It’s a long long day – The Final Action! Finale!

As soon as I called him, he quickly turned and took a step back. I was sure he was taken aback by the surprise and it would take a moment for him to gulp down the surprise down his throat.

Before he could get out from that surprise and get alerted, I took my chance and said, “Sir, you took the wrong container”

“What?” he asked. His voice was a lot coarser than I had thought but I was prepared for anything by now.

“The container you took from the hotel is for someone else. Here, this is your daal. We were packing the food for three parties’ altogether and somehow they all got exchanged. Now when we checked we found that this container has twenty plates. The one you are carrying has more daal. It was meant for”

“Ok ok just give me that container. Don’t waste my time” he yelled back cutting me in between.

“Here sir, take this” I said handing him the box I had in my hand.

He quickly took it and gave me the box he was carrying in his bag and asked, “Are you new here?”

“Yes sir. I joined just few days back. I am actually from a nearby village and one of my uncles”

“Ok fine. I don’t want your story” he said, again cutting me in between.

Once he was sure he had placed the box correctly in his bag, he turned without even taking a second look at me and just walked away towards their house.

With a graceful smile of success on my face I slowly walked back. After a few quick steps, I turned back to assure he had gone out of my sight and then quickly walked to Praveen.

“So, how did it go? It wasn’t even more than two minutes” Praveen said.

“Yeah. It went smoother than we had thought. That guy, as we had guessed, was just a worker who wanted to make sure he carried the right box and dint even waste time for a second look.”

“Obviously. He would have thought any small act from him or any questions would invite more suspicions and questions back on them”

“That’s right. And that is the exact reason why he was not even interest in any of the details, just took that box and almost sped away.”

“Then what you were talking?”

“Ah that. I was just taking my chance on acting a bit and tried to give him a story about how the boxes got exchanged and then how I joined this hotel”

“Rascal; you never leave a chance to act” Praveen said sitting down on the ground.

I too sat down along with him and said, smiling, “How can I? And we have a good news”

“What’s that?”

“I smelled alcohol from his mouth”

“So?”

“Soooooo my dear friend, the effect of that morphine mixed in their food will increase along with alcohol. So if they have already consumed alcohol or will be consuming now, the effect will increase and our worry of the quantity not being sufficient will be taken care by that alcohol”

“Wow! Finally we have some good news! Let them enjoy their alcohol and their food”

“Yeah, and lets wish all of them drink and enjoy!”

Praveen started laughing and I joined him.

Once we were done with our laughter and enjoying a nice little humor, we stood up and started walking towards the house. As we neared the end of the main road, I looked at Praveen and signaled him to stop.

“Let’s get on the top of that house where I was. We will just keep an eye on the house and watch for any activities we can”

He agreed to my plan, and wasting no time, slowly and stealthy, we got to the terrace of the house that was diagonally opposite to the house of the bad guys with green T-Shirts. Once we were up, Praveen took out his binoculars and took a careful 360 degree look. Once he gave me a green signal, I quickly setup my Sniper and was back to my half lying position in which was few hours back. It had already turned completely dark and we had to be extra careful in keeping our look on any activity around the house. Though we couldn’t get any view inside it, we had to be careful on the windows and doors and any clue that we could lay our hands on.

It was getting tougher and tougher to concentrate; especially with the growing hunger and the growing attacks from mosquitoes. We were armed with all the ammunitions and modern equipments for look out except a mosquito repellant and that had already made us realized how we had to be prepared for any of our future look outs. Both of us agreed that mosquitoes hurt as much as the bullets and to carry a repellant along with every bullet proof vest.

After a long long wait of around three hours, Praveen checked the time. It was already ten minutes past twelve.

“Its 12:10 AM. Shall we go a little closer? I feel they must have all completed their food by now”

“Let’s wait for some more time, just to be on the safer side” I said.

“Fine, let’s wait for another thirty minutes and then atleast I will take a closer look and then we can decide”

I nodded agreeing to his plan. And we continued looking at the house with eyes wide open and scratching our bodies every time a mosquito bit.

At 12:45 AM, Praveen stood up and pulled out his Colt and checked the magazine. He held it in his right hand and pulled up his pant to check another revolver was in its place.

“You keep a watch on me, I will just go down and scout the house and take a walk around it for any clues and voices.”

“No, don’t go behind where I cannot see you.”

“Okay”

A minute after I glued my eyes again to the view on the Sniper and targeted it at the entrance of house, I saw Praveen in it, walking stealthily towards the main door of the house from the entrance. Though it was pretty dark, a small zero watt bulb lighted at the side of the house was playing a vital part in helping us keep watch on the house and its doors and windows. He took a step to the door and put his ears to it. Then turning back at me he got down and walked to the right side of the house. He slowly walked along the right wall of the house and disappeared behind it.

“I had told you not to go behind the house” I yelled to myself thumping my fist on the terrace.

Quickly I took out my binoculars and kept looking at each side of the house and as guessed, he appeared back on the left side of the house. Once I saw him safe, I got back to the Sniper view and followed him all along the left side of the house until the entrance.

Within a minute, he was back on the terrace and said, “I guess we are safe. I did not hear any voice nor saw any light inside the house”

“Let’s not waste our time then. Finally it is time to attack” I said.

“How do you want to do it? From opposite ends or from same end?”

“We will have to break open the door. Let’s take our chance on only one door”

“Agreed”

Quickly I packed in the sniper into its bag and took out my semiautomatic pistol. Checking the magazine again I took out a tear gas tin just in case we needed and hung it on my belt. Praveen took out two submachines and handed me one while he hung one across his neck. I took the submachine from him and hung its belt across my neck and adjusted it so that I could quickly point it against me and take a shot.

Carrying the other bags, we silently stepped down and placed them securely under a tree near the house we had been sitting on. Once we were on the road, we took a careful look across the street to make sure there was no one around and then quickly walked into the entrance of the house.

I stepped up to the front door of the house and kept my ears to the door. It was sullen silent. There was absolutely no voice from inside the house. Praveen went to the window and tried pushing it open but was unsuccessful. With his nod, I pushed the door slowly on the top and then near the bottom. The door was locked on the top and also at the center. I pointed at the points where the door was locked and signaled two to Praveen. He stepped closer and whispered, “How will you open it? If we break it open they will know it was opened from outside”

“Let’s check the back door” I whispered back and we walked to the back door of the house.

I checked that door for the points where it was locked and found that it was locked only at the center of the door to the side wall. I signaled the point to Praveen and said, “Let me bring the iron hook we have in our bag”

Slowly walking over to the other side of the house, I crossed the road taking a careful look everywhere and searched our bags for the iron hook we had kept in. Picking up the hook of right length and strength and walked back to the door with my pistol still in hand.

Sliding the sharper and shorter edge of the hook inside the gap between door and wall where I had guessed the lock was. Then I made sure the hook went right where it had to be. Praveen touched my shoulder from behind and asked from my pistol. As soon as I gave him my pistol I held the longer end of the hook in both hands and took my position to force open the door while he took his position to attack anyone who could come in front of us any moment we opened the door. With all my strength I pulled the hook bar towards and it pushed the door lock in. With two more hard tries, I was successful but as soon as the screws in the lock gave up against my strength and the lock broke down, the door opened wide and in that force, it went back and hit the wall behind it with a thud. I placed the hook bar down and took my pistol from Praveen.

Both of us switched our torches on and stepped in the house. As soon as we entered the house, we saw the bathroom to our left and wall on our right. As we walked, we saw a room, probably the main drawing room of the house. There were few guys sleeping on the floor with the alcohol bottles lying everywhere. There were two doors on our right and a kitchen to our left. A look at the kitchen showed the empty box making sure that the food had been eaten. Praveen opened the first door that we came across and targeted the torch inside it. Our kidnapped RAW agent was tied up on a chair in the corner of that same room. Praveen stepped closer and took a neater look at him while I took a neater look around the room and saw the room full of boxes holding guns, submachines, AK rifles, and even grenades.  Praveen checked the agent’s pulse and showed his thumbs up at me. The agent was unconscious and had turned weaker.

That was the moment when we took our first relieved breath that day! We had found the kidnapped agent alive and were about to rescue him.

I quickly ran out of the room and locked the other room without even taking a look of what lay inside it. As I returned I saw Praveen untying the agent. I whispered in his ears and walked to the entrance of the room and kept a watch on the drawing room. Once Praveen held the agent against him and dragged him out of the room, I helped him hold the agent and we quickly lifted the agent from there till the back of the house. I then walked back to the back door and searched for the fallen screws. As I found the screws, I took out the Swiss knife from my pocket and fixed the lock and tightened the screws. I checked the door for any marks from the hook and making sure there weren’t any major damages on the door that proved the door to be forced open from outside, I again took out my pistol and helped Praveen carry the agent outside into the road.

Once we were on the road, we placed the agent across one of the jeep that blocked our view from the house. Quickly picking up our bags, we carried the agent and walked as quickly as we could till the main road and then towards the school. Once we were in the school ground, we tried to wake him up but we were unlucky.

“I have an anti sedative for morphine and can inject him with that to help him recover from the effect of that. It might help him turn conscious. But first, let’s go to the car.”

“Yes, that will be safe. But what if he has not eaten the food?” Praveen asked.

“Yes right. We will directly take him to a hospital” I said.

We again lifted the agent and walked to the car as quickly as we could. The time was already 2:10 AM and there was no one on the streets of Narayanpur nor did we see any lights inside any house.

Once we reached our car, we placed the agent in the back seat. Without waiting for him to wake up, Praveen quickly started the car and started driving back towards Honnavar while I sat back holding the agent.

“It must have been a very long day for you both” Ram said, as we sat outside a local clinic that where we had admitted the agent.

The agent had gained consciousness on the way to Honnavar but still was very weak and in no state to understand or explain us anything. We had called up our Chief on the way to provide first hand updates on the successful mission and then had called Ram to update him about the mission and the condition of the agent. We had then driven straight to Ram’s house and along with him we had taken the agent and admitted him to a local clinic for all the required medical attention. We had then spent few minutes giving him the details and the updates required for the paper works and the reporting of the mission.

Praveen looked at his watch which and said, “It has been exactly 24 hours since we started this day but yes this day has been a very long long day” and turned towards me with a broad smile of satisfaction and victory on his face.

I smiled back at him and checked my watch which showed 3:00 AM.

Yes, it had been exactly 24 hours since the day had started for us, but it felt like we had spent 24 days since we had woken up and started our day. Yes, it had been long long day! Sorry, it had been a damn long long successful day with the mission successful and a life saved! After all that’s how spies spend their day!

As the Spy Series ends, I would request all my Dear Sunday Readers to drop their valuable comments and feedbacks below… Your likes and shares would also matter a lot for me and the mission which just ended successfully…

Vishal…

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