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Hondo stopped by the computer room and told CCC he was goin' out to watch at the hospital for a while.


"Noted." says the AI as Hondo hurries out.

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Half an hour later, it notes that the hospital's computer systems have registered the girl's beds as empty. They were not scheduled for release, and therefore the AI assumed that they had been kidnapped.

Returning to the chipmunk form it had used in the hospital, it re-projected itself into the bathroom of the hospital and walked from there to the girls' old room; there were still guards in front of it, but the room itself was empty. The guards were close-mouthed about what had happened (presumably on the theory that if this chipmunk was supposed to know, then someone else was suppoed to tell him), but insisted that it was not a kidnapping. The AI then sought out Dr. Bianchi (because it was under his login that the beds had been set to "empty" in the hospital database) and found out from him that:

- he was unhappy with Fernando
- he was unhappy that an empty room was under guard when people needed those beds
- and the girls had left in Fernando's company for the Roman safe house in a rush.

The AI therefore re-projected itself back to the Roman safe house and waited for Fernando to arrive. (It also re-projected itself in the shapes of Tammy and Bink into the hospital rooms - if Fernando wants the room to look occupied, the AI can make sure that it looks occupied even to a more thorough inspection.)

The Tammy and Bink projections slept (because that did not involve much movement) while the bat in the Roman safe house simply sat without moving.

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Hondo was glad Rosie joined him as it got lonely on the road at times and they seemed to be travalin' further from the Roman safe house all the time. Rosie had changed out of her sea clothes before leavin' the ship and had changed into a black hat, leather coat and boots combo that closely resembled Hondo,s brown hat, leather coat and black boots. She had also brought along her shotgun and matchin' pistols, which were loaded for bear. They chatted 'bout this, that and the other, but the main topic was the present situation. gadget had Radioed the Enterprise earlier 'bout the problem with Chip and Dale, and had Given them Midnights local, only to be shared with Fernando and Hondo. Rosie relayed this all to Hondo. they talked 'bout that and what to do. Hondo began recognizin' the scenery after a while.
"I've been here before." Hondo said.
"really? when?" Rosie asked.
"Last time I believe, but . . . wait! i think i know where he is takin' them." Hondo said.
"Where?" Rosie asked.

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Alex II was going over the maps of Solviana as he got a call

Alex II: Yea this is Alex II talk to me

Officer of the NSA: Hay This is Agent Smith of NSA We Trace that Letter to Chip and Dale and it came from Solviana also that we learn that the Solviana government is Tie in with the LSD means that we may got a shady government on our hands

Alex II: Why the Government of Solviana want to help LSD Trafficers? Well we got a Problem now and Thanks

Agent Smith; Your welcome

*Then he Calling Nando

Alex II: Hay Nando This is Alex II My Agent told me that the Letter was addrest to Chip and Dale it came from Solviana also he say that the Government in Solviana is Tie in with the LSD Trafficers Yea so let them know also I Need to find your hide out so were are you I am coming to see you anyway too later on *While he stay on the phone*

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It had been several days since the brief stop in Gaeda. Now, the battleship USS Texas was just weighing anchor in La Spezia. The large Italian port had been a welcome two-day stay, and many of the locals had come out to see the giant ship. The crew had had a good time, and no crises had occurred. It was a good stay in Captain Dixon's book.

Captain Dixon was on the bridge, watching as his crew prepared the Texas prepared to depart for the next stop on the tour: Geona. The large port was about a day's worth of constant steaming up the Italian coast. The battleship would spend another few days there, and then turn around and head south back towards Rome, bound for Italy's main naval base at Taranto.

A crewman approached the vulpine captain from behind.

"Sir, Intel received a message for you."

Eddie turned around, and the sailor saluted quickly. Eddie returned the salute and then accepted the message. He read it quickly. Basically, it briefly stated that there were suspicions that the LSD traffickers were possibly operating in Slovenia, and might actually be being aided by the government of Slovenia itself. It mentioned neither Alex II nor whether there were any operations to investigate further. Eddie guessed that they probably were, since they had taken the time to notify Texas.

"Thank you, sailor. Dismissed."

"Yes, sir." the sailor saluted again, and then turned and left.

Eddie had been keeping tabs on the situation in Italy. Or rather, Fleet Intelligence had, and had been sending daily reports to the Texas. Eddie had insisted on reviewing all of them. He didn't know exactly what these "Cafe" people were up to this time, but he figured that it would be worthwhile to find out. Particularly given what had happened the last time he had been to Italy.

We'll probably be making for Trieste, soon enough, he mused. The Italian port of Trieste was right on the border of Italy and Slovenia. If the Slovenian government was sanctioning drug running, an American battleship right off their coast just might make the government think twice about it. Particularly with a few well placed words from Washington, and the knowledge that the 11" sabot rounds developed for the Texas's main guns could reach 90% of the country. The shells had been tested, and had a maximum range of 115 miles. They were GPS guided, and accurate to within three feet of a target.

The blast of the ship's whistle interrupted Eddie's thoughts as she cast off. A pair of tugs had pulled alongside in order to help the ship ease away from the pier. The USS San Jacinto was already underway, and was ahead of the Texas heading for open sea. Eddie casually strolled into the wheelhouse to watch his crew working.

"All ahead one-third."

An Italian pilot was guiding the battle wagon out of port and clear of the harbor. It was a bit of tricky maneuvering for the battleship, since she was so large. She had barely fit at the Italian Navy's larges pier. The Italian base was protected by an artificial sea wall, the opening of which was barely large enough for the battleship to squeeze through. In fact, in order to exit, Texas had to literally spin on a dime around 45 degrees. This is where the tugboats would come in handy, as the ship had no thrusters or azipods.

"Ten degrees right rudder."

Slowly the battleship began to turn towards the sea wall opening.

"Dead slow."

As the ship drifted, inching ahead, a tug attached itself to the stern of the ship and started to push sideways, acting to spin the warship in place an align it with the exit. The entire process took about fifteen minutes, but finally the bow of the ship pointed seaward.

"Ahead one-third."

The battleship began moving again, as the tugs cast off from the ship. They gave parting blasts on their horns, and then moved off. After clearing the sea wall around the naval base, the Texas had to clear another sea wall at the entrance to La Spezia harbor. After that, she was ready for the voyage across the open sea.

After clearing the sea wall, the harbor pilot left the ship to return to shore. Eddie took the opportunity to thank him.

"Oh, no, thank you! Your ship, she is a dream to handle! Very maneuverable, she turns quite nicely! I would not have thought it possible from so large a warship!"

"Why, thank you, sir," Eddie replied. "Have a good day."

"You too, captain, you too! Arrivaderchi!"

After the harbor pilot left, Texas crew took over again.

"All ahead, standard!"

The engine telegraph rang, and the battleship started picking up speed as she gracefully turned northwards, following the San Jacinto.

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Fernando's cell phone picks up the message Alex II sends, as he continues to drive. 'No way I'm going to answer that while I'm driving over 150...'

From Nemi, they arrive at the former safe house that they used before in a couple of hours, parking the Porsche in the rear of the house. Tammy and Bink go into the house as Fernando waits outside A pick up truck drives into the driveway, Hondo and Rose step out when they stop the vehicle.

Fernando: Good afternoon Hondo...hello Rose.
Hondo: Howdy... I see you went back to the old place.
Fernando: Its just a lay over. Just enough to the hospital funk off the girls. Then we go to Rome, though this would be a better place for operations. Its too obvious to stay here for any length of time.
Hondo: I know what you mean.
Fernando: The girls have a hour to wash up and dress up, so we can leave. The frig is open to all, but Icant promiseif it was restocked since our last visit.
Hondo: I brought a few things, for just in case.
Fernando: Save it until we get to the Roman Safe House. By the way- Anybody followed you?
Hondo: We went too fast for anybody to keep up.
Fernando: Still. Rose, you saw anyone?
Rose: Nobody as far as I could see.
Fernando: Good.

They waited for Tammy and Bink to wash up and dress up, though it too longer than expected. Fernando sent Rose in to check upon them. Hondo and Fernando raided the frig, and took what little was there. After another hour of watching tv, the girls came down, much better looking and smelling than they had when they came in. All gotten into their prospective vehicles and drove for the next 2 hours to the Roman Safe House.

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They arrive late in the afternoon when they get to the Safe House in Rome. Frankly, at this point, Fernando is tired, but he pushes on to get them their as fast and safe as possible. After parking the car, he tells the girls to go inside the safe house. He goes in after them, walking past the others who were already milling around the first floor. He goes up the stairs to a locked room, putting a key into the door's lock.

Fernando (yelling for all to hear): I DONT WANT TO BE DISTURBED FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS!! DEATH TO THOSE TRY WILL TRY!!

He walks into the room, letting the door slam locked, putting his under the the pillow of the bed and gets on the bed after kicking on his shoes. For the first 1/2 hour, he just laid there staring at the ceiling.

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there were not many rooms in the safe house so Hondo allowed the girls all to have a room. Rosie tried to get Hondo to use a room and told him she would share one, but there were not enough beds for that. So as it was evenin' now, Hondo won the argument and Rosie took a room. Hondo stayed up another 4 hours and when over the vehicles for minor maintenance and looked over the place some more just to see what was a bout that he might have missed earlier. he finally got a shower and went to the livin' room. it was quite there and the couch was soft. Hondo cocked his .45 colt and laid it in his chest as he laid back to get a little sleep before mornin'.
'*who knows what were in for this time?*' Hondo half thought and have muttered as he drifted off into a light sleep as was his custom on a mission.

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Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

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After a couple of hours of napping, Fernando wakes up. Not exactly 100%, but he'll take what he has as long as its just above passing. He freshens himself up, uses the facilities and goes down stairs. He raids the freshly stocked refrigerator for some food. He looks at everyone staring at him as he stuffs his maw.

Fernando (with a mouth full of food): What?
CCC: Do you have any input as to where we should concentrate our efforts on?
Fernando: Actually, no. Thats your job. My job, for now is to keep Tammy safe and get her strength up to a respectable level again, and I got 3 days to do it. Until then, there is too much to do and too little time to do it in.

After a brief pause (to swallow the food being eaten)...

Fernando: Access the SWA and Police computers for patterns in drug dealing arrests and dealers whereabouts.

CCC and Alex II research for the data with what little computing and internet access power the research pc had. At first it just looks like random data, but even Randomness has a pattern to it, it has to be found.

Fernando: You know, Alex... Tammy maybe related to you, but you are allowing yourself to be too involved becaused of the relationship. That will only get in your way of doing a proper job and somebody is going to get hurt. Its best to keep such feelings locked up and allow people- including the ones you love, get hurt. All you can do is pick up the pieces later. This is the only way that SHE is going to learn on how to be a good spy in this game, and in learning, she is going to have to go through some pain. She is just realizing that now. Tammy- see you in an hour in the basement. Your advanced training begins then.

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Alex II hearing Nando Saying this “Nando I know but I won’t let Tammy know that until This Mission is over and once we got rid of the LSD then I will Tell her but Just Part of it she have to Figure out the past her self too also that ring she got on her finger too she have to Do that by her self but I am just giving her some clues to the past and Future also I just then he lead nando to another part of the room so Tammy and Bink can’t hear them “I don’t’ want Tammy or Bink to here this but her Mother made me Promest that I will keep a Eye on them and I can’t brake that Promest I never Brake Promest Rember I never quit on the job When it Finshnes I Never

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as soon as Hondo drifted off to sleep everyone else got up. they were ready to Eat and talk and Hondo just wanted a nap. He knew if sleep were to be had it would not be here. Rosie tried to get him to use a room again, but He didn't want to be that close to the noise ans any little noise wakes him easily when he is in this mode. Hondo instead grabbed a couch pillow and his heavy duster and went to the basement. He heard Fernando enter the kitchen behind him, but he was tired and if Fernando wanted him he could find him. Hondo found a nice clean spot back under a bench in the open spot in the basement and he crawled back there and settled into sleep again it took him 15 minutes to settle back down and start to doze off. It was too bad he did not know Fernando and Tammy had a meetin' at this spot in 45 minutes for trainin' and too bad no one knew where he was.

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Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

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After finishing his meal, Fernando washes his dish, glass and silverware; putting them away where they belong on the dish rack. He takes a time out and go through the channels of the satellite TV, finding nothing on the 9999 channels. The local and national news were still going through their daily commentary, which Fernando knew was government printed material since the government controls over 95% of the news media.

Bink and Tammy come down stairs and sit on the livingroom chairs. Bink had her viola case, with her FN-P90 inside. She pulls out the machine gun and starts to disassemble it and cleans each part with such expertise that it belies that she is just a child and not a preprogrammed child cyborg assassin proficant in using many weapon and being able to kill with what every was put into her hand, even if that thing put into her hands was a bible. all Tammy was able to do was to stare at her sister as she worked.

Fernando: What's wrong Tammy, not used to having your sister do that?
Tammy: No.
Fernando: Just observe. See how she throws all her concentration on completing the task. How deliberate her actions are, in not making a mistake.

Tammy does not answer, being fixated on her sister's actions. Fernando rests back against the sofa. Within a 1/2 hour's time, Bink has her P90 cleaned, oiled and reassembled. She goes through the motions to make sure that every componant moves freely and without binking or sticking. She then takes out her SIG Sauer P239 and dismantles it to be cleaned. She makes easy work of the handgun, taking less than 1/2 the time to take it apart, clean it and put it back together. Tammy takes her
SIG Sauer P239 and places on the table in front of Bink. Bink looks at it and then at Tammy. Tammy just nods at her, moving closer to see how its done. Bink unarms the weapon and places the single bullet in the chamber back into the magazine, and the magazine at the far end of the table. Bink goes slower in dismantling Tammy's hand gun, pointing out how she lays out each part on the table and how she cleans each piece. As the gun is reassembled, each piece is pointed out and oiled. After a few tests, Bink rearms the gun and hands it back to Tammy. Tammy looks at it.

Fernando: Its not for cracking acorns, you know.

Tammy looks at him with a mean look. Fernando pulls out his American Arms .45 Model 1984 and places it on the table. The AA.45 is about 3 times larger than the SIG Sauers.

Fernando: Now, thats for cracking acorns... and Brazil nuts.

Tammy looks at the gun, and has a difficult time in lifting it up. Bink reaches for it, and lifts it out of Tammy's hand as if it weighed nothing.

Tammy: How...
Fernando: She's not 100% Squirrelly you know. You forget that she is, from what I can figure, 30% cybernetic mechanized artifical body.

Bink slides the mechanism, finding it being able to move with little effort and as smooth as glass on glass. A bullet round pops out and lands on the table. She stops herself from dismantleing it. Fernando picks up the bullet and slowly takes the gun from Bink, placing it on his lap. He then takes Tammy's gun and ejects a round from it, and then places the two rounds side by side.

Fernando: Lesson 1- the size of the bullet does not matter, but it does help. The type of bullets is another factor to deal with, but lets say that in all cases, we are dealing with cheap rounds. Only way to effectively stop anyone is to put 2 rounds to the middle of the body or one to the head. Dont let the adrenaline keep you from holding the trigger down and wasting all your bullets. Dont waste time using your sites to aim. By the time you have got them aimed, they would have shot you. Its best to point your arm and hold your gun straight in the general direction at close range and that should be enough to hit your target. Finally, you have to remain calm while in a gun battle. The calmer you are, the easier it will be to win. One panicked thought enters your hand and you'll so something crazy or stupid and those shooting at you will take you out. Do I make myself clear?
Tammy: Yes sir...
Fernando: Understanding theory is one thing, Tammy. Applying theory into practice, is somthing totally different.

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The AI bat had been quietly sitting in the corner of the room, watching. It had also generated a four-dimensional graph of Italian drug dealer arrest places and times and tried a half-a-dozen different regressions, all falling well outside acceptable error bounds; it had tried comparing them with maps of the cities and found little; the best pattern it had found so far, in fact, was that arrests seemed to be related to the weather. If it was raining, arrest rates went down. If it was not, arrest rates went up.

It had then compared arrest rates to the time of day (both the solar and sidreal day), with some success - unfortunately, nothing useful had come from the analysis.

It was therefore now trying to find the drug dealers by running through email servers; hundred, thousands, millions of emails, trying to see if any of them appeared to be related to the drug trade...

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Hondo hadn't listened to her and she got sick of arguing with him. Fine! If he woke up in a bad mood it wasn't HER fault. But....where had he gone?

Rosie was trying to read in a chair on the other side of the room from where Fernando was instructing the girls. However, she was an easily distracted person and watching Bink re assemble her guns was far too interesting. She then peered interestedly around her book at the three as Fernando went over Lesson 1.

Mmm....I wonder if I could take apart my Peacemakers. Rosie thought with a yawn. The guns were tucked carefully in shoulder holsters under her jacket. Nah! I'd probably never get them back together again.

Rose decided she wanted a drink, so she wandered downstairs to the basement. She started nosing around in the spare fridge for a cream soda. What was that noise? Sort of a soft sighing....a gentle snoring even... Snoring?? Rose instinctively put her other hand to one of her guns and turned around. Her bright green eyes searching the space behind her.

She let go her gun and shut the fridge, soda in hand, when she saw what it was. Kneeling beside the bench with an amused smirk, Rosie drew the heavy duster further over the sleeping form.

"Goodnight, Hondo." she said quietly enough to not wake him as she left the basement.

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Sometimes in an investigatio, you have to look outside of the events and find of there are other parallels going on at the sametime. What outside influences are there, how they are influencing the course of events.
Known facts:
-Italy has been at edge of civil war for several years now.
-Former politcal groups have became terrorist groups. They are known as Padania and the Five Repbulics
-Population on the Northern 1/2 of Italy is supportive of the terrorist. They want to remain isolated from the larger political scheme that is hitting the rest of Europe: Globalization.
-The Southern 1/2 of Italy and ruling politcal parties is in favor of Globlization.
-The Italian Prime Minister is control of the 80% of the Italian News Media. The most of the remaining percentage follows with the majority. The tiny percentage that goes against the government backed media are labelled 'Tabloids'

Other facts:
-If the North is successful in separating itself from the South, The Italian people would not want a divided Italy, and thus, another civil war will break out to unify the nation with the North to rule over the South. Some believe that the North is already being influenced by outside factions.
-During this time, the north will be open to invading influences from surrounding nations, ie: Slovania.
-The SWA Section 1 and 2 were created to stop these politcal radicals and terrorists from being sucessful in their task. Section 1 is more militaristic in their policing, and have not been sucessful in their intell gathering (like the FBI in teh USA). Section 2, and its use of child-cyborgs in their intel and policing tactics, have been highly sucessful because they are able to hide within the population and bend the rules to their needs.
-SWA Section 2 is the only unit using cyborgs, and are using this technology on children who lives have been brought back. This version of the technology gives normal abilities that are augemented by a factor. This means at the minimum- 10X stronger, and faster. But it also shortens their lives, as medication is required to keep the pain that the cyborgnetic implants generates to a minimum. This medication also alters the emotional and mental conditioning of the cyborg. Past experiements with Adults cyborgs have failed, at least in Italy. Other nations have their own versions of their own cyborg programs; including: The USA, French, Germany, China, Russia...
-Events in the rest of the world goes along the lines of Globalization: Nations unifying their economies and resources (and eventually their borders to form a super nation) to over empower smaller organized nations and alliances ( ie: OPEC ).

Other facts are to be found.

Fernando: The problem is in your head, Tammy. To be a number one player in this spy game, one has to get to believe in themselves that what they are doing is for a greater that is outside of themselves. Whether it is for a national belief or a societial belief, or a personal ideal to a national or societial belief, it is not for one's self to take for themselves. This is the wrong type of game tobe a mercenary in; in short, you must be willing to die, but before you do, you are going to fight on levels you though at one time were impossible for you to do. All those promises you made for yourself of being a girl and that you would not hurt anyone during your lifetime to you could go to heaven- will all be broken.

Tammy: Why are you telling me all this?

Fernando: Its something for you to know. The actions you take, do not judge you into going into heaven or not. It is the ramifications of those actions, if it advances others to a betterment of themselves, no matter how small, is what does. it is that belief that has driven others into marytom, in taking on greater forces, and fighting battles that they would lose, but only finding themselves as winners. Now I can not tell you whether there is an after life or not, because that is based on a personal belief, but I can say this much is true- there is an afterlife once you are gone and that it is based on the history you had created for all to remember you by. Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you?

Tammy: I think so.

Fernando: Then explain it to me.

Tammy: Uhm... Do what I think is right for others...

Fernando: Yes...

Tammy: Even if I do bad things, if it helps others, then I would be remembered in a more positive light...?

Fernando: In the most simplistic terms- yes.

Tammy: But there is more?

Fernando: People are evil, Tammy. All that they care about is of their own self righteaous causes. You are no worth to them than a worn pair of soiled underwear. You are either to be cleaned and fixed or eliminated.You have just a few choices to make, and right now, you have decided to follow a certain path that you think is right. I'm not here to question it, but I am here to make sure that you follow it through to the end.

Tammy: How do you think this will end?

Fernando: I'll be lying to you if I told you that it will be happily ever after. Look, do be doing this thinking that there will be a reward or a medal when its over. Now, Rose...

Rose: Yes... sir?

Fernando: Wake Hondo, feed him some of the poisoned java-juice to wake him. I'm going to need the basement in 15 minutes. And while I'm using it, Rose...

Rose: Yes?

Fernando: Dont worry if you hear screaming while we are there.

Rose: OK...

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