“Sir that rascal is stopping”
yelled the driver suddenly as I was concentrating on dialing Praveen’s number.
Suddenly, I looked up and saw
that the Qualis had stopped in front of a small tea shop but no one had got out
of it. There could have been only and only three cases for the Qualis to stop
over suddenly. Either they must be waiting for an order from their head or they
might have got a clue that they were being tailed or one of them might have
drank more than necessary water and was desperate to release it. In any case,
it had stopped but there was no movement. I had to do something.
“Just drive ahead in your normal
speed”
“But we will lose them Sir. What
if they turn back or take some turn”
“Just go ahead. We will see
later”
We crossed the Qualis carefully
and steadily. The windows were up and nothing could be seen. The darkness saved
me from being noticed. As we moved ahead, I was desperately searching for a
place where we could hide and keep an eye on them. After taking the next right,
I got down from the auto and walked to the corner and kept staring at the
Qualis. Since the engine was stopped, I quickly took out the mobile and dialed
Praveen’s number.
“Where are you?” he said picking
the call within a ring
“I am in JP Nagar. From
Marathahalli a right before Bangalore Central. Where are you?”
“I am with Chief. Ready to leave
now”
“Any information on the number? It’s
still moving?”
“Yes. It’s still on move”
“Any specific route?”
“Nopes. It’s too random. Stopping
at places. It is near Malleswaram right now”
“So they have different teams.
Might have got a heavy backup. Ready for any level of defense” I said pursing
my lips and trying to add some more grey cells to the thinking tank.
“Looks like. What do you want to
do?” Praveen asked after a gap of few long seconds.
“How about this plan? You go and
get that number. I keep following this Qualis until we get somewhere” I said.
“Cool. I am starting now. Whose
number is this?”
“Auto driver who is helping me
tail the Qualis”
“Man! You have gone mad” he said
as I heard a door bang in the background
“I am recruiting new members into
our team”
“Yeah I know. So that you get a
free drop back home from office”
“You think like me”
“I am in car. Let’s stop being
humorous and throw some action” he said and disconnected the call without waiting for my answer.
I kept standing and staring at
the Qualis but there wasn’t any moment from it. Neither anyone got down nor did
the engine started. The digits on the display of my watch kept changing continuously
but the wait seemed years.
“Sir how much time more?” the
driver yelled in between who had to be consoled again to wait for one more hour
with an extra pay of 50%
It had been exactly fifty minutes
when the mobile rang and the screen displayed Praveen’s number on it.
“What’s the news?” I asked in a
hurry.
“They turned smarter. They have
kept the mobile in the back seat of a cab. The cab driver doesn’t know anything
and his routine has been the same with hell of pickups and drops except for one
change. He picked up a random customer from JP Nagar and dropped him off in
Silk Board. But the customer dint talk neither did he got any calls”
“Hmmm… Strange! Why would anyone
take a cab form JP Nagar till Silk Board? And JP Nagar is the area from where the
call came in. JP Nagar is the area where this Qualis has stopped.”
“True. But we lost another
string. Even the mobile is clean. No data. No recent calls. Except…” he
stopped.
“Except what?” I asked guessing
what he held off.
“Except that it has an image of
Sonali with her hands tied. The rascals wanted us to find this mobile” he said
“Damn Buggers! Someone wants to
play high! They think they can enjoy screwing us”
“What’s next?”
“Can you come to JP Nagar?”
“On my way. Updating Chief” he
said disconnecting the call, again without waiting for my answer.
It took lots of minutes for
Praveen to arrive and by then the Qualis started moving again. I again had to
get in the auto and wait for it to move on and when it had passed us and was at
a very safe distance to be tailed, we started our journey again.
In a spies life, the most
important things are tailing and keeping an eye on your target but also, these
are things that are boring, unexpected, unguarded and the ones without any
guarantee of a positive result. Many a times, spies end up keeping their eye
24/7 on a target who, at the end of many days, turns out to be a dummy or
someone mistaken as the one to be eyed.
The Qualis kept on driving into
the inner roads of JP Nagar towards Banashankari third stage and we kept riding
at a very safe distance. I had to call Praveen and ask him to tail us. After a
quite long time, he met us at a signal. Without wasting time, I gave the driver
Praveen’s number and asked him to call the next day and ran into Praveen’s car
without losing sight of the Qualis.
“What’s the plan? Just keep
following the Qualis?” he said as he handed me the mobile.
“We have two ways now. Stop the
Qualis, attack it, get the information and move ahead with the info”
“Else?”
“Keep tailing the Qualis. But I
feel, by the way they have been playing; they want us to keep moving and take
all the time. They want to make us feel desperate and lose the time. I am sure
Sonali will be losing all hopes. She wouldn’t even have eaten anything. They
are just enjoying keeping us on goose chase and killing Sonali’s time”
“Come on. Let’s attack the Qualis
then”
“Yes. Let’s do it”
“How many passengers? What
machines are they carrying?”
“I have seen three but I guess
there are four in total. No idea on their machines. What do we have with us?”
“You name it, we have it” he said
turning at me and winking as the signal turned green.
“Ok. Let me grab the Semiautomatic.
How many rounds for you?”
“I have my Colt loaded with one
full round. Have another magazine in my pocket. Have another Colt at my back”
“Cool, you thought this is a war?”
I said as I quickly jumped into the back seat and opened up the seat and pulled
out the firearms box.
“This is the best thing I like
about your car. It’s loaded with everything” I said as I pinked a Colt and kept
it behind my back and picked my favorite Heckler & Koch Semiautomatic
Pistol loading them both with magazines.
Taking another set of magazines
and filling my pocket with a tear gas shell and a spray paint bottle I jumped
back to the front.
“What’s the plan?” he asked again
“Just follow those rascals until
you see a lonely place and then suddenly overtake the car”
“Don’t you want to see Sonali’s
photo?” he asked without turning at me
“The next time I see her will be
right in front of my eyes with her cute smile. Those buggers cannot break me.
Not now” I said tightening my teeth by rubbing them against each other.
We followed the Qualis for another
few minutes when finally we were lucky to get a lonely place.
“Now’s the time” I said opening
the cap of the sprayer.
Praveen forced the accelerator
and crossed the Qualis within seconds and stayed very near to its front window.
Getting myself out of the window, I quickly tried my best to spray as much as
possible on the glass in front of the driver. It was not a perfect one but
still it helped with the driver suddenly being taken into shock. He started making
mistakes, but the others got alerted. Before they could do anything, Praveen
slowed down the speed and I was right beside the driver of the Qualis.
I sprayed the paint again on his
side window and shot a bullet followed by another one. The glass broke into pieces
giving a clear picture of his frightened face. Before the person sitting next
to him could take out his gun, I shot at him and the bullet hit right in his
shoulders. Quickly throwing the tear gas shell inside the Qualis, I shot
another bullet into the palm of the driver. With that final shot, he left the steering
wheel and the Qualis crashed into the divider.
The tear gas started working as
we stayed at a distance safe for us. Within next few minutes the gas was
everywhere and there were no moments inside the Qualis.
The next moment when the three rascals
from the Qualis opened their eyes, they found themselves lying in the middle of
the road with their hands tied back. The two of them were hurt badly but the
third was frightened equally looking at the Pistol that was pointing right at
his head in between the eyes.
The Action Continuous…
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