A Brilliant Move Marred by a Really Bad Mistake
The Black Void - Episode 124
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You quickly take out your cigarette, light it, and drop it on the ground.
It generates an electromagnetic pulse, and just like that the lights are
off. You put on your taped-up glasses that double as infrared
goggles. You quickly spot what you think is Miss Sweetheart and the three goons around her. You grab onto one of them almost at random and say, "Let's get out of here." Oops. That was one of the goons. A quick punch to the head and it's lights out (pun intended) for you. When you come to, your head hurts as you try to recall what you know. Your name is Julius Book. You're a double-oh agent working for MI6. You encountered Spycatcher in the Canadian Rockies, and managed to retrieve the data files for a secret project known as "Niger Cavus"-- roughly translated as the Black Void. You have a license to kill. Unfortunately, it was suspended after the incident at the Cuban nightclub. It took every ounce of persuasion you had to get back on this case after that debacle. You were sucked into this Black Void at a shopping mall. You had been scouting the place for weeks on a tip that one of the stores was a front for the operation. You never found it. You are strapped into a straightjacket. The fact that you are several feet above the ground indicates that you are being suspended from something above you. The room is mostly empty except for the various torture devices. There are two muscular guards stationed with guns near the entrance. A third guard is lying down on the bare floor, listening to something from a cassette player. On a table lies the objects they managed to take from you while you were unconscious--your gun, your car keys (complete with fob that can be used as a short-range stunner), your wallet, your cellular phone (whose cover would lift off to reveal four small electronic bugs), your infrared goggles/taped up glasses, and your monogrammed pocket protector, the only reminder of your ex-girlfriend, a fellow agent whom you accidentally left alone during the Cuban nightclub mission, allowing Red Danger to capture her, torture her (probably in this very room) for information, and ultimately kill her. There is an attractive brunette chained to the inner wall of the glass tank in front of you. Her name is Miss Sweetheart. You've never met her before; all communication with her had been by phone. Miss Sweetheart is wearing a black bikini. The water in the tank is up to Miss Sweetheart's knees. You can hear her screaming and see her struggling as the guards at the door laugh. Miss Sweetheart seems more and more attractive the more she struggles. You make a note to shack up with her once the two of you get out of here. Right-you have to get out of here first. That's when the negativity sets in. Julius Book has finally met his match. There's no hope. There's no escape. All you can do is dangle from the ceiling and watch as another beautiful woman dies as a result of your bad decisions. The thought immediately springs your mind to the secret. It lies in...
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