Big Timmy by Chris Manson - HTML preview

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The Argosy plane  I had to figure out a way of grounding it. Jackie and I had found the airstrip and I noticed the Argosy was doing some low passes (flying close to the ground) I took myself off towards where the low passing was happening in the adjacent field. When the plane made its next pass I threw a metal shard up about twenty feet, by doing this I hoped to slow the revolutions of them down. With a low groaning sound of the engines I knew the metal shard had been successful. The Argosy had to make a crash landing. Meanwhile I could see Mario as he picked up a can of petrol. I could also see that the closer he got to the sphere, his crooked smile became wider. He poured the container of fuel over the remains of the sphere and threw a match in. Alex came over and congratulated him, he shook his hand and then pushed Mario into the pit of the sphere. Now I only had Alex to stop.  Jackie signalled to me in sign language that she’d found the detonation switch and had blown it up with her special toothpaste.  I signalled back to her “ok”. and we almost ran to the plane. We got to the side of the plane.

“Can you get the pilots attention?” I asked Jackie.

Jackie threw a rock at the side of the plane; almost immediately the pilot or it could have been his co-pilot came down to see what was going on. 

“Can I see the cockpit please?” I asked him.

“Of course you can?” He replied.

 I went up to the cockpit and immediately spotted a hiding position under the stairs.

“I might have an idea.” I said to Jackie. “Maybe by smashing the windows using my leisure bombs in my fishing box , it could cause a rapid decompression.”

“Right, sounds good to me, I don’t have any better ideas.” Jackie replied.

I threw out my line from my fishing rod and I just had enough reel for the thirteen windows at the back.

Meanwhile, Alex came out of his house with twelve more people all dressed identically in black jump suits with yellow arrows on. They were a mixed age group from about thirty to sixty years old. They went over to the sphere where Mario had meant to kill us.  Once Alex had seen we weren’t in the capsule and burnt alive he went berserk with his shotgun, firing five shots off in random directions. The oldest of his twelve companions tried to calm him down. It worked for about five minutes or so until the pilot who was now standing next to him said

“You don’t expect me or anyone to take off in that do you?”

Alex then pointed a gun at his head and then they walked towards the aeroplane. I saw my chance while the field was clear, I crawled along the Argosy grabbing Jackie’s leg, to indicate to her that now was the time to go. We found a small door at the tail end and squeezed in.  The compartment we were now in was a bit tight to fit both of us in. As I still had my mobile phone in my left pocket I reached down and got it. Turned it on so that I could see what we were doing.  The pilot had started the engine and had taxied the plane to the end of the runway and was now speeding up as it was approaching take off.  Both Jackie and I were frightened of what Alex had planned, by now we had taken off. I could see Jackie was scared. I tried to calm her down but it didn’t work.  As we listened to the roar of the four Rolls Royce engines. I came up with a plan.

“Right Jackie I’m going to try something quite drastic to lower the plane.” I said. Meanwhile Alex had come down to use the downstairs lavatory. I waited and made my move when he had finished. He swung the door open; I pushed with all my might and got him to the floor of the lavatory, then sat on his feet.

“Jackie can you get me my mobile?”

“Sorry to have to do this to you Alex.”

I set my mobile to self-destruct, then I tied Alex’s hands to the toilet piping. Meanwhile I had to go and check upstairs. Just as I crawled up the staircase I could hear the eruption of the air, the doors caving in from my leisure bombs I had thrown at the windows earlier. A massive decompression followed. I had to hang on to the staircase for dear life.  It seemed like a gale force wind was running through the plane lifting and throwing any loose objects all over the place. Meanwhile the plane nose-dived as the pilot made a rapid emergency descent to a safe altitude and then levelled out. Once the plane was level I got to Jackie and led her to the back of the plane where we put on our parachutes and jumped off the back ramp of the aeroplane. We managed to land on a corrugated iron roof just as the Argosy hit the chimney of a factory, Instantly the chimney crumbled like someone crushing a bag of biscuits.

Since my accident I had learnt to get my life back on track with the help of therapists and others at C.H.I.S., but little did I know that I would be dealing with a mass terrorist organisation and that my inquisitive nature would lead to such an exciting adventure.  I patiently waited for my next saga………………..