Many Names

“I have many names. My name is Gwynplaine, or Long John Silver, or Oscar Jones, or Van Helsing, but you can call me, Comrade Monke…”


And it was with those words he revealed his identity to his prisoner.


-”What do you want from me?”


-”To keep your mouth shut about what you’ve seen here. And if you don’t, well, you know what happens to the enemies of SMERSH!”


-”I promise you, I won’t speak to anyone, now please, let me go”


-”Comrade Monke always keeps his promises. LET JOHN GO!”


The guards slowly approached and started untying him. When he was free, however, he took out a knife and sliced the throats of the two guards open. Then he tried to look for Monke, but Monke was… gone. However, he then saw a strange man standing in the corner.


-”Hello? Who are you?”


-”Relax! My name’s Constantine!”


-”What are you doing here?”


-”I am also a prisoner of Monke, and I finally managed to get out of my cell.”


-”Well, let’s get going then!”


They started running and made their way over at the armory. John and Constantine grabbed their weapons: A pistol and a shotgun, respectively. They then exited and saw a guard coming their way. They disposed of him fast. They then ran quickly and entered a room and hid there. They could hear the guards searching for them.


It was then that hopelessness slipped their way onto their minds. Would they die there? Would they live? They weren’t certain.


They then started talking about their backgrounds.


John was captured by Monke while trying to infiltrate a SMERSH underground base in Greece. Constantine, on the other hand, was a SMERSH operative who tried to betray Monke by poisoning him.


When they heard that things had calmed down, they exited the room and slowly began searching for a way out.

They saw a guard coming their way, and they sliced his throat open quickly. They then hid the body in a refrigerator.


After hours of searching and disposing of Monke’s henchmen, they found an exit.


They made their way down to the docks, and stole a boat. They went to the open sea.


-”Finally!” said John.


-”Yeah…”


John then turned around and found a bottle of champagne. When he opened it and turned around however, he saw Constantine aiming his shotgun at him!


-”Constantine…?”


And then there, right in front of John’s eyes, Constantine’s form suddenly started changing. It changed to a man with a permanent smile on his face, then to a one-legged pirate, then to a gangster, then to Van Helsing, and then finally, back to his true appearance: Comrade Monke.


-”Did you really think you’d get away so easily, John?”


Monke’s parrot, Captain Flint, then flew onto his shoulder.


-”You, lying, cunt!” said John.


-”I told you, mister John, many names…”


Monke then fired the shotgun, killing John and spilling his brains out into the sea.


Comrade Monke then returned to the SMERSH base along with his parrot, Captain Flint.


The end of John, but Comrade Monke will return!