First may I apologize for the very Long time it took for me to have this new chapter ready to post and thanks to all of you who have been patiently waiting for this story to continue. Thank you to my friend and fellow FF author and Beta reader Irual, for her help and patients in putting to gather this new chapter.
Disclaimer; As always I don't own the crime fighting/rock band trio The Impossibles, they are the creations of Hanna Barbera/Warner, along with Big D their boss. Some of the Original Characters, such as Impossi-Pup and FG (Fluid Girl) as well as the civilian identities of the Impossibles, Phyllis and the girl friends of Multiman and Fluidman, Shawn Smith and Danalleah Critch as well as Prince Ali and Princess Sandrina and are the creations of my good friend and fellow Fan Fiction Author Erin T. Aardvark. Any other characters and some of the locations in the story are my creation. Reviews are the only gain in posting this story, please Review! And now on with the chapter, Enjoy!
Chapter 11. Crystal Waters run deep!
At the same time that the fight in the desert was taking place, in town at the Khakistanie hospital, Coiley, who was nearly recovered from the poison dart, had persuaded the doctors and Rashid, the guard from the palace Prince Ali had assigned to keep an eye on the teenager, to allow the frustrated and worried blonde Impossible to have access to his guitar communicator, by promising not to budge from his bed, until the doctor treating him gave the all clear and realest him.
Picking out one of the Impossible's songs on his bass always seemed to have a calming effect on Coiley when he was worried about something or someone.
He was about half way through "Hey Little Darlin", when the blue bass started the familiar beeping.
Because they all worked on the same frequency Coiley's communicator picked up a message Multi was transmitting.
Coiley flipped the switch on the neck of his guitar activating the Impossiblescope, turning on the video screen expecting to see Big D, he figured the Chief was checking up on him.
He was surprised when Multi's face appeared on the screen.
"Multiman to Big D, reporting from the Oasis of the Crystal Waters, 10 miles south of the Royal palace of Khakistan. Princess Sandrina's kidnapping was a scheme to extort money and a trap, when Prince Ali followed the ransom instructions he was caught. FG, Fluey, Impossi-Pup and I were able to subdue the criminals and are going to contact the local police, to request backup. I figured we had better let you…uuuff!"
Suddenly there was a jumble of voices and sounds were heard like Impossi-Pup yipping and a woman's angry voice as well as Multi's face disappearing from the screen and a crackling sound then nothing, Coiley's screen went to static….
With the sudden turnabout in the situation Coiley was nearly jumping out of his skin with worry, quickly switching from receive to transmit, desperately trying to connect with his teammate….
"Multi…MULTI!"
Back in Megatropolis at SSHQ, The Chief, Phyllis, Shawn, Danalleah and Serina were worried, at first because they hadn't heard anything from Multi and Fluey since they reported that they were on their way to help the Prince and FG try to rescue Sandrina….
However, there had just been an interrupted transmittion from Multi, picked up by the transceiver in Big D's office as well as in the radio room at Secret Security HQ.
He was reporting about the kidnapping being a plot to get money, a setup and had given out the location of the Oasis of the Crystal Waters when his Impossiblescope had been cut off suddenly and they were trying to re-establish contact.
The tiny video screen lit up again, but this time it was Big D trying to reconnect with the signal from Multi's Impossiblescope, Coiley's Impossiblescope connected to The Chief's desktop transmitter…
"Keep trying to re-establish contact with Agent Multi and contact my office if you can reach him or Agents Fluid or Fluid Girl."
"Yes Sir!"
Big D was speaking to the radio room as he and the girls were studying the map behind his desk.
It showed where all the field agents were located and the lights belonging to Multi and FG had gone dark.
For the sake of his daughter and the other girls, The Chief was showing a calm exterior, however, inside, he was very worried.
Coiley recognized the other voice it was Agent Nicoles from the transmitting room on one of the lower floors of Secret Security Headquarters.
"Chief, what happened?" Coiley said in a nervous tone.
"One minute Multi was transmitting and the next the signal was cut off."
The Chief was surprised to hear Coiley's voice coming from his desktop transmitter…..
"Agent Coil?" (Big D responded thru the Impossiblescope) "How did you?…..Never mind that now, we have lost contact with Agents Multi and Fluid Girl and Agent Fluid is not answering his communicator ether. A rescue team will be on its way within the hour, what is your current status?"
Coiley hesitated for a millisecond, then took a deep breath and said, "The Doctors are just about to sign the release papers. I'm ready for duty and will be on my way, ASAP.!"
Big D, studied the face of the teenaged agent on the screen, he suspected that the boy was not telling the entire truth, but he also did not have a choice in order to get help to the others immediately so…
"Very well Agent Coil, but be extremely careful. Good luck, we are on our way. Big D out!"
Coiley's Impossiblescope went dark, as he switched it off, he set the guitar down and started to get up off the bed, Rashid who had been listening to the conversation started to voice a strong opposition to Coiley getting up, blocking the teenager's way.
"Wait….STOP! You aren't well enough to get out of the bed!"
Coiley turned and slid off the other side of the bed, heading for the guitar cases leaning against the wall.
Getting out of bed also disconnected everything being used to monitor his vital signs, so Coiley knew he didn't have much time to get out without being stopped by the doctors and other hospital personnel.
"LOOK Rashid, I know I promised to stay in here until the doctor released me, but my friends need me and I can't let them down. Now let me go, or come with me and give me a hand, I could use your help!"
Leaning against the wall Coiley rested for a moment then knelt down and opened his case, he picked up the little square metal box and pushed the darker purple of the two activation buttons.
The blonde Impossible was enveloped in a swirling spinning mass of psychedelic color, becoming COILMAN he was now dressed head to toe in his two-tone purple body suit, hood, mask, gloves and boots with the large white C on his chest, now in his guise as one third of the fighting Impossibles.
He quickly removed his regular clothes from the clothes closet.
Rashid just stood there staring as Coiley returned to the bed and picked up his bass guitar then bounced toward the window and opened it.
Packing the transformer into a hidden pocket in his costume, he turned to look at the stunned palace guard.
"Well…Are you coming or not?"
Rashid hesitated for a moment, then he remembered what the prince had said about keeping watch over his American friend and to make sure no harm came to him.
He rushed over and stood behind the teen hero.
"What now?" Rashid asked.
"Grab on and hold on tight!" Coiley replied.
Rashid wrapped his arms around Coiley's neck hopping onto his back.
With the palace guard holding on for dear life, Coiley crouched down and sprang right out of the same window Multi had used in his departure, disappearing from sight just as the door burst open.
His doctor and a male nurse charged in, seeing the room empty and the window open, the doctor groaned…
"NOT AGAINE!" he yelled and then ran to the window hoping to spot his patient.
However, by the time he had reached the window and looked around, Coiley and Rashid had disappeared from view around the corner of the hospital.
In front of the buildings on the main street, Coiley and Rashid were trying to figure out their next move.
Coiley thought that he should first transform back into his usual self to attract less attention, so ducking into a nearby ally he used the transformer to reverse back to his regular identity.
He changed out of the hospital clothing and into his regular costume.
As they were heading for the royal palace, back at the Oasis in the clearing where the fight had taken place, the littlest member of The Impossible's team was regaining her senses.
Skittles had been unconscious for only a few minutes, after Akmed had kicked her against the palm tree for daring to try to stop him from harming "her boys".
Groggily, the little brown spotted white pup, stood up shaking her head, then, letting her super sniffer take over, Skittles began circling around the clearing to pick up the trail and locate Multi and the others.
Following her nose, she detected the scent of FG's perfume and followed this scent, hoping her human teammates hadn't been harmed.
Skittles crept stealthily thru the undergrowth following the trail and a few minutes later peaked thru some tall grass to spot a big canvas tent.
She had arrived just in time to see the captured teens being forced into the tent.
The flap to the tent was thrown aside and Prince Ali was shoved roughly inside.
FG was pushed in next. Inside the tent the Prince had just enough time to turn around and face the entrance and catch her, to prevent FG from falling on her face.
Fortunately for both of them, his hands had been cuffed in front, and not behind his back as hers were.
The other minions brought in Fluey and Multi, plopping them down unceremoniously to the floor of the tent onto a couple of sleeping bag-like mats.
Koora poked his head into the tent, he spotted Fluey's wristwatch and naturally, being a thief, he decided to take it for himself.
He entered the tent and walked over to the unconscious dark haired Impossible, then reached down, temporarily unlocked one of the cuffs and removed the watch from the teen's wrist.
Re-locking the cuff around Fluey's wrist and pocketing his prize, he headed back to the entrance of the tent paused and turned, looked at the captives a moment.
Satisfied they weren't going to go anywhere anytime soon, he said something to the guards who had taken their places at the entrance of the tent, after carrying the two unconscious Impossibles inside, than he left.
Skittles watched from her hiding place in the undergrowth as the tall Arabian human left the tent, she revved up and raced around the tent moving so fast that the guards never saw her.
Koora meantime had headed back to his tent to hide his new treasure. As he neared their leader's tent, he spotted a shadowy figure standing close to the back of the tent.
Koora was immediately on alert, slowly drawing his knife he began creeping closer to the mysterious figure at the back of Akmed's tent.
He was about to strike when the figure suddenly turned around to face him and Koora recognized him as Haroon, one of his brother Guild members and his best friend.
Before he could say anything Haroon grabbed Koora's arm, then put his finger up to his lips signaling Koora, who was replacing his knife into its sheath, to keep silent.
Walking his friend away from the tent, Haroon finally spoke after he was sure they were far enough away from the tent, so the conversation wouldn't be heard.
"Before you ask my brother, why I was listening at our leader's tent, I have good reason to spy on Akmed." he said in a serious tone.
"Haroon, you could have been caught and you know as well as I, the penalty for such an act!" Koora answered.
"Our Leader is spending too much time with his woman, when he should be interrogating our prisoners!" Haroon angrily responded.
"He seems to put more importance on wooing that, that WOMAN, than his duty to the Brotherhood!"
Haroon thought back to 20 minutes prier, when he had followed the leader of the Thieves Guild and the Princess, from the field of battle, (instead of going with the others as they dragged away the prisoners) to the tent where he had overheard Akmed and Sandrina starting to talk over their plans of conquest.
Haroon had stood near the entrance of the tent after Akmed and Sandrina had disappeared inside, quietly listening to the pair…
Inside Sandrina was still in an agitated mood after what had just happened as she settled onto a couple of plush oversized tan pillows, while Akmed settled into a couple of the same type of pillows beside her, after fixing the Princess a cool drink to sooth her nerves.
" There you are My Desert Bloom, relax and enjoy the sweet refreshment of the Crystal Waters, in your delicate condition, you need rest and we can think over the next part of our plans to regain the throne of Khakistan."
Relaxing a bit as she excepted the fluted glass of clear liquid in one hand, she settled back onto the satin pillows and patted the little bag, (where The Impossibles transformers, as well as FG's earrings and Ali's little ring were hidden) connected to her waist belt with the other..
" Thanks be to Allah that we still have the upper hand, no thanks to your incompetent minions. They almost lost us the advantage and my brother. Your quick thinking and dexterity saved our future, My Love."
A slight smile crossed her lips, as she turned and gave her tall, hansom lover a peck on the cheek.
"Once I am the Queen and you, my consort, there will be no need for you to hide yourself among this rabble, from anyone especially the law, there will be no need for the guild. The Royal Guard will not fail to follow your orders."
Haroon had heard quite enough, that witch was turning his leader against the Brotherhood.
He began to back up in order to get away, before his presents was discovered.
However, in backing away, he wasn't paying attention to where he was stepping and fell backward over a rope tied to a stake that was holding up the tent.
"OOF!"
Haroon was getting to his feet again when he heard Akmed shout, "What was That!" while getting quickly to his feet, throwing open the tent flap and rushing out of the front of the tent and looking around intently.
Akmed was joined by the Princess, they headed cautiously around the side of the tent as Haroon made it around to the back of the tent and out of sight, before he could be spotted by the pair….
A touch on his shoulder brought Haroon back to the present….
As Koora looked into his friend's face the serious look on his own face softened a bit, "Haroon, I can't reveal the details to you and the others now, it will be up to our leader to tell you and the others in the Guild when he feels that the time is right. Akmed knows what he is doing, in light of the situation."
"From what I just overheard, (Haroon said) I believe the Princess is using Akmed and the Guild for her own devices and personal gain. I am sure that once she has the throne, we are all as expendable as her brother and his American friends!"
At the same time the conversation between Koora and Haroon was taking place, Skittles had reached the back of the prisoner's tent. She than began to dig a small trench so she would be able to crawl into the tent without being seen or heard.
As she was digging, she heard voices coming from inside the tent, one she recognized as FG and the other sounded like Fluey but sort of different.
"This is all my fault, if I hadn't been so determined to handle things in my own way, we wouldn't be in this mess. I should have known that it was a trap."
"Your Highness you were doing your best to be a good ruler (FG said in a sympathetic tone) and handle the emergency, as The Sultan your father would have. But you should have taken backup to help you."
"Yes, I realize that now!" Ali replied. "But what can we do, we're helpless."
Just the FG heard a slight rustling noise, looking up she spotted the little brown spotted white puppy, crawling into the tent.
FG smiled and lowering her voice said, "Maybe not your Highness …Skittles….good girl….over here."
The little super pup rushed over to her, gave FG her standard "I'm so glad to see you!" slurp and then went over to Multi, to see about her young master.
Both Multi and Fluey were still out cold.
The little puppy was very concerned when her standard "puppy kisses" greeting had no effect on the red haired Impossible.
Skittles whined and nudged him, getting no response she licked his face again and when he still didn't respond she sat down and looked up at FG with a very worried expression.
Suddenly a groan caught her attention, it came from the other figure laying beside her young master, it was Fluey just waking up from the blow to his head.
"OOOH wow, what happened?"
Trying to roll over Fluey remembered his arms were cuffed behind him, Ali moved over to help him sit up.
"Franky are you alright?" FG said in a concerned tone.
"Well I think I'm ok, other than a real killer of a headache." Fluey answered as he tried to move his arms, "I wish I could lose these cuffs though."
"Unfortunately, we're all hand cuffed and Mark is still out of it!" FG answered in a hushed worried tone. "Not that he could do anything with his arms and hands cuffed behind his back like ours are, but he didn't even stir when Skittles licked his face."
Fluey starred at Multi, "He did say that he kinda flew the coop before the doctor said he could….and with this hit and the one he got before…..we HAVE to get him out of here and back into town and to the hospital so the doctors can check him out." he answered quietly.
Listening to the exchange between the Americans Ali was puzzled, as to how the red headed Impossible could have helped the situation they were now in, finally he asked in a whisper, "How could Mark help if his hands were free?"
Fluey coughed and lowering his voice to a whisper said, "Weelll you see, you might say Mark is sort of good with locks."
Ali gave him a curious look and then the light bulb went on and he grinned as what Fluey was saying registered and gave them an "AHA" look.
"I see! FG, do you happen to have a hairpin?" he whispered.
This question caught both of the agents off guard.
FG nodded her head.
Ali reached over taking a bobby pin from her hair and with the expertise of a burglar, he stuck it into the lock of Fluey's hand cuffs, fiddled around for a moment and "Click!" one of the cuffs fell off…
As he released the other cuff, Fluey who began massaging his sore wrists asked, "How did you learn that trick?"
While he was releasing FG from her cuffs Ali responded in a hushed voice, "You see in my adoptive family, I have a sister who keeps a personal journal."
FG and Fluey started chuckling, "I guess all brothers are curious about their sister's privet lives." Fluey whispered.
Ali looked at Multi than back at Fluey who smiled and nodded, even Skittles was snickering, (in her Muttly-like way) as the Prince fiddled with his own cuffs removing them.
After Multi's cuffs were removed Fluey with Ali's help, gently turned the red haired teen over onto his back.
Multi was breathing ok, but he wasn't waking up, Fluey worried about just how badly Multi was hurt and wondered how they were going to escape.
It was then that he noticed his communicator watch was missing….
" Hey….What happened to my watch?"
"That creep of a thief Koora, stole it while you were unconscious." FG answered.
Now Fluey was really worried, they couldn't try sneaking out of the tent, having to carry Multi, because of the thieves guarding the entrance.
And it would be too hard to sneak him out the back, the way Skittles had come in.
This escape was going to take some thought, since they had no way to call for help.
"If only one of us could make it to the ImpossiMobile and send out a message to the police, they could contact the royal guards to help form a rescue party." Fluey whispered.
The last thing the captives wanted was for the guards to hear their voices and enter the tent to see that they were free from the handcuffs and planning an escape.
As the teens were talking about what the best avenue of escape might be considering that Multi would have to be carried, Skittles who was sitting by her red haired master, was forming her own plan.
Being smarter than your average pup, she figured if anyone could slip passed the guards unnoticed she had the best chance and so while Fluey, FG and Ali were busy talking things over, Skittles slipped out the way she had come in.
Revving up and racing around the tent, she soon made it back to the clearing where the Impossi-Mobile was parked unguarded.
Akmed had decided that guards were unnecessary because the teens were the Thieves Guild's prisoners.
Skittles jumped into the front seat and looked at the buttons and levers on the dashboard near the steering wheel.
Now one of her special powers was that Skittles could read, so scanning the dash she soon spotted the emergency signal button.
Balancing on her back legs, Skittles put her front left paw on the dash and used her right to push the button sending out a distress signal.
Meanwhile in town Coiley and Rashid had just reached the palace with the assistance of Ahab, the same Camel handler who had helped Multi.
Ahab and Clyde had been in their usual spot in the market place when the camel handler had spotted the Blonde Impossible, recognizing him from the posters plastered all over in his daughter's room.
Coiley and Rashid had just gotten off of Clyde, when Coiley's guitar started beeping.
Activating the Impossiblescope the teen was surprised to see the furry white face of Multi's puppy Skittles starring back at him.
Coiley knew there was trouble, but he asked the question anyway.
"Skittles….what's up, where are the others?
The puppy started whining and went into her pointing (poing) routine.
Coiley knew that his band mates had to be in bad trouble by the way the little dog was reacting. "Hang tight girl, we're on our way!"
Coiley pushed a small button below the Impossiblescope switch, to activate a homing signal.
On his Impossiblescope screen, a map and blip appeared, acting like a GPS, it would lead the Blonde Impossible to where the Impossi-Mobile was at present.
As Coiley and Rashid were talking to the leader of the Palace Guard, a very familiar sound met the blonde Impossibles ears, it was the powerful sound of a motor.
The sound could only belong to the powerful motor of an SSHQ Special Jet called *"Big Albert"*, a sophisticated Jet Plane built to carry quite a few passengers and with a cargo bay big enough to carry anything even the Impossi-Mobile…..
Author's note; *I needed a big plane to carry a large group of SSHQ agents and the Impossible's car, if the need arose. I named it after a big jet I once flew in to Hawaii, it was part of a now defunked airline call Brannif and they had named it after the Bill Cosby character* I figured Mike, the head mechanic at Secret Security, the agency the Impossibles work for would be able to build large as well as small planes.