The Ghosts of Yesterday
Chapter: 11 Staring death right in the face
:the S.P.E.C.T.R.E Island headquarters, formally known as a Lincoln Island current time:
"Hahahahahahahaha" laughed the mad man.
:Splash:
As the distance sound is heard in the background James Bond arched his head while looking down at the man falling until his body is no longer to be seen. He can feel the hot lava, as if he was staring Baron Samedie the living embodiment of death right in the face.
However Bond shook his head at that and realized the man is just a man and not a voodoo god of death. His black operations clothes are torn and he sweating but being in great shape does have its advantages. The machine nearby him appeared to be damaged of sorts it has an appearance of a large generator that can store energy for what? Blofeld loved power but this isn't something that would save man kind.
Why would Blofeld build something like this?
He found it completely baffling to say the least.
Knowing Blofeld it could have been just about anything but once he reports back to headquarters by way of cell phone. He'll have M send an expedition team to explore this island a lot better than he did. So he dialed the number by the way of his smart phone or Q-phone, however all he is getting is static.
Then he tried a text message to send to Billy Tanner, however nothing not a thing. James checked and discovered that the text system is out of range. So he had to leave the island to call and send a text message. It appears that the island can block satellite technology from leaving the inside the island. His car worked because he is near his vehicle.
So that means what can work on the inside can't work on the outside. Well looks like he has a long trip home as he put his Q-phone back into his left pocket. With his adrenalin high and his stress levels lower, he realized he still has what is left of the golden gun.
He didn't need it any more it's served its purpose and so he chucked it off the balcony as the damaged weapon fell fast to the hot lava below with a silent splash. A fitting end for such a dangerous weapon and good riddance too, if only if it was that simple to get ride of weapons like that.
Who is he trying to fool?
Completely, naïve!
"Well just another day on the job, I better get home…ugh I need a drink after this one." thought Bond.
Now he brushed himself off and walked over to the control area as multiple of old style screens surround the control room with a simple brown style chair with four wheels. A sing string of cat hair can be seen on the chair. This is where Blofeld must of sat and at the right side of the wall is the map of the world just like the one he saw in Japan all those years ago.
It was when he first met Blofeld in a volcano almost like this one. It was the mission to investigate what happened to the American and Russian space crafts. At the time after the mission China was the one who hired SPECTRE to start a war between Russia and America.
It almost happened too.
:Flashback 1967 Volcano lair:
James Bond is brought before the leader of SPECTRE Ernest Stavro's Blofeld. James is wearing a gray shirt with pants and black shoes and the villain is wearing is typical clothing. In which this was the first time he has seen the man
"James Bond. Allow me to introduce myself." said the man holding the white cat "I am Ernst Stavro Blofeld. They told me you were assassinated in Hong Kong."
"Yes, this is my second life." said James Bond.
"You only live twice, Mr. Bond." said Blofeld.
Then he is told of this plan of his.
"As you can see, I'm about to inaugurate a little war. In a matter of hours when America and Russia have annihilated each other, we shall see a new power dominating the world" said Blofeld in a cold but confident tone in his voice.
"The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army.' said the villain "You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see"
"Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?" asked James who secretly has something up his sleeve
"Yes, give him his cigarettes. It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond!" said Blofeld.
:End of Flashback:
James figured that this large generator must have been one of his diabolical plans to take over the world again. He knew about SPECTRE but didn't know who ran it until Blofeld had met him. If someone were to do that in today's age it would be considered a bad Saturday morning cartoon.
He'll have M launch an air strike on this facility and blow it up. No one can have this laying around and as for the island he'll see if he can find that submarine of captain Nemo's to donate to the British museum. It would be a great tourist attraction however people know Nemo as a fictional character in a book so he figured that Mycroft will have the object locked away in the vault.
"The things I do for England." said James Bond.
Then he glared at something shiny and metallic, it looked like that flashlight like object that was hovering in the cylinder. It's the sword of Atlantis that Mycroft, but glowing…. this thing it appears to be dormant.
He didn't think so, because it looks like a toy to him. It looked like a end of a Katana sword or a fencing sword, the end is black and there appears to be some sort of button with a slot. He'll have Q examine it as this could be living proof that Atlantis existed at one time. But he isn't going to get his hopes up on this one.
The object must have been the power source but can this little object power the large generator to do what. He put his thoughts aside on the object later by putting it in his pocket. Then he found his Walther P99 pistol on the ground, glade he didn't lose this.
So he put the weapon back into his holster. He glanced around the scene and noticed an utter complete mess; someone might have to call the Janitor on this one. Another question lingered in his mind.
How did SPECTRE find the Mysterious Island?
Did someone tell Blofeld?
Or did they find it by accident!
One thing is for sure he still didn't know.
Hopefully Mycroft will find out he is on the case.
A computerized voice can be heard in the background.
"Activating automated message date 1971"
Suddenly the view screens come alive as if there is some sort of program within this old system. Booby trap no less in case James Bond ever came here. He frowned and folded his arms as he glared at the screens. Static fuzz is first seen for a few moments until an images some something he recognized all too well.
It's the same brown chair that is over there with the faint strange of old cat hair. Then the chair turned around and the man appeared with the cat….that very man he knows all too well. It was him, this must have been this last will and testament before Bond killed him with his bare hands.
It's the image of Ernest Stavros Blofeld.
He looked the same before his change. He took down the details in his mind. He is bald with no hair, a scar running up along his left eye and down his face in which James shot him. He has no earlobes and his skin is almost pale along with his eyes as if he never got any sleep at all. He could almost chuckle at this.
The villain seriously needs therapy, Bond wasn't angry seeing the villain again just annoyed although he did had the urge to throw the chair right at the view screen. He refrained from doing so as this could be important. The one thing is for sure Blofeld must have had some diabolical plan to have him eliminated or use the generator to do something to the world.
It must have been both.
Still it didn't surprise him one bit.
A plan amongst a plan, that is Blofeld for you!
Of course there is that white Persian cat of his.
He recalled the time that Blofeld tried to sterilize the world's food supply through a group of brainwashed women called the "angels of death" unless his demands for an international amnesty are met. Talk about having an inflated ego far worse than Fransisco Scaramanga
:Flash back Blofeld's snow mountain lair 1969:
Merry Christmas, 007." said the villain who knew who James Bond is.
" I'm Sir Hillary Bray." said Bond in disguise
"No no no, Mr. Bond. Respectable baronets from the College of Heralds do "not" seduce female patients in clinics. On the other hand, they do get their professional details... "right". The De Bleauchamps tombs are "not" in the Augsburg Cathedral as you said, but in the Ste. Anna Kirch. Sir Hillary Bray would have known!" said Blofeld.
James Bond is silent as his cover has been blown.
A small slip." said Blofeld "It takes more than a few props to turn 007 into a Herald."
It'll take more than cutting off your earlobes, Blofeld," said James "to turn you into a Count.
I may yet surprise you. But I'm afraid you have no more surprises left for me." Pointed out the villain "I know all about your mission, Mr. Bond." He continued speaking "Your colleague! Such a keen climber, and a brilliant conversationalist... before he left us."
You realize that he reported where I am." said James Bond.
"Oh, I doubt that. In any case, no one is coming to your rescue, Mr. Bond. In a few short hours, the United Nations will receive a Yultide greeting." smiled Blofeld "The information that I now possess the scientific means to control, or to destroy, the economy of the whole world. People will have more important things to deal with than you."
"Allergy vaccines? Bacteria, Bacteriological, Warfare." Asked Bond
With a difference! said Blofeld "Our big breakthrough since last summer has been the confection of certain... virus Omega."
"Infertility." Said 007
"TOTAL Infertility! In plants and animals!" said the villain with confidence" Not just disease in a few herds Mr. Bond. Or the loss of a single crop, But the destruction of a whole strain, forever!" he continued speaking." throughout an entire continent. If my demands are not met, I shall proceed with the systematic extinction of whole species of cereals and livestock all over the world!"
:End of flashback:
"You are listening to this message Mister Bond." Spoke, Blofeld "I am dead by your hands and you had found SPECTRE Island as I predicted you would some day."
James Bond stared down the view screens as he suspected there is more to this than meets the eye.
"Oh there is no escape this time Mister Bond," chuckled Blofeld "In five minutes this island will be destroyed along with you with it…I had SPECTRE create the ultimate weapon an energy collector that would collect the worlds power in one big swoop. However, one piece of unknown technology that is part of it that SPECTRE discovered on this very island of Captain Nemo.
"How charming," muttered James, in which his thoughts are on that object he found could this "What will you think of next?"
"I discovered the diary of Captain Nemo that my father had found." Said the villain "To my surprise I found a set of coordinates to this very mysterious island that Jules Verne had wrote about and I have to say I am impressed."
Bond rolled his eyes and sighed deeply. As if glaring at the screen for the moment in which to silently to say Get to the point
"The plan was to collect the world's energy and watch the world descend into chaos." Spoke the mastermind "Then SPECTRE would be its savor under my rule of course…for the right price." He sighed a bit "All my plans ruined by you…but that doesn't matter now because in five minutes you will be dead….like your wife."
Bond winced slightly at the mention of his late ex-wife, if this was years ago he would be furious.
Blofeld just laughed for a few moments to think he is getting in the head of his greatest nemesis.
:Flash back 1969 after the wedding:
James Bond stepped out of the vehicle to check out the flowers, his wife Tracy is inside. In the background he heard a car approaching, suddenly he spotted the both of them Irma Brunt and Blofeld. Shots ranged out as he ducked for cover and draws out his own pistol. They got away and then he noticed a bullet is in the wind shield. He ran to the passenger side to help his wife as her head is slumped on the dash board. He checked her pulse.
"No." sadness and anger began to boil upwards to the surface.
Dead and gone!
He was too late.
He cried as he held her in his arms and heard a motor cycle as someone asked him if they are all right.
He glared at the man sadly as this was the only time he cried in his life "It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."
Years later he got his justice as he choked the man to death.
After that he moved on, he was angry for a long time until he decided it would have changed nothing. So he had to let it go on his own like a man in which he still is.
:End of flashback:
James Bond frowned and shook his head at this. However times have changed for him and the world to the point he is emotionally detached from such feelings like this and learned to except that people die. Well maybe except for that once incident with Vesper but to him he has moved on from that. That doesn't mean he won't forget either. James kept his cool because he has learned you can't kill someone who is already dead.
"Ironic isn't it Mister Bond." Said, Blofeld a cruel smile crept upon his lips and his cat made a slight meow "I told to you, a long time ago you only live twice. Goodbye Mister Bond, see you in hell. Knowing even in death you have made me a happy man." Laughed Blofeld, then the recording ended as the countdown has begun.
"Damn that Blofeld." Thought Bond
He saw the countdown on multiple of view screens.
This isn't good at all.
He knew he had to run and fast.
0:5:00:0
He is running out of the SPECTRE Island's main facility in which his car is outside of the front entrance
"What was that madman thinking? In building that device" muttered the secret agent while making a run for it as fast as humanly possible?
The countdown began to wind down even faster. James dodges and weaves past objects that are in his way during the fight he had the facility was damaged. In the background he heard the countdown as if Blofeld planned this all along.
Considering the madman knew he was going to die by Bond's hands when he suffocated him to death by placing his hands over the madman's neck. It didn't matter to him right now he had to get off the island and fast. Well if he lives to tell another day to anyone that might hear it. Mycroft won't be happy if this island blows up, but that won't matter for much longer if he doesn't escape and fast.
He ran and ran didn't even bother to look back. Never hesitating for a moment to catch his breath, glad he gave up smoking all those years ago. Up ahead he can see the light at the end of the tunnel more like the way out he went past the tank as it is practically useless to him considering the current situation He can see his car the Aston Martin Halo Interceptor is still there waiting for him and it looked like a battle field around him. James didn't bother to realize how much time is left before the explosion will occur.
Quickly he took out his key chain, pressed a button and the driver's side door opened for him, he hopped inside and closed the door. He placed the key into the ignition and his vehicle came alive once again, he slammed his foot on the gas peddle and
Does a 160 degree turn in the other direction towards on the road by using the steering wheel? In which he is heading towards the beach it's a long way if he can reach it in time. His car wheels tore up the paved road as his tires burned rubber he is speeding away from the main facility.
James Bond knew he wasn't out of the clear yet, he suspected that this explosion will be big very big as this is an island with a volcano. He's escaped worse than this multiple of times in many missions and battles.
But this is worse, so he didn't know what to make of it.
He isn't going to doubt himself now or anytime soon.
He'll find a way to survive.
He always does.
Going to helicopter mode is out of the question, so that means once he picks up speak he will transform his vehicle into jet mode in a form of an aero star plane once he picks up more speed as has to go 100 miles per hour.
The helicopter would be too slow for that and reaching the beach isn't an option considering he had to transform into a motor boat so that would be out of the question also. Then in the background a loud explosion is heard that rocked the island and the volcano blew its top more like something or than red lava came out of the object
KABOOOM
He knew that wasn't a good sign. He took a glance at his rear view mirror a bright light is engulfing everything and his heading towards him in a pace that is about twenty to thirty miles per hour according to his calculations.
Bond eyes narrowed, his hands grasp the steering wheel and made a b-line towards the beach while in control of his vehicle. All of a sudden the white light slammed into his car launching the vehicle into the air, he couldn't hear a thing expect for his own heart beat as if the world around him suddenly went dead.
Thump…Thump….Thump
While being engulfed by the white light from the explosion as he sat in his car driving to the shore of SPECTRE island to make another daring escaped but by the looks of it. It didn't go well as planned. Bond thought that his time has come to be dispatched. He will be able to see his wife, Tracy and his long gone lover, Vesper. His mother and father, and everyone else who had long since had died or failed to save? Then he blacked out. As if truly if death is staring him in the face once again.
From space satellites detected an unknown explosion in the pacific but couldn't pinpoint where, the USGA or United States Geological serve picked up a 9.6 earthquake in the pacific but couldn't pinpoint it as in where or what location. The island itself was blasted to smithereens as if nothing is left but a big hole in the ocean this is being covered by gallons of ocean water until there was never an island that even existed at all. As if the island was as it is a complete mystery.
:Jedi Temple Coruscant:
The green Jedi grandmaster of the order sat in an Indian style position and is meditating on this day in his room. He is breathing is calm in which he is looking for answers in the force to find some clues to for the future. However there is nothing as if the dark side is clouding everything again.
It didn't annoy him but he is a grandmaster of the Jedi order, so the dark side must be stronger than he is. Suddenly a brief multiple of images clouded his mind in which he saw something, he body jerked slightly and he opened his eyes as he wiped his brow from his fore head. Sweat came off and he glanced around his room.
"And so it begins, it does." Muttered Yoda quietly and took a deep breath as he stood up and hobbled away as he left his room.