Back to Basics Part 1

Chapter 225

Back to Basics

Part 1

Stringum was fit to be tied; we had been planning to take Mr. Tate down this weekend until his buddies threw a monkey wrench in our plans. Personally, I wasn’t really looking to spend the weekend with Mr. Tate, but it didn’t mean I would have denied the chance to do it. We knew the leak wasn’t on our end, because his buddy said he found out about our little dinner party long before we arrived. Yet it didn’t mean we didn’t have a spy, because some one had told him about our extra guests coming with us. After all, it was a spare of the moment thing and we hadn’t decided until last minute.

Once Tony had arrived with Jenny and Dora (the Holy Queen) as well as Dr. Sars we began our meeting; not even our honor guard was allowed inside the bat cave, not knowing if any of them had been compromised. Instead, Tony, had them return to base camp to watch over our homes.

He and Tony would deal with them later, I had no doubt the Jeff would be involved considering all he had to do is look inside their souls and we would know who the spy was, which we could use to our advantage if we played our cards right. Jared and my hearts were crushed when Tony wheeled out our manual wheelchairs out of Jenny’s van so they could pull the footage taken so we could I.D the new targets and our conversation. As well as the footage from her minivan that caught everything inside the dining room.

Stringum played with his controls at his state of the art control panel that could isolate each image taken and print it up, then used is connections with state police and US government to give him the information he wanted on them as he faxed over a copy of Mr. Tate’s buddies. Tony went over the escape route that each of them took up to the point they had lost them. Which stated powerful black magic was at play here for Jeff to lose them like he did.

They had found the cars they were using abandon and burned to a crisp to destroy any evidence inside that we could have used to identify each of the men. But not everything was lost since we had recorded footage of each of the men that had betrayed Mr. Tate and we had captured several of his men that had pursued us and are in custody with the State Police.

Stringum had no doubt they wouldn’t be behind bars long, because their bosses had influences inside; yet didn’t mean that we didn’t have our own men inside as well so they could interrogate them. In fact, we wanted them to be let go so we could follow them and lead us to their hideout.

Stringum leaned back in his chair as he talked on his phone to somebody ahead of the government task force as he quickly updated them. He was scary calm when he said; “I realize that it was either us or them. We lost 3 good men and several casualties; they were dead before we had even arrived. We were lucky that our friends were able to uncover that much before it all went to hell in a hand-basket. I am sorry; I truly am, but these men knew what they signed up for and wanted to help. I am just asking that their families are compensated. This is war and war means causalities, if I could bring them back I would. They were good men, and good men like them are hard to find.

“All we can do is learn from our mistakes and prepare. That’s right we are not done yet, we just had little speed bump. Yes, sir, I understand Tate is our number one objective, Dead or alive. I realize we can’t act until we have the evidence that will put him away for good.

“Yet I am not going to pussyfoot around if he won’t come quietly. I will personally put a bullet in his brain. I don’t care, sir, what he has to give us, He is not the kind of man I want walking the streets. Yes, sir, we will take that into consideration, but once we have what we need he’s finished. No second chances. No wittiness protection for him. He is either in maximum, security prison or dead.”

Stringum slammed down the phone and spun in his chair. He looked at the board and stood up and walked over to us as we sat around the large conference table eating our pizza. He leaned forward and looked at us. “The brass wants us to make friends with Mr. Tate. They don’t care what it takes; they want us to proceed as if this never happened. Even if it means we have to compromise to anything he wants; they want us inside his castle so we can take him down quickly before his buddies and him have a chance to reorganize.

“Thinking if we have him they will make a play for his position and then when that happens we can take them down with him. It is believed that Mr. Tate and his buddies are responsible for several kidnappings across the State and several grisly murders. It is believed that this is a power move that will rock the foundation of the church, that it will grab the attention of their prophets. Something we haven’t had since we have been working to take down the Satanic Church. So we start with the basics.

“We know Mr. Tate will be looking for new men since the ones he had have betrayed him. It is believed that he is also looking for a new Chef since the one he had lined up for us tonight was killed as well as his crew. The real Chef that was working there was also killed, and the body was just found behind the dumpster. Yet as you know we had replaced the working staff with our own men and have given them the night off. But we were too late to prevent them from killing the Chef or the three men they had killed that were in disguise as the working staff.

“According to the coroner they were poisoned first by a dart before they slit their throat’s, which means they aren’t afraid of killing any of us to get what they wanted. It is believed that Mr. Tate was unaware of this, or he wouldn’t have taken the chance of getting us all together. Knowing if he was able to align himself with us. It would have made him a very powerful person, with our financial backing, which he is in dire need of according to his bank records he is almost broke.

“Mostly because as we already know the old Queen was helping with his business by locating young boys that no one would think twice if they had gone missing. He hasn’t produced any new films lately because he hasn’t found a reliable source since then. So he has gone back to the way he used to do it. By kidnapping boys right off the street; Like Kirk said we have no proof that once he is done with them he gets rid of them; which we are to investigate to find out what he has done with them.

“I don’t like the idea of sending our boys in, but because they are still 16 and could pass as 14 or 15, the kind he likes for most of his films; or boys younger then that for his younger fantasies films; yet because he can’t just pick them off the street without getting noticed, he been using the old Queens resources.

“He now stays within the church here, because the preparing ritual church law states no boys under the age of 5, and no girls under the age of 14 that mature enough to have sex which is childbearing age, which is exactly what he is looking for because he knows he can get away with it because most the members consider it normal behavior or are paid enough to look the other way.

“He mostly uses the kids that come from poor families because they are easily bribed and the other members simply don’t care as long as it’s not their children he is using. According to our sources, our boys would be safe enough providing they give him no trouble and allow him to use them as he compensates them and their parents so he can move freely inside the church and its laws.

“No one inside the satanic church here has gone missing, so it is safe to say that he has no intention to deviate from that pattern. Even more so because he believes everyone here at the table is filthy rich, knowing if he harms our children we would retaliate and kill him, and that goes for Kirk and his brother Darren. He wants our financial backing like I said he is flat broke, and his estates are close to being foreclosed on. That it is believed that if we slipped him enough money so he would be flush again. That he would bend over backward for us to keep us all happy. Even more so because of his buddies breathing down his neck wanting to kill him.

“It is our belief that if we help him with his security problem that not only would we be doing him a favor we would also be doing us a favor by putting our own men inside and will be able to take him down quickly. Then once we take him down we can recoup our losses and sell his property or use it any way we like. The Government guys want this guy worse then we do, and as always lets us keep the treasure and so we can use it to take down as many of the high rollers inside the church as we can.

“I will send him a very tempting offer, which he won’t be able to refuse. Providing you are still up to take him down. He won’t be joining our team, as I told the government guys, he is not entitled to second chances and I have a bullet with his name on it. I’ll let you think about it and discuss it. I’ll need to answer once I have finished drawing up an offer.” Stringum stood up and walked over to his offices and closed the door.

Dad asked me how I felt about it, I nodded I didn’t like it, but the idea of him kidnapping kids off the street or buy them from orphanages bothered me even more. That he needed to be stopped. Kirk and Darren said the same thing. The High Bishop asked his three boys if they would like to help. Knowing they had been in many of his films, like Kirk, and Darren had. They agreed that it sounded fun; as long as Kirk and I would make sure nothing happened to them. Tony said he could guarantee their safety with enough guys inside it shouldn’t be a problem.

Chef Philips asked his boys if they too would like to help knowing it was going to be a dangerous job, providing he could get the job because how Mr. Tate felt about black people, even though he had personally apologized to him and his boys. Everyone agreed and Dad went into the office to give him our answer.

Stringum guaranteed him that everything would be in place before any us boys would step inside his estates. He wasn’t about to take any more risks as he added it to the proposal stating everything he and we wanted. That if he didn’t get it he could call the deal off. Using his greed, using the information that he needed and everything we could provide him. The girls said. “Well, there goes the dance. We were looking so forward to it.”

Stringum said. “Not necessarily considering it would take two days to set everything up. We would be lucky if everything would be ready until Saturday at the earliest. Plus he could drag it out until next Thursday if he has too.” Chef Phillips agreed he would need to see the kitchen, and see to its needs so he knows how many workers he was going to need to run it; or even if he could convince his staff to go with him in the first places. If worst came to worst he would send Chef Mack if he could get him and his wife to do it; if Mr. Tate had a problem of having him and his boys inside his estate, knowing how he feels about black people.

We had gotten the all-clear sign long after we had finished the meeting. It was a short drive or would be a short drive once the road was finished he was creating so it would go directly from his bat cave to his estate and down the mountain to our estates. That way we had back way that we could use if we needed a quick getaway. It was nearly 9 pm by the time we came home.

Stringum sent Landan to deliver the message to Mr. Tate telling us we had hard days ahead of us. I let Sparky out so he could run and do his dogie business and then did the one thing I really wanted and that was a nice hot relaxing bath in my tub, closing my eyes to the world as I soaked leisurely.

It was nice to have my own room again with one bed for the four of us. Dad had given Kirk and Darrin one of the kid’s rooms, which didn’t have its own private bathroom until Earls moved into their cabin then they would get their room. Giving their mother Tony’s and Jenny’s room since they had decided to take the trailer that Mr. Tomas… Adams Dad had been using; now that they could move into their cabin in the morning since Mrs. Henderson wanted to move in with us.

Bishop Sake’s cabin was also close to being finished and we were told it would be by the middle of next week. Both cabins weren’t very big compared to ours or the other two were Jake and his family was staying over at the Benson’s cabin which was cramped having there kids either double or triple up on their rooms while they wait for theirs to be finished and had been told they would be within two or three weeks.

It was about half or close to the size of Bishop Earls cabin. It too had made a lot of progress, and if they stayed on schedule it to would be finished the following week. Stringum stated he was going see about getting some porn tapes, that either Mr. Tate had made or some other sick’o. So we would be able to get a general idea what kind of things we would be going through. It was always good to be prepared for the worst than not having any planning at all.

We knew the tapes were illegal but didn’t stop people from buying them or the magazines. Trust me there are a lot of sick people in the world today, then again there always has been, and we knew Stringum could get them without so much as lifting a finger.

The phone rang as I looked at my watch telling me it was after 11 it was notifying us that a massage had been sent to deliver the answer to Stringum’s offer. We knew it wouldn’t take long. Stringum had sent him the proposal that if Mr. Tate would consider getting his men through us and setting up a meet and greet tomorrow at the school seminary building just him and Stringum and the High Bishop as well as Dad.

They would gladly invest a million dollars into his business if they could get 30 percent of the profits. Providing he was willing to work out a deal that we could all agree on. Stating that what happened tonight wasn’t his fault and do to the recent advents tonight. That we couldn’t afford to turn him away from that we could both help each other. The kicker was we knew he would like the most was a free one million dollars, and our offer to support his cause and we would both earn a tidy profit.

Stringum quickly opened the letter as he told the man at the door to come in and wait, Even though Mom didn’t like shoes on her carpet she just looked away, knowing he wouldn’t be here long. Stringum quickly stated the idiot has taken the bait said he would more than happy meet with them in the morning and work out a deal, that he wanted 2 million dollars and we would get 20 percent of the profits. Stringum laughed. “Yea Right?” And quickly wrote back with simple hand note 60 percent of the profits for 5 million dollars.

Noting that the higher amount he wanted the more of percent of the profits telling him the money was a loan of good faith. That this is business offer if he didn’t like our deal he can look elsewhere. That we had the men, we had the money and the boys that are dying to star in his movies and magazines. Which would never be seen by the public; once we had taken him down they would all be destroyed.

Reminding him it was his men that attacked us and tried to take us all hostage including him. If he wants to play with the big boys, he needed men he can rely on. That these men are well trained and loyal; that these men are not the Queen's men past or present. They are hand picked by him and if he would like a demonstration he is more then welcome to put them to the test. However, he didn’t say that men were all from the military task-force. He signed the note using his crest seal and sealed it handing it to the man to deliver it.

Nobody said anything regarding how much money Stringum was about to give to Mr. Tate. None of it came from our private slush fund. It came from the government this time. He was told to give Mr. Tate anything he wanted so long as he took the bait. The money he would use all had a tracking number on it; to indicate where it went. It was basically a loan that would get paid back once we had taken down Mr. Tate; except for our modest fee for being the ones to do it.

Most of our slush fund is working capital which has been invested in companies that paid us a nice salary cut every week so we could invest it in the market. Then when we needed it all we had to do was go to the bank and make a withdrawal only using the interests. We had some money at home in a huge safe, in all currencies, like gold bars, diamonds, and money bonds then good old fashion cash. Everything else was invested in the stock market earning more money for us when we weren’t using it. If I had to guesses Dad and us kept close to a million dollars on hand at all times, which was our slush fund.

Let’s just say when we go to the bank the bank manager greets with a smile because we were to him very rich customers that always took their place at the head of the line. It never accrued to him or anyone else that we weren’t rich; well most of us weren’t. All that money in play either belonged to Stringum and his backers and the U.S Government. We were basically living off the interests and what our stores brought in and our salary that Stringum was paying us.

Yet we would get triple that when we were undercover when taking down bad guys. Like we would the moment we stepped into Mr. Tate’s home or homes, or if we were getting acquainted with anyone in the satanic church. Eli and I as well as the girls had already been paid for our service regarding the last social plus extra after winning the bet. Plus finders fee in regards to Kirk and his family, which we never discuss because it would ruin our friendship quickly; when we had no idea at the time if he and his family were joining our pet project. And once they had helped take down Mr. Tate they too would get paid a very nice salary and a bonus.