to her
The thread around it was glowing with a greenish glow and a small length of it hung down.
“Look what I found in your safe when you were in that artificial universe visiting that Doctor Henshaw and that girl who once saved my life”
“Janine” the elderly man said with force of authority, “Hand that back”
“No father” Janine replied and pulled from her purse a pair of nail clippers.
“That’s my life thread” the elderly man said with a hint of anger and fear in his voice, “Only the Shears of Atropos or the sickle of the Spirit of Death can cut it” he added
“But father” Janine smile, “You of all such people should know, when the worlds separated, not all of the magical people were able to get back to their world”
“The odd pixie” the elderly man replied, “But they” he tried to add, but in that short space of time Janine snipped off the end of the life thread.
Sir Sidney was overwhelmed by a searing pain in his chest and found it impossible to breath.
“We captured one father and got him to enchant my nail clippers” Janine explained as she watched her father die.
“Williams” Janine called out to the driver, “Sir Sidney has retired from the board, and I am now the new CEO. Can we kindly stop near the London eye so those nice gentlemen from our security services can dispose of Sir Sidney’s body?”
“Yes of course madam” the black man with a cut glass accent replied.
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Spoiler:
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Somewhere in the American Midwest
“The Brits are starting it up again Mark” Brigadier Samuel Peters told his former right hand man, “It seems someone in the British Government knew about the old IDEC UK all along. They said they were now reclaiming control back from us”
“What’s the point?” Mark asked, “We can no longer get to the Mystical Realms and they cannot come here”
“It seems Mark, that not all of the IDE’s returned home” Samuel explained, “And also as they believe they have Sir Sidney’s means of getting to IDW01, others may work out how to do it as well, including any entities on IDW01, and they want to be ready for that day”
“What about Mr Blue and the last time they ran things?” Mark protested
“They say all Mr Blue was guilty of was assaulting and mistreating an Irish citizen, but that we dropped the ball too and as a result Earth fell” Samuel replied
“But we fixed that” Mark objected
“I told them that Mark” Samuel replied, “But they claim under Mr Blue it would never have happened in the first place”
“They are so wrong Sam” Mark said, shaking his head
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