Duck Poo Island's Fun World Part 2: The Finale

By Jizammie Griggs

I am extremely proud of Adam and Andy for what they have accomplished and the selflessness that they both have displayed along the way. Adam and Andy have shown the willingness to not only enrich themselves but also the omni-awareness of knowing that their efforts could also improve the lives of their friends and loved ones in the process. Adam and Andy are truly special guys with gigantic hearts. They are true superheroes with the power of fearlessness and a virtuous mindset for the greater good.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662455865

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Chapter 1

Sortie Counterblow Corruption Investigation

(Bonnie and Clyde-ish)

To best understand Sortie, you need to understand where he comes from and how he was brought up. And that’s exactly what Agent Williams needed to do, to best investigate and predict what Sortie’s next moves would be. So that’s what Agent Williams did. He went back to the beginning, or at least Sortie’s beginnings, to get a glimpse into Sortie’s torrid past and garner a greater insight into his misguided upbringing.

As Agent Williams dove into his homework, his research revealed that Sortie had a very difficult childhood. Sortie lost both of his parents by the age of seven. This led him being passed around and mistreated by several different family members. The reason Sortie’s family members mistreated him was because they didn’t want the responsibility of taking care of the child of someone they truly despised. Sortie’s parents, at one time or another, had crossed pretty much everyone that had ever crossed their paths.

You see, Sortie’s parents were the real deal. They were bona fide gangsters. They lived a true Bonnie-and-Clyde lifestyle. Unfortunately, their entanglement represented true love in its most toxic form. They were absolutely, undisputedly bad for each other. They would support each other in their wants and dreams and do whatever it took to achieve them. Doesn’t sound that bad until you factor in. They really only indulged each other in negativity. Their dreams were someone else’s nightmares in real time.

This insane need to make each other happy led them down a road to criminal mischief, which brought about jail time and court trials, and eventually, they jumped bail for freedom and became fugitives. When they first went on the lam, Sortie’s mom, Cleopatra, was eight months pregnant with him. Sortie’s dad, Magnus, had to deliver Baby Sortie, in the back of a commandeered cop cruiser.

While most of the stories of Cleopatra and Magnus’s criminal exploits were considered mainly folklore, the delivery of Sortie by Magnus, in the back of a cop’s car, was undoubted due to the fact that the story had been corroborated by the very cop who operated this commandeered cruiser. He had been pistol-whipped, handcuffed, and put in the trunk of the cruiser.

And although the police officer did not admit this part in his reports or interviews, it was said that all that had happened to him was done by a pregnant Cleopatra. The cop had gotten the jump on Magnus and Cleopatra, stormed in to rescue him…so they say.

At this point, there should be no doubt that Magnus and Cleopatra were about that life, which coincidentally was a phrase coined by an Oregon reporter named Buddy Hatfield, who was a freelance writer for the Oregonian newspaper.

Buddy Hatfield was a bit of a pioneer who dedicated the lion’s share of his time and energy to investigating Northwestern mob-related activities. But in 1965, when Cleopatra and Magnus became fugitives, they inspired a nationwide manhunt. Buddy became overwhelmingly intrigued with their story. Buddy had had a firsthand encounter with Cleopatra and Magnus at a 7-Eleven store robbery in 1965. Buddy had a front-row seat to the brutality in which Cleopatra and Magnus were capable of. In their wake, three were left dead including the store owner, Rene Bobbitt, who was a personal friend of Buddy’s.

Buddy was in the store when Magnus and Cleopatra robbed it, and he was forced to get on the floor by Magnus. Buddy never saw Magnus or Cleopatra kill anyone, but once they were gone, there were three left dead. After a couple of gunshots, Buddy felt a heavy object fall on his back while he was face down on the floor. When he finally got up, he realized it was his friend Rene Bobbitt’s dead body.

This made Buddy hate Magnus and Cleopatra at first, so he started to investigate. And that’s when Buddy found multiple inconsistencies with the police reports and tons of evidence that pointed away from this fleeing duo and in the direction of a burgeoning cartel. So almost instantaneously, Buddy turned his full attention solely on this modern-day Bonnie-and-Clyde duo, which was how Buddy referred to them in the first article he wrote about this criminalistics, duo turned trio, by the legendary birth of their son, Baby Sortie.

Unfortunately, Buddy’s first article was scrapped by William Hilliard, the assistant city editor. William didn’t want Buddy’s article to sensationalize Cleopatra and Magnus’s story. In the media business, we call this a burial. Buddy quickly packed his bags and prepared to move down the coast, which reportedly was the direction Cleopatra and Magnus were heading. But this decision was halted because Buddy’s article was surprisingly resurrected due to the increasing popularity and appeal of these lovebirds on the run.

Chapter 2

Sortie Counterblow Corruption Investigation

(James Dean, Marilyn Monroe…Baby Jesus)

The popularity of these fugitives increased exponentially after it had been reported that they had given birth to a healthy bouncing baby boy in the process. This news instantly shot them to superstar celebrity status due to the fact that now, to almost everyone, they represented love on the run. A husband, a wife, and their child fleeing for dear life, they were willing to risk it all to be together as a family—truly the stuff of novels.

And the nation had begun to buy into the idea of outlaw love. There were pictures spreading nationwide of this fugitive family that depicted Magnus as James Dean and Cleopatra as Marilyn Monroe. Over the top, I know, but wait. It gets worse! Blasphemous even because tens of thousands of pictures popped up of little Sortie being depicted as Baby Jesus. I mean, there were fanfare, mass hysteria, and outrage everywhere.

Having read this, Agent Williams was blown away. He had already put in six hours of research, and it was now 2:00 a.m., and he had to give a briefing at 6:00 a.m. It would have been nice if Agent Williams could’ve just gone straight to sleep for a couple of hours, but he felt nowhere close to being sleepy. It was as if his research of Sortie’s past was so exciting that, vicariously, it affected Agent Williams’s own adrenaline levels. Agent Williams was pumped as he stood up from his desk in his tiny apartment and stepped over to the refrigerator to grab a Red Bull energy drink. That energy drink at this hour indicated that Agent Williams had committed to an all-nighter. As Agent Williams sat back down at his desk, ignoring a phone call, he dove back into his engrossing research.

Buddy continued to follow the latest sightings and evidence that showed