A “Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons” story
By Chris Bishop
SYNOPSIS:
Set one week
after the events on the TV episode “Winger Assassin”.
The new improved Captain Scarlet had proven his loyalty to Earth and Spectrum by
giving his life in an attempt to save the Asian Director General’s live.
But it’s not everybody in the Spectrum organisation who trusted him just yet. Captain Ochre and Destiny Anger each
have their reasons to distrust him.
Following a new Mysteron threat, and while a sick Captain Blue is
confined to sickbay, Scarlet is assigned to the protection of the Aerial
Exposition in Los Angeles, and boards the prototype of a new Passenger Jet,
along with Captains Ochre, Grey, and Destiny Angel.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This story
is based on characters created by Gerry And Sylvia Anderson for the TV series
“Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Some events and characters
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Some events and characters created by Kimberly Murphy and Mary J. Rudy in their
own fan fiction stories, are referred to, and the fact that Destiny Angel had
identified the ORIGINAL body of Scarlet (although I had put up a second
identification, that of the cloned one, which could be taken as the scene
depicted in the first TV episode.
Also taken from Kimberly Murphy and Mary J. Rudy are the important fact that
Captain Scarlet and Destiny have known each other’s romantically before actually
joining Spectrum. Some hints at
Rhapsody Angel already in love with Scarlet, but keeping that to herself, are
also present.
I also used some referring points to events happening in my first fan fiction
story “All the colours of the Rainbow”.
Flashback sections reported to some “missing scenes” from the first and second
episodes of the series, where reactions from diverse characters (Colonel White,
Captain Ochre, Captain Grey and Destiny Angel) over Scarlet’s actions in those
episodes are further developed.
The Aero Special One described in this story has been developed from an idea
taken in the second
“Captain Scarlet Annual” (1968), where “updates” of the Spectrum
Passenger Jet are designed. I took
some liberties here and there and used the designs as part of a prototype from
Universal Aero Engineering, the firm who developed the SPJs exclusively for
Spectrum.
This story serves the purposes of explaining some important questions. I have wondered HOW the Spectrum
organization had come to the conclusion that Mysteron agents were all difficult,
if not impossible, to kill.
Aside from the reconstruction of the Mysteron complex on Mars in the
first episode and Scarlet’s own indestructibility, they had no further
indications of that before some episodes later in the TV series. As far as it
seems, maybe only Captain Scarlet, due to the particular events surrounding his
own revival, could have retain the powers of retrometabolism. In fact, about all the people and
objects the Mysterons had reconstructed seemed fairly easy to destroy (For
example, in the first episode, Captain Brown was actually blown to pieces and
NEVER came back afterward.).
Second question: what do Spectrum
members understand of Captain Scarlet’s powers? Did they actually believe, right
from the start, that he simply cannot be killed, or die from his wounds? Could they even envision him coming back
from death itself after being killed?
Lastly: since the second TV episode, Scarlet had shown some spells that
originate his hability to – in some cases – detect Mysteron’s presence or
danger. As it will be explained in that story,
neither Captain Scarlet nor Doctor Fawn will take this as a “sixth sense”
demonstration from the start, but are actually concerned that the Mysterons are
trying to regain control on Scarlet (well, maybe they could be right, I won’t
tell!).
As all these events take place, there is not any Mysteron Detector, nor Mysteron
gun yet conceived by Spectrum Research Centre.
Apologies to the fans of Captain Blue out there.
For the purposes of the story, I had to somehow get rid of him, so the
reason for stranding him in Sickbay with the flu. He will be back, though, with problems of his own in a story
I’m actually working on.
Added note: REVISION COMPLETED!
Hazel Kolher had offered me, very graciously
to be the beta-reader of this story.
Each chapter is now entirely revised and have replaced the original version. So I have to thank Hazel – along with
Mary J. Rudy – who, with their efforts and advises, had been a great help for
the revised version of this story that you’re about to read.
A QUESTION OF TRUST (complete story - zip)
Chapter 1 – Chapter 2
– Chapter 3
– Chapter 4
– Chapter 5
– Chapter 6
– Chapter 7
–
Chapter 8
Chapter 9 – Chapter 10
–
Epilogue
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