A Birds Of A Feather Story.
Somewhere Over the Amazon:
“What the hell just hit us?” Cortney felt the back of the plane explode as it just got hit.
Jennifer was fighting off a strange creature that she had never seen before. Just as she summoned lightning to strike the creature, she spotted the prop plane her teammates and Patricia’s daughter Stephanie was intercepted by a missile that came out of the jungle below them.
“May day, may day, this is aircraft N342AB and we’re going down.” Cortney was sending out a mayday on the emergency channel she knew Ghost back at the mountain was monitoring.
“Brace yourself, ladies. We’re going down.” Cortney tries to guide the damaged plane through the canopy of the jungle as the wings tear off. The plane hits a body of water and starts filling the damaged plane. Yellow particles in the water start attaching themselves to each girl, passing through the protective clothing they are wearing. The plane sinks deeper and deeper into the body of murky water.
Jennifer manages to scare off the creature that attacked her. She dives down into the canopy of the jungle where her friends crashed through. She feels her wings cut through the thick tree limbs as she spots the damaged tail of the plane sticking up out of the water. The plane was almost completely submerged in the pool of water.
Just as she grabbed the wreck tail end of the plane fuselage. A huge anaconda wraps itself around her body, pinning her wings against her body.
“I don’t have time for this, snake.” Jennifer causes the skies above where she is to darken and heavy rain starts pouring down. She summons a powerful lightning bolt to strike the snake.
The energy travels through the snake down her arms and into the water. The murky pool of water lights and glows very bright. Cortney, Stephanie, Kara, and Jessie’s bodies start jerking as the energy from the lightning bolt reacts with the water and the yellow particles that enter their bodies.
The snake gets fired into a cider. The snake’s dead body releases Jennifer as she uses all her supernatural strength to pull the wrecked plane out of the water. She couldn’t believe how bright the water was glowing or that everything inside the plane was glowing as well, including her friends.
She places the damaged plane in a safe area and starts pulling everyone out. She had to administer first aid to everyone to get them breathing again and to start their hearts. She hoped the energy from the lightning bolt that traveled through her body didn’t cause their hearts to stop. She does that there was a faint glow under their skin, but was fading fast. She’ll have to remember to tell the medics back at base.
Jennifer knew she needed to contact the base and tell them where she and the team were. She looks around and grabs the emergency satellite phone that was lying nearby. She flies back up through the canopy of the trees and as high as she can to send a signal back to the base. She hoped Ghost was monitoring their emergency channel.
After waiting a few minutes and trying several different channels. She manages to finally get through to an American military vessel that relays her emergency back to the base. They offered to send a helicopter out to her location to pick her friends up.
Jennifer thanks them and dives back down to where her friends are lying unconscious. She spotted another anaconda trying to get to her friends. She fries him with another lightning strike. She looks towards the pool of murky water and notices it isn’t glowing anymore. It was as black as ink.
All the glowing particles Jennifer saw were gone. She kneels next to her friends and makes sure everyone is doing okay, especially Stephanie, since she was still underage and was Patricia’s adopted daughter.
After a few hours, the rescue helicopter from the USS Flagg arrives and with help from her. They manage to bring all four of the ladies up to the helicopter. Jennifer retrieves all the equipment and black boxes from the wrecked aircraft.
She knew Mrs. Blake would send a recovery team out to retrieve the pieces of the aircraft. She’ll come with them to protect them from those huge ass snakes. She has never seen anacondas so fucking big before.
The medics aboard the Flagg double-check her companions over and make sure nothing is wrong with them. The captain and the commanding officer of the Marines onboard the Flagg wanted to talk with her.
Captain’s Quarters:
Captain Franklin Rooker and General David Grayhawk look at the young Native American woman standing before them. They had questions and wanted to know why she and her team were down in Brazil. All the women they helped bring back were young adults and wearing specialized outfits. Among them was a teenage girl who couldn’t be any younger than fifteen years old.
“Do mind explaining to us Mrs.?”
“Running Bear. And no, I would prefer not to explain to you why me and my companions were down here. All, I can tell you is we were researching some hidden structures underneath the canopy.” Jennifer knew it was a lame excuse, but she couldn’t tell them the real reason.
“And what organization do you and your companions work for?” General Grayhawk wanted to know that info.
“The Academy of Scientific Discovery, sir. We’re an independent scientific organization that has no relationships to any government.” Jennifer had to admit that Mrs. Blake’s foundation created the organization to allow them to enter places most others couldn’t enter.
“So, what took down your plane?” General Grayhawk was curious about that.
“Unknown, sir. It could have been a group of mercs working for the cartel down here and felt we were trespassing on their drug business.”
Jennifer knew where they were in the cartel and other merc companies’ territory.
“What were you doing while your companions were being attacked?” Captain Rooker was wondering why Mrs. Running Bear didn’t protect her companions.
“I was dealing with a creature that has never been seen before, sir. This creature appeared out of thin air and tried to kill me. While I was dealing with it, a missile was shot at the plane my friends were in. It struck the tail of the plane and they went crashing down.” Jennifer had heard rumors of flying creatures in the area but had never given them much worry.
“We’ll do everything for your friends. Go ahead place a call to your organization.” General Grayhawk didn’t think they were going to get any more information from Mrs. Running Bear.
“Thank you, sir.” Jennifer turns and leaves the captain’s quarter.
General Grayhawk looks over towards his friend Captain Rooker “She’s covering up something.”
“You think? Do you think they were investigating the same thing we came down here to do?”
“It’s possible, but I don’t think so.” General Grayhawk wonders what Mrs. Running Bear’s true reason is for being here.
Jennifer heads towards the medical bay to check on her friends. She was going to have a lot of explaining to do when they got back. She enters the medical bay and sees the doctor and several medics checking on each woman.
“How are they, doctor?” Jennifer was worried about all of them.
“They are stabilized and doing okay.” Doctor Drake couldn’t explain why the girls wouldn’t wake up. There was no reason why they should be unconscious.
“Do you mind if I sit with them, Doctor?” Jennifer looks towards Dr. Drake.
“Not at all, ma’am.” Dr. Drake leaves so Jennifer can sit with her friends.
“Come on ladies, wake up or Pat is going to throw a hissy fit.”
“This is Delta 4 to the control tower, I have our ladies and request a medical team on the tarmac.” Patricia glanced at the monitor that was watching over the cargo bay where all the stasis pods were being stored.
She was checking each pod to make sure everything was working okay with them. She was concerned about her adopted daughter. Physically, there wasn’t anything wrong with everyone, but they were still unconscious.
“Roger Delta 4. The medical response team will be waiting for you.” Kelly Anderson hopes everything is alright with Patricia’s team.
Jennifer watches as Patricia brings the transport plane in and lands it carefully. She knew Patricia could have used the hovering capability of the transport as she did when she landed on the aircraft carrier. Instead, she was landing the transport the normal way.
Dr. Harris watched as the transport plane carrying the Delta team landed. She and her people were ready to sprint out to the plane.
“Alright, Rescue, get us out there.”
“On it, boss.” Rescue/ Alicia floors the transport unit and heads right for the loading dock on the transport team.
“Alright team, let's get these ladies inside and see what is wrong with them.” Dr. Harris knew Pat must be worried sicked because Stephanie was one of the injured.
The medical team reacts quickly and disconnects the medical pods from the transport power supply. Each pod had its internal power but could be connected to an external power supply. Two team members each take one of the medical pods and carefully roll them down the ramp and over toward the medical transport.
Rescue and her partner, Rush check each pod and secure them as they are loaded. Once all four pods are loaded, Rush gets behind the steering wheel and drives towards the receiving bay where Dr. Harris and her medical team will meet them. Rush backs the transport into the bay and more medical staff helps unload the pods and take them to medical examination room alpha.
Jennifer looks over at Pat “Stephanie will recover, Pat.”
“I know, I just feel helpless.” Patricia closes the ramp and lets the maintenance crew move the transport plane over to the storage hangar.
She and Jennifer walk towards the pilot’s entrance at the mountain and check in with the security guard on duty. Just as they are about to head towards medical, Patricia receives a message “Pat, I need for you to head to New Orleans and pick up two medical pods waiting for you.”
“Ivy, can’t you get someone else to do it?” Patricia wanted to be by her daughter’s side.
“I wish I could, but the weather is bad down there and you’re the most qualified pilot we have here.” Ivy knew how Patricia felt. If her child was in medical and in a medical pod, she would want to be with her.
“Fine, I’m taking Jennifer with me. Maybe she can calm the storms down there.”
“That’s fine, Delta 2 is waiting for you on runway 3.” Ivy already had Delta 2 prep and was ready to go.
Patricia turns and looks towards Jennifer “You’re coming with me to New Orleans.”
“Pat, I would rather stay here and be by my team’s side.” Jennifer didn’t want to leave her team.
“I know and I feel the same way, but the weather down in New Orleans is bad and I could use your help.” Patricia knew how Jennifer felt.
“Fine, let me text my husband and let him know.” Jennifer texts Markus letting him know she was flying down to New Orleans with Patricia.
A smirk appears on Jennifer’s face when she gets a reply from him. She didn’t know he knew about the special pastries down in New Orleans. She follows Patricia back out to the tarmac and over to the smaller transport plane. This one was designed like the quinjet from the television show, Sheild.
“What or who are we picking up from New Orleans, Pat?” As Jennifer walks up the ramp.
“Don’t know. They will be waiting for us at the airport.” Patricia was worried about Stephanie. Her other daughter was with her husband. She already informed him she wasn’t going to be coming home any time soon.
“Well, since it’s going to be an hour or so before we get there. I’m placing an order for gumbo, Beignets, and pralines. I figure by the time we arrive; it will be waiting for us.” Jennifer wanted to surprise her husband.
Back At the Mountain:
Dr. Harris and Dr. Blake were running every test they could to see what was going on with the girls from the Delta team. All their vitals were above average and they noticed when they tried to take a blood sample from Cortney. They couldn’t penetrate her skin at all.
Dr. Harris noticed that Cortney’s body measurements had changed since she had come back from Brazil. She weighed at least 300 lbs. and had a very muscular Amazonian build to her. Her chest had expanded from a 34G cup to a 40K cup and was now six foot four inches tall, where she used to be five foot seven inches tall and weighed 160 lbs. Even her waist and hips had changed. Her new measurements were 54 inches breasts 32 inches waist and 44 inches hips.
As for the other girls, nothing physically was different about them. However, when Dr. Blake tested their blood, she noticed they had active metahuman genes. According to their medical records, none of them had the gene before.
Dr. Harris noticed that Jessie’s brain activity was more active than normal. Her skin was tougher and her body had undergone some changes as well.
“Dr. Blake, are you seeing this?” Dr. Harris looks over towards Edward. She knew he was the son of their employer Janet Blake. He specialized in abnormal abnormalities in human beings.
“Yeah, I’m seeing this, but I don’t believe it. It’s like all these ladies, including Stephanie, are changing their DNA.” Edward couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
He read the report he got from Jennifer and looked over the medical notes Dr. Drake sent back with the girls. All the new data he was getting about the ladies, showed they had undergone some changes in the last twenty-four hours.
Four hours later, Patricia and Jennifer return from New Orleans with two girls. One girl looked like she got hit by lightning and had a gothic look about her. The New Orleans Police Department found her in one of their oldest graveyards and it looked like she had been performing some sort of ritual. The other girl was as young as Stephanie and had been a victim of a shooting, but whatever the bullet traveled through had infected her with the substance. Her body was undergoing changes and the doctors didn’t know what was happening to her.
Rescued and Rush met Delta 2 on the tarmac and transported the two ladies down to the same operating room where Delta squad was. Edward’s twin sister who happened to be visiting the mountain and was a doctor as well came into the medical room to look after the other two women.
While the two women were being looked after. Background searches were being done on the two of them. Ivy and Ghost were accessing every computer system to find out more about these ladies.