Flashbacks and Memories (Part 10)
By Jenny Taylor
"So… What happened next Jaycee? After she woke up I mean." Gordon asked feeling that he's going to regret asking that question, but yet it is vital one that would help Jaycee to continue with the story.
"When she woke up…"
26 years earlier in a terrorist hideout, location unknown…
With a groan and feeling cold, Special Agent Trisha Anderson stirs from her somewhat uncomfortable sleep. She tries to stretch her limbs only to be restricted by something solid and it was only by this fact she jerked herself awake, only to hit her head on something solid.
Trisha, slightly panicked she felt the area all around her, only to discover that she's trapped inside a clear, industrial, indestructible box minus the bottom of the box, which is made of cold, hard steel and to her shock horror, she discovered that she's naked!
Trisha took some deep breaths in order to calm herself down as she looks through the clear plastic in order to find out where she is and what has just happened to her.
The box that she trapped in, is situated to one side of a medium sized room, with dark steel grey walls and two dark metal doors, the single door on the wall opposite her and a pair of double doors on the wall to her right. There ceiling had old fashioned neon lights situated in a regular pattern, with half of them on lighting up her area of the room.
She can see that the box that she's imprisoned in is situated on some object, possibly a table, giving her cage some height and a perspective of the room. She awkwardly moved around inside her cage so she can make herself comfort as possible and facing the single door, with her knees close to her chest and her arms wrapped around her legs.
What felt like hours, when it was actually several minutes later, the door opposite her opens up and a group of armed, masked men entered the room. Four men separated from the group and walked through the double doors, another four separated and headed towards all four corners of the room and another four went to stand guard next to both doors.
Trisha looks up and tightens her grip around her legs, face shows a mixture of anger, curiosity, determination and a glimmer of fear as she watches her well-armed captors taking up their positions. She waited in silence for what looks like an incoming leader of her captors, and from the way that her captors moved tells her that whoever these men worked for had, what seemed like, a terrorist version of military training to the highest level.
A few seconds later, the door opens again and enters a single, unmasked man. He stood at medium height, modular build, black hair which sports a military cut and he looked about mid-thirties. His style of walking screams military as his march strides heads towards her, holding what looks like a file in his right hand and stops right in front of her transparent box.
"Well, well, well. So this is the prey that my little pride has caught so…expertly." The villain smirked, his voice filled with darkness and evil.
"Who are you? Where am I and what do you want with me?" Trisha demanded, looking directly into the eyes of her captor, while trying to hide the fear that threatening to explode out of her.
"You're not in the position to demand things, Special Agent Trisha Anderson." He spoke slyly and in a way that causes shivers down anyone's spine. Trisha looked up at her captor in shock horror as questions starts to form in her mind.
How in the world did he know my name, let alone my job title? Is he the man who shot my former boss? If he is, then… She turned her head to look around the room, slowly, as the shock of realisation starts to hit into whom had kidnapped her, but then she looked down as some doubt starts to set in.
How can she be sure that this man, her kidnapper and captor, is the man that her team's been hunting for all these years? Although her gut feeling tells her yes, her brain is in doubt and want's hardcore proof of this man's true identity.
Also there's another question, which had bounced back and forth in her mind ever since the murder of her former boss Supervisory Special Agent Richard Gibbs. Is this the man who killed her former boss and mentor? Again, her gut tells her yes, but her brain is in doubt… again… and it wants hardcore proof…again…
"Now young Trisha…" The voice of evil interrupted her thoughts as she forced her head up to glare at her captor. "You will pay attention as what you are about to see… and… what I will say to you will only happen once!" Pausing to allow his words to sink into his prisoner.
Trisha looked at him with a mixture of curiosity and fear as she waited with a feeling of dread, which had begun to grow ever since the start of her ordeal, continues to grow at an alarming rate alongside with her fear and uncertainty onto what will happen to her.
"First of all: Do NOT even thinkof escaping as we'll be placing a tracking collar around your neck.
Secondly: IF you do escape from your cell, the collar around your neck will electrify you to your knees until the guards arrive to take you to the… agreed punishment.
And finally: IF you do manage to disable the collar and managed to escape to the outside world, you will be caught and you will receive the death sentence!"
The lead villain barks in an evil version of a militarily command, emphasising on certain words to make sure that his prisoner understood his commands and to crush any hope of her escaping in a form of a demonstration. He clicks his fingers and the double doors open to let the occupants of the other room to enter with their cargo.
The first group of men are wheeling in something big and heavy, about double or even triple the size of the box that currently held Trisha. The box looked like it had black sides and a glass top with tiny holes, under the glass looked like damp soil with holes which are no bigger than the size of a Quarter Dollar coin.
Once the men positioned the box in the centre of the room, while the lead villain moved next to her box looking at the double doors. Trisha could now hear someone screaming, begging and pleading in distress.
Trisha had no idea on what's happening, but she starts to have a horrible gut feeling that whoever this person, whom sounded quite young due to the pitch, is either being punished or sentenced to death. She hoped that it would be the former, but looking up towards her captor, who is standing to the left side of her box, and seeing the expression on his face made her cringe in fear as she realises that she's about to witness the death sentence of another victim.
Her fears are about to become real as the double doors open once again, this time it's a group of men carrying another glass box with air holes and about the same size as the first box, but it's what's inside the box which made Trisha froze in shock horror and fear.
The victim is a child! No more than 10 years old. And he was screaming, begging and pleading in desperation, whom has become even more desperate as he realises on what is to become of his fate as he shouts. "No! Please don't! I don't want to die! No! Not them! NOT THEM!" These phases that had screamed out of his mouth made her realise that they are going to kill the boy.
"Why are you going to kill this child?" She demanded in anger. But to her dismay, her captor smiles and responded in a cool calm manor.
"Firstly, this child has failed to meet our expectations required at every level and we have no place for failures here. And secondly, it's not us who's going to kill the child, but one of Mother Nature's deadliest creatures ever created on our planet."
"Deadliest creatures ever created on our planet?" Gordon repeated slowly as he tries to figure out which of Mother Nature's creatures has the capacity to kill a human, as the shock horror of realisation hits all of the boys in the room.
"A CHILD!?" Scott almost shouted in anger. "Why the hell would he feed a child to a creature with the ability to kill a human? Just because the child is a failure?" It was clear that he's now super angry as couldn't figure out why an adult would do such a thing to a helpless child.
Now when Scott is in this state, it is usually Virgil who calms him down, but sadly the said person is in the operating theatre fighting for his life, so it is left to one other person who has an extraordinary ability to calm him down in the most unusual way.
"Shout like that one more time Carpenter or I'll send you back to your Grandma NAKED IN Thunderbird 1!" Everyone looked at the young doctor, wide-eyed and open-mouthed in shock. They have forgotten that she has the ability to discipline Scott, heck… she's the ONLY person, apart from Grandma Tracy and their dad when he's around, to discipline him AND in the most obnoxious as well as embarrassingly ways possible.
Having threat of being sent back to Grandma AND having to ride back there in Thunderbird 1 naked, Scott snaps his mouth shut and looks away in embarrassment and disgust, plus the added extra of being annoyed by the fact that the Terrible Two were trying and failing to stifle their giggling at their eldest brother's expense.
John shook his head but he couldn't help but smile as they are reminded of Jaycee's version of 'discipline' and 90% of the time it is Scott who has fallen foul to her 'discipline', especially when he's in a foul mood which was made worse when Jaycee annoyed him to the point that he has no choice BUT to chase her to get her to shut up.
But what Scott didn't know at the time, nor now as the matter of fact, that Jaycee's 'annoyance' was part of her plan to cheer him up as part of 'Operation Woody Woodpecker', which he's fallen for hook line and sinker every single time.
Although 'Operation Woody Woodpecker' was originally designed to cheer up Scott, but whenever he got tripped up and held down by Virgil and John, while Jaycee and her 'Blonde Twins' as she calls them, tickle him, foul and dirty words came out of the eldest mouth and the female HATED them with a passion.
So she took 'Operation Woody Woodpecker to the 'extra' stage reserved only for those who uses such colourful language. Jaycee would pull both the trousers AND the underwear down to the victim's knees and tickles the bare cheeks of the victim's bottom to the rule of 1 minute per year, for example Scott being 10 years old, he would get tickled for 10 minutes on his bare bum and John would time the 'punishment'.
John had a special signal to let Jaycee, alongside with Alan and Gordon, whom was 'performing' the punishment, know when the 'punishment' is over. He would take a shoe and sock off one of the victim's foot and starts singing the nursery rhyme 'This Little Piggy' and play with the victim's toes as he does so. When it came to the last part of the nursery rhyme, John would at first play with the pinkie toe and from there would tickle all the way up the trouser leg of the victim, ending both the 'punishment' and 'Operation Woody Woodpecker'.
During both 'Operation Woody Woodpecker' and the 'punishment', the victim would sometimes use more unwanted language and if that happened the punishment would restart, making it longer and even more unbearable.
So the victim had to learn to keep their 'beak shut' as Jaycee would say, during 'Operation Woody Woodpecker' or else, which is easier said than done if you: 1. Got annoyed to begin with and 2. Being held down by the second and third born brothers and being tickled by the 2 youngest brothers and being taunted and tickled by your brother's girlfriend.
Also don't get the wrong side of her either, because if you do or say something stupid, you'll get punished in the most embarrassing way ever imagined and she will do it, even with or without help in the form of either her boyfriend and/or the Terrible Twosome. Guess who has fallen foul to that too…
"Cut that out you 3!" Came a well-known annoyed tone from the eldest that snaps the ginger astronaut back into reality, but sadly for the brunette it didn't stop the Terrible Twosome, even if they tried, so once again, it's up to same person who would stop them giggling in her usual and unpredictable manner.
"Clown Fish… Monkey Boy… would you please stop laughing…" It sounded more of an order rather than pleading which stopped the blonde aquanaut and astronaut giggling making them turn to look at her. She looked upset and probably because they've interrupted her retelling her mom's story, which so far had gone from bad to worse, the gruesome, evil death type and she has yet told them what killed the child.
"Sorry Mom," The fish apologised with sincere and seriousness in his voice, when looking before looking back up at her with worry and concern written on his face. "It's just…"
"Don't bother Fishy," She interrupted, "I know that it's been a long time since I did those 'disciplines' on a certain 'Hen'," Glancing at the brunette next to her before turning back to face the aquanaut, "And remembering what we did back then, but…" She looked down towards her feet as tears starts to form in her eyes again, making the brothers worried.
"But what cuz?" Scott asked, his voice filled with concern as spoke gently. Jaycee sniffled, took her glasses off and wiped away her tears with a handkerchief before replacing her glasses sitting up and sighing.
"We need to get back to this story and this is the first horror of my mom's horrible and traumatic nightmare with the terrorists." She explained making the boys look at each other before returning to look at her.
"So… what happened mom?" Alan asked, his voice is small, filled with fear and dread on what she'll say next. "What creature killed the kid?"
"Well…"