Chapter 17: Bang, Bang

Monique and Bonnie lay on top of a small hill looking down at a beaten down farm house. Bonnie shivered as she tried to push the snow out from under her. "Don't move around so much." Monique warned.

Bonnie continued to dig through the snow until she uncovered the frozen earth underneath. "I'm sorry Mon, but as much as I love lying around in the Canadian winter, I'm freezing. We've been lying in the snow for two hours. What are we waiting for?"

Monique inched closer to the woman and handed her a pair of binoculars. "You see the guard posted at the door?" Bonnie looked down at the drowsy looking man at the door. "He's not the only one we have to get past. There is a man posted by the barn over there, the silo and one near the mill. And I'm about ninety percent sure there is a sniper in the tree line over there."

Bonnie swallowed the lump in her throat. She had never done anything like this before, and now here she was thousands of miles from everything she knew. Freezing in the snow on an abandon farm; preparing to put her life on the line for a rescue mission. If this was what being a spy was, she preferred to be a servant. "So how do we get in and out without getting killed?" She asked hoping Monique had a plan. After all she was more experienced in this, right?

Monique sighed. "Yeah I think I have a plan. You're not going to like it but it's all we've got." Bonnie passed back the binoculars. She didn't want to think about this now. "We're going to need a distraction. Something like…" She trailed off for a moment as she turned her attention to the road. "Change of plans. Come on."

Monique and Bonnie crawled back down the hill until the farm house was no longer in sight. Monique led the way around the farm toward the road. She reached into her pocket and threw a handful of nails onto the road before pulling Bonnie into the tree line.
"What did you do that for?" Bonnie asked. Monique pressed a finger to her lips for silence and pointed to the road.

Three cars came down the road, the first and second car passed over the trap. Monique visibly tensed as the third car drove by. A loud bang echoed into the air, as the car swerved on the icy road, stopping at the edge. The other two cars cam to halt, and the drivers came out to assess the damage.

Monique smiled at Bonnie in triumph. They watched as the three men talked amongst themselves before a door on the second car opened. Monique's smile quickly faded when she saw who had stepped out. Bonnie instinctively grabbed Monique's hand and watched as Betty Director marched toward the men. She stared down at the blown tire and then back over toward the farm. She gave a few quick orders before returning to the car with two drivers in tow. As the two car drove off leaving the third driver to change the tire in the winter cold, Monique turned to Bonnie.

"Here's the plan." Monique said as she searched the ground and picking up a heavy rock. "Now that he's distracted I'm going to knock him out. That car is probably full of armed men so I need you to stay back until we're in the clear." Bonnie gave her a worried look. How was she going to take on a car full of armed men with nothing more than a rock?

Monique saw this and smiled. "I've faced worse with nothing more than a sharpened stick I'll be fine." Bonnie still looked worried. "Look if you don't want to do this then you can wait here. I'll come back with Ron and we can get back home."

Bonnie shook her head. "No, I came all this way for Ron and I'm not about to back out now."

Monique nodded and turned her attention back to the man at the edge of the road. Once his attention was on the tire she slipped out of the tree line. She moved quickly and without sound, in a matter of moments she was behind the man. And he was on the ground before he even noticed her shadow over him. She tossed the rock a side and fished for his gun before ducking down behind the car. The car doors opened four men poured out of the car. One man bent down to check on the driver, the others began to circle the car.

As they circled the car and saw no sign Monique they began to fan out. Suddenly the air was filled with a series of gun shots and the men fell, one by one collapsing on the road before their feet touched the snow at the side of the road. Monique crawled out from under the car and dusted herself off. She looked around at the men lying in the road with a sympathetic stare, and then she waved Bonnie over.

"You're going to need this." She said pushing the gun into Bonnie's hands. She began collecting the guns of the fallen men. "You have fired a gun before right?"

"Yes." Bonnie said bluntly. She wasn't completely useless out here.

"Good. Then help me finish changing the tire." Monique said staring down at the unfinished task. "I should have waited until he finished, I hate doing this." As she kneed down she heard a click.

"Stand up, slowly." A heavily accented voice came from behind them. Monique stood carefully and glanced toward Bonnie who stood stiff with her back to the man.

"Don't panic." She whispered to Bonnie, who only nodded in reply.

"No talking." The man spat. Monique felt a twinge of anger in the back of her mind. "Guns." He demanded. Bonnie glanced at Monique who shook her head. Bonnie gave her a worried look, but Monique still shook her head. "Guns. Now." The man growled. Monique felt the cold metal of a gun against her neck.

She felt her anger rise. "Just calm down. There's no need to make any more trouble here."

"Then you shouldn't make so much noise." A new voice announced. "Reiko, put the gun down. They're friends." Monique turned to see a brown haired woman standing beside a gruff looking man. Bonnie stared at the woman, she looked familiar but…

"Kim?" She asked a loud. The woman turned to Bonnie and smiled. Bonnie lurched forward and embraced the woman. "What are you doing out here?" She asked happily.

"I could ask you two the same thing." Kim said as they parted. She turned her attention to Monique. "I assume you have something to do with that."

Monique shrugged innocently. "You two had her in over her head. I was simply getting her out before Betty got her."

Kim scoffed at this. "Well, this situation isn't any better." She gestured around them. "But I guess we can't be too picky right now. What's the sitch?" Bonnie and Monique smirked at the question.

"They're holding Ron in the farm house just up the road. It's not heavily guarded but I'm sure there's a sniper in the tree line." Monique explained.

"And there's something else." Bonnie added. "The resistance leader is in there."

Kim's face darkened. "Then we need to act fast. Reiko." She turned her attention to the man who had remained quiet this whole time. "Do you know any ways into the house?" The man gave them a broad smile.

"I know one." He said crossing his arms proudly over his broad chest.