We Were Only Strawberry Picking (15 page)

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Cairo had just returned to the MightyKats’ base, Meer Space Station. He affirmed to his leader, Zammo, that “Mission Strawberry Fields” had been accomplished. He had not only erased the memories of the Brians’ and Mortimers’, but all the other meerkats’ memories in Meerville Town that had any knowledge of the recent events. He had also adjusted the clocks at the households of the Brians’ and Mortimers’ to make it seem like Jack, Oscar, Henratty and Lyndi Lou had arrived home earlier than the actual time they had in fact arrived, which was, indeed, ten o’clock, as Jack had cleverly observed. Once they were all asleep, he would go back and amend the clocks with the correct time and no one would be the wiser, not even Jack!

The MightyKats were all looking at the screen into Jack’s bedroom, as they smiled knowing he would keep his little treasure a secret until he discovered the exact whereabouts of the diamonds, a location he would never find, as he would be searching in the wrong place. The one thing the MightyKats were certain of, was that there were no diamonds on Papa Brian’s land and the possibility of those meerkats ending up in that mineshaft ever again was zilch!

Zammo switched the screen off knowing The Land of Arkvale was safe again from those vultures, The Larkans of Skylark, and set the station to hibernate mode as the MightyKats retired once more in anticipation of their next mission …

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