Author's Note:Thanks again for the review guys. The Sid and Nadine pairing isn't new, since there are lots of others who had done it before me (go and search if you want to). I chose them since there aren't a lot stories about them, so I decided to give it a try. And there will be a reconciliation between - oops, too much information :). The direct references to other chapter was my homage to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the best comedy I've ever seen. You should watch it too.

Legal junk: I don't own Hey Arnold, but Nickelodeon does and Mr. Craig Bartlett created it. But this fic belongs to me. Clear? Good.

Chapter 13: Protect Olga

"Olga! Olga! Get back into the hospital! Get back into the hospital now!" Nadine shouted to Helga's sister worriedly as she dashed towards her. Olga was stunned quizzically at her sister's friend, and she decided not to take a step further out from the hospital. She too, felt something bad would happen to her if she took any more step out. The sniper was perplexed because he couldn't hear what Nadine was shouting. He could, but it was indistinct and unclear. He wanted to know who Nadine was shouted at. Nadine then took Olga's hand and pulled her inside the hospital again. "Stay here." Nadine said to her. Olga nodded at the order and then asked, "What's going on?"

"I was asked by someone that you'll have to stay inside the hospital for awhile." She explained, trying not to divulge the fact that she was affiliated with the spy organization. Olga nodded, but still wanted to know what was going on. Nadine looked outside and saw someone running towards them. She saw the girl, tired and panting heavily from the running but still determined to approach them. The sniper looked at the girl through the scope, and made a thought.

"Is that her…? No… that's not her. She looks like in her teens… and her face is different than the picture…"

The automatic doors to the hospital opened and Helga went through it and saw Nadine and Olga nearby a vending machine. She then proceeded to stop in front of them, breathing heavily to catch her breath.

"Helga? Helga, what's going on?" Nadine asked her worriedly.

"Please baby sister, tell us." Olga pleaded.

"Wait for a sec… for me to catch a breather for a while," Helga replied, huffing and puffing. "I met… Gino… on the bus just now. He said… Michael is sending someone… to kill you…" she said to Olga. Olga's face went pale after she heard that. Nadine was absolutely shocked.

"Oh gosh…" Olga could only say. She was totally stunned.

"And didn't I… tell you… to watch your back Olga?!" Helga shot angrily at her, "It's very dangerous for… you to go wandering about by yourself!"

Olga felt guilty, because she felt that she dragged her sister into this mess.

"And uh, Nadine… Are there any other agents… 'sides you who're present?"

"I don't think so Helga. I think I'm the only one here."

"You're an agent, Nadine?" Olga asked her, and she nodded softly.

"Hey, Nadine… thanks." Helga shot a warm smile at her.

Nadine replied the smile back and asked, "What is going on around here?" Olga was eager to know as well.

"Do you remember what Bridget said to us shortly after our graduation? Do you remember what she said about Michael is going to plot revenge against Olga? I think there's a guy outside who's waiting for Olga to come out…"

"And kill me!?" Olga snapped from her stun, bursting out loud, becoming fearful at sudden twist of events. Helga nodded at the remark. Olga then panicked, and became more and more frightful. "OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! What should I do!? What should I do!?"

Helga then quickly grabbed her shoulders and shouted at her, "Listen, Olga!" but Olga still panicked as she turned her head from left to right in paranoia and her eyes darted to every direction and babbling incoherently, "OLGA!!" Helga shouted loudly at her, and Olga stopped abruptly, looking at her as a tear ran down from her eyes.

"Calm down! Olga, please… don't make the situation any more difficult anymore than it is now. You and I both know that panicking won't get us anywhere. You used to be an agent, you should know better. Now please, let's calm down and find a way to get out from this mess." Helga said with a warm, but stressful tone, and Olga nodded nervously at her little sister's rationalization. The three of them grouped and made a discussion.

"Okay, first things first: we need to call backup. Secondly, you," Helga pointed to Nadine, "and me are not the target, so in theory, we're practically safe. But the trick is getting Olga out from this building safely. Nadine, do you still have your cellphone with you?"

Nadine and Olga noticed something that Helga was calm and could analyze the situation well, something that could be found in a competent leader, "Yeah, you want to call the headquarters and ask for backup?"

"Exactly, call them."

Nadine nodded, and took her cellphone out from her pocket. "Thunder?" Bridget asked for the reply code.

"Flash," Nadine replied, "Milady, this is Nadine, I've made it. Do you have any agents other available for us? We're at Hillwood Medical."

"Hold on a sec while we check." Bridget replied and ordered Wren to search for any agents closest to the hospital. But to their dismay, the nearest was three miles away from them, and they need help as soon as possible.

"Sorry guys…" Bridget replied worriedly. Nadine looked at the siblings and shook her head in fear.

"Wait milady… what about the informants?" Wren suggested to her, and Bridget lit up.

"Oh, yes… the informants! Why didn't I think of it before?!"

"Good call, Wren!" she said approvingly. "Wait just a minute guys, I think we can still help you!" Bridget said through the phone. After she executed a command on the computer, the screen on the monitor zoomed in from the satellite view to the street level of the city. The word 'SEARCHING…' was written on the top left of screen and a green X in the middle of it. It locked down a target, some fifty meters away from the hospital.

"Monkeyman is the nearest informant, milady." She beamed.

"Call him."

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"Monkeyman?!" Helga said in disbelief to Nadine. "Let me talk to her!" she then grabbed a hold of Nadine's cellphone. "Bri… milady, of all people, you asked for Monkeyman's help?! Come on!! There must be some other agents nearby. Run a search again!" she felt that Monkeyman was extremely incompetent and would be last person in her mind to save them.

"Oh… so very new…" Bridget thought to herself. "Just relax Helga. He's capable enough. Too capable, if I may so myself."

"But—"

"Trust me on this. I'll give you a call as soon as the situation has been rectified." Bridget smirked, and hung up the phone.

Helga was completely dumbfounded and disbelief as she stared blankly at the cellphone. Slowly, she gave the cellphone back to Nadine, and exploded, "I can't believe this!" she got up and paced back and fourth in front of Olga and Nadine, "There's a guy who's trying to kill someone and what do they do?! They're sending a psychotic lunatic to help us?!" she screamed. "My GOD!! Of all people, they're sending Monkeyman?!"

Suddenly they all heard a frightful cry from faraway, "MONKEYMANNNNNNN!!"

"Terrific…" Helga slapped her forehead. Nadine was apprehensive herself, but Olga smiled a bit, though nervously.

The sniper looked at the direction where the scream was coming from. The sniper got up from his position and went into the middle of the room with his gun pointed at the door, which was the only way in or out of the room. Silence, tense silence. Suddenly he heard a crash. Monkeyman came in from the decaying ceiling above! He quickly dashed forward and disarmed the sniper, and the gun flew back hitting the wall behind them. A scuffle ensued in the confined space. The sniper withdrew because he took a lot of beating from Monkeyman, and dropped down to the floor next to the gun. He saw it, took the gun and smack Monkeyman with it, making him hit some old wooden furniture behind him. It was time for him to retreat. The sniper, with the gun in his hands ran outside the room and jumped out from the window and fell into a dumpster below. He then quickly got back up ran into his car and fled as Monkeyman looked at him from the third floor.

Monkeyman spitted some blood out from his mouth and went back inside the room where he and the hitman had the scuffle. He saw a casing – supposedly for the gun and a picture of Olga. He then placed two fingers on his left ear to use his communicator.

"M-Monkeyman to base. Suspect has fled. I repeat, suspect has fled."

"Are you okay?" Wren asked him.

"I'll be fine… Monkeyman… Just tell your agents that it's safe to come out." He said as he picked the picture up. "And uh… Olga is with them… isn't she?"

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Nadine felt her cellphone vibrated again, and quickly she took it out from her pocket. A message was sent to her and again, from the organization. It read:

It's safe to come out. Monkeyman would want to meet all of you in the abandoned building in front of the hospital. He's on the third floor. – LES

"Well, I guess we should be going then…" Nadine said to the two of them.

And so they all got up from their seats and went out from the hospital, cautiously. Helga could be seen walking with her frightened sister. They then made their way into the building as requested by Monkeyman. He waved at them and showed them the things that the sniper left behind. The first thing he showed was Olga's picture. He gave it to her.

"This is an old picture of me… back when Michael and I were still together." She said as she gazed at the picture, torn in half. The picture showed a smiling Olga, who hadn't changed much apart from the hairstyle and an arm across her shoulders. It was most likely Michael's.

"And… M-Monkeyman… take a look a this." Monkeyman said as he pointed at the gun case, that looked like a suitcase. He then crouched and began examining it. Suddenly he felt someone was holding his shoulder. It was Helga.

"Hey, Monkeyman… thanks for saving us…" she said, beaming softly at him. "You're pretty cool… for a lunatic…"

Heh…" he chuckled, "don't mention it. 'Sides, I owe Olga a favor for quite some time now."

"Ah…" Nadine responded, "you guys have been helping each other out when she was in the organization, haven't you?"

Olga went closer to Monkeyman and said to Nadine, "no, we go way before that, we've known each other since middle school." She then gave Monkeyman a hug. He was quite stunned, and Olga smiled at him and said, "Thanks, —"

"No! No, no, no, no!" he quickly cut her off. "Don't say my real name; it'll destroy the mysteriousness of my character!" he beamed, and Olga smiled back. "Thank you, old friend."

"Hey Nadine," Helga called her, "Could you go to the headquarters for a while with me? I want to show the gun case to Bridget." Nadine nodded at her suggestion, Helga then turned her head to Monkeyman and asked, "Monkeyman, could you escort my sister to our house? Make sure nobody is following you."

Monkeyman nodded softly. As Monkeyman and Olga watched them went out, Olga said to him, "You are planning on bathing, aren't you?"

"Hey…"

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At the headquarters…

"Hmm…" Bridget pondered, "He left a bullet and a gun case behind. How very strange…"

She, Nadine and Helga, were in the communications room, looking at the case in front of them. "What'd you make up of them?" she asked Nadine and Helga.

"He couldn't just leave them there deliberately…" Helga replied.

"Maybe he did deliberately leave them there." Nadine hypothesized. "Maybe he wanted it to be taken by us. Have you checked for any bombs yet?"

"I've sent it to the lab and they've already x-rayed it. Nothing was found." Bridget said. "However, we won't take this gun case as an insignificant entity. I want it to be taken seriously just like any other evidences: important and very valuable." She then picked the phone up and pressed a button it, "I want a person to bring this gun case back to the lab. See to it if you can find any more evidence from it."

"Yes, milady." The voice from the other side of the line replied. Bridget put the phone down and looked at Helga, "The sniper is most likely going to hunt for your sister again, since he failed his first attempt at her. Do you have any idea when will the hitman strike again?"

Helga pondered for a while, and she remembered something, "Olga is going to perform in an indy play at the Circle Theatre tomorrow. Most likely the hitman will be there too."

"He will." Bridget replied back. "I'll mobilize some agents to help you there tomorrow." And they nodded.

"Michael you bastard…" Bridget cursed in her mind, "Olga isn't your fight anymore…"

"Bri— I mean, milady…" Helga still couldn't get used to refer her as milady, "what about Gino's offer?"

"I'll think about it later."

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On the next day, a few hours before the play…

A soft knock was heard on Olga's door. She was sitting on her bed, looking forlornly as she tried to concentrate in preparation for the play. She couldn't because she was too scared of her fate that seemed inevitable tonight. With her acting on stage, she was completely vulnerable and prone to the anticipated attack. Her agent training would be useless there because she was too busy acting. She had thought of not going, but the show must go on. The door knocked again. Softly, she replied, "Come in." Helga slowly opened the door and looked at her sister, who was staring blankly at the floor with clump of tissues in her hands. She couldn't help but to feel sorry for her sister.

"Hey Olga." She spoke softly, "Ready to go?"

She nodded softly. Helga sensed that she still wasn't ready, even though she gave a conformation. She then walked over to her big sister, and sat next to her.

"Hey… c'mon, don't cry. You're gonna be just fine. All of us will be there to protect you." She then took one of Olga's hands and grasped it to calm her. Olga suddenly burst into tears and embraced her sister. Helga didn't resist and welcomed it with open arms, consoling her. "Even though I 'hate' you Olga, 'cause you're so frickin' perfect all the time, but this is different. We're sisters, and we're supposed to look out for each other. We just do." She echoed Arnold's advice and the explanation she gave to Doug LeSham. Olga chuckled worriedly when she listened that as tears ran down from her eyes.

Helga felt this was the first time she ever felt so attached to her sister.

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Circle theatre - 8:17 PM. 13 minutes prior to curtain time.

About twelve agents were sent by Bridget to assure the safety and security of Olga. They were Helga herself, Phoebe, Rhonda, Nadine and Lila – since they need more experience, and they were accompanied by veteran members, including Linda, Bridget's deputy and also were the one who fought with Helga earlier. Bridget thought by sending her to assist Helga would be a great idea because in this scenario, they would have to depend on each other and thus would develop trust and bond between them two. Ever since the fight they never spoke to each other and Bridget felt this would be a perfect time for the both of them to start over.

As audience began to fill the seats and crew members were making last minute checks on the props and equipments behind the curtain, the agents were on the catwalk high above them all, aggressively monitoring around the theatre for any hostilities. Lila, a theater fan herself, felt all these preparations were just too overwhelming for an indy play like this. Helga, on the other hand, was with her sister behind the stage, to gave her sister assurance that the spy organization will do their job well.

"Olga, you're on the first act, so please stop worrying. We can handle everything they can dish out."

"I know, but I'm actually worried about you… all of you. It's because of me all of you are putting yourselves in danger…"

"Listen, you'd do the same thing we do now if you were still an agent today. It's a part of our job. And now, it's a part of your job to go out there and give the performance that'll wow the hell out of everybody! So please, stop it."

Olga nodded weakly, and she gave Helga soft kiss on her cheek. She was ready to get into her character. "Good luck…" she said to Helga.

"Break a leg…" Helga replied back, and walked out to her gang above.

"Any luck of contacting Sid?" Rhonda asked Nadine as they watched the stage below them.

"I tried last night and this morning and afternoon. But his line is always busy… I just don't know why…" she replied sullenly to her.

"Girl… I feel bad for you… if it wasn't for Helga—"

"If it wasn't for me what?" Helga replied bitterly as she climbed up into the catwalk. "Listen, I wasn't being an ass, I was really in need of help. If Nadine didn't come soon, my sister would be dead by now. And that's something I don't want to happen to her."

Rhonda felt she was being an ass right now, "I'm… I'm sorry…" Helga scoffed, and ignored her. She then looked at Phoebe and Lila, who were exchanging conversation to each other.

"Lila, I heard this play Olga's in is a completely original story. Pardon me for not looking at the advertisement at the front entrance since I came in from the back, but could you summarize the play for me and tell me what's it all about?"

"Well, the story started in wartime Vietnam, during the final days before United States' complete pullout from the country. The protagonist has this baby girl you see, and he has to give his child to a nurse, Olga, so she ever so could raise his baby girl in a safe environment in the United States rather than his war torn country. He had no choice but he had to do it. The safety of his child comes first. And thus begin his epic journey to the United States by enduring the harsh unforgiving life by becoming a refugee in a nearby country."

"That's very sad."

"Indeed it is. After many years of saving his money by working in a restaurant, he finally has enough money to go to the United States. And I'm ever so do not want to spoil the rest of the show for you Phoebe, because it's a very moving story and you'll just have to see it for yourself to really be immersed in the story."

"Maybe when I have the time, and after all these fiasco is over, I might consider watching it. It sounds interesting."

"Cut the chat guys, be on the alert. The play is about to start." Helga warned them.

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It was the second act of the play, and so far so good, nothing happened yet, and Olga was still in one piece, and she performed her character wonderfully. But still they kept on alert. After the play started they were grouped into two, veteran members on the ground, while the rookies were on the catwalk. Lila scanned around, and she saw a sudden small flash of light crossing her eyes. She stopped at her tracks. There was it again. She slowly turned her head to where the light came from and saw a dim set of eyes looking at her from a ventilation shaft. The eyes then vanished. Lila sensed something was amiss, and she then told all of the agents via the earpiece that she spotted something. Agents, above and below went on high alert.

The other four agents went over to her, and Lila pointed to them what she just saw. Rhonda switched her flashlight on and pointed it to the shaft, but no one was there, but they could hear the thumping noise echoed out from it. Another assassination attempt failed, thankfully due to the carelessness of the sniper. All the girls knew where all vent shaft ended, on the rooftop.

Helga kicked the rotted door to the rooftop violently, making it broke into pieces. She saw the sniper in front of her running quickly to the fire exit stairs nearby. "After him!" Helga shouted to her friends behind her. The sniper quickly ran down the stairs as the five agents trying frenetically to catch up with him. The sniper then jumped from the second floor to the alley below to quicken his pace. His car was just around the corner. But to his surprise, Linda was there, smirking at him. She had let the air out from the wheels and she took the liberty to jam them with chains as well.

"Shit…" he cursed to himself. Because he was such in a hurry to run away, he forgot bring the bullets with him. He had to take yet another direction. He was in the middle of the T-intersection of the alley, and he had no choice but to take the last one available. Linda joined the rest of the gang as they chased after him.

"Linda! I can't believe I'm saying this but… thanks!" Helga said to her as they chased the hitman.

"No problem! It's what I do best!"

"Who's taking care of my sister?!"

"There were six left in the theatre. I asked them to stay there and protect your— gaaaahhhh!!" The sniper threw his gun at her and Linda tripped on it. And because of that, her knee was seriously hurt and she couldn't run.

"Linda!" Helga stopped at her tracks, as her other friends did too.

"Don't worry about me! Just go after him!" she replied back pointing to the sniper as she pressed her knee to suppress her injury. The other girls nodded and continued to go after the sniper.

"Everything is going according to plan…"

Haven't we heard the story of that play before? Yes, yes we did. It was Mr. Hyunh's story he told Arnold during the Christmas episode, but I replaced it with a nurse instead of a soldier. I thought the episode was very well written, so I decided to put it in this chapter as well. So how was it? Good? Found any errors? Put it in the review.