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Royal Gambit
By: Malissa Madison
Lars Grendel sat watching the Royal Court, but he wasn't anywhere close
to it. That would be foolish in his line of work. Still he was unsure as
to whether he wanted to do this job. The contractor was having trouble
delivering the down payment, and you never completed a job before you
were sure of the full payment
Thirty Million Galactic credits was a lot for a politician that no one
liked to begin with. But he'd done his homework, this was a Queen that
the masses loved. He remembered the last time he'd taken a contract on a
Royal person. He'd been in hiding for years afterward.
This was his chance at a new start, only he'd messed that up. The old
long range shuttle he'd purchased to get here from Draco Nine in the
Fifth Cloud System had cost him nearly everything he had left. Now it sat
at the star port waiting for him to make enough money to pay for the
repairs.
If only he could get one of his cameras inside the palace, this might be
easier than it looked. He was still waiting for another contact from the
persons who had made the offer. Maybe if they came up with the advance to
pay for the repairs to his ship, he could get a better idea of just how
much risk to take in setting up the target who liked to travel.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Moll, Sabina, Vivian and Keeli sat out on the upper balcony with Quill
enjoying their tea. Each week this same group seemed to meet at one of
the others palaces.
"I really want to thank you for all the support," said Quill. "You all
have so much to do with your own quadrants." She gripped Moll's fingers,
"And you have little Barbara to occupy your free time now." She could
remember how it had been with Ponzi.
Ponzi had given her the will to survive. The determination to see her
father pay for his crimes.
Ponzitta was down on the carpet teaching Barbara to play patty cake along
with the Demonian Queens Kitten when Barbara became distracted by the
little red dot that was moving from place to place around the balcony.
She made a grab for it with a giggle of glee.
"Barbara?" questioned Moll.
Suddenly as the dot settled on the tea cup in Keeli's hand, Kealani and
the other personal guardians were hovering over everyone.
"We need a response team now," yelled Leonida. "Lock down everything
within a five-block radius of the Palace."
Moll looked around for the two children, but they were no longer there.
"Barbara!" she began to panic as Aria appeared beside Racer and the
Guardians Chows.
"Moll, they are safe, Avi took them inside," assured Quill as they moved
in a group into the Palace.
Already on the streets there was panic as pedestrians and motorists alike
came to sudden stop.
"Crap," muttered Lars realizing that using the laser range finder on his
hover camera was a mistake. He'd cut the link, abandoning the camera lest
it be used to track his location. Already he was throwing everything into
the briefcase. The pictures, the ranges, elevations, the wind current
readings, everything he would need to choose the perfect location to make
the hit.
Maybe his contractor knew someone that might pay to take out the other
four Queens. Now that would be something, a Quintuple hit on five Queens
at once. That new clear laser sight could really pay for itself.
He remembered another incident, a bungled hit on the Terrellian Queen. If
those idiots had hired him, that she cat would be pushing up daisies now.
Maybe there was still someone there who'd be willing to pay his price
when he was done here?
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"Your Highness, we found this in the streets," Leonida held up the little
drone camera. "Unfortunately, we have no way to trace were the signal was
sent to."
"And that little thing is what caused the panic?" asked Keeli. "Are you
sure it was being used to,"
Leonida plugged a cable into it from the view screen and about two weeks
worth of surveillance footage began to scroll across the screen. Footage
from two other Royal Palace meetings between these five.
"This connection here is used to connect a weapon. Anything from a single
shot, to a rapid fire Automatic," stated Leonida.
"Who, who were they targeting?" Keeli asked knowing the answer already.
"We are cancelling all of your public appearances until we have whoever
this belongs to in custody," stated her Guardian commander.
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The phone rang twice then stopped. Then began again.
"Yes?" asked Lars.
"Ten Million up front. The rest when the bitch is no longer a problem,"
said the voice at the other end.
"Look, this is bigger than you told me about. I want fifteen up front,
but I won't do anything until my ship is repaired."
"For Fifteen up front and you can keep that ship your using now."
"Get me the title to the ship, and have the first half waiting on board.
Then get me her itinerary. Then we'll talk about the arrangements for the
final payment." He hung up then moved to another location.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
One of the clerks at the Intergalactic bank became curious about a series
of transfers. It wasn't so much the amount of each transfer as it was the
total of the combined transfers together.
"Miss Fiena, I have a series of transfers that doesn't feel right,"
stated the clerk over the phone to her.
"Go ahead and let them go through. I will personally look into the
matter," she stated as she looked at the Royal Account Number. It wasn't
one of those commonly known, but it was definitely from a Royal
household.
"Dorissa, please call Saffrella and let her know that Lori will be home
this weekend. Oh, and would you please run across the street and pick up
my lunch?" asked her Boss, Drew Correll.
"Right away, sir," she made the call first then hurried to pick up his
lunch.
Sitting back down at her desk she tried to pull the information back up.
Next, she called the clerk who had alerted her.
"I'm sorry Ma'am, that account just went blank. I mean it was closed out
the minute the last transfer was completed and I can't pull it back up.
I've tried everything I know," the clerk was worried she might be about
to lose her job.
"I did print off copies of the transfers though," she offered in her own
defense.
"Say nothing to anyone else, bring everything you have to my office now,"
directed Dorissa.
There were only a limited number of ways to wipe out an account to
prevent it from being traced. Now she picked up her phone. "Sir, we have
a serious situation. A royal account is being used in a way that seems
suspicious. But before we could start a trace all the links disappeared."
"One of the PI accounts?"
"Yes Sir, there is no information listed with the number," she finished
as Angeline arrived with her copies.
Now the pair sat in his office with him. He was looking at the total,
GC30M was a lot of money to just vanish in a series of transfers small
enough not to trigger an alert requiring a Corporate approval.
But what worried everyone the most was that there was no longer any way
to trace where it had come from or where it had actually ended up.
"Good work Angeline, Dorissa I want you both on this. If you need to,
call in Miss Grey." The pair could see that something was worrying her
boss. And it seemed like nothing ever worried him.
She called home to let her daughters know that she would be late.
"Oh Momma did you hear the news? They think someone tried to kill Queen
Quill, but the guardians reacted before anything could happen," they told
her.
"Look I'll call you back when I know how late I will be," she was already
turning on the view screen and pulling up IGN Live news.
"Mr Correll," she called out.
"Unknown for sure what was happening when Royal Guardians of the gathered
Queens descended upon the crowds around the Avian Palace early this
morning. This footage was captured as they recovered an unknown hover
drone from the bushes." The camera zoomed in on the drone and they could
clearly see the laser and the attachments for weapons.
"Oh my gods," everyone breathed as Drew reached for the phone.
"Supreme Commander, this is Drew Correll. I need to contact Maddie Grey
right away. It is a matter of extreme importance."
"Does it have to do with the attempt on a Queen or Queens life?" asked
the Supreme Commander of the IGP.
"We think it might. But we aren't positive." He explained about the blind
transfers, and the total amount.
"30 million Galactic credits could definitely be a payment for a
terminator," he said. "Please keep this quiet for now, we don't want to
alert them if we have a chance to catch them."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Out of curiosity Lars ran a search for information about the other four
Queens who had been present. They were all highly loved by the masses. It
was the other royal families that seemed to have problems with them. He'd
never had a contract where the target was loved by the masses. This was
different than anything else he'd been contracted to do. At first, he'd
accepted the job because of the money. Then it had been the challenge of
hitting a Queen, no one liked Queens. They were all oppressive evil
bitches in his past experience.
Except in this cluster of Quadrants they were loved by those they reigned
over. Still he was committed, he'd just received the first half of the
payment and the borrowed ship was now in his name. in his line of work,
you always doubled or tripled your price, then demanded your actual price
up front. That way if it went north you still got paid.
Still he sat there, the images playing across his view screen as he
studied not just his target, but also those she interacted with. Yes, you
could tell a lot about a person by watching those around them.
As he studied the features of the very young Draconian Queen he cursed
himself for trying to zoom in to get a better look at her. She was
absolutely the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. How he would
love to actually meet her in person before he had to complete the
contract.
Finally, exhausted, he closed his eyes to sleep. And then the dreams
began. Dreams from the past, from before he started taking money to rid
the worlds of the evil overlords who oppressed the little people like
himself.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Malissa's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies," the phone was answered.
"Nona, I need to speak to her right away," stated Maddie.
"Miss Grey?" answered Malissa a few seconds later.
"I need Michelle right away. I'm sending someone to bring her here to
Omega Seven," stated Maddie. "Do you happen to have Midge's parents
number. I think she will be helpful in this investigation."
"Midge? You mean Midge Orchid, the Tank?"
"Yes, I need someone who can help us run an electronic trace on a
connection that has already been erased."
"Hold on I will transfer you to Tank Electronics," but before she could
initiate it the line went dead.
Instead she called Trudy after checking to see what class Michelle was
in. "Trudy, I just got a call from Miss Grey. Please have Michelle report
to the office right,"
"I'm sorry she already left. One of the Phase Spiders appeared and about
thirty seconds ago, and they were gone. Is there something happening that
we need to know about?"
Her other line began to ring and she saw which class it was from.
"Let me guess, Midge Orchid just disappeared from class," she said.
"Yes, after a Spider showed up in the middle of class. Miss Malissa does
this have anything to do with why the guardians are all over campus in
force?" asked Miss Drusilla.
"All I know is the Miss Grey needs them to help with an important
investigation," she answered.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Hob?" asked Teala. "Why Midge? Why not Bounder, she's actually better at
tracing things along the Intergalactic Freeway?"
"You didn't see the news this morning, did you?" he asked. At her head
shake he replayed the footage of the Guardians carrying in the Camera
Drone. "Someone targeted a Queen or Queens this morning."
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
After three hours of sleep Lars woke up refreshed. He crossed to the food
unit and dialed his request. Two pints of synthetic O Positive blood. Not
his favorite but in this quadrant, it would trigger less curiosity. He
preferred O Negative, just like Kailee Volt," he stopped mid thought. The
empty container crushed in his hand as he fought to drive the ghost back
into hiding.
'Why was she haunting him now after so long?'
He slowly turned his attention to the view screens to begin going over
his latest search for information. The five Queens pictures there,
listing everything known about each one.
Still his attention kept being draw to the pictures of Keeli Volk.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Michelle and Midge sat in the inner office of the Intergalactic Bank.
Both running separate searches. Michelle was trying to revive the money
trace, Midge was running a trace on the signal from the Drone.
She'd already downloaded the data off it's hard drive. Elevations,
directions of travel, speed, distance, everything from the three separate
recordings. Then she pulled up each one and pin pointed the drone's
location and the direction of the little dish transmitter/receiver.
Next, she figured in planetary locations and orbital paths for the event
times. "Orion Four," she said, naming the planet of the first recording
in the hard drive. "I triangulated it, and I'm getting satellite imagery
from the pin point location."
Now everyone stood on pins and needles as the image zoomed in on a
derelict ship sitting in the space port.
Now Michelle typed in that ships ID numbers, into her own search. As the
transfers began popping up she hit lock, freezing them in her own data
files.
"That's where half of them went to," she confirmed. 15 Million Galactic
Credits had just been transferred to that ships local account. But the
big question was 'By Whom?'
Talon and Terror both converged on the little space craft, only to find
it empty. The money transfer had already been transferred to another
location.
But this had been to a series of locations, all Intergalactic satellites,
before disappearing again to a moving target. But a further search of the
ship uncovered a cache of weapons and drones. Also there was a supply of
Synthetic Blood in Feeder Type Bags.
Shimmer arrived shortly to begin the Forensic Investigation. The ship had
no local registration, and it had been limped in with a failing Star
Drive. Further the view screen had been disabled. A check of the records
revealed that the star port had brought it in on Remote Autopilot. But no
one could remember seeing the pilot or persons aboard.
Cinder Reese was hacking into the computers when a picture file popped up
on the screen. "Oh shit, this person has pictures of Queen Keeli," she
hollered. "I need to know where these are taken from," she was forwarding
the file to the Draconian Guardian Headquarters.
Michelle out of her natural curiosity engaged Rumple Stiltskin in Facial
recognition mode trying to identify everyone else in the pictures. She
typed in a cross match with known associations to Queen Keeli Volk.
Still nothing was found. Then she noticed the blinking light off to the
side.
"Momma, it's not her."
"What do you mean it's nots her?" asked Maddie.
"It isn't Keeli, look at the key differences," her computer tagged each
one in the clearest photo's. It was running a scan of every picture in
the file now. Then stopped on a news article with the picture of the
young woman.
'Draco Four, Royal Princess Kailee Volt sentenced to death for speaking
out against her Queens decision to tighten the restrictions on and raise
the Blood Taxes on the non-royal families.'
The next was another article, 'Queen Natilla Volt Assassinated in the
wake of Princess Kailee's Execution.'
"Where the hell is Draco Four?" asked everyone.
"Oh shit, out everyone get out now!" screamed Midge as she started
pushing people toward the exits.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Terrellia Four, Lars sat watching them scramble to get clear of the
ship. Still he had no idea why he decided to send the warning of the
impending self-destruction of the ship.
'You know why Lars,' said the voice in his head. 'This isn't the you that
I knew and loved. It isn't too late to change your destiny here.'
He'd come early and set up his remote cameras, he wasn't going to chance
using another damned drone. This was the next place on the Targets list
of appearances, a meeting with the Cat Queen.
Still he had a drone prepped and ready, if the Contractor sent the final
payment in time he'd do it here.
He watched as the Guardians stepped out, their eyes sweeping over the
area, he noted the little signals and spotted the others in their
stationary locations overlooking the Queens balcony just before they all
appeared.
He'd done well in choosing his camera locations. He could count the holes
in their buttons at full zoom.
Now there were more than just the five, the Terrellian Queen and the
Canine Bitch were with them.
A proximity warning on one of his cameras caught his attention and he
watched as a lone figure climbed up past it. Then he saw the barrel as it
extended out along the same path as the camera.
"No," he slammed his fist down on the console realizing which Queen would
be in the sights. He kept watching the movements of the Guardians,
waiting for one to notice the shooter. Any minute now he'd have the
timing worked out, he had to do something fast. He barely realized it as
his fingers danced across the keyboard inputting the camera location,
then entering the thermal activation to the single rocket mounted on the
armament rail. He couldn't have someone else fucking up his plans even it
wasn't his target.
Every eye turned a minute later as the drone sped in at full speed, the
little motors emitting a high-pitched scream as it raced toward the
camera. Then from twenty feet away the screen went blank as the rocket
fired.
He slammed his laptop closed ending the signal to the drone and all, of
his cameras even as the guardians were scrambling to secure the Queens.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"What just happened?" asked Maddie Grey seeing the drone as it attacked a
would-be assassin on the rooftop.
Five minutes later the guardians reported in, "This shooter was
definitely, Terrellian. We'll have to wait for a DNA report to find out
who it was though."
"We have the drone. We also have another of those high-tech cameras here,
or what's left of it."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
'You did the right thing Lars, that's why I loved you so much. You can
still turn this around, I know you don't want anything to happen to her,'
said the ghost in his head. 'You need to protect her and her friends.'
He ignored the ghost as he hurried to lift off. He needed to put distance
between himself and the scene. But he had to be casual about it. He input
his destination as the maintenance facility. Then after being cleared her
started that direction.
Almost there he changed his destination again and headed out into space.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"I've got it," called out Midge a half second before Michelle.
They zoomed in on the now empty space that the drones signal and the
cameras signal had been aimed to.
"Demure Intergalactic Freefall, please allow access to your orbital
telemetry memory banks," requested IGP Headquarters on the planets
surface.
Michelle let Midge handle this one, she'd earned it. Maddie sat grinning
knowing that her daughter was learning not to be a glory hound.
A few seconds later they watched as the drone left the ship, speeding
toward the palace. Then the ship lifting off and the last-minute course
change.
They didn't need to be psychic to know the pilot would have changed
courses at least three more times after leaving the planet. But at least
now they knew what type of ship they were looking for.
"Stop, lock that in," yelled both girls at the same time. The signal was
strong, and aimed right at the location where the ship had been.
"WTF???? If you want your other 15M you better stop fucking around. Take
the money shot or we hire someone else."
"I got it, Orion Four," said Midge.
"University of Orion, Civics Building," finished Michelle.
"Alert the Orion Space Command and Control. We're on our way." Said
Maddie. "Shimmer, are you still there?"
"Yes Maddie," answered Daisy Lightfeather.
"Start a check on all students of the university with access to that type
of funds," she said.
"I can tell you how many there are, five. But there are only two with
access to a Protected Identity Account," stated Mahla Veer.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
'Lars, if you keep going you will destroy everything that I loved about
you. You know they are going to catch you. It isn't too late, the only
one you've killed here was someone who was going to do something just as
bad as what you are planning to do. Please stop, please,' pleaded the
ghost in his head.
"I can't stop, don't you understand Kailee?"
'At least wait, you have no idea what the consequences will be if you do
this. You know you love that pretty one. the one who looks like me.
What's her name?'
"Keeli," he groaned.
'you do love her, don't you?'
He began to cry. His ghost knew him so well. He never even noticed when
the ship changed course. He saw himself as he keyed in the coordinates of
the Royal landing pad.
If he was going to have a chance to set things right, to make peace with
his ghost, he had to be fast, before anyone else could react.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"We have them in custody," reported Tessa. "Now we need the hard
evidence. But they've microwaved their laptops before we could get to
them."
"Any sign of that ship yet?" asked Maddie.
"Negative, nothing yet. Do you want us to send someone to the
Intergalactic Bank? I doubt their mother is going to be very happy," said
Cord.
"Let's hold off, see if she leads us to any evidence first."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The ship came in at crash speed, too fast for the Guardians to respond.
But the pilot had to be an ace combat veteran by the way he handled it.
He was down and out of the ship before the guardians had a chance to
respond. But he hadn't tried to enter the palace.
They found him kneeling in front of the ship, his hands on his head,
tears streaming down his cheeks.
"Name?" demanded Leonida.
"Lars, Lars Grendel," he answered. "I was hired by April and May Fiena to
assassinate Queen Vivian. Please I need to talk to the Queen, please I
must tell her everything," he pleaded.
"Your Majesty, you should not be here. We don't know if it is safe yet,"
stated Leonida.
"Step out of my way," it was said with gentle authority.
'See I knew you were still the man I fell in love with,' said the ghost.
"Lars Grendel, please come with me," she took hold of his hand.
"We have him here, he landed on the Royal pad at the palace," he heard
someone reporting. "No, he was waiting with his hands on his head. He
said he had to tell the queen everything."
She led him to her private study. "Leonida only you may stay as witness
to what he has to say," stated the queen. "And please put that away, you
make me nervous waving it around."
He gave a full confession, even admitted that it was Keeli herself who
had made him stop.
"How did I make you stop?" she asked.
"Not really you, but, but the you from Draco Four, Princess Kailee Volt.
We loved each other and, and then her mother Executed her because she was
too nice to people."
She drew him to her, his head resting on her shoulder as she petted his
hair.
"I tried, I really tried to keep you safe but, but I was just one man
against an evil system," he was crying openly now.
"Was it you who stopped the assassin on Terrellia Four?" she asked.
"I couldn't let it happen. You are all evil like the Queens where I came
from," he said.
"Lars, do you know where the money is?" he looked up at Leonida then.
"It's here, right here," he reached into his pocket and stopped seeing
her hand on her weapon. "I'm sorry I should let you take it out." She'd
been just a hair away from drawing her sidearm.
Now Keeli reached into his pocket and removed the little chip drive.
"Who were they paying you to kill?" asked Leonida.
"Queen Vivian of Orion. They said she was destroying the Quadrant by
choosing someone that wasn't really Royal."
"Lars," she caressed his face. "I think you have a good heart. And I know
that you never actually acted against any Queen. You may even have saved
the life of Tarriana. I will do everything that I can to get you a
political pardon. But for now, you have asylum here in the palace." She
kissed his forehead.
"Keeli?" questioned Leonida.
"Do not argue with me, he is free to stay here as my guest until I say
otherwise." She stood and left the room.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Dorissa, please come into my office," requested Drew.
As she stood up Michelle and Midge slid into place behind her desk. It
only took them a matter of minutes to determine that she had no knowledge
of her daughter's activities.
"I'll clear out my desk," she said.
"Why?" he asked.
"Well it's obvious, my daughters tried to assassinate the Queen. You
don't need that kind of scandal."
"Dorissa," she turned now as her Queen entered the office. "You are not
your daughters. And you have always conducted yourself with the highest
regard for the Banks clients. You are not responsible for what they have
tried to do."
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Three Weeks Later: Demonian Royal Palace
"Draconian Royal Shuttle on approach, Queens personal pilot Lars Grendel
at the controls," reported the ComTech.
"Royal Shuttle cleared to land. Welcome to Demonia," stated the Royal
Guardian on Sky Watch.
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