Chapter 3: A Sneaking Mission

After arriving back from the heart surgeon's office, James Bond arrived back at his hotel room and went to sleep.

The next morning, he woke up and got started. He remembered finding out in the previous chapter where the bad guy's lair was, so he decided to spend this chapter figuring out a plan to get into it. As I said in the first chapter, he's really good at coming up with spy plans, and this is definitely a spy plan.

The first thing he did was he drew a map of where Giuseppe was. I don't know how to embed pictures on this story, but it was basically a big square compound with walls around all the sides, and front gates around the front entrance from the dirt road behind the hill next to where it comes off from the main road just outside of town. In the center of the compound was the mansion, and on top of the mansion was a helipad. Behind it there was a garden where Giuseppe grew his vegetables.

Giuseppe Jones, who is the villain in this book, was really proud of his vegetable garden. He'd been growing it for maybe eleven years and nobody knew about it except for his own personal staff who were allowed inside the compound. He grew lots of different things there, like carrots and radishes and apples, which he used to make carrot, radish, and apple salad, his favorite dish. Sometimes he ate it with croutons, and sometimes without, but he always used a different kind of dressing.

As Giuseppe was harvesting veggies for his breakfast salad, James was busy drawing a rectangle on his map to represent the garden. It wasn't quite to scale, but it was close enough for this mission.

James had to decide whether to go in through the front gate or the helipad, either of which was the only way in, but he couldn't normally get in. He figured if he tried to drop in from a helicopter he would be spotted from the noise, so that way was a no-go. The last thing he wanted was to be killed in the air while parachuting down, or worse, being shot down while he was still in it and then it would explode and he would catch fire from the helicopter's gas tank before he died.

Since that idea was pretty much flushed down the drain by even the most basic of logic, and also since he didn't have a helicopter or pilot right now, he had no choice but to choose the other option: going in through the front gates. Unfortunately they were guarded by a lot of guards who were on orders to shoot him on sight, so that wasn't a choice either. The whole compound had a cement ground (it looked pretty but all the grass was astroturf) so he couldn't tunnel underneath. Eventually he decided the best course of action was to go around the back left corner, under the line of sight of the guard on the corner guard tower, and climb the fence.

This would be a sneaking mission, so he had to prepare accordingly.

Meanwhile, Claire went downstairs to the first floor of the hotel for a continental breakfast that was included with her room fee.

James grabbed all his gear from out of his luggage. This included some stuff that he would maybe use like a flashlight, a walkie talkie that connected straight to England to talk to his boss for important mission details, a fake passport in case he got caught so the bad guys wouldn't know who he was, and his trusty tranquilizer gun, and a knife for closer-quarters combat, and a few changes of clothes so that he could blend in with different surroundings like grass or concrete depending on what part of the compound he was in.

He got there and started his next phase of his mission.

His first step of sneaking in was to distract the foot guards so they wouldn't be where he was going to get in. So first he went to the back of the compound and knocked on the wall, and one of the guards was all "What was that noise?" and he called for backup. Once all of the guards arrived (except for the front gate ones and the watchtower ones who have to stay in their posts) he went to the right side and did the same thing. The guards all moved as a group to examine the sound while he hid behind the tree. By the way there's a forest around the compound so there's a lot of trees.

Finally he went back around the back to the back left corner of the compound, sneaking through the trees and wearing his green and brown camo so he wouldn't be seen. One guard saw him so James Bond had to shoot him with his tranquilizer gun and then drag him behind a tree where his comrades wouldn't notice him blacked out with a tranq dart in his neck. Then when James got there he climbed up the corner of the compound right under the guard tower. But uh-oh! There was barbed wire at the top of the wall! He didn't know it would be there because he forgot to draw it on his map before the mission. It was a rookie mistake and he berated himself mentally.

Fortunately James Bond also brought a wire cutter that I forgot to say in the list of stuff he brought so just as Claire was finishing her bagel he cut the barbed wire and made a gap in it on the wall and that's where he climbed up and over. It was lucky for him that there were no guards on the inside part of that wall but it wasn't really luck because they were still outside looking for the noise. He looked across the whole part of the compound and saw the garden and there was a basketball court next to it and also there was a shed next to it that would come in handy if he needed to hide.

He looked inside the shed to see if there was anything good there and found a sniper rifle. "That might be useful later in the mission," James wondered.

Next to the garden and the shed and the basketball court was a patio with a barbecue grill pit. It had a long history behind it, but James didn't know about that. The patio was connected to a sliding glass door that went inside. James looked above the sliding glass door and saw something that shocked him. "A security camera!?" he said out loud, but not too loud that anyone heard him. He was clearly not going to get in this way. But next to the door was a vent that led inside.

James Bond went all the way to the corner of the wall and then sidestepped, making sure to stay under the security camera and out of sight. There was nobody on the other side of the sliding glass door so he could go in that way, but it was locked so he had to take the vent instead. It was one of those big ventilation shafts like in the movies where a person can actually crawl through and fit, but just barely. He went in and found some rats and then there was a T-shaped intersection in the ventilation system. The rats went one way and he went the other but it was a dead end but at least there was some ammo there so he got it and turned around and went the same way as the rats did and that led to an exit out of the ventilation shaft.

It was a ceiling exit because he was in the basement floor so he took a ladder down out of the vent exit and then got a call on his walkie talkie from his boss. He answered it and his boss from London told him to be careful. "You got it, sir," said James Bond before he hung up. Then he went around in the basement until he found a door and the door led to the main floor of the house. He went up the stairs to the basement exit door and when he got there he went through it.

"Not so fast, Mr. Bond," said a voice on the other side of the door right after he opened it. He recognized that voice. The only person it could possibly be was Giuseppe Jones.

Meanwhile, it was now 9 in the morning and Claire had finished her coffee and gotten in her car and headed toward her destination, to find something out...