The Fox and the Sloth
Chapter 13
Harem Scarem

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Any dialogue in bold is spoken in a foreign language.
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Part I

Trabzon, Turkey

Date: Friday, March 20, 2009 1147 Lima

"So, how is my friend Rufus?"

Kim glanced over at Ron then back at the woman as Rufus popped out of Ron's pants pocket.

"Hiya!"

The women nodded, giving Rufus a small smile, while stepping over and extending her hand.

"My name is Anna. Welcome to Turkey."

Kim shook her hand.

"I'm Karen and this is Henry."

Anna nodded and shook Ron's hand.

"Let's take a walk out into the bazaar. We can talk there without anyone trying to listen in. Besides, I think you might enjoy the it, it's very different from a typical London market. There is a very nice coffee shop about four blocks east of here. It's run by a friend of mine and we can stop there for a little bit."

Anna waved Kim and Ron back through the door and followed them into the main part of the store. After mumbling something to her assistant, the three of them walked out into the evening sun with Ron quickly falling in behind the two women. They headed up the street amidst the colorful open air stores. One merchant sold shimmering bolts of cloth where another sold beads of the brightest colors. Further on down, another shopkeeper sold all types of fruits and nuts while another sold dried fish, and a third sold tea in a myriad of colors and scents. Ron thought to himself that pink tea had to taste rather interesting, but even his sense of culinary adventure had its limits. He kept pace with the ladies but stayed about three paces behind, his eyes constantly surveying the area for anything out of the ordinary. He remembered his training: "Don't look for someone that seems out of place; look for someone who seemed to be too perfect a fit."

Kim walked with Anna, knowing that Ron would be watching over both of them. The two women walked for a few minutes stopping at a shop here and there to glance at something that caught their eye. Kim took particular interest in one shawl but put it back and continued on. A simple glance back at her partner gave him the signal. He would approach the shop keeper in his bumbling tourist act and get the shawl for her. Ron spoke the language as good as any native and would use his knowledge of the region and his antics to get a good price. She turned back to Anna.

"So, have you been here for awhile?"

Anna nodded.

"About six months. I was sent here by the Ministry so I could keep an eye on what was happening in the area. My cover was set up as a shop keeper expanding into the area. It allows me to move about the area without arising any suspicion. There was word that a new operator had moved into the area. Doesn't mind what the game is; drugs, guns, black market items but doesn't deal in human trafficking. But, his main stock in trade is intel. Doesn't mind what it is or how hard it might be to get. He specializes in Central Asia but has branched out recently to Southeast Asia and the Middle East."

Anna guided her redheaded companion into a dress shop where they browsed and compared a few items. Kim glanced back to see Ron talking with the shop owner as he picked up the scarf Kim had signaled. He turned to the shop owner.

"How much is this?"

The young man smiled at Ron.

"75 lira"

Ron raised an eyebrow and scowled. Another older man yelled out.

"He's an American, don't let him get you down on the price."

Ron turned the scarf over a couple of times.

"70 lira"

The young man shook his head.

"75 lira"

The older man stepped over to watch the young man haggle with Ron. Ron shook his head again.

"60 lira"

The two men laughed. The older man clasped the younger one in the shoulder.

"This one is really crazy. Make sure he pays double price."

Ron smiled at the two men and started to speak in their language.

"Double price? Now, that is interesting. Maybe the local police would like to hear that."

Both men turned pale and were speechless, having been caught in their little act.

Ron continued, "You say that the price you quoted is twice the real price? I'll pay 10 lira and forget the whole thing."

The old man quickly nodded as Ron handed the money over. He smiled as he turned back to the ladies with the scarf in hand as the older man began yelling and hitting the younger one.

Kim and Anna had watched the exchange and laughed when Ron caught up with them, prize in hand. The blond handed the scarf to Kim and gave her a little kiss for show. Anna motioned them into the café that she had mentioned earlier. The table they got was on the edge of a balcony overlooking the city. A waiter took their order and disappeared. Anna turned to the two agents.

"This is a MI5 safe station. We can talk freely here. Now, we know he has a lot of connections and the money to back it up. He's not very flashy, almost reclusive. No one knows what he really looks like but he does have a bodyguard staff run by his right hand man, very large and totally loyal. This man is the only contact out of his home that most have seen. Actually, its less of a large home, and almost a fortress on a cliff over looking the sea. There are sheer cliffs on three sides. The other side has a single road that is heavily guarded with a perimeter fence that blocks all access on that one side."

The waiter returned with their coffee and a light snack. The three remained silent for few minutes as they fixed their coffee. Kim sat back as she always took her's black with no sugar. Ron shuddered wondering how she could drink something like that. He hoped that there was not too much caffeine in the coffee or neither one of them would be getting a lot of sleep.

"One of the reasons you were sent here is that we have been tracking some unusual cell phone traffic, most it going to a few numbers in France."

Kim stopped sipped her coffee and stared at Anna and glanced over to Ron. The two agents leaned forward. Anna placed her cup on the table and drummed her fingers. "We really didn't think much of it until the Laurent affair occurred. We went back over the calls. The conversations seemed normal but we now believe that there was a code buried in them. The calls stopped the night you raided his home."

Ron unconsciously began to rub his arm. He remember the first round slicing open his arm, then the second knocking the breath out of him. The pain like a hot poker being rammed up his side was something he would not soon forget. Nor would he forget the look of pure panic in Kim's face as she got him to safety.

Kim sat her cup down.

"So this new guy is the one paying Laurent to do his dirty work."

Kim smiled over to Ron.

"I think Fox and Sloth needs to visit the mansion."

Anna smiled.

"We have a way to get you in using the cliff face. You will need to climb up the cliff and enter through a window on a lower level. The blueprints we were able to obtain showed a window that leads to a lower hallway. If you can reach and enter through that window, you should remain undetected."

Ron smiled.

"I think I have just the thing to get us up there. Right KP?"

Kim nodded and then turned to Anna.

"What's the weather look like and the moon doing for the next few nights?"

Anna looked out over the sea.

"There will be no moon this coming Thursday. We know from our sources that our target will be hosting an event for some of his friends. This would be a good opportunity for you to try and get in. Once in, you know what to do. Your pick up will be by swift boat."

Kim and Ron stood.

"Sounds good. Right now we need to get back and rest up. Can you get us a boat? Maybe we can have a little excursion over the next few days and check this place out from the water."

Anna nodded.

"We have a boat available. Be at the docks tomorrow at 10. A boat and guide will be waiting for you at slip ten."

Kim stood and took Ron's arm.

"Well, Henry, we need to get back to the hotel. I have some plans for the rest of the night."

Ron just smiled as the two of them headed back towards the hotel.

Anna watched as the two walked up the street, a small look of concern crossing her features.

"I hope you two are as good as Covington says you are."

London, England

Date: Friday, March 20, 2009 1521 Lima

Anne scowled at James as he once again compared the city map he had in his hand to the street sign. She sighed. She loved the man more than anything in the world, he could do the most complex equations in his head, he could design rockets and spacecraft that could do incredible things, but he could not read a map to save his life.

But it didn't matter. This was the first real vacation they had taken since…. She shut her eyes and tried not to think of it. It had been four years now and the pain was still there. Her room was still like it was that night she left with everything in its place. Neither she nor James could stand to change it. She also knew that Tim and Jim would go up to her room every once in awhile. They would sit there on her bed talking about all the ideas they were getting. Kim would have been in her senior year in college now. It was some comfort to the families that the two teens passed together, doing what they did best. A year after their deaths, a park was dedicated just outside of Middleton. Both of them were interred there side by side below a bronze monument that was erected in their memory.

A drop of rain hit her on the face, bringing her back to the here and now. She growled at James. They were lost, there was no cover nearby and it was starting to rain. James looked up as a couple of drops of rain hit him between the eyes. They started to look around for a place to run when the door opened to a flat located on the corner. An elderly lady waved to them.

"Come here and out of the rain. You look like you are lost."

Ann and James ran up the steps of the old brownstone and entered the hallway as it started to pour. The lady shut the door to the building and ushered the couple into the small living room of her apartment.

"Would you like a spot of tea?"

Ann and James nodded and soon the woman returned with a small tray with her tea kettle, three cups, a sugar bowl, a creamer and some cookies. They gladly accepted the cups as the lady handed them to them.

"Now you would be Mr. and Mrs. Thompson?"

Anne shook her head.

"No, .I'm Anne Possible, this is my husband James. We're Americans visiting here"

The lady was deep in thought.

"Possible, Possible, I know I should know that name."

James sighed.

"Our daughter was Kim Possible."

The lady's eyes grew wide.

"Oh, my, look at me making such a fool of myself, bringing up the past like that. Please forgive me."

Anne reached over and patted her hand.

"It's quite okay. It's nice to know people still remember her. Why did you think our name was Thompson?"

The lady sat back.

"Oh you look just like Karen Thompson, the girl from upstairs. She and Henry make such a lovely couple. It's a shame that they're away at the moment. I'm sure they would enjoy meeting someone from the States. They're Americans too, you know. They just finished school and are working somewhere here in London but they have to travel a lot."

James smiled as he stood. He glanced outside to see that the rain had stopped.

"We appreciate you hospitality but we do need to be on our way. Maybe we can drop by later in our trip and meet this couple?"

Anne stood and glanced over at her husband.

"Maybe we can, but first can you tell my husband how to get to the nearest Metro station?"

Part II

Trabzon, Turkey

Date: Thursday, March 26th, 2009 2351 Lima

The cool wind that came in off the sea blew across Kim and Ron as they scaled the sheer cliff. Anna had dropped them a mile out from the beach cliff and they swam in. They left their equipment in a crevice in the rocks and started to scale the cliff. The climb was not too bad as they had enough hand and foot holds and their years of climbing into lairs made this almost second hand to them. As they approached the window, they slowed their pace. Now was not the time to be discovered. Kim waved one of her Wade-Tech toys on the outside of the window to disable any alarms then tapped her Kimmunicator goggles.

"Wade, we're at the window and the alarm has been disabled. We're getting ready to enter."

Wade nodded in the view screen.

"Okay, Fox. Once inside, the shielding will cut us off. I'll be able to scan the exterior and maybe cause some distractions if you need them, but that's about it."

Kim turned off the goggles and nodded to Ron. He was able to quickly and quietly open the window, then followed after Kim as she climbed in. Kim crouched down as Ron relocked the window behind him. Without a word, the two split up and headed different directions.

Ron followed the hall to grille in the wall. Popping off the grille, he entered the ventilation duct-work and began working his way to the point where the crawlspace entered the main pipe and electrical space for the mansion. It was a wide open space running the entire height of the home. He stepped out and started to climb down to the basement. When he arrived at the bottom, he entered another crawl space that carried him right to the mansion's security center.

As he watched through the grille, a guard came up and entered a code into the keypad on the door. Ron noted the combination as the door closed behind the man. Anna's briefing had told him that there was only one guard in the room and it was time for the shift to change. The door opened again as the other guard left the room. Ron waited for the man to disappear up the hall before crawling out of the vent. He approached the door and punched in the code, then slipped in the door and let it swing shut. His arm was instantly up pointing a dart gun. He was not taking chances; this dart would send the guard to what ever God he prayed to.

"Hassem, what did you forget this time?"

The guard turned, expecting to find his friend and instead found a figure dressed completely in black, completely masked except for the eyes. They were the last thing he saw as his world went black.

Ron stepped up to the security system and dumped the body to the floor. Taking a seat in the chair he turned to the monitor screens. He could see everything he needed to see. He reached over to press a small button on his wrist.

Kim felt the buzz on her wrist. Ron was in the security room and had control of the monitoring system. She pulled her headset down over her head and put the mouthpiece near her lips.

"Talk to me, Sloth."

Ron searched the screens.

"Okay Fox. It looks like everyone is upstairs. You need to head to the end of the hall; there is a door on the left. This is a servant's stairway and should get you to the top quarters with no trouble."

Kim found the door and made her way up the stairs. Reaching the top, she hesitated.

"Okay Sloth. Where to now?"

Ron studied the layout before him.

"Okay, there are two guards down the hall by the double doors. Take a look."

Kim extended a small dentist's mirror so that she could look up the hall. What she saw was not good. The two guards were huge and the hallway was long. Also the guards were several feet apart. There was no way she could take them out without the alarm sounding.

Kim ducked back.

"Problem Sloth. They are too far apart and too far away. Plus, I don't know where this guy gets his muscle from but I would swear DNAmy did a number on the guys. I mean, I've seen gorillas that were smaller."

A door at the other end of the hallway opened, causing Kim to leap straight up and arch across the ceiling the in the area above the hall. A group of harem girls crossed beneath and headed for a room just up the hall. A smile crossed her face. She dropped down to the floor as the last one past, then slid across the hall next to the floor and entered the room the girls had just come out of. She spoke into her mike.

"I think I have a way to get in but I'll have to go silent for a bit."

Ron checked the cameras wondering what she was up to. He pressed a button to view the interior of the room his partner just entered. His face began to feel hot as he viewed the scene before him. "Well," he thought, "Now I know. I wonder what Kim thinks of that birth mark on her…" Ron shook his head and changed the camera view.

Minutes later Kim slipped out of the room. She had changed out of her stealth suit and was wearing a harem outfit complete with a veil. There was not much to the outfit so she had to hide her comm unit in her hair. She waited at the turn of the hall hoping for a break. At that moment, a door in the hall opened and the harem girls walked silently out, turning toward the door at the end of the hall. As the two guards opened the door for them, Fox slipped up behind the last of the girls and composed herself like the rest, walking right past the guards as they openly leer at her.

Kim instantly began to note the layout of the room. It was a large open space with a number of rooms off each wall. In the middle of the far wall is a raised area and sitting on a pile of cushions was a face that Kim knew well. Big Daddy, and right behind him was a goon bigger than the two at the door. Most of the girls started to dance in front of Big Daddy while others moved to cushions around the room. The ones dancing would dip their hands into a bowl of candy bars and throw them at Brotherson as they danced by. Brotherson clapped his hands and all the girls stopped where they were. He then announced to the girls that guests were coming. Kim took this moment to get a better look at the room. Behind Brotherson and his goon was a large desk with a laptop computer on it. There was a wireless attachment on the laptop and a wireless transmitter over by corridor off to the side. Cables ran from the transmitter down the hall.

"HEY YOU!"

Kim was jerked back to reality. The goon had taken a step toward her. She noticed the girls were filing off to a room to the side. She had been concentrating on surveying the room so much she didn't notice the girls leaving. She clasped her hands in front of her and bowed her head as she moved quickly to catch up with the rest of the harem. Once in the room she moved back against the wall to wait for her next move. All the girls were excited about the guests coming and primped and preened each other. Soon the sounds of the guests arriving made its way through the door. The door opened and the girls streamed out to meet the guests, with only one staying behind to close the door as they left.

Kim pulled her headset out.

"Sloth, you still there?"

Ron coughed and answered.

"Uh yeah. I have to say, KP, you look good in green… Really good"

Kim gritted her teeth.

"If one word of this makes it back in England… Now, is there is a computer room somewhere behind the main room? Is there a way out of this room and to that room?"

Ron scanned a building map.

"Yes, there is a way but you won't like it. You need to go to the window and open it. There is a ledge outside that is big enough for you to move around the building. The first window you come to is the room you want."

Kim opened the window and shivered in the cold wind. She climbed out the window and made her way onto the ledge. The harem outfit did little to block the wind. It was like she had nothing on at all, which was just about literally true. She made her way around the ledge and opened the window to the room she wanted. Climbing in, she shut the window behind her, moved to the server and began to hack in. The hack was going well until she noticed a small window telling her that all wireless connections had been severed. Muttering an oath that would have gotten her grounded years before, she started to work as quickly as she could.

"Rufus?"

Rufus crawled out the space in her hair beneath her tiara and veil.

"Plug the unit in and let's hope for the best."

Rufus hopped down on the desk and plugged the USB unit into the computer as Kim continued to type. Kim heard the lock pop to the door. Ron's voice came over her head-unit.

"Fox, heads up you're getting some company. That big goon just went over to his laptop then turned down the hall, heading your way."

Kim kept typing, downloading everything she could find.

"Yeah, I figured he might be coming. Just give me a few more minutes."

Ron remembered the size of the goon.

"I don't think you'll have them."

The goon tried to turn the doorknob and found it locked. A scowl crossed his face as he tried entering the code into the door but it refused to open. Stepping back, he smashed at the door with his foot, shaking it on its frame. Kim kept frantically working at the computer until she got the telltale beep that the download was done. Sighing in relief, she nodded to Rufus as he pulled the USB drive from the computer and then jumped on her shoulder. The door cracked and the goon stepped into the room. He began advancing towards Kim as she stepped from behind the computer. He balled his fist and threw a punch which Kim easily dodged while driving a kick into his chest. The blow knocked him back a couple of steps, but he was able to reach out and grab her, snatching the veil from her face. His eyes opened wide as he recognized her, his hesitation giving Kim the time to hit him with one of her knockout darts. He fell to the floor as she dashed for the door.

As she approached the room full of the guests, harem girls and more guards she grabbed Rufus from her shoulder and tossed him forward into the middle of the room. The room exploded into pandemonium as the harem girls began to scream and run. The guests were knocked to the floor and Big Daddy dropped his tray of nougat bars. Kim ran into the middle of the group of harem girls as they bolted from the room. The goon had quickly recovered as his massive frame had only been stunned by the amount of drug in the dart. He started to give chase, coming to the turn in the hall and the room where the girls and Kim had changed earlier.

Kim ran with the girls out of the room, picking up Rufus on her way out. She ran straight for the room where she had changed earlier and quickly changed back to the stealth suit. She was just stepping out of the window when the goon smashed the door open. Seeing her at the window, he advanced but just as he got close Kim gave him a smile and blew him a kiss as she dove out of the window.

The goon ran to the window expecting to see her smashed body on the rocks below. What he did see was a tall black suited figure with her hanging on his back. He was using some type of claw to get purchase on the rocks. The goon was reaching inside his coat when instinct told him to duck just as something whizzed by his head and blasted a hole the size of a basketball in the ceiling. By the time he got back to his feet, the two of them were in the water swimming out to the sea. He pointed out the window and shouted.

"There in the water! Shoot!"

Kim and Ron swam straight out to sea away from the cliffs. Kim heard the yelling and cursed to herself for missing the huge figure. The sounds of gunfire came from the mansion and the water near them started to boil with bullet strikes. Both of them dove under the water and swam just under the surface. Kim remembered watching Ron's favorite show from the US about those guys who were always testing myths. They had found out that swimming about three feet under the surface would keep you safe from even the heaviest gunfire. Both of them could hear the small and big pops as the bullets struck the surface of the water.

Kim signaled that they should go up for air. Both of them surfaced at the same time, took a huge breath of air then dove back under the water. As they dove back under the water their ears were hammered by an explosion. Kim shook her head to clear it and looked over at Ron. He motioned like he was firing something from his shoulder. Kim nodded. The guard had fired an RPG at them. Both of them continued swimming until they heard the sound of a motorboat. They both reached into their belts and broke open green chemical lights. They separated several feet and surfaced with the lights in their right hands and their right arms extended high.

The approaching motorboat turned to them with a rubber raft attached to the side. A man lay on the side of the rubber raft with a large rubber ring in his hand. Kim was the first one on the approach and she held her arm high. As the rubber ring hit her arm she bent her elbow to hold on. She was slung along side of the boat and into the raft by the force of the water. Ron quickly followed suit. Both of them were in the main boat in seconds as it turned and headed out to sea. Before any of the guards could react, it had disappeared into the darkness.

Kim and Ron fell into the bottom of the boat. Anna let the man take the wheel of the boat as she moved to check them out.

"Are you injured?"

Kim and Ron shook their heads. The pocket to Kim's suit popped open and Rufus hopped out with a smile. Anna handed both of them a blanket and a cup of coffee, then walked over to a satellite radio and punched in a code.

"Glow-worm, Glow-worm this is Blue. Do you read, over?"

The radio crackled as a voice replied.

"Blue, this is Glow-worm. Do you have Fox and Sloth, over?"

"Affirmative, Fox and Sloth are okay. We should reach your position in 20, over, out."

Kim and Ron were soon standing with Anna as they passed the three mile maritime border. Just further out to sea they could see the silhouette of the HMS Gloucester.

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Big Daddy sat on one of his cushions in the middle of the wrecked room. The large goon stood in front of him.

"Well my friend, have you any information about who broke into my home, disturbed my party and stole information from my computer? Worst of all, most of my favorite candy bars were destroyed when that horrible pink thing showed itself."

The tall figure sat the computer in front of Brotherson and activated the screen. A tape of the fight in the computer room began to run and he stopped it when Kim's veil was torn off. Then he pulled out the picture the printer had made in Laurent's office and laid it beside the computer. Brotherson stared at the pictures and sighed.

"Well, it seems that pretty face decided to pay me a visit also. My friend, leave no stone unturned. Find that pretty face for me. I have so many things I want to do to it."

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Frederick and I are back at it. Sorry for being gone for a bit. We hope that you like this last chapter. Kim and Ron are back at what they do best, but now they will be hunted. Stay tuned for the next chapter. Please leave a review.