"Norm"

[Tarina]

As Top Secret silently yet astonishingly zipped through the air (she was flying at almost the speed of light), she had a sudden niggling sensation and thought oh oh..
Sure enough the console started to crackle with static. Top Secret this is ..Tarina quickly installed the scramble device. ......Questor. I'm reading you at a rate that can't be, are you there? Is this some kind of a joke? Top Secret said, "Why no it is not, my Darling! I have just recently perfected my little toy." Questor was stunned but not wanting to let on, he replied, aahhh yes, the device the General and I had wondered about. Where are you headed?
At that moment Top Secret started to receive a live feed on her computer.
It stated Top Secret, location halt. New vacation, you are needed in Zurich. Questor to join. Head there at once.
Will discuss further upon arrival.
Tarina silently cursed, and thought, so much for my "un-detectable channel". She knew without a doubt what this was about.
The billions of missing gold bullion. The infamous czarist eagle stamped on the bar of gold that was mysteriously left on the doorstep just this morning. Imagine! A whole bar of GOLD, just left there, with no note, nothing. The czarist eagle was key in identifying the origin of it. There were a few other details that were now falling into place.Tarina shook her head to clear it, and exhaled a giant breathe.
With steely resolve she squared her shoulders and settled in for the fairly long flight. Almost forgotten, she clicked on her "talkie" and spoke quietly to her employee, letting them know how to handle the situation they were having., also letting them know she was not coming.

[austintorn@aol.com]

Could this be a clue to the location of the gold:

[austintorn@aol.com]

Six Tons of Gold

The Overload of the ‘master race’ being born,
Was ever attracted to the amber room adorned,
And called it "the eighth wonder of the world"
For its singular, majestically beauteous swirl.

[Tarina]

As Top Secret walked up to the hotel, she kept her instinct's on high. She had hidden the vessel on the edge of a field. With it's new cam-mo design it blended in perfectly with the surrounding countryside.
Top Secret checked in as a reporter here in town to do a story on the townspeople and to photograph the area. T.S. climbed the stairs. When she got to her room, she sank down onto the feather-filled mattress. As she was checking her weapons there was a tapping on the door that was done in a rhythm that was the code for Questor.
As Tarina opened the door, Bwamm-o! she went careening backwards, rather then stumble, she went into a backwards somersault and when she came up, she pulled her ankle revolver and took aim and fired. The masked perpetrator went sailing backwards, as she was falling Top Secret lunged for her, she was going to hit a glass table, to stop the noise she caught the masked gunman. Top Secret let the gunman down to the floor with a soft thud. Thank god the centre had made all of their weapons silent!
Tarina reached for the mask and pulled it free, No! nnnnnooooo, cried Tarina. Quickly she got the clean-up crew online and told them to get here, and to send a medic with them. They thought they were going to be bringing in a prisoner with valuable information. They wouldn't find out until quite some time later that the assailant was actually Tarina's long lost half sister. T
Top Secret had searched high and low, and with the help of the centre's resources she was sure she would find her, but nothing had turned up until now. Now it made some sense to Top Secret, because of course! That's how she evaded being found!
The clean-up crew arrived, and with Top Secrets instruction's to be gentle, and she meant it, they were off.

Tarina quickly got her make-up on, and dressed. As she went down the stairs, she noticed the bogey, but his attention quickly went back to his paper, yeah right.
Tarina strode out, somewhat awkwardly as the older folk walk. Her wrinkles and the bags under her eyes, along with the varicose veins sewed into her nylons all made for a great disguise. The hotel had many elderly people booked in, something Top Secret had found out prior to booking into the hotel.

Tarina hailed a cabbie, it was a great disguise to get a cab, that's for sure! As they started off, T.S. asked the cabbie to just drive. After they had rounded the first bend, she spoke up and said "I'll pay 150 Euros to lose the tail we have?" He said "You Americans are so much fun!" The cabbie was no stranger to driving like a madman, they careened around corners and finally he pulled over and then backed into a spot between a barn and a load of hay. They waited. And once a half hour was passed, Top Secret said "Okay, thank you. Now I need to get to the Chateau de Fronteneau, is it around here? The guide book I have says it's here somewhere, but that's kind of vague I thought so..." "Lady the driver said, sit back and enjoy the view. This ride is on me! I have not had that much fun in years!"
They were off. Top Secret had to gain entry to the administrators office. Intel from the centre had reported that there was valuable information that would help lead us to the gold, and also (a pleasant surprise) the Amber from Hitler's infamous Amber Room.

[austintorn@aol.com]

“So, thought Questor, perhaps the Director wishes to fund and enlarge his evil empire with Hitler’s gold, maybe some of it being buried beneath a palace garden.”

[G_burnett]

the last of the butterflys were released and on there way to there targets ..

[austintorn@aol.com]

[austintorn@aol.com]

Bronto watches as some of the Butterflies leave Niihau…




… a minute later flying just south of Waikiki and past Diamond Head

[Tarina]

As Top Secret arrived at the Chateau de Fronteneau, she paid the cabbie handsomely and proceeded to the Hotels lobby. Graceful chandeliers hung down sending a glimmering of sparkles over the entrance-way. "My my my!" exclaimed T.S. "This is more like it!". As Top Secret told the front desk clerk that she was here on a vacation/job, to shoot the picturesque scenery and surrounding areas, someone else was arriving. Tarina was just finishing signing the register, and was instructing the bellboys which luggage to carry. And in walks none other than Questor.
Top S. went off to her room and in a flash had the bell boy tipped and on his way. She quickly started to apply the facial mask and blue varicose veined nylons, to add to her disguise, when there came a knock on the door and Questor's voice saying "Hello in there?" Top Secret quickly put on her blouse and skirt, and went to the door and saw through the peep-hole that it was indeed Questor. Letting him in, he swept her off of her feet in a smooch and a twirl. "How I've missed you Tarina!" Questor and T.S. started talking over their plans after a short interlude. The Intel said that some of the gold bullion was stashed under the beautiful gardens in Versailles, France. After they discussed their plans, they thought it best to get a move on it. Questor was to go ahead while Top Secret was to stick to her original plans, afterwards she was to meet Questor at a predetermined spot in Versailles. Questor said goodbye to T.S. and off he went.
Finishing off her make-up as an old lady, Tarina then weapon-ed up and strode out of the door. As she went down the elevator, her thoughts were whirling around in her head. The facts that Questor had told her were extremely disturbing. They had to find the gold before their opponents.
Top Secret stopped the elevator on the second floor. She needed a distraction. Gaining entry to a room, she quietly shut the door behind her. As she fiddled with the phone, putting on a re-director so the call she was going to make would come up on the lobby phones call display as if it were made from Top Secret's phone. She hysterically told them she was attacked by a masked man in black, and that he had climbed out of her window, he was still in sight.... As the front desk clerk ran to get his manager, Tarina slipped into the office behind the front counter.
She quickly and thoroughly checked the room for the information, ****, someone was coming, Top Secret crouched and waited...one... Top Secret whipped around and silenced the clerk with a quick tap to the larynx, and a skull tap too, just for luck...he he he. She started searching again, starting to get frantic, when , hey what's that? She saw an object sticking out. As she grabbed it, and noticed it was a disc, she put it into the computer. Scanning through the files, she found what she was after. Top Secret came out from behind and resumed heading towards the door, slowly and just a tad awkwardly. Some one was starting to shout, and not wanting to explain-she split. Top Secret dug in her bag, and finding her vessle "Whistle", she blew into four times and waited. The first sign was the slight warm breeze. Then seeming-ly out of nowhere, Tarina's ship arrived. She went to the side of the ship, and locating a panel, she opened it and let it identify her through her dna, and bodily functions, heart rate, B.P. etc., a door opened, with steps folding out and down, Top Secret ran in, and punched the close button and took the navigator's seat. In a few moments Top Secret had her co-ordinates typed in and off they flew, silently, invisibly and at a speed yet timed. She was headed to Versailles to meet up with Questor.

[Tarina]

Tarina was now with Questor, and a few newbies. As they sat waiting for the head cheese to arrive, T.S. was checking out the new agents. Fresh out of training. Out of the pot and into the fire. There was a lady, and her side-kick, Honcho. Then there was Dwayne. supposedly had a picture memory, and could fix anything he touched. That left Courtnay, fresh-faced, eager and a kick-a** fighter. Tarina couldn't figure out why they had let the Honcho into their team. She had to talk to the General, he was a reputed rat on the street, and once a turn-coat always a turn coat. He would have the hardest time of them all proving himself to the General.
Everybody snapped to attention, as the General strode into the room. "Greetings to you all. For you newcomers I am as you most likely already know the General. Okay. Let's get started. We have some Intel that puts 6 billion dollars worth of gold Bullion, reputed-ly the same gold that that bastard Hitler and his cronies stole and stashed at the end of the occupation. In one of the worst possible places I might add. Underneath this (Picture is posted on the wall) Garden in Versailles, which of course is in France. The problem being folks is that back when Hitler had his officers bury the gold, this garden was not yet established. So we have some hand held burrowing equipment, and ladies and gentlemen we are going to tunnel under. This will require of course a night-time op, and we will have on site our newest vessel in the entire U.S.A.'s fleet. This beauty, which I am proud to tell you, was designed and built by our own Agent, Top Secret, Tarina. (Applause, cheers...). It has a skin that blends in with any and all surroundings, rendering it invisible. It also has underneath that skin a second layer that is millions of nanobots, filled with a mixture of spider silk/polymer which upon being struck, or breached, immediately starts to fill in the hole. It all happens in seconds. This is what you will be going into and out of the site with.
Questor it is your job to lead this team. All of you in this room will follow Questors' orders to a "T" or you face instant termination. That will be all ladies and gentlemen. Good Luck."
sat waiting for the head cheese to arrive, T.S. was checking out the new agents. Fresh out of training. Out of the pot and into the fire. There was a lady, and her side-kick, Honcho. Then there was Dwayne. supposedly had a picture memory, and could fix anything he touched. That left Courtnay, fresh-faced, eager and a kick-a** fighter. Tarina couldn't figure out why they had let the Honcho into their team. She had to talk to the General, he was a reputed rat on the street, and once a turn-coat always a turn coat. He would have the hardest time of them all proving himself to the General.
Everybody snapped to attention, as the General strode into the room. "Greetings to you all. For you newcomers I am as you most likely already know the General. Okay. Let's get started. We have some Intel that puts 6 billion dollars worth of gold Bullion, reputed-ly the same gold that that bastard Hitler and his cronies stole and stashed at the end of the occupation. In one of the worst possible places I might add. Underneath this (Picture is posted on the wall) Garden in Versailles, which of course is in France. The problem being folks is that back when Hitler had his officers bury the gold, this garden was not yet established. So we have some hand held burrowing equipment, and ladies and gentlemen we are going to tunnel under. This will require of course a night-time op, and we will have on site our newest vessel in the entire U.S.A.'s fleet. This beauty, which I am proud to tell you, was designed and built by our own Agent, Top Secret, Tarina. (Applause, cheers...). It has a skin that blends in with any and all surroundings, rendering it invisible. It also has underneath that skin a second layer that is millions of nanobots, filled with a mixture of spider silk/polymer which upon being struck, or breached, immediately starts to fill in the hole. It all happens in seconds. This is what you will be going into and out of the site with.
Questor it is your job to lead this team. All of you in this room will follow Questors' orders to a "T" or you face instant termination. That will be all ladies and gentlemen. Good Luck."
The room was silent until Questor spoke up............