The mystery of Number I

He escaped the guards and ended up in a train heading for Greece. This was the second time he was escaping them today. When the train arrived at the station, he got off the train and entered a taxi.


-”Where shall I take you?” asked the cab driver in his heavy, Greek accent.


-”To a hotel please. As far away from here as possible!”


And the cab driver took him to a hotel in Kineta. Beautiful place with beautiful beaches and even more beautiful women. He paid the taxi driver and entered the hotel. The hotel had a bar in it as well, and the man went there and ordered a drink. As he was observing the place, he saw a blonde woman sitting a couple of stools away.


He told the bartender that the woman’s drinks were on him. However, when he was about to approach the woman to talk to her, the bartender knocked him out unconscious. The woman smiled.


-”Good job, Michael! Now we really got him!”


The man woke up a couple of hours later with a terrible headache.


“Where am I?” He thought. “You’re in my office” responded a mysterious voice.


The man got up and saw him: A short, bald figure, with a slightly longer than usual van dyke beard. He was dressed in a “Stalin tunic.”


-”Hello?” said the man, “who are you?”


-”You can call me ‘Number I’, Sherlock…”


-”How do you know my name?”


-”I know a lot about you, Holmes.”


-”Tell me, who are you and what do you want from me?”


-”I just want to talk.”


-”So this is why you brought me here this way? Just to talk?”


-”Indeed.”


-”And what is it you want to talk about?”


The mysterious figure got up, and went to pour some whisky.


As Holmes observed the office, he noticed rosaries on the figure’s office, as well as icons of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Crucifixes on the wall too. About 50 of them maybe?


A voice then interrupted Holmes’ observation:


-”Mr. Holmes. I can see it in your eyes. As an Anglican, you’re viewing all this as idolatrous, aren’t you?”


-”Indeed,” responded Sherlock.


-”It is exactly this that I am planning to stop!”


-”What? My observation of your office?”


-”NO! The notion that we Catholics are idolaters! See, for centuries now, Mr. Holmes, you, the protestants and orthodox -Not all of you, I shall note so that you don’t take this the wrong way- have been accusing us of being heretical, apostates, even not truly baptized. You have persecuted us. The massacre of the Latins and so many more instances!”


-”And what are you planning to do?”


-”I am going to stop this. When my organization’s demands are met and achieved, we shall see a new power dominating the world - Roman Catholicism! So many great men, the crusaders, Camilo Torres Restrepo, the Montoneros, etc all fought for the Catholic ideals. The world shall bow down to Christ and His Holy Church!”


Sherlock Holmes then put out a pistol and aimed it at Number I.


A bird -the pet bird of Number I- then landed on Sherlock’s face and he missed! Number I then called his pet bird to his shoulder and he quickly ran away. He pulled out a detonator and pressed it, causing the building to start a countdown to self-destruct.


Sherlock started looking for ways he could escape. He started searching the walls and library, and when he touched a specific book he triggered a secret passage in the floor. He escaped through there, but Number I and his pet bird had also escaped via a helicopter!


Sherlock, then, at that point, vowed to stop Number I.


The end