Aero Flight Industries, Coconino County, Arizona:
When they arrived at Aero Flight. Two security personnel met them and escorted Lucy and Cora to a waiting SUV. They were taken to a tan covered tent and escorted inside. There were cots and such set up inside.
Eddie looks at the two women he was instructed to escort here “the director of the company thought you two might be tired. They will want to talk with you later about your involvement in what happened at Flagstaff.”
“No problem. I’ll stay here with her.” Cora figures they would want to talk to Lucy.
“I understand.” Lucy figured she was going to be asked about what Ted did to Flagstaff.
Lucy takes the moccasins off that Cora gave her to wear before she laid down on the cot. She was exhausted and concerned about what they were going to do to her. She figured they would want to know why Ted set off the EMP device in Flagstaff.
Samantha, Patrica, Antonio, and Captain Burns:
Pat and Antonio watched as the two women they were sent to pick-up were escorted away. Antonio looks at his wife “so, what did you get off the woman with the metallic arm?”
“It’s a basic cybernetic device. Nothing special about it, except it, gives her a little bit more strength in that arm. I also uploaded the whole schematic of the arm to Ghost. So, he can show Mrs. Blake. I also deactivated the tracking device that was built into the arm as well. She was wearing some sort of jammer that looked like it was blocking a receiver that had been built into her arm and shoulder support structure.”
“Why was it there?” Antonio was curious.
“To control and inflict pain to her. I would guess that if she refused to do whatever they asked of her, they would use it.” Patricia has heard of some alien races doing that to humans they implanted with cybernetic devices.
Patricia figures Samantha and Captain Burns would want to know about the woman that came back with Cora. Patricia had been given Cora’s name by Mr. Webber before she was sent to pick them up. All she knew about her, was that she was a private investigator that had connections in the US Marshal’s office.
Patricia and Antonio walk from the landing field to the building where Samantha and Mr. Burns were. Patricia wonders how things were going in Flagstaff. The only things that were affected by the emp pulse were anything connected or had power going to it at the time. Some generators and old-style cars hadn’t been affected by the blast.
“Hey Samantha, I got some information for you on the one woman. According to the record search I did of her, her name is Lucy Wright and she is the wife of Simone Wright of Dynamic Cybernetic Research, they are based in Sydney, Austrilia. The thing is, all the images up too recently, doesn’t show Mrs. Wright with a cybernetic arm and nothing in her profile ever suggested she knew anything about EMP or aircraft mechanics. She was more of a socialite and trophy wife.”
Captain Burns had been given some information about Patricia and her unique skills. At first, he didn’t believe it, until he saw her use her ability in front of him.
“How recent would you say, Pat?” Captain Burns was curious.
“I would say within the past month. The last picture I managed to find of her, was at a birthday party she attended a month ago.”
“Where is she now?” Captain Burns wanted to talk with her.
“Her and Mrs. Black are sleeping in the large tent we set up near Building C. There is security personnel posted at it.” Sam had her chief of security come from the mountain to handle security at this base.
1100 Hrs. Interrogation Room 1, Security Building, Coconino County, Arizona:
Lucy sits at the interrogation table. She looks at the older man sitting across from her. He had introduced himself as Captain. Burns, chief investigator for Aero Flight Industries. She knew there were several people on the other side of the two mirror glass watching her.
They had allowed her to switch out the battery pack that powered her bionic arm. One of AFI techs managed to find the device that feed the electrical shock into her body and disabled it, without damaging the function of her bionic arm.
She takes a sip of water from the bottled water they gave her. Captain Burns had the same bottle of water as well.
“So, your true name is Omar Walker and you volunteered to have your ruined right arm, replace with a bionic arm. Is that correct?”
“Yes, Mr. Wright had approached me about doing some work for him. In payment of doing the work for him, he would replace my right arm with a bionic one. He would cover the cost of the operation and the arm.”
“So, you accepted the deal and when you woke-up, he had done more than replaced your arm. He completely remade your body over to look like his wife, because he wanted a new sex slave?”
“Yes, because he said he broke his wife and he needed a new sex slave to replace her. He said since I had a similar bone structure, and with just a few operations I would look like her twin. If I refused, well let's just say I wouldn’t be sitting here right now talking to you.”
“Why didn’t you tell the authorities when you arrived?”
“Would you believe a wild tale I just told you? Also, he sent what he called my baby sitters with me to make sure I lived up to the agreement.
You saw how he made sure I obeyed his orders.” Lucy takes another sip of her water.
“Do you know what he is planning to do with the two helicopters he removed from the graveyard and the parts your gang took form our facilities?”
“No, I have no idea what his plan is. I was never privy to that information. All I was instructed to do was get the three helicopters ready as quickly as possible. Then I find out that after they are ready and I’m no longer needed anymore. I’m to be used any way that pleases them.
That’s why I was wearing that damn leather catsuit and that damn leather collar around my neck.” Lucy was happy when the medical team removed the leather collar that Ted had locked around her neck.
It had been pressing against her throat and made it difficult for her to breath and swallow. Her neck was wrapped with gauze after the medics removed the damn collar. She had a massive bruised that ringed her neck.
“Why did your group steal items from our company and how did you know we had them?” Captain burns have been watching Lucy as she spoke to him.
“We needed the specialized gauges and such for the Tiger chopper and for the apache. As for how we knew you had them. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say you have an internal problem. I got the instruments and such from Mr. Wright. The person that stole them from you, was a hired hand.” Lucy only met the delivery driver.
Mr. Burns knew that besides the engineer Mrs. Black found dead. He had figured that there was someone inside the company that gave the thieves the information they needed.
“What can you tell me about the EMP device that was currently used?” Mr. Burns knew several people watching them wanted answers to that.
“Two guys that worked with Ted had brought the device to me and told me to get it working. I have no idea where they stole it from, but I
managed to get it operational and I drew up plans of it, but I didn’t give those plans to Ted. I kept them. I also rigged it to meltdown after it was turned on. I used road flares and rigged them to burn when the pulse went off. If they went off, before the pulse, Ted would know I sabotage the device. The punishment he had planned for me, would have killed me.”
“Did you know that he was planning on using the EMP on Flagstaff and its airport?”
“No, I thought they were just going to use it on AFI or some other business. I didn’t know they were going to use it on a city and its airport.” Tears were leaking from her eyes. “If I had known he was going to do that, I would have done something to make it look like it went off on its own.”
Mr. Burns pulls a handkerchief out of his pocket and hand it to her. He could see that she regretted what had happened.
“Why don’t we take a break for a while.” Mr. Burns turn his recorder off and walk out of the interrogation room.
Lucy is escorted out and allowed to go and use the bathroom and grab some food as well.
Comments
I like this story.
This one and Project Sting Ray are two of the current Lady Dragon stories I particularly like.
Poor Lucy was
FORCED to do what she did. She had no choice in what she did, at least she keept them from using the EMP device ever again.
Love Samantha Renée Heart.
Whose head is on the block
Has Mr. Wright felt the end of his freedom or might he have an unfortunate accident? Or might a Prima pay him a late night visit?
What wright had done to Lucy makes him the winner of the long walk off a short plank hanging over the edge of a very deep canyon. After he's fixed while wide awake.
Wonder if Ghost might get involved stopping the attack?
Others have feelings too.