Anika Jaager sights in on her target as she adjusts her targeting sights on her sniper rifle. Her mentor Jack Bounty trained her to be one of the best snipers around. She wasn’t up at his level, but she could give him a run for his money. She had heard he had retired and gotten married again and adopted two teenage girls.

As soon as the target came into view. She pulls the trigger and watch as the bastard drops dead from a bullet to his head. There was no sound from her rifle as she pulled the trigger. The new silencer and flash suppressor design built by a fellow known only as Ratchet worked as advertise. Even the specialized rounds that were self-guided had worked better then she expected.

Anika breaks down her rifle and heads back to her snow mobile and heads back to her cabin. The new rifle and the new improvements performed by Ratchet on it was worth the money she had spent buying it. The US military were stupid to turn down the new bullet technology Ratchet had perfected. Self-guided bullets would change the landscape for snipers and military personal. All you had to do was lock the target with the laser and the bullet did the rest. It had lock the second it left the barrel.

Once she arrives back at her cabin she heads inside and peel herself out of her winter gear so that the only thing she had on was her bra and panties. The cabin was warm and secluded. She walks into her bedroom and sit down at her laptop and send the message that the goose was ready for dinner tonight. She used her personal encryption code so that the only way you could decode the message was with her other key to decipher the message. She wasn’t worried about any one intercepting this message, because unless you knew what they were referring to you wouldn’t understand it. The US government hasn’t been able to decipher her codes.

Who would had thought that three years ago she would have been reborn into this gorgeous body? The bastard she just shot was the reason she had to remake herself over as a woman. The bastard had ruined the operation that her and three other friends of her had been doing.
Somehow, some way he had come across information that he was under investigation for illegal arms deals. He had been taken US arms and selling them to countries that were banned. Her and her team was just to gather evidence and bring that evidence to the US Attorney General so charges could be filed against the man for treason.

Somehow, they had been made and a hit squad had been sent after them. All her friends had been killed and she would had died as well if not for the training her mentor Jack Bounty had given her. He had taught a survival course sponsored by MI6 for the ATF, NSA, FBI and CIA. All the people that had signed up for his course were put through hell for two weeks. He took them out to the middle of nowhere with just what they had in their pockets and made them make their way back to where they had arrived. He had gone with them to show them how to survive and then left them with only a map and a compass.

She had survived his training and asked if he was willing to teach her more. He had agreed and so she used up all her accumulated vocation time which was about a months’ worth and used it to be trained by him for one whole month. During that time, she had become a friend to him and he became someone she could trust to bail her ass out or if she needed help to do a job. He was her mentor and she wanted to know everything he knew.

His training had saved her life, but where he was he couldn’t get out. His body was to batter and beaten to make it out under his own power. So, he had managed to get a message out to him and several days later after sending the message. Just before she was ready to surrender to death. He appeared and threw her over his shoulders with that dam demon dog of his beside him and carried her all the way to safety.

She had told Jack what had happen and he had volunteer to solve the problem himself, but she wanted to do it. A plan had already been hatching in her head while she was waiting for him to show-up and rescue her. He told her whatever she needed he would provide. So, they faked her death and created a background for her with full records so if someone went digging they would find what they were looking for. He had contacts all over the world that either worked for him or they owed him favors.

He had taken her to a private hospital that would do the necessary operation without asking questions. While she was recovering they changed her body so no one would ever be able to recognize it again. Afterwards when she had recovered enough to be trained, he undid all her former training and retrained her in his style. She became almost as deadly as he was in weapons and guns. Anything that could be used as a weapon from a toothbrush to a broom he trained her to use. Even in hand-to-hand combat taught her how to use everything. They would train for sixteen hours and sleep and eat for the other eight hours.

He took her on survival training in environments that would kill most people. They even went shark hunting using only their hands for weapons. She almost bought it on that survival mission. A shark almost had her for dinner. If he hadn’t been there, she wouldn’t be here now.
He made her eat things you wouldn’t think of eating to survive. His final test was avoiding him and his friend Cheshire while trying to survive. She had a partner with her when she went through that test. Some guy called Bart Hardy that had been trained by both him and Cheshire. She still has the scar on her left upper arm were Jack nicked her with his rifle. He said that was his marked as being trained by him. Her and Bart barely made it to the finish line. When they did they were covered in blood and some serious wounds from all the dirty traps and tricks Jack and Cheshire had gotten them with.

Anika gets up and walks into the kitchen and fix herself some coffee. She had to be in New York for a telecommunications event that the company she worked for was hosting. The company was owned by Jack, but he only took an interest if he wanted something or if the company wasn’t doing good. He was famous for threating to take their heads and mount them at the entrance of the building. He had other businesses, but the telecommunication ones were his baby because with these he could spy on any one’s cell phone at any time.

Anika heads into the bathroom and takes a nice leisure bath. When she is done, she gets dress in one of the designer dresses she has had made just for her. She has been enjoying the money she has taken from that guy she had killed. She drives her Jaguar to the airport and takes the private Lear Jet back to New York.

Anika couldn’t believe the disarray of everything. She had sent out memo’s and instructions to everyone on what she wanted done for this event. She looks at the security assignments and added a few extra people and changed where they were supposed to be assigned. Her chief of security should go through one of Jack’s training classes. The man uses to be a New York City police officer before he was forced to retire do to his weight problem. He had a good mind for police work and solved a lot of cases, but his weight was a contributing factor to his force retirement. The other factor was he wouldn’t play the politic games they wanted him to play at the precinct and at City Hall. His second, she knew more about. The woman had tried several times to become a member of SWAT and they refused her each time. The other item that was against her, her wife was an independent fashion designer that had been on Project Runway and did extremely well for herself. She had a small specialized clothing line that she produce for several high end stores and retail stores.

Anika might send Elizabeth to Bart to be trained. She heard he was going to retire because his new wife was almost killed by a former Russian agent that had it in for Bart. He had kidnapped Bart’s wife and held her as hostage while forcing Bart to do what he said. What the Russian agent didn’t know was, Bart had contacted her for help. Between the two of them they took the agent down. Bart’s wife however had almost died and he didn’t want to see that happen again, so he got out of the game. They still stayed in touch with one another.

Her and Bart didn’t want to call their mentors in to help. Cheshire was known to make people disappear permanently like Jack did. However,
Jack made sure you knew it was him. He liked leaving his calling card as a message to back the fuck off or you’ll be next on my list.

Anika presses a button on her phone to have her trusted secretary to come in.

Shigeko comes walking into Ms. Jaager office. She liked working for her and trusted her with her life. She had been a Thailand ladyboy that had been forced into that lifestyle. Because her parents couldn’t afford their medical bills and being the last born of four children they couldn’t afford to raise him. So, he had been forced by circumstance to become a lady boy.

Anika had saved him from an abusive client that loved to torture his playthings till they were broken. She took him under her wing and educated her. Anika had paid for her parent’s medical bills. She was her sponsor here in the states and pulled some strings to get her, her citizenship. She had offered her this job as her personal secretary if she wanted it. She knew what Ms. Jaager’s real job was and would take it to the grave with her.

“You rang, oh marvelous one?” Shigeko had a smile on her face when she said that.

Anika just gives her a dirty look. She hated it when Shigeko called her those names.

Shigeko just smiles as she gets her pad ready. She knew she could get away with it, because she would do anything for this woman that saved her life. She had paid for her operation to make her a complete woman. The man she was going to marry was a popular chef for one of New York’s popular restaurants. She had met him while setting up catering arrangements for another event the company had hosted. Her boyfriend was handling this event as well.

“I need for you to have Elizabeth Sumner sent up here to my office. Also, call Bart and see if he will be available to train Elizabeth for me. If he can, go ahead and find out when and make the necessary arrangements and travel for her stay. Pull the money out of my personal London account. She’ll more than likely stay at Bart’s ranch down in Texas. “

“Should I make arrangements for her wife as well? She might want to go with her?” Shigeko knew Elizabeth’s wife liked to travel and they had been talking about vising Texas.

“Find out if it’s okay with Bart first. The type of training I want Bart to teach her isn’t something they teach at the police academy or in the military unless you are a kite for the CIA or FBI.”

Elizabeth was going to be her special agent here in the company and a few other places she could send her. If nothing else, she might be able to get Elizabeth on a SWAT team. She would hate to lose her, but she knew how desperate Elizabeth wanted to prove herself and grow.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you. Mr. Ratchet called and wanted to know if the special ammo he sent you worked okay? Also, if he could have access to our satellite occasionally, for jobs.”

“Tell him, he can have access to our Freedom satellites. Go ahead and establish an account for him on those satellites. I don’t think Jack will mind. I’ll send him a message later. Is there anything else?”

Shigeko flip a few pages back on her pad to see if she had missed anything and spotted a note about a dish her boyfriend wanted to try at the event. She had tasted it and it was extremely good.

“Chef Brandis wants to know if he could introduce a new dish at the event today? I was his guinea pig for it and it was extremely good. He’s only offering it here at our event.”

Anika had to think about that one. Chef Brandis was a good chef and had been on Triple D’s. Because of his appearance on that show, the restaurant he was part owner of had been doing amazing business.

“Go ahead and tell him yes. Since, you have tasted the food and you’re still alive. I’ll give my approval and if it is a big success, we’ll make it one of our standard event dishes.”

“Thank you Ms. Jaager. I know you’ll be pleased with it.”

Shigeko had been worried she might had said no. Unless, Ms. Jaager tasted the dish herself, she wouldn’t approve it.

“I trust your opinion, Shigeko. Now off you go.” Anika watches as Shigeko walks out with a little playful sway in her hips.

Anika just laughs at her antics. Shigeko knew she was bi-sexual and had a thing for oriental women. Her taste in men was different. She liked the farmer/cowboy type of men. The ones that worked the land and made an honest living using their hands. She was currently involved with a man from Wyoming. He had moved to New York to take over his Uncle’s farm in Cambridge, NY. They had met at a rodeo and spent several days and nights with each other. He didn’t know about her other job yet. If they ever decided to get married, she would tell him all about her second job. She wanted to protect him from that world. She had already confessed that she uses to be a male, but secretly had wanted to be a woman. He took it well and understood.

Anika works for a while, before there was a knock on her office door.

“Enter.” Anika looks up from what she was working on to see who it was.

Elizabeth comes walking in wearing the company security uniform. Upper management in each department wore custom tailored uniforms that the company paid for and maintained.

“Elizabeth, it’s good to see you. Come on in and have a seat.” Anika motions to the chairs in front of her desk.

Elizabeth had wonder why Shigeko had wanted her to report to Ms. Jaager’s office. She hopes she isn’t in trouble for telling one of the department heads to get his head out of his ass and follow the security procedures they sent out the other day. Her and her supervisor Harry had been told by Ms. Jaager, that she wanted all employees to start following security procedure’s here at the office and in the R&D research labs.

Once Elizabeth was seated “how’s your morning been?”

“Boring actually. Not much trouble occurs here at the office. I had a few department heads give me an earful when I reminded them that you
had wanted the new security procedures followed. I had to threaten them to either follow them or I’ll report them to you.”

“Did you record their names and departments?”

“Not yet ma’am. I wanted to give them a chance to straighten their butts up.” Elizabeth wanted to be fair to them.

“Make a note in your journal, but don’t write them up unless they don’t do what you ask. I’ll have a talk with them about following company policy. I have an opportunity for you that will challenge you.” Anika presses the security button built into her desk.

“Sometimes, I take particular jobs that require certain skill sets. Recently, there has been an increase of the jobs I have been taking that take me out of the office for a few days. Some of it has been playing body guard for the celebrities and sometimes it has been security details for diplomats. If you’re interested in that type of work and would still like to work here as well. I can arrange it. I have a good friend that can train you to be better than a SWAT officer or a Special Forces person. All the expensive will be picked up by me and all you will have to do is do a few jobs for me. You’ll have the right to turn down these jobs. These can be dangerous jobs and it can put your life in danger, but if you want to help people like you have been telling me and want to grow. This is a once in a lifetime offer from me. Also, what is said in this room stays in this room. No one except four other people will know what is going on. Two of those four are people you have met briefly.”

Elizabeth looks at her boss and couldn’t believe what she was offering and what she was finding out about her. She knew Ms. Jaager had connections and could do things most corporate type couldn’t do, but to have it verified from the horse’s mouth is unusual.

“What type of jobs are we talking about and why me?”

“I can’t go into details about the jobs, but some of the jobs may require you to take out people who are doing very bad things and are getting away with it. Either because they are so well connected or have learned how to use loopholes in our law system to avoid justice or even go to another country to avoid going to jail. Why am I approaching you with this offer?”

Anika gets up from behind her desk and walks around to look at Elizabeth “because you have so much to offer and your talents are being wasted here doing security work. I know your background, Elizabeth. I also know you have been wanting to be a SWAT officer since you were a little girl. I know you tried numerous times when you use to be a patrol officer for NYPD and other cities and got turned down. Now, you could use the skills I’m sending you to learn to join SWAT, but they would be wasted. You would be better than your other officers. Even the ones that have been doing their job for years. You would still have your job here as a cover, but I would use you for jobs I can’t perform myself because of how well known I am. Just think about this offer and let me know if you want it. We’ll discuss this more after that time.”

Anika walks back around to her desk and press the button again.

“Is there anything else you would like to inform me about?”

Elizabeth almost didn’t answer Anika she spoke to her. She was thinking about the offer she just made.

“Yes, ma’am. Lately, one of our IT cold sites have been active. I asked the Chief Information Officer about it, but he told me to forget about it.
He said they were doing some routine upgrades and maintenance on the system. However, when I checked the logs to see who authorized this. There was no signature or paperwork to be found about it.” Elizabeth had been curious why someone would use one of their cold sites.

“You said the CIO said to forget about it and didn’t bother to investigate the matter?” Now Anika was curious.

“Yes, ma’am. He just told me to forget about it.” Elizabeth couldn’t understand why and it was bothering her.

“Okay, I’m authorizing you to do some quiet digging to find out. Don’t take any unauthorized action and report what you find to me.” Anika wanted to find out before Jack came down and started to ask questions.

“Yes ma’am.” Elizabeth gets up and walks out of the office.

Terry goes through the gears on his stick shift as he outs runs the cops chasing him. Haven’t they learned yet they can’t catch him. He checks to make sure the jammer was still working as he gives his car more gas and takes a tight turn. He had one delivery to make tonight and he wasn’t going to be late delivering the package. He cuts his lights off and switch to the night vision cameras as he comes a to stretch of road that had no streetlights or houses.

He steps down more on the gas pedal and hits 150mph as he heads towards his turn off. The cops were distance lights in his rear-view cameras. He takes the turn with ease as he lets up off the gas as he drifts around the turn. He begins to slow down as he comes to the drop off spot for the delivery. The person he was delivering this package for said to be at these GPS coordinates at the appointed time. He makes there with ten minutes to spare. The meeting place was out in the middle of nowhere. He sits there waiting for his contact to show-up.

After ten minutes past the time he was supposed to drop his package. A van shows up and pulls up on the other side. He watches as the van turns around so that the passenger side door and the sliding side door was on his side facing him.

“Gives us the package.” Four guys had gotten out and had their guns pointed at him.

The guys were carrying AK47’s and pointing them at him and his car. He smiles beneath his helmet. Let them be dumb enough to fire their guns at him.

“Money first. You don’t get your package till I get the money.” Terry had his foot on the gas pedal just in case these guys don’t play ball.

“Give us the package or we’ll take it from you.” All four guys had their guns pointed towards the tires and window.

“Go ahead. You’ll kill yourself before you get into this car.” He revs the engine and gets ready to slam the shifter down.

They start shooting at the car. Bullets ricochet off the armor skin of the car and the tires. Terry slams the car into gear and takes off down the road, but before he leaves he fires two miniature rockets towards the van. No one fires at his car and gets away with it. The van explodes as the rockets hit it.

Terry speeds down the road and follows the GPS system to a side road he can take to get back to his garage to hide his car. He made sure to turn the jammer off so the police and military couldn’t lock onto it. He pulls the car into a hidden garage and parks it for the night. As he climbs out he takes his helmet off and lay it down on the driver seat and closes the driver door. He looks at the paint job he was going to have to do tomorrow to his car from all the Ak’s bullets that hit his car.

He wonders what is so important that they didn’t want to pay him. He pulls the package out and looks at it. It was some sort of military issue satellite descrambler and decoder device. He knew enough about satellite technology that they could hook this to any satellite system and pirate their signal or send one of their own, including military.

He takes it and locks the device in his vault where he kept his special design miniature rockets and missiles for his car. He reloads the launcher he unloaded tonight and turn the lights off and locks the door that leads to the garage. He walks through the actual garage towards a stairway that leads up to the second floor above the garage and into his small apartment. As Terry closes the door he walks into his kitchen and grabs a cold-water bottle and then into his bedroom to strips out of his racing jumpsuit.

As the suit comes off, it reveals the body of a flat chested woman underneath it. She has short black hair and a scar that runs down the left-hand side of her body starting up on her shoulder and goes all the way down her arm, hip and leg to her ankle. Her left hand had scars on it and her forearm. There are crisscrossing scars on her back and buttocks where someone used a whip or something on her body.
She walks over towards her bed and sit down on it. Terry stares at the pictures of her family and friends she has sitting on her dresser. There was one of a happy black hair little girl wearing a baby blue dress laughing as her father pushed her on a swing. Then there was another picture of that same girl all grown up with all her friends from MIT receiving an award from the President for a contest. Then there was another picture of that same girl in an Army Military uniform. The next one showed her with her unit over in Pakistan standing in front of a motor pool. Then one showing her driving a tank. There was another of her wrapped up like a mummy with tubes and IV’s attached to her.

Terry rubs her left shoulder and falls backwards on her bed. She didn’t want to relive the torture she endured by the Taliban when they captured and tortured her. She knew it was going to be another bad night. She never forgets anything. She remembers everything with one hundred percent clarity. She gets up and head into the bath to soak and pops a few sleeping pills as she slips her night shirt on and crawls into bed. It doesn’t take long for the sleeping pills to kick in as she slips into a deep sleep. She’ll have to call the shipper tomorrow to inform him that the receiver failed to take possession of the delivery. He still owes her the money for the failed delivery or she was going to keep the package.

Terry sleeps throughout the night without having nightmares for once. Her alarm clock goes off at seven in the morning. She slaps the snooze button and buries her head under the pillow. She didn’t feel like getting up right now. She sleeps for another nine minutes before the alarm clock goes off again. She reaches over and shuts the clock off and gets up out of bed and heads towards the toilet to do her morning business. The Taliban men that raped her while she was captured, paid for their crime with her cutting their penises off and shoving them down their throats.The man who mutilated and cut her breast off. She shoved a hand grenade up his ass and pulled the pin from the grenade.

She looks down on her legs and they had scars all over them. She doesn’t go swimming anymore because of those scars. There are a lot of things she no longer does because of how she was treated as a prisoner. She finishes her business and starts getting ready for work today.

She owns part of the garage she is living at currently. It builds custom vehicles for clients and for show. Most of the vehicles were high dollar builds and brought in a lot of money. The garage was working on a new build for a client that brought in a new Ford truck and wanted a lift systems, AWD drive and a few other modifications that weren’t standard on cars you brought at the dealership. They had another that was being outfitted to fly. Someone wanted a James Bond style car that could turn into a submarine. They had enough work to keep them busy for months, while flipping a few ordinary cars for profit.

Terry slips on a pair of jeans and her work boots and a t-shirt with the company logo on it. She heads downstairs, where she notices both her brothers have arrived and brought breakfast with them.

“Hey sis, how did you sleep last night?” Edward was concern about his little sister.

He has notice a big change in her when she got out of the hospital and military. She refuses to wear dresses, skirts, any type of swimsuit and she doesn’t do any of the things she uses to do, except race cars down on the track or quarter mile races.

She won’t wear any type of girly shoes or let her hair grow out long any more. The last time his wife gave her a pair of nice shoes, she returned them for money and sneaked the money into his pocket. She always keeps her hair cut short like she has it now. She threw out all her old stuff and the only thing she wears now are t-shirts, polo shirts or men’s dress shirt. She won’t wear any make-up or jewelry. She donated all her jewelry to the Goodwill. She doesn’t date and only attend family functions when she is forced to.

“I slept alright Eddie.” She walks over and grabs a coffee and a bear claw to eat.

“When are you going to go back to wearing dresses and skirts, sis?” Robert her next older brother looks at her. They used to be close, but she has withdrawn from him.

“Never.” She walks into the office and starts going over the books and orders for specialized parts they needed and order them from their suppliers.

She takes a sip of her coffee and takes another bite of her bear claw. She looks up and notice her brothers watching her.

“What?” She ah a puzzled look on her face.

“Sis, were worried about you. I know you went through a lot as a prisoner of the Taliban. Your whole personality has done a whole 180 from what it uses to be.” Robert was looking at his sister. They used to be close, but now she keeps people at arm’s length.

“Look Robert and Eddie. I went through hell as a prisoner to the Taliban. I was repeatedly raped, tortured and I lost everything that makes me a woman. They burned my breast off and made it so I can never have children. I watched them torture some boys that had helped us and shot two survivors from my unit. How would you feel after surviving that? I have marks on my body I will never be able to remove and I remember every fucking thing they did to me as if I was going through it again. All I want to do now is get on with my life and try to forget what was done to me.”

Terry goes back to the books and order forms. She doesn’t let her brothers see the tears as they fall from her eyes. She’ll never be the woman she uses to be and she’ll never be able to be a guy either. The question is, what is she?

Mad Hatter Aylin waits patiently for the box truck to finish loading up and get the move on. She wanted to get this job done and over with tonight. She had her sights on stealing a sweet Lamborghini Veneno that this rich guy owned that was a dirt bag. She personally knew him and wanted to teach this guy a lesson about abusing his children. Oh, she had some sweet plans on how she wanted to do this. She rubs her hands together as she swings back and forth underneath the box truck.

“Finally!”

The truck starts moving as Mad Hatter Aylin dangles under the truck by the secure hooks she had put into the bottom of the floor under the truck. She had her mask on that made her look like the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. She was a little nutty. She was forced to spend most of her childhood and teen years in a mental hospital. All because she saw her father kill her mother and she knew it. He had jacked her up on some drugs that made her go crazy and by the time the men in the white coats arrived, she was judged to be mentally unstable. Every time she tried to escape they would lock her up in solitary. She found out her father was paying the doctor in charge to keep her in the hospital and he could perform whatever experiments on her.

So, she was given electro shock therapy and all sorts of drugs to drive her insane. By the time she was thirteen years old, she was so drugged up she would believe whatever you told her. Some of the male orderlies started to molest her and one night she was rape by one. She was so drugged up on a hallucinogen drug that he took advantage of her. She couldn’t do anything to protect herself because she was so drugged that he could do anything to her and she couldn’t react.

She tried to complain to the head nurse, but they didn’t believe her. So, the next time one of the orderlies tried to rape her, she played along and offer to give him a blow job. When she had him ready to explode. She baits down hard sinking her teeth into his engorged cock and tear it off his body with a grin on her face and blood dripping down her neck. During the confusion, she managed to escape and run away. She managed to find a place to hide for a few days. The place was an old costume shop and there were some costumes still left there. One of them happened to be the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. She picks that costume to wear because it fitted how she felt. She had seen the Alice in Wonderland movie with Johnny Dep while in the mental hospital and decided to act like him.

After a month of being on the run, she found out where her birth father was living and found out he had another family. She had run right up to him and wrapped her arms around him and squeezed him. Afterwards she had stepped back pulled a knife out of her sleeve and told him that she loved him as she slit his throat in front of his new family. She had turned around and looked at them and told them they were better off without him and left laughing through a window. That had been in London where she had learned how to steal from people and how to boost cars.

After committing a few crimes over in London, England and escaping from the authorities. She managed to get herself shipped to the United States in a container as cargo. Aylin kept dressing as the Mad Hatter and would leave a calling card that was like the one the Mad Hatter had in his hat. Tonight, her target was the equipment aboard this box truck that she had been hired to steal. She waits till the truck is about to get to its destination before stealing it.

Elizabeth was following behind the truck in her car and she thought she saw someone hanging underneath it. She wasn’t sure, but she could have sworn that there was someone. She was following Anika’s instruction about only observing and recording what was going on. She had gotten a Go-Pro and a tracker. Elizabeth had managed to put the tracker on the truck. She watches as the truck pulls into a parking lot where a slick black car was waiting. She notices as the passenger gets out of the cab of the truck and starts walking over towards the black car.

Elizabeth hears some laughter as a figure drops down from under the box truck and fires a gun at the back of the guy walking over towards the black car. That same figure jumps into the box truck and the driver comes falling out of the truck. Something starts falling towards the driver as the truck starts up and starts moving forward.

Terry had been sitting and waiting at the second delivery spot she had been given. She had watched as a plain white box truck pulled up and stopped. A guy had gotten out on the passenger side. She heard laughter and saw someone behind him wearing a top hat shoot him in the back and watches as he falls forward. The next thing she notices is that same figure that shot the first guy jump up into the cab and shots the driver and he comes falling out of the truck. She notices a card falling next to him as the person inside wearing the top hat starts the engine and starts to drive off.

Terry follows the box truck and wonders where it was going.

Elizabeth notices the black car following the box truck. So, she follows the black car. She wonders what this is all about. Nothing was making sense in this investigation.

Inside the Truck:
Mad Hatter Aylin starts singing the unbirthed song to herself.

A very merry Unbirthday to you,
To you, A very merry Unbirthday to you,
To you, It's great to Drink to someone,
And I guess that You will do,
A very merry Unbirthday to you!
Statistics prove that you've One birthday
One birthday every year But there are 364 un birthdays
That is why we are all gathered here A very merry unbirthday to all
To all A very merry unbirthday to all
To all That's how we sing the day away
A very merry unbirthday To all

Aylin doesn’t worry about the other two cars following behind her. She thinks they are going to the unbirthday party.

Terry notices a car behind her following her and runs the plates and finds out the car is register to an Elizabeth Sumner,1010 Pear Tree street, Brooklyn, New York. She wonders why this lady was interested in what was going on?

As they get closer to a warehouse she notices guys outside with guns taking aim at the box truck. She presses the pedal to the floor and pulls around the box truck and pull right in front of the box truck and starts opening with the weapon systems from Wraith.

“Looks like you’re getting your souls tonight Wraith.”

Aylin didn’t know what to make of the strange car pulling in front of her and watched as it started to fire weapons at the men with guns. She slows down so she doesn’t run into the back of the car. A bullet comes right through her windshield and hits her in her right shoulder.

“What the fuck is going on here?” Elizabeth couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

The black car was waging war against the men armed with AK47’s. The bullets were bouncing off the car like they weren’t anything to it but flies.

The black car drops back and on the driver side to force the box truck to turn.

Aylin was confused. She watched the Black car drop back and pull along her side and was trying to get her to turn right. Even though her shoulder was hurting her, she does what the black car wants her to do.

Elizabeth follows the box truck and the black car. They travel for a while till they are a safe distance away and the black car gets the box truck to stop. Elizabeth stops her car behind the box truck and gets out as well. She watches as the door on the black car swings upwards and a figure dress in a black jump suit and wearing a helmet meets her at the box truck.

Aylin’s sight was getting blurry as she watches as a figure gets out of the black car and comes walking up to her. She didn’t notice the other woman behind her coming up to her door and the black figure. As she looks at both figures.

“I think I’m going to take a nap now.” She slumps forward.

Both Terry and Elizabeth watches as the figure dress as the Mad Hatter slumps forward after saying a few words. Elizabeth climbs up and leans in through the driver side window.

She turns to face the figure in black “she’s been shot.”

Terry opens the visor on the helmet “how bad is it?”

“She’s losing blood. It looks like the bullet went straight through.”

“I have a first aid kit in my car. Can you stop the bleeding till we get her to someone to help her?”

“Yes!”

Terry runs back to Wraith and gets her field emergency kit and brings it back to Elizabeth.

“There’s a Blood Stopper kit in there. Use that on her.”

Elizabeth climbs into the box truck and does what Terry said. She has field medic training so she manages to stop the bleeding with the kit and bandages the other women’s shoulder.

“It’s stopped for now. How are we going to get my car and this box truck back to anywhere?”

“We’ll take the box truck back to my place and I’ll have a tow truck friend come out and pick your car up. You’ll need to drive the truck.”

“Fine, but let me call my boss. We need a Doctor that won’t ask questions.”

“Don’t bother your boss. I know someone that can help. Just follow me.”

“Okay”

Terry makes a call to have her tow buddy come out and pick the car up. She leaves the keys where she told him they would be. Afterwards she gets back into Wraith and takes it slow so the box truck can follow her back to her garage.

They manage to get the Mad Hatter out of the truck and up to Terry’s apartment where a doctor friend she knows and can trust comes and helps the girl.

Mad Hatter Aylin

“She’s going to need to rest for a while. You all are lucky the bullet went through her shoulder. You mind telling me what the hell you were doing in a fire fight?”

An older man looks over towards Terry and Elizabeth as they stood nearby.

“We were doing a job and got attack by someone trying to steal the cargo. That’s all I can tell you right now without my boss authorization.”

Terry just stood quietly by, while Elizabeth was talking.

“Fine! You girls keep your secrets. Make sure she doesn’t use her right arm for a while.”

The doctor gathers his stuff and walks out with Terry escorting him. Terry comes back to her apartment and shuts the door. Terry walks into her bedroom and looks at the white face girl laying in her bed. She couldn’t be any older than nine or ten years old.

“So, young.”

“I don’t know. I think she’s older then she looks. Did you see the scars around her wrist and ankle or the needle tracks in her arm?”

“No, I didn’t notice those. So, you mind telling me why you were following the box truck?”

Terry turns around to look at Elizabeth. The dark brown hair woman was just a little taller than she was and appeared to be a little bit older then her as well.

“My job. I was sent to find out what was going on at one of our satellite cold sites. What, were you doing with the people in the cargo truck?”

“Making a delivery, which now I’m not going to get paid for. You said you were investigating something going on with your satellite cold site?”

“Yes, why?”

“Because, I was delivering a satellite decoding component.”

“So, you were delivering a satellite decoding component and then what is in the back of the box truck?”

“I don’t know. It seems our diminutive thief in there, was sent to steal the box truck. Now, who hired her to steal the truck and why did they
try to kill us and her?”

Terry was looking at their thief as she slept.

“To many questions and not enough answers.”

Elizabeth picks up the two dart guns the thief had been carrying with her.

“These things are custom made. I wonder where she got them?”

“May I?”

Elizabeth hands Terry the dart guns. She picks up the knife to look at and notice it’s just an ordinary kitchen knife. Nothing special about it.

“Interesting. These guns fire a needle projectile suspended in a liquid solution. It uses an ordinary co2 cartridges for the power to fire it.”

“Like a modify blow gun.”

Elizabeth looks over towards Terry.

“Exactly”

Terry puts the guns down and look at the deck of cards that have “In This Style 10/6” printed on the cards which look old, but were brand
new.

“The strange thing is, her guns are new, her cards look old, but are new. Most of her thieving gear is new, but she carries around an ordinary kitchen knife with a sharp blade on it.”

Elizabeth couldn’t figure this girl out.

“Even her clothes look old and have no designer labels or anything on them. They do need to be clean. They smell like she has been wearing them for a while.”

Terry was holding up the girl’s shirt and jacket.

“She’s a complete mystery. Her pockets were filled with junk.”

Terry had empty her pockets to wash the girl’s clothes and fix the bullet hole in her jacket and shirt.

“You’re right. It is junk.”

There were bottle caps, stones, string, little bits of paper, gum wrapper, fishing weights.

“God, this girl is a mag pie.”

Elizabeth couldn’t believe the junk. There had to be some reason for her collection.

“Look, let’s go downstairs and see what is in the back of the truck before my brothers and the rest of my employees get here. They don’t know about my after-hour job and I want to keep it that way.”

Terry looks at Elizabeth with a determine look on her face.

Elizabeth holds her hands up like she was surrendering.

“Your place, your rules.”

Terry leads Elizabeth back downstairs and through the hidden doorway to the hidden garage and out to where they had parked and camouflaged the box truck. Terry breaks the lock on the roll-up door and opens it.

Elizabeth climbs up inside.

“Okay, what are they doing with Russian Igla and Strela missiles and more satellite equipment?”

Terry climbs up after her and the two of them look at the rest of the equipment that was in here.

“All of this is US and Russian government equipment. No one is supposed to have this equipment.”

Terry couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

“We can’t let this get out on the streets or into their hands.”

Terry looks towards Elizabeth.

“I agree with you. We need to put this equipment somewhere safe or give it to someone we can trust.”

“I think it’s time for me to call my boss and inform her about this. This is starting to get serious.”

Elizabeth climbs down and then helps Terry down as well.

Terry locks the trailer with one of her spare locks and goes around to the front of the truck and pull the main power fuse so it can’t be started.

“Come on, let’s go and check on sleeping beauty. I’ll take her finger prints and see what I can get on her.”

Both women head back inside and up to Terry’s apartment where their thief was still out of it.

“How long do you think she’s going to be out?”

“Probably till this afternoon. The doctor did give her a strong sedative to keep her under for a while.”

“You have an ink pad or packing tape?”

“Yep, I have both.”

Terry goes to get the ink pad and an index card for Elizabeth.

Elizabeth goes over and notices her fingerprints have been burned off.

“Well, that shoots that idea.”

“What do you mean?”

Terry looks down at the hand of their thief.

“She burned her fingerprints off. My boss is going to have to do an image search of her face or description.”

Elizabeth takes ten pictures and send them to Jaager to see if she can identify their thief. She checks the time and notice her wife will be getting up soon.

“Look, I need to go. Why don’t you keep sleeping beauty here with you and we get together later this evening?”

“Fine with me. Come around seven. Everyone should be gone by then.”

Terry knew her employees and brothers would be gone by six o’clock today.

“Here, this is my cell phone number. Call me when you find out about sleeping beauty and the equipment.”

Terry hands Elizabeth one of her business cars with her cell phone number on the back.

Terry escorts Elizabeth to her car and watches as she drives away.

“It’s going to be a long day.”

Terry heads back inside and start opening for business. She washes the thief’s clothes and mends her jacket and shirt while she waits for everyone to show-up for work.

Elizabeth makes it home just in time. She looks at the time being display on her radio as she turns the engine off. Her wife’s alarm clock should just be going off as she walks into the house. She hears the beeping of her wife’s alarm on her cell phone. She peeks into their bedroom and notice her wife had buried her head under the pillows.

She smiles as she walks over and sits on the edge of the bed next to her wife.

“Come on sleepy head. Time to get up and go to work.” Elizabeth rubs her wife’s back.

“Mmmm, can’t I stay home and play hooky today?” Sara was enjoying having her back rubbed like Elizabeth was doing.

“You can if you want to sweetie. After all you’re the boss and can do whatever you want too.” Elizabeth leans down and places a kiss in the crook of her wife’s neck and shoulder.

Sara closes her eyes and was enjoying how Elizabeth made her feel special. She could feel Elizabeth’s hands moving down her body and the next thing she feels is being tickled.

Elizabeth decide to have some fun with her wife and made her believe she was going to give her a back massage. She knew all her wife’s ticklish spots and when she got down to her side. She started tickling her there. For the next few minutes, Sara tries to defend herself from
Elizabeth merciless tickling onslaught.

“Alright I give.” Sara looks up into Elizabeth’s hazel eyes.

The same eyes she has gazed into for the past eight years. The ones that seduced her that Faithful day where she almost made the worst mistake of her life by marrying the wrong person. She had been in an arrange marriage with a guy she didn’t love and didn’t like. She was only doing it because it was expected of her by her family. Her family still believed in arranged marriages and was upset when they found out she was a lesbian and married a non-Pakistani woman instead.

“Good, now I can claim my reward.”

Elizabeth leans down and passionately kissed her wife. She loved this woman so much. If anything, ever happened to her she doesn’t know if she could survive.

“Bathroom.” Sara almost falls on her face as she breaks their kiss and rush to the bathroom.

Elizabeth just laughs as she goes into the kitchen and fix some coffee and bagels with cream cheese on it for her wife.

Eruption Communications Anika Jaager Office:
Anika had been sent a bunch of pictures by Elizabeth this morning. She had Shigeko working on the pictures and was looking over the notes Elizabeth set along with the pictures and said she needed to talk to her about a complication that has come up.

Anika looks up when she hears someone knocking on her office door.

“Enter!”

Shigeko comes walking in with two manilla folders in her hands. One was thicker than the other folder.

“Here is that information you wanted about those people Ms. Jaager.” Shigeko lays the folders on the desk.

Shigeko looks at her boss “The second one is rather strange because she is only known to Interpol and Scotland yards as only Mad Hatter Aylin. They don’t have much more information about her. They don’t know how old she is or where she came from. All that is known about her is she’s wanted in England for the murder of four people and injuring six others. She is also responsible for the thief of several priceless paintings from several of England’s rich families. The reason they know it’s her, because she leaves behind a playing card that has “In This Style 10/6” printed on them. There were no finger prints found on the cards at all.”

“That is strange. Do they know what it means?”

“Ya, it’s the same type of card sticking out of the hat band going around the Mad Hatter’s hat. She’s fashioned herself to look like the Johnny
Depp mad hatter character from Alice in Wonderland. As for the second one, she’s a different story. She would be a good match as a working partner for Elizabeth. She’s former military like Elizabeth and holds three PhD’s One is in Mechanical engineering, the second one is in Nuclear engineering and the last one is in Electrical & Computer engineering. She could work for any company that has government contracts. They would snatch her up in a heartbeat, ma’am. The thing is, she’s part owner of a specialized garage called Big Dog Toys that do modifications to ordinary cars and turn them into something that they weren’t originally built fore. The vehicles her company turned out have been presented at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, Nevada and have won several awards.”

“What did she do in the military and why did she get out?”

“She drove and worked on tanks and was medically discharged after being rescued from Taliban hands. She was seriously tortured by several
Taliban insurgents while she was their prisoner. Her records show she holds several medals”

“What was her rank in the military?”

“She was a Sergeant before she was captured and they promoted her to Master Sergeant afterwards before they discharged her from the service. Also, according to Elizabeth’s notes, she drives a high-tech combat car. She sent pictures of the car.”

Jaager brings up the pictures of the car that Elizabeth took.

“I remember seeing this car in a news article, a couple of days ago.”

She watches the video Elizabeth had sent. “Dam! That car is fast and armed.”

“I would say so. She must have designed it herself.”

“Did you managed to get me the stats on the Russian Igla and Strela missile system?”

“Yes ma’am.”
SA-18 Grouse (Igla M 9K39)
IGLA (9K39) Igla 1 (9K310) IGLA- S (9K338)
Weight: 11 kg 12 kg 12 kg
Missile designation: 9M39 9K310 / 9K313 9M342
Warhead: 1 - 1.2 kg HE, FRAG 2 kg 2.5 (?)
Warhead initiation: Proximity Contact + graze Proximity (laser) triggered within 5m' radius
Length: 1.7 m 1.7 m 1.7 m
Diameter: 7.2 cm 7.2 cm 7.2 cm
Range (Max): 500 - 5,200 m 500 - 5000 m 500 - 6000 m
Altitude (max): 3500 m 3500 m 10 - 3500 m
Sensor: IR (Passive) passive 2-color IR and UV Passive IR

“If I recall correctly, there was an airliner destroyed by one of these down in Africa two years ago. How does this fit in with our satellite problem?”

Anika Jaager looks at Shigeko "get me Elizabeth. I need to talk with her."

"Yes, ma'am."

Shigeko heads out of the office to call Elizabeth.

Aylin slowly opens her eyes and starts coming around. She was laying on her back and looking up at the ceiling.

“Oh, pretty!” There was a goofy look on her face as she stares up at the ceiling.

She tries to move, but when she does, she feels pain from her right shoulder.

“Ow!”

Aylin looks over at her shoulder and notice it was bandage up and that she was wearing a purple nightshirt. She turns her head to look towards the left and notice the bedroom door is opened. She didn’t remember getting undress and crawling into someone’s bed. The last thing she recalls was stopping and talking to a woman. She lifts her arm and smelled under her armpit.

“Phew!”

Aylin moves slowly when getting out of bed. She still felt kind of weak as she stood up and walked out of the bedroom. She notices her outfit is draped over a chair as she continues to look around. Aylin figures she must be in someone’s apartment. She turns back around after grabbing her outfit and walk back into the bedroom. Aylin notices the door for the bathroom is opened and heads inside to take a shower.
When she is done, she comes back out and heads back into what appears to be the living room and start putting all her stuff back into their proper pockets. Aylin checks her appearance in the mirror and smiles when she sees her reflection. She had her face permanently tattoo so she would never have to worry about putting her make-up on. She pulls her watch out and checks the time.

“It’s tea time.” Aylin goes into the kitchen and looks for some tea. She must have her tea.

Terry was coming upstairs to check on the strange girl. As she got closer to her door, she hears someone moving around inside. Terry opens
the door and notice the girl fully dress and looking in her kitchen for something.

“Can I help you?”

“I’m looking for tea. I must have my tea. It’s tea time.”

“Here, let me find the tea and fix it for you.”

Terry closes the door behind her and walks over to the kitchen. Aylin turns around and looks at the strange person behind her. The person
sounded female, but looked male.

“Are you going to join me for tea? Did the White Rabbit invite you for tea?”

“Yes, I am going to join you for tea and no, the white rabbit didn’t invite me. I live here.”

“Oh, okay.”

Aylin watches as the tall looking man comes into the kitchen and starts fixing tea. Terry turns around to look at Aylin.

“What is your name?”

Aylin takes her top hat and hold it to the side and bow to Terry “I am the Mad Hatter Aylin”

Aylin puts her top hat back on her head after introducing herself.

“Who may you be, sir?”

Terry raises an eyebrow after being called sir. That has been the first time since she has been back that any one has called her, sir.

“My name is Terry and I’m not a sir, but a ma’am.”

Aylin tilts her head to the side and looks at Terry.

“You don’t look like a ma’am, you look like a sir.” She had straightened her head back when she said that.

“Whatever.” Terry turns around and finishes making the tea.

“Here you go Aylin.” Terry hands a plain white coffee mug to Aylin

“Thank you.”

Aylin blows on it to cool it off and takes a sip of it. She didn’t add any sugar or cream to it. Terry just watches Aylin as she drinks her tea.

Terry adds sugar to her own tea before drinking it.

Aylin was watching the man in front of her. She didn’t know what to make of him. He says he’s a woman, but he didn’t have any breast. She just shrugs her shoulders and drinks her tea. It tasted kind of strong and bitter, but there wasn’t anything else to it. She’s learned to just taste a little bit before drinking anything now. The doctors use to fool her by spiking her tea or grabbing her and giving her shots.

“Can you tell me what happened to my right shoulder?”

“You got shot in your right shoulder, don’t you remember?”

“Nope, I remember speaking to a woman and passing out.”

“Can you tell me why you were trying to steal the truck?”

“Joe the Boss wanted me to steal it and bring it back to him.”

“Did he say why?”

“Nope and I don’t care. I just do what I am told to do. It’s easier that way.”

Aylin takes another sip of her tea and sits down on the floor Indian style in front of Terry.

“Aylin, where were you born?”

“Don’t remember.” Aylin had looked up to Terry when she answered that question.

“Okay, where did you come from?”

“When?”

“When? What do you mean?”

“Well, do you mean before you got up here or do you mean when Joe the Boss sent me?”

“I mean before all that. What country did you come from?”

“Oh, I came from England. I was told I was in too much trouble over in England, so Eddie sent me over here to hide out.”

“Why were you in trouble?”

“I don’t know. I just killed some bad people and hurt a few that thought I would be fun for them.”

She giggles “I don’t think going after a girl again will be fun for them. Now that they are going to be girls themselves.”

She starts laughing as she thinks about them dressed in dresses and skirts.

“Why did you kill the others?”

“Because they deserved it. They did very, very bad things and needed to be punished for it.”

Aylin shakes her head up and down as if agreeing to what she was saying.

“Don’t you have any parents that care about you?”

“Nope, I have no family, except the White Rabbit.”

Aylin takes another sip of her tea and looks down into her mug and notice it was almost empty. She holds her cup up to Terry.

“Can I have some more tea please?”

“Sure.” Terry takes Aylin’s mug and refills it with tea.

She hands the mug back to Aylin.

“Thank you.”

“Your Welcome.”

“Thanks.” Aylin blows on her tea and takes a sip of it.

“Look Aylin”

Aylin waves her finger no “Mad Hatter Aylin, Terry.”

“Okay, Mad Hatter Aylin. I need to get back to work. Can you stay up here and remain quiet till I come back up here please?”

“Why?”

“Because the people I work with and for, wouldn’t understand the way you look. So, can you stay and do me this favor please? Stay here till I come back please?”

Aylin thinks about it “okay. I’ll stay right here till you return.”

“Thank you.”

Terry rinses her coffee mug out and leaves it in the sink. She notices Aylin hasn’t gotten up from where she was sitting as Terry walks out of her apartment.

Aylin takes a sip of her tea and just stays where she is sitting. The tea was growing on her. It may taste bitter and strong, but it was good in her opinion.

Aylin closes her eyes and takes several deep breathes as she slowly allows her mind to clear and tune out the rest of the world. She was used to doing this in the hospital when she was placed inside solitary confinement for months. She would retreat inside her mind to pass the time and get away from things. Things that hurt her or bother her. She retreats there now, not because she wanted to get away, but to just have some where familiar to be. Inside her mind she was always safe. No one could take that away from her.

She told Terry she would remain right where she was and she meant it. She images a forest and chasing after the white rabbit and finally catching him and going to the tea party with her friends. Talking with the Hatter and telling him everything she has done so far since coming to the America’s. Singing and doing her dance for him. She demonstrates her dancing for the Hatter and embrace his praise of her dancing along with the rest of her friends there.

Real World:
Aylin’s body was barely breathing as she sat Indian style with her eyes closed. Her body was like a statue in how still she appeared. The coffee mug she had been drinking tea from was sitting in front of her on the floor.

Eruption Communications Anika Jaager Office:
Anika’s door abruptly slams open as CIO Arnold Bridges comes walking in and right up to Anika Jaager’s desk.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing requesting information from my department about current jobs and upgrades we are doing?” Arnold had gotten word from one of his tech’s that Ms. Jaager was going through their department files and every time they tried to block her out, she
over-rode them with her security clearance.

“Well, good morning to you to Arnold. You do know that before you enter anyone’s office, you’re supposed to knock or inform my secretary, don’t you?” Anika was playing it cool right now. She could kill this jackass any time she wanted to.

“Cut the bullshit Anika. I want an answer to my question.”

“Well, to be honest with you. I don’t answer to you. I answer to the owner of this company, just like the CEO does. Second, if I want information about anything going on in this company or any other company that belongs to us, I can have it any time I want. The last reason Mr. Bridges, you should be glad it is me asking for that information instead of the owner, because he would had taken your head off for barging into his office. Trust me when I tell you this, because if he comes up here and finds anything screwy with the company. People are going to lose their heads or get feed to his big ass wolf.”

“You don’t have the authority to.”

“Do you want to try me? I’ve been getting reports about one of our cold sites being used and there’s no paperwork or authorization forms given
you permission to update or upgrade that site. There’s nothing from accounting for purchases of new equipment or the transference of equipment to that site. So, tell me again what are you doing at that site?” Anika had her hands in front of her with her fingers making like a pyramid.

“Like I told our security officer, routine upgrades and maintenance on the system.”

“And I’m saying your full of shit. Now, either tell me what you are doing there or I’m going to suspend you for a few days.”

“You don’t have the authority to suspend me or fire me.”

“I have the authority to suspend you, but I don’t have the authority to fire you. Only the CEO, HR and the owner have that authority. As of right
now you are suspended without pay for a week while an investigation into what you were doing is done. To be fair to you an outside audit company will be hired to review and go over your files.”

“Why you.”

Arnold Bridges was about to step forward and do something he would regret when Anika’s expression changed daring him to do it. Her facial expression took on a look he has seen on harden killers before.

“I suggest you leave now, before you do something we’ll both regret Mr. Bridges.” Her words and the tone of her voice held ice to them when she spoke.

Shigeko had been listening to the conversion going on between Mr. Bridges and Ms. Jaager and when she heard the change in Ms. Jaager’s voice. She knew she should get security up to the office right away. Just as she was about to call security, Elizabeth walks in from the hallway.

“Good Morning Shigeko, is Ms. Jaager in?”

“Yes, she is and I think you better go in there and escort Mr. Bridges out of here before she hurts him really badly.”

“Okay, call one of the other security guards and have them come up here, please.”

“Okay.”

Elizabeth knocks on Ms. Jaager’s door.

“Enter.”

Elizabeth walks in “you wanted to see me Ms. Jaager?”

“Yes Mrs. Sumner, would you and security officer Lucero please escort Mr. Bridges from the premises and restrict his access for a week?”

“Yes ma’am” Elizabeth turns towards him as Security Officer Keven Lucero came walking in.

Mr. Bridges was about to say something until he saw Security Officer Lucero. He was a 6’5” tall African American male built like a professional wrestler. He knew Mr. Lucero use to be a professional football player and when he injured himself on the football field, he became a bodyguard and hired by the company as third in charge of security.

“Mr. Bridges if you’ll follow me and Mr. Lucero please. Is there anything in your office you need to get?”

“Yes, there is.”

“Okay. After you sir.” Elizabeth steps aside to let Mr. Bridges lead the way.

“Elizabeth, after you are done with escorting Mr. Bridges out of the building. Please report to me.”

“Yes ma’am.”

Mr. Bridges was going to have to put his plans into play early and have Anika Jaager taken out along with Elizabeth Sumner. She was the one that had spotted them using that cold site and more than likely reported it to Ms. Jaager.

Elizabeth and Keven escorts Mr. Bridges to his officer to retrieve his items and anything company related was left behind. He was escorted downstairs to his car and watched as he left the property. Elizabeth had feeling they hadn’t seen the last of Mr. Bridges.

Keven had been following Elizabeth’s lead. He knew something strange was going on and knew that the CIO was part of it. Now, he had a feeling things were going to get rough after this.

“Penny for your thoughts Lucero?”

Elizabeth knew it was unusual for Keven to remain quiet.

“I have a feeling a big can of worms is about to be opened and this was just an appetizer.”

“I have a feeling that you are right. There’s something going on and the company may be hurt by it.”

“I think your right, Elizabeth.”

“Well, I have a meeting with Ms. Jaager. I better get going.”

“I’ll see you later Elizabeth. Be careful.”

“I will and thanks.”

Elizabeth heads back to Ms. Jaager’s office.

“Go on in, Elizabeth.”

Shigeko had been informed to send Elizabeth in as soon as she returned from escorting Mr. Bridges out of the building.

“Elizabeth, please have a seat and tell me everything you have found out so far?”

“Well, Ms. Jaager. The box truck that was heading to the cold site had Russian missile systems and a bunch of military grade satellite
equipment. Also, it seems we may have a third player in the game. We had a young girl that was told to steal the load for who and why I don’t know. Her shoulder had to be looked after, after getting into a fire fight. The cold site is guarded by at least six to eight people.”

“What can you tell me about these new people you have run into?”

“To be honest, I don’t know that much about them. Except, Terry Horn. I notice she hold three degrees and she drives a Hi-Tech one of a kind assault car. That car is armor plated and fast as a Nascar. She also knows about weapons and satellite equipment. I think she would make a good operative or agent.”

“What do you know about the one that is known as Mad Hatter Aylin?”

“Nothing, except her fingerprints have been burned off and she looks younger then she is. At some time, she must have been someone’s prisoner, because of scarring around her wrist and there is a bunch of old needle tracks in both her arms. The make-up on her face is the permanent type. I figure she had it tattoo on her face maybe a few weeks or months ago. The color is still bright. So, it could have been recently. She also has an English accent.”

“What do you think of her? Because the information we have on her said she is responsible for the murder of four people and the wounding of six others. Plus, the theft of valuable art.”

“I don’t know about if she is capable of killing someone. The weapons I found on her were two special design dart guns and an ordinary kitchen knife you can buy at any box store kitchen section. I would say she is crazy. She was hanging underneath the box truck and made her way to the cab of the box truck. She’s at Terry’s apartment right now sleeping. Also, Terry doesn’t want her brothers or employees to find out about her night time adventures.”

“Why was Terry meeting the box truck in the first place?”

“She works for some guy that pays people to make deliveries for him.”

“So, she was making a delivery that night?”

“Yes ma’am.”

Anika sits back in her chair.

“You say you think Terry would make a good operative or agent?”

“Yes ma’am. She built that car of hers from the ground up. Think about what else she could be capable of? As for the young girl. It might be best for her to be employed by you as well. Her thieving skills along make her valuable. As for strange appearance, maybe we can learn more about why she dresses that way and where she got those scars on her wrist and the needle marks on her arm. Even if she is crazy, that could work for us, because that makes her unpredictable. The enemy wouldn’t know what to expect from her.”

Anika had to think about that. Maybe this could work to her advantage.

“Okay, let’s see you three work as a team and keep this off the books for now. Find out why she was trying to steal that box truck and for whom. As for the truck itself, if you have some where safe to store it. Put it there for now. Also, see if you and your two companions can take the cold site and let me know what they are using it for.”

“I think we can handle that. What do we do if the law tries to get involve or take over?”

“Here are your badges and ID’s. You’re consider Special Deputies under the US Marshal. Those badges should clear the way for you. Remember, even though you are considered special deputies for the Marshal, doesn’t mean you can go around blowing stuff up or killing without reason.”

“How did you manage this?”

“Let’s just say the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General owes my boss a big favor. Now, go and take care of the problem at the
cold site, while I find out what Mr. Bridges has been doing here.”

“Have fun and be careful Ms. Jaager.”

“I will.”

Once Elizabeth leaves.

Anika presses the intercom button “Shigeko, call Camelot Forensics and have them send out two of their cyber forensics experts to go over Mr. Bridges computer and any work he did here at the office.”

“Yes ma’am. Any one you want them to send out?”

“Nope, tell Arthur to send me two of his best people.”

“Yes ma’am.”

Special Notes:
Special Deputy U.S. Marshals

The Director, United States Marshals Service, is authorized to deputize the following persons to perform the functions of a Deputy U.S. Marshal in any district designated by the Director:

(a) Selected officers or employees of the Department of Justice;
(b) Selected federal, state, or local law enforcement officers whenever the law enforcement needs of the U.S. Marshals Service so require;
(c) Selected employees of private security companies in providing courtroom security for the Federal judiciary;
(d) Other persons designated by the Associate Attorney General pursuant to 28 CFR 0.19(a)(3)
0.19 Associate Attorney General.

(a) The Associate Attorney General shall advise and assist the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in formulating and implementing Departmental policies and programs. The Associate Attorney General shall also provide overall supervision and direction to organizational units as assigned. In addition the Associate Attorney General shall:

(1) Exercise the power and the authority vested in the Attorney General to take final action in matters pertaining to the appointment, employment, pay, separation, and general administration of attorneys and law students in pay grades GS-15 and below in organizational units subject to his direction.

(2) Perform such other duties as may be especially assigned from time to time by the Attorney General.

(3) Exercise the power and authority vested in the Attorney General to authorize the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service to deputize persons to perform the functions of a Deputy U.S. Marshal.

(b) The Associate Attorney General may redelegate the authority provided in paragraph (a)(1) of this section to the Director, Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management.

(c) The Associate Attorney General is the Attorney General's designee for purposes of determining whether, under part 39 of this title, a handicapped person can achieve the purpose of a program without fundamental changes in its nature, and whether an action would result in a fundamental alteration in the nature of a program or activity or in undue financial and administrative burdens. The Associate Attorney General may not redelegate this authority.

(d) [Reserved]

Big Dog Toys:

Terry couldn’t believe the day she had. The wrong parts had been sent and it wasn’t her fault. The client decided he didn’t want the build he had commission. Some of the bills she knew she paid on time hadn’t posted yet. When she called to find out why they hadn’t posted. The company said they hadn’t received the transferred of the money. When she went and checked the receipt, it showed the money had been accepted and called the company back. She printed up the receipt and fax them.

She managed to get them straighten out and figured someone must be messing with their systems. Terry looks around the shop to make sure everyone was gone and begin locking up all the doors and cutting things off that should had been turned off. She hears the doorbell ring. She walks to the customer door and spots Elizabeth standing there waiting for her to open the door.

“How has your day been?”

Elizabeth comes walking in and Terry locks the door behind her.

“Crappy. It’s been one of those days around here.”

“Well, it’s going to get better then. How has your guest been?”

“I haven’t heard a thing from her, since I talked with her around lunch time. She’s been very quiet. What did your boss say to do with the truck?”

“Store it somewhere safe for now.”

“Well, I do know of a place we can store it. It’s an old R&D office building for sale. We’ve been thinking about acquiring the building because it has more space then this garage. I still have the keys to the place.”

“That’s sounds like a good place to hide the box truck. Did you learn anything new about our other guest?”

“No, all I did learn was she had to leave England because she was in some sort of trouble for killing some people and sending a few to the hospital and that they deserved it.”

“That’s all my boss knows as well. There’s no other information about her. All we know is she came from England and that’s all. It’s like she came out of nowhere a year ago. That’s when she made her first appearance.”

“Well good luck trying to get any information out of her. You need to ask your questions a certain way or she won’t answer them. Hopefully, she is still in my apartment.”

Terry and Elizabeth walk up the stairs case to Terry’s apartment over the shop. The door was still lock. Terry opens the door and walk in and spot Aylin sitting right where she left her. Her coffee mug was sitting in front of her and she had her eyes closed.

“Is she asleep?”

Terry was standing nearby watching.

“I don’t think so.”

Elizabeth kneels beside Aylin. She gently shakes Aylin’s good shoulder.

Aylin opens her eyes when she felt herself shaken.

“Please don’t touch me.”

“Sorry, I was trying to wake you up.”

Aylin looks at Elizabeth and a smile appears on her face.

“I remember you. I remember talking to you before I went nighty-night.”

Terry walks over and picks up the empty coffee cup and put it in the sink.

“That was me. Aylin...”

Aylin waves her finger back and forth “it’s Mad Hatter Aylin or just Hatter.”

“Okay, Mad Hatter Aylin. Would you join me and Terry at the table so I can stop kneeling, please?”

“Okay.” Mad Hatter Aylin stands up off the floor like it was nothing and walks over to sit at the table.

“Would you care for something to drink Elizabeth and Hatter?”

Terry looks over at the other two women.

“Do you have a Pepsi or coke?”

“Pepsi.”

“That’s fine for me. How about you Hatter?”

Elizabeth looks at Aylin.

“Hot tea please.”

“Hot tea it is, then.”

Terry brews some hot tea for Aylin and grabs a Pepsi for Elizabeth and hands it to her.

“Thank you, Terry. Hatter, what city in England we’re you born at?”

“I don’t know.”

“Okay, let me ask you this question then. Were you always called Mad Hat Aylin or Hatter?”

Aylin tilts her head to the side to think about that question.

“I don’t remember. There’s a big dark space where I can’t remember anything except being in pain all the time.”

Aylin’s facial expression starts to change to sorrow and she starts to mumble something very low. Elizabeth leans forward to hear better, but is unable to hear anything. Aylin goes back to her normal expressionless state. Terry sits down near Aylin and places her tea in front of her.

“Thank you, Terry.”

“You’re welcome Hatter.”

“Hatter can you tell me who you were stealing that truck for and why?”

“Joe the Boss sent me to steal it, because he wanted it. I don’t ask why, I just do.”

Aylin takes a sip of her tea. It was the same as before. She had watched Terry make it so she knew it wasn’t poisoned or spiked.

“He didn’t tell you why he wanted that truck?”

“Nope! I don’t ask questions. I just do what I am told to do.”

“Do you have anything else to wear beside what you have on?”

“I don’t wear anything else, except this. This is all I own besides some vans.”

“Vans as in more than one?”

Terry looks at Aylin when she says that.

“Yes. I own seven vans total. I live in them.”

“Okay, that is something new.”

“Hatter, would you be able to work with me and Terry?”

“On what?”

“Going after some bad guys. There are some bad guys we need to go after.”

“What’s in it for me?”

Aylin was looking at Elizabeth when she asked that question.

“What do you want?”

“I don’t know, what are you willing to give me for helping you?”

“How about we clear your criminal record with England for a start?”

“And?”

“Well, you’ll be working with me and Terry here. What else do you want?”

“A favor for later. I’ll work with you two for a favor to be honor later?”

“Okay, I don’t see why not.”

“Here is what we have to do.”

Elizabeth starts informing Terry and Hatter what she was told by her boss.

Eruption Communications Anika Jaager Office:

Morgana comes rolling out of the elevator along with her friend Troy Percival. The two of them have worked together on a few jobs. So, she knew what Troy could do. He was good, but he wasn’t in Gloria’s class. They head down to Anika Jaager’s office. Arthur had said to report to her when they arrived.

“Shigeko, it’s good to see you again. Is your boss lady in?”

“She’s expecting you Morgana and Mr. Percival. I think you have your work cut out for you this time around. I hope you don’t mind the hotel I booked for you and Troy.”

“It’s fine Shigeko. Most companies wouldn’t have done what you did.”

“She’s right about that Ms. Shigeko. Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. Now into the lion’s den I send you.”

Shigeko holds the door open for Morgan to roll in, followed by Troy.

Anika looks up from her desk. She had been working on some paperwork.

“Morgana, it’s good to see you again. I hope your flight up here was okay.”

“It was fine Ms. Jaager.”

“Good, because I have a task for you and Mr. Percival that I figure will take some time. I need for you to dig through Mr. Arnold Bridges office
computer and tell me what you find please. If you need special access to anything, let me know and I’ll get you the access.”

“Has any one mess with his computer since you dismiss him?”

“Not that I know of. I had his ethernet cable disconnected from the wall so no one could go in and use or erase his computer. I also had his office sealed.”

“Well, I am going to need to clone his hard drive and work with the clone. That way if you need to take him to court or file charges against him. The lawyers he gets can’t say we tamper with the hard drive and planted evidence on it.”

“Well, you do what you have to do to it and keep me inform about your progress.”

“Yes ma’am.”

“I’ll have security escort you to his office.”

Anika presses a button on her phone “Shigeko, can you have Mr. Lucero report to my office please?”

“Yes ma’am.”

“While we wait for Mr. Lucero to show up. I believe you submitted a proposal to me Morgana on handling all of our IT security, even though we have an IT department.”

“Yes ma’am, what we would be doing is monitoring the traffic flow in and out of here. Also, handle problems just like this when you dismiss employees or trying to gather evidence to prove they have broken company rules. It’s more of a monitoring job, but you won’t have surprises like this popping up.”

“I’ll need to run this by the CEO and the owner of the company.”

“Another advantage of hiring us Ms. Jaager. Is we can help you to hire the right people for the IT positions here at the company and holding training classes to help improve the skills they already possess. A lot of HR managers or managers in general really don’t understand what an IT person can do and what their job should be. What questions to ask during an interview.”

“All good arguments and I’ll pass that information along to the CEO and the owner.”

A knocking sound interrupted what Anika was about to say next.

“Enter.”

Keven Lucero walks in and notice a young lady in a wheel chair and a young dirty blonde gentleman sitting in front of Ms. Jaager’s desk.

“Mr. Lucero, I want you to meet Ms. Morgana and her companion Mr. Percival. I would like for you to accompany them while they are here going over Mr. Arnold Bridges computer and office. Give them what access they need to do their job.”

“Yes ma’am. Do you want me to stay with them or leave them on their own?”

“I would prefer if you remained with them Mr. Lucero. Have Mrs. Winter take over your duties while they are here.”

“Yes ma’am.” Lucero knew why he was being assigned. This way he could back their story if they find something and verify it wasn’t planted.

“I guess we better get to work then.”

Troy Percival stands up from the chair he has been sitting in. Morgana and Troy follow Mr. Lucero down to Mr. Bridges office. Before they do anything to the computer, Troy breaks out a camera and takes pictures of everything. He takes pictures of all items connected to the computer any programs still running. After they take pictures of the computer and everything around it. Morgana hooks a device to the computer that only allows her to read the contents of a hard drive in read only mode and she goes over the computer making sure there aren’t any nasty surprises.

Troy takes a scanner out and start scanning the room and picks up a wireless spot in the room itself.

“Mr. Lucero, can you get me a ladder please?”

“Sure, but why?”

“There’s a wireless signal coming from inside this room and most of the times people hide them up in the ceiling.”

Lucero goes and gets a ladder for Troy and brings it back into the office. He sets it up and Troy climbs up and pushes one of the ceiling tiles aside and uses the scanner to pin point the wireless access point. At first, he didn’t see it, but he spots it tuck up against one of the rafters.

“I found the unit Morgana.”

“Can you disconnect it or scan what the signal is?”

“Yep and you won’t believe this either.”

Troy couldn’t believe a cellular device had been added to it so a person could call into the unit and access it. He knew a few hackers that could do this type of work. Morgana was one of them. He has seen her construct one for a job they did.

“I can tell you this. It’s been heavily modified. Whoever, did the work on it knew what they were doing.”

Troy climbs back down the ladder. He was holding the unit in his hand.

“Would you say it was put here to spy on the CIO or was the CIO was using it?”

“Oh, he was using it. This wasn’t put here to spy on the company. He was remotely using it to access things here at the office without going through the company security measures. I found a cable connected to a small switch connected to another cable.”

“So, he was remoting in and accessing the company’s network without the safe guards to pick-up his activities.”

Morgana was looking over towards Troy and Mr. Lucero.

“Yep, did you find anything on his company desktop?”

“Not much. There are a few things he did here, but he must have been using another device. Most of the stuff is company related, except for a few sites.”

Troy picks up the ladder and takes it over towards the ceiling where he traces the hidden cable and switch. He connects a cable from his company laptop to the switch and starts breaking in.

“Holy crap. I don’t believe this.”

“What you got Troy?”

Keven was wondering as well and walks over to see for himself.

Morgana wheels over to look for herself. On the screen were satellite images from a NASA and Government satellite in orbit.

“How did he manage to hack NASA and several different Government satellites? What is he planning and for what purpose?”

“That is a good question.”

All three couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

“We better inform Ms. Jaager about this.”

The next thing they hear is an explosion outside and the building shaking from it.

Eruption Communication Parking Garage:
Anika figures that Morgana and her partner were going to be a while doing what they needed to do with Arnold Bridges computer. So, she was going to go out and get some lunch and pick-up a few items from her storage unit. As she takes the elevator down to the parking garage. She was trying to figure out what the game plan was for the use of the satellites. She knew that they could use them for almost anything, but why this company?

As the elevator doors open, Anika puts her sunglasses on and walks over towards her car. She notices through the special lens of the sunglasses that someone has touched her car. The special clear powder coating was something that only her sunglasses could see. It was a trick Cheshire had taught her. Jack had a separate trick to see if someone had tamper with his vehicles.

She walks overs to where the hidden camera that watched her car was and download the footage to her private server. She walks back over to her car and looks around the car. She notices someone had attached an explosive device to it. It was wired to go off when she pressed the remote on her keychain. She hated to do this to her car, but if she didn’t set it off. They would know she knew more than she did.

She steps back to just the right distances and press the key remote. The explosive force sends her backwards onto her ass. This way she could sustain some injuries to make it look like she got caught by the explosion, but not enough to kill her or give herself away. The sprinkler system goes off and the alarms they installed down in the garage goes off. She could hear the emergency vehicles heading her way. She stayed on the floor faking being knocked out from the explosion.

CIO Arnold Bridges Office:
Keven grabs his radio “what just exploded?”

“Ms. Jaager’s car just exploded. She has sustained some minor injuries, but she is going to live. The fire department and police are here.”

“I’ll be down in a few minutes.”

“Negative, Keven. Ms. Jaager was firm on her order. She wants you to stay with the people from Camelot Forensics. You’re to make sure they stay safe. If you need a second person, Selena Spears is available or Thomas King is here.”

“Send Selena up here to Mr. Bridges office.”

“Roger, she’ll be on her way.”

Morgana looks at Keven “what, are we too much for you?”

“No, but I don’t think you’ll be comfortable with having me in the ladies’ room with you.”

“You wouldn’t be the first guy to be with me in the ladies’ room, but you are right.”

“So, Troy. What was he doing with his links?”

“He was setting up connections with the cold site. He is monitoring several congressmen and senator’s cellphones and military ships and troop
movements.”

“So, in other words he’s using the satellite to gather data and selling that information?”

“Or using the information himself.”

“Either way, he’s already made connections with several hot sites and cold sites the company owns.”

Troy brings up the location of each location. As they were watching, someone was accessing the information.

“Troy, can you backtrack to who this connection is coming from?”

“On it.” Troy starts tapping away on his laptop.

“It’s here in the building and coming from the 8th floor.”

“Keven, why don’t you take Troy to investigate?”

Selena had just walked in when Morgana gave the suggestion to Keven.

“Selena, stay here and watch over Morgana.”

Keven and Troy bolt out of the room.

“What’s going on?”

“We found someone accessing a link we found. That person is here in the building.”

“Okay, so that’s where Keven and Troy went?”

“Yep, that’s where they went to investigate the matter. I’m locking down the elevators so that the person can’t use them.”

“What floor are they on?”

“They are accessing the information from the eighth floor.”

“That’s the server floor. Lock all the security doors on that floor. Keven can still get in with his security clearance.”

“Okay.”

Selena watches as Morgana does her magic on the computer. She was impress with the young lady’s skill. She had a niece that was studying
Cyber-security in college and could learn a lot from this lady.

Eruption Communication 8th Floor:
Keven and Troy arrive on the 8th floor. The security doors were locked.

“Is this normal?”

“Yes, you have to have special access to enter here.”

Keven pulls out his security card and slide it through the card reader.

“Access denied” sounds.

Keven opens the hidden keypad and thumb reader. He punches in his security code and the thumb reader scans his thumb print. The doors open for him and Troy.

“Morgana must have activated the locked down protocol.”

Troy was following behind Keven

“That means the person is still in here. So be careful.”

“Don’t worry about me Keven. My father is a police officer and taught me how to use a gun.”

Troy pulls his gun from its hidden holster.

Keven turns around and notice Troy had a Springfield XDs .45 in his hand.

“Just be careful at what you fired at in here.”

“Don’t worry.”

The two of them make their way down separate rows of servers. Keven spots the person on the next aisle over from the one he was on. He was using a laptop connected to one of the switches on server unit.

Morgana remotely turns on the camera on the laptop and takes a snap shot of the user. She had control of the laptop, but was letting the user think he still had control. She was monitoring everything he was doing.

Troy comes around and spots the guy. He notices Keven coming from the other end.

“Puts your hands up.”

Keven had his gun aimed right at the guy. The guy jumps a little when he hears Keven’s voice and went to hit a key on the laptop.

“Don’t even think about it buddy.”

Morgana’s face shows on the screen.

The guy knew he was caught. He should had waited till later tonight, but the guys he was working with needed this information right away. He figured he could get what he needed during the chaos of the bomb going off killing Ms. Jaager. Now, he was going to be going to jail because of his stupid mistake. He reaches into his pocket and feels a gun pressed against his head.

“I wouldn’t do that if I was you.”

Troy had seen what the guy was doing and pressed his gun against his head. It wasn’t a gun the guy was pulling out, but a cellphone. Troy reaches forward and takes the cellphone from him. It was an Apple IPhone 6S. He knew it was difficult to crack, but he knew Morgana could crack it.

“Morgana, are you still contacted to this laptop?”

“Yep, I’m downloading everything from it to my portable drive. I’ve found out where he was sending the information.”

“Where is the information going?”

“To a building over off Delaware Ave., in Buffalo.”

“Can you access their computers?”

“What do you think I’m doing?”

Selena had to keep from laughing when Morgana replied to her partner. They could see Keven handcuffing their suspect. The thing is, she knew the guy. His family came over from Pakistan three years ago and he was hired by Mr. Bridges two years ago.

“This must have been going on for a while.”

“Why do you say that, Selena?”

“Because he was just hired two years ago.”

“Was he hired for his current position or a different one? Did he have his current access?”

“He just got promoted to his current position about four months ago.”

Selena leans over and watches what Morgana was doing.

“Can’t they tell what you are doing on the other end?”

“Nope, because he is logged on under his credentials. Also, whoever he is working for have lousy security. A script kitty could break into this server.”

Troy walks with Keven back towards Mr. Bridges office with the guy in handcuff and in front of him.

“Are we going to turn him over to the police?”

“No, you’re going to turn his sorry ass over to me?”

Jaager was standing a few feet from Mr. Bridges office. She didn’t look to happy.

“We thought you were still downstairs with the paramedics.”

“I’m fine, but I want to know who was stupid enough to try and blow me up?”

Anika was looking directly at Jawad Razzaghi. She was ready to kill him right now.

“Ms. Jaager, we need to turn him over to the police.”

“After we find out who he is working for Mr. Lucero. I want answers and the police aren’t going to be able to break him.”

Jawad looks directly towards Anika “میں آپ کو ویشیا آپ کچھ بھی بتانے کے لئے والا نہیں ہوں ۔”

An evil smile appears on Anika face “ایسا نہیں آئندہ تم جان لو گے”

Jawad looked surprised when Anika spoke to him in his own language and fear filled his eyes.

Keven had a smile on his face, because he knew what his boss just said.

Troy looked dumb founded.

Mr. Bridges office:
Selena looks towards the door. Morgana was still doing whatever she was doing, but for some reason. She was hearing voices outside in the hallway. She pulls her gun and walks over and cracks the door to see who it was. She notices Ms. Jaager, Troy, Keven and Jawad standing and talking. She puts her gun away.

“You’re my puta!”

Morgana leans back in her wheel chair and slaps her hands together. She looks over towards Selena as she stood at the door.

“What’s so interesting out in the hallway?”

“I think my boss is ready to kill someone right now.”

“Well, she might want to wait till she sees what I recovered first.”

After a few minutes, everyone comes walking into Mr. Bridges office.

Morgana and Selena look at Anika.

“Dam, Anika. You look like something the cat dragged in.”

Anika just looks over towards Morgana with a displeased look on her face.

“I feel like something the cat dragged in.”

“Now Mr. Jawad, let’s see what information you have for me.”

Everyone in the room heard the tone of Anika’s voice. They knew right then and there that she was done playing around. They all stood back and watched as she started interrogating Jawad Razzaghi.

“How come I don’t get a badge?”

Hatter was upset she didn’t get a nice shiny badgiee thingy.

“Because, until we know more about your background Hatter. You are considered an unknown and we want to make sure there’s nothing in your past that can come back and bite us in the ass.”

“Fine!” Hatter stomps her feet.

Terry was looking out her window, when she notices a van coming up the road that lead to the shop.

“Elizabeth, did you tell anyone that you were coming to see me?”

“Just Miss. Jaager, why?”

“Because there’s a van coming up the private road that leads to the shop.”

“Let me see please.” Hatter walks over and looks.

Hatter looks out and notice it wasn’t someone she knew.

“I wonder if they are here for a tea party?”

Terry just looks at Hatter like she was nuts or stupid.

“Terry, I think you should go and get your car ready to welcome them. I don’t think you want them to shoot up the garage.”

“I think you’re right Elizabeth.”

Terry runs from her apartment down to where wraith was being stored.

“Come on Hatter, we might have some bad guys to send to the Queen of Hearts.”

“Okay.”

Hatter changes out the dart cartridges in her dart gun. She follows Elizabeth out of the room. Elizabeth takes Hatter out the back door of the
shop and around towards the front where they notice the van had stopped. They spot six men dressed in black fatigues and wearing black mask getting out of the van armed with Ak-47's and grenades.

“Oh, great. They have freaking grenades.”

Elizabeth notice them turning around when they hear wraith’s engine from behind them. She notices wraith deploying guns from the fender and aiming them directly at them.

“Drop your weapons and lace your hands behind your head, NOW!”

Elizabeth aims her gun along with Hatter.

“I would do what the car said gentlemen or you’ll be turned into swiss cheese.”

The next thing Elizabeth and Terry sees is Hatter firing her gun at all six guys as they drop to the ground.

“Hatter, no one gave you permission to shoot those guys.”

“They’re not dead. They are with the sandman. I was told I couldn’t kill any more. So, I only put people to sleep now.”
Hatter skips over to one guy and takes his mask off.

“I know this guy. This is Frankie and works for Joe the Boss.”

She skips over to another person and pull his mask off.

“I don’t know who this person is.”

She pulls the mask off another person “I know this guy. His name is Greg and works for Joe as well.”

Elizabeth walks over towards wraith and knocks on the window. The window rolls down and Terry looks at her.

“Does your car have the capability to scan for signals?”

“Yes.”

Terry taps a few buttons on the touch screen in the center of the dash. A new screen appears and starts to scan the area for signals.

“You think Hatter might be bugged?”

“No, I think the load might be bugged, but I want to rule out Hatter.”

Terry scans the area and it starts beeping from a signal it detected, but it wasn’t coming from Hatter or from the load. It was coming from Elizabeth’s car.

Terry gets out of her car and walks over towards Elizabeth’s car and spots the tracker and an explosive device that hadn’t been armed yet.

“Elizabeth, you might want to turn wraiths signal jammer on. There’s an explosive device with a remote attached to your car.”

“How do I turn it on?”

“It’s the far-left switch near the air vent. While the jammer is on, you’re going to lose cell signal.”

“Okay.” Elizabeth turns the jammer on.

Elizabeth walks over to her car and looks at where the bomb had been placed. It had been placed directly under her seat on the other side of the frame rail. Unless you knew what, you were looking for. You wouldn’t had seen it. Whoever, had placed the explosive there had done a good job in concealing it.

“Dam! Someone, doesn’t like me at all.”

“You’re telling me.”

“You dirty rotten, stealing bastard.”

Both women turn their head towards the sound and see Hatter kicking one of the guys with something dangling from her right hands.

“Hatter, why are you kicking that guy?”

“Because that creep stole my necklace.” She kicks him in his groin.

“Alright, you can stop kicking him Hatter.”

Elizabeth places her hand on Hatters shoulder.

Hatter flinches from the touch.

“May I see your necklace, Hatter?”

“You can if you promise to give it back.”

“I promise to give it back to you, Hatter.”

Elizabeth holds her hand out for it as Hatter places it in her hand.

“Hatter, why don’t you come over here and help me load these guys up into the van please.”

Terry had disarmed the explosive device and sat it on the roof of Elizabeth’s car.

“Okay.” Hatter walks over towards where Terry was standing.

Elizabeth looks at the necklace and notice it opens. She opens the heart shape locket and notices the picture inside. One side was blank, but the other side had an image of a young woman. Elizabeth takes a snap shot of it and sends it to Shigeko to see if she could match the picture.
She did notice a name and date inscribed on the inside of the locket. She takes a snap shot of that and sends it to her as well.

Elizabeth holds the locket up and look towards Hatter. She notices that there were some similarities of Hatter that matched the woman in the
locket. She wonders if this woman is Hatter’s mother. If she is, then who is or was her father?

Elizabeth walks over towards Terry and Hatter and hand the necklace back to Hatter.

“Thank you, Hatter.”

“Your welcome.”

Elizabeth helps Terry load the rest of the guys into the van, where Terry notice the tracker they used to track Elizabeth’s car.

“Where going to need a place to interrogate these guys.”

“We can do that at the same place we can store the truck at.”

“Can I interrogate them, please? I know some good ways to make them talk.”

Hatter was rubbing her hands together as she recalls the experiments that had been performed on her. She knew which ones she wanted to use on them. The doctor had made sure she knew which ones were good to use, because he used them over and over on her.

Terry and Elizabeth look at each other and then at Aylin. They didn’t know why she was so excited about interrogating these guys.

“Can you promise not to kill them?”

“Nope, I can’t promise that. I don’t know their physical condition, so I can’t promise I won’t kill them.”

“Alright, I’ll accept that explanation.”

“I’ll drive.”

Hatter jumps into the driver seat of the van and waits for everyone. Terry gets back into wraith and turn around, while Elizabeth gets in her car and follows behind Aylin. They head towards the R&D building that Terry’s brothers were thinking about buying to expend the business. Terry gets out and unlocks the garage door and drives wraith inside followed by Aylin and finally Elizabeth.

Terry closes the garage door and locks it. Afterwards, she walks over towards the van.

Elizabeth had parked near the van and gets out.

“So, who should be our first victim?”

“This one.”

Hatter pulls Frankie out by his hair.

“Hatter, you need to be more careful. How long does the drug you shot them with last?”

“Four hours, but I have the wake-up juice.”

Aylin drags Frankie to the center of the garage and tries to hoist his body up in the air.

“Can I get some help please?”

“Yes, you can get some help.”

Terry and Elizabeth walk over and secure Frankie’s hand over his head and strip him out of his clothes. Then they hoist his unconscious body up and let him dangle in the nude.

“You know, you would think someone with a French name might be little bit hung.” Aylin was flicking Frankie’s penis up and down.

“Will you stop that Hatter?”

“Fine, take my fun away.”

Hatter had the look of a child who's favorite toy had been taken away.

“Do you have a pair of jumper cables?”

“Yes, why do you need them?”

“For my special shock therapy interrogation.”

Aylin pops the hood on the van and waits for Elizabeth to give her the jumper cables.

“Here you go Hatter.”

Elizabeth hands Aylin the jumper cables.

“Thanks.”

Aylin starts humming a little tune as she grabs one of the open water bottles from the van and splash the guy with it. She hooks the positive cable to Frankie’s penis and clamps the negative to his toe. She connects the negative to the van’s battery while it is running.

“Terry, are you going to be alright with this?”

“I,I,….” Terry never got a chance to finish her sentence.

“Shit!”

Elizabeth guides Terry over to wraith and puts her inside and spots a button to darken the windows on the car. She presses it and watch as all the windows darken and windshield darkens.

“Car, play music.”

Elizabeth figures Terry must have some voice activated commands for her super car. Music starts playing as Elizabeth shuts the car door and let Terry feels she is safe inside her car.

“Wakey, wakey, Frankie.”

Aylin stabs Frankie with the wake-up juice in his leg. After a few minutes, he comes around and realize he is suspend off the floor by his hands and strip naked. He felt something biting into his penis and big toe.

“Hi Frankie, remember me?” Hatter waves at him.

“You’re going to tell me what you know and if you don’t. I am going to do this to you.”

Aylin connects the positive clamp to the positive post on the battery and Frankie does the twenty-thousand-volt dance, while screaming.

Aylin starts singing as she releases the clamp and waits a few seconds and does it again.

“This is the way we shock our man!, shock our man!, shock our man! This is the way we shock our man so early in the morning!”

Aylin had a gleam in her eyes and was enjoying herself.

Elizabeth didn’t know what to make of Aylin’s antics as she walks over and start asking questions.

Anika looks at everyone assembled around the conference table. Shigeko had gotten her a fresh set of clothes to change into and freshened up in the ladies’ restroom. While she had been freshening up. She had placed a call to a detective friend of hers in the New York Police Department to secure the location Morgana and her partner had located. She sent Morgana, her partner and the two security officers assigned to her team to that location to see what they could recover.

Elizabeth had a lot of explaining to do to her wife. When she asked her to stay at the Marriott hotel near her work. She also asked her not to drive her car till she and a friend of hers got a chance to look at it. She didn’t want to scare her wife, but she wanted to know why she couldn’t use her car. Once Elizabeth told her that someone had rigged her car with an explosive. Her wife did what Elizabeth said.

Aylin was wondering why they had come here after torturing Frankie. He had told them everything after she had shocked him twice. She had wanted to continue, but Elizabeth wouldn’t let her. She was enjoying the shock therapy she was administering to Frankie. The reason he and his men had been sent was to take out Mrs. Jaager and Elizabeth. They were getting to close to the former CIO operations.

“Alright, here is what we have found out with all the information that has been gather from both teams. The weapons you intercepted were meant for a bigger operation. What that operation is, we don’t know yet. All we do know is it involves Washington D.C. and several of our military bases. As for the satellite equipment, that was going to be used in the second operation. Right now, our primary objective is to locate Mr. Bridges and his people.They are hacking satellites and selling the information to terrorist groups. So, far they haven’t taken control over our drones yet, but given enough time they would be able to over-ride the control signal to the drones from the control of any of our bases.”

“Do we know where they are right now and how many there are?”

Elizabeth was writing everything down as Anika was speaking.

“Yes, and we are going to have to split up into three teams to strike them all at the same time.”

“Can’t be done Queenie!”

Aylin was looking at everyone sitting around the table.

“Why can’t it be done, Hatter?’

“There’s only four of us here. Unless you’re counting your scribe over there?”

Aylin points to Shigeko.

“Hatter, let Anika finish before interrupting her.”

Elizabeth was looking directly at Hatter, like a mother would a child.

Hatter crosses her arms over her chest and huffs.

“No, she is right Elizabeth, but we have back-up.”

Just as Anika said those words. A man wearing a black cowboy hat with brown hair and broad shoulders come walking into the room followed
by a person with black shoulder length hair. The guy with the cowboy hat had dark tanned skin and stood almost six foot tall. He had on a black tie, a light blue button down shirt tucked into the waist band of a brand new pair of blue jeans. Covering his feet were a pair of brown cowboy boots. Walking next to him was a nondescript person with shoulder length black hair dressed in a form fitting black jump suit wearing black leather ankle boots and a three-inch wide black leather belt around their slim waist with a silver belt buckle with a skull with wings on either side of the skull. There were roses in between the wings, just above the skull. The person was wearing gun holsters on each hip. The persons hands were covered in a pair of black skintight gloves.

“Bart, it’s so good to see you again.”

“I wish it was under better conditions, Anika. What trouble have you gotten into this time?”

“One of our employee’s is committing espionage and using the company’s resources to do it. I’m trying to put a stop to it before Jack finds outs. These are the people helping me with the problem and the ones I was going to send to you for training. Ladies, this gentleman is Bart Hardy. He’s an associate of mine that has volunteered to help us out. I’m sorry, but I don’t know your name?”

Anika was looking at the person standing next to Bart. They were about a foot smaller and slimmer then Bart. They looked like they had the build of a gymnast or someone who took ballet.

“My name is Dakota Rice, I work for Mr. Hardy.”

The voice didn’t sound feminine or masculine, just normal.

Anika raise an eyebrow at Bart asking if this was true.

He just nods his head slightly.

“Now, Hatter, do you think we can have three teams?”

Anika was looking towards Hatter.

Hatter looks at the two people that just came in.

“Yes, Queenie.”

“Good. Elizabeth, you’re being teamed with Bart. Terry and Dakota, I am putting the two of you together. Your job is going to be the hardest
and you’re going to have to use Wraith on this job, Terry. Hatter, you are being teamed with me.”

“Excuse me, but what is Wraith and what are we going after?”

Dakota was curious what wraith was and why they were going to need it.

“Wraith is a specialized combat car built and designed by Terry. You’re going to need Wraith and whatever weapons systems and gadgets
Terry has built into that car. Your job is to stop or capture the mobile command center Mr. Bridges is using. From the information, I got from our prisoner. It’s been disguised to look like a Federal Express truck. So, you’ll have to be careful.”

“Do you have any way we can identify it?”

“You’ll be working with Morgana on that. I have her using the satellites we have access to, to monitor and track it. She’ll send the information to
you, so you can intercept it.”

“Speaking of Morgana, where is your computer expert and her partner, Anika?”

Bart was looking towards his former partner.

“Her and her partner, along with two of my trusted security personnel are at the building that the information was being sent to.”

Shigeko’s cellphone beeps letting her know a call was coming through and saw Morgana’s number.

“Hello Morgana, what do you have for us?”

“Lots, you might want to send whoever you have going after the mobile command center now. It’s heading south from New York. I’m also sending you those other locations that you need to disable or take to stop them. One more thing, can you see if you can capture the command center, please? I wouldn’t mind the equipment from it to put in mine.”

“We’ll, see how things work out Morgana.”

Shigeko looks at Bart and Anika “the command center is leaving New York as we speak. So, Terry and Dakota might want to leave right now to intercept it. Morgana did make a request. She’s wants to know if we can capture it, because she wants the equipment from it.”

Anika just grin and looks towards Terry and Dakota.

“You’re up. If you can capture it, do so. If not, I understand.”

“We’ll do what we can Anika.”

Terry and Dakota head out of the conference room and down to where she park Wraith when they came over here.

Dakota stops and looks at the car.

“Wow! You built this car?”

“Yep. I built everything in here from the frame up. Customs wheels, frame, body and weapon systems.”

Terry opens passenger side door for Dakota and walks around to the driver side.

Dakota couldn’t believe the inside of the car or the seat as they sat down on it. It hugged their body like a glove. Terry walks Dakota through the process for putting on the five-point harness.

“Why do I need to wear this?”

“Because this car really moves. It has 6,000 horsepower under its hood.”

“Holy shit.”

Dakota could hear the car door hiss as it becomes airtight.

“Pressurized cabin?”

“Yep.”

Terry presses a button and puts the car in gear.

Dakota didn’t even hear the engine when Terry started the car. Dakota holds on as they leave the parking garage and zip out onto the streets.
A map display pops up in front of them with two dots. According to the distance and the traffic they were currently experiencing, they were losing some time. Terry was going to need to floor it to make the time up.

“Once we get out on the highway, I can open Wraith up.”

“Hey, I understand. I’m from L.A.”

“Really? How did you team-up with Mr. Hardy?”

“Him and his wife saved my life. I was left for dead by a motorcycle gang I had infiltrated. My cover had been blown by a crooked cop that was working for the gang. They beat the crap out of me and shot me four times. I was barely alive when he found me and took me to his wife’s hospital. She saved me and when I could be moved, they took me to their ranch to recover and had me declared dead at the hospital. They helped me change my identity and gender.”

“So, you became a woman?”

Terry glances at Dakota.

“Actually, I consider myself gender neutral. Neither male or female.”

“How can you do that? You either have the plumbing of a woman or the plumbing of a male or both.”

“Well, I can tell you right now. I don’t have both. Why should I confine my identity to one gender? Why can’t I be both or neither?”

“That’s one way at looking at things.”

Terry was thinking about what Dakota said.

“Oh, and to answer your question. I have female plumbing. I had too after what was done to me.”

Dakota had a smug look on their face as they zig zag through traffic and finally get onto the interstate.

Everyone had watched as Terry and Dakota left the conference room.

“I hope you brought your equipment with you Bart.’

“Always do darling. If we need to hit these other sites at the same time, I think we better get suited up and head out as well.”

“I agree, Shigeko can you go and get those items I had delivered earlier?”

“Yes ma’am.”

Shigeko gets up and walks out of the conference room and return a few minutes later with a flat bed cart with three black military footlockers loaded on it.

She opens the first one and hands Elizabeth a bundle. She grabs a smaller bundle and hands Hatter it.

Anika looks at both ladies “I don’t know how comfortable you are about undressing in front of people, but you might want to put these jumpsuits on. Hatter, you can wear it under your normal clothes.”

Hatter had picked hers up and was holding it out.

“What does it do?”

She was looking at Anika with a puzzled look on her face.

“It will stop bullets of certain sizes from killing you and knives as well. I suggest you wear it after getting shot in your shoulder.”

Hatter just stares at it and then starts undressing in front of everyone. There were a few scars that Elizabeth and Terry hadn’t seen on Hatter’s body. Besides her pale skin there were scars on her arms, legs, and on her back. Areas on her back and legs looked like someone had flayed the skin from those areas. What was left in those areas was skin that resemble the thin white skin covering of onions. There were other scars that looked like they were purposely done with acid or burned into her skin with a hot knife or torch.

Shigeko was taking pictures with her camera of the scars on Hatter’s body, including the ones on the bottom of her feet. The ones on her feet looked like someone had burned a brand or something on them. There was a number tattoo on the back of Hatter’s neck that Shigeko managed to get a picture of before Hatters hair covered it up. Shigeko couldn’t believe the abuse she was seeing on Hatters body.

Hatter had seen Shigeko taking pictures of her body and the many scars she had. She didn’t know why and it didn’t bother her. She was uses to people taking pictures of her body. The doctor that torture her did it all the time before and after he performed his experiments on her. He video taped the sessions were he tortured her or his fear experiments. She liked the suit Shigeko had given her to wear and how it felt against her skin. It felt like a glove that covered her body and showed her child like figure. It even covered her feet. She starts putting back on her normal clothes.

Shigeko couldn’t believe the lack of secondary growth development of Hatter’s body. The poor girl looked to have been stuck looking like a ten year old child. She had no breast development or body development. She had some fat in the areas she needed it, but not much. It was like she stopped growing.

Elizabeth had gotten undress after Hatter. She liked the suit as well. It was like the suit she saw Dakota wearing, except the gun belt she had been given had a silver belt buckle in the shape of a long rectangular box with an Angel mounted on top of it. When she pulled on one end of the case a blade came out slightly.

“It’s a hidden throwing knife if you need it.”

Anika had seen Elizabeth checking out the hidden throwing knife of the belt buckle.

Elizabeth pulled the handguns out that were in the gun holster and notice they were FNX™-45 Tactical handguns. These were the most reliable handguns she has heard about. She knew the gun themselves were worth almost fifteen hundred dollars. She had four spare magazines for each gun. She is given a HK416, rifle with six spare magazines’.

Anika looks at Hatter “Have you ever fired a handgun?”

An evil smile appears on Hatter’s face.

Anika notices the smile and against her better judgment hands Hatter a Tactical handgun with three spare magazines’.

“Don’t make me regret giving you that gun, Hatter.”

Hatter just gives her a Cheshire grin as she familiarizes herself with the handgun.

Anika hands everyone an earwig to wear in their ears.

“We can communicate with each other or with each team. They tie into theses.”

Anika hands everyone a small slim box.

“It has a cellular/satellite transmitter in it so we can call and receive from one another. Shigeko has already sent the frequency to Terry so she and Dakota can communicate with us from Wraith.”

Anika looks towards Hatter “I want you to do exactly what I say. This isn’t a game and these people we are going after will kill you.”

Hatter just smiles at Anika.

“Okay queenie.”

Bart looks at Hatter and for some strange reason, he feels she is going to be a handful to control and train. He’s going to need to come up with a new training method just for her.

“Alright, let’s move out.”

Anika stops and looks over towards Shigeko before she leaves.

“Should something happen to us. Pass the information along to Jack and Cheshire.”

“Will do, boss. Just be careful and come back alive.”

“I plan on it Shigeko.”

Anika walks over towards Hatter and the others. They take the private elevator down to the secondary parking garage. Where Jack stores a blackout hummer and a blackout customized four x four pick-up truck.

“I hope those vehicles are bullet proof.” Elizabeth was following Bart.

“They are darling. Anika, I’m taking the pick-up truck.”

As Bart walks over to the truck and run his hand along the body of it.

“I figure you would.”

Anika walks over towards the black military hummer and opens the door. She climbs inside and fastens her seat belt. She watches Hatter as she climbs in and fastens her seat belt.

She follows behind Bart as the he leaves the private garage. Anika figures she might start parking her car down here from now on. That way no one will be able to tamper with it like they did. She receives the coordinates from Morgana and head towards her target, while she watches as Bart takes a different route towards his target.

Pick-up truck:

Bart watches as Anika takes a turn off and heads towards her target.

“How long have you been working for Anika?”

“Do you mean in this position or overall?”

“Overall.”

“For about a year and a half. I started off as an ordinary security officer working the night shift and when the assistant security chief position came available, I applied.”

“Do you like your job?”

“Yes, I wouldn’t had applied for the position if I didn’t like it.”

“How did you feel about Anika asking you to be a special agent of hers?”

“To be honest, I really didn’t have much time to think about it. She gave me an assignment and things just started to move fast from there. I’m curious as to why Anika and you do this type of work.”

“I don’t do this type of work any more darling. But, to answer your question on why I did do it in the first place. I did it for my country. I was a snot nose kid right out of college and was recruited by the CIA. They trained me and sent me to places that you don’t want to know about. It was during a mission in Africa that I learned my mistake going for working for the CIA. I saw this Warlord round-up a bunch of children and turn them into soldiers. He was allowing his older men to rape and murder women. The ones he didn’t rape, he sold as slaves to other Warlords or countries. I killed him and several of his followers and the CIA decided to burn me for doing it. I was left to die in Africa. My mentor Cheshire got word of what had happened to me and got her partner to come and extract me. If they hadn’t shown up when they did, I would be dead right now.”

“So, you’re saying the CIA left you to die for saving the life of children and women?”

“Yep, they were courting the Warlord so we could get access to an area in their territory and were willing to over-look things the Warlord was doing. I couldn’t over-look what I saw and took matters in my own hands. In the end, I paid for my actions.”

“So, you went independent?”

“Yes and no. When the government needs someone, who isn’t technically alive any more, they would call me or my mentors. However, I’m taking a page out of my mentors play book and getting out of the business. After the last job I did, I accidentally put my wife’s life in the line of fire and she almost paid the price for it. I don’t want that to happen again, so I retired and only train people now. Anika still does jobs, but she doesn’t have any one that depends on her. If you decide to do this type of work, be careful on the jobs you accept to do. Because, if you’re not careful, you can put your wife in the line of fire.”

“That just dawn on me the other day when Terry found an explosive device under my car.”

“I’ll gave you the training to prevent that from happening again. If I know Anika, you’ll be working for her. I suggest you talk this over with your wife and come to some sort of agreement. The last thing you want to do, is trying to keep secrets from her about what you are doing. Wives find out when you least expect them too.”

“Thanks for the advice.”

“Any time.”

Elizabeth was watching where they were going. She brought the location up on the portable laptop in the pick-up. Their vehicle were equipped with all sorts of gadgets and devices similar to what she saw in Wraith.

“I wonder where your mentors got this truck equipped like it is from.”

“Knowing Jack, it came from one of his companies. He comes from a wealthy family, but he prefers to use his own money. He’s got his fingers into almost everything.”

“Did they ever keep the money that they found on the job?”

“I would have to say yes about that darling. If you don’t use it, the government will. That's part of your training on how to hide the money you get from the jobs you take and the equipment as well.”

“So, when are we going to get this training?”

“After this mission, I would think. Tell me, what do you know of Hatter?”

“Not much. She’s an enigma to all of us. You saw the needle marks and scars on her body. According to her she comes from England because she was wanted for several murders.”

“So, she’s from England?”

“Yep, can’t you hear it in her speech?”

“Only a little bit. How much further to our target?”

“Not much. Maybe another half-n-hour at best. Morgana said she was able to take the cold site remotely and secured it. The men guarding it have been reassigned to the other sites.”

"That's good and bad for us. Still, watch your six and do what I tell you to do."

"Hey, I do have some military experience."

"That's all good and dandy, but were fighting guerrilla style here. Plus, we need to sneak up on these people and take them out. See, if Morgana can give us a birds eye view of the area."

Elizabeth types a message to Morgana for the request.

A few minutes later everything is transmitted to their laptop.

"Dam!, that girl is good. I've never had information come in that fast before."

"She's a wizard when it comes to computers. She's using several satellites right now to give us live feeds."

"I hope Anika keeps her on after this mission."

"Me too."

Elizabeth watches the live feed.

Anika and Hatter approached their targets on foot. Anika had study the satellite images Morgana had sent them. Her plan was to send Hatter in to cause a distraction. Then she would use her sniping rifle to drop their targets. Anika looks over at Hatter.

“You ready, Hatter?”

Hatter just smiles and starts skipping off. She had her dart guns ready to use when she got close to their targets.

“Wait! Mr. Rabbit.”

Hatter was pretending she was chasing the white rabbit.

The men that had been posted to guard the satellite building sees what looked like the Mad Hatter come running out of the woods.

They watch as she stops and looks at them.

“Do you know where the tea party is being held?”

They all looked at her like she was nuts. Her unusual looks and dress caught them by surprised. While they were staring at her, one of them drops from being shot in the head. They watched as their companion drops to the ground.Another guy drops from a sniper shot. As they were bringing their guns to bare on her. Hatter moves quickly towards a nearby tree and fires her dart gun at two guys. They drop from the knockout needles going through their body armor. The needles were thin enough to slide between the material and into the person. Hatter was aiming for the neck or a joint, not the main body.

Hatter feels her top hat shot off her head. She looks where the hat fell and notice that there was a bullet hole going through the middle of the hat. She picks it up and puts it back on her head. She charges towards the guy that shot her top hat off her head. She pulls the handgun Anika gave her after slipping her dart gun into her coat pocket. She puts three rounds into the guys face that shot her top hat.

“You shot my hat, you creep!”

Hatter shoots another guy in his knee. Which causes him to moan.

“Oh shut-up you, big baby. I only shot you in the knee.”

She moves as gunfire strikes near her head. As she drops to the ground, she rolls around and fires her dart gun into the guy’s eye that shot at
her. As she fires her dart gun, she fires the gun in her other hand at a guy. She hits a guy in his ankle.

Hatter grabs a guy’s security card and uses it to open the building door. She was lucky she was kneeling to the side when she opened the door. She grabs a flash grenade and tosses them in and goes in after they go off. She fires her dart gun and the gun at several dazed targets.

Anika had seen Hatter puts three rounds into a guy’s face for shooting her top hat and then telling another guy to stop complaining about being shot in the knee. A smile appears on her face just from the amusement of Hatter’s antics. She follows behind Hatter as she enters the building.

She notices that Hatter was staying low as she entered. Once inside, she lost track of Hatter. The reason she lost track of Hatter; she just moved quickly. If someone got in her way. She would either shoot them with the gun or dart them with her dart pistol. She heard gunfire and then several explosions as concussion grenades went off. Anika was trying to figure out where Hatter had gotten her training. She moved like a professional hitter. It doesn’t take them long to secure the location. Hatter had blood covering her face from one of the guys that got hit by one of the concussion grenades she tossed near him.

“Team one to team two, location is secure.”

Elizabeth and Bart’s location:
Elizabeth was in a fire fight with three guys and Bart was pinned down by four more.

“Team one to team two, location is secure.”

“Dam, Hatter and Anika have already secured their location.”

Bart had heard the transmission over his ear wig.

“That’s because Anika probably played sniper. Do you have any grenades left?”

Bart was looking over towards Elizabeth.

“Just one smoke, one flash and two concussion grenades.”

“On the count of three, throw one concussion grenade at your guys and one at my guys.”

“Alright.” Elizabeth pulls the concussion grenades and gets ready to throw them.

“1, 2, 3!”

Elizabeth tosses her grenades at her people and at Bart’s people. As they stood up to get away, Bart goes full auto with his gun, taking down
two of his guys and two of Elizabeth’s guys. The concussion grenades take down the rest.

“I hope there isn’t many more. I’m down to one magazine.”

Elizabeth checks her side arm making sure she still had ammo for it.

“I’m empty.”

Bart pulls the tactical shotgun he took out of the truck. He still had ammo for it. Getting in was a little difficult, but as they went further down into the control center, they couldn’t believe their eyes. Some of the people had taken their own lives, rather than be taken alive. Most of the people looked to be Oriental and Korean.

“What the fuck has Bridges gotten himself into?”

Elizabeth was looking around and notice the keyboards had been smashed and there was a countdown going.

Morgana and Troy:
“Morgana, can you tap into the computers here?”

“Let me try. What do you see?”

Elizabeth pulls her cellphone out and dial Morgana’s number and uses facetime on it.

Morgana looks at what Elizabeth was sending her.

“Holy shit! They started the count down for missiles aimed at West Point & US Army Department in New Jersey. How in the hell did they smuggle missiles into the US?”

“I don’t know, but can you hack in and stop it? They have to be using a remote firing station.”

Morgana’s fingers tapped away on her keyboard as she used every trick she knew to break into the firing station computer system to stop the count down. The count gets down to 30 seconds as she shuts the station down.

“God! I never want to go through that again.”

She flexes her fingers to ease the tension in them. She was tense when she cracked their systems.

“What do you want me to do with where they are?”

“Can you give us a picture of where they are, Morgana?”

“No, problem. There’s a satellite over us right now I can use.”

Morgana brings up an image of the locations.

“It looks like they are disguise as cargo trailers waiting to be pick-up.”

Anika and Hatter:
Anika had been listening to the conversion between Elizabeth and Morgana over their communications.

“Call General Ellsworth and have him send a bomb disposal team to those coordinates. Tell him Snow Angel instructed you too.”

“I’m assuming your Snow Angel?”

“Thank you, Morgana.”

“I think she answered your question, Morgana.”

Troy had been watching his partner while she stopped the count down and was talking with Anika.

“All she did is confirm that her code name is Snow Angel. I wonder what everyone else’s code names are?”

“You know Morgana, you’re too nosy for your own good.”

“Maybe, but I like to know who I am working for and why things are so secret?”

“My father use to say Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”

Selena looked towards Morgana to see if she understood that statement.

“That may be true, but what do you do when other men concern means life or death to others?”

Selena just shakes her head as she continues to patrol the building they had taken over.

Troy couldn’t believe his partner. He taps away on his keyboard as he shifts threw the information they were retrieving from the servers in the building.

Morgana and Troy:
“Morgana, how is team three doing with their assignment?”

Anika was looking around the building they just took. She had sent Morgana, General’s Ellsworth’s private cellphone number.

“Like the combat scenes from the Fast and Furious Seven movie. Wraith is taking fired from a mini-gun.”

“Do they need assistant?”

“Not from what I’m seeing. Terry has given me permission to access Wraith’s combat drone. Dakota is fighting someone on the roof of the trailer part of the tractor trailer they are chasing. Terry is trying to slow down the truck by shooting the tires out, but is being stopped by the mini-gun being fired at her.”

“What’s their location?”

“They are two hours out from your location. Which puts them approaching Baltimore, Maryland. They would be gone by the time someone caught up to them. Terry just said she’s jamming all transmissions from the truck.”

Morgana watches as the pop-up guns on Wraith are destroyed from the mini-gun.

“Ouch! Wraith just had his guns blown off. Terry said the only weapons she has left are the missiles, but she doesn’t want to use them on the tires.”

Morgana watches as Wraith fires a missile at the mini-gun. Another pops out on the other side and Wraith destroys that one as well.

“Well, there goes the guy Dakota was fighting.”

Morgana watched as Dakota threw the guy off the trailer towards Wraith. Terry moves wraith just in time so he didn’t go through her windshield. The truck weaves a few times and another body is thrown from the cab section of the tractor trailer onto the highway, where the guy ends up as street pizza.

“They have control of the tractor trailer, Anika.”

Dakota pulls the tractor trailer over and climbs back up on the roof of the trailer towards the opening the guy came through. Dakota drops two grenades down inside the trailer.

“Dakota just gassed the guys inside the trailer, Anika.”

Morgana turns the drone around and sees a bunch of State Troopers showing up.

“Anika, you might want to have your cell phone standing by. The Maryland State Trooper have shown up. Dakota and Terry are dealing with them right now.”

“Alright, keep me advised.”

Anika and Hatter:
While Anika was talking to Morgana, Hatter was exploring the building they took. She found some more weapons and a list of targets.

“Hey Queenie, you might want to see this.”

Hatter was holding a notebook written in a language she didn’t know.

“What did you fine?”

“Don’t know. It’s got funny writing inside it.”

Hatter hands the notebook to Anika to look at.

Anika notice Hatter still hasn’t cleaned the blood off her face.

“Hatter, go clean your face please.”

“Okay.”

Hatter finds a bathroom and cleans her face and her suit jacket. She is still upset about her top hat being shot at. She changes out the magazines in her dart guns and holster them. She checks her ammo in the handgun she has and sees she has four rounds left in the current magazine. She tucks the gun in her waist band behind her back.

She picks up a few more guns and notices they were the new Glock 19M. She had heard rumors about these on the streets. Her ex-boss had said that he was getting a shipment of them from a friend of his.

“Hey Queenie. Look what I found.”

Hatter shows Anika the Glock 19M.

“What are these doing out on the streets? They are meant for Law Enforcement and the FBI.”

“Don’t know, but most of these guys have them.”

Anika picks up one from a dead guy. She takes her portable fingerprint scanner and scan his print. It shows a list of crimes he had committed.
She scans each body there with Hatters help and store their information to review later. She calls for a meat wagon to come and pick the dead bodies up.

Her and Hatter head back towards the office and park the Hummer back in the underground parking garage. They head up to the conference room they used last time. Hatter takes a seat and takes her top hat off and put her finger through the hole.

Anika was observing Hatter as she put her finger in the hole in her top hat.

“I can get that fix for you Hatter.”

Hatter looks up at Anika “thank you Queenie.”

Elizabeth and Bart comes walking in an hour later. Both of them look tired and worn out.

“You two look tired.”

“We are. We had to deal with a jackass police Captain. We heard from Terry and Dakota. They are taking the tractor trailer to the building we have the box truck locked up. Terry and Dakota will be here within the hour.”

“I’ll have Shigeko order us up some food.”

“You might have to wake Hatter up.”

Elizabeth noticed Hatter had her head resting on her arms on the table. She walks over to check to see if Hatter was awake. She could hear a
light snoring coming from Hatter.

“I think she’ll come around when the food gets here.”

Bart gets a text from Dakota. He reads it.

“Dakota says they found something we should take a look at. Also, we might want to send Morgana over to the building to go through the computers in the trailer.

“I’ll tell her.”

Anika dials Morgana’s number.

“What’s up Anika?”

“I need for you to go through the computers on the trailer.”

“Anika, do you mind if I bring someone else in to help?”

“Who do you want to bring in and can they be trusted?”

“My friend Gloria. She’s really good and she can be trusted. She got a top secret clearance through the company she works for.”

“Alright, I’ll have Shigeko make arrangements to have the Lear pick her up. I’ll add an extra twenty thousand to your contract to cover her wages. You can have the equipment after you’re done with it.”

“Sounds good to me. I was going to say five, but I’ll take twenty.”

“Okay, I’ll have Shigeko call you when she’s got the arrangements made.”

“Okay, thanks. Let me give Gloria a call., bye.”

Twenty minutes later Terry and Dakota come walking into the conference room.

Dakota had a slight limp to their walk. Terry was looking tired. She had a bunch of work she needs to do to Wraith.

“Terry, how set are your brothers on buying that building you got the box truck and tractor trailer at?”

“They really like it and it would be close to their homes. Why?”

“I might have another building they might like better. Our company have been trying to decide what to do with it.”

“I can always take them over to look at it and see if they will be willing to buy it. Why do you want them to consider that building, instead of the one we are looking at?”

“Isn’t it obvious? You have been using the other one to store evidence. We might as well buy it and use it as an operation center for now on.”

“That makes sense. Give me the address for the other building and I’ll take my brothers by it and let them look it over. The purchase has to be agreed on by all three of us.”

“What are you going to do with your old building?”

“I was going to take it over and use it to do simple car repairs. We would use the other building for specialty builds. This way we can concentrate on two separate jobs without problems.”

“Make sense. Let’s see what we all found at the sites and try to figure out what Mr. Bridges has gotten himself into.”

“I need to check my wife’s car out for explosives so she can use it.”

“How long do you think it will take you?”

“Well, if Terry or one of you come along to check. It shouldn’t take long.”

“I’ll go with her Anika.”

Dakota knew what to look for.

“Thanks Dakota.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Go, and take care of that. While you’re out check on Morgana and her team. Find out what they want for dinner.”

“Will do.”

Elizabeth and Dakota leave to go and take a look at Elizabeth’s wife car.

“Let’s get started on what we have till the food get here.”

Terry glances over towards Hatter.

“You want her input on this?”

“No, let her sleep. We still don’t know what she knows.”

“Okay.”

Gloria’s boss didn’t take to kindly about her taking off. She was their best Cyber-specialist and didn’t like it when she took time off. They figure she was doing side jobs and that was against company policy. Since her and Morgana had talked about her coming to work for her. She had been putting some serious thought into Morgana’s offer. She liked the fact that she could work when she wanted to and the traveling she would be doing. She knew the money would be a lot better. So, she put in her two weeks’ notice when she asked for a couple days off.

Morgana was true to her word about flying in a private Jet. It was waiting for her when she arrived at the private airport she had been directed to drive to. She parked her Jeep wrangler in a storage hangar and was told to leave the keys in it so if it needed to be moved or transported to her. They could do it. She was given a receipt for the vehicle and an id card.

Her luggage and equipment was loaded onto the plane carefully. She couldn’t believe the inside of the jet. She had traveled before, but never in a private jet. It was nice and after they were in the air she was offer a drink and something to eat. The flight itself only took 3.5 hours. When she landed at the private airport in New York, a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car with mirrored windows was waiting for her. She was informed by the driver; whose name was Robert. That she going to be dropped off at the work site and her luggage would be taken to her hotel room.
Arrangements had been made for her stay. She was given a hotel room key. When she looked at it; she notices it was for a room at The Plaza hotel.

She wonders if the jobs Morgana took were always this generous. She was driven to a non-descript brown building in a nice neighborhood. It looked like it used to be a law office or something. She was told by Morgana by text to let them know when she arrived and someone would let her in.

She texts Morgana to let her know she was right outside the door. A few minutes later a middle aged muscular African American dressed in a pair of black dress slacks, dark gray button-down dress shirt that was partially unbutton open comes to the door. He was wearing a shoulder gun holster with the butt of his gun showing.

Morgana had asked Keven to let her friend Gloria Lagana in. She showed him a picture of her so he knew what she looked like. Him and
Selena had spent the night here last night with Morgana and Troy while they worked. Elizabeth and a girl Keven hadn’t met yet stopped by to check on them. He had asked Elizabeth what was going on and she gave him a short description of the problem they were handling. She had come by to check on them and to ask what they wanted for dinner. Because Shigeko was arranging to have dinner sent to them.

After Elizabeth and Dakota left. A nice dinner had been brought over by a staff member from Shigeko’s boyfriends restaurant. Coffee, tea and soda had been sent as well. Troy had stopped to eat and to take a break for a while, but Morgana had kept on working while eating. The only time he had ever seen any one do something like that was back in his college days with some of the gamers he knew.

Anika said she could send another guard over to protect them if he and Selena wanted to go home. Both had asked to be permanently assigned to protect them. Anika had agreed, but told them to get some sleep. He knew Selena was still sleeping in a room they had set-up. He had slept for five hours and had been woken-up by Selena. She had informed him that Troy was sleeping in one of the offices, but Morgana was still going at it.

He had spotted the young girl standing at the door. She had on a nice looking blue and white dress that came down mid-thigh on her slim frame. Her shoulder length strawberry blonde hair framed her youthful looking face. Her skin coloring had an olive tint to it, making her appear Sicilian. He notices she was wearing a pair of ankle boots that went with her dress. They had a two-inch heel on them. She also had a black rolling luggage chart with her along with her purse.

He unlocks the door “you must be Gloria Lagana?”

“Yep, that’s me. Morgana sent for me.”

“She’s waiting for you. If you’ll follow me, please.” Keven relocks the door and escorts Gloria back where Morgana was working.

Gloria follows Keven and wonders why they were inside an empty office building. They come to a huge storage room and sees several server
cabinets with their doors open and wires running from them to several of Morgana’s laptops that were set-up and running on a make shift work bench. One laptop had satellite data display on it. There was another make shift work bench set-up with another set of laptops opened and cables running to it. She recognized two of the laptops as belonging to Troy Percival. She had heard he had gone freelance. He used to work for the same company she did, but wasn’t in her class.

She was more like Morgana. Computers just spoke to her on a level most people didn’t understand. Even most of the instructors she had at MIT and Northcentral University had a hard time understanding her work. She was a child prodigy and held every computer certificate ever produce and had her Phd at the young age of 19.

“Hey Gloria, just tell Keven how you want your work station set-up.”

Morgana hadn’t even stopped what she was doing when she spoke.

“Mind telling me what I will be doing, before I get started?”

“Sorry.” Morgana stops what she is doing and turns around to look at Gloria.

“All these servers here have information in them from our satellites, Russian satellites and most other countries. The guy we had been hired to
investigate had his crew hacking into every satellite in orbit and was using them to locate and sell information to the highest bidder. He also had planned on doing a lot more to several countries. He basically could send our ships off course and control all communications. So, far I have managed to fix how he got into them, while leaving the original access intact. The problem we have now is finding the plans he has put into play. Troy and I have been trying to find all of them and relay those plans to Ms. Anika and her team to either stop or intercept.”

“Why did this guy do this crap?”

“Power, greed, revenge. Everything we have learned so far from going through every file points to the fact he had several backers financing his
operations. This is just one of his data locations. There’s five more, plus a mobile command center Anika’s team took out. I’ve managed to gain access to three of the five data centers and have all their files downloading to my mainframe at home and Eruptions mainframe. The last two data centers went off-line. I’m watching their locations on several satellites and it looks like they are trying to secure those locations. One is in Crystal City, TX and the other is in downtown Yakima, WA. The one in Yakima is an old bank that Eruption bought and was going to use as a data processing center. The Crystal City location was an old tech school and had already been converted to a data processing center.”

“Sounds like you and Troy have been busy. Let me get set-up and jump in.” Gloria and Keven set-up a work station for Gloria to work at. They set-up all her equipment and get her hooked into the system.

“You said that we have a satellite watching those locations?”

“Yep, Freedom four and a Nasa satellite.”

Gloria logs into the Freedom satellite and look at what was going on in those locations that Morgana told her about. She takes a closer look
with the optic systems on Freedom four and clean-up the image with a specialized software she wrote herself.

“They are hooking up an external satellite unit to those location. The unit looks like a portable unit they use over in Pakistan and Iraq. It looks like they are trying to setup their own connection so it’s not connected to anything we can hack, but they still need a satellite to lock onto.”

Gloria searches through the satellites they have access to and find the one she was looking for. It was a communication satellite belonging to
the NSA. She uses it to scan the frequency the group was using and notice they were encrypting the signal with an encryption code she had come across before.

“Suckers, I know that encryption.” Gloria had seen it before from a North Korean hacking group she had busted when they attacked the US energy grid a year ago.

Keven was impress by Gloria’s skills as he reheated the coffee that had been brought over last night with their dinner. He or Selena were going to have to make a coffee run and grab some breakfast for this crew. He was worried about Morgana. Once she got into her groove, she was completely gone. He had seen that type of problem with a few gamers, when they were gaming. They wouldn’t stop for anything. It was like they were in another universe.

He started to see the same thing happening to Gloria as she went to work. As he was adding sugar to his coffee, his cell phone ranged. He looks at it and noticed it was Shigeko’s private number.

“Hello Shigeko, what can I do for you?”

“Did Gloria Lagana arrive alright?”

“Yep, she’s in her own little world right now just like Morgana.”

“How’s the rest your crew holding out?”

“Selena and Troy are asleep and I’m watching Morgana and Gloria work. We could use some breakfast and more coffee.”

“Alright, I’ll drop by with some food and clean clothes for you four. How much longer do you think your crew is going to need to be there?”

“I don’t know, let me ask Morgana real quickly.”

Keven walks over and taps Morgana on the shoulder lightly.

Morgana snaps out of the groove she was in when she felt a light tap on her shoulder.

“What’s up Keven?” She had a faraway look in her eyes.

“Shigeko wants to know how much longer we will be?”

“We can have all the information downloaded and secure by tomorrow morning now that Gloria is here. I know we still need to access the
computer system on the command center.”

“Alright.”

“Did you hear that Shigeko?”

“Yep, I heard. I’ll pass the information onto Anika. Do you want to remain with them?”

“Yay, Selena and I talked about it last night and we decided that we want to keep our assignment. We could use some heavier weapons and
body armor though. All we have are our personal side arms.”

“Alright, I’ll tell Anika and see we can do for you.”

“Thanks.”

Hour Later:
An hour later breakfast shows up and fifteen minutes after the restaurant personal show-up. Elizabeth and Bart shows up with a few army foot lockers.

“We brought you guys some gear.”

Elizabeth spotted Troy, Morgana and Gloria working on their computers.

Bart introduces himself, before opening the footlockers.

He hands Selena and Keven a complete tactical gear set with satellite phones.

“Save your personal handguns for when you’re working at the company. Here are some Glock 19M we recovered from the bad guys with four magazines for each. Also, here are HK416 assault rifle with four magazines for you guys.”

“Are we expecting a combat squad?” Selena was a little concern as she accepted the HK assault rifle.

“We hope not, but just in case, you’ll at least be prepared for it.”

Bart gives both Keven and Selena a run down on how the weapons work. While Bart was doing that, she went over to see what Troy, Morgana
and Gloria were doing. Morgana and Gloria seemed to be in another zone, while Troy was aware she was there.

“They’re in the zone. Both get like that when they are working on the computer.”

“Isn’t that kind of dangerous?”

“Yep, if a person stays like that to long they lose themselves and their body starts to shut down because of waste buildup in their systems. I’ve
been watching Morgana making her stop and take a break. It looks like I have to do the same thing to Gloria as well.”

“I’ll talk with Keven and Selena and have them give you a hand.’

“Thanks, Elizabeth.”

Elizabeth talks with Keven and Selena about helping Troy and afterwards leave with Bart.

Anika had been going over the notebook Hatter had found. It had taken her almost all night to translate and decode to read it. The whole purpose of the attack on West Point had been to kill several family members blame Russian agents. There were children and grandchildren of certain Senators and Congressmen. The command center had been heading towards Washington D.C. to launch missiles towards the pentagon, the FBI and CIA building. That was why they were using Russian made missiles that could be trace back through North Korea. The trailers had already been set-up and prep to launch missiles. They just need the activation command from the command center. They were the same missiles that had been aimed at West Point and the US Army Department in New Jersey. The New Jersey office had several more children and grandchildren of importance working at those sites related to other congressmen. The whole thing was a revenge and blame tactic against certain members of congress to get them to act against North Korea.

They came across another plan to add a deadly contagious compound to the ink at the different Bureaus of Engraving and Printing. There was a list of things they had planned on doing. The major one was the attack at the airport to blame America for the murder of several major Chinese and Russian leaders on route to the White House tomorrow. The second one was to seized control of the drones and shoot down Air Force One and Air Force Two. This way they could eliminate the President and Vice President. They had ways to make the speaker of the house do as they wanted by kidnapping his family and holding them.

Anika couldn’t believe what she was reading. They had their plans laid out for almost every possibility. They were even going to take control of the energy grid hubs. They had stopped them for now, but she knew some of their plans were already in play. She had no idea which ones, but hopefully they will locate them as they went through the computer files.

She glances at Hatter, who has slept the whole entire time so far. Occasionally, her or Elizabeth would hear whimpering sounds or Hatter would beg the doctor to stop doing what he was doing. When she did that, Anika would write down the name of the doctor and have Shigeko check it out on what they knew so far about Hatter. She even called out for her mother and beg for her father not to send her away. She even sat straight up at one point and screamed like someone was killing her while still asleep. It had startled everyone in the conference room.

Dakota had been observing Hatter while she slept and when all this started happening. Especially the begging for her father not to send her away. Brought tears to Dakota eyes.

Terry had gone and brought some equipment from her shop and worked on Wraith down in the underground parking garage. Dakota left the conference room and gone down to help her with the repairs. Dakota was amazed at what she saw as she helped Terry with the repairs. She had seen many specialized vehicles while working in the special effects department on movie productions, but Wraith put them to shame. Everything built into the car, worked. It wasn’t a prop, but an actual kickass assault car. When Elizabeth and she had gone to check on Morgana and check Elizabeth’s wife car for a bomb; which they didn’t find one. Dakota learned a little bit more about Elizabeth. She learned that Elizabeth's wife was a fashion designer and had very successful line of clothes that several big names chain stories carried.

Anika had shown some of what she decoded from the book to Bart. Some of it were access codes and secret black site locations. Plus, their contact within the Secret Service and CIA. Access codes to certain restricted areas and numbers. There was a plan worked out for getting into the White House. There were some coordinates that didn’t make any sense to them.

As Bart was looking at the coordinates an idea struck him. He checked his hunches out by checking several flights that were due in at Washington Dulles International Airport.

“Oh boy! We have a problem.”

“What’s the problem?”

Anika knew Bart’s tone of voice.

“There’s a four-man crew waiting for a flight to come in at Dulles tomorrow at eleven o’clock. According to the information in this book, it has several heads of states that have been invited to the White House.”

“Crap! We better send Terry with wraith and Dakota down there.”

“Is she done with her repairs yet?”

“I don’t know, let me check with her.”

“Team Leader to Wraith, are you almost done with your repairs?”

Underground Garage:
“Hey Terry, Anika wants to know if the repairs are almost done?”

“They are three quarters complete. I’ve fixed what I can here, but the rest has to be done at my shop.”

“Terry which button allows me to put Anika on speaker?”

“The yellow LED glow one on the radio.”

Dakota presses the yellow button on the radio.

“Terry, is wraith almost operational?”

“Yes, why?”

“I need to send you and Dakota to Washington D.C. again to stop a fire team that is about to shoot down an incoming flight.”

“Send the information to my on-board computer systems.”

Terry slips out of her work coveralls she had on. She was still wearing the skintight body suit Anika had given her. She grabs her helmet and her side arm and gets into wraith. She notices that Dakota was already securing herself like she showed her last time. She had replaced the two pop-up guns with two mini-guns that came up. On the prototype chassis she tested them on, they had worked fine.

Anika sends the information to wraiths on-board computer systems. Terry has the GPS system plot the fastest route for them to take. It was a good thing she had topped off the main and Secondary fuel tanks. Wraith could run normal octane gasoline, but he performed better with the racing fuel Terry normally used in him.

Dakota looks over towards Terry “is wraith going to be able to handle this mission?”

“He’ll be able to handle the mission. Hopefully, the light bar will help us this time around. I don’t feel like having a bunch of State Troopers or city police chasing us.”

Terry starts wraith up and put him into gear and shoot out of the secondary garage heading for Washington D.C. again.

Conference Room:
Anika watches as wraith takes off and starts heading towards Washington D.C. Her and Bart get a message from Morgana about securing two data centers. The one in Texas and the one in Washington State.

“I got the one in Texas covered. I have a friend who owns a Private Security Contractor company. They can secure that location.”

“That still leaves the Washington state one.”

“You know Jack could send people from his contracting company to secure that center.”

“Yay, he could and than he would want an explanation on what is going on with his company.”

“The last I heard, his youngest daughter is being groomed to run the business.”

“She’ll still report to her father.”

“We need his resources Anika.”

“I know.”

Anika dials Jack’s secured number.

Jack’s Ranch:
Jack and Denise were sitting on top of their horses enjoying the quietness around the property. The girls were in school and Chaos and the other wolves were some where on the property tracking game. Jack feels his cellphone vibrating against his body. He pulls it and checks the number and notices it was Anika’s number. He wonders what she wanted.

“Hello?”

“Jack, it’s Anika. I need some help from you.”

“What type of help do you need, Anika?”

“I need for you to send some of your Private Security Contractors to an address in Washington State that belongs to the company and secure it from some bad guys.”

“How soon do you need this done?”

“Right away if you can swing it.”

“It will be done within the hour and you know I want to know what is going on as well.”

“Trust me, I planned on telling you Jack. I was just hoping we could keep this mess internal.”

“I’ll be in New York in a few days. You can tell me about what is going on.”

“I will Jack and thanks for the help.”

“Any time Anika. You know I don’t mind helping you.”

“I know. Give your wife a kiss for me and a hug to each of your daughters.”

“I will. Bye.”

Jack ends the call and then dials another number.

“Barbara, its Jack. Send Alpha team to 3452 High Water Street, Yakima, WA. I need them to secure and apprehend any one on the property. That includes any equipment. Let me know when its done.”

“They are on their way sir.”

“Thank you Barbara.”

Jack hangs up.

“Trouble?”

“Yes and no. Anika needs my help with a problem concerning my telecommunications company in New York. She asked me to send some men to a data center we have in Washington State.”

“So, I guess you’ll be visiting New York soon to find out what is going on?”

“You got it sweetie. I’m going to take Gina with me. I want her to take over several of my businesses.”

“What about Julia?”

“She’s more interested in law enforcement. No, I think this suits Gina better. Besides, she’s got a head for numbers and gets along with people really well.”

Conference room:
Anika looks toward Bart “he’s going to send people to secure the location. I’ll send a text to Morgana letting her know.”

Anika sends a text to Morgana informing her that help was on the way towards the two locations and that any information she could supply for the teams heading there would be helpful.

“Do you miss being an Olympic Sport Super Star, instead of a specialist?”

“I do miss it at times. That’s how I got my code name from my Uncle. He saw me jump at the Olympic weather games and said there were wings behind me as I made the jump. I walked away from the games with two gold medals and one silver medal. I don’t miss working for the NSA. After the crap they pulled and the lives lost. No, I prefer doing this. What’s Dakota’s background?”

“She’s a former LAPD undercover police officer that had been betrayed by a crooked cop in her department. She used to work in the Vice and Narcotics division. She worked part time in the movie industries as a stunt person and special effects artist. Her father is a former Seal, now stunt person. Her mother is a special effects person. I found her near death while chasing down an escape convict. I got her the medical attention she needed and she’s been working for me on my ranch.”

“So, she’s good with infiltration and undercover work?”

“Yep, she speaks twelve different languages and can pass for almost anyone. A lot of the production companies she did stunt work for, also had her act as a double for their actors or actresses. You couldn’t tell the difference between the two. She already has several establish identities, thanks to the LAPD.”

“She’ll come in handy. I think she’s a good partner for Terry.”

“What’s the deal with?” Bart points over towards Hatter.

“She’s a mystery. All I do know about her, is she’s not all there. She’s wanted over in England for the thief of several valuable paintings, four murders and malicious wounding of six others. She’s had some sort of operative training, because I have never seen anyone move like she does.”

“Did you try to run her prints and DNA?”

“Yep, she’s never been arrested and she has no prints. Either she did it or someone else in her gang got rid of her prints.”

Bart just stare at her. He had been startled when she sat straight up and screamed like someone hurt her.

“We think she’s been abused and had experiments performed on her. There are areas of her skin that have been removed and left behind a thin layer of skin covering that area. Shigeko been trying to identify her. She’s using our friend in England to see if they have more info for us. We do know Hatter was born in England. That much we do know, but where and to whom we don’t.”

“Actually, we do now Anika.” Shigeko had been reading an email from their contact in England.

Bart and Anika looks at her ‘what did you find out?”

“Hatter’s real name is Aylin Christian Green and she is sixteen years old. She’s the first born daughter of Baron Wright Green and Lady Hollace Smith in Ravenstonedale, England. A girl matching her description killed Baron Wright Green three years ago. According to what our friend found out from a former employee of a mental hospital. She was placed in the mental hospital at the age of six by her father. The administrator of the hospital was known for performing illegal human experiments on her. There’s a death certificate with her name registered in Ravenstondale. The death certificate was filed by the administrator of the hospital that was mysteriously murdered in a car explosion three years ago. Her father was killed by her two days afterwards.”

“Dam! No wonder Hatter is so crazy. She was left in a mental hospital since she was six years old and had illegal experiments performed on her. Was there anything else?”

“Yes, the night she finally managed to escape, she bit off the penis of an orderly that had raped her. She killed the other orderly that had raped her with a lethal dose of drugs they use to give her. He was found dead in the men's bathroom. As far as England is consider, she’s legally dead. She has a younger half-brother, but her birth mother is dead. She died the night before she was put into the mental hospital.”

“The question now is, why does she dress like she does?”

“Because the only thing she had that meant anything to her when she was placed into the mental hospital was an Alice in Wonderland book. She identifies with the Mad Hatter from the story.”

"That explains her style of dress, the question is. What type of experiments were performed on her?"

Anika, Elizabeth, Bart and Shigeko all look at Hatter as she slept.

Eruption Communications conference room:
Hatter wakes-up and looks around the conference room. Bart and Anika were looking through some paperwork. Elizabeth was over in one corner of the conference room with her feet resting in a chair and the rest of her was curled up in another chair. Bart’s jacket was covering her body like a blanket. There were empty cups on the table and several laptops opened with one of them tracking Wraith.

“Looks like sleeping beauty woke-up.” As Bart glances, over towards Hatter.

“I’m not sleeping beauty. She’s a wimp.” Hatter covers up a yawn as she looks at the cups.

“Queenie, is there any tea in here?” Hatter wanted some tea to drink.

“No, but there’s some coffee left in thermos if you want that.”

“Okay.” Hatter grabs a cup from the stack near the thermos and pumps some coffee into her cup, after adding sugar and creamer to it.

She walks over to see what Anika and Bart were looking at. As she takes a sip of her coffee as she picks up one of the papers to see what was written on it. It was written in a foreign language she couldn’t read.

“What time is it?” Anika was wondering if Terry and Dakota were going to make it in time.

“It’s 9:30 and they are about forty-five minutes away from their target.”

“Well, hopefully they can get there before things go down.”

“She’ll make it Queenie.” Hatter had been watching Wraith on the laptop as she drunk her coffee.

Hatter picks up a roll left over from their dinner and munches on it. She wonders what has been going on while she was asleep. She walks
over and sits back down in the chair she fell asleep in.

Morgana’s face pops up on one of the laptops that were opened.

“Were all done here Anika. All the information that was stored here has been uploaded to your servers and to my servers for me to go through.
All access codes have been returned to normal and all holes that were in the satellite software has been fixed. I left a few back doors for us, just in case we still need to use certain satellite, but other than that. No one should be able to hack into the satellites anymore.”

“Thanks for the update Morgana. Do you or any of your team want to go ahead and get some rest before you tackle the mobile command unit?”

“Gloria and I are still able to function, but I think our body guards and Troy might want to get some sleep.”

“How much sleep have you gotten Morgana?”

“None, but I can still function. So, can Gloria.”

“You and your team take some downtime for a few hours. After you have gotten some rest, taken a shower and changed your clothes. Call me before you head over to the mobile command center. I have a job I want you to do first before you start digging into the computers on the command center. Put Keven on will you?”

Morgana moves out of the way and Keven appears on the screen.

“Keven, you and Selena go ahead and stay at the same hotel that Gloria, Troy and Morgana are staying at. I want you two to keep guarding them. See if you can get a room either next to theirs or upgrade to a suite. Tell the manager at the hotel to put the room on the company account. I’ll have Shigeko go and buy you two some clean clothes and drop them off at the hotel for you. I’ll have Greg come by and pick you all up including your equipment.”

“Okay Ms. Jaager.”

Anika looks for Hatter. She wasn’t anywhere in the room.

“Where did Hatter go?”

Bart looks up from a paper he was reading at Anika’s question.

“I don’t know. I didn’t hear her leave this room.”

Bart gets up and walks out into the hallway and heads down towards the women’s bathroom.

He knocks on the door “security.”

“You’re not security.”

Bart recognizes Hatter’s voice.

“We didn’t know where you went.”

“I hide to pee and Anika was on the computer talking to the geeks. So, I left to find a bathroom.” Hatter was sitting in a stall doing her business.

“Well, next time let someone know where you are. Come back to the conference room when you’re done.”

“Okay.”

Aylin waits till she hears the door close before she removes her foot from the stall door and put away her knife. She learned a long time ago at the hospital to keep on her guard when she went to the bathroom. The orderlies that raped her use to wait for her to be alone and molest her.

Even some of the mental patients that were there at the hospital with her. Would take advantage of her innocence and do things to her.

She finishes doing her business and walks over and washes her hands.
She stares at her reflection as tears start to form in her eyes. As flashes of what has been done to her come to the surface. Even though she hated her father for sending her away and killing her mother, she still misses having a family. She hated the Doctor for the experiments he performed on her and turning her into what she is today. She hates the orderlies for what they did to her body. She closes her eyes as tears slides down her cheeks. She didn’t know who or what she was anymore. Was she meant to go through life being nothing more than a killer?

She tries to get her emotions under control, but the tears wouldn’t stop coming. She drops to her knees and continue to cry.

Anika was worried about Hatter. She should had been back to the conference room by now. Bart had said she was in the ladies’ restroom. She walks down to the bathroom and when she opened the door, she could hear someone crying inside. She opens the second door just a peek to look in.

She sees Aylin balled up on the floor crying. She walks in quietly like she was ready to make a kill and kneel next to Aylin she didn’t want to startle the girl and be attacked. She scoops Aylin into her arms and just holds her, while she tries to calm the poor girl. She rubs her back and just let her cry against her shoulder.

Aylin couldn’t stop crying and didn’t feel when Anika pulled her to her body. She just buried her face against Anika’s shoulder and cries. Everything she has been holding back for years comes to the surface and out. All the pain and loneness she felt comes out. She slowly passes out and goes limp against Anika’s body.

Anika doesn’t know how long Aylin has been crying, but she does feels Aylin body go limp against her body. Anika holds Aylin limp body tight to her body as she stands up with her in her arms. Good thing she had strong leg muscles. She slowly makes her way back to the conference room.

Bart watches as Anika comes walking in with Aylin in her arms resting against her body passed out. She had her face buried against Anika's shoulder. Anika sits down in her chair and just holds Aylin as if she was her baby.

“What happened?” Bart was speaking softly so not to wake Aylin.

“I think the poor girl had an emotional breakdown. She was on the floor crying when I went in to check on her.”

“I wonder what brought it on?”

“Who knows, but I guess everything she has been through finally decided to come to the surface.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if Aylin doesn’t have PTSD or something with what she has lived through.”

“Poor kid. No child should ever experience what she experienced.”

“I agree. If she hadn’t already killed the people who hurt her like they did, I would go after them and ask Jack if I could take Chaos with me.”

Bart just shakes his head. He knew how Chaos was and wouldn’t want to have that wolf come after him. Chaos wasn’t a wolf, but a hound from hell. He was surprised that Jack could control him like he does. That wolf had a vicious streak in him that was a mile long.

“What’s the progress of Dakota and Terry?”

“They have arrived at the location and have engaged the fire team. Morgana is remotely piloting Wraith’s combat drone as back-up for the team.”

“I told her to get some sleep.”

“Greg said she refused to leave Terry and Dakota shorthanded. She’s using her laptop to control the combat drone. It’s making a difference in their fight.”

Anika wasn’t happy, but she could see where the drone could make a difference with Morgana controlling it.

“I’ll talk to her later after this. We still got a lot of other things on our plate to handle. One is finding out where Arnold Bridges and his crew are.
The location Hatter and I took down were being manned by Korean and Chinese hackers. Arnold and his group have to be some where else.”

“They could had been in the mobile command center.”

“They weren’t, but I believe their location is in the computer systems in that command center. It was the nerve center for their operations.”

“Then, shouldn’t we get Morgana and her team on it right away?”

“No, they need some sleep. I know it’s important, but Morgana and Gloria need the down time. They’ll lose themselves in cyberspace if we don’t make them take breaks. Left on their own, they would keep it up till either they fell ill from waste buildup or just drop dead from their organs shutting down. I’ve seen to many people with their natural born talent get used to the point where there isn’t anything left of the person.”

“Alright. I’ll do some more research and see if I can at least get some idea who is working with them and turn the information over to others to handle.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

Anika was still holding Aylin, who hasn’t moved since she picked her up and carried her from the bathroom.

Bart goes back to work looking for information.

Dakota and Terry had left when they were told too. Terry was weaving in and out of traffic like an experience Nascar driver. She was doing at least a hundred ten miles per hour.

“Where did you learn to drive like this?”

Dakota was enjoying the ride and was amazed at how Wraith maneuver. They had turned on their lights, so traffic would get out of their way. This time they didn’t have to worry about the State Trooper pulling them over or giving them grief for their precision driving.

“I race on the weekends at the local race track. It’s how I developed the suspension, aerodynamics and handling of Wraith. I took the prototype down to the race track and had my friends try to run me off the track as I tested, change and modify how I wanted him to be.”

“And no one figured out what you were doing?” Dakota glances at Terry as she sat next to him with her helmet on.

“Nope, all they knew was that I was testing a new car design. I didn’t do weapons test on the track. I have a separate place for that type of testing. “

“Were you ever in the military?”

“Yep, I was in 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, "Iron Brigade". I was the gunner and sometimes the driver because of my slimmer build. I could had taken a job in research or as a nuclear inspector, but I liked tanks. So, I requested to join that unit.” Terry could remember making the recruiter promise she would be transferred to that unit.

“How about you? We’re you ever in the military?”

“Nope, I worked my way through college as a stunt person. My mom does special effects and my father use to be Army Special Forces. When he got out, he went into the stunt business. I pretty much grew up around the movie business. After college, I joined the police force and was immediately thrown into a special unit that was in the street drug division and did a bunch of undercover work in LA, San Bernardino, and El Centro. You know the rest about what happened to me.”

Terry looks over at Dakota. She wasn’t wearing a combat helmet like she was. She was staring straight ahead as they drove down the interstate.

“Elizabeth told me a little bit about you and how you might have a flashback while were out doing this job. She said that the only place you feel safe and comfortable is Wraith. I think me and you have a lot in common. I still have nightmares of what that motorcycle gang did to me that night.”

“We might be similar, but were different in how we experience our flashbacks. I remember everything of that day. Everything I did and what was done to me with 100% percent full sensory experience. It’s like being in a horror movie and experiencing it repeatedly. I remember everything down to the smells and heat of that day.”

“Dam, that does suck. Are you going to be able to handle what we are going up against?” Dakota hopes Terry doesn’t have an episode while they are fighting.

“Yea, I will be able to do what is necessary. Are there any building or parking garages where were going that we might be able to use Wraith’s weapon system to intercept their missile?”

“Bring up the location on the windshield.” Terry presses a few buttons on her dash and a map pops up.

Dakota had to admit that she liked the fact that he could change things on the front windshield without interfering with Terry’s driving. She enlarges the holograms and locates a parking garage they could use to put Wraith to intercept the missiles they had.

“Do you think Wraith can take it out fast enough?”

“Yep, I design his targeting systems. His missile systems were based off the Apache AGM-114D Longbow Hellfire air-to-surface missile system. The micro-missiles I designed while at MIT, have shorter range, but more power behind them. Wraiths side launchers can launch twenty at a time. So, I think he can handle it.”

“You went to MIT? What did you major in?”

“I have three PhD’s. One in Mechanical engineering, the second one is in Nuclear engineering and the last one is in Electrical & Computer engineering. I’m considered a child genius.”

“Dam, you make me look like a little child. I majored in theater.”

Terry just smirks behind her helmet.

“You know, it’s not fair that you can see my expression, but I can’t see yours.” Dakota looks over at Terry.

“The helmet has a HUD display in it. It’s like how the Apache are flown. That’s why you can use the windshield and I can keep on driving without being bothered.”

“Can you drive without the helmet?” Dakota was watching their progress and so far, they would be at their destination soon.

“Yep, but it cuts certain functions.” Terry slows down and race down the streets towards the parking garage.

She stops before heading into the garage.

“Why are we stopping? Aren’t we going up?”

“Yes, but me and you need to be over on the roof top across the street in order to stop those pricks. I can remotely drive Wraith up to the top parking level.”

“Is there anything this car can’t do?”

“Yea, it can’t cook me dinner?” Her and Terry pull their weapons out of the back of Wraith.

Terry sets Wraith’s system to automatic and remotely drive him up to the top parking lot and park him in the perfect position to use all his weapon systems.

Terry presses a button on the side of her helmet “Morgana”

Morgana and crew:
Morgana’s cellphone starts ring. She looks at her cell display and notice that it was Terry.

“What’s up Terry?”

“I need you to run shotgun with Wraith’s drone.”

“I’ve been order to go back to my hotel room and gets some sleep by Anika.”

“Come on Morgana, you’re an independent contractor and I’m handing you a job. If you need me to make it official, I’ll pay you to cover your ass.”

“No need Terry, I got you covered. I’m switching over to Wraith’s combat drone.”

“Alright, don’t launch till Dakota and I are on the roof.”

“Will do Terry.”

Terry disconnects.

Morgana establishes a satellite link up through one of the satellites to the drone.

Dakota and Terry:

“Let’s move.” Dakota takes the lead up the stairs of the building the hit team will be stationed at.

Terry follows behind Dakota up the stairs. She notices that Dakota was moving with the grace of a dancer on the stairs as they moved. When they get to the roof, Dakota peeks out to look around before the two of them come out. They spot their suspects setting up and getting ready.
Terry launches the drone from Wraith.

Morgana takes control and guides the drone across to the other building. She spots Terry and Dakota as they sneak up behind their suspects.

One of the guys spot a drone coming towards them. He takes aim and starts firing at the drone. It avoids the gun fire and fires its mini-gun at the suspects. One of his men get hit in his leg from the mini-gun. One of the other guys with the missile system fires at a plane coming towards their location.

An impressive response from Wraith’s weapon systems targets and fires at the missile, striking it.

“Freeze assholes.”

One of the guys were about to turn around to fire at Terry and Dakota, but the combat drone fires right at his feet.

“Toss your weapons and lay down on your stomach. If you try anything, that drone will kill you.”

The four guys do as Terry says. There was no way they could react without that drone taking them out.

Morgana watches as the guys lay down on the roof on their stomach. She could see Terry and Dakota behind them with their guns lower towards them. She saw the weapon systems on Wraith opened with its weapon system and took the missile out.

Morgana was already running their faces and identify two of them as ex- Mossad agents and the other two were former Marines that had been dishonorably discharged five years ago for stealing.

“Another piece of the puzzle to look at.”

Terry moves over and start cuffing them as Dakota keeps watch. She makes sure to take all their weapons and concealed weapons away from them. She smiles up at the drone hovering near her.

“Call the FBI for pick-up.”

“Already on it.”

It takes about an hour for the whole mess to be taken care of.

Morgana keeps watch with the combat drone as the hit team are arrested. They gave the FBI everything they needed to make the arrest stick and warned them about the Mossad agents.

Once everything is taken care of, Terry has Wraith meet them downstairs. Morgana had already landed the drone back in its storage space.

“That went smoothly.” Dakota was sure something was going to happen.

“True, we got lucky.” Terry was about to get in the driver seat.

“Why don’t you let me drive this time?”

“If you think you can handle Wraith. Why not.”

“You want the helmet or are you going to drive him normal?”

“I’ll drive him normal.”

Dakota sits in the driver seat and all the instruments and seat adjust itself for Dakota. She secures herself and checks to make sure Terry is secure. Terry instructs Dakota on how to start Wraith and how to shift his gears. After a few minutes, Dakota has the hang of how Wraith works and drives.

Later that evening around Eleven o’clock
Morgana gets a call from Kat and listens to her request. She receives a picture and afterwards says goodbye and goes back to sleep.

Morgana had woken-up early the following morning. Her bladder was hurting her. She had gotten up and gone to the bathroom. Her cellphone showed that it was four in the morning. Anika had told her just before they had come back to their hotel room, that they weren’t going to start on the truck till ten o’clock. This way everyone could get some sleep and prepare themselves for the task at hand.

Morgana grabs an energy bar from her bag and munches on it as she remotes into her computer at home and checks her systems. She makes sure the auto check programed has been checking her client’s computer systems. Once she gets done with that, she uploads the picture that Kat sent her and has her system do a search through all known intelligence computer system for agents matching the picture that are alive or dead. She also has her computer system search all Social Security databases and licensing agencies. Like Division of Motor vehicles for all countries. She knew the search was going to take a while, she sets a command to alert her when the search was done.

She knew her friend Gloria was still asleep. She checks a few emails and notices there was one from Butch, Rebecca’s brother-in-law asking her if she could send someone to give them an estimate of redoing their network at the airfield and connecting all the buildings. She forwards that request to her partner Arthur. He could handle that request since, he was the public face of Camelot Forensics. She does ask him to give them the family discount. They were friends of her and good clients.

She does a check to see where Dakota and Terry were by remoting into Wraith’s onboard systems. The GPS system said that they were at 319 Mansion Dr, Alexandria, VA. Morgana does a search to see who owns that resident and finds it is owned by JB Enterprises. She digs a little bit more to see who owns JB Enterprises and discovers they are owned by a law firm in Belfast, Ireland. As Morgana was about to dig deeper into the law firm, she stops herself. She wasn’t hired to dig into her client’s background.

She figures it must be someone either related to Anika or someone she reported too. She knew Anika was a former Olympian Ski champion, sports model, and connected to several high-level government officials. She was also the niece of a three-star General that worked at the pentagon. She was the author of several sleazy romance novels and owned several businesses of her own. She had several different types of investments and sponsored several programs for underprivileged children. She donates on a regular basis to St. Jude’s hospital.

Morgana heads into the bathroom and takes a bath. The bathroom in her suite was set-up for the handicap, so she had no problems. She knew Keven and Selena were given connecting suites to hers, Gloria and Troy’s room. Keven was between Troy and Gloria and Selena was between Gloria and herself. She just enjoys the shower.

319 Mansion Dr, Alexandria, VA.
Terry and Dakota couldn’t believe the house that they had been sent to by Anika. She told them to go to Alexandria, Va. instead of coming back to New York. Terry called her older brother and told him she wouldn’t be coming in for the next few days. She gave him the address of the building that Anika had given her to check out. She informed him that a person would meet him there to let him explore the place. She wanted him to go and see if this other place would be better for the business. Her brother didn’t ask her any questions, other than was she alright.
Which she had responded as yes to his question. She was fine and was out with a friend that she had been stationed with. There wasn’t a garage to hide Wraith in, but she did have a custom-made car covered to cover him with. When the two of them went inside to retire for the day. They found the beds already made and waiting for them. There were some clothes of various sizes hanging up and in packages in the
drawers. There was some food already stored there for them if they were hungry and wanted to make something.

Her and Dakota had taken separate rooms to sleep in. She took the Master bedroom and strips out of her jumpsuit and takes a nice relaxing bath. She had found some bath beads in the bathroom to add to the water. She had already picked out a pair of sweats to change into. When she gets out of the bath and slip on the sweats and a t-shirt. She walks downstairs to the kitchen and notices that Dakota was fixing them something to eat. She had slipped on a nightshirt and a clean pair of panties.

Dakota had spotted Terry out of the corner of her eyes walking into the kitchen.

“I thought you might be a little hungry. I found this stuff stored in the deep freezer.” Dakota had learned to cook from her mother.

“Did you check the dates before opening them?” Terry walks over to see what Dakota was cooking. It looked and smelled Mexican.

“Yep, it looks like it had been there only for a few days. I think Anika was either going to come down here soon or she has a service come by
and check things for her.” Dakota knew a safe house when she spotted one.

“Probably a service that comes by to check on the place. This is a nice neighborhood from what we saw when we drove up.” Terry had to admit
that Dakota had a nice body.

Dakota had notice that Terry had more of a butch look about her. There were muscles on her arms and her hair was cut short, as if she was still in boot camp.

“There’s some Arizona tea and water in the refrigerator if your thirsty. If you prefer coffee or brew tea, there are packets up in the cabinets.”
Dakota had gone through the cabinets when she came into the kitchen to see what supplies they had available to them.

Terry did notice that Dakota had a nice girly shape about her. She sits down on one of the chairs and watch Dakota cook.

“So, why did you choose to become a girl?” Terry had poured herself a glass of tea from the Arizona bottle.

“Didn’t have much choice after being shot and beaten-up. My testicles had been stomped and crushed. Plus, one of the guys thought I had
been sleeping with his wife, so he shot me down in my abdomen and the bullet exit through groin area. I was lucky that the bullet didn’t kill me instantly. When Bart’s wife managed to stabilize me. She asked if I wanted her to reconstruct that area of my body or just use what was left and turn me into a girl.” Dakota shivers from the memory of that day.

“So, you choose to become a woman?” Terry had notice the shiver that Dakota had.

“Yep, I figure if I was going to get a second chance at life, I’ll do it as a woman. Bart got in touch with a fellow named Jack and they constructed a background for me that would hold up to a deep search. Technically, I’m listed as Bart’s younger sister from Europe.”

“But you don’t have an European accent to your speech.”

“Ah, but I do.” Dakota switches to a Walsh accent.

“I can speak about a dozen languages. I’m a natural linguist. It doesn’t take me long to learn a language or to speak like someone from another country. That’s why the LAPD wanted me so badly, plus with my acting talents. That made me the perfect undercover agent. I could fake who I was so good. That you would had thought I had been a member of a gang for years. If it hadn’t been for a corrupt cop from my station that had sold me out for money. I would still be doing undercover work.” Dakota really enjoyed doing undercover work.

Even though she still had nightmares from that night they tried to kill her, she would do it all over again.

“How about you? Why did you decide that you didn’t want to be a woman anymore?” Dakota had seen some of the signs that Terry didn’t like looking like a woman.

“Because of what was done to me over in Pakistan. I was mauled by a group of insurgents. They took what made me a woman or damage what did make me a woman. So, I decided that I don’t want anything to make me remember what I use to be.” Terry knew now that she was at a turning point in her life. Either live as a male or as single gender like Dakota does.

“It seems to me, that the two of us are similar. I could never go back being male because of what was done to me and you don’t want to be a woman because of what was done to you. I became a woman and if all the signs I am getting from you are true, you have become more masculine.”

Dakota puts the ready food on the plates she had taken down and serves Terry and sits next to her.

“Thank you.” Terry good smell the food and it made her mouth water.

“What are you saying, that I should think about becoming a male?” Terry looks at Dakota’s angelic face.

“Sure, why not. You’re already halfway there. You dress like a male, you look like a male. Why not just go ahead and become a male?” Dakota takes a bite of her food.

“I thought you consider yourself one gender?” Terry didn’t know what to make of Dakota’s words.

“I do, but I know I have the plumbing of a woman as well. I try not to be judge with what is between my legs, but how I feel or act. If I want to dress like a guy, then I am going to dress like a guy. If I want to dress like a woman, then I am going to dress like a woman. I don’t want society saying, because I have a vagina between my legs I’m supposed to dress like a woman every freaking day.” Dakota was hoping what she was saying was helping Terry.

Terry just eats in silence why she thinks about what Dakota was suggesting to her.

Anika’s Townhouse:
Hatter wakes-up in a strange bedroom. She doesn’t remember how she got here. The last thing she can recall was breaking down in the women’s bathroom. She notices her clothes were hanging on a closet door and her weapons were lying next to her on the nightstand. There was one window covered by cream color floor length drapes. She notices that someone had put her in a light blue silk nightgown that came down to her ankles. It was a little big on her.

She gets out of bed and notices that the bedroom door was cracked open just a sliver for her. She walks out of the bedroom and notices she was across the hall from another bedroom door. She looks toward one end of the hallway and discovered there was another room next to hers.
She turns the other way and walks down the hallway till she comes to a flight of stairs and heads downstairs. It empty’s out onto a small foyer and directly before was the living room.

She explores around downstairs and finds out that she was at Anika’s place. There were sports magazines that were framed that showed Anika at the Olympics and a few of her on the cover modeling either swim wear or snow gear. There was one of her draped across a snowmobile in a bikini surrounded by snow.

Hatter just shivers from the thought of being out in the snow in a bikini. She spots Anika’s medals from the Olympics and a few family pictures. There was one of her with a tall muscular guy with black hair and rugged looks standing next to her with a mean looking big ass black and gray dog sitting in front of them. The man looked like someone you didn’t want to mess with. Hatter could tell from the picture that he had the look of a predator and was very dangerous. There was another one of her and Bart at a beach. She was wearing a string bikini and he was wearing a swimsuit.

She explores for a while and grabs a juice from the refrigerator. She liked how Anika had designed the place. It was simple, welcome and elegant. She hadn’t bother to get redress yet. She walks outside onto the back deck and look around outside. Anika had a privacy fence and a lovely flower garden you could walk around and relax. She just stands there and wonders why Anika had brought her here.

She closes her eyes and inhale the scent of the flowers. She so missed flowers when she was locked up. Aylin wonders what is going to become of her. She can’t go back and do what she used to do. The guy she worked for didn’t like it when you screwed up or when you screwed him over. She turns around and heads back into the house and up to her bedroom and take out her cellphone and wonders should she call him or wait?

“I wouldn’t call any one Aylin.” It was Anika’s voice coming from the doorway.

Aylin turns around to look at Anika “am I a prisoner here?”

“No, you’re not my prisoner Aylin. You can leave any time you want too.” Anika was standing at the doorway in a burgundy color nightgown.

“I don’t answer to Aylin, queenie. It’s either Hatter or Mad Hatter Aylin.” Aylin didn’t want to be reminded of her name.

“Well, I don’t answer to queenie. I go by Anika or Snow Angel. You’re choice.” Anika walks in and over towards the bed and sits down on the corner of it.

“Fair enough, Anika.” Aylin had watched how Anika walked over towards her and saw the grace of a lioness in how she moved.

“Is there a reason you don’t want to be called Aylin anymore?” Anika was watching Aylin.

She was good at hiding her emotions.

“Because it reminds me of all the things that was done to me. I don’t want to remember those things. Also, only my mother really called me Aylin.”

“So, why do you want to be only called Hatter or Hatter Aylin? Your real name is still there.”

“Because Hatter fits me now, Anika. I don’t know what is real anymore. You don’t know what it is like to have your brain scrambled and force feed drugs that fuck with your brain and body so badly. I’m stuck looking like I do, because of the drugs I was given. I don’t know what reality is any more. I’m so much like my favorite character from Alice in Wonderland, that I now know how he must have felt. I’m surprised I can still function sometimes. I still get the shakes occasionally from all the electricity that was passed through me.”

Anika felt sorry for Aylin. She should never have had to go through something like that, no one should have had.

“Look Hatter, I can’t say I know how you feel. However, if you can give me and your team mates a chance. Maybe, we can help you overcome
some of the things done to you and maybe give you a normal life of some sort. I think everyone on the team has some problem that they have been through in their life. All of them have either overcome what was done to them or are working to overcome them. Give us a chance, please?” Anika hopes her words have reached some part of Aylin.

Aylin stares into Anika eyes and could see she meant what she said.

“Alright, I’ll give the team a chance. I can’t promise that I won’t go bye, bye on you at some point, but I will try.”

“That’s all any one can ask for, is for you to give us a chance. Now, why don’t you come down to the kitchen and help me fix breakfast?” Anika stands up and holds her hand out to Hatter.

“I don’t know how to cook.” Aylin takes Anika’s hand.

“That’s okay, I’ll teach you.” Anika helps Hatter up off the bed and take her downstairs to the kitchen.

Elizabeth’s Place:
Elizabeth had driven directly home and passed out on her bed fully clothed. She barely made it home, because of how tired she was. She knew she had to be back tomorrow at ten o’clock over at the building they had taken the truck to. She wakens by her wife when she came in late.

"You were snoring and still dressed in your clothes.” Sara had arrived at home and found her wife’s car parked in the driveway.

She had gone inside and called for her, but got no answer. She was starting to worry, when she walked into the bedroom and found her wife passed out on the bed still fully dressed. She was snoring up the stormed. She had taken Elizabeth’s shoes off and placed her gun on the night
stand.

“Sorry about that sweet heart. Things have been crazy down at the office.” Elizabeth rubs the sleep from her eyes. She was still tired.

“Go take a shower and rejoin me in bed.” Sara was stripping out of her clothes.

“Okay.” Elizabeth gets up and heads towards the shower and take a nice relaxing one.

She throws on one of her night shirts and crawl back in bed and snuggle up against her wife and falls back to sleep.

Everyone had gather at the building that the box truck and the tracker trailer had been stored. Terry and Dakota were on standby in Alexandria, Va. Anika felt that their presence might be still needed and didn’t want to waste time having them traveling between New York and Washington D.C.

Bart comes walking into their make shift work area “I think I found something. After all of you went to bed yesterday afternoon. I stayed up and did a little bit more digging and found out that Arnold Bridges is holding up in a compound in Randall County, Texas. The place is basically a fortress.”

“What do you mean Bart?” Elizabeth looks directly at Bart.

“I mean the compound he has retreated too has an underground bunker. The NBC disaster shelter was custom engineered and built to provide protection from blast, fallout, initial radiation, EMPs, fire, chemical and biological threats. There is a complete commercial surveillance command center (plus a backup command center) with 21 high-end video cameras, as well as pole-mounted security lights and fiber-optic wired networking throughout the property. Two separate generators both powered by natural gas and a standby 1,000-gallon propane tank for one of the generators to provide for off-grid power. UV and ozone treatment facilities and three Swiss-manufactured Andair AG positive-pressure air filtration systems continuously clean the air throughout the facility. The former owner was a former publisher of one of the security industry’s leading magazines. He designed and paid to have this place built. Mr. Bridges bought the property two years ago and paid for it from a private account in the Cayman Islands.”

“Why didn’t we pick-up on that?” Morgana was looking at Bart.

“Because it is listed as an asset under this company. It would be the last place we would look.” Bart had stumbled upon it after looking through
assets the company held.

Jack had given him access to the company files.

“That would explain why we could never find his location.”Anika had brought the location up and found that there were several private airfields he could fly from that didn’t record their passengers.

“We need to draw him out and capture him.” Elizabeth couldn’t think of any other way to do it.

“I could sneak in and recon the place. It doesn’t look that hard to get into.” Hatter was looking over the satellite pictures they had of the place.
Also, what security systems she could spot from the image and the information they had on the place.

“Wheelie and her crew over there could hack into their security systems and control it.” Hatter was looking at Morgana, Gloria and Troy.

Morgana looks at the layout and notices he had a satellite dish and cellular repeaters on a tower near the back of the property.

“She’s right, we could use some of the equipment from here to hack into his system and take control of his security systems and any
computers he has on the property.” Morgana and Gloria had looked at each other and knew what they could do with Troy’s help.
Troy saw the look that passed between Morgana and Gloria. He knew something was up between those two. Those two working together could bring down a nation’s infrastructure and dominate another countries infrastructure without breaking a sweat if they wanted too.

Morgana’s cellphone beeps letting her know the search she started was finish.

“Someone trying to contact you Morgana?” Anika was curious.

“No ma’am. One of my clients asked me to do a search for them. My computer is letting me know that it has finished the searched.” She brings
the results up on her laptop and look through it.

“Will this client’s business interfere with what you were hired to do for me?” Anika normally didn’t like people doing side jobs, while they were
already on a job for her.

“No ma’am it won’t interfere with our business. It was a simple search for a person.”

Morgana had gotten over twenty hits of the image that Kat had sent her, but nothing that identified who the person was. The man had used over twenty different cover identities since 1998. His first id had popped up on the radar around then. That identity had been flagged by the
CIA for the murder of their undercover agents in different countries.

Another one of the identities had been flagged by the US Marshal service for the murder of an informant in their custody. He was also wanted for the murder of several wardens that operated supermax prisons. Even though she had this information, it didn’t show who the person really was.

“Dam!” Morgana was a little pissed. She knew something was right.

“What’s wrong Morgana?” Anika had been talking to Bart, Elizabeth and Aylin when Morgana’s outburst got her attention.

Gloria looks towards her friend. This was the first time she had seen Morgana this upset before.

“I was doing a search for a person and I can’t find anything on them. It’s like they don’t exist at all.”

“I wonder?” Gloria had a faraway look on her face.

“Send me what you have Morgana. I might be able to help you.” Anika knew how good Morgana was, which meant someone erased the
information.

“Morgana, can I use your laptop, please?” Gloria had an idea and wanted to test it.

“Sure.” Morgana let’s Gloria have her laptop, since it was still connected to her main computer.

Gloria goes to work testing her theory.

“Here you go Anika.” Morgana hands Anika a thumb drive, she saved the information on.

Anika opens the file on the thumb drive and sends it to Jack using his encryption program. She knew Jack has files on every agent he has ever
meet or has stolen files on. She knew he didn’t keep the computer on any network. You had to access the computer in his office.

Anika looks over towards Morgana “I sent your file to someone I trust that has files on every agent he has heard of or come across. If he doesn’t have it, then they don’t exist.”

“Oh my god, I can’t believe it.” Gloria was staring at the screen on Morgana’s laptop.

“What can’t you believe?” Everyone had heard Gloria and wonder what got her excited.

“That a program that has been a rumor on the dark net actually exist. You need to know what you are looking for, to spot that it has been used.
The program was created back in 2010 by a MIT student that was a notorious hacker. He wrote most of the hacking programs that are still around today that most script kitties use.” Gloria remembered starting off using some of this guy’s programs.

“What does the program do, Gloria?” Anika was curious.

“It erases everything about you from every data base there is. Any time a person does a search about you it finds the data base and erase the information. It leaves no trace about you and it doesn’t matter what language the information is written in. The only way you can tell if the information was erase is to look for a certain tattletale it leaves behind after erasing your information.” Gloria couldn’t believe it. This was the second time she has come across this.

“How do you know about this tattletale?” Troy was curious now.

“Because, this is the second time I have come across this. I was on a team that did some work on a few government computers and stumbled across it. I did a little bit more digging and discover a whole data block had been erased about a person. There wasn’t much to recover, but what I did recover proved that it had been done with a specialized program. That’s how I knew it was the Silcardo virus.” Gloria still couldn’t believe it.

“So, you’re saying that this virus completely erases everything about a person from any data base?” Anika had wheels turning in her head about what they could do with a program like that.

“Yep, the problem still exist that you need to eliminate the physical files about the person. However, if you don’t know the person or where they are from. It wouldn’t matter about the physical files.” Gloria knew that most people did computer searches to identify a person.

“That’s a nasty virus. Is a copy still out on the net?” Anika was wondering if having a copy would be helpful.

“I don’t know, Anika. Like I stated, it was just a rumor. This is only the second time I have come across it.” Gloria didn’t know anyone who might have it, except a few Black Op’s government agencies.

“Alright, let’s prepare to move out. Morgana, if you and your crew can continue to shift through the information here. To see if there are any more targets we need to put an end too. That would be helpful.” Anika was ready to put this mess behind her.

“No problem Anika.” Morgana just smiles as she was closing up her laptop.

Hatter looks around before she moves further into the compound. So, far everything has been going according to plan. She also felt so naked dressed only in the black jumpsuit that Anika had given them back in New York. She watches as Dakota and Elizabeth moved in the shadows and blind spots Morgana and her team were creating in the security systems of the compound.

Two small drones were trailing them and monitoring their progress. Terry had managed to build four specialized stealth drones for Morgana’s crew to use on this mission on their way here. One drone was intercepting the cellular signal and capturing it. The second drone was by-passing the security video feed. It was creating holes in it for her, Elizabeth and Dakota to move towards the main house where the white rabbit was hiding.

Anika and Bart were stationed and setup with sniper rifles to provide cover for Hatter, Elizabeth and Dakota. Their vantage point gave them perfect coverage to provide support for the three people inside the compound. Anika shared the new rounds she had gotten from Ratchet with Bart and explained how they worked.

Terry was standing by with Wraith to provide additional support if needed. Morgana and her team were all set-up with the drones that Terry had constructed for them. They weren’t as well constructed as the drone from Wraith, but they had a few surprises that gave them an edge. Morgana still had controlled of Wraith’s drone as her own, while Gloria and Troy had control of the new ones. Wraith’s drone could go higher up then the other ones and was providing oversight of everything.

They had only a few hours once they arrived in Texas to put together some sort of plan. They had met up with Dakota and Terry in Texas. Terry and Dakota had driven Wraith all the way from Alexandria to meet up with them at a private airfield that Bart knew about.

Morgana and her crew had brought some of the computer and satellite equipment with them from the captured tractor trailer. They had their own personal equipment, plus the equipment they brought with them. Morgana and Anika had agreed that they were going to need the equipment to pull the job off.

Keven and Selena were still assigned as body guards for Morgana and her crew. Once the mission was over. Anika planned on sending Keven and Selena to stunt and driving school. This way they will be able to handle any road conditions or problems that came up while driving the motorhome.

Bart had a friend who had a 2015 Tiffin Motorhomes Breeze 32BR for sale. He had his friend meet him at the airfield and paid him for it. Once they had it, Terry and Gloria went to work along with help from Dakota and Bart attached and ran everything that Morgana and her crew was going to need to do their job. Morgana suggested and pointed out what they were going to need to do. Once they got the motorhome back to New York, Terry was going to overhaul it mechanically, but for now it was going to have to be.

Terry had stopped at one of the local hobby shops and bought enough supplies to build at least six custom drones for Morgana and her crew. That way they had eyes to search the place and put the first part of their plan into play. Morgana was still going to have control of Wraith’s drone. It was equipped to go higher, further and had more firepower than the smaller ones she was constructing for Gloria and Troy.

Once they had the motorhome equipped and setup for their mission. They left the airfield and headed for their staging point. Morgana and her crew used the stealth drones and Wraith’s assault drone, plus his systems to take control of all the cellular, communication and surveillance systems.

While that had been going on, Bart and Anika took up their spots to be able to lay down support fire to cover Elizabeth, Hatter and Dakota. Anika had made Hatter change her outfit to a much slimmer and darker style to wear for this mission. Hatter didn’t like it, but did as she was asked. She refused to carry an actual gun. She preferred to use her needlers. Dakota and Elizabeth had been given separate magazines loaded with rubber bullets and real bullets for their personal side arms and their assault weapons.

Once everyone was equipped and ready to move out. Hatter, Elizabeth and Dakota made their way into the compound with help from the drones. Elizabeth and Dakota objectives was to take out all the security guards they came across. Hatter’s job was to bag their White Rabbit.

Hatter was getting instructions and help from Gloria and Troy, since they were their eyes and ears. They were watching the video feed from the stealth drones and guiding them. Gloria couldn’t believe how fast and sneaky Hatter was. She wonders if she learned those skills in the mental hospital she had been confined in.

“Hatter, you can move…..” Gloria was watching the feed of the ones she had that covered Hatter.

“Now!”

Elizabeth and Dakota quietly and quickly disarm the roving security guards patrolling the compound. They were using rubber bullets to take the guards out and zip tying them. Anika wanted zero body count if they could. Her and Bart had live rounds for their sniping rifles.

Hatter moves quickly and quietly towards the main house. It was her job to secure the white rabbit. She manages to get to the balcony of the Master bedroom. She checks the sliding doors and notices the security brace was in place to keep the sliding doors closed. She manages to remove that and disarm the security system on the door as well.

Hatter slides the door open carefully and slips into the room with one of the stealth drones. The rabbit wasn’t in the room. She moves out of the room and down the stairs towards the bunker/rabbit hole. She stops when she hears movement. One of the inside guards came near her hiding spot. She fires her needler and puts him asleep.

Gloria was watching Hatter as she moved throughout the interior of the house towards the bunker. Anyone she came across, she dropped with her needler. She didn’t even give them a chance to draw their weapon.

“Anika, you should see Hatter move throughout the house. She’s like a cat.” Gloria figures Anika would want to know.

“Has she found our rabbit yet?” Anika was surprised that everything was going to plan.

“Not yet. She’s heading down to the bunker where he might be hiding.” Gloria watches as Hatter moves further down to the bunker.

She stops all sudden and the next thing Gloria sees is darkness. She turns the volume up to hear what was going on. Gloria strains to hear the noise in the background, but what she can make out. There is a scuffling sound and the sound a thump as something heavy hits the floor.
Gloria switches the camera view to infrared and pick-up two heat sources. One was standing and the other was laying on the floor.

“I think Hatter has gotten the white rabbit.” Gloria had a smirk on her face.

“You know something sunshine, you talk to much.” Hatter looks down at their target.

The bastard had tried to ambush her. He might had succeeded if she wasn’t prepared for that type of attack. It wouldn’t be the first time someone had tried to pull that on her. The orderlies had played that game with her in the mental hospital.

Hatter kicks the bastard in his groin before zip tying his hands and feet together. She looks up when Elizabeth and Dakota show up to help her move the body.

Elizabeth looks down at her former boss and just shakes her head. She could see where Hatter had smacked him on the forehead with her knife handle. She kneels to pick his legs up, while Dakota picks his arms up. Hatter follows behind them as they carry his sorry ass back up and out to the courtyard where Wraith was waiting.

Hatter snags a few things she spotted that she wanted on the way out. They had caught her interest and she figure they would be better off with her, then here. She grabbed a small bag that felt like it had diamonds or something inside of it.

Terry opens the passenger side door so Elizabeth and Dakota could secure their prisoner for his trip back to the motorhome. She made sure the restraints were super tight just in case the bastard woke-up. She watches as Dakota closes the passenger side door of Wraith.

“We’ll meet you back at the motorhome, Terry.” Dakota gives Terry a smile. She was growing fond of Terry. Hopefully, Terry felt the same about her.

“Alright.” Terry puts Wraith into drive and head back towards the motorhome.

Dakota, Elizabeth and Hatter hop onto their quads and head back towards the motorhome. The small stealth drones trailed behind Wraith, while Wraith’s own assault drone took over watch over Wraith.

Once everyone was back at the motorhome. The drones were secured and packed away. Bart and Dakota made sure the quads and the dirt bike him and Anika took were secured on the travel trailer hooked to Bart’s friends pick-up truck. The quads and motorcycles belonged to his friend.

Anika walks over to look at Arnold Bridges as he slept inside of Wraith. He was so secured inside Wraith, that even if he woke-up, He wouldn’t be able to free himself. Only Terry or Dakota could free him from Wraith’s five-point harness.

“You fucked up royally Arnold and you are not going to like what is coming next.” Anika just shivers thinking about what Jack is going to do to Arnold.

If there were two people Anika feared and respected the most. It was Jack and Cheshire. She knew Jack treated her like a kid sister, but she had seen what he does to people whom he trusted, betray that trust. Cheshire was the same way, if not worse than Jack. They took trust very personal and when you broke it. It was hard to earn back under certain circumstances.

Anika looks towards Terry “is he going to be okay overnight in there?”

“If he doesn’t piss or shit, yea. However, Dakota and I have a better plan for him. We have an old fashion gorilla cage for him. Bart’s friend knew a guy that use to be in the carnival and circus business and had one he was willing to sell to us.” Terry had a devilish look on her face.

“Oh, that is priceless. Won’t you be missing a seat for Dakota to ride back with you?” Anika just giggles as an image of what Arnold was going to look like in one pops in her head.

“Wraith’s passenger seat is removable and I can replace it with another seat.” Terry walks around Wraith and start removing the bolts holding the seat in place.

Between Bart and Keven, they carry the unconscious form of Arnold over to the Gorilla cage and secure the seat to the bottom of the cage. The restraints holding Mr. Bridges were still in place. Once the seat was secured. Bart and Keven move the cage to the travel trailer attached to the mobile home and secured the cage inside.

“He’ll be safe and sound in there, till we get back to New York.” Bart locks the trailer up.

“Let’s go ahead and move out. The police are on their way to transport Arnold’s men to jail.” Anika had been informed by Morgana the police were on their way to transport the prisoners. She sent the police everything she had on them. The Fed’s are going to come and pick those men up later today.

“Where’s Hatter?” Anika was looking around for Hatter.

“She’s stretched out back here.” Elizabeth had spotted her passed out in the back bedroom of the mobile home.

Anika checks and finds Hatter sound asleep. Anika heads back to where everyone else was.

“Alright, lets head back to New York.” Anika sits down in the passenger seat.

Keven starts the mobile home up and puts it in gear. He sets the destination in the GPS system.

“Are we going to follow Bart and pick him up?” Keven was curious about that.

“No, he’s going to take the jet back.” Anika and Bart had already talked about it. He was going to stay here and wrap things up and meet them in New York.

“Well, it’s going to take us at least two days to get back to New York.” Keven had looked at the route and the calculations had said twenty-six hours. He was adding on a few extra hours for fuel stops and checking on Mr. Bridges in travel trailer.

Morgana was the only one that didn’t like the mobile home that much. Her wheelchair was limited inside the mobile home when they were moving. She had to down grade to a normal wheel chair, while her power one was in the trailer.

Hatter had woken-up around mid-night and made her way up front to sit in the passenger seat next to Karen. Karen had taken a nap and trade-up with Keven to drive the mobile home. Karen knew Dakota and Terry were following behind them in Wraith. She knew Dakota was currently driving, while Terry slept.

Hatter hadn’t bother to change her clothes. She was still wearing a darker version of her normal clothes. She had put her top hat on when she woke-up and joined Karen. She pulls out one of the throwing knives Anika had given her before they went to capture Mr. Bridges. She was wiping it down with a cloth she pulled from a concealed pocket.

“Not sleepy, Hatter?” Karen had the auto-cruise on and was doing about 65mph.

“Nope, I’m good.” Hatter hadn’t looked up from cleaning her throwing knife.

“So what type of music do you like to listen too?” Karen wanted to know more about Hatter.

Hatter stops wiping her throwing knife and look out the window of the mobile home.

“Don’t know really. I never was one for listening to music. My mind was or is too fucked up to comprehend what the message is, or words mean. I don’t mind classical, because its straight forward about how it sounds. Everything else is just noise to me. I have my own music right here in my head.” Hatter taps the side of her head.

“How did you manage to survive what was being done to you?”

“Drugs, lots and lots of drugs. I was kept so high, that I didn’t know what was real or what wasn’t. I was walking around in a dream state all the time. Sometimes, I feel that I should had ended my own life, instead of living through what I did. Then I realize I’ll be giving that dam doctor what he wanted after all. He tried everything he could to break my spirit and my mind. I might not be all here, but in the end, he got what he deserved just like my father did.” Hatter flashes back to the explosion of the Doctor’s car and how she killed her father.

“How long have you known you were a lesbo?” Hatter looks at Karen.

“Since I was twelve years old. My mom came home early one day from work and caught me and an older girl from school making out in my bedroom. I didn’t realize my mother was there, because my back was too her and I was down in between my girlfriend’s legs. At first my mother was upset and so was my father when my mother told him what I had been doing. I tried to pretend I was straight while at school, but being in a locker room with a lot of naked girls was torture for me. They caught me again when they found me making out with an older lady down the street. They finally realized that their little girl was attracted to women? Which way do you swing?” Karen glances towards Hatter.

“Don’t know. I don’t have those urges. Even when I tried to please myself, I just don’t get aroused. I think all the drugs and electricity I was given has shorted out certain organs and messed up the chemicals in my body. Thats why I look like I'm ten years old. I’ll never get any older or grow any more. It amused the doctor a lot when he took samples from my body or tried to get me aroused. He tried so hard to see if I am being stubborn or playing possum that he rubbed me raw and caused me to bleed. I don’t have periods like you and Selena.”

“How can you tell we have periods?” Karen was startled by that statement.

“My sense of smell is a little bit more sensitive then everyone else’s. Like I said, the Doctor’s experiments have done certain things to my body.
Most of my senses are sharper, except my hearing. My ear drums were damaged, so I can’t hear as far as most of you or certain sounds. I have a higher tolerance for pain then most people and I can put myself into a death like trance to survive. The doctor locked me in a meat freezer for four days. I learned how to slow my body down to the point I look like I am dead. The same thing for being seal in a coffin. I can survive in a trance for a few days.” Hatter remember the doctor sealing her in a clear coffin and burying her alive. She shivers from that thought.

“Did the doctor have other people that he experimented on besides you?” Karen wonders how many victims this doctor had.

“Yep, there were ten of us that he experimented on. Out of the ten only four survived. One is in a vegetated state that she can’t take care of herself or think for herself. There is one that was turned into a cat person that managed to escape while being transported. Then there’s me and one fellow that you must keep him locked away, because he likes to eat people while they are live still. The doctor warped his mind so badly that if he ever escaped from his prison, that the murder rate would be high. He feels no pain and things like your rubber bullets and my needlers would be useless against him. Even tasers would be useless against him. He’s immune to the effects. I was forced to fight him a few times for the entertainment of the doctor’s friends. They would bet on who would live.” Tears slide down her cheek as she raises her left hand and wipe them away.

“Why did the doctor turn the one person into a cat person?” Karen was wondering if it was the one she heard about in Tennessee.

“Because the person that bought her was a big anime fan. He wanted a sex slave that looked like a humanoid cat person. The doctor and a few others did a lot of plastic surgery on this person turning them from a boy to a girl and making her look like a beautiful female cat person. The only thing I know about her, is she managed to escape the people transporting her. The doctor was pissed and so was his client. The client invested a lot of money to change the person into a really cute cat person and they escaped.” Hatter remembered the doctor’s mood that day. He took it out on her when he hooked her up to the table and sent a massive amount of electricity throughout her body. He let her suffer longer then he normally did.

“Was this in the states or back in England?” Karen was still curious.

“In England. As far as I know, I’m the only one of the doctor’s experiments to have come to the United States. I don’t know what happened to the others after I killed him.” Hatter puts her throwing knife away and tucks her cleaning cloth back into the concealed pocket.

“The next major rest stop we come too, I’m going to pull over, so we can let Mr. Bridges out to use the bathroom. I’m going to need for you to watch the restroom, while Troy and Keven escort him in.” Karen figures that one should be coming up soon.

“Does that mean if he runs I can break his legs?” Hatter had a mischievous look on her face.

“No, Anika doesn’t want us to break his legs. She wants him to be able to move under his own ability.”

“He can still move with a broken leg. He can crawl on the ground like the worm he is.” Hatter didn’t like him and wanted to hurt him.
Karen glances to Hatter and shakes her head.

“Do you always use violence to solve problems?”

“Nope, only to hurt nasty people. The creep grabbed me from behind and held a knife to my throat. He was lucky that I only knocked the wind out of him and kicked his nuts. The last person to hold a knife to my throat ended up with his manhood removed from his body. I used his own knife to do it.” An evil smile appears on her face.

Karen just shakes her head and press her com unit.

“Dakota, I’m pulling in up here to let Mr. Bridges use the bathroom. As soon as I park, send spirit up in the air to keep watch.” A smile appears on Karen’s face after she finishes talking to Dakota. Morgana had named wraith’s drone spirit.

Wraith:
“Roger, Karen. I’ll wake Terry to let her know we are stopping.” Dakota looks over towards her sleeping partner.

They had spoken for a little while and Dakota had told Terry how she felt about her. Terry didn’t know what to say. She was still fighting with her own demons, but said she could try and see what happens between them. She did admit that she had some feelings for Dakota as well. She didn’t know when it happened, but she was starting to develop feeling for her.

“Hey sleepy head. We’re pulling over at a rest stop.” Dakota reaches over and gently wake Terry up. She knew she had to be careful with Terry. Anything could trigger a panic attack or episode.

Terry slowly wakes up when she feels herself gently shook. She was still tired and sleepy, but felt more refreshed then she normally did when she slept. She glances over at Dakota and realized that she was launching Spirit.

“Are we in a fight?” Terry sits up quickly.

“Nope, I’m putting spirit in over watched mode. We’re letting Mr. Bridges out of his cage, so he can use the bathroom and get some water to drink. Keven and Troy are going to escort him to the men’s room, while Hatter guards the door.” They watched as Troy and Keven come out to fetch Mr. Bridges. Anika was standing nearby, and Hatter was near the men’s bathroom door.

They watched as Keven and Troy escort Mr. Bridges into the men’s restroom. Hatter was standing outside looking like she wanted to hurt something. Terry was watching the input they were getting from Spirit as it kept over watched over them. They could see the whole rest area with how high up the drone had gone.

“What’s that?” Terry enlarges an image she spotted from spirit.

It was six people wearing black jumpsuits. They were wearing black helmets and heading towards their area at high speed. They had two black SUV’s following behind them.

“Anika, we have trouble coming towards us. The mobile home doesn’t have any type of armor or weapons.”

“Don’t worry. Just do what you can. Me and the rest of the crew will handle everything else.” Anika grabs her sniping rifle and climbs up on the roof of mobile home.

Hatter saw Anika climbing up on the mobile home with her sniping rifle. She watches as wraith and spirit take off back towards the interstate. The next thing she hears is an explosion going off inside the restroom.

Karen comes running out of the lady’s room “get the guys, Hatter.”

Hatter runs into the men’s bathroom and find Troy and Keven laying on the floor. There was a man size hole in the wall that lead to the back of the building. She jumps through the hole and spots Mr. Bridges running towards a black SUV. She gives chase after him as he headed towards the SUV. She was wondering why Terry's toy hadn't spotted the SUV.

Black SUV:
The guys that had been sent to retrieve their meal ticket start firing past Mr. Bridges at Hatter. They couldn’t believe the short girl they were shooting at kept coming after their boss. They open the SUV door and pull him inside as quickly as they could. Once he was inside, they started heading for the exit leading away from the rest area.

Hatter puts a little more effort into her running and manages to grab onto the back of the SUV as it was pulling away. She could hear gun fire from the sniping fire and the drone. Plus, the roar of wraith’s engines as it goes against the motorcycles and the SUV’s. Hatter holds on tight as the driver tries to throw her off the back.

The guys inside the SUV spotted the strangely dress petite girl hanging on to the back of their SUV. They couldn't believe she had managed to latched onto the vehicle.

“Get her off!” The driver tries everything he can to shake her off, but she doesn’t let go.

Hatter was pissed and manages to climb up on the roof of the SUV. She figures the SUV was bullet proof. Which meant they were going to have to open the sunroof or a door. She holds on tight as the driver tries to get her off the SUV.

The sunroof starts to open. Before the guys inside can fire at her, she rapid fires her needler inside the vehicle taking out one of the guys and hitting the driver. She keeps firing her needler till she is out.

The guys inside felt like they were being stung by bee's as tiny needle like projectiles hit their body in unprotected areas. They start dropping as the fast acting knockout drug that coats the needles puts them to sleep. The driver falls asleep and the SUV drifts off the Highway and starts heading for a tree.

Hatter felt the SUV drifting and saw the trees it was heading for. She jumps off and twist her right ankle when she lands. She screams from the pain and tries standing up off the ground. She manages to pull herself up with the help of a large branch she found lying near her. She limps over to the SUV and spots Mr. Bridges passed out in the back seat. He had one of her needles in his neck.

She smacks the side of his head as hard as she can “you had to go and try to escape you dumb ass. I should just shoot you now and get it over with.”

She pulls one of the bad guys guns out and points it at his head. She so wanted to kill this guy, but she doesn’t. She lowers the gun and takes the bad guys combat holster and his rifle as well. As she started to remove the other weapons, one of the guys had grabbed her. She managed to pull loose and pointed her gun at the asshole.

Rest Stop:
Anika fires the specialized rounds she got from Ratchet at the two SUVs. She watches as their engines explode from the impact. She takes aim at the drivers and the rounds go right through the bullet proof windshield and take the drivers out. She saw the other SUV come from behind the building and saw Hatter hanging on the back of it.

She watches as wraith’s weapon systems take the motorcycles out. Spirit had helped by firing its mini-gun at two of the motorcycles. Wraith had fired it’s mini-missiles and took the other motorcycles out.

“All clear, Anika?” Dakota reports to Anika.

“Same here, guys.” Anika climbs down from the roof of the motorhome.

Selena and Karen were carrying Keven and Troy out of the bathroom.

“Are they going to be alright?” Anika looks towards Karen for an answer.

“They’ll be alright. They were knocked out from the explosion.” Karen carries Troy into the motorhome and lay him down on the sofa.

Anika helps Selena with Keven. They carry him in and lays him down on the other sofa where she had been sleeping. Karen checks each man, while Anika heads up front to the driver seat. She starts the motorhome up and heads out onto the interstate looking for Hatter.

“Where’s Hatter?” Karen looks up from examining Troy.

“She managed to follow Mr. Bridges and was hanging off the back of the SUV that came to retrieve him.” She watches as wraith takes the lead.

A few miles down the interstate. They see an Arkansas State Trooper car pulled over on the shoulder of the Interstate. Anika could see a cloud of smoke. She watches as wraith pulls in behind the State Trooper car. Terry gets out and walks towards the State Trooper who had his weapon pointed at Hatter.

Hatter had her own gun pointed at the Trooper. She was telling him to back the fuck off. Hatter didn't like having this guy pointing his gun at her.
The officer had come up while she had her weapon pointed at the occupants inside the SUV. He had ordered her to drop her weapon, which she wouldn’t do.

Lt. Kent had spotted the accident and had pulled over to see if he could help. When he got out of his car and looked over towards the crashed black Suv. He spotted a strangely dressed young girl pointing a gun at the occupants of the SUV. He had drawn his own gun and pointed it at her and ordered her to drop her weapon. She had respond by telling him to F***O**

“Officer, she’s with us. I’m US Marshal Terry Horn. The people she is pointing her weapon at are known terrorist that just kidnapped our witness. We were ambushed up at the rest stop a few miles back. You’ll find the remains of their cohorts back there.” Terry was dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a nice polo shirt. She had her badge out, so he could see it.

Lt. Kent listens to what the manly looking woman had said.

“Tell her to drop her weapon and let me verify your credentials.” He wasn’t taking his eyes off the girl. He had noticed a strangely design car had pulled up behind his and a motorhome behind the car.

“Sure thing, Officer.” Terry smiles and looks over towards Hatter.

“Hatter, please put your weapon away. Everything is okay.” Terry could tell Hatter was in pain and was keeping pressure off her right ankle.

Hatter looks towards Terry and then the State Trooper. She puts the weapon away and leans against the SUV for support. Her ankle was throbbing with pain.

Terry walks up to the State Trooper with her hands up, so he could see she was disarmed.

The Trooper lowers his weapon and runs Terry’s name. The report he gets back , is that she is part of a special task force unit. His eyebrows go up when he hears the report back from dispatch. He was to cooperate fully with her and give her any assistance she needed. Another State Troopers car pulls up and sirens could be heard heading their way. His supervisor approaches them, and Anika exist from the motorhome to talk with the State Troopers.

After about an hour of talking and watching as the paramedics show-up. Anika is back on the road with Karen wrapping up Hatter’s ankle. She managed to sprain it when she landed from jumping from the SUV.

Hatter looks at Karen as she wrapped her ankle. They had done the ice and now they were wrapping it.

“Thanks Karen.”

“You’re welcome Hatter. Now remember, you need to stay off your feet for at least twenty-four hours. If you need help going to the bathroom.
Let one of us know.” Karen stands up after wrapping Hatter’s ankle.

“If I need to stand, it will be to kick his ass.” Hatter looks over at the sleeping form of Arnold Bridges. He was still knocked out from one of her needles hitting him.

"How long will he be out?" Karen wasn't familiar with Hatters needled.

"For a few hours or more. He got hit twice by my needled." Hatter had seen Karen pull two needles out of Mr. Bridges.

They couldn’t put Mr. Bridges back in the cage they had him in before. So, now he was traveling with them inside the motorhome and he had been extra secure, so he couldn’t get free. Terry did a scan of him looking for bugs and trackers found out he had a GPS tracker in his arm.

Hatter wanted to cut it out herself, but Karen wouldn’t let her. So, Karen removed it and tossed it over a bridge they went over. She notices that Hatter was keeping an eye out for Mr. Bridges to try anything. She figures if he even blink, Hatter would either kill him or seriously injury him.

Morgana and Gloria couldn’t believe they slept through the attack. Both ladies didn’t like Mr. Bridges either, but noticed that Hatter was watching him like a hawk. They went to work on the information they had downloaded before they left the compound.

They found bank accounts, contacts and private accounts. They had locations of safe houses and weapon storage units.

“Hey Anika, you might want to have your boss go to these weapon units and remove the weapons there. These guys have all sorts of military and converted civilian vehicles to wage war.”

“I’ll pass that information onto my boss. He’ll be very interested in it. He’ll want to meet you and your team as well.” Anika knew Jack would want to meet the whole team.

“As far as I’m concern, I’m still on the job. So, I don’t mind.” Morgana wanted to meet Anika’s boss as well.

Troy and Keven start moaning as they start coming around. Troy looks around and couldn’t believe he was onboard the motorhome and still alive. Both him and Keven had been caught off guard when the wall exploded in the men’s restroom. That was the last thing he remembered.

“Just lay back down and relax. You guys got the blunt of the explosion.” Karen had checked on them when they were brought onto the motorhome.

She had treated and bandaged-up what wounds they had received. Her medical training was coming in handy. She might be the team’s medic and extra hand. Maybe she should attend a paramedics class. She’ll talk with Anika later about maybe the company paying for it.

Instead of heading directly towards the office first with their prisoner. They diverted towards Terry’s shop to clean Bridges up and to switch to SUV’s she had there. They took Mr. Bridges inside and cleaned him up. A clean suit was put on him. Karen and Keven oversaw that job, while Anika and Bart kept an eye on Hatter. She was grumpy because she couldn’t walk around because of her ankle. She also wanted to shave his face, but that plan was nicked. No one was going to let Hatter anywhere near Bridges with a sharp blade.

Morgana and her crew were going back with everyone to the office. Morgana would be allowed to have whatever equipment she wanted from the eighteen-wheeler they captured, and the equipment from the building Bridges had used as a data center. If nothing else, Morgana was figuring she might be able to get Anika or her boss to spring for a quantum computer system for her company.

Bridges had been woken-up from the effects of the drug that coated Hatter’s needles. Hatter had the counter agent with her. She didn’t want to use it to wake him up, but they do. They watch as Bridges slowly comes around.

Bridges felt drowsy as he slowly woke-up. The last thing he remembered before passing out was jumping into the SUV and that strange girl shooting them with some weird weapon. He slowly looked around where he was.

“Oh Goodie! The White King has woken-up.” Hatter was sitting nearby as he came around.

Bridges heard that voice and looked over towards Hatter. She was still dressed in her dark outfit.

“Who the hell are you?”

“I’m the Mad Hatter, you jerk. Are you that stupid, you don’t recognize the Hatter?” Aylin was mad that he didn’t recognize her.

He looks around and see Anika, some guy, Elizabeth, Keven And Selena. The other people he didn’t know.

Anika looks at Bridges “did you actually believe that you could get away with what you did?”

Bridges just smirks at Anika “you are such a stupid cow. This has been going on for a while right under your nose. You were so busy attending
social events and acting all high and mighty. That it was so easy to run this operation under your nose. If it wasn’t for your dam security personnel sticking their nose where it didn’t belong. That you wouldn’t have known what was going on and your ass would have been out on the street selling it for money.”

Anika just smiled “there was another flaw in your planning, Arnold. You forget who owns the company. If I didn’t get you, he would, and he isn’t a nice person when someone screws him over.”

“I’m not afraid of the owner. He’s nothing, but a dumb rich hick out in Montana. Besides, I have enough on you to sue you for everything you own. You’ll have to sell your ass to survive.” Arnold just smirks at Anika.

Anika just shakes her head “take him to the SUV and make sure his wrist is secure.”

Bart and Keven walk over, and escort Bridges out to the waiting SUV. Dakota takes the driver seat and Anika takes the passenger seat.
Everyone else got in the second SUV with Wraith bring up the rear of the small convoy as they head into New York itself and towards Eruption Communications. They park the SUV’s and Wraith down in the secret parking garage.

Jack and Gina Bounty Hotel Room:
Gina stretches as she got out of bed. They had flown in late last night and came directly to The Plaza. A limo had meet them at the airport to pick them up. The personnel at the hotel seemed to know her father when they checked in. Gina reaches down and scratches Cadmus head.

They had to put his leash on him when they got out of the limo and walked into the hotel. She pets him for a while, before getting out of bed and walking over to look out the window. The room they had overlooked central park. She walks out of her room and go to see if her father was up. Cadmus followed right behind her.

“Daddy, are you awake?” Gina looks around for her father.

Jack had heard his daughter when she called out for him. He had ordered breakfast for them and was waiting for her to get up.

“I’m in here sweetie.” Jack takes a sip of his coffee.

Gina finds her father sitting at a table drinking his coffee and reading the newspaper. She walks over and gives him a hug.

“Morning daddy.” She places a kiss on his cheek.

Jack just smiles as he watches Gina sit down at the table and start pouring herself some coffee. He was proud at how she had managed to overcome what was done to her. She had grown into a beautiful woman and was extremely smart. She still had scars on her body from where she had been punished and treated like a slave.

Gina slips Cadmus a few pieces of bacon. She knew she wasn’t supposed to feed the wolves human food, but Cadmus was her buddy and protector. She gets up and head back into her room and grab Cadmus’s food bowl and water bowl. She grabs a prepackaged meal they had made for Cadmus. She comes back to where her father was and feed Cadmus his meal.

“Daddy, why are we going to your business here in New York?” Gina takes a bite of her biscuit sandwich.

“Because some illegal operations have been going on at the company. Your Aunt Anika has been handling the problem and her team has capture the person responsible.” Jack had read the report Anika had sent him about Arnold Bridges.

“I have an aunt there?” Gina was curious. She thought she met the whole Bounty clan when her and Julia spent the summer in Ireland.

They had spent the whole entire summer with their grandmother and Uncle Seamus. They meet their cousins and other relatives. The wolves had fun meeting some of their counter parts that were from their litter.

“Yep, Anika was adopted by me as my little sister. Your grandmother knows and gave her blessings. Anika has your Aunt Justine Kay Bounty maiden name.” Jack knew it was safer to do it that way. When they came up with a new Identity for Anika. He made her a part of his family.
The reason he did that, was his family records were closely guarded. Most of his family came from royalty or were related to royalty. They were related to royalty in Ireland, Holland and the Netherlands.

“Cool! I get to meet another family member.” Gina felt excited.

Eruption Communications Building:
Jack and Gina finish breakfast and get ready to leave the hotel. Gina takes Cadmus outside, so he could do his morning business. They take the limo to Eruption Communications building and are stopped at the security desk.

“I’m sorry sir, but your dog isn’t permitted in the building and you’ll need a badge to enter.”

Jack just smiles as he pulls out his badge and shows the guard. When the guard runs his badge. His eyes get big and he does a second look at the big man standing in front of him.

“Is there something wrong, officer Warren?” Jack had his poker face on.

“No sir. I was just surprised that your name popped up.” He hands the badge back to Jack.

“I’ll need to have the young lady sign in sir and she’s not permitted to bring pets in here.” Warren was looking at the wolf by the young woman’s side.

Jack leans forward “this wolf, is a trained attack wolf. It’s her body guard and since I own this company, I am ordering you to ignore the regulations on my daughter bring her wolf inside.”

Warren looks at the young girl and back to Jack.

“Yes sir.” He watches as Gina signs the guest book.

Gina writes in the reason for visit column Jack Bounty’s daughter. She hits the save button.

Warren hands Gina a special visitor badge.

“That badge has been programmed to allow you total access to all section Miss. Bounty.”

“Thank you, Warren.” Gina accepts the badge.

“I’ll take her to get a badge made for her and return this one to you Warren.”

“No need Mister Bounty. That badge is only good for one day. It must be reprogrammed by the security director or by Miss. Anika Jagger herself.” This was the first time he had ever given one out.

“Thank you for that information, Warren.” Jack heads for the elevator with Gina walking next to him and Cadmus getting weird looks from people passing by.

Jack and Gina take the elevator up to the floor where the conference room was that he was meeting Anika and her team at.

Conference Room:
Anika and the team had taken the private elevator up. They were waiting patiently in the conference room they had been using since this whole situation started with Arnold Bridges.

Arnold looks at Anika “you sure Mr. Bounty is going to show-up?”

Anika looks at him and an evil smile appears on her face “he’s already here and on his way up. If I was you, I would lose the attitude around him.”

Hatter looks at Anika “who’s almost here?”

“My boss and big brother. He’s known in South America as the Devil’s Bounty Hunter.”

Everyone hears a knock on the conference room door. Shigeko gets up and answer the door.

“Mr. Bounty, it’s so good to see you again.” Shigeko had a smile on her face. She spots a young lady behind him and guessed she must be his younger daughter Gina.

“It’s good to see you again Shigeko. I would like for you to meet my younger daughter Gina and her wolf Cadmus” Jack steps aside so Gina could come forward.

Once Jack moved and Gina stepped forward, Shigeko shuts the door behind them. Anika gets up and walks around and gives Jack a hug.

“It’s been too long, big brother.”

Jack returns the hug “that it has little sister. I want you to meet one of your nieces. This is my youngest daughter Gina. You already know Cadmus.”

Anika looks down at Cadmus “god, he’s gotten big since I last seen him. He isn’t as big as his sire, but still bigger than a normal wolf.”

Anika looks at Gina “I have heard so much about you and your older sister Julia. It’s nice to finally meet you, Gina.”

“Me too. Daddy just told me I had an aunt.” Gina looks at her father.

“Hiding me big brother?” Anika had a smile on her face as she looks towards Jack.

“Nope, just forgot to tell her. Now, why don’t you introduce me to the rest of your team. So, we can get down to business at hand.” Jack glances towards Arnold Bridges with a look on his face that said he was going to kill the man.

Anika turns and look towards her team “You already know Bart, next to him is his little sister Dakota, next to her is Terry. She’s one of the owners of Big Boy Toys, next to her is Elizabeth, which you should already know. Since she works for you., Next to her is Mad Hatter Aylin.”
Hatter stands up using the table for support and tilts her top hat to Jack. She could tell he was a top predator person and someone you showed respect to. She turns to face Gina and tilts her top hat to her as well. In her opinion here was Alice. She sits back down in her chair.

Gina smiles at Hatter’s respect. She wonders why the young girls face was white?

“Thank you, Hatter. Next to Hatter is our cyber-security team which is led by Morgana, Her friend Gloria and her employee Tony. You already know Keven and Selena. They are members of our security team here. And you already know Arnold Bridges.” Anika was standing next to Jack with a look on her face that said she wanted to kill him.

Arnold saw the dead look in Jack’s eyes.

“I believe you need to start talking Mr. Bridges, before my father decide to skin you alive.” Gina knew how her father would react.
Arnold looks at Gina “who are you to give me orders?”

“I’m his daughter and if your smart, you would be better off talking or suffer the consequences.” Gina lets him see the glint in her eyes.

All of sudden, Arnold Bridges felt afraid from looking at her.

Jack walks over to Arnold Bridges and just looks down at him “Do you want to tell me why you did it and who you are working for?”

Arnold looks up at Jack Bounty’s face and could see that this man wasn’t what he said he was. The look that he saw reminded him of the fact that this man could kill him right now, if he wanted too.

“Sorry, but you’ll just have to kill me. I’m not talking.” Arnold knew he only had two choices. Talked and maybe live afterwards or die and never reveal anything to Mr. Bounty.

“Dumb move Mr. Bridges.” Gina had a smile on her face. She knew her father had a new drug he was going to try out on Mr. Bridges.

Arnold looks over towards the girl that just spoke “Why don’t you keep your mouth shut, bitch.”

Arnold didn’t even expect the throwing blade that was sticking out of his shoulder. He looked at the knife and then at the conference table for
who threw it. He saw Hatter with a big ole smile on her face and with another throwing knife in her hand.

“You bitch!” Bridges was angry that a pre-teen girl had thrown a throwing knife at him.

Hatter throws the one in her hand at him, before Elizabeth or Morgana could stop her from throwing it. It hit right next to her first one.

“Urg!” Arnold couldn’t pull the throwing knives out of him. His hands were secured to the chair he was sitting in.

Jack looks over towards Hatter “nice grouping, Hatter.”

“Thank you, sir.” Hatter had a proud look on her face as another throwing knife slides down from her sleeve and into her hand.

Gina tries not to giggle. As she watches her father pull the throwing knives out of Arnold Bridges shoulder. She sits down in a seat near her aunt.

Jack reaches into his inner pocket and pull out a black case. He looks at Mr. Bridges.

“Now, since you don’t want to talk to me and answer my questions. I have a special drug that will make you tell me everything and afterwards you won’t remember a thing of what happened.” Jack opens the black case and put together the needle. He takes a small vial out and fills the needle to 4mL.

Everyone in the room watches as Jack fills the needle up with a clear liquid.

“Jack, what is that you are using on Arnold?” Anika was curious.

“It’s called Devil’s Breath. It basically will make your victim do whatever you want them to. When it wears off, they don’t remember a thing. If I
fill this needle with too much, I’ll end up killing him.” Jack plucks the needle to get the air bubble out of it.

“Does it cause any permanent damage?”

“Nope, just memory loss. Mr. Arnold won’t remember anything after this.” Jack puts the needle into a vein on Mr. Bridges neck and put the whole contents in him.

Jack gives Arnold a few minutes for the drug to take effect on Mr. Bridges. After a few minutes, Jack looks at Mr. Bridges and see the zombie look in his eyes. He was ready to answer everyone’s questions. The next few hours, Mr. Bridges spill his guts. He answers all their questions. He tells them who his contacts are, who supplied him money for the operation, how he got into their systems and what systems Morgana had missed.

They got bank accounts and a list of safe houses and property owed by the group he worked for. They even got where several weapon caches and back-up satellite units were stored. The group finds out that he had several submersibles they had purchased and stolen from the drug Cartels.

Hatter was enjoying that Arnold Bridges was answering their questions. When everyone stops asking Bridges questions.

He tells them the names of Senators and Congressman that were backing him, including the Presidents cabinet advisers that were involved with the scheme. His sources in various countries and how to get in touch with them.

“Pee your pants.” Hatter stood up to see if he would.

Arnold couldn’t resist her request and starts peeing.

She starts giggling when he starts peeing his pants. Gina even smiled when he started peeing his pants.

“Hatter!” Shigeko throws down a bunch of paper towels to absorb the urine.

Jack looks at Hatter “Elizabeth, could you escort Hatter to Doctor Cross office please?"

"Yes sir." Elizabeth wonders how she going to get there.

"Hatter, I’m sending you to Doctor Cross, so she can take a look at your ankle. She is going to give you a full medical exam to make sure you are in good health. Your to do what ever Elizabeth ask of you.”

Hatter looks at Mr. Bounty and wonder if he had something else up his sleeve.

“Hatter Aylin, you can trust my father. He is concern about your health and your ankle.” Gina had noticed that Hatter didn’t want to go.

Hatter glances towards Gina and could tell she meant what she said.

“Elizabeth, when you and Hatter are done. Drop Hatter off at Akin’s place please. She’s going to be living with Akin from now on.” Jack glances towards his sister.

“That’s if you don’t mind.” Jack looks at his little sister

“I don’t mind, big brother.” Anika figures there was a reason her brother was doing this.

“Good.”

Jack waits till Hatter and Elizabeth leaves the conference room. Once they have left. Jack turns towards Shigeko.

“Have the arrangements been made?”

“Yes sir. All the arrangements have been made for Doctor Cross to do a full medical examination to Hatter. She said that the sedative she will be using, should be strong enough to knock Hatter out without any side effects on her.”

“Jack, Hatter is going to be pissed when she comes around.” Anika was worried about Elizabeth.

“Trust me, she won’t remember a thing. The drug Doctor Cross will give her, is a milder version of what I used on Arnold here. She won’t remember a thing.”

Jack turns his attention towards everyone else.

“Terry, how long do you think it will take your brothers to make a decision on moving your custom job business to the building my company owns?”

“I don’t know if they will like it, but it will take at least a month to have it up and running. Because we’ll have to order and install duplicate equipment we have at our current garage there. Plus, I’ll have to hire new personal to work at the garage.”

“Hhhmm, this does put a cramp on thing, but it can’t be helped. Morgana, have you ever heard of a white hat hacker named Le Mouse?”

“Yes sir, she’s a cyber-security specialist that works for MI5/6. She’s extremely good.” Morgana has run into her a few times when she tried to get into MI5/6 computer systems. Sometimes she was successful and other times she wasn’t.

“I know you can’t come with us when we go to England for a job, but I would like to keep you on retainer. While we are there, Le Mouse will be your point of contact.”

Gina knew who Le Mouse was. She was her English cousin that worked for MI5/6 in their cyber division.

“You want me to work with a member of MI5/6 cyber division? How do I know they can be trusted?” Morgana normally didn’t like working with any one she didn’t know very well.

“Because Le Mouse is my cousin, Morgana.” Gina had answered for her father.

“Le Mouse is your cousin?” Morgana was amazed that Le Mouse was connected to a powerful person like Mr. Bounty.

"Yep! She's my cousin. If there is anyone I trust, it's my cousin."

“Mr. Bounty, instead of keeping me on retainer. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind hiring my company to monitor this company and your other companies for any unusual computer activities.”

Jack looks towards Morgana “what is this going to cost me, besides the computer equipment you originally asked for payment?”

“Just an investment in my company. I would like to upgrade our company systems with a quantum computer system.” Morgana knew it would help with all the work they have coming in.

“How much is the investment?” Jack knew how much the systems were, because he had been thinking about putting one in another company he just bought that did laser research.

“At least two million. I know a company that has one that would be willing to sale to me for two million dollars.”

Jack looks at Morgana for a good long while. “Get with Anika about it. She handles business matters here, but I’ll give the okay for now. I want to inspect the facilities it will be installed at, to see what type of security you have in place.”

“Understandable. Let me contact my partner and arrange a day for you. Also, how long will it be before you go to England?”

“That depends on what everyone’s agenda is. Two weeks is the time frame to start the job. However, Hatter and Dakota are being sent over first, followed by Anika, Bart and the rest of the team.”

“How come me and Hatter are being sent over first without the team as back-up?” Dakota was curious about this mission.

“Hatter has connections in the underworld over in England and she can vouch for you. I want you to use one of your cover identities from your days on the LA police force. I've already had some work done on it for your new look. You’ll need time to establish yourself. The time frame should give you and Hatter enough time to do that. Anika and Bart, you two are being assigned to MI5 to do an internal mole hunt. Terry, I'm afraid you can’t take Wraith with you on this trip, but I do have a car you can use in this assignment. Do you think you can make the same modifications to this car, that you made to Wraith, in a two weeks’ time frame?”

“Depends on the car. Wraith was built from the ground up and it took me several months. That was doing the work myself.” Terry didn’t know if a lot of wraith’s abilities could be installed in another car.

“How about if I gave you a crew to help you? Do you think you could equip a TX5 cab with the same capabilities or close to it like Wraith?”

“If you get me the specs and the car. I might be able to do something like Wraith. Why, do we need something like Wraith?” Terry was curious.

“You’re Hatters and Dakota’s back-up. You’re also Anika and Bart’s as well. Me and several members of MI5 I trust think there’s a link between a London base gang and a mole in MI5. Your jobs are to infiltrate the gang and find out which gang it is. Anika and Bart’s are to find the mole put them out of business. Le Mouse is your information support.”

“Does that mean we’ll be using your house in London?” Anika knew it wasn’t to far from MI 5/6 headquarters.

“Yep, you’ll be using that place for you and Bart. As for Hatter and Dakota, you’ll have to let me know where you are, and I’ll let you know which safe houses I have in that area.” Jack had a few places around England, especially in areas that weren’t friendly to be in.

“Shigeko, you’ll be going with Anika on this mission. You’re going undercover as hers and Bart’s housekeeper.”

“This should be fun. I guess that means I’m working with Terry, then?” Shigeko looks over towards Terry.

“Yes, if you need to go somewhere. You’re to call her.”

"How about Elizabeth? What is her assignment?" Anika looks towards Jack.

"She's going to be over there with her wife, for a fashion show. She can still be able to help you guys out. Selena and Keven, you're working with Morgana with her project."

“Sounds like a plan. So, right now were waiting on to see what Hatter’s condition is with her ankle?” Dakota had guessed that was why she had been sent to the doctor.

“Yes, but that’s not the only reason I sent Hatter to Doctor Cross. I need to know what all those years of electroshock treatments and chemicals being pumped into her have done to her body.” Jack was worried about Hatter.

“What are you going to do with Mr. Bridges, Jack?” Anika looks over towards Jack.

“My first thought is to just put a bullet in between his eyes, but he’ll be transferred to an off the record supermax prison. He’s been classified as a terrorist. So, he gets no trail. He lost all his rights.” Jack doesn’t feel sorry for him at all. A bullet would be a better option.

Elizabeth’s Townhouse:
Elizabeth held her wife tight against her nude body. She was spooned against her wife’s back and had her arms wrapped around her. She was so happy to be back home and in bed with her wife. She had been informed about the new job when she dropped Hatter’s sleeping body off at Anika’s place. She didn’t like that her wife had been brought into the plan, but it was the perfect cover for her. This way she could cover everyone, without any one knowing.

She couldn’t believe the scars and healed burn marks on Hatter’s body where the shackles that held her had rub against her. The burn marks were from needles that had been inserted in Hatter’s body and electricity had been passed through them. She had watched as the doctor and her staff did a full work up of Hatter.

They had taken several vials of blood and gave her a full examination. They did an MRI to see what condition her body was in. skin, tissue, spinal and bone marrow samples had been taken. The doctor had informed Elizabeth, that Hatter was going to be out for the rest of the night.
They had to knock her out after the effects of the drug had worn off.

The areas where Hatter’s skin was like onion, was where the doctor that experimented on her had taken the top few layers of her skin. He had literally skinned her.

Elizabeth had sent a message to Sara’s assistant last night, that she wasn’t coming in today and only contact her if it was very important. She felt her wife starting to stir. She kisses her on her cheek.

Sara turns her head and kisses her wife. She had missed having her around the house like she normally did, but now she didn’t mind. She had told her what she had been doing and what the new team was all about. She didn’t mind being part of their new operation that would be starting in a few weeks. It would give her a chance to establish herself over in Europe among the Pakistani and Indian community there.

She turns around in Elizabeth’s arms, so she is facing her wife instead.

“Good morning beautiful.” Sara leans in and kiss Elizabeth on the mouth.

She continues to kiss Elizabeth for a while. She so misses her wife coming home every night. She presses her breast up against Elizabeth’s bigger ones. She loved feeling her wife’s breast pressed against her modest ones. After a few minutes she stops and look into Elizabeth’s eyes.

“I don’t want to go to work. I want to stay here with you all day, like we use to do.” Sara was rolling around Elizabeth nipple with her fingers.

Elizabeth leans down and kiss her wife “I told your assistant you weren’t coming in today and only call you if it was important. So, I’m all yours today.”

A smile appears on Sara’s face as she starts kissing and fingering her wife.

Anika’s place:
Anika was sitting in her home office in her night shirt and going over some reports and resumes for jobs she had posted. She was hiring someone to replace Shigeko while she was in London with them. She was also going to promote someone to replace Elizabeth. Selena and Keven were assigned to Morgana and her crew. So, she needed to replace them as well. She was hiring three people from Morgana’s company to come in and do an audit in the IT department.

She had agreed to the arrangements that Morgana had purposed to Jack about investing in her company. She had agreed to buying the Quantum computer system Morgana wanted. Jack had informed her, that he was going to go and do the security check himself. Elizabeth had arrived at her place before she did last night and tucked Hatter in bed.

She had checked on Hatter this morning when she got up and she was still out. Bart had left yesterday and flew back to Texas to handle some business and to face his wife. Anika knew Bart’s wife didn’t want him to go back into the spy and espionage business.

She takes a sip of her coffee and continue reading a few resume’s that pass her first scan. She needed someone that Shigeko could trust with certain duties she performed for her. After about an hour, she finally found three possible people. One didn’t have much experience, but some of her references were outstanding and could be trusted. She has already called the applicants and set-up interviews for them.

Hatter’s Bedroom:
Aylin wakes-up and finds herself back in the same bedroom she had slept in at Anika’s place. Her ankle was still wrapped up. The doctor told her she only sprained it and needed to stay off it for a week. She saw the crutches she was given leaning against the wall near her bed. She couldn’t remember how she got here, but she knew she was okay.

Aylin gets out of bed and discovered she had on a silky black night gown. It came down to her ankles. She grabs the crutches and makes her way out of her bedroom and downstairs. She knew someone was up, because she could smell fresh brewed coffee.

She heads into the kitchen and see the pot half full. She makes her way over to the coffee pot and pour herself a cup. There was a plate of fresh cinnamon buns sitting on the counter. She grabs one and sniff it, to make sure it hadn’t been laced with anything. She’s been tricked like that before.

“Good morning Hatter.” Anika comes walking in to get a refill.

“Morning Queenie.” Hatter takes another bite of her cinnamon bun.

“Hatter, please call me Anika, not Queenie.” Anika refills her coffee mug.

“Yes ma’am.” Hatter takes a sip of her coffee.

“Hatter, didn’t the doctor tell you to stay off your feet?” Anika had been informed by what the doctor had said about Hatter’s ankle.

“Yes ma’am.” Hatter takes a sip of her coffee.

“Then park it young lady.” Anika was going to make sure Aylin followed the doctors’ orders.

“Yes ma’am.” Aylin sits down on the nearest stool.

“Aylin, how well known are you in England?”

“Too well known. I was told I had to leave because I had Scotland yards, the police and MI5 after me.” Aylin takes a sip of her coffee.

“Well, you’ll be working for MI5 now. We have a new job that will need you to get in touch with a gang, that has connections to a mole in MI5.”

“All the gangs I know, stay away from MI5, but it is possible. All I know, is I shouldn’t be going back to England.” Hatter was told she was too hot to stay.

“Well, not only are you going back, but you and Dakota are going to find out who this gang is. Do you think you can speak for Dakota?” Anika was hoping she might be able too.

“Sure, but she’s going to have to prove she not an undercover agent or cop.”

“That can be arranged. When do I go back to England?”

“You’re going back with Dakota in a few days. You’re working for MI5. An identity has been created for you and only four people know about it.
Also, Terry is going to be your contact and support. She’s going to be a taxi driver, so if you need to go anywhere. Let her know and she’ll come and get you.”

“It will look a little suspicious if I use her all the time.” Aylin knew it would be suspicious.

“We’ll use her as much as you can. She’s yours and Dakota’s support.” Anika needed Aylin and Dakota to stay in touch through Terry.

“I will. Where will the rest of you be?” Aylin hadn’t been told the whole mission.

“Me and Bart are going to be mole hunting inside MI5. Karen’s going to be there with her wife helping her with a fashion show, but she’ll be available to help. Terry is mine and your support and is going to be a taxi driver. Dakota is working with you in the gang. Our technical support is my niece Mouse and her mother inside MI5.”

“Your niece is named Mouse? How did she get that name?” Hatter thought it was funny.

“Her birth mother named her that. When she was adopted, her adopted mother was going to change it, but she didn’t what her too. So, she goes by Mouse. She works for MI5/6 as their cyber specialist.”

“And I thought my name was unique.” Hatter finishes her coffee.

“I know what you mean.”

Shigeko Place:
Shigeko had come home after the meeting at worked and found a candle light dinner waiting for her. The chef she was dating was waiting for her.

“Welcome Home, Shigeko.” Brandis wanted to purpose to Shigeko. She was a remarkable woman and wanted to marry her.

Shigeko just stood there looking at the dinner that had been prepared for her. She couldn’t believe the man she loved had done this for her.

“You like?” Brandis could tell Shigeko was surprised, just from the look on her face. He had made all her favorites.

“Me like.” Shigeko sits her purse on the end table and walks into the dining room.

She could tell that Brandis had made all her favorites. There was a filled wine glass sitting by her plate. She walks over and gives Brandis a kiss.

Brandis returns the kiss.

“Now, why don’t you sit down and take a sip of your wine. You’ll find it’s a special type.” Brandis had put her engagement ring in her wine glass.
Shigeko walks over and picks up her wine glass and notices there was something in the bottom of it. She uses her fork to lift it out and look at it. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. It was the engagement ring they had looked at.

“Shigeko Santos, will you marry me?” Brandis had kneeled when he purposed.

“Yes!” Shigeko helps him off the floor and gives him a kiss he would never forget.

They sit down and eat the meal he had prepared for her and she helps do the dishes. Afterwards they head towards the bedroom, where Shigeko gives him the time of his life. Everything she knew how to do, she did to him all night long till they fell asleep. Shigeko knew when she woke-up she was going to be sore.

Bart’s Ranch:
Bart pulls up the long driveway that lead to his house. He was happy to be home. The big city was nice, but he preferred the simple life. As he pulls up, he sees his wife standing outside waiting for him. He could tell she was a little mad with him. He parks and walks towards.

“I know I said I was giving the spy game up. But, this is different. I’m just going to England to bust a gang and locate a mole in MI 5.” He had told her everything.

“Still, why you? Why can’t Jack get his daughter or one of his relatives over there to do the job?”

“Because most of his family is known in MI5 and MI6. One of his cousins works for MI 6 and he has a niece that works as their cyber specialist, so whoever the mole is. They are going to be careful around them. Me and Anika aren’t known by them and we have clearances higher then any one there, except the Director-General of British Security Services. We can go and request anything we want to find the leak. Jack is too well known, so people would get suspicious if he showed up and start poking around.” Bart hasn’t used his MI clearance in a long time.

“I still don’t like it.”

“Trust me sweetie. I promise no harm will come to you.” Bart escorts his wife into the house.

Terry and Dakota:
“Good morning Handsome.” Dakota kisses Terry on the lips. She could still feel the strap-on Terry used on her inside her body.

Dakota had come home with Terry after the meeting the other day. Before they left downtown New York. Dakota had Terry stop at a sex store and went inside to purchase a few items. She wouldn’t tell Terry what they were. When they left the city, they stopped at one of Terry’s favorite restaurant and had dinner. Terry showed Dakota her place and one thing lead to another till they ended up in bed with Terry making love to her with the strap-on.

Terry slowly opens her eyes and look down into Dakota’s eyes. She couldn’t believe that she had sex last night. Dakota had gotten Terry to be the man during the love making. Not a lesbian relationship, but man to woman relationship. They had fallen asleep with Terry holding Dakota tight to her.

“Good morning beautiful.” Terry returns the kiss and liked how things had worked out between them.

She could tell that the strap-on she wore last night was still buried inside Dakota’s body. She starts to pull it out.

Dakota felt Terry starting to pull out of her “don’t you dare.”

Dakota sits up, so she was straddling Terry’s waist. She wanted it to stay buried inside her. She looks down into Terry’s eyes.

“Did you enjoy last night?” As she wiggles around on Terry.

“Yes, it felt nice and wonderful.” Terry had to admit that she liked being the dominate one and acting like the male for once in her life.

“Well were not done yet. For the rest of the day, you’re to act like a man. I want you to treat me like your girlfriend. Also, you’re to wear this strap-on all day long.”

“Butt!”

“No butts. Just try it Terry and we can talk about it later, okay?” Dakota leans down and kiss Terry.

“Alright.” Terry returns the kiss and grab Dakota’s ass cheeks.

She begins making love to her. They continue till both were tired. Dakota was sore from Terry banging into her. She liked how she felt, but it was weird for her feeling like she did. She watches as Terry goes and takes a shower. She does join him in the shower and they make out in there.

By the time Terry’s brothers showed up, she was good and sore. She was introduced to Terry’s brother as his girlfriend. Terry’s brothers were a little startled when Terry introduced Dakota as his girlfriend. Both of Terry’s brothers just look at him and wonder, if Terry was going to start acting like a man instead. She was already dressing more manish, instead of like a girl. Terry’s normal attire is t-shirts or dress shirts sometimes and blue jeans. Dakota on the other hand, looked cute and like she was a school teacher or something.

“Did you guys get a chance to look at that other building I sent the address too?” Terry looks at her two brothers.

“I drove by the place. It’s got a large storage lot we could keep donor cars and vehicles we buy to flip.” Robert had driven by to look.

“I haven’t been yet. The three of us could go by this morning and look.” Eddie figure the sooner they get moving and settle in. The sooner they could take on a few new jobs he has been approached with.

“Do you mind if I come along?” Dakota was being all sweet and innocent.

“I don’t mind.” Robert thought Dakota was cute.

“I don’t mind either.” Eddie figures maybe, this was a good sign with Terry.

The four of them load up in a modified 4x4 that had the company’s logo painted on it. Dakota sits next to Terry as they drive out to the other building that Anika said was available. It looked like it uses to be a car lot.

“This looks like it might be a good building. It has a nice display floor and several garages we can do 18-Wheelers in.” Eddie pulls the SUV into a space and turn the engine off.

They all get out and approach the main doors. Terry walks past her brothers and use the key that Anika had given her to get in. Terry holds the door open for them and then goes over and disarm the security systems. They walk around the building looking at the space and discussing what they could do with the space.

Terry notices Dakota was walking kind of funny and smile. Terry wraps her arm around Dakota’s waist as they continue looking. When it was just the two of them. Terry leans next to Dakota.

“Are you going to be alright?”

“I’ll be fine. I’ve just haven’t experience anything like this before. You’re my first.” Dakota gives Terry a kiss and then walks away heading to join the others.

Terry just smile and follow behind Dakota. They explore the place and Eddie and Robert agree that this building would be a perfect place to move the custom shop to and use the old garage for normal car repairs. They head back to the shop and Terry makes the arrangements with Anika to purchase the place.

Eruption Communications Anika Jaager Office:
Anika looks at the young red hair girl sitting in front of her. She was just eighteen years old and three months out of high school. The only experience this girl had was working as a volunteer at a LGBT community center. The other two women that had come in before her had more experience and skills that would be needed. One lady, she already interviewed, she knew she was going to hire, but not as her personal assistant. HR said they needed someone with office skills. So, she was going to send that lady there.

Mia was nervous as she sat in front of Ms. Jaager. She had met Ms. Jaager’s personal assistant. According to the job ad she had applied to, she was going to be Ms. Santos assistant and filling in for her while she was on vacation. This was going to be her first real paying job since she started dressing as a girl. All the other jobs she had was when she was a male to pay for her counseling sessions and for the hormones she was on. Her parents were adjusting to her decision.

Anika had done a complete background check on Mia Gentry. She had seen on her background check that she had been known as Timothy Allen Gentry. She had switched her name to Mia about two years ago, when she had switched schools. She had graduated in the top five of her class and had been on the track team.

“Well Shigeko, do you have question for Miss. Gentry?” Anika gives Shigeko a wink telling her that she was hired.

Shigeko looks at Mia “the only question I have for her, is when can she start?”

Mia was surprised by the question “I can start right now if you want me too.” She was happy she got the job.

“Then let’s get your paperwork done and get you a security pass Mia.” Shigeko stands up to lead Mia down to security.

Anika stands up and extends her hand “Welcome to the team, Mia.”

Mia shakes Anika’s hand “thank you ma’am.”

Shigeko takes Mia down to security to get Mia in the system.

Big Boy Toys:
Terry and Dakota were working in the office getting everything set-up for the shops moved. Dakota was staying with Terry in her place above the garage. Terry’s brothers had insisted the other day that she meet the rest of the family. They had all meet at Olive Garden where she meets Terry’s brother’s family. It was a large party and Dakota could tell Terry was feeling uncomfortable being around people. She held Terry’s hand to remind her, that she wasn’t alone and that she was there for her.

Terry couldn’t believe she was falling in love with Dakota. When she came back from Pakistan she didn’t want to have anything to do with romance or being a woman either. She had started dressing and acting more like a male. Now, she was slowly coming to terms with what she was and falling in love with someone like her.

She looks over at Dakota as she walks over to the coffee pot to grab them a cup of coffee. She had to admit that Dakota had managed to get to her heart. She just watches her as she pours the coffee and mix them. She was wearing another dress, instead of slacks. Now that she thought about it. Dakota had bought mostly dresses and skirts when they went shopping for her.

Dakota notices Terry was watching her as she walks back towards Terry “what’s on your mind?”

“You. I was thinking about you?” Terry accepts the coffee as Dakota hands it to her.

“I hope its good.” Dakota takes a sip of her coffee.

“It is. You are pretty much turning my life around. I didn’t know what I wanted, but now that I have you with me. I can be happy again.” Terry places her hand on Dakota’s arm.

Dakota just smiles at her as she places her hand on top of Terry’s.

Anika’s Place:
Hatter tried to watch a movie, but she just couldn’t get into it. Anika told her that she needed to stay off her ankle. So, she was restricted to the house. She had her top hat turned upside down and was flicking playing cards into it. She already had several cups of tea and was listening to some classical music. Anika had, a nice collection of classical music and she was enjoying it. She already called a few of her former contacts in England, informing them that she was coming back to England and was bring a friend.

Hatter looks over towards her new suit that Anika had made for her. It was lined with the latest bullet resistant material. She did tell her that it would hurt like hell if she got shot. It looked just like her old suit did and her ankle boots had been reinforced to provide support to her injured ankle.

Anika had given her a new set of playing cards that she could use as a weapon. They were razor thin metal cards that looked like an ordinary set of playing cards she could throw at people.

Anika told her not to throw those cards in the house. Hatter picks up her throwing knives and examine them for nicks. None of them had any nicks in them, but she still liked to keep nice and sharp. She takes her wet stone out and start sharping them. She tests each blade to make sure it was sharp and put it back with the others.

Hatter pulls out a few dollars from a secret compartment in her outfit and order a large combination pizza. Anika gave her a list of places that delivered to the townhouse that could be trusted. She hobbles over towards the door to wait and let the person in. Once she spots the pizza guy outside Anika’s place. She opens the door and heads outside to pay for her order. She gives the guy a nice tip as she hobbles back inside with her order.

She sits and enjoys her pizza. She couldn’t wait to get back to England and see some of her old friends again. There were a few she still had a score to settle with. Hatter only eats a few slices of the pizza and hobble into the kitchen with the rest of the pizza. She heads outside to sit on the back porch till Anika gets home.

Elizabeth and Sara:
Elizabeth had driven her wife to work. As she walked in with her wife, the staff that knew her was amazed she was there. Normally, Elizabeth didn’t stick around long after dropping her wife off or picking her up for lunch. She watches as Sara informs her people that they are going to be doing a fashion show in England. Sara calls key people to start pulling outfits and telling them which models she wanted to take over there.
Elizabeth just stand back and watch her wife worked. This was her world and place. She wouldn’t know where to begin or where to help. If her wife needs something, she’ll act as her gofer to get it for her. Anika told her that they needed to be over in England in two weeks.

Arrangements have been made for Sara’s company to have two full floors for her people and models. According to what Sara and she had been told. The show was taking place at the Ballroom in Radissson Blu Portman Hotel in London. Also, the floors that had been reserved for them was at the hotel as well. After the show was over, she was supposed to meet up with the team.

Elizabeth was impress with her wife throughout the day. Watching her handle problems and directing people let her see another side of her wife she never sees. Her wife’s creativity was amazing. She knew her wife could draw and put what she images on paper, but to see the finish product from start to finish was amazing.

Even though her wife’s designs had a Middle Eastern design and feel to them. They would fit any shape of the different body shapes of women. There was a new model that was working with her wife, that she hadn’t seen before trying on a new dress that had just been created.
“Sara, who’s the new girl over there?” Elizabeth pointed to the girl.

Sara looks at the teenage looking girl her wife pointed out “that’s Hettie. She’s from Iran and transgender. She came over with some friends of mine that took her in and nursed her back to health. They found her out in the desert beaten and badly burned.”

“Why people do things like that, I’ll never understand. I mean I know your parents don’t approve of our marriage, but nearly killing a person for being trans, just isn’t right.” Elizabeth wouldn’t mind killing people like that.

“Sweetie, it’s how the culture is over there. America is a little bit more accepting of gays, and transgenders. There are laws that protect people like us here. The laws over there in Iran, Iraq and even my home are Muslim laws that have been around for centuries and anything that goes against the teachings of The Quran is not tolerated.” Sara walks over to her wife and wrap her arms around her.

“Besides, I like being here with you, where I can have my wicked ways with your body.” Sara leans in and gives Elizabeth a kiss.

Anika and Bart watches as Hatter, Terry and Dakota boarded a cargo plane that belonged to a friend of hers that was smuggling the three of them into England. Hatter’s ankle had healed enough that she could function with the support of her new ankle boots. A contact of Hatter’s was picking her, and Dakota up and taking them to a place Hatter knew.

Terry was being met by some people Jack knew that did illegal street racing and car modifications. The person Terry was meeting was named Alexa Hawley. She was very knowledgeable and could build anything from scrap. She used to be a contestant on Junkyard Wars Great Britain.
She had been on the winning team.

“You think the three of them are going to be okay by themselves, till we get over there?” Bart looks at Anika.

“They will be fine. Terry might have had to cancel going, because he was helping his brothers moving, but I hired a moving company to help them out.” Anika needed Terry over there looking over Hatter.

They decided to go ahead and take Wraith with them. Terry wasn’t going to have enough time to modify a British taxi with everything Wraith could do. So, he was taken Wraith as a back-up vehicle. He was going to be shipped to Alexa place for storage.

“When is Shigeko going over?”

“She’s going over at the end of next week. Jack has given her everything she needs to prepare the place for us. The organizer that Jack normally uses has been informed.” Anika knew Shigeko couldn’t wait to go over. She had informed her husband and he was fine with it. He was going to watch her place while she was gone.

“How are Jack’s girls doing? I heard about the trap they walked into.” Bart had been informed by a friend of his that was on the Memphis police department.

“They are mending. I thought for sure Jack was going to send us to get the person responsible, but he and Cheshire are going to handle it.”
Anika knew that was always a bad sign.

“I don’t feel sorry for the guy. He signed his death warrant. Well, I best be off.” Bart had to go and meet his wife. She was coming to New York for a visit.

“Remember, we leave in two weeks. Terry is going to pick us up at the airport.” Anika watches as the cargo plane lifts into the air.

Anika turns around and start walking away from the observation terminal. Bart follows behind her.

“Have you spoken with Morgana since the mission ended?” Bart knew Morgana was busy with the installation of the new computer system and the construction of her new mobile communication unit.

“Yes, she’s as happy as a clam with her new toys and going over some information from a job she did for a friend about nanites to help modify a person’s DNA.” Morgana had told Anika about the information, because she was thinking about trying it out on herself to fix her spinal
damage.

“What does your boyfriend think about you disappearing for a while.” Bart knew about Anika’s boyfriend.

“He’s alright about it. He knows I have business I must attend to. I’m taking a few days off to go and spend time with him, while Shigeko train Mia to fill in while she is with us.” Anika had a smile on her face, because she couldn’t wait to see her boyfriend.

“Well, I’ll see you by next week.” Bart walks off to go and met his wife when she arrives.

Anika heads down to the parking garage to her jaguar. She was going to drive to her boyfriend’s place before she heads over to England.

The next story will continue in January of 2018 Mole Hunt