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I will post my story in 5 parts in this thread over the next couple of days 
I haven't thought of a name for it yet so I thought that you could suggest names for me 
I hope you enjoy it.
It has a bit of violence in it so be warned 
OB6160


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                                                        Prologue

It was a July evening at 7o clock when Mr Bakerhouse was ushered into the study at Chippendale House, the New York residence of the billionaire Mr Tayoko Garic. Tayoko was the owner of the toy’s company Lexicon, but it wasn’t toys he had come to discuss.
Tayoko was also the owner of a multi – million pound smuggling group which used toys to transport weapons, drugs and other illegal material past the stringent security systems of many modern countries. Tayoko owned a small military base in on an island near Australia.
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Mr Bakerhouse laid the briefcase down on the plush leather desk , and looked at the cold formidable man standing behind Tayoko Garic and he knew just from looking into his cold blue eyes that if Tayoko ordered him he would obey without hesitation.
Baker House started opening the latches of the briefcase he had brought in, but before he opened the final one he asked Mr Tayoko ‘The money?’ Tayoko took out a briefcase from underneath his desk and opened it. It was full of banknotes; Baker house took it and briefly searched it for any hidden devices. When he was sure that it was completely safe he turned back to Tayoko and opened the final latch of the case. The room was filled with a pale ghostly glow. Tayoko muttered something and the bodyguard took out a gun and shot Mr Bakerhouse between the eyes, Tayoko had got what he wanted, he would rule the World the Galaxy , The UNIVERSE. ‘Chang fire up the jet, we’re leaving’. The bodyguard turned and walked off, but Tayoko stayed where he was, staring at the thing inside the case.
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Two days later Mr Baker House’s body was found and the police launched and investigation surrounding My Tayoko, but Mr Tayoko was already well outside the country. In fact he was on the other side of the world.
                                           
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                       Chapter 1 – It Was Harder Than I Thought

The head of the secret intelligence department in the U.S.A , Andrew Young was busy studying Tayoko Garrick’s file when the door opened and two thickset men entered the room and sat opposite him at his desk.
    ‘Right’ said Young and he clapped his hands, ‘Tea? Biscuits anyone?’  the two men shook their heads and a waitress came in and placed a steaming cup of tea in front of Young on his desk. ‘Now’ he said ‘to business.’ ‘As you may already know , recently a man has been killed by the infamous Tayoko Garic , owner of the toy company Lexicon. Our files also show evidence of him running a top-secret smuggling group.’ ‘Very recent satellite footage shows the man he killed entering his house at 19:00 U.S time carrying a briefcase containing whatever it was that Tayoko wanted. Then at 19:30 his private jet left from his own airfield backing off from his house.’ ‘We need to find out what was in that briefcase and if Tayoko could use it to harm anybody.’ The two men nodded, got up and left.

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One week late their bodies were posted back to the headquarters of the CIA. Young knew now that they needed something more to do this, he picked up his phone and dialled a number.
This was going to be harder than he had originally thought…
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                                           Chapter 2 – Impending Doom

Tayoko Garic needed something to test his new weapon on, he flicked through his rapidly growing list of people he would like dead, his eyes laid to rest on the listing of president Obama , he had once had tea with him and had hated the décor of his home, this had immediately put him on his list, Tayoko wondered how he would do it, would he kill Obama directly or just destroy the entire Whitehouse, eventually he decided on the latter.
                      In his luxury compartment deep inside the Whitehouse president Obama had no idea of his impending doom…
Tayoko Garic marched down a spotless white hallway to his weapon’s room, when he got there he punched in a sixteen digit code and a hidden panel slid smoothly open, inside was a lead lined (If there was ever a nuclear war) military control base. He walked over to the main control bridge and the captain in charge saluted. Tayoko walked up to a brand new control panel, ‘Authorisation Please.’ asked a computerised voice. The computer then went on to scan his retinas and check his finger prints. ‘Authorisation Granted’ said the computer, and a completely new set of controls slid out from underneath the console, he typed in the location of his target and the computer said: ‘Target Acquired’, ‘proceed?’ . ‘Yes’ said Tayoko. ‘Voice Verified’ said the computer. Tayoko switched to a video feed of his new weapon, as a Hydro-Electric charge was passed through the glowing crystal he had acquired and then the camera cracked and the screen went blank.
             The crystal had been made by an ancient race that had been very much more advanced than the human. In the wrong hands the crystal could be used to destroy the entire world, but Tayoko had no intention of doing that, he intended to wipe the slate clean and create a new, ideal world. Doing this was his first step towards achieving his final goal.
                          The following morning the Whitehouse had disappeared from the map. At the spot where it and 200 personnel used to be there was an empty glade of grass.


                                      Chapter 3 – Are You Sure?

Andrew young sat at his desk watching the late night news , there were reports about student riots , the decline of cocoa butter , the release of Windows 8. Then just as he was about to turn off the television and go home a flashing banner came up on the screen , it said ‘Breaking news’ then it cut to a picture of the Whitehouse, or where it used to be.
                 Andrew sat there in stunned silence, his evening was going to be much longer than he had first imagined. He shook himself out of his stupor and picked up a phone and started dialling, just as it started ringing…
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A ring of tanks had surrounded the area that the white house had occupied and what seemed like half the U.S army were guarding the tanks.
          Andrew Young and America’s head of military pulled up outside the military blockade and were let in immediately; a crack team of weapon’s experts and detectives were already surveying the site. The two men got out of the car and walked over to the general in charge, she saluted and said ‘We have not been able to figure out what sort of weapon it was that destroyed the Whitehouse without leaving any trace.’  The head of military said ‘Well whoever or whatever did this could quite possibly do it again, therefore they are an active threat to the United States, I will put the country’s nuclear facilities on red alert.’ He turned to Andrew and said ‘Are you sure you have no intelligence on this matter?’ ‘Well we caught some satellite footage of a man called Tayoko Garic receiving a possibly dangerous object which set off the satellites Geiger counter , my theory is that Tayoko used this to destroy the Whitehouse .’ the head of military said ‘ So where is Tayoko Garic now?’ ‘We have received intelligence that he is currently hiding on his own island off the coast of Australia. May I suggest that we send a small crack team to discover what the weapon is find out Tayoko’s motives and to destroy his base.
                                     Chapter 4 – Infiltration

A class CH-47 Chinook helicopter flew over the calm waters of the Indian Ocean, its twin rotors catching the light of the dying sun.
                      Inside a small elite team of U.S Marines readied their parachutes, preparing for their imminent landing. They could see nothing but the wide expanse of Blue Ocean out of the open door of the helicopter, suddenly a spot of land appeared on the horizon. It grew and grew until it became a small island which dominated the landscape.
                      The helicopter swept straight over the island then came back around, the men jumped, just as the helicopter was blown out of the sky by two ballistic missiles, the blast could probably be seen from the Australian mainland , that meant the authorities would be coming soon. The team of 10 men landed in a patch of dense foliage off which they rolled silently.
                    The team leader known as Rex by his colleagues, lead the way to a sheer rock face, he and the rest of the team proceeded to fasten hooks to the rock and the scaled it’s surface silently through the darkness of the night. When they reached the summit they started searching for the entrance the secret base they knew was in there, suddenly one the the team whispered ‘ here it is.’ He had found a small virtually undetectable trapdoor that sat flush on the rock. The men lifted it with crowbars and entered the building.
          They found themselves in a white corridor at the end of which stood a 50 inch thick steel door as well as two guards. The guards were swiftly taken out with a jab to the solar plexus and one of the men started work on shorting the door’s circuits. Rex shook his head. ‘These men are really dumb.’ he thought as he reached over one of the guards motionless bodies and extracted a key card, he slid it into the slot on the side of the door and if swung silently open on oiled hinges. Tayoko’s weapon was revealed; one of the team took out a lead lined bag and put the crystal sitting at the heart of the weapon into it. Next the men started to place nuclear charges along the walls and ceiling, and then they turned back to the doorway and found it blocked by Tayoko Garic, his bodyguard and half a dozen guards.
                        Tayoko said ‘Well, Well, Well. What do we have here then?’ And the charges exploded activating the crystal in the bag and the island disappeared, taking everyone with it. Only the ocean was left, and a tiny glowing crystal bobbing in the waves.

                                                              Epilogue
Two Months Later

Andrew Young walked along a gleaming white corridor to the control room of the CIA and entered the room. He sat down at his desk and accessed his account using a 34 digit hexadecimal password. He accessed the news and read the headline story, it said: Taj Mahal Disappeared Overnight!

In the early hours of this morning the Taj Mahal disappeared without a trace. The Indian government are baffled as to what could have caused this, experts believe that this event may have been linked to the disappearance of the Whitehouse two months ago. –

He stopped reading, Tayoko couldn’t have done this, he was dead and the crystal was in the ultra-secure safety department at the CIA prison, or was it?

Andrew ran outside and got into his converted Range Rover,he said ‘CIA prison’ and the car took him on the pre-set course.

When he got there Andrew showed his security card to the guards and proceeded to scan his fingerprints, retinas, Heart pattern and finally the computer did a check of his brain and the door swung open, the crystal wasn’t there.

                                                     Possibly the end

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