The Bug

12:00 am Chiesa De San Fiorella Cathedral. Venice Italy. 1999.

Everyone in Fiorella Cathedral was awake moving back and forth, the nuns were whispering and there whispers filled the air, the whispers from the nuns for weren't petitions but rather gossip.

" Who is it's father? " One of the nuns whispered while shaking the fellows shoulder continuously.

She had merely finished when another whispered. " It has no father, it's a devil!"

"What do you mean?" She again inquired

"Tell me Elettra, what did you hear."

The rest of the nuns went silent ready to absorb story.

" Well ,today ,when I was moving past Father Alvize's office I heard him pull an argument with father Simeone concerning sister Monica's situation. He claimed that she has been hiding pregnancy for eight months and she lied the whole church about her sickness.

"Then who is the man responsible for the pregnancy" they asked almost at the same time.

" Well what I heard is scaring, father Alvize claimed that Monica claims the pregnancy is from God.

"God!" They all exclaimed

"But Father Alvize claims it's the devil's"

"Then why are they waking us up?" a fat short nun asked while folding her face.

"Questioning, perhaps that's what I heard" Elettra assured.

Quick loud foot steps which sounded like a pestel in a mortar on the cathedral's wooden floor brought them back to their senses.

"Is what your doing the will of God?" Father Simeone demanded in loud tone.

All of them quickly turned in pretence as if they were doing some work or looking for it.

Father Simeone was a tall man with wrinkles on his face as a badge of his old age. He was silent and most of the people at the cathedral thought he never talked.

" Quickly,go to saints chamber, Pope will be here in a few minutes." He dictated authoritatively.

All the nuns quickly matched out of the lobby and headed to the saints chamber.When they were all out Father Simeone opened a certain door and motioned for a nun behind him to enter.

"Monica" both father Simeone and the nun called the thought taken nun in the room.

"Sister Cinzia, Father Simeone. Tell me, why among all people in this cathedral I had to be the devil's vessel." Monica asked the two between sobs.

Sister Cinzia sat near her.

" You know this is not what you think or all the others think." Sister Cinzia talked to the troubled Monica while touching her shoulder.

"Then what's it am carrying?" Monica inquired

"You Know..." Both father Simeone and sister Cinzia talked at the same time but sister Cinzia motioned for father Simeone to speak.

" To tell you the truth now might seem vast for you to endure. You'll need to know all you have to know when you're out of this place, this place isn't what you think it is and neither is it safe for you." Father Simeone finished talking while staring through but window.

"He is here!" Said father Simeone while panicking

"Who?, The Pope? " Cinzia demanded

"Yes he is here and the clergy" Father Simeone replied while pulling a satellite phone out of his bag.

He dialed some numbers and called someone.

"Hello, listen, look I have little time but I will put her on boat to France and you'll get her to England. Yes,yes, I know it's hard but remember it wasn't easy when I picked you from captivity in Iran. Ok thank you." He finished talking and looked at Sister Cinzia.

" I think its your turn."

All this was happening in front of Sister Monica who was now staring idle and blank thinking whether these are the regular people she had been seeing for the seventeen years she has spent at the cathedral. She was brought to the place when she was a baby and sister Cinzia had picked her up.

Sister Cinzia now was undressing herself and dressed herself quickly in a lab coat and wore a surgical mask on her face.

"Quickly, get this you you'll need a disguise" she gave Monica a wig and a Johnny gown.

"Get, this is my security credential, it will give you access to all the doors in this place." Father Simeone gave Monica a card.

"But none of the doors needs this." Monica replied while confused.

" Well, dear this place holds a lot of secrets beneath this floor exists a huge facility there is some unholy stuff going on here." Father Simeone answered while he aimed for the door.

" Am afraid I have to go other priests are waiting for me, Cinzia will accompany you to the boat yard. You'll meet a gentleman who will take you to England."

" England!" Monica replied in shock.

" Well that's where we can watch your safety " father Simeone replied to her quickly as he left.

"Elletra! You've been here all along" they heard Father Simeone barking at the afraid nun.

" I won't say anything, I have heard " she replied while moving backwards while her eyes widened in shock.

"Don't be afraid, just move backwards like that don't turn just move." Father Simeone answered her in a sinister tone while closing the gap between them. He sounded so much of a mother comforting a sick child.

"Look Father, I am reliable and I know lots of things in this place but I have never told anyone... I know you have gun but I have never told anyone." She tried talking to Father Simeone with a shaky voice.

Sister Elletra was known over the cathedral for her flaccid lips and tongue. She always wanted to know everything and always loved sharing it.

" Look Father, you are my...my.. friend. Aren't you?" She forced a smile continuously nodding her head trying to make her pleadings sink into Father Simeone's heart.

Albeit she did so, Father Simeone seemed to be deaf to her words. Instead he continuously closed the gap between him and her, like a possessed rogue he lashed himself forward and now he could feel sister Elletra's breasts touching his chest.

Then like a fisherman grabbing his net from the sea Father Simeone grabbed her neck. Behind them was a window long enough to spit out anything to the size of slender Elletra.

" In the name of the queen, MI6 and Britain" Father Simeone forced the statement between his gnashed teeth.

"Rest in flowers" he added

He then pushed her through the window with her head down and legs up as she streamed down fast as a torpido that her dress was pushed to her face exposing her thighs and genitals.

Her landing wasn't a good one as she landed her chest on one of the sharp balconies in the flower area and her chest spilled open as soil in drought.

Monica and sister Cinzia heard her screaming then falling.

Monica covered her lips in shock as she looked at her through the window. She couldn't control herself but vomit rapidly on the floor.

"Father Simeone just killed an innocent woman!" Monica awfully uttered as she removed the veil covering her bald head to clean her lips.

"Well that's what happens when your eyes see what they don't have to see, they close for forever." Sister Cinzia replied to her comfortably satisfied with what had been done.

" Get up quickly and sit here " sister Cinzia got out a wheelchair and motioned for Monica to sit.

Then she drove her to confined room which had a long and large art piece of mother Mary.

She removed it silently and behind it lay a metallic door which scanned her face and opened automatically.

The door led to a white coloured room full of doctors and pods with computers everyone seemed to busy to recognize the two.

" What's all this, are you part it?" Monica inquired in shock.

"They, the clergy own this project and others and I am her to stop them." Sister Cinzia replied while entering another room full of kids with machines on their heads.

"Then who are you?" Monica asked her while looking at her in wonder as if she had seen her for the first time.

"I am a MI6 agent" Cinzia replied while she signalled for the confused Monica to stand up from the wheelchair.

She carried one the kids from the machines and placed her on the wheelchair then, she shot her and drove the wheelchair another door in the room which was leading to a long hallway.

" I have saved that kid from pain, just know the church is experimenting mind control on them and perhaps we won't be tracked down easily" sister Cinzia defended what she has just done.

Monica was ewe struck, she was trying to talk but words refused to come out of her mouth. She couldn't believe that the lady who grew her up teaching her the ten commandments was something like this.

She finally managed to speak,"What is then MI6 and what's your role here?"

"Give me that card Father Simeone gave you"

She passed it through a detector and entered into another place full of glass rooms which many potted plants others with caged animals, but nobody.

She then looked curiosily around before she answered Monica

" MI6 is the main intelligence agency for Britain and we have been monitoring activities here since the second world war. This place is horrible as it experiments on people and we assumed it makes weapons. So I and Father Simeone were sent to spy on the place. Please ask no more questions."

They were on the last door with the word exit stenciled on it then it opened automatically on detecting father Simeone's card.

Outside the air was still and guards were moving around the place, but only two guards were in the place

" I expect more than this number" sister Cinzia rumbled. " Where are they?"

In the distant she heard dogs barking and saw flashes of light.

" I think they have found out that you are missing, quickly let's advance through."

Monica could barely walk as she was tired she felt more and more tired. As they advanced to the main get of the place.

A loud shout made them stop.

" They are here! They are here! " a soldier shouted on top his voice.

" Come quick...." Sister Cinzia shot him on the forehead before he finished.

Now Monica saw things had become rigid she no longer cared about her being tired but all her heart craved for was getting out the cathedral. She got excited when they reached the final gate but surprisingly there was no one guarding the place.

" Why doesn't your gun shout when you shoot? Monica asked while looking at the gun as if seeing a magic tool.

"It's called it's called the oscar's finger prototype 3 made for level 1 agents in MI6 it has inbuilt silencer to limit noise" Cinzia replied while opening the gate.

Outside it was dark and a thick fog enveloped the place, a cool breeze was looming around the high walls of the cathedral. Monica looked at the huge cathedral and dropped her mouth in amusement because she had never stepped a foot outside the cathedral.

"Why is he taking too long! We don't have much time until those men arrive, we have to get to the shore quickly" Cinzia uttered while snapping her fingers as she pulled out a small pocket phone .

"Hello...Hello...Jeff, are you there?" Cinzia asked for a reply but nothing happened. She didn't abort the call but instead she increased the phone's volume and listened carefully,in the background she heard noise as if men were fighting.

" Hello Cinzia " a calm voice called her which made her open the thin eyes in shock. It was not the voice she was expecting. It was Father

Alvize's voice.

" Your sweet Jeff is here with me and you are there with the devil's vessel so why don't you bring it over here peacefully or.."

"Or what?" Cinzia replied aggressively

"Or shoot your skull" father Alvize replied as he laughed loud.

Immediately soldiers emerged from all corners with dogs and encircled them.

"What are we going to do now? Monica asked while trembling.

I think we are going to plan b.

" What's it?"

"Tactical surrender" Cinzia replied with a plastic smile on her face.

****

" Rebbecca Bambina or Sister Cinzia, what can I call you" Aurelio a tall man with hair all over his hands and long hair covering his face asked Cinzia in a sinister tone.

Cinzia had been caught and tied up in a metallic chair with wire plugs connected to it. The room was almost dark allowing little light to go through. Her face was full of bruises and her teeth was painted with blood, her eyes shone with agony in them though she forced herself to smile.

" I thought I had killed you the last time we met. You were like a little baby when I stored a bullet in your skull." Cinzia replied while coughing.

"Well thanks to project Lazarus, Italian assets die no more. We are brought back to life with a single injection. So straight on point, for how long have you been spying on this place." Aurelia interrogated Cinzia

"Well I can't talk to a half dead man, at least I talk to his mother." Cinzia replied while tilting her head.

Immediately her senses bounced on Monica.

"Where is she, where is Monica? " She shouted on top of her voice.

" Calm down, she is going to be burnt just after she has given birth and her babies they are a threat to the church."

"Babies!" Cinzia replied in shock

" Well she carries twins" .

Elsewhere Monica was laying on a bed while being encircled by doctors. She had given birth to two identical twins but one wasn't around.

"Where is my other son?" She demanded

"Am sorry, we could only save one" a female doctor replied to her generously.

"No use they were going to be burnt anyway" Father Alvize shouted as he entered the room.

Lights went off and alarms started crying loud.

"Well not today maybe in hell" said a dark figure wearing a mask and holding two scorpion guns.

It was Father Simeone. He shot all the doctors in the room and only left father Alvize. Then he removed his mask.

"So Father Simeone, who do you work for? " Father Elvize asked while trembling .

"God" Father Simeone replied and shot him in the head.

Cinzia crippled into the room with one of her hands cuffed.

"So how do we leave?" Cinzia asked while panting

"Two teams are waiting outside we are not going to board the boat as I had planned, am leaving with you, help her stand up and I will take the baby."

Outside three vans were waiting for them, men in suits ran towards them and helped the crippling Cinzia who was supporting Monica on her shoulder. They entered the vans and got out of the place.

"Pope what should we do to them." A man with tattoos in his face asked the Pope who was watching the three vans from the top of the cathedral in binoculars.

"Fry them" Pope replied in a low pitch tone as he moved away.

As the three vans were streaming fast down the road, the last one was hit and bursted into flames as it rolled off the dusty road to the nearby trees. The first one in which Father Simeone was sitting was also hit then it's remains came in the way of the middle van ready to hit too.

" Watch out" Cinzia shouted at the driver as she was pressing hard on the wound on her belly.

The driver gritted his teeth and fought with the steering wheel dodging the first vans rubble. The van tilted in imbalance and moved on two wheels for a moment. The driver this time folded his face and groaned loudly , then, the van moved on it's fours again. Though it went in a wrong direction.

The van streamed fast off the road down the cliff then it fell in water. Monica, Cinzia and the baby were in the van. It sunk with it's wheels facing up.

Monica kissed her baby's forehead and she closed her eyes as flashes of light penetrated the water.