Hatter’s South American Safari Chap. 15

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Hatter and Shade meet up with Terry at the coordinates several hours later. The ramp on the back of Rhino opens and they pull inside. Once they were loaded, Terry starts heading towards a property that Bart’s company owns. There was supposed to be a transport waiting for them there to take them back to New York.

Shade looks over towards Hatter, after securing his motorcycle “did you have some fun?”

Hatter had a big ole smile on her face, as she lifts her helmet off. She looks over towards Shade “oh yes! I even took pictures.” She hands the camera she used to Shade.

Shade looks through the pictures and couldn’t believe what Hatter did to Agent Nickolas and his car. He wonders if Morgana would be able to post this footage on the web.

“Do you think, Morgana could post this on the web?” Shade didn’t know Morgana as well as Hatter.

“You could call and ask her.” Aylin looks at Shade.

“What are you two miscreants up to?” Terry peeks in on Aylin and Shade.

“Wondering if Morgana wouldn’t mind posting something on the web for us.” Shade looks at Terry.

“Well, if it's not too bad or disturbing, she might do it.”

“Alright, I’ll give her a call.” Shade dials Camelot’s phone number.

Camelot Network Solutions:
Linda finishes the last call request that came in and sends it to Tinker so she could dispatch a repair team out to their client. Just as she sends the request out, the main phone starts ringing. She picks it up and answers it.

“Good evening, Camelot Network Solutions, Linda speaking. How can I help you?”

“Hey, Linda, it's agent Mark. I need to speak with Morgana, is she available?”

“Let me check?” Linda checks to see if Morgana is available and her status button shows her in a conference currently.

“Agent Mark, she’s currently in a meeting. Would you like to leave a message for her or is there anyone else you would like to speak with?”
Mark has normally only spoken to Morgana. He wonders if one of her other companions could help him with his request.

“Yes, who normally works with Morgana on special projects for Jack Bounty? I’m one of his agents.”

“That would be either Gloria or Lancelot. Let me see if either of them are available for you.” Linda checks the status of Gloria and Lancelot.

Gloria has logged off for the day, but Lancelot was available. She sends a quick text to Lancelot to see if he wants to take the call.

Lancelot’s computer station:
“Take that, you moron.” An evil smile appears on Lancelot’s face.

He loved it when the Russian government sponsor hackers tried to hack Camelot’s systems or when they went after the clients protected by them. Coming after Camelot was a sure way for them to have their equipment destroyed. Arthur, Morgana, Gloria, and Tinker designed their system from the ground up and they had so many safeguards in place, not even the US government could break into their system.

He notices that a text box pops up on his screen and it was a request from Linda. He tells her to transfer the call to his desk. Morgana had given orders that any request from Jack’s people are to be handled right away.

Rhino:
Mark was on hold for a few seconds and then a male voice answer. The person had a French accent to their speech.

“This is Lancelot, how can I help you, Mark?”

“Hey Lancelot, I have some footage I want you to look at and post it on the web for us. However, can you make it as if the person in the footage sent it?” Mark figures it would be a slap in the face of the agent.

“Sure, send me the footage and I’ll do what I can with it.” Lancelot likes to make fools out of government agents.

“Sending the video now.” Mark sends the footage from the camera to Camelot’s cloud account.

Lancelot watches as the footage is received in the special setup cloud account for Jack’s agents. The cloud account was a little harder to hack and they could also see if there were any nasty hiding in the information.

“Alright, I’ve received it. I’ll contact you when I’m done setting everything up.”

“Thanks, Lancelot.”

“No problem. Stay out of trouble, out there.”

“I will. Bye.” Mark ends the call.

Camelot:
“Now, let’s see what fun I can have with you.” Lancelot gets to work on the footage.

Outside of Rhino:
Hatter had stepped outside of Rhino with Terry. Terry was looking for the eighteen-wheeler that was supposed to be coming to transport Rhino back to New York.

Terry looks at Hatter “so, what are you and Shade going to do when we get back?”

“Probably, visit our friends and check on a few people we normally take care of. Our friends Brandy and Leo look after them when we have to leave New York.” Hatter was thinking about Ms. Higgins.

She lived by herself and didn’t have anyone to look after her. Her children didn’t even bother to communicate with her anymore. Which was terrible because Ms. Higgins had a lot of stories about her life and was funny.

“How about you? What are your plans?” Hatter was curious.

“Make love to Dakota, work in my shop and spend time with my children. I never thought about being a father or being married after what happened to me. That was until Dakota came along and changed everything.”

“It sounds like almost every member of our team has some sort of sad story or bad past. You, it was the war, me it was my father and a crazy medical doctor, Dakota being betrayed by someone she trusted, Mom being betrayed by someone in the FBI, and Bart being betrayed by the government on a mission.”

“Yeah, we all have a tragic past and it has shaped us into who we are now. The thing is, I wouldn’t trade the life I have now for what it might have been. I’ve made my peace with what was done to me. So, have you as well. You have matured since we first met.”

“Not all the way. I’m still bat shit crazy and I still have moments where my body and mind remember what was done to it. That doctor was a sadist bastard and did all sorts of experiments on me, both physically and mentally. He fucked with my head really good.” Hatter balls her hands into a fist as some memories surface.

Terry could tell Hatter was experiencing a bad memory. He wraps his arms around her and holds her. He knew better than to hold her tight. She didn’t like that.

“You’re safe now, Aylin.” He just holds her until he feels her stop shaking.

Aylin takes a deep breath and tries centering herself. She hasn’t had a flashback like this in a long time. She also tries to get her anger under control, because right now she wanted to kill something.

As Shade walks out of Rhino, he spots Terry holding Hatter. He also noticed that her hands were balled into a fist.

“Ah, shit.” He rushes over to Hatter and Terry.

Terry spots Shade rushing towards him and Hatter. He figures he knew that Hatter was having a memory flashback.

“She’s alright, Shade. I have her.” Terry knew what to do from his experiences of having flashbacks as well.

“Just be careful, Terry. The Mad Hatter sometimes surface in her.”

“I know.”

While the three of them are standing around and talking, a black and blue color semi-truck, pulling a special trailer pulls up where they are. The front part of the semi had a huge sleeper area to it. It looked like a cross between an Rv and a semi-truck. It stops near Rhino and a middle-aged woman with pink bubble gum color shoulder-length hair, wearing a custom-fitted pair of black coveralls and black boots comes walking over to them.

Lisa Custance couldn’t believe the load she had been assigned to pick-up. She thought for sure, headquarters was going to send her out to the West coast to help that crew out. Instead, she had been sent to Texas to pick-up a custom-built vehicle to take back to New York.

When she entered the property where the cargo was supposed to be waiting on her, she saw the vehicle and the people who were going to be traveling with her. She was glad that she had taken her secondary rig, instead of Iron Horse.

She walks up to the three people. Two of them looked like they were hugging. She wonders what that was all about.

“Hi, I’m Lisa Custance with Coastal Trucking and I’m supposed to speak to a Terry Winters.” Lisa kept watching the three.

“I’m Terry Winters.” Terry slowly releases Aylin.

“Is that the vehicle I’ve been sent to pick-up and I would imagine that you three are my passengers?” Lisa looks at Shade and the young clown-looking woman standing near him.

“Yes, if you want, I can help load the vehicle into the specially constructed container for it.”

“Thanks. That would be helpful. The guys I picked it up from didn’t go over how it operated.” Lisa had to drive to Tennessee to pick it up.

“Yeah, I can imagine how difficult it was. Come on, and I’ll show you how it operates.”

“Thanks.” Lisa follows Terry.

“Well, I think we better get whatever gear we need.” Shade noticed Hatter had relaxed her hands.

“Yeah.” She was still trying to center herself. She grabs Shade’s hand and just holds it as they walk towards Rhino.

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Cool truck.

WillowD's picture

And my usual appreciative comments for the story.

Hatter is getting much better. She'll probably never BE better but she is much better than before.

NICE TRUCK!!!!

Samantha Heart's picture

Lol when the head of border partol sees the video he is going to want answers from the agents involved! The agents WILL NOT get off light because of the himulation it caused the agency!

Love Samantha Renée Heart.