‘WHO IS THAT? A figure with the long beardy face?’ asked the man who was very clumsy for he drank a lot of whiskey. ‘Yes or yeah, I don’t know!’ said the man beside him who also had the drink. The two men got inside their car and decided to crash the figure and switched on the headlights. The car bursted! Into pieces. And the first article in ‘the Gazette’ was about this incident. This is a serious case ready for the best of the best… HARRY WATCH… AND THE SPIES… Harry entered Mr. Watts’s room, the ‘SPY’s secretary, when he entered the room he found a case file that said: Case for: SPY Case name: The Dark Figure Evidence on https..//the gazette//.com/thedarkfigure. Please deal the case Harry took the file and called his team to meet at their secret Headquarters, to get there he has to get down New York Avn. Subway station ticket counter’s hidden tile-twisting door. Steve was there first, then Tom, Harry, Stella with the team’s pet Lemon, then it was Ethan, and at last Peter. “What’s the case?” asked Tom, Harry handed over the case file, then everybody joined in to look at it. Later Steve took his Mac Book out of his bag and went to see the Gazette’s article, the team read about the incident. ‘Interesting? Eh..?’ Tom declared. ‘Let’s get back home to think about it’ said Peter. And soon everybody went home… The team later met in the Headquarters in the next early morning. ‘Well, I guess none of you guys have some news?’ asked Steve. ‘Yes! I do!’ Stella said excitedly, ‘Really? Are you sure?’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Then what is it?’ ‘It was 10 pm yesterday, I was driving home with Lemon by my side, and it was at New York Broadway Junction where a… Darkly tinted BMW 2014 i3 model rushed past the junction when the red light was on, the number of the vehicle was… eh! … ‘DARK’’ ‘Quick! Get up to the car!’ it was Harry calling them up to their spy team van. Once everybody had a seat in their Mercedes Benz Vito 2020 version, Steve brought the van to life and sped to Broadway Junction, it was exactly 6 miles away, Siri said that! On their way the exact ugly BMW with the number plate ‘DARK’ rushed past them. It seemed to know that the spies were looking for it. And a chase began. With professional driving expert, Steve Rogers, at the wheel even a Bagger 288 will be seen in L.A and the next hour in New York! We rode on the highway to San Francisco for 1 whole hour! Then the BMW became a dark figure……. And disappeared! We returned to New York and………………………………..
‘WAIT WHAT?’ This is question was repeated the whole day! How is this possible? Who is that????????......... The same BMW was there on the same road, they met it first! At that time, they decided it to follow it again and again and again, it disappeared and disappeared and disappeared. Boring! So we gave up and returned to our headquarters. Now what? Ethan decided to brainstorm it that night. Morning came – slowly – the team met in their headquarters just to see that Ethan only clearly designed the bulletin board about the case.Hmph! Later that day, Harry was riding with Stella, he had a thing for her, on his bike. Tires screeched. Harry’s bike spun on the brake’s effect. 2 other bikers were following them! They rushed past Harry’s bike accidentally. Harry spun the bike and VROOM….. A chase again! Harry began to head for the spy’s Brooklyn hideout. The 2 bikers were hot on his heels! Harry turned into an alley with his bike’s front wheel on the air. And in a moment, they disappeared through the dead end. Holographic Hardening, hologram that only allows a specific group of people to pass, but when others go past it? It is hard as a rock! The irritated bikers left… Stella was scared to death! Harry panted for a while and came to comfort Stella. When Stella was fine, they heard cars outside coming closer. Harry got his pistol and pointed it at the door with Holographic Hardening. Everything was still for a moment and in a drop of a hat, the rest of the team came in. ‘Phew!’ panted Harry, ‘I thought it was someone else!’ ‘You crazy? Only our team can enter here!’ Tom exclaimed. ‘Oh yeah!’ ‘Tell us what happened’ ‘I don’t know what in Earth is happening!’ ‘I know what is happening!’ Stella surprised them! ‘What?’ ‘Whoever doing this wants me dead! I was the first one to spot the BMW and the bikers were chasing us because I was in the bike!’ It’s not you, chillax!’ Harry comforted her, ‘It could be me!’ ‘No-’ ‘Stop it!’ ‘Fine!’ Stella replied sharply. For a few moments, the just sat there recovering the events that occurred. Then they decided to go to their only very heavily guarded hideout. FLORIDA. They were speeding on their vehicles on the highway. This time with Lemon in Steve’s car. ‘DARK’ rushed past them. Only this time, You Know Who was spotted! A similar chase began… Just that, the car didn’t disappear! By the time the chase was in Florida, Steve was tired! Harry took the wheel. Then all of a sudden, the car disappeared into thin air! The team drove on to the hideout. And night crept on, they slept. At around midnight, Tom woke up startled. He thought he heard a horse neighing! He checked the window and there stood a… a horse, as dark as dark itself! It neighed once more and Harry woke up startled! And the Dark figure was mounted on it, Tom took a photo, but when he checked how it looked, everything was black! The Dark figure was pretty much dark! And with a leap, the horse vanished into pure darkness. Harry and Tom were baffled! The next morning, the gang reported the incident to Mr. Watts. They were told to stay in the hideout – ‘for safety reasons!’ Harry was annoyed – And two bikers (similar to the one that chased Harry and Stella) were spotted in the area. It was 3:50, when the lights went out about after a minute of flickering. “Gang, defy protocol and get out!” Shouted Harry, “split up in different bikes! Lemon and Stella with me in the SL roadster! Off to New York! Choose a highway!” Everyone bustled out in a hurry! EMERGENCY! This was the first time the team had a real emergency. Rather than just drills! The bikers chased Ethan first, after a while changed courses and headed for Peter who was starting to slow down because he was ignored from chasing. And out of the midst, in the highway, the dark horse appeared from a road, and of all the honking cars, it spotted the SL roadster easily! Harry gave the car a roar and it went at 249.4483kph! Its top speed! Stella started panicking again and went on about the fact that they were chasing her. Harry kept his mind on the road, he could see his teammates roaming beside him and they too seemed to have spotted the dark horse. Meanwhile Lemon was barking madly, the horse had bothered him too and the bikers were not in sight at all! !BANG! The two bikers suddenly appeared and blocked them! Harry crashed the car! But due to the special protection added for the car… Not a scratch! The dark horse, which went extremely fast for a horse, ran away, alongside with the two bikers!
‘WHAT JUST HAPPENED?’ asked everyone. Mr. Watts got mad for defying protocol – Harry’s new emergency rule – and had a word with the leader. But the rest of the team were thinking all over about the number of incidents that happened all around them. “I got it!” said Tom, “none of the dark side doesn’t know about me! – wait, huh… I was the one who spotted the horse! The dark side knows every ‘Spy’ except Steve!” “So I am your secret weapon?” asked Steve. “No!” said Harry, who had overheard the conversation, “Steve should be kept safe. The dark side will know there is one more spy who they didn’t see properly. They will ambush Steve next!” “So stay at HEADQUARTERS!” cried Mr. Watts. “FINE!” Shouted Harry, annoyed, pointing his pistol at Mr. Watts! “Hey, now lower your gun!” “You lower down your voice!” “Whoa, whoa, stop it Harry. Sorry, Mr. Watts!” comforted Stella. Mr. Watts went back to his table. “Are we staying at Headquarter? Harry?” asked Stella, “Yes, till tomorrow morning, or the dark side will fish us out! And I noticed that they are quite powerless under the Sun! So their strength is darkness or in other words, night…” “So should we guard in shifts tonight?” asked Ethan, “Yes, we should.” The next morning came… “Team we are on the run, we all need a vehicle large enough to hold us all and it should be fast! How about the 2020 Caravan Salon It’ll be perfect!” “I’ll dri-” started Steve, “And Steve SHOULDN’T drive!” “Hey guys, how about a plane? We could take the A350-1000!” Stella suggested “Good idea, Stella!” When the plane took off… the clouds started to get dark! The Sun disappeared behind those! The team saw a Dark Figure in the clouds! Harry went to the cockpit and took the controls from Tom and went for a steep dive! The Dark Figure followed! “EMERGENCY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY! THE SPIES REQUESTING AN EMERGENCY LANDING AT NEW YORK AIRPORT! ATC, DO YOU READ?” NO RESPONSE… “Shoot! Spies open the door, quickly” “It’s stuck!” Stella cried back. “Blow, blow, blow! What should I do?” “Use me Harry,” said Steve sternly, “What? You’re our secret weapon!” “I’m gonna take the controls!” “NO!” Harry, regretfully, punched him in the face and knocked him out! Peter came in and took care of Steve, he was on Harry’s side, and Steve was being stupid! “Thanks, Peter, I had to do it!” … And Harry pulled the plane up. “Peter! Wait! Do you want me to use the button?” “Do it Harry! Quick, we don’t have enough time!” Hesitating, Harry pressed the button. The plane became fast as a Concorde – the supersonic passenger plane! Harry steered it towards the Pacific. It was dusk when the plane descended, towards Honolulu. The Dark Figure was only spotted right before Steve was punched, then it disappeared, but luckily, it didn’t see Steve! The team visited their Hawaiian hideouts, one inside a volcano with artificial lava on top and another, under the sea! Cool right? Their plane, which could also float and swim under the sea, was in their underwater hideout. It was around midnight, when Steve woke up startled. He thought he saw a shark! He checked the window and there stood a… a shark, as dark as dark itself! Harry woke up too! The moment he looked at the shark he face palmed. He knew that the dark side knows about Steve. He told the team to evacuate out of Hawaii. They took the plane and flew into extreme danger as it was a dark night! And off they flew…
‘ISN’T IT DANGEROUS?’ ask Steve, rubbing his bruise on his forehead. “We are trained for danger Steve!” replied Peter. “We would have been in danger even if we just stayed at the hideout! The dark side seemed to be finding each and every hideout easily!” Tom declared, he didn’t like to be on the run! “What if we stay underground?” asked Ethan, “What’s so different about underwater and underground? I thought, ‘what about space?” Stella said stroking Lemon. Harry looked excited, “Yes! It’s the best!” “Wouldn’t it be still dark?” asked Tom, “Do you think something dark can go to space? Do think they have the privilege?” “Worth a try, I guess!” Dawn came. The team told their plan to Mr. Watts. He was annoyed, how much arrangement is needed to even get a rocket ready! The team were supposed to fly to space from their secret rocket base at Barren Island, the remote island in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and home to the only volcano in India, Barren volcano. The team were on their flight for one week! And nothing dark was spotted, except that the bikers were found in Phuket, Thailand. “I hope no interferences for a week except the bikers going on holiday!” said Stella cheerfully, “That’s it! I know why the bikers were in Phuket! Andaman is quite close from there! Maybe it’s an ambush from the dark side!” Harry discovered, “Don’t tell Mr. Watts, there is a black sheep in the midst! Tom switch of the tracking system now! And activate anti-radar system. We won’t show up on the day the rocket goes up! And Ethan make sure Mr. Watts can contact us! But we shouldn’t be tracked!” “Harry, I’m scared!” Stella whispered to him. “There’s nothing to worry about! Wanna play the new PS5 game?” “Sure.” Soon enough, Mr. Watts’ voice came through the radio, “Where on Earth are you? The launch has been delayed by 5 hours!” Harry replied, “Hello… DARK!” Cackles replied them. “Took you soooo long to realize! Aren’t you a dumb one, Harry? By the way, a bomb was planted in the rocket!” “Where’s your master John ‘DARK’ Watts?” “Ah… He’ll meet you soon!” “Do you realize that we too hacked your walkie talkie and planted a virus so it’ll burst when you end the call? Bye by-” “What really? You’re kidding! How can you do that?” “Bring me your Master, JOHN!” Mr. Watts ended the call and threw the walkie talkie. Nothing happened. After a few minutes, he touched it precautiously. It blasted! And the recorded voice of Mr. Watts was sent to the military. The next day, Harry declared that he needed to have a talk with the Dark Figure to tackle him or her. “No Harry! You are not talking with it!” Stella said sternly. “She’s right!” Ethan supported, “Don’t attack the palace first! Destroy the wall!” “You mean BANG the bikers?” “YES!” “Track them then!” Steve tracked them, “Um… They are… right below us!” “What!” “Yeah! They are riding in Phoenix while we are flying above it!” “Team let’s end it!” Everyone except Tom jumped down with parachutes, armed with guns. They landed in one of Phoenix’s airport. The bikers came inside the airport too. “Look who it is! The Spies! Willing to fight us!” “Come on boys! Take us!” said Harry. Harry punched a biker and dodged a kick. The others fought too except Stella who secretly planted a bomb in the bikes. That goes off, when the engine starts. Suddenly a private jet swooped down on the runway. The bikers ran towards it and escaped. Luckily, Harry got a clear shot on the plane’s engines! Minutes later, the plane fell! 2 parachutes were spotted. Later, they found that the bikers escaped and the aeroplane was in autopilot mode all along!
‘ISN’T IT FISHY?’ asked Peter. “It is very fishy! I don’t understand anything!” said Harry, they were back on the plane. “Why don’t you track the bikers? I have a bit of fight in me left!” “They are currently in Buenos Aires! Off to meet Messi I guess!” “Let’s give them a surprise shall we?” “What do you mean?” “A white flag.” “What! With the dark side?” “Yes, a fake one! We’ll send an unarmed bait who will get air support and ground backup soon enough!” “Who’s the bait?” “Me.” “Come on, seriously?” “Yes.” “As you say chief!” “Don’t call me that!” “Yes, Chief!” “Steve, where are we?” “Above Rio!” Steve replied. “Ok! Keep going!” Harry landed at Buenos Aires with a parachute. The bikers met him. He winced. He muttered “I can’t believe I’m doing this!” Then he waved a white flag. The bikers were baffled! They asked their master. While on the call, both of them were shot dead from above by the military helicopters hovering above them silently. Harry grabbed their phone and said, “HELLO, Dark Figure, how are you? Your loyal subjects are dead!” A voice hissed back, “Ha, my loyal subjects are right here with me! Those bikers were just distractions!” “Guessed,” “So WHAT DO YOU WANT?” “Who are you?” “ME?” “Fine, skip the question, where are you?” “Where darkness lies!” Smirking, Harry turned back, ‘HELLO!’ The Dark Figure appeared. The rest of the team except Tom was beside Harry. The dark horse appeared behind the figure. “I’ll have to finish you Ry!” “REMUS?” The figure chuckled. “I thought you died! What happened in the Pacific?” Remus Wood. Was a Spy (Mr. Watts’ favourite), who had died during a ship wreck in the Pacific Ocean, which the rest of the team survived. He was Harry’s best friend! He gave Harry, the nickname ‘Ry.’ “YOU LEFT ME TO SINK IN THE OCEAN! FINE, YOU ALL DID NOT NOTICE ME. WHERE ON EARTH WAS THE RESCUE TEAM? WHERE WERE YOU? “Sorry Remus. We thought you were … gone –” “For good?” “No, you don’t understand!” Lemon recognized Remus and started to bark fondly. Remus looked at him. A memory brushed into him. There was the whole team, in a pet shop, looking for a team pet. A dog barked. And both Stella and Remus looked at it. Both of them wanted to buy that very dog. The rest of the team agreed and bought it. Then Remus named that dog, Lemon, after the famous detective, Lemony Snicket, from the books. Remembering that, Remus disappeared through the darkness. Harry couldn’t sleep that night. Sulking with guilt, he took Lemon for a walk in the night. “I know you are somewhere here, Remus. I’m sorry! Please come back. Tell me your story, what happened?” Harry shouted at the night. Remus appeared. “Let me just tell you … that I HATE YOU!” Remus choked Harry. Harry did not defend himself. He knew he deserved this. He fainted. Remus turned back. Lemon leapt at him and licked his face. Oh, he thought, I attacked Harry yet Lemon did not fight, he was trained to fight anyone who attacked a Spy! Love is powerful! Remus changed his mind. Thanks to Lemon! He woke Harry up and the rest of the sleeping Spies. And to their surprise, apologized! They were shocked. And happy to have their old Remus back. Harry started the conversation, “So Remus, what did happen?” “I sank, but luckily I found an oxygen mask and tube. But I still fainted. And when I woke up, everything was pitch black! And after weeks (you know the oxygen set lasts for a year) I saw a shark, it had followed my blood’s scent. Thanks to the darkness, I was able to tame him. And later, with my pet’s help I got to the surface. With an ability to see in the dark. Then I found land and wanted revenge and did typical bad guy stuff, you know. Then I found Hoof, my horse, he is just a black horse. Then I was able to contact Mr. Watts and you all know what happened.” “Wait,” said Ethan, “how did you fly?” “What? Fly? I don’t have wings do I? Whatever you saw wasn’t me!” Then Stella asked: “How did you blast a car without, well, anything?” “What do you mean blast a car? I didn’t do that!” “How about the mysterious BMW? The disappearance?” “What BMW? Disappearance?” “There’s a third party!” declared Harry, “whom we don’t know about!” “But the question is … WHO IS THAT?” WHO IS THAT? - 2 ‘WHO IS THAT?’ asked Harry, ‘this is very confusing!’ ‘Harry, come with me for a ride,’ said Remus. ‘Ok.’ Remus and Harry went into the SL Roadster. Remus drove to the beach. ‘Why did you bring me here?’ ‘See, I wanted to tell you something, the bikers, you know the ones that were shot down when you wanted to talk to me?’ ‘Yes-’ ‘They weren’t mine.’ ‘What do you mean?’ Harry said, getting tensed. ‘You know… I hired them from this… this guy, his voice was familiar but still, he wore a mask, a black mask.’ ‘Where did you meet him?’ ‘Broadway Junction,’ ‘WHAT? When?’ ‘March 10th, 2 pm.’ ‘This is getting out of hand! That was just an hour before we chased that figure!’ Remus quickly called the team and they reported at the dock (another hideout). ‘We,’ started Harry, ‘need to go to Broadway Junction and try to find the figure. Separately! Contact through Bluetooth. Alright? Questions later.’ The team went there and all of them spotted a person wearing a black mask. Slowly and cautiously, they pinned him down and kidnapped him with no witnesses. He was taken for questioning. Ethan pulled the mask out and to their surprise. There stood, Cormack Cooper! He was spy in training with a smarter brain than anyone else! But soon Peter joined the Academy and he was rejected for joining the SPY team because Peter is the better and fitter one and was way smarter than him! The surprised team scanned his mind. They learnt that he could do the disappearing act, an illusion that makes you look as if you are invisible and about how much revenge he wanted on Peter. And they saw a taint of evidence that proves that Cormack was the Dark figure! So they decided to learn more when Cormack just disappeared to thin air! They team were shocked! That was when Peter realized that it was the disappearing act! An illusion! But Peter quickly did a quick scan that takes all of Cormack’s memory and stores it for later! Then, before Peter could tell the others to catch the invisible Cormack, he escaped! Peter then said: ‘Evidence proves that Cormack is the DARK FIGURE!
‘WHAT DO WE DO NOW?’ asked Tom. ‘Well, we should track Cooper down,’ Harry replied, ‘Peter, can you look at the scan to find where he is based?’ ‘Trenton, New Jersey’ Peter replied, ‘but he would have realized that we did a quick scan and went somewhere else.’ ‘Oh, ok, then let’s check out his base!” The Spies went to Trenton, they followed the route to Cormack’s base. The BMW was parked there. They went inside. Stella almost crossed the laser line which activates self-destruction of base. The team were able to retrieve samples and prototypes of ‘Jet Suits’- it was labelled – it was a hybrid of a jet pack and a bird suit. Tom stumbled towards something very dangerous. The ‘DARK KILL’ which was supposed to be a deadly, short - range bomb that goes off when experiencing a temperature higher the 30 degrees Celsius, it leaves no evidence of its victim except you can find his or her’s DNA scattered near the crime scene. The team safely brought it back. After a 5 hour examination by Peter, he found its only weakness, which is deactivation through a special remote that Cormack has. Remus left the base. It was an hour later only did the team realize he was gone. Lemon was missing too. He must have taken Lemon, they thought. Tom tracked him. He was in Cormack’s place. Remus’ bike was spotted through a satellite image. They tried calling him, but it was useless because of the special protection added to Cormack’s base. Harry and Peter left to find him. The base was left untouched, but Remus’ bike and the missing two’s signal was still there! ‘Welcome!’ something spoke. Alarmed, Harry replied, ‘Whoever you are, show yourself!’ Harry expected to see Cormack, but it wasn’t him, it was a humanoid robot! That Cormack created! It was armed or to say built-in with weapons. Harry heard muffled cries somewhere above him. Remus and Lemon, he reckoned. ‘I’m Dark Fall’ it hissed, its voice dark, cold, low, “I only listen to Master Cooper! And my orders were simple, assassinate you!” Its hand transformed into a machine gun. Harry pulled out his AR15 rifle and shot the robot, only to try out it’s bulletproof metal coating. ‘Shoot its hand, Harry, if you shoot it somewhere else, it might blow up!’ he said. After a long battle, Peter was able to shut it down while Harry misdirected it. ‘Dark stuff in here, Harry,’ said Peter, examining the parts of Dark Fall, ‘maybe if I could just reprogram it and get it to our side… wait! What’s that! A COUNTDOWN! RUN HARRY!’ Both of them ran for their life! Behind them, the base blasted to pieces! They two spies escaped safely. That was when it hit Harry, like a bolt from the blue, that Remus and Lemon was upstairs in the house! He had already lost Remus once and he wasn’t ready to lose him again. Harry ran as fast as he could. But luckily, Remus and Lemon were safe, Cooper had given a special coating to his base so that his whole house won’t burn apart if his base did. ‘What was that Harry? I heard a blast below, the whole floor shook,’ asked Remus, as he undid his hands from extra knots. ‘Oh, that was nothing, just an intelligent, armed, robot named ‘DARK FALL’ who self-destructed itself,’ Harry said sarcastically as they drove to the base.
The team were discussing plans to find Cooper. When… Lemon, suddenly, leapt over Peter making him fall over! ‘Why’d you do that…’ A sniper bullet broke the window, rushing past the place where Peter’s head would have been seconds ago, the glass scattered. Everybody took cover. After minutes, the police arrived to investigate. The spies temporarily moved to another base. ‘We will remain here until we can find a way,’ announced Harry, ‘and … meet our new secretary!’ Mr. Conan, appeared from the door. He was a trainee in the Spy Academy. Everyone loved him. Except Cormack Cooper. ‘I heard that Mr. Cooper showed his true colours,’ he said coolly, the 52 year old’s wrinkles smiling, ‘So, how are yall’?’ After a minute of informal ‘his’ the team got serious. ‘Mr. Conan,’ Harry started, ‘Cormack is on the loose, do you have any ideas to track him down?’ ‘Um, I do bet that fellaw’ is hiding in the tree house.’ ‘Tree house?’ ‘FOLLOW ME WILL YA’?’ ‘Follow me will ya’,’ the British man said, before scrambling to the door, towards his 1970 Plymouth Superbird. The team followed his path to an oak tree in the outskirts of Trenton. There was a rabbit burrow near it. Mr. Conan, stepped on it. A secret hatch opened, it led the team to the ‘Tree house.’ ‘Mr. Cooper brought me here years ago to show off his engineering talents, idiot’ he said the last word under his breath. They went inside tunnel. ‘Are you back? I would love to see the idiot falling on the floor, dead.’ The Spies knew this voice too well. Low pitch, loud, New Jersey accent. Cormack Cooper. But who did he think he was talking to?
Remus jumped into action, and fired a bullet that missed the criminal by an inch. Next Lemon, barked the loudest. Cormack was devasted. Harry was aiming the criminal’s leg when he saw another pistol pointing at him. Cormack Cooper. The criminal fell. A burst of force had hit him in the stomach. Compressed air with water. It was Mr. Conan and his water gun. Something you won’t toy around with. Cormack Cooper was arrested. Remus was injured. His legs had accidentally went through a concentrated laser beam that cuts your skin. Back at HQ, that night… Harry and Remus were awake, playing games (childhood habits!). They heard a voice. Two voices actually. ‘I will let you free, but give me the DARK KILL!’ ‘I won’t! You are an idiot! You are going to get everybody killed!’ ‘Wasn’t that your plan?’ ‘Well, it was, you will betray no matter what!’ ‘Fine, I will go on a suicidal mission and blast the DARK KILL implanted on you through the special remote.’ ‘No, no! I will give you! But let me free…’ Remus and Harry frowned. They knew the voices. Mr. Conan and Cormack. ‘Another betraying secretary?’ Harry exclaimed in a whisper, ‘let’s get the team on their feet!’ The team were woken and they caught Mr. Conan, red-handed. ‘Looky here, its-’ Mr. Conan was shot in the chest, twice. Now where was Cooper? Hah, hiding under the table. ‘Come out Cooper!’ Peter cried. Harry noticed that a hand held the special DARK KILL remote. ‘RUN!’ The base, exploded behind them. Harry had done this before. Just earlier this morning. Cormack Cooper had lost his life on a suicidal mission. Harry’s hand had a permanent scar. Remus went unconscious. Stella had bleeding knee. Peter had broken a leg. Ethan and Steve and Tom… I have to tell you, but both of them went to Florida for a passport renewal, the night before. Two weeks later, Harry was forced to say: ‘Hey, we have to leave the country and go to hiding in the depths of an archipelago. There’s a bounty on our head and I will tell you why. For your information, the military cleared off Cormack’s Dark Stuff.’