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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:01:28 GMT
Chapter 29 (ORIGINAL VERSION)
While Major Taj and I talked my master walked into the lion’s den singing “I’ll Be Loving You, Always” in a loud voice. It was his and Madam Doom’s signal that he was coming through the main entrance. He was quite parched when he arrived at the guarded massive front doors which led into the mountain’s man made caverns. The native Thugee sentries stood at a quiet restive pose as Black X approached until a tall burly American came out of the small door at the guard post that stood just to the right of the massive doors and fifty feet up the mountain.
The large man angrily hit one of the three sentries. He the fallen guards rifle and started to aim. My master kept walking towards the doors. “I say old boy, I’m here to see Madam Doom, the mistress of this mountain” Black X said smilingly.
The big man stopped aiming for a minute and replied “That witch ain’t in charge no more Black X. Mr Crow says were to kill you the minute you show your nose around here.”
Black X’s brow became furrowed as he said “Crow…Crow, you mean Jaspar Crow. He’s been missing and presumed dead for over ten years.”
“I ain’t never heard of Jaspar Crow, my boss is Jedidiah Crow, and he said We’re to kill …” the big man never finished his sentence as the three sentries stabbed him repeatedly in the back with long ugly daggers. They then threw a rope down to my master. Madam Doom was waiting for him when he reached the top. My Master wanted to embrace madam Doom but she rebuffed him. Instead she had her men tie his hands together and took him into the mountain.
All knew that Black X could easily overpower the sentry that escorted them as then walked deeper and deeper into the caverns. Black X whispered “Why is Jedidiah Crow in charge Margaretha?”
Madam Doom sighed very softly when she heard her given name spoken from the lips of the man she loved. They stopped briefly as she put her hand on top of his tied hands and said “Because he has our children.”
My master’s jaw dropped as he took in madam Doo’s words. “Children...not child, children –we have children?’ he stammered for the first and only time in all the years I knew him.
“Yes twins, a boy and a girl. I named the Girl Richelda after you and the boy Marcus as it was the nearest approximation of Margaretha.
“How were they taken/” he asked
Jedidiah Crow came here as a prospective customer. He offered exorbitant funds to study or sacred Ruby of Kali. I said no but the Council of Elder Priests overruled me. I also was working for him when last we met. When I came back from New York I found he had killed the priests and had taken over. He killed most of the people in a sneak attack using poison gas. The rest he made thralls by taking our children. We resisted but then he killed 1 in every twenty children still alive. He has an international gang of mercenaries working for him. They supervise our men.”
“But the children how did he get out children” Black X asked.
“Oh Richard, Madam Doom sobbed, “when I returned he made me prisoner and had me translate our sacred text so he could better understand the mind control power of the Ruby of Kali. He discovered I was pregnant and took our children when they were born. Since then he believed he had total control over me.”
Black X grasped the situation. “That’s why he let you leave. He’s trying to sell his research to the Germans. That why you were in the café when Larry Trask spotted you.”
She smiled smugly as she said “When I let the Treasury Agent Trask see me.”
Suddenly there was the sound of charging footsteps in front of them. My master heard the high raspy voice of Jedidiah Crow for the first time. “Come forward madam Doom –with Black X or slit your precious baby boy’s throat. It was then that my master, Black X first heard the sound of his son.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:35:45 GMT
Repost and rewrite Spies Chapter 29
Chapter 29
I went to the secret entrance to the cavernous city of the Thugee’s and met the guard; giving him the sign and counter sign. The guard was and old toothless man dressed in rags. He carried a British officer’s army pistol that was over a century old. When we talked I learned that an American was in charge of the mountain that he had taken it over through deceit. He had a group of fifty well-armed mercenaries guarding the community, especially the children. That he had already killed some to keep the Thugees docile. The foreigners believed they had quelled any decent among the population, the old man said they were ready to rise up. He added that the foreigners did not know about this secret entrance before adding that a German scientist arrived and twenty soldiers had arrived yesterday. He added that all of the foreigners were planning on leaving tomorrow. I called the others over and went over everything the old man had said.
Bruce asked them how the German had come. The old man said they came by plane. They like the foreigners before arrived at a small secreted airfield near the top of the mountain.
We all looked at one another then before G2 said “that changes things. Batu ask him if we can get to this airfield from here.”
I did and the old man said yes there was a way – an old goat trail. It was steep and difficult but men could use it.
“Well that changes our plans then” said Bruce. “We’ll have to split up. We have to make sure the Germans don’t get off this mountain. “
G2 smiled and said “I can take care of that by myself. Batu have this fellow show me were the trail is and I’ll be on my way.”
Bruce put his hand on G2’s arm saying “No Don, you need to stay and help Batu free the children just as we need don’t need major Singh to guard this entrance nearly as much as we need to permanently ground those planes and stop the Germans. The major and I are injured but the two of us can do that.
G2 listened intently to Bruce Blackburn’s argument, quietly mulling it over before saying “you’re probably right, but if this trail is a rugged as the old man says it is you may not be able to get to the airfield.”
Bruce smiled back at G2 saying “Don I’m an expert at running along roofs and I’m a pretty fair mountain climber. Even with this busted wrist I can make sure Major Singh and I get to the airfield.” He them looked at Major Singh and added “And I’m certain the major can make certain that those planes never get off the ground.”
We soon split up with Bruce and major Singh going to the goat hill while G2 and I entered the mountain.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:36:24 GMT
Chapter 30
While Major Singh and Bruce Blackburn headed up the steep goat trail and G2 and entered the mountain my master jauntily entered into the lion’s den singing “I’ll Be Loving You, Always” in a loud voice. It was his and Madam Doom’s signal that he was coming through the main entrance. He was quite parched when he arrived at the guarded massive front doors which led into the mountain’s man made caverns. The native Thugee sentries stood in a restive pose as Black X approached until a tall burly American came out of the small door at the guard post that stood just to the right of the massive doors and fifty feet up the mountain.
The large man angrily hit one of the three sentries. He took the fallen guards rifle and started to aim. My master kept walking towards the doors. “I say old boy, I’m here to see Madam Doom, the mistress of this mountain” Black X said smilingly.
The big man stopped aiming for a minute and replied “That witch ain’t in charge no more Black X. Mr Crow says were to kill you the minute you show your nose around here.”
Black X’s brow became furrowed as he said “Crow…Crow, you mean Jaspar Crow. He’s been missing and presumed dead for over ten years.”
“I ain’t never heard of no Jaspar Crow, my boss is Jedidiah Crow, and he said We’re to kill …” the big man never finished his sentence as the three sentries stabbed him repeatedly in the back with long ugly daggers. They then threw a rope down to my master. Madam Doom was waiting for him when he reached the top. My Master wanted to embrace Madam Doom but she rebuffed him. Instead she had her men tie his hands together and took him into the mountain.
All knew that Black X could easily overpower the sentry that escorted them as then walked deeper and deeper into the caverns. Black X whispered “Why is Jedidiah Crow in charge Margaretha?”
Madam Doom sighed very softly when she heard her given name spoken from the lips of the man she loved. They stopped briefly as she put her hand on top of his tied hands and said “Because he has our children.”
My master’s jaw dropped as he took in Madam Doom’s words. “Children...not child, children –we have children?’ he stammered for the first and only time in all the years I knew him.
“Yes twins, a boy and a girl. I named the Girl Richelda after you and the boy Marcus as it was the nearest approximation of Margaretha.
“How were they taken/” he asked
Jedidiah Crow came here as a prospective customer. He offered exorbitant funds to study or sacred Ruby of Kali. I said no but the Council of Elder Priests overruled me.
I went to New York to try and get help from the United Nations for my people when last we met, but the Elders summoned me back before I could really start any. When I came back from New York I found he had killed the priests and elders in a bloody coup. He killed most of the people in a sneak attack using poison gas. The rest he made thralls by taking our children. We resisted but then he killed 1 in every twenty children still alive. He has an international gang of mercenaries working for him. They supervise our men.”
“But the children how did he get our children” Black X asked.
“Oh Richard, Madam Doom sobbed, “when I returned he made me prisoner and had me translate our sacred text so he could better understand the mind control power of the Ruby of Kali. He discovered I was pregnant and took our children when they were born. Since then he believed he had total control over me.”
Black X grasped the situation. “That’s why he let you leave. He’s trying to sell his research to the Germans. That why you were in the café when Larry Trask spotted you.”
She smiled smugly as she said “When I let the Treasury Agent Trask see me.”
Suddenly there was the sound of charging footsteps in front of them. My master heard the high raspy voice of Jedidiah Crow for the first time. “Come forward Madam Doom –with Black X or slit your precious baby boy’s throat. It was then that my master, Black X first heard the sound of his son.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:36:46 GMT
Chapter 31
My master looked at his beloved Madam Doom as he said “We’re coming out. The y came out to a vast chamber dominated by a statue of the Indian Goddess Kali. The Thuggees, including madam Doom gasped in shock when the saw the large red rubies that had been in the statues eyes had been removed.
“I told you they wouldn’t like your taking their precious rubies from that statue Stricter” said the small scrawny man with short cropped white hair. He was holding a small wailing babe in one arm and a pointed pistol in the other. Baron Stricter a tall robust blond man with cold blue eyes (the very model of Aryan perfection) clad in the dress uniform of a German SS colonel. He too was carrying a babe and pistol, though babe in his arms was sleeping.
“Ja” said Baron Stricter; “Und I told you that you should keep the male child sedated like the girl” said the scowling German occult master.
My master could see a German squad of soldiers armed with machine guns all about the large room. He also noted that more than a dozen natives were dead as well as some of Jedidiah Crow’s mercenaries. “Looks like you chaps settled the matter” he said with a smile.
“Ja” said the Baron. “So you are the infamous Black X. You are wanted for several crimes against the state back in Germany, Italy, Romania, Hungary, and Japan.”
“What’s left of the old Soviet Union as well” my master added with a smile. “Before the war I had a few missions there as well.”
You seem a little smug Black X. we’ve got you surrounded. Not to mention we got your kids at our mercy” said Jedidiah Crow.
“Ah that…well…you see I didn’t know I had a child let alone twins before I arrived. So I guess I just have the natural joy that a man has when he sees his children for the first time. Even if they are in extreme danger” explained my master.
“Well this is the first and last time you of Madam Doom will ever see these two” said Crow. “We’re taking them to Germany with us. I renamed you brat Judas, Judas Crow.”
Madam Doom then entered the conversation saying “You promised me that no harm would come to my children or any of the other children if I did as you said.”
Jedidiah Crow nodded in agreement with Madam Doom as he said “True, very true my dear and I promise that I won’t harm either of your children. But I’m going to raise these two poor orphans.”
That was when Baron Stricter shot Madam Doom in the stomach, a painful and fatal shot where it takes the victim some time to die. The Germans around the cavern then raised their machine guns at the natives around Madam Doom as the Baron Stricter said, “You disproved your loyalty Frau Doom when you let Black X in here. Herr Crow I believe it is time for us to go please detonate the nursery where the other children are.” To his men he ordered them to fire on my master and his thuggee escort.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:37:12 GMT
Chapter 32
The nursery of the Thuggee sect never exploded because G2 noticed wires going all along the mountain’s tunnels. He told me that they were the same types of wires the military used for remote demolition. Thus he left my saying he had to defuse the explosives at their source. I knew my master was entering the mountain when I went on to where the children were.
As chances had it I passed by a kitchen just before I came across the nursery. The Thuggee inside were a few old men and women. I spoke to them and asked for a tray with glasses for the guards a large bottle, preferably green. I filled the bottle with water and curry, lots of curry; enough to burn the throats of the men drinking the water. I told the old people to be prepared to come quickly when I called because they would have to escort the children out the secret entrance. I am ashamed to say I said this in in my most menacing manner that broke no argument from them.
There were four mercenaries in the large room where the children were held, plus two more outside the nursery’s entrance. The door was closed so the others would not be aware of any problems beyond the line of sight if I accomplished my mission quietly.
I my shoulders were slouched and my gaze was lowered to the floor as approached the two at the door. One of them a large Italian man asked me what I wanted. I said that the Germans had ordered cognac for each of the new masters servant’s as a reward for their excellent service to the Reich.
The other man whom I believe from his accent was Hungarian laughed at my remark saying,” those German are so full of themselves, Eh Mario. We did what we did because Crow pays so well.”
The Italian guard smiled at his comrade’s statement even as he ignored the glasses as I hoped he would. Just before he took a drink he said in heavily accented German “Yes Franz, but never turn down a free drink. Crow hasn’t let us have any for close to a year now.” With that he swallowed the water never realizing he had spoken the last word he would ever utter.
I put my tray down on the floor and deftly drew out my knife, stabbing the surprised guard in the heart while his partner took his last drink. He dropped the bottle as reached for his throat oblivious to his partner’s death. I grabbed the bottle as it fell because I didn’t want to cause any noise which might arouse the suspicions of the other men guarding the children; and because I still needed it. I dispatched the other guard with my knife.
Next would come the hard part. I knelt down and cleaned my knife on the dead men’s clothing and put it back in its sheath. Then I took the automatic pistols from the deceased guards. One I merely unloaded and took the ammunition clip in case I need more bullets that the one gun I was going to use had. I then put the bottle back on the tray. Lifting them even as I stood; I had the gun in my right hand as I am right handed. While holding the gun I turned my palm so that it faced upward and place the tray on top.
I took a deep breath before I entered the room. I had the same pose as I did when I approached the first two guards. There was one along each wall. Everyone’s attention was on me, just as I wanted. The guards nearest to me Brazilian I would say by his accent from when he asked for a glass. Instead I kicked him squarely in the groin while shooting the guard on the right wall right between the eyes.
The children screamed as the guards had the half second of hesitation that I needed. I used an old mystic ability that I have used hundreds of times. Suddenly the guards saw more than a half dozen of me running in all directions. But the true beauty of that trick is that for a moment I become invisible because my opponents only see the multiple images of me running in different directions. Usually it is the images that my foes shoot at but in this case I knew their orders were to shoot the children. Fortunately I fired my two shots before either man could. They were dead and the children were alive.
As for the last guard, I gave him a quick karate chop to knock him unconscious. I called for the old people to lead their child out of the mountain. One of the old women killed the unconscious guard as they left. I did not even attempt to stop her. Men who would kill children deserve such a fate.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:37:36 GMT
Chapter 33
Jedidiah Crow pressed the remote control button that ignited the explosives in the Thuggee nursery. His eyes widen as he heard no explosion. The Germans who surrounded him were aiming their guns at my master and the small escorts of the mortally wounded Madam Doom. She was on the ground in the arms of her lover, my master, Black X. She was asking for his forgiveness as well as his promise to save their children. A tear slowly fell from masters remaining eye as he gave his word. He knew the Germans were about to fire but he could not leave her arms as she took in her last gasping breaths of air. The Thuggee escort bodily shielded the couple.
Baron Stricter said “It’s Black X’s damnable partner Batu who sabotaged us Crow!” He was about to tell his men to fire when modified PIAT projectile shells rained down from the second level of the antechamber. G5 had trailed us and was coming to my master’s rescue. We never knew if he waited purposefully for Madam Doom to be shot or not, but I like to think that George Fine had found his conscious again.
Baron Stricter and the surviving Germans turned their fire to the balcony even as explosions came down about them. Baron Stricter gave the order to retreat. They fled down a tunnel which would take them to room were Jedidiah Crow had the statue of Kali’s rubies as well as a copious amount of data his two scientists had written about the mind controlling powers of the rubies.
The love of Black X’s life died during that short span. He let go of her lifeless body and laid it gently on the floor. He removed his blue jacket and laid it over her. He tore off his blood soaked white shirt and rose from his knees. He ran over to one of the wounded dead Germans and took his submachine gun as well as a couple of extra ammunition clips. He looked up on the balcony. He could not see G5, but he did spot cigarette smoke coming up from behind the solid railing. “Thanks George” he said as he went running after the Germans.
My Master heard the staccato sound of the German’s submachine guns up ahead of him with fire from the Thuggee’s antiquated bolt action rifles pathetically replying to the Nazis. Black X judge from the gunfire that one man was holding off most if not all the surviving Thuggee men from their mountain stronghold. My master moved cautiously towards the exploding noise. He saw the SS storm trooper’s shadow long before he saw the man. My master shot only one bullet from the submachine he had taken from another dead German. That shot gave his target the same doom as the man who he had taken the gun from.
My master continued down the hall and confronted the massing Thuggee who dwelt under the mountain and were thirsting for revenge. Black X knew their blood lust could threaten his own children’s lives. He came before them with his machine gun pointed at their chests. “Halt” he cried. “I know you want revenge, but those bastard have my children…mine and Madam Doom’s. I need you to let get them safe before you have your revenge.”
The Thuggee lowered their rifles and an older man said “Madam Doom foretold that you would save us Black X. She also ordered us to follow your commands if she died. “
My master stifled a sob of mourning before saying as he lowered his gun, “Right…If I die, you are to heed Batu’s commands. Until then though follow me and kill any German or mercenary who held you prisoner; unless they have my children.”
The Thuggee cheered in agreement as they went with my master as he ran through the halls.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:38:00 GMT
Chapter 34
As my master went after Jedidiah Crow, Baron Stricter and his remaining storm troopers I asked one of the old people how to get to the airport. On my way I met up with G2. Don Leash told me that he found his fellow G agent, George Fine dying in a balcony looking over a giant defaced statue of Kali. Don told me George was sitting on the floor with an unlit cigarette in his mouth and at least half a dozen bullet wounds, and three of fingers were missing from his left hand. G2 could plainly see that his older colleague was fatally injured. He knelt beside the half conscious G5 and asked him what had happened.
G5 related what Larry has already told us and added that he snuck in though the secret door after us and came here. He said he saw that Black X had been captured. He said he saw Black X and Madam Doom had been captured by the Nazis. He had the PIAT projectiles and rigged them so they would explode when they land on the ground below. He held off because he believed Madam Doom had betrayed Black X and he was savoring the humiliation of my master when he saw the German officer shoot Madam Doom. G5 coughed then and blood trickled down his chin. “One more mistake. I’ve been making a lot of them lately kid” G5 said.
“Anyway, I started dropping my PIAT shells on the Krauts. One of them tried to set off some bombs” G5 related before he started coughing again.
“Yeah’ I disconnected them” said G2. “I can’t do anything for you Larry. I’ve got to go help the others at the airport” said G2.
G5 nodded in agreement. “Two requests kid. One, get a desk job; you’re getting too old for this gig. Don’t wait until it’s too late like me. Second, put me out of my misery.”
G2 stood up and said “Sorry Larry, I can’t comply with one of those requests” and trotted down the hallways up towards the mountaintop airport.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 26, 2021 7:40:03 GMT
I noticed this story was missing from our site, so I've posted all the chapters here, and used the rewritten versions Dave posted last. Around chapter 27, 28, 29 it gets a bit confusing, so I just posted both versions of a couple of chapters and noted that.
Last chapter posted was on November 8, 2015
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Post by johnreiter902 on Aug 26, 2021 11:41:33 GMT
I remember trying to follow this story
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