Tuesday, January 2, 2018, 0600hrs:
Mouse was standing out in front of her house waiting for Terry to show-up. She had been informed by Terry that he would be by at 0600hrs this morning to pick her up. All Mouse had to do was establish a link between her computer at work with the on-board computer system inside Terry’s cab. The connection had to be performed by Mouse herself, because the connection had to be extremely secure and encrypted with her personal encryption codes.

Her codes were extremely difficult to crack. That was why she was made the only cyber-specialist operator that had access to information far above everyone else. She answers to the head of Secret Intelligence Service. If certain permission didn’t come from the department head, she wasn’t permitted to do it. In this case, setting up the computer link with Terry was given the okay, but only to a certain level. That was why the connection was being establish with her computer only. It was also why the link was being encrypted so heavily and was an encryption only she knew.

Mouse spots the brand-new TX-5 cab pull up in front of the house. She watches as a slender man with short black hair and mustache gets out of the cab and walk back to the passenger side door and open the door for Mouse.

The Black Knight:
Terry had been given the address from Countess Charlotte Basset last night after contacting her and letting her know that the Black Knight was ready. She had informed her that he needed to be at the address she sent at exactly 0600hrs on Tuesday and that her daughter Mouse would be waiting for her out front. He was given the gate code to enter the drive way that lead to the front of the house. Countess Charlotte had sent a picture of what her daughter looked like. It had matched the picture he had gotten from Anika. Terry had spent Christmas Day and New Year Eve with Dakota at her apartment that Anika had arranged for her.

His place wasn’t to far from Alexa’s garage. That way, if she needed to do any repairs to either the Black Knight or Wraith she could. He had given permission to Alexa to go over Wraith’s system. Alexa had a few ideas that she hadn’t thought of and liked what she heard. Alexa also approached him with an idea of a car like Wraith that would allow it to blend in more.

When he arrived at the address he was supposed to pick Mouse up. He entered the code given to him and drove up the driveway towards the house. He spots the emo color hair teenager standing out front waiting for him. He stops and gets out of the car and walks and steps back towards the passenger door to open it for her.

“Good morning Mr. Horn. Is everything ready for me to connect to your computer system?” Mouse walks over to look at the inside of the cab.

“Yes ma’am. The connection you need is up here.” Terry shows Mouse where the connection port was.

Mouse kneels and looks at the connection. It was a standard Ethernet connection. She sets her laptop up in the back of the cab and runs a custom ethernet cable from her laptop to the Ethernet connection in the front of the cab.

“You might as well get inside, Ms. Basset. We can do this while I drive you to work.”

“Won’t this interfere with the computer system that runs the cab?” Mouse didn’t know how Terry had the computer system set-up for the cab and the communication and surveillance systems.

“Nope, two separate computer systems. That way no one can hack in and take control of the cab. The communication and surveillance system computer system are a standalone. I have the cab’s operating system backed up on a portable drive, which I can connect to the other system if I need to. Just like when you add the protocols and encryption coding I’ll need to connect to your system will be backed up on a back-up unit. So, if the primary goes down or gets damage, I can switch them out.” Terry did the same thing to Wraith’s systems.

“Smart move.” Mouse liked how Terry had arranged the systems to be separate on two different systems and having back-ups she could switch between.

Mouse gets in the cab and makes herself comfortable, while she connects her laptop to the power outlet, so she doesn’t run her batteries down in her laptop. She watches the progress as Terry gets into the driver seat and start heading towards her work. She wonders if this cab is equipped with a combustion motor or is all electrical.

“Terry, what type of engine is this cab equipped with?”

“It’s all electric. The windows and the roof are solar collectors. I replaced the original electric motors it came equipped with, with motors that make it faster than a Tesla. The battery system is the same type Tesla uses, but I added a few more to the system. I needed them, because the extra solar collectors need additional storage. I collect more energy than I really need, even with running all the Knights systems.” Terry and Alexa had tested and tripled tested the energy system and with all the upgrades they did. The cab had power to spare.

Mouse checks the protocol she installed in the system and tries linking up with her computers in the cyber division at worked. The windows surrounding Mouse darken and everything that was on her desktop shows up on her laptop screen and on the windows of the cab.

“Wow! I like this system.” She looks at the windows.

“It’s all touch enable. So, you can move anything around on the window any way you want too. All any one sees on the outside of the cab is just mirrored windows.” Terry could do the same thing up front with the windows up there.

“Man, you have to let us have this cab when this mission is over. My Superiors would love this.” Mouse knew the Higher ups would love this cab.

“You’ll have to ask your Uncle Jack. As far as I’m concern, this is his vehicle.” Terry either Mr. Jack Bounty or Anika would have to give permission for MI 5/6 to have this vehicle.

“I’ll ask him when the mission is over.” Mouse conducts a few more test.

Once she is satisfied with how the connection was. She tests the encryption protocol to see how much of a latency she had. It turned out to be within the range she was expecting. She shuts everything down.

“Okay, everything is operating like it should. Can you unhook me please?” Mouse starts shutting everything down.

“No problem.” Terry unhooks the Ethernet cable from the front.

She pulls right up front of the Whitehall building.

“Check in with me later, Terry. I want to make sure the connection from my desk works with you.” Mouse gets ready to exit the cab.

“Will do Ms. Basset.” Terry watches as Mouse exits the cab and shuts the door behind her.

Terry watches as Mouse heads into the building. She glances at the clock on the dash and notices that she had some time to kill before to make some money like a cab driver is supposed to do. Plus, it gave him a chance to learn the city like Anika wanted him too.

Terry picks up a few fares for the next few hours. Most of his runs were short, but he did have a few nice ones. By the time 1800 hrs. rolled around, he makes his way to the airport to pick up Shigeko from the Heathrow airport.

Heathrow Airport, 1800hrs January 2:
Shigeko couldn’t believe she was in England. The last time she had came to England, was when Anika was doing a shoot. She knew Terry was supposed to be picking her up. She grabs her few bags she brought with her and walk outside to see if Terry’s cab was waiting for her.
Terry glances around for Shigeko. He spots her and waves his hands to grab her attention. He would walk over to her, but he couldn’t leave the cab unattended.

Shigeko was looking around for Terry as she exits form the airport. She finally spots him waving his hands at her. She walks over towards Terry and was glad he was there to pick her up.

“How was your flight?” Terry helps Shigeko with her bags.

“It was long. Did you get the address on where we were going from Anika?” Shigeko knew she sent the information out.

“I got it Shigeko.” Terry gets in the cab and starts heading towards the safe house Anika and Bart were going to be using.

“Thanks for your help with arranging the moving for my brothers Shigeko.” Terry knew without Shigeko getting the extra help she did to help move everything from the old building to the new one. She wouldn’t be here now.

“It was no problem, Terry. How is the relationship between you and Dakota going?” Shigeko knew Terry and Dakota were seeing each other.

“It’s doing fine. She’s encouraging me to look more male like, while I correct some of her unladylike behavior.” Terry pulls up at the safe house after thirty minutes.

He gets out and helps Shigeko with her bags. She follows behind Shigeko as she goes up to the safe house and use the keys she was given to open the place up. She rushes to where the secret panel was and enter in the security code. When she hears the beep, acknowledging that the code was right. She closes it back up.

“What would had happened if you didn’t enter the right code?” Terry was curious.

“The doors and windows would have locked sealing us inside and a fast-acting gas would kill us.” Shigeko had asked Anika the same question before.

“Boy, they take their secret serious.” Terry wonders what else Jack and they used.

“They take their secrets serious. Too many lives depend on them.” Shigeko takes the file out she has and start checking things out throughout the place.

Terry follows behind her as she moves from room to room. There were at least four bedrooms here at the safe house. Shigeko goes out to the garage and there was a Silver Jaguar F‑TYPE 400 SPORT COUPE and a black BMW M5 in the garage.

“So, which car do you think Anika will drive?” Terry was looking at both cars.

“The Jaguar. Anika is a Jaguar person. She doesn’t like most American made cars or BMW’s that much. Bart likes Challengers and Chevy pick-ups. Dakota likes Honda’s and Toyota’s. Hatter, well Hatter likes any type of van or box truck. She uses them to live in. You, you like most old-style muscle cars and Wraith. If you could get away with driving Wraith around all the time you would. Me, I like Cooper Mini’s and Jeeps.” Shigeko had done her homework on what cars each members of the time might need or want at a safe house.

“Well, it looks like everything is in order. All the supplies I requested by our supplier is here.” Shigeko puts the list away.

“Do you normally do that for every safe house? Check to make sure it has everything?”

“Nope, there’s no way I can check every safe house we have available. However, I do have people that report to me that does check the safe
houses when we have need of them.” Shigeko knew most of them by name. Some of them she has met in person.

The rest of the day Terry sticks around to help Shigeko at the safe house. She heads back to Alexa’s shop and hook the cab up to recharge.
He sends Dakota a text to let her know he was available if she needed him.

Saturday, January 6, 2018, 0430hrs:
Anika couldn’t believe she was up this early waiting on Bart to land. He was going to have to transfer his gear from his Lear Jet, to this one. She takes a sip of her coffee and notices one of their pilots walking up. She was a new woman that Jack had hired. She had experience flying the F-15 Strike Eagle, The F-117A stealth fighter and the B-2 Stealth Bomber.

The reason she left, was because she had finally given over to the fact she was transgender. Anika knew she had just had her final operation two years ago. Jack had met her when she filled in as a replacement pilot for one of his pilots. She had impress him, and he had hired her on permanently.

“Good Morning Patricia, how are you doing this morning?”

“Do you want me to be honest or lie?” Patricia had a slight sinus infection going on.

“Be honest.”

“Well, I have a slight sinus infection, other then that. I’m doing pretty well.” Patricia walks around the plane checking it out.

It was a Gulfstream G550 that she was piloting today. She doesn’t spot anything out of the ordinary. She checks everything and then board the plane and does a system check. She saw another Lear Jet that wasn’t one of Bounty enterprises fleet approaching them.

“Ms. Jaager are you familiar with who this other Lear belongs too?” Patricia wonders who it was.

“That’s my partner in crime. That’s Mr. Hardy’s private Lear.” Anika looks out towards Bart’s new Lear.

“Well, now we know who it belongs too.”

Anika knew he bought it for his wife. So, when she had lectures to go to or her advice was needed at a hospital. She could fly out at any time. He also had a flight crew on standby to fly her.

The two of them watch as Bart exists with his gear and brings it over to the Gulfstream. Once all his gear is loaded on. He comes aboard and shuts the door.

“Good morning ladies.” Bart was tired from getting up extremely early and flying here.

He had managed to get a cat nap on the flight here.

“You made it just in time, Mr. Hardy.” Patricia had the engine going and getting permission to taxi down the runway to take off.

“Darling, I’m never late for anything.” He sits down in his chair and buckles in.

“I won’t touch that one Bart.” Anika sits down and buckles in as well.

Anika and Bart drift off once they were up in the air heading towards England.

Thursday, January 4, 2018, 2330hrs:
Hatter and Dakota had taken Julie to the van Hatter had put in storage when she left for America. Julie was scared and worried about what these women were going to do to her. If she didn’t return to Dexter with the money she was supposed to make tonight. He was going to hurt her sister.

In a scared voice “where are you going to take me?”

Hatter looks at Julie “where do you live and don’t lie to me.”

Julie looks at Hatter and wonders if she could help her and her sister.

“I work for a guy name Dexter. He’s my pimp and he’s holding my younger sister hostage, so I don’t run off.” Tears were sliding down Julie’s cheeks.

“How old is your sister and where are your parents?” Dakota was curious. She was driving Hatter’s van.

“My sister is 7yrs old and handicap. She is diabetic, and I use the money I make to pay Dexter back for the insulin he buys for my sister. My parents died from a drug overdose. We were homeless, and Dexter said he would help us.” Tears were still sliding down her cheeks.

“Where can we find this Dexter?” Hatter was angry for making this girl sell herself.

Julie could tell Hatter was mad. She saw it in Hatter’s eyes. She had heard stories about what Hatter did to people.

Julie gives Hatter the address. She hopes Dexter doesn’t hurt her sister. She watches as Dakota pulls up to the place that Julie had given them. Julie gets out of the van followed by Hatter and Dakota.

Dakota had seen Hatter’s face and knew there was going to be trouble. She follows behind Hatter as they walked towards the building and
then up a set of stairs. Julie knocks on the door and it opens. Julie steps aside as Hatter rushes forward.

Dexter wasn’t expecting the figure that had come through the door. He was about to react when he felt something sharp hit his shoulder. He felt another something else sharp hit his other shoulder. He looked at the figure standing in front of him and saw who it was. He had heard she had gone to America.

Dakota comes through with Julie “where is your sister?”

“She’s back here.” Julie leads Dakota to where her sister was kept.

She glances at Hatter and could see she had another throwing knife in her hand. She saw Dexter with two knives already in each shoulder.
She felt sorry for the poor guy. Hatter was a knife expert and he didn’t stand a chance.

Hatter had an evil smile on her face. This guy was forcing a teenage girl to sell her body, instead of offering to take care of her and her sister. She throws the knife in her hand at his right arm.

Dexter knew right away who this woman was. He had watched as Julie lead another woman dress in a skin-tight outfit pass Hatter towards the room he had the brat locked up in. He tries to hit Hatter. He couldn’t believe she dodge his strike. He also couldn’t believe she yanked one of the knives in his shoulder out and slice him across his chest with it.

Hatter licks the throwing knife she took out of Dexter’s shoulder and smile at him. She was going to make him pay for what he did to the girl. She moves in quickly and smacks him on the side of his head, knocking him out cold. She takes one of her zip cuffs and cuff him.

Dakota had kicked in the locked door that Julie’s little sister was kept in. The poor girl didn’t look good. She had a chain attached to her ankle that was long enough to let her go to the bathroom. She takes her lock picks out and unlock the girl.

“Julie, where does Dexter keep the insulin your sister needs?” Dakota picks up the frighten girl.

“In the kitchen in the refrigerator. He keeps it lock.” Julie starts grabbing what belonged to her and her sister.

“You gather up what belongs to you girls.” Dakota carries the little girl with her towards the kitchen.

She spots Hatter cuffing the guy up.

“Hatter, the insulin the girl needs are in the refrigerator.” She tried to use her hand, but the little girl tightens her grip on her.

“Alright.” Hatter goes over to the refrigerator and notices it was locked.

She pulls her gun out and shoots the lock off. When she opens the refrigerator, she sees a load of different types of medicine. She looks till
she finds the insulin. She also sees that there were vials of estrogen and cyproterone acetate. There were a few other chemicals in their as well; along with a bag of ice and meth.

Hatter takes most of the drugs, but leaves the ice and meth.

“Let’s get out of here Hatter.” Dakota dials the police and tell them where they could come and get Dexter.

As they are walking back down the stairs. Dakota figures they were going to have to get the little girl and Julie checked out by a doctor. She follows Hatter back to the van and have Julie get in.

“Here, sit next to your sister, little one.” Dakota puts the little girl next to Julie.

Hatter hops into the driver seat.

“I know a doctor we can take her to tomorrow.” Hatter starts the van up.

“That’s fine. Anika and Bart won’t be arriving for a few days. We could take them to Elizabeth and let her look at the girls.” Dakota glances behind her to see Julie holding her sister.

“Don’t you trust me?” Hatter glances towards Dakota as she drove.

“Yes, I trust you Hatter. I’m just thinking about the girls.” Dakota trusted Hatter.

“I can trust this doctor I know. He will keep his mouth shut about us and the girls.” Hatter heads towards the place they were staying at.

Once they get there, Hatter backs the van inside the warehouse they were staying at. It was one of the safe houses Jack and Cheshire owned in the part of England where they were.

“Alright girls, let’s get you inside and tucked in for the night.” Dakota had glanced at her watch and it was almost two in the morning.
Hatter escorts the girls into the room she was using as her own.

“You girls can sleep in here, till we get things straightened out.” She gives Julie one of her spare nightshirts to wear to bed.

“Ms. Hatter, I need to tell you something.” Julie was nervous, because she wasn’t sure how Hatter was going to handle what she is going to tell her.

Hatter looks at Julie “just call me Hatter or Hatter Aylin, Julie.”

“Hatter, I’m not a true girl.” Julie was nervous.

Hatter just smiles at Julie “I know. Now, get ready for bed Julie.”

She kisses her forehead and walks out of the bedroom to give the girls some privacy. She goes into the small kitchen area and grabs a bottle water. She stands there drinking her water.

“How are the girls doing?” Dakota comes walking into the kitchen.

“They are doing okay. Julie just confessed that she isn’t a true girl.” Hatter looks over towards Dakota.

“I know. I saw myself, but she is cute. If she wants to be a girl, I think she’ll be a nice one.” Dakota grabs a bottle water as well.

“You can bunk with me if you want.” Dakota knew Hatter gave her room up for the girls.

“That’s okay. I’ll sleep in the van. I have a sleeping bag and air mattress I can use.” Hatter finishes off her water and looks at some of the drugs they brought back with them.

“Where did he gets all these drugs?” Dakota was curious.

She walks over and checks a few of the drugs. Some of them were things like herself and Julie would need. The rest of it was morphine and a few other drugs that people bought on the black market. She locates the insulin that Julie’s little sister was going to need.

Hatter blows the air mattress up and grabs the sleeping bag and sleeps in the van.

Dakota checks on the girls and they were sound asleep. She leaves a nightlight on and the door crack, so Julie knows that she can leave the room any time she wanted to. Dakota heads to bed herself. Tomorrow was going to be a busy day.

Sunday, January 7, 2018, 0900hrs:
Julie and her sister Laila stay close to Hatter and Dakota. They had taken a cab, driven by a friend of Dakota’s. He was a nice man and pleasant to talk with. He had taken them to a nice house in downtown London. He had joined them at the house they had arrived at. When they went up to the front door, they had been greeted by an oriental woman.

She had let them in and escorted them to the living room where several other people were standing or sitting. Laila steps closer to her sister and held her hand tighter. Julie wonders who all these people were.

Dakota could see how scared the girls were. She pulls Laila to her and hold her.

“You can trust these people Laila. They are mine and Hatter’s friends and family. You already met Terry.” She points out the cab driver that brought them.

Terry waves his hand at Laila.

Laila smiles at him.

“Then there is Elizabeth. She is our medic and is married to a fashion designer.” Dakota points to a short black hair woman that was standing near a brown hair gentleman. She was dressed in a pair of black dress slacks and a nice blouse.

Laila looks over towards Elizabeth and could see she looked to be a kind person.

“Who is that man?” She points towards brown haired man.

“That’s Bart Hardy and my big brother. Him and my boss are who we are here to speak with today.”

Laila looks at Dakota “he’s your big brother?”

“Yep, he adopted me as his sister. Him and his wife saved my life.” Dakota knew she was lucky they had come when they did.

“Let’s see, who did I miss. Oh, you met Shigeko when she let us in.” Laila looks at Dakota and wonders if she was talking about the maid.

“You mean the maid?”

“Actually, she isn’t a maid. She’s Anika’s personal assistant and our friend. She looks after us and make sure we have everything we need to do our job.” Dakota knew Shigeko handle all the background support for them.

Laila looks at everyone gathered around waiting for Anika.

Julie had stayed near Hatter. She had listen to Dakota as she spoke with her sister and pointed people out in the room. She wonders what will happen to her and Laila.

Anika finally comes into the living room and notices everyone waiting on her. She glances towards the two girls Hatter and Dakota had rescued. Her, Bart and Shigeko had spoken last night and decided to let the girls stay here under Shigeko’s watchful eyes. They will still be able to interact with Hatter and Dakota.

“Good morning everyone. As you might have guessed, we have added two new members to our team.” She looks over towards Julie and Laila.

Julie watches everyone’s reaction, while Laila steps closer to Dakota. Laila was still a little shy and concerned by what has happened to her recently. She stays close to Dakota.

Anika had noticed how shy Laila was. She had read the medical report Dakota had sent over, just the other day to her. The poor girl was malnourished, had a yeast infection and needed glasses because of her diabetes. The paperwork the doctor gave Hatter and Dakota was given to Terry and sent over from the cab. The cellphones and ids from the guys Hatter beat the living daylights out of at the club. They had been given to Terry to go through. Every bit of information from the cellphones and sim cards had been downloaded to the onboard computer systems in the cab. Terry had forwarded it to Mouse, so she could track each number with MI6 resources. She had Hatter and Dakota’s updates on what they had found out so far. She was waiting on the information from Mouse to see what leads they were going to get from that information.

Her and Bart are to report to MI5 headquarters tomorrow and report to the director. He was going to give them an update on what they have found out so far about the information being fed to the gang. Mouse informed her that she has been monitoring the camera system to see who has been either hacking it or shutting it down.

“Their names are Julie MacGregor and Laila MacGregor. They will be staying here with Shigeko, me and Bart.”

“But we want to stay with Hatter and Dakota.” Laila speaks out.

She wanted to stay with Hatter and Dakota. She steps closer to Dakota. She didn’t want to leave them.

“Laila, Hatter and Dakota are working on a case. They can’t be with you all the time.” Anika looks at Hatter and Dakota.

“Look, why don’t we do this, Anika. Let the kids stay with Hatter and Dakota. When Hatter and Dakota go out in the field. Terry can either bring them here to Shigeko or to Elizabeth and her wife.” Bart had seen that the kids have become attached to Hatter and Dakota.

“They might be better coming here, Bart. Things get a little hectic at the hotel where the show is.” Elizabeth didn’t mind, but things did get busy.

“They are welcome to be here with me.” Shigeko didn’t mind them being here with her.

“Alright.” Anika was going to have to get Elizabeth to install tracking chips in their body.

“Excuse me, but what do you people do?” Julie was curious. She knew Dakota was MI5, there is no way Hatter could be.

“We work for MI5, Julie.” Anika was thinking about what Julie did.

She wonders if she has heard anything about the new gang that was establishing itself in England. According to the reports Hatter and Dakota
had submitted. They found out that the gang was very cautious about who they recruited. Especially, after so many MI5 agents had managed to infiltrate their gang. As part of a new person’s loyalty test. They were given a random person they had to kill with their sponsor recording it.

That was in the information Mouse had sent them about the gang. Some how the gang was getting support from someone inside MI5. She hadn’t been able to trace down if they were accessing information through the computer system. She was still going through it all.

“Why aren’t we at MI5 headquarters itself, instead of here?” Julie was curious. Why would MI5 work from a house, instead of its headquarters.

“Because Julie, we’re from the United States and we are an independent team.” Anika just looks at Julie.

“Elizabeth, we need to put a tracker in the girls, just in case something happens to them. Also, give them an emergency panic device should
they need our help.” Anika gives Shigeko a nod.

She leaves and returns a few minutes later with a black case. She is joined by Elizabeth as they walk over towards Julie and Laila.

Laila steps closer to Dakota.

“Laila, its totally safe. It’s a chip like what is used in your pets. If for some reason you get separated from us or in trouble. We can find you with the satellites we have access to and with the tracking equipment in Terry’s cab. The necklaces we have here for you.” Elizabeth opens the case while Shigeko holds it.

Inside were two silver necklaces. One had a kitten playing with a ball of yarn.The other one had a crescent moon with a kitten as part of it. Elizabeth picks the kitten with the ball of yarn.

“This one is for you Laila. All you need to do, is squeeze the kitten. It will let us know you are in trouble. It sends a signal to all our cellphones.
The chip allows us to track you down.” Elizabeth puts the necklace around Laila’s neck.

Elizabeth pulls a small injector out to install the chip in Laila. She motions for Dakota to hold Laila still, while she injects the chip. She presses the needle into Laila’s skin and injects the chip. She checks it with the locator.

“Ow!” Laila didn’t like it when the chip went into her arm.

“Sorry, Laila.” Elizabeth kisses the spot.

Laila rubs her arm after Elizabeth kisses the spot.

“Now, your turn Julie.” Elizabeth pull the other necklace out to put around Julie’s neck.

Julie walks over towards Elizabeth. She stands still as she watches Elizabeth.

Elizabeth grabs the injector and repeats what she did to Laila. She checks it afterwards to make sure it was working.

“It’s working.” Elizabeth just smiles at Julie.

Julie rubs her arm where the injector had entered her skin. She looks at the necklace and notices the kitten had sapphires for eyes.

“Now, that is taken care of. What can you tell me about this street performer you helped?” Anika had read the incident report that Dakota and Hatter had submitted.

She wanted to know about this woman and maybe add her to the team if possible.

Monday January 8 0600HrsThames House
Anika and Bart show up at the Thames House where they reported to Director Sir David Younger. Anika had shared what information she had been given to the Director and his aides. All of them had already been cleared by and could be trusted. The Director and his assistant were the only ones that knew they had come to England to find the mole.

Anika had been informed by Mouse that she ran routine computer scans on a random base. That way no one could predict when a scan was going to be done or what time it would happen. She also had her monitoring program quietly running in the background set to record all request for sensitive material. One log was kept on her computer system and a second log was sent to a secure government cloud account.
Only she and a few other cyber specialists knew about the cloud account.

When Anika and Bart showed up for their meeting. The information Anika and Bart about the director were impressive. The man had been in the British SAS and after six years joined MI6 and worked in a lot of hot spots. He served as an ambassador in Washington D.C. for England. Later, he accepted the post as the assistant director and when the director he was serving under retired. He had been selected.

When Anika and Bart walk into Director Youngers office. They were surprised to see a man in his fifties. He had salt and pepper hair and stood at least 6 to 6 feet’2 inches tall. He had a small vertical scar on his right cheek. It started just below his right eye and went at least two or three inches down his cheek.

“Good morning Ms. Jaager and Mr. Hardy. Please have a seat.” Director Younger motions to the huge leather chairs in front of his desk.
Anika and Bart take a chair each. Bart knew most Brit’s didn’t like American’s sticking their nose in their business, but it was necessary to bring in him and Anika for this hunt. They were unknown and work for a highly decorated MI6 agent.

He gives them a pocket containing agents that have been lost because of leaked information. The information inside contains files on the agents that had gone undercover in the gang. The same gang that Hatter and Dakota were gathering information about.

Hatter already had a reputation in England’s underground. Each agent had been found a week after contacting the gang. Their covers had been blown and if they had family. They had been killed as well.

The only way this gang could get information would had been from a source inside MI5/6. Their job was to find the leak and see how deep it went. There had to be more than one informant leaking the information. Bart was to make it obvious what he was looking for. He was to stir up the people.

Anika on the other hand was to do it quietly. Watch and listen to see who got spooked. Her cover was a person transferred from another department. While they were working inside MI5, mouse would provide support to them.

Monday January 8 1000HrsThames House
Mouse had gone through her scans of the camera system and didn’t find any intrusion into the system. She then went to the camera control room to access their computer systems to see if any one had entered system. While she was browsing through their systems. She discovered that someone had changed the maintenance log. It didn’t match the original log that had been backed up. The supervisor of the camera network didn’t know that the system kept a separate record. It was put in place because of when she uses to enter the system and turn it off. She would change the maintenance record to cover her entry.

When she looks at the original log and compare it to the one that the supervisor had access to. It was off by at least half-n-hour. Which meant they had a person in the camera division helping them. Mouse sets up a keystroke program to monitor all the stations. It was hidden, so only she knew where it was.

She also set-up miniature cameras around the office so she or Terry could monitor what was going on inside.

“Hey Mouse, what are you doing down here?” Alastair had spotted Mouse on his way back from lunch in the camera monitoring room.

“Taken care of a bad computer. I was on my way to lunch and Charlie asked me to come by and fix it.” Mouse was lying through her teeth, but knowing how scatter brain Charlie gets at times. He wouldn’t remember if he did or not.

“But I thought you were strictly a cyber-specialist?” Alastair knew Mouse worked strictly in the bottom basement department.
“I do, but it was a simple fix and it didn’t take long from my lunch hour.” A sweet innocent smile appears on her face.

Alastair couldn’t resist it when Mouse smiled. She was cute, and he liked her.

“Thanks for coming down to handle it.”

“You’re welcome. Simple things I can fix. Complex problems are beyond my skill level.” She waves good bye as she heads up to the cafeteria for lunch.

She takes her tablet out and writes everything down she has discovered so far. She encrypts the file and send it with her personal encryption code. She sends the information to Terry.

The Black Knight Monday January 8 1200Hrs Cab Stand
Terry was sitting waiting on a fare when his computer screen switches from the cab functions, to a clean background. A sexy female mouse walks out and starts dancing. Terry enters a code on his phone and the mouse starts undressing to a sexy song. As the she removes her clothes and toss them up in the air. They hover there, until Terry enters a second code and they form a second box with the information all scrambled. Terry presses the biometric scanner and the information decodes. The naked mouse lady runs off.

Terry just shakes his head at Mouse’s humor. He reads the information that Mouse sent and adds it to the file he’s compiling for Anika and Bart. Terry looks up when he hears a knocking on his passenger back windows. He forgot his yellow light was on. He unlocks the doors after blanking the screen.

“Where too, mate?” Terry watches as two military type guys climb in.

“8RY, 87 Hilltop Ave” The older gives Terry the address.

Terry watches as they sit back and watches as he drives towards the address they gave him. While they are driving. Terry records anything
they say and takes their picture. He runs their image through the law enforcement and military data base.

Terry pulls up in front of the address her was told. They pay him in cash and start walking towards a different building. As he drives off, the monitor beeps letting him know the information he was looking forward came through. He tints the glass and brings the information up on the screen. The first fellow he brings up is named: Sgt. Donald Ryan, Former United States Special Forces. The second fellow is Rex Wood, former English solider, dishonorable discharged. Both were freelance mercenaries for hire. Terry sends the information to Hatter encrypted using Morgana’s new encryption protocol. The burst to her and Dakota’s to be on the lookout fore. Terry gets flagged down by a couple. He leaves the back windows tint, but has the front go back to normal. So, far the energy levels of the cab were well into range. He takes the couple to down town London.

Monday January 8 1300Hrs Leaking Bucket Pub
Hatter and Dakota were meeting with members of her old gang at the Leaking Bucket pub. According to the information Hatter gave Dakota. The owner of the pub was also the leader of the gang. He had let Hatter stay in the basement when she first come on to the scene.

Julia and Laila who were staying with Hatter and Dakota had been taken to Shigeko to look after. Julia and Laila would stay with Shigeko, while Hatter and Dakota took care of what they were doing. Terry had received a call to come and get them first thing in the morning.

He didn’t mind dropping the kids off at the safe house Anika and Bart were staying at. While the kids were with Shigeko, she signed them up for an on-line school. Shigeko made sure Laila took her medication and was on a balance diet for her Diabetes

Once Hatter and Dakota were done with the gang. Terry will come back by and pick them up. He will take them back to Hatter and Dakota’s place. While the other team members were doing their job. Terry was learning more about the streets and quietly investigating the gang.

Terry already had a few leads. He had picked up some men that belonged to several local gangs. One of men that Terry had picked up was with the new gang. He had run their faces and fingerprints through the linked he had with MI6 and with other law enforcement agencies. Which included Interpol as well. All of them had police records and were wanted for one thing or another. Terry had been in contact with Alexa and she could get her hands on a 2013 Noble M600 Carbon Sport. She sent the specs to Terry and all the carbon fiber body could be replace with the new armor protection she had on Wraith. The engine was a Volvo-sourced Yamaha V-8 engine with 650 horsepower, which was less then Wraith. He had 6,000 horsepower and could go 0-60 in 2 seconds.

According to Alexa, the Nobel Carbon could go 0-60 in 3 seconds. Terry knew with some tinkering she could increase that time to 2.4 seconds. That would give them a second car to use and would blend in more than Wraith does.

Monday January 8 1330Hrs Leaking Bucket Pub
Hatter’s and Dakota’s cellphone beeps letting them know they just got a message. Dakota looks at hers and see a cat playing with a ball of yarn. She puts her finger on the scanner and it changes showing the pictures Terry took. The message said they should keep an eye out for them. When Hatter checks her cellphone. She sees a new top hat with a rabbit and tea pot. She scans her finger print and it changes showing the same pictures Dakota had received.

“So, Hatter. Are you and your new partner ready to pull a heist tonight?” Joshua looks at Hatter and Dakota.

Hatter’s face lights up when Joshua mentions heist.

“Ooohhh, who are we robbing tonight?” Hatter was a little excited about the job.

“Diamond store. They just got a shipment of diamonds in. We have a man on the inside, so it shouldn’t be too hard to pull off.” Joshua knew how wild Hatter could become during a heist.

“Who are we working with?” Dakota was curious.

“Luis and Baptiste are going with you. They have the details of the heist. Paolo is going to be your driver.” Joshua was watching Dakota’s reaction. He knew Hatter would do anything he asked of her.

Dakota just gives him a sweet smile “sounds good to me. What time?”

“Eleven tonight.”

Dakota looks towards Hatter “what you think partner?”

“I say, lets go and have some fun.” She had a sparkle in her eyes and a wide cheshire style smile on her face.

Tuesday January 9 0100Hrs The Diamond Emporium
Dakota looks over at Hatter as they sat in the back of the van. They had loaded up in a van that one of the guys that was going with them had stolen fifteen minutes ago. Dakota had noticed that Hatter had been kind of quiet and excited about this thief. She has never seen Hatter like this before.

She has seen her excited about shooting someone or kind of pouty. Sometimes, she becomes bitchy or childish for not getting her way.
However, she has never seen her this quiet or excited. The other two guys that were with them put her on edge. Hatter had said she didn’t know them. They must had joined after she was shipped to the United States. They were rough looking and look like they would rather kill you, then talk with you.

Everyone was quiet as they pulled up behind the diamond store. One of the guys in the front get out. He opens the sliding door to let Hatter and everyone else out from the back of the van. One of the guys knock on the backdoor. The door opens and when everyone walks in. All sorts of smoke and fireworks goes off. The smoke was so thick and bright flashes of fireworks were bursting all around them. They hear several thumps as bodies start dropping around them.

Dakota couldn’t see anything, but feel a needle hit her in the neck. She passes out and falls to the ground. The last thing she sees is a person dress like Hatter, except all black with a blow gun.

Hatter steps outside of the building with another person dress just like her, except all in black. The other person’s outfit was a little different then hers, but it was a Hatter outfit. She doesn’t say anything to the person, but just shakes the persons hand. A small black bag is slipped to her and afterwards the other Hatter takes off.

Hatter walks back inside the building and over to the safe that was still open. She slips the bag inside and covers it with a piece of cloth that matched the inside of the safe. She makes sure she can pull on the fishing line to remove the cloth covering the bag. She drops a card like hers on top of the cloth. She lays down on the floor near Dakota and pretends she is asleep. She doesn’t move till she hears one of the other people move.

When more than one person starts to wake-up. She waits till she hears Dakota wakes, before she moves. She pretends she is still affected by the drug used to knock them out.

“Who was that and how long were we out?” Dakota looks towards the guys that came with them.

One of the guy walks over to the safe. He looks inside and notices the playing card laying there. He picks it up and slams the safe door shut.

Hatter had moved over towards the safe and yanked hard to pull the cloth out. She yanked fast enough before the safe door closed with a thud. She grabs the cloth and stuff it up her sleeve.

“They stole the dam diamonds.” He walks over towards the inside man.

Dakota had seen what Hatter did but kept quiet as she stood near her. She checks her watch and notices they had been out for twenty minutes. The rest of the crew was shaking off the effects of the drug used on them.

Baptiste picks up the inside man by his shirt “who else did you tell about this job?”

“No one. He just appeared out of nowhere and forced me to do as he said.” Dean didn’t know who he was or how he knew about the diamonds.

“Then who was he?” Baptiste had the card he saw in his hand.

He looks over towards Hatter “do you know what this means?” He hands the card to her.

A smile appears on her white face. She knew who it was and why they had shown-up. She looks at the men.

“This card belongs to the Black Hatter. He showed up a week before you shipped me off to the States. He took several items I was after. We’re
all lucky he didn’t kill us. He normally, doesn’t leave witnesses to identify him.” Hatter knew it was a lie, but they didn’t know it was.

“Guys, I think we better leave, before the police show up.” Dakota didn’t know if they tripped an alarm or not.

Everyone heads outside to the van. They notice all four wheels were completely melted and the front windshield was busted. Hatter tries not to smirk. Her friend was up to his old tricks again.

“I know someone we can call that won’t ask any questions.” Dakota pulls her cellphone out and calls Terry.

Tuesday January 9 0200Hrs, Alexa garage:
Terry hears his cellphone ring he uses for the taxi cab. He looks at it and notices it was Dakota calling from her burn phone. He picks the cellphone up.

“What’s the address?” Terry listens while Dakota gives him a location.

Terry hangs up and heads down to the Black Knight. He drives out towards the address he was given and spots his friend and four others. He pulls up to them and unlock the doors for them to get in the cab. He snaps pictures of everyone he didn’t know with the hidden cameras in the cab.

“Where too?” Terry looks at the people in the back.

Luis gives Terry an address.

Terry inputs the address into the GPS and follows the directions to the address. It takes them thirty minutes to reach the area. Hatter and Dakota stays in the cab as they watch as the others get out of the cab. They were pissed because they didn’t score and the fact that their van had been damaged.

Baptiste stops and looks at Hatter and Dakota “aren’t you two coming?”

“Actually, we’re heading home. Is that a problem?” Dakota was watching Baptiste.

“Nope. Keep your cellphones nearby.” He turns around and walks off.

Once Terry was down the street. He darkens the windows on the cab and pulls into a dark alleyway. The dark street would conceal the cab while they talked.

“What the hell happened tonight Hatter and who is this Black Hatter?” Dakota was looking at Hatter for an answer.

Hatter just looks at her two teammates “I made arrangements with an old acquaintance of mine to rob the place before we got there. Then
mock attack us to make it look like we stumbled upon him robbing the place. During the confusion he slipped me the diamonds. I shot everyone, except you with my needler. BH shot you with his blowgun. I sent him a picture of you and asked him to be easy on you. Once everyone was out. I put the diamonds back in the safe and covered them up with this.” Hatter makes the cloth she had used to slip out of her sleeve.

“I used this cloth to conceal them in the safe and when one of the guys slammed the door on the safe shut, I yanked hard to remove it. So, when the owner comes in tomorrow, their diamonds will be in the safe.” A cheshire grin appears on her face.

“Okay, I can understand that, but who is the Black Hatter and how do you know him?” Dakota had to admit it was a good plan.

“The Black Hatter is a former associate I use to work with. He patented his look after me, till I told him I was the only Hatter. So, he went and
redid his look and made a black version of my look. He is as crazy and unpredictable as I am. He enjoys taking psychedelic mushroom. I tried them once and got sick.” Hatter hadn’t mind a few she had eaten, but there was one that made her sick. It was enough to turn her off from taking them.

“You could had told me your plan.” Dakota was a little pissed Hatter hadn’t included her in the plan.

“Why? You had no reason to know what I was doing. It was best if only I knew, so you could be safe. Most of the guys in the gang are afraid of
me. They know I will kill them in a heartbeat. You, they don’t know what to make of you yet. You need to do something to make them fear you.” Hatter had overheard a few of the guys talking about ambushing Dakota and using her.

“What have you heard?” Dakota was curious.

“Let’s just say, an opportunity is going to present itself to you. When it happens, don’t haste to kill the bastards. Because if you don’t, I will.” Hatter had a serious look on her face.

Terry looks at Dakota with concern on his face.

“Do they suspect anything Hatter?”

“No, but because of how Dakota looks and the fact they don’t know anything about her. They are going to make a move on her.” Hatter knew how these people thought.

“You better watch your back, Dakota.” Terry was concern for her.

“Don’t worry. If they try what Hatter was hinting at. I’ll make sure they have a free sex change.” Dakota was pissed that someone thought she was an easy target. She’ll show them how easy she is.

“How are the girls?” Hatter was curious about them.

“They are fine. Shigeko made a big meal for them and made sure they ate what they could. The girls are relaxing around her. Laila has a hard time reading, so Shigeko is spending extra time with her.” Terry had checked on them.

“That’s good.” Dakota sighs and rub her eyes. She was feeling tired.

“Ready for me to take you home?” Terry looks at Dakota and Hatter.

“Please.” Dakota was ready to crawl into her bed. It was three in the morning.

Terry takes them back to their safe house and then heads back to his place.

Saturday January 13 1800Hrs, London House
Anika, Bart, Terry, Dakota, Shigeko, the girls, Mouse, Countess Basset and Hatter were all sitting around the dining room table. They had gotten together for dinner and for a group meeting. Countess Basset, Anika, Bart and Mouse had gone through the files. Most of the people they have already cleared. Mouse found a few anomalies in a few agent’s computer systems. Things they shouldn’t had been doing with company computers. Some of them had been on-line betting sites, porn sites and poker sites.

There was one computer that she couldn’t believe was it so clean. It was like the agent never used it. She had checked the computer out herself and met the agent that used that station. She installed a logger program to alert her when they used it. She hid it in the bios where no one would find it. The anti-malware program they used wouldn’t find it.

Julie and Laila had stayed quiet and listen to everyone at the meeting. Julie liked the way Mouse had her hair. She was thinking about asking Dakota and Hatter about getting her hair done that way. She glances towards her sister and a grin appears on her face. Laila had to get glasses because of her diabetes.

Shigeko had taken them out shopping and to the salon. Laila had been scared that someone would try to grab and hurt her. Shigeko reassure her that she wouldn’t let that happen. After a while Laila relaxed and enjoyed the attention she got. Julie enjoyed it as well. She had never done anything like that before.

When the conversation comes to the gang Hatter and Dakota wanted to know more about. It grabbed Julie’s attention right away.

“I know who runs the gang and most of the men in it.” Julia looks towards everyone.

Anika, Bart, Hatter and Dakota all look towards Julie “where do you know this person from?”

Julie looks shameful as she looks towards everyone “I was brought there for his entertainment. He, he likes to beat on his girls. So, Dexter let him beat on me that night. Dexter shot me up with heroin, so I wouldn’t feel what he did to me.”

Tears leak from her eyes as the memory of that night comes back. Her body shakes as her body remembers what he did to her.

Hatter gets up from her seat and walks over towards Julie. She wraps her arms around her and holds her tight to her body. She could remember what it felt like to be abused. She knew what the pain was and how it affected her.

Anika and Countess Basset just watched Hatter as she held Julie. Anika knew Hatter’s past and could understand why she would feel drawn to Julie. She has notice that Hatter was slowly changing. She was no longer as crazy as she had been when she joined the team.

Basset knew the stories about Hatter. She was a killer and a thief as well. She knew Hatter only killed men that abused women and children.
She had read some of the reports, but no one knew what Hatter looked like without her make-up or where she came from. All they knew about her, was that she was responsible for several stolen art pieces and several high-class performance cars.

“Julie, do you know the name of the person we are looking for?” Terry knew about pain, but they needed to know this guy.

Julie looks up from Hatter’s shoulder and over towards Terry “he goes by MacKenzie Driscoll.”

Laila wraps her arms around her big sister and just held her. She loved her sister and knew what she did to protect her. Dexter had fondled her after he dropped her sister off. He said that if she ever told her sister, he would kill her.

“Wait a minute. I know that name.” Mouse gets up and excuses herself from the table.

She heads into the living room where her purse was and grab her netbook. It was small, and she always kept it with her. She heads back into the dining room. She sits back down and boot it up.

She notices that Julie and Laila were helping to clear the table with Shigeko’s help.

“Where do you know that name from sweetie?” Countess Basset was looking over towards her daughter.

“There was an incident a few years ago about a former SAS solider and a bunch of people he murdered.” Mouse finds the name and article.

She shows everyone over the overhead projector on the wall. Her netbook was connected to it wirelessly. She goes through all the information they had and what MI 6.

“He killed seventy-five people and managed to escape custody somehow. The last MI 6 had on him. He had gone freelance, selling his services to the highest bidder. It was rumored that he died in Africa along with several others. I guess that intel was false.” Mouse looks towards her mother.

“You forget, I’m not in charge over in MI 6, that’s Lord James Vilsai he handles the intel department.” Basset just looks at her daughter.

“Oh, I managed to get identification on all those men pictures you sent me, Terry. They are all mercenaries for hire.” Mouse brings the information up for everyone to look at.

Bart and Anika knew one of the guys Terry had picked up that day. They worked with him once on a CIA assignment. He was the reason Bart had been brunt. If it hadn’t been for Cheshire and Jack. He would had been dead. It was mostly Cheshire that saved his ass.

“Mouse, run those guys names and see who their associates are.” Anika wanted to know who they worked with.

Mouse runs the names and several people pop-up that have worked with the men. One of those guys was the former SAS soldier.

“I was afraid of that. He’s calling people in to help him. I wonder if the diamond heist that you were involve in Hatter has anything to do with this?” Anika looks over towards Dakota and Hatter.

“It’s possible the two are related. It doesn’t matter now, because Hatter had a friend of hers help stop the robbery.” Dakota looks at Hatter.
Hatter just smiles. There was a reason to her madness. It all worked out like it was planned too.

“Hatter, why did you interfere with the heist?” Anika was curious.

“Because, there would had been no way we could had gotten those diamonds back. Joshua would have pawn them to his fence by the time we came up with a plan. I know his fence and he is well connected. So, I concocted the plan with some help from my friend Black Hatter.” Hatter was surprised the plan worked like it did.

Now she owed Black Hatter a favor. She and Black Hatter have been associates for a while. She didn’t like it, when he copied her and used her name. She had to find him and make it very clear that she was the only Hatter. After she let him live, he came back a few days later with a new outfit that resembled hers but had more of a steam punk design to it.

“Have you guys found anything inside MI 5?” Mouse knew Bart and Anika have been digging through people’s files.

“None of the files I have gone through so far have proven fruitful. We’re going to need to look higher up. None, of the non-management positions would have access to the type of information being given out to this gang.” Anika had been very discreet about the people she had been observing.

“I figure that might be the case. So, I started investigating some of the department and shift supervisors. I found three possible suspects but, I need Terry to follow their movements.” Bart looks over towards Terry.

“Just give me their information and I’ll follow them. You might want to have Mouse dig into their bank accounts and their life.” Anika knew MI 5&6 already digs into each person’s background.

“Just give me their names and I can investigate their backgrounds and bank accounts.” Mouse had that type of access.

She sometimes helped with doing background checks on people. She glances towards the girls and could see that Laila was getting tired. Julie was doing fine.

Shigeko noticed the same thing mouse did. Laila was slowly falling asleep in her chair as everyone went over the information.

“Come on Laila, lets get you into the tub and ready for bed.” Shigeko stands up and walks over to Laila.

Laila gets up and before she leaves the dining room. She hugs everyone goodnight. She gives Hatter and Dakota an extra hug before heading to the bathroom.

Julie just watches her sister. She knew that Laila missed being with Dakota and Hatter, but they were never home at reasonable hours and had to maintain a cover. She’ll take her bath after Laila gets out and is in bed.

By 11:00pm everything is wrapped up. Mouse and Countess Basset are driven home by Terry in the Black Knight. The reason they took the cab, because Terry can blackout the windows so, no one could see them.

Hatter and Dakota take Hatter’s van back to their place. They wouldn’t mind the girls being with them, but it works out better for Laila and Julie to stay with Shigeko. She takes care of the safe house Anika and Bart were staying out. So, the girls had someone to take care of them. Plus, Shigeko could take them to museums and continue their education. This way Hatter and Dakota can do their work, without worrying about the girls.

Shigeko checks on the girls after everyone is in bed. She sets the alarm system and heads towards her room. She checks her email to see how Mia was doing back at Eruption Communications.

She answers the emails that she sent and looks over a few things that Anika needed to approve. She knew what Anika looks for and what she didn’t. She gives Mia the approval on several things. By the time she is finishes with emails. It was 1:00 AM. in the morning.

Dakota looks at the three men that she had been sent with. Two of the men were the men that Hatter had warned her about. The third one she only knew a few things about. He had a wife and two little children.

“So, what’s the job?” Dakota looks at the two men in the back of the van with her.

“You’ll find out.” The younger of the two had responded.

Dakota noticed he had looked at her a little longer then he should have. She was getting an uneasy feeling in her stomach as they got closer to their destination. Once the van stops where they were going.

“You stay here Saul and keep a lookout for us.” Chuck gets out of the van first.

Dakota follows behind him as they head towards a warehouse. Dakota had her GPS on in her cell phone, so Terry would know where to find her. She follows behind chuck with Vince following her. All three enter the warehouse and head deeper inside.

As they come to a bunch of wooden crates, she is knocked backwards by Chuck as he turned quickly on her. His fist had landed on her jaw, sending her back into Vince who wrapped his arms around her tightly.

She felt herself squeezed as he held onto her. Chuck had an evil smile on his face.

“I’ve been waiting a while to see what you were like.” As he steps closer to her.

“Then your going to have to wait a little bit longer.” Dakota elbows Vince as hard as she could in his chest.

She could feel his grip loosen some, but not enough for her to escape. She was struck by Chuck's fist as it connected with her face. She could taste blood in her mouth. She moves her head out of the way when he tries to strike her again, but hits Vince instead.

She jumps up and wrap her legs around Chuck’s neck. She shifts her weight to escape from Vince’s grip. She spins around to sit on Chuck’s shoulder while keeping her legs tight around his throat. She pops her hidden stun baton out and tap it on the side of Vince’s head.

She sends 9 million volts throughout his body. She watches as he drops like a rag doll. She tightens her thighs around Chuck’s throat till he passes out from lack of air.

When he drops to the floor. She pulls her zip strips out and cuff both men. She sends a text to Hatter and then sends a text to Terry to send help.

Terry:
Terry had gotten the names from Julie and was investigating them. When he received a text from Dakota. Send Spirit for distraction.

Terry knew right away what Dakota meant. She needed Spirit from Wraith to come in and caused a distraction. The drones in the cab weren’t equipped with Spirit’s weaponry. Terry remote logins to Wraith’s weapon systems and launches Spirit to the coordinates from Dakota’s cellphone. The windows on the cab darken so no one could tell what Terry was up too. He brings the camera systems up on the HUD system on the main windshield. He watches as Spirit arrives at the location. It was a warehouse and Dakota’s cell signal were coming from inside.

He sends a ping to Dakota’s cell to let her know Spirit was there.

Dakota gets a ping from Terry.

She responds Attack blue van outside, but don’t kill driver. I need a distraction.

Terry gets Dakota’s response and start firing towards the blue van he had spotted. He fires near the van, but not hitting the van.

Saul was looking towards the warehouse wondering when the three would come out. He didn’t even know why they were here. While he was waiting, he hears gunfire like it was coming from a mini-gun hitting on the other side of his van. He looks out on the passenger side of the van but doesn’t see anything.

Terry causes Spirit to hover right in front of the van, so the driver could see the mini-gun spinning, but not firing. He wanted the driver to see Spirit’s missiles. He shines the laser targeting at him.

Saul hears something spinning and looks out the front windshield. He spots a drone armed with a mini-gun and missiles hovering right in front of him, tagging him with a laser. The mini-gun was spinning as it hovered.

Saul throws the van into reverse as fast as he could. He swings the van around and heads back to the pub where they were supposed to meet up. He hears gunfire as bullets hits his bumper.

Terry was watching as the van almost hit a parked car as it backed up as fast as it could. He watches as the driver turns the van around and was driving away as fast as it could. He targets the rear bumper and fires at it.

He sends a text to Dakota letting her know Spirit was outside.

Dakota had heard the gunfire from Spirit’s mini-gun. She smiles when she reads the text from Terry. She walks towards the front of the warehouse and looks outside towards Spirit.

She texts Terry: Need pick-up for myself and two criminals. Call police to pick criminals up.

Terry just smiles as he recalls spirit back to Wraith. Once Spirit was tucked safely in Wraith, Terry heads over to where Dakota was waiting for him. She had moved from the warehouse. That way she wouldn’t have to answer any questions about Chuck and Vince.

Terry spots Dakota waiting for him. He pulls over, so she could get inside the cab. Once she was inside, he darkens the windows.

“What happened?” Terry pulls away and heads towards the pub where Hatter and the rest of the people were waiting.

“Two guys from the gang thought I would be a good lay for them. Hatter warned me about them.” Dakota couldn’t believe that they would try something like that.

“How about the third guy? Was he part of this plan to rape you?”

“No, he wouldn’t do something like that. He has a wife and two little kids. No, I think he was sent to be just a driver. Did you scare the hell out of him?” Dakota leans back in her seat and tries to calm her nerves.

“Wouldn’t you be scared if you had an attack drone hovering in front of you? Especially, if it is armed with missiles and a spinning mini-gun?” Terry had a smile on his face.

Spirit had to be the best idea she stole from the old sci-fi shows he uses to watch when he was younger. Arming Spirit with weapons and using it as an intimidation tool comes in handy every so often.

“I know I would be. Thanks for coming for me.” She would lean forward to kiss Terry, but the bulletproof shield separating them, prevented it.

Terry was concerned about Dakota and Hatter, but mostly with Dakota. He was slowly falling in love with her. He didn’t think it was going to be possible after what happened to him, but now he was certain. He pulls up outside the pub to let her out.

“Be careful Dakota.” He turns around and lowers the bullet proof shield that separated them.

“You too.” She leans forward and gives Terry a kiss.

She gets out of the cab as Terry raises the shield back up and watches her walk into the pub. As Dakota enters the pub, she looks for Joshua. He would had known what they were going to do to her. She walks right up to him and punches him in his face.

“You son of a bitch. You thought it would be funny to have two of your men try to rape me.” Dakota hits him again in the face.

Joshua was about to pull his gun and shoot Dakota. When a metal playing card lands right in front of him. Then he feels a sharp burning pain as something embeds itself into his left shoulder. He looks up and notices Hatter with a gun pointed at his second. There were several throwing knives in her other hand. The look on her face told him she wasn’t playing and was pissed. The burning sensation in his shoulder was increasing.

“I told you what would happen if you ever cross me again, Joshua. You sent Chuck and Vince after my friend and partner. I honor my promises.” Hatter turns her gun and puts a bullet right between his eyes.

Dakota couldn’t believe what Hatter just did. She knew she took friendship seriously and when she gives her word to do something, she does it. She watches as Hatter looks at the other gang members.

Hatter looks at everyone else in the Pub. She wasn’t in a happy mood and they could see the madness in her eyes.

“Do any of you, have a problem with what I did?” she still had her gun and throwing knives in her hand.

After a few minutes, when no one responded. She puts her gun away and walks over to the bar. She grabs a bottle of Scotch and takes a large swig of it. She turns and faces Dakota.

“I’m going home.” She walks out the back door with bottle in hand.

Dakota watches as she walks out the back door. She turns around and looks at everyone that was still there.

“Don’t even think about coming after us or following us. I will personally shoot you.” Dakota walks out the back door and meets up with Hatter at the van.

“I’ll drive partner.” Dakota hops into the driver seat and drive them home.

Hatter takes several swigs of the Scotch she took. As Dakota drives them home.

Monday, January 15 0800Hrs
Anika and Bart were on their way to work sitting in traffic when they hear a motorcycle speeding their way. The rear windshield on Anika’s Jaguar shatters as bullets hit it and the body of the car. There was a second motorcycle on Bart’s side of the car. Bullets hit the car shattering the rear passenger window.

Anika couldn’t get the car out of traffic as the motorcyclist race by. She leans out and fires her gun at the motorcycle hitting the rear tire. The motorcycle flips as the rear tire explodes. The motorcycle lands right on the rider, pinning them.

Bart leans out and tries to get a shot off at his target but can’t. The rider was weaving in and out between the cars and truck.

“Dam! I can’t get a shot off.” Bart was pissed.

“Well, I got mine.” Anika was already out of the car and running towards the person that was laying on the street pinned by their motorcycle.

As she gets closer, she notices a pool of blood under the body. The motorcycle was laying on whoever the rider was. Anika kneels and takes the helmet off the person. She takes a snapshot of the person and notices that they didn’t have any fingerprints.

Bart pulls the Jaguar up to where she was and gets out. He lifts the motorcycle off the person. Both could hear police sirens coming towards them.

“I think you crushed his ribcage.” Bart puts the kickstand down so the motorcycle would stand on its own.

“I want to know who he is and who sent him to us.” Anika was looking for his gun and finds it.

She takes a pair of gloves out of Bart’s pocket and takes a snapshot of the location of the gun.

She picks it up and looks at it. The serial number has been filed off.

When the police show up. Bart and Anika show their Identification cards. They tell the officers what happened and give them their cell phone numbers.

“You drive Bart.” Anika gets in on the passenger side of the jaguar.

“Okay, you want to head to work or Alexa’s place?” If it was Bart’s choice, he would take the car to Alexa.

“Take the car to Alexa so she can fix the car,” Anika calls Mouse.

Mouse:
The mouse was on her way to work with her mother. When her cell phone starts ringing. She notices that the number was Anika’s.

“Good morning, Anika. What can I do for you?” Mouse was curious why Anika was calling her.

“I need for you to find out who this fellow is when you get in. Bart and I were attacked on the way to headquarters.” Anika sends the picture she took of the guy.

Mouse’s cell phone beeps letting her know she just received a picture. Mouse brings the picture up and looks at it.

“Alright, Anika. I’ll run his face through our database when I get to the office.” Mouse figures it shouldn’t take her long to run his face.

“Thanks, Mouse. I’ll be a little late. I’m dropping the jag off at Alexa to get fix.”

“Alright, I’ll see you in a little while.” Mouse hangs up.

Alexa’s Garage:
Bart drives the damage jaguar to Alexa’s place. When they pull up, they notice Terry and Alexa were looking at the engine on a 2013 Noble M600 Carbon Sport. Terry was wearing a mechanics coveralls. They don’t see the cab anywhere.

Terry and Alexa listen to the engine as it ran. Alexa has been doing some body work on the Noble, while Terry enhanced the motor and suspension of the car. Ever since Alexa approached Terry about having another car like Wraith that blended in with the cars in England. The
two of them have been rebuilding the Noble with all the functions Wraith has.

Alexa did all the body and custom framework. While Terry worked on the engine, enhancing the performance of the engines. She brought the horsepower up to 800 and made it so the car goes from 0-60 in 2.4 seconds. It wasn’t as fast as Wraith, but it could keep up with him. She ordered custom armor rims from the same company she bought Wraiths from. She did replace all the windows with the same windows the cab had. She hasn’t been able to add any weapon systems to the noble.

They turn around when they hear a car pull up behind them. They notice it was Anika’s Jaguar and it was all shot-up.

“What did Anika run into this morning?” Terry walks over to the Jaguar, with Alexa behind him.

Anika and Bart get out of the Jaguar. They watch as Alexa and Terry walk over to them.

“What did you do to your car?” Alexa walks around the car looking at it.

“We were attacked this morning. Two men on motorcycles shoot at us while we were sitting in traffic. I managed to kill one of the riders, but the other one got away.” Anika watches as Alexa examines the car.

Terry looks at Bart “maybe you should take the new car. I haven’t added any weapons yet, but it is bulletproof and has the same capability as Wraith without his weapon systems or the drone I have to build that will be uniquely designed just for the noble.” Terry already had a new design in his head for the new drone.

It was going be faster and go higher then Wraith’s, Spirit. It will also be equipped with a new weapon system. The body of the drone was going to be crystal clear.

“How fast is it?” Bart walks over to look at the Noble.

“It can reach speeds of 230 mph and go 0-60 in 2.4 seconds. All the glass has been replaced with the same glass I’m using in the cab. So, it acts like a solar collector and you can black the windows out for privacy.” Terry knew the extra power will come in handy when he adds the weapon systems.

Anika watches Alexa, while Bart was becoming familiar with Nobel’s systems. She wonders how long it will take Alexa to repair the Jaguar.

“So, how long will it take you to fix the Jag?”

Alexa turns her attention to Anika “you're looking at a weeks’ worth of bodywork. The paint job, you're looking at another week. So, give me two weeks to get your Jaguar fixed.”

“Alright. So, it looks like you and Terry have been busy building a new car.”

Alexa just grins “I figure you guys could use a car that blends in more with the cars over here. Wraith sticks out like a sore thumb. So, Terry and I figure we could build a car like Wraith if you need his firepower. I managed to do some trading with a friend of mine that had that car in his storage yard. The original engine and transmission in it had been damaged. So, Terry and I dropped a new engine and transmission in it. Both, have been enhanced for the higher speeds and for different terrains.”

“Maybe you guys should bulletproof the Jaguar while you’re at it.” Anika looks at her poor Jaguar.

“We still have some materials left over from bulletproofing Noble. The glass, however, I would have to special order.” Alexa knew the glass in the Jaguar would have to be special order.

Anika thinks about it for a second.

“Would it add any more time to the repairs?”

“If I order the glass today. I could have it here, by the time I start painting the car.” Alexa knows it would have to be today.

“Alright, do it. How much do I need to transfer to you?” Anika pulls her cell phone out.

Alexa thinks about it “I could bulletproof your Jaguar for £35,779.73 ($50,000 dollars). That way the whole car would be covered.”

“Do it.” Anika transfers the funds from her private account to Alexa’s business account.

“Okay.” Alexa hears her cell phone chirp letting her know money had been deposit into her account.

Anika walks over and examines noble. Terry puts their bios into the systems, so they will be the only ones to operate it.

“Alright, all done.”

Bart touches the steering wheel and Noble fires up. He likes the feel of the steering wheel.

“Anika, can I speak to you for a second please?” Terry motions for Anika to follow her.

“Sure.” Anika follows Terry deeper into the garage.

“Anika, I think you might want to go and speak with Hatter. She has been hitting the bottle hard. All because she had to kill her old boss for betraying her trust and for almost letting two guys rape Dakota.” Terry was a little worry about Hatter.

Anika knew it took a lot of booze or drugs to affect Hatter, but if she was hitting the bottle. It meant that something was bothering Hatter. She’ll have to stop by and check on Hatter after her and Bart leave MI 5.

“I’ll come by later, after Bart and I get off. Are they still staying in the warehouse?”

“Yep. They haven’t moved.”

“Thanks for telling me.” Anika walks back towards Nobel.

Terry follows behind Anika. She watches as Anika transfers whatever she had in the Jaguar to Noble. She notices that Bart was enjoying some of Noble’s special gadgets.

Anika sits down inside Noble “come on, let’s get to work.”

“Okay.” Bart shuts his door and heads towards MI 5 headquarters.

Monday, January 15 1800Hrs
Anika had gotten the report from mouse about who the person was that attacked her and Bart earlier. He was a local hired gun and so was his partner. She had sent his picture and background to Bart and Anika as well.

“Seems like someone is trying to send a message to us.” Bart was driving towards Dakota and Hatter’s place.

“It seems that way. I want to know who hired them to take us out.” Anika was watching the city pass by as Bart drove.

“Well, if they decide to strike at us again. They will be getting a few surprises with this car.” Bart has fallen in love with Nobel.

Bart pulls the Nobel up in front of the warehouse Hatter and Dakota was staying at. He sets the security system just before the two of them walk inside. Anika looks around and spots Dakota cleaning her gun.

“Where is she?”

“In the van. She’s on her second bottle.” Dakota had watched as Hatter downed her first bottle of Scotch. She didn’t know where Hatter had gotten her second bottle or the drugs.

Anika walks over to the van and opens the sliding door. She finds Hatter passed out inside the van. The bottle she had was laying next to her and it looked like it was almost empty.

“Where’s your bathroom, Dakota?” Anika scoops Hatter up off the floor of the van.

Dakota hurries to the bathroom and fills the tub. She knew what Anika was about to do to Hatter.

“Do you need any help undressing her, Anika?”

“I’ll be alright.” Anika strips Hatter out of her clothes. They stunk to high heaven.

“Dakota, do you guys have a washer and dryer here?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Good, go through Hatter's clothes and wash everything, please. Hey Bart, can you hold Hatter, while I get undress?”

“Yep.” Bart walks over and holds Hatter.

He watched as Anika gets undress. Even though he was married. He still gets excited seeing Anika naked. She had a nice body. She could have continued as a model if she wanted to, but she decided to work in the corporate world instead.

Anika strips out of her clothes and lay them nearby. She walks back over to the tub and sits down in the tub.

“Bart, bring Hatter in here please.”

“Alright.” Bart carries Hatter into the bathroom and set her in the tub with Anika.

Anika wraps her arms around Hatter and holds her. She could smell the odor coming off of Hatter.

“Bart, get me a cup please.”

“I got it, Bart.” Dakota heads towards the kitchen.

She grabs a large plastic cup and takes it back into the bathroom. She hands it to Anika.

“Thanks.” Anika takes the cup and fills it with water. She dumps it on top of Hatter’s head.

Hatter jerks awake and starts to fight whoever was holding her. She was feeling disoriented and confused.

“HATTER, claim down.” Anika holds Hatter tight.

Hatter stops and looks behind her and notices Anika holing her. She relaxes and stops struggling to free herself.

“Why are you here and why are we in the tub?”

“I’m here because I heard what you did. I also heard you were drowning yourself with booze and drugs.”

Hatter let the tears that were treated to come, slide down her cheek “I didn’t want to kill him, but he was going to let Dakota be raped. I know he was behind the whole set-up.”

Hatter turns around in Anika’s arms to face her. She buries her face in Anika’s bare shoulder and cries. She just let the tears come, because Joshua had been her friend.

Anika just holds Hatter like a mother holds a troubled child. She rubs her back and just let Hatter cry. She could feel the scars on
Hatter’s back as she rubbed it.

When she feels Hatter stop crying “let’s get you clean and some food into you.”

Anika turns Hatter back around and starts washing her. She treats Hatter like a little girl and washes her whole body. She washes Hatter’s hair, god knows it needed it. She rubs the shampoo and conditioner into her head.

Hatter closes her eyes as she enjoys Anika massage her scalp. It felt nice to her. No one has ever done anything like that to her.

Once Anika was done washing Hatter, Dakota helps Hatter out of the tub and dries her off. She slips on one of her clean nightshirts on her. Dakota escorts Hatter to the room she was using.

Anika gets out and dries off. She wraps a towel around her body and follows behind Hatter and Dakota. She helps Dakota get Hatter in bed. She tucks Hatter in and kisses her forehead.

“You get some sleep, Aylin.” Anika brushes some of Hatter’s hair out of her eyes.

Once Anika and Dakota felt Hatter was asleep. They quietly back out of her bedroom and head towards the living room. Bart was already in there drinking some coffee he had brewed up.

“What happened, Dakota?” Bart was concerned about Hatter’s mental state. She was already a little off, but now she wonders what pushed
her over the edge.

“Two guys from our crew set me up to be raped. I managed to subdue them, without killing them. Hatter warned me that they were going to do something to me.” Dakota remembers the warning Hatter had given her.

“What caused Aylin to start drinking and taking drugs?”

“She shot Joshua for betraying her and me.” Dakota looks towards Anika and Bart when she says that.

“Wasn’t Joshua the man that took Hatter into the gang when she escaped from the mental hospital?” Bart remembered reading something in Hatter’s file about him.

“Yes. He must have crossed her before because she said what would happen if he crosses her again.” Dakota remembers Hatter saying those words, just before she shot him.

“Then he got what he deserved then. He should have known Hatter doesn’t make threats.” Bart had reviewed her file and from what he has seen from her.

He knew she was a very unstable person. Lately, she has been trying to change from killing people to just knocking them out with her new guns. She only resorted to using guns if there weren’t any other choice.

“Bart, Hatter is just a teenager who has been abused her whole entire life so far. On top of that, she has been used as a guinea pig in illegal human experiments. It’s surprising that she is still alive and functioning.” Anika had a mother’s concern about Aylin.

“I know Anika.” Bart has known Anika long enough to know that she felt protective of Aylin. She was thinking about Aylin more as a daughter, then as an employee or friend.

“I’m getting redress.” Anika starts getting dress in the clothes she took off.

While Anika was getting redress, Bart looks towards Dakota “any clue about who the gang is that is working with the mole inside MI 5?”

“We know which gang it is, but getting anyone in it, won’t work. They have gotten smart to MI 5 & 6 tactics. Also, with their mole in the agency. It’s dangerous to send someone undercover.”

“Then we should think about setting a trap for the gang and capture them.”

“Easier said than done.” Anika comes walking back in fully dressed.

“I have to agree with Anika, Bart. We still don’t know what they want. Why don’t we get Terry’s input and see what he has gathered so far?”
Dakota needed to get back to Terry about the request she had gotten from the metro police.

“There is one more thing, I need to speak to you guys about. I got a request from a metro police officer that is handling the case where we rescued Julie and Laila. She wants to talk with the agents that handle that matter.”

“That would be you, Terry and Hatter. I don’t see why you couldn’t talk with the officer. Just leave what we are doing from her or if she can help. See what information you can gain from her.”

“I’ll drop a few questions in and see if she can help.” Dakota will get with Terry later to set things up.

“I think it’s time for us to head back to the girls and Shigeko.” Bart stands up to leave.

“Keep me inform Dakota about how Aylin is doing.” Anika glance back towards Hatter’s room before they leave.

“I will Anika. Thanks for coming by and helping her.”

They all walk towards the front door “when this mission is over with. I’m going to suggest we take some downtime.”

“I think that might be best.” Bart had to agree with Anika. The team will need the time to decompress.

Anika and Bart head back to their safe house.

Elizabeth was helping one of her wife’s employee’s when two unknown guys came walking into the work area. The guys were rather muscular and stood about six foot tall. One had a scar that seemed to cut his right eye in half and had a military-style haircut. He had black hair and rogue look to him.

His partner, on the other hand, was completely bald and had a tattoo of a skull on the left-hand side of his neck and a spider web that covered his bald head. There was a tattoo of a tiger on his upper right arm.

Elizabeth walks over towards them, after snapping a picture of them discreetly. She sends those pictures to Mouse.

“Can I help you, gentlemen?” Elizabeth stops in front of them.

“We are here to speak with your manager.”

“I’m one of the owners, what can I do for you?”

An evil smile appears on Jindrich’s face “you need to pay insurance before something bad happens to you and your people.”

“Really? What would happen if say I didn’t pay this insurance?”

“Then some unfortunate things could happen to either you or your people. You really, want to pay the insurance.”

“How much is this insurance?”

“£ 2,000”

“£2,000 you say. When is it due?”

“Every Friday. If you don’t pay, then we’ll send you a reminder.” As he smashes one of the sewing machines.

“Come back later today. I’ll have the money for you.”

“You better.” Elizabeth watches them as they walk off.

“You’re not seriously thinking about paying them, are you, Lizzy?” Isla looks at Elizabeth.

Isla had been looking for work because she lost her last job. The reason she lost it, because she wouldn’t spread her legs for the store manager, so he framed and fired her. She was barely of age to work, but Elizabeth and her wife Sara was willing to give her chance. She did odd jobs around the place and acted as Elizabeth’s personal assistant.

“I’m not worried about anything Isla. Things will be alright. Now, I need for you to get these forms signed by our new models.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Isla heads off to get her work done.

Elizabeth pulls her cell phone out and dials Dakota’s number.

Dakota and Hatter:
Dakota was sitting at the bar that Hatter likes going to. She was busy beating a person at darts. Her cell phone starts ringing. She picks it up and notices that the number belonged to Elizabeth.

“What’s the problem Elizabeth?”

“Hello to you as well, Dakota. I was just approached by two guys. They want us to pay insurance money and I told them to come back later this afternoon and I’ll have it.”

"Did you get pictures of the two men?"

"Yes, I took pictures of them."

“Who did you send the pictures too?”

“I sent them to Mouse.”

“Alright, I’ll have Terry get in touch with Mouse, so we can see who we are dealing with. I’ll also grab Hatter and Terry and head your way.”

“Alright, I’ll let Sara know.” Elizabeth ends the call.

Dakota motions to Hatter when she finishes her game. She finishes up her drink as Hatter comes walking over.

“What is it, Dakota?” Hatter reaches for her drink and chugs it back.

“Elizabeth needs our help. She said two guys approach her about an insurance scam. They are coming back later today.”

“Oh, goodie! I get to have some fun.”

Dakota just shakes her head. Ever since Anika came over and held Hatter. She has been a little more childish. It seems that the simple things
in life bring her happiness. She knew making bad guys pay was a favorite of Hatter’s.

MI 6 Cyber Division:
Mouse was busy back tracing a hacker’s attack when her cellphone beeps. It was alerting her that a message had been sent. The hacker she was chasing after originated in China.

“Let’s see how you like the Wolf Pack.” Mouse activates her wolf pack program to attack the mainframe that had been used to attack MI 6’s network.

The hackers on the other side will think they are being attacked by one attacker but like real wolf packs. The program keeps splitting off and kept attacking the target. It was a custom program, so there was no way to defend against it except disconnect or turn the system off.

She slaps her hands together and looks at her cellphone. She notices the pictures that were sent to her, were from Elizabeth.

“Let’s see who you charming gentlemen are.” She forwards the pictures to her system and searches for them.

It doesn’t take long for their files to pop up. Then a security warning pops up saying she needed a higher clearance.

“I don’t think so. I have the highest clearance.” She overrides the warning and pulls their files.

Mouse knew her clearance was higher than most department heads. The only person who had a clearance higher then her was the Director himself. Mouse looks over the two guys background and lets out a low whistle. These guys would rather shoot you, then tell you the time of day and according to the file they had a connection to the group they were looking for.

She forwards the information to Black Knight. Just as she gets finish doing that, she gets a visitor.

“Excuse me Ms. Basset did you just access Jindrich Dvorak and Karel Novak files?”

Mouse turns around in her chair and looks at the gentleman standing in front of her. She has never seen this man around here before. His hair
was short and well groom. The suit he was wearing was custom made. She could tell that his shoes were well polished, which meant he worked in an office.

“I’m sorry, who are you?”

“Gavin Raymond, supervisor of A-branch.”

“Well, Mr. Raymond. I can’t tell you that information. Your security clearance isn’t higher than mine and you have no need to know.” Mouse had a smug look on her face.

Gavin looks at the young woman sitting in front of him. He couldn’t believe that she could buck regulations with her emo style haircut. Also, how could she tell him no and have a higher clearance then him?

“Who’s your supervisor Ms. Basset?”

“Charles Thompson, but he’ll tell you the same thing I did. Your clearance isn’t high enough and I don’t answer to you or him really. If you want, you could always speak to my mother, Countess Charlotte.”

Mouse knew most supervisors didn’t like confronting the Countess. She was well known as a killer agent and a tough woman. She was also feared by most agents when she investigated or vetted them.

“Countess Basset is your mother?”

“Well, yea. Same last name normally means a person is related to someone.”

Gavin turns around and leaves.

Mouse turns around and checks his system. She wanted to know why he was concern about her looking into Jindrich Dvorak and Karel Novak. She starts digging around into Agent Gavin Raymond’s files and background.

The Black Knight:
Terry was driving around when he hears a beep alerting him that a message came in for him over the cab’s secure link. He sets the auto-drive system and brings up the files from Mouse. He lets out a whistle at the information he was reading. Both men were from Czechoslovakia and were members of the Czechoslovakia mafia.

As he is reading the information, he gets a text from Dakota for pick-up at 1700 hrs. He wonders if Elizabeth knows who she was dealing with.
He closes the file he was looking at and disengages the auto-drive system. He heads over to pick-up Dakota and Hatter.

Mouse searched Agent Raymond’s bank account, phone records and background. She even searches all his work files on his computer, other than what he was working on. There wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. She searches every file he has access too or has access.

At first, she didn’t see anything out of the ordinary, until she dug into his phone records. That’s where she started finding evidence of Raymond’s guilt. He was making calls to several burn phones. He just made one call to a burn number.

She pings Anika and Bart’s cell phone and sends them what she has. She tries to locate Agent Raymond, but according to the sign in/out computer log he has left for the day. He signed out twenty minutes after meeting with her.

Anika and Bart received the text file from Mouse about Gavin Raymond. She also sent what she has found so far. Anika heads towards Gavin Raymond’s office and plants a few listening devices and miniature cameras. Jack told them to play this mission by the book. Which meant to gather data and evidence to bring against Gavin Raymond.

They also received the message from Elizabeth about the trouble she had this morning. Since Raymond has already left for the day. They were going to leave to handle a problem and later checkout Raymond’s place. They text Mouse that they were leaving for the day.

Terry drives by to pick-up Dakota and Hatter. He was going to take them to where Elizabeth was working. They were going to set a trap for the men coming back that afternoon.

Hatter was in a happy mood and couldn’t wait for them to arrive. She had her throwing cards ready to use and was checking her needler pistol.
She had three reloads of the knockout fletches for each gun and12 12gram CO2 cartridges for each gun.

“Are you guys ready?” Terry drives everyone over to where Elizabeth was working with her wife.

Elizabeth glances at her watch. It was getting close to the time the men were supposed to be back. Isla walks up to Elizabeth “you’re not going to give them the money, are you?”

Elizabeth turns to her “I told everyone to go home, Isla. Why didn’t you go?”

“Because I wanted to be here with you. I know your wife is.” Isla knew Sara was hiding in a safe room Elizabeth had constructed.

“I wish you hadn’t stayed Isla. There’s going to be trouble coming.” Elizabeth didn’t want to see Isla get hurt.

“Sorry.” Isla didn’t want to see Elizabeth get hurt.

Anika and Bart arrive first at the place. They had their armor and weapons on. Anika and Bart weren’t taking any chances and were heading up to meet Elizabeth. Terry arrives with Hatter and Dakota. Hatter jumps out first from the cab and rushes upstairs. Dakota and Terry follow behind her, but at a reasonable rate.

“Why is she in such a rush?” Terry hands Dakota the other P90 she brought for her.

“Because she enjoys ruining a bad guys day.” Dakota accepts it. She checks it over.

“Sounds like she is feeling better.” Terry follows Dakota up to where Elizabeth was.

He and Dakota had put on their combat vest, instead of their full body armor like Anika and Bart did. Hatter’s body armor was part of her outfit. It was going to hurt when she got shot by the bullets, but the bullets themselves wouldn’t penetrate the cloth.

“It’s about time you guys got here.” Elizabeth had a happy smile on her face.

Isla looks at the two fully armor people, then the one that was dress as the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. Two more people come walking in, one was dress in a skintight bodysuit with a combat vest and wearing two guns in a holster on their waist. The other was dressed in a black suit as well and wearing a combat vest. He had a holster with a gun in it on his right side.

“Elizabeth, who are these people?” Isla looks at her.

“They are my friends and teammates Isla. Why do you think I told those men who showed up this morning to come back now?” There was a mischievous grin on Elizabeth’s face.

“Oh!” Isla couldn’t believe Elizabeth had a plan.

“Alright, you guys better hide. Isla, you better hide as well.” Elizabeth looks down at Isla.

Hatter just sits on a nearby table with a couple of playing cards in her hands. She was planning on being right out where the men could see
her. Besides, if they were dumb enough to threaten her friend and teammate, then they should die.

7:00 P.M.
Jindrich and three of his men show-up to collect the £ 2,000 he promised. He walks into the work area and notices someone who resembled the Mad Hatter sitting on a table playing with a deck of cards. He spots the woman he spoke to earlier. She was standing over near a table.

He walks over towards her, while the other three men spread out. He didn’t see any money or anything.

“Do you have my money?”

“Actually, I think we need to renegotiate your terms. The way I see it, you’re going to surrender to me and tell me who you are working for willingly or Hatter over there is going to use you as her target practice.” Elizabeth had a serious look on her face.

An evil smile appears on Jindrich’s face “do you actually believe I’m going to surrender to you because you have a clown with a deck of cards over there? Maybe, I should just shoot you right now and have my way with your partner.”

Just as he said those words, Hatter let loose with one of her playing cards, nicking the side on his neck. She had three more cards in her hands and was standing up on the table.

The other three guys were about to fire at Hatter when they hear “I wouldn’t do that if I was you.” Bart, Anika, Dakota, and Terry had stepped out from where they had hidden and had their weapons pointed at them.

Elizabeth had pulled her weapon and had it pointed right in the face of Jindrich’s face. An evil smile appears on her face “like I said, you can surrender to me and my friends and tell us everything we want to know, or I can let Hatter have her fun.” As another playing card zigging’s by his ear.

Hatter skips over towards Jindrich “please say you won’t talk. I really need the practice with my cards.” An evil smile appears on her face.

Jindrich looks at the painted face of the young girl that was standing next to him. He could see that she had an evil smile on her face and meant what she said.

“Ooooh, I can smell the smoke coming out of his ears.” Hatter plucks his earlobe.

Jindrich moves his head out of the way.

“I would take the ladies offer.” Anika had her Glock 41 pointed at one guy’s head.

“Hatter, go ahead and handcuff him.” Elizabeth kept her eyes on Jindrich.

“Do I have too? I want to play with him some more.” Hatter rubs the edge of one of her cards against his skin drawing blood.

“Yes Hatter, you have to and stop teasing him.” Elizabeth didn’t mind letting Hatter continue, but she wanted answers.

“You never let me have any fun.” Hatter was pouting as she zips cuff’s his hands.

Anika, Bart, and Terry take a set out and start zip cuffing everyone. Dakota keeps watch over everyone, making sure they don’t try anything.
Once everyone is zipped cuff. They are gather together in a group and covered by Dakota and Terry.

Jindrich is taken to a room by Bart and Hatter. Hatter looks at Bart “can I start questioning him please?” She folds her hands in front of her like she is praying.

Bart just grins “yes, you may start questioning him.”

“Oh, goodie!” Hatter turns around to face Jindrich.

“Now are you going to be a good boy and tell me what we want to know, or do I have to hurt you?”

Jindrich doesn’t say anything to her. He just looks at her to see what she was going to do to him.

“You think you’re a tough guy?” Hatter pulls out a stun gun and shoots him with it.

Jindrich jumps when he gets shot with the electrical prongs from the stun gun. He starts shaking as he feels the electricity course throughout his body. He is shocked three more times before Hatter stops.

“Now tough guy, do you want to talk, or should I shoot you in your privates and see what happens?” Hatter reloads her stun gun.

Jindrich looks towards Bart “you’ll let her do that?”

“I couldn’t stop her if I wanted too. I think it might be best if you answer her questions before she does it.” Bart knew Hatter could come up with creative ways to torture this guy with electricity.

Isla comes out of hiding along with Sara. She looks around and notices that the woman wearing the body suit and the other guy with her was guarding three other men. One of the two that had been wearing full body armor and the girl dressed like the Hatter were missing.

“Where’s the other guy at? The one that came originally?” She looks towards Elizabeth.

“You don’t want to know Isla.” Sara looks at Elizabeth’s assistant. She liked the girl as well and was considering sponsoring her to come back to the States with them.

Isla looks from Sara to Elizabeth and back to Sara. She was confused and wonder who Elizabeth’s friends were. She does hear some screaming coming from a room.

After about an hour, Hatter comes skipping out in a good mood with Bart behind her. Hatter had a pleased look on her face. Bart was just shaking his head because he couldn’t believe Hatter did what she threatened to do.

Anika noticed the look on Bart’s face and how happy Hatter was. She walks over towards Bart “did she do what I think she did?”

Bart just looks at her and nods his head. Hatter had shocked the guy in his testicles with her stun gun. Not only had he started talking but lost his bowels at the same time.

“Elizabeth, you're going to have a mess in there.” Anika over towards Elizabeth.

“That’s okay. I can clean it out with a hose.” Elizabeth had let them use a room that was easy to clean.

Isla looks at Anika and Bart “are you guys MI 5 or something?”

“Yes, we’re MI 5.” Anika shows her Identity card.

Isla turns to look at Elizabeth “are you MI5 as well?”

“Nope, I’m a US Marshal, but I’m over here with my wife helping her.” Elizabeth still had her US Marshal ID. She knew Anika, Dakota, and Bart had MI5 credentials. Terry and Hatter didn’t have any cover identities here in England. However, in the States, Terry had US Marshal credentials. Hatter had none because it would be hard to explain her looks and age.

“Good morning, Mouse.” As Mouse enters the computer section.

“Hey Thomas, how has your morning been?” Mouse stops to talk with Thomas. He was into heavy metal and Industrial music like she was.

“I had to come in early this morning. Someone tried entering the secure files that are sealed. Whoever it was, managed to disarm most of the firewalls, but the last one stopped them. They left the system in a hurry though when they couldn’t get past the last firewall.”

“Did you manage to track them?”

“Nope, but since we have been having a lot of intrusions lately. I wrote a program to record all traffic into the system. That way I can bring up the traffic and IP address they came from at a certain time.”

“That makes sense, forward the information to my console and I’ll help you out. I have a special hunting programming.” Mouse was thinking her Beagle program could sniff the person out. After it does its job, she’ll send the wolf pack out to get them.

“Alright.” Thomas heads back to his desk and looks over the information. Whoever it was, looked to be good, but when they couldn’t get through the last firewall. They broke off the connection rather bluntly.

Thomas couldn’t figure out who the hacker was, so he sends the information to Mouse’s console. He knew if anyone could find or track the person down, it would be her.

He walks over to her desk “I sent you the information.”

“Alright, let me see what I can find.” Mouse starts looking at the information Thomas gave her. She recognized some of her codes in the
program they used to enter the system and the paths they took. She lets loose her Beagle program to try and track the person down.

Hex taps into the coffee house wireless system he was at and breaking into people’s cell phones and devices. He starts downloading their information from their devices. There was one person he was after. He glances over towards the good dress businessman eating a chocolate covered crème filled croissant and drinking his custom ordered coffee. It was the same coffee he got every morning.

Hex hated the fact he couldn’t get past the last firewall on the secure files at MI 6. He was going to try again tonight to get into their system. He wishes that Mouse hadn’t gone straight like she did. She was one hell of a hacker, but she got busted by the MI 5 undercover agent that had infiltrated their gang. Plus, she had been in the hospital from being shot.

He couldn’t believe how ignorant most of the people here in the coffee café were. Only a few had some sort of security on their devices, which could still be hacked. The information he was getting from their devices. He could sell that information to identify brokers and a few others he knew.

As he is sitting there using the cafes internet, a beagle appears on his screen and the words “Gotcha” appears. He stares at it for a minute before it hits him on who it is. He tries to shut down, but he was locked out. He knew if he didn’t pull the battery who he thought it was, would have everything he had.

MI 6 Cyber Division:
Mouse had sent her beagle program out to search for the hacker and after forty minutes it found what it was looking for. She remotely turned on their camera and it was who she thought it was. It was her friend Hex. He should know better than to be using her codes and software. That was the reason her beagle program found him so fast. He was using programs she wrote when she first started off in the hacking game.

She activates her Ripper program and starts ripping information from his hard drive. She wants to know who it is that he is working for. Hex was a small-time hacker that normally went after ATM’s and credit card companies. She knew she only had a few seconds before he removes the battery from the laptop.

She does bury in his ram a computer code to activate quietly and alert her when he turns the machine on again. She puts a secondary command hidden in his bios as well. Just in case he finds the first one. She watches as she loses connection to his laptop.

“At least I know who you are now.” A smile appears on Mouse’s face.

Coffee Shop:
Hex manages to pull the battery. He flips his laptop back around and couldn’t believe who just caught him. The beagle and the words that appeared were Mouse’s trademark. Now, he knew he’ll have to be careful.

Agent Raymond is going to have to, either pay him more money or find another hacker to get what he wants. He knew how good Mouse is and it wouldn’t take her any time to track him down. He packs up his gear and leaves the coffee shop before the police arrive.

MI 6 cyber division:
Mouse looks over what she was able to grab from Hex’s hard drive. The information she managed to grab, showed that someone in the camera division gave him supervisor access. She runs the code against codes already on file and finds that this code had been assigned to
Count Nelson Rudd. She runs his background and finds out he is one of their computer engineers.

“Now, what is your connection to Gavin Raymond?” She digs into his files and after searching for almost two hours.

She finds the answer. Him, Gavin Raymond, and Diplomat Francis Baring were closely associated with one another. They attended the same schools and collages together. Their wives were close friends and they own several businesses together.

“Okay, that explains that, but why is he working with a known gang.” Mouse brings up the area that they knew of where the gang conducted their business and where the cameras have gone down. There wasn’t much in that area.

She sends the information to Anika’s and Bart’s cell phone to check out. She gets a ding, letting her know about an Indian diplomat. *The email was from Dakota. She reads it and a smile appears on her face when she gets to the end of it. Dakota wanted her to remove the identities from the Indian diplomatic computers. She also wanted her to put an arrest warrant out for the diplomat himself.

She breaks into the diplomatic computers and erases their credentials. She also puts out an arrest warrant through Scotland yards for the arrest of the diplomat. The email Dakota sent her was rather interesting.

Anika and Bart:
Anika and Bart watch as Gavin Raymond left his home. Bart had tagged Gavin’s car with a tracker, so they could follow him discreetly. Terry and Alexa still haven’t added the weapons to the Nobel yet, however, he did have his attack drone.

“You know, you should get Nobel back to Alexa, so she can finally add his weapons systems.” Anika missed her Jaguar.

Bart glances towards her “you’re only saying that because you miss your Jaguar.”

“No, am not. Yes, I miss my Jaguar, but were in a vehicle that has no onboard weapons.”

“It wouldn’t be the first time we have done this.”

“True, have you heard from Soheila Arabnia lately?”

“No, not lately. The last I heard, she was living in Australia.” Anika met Soheila while doing an assignment for her brother.

The woman was a highly trained assassin that no one knew who trained her. Rumor had it that she was a member of the Nizari Ismailis. Jack and Cheshire had a few run-ins with her. Someone hired her to kill Cheshire, but Soheila didn’t know about Jack. Between the two, they set a trap for her and captured her.

Jack and Cheshire, let her go and promise not to say a word about what happened. They had a few more run-ins, but each time it ended up in a draw. The last time they met, they had to save Soheila from the people that hired her. They turned on her and tried to kill her.

“I wonder if she is enjoying life in Australia?” Bart didn’t think she was the type to live there.

"Who knows, she's as mysterious as Cheshire." Anika hears her cell phone beep. She looks at it.

“Looks like Mouse has dug up more information about Mr. Raymond.” Anika was looking over it.

“What did she dig up?” Bart was curious.

“That he has two others helping him. Also, the gang activities around the area we are heading into. Anika spots something while looking at
the information. It was a warehouse they were currently following Gavin too.”

“I wonder what they have hidden there?”

“That makes two of us.” Anika just watches as Gavin leads them there.

Once they arrive, they park a block away and watch as Gavin goes inside the warehouse. Bart taps the flat screen in between the dash. The flight commands pop up on the front windshield.

“Launching drones.” Bart launches two mini-drones from Nobel.

“You know this type of improvement makes our job easier.” Bart Liked the mini-drones from Nobel. They were made from clear material and you couldn’t hear them or see them as they flew.

“They might make things easier for us, but you need to be skillful to use them.” Anika takes drone 2 and flies it near a window. There was just enough of an opening for it to slip inside of a broken window.

Bart’s drone 1 finds another route to get into the warehouse. He spots four men standing together and talking. Bart turns the mics on, so they can record what is being said.

Inside the Warehouse:
“How much longer is it going to take?” Gavin looks at the man he hired.

“It’s almost done. We are doing some final checks on it and planning on doing a field test to make sure everything is working right.”

“Well, you need to hurry up. We have a limited time frame where we can do this. Raymond is already under investigation at work.” An older man that Anika and Bart didn’t know had spoken.

“Bart, run his facial.” Anika wanted to know who this guy is.

“Already on it. I’m running all of them except Garvin’s.”

Count Nelson Rudd pops up on the screen. Then Diplomat Francis Baring, and the last one was Carl Herman. Under Carl Herman’s name. He is listed as an aeronautics expert.

“Why would they be meeting with an aeronautics expert?” Bart was wondering about that.

“I would like to know as well. Let’s see what happens and after they leave, have the drones scan the place and we’ll get Terry to look at the footage. He might have some idea about what they are doing and talking about.”

“Sounds like a plan.” Anika just kept watching the footage coming in from the drones.

After the men leave, the drones scan the whole room for everything in it.

*See The Devil’s Chamber Part Nine for further explanation

Terry holds Dakota close to his body. After they left the Lazy Dragon Dojo last night with Shigeko. Terry returned Wraith to his hiding spot and met up with Leslie. She returned The Black Knight over to him and he returned her back to her place.

Since he and Dakota haven’t spent much time together. He decided to go to Dakota and Hatter’s place. Where he spent the night making love to Dakota and falling asleep with her in his arms. Once this mission is over, he was going to go ahead and have the surgery to change his plumbing to that of a guy. Terry didn’t know how his brothers were going to react to having another brother. They were already dealing with losing their sister when she came back. Now, they would have to deal with her, becoming a male.

Dakota shivers as a delayed orgasm hits her. Terry doesn’t know how experience Dakota was after her sex change or how many times she had sex. But she does know that she turned Dakota’s brain to mush. They did catch glances of Hatter watching them and eating popcorn while she watched.

Shigeko wasn’t too happy with them. She felt that they should report what they have been doing to Anika and Bart. As she lays there with Dakota spooned against her. She hears her cell phone beep, letting her know a text had arrived.

Terry reaches behind him to the nightstand and grabs his cell phone. It was a message from Anika, wanting him to look at some videos they took the other day. After reading the text message. Terry gets out of bed and heads to the bathroom and then slips on a pair of boxers and a t-shirt he brought over. Terry heads outside to the Black Knight and brings the images and videos up that the drones took. The images from the drones were sharp and crystal clear as they played on the front windshield. There is a knocking sound on the window of the passenger side door. Terry pauses the recording and looks to see who it was.

“Hey, what are you doing up?” Terry spots Dakota with a coffee in her hand. It was in a paper cup.

“I felt you get out of bed and was curious when you didn’t return.” Dakota hands a coffee to him.

“Thanks.” He unlocks the back door for Dakota to get in. There weren’t any seats up at the front of the cab for her to sit down on.

“You’re welcome. So, what are you watching?” Dakota leans forward to see what was up on the front windshield.

Dakota notices it was images of some sort of warehouse with all sorts of things in it. She looks closer to at the images. She could see that
Terry was looking closer at the images.

“Can you blow-up the images?” Dakota wasn’t sure what the capabilities of the Black Knights surveillance and video were.

“No problem.” Terry blows the image up. “Is that better?”

“Yes. What are those large white things?” Dakota reaches forward and points at the images she was talking about.

“They look like some sort of molds. I wish I could see what was on the other side.” Terry goes through the drone images, but there weren’t any of the undersides of the molds.

“Then, we need to go and check it out our self.” Dakota looks towards Terry.

“What are we checking out?” Hatter comes walking over to the cab eating a chocolate muffin.

“A warehouse that Anika and Bart went to the other day.” Dakota looks directly at Hatter as she ate the muffin.

“Cool, are you two planning on going in your underwear?” Hatter had a smile on her face.

Dakota was wearing Terry’s dress shirt he wore yesterday with a pair of black boy shorts. She just grabbed the closest thing available.

“No, we're not going in our underwear, Hatter.” Dakota couldn’t believe that Hatter had said that.

“By the way, why did you watch me, and Terry make love last night?” Dakota was curious why Hatter did that.

“Curious, I’ve never seen two women make love before.” Hatter had been curious about Terry and Dakota.

“Just because my plumbing is still that of a woman, doesn’t mean I don’t think of myself as being male, Hatter.” Terry looks directly at Hatter.
She sorted knew the abuse Hatter lived through, but she never opened to Hatter about what she went through.

Dakota didn’t even know what he lived through. However, she did know that Terry needed her, and she did love him.

“If you say so.” Hatter finishes her muffin and heads back to the kitchen for a bottle of Guinness.

Terry and Dakota head back to her room and changes clothes.

“Are you coming to Hatter?” Terry comes walking out of Dakota’s room.

“Yep!” Hatter comes skipping in dressed in her standard clothes.

The ride over to the warehouse wasn’t too bad. They managed to make the drive in twenty minutes. Terry parks the cab nearby, so it wouldn’t
be discovered and activates the security systems built into it.

“Alright, let’s see what is inside.” As they walk up to the door of the place.

Hatter checks the locks and takes her picks out. The locks weren’t anything special for Hatter to pick. She opens them without a problem. She takes point going inside the place. Dakota had her covered. Terry had their backs as they moved further inside the warehouse.

“Do you guys smell that?” Hatter had stopped because her sense of smell was picking up a lot of unknown chemicals.

Terry spots what he was looking for “I smell it as well, Hatter. Those chemicals are used to layer carbon fiber.”

“What is this big oven used for?” Dakota was over looking at an oven you could park a car in.

“It’s used, to cure fiberglass and carbon fiber.” Terry walks over to the forms he was curious about.

He lays them out on the floor. After laying them out. He spots what they were being used for.

“Oh my god.” Terry just realized what they were planning to do.

Dakota looks over towards Terry “what’s wrong?”

Hatter was curious as well. She wonders what Terry had figured out. She walks over towards Terry and Dakota.

“We need to get this information to Anika and Bart. Now we know what the mole and the gang are up too.” Terry just looks towards his
teammates.

“Then, we better go and inform Queenie.” Hatter picks up an object and pockets it.

They head back towards the cab. Terry should have seen this coming and it makes perfect sense why they were doing this. He drives towards
Anika and Bart’s place.

"So, are you two going to get married when this is over?" Hatter wonders how serious Dakota and Terry were.

"I'm going to get some medical work done." Terry glances back towards Hatter.

"So, your going to be a man for the rest of your life?" Hatter couldn't believe it.

"Yes Hatter. I'm going to be a male for the rest of my life." Terry knew it was the right course for her.

Anika, Bart, Terry, Mouse and Dakota were sitting around the dining room table. There were pictures laid out on the table of the molds and other items Terry, Dakota and Hatter had found. Mouse was looking over a few of them as she examined one.

She looks towards Terry “you’re saying this is a mold for a remote or programable drone?”

Mouse had some modeling experience. She flew drones on the weekend when she didn’t have other things to do.

“The design in the forms, are molds for a carbon fiber part. Even the dryer in the room is big enough to dry every part.” Terry’s engineering skills were telling her that those molds were used to construct some sort of drone.

“Is the Queen or any of the Royal family doing anything publicly?” Anika figures Mouse would know, because of the security concern for the Royal family and the fact her mother would be invited or part of the event.

“Not that I know of. I would have to ask my mom and check for any security alerts that have come out.” Mouse has only gone to a few of the Royal events.

“Terry, what would be the range on this drone?” Anika looks towards their engineering expert.

“Depends on what its power source is and where they launch it from.” Terry needed to know more about it, before she could give Anika an honest answer.

“Mouse, the cameras that were turned off. Did they make some sort of map we could use?” Bart was curious.

Mouse starts tapping on her laptop keyboard and brings up all the cameras that had been turned off. She watches as the different cameras in areas form some sort of map.

“I have managed to form a map from all the cameras that have been turned off.” Mouse looks towards Bart and Anika.

She brings the map up on the main television screen for everyone to see. She stands up and walks over towards the television “here’s what I got so far.”

Terry and Bart look at the route.

“Where is that leading to?” Bart was tracing the route with a laser pointer.

“They are heading towards Clarence House. It seems that they are after Prince Charles.” Bart was looking at the camera’s that were turned off in that area.

“Why? Why go after the old fart? I would go after his children and grandchildren. It would hurt him more.” Hatter was thinking like an assassin.

“That does make more sense. Going after Prince Charles wouldn’t be worth it.” Anika had to admit, that Hatter was right.

“Mouse, can you give us access to all the people we are after? That way we can see what the connection is to the royal family? Also, find out who owns that location we went to, please?” Bart wanted to know what the connection was.

“No problem Anika. I can have that information to you by the end of the work day.” Mouse makes a note on her laptop.

“Now, I want to know more about this operation the three of you took part in.” Anika looks towards Terry, Dakota and Hatter.

“We stumbled across an Isis human smuggling operation. They are recruiting young teenage girls and filling their heads with lies to come over here and then smuggle them into Turkey, Afghan and Pakistan. A martial arts teacher and her students came across it.” Terry knew Ginja had spoken with Shigeko and arrangements have been made.

“My mom and Uncle Jack are going to make sure the girls that were rescued are returned to their family.” Mouse remember hearing her mother taking to some friends of hers.

“What do we know about this Martial Arts person?” Anika wanted to know who Ginja was.

“Someone you don’t want to mess with, Queenie.” Hatter could sense the woman was dangerous. There was a vibe about her she picked up on.

Anika looks towards Hatter “what did I say about calling me, Queenie?”

“Sorry mom. The woman is dangerous, but she has a kind heart.” Hatter had a playing card in her hand. She had been checking for nicks.

“There’s also a metro Detective that worked with us as well. She figured out that we had transported Julie and her sister Laila. She also wants to meet the girls.” Terry thought Anika might want to know that info.

“No way.” Bart didn’t want the girls to be bother and reminded of what they went through.

Anika looks over toward Bart and could see that he was concerned about the girls.

“We could invite her here.” Shigeko comes walking in with a tray of snacks.

She places the tray on the table. She glances towards Bart, because she knew that after this mission. He was going back home and take the girls with him. Caroline was already fixing their bedrooms back on the ranch to the way girls wanted their rooms. They couldn’t wait to go to Texas to meet Caroline.

Bart just looks at Shigeko. The father part of him wanted to protect the girls. Now, he knows how Jack must have felt when he found Julia and Gina.

“I trust her Bart. If we were going to have a team over here in England. I would recommend her and the other people. There’s one person I think we should think about adding to our team or even to this mission. She’s a street magician and it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for her to act as a lookout, while performing.” Dakota knew that would be a good thing to do.

“Well, I could patrol that area more and scan for any unusual signals. The jammer in the taxi should interfere with their signal.” Terry knew the
jammer she had in the taxi, Wraith and the Nobel was strong enough to jam even military signals.

“Alright, I’ll meet with this other woman and see what she is capable of. As for the Detective, I think Julie should meet the detective Bart. Julie knows more about what was going on then her sister did.” Anika knew the girls were a touchy subject with Bart.

“I can agree to that. So, we need to find out why they are going after the Prince or his children.”

Julia looks at herself in the mirror in the room her and her sister were sharing. Bart and Anika had spoken to her and informed her that a police detective wanted to ask her about the events that happen at the club and at Dexter’s apartment. She notices her sister watching her from the bed.

“How do I look, Laila?” Julia smiles at her little sister.

“You look good sis.” Laila was happy that they weren’t living with Dexter anymore.

Bart, Anika, Hatter, Dakota, Terry, and Shigeko have been nice and caring towards her and Julia. She misses seeing Hatter because she was funny and nice. She hopes she comes by to see her before they head to their new home in Texas.

“Are you girls ready?” Shigeko comes walking into the girl’s bedroom and notices their beds were already made.

Laila looks at Shigeko, she didn’t know she was going anywhere. She had gotten dress as well. She had on a nice pair of tights and a dress.

“Where are we going, Shigeko?” Laila was curious.

“We young lady are going to the museum, while Julia meets with the police detective. Later, Bart and Anika are going to bring her back to us.
Then we are going to go and have dinner with a friend of Mr. Bounty’s.” Shigeko got an invite to bring the girls out to a family member of Mr.
Bounty’s. She has already verified with Mr. Bounty to make sure the invitation was real.

Terry picks up Julia, Bart, and Anika and takes them to pick-up Detective Cartwright. Terry watches Julia as she looks out the window of the Black Knight. She could tell that Julia was curious about the way the windows worked.

“Terry how is it that I can see people outside of the cab, but they can’t see inside the cab.” Julia looks towards Terry.

“That’s because the window is polarized to only allow one-way view. Now, I can depolarize the window so its filter’s out the light only or allow people outside to see us. I can also make the windows reflect the sunlight back out.” Terry had watched Julia on the monitor on her windshield. There were several small concealed cameras in the back that recorded every occupant that got into the cab.

Anika and Bart just watched Julia as they drove to their location. They finally pull in front of the townhouse and notices a woman standing outside waiting for the cab. Once the Cab stops, the door opens.

Detective Cartwright had gotten a text from Terry telling her that shew as bring the girl from Dexter’s apartment and her superiors with her. So, she went outside for Terry to pick her up. After twenty minutes, she spots Terry’s cab pull up to her. The doors on the cab automatically open for her.

As she gets in, she sees a man dressed in an expensive tailored suit. She could tell right away he wasn’t English. There was a certain look about him that, said he was American. Sitting across from him, was a woman that looked like she could be a model. She was dressed in an expensive tailor suit as well. Something about her put her on edge. She couldn’t say why, but that cop instinct cautioned her to be on guard around her.

Then there was the teenage girl with dark hair that matched the description she had gotten from the club and from a few bystanders. She was wearing a nice custom-tailored dress and expensive shoes. Detective Cartwright figure she should be in school right now.

Once everyone was in the cab, Terry pulls away and heads on a route they talked about. She knew that Anika and Bart would handle things in the back.

“Detective Cartwright, I would like to introduce you to my bosses and the young lady that was at the apartment that night. The lady sitting across from the gentleman is Anika Jagger, MI 6. The gentleman sitting across from her is Bart Hardy, MI 6 as well. The young lady is Julia MacGregor and the person I do believe you would like to talk too.” Terry engages the auto drive and watches everyone.

Detective Cartwright looks towards Julia “Julia, I would like to hear how you and your sister ended up at Dexter’s apartment.”

Julia sits down next to Bart and looks at him. She feels him hold her hand and give it a little squeeze.

“Our mother ran out on us. She said she was just going to the store and she never returned. I went down to the store she normally shopped at and the manager there said she never came in. I tried looking for her, but I never found her. So, I tried finding some work to buy food for me and my sister. Dexter said that he would take care of us. He saw how much I looked like a girl and started turning me out to have sex with men to afford the medicine for my sister. She is diabetic and needs insulin. If I sold my body for sex and brought home the amount of money he told me to make, he would take care of my sister.” She squeezes Bart’s hand.

“How about what happened at The Devil’s Chamber. Do you recall what happened there?” Detective Cartwright had her notebook out and was recording what Julia told her.

Julia looks towards Anika to see if it was permitted.

“Go ahead and tell her what happened that night, Julia.” Anika knew that Julia was asking permission.

“The young woman who stopped the diamond robbery that day worked at the Devil Chamber. Mr. Lennon wanted to get revenge for her
stopping the robbers. A fight ensued and as she was about to get seriously hurt from Mr. Lennon’s men, Mad Hatter Aylin and a MI 5 agent named Dakota showed up and beat the living daylights out of Mr. Lennon and his men.” Julia didn’t tell her that Hatter was ready to cut his balls off.

“Do you know who the woman was who stopped the robbery?” Detective Cartwright was curious.

“Mr. Lennon said her name was Leslie,” Julia remembered her name.

Detective Cartwright looks at Julia “are you sure?”

“Yes ma’am, I’m sure.” Julia wonders why she didn’t believe her.

Anika noticed that Detective Cartwright knew the person Julia was talking about. She wonders if she was the same person Terry, Dakota and Hatter wanted her to talk to.

“Do you know this person, Detective?” Anika watches Detective Cartwright body movements.

“Yes, I know her. She’s a street stage magician with a unique tattoo. “Detective Cartwright didn’t know that Leslie had something to do with eh events at The Devil Chambers.

“Is there anything else you need to ask Julia, Detective?” Bart looks at her.

“Yes, what are your intentions with Julia and her sister, Mr. Hardy? Because they are considered British citizens and you’ll need to go through proper channels to gain custody of them.” Detective Cartwright looks at Bart.

She notices a smile appears on his weathered face. She also notices how handsome he is.

“They will be flying back to the US with me when our mission here in England is taken care of. Julia and her sister are protected by a friend of ours and our associates. I believe you have already met several of our associates and know they are capable of taking care of anyone that tries to harm the girls.” An evil smile appears on his face.

Anika tries not to smile when she spots the look on Bart’s face. She knew anyone dumb enough to come after the girls, were digging their own graves.

Detective Cartwright looks at Anika and Bart and her instincts were right. These two people alone were extremely dangerous. She looks towards Terry and tries to figure out how he fits in with them. The other three people she met, she saw what they were capable of and heard stories and seen Hatter’s handy work.

“Is there anything else you would like to ask my daughter, Detective?” Bart was still holding Julia’s hand.

“No, that was all Mr. Hardy.” Ms. Cartwright looks at Julia and hopes her and her sister to have a better life now.

Terry drops Detective Cartwright off at her station. As she is getting out of the cab.

“Let me know when you want to be picked up.” Terry watches as she leaves.

“I will Terry, thank you.” Detective Cartwright heads towards her station.

As Terry is pulling away from the police station. Anika looks towards Terry “how much do you know about this Leslie?”

“Not as much as Hatter and Dakota do. I do know she is a street performer and has a few tricks up her sleeves. She is taking Martial Arts training from a middle age woman that I wouldn’t want to mess with her. She has extensive knowledge in hand-to-hand combat.” Terry has heard what the young woman is capable of.

“Go ahead and deliver us to Shigeko, Terry.” Anika sits back in the seat in the cab.

Julia just leans against Bart and couldn’t believe she was going to have a father and mom. Someone who will love her for her and love her sister.

Terry meets up with Shigeko and drops Julia off with her. After dropping Julia off, she takes Anika and Bart and drops them off at the house to get the Nobel. After she leaves Anika and Bart, she heads over towards the location where they figure the drone would attack. As she is waiting for a fare, she brings the specs up on the hud and examines them. There had to be something in them she missed.

Hatter and Dakota decided to do some recon on the people Terry informed them about. Mouse was playing over watched. She had used the camera systems to locate the men, based on the intel Hatter had gotten.

Hatter skips up to the house they were staying at and knock on the door. She stands there whistling and listening for movement. She saw movement in one of the windows.

Dakota had gone around back and was using a special device that allows law enforcement to look through walls. She was picking up six people inside.

“Hatter, we have a party of six inside.” Dakota puts the device she had down and prepares to blow the door.

Hatter heard what Dakota said and just smile. She knocks on the door one more time and slips her throwing knife into her hand. She watches as the door opens and one of the guys Terry told them about stood in the doorway.

Mouse was watching Dakota and Hatter from the cameras in the neighborhood. She also had a birds eye view from one of the clear drones Terry built for the Nobel. It was hovering high enough that it couldn’t be spotted. She could also pick-up the infrared readings of five other people inside.

“What can I do for you?” The big man looks at Hatter and wonders who this clown was.

Several comments go through Hatter’s mind when he asked that question. An evil smile appears on her face as she looks at him.

“You could surrender right now to me. That way I won’t have to hurt any of you.” Hatter kept smiling at him.

The big guy just smirks at her. He was going to have fun with this one.

“Why don’t you come on inside, so we can talk about this?” He steps aside to let Hatter come inside.

Hatter stands there and palms a stun grenade in her right hand “Mmm, I don’t think so.” As she tosses the stun grenade she palmed.

Dakota activates the explosives she planted on the back door when she heard the stun grenade go off. She charges forward and starts shooting people. She manages to drop two people before she is slammed by a huge guy.

Hatter had jumped through after the stun grenade went off. She took down the guy that answered the door. She tosses another knife at another fellow. He had been waiting to grab her if she came inside. She heard an explosion from the rear of the house.

Someone blindsides her from the side, sending her to the ground. Before she can react, the person who blindsided her is on top of her. He had a knife and was trying to stab her.

Hatter looks into the eyes of the man trying to stab her with an old military Ka-Bar. She slips one of her throwing knives into her free hand and stabs the guy in the leg several times. She manages to hold his knife away from her throat.

The guy tries to stab Hatter, as she kept stabbing him in the leg. He keeps pressing his knife towards her throat. He feels her twist her knife in his thigh. He falls off her towards the left-hand side of her in pain and her knife sticking out of his leg.

Hatter jumps on him and pulls her knife out of his leg. She licks the blade and looks down into his eyes, so he could see the craziness in her eyes.

“Mmmm, your blood taste yummy.” As the smile on her face becomes even more sinister.

Dakota looks at the big fellow that slammed into her. He was a huge guy and looked to be extremely dangerous.

“Come on big boy, let’s dance” She moves fast and quickly.

She kicks his knees out from him and punches him in the face, fast and hard. She avoids him trying to grab her but feels his backhand as it connects with her chest. Her body armor absorbs the impact, but it does send her to the floor.

The guy tries to stomp on Dakota’s chest but gets kicked in the face when she flips up and backward. He wasn’t prepared for her quick reactions and his face meets her booted foot. He tries to recover from getting kicked in the face but doubles over when she hits him hard in the chest.

The blow felt like he had been kicked in the chest by a mule. He tries to block another punch from her, but she switches it up and comes from another angle. Where her punch connected with his body, was hurting. He looks at her and saw she was barely breathing hard or sweating. He wonders who the fuck she was and who trained her.

Dakota looked at the guy she was fighting. Her ribs were hurting from the blow to her chest. She looks at the guy and could see he was in worse shape. She had delivered several punches and kicks to his body.

“Want to surrender?” Dakota watches his body.

“Go to hell bitch!” As he goes to punch her.

Dakota blocks and punches him on the side of his head, knocking him out cold. She watches as he falls to the ground. She walks over and slaps her handcuffs on him.

Mouse had managed to slip the drone into the house. She had watched the fighting going on and couldn’t believe it. She spots Hatter and she had blood on her white face.

Dakota spots the drone hovering near the ceiling “call the cops and the paramedics, Mouse.”

“Gotcha you covered Dakota.” Mouse dispatches the police and paramedics to Hatter and Dakota’s location.

Dakota walks over where Hatter was and saw all the blood on the carpet. She noticed that Hatter had blood on her face.

“Are you alright, Hatter?” Dakota was concerned about the blood on her face.

“I’m fine.” Hatter pulls a shop rag out of her coat pocket and cleans her face off.

Hatter also cleans her throwing knives. She picks the Ka-Bar up and slips it in her pocket. She was going to keep it as a souvenir.

While they are waiting for the police and paramedics. The two of them look around the house for clues. Dakota finds a few laptops that Mouse was going to have to go through.

“Mouse, I have a few laptops for you to go through.” Dakota wasn’t a computer expert.

“Alright, slip the thumb drive I gave you into it.” Mouse prepares to receive the data.

Dakota plugs the thumb drive into the laptop’s USB port. She watches as the screen changes and the entire contents of the hard drive are downloaded. While that is going on, she looks around the room and finds a bag full of weapons and some cash.

Hatter found a few things during her searches. She pockets some money she finds. As for the weapons she finds, she leaves. The only exception is the blocks of plastic explosives she finds. She pockets what she can.

Mouse notices the battery level on the drone was getting low “Dakota, Hatter. I’m sending the drone back to the van. I’m keeping you on comms, so let me know if you find anything.”

“Roger Mouse” Dakota looks back over towards the laptop and notices it was finished.

She gathers up their cell phones and takes them with her. She can get Terry to access them and find out who they have been in contact with.
Dakota goes to locate Hatter.

She finds Hatter washing her hands and face. The blood was completely gone off her face, but she still had some on her outfit.

“Did you find anything?”

“I found some Play-Doh.” Hatter shows Dakota the plastic explosive she found.

“That’s not Play-Doh, Hatter.” Dakota picks a block up and examines it.

“I know.” She could hear the sirens heading their way.

Dakota heard the sirens as well “why don’t you go to the van and hide, while I handle things.”

“Okay!” As Hatter skips off towards the van.

When Dakota and Hatter get back to the warehouse they have been staying at. Hatter strips out of her outfit and stands under the water as it fell from the shower head. Her skin was pale from years of being covered. She runs her hands over the numerous scars that were on her body.

Places, where her skin had been removed and the only thing left, was a thin onion-like skin layer. Reminders of what the doctor did to her at the mental hospital. She pokes at the healed areas where she had been shot at. She’s been lucky so far.

She just stands there and let the water cascade down her body. She still finds it hard at times to understand what happened to her. All she knows was the madness that was inside her head, kept her going.

Aylin washes her hair and body. She scrubs her skin, until it is almost raw. Once she was done with her shower. She slips on a nightshirt that had the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland on the front of it and walk into the small kitchen.

Her sensitive nose had picked up Dakota making them something to eat. She walks over to the refrigerator and grabs a beer.

Dakota notices Aylin grabbing a beer out of the refrigerator “aren’t you too young to be drinking that here?”

Hatter just looks at her “nope!” as she chugs it down.

Dakota just shakes her head as she finishes cooking for the two of them. She made sloppy joes and had the ingredients to make a small salad for the two of them. She knew Hatter wasn’t a picky eater. She ate almost anything you put in front of her. She knew Hatter’s favorite was pizza loaded down with a lot of pepperoni and sausage.

When Hatter finishes the first beer she took, she grabs another one and takes a little slower to drink that one. Hatter looks over towards
Dakota “why do you like Terry and what does it feel like when she enters you with a strap-on?”

Dakota was a little startled when Hatter asked that question. She looks at Hatter before she answers that question.

“I think Terry is a remarkable person and is very cute. As for how it feels when he uses a strap-on on me. Haven’t you ever masturbated or used a dildo before on yourself?” Dakota looks towards Hatter.

“Nope, never had a reason too. After the orderlies at the mental hospital raped me. I never wanted to experience what you and Terry do. It’s not because of them either. I’ve just never had the urge or desire to play with myself.” Hatter has never experience wanting to please herself.

“Haven’t you ever looked at someone and wonder what it would feel like to have them kiss you and do things to you?” Dakota watches Hatter’s body language.

“Nope, I have never had any desire or been moved in such a way.” Hatter takes a sip of her beer.

Dakota wonders why Hatter never felt like exploring that side of her body. She wonders if something went wrong mentally with Hatter in that
department. Could she have been turned off because she was raped, or could it had been because of what the doctor’s experiments did to her mentally?

Dakota finishes making dinner and set the small table in the kitchen for her and Hatter. Hatter had a way she liked her utensils set. She sits down at her place and looks at Hatter.

Hatter sits down at her place and the two of them start eating. She takes a bite of the sloppy joe Dakota made and liked it. She loved her salad and ate all of that. She had finished her beer and was drinking wine with dinner. Hatter knew Dakota liked wine with her meal.

“Do you think they are going to make their moves soon?” Hatter takes a bite of her salad.

“I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

SIS Headquarters:
Mouse was glad her shift was over. Her mother wouldn’t be free to take her home, so she pulls her cell phone out and texts Terry to come and pick her up. She stays inside the building till Terry’s cab shows up.

Terry was just dropping off his latest fare when a text appears on the screen next to him. It was from Mouse and wanted him to pick her up at the office. Terry heads over towards Vauxhall Cross to pick Mouse up.

It takes him twenty minutes to arrive at Vauxhall Cross. He looks towards the front door to make sure Mouse was there. He spots her emo hair coloring as she comes walking toward the door of the building.

Mouse spots Terry’s cab and starts heading towards it. She liked the fact that she didn’t have to call her uncle Detective Allan Dubin to come and pick her up.

“Hi Terry, thanks for coming to pick me up.” As Mouse climbs into the cab.

“It’s no problem, Mouse. Where’s your mother?” Terry pulls out and starts heading towards Countess Basset’s house.

“Have you had any luck tracking down Gavin Raymond?” Terry glance’s in his rearview mirror towards Mouse.

“He’s gone off the grid. I have searched through every camera and database. I have even contacted some of my family’s contacts and they are
keeping an eye out for him.” Mouse sent an email to some of her family’s snitches and informants. She’s dealt with them before.

“Hopefully, you’ll hear something from them.”

Terry was halfway to Countess Basset’s home when the lights inside the cab start flashing red. The HUD system automatically switches on and shows several small objects tracking them. Terry magnifies the rear camera view and notices they were palm size drones. There had to be at least forty of them.

“Do you have any way of taking them out?” Mouse was concerned.

They feel the cab rock as several of them drop out of the air explode around them. The explosion rocks the cab as the force of it rebounds off the armor skin of the cab.

“I’m activating The Black’s Knight jammer system.” Terry activates the signal jammer.

Mouse notices she loses all cell service. She looks through the back window and the drones were still following them.

“Terry, that’s not working. They are still following us.” Mouse knew British military research and the United States were working on attack drones like this.

“I know, I can see them. The Black Knight isn’t equipped with weapons like Wraith or Nobel.” Terry wishes she had thought about equipping The Black Knight with better weapons.

“Why didn’t you put weapons on this vehicle?” Mouse couldn’t believe Terry would forget that important matter.

“I did, but they are mounted forward behind the headlights. The Black Knight is built for surveillance, not combat and even if I active Wraith. He would get here too late. How are you at shooting targets?” Terry tries to avoid another set of drones coming in.

“I’m not. I’m a lover, not a fighter.” Mouse could shoot a gun, but she wasn’t as good as her mother or her uncle’s and cousins.

Her weapon was the computer, not a gun. She could do more damage to a person or organization with a computer.

“Dam! A Bounty that doesn’t use a gun.” Terry was going to have to tell Dakota next time he sees her.

Terry looks for a route he could use to give him cover. He sends a message to Anika and Bart informing them of his problem. He weaves in out
of traffic avoiding the drones as they come towards them. So, far they have sent ten after them. He still had thirty tracking after them.

Anika and Bart:
Anika and Bart were out checking out a few leads they had when Nobel beeped letting them know a text message arrived. A small HUD screen pops up “under attack by drones, HELP!” it switches showing The Black Knight’s current position.

“Launching attack drones.” Anika activates Nobel’s attack drones and sends them towards The Black Knight.

Bart heads towards The Black Knight as fast as he could. The attack drones should reach them first. Anika tells Terry to change direction and meet them at a location she was familiar with.

Terry and Mouse:
The Black Knight rocks again as five more drones flew in and explode against the armor. Cracks were starting to form on the special design glass.

“Terry, how much damage can the cab take?” Mouse had changed position, so she could see what was appearing on the HUD.

“I’m not sure. The cab was built for surveillance. If I had to guess, maybe one or two more explosions.” Terry wishes he had Wraith right now.

Mouse notices as a message appear from Anika on the HUD display. She knew of the location Anika wanted them to head.

“Terry, I thought you said the jammer was on? How are we still receiving messages from Anika and Bart?” Mouse wasn’t all familiar with all the secrets of the cab.

“All the vehicles are linked and have a secure channel. I can send each vehicle a message. If I need to, I can send it by laser to one of
Eruptions satellites and down to each vehicle. That’s how I can remote into each vehicle from a distance.” Terry knew she would need a secure
channel for the communications and links if the jammer was on.

Mouse watches as five more blips appear on the HUD. They were green and flashing.

“Terry, what are those new blips?” Mouse continue to watch as they got closer.

“Those are Nobel’s attack drones. Anika sent them to take out the ones still following us.” Terry switches to the drone’s attack cameras.

The last twenty drones start exploding as the mini-guns on the five attack drones Nobel sent engages their target. Nobel’s attack drones were equipped with special design mini-guns, just like Wraith’s spirit drone was.

Terry turns the jammer off when the drones arrive. She watches on her screen that she loses two drones, but still have three left. Once all the targets were destroyed, the drones fly cover for the cab. After fifteen minutes they meet up with Anika and Bart in the Nobel at the location Anika picked.

Anika and Bart couldn’t believe the damage the cab sustained as it pulled up to them. They could see cracks in all the glass. There were holes
in the armor that protected the cab.

“God, what were those drones carrying?”Anika couldn't believe the damage the cab takes.

Terry pulls up near Anika and Bart, happy that they made it safely. When Mouse tries the left passenger door, it didn’t want to open. She tries
the right-hand side passenger door. It opens without a problem.

Terry gets out and when she sees the damage done to the cab “oh, Alexa is going to hate me.”

Mouse looks and notices all the damage as well. She notices the back and the whole left-hand side of the cab had chunks of the armor missing and holes. All the glass was spider webbed.

“Oh, man. I was so lucky.” She was glad the explosions hadn’t managed to penetrate inside the cab.

Terry looks towards Anika “Do you know your niece, doesn’t know how to use a gun like the rest of your family? Hell, I bet Hatter could at least shot those drones down.”

Anika just looks at Mouse with a questionable look on her face. She figured everyone in her family were gun experts.

“Hey, just like I told Terry. I’m a lover, not a fighter. Besides, I already have enough people not trusting me.” Mouse knew if she was as good as
for shoot as her cousins and other members of her adopted family. People wouldn’t trust her.

“How long is it going to take you to fix The Black Knight, Terry?” Bart was running his fingers along the veins of the broken glass.

“I can do a down and dirty repair in a few hours. I have replacement glass. The armor is another story. That is going to take a little longer.”
Terry looks at all the damage done. If he worked all day and slept very little. He might be able to get most of the damage repaired.

Even with Alexa’s help, the armor was the biggest thing. He will have to either replace or fill the damage areas of the armor.

“Do what you can and if you need help. Let me know.” Bart figures he could add some muscle to the job.

“Thanks, Bart. I’ll head towards Alexa’s garage and begin the repairs.” Terry just shakes his head at all the work he had ahead of him.

Terry takes Mouse to Alexa’s garage and switches to another vehicle to take her home.

Anika watches from her perch at the two figures they had managed to track down. Gavin Raymond and Diplomat Francis Baring.

“Bart, remember we are taking them in alive.” Anika was ready to pull the trigger if they even thought about reacting.

“Remember that, when you pull the trigger.” Bart approaches the two men.

Mouse had managed to track Gavin Raymond and Diplomat Francis Baring. They were hiding out at a townhouse on the outskirts of London.
Dakota was with them with Anika and Hatter providing back-up.

Dakota was around back covering the townhouse. Hatter was hiding in the van they came in, ready to spring out to capture anyone who tried to run.

“Alright, Anika. Let’s start this party.” Bart prepares himself for what was about to happen.

Anika sights in and gently pull the trigger on her custom rifle. All that is heard is a little puff of air as she fires three times. She watches as the window is broken and smoke starts to fill the inside of the townhouse.

A few seconds later, Gavin and Diplomat Francis come walking out of the townhouse coughing and rubbing their eyes. They couldn’t see straight, because their eyes were burning. They couldn’t get enough air into their lungs to overcome the smoke they inhaled.

Hatter jumps out of the van and walks over towards Diplomat Francis. She binds his hands with a zip cuff. She spots Bart zip cuffing his prisoner Gavin Raymond.

The two men look at Hatter and Bart “you can’t do this. Do you know who I am?”

“Yea, your bad guys and now you’re my play toy.” As Hatter smacks the back of the head of Diplomat Francis.

He struggles with her. He tries to break free from her grip.

“You keep it up or I might break your legs.” Hatter pokes him with one of her knives.

Diplomat Francis stops resisting. He had heard rumors about who this person was, but the rumors had said she left England. He starts walking
towards the van and is tossed in, along with Gavin Raymond.

Bart and Dakota climb in and shut the door on the van. Hatter was sitting in the back as they go to pick Anika up. Dakota pulls up and Anika hops into the van.

“Mouse, we have Gavin and diplomat Francis. Did you manage to locate the other two?” Anika watches as Dakota drives them towards another safehouse owned by MI5.

“Negative, Anika. I haven’t been able to locate Carl Herman or Count Nelson Rudd. I’m still looking for them. Also, Morgana has a satellite monitoring Prince Charles resident. She’s also monitoring the GPS location of all the royals using their cell phone.” Mouse had spoken with Gloria, Morgana’s business partner.

“How about the gang members Terry gave us the location of? Are they still there?” Anika knew they were next on their takedown today.

She wanted the other two they were after. Terry had studied the plans and material they found of the drone. They needed to find the other two and stop them before they could put their plan into play.

“So, far there hasn’t been any movement at the location.” Mouse has been monitoring the cameras around the location.

“Alright, notify your mom. We’re dropping Gavin and Diplomat Francis at the safe house. We’re going to go after the gang members next. Let
us know if there is any movement at the house.” Anika watches as Dakota heads towards the safe house.

Alexa’s Garage:
Alexa looks at all the damage done to the Black Knight and shakes her head “there’s no fixing this Terry. It will take a few days to get the replacement panels and reinforce them.”

Terry watches as Alexa examines the damage to The Black Knight. They had pulled out shrapnel that had been embedded in the armor. All the left-hand side windows, along with the back window had cracks and micro-cracks in them.

“Can’t we do a quick patch job and repaint the cab?” Terry had the material on hand to patch the cab.

“It will take to long for the patching material to dry. We would also need to sand down the patch material. Then prime and paint the cab. That
takes time Terry.” Alexa knew Terry had to know herself.

“I know, still I should have made the body modular like Wraiths is. That way it’s easier to fix and replace.” Terry was going to have to redesign the Black Knight.

“Even if you did, the cab still has physical damage from all the explosions that went off around it.” Alexa stops and picks out a piece of shrapnel they missed.

“Alright, let me arm Spirit just in case we need him.” As Terry starts heading toward where Wraith was stored.

“What do you want me to do with the Black Knight?” Alexa almost had Anika’s Jaguar ready for her.

“Prep it, to be shipped back to my family shop. I know we're almost done with our assignment over here.” Terry knew Anika and Bart were going after everyone today.

She was supposed to join them later. They had Morgana in overwatch, keeping an eye on Prince Charles. She heads towards Spirit and replenishes his weapon systems.

She checks his system and makes sure all his systems were up and running. After the terrorist, they stopped and freeing the girls. She hadn’t gotten around to reloading Wraith’s weapon system.

Alexa starts shutting down the Black Knights system. She logs into the secure connection and starts backing the computers up to the servers at Camelot Network Services. She knew Terry would go over the information later.

While that was going on, she goes back to work on Anika’s Jaguar. Anika was going to take it back to the states with her. Her big brother will understand.

After Terry finishes getting Wraith reloaded and ready to move out. She heads back towards the main garage where she notices The Black Knight backing up its database to Camelot’s computers.

Anika, Bart, Dakota, and Hatter:
Anika and Bart drop Gavin and Diplomatic Francis off at the safehouse. They get back into the van and head towards the house. Anika wonders who was going to come and pick their prisoners up.

Twenty minutes later, a black SUV pulls up to the place. A young woman with long curly dark brown hair that came past her shoulders and wearing a tailored black business suit gets out and heads towards the door of the building.

She punches in the access code and enters the building. The young woman spots the two men she has been sent to pick-up.

“Well, hello gentlemen and I use that term loosely. It seems you have been very naughty and need to be punished for what you have done.”
Casey had been asked by her aunt to come to pick them up and transport them to prison.

“You guys are lucky that the people who capture you had orders to bring you in alive.” She walks over and checks the zip cuffs.

Gavin and Diplomat Francis had no idea who this young woman was. She had a slight limp to her walk. They could also tell she was carrying a gun as well. Gavin thought about trying to grab her gun.

He was about to grab her gun when he hears “don’t even think about. I’ll break your hands before you could even use it.” Casey looks at him with a look that could kill on her face.

The Gang house:
Anita, Bart, Hatter, and Dakota stop a block away from the location Terry gave them. Dakota gets out and scouts ahead. She moves carefully and quietly among the houses and vehicles.

She manages to get close enough to the house and listen to who might be inside. She slips a hand drill out and slip an endoscope into the hole and look around. She spots three people so far. She is careful and slips a little more inside the hole and detects four more.

“We have seven people inside, Anika. There might be a little more, but so far I’m counting at least seven.” Dakota pulls the scope out and moves back to where they are waiting.

“Flash and smoke grenades.” Bart looks at everyone.

“Gotcha!” Hatter checks her needlers and makes sure they are full and charge.

“Hatter, you’re with me. Dakota, you’re with Anika.” Bart looks at Dakota and Hatter to make sure they understood.

“You take the front, Bart.” Anika figures her, and Dakota could take the back.

They move into position and at the same time, fire flash grenades and smoke grenades into the house. Bart kicks in the door, while Dakota uses a small explosive device on the lock. They move as one into the house.

Pavel Andreievich and his men were getting their weapons prep and ready to go. They were told that the operation was going to take place tomorrow. He looks at his men as they double check their weapons. They were preparing to move out.

The next thing they know, flash grenades were going off the place was filling with smoke.

“Grab a mask!” As Pavel tries to grab one.

As he was trying to grab one, he notices someone dress as the Hatter and feels a sharp prick. He watches as the figure takes aim at one of his men. He spots Fatos turning around attacking the figure that shot him, just as he passes out.

Hatter had come in and shot one person with her needler. Just as she was taking aim at a huge bald fellow. Her arm gets hit hard, numbing her hand and sending her needler to the floor.

Fatso pulls a huge sick looking knife out and grins at Hatter.

A huge smile appears on Hatter’s face as she slips two of her throwing knives into her hand. She dodges in time as the guy lunges at her. He was trying to strike her chest, but because she moved out of the way, he misses her.

Hatter brings her knives up and slices across his forearm. An evil smile appears on her face. She moves in close and slices across his chest.
Fatso tries to move out of the way of the young girl as she stepped in close to him but was unable. She was quick, small and nimble. He felt her knives as they cut across his chest. He felt them when he was pulling his arm back and she sliced his forearm.

Hatter slips one of her playing cards into her hand and slices across the man’s throat in front of her. She tosses both knives in her hand at the guy, with one hitting him in the chest and the other one hitting next to the first one.

Fatso grabs his throat as he felt something sharp slice his throat. He then felt two knives embed themselves into his chest. He looks at the young white face girl as he fell forward with blood coming out of his throat.

Dakota strikes her opponent in the throat. She jumps up on his shoulders and wraps her legs tight around his neck. She brings him down to the floor and slams her fist into his throat.

Dakota goes flying off the guy she was on. Something hit the back of her head. As she is trying to get her bearings, she spots a guy coming towards her. He had a chair leg in his hand and was bouncing it.

Liridon had spotted a woman in a black bodysuit bring down his friend Meriton. He picks up one the damaged chair legs nearby and used it like a baseball bat, hitting the woman on her back. He looks at her as she stands up. He had to admit she looked pretty. He swings the chair leg at her but misses. He feels her punch him in the chest as she got close and personal with him.

Dakota looks at the man who hit her. Her back stung from the hit. She moves in close and punches him hard in his chest.

Liridon, tries to hit the woman in front of him, but she blocks his strike. He feels his legs sweep out from under him, as he fell to the floor on his back. The next thing he felt is the woman on top of him and a sharp blow to the side of his head.

Hatter takes another guy down. She threw three of her throwing knives into his body. She had blood on her face, from the first guy she took down. She managed to find her needler she dropped as she drops another guy.

By the time the fighting had stopped. Everyone had some sort of injury. Among the people they fought, there was at least three dead. Hatter had killed two and Dakota had killed the person she fought.

“Is everyone okay?” Bart looks at all his teammates.

“We’re fine, big brother.” Dakota comes walking towards him with a slight limp to her walk.

She twisted her ankle when she did a roundhouse kick at one of the people she fought. She uses a damaged wall for support.

Hatter appears with blood covering her pale white face. She had pulled her knives out of the second guy she took down. She pulls her handkerchief out of her front pocket and wipes her face and the playing card she used to slice one guys neck. Her arm still felt numb from being hit.

Anika looks at her people and notices all of them had some sort of injury. Bart looked like someone stabbed him in the leg, Dakota was limping, and Hatter had blood on her suit and on her face.

She had a knife wound that went across her abdomen. None of her people were coming out of this untouched.

Anika calls Elizabeth to meet her at Hatter’s and Dakota’s place. She places another call to Countess Basset letting her know the gang had been taken down. After she gets off the phone with the Countess, she sends a message to Morgana to see if she could help Mouse locate Carl Herman or Count Nelson Rudd.

Elizabeth pulls up to Dakota’s and Hatter’s safehouse and head inside. She was greeted by Hatter with a knife landing in the doorframe as she walked in.

“It’s nice to see you as well, Hatter.” Elizabeth pulls the knife out of the door frame.

Elizabeth walks over and looks at the most serious injuries first. The slash across Anika’s abdomen was deep and required staples to close it.
She wraps Anika’s abdomen tightly, to give her some sort of support.

“You’re going to need to take it easy, Anika. If you don’t, you’ll tear the wound opened.” As she gives Anika a new black shirt to wear.

Anika had stayed still when Elizabeth used staples to close her wound up. They hurt as she did each one. She had fifteen staples holding her wound closed. The bandage Elizabeth put on her was tight, but she understood why.

Elizabeth moves to Bart’s injured leg and closed the wound. He was lucky that the knife had just hit the muscles in his leg, instead of the artery. If the knife had moved a little to the right, it would have nicked his femoral artery.

She wraps Dakota’s ankle. She had twisted it doing a roundhouse kick. As for Hatter, when Elizabeth went to check her hand, Hatter wouldn’t let her.

“Hatter, give me your hand, so I can check it.” Elizabeth looks at Hatter, like a mother looking at a naughty child.

“My hand is fine.” Hatter squeezes her hand and it hurts when she does.

“Lair, now give me your hand.” Elizabeth holds her hand out for Hatter to put hers in.

“Hatter, give Elizabeth your hand.” Dakota looks towards her.

Hatter cautiously places her hand in Elizabeth’s. She doesn’t trust doctors, not after what one doctor did to her. She hated them as a matter of fact.

Elizabeth noticed how bruised the top of Hatter’s hand was. She removes Hatter’s coat and saw another bruise where she must have been hit. The bruise was huge and when she went to lightly touch it, Hatter almost hit her.

Dakota stops Hatter from hitting Elizabeth with her good hand. She could tell that Hatter was in pain from Elizabeth just lightly touching her arm there.

“Breath, Hatter. Elizabeth is only seeing how bad the bruise is.” Dakota knew Hatter had a high tolerance for pain, but for her to react like she did, meant that the bruise must be bone deep.

Elizabeth lightly and carefully rub a salve on the bruise and on Hatter’s injured hand. The numbing and healing properties will allow Hatter some use of her arm and hand.

“Hatter, you’ll have limited use of your right hand. If you use it too much, your hand will lock up from the pain.” Elizabeth knew that Hatter was ambidextrous, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

Hatter squeezes her right hand just a little bit after Elizabeth bandaged it. She couldn’t close it enough to throw a knife or one of her playing cards. She gets her needler out of her coat pocket and manages to squeeze the trigger. She manages to hit the wall with it.

Hatter puts the needler back in her pocket. She could still us her hand to pull the trigger on her needler. She looks towards Elizabeth with a smile on her face.

As Hatter was looking at Elizabeth, Anika’s cell phone beeps. It was a text message from Mouse.

“Located Count Nelson Rudd on way to apprehend him.” There was a mouse image wearing a police uniform after the message.

“She’s not a field agent.” Anika couldn’t believe Mouse was going after Count Nelson Rudd.

“Who’s not a field agent, Anika?” Bart was curious.

“Mouse. She’s on her way to apprehend Count Nelson Rudd.” Anika shows Bart the message she just got.

Bart reads the message and couldn’t believe Mouse was going after him. According to what Jack told him about his niece. She wasn’t the field operative type

Mouse and Count Nelson Rudd:
Mouse borrowed her mother’s car at the agency and was heading towards where Count Nelson Rudd was hiding out. Anika and her crew might have been able to accomplish apprehending Count Rudd, but where he was hiding out would have been a problem for them to get into.

She pulls up to the gate guard at the elite estate Count Nelson Rudd has been hiding out at. You had to have a membership with this group in order to get in.

Mouse notices that her old friend Rory Hastings was at the gate. She hasn’t seen him since her days with her old street gang.

“Hey Rory, long time no see. How have things been?” Mouse had a smile on her face.

Rory couldn’t believe it was his old friend Mouse “where have you been hiding these pasts few years?”

“I got in some trouble and decided to lay low for a while in Scotland.” Mouse hopes her lie will hold.

“Damn! How did you manage to escape being arrested?” Rory heard how the gang Mouse use to be in were arrested by an undercover MI 5 agent.

“I got word about what was going down and managed to hide till it was all over. So, is my membership still good?” Mouse hopes it was. She hasn’t used it in a while.

“Yep, your membership is still good. You remember the rules, don’t you?” Rory looks at Mouse.

“Yep, I remember the rules.” She smiles at him as the gate opens for her.

Mouse drives up the long driveway towards an old country home. The place was a hideout for criminals and a place where they could find
shelter. No one knew about it, because in order to become a member. You had to be sponsor by a member. Her sponsor happened to be the current owner of the place.

Mouse parks her mother’s car and heads inside the place. She was greeted by the doorman as she enters. She smiles at him and heads towards the lounge area.

She felt a little nervous being back at this place. As far as people knew she was either captured or died on the operating table. Most people didn’t know the truth about what happened to her. That is why she decided to come after Count Rudd.

She still had her membership to the place. Mouse looks around and spots the Count. He was with three women and was enjoying himself. A smile appears on her face as she walks over to the bar.

She walks over and orders a drink.

Mouse watches as Count Rudd enjoys himself and when he gets up to go to the bathroom. She follows him. While he is inside, she slips in
and shoots him with a knockout dart, while he is peeing.

Mouse smiles as she watches him crumple to the floor of the restroom. She was going to have a hard time getting the Count out of the
restroom. She walks over and manages to pick him up, after zipping his pants up.

As she is walking out of the bathroom with the count. She passes a few guys heading towards the men’s room.

“I wore him out.” As a sly smile appears on her face.

The guys just laugh as they head into the bathroom. She manages to carry him to her car with the door man’s help.

“Thanks, and here’s two hundred pounds, to keep quiet.” As she palms him the money.

Once she was in the car and away from the place. Mouse dials Anika’s number and hopes they can meet up with her.

Mouse receives a text from Anika to bring Count Rudd to the safehouse Hatter and Dakota was using, since everyone was there anyway. It takes Mouse a while to get to the address. She knew from her past that the neighborhood the safehouse was in, wasn’t a safe neighborhood.
In the last few months, there had been several suspicious deaths.

She finds the warehouse she was supposed to go to and text Anika that she had arrived. The door starts to open as she pulls inside. She notices that several cars inside, along with a car that looked like it belonged in a movie. Mouse hears the door starting to close behind her, as she parks next to a Nobel.

Mouse watches as Anika and Bart walk towards her car. She gets out as they get closer to the car.

“So, this is your secret hideout.” Mouse looks around the place.

“Blame your uncle, this is one of his safehouses.” Anika peeks inside the car Mouse drove in.

“Doesn’t he know how bad the crime rate is around this property?” As Mouse opens the door to the car for Bart.

“He probably does, and I would bet he has someone check on his properties.” Anika was being careful moving around.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he or the family does. Mom said that the family has contacts all over Europe. So, do you think you can get this guy to talk and tell us where the other guy is and what they have planned?” Mouse watches as Bart lifts the count out of the car.

“Oh, I think Hatter can get this guy to talk.” Bart was trying to be careful because of the wound on his leg.

“You better be careful, big brother or your wife is going to skin you.” Dakota was watching Bart as he hauled the Count over to a chain and hook hanging down from the ceiling.

Mouse saw a woman she hadn’t met yet. She heard her call Bart big brother.

“Are you two related?” Mouse couldn’t see any family resembles between the two.

“He’s my big brother, just as our boss is your uncle. If you didn’t know it already, Anika is your aunt.” Dakota was still learning the connection between Jack and his family over here in London.

Mouse looks towards Anika “you’re, my aunt?”

Anika gives Dakota a dirty look and then turn her attention back to Mouse “I was adopted by your Uncle Jack and with permission from his mother. Your uncle is terrible about telling the rest of the family.”

“So, that makes you my youngest aunt and my mother’s youngest sister?” Mouse wonders if her mother knew.

“Yeah. Why did you go after the Count? Your uncle said you’re not the field agent type.” Anika looks at Mouse as she keeps an eye on Bart.

“Here, let me help you, Bart.” Elizabeth walks over and helps Bart secure the Count to the hook hanging down from the ceiling.

Mouse had spotted another woman helping the one they called Bart. She wonders how many women were on her Uncle’s team.

“I normally don’t, but I learned he went to a place you guys couldn’t get into. You have to be a member of it and I still have a membership with them, from my days on the streets.” Mouse didn’t know if Hatter would have a membership.

Normally, someone with Hatter’s reputation brought to much attention to the country club. The country club likes to keep a low profile, so they could operate without MI 5 or Scotland Yard knowing what went on there. Certain members of her adopted family were too well known to have a membership there.

“Do I want to even know how or why you have a membership there?” Anika didn’t know much about Mouse’s background.

All she knew about Mouse, was she was a computer genius and was the daughter of a Countess that ran MI5. She wonders if Jack knew the whole story about his niece?

“I prefer to keep my past associations kind of private. My mother knows and so does Uncle Sheamus, but other those two. No one else does.”
Mouse didn’t really like sharing her past, because she was embarrassed about it.

Elizabeth and Bart finally had Count Rudd secured and hanging. Elizabeth wonders if Anika was going to have Hatter interrogate him?

“So, who is going to interrogate the Count?” Elizabeth looks towards Bart.

“Oh, please let me do it, Uncle Bart.” Hatter comes skipping over with an eager look on her face.

She so wanted to have some fun. She was rubbing her hands together with an evil grin on her face.

“What am I going to do with you, Aylin?” Anika looks over towards Hatter as she pleads with Bart to let her torture, Count Rudd.

Mouse couldn’t believe how excited Hatter got wanting to torture Count Rudd. She just shakes her head and wonders where her uncle found Hatter. The girl was crazy and bloodthirsty.

Bart looks at Hatter “what do you think, Anika? Should we turn Hatter loose on him?”

“I think he has earned the right to be tortured by her for his crimes.” Anika walks over towards the unconscious body of Count Rudd.

“Mouse, what did you use to knock him out?” Anika looks at Mouse.

“I used a knockout dart.” She holds up a dart identical to the one she used on the Count.

Anika takes it and looks at it. She wonders if Hatter’s neutralizer will wake him up?

“Hatter, stick him with your neutralizer after we strip him off his clothes.” Anika looks towards Bart and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth takes her scissors and starts cutting all the Counts clothes off. She lets them pile up on the floor. When she cuts his underwear off, she steps back to let Hatter have her fun.

Hatter walks over with a syringe in her hand and stick the needle in him and presses the plunger. They watch as the Count wakes-up right away and wonder why he couldn’t move. He spots a group of people he had been warned about watching him. He spots the one they called Hatter standing near him with a huge smile on her face.

“Where am I and how did I get here?” Count Rudd couldn’t figure out how he got where he is.

“Well, to answer your first question. You are our guest and my niece Mouse brought you to me.” Anika had her hands resting on Mouse’s shoulder.

“You can’t torture me. You don’t have the authorization to do that.” Count Rudd knew the one that spoke. She and her male partner were ordered to bring him and his companions in alive and unharmed.

“Well, you see Count Rudd. You have certain information we need, and I know you aren’t going to volunteer that information. So, unfortunately, that only gives us certain options we can use to get the information from you. Also, I’m not going to be the one that is going to torture you. That will be the Mad Hatter there and she’s going to enjoy it. So, please resist as long as you can to give her some practice.” An evil smile appears on Anika’s face.

“Oh goodie, I can have some fun.” Hatter giggles with excitement.

“Now, where should I begin?” Hatter taps the side of her face as she thinks about what she wanted to do.

Normally she sprays her victim down with water and uses battery cables. However, she wanted to try something different this time around.

“Lizzy, can I borrow your forceps, please?” Hatter looks towards Elizabeth for an answer.

“Sure, Hatter.” Elizabeth gets her forceps out of her medical bag and hands them to Hatter.

“Thanks” As she clamps Count Rudd’s left testicle.

Count Rudd starts screaming when Hatter clamps his left testicle. His whole body starts shaking from the pain as he hangs in the air.

“Do you have another one, Lizzy?” Hatter was so happy.

“Sure do. Here you go.” As Elizabeth pulls another one out of the medical bag and hands it to Hatter.

Hatter clamps Mr. Rudd’s other testicle. She was having so much fun as she watches them turn purple. She looks up at Count Rudd “I would start talking to me before you lose your balls.”

Mouse couldn’t believe what Hatter was doing to Count Rudd. If she still had her testicles, they would be hurting just from looking at Count Rudd’s turning purple. She could only imagine the pain he was feeling.

Hatter watches as Count Rudd kept resisting the attempt to tell her what he knew. She walks over to her van and opens the sliding side door. She was looking for her butane torch. She finds it under her mattress.

She grabs it and clicks it on. The blue flame was the way she likes it.

“Hatter, what are you going to do with that?” Mouse was curious what Hatter was going to use her torch for.

“I’m going to roast some nuts.” An evil grin appears on her face.

“That was such a bad joke, Hatter.” Dakota looks at her partner in crime as she gets closer to Count Rudd.

Bart looks at Count Rudd “I would start talking before she gets back to you.”

Count Rudd was in pain from the clamps squeezing his testicles. He couldn’t go anywhere and the young girl coming towards him had an evil look to her face. He watches as she steps closer to him and he could feel the heat from the torch as she moved it towards his testicles.

“Alright! I’ll talk, I’ll talk.” He screams when he feels the flame burn his skin.

“Hatter, that’s enough.” Bart reaches for Hatter’s hand.

He lowers her hand down and takes her torch.

Hatter looks at Bart “you never let me have any fun.” Hatter had a pouty look on her face as she looked at Bart.

“Then start talking, Count.” Anika steps forward with her cellphone and sets it to record.

“Careful with loading that crate. I don’t want anything to happen to it.” Carl Herman watches as the men loaded the crate containing the drone he built into the truck.

He had to hurry up and move from this location. All his associates have been either captured or killed. He suspects that they will be coming after him soon. He couldn’t let the plan go to waste. They worked too hard to get to this point.

Once everything was loaded up in the cargo truck. He looks towards the men “get in the back of the truck and protect the cargo.”

Once the men are in the back of the truck. He walks over and secures the back door.

“Let’s get out of here, Arthur.” Carl looks at his assistant.

Arthur walks around to the driver side and climbs in. He starts the cargo truck up and starts heading towards their prep and launch site. He knew his boss Carl was going to get the drone up in the air before they could be stopped. Once it was up in the air, there won’t be anything they could do to stop it.

Carl gets a text that the Count has been captured. He was last seen with a girl with an emo style hair coloring. Carl figures that must have been Countess Charlotte Basset’s daughter. He had sent drones after her and the cab she was picked up in. He and the Count had found out that the cab hadn’t been a normal cab.

Then another drone had come from out of nowhere and took his drones out like they were nothing. He did manage to capture images of that drone. He didn’t know who had built it, but it was built for combat with a small minigun and missiles.

The attacks against the people in the Jaguar had failed as well. He was going to make sure this attack worked and would be protected from interference. After a half-n-hour, they arrive at the location.

Carl gets out and opens the warehouse doors, as Arthur pulls the cargo truck into it. Once the cargo truck was inside, Carl closes the doors and unlock the back of the cargo truck.

“Unload everything and get them ready for deployment.” Carl walks over to help unload all the drones and their parts. He also helps get them ready and prepare the biggest one as well.

“Be careful with those missiles.” Carl had a hard time getting his hands on them.

He was lucky that the Count had contacts on the black market and that he knew a few arms dealer. As for the two medium drones, he packs them with the mini-drones loaded with explosives. The biggest one, he runs a system check to make sure all the systems inside were working correctly and charge.

One of the guys working for Carl looks at Arthur as he bolts on the propeller on the back of the biggest drone. He had never seen a drone built like this one. Once it was in the air, it would be nearly impossible to spot it or hear it.

Carl steps back to look at all five drones. The four medium ones and the big one.

“Is everything ready?” Carl looks towards his assistant and the other two men.

“They are already for launch, Mr. Herman.” Jake wipes his hands and cleans the drone he just finished prepping.

Carl looks at the time on his cell phone. They still had fourteen hours before they had to launch.

“We’ll launch in the morning. Go ahead and get some sleep. We have a busy morning tomorrow.” Carl was ready to launch the drones and complete the plan him and his friends had worked out.

Dakota and Hatter’s Safehouse:
Anika and the team along with Mouse had gone to the location that Hatter had gotten out of Count Rudd. The information that they had gotten from Count Rudd had said that the other person they were looking for would be here prepping for the attack on the Royal family tomorrow.

Anika was being careful, because of the cut across her abdomen. Dakota, Mouse, and Hatter were searching the place. Someone had been at the location but were gone now.

“Hey Anika, you better look at this.” Terry had found a basting injector and it still had some residue in it.

Anika walks over to see what she found. She looks at the liquid still in the injector with a puzzled look on her face.

“What is it, Terry?” Anika looks at the yellowish liquid in the injector.

“It’s a binary explosive liquid. I’ve used it before when I was in the army. When its primary components are separated, its stable and you can
activate it with a flame. When it burns, it produces a blue flame. You could hold it in your hand while it burns without a problem. But when you combine it with Astrolite A and send an electrical charge through it. It explodes with the explosive force of three plastic explosive bricks.” Terry has seen how bad the liquid could be.

“How stable is this liquid?” Anika was curious.

“Extremely stable. In order to set it off, you would need a small electrical charge. A nine-volt battery could set it off.” Terry wonders what they were using this for.

Hatter was looking around while Terry and Anika were talking. She still wanted to torture Count Rudd some more. She was enjoying herself. She looks around the place but doesn’t find much.

Mouse and Dakota were searching through the trash and such. There was a lot of taking out, empty beer cans, and bottle.

“Well, hello.” Mouse pulls out a few packages that held SSD drives and Raspberry pi boxes.

Dakota looks at the packages “do you think those were used in the drone design?”

“Yes, you could use these. They are small enough that you could program them to carry out almost any type of commands. An SSD drive
would be perfect because it doesn’t use a standard platter drive.” Mouse could always backtrack where they bought these from.

Elizabeth and Bart were providing lookout as the other members were searching the place. Elizabeth looks at Bart “so, what is the plan after this mission?”

“For me, it is getting used to being a father and running my company. For you guys, it's going to be some downtime. You have been on two missions and Jack has a rule about taking some downtime.” Bart knows how Jack is when it comes to his people.

“Good, I and my wife have been talking about starting a family. She wants to see her design company pass onto our children.” Elizabeth doesn’t have a problem with that.

“Well, remember, don’t force your kids into something they don’t want to do. Let them choose their path and support their decision or choice.” Bart knew what it was like to force someone down the wrong path. He lost a good friend because he became something he shouldn’t.

“We better call it a night.” Anika came walking back with Hatter, Terry, Dakota, and Mouse.

“Did you guys find anything interesting?” Bart looks towards everyone.

“Yeah, liquid explosives and empty computer components boxes.” Terry had seen what Dakota and Mouse had found.

Anika looks towards Mouse “can those things be used in drones.”

“Easily. If the programmer knows what they are doing. They could write a program or directions and then set it free.” Mouse has played around
with the Raspberry Pi before.

“Well, we know who their targets are, and we know who they are going to attack tomorrow morning. So, let's go ahead and prepare for the attack. Mouse, I have Morgana on overwatch, so coordinate with her and track the royals.” Anika hopes they don’t mess up on this mission.

“Don’t worry, Anika. I’ll be on the job.” Mouse was going to have to be at work early tomorrow.

Everyone heads back to Bart and Anika’s place to prepare for tomorrow. Terry leaves early to take the Nobel back to the garage and arm it.

Hatter throws one of her throwing knives at the makeshift target she set-up. She couldn’t sleep any longer and woke-up at 0400hrs. She decided to get some practice in as she drinks a bottle of Irish Whiskey.

Terry and Dakota were checking over Nobel making sure his weapons systems were finally installed and ready. They had stayed up all night working on Nobel. While Terry was inside Nobel, he saw Nobel’s system come alive. He knew it had to be Morgana checking out Nobel’s weapon system and his drone. All the vehicles she has built so far, Nobel and Wraith had the two most powerful of all the drones. Both drones were built for combat.

Dakota notices Terry sitting in the driver seat of the Nobel watching as a system check was done. She was curious who was doing the system check.

“Who’s doing that?” As Dakota sits down in the passenger seat.

“Morgana. She has remote access to Nobel and Wraith.” Terry watches the screen as Morgana logs off.

“Well, I hope we're ready to take this Carl Herman down.” Dakota watches Hatter as she takes a drink from her bottle as she throws another knife at the target.

Hatter takes a swig from her bottle and walks over to removes her knife from the target. The bottle was half empty.

“Hatter, you might want to lay off the alcohol. You never know when we are going to be needed.” Dakota walks over to take Hatter’s bottle from her.

‘I’m fine. I can still kill whoever I aim at.” Hatter slips a knife into her hand and tosses it at the target.

It hits dead center “see, I didn’t miss.” As she walks over and pulls her knife from the target. She slides it back up her sleeve.

“Hatter, first I am very impressed with that throw. Secondly, what is bothering you? You never hit the bottle unless something is bothering you.” Dakota has gotten to know Hatter’s moods since rooming with her.

“Nothing is bothering me.” Hatter turns and walks away.

Bart and Anika:
Anika was woken when her cellphone beeped letting her know she received a new text message. She reaches over and grabs her phone. She notices the message was from Morgana. She notices it contained some satellite images as well. It showed four drone shaped objects surrounding a floating engine. She could see a shadow, but she couldn’t make out what it was.

A few seconds later, her cellphone beeps again and another image appears with an enlarged image of the drones. The shadow outline was shaped like a drone, but it just looks like a bunch of items hovering in midair.

“Terry and Mouse need to see this.” Anika gets out of bed and grabs her house robe.

Anika dials Terry’s number and sends the images to Terry. If anyone could make them out, she could. She sends a copy to Mouse as well.
Once Anika was done doing that, she hops into the shower and starts getting ready to go. She sends a wake-up message to Bart’s phone.

Bart rolls over and slaps his cellphone. He stayed up late after they got back talking to his wife. She was going to head out to Morgana’s place and help her with the nanites. His cellphone goes off a second time. He turns it off and stumbles towards the bathroom to relieve his bladder.

Once this mission was done, he was going to spend time getting caught up with his company and spending time with the girls. Once he has done his morning business, he heads into the kitchen and grabs a coffee.

He notices that Anika was in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee. He walks over and brews himself a cup.

“You’re up early.”

“I got a text from Morgana on our targets.” Anika shows Bart the text and images.

“Then, why are we still here. Let’s get the team and head towards them.” Bart was ready to end this.

“I sent Terry the image since he is our expert on drones. Morgana and her crew are still on overwatch.”

“Well, we need to take those drones out.”

“We will. First, we need to protect the Royals.” Anika finishes her coffee.

Mouse:
Mouse watches as her mother drives them to work. She had to explain to her mother what she did, even though she was considered an adult.
Her mother still wanted to know what she did. Her mother did get a laugh out of what she did to Count Rudd.

“So, do you think you're going to catch the last person?” Countess Charlotte glances at her daughter.

“Yes, ma’am. I think he is going to make his move sometime today. We’re sure he is going to use a drone or something to attack the Royals.”
Mouse knew the empty packages they found yesterday could be used to build drones.

“Well, you did well. Just be careful.” Charlotte never wanted her daughter in the family business.

Once they arrive at the SIS headquarters. Mouse goes down to her department and logs onto her computer system. She receives a message
from Gloria, Morgana’s friend. The message contained the latest intel they had gathered. While she is looking at the message, she accesses the classified protocol for tracking the Royals.

Mouse brings up the location she got from Morgana and dig through the records on who owns the property where Carl Herman was. A name pops up, as she the crosses reference it with MI 5 records. The property belonged to a relative of Carl Herman. A relative that is currently dead, but the property was still in their name.

She adds all that information to the files she has been keeping. That way, if someone was to look at what her aunt’s team did. They could follow all the evidence they collected and build a case against the preps. She felt sorry for Count Rudd after what Hatter did to him. The man had to have his testicles removed from the damage done.

Camelot Network Solutions:
Gloria was at her station reconfiguring another of their client’s computer systems when her top right monitor starts flashing red. She moves it to her center monitor and notices that Carl Herman were launching the drones. She sends an emergency text to all of Anika’s team members.
She also sends an emergency text to Morgana, so she could control Spirit, while she controlled Stardust ever.

Morgana was down in the cafeteria grabbing some breakfast when she received an emergency text from Gloria. The message read: He’s launching now.

“Damn!” Morgana just grabs a muffin, coffee and take it with her to her station.

As she rolls into the operations center “has launch already?”

“Yeah, I already alerted Anika and her crew and launched Spirit and Stardust ever.” Gloria was directing both drones to intercept the other drones.

Morgana rolls to her station “Stardust ever?”

“Yeah, I just named Nobel’s drone.” Gloria figures if Wraith’s drone was named Spirit, then Nobel should have his drone named.

“Transfer control of Spirit to my workstation.” Morgana plugs in and takes control of Spirit.

“Done.”

London, England:
Anika and her team received the alert from Gloria. A few seconds after they received the text Spirit and Stardust ever launched from Wraith and Nobel. They were heading off to intercept the other drones.

Terry looks over towards Dakota “you and Hatter take Nobel. I’ll take Wraith and Elizabeth can ride with me. Anika and Bart will take her Jaguar.”

Alexa had finished armoring Anika’s Jaguar and increasing the horsepower of the engines. She even upgraded her suspension and handling. Terry had added some extra protection to the jaguar.

Terry summons Wraith to Hatter’s warehouse and gets in. He goes by and picks Elizabeth up from the hotel, she and her wife have been staying in.

Elizabeth’s Hotel:
Elizabeth was finishing packing when she received the alert about the attack on her cell phone. She gets a second one from Terry, telling her to be out front. He was picking her up in Wraith.

Elizabeth looks at her wife “the team needs me. Do you think you can handle this the packing by yourself?”

Sara looks at her wife “go. I’ll finish up and be careful.” As she gives Elizabeth a kiss.

Elizabeth returns the kiss and grabs her guns. She also grabs her medical gear to take with her. just in case someone gets injured.

SIS Headquarters:
Mouse received the message from Gloria that the drones had launched. Which meant, the Royals were going to be in danger. She sends the emergency protocol signal to all the protection details for the Royal family. She alerts her mother as well. That way she could have MI 5 agents on their way to arrest Carl Herman and his crew after Anika and her crew take them down.

Mouse also clears the path for Nobel, Wraith and her aunt’s Jaguar. She tracks them on the camera system. She figures the drones will intercept before her aunt and her crew arrive at Carl’s location.

Camelot Network Solutions:
“I’m picking up four objects at treetop level.” The radar unit aboard Starduster was picking up the other four drones.

“Where’s the fifth one at?” Morgana was searching for it with Spirit’s instruments.

“I don’t know, but I’m attacking the others.” Gloria arms the mini-missiles Terry developed.

She gets a lock on one of the drones and fires. The missiles destroy one drone. Alerts start to flash as Starduster is attacked by another drone. Explosions erupted all around him.

“Damn! What are they using against Starduster?” Gloria manages to avoid getting Starduster hit.

Gloria uses Starduster’s minigun to destroy the small drones that were being released. She was glad that Terry had incorporated the same type of minigun she built for Wraith into Starduster. She gets a warning as another drone locks onto Starduster.

The warning signal stops. Gloria looks over towards Morgana “thanks.”

“You’re welcome.”

Outside London, England:
Carl Herman and his assistants were piloting the drones when two of them go offline. Two drones he didn’t recognize had intercepted the two of the four medium drones. He managed to avoid them with the large one. Right now, he had it on autopilot heading towards its destination.

One of the drones looked familiar, but he didn’t recognize the other one. He tries to take the one he recognized out but couldn’t lock onto it. The dam thing was nimble and well-armed. He watches as the last two remaining drones are taken out.

He checks the location and condition of the main drone as it flew towards London and its first target. He was going to take the Royals out and their damn brats.

Terry, Dakota, and Anika:
A text message appears on the windshields of Wraith and Nobel. Both cars were in combat mode, which meant their HUD system was projected up on the front windshield. The message read: smaller drones took out, looking for the main drone. Gloria.

“Terry, can Wraith or Nobel locate the other drone?” Elizabeth glances over towards Terry.

“If we can scan the signal, they are using to control the drone, we could take control of it.” Terry connects with Morgana and Gloria.

“Ladies, can you use one of Jack’s communication satellites to scan for a frequency of the other drone?”

Camelot Network Solutions:
“We’re on it, Terry. What do you want us to do when we find the signal?” Gloria figures they could find it.

“Take control of it and land it. I want to see what Carl Herman built it out of.” Terry wanted to see how it was constructed.

“Gotcha, Terry.” Morgana searches through the list of satellites they had access to and located a communication satellite belonging to
Eruptions Telecommunications over England. She uses her access code Jack assigned her and logged into eh satellite. She uses the systems on board to scan for a cellular and radio signal that was sending signals back to carl Herman location. She finds the signal and highjacks it.

Outside London, England:
Carl Herman was watching the progress of the main drone when all of sudden he lost control of it. A smiley face appears on his controls with a bullet between the eyes saying Bang! You’re Dead. Have a nice day.

“Damn it!” as he slams the control for the drone.

“Terry, we have control. I’m landing it four miles from your current location. Morgana and I are sending Spirit and Starduster towards Carl
Herman and his men.” Gloria sends the coordinates where she was putting it down.

“Okay. I’ll head there to look at it.” Terry watches as the location pops up on her navigation screen.

Anika and Bart had been monitoring the communication between Gloria and Terry “go ahead Terry and take care of that drone. The rest of us can handle Carl and his men.”

“If you need Wraith, let me know.” Terry and Elizabeth head towards the drone.

Spirit and Starduster arrive at the location where Carl Herman and his men were hiding out. They spot several men with guns and a man-portable minigun. He fires at Spirit trying to hit it but misses.

“Bye, bye!” As Morgana launches a missile at him.

Starduster fires its minigun at the other men. Gloria was being nice and only shot their weapons out of their hands. Dakota and Hatter pull up first in Nobel and watches from the safety of him as another guy and Carl fire at Nobel. The bullets just bounce off Nobel’s armor skin.

Hatter opens the car door and throws two of her throwing knives at one guy as she jumps out of Nobel. She spots another guy and spins around, launches two of her throwing knives into the chest of that guy. As she was about

Carl tries firing at Hatter but is hit in his shoulder by Dakota. She had jumped out of Nobel, to protect Hatter. She had spotted Carl Herman turning to shoot Hatter in the back. She knew Anika wanted this person taken alive, so they could interrogate him down at MI 5.

By the time Anika and Bart arrived, the fighting was over. They see Hatter pulling her knives out of one guy chest. Dakota standing guard over Carl Herman and the drones from Wraith and Nobel protecting Hatter and Dakota.

Terry and Elizabeth:
Terry spotted the drone that Morgana and Gloria took over. The drone itself was crystal clear, like the drones Terry had made for the Black Knight. No wonder they were having a hard time seeing it. He could see inside that the drone itself was powered by an electric motor and was loaded with missiles and mini-drones. It also had an explosive device built in that contained the liquid explosives they came across.

“Damn, Terry. This guy built one hell of a drone.” Elizabeth was looking it over.

“I have to agree. Everything about it makes it nearly invisible. Since he was keeping it low, no radar unit would have picked it up.” Terry pulls his cellphone out and calls Alexa to bring a box truck and some tools to where they were.

Elizabeth takes a few pictures and sends them to Anika. She figures she and Bart would want to see this for themselves. She looks up when she spots Spirit coming back to land inside Wraith. She was still amazed at how Terry incorporated Spirit into Wraith’s body design.

Anika, Hatter, Bart, and Dakota:
Nobel opens as Starduster docks with it. The threat has been eliminated, so it wasn’t needed anymore. Gloria disconnects from it after giving it the shutdown code.

Hatter searches their pockets and takes whatever cash they have on hand. As far she is concern, they weren’t going to need it in the afterlife. When she comes to carl Herman, she kneels to look him in the face.

“You’re lucky my partner only shot you in the shoulder. I would have done a whole lot, worst.” As she stabs him in the other shoulder with a knife, she had in her hand.

Anika, Bart, and Dakota heard Carl Herman scream out in pain. They look over towards him and noticed Hatter with her hand on a knife in his good shoulder.

“Hatter, stop torturing the poor man.” Anika could see that Hatter wanted revenge for the guy trying to shoot her in the back.

Hatter looks at Anika and pulls her knife out. She cleans the blade on his shirt and stands up. Thirty minutes later, MI 5 agents and Scotland yards show up. Hatter hides inside Nobel with the windows tinted so dark, no one could see in, but she could see out.

Even though she was working with Anika, she was still a wanted person in England. Countess Charlotte Basset was working on putting her on as a special agent for MI5. Hatter watches as Anika and Bart talk with the MI5 agents and Scotland Yard Inspector that had come out.

Alexa and Terry:
Alexa and Terry and some of her people were dismantling the drone and taking it back to Alexa’s garage. Terry spotted several booby traps that had been installed in the drone. If it had been anyone else, other then Terry and Alexa, they would have blown themselves up.

“This is some nice engineering.” Alexa liked how the engineer of it had put it together.

“Your right about that. Carl Herman did a nice job designing this drone. Now, we’ll get a chance to reengineer it to see how he did it.”

They manage to get it loaded into the box truck Alexa and her crew came in. Once it is loaded, Terry watches as Alexa takes it back to her body shop for them to examine. She’ll make a report of how it was engineered to Countess Charlotte and Jack.

SIS Headquarters:
Mouse gets the all-clear signal from Anika. She sends the all clear signal to the Royals protection detail. She knows there is going to be questioned, but her mother would be handling that problem. She did her job and that was to help find the mole and stop the plot they uncovered.

Countess Charlotte Basset received word from her daughter and her little sister that Carl Herman had been apprehended and the drones he designed had been destroyed, except one. Anika informs her that their engineer is going to take it apart and will submit a detail report to her later.

Countess Basset was glad that this whole mess of a mole being in MI 5 was over with. Her little sister will be taking her team back to America and be on vacation for a while. She had to work late and was walking to her car when she hears a familiar voice come from the shadows.

“You couldn’t leave things alone, could you? You and your freak of a daughter are a disgrace to this institution.”

Countess Basset slowly turns around to face the person. As she faces the person, a smirk appears on her face. She looks directly at Lord Alexander Windsor. She hasn’t seen him in years.

“So, you were behind this whole mess all along. Why ain’t I surprised?” The Countess slowly slides her hand to her concealed handgun.

Lord Alexander walks forward towards Countess Basset. He couldn’t believe this Irish slut and the people she brought in were able to ruin his carefully laid plans. How did she learn about there being a mole in the agency?

“I should have killed you and your freaky daughter when I had the chance.” He looks at her with hatred in his eyes.

“Well, like my brothers always say. There no time but the present to handle things.” As she fires her gun at him.

Her brothers weren’t the only ones who could be sneaky. She walks over and kneels next to Lord Alexander “you should have blown me up instead of facing me as you did.”

Countess Basset stands up and pulls out her cellphone to call for a meat wagon. She looks down at Lord Alexander and she should have known he was behind everything. He’s had it out for his relatives for a long time.

She waits around till the paramedics show up. She knows there was going to be some explaining to do, but that shouldn’t be a problem.

Alexa’s Garage:
Terry and Alexa had gotten the drone back to Alexa’s shop. He looks at the design of the drone and was impressed with the design. The crystal-clear body, electric motor, and special design propeller would cut down on the sound detection of the drone.

“He did a good job on building this drone.” Terry looks at Alexa as she jumps down from inside her box truck.

“Yes, he did, but the fool didn’t encrypt his signal. If he had, you would have been forced to destroy it.” Alexa couldn’t believe a smart person like that would forget something so simple.

“True, let’s get to work dissecting this thing and see how it was programmed.” Terry pulls out her laptop and camera as he and Alexa dig into the drone.

Alexa couldn’t believe how the microdrones that were loaded in the drone had been loaded with a liquid explosive. She had to be careful with those. When it came to the other liquid explosive, she had to be careful, because there was enough binary liquid in the warhead to blow her,
Terry and the shop up and leave a nice carter in its place.

They stop occasionally, to see how Carl Herman connected or fitted something. The electric motor was easy enough for Carl to get his hands on. So, were the batteries to and solar cell.

Alexa and Terry only stop long enough to eat and afterward they go back to work on the drone. By the time morning comes around, Terry was sore from bending around and under the drone. He glances over towards the table where Alexa had been sitting and notices she had her head resting on her arms and was sound asleep. A smile forms on Terry’s face as he scoops Alexa up and takes her to the spare bedroom she had over the garage. His place was across from the main garage.

He shuts the door gently and heads over towards his room. He doesn’t bother undressing as he lays down to get some shuteye. He knew the rest of the team would be leaving at the end of the week. He would follow with Wraith next week. The cab’s computer system has already been backed up and prepped to be shipped back to her family garage to be fixed. Nobel and Anika’s Jaguar was going back with them. Plus, Wraith and she thinks Hatter wants to take one of her vans back with her.

Hatter and Dakota’s Safehouse:
Hatter looks over the van she has been using since being back in England. She leaves a note for Dakota and takes off in the middle of the night. She heads out to the private cemetery where her mother is buried.

She gets out and goes directly to where her mother’s family crypt. When she walks in, she finds her mothers and her own. When her father had her declared dead, he had her supposed remains place next to her mother’s. she places her hand on her mother’s name.

“I miss you mom and I know you know dad lied about me being dead. I don’t know if you are proud of me or not, but I do miss you and I love you.” Tears stream down from her eyes as she lays on the cold concrete and cry.

Dakota watches from the shadows. She heard the doors open and Hatter driving off. She found the letter and followed her on her motorcycle. She couldn’t let anything bad happen to Hatter or let her get arrested either.

She wanted to go over and pick Hatter up and hold her in her arms. However, she didn’t because Hatter wanted to do this in private and she didn’t want to interfere in that. She watches Hatter until she stops crying. When Hatter leaves the crypt and starts heading back towards where they were staying.

Dakota walks over towards Hatter’s mother nameplate “we’ll take care of your baby. She is also growing up to be a fine young woman.”

Dakota walks back to her motorcycle and heads back towards their safehouse. They were leaving next week, along with Anika, the girls, Shigeko and Bart. She keeps a safe distance back away from Hatter. The thing is, what will Hatter want to do when they get back home? She thinks about it as she follows Hatter.

Bart, Anika, Shigeko and the girls:
“It’s nice having everyone homes for dinner.” Shigeko had cooked dinner for everyone, with Julia’s help.

Laila was watching her big sister and was sitting next to Bart. She was excited that they were heading to Texas. They enjoyed talking to Bart’s wife Caroline. They couldn’t wait to meet her in person.

Shigeko already has plans and told Anika not to call her. Mia was doing a fine job of doing her work. She wanted to spend a week with her husband.

Anika looks over towards the girls “so, are you girls ready to become American citizens?”

“Yes, ma’am.” Julia looks towards Anika.

“I’m going to miss England.” Laila wonders if she could come back or will come back.

“Don’t worry, Laila you’ll be allowed to come back when you get older. How about next summer we come back for a visit?” Bart looks at the girls.

“Really?” Julia would love that.

“Yes, really. We’ll come back as a family.” Bart knew his wife would love that.

“Cool.” Julia was happy.

“What are going to do, Anika?” Bart looks towards his friend.

“Spend time with my boyfriend and introduce Hatter to him. I know Hatter might feel uncomfortable being around him, but I want my boyfriend to meet him.” Anika wanted the two to meet.

“You’re not going back to work?” Shigeko looks at Anika.

“No, I’ll be back at work too. Jack would kill me if I didn’t show back up. I’ve been kept up on what has been going on. Jack said he’ll be in New York to finish up on a deal.”

“What did he buy now?” Bart wonder what Jack was buying now.

“Who knows, knowing Jack. But he did say he’ll be in New York when we land.” Anika was surprised her brother was going to be there.

“I wonder if Gina is going to be with him?” Bart knew she normally traveled with her father.

“Who’s Gina?” Julia and Laila were curious.

“She’s Jack’s second oldest daughter. She and her sister are Jack’s oldest daughters and have wolves for bodyguards.”

“They have wolves for bodyguards?” Laila wonders what they look like.

“Yep, he breeds wolves, like most people breed dogs and cat. Me personally, cats are easier to take care.”

“Not if you don’t clean their litter box.” Bart hates cats. He was a horse person.

The rest of the dinner goes by quietly. After dinner, Shigeko brings in the desert. She sets it in the middle of the table.

“I called my husband for this recipe. I think it came out alright.” As she starts cutting it into slices and serves it.

Mouse:
Mouse took a cab home since her mother was working late. It had been an exhausting day at work. Not only did she had to write a report up for her involvement in finding the mole. Also, she had a few computers that she had to reset because someone had open emails containing a virus inside a picture.

She had to custom write an anti-virus program for it. Once, the infected computers were fixed she had them placed back on the network. Once she had everyone up and running. She sent the anti-virus program she wrote out to eliminate anyone else’s computer that had been infected.
Mouse heads into the kitchen to fix herself something to eat. She had her tablet out, just in case someone at work needed to get hold of her.
Once her dinner is ready, she sits down to enjoy a movie and her dinner.

Bart and Anika glance over towards the girls as they slept. They were stretched out on the sofa as they were flying over the Atlantic Ocean. They should be landing soon in New York.

Hatter was tossing a deck of cards into her hat to entertain herself. Dakota was catching some shut-eye as well. Terry had stayed behind to finish up the work he was doing on the drone and preparing all the vehicles coming back to his shop.

Elizabeth and her wife had already gone back to the US. They brought Elizabeth’s assistant Isla with them. Anika was enjoying a cup of coffee. They had a new pilot, flying them to America. His name was Tom and was a former Marine fighter jocky that got his commercial pilot’s license.

Bart looks over towards Anika as she enjoyed her second cup of coffee. He knew she loved a good cup of coffee.

“So, what are your plans once we land?” Once everyone left the plane, he was going to take it to Texas.

“Take Hatter with me and go home. I’m not planning on going into the office till tomorrow.” Anika had already cleared it with Jack.

“I’m going to spend the day with my boyfriend.” Shigeko couldn’t wait to meet up with her boyfriend.

“Well, I know the girls are going to be extremely tired by the time we land.” Bart looks over towards Julia and Laila as they slept.

“Is Dakota going to fly back to Texas with you or stay here?” Anika was curious because Dakota came with Bart when he showed up.

“She’s going to Terry’s place and introduce herself to Terry’s family.” Bart and Dakota had talked about it.

“Well, I hope they accept Terry’s new look.”

“I think they will.” Bart figures that from what he learned about Terry, his family will be accepted of his new lifestyle.

A few hours later, the Lear Jet they are on lands. Waiting for them as they exit was Jack and Gina. They had been waiting for the last hour for Anika’s jet to land.

“Looks like they finally, made it father.” Gina waves at Anika as she and Bart walk towards them.

A smile appears on Jack’s face as his little sister and friend stopped in front of him and Gina. He was proud of their work in England.

“Welcome back, auntie.” Gina hugs Anika.

She spots Hatter walking up behind Anika, along with Shigeko. She had read Hatter’s file while the team had been in England handling a mole problem for her aunt Basset. She waits till Hatter gets closer.

“Hi, I’m your cousin Gina.” As she holds her hand out to Hatter.

Hatter looks at Gina ‘s hand and finally shakes it “I’m Mad Hatter Aylin.”

“It’s nice to meet you, Mad Hatter Aylin.” Gina wonders if the white look on Hatter’s face make-up or was something else.

“So, what brings you down here this morning, Jack?” Bart watches as everyone stuff is unloaded and loaded into different SUV’s.

“I have an inspection later this morning of a business I just bought. Also, we had some new recruits going to Scotland to train at the training camp there. Gina and I flew in with them.” Jack had stepped back and let Gina run the show about the training camp.

“Well, its good to see you again. I need to get my new daughters to Texas.” Bart shakes Jacks hand.

“You’ll enjoy being a father. I know I do.” As Jack looks fondly at Gina.

Bart heads back to the Lear and climbs aboard. He closes the door and takes a seat near Julia and Laila. Bart was going to be happy once he arrives home and sees his wife.

Jack and Gina head towards the hotel they always stay in when they are in New York. Anika drops them off. Jack didn’t bother to rent a car yet. He did arrange for one later in the day.

Shigeko is dropped off at her boyfriend’s house at her request. After they drop her off, they drop Hatter and Anika off next at her place. Anika was happy when she walks into her place.

Hatter, on the other hand, didn’t know what to think. She walks into the living room and puts some classical music on. She loved classical music.

“Aylin, I’m going upstairs and get some sleep. I suggest you might want to do the same.” Anika looks towards Hatter as she sat Indian style in the middle of the living room.

“Okay.” As Hatter closes her eyes and slips into a meditated state.

Anika just shakes her head as she heads to her bedroom. She was still a little wired from drinking two cups of coffee. She starts the water in the bathroom and pours some bath beads into the tub.

Anika strips out of her clothes and slips into the bathtub. She loved how the heat felt against her skin.

1587 County Road 396, Gonzales, TX:
The Lear Jet finally lands in Texas. Bart is met by his wife. The girls were still asleep.

Caroline comes aboard and finally sees the girls in person. They looked so peaceful sleeping on the sofa they were laying on.

“They look like angels.” Caroline kneels near the girls.

“They are. Do you want to wake them or just carry them?” Bart didn’t want to wake them till they were home.

“Let’s carry them.” Caroline didn't want to wake the girls.

“Alright.” Caroline walks over towards the door and waits for Bart.

Bart picks Laila up and carries her over to Caroline. He places her in Caroline’s waiting arms and watches as she carries her over to the SUV. Once Laila was in the car and secure. Bart picks Julia up and takes her to the SUV. She opens her eyes and notices Bart was carrying her.

“Is everything okay?” She was confused.

“Everything is fine, Julia. Go back to sleep.”

Julia closes her eyes and falls back to sleep. She trusted Bart as he places her inside the SUV. She makes herself comfortable and goes back to sleep.

When they get to the ranch. Bart carries the girls in and lay them down on their beds. Caroline undresses the girls and slips them into their night clothes.

Caroline stand and look at their sleeping angels. She will finally have the family she has been wanting.