After Teela lets the agents out of the building, she returns to her office to think about what happened. She felt useless around the agents. Here, she is a trained stunt person cowering behind the crates on the pallet while Agent Wear and Agent Amos handle the men who come into the loading dock area.
She fished the business card Jester had given her out of her purse and dialed the number on it. The phone rang for a few seconds before it was answered.
“Jester Bounty Service, how can I help you,” Jamie answers in a tired and sleepy voice.
“Hi, Mrs. Katz, this is Teela Falco. I was wondering if we could talk about you training me.” Teela hopes Mrs. Katz will train her.
Jamie sits up in bed, letting the covers covering her naked body pool around her waist. She noticed her wife was already gone, and their hired live-in babysitter cared for the boys.
“What brought this on, Mrs. Falco?” Jamie was curious why the person she and Shade had recently met suddenly wanted to be trained.
“Because yesterday, my place of business was attacked by four gunmen. I felt useless, and I could do nothing to help the agents under attack.” Teela hated to admit that she was scared and useless.
Jamie tries to clear her head off the cobwebs, still clouding her judgment. She needs coffee or a few more hours to fully function.
“Look, I’m all for training you if that’s what you want to do, but I think we need to talk in person about this. Why don’t we meet up somewhere and discuss this further?” Jamie felt this needed a face-to-face conversation instead of over the phone.
“Where would you like to meet?” Teela walks over to the stunt outfit and looks at it. They still had a few more scenes to finish filming.
“Let me talk to Mark first to set everything up, and I’ll text you to let you know where and when. Is this a good number to call you back on?” Jamie noticed the cell phone was registered to Falco Special Effects.
“Yes, it is. You can reach me at this number any time.”
“Good, I’ll call you back by this evening, Ms. Falco.” Jamie covers up a yawn.
“Thank you.” Teela ends the phone call.
She walks over to her desk and works on some business requests that have come in. Glancing at the clock, she knows Emily will be arriving soon, so she tries to get as much as she can done before Emily arrives.
Emily walks into the office and notices Teela is already at work. She walks over to Teela’s desk and sets a large coffee cup on it.
“Thanks.” As Teela picks it up and takes a sip from the cup.
“You’re welcome. How did things go with Agent Wears?” Emily sits on her work stool and puts her purse underneath the workbench.
“It didn’t. We got attacked.” Teela looks at Emily when she says that.
Emily almost choked on her coffee. She wipes some of the coffee away. “You guys got attacked? How did anyone know the agents were picking up the guns?”
“I don’t know. All I know is that when we opened the loading dock doors, they switched places with the other agents that came with Agent Wears
and Agent Amos. Agent Wears knocked two of the gunmen out with the loading dock door. As for the others, they got away.”
“Man, this has been a fuckup since we took the job. What are you thinking about doing now?” Emily looks at her friend.
“Well, Agent Wears and Agent Amos will return with agents they can trust and retrieve the crates. As for me, I felt useless and scared while the attack went down. If they agree, I will get training from those two people we know.”
“Are you sure about this, Teela? I mean, I’ll help you, but this could become dangerous and bite us in the ass.” Emily was a little afraid.
“I’m sure. We can take the wings we haven’t finished yet and adjust them so you can use them. If I need help or a backup, you can help me.” Teela looks at Emily and watches her reaction.
“I don’t know, Teela. I’m not like you.” Emily liked being in the background.
“I know, but if there is anyone I trust a lot, it's you. So, what do you say?”
“What name would I go by?” Emily knew Teela liked being the Blue Falcon.
“How about Swift from the Authority? You remind me of her, and she supports the other Authority members. Plus, I just got an email from
Paramount. They want to hire us for a new movie they are doing. They haven’t said what the movie is, but the rumor is that they will make a live-action movie of a popular comic book series.”
“I don’t know, but if I do decide to do this, I’ll be supporting or backing up only. I don’t want to do this regularly.” Emily hated flying without a plane.
“That’s fine. Let’s see what Swift is and how we can recreate her.” Teela and Emily bring up pictures of the character and start reading about her.
By the end of the day, Teela hears from Jamie Katz about where she wants to meet tomorrow. Teela brings the location up and notices it is a pizza parlor outside New York. She replies to Jamie and asks if it is okay for her to bring a friend with her.
After a few minutes, she got a reply saying sure. Teela sent a text to Emily informing her. Afterward, Teela headed home but stopped at a Taco Bell to pick up some dinner. She didn’t feel like cooking anything when she got home.
When she arrives home, she notices someone has left a package for her on her front porch. She didn’t order anything, and a return address wasn’t listed on the outside. As she approached the package, something inside her told her to run. She backs away slowly from the package and calls the police.
A few minutes later, several police cars and the bomb squad show up. The police talk to her about the package while a robot moves close to the package. The operator managed to sneak peek inside and discovered that it was a bomb. It was crude, but it was rigged to explode as soon as it was picked up off the porch.
Patrol Officer Cornelius looks at the young woman standing in front of him. He had arrived first on the call and had been interviewing the woman.
“Are you sure you don’t know who could have sent this to you, Ms. Falco?”
“I’m sure, Mr. Cornelius. I only knew the package was on my porch when I arrived home. No sender was listed, and I usually don’t have my
deliveries sent here to my home.” Teela always had anything she ordered sent to her work address.
“You said earlier that you are working with the ATF. Could this have anything to do with that?” Patrol Officer Cornelius wonders if they are connected.
“It's possible.” Teela watches as the operator manages to disarm the package.
“Can you explain why you are working with them?”
“Sure, I received a bunch of real weapons at my work. I do special effects, and instead of receiving a shipment of fake armaments, I received a shipment of real weapons. Earlier today, while I was turning the guns over to the ATF, we were attacked.”
“Where are the weapons now, Ms. Falco?”
“They are locked up securely until the agents come and retrieve them.”
“Can I have the name of the agent you are working with?”
“Sure, Agent Wears and Agent Amos. Here is their business card.” Teela hands the card to patrol officer Cornelius.
Patrol Officer Cornelius accepts the card and adds it to his notes. He gets the okay from the bomb squad commander, who gives Ms. Falco the all-clear to enter her home.
Teela enters her house and watches as the police drive off. She fixes herself a drink and drinks it fast. She fixes herself another one and sits down on the sofa to eat her cold tacos and drink the drink she just made.
