Chapter 12: Surprises

Winston was troubled by the answers Damio Pullson gave him. First off his agents and the police and army have found three bombs that were not mentioned in Damio's list. Second was that the fox didn't know who Agolo Kwowo was.

The phone in front of Winston rang and the black cat picked it up straight away.

"Mr. Drake," a female voice said, "you have a call from a Quinton Auio from Gualand."

"Patch him through to the DI's office," Winston answered. He got up from his desk and when towards DI Blake's office. The phone had a button flashing red. He picked it up and said: "This is Drake."

"You wanted to talk to me about Agolo Kwowo and General Yobani," an African voice said.

"Yes."

"What is this relating to?" the Gualish intelligence agent asked.

"Agolo had converted and is now working for us," Winston said: there was no point lying, he was an ally and a very intelligence man who could tell if he was lying. "He told us he planted a bomb at a university famous for its Left-Wing views. Anyway when I was questioning a ringleader in the terror plot he did not know who Kwowo was."

"Do you believe he was working as a rogue?" Quinton asked even though he didn't believe what he was saying.

"No," Winston answered. "My theory is that there is more then one group of terrorists working in Diamond. I believe that another group of fascists, domestic or foreign, I don't know let has forced Kwowo into working for them. This group must have worked with the FFCI but did not give details of eachother's plans to avoid getting the other side in the shit."

"And I bet you want to know what groups could be working with General Yobani's forces."

"That would be kind of you," Winston said with a bit of sarcasm in his voice.

"Give me half an hour and I'll e-mail it to you. What's you ," Winston said.

Winston put the phone down and had to hope that the questioning of all his suspects could bring up something. He took a deep breath and then dialled the number to MI6.

Stars was leading Agolo and Natalie down the stairs to the top floor of the warehouse. Agolo wanted Stars to go first because his psychic abilities would be useful for the situation there were in.

"All clean," Stars whispered and started to move forwards.

"Turn right and head for the third room you see," Agolo ordered.

Stars started to move forwards and he got a good look of the warehouse interior: the walkway was around all the edges of the building. The top three floors had offices and Stars could see into some of them; nothing exciting. At the ground floor level he saw fifteen guards and boxes full of guns, bombs and other military gears, forklifts and a large lorry. Above him was a skylight and below him at the second floor was a large glass sleet. At one end of the building were two large doors for large vehicles to go in and out.

Stars went into the bare room then used his psychic abilities communicate to Agolo and Natalie that the route was clear.

Both Agolo and Natalie entered the room and Agolo shut the door behind him.

"Okay," Agolo said. "The main server room is marked S21, it's on the second floor. You can see it from the edge. It will only take you two a few minutes to get down there."

"How do we hack into the accounts and all that?" Stars asked.

"I see that you are computer literate," Agolo joked. "You'll have to use your psychic powers on a man called Will Moore; he is a large 40-year-old gerbil. Anyway I'll be heading for Hammal's office on the third floor."

"How do we avoid the cameras?" Natalie asked.

Agolo looked at his watch and said: "wait a second."

Five seconds later the lights in the room went off.

"How did you know that would happen?" Natalie asked.

"I sent a virus to the power company for the building. The server room has its own generator."

"How do we know keep contact with eachother?" Stars asked.

"Your psychic abilities," Agolo answered and then a thought clicked into his head. "Turn off your phones!" he ordered.

"And if we need to contact MI5?"

"Then you better be bloody quick."

"How do we get out?" Natalie asked.

"The same way we came in."

Sonic entered into the lounge of 7 Imperial Road; waiting on the chairs was Claws and Knuckles and Ninja and Jessica were on the sofa. All of them turned their heads to see a wore-out Sonic.

Jessica got up from the sofa and went to her half-uncle. She hugged him tight, but Sonic didn't response.

"How are you? How's Amy?" she asked.

"I'm okay," Sonic answered, "Amy being seen by the doctors and her parents are with her."

"Why did you come?" Jessica asked.

"I got a message from a woman from MI5. She told me to come here."

"Well it was a wasted trip," Knuckles said. "We have done our missions and are just waiting for Stars and Nat."

"Well I got bad news for you," Marie said entering into the lounge from the stairs. "I believe there have gone dark."

"What?" Ninja asked.

"There are working alone and can't be contacted," Marie answered. "The last be of information we got was that there were with Agolo Kwowo, a rebel from Gualand. I have contacted an analyser to see where there are now."

"How do you do that?" Ninja's new question was.

"First by the mobile phone signal. If that fails then we use the sensor we put in the phones."

"Why did you do that!" Ninja said in shock.

"You lot are low in the chain of command, we need to keep track of you incase you do anything stupid."

"What are we going to do then?" Claws asked.

"Wait until we know there location and then you'll have to go and get them."

"Do you think that this Agolo bloke could have led them astray?" Sonic asked.

"I wouldn't be surprised. He was a former intelligence officer and he made a request to us. Wins…" she started but realized they didn't know his name. "Mets has already contacted Gualish Intelligence for any information that could be useful."

Stars and Natalie were outside room S21. Stars got Natalie to put her back against the wall whiles he used his psychic powers to see into the room.

There were two men in room S21; one was Will Moore.

Stars put his back against the wall and held his gun up, pointing it up into the air. Natalie did the same.

"Just follow my lead," Stars whispered. "Don't speak too loudly: we don't want to arouse attention."

Natalie answered with a nod.

Stars put his hand on the door handle and pushed the door inwards. He took a step forward and turned around to face the gerbil and beaver looked at the green star-cat.

Both men tried to get to their guns when Stars said: "don't even bother; you'll never reach them in time."

The men stopped and awaited orders.

"Now get off your fat asses, get on your knees and put your hands on your head."

The men obeyed. At the same time Natalie entered the room and shut the door behind her.

"Now don't try anything or my pretty blonde friend will have to hurt you," Stars said trying to scare the men but taking Natalie by surprise as well.

Stars sat down on Moore's chair turned it to face the computers.

Luckily for Agolo no-one in the warehouse was in the know about his defection to MI5. He could still easily get to Hammal, but he had to wait for opportunity to avoid Stars and Natalie getting notice.

Hammal and his officials were mad at power cut. They needed their computers and phones to work so they could keep in contact with their agents and partners. Hammal wanted all the bombs set off at the same time for maximum impact but agreed to setting the bombs off at strategic times. However it was proven that he was right.

"AGOLO!!" a male voice shouted from behind.

Agolo turned round and saw it was Charlie Daniels, a 38-year-old long-hair black monkey.

"I thought you were told not to come here," Charlie said.

"I want to know what happening," Agolo answered. "A bomb has gone off in the underground and I had to set up a bomb at one of the colleges. Some major shit is happening."

"Didn't you see the broadcast?" Charlie asked.

"What broadcast?"

"The fuckers at the FFCI fucked up. Besides they demands being unrealistic something like police or MI5 or whatever stopped them and made them look like amateurs. The only benefit was it humiliated the Prime Minister."

"What did there ask for?" Agolo asked

"The resignation of whole government."

"That'll never happen!" Agolo snapped, eventhough Charlie already said that. "Hell would freeze over before Bear and the Tories resign."

"There only hope is that public opinion would go against them," Charlie said. "But it more likely to rise at the moment. We should have set all twenty off at the same time."

"Twenty?"

"We planted ten and the FFCI planted ten," Charlie said. "Didn't you know this?"

"No! I wasn't told anything."

"Weird, Mount has a liking for you."

"Maybe that's why he didn't tell me; to avoid me being too deeply involved."

"Possibly," Charlie said. "Anyway I wouldn't go and see him; he is pissed at the moment."

"Oh right," Agolo said. That was good news to him because Hammal was not a good fighter when he was angry. "Where is he?"

"In his office, but as I said don't go and see him."

The soldiers from the Freemantlish army in Gualand were based in Namio barracks, outside Kinala.

Sixty troops were in the lecture hall waiting for their commanding officer to enter the room.

Most of the troops had an idea why they were in the room; most had radios and started to hear reports of the embassy being attacked by rebel forces.

This angered the soldiers and they wanted to take them on; some didn't want to be in the country, but now there know why the Labour government in 1994 signed the treaty. The fascists didn't care for the country; they only cared for themselves, not for regular people in the country. They made their money from drugs and gun trafficking and prostitution and many other forms of illegal activities. Fascism was a threat throughout the world and needed to be taken on no matter what.

After a couple of minutes waiting a large lion in a green officer's uniform entered the room.

He turned and faced the troops.

"As some of you might know I am Colonel Lewis Underwood," the lion said in a posh public school voice. "I have received calls from the MoD, the Ambassador and the President of this country and we have orders to go and protect our embassy."

The soldiers started to look and murmur at eachother. Col. Underwood let them do it for a minute before he started to speak again.

"At 2:47 pm Rocket Propelled Grenades and other weaponry at the embassy building. The news started to report it half-an-hour later and the Foreign Secretary has made the call to Gualish President to release us."

In the Colonel's right hand was a remote control; he aimed it above the soldiers and a projection of an aerial view of the area came out on the wall behind him.

"Intelligence shows that all the terrorists are in this building," Underwood said pointing to a building with a dark grey roof. "We don't know how many rebels are there but we estimate that there are between ten to fifteen heavily armed people in the building.

"Now the plan of attack. Firstly twelve troops will go into the embassy in back way to help the marines already there. The rest of you will be split into three groups. One group will attack the building from behind," Underwood pointed to the back garden behind the building. "The other groups will enter through the buildings next to the rebel's building.

"Your sergeants will give you more details of the assault and Captain Connery is in charge," Underwood said. "Good luck gentlemen."

Hammal was sitting at his desk getting very angry at everything that was happening was going against him. The power cut was now bringing him to boiling point.

Someone outside his office knocked on the door.

"FUCK OFF!!!!!" Hammal shouted in his Australian accent.

The man entered the room. It was Agolo Kwowo.

"I SAID FUCK OFF!!!!!!" Hammal shouted before realizing who it was. "Why are you here?"

"I want to know what's happening," Agolo answered.

"The FFCI blow up a bomb in underground; we helped them," Hammal said. "Anything else?"

"Why have I planted a bomb at Radcliff College then?"

"Because it's a co-ordinated attacked between us and the FFCI."

"But this isn't our country," Agolo said.

"Agolo!" Hammal snapped. "You have to understand that this cause isn't restricted to one country; it is international. The whole world needs to see our way of thinking."

"Your way of thinking," Agolo answered back.

"Look, Sergeant Major Kwowo, I'm a very busy man and if you don't mind leaving I'm willing to forget this."

Agolo punched Hammal in the stomach and pushed him away.

"You traitorous dog!" Hammal shouted.

"I NEVER WAS A TRAITOR!" Agolo shouted back pointing the gun at Hammal's stomach. "I hate your so called cause!"

"If you want to shoot me then do it!"

Agolo prepared to squeeze the trigger when he realized that if he shoots then all Hammal's guards would rush in and kill him. He had to think of what he could do.

"What is it: not man enough?" Hammal said and started to laugh.

Anger boiled in Agolo's blood and used the gun to smack Hammal down. Agolo punched Hammal on the top of his head and then turned to his judo training by grabbing hold of the kangaroo and throwing him onto the floor.

Agolo went on top of Hammal and put his hands around his throat, trying to strangle him to death.

Hammal had to do something or else Gualish gorilla would kill him and no one else in the building would know. He did the only thing he could think of: he reached out and grabbed Agolo's genitals and squeezed.

"AHHHHHH FUCK!!!!!" Agolo screamed and let go of the kangaroo's throat.

Hammal punched Agolo off and then got up.

Agolo sat against the desk, putting his hand on his cheek. He looked up and saw Mount Hammal, Erase McGonal second-in-command, was standing up and putting a gun at Agolo head. It didn't matter if anyone heard him fire a gun; he can easily explain what happened. Anyway no would be stupid enough to take on Hammal.

"You're a fool," Hammal said in his thick Australian accent. "What made you think you could take me on? Besides the amount of men I have available and I am also fucking evolved. I have abilities that you can only imagine."

Agolo kicked Hammal in the shin and the kangaroo fell on top of him. Agolo grabbed Hammal's throat once and tried to strangle him once again. Hammal reacted this time round by shinking to the size of a ten year old child. Agolo didn't have any grip around Hammal's throat and the kangaroo stood up and put his foot on Agolo's neck. He bended down and picked up the pistol. He stood up again and changed his size to be seven foot tall.

"Prepare to die, Sergeant Major Kwowo," Mount Hammal said.

Agolo grabbed Hammal's hand, trying to fight with him whiles punching his muscular shin with the other.

"Fuck me!" Stars shouted looking at the screen.

"Not right now," Natalie answered. When ever she was nervous she made jokes; sometimes good, sometimes bad.

"Call Marie," Stars ordered. "We need to tell her this." He pointed to the screen and Natalie looked over his shoulder.

She read it for a second and said: "oh dear God!"

On the screen was a list of locations that had bombs placed. There were ten on the list and had times they were set to go off. One of them was going to go off in half-an-hour.

Natalie turned on her phone and quickly looked at the phonebook for Marie's number.

The phone was ringing and Natalie had to wait twenty seconds before Marie answered.

"Natalie!" she said, "Where are you?"

"At a warehouse in the East of the city," Natalie answered. "Anyway we got a list of bomb locations here. They are at Radcliff College, Salkina Mosque, the Crown Court, Yamerson Power Station, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, City Hall, the Science Museum, Chancer Stadium, the Labour Party Regional Headquarters and the Headquarters of Henderson and O'Patrick's. They are all in Diamond."

Marie remembers the locations quickly. She had that ability ever seen her GCSE exams and had been useful ever seen.

"Okay," Marie answered.

"The one at the Power Station is set to go off in half-an-hour."

"Thanks Nat," Marie said. "Where are you at the moment? Who are you with? Where did you get the information from?"

Stars sensed there was someone outside the room. He decided to pick up his gun.

"We're in a warehouse on Matilda Street," Natalie answered. "I'm with Stars and Agolo. We got the info from …"

Stars shot his pistol. A 25-year-old male black and white lemur fell to ground.

Stars stood in shook; this was the first time he ever killed someone. It was a gut reaction when the man came into the room.

"Natalie! NATALIE!" Marie screamed.

"I'm here," she said in a weak voice.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Natalie answered, "we're fine." She looked at Stars; he had a blank expression on his face. "I'm sorry, I have to go."

She hung up and then put her hands on Stars' arm and chest.

She looked up and said: "Are you okay?"

"I never did that before," Stars said, shook was in his voice. "I just killed another man in cold blood."

"He was a terrorist," Natalie said. "He wanted to kill as many people as possible. Just look at the list."

"We're going to have to bring him in," Stars said walking up to the body.

The star cats went to body and dragged him in. Stars then shut the door behind him.

"I'm going to contact Agolo," Stars said. "He needs to know what happened."

After a minute using his psychic abilities he located Agolo Kwowo.

"Oh God," Stars said. "Agolo is in trouble."

Agolo was choking. Hammal was pressing his foot harder on throat. It was now or never if Agolo was going to kill Hammal.

Agolo pushed Hammal's hand to the right then put both hands under Hammal's foot. He used all his strength to lift the Kangeroo's foot off his throat and forcing him off balance.

Mount Hammal fell down to the ground whiles Agolo was struggling up. He kicked the Hammal in stomach to give him a few seconds to find his gun. He needed to get this fight over and done.

He bend down to pick up his sub-machine gun. He grabbed it and was about to straighten up when he looked up and saw Hammal pointing the pistol at his face.

"Prepare to say goodbye," Hammal said, cocking the gun.

The door behind them opened. The gun in Hammal's hand flew out and towards the door.

Hammal turned his head and saw that it was Stars and Natalie at the door.

The red female star cat pointed her right index figure at the seven foot kangaroo and shot a red beam of energy at him.

Hammal flew backward and smashed into the wall. He shrank back to his natural size.

Agolo pointed his gun at Hammal and fired at him.

Four bullets when into Hammal; two in stomach, one below the left lung and one in his left thigh.

"GO! GO! GO!" Stars shouted and all three MI5 agents ran out the room.

Winston went to check his e-mail account. He opened the page, typed in his username and password.

He had two e-mails. He opened the first one. It was from his boss: Deputy Dictator of Counter-Terrorism Henry Belfaw. All he wanted was another update he could tell his bosses.

Winston wrote a quick e-mail to him of the developments from the interviews.

Winston then looked at the second e-mail. It was from Quinton Auio. In the e-mail was Agolo Kwowo's profile and information of his time in the Army, Counter-Intelligence and the Rebels.

Winston found out he had a long and troubled career. After getting good grades from school he joined the army in 1974. He rose up the ranks to become a sergeant at the age of 20. He then joined Gualish Special Forces in 1978. During his time there he rose up to the rank of Captain. He did a degree in Freemantlish and Media in 1983 at Kinala University and did very well out of it. He did many missions for his country including assassinations, kidnappings and theft. Winston read everything that he did during his time in Special Forces.

Agolo had been married twice. The first time was in 1984 to a woman named Pauline Samita; a young journalist who was shot dead went doing a report on organised crime.

Agolo married Swa in 1987 and had three children; the oldest was his daughter aged nine.

Winston read about Agolo's time in Gualish Counter-Intelligence. He was head-hunted in 1991 and joined willingly. The civil war flared up soon afterwards. Agolo was well suited to the job and was useful to Gualand as a field agent. He became a double agent in the fascist movement and in 1994 he was allowed to join General Yobani's council.

Agolo worked for three years in the council providing information to Counter-Intelligence. But early in the year he broke contact with Counter-Intelligence and it was reported that he was committing acts of terrorism. The government made him into a top target and tried to assassinate him a month before going to the country.

The final record showed that Agolo had a purchased a flight ticket to Emerald.

Winston then clicked onto a link to another page. It was psychological analyst by a CIA officer. Winston didn't bother reading it and headed to the conclusions at the end. It stated that it was highly unlikely that Agolo would turn to fascists unless forced to and would still try to disrupted operations. This report however was largely ignored.

The phone started to ring.

"Hello," Winston said and picked it up.

"It's Marie. Agents Nightskyand Fame are with Agolo in a warehouse on Matilda Street. I heard gunfire and sent agents to the site for observations."

"I'll put some troops on standby."

"I have also faxed you a list of sites with bombs planted."

At the same time a policewoman came in and put the list on the table.

"Thanks," Winston said to the woman and she went out of the room. "I got it here in front of me. Keep me posted on developments." He looked around to make sure no one each was around. "Love you," he whispered and put the phone down.

"WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU TRYING!!!?" Stars shouted at Agolo.

"I needed to sort him out!" Agolo answered. "He is a leading a terrorist and he needed to kill."

"YOU JUST FUCK UP THE WHOLE OPERATION!" Stars started to shout. "MY GOD THIS DAY COULDN'T GET ANY WORST!!!!"

"WILL YOU TWO CALM DOWN!!" Natalie shouted. The men were shocked by the sudden anger she showed. "Now let us come up with a rational plan to get out of here."

"Can we go out the same way we came in?" Stars asked.

"It's our only realistic change," Agolo said. "They don't know that he is dead so we got a chance."

"Who's the second-in-command?" Stars asked Agolo.

"Fred Jones. He is reasonable at commanding, he has a good head on him and won't let the pressure get to him but he hasn't got much experience and prefers to have someone else in charge until he is more experience."

"So we'll go out the same way we came in and drive off on the motorbikes and contact MI5," Stars said.

"Yes."

Mount was in pain. Lucky for him the bullets didn't hit any important blood vessels and what he was doing now was going to cause him a lot of pain. He was changing the size of his muscles to be smaller for the bullets to lose any grip they had. That was a painful process to the kangaroo. The next thing he did was make his muscles bigger to push them out of his body.

The bullets ripped out of his body through his skin and fell harmlessly onto the ground.

He stood up and when towards the intercom on his desk. He pressed and it was dead; the power cut Agolo caused.

He reached for a draw on the desk and picked up a megaphone.

"Attention all units!" an Australian voice said from outside the room. "We have intruders within the building. We are going into full lock down people.

"The people you are looking for are Agolo Kwowo, Stars Staray and a red female star-cat. If you don't know who the men are you have to look for a large gorilla in his early 40's and a green star-cat with blue hair.

"Be on your guard; Agolo is a former special-forces trooper and spook, Stars is psychic and the red star-cat can shoot powerful beams of energy."

"Okay, its official, we're in the shit," Stars said.

"We need to call Marie," Natalie said.

"I'm on it," Stars said as he reached for his phone.

"I would reconsider that," Agolo said, pointing his sub-machine gun at Stars' face.
"What are you doing?" Natalie asked.

"I can't let MI5 get involved," Agolo said. "We need to sort out Agolo."

"You got no choice in the matter," Stars said. He used to psychic powers to keep the gorilla still. "Now we are going to call our handler at MI5 and she will send police and troops to arrest these bastard and you are going to help us two to get out of this fucking building."

"And if I don't?"

"You know the answer to that."

"Okay," Agolo said, "but I'm leading the way out."

"I wouldn't let it be done any other way."

"Use your powers to see if there is anyone outside the room."

"If he moves shot him," Stars said to Natalie. He used his powers to see if he could sense anyone outside the room. There was one guard, a cobra, walking past the door. "Okay, there is a guard walking past the door right now."

"Give me a second," Agolo said. He went to the door. He opened it slowly and turned to the left. He was right behind the guard. Agolo put his left hand on the cobra's mouth and his right hand on his neck. He then did one swift action; twisting his head and his neck at the same time.

His neck broke and his body became limp. Agolo dragged the body back into the room.

Whiles the gorilla was killing the guard Stars had called Marie and still on the phone.

"We estimate there are thirty men in the building, including Mount Hammal, the second-in-command of the Eye. Agolo has a PC set up in a lock-up garage on … on…" Stars put his hand on the receiver and asked Natalie "what street is it on?"

"Morton Street," Natalie answered.

"On Morton Street," Stars said to Marie. "We need people hear as soon as possible."

"Okay," Marie answered, "but you need to hold out for half-an-hour."

"We'll try," Stars answered and hung up.

Sorry it took so long, I'll try and be quick. Anyway leave a review and tell me what you think.