Disclaimer, I don't own the copy write on The Impossibles or Big D, they belong to Hanna Barbera /Warner Brothers and my thanks for the permission to use many of the other original characters such as the Impossibles civilian identities which belong to my friend and fan fiction writer Erin T. Aardvark.

And my friend Irual for her help in crafting this story. And the support of both of them in helping to write this current story.

I am writing this story for pleasure and the enjoyment of the readers and expect nothing besides reviews. So sit back and enjoy this new chapter, and please review. Thank you….

Chapter 15. Surprise Attack,

After the girls and the doctor left, Coiley laid there in bed just thinking about what had happened wondering about Multi's recovery.

The Doctor had said that his fever wasn't life threatening and had promised to look in on him through out the night, but it was still a concern to the blonde teen and he couldn't fall asleep because he was worried about his red haired band mate.

About the time Coiley was finally starting to fall asleep a couple of hours later, a nurse entered the hospital room to check on Multi as per the doctors orders reawakening his worries, so when the doctor arrived 2 hours after that, he noticed Coiley was awake and looking very tired…

"You really need to get some sleep young man." he remarked.

"I tried doctor, but just as I started to get to sleep the nurse walked in and…well worrying about Mark I just can't seem to relax…."

"This just won't do, (the doctor said taking Coiley by the wrist and looking at his watch to check the teen's pulse ) I'm getting you a mild sedative to help you get some sleep, or by morning I'll have two patients instead of just one to worry about.

The doctor left the room returning a few minutes later, with a small paper cup and a glass of water….

"Here young man, take this, it will help you to get some sleep."

He handed the little dixie-like cup to Coiley, inside it was a small blue capsule, which Coiley reluctantly picked up and popped into his mouth.

Taking the water glass, he took a gulp of water making a yuck face, at the taste of the pill.

"Very good!" the doctor said, turning and stepping over to check on Multi by putting his hand on the red head's forehead and as far as the doctor could tell by Multi's breathing and how the boy reacted when the doctor put his hand on his forehead, he was now just sleeping as apposed to being in a deep unconsciousness.

Turning back to Coiley the doctor said, "Well your friend's fever seems to be….." he stopped mid sentence, noticing that the blonde teen seemed to be deeply asleep…

"Well, he must have been more exhausted than he or I thought for that pill to take effect so quickly." he said to himself as he quietly left the room closing the door.

He met a male nurse in the hall about to go in to check on Multi…

"Oh Kazeem, there's no need to check on our young patients right now, they're both sleeping soundly and Mark Mills' fever has lessened, he seems to be recovering from that, so we'll hold off for the rest of the night and check them again in the morning."

"Yes Doctor."

They both left, with the nurse heading on to the next patient on his list and the doctor heading back to his first floor office.

Back at the palace all was quiet after the excitement of the rescue at the "Oasis of the Crystal Waters" everyone had retired to try to get some sleep, but it seemed that Coiley wasn't the only Impossible who was having a rough time getting some sleep.

Fluey was in bed, with Multi's little dog Skittles by his side, trying to sleep but every time he closed his eyes, all he saw in his minds eye was a nightmarish vision of Multi in the hospital bed in bad shape.

Skittles knew his master's friend was as worried as she was and sensing he need some TLC she crept up to where she could nuzzle under his arm.

Fluey looked down at his fuzzy bed mate and petted the puppy…

"Your as worried as I am about Multi and Coiley, aren't you girl."

Skittles whined a bit and nodded her head….

"Yeah I know..(he said giving her a bit of a scratch under her chin) but we have to try to be positive about it and trust that the doctor knows what he's doing!"

"Are you still awake young man!" whispered a voice…

A first Fluey stared down at Skittles, giving the puppy a curious look, then looking up he saw the shadowy figure nearby, and realized it was Big D who had spoken.

The Chief had heard Fluey's voice and had come from the other room to see why he was still awake.

"Oh…sorry Chief, I was just so worried about Multi and Coiley I couldn't get to sleep…."

"It's alright Fluid…the doctors will take good care of Multi and Coil, but you need your rest, I'll stay here with you until you fall asleep."

Fluey smiled and snuggled down as Big D pulled the covers up over his grandson, than began to stroke his hair.

This always calmed Fluey down when he was upset.

His adoptive mom had done the same when Fluey was a toddler to calm her son.

Soon the boy was relaxed and had fallen asleep, The Chief stood up and slipped quietly back into the adjoining bedroom, leaving Skittles there to keep sleeping his grandson company.

Out in the Thieves Guild's hideout Akmed and his gang were still trying to figure a way into the Royal Palace.

They couldn't use the way in that they had before, because the Royal Guard would have had that underground tunnel sealed or well guarded, so they would have to find a different way to gain entrance.

"Koora, you and the others bed down for now and we'll figure this out tomorrow morning!"

Without waiting for his brother's reply Akmed turned and headed straight for the tent the princess had retired to while the thieves were talking over their plans.

Koora shrugged, "Alright you heard him, (he said to the others) get some sleep and we'll finish the invasion plans at dawn!"

Haroon was still angry about the circumstances relating to Akmed's relationship to the princess and decided to take care of business in his own way.

'I don't need to follow Akmed as these thieves are doing, like a bunch of meek sheep being lead to the slaughter, I'll show them…'

Waiting until the others had settled in their tents Haroon put his plan into motion, after picking up some weapons and some other supplies and packing them into a knapsack, he quietly headed for the hidden exit, leaving the thieves hideout…..

Early the next morning Big D and his young agents were getting ready to check on Multi and check Coiley out of the hospital so he could rejoin the active duty list.

Fluey's royal look-a-like Prince Ali was meeting with his ministers to discuss the coronation, which would officially make him Sultan of Khakistan and the wedding, which would unite, him with Serina and make her his queen.

In no time at all they finished eating breakfast and were heading past the throne room, all except for Phyllis and Skittles, (she had agreed to stay behind to look after Multi's puppy) with Big D in the lead, where the Prince, who had finished his meeting with the ministers, spotted them.

"My friends…" he called stopping the group.

"Your Majesty." The Chief said as the prince approached…We're on our way to the hospital to pick up one of our agents and check on the other, then we'll be returning here to the palace."

"Very good, (Ali responded) in the mean time I have another meeting to finalize the plans for coronation ceremonies, I will see you when you return."

The group took their leave and Ali turned and headed back to his next meeting.

As Ali headed to his second meeting of the morning, Serina headed to the guest suite to keep Phyllis and Skittles company while the others were gone.

As the Impossi-Mobile arrived at the hospital entrance, they couldn't help but notice the commotion going on around the outside of the building….

Quickly hopping out of the Impossi-Mobile, they rushed into the lobby of the hospital and up to the Nurses Station.

"What's going on here?" Big D asked of the nurse behind the checkin desk.

Just before the nurse could answer him, the doctor who was in charge of taking care of Multi and Coiley and head of the night staff rushed over to The Chief and his agents.

"Mr. Davis, I was just about to contact you, will you all please follow me.."

Big D looked at Fluey, Danaleah, Shawn and FG and then asked, "What is it Doctor? What's going on?"

"I will explain shortly, please follow me!"

Then off he went, heading for the elevator, having no other choice Big D and his agents followed him, entering the elevator.

Once the doors closed, the doctor pressed the number 2 on the panel and set the elevator car in motion.

As soon as the elevator arrived at the second floor, the door opened and the Doctor, Big D, Fluey and the girls stepped out into the hallway…

Noticing the security guards standing in front of the door to the boy's room, The Chief caught hold of the Doctor's arm…

"Alright Doctor I want to know what is going on and I want to know NOW!"

Before the doctor could answer, the door to Multi and Coiley's room open…out came an attendant pushing a gurney out of the door with a figure on it.

Big D and the kids could only stare stunned at the sight, then Big D started forward telling his young agents to "Stay Back!"

He rushed up to the gurny and looked down at the figure laying on it.

Looking very relieved that the person on the gurney wasn't Coiley or Multi, he turned around to look over at the others, but before he could say anything, a voice from inside the room drew everyone's attention.

"We're Ok Chief!"

It was Coiley's voice and the teens who had been stunned at the sight of the gurney with the figure on it coming out of their friends room, breathed a sigh of relief.

The Chief rushed passed the attendant with the gurney, (who proceeded away from the room pushing the gurney down the hall) and into the room, followed by the others.

As they entered the room they were relieved to see both boys were unharmed and Multi was awake and sitting up.

The doctor interrupted, "Ahem…I was about to tell you that your young friends are fine, but we have had an incident here, some unknown man tried to harm them."

Coiley was sitting up also, but a nurse was wrapping his right forearm with a roll bandage.

Shawn rushed over to her red haired boyfriend's side, she was so happy to see him awake and sitting up.

The others went over to Coiley's bedside as the Nurse was just finishing bandaging his arm. "What happened here?" asked The Chief.

Figuring they should have some privacy, the doctor signaled the male nurse, who headed over to the door.

Coiley waited until the nurse and doctor left.

As soon as they were alone, the Chief said, "Alright Agent Coil, what happened here?"

"Well, the guy that just left here on the gurney has to be one of those thieves from that criminal Guild. I didn't recognize him from the Oasis, but he must be part of that group. He must have had a glass cutter because he got in thru the window over there."

They all looked in the direction Coiley was pointing over at the far side of the room where there was a big hole in the wall…

"Well there used to be a window!" Coiley said. "He had to have cut a hole in the window unlocked it and climbed in. What woke me up was the sound of glass breaking as the piece he cut out landed on the floor, when I looked over and saw this shadowy figure coming toward Multi's bed, I jumped out of my bed, grabbed the only thing I could find, a tray off this table as a weapon and ran around the bed to try to protect Multi!"

Seeing the look on everyone's faces he admitted, "Yeah I know, not too smart, but I didn't have time to try to find my transformer and I couldn't think of anything else to do to protect Multi!"

"What happened next, Coiley?" asked FG

"Well, because it was dark I guess I surprised the guy when I ran up and hit him with the tray. I nearly knocked him off his feet and as he was trying to get his balance I hit him again in the stomach hard as I could knocking him flat. Then I ran over to the side of Multi's bed and pulled the emergency cord to get help. I could see that the guy had a backpack with him…he got into it, brought out what must have been a small bomb and stood up, he shouted something I couldn't understand, then he lit it and was going to throw it…I put the metal tray up to try to shield us and jumped up onto Multi's bed, grabbed him and pulled him over to the other side of the bed and onto the floor, pulling his monitor and IVs out in the process, I didn't really see what happened next. The lights went on, I heard a shout and then a really loud bang and after the smoke cleared, I looked up over the bed and that part of the room where the guy was, was a wreck, the guy was on the floor and a big security guy was looking him over."

"Holy Mesopotamia!" Fluey exclaimed, "That was a narrow escape!"

"Apparently….(Coiley continued), the doctor and the security guy arrived together and crashed in just as that guy was about to throw his bomb. They must have hit the hitman with something, it must have caused him to drop the bomb. It had to have rolled to the other side of the room, before going off and blowing out the wall and the window. I don't know how my arm was hurt."

At that moment, the doctor came back into the room interrupting Coiley..

"I am sorry to interrupt but I have some information on the intruder, one of our security personnel recognized him."

Big D asked, "Who is or was he, what's his name?"

"He is in bad shape after being in the explosion and hit by the glass chards, but he still alive for the moment. His name is Rafic, a local criminal with a long police record, who has a connection to the local criminal element, the Thieves Guild and is frequently for hire."

"I don't understand, why would this criminal risk breaking into the hospital?" Big D inquired.

"We found a knapsack under some of the wreckage and searched it, in addition to weapons we found rope, strips of cloth and a broken bottle, with a label that read chloroform." (the doctor answered.)

"So, (Big D said), this crook broke in with the intention of Kidnapping the boys…"

"Yes, (said the doctor), but when your young friend became combative, he decided to dispose of the two of them instead, it's fortunate they were able to summon help!"

"Yes it certainly was, (Big D replied)…I want to thank you and your security staff for being there to protect them."

"What puzzles me, (The doctor replied) is that your young man here awoke when the intruder broke in. I had given him a sedative because he was having trouble sleeping."

Everyone looked at Coiley who had a sort of sheepish look on his face.

"Well….I can explain that, (Coiley admitted) I did put the pill in my mouth but stuck it under my tongue and then took a drink, but when the doctor turned to check on Mark I spit out the pill but pretended to be asleep. So I was only really lightly sleeping when that guy broke in."

"Ah, I thought that the pill had taken effect a bit too speedily for that kind of medication, but I attributed it to your being overly tired. the doctor replied. Well getting back to what we found in the intruder's knapsack, there was also a piece of paper with instructions on what to do and where to find the intended victims and where to transport them…but, (The doctor continued) that isn't all, it's instructions also say to meet someone near the Royal Palace. Where Rafic and an accomplice would collect a sack of gold as payment for the successful completion of this evil mission."

Big D and his young agents were stunned at the information the doctor had given them.

"Obviously, (The Chief said) Mark and Calvin where going to be used as bargaining chips to force us to do what ever they wanted us to do."

"Princess Psychopath and her thief boy friend, must be behind this latest plot against us and Prince Ali, to gain the throne." Fluey replied. "I think that we'd all be safer at the palace and your hospital and the people in it won't be in any more danger doctor. We can protect ourselves and the Prince and his Fiancée against those criminals with the help of the Royal guard better at the palace."

"But what about Mark Franky, he still isn't fully recovered from his head injury." Shawn pointed out in a worried tone.

The doctor spoke up, "I can take a leave of absence from the hospital and accompany you all to the palace to look after your young friend until he is fully recovered."

The Chief nodded and then activated his wrist communicator, contacting Phyllis to let her know they were on their way back.

"How are the boys Chief? Are they alright?" Phyllis asked.

Big D replied, "I'll fill you in about everything when we get back to the palace."

Then they packed up everything, the boys were given some privacy to change and they went out to the parking area, where the Impossi-Mobile had been parked.

The Chief climbed into the driver seat, Fluey climbed in beside him, Shawn, Danaleah and FG crowded into the middle seat and Coiley and Multi were settled into the back seat.

The Doctor went to get his own car after telling the group he would meet them at the palace.

The Chief activated the motor, converting to Impossi-Jet, then they took off.

What they didn't know, was that they were observed from the shadows of the side of the hospital building entrance, by a mysterious figure who watched the Impossi-Mobile turn into the Jet mode and take off into the sky, than the unknown observer disappeared down a nearby ally…

A few hours before Rafic tried with his partner to kidnap the two Impossibles from their room at the hospital, they were meeting with Haroon of the Theives Guild to get their instructions.

Haroon was determined to undermine Akmed's authority and raise himself to the leadership of the Thieves Guild.

Rafic and Hawkeem were hanging around a part of town considered to be the seedy part of Khakistan and Haroon approached them with a proposition and a promise to pay for their unique services.

Giving them the location and his knapsack with the supplies in it, he paid them half the promised fee…

"You'll get the rest when your job is completed! I'll meet you at the back of the Royal Palace behind the garden wall! Do not fail me! Haroon had said.

Arriving at the hospital Hawkeem went in to snoop around and find out if he could, what floor the targets were on and which room they were in.

Going through the front entrence of the hospital, he stationed himself near the admitting station and watched as people came and went.

He happened to still be standing at the admitting station and over heard a couple of male nurses talking about two foreign patients who had just been re-admitted on the second floor the other night, as one of them replaced a clip board of patient's names and room numbers back onto it's nail on the wall behind the admitting desk.

He noticed, after sneaking a peak at the list while the nurse was at the other end of the checkin desk talking on the phone and writing something on a note pad with his back to Hawkeem, that there were only two names on the list which were foreign sounding and they were both in the same room.

He hurriedly rejoined Rafic outside and they set about casing the building and found that the back of the hospital had an old metal fire escape reaching up to the second floor hospital room windows, including the one they wanted.

"Wait here Hawkeem and I'll signal you to come and help me when I'm ready." Rafic had instructed, then he climbed up the ladder and up to the second floor windows.

Hawkeem had watched as Rafic figured out which was the right window and used a glass cutter to cut a hole in the glass, reach in, unlocked and open the window than climbed in.

A short time later there was a huge explosion blowing out the window and a large part of the wall.

Hawkeem ran around to the front of the building where a crowd was beginning to quickly gather in response to sound of the blast and some alarms going off, along with security guards from the hospital.

He melded into the crowd of looky-loos not wanting to be under suspicion.

The explosion had happened close to sunrise and twenty minutes later as he and the rest of the crowd watched from the front of the hospital as a very unusual car arrived.

Five people got out and went into the hospital, then twenty minutes after they had arrived, Hawkeem watched as the original group of five came back out to the car accompanied by two more who were wheeled out in wheel chairs.

Than all seven climbed into the strange car, then the car changed shape a bit and took off like a rocket.

Deciding he had better leave and assuming his partner was dead or captured, Hawkeem walked around to the side of the building and disappeared into the Shadows of the ally.

Hawkeem didn't want to admit defeat and he certainly didn't want to give up the rest of the money Haroon had promised, so despite the failure to succeed at the kidnapping, he mounted his horse and took off to meet Haroon.

Hawkeem's greed was stronger than his fear of what Haroon might do to him and so he plotted on how to deceive him long enough to secure his money.

But, by the time he reached the rendezvous, Haroon who was right where he said he would be, near to the back of the palace wall, had seen the Impossi-Jet flying over the palace and landing inside the palace grounds and he had observed Big D and his agents entering the palace with the two he had intended to hold captive, so he already knew Hawkeem had failed when the would be kidnapper arrived to try to collect his money.

Even before Hawkeem offered a story as to the absence of his partner and their victims, Haroon being well aware the plot has failed, played it cool to see how far Hawkeem would go with his deception.

"So, where is your friend Rafic and your captives Hawkeem?"

"Ah…Rafic is guarding our prisoners, they are hidden not far from here sahib, so if you will give me the rest of the money, I will then tell you where the captives can be found and you can have your prisoners after I have taken my leave of you."

"I see…Haroon said..I have a counter proposal, in order to get your money, you must first produce your prisoners AND your partner."

Hawkeem started to protest, but Haroon punched him hard in the stomach knocking him to the ground and then drawing his dagger he threatened the shaken criminal.

"Failing your mission is bad enough, but lying to me has earned you a one way trip to eternity." Haroon growled stepping closer…

In a quick move Hawkeem reached out, grabbed his ankle and pulled causing Haroon to fall backward, then he jumped to his feet and tried a quick getaway, but Haroon recovered his footing and quickly took aim and throwing his knife bringing down the hapless criminal.

Haroon coolly walked over to Hawkeem's body and searched his clothing recovering the money and his dagger from his victim and then dragged him off to a clump of bushes to dispose of him.

Then he returned to where he had his horse tethered.

He stood there trying to figure out another way to gain leadership of the guild.

Haroon wasn't sure what his next move should be…should he try to rejoin the Thieves, or try to hire more underlings to help him?

He was deep in thought when he suddenly heard the sound of approaching hoof beats, turning he saw a group of riders in the distance quickly closing in on his location…