When it all happened – The Ambush!!

“You are gonna say that everything is clear” Praveen repeated his words again, quickly.

The guy just stared at him blankly and smiled wickedly. It looked like all of them were as very well trained as they were dedicated to their boss or the group or the belief with which they would have joined the group and were ready to do anything blindly.

It is lot easier to talk and think about all these things but equally difficult when you land in a position facing it. You cannot even get them to talk to you leave alone understand you or be afraid of you or whatever. You are so determined and talented and well equipped yet everything in front of you seems a road block. The whole world stops rotating and the grip of your hand starts loosening. The whole situation even though being in your hands, at times, seems like being completely out of control.

The situation may be similar to what software engineers face during their project deadlines but yes in many ways it has a complete different picture.

As soon as Praveen pushed the green button, he turned the phone on speaker and bent behind the guy, holding the phone in his left hand and holding the guys left thumb in his right hand.

“Everything fine?” a coarse voice yelled from the other end of the phone.

“Yes” the guy replied.

I could hear voices of honks and motors. He was definitely in a vehicle which was right in the middle of heavy traffic. By then I quickly sent a message to the Chief to track the number that had flashed and reply back with its present location and where the vehicle was headed.

“Why is the phone on speaker?”

“Everyone wanted to hear you.”

“Why? What do they want?”

“I don’t know”

“Who all wants to hear me? Let them hear me when I come there. Now just put the phone back and listen carefully” he yelled as loudly as he could.

The guy looked at me and turned at Praveen. Praveen removed the phone from speaker and kept the mobile near his ears and he too bent a little getting his ears as close to the mobile as possible.

I could hear a yes and one no and then three yes from the guy but nothing else.

By the look on Praveen’s face it was clear that he too could not hear each and every word but he doubted something was wrong.

“What did he ask you?” he said coming forward and standing in front of the guy.

“He asked if we needed dinner. I said yes”

Praveen slapped him loudly sending the guy to the ground.

As the guy tried getting up, staring at Praveen, he received another slap and fell down again.

“Do you think I am an ass?” Praveen yelled pulling the guy up holding his collar.

“What happened?” I asked.

“Something is fishy” Praveen said turning at me.

Quickly I held the guy bleeding badly and pulled him slowly near the other guys and made him sit beside his fellow group members.

“What?” I then asked Praveen

“I too don’t know. But everything the guy on the phone asked looked wrong to me”

“But what did he ask?”

“He first asked dinner. Then he asked if it’s warm inside home. Then he asked if there was enough fuel in Qualis. The last question was if there were any mosquitoes inside home”

Working as a spy and spending most of your years in this field and dealing with a hell lot of persons of all the characters and places, you end up as that one person whose first instinct would always be to think of a hidden destructive meaning in anything that falls on your ears or eyes. To suspect everyone and to doubt on everything and to be on alert 24/7 becomes a part of your character.

And yes, this was one situation where in the brain cells are on high alert of taking in every word and decoding them in every possible way trying to figure out all the danger that lay ahead.

“What did he ask?” Praveen shouted again.

“You heard what he asked. You heard what I replied. What more do you want?”

“Tell me the meaning of all that” he hit the guy on his head with the butt of his pistol.

“I don’t know. I just replied to what he asked” he said with the same attitude.

Quickly walking behind him I put my right arm over his neck and pulled him as tight as possible. I tightened the grip of my arm until he chocked and coughed few times.

“Tell now what that all meant. Quick” I shouted.

“I don’t know. Go ahead and kill me if you want” he yelled back, still choking to death.

“That would be lot easier” I said removing my arm and moving back, I shot a bullet into his right arm.

He fell ahead shouting loudly and giving out a small cry he shouted, “Kill me. You wont get anything. Go ahead kill me”

I shot again in his left arm.

The pain doubled as the blood started flowing down.

“Yes I will kill you. I don’t need any answer from you” I said keeping my pistol at the back of his head.

His attitude seemed to dissolve as the blood started decreasing in his body. He neither moved nor spoke anything for few minutes.

Moving to the person beside him who was looking at him with a horrifying look in his eyes, I asked him “You will tell me what those questions meant or you will get a bullet. Not in arms this time. I am fed up of decorating bullets at places where they create beautiful designs but don’t give any results”

As soon as I placed my pistol to the back of his head, he started blabbering, “Don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me. I don’t know anything”

With a loud bang on his from the butt of my pistol which sent him down, he continued, “It was all coded. Only he knows the meaning. Our boss talks to him only. They always talk in coded language”

“Do you think we don’t know anything? There isn’t any mosquito in this building and you said yes. I doubt the answer would have been two if your foolish boss had asked how many mosquitoes.” I said turning to the guy who was lying on the ground bleeding badly.

“When you know why do you ask? You both are gone. You will be killed” he said trying to pick up his attitude which cost him another hit from Praveen.

“Nothing will happen to me. But if anyone of us is dead, that girl will die” he said and started laughing.

Something sparkled the fume in me and I suddenly pointed my pistol at his head and was about to shoot when Praveen stopped me and pushed me a little back.

“Are you mad? At least think before you act” he said

“There is nothing more to think” I replied.

“Don’t lose your calm” he said.

Moving back my pistol, I opened the mobile to check the reply from Chief.

“Whats that?” Praveen asked.

“Chief messaged saying…” I was saying when the mobile of that guy rang again flashing the same number.

“We are not picking it” Praveen said to me.

“Yes let it ring. Let him come here” I said.

“That is for you. He is here. You are gone” the guy said, still bleeding.

The ringing died but soon the ringing started again.

“What do you want to do?” Praveen asked.

“Lets speak to the one who has planned all this and is dying to see me dead” I said taking the mobile form him.

“Hello” I said calmly.

“So you really are smart. I enjoyed playing with you” he said laughing wickedly.

“How is Sonali?” I asked.

“She is alive. But till when I don’t know” he laughed again.

“What do you want?”

“You know that better. Or are you acting?” he shouted.

“Leave her. I am standing right in the middle of the home which you are using for all your illegal activities. Come and talk to me like a guy”

“Ha ha ha. I used to see Bollywood movies and now you are sounding like a Bollywood hero”

“Stop your nonsense. Come and talk to me face to face. Enough of your hiding.”

“You shut up. I don’t like your voice. I am not interested in your face. Give me my data and take your girlfriend. Else you know what I am capable of”

“I will make sure you bleed till your last breath if you touch her” I yelled furiously.

“Is it? Hear to her”

“Vish please save me. I am in a car” I heard Sonali crying as he took back the mobile and continued, “Did you hear your girlfriend?”

“Come and talk to me” I said, pressuring my nerves to calm down and controlling my actions badly.

“I am there. I came to meet you only”

“Where?”

“I am right in front the gate. Listen to me now” he said

“I am coming out”

“Just wait there and listen to me carefully. I know you are two. You have my four people hostage inside. I don’t care for them neither need them. You can shoot them and save my four bullets. So don’t offer me any stupid deal. I just need my data and take your girlfriend. I am not bothered about you or this girl who has been crying crazily. I assure you that it would be a fair exchange. I am in no way interested in attacking you or hurting you three. But yes, if you act anything smart you three will be dead. And listen Mr.Bollywood Hero, you are surrounded by men from all sides. You can turn to your left and see the window.”

I turned to the window and saw a man pointing his machine gun directly towards us.

“Now check the window on your right”

Again there was another guy holding the same gun.

“I have a person holding a gun ready to shoot you guys at one word. No one will ever get to know you both were here. Stop acting smart and without thinking do as I say”

I looked at Praveen, who was following my every action carefully and had noticed the men standing out of the window. He just nodded his head signaling yes.

“Tell me” I said over the call

“Walk to the front window and throw all the arms and mobiles you have got out of it”

“Okay” I said.

“Quick”

“I am doing it. No need to hurry” I shouted back

Collecting both the mobiles and all the six guns I walked to the front window and opened it. I threw the six guns saying, “These are the guns. Ones we had and the ones your guys had. This is the mobile my friend had” I threw out Praveen’s mobile.

“Good. As a prize for your good job, peek in from the window and look at the car parked to the left of the gate”

I put my head out of the window a little and turned to my left. I was horrified at what I saw. My legs shook a little and a light hint of tremble slid through my spine.

The back window of the vehicle was open and I could see Sonali with a plaster applied on her mouth. She was weeping badly and was looking at me. I could see all the pain in her eyes and felt worse when I tried sensing her pain. Her hairs were scattered a bit and her face had turned the palest I had ever seen. Her eyes looked lifeless and her face looked as unhealthy as possible. She had never looked as dull, not even when she was ill. She looked like she had lost all the hope, but a slight hint of life cheered her eyes as she looked at me signalling a wide no. I could see her eyes getting a bit happier and her cry lessening but still everything was worse and my heart was still beating mercilessly while my brain tried hard to think…

Continued Next Sunday…

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