Paul looks at the Indian man as he swung back forth in front of him. The bastard at first didn’t want to answer his question but a few right crosses and a hammer to his misshapen toes. The bastard started talking, but it was in his native language, and Paul didn’t know it. So, he recorded it to take by a person he knew that he trusted.

His kids had been concerned when he hadn’t come home and blew his phone up. He just looks at the Indian bastard.

“You know there are other ways to make a person talk, instead of beating the crap out of them.” Paul turns around quickly when he heard the voice.

He was surprised to see Mr. Bounty standing there. He couldn’t believe he was here “what brings you here?”

“I received a phone call from your oldest daughter. She told me what happened, so I came in person to tell you this. My daughter Gina is sending one of our teams in training to help you. They will be split up to protect your family while you are gone, and the others will go with you to track down this group that tried to kill your wife and children. I don’t know who they are, but I have my suspicions.” Jack was looking at the Indian man hanging from the ceiling.

“Who do you think it might be? I don’t understand the language this one spoke.” Paul punches Rayshon Laghari in the face.

Jack just smirks as he watches Paul punch the guy. Oh, how he misses interrogating people. “A group that goes by the name of Thuggees. They are a group of assassins that worship Kali and sometimes they bring their victims back to act as sacrifices to her.”

“Do you know where they operate out of?” Paul wants to destroy these people.

“They operate out of Katwa .”

“Are you coming along with me or is your team going to handle this?” Paul wonders why Mr. Bounty was here.

“I can’t come with you. I have another problem on my hands, that I must handle. However, the team that is going with you are very good and
well trained. Here are their file and the cover you will be using when you go to Katwa.” Jack hands over a thumb drive that had a brief description of each team member.

Paul accepts it and looks at Jack “how did you find me?”

A smirk appears on Jack’s face “I have eyes in the sky, and I did my research about you and your company. I know this building we are in belongs to a friend of yours, that allows you to store your things here. Plus, I have resources in most cities.”

Paul just shakes his head and wonders how long Mr. Bounty has been at this game. He looks toward Rayshon Laghari and wonders what he should do about him.

“Leave him to me. The lions and hyenas at the zoo will enjoy some fresh meat.” Jack walks over and slices his main artery swiftly and cleanly
Rayshon bleeds to death. Once Jack was satisfied, he was dead. He takes a cellphone out of his suit pocket and dials a number.

“I need a table for one, at Leo’s. Yes, right away if you can handle the reservation.” Afterward, Jack ends the call.

“Who was that?” Paul was curious.

“My cleanup crew.” Jack checks his watch.

Fifteen minutes later, two people show up. One was a young oriental woman and the other was a young African American man. The woman walks up to Jack and he slips her a black card. She runs it through her square device on her cellphone and hands it back to Jack.

“Come on, let’s go.” Jack looks towards Paul.

When they are of hearing range “those are your cleaners?”

“For this area, yes. They clean up areas were people like me, have made a mess.” Jack walks outside to a non-descript car.

“Go home, Paul.”

Paul looks at Jack “thanks for helping me and Kat.”

“You’re family now. Your crew, my daughters and niece have spilled blood together. That makes you family.” Jack climbs into his car and heads
back to the airfield.

Paul watches as Jack drives off. He walks over to Kat’s pick-up truck and drives back to the hospital to check on his wife. He’ll talk with Brittney later and look at the information Jack gave him.

Just as he pulls into the parking lot of the hospital, his cellphone rings. He looks at the number and notices it was Casey’s number.

“Hello Casey, what can I do for you?”

Casey takes a sip of her tea before speaking “Hey Paul, I have some bad news for you. Whoever put a contract out on your family, I can’t find anyone that knows anything about it. All I do know is that the contract was picked up by a group of assassins from India. A group I haven’t heard about before.”

Casey hadn’t ever heard about the group or who held the contract. She got in touch with every person she knew and dealt with.

“Damn! I was hoping you might have more information.” Paul already knew who was trying to kill him, but who put the contract out on his family.

“Alright, thanks, Casey. Your debt to me has been paid.” Paul hated losing that debt. Casey was a good assassin.

“Look, since I couldn’t get you what you wanted. I still owe you, alright?” Casey felt Paul shouldn’t cancel her debt to him.

“Thanks, Casey.” Paul ends the call.

As he was walking towards the door, his phone rings again and notices it was Dominic’s number. He accepts the call “Hello, Dominic. Let me guess you couldn’t find out who put the contract out on my family?”

“Yeah, all I could find out is that the group that has the contract is out of India. Whoever contracted them, is unknown. All I know is, if you want to find this person, they are in India. The group that took the contract doesn’t take contracts from outside of India.” Dominic couldn’t believe that the group didn’t normally operate outside of India.

“Thanks, Dominic. Your debt is paid.”

“Hey, if you ever need me to help you out. Count it as an addition to the favor.” Dominic knew Paul wouldn’t waste his gift.

“Thanks, Dominic.” Paul ends the call.

He heads inside to check on Kat and her big sister.

After the meeting at K&P services, and each team is split up. Paul, Marshal Bullock, Marshal Running Bear, Jessica Jones and members of Golden Eagle Squad boarded a private flight to London, England. The two pilots’ flying them there worked for Chaos Security.

“Tell me again, why we are flying to London, England?” Paul hadn’t been briefed on why they were heading there.

Tammy looks at Paul “because we are going to switch planes and join a group called Helping Hands. According to our boss, they have contacts in India in the area we will be going. We need to do some recon of the area, so we don’t get ourselves killed.”

“I’ve heard of them. Don’t they go to impoverish areas and help dig wells and build homes for the people in those areas?” Sophie couldn’t remember if the circus traveled through the areas they were doing work in.

“Yes, they do a lot of good work in a lot of countries. They also act as a covert cover for the government or people like Chaos Security.” Becky had been giving their contact and notified that they didn’t have to worry about their gear.

Jessica was quietly watching people and making notes to add to her library. She wonders how Chaos Security had managed to establish a connection to Helping Hands.

“Mr. Romano, how did you meet my cousins?” Sophie was curious.

“It’s Sophie, right?” Paul wanted to make sure he got her name right.

“Yes.” Sophie had her full attention on Paul Romano.

“Your cousins, Mr. Bullock there and members of my crew were ambushed by a former government agent. He filled the fire sprinkler systems
with gasoline in a warehouse we had tracked him to and detonated it with us trapped inside. If it hadn’t been for the actions of a young woman heading home rescuing us. We would be dead right now.” Paul was thankful for the young lady dress as the Baroness from the movie G.I. Joe for rescuing them.

Jessica made a mental note to add that information to her files later. She wonders how long Paul Romano and the other people have known each other. Since leaving the island she figures that there was a lot she missed out on. All she had known was learning how to use her gift to enter other people’s minds and blending in.

She never had a childhood and life for her has always been about work and learning. She glances over towards Marshal Running Bear. She had noticed that he always seemed to be watching her. A sly smile appears on her face as an idea pops into her head.

“Marshal Running Bear, which Native American tribe are you a member of?”

“Apache.” Joseph Running Bear looks at the red hair woman sitting near him.

He couldn’t believe that she was the one they called the Librarian. He wonders what her angle was in all of this.

“Your Apache?” Sophie had been trying to guess which tribe Marshal Running Bear was.

Joseph turns his attention from Jessica to Sophie. He could tell she had an English accent to her speech. Sometimes her accent would change at times.

“It’s Sophie, right?”

“Yep. Sophie Bounty.”

“So, Sophie how are you related to Jack Bounty?”

“He’s my uncle. My father is his younger brother.”

“Is your father anything like your uncle?”

“Nope, my father is a police officer. He prefers living in England, over the states. If you don’t mind me asking you a question. Are you a full
Native American or do you have some white in you?” Sophie loved learning about America’s Native American tribes.

A smile appears on Joseph’s face “I’m a full blooded Native American. Both of my parents come from a long line of Native Americans. We might have some African American mixed in with our blood, but no white man’s blood.”

“Cool, it’s like how some of my relatives are full bloodied Irish and Scottish. We can trace our ancestors back to when the Roman’s invaded the
Celt’s.” Sophie remembered seeing a tapestry that hung in one of her relatives’ homes that showed how the Bounty’s had come from a Roman
Officer who had invaded the Celts.

“I’ve noticed you have a second accent you sometimes switch too. What other language do you speak?” Joseph was puzzled by it.

“Oh, sorry. My mother is Romanian. So, I sometimes switch between my father’s native tongue, to what my mother and the other Romanian’s speak in the circus.”

“Is it true, that circus people have their own language you guys talk?” Jessica was curious.

“Yes, it's true. It’s a secret language we speak among ourselves. There aren’t many outside our circus troupe that knows the language.”

While Sophie was talking to Marshal Running Bear and Jessica. Tammy was catching up on her email. Her boyfriend in California wanted to know how things were going and if she was coming home any time soon.

Tammy sends him a reply informing him that she’ll be gone for a while. She had finished her training and was going on a mission. She couldn’t tell him any more about what she was doing, but she informs him that it was very important. She sends her reply and logs off.

Becky had been watching Tammy as she typed away on her laptop. She notices how concern Tammy had been when she was typing.

“Bad news?”

Tammy looks up and at Becky “yes, my boyfriend wanted to know when I would be home.”

“Ah, you’re lucky you have someone. I never managed to find anyone, except you guys that care to date me.” Most of the guys Becky knew
thought she was too brainy for them.

“We’ll find someone for you, Becky. What do you have in the area we will be going too?” Tammy was curious.

Becky brings the information up “the area we are going is mostly rural and It is situated between the Ajay River and the Hooghly River and so bounded by water to the east, west, and north. There are several villages and areas that have temples that are dedicated to Kali. We will be better off traveling by water, then by car or train.”

“How about communication?” Paul looks at Becky.

“Cell phones will be useless once we are out in the total areas. My wrist computer is equipped with satellite capability and I know we have
several sat phones among our gear.” Becky saw the cases they were in when they were loading the plane.

“What’s the terrain like?” Tammy taps a few buttons on Becky’s hologram keyboard.

The scene changes and shows the desert and jungle. Becky enlarges the area they were going “we’ll be landing in Katwa, but we’ll be heading out of the city towards the rural area.”

Jessica was paying attention and recording everything on her cellphone. Her phone also had satellite capabilities.

“Is that where helping hands normally operate, outside near the rural areas?”

“Yes, so when we land. We will be traveling with them to these rural areas.” Becky swipes the hologram towards the West on the other side of the river.

“Couldn’t we get a boat and travel up the river?” Paul had spotted where they were going.

“If you want to blow our cover. We need to move with the Helping Hands group, till we leave the city.” Tammy saw that this was going to be a dangerous mission.

“What do we know about the urban area?” Marshal Bullock was curious about that.

'It's mostly civilized and has what most cities in this area have. Colleges, hospital and medical centers.They have a police force that covers a large area and they speak Bengal and English. How is your Bengal?” Tammy looks towards the group after answering Bullock.

“Mine isn’t too bad.” Sophie knew she could speak it.

Tammy couldn’t believe it. Everyone that was with them, couldn’t speak the language.

“You mean we have only one person who can speak the local language with us?”

“We’re in trouble.” Jerry only spoke Arabic and a few other languages.

“Then we better cover our six and stick together.” Paul just looks out the nearest window afterward.

"We're only in trouble out in the rural areas. The urban areas they speak the Queen's English." Sophie hopes she remembers right.

The plane that they caught in London, England took them to Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport. Then they had to unload everything and reload it on the train they had to take to Katwa. By the time they arrived in Katwa, it was late in the evening. Tammy looked at everything they had and didn’t like the fact they had to leave it in a warehouse that Helping Hands had rented.

“Jerry, you and I are going to guard our equipment tonight. Why don’t the rest of you get some sleep?” Tammy looks at everyone as they stood nearby.

“It would be better if three of us guard everything.” Marshal Running Bear felt it would go easier on them.

“That’s fine. Why don’t the rest of you get some food and sleep.”

Paul looks at the strawberry blonde hair girl “Why don’t I stay instead, and you can send your man to the hotel we are staying in?”

“Because Mr. Romano, I know what a member of my team is capable of. Plus, you’re still concerned about your wife. Becky can set-up a link for you to talk with your family. Go and get some sleep, Mr. Romano.” Tammy motions for Sophie to come over to her.

Sophie saw Tammy motion for her to come over to her. She walks over to her “what’s up, oh fearless one.”

“I want you and David to keep an eye on Mr. Romano. If this group we are looking for, know he is here right now, they might try something.”
Tammy knew she would.

“You got it, boss.” Sophie walks over to David and pulls him aside.

Jessica was watching everyone. When she tried to read Tammy’s mind, it was like looking at several tactical situations at once. She found it hard to follow Tammy’s thought pattern. They move the equipment to the warehouse, and afterward, the rest of the group retired for the night.
Paul was sharing a room with Jerry. The Marshals shared a room and Jessica were sharing a room with Sophie. David, Becky, and Tammy shared a room together.

Jessica looks at Sophie as she changes clothes. She saw that Sophie had several tattoos that decorated her body.

“Sophie, what do all those tattoos you have stand for?” Jessica was fascinated with them.

“Well, this one is my clan membership. It means I am a member of a gypsy clan. This Roman wolf with blood dripping from its mouth, means I
am a warrior. It represents my father’s family origins. The harlequin mask tattoo means I’m an entertainer. The fairy sitting on the crescent moon means I’m playful. However, the one I am really proud of is the Phoenix rising from the flames that cover my back and shoulder. I was caught in a circus tent that was ablaze trying to rescue a member of my circus troupe. The owner of the circus said I looked like a Phoenix rising from the flames, carrying the person I went to save. He said the flames just moved out of my way as I walked out of the fire.”

Jessica’s other ability showed her the event as if she was there watching. She could see the flames moving out of the way of a young red hair girl. She had heard of people who could control elements, but the trait was extremely rare. There was one person on the island she came from that could control the wind. But when her teachers learned what the boy could do. He was whisked away from the island.

“Are you alright, Jessica?” Sophie was snapping her fingers in front of Jessica’s face.

Jessica shakes her head and looks at Sophie. She couldn’t believe that one of her abilities had surfaced.

“I’m sorry, Sophie. I kind of spaced out on you. You must have triggered something I had forgotten about.” Jessica hopes Sophie buys her excuse.

“That’s okay. My Uncle Albert spaces out after a few shots of whiskey my Uncle Jack sends him. You should really see him after he has a few shots of Jack Daniels.” Sophie makes a face and a low moaning sound of her Uncle Albert.

Jessica starts laughing after seeing the weird look on Sophie’s face. She recognizes a person who enjoys a good drink. She wishes she had stories like this to tell.

Tammy, Marshal Running Bear, and Jerry were at the warehouse they had their stuff in. Tammy was eating one of the MRE’s she keeps in her backpack. She knew Jerry was checking their gear. Marshal Running Bear was sitting across from her enjoying a beef stew MRE she gave him.

Marshal Running Bear looks over to Tammy and could tell she was in her early twenties. He takes a bite of his MRE “what made you want to get into this type of work, instead of working for a Law Enforcement agency?”

“Too many rules and regulations with a law enforcement agency. Also, too much paperwork. I hate paperwork.” Tammy had a smile on her face when she said that.

“No really, you seem to be highly trained and capable to pass any test an agency gives you. Why are you doing this, instead of working for law enforcement.” Running Bear watches Tammy.

“Too many regulations and rules. Plus, you have to deal with supervisors that are either jealous of what you can do or are afraid you are going to take their spot. Plus, I already have a team that is better than most law enforcement agency. Agencies like yours have to be careful they don’t cross a line. Where, being an independent security contractor, I can play in the gray area and do things that need to be done.” Tammy takes a bite of her stew.

“But isn’t that being a vigilante? Doesn’t that make you no more different, than the person you are going after?”

“Mr. Running Bear, if a man comes up and kills a few people. Then claims to be insane afterward to justify his actions. Does he deserve to live, after he killed innocent people?” Tammy watches him.

“There are certain mental disease and disorders that affect people and make them do things they shouldn’t. Does that mean they should die?”

“There are some I wouldn’t go that far with. However, there are certain people in society that don’t deserve to live. Especially, like the assassins that were sent to kill two innocent kids and their mother. The letter of the law says that a person like that deserves a fair trial and should be locked up. The spirit of the law says the person should be removed from the gene pool. That’s why lady justice is blindfolded. Sometimes you have to turn a blind eye to what needs to be done.” Tammy finishes her dinner.

“I hope you don’t turn into what you hate most.” Running Bear could see that this young lady will have a hard life.

“Me too, Mister Running Bear. I hope I never become what I hate most.” She watches as Jerry comes back.

“No problems so far.” Jerry sits down and heats up one of the MRE’s from his pack.

“For MRE’s these aren’t half bad.” Running Bear has had some in the past that didn’t taste as good as the one he had.

“These aren’t normal military style MRE’s. Chao’s security gets them from a company they own. They are more like gourmet meals.” Tammy had finished hers and decided to stretch her legs.

“Well, remind me to order a case or two when we get back to the states.” Joseph liked them and he knew a few other people on the reservation that might like them as well.

Paul’s and Jerry’s Room:
Becky looks over at Mr. Romano “I have the satellite link setup, Mr. Romano. You want to talk to your daughters.”

Becky had contacted Stanley and walked him through setting his wrist computer up with the communication gear at the safe house. Now, Paul could communicate with his daughters.

“Thank you, Becky.” Paul links his cellphone with Becky’s wrist computer.

Safe House, Knoxville, Tennessee:
Brittney and Terry watch as their father’s face appears on the big screen in the common area at the safehouse. They have been waiting for the past three days to hear from their father.

“Daddy, are you okay? Did you make it safely?” Brittney and Terry just watch their father’s image.

“Daddy, mom is doing okay. She has been moved to a safer room and there are guards posted by her door. The Knoxville police force is making sure no one gets to mom. “ Terry couldn’t believe the police chief that hated Kat, had gone all out to protect her.

“I’m fine, girls. How are you doing and how is your mother?” Paul was concerned about them and their mother.

“We’re doing fine dad. A big bounty has been sent our way, but our babysitters won’t let us go and capture the person.” Brittney was mad because it was a profitable bounty.

“Sweetie, you’re supposed to remain hidden until we capture the assassin.”

“I know daddy, but it’s a really profitable bounty and it’s for King at King’s bail bonds. He’s one of mom’s oldest clients.” Brittney met him off and on with her mother. She knew he really liked her mother.

Paul thinks about it for a second. He knew King always used them for the big bounties, because of good they were. ‘Brittney put Stanley on please.”

“Yes, Daddy.” Brittney leaves the screen and disappears for a few minutes.

Paul was torn about letting a bounty slip by them. They have a reputation of always chasing down their prey.

After five minutes, Stanley appears.

“Hello Mr. Romano, what can I do for you?” Stanley was curious about why Paul wanted to talk with him.

“Stanley, I need for you to allow my team and my girls handle this bounty. The client is an old friend of ours and he helped us out several times
when he didn’t need to. Kat would want this.”

Stanley sighs because he knew this was coming. He looks at Mr. Romano’s image “alright, I’ll allow this, but two of my people are going with your crew.”

“I wouldn’t have it any other way. Tell my girls I love them.”

“We can hear you, daddy.” Terry and Brittney appear back on screen.

“I should have known, you wouldn’t be far away. You two be careful and listen to your protectors.”

“We will daddy. We love you.”

“I love you too, sweetie.” Paul smiles as the connection he has ended.

He looks towards Becky and smiles at her.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome, Mr. Romano.” Becky shuts her wrist computer down.

She heads towards her rental room to shower and get some sleep. She makes sure she charges her wrist computer. Before she heads into the bathroom.

Jessica wakes up all of sudden. Something caused her to become alert suddenly. She spots Sophie with a knife in her hand pointing towards the door of their room. Jessica reaches out with her gift and touched an unfamiliar mind. The person was trying to see the two women inside the room.

Sophie waits till the door is almost opened and pull it open as fast as she could. She moves out of the way as the person falls forward towards the floor. Sophie moves quickly and presses her knife edge against the person’s neck.

Jessica was scanning the person mind. He was just a pervert that wanted a closer look of Sophie and Jessica.

“He’s a pervert, Sophie. He wanted to capture some nude photos of us.” Jessica couldn’t believe it.

Sophie turns her knife around and bops him on the back of his head, knocking him out. She pulls out a set of zip cuffs and cuffs the person. She tosses his butt out of their room.

Sophie turns around and looks at Jessica “let me guess, you posse a psychic gift?”

“Yes, but it doesn’t always work every time.” Jessica was lying through her teeth.

Sophie takes in Jessica’s body language and could tell she was lying. She has come across people during her travels that possess psychic abilities and a lot of them didn’t like being exposed. She knew most people thought mental abilities were hocus pocus.

“No problem. I’m just glad it worked this once.” Sophie puts her knife back in its sheath.

She glances towards her travel clock and notices it was six in the morning. They were leaving at eight, so they could get to the village they were helping by early afternoon.

“Well, since were up. Let’s go and grab some breakfast.”

“Sounds like a good plan.” Jessica grabs some clothes from her suitcase and changes into them.

Sophie changes as well. She figures since she was already up. Since, she and Jessica were already up, they might as well go and get some breakfast.

Sophie checks on Tammy, Marshal Running Bear and Jerry. She figures they must be tired from staying up all night. She walks into the warehouse and notices all three of them wide awake.

“Didn’t you guys, get any sleep last night?” Sophie looks over towards Tammy.

Tammy and the guys were sitting around, resting their heads against some boxes, when the door to the warehouse opened. Sophie and Jessica come walking in. She watches as they walk up to them.

“No. Why are you and Jessica up so early?” Tammy covers up a yawn.

“We had a visitor this morning. He tried picking the lock to our room.”

Jerry and Marshal Running Bear look at Jessica and Sophie “are you girls okay?”

“Yeah, I took him down and handcuffed him.” Sophie was smiling, because she could have done worse to him.

“Do you know what he wanted?” Marshal Running Bear was concerned. He was wondering if the person was connected to the person trying to kill Kat.

“I knocked him out before I could question him. Sorry, about that.” Sophie didn’t feel she should tell them the truth. She would keep Jessica’s
secret for now.

“So, what are your two plans?” Tammy had been watching them.

“We had talked about getting some breakfast. If you want, we could stay here and watch the warehouse, while you guys go and get something.” Jessica figures the three of them were tired.

“We’ll be okay. However, could you bring us back some fresh coffee and pastries?” Jerry wanted some fresh coffee.

“No problem. I’ll bring you guys some fresh coffee and pastries.”

Sophie and Jessica head to grab some fresh coffee and pastries for Tammy and her group. They return twenty minutes later with fresh coffee and some pastries. The place they were staying at had a kitchen they could make a request at.

“Mmmm, fresh coffee.” Jerry was in heaven.

“Thanks, Sophie and Jessica.” Tammy fills a cup up.

“No problem. The rest of the group should be awake soon. So, we’ll stay here with you guys till they are awake.” Sophie grabs a croissant and munches on it.

Paul wakes up when the alarm clock goes off. He didn’t sleep well last night. He was so used to having his family around him and Kat next to his body. He gets up and does his morning business. They were going to leave today and head to the village they were going to be helping out and investigating around for the person responsible for taking a hit out on himself and his family.

Paul joins up with Marshal Bullock, David, and Becky. He didn’t see Jessica and Sophie anywhere.

“Where are Jessica and Sophie?” Paul was concerned that maybe they had been killed overnight.

“They are alright.” Tammy had heard Paul’s question as she and the others were walking up to the group.

Becky looks over towards Tammy and the others “boy, you guys look rough this morning.”

“We’re fine. We’ll be back down after we head to our rooms and freshen up.” Tammy wanted to take a nice shower and change her clothes.

Tammy, Jerry and Marshal Running Bear head to their room and freshen up. While they were freshening up, the rest of the crew grab a quick breakfast and start helping the Helping Hand crew. By the time Tammy, Jerry and Marshal Running Bear come back down with their luggage and finish helping to load the supplies.

They end up leaving an hour later then they wanted. They had a long caravan of vehicles heading deep into India’s interior. Becky glances at her wrist computer and notices she loses satellite connection.

“Hey boss, we might have a problem. I just lost my satellite link.” Becky tries to locate the satellite signal again.

“Will the remote antenna help?” Tammy wasn’t a communication expert.

“It should. I’ll see once we arrive at the village.”

“Alright, let me know if we need to set-up the antenna.” Tammy was concerned if they couldn’t stay in touch with the other team members.

“We’ll do.” Becky sets the wrist computer to beep when it receives a signal.

The caravan finally arrives at the village they will be working. It was late in the evening.

“Tammy, me, Marshal Bullock and Sophie will guard the supplies tonight.” Paul figures the distraction would be welcomed.

“Alright. We’ll take your stuff to where you’ll be bunking.” Tammy motions for Jerry and David to take Paul and the others luggage to where
they will be bunking.

“Here, put this mask on. The smog outside is unbelievable today.” Nancy hands each member of Tammy’s team a mask.

“I didn’t know India suffered from smog.” Jessica puts the mask on.

“It’s not really smog, but the air is really bad this morning.” Nancy knew some people were affected by the particles in the air.

“Is it going to be like this all day?” Sophie hasn’t been in Katwa for a while.

“Nope, it should clear up by noontime.”

“Good.” Tammy looks over towards Sophie.

She motions for Sophie and Marshal Running Bear to come over to her. Tammy wanted to send them out to scout and look around for this group they came to question.

“Joseph and Sophie, I want you two to discreetly look around and see what you can learn about the group we are here to find.” Tammy figures her and the rest of the team could learn something from the locals.

“I think Jessica might be helpful with us looking around.” Sophie sends her thoughts over towards Jessica to see if she was listening.

Jessica was scanning the thoughts around her. When she picked up on Sophie’s thoughts. She glares at Sophie after she realizes she was broadcasting on purpose. She was trying to keep her mental abilities quiet.

Tammy looks at Sophie and then over towards Jessica and notices the look on Jessica’s face. She wonders why Jessica was glaring at Sophie. She watches as Jessica goes back to looking puzzled. She makes a mental note to ask her what was going on between her and Sophie.

“Alright, take Jessica with you as well.”

“Gotcha, you boss.” A cheshire smile appears on Sophie’s face.

The three of them head away from the group to see what they could discovered. Sophie mentally suggested to Jessica that she should scan anyone that looks suspicious. She knew how telepathy worked and how to direct her thoughts to someone who could read minds.

Marshal Running Bear looks over towards his two female companions. They haven’t said anything since Tammy suggested the three of them should work together.

“What’s on you girls mind?” Joseph looks at Sophie and Jessica.

“Where to start. I don’t think that members of this cult are going to be easy to find.” Sophie was keeping an eye out.

“Maybe, but I have a feeling they know we are here.” Jessica thought she spotted movement to their right.

“How, would be my question?”

“Either they have people watching us or they recognize Mr. Romano.” Sophie figures it’s the second one.

“You might be right. The contract was taken out against Paul Romano and his wife. Since his wife is still in the hospital. That leaves him and we brought him here.” Joseph was keeping an eye out for an attack.

Paul, Tammy, Marshal Bullock, Jerry, and David were working on a building. They were cutting wood and pouring a foundation for the building. Marshal Bullock and Paul were doing the cutting and hammering.

Tammy, Jerry, and David were working on another house. Tammy and David were keeping an eye out for any trouble. Tammy had received a video message from Stanley, informing her about a Jill Castro. He didn’t go into details on who she was but said that their protection job has become complicated. Personally, she doesn’t think they are going to go after the girls but might try killing Kat again.

David noticed that Tammy was a little distracted “watch you thinking about boss?”

“The message I received from Stanley. Their protection detail has become a little harder.”

“Oh? How has it become so complicated now?” David wonders what problems Stanley and the others were facing.

“It’s a long story. The bounty job they were on, took an unusual twist.”

“Damn and I’m here in India.” David wouldn’t mind being with Stanley and the rest of the group.

“Keep it up and I will send you home.”

“Yes, mother.” A smirk appears on Tammy’s face.

Jessica was walking by herself when she felt the presences of someone following her. She couldn’t identify or get a good feel of the person,
but they were watching her. She concentrates on Sophie “I think I have a tail, can you shadow me?”

“Yes!” Sophie hides in the shadows like she was taught and shadow Jessica.

Sophie spots a person following Jessica and keeping to the shadows, so they couldn’t be seen. She couldn’t tell who or what the person looked like. She slips one of her throwing knives into her hand and takes aim. She waits for the right time to throw her knife as she continues to follow the shadow tailing Jessica.

Just as she was about to throw the knife in her hand at the shadow, it disappears. She stops and look carefully for the person, but couldn’t see the person anywhere.

“Jessica, I don’t see your shadow anymore.” Sophie kept her gaze in the area.

“I’m not picking them up anymore.” Jessica stops and looks around her.

Whoever was following her, has disappeared. She locates where Sophie is and spots how close she was to her. She watches as Sophie comes walking from where she had been shadowing her.

“Does, Marshal Running Bear have someone following him?” Sophie was concerned about the Marshal.

Jessica closes her eyes and searches for the Marshal’s mind. It takes her a little while to find him, but she locates him.

“He’s fighting someone.” Jessica grabs Sophie’s hand and runs towards where Marshal Running Bear was fighting.

When Jessica and Sophie arrive where Marshal Running Bear was fighting. They spot him defending himself against a weather dark-skinned man. His head was completely bald and he looked like he was wearing rags for clothing.

Him and Marshal Running Bear each were wielding a knife in their hands. Marshal Running Bear looked like he had an old fashion bowie knife with a bone handle. The knife the other man held was a kukri.The blade looked like it has seen better days.

Marshal Running Bear watches the man that tried to ambush him. The man nearly got him with his blade. The man was fast and vicious. It was a good thing he brought his bowie with him.

The man tries lunging and bring his knife up to strike Running Bear, but misses. Running Bear delivers a hard right cross to the man’s face and slices the man with his bowie knife. He was about to deliver a death blow to the man but stops.

Jessica enters the man's mind and rips out any information dealing with their group and Mr. Romano. She gets a feeling that the group knew they were here. The man had attacked Running Bear hoping to kill him and take whatever he had.

Sophie looks around for a place to interrogate him. She spots some woods they could get him to talk.

“Bring him over here.” Sophie starts heading towards the area.

Running Bear picks the man up after disarming him. He takes the mans knife and tucks it in between his belt and pants. Running Bear follows Sophie into the woods. The next twenty minutes, Running Bear works the man over, using ancient torturing techniques from his tribe.

The man squeals like a pig from Running Bear interrogating him. Sophie records the information on her cellphone. Jessica helps compel the man to talk as well, by using her psychic talents.

Paul looks at everyone gathered around him. The assassin or mugger that Marshal Running Bear had tortured and killed hadn’t told them anthing of any use. Even the information that Jessica removed from the man’s mind, hadn’t revealed anything of use.

“I think we need to be more active and start asking the villagers where we can find these assassins.” Paul knew they needed to pull a few pages from his and Kat’s playbook.

“That’s going to draw attention ourselves and we need to surprise this group.” Tammy knew if they announce they were looking for them. That they would set themselves up as a target.

“That’s the idea, Tammy. If you're going fishing, you need to use bait. They already know were here, so let’s bring them to us and settle this once and for all.” Paul and Kat have played this game before.

“The problem, we need to find them.” Tammy knew that was why they were hiding.

“Why don’t we do what my uncle’s do. Let’s lure them out of hiding and ambush them. I, Marshal Running Bear and Mr. Romano can lure them out. That way you and the rest can ambush them.” Sophie figures it wouldn’t take much to do it.

Tammy looks at Sophie and wonders why she got into this type of business? She was a performer, but the plan made sense.

“Fine, go out and see what you can do.” Tammy hopes the plan works.

Sophie, Marshal Running Bear and Paul leave the village and start looking and talking with people. They split up, but check in with each other. Jessica and Dave were searching for a different area. They got a few leads about a place the Thuggees use to use before the British took them out.

“Hey, Tammy, Jessica and I are heading to a former place the Thuggees use to use.”

“I’m sending Marshal Bullock to go with you guys. Keep me informed on what you find.” Tammy already sent Marshal Bullock to team up with Jessica and Dave.

“Okay.”

Marshal Bullock spots Dave and Jessica. He heads over towards them.

“How far away is this place?’

“Not far. We’ll have to take a boat and head upriver.” Dave had looked the place up on his cellphone. It was still tittered to Becky’s wrist comp.

They managed to rent a small boat to take upriver. Jessica had scanned the person’s mind they rented the boat from and found out that they were paying a little more than he normally rented them out for. Marshal Bullock guides the boat upriver.

Jessica was looking around as they traveled upriver. She had the feeling that they were being watched, but when she extended her mental abilities out. There wasn’t anyone there. However, her other gift was picking up on spiritual energies. Some of them were very old and felt like they had suffered.

Bullock was watching Jessica since he knew who she was. Her facial expressions changed slightly as they kept traveling. He wonders what was causing her to react the way she was.

Sophie, Marshal Running Bear and Paul:

So, far none of the three had any luck on their fishing expedition. Paul was making it obvious that he was out about looking for these people. As Paul was walking down the street, to talk to another person. He gets an itching feeling that he was being watched.

He ducks and mingle with a group of people and spots the person following him. A smile appears on his face as he steps out and leads the person to where he wanted to trap them.

“Sophie, David, I have a fish. I’m heading towards your location.”

Sophie spotted someone following her as well. She stops to look at some cooking pans and spots her person.

“I have one too. I’ll meet you guys at the location.”

Tammy and the rest of the group were monitoring Sophie’s and Paul’s communication. So, far David hadn’t picked up anyone.

“Bring the people to us.” Tammy waves over the rest of her team.

“Gladly.” Sophie had a smile on her face.

Sophie leads the one following her, to the ambush spot. She makes sure, to keep her tail. she was trying to make it easy, but not so obvious.

She spots Paul as they arrived at the designated spot. Sophie and Paul turn around and look at their tails. Sophie notices the person that was following her was younger than the person following Paul.

The two assassins were surprised when the people they were following stopped and face them. They were hoping to get the drop on their targets. The one that concerned them the most, was Mr. Romano. The money they were paid to kill him, and his wife was enough to support the organization.

Tammy spotted the assassins that had been following Paul and Sophie. She radio’s Jerry that the fish were taking the bait. She had Becky recording their faces into their database. She was linked up with one of Chaos Private Security satellites in orbit.

“Jerry moved in on the one following Mr. Romano. I have the one on Sophie covered from here.” Tammy had her sniper rifle locked onto the
figure behind Sophie. She could get the guy behind Mr. Romano easily.

Jerry sneaks up behind the man behind Mr. Romano “you move, your dead.”

The man stops in his tracks. He looks over towards his companion and notices he didn’t have anyone on him. Just as he was about to react, the person he had been hired to kill turns around to face him. Even the person on his companion’s target turned around as well.

“I don’t know who you are, but you have made a grave mistake.” Paul punches the guy and knocks him out.

Jerry had just watched as Paul punched their hostage and knocked him out. He just shakes his head “now, we got to carry the bastard.”

The guy facing Sophie was going to pull his knife out and attack, but as he was itching his hand towards his knife.

“You try anything and the person watching you will place five bullets in you before you feel the first one.” Sophie knew Tammy could place all
five shots in the same place.

“Bring them back to the warehouse and we’ll question them.”

“Got you, Tam.”

When Marshal Bullock, Jessica and David arrive at the site. They spot a group of people unloading a boat. Most of them were Indian and it looked like some of them weren’t. Marshal Bullock pulls their boat up to the make shift dock.

David spotted the non-Indian people when they dock. He was curious why they were here. He spots two young men heading towards them.
Jessica saw the two young men walking towards them. She does a surface scan of them but doesn’t detect any hostile attentions. They were curious who she and the rest of their group were.

Arron and Joseph had spotted some visitors pulling up to the pier and wonder who they were. They didn’t look like the group were from their congregation.

“Greetings, what brings you to our humble site?” Joseph was watching Jessica. She was pretty was hoping to get to know her.

“Hi, me and my friend were out exploring and spotted you from the river. I hope were not interrupting anything.” Bullock saw how one of the young men was looking at Jessica.

“It’s fine friend, I’m brother Arron and this is my companion, brother Joseph and we are missionaries from the Church of Divine Light.” Brother Arron was smiling as he stood nearby watching them.

“I’m Edward and this is my friend David and my daughter Jessica.” Edward hopes Jessica catches the reason why he wanted her to play that role.

Jessica had picked up why Marshal Bullock wanted her to play the role of being his daughter. She smiles at the two young men as Bullock introduces her.

“It’s nice to meet you.” Brother Joseph walks over and helps Jessica out of the boat they were in.

“How long have you fellows been out here in India?” David gets out of the boat and onto the pier.

“This is my second year here and it is brother Joseph’s first year.” Brother Arron was answering for Joseph.

“How many are there of you here, brother Arron?” David was curious.

“At least twenty of us. Some of our brother’s and sister’s have been here for years.” Brother Arron was very cheerful. They have never had visitors stop and visit them before.

He leads the group up to Father Jordanus residence. He hopes he was in, because sometimes he went to visit Bishop Cabral. He and brother
Joseph stop at father Jordanus place. He knocks on the door, but no one answers.

Bullock, David and Jessica follows brother Arron and brother Joseph to a nice house. The way it was designed, it looked like it was made to blend into the environment. They wait patiently while brother Arron knocks one more time. After a few minutes, he turns to look at Bullock “it seems father Jordanus isn’t in right now. Why don’t I give you a tour of the place and introduce you to rest of our brothers and sisters here.”

“That will be fine.” Bullock was wondering who these people were.

Jessica had peeked into brother Joseph’s mind and picked up that he was interested in her. He also wanting to go home soon. He had put in to be reassigned back to America. He sort of liked the time he ahs spent here in India, but missed his home.

As for brother Arron, he was excited and wanted to make a good impression on them. He also wondered where father Jordanus was and when would he be back. He loved being out here teaching the word of god to the heathens around them.

Bullock, David and Jessica follow brother Arron and brother Joseph as they introduce them to the others at their little village. Everything seemed normal to David and Bullock. Jessica picked up curious thoughts about them as she did a low-level telepathic scan of the people they meet. Some of the thoughts she scanned, were curious about her and wonder if she was going to be a new bride.

According to the thoughts she was getting. Several girls over the year that have come here to the village from the outside either ended up being brides to the Bishop or were left along. A few had disappeared in the middle of the night. Their bodies sometimes would be found beaten and broken.

Jessica files that information away for later. She wonders what happened to the women who were found dead and why were they found like that. She stays close to Dave and Bullock.

Back At the Warehouse:
Sophie stood nearby while Paul tortured one of the fellows, they captured that had come after them. Paul would have her, ask them a question and when he didn’t answer. Paul would break a bone.

The guy Paul tortured wouldn’t talk at all. He finally passes out from the pain inflicted on him.

“He won’t talk, Mr. Romano, no matter what you do to him.” Sophie could already tell that they were beating a dead horse with the current fellow.

“I bet, I’ll get this one to talk.” Jerry looked at the second person they captured.

“Good luck, Jerry. These guys are trained to resist being tortured.” Sophie has seen this before in people.

Tammy was watching them. She couldn’t think of a way to break their resistances. Everything they have learned about these people, they didn’t care if they died.

“What is your idea, Jerry?” Tammy looks over towards him.

“Something one of my uncles told me about when he served.” Jerry holds up a thin glass rod and walks over towards the guy.

He pulls the man’s pants down and works the glass rod up into the man’s penis and breaks it off half way up when it touches the guys bladder. The guy starts screaming as Jerry shoves it up a little more.

The second one doesn’t talk at all. He does give Jerry a death glare. He wanted to kill Jerry for what he did to him.

“This isn’t getting us anywhere.” Tammy looks at the last guy.

They needed to make the bastard talk. The other two guys stayed tight lipped and didn’t tell them anything.

Sophie looks at the last guy and grab his ball sack and squeezes them. She looks up at the guy “either tell us what we want to know, or I’m going to change your sex.”

She pulls her knife out and make a small cut on his penis. She also squeezes his ball sack as well. She was going to make this bastard talk. He starts talking in his native language. Sophie translate what he is saying to the group. After he gives them everything they wanted to know, Sophie releases his ball sack.

“So, he doesn’t know who hired them to kill you Mr. Romano, but now we have been marked as well, for protecting you.” Tammy looks at Paul and her people standing nearby.

“Well, at least they aren’t leaving us out of the fun.” Jerry had managed to remove the broken glass rod out of the man he tortured.

He looks at Sophie “why didn't you do that to the other two? It would had saved us time.”

“Because they didn’t have the balls, plus they were hard core and wouldn’t talk even if I did. This guy on the other hand, he watched as his two companions resisted us. So, I used what all men hate. I squeezed his balls and threaten to cut his penis off.”

Tammy just shakes her head. She couldn’t believe that Sophie used the guys manhood against him.

“How would your uncle and cousin had extracted the information from them?”

“You don’t want to know. Uncle Jack is called the Devil’s Bounty Hunter down in South America, because of his wolf. He looks like a demon from hell. As for my cousin, I don’t know what she would had done. I know my father would had broken all the bones of the first guy and use shock therapy on the second guy.” Sophie knew her family could get information from any one.

"Remind me to never make enemies with your relatives." Jerry would hate to meet people like that.

"Maybe, we should use the shock therapy next time." Tammy was thinking they need to step up their game, some.

Becky was making her daily report with Stanley and his team. She got the latest update about their case and what was going on with them. Stanley forwards her the file that had been put together by Camelot Network Solutions. She opens the encrypted file and starts going through the information.

“Holy crap!” Becky couldn't believe the information Terry and Mouse at MI6 had gathered.

She also couldn't believe how Brittney's father and mother had gone through so much surgery to disguise who they really were. She hopes Marshal Bullock, Jessica and Dave weren't walking into a trap.

Becky looks around for Tammy but doesn't see her anywhere. She tries to get in touch with Marshal Bullock and Dave but couldn't. Something was jamming the signal to their satellite phones. She hopes they are alright.

Tammy, Paul, Marshall Running Bear, Jerry, and Sophie were walking back to where Becky was. They had gotten rid of the three men they had captured. Paul was still pissed that they hadn't learned much from them.

“So, what should we do next?” Jerry looks towards Tammy as they walked.

“Wait till we hear back from Jessica and Marshal Bullocks team.”

“That's if they aren't made first.” Becky heard Tammy and the guys as they approached the tent they were staying in.

“What do you mean, Becky?” Tammy was curious.

“Take a look at the information I just received from Stanley.” Becky projects the information upon the tent wall for Tammy and the others.

They watched the information as it projects from Becky's wrist unit. Becky was watching Paul's reaction as the information popped up.

“Kat and I should have killed him when he came after Brittney and Terry.” Paul couldn't believe the extent Brittney's birth parents have gone through to change their looks.

Paul looks towards Becky “does Kat know about this?”

“More than likely, she knows.” Becky knew the information came directly from Stanley.

“If they know we are here. Then the other team might be in trouble.” Sophie was worried about the other team.

“Becky, can you contact the other team?” Tammy looks at her computer specialist.

“I tried, but something is jamming the signal. I can't get through to them.” Becky was concerned because some of her teammates were with the
other Marshal.

“That’s not encouraging. How long would it take us to get to them?” Paul didn’t want to leave them without any support.

“Too long. If they get into trouble.” Becky had tracked them until she lost the signal.

Religious Village:
Brother Arron and Brother Joseph continue to show Jessica, Marshal Bullock, and Dave around the village. Jessica kept a mental awareness as they toured the place. Most of the thoughts of the people they encounter was a mixture of curiosity and some lust directed towards her. A few guys they were introduced to, she detected they were in a relationship.

They were keeping it quiet, because of what happened to the last group of guys that had been caught. They had been taken to the nearby temple and were castrated or beaten repeatedly. The ones that had been castrated, were made to dress like women and disappeared. No one knew where they went.

If a lesbian couple was found, they were taken to the same temple and repeatedly raped. The men that had been beaten were forced to rape the women until they had proven they had been cured of their homosexual tendencies.

Marshal Bullock noticed how most of the people they encountered, kept their distance from them. He also noticed that some of the people who were members of the Church of Divine Light kept their distance from them.

Dave leans close to Marshal Bullock “have you noticed the looks in some of the missionary’s eyes?”

Dave noticed that some of the missionaries looked depressed and defeated or lonely. While others were enjoying themselves. They appeared perky and happy.

“Yes, I’ve noticed. There’s more going on here than is being shown.”

“That’s not all. I’ve lost contact with the other team.” Dave had checked his cell.

“I think its time we head back.”

“Brother Arron, I will head back.” Bullock looks at Brother Arron.

“Will you, your daughter and friend be coming back tomorrow? Because Father Jordanus should be available.” Brother Arron hopes they would be.

“Let me see what my schedule is like tomorrow and we’ll see how things go.”

“May God bless you.” As Brother Arron takes Marshal Bullock, Jessica, and Dave to their boat.

Once they were back, Dave unties their boat, while Marshal Bullock backs it out into the river and take them back upriver. They noticed that Brother Arron and Joseph watched them as they departed.

“Guys, there is a lot going on there, that I fear might be more then we can solve.” Jessica looks towards Dave and Bullock.

“I think your wrong, Jessica. They won’t stand a chance against the whole team.” Dave knew his team could take out anyone.

Jessica looks at Dave “this is going to get messy.”

“You know it.” An evil smile appears on Dave’s face.

Marshal Bullock just listened to the conversation going on between Dave and Jessica. He figures Jessica knows a little more then what she is letting on. He was also concerned with what he saw.

Once they were far enough away from the village, Paul’s cellphone beeps, letting him know he had several missed calls. As he looked at who called him, he notices it was Kat’s cellphone. He tries to dialing her back but is unable to. He does receive her message.

A smile appears, on, his face, as he listens to her voice. This is the first time they have been separated since he first started working with her. He was also happy she survived the assassination. He knows, now she was going to be out for revenge. Knoxville is her playground and she’ll raise hell to get her revenge.

He also hears the message that Becky left, saying she had some important information she needed to give them. He wonders what the information could be.

“Tammy?” Becky looks at the text message she just received from Stanley.

She couldn’t believe that Kat and the rest of the team were on their way to their location. All the message said, was that a pissed off Kat was on her way to them. When she responded about the rest of Kat’s team. She was informed they were heading to Walker, Kansas to stay with Kat’s sister.

“Tammy, where are you?’ Becky couldn’t find Tammy anywhere and the next thing she hears is the sound of a gun.

“Guys, Tammy is under attack.” Becky heads towards the sound of the gunshot.

She heard the others coming out of the buildings they were sleeping in. They join Becky as she looks for Tammy. They heard a gun going off.

Becky locates Tammy out in the open in her panties with blood covering her bare chest. She was holding one of her guns and had it pointed at the two men laying a few feet from her. The two men were on the ground only few feet and were wearing black robes. They weren’t moving at all.

“Tammy, are you okay?” Becky approaches her leader carefully. She knew how deadly Tammy was with her guns.

“I’m in better condition, then those two.” She couldn’t believe that those two men had tried kidnapping her.

Marshal Bullock walks over to look at the men. He moves them and found a single bullet hole in each of them. He looks over towards Tammy and notices only one shell near her feet.

“Did you kill both men with one bullet?” Bullock was curious.

“Yes.” Tammy points her gun down towards the ground.

Becky walks over to Tammy and notices she was bleeding from a knife wound that went across her chest. The cut went directly across her breasts.

“Jessica, help me with Tammy.” Becky grabs Tammy and supports her.

Jessica rushes over to Tammy’s other side and between her and Becky, escort her back to where Tammy was sleeping. When they walk into the room, it looked like a hurricane had been through it.

“Damn! What happened in here?” Jessica and Becky managed to escort Tammy over to her bed.

“They came in and tried to kidnap me when I was asleep. We ended up fighting and I managed to escape. When I went to fight them off, one of
them pulled a wicked knife out and sliced me across my chest. I managed to get one shot off and it went through both their body.”

“Well, you’re going to love this. Kat and the rest of the team are coming to join us.” Becky was looking for something to use as a rag.

“Let me go and get the first aid kit.” Jessica gets up to go and get the first aid kit they brought with them.

“Alright.” Becky spots one of Tammy’s black t-shirts. She reaches for it and presses it against Tammy’s breasts.

Marshal Bullock, Paul, Marshal Running Bear, and Jerry walk into Tammy’s place. They noticed that Becky was pressing a black t-shirt against Tammy’s chest.

“Move aside, gentlemen.” Sophie and Jessica come running past them with the first aid kit.

“I got it, Becky.” Sophie takes the kit and locates the items she needed from it.

Becky removes the t-shirt and lets Sophie take care of Tammy. She watches as Sophie cleans the cut.

“She’s going to need stitches.” Sophie looks in the kit and hopes they brought a stitches kit.

Sophie digs through the kit and finally finds the kit. She pulls it out and starts stitching up Tammy’s chest.

Paul looks towards Becky “why were you looking for Tammy, Becky?”

Becky looks towards Paul “because your wife and the rest of our team are heading here to us. I just received word from Stanley.”

“Is she nuts? Is she bring the girls with her?” Paul wonders why Kat was coming to them.

“Don’t know, sir. All the message said was that Kat and the rest of our team are coming to join us. They should be here in about a day.” Becky looked back at her wrist unit.

“Twenty-four hours? Where are they getting a plane that can do that?” Marshal Bullock looks at Paul.

“Kat’s sister, Rebecca. She has a collection of military aircraft that she can turn into a flying gas tank.” Paul looks towards both Marshal’s.

“What is she, some sort of billionaire?” Marshal Running Bear was curious.

“No, she’s a mechanic and can rebuild any type of aircraft. No matter what type of condition it is in. She’s got a fully functional machine shop
and she hires retired military personnel.” Paul has seen her collection of military aircraft.

“Damn, we should have brought her here with a gunship.” Sophie had been listening to the conversation while patching Tammy up.

“She’s protecting the children and now my daughters. If the assassins tried to attack her place, they’ll find it very difficult to do.” Paul knew his
sister-in-law had a husband that was a former Russian soldier and he could protect them.

“Well, what are we going to do with Kat when she gets here?” Becky looks at everyone.

“We do what we were hired to do. Protect her and Paul and kill every one of these assassins. A message needs to be sent that you don’t come after the Romano family or mess with the Golden Eagle Squad.” Tammy looks at everyone.

Sophie had closed the cut on her chest, which hurt like hell. The bandages covering her breasts were a little tight, but it didn’t impede her movement.

“Are you saying we are going to war?” Marshal Bullock looks at Tammy when he asks that question.

“Knowing my wife, that’s a yes. Something must have happened in Knoxville to push Kat to come here and join us. Let’s hear what she has to
say before we make any decision.” Paul had a feeling that Tammy might be right.

Tammy picks up her other gun off the floor. How it got down there, she doesn’t know. It hurts her to bend like she was.

“Tammy, take it easy.” Sophie saw their leader winces from picking her gun up.

“Why did those men try to kidnap you, Tammy?” Marshal Bullock was curious why two men tried to kidnap, Tammy.

“I didn’t ask. I was too busy fighting for my life.” Tammy had been jumped by both men.

“Well, I think one of us, should remain with you tonight.” Paul looks at Tammy with a fatherly concern on his face.

She wasn’t much older than his girls. He already knew Brittney was going to follow in his and Kat’s footsteps. Terry already informed him and Kat, that she wants to be like her Aunt Kristen. Which he could understand. Terry has seen enough hurt when she was younger and throughout her life so far.

“I’ll stay with her, tonight.” Sophie looks at Paul.

The Marshals had left the room to take care of the dead bodies. Everyone else was getting ready to turn in. Things were moving faster than they expected. Especially, now that the other members of the Golden Eagle Squad were going to be joining them.

“I’ll bunk with Jessica tonight. We can watch each other’s backs.” Becky figures that it would be safer for her and Jessica to sleep in the same room.

“Alright, ladies. You two have a good night.” Paul turns and walks out of the building.

Jessica and Becky follow behind him. Jessica gathers her stuff and takes it to Becky’s room. The guys switch bedrooms, so someone is either
across from the ladies or next to them.

Stanley walks around the cargo area of the C-17 they were flying in. Dave and Greg were investigating the IAV Stryker Rebecca sent along. The thing was equipped with an M134 GAU-17 Gatling Gun and plenty of ammo to go along with it. She also sent along with additional ammo for their weapons.

Kat checks her handguns to make sure they were in operational condition. She goes over her full body armor, making sure everything was in working order. Stanley noticed that their full-body armor had been loaded as well. On their shoulders, was their Golden Eagle symbol.

“Hey Kat, how can your sister afford an aircraft like this?” Stanley looks at Kat.

“She’s a mechanic. She and her father used to restore all sorts of vehicles. Everything from old cars to military vehicles. That included military equipment and instruments the military still uses but is out of date. Several, museums from different countries have requested her services to rebuild famous aircraft. She’s also the only private collector that has five fully operational F-14 Tomcats.” Kat was surprised her sister had them.

“How did she managed to do that?” Stanley never heard of a private collector having Tomcats.

“She bought a bunch of them to save them and turn them into museum pieces. Out of all the ones she bought, she kept five of them and restored them to full operational status. She had everything she needed there at her facilities to either rebuild what she needed or manufacture what she needed. Rebecca is very talented when it comes to mechanical and electrical items. She lives up to the name Gadget.”

“If it's not too personal, how did you and your sister become like you are?” Stanley, Dave, and Greg have been wondering about that.

“I and my sister are experiments. The people who created us came after Terry, August, and Britney about a year ago. They wanted to harvest mine and my sister’s eggs, to make more of us. They experimented with our girls and physically turned them into fully functional girls. There’s another like us in Europe somewhere that escaped. Where she is, no one knows.” Kat only knew a little bit about her from the files they
retrieved from the facilities they had been taken too.

“So, you, your half-sister and your children all have been experimented on?”

“Yes, the only people who weren’t experimented on was my husband and Rebecca’s husband.” Kat knew Paul and Lev weren’t touched when
they were kidnapped.

Stanley looks over towards Zak, who was meditating. He wonders how much longer they had before they arrived. He gets up and heads towards the cockpit.

The door opens and is greeted by a young man “what do you need?”

“I’m just checking to see how much longer we are going to be in the air?” Stanley hadn’t met the person in front of him.

“About eighteen hours.” Jack had seen everyone when they came aboard.

Butch was giving him a chance to prove himself and expand his duties at the airfield. He had asked why they were heading to India and was told it was family business. He was also told to make sure no one who wasn’t cleared, didn’t get onto the plane.

“Okay, thanks.” Stanley turns around and heads back to the rest of his team.

Kat was done with cleaning and checking her weapons. They were as ready as she could make them. She gets up and walks around the cargo area. She was bored and trying to keep her concern about her husband under control. Out of all the bounties they have gone after, nothing like this has ever happened to them.

On top of that, she is wondering what she is going to do with the boys and Jill. Jill was classified as being dead. Morgana could easily create a new identity for her. As for the boys, maybe her brother and sister-in-law could adopt them. She knew her brother was thinking about starting a family.

She sticks her head into the Stryker to see what the guys were up too. She hopes they don’t need this beast, but she is glad that Rebecca sent it along.

“How’s it going, guys?” Kat looks towards Dave and Greg.

“Everything is in operational order, Kat. We can drive this thing out as soon as we land.” Dave was looking back towards Kat.

“Alright.” Kat turns around and heads back out of the Stryker.

Katwa, India.:
Paul was staring up at the ceiling of his room and thinking about his family. Kat was on her way to them, along with the rest of the Golden Eagle squadron. He figures the assassin group was getting worried about them finding them. He wonders how the two Marshals that were with them, was going to handle what Kat wants to do to them. He knows Kat's actions were the right thing to do. They needed to make a statement and they also need to find Britney’s ex-parents as well.

Britney’s birth parents should have walked completely away from their daughter. She was no longer theirs anyway. He and Kat adopt Britney as their child. Just as they adopted Terri as their daughter.

He couldn’t sleep with his mind on his family. He gets up and walks outside. He was glad it was still dark out. Something didn’t feel right to him, as he turned around. He moves just in time as an assassin was about to strike him.

He brings his right fist up and punches the person straight in the face. He blocks a knife with his other hand.

“When are you clowns going to learn, not to attack me or my family?” As his fist smashes into the guys face.

Paul dodges and blocks attacks from the assassin. He waits for an opening and lands a hard right cross to the guy. The assassin drops like a rag doll after Paul’s fist hits him.

Sophia had heard the commotion and came out to see what was going on. She caught the last part of the fight. It reminded her of uncle Thomas. The man was known to lay his opponents out with just one punch.

“When will they ever learn?” Sophia walks over and searches the figure and finds pictures of Paul and his family. He also had a bag filled with rubies and gold coins with weird carvings on them.

Sophia puts them back into the bag “I wonder what these are?”

“Let me see.” Paul walk stands next to Sophia.

Sophia digs one of the coins out and hands it to him. She watches as he looks at it. She was curious about what it means.

Paul examines the coin and didn’t recognize it. It was made of gold and had some sort of design on it, he had never seen one before. He had heard rumors of these coins but never held one.

“Don’t know, but I might know someone who might. She funnels all sorts of money floating around in the underworld.” Paul was thinking about Mercedes.

If there was one person who would know about these coins, it would be her. She dealt strictly with money and lived in New York. He’ll have to speak to her when they get back.

Becky and the rest of the group were waiting for Kat and the rest of their team to arrive. Becky had received word from Dave that they had landed and was heading towards them. Becky looks over towards Paul and could tell he was a little excited and concerned that Kat had come with the rest of the team.

Tammy was going over the information that Bullock, Jessica, and David had brought back with them. Currently, Bullock, David, and Jessica have returned to the village to do some more recon. Dave and Bullock felt that Brittney’s parents were behind the village.

“How much further are they Becky?” Sophia walks over to Becky.

Sophia brushes some of her hair out of her eyes. She noticed that Paul was anxious about Kat showing up, instead of hiding out at her sister’s place.

“They should be here within the hour.” Becky was keeping track of the Stryker as it moves towards them.

“I hope everything is going fine with Bullock and his team.” Sophia was concerned because they had lost radio contact with them, like last time.

Tammy puts away the information they had so far. She was concerned about Bullock and his team as they check out the village again.

“They should be okay.” Becky figures Marshal Bullock could get him and the rest of his companions out of any trouble they get into. After all, he survived being killed in the warehouse.

“If you say so. The thing I wonder, is why is there a blackout in that village? What are they hiding over there?” That’s been bothering Sophia since the first time Bullock and they went.

“That is a good question. Why would you, blackout a whole village and what might they be hiding. There’s no excuse for it unless you are hiding something.”

“That’s what my father or other members of my family would say.” Sophia knew several of her relatives would be suspicious as hell.
For the next hour, the team helps the volunteers that came to build houses and installing water systems.They knew their other team members would be arriving soon. Once everyone arrives, she wonders what they are going to do. What the game plan will be.

The Striker:
“How much further, Dave?” Stanley couldn’t wait to join his friends.

“Not much longer, boss.” Dave was locked onto the signal Becky had sent him.

Stanley glances over towards Kat. Since they landed and started their track towards the other team. She has been quiet and reserve. He knew she couldn’t wait to see her husband and to exact revenge on the people that came to attack her family and herself.

He saw how Kat’s tail was down and hooked, but he didn’t know what that meant. Kat was part cat and part human. He doesn’t know how her human emotions, control some of her cat features.

All he knew of her right now she was on the warpath and she wanted to get her revenge. He could see the quiet anger she was holding back. He knew she was worried about her twins as well. He knew she regretted not seeing them before they left.

Kat was quiet and trying to remind calm. She wanted her revenge and she wanted to see her husband. She and Paul have never been separated this long and couldn’t wait to feel his loving arms around her body.

Dave and Greg saw the others waving at them. He slows down as they approached them.

“We’re here, guys.” Dave stops the striker.

Paul and the others move towards the striker. Paul was in the lead and couldn’t wait to see his wife. He has been so concerned about her and wishes he had been at the hospital when Kat woke-up.

Everyone exists from the striker and everyone hugs their teammates. All of them were happy to see each other. They all stopped to watch as Kat and Paul come face-to-face. Paul wraps his big muscular arms around Kat and pulls her to him.

Kat jumps up and wraps her legs around Paul’s waist. She kisses him passionately. She has missed her husband so much.

Paul could feel his wife kissing him passionately. He returns the kiss, just as passionately as Kat was kissing him. He was so happy she was alive and in his arms.

“Okay you two, get a room.” Stanley saw how passionately Kat and Paul were kissing.

Kat stops kissing Paul and looks over towards Stanley “you’re still a kid. You wouldn’t understand.”

“Oh! You just got burned, Stanley.” Tammy could understand why Kat was acting the way she was. If her boyfriend from California was here.
She would jump his bones.

“So, what information have you guys gathered so far?” Kat looks at the group.

“That they have been persistent in their attacks on us. Paul had to kill one of them last night.” Tammy looks at Kat.

Just as Kat was about to say something “Becky, please respond.

Becky raises her wrist; it was Jessica’s voice coming from her wrist comp.

“Jessica, what’s the emergency?” Becky heard the urgency in Jessica’s voice.

“Bullocks has an arrow sticking out of his chest and leg, David is unconscious, and I have two arrows sticking out of my right shoulder.” Jessica had been caught off guard as they were moving down the river back to their campsite.

“How close are you to us?”

“We’re about to dock.” Jessica was in pain from the arrows in her shoulder.

Becky watches as Sophia, Tammy and Zak start running towards the river.

“Sophia, Tammy, and Zak are on their way to meet you.” Becky hopes they were going to be okay.

Marshal Running Bear looks over towards Becky “tell them I’m on my way to help.”

“Will do.” Becky watches as Marshal Running Bear runs down towards the dock.

When Sophia, Zak, Tammy, and Marshal Running Bear arrive at the dock. They noticed the boat was covered in arrows and the engine was smoking. The engine on the boat cuts out about a hundred feet from the docks.

Marshal Running Bear wades out into the river and when it gets too deep, he swims out to them and pulls them towards the docks.

“Here, hand me the rope.” Sophia was holding her hand out to take the rope.

Marshal Running Bear hands the rope to Sophia, while he stands next to the boat and looks at the injuries everyone took. Jessica had two arrows in her right shoulder, Bullock had an arrow that went through his chest and was sticking out from the other side. He had another one in his right leg and was sticking out as well.

David was out of it. He looked like someone cold-cocked him on the side of the head.

“What happened to David?”

“He got hit in the head by a rock. There it is at the bottom of the boat.” Jessica points to it with her left hand.

Sophia examines the arrows buried in Jessica’s shoulder. She could break them off and push them through the rest of the way. She’ll have to cauterize the wound, but it should be no problem.

She leans in close to Jessica “what happened to your special gift?”

Jessica looks at Sophia and, in a whisper, “I was overwhelmed by the spirits that were hovering near us.”

Running Bear helps Bullock out of the boat. The arrow in Bullock’s chest looked to be close to his heart.

“Here, let me help him.” Zak takes Running Bear’s place.

“Thanks, I’ll carry David.” Running Bear picks David up out of the boat.

“Who attacked you guys?” Tammy and several other members were coming towards everyone else.

“We don’t know. We were traveling down the river when a bunch of arrows came at us from the woods on the riverbank. There was nothing we could do because they came from both sides of the river.”

“And you weren’t able to see who attacked you guys?”

“No, not at all.” Jessica was in pain.

“How did David get attack?” Tammy was concerned about her teammate.

“He got hit, just as we boarded the boat. He was untying the lines to the boat when he fell into the boat.” Jessica will be glad when they remove the arrows in her shoulder.

When they get back where everyone else was. They spot Kat and Paul with several emergency medical bags out. Bullock, David, and Jessica are carried over to them. Jessica is sat down near Paul.

Paul looks at the two arrows sticking out of Jessica’s shoulder “this is going to hurt, Jess.”

“I can handle it. Do what you need to do.” Jessica slips into a mediate state to block the pain.

“Hold her, Sophia.” Paul breaks the shafts off and pushes both them through.

Jessica wanted to scream, but she didn’t. She braces herself for what was coming next. She knew Paul was going to have to cauterize the wounds.

Paul cleans the wounds, while Sophia supported Jessica. Sophia let Jessica know if she needed her strength, she could draw on it. Sophia had a high tolerance for pain.

Paul tends to the wound “prepare yourself, Jessica.” As he cauterizes the two holes the arrows had been.

Jessica winces when Paul cauterizes the wounds. She draws on Sophia’s strength when the pain becomes too much.

“That should do it.” Paul places bandages on the wounds.

Kat was taking care of Bullock. She has some trauma training that she learned from her adopted mother. Her mother was a nurse and she taught all her children how to help people.

Tammy was looking over David and tending to his wound. He took a nasty hit to his head. She hopes he recovers from the hit, as she bandages his wound. The first aid training they gave her, and her people were coming in handy.

Once everyone is taken care of, Kat and Paul look at everyone “Becky, you’ll need to stay here and look over everyone.”

“I’ll stay and help her.” Sophia knew Becky is going to need help and protection.”

“Alright, Sophia.” Paul was glad someone volunteered to stay and protect the injured.

“What are the rest of us going to be doing?” Zak looks at Kat and Paul for an answer.

“We’re going on the offensive. It’s time these assassins learn what happens when you fuck with my family and myself.” Kat wanted revenge.

“Kat, are you sure about this?” Stanley was concerned.

“Yes, we know they are being financed by Brittney’s parents and when we take the assassins out. We’ll deal with Brittney’s parents afterward.”
Stanley looks at Tammy to see if she agrees with Kat and Paul. The two of them were leader and co-leader of their team.

“I have to agree with Kat and Paul. We have been reacting, instead of attacking. It’s time they are taught a lesson.” Tammy feels it was time
they show these assassins who they are fucking with.

“Alright, so when do we attack?”

“By this evening. I want to see the layout of that village and around here so far.” Kat didn’t want to go in blindly.

“Alright.” Tammy looks towards Becky.

Becky gets ready to projects the images she has on file.

“Not out here, Becky. Let’s go inside the Stryker.” Kat heads towards the Stryker.

Tammy spotted two figures trying to sneak up on Kat and Paul. She adjusts her scope and pulls the trigger. She drops one guy, and before he hits the ground, the other one falls as we.

Kat didn’t even hear the two guys sneaking up on her and Paul. She heard them drop as she looked behind her. She was glad, Tammy was an excellent sharpshooter.

“Thanks, Tammy.” Kat moves with Paul through the forest.

“Anytime, Kat.” Tammy had found a nice tree she could shoot from.

They had found where the assassins had come from and caught a few off guarded. Kat and two other members from Golden Eagle squad shadow them back to their shrine. Once they knew the location, they started ambushing the assassin.

Some of the assassins they took as prisoners, which Kat tortured them herself. The Striker had to take a long route to get to the shrine, but once they arrived. They opened fire with the Gatling guns on the striker taking down several assassins and destroying several statues and religious symbols.

Back at Camp:
Becky was watching everything over her link and was recording what was going on. Sophia was tending to the wounded when something catches her attention. She points to Jessica with her finger to her lips.

Jessica nods her head and watches as Sophia disappears into the shadows. She has never seen Sophia do that before. She closes her eyes and concentrates pass the pain she was feeling on the area around them.

She picked up at least six people surrounding them. She managed to locate Sophia as she was about to attack the assassins. She couldn’t believe how calculated Sophia was as she decided how she was going to kill the assassins.

Sophia spotted her targets as she moved silently among the shadows towards them. She noticed they were all armed with knives and swords.
She pulls two of her throwing knives and throws one at one assassin and takes him down. Before the second guy could respond, she throws her knife into his throat.

She runs towards him and takes his knife and cuts his head off. She pulls her throwing knife out of his body and hit the third one. She moves just in time as one of the other assassins tries to get into arms reach to strike.

Sophia twists around and uses the knife she took from one assassin and sends it into the chest of the other assassin. She takes one of the throwing knives she recovered and throws it right into the eye of a nearby assassin.

Sophia turns around to face the last assassin. She noticed an evil smile on his weathered scarred face as he faces her. She returns the smile and waited for his move.

Jessica was still in Sophia’s head when she took the assassins on. She didn’t feel anything when Sophia attacked. She did feel a little enjoyment coming from Sophia.

“Don’t kill him, Sophia. I can pluck the info from his mind.” Jessica hopes, Sophia heard her.

“Oh, I’m not going to kill him. I’m just going to hurt him some.” Sophia blocks an attack from the guy. She kicks his knee out and takes his knife away from him.

The assassin tries to strike Sophia but is blocked by her hand. He tries another strike, but she blocks the attack.

“Sweet dreams.” Sophia knocks him out with a blow to the side of his head. She didn’t kill him but knocked him out.

Kat and Her Team:
Kat, Paul, Marshal Running Bear, and the rest of Golden Eagle squad were moving forward against the assassins and the village that Bullock and they found. They ran into the blackout field that has been protecting the village.

Becky was using the communication gear on the striker and her wrist comp to locate the source of the jamming. It was a challenge for her, but she finally managed to locate several sources. She relays that information to Kat and Paul.

“Kat, Paul we have several locations for the source of the jamming.”

“Alright, Becky. Send us the coordinates and I’ll send some of your team members to take them out.” Kay blocks an attack from some guys dressed in black robes.

She blocks another attack when they try to strike her with their knife. Kat extends her claws and cut across the man’s abdomen. She follows through with her other claws and cuts deep into the man’s body.

Tammy and Zak spotted one of the jammers. She aims with her sniping rifle and pulls the trigger.

“One down.” Tammy relays back to Becky.

“Make that two down.” Stanley and Greg took down a second one.

“Make that three down.” Jerry and Dave took down the third one.

“Alright, I need for you guys to see if you can locate the others. I’ll guide you as best as I can.” Becky tries to locate the others.

“Alright, Becky.” Stanley and Greg are attacked by four guys in black jumpsuits.

Greg punches one guy and takes his sword out of his hand. He blocks an attack from the second guy. He takes the sword he has and puts it through the second attacker’s chest.

Stanley takes his polearms and uses them to block attacks from the assassins attacking him. Both attackers come at him at the same time.
They attack him at the same time.

He blocks their attack and strikes back. So, far the assignment had been slow and boring. Now, it was getting exciting. He blocks some more attacks. He strikes back and hits the guys attacking him.

The men fighting Stanley and Greg try their damndest to kill them. They attack with their swords and knives. The guys attacking Greg have their knives sweep aside by Greg in full armor.

Greg knocks both men out. He didn’t kill them. He looks over towards Stanley to see how he was doing.

Stanley combines his polearms and uses it as a Bo-staff. He trips up, one of his attackers and hits the second one so hard in the chest. That the poor fellow falls backward on the ground.

Stanley puts the tip of his Bo-staff under the chin of the first guy “I wouldn’t move if I was you.”

“Watch out guys.” Tammy fires three rapid shots from her rifle.

Three guys fall from three different trees they had been concealed in. Tammy spotted them with her thermal scope. She looks where they dropped and noticed they had rifles as well.

“Guys, they have upped the game. They are using rifles now.”

“Thanks for the update, Tammy.” Paul knocks another of their attackers out.

“How are those jammers coming, guys?” Kat does a spin kick at another attacker.

“We’re almost done, taking them out, Kat.” Becky was still locating them with the help from the striker.

All of sudden, there is rapid gunfire sounding. Greg feels the bullets hit against his body armor.

“Okay, I’m getting pissed now.” He felt the impact but didn’t penetrate the body armor.

Paul feels the bullets as they hit his body armor as well. The bullets don’t penetrate his armor either, but he gets pissed from it.

“Dave, trim the forest for us.” Paul figures the minigun on the striker could clear the area where the gunfire was coming from.

“Gotcha, Paul.” Dave powers up the minigun.

The targeting system Rebecca installed comes online and zooms in on the targets. He pulls the trigger and fire towards the targets. The Striker vibrates as the minigun cuts through the trees and foliage concealing the assassins.

Dave brings the grenade launcher online as well. He fires the grenades into the area. Whoever Rebecca is, he loves her for all the toys the striker came equipped with.

Explosions go off all around Kat and the others. They make sure not to be in the area or near the areas the minigun and grenades were hitting.

“Damn! Dave, what the hell did you have in that thing?” Stanley had secured his prisoner.

Tammy was trying to locate more targets to fire at, but the explosions from the grenades going off and the minigun striking targets near her, were making it impossible. The tree she was in, gets cut in half from the minigun. As it is falling towards the ground, she braces herself.

“Damn it, Dave. Be more careful.”

“Sorry, Tammy. The targeting computer picked up some bad guys near your location.” Dave stops the minigun and the grenade launcher from firing.

Tammy disentangle herself from the tree limbs. Just as she stood up from the tree limbs, she feels several bullets hit her in the back of her armor.

“Urg!” Tammy turns around and spots one of the assassins holding an AK 47 in his hands.

“My turn, asshole.” Tammy brings her .50 caliber, rifle up and fire two rounds at him.

The assassin didn’t stand a chance as the two rounds hit him dead center of his chest. Tammy walks over and looks at the person “never fire at someone with a bigger gun.”

“How far are we from where Brittney’s parents are hiding?” Kat wanted the bastards for causing all these problems.

“I’m getting the information, now Kat.” Jessica looks at the assassin that Sophia knocked out.

She wasn’t going to be nice ripping the information from his head. She pushes through the pain she was still feeling from getting shot and dive deep into his mind. She hopes this guy knew what she wanted.

Jessica digs through his memories and sees all the people he has killed throughout his life. She tries to not let the images she is seeing bother her. She also sees the young women and child he raped and dismembered for fun.

She was getting sick from his memories and when she was about to give up, she finds the information she was looking for. She pulls out of the man’s mind and looks over towards Becky “tell them to go towards this area.”

Jessica writes the information down and hands it to Becky. She looks at the guy she just got finish digging into his mind.

“I should erase your mind or drive you crazy, but that’s too good for the crimes you committed.” Jessica goes back into his mind and makes sure he relieves the pain and emotions he caused.

Becky looks at the information and sends it to Kat and Dave. She also sends the information to all the other members as well.

Out in The Field:
Kat, Paul, Tammy, and the guys all received the information. Dave and Zak input the information into the targeting computer of the Striker “Kat, Paul we can light that area up for you, guys.”

“No, I want to see them myself. You guys finish taking care of these bastards and join us afterward.” Kat and Paul wanted to face Brittney’s birth parents and capture them.

“I’m coming with you, Kat.” Tammy walks up to where Kat and Paul are standing.

She had her rifle pointing downward on her back. She had her two custom pistols in their holsters. She stops once she is standing next to Kat and Paul.

Kat looks at Tammy “we’re taking them alive. So, if you have to shoot them, wound them only.”

“I can do that.” A smile appears on her face, beneath the helmet of her body armor.

The three of them start heading towards the location they were given. Tammy had to pull her handguns and shoot a few people who tried to stop them. Her trick shooting and training was coming in handy, as she bounced a bullet off an object to hit one guy in the ass.

Paul just glances at Tammy and wonder where she learned how to do that trick. He punches one guy that Brittney's parents hired to protect them in the face so hard. That the guy went flying backward. He saw that Kat was engaged with two men wearing body armor.

Tammy walks over to Paul “should we interfere?”

“No, Kat needs to let some of her anger out. She is very protective of family and when you threaten her family. It brings out the mean and vengeful spirit in her.”

Kat goes after the two men. She had her claws out and there was a growl coming from her. The two men try their best to slash at her and try to protect themselves from her attacks. Even with the full-body armor, she was wearing, Kat moved like a trained killer. She rips one guy's throat out with her claws. As for the other guy, she disfigured his face so badly. He was going to need plastic surgery to repair the damage she did.

Once Kat was done having her fun. She walks back towards her husband and Tammy. The front of her body armor was coated in blood.

The building they were heading for was directly ahead of them and guarded by at least six people in black body armors. The armor looked to
be the same type Kat, Paul, and the rest of the team wore.

“I like to know, where they got our style of armor.” Tammy noticed the similarity to theirs.

“Doesn’t matter, they are going down.” Kat pulls her gun out and starts firing at them.

Tammy changes the magazines in her handgun to some experimental rounds they were given. She has never used them, so she doesn’t know what they will do to her handguns. She starts firing at the men. When the first round left her handguns, she notices the slight kick to them.

In the next few minutes, gunfire is exchanged between Kat, Paul, Tammy, and the six armor figures. The new rounds from Tammy’s handgun penetrate their body armor like a hot knife through butter. However, after it heated her barrels after two magazines of rounds were fired. She had to stop using them.

Kat and Paul had taken down some of the men without using their guns after they saw how ineffective they were against the armor. Paul ended up break the necks of two of the men. Kat had to rip the helmets off the two she fought.

“Its time to put an end to this mess.”

“I agree.” Paul wanted this mess to end.

Kat, Paul, and Tammy manage to make it where Britney’s parents were sitting and watching the fighting going on outside the building. They had several large screen monitors showing them everything going on around the village and where the rest of Kat’s team was located.

Vishal and Kartika watch as Kat, Paul and Tammy come walking towards them. Vishal looks over towards his wife “it seems our time has come. Are you ready my dear?”

“If it means that bitch and her family get what is coming towards them, then yes. She deserves to die for what she has done.” Kartika grabs her husband’s hand.

An evil smile appears on Vishal’s face as he picks up a remote. He presses a button on it and all the doors leading towards the chamber they are in, shut and lock. One button flashes red, as he puts the remote down.

Kat, Paul, and Tammy enter the room where Vishal and Kartika were sitting and waiting for them. Kat and Paul couldn’t believe how much Brittney’s birth parents had changed. They no longer looked like they did, when they last saw them.

Kat looks at them “it’s time you pay for what you have done.”

“I don’t think so, Mrs. Romano.” Vishal reaches next to him and presses the flashing red button.

A loud explosion goes off and the room Kat, Paul, and Tammy are in explode. The overhead ceiling starts collapsing and burying them. There was no way they could escape, because the door they had come through, had locked behind them.

Back In The Village:
Jessica had managed to close his eyes and quiet her mind enough to catch a catnap. All sudden her eyes open “NO!”

Sophia and Becky were standing nearby and turn to look at her when they hear Jessica scream. Sophia walks over to Jessica “what has happened, Jessica?”

Jessica looks into Sophia’s eyes “you need to get the team to the building Kat, Paul and Tammy entered.”

Becky locks onto her team’s frequency “guys, something just happened to the Romano’s and Tammy. You need to get to them quickly.”

Out in The Feild:
“Guys, you need to get to Kat, Paul, and Tammy’s location right away.” Stanley and the rest of the guys in the group hear Becky’s voice coming over their channel.

As they hear Becky’s voice over the radio. They feel the ground shake and hear a loud explosion. Debris starts raining down onto them.

“What the hell just happened?” Greg felt the debris as it hits his armor.

“I don’t know, but you guys need to hurry.” Dave heard weak help coming from Tammy.

Marshal Running Bear felt the vibrations as well. He puts his arm up to block the debris falling from the sky.

“Becky, what is Kat’s, Paul, and Tammy’s location right now?” Marshal Running Bear knew Becky was keeping track of everyone.

“Eighteen meters ahead of you, Marshal.” Becky was getting a weak signal from the armor Kat, Paul, and Tammy wore.

Marshal Running Bear heads towards the direction he was given. Stanley, Greg, Zak, and Jerry join Marshal Running Bear.

“What the heck happened here?” Zak looks at what was left of the temple Kat, Paul, and Tammy had gone into.

“I don’t know, but this is where Becky said they are.” Marshal Running Bear noticed the men that must have been guarding the place.

“Becky, are Kat, Tammy, and Paul still here?” Stanley hopes they weren’t buried under the debris.

“They should be right in front of you.” Becky had all her teammate's location signals.

Dave pulls up with the striker and stops behind the rest of the guys. He saw the rubble and his teammates just looking at it. He gets out and walks up to them.

“Guys, we better start removing the rumble, because these suits only have a short air supply.” Dave hopes Tammy and their employer weren’t buried too deeply.

The guys walk over towards the rumble and start removing it. Some of it was heavy and needed three of them to move it.

“Guys, I think I found some of the remains of the people we came to find.” Zak held up a female’s hand.

“Save it.” Marshal Running Bear looks over towards Zak.

“I’ll get you something to put it in.” Dave walks over towards the Striker to grab something to put the remains in.

“Guys, I think I found Tammy.” Stanley removes several big blocks of stone off Tammy’s body.

“I think I found Kat and Paul.” Marshal Running Bear and Greg remove several huge pieces of beams and rumble.

Paul’s body was on top of Kat, protecting her. The back of his armor was cracked, but still intact. They remove him carefully from Kat.

Kat had a gash on her forehead and blood was covering her face. Her face was covered with dust.

“Dave, get the smelling salts from the medical kit.” Running Bear looks over towards Dave.

“On it.” Dave runs towards the striker.

He pulls the medical kit down and searches through it until he finds the smelling salts. He runs back to where Kat was and hands the smelling salts to Marshal Running Bear “here.”

Marshal Running Bear cracks them and put them under Kat’s nose. He hopes she’ll wake-up because the last thing they needed was to explain to Brittney and Terry that their mother died.

“Come on, Kat. You’re stronger than this.”

Kat slowly opens her eyes and looks up into Marshal Running Bear’s face. Her head was hurting her.

“Where’s Paul?” Kat tries to move, but Marshal running Bear wasn’t letting her up.

“Stay still, Kat. He’s being looked after by Zak and Dave.” Marshal Running Bear looks over towards Paul.

“Is there anything broken, Kat?” Jerry was concerned about Kat.

“No, but I do have one hell of a headache.” Kat closes her head and tries to stop her head from hurting her.

Stanley looks at Tammy as he removes her helmet. She had a bruise on her right cheek. They found her sniping rifle and the barrel was crushed.

“Come on Tam, say something.”

“Something.” Tammy’s whole body was hurting her. The blocks of stone that fell on her, she felt through her body armor.

A smile appears on Stanley’s face “how do you feel?”

“Like I had a building dropped on top of me.” Tammy tries to move but stops. “I think I’m just going to lay here for a while.”

Tammy is moved carefully since she had a huge block of stone fall on her. Her hard armor absorbed the impact, but some of it did pass through. Her rib cage and chest were hurting her.

“Easy guys.” Stanley was directing Dave and Greg as they moved Tammy to a stretcher and carried her to the Striker.

Paul was gritting his teeth from the pain in his back, as he stood next to Kat. They were looking at several of the men their team captured.

“I have a message for you to deliver to whoever you answer to. Tell them, that the next time they come after me or my family. I will come back and make it my life works to hunt and kill each and every one of you. And believe me, I am very good at hunting people down.” Kat extends her
claws and rakes them across the face of the person she was talking to.

The man screams in pain, as he feels the claws scrape his face. Blood forms in the welts she just gave him.

“That’s to remind you of my words.” Kat retracts her claws.

“Let them go.” Paul looks at the others, that were holding them.

Zak looks at the person he was watching “you’re lucky. I would have killed you.” He pushes the guy forward.

“What do you want to do about the other people in the village?” Marshal Running Bear looks at Paul and Kat.

“We’ll give whoever wants to head back to the states a ride. Those who don’t want to go, can stay here and rot.” Kat wanted to get back to her babies.

Marshal Running Bear could tell Kat was pissed and tired. He looks towards Jerry “go ahead and extend the offer to the villagers.”

“Okay.” Jerry and Sophia head towards the village.

Kat looks towards Becky “call Butch and tell him we're ready for pick-up.”

“Already on it, boss woman.” Becky has been in contact with Butch and was scheduling their pick-up with him.

“What do you want to do with the remains?” Dave and the others had gathered as much of the remains of Brittney’s parents.

“Seal them in a cooler and we’ll take them back to my daughter. I’ll let her decide what she wants to do with them.” Kat figures Brittney should
have the final say over her birth parents' remains.

The rest of the afternoon, Kat checks on the others to see how they were faring. When she comes to Jessica “you know, I could use someone with your talents working for me.”

Jessica looks into Kat’s kitty cat face and eyes “no thanks. You guys play too hard for me. I’m not the type that likes to get shot at.”

“Is there anywhere you want us to drop you, then?” Kat was kind of hoping to recruit Jessica for her company.

“I’ll fly back with you and have my jet meet me at the airfield.” All Jessica wanted to do, is get back home to Florida.

“I can respect that. Are you going to be okay, with those wounds?” Kat noticed that where the arrows had entered, had been cauterized.

“I’ll be fine. I think Marshal Bullock might need a hospital.” Jessica looks over towards the Marshal.

“I’ll be fine. The arrow missed my lungs. The one in my leg missed my artery as well.” Marshal Bullock couldn’t believe he had been hit by
arrows.

“How’s Dave doing?” Stanley was concerned about his teammate.

“He’ll be fine. He will just have a headache for a while.” Sophia had tended to all the injured and protected them as well.

“So, are you going to hang around or head back to England?” Stanley looks at Sophia.

“You’re stuck with me. I was assigned to your group by my cousin, Gina.” Sophia figures while she is in the states, she’ll visit her uncle and cousins.

“That’s new to me. Alright, let's get everything ready to fly back to Kansas.”

“Okay.” Zak and Greg along with everyone else in their group start packing up.

Kat looks over towards Becky “any word from Butch?”

“Yes ma’am. He said the earliest he can be here, is tomorrow afternoon.” Becky received word from Butch, after contacting him.

“Alright, one more day here, won’t kill us.” Kat looks over at Paul to see how he was doing.

Kat could see the pain he was hiding. She hopes the impact on his back, wasn’t too serious. She saw what damage his body armor took.

“Come on, let's see how bad your injuries are.” Kat takes Paul by the hand and heads towards the Striker.

Kat slowly removes Paul’s body armor. She notices, once his armor was off and the shirt underneath it was off. His whole back was one big bruised.

“How are you holding out, sweetie?”

“Like someone used me as a punching bag.” Paul was trying very hard not to let the pain bother him.

“Let me get you something for the pain.” Kat digs through the medical kit and finds some morphine.

She fills the needle with the proper dose “this is only going to hurt for a little bit.” As she sticks him with the needle.

Paul grits his teeth tighter, as Kat sticks him with the needle. It only lasted a few minutes, but he was glad it was quick.

“Feeling, better?” Kat watches her husband’s face.

“Yes.” As he leans forward and kisses Kat.

Sophia looks down at Tammy as she laid on the stretcher in the Striker. Her armor had been removed and she was one big bruised as well.
The stones that fell on her, were heavy and did put some micro cracks in her body armor.

“How are you feeling Tam?”

“Why does everyone keep asking me that question?” Tammy looks up into Sophia’s eyes.

“Because we’re worried about you.”

“Like I said before as a building fell on me. How bad does my body look?”

“Let’s just say, you wouldn’t want to put a bikini on and wear it outside.” Sophia couldn’t believe how abused Tammy’s body looked.

“Thanks. So, when are we out of here?”

“Tomorrow afternoon. Are you going to be okay, while I go and help Becky?”

“Yeah, I promise not to try and sit-up.” Tammy knew if she did, she would regret it.

“Alright, I’ll be back in a few minutes.” Sophia gets up and goes to see Becky.

Butch watches as everyone boards the plane. He had originally thought he was going to be taking Kat and her crew back. He wasn’t counting on the others that were loading. He spots two women staying away from the others. He noticed that the woman with short black hair was supporting the other one, who was walking with a limp. He also noticed that the robe she had on was filthy and had a rust color stained on the front of it. The poor thing looked so pale as the other woman lead her over to a seat, far away from the others.

He continued to watch as the black hair woman secured the other woman into the seat. He spots Kat as she supported her husband over to one of the seats. He walks over to them.

“Hey, Kay what’s with all the extra passengers?” Butch was curious.

“Didn’t Becky tell you?” Kat makes sure Paul was secured, while she continued to talk with Butch.

“No. So, what’s with all the extra people?”

“These people are the followers who had come over here to do missionary work but ended up being used for other purposes.” Kat looks at the
others as they board the plane.

“Okay, did you see that young woman over there?” Butch points to the woman that looked like she was staring off into space.

“No.” Kat noticed the expression on the woman’s face.

She had a feeling that she must have been abused and maybe raped. She wonders if Jessica wouldn’t mind reading the woman’s mind to see what had been done to her. She looks around for Jessica and spots her being helped by Sophia.

“Hey Sophia and Jessica, can you two come over here for a minute?”

“Sure, Kat.” Sophia helps Jessica over to where Kat, Butch, and Paul were.

Kat looks at Jessica “can you use your special talent, to see what is wrong with that woman over there?” Kat points towards the brown hair woman wearing the filthy robe.

Jessica looks over towards the woman and slowly enter her mind. She clings tightly to Sophia as memories of being gang rape repeatedly enters her mind. The woman had been gang-raped over and over again, all because she had been accused of being a lesbian by another woman.

The other woman had been jealous because the priest of the village had taken a liking to her. So, she reported that the woman was a lesbian. The punishment for any lesbians was being gang-raped until they confess to their sins. In this case, the girl had been gang rape repeatedly.
The Priest enjoyed watching the pain being inflicted on her. He even joined in on the rapes.

Jessica exists from the woman’s mind and looks at Kat. There was anger on her face “they gang rape her several times. She’s reliving what was done to her.”

“Shit! Can you help her?” Kat felt sorry for the woman.

“Not here, I would have to take her back to my place.” Jessica figures her place would be perfect to help the woman.

“Why your place?” Kat was puzzled about that.

“Because it is very relaxing and away from anything that might remind her of what she went through. It will help me build a relationship with her.” Jessica could still feel the woman’s pain.

“Alright, go over and talk with her and her friend.” Kat hopes Jessica can help the woman.

“Okay.” Jessica with Sophia’s help walks over to the woman.

Butch looks at Paul “is he going to be okay?”

“He should be. I gave him a shot of morphine to kill the pain.”

“Don’t give him too much or he’ll become addicted to it.” Butch has seen people become addicted to the drug.

“If he ever does, I’ll cut his balls off.” Kat knew about addiction, because of her mother working as a nurse.

“Hey Butch, we’re all loaded up and ready to depart.” Teddy looks over towards Butch.

“Okay. Button her up and get ready to take off.”

“Are you sure, we can take off with this much of a load?” Kat was looking at everything loaded in the plane, besides her people and the Striker.

“Oh, we have power to spare. You forget who maintains this old bird.” Butch turns around with a smile on his face as he heads towards the cockpit.

Kat just shakes her head and rests her head on her husband’s shoulder. She can’t wait to be back home with her babies and family. She never thought when she became a bounty hunter that her life would head towards this.

She never thought she would be a mother or have children. Hell, they weren’t even sure she could get pregnant. Sure, she had periods like any woman would, but no one ever knew her eggs could be fertilized as a normal woman could.

Her oldest daughter wants to get married as soon as they get back. She didn’t mind, but she wishes Brittney and Crystal would wait a few years before they tied the knot. Also, she and Paul were hoping to have grandchildren from their daughters. She knew Terry was going to follow in her big sister’s footsteps and become a lawyer. Which meant years of law school, unless Terry learned from her sister.

Brittney and Crystal, on the other hand, were going to follow in her and Paul’s footsteps and continue bounty hunting. They were going to carry on the family business. As for Jill, she read the text Terry sent asking her to adopt Jill. She hasn’t spoken to Paul yet about adopting another child.

The two boys they rescued, her older brother and wife were already in the process of adopting them. She closes her eyes and just let sleep claim her. She’ll deal with these problems when she gets home. Maybe, after they have been home for a while, she and Paul could go on vacation somewhere.

Sophia had helped Jessica over to the two women and left her there, to talk with them. She noticed that the woman who had been gang-raped several times was in a catatonic state. The poor woman was reliving what was done to her inside her head.

She walks over and sits down next to the two Marshal’s. Marshal Running Bear had his eyes closes. She could tell he was trying to mediate, but it wasn’t working. As for Marshal Bullock, he was relaxing. The pain pills he had taken were easing the pain he still felt.