Monday at ten minutes to five in the morning, I arrived at the front door of the lab. The two men were there already. They let me in the back seat of their car, and one of them came to sit with me. The car started and after a few minutes the man next to me apologized himself for such a request but, due to safety reasons, he would have to blindfold me.
They drove for a very long time. I have no idea how long, but maybe three or four hours.When we finally arrived to our destination, I was brought into a building and finally my blindfold was removed. I realized I was inside some kind of a military building. After a few minutes a man in a black suit followed by a few officers in uniform came in. I learned that this man, and also the other two guys in the black suits belonged to the secret services. We all sat down in some kind of a conference room while somebody in a high uniform (I am not an expert but he looked like a general) began to speak.
"Gentlemen, I thank you all very much for being here to be part of this special mission. I would like to express some special thanks to our friend from the Lab, who accepted to join us in this mission. From now on he will be known by the nickname of Jack. We all have nicknames here during secret missions. So, thanks Jack for being here!"
I just nodded with my head as a sign of acknowledgment.
"Today," the General continued, "we are starting this special mission, which should be completed in three to six days at the very most, according to the weather conditions. Unfortunately, there is a new, very serious, danger for our Country and many other democratic and allied countries. This is coming from Namila Island. As you all know, a terrible dictator rules Namila Island. His name is Pinntoxx and, just like reported several times by the media, Pinntoxx is making his people believe that he is the direct descendent of Toxx God, the God of the local religion, and he is ruling the Island both politically and religiously.That is a double power-knot for those poor people. In order to control the situation better, he turned the clock back a few hundred years, reducing women into serious slavery: they belong to their husbands, or family. They can only go around by themselves in the morning from eight to noon shopping for food in the small street markets and take care of other tasks connected with the family business. Outside of the permitted hours, women can only go around with their husbands, or male family members such as brothers, father, and other male in- laws. Women found alone outside of the permitted hours are considered like trash, and can be raped, tortured, killed or reduced into slavery by any male who finds them. Women who are cheating their husbands or not attending the family cores properly, or showing signs of rebellion can be killed with no public judgment. When the body is cremated, the husband or family member just needs to state the reason for the killing, so that this can be reported in the public registers of the population."
He paused briefly, and then continued:
"This situation gives Pinntoxx a double strength: on one side about half of the population, which is female, is being controlled by the other half of the population, which is male, leaving only the males to be checked closely by the State Police and the Army. This situation also allows the male population to be mild and not rebelling, since they can use the latent "male-power" on their women and not against the government. Actually, a change in the Government could lead to some big social changes, weakening the male power on women, and most men do not want that to happen. Pinntoxx has a very powerful army, including nuclear and bacteriological weapons, and has become a real danger for Tamila Island, a nearby island of the Tami-Nami archipelago. We think it is a question of months before they proceed with an invasion of Tamila. We must avoid this because, in case Tamila falls, it would be easy for Pinntoxx to invade all the other smaller islands of the Tami-Nami archipelago and re-instated the illegal situation that we managed to stop with the helps of our friends in Tamila: under Pinntoxx the Tami-Nami Islands will be the Hub port for most of the illegal drugs to our country. The population of Namila Island is only of approximately three hundred thousand inhabitants. Not that much, but the Island is not that large. The Island is the second largest island of the Tami-Nami Archipelago, and is also the most remote on the east end, but only five miles away from Tamila Island, the largest Island, which luckily is a friendly country with us.We could easily engage a war with Namila under any excuse, but we prefer to avoid that, since Pinntoxx could use his nuclear and bacteriological weapons against Tamila. Another important thing not to be ignored is that, experts says, under the most favorable weather conditions, some of his nuclear weapons could reach the Northern part of our country, and we do not want this, and also we want to avoid that a few millions of people would die. We needed to find a solution."
There was another long pause.
"After a few months of planning, we happen to hear about Jack's studies. We checked with him about some details and then spent the last two months planning this mission. We are going to send a small, specialized task force on Namila Island to retrieve the DNA of their three most important kind of plants grown there, which represent eighty percent of their food supplies, naturally grown on the island. Once the DNA's root has been retrieved and the chemicals are ready in large quantities, we shall send our radar-invisible aircrafts to spray it all over their plantations during night time, and nobody is going to suspect anything until a couple of months later, when they would start collecting the crops and using them for nutrition. Nobody should be suspecting of us. On the other hand, the beginning of starvation on the people should weaken Pinntoxx, hold responsible of not taking care of his people. He would have no time to bring extra food in, since a bad crop is a pre-warning of food shortage, but an apparently very good crop, although useless, and nobody realize it until it is being used, gives no pre-warning! Of course, we shall be ready to bring food to help the people in Namila, if they get rid of Pinntoxx.Therefore his own starving people would destroy Pinntoxx, while we would be ready with food for them and a new Government to be installed for their future.Questions anybody?"
"Yes Sir," I said promptly. "I would like to have more details about the first part of the plan, the one that involves me directly."
"You are absolutely right, Jack. I was saving this for later, when all the details will be revealed. Well, it is now noon. In twelve hours from now you will be boarded on a plane and take off from this base. Four hours later you will be landing in Tamila, our allied island next to the enemy. Then you will have two days in Tamila to review all the details, get adjusted to the time change and weather change and also to get familiar with the other folks part of the team. Then, in the evening of the third day, or the fourth day in case the weather is not good, four of you including Jack will be boarded on the mini submarine with two members of the crew. You will cross the channel between Tamila and Namila completely under water, reach the safe place where the sub can surface very close to the coast, which has been already spotted. The four of you will have four hours to complete the job using infrared-visors, in order to find the plants we are looking for and picking up their DNA roots. The Mini Submarine will be back in the same spot where you landed exactly four hours later. It will try only once, so be ready in position at the meeting time! In case of bad weather, the mission will be delayed for one or two days. However, since from this very moment you are not going to be released until the mission is over, later today you will receive the final plans with all the details of the mission, so that each one of you is able to know what he is expected to do. Does enyone have other questions? No? Okay, now go and relax in the rooms we have arranged for you all, and study all the detailed plans which we are giving you!"
Later we were given a bag containing all the tools needed for the mission, including infrared viewer, helmet, mimetic uniform, etc. then we were boarded on a helicopter which brought us to a military airport, and here transferred on a small jet plane heading to Tamila Island. During the flight, the head of our team went over and over the instructions, paying special attention to me, since I was absolutely not prepared to the military tricks. The following two days were like hell: hard military training. We were finally allowed to relax in the morning of the third day. That evening we would have boarded a mini submarine and sail to Namila Island.
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