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Tokyo Terror: Beware the Red Dragon

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Loxuru said:
I heard, the apprentice pilots complained about too much fine print in the manual!:roto2palm:
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Also, so many reasons for demerits, I'm sure that's half the manual.
 
Dear readers.

This just in from AP, Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Dagens Nyheter, The Guardian, Les Monde, Die Welt, The Daily Mail, Der Spiegel, and a host of other global news outlets:

Communication appears to have been reestablished with United Flight 131 from Newark Liberty to Tokyo Haneda, which mysteriously seemed to have vanished somewhere over the western Pacific.

The loss of communication with the United flight appears to have been caused by a weird disturbance that has authorities around the world puzzled. The fact that it coincided with the test launch of a new North Korean missile over the western Pacific, along with a barrage of Chinese surveillance balloons, might be one explanation. Although unidentified natural atmospheric anomalies might also be responsible. Or possibly it was something done by the ever-mysterious and sinister Syndicate.

In any case, the good news is that United flight 131 reports all onboard to be safe, including the celebrated former New York police detective, Stan Goldman. The flight will arrive as scheduled at Tokyo Haneda. And the paused CF story “Tokyo Terror”, which went on hiatus until the fate of the flight could be determined, can be expected to return to its thread tomorrow.

WATCH FOR IT!
 
Barbaria1 said:
Dear readers.

This just in from AP, Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Dagens Nyheter, The Guardian, Les Monde, Die Welt, The Daily Mail, Der Spiegel, and a host of other global news outlets:

Communication appears to have been reestablished with United Flight 131 from Newark Liberty to Tokyo Haneda, which mysteriously seemed to have vanished somewhere over the western Pacific.

The loss of communication with the United flight appears to have been caused by a weird disturbance that has authorities around the world puzzled. The fact that it coincided with the test launch of a new North Korean missile over the western Pacific, along with a barrage of Chinese surveillance balloons, might be one explanation. Although unidentified natural atmospheric anomalies might also be responsible. Or possibly it was something done by the ever-mysterious and sinister Syndicate.

In any case, the good news is that United flight 131 reports all onboard to be safe, including the celebrated former New York police detective, Stan Goldman. The flight will arrive as scheduled at Tokyo Haneda. And the paused CF story “Tokyo Terror”, which went on hiatus until the fate of the flight could be determined, can be expected to return to its thread tomorrow.

WATCH FOR IT!
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The good news is that this will allow Stan to have fully adjusted to the new time zone. He will arrive ready to hit the ground running and get right to work (or whatever it is he does). Also, maybe he can write a book called "The Longest Flight" and earn a few bucks. The bad news is that he missed several episodes of Seinfeld along with a few Yankees games ...
 
Barbaria1 said:
Dear readers.

This just in from AP, Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Dagens Nyheter, The Guardian, Les Monde, Die Welt, The Daily Mail, Der Spiegel, and a host of other global news outlets:

Communication appears to have been reestablished with United Flight 131 from Newark Liberty to Tokyo Haneda, which mysteriously seemed to have vanished somewhere over the western Pacific.

The loss of communication with the United flight appears to have been caused by a weird disturbance that has authorities around the world puzzled. The fact that it coincided with the test launch of a new North Korean missile over the western Pacific, along with a barrage of Chinese surveillance balloons, might be one explanation. Although unidentified natural atmospheric anomalies might also be responsible. Or possibly it was something done by the ever-mysterious and sinister Syndicate.

In any case, the good news is that United flight 131 reports all onboard to be safe, including the celebrated former New York police detective, Stan Goldman. The flight will arrive as scheduled at Tokyo Haneda. And the paused CF story “Tokyo Terror”, which went on hiatus until the fate of the flight could be determined, can be expected to return to its thread tomorrow.

WATCH FOR IT!
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Like CF, it didn`t crash and burn,
So Windar and Barb can return.
The words that they write
Will arouse and excite,
And countless plaudits will earn.
 
Barbaria1 said:
Dear readers.

This just in from AP, Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Dagens Nyheter, The Guardian, Les Monde, Die Welt, The Daily Mail, Der Spiegel, and a host of other global news outlets:

Communication appears to have been reestablished with United Flight 131 from Newark Liberty to Tokyo Haneda, which mysteriously seemed to have vanished somewhere over the western Pacific.

The loss of communication with the United flight appears to have been caused by a weird disturbance that has authorities around the world puzzled. The fact that it coincided with the test launch of a new North Korean missile over the western Pacific, along with a barrage of Chinese surveillance balloons, might be one explanation. Although unidentified natural atmospheric anomalies might also be responsible. Or possibly it was something done by the ever-mysterious and sinister Syndicate.

In any case, the good news is that United flight 131 reports all onboard to be safe, including the celebrated former New York police detective, Stan Goldman. The flight will arrive as scheduled at Tokyo Haneda. And the paused CF story “Tokyo Terror”, which went on hiatus until the fate of the flight could be determined, can be expected to return to its thread tomorrow.

WATCH FOR IT!
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Nothing stops Ms Moore and Goldman, not even a missing airliner.
 
Barbaria1 said:
Dear readers.

This just in from AP, Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Dagens Nyheter, The Guardian, Les Monde, Die Welt, The Daily Mail, Der Spiegel, and a host of other global news outlets:

Communication appears to have been reestablished with United Flight 131 from Newark Liberty to Tokyo Haneda, which mysteriously seemed to have vanished somewhere over the western Pacific.

The loss of communication with the United flight appears to have been caused by a weird disturbance that has authorities around the world puzzled. The fact that it coincided with the test launch of a new North Korean missile over the western Pacific, along with a barrage of Chinese surveillance balloons, might be one explanation. Although unidentified natural atmospheric anomalies might also be responsible. Or possibly it was something done by the ever-mysterious and sinister Syndicate.

In any case, the good news is that United flight 131 reports all onboard to be safe, including the celebrated former New York police detective, Stan Goldman. The flight will arrive as scheduled at Tokyo Haneda. And the paused CF story “Tokyo Terror”, which went on hiatus until the fate of the flight could be determined, can be expected to return to its thread tomorrow.

WATCH FOR IT!
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Later, it would be discovered that United Flight 131 made an unforeseen stop on Eareckson Air Station, on the Aleutians, because a stowaway squirrel had ruined the whole stock of toilet paper, making the sanitary infrastructure practically useless and leaving lots of passengers with an inconvenient discomfort. After the passengers had been allowed to do their natural urges in the local terminal, the flight had to wait for a new stock, but unfortunately no aircraft was available to bring it to Eareckson. So the pilots had to fly the aircraft back, without passengers, and one spare roll of toilet paper, to Anchorage to get a new stock, just to discover that there had been in fact a whole family of squirrels on board, and they had eaten all but one of the wiring system insulations, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing on Adak, another airport in the middle of the Aleutian nowhere. Finally it had been decided to bring first wiring from Seattle, and the toilet paper rolls, by ship, which took some time. Meanwhile, both Eareckson and Adak got impested with squirrels, while food, and even worse, booze became scarce. And the boat underway hit an iceberg.

The situation became desperate, but fortunately, both islands were flown over by a Chinese spy balloon. As a response, China urgently ordered North Korea to fire two missiles to each of the islands, containing a load of anti-squirrel powder, and a promise to bring on food and booze too, on condition that the islands would be surrendered to China. The missiles also contained a package of speeches of their president, intended to entertain the passengers, but these were conveniently welcomed, considering the now terrible shortage of toilet paper.

It was then that Stan Goldman came to the idea to call Barbara Moore (the one in Minnesota) to explain the situation. Wondering what she could do about it, she suddenly reminded there was a very far relative, a certain Senator Hobart G. Moore, who could probably pull some strings. Which he did, and withing twelve hours, United Flight 131 was on its way again.

But anyone understands, this embarassing story is the last, both United and the US authorities would like to become public.

As happened.
 
Loxuru said:
Later, it would be discovered that United Flight 131 made an unforeseen stop on Eareckson Air Station, on the Aleutians, because a stowaway squirrel had ruined the whole stock of toilet paper, making the sanitary infrastructure practically useless and leaving lots of passengers with an inconvenient discomfort. After the passengers had been allowed to do their natural urges in the local terminal, the flight had to wait for a new stock, but unfortunately no aircraft was available to bring it to Eareckson. So the pilots had to fly the aircraft back, without passengers, and one spare roll of toilet paper, to Anchorage to get a new stock, just to discover that there had been in fact a whole family of squirrels on board, and they had eaten all but one of the wiring system insulations, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing on Adak, another airport in the middle of the Aleutian nowhere. Finally it had been decided to bring first wiring from Seattle, and the toilet paper rolls, by ship, which took some time. Meanwhile, both Eareckson and Adak got impested with squirrels, while food, and even worse, booze became scarce. And the boat underway hit an iceberg.

The situation became desperate, but fortunately, both islands were flown over by a Chinese spy balloon. As a response, China urgently ordered North Korea to fire two missiles to each of the islands, containing a load of anti-squirrel powder, and a promise to bring on food and booze too, on condition that the islands would be surrendered to China. The missiles also contained a package of speeches of their president, intended to entertain the passengers, but these were conveniently welcomed, considering the now terrible shortage of toilet paper.

It was then that Stan Goldman came to the idea to call Barbara Moore (the one in Minnesota) to explain the situation. Wondering what she could do about it, she suddenly reminded there was a very far relative, a certain Senator Hobart G. Moore, who could probably pull some strings. Which he did, and withing twelve hours, United Flight 131 was on its way again.

But anyone understands, this embarassing story is the last, both United and the US authorities would like to become public.

As happened.
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GIGGLE SNORT!!!
 
Chapter 7. Tuesday, 26 June, 07:46. Apartment of Marina Pavlova, Charlottenburgsvägen 12A, Solna, Sweden.

“Right this way,” greeted Buldozer Olsson, Chief of SÄPO, opening the door to allow Björklund and Hansson to enter the small one room, kitchen and bath apartment. “Thanks for getting here so quickly on short notice. But before you go a step further I need to warn you. This is a pretty grisly murder scene.”

“We’re police detectives, Bulldozer. I can assure you we’ve seen it all before,” snapped Hansson, who was never reticent about displaying his total disdain for SÄPO’s notoriously vainglorious Chief.

“The victim is in the bathroom. Follow me.” instructed Bulldozer without missing a beat.

Edging their way past several crime scene forensic specialists crowded around the bathroom door, the trio made their way inside.

Marina was in the shower stall. Her assailant, or assailants … as there was footprint evidence on the bathroom floor, already marked out by the crime scene experts, suggesting more than one … had bound her naked, hands over head to the shower head. She had obviously been tortured. Her body was bruised from being beaten, and covered with bloody razor-thin cuts, especially on and around her full breasts. Death had come by slow strangulation. The cord used to strangle her had been left around her neck.

But perhaps most shocking and disgusting of all, cut crudely into her abdomen with a sharp instrument … presumably a razor-knife … was a multi-headed Asian dragon with a globe held in its talons.

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“A vengeance murder, quite obviously,” murmured Björklund.

“The Syndicate taking revenge for when she betrayed them and came over from the dark side up in Sollefteå,” observed Hanson.

“Bastards!” snarled Bulldozer. “I’m throwing the full resources of SÄPO into this. We’re going to track them down and see that justice is done.”

“I’m perplexed. She had been given an alias, and care was taken to cover her tracks. How did they know?” puzzled Björklund.

“Who supplied the alias?” asked Hanson, raising an eyebrow as he often did when he thought he was onto something.”

“Uh … it came from SÄPO.”

“Bulldozer! You’ve got yourself a mole! Root it out!” screamed Hansson in the SÄPO Chiefs face.


Tuesday, 27 June, 09:32 Villa Montrose, Cologny, near Geneva, Switzerland.

A shocked and shaken ‘Pecos’ Bill Johnson had fallen to his knees on returning to the Villa from his errands in the city. He had done so as he entered the bathroom to find Min-Ji’s bullet-riddled body lying half-immersed in the swirling waters of the tub. Without even picking up the Syndicate’s logo-emblazoned calling card from where it was left on the floor amidst a scattering of empty shell casings, he knew who was behind her murder.

And he also guessed why it was that the operative he had left that morning to watch over her safety had been absent from his post when Bill had returned.

“Paid off!” he cursed. “They must have paid him a fortune … one fucking hell of a bribe!”

He remained in place for a period of time … lost in grief … and consumed with rage. Trying to make sense of things, and trying to focus his mind on how and where he might extract revenge. But it was impossible, at least at that moment in time.

Eventually he rose to his feet, stepped out into the hallway, fished his cell phone from his pocket, and rang the police. First things first, he told himself.

At around half past eleven he left the police and their crime scene people to their work and retreated to Min-Ji’s study, where he began rifling through the papers and correspondence on her desk. And eventually what caught his eye and interest was an envelope posted from Tokyo. Within it was a letter of invitation … an invitation to attend, as an honored guest, an international human rights conference scheduled to take place in Tokyo from Wednesday, 28 June to Saturday, 1 July. It also included a voucher for round trip travel to Tokyo on Air France, as well as a confirmed reservation for a luxury room at the Park Hyatt Tokyo billable to the conference organizers.

He plopped himself down into her desk chair, ran his hands over his face and began drumming his fingers on the desktop. Obviously she had turned them down, as she would have already been in Tokyo had she accepted. And he was perplexed by the fact that she had never mentioned to him the invitation or her decision not to attend. Something wasn’t right. Why hadn’t she shared this with him? What had she been fearful of? As they say in his native Texas, the whole thing smelled as bad as an outhouse breeze … and the stench had the Syndicate written all over it.

Opening Min-Ji’s laptop, he entered her password, and after bringing up Expedia on the browser he typed into the flight search box ‘Geneva to Tokyo’. From the list he chose the top choice … Air France.


Tuesday, 27 June, 19:48 (11:48 In Sweden). Deluxe King Bed Suite with city view, 49th floor, Park Hyatt Tokyo.

“Come on everyone! Let’s get ready to go out!” chirped Barb gaily, standing before their hotel suite’s wide ‘city view’ window, all ready for an evening out on the town wearing a little black dress.

“What’s the big rush?” groaned Gun wearily from where she lay stretched out on the King bed. “It’s barely gotten dark outside and Annika has only just returned from a dip in the hotel pool.”

“And what a pool it is!” gushed Annika, peeling herself out of a sleek white off-shoulder, open-back swimsuit before heading to the bathroom for a shower. “Occupies most of the 47th floor with a spectacular wide floor-to-ceiling view of the city. You can even see Mt. Fuji off in the distance!”

“To be perfectly honest, Babs, after a long flight I’m pretty tired. Is it really necessary to go out tonight? I mean Kabukicho will still be there tomorrow.”

“I know it will, Gun, but once the conference gets underway, and everyone wants to fete us, our evenings may well be too busy to visit Kabukichō,. It’s professionally important for me to go there and experience it, and this is my best chance.”

“Just what do you want to experience?”

“I’m especially interested in the so-called theme clubs … one of the districts’s more seedier attractions in which almost any unsavory prurient taste can be accommodated. And in which the incidence of human trafficking to serve such interests is most prominent. There’s even said to be establishments with dungeon or prison themed offerings.”

“Going there tonight is obviously important to Babs. I think we should do it,” announced Annika returning to the room wrapped in a towel.

“Alright, alright!” I’m obviously outvoted here,” laughed Gun. “Maybe we can go to one of those prison-themed places and have Babs locked up? No, wait! Better yet … a dungeon themed club where we can have her put on the rack!”

“Very funny! I already tried that at Åke Persson’s private torture museum up in Sollefteå, remember? Once is enough for me!”

“Awww … and I thought you enjoyed it.”

“Okay, it’s settled then,” intervened Annika. “We’re going out. Give Gun and me some time to get ourselves dressed and ready. And let’s hit some bars when we first get there so we can get Babs drunk enough to actually go to one of those places without backing out.”

“Right, I’m in but I’ll need a shower first,” announced Gun.

“Hold on a second before you head for the shower,” said Annika in a low and serious tone. “There’s something I’ve been wanting to mention since dinner in the hotel restaurant. Remember that guy I said was taking pictures of us at the airport baggage claim? Well, he was at another table in the restaurant watching us!”

“Probably just a coincidence,” scoffed Gun. “Besides these Japanese guys all tend to look a lot alike.”

“That’s racist stereotyping,” scolded Barb.

“No, seriously. it was him. I’m sure of it!” declared Annika. “We’d best be on the lookout for him from here on out!”

TBC
 
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