Yuri the Gobbler was angry and wanted to take it out on someone. That someone was Frost. He had not seen the Right hand of Alexi in a few hours. The fiasco in the hospital was still irritating him. It was supposed to be so simple. Go to the room kidnap the invalid hold for Bryce Larkin to appear to rescue him. Capture Larkin and present him to Alexi for his reward.
That is not what happened. He got to the room and found out that his personal Doctor wanted a room change. Yuri had no idea where Mr. Frudge had been taken. He had been looking in every hospital room from the 12th floor down. Now he was in the basement. There were no signs of either Dr. Good or Mr. Frudge. Yuri finally ended up in the docks where a red faced Morgue attendant was trying to explain the bureaucratic mix up over another corpse. They had finally found the right person who had been mislabeled. The Mortuary Driver was miffed but finally drove away.
Yuri thought at least this guy was not have a good day either. It seems like this hospital's records were in a shambles. It looked like they were attacked by a very malicious child. Harried clerks ran to and fro to find the paper records to match the online records. It was quite a mess. It was one Yuri did not want to even entertain. Seeing no solution he left to go back to their hidden base next to the pier. Alexi's submarine was already docked and was off loading the device. Yuri shook his head. Frost was supposed to be here overseeing this deployment. He took a deep breath then headed into the conference room. He really did not want to tell Alexi that Frost was missing.
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Alexi Volkoff was ensconced in his office. He was busy with all the evil plans then a call came in from his secretary.
"What is it Volga?" He asked in his crisp Oxford accent.
Alexi prided himself on attending Oxford…Not too bad for a Son of a migrant miner in the Ural's.
"Sir Yuri is on line one." Volga said.
"Yes Volga I will be right with him just keep him on hold." Alexi said.
Alexi activated his video link and Yuri was standing in front of the camera.
"So Yuri report!" Alexi commanded.
"Alexi the device is here but Frost is missing." Yuri said.
"Frost is missing? Are you sure Yuri she does like to wander off sometimes" Alexi said.
"Yes Alexi she does but never in the middle of an important op! She is the key without her this device is worthless." Yuri said pointing at the thing of beauty.
"Strange…I will send a code to her implant. It should tell me where she is." Alexi said as he flipped a few keys on his computer.
Yuri looked on waiting.
"That is strange the implant is saying Frost is on the Moon! That is impossible! There is someone confining my sweet. It has to be Orion!" Alexi said.
"Alexi there is no trace of Orion anywhere…He has to be dead. That video of the helo exploding in Hong Kong" Yuri said.
"… It showed no trace of Orion ever being on it. Yuri, Orion is alive I know it!" Alexi said.
"So Alexi what about this device we can not activate it." Yuri said.
"Yuri you will not need to worry…I'll be coming there to activate it myself. Just get it into position. Alexi said.
"Are you sure Alexi you want this device delivered in the Parking Lot of the Burbank Buy More?" Yuri asked.
"Yes Yuri I am absolutely sure! It is the perfect place to irradiate all of Los Angeles and who would suspect a Con ED truck in a parking lot. It is perfect." Alexi said.
"Ok Alexi I wait your arrival." Yuri said.
"Yuri…Be a good chap and don't try to find Frost. I'll do it then make whoever took my sweet pay dearly for this insult!" Alexi said fingering his favorite gun.
"Yes Alexi I understand" Yuri said.
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Orion was sent a message from his AI. It was a recording of Yuri and Alexi Volkoff. Stephen frowned as he listened to it.
"I need to see General Beckman immediately." He said as he strode to the view screen.
Casey manned the terminal and there was the redheaded General.
"Casey report…Ah Stephen what news do you have?" She asked.
"General I have intercepted this recording. Please listen to it." Stephen said as Sarah and Casey listened too.
"They have a device in LA?" The General asked. "What sort of device?"
"Diane…It is all indications is a Mark 7 Nuclear Device. It was stolen or maybe liberated from a NATO secure facility in France. I believe it is here but inactive. Frost was supposed to activate it but she is missing so Alexi has to personally come here to activate it. We need to be ready to ambush him once he arrives." Stephen said.
"Yes wait is Not Team B going to be in England?" The General asked.
"Yes General. We are scheduled to leave tonight. Do you want to cancel those plans?" Casey asked.
"No continue Agent Casey. I'll have 4 strike teams waiting for Alexi to arrive. If this fails we need Vivian on our side." The General said.
"…As you wish General." Casey said cutting the transmission. "You heard the General get all of Team B assembled we are going to England."
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The Air Force brought the Supersonic Passenger Jet to Edwards. Sarah was itching to get her hands on this plane. Once over the ocean she could really open her up. The flight was only going to be 4 hours from LA across the pole and land outside London tomorrow morning. Everyone was comfortably seated as Sarah took control. Once the permission was granted she took off. This plane was a marvel of Japanese engineering and American know how. She was pleasantly surprised to feel not even the slightest vibration as they broke the sound barrier on the way of cruising at Mach 3.3.
The mood on the plane was somber. Chuck went into a healing trance while everyone else tried to calm their nerves as best as possible. The flight was uneventful. Ellie was left behind to monitor Frost. She would check in occasionally during the flight to monitor Chuck's readings too. The Substation was filling with NSA strike team members. The parking lot was being well observed. During this confusion Orion had slipped away.
He could be found in the basement of his old house. The memories were hard to control. They came to him unbidden especially those of his wife. He recalled her teaching Eleanor the basics of Martial Arts. He looked at the closed door of the Dojo where they would daily spar. He could not stay and walk down memory lane. He was there for a real purpose. Slipping downstairs he entered the huge stacks of unused or discarded ideas. He strode past shelves with such cryptic names of past missions. Finally he got to the Agent X stack. There was only one item on the shelf.
"Agent Decker I presume?" Orion said then the man in the shadow appeared.
"Orion I see my message reached you." Decker said.
"Yes it did so what do you want?" Orion asked.
"Alexi's Volkoff's head on a platter? No I suppose you can not do that." Decker taunted.
"Again I said what do you want Agent?" Orion asked.
"I wonder what your family will say when they learned you created a Monster then unleashed it on the world?" Decker said. "You even convinced your wife to protect it! My My."
"Decker my family knows all about my involvement. So why are you here if you can not help?" Orion said testily.
"Oh don't get upset Orion I did not say I was not here to help." Decker said getting closer to Orion.
"So why are you here?" Orion asked.
"Would you like to know where I got the PSP you designed first?" Decker asked.
"I suppose it was given to you by Graham as some sort of fail safe? Let me guess Graham intentionally did not use the device so many years ago?" Orion said.
"Yes it is so refreshing to work with a mind such as yours. But that is not why we're here. You want the device to find out why it did not work. Now you know it was never used. What was used was one designed to reinforce the persona permanently. Well maybe not permanently…You always have a trick or so up your sleeve, Orion." Decker said as he was within a few feet the optimal range of the PSP version of the Agent X program.
Decker palmed the device.
Orion noticed the palming and the tale tell glimmer of a disguise on his own design being used.
"Ok Alexi I know you are not Decker remove the mask!" Orion said making a point to not move.
The man pulled the sides of his neck and took off the silver bag.
"Bravo Orion… How did you know?" Alexi asked.
"One you like to brag too much Alexi and two you are way too theatrical." Orion said.
"I guess you know me oh so well!" Alexi craftily said.
"That I do" Orion said. "I suppose you want to capture me in exchange for Frost?"
"Oh No dear chap I want you to work for me." Alexi said as he placed the PSP with the Agent X intersect loaded in front of Orion's face. "Watch the screen and forget."
PSP was pushed into Orion's face. Orion disappeared in front of Alexi then reappeared behind him.
"What trickery is this?" Alexi squawked as several Armed Strike Force members all of a sudden appeared in the room with them.
"Alexi Volkoff…You are under arrest!" The lead Commander said.
Orion reappeared again with a Trank gun in his hand and shot Alexi twice then relieved him of the PSP.
"Take him to Castle" Orion said.
"You heard the man Load him up!" The commander ordered.
The strike force loaded him into a van then sped away leaving Orion behind.
Orion smirked as he took off the cloak. He now had the PSP which was in the possession of the world's most dangerous man.