Chase Me Faster
Catherine Gale and John Steed and Emma Peel
THE AVENGERS
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by Caroline Miniscule
Chapter One: The Pawn - Page 2
I continued- Present Day "Tara King...that name sounds familiar." "She belonged to Department Special, I believe. Turned into quite a good agent in the end." "Aha," said Drummond. "You see?" "Oh, but that was a special case, sir. She was partnered with Steed." Drummond sat back, deflated. "Steed. Yes...John Steed. We will never see his like again." Frederick sat silently for a few seconds, then stood up. "I'll go collect Ms. Miniscule then, shall I? Send her back to her regular training?" Drummond shook his head. "We'll let her finish the course. Ms. King deserves a chance to have her name expunged from the record books. Once she’s done you can send her back." Frederick Smith's eyes narrowed as he looked at his superior. It was what he had wanted, but it was not what he had expected. However, he merely said, "Yes, sir." 
II Caroline Miniscule lay in a little depression in the ground, fighting to regain her calm. She was not amused. Her chest hurt - no one had told her getting hit by paint pellets would actually hurt, and the paint was soaking through her heavy canvas coverall and she could feel it against her skin and it was jolly uncomfortable. And it wasn't fair. Running around, with mannequins popping up whenever they felt like it and shooting you. She hadn’t signed on for this. She was supposed to be someone that field agents protected, not a field agent herself. Caroline looked down at herself ruefully. She couldn’t even protect herself, let alone someone else. Well, lying down here felt good, but it was buttering no parsnips. What had she better do? What if she waited around til dark? Surely the program would shut down after hours. Then she could just walk out. But no....they probably did night training here as well and the infrared beams would never be turned off. They’d laugh at her...she knew they would...all the trainers and people at Space HQ where she should be right now....“couldn’t hack it, eh, Ms. Miniscule?” they’d say to her, as if she’d asked for this ridiculous assignment herself. And what right had they to laugh at her anyway? Balding, overweight men, stout women in support hose, she’d like to see them try to do this course! Caroline sighed and dashed hot tears of anger out of her eyes. She was no better than overweight men and stout women in support hose. It was a sad thought. Well, she was dead three times. She’d already failed the course. She’d lost. “I don’t like to lose,” she thought....and, then, all of a sudden slipping sideways through her mind...”The Koboyashi Maru.” Many, many years ago, she’d watched the American television program Star Trek. She’d fallen in love with Captain James T. Kirk, of course, but with the thought of space as well, and it was that love that had sent her on her educational path to become an astronaut or at least ensure that manned spacecraft would one day seek out the stars. And Captain James T. Kirk didn’t like to lose, and he was the only one who had beaten the Koboyashi Maru training module. He’d cheated to do it, of course, but he’d still won. Well, she’d apply the same principle here. Use a bit of intelligence, not to mention common sense. If she were a field agent and she knew that a series of streets was simply crawling with enemy agents, she simply wouldn’t go there! What could be easier than that? Well...she wouldn’t make a frontal assault on the street, anyway. All these mannequins...triggered by infrared beams....there must be some way to turn off those beams...turn off the power supply in the whole bloody place! Caroline very slowly rolled over, grunted with pain and extracted her pistol from beneath her body, then very carefully raised her head and assessed the street scene that confronted her. She looked not at the buildings, or the cars, but lower to the ground...looking for any boxes which might hold power cables. Was that....over there....yes, it was! |
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