"The Fortune Cookie Affair" chapter 23 the CONCLUSION (whew!)

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

A double drabble~

Solo’s head raced, trying to make sense of the facts.

“Fortune cookies, addresses, an unfinished bomb, Chinese agents wanting to destroy THRUSH, Ecks back from the dead, Wye showing up, Angelique, and the trap at Hurley’s Bar…probably Egret.”

“Sylvia,” he snapped his fingers.

“What are you on about now mate?” Mark asked.

“Sylvia,” Illya nodded.

“We need to get to headquarters and fast. Egret was there, as Sylvia, where else could she hide something in plain sight?”

Solo’s communicator chirped a call from April.

“HQ is on red alert. Dr. Egret is actually alive, but barely."

Illya pulled his communicator calling for a complete search of headquarters. ”Check anything to do with Sylvia Barton! Maybe a bomb!”

By the time the agents arrived, a powerful explosive device capable of blowing up the entire block was found and disarmed.

Ecks and Wye were questioned and released, Jie and Angelique too.

Egret would be shipped to Antarctica; a life sentence in Tartarus.

When all was said and done, the merry chase was at last over. Illya and Napoleon finally gave up trying to piece everything together.

“Hungry tovarisch?”

“Always…Chang’s?”

“Why not?”

Illya tossed over a fortune cookie from his desk, “Last one.”

a/n: Tartarus was first coined by Gina Martin.

Comments

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Wow, I am impressed that you managed to fit all of that into 200 words! What a wrap-up! And LOL, I am very amused that Napoleon and Illya celebrate by going right back to Chang's.

I'm also happy that Ecks and Wye were released. ;) Off to continue doing ... whatever it is they're doing now.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Chang's has been their 'go to' place in all my stories....it's like the bar in "Cheers"...the owner knows Napoleon and Illya and the kitchen staff knows Illya's appetite. lol!

It made sense to free all the others as they really didn't do anything wrong. Ecks and Wye were being associated with THRUSH and were caught up in the drama from the Chinese agents, and Angelique was just sticking her nose in to see what she could see. Jie wasn't guilty of anything other than sending people off on a wild goose chase.

We'll never find out if it was Egret who was building the bomb, and who ambushed Napoleon and Mark at the bar...too much to explore and try to resolve in 200 words. Yikes.

So glad you liked the conclusion and thank you for joining the round-robin. Hope you had fun with it!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL.

I think I need to read the story as one continuous thing to see all the twists and turns. ;)

Probably a random THRUSH agent that ambushed Napoleon and Mark. And probably Egret planted the bomb on orders from a higher-up. But interesting unanswered questions indeed!

I definitely did! I got plunnied from it ... both the one I started and I have an urge to write a short piece taking place after the round robin. ;)

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

I'm going to repost it as a whole next week on FF.net and on AO3, everyone will be given credit for their chapters. I''ll have the document ready some time on Sunday, Then will repost a link here on Section VII to the story when it's up as a whole.

Egret is most likely behind it all and acting alone...a revenge thing against UNCLE perhaps? Glenna and I are talking about doing another RR later on down the road.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Oh neat!

Hmm, intriguing! That would be great to do another one. :)

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Glenna and I talked about it, and will probably do it again...but not just yet. Too soon for another.