Chapter 7 – The alliance
London Bridge Asylum
Back in the London Asylum, right at the midnight, in the Boingos, Hansels and Gretels cell, the remaining three boom-booms that were sent to three inmates by a so called mysterious ally were stuck in a small dug hole near the edge of the cell bar, dug by small already broken and bruised spoon lying nearby. Everything was just prepared and settled for an escape. Boingo ignited a match in order to light the wicks of the bombs up.
"May I keep just at least one, please?" Hansel asked by slight pleading.
"Keep it down, bro!" Gretel hissed for her greedy brother cautiously.
"Now get down!" Boingo instructed as he lightened the wicks of all three sweets like explosives up before and swiftly along with two kids swiftly run to take cover right behind the bed to use it as a cover.
After a few moments, a deafening explosion broke the peaceful night silence, sounding from the inside of the London Bridge Asylum.
"BBBOOOOOOMMMMM!"
And in that moment, the whole London Bridge Asylum instantly sprung to life, bursting into emergency, with the sirens and alarms stared blurring out aloud, all windows and so all night lights of the asylum got lightened up, the guard dogs were heart barking with sounds echoing from megaphones: "Emergency! Alert! The prisoners! Boingo! Hansel and Gretel on the loose! Alert!"
Therefore, Boingo, Hansel and Gretel together made their way out of the asylum, getting outside the building right at the courtyard. "Quick! This way! Right to the fence!" Boingo commanded as the bunny run toward the opposite site of the asylum right to the fence hopping by making a bouncing leaps as Hansel and Gretel followed their bunny accomplice in pursuit, which however proved slight a problem for kids to keep up with Boingo still due to their overweight physique as well as relatively small legs.
"Come on, kids! Lets go! Move it! Move it!" Boingo called out prompting his kids accomplices to move it.
"Uuf! Phuf! We cant run as fast as you do, fuzzy!" Gretel whined, gasping for breath while running.
"Yeah!" Now Hansel pointed on also gasping for breath. "This was exactly the worst part of all those exercise – running!"
Thought, the beeping sirens and alarms, loud calling of the personal and guard dog barking and actually an arousing fear of being recapturing and put into jail again gave a strength to trio they needed running much faster with a much greater effort, before Boingo, Hansel and Gretel finally made it to the opposite side of the asylum and the fence wall that was separating them between the asylum and freedom. Boingo made a few springs before bouncing himself and easily leaped on top of the fence wall, that by the way was over fifteen feet tall. "Hansel! Gretel! Hurry up!" Boingo called up from up, prompting Hansel and Gretel to climb up.
However, the kids attempted to jump up or climb on the fence wall several time desperately, but it was no use. It was just too high for them, as well as the wall being a way too steep to grapple, making it climb up virtually impossible.
"We…We cant!" Gretel yelled out as he once again slide down the wall in yet another useless attempt to climb up.
"We are not gonna make it!" Hansel was whining desperate by hopelessly attempting to leap up ove r the wall.
"Chmm! Have you ever been doing those regular exercise?" Boingo muttered sarcastically.
"You are not helping!" Gretel jelled out a bit irritated.
"Hurm! Fine!" Boingo now huffed quite exasperated rolling his eyes annoyed, yet the bunny actually jumped down of the fence. "I am just gonna throw you there, chubby." Boingo grabbed and he took Hansel on his shoulder, though due to chubby boys weight it was quite hard for bunny to lift him up. "Uuungh! Boy, you should really stick with diet." Boingo stammered sarcastically before stretching his legs, bounced himself from the ground and threw Hansel right up, so the boy managed to grab the top of the fence, however he was slightly struggling to get up before he eventually crawled on top.
"Come on!" Boingo then helped Gretel up as well, taking her though just like that really as hard on her shoulder, stretching, bounced from the ground and there her up, so she managed to grab the fence walls top as well. Hansel who finally managed to get himself up, took her sisters hands and helped her up as well.
Boingo then straightened his ears up hearing the noise, nervously turning around as loud calling of the personal and guard dogs barking was just growing stronger and intensifying, evident that all the asylum personal was gaining on, the bunny swiftly once again leaped on top of the fence wall joining the Hansel and Gretel.
"Jump!" Boing commanded, prompting his kids accomplices to jump from the fence wall on the other site.
"What!?" Both Hansel and Gretel blurted out freaked out by the looks of the weight down the wall.
"Well, if you guys want to be recaptured..." Boingo huffed rather indifferently shrugging his shoulders and nimbly jumped down the fence to another side and nimbly landing on his long feet.
Hearing the beeping sirens and alarms and still nearing loud calling of the personal and guard dog barking, both kids sighed exasperated yet out of fear and by the thoughts to be recaptured and by all those exhausting exercises, without second though, Hansel and Gretel jumped of the fence, though, unfortunately landing right on Boingo hard as they all rolled down the small hill into the bushes.
"Get off me!" Boingo whined quite angrily prompting Hansel and Gretel to get off his back as the made their way out of the bushes, yet looking slightly battered, dirty from mud and covered by some leaves, before right then they saw a promised parked getaway car. Well….A gateway car, which however was a long, black and rather elegant limousine, with its front door opened.
"Is that supposed to be that getaway car, or what?" Hansel called out quite astonished by the looks of the limo.
"You got me sis!" Gretel also remarked astonished by the looks of the car.
"Who cares!"Lets go!" Boingo jerked out, not seemingly that much thrilled about the car as he bolted right to the noble car with Hansel and Gretel following the bunny without second thoughts. They quickly get inside, Hansel as a last one closed the door, as in the instance limousines engine started rumbling before the car speed its way off, riding away from the asylum.
Boingo, Hansel and Gretel, now being possibly safe were sitting on the comfortable seats inside the noble, moving limo. Yet strangely, despite there where they were sitting was a little light while the rest of cars interior, besides of darkling windows, was rather shrouded in the deep, cold darkness. It all was quite strange and rather creepy for a while.
"Eh! Boingo." Gretel whispered slightly unnerving, checking the darkness shrouding around them. "This place gives me quite the willies."
"So, where is that so called ally of us character?" Boingo asked a bit suspiciously.
"Right here, my friends." Boingo, Hansel and Gretel yelped out, jumping a bit startled as a quite a cold, sinistrous yet surprisingly soft voice called out from a deep, silent darkness in front of them. And right in that moment, a small light flashed out the interior, as in front of bunny and kids appeared quite a tall, strong looking person, although still somewhat shrouded in dark with only the shape lines of the guy were visible, making it quite hard to see or determine who actually it was. It rather looked like, the shadow engulfed him. He was sitting comfortably in a seat of different side, holding and calmly sipping from a glass of beverage with ice.
The enigmatic so called ally character then turned his somewhat like coned head, which rather resembled something like a beak actually, his face still covered by darkness, and attention to his slightly taken aback and somewhat uncertain guests. "I am glad you made it, Mr Boingo, Mr Hansel and Miss Gretel. I must say, you got it right on the schedule." The shadow guy replied, his voice although sounding that cold and sinistrous, yet also somewhat refined and speaking in a very eloquent and warm like tone.
Boingo, Hansel and Gretel, astonished and being quite speechless for a while, if not being slightly intimidated by the mysterious enigmatic characters presence, yet though Boingo eventually recuperated himself by regaining his confidence as the bunny dared to speak up. "Ehm…..So you are that so called ally of us, that has sent us those boom-booms to escape, right?" The bunny asked with a hit of suspicious present in his voice as the enigmatic guy sitting in front of them merely nod his head in agreement. "Um….We are pleased to meet you and…..Thanks for helping us out, I guess? But….Why have you freed us anyway? Who are you?" Boingo asked cautiously.
"That isn't so that important." A darkened enigmatic person replied calmly. "The more important thing is, that you three are a free people now. You don't even know how much it means for me."
"Heh?" Boingo, Hansel and Gretel gasped in wonder, still uncertain and failing to understand whoever was their mysterious apparent saviour or what was that all about.
"You three are just infamously notorious criminals and evil masterminds actually." The enigmatic guy spoke off with a strange undercurrent of admiration in his refined voice. "You, Mr Boingo are that famous so called Goodie bandit, the guy, who had attempted to steal and gain all famous recipes of Ms. Granny Abigail Puckett, establish and go his very own snack food manufacturing company and eventually almost succeeding in your task, nearly becoming the king of the Forest..."
"And you two…." The shadow guy then shifted his attention to Hansel and Gretel. "Hansel and Gretel. Well, at first seemingly two innocent looking little kids, who had been kidnapped and threaten to be eaten by evil Witch, yet eventually revealed to be actually evil in fact, as you had attempted to steal a secret recipe for so called Super Truffle with an aid of that Witch, by capturing notorious baker, Granny Puckett in order to make her do the truffle for you, by actually becoming giants possessing super strength and invincibility. Everything was going perfectly so far as you even almost succeeded by doing so."
"You are almost legends in your own rights, with your reputations indeed precedes you."
Being totally and collectively astonished and taken aback yet also somewhat actually being flattered be enigmatic mysterious guys sudden and rather strange respect expressed and interest, Boingo, Hansel and Gretel looked at each other even more puzzled. "Oh, well..." Boingo spoke up quite charmed yet though still slightly uncertain about this. "This…..This is quite nice of you, being our fan and that you are admiring and respect us like that, and we actually value that, really. But…..It still does not explain, why you helped us out and we are here anyway."
"Yeah. We do not get it." Hansel and Gretel both replied simultaneously quite clueless.
Quite a very snide smirk formed over enigmatic guys beaked like face. "Well...I was wondering…..If you three would like to actually work with me?" He asked by surprisingly proposing his guests.
Hearing those words, Boingo, Hansel and Gretel were just staring at the mysterious guy quite baffled before looking at each other, as in the instance the bunny and the kids burst in to a simultaneous laughter. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The shadow guy by listening and reacting to their laughing as quite a glare formed over his face, yet surprisingly, the enigmatic host remained calm and unfaltering with a serious frown look in his face shrouded in dark not being obviously offended or upset at all.
After a while, when the laugh substituted, Boingo started though still chuckling a bit. "Work for you?! You got to be kidding me, right? Boingo, the bunny works for nobody!" The bunny huffed in refusal.
"Yeah!" Now Gretel joined scoffing also in dismiss. "And neither do we! Right, brother?" She right then shifted asking her brother.
"Well...Yeah!" Hansel admitted and also refusing very haughty like manner.
Listening his apparent guests haughty and rather ingrate like refusal for his offer, yet still maintaining his cool and without any trace of anger at all mysterious character replied with his soft and eloquent tone intact. "Believe that I am not ungrateful and being a man of my word. I can assure you to reward you all generously."
"Reward?" Hansel was once again astonished by the offer yet chuckling in amusement. "You would make us even more laugh!"
Now Gretel though spoke up, her tone sounding very serious. "Well….and just, who are you anyway? That you just let anybody out of jail by sending bombs and right then offer them to work for you, hmm?"
"Yeah." Boingo continued by taking over suspicious. "And now we do not mean you name, pal. Whatever it is…."
Shadow guy merely took yet another drink from his glass before speaking up. "Well….Lets say, that I might be someone, just like you three, a mastermind schemer, yet also polite and patient, with ambitious and great plans of my own." He right then paused a little bit, calmly taking a bottle of martini out of the bin with ice, took some three more glasses with some ice lemon plate and olives on sticks, filled them by chilled tasty drink and offered it to his still uncertain and doubtful guests.
"Listen..." The enigmatic mysterious persona went on calmly by trying to fill Boingo, Hansel and Gretel some further into matters at hand. "For all those fools there outside, who respects justice and law, those who fights crime and wrong, by trying to maintain peace and order, by so making the world better and safer place for living, you are just a bunch of criminals, madmans or schemers who want to commit crimes by gaining profit for your own benefits or gaining an absolute power to take over or even ruleing the world." The shadow guy then paused a bit, as Boingo, Hansel and Gretel wer listening and taking in their mysterious guests quite intriguing philosophical speech cautiously. "But I…..I see you like a precious partners to me."
"Partners?!" Boingo, Hansel and Gretel exclaimed simultaneously in utter awe.
"Mmhm." Shadow guy smirked and nod his head slightly in agreement as he once again took his own glass of martini. "Your experience Mr. Boing with thievery, sneaking, Hansel and Gretels innocence, conspiracy, scheming and my wealth, resources and meticulous planning will enable us to rule the world together."
Boingo, Hansel and Gretel, though still uncertain yet somewhat astonished and charmed looked at each other thoughtfully. "Well..." Boingo started after a while though still a bit cautious about this all. "Before we go on any further about this, we would better like to know more about your plans, whatever it is."
"I thought you will never ask." Shadow guy smiled deviously as he took yet another sip of martini and offering a bowl of sweats to his quests. "Please, just help yourselves." He said politely.
Of course, joyous Hansel and Gretel by the looks on lots of kinds of sweets in bowl just couldn't resist and by not letting prompt themselves twice and with a greatest pleasure took some of the sweets. And as kids were eating the sweets with a pleasure smacking and munching, Boingo only sighed a bit by his kids accomplices antics
"Well, talk." The bunny prompted their mysterious host to start talking.
The shadow guy only smirked again.
"Well then…What do you think about it?" Shadow guy asked cautiously, yet slightly excited about response of his three guests about fully explaining his plans and schemes as he once drunk chilled martini from his glass, as Boingo, Hansel and Gretel by taking in every single detail their enigmatic host explained about his planes were now totally speechless for a while, only their mouths agape by astonishment and impression alike, yet not quite knowing what to think about it.
Eventually Boingo, who managed to recuperated a bit from his awe, the bunny muttered. "Well...ehm….Mr…...I got to admit…..I have been stealing, smuggling, sabotaging as well as hiring mercenaries for a dirty work as well as an attempted murder and even intended to establish and go my own snack food manufacturing company…..But this…...This is something else….."
"Yeah." Now Hansel spoke up, his mouth agape dirty of sweats and still slightly munching. "Even that we were kidnapping, conspiracing, abusing a power and even becoming nearly invincible due to super truffle…." Hansel murmured slightly unnervingly.
"But this...this is really something." Gretel added completing her brothers own awe.
"So?" Shadow guy simply asked once more. "Do you want to go on this with me, or not?"
"Well, we still do not know….." Boingo replied, his voice bore a hint of uncertainty which sounded rather justified.
"I am afraid, that I got to agree with fluffy here." Gretel got to admit aiding. "We are all maybe bad guys with evil intentions, scheming and planning…..."
"But this really quite falls below our levels off." Hansel now completed her sister for a change.
"Don't you worry, my friends. As I do repeat, I will reward you all generously. And I assure you, that I just would offer something more than that." Shadow guy smirked in a very suave and assuring manner.
"Which is?" Boingo asked curiously.
"How about wealth, absolute raw power, ruling and taking part of control and dominance over the entire world, by my side. What do you think?" Shadow guy confirmed in a very prompting and promising like manner.
"And what about…..Lifelong supplying of goodies?" Hansel asked excited much for Gretels and Boingos collective annoyment, sighing and rolled their eyes exasperated about Hansels persistent and rather unbearable obsession with goodies.
"Hmm...Very well then. There is no problem." Shadow guy replied calmly being about to comply Hansels request.
"And...something far more?" Now Boingo asked slightly slyly.
"Well….." Enigmatic host went on, his cold yet soft and suave voice now sounded even more promising. "You might also settle score and get your revenge against those, who has ever rejected, humiliated or defeated you….And so much more.
"Which is?" Bingo, Hansel and Gretel asked really curiously about their host supposed some extra reward to come.
"Patience my friends." The shadow guy replied by moderating his guests eagerness. "It will come with sometime soon." The enigma then paused for a while, drunk some more martini again and asked once more, yet without his patience ever growing thin.
"Once again, my friends…..Those so called powerful ones out there, who are trying to keep justice, law and order, like mayors, politicians or king had always failed to see a bigger picture about order. When we take over, the real mighty one would be free to take whatever they want, with all those fools who dares to oppose someones being yesterdays message. A clapped-out distracted regime, whose failings undoubtedly presage. That is why there is a need for a new dream, because the times are changing, which means that you three must too. My vision about the future is clear and wide-ranging and even encompasses you, to prepare for the coup of the century and for the murkiest scam."
Well...So what? I am going to ask one more time….Are you going in it with me, or not?"
Boingo, Hansel and Gretel, being collectively impressed and amazed about rather strange yet nonetheless very motivating and ideological like speech their mysterious hosts had just interpretated, the trio just couldn't help but wonder. Their mysterious and enigmatic ally wasn't just like any other apparent villain the bunny and kids had ever met before, evident by apparently being highly intelligent and also charismatic, yet also pursuing his ideals and plans with a thorough determination.
Right then, the trio huddled up, whispering and discussing among each quietly the whole situation. Shall they accept the offer and being great again or refuse and fall back on the bottom? Go with that mysterious guy that had just set them free or without him? Yet the temptation of having wealth, glory and power not to mention getting their revenge on their common enemies and taking part on the world dominance and rule?
Shadow guy however did not say anything, waited calmly and patiently, not pressing for an answer, just quietly waiting, drinking some more of the glass of martini, as right then finally, after some while of a dead silence, despite trios hushed up discussion, Boingo eventually spoke up in a very determined and passionate like manner. "Mr…Whoever you are…...We are going in!"
"Yeah!" Gretel joined the bunny agreement. "Because, if something big happens….."
"We want to be a part of it!" Hansel completed.
"You have chosen wisely my friends A devious malicious yet satisfied smile formed over the shadow mysterious guys face shrouded in darkness as he lifted his glass of martini up in order to toast. "Well then…..lets then make a toast for our common cooperation and future." He proclaimed solemnly.
Boingo, Hansel and Gretel also lifted their own glasses of martini that their mysterious host served them up and each one spoke up their perspective line. "For a wealth, glory and power." Hansel stated.
"For revenge against those who has ever hurt, defeated and humiliated us." Gretel stated.
"For worlds dominance and rule."Boingo finished as the bunny and kids tap their glasses of chilling drink with a mysterious shadow character with satisfaction in a solemn cheer with a mean looking faces and all drunk the chilling beverage together.
"So..." Boingo asked after a few moments as he finished his drink and putting an empty glass on small table. "What are we going to do now…...boss?"
"I will fill you all in momentarily, but first….." The mysterious guy though trailed out, with his tone now shifting into a curious and logical one and shifting his attention to Hansel and Gretel. "Curious…Tell me, kids. When you actually ate those so called Super Truffles, you have actually gained a superhuman strength along with invincibility and growing into giants that way?"
"Yes?" Hansel replied somewhat dully.
"Um….Why do you ask?" Now Gretel asked, not quite understanding enigmatic guys odd question.
"It might be more obvious that the effects of those Super Truffles expired years ago….." The shadow guy stated by analysing the matters. "But I do believe that some remaining leftovers of it are still left in your bodies, in your blood sugar and cholesterol level to be more precise?"
"HEY!" Both Hansel and Gretel scoffed quite upset by the mention of their weight.
"My…Apologies, kids. I haven't meant any offence." The enigmatic guy murmured by apologizing a little ashamed for his offhanded statement before going on. "Yet, I also believe that I just might find some sort of substitute for those Super Truffles to be use to you."
"Really?!" Both Hanse and Gretel blurted out both excited and disbelief alike by shadow guys statement about Super Truffle substitute "How?"
"Here…." The shadow enigma pulled out a small white handkerchief and handed it over the kids. "I just need a sample of your salive if you please."
"Huh?!" Both Hansel and Gretel stammered dully by failing to understand how could their saliva actually do any good, yet both kids glanced upon each other shrugging their shoulders before spitting several times into the handkerchief and handed it over back.
"I believe this will just do." Shadow guy only smirked again as he took quite a slimy handkerchief by taking it away. "Now…...everything is evolving and going splendid and exactly according to plan. It is very close before finishing and I will personally supervise and take a part on that that, but...I would need some favour of you."
"Here it comes….." Hansel huffed sarcastically like it actually by exactly what their mysterious ally would expect from them.
Yet, however, Gretel placed her hand over her brothers shoulder comfortingly as Boingo who appeared thoughtful a bit before eventually trailing out. "Well….You have actually helped and added us to break free from that asylum prison so….Lets just say that we actually owe you, I guess. Very well….. what exactly do you need us to do for you?" The bunny asked, although somewhat offhandedly if not even slightly hesitant.
"First…." The enigmatic guy spoke off as right then he put already an empty glass away as he reached into a darkness as he pulled out quite a large backpack and tossed it over Boingos, Hansels and Gretles seat. "You better take off those shabby prison uniforms of yours and change into something more stylish. Yet…..You Mr. Boingo…..You are an expect thief and smuggler, so need you to provide something for me, an implement key part to our plan and future as there is all equipment in the backpack necessary you need." The shadow guy stated still with his calm gentle tone.
"As well as for you, Mr. Hansel and Ms Gretel….." The mysterious enigma then turned to kids. "I also got some very special job for you in Far Far Away land to take care off."
"Wait…." Boingo though intervened. "What exactly is that so called key part you need anyway? A cash?" The bunny asked, his voice sounded hopeful.
Shadow guy however grinned a bit in response. " No, my dear furry friend. Something much more valuable..."
"What is possibly more valuable than a case full of money?" Boingo scoffed quite sceptical.
Shadow mysterious guy, shrouded in dark however smiled in a way more envious devilish like manner like a true villain.
"A small...light-blue...gemstone….known as…..Ice Heart."
To be continued….