Putkwyz, Ch. 19, "Farewell"

19



Farewell



I wish I had a more exciting ending in which I fought off terribly gruesome creatures against treacherous odds, but that’s not the way the world works. Mawgri’s side (Yes, I admit that he had always been partial to Saca and Kunwyz) had the superior technology about which the other side could only guess. The fight would never have been an equal struggle. Thus, we prevailed.

As it turns out, an ATI was not the only device implanted inside Mawgri. He also had a GPS chip with a transmitter, so no matter where he was transported on the surface of Putkwyz, his associates could locate him. His employees aboard his spacecraft in Polimeer (after disposing of the attacking fighters) had gained altitude far above the capabilities of the winged planes of Radimeer and had followed the flight of our captors. They stopped when the GPS inside Mawgri indicated he had stopped.

From that moment they hovered above “Nowhere Land” and observed what was happening below. They gathered data and assessed the situation: the strength of the fort and keep, the number of forces that Kra had at his disposal, the kinds of weapons that army possessed. They were planning a rescue if the imprisonment went beyond a certain number of days.

In this, they cooperated with Sacacon, who had joined his battle fleet and was sailing with it to Myunk. He had on board his ships an attack force of a thousand commandos equipped and trained with my newly designed paraglider. At an appropriate time and armed with automatic weapons, they would have been carried to our site, dropped from planes and glided in to our rescue.

That, of course, didn’t have to happen. Mawgri’s associates knew immediately when his GPS indicated that he had left the fort and was on the move northward. While other ships in his fleet descended to destroy the fort and Kra’s budding army, his own command ship followed us, found us and carried us away to safety. What else could have been the result with our superior technology?

Nonetheless, old technology had gotten us out of the fort: Dukuf’s pharmacopeia of herbs.

After our rescue, we joined Sacacon and his fleet. He was happy to see us well and feted us aboard the flagship. Then we bade him farewell and success with his programs of education and democratization.

We next returned to Polimeer and showed the still-living King Golmon to his people, who, angered by the deception and already annoyed by his sons’ self-centered behavior, revolted and chased the sons away. The three prodigals took another long flight to “Nowhere Land,” not realizing that Emperor Kra (if he lived) had no army or weapons to keep them safe. What became of them no one knows.

Filk was made Captain of the Palace Guards. Dukuf became the head chef of the army. As for Golmon, he immediately began to implement his previous plan of democratization and education. The parliament met and elected him its first prime minister.

Then Sacacon and President Komplas initiated a postwar conference of all national leaders in which was proposed a federation of nations to rule the planet.

Mawgri, Luvark and I headed for Huppof, the bigger moon of Putkwyz. Mawgri had business there, and his ships’ crews were composed of Stuwkreen, who were looking forward to some vacation time. Luvark came with us with Sacacon’s blessing, “Keep those two safe. They are important to us and loved by all of us.”

Luvark came aboard with a satchel that he handed to Mawgri. Mawgri took it and locked it in his safe. For some reason, that secret behavior annoyed me. I never knew all that my beloved was up to.

End of Interplanetary Secret Agent: Book One: Putkwyz
 
In the first ISA novel, Malcolm and Mawgri fight for democracy and the empowerment of individual Putkurs.