The Loch Ness Syndrome: Zed's Fishing Trip

Part 8: Mists and Myths

Yazmine felt as though she were awakening from some strange dream…a dream where she had done the unthinkable by handing the head of the MIB over to a pair of alien swindlers. To her great dismay however, this was no dream.

"Are ya okay then missy?" a familiar voice softly inquired.

Yazmine moaned and glanced up at the creature that was staring at her with large eyes full of concern. "No, I feel awful. Where's Zed? Tell me I didn't just-"

"Ay ya did." Flippy sadly informed her.

"Oh no," this was too much, especially with the splitting headache she had.

"It's jest a side effect lass, it won't last ya much longer."

"No," Yazmine whined, "I can't believe I just handed over one of the most important figureheads on this planet to those two jerks with the mind control device."

"Ya couldn't help yourself." Flippy kindly reminded her.

"It doesn't matter," Yazmine sighed, "Zed's in trouble now and it's all my fault. Where are those two clowns anyways?"

Flippy motioned towards the other end of the cave where Flint and Lenny were debating over how to get the most use out of Zed.

"Perhaps he'd be more useful as a slave," Lenny snickered, "we could have the whole MIB organization under our control if we got control of his mind."

"Eventually we'd get caught." Flint shook his head, "The MIB put our gang away once five decades ago, we can't give them the opportunity to foil our plans again."

"Then we just use him as a hostage?" Lenny groaned.

"The MIB doesn't negotiate with hostage takers!" Zed spat.

Flint glared at the bound MIB for a moment as though he might strike him, but an idea dawned upon him and caused a wicked smile to cross his false human features. "Well if we can't use you as a hostage and it's too risky to use you to take control of the MIB---then we'll just have to use you as bait."

"Yeah," Lenny agreed, "those other MIBs are probably tracking us down right now. And that pest Agent Kay is probably with them!"

"With them?" Flint scoffed, "He's probably LEADING them. And he'll be leading them right into a trap."

Turning to an enraged Yazmine and Flippy he held the mind control device up high, "Wonder how well they'd fare against a razor winged hybrid and an 2 ton alien sea monster?"

'Not again,' Yazmine panicked and for some strange reason looked to Zed for help.

"Just remember to fight it!" he yelled.

Yazmine nodded helplessly as her vision was consumed by yet another blast of light from the device. Poor Flippy was lost to the ray as well.

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"Looks like they went beneath the surface." Kay stated as he and the other MIBs walked around the edge of the loch.

"Yeah," Jay agreed, "but where?"

"Not sure Ace."

"But Yazmine can't swim," Zeeltor murmured, "why would she willing submerge herself in water?"

"You heard Zed," Kay replied, "she was under some sort of mind control. Maybe whoever brainwashed her had a sub or something. You can never tell with aliens."

"You don't mean that giant alien sea beast did it do you?" R asked in disbelief.

"No, but it's likely that whoever caused Yazmine to act that way has somehow taken control of Flippy too." Kay speculated.

"That would explain his sudden temper tantrums." Jay concluded.

"Now the only problem is finding out exactly where under this lake Yazmine's taken Zed." Kay walked over to the side of the loch and put on his diving mask.

"Aw Kay," we could be here all night and still not be anywhere close to them. Incase you haven't noticed---this is a BIG loch!" Jay exclaimed.

Zeeltor couldn't help but overhear Delia muttering something from behind him. "What's the matter?" he asked, now that he knew Yazmine was safe, his usual cheery manner was returning.

"What's the matter?!" Delia screamed, giving Zeeltor a rough punch in the shoulder. "If you hadn't knocked Kay's aim off I wouldn't have spent the last twenty-five minutes frozen to my partner!"

"But he might've harmed Yazmine." Zeeltor tried to explain while rubbing his throbbing shoulder.

"She could've thawed out!" Delia snapped, "That was A LOT closer than I EVER wanted to get to my partner!"

"Uh Delia," R warily placed a hand on her shoulder to keep her from killing the well meaning doctor, "we should really get down there and help Agent Kay."

"And while you were being chiseled out I had time to go and put on my wetsuit." Zeeltor added merrily.

"Ugh," Delia grumbled, "tell me we get to split up."

******

In about a half hour's time the agents finally found the right underwater cave and swam through it's opening and up to where Zed was being held captive.

Agent Jay surfaced first, "Hey, there he is!" he noticed his boss tied and gagged in a remote corner of the cave.

"Good work Slick," Kay praised when he surfaced beside him followed by Delia, R, and Zeeltor.

Zed was shaking his head frantically, trying to warn his rescue party of the danger they were in. "Don't worry Z-Man," Jay exclaimed proudly, "the cavalry's here!"

"And so are we." a male's voice chuckled darkly.

"Huh?" Delia spun around and came face to face with one of the aliens.

"Ha!" she laughed, "What happened to your human suit?"

"The exact same thing that's gonna happen to you missy!" Lenny sneered.

At that moment Flippy emerged from the depths beneath them, sending the agents splashing towards the rock to escape the roaring beast.

"Ah ah ah." Flint snickered, emerging from behind a large submarine that was cloaked to resemble a boulder. "You're not going anywhere."

Yazmine swooped down from somewhere above them, fists clenched and eyes glazed over.

"Oh man," Jay muttered, "we walked right into this one."

"My thoughts exactly Junior." Kay frowned.

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