Finding this, I went and talked with my friends.  "Okay guys.  The way I see it, our ladies are in one of these five places.  Our best bet is to go to these places and look for them.  I’ve got dibs on England.  I’ll take Tracy and Kristin.  You two decide where you want on our ride home."  We got in the chopper and headed home.

Once there, we went inside and warmed up.  It was October and the leaves were beginning to turn.  A cold front had passed over Oregon, and winter was soon approaching.  The date was October 8, 1980.  With all the changes in latitude over the past days, we were ill adjusted.  I phoned the orphanage in Colorado and said that I had Kristin Smith, and that I would keep her with me until I could pay them a visit.  They said that I could keep her, and that her papers would be in the mail.

Noah planned to take Nome, Alaska.  Andy took Rio.  Steve walked in and volunteered to take Tokyo, Japan.  Moscow was still uncovered.  "Who’s going to Moscow?"  Noah asked.

Just then, Craig, and his wife Bette pulled up in a car and exited it.  They came in the door and said, "Surprise!"

Everyone stared at them and said, "They will!"

"What?"  Craig asked.  We talked them into going to Moscow in search of the missing girls.

Unfortunately, Kristin Smith didn’t have any of her own clothes, so we had to get her some.  That meant, you guessed it, mall shopping.  It was one in the afternoon when we went.  I was forced to go because I didn’t want Tracy out of my sight. 

We went in the Kay-MART section, again, but found nothing that we liked.  We went to Hesses.  She took us through all the women’s sections, sparing none.  My bill was extremely large when she was done.  We went home and discussed how we planned to operate in England.  "Okay.  The only way I see us finding out if sir and the girls indeed moved to England, is to go there.  Here is our disguise:

We are a family of tourists from the US

I’m the father, Tracy’s the mother, and Kristin is the teenager

"What are you, some kind of P.I.?"  Kristin asked.

"Why, as a matter a fact I am."

"Cool!  Do you have any of those Jim Bonds kind of cars with bazooka machine guns?"

“My name is Kristin Smith.”

“Well, Kristin it’s looks like you’re alone.”

“Alone?”

“Yes, no one else is here. The name’s Schofield, Adam Schofield. Won’t you come here.”

“No. Where’s Gretchen?”

“Gretchen?”

“Yes, she was right here when everyone left.”

“Well, I don’t know, but you had better come with us.” Tracy said, stooping down to help Kristin up.”

“Kristin, where are your parents?” I asked.

“Parents? I’m an orphan. I got a job delivering papers for a Building and Loan in Colorado after escaping the orphanage. Then I was taken here.”

“Well, Kristin you’d better stay with us.” Tracy said. We left that room, searching the rest of the building, we received a transmission from Noah, and we told him to bring the chopper to the main building. Andy and Noah came in, and we met in the observation room.

“Noah, Andy, meet Kristin She’ll be with us for a while. Tracy, take her to find her clothes.” I said. Tracy did. “Guys, I won’t try to understate the graveness of this situation. I have no idea where our comrades are, nor do I know how we’ll get them back. We must search any and all records concerning the B&O and where they went.” We split up, and searched the record, logs, and files of the whole building. Two days later, I was in an office sitting at a chair. I looked at the blotter in front of me, lifted it, and found a file. The file read as follows:

Building and Loan Scam

Stage 1:

Establish Credible Businesses in 10 major cities:

Washington D.C.: New York City, New York

Nanopolis, Oregon: Denver, Colorado

Los Angeles, California: Chicago, Illinois

Las Vegas, Nevada: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Flagstaff, Arizona

Stage 2:

Hire female employees, give them room, abduct,

brainwash, send them back.

Stage 3:

Get employees to get money from Senators, and

frame employees while we get dough

Log of Events:

All is well so far. Weekly rotation of girls gets one a week. Responding well to treatment.

Old nemesis, Adam Schofield on case to protect employee, must terminate.

Adam’s girlfriend captured, as well as Adam.

Adam has escaped.

Adam coming back. Must hide.

New idea, take hostages when he comes. Then leave. Possible places: Nome, Alaska; Bracknell, England; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tokyo, Japan; Moscow, Russia.

An half an hour later, everyone was ready, and we went out to the helicopter. Noah “juiced” it up and we were off to an exotic island. We got a couple miles away from it, when Noah landed the chopper in the water. I inflated a raft and we all climbed aboard, anchoring the chopper to the ocean bottom. We sailed into land, careful not to make a sound. Once on dry ground, we deflated the raft and buried it. We fanned out and headed toward the main building. Getting there, Stacey led us inside, and to a library. Inside, I pulled the drapes, and the girls dumped their camouflage

“Okay, girls. I want you to find out as much as you can about the leader. When he sleeps, when he eats, when he bathes, etc.. Mingle with the other girls, but don’t get caught. Good luck!” I said. They took off in different directions, infiltrating the complex. One by one they were captured and taken, except for Tracy, who outwitted her captor and managed to get back to me.

“Oh Adam, it’s a trap! I overheard them saying that I was the only one of our team that hadn’t been taken.”

“What!”

“Yes! I think that they have deserted the island!” Tracy exclaimed. Andy came over and picked me up by the collar.

“If Marie is hurt I’ll. . .”

“Andy, let’s just make sure she doesn’t get hurt!” I said. He put me down. “Now, first, we must see if there really is anyone left. Andy, you and Noah go and check the prison on the other side of the island. Then contact me here. Tracy and I will search this building to see if there is anyone left here.” I said, frantically. I grabbed a hold of Tracy’s hand and said, “I never want you out of my sight again.” We left the room.

Going down hall after hall, there was no sign of any living thing. We checked room after room, but it was as though everyone just got up and left. I went into the room where I had first met Sir, then went through the door that Tracy had come through when she was under his spell, not knowing what I would find. Inside were walls of mirrors. Underneath these mirrors were tables, chairs, and make up cases still opened. “Oh, no!” Tracy said.

“What?”

“This was where we were made up to look our best for. . .for.”

“Sir?”

“Yes. That’s it. Him and one other.” She said. We continued looking and found a door on the other side. I opened it and mounds of clothes came pouring down on top of me. “When they took us here, they stripped us, and put our clothes in here.”

“Take your clothes and put them on.” I said. She did, and we put the rest back. I continued to look until I happened to move a trophy. A wall slid open and we continued to search the building. To the right and to the left of a dark, dank, wet hallway were rooms. I peered inside and saw the hypnotic devices used. I didn’t, although, expect to find someone in the rooms. I walked in that room, and over to a young girl, probably twelve or thirteen, who had leaned herself up against a wall in fright. “What’s wrong?”

“Go away!!” She shouted.

“I’m not one of them. Who are you?”