Ajax sneaked out and lit a fire in one of the far village
buildings as a distraction. When the fire had got going everyone else sneaked
out. Tom got out, but Abacus was spotted, and Aardvark ducked back inside the house.
The soldiers shone their torches at Abacus and ordered him to surrender, which
he did. But as they went towards him Ajax sprang from the darkness, taking out
two of them out and Aardvark shot the other, hoping he might not be killed as
he was probably just an honest Tommy doing his bit for queen and country,
maybe.
All the commotion had attracted the attention of other soldiers
and soon were advancing towards you in numbers. You all legged it across the
base, vaguely in the direction of the HQ. But ahead of you you could see the soldiers
at the HQ getting ready to defend it, and the soldiers behind were closing and
firing. You were the meat in the sandwich. Abacus and Aardvark decided to give
themselves up, to allow Ajax and Acorn to slope away unseen, as still no one
knew they were even on the base.
Aardvark and Abacus were beaten up by the angry soldiers,
and Short came over and ordered them to be taken to his office. In his office,
Aardvark was injected with truth serum and interrogated. He revealed that there
were four of you, and the code words for the mission. So Short ordered that
Green Apples to be radioed on the A-Gent frequency. This was about 5:00 and so
Airforce One was only an hour away.
Meanwhile Acorn and Ajax closed on the HQ block, Ajax was
spotted and shot. And dragged to Short’s office. Meanwhile, Acorn broke into
the top floor of the HQ, and could overhear Aardvark being interrogated.
They dragged Ajax into the office and Short explained his great
plan in some detail. It seemed he was an agent of TWITCH. He was going to
kidnap the PM and the president and hold them on the base. He was to give the
world the ultimatum that if all incarcerated TWITCH agents weren’t released
within the hour then the PM and president would be killed. He had no plan for
his own escape as he fully expected to die whether the TWITCH agents were released
or not. You did wonder why he was able to speak so openly in front of his
soldiers, whether they were in on it too.
Meanwhile Acorn crept back into the radio room he took out
the radio operator and the guard guarding him in one move, and then rebroadcast
the Red Apples code. Then, to be sure this would not be countermanded and with
no real expertise in electronics, he smashed up the radio set with his bare
hands. Then he crept out again to look into Short’s office.
Meanwhile, the three prisoners were working on their handcuffs
but their training didn’t seem to be doing much good. Annoyed by Short, Ajax
decided to attack him anyway, and with his hands tied behind his back managed to head-butt him
and knock him unconscious. The soldiers gave him a good beating for this.
While Short was being resuscitated by the Medical Officer Acorn
leapt through the window and grabbed Short from behind.
Taking your cue, you all attacked the guards. Abacus knocked
into three of them, before they could open fire, and Aardvark disrupted the others.
There was a bit of a stand-off, with Acorn holding Short, and some soldiers
still armed. Aardvark attempted to explain to captain Stephens that Short had
gone renegade and none of this had been ordered. Stephens seemed to think the
world was on the brink of world war three and this was the only way to stop it,
or something. Short had been feeding him and all the men some sort of warped version
of reality. But in the end Aardvark managed to convince him, and the soldiers agreed to
take orders from the A-Gents.
Mission mostly successful. The meeting between the PM and
the President did not take place, but you managed to keep them safe, thwart a
TWITCH plot, and bring another TWITCH operative to justice.
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