A Birds Of A Feather Story.

Somewhere Over the Amazon:
“What the hell just hit us?” Cortney felt the back of the plane explode as it just got hit.

Jennifer was fighting off a strange creature that she had never seen before. Just as she summoned lightning to strike the creature, she spotted the prop plane her teammates and Patricia’s daughter Stephanie was intercepted by a missile that came out of the jungle below them.

“May day, may day, this is aircraft N342AB and we’re going down.” Cortney was sending out a mayday on the emergency channel she knew Ghost back at the mountain was monitoring.

“Brace yourself, ladies. We’re going down.” Cortney tries to guide the damaged plane through the canopy of the jungle as the wings tear off. The plane hits a body of water and starts filling the damaged plane. Yellow particles in the water start attaching themselves to each girl, passing through the protective clothing they are wearing. The plane sinks deeper and deeper into the body of murky water.

Jennifer manages to scare off the creature that attacked her. She dives down into the canopy of the jungle where her friends crashed through. She feels her wings cut through the thick tree limbs as she spots the damaged tail of the plane sticking up out of the water. The plane was almost completely submerged in the pool of water.

Just as she grabbed the wreck tail end of the plane fuselage. A huge anaconda wraps itself around her body, pinning her wings against her body.

“I don’t have time for this, snake.” Jennifer causes the skies above where she is to darken and heavy rain starts pouring down. She summons a powerful lightning bolt to strike the snake.

The energy travels through the snake down her arms and into the water. The murky pool of water lights and glows very bright. Cortney, Stephanie, Kara, and Jessie’s bodies start jerking as the energy from the lightning bolt reacts with the water and the yellow particles that enter their bodies.

The snake gets fired into a cider. The snake’s dead body releases Jennifer as she uses all her supernatural strength to pull the wrecked plane out of the water. She couldn’t believe how bright the water was glowing or that everything inside the plane was glowing as well, including her friends.

She places the damaged plane in a safe area and starts pulling everyone out. She had to administer first aid to everyone to get them breathing again and to start their hearts. She hoped the energy from the lightning bolt that traveled through her body didn’t cause their hearts to stop. She does that there was a faint glow under their skin, but was fading fast. She’ll have to remember to tell the medics back at base.

Jennifer knew she needed to contact the base and tell them where she and the team were. She looks around and grabs the emergency satellite phone that was lying nearby. She flies back up through the canopy of the trees and as high as she can to send a signal back to the base. She hoped Ghost was monitoring their emergency channel.

After waiting a few minutes and trying several different channels. She manages to finally get through to an American military vessel that relays her emergency back to the base. They offered to send a helicopter out to her location to pick her friends up.

Jennifer thanks them and dives back down to where her friends are lying unconscious. She spotted another anaconda trying to get to her friends. She fries him with another lightning strike. She looks towards the pool of murky water and notices it isn’t glowing anymore. It was as black as ink.
All the glowing particles Jennifer saw were gone. She kneels next to her friends and makes sure everyone is doing okay, especially Stephanie, since she was still underage and was Patricia’s adopted daughter.

After a few hours, the rescue helicopter from the USS Flagg arrives and with help from her. They manage to bring all four of the ladies up to the helicopter. Jennifer retrieves all the equipment and black boxes from the wrecked aircraft.

She knew Mrs. Blake would send a recovery team out to retrieve the pieces of the aircraft. She’ll come with them to protect them from those huge ass snakes. She has never seen anacondas so fucking big before.

The medics aboard the Flagg double-check her companions over and make sure nothing is wrong with them. The captain and the commanding officer of the Marines onboard the Flagg wanted to talk with her.

Captain’s Quarters:
Captain Franklin Rooker and General David Grayhawk look at the young Native American woman standing before them. They had questions and wanted to know why she and her team were down in Brazil. All the women they helped bring back were young adults and wearing specialized outfits. Among them was a teenage girl who couldn’t be any younger than fifteen years old.

“Do mind explaining to us Mrs.?”

“Running Bear. And no, I would prefer not to explain to you why me and my companions were down here. All, I can tell you is we were researching some hidden structures underneath the canopy.” Jennifer knew it was a lame excuse, but she couldn’t tell them the real reason.

“And what organization do you and your companions work for?” General Grayhawk wanted to know that info.

“The Academy of Scientific Discovery, sir. We’re an independent scientific organization that has no relationships to any government.” Jennifer had to admit that Mrs. Blake’s foundation created the organization to allow them to enter places most others couldn’t enter.

“So, what took down your plane?” General Grayhawk was curious about that.

“Unknown, sir. It could have been a group of mercs working for the cartel down here and felt we were trespassing on their drug business.”
Jennifer knew where they were in the cartel and other merc companies’ territory.

“What were you doing while your companions were being attacked?” Captain Rooker was wondering why Mrs. Running Bear didn’t protect her companions.

“I was dealing with a creature that has never been seen before, sir. This creature appeared out of thin air and tried to kill me. While I was dealing with it, a missile was shot at the plane my friends were in. It struck the tail of the plane and they went crashing down.” Jennifer had heard rumors of flying creatures in the area but had never given them much worry.

“We’ll do everything for your friends. Go ahead place a call to your organization.” General Grayhawk didn’t think they were going to get any more information from Mrs. Running Bear.

“Thank you, sir.” Jennifer turns and leaves the captain’s quarter.

General Grayhawk looks over towards his friend Captain Rooker “She’s covering up something.”

“You think? Do you think they were investigating the same thing we came down here to do?”

“It’s possible, but I don’t think so.” General Grayhawk wonders what Mrs. Running Bear’s true reason is for being here.

Jennifer heads towards the medical bay to check on her friends. She was going to have a lot of explaining to do when they got back. She enters the medical bay and sees the doctor and several medics checking on each woman.

“How are they, doctor?” Jennifer was worried about all of them.

“They are stabilized and doing okay.” Doctor Drake couldn’t explain why the girls wouldn’t wake up. There was no reason why they should be unconscious.

“Do you mind if I sit with them, Doctor?” Jennifer looks towards Dr. Drake.

“Not at all, ma’am.” Dr. Drake leaves so Jennifer can sit with her friends.

“Come on ladies, wake up or Pat is going to throw a hissy fit.”