Chapter 18: So The Mission Begins
Marcus slammed the synagogue double doors open as both he and Liam started to look around the entire area for either Kyle or Daniel. The synagogue was extremely quiet; quiet enough to hear a pin drop. The air was light and thin and it filled the two boys' lungs with a cold and almost dark feel to it all. Marcus had a bad feeling about the whole situation, but he didn't want to give up hope yet. He checked nearly every single area, room and part of the synagogue, but there was nothing. Wherever they were, Daniel (and in Marcus' mind, hopefully Kyle as well) were somewhere else in the synagogue. Either that or they had already left.
"DANIEL!" Marcus heard Liam shout. Marcus rushed into another room where Liam was situated. Both lads were shocked to see Daniel lying on the floor as if he were dead, with his hat lying comfortably next to his standing up silvery white hair.
"Daniel, Daniel, wake up bro!" Liam shouted; shaking his brother on his shoulders; trying desperately to wake him up. Suddenly, Daniel scrunched his eyes and began to awaken from his sleeping state.
"W-w-where am I?" Daniel quietly spoke; slowly adapting back to the light inside the building.
"You're at the synagogue Daniel. What the hell happened here?" Marcus began to walk over to the two lads. "The windows are all smashed and everything. Please don't tell me they got Kyle."
Daniel picked himself up and stood back up; feeling slightly dizzy as he did so. "If I'm the only one here and they've all gone……" He looked at Marcus with a sign that could have indicated that he wanted to apologize. "……then I guess they must have captured him as well."
Marcus sighed deeply and started to walk over to the side of the room with annoyance, frustration and confusion flooding the emotions on his face.
"ARGHHHH!" Marcus yelled for about a few seconds; showing just how frustrated at all this he was. "DAM! I thought at least Kyle would have been OK. But now they've got them all and I don't even know what the hell they're doing or what they plan to do with them." He placed his head in his hands. "Why? Why now? Why all this?"
"Wait a minute; they've surely taken them back to MI6 headquarters right?" Liam began to speak.
"Yeh, so."
"Well…d'y'know what I think…I say we fight fire with fire. They came unexpected and uninvited, so I say we go and take them back without them suspecting or expecting anything."
"What!"
"What!"
"What?"
"Bro, are you crazy. That's bloody impossible!"
"Daniel's right Liam, MI6 has the most highly advanced physical and technological security systems known to man. We'd be spotted even before we get anywhere near the bloody front door."
Liam and Daniel looked down at the floor in depressed frustration. "God, if only we had like equipment and tools that'd make it a lot easier to get in."
Suddenly, Marcus' head shot up as he suddenly realised. "Wait a minute, Daniel, what did you say!"
"I said I just wish that we had like tools and equipment to help us get into the building. Without them, I guess it would be virtually impossible."
"THAT'S IT!"
"What's it?"
"I know how we can get in that building."
"What? What are yer' talking about Marcus!"
Marcus began walking out of the room and towards the synagogue double doors. "Come on. There's something I wanna show you back home."
"What……chocolate biscuits!" Daniel asked in high anticipation; at which Liam slapped him across the back of the head.
"NO! Just follow me and I'll show you." Marcus made his way towards the exit; at which point Daniel and Liam started to follow him.
About five minutes later, Marcus, Liam and Daniel were stood in a dimly lit tight corridor within Marcus' home. In front of Marcus there were two doors; one positioned aside the other. One door was a normal white door just like all the other doors in the house. However, the other door was grey and metallic; looking as if it was made of some kind of reinforced metal or steel. Marcus pressed a button on a digital control panel by the side of the metal door.
'Please provide password for access.' A computer voice spoke.
"Holy s---!" Daniel spoke.
'Incorrect password! Access Denied!' Marcus and Liam both looked at Daniel with a slight sign of annoyance on their face.
"WHAT?" Daniel shrugged his shoulders. Marcus turned back round and pressed the same button again.
'Please provide password for access.' The computer voice spoke once more.
"CHURCHILL!" Marcus clearly spoke.
'Correct approved password! Access granted!'
The metal door slowly swung open to reveal a twisting staircase that led down into a darker underground area of the house. Liam and Daniel followed Marcus down the flight of stairs and down into a large underground room.
"WOAH! Are you having a f---ing laugh or sumin!" Daniel spoke in a very frozen shocked voice.
"Nope, it's all here and it's all mine."
The three lads were now standing in a large kind of room that you would only see in bases. The room, dark blue in colour was packed full of technological weapons, gadgets, devices, items, tools, guns and training machines. The whole lot was down in this room and it was what Marcus had been given for working for MI6 for all these years. At the end of the room, half a dozen computers all networked and linked up to one another were buzzing away along with the other technological devices that they were connected to. Beside them were about two or three differently constructed laptops; all built or customised by either Marcus or MI6 themselves.
"This is everything that was given to me once I moved in here and became an official 'agent' as they call it, at MI6. Anything you can come up with, exercise equipment, training programs, computers, laptops, gadgets, light-graded weapons, you name it and it's here."
"Marcus……." Liam began to speak as he looked around and was stunned at what he was seeing. "……I had no idea you had this much stuff. I mean, I know you worked for MI6 and everything, but……jeez……this is one hell of a collection, if you know what I mean."
"Yeh, well I agree that there's a lot of stuff down here. But I knew one day it would all come in handy."
"W-what do you mean?"
"What do yer' think I mean? You both said we can't get into the building without equipment like this……well…here it is."
"OH NO…NO MARCUS! You can't get into MI6; even with this. You can't do it on your hand."
"Who said I'm doing it on my own."
"WHAT? No way Marcus, we're not getting involved."
"Oh come on guys, don't you two care about what might happen to those four boys."
"Sure we care. But we don't want to go as far as breaking possibly the highest law in this bloody country and getting arrested."
"That's no excuse Liam……" Marcus stood back up from a seated position and walked up to Liam and Daniel with an annoyed look on his face. "…Remember that time that both of you were getting beat up at school by all those bullies; who stuck up for you when you didn't have any help?"
Liam sighed and looked down. "You did."
"Exactly…and Liam, who gave you a month's worth of drumming lessons for your birthday when you really wanted them and also taught you everything about computer programming and computer hacking and cracking?"
"You did."
"And Daniel, who taught you how to gain access into high-level security systems anywhere in the world and also taught you how to play that guitar you have?"
"Well, technically it was all the original books that had it all written down that taught me." Daniel looked back at Marcus who had an annoyed look on his face. "Oh…yeh it was."
"Exactly! I did all those things for you and never asked for anything to return. Well now I AM asking you for this 1 something; to help me find and rescue the four boys from those bastards at MI6. Now are you gunna help me or not?"
Liam and Daniel looked at one another and smiled. "So what's the plan then Marcus?"
Marcus smiled back and without delay, the three lads got to work in planning and preparing themselves for possibly the hardest and most crucial task they've ever had to face. Over the next hour, the three lads went to work in studying, revising and working on every possible possibility, angle and area regarding this mission. They did everything such as organising equipment, studying the building structure of MI6 headquarters, uploading information to laptops and small technological devices and gadgets, learning how to use such devices and gadgets, planning their mission etc.
While Daniel and Liam were practicing how to use the laptops they had been given by Marcus to use on the mission, Marcus prepared himself by using some of the training programs and exercise equipment. With all the planning done……they were ready. Marcus pulled out a small jewellery box from out of one of the steel cupboards. He opened it up and there lying within the small box were two gold male necklaces; one having a gold 'M' on it, the other having a gold Christian Cross on it. Realising that Daniel had picked out his necklace (which had the star of David on it) from out of his jean pocket and had placed it around his neck, Marcus kindly gave the Cross necklace to Liam and he placed the 'M' necklace around his won neck.
And at exactly 12 noon on that day, Marcus, Liam AND Daniel all walked out of Marcus' front door with bag packs full of equipment and other stuff in them on their backs and each having a pair of thick, black shades across their eyes. For the first time since yesterday, all three lads had all taken off their hats; allowing everything and everyone to view the sight of Marcus' longish short black/brown hair, Daniel's standing up silvery white hair and Liam's shortish long black hair with blond streaks in it. And as they walked up to the end of the driveway, ready to make their way towards MI6 headquarters, they stopped and looked forward; taking one final deep breath before they went off to begin their mission.
"OH S---! I forgot my iPod, hang on guys!" Marcus spoke, running back into the house and grabbing his iPod; breaking the serious and concentrated atmosphere that had been built up for the past five minutes. Liam and Daniel looked at each other in confusion at which point Marcus came running back outside; locking the door behind him and stopping exactly next to the Cachenski brothers.
"Alright guys. This is it!" Marcus spoke in an extremely serious voice. "It's all or nothing now…LET'S GO!"
The three lads began to make their way down the street; all focused on the matter at hand.
"God I hope the Lithium Battery in my iPod doesn't die again like last time." Marcus spoke to himself as the three lads disappeared down the hill of the street and off towards MI6 headquarters.
Meanwhile, in the dark, cold and twisted regions of the MI6 headquarters, a half a dozen of MI6 medical officials along with the head of MI6 were standing in an almost spherical sci-fi looking dark room and were observing and taking a few minor scans of the four boys who were all still in a deep sleeping state; still in their glass capsules and still having oxygen masks over their faces and still unaware of what was happening around them and still were forcing this narrator to still say 'still' all the time……until now.
"Is everything set?" The head official spoke in a very low and slow tone of voice.
"Yes sir, every machine and device is ready sir. Medical analysis, physical analysis, mental analysis, bodily analysis and everything else is at 100 ready sir. Whenever you wish for it to begin sir."
"Good, what about these minor scans?"
"All four boys appear to be in a healthy and fully living state sir. Thorough analysis can begin at any time."
"Good, very well then. Jones!"
"Yes sir!"
"Tell both the main medical team and the research team that they can begin the next stage."
"Yes sir!"
"It won't belong before all the necessary analysis and research for this stage is complete. And when that is done, we will be well on our way to knowing everything about these four boys; even the four core units they have inside them."
The head official walked off as the circular platform that all four boys were lying on in the glass capsules began to slowly drop down and fade away into the dimness of a circular shaft below.
And it was at this point that Marcus, Liam and Daniel had already set themselves up for the mission. All three lads were sat in a fairly big orange tent that had all the equipment they had brought with them in it. The tent along with the three lads were all based on the rooftop of a fairly tall building that was pretty much near enough to MI6 headquarters.
"Brother, why on Earth did you bring a tent with yer'. This is daft!" Liam spoke.
"Have you felt it out there, it's bloody freezing! I'm not sitting out in the f---ing cold! Plus, it's giving us all this space to safely put all this equipment in."
"Yeh, I guess that's true."
"Anyway, guys…" Marcus butted in and began speaking. "What's the current situation regarding how I'm going to actually get into the building?"
Liam and Daniel both looked at their laptops; which both had a 3-D virtual map of the entire MI6 building.
"Right, Marcus, according to this, pretty much everywhere around all levels of the perimeter of the building have high-level security. There's guards patrolling the ground area, security cameras around the main front North, South and West side." Liam pressed a few keys on the keyboard. "But according to this map, there should be an opening on the 3rd floor 4th window……here on the South East corner. It should lead into the main inner area of the building. However, it'll mean you'd have to carefully side-step your way around the structure's small balcony."
"OK, no prob, I've done things like that in training. I guess that means I can use this grappling hook chain device." Marcus stepped out of the tent and placed the last few items and equipment in his specially made pocket-filled graphic-covered shirt and jeans. "Well, I guess this is it. The next time you'll see me……is hopefully with the four boys by my side."
"Yeh, but make sure Marcus……we'll try to give you updates and any bits of data and info that we come across while you're in there. So have that small mini digital communicator thingy on all the time. We'll be watching your movement on this map on our laptop screens. That red homing light on your belt will show up on the laptop screen………good luck Marcus."
"Thanks guys! See yer' later." Marcus walked off to the side of the rooftop and aimed the grappling hook chain he had hold of in his hand at the side of the headquarters building. He fired it without shaking and connected himself to the chain's wire. "God, I can't believe I'm doing this." Pushing himself off the building's edge with his feet, he slid down the wire line and landed comfortably on the thin, architectural balcony of the headquarters building. He placed both his arms on the building in order to lean himself against it and without looking down, he slowly side-stepped to his right one step at a time.
It didn't take long before Marcus had made it to the target window on the far outside corner of the building. Slowly turning around in order to face the window, he took out a lock picker from his pocket and started cracking and picking away at the window's lock; whilst still leaning one hand on the building's edge.
With the lock picked, Marcus slowly opened the glass window and carefully and slowly side-stepped into the darkness of the room inside the building.
And with that done, Marcus' main mission was well underway.