And now we get to keep this Great spy story coming with another little installment I like to call chapter number 2...as always ENJOY
Part II- Island base
It was a long 2 days of air travel over the Atlantic seas, all there was to see in the air was open skies, White clouds and blue waters below. Trixie was at the front driving the copter about, Nina was sitting on a small bench next to me scrubbing on her nails with a nail file and
"How much longer till we get there?!" I said.
"Not too much longer, just keep your eyes out!" Trixie said driving the copter
"Look out for what there's nothing but empty waters!" Nina said.
"Not for long!" Trixie mocked.
There soon came a lot of thick fog bank that covered us up making everything nothing but a murky thick gray blur. "What's with all the fog?" I said getting a little uneasy
"We're here!" Trixie smiled. I looked through the front glass but all I saw was gray fog and nothingness.
"I don't see anything!" I tell her.
"Wait jaz, Look!" Nina said pointing ahead of me. I kept looking till the fog cleared away and brought us into view of an enormous remote island surrounded by high cliffs and deep waters.
"WOW!" Me and Nina gasped in awe.
"Welcome to the Island base" Trixie said as we were brought in closer, we were flying lower and lower till we were right into the island environment, I saw it's outer part was just sandy beaches and a few sand bars and the inner was mostly thick jungle and rainforests. In the distance there were high mountain and cliffs and a few mini volcanos within those mountains.
"It's so beautiful!" Nina said.
"But...where's the base?!"
"Hidden away that's why we called it a secret base!" Trixie said with a happy giggle. She flew us in between a small canyon hidden in the mountains and into a large cave that stretched into a tunnel and then speared out into a huge underground cavern, this was it our secret base, hidden deep within the cave of a mountain. The inside was all filled with high tech technology and large surveillance screens and cameras. I saw a lot of the international agents I knew, but not as well as I use to. moving around looking very ready for action. Trixie set the helicopter down on the landing pad as Nina helped me and off the copter.
"Well here we are!"
"It's different than I remember!" Nina said. She had been to the island base before but I never was so this is my first time coming here.
"Yeah we had a few upgrades, gave it a whole new look!" Trixie said. "But this is just the section where we hide all our weapons, gadgets, and assault vehicles."
"This section?!" I asked confused.
"Well these mountain caverns intertwine with one another so we have about 50 different sections hidden within the mountains, all assigned to a specific thing!"
"Right you are Trixie!" I heard someone say. I turned around and saw a green hatted Gnome with a very superior decorative uniform on. He was wearing dark shades and a serious look on his face that said I'm not the guy to mess with. I gulped a little.
"Oh sir!" Trixie bowed. "Girls this Is General Howard, he's leading officer on the island, he handles all of our island defenses and everything!"
"Plus I'm good in combat, I know my way around a battle!" He said cracking his knuckles.
"General Howard these are my sisters Jazmin and Nina!" Trixie introduced us.
"At ease ladies!" Howards saluted us.
"General!" We said saluting too.
"It is a pleasure to have you at the island base!" He kissed both our hands.
"A pleasure to be here, I'm sure!" I said smiling.
"I'm sure you will find everything to your liking here!"
"I should hope so!" Nina giggled.
"I'll give you a tour of the base if you'd want!" Trixie said taking my arm.
"Okay!" We both say. She takes both our arms under hers "See you later Howard!" Trixie said smiling at him.
"Yes you will!" Howard winked at her then waked away. Trixie looked flustered when he was gone, I knew what that meant.
"You and Howard have a thing going on with each other?!" I asked smirking at her
Trixie blushes and nodded "You could put it that way, he's so wonderful!"
"Anyways' let's get on with that tour!" She said leading us to one of the elevators and taking us up from the weapon section to another section.
"First stop section 32, the Training hall!" Trixie said getting off the elevator as we followed, the training hall was filled with exercise equipment and weights and even had a shooting area where new comers come to train with weapons of their choice.
"This is my favorite section in the base grounds!" Trixie said.
"Ours too!" We heard voices and steps come behind us, out of nowhere two other gnomes showed up.
"Trixie!"
"Guys!" Trixie ran to them and hugged them tightly. "Girls this is Lila and Edgar, they're in charge of training new cadets and rookies!"
"And proud of it!" Edgar said smiling.
"Guys these are my sisters Nina and jazmin!"
"Hello!" Me and nina greeted.
"Oh my you look just like Trixie, only with longer hair!" Edgar said coming to me.
I laughed "I'm her twin!" I said as Trixie came back over to me and smiled just like I did.
"We were just in the middle of session training, come look!" they lead us into another room with a small glass look-through window, behind it there was a small room filled with about 15 young gnomes all doing beginning level combat moves.
"Wish we could stay but we've got a whole base to get through, so much to see so little time to see it all, see you guys later!" Trixie said pushing us along. We waved goodbye to Edgar and Lila and hopped back on the elevator. She pressed another button and we went up more levels
The door opened to yet another wing "Next stop section 14!" Trixie announced
"What's this section!?" Nina asked.
"Section 14 is the spa, yoga, meditation, and lounge!" Just a place to chill after days of hard work!" She said walking us through it.
"Evening ladies!" A girl in an apron and smock came over to us
"Hey Olga!" Trixie hugged.
"Here for an appointment!" She asked
"Some other time I'm just showing my sisters around! This is jazmin and Nina, Sisters this is Olga" She introduced us.
"Would either of you girls like some herbal tea?" She offered. I took one cup and sat down in a small comfy chair, then 2 guys came up to me.
"Would you like a foot massage ma'am!" He asked
"Oh no I..." He kneeled down, took my feet and started rubbing them in a circular motion while another came and massaged my back...It was heavenly. "Oh yeah, I think I'm going to come here the most!" I said enjoying this all.
"Okay sis enough luxury time to go!" Trixie said
"Go on without me I'm fine right here!" I said enjoying my foot and shoulder massage. Trixie pulled me up and walked me back to the elevator.
"No time for that we've got a tour to finish!" She said to me. She gave us the grand tour and showed us the pool room, the dorm hall, the cafeteria, the library, the computer room, the technology room, the laboratory and all the other 50 sections they had within these mountains.
"And now the Top floor to the office room!" She opened the door and we came into this gigantic room with a whole wall made of glass that looked out into the island, jungle mountain range and all. The room itself was all white with off white furniture and in the corner there was a small indoor pond with a mini mountain and waterfall with little fish swimming about in it.
"Swanky!" I said looking around.
"This is Howards office and his little place of solitude!" I tell them.
"He's living in the lap of luxury!" Nina said Trixie said sitting on his couch.
"Careful that couch is imported!' She warned. I found this big black chair beside the couch and sat in it, I pressed the green button on the armrest and the chair began to slowly vibrate in a soothing motion.
"Vibrating chair, I love it!" I said as I vibrated.
"Hello girls I see Trixie showed you my office!"
"Oh yes and the place is amazing!" I said turning the chair off.
"Yes Trixie is a good tour guide, one of the many reasons I love her!" Howard said getting close t her.
"Oh Howard I love you too!" Trixie giggled. I sighed seeing how Trixie and Howard were made me think about how I always felt with benny...Oh how I missed him and the kids, I missed hearing benny's voice whisper in my ears, the sound of the kids running around making me a prod mum, I missed spending time with Juliet and the girls and I just missed being home, I just wanted to get this mission over with and go back home to the ones I loved.
That's when I remembered
"While this is all very nice General, we have come here on an important task!" I say.
"You said there was something about another agent group showing up here!"
"Yes follow me!"
"There's the ship!" Trixie said to us. It was big, dark very high-tech and had an enemy insignia on it.
"Yep, battle ship, agent work for sure!" Nina said.
"They showed up here about a month ago, at first we thought they were just passing by here but we soon figured out they were sent to find our base and take control of it" Howard informs us.
"How do you figure that!" I said.
"We have a few of our field agents spy on them when they first got here" Howards continued on. "We found out they were an enemy group sent here by an unknown source telling them that our base was located here on this island!"
"At first they were here a few days searching and couldn't find our base, of course the farthest they have ever traveled was inwards to the edge of the rainforest jungle"
"And our base is hidden within the mountain range!" I smiled.
"Affirmative!" Trixie said patting me. "So after about a week and still no luck of locating us, they had given up and were about to leave, but somehow, they got a hint that we were in fact on this island and that's when the trouble began!" She said getting me a little nervous.
"They've spotted a few of our agents snooping on them, but they've never come as close as the valley between the forest and mountain range" Howard said.
"But how did they find out!" I asked. Howard gestured to us to get back to base and he lead us to his office once more and went online to his computer. "Here!" He pointed at his screen showing a bunch of files and data banks and stuff. "And right there!" He said clicking on an Icon labeled Island data base and it flashed red with a security breach virus.
"There was a hacker in our computer files that sent our location to them!?" Howard tells us.
"How was that possible!" Nina said.
"Sabotage! there was an agent from their side that infiltrated our base and gave our location right to them!" Trixie said
Me and nina look to each other "And who was that?!"
She sighed "We have no leads on that now, the infiltrator covered up his tracks pretty well!"
"Well I bet we'll find him!" Nina said.
"Yeah, I bet we could find some clues if we head inland towards the forest!" Nina said.
"Of course, If we check around the beach and the ship we're bound to find something. Let's go!" Trixie said as we all followed behind her.
"Uh jazmin maybe you should stay here at base and let us scavenge around! Nina tells me.
"What NO!"I said to her. "I came on this mission to help I can do this!" I tell her.
"Actually jazmin, Nina's right, I don't think it's very safe to walk in the jungle in your condition" Trixie said rubbing my tummy. She was right I was here on a mission but I had to think of my child too.
"Fine! I'll stay put!" I said sighing. The girls gave me a hug and left out with Howard. "Feel free to make yourself comfortable till we get back!" Howard said leaving me alone in his office. I sat on the big couch and relaxed.
"Well might as well make use of this time alone!" I said walking around outside the office. The halls on this level were totally empty and so were the rooms. I decided to find a place with others. I walked to the elevator and hopped on, 50 levels I could chose from but which to go too.
"Now which level had the spa room?" I asked myself I pressed the 32 button as I rode the elevator. But this was not the spa room, I was back at the training section, only this time it was practically empty
"Hello?!" I said walking around not seeing anyone. "Anyone here!" I said walking around even more.
"Yes!" I heard a voice and jumped and went into attack mode. It was Lila one of the new recruit trainers, I relaxed and grinned. "Jazmin what are you doing here?!"
"Oh my sisters went to scan the Island and I had to stay behind for reasons you can guess" I held my tummy. "So I was just looking for someone to talk too, till they got back!"
"Oh well I'm still with Edgar training the new recruits, you can come watch and we can talk after that!"
"Sure!" I said following her to the small little room where they were training the new recruits in hand to hand combat!"
"Ed! We've got a visitor!" Lila said as I walked in behind her.
"Jazmin nice to see you again!" Edgar smiled.
"Oh don't mind me I'm just here to watch!" I said taking a seat on a chair in the corner away from them.
"Okay we're going to continue on with a few tactics about hand combat!" Edgar said. "Would anyone like to demonstrate!" He asked. He looked over to me sitting in the corner smiling. "Jazmin how about you!"
"Me?!" I asked shocked. "Oh I don't know..."
"Oh please!" He begged me.
"Uh Edgar, I don't think jazmin's in the right condition to do anything like combat demonstration!" Lila vouched for me.
"Nonsense she can pull it off, nothing major...Besides one of the top ranked agents in all of A.R.F.F wouldn't be right not to pass down her skills and wisdom to wannabe" He said again.
"Well...I guess I could try!" I said standing up and going to the front of the class with him. He positioned me to his left and I stood there.
"Anything to say to our newbie's!"
"First and foremost when dealing with hand to hand training it's all about identifying and knowing your target!" I say confidently. "Analyze your enemy, watch his every move and when you see an opening strike it and take him down!" I said with more confidence. "And one more thing...never give 100% of your energy into any 1 strike, hit using a series of quick but hard jabs till your opponent is loose and when they're really on edge you deliver the final blow and their own weight becomes their downfall, Literally!" I say.
"Like so...Edgar try to attack me!" I say. He starts throwing punches that I quickly avoid, I wait for an slip up in his attack and take that as my advantage. I slip under him and throw a series of blows and I hit him where it hurt. He fell to the ground and I looked over him, I may be pregnant but I can still kick some ***.
"And that's all there is too it!" I said as all cheered around me.
Edgar got off the floor and patted my back "I'm impressed, no wonder you're in the top!"
I gloated "I know!" I said as we shared a snicker.
He turned back to his students "Alright class Lila will be taking over from here while I take a well deserved break!" Edgar went off and rested on a chair sipping lemonade.
Lila walked up to the class next "Okay kids now I'll take over with a few lessons of scanning battle ground" Lila went on to teach the next lesson and a few more and I gladly stood there and watched it all.
Lila dimmed the lighting and lit a few scented candles and put on jazz music to give the room a more serene moment "Next we're going to switch to a calm yoga method!" Lila said resting on a yoga mat as everyone else was doing.
"Yes this teaches you all how to remain cool and relaxed in times of crisis!" I said for her.
She smiled at me "Jazmin why don't you come join us!" Lila asked. "This could help you, meditating is good for pregnant gals, clears their minds and relaxes their body for the baby!" She explained. I stood up and sat on a cushion next to her as we all just started breathing in and out slowly.
"Now just relax and clear your minds!" Lila said as everyone else followed her into a state of calm. "Let your mind wander freely and flow like waves in the gentle sea"
I was feeling so relaxed right now being in a place that was so nice and tranquil. My mind was at ease and I felt like I was just letting the natural aspects of life lift out of my body and blow away in the wind. I started humming to myself and rubbed my tummy in circles, the baby was moving slowly around inside me, I could feel it and hear a rattle of porcelain inside of me.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are grey You never know, dear, how much I love you Please don't take my sunshine away...
"You're going to be so happy with me and your father and your brother and sisters too. I love you my little sunshine!" I said letting a tear drop from my eyes.
"Perfect this will teach you all the most important thing in battle, remaining calm under pressure. Just stay relaxed but serious and the key to the downfall will be as common as a phone ringing!"
Phone ringing...OH NO! I totally forgot I was suppose to call benny when I got here. Poor benny he was probably worried sick over me by now I had to get to a phone fast. I hopped up and walked to the door.
"Jazmin!?" Lila said seeing me walking out.
"Sorry I forgot I have to make a call to someone now!" I said.
"There's a video phone you could use!" She pointed as I walked away.
I walked over to the nearest video phone and put it on voice command. "Log into video call!" I command as the phone put up video mode. I scrolled to benny's number and waited for the line to go through.
"Hello" I heard my beloveds' voice.
"Benny!" I exclaim.
"Oh jazmin thank goodness I was so worried about you" He said so relived that I had called him.
"I know!"
"I haven't heard from you in 2 days since you left and I thought something happened and...
"Baby calm down I'm fine!" I said calmly.
"Good, I'm just so happy to hear your voice again"
"Me too, I miss you so much!"
"I miss you too, I just want to see you once more!"
"How are the kids and everyone else!?"
"The kids are still upset you're gone but there getting over it, and we all just want you back home!"
"I won't be back for 2 months!"
"As long as you come back safely and with our baby!"
"I will I promise!" I said holding my stomach. "I have to go now I just called to say I love you!"
"I love you too, I'll be waiting here for you to come home!" He said before I hung up the phone and sighed.
I turned from a smile to a frown and then looked down clinging to my stomach. My precious little baby was all that I had to remind me of the family I left back in Stratford. I missed my triplets and Bennie and Juliet and my Husband and everyone else I knew and cared about. I laid my head on the table and began crying a little bit.
I felt someone touch on my close and I lifted my head to see who it was. "Jazmin?" Lila said.
"Oh Lila, I miss my family so much!" I said crying some more.
"I Know it's hard to get leave the ones you love for so long but you'll see them again!"
"Not for a long time, I really miss them so bad!"
"You know what you need, a day at the spa, why don't you go and get a treatment and just ease your nerves a little" She said.
"Yeah I guess I could do that' I said sniffling...thanks Lila" I said holding her.
"Welcome back jazmin!" Olga greeted me.
"I need to relax my nerves a little stressed out" I said rubbing my neck
"You should try a sauna steam melts the tense away!" She said to me in her thick Swedish accent.
She handed me a towel to wrap in and I walked over to the sauna rom and locked myself inside, I stripped and wrapped the towel around me and then poured water on hot coal rocks as steam came all around me and relaxed me. "Oh I so needed this!" I said rubbing my tummy in circular motions and then feeling the baby kick a little. "You needed this too didn't you baby!" I said to it. "When you come out you're going to have such a great life" I said letting the steam relax me even further.
About an hour later I came out of the steam as relaxed as I had ever felt in my entire life. I walked out in my robe swaying back and forth almost dancing around."Did you enjoy your sauna!" Olga said to me once more.
"And more!" I said so totally relaxed.
"Then would you care for a deep tissue back massage!"
"Sure but be careful, I'm carrying more than just tension on my body!" I say holding my stomach again. She lays me face down on a small mat and starts pressing on my back massaging it.
"Oh that feels good!" I said sighing happily, this spa had just about everything. After that I got a foot massage, a mud bath, and I got my nails done too. "This place is paradise!" I said getting a full treatment. After I was done I thanked Olga for the great time and then headed back upstairs to the Generals Office and laid all the way down rubbing my tummy.
"What a relaxing day!?" I said closing my eyes. Nothing could make this day better or take me away from my moment of calm.
I heard the door crack open and then say "JAZMIN!?" I heard someone scream my name so loud I woke right up. I knew that voice anywhere, I looked up to see my sisters and General Howard come in.
"Thus my relaxation ends!" I cringed trying to stand up a far as I could.
"Oh baby sister we're back!" Nina said hugging me tight.
"I can see that Nina" I said pushing her off me. "How was the island scanning!?"
"Everything seems to be normal, we found no signs of any trouble of planning with the enemy but..." Trixie stopped and looked at me.
"But what!?"
"We did find something...come with us!" Howard said. Nina helped me to my feet and we walked outside to the jungle where we walked in-between a few thick bushes and leaves for about a 2 miles away from base area.
"Will one of you please mind telling me where we're going?!" I said getting blisters on my perfectly pedicured feet. We walked through a thick grove of trees until we walked right into a small clearing.
"Right here!" Trixie said walking over and picking it up a large, thin sheet of paper as we all huddled around it.
"What is it!?" I asked trying to look at it.
"It's one of our island maps, we found it here when we were chasing off one of those other spies, He dropped this while he was running away and it was one of our maps with detailed directions to the location of our base.
"But how did he get it!" I asked.
"He must've snuck in and swiped it, lucky thing we found him or base would be swamped with enemies by now!" Howard said.
"Alright well let's get back to base and try to figure this all out before something goes..." I said turning around until I heard something that sounded like it was falling from the air. I looked up and something large came dropping down on top of us, we all crouched and ducked as there was a boom and dust covered us. When I opened my eyes we were all trapped inside a large cage.
"...Wrong!" I finished my sentence and gulped hard.
"This was a trap!" Trixie said as I backed into her slowly.
"Correct you are my dear!?" We heard a voice and I got startled and held my stomach.
"Who said that!?" Howard said looking around but seeing no one. "Show yourselves!" He demanded and then we saw a few bushes shake and wobble and then out of nowhere about a dozen agents came dropping out from the trees. but these were not any agents of ours they had on totally different uniforms of gray whereas we were wearing all black and leather.
They approached us all circling the cage with their guns and lasers, looking ready to shoot at any moment when we were caught off guard. I closed my eyes and whimpered I could feel my sisters huddling me for protection and security.
"Stand down!" We heard a voice that was loud and scary. "Agents fall in!" The voice said again and then suddenly all the agents around us stood tall and still like army men and then walking through them there was this incredibly tall and muscular gnome he was green hatted with a stern look and was wearing a general army Uniform similar to Howards only navy blue and had a lot more medals on it.
He came walking over to us slowly and pacing with his hands behind his back. He stopped right outside our cage trap and looked us over with dead stares that made me shake. "These are some agents we caught sir, just wandering the place!" One agent said.
"Oh from the agency we've been battling with. Seems we've stumbled upon a free way ticket into our enemies lair. This must be my lucky day! "He said in a demanding and sinister voice. I gulped and held tightly onto my sisters hands, one look in his face and I knew we were all in big trouble now.
Things don't look to well for our little soy girl right now? What will happen next only I hold the key to that answet and tones more but keep your eyes peeled for when the battles come they're going to be EPIC!...Until next time this is me signing off
~Jazz-star xxox :)