“There she blows!” Mark watches as Aylin throws up again for the third time today.
Hatter gives him the middle finger as she throws up again. The first few days had been smooth sailing. After that, they ran into some rough weather. That’s when she started throwing up from the rough seas.
It was lucky that Terry had packed some barf bags. Aylin started using them up, after the first day. Normally, she wasn’t affected by seasickness, but lately, she has been throwing up almost every day.
After a few more days, they finally arrive in Texas in a port town named Port Isabel. As soon as Terry drives Rhino out of the ocean, Aylin drops the rear ramp and runs out. She drops to her knees and kisses the ground. She never wants to travel the ocean again inside something so small.
Shade comes walking out of Rhino with a smile on his face. He watches Aylin as she kisses the ground.
“I feel cheated on.”
“You shouldn’t and I am never doing that again.” Aylin stands and looks around.
She spots some vehicles coming towards them. She looks towards Shade “are we expecting anyone?”
“No, not that I know of.” Shade didn’t hear anything from Terry.
“Terry, we have incoming. Do you know who they are?” Shade touched his earpiece.
Terry yawns as he sends two of the drones out to identify the vehicles coming towards them. The drones fly over them, as the images are scanned into the computer to be identified. The computer identifies the vehicles as belonging to ICE.
“They’re with ICE, Shade. If they give you any problems, just show your special agent badge.” Terry knew they shouldn’t have any problems.
Agent Nicholas had received information about a weird vehicle traveling near the shore. He looks at the vehicle in front of him and wonders what the hell it was. He notices that two individuals were standing at the rear of the strange vehicle. He watched as two drones launch from the strange vehicle and scan their cars.
“Hey Nick, did you see that?” Agent Hawley saw the drones as they flew over them.
“Yeah, I saw them. I’ve never seen anything like them before.” Agent Nickolas wonders if they were Cartels or someone else.
As he and his team surround the vehicle and the people outside of the vehicle. He notices one person was a white face female, that look like she was a clown or something. The other was a young man that looked like he was in his late teens.
“Alright, you two stay where you are. Who are you and what is the vehicle and is there a person inside?” Agent Nickolas saw the drones
hovering over the strange vehicle and looking at them.
Aylin looks at the ICE agent and notices there were several of them and they had surrounded them. She doesn’t bother to put her hands up.
She just stands there and let Shade handle everything.
“We’re special agents and this vehicle is an experimental vehicle that we are conducting field test.”
“Let me see your badges.” Agent Nickolas wanted to see if they were telling the truth.
“Sure.” Shade grabs his badge slowly and shows it.
Aylin digs her badge out and shows it. She makes sure to hold it out front for them to see.
“Cover me.” Nickolas walks towards Aylin and Shade.
He stops at Shade first to look at his badge. He notices that Shade’s badge said he was a special agent with the US Marshal service. He walks over to look at Aylin’s badge and notices her badge was registered with the Marshal service as well.
“Who’s in the vehicle?” Nickolas glances towards the weird-looking vehicle.
“The engineer of the vehicle, who is a US Marshal.” Shade knew Terry still had his US Marshal badge and his MI 5 credentials from when Anika and her team worked in England.
“Tell them to come out here.”
“He doesn’t have to tell me anything.” As Terry steps down the ramp from the rear of Rhino.
“I want to see your Id.” Nickolas looks at Terry.
“No problem.” Terry pulls his wallet from his back pocket and shows his US Marshal badge as well.
Nickolas looks at Terry’s identity and back at Terry. He hands the badge back to Terry.
“So, what are three special agents doing, field testing this vehicle? Also, why didn’t you come through a normal entry point?” Nickolas looks at Terry for an answer.
“Well, since I’m the engineer of it, I asked for the assignment. As for the other two. We have worked together before and so the higher-ups sent them with me. To answer your second question, we just got done crossing the ocean in it. Any more questions?”
“I want to look inside it, to make sure you aren’t smuggling anyone or anything in.” Agent Nickolas wanted to see the inside of the vehicle.
“Sorry, you aren’t cleared to see the inside of it.”
“Well, since I can’t see the inside of it, it's not going anywhere, until I do.” Agent Nickolas wasn’t going to take no for an answer.
A sly smile appears on Terry’s face. He looks directly into agent Nickolas’s eyes “you don’t have the authority to detain me and also, I have more firepower than you do. Do you see those two drones? They are equipped with mini-guns capable of cutting you and your team in half.
Also, there’s more where they come from. Also, these other two agents can take your whole team out, without breaking a sweat. So, if you want this to get messy, we can. Now, get the fuck out of my way.”
Agent Nickolas looks into Terry’s eyes and noticed he wasn’t kidding. He hears the whine of the minigun on the drones whining up.
“I would do what he says, Mr. ICE.” Hatter was ready to strike.
“I won’t be intimidated by you or anyone.”
“Let me put it into terms you will understand. You don’t have the clearance to enter my vehicle. I’m not going to give you the clearance and if you continue to stand in my way. I will drop you and your whole team. Now, get the hell out of my way.” Terry wasn’t going to play games with this person.
“Fine, you can go your merry way, but I’ll be watching you.” Agent Nickolas figures he could tail them.
“Fine with us. Now, I’ll see you later, agent.” Terry turns and walks back inside Rhino.
Aylin and Shade follow behind him. Shade sits at the co-pilot station and Aylin sits behind Terry.
Comments
Hatter
Should have thrown up all over the guy!
You know, immediately pissing off the PTBs you have to deal with is not a very good default plan. Employing a little diplomacy* can make things go much more smoothly and avoids needlessly make enemies you don't really need.
* Diplomacy: The art of telling someone to go to hell in such a way that they actually look forward to the trip.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
True.
But that wouldn't have been as much fun to read in a story.
ICE got told off
In no uncertain terms lol. Also with Hatter being sick I wonder if it could be a bit more then sea sickness, like maybe pregnant?
Love Samantha Renée Heart.
Almost a real dumb move
Those ICE agents would be wise to get their boss to get with the Marshal service to see who almost took out their entire team.
Acting tough before they knew who they were messing with could have resulted in several funerals.
Others have feelings too.