Three friends were having their bowl of soup for lunch and thinking about their plans in Bangkok, Don Meung.
The place is an open-air tent with a trail of ants walking across the table into a bowl of sugar. The sunshine is making the sidewalk look all melting and portraying a desert mirage.
The plan was to make it a holiday before their true journey will challenge their friendship.
They were wearing matching shirts and black denim shorts. The black shirts in white palm tree print.
His head felt the sorrow of sweat on his forehead.
"I do not understand when I had to solute a poodle when we landed in Thai airbase."
"Simon, you know after everything we had to go through, I still believe we had to strap on dildos to surprise yakuza in Fujiyama elementary."
"I do not understand what are you guys talking about sometimes." Their Captain Mage did not care to know the details of their past adventures. Magnum Mage looked forward to the bowl of rice and seafood soup. It was sweet as milk.
"Well, I got lucky with brother Jack."
"What was this poodle they framed on gold canvas?" Simon thinks a little longer, making a pause.
"You have a Brother you did not tell us?" Captain Mage kept his finger on the spoon, keeping it twisting in his hand, looking to a lady in the kitchen mixing herbs and vegetables.
"You got me wrong. It was the guy who saved me in the ghost house. He sounded like Australian, therefore I call him brother."
"I see now." Simon pours a little water and thinks a bit about the place he is in, saying to himself why they serve hot soup on a burning hot day, making him drink all this water is driving him crazy.
"Do you guys remember the game plan Mark Ta has told us?" Their captain noticed the soup coming to their table.
"Yep, we need to find a lost kid on one side of the peninsula and bring him home before we all a fried up, we can do what it takes because if we end up dead we go to hell including millions of lost lives with our failure." Simon stretches his fingers together pulling them in one hand out to let his wrists rest.
Lord Ignacius sets his feet forward under the table to relax his shoulders before their meal arrives.
"Kop-Kun-Krap. Is he so stupid to ask us to do it?" Their meal arrives, and Lord Ignacius appreciates it.
"I am not guaranteed, but it is the job they drew us to now." Magnum Mage picks up between his fingers a silver spoon.
The very moment a drunk guy walks in making a scene, he is VIP taking a girl by the hand pulling her down towards the street.
"Ignacius, what are you going to do because of all the troubles on the loose?" Simon asked him, placing in his mouth all the boiled vegetables and white meat in.
"Let's first eat before we go, otherwise we stay empty stomach." Their captain made well in a good hope intended observation, mixing his rice and white meat to set soy sauce flow.
This said Ignacius stands up and pushes his chair in a way of the couple leaving the scene.
The VIP guy is furious at Ignacius and says to him he should leave.
"Mate, you should had mind your own dam business."
"Me sorry me no englesse!"
Lord Ignacius grabs the chair smacking a guy in the head, takes him by his collar, places his neck on the chair's leg and breaks his neck for good.
All the three NATO heroes make a stroll down the street to avoid attention from what just happened, but the girl approached them.
"Sawadee Krap, thank you saved me. My name is Pan Narak."
"You get better focking lost too or otherwise you sleep in a dumpster." Lord Ignacius just saved ran away.
"You should not be so harsh." Magnum slapped his shoulder in a quick snap, Lord Ignacius unable to see a twist of his arm fast than one second in his mind.
"I am sure she is a prostitute or worse because I just lay down her customer and she is looking so friendly looking for another customer." Lord Ignacius scratches his crotch.
"Here is our ride to our beach resort, let's get in before we become a local sensation."
Simon shows them a fist to the air crossing his left arm punching his right fist walking away letting them know he is no fool.
Our heroes in the night meeting point at a bar. They had all afternoon to catch some sun on their skins.
But one guy and he sat at a reserved table next to a palm tree waving to our three friends. He calls himself El Paso."Hi Hibler!"
"A? Do you have problems with us?" Simon takes a seat closer to him.
El Paso relaxes his shoulders in the chair he is sitting in and moves his lips to each ear cheek.
"Guys, after our active fire standard training I have not seen you, rookies!"
"I was happy enough to know it." He orders a waitress to pour a drink in.
Paso does show two fingers in the air and licks his lips. "I heard you guys are going on a top-secret mission to save the world, it's so confidential you cannot share it on Fokbook? "
"You know Facebook is just communist malware but for free?" Simon made a joke-cracking their rib cages and all laughed before they ordered their drinks.
Our diamond formation heroes are enjoying their pineapple juice and rum, smoking the Cuban cigars El Paso had brought them from Cuba.
"This is a proper Cuban missile crisis here I am holding." Simon draws his mind to closer inspection of burning tobacco leaf held three years in before it leaves to customers.
"You never win against communists." Simon's communism joke made their minds rest at ease before they entered the combat project NATO Vice-General assigned.
"I was long before you two working on these projects when I met Magnum, he was a shy kid before we thought him ways of murder, but most creepy enough is he is a still shy kid."
Once El Paso said, making others smile except Mage.
"Tell me about it, today we run into a shy couple with one guy getting all talk a lot with me before he ends up ill." Lord Ignacius scratches his hair.
"You know this makes me think Mage is not a creep here, he accepts what it is with his heavy heart but knowing how you play all happy and cool when you bend all these fools. I think I should double lock my bedroom while you are around." El Paso drops ash of cigar in an ashtray.
"I know and we had to share the same bunk beds while we had prep training?"
Simon exhaled his cigar smoke.
"We are childhood friends and we are in NATO-like one unit."
He makes another smoke to let his dark smoke fumes fill the beach night air fill air.
Our Mage was gazing into the stars before he had another drink and then all left to sleep since they all had plans.
^.^
They had enough drinking and Ignacius ends up in a royal kickboxing stadium taking a fight to amateur winners stadium in the blue corner.
To see suddenly lights go out and come back on with a loud microphone.
"Can you smell what the debt is cooking?"
Then from the podium to run in two guys wearing spandex shorts and spandex masks.
*.*
The mage had a good last drink to stay at the seashore to see his friends heading out.
Simon makes a call a little later, about Ignacius taking a walk by himself and knowing about the early flight tomorrow morning.
He heads out to the last location he went missing.
They are asking around at the bar they saw him learn he was talking about amateurs fight he was very interested in.
When they head towards the stadium El Paso taps Mage on his shoulder to tell him to look above into a fog light to see Ignacius' face across the other guy.
The voice in a stadium announces the debut of a new fighter, the Cowboy versus the Big Bulldog, to start in the next half an hour.
They look at each other and say together.
"I think we are all in for a fight now."
The commentator shouts it will be a spectacular night watching this fight: Lithuania vs Georgia!
Mage heads to the TV operator's room giving a light knock on the door to hit the cable guy on his face with the same door he opens.
He walks in and pulls the guy's arms in closing doors behind him.
Our Magnum shuts off all communication lines and runs an ID caller block blocking a few kilometres of all mobile lines off to give some time for them to take Ignacius back.
When the lights shut off, Simon and Paso put on the spandex suits and looked at each other.
Simon adjusts his mask.
"I hope we never do this again."
El Paso does show his genuine smile.
"No worries, our love affair is only between us."
The guys run in a stadium waving at the spectators and heading towards the Big Bulldog holding lighters in their hands to increase their fist blow power.
Simon jumps over ropes takes with him a folding chair and gives a good throw at Ignacius, making him fall down the floor already from weak legs after over a limit of alcohol in his blood flow.
El Paso runs up to the Black Bulldog and smacks him over the floor but he pulls back the ropes blocking his face expecting another blow.
Our El sidekicks him a few times into his ribs, causing his ribs to break and fall onto the floor from the pain he has.
He does not stop and picks the Big Bulldog by his legs kicking him into a groin shouting.
"How do you feel now Mr Big Bull?"
Simon helps Ignacius grab Paso on his sides.
"You should stop, have you gone mad, we should leave now!"
Lord Ignacius does pull El Paso from the stadium floor, leaving the big bad Georgian Bull laying for the crowd to see him fail.
Then a commentator's voice appears announcing.
"We all know how we love American wrestling and we brought you this show and a surprise present. Hope you guys have a good night and applause to our lovely foreign actors."
The crowd gives applause, and Mage once he finishes with the announcement shuts off the stadium lights.
A NATO team runs to the street where Mage is waiting outside the emergency exit with a random car he unlocked from his mobile IT device and waves at three guys running out in long coats. "Do you guys expect it to rain tonight?"
Simon takes off his spandex mask.
"Nope. We were at the Royal Wrestling Stadium."
^.^
The morning of a flight on a TV channel in Thai local news the channel Thai BBD is running a news report in English about the Korean industrial revolution to avoid loss of commerce making more robots to handle the manufacturing industry.
When he notices the news headline, Ignacius does look to a TV drinking ice cold water to fix his health.
"It would be weird to see the machines go on low oil strike and turn the streets like in genesis movies, protesting with blasters against police officers."
Simon walks by to a showroom. "I would not go to work then."
Mage pays no attention to the media on TV.
"The world is changing and those who probably cannot adopt are on a news channel."
They later are heading to a bus stop for the airport, Ignacius does go across the street from a bus stop saying to wait for him while he buys some water.
He walks on zebra crossing to learn that in Thailand zebra crossing does not allow you to have a right to pass the road first.
The vehicle does not stop on a pedestrian line and Ignacius instead jumps away; he jumps on the front of the vehicle when the vehicle runs away with our hero.
Ignacius smashes open the windshield with the driver's face when he places his arm in through the side window and grabs the driver's collar.
He gives a finishing blow to cave in the window into a vehicle and gives him access to the car.
Our Ignacius gets in while on the road and punches the driver's head until the vehicle turns off the road and flips over.
Ignacius pulls out the driver and continues to kick and punch him.
The car pulls over with Mage and Simon, they whistle Ignacius and El Paso behind the wheel.
"I thought you guys might use a ride to this flight?"
The tall guy who was watching the road rage is looking at those assailants driving off and making a smile with waving hands while they drive by him.
A Thai girl walks up to him and kisses him on the check.
"How are you today, Ban Toya?"
Toya looks at her.
"Blat, you won't believe what I just witnessed, Pan Narak."
*.*
The Mage is sitting in an A16 seat on his flight to Seoul and takes his travel sickness pill to help him have some sleep after a long night.
His eyes are closing, he watches how Simon and Ignacius are already asleep.
Mage suddenly wakes up to the feeling.
He is in Ignacius' body but he is old and sitting in a wheelchair.
The good-looking nurse takes him into a garden and she is smiling.
She then parks him in front of the flower bed, then she smiles and waves to gardeners.
The men wave back and she walks to them, she hugs one and kisses the other one while she is still holding one's private part.
They all smile and laugh sitting on the bench covered by trees but directly under Ignacius' view, Mage can sense how Ignacius feels angry all boiling inside his body but unable to flinch.
The Japanese nurse spread her leg over one guy's leg, giving him access to his finger to go inside her bottom, while the other one is kissing and touching her bare breasts.
The guy pulls his pants down and starts pressing down on her on the park bench.
Mage suddenly feels gravity and is pulled into a space tunnel to travel in time.
He appears in Simon's body, having his eyes closed and feeling like he is kissing.
The body opens his eyes and he can see Ignacius' mother in front of him and a mirror behind he can see Simon's face.
The space tunnel pulls him out again, making him travel across the space once more.
He is now in his own body but he finds out he is a space pirate and the crew captain too.
He is on a mission to other planets to help his crew find riches. Mage travels into a planet of women where they promise a good life; they feed his men; they bed his men and they feed themselves on his men to find out the woman wants his men's soul to hatch the golden eggs.
Magnum rounds up surviving men and heads down into a cave as their revenge to break the golden eggs cave.
He then feels the ground is shaking and lights turn dark for him to open his eyes to see the plane is preparing for landing and he just woke up from having a dream.
The sunny days are in the past arriving at the passport point.
They handle their passports when they enter the checkpoint and when they had left, the passport officer thought to herself.
"Alfa Scheuffer, Tango Ventura and Bravo Dutch; how are strange these Lithuanian's names?"
^.*
Once the team arrived at the location, they left their bags at accommodation in Gangnam sixth-floor apartment and left for lunch to see how life is here and implement the orientation plans of trace and rescue.
"We are now normal tourists from Bavaria, we always add yayaya or ahh when we speak."
Mage is walking and thinking about their future.
"Ya ya ya."
Simon practises his vocal cords.
Ignacius adds his voice. "Ahh."
Our team was heading to the local cafe for a quick shot of coffee and a sandwich when a stranger was looking at them from a building window across the street.
The cafe staff were in a good mood and one guy behind a till was holding an interest in his customers.
He stayed close and joined the table of theirs to learn about customer service first impressions.
"Hi guys, I hope you speak English. I am Bibi Bit. I am happy you like our cafe place."
Simon does appreciate his cafe.
"I wonder if he intends to sit here long before we leave."
He lifts his finger on a coffee cup looking out the window. He places his arm back on the sofa chair and relaxes his feet.
Mage appreciates the hospitality.
"We could use local guide intel about anything we might now know."
Ignacius sits closer to him.
"We could take on subcontractors too."
Bibi Bit smiles and moves his eyes to his fresh interest.
Simon looks back from looking at the window across the street.
"We have one extra teammate on the way since there are four formations in the guidebook?"
Ignacius drinks from a cup of coffee.
"You do not tell me he is the guy who made us a coffee?"
Mage drinks coffee too. "I think he makes excellent coffee. Let me ask you about the time you complete your work and head out to see the nightlife."
They had a full lunch. The phantom was still looking at them outside his window when Bibi Bit did ask how the meal was.
Simon left an extra tip in Won.
"Ya ya we understand how important it is to the hospitality business to provide excellent customer care and we would love to have your time if you don't mind?"
Bit made a small sudden bow.
"How could I help you?" He sits closer and listens intensely.
Mage does make a proposal asking for help.
"Ahh, we are new here and a little worried about nightlife hidden dangers and we would be happy to ask you to have us to show you around and as an extra job."
Ignacius takes out his envelope of cash.
"How about 500000 won for a three day's tour guide after work, ya?"
Bit smiles and starts thinking he could use a deposit to add for his new rent key money to rent his apartment.
Simon knows they need to start with local criminal gangs to find intel that is free of access to lead points, and he thinks about how he could take the point at the moment.
"How about a local place where we could treat you to serve you soup because it is cold here from our sunny place."
"Maybe I could ask you guys how I could spell your names?"
"I am Vlad Tango, this brown hair guy who doesn't speak much is Algimant Bravo and the guy with beard all over his smile is Pioter Romeo."
Simon gives his hand. "I am happy to know you."
"I am sure you guys are funny ones, I am happy to head out. I close the shop around 8 PM so come before then to have shots on the house before we head out."
Lord Ignacius brushes his beard hair.
Mage thanks and adds his hand too to a formal handshake.
Ignacius adds his hand too, turning into a team shake. He speaks.
"Fighting."
All let go of the handshake, the joy flows through their hearts.
They walk into the street, they know they made the first step to infiltrate the local community to look for a crime organization and find the lead to the hostage location before it is too late.
Their Captain made an important impression his team would never forget.
"I think we are now Littland Organized crime gang taking over the control."
Simon looks at him brushing his bald head.
"Do you think it is ok, how about our boss Jon Gi Sigis, you know he hired us from Japan?"
Ignacius understood Simon's improvisation did help his team.
"We will do well in a murder case from our last kill point."
They all smile to themselves while walking away laughing in their minds and repeating.
"Littland group hehehehe." They knew it was too important to fail.
^.^
They end up in a local food stool singing and overflowing soju shots one after another for Simon to see the group of funny guys in a suit with palm tree shirts telling the old lady off.
He stands up and says to his drunk friends he needs to take a leak. Simon walks around the back of the outdoor toilet to find a brick.
He walks up to a gangster looking guy to hit him over the back of his head with a brick.
Ignacius shows up from the other side walking to hit one with his shoulder.
It happens he slaps the guy over his face, making him hit the ground.
They finish kicking them all over the floor. They feel so bad they let one survivor go when he screams.
"I will take you to court for this."
Simon waves with a smile on his face. "You should tell this to the Littland Group."
They come back from a good fistfight to find Mage and Bit holding onto each other's shoulders pointing fingers at each other and saying to each other. "No, it was not you."
Mage stands up and looks at their teammates asking them how long they had to drink by themselves.
"Did you guys have to sock each other off for so long in a men's bathroom ya?"
"Ahh, you just look like you will not sleep alone tonight." Simon takes a seat back to the stool. He is feeling his feet are killing him.
"You guys start speaking English or this tour guy will go crazy." Bibi Bit points his misguided finger at Simon.
Simon opens an extra bottle of soju.
"Hey Bit, have you heard about the Littland crime group around here because we just had their feathers up."
"I never heard of those pricks, show me them and I beat them to a pulp for scaring our beloved tourists here."
"Ahh, then might I ask you who is the real villain around here in case I might run into them?" Lord Ignacius waves to bring more Soju.
"This Aisel Hasel Goon and his prick Sin On. They are always like on crime scenes and all over the news but never seen in prison."
"Ahh." Simon and Ignacius both pick Mage and Bit to head off to a taxi point to help them home.
Lord Ignacius pays the bill and takes a couple more bottles with him.
^.^
Mage walks into a kitchen to help himself with a cup of water for his headache and sees Bibi Bit laying on the floor.
He looks at Simon. "We are holding our team briefing today because our teammate has just landed and should be in an hour."
"No worries. I just quickly helped him to sober up because I think he will have some wonderful coffee once he shows up at work."
"OK."
"By the way, is it the best they had in a street league here abusing this grandmother for petty cash?"
"I do not know, but why did you guys make them scream like pigs nearly scaring me and our buddy Bit? I had to have a good few drinks together to make me forget about it."
"No worries."
"We should announce our fictional crime boss ASAP, about Jon Gi Sigis and his right-hand arm about Jon Sin. We need strong diversion because lawmakers and law administration units are not aware of our presence and won't until we all turn to ashes."
*.*
A taxi arrives outside their apartment block for a young lady to walk out with a large grey hat and large brown coat holding silver hand luggage in her hand, making her way to three friends waving.
She stops, lowers her head. "Konnichi-wa, I am Sakura Uto."
Simon stands tall greeting her.
"Well, denim and leather have brought us all together."