The Prince Of Whales (17) This is the luckiest hour for Detective Bermann to get such elaborated and freshly revealed information about Ibtos and its highly safeguarded secret bootlegging buccaneer activities. The red cool sun is sniffing like the bloodhound and rushing towards Hawaiian Islands to bring this well organized crime Empire to its full exposure. The Hawaiian state guesthouse kitchen attendants prepared every thing and rang the first bell for breakfast. In twenty minutes everybody is present in the dinning room. Willy has spent the whole night trying to come to a decision whether to call his wife now or later. Rodrigo has suggested, ‘it would be better to call your resurrected black widow only after visiting Ibtos’. Willy did not like the mind readers at all. He yelled at Rodrigo and said, ‘nobody asked your suggestion. I am not thinking about my wife at all. I am only debating whether it is good or bad to call someone after midnight’. They finished the breakfast and rushed to finish their business at the auction hall. At 10 am the attorney Mr. Bartholdi came to the auction hall. He paid the balance amount to Mr. Dukh and got all the official registration papers from him. And he looked around and introduced himself to Zuloaga the Honolulu chief of police in mufti. He shook Zuloaga’s hand and hugged him hard and transferred the bug into his hand saying, ‘hello Mr. Rodrigo! I am Bartholdi the attorney. The Sheikh has sent these property transfer papers to you’. Zuloaga politely corrected him and introduced Rodrigo to the attorney. Bartholdi shyly smiled and said, ‘I am sorry. I looked at your berserker personality and thought that you must be the boss’. Zuloaga naively smiled and said, ‘I am really flattered. I am still the Honolulu chief of police. I am on vacation. This is my man you are looking for’. Rodrigo quickly opened the envelope and countersigned all the papers and thanked the attorney and the Sheikh for the transfer of Island thirteen to Ibtos. Bartholdi took the signatures of Nick and Willy as witnessing members of Ibtos. Nick, Rodrigo and Willy v-signaled Mr. Dukh. The attorney left with all the signatures and the papers. Dukh handed over all the balance amounts and copies of the registration papers of all the deluge-affected Islands to the concerned state officials and left the podium. Zuloaga and the state government officials showed the new office of the commissioner to Dukh. Zuloaga introduced Dukh to the new office personnel. Dukh invited Zuloaga into his new office. They sat there and waited for Nick, Rodrigo and Willy. Rodrigo took Nick and Willy to show his MexSp Foundation office. He introduced the new chairman of the MexSp Foundation board of trustees to Nick and Willy and appreciated for all his sincere voluntary services. He encouraged him to continue to investigate the kidnapped girls case and gave him all the necessary instructions. He introduced Willy to the chairman and said, ‘this is Willy the new finance officer of the MexSp Foundation. He is the best person to handle the finances. He thinks thrice before taking any step in dealing with the finances. I trust him’. Willy is shocked and surprised for this sudden introduction. He began to think and tried to say some thing but Rodrigo told the limou driver, ‘take us to the Waikiki beach resort. We must see the new commissioner at his office which is opposite to the resort’. The driver nodded and started the limousine. Nick congratulated Willy for his new job. They came to the new commissioner’s office. Rodrigo asked the driver to leave. Nick, Rodrigo and Willy walked into Dukh’s new office with big applause. Dukh introduced all his new staff members to Nick, Rodrigo and Willy. Zuloaga looked at his watch and said, ‘we must make a move’. They came to elevator and to the terrace and saw a small autogiro coming towards them. The pilot landed the autogiro and took them in. The gyrator took them around the Chinaman’s seal hat area. The pilot looked at his countdown watch and said in Nippon English, ‘you can fasten your seat belts or if you are strong enough to hold the seat hands tight enough you can take off your seat belts’. Three of them unhooked their seat belts and relaxed while the other two tightened their seat belts. The pilot gyrated the aircraft around the seal rock and levered the latch and suddenly ejected their double-seater chairs down over the seal rock. They dreadfully looked down and saw the seals all over the seal rock. They could not see any thing but the elephant seals. They thought that they were going to fall on the rock among those elephant seals. They were terribly shocked and began to scream like the howler monkeys and the sea lions. There were already flying upside down in the water. Like the carabao, white-lipped babirusa and tailless capybara the other three began to swim downwards very fast to escape the notice of the seals. They seemed like the three supermen pushing the seats down. The seals looked at them going down and began to chase them. The underwater submarine has opened its mouth and quickly sucked them in. The submarine crewmembers took them in and the chief submariner said, ‘sorry! We are three seconds late to receive you in. But don’t you worry that you became wet. We will put in a drier. I mean in sauna’. They were sucked further downwards in the submarine elementary canal and had their sauna bath. They became fresh again and the crewmembers received them into the belly. They introduced themselves and greeted them in their ninja style. They began to taste the special kind of Ibtos style of operation. The chief submariner asked them, ‘are you ready?’ This time they all fastened their seat belts. The submarine torpedoed like an underwater rocket and took them towards the Diamond Head the extinct volcanic crater of the Island of Oahu. The Ibtos security men opened the underwater elevator and received the submarine and brought it to the sea floor basement. The ninja guys received and checked the guests in the ninja style and walked them to the main waiting hall. They were wonder stricken and looked around the central waiting hall of the gigantic six-petaled white lotus hexagonal building. Dr. Bran Ramses Ritz personally came in the tramcar to receive the distinguished guests. He dressed like a spaceman and said, ‘welcome to Ibtos and welcome aboard’. They got into the tramcar. Dr. Bran took them to the reception lab and signaled the staff to clean them. The staff walked the gusts into the lab and took their blood samples and gave them a vapor spray shower and brought them back. The ninja girls garlanded them with the bleeding hearts and a greeted them with aloha. Dr. Bran took off his spaceman dress and began to show them the first five Ibtos projects in those six petals. He brought them to the sixth one. They felt that they already knew him. They tried to remember. Zuloaga finally recalled that he briefly saw Dr. Bran in the famous Hawaiian Redlamb madhouse in central Honolulu. At that time he was introduced as the visiting professor and the internationally known Behavior Therapist of the Boston Redlamb Hospital. He did not reveal this to the others but kept in his heart. He thought that Bran and the Doctor might be twins. Dr. Bran finally introduced himself as the chief of the Ibtos cloning project and showed them his lab in his underwater hexagon the sixth petal building. The scientists are already working on their blood samples. Dr. Bran showed the guests how the latest cloning project works. As soon as he finished his lecture the scientists brought five live Clones that looked exactly like themselves. They thought that they were affected by double vision. Dr. Bran introduced those five submissive Clones to the five skeptic Originals. The Clones are programmed and fully equipped with the needed information of the Originals. Dr. Bran thought that the girls were kidnapped. So he did not give any information to the Clones about the girls. He also thought that Boris was dead. So he did not give any information to the Clones about Boris. He also thought that Willy and Wilma were separated. So he did not give any information to the Clones about Wilma. He gave them other needful information to go and take over the Island thirteen. Dr. Bran said to the Originals, ‘this is my behavior therapy. These very Clones of you will behave as better individuals than you in every sense. They will go out into the world and efficiently handle and accomplish all the assignments while you stay with us and relax here. They can know every thing that you can know. They are the better copies of yours. They are going to live your lives in the world in a better way while you live the rest of your lives here trying to learn and understand yourselves. This is my ‘Socratic know thyself project’ to bring peace into my Ibtos world. I hope you will understand what I meant and what I have achieved in the field of live sciences. I am the victorious Alamgir like the Mogul emperor Aurangzeb. Those who obey me live in the clonal lives forever. Those who disobey me will die here like mice. I have power to kill you and resurrect you’. Dr. Bran finished his self-anointed homily. The Originals looked at their Clones and were petrified and stood like the Egyptian mummies. Dr. Bran thanked the guests for the transfer of Island thirteen and the other twelve islets to Ibtos. He finally said, ‘after all your obedient behavior is thousand times better than all the gold you wanted to possess for yourselves from Island thirteen. Don’t think that I am trying to preach you a sermon under this Diamond Head crater. We need Island thirteen and the other islets not only for gold but also for other evolutionary projects. Those who learn from me will do more miracles than these. Our new project is to make the humans as Milton’s angels. You will have some additional powers. You will be suffused with some divine glory. You can contract or expand your size and you can change your gender at will’. The berserker ninja guys praised Dr. Bran for his intelligence and garrulous speech. The ninja guys finally came and began to lead the Originals to their special glass room cells in a most ritualistic manner. Dr. Bran conducted the black mass. The ninja devotees made loud noises saying to the Originals, ‘you are worthy to be praised for you are giving your lives to the Clones. You will live forever and in them’. The ninja guys then slightly pierced and peeled the Originals and licked their fresh blood and ate the tiny pieces of flesh. They further shouted and declared, ‘this is the original blood shed for you and the original body died for you. You will live in them and they in you’. Then they brought five naked ninja sexpots and sirens and asked the Originals to make love to them saying, ‘these are the holy Echidnas. They will bring forth your Holy Clones’. The berserker ninja guys and ninja gals chanted the blasphemous hymns during the ritual communion ceremony. Rodrigo fiercely shouted like a giant white drongo. Nick began his dithyramb in a high pitch and began to call for his wine god to send strong cognac. Willy got enough enlightenment to rely on reason and experience rather than on dogma and traditional ritual and publicly declared, ‘it is better for me to peacefully separate from my wife ex-wife. But if I see her with any other man I will kill her. I still love her even though I hate her and separated from her’. Dukh became pensive like a monk-crane and strongly decided to wait for the opportunity. Zuloaga began to cry like a penitent sinner and begged his clone to act as the informer. Dr. Bran said to the Clones, ‘this is your first assignment. You must go and see what is going on Island thirteen. Take all the assistance needed and possess Island thirteen and all the other islets. Take out the pictures of gold ore and prepare the project report. And come back’. The Clones and berserkers humbly received the instructions and prepared to leave for Island thirteen. After the black mass the Clones finally said to the exhausted Originals, ‘thank you for giving your lives for us. We will live your lives for you in this first assignment. We will put on you and live in you as you live in us. We are one. The world will also think that we are one. We will never let you down. Whether you live or die in these glass rooms please be assured that you will live in us forever. We will see you soon’. The berserker ninjas began to close the cells with soundproof glasses and the Originals began to scream with the ventriloquial voices. They cursed Dr. Bran and said to him, ‘you notorious blue beard! Megalomaniac! You think that you would rule the world as god-king of the Islands. One day your head will be severed and buried like the legendary god-king Bran’s head. But some King Arthur the leader of the knights will definitely come and rescue us from your black birding Redlamb black hole project. You vicious diamondback and the son of the ectopic pregnancy! Some Frankenstein’s monster will eternally clone you and eat you forever. You son of the toothless Echidna monster! You have brought forth the buccaneers and berserker ninja guys. You have made them believe that a new paradise will be heralded by the miraculous arrival of a supernatural cargo of goods brought by gods. And you have kidnapped and killed our wives. You have kidnapped us now. You have decided to kidnap all the heads of the nations. You have invented this Ibtos, which is nothing but a black hole to imprison and kill all the Originals. But one day you will taste your own medicine. This is our curse’. Dr. Bran coolly smiled and said, ‘goodbye forever my dear one time friends and partners! Learn the art of transmigration of your parthenogenetic lives and relive your clonal lives forever and ever towards perfection’. The Clones and the berserkers came into the outer world to live their programmed assignment. They were excited to see the real world. They called the Sheikh and thanked him for every thing. The Sheikh invited them for his grand kids’ wedding. The Clones and the berserkers prepared every thing to attend the wedding and to prepare the project report soon after the wedding. The jet aircraft preceded with those five dumb Clones and other twenty-berserker ninja guys and gals towards Island thirteen. The Clones were excited to take their first ride in the air. Dr. Bran did not realize that Boris had invited hundreds of people to the Island. Chapter twenty one We are your soul mates Detective Bermann watched the screen and listened to all the conversations for the third time. He confirmed that Ibtos supremacist Dr. Bran the masochist has imprisoned Rodrigo, Nick, Willy, Dukh and Zuloaga in the Diamond Head crater near the Waikiki Beach. Matthew and Sam locked the area in the computer screen and pinpointed the spot. Detective Bermann asked his cybernetic staff to continuously watch the movements of those five bugged prisoners. It seemed that the prisoners are screaming, cursing and yelling at the imprisoners from whom there was no response. That means the prisoners are in the soundproof glass rooms. The movements of the prisoners are very brief. The location is quite certainly under the Diamond Head crater near the Waikiki Beach. Bermann called his detective friends and explained the new situation. The detectives’ association from the mainland got the nod from the navy sea lion commando force to prosecute the operation. They have alerted the regional Hawaiian naval sea lion commando forces and gave them the plan of operation. Every thing is confidentially planned and prepared. The navy sea lion commandos are ready to strike Dr. Bran’s Ibtos underwater Crime Empire near the Diamond Head crater any time. They are waiting for Bermann’s final word. They have posted themselves near the Waikiki Beach with full alert. They employed the skilled dowsers to estimate the depth and flow of underground streams and activities. They are fully equipped to go ahead. Bermann said, ‘the bugged prisoners are still in the glass room cells. But the Sheikh received the phone call from Rodrigo thanking him for the transfer of the Islands to Ibtos. The Sheikh invited them to attend the wedding and take over the Island. They said they are on the way. It seems Dr. Bran is sending the dupes or Clones to Island thirteen to attend the wedding’. He continued and said, ‘Boris is suspecting that they must be the Clones of Rodrigo, Willy, Nick, Dukh and Zuloaga. In any case we have to wait for the dupes or Clones and the berserkers. It may take further half hour for them to arrive here. When they arrive we will see who the hell they are and let you know’. Boris recalled the name of Bran. Boris had a classmate whose name was Bran. Bran always hated Boris for his intelligence. He envied Boris when the British Academy gave the astounding Fellowship Award to Boris for his outstanding studies in the field of Bionics. Boris moved to Hawaii and won the Hawaiian Cup in the single canoe race. Boris won many awards in science. Bran became a behavior therapist in Boston. Bran married and divorced many women many times. Some say that he became a masochist and had sadistically killed his wives. He used to visit Hawaiian medical colleges and madhouses as a visiting professor and the behavior therapist. He was invited to participate in the Mohole project as a special member. The project was unsuccessful and it was closed for several technical reasons. Afterwards he illegally enslaved some Africans and blackbirded some Polynesians and made inhuman experiments on them. He introduced the cargo cult among them and conducted the black mass for them. He turned the slaves as buccaneers, berserkers and ninjas and began bootlegging with their help to make money for his inhuman experiments and monstrous projects. He used Nick and Rodrigo to kill Boris and Michael. He hedonistically started kidnapping the rich people and replaced them with his submissive robotic Clones. He had placed many such robotic Clones in San Francisco and in Hawaii. They have been quietly working for him. They did all sorts of humanoid works for him and gave him money for all his cloning projects. He had gradually hypnotized himself and became a self-anointed hedonistic Heimdall. He had built the underwater lotus building Ibtos as the Bifrost Bridge between his Asgard and the Midgard. He had installed the humanoid Clones even in the government circles. Boris gave the possibly reasonable gist about Dr. Bran’s Ibtos operations and warned Detective Bermann to act accordingly. He gave a suggestion and said, ‘it seems that Bran is sending his Clones and professional berserkers to attend the wedding and then prepare the project report. In the mean time we have to finish the drama and the weddings. We must receive those Clones and the berserkers and confuse them with our simple tests to see whether they are Clones or the Originals’. Detective Bermann gave the necessary instructions to his staff, to the security men and to the good ninja guys. The professional wedding party beauticians began to prepare the groom and the bride for the historic wedding. They also prepared Cathy as bride. All the guests are waiting for the other groom Mr. Matthew the famous cybernetician of the decade. Cathy impatiently looked at the Sheikh with a question mark face. The Sheikh signaled her to be patient. Detective Bermann looked at his watch and gave a signal to the Sheikh. The Sheikh came to the dais and said to the guests, ‘dear friends! I have a confession and a proposal to make to the girls before all of you. Boris, Shea and Matthew are not alive. They were dead. I lied to the girls because I wanted them to forget the tragedy for a while and feel happy’. Eliza, Feggy and Cathy were shocked to hear the tragic news. All the wedding guests tried to console the girls.
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