Alya, Ada, Jasmine, Becky, and Clair step out of the house as the dust settles from the reinforcements arriving. She watches as they gather up everyone. Jasmine was using Ada for support as they stood on the damaged porch.

“I can’t believe this porch is still intact.” Becky was standing near Alya.

“It’s made of titanium/steel alloy. The whole frame of the house has been reinforced with it.” Clair remembered when Jack and Nick had the
house reinforced after moving it to this spot.

“I have two guys here you can interrogate, Henry.” Jester was dragging two unconscious men from behind the house.

“I have a few over here that can be tortured as well.” Carla pulls a few men over towards everyone.

“We don’t need to torture them. I already know who is behind the attack.” Clair walks down the damaged steps. She was holding onto the handrail.

“You do?” Jester looks at the old woman. She looked to be almost eighty years old.

“Yes!”

“Why would someone want to hurt a little old lady like you?” Jester didn’t think the woman could hurt a fly.

Carla leans next to Jester “Didn’t you pay attention to the briefing Anika gave us about her?”

“Of course I paid attention. I’m not an airhead.” A smile appears on Jester’s face.

Henry shakes his head at Jester’s comment and can’t believe she just said that. He wonders why Hatter made Jester her sister.

“So, why were they sent to kill you, Clair?” Becky looks towards Clair and wonders why someone would want to kill her.

“It’s a long story, but the short of it is. I used to be part of a highly trained troubleshooting group.” Clair looks at Becky when she says that.

“You used to kill people?” Becky couldn’t believe the woman standing in front of her, used to kill people.

“No, I was the science/forensics expert in the group.”

“You mean like MacGyver?”

“Yes, like MacGyver. Each member of our team had specialties that they were good at. We did missions that saved the world from major disasters. Or our nation from being eliminated.” Clair couldn’t believe they survived some of their missions by the skin of their teeth.

“So, what are we supposed to do with these people then?” Carla looks at Clair for an answer.

“I got this covered.” Clair pulls her cell phone out and makes a call.

“Since you guys have this in hand. I’m going to go inside and sit down. My back is killing me.” Jasmine turns to go back inside the house.

“What happened?” Henry looks towards Jasmine for an explanation.

“She took a hit to her back. Luckily, the suit she is wearing protected her.” Ada looks towards the unknown male.

“Let me take a look at it. I have some paramedic training.” Henry takes his helmet off and follows Jasmine inside the house.

“It looks like you two got shot as well.” Jester spotted blood on the short girl and the younger woman.

Jester moves up to look at both women. She notices that the short woman has already had first aid applied to her wound.

“What do they call you?” Becky looks at the strangely dressed woman.

A playful smile appears on Jester’s face “I’m Jester, but you can call me Jamie.”

“I’m Becky.”

“I’m Ada.” Ada wonders why Jamie is dressed the way she is.

“One question, why are you dressed the way you are?” Ada was curious.

“To be more like my wife.” Mark had stepped up on the porch.

“Who’s your wife?” Becky was puzzled as she looked towards the guy dressed like Blade.

“The Mad Hatter.” Mark wonders if they even heard of his wife.

“Like from the Batman cartoons?” Becky was puzzled.

A smirk appears on Mark’s face. He pulls out his cell phone and brings up a picture of Hatter in her working clothes.

“No, more like this.” He shows the picture to Becky and Ada.

“She looks like the Mad Hatter from the Johnny Depp movie.” Becky has seen the movie.

“I agree.” Ada had to admit she did.

“She’s a big fan of his character.” Jester cut the bandages to look at the wound.

“Why’s that?” Ada was curious as she looked towards the man claiming to be Hatter’s husband.

“Let’s just say my wife had a hard childhood.” Mark knew Hatter had gotten better over the years.

Jester just looks at Mark, with a smirk on her face. She continues to rebandage Becy’s gunshot wound and moves on to Ada’s wound.

Carla removes her helmet and starts collecting the bad guy's weapons. She watches as the Native American-looking woman jumps down from the porch and starts helping her. She wonders who she was and how she got involved in this mess.

Carla walks over to the woman and extends her hand to her “I’m Carla.”

Alya accepts the woman’s hand “It's nice to meet you, Carla. I’m Alya.” As she shakes Carla’s hand.

“If you don’t mind me asking. What is your connection to Mrs. Williams?” As Carla picks up a rifle near her.

“Believe it or not. My car broke down and Mrs. Williams has been letting me stay with her. I had no idea she was some sort of secret agent.
What’s your connection to her?” Alya looks at Carla.

“I’m a troubleshooter for her ex-partner. His younger sister is my leader.” Carla couldn’t of a better way to examine why she and her teammates
were here.

“So, you do the same type of work as Clair once did?”

“I’m not a scientist. I’m more of a muscle type of person. I don’t think our team has a person who specializes in science.” Carla was trying to think if there was a person on Anika’s team that did science.

The only person that came close was Terry. He was the mechanic and weapon expert on their team. Herself, Hatter, Mark, and Henry were the
muscles and tactic experts. Anika was the leader and sniper in the group. Elizabeth was the doctor of the group.

A few hours later, a box truck shows up to take the prisoners away. One of the men of the truck spoke to Clair off to the side away from everyone. Afterward, he turns and leaves.

Jasmine was upstairs feeling better after Henry looked after her. As for the vehicles, several tow trucks showed up to take them away. Becky has her rollback taken to her grandfather’s shop. She was going to fix the damage done to it. She was lucky that her grandfather owned two rollbacks and a normal tow truck. Explaining to him what happened to the truck was going to take some fancy explaining.

As for the damage done to the house from all the gunfire. Nick was sending a team of trusted people to come down to fix all the damage. He said he and Jack would be coming as well to speak to everyone.

As for Anika’s team. They were going to stick around for a while to make sure the guy who came after Clair didn’t try again. They were going to set up residence in the barn. Clair had spare gear down in the den they could use.