The Investigators, Inc. The Case of the Twin’s Friend. Chapter 8. Darkness.

After the man named Major and his 5 companions had listened to the recording that Sky and Angel gave him, they didn’t want to let the girls go. Instead, they wanted to keep them around for a while to have some “fun”. Sky and Angel didn’t like their idea of fun, however, so they got up to leave. Two men stood in front of the door, smiling, while the other 3 grabbed the girls and tried to kiss them. Major just sat there, smiling, expecting to have some great fun.

But, Angel picked up one of the men with just one of her hands and threw him against a wall. Sky touched another man on his chest, he screamed and flew backward against another wall, then slid to the floor, dead. Angel then kicked another man a couple of times, picked him up and tossed him at Major, hitting him rather hard. Sky finished off the remaining two men and the girls left, returning to the hotel. I had returned with Dawn and Alizea by the time Sky and Angel got back to the hotel.

On our attack of John Meyer, we had suffered only 3 wounded. There was one of our girls and two from Mandar’s teams, a man and a woman. All three were minor wounds, but they would have to stay in the clinic a couple of days anyway. By the time we returned, Cristy had discovered what time, and on what flight, Ramon would be returning, but it would not be for another 2 days. Therefore it is necessary for us to get Visty out of prison before he gets back.

He will likely put more security around her after he returns, or he will just have her killed, one or the other. I doubt that Major would kill her without permission from Ramon, but he might call Ramon to tell him what is going on and that would be bad for us. So, that means tonight is the big night. I let Alizea do the planning, aided by Tracy, who knows the solitary confinement area, and Jazzy who also seems to know a lot about this prison.

However, I didn’t want to pry and ask why she knew so much about the prison. After all, she is helping us even though she doesn’t need to help. I figure if she wants to say something, then she will, in her own time. Sky took Kat back home earlier while we were still away, hoping that she might be able to help Mandi. Poor Erika had been crying so much she could no longer talk, and Jennifer was almost at that point.

I wanted to stay behind to help them both, but they said no, that I needed to be here for Misty and Cristy instead. I just sighed. Some changes need to be made to the Investigators after this case or I’m going to collapse. Jazzy could see it too and she told me that after this is done, she would like to return home with us and have a little talk with me.

I told her I would welcome that, but we never said anything to anyone else. We all needed some rest before the rescue tonight, so we were in bed by 5pm. Dawn whispered to me, asking if we could have a short bubble time. Being in one of our bubbles means that no one else can hear us, not even other ghosts, with a couple of exceptions. So, I put us in a bubble and she told me that she could tell I was having trouble right now.

“You have too much weight on you,” she said, “and we never get a break. And vacations are impossible, but important. We can, however, say no to any cases for a specific time and vacation at home since we have everything we need that is available at any other vacation destination, except a restaurant and I have already talked to Sienna about making our own restaurant, rather than just a huge kitchen to eat in.”

She said she had other ideas too, but she would save them for another time. Midnight came much too quickly, but we needed to get going. We had to be in place before our helicopters arrived. They would be part of the diversion and would pretend to rescue Mauricio’s men from the men’s portion of the prison.

While that was going on, the rest of us would enter the women’s prison and look for Visty in the solitary section, and hope that she was still there. The Black Wolves would be in charge of the fake prison break. We would use two helicopters, concealed from sight by one of Kat’s latest inventions, until the last minute when they would suddenly be attacking the prison.

Most of the guards on the men’s side work for Ramon, which is why his men always seem to escape, while other gang members never do, or are shot while they try to escape. The women’s side is run by a woman that everyone calls “mother” and most of the guards on her side are men, or rough and tough women like herself. Plus, the worst of the women prisoners are allowed to treat the other women prisoners in horrible ways.

In other words, we don’t need to be too careful about not hurting the guards while rescuing Visty. If anyone gets in our way, we will get them out of our way. It’s a very simple strategy. However, they will likely be doing the same thing, so we need to be careful. Timing is key tonight. Once the prison break attempt begins, we break in our section, and hopefully come out again.

We have done this before, although it is much more dangerous this time, there is no outside help for us, we are totally on our own. Sky, Angel and myself have moved into position, invisibly, so that we can open the locked gates for our vehicles and get inside the prison, without being detected. We will cut the electricity, including the emergency generators, then unlock the doors and in we go!

Our vehicles were down the road a bit and around a curve, so they could not be seen from the prison. Carine and Kitty are with the Black Wolves and Angel has just returned from disconnecting the emergency generators. Now Carine gives us the early warning and I open the road gates while Sky cuts off the electricity to the prison, and everything goes completely dark…

To Be Continued. ©2025 Steve McLeod.