The Fabulous Foursome - Chapter Four

    Somehow Oswald had made it back to his old house. The car crash had left him with a slightly sprained ankle and bruising to his left arm, Nevertheless he knew he had to work quickly, otherwise his prospective employers would not be pleased.
    Going to his workshop he quickly got out the plans he had stolen from Reid. He scoured over them trying to find out where he had gone wrong. He looked at the plans over and over, but he could still not see what had gone wrong. The formula for the new power source seemed flawless. Perhaps the design fault was in the cannon’s mechanism itself.

The Fabulous Foursome - Chapter Three

    After alerting the hospital to Dr. Reid’s disappearance Solo and Borne decided to take action of their own. Solo knew that the police would work on the assumption that Reid had been kidnapped. Solo thought that this was possible, but first he wanted to check on an assumption of his own.
    The first place they arrived at was Reid’s house. This place not only served as his dwelling but he also carried out some of his experiments in his laboratory, which was in his basement. When they arrived they found that the front door was slightly ajar, so quietly they entered. While Solo searched the living room Borne went down to the basement. He saw that the light had been left on. Opening the door he soon found something of interest.

The Fabulous Foursome - Chapter Two

    The Nottingham University campus had been sealed off by the police so that they could carry out their investigation. Both Daniel Reid and Charles Borne were taken to hospital.
    The roads around the university had also been sealed off, and traffic was being re-directed. A few hours after the attack one car managed to get through the police cordon. Paul Solo had heard about the attack on television, and he saw a photo-fit description of the man who had been seen leaving Reid’s lab. Solo recognised the picture as that of Peter Oswald.

The Fabulous Foursome - Chapter One

    The speeding van raced through the streets of London, closely followed by four police cars. The van skidded all over the road as they attempted to get away. But as it neared the old Docklands area it began to slow down. In the front police car was Inspector Paul Solo. In the van was a criminal he had been hunting for almost two years: Peter Oswald, the Gunner.

    The van suddenly made a sharp turn into an old warehouse. The huge door then shut behind it. The police cars stopped outside the warehouse. Solo got out of the car and walked over to the door. He looked up at the building. As he did this two of the other officers checked the rest of the outside of the building. A few minutes later they returned.
    “This is the only entrance.” said one. “The only way they could have got out is by the windows.”
    Suddenly the huge door began to open again. As the seconds passed Solo could tell that something large was behind it. He couldn’t see what it was until the door was fully open. What he saw horrified him. Standing in the doorway were ten men, each garbed in body armour, and each holding high calibre machine guns. A second passed before they all opened fire. The police officers barely had time to hit the deck before the bullets showered over them.