Project: Night Bird Chapter 10

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Interrogation Room 1, Security Building, Coconino County, Arizona:
Lucy looks at the FBI agents sitting across from her. Yesterday it had been Captain Burns with Aero Flight Industries interrogating her and now the FBI wanted to question her. Originally, they wanted to take her down to the nearest federal building to question her, but Mrs. Blake wouldn’t have it.

She pulled some favors and informed the FBI that she wasn’t leaving Aero Flight property. If they had a problem with it, she would more then happily introduce them to the jail cells inside her mountain complex.

Cora and a forensics team went back to the place where she found Lucy. They were going over the place with a fine-tooth comb. Mrs. Blake was hoping they would find some evidence of what the plan was and what Ted and his crew were going to do next.

FBI agent Joe Purvis looks at the young woman sitting across from him. His bosses didn’t like the fact that Mrs. Blake wasn’t allowing Lucy Wright (aka Omar Walker) to be taken to any Federal building or government base. The request had gone all the way up to the Attorney General and was squashed.

All the plastic surgery that had been done to Lucy had been confirmed by Mrs. Blake herself and by her daughter as well. They managed to deconstruct what Lucy looked like before the surgery had been done to her. They ran that image through every computer database, and it was confirmed that Omar Walker had been killed in a car accident. Unfortunately, the supposed body had been cremated.

“Agent Purvis, I have no idea what the plan is or what Ted and his team are planning. Like I told Captain Burns yesterday, I was hired/forced to rebuild and prep the helicopters for some job. The Sea Stallion, they wanted me to rig it so it could carry something extremely heavy.”

“Did they tell you how much weight they wanted you to prep it for?” Agent Purvis watches Lucy’s eyes.

“At least 25,000 lbs. and they wanted me to change out their weapon systems with some sonic based weapons from DRAPA. As for the
Apache and Eurocopter Tiger. I installed some new missiles I’ve never seen and changed out their main nose guns. All three helicopters are EMP protected, so if your planning on using an EMP device on them, it won’t work.” Lucy did manage to install a remote kill switch to shut down the helicopters.

Ted and the people working with her, didn’t know about it. All she needed to do is send the coded signal and the helicopters will start dropping out of the sky. She had to be careful about it when she installed the kill switch. She disguised the device as part of the electronics.

“What type of missiles and weapons did you install?”

“I don’t know. All I do know is the missiles came from some Chinese company. I couldn’t read the language, but I recognized the writing. The sonic weapon, came from DRAPA and the other stuff came from some American company, called Emech Technologies.”

“Do you know what happened to the real Lucy Wright?”

“Your guess is as good as mine. All I know, I was remade over to look like her. I’ve already covered all this.” Lucy was getting tired of repeating herself.

Night Bird:
Katey and Jessica were out scouting the area near where Cora found Lucy. They had escorted the forensics team out to the location. Their job, while the forensics was working, was do an aerial search for possible sites the three other helicopters could be hiding.

“Do you think we're going to find them, Katey?” Jessica was watching her instruments as they flew over a possible area.

“I don’t know. If these guys are as good as Lucy said they are. Then I would say no.” Katey was flying a grid pattern to locate the place.

“What do you think their game plan is?” Jessica was watching her instruments and cameras.

“That’s the puzzle. Why would they need three helicopters?” Katey has been trying to figure out what their game plan was.

“Is Samantha seeing who is selling a large amount of aviation fuel?” Jessica figures they would need it to fuel three helicopters.

“Actually, Captain Burns is on it.” Katey ran into Captain Burns yesterday afternoon.

She was curious and wanted to know if he had any leads. She knew if she wanted to keep the cost of aviation fuel or hide it. She would either own a bunch of helicopters to hide the purchase of the fuel or own an aviation fuel company.

“I heard they managed to get the electrical grid back to running.”

“That’s what I heard as well. They brought in several teams from other states and had the Army Corps of Engineers out helping as well. That’s not counting the engineers Aero Flight sent to help.”

“I’m not seeing anything that’s big enough to store three helicopters.” Jessica wonders where the helicopters could be hiding.

“Okay, this grid is completed. Let’s head back to base then.” Katey heads back towards Aero Flight.

Warning alarms start going off as Night Bird picks up three drones coming towards them. Jessica activates the weapon systems and prepares to lock onto them.

“Where the hell did those come from?” Jessica hadn’t detected them, till they were heading back towards base.

“I don’t know, but let’s see how good they are.” Jessica arms the missiles and locks onto the drones.

Two of the drones split off from the third one. The third one fires its missiles towards Night Bird. The rail gun spins around and fires backward towards each missile.

“We got incoming.” Jessica notices one of the drones coming towards them.

The railgun swings back around and targets the drone. It explodes as the fleches destroy the drone. The drone behind them fires at them.
Katey dodges out of the way and fires two missiles at it. The drone tries to destroy the missiles, but they hit the drone.

“Where’s that last drone?” Jessica was looking for it.

“It’s behind us.” Jessica spotted it on their radar.

The drone had circled around and was coming in from behind Night Bird from a different angle. Katey loops night bird so she ends up behind the drone “Jessica, power the lasers.”

“Okay.” Jessica powers the lasers.

The drone tries to lose Night Bird, but Katey stays with the drone. The targeting computer locks on the drone “say goodnight, Gracie.” As Katey fires the lasers.

The drone explodes as Night Bird's lasers destroy the drone. Katey was looking for any more attackers.

“Are you picking up anything, Jessica?” The last thing Katey wanted was more surprises.

“No, but I want to know where those drones came from.” Jessica was reviewing the instrument information Night Bird records to see where
those drones came from.

According to what she was seeing, they had been hugging the deck and popped up behind them. She wonders where they launched from and who was controlling them.

“I’ve never seen this style of the drone before.” Jessica had a picture of the drone up on her screen.

“It might be a custom job. We need to ask Mrs. Wright if she knows anything about it” Katey lands Night Bird near his hangar.

“I’m saving a copy of the combat, so I can look over it.” Jessica plugs in a special thumb drive to save the record of the combat to it.

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Prove useful. Never know when something might just pop up you didn't see before. It might reveal more then what they were hoping to gind, and find where thev3 helicopters are stored.

Love Samantha Renée Heart.