Rear Guard Action at the Lucky Dragon

As Captain Stuart and his new pal Scaramanga made a desperate sprint toward the gates of Kowloon Walled City fleeing what appeared to be a platoon of the Peoples Liberation Army which had been sent by General Tang to capture Scaramanga, make good on some old gambling debts, and to recover some borrowed books,

Chop-xin, Lin Ye Tan, Fang Chi, Timothy and about a dozen unidentified members of Scaramanga's entourage continued to fight it out with the General's men. Despite the meager weapons employed by Scaramanga's minions, the boys had a lot of spirit and their wildly exaggerated war cries, eat-up-the-scenery strutting and chest thumping, did indeed give the CHICOMs pause. The fight continued sometimes in slow motion, sometimes with dramatic flourishes where bullets flew into crockery spraying into a thousand pieces as doves flew dramatically against incongruous stained glass windows that nobody had noticed at the Lucky Dragon to that point.

Though the street in front of the Lucky Dragon was littered with the bodies of several members of Scaramanga's entourage (none of the ones we've been introduced to in the story so far, a couple of the ones who could be played by any dark-haired extra as a point of fact), several of the CHICOMs fell to the wild blows, and dramatically delivered parrys and thrusts. Frustrated, the CHICOM soldiers fled back across the no-mans land back to Red China after they discovered that Scaramanga was no longer at the Lucky Dragon.

Chop-xin, Lin Ye Tan, Fang Chi, Timothy and perhaps a half dozen unidentified fellows dusted their hands and stood with arms akimbo as they looked on their handiwork.

"HA!" they shouted in unison.

Chop-xin held up the copy borrowed from General Tang's personal collection of Balzac's Human Comedy and pointed at what appeared to be the bloody carcass of the lieutenant in charge of the CHICOM contingient.

"Do you like apples?" he paused for comedic timing and continued

"how do you like these apples Commy?!"

With that the entourage roared with a gale of self-important laughter the likes of which are only seen after one has written what they think is a funny (although more likely dubious) blog entry.

The entouraged surveyed the damage to the Lucky Dragon. The front glass window was shattered. Several tables were shattered. The buffet of food was strewn everywhere and the kitchen staff broke out mops and brooms and began picking up the pieces. Heung Wah-yim slowly emerged from under a collapsed table and Lin Ye Tan decided that he might as well ask him for the object of their quest that brought them to Kowloon Walled City. He cleared his throat "do you still have that copy of Lady Windemere's Fan?"