The Birds of Prey Affair~ chapter 4

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 link to chapter 3: section7mfu.livejournal.com/
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The Russian cocked his head, blinking slowly, staring at the British agent for a second, as Mark Slate could be a master of the understatement at times.

"Yes I suppose creepy would be a proper description, though we still do not know the cause of it," Illya replied.

Napoleon chimed in, "You stay here with Lisa to monitor communications. Illya and I are taking Mr. Waverly to medical. We have one nurse still standing up there to take care of him."

"And I will be checking blood samples she is currently taking to see what, if anything might be in their bloodstreams," Illya added. "That is the only thing that would make sense as to whatever caused this mass occurrence." He paused, squeezing his lips together as he thought. ""There is some commonality among those of us left unaffected and I need to find what that is, as it may lead to some sort of antidote for the others. if there is indeed one that could be developed."

"That's all fine and dandy but you blokes aren't looking at the big picture. Don't you think this might be a precursor to physical attack on headquarters? I mean everyone here has been knocked out, leaving us virtually defenseless, don't you think?"

Napoleon raised his eyebrows, staring at Illya with a look that said "Why didn't we think of that?

"An excellent point Mark," he said, prompting him to press a yellow button on the console, setting off a security alert. The corridors of headquarters were bathed in an eerie glow as green and red emergency lights alternated flashing along the ceiling as well as a klaxons shrieking at a near deafening pitch.

He picked up the microphone. "This is Napoleon Solo, number one, Section two. To anyone in headquarters hearing this, please call in and report to Mr. Slate in the main conference room. Prepare for a possible armed assault on headquarters." He switched to another channel

"Emergency lockdown code 1121," he announced as he uncovered a red button and pressed it. "To all agents in the vicinity of the New York headquarters, we are preparing for imminent attack. Do not attempt to enter headquarters, position yourselves along the block and across from Del Floria's and report your locations to Mark Slate on channel E. I repeat, we are on emergency lockdown code 1121, Napoleon Solo out."

The code told every agent on the outside that headquarters had already been compromised, and the fact that the number one Section II agent was making the announcement meant that Alexander Waverly was either out of commission, or dead.

One by one channels flashed on the console and by Marks reckoning there were a dozen people still up and about inside the building, and that included himself; Solo, Kuryakin and Miss Rogers. One member of Security, two women from communication, one member of the lab and the rest were from the secretarial pool.

Not much to defend against and attack...