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The Other Queen – 11
Chapter 11
Lian Yu 2007
As Slade walked towards Shado and Oliver he noticed that they were very close and then they were kissing. Slowly he turned around and pretended like he hadn't seen anything. He chuckled under his breath. This island was getting to everyone it would seem. First him kissing Victoria, now Oliver kissing Shado.
He made his way back to the plane and saw Victoria standing with her back turned. Then she was gathering firewood and adding a few more logs into the dying embers. When she turned around and saw him a smile seemed to effortlessly form across her face. A smile of his own graced his own face and he noticed she still had a blush spread across her cheeks.
"Need some help?" he asked her.
"Yeah, sure," she replied with a coy smile.
He grabbed some firewood from the pile on the ground and added to the fire-pit. They worked in silence for a few minutes before Victoria broke it, "So how is Oliver's marksmanship?"
"Hmm? What?" Slade asked confused.
"You said you were going to go see how Oliver was coming along," she commented simply.
"Oh, yeah. Alright I guess."
"That answer sounds very vague," Victoria joked with a teasing grin.
He rolled his eyes at her and changed the subject, "I think after we are done with the fire we should sharpen our swords. It's been too quiet lately, I figure Fyers is getting ready as we speak."
So, when they finished taking care of the fire Slade handed Victoria her sword as he sharpened his own. Both worked in silence wondering if the other was going to say something or not. They were still at it when Shado and Oliver returned.
"So, how did Oliver do? As expected?" Slade asked.
Shado nodded her head in confirmation.
"Then I guess it's back to the drawing board," Slade remarked with a scowl.
Just then there was a rustle through some leaves somewhere in the background and everyone became alert within seconds. Slade and Victoria griped tighter the swords in their hands as Shado grabbed her knife. Yao Fei walked into the wreckage with a serious face that neither Slade nor Victoria could read. They shot each other a look and decided silently that they weren't going to be putting their guard down.
"Yao Fei!" Oliver shouted with surprise.
Shado rushed to her father and wrapped him into an embrace. Victoria, Slade and Oliver watched as Yao Fei didn't seem happy or relieved that he was there and he didn't even wrap an arm around his daughter. Something was wrong, Slade and Victoria thought as the same time.
"How did you escape?" Slade demanded.
"I didn't," Yao Fei replied.
At least six armed soldiers rushed into their camp and surrounded them.
"You son-of-a-bitch!" Slade exclaimed as he moved to attack Yao Fei.
He was quickly knocked out by one of the soldiers.
"Hey! Get away from him!" Victoria shouted as she rushed to be beside Slade.
She didn't make it to him as another soldier held her back and had a grip on her that was too strong to break, though she tried. She tried to elbow the soldier in the gut but he held on to her arm tighter. "That's enough of that," the soldier growled at her as she continued to get out of his grasp.
"Your time on the island is at an end," Yao Fei declared.
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Shado was next to Oliver and Slade was next to Victoria as they were being held at gunpoint in the back of a large jeep. Slowly the terrain pasted by them as they made their way to a giant clearing a few miles away. From where they where they could just barely make out what appeared to be Fyers' camp.
"Toria, are you alright?" Slade asked in concern, his voice no more than a whisper.
"I'm doing fine. What about you?"
"I've been better."
"Yeah, tell me about it."
Looking around Victoria saw they were almost to the camp. Slowly she took a deep breath and leaned a little closer to Slade. If this was the end she rather be beside him, she thought. That thought however didn't stop her from shaking in fear. What the hell are they going to do to us all? Breath, just breath. You aren't responsible for what's going to happen. Damn girl, get it together! she berated herself.
Suddenly they came to a complete stop and the soldiers started to forcefully drag them around. They were all brought into Fyers' main tent. Yao Fei simply stood straight, appearing to wait for their arrival. Oliver's eyes widened when he saw the same man in the cave that had begged for his help sitting at some sort of controls.
"You," Oliver whispered as he rushed forward towards him.
Forcefully he was pulled back, "Save it! We don't have the luxury in indulging in vendettas," Slade warned.
"Baba," Shado said in confusion to her father.
"Shado," Yao Fei replied seriously.
"You lead Fyers right to our camp, you coward!" Slade shouted at Yao Fei in angry.
"Fyers was about to blow up the entire forest just to eliminate you. This way you all have a chance," Yao Fei explained.
"Pray I don't get the chance to repay your mercy," Slade replied.
"Slade," Victoria warned with a shake of her head.
Slade shut his mouth but continued to glare at Yao Fei and stood as close to Victoria as possible. Like hell I'm going to let them touch her, he thought.
Fyers came into the tent, "How fitting, everyone reunited for the end."
"For the end of what?!" Oliver asked angrily. "What is all of this for?"
A voice was speaking into the radio controls that 'Allen' from the cave now sat in front of. The plane was on its way to Hong Kong and 'Allen' was giving them a route change, making it so they would fly right above the island. What the hell?! What is their plan? Victoria thought.
"That's a commercial airliner Fyers, it's not like it can land here," Oliver taunted.
"It wouldn't be landing anywhere, Mister Queen we're going to destroy it," Fyers explained with a smug smirk.
"This doesn't make any sense, why do you want to blow up a plane?" Oliver asked/shouted.
Fyers calmly walked closer to him and looked at him pointedly, "When the New York stock exchange reopened after 9/11 the Down Jones dropped leaving 600 and 85 points. Can you imagine what would happen to China, the world's second largest economy, if air travel in and out of China was grounded indefinitely?"
It's all starting to make more sense, Victoria thought before Slade said with understanding, "You want to destabilize China's economy."
"It's not what I want, rather my employer. We have enough missiles here to shoot down any aircraft approaching the mainland. That will decimate China's economy, especially when it's rogue element in China's own military claims responsibility. You see how inconvenient you occasionally were, you were always more worth to me alive than dead," Fyers explained while looking at Yao Fei.
"Then you should have killed me, because I won't do it," Yao Fei replied firmly.
"Really?" Fyers asked, seemingly amused and he turned around.
First, he quickly punched Oliver in the face, shot Victoria in her right shoulder, Slade through his leg and finally he shot Shado in the left shoulder.
"Shado!" Yao Fei exclaimed as he rushed to his daughter.
"I said I need you alive but I can kill everyone you care about," Fyers warned holding the gun up to Shado's head.
"Stop! I'll do it!" Yao Fei yielded.
"I knew your good judgment could be counted on. Come along now, we need to get you back into your military uniform."
Slade was slowly trying to get to a sitting position while Fyers pointed his gun towards him. Victoria was lying on the floor between Slade and Oliver, glaring at Fyers with pure hate as Oliver sat dumbfounded beside her. He'll pay for this, she thought. Looking over at Slade she could tell he was in pain but was trying not to show any weakness in front of their enemy. Now what are we going to do? Slowly Yao Fei began to get up and without anyone else noticing he handed Oliver a small knife. He helped Shado get into more of a sitting position and said something to her that only they could understand. And then he was forcefully pulled up to stand by one of Fyers' men.
Fyers walked out of the tent and dialed a number to his employer, "It's happening."
"Understood," the voice replied.
On the other line the man shut off the phone and addressed a figure sitting at a desk with long dark legs and high heels, "That was Fyers, everything is going according to plan."
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There was a video camera set up in the tent with Fyers watching through the lenses and paid attention to the scene to make sure it looked well.
"The uniform suits you, Yao Fei," he commented. "Anytime you're ready."
Oliver was trying to slowly and carefully undone his bounds without any of Fyers' men noticing.
"To the people of China and the citizens of the world, I make this statement voluntarily taking responsibility for the shooting of Forest air flight, 637. To protest the Republic of China's treatment of me, for betraying and abandoning me to the island of Lian Yu. Consider this my righteous delivery of vengeance." Yao Fei spoke into the camera.
Fyers stopped the recording, "Thank you."
Within seconds he pulled out his gun and shot Yao Fei right through the forehead. Oliver and Shado immediately started to yell. While Victoria just stood in shock as she watched the second man in her life was shot through the head. This can't be happening again.
"Sir, the plane is within range," one of Fyers' men declared.
Just then a voice sounded through the walkie that sounded vaguely familiar. "The men should be a few seconds from you. Do you want me to do a double check or join them?" the voice asked Fyers.
"Double check the camp, I don't want any proof that we were there. Then I want you to join us here in the main camp," Fyers replied.
Oliver looked confused. 'Billy,' Slade mouthed. Oliver's face lite up in understanding. So he was still alive and somewhere on this island.
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"lock one missile onto the target," Fyers commanded.
"Missile one locked on," Allen declared.
"Prepared to launch on my mark."
Oliver shared a look with Slade, Victoria and Shado, he was almost free of his bounds. As soon as he was finished cutting the rope he went straight for Allen digging his knife into Allen's shoulder blade. He cut Victoria and Shado lose, both fighting men around them. Then he cut Slade's bounds. The scene was complete chaos.
"Fire! Fire the missile!" Fyers shouted through his talkie.
Oliver was having trouble taking down Allen when Shado came over and broke Allen's neck. They rushed outside of the tent. Oliver and Shado watched in horror as one of the missiles flew out of the launcher. Shado and Oliver rushed towards the missile launcher as Slade and Victoria covered them. There was heavy firing going on as Oliver tried to make his way to the launcher.
"Go kid!" Slade shouted as he opened fire with his machine gun.
Oliver made it to the launcher as fast as his feet could carry him and took cover.
"We need to reprogram the missile," Shado explained.
"I don't know how to reprogram a missile launcher," Oliver exclaimed.
"I do," Shado declared as she pulled out a circuit board.
"Shado!"
Suddenly she was being jumped. With a few perfect kicks, she grabbed the man's gun and shot him in the head as another one rushed at her. She forcefully knocked his head into the controls and they started to move forward. The circuit board was knocked out of her hands left somewhere on the launcher as she continued to fight the soldier and they both rolled off the launcher. Oliver was left to fend for himself.
"Oliver put the chip in!" Shado shouted as the missile continued to get closer to the plane.
Oliver and the man both pulled punches to the other and Oliver managed to knock the guy off. The missile was dangerously close to the plane when Oliver put the chip into place and the missile started to head in the direction of the camp. He stopped the launcher, stepped off and took cover beside it. A few feet away stood the camp as it was blown to hell.
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It was dark when Oliver went walking through the destroyed camp. There were small fires throughout and he saw mangled bodies that smelled of burnt flesh. He felt bile raised in his mouth but he continued to move forward to see the fate of his sister and friends. In his path was a case that had managed to be intact. He opened it and found Yao Fei's bow and his green hood. Oliver hooked an arrow and nearly jumped when he heard a deep laugh a few feet in front of him.
"I should have figured that you couldn't save the day without making a mess," Slade remarked.
Slade slowly rose and helped Victoria up as much as his injured leg allowed him. He was very stiff and had to lean on the car they had used for cover.
"Thanks," Victoria muttered to Slade in between wincing as her body pressed down on her bad shoulder.
"Victoria!" Oliver exclaimed as he rushed to give her a hug.
He pulled back when she hissed very loudly, "Sorry."
"It's good to see you too," she commented.
Then he focused his attention on Slade once more grabbing his discarded bow and arrow.
"Where is Shado?" Oliver asked in concern.
"I thought she was with you," Victoria pointed out.
Just then they heard a noise a few feet in front of them and Fyers had a gun pointed to Shado's head.
"Actually, she is with me!" Fyers declared.
"Let her go!" Victoria shouted leaning on Slade as they made their way to Oliver's side.
"It's over, Fyers!" Slade shouted beside her.
Slade's legs buckled under him and dragged down Victoria with him. Victoria tried not to blush as she landed on top of Slade. Oliver drawing his bow was what got her mind onto the present and made her forget that she was laying on the man she had feelings for.
"Let her go," Oliver growled.
"Amazing, a two-year operation undone because a young playboy happened to wash up to the shore. And now here you are, a killer. You wanted nothing more than to leave this island, now you can. I can call a rescue ship and you can go home. Tell me, Mr. Queen are you prepared to sacrifice your freedom for her?"
Fyers pushed Shado a little further away from himself and in that moment Oliver sent an arrow right through his throat. Victoria just stared as she watched the man that had brought them so much grief collapsed to the ground with blood flowing freely from his throat. Thank God, she couldn't help herself from thinking. At least Shado was safe now.
"I guess so," Oliver remarked to the now dead Fyers.
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