SPECTRUM IS
WHITE
A “Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons” novel
By Chris Bishop
SYNOPSIS:
Colonel
White has taken much-needed holidays, and pays a visit to his dead wife grave in
London. But then, as the Mysterons make their new threat to use “Two outlawed
heroes to take out one crowned head”, White is captured by Captain Black, and
put through a mind bending experiment with drugs to make him believe he’s still
at war with the British Government and in league with rebels, like in his young
days. Scarlet sends Rhapsody Angel and
Captain Ochre to locate Colonel White, while the rest of Spectrum focuses on
the Mysterons’ threat. But when White
shots Ochre, seemingly in cold blood, and took Rhapsody hostage, Captains
Scarlet and Blue fear very much that their commander has been mysteronised.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This story is based on characters created by Gerry
And Sylvia Anderson for the TV series “Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
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Many thanks to Hazel Kohler and
Mary J. Rudy who had helped me a great deal by proof-reading the text for the
following story.
Ongoing story.
This story will serve to explore some aspects of
Colonel White’s life, past and present. The Colonel always has been one of my
favourite characters and the few TV episodes which actually focus more on him (“White
as Snow”, to which some parts of this story refers to, “Spectrum Strikes Back”) are amongst
those I prefer.
The Prologue of this story is based upon Colonel White’s
official biography, in which we learn
that, as Charles Gray, captain of a British ship, he has decided to choose to
disobey orders from the British Military Dictatorship of the time, to side with
the rebels against it. We also learn
that he had retired from the Navy after the civil war, got enlisted in the Universal
Secret Service, got married, and later became a widower.
Those aspects will be used into the following parts of
the story, along with his relationship with some of his staff members (namely,
his compatriots, Captain Scarlet and Rhapsody Angel, and the American Captain
Blue).
The story will also allow me to introduce a new
concept into the Captain Scarlet universe:
THE NETWORK thus makes its first appearance, and will cause
headaches to Spectrum in future stories.
Storylines
of some fanfic stories (“Whose Heart the Blackest”, “Truth and
Consequences”, “Good Knight, Dear Lady”, “Mixed Doubles”) from Kimberly
Murphy, Richard A. Spake and Mary J. Rudy, have been used as
references for some part of this story.
Check
often for added parts.
Prologue - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 -
Chapter 6 - Chapter 7 - Chapter
8 - Chapter
9 - Chapter
10 -
Chapter 11 - Chapter 12 - Chapter 13 - Chapter 14 - Chapter 15 –
Complete story – zip
(added
April 14th 2002)