Tiit For Tat - S01 E48

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Tiit For Tat - S01 E48

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 28

Danger Zone

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can’t do anything to hurt me.” – 50 Cent

{Third Person’s POV}

Cassandra cried on several occasions , seeing how Mike was maltreated, the beatings, the punching, the hanging, all added up to her melancholy.

When she was young, she used to watch Jesus’ film. She always cried whenever Jesus was made to carry his cross and beaten all the way to crucifixion ground to be impaled.

Cassandra believed Mike was going through the same situation as Jesus. He came to suffer on her behalf so that she would be fred, but alas he was trapped in his love for her.

Cassandra’s new prison had very tall walls protected with electric wires, broken bottles and anti-climb spikes. Two men watched her day by day and night by night. She knew one of them by name. He’s called Eastman.

Her prison was about 150 metres from Mike’s. As she was reflecting on her predicament, Eastman entered her room. She could see the bulge in his trousers and she knew why he was there.

He said harshly ” C’mon bi^ch. Make yourself useful here to avoid the torture your boyfriend was going through. I want to taste what he has been tasting.

Cassandra looked at his hand carefully. Eastman was brandishing a sharp dagger in his hands.

“Lie on the bed.” He commanded her.

“R-r-r-r-r-r” his phone rang. He picked the call.

“Hello….”

There was no response. He threw the phone aside and pushed Cassandra on to the mattress. He then lied on her.In one swift motion, she flipped him off herself and grabbed his knife.

He reacted by pulling his trousers up quickly and standing up to face her. To her amazement, he removed a small revolver from his pocket. With the speed of light, she tried to kick the gun from his hand, causing the gun to fire. The bullet missed her by an inch…!!! He dived to pick his gun when………

“FREEZE,” a familiar voice shouted outside.Eastman managed to reach for his pistol. He started firing at the intruders but they dodged behind a wall.

He rolled out of the room into the open compound.

“Bang,boom,bang,Bang,boom,bang

The once silenced compound was turned into a war zone.Bullets were exchanged here and there.

The hoodlums showed the intruders they could match them boot for boot. Other gangsters reinforced Eastwood. Cassandra watched the combat from her cell as if it was the second world war.

Eastman and Calculla managed to escape with such a supersonic speed that the intruders in camouflage couldn’t believe it.

You can imagine Cassandra’s joy when she saw who the intruders or rather her saviours were , her brother Nixon and Theodore.

[Mike’s Point Of View]

I was forced to sit on an electric chair. My hands were strapped to the chair at both sides. Left and right. Tons of electric currents was discharged into my body. I screamed loudly in agony.

“Are you ready to tell us where the girls are now?.”

I knew there is a thin line between bravado and foolishness. I need to buy some time. If I didn’t compro

mise, I will die.

“Yes, Yes, Yes…………..”

Zolabin suddenly received a call and left. I heard him say ” island” before he left. For five minutes, he didn’t return.

Razak kept interrogating me and inflicting pain on me. He kept electrifying me. Then I cracked..

I was about to say something when I heard a gunshot. I closed my eyes and when I opened them, I was still breathing and alive.

” Go check who is there” Razak said to one of his men.

Before he reached the door, series of gunshots reverberated close to the room. Razak and his thugs opened a small door at the exreme side of the room and ran through it leaving me there.

I tried moving but I was tied up to an electrifying chair.

I didn’t understand what was going, then I head a familiar voice shout, “Mike.”

I turned my head and saw no other person than TIFE!!!

He untied me and hugged me like the prodigal son.

I asked him,”Tife, where on earth have you been? How did you find me?”

“C’mon, let’s get going. Your answer would be answered when we are in a safe zone.” said Tife.

“Is Cassandra safe too?” I asked Tife.

He smiled and said,”Love one ti ti”

Your lover is the first person to be rescued from the thugs by Nixon her brother. Let’s get going, please.”

***

As if he knew, the gang regrouped and started firing at us from their hideouts. Series of bullets ricocheted on the wall.

Tife begun replying bullet with bullet. He was supported by Nixon and Theodore who suddenly come through the back door that the gang escaped through.

Fire crossed fire and the walls of the entire mansion was riddled with bullets. Nixon covered me and Cassandra as we moved towards the camouflaged armoured car.

Eventually, Nixon and Tife retreated when the gang increased in number. A bullet hit one of Nixon’s men when he was rushing to enter the armoured car.

The car sped off admist several gunfires. About five minutes later,the car negotiated a curve. Then Cassandra said she wanted to urinate. The car stopped and she alighted.

Courtesy demand you give a lady privacy to urinate but I asked Cassandra if I should follow her to the urinal because we were still in the thugs operation zone.

She giggled and said ” No. Don’t follow me. I will be safe. Just wait for me. I will be back before you know it.”

She then went to the corner of the uncompleted building to urinate.

I waited by the side of the car while Tife told me how Cassandra was betrayed by Gina and how they discovered where I was kidnapped to.

I screamed, “WHAT!” You mean Gina is the JUDAS in our midst all this time?”

“I am afraid, Yes!” Tife answered.

“But why?” I asked.

I don’t know. But I think one of the thugs may have blackmailed her with something we don’t know, Tife said.

‘Where is Gina now?” I asked Tife.

He said, “I asked her to stay in my house but she left to her hideout. I can track her later..

Tife then continued his narration to me on how I was found. He said, “After I followed the sedan car, it stopped near an executive Mansion equipped with modern technologies. CCTV, E-scanners,

Facial recognition software. We used our drone to get the sche

matics of the buildings. We also planned how to disable all the electronic devices around the house. We consulted an expert and he suggested an EMP ( ElectroMagneticPulse).

Today, Nixon and I drove to the area using his camouflage car. When we

reached Zolabin’s Mansion “…..

“You mean my Father’s Mansion,” I interrupted Tife again.

Tife knew why I was saying ‘my father’s house’ but he decided to maintain the status quo.

He said, “”OK, but for the sake of my narration, let me say Zolabin’s Mansion.”

Tife continued his account, “As I was telling you , when we reached errrrr your father…emmm….the Mansion, we saw two guard standing in front of the gate absent- minded. One was talking on phone while holding a AK 47 Rifle while the other was just perambulating without a gun.

I was dressed in my camouflaged uniform. I alighted from the car and walked majestically to the gate.”

Tife said one of the guards commanded him to “Stop right there.”

He stopped.

Then he told me the guards asked him ,”What do you want?”

Tife said he told the guards he was looking for Mr. Benson who used to reside there but the guards told him they knew “NO Mr. Benson.”

He said the other guy with the gun told him to leave or else he would be compelled to shot him.

I asked him what happened after he was asked to leave. Tife said ,” I slowly removed my gun from my back pocket and fired at his head. The other guard without a gun wanted to run when Nixon shot him down. I initialised the EMP. Suddenly, all electronic devices around the house stopped working. I hid because I knew they will come out to find why all their electronics were disabled and where the gunshot came from.

According to our plan , Nixon would rescue his sister and I would rescue you. We knew the schematics of the entire building so we knew exactly where you were and where Cassandra was.”

I asked him if he learnt that from the military?

Tife responded ” Yes,Military rescue operations.”

I was curious and asked Tife why he decided to join the army. He told me his Grand Father was a military man and had always wanted him to be a military man but he declined his suggestion and became a taxi driver. He said after he was shot by the thugs, he realised how vulnerable he was.

That it took a military intervention for him to be rescued from the gang was enough stimulus. He said after meeting Nixon and he provided him security at St. Nicholas Hospital,they become very good friends and he decided to join the army.

He continued narrating the account to me, “I was moving towards your building when one gangster came out shooting in my direction. I ducked behind a building. Sliding down, I shot his foot. I rose up and headed towards your cell. Then a bullet hit me from the back.”

When he said that he was shot I suddenly reached for his back to check for gunshot wounds. I told him , “but I see no gunshot wound?”

“No, you don’t.” Tife replied,

“because I was wearing a bullet proof vest”

“Huhhhhhh” I sighed.

He continued the narration, “I entered the room and found you strapped to an electric chair. I’m sure you know the rest of the story.”

“Thank you man, you’ve safe my life” I said to him.

Tife responded, “one good turn deserved another. You have also saved me that day I was released from transfer from St. Nicholas Hospital. If you were not to come with your land documents, I would have been killed.

“Yea, it’s true,” I responded.

We both laughed.

Then I remembered Cassandra had not come back.

I decided to check on her. I went behind the wall.

“Wheewwww” Cassandra had disappeared.!!!”

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