Note from author- My crossover story featuring the sixties tv shows the Avengers (UK) and the Man from Uncle. I have incorporated the Girl from Uncle tv episode 'Mother Muffin Affair' for plot. Adult movie stars Chanel Preston as Emma Peel and Ryan Driller as Napoleon Solo.
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ACT 1- Oh, to be in England.
London, England. Hackney Wick to be more precise, late on a cold and misty evening and an old timer crept along the deserted street singing an old nursery rhyme. The shabby grey haired man tapped two spoons together as he begged for small change but he couldn't have chosen a quieter place to raise a penny.
As he paused to rest by a lamp post he was approached by a large and imposing bald man in a two piece suit who looked all around the street and saw there was nobody around. Then he stopped by the beggar and loomed over him in silence. The little man gulped as he perceived the six foot plus shaven man and noted his left ear had been torn from his head in some form of violence. A coin was flipped and the beggar looked down at a halfpenny piece by his tattered shoes and smiled with broken teeth.
"Ta guvnor, much obliged."
As the imposing man walked away without a word the beggar picked up the coin and his face changed and he became alert. He twisted a button on his shirt sleeve and spoke into it. It was in fact a two way communicator and he relayed his message.
"Fine kettle of fish here, the King on the halfpenny ain't got a right ear."
He lifted his head to the two storey brick building to his right as he spoke. It was a grubby, seedy and cheap hotel that had seen better days. In the darkened window was a tall man with black hair and hazel eyes.
"And the man who made the halfpenny drop?"
Napoleon Solo, top agent in Section One spoke into his fountain pen, which was in fact his pocket communicator.
"He didn't have a LEFT ear, just a hole for hearing."
"Received. Open Channel D, Denver."
Back across the Atlantic in Colorado Alexander Waverley answered immediately.
"Speak." Said the head of UNCLE, The United Network Command For Law Enforcement.
"Solo here, Section One, the coin drop has been made, over."
The head of Section One nodded in approval. Born and bred in England the distinguished gentleman took a keen interest in this latest operation.
"Very well, we may proceed to the next move."
"I'm afraid there may be a slight delay." A woman interrupted the overseas conversation.
Beside Solo stood Mrs. Emma Peel, an occasional special agent for the British Intelligence Service, normally teamed up with her mentor, John Steed. With exclusive knowledge of various evil doings in the country UNCLE hoped to utilise the information handed to them. The graceful five foot eight brunette with a slender figure and tight butt spoke in an educated Rodean accent which the New Yorker found charming. She was dressed in a chunky blue woollen sweater with roll neck and a short grey mini skirt with ankle boots.
"Explain." Said Waverley abruptly.
Mrs. Peel peered through a pair of military night vision binoculars as she spoke up.
"Well, we're in a trap. I'm afraid Mister Solo was followed from the airport by one Agnes Twicksbury, otherwise known as Mother Muffin, head of England's biggest assassination organisation."
"Good grief. Do they know agent Smith is with you?"
Solo looked out the second floor window and saw the fake beggar alone by the lamp post. Across the street from them was an old grey haired lady hunched over and holding a walking stick.
"Smith looks like he is in the clear. Mrs. Peel would you be so kind as to hand me the glasses."
He took the binoculars with the pinhole lens covers and surveyed the area then spoke into his fake pen again.
"I can see Mother Muffin and Babcock, her whipping boy by her side. Three other men in the street, another across from us in the second floor window. All armed. One in the entrance to the building opposite as well."
Mrs. Peel heard a footfall and in the skylight above their heads the two of them saw a shadow of a man with a rifle in his hands.
"There is one man on the rooftop." Solo continued.
Emma nudged his arm as they saw a shadow under the door to the tiny room they occupied.
"And right outside the door." Solo looked to the woman beside him.
"Do you have an escape plan Mister, er, Solo?" Waverley said concerned.
"Mrs. Peel, your sweater, is it woollen?"
"Why, yes it is. Pure lambswool." Emma wondered where this was going.
"Take it off."
"What!" Said the brunette.
"What!" Said Waverley on the overseas relay.
"Sorry, but I need a large spool of yarn if we are going to get out of here."
He nodded to the surprised woman who did not hesitate and began to unravel her sweater and wind the wool around her left hand.
"Not to make a big deal about it but I am not wearing a bra." She gave Solo a wry smile as he continued to look out the window.
"Necessity is the mother of invention." He said and turned back to her with sparkling eyes.