Episode 7 : Signs, Portents, and Revelations Part 1: Codename Rainbow
Sandy was not having a good day. He had been up for seven hours, his feet were killing him, Jonny was being even more irritating than normal and no-one had seen Marcus for four days. And now he was fifteen minutes late for his most important meeting of the week. It wasn’t exactly his fault though. He had had to spend 45 minutes explaining to Brian from Ward 2 that he wasn’t an evil demon, and then just when he had managed to extricate himself from that situation he was waylaid by Bea, the most recent, most devout and most irritating convert to the Church of Christ and St Cameron. When he explained politely that he wasn’t interested in eternal salvation of the soul she had launched into a twenty minute lecture about positivity and negativity. He felt sorry about it now but eventually he had to chin her.
He rushed across the garden, which luckily was empty, and with a quick furtive glance over his shoulder he headed towards hat use to be the Comms Room, ignoring the sign which said Danger - Unsafe Building Keep Out. Rubble debris and broken bottles lay everywhere but Sandy carefully picked his way through it until he reached a strange door. He leant forward to an almost invisible microphone whispered twice “Codename Rainbow, Codename Rainbow”. An almost invisible door slid open behind him, and, with one last glance behind him, Sandy slipped into a hi-tech room.
Thirty seconds later a shadowing figure emerged from amongst the debris and quickly headed back to the garden ……
Inside the secret room Sandy sat down on a large chair and faced an empty screen. A strange metallic computerised voice emerged.
“You are late Agent Codename Geoffrey. Report please. Have you made contact with Marcus yet?”
Sandy looked nervous. “Good morning Rainbow. Er there’s been a bit of a FUBAR on that front I’m afraid. I made contact with him like you asked, and even started to feed him some information about the Pete and Noirin situation. But well, he’s not the subtlest of men and kind of went off half-cocked (I suspect this is a regular thing given his questionable personal habits). In short he’s disappeared. I did some asking around, Bex thought she saw him, but well you don’t get much sense out of her at the best of times, and all she did was sort of point at the entrance to Corridor H whip her top off and run across the garden screaming ‘boring‘. I think Marcus may have headed up there. And well, we know that will not end well. He’s probably dead already, or at the very least he won’t be able to sit down for a week when Craig has finished with him”
There was a whirring sound whilst Rainbow digested this information. “This is ….. unfortunate. But my calculations show that Marcus is as essential for a successful conclusion of this enterprise as Noirin and Pete. We must make every effort to verify his situation”.
Rainbow falls silent again. Sandy patiently awaits his order. Rainbow speaks again “Agent Codename Geoffrey, our calculations show that this world is coming to an end. We can absorb perhaps one more Ward and that will be the end. We therefore must move our plans forward. I want you to contact the other member of the Rainbow seven, Agent Codename Bungle, Agent Codename Zippy, Agent Codename George, and Agents Codename Rod, Jane and Freddie. You must then attempt to rescue Marcus. When that has been achieved to must then complete the successful extraction of both Noirin and Pete. Be very careful though because my sources tell me that The Director has disappeared and the Dark Mistress may be ready to strike. There maybe ….. opposition. Do you have any questions/”
“How will I recognise the other agents? I don’t know who they are.”
“The power of the Dark Mistress grows daily. It is to risky to divulge that information here. You will have to find away to make yourselves known to each other.”
“One more question Rainbow. How do you know so much about Noirin, Pete and what is happening on Ward 7?”
The whirring sound again. “Rainbow will get back to you on this. You have your orders Agent Codename Geoffrey. You may now leave the secret room….”
Next Episode : Signs, Portents and Revelations Part 2: Come Four Horsemen
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