Author Note: This story takes place after the events in The Wolf, The Owl, And The Cheshire.

Somewhere Over The Ural Mountains:
An unmarked government-owned plane explodes over the Ural Mountain range. All that can be seen is a huge fireball and a bunch of debris as it falls from the sky.

“It’s done, boss. Johnathan Bounty is dead.” Another plane following the other plane recorded the destruction of the first plane.

“Make sure, he has a nasty knack for surviving and escaping from life-threatening situations.” Sergei Solonik has tried over a hundred times to kill Johnathan Bounty and each time the bastard managed to either kill the attackers or survive the attack.

He wanted to make sure this was one Bounty who never returned from the dead. The information Johnathan Bounty has managed to collect about his organization and secret accounts for the British Secret Service has hurt him dearly. It has weakened him drastically and made him the laughingstock in the underworld.

“Boss, there is no sign of Johnathan Bounty surviving that explosion.” Vladimir and the other pilot with him have circled the area making sure Johnathan Bounty hadn’t survived that explosion.

They knew if he had, they would have to go after him and that was one thing neither one of them wanted to do. Nor was the punishment they knew their boss would inflict on them for felling again. Vladimir looks down at his right hand where several fingers had been chopped off.

Unknown to Vladimir Mikhailov, someone had survived the explosion and was waiting for them to leave. The cloaked figure remained hidden and waited as the high winds blew against the shelter covering the figure. The hidden figure was wounded, but alive. They planned on moving when night fell and made their way to safety.

Vladimir and his copilot continue to double and triple-check that Johnathan Bounty is dead, before being forced to leave the area due to low fuel. Vladimir hoped that Johnathan Bounty was gone or it was going to be his and his copilot that would pay the price for failure. This was one time he couldn’t afford to fail.

Once the other plane leaves darkness falls. The hidden figure comes out from hiding and begins the long tedious task of climbing down the mountain range and making their way to the Arctic Ocean. Once there, they will be picked up by a trusted confidant and taken to Sweden for surgery.

Meanwhile back at British Secret Service headquarters, intercepted messages from Vladimir Mikhailov and Sergei Solonik are brought to the attention of Sir John Cumming. The communication was about Johnathan Bounty and how he was reportedly killed over the Ural Mountain range.
The exact location wasn’t mentioned, but from all accounts from several radar units in the area and from satellite imaging. He watched as the plane exploded and disintegrated.

The tracker onboard the plane shows it to be too high up in the mountain range to attempt any type of retrieval. Thermals of the area didn’t show any heat signature that would show anyone still alive. He would have to wait and see if Johnathan Bounty survived the explosion. Until then, he knew Johnathan Bounty’s next of kin would have to be notified.

Baroness Charlotte Basset’s Place:
Charlotte was having her morning breakfast when Zoey came walking into the kitchen nook. Zoey had her drawing pad in her hands.

“Watch you got to show me, kiddo?” Charlotte knew Zoey had no control over her gifts and how sometimes they overwhelmed her.

Zoey hugs her mother first, before showing her the picture she drew early this morning. It showed an airplane exploding and debris falling from the sky. There was an image of a wolf falling from the debris and hitting the mountainside.

Charlotte looked at the picture and knew the image of the wolf represented her family clan. The mountain range she wasn’t sure of, but she got the message of the plane exploding. Someone in their family was involved in an exploding plane.

Charlotte looks at Zoey to make sure this drawing is right. “Are you sure about this, sweetie?”

Zoey nods her head yes, as she rests her head against her mother’s shoulder. Ever since that evil woman who her uncle was forced to fight messed with her mind and nearly caused her to hurt her older sister. She has been regretting having her gift. The only way she could get rid of it was to either be kept on medication that made her mind too fuzzy to function or to operate and cut that section of her mind out where her gift was located.

If that happened, it would lobotomize her. She would lose her artistic talents and be unable to function properly. It was worse than death in her opinion. She knew her mother would never allow anything like that to happen.

Charlotte picks her cell phone up and calls operations to see if any of her family members have been killed. She knew several of her family members were agents inside MI 5 and MI 6. She was lucky that she was a director of a section inside of MI 5 or she wouldn’t be able to find out.

While Charlotte was waiting for someone to answer, she looked towards Zoey “Go ahead and fix yourself some breakfast, sweetie.” Charlotte places a kiss on Zoey’s cheek.

Zoey hugs her mother again and fixes herself a bowl of cereal. Her mother had her favorite kind of cereal shipped in from the United States since they couldn’t buy it in England. She knew the wolf meant someone in their family or extended family had died.

British Secret Service Cyber-Division:
Mouse had been informed about her cousin Johnathan Bounty being killed by the Russian mobster known as Sergei “The Butcher” Solonik. The following day, after she had been informed about his death. She received an encrypted text asking her if everything had been arranged. She knew whom the text was from and what they were asking. She texted them back with just one word “Yes!”

After the text was sent, Mouse activated a special program that she wrote to establish the identity she created for the person who texted her. All government computers, banking systems, credit card companies, and motor vehicles would have the new identity added to their system. The information would go back thirty years for the person.

Once that was done, she received the okay to update her cousin's file as being killed in action. She makes up some sort of BS excuse for the records, because the true reason he was killed, she couldn’t put into his file. Only the director her cousin worked under and the director of MI 6 would know the true reason. The higher-ups knew they couldn’t hide anything from her. It was the one reason they kept her around in the cyber division. She could access any computer system in any country without being discovered. Plus, with her knowledge of computer systems, she was too valuable to let her leave.

Two Weeks Later in Sweden:
A mysterious figure enters Torne Valley Hospital and is taken to a private room. A few days later the person is prepared for surgery and is taken to a private operating room to be operated on by a private doctor and her staff. For the next eight hours, Doctor Johanna Johanson and her staff perform surgery on the mysterious person. Everything from facial reconstructive surgery to gender reassignment surgery is being performed all at once.

The true identity of the person is being kept secret even from the doctor. Everything about the person is so secretive, that everyone that has contact with the person, has undergone a background check so intense that it felt like a rectal inspection.

After the surgery and spending two weeks recovering. The person is kept bandaged up and transported to an undisclosed location by helicopter and transferred to another helicopter to a historical château in Occitanie, France. There the person is tended to by several trusted private nurses and a trusted doctor from the Blake Medical Foundation.

While the person is recovering from all the operations. They ponder what they are going to do next. They know the recovery time isn’t going to be fast and they will need to find something new to do since their old life is behind them.