The following night
Sunday
Safehouse D
We were geared up and on our Multistrada motorcycles.
It was just before midnight. Kick-Ass was driving Beast and would be acting as escort, with Hawk beside him. Battle Guy was covering our movements from his new Command Centre at Safehouse F. We left the warehouse and travelled in convoy, with Hit Girl out in front on her Multistrada and Beast behind Jackal and myself. We had to follow Hit Girl, as we had absolutely no idea where the vehicle entrance to Safehouse F was!
We had only travelled a mile or so, when I realised that we were travelling in a circle! I wasn't concerned, as Hit Girl had warned us that she would weave us about a bit to remove any tails or surveillance. Finally, we made a left turn off the road and drove through a wire mesh gate and onto some wasteland, just off of South Albany Avenue, before driving into a dilapidated looking warehouse, via a steel shutter that closed automatically behind Beast and we weaved around piles of 'stuff'; I had absolutely no idea what was in the piles. What concerned me more was that we headed towards the far wall and kept going!
A ramp suddenly appeared in front of Hit Girl and we headed downwards before curving around to the right and we started going down and still turned to the right. The ramp closed automatically, behind Beast. It was very dark, but our headlights illuminated enough of the ramp that I could see that we were descending in a tight circle. The walls were concrete and I could make out light fittings, but they were all off.
After what seemed like ages, the ramp levelled off and bright lights came on that illuminated a large steel door. Hit Girl stopped and waved at the door. I heard what I assumed to be latches being released and the door descended, quite quickly and smoothly, into the ground and we rode into the Safehouse and pulled up beside the Fat Boy and the Ducati Panigale. Beast stopped on the other side of the Fat Boy and we all cut our engines and removed our helmets and masks. Behind us the enormous door was rising up, again quite quickly and quietly, before I heard the latches re-engaging. Amber lights that had illuminated, on either side of the door, went out.
Safehouse F
"Welcome to Fort Fusion!" Marty announced, walking over followed by an excited Sophia.
"Fort Fusion?" Josh asked.
"Thought it would be a good name," Mindy said.
"Not bad, Hit Girl!" I agreed.
"This place is definitely awesome!" Josh added.
Mindy placed her hand on a biometric scanner, near Beast and a part of the glass shield opened and we walked to the armoury and removed our combat suits, stowing them away along with our weapons. Just as we were heading upstairs for a coffee, before heading home, an alarm sounded.
..._...
"Come and watch this," Mindy said, with a mischievous grin and led Josh and I into the Command Centre.
Marty brought up a CCTV image of the area in front of the elevator, in the building on the surface. A man was standing there and we recognised the man as Marcus. We could also hear him, too!
"If that girl is gonna jerk me about at this time of night, I'll damn well…"
Marty pressed a button and the elevator door slid open and Marcus looked at the elevator suspiciously.
"I know I'm gonna regret this!" Marcus said and stepped into the elevator.
Twenty seconds later the elevator stopped and the doors opened. Marcus had not had do anything.
"We can control the elevator from here and lock it down if necessary. When the elevator leaves the surface a steel cover drops over the doors preventing access to the lift shaft," Marty explained.
We watched as Marcus left the elevator and moved down the short corridor and into the 'Kill Zone' and Marty then opened the inner door, once the outer door had closed. We went out to meet Marcus.
"Well I'll be damned! That girl has really gone over the top now!" Marcus said, gazing around the cavern.
..._...
"Well?" Mindy asked, looking a little over excited.
"It's just – err, so you Mindy…" Marcus said, seemingly speechless and Mindy jumped forward and gave him a hug.
"I'm glad that you approve!" Mindy said, smiling enormously.
"I really thought that I was gonna be mugged up there!" Marcus said dryly.
We all headed upstairs for a coffee.
..._...
"This place really is awesome!" Marcus said for about the fourth time.
"It is that!" Dave admitted, with a sideways smirk at Mindy.
"Well, I'm glad to see that you guys are gonna be safe and I really mean that!" Marcus said. "I was really worried when I saw Mindy's melted Safehouse!"
Two days later
Tuesday night
Somewhere in Chicago
"You know who I am?"
"Oh, yeah!" The man looked and sounded scared.
"Do you fear me?"
"Fuck, yeah!"
"Good! Now, you are going to work for me!"
"Anything!"
"You will obtain information for me... I may give you tasks... You will obey, without question..."
"No problem!" The man responded, but his face said it was anything but!
"You give me bad information, you die! You fail me, you die! You inform on me, you die... You get my drift?"
"Yes ma'am!"
"That applies to any member of my team, even the fucking dog!"
"Not a problem!"
"I am not totally heartless!" The man's expression screamed that he thought otherwise. "You will be under my protection! Anybody fucks with you; they fuck with me!"
"Thank you, thank you!"
But the man was talking to the darkness.
The following morning
Wednesday
Safehouse F
Mindy was pounding the bag on the lower level of the Safehouse.
She seemed to have a lot of rage to get out of her system. It was surprising how much rage Mindy managed to pack into quite a compact package! I came up behind her and wrapped my hands around her waist. Mindy stopped punching the bag and lent into me. Her head bent backwards and she grinned up at me.
"Hi, lover!"
"Hi, babe!" I replied and bent down to give her a kiss and span her around.
Mindy was so incredibly sexy when she was dripping with sweat; it turned me on like almost nothing else! We had the Safehouse to ourselves today; nobody else was here.
"I need you Dave!" Mindy said, between kisses. "Let's christen this Safehouse properly!"
Okay, I should have been at school, but I needed some time alone.
I placed my hand on the biometric sensor and the final door slid open. I entered Mindy's latest toy - Safehouse F. It was kinda weird being here on my own, but I knew that I would be able to put my angry energies to better use. I headed straight downstairs to the exercise room, not really looking at anything.
I entered the glass-enclosed room and immediately saw a white t-shirt on the floor, plus some punching gloves. This could not be good! I wandered back towards the stairs and pulled something off of the handrail and looked at it – then dropped it quickly – it was a sports bra, a damp sports bra! I continued upstairs to the main level and found a sports shoe and then a few feet further on another shoe.
I was getting a really bad feeling about this!
I headed towards the stairs that led up to the next level and listened. My eyes went wide at what I was hearing! Oh – my – God! I really wished that what I had just heard could be unheard, as I could now see images that my mind had formed to match the sounds! Mindy was a screamer and she had a damned good set of lungs! I ran...
Maybe school would be better after all!
Lake View High School
"What's up Josh?"
"Nothing, Chloe, I – err..." Josh replied, looking very uncomfortable.
"I couldn't find you earlier, where were you?"
"I, err – I was late."
Josh was actually blushing and getting redder.
"What has happened? Did you see something?" I persisted.
"No thank God; I saw nothing!"
Josh moved off, in a bit of a confused state. He could be so strange sometimes!
Author's Note: Hey 250,000 words!