On the way home, Aylin was listening to her favorite music in her BMW. Traffic was nothing but stop-and-go. She hated New York traffic at times, especially when she was in a hurry to get home. Today's only good thing that kept her in a good mood was that the property she had been trying to buy finally came through.

She felt her uncle had his hand in it, but she couldn’t prove it. Construction of the new low-cost income apartments she would build on the site was ongoing. She had a good chunk of her money tied up in the project, several investments, and grants from the city and government.

The whole project used green technology, such as solar panels and windows, so the tenants wouldn’t have to pay much money. The sidewalks used the same green technology as Jack's driveway at his place.

Aylin controls her anger when a box truck comes out of nowhere, cutting her off and into her lane. Just as she honks her horn at the driver. There is an explosion, and a figure comes flying out of the back of the truck and right into her front windshield. The person had a set of wings on their back and wasn’t moving.

Aylin had slammed on her brakes when the figure hit her windshield. The box truck in front of her that had cut her off was now on fire. Aylin feels her car jerk from someone tapping the rear of her BMW. She gets out of her car to see if the person who smashed into her windshield is okay.

She noticed that the person was wearing a costume. She spotted a huge scorched mark on the front of the young woman’s chest. There was blood coming out of the person's nose and a cracked falcon-shaped helmet covering the young woman’s head.

Two spikes stuck out of the woman's shoulders. Aylin reached towards the exposed part of her neck to check her pulse. She felt a pulse, but it was very weak. As for the box truck in front of her, Aylin could feel its heat.

Fire trucks, the police, and paramedics show up to get everything under control. Aylin takes a picture of the woman when the paramedics remove the damaged helmet covering her head. She looked like she went twenty rounds with whoever she got in a fight with.

Aylin was surprised the woman was able to function after being beaten so severely. At the same time, the police take Aylin’s information and statement of what happened. She listens carefully to what hospital the woman is being taken to. She’ll visit the woman later to find out what had happened.

As for the box truck, the firemen find four charred bodies inside. They find out what caused the fire as well. According to what survived the fire, there were many weapons.

Aylin had to wait for the tow company to come and tow her BMW home. She couldn’t drive it with a smashed windshield. The damage she took from someone tapping the car's rear wasn’t too bad, but it would need minor body work.

By the time Aylin arrives at home. Everyone was eating dinner. She caught a ride home with the tow truck driver.

“Well, it looks like you guys are dinner.” Aylin walks over to the dining room table and sits down at her spot.

“Sorry, sweetie. Hollace was getting hungry. Also, little Mark has been fed as well.” Mark looks over towards Mickie when he says that.

“He was getting a little fussy, Mom.” Mickie looked at Aylin when she spoke.

“That’s fine. That’s why I left all those breast milk bottles for you. He hates drinking baby formula.” Aylin knew her youngest son hated formula.

“So, what happened, Mom?” Bree was curious why her mother was late getting home.

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” Aylin still wondered what had happened and why the young woman she saw was wearing a blue suit shaped like a falcon.

“Please, mom?” Bree liked hearing about her parent's adventures.

“Fine. A box truck cut in front of me while I was in traffic. The next thing I knew, an explosion and a person wearing a blue suit with bird-like wings smashed through the box truck door and right into my windshield. Soon after the person hit my windshield, the box truck exploded.”

“What caused the box truck to explode, sweetie?” Mark was curious.

“It seems it was transporting a bunch of weaponry. The police didn’t go into detail about what exactly was in the back of the truck.” Ayin tried to find out, but the information was being kept close to the chest of the officer in charge.

“Is the person who wore the bird suit going to be okay?” Mickie wonders who the person is.

“I don’t know. I’m going to go check on the person tomorrow morning.” Aylin knew the person took one hell of a beating.

Aylin eats her dinner and finds out how everyone else's day has been. She helps clear the table and put away the leftovers. She is continually amazed that they have leftovers. She knew Mark took some of the leftovers to work for lunch.

Since it was summer, the kids didn’t have to go to school. She allowed Bree to stay up until midnight because she knew Bree would be video chatting with her friends online. She gives Hollace, Julie, and little Mark a bath before putting them to bed.

Aylin knew Mickie was working on her online college courses. She was proud of Mickie for returning to school and getting her degree.

Mark watches as Aylin undresses and puts on her nightshirt. The front of the shirt features the Mad Hatter, which wasn’t a Disney design, pouring
tea. He looks at Aylin’s cute butt as she bent over to pick something up off the floor. The nightshirt exposed her naked butt.

He knew Aylin kept her groin area shaved. She’s been doing that since their trip to South America. He knew she was considering having her pubic hair removed with a laser so she wouldn’t have to shave it when it grew back.

Once they lay in bed, “What do you think was happening?” Mark looks at his wife.

“I don’t know. All I do know was the woman wearing the Falcon-shaped helmet had been beaten. Her face was black and blue from being hit repeatedly.” Aylin could still recall the young woman's appearance once they removed her helmet and head covering.

“So, what is your next move?” Mark knew his wife wouldn’t let this go.

“I’m going to investigate the matter and find out what happened to the young woman.” Aylin looks at Mark with a mischievous look on her face.

A smile appears on Mark’s face when he notices the mischievous look in Aylin’s eyes. He puts his arm around her shoulders and pulls her against him. He kisses her lips while holding her close to his body.

Aylin pulls into the parking lot of The Mount Sinai Hospital. She knew the woman who smashed her front windshield had been taken to this hospital. The windshield company her insurance company used was coming out to her place to replace her windshield. Terry was coming out to her place to give her an estimate of how much the bodywork was going to cost to the rear end of her BMW. She knew Dakota would submit the cost to her insurance company and let Terry repair her car.

Aylin parks the Subaru she drove and parks it in an empty parking space. She still had the car from when she and Mark drove back from
Montana with Bree. Aylin gets out and walks towards the front entrance to the hospital. She stopped at the reception desk to confirm the woman who smashed into her windshield was there and what room she was in. Normally, the hospital wouldn’t give that information out, but she was well known.

Aylin takes the elevator up to the floor where the woman’s room is. She waves hello to the nurses on duty. Two of them she recognized from when they volunteered at an event for the homeless.

Aylin manages to sneak into the woman’s hospital room and place the flowers she bought at the gift shop on the window sill. She noticed the woman was still unconscious. She takes her cell phone out and scans the woman’s fingerprints. Then she takes a picture of the woman’s face and runs the image through the facial recognition program.

While Aylin is waiting for the results. She noticed the poor woman had an oxygen hose going to her nose and an IV going into her right hand. Where the spears went through the woman’s shoulders. They were bandaged up as well. She wonders where the suit was that the woman was wearing when she was brought to the hospital. She looks in the closet and notices it is hanging up inside.

Aylin examines the suit and notices the wings are missing, but the rest of the suit is there. She could see on the back of the suit, where the wings could come through. However, there weren’t any wings. The suit itself felt like it was made of ballistic material like her husband's suit.

After thirty minutes, the woman’s identity pops up from the Department of Motor Vehicles records. It also shows an FBI file on her. The file shows where she had applied for a special weapons permit. As for her DMV record, it showed her name being: Teela Falco, her address being 55 Sweet Flower Rd. New York, New York. Aylin knew the address was in the Brooklyn section of New York. Aylin looks down at the poor woman and wonders why she went after the men in the truck.

Aylin leaves a handwritten note for the woman before she leaves. As Aylin steps out of the unknown woman’s hospital room. She stops at the nurse’s station and informs the nurse tending to the young woman, that Helping Hands will be taking care of hospital bills.

Aylin heads towards her office afterward. She stops along the way at her favorite coffee shop, which also serves tea. She greets the barista behind the counter.

“How has your morning been, Mrs. Jagger?” Carollyn liked serving Mrs. Jagger. She always left a nice tip.

She was also funny and friendly to people she didn’t know. Carollyn knew Mrs. Jagger had an organization that helped the homeless and low-income people. She knew the organization also did everything it could for veterans as well.

“Quiet, how about yours, Carollyn?” Aylin smiles at the young woman.

Aylin knew Carollyn was in her late teens. Carollyn would be turning eighteen in a few months and was taking college courses at New York University. Carollyn’s parents were hard-working people. Carollyn’s mother was a nurse and her father was a garbage collector.

“Busy, which is good. Because the more coffee and tea we serve, the happier people will be.” Carollyn was a people person, but she had big dreams.

“That’s good. You know what I like.” Aylin smiles at the young woman. She hopes one day Carollyn gets what she wants. And if it is possible, she’ll make sure Carollyn does.

“One large unsweetened English tea, coming up.” A smile appears on Carollyn’s face as she prepares the tea.

Aylin waits nearby as Carollyn prepares her tea and fills several other orders. While she is waiting for her tea. A rude guy comes bragging into the coffee shop and demands to be served right away. She steps close to him and when he starts giving one of the other baristas working with Carollyn a hard time and starts insulting the person.

Aylin pretends to trip and punch the person in his side with three fingers. She aims for his kidney, and when he winces from the poke. She steps on his right foot and digs her heel into his foot. She also elbows him in the stomach, while making it look like it was all by accident.

By the time Aylin was finished with her accidental movements. The guy just left the place, without getting his coffee. Aylin noticed that Carollyn was smirking at her.

A smile appears on Aylin’s face, as she pays for her tea and leaves.

Falco Special Effects, New York:
Emily examines the artificial wings she helped create. She managed to retrieve them after Teela was taken to the hospital. The ER doctor couldn’t cut through the harness that Teela wore when she used the wings. She was also relieved her best friend and business partner was okay.
The custom-designed stunt suit had protected Teela when she took a grenade to her chest.

Emily still couldn’t get over the fact that their shipper had gotten their fake weapon shipment mixed up. Also, how the people who took their box truck were able to track them down in a city like New York. She uses the high-power magnifying glass to go over the artificially created feathers on the wing to make sure none of them have been damaged. It takes days to create them in their 3D printer.

After spending three hours examining each wing. Emily flips the wings over and checks the skeleton structure on the wing. The lightweight special metallic bone structure was still intact. She conducts a low-level electrical check and watches as the wings try to lift off the examination table. She monitors the energy flow and finds they are within the parameters they set.

“Well, the wings are fine.” Emily puts the wings back on their stand to charge.

She stretches and listens as bones in her body pop. She was still feeling the after-effects of when she crashed her ultralight when she was younger. She spent several months in a body cast.

She picks up her cell phone and calls the hospital to check on Teela. Once the reception desk answers her and redirects her call. She gets to the nurse's station “Hi, I’m calling to check on Teela Falco's condition.”

“Can I ask who is calling?” Nurse Callahan was holding the phone with her head against her shoulder as she made an entry into the computer.

“I’m calling about Teela Falco in room 4B. What is her condition.” Emily was worried about her friend.

“What is your relationship to Ms. Falco?”

“She’s my business partner and roommate. You should have me listed as her emergency contact.” Emily knew Teela had put her down as her emergency contact.

Nurse Callahan checked Ms. Falco’s medical file and noticed that Emily Tesla had been added to her file as an emergency contact and to make medical decisions for her.

“Ms. Falco is still unconscious, but her vitals are normal, Ms. Tesla.”

“Can you call me, if she wakes up, please?” Emily wanted to be there for her friend.

“I’m making a note of your request in her medical file.” Nurse Callahan makes a note in Ms. Falco’s medical file.

“Thank you.”

Emily ends the phone call. She hopes Teela wakes up soon. She logs onto her laptop and orders some lunch. Afterward, she went through several emails and special orders their company received.

Helping Hands, New York:
Aylin was sitting at her desk looking over the budget for the next several months. So, far the company had plenty of cash for all the projects they had going on. She leans back in her desk chair and thinks about the information she received from visiting the box truck last night.

The truck had been loaded with special effects gear and several crates filled with weapons. The thing was, the weapons were fake. They looked and felt like the real thing, but they weren’t.

When she researched the person online, she learned that Ms. Falco was a special effects artist. She was also registered as a stunt person. As for the company she owned. She had a partner that was part owner of it. The two of them were childhood friends. According to their Facebook pages, Ms. Falco and her partner Ms. Tesla have some of the same interests.

Both of them attended MIT and had master's degrees in engineering and electronics. However, it seemed that Ms. Falco had a degree in physics as well. The two of them did stunt work to pay for their degree and a few special effect jobs for independent groups.

The company they own together was started while they were at MIT. Aylin was impressed by that. She knew it took a lot of courage and work to balance both things.

After she reviewed notes on Ms. Falco and why she did what she did. She now understood why she went after the people who stole her box truck. Now, she just needs to speak to Ms. Falco.

Aylin finishes up what work she has left, before leaving for the day. She makes sure the security system is set, after checking that all her employees have gone home for the day. As Aylin walks to her Subaru, she spots a young woman with white pixie style hair cut leaning against it.

She was wearing a black racerback sports bra with neon green piping on the edging supporting her moderate breasted chest. As for her bottom, she had on a tight pair of pants that showed off her cute bubble butt and shapely legs. A black pair of slipper style tennis shoes covered her feet.

“How long have you been waiting for me, Angie?” Aylin presses the remote to unlock her car.

“Not long. Can I take you up on that offer of staying with you for a few days, please?” As Angie walks around to the passenger side of the car.

“Sure, get in.” Aylin gets in on the driver side.

Angie gets in on the passenger side and buckles up. She was appreciative that Aylin was letting her stay with her for a while.

“Thanks for letting me stay with you.”

“You’re welcome. So, how did the competition go between your group and the Down Town Devils?” Aylin knew Angie and her group were professional parkour competitors.

Where her and her group did it for fun. Angie and the crew she was with, made a living doing it and competing. They had several big name companies backing sponsoring them.

While Aylin was driving home, she glances at Angie “so, why are you hiding?”

“I’m not hiding. I just don’t feel like going home right now.” Angie shared a place with two other people and just needed to get away for a while.

“Problems at home?” Aylin knew Angie’s background.

“Not really, I just don’t feel like being around my roommates and their girlfriends for a few days.” Angie hated when her roommates’ girlfriends came over. They weren’t bad people it was just the fact she couldn’t relate to them.

Aylin could understand that reasoning. She had a hard time relating to normal people at times, because of her childhood.

“How is your sister’s restaurant doing?” Angie had been surprised that Aylin had a twin sister over in England.

“It’s doing good. She was mention in one of the British popular food magazines. She sent me a copy of it.” Aylin was proud of her twin sister.

“Is she and her family still coming for Christmas?” Angie couldn’t wait to meet Aylin’s twin.

“Yep. My nieces can’t wait to see what Christmas is like here in New York.” Aylin knew the twins were excited about coming to New York.

Aylin was almost home, “Angie, is there anything unusual going on in the city that you have heard of?”

Angie was confused about the question “like what?”

“Anything dealing with guns or movies?” Aylin knew Angie had connections all over the city.

“Well, there is a movie company, filming a movie in downtown. I have to say, it looks interesting. There was this woman flying around with wings on her back that was really cool.”

“Do you know or heard about anything dealing with illegal weapons on the street?” Aylin wanted to know about that.

“There are always people looking to buy weapons, Aylin. It’s hard to buy a weapon here in New York.”

“What I want to know, Angie. Is there any groups or organization looking to buy a bunch of illegal military style weapons.”

“Military style weapons? I know only of four groups looking to buy those style of weapons. They don’t trust Russian or Chinese made weapons.” Angie knew these groups preferred American made weapons.

“Who are they?” Aylin wanted a list of those people.

“Give me your cellphone.” Angie holds her hand out for Aylin’s cellphone.

Aylin hands Angie her cellphone. She watches as Angie taps away on her cell phone. She notices her turn coming up. She makes the turn on to the road that leads to her home.

“Here you go. everything I know, I’ve put in your cell phone. Promise me if you go to investigate these people, you’ll take backup with you, Aylin.” Angie knew how dangerous these groups of people could be.

“You know me, Angie.” An evil smile appears on Aylin’s face.

“Yeah, I do.” Angie watches as Aylin pulls into the driveway of her place.

Aylin notices Mark’s Lincoln was already in the driveway when she pulled into it. She also noticed her BMW was missing as well. She parks next to the Lincoln and gets out.

Her and Angie walks towards the front door and walks inside. As she and Angie enters the house, they encounter Bear.

“Hey boy.” Aylin rubs Bear head.

Angie does too, as she passes him. She knew how well-trained Bear was and wouldn’t want to be attacked by him. She already didn’t trust dogs after an incident that happen when she was eleven years old.

The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York:
Teela slowly opens her eyes and blinks several times to try to figure out where she is. The last thing she remembers is chasing after some guys who stole her special effects truck. She looks around the room, and it slowly dawns on her that she is in a hospital room.

She tries to move, but when she puts a presser on her arm, she feels pain in her shoulder. She stops trying to move and looks around the room. Near her bed, she notices a bunch of flowers, balloons, and small stuff animals. A white envelope is leaning against a flower vase on the nightstand near her.

Teela was curious, so she opened the envelope and read the folded letter. After reading it, she placed it back in the envelope and wondered who had left it. She located the remote and pressed it to summon the nurse.

Nurse Doris hears the alert coming from room 4C. She is surprised that the patient there woke up. She grabs the tablet and knocks before entering.

“How do you feel, Mrs. Falco?” Nurse Doris looks at the young woman.

“Sore, how long have I been here?” Teela knew the time had passed by and how hungry she felt.

“You’ve been unconscious for four days. You were brought in with damage to your shoulders dressed in some costume. The costume looked like it took some damage to the chest area.”

“What happened to the costume?” Teela was concerned about the wings.

“According to your records, a person named Emily Tesla came to claim the wings.” Nurse Doris was surprised by how much information they included in the file.

“She’s my business partner and emergency contact.” Teela was relieved that Emily had the wings. They were valuable and would be hard to replace.

“I’ve noticed. How are you feeling?”

“Sore.” Teela was trying to move very little.

“Well, let me check your bandages and take your vitals.” Nurse Doris goes about checking Teela’s vitals.

Aylin’s House:
“Mom, can I please drive your car to the mall?” Bree wanted to go to the mall with her friends.

Aylin looks up from the dishes she was washing by hand. They had a dishwasher, but Aylin always washed the dishes by hand. That was the way she was taught.

“Who are you going to the mall with?” Aylin knew Bree liked spending time with her friends.

“Amy, Sammy, Carol, and her boyfriend, Tommy.”

“Alright, be home by ten.” Aylin looked at Bree, so she knew she meant it.

“Yes, ma’am.” Bree walks over and gives her Aylin a hug.

“Bye, Angie,” Bree says bye as she passes Angie on the way out of the kitchen.

Angie watches as Bree walks out of the kitchen. She looks over towards Aylin. “Where’s she off to?”

“Off to the mall to spend time with her friends.” Aylin trusted Bree to stay out of trouble.

Angie walks over to the kitchen table and sits down. She loved the dinner Aylin made. She volunteered to help Aylin put away everything, but Aylin told her she had it.

Aylin looks at Angie and notices she has changed clothes and taken a shower. She knew it was rough work climbing, running, and jumping over handrails, building tops, and obstacles, but she and her crew greatly enjoyed it.

“So, what will you and your crew be doing next? Any competitions coming up?”

“We have another one in a few months, so we’ll be practicing extremely hard for it. We’ve been using the train yards for our training. There are many things down there that challenge us.” Angie loved the train yard.

“Ah, I remember the train yard. My crew and I used to use it. Security Officer Crooks didn’t mind us being there.” Aylin remembers when she first arrived in New York and teamed up with Brandy, Clair, Clay, and his twin brother Tony.

“Do you and your crew still get together and parkour anymore?” Angie was curious.

“Sometimes, we do. It’s rare for all of us to be free simultaneously.” Aylin finishes the last dish and drains the water from the sink.

“When are you planning on checking that information I gave you?”

“Sometime tomorrow. Why don’t you tell me why you didn’t want to go home tonight?” Aylin walks over to the table and sits down.

“I told you. I don’t feel comfortable around my roommate's girlfriends. I have never experienced what they have done and can’t relate to it. You
know how crazy my childhood was.”

“I know. What your mother did to you to get back at your father wasn’t right.”

“Or what my coach told me just before he died.” Angie couldn’t believe her coach did what he did to her because of money. She trusted Coach Moore, and he betrayed that trust for money.

“That was messed up. You're welcome to stay here for as long as you like.” Aylin knew her husband wouldn’t mind.

“Speaking of staying here. Do you think Sakura will mind me borrowing some of her clothes?” Angie didn’t bring any of her stuff with her.

“She won’t mind. She’s with her group, training at some secret army base.” Aylin knew where the base was. She had her mom track Sakura’s location.

“Well, thanks again.” Angie gets up and walks out of the kitchen.

Aylin follows behind Angie and cuts the lights off.

Downtown Warehouse District, New York:
“So, what are we doing down here, sis?” Jester walks side by side with her sister Aylin.

Both women were dressed casually and trying not to bring attention to themselves. Normally, they would be dressed in their costumes, but tonight they were undercover.

“I’m checking out some rumors I’ve heard.” Aylin looked around as they walked among the dark buildings and such.

There were several girls of the night selling their bodies. Aylin wished that that type of profession wasn’t necessary. She has tried to get a bunch of women off the streets by selling their bodies. She has even tried to get a bunch of transgenders from doing it.

Jester walked with her sister and played lookout, while her sister got closer to the building they were checking out. At the fourth building, they stopped to inspect. They spot some men acting suspiciously. The guys were unloading a bunch of ammo boxes.

Aylin gets closer and sneaks into the warehouse. She manages to move over to the boxes they have already unloaded and pry one open. Inside the box were a bunch of M16 rifles and ammo magazines.

Jester was looking around, making sure no one surprised Aylin when the scanner on her cellphone started to pick up voices. It was the voices of the men she was watching and Aylin was investigating. She looks around and spots an unmarked van parked nearby.

“Sis, either the police or ATF are watching your guys.” Jamie figures this must be a sting or they were gathering evidence to use against the people.

Aylin hears Jamie’s voice come over their transceiver. She looks towards the guys unloading the cargo from a box truck.

“Are you sure, sis?” Aylin was curious about what was going on.

“I’m sure. It sounds like they are either bugging those guys' cellphones remotely, or they have someone planted among them.” Jamie was still
listening to the men as they talked about the football game and how much money they lost.

“Alright, I’m heading back to you.” Aylin starts making her way back to her.

Just as she was about to exit the building, “Hey, who are you?” Branson spotted movement.

Aylin looks towards the muscular Latino man. He was bigger than her and built like a football player. He had tattoos covering his arms.

Aylin stops and smiles at the guy “I was seeing what you guys were up to. Maybe we could have some fun.”

Aylin bats her eyes and smiles at the guy. She decided that she would pretend she was a girl of the night. She walks towards the guy in a sexy way. Normally, this wasn’t her style, but she was trying not to bring too much attention to herself.

Branson watches as the cute red-haired girl approaches him. She was short, but he could give her the ride of her life. He wonders if what he heard about redheads was true as well in bed.

“Branson, stop messing with the bitch. We have work to do.” One of the guys from the truck yells over to Branson.

Branson reaches forward grabs Aylin's chin and tilts her head up. He looks down into her green eyes “Give me your number, sweetie and I’ll call you later.”

“Give me your cell phone,” Aylin says in a sexy voice.

Branson hands his cell phone to Aylin. He watches as she types a number into his cell phone. He accepts the cell phone from her.

“Call me.” Aylin turns and walks away.

Branson watches as the woman walks away. She had a cute butt, stuffed in the tight pair of pants she was wearing.

“Someone got a date.” Jamie was teasing her sister.

“Access his phone and tell me who he has been calling, Jamie.” Aylin texts the guy's phone number.

Jamie pulls her cell phone out and inputs the number. In no time, she breaks into the guy’s cell phone. She starts downloading everything on the phone. There wasn’t much, but she did get at least four numbers.

“Someone got a boyfriend.” Jamie starts teasing her sister.

Aylin gives Jamie the same look she gives her children when they misbehave. She saw a smirk appear on Jamie’s face. She just shakes her head as they go and check out the other locations.

Teela Falco’s Place, New York:
“Are you sure you’re going to be alright by yourself?” Emily looks at Teela as she helps her to her apartment.

“I’ll be fine. Charity is going to be staying with me while I recover.” Teela had called her cousin Charity and asked her if she wouldn’t mind staying with her for a while.

“Well, you know we still have that stunt work we need to get done. No one else is qualified to use those wings, except me and you.” Emily wasn’t the stunt person Teela was.

“I know. I also know the director isn’t going to wait long for me to heal either.” Teela walks over to her favorite chair and sits down in it.

Emily helps Teela settle into the chair. She knew Teela was on some strong pain medicine.

“How are the wings?” Teela looks at Emily.

“I had to replace some of the feathers, but other than that. They are in perfect working order. I’m also repairing the stunt suit, but that’s going to
take a while to fix. The suit we made for the actor is okay.” Emily knew she had a lot of work to repair the stunt suit Teela had been wearing.

“I should be able to come in and help out. What did you do with those weapons that are real and were shipped to us by mistake?” Teela knew they needed to secure those weapons.

“They are locked up in the vault for now. An agent from the ATF and FBI are going to come by to look at them.” Emily was glad the ATF was coming to take those weapons away.

“I’ll be glad to get them out of our office. How could someone make such a mistake of shipping us real weapons?” Teela was confused by that.

“I don’t know. Oh, our insurance is covering the damage to the box truck and everything in it.”

“That’s good. Maybe we can get a better one.” Teela knew they needed a newer truck. The one they had, has been a money pit with repairs and such.

“Are insurance might not cover all your medical expenses.” Emily has been talking with their agent about that.

“They won’t have to. A place called Helping Hands is handling the medical bills.” Teela had been surprised when she saw and read the letter.

“Who do you know there?” Emily was surprised as well.

“No one. But when I woke up, I found a letter addressed to me, from them.” Teela pulls the letter out and shows it to her partner.

Emily accepts it and reads it. She looks at Teela “Okay, this is weird. Not that I’m looking at a gift horse in the mouth. But, why would they want to help you out?”

“Beats me. I’m planning on going to see this Aylin Jagger tomorrow to thank her.” Teela wonders why Mrs. Jagger came to visit her.

“Well, let me fix you something to eat.” Emily leaves Teela’s side and heads towards the kitchen.

Teela’s Apartment:
Charity couldn’t believe her cousin called her and asked if she could come over and assist her. She balances the tray she is carrying. She stopped by Starbucks and bought her cousin her favorite cup of coffee. She also picked up her cousin, her favorite pastry from the pastry shop next door.

Charity pressed the call button to let her know she was at the entrance. She knew her cousin liked the fact that the apartment had a security system, to keep her safe.

“Who is it?” Teela had managed to walk over to the monitor to see who was buzzing her apartment.

“It’s me, cuz.”

The next thing Charity hears is the door buzzing. She opens the door and heads towards the elevator. She presses the button her cousin lives on. She feels the elevator start heading upwards.

When the elevator stops and the door opens. She turns left into the hallway and makes her way towards her cousin’s apartment. She stops at the door and lightly knocks on it.

After a few minutes, Charity hears the chain and several locks click as her cousin unlocks the door. She wonders why her cousin hasn’t invented a new lock for her place. A smile appears on her face when the door opens.

Charity looked at Teela and couldn’t believe how she looked.

“You look like shit, cousin.” Charity walks past her cousin into the apartment.

“Thanks.” Teela shuts the door behind her cousin.

Teela follows behind her cousin. She watches as Charity sets the drink carrier down on the coffee table, along with a bag she recognized from her favorite pastry shop.

“I see you stopped at Lacey’s Pastry.” Teela loved that place.

“What’s coffee, without a good pastry?” A smile appears on Charity’s face.

She pulls out the large pumpkin muffin she bought for herself first. Then she pulls out the Boston crème donuts she bought for Teela. She knew her cousin loved the cream-filled donuts and eclairs. She places them on some napkins from the bag.

“So, how are you feeling this morning?” Charity takes a sip from her coffee.

“Sore. My chest is still feeling the effects from the grenade that hit me and I can only lift my arms only so much.” Teela shows her cousin how
high she can lift her arms.

“Man, that sucks. So, tell me again how did you get those injuries?” Charity wanted to know how her cousin got hurt like she did.

“You know I’m doing the stunt work for the new Blue Falcon movie. Well, while we were shooting a scene, a group of masked men were supposed to attack me. Well, the other stuntmen who were playing the goons had been replaced by real crooks. Somehow they found out that their illegal weapons had been accidently mixed in with my shipment of fake weapons.”

“Why were a bunch of illegal weapons mixed in with your fakes?” Charity was confused about that.

“I don’t know. That is still being investigated. Anyway, the fake goons must have thought I would have the weapons with me. So, they broke into my truck and took it. Just before they managed to close my truck up, I swooped down out of the air and knocked one of them down inside the truck.”

“You swooped down? How?” Charity found that hard to believe.

“My wings allow me to fly like those superheroes you see in the comic boots.”

“No way. How?” Charity almost choked on her coffee.

“I’m not exactly sure how it works, but the skeleton of the wings is made of a strange metal I found out in Minnesota. I had never seen anything like it before and the mine itself wasn’t being used anymore. So, I bought the property.” Teela couldn’t believe what she found and was curious. She knew it wasn’t from Earth, because of its atomic structure.

“So how did you discover you could use it to fly?” Charity was curious. She knew her cousin was smart and creative.

“You do know I have physics and engineering degrees, right?”

“Yeah, I know. And I have an MBA degree in business. So, how did you discover what the metal could do?” Charity wanted to know more about the metal and how it allowed her cousin to fly.

“I conducted experiments on it and discovered that when I send an electric current through the metal, it floated. So, after several tests. I constructed a small drone made of the metal and tested it.” Teela stood up and walked over to her desk picked up a small flat disk and carried it back over to where her cousin was sitting.

“Here.” She hands the disk to her cousin.

Charity took the disk and couldn’t believe how light it felt. It also had a cold feeling to it. She turned it upside down and saw the battery compartment and a switch. She flicks the switch to the on position and watches as the disk hovers above her hand.

“How is it doing this?” Charity couldn’t see any blades or jets to cause it to hover.

“The energy from the battery has energized the metal. That’s a solid piece of metal with only a battery compartment and a small circuit broad in it.”

Charity sat there amazed at what the disk was doing. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing for herself.

“Are there any side effects from handling this metal?” Charity looks up at Teela.

“Nope, none whatsoever. I ran several tests to determine if it had radiation or if it produced any radiation when you sent electricity through it.” Teela performed every test she could think of.

“Man, you could make a fortune selling this to aircraft companies and such.” Charity was thinking of the marketing aspects of it.

“That’s the thing. There isn’t a large amount of it.” Teela turns the disk off.

“How do you know?” Charity looks at her cousin.

“Because I dug up all I could find of it. I found just enough of it to make three sets of wings. Plus, I think it came from outer space a long time ago. It’s not native to Earth.”

“Are you sure?” Charity knew her cousin was into comics and sci-fi.

“Yes, I’m sure. Once I purified the metal. I found out that it had other compounds bonded with it, that weren’t from this earth, but were known to come from space.”

“Well, you better not let the military find out. They would want this metal and everything else you have on it.” Charity knew the government would love it.

“Yeah. I agree.” Teela had thought about it.

“So, this metal allows you to hover/defy gravity. So, how do you fly with it?” Charity wonders if Teela used hidden jets or something.

“Like a bird does. I can use the air currents and after studying birds as long as I have. I know how to use the wings to turn and such.” Teela loved studying birds. It’s been her hobby since she was little. She had a bunch of drawings she had done from watching birds.

“That must be neat. So, what are you going to do when the filming stops?” Charity could see how the movie allowed Teela to use her wings.

“I don’t know. I might move my company from New York to someplace out in the country so I can learn more about how birds fly and such.” Teela hasn’t figured out what she is going to do yet after filming.

“So, okay, you answered my question about swooping into the truck. What happened after that?” Charity wanted to know more.

“Well, I tried to stop the goons from stealing my truck. We got in a fight and the guy I was fighting put two spears through my shoulder blades and tossed a strange-looking disk towards my chest. As soon as it exploded, I was sent flying backward out of the truck and into a car behind the truck. I don’t remember anything after that except waking up in the hospital.”

“Man, that sounds like something out of an action flick. I hope your director caught all of that.” Charity would love to see all of that in a movie.

“I think he did. Mr. Hudgins is an amazing director and does amazing work.” Teela liked working with him.

“So, do you know who those goons work for?”

“Nope, but agent Amos has some idea. He’s keeping me in the loop.” Teela received an email from him just the other day.

“So, did those goons get the weapons they were after?” Charity was curious.

“Nope, they are locked up in my weapons safe back at the office building. The place used to be a bank, so they are safe there.” Teela was glad the building she rented an office at, had a safe.

“How about the wings? Are they safe?” Charity knew if someone could get their hands on those wings, they could use them.

“Yes, they are safe as well. I have a set here in my apartment and the other set is at my office in its storage locker. The third set hasn’t been completed yet, but they are safe as well. They are in a specially designed locker. I hope you’ll keep what I told you, secret.” Teela knew her cousin was trustworthy.

“Yes, haven’t I always kept your secrets safe?” Charity knew a lot of things about Teela.

“Yes, you have and I’m glad I have you as a trusted confidant.” Teela takes another sip from her coffee.

FBI Building, New York:
Agent Amos looks at all the photos he and his partner managed to get so far. Last night had been informative. The gang that had been expecting a shipment of weapons, had received another shipment from another source.

“I wonder who those two women were last night.” Agent Wears looks at the footage they collected on last night's stakeout.

“I don’t know. They kept to the shadows and managed to avoid being recorded.” Amos was looking at the footage from last night as well.

“Have you heard from Ms. Falco, recently?” Wears looks over towards her partner.

“Yes, and we’re supposed to meet up with her tomorrow. We’re going to have an undercover unit meet us where she is storing the weapons she received by accident.”

“Well, at least she has enough common sense to securely store the weapons. Most people would try to make a profit off them.” Wears was surprised that Ms. Falco called them.

“I agree. I still can’t believe she went after the people who stole her work truck.” When Agent Amos heard what happened to Ms. Falco. He was amazed at her bravery and a little worried as well.

He knew in the past few years, there has been an increase in vigilantly activities. Some of the people were sanctioned government agents. While others were just people with specialized skills taking the law into their own hands.

“Come on, let’s go and check out this lead I just got.” Agent Amos grabs his gun from his desk drawer.

“Alright.” Wears grabs her weapon and purse.

The two of them head down to their government-assigned SUV. Wears gets in on the passenger side, while Amos gets in on the driver's side. Once they were secure, Amos drove them to the location he got a tip about.

Aylin’s House:
Kathy rides her bicycle down the street and parks it a few houses down from where she was planning on starting. She gathers the boxes of candy bars, granola bars, and trail mixes. All of them were handmade by her. She grabs her bags of samples, to entice the buyers.

Kathy walks back down towards the first house and knocks on the door. She was greeted by a young woman.

“Greetings, ma’am. My name is Kathy Wixx and I’m selling candy bars, granola bars, and homemade trail mixes. All the items I’m selling are homemade. If you like I have a sample here that you can taste to see if you’ll like them.”

Mrs. Millers smiles at the teenage girl “Sure.”

Kathy handed Mrs. Miller a sample bag that had a little bit of everything in it.

“Here you go, ma’am.”

Kathy ends up selling several granola bars and two 1lb. Bags of trail mix. A smile forms on her face as she moves on to the next house. So, far everyone was enjoying the products she was selling and hoped they order more from her.

When she arrives in front of Aylin’s place. She rings the doorbell and waits. She notices that the house has one of those Ring devices.

“Hello?”

“Hi, my name is Kathy Wixx and I’m selling homemade candy bars, granola bars, and trail mix. They are made of all-natural ingredients. I have samples with me, so you can taste them for yourself.”

Angie opens the front door and spots a young woman with short pixie-style light brown hair like her own. She also had a four-inch white strip that went down the middle of her hair. There was a scar that started an inch above her left eyebrow and continued down the rest of her face. It stopped at the corner of her mouth.

“Do you make the candy and granola bars yourself?” Angie noticed the girl was shorter than her.

There was something else about the girl she couldn’t put her finger on.

“Yes, I make everything myself. I have a small food truck I work out of.” Kathy was trying to get enough money to fix her food truck.

“You said that you have samples, I can try?”

“Yes. Here you go.” Kathy pulled out a small clear sandwich bag that had small pieces of various candy bars, granola bars, and a mixture of trail bits in it. She hands the bag to the young woman standing before her.

“Thanks.” Angie tries the trail mix. She loved how it tasted and could tell it was all natural.

Kathy watches and hopes the young woman will buy her product. She still had a bunch to sell, but so far, the sales she has been making might give her enough to fix her food truck.

“I’ll take three pounds of the trail mix, six candy bars, and a dozen granola bars.” Angie figures that her parkour group would enjoy them.

Kathy looks into the bag she was carrying around and pulls out everything. She places everything in a brown lunch bag. She doesn’t notice the Subaru Outback pulling into the driveway.

Aylin decided to work half a day and go home. When she pulled into her driveway, she noticed a purple ten-speed bicycle parked near the gate. As she gets closer to the house, she spots a young woman with a bag hanging on her side. She had a strip of white hair that ran the length of her head down the middle of it.

She was wearing an oversized t-shirt and a pair of leggings with rainbow color tennis shoes. She was talking with Angie and it looked like she was pulling some bags out of the bag hanging on her side. She watches as the young woman hands Angie a brown paper bag.

Aylin wonders what Angie just bought. She turns the car off and gets out of it. She catches the younger girl saying thank you for your purchase and that she has included her business card in the bag.

“Excuse me, but what are you selling, Ms.?” Aylin was curious.

“Hi, I’m selling homemade candy bars, granola bars, and trail mix, ma’am. Would you like to try them? I have a sample bag that you can try.” Kathy had been surprised when she heard the red-haired woman’s voice.

Aylin walks over to the young teenage girl and notices the scar on the left-hand side of her face. She also noticed that this teenage girl had the same style of haircut as Angie with a four-inch-wide white strip that ran the curve of the young woman’s head.

“Yes, I wouldn’t mind.” Aylin knew she was immune to most poisons and toxins.

Kathy pulls out another sample bag and hands it to Aylin. “Here you go, ma’am.”

Aylin accepts the clear sandwich bag and opens it. She could tell right away that the trail mix inside was homemade just from the smell. When she tried some, she could taste that it didn’t have that sugary taste to it that most trail mix has covered.

She tries the small pieces of different candy bars and granola bars. She could tell just from the taste that the candy bars and granola bars weren’t the commercially made ones. They had a sweeter and fresher taste to it.

“Where does the money go that you receive?” Aylin looks at the young teen.

“I’m trying to fix my food truck. I use it to sell my snacks and such.”

Aylin thinks about what the young woman said. She reaches into her purse and pulls out her checkbook. She looks at the young girl “How much do you have left to sell?”

“About forty bags of trail mix and eighty candy bars and granola bars.”

“I’ll buy everything you have left and give this person a call. Tell the person I sent you.”

Kathy accepts the business. She looked at it and noticed it was an auto repair garage. She looks back at Aylin and gives her the total cost for everything she has left.

Aylin writes a check for a little more for what the young woman said and hands it to her.

“Here, you go. Why don’t you come inside and tell me more about these bars.”

“Yes ma’am.” Kathy follows behind Aylin.

Angie closes door the behind them.

Downtown Filming Location, New York:
“How are you feeling, Teela?” Emily was monitoring Teela’s location as she flew above them in the air.

“I’m doing okay for now. I wish we didn’t have to get these shots today.” Teela’s shoulders were protesting from the strain she was putting them threw.

Emily hated that the director wanted to shoot several shots while Teela was still recovering. If it had been ground shots he needed, she could have done them. However, he wanted aerial shots of her flying and diving down and such.

She didn’t like it at all. However, the studio threatened to hold their payment to them if they didn’t do the shots. It was a good thing that the stunt suit was finished and in working order. She checks the video feed from it.

“I’m getting a good feed from you. Are you ready to perform the shots the director needs?” Emily was outside the rental truck they were using.
They still needed to go and buy a new truck.

“Do I have a choice in the matter?” Teela prepares herself for the stunt shots the director wants.

“Nope. Remember, you will have several helicopters watching and recording you.”

“Don’t remind me. I hope they keep their distance so I don’t get chopped up by their blades or thrown off by the wind they create.” Teela has never flown with helicopters near her.

Emily looked around the area where she was set up and was watching the crowd. She notices people had their cellphones out recording Teela and a few had binoculars out watching her. She hopes everything goes as planned.

Teela loved feeling the wind against her face as she flew. The clear mask she normally wore while flying was tucked up inside the headpiece covering her head. The hidden microphone she was using to communicate with Emily was close to her mouth, but you couldn’t see it.

“Alright, the cameras are rolling,” Emily informs Teela.

Teela performs several aerial tricks for the camera. She pretends she has robots shooting at her that will be added later. She hears the fireworks behind her that represent the robots exploding as she fires her fake raygun at the robots and hits them. The ground effects crew was using fireworks to simulate the robots exploding.

She lands on top of a nearby building and looks out towards the area. She gives a noble pose as she stands there. The helicopters capture her pose.

She hears a large number of police sirens and gunfire going on near her. She knows she shouldn’t intervene, but she flies off towards the sounds.

“Teela, what are you doing?” Emily watches on the monitors as the suit's onboard camera captures her moving.

“There’s gunfire and police sirens near me. I’m going to go and see what is going on.” Teela soars through the streets avoiding anything that could bring her down.

Teela spots several police cars blocking an area off. There was rapid gunfire, which sounded like fully automatic weapons being used. Then, there was a loud explosion coming from the area.

She flies in as close as she could without being spotted by those below her. She notices that two figures are fighting with several individuals. One was wearing a top hat and using some sort of cane sword to feed off three gang members.

The other person person looked like a person from the movie Blade. Except he wasn’t black, but white and he was fighting five people at once. She didn’t have anything with her to help out, except her fake raygun.

“Emily, are you catching this?” Teela radios back to Emily.

“Yeah, I am. Keep recording, the director is loving this.” Emily could hear the director giving orders to the helicopters following Teela.

Down below, Jester was fighting three gang members. The bastards had found out the route of the truck containing a bunch of illegal drugs meant for destruction. She and Mark had been asked to provide security for the truck by the police chief.

The truck had been ambushed by two vans filled with gang members and more were coming out of the woodwork. Jester does a spin kick to one gang member as another one tries to punch her. She stabs him with her cane sword.

She saw that Mark aka Shade had dropped two of the five guys who went after him. She knew one punch from him, would knock out anyone. She watches as he takes out another gang member with a swift kick to the man’s manhood.

“Ouch! That had to hurt.” Teela winces in pain from that move.

“Ping!”

Teela hears the bullet hit near her. She looks in the direction of the gunfire. Several more bullets miss her as they hit just below the edge of where she was standing. She spots several men with automatic rifles firing towards her.

“I don’t need to take that.” Teela jumps off the roof and glides down towards the men firing at her.

She hits them with her feet. She spins around on her feet and does a spin kick that would make Jackie Chan proud. Her wings were throwing her balance off, but she managed. As for the other person firing at her. She extends the claws in her gloves and rakes them across the guy's abdomen, digging deep into his skin.

Emily was watching the fighting on the monitors. She shakes her head as she watches Teela take down the men firing at her. She knew the director was loving this.

Shade and Jester spotted the wing woman dropping out of the air and right into a guy. They had seen the two guys firing up at the building across the street but didn’t know why, until now. They just watch as she takes the men out.

“Anyone you know?” Jester looks towards Shade for an answer.

“I think that’s the same woman who crashed into Aylin’s windshield a few days ago.” Shade wasn’t sure if it was, but he was pretty sure.

Several police officers managed to get past the other gang members. The gang members gave up after they realized they were outnumbered by several police officers, and three costume good doers. The ones that Shade, Jester, and Teela took down were going to need medical attention, especially the ones Jester used her cane sword on.

Shade and Jester walk over to Teela. As Shade got closer to Teela, he could tell this was the same woman who crashed into Aylin’s front windshield.

“You look to be doing better, after crashing into a car.” Shade looks at the woman. She was taller than Aylin, but a little shorter than Jester.

Teela turns around to look at the two people. The woman looked like she was wearing some sort of stage magician outfit with playing card symbols on her top hat. The other, looked like he ripped Blade off.

“You know about, that?” Teela was surprised the man knew about it.

“Yeah, considering it was my wife’s car.”

“I’m sorry. Is she okay?” Teela wondered who this guy was.

“She’s fine. So, what brought you over here to help?” Shade was curious.

“I heard gunfire and thought I would check it out. Do you guys do this all the time?”

“Normally, no. We try to keep a low profile on our activities.” Jester pulls a cloth from a hidden pocket and cleans her sword with it.

“I hope you guys don’t mind being recorded because those two choppers and the cameras in my suit caught you guys fighting.” Teela felt she should inform them.

“I don’t mind, I love people filming me.” Jester smiles at the cameramen recording them and blows them a kiss.

Shade just shakes his head at his sister-in-law's antics. He looks at Teela “Have the lawyers for the movie you're filming to get in touch with me so I can sign a release.” He hands a business card to Teela.

“Same here.” Jester hands a business card that looks like a playing card to Teela as well.

“Can I get in touch with you guys sometime?” Teela was thinking about learning and maybe working with these guys.

“Call us, to arrange a meeting or luncheon and we’ll talk about it.” Jester winks at Teela as she walks off to talk to the SWAT commander.

“Just call me.” Shade waves and walks off.

“You’re not seriously thinking about contacting them, are you?” Emily heard everything over Teela’s mic.

“Maybe.” Teela jumps up into the air and flaps her wings to go higher.

She flies back towards where the movie crew is set up.

Teela flies back to where Emily was set up. The movie's director says he will contact the two people she had just met to get permission to use the footage Teela recorded in the film. Since no one is around, Teela takes the specially designed helmet off and wipes her forehead. She really needed to add more ventilation to the helmet.

“So, how did the footage come out?” Teela looks at Emily when she asks the question.

“It came out fine. Are you really thinking about working with those two?” Emily looks at her friend and partner.

“Yeah, I am. I could get used to fighting criminals.” Teela sets the helmet down on the table.

“You could also end up dead as well, Teela. I have heard those two go after people even cops won’t mess with. A third person who works with them is known on the streets as the Mad Hatter.”

“That’s because they are government agents, according to what the blonde-haired one said.” Teela shows the cards they gave her to Emily.
Emilly accepts them and looks at them. The playing card one intrigued her. She looks closer at it with her magnifying glasses and notices it has
microfine threads of circuity embedded in the card.

“As for the other one dressed as Blade. He said that I crashed into his wife’s car. I still need to go and thank her for paying my hospital bill.” Teela wanted to thank the woman for her kindness.

“About that. She’s the owner and director of Helping Hands. I looked into her during my off time.” Emily brings up the information she found on the web about the person.

Teela looks at the information and the picture of the woman. From what she could tell from the image of the woman. She was no older than her and Emily. The bio on her that someone did said she used to be a highly talented MMA fighter and had an impressive record of wins. She only lost twice and tied once. It also said she has a twin sister in England who owns a popular restaurant.

“This is the woman I owe for paying my hospital bill.”

“I don’t think you owe this woman anything except your thanks. It seems she is known to do these types of things. She’s into helping the homeless and veterans.” Emily was impressed with Aylin Jaager. She noticed that Aylin’s husband took her last name instead of the other way around.

“Still, it would be poor taste not to acknowledge what she did for me. See how much a fruit basket costs at Valerie’s and have it delivered to Mrs. Jaager saying thank you.”

“Okay, I’ll also make an appointment with her secretary so you can visit her.” Emily knew a social visit would go far.

“Thanks. Now, let’s finish filming these scenes so we can take the next few days off.” Teela puts her helmet back on and goes to find the director.

Several Hours later In the Afternoon:
Becky looks at the address on the gift basket she was given to deliver to Helping Hands. It was addressed to the director, Aylin Jaager. Becky takes the elevator to the floor where Mrs. Jaager’s office is. When she exits the elevator and enters the office. She spots a middle-aged woman with short, light brown hair sitting at a desk. She walks up to the desk.

Judy heard the door to Aylin’s office open and spotted a young woman with dark hair walking towards her desk carrying a huge basket. She was wearing a black polo shirt and baseball cap.

“Can I help you?” Judy looks at the young woman.

“Yes, ma’am. I have a delivery here for Aylin Jaager.” Becky looks at the other woman.

“You can leave it here with me, and I’ll ensure Mrs. Jaager gets it.”

“Okay.” Becky sets the basket down on the corner of the desk. She reaches behind her back and pulls out the company cell phone.

She takes a picture of the basket and then turns it towards the secretary. “I’m going to need a signature saying the delivery was made, ma’am.”

“Very well.” Judy reaches for the cell phone.

Becky hands the older woman the cell phone and stylus to write her name on the screen. She watches as the older woman signs the screen, saying the delivery was received.

Judy accepts the cell phone and stylus. She signs her name. She hands the pen and cell phone back to the young woman.

“Thank you, ma’am.” Just as Becky turns around to leave.

“Wait, here’s a tip for you.” Judy hands a ten-dollar bill to Becky.

Becky looks at the bill after accepting it. She looks back at the secretary. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” Judy knew Aylin always gave delivery people ten dollars or more when they delivered items to her.

Becky leaves, happy that she got a tip. Most businesses she delivered to wouldn’t do something like that. She wouldn’t mind if she made more deliveries here.

Judy picks the basket up and knocks on Aylin’s office door.

“Enter.” Aylin looked up from some paperwork she was working on.

She spots Judy walking in carrying a large basket wrapped in clear cellophane. She watches as Judy approaches her desk.

“I have a delivery here for you.” Judy sets the basket on Aylin’s desk.

“Who’s it from?” Aylin stands up to see the contents better.

“I didn’t look, but it came from Valerie’s, and you know it will have good stuff in it.” Judy hands Aylin the card attached to the package.

Aylin opens the card, and on the inside, it reads Thank you, from Teela Falco.

“Isn’t that the person you had me paid all her medical bills for?” Judy looks at Aylin for an answer.

“Yes, it was. She didn’t need to do this.” Aylin opens the cellophane and looks at everything inside. It had a selection of teas, chocolates, candies, and various other items.

“Well, you’ll never run out of sweets or tea.” Judy knew her boss loved chocolates and candy.

“True, take what you want from it and set the rest out for the staff.” Aylin grabs the box of mixed tea bags and some of the chocolates.

“Are you sure, boss?” Judy looks at the small amount of items Aylin took.

“Yep, I’m sure.” Aylin put the items she grabbed into the second drawer of her desk.

“All right. Oh, what would you like for lunch? Are you going out or staying in?”

“I’m eating in today. Go ahead and order us some lunch from China Wall.” Aylin always buys her assistant lunch whenever she orders in.

“Thanks. Do you want your normal?” Judy knew Aylin loved pepper steak with pork fried rice.

“Yes, and order two extra egg rolls, please.”

“I’m on it.” Judy turns to leave after picking the basket up to drop off in the break room.

Aylin sits back down and goes back to what she was doing before she was disturbed.

Falco Special Effects, New York:
Agent Amos and Agent Wears pull up to an old-looking building that looks like it used to be a bank. Agent Amos parks the car across the street from the building. A plain-looking van parks behind him as he and his partner exit the car they arrived in.

“Ms. Falco wasn’t joking when she said that the building she worked out of used to be a bank.” Agent Wears could see how the building looked.

“Well, at least the weapons are secured in the old bank vault this building has.” Agent Amos started crossing the street towards the building.

Agent Wears follows behind her partner. She signals the crew in the van to wait for their signal before coming in. The front of the building had a car parked in front of it.

Teela was inside the main lobby, waiting for Agent Amos and Agent Wears to arrive. She took a sip from her coffee cup as she spotted them walking across the street.

“Morning agents. I’m sorry I don’t have coffee for you guys.” Teela watches as the two agents enter the building.

“That’s fine. I’ve already had enough this morning.” A smile appears on Agent Amos’s face.

“This is a neat place you have here.” Agent Wears looked around and liked how the building looked.

“I liked it. If you’ll follow me down to the vault, agents. I’ll show you the guns that were shipped to me and my partner by accident.” Teela turns
and starts walking further into the building.

Agent Amos and Agent Wears follow behind her. They go down several flights of stairs with a secure door you have to go through.

“Ms. Falco, this bank. Has it ever been robbed?” Agent Wears was curious.

“If I remember right, it was robbed in March of 1972. The perps didn’t get far before they were apprehended.”

“I bet they got some serious time.” Agent Amos could imagine what the law was like back in 1972.

“Trust me, agent, back then, crooks weren’t as smart as they are now.” Teela stops in front of the vault door.

She takes an old-fashioned skeleton key out of her pants pocket, inserts it into the keyhole, and turns it three times. Afterward, she enters the combination to the central lock at least twice and turns a huge stainless steel wheel. She pulls on the wheel to open the vault door.

“Do you need any help?” Agent Amos saw how big the vault door was.

“Thanks, but I’m fine.” Teela tucks the key back into her pants pocket.

“Aren’t you worried about this door being shut while you're inside the vault?” Agent Wears looks at Teela when she says that.

“Nope, the lock won’t engage unless the skeleton key is in the locking mechanism.”

“How many of those keys do you have?” Agent Amos was curious.

“Two. The second one is in my wall safe upstairs in my studio.” Teela opens the gate and leads the two agents inside the safe.

Both agents noticed two shipping crates sitting in the middle of the room. They could tell they had been opened. There was also a floor jack in the safe.

“How did you get these in here?” Agent Wears looks towards Teela.

“A cargo elevator leads here from the loading dock behind the building. If you have your agents drive the van around, I can help them load these boxes.”

“I want to check these weapons out.” Agent Amos walks over to one and uses the crowbar he spotted to open the crates.

Agent Amos opened the crates and spotted the weapons inside. He picked one up to examine it and could tell it was real. It wasn’t a fake weapon.

“How many guns are in each crate?” Agent Amos looks towards Teela.

“Fifty in this crate, and forty in this crate, along with a bunch of grenades.”

“Grenades?” Agent Wears looks at Teela when she says grenades.

“Yep, grenades. Now, you know why we stored them down here in the vault. Why don’t you have your men pull around to the loading dock and
we’ll get these things loaded.” Teela walks over to the pallet jack and jacks the pallet the shipping crates are on up.

Agent Wears steps outside of the vault and calls the men that came with them. Agent Amos helps Teela move the pallets. They load them onto the cargo elevator to take them to the next floor.

Agent Wears ends her phone call and looks over towards Teela and her partner. “The guys are going to meet us at the loading dock.”

“Okay.”

Loading Dock, Falco Special Effects, New York:
Agent Wears watches as the van backs into the loading dock at the rear of the building. Agent Amos and Ms. Falco were moving the crates towards her. She watches as the back doors on the van open up as the driver continues backing up towards the loading dock.

Agent Wears presses the bottom for the loading dock door to open. As the loading dock door opens, several men exit from the van with guns drawn. They had their guns pointed toward Agent Amos, Agent Wears, and Ms. Falco.

“Step away from the crates unless you want to die.” Two of the guys had their guns pointed at everyone.

Two more guys step out of the van and towards the crates. Teela looks towards Agent Wears and motions her head towards the door controls. She hopes Agent Wears understands her and what she was hinting at.

Agent Wears looks at the controls loading dock controls and notices there is a button for emergency. She pressed it just as the two guys were entering the loading dock. The steel loading dock door drops down on top of the two guys.

The guys outside the loading dock start firing towards the loading dock. Agent Amos and Teela drop down behind the crates. Agent Amos watches as his partner, Agent Wears pulls the two stun guys out from under the steel loading dock doors and handcuffs them.

“Is there another way those guys outside can get in here?” Agent Amos looks towards Teela.

“No, the front door is locked, and even if they got in. I can lock the door leading down here to the loading dock.” Teela could hear the guys outside firing at the steel door.

“I’m calling for backup.” Agent Amos pulls out his cell phone and calls the NYPD for backup.

Teela stands up and walks over to the security booth that is down in the loading dock and turns the outside camera on. When the camera turns on, the two guys outside have already left. They had already left the scene.

“They’re gone, Mr. Amos.”

“How do you know?” Agent Wears looks over towards the security booth.

“Because I turned on the outside security camera and they aren’t there anymore.” Teela didn’t normally use the security camera outside of the loading dock.

Agent Wears shakes her head as she looks at the two the loading dock door is knocked out. They were out cold. She starts searching their pants pocket but finds nothing.

“Do you have cameras on the front of the building?” Agent Amos looks towards Ms. Falco for an answer.

“Yes, I do. Let’s put these crates back in the vault and find out what happened to your people.” Teela turns the pallet jack around and starts pushing it back toward the cargo elevator.

Agent Amos and Agent Wears wait down in the loading dock area for the police and paramedics to arrive. By the time Teela has the crates back in the vault and secured. The police and ambulance arrive.

Teela takes Agent Amos and Agent Wears to the security room where the monitors are. While the police and ambulance tend to the people the steel door knocked out.

“Here we go, agents.” As Teela replays the recorded video.

The three of them watch as a plumber truck pulls up aside the van parked behind the agent's car. The van sits there for a few minutes and then leaves.

“Can you zoom in some?” Agent Amos wanted to see who the person was sitting on the driver's side.

“Sure.” Teela zooms in on the video and captures a picture of the driver. She prints it out for the agents.

“Here you go, guys.” Teela hands the picture to Agent Amos.

“They switch drivers.” Agent Wears looks at the picture. She remembered who the driver was and who she spoke to.

“Well, at least you have two people you can interrogate.” Teela looks at both agents.

“Ms. Falco, can you bring up that van again.” Agent Amos wanted to see if there was a license plate visible.

“Sure.” Teela plays the video again and prints out a picture of the license plate.

“Ms. Falco, do you mind keeping the crates of weapons a little bit longer, until better arrangements can be arranged?” Agent Wears wanted to arrange better protection for the weapons.

“I don’t mind. The weapons are safe here.” Teela didn’t mind holding onto the weapons.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” Teela didn’t mind holding onto the weapons a little longer.

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.

Crazy Core Gym, Upper East Side, New York:
Teela and Emily arrive at the address they were given. They looked at the building in front of them and couldn’t believe that it used to be some sort of warehouse.

“Are you sure you have the right address, Teela?” Emily looks at her friend.

“I’m sure. This is the address Jester gave me. She also gave me the entrance code as well.” Teela walked into the small foyer and noticed there was a metal keypad with black numbers and letters.

Teela looks at the code she was given and starts entering it on the keypad. It was a combination of numbers, special characters, and letters. The first time she entered it, it told her it was incorrect.

Emily was looking around the small foyer and spotted two concealed cameras. A smirk appears on her face as she watches Teela reenter the security code again. She hears a buzzing sound to tell them the door is unlocked.

“Man, that was a complex code.” Teela opens the door and enter the building with Emily following behind her.

They spot a young woman with long neon pink hair, and medium-sized breasts, wearing an 80’s style leotard. The design of the leotard was unique because the leg portion was a different color than the main part of the leotard.

“Hi, my name is Angel. You must be Teela Falco and Emily Tesla.” Angel holds her hand out to shake.

Teela shakes Angel’s hand first. “Yes, I thought Jester would be here.”

Angel shakes Emily’s hand next. She looks at Teela “She will be. She was running a little behind. Until she gets here, I’m to give you a tour of the place and afterward, get you warm up for what she is going to put you through. Now, if you’ll follow me, please. I’ll show you where the locker room is. If you don’t have a workout outfit, we have some you can use or buy.”

“We brought our own.” Emily couldn’t see using someone else’s outfit.

“We have three locker rooms. Men’s, Family, and Women’s. I will tell you now that we allowed transgenders and crossdressers to use the women’s locker room. However, the room is spilt so as not to offend other women or young women.” Angel takes Emily and Teela into the women’s locker so they can change.

“We have showers and ice baths to help you recover from working out. We also have hot tubs and saunas as well. Why don’t you ladies go ahead and change into your workout clothes? When you're done, I’ll be waiting for you outside the locker room.” Angel turns and leaves Teela and Emily to change.

Teela and Emily select a locker and begin changing out of their street clothes into their workout clothes. Both their exercise suits showed off their bodies. Once they are changed, they exit the locker room and find Angel waiting for them.

“You ladies look cute in your outfits. Now, let’s continue our tour, shall we?” As Angel starts walking.

Angel shows Teela and Emily the weight rooms, the numerous exercise rooms for different styles of workouts. The exercise cycles, stair walkers, steam room, saunas, treadmills, rock walls for climbing, and the pool area.

The place had several handball courts which happened to be occupied currently. It also had an indoor running track as well.

Angel takes Teela and Emily to a smaller room that had been reserved for Jester and them. It had exercise cycles, weight equipment, and several barbells and weights.

“Let’s go ahead and get you ladies stretched and warmed up.” Angel has Teela and Emily assume the position she wanted them in.

She starts putting them through a simple warmup routine of jumping jacks and body stretches. Teela and Emily didn’t mind, because they believed in warming up before they did any stunts. Both of them were stunt professionals, so the warmup was easy for them.

After the warmup, Angel starts them on the treadmills and has them run for at least five miles. The thread mills were neat in the fact they showed you where you were running and adjusted itself to the terrain. Angel adjusted the thread mills for Teela and Emily adding in some incline to them. Nothing too steep, but enough that they would feel it.

Jester, Mark, and Aylin show up an hour later and start training Teela and Emily. Jester teams up with Emily, while Mark and Aylin team up against Teela. They wanted to see what Teela knew.

“Not bad, but remember to stay aware of everything around you.” As Aylin lands a soft kick to Teela’s side. She wasn’t trying to hurt Teela but to teach her.

The next few hours, Emily and Teela learn a lot from Aylin, Jester, and Mark. After they take a shower and put their street clothes back on. Mark treats everyone to a local pizza place for dinner. The trio also ask question on why Teela wanted to start acting like a costume vigilante.

Aylin and Jester listens to Teela's answer. How she felt helpless when she and the ATF agents came under attack at her business. Also, how she could put her stunt suit to better use then using it for movies. If nothing else she could maybe pursued movie producers or really television producers to maybe produce a show about their activities.

That answer didn't sit well with Jester or Aylin. Aylin didn't like the idea, because a lot of what they do is secret or very dangerous and it would bring attention to their love ones, especially her children. She suggest that it might be better to keep what they do secret and only allow certain people to know.

Teela and Emily return to the office and fix some tea to drink. Teela looks at her friend “So, what do you think about us joining them and doing what they do?”

“I think it’s dangerous. I’m not like you Teela, I don’t mind supporting you and being your backup.”

“I know and right now we still have the problems of the weapons that were sent to us by mistake.” Teela sips some of her tea.

“Why don’t we have the agents come again to pick the weapons up? I’ll handle the transfer of the weapons to the agents and you can be watching from a nearby building. That way, if they strike again, you can bring them down. We could also set up some traps, so they can’t get away.” Emily figures it would be a good way to stop the crooks.

“Sounds like a plan.” Teela liked the idea that Emily was suggesting.

“Let’s get started.” Teela finishes drinking her tea.

Emily finishes her tea as well. The two of them started going through what gear they had on hand. The two of them put the barricades they had on hand out to prevent anyone from coming down the alleyway. They also stretched a sheet at each end to keep what they were doing hidden.
Throughout the day the two of them set up traps. Some of the traps were controlled by remotes that Emily would be able to set off, while Teela's location was a good location to be able to watch the alleyway that led to the docking port.

Teela makes arrangements with Agent Wears and Agent Amos to show up to pick the weapons up. She informs them that she wants the information to be leaked, so they can capture the people trying to get the weapons. She doesn’t want to go into the details of what she and Emily have planned.

Agent Amos and Agent Wears look at each other after they get off the phone with Teela.

“What do you think she is going to do?” Agent Wears wonders why Ms. Falco is doing this.

“I don’t know, but let's get the information out without anyone knowing the real reason.” Agent Amos wonders what Ms. Falco’s plan is.

Secret Location:
“Hey, Ralph.” Jose walks into the warehouse where Ralph and his buddies hang out.

“What do you want, Jose?” Diego comes out from the office in the back.

“I have some good news.” Jose was excited about what he just heard.

“What is it?” Diego wanted to know why Jose was jeopardizing their location.

“Look, I need to talk to Ralph.” Jose wasn’t going to give Diego this information.

“What is so important, is that you would come here.” Diego hated that Jose came here.

“Look, let me talk to Ralph. I’m not going anywhere until I do.” Jose wasn’t budging. He knew Ralph needed this information.

“Fine.” Diego pulls his cell phone out and texts Ralph.

A few seconds later Ralph informs Diego he’ll be there in a few.

Twenty minutes later, Ralph enters the warehouse on his motorcycle. He takes his helmet off and looks towards Diego and Jose “What is so important that I needed to come here?”

“The feds are going to go and retrieve the weapons again. They plan on doing it tomorrow morning.” Jose knew the information was reliable.

“Then, we need to get the weapon tonight. Hitting them in the morning was a bad idea.” Ralph knew doing it in the morning was a bad idea.

“How are we going to get into the vault they keep the weapons in?” Diego had managed to get his hands on the blueprints of the building and knew it was impossible to get into the vault.

“Call Spector. He’ll be able to open the vault for us.” Ralph knew Spector had skills that no one else did.

“Oh, it.” Diego dails Spector’s number from memory. He didn’t keep Spector’s number in his phone and after he calls Spector, he’ll erase the
number so it can’t be used or tracked.

“Hey Spector, we need you for a special assignment tonight. Are you available?”

Diego hears Spector press a button once to inform him that he is.

“Good, come by our location so we can show you what you are up against.” Diego ends the call.

“Well?” Ralph looks towards Diego for an answer.

“He’s available and be here…” A pinging sound comes from Diego’s cell phone.

Diego looks at the text “in thirty minutes.”

“Let’s get everything set up and ready to go.” Ralph walks towards a hidden door to a secret area.

The others follow behind him.

Two in the morning, Teela’s Fx Building:
Spector arrives first to scope out the building’s security system. He already knew how the system was laid out from the blueprints Ralph had acquired. He bypasses the security system and enters the building. He makes his way down to the loading dock to open the door.

Unknown to Spector or Ralph, they managed to activate a hidden security system. When Teela and her partner took over the building. They installed a separate security system and didn’t register it with city hall.

After Spector lets Ralph and the other guys into the building. He moves down to where the vault is and starts trying to open it. The plans they had said what type of vault it was, but when Spector examined it. It looked like someone had done some upgrades to the vault door itself.

Teela’s Place:
Teela was sound asleep in bed when a loud blaring alarm went off. The alarm causes Teela to wake up and when she tries to get out of bed, she gets tangled up in the sheets and blanket covering her. She falls to the floor and tries to free her feet and legs from the sheets.

She rushes to her computer desk and access the security system at the building. The normal security was offline, but the system she and Emily installed was still working. She jumps through the different cameras and spots six men down in the vault room trying to access the vault.

Teela picks up her cell phone and dials Emily’s number. She knew Emily would be in bed by now.

Emily’s place:
Emily was sound asleep when she was woken up by her cell phone ringing. She reaches for it, forms it under the covers and presses accept.

“Hello?”

“Emily, how fast can you get to the office?”

“Why?” Emily didn’t want to leave her bed.

“We have visitors and they are trying to get into the vault.” Teela was still watching them.

“What!” Emily sits up, letting the covers fall onto her lap.

“Yeah, they decided to break into our building and are trying to break into the vault.” Teela was still watching them.

“Good luck trying to get into the vault with the modifications we made. I can get there, but it will be a while.” Emily figures would take her a while to arrive.

“Alright, I’ll meet you there and if they somehow manage to open the vault, I’ll surprise them with our surprises.” Teela was glad they prepared for them.

“Be careful, Teela.”

“I will.” Teela ends the call.

She gets up and takes her night clothes off. She grabs her stunt suit and puts it on. She heads into her workroom and starts putting on the falcon suit she designed for the Blue Falcon movie. She’s done some upgrades to it and designed a weapon she could use with the suit.

Teela carefully walks through her place and out onto the landing of her apartment. She leaps off the landing and engages the flight system of the stunt suit. As soon as the flight system engages, a smile appears on her face.

She was lovingly flying through the air towards her office. She wonders if this was how pilots felt when they were in their planes when they took off and flew. It was a good thing her suit already had the coordinates to the office. She didn’t have to enter the coordinates or attain them and program them into the flight computer on her wrist.

Teela was still monitoring the activities at the bank through the cellular data link. As she flies towards her office, she formulates a plan on what she wants to do. She’ll come in from the roof entrance and make her way down towards the vault.

After about twenty minutes or so of flying, Teela lands on the roof of the old bank and enters through the roof access. She prepares herself for the upcoming battle. She grabs a few smoke grenades and flashbang grenades she and Emily made for the movie. She doesn’t want to leave her wings behind, but she can move faster without them.

Emily arrives at the bank and looks towards the surrounding building for Teela. She dials Teela’s number “Where are you?”

Teela’s notices on her helmet hud system Emily’s number. She answers the call.

“I’m inside the building heading down towards the vault.”

“I thought we were trying to capture them out here.” Emily walks around towards the loading dock and spots their van and the getaway drivers waiting.

“They’re still having problems getting into the vault itself. It looks like they can’t figure out how the locking mechanism works. I figure I can sneak down there and take them out.” Teela hopes she doesn’t get hurt.

“Alright, I’ll disable their getaway van out here. There’s only two men inside.” Emily could see them, but not see her.

Emily hangs up and heads back to her car. She pops her trunk and looks at all the gear she normally travels with. Some of it was things they needed on short notice. She grabs a few items that she could use to disable the van.

Emily moves carefully and makes sure she isn’t spotted as she manages to sneak past the men inside the van. She places small remote
explosives on each wheel and underneath on the rear axle. The explosives were powerful enough to blow the tires and damage the hog head.

Inside The Bank:
Teela manages to sneak down to the vault room and peeks around the corner. She activates the remote feature on the flashbangs and smoke grenades. She slides them across the floor into the vault room and once they stop. She activates them.

Ralph and the other men in the room hear explosions as the flashbangs explode with bright blinding light. The high-pitched screeching sound they emit irritates the men and distracts them. Before the men can react they are hit in the chest by a polearm and 26 million volts of electricity travel throughout their body, knocking them out.

Teela uses her staff to deliver a more powerful shock to the person who grounded himself by placing his hands on the vault door. Also, the person who looked to be in charge was fighting to stay on his feet after being hit. She gives him a second jolt and it knocks him out.

“Do what you need to do Emily.” Teela looks around at all the men lying on the floor unconscious.

“Roger!” Emily presses the remote button.

All the explosions go off at the same time. As for the men inside, she tosses a flashbang towards them and takes them out. Emily walks over and uses some zip ties to secure their hands behind their back. Afterward, Emily calls the police to come and pick up the men she was guarding.

Teela gives Agent Amos, Agent Wears a phone call as well about the men she was busy zip-tying.

When Agent Amos and Agent Wears arrive at the bank, they spot Teela wearing an outfit that resembles a Falcon. The two of them knew Teela and her partner were in the movie business. But seeing Teela in an outfit that resembled a falcon was another thing.

“I hope you aren’t being a vigilante, Ms. Falco.” Agent Wears looks over towards Teela.

“Nope, not me Agent Wears. I was trying out some new gadgets I added to this suit when I discovered these men in my building.” Teela knew she needed to come up with a better cover story.

“How come I don’t believe you?” Agent Amos looks at Teela with a skeptical look on his face.

“Hey, it’s the truth. Besides, what reason would I have to lie to you?” A smile appears on Teela’s face.

“How about your partner Ms. Tesla and the men outside?” Agent Wears wanted to know why Emily was outside.

“Easy, she was approaching the building and spotted a suspicious van parked at our loading dock. She sneaked close to get pictures of their faces and overheard them talking about these guys. So, she used some of the special gadgets we make to disable their van until you guys got here.” Teela knew Emily was in the bathroom.

Agent Amos shakes his head because he didn’t believe a word of what Ms. Falco told him.

“The vigilante business isn’t something you want to get involved in, Ms. Falco.” Agent Wears wanted to warn Teela and her partner Emily off of that idea.

“You might be right, Agent Wears.” Teela knew officials like Agent Wears and Agent Amos never liked when people worked outside of the law to do what they did legally.

Aylin’s House:
Aylin was snuggled close to Mark in bed. All the kids were home and asleep. The two of them had fallen asleep with the television in their bedroom still turned on. So, they were used to it being on.

Mark wakes up to go to the bathroom and turn the television off. After relieving his bladder, he hears a noise in the hallway. He walks out into the hallway and spots a shadowy figure standing in the middle of the hallway.

“You better have a good reason for being in my home, bub.”

The shadowy figure turns and spots a man with short black hair and wearing a pair of boxers standing no more than six feet from him. He had no idea who he was, but that wasn’t going to stop him. He lifts his arm and fires at the man.

Mark watches as the figure lifts his arm towards him. He already could guess what the figure was planning to do. He changes his stance so whatever the figure was firing at him, misses. He charges towards the guy, tackling him.

The shadowy figure feels himself tackled and tries to keep from falling backwards, but hits the carpeted floor. He gets the wind knocked out of him by the man tackling him. He uses his other hand to touch a concealed button on his suit.

Mark starts shaking as a strong jolt of electricity hits his bare skin. He lets go of the person as he rolls away from him.

“You just made a big mistake, mister.” Mark watches as the black figure rolls backward and springs up.

Out of nowhere, Bear comes charging out of one of the bedrooms and attacks the guy. The shadowy figure gets knocked backwards from the huge German Shepard hitting him and grabbing onto his arm. He tried fighting off the dog, but it had its mouth clamped tight onto his arm.

Just as the shadowy figure was going to shock the dog. A fist comes out of nowhere and hits his head. The suit he was wearing protected him, but he felt the impact. He felt another punch hit his stomach.

Mark used the distraction Bear was causing to move in and punch the person in the face. He noticed when his bare fist connected with the material of whatever the guy was wearing, that it was tough and flexible. He punched the person again in the stomach and felt the material absorb the punch.

The shadowy figure manages to press the concealed button again and sends a huge jolt of electricity through the suit, to knock the dog off him. He blocks a punch coming at him from the guy. Just as he was going to hit the guy, he got hit in the middle of his forehead by a round object.

Aylin was woken up by the commotion out in the hallway. She heard Bear growl as she moved towards her bedroom door. She stopped and looked out into the hallway and spotted Bear letting go of some shadowy figure’s arm and heard a yelp from Bear. She saw her husband moving in to punch the figure.

She grabbed Mark’s prized baseball he caught and had signed and threw it towards the shadowy figure’s forehead with all her strength. The hallway was too narrow for her, Bear, and Mark to fight together. She looks back in the bedroom for something she could throw or shoot.

Mark spotted his prized baseball land in front of him. He knew Aylin must have woken up and threw the baseball at the shadowy figure. Bear was standing next to him ready to attack again. He heard Bear yelp and let go of the shadowy figure and figure Bear got zapped like he did.

The shadowy figure didn’t count on facing a fucking dog, and an MMA fighter when he took the assignment. It seemed that attacking the person he was sent after in their home was a mistake. He tosses down a smoke bomb and uses it to cover his escape.

Angie and the kids were woken by all the commotion out in the hallway. Angie opened her bedroom door slightly and saw a shadowy figure attacking Mark and Bear. She spotted Aylin in a nightgown near her and Mark’s bedroom door. The next thing she sees is the shadowy figure throwing something down towards the floor and a bunch of smoke filling the hallway.

She shuts her bedroom door quickly, to stop it from getting into the bedroom. She could hear Mark coughing on the other side of her door. She hopes he will be okay.

Mark was coughing from the smoke. The hallway was filled by a white cloud of dense smoke. He grabs Bear by his collar and makes his way back to his and Aylin’s bedroom, dragging Bear with him.

Aylin helps Mark and Bear into the bedroom and closes the door. She hopes her children didn’t open their bedroom door. She turns her attention towards Mark “Are you okay?”

Mark looks at Aylin when she asks “Yeah, I’m okay. Who the fuck was that person?”

“I don’t know, sweetie. I’m going to check on the kids and make sure they are okay.” Aylin goes about checking on the kids.

Mark looks down at Bear “You did good boy. Let’s check the house and find out how that prick got in.”
Mark heads downstairs to check the doors and windows.

Aylin’s and Mark’s Place:
Mark and Bear look around downstairs. Bear picks up a scent and follows it towards the den. He continues following the scent over towards the sliding glass doors.

“Good boy, Bear.” Mark starts looking at the lock but finds nothing wrong with it.

He examines the security connections that were embedded in the metal rail and the glass as well. Mark looks around the den and notices the motion detectors and hidden cameras are off. He knew the breaker box for the house was in the garage. The control panel for the alarm system was concealed.

Aylin checks on the kids and makes sure all of them are alright. She also checks on Angie as well.

“Is everything okay, Aylin?” Angie watches as Aylin enters the guest room.

“Everything is fine. I’m just checking on everyone.” Ever since Aylin became a mother. Her instincts are on full alert for the safety of her children.

The last person who threatened her children found themselves facing her mean and dangerous side. Aylin knew Angie could defend herself, but as long as she was under her roof. She would protect her.

“Why do you think that person was here?” Angie was wondering why a killer had broken into Aylin’s house.

“I don’t know, but Mark and I will find out. Now, why don’t you go back to sleep, okay?” The motherly side of Aylin was coming out.

“I’ll try.” Angie snuggles back under her covers.

Aylin comes over and tucks Angie in. She looks down at her friend “Sleep tight.”

“Thanks.”

Aylin turns and leaves the bedroom. She shut the door, so Angie could get some sleep. She walks downstairs to see what Mark and Bear have discovered. She spots the two in the den near the sliding glass door.

“Is that where the intruder came in?” Aylin loved the sliding glass doors, but if they are a security concern, she’ll have them removed.

“Yeah, plus he knocked out the motion detectors and cameras in here as well.” Mark wonders how the intruder did that.

“He could have used a device similar to the one Terry made for us.” Aylin knew they had a device that could knock out a security system and all the cameras.

“True, if Terry can come up with it, then anyone who is an established thief/assassin can develop something similar.” Mark starts walking towards the garage to reset the system.

Aylin reaches down and scratches Bear between his ears. She wonders what type of bodysuit the intruder wore because Bear’s teeth hadn’t been able to penetrate it. She wonders if one of her uncle’s huge wolves could.

“All right, the system has been reset. Let’s go back to bed.” Mark looks over towards Aylin as she pets Bear.

Mark and Aylin head back upstairs to their bedroom, but before turning in. Mark sets up a secondary alert system that wouldn’t look out of place.

Teela’s Residence:
Teela turns the alarm off when it goes off. She was tired and was taking a day off. She had an appointment with Jester later for more training.
Since the agents had the weapons and the crooks that wanted them were locked up for a very long time. She was going to spend time in bed this morning because if the training goes anything like it did last time. She will regret it later.

As Teela is lying snuggled up under her blankets. The ring doorbell rings. Teela reaches over to her nightstand and looks at who is at the door. She saw that Charity was standing at the front door.

She gets up out of bed slips her nightgown on and starts walking towards the front door. She unlocks the door and opens it “Morning, Charity.”

“Morning, cousin. May I come in?” Charity noticed that Teela still had bed hair.

“Of course.” Teela stands aside to let Charity come in.

As Teela closes the door behind Charity “So what brings you by this morning?”

Teela follows Charity over to the sofa and sits down. Teela sits down in her favorite recliner.

“Just checking on you. How are your shoulders?” Charity figures since she was in the city, she would check on her cousin.

“Would you like some coffee or tea?”

“Tea, please. So, how are your shoulders?” Charity watches as Teela gets up and walks towards the kitchen.

“They are doing fine. So, how are things going for you, Charity?” Teela looks at her cousin since the apartment was an open design.

“Good, I was in the city and thought I’d come by and check on you. Have you gotten the insurance money for your truck yet?”

“Nope, I haven’t. Emily and I are taking a couple of days off for a while before we go back to work.”

“Well, I might know a dealer where you can get a good deal on a semi-new truck. The dealership goes over every truck it buys and makes sure
everything is up to code. He also offers an extended warranty as well.”

“Cool, I’ll inform Emily, and the three of us can go and visit the dealership together.” Teela walks back over to where Charity is sitting with a tray.

She sets it down on the coffee table and serves charity her tea, while she has coffee.