Green Hornet

"THOUGHTS" !!SOUND EFFECTS!!

Chapter Three

After Krakov had been frisked by Ivan's bodyguards he was escorted to the fourteenth floor of the twenty story building which was a lot more lavish and luxurious on the inside than it looked like on the outside.

"Thank you for showing up here, Comrade Krakov. You got here just in time. Now that everybody's here we can begin our meeting," Ivan Tovarisch said starting the meeting.

"Why have you gathered us all here, Boss?" one of Tovarische's gang leaders asked.

"As you well know, I have been making steps to buy off more of the police. I've been working on the police chief, Mark Kole, but he refuses to budge so I plan to kidnap his precious teenage granddaughter, Jamie Kole. She is very beautiful and her body has already begun to ripen. When we kidnap the chief's granddaughter we will use her to force the police chief to do things my way."

"When will we kidnap this girl?" another one of Ivan's gang leaders asked.

"We will wait until after school. Tell us how you plan to do it, Comrade Zhukov," Ivan commanded.

"I have one of my operatives who looks like teenager sweep her off feet. He's been doing this for a while now making her drop her defenses and setting her at ease. She is head over heels in love with my operative so at Comrade Tovarische's command we can kidnap her and bring her to one of our hideouts where we will have her hidden. Once that is done the police chief will be under our control."

"He will be under my control, Comrade, Zhukov but I am pleased with your report. Now Comrade Krakov how did the murder of that Italian gangster go? Is he dead?"

"It went fine, Boss. That guy's dead for sure. It won't take long for this city to be yours lock, stock and barrel," Krakov answered.

"Good. That is exactly what I want to hear. Now there's one more thorn in my side I want to talk about," Ivan stated.

"What's that, Boss?" a gang leader inquired.

"What will we do about Green Hornet. He has been thorn in our side for quite some time. What are we going to do about him?"

"That's our cue, Kato. It's time for us to make an entrance. We'll take out the guards quitely first then we'll show up there and meet the new leader of the Russian Mafia."

"Right, Boss," Kato answered as they left the car in a safe place and sneaked into the building quietly taking out the guards.

"I say we rub him out!" one of the gang leaders said out loud.

"You'll do nothing!"

Everyone turned to see a man wearing a greenish black trenchcoat, fedora and full face mask. "So the mighty Green Hornet has decided to grace us with his presence," Ivan said unimpressed.

"What do you think you're doing in my city, Tovarisch?"

"You are brave for man who is about to die," Ivan stated as he snapped his fingers. But nothing happened.

"Why are you doing that? Your men are finished. And so are you!" the Green Hornet stated from beneath his mask.

"Is that so, Comrade?" Ivan said while he at an inhuman speed whipped out a gun from his shirt holster trying to shoot the Green Hornet. !!BLAM!!BLAM!!BLAM!!

Everyone in the room except for Kato looked on in awe as the Green Hornet caught every bullet with his armored hand but the last bullet he sent back at Ivan Tovarisch's stomach knocking him down. "Just for that my cut will be greater," the dark clothed man said coldly.

"Huff, huff. This isn't over. I always wear bulletproof vest so I am not hurt. Don't think your tricks impress me. I'll..."

"You want to try my Hornet's Stinger? It'll cut right through that flak suit you're wearing," the Hornet said whipping out the stinger faster than the human eye could follow.

The Russian mafia leader put his hands up in surrender. "What do you want now?"

"Before anything else you'll give me, let's say $50,000.00." Ivan looked at him as if he was crazy. "Don't look at me funny whenever I give you an order! Give me the money or I take your life!"

"Yes." Ivan motioned to one of his men to hand over a suitcase that had exactly $50,000.00 in it. After Kato took the suitcase and made sure the money was legit, he and the Green Hornet started to leave.

"There's no way you can come here and do like you want," a mafia gang leader said whipping out another gun. But before he could shoot it, Kato threw one of his shockrum disks and knocked the gun out of his hand. "Owww!"

"Does anybody else have any stupid ideas? No? Good. I'll be back later."With that the two were about to leave when a huge man standing well over seven and a half feet tall weighing over 450 pounds of rock solid, steroid powered muscle appeared out of nowhere, grabbed the two of them with almost super human speed and threw them crashing through a nearby window sending the Green Hornet falling away from the building while Kato went falling near the building fourteen stories down to the ground below.

"Good work, Zangief! Boris, Nikita go to the window and gun them down. I want them dead! Dead!! Dead!!!" Ivan the Terrible screamed giving orders.

"That giant enforcer threw me too far away from the building to attach my grappling hook to it so I'm going to have to whip out my mini parachute which will slow down my descent enough so what little acrobatic and breakfall skills I actually have will allow me to land on my feet. It's a good thing my shoes are reinforced." After the Green Hornet had managed to land on his feet his looked over towards where Kato was. "I hope Kato's using the instant grappling hook device I had installed in his uniform. He swore he wouldn't need that 'infernal device' but I insisted on it. Good, he's using it."

Kato used his a wrist device Britt had made for him to whip out a rope line attaching it to the outer part of the building near to where he and the Hornet had been thrown out. Once the arrow point had embedded itself into the side of the building he used the elastic rope to swing himself towards the ground. Once he was only six stories up, Kato retracted the grappling hook and used his superb acrobatic skills to come down by doing cartwheels on the side of the building on his way down.

As soon as the two of them had landed safely on the ground Ivan's goons were attempting to gun them down. Kato and his boss immediately took cover behind some of the expensive parked cars which belonged to the mobsters meeting inside the building.

"Stay down for a moment, Kato. I'm going to shoot my Hornet's Stinger at them."

"Will it work from this range?"

"It will work." !!ZAP!! The gunmen were surprised when the electrical energy hit them knocking them back from the broken window.

"They're down. Let's go, Kato." With that they ran towards the hidden Black Beauty and took off.

"They didn't work out near as well as I would have liked, Boss," Kato said a little perturbed over what seemed like a disaster as he drove them away from the mafia stronghold.

"It went a lot better than it seemed to go, Kato. You remember hearing about how they plan to kidnap Police Chief Kole's granddaughter?"

"Yeah, I heard about it. Were you planting another bug with all the rapid hand movements I noticed you doing?"

"That's right, Kato. I planted a bug on Comrade Zhukov. Right about now Tovarisch and his crew think they've beaten us but as soon as they take Jamie Kole hostage we'll figure out where she is and take her from them!"

"What will we do with her when we get her?"

"Once she's safe and sound we'll figure out a way of 'letting her escape'. But we'll make sure no harm comes to her. Now let's go home."

XXX

Next day, at 4:00 a.m. in the morning, Mike Ashford, the veteran reporter who worked for the Daily Sentinel, Britt Reid's newspaper, for over twenty years, came running into Britt's office barging through the door. "Did you hear what happened, Britt?! The Green Hornet just started a gang war with Ivan Tovarisch. He even has a new henchman of his own! Word on the street is that they were thrown out the window of a forty story building owned by Ivan Tovarisch!"

"Slow down, Mike," Britt said from his desk. "Are you sure about all of this?"

"Yes, I am sure! Darn it! If we're all lucky the Green Hornet and his new hired muscle met an untimely end! As it was they caused over ten thousand dollars to Ivan Tovarische's building."

"I heard Ivan Tovarische is also a dangerous gang member," Rally Vincent said as she turned towards Mike from her desk on her swivel chair.

"Yeah! Yeah! But it's the Green Hornet who's the most dangerous, I tell ya! At any rate you gotta print all of this up, Britt. Your father would never have let a big story like this go. We've scooped the other papers!"

Britt thought for a moment. "All right, Mike. I'll stop the presses and make sure your story makes the morning edition. Good thing I decided to get here early to get some important paperwork done."

"Capital!" Mike jumped for joy.

"But are you sure your information is accurate?" Britt asked with a sense of seriousness.

"Yes, I'm sure. As long as the Green Hornet traipses around in a mask you don't have to worry about being sued. And I haven't exactly accused Ivan the Terrible as some people call him of anything he could sue us for so stop the presses! We have a paper to run!" Mike said as he rushed out of Britt's office as abruptly as he rushed in.

"He really has it in for the Green Hornet," Rally said as she saw Mike Ashford running over to his typewriter.

"Well, ever since the Green Hornet showed up and busted up that arms dealing ring in such a ruthless manner the police made him out to be a vigilante then a criminal."

"Mike Ashford came rushing back into Britt's office again like a mad man. "I heard the both of you! The Green Hornet simply wanted to make all the money himself. The last thing he wanted was to let someone else make money on what he considered was his personal turf."

"All right, Mike.Take it easy. We all know what the Green Hornet is all about," Britt answered calmly.

"Now you know! When I told you the Green Hornet was a menace to society you weren't quick to believe me. You said, 'let's get our facts straight before we start making accusations!' I told you to mark my words!"

"Yes, Mike. I remember saying all of that."

"Did you mark my words, did you?"

"Yes, Mike."

"Good. I have some more writing to do. Now if you'll excuse me." With that the grouchy and experienced reporter left the room in a huff.

"Mike's really upset over the actions of the Green Hornet. I wonder what he thinks of the Green Hornet's new hired muscle. I hear he..." Rally's words were interrupted as Mike cam back into Britt's office.

"Oh, I know all about the Green Hornet's new stooge. Word is he's some kind of ninja. For all we know his new ninja's spying on us right now! The Green Hornet's increasing his power base. If he's not dealt with soon he'll take over the city, I telling you. Mark my words!"

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AUTHOR'S NOTES: I hope you've enjoyed reading this. If you have send me some review. Now I'd like to give thanks to the reviewers of the last chapter.

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