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For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Poor Angel wasn’t quite sure what to think at this point. The woman she just found in the closet said she was Amelia, Coral’s friend, but the woman who had just jumped out the window to her death also claimed to be Amelia. So, which of them is telling the truth? This Amelia was tied up, so Angle picked her up and untied her hands, but not her feet. She then set her on the chair and told her not to move. “My name is Angel,” she said, “I am with the Investigators.”
“I know, Coral told me about you,” answered Amelia, “she said you are one of the triplets and a very special person.” “That was nice of her to say that,” said Angel, “for now I’m leaving your feet tied, please don’t try to loose them. I need to wait until Coral or Abigail wake up and confirm your identity. I’m not trying to be mean, just careful, please understand.” “I do understand,” said Amelia, “I won’t move.” Then she was silent for a few moments. “You should warn your friends,” she said finally, “those people are going to come and hide in this old lodge and attack your friends when they come to get us. They might all be killed!”
“It’s okay,” said Angel, “we thought about that, well, our leader did, and we set a trap for them by hiding here and attacking them as they came here to hide. They will not be doing us any harm now.” “But, but, tell your friends not to go outside,” Amelia pleaded, “they buried explosives all around the lodge and can detonate them from inside their underground base!” Angel communicated that with me right away, but the Bad Girls had already come out to help with the prisoners.
“Go back inside, now!” I called out to them. They didn’t do anything. Then Sky yelled, “Go back inside now, there’s another trap!” Wow, that was a lot louder than my yelling. Sky is like Misty, they can yell loud. Very loud. The Bad Girls turned and ran back to the lodge, but the explosions began and there were a lot of them! Most of the girls made it to safety, but not all. I communicated with Kat to come right away, we had several wounded and maybe some deaths.
Jennifer had sensed extra danger before, so she sent Kat and her Wildcats out to help us. They were already passing through the village when I communicated with Kat, so it will only take a few minutes for them to arrive. Sky and I ran over to the wounded girls to try and help them until Kat gets out here. At least, I was hoping they would only be minor wounds and not seriously wounded, or dead. Sky told the rest of the girls to stay away. While we were occupied with this, the men and women who had surrendered to us decided to pick up guns and attack once more.
But our snipers were watching carefully and saw what they were planning and they began shooting those six people and all were killed before they could fire a shot toward our girls. “Oh, I just remembered something else I heard Jameson say,” Amelia told Angel, “they had put explosives in this lodge and along the road too so they could destroy the Investigators totally.” Kat and her Wildcats were just driving up to the old lodge at that moment. I told them not to park too close to the lodge and quickly help us with the wounded.
We then helped the girls down from the bedroom, they had awakened by this time and told Angel that the other woman was indeed the real Amelia. They also told us something else, the large woman who had jumped out the window was really Ted Jameson! Now, who would think that a woman would be named Ted? Her name was actually Theodora and she figured that since some men named Theodore will use the name Ted, then she could use that name as well.
She hated the name Theodora anyway, but actually liked the name Ted and she thought it would be a good way to hide her identity. I wonder why Cristy never thought of that? She always thinks of weird things. Apparently when Cristy heard about this, she went flippedy, but more on that later. As we were getting the wounded in one of the empty vans, 2 shots were fired and two more girls fell. This time from the Wildcats. We all stopped and looked around, but none of us knew where the shots had come from. All but the snipers.
While the rest of us were looking on the ground around the trees, our snipers were looking up in those trees and finally spotted them. Charlotte and Emily shot and 2 men fell from trees, but they continued looking. Then Aoife shot another one, then another. Then all was quiet. We then finished loading our wounded into the vans and we were soon on our way out and back to the village. Sienna had contacted the Governor and he sent the federal authorities out to the village.
There were certainly a lot of them, complete with armored vehicles, SWAT teams, plus a large number of heavily armed men and women from various agencies. The girls had told us there is a long tunnel from the village store to the complex under the old house, with storage rooms along the way. Apparently it was a nuclear bomb shelter that was quite large, able to keep up to 500 people alive for a period of one year, or longer.
The idea was begun by Ted’s father. However, our main objective right now is getting out of here without any more problems. There were no explosions along the way, so that was good. Perhaps that means these people are either dead or arrested by now. We didn’t make any stops since we had to get our girls to the hospital quickly…
To Be Continued. ©2025 Steve McLeod.
Why is it that all of our cases lately start of with something that seems to be normal and small, but it turns out to be something that is major? It would be nice to have something more normal for a change. Oh well. Anyway, Sky and myself returned to Old Lake Lodge and found the missing women in the upstairs bedrooms, just like that woman Alice had told Aari. But I sensed trouble, and a trap. This would bring the Black Wolves out here, but these people could also set a trap, hiding in the lodge and surrounding trees. Then they could easily shoot the Black Wolves as they ride in on their motorcycles.
Most of them would be killed before they could stop and shoot back at these ambushers. Or am I thinking too much again? Whatever the case, I thought about that possibility already, so I set our own trap to catch the trappers. The hunters would then become the hunted. So, although we made it look like we all left, taking all of our vans with us, we left some girls behind. All of Sky’s Bad Girls were left here, plus Angel and Kitty, to watch over things. They hid when they saw six men carrying the three women over on stretchers and let them leave the women in the bedrooms and leave again.
They could have captured the 6 men, but that would have alerted this outfit of our plan. We want all of them, not just six. When I brought Jennifer back before, I also brought Charlotte back too. She is our other new sniper, along with Emily who was already here. Aoife is our third sniper and she has been with us a long time now. All three of them are here at the old lodge, ready to do their job. Hopefully we can do this without getting any more of us killed or seriously wounded. We put all three women in one bedroom and I left Angel there to protect them.
No one can get past Angel or Courage. It should be noted that prior to all of this, our computer girls, Akila, Cristy, Cynthia and Melody, had found the computers of this group and had hacked into them, retrieving all of the information from this secret group and their plans to sow chaos across the country. They do have a secret complex beneath the old house and they have been training an elite group of assassins from that village, while others in the village are just guards for this group.
Sienna had called the Governor and told him about this information which Cristy then sent to him. He had already contacted various federal agencies which had arrived in the city and were ready to come out when the time was right. We just wanted to make sure that none of these people escaped. We also wanted to catch the elusive Jameson who was funding this operation. But, we couldn’t find anyone, anywhere, by that name that was a millionaire. That part made no sense at all. It is like he didn’t exist and yet he must.
That means the name Jameson is not his real name, it was just a cover name. Anyway, we are here and ready for the hunters to show up, so we can trap them. Back at the store, I had communicated with Carine now and she told Aari what was happening. “The girls are in the old lodge,” she told Aari, “and they are alive. But, it’s a trap for us. There are men coming from the old house to the lodge right now and they will likely ambush us as we ride up to the lodge.”
The look on Alice and Pete’s faces would have been nice to see. Aari and Carine said it was a look of total shock. “How do you know that?!” exclaimed Alice, “It’s not true at all!” “I’m a ghost Alice,” said Carine and she disappeared, reappearing next to Alice. She then grabbed her by the throat, slamming her against the wall. “I saw what was happening out there!” shouted Carine, “You can’t fool a ghost, you mortal idiot!” Pete quickly pulled out his gun from under the counter and shot three times at Carine. She let him actually shoot this time, but she caught the 3 bullets and tossed them back at Pete.
He then turned to Aari, who already had his gun out and he shot Pete, killing him. Aari then told Rock to get the men started in tearing the village apart. The Black Wolves went to work quickly! Back to us at the old lodge. “Okay snipers, get busy,” I said. They quickly began shooting at the men who were running toward the old lodge. That was the cue for the Bad Girls to also begin shooting. Sky and I went behind these men and took care of any that tried to turn and run back to the old house. We captured four men and 2 women who had surrendered to us, 10 others were killed and six wounded.
While this was happening Angel was invisible, watching the three women who were sleeping, at least that’s what we thought. However, Angel was surprised when Amelia suddenly opened her eyes and reached under an outdoor vest she was wearing and pulled out a rather large knife. We had sat her nicely in a big armchair in that bedroom and our two girls were put on the bed. Amelia is a rather large woman, 6 feet tall and 220 pounds. She then got up and went over to our girls.
“You two have caused enough problems for us,” she said, “now you and your friends will die.” She then was about to use the knife, but she suddenly found herself unable to move. “That’s very bad Amelia,” said Angel, “trying to kill your friends. You may turn around now.” Amelia turned and saw Angel, who is small, like Sky. “I will kill you first!” she shouted and ran at Angel, running right through her and into the wall. “What happened?” she asked. “You can’t kill me,” said Angel laughing, “I’m already dead. You see, I’m a ghost.”
“Impossible!” shouted Amelia, “Ghosts are not real!” She then tried to catch Angel, but Angel moved too fast for her, laughing the whole time. Then Angel turned into Courage which terrified Amelia and she jumped out the window, falling to her death. Then Angel heard something in the closet, so she opened the door. Inside was another woman. “And who are you?” asked Angel. The frightened woman could barely speak. “My name is Amelia,” she said timidly…
To Be Continued. ©2025 Steve McLeod.
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