A QUESTION OF TRUST
A “Captain Scarlet and
the Mysterons” novel
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.
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 Copyright © of all trademarks materials (Captain
Scarlet & the Mysterons and all other series titles, all their
characters, vehicles, crafts, etc.), owned by ITC/Polygram. Information of the series are all been taken
from copyright © materials (books, magazines, videos, T.V. medias, comics, etc)
owned by ITC/Polygram.
No money is been made on this site by its owner.
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