When Anika walks into the townhouse, she catches the scent of something wonderful cooking. She follows the scent to the kitchen, where she spots Aylin and Shade cooking. She could tell Aylin was in an extremely good mood.

“What’s for dinner you two?” Anika puts her briefcase and purse down.

She’ll wait until after dinner to tell Shade and Hatter that Jack has a mission for them. She doesn’t know if it is wise to send Aylin to South America. However, Jack did say that Terry was going, so she shouldn’t worry too much.

“We are having fajitas, Spanish rice, and refried beans.” Aylin looks over towards Anika.

Anika saw that there was a glow to Aylin. She hopes Aylin knew what she was doing.

“Is there anything I can do to help?” Anika doesn’t mind help the two of them.

“Nope, we got it, mom.” Aylin had already set the dining room table.

“Okay.” Anika takes her seat at the table.

Aylin and Shade bring in everything and place it on the dining room table. Once the table is set, the three of them sit down at the table and start eating.

“So, what do you think, mom?” Aylin looks at Anika.

“I think you did well on fixing everything.” Anika never tasted anything so good before.

The spices Aylin used to make the fajitas, rice, and beans were good. She wonders if the cooking classes Aylin has been taking taught her how to make fajitas.

“Shade, I have a mission for you. You can say no if you want too.” Anika looks at Shade.

“What’s the mission?” Shade was interested in it.

“Rescue mission. A businessman from Spain was on a business trip with his daughter when she was kidnapped. She was taken while he was in a meeting with the Venezuela government.”

“Why isn’t the Spanish government taken action?” Shade looks at Anika.

“They are, but by the time things get settle set in motion by them, it will be too late. So, A friend of my brother’s in the Spanish government is asking for help.”

“You mean uncle Jack is asking my boyfriend if he wants to do this mission?” Aylin looks at Anika.

“Yes, uncle Jack is getting a team together to go and rescue the girl.” Anika could see that Aylin was thinking about something.

“I’ll do it.” Aylin didn’t want the girl to suffer.

“Hey, your mom asked me if I wanted to do it.” Shade looks at Aylin when he says that.

“I know and I know you would say yes as well.” A smile forms on Aylin’s face.

“Your mom didn’t say you were going.” Shade looks at Aylin with a serious look on his face.

“She doesn’t need to ask me. I would do it anyway.” Aylin wasn’t going to sit this mission out.

Anika just sits quietly and listens to both teenagers. She knew Aylin would say yes, even if she didn’t ask her.

“So, mom when do we leave?” Aylin was ready to get started.

“First young lady, we need to get you a new uniform. Your current Hatter outfit isn’t suited for South America. Secondly, can either one of you
speak Spanish or Portuguese?”

A sly smile appears on Aylin’s face “Sim mãe.”

Shade looks at Aylin when she speaks “where did you learn to speak, Portuguese?”

“When I was in the mental hospital. One of the patients there spoke it. So, I managed to learn how from him. He missed his little girl, so I acted as his little girl.” Aylin wanted someone to protect her from the orderlies.

“You know, that’s three languages I know you speak?” Shade was impressed with Aylin.

“She is full of surprises.” Anika was proud of the woman Aylin was growing into.

“Alright, after dinner lets get you fitted for a new suit and select the weapons you two want to take with you. You’re going with Terry to South America.”

“Cool, he has all sorts of neat toys.” Aylin was excited.

St. Veridiana Convent, Yacate, Brazil:
Sister Cavallero couldn’t believe how many people Don Juan sent to her little convent. They had taken one of the cellars that had been used as storage and converted it into a communication center. They had satellite communications that were encrypted. They also had twelve new nuns that had joined the convent.

Don Juan had sent women that had some religious background that could easily pass as a nun. Some of the people he sent were either former nuns or female agents that volunteer to play the role of nuns. So, far she has managed to keep her alter ego Coyote from being discovered by the women. The woman that was the head nun, was a former model that had done some spying for the Spanish government.

Myra found out that all of them loved the hot springs that the place had. She was soaking currently in the basin to relieve some pain she was feeling. She fell three stories last night after interrogating a few cartel men. She found where they were holding the girl and if Don Juan’s help didn’t get here within the next few days, they were going to move her.

She had been personally contacted by Don Juan to pass a message onto Coyote since he didn’t know how to contact him. He wanted Coyote to meet up with the people he was sent down, at a certain location. Coyote had scouted the place and it was an airfield, that private pilots used.

There were a few hangars there. The nuns that were at her convent now, had come from there. She sorts of enjoyed the company and regretted it as well. She had to be careful of her other identity.

Don Juan said that help would be coming within two days. She does hope they come. She closes her eyes and lets the hot spring water relax her bruised muscles.

The Armory, Watertown, NY
Aylin admires herself in the mirror at the armory run by Hera. She has been outfitted with a new skintight bodysuit that looked like her old Mad Hatter outfit. The new top hat she was wearing had a blade that retracted into the brim of the hat and she could call it to her with electromagnetics in the palm of her hands. The strength of the magnets was so strong, she could scale a building with them.

“Me likes!” Aylin loved her new outfit.

“It’s as protective as your old suit, but lightweight and flexible. You can swim in it without any problems. However, you’re going to feel the kinetic energy from any bullets that hit you.” Hera watches Aylin as Anika stood nearby.

“I thought you fixed that problem?” Anika looks at Hera.

“I’m still looking for a special absorbing material that won’t bulk up the bodysuit.” Hera had a few leads on some material that she could use.

“As for you, young man. How does your suit feel?” Hera looks over towards Shade.

He was standing next to Aylin in his new bodysuit. The thing covered his whole body and was comfortable. It was as flexible as Aylin’s suit but protected him better than her suit.

“Your suit is based on a Russian design. I managed to get my hands on one of the prototypes and reengineered it. It will stop up to a .50 BMG round. However, you will feel it if you get hit with the .50 BMG round. Your helmet will protect you from poisonous gases and toxins. You also have a built-in radio, night vision, binoculars, and thermal imager.”

“Hey, no fair. I want all those.” Aylin looks at Hera and Shade.

Hera saw the pouting look on Aylin’s face. A sly smile appears on her face “you get an earbud that is both a transmitter and receiver. Also, you’ll be getting a bunch of new gadgets and weapons.”

“Oh! New toys and weapons.” Aylin expression changes very quickly.

Hera walks over to her workbench. There was a black case laying on it.

“I got in touch with Mr. Rachet and he sent this over for you, Aylin.” Hera hands the long black hard case to Aylin.

Aylin opens the case and inside was a black rifle. There were several clear magazines with different liquids in them. There was also a note inside as well.

Hatter,

This rifle acts just like your needler, except for one thing. Once you lock onto your opponent with the automatic sights. Every shot you take will hit the same target. Also, I have enclosed different types of rounds for your rifle, should you decide to eliminate your target.

“So, what did Mr. Rachet say, Aylin?” Anika was curious about what he wrote to her daughter.

“He was just informing me that I’ll hit whoever I aim at and that each magazine has different purposes.” Aylin picks one up and looks at it. The
liquid inside was clear, but she figures it was something else.

Hera brings out a few more gadgets, like grappling hooks, machete, and a sword for Shade. It had an edge that was done by a laser and a few other goodies as well. Shade also was issued the same Glock handguns he had been given before.

Just as they were about to leave “oh, I have one thing for you two. Aylin, your mother said that you and Shade like riding motorcycles. So, I have two motorcycles for you two. They are electric and extremely quiet. Terry said that Rhino can recharge them without any problems.”

Hera leads Aylin, Anika, and Shade to the vehicle bay where she had them stored. She walks over to two covered bikes and pulls the covers off.

“Here you go.” Hera shows off two black all-terrain motorcycles.

Aylin walks overs and caresses the motorcycle “so pretty.”

“What’s their top speed?” Shade looks at Hera.

“210 mph.”

“How far can we go, before we need to stop and recharge?”

“120 miles, before you run out of energy and thirty minutes with the quick charger Terry has in rhino. Otherwise, you’re looking at two-n-half
hours.”

“I want to try them out.” Aylin wanted to test drive her new motorcycles.

Hera walks over to the garage door and opens it. Once the doors are opened “try them out on the track.”

“Put your helmet on you two.” Anika watched as Aylin and Shade mounted their new motorcycles.

Aylin squeals out of the garage, followed by Shade. They head out onto the dirt test track and put the motorcycles through their paces. Aylin is hard with her motorcycle and does all sorts of tricks and stunts with it. Shade follows Aylin and does the same thing with his.

Hera just stands at the garage door, watching them with her one good eye. She still has some scars from the abuse her husband gave her. The other scars she has were covered up by the clothes she was wearing.

If Jack hadn’t intervened that night her alcoholic husband attacked her. She would be dead. Her husband beat her so badly in the face, that she lost her right eye and the doctors had to reconstruct that side of her face.

The fight had started when she came home from a long frustrating day at work. Her husband had been laid off from his job. His company was downsizing, and they no longer needed him along with several other people. Also, it didn’t help he had been caught drunk at work a few times either.

She had walked into their apartment tired and on edge from her boss being a royal asshole. Her husband was laying passed out on the sofa and the place looked like a wild boar had gone through and broken everything. When she started cleaning up, her husband woke-up and picked a fight with her.

He attacked her first and she fought back. She tried protecting her face, but she was no boxer and her husband had been. He punched her several times in the face and nearly put her through the window in the living room. She couldn’t see out of her eyes and her husband had her by the hair and was about to punch her one more time when his fist was grabbed from behind.

The last thing she saw, before she passed out was a big man dressed in a business suit. He took her husband and sent him flying against the other wall. She passed out afterward.

The next time she woke up, she was in the hospital. She didn’t know how long she had been out of it or which hospital she was in. She fell back to sleep and when she woke up a second time. Mr. Bounty was sitting by her bed and was surprised he was there. He had informed her that he was taking care of her hospital stay and was giving her as much vocation time she needed to recover. Also, he would arrange for a new apartment for her.

Once she had recovered Mr. Bounty offered her the job she was currently at, since she was a brilliant engineer. Since then, she has been doing special jobs and weapons for him and his agents. The thing was, she enjoyed her job.

Anika and Hera watch as Aylin and Shade test their new motorcycles out on the dirt track. Anika just shakes her head as Aylin jumps high in the air off a dirt hill. Shade follows behind her as the two lean into a turn and come skidding to a halt in front of Anika and Hera.

“Me likeee!” As Aylin removes her helmet.

“Double that for me.” Shade slides to a stop next to Aylin.

“I’m glad you like them. Now, you get to clean them up.” Hera wanted them clean before they were delivered to Terry.

“Yes ma’am.” Aylin and Shade take the motorcycles back outside to clean them.

Terry does one last check of Rhino as they prepared to be dropped out of the cargo plane, they were in. He looks over towards Aylin and Shade. He’s only met Shade a few times, but he saw how much Aylin trusted him and how close they were.

He saw that Aylin was excited about the drop. Shade on the other hand looked a little nervous about it.

“Nervous, Shade?”

“Yeah, I’ve never jumped out of a plane before.” Shade knew Aylin did a lot of crazy things and he had no problem joining her. However, he has never jumped out of an airplane before.

“Don’t worry, you’ll be inside of Rhino when we jump. That’s a different type of excitement and thrill.” A smile appears on Terry’s face.

“You mean, we are going to be inside Rhino when we drop?” Shade thought they were jumping out of the plane.

“Yep, we’re going to be inside Rhino when we drop. You saw the movie Fast and Furious, didn’t you?”

“Yeah, but that was all done by professional stuntmen.”

“It’s the same thing. I’ve done a few drops with equipment. We’ll be inside Rhino as he is falling towards the airfield. The parachutes attached to him will open and we will glide down.”

“What happens if his chutes don’t open?” Shade was feeling even more nervous now.

“Then we will become a giant bowl of gumbo.” A teasing smile appears on Terry’s face.

Aylin was on top of Rhino listening to Terry and Shade. She starts giggling when Terry tells Shade they would become a giant bowl of gumbo. She flips down off of the top of Rhino near Shade “it's going to be fun Shade, trust me.” She places a kiss on his cheek.

“Only you would think, falling through the sky inside a vehicle is fun.” He looks at Aylin.

Just before they left the Armory, Hera gave Aylin a special pair of goggles that allowed her to see in the dark. It also had a camera built into
them, so what Aylin saw, Terry would see as well.

“Alright you two, get abroad and strap in. We’re almost over our target.” Terry heads inside Rhino and towards the driver seat.

“Yipee!” Aylin follows behind Terry. She had a bounce in her step as she takes the passenger side seat.

Shade closes the back hatch and follows the others towards the front. He was still feeling nervous about this whole thing. If he didn’t love Aylin like he did, he wouldn’t even think about doing something like this. He sits in the seat behind Terry’s seat and put on the five-point harness.

The lights inside Rhino change color as they start moving backwards down the ramp. The next thing they know, Rhino is falling through the sky.

“WWWWEEEEEEEEEEE!” Aylin had her hands up inside Rhino.

Terry glances over towards her and could see she was enjoying the fall. He wonders how Shade was doing, now that they were free falling.

“How are you holding up, Shade?”

“Scared to death.” Shade had a tight grip on his seat as he tried to keep from throwing up.

Terry watches as the GPS unit counted down to activate the parachute systems. So, far everything was going as planned. The last time he did anything like this, was when he was in the army. It was just an exercise in the tank he was assigned. The airfield they were dropping down to, should be coming up soon.

Private Airfield, Brazil:
Coyote heard airplane engines coming towards his location. He takes his binoculars out and spots an object falling towards his location. After a few minutes, he notices parachutes deploying and the object spring back up in the sky. As it got closer to his location, he could make out that it was some sort of vehicle.

Coyote watches as it lands at the end of the runway. The parachutes fell on top of it, covering it. He continues to watch the vehicle to see who was coming out of it. He has never seen anything so hi-tech looking before.

“Aylin, Shade go and remove the parachute off Rhino.”

“No problem.” Aylin disengages her seatbelt.

She had fun when they were falling through the sky and loved it when the parachutes deployed. She heads towards the rear hatch. She stops and looks at Shade “that was fun. Are you going to be okay?”

She notices that he lost some of his colors. She has never seen him so pale before.

“I’ll be okay. Let’s not do that again, please.” Shade gets up and follows Aylin out of Rhino.

Coyote watches as the back section of the hi-tech vehicle door opened and two figures come walking out. One was dressed in some sort of hi-
tech bodysuit. The person was covered from head to toe. The other person looked to be female from the outline of their bodysuit. She had on a pair of dark shades that cover the front of her face. Plus, she had on some sort of burgundy top hat with a card sticking out from a band that went around the base of the top hat.

He watches as they remove the parachute from the vehicle. He notices that the two worked closely together. He wonders what their relationship was and who did they work for.

Hatter slips one of her throwing knives into her hand and cuts the harness straps that secured the parachutes to Rhino. She helps Shade with him, as he uses his sword to cut the other straps. Once the straps were removed, Shade balls the chutes up “Terry, what are we supposed to do with these chutes?”

“Mr. Bounty said to put them in the fourth hangar. There’s a wooden chest you can stuff them in.”

Shade looks around and notices there were at least four hangars. One hangar looked like it didn’t belong. It was wider than the others and the doors looked kind of new on it. He walks over towards it.

Coyote watches as the figure in the full armor heads towards the hangar he was told to meet Don Juan’s people. He watches as the person stops and lifts the visor on his helmet. After that, the black-dressed figure walks into the hangar.

As for the girl, he looks around for her and spots her on top of the strange vehicle. She looked like she was looking around herself. A few times, she seems to stop and look right at his location.

Aylin watches as Shade heads into the hangar. She climbs onto the top of Rhino and looks around. She liked her new glasses, as she looks around the perimeter of the airfield. She stops a few times while looking towards the jungle. She spotted something watching them. She couldn’t make out who or what it was. It was concealed by the foliage of the jungle, but she spotted something or someone watching them.

“Terry, can you tell me if there’s something in the woods on the perimeter of the field watching us?” Aylin kept her sight on the location.

Terry brings up the HD cameras on the right-hand side of Rhino and locks onto the location Aylin was looking for. The cameras weren’t giving him anything. He goes through the whole spectrum and finally picks up an image in one of the trees.

“I see it now, Hatter. That might be our contact. Let the person come to us.”

“Alright.” Aylin continues to watch the location.

Coyote figures he should go and introduce himself to them. He jumps down from the tree he has been hiding in and starts walking towards them.

“Terry, what does our contact supposed to look like?” Aylin watched as a person drops out of the trees of the spot she has been observing.

“Jack said they look like a humanoid coyote.” Terry saw what Aylin was looking at walking towards them.

Aylin watches the person as they came walking towards them. She slips two of her throwing knives into her hand, just in case the person wanted to play. She was good at playing rough. It was her favorite past time.

“Is everything alright out there, Terry?” Shade stuffs the parachutes he brought in, into the chest he found.

The hangar looked like it could store five or six planes inside it. He spotted a blacked-out jeep and two Cessna Skycatchers. Both Cessna’s had the same paint job, so you couldn’t tell them apart.

“Everything is fine, Shade. Our contact is walking towards us. You should see the getup they are wearing.” Aylin couldn’t believe the way the person was dressed.

They looked like a humanoid coyote. She notices they had gun holsters on each hip and some sort of blade. She could see the handle of it sticking up behind their head. The surface of whatever type of suit they had on shimmer with each step.

“Alright, I’m coming out.” Shade locks the chest and heads towards the door he came in and exists through it.

When he comes out, he notices the coyote person coming towards them. Terry had moved Rhino closer to the hangar. He saw Aylin still standing on top of Rhino. He also noticed she slipped two of her throwing daggers into her hand as well.

Coyote saw the big hi-tech vehicle move towards the hangar. The female figure on top of it just stood there and watched him. He noticed the door on the hangar opened and the person he saw go inside, comes out.

A smile appears on his face as he walks up to the vehicle but stands at least ten feet from everyone. Coyote looks at the two outside and figures there might be more inside the hi-tech vehicle.

“Sois amigos de don Juan?” Coyote figures he might as well get the question out.

“Somos agentes de su amiga.” Aylin looks down at Coyote as she answers his question.

“Quién está a cargo de ustedes?” Coyote still had his attention on Aylin.

Shade stood listening to the conversation between Aylin and the Coyote person. He was taking images of the person so Anika could add it to a file.

“I’m in charge.” Terry had stepped out of Rhino to speak with the person.

“Bien, tenemos que rescatar a la niña.” Coyote knew they didn’t have much time. They needed to leave now.

“Nos da la ubicación y podemos ponernos en marcha.” Aylin wonders why this person was speaking just Spanish.

“I’ll give the coordinates to you, now let’s get moving. We’re losing time.” Coyote turns around and heads towards where he hid his motorcycle.

“You heard the man. Shade and Hatter let get going.” Terry heads back into Rhino.

Hatter jumps down from the roof of the Rhino and lands next to Shade. She watches the Coyote person walk off. There was something unusual about the person, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.

She walks inside Rhino followed by Shade. Aylin wonders if the Coyote person was going to give them what they needed.

“Did that Coyote person give us what we needed?” Aylin looks at Terry.

“Not yet.”

Terry follows Coyote as he leads them. He didn’t have any problems following Coyote. Their location was being tracked by the GPS system he
built into Rhino.

Shade, Coyote, and Aylin were scouting out the compound that Coyote took them too. There were at least eight guards with AK-47’s on patrol and stationed around the compound. The three of them move in closer and manages to get close to the two-story house.

Shade looks at Coyote “where is the girl being held at?”

“Second floor, back bedroom.” Coyote managed to locate the girl.

They saw a black cargo van parked in the driveway. The back doors were opened on it.

“They are getting ready to move her.” Coyote was looking through his binoculars.

“Then, let’s go down and introduce ourselves to them.” Shade was using the special features of his helmet.

“We need to take the van out after we drop the guards.” Coyote wanted to make sure no one escaped.

“That’s no problem.” Aylin was ready to have some fun.

“Make sure you guys don’t get caught. I’m sending Rhino’s drones to watch over you.” Terry flips a few switches and launches five drones from Rhino.

Coyote heads towards one side of the house. He sneaks up on the guards patrolling his side of the compound, with ease. He moves quietly towards the house unseen.

Aylin sneaks up on the guards on her side of the compound and takes them out with her new rifle. She had loaded her rifle with the fast-acting paralyzing drug. A smile appears on her face as she watches the person shot drop.

“Oh, me like.” Aylin loved her new rifle.

She moves towards the van and places an explosive disk underneath the body. Once that is done, she heads inside the house. She
encounters a big guard that had been walking her way.

“Nightie, night.” Aylin shoots him with her rifle.

She moves quickly and quietly further into the house. She encounters a few more cartel members but drops them with one shot from her needler.

“Explosive charge is set. We have thirty minutes to get the hell out of here.” Shade had found the gas lines leading into the house and
connected the hydrogen explosive device Hera supplied them with.

“Roger,” Aylin responded to Shade.

Coyote was puzzled because he had never heard of a hydrogen explosive device before. He didn’t know what it was, as he moved deeper into the house and up to the second floor. Just as he got to the second floor, a cartel soldier spotted him. The person went to shoot at him.

Coyote just smiles and fires at the solider. He had a silencer on his gun, as he fires at the solider. The man he just fired drops to the floor. He walks over to the door and checks it. The door was locked.

Coyote bends down and checks the person he just shot. He searches his pockets and finds the keys to the room. He stands back up and tries one of the six keys in the lock. By the time he gets to the fourth key, it unlocks the door. He peeks inside the room and spots an upheaval dark hair teenage girl.

The poor girl looks like she had been drugged. She was sitting in the corner of the room. Her make-up had streaked from all the crying she must have done.

Coyote walks over to the girl carefully and kneels in front of her. He lifts her chin and looks into her eyes. He notices that she was drugged.

“Guys, we have a problem. The girl has been drugged.” Coyote picks the girl up off the floor.

“Do you need assistant getting her out of the house?” Shade had taken out an additional five cartel members.

He had used his MMA training and the new batons he got from Hera to knock out the men. He was currently packing up a bunch of money they had been counting. He’ll give the money to the shelter he, Hatter and the rest of his parkour group helped at.

“No, I’ll be able to carry her out. I was just letting you guys know, she’s going to need medical attention.”

“I got you covered there, Coyote. Just bring her back to Rhino so I can take care of her.” Terry has been listening to the conversation going on
between Hatter, Shade, and Coyote. He could see everything each of them was doing.

Hatter finds the person responsible for kidnapping the girl. He was in his office counting money.

“Who the fuck, are you?” Vicente Villa looks up when his office door opened.

He has never seen the short red hair, white face girl before. He goes to grab his gun and a knife lands right where his hand was going.

“Don’t be stupid. Our conversation isn’t over yet. As for who I am, I am Mad Hatter Aylin and I am here to punish you.” A smile appears on Hatter’s painted face.

“Do you know, who the fuck I am and what I can do to you?” Vicente looks at the young woman standing before him.

“Do you know who I am and what I am capable of doing to you? I don’t care who you are, but you should concern yourself about what I have in store for you.” Hatter was told to send a message and that was what she was going to do.

“Now, we can do this two ways. You can walk on your own two feet or you can be carried out of here.” Hatter had another throwing knife in her hand.

“You’ll never get away with this.” Vicente was furies.

Hatter just smirks “oh, by the way. Bag up all that money and any other money you have hidden in here.”

“Guys, we have fifteen minutes to get out of here.” Shade’s voice came over their transceivers.

Vicente gathers all the money up in his office, including the money he had hidden. He kept his eyes on the young woman, hoping she would let her guard down. He finally has all the money in his office packed up.

“Now move it.” Hatter had put her knife away and lowered her rifle towards Vicente.

Coyote, Shade, Aylin, Vicente, and the girl all meet in front of the house. Coyote was carrying the drugged girl in his arms. Hatter had
her rifle lowered and pointed towards the back of Vicente, who was carrying two gym bags of money. Shade had a couple of bags in his hands as well.

Rhino comes rolling up in front of them as the drones that Terry sent out, land through the roof access hatch. The rear hatch of Rhino opens,
and Terry comes walking out. He heads over towards Coyote to help him with the girl.

“Put the money bags down and move away from them.”

Vicente does as Hatter says. He watches as a man exist from some sort of hi-tech tank and help the young woman, he ordered kidnapped.
The other man that was carrying the young woman looked like some sort of humanoid coyote. He couldn’t tell if the head of the person was a mask or an actual coyote head.

There was another man, who was carrying a money bag as well. He was in some sort of leather looking suit, with a sword strapped to his
back. His head was covered by a black helmet.

He watches as the money bags and the young girl was carried into the hi-tech tank. The humanoid coyote person and the other person in the leather suit come back out and the rear hatch closes. They walk over to where he was standing along with the red hair girl.

“Now to deal with you.” Shade’s voice comes out over the speaker built into the suit.

“What are you going to do to me?” Vicente looks at all three of them.

“We’re going to leave a message for others that think they can do what you did.”

“Hatter, we have five minutes, before this place blows.” Shade had transmitted that message through their transceivers.

Hatter looks at Vicente “strip!”

Vicente looks at the other two guys “she can’t be serious.”

“I would do what she says, or you’ll regret it.” Shade knew Hatter would take matters in her own hands.

Vicente starts to strip out of his clothes. While he does that, Hatter asks Shade to bring the van over on their link. Shade walks over to the van and removes the explosive disk Hatter placed.

He drives the van away from the house before it explodes. He stops where they are and helps Hatter secure Vicente to the front of it.

“Now, to educate you and anyone else that thinks they can get away with kidnapping people.” Hatter proceeds to have her fun with Vicente.

“I can’t believe you burned his genitals and penis off.” Shade looks at Hatter.

“I had orders to leave a bloody message behind. Why do you think I craved the hat size I have on my calling cards on his chest?” Hatter made
sure any cartel member that saw the body will remember her message.

“At least she didn’t leave his head on a pike as her uncle does.” Terry glances over towards Shade.

“Wait a minute, did you just say he leaves cartel leaders heads on pikes?” Shade was watching Terry.

“Yes, Jack likes to leave messages informing his enemies what he will do to them. That’s why he is known in South America as the Devil’s Bounty Hunter.”

“So, he was the one responsible for that street gang heads being display a month back.” Shade had seen pictures of the heads and body left
on display.

“Yes. How’s our passenger?” Terry was concerned about the girl they rescued.

“She’s completely out of it and she needs medical attention.” Coyote was checking on her.

“Do you know of one nearby?” Aylin looks at Coyote for an answer.

The thing was, he was hard to read, because of the way his face looked. Since they teamed up with Coyote she has been wondering what he was. Also, how was he connected to one of her uncle’s friends?

“I know a place we can take her to get medical attention. It’s only a day’s drive from here.” Coyote figures the medic at the convent could help the girl.

“Alright, give me the directions to this place.” Terry was driving Rhino.

He wanted to put as much distance from the cartel stronghold they just blew-up as possible. So, for the road they were on was clear, according to the radar on Rhino.

“Show me on the GPS map.” Terry brings the satellite terrain map up.

Coyote walks over and looks at the satellite map. He saw where they were “here!” Coyote points on the screen where the convent is.

“Alright, we’ll head towards the convent.” Terry brings the coordinates up off the satellite feed.

Aylin looks at Coyote “so, what is your connection to this convent?”

“I have a friend that lives there.” Coyote just looks at Aylin with a straight face.

“How long do you think it's going to take for Vicente’s people to come after us?” Shade looks towards Terry.

“It will take them a while to locate us. Since you guys dropped most of their people. Also, their leadership is in shambles and they have no idea who did it.” Terry figures they might have a few days before they come looking for them.

Since it was going to take them at least a day to get to the convent. Aylin sits on the floor of Rhino to mediate. Shade cleans his weapons and
reloads his magazines.

Coyote sits in the co-pilot seat, while Aylin is meditating. He watches as they travel down the road leading towards the convent. When it gets
dark, Terry turns on the front running lights.

“Coyote, what is your connection to this convent?” Terry was curious.

“As I said, I have a friend that lives there. She helped me when I needed help.” Coyote watches the road through the high impact front window.

Terry glances at Coyote and wonders what he meant by the statement he gave. Terry turns on the autopilot and heads towards the back to relieve himself and grab some iced coffee. Rhino could drive himself if he needed too.

Coyote watches as Terry flips two switches on the left-hand side of the steering wheel. He saw the autopilot engage on the dash as Terry got up from the driver seat. When Terry walks past him, he wonders how the autopilot worked on Rhino.

Shade watches Terry as he comes walking past him, heading towards the bathroom. He hears the exhaust fan turns on when Terry walks into the bathroom. He looks towards the front and notices it was just Coyote up there in the co-pilot’s seat.

When Terry comes out of the bathroom, Shade looks at him “hey Terry, who is driving Rhino while you are back here?”

“Rhino is driving Rhino. He has a self-driving mode I can put him in.” Terry fixes himself an iced coffee.

“Do all the vehicles you build have that function?” Shade was thinking maybe he asks Terry to put it in his town car.

“Yes, Wraith has it, so does The Black Knight, and Noble as well.” Terry found giving the vehicles he builds the ability to drive themselves,
allow the driver to do other things.

The program that controlled the vehicle in self-drive mode, was better written and reacted better than the ones being written by most other companies. Google’s self-drive program was close to how perfect his program was. After he finishes his coffee and snack, he heads back to the driver seat.

Coyote leans back in the co-pilot seat and closes his eyes for a while. He was still aware of everything going on around him inside Rhino. He thinks about how he was going to switch from his Coyote identity too his other.

Shade looks at Coyote and notices he was out of it. He gets up and goes to the cargo bay to check on Hatter. He knows from experience that when Aylin was mediating, she tunes everything out. He leans down and places a kiss on her cheek.

He turns around and heads back towards the front. He sits down behind Terry and leans the comfortable seat back.

“Going to sleep, Shade?” Terry noticed Shade leaning the seat back behind him.

“Yeah, my girlfriend is meditating, Coyote looks to be catching some Zz’s and I finished cleaning all the weapons.”

“Missions like this can be boring and excited at the same time. When do you want me to wake you up?”

“When we are getting close to this convent.” Shade figures Aylin might be awake before him.

“Alright. I’m going to shut the inside lights off. Also, you can turn the heat on the seat, if you get too cold.”

“Thanks.” Shade locates the controls to the seat.

The internal lights turn off. It gets pitch black inside Rhino, except the lights on the dash, which dim. Terry leans back in his seat and listen to some music coming from the concealed speakers in the headrest.

Sister Cavallero watches as the companions of Coyote pull up and park near the convent. Sister Maria was standing with her.

“I wonder who Coyote brought to us this time?” Sister Maria has only been at the convent for a short time. Sometimes, Coyote would bring injured or sick people to the convent to be taken care of.

“I don’t know, but they do look unique.” Sister Cavallero was looking at Terry, Shade, and Hatter as they walked towards them.

“How can we help you?” Sister Maria looks at Terry.

“We were told by one of our companions, that we could seek medical assistant here.” Terry noticed Shade and Hatter had taken up positions where they could attack if need be.

“What medical assistant do you need?” Sister Maria was curious. She noticed Sister Cavallero was curious as well.

“We have a person that were given drugs by her kidnappers and we have done what we can for her. However, if you could look at her and see
if there is anything more that can be done to help her, we would be grateful.” Terry wanted to make sure what they did already was helping the young woman they rescued.

“Bring her inside, so we can look at her.” Sister Cavallero knew how the girl was from Coyote's memories.

“Alright.” Terry looks at Shade “can you give me a hand, please?”

“Sure.”

Shade and Terry head back to Rhino and walk inside. They make sure the young woman they rescued is strapped down on the stretcher before carrying her outside.

Hatter looks at the two nuns, while Terry and Shade were inside Rhino getting the girl they rescued. Something didn’t seem right to her about them. She has met nuns before, and they never acted like these two.

“How long have you two been nuns?” Hatter was curious about these two.

“At least six years for myself and I know Sister Cavallero at four years.” When Sister Maria and the rest of her companions came down. They had to create backgrounds for each of them.

That way if the Brazilian government or any South American government checked them out. They would find out that they were real Nuns. Don Juan had friends in the Catholic Church that would confirm they were part of the church.

When Sister Maria and Sister Cavallero spot Terry and Shade walking towards them with a young teenage girl on a stretcher. They lead them through the old convent to the medical clinic.

Terry and Shade set the stretcher down on the examination table and remove the straps holding the girl on it. Shade lifts the girl, while Terry removes the stretcher.

“Alright, you three out of here.” Sister Maria shoos Hatter, Terry, and Shade out of the clinic.

Hatter gives Sister Maria a look. She didn’t like being told to do something, except by people she trusted. However, she’ll cut Sister Maria some slack as she follows Shade out of the clinic.

“So, where did Coyote disappear too?” Hatter looks at Terry for an answer, since he was awake when Coyote had left.

“Don’t know. He only said he would come here to alert the convent that we were coming and needed medical assistant.” Terry was wondering where Coyote disappeared too as well.

“So, he leaves the vehicle and heads here? So, where is he now?” Hatter looks around her and all she sees are other nuns and some citizens from the nearby village.

Shade walks over to Aylin and takes her hand “just let it go, sweetie. He’ll join us again when we leave here.”

Aylin looks at Shade “I just want to know where he is and why he couldn’t have just stayed with us until we got here.”

“Well, next time he shows up, why don’t you ask him?” Shade wonders why Aylin was so concerned about Coyote.

Medical Clinic:
Sister Maria checks the teenage girl over. She wishes she knew what drugged they used to keep her high. If she was held by the cartel, she figures they gave her cocaine.

“Sister Cavallero, can you hand me that vial of Labetalol, please?” Sister Maria was going to give the young lady a small shot of labetalol and hope it helps her.

Sister Cavallero picks the vial up and a needle as well and hands it to Sister Maria.

“Here, you go.” As she places the items in Sister Maria’s outstretched hand.

“Thank you.” Sister Maria measures out the doses and plucks the needle to get the air bubble out.

Sister Cavallero watches as Sister Maria injects the chemical into the young woman’s body. She watches as the young woman starts to come around. A smile appears on both Sister’s faces.

“She’ll need some time to recover before they can leave.” Sister Maria wanted to give the young lady time for her body to flush everything out of it.

“Do you want to tell them or should I?” Sister Cavallero looks at Sister Maria to see what she wanted to do.

“I’ll tell them, Sister Cavallero.” Sister Maria was surprised when they got here that Sister Cavallero was the only nun here at the convent.

Outside the Convent:
Hatter was staying close to Shade as they walked around the place. It looked like someone had planted a garden. Not just vegetables, but different types of flowers and fruits as well.

Shade looks at Aylin and could tell she was alert. Normally, a setting like this garden was, relaxes her. Aylin loved gardens and the colors they had. She also liked butterflies, which struck Shade as unusual. He knew Aylin didn’t like lightening that much. It reminded her of the electrical experiments the doctor did too her.

Shade also learned that Aylin’s senses were enhanced. They were more like a blind person’s senses.

“Aylin, gardens normally calm you down. Why are you so on edge?”

“Because I want to know what Coyote’s deal is with this place and why he is so secretive about himself?”

“Maybe he doesn’t trust people. It took me a while to learn about you. What you like and dislike and why you sometimes need drugs or large
amounts of alcohol.” Shade did a lot of research on why Aylin needed drugs at times and why she drunk large amounts of alcohol.

Sister Maria comes walking outside and spotted Terry talking on a cellphone. She knew the cell reception in this area sucked unless they used their own. She wonders how he was doing it.

She walks up to Terry and waits until he was done on the cellphone. She wonders what his job was in the group.

“Bye, sweetie.” Terry finishes his call to Dakota. He looks towards Sister Maria.

“How is she doing?”

“She’s going to need some time to recover and flush the drugs out of her system.”

“Which should take how long?” Terry wishes they brought Elizabeth with them. She was a doctor.

“At least a day or two. They pumped a lot of drugs into her system and she’ll need time to recover. You and your crew are safe here. You’re
welcome to stay in the guest room in the convent or your beast over there.” Sister Maria points towards it.

“Thank you. I’ll need to inform our client.”

“Alright.” Sister Maria turns to leave.

Terry dials their contact to let him know they will be delayed, for at least two days. Informs the person, their daughter needs the time to flush the drugs in her system out.

Hatter was laying next to Shade when she heard the rain started hitting the roof of Rhino. She looks up at the ceiling and just listens to the rain as it hit the roof. She felt Shade’s arm resting across her bare stomach. The light camisole she had worn to bed, had risen, exposing her stomach.

Hatter stands up off the floor and heads towards the front. Terry was upfront, watching the surveillance instruments. She sits down in the passenger co-pilot’s seat.

Terry looks at Hatter “can’t sleep?”

“I don’t need much sleep.” Hatter watches as the rain flows down the front windshield like a waterfall.

“So, how serious is it between you and Shade?” Terry had noticed the engagement ring on Hatter’s hand when she wasn’t wearing her gloves.

“Very serious. He gave me my mother’s old engagement ring.” Hatter looks at her hand with the ring on it.

“Your mother’s ring?” Terry knew some of Hatter’s background.

“Yeah, I was surprised as well. She was the reason my father placed me in the mental hospital. I witness him pushing my mother off the second floor, killing her.” Hatter shivers from the memory.

“Memories of things we experienced and lived through will always be part of us.” Terry had his demons that he must live with.

It was the reason; he no longer was a woman. After what was done to him when he was a prisoner to the Taliban. Dakota was the one that
finally helps him decide to become a man full time. She had her demons from her days as an undercover police officer.

“I know.” Hatter has noticed the crazy part of her was slowly fading. The true part of her personality was slowly surfacing.

“So, have you and Shade talked about what day you want the wedding to happen and how many guests you want there?”

“Nope, we haven’t talked about any of those things. He proposed to me before we left for this mission. Also, to be honest, I don’t know anything about those things.”

“Don’t feel bad. Dakota and I didn’t know a lot and just had the justice of the peace do our wedding. Dakota didn’t want the big fancy wedding. She was happy with something simple.”

“What did Bart think about Dakota getting married, since he adopted her as his sister?” Hatter remembered when Bart and Dakota joined them on their first mission.

“He wished me luck with her.” A silly smile appeared on Terry’s face.

“How much longer are we going to stay here?” Hatter glances at the time and notices it was only two in the morning.

“Until the girl we rescued is strong enough to travel.” Terry didn’t want to risk their client’s daughter’s health.

Hatter glances at the radar showing the weather pattern for the area. She was no weather expert, but from the way it looked. She figures they would be getting rain the next day as well.

“Will the rain slow us down?” Hatter glances towards Terry.

“Nope, Rhino is an all-purpose terrain vehicle. The engineers who designed Rhino wanted to make it so he could explore or overcome any problems on Mars.” That was why Terry liked the design so much.

Medical Clinic, Convent:
Sister Cavallero gets up and checks on the young girl that was brought in. She knew what was done to her, from Coyote’s memories. The medicine they gave her was helping to wean her off the drugs she had been forcefully given.

She picks the sponge up and dips it in the cold water in the pan. She pats the forehead of the young girl. She could tell, the young girl was having a rough night. She squeezes the sponge and soaks it again.

“You know your companions are wondering where you are, Coyote.”

“I know. I don’t trust the weird looking girl among them. She has a wildness about her.” Coyote could sense the strangeness of Hatter.

Sister Cavallero could tell that Coyote was right. There was something strange about the white face girl. She had seen it for herself.

“Well, you might want to talk with her. She has been asking where you have gone too.”

“We’ll see.” Coyote looks through his host eyes at the young girl they rescued.

He notices she was looking better and hopes she continues to get better.

Shade and Hatter were out front of Rhino as they moved down the route they were taking. Coyote had come out of nowhere and landed on top of Rhino. Hatter still wonders where he had disappeared too.

Shade watches as Hatter speed a little ahead of him. She’s been kind of quiet since they left the village this morning. He wonders what she was thinking.

Inside Rhino:
Terry was following behind Shade and Hatter. He had let Coyote in when he landed on top of Rhino. He noticed that Coyote hadn’t brought his motorcycle.

“No motorcycle today?” Terry glances towards Coyote for an answer.

“No.” Coyote had thought about using his motorcycle, but he wanted to be near the girl and watch over her.

Terry was detecting something flying towards them. He launches two of Rhino’s drones to intercept them. He engages the autopilot systems because he needed to guide the drones.

The image he was getting back from Rhino’s drones, showed that they were drones as well. Terry activates the weapon systems on the drones and fires at the other drones.

“Shade, Hatter be careful out there. We just had two drones checking us out.” Terry keeps watching the computer screen.

“Will do, Terry.” Shade watches as Hatter drops back to him.

She points towards a spot ahead of them. Shade looks in that direction and the hi-tech systems Terry installed in their helmets were picking up on several figures. He nods his head towards Hatter and pulls off into the forest on the side of the road.

They park their motorcycles and get off. Shade and Hatter move on foot towards the hidden figures. Shade has his custom sword pulled as the two of them move silently through the forest.

Hatter spots several men that were waiting for them on the side of the road. An evil smile appears on her face, as she palms her needler and shoots the men with it. They drop to the ground unconscious.

Shade spots several more and sneaks upon them. They were unaware that their other companions had been taken out. Shade tosses three silver disks at the group. The gas inside the disks erupts and knocks the other men out.

He waits a few minutes until the gas has dispersed before walking over to the unconscious men. He notices one of the men had the controls to the drone that had detected them. He backtraces and finds the Range Rover they had taken. Inside were several more drones.

“Terry, the men are unconscious, and I found their SUV.” Shade pops the hood on the Range rover and pulls his knife out and cut the ignition wires.

“Okay Shade. Is there anything we need to worry about?” Terry cautiously drives by their location.

“No, they are all unconscious and will be for the next few hours.” Shade walks over to the guy who had the remote to the drones.

He stomps on it several times. This way they couldn’t use the drones to follow them. He spots Hatter placing her cards on their body after she takes a black sharpie and draws faces on them.

“You are having too much fun, sweetie.”

Hatter looks up at Shade “I think they look better this way. Also, I want them to realize who they are messing with.”

Hatter stands up and looks at her handy work. She should neuter them, that way the message gets across to leave them alone.

“I wonder how they knew we were heading this way?” Shade was curious about that.

“There are only a few routes we could take. Since this route is the most direct. It would be easy to ambush us.” Terry had looked at all routes and the one they were on was the fastest.

“Do you think they have anything heavier they can send against us?” Shade picked up the three disk he tossed. They could be recharged with new gas.

“If they do, Rhino can handle it.” Terry had confidence in Rhino’s abilities.

Coyote just looks over towards Terry when he is talking to Shade over the radio. The spirits haven’t nudged him or bother him lately. He looks
at the girl they rescue as she slept. She was still going through withdraws, but she was looking better.

Terry noticed that Coyote was watching the young girl as she slept. Sister Maria had said that she would be sleeping a lot, as her body got back to normal. This was one of the times he wishes Elizabeth had come with them. Unfortunately, she was still recovering from the attack against her and she needed to be there for her wife as well.

By evening, Terry pulls into a small town. Hatter and Shade had checked it out and they found a place they could park for the night. Terry activates the camouflage system he built into the skin of Rhino, which allows him to blend in. It was the same system he had install on the Black Knight.

Shade and Hatter bring their motorcycles inside Rhino and plug them into the charging station. She looks at Terry “are we staying here, tonight?”

“Yes, so which shift do you want?” Terry knew Hatter only needed four hours of sleep.

Unless she was doing something with Shade, she normally mediated Hatter looks around before walking out of Rhino. She heads towards the small town they stopped in.

“I wonder what is bothering her?” Terry has never seen Hatter act like she is acting.

“I don’t know, but I’ll check it out.” Shade rushes after Hatter.

Hatter tosses another one of her playing cards into her helmet. She was sitting in her panties and a camisole. Shade was asleep behind her and snoring lightly. She wore him out during their lovemaking. She needed to feel his skin against her body and inside her body as well.

Coyote was asleep upfront of Rhino with Terry. The teenage girl they were taking back to their client, had woken up, and felt hungry. Coyote had tended to her. When he walked by her, he didn’t smell right. There had been something familiar to his scent that caught her attention.

She tosses another card into her helmet. She’ll be happy when they are back in New York. She missed her friends and Angel. She told Bart’s daughters and Angel she would be gone for a while.

She leans forward and takes all the playing cards that were inside her helmet and restack them. She puts a rubber band around them and places them back into her bag. She was feeling a little restless and slip her shoes on and exists from the back of Rhino. She didn’t bother to cover up her body.

She looks up at the night sky, a smile appears on her face. She has lost count of how many times she has wished she could be outside under
the moon when she was in the mental hospital. Her pale skin glowed under the light being reflected from the moon.

Hatter closes her eyes and center herself. She breathes in deeply through her nose and slowly exhales the air through her mouth, after holding it for at least ten seconds. She slips her shoes off and digs her toes into the ground.

She repeats what she just did when she feels a presence watching her. She slowly opens her eyes and spot Coyote watching her from on top of Rhino. His eyes were glowing as he watched her.

Coyote had woken-up when he felt the back door on Rhino opened. He had quietly moved towards the back-cargo area, where Hatter and Shade were sleeping. He saw the rear door open and Hatter walking outside. He climbed one of the ladders that led to the top hatched and climbed out onto Rhino’s roof.

He was curious as he watched Hatter center herself and start meditating. His curiosity had been piqued, so he watched her. He was surprised when she looked up at him.

“Who are you?” Hatter was looking directly into Coyote’s glowing eyes.

“Who do you think I am?”

“If I knew, I wouldn’t be asking you. I can tell you’re not some ancient Native American spirit.”

“I’m not a Native American spirit. I’m an ancient Aztec spirit, who has joined with a person who needed my help.” Coyote flips down from on top of the Rhino.

“Just as I am not what I seem, neither are you. There is a wildness and darkness about you. However, you haven’t let the darkness consume you.” Coyote walks around Hatter examining her.

“Being raised in a mental hospital and being tortured for ten years by a mad doctor. Tends to drive a person insane or kill them.”

“So, you embraced the darkness and use it?” Coyote watches Hatter as he continues to circle her. He could see that her aura had holes and black spots in it.

“Yes, I embrace the darkness, but I don’t let it rule me. Everything I do is to protect and help the innocent.”

“But you have killed people when you could have let them live.” Coyote stops in front of Hatter.

“I have only taken the lives of people who deserved it. They didn’t deserve to be treated like normal people are.”

Coyote could see that Hatter meant what she said. There were anger and vengeance in her words.

“Did you feel a person has the right to be judge, jury, and executioner?”

“If the situation warrants it, yes. I have no regrets about the lives I took. In some way they got off easy, being killed as fast as they were. A few of them deserved to suffer for a while for what they did to me and others.” Hatter follows Coyote as he circled her.

Coyote thinks about Hatter’s words and how many has he killed for what they did to him? How many has he sent to the great beyond?

“Now, that you know something about me. How about you tell me who you are? Because your scent doesn’t match whoever or whatever you are under that mask.” Hatter finally was able to place where she has smelled that scent before.

Coyote stops and looks directly into Hatter’s eyes “very well. Since you have told me some personal information about you, it is only right I should share some with you as well.”

Coyote removes the mask from his face and instead of a male looking face beyond the mask. There was the face of a young woman.

“YOU!” Hatter had a shocked look on her face, as she stood in front of Sister Myra Cavallero.

“My name is Maria Giménez. I go by Sister Myra Cavallero when I’m not Coyote.”

“Okay, how do you look so male when you are dressed as Coyote?” Hatter has seen what Sister Myra Cavallero looked like without her nun outfit on.

“The suit and mask were given to me by another that serves Coyote. He wore a similar suit to mine, except he was way older than mine. I’m not sure how it works, but it's like Coyote’s spirit is part of me. We’re two different individuals, sharing the same body.”

“So, you have a split personality? One half is you and the other half is this god coyote himself?”

“Yes, like I bet you have a split personality as well.” Maria could see the saneness and craziness in Hatter’s eyes.

“I’m just nuts. It was the only way I could survive what was done to me.” A smile appears on Hatter’s face.

“There’s more to you, just as there is more to me.”

“True, there is. I have come to terms that I may never be sane, because of the mental scars I bear and the physical ones to remind me of how I was treated. But how do you and Coyote coexistence together?”

“He comes out whenever there is a need for him. I can only summon him when I’m in danger or those around me are in danger. He has taken an interest in the young lady.”

Maria has felt how Coyote felt about the young lady. It was kind of unnerving to her.

“There is one thing I must ask of you.”

“Let me guess, keep what you told me, secret?” Hatter raises an eyebrow.

“Yes. The only reason I have confided in you is that Coyote wanted me to. He isn’t ready for other people to know he and I are sharing the same body.”

“Your secret is safe with me. I’m good at keeping them.” Hatter knew nothing could make her spill any secret or betray any friend.

“Thank you.” Maria puts the Coyote mask back on.

Hatter watches as the eyes flash and Coyote jumps up onto Rhino’s roof. She turns around and heads back into Rhino as well. She smiles as she sits down on the cargo bay floor and takes her throwing knives out to sharpen them.

Angela squeezes the armrest as Rhino rocks from being hit. She had woken up and was a little startled and confused about where she was and how she got there. An unknown man was driving the vehicle she was in.

“Hatter, take that armored truck out.” Terry had his hands full with his attack drones, covering the Federal Police.

They had been ambushed by a cartel group. The cartel group had a bunch of heavy vehicles they had constructed and were being used against them. Shade and Hatter had come upon the ambush and were trying to help the Federal Police out.

“I can’t hit it. Its armor is too thick.” Hatter had tried shooting at the driver, but the opening the driver could see out, was too narrow.

“Alright, I’ll handle it.” Terry arms several of the mini-missiles Rhino was armed with and fire them at the armor garbage truck.

The armor garbage truck tries to defend itself but couldn’t stop the missiles. The missiles hit their target and take out the garbage truck. Shade and Hatter manage to slap some explosive disks on a few pick-up trucks that had been converted.

The disk explodes, disabling the trucks and killing the cartel men inside it. The rest of the cartel members turn and depart the area.

“Oh, no you don’t.” Hatter stops and picks up a rocket launcher that one of the cartel men dropped and fires it at them.

She watches as the armor pick-up truck explodes. A smirk appears on her face. She drops the empty rocket launcher and walks back to her motorcycle.

The Federal Police members couldn’t believe how the tables had turned when the newcomers showed up to help them. If they hadn’t shown up when they did, they would have been dead.

Shade rides over towards two of the Federal Police to see how they were doing. Their vehicle was filled with bullet holes and such “are you guys, okay?”

Francisco looks at the mysterious black-armored person sitting on a hi-tech motorcycle. He and the other person on an identical motorcycle had come up the road they were on. At first, he thought they were cartel reinforcement, but it turned out they were there to help them.

“Yes!”

Shade moves on to check some of the other officers. He saw Hatter checking some of the cartel's members to see who might have survived. He saw her, pull a few members that were still alive from the wreck garbage truck and the armored truck.

Terry had the drones from Rhino patrolling the area. He wasn’t going to get caught with their pants down. He glances over his shoulder towards the young girl and saw how scared she was.

“Everything is going to be fine, miss. We’re about a day’s drive from where your father is waiting for you.” Terry had been contacted by the young woman’s father to see how far out they were.

Coyote swings down into one of the retreating pick-up trucks. He pulls his knife and starts slitting the throat of the occupants inside. As he slices the neck of the last man, he manages to take control of the truck and stop it. He tosses the dead driver out of the driver seat and steps outside of the vehicle.

As he is walking away from the truck, he tosses a grenade inside. A few seconds later, the truck goes up in a bright fireball. His body starts jerking from a machine gun firing at him. It causes him to fall to the ground.

He spots where the machine gun fire had come from. He stands back up and runs towards the vehicle. His eyes were bright red as he tosses his knife into the person who had shot him. He leaps the rest of the distance, landing where the gunner had been. He pulls his knife out of the chest of the person he threw it at.

He drops several grenades he had on him and leaps off the vehicle before they exploded. Just as his feet hit the ground, the vehicle explodes. He starts running back to where the Rhino was.

Terry pulls Rhino over and parks it. He keeps the drones patrolling the area, as he grabs their medical kit and jumps out to help his teammates. He heads towards the nearest Federal Police and tends to their wounds.

Angela could see the weird-looking girl, a black armor suit person, and the man that just jumped out tended to their wounds. She shivers as she pulls the thermal blanket wrapped around her tighter. She couldn’t wait to get back to her father.

She continues to watch them on the monitors inside the vehicle. She wonders who built it and why it was so equipped. All she wanted to do, was get back home and away from this place.

Ten minutes later, Coyote comes running up to the Rhino. He spots Terry, Hatter, and Shade helping the Federal Police. He walks into Rhino and spots the teenage girl they rescue watching the monitors.

“Interesting, isn’t it?”

Angela turns to look at Coyote “yes.”

Angela has seen Coyote in her dreams and knew he was sent to retrieve and protect her. She didn’t know how she knew about Coyote, but she did. She watches him as he stood a few feet from her.

After twenty minutes, the alarm system inside of Rhino starts beeping. Terry rushes back to the cockpit and looks at the system.

“Shade, Hatter park your bikes. We have incoming and we need to get out of here.” Terry drops the back ramp for Shade and Hatter.

Shade rides his motorcycle up the ramp and inside Rhino. He looks behind him as Hatter comes up and parks her motorcycle next to his.

“We’re loaded up, Terry.”

“Roger.” The ramp starts closing as Rhino starts moving.

Hatter and Shade walk up to the cockpit and sits down. Shade takes the co-pilot seat, while Hatter sits behind him. She looks over towards Coyote and nods her head towards him.

Coyote nods his head back and sits down near Angela.

“Alright, everyone. We’re approaching the coordinates Angela’s father is going to be meeting us.” Terry sent several drones ahead to scout the area.

Angela was sitting up front in the co-pilot’s seat watching as they got closer to the location. She has been in contact with her father and he was coming out to meet them. She was still feeling the withdraws from the drugs she had been forced to take.

Terry stops and waits for Angela’s father to show up. Shade and Hatter were in the back of Rhino and sitting on their motorcycles, ready to shoot out of the back if need be. The drones Terry sent out pick up a helicopter heading their way. The radar system built in Rhino was picking it up as well.

“We got a helicopter, incoming guys.” Terry was ready to activate the weapon systems if he had to.

“That’s my father’s helicopter.” Angela recognized it as Terry brought the image of it up on the main screen.

They watch as it lands near Rhino. The doors on it open and several men in black suits, followed by an older gentleman exist from the helicopter.

“Daddy!” Angela runs towards the door leading out of Rhino.

“Hatter, Shade, she ran outside.” Terry should have kept the door locked.

“We’re on it.” Shade dismounts from his motorcycle and runs out of Rhino.

Coyote follows behind him. The two of them catch up to Angela, as she ran towards her father. They could see tears sliding down her cheek. She runs to her father and hugs him tightly.

Hatter had taken the ladder to the roof of Rhino and was watching from on high. She had a few of her throwing knives in her hand and was ready to use them if need be. She had her sights set on the other men dressed all in black.

Terry comes out of Rhino and walks over towards Angela and her father. He looks at him as he approaches him.

“Thank you for bringing my little girl back to me.” Angela’s father hugs her.

“You’re welcome. We did what we could for her. Her kidnappers shot her up with drugs and we have done what we could for her. She is still suffering from withdrawals.”

“I’ll make sure she is taken care of.” Angela’s father is going to do whatever he has to, to help his daughter.

“Well, unless there is anything else you need from us. We need to start heading home.” Terry figures there wasn’t much they could do now.

“Thank you for everything you did.” Angela’s father escorts Angela back to his helicopter and gets in.

Terry feels the wind pick up as the blades start turning. He walks up to Coyote and Shade. “So, what is your plan, Coyote? Do you want to go to the States with us or stay here?”

“My job is done, so I’ll head back to my village and watch over them.” Coyote turns and starts walking back the way they came.

He stops when he spots Hatter looking down at him. He bows to her as a big smile appears on his face.

“Be careful, Coyote.”

“Always.” Coyote runs off and disappears.

“Well, let’s head home ourselves.” Terry starts walking towards Rhino.

“Speaking about going home, how exactly are we getting back home?” Shade was curious.

“We're driving the rest of the way back.” Terry figures they had enough supplies to travel back home.

“Hopefully, the cartel doesn’t come after us.” Shade follows Terry into Rhino.

“Let them. We’ll just send a bigger message to them.” Hatter was thinking about sending some of the missiles from Rhino towards them.

“One question Terry, can we drive back?” Shade didn’t know if it was possible.

“We’ll have to cross the Caribbean Sea.” Terry has already plotted the course.

“We can do that?” Shade was surprised about that information.

“Rhino is built to cross any type of environment. That includes crossing the Caribbean Sea.” Terry had faith in Rhino’s design.

“So, how many days of travel?” Hatter was curious about the distance.

“We’re looking at a distance of about three thousand miles. So, a week at best.” Terry starts heading towards the coast.

“Fun.” Hatter sits down in one of the vacant seats and watches as Terry drives.

Shade was sitting in the co-pilot seat. Traveling inside a specialized vehicle on the Caribbean Sea should be fun. Shade relaxes and watches
the navigation system as they travel towards a port city.

Terry was looking for an area where he could drive into the water. He finds a spot to enter. “Alright boys and girls. Let’s see if Rhino can live up to his name's sake.”

Terry heads into the water and switches the wheel system, so they act like propellers. They were designed to get Rhino out of sand traps and to allow him to cross on water.

“So far so good.” Terry watches as waves hit the front of the vehicle.

He was watching all the systems as Rhino powered across the sea.

“There she blows!” Mark watches as Aylin throws up again for the third time today.

Hatter gives him the middle finger as she throws up again. The first few days had been smooth sailing. After that, they ran into some rough weather. That’s when she started throwing up from the rough seas.

It was lucky that Terry had packed some barf bags. Aylin started using them up, after the first day. Normally, she wasn’t affected by seasickness, but lately, she has been throwing up almost every day.

After a few more days, they finally arrive in Texas in a port town named Port Isabel. As soon as Terry drives Rhino out of the ocean, Aylin drops the rear ramp and runs out. She drops to her knees and kisses the ground. She never wants to travel the ocean again inside something so small.

Shade comes walking out of Rhino with a smile on his face. He watches Aylin as she kisses the ground.

“I feel cheated on.”

“You shouldn’t and I am never doing that again.” Aylin stands and looks around.

She spots some vehicles coming towards them. She looks towards Shade “are we expecting anyone?”

“No, not that I know of.” Shade didn’t hear anything from Terry.

“Terry, we have incoming. Do you know who they are?” Shade touched his earpiece.

Terry yawns as he sends two of the drones out to identify the vehicles coming towards them. The drones fly over them, as the images are scanned into the computer to be identified. The computer identifies the vehicles as belonging to ICE.

“They’re with ICE, Shade. If they give you any problems, just show your special agent badge.” Terry knew they shouldn’t have any problems.

Agent Nicholas had received information about a weird vehicle traveling near the shore. He looks at the vehicle in front of him and wonders what the hell it was. He notices that two individuals were standing at the rear of the strange vehicle. He watched as two drones launch from the strange vehicle and scan their cars.

“Hey Nick, did you see that?” Agent Hawley saw the drones as they flew over them.

“Yeah, I saw them. I’ve never seen anything like them before.” Agent Nickolas wonders if they were Cartels or someone else.

As he and his team surround the vehicle and the people outside of the vehicle. He notices one person was a white face female, that look like she was a clown or something. The other was a young man that looked like he was in his late teens.

“Alright, you two stay where you are. Who are you and what is the vehicle and is there a person inside?” Agent Nickolas saw the drones
hovering over the strange vehicle and looking at them.

Aylin looks at the ICE agent and notices there were several of them and they had surrounded them. She doesn’t bother to put her hands up.
She just stands there and let Shade handle everything.

“We’re special agents and this vehicle is an experimental vehicle that we are conducting field test.”

“Let me see your badges.” Agent Nickolas wanted to see if they were telling the truth.

“Sure.” Shade grabs his badge slowly and shows it.

Aylin digs her badge out and shows it. She makes sure to hold it out front for them to see.

“Cover me.” Nickolas walks towards Aylin and Shade.

He stops at Shade first to look at his badge. He notices that Shade’s badge said he was a special agent with the US Marshal service. He walks over to look at Aylin’s badge and notices her badge was registered with the Marshal service as well.

“Who’s in the vehicle?” Nickolas glances towards the weird-looking vehicle.

“The engineer of the vehicle, who is a US Marshal.” Shade knew Terry still had his US Marshal badge and his MI 5 credentials from when Anika and her team worked in England.

“Tell them to come out here.”

“He doesn’t have to tell me anything.” As Terry steps down the ramp from the rear of Rhino.

“I want to see your Id.” Nickolas looks at Terry.

“No problem.” Terry pulls his wallet from his back pocket and shows his US Marshal badge as well.

Nickolas looks at Terry’s identity and back at Terry. He hands the badge back to Terry.

“So, what are three special agents doing, field testing this vehicle? Also, why didn’t you come through a normal entry point?” Nickolas looks at Terry for an answer.

“Well, since I’m the engineer of it, I asked for the assignment. As for the other two. We have worked together before and so the higher-ups sent them with me. To answer your second question, we just got done crossing the ocean in it. Any more questions?”

“I want to look inside it, to make sure you aren’t smuggling anyone or anything in.” Agent Nickolas wanted to see the inside of the vehicle.

“Sorry, you aren’t cleared to see the inside of it.”

“Well, since I can’t see the inside of it, it's not going anywhere, until I do.” Agent Nickolas wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

A sly smile appears on Terry’s face. He looks directly into agent Nickolas’s eyes “you don’t have the authority to detain me and also, I have more firepower than you do. Do you see those two drones? They are equipped with mini-guns capable of cutting you and your team in half.
Also, there’s more where they come from. Also, these other two agents can take your whole team out, without breaking a sweat. So, if you want this to get messy, we can. Now, get the fuck out of my way.”

Agent Nickolas looks into Terry’s eyes and noticed he wasn’t kidding. He hears the whine of the minigun on the drones whining up.

“I would do what he says, Mr. ICE.” Hatter was ready to strike.

“I won’t be intimidated by you or anyone.”

“Let me put it into terms you will understand. You don’t have the clearance to enter my vehicle. I’m not going to give you the clearance and if you continue to stand in my way. I will drop you and your whole team. Now, get the hell out of my way.” Terry wasn’t going to play games with this person.

“Fine, you can go your merry way, but I’ll be watching you.” Agent Nickolas figures he could tail them.

“Fine with us. Now, I’ll see you later, agent.” Terry turns and walks back inside Rhino.

Aylin and Shade follow behind him. Shade sits at the co-pilot station and Aylin sits behind Terry.

“Hey Terry, those Border Patrol agents are still following us.” Shade was watching the rear-view camera systems.

Terry glances at the radar system on his side and notices he had four cars following behind them. A sly smile appears on his face “let’s have
some fun with these agents.”

“Oh, goodie, we get to play!” Aylin slaps her hands together and rubs them.

“I think Terry has a different idea.” Shade knew how excited Aylin gets when action is required.

“Man, you take all the fun out of things.” Aylin crosses her arms under her breasts.

“You’ll get to have some fun, Aylin.” Terry activates the smokescreen and watches as the smoke cloud obstructs the view of the people following them.

He pulls Rhino over on the side of the road and activates the blending skin covering Rhino. He watches as the cars enter the thick smoke cloud and drive right past them.

“Where did this smoke come from?” Agent Hawley saw the thick smoke cloud start to form.

“I don’t know, I want to know where that vehicle is going.” Agent Nickolas wanted to know if there were any illegal immigrants inside that vehicle.

Agent Nickolas and agent Hawley exist on the other side of the smoke cloud and don’t spot the vehicle they had been following. The other agents behind them are puzzled as well, as they keep going.

“Where did they go?” Agent Nickolas was puzzled.

They were only inside the smoke cloud for a short period. He continues driving down the road until he comes to a crossroad and wonders which direction the vehicle took. Agent Hawley was behind agent Nickolas and waiting to see where they were heading.

Rhino:
Terry, Shade, and Aylin watch as the agents drive by Rhino’s invisible form. Unless they moved or decide to open one of the doors or launch the drones. No one would know they had stopped on the side of the highway.

“Let’s sit here for a while and observe what agent Nickolas and his people will do.” Terry was enjoying playing cat and mouse with the agent.

When the agents get out of camera range, Terry quietly launches the stealth drone. The design was based on the one they stopped in England. He locates them and watches as they split off to cover different routes.

“You’re mean, Terry.” Shade looks at Terry.

“You haven’t seen anything yet.” Terry flies the drone near the cars and tags them with GPS trackers.

“Is that what I think it is?” Shade didn’t know Terry could do that.

“Yep! Now we will know exactly where they are and avoid them.” Terry recalls the drone and waits a little while longer.

“You know, Shade and I can go and have some fun with them. Lead them away from you and join up afterward.” Aylin wanted to get out of Rhino for a while.

Terry turns around his seat to look at Aylin. He could tell she was bored and antsy.

“Alright, meet up with me at these coordinates.” Terry transfers the coordinates to the onboard computer system in Shade’s and Aylin’s helmets.

“Yeah! I get to have some fun.” Aylin jumps up out of her seat excited.

Shade just shakes his head as he grabs his motorcycle suit and places his sword on his back. He grabs his favorite shades and puts them on as he grabs his helmet. He notices Aylin was already ready. She was holding a paintball gun in her hands.

“What are you going to be doing with that?”

“Making modern art.” A mischievous smile appears on her face.

Shade just shakes his head, as he mounts his motorcycle. He lowers the visor on his helmet as he unlocks the motorcycle “we’re ready, Terry.
Open the back door.”

The back ramp starts to lower. Shade shoots out first and turns around to head towards his target. He spots Aylin jumping out on her
motorcycle and does the same thing he did. She zooms right by him.

“Show off!” Shade increases speed and follows behind Aylin.

When they come to the crossroads, Aylin turns left to go after agent Nickolas’s car. Shade goes straight after agent Hawley’s car. Shade figures it won’t take him long to catch up to agent Hawley’s car.

Aylin spots agent Nickolas’s car ahead of her, after a while. She zooms past him and starts shooting his front windshield with the paintball gun. The balls impact the front windshield, covering it in bright purple paint.

Agent Nickolas spots a person on a motorcycle approaching him extremely fast. He tries to get an idea of who it is when they pass him on the
right. The problem is, he can’t see the person, because the helmet covering the person was blacked out.

When the person starts shooting at him, he tries to avoid them. However, his front windshield gets hit anyway with bright purple paint. He pulls over onto the shoulder of the road because he can’t see out the front windshield.

He gets out of his car and looks towards the person on the motorcycle. He notices the person had stopped to take a picture of him. The person on the motorcycle starts coming towards him again. He goes to pull his weapon to protect himself, but the person on the motorcycle fires at him with the paintball gun and hits him.

He tries to wipe the paint off his face, as he tries to duck beside his car. He hears several paintballs hit his car. He pops back up and spots the rider heading off. He looks at his car and every inch of it was covered by paint.

Aylin had a smile on her face, after having fun with agent Nickolas. She took a picture of his car and Nickolas as well. She continues to head towards the meeting spot where Terry was supposed to be waiting for her and Shade.

Hatter and Shade meet up with Terry at the coordinates several hours later. The ramp on the back of Rhino opens and they pull inside. Once they were loaded, Terry starts heading towards a property that Bart’s company owns. There was supposed to be a transport waiting for them there to take them back to New York.

Shade looks over towards Hatter, after securing his motorcycle “did you have some fun?”

Hatter had a big ole smile on her face, as she lifts her helmet off. She looks over towards Shade “oh yes! I even took pictures.” She hands the camera she used to Shade.

Shade looks through the pictures and couldn’t believe what Hatter did to Agent Nickolas and his car. He wonders if Morgana would be able to post this footage on the web.

“Do you think, Morgana could post this on the web?” Shade didn’t know Morgana as well as Hatter.

“You could call and ask her.” Aylin looks at Shade.

“What are you two miscreants up to?” Terry peeks in on Aylin and Shade.

“Wondering if Morgana wouldn’t mind posting something on the web for us.” Shade looks at Terry.

“Well, if it's not too bad or disturbing, she might do it.”

“Alright, I’ll give her a call.” Shade dials Camelot’s phone number.

Camelot Network Solutions:
Linda finishes the last call request that came in and sends it to Tinker so she could dispatch a repair team out to their client. Just as she sends the request out, the main phone starts ringing. She picks it up and answers it.

“Good evening, Camelot Network Solutions, Linda speaking. How can I help you?”

“Hey, Linda, it's agent Mark. I need to speak with Morgana, is she available?”

“Let me check?” Linda checks to see if Morgana is available and her status button shows her in a conference currently.

“Agent Mark, she’s currently in a meeting. Would you like to leave a message for her or is there anyone else you would like to speak with?”
Mark has normally only spoken to Morgana. He wonders if one of her other companions could help him with his request.

“Yes, who normally works with Morgana on special projects for Jack Bounty? I’m one of his agents.”

“That would be either Gloria or Lancelot. Let me see if either of them are available for you.” Linda checks the status of Gloria and Lancelot.

Gloria has logged off for the day, but Lancelot was available. She sends a quick text to Lancelot to see if he wants to take the call.

Lancelot’s computer station:
“Take that, you moron.” An evil smile appears on Lancelot’s face.

He loved it when the Russian government sponsor hackers tried to hack Camelot’s systems or when they went after the clients protected by them. Coming after Camelot was a sure way for them to have their equipment destroyed. Arthur, Morgana, Gloria, and Tinker designed their system from the ground up and they had so many safeguards in place, not even the US government could break into their system.

He notices that a text box pops up on his screen and it was a request from Linda. He tells her to transfer the call to his desk. Morgana had given orders that any request from Jack’s people are to be handled right away.

Rhino:
Mark was on hold for a few seconds and then a male voice answer. The person had a French accent to their speech.

“This is Lancelot, how can I help you, Mark?”

“Hey Lancelot, I have some footage I want you to look at and post it on the web for us. However, can you make it as if the person in the footage sent it?” Mark figures it would be a slap in the face of the agent.

“Sure, send me the footage and I’ll do what I can with it.” Lancelot likes to make fools out of government agents.

“Sending the video now.” Mark sends the footage from the camera to Camelot’s cloud account.

Lancelot watches as the footage is received in the special setup cloud account for Jack’s agents. The cloud account was a little harder to hack and they could also see if there were any nasty hiding in the information.

“Alright, I’ve received it. I’ll contact you when I’m done setting everything up.”

“Thanks, Lancelot.”

“No problem. Stay out of trouble, out there.”

“I will. Bye.” Mark ends the call.

Camelot:
“Now, let’s see what fun I can have with you.” Lancelot gets to work on the footage.

Outside of Rhino:
Hatter had stepped outside of Rhino with Terry. Terry was looking for the eighteen-wheeler that was supposed to be coming to transport Rhino back to New York.

Terry looks at Hatter “so, what are you and Shade going to do when we get back?”

“Probably, visit our friends and check on a few people we normally take care of. Our friends Brandy and Leo look after them when we have to leave New York.” Hatter was thinking about Ms. Higgins.

She lived by herself and didn’t have anyone to look after her. Her children didn’t even bother to communicate with her anymore. Which was terrible because Ms. Higgins had a lot of stories about her life and was funny.

“How about you? What are your plans?” Hatter was curious.

“Make love to Dakota, work in my shop and spend time with my children. I never thought about being a father or being married after what happened to me. That was until Dakota came along and changed everything.”

“It sounds like almost every member of our team has some sort of sad story or bad past. You, it was the war, me it was my father and a crazy medical doctor, Dakota being betrayed by someone she trusted, Mom being betrayed by someone in the FBI, and Bart being betrayed by the government on a mission.”

“Yeah, we all have a tragic past and it has shaped us into who we are now. The thing is, I wouldn’t trade the life I have now for what it might have been. I’ve made my peace with what was done to me. So, have you as well. You have matured since we first met.”

“Not all the way. I’m still bat shit crazy and I still have moments where my body and mind remember what was done to it. That doctor was a sadist bastard and did all sorts of experiments on me, both physically and mentally. He fucked with my head really good.” Hatter balls her hands into a fist as some memories surface.

Terry could tell Hatter was experiencing a bad memory. He wraps his arms around her and holds her. He knew better than to hold her tight. She didn’t like that.

“You’re safe now, Aylin.” He just holds her until he feels her stop shaking.

Aylin takes a deep breath and tries centering herself. She hasn’t had a flashback like this in a long time. She also tries to get her anger under control, because right now she wanted to kill something.

As Shade walks out of Rhino, he spots Terry holding Hatter. He also noticed that her hands were balled into a fist.

“Ah, shit.” He rushes over to Hatter and Terry.

Terry spots Shade rushing towards him and Hatter. He figures he knew that Hatter was having a memory flashback.

“She’s alright, Shade. I have her.” Terry knew what to do from his experiences of having flashbacks as well.

“Just be careful, Terry. The Mad Hatter sometimes surface in her.”

“I know.”

While the three of them are standing around and talking, a black and blue color semi-truck, pulling a special trailer pulls up where they are. The front part of the semi had a huge sleeper area to it. It looked like a cross between an Rv and a semi-truck. It stops near Rhino and a middle-aged woman with pink bubble gum color shoulder-length hair, wearing a custom-fitted pair of black coveralls and black boots comes walking over to them.

Lisa Custance couldn’t believe the load she had been assigned to pick-up. She thought for sure, headquarters was going to send her out to the West coast to help that crew out. Instead, she had been sent to Texas to pick-up a custom-built vehicle to take back to New York.

When she entered the property where the cargo was supposed to be waiting on her, she saw the vehicle and the people who were going to be traveling with her. She was glad that she had taken her secondary rig, instead of Iron Horse.

She walks up to the three people. Two of them looked like they were hugging. She wonders what that was all about.

“Hi, I’m Lisa Custance with Coastal Trucking and I’m supposed to speak to a Terry Winters.” Lisa kept watching the three.

“I’m Terry Winters.” Terry slowly releases Aylin.

“Is that the vehicle I’ve been sent to pick-up and I would imagine that you three are my passengers?” Lisa looks at Shade and the young clown-looking woman standing near him.

“Yes, if you want, I can help load the vehicle into the specially constructed container for it.”

“Thanks. That would be helpful. The guys I picked it up from didn’t go over how it operated.” Lisa had to drive to Tennessee to pick it up.

“Yeah, I can imagine how difficult it was. Come on, and I’ll show you how it operates.”

“Thanks.” Lisa follows Terry.

“Well, I think we better get whatever gear we need.” Shade noticed Hatter had relaxed her hands.

“Yeah.” She was still trying to center herself. She grabs Shade’s hand and just holds it as they walk towards Rhino.

Terry’s Garage, New York:
Dakota and Ralph were busy opening the shop for business. Since Terry normally opened the shop in the morning. Now it fell upon Ralph and Dakota to open the shop.

Ralph walks into the office and spots Dakota fixing a pot of coffee. He knew Dakota and several guys including himself enjoyed fresh coffee first thing in the morning.

“Ah, fresh-brewed coffee. Nectar of the gods.”

“I hope you like it. I’m trying a new blend.” Dakota decided to try a different blend of coffee than she normally buys.

“Well, whatever it is, it smells nice.” Ralph had inhaled the scent coming from the coffee.

Dakota sits down at her desk and logs onto her computer system. She couldn’t wait for Terry to come back. She checks the emails waiting for her to answer.

Once the coffee is ready, Ralph pours himself a cup. He puts a cap on the coffee cup and heads out to start on the customer car first on the list.

Lisa’s Eighteen-Wheeler:
Terry couldn’t believe that they were only an hour out from his garage. The past three days have been relaxing. He could have driven Lisa’s truck and let her get some rest, but she didn’t like anyone driving her truck, which he could understand. He didn’t like anyone driving his vehicles either.

Hatter and Shade had taken their motorcycles out a few times during the trip. Hatter had sped past a couple of State Troopers that had set up a speed trap. She didn’t bother to stop for them and let them chase after her. She didn’t have her paintball gun with her, but she did have her needler with her. So, she shot the tires out a few times.

Shade couldn’t believe what Hatter had done to the few State Troopers that were dumb enough to chase after her. He had one State Trooper chase after him because he mistook him for Hatter. He easily lost him and managed to get back onto Rhino.

He holds Aylin as they sat on the sofa in the extended cab. The two of them planned on visiting their friends and afterward, heading towards their favorite pizza joint.

“Are you happy we're back in New York?”

“Yes. South America was nice, but I’m happy to be back home.” Aylin couldn’t wait to see her friends.

“Well, according to Lisa and Terry we should be home in about an hour.” Shade places a kiss on Aylin’s cheek.

“Good.” Aylin leans back against Shade.

“Oh, come on you morons. Do you have to rubberneck?” Lisa couldn’t believe that they ran into a back-up because people were rubbernecking to look at the three accidents.

Terry just smirks at Lisa’s comment. He glances over towards her “I figure you would have more patience.”

“Normally, I do. I run into this type of stupidity all the time. Today, however, I just don’t understand why people must rubberneck. If you have seen one accident, you have seen them all.”

“I agree, it doesn’t do any good rubbernecking just to see who or what vehicles got damage.” Terry hated rubbernecking as well.

Lisa spots the street she needs to turn down. It was big enough for her truck.

“I’m glad this street is wide enough for me.”

“If it wasn’t, we could have come in off another route to my shop. Just back the trailer into the storage lot and I’ll move it later.”

Ralph spots a nice-looking eighteen-wheeler coming down the street. He notices it was heading towards the storage lot. He rushes over to the gate and opens it. Luckily, there wasn’t anything in the way.

Lisa swing her truck forward enough and line the trailer with Rhino on it with the entrance of the gate. She backs up until the trailer is inside the fence.

“That should do it.” Lisa stops her truck.

Terry hops out of the truck and knocks on the extended cab to let Shade and Hatter know they were home as he walks by. He starts securing the trailer and disconnecting the trailer lines from Lisa’s truck. He makes sure that the special travel trailer for Rhino is secured.

“Alright, Lisa. You can pull forward.”

Lisa pulls forward and lets the trailer slide off the hitch. She turns to face up the street and park in front of the garage. She gets out and walks back to where Aylin, Shade, and Terry were standing. A young man was standing there with them.

“It’s good you’re back, boss.” Ralph was happy Terry was back.

“Hey, Ralph. Do you have a car I can borrow?” Shade looks at Ralph.

“Give them the keys to the Fusion in the back, Ralph.” Terry trusted Shade with one of his loaners.

“Okay, boss.” Ralph turns to head towards the office.

Lisa passes Ralph on her way towards Terry. She was curious why she dropped the trailer here at a garage.

“Well, it was nice transporting you and your team, Terry.”

“Where will you go from here?” Terry was curious.

“I’m to deadhead to the Eastern hub from here. There’s supposed to be a load coming in for me.” Lisa has already received her next assignment.

“Well, good luck and safe journey, Lisa.” Terry walks over and shakes Lisa’s hand.

Lisa shakes Terry’s hand. A smile appears on her face.

“If you ever need help, you know how to get in touch with me.”

“I promise.” Lisa waves goodbye and head towards the cab of her truck.

After Lisa gets in her truck and drives off. Aylin and Shade leave as well. Terry does one more check on Rhino’s trailer, before heading into the office to see and hug Dakota.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“What is your relationship to Ms. Falco?”

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

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

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

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

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

“Thank you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Thanks for letting me stay with you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angie was confused about the question “like what?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Hey boy.” Aylin rubs Bear head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I’ve noticed. How are you feeling?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aylin follows behind Angie and cuts the lights off.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Call me.” Aylin turns and walks away.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It’s me, cuz.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Alright.” Wears grabs her weapon and purse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Here you go, ma’am.”

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

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

“Hello?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angie closes door the behind them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Ping!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Okay.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“They’re gone, Mr. Amos.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Thank you.”

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

After Teela lets the agents out of the building, she returns to her office to think about what happened. She felt useless around the agents. Here, she is a trained stunt person cowering behind the crates on the pallet while Agent Wear and Agent Amos handle the men who come into the loading dock area.

She fished the business card Jester had given her out of her purse and dialed the number on it. The phone rang for a few seconds before it was answered.

“Jester Bounty Service, how can I help you,” Jamie answers in a tired and sleepy voice.

“Hi, Mrs. Katz, this is Teela Falco. I was wondering if we could talk about you training me.” Teela hopes Mrs. Katz will train her.

Jamie sits up in bed, letting the covers covering her naked body pool around her waist. She noticed her wife was already gone, and their hired live-in babysitter cared for the boys.

“What brought this on, Mrs. Falco?” Jamie was curious why the person she and Shade had recently met suddenly wanted to be trained.

“Because yesterday, my place of business was attacked by four gunmen. I felt useless, and I could do nothing to help the agents under attack.” Teela hated to admit that she was scared and useless.

Jamie tries to clear her head off the cobwebs, still clouding her judgment. She needs coffee or a few more hours to fully function.

“Look, I’m all for training you if that’s what you want to do, but I think we need to talk in person about this. Why don’t we meet up somewhere and discuss this further?” Jamie felt this needed a face-to-face conversation instead of over the phone.

“Where would you like to meet?” Teela walks over to the stunt outfit and looks at it. They still had a few more scenes to finish filming.

“Let me talk to Mark first to set everything up, and I’ll text you to let you know where and when. Is this a good number to call you back on?” Jamie noticed the cell phone was registered to Falco Special Effects.

“Yes, it is. You can reach me at this number any time.”

“Good, I’ll call you back by this evening, Ms. Falco.” Jamie covers up a yawn.

“Thank you.” Teela ends the phone call.

She walks over to her desk and works on some business requests that have come in. Glancing at the clock, she knows Emily will be arriving soon, so she tries to get as much as she can done before Emily arrives.

Emily walks into the office and notices Teela is already at work. She walks over to Teela’s desk and sets a large coffee cup on it.

“Thanks.” As Teela picks it up and takes a sip from the cup.

“You’re welcome. How did things go with Agent Wears?” Emily sits on her work stool and puts her purse underneath the workbench.

“It didn’t. We got attacked.” Teela looks at Emily when she says that.

Emily almost choked on her coffee. She wipes some of the coffee away. “You guys got attacked? How did anyone know the agents were picking up the guns?”

“I don’t know. All I know is that when we opened the loading dock doors, they switched places with the other agents that came with Agent Wears
and Agent Amos. Agent Wears knocked two of the gunmen out with the loading dock door. As for the others, they got away.”

“Man, this has been a fuckup since we took the job. What are you thinking about doing now?” Emily looks at her friend.

“Well, Agent Wears and Agent Amos will return with agents they can trust and retrieve the crates. As for me, I felt useless and scared while the attack went down. If they agree, I will get training from those two people we know.”

“Are you sure about this, Teela? I mean, I’ll help you, but this could become dangerous and bite us in the ass.” Emily was a little afraid.

“I’m sure. We can take the wings we haven’t finished yet and adjust them so you can use them. If I need help or a backup, you can help me.” Teela looks at Emily and watches her reaction.

“I don’t know, Teela. I’m not like you.” Emily liked being in the background.

“I know, but if there is anyone I trust a lot, it's you. So, what do you say?”

“What name would I go by?” Emily knew Teela liked being the Blue Falcon.

“How about Swift from the Authority? You remind me of her, and she supports the other Authority members. Plus, I just got an email from
Paramount. They want to hire us for a new movie they are doing. They haven’t said what the movie is, but the rumor is that they will make a live-action movie of a popular comic book series.”

“I don’t know, but if I do decide to do this, I’ll be supporting or backing up only. I don’t want to do this regularly.” Emily hated flying without a plane.

“That’s fine. Let’s see what Swift is and how we can recreate her.” Teela and Emily bring up pictures of the character and start reading about her.

By the end of the day, Teela hears from Jamie Katz about where she wants to meet tomorrow. Teela brings the location up and notices it is a pizza parlor outside New York. She replies to Jamie and asks if it is okay for her to bring a friend with her.

After a few minutes, she got a reply saying sure. Teela sent a text to Emily informing her. Afterward, Teela headed home but stopped at a Taco Bell to pick up some dinner. She didn’t feel like cooking anything when she got home.

When she arrives home, she notices someone has left a package for her on her front porch. She didn’t order anything, and a return address wasn’t listed on the outside. As she approached the package, something inside her told her to run. She backs away slowly from the package and calls the police.

A few minutes later, several police cars and the bomb squad show up. The police talk to her about the package while a robot moves close to the package. The operator managed to sneak peek inside and discovered that it was a bomb. It was crude, but it was rigged to explode as soon as it was picked up off the porch.

Patrol Officer Cornelius looks at the young woman standing in front of him. He had arrived first on the call and had been interviewing the woman.

“Are you sure you don’t know who could have sent this to you, Ms. Falco?”

“I’m sure, Mr. Cornelius. I only knew the package was on my porch when I arrived home. No sender was listed, and I usually don’t have my
deliveries sent here to my home.” Teela always had anything she ordered sent to her work address.

“You said earlier that you are working with the ATF. Could this have anything to do with that?” Patrol Officer Cornelius wonders if they are connected.

“It's possible.” Teela watches as the operator manages to disarm the package.

“Can you explain why you are working with them?”

“Sure, I received a bunch of real weapons at my work. I do special effects, and instead of receiving a shipment of fake armaments, I received a shipment of real weapons. Earlier today, while I was turning the guns over to the ATF, we were attacked.”

“Where are the weapons now, Ms. Falco?”

“They are locked up securely until the agents come and retrieve them.”

“Can I have the name of the agent you are working with?”

“Sure, Agent Wears and Agent Amos. Here is their business card.” Teela hands the card to patrol officer Cornelius.

Patrol Officer Cornelius accepts the card and adds it to his notes. He gets the okay from the bomb squad commander, who gives Ms. Falco the all-clear to enter her home.

Teela enters her house and watches as the police drive off. She fixes herself a drink and drinks it fast. She fixes herself another one and sits down on the sofa to eat her cold tacos and drink the drink she just made.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diego looks at the text “in thirty minutes.”

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

The others follow behind him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Hello?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Be careful, Teela.”

“I will.” Teela ends the call.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Roger!” Emily presses the remote button.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Thanks.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Would you like some coffee or tea?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manor House, Ravenstonedale, England.
Archie was looking through the items stored in one of the buildings they didn’t use anymore except for storage. He spots several paintings taken from the house and put into storage. He lifts the cover of one of the paintings and saw it was a portrait of his father’s first wife holding his half-sister.

He could still recall the day she broke into the manor house and killed their father. The crazy look on her face and the bloody knife she had used. Before anyone could do anything to stop her, she jumped through one of the stained-glass windows and disappeared.

He finds a trunk that was locked that belonged to his father. He manages to use one of the keys to open the chest. When he opened the trunk, he found that it was loaded with books and files. One file caught his attention because it was in a hospital envelope.

When he opened it and reviewed the contents, he discovered that the file contained his half-sister’s birth certificate. It also included another birth certificate as well. It belonged to his half-sister’s twin. He digs through the trunk and looks for any pictures of his half-siblings.

The only one he finds while looking through everything was a picture of his half-sister when she was a baby. He also finds the death certificate issued by the mental hospital his sister supposedly died at. He knew that wasn’t true because he had heard rumors about her killing people in London and elsewhere.

He gathers all the paperwork up and takes it back to his bedroom. He was going to locate his sisters and bring them together. He scans all the paperwork and stores it on a portable hard drive.

Later in the evening, while eating dinner with his mother and new stepdad, he looks at his mother, “Mom, I wondered if it’s okay with you and Dad. I want to visit America with some friends of mine during Summer break.”

Arthur looks at his stepson. “What has brought this on? I thought you and your friends planned to stay in England this summer.”

“That was the original plan, Dad. But we discussed it and want to see some bands and places this year.” Archie couldn’t tell his parents why he wanted to go to America.

“I don’t know. You’re still under twenty-one.” Maddison looks at her son.

“By a few months, Mom.” Archie knew he could go without their permission, but he respected his parents too much to go against them. Also, they would be footing the bill for his flight and stay in America.

“True. Let me and your father talk about it, Archie.”

“Deal.” Archie feels his mother will agree.

The Abbey, St. Ives, Cornwall, England:
Amelia couldn’t believe how busy they were. She was glad that the lockdown had been lifted. It had hurt her and her husband’s pockets badly.
She did everything she could to keep as many of her staff working. They had gone from eating at the restaurant to a pickup and delivery place during the lockdown.

“Hey Amelia, when did you do MMA fighting?” Charlie looks at his boss as he takes his break.

“What are you talking about, Charlie?” Amelia looks over at her childhood friend.

“I’m talking about this.” Charlie gets up, walks over to Amelia, and shows her the fight he just watched on YouTube.

Amelia watches the fight and notices the red hair woman fighting looks identical to her. She watches as the woman knocks out her opponent with her fist.

“That’s not me, Charlie. I haven’t been out of England except on my honeymoon with Arnold.” Amelia must admit that the woman she had just
watched looked like her. Amelia hands Charlie his cell phone back.

“That’s not all.” Charlie brings up a picture of the woman with a handsome man standing next to her at a social event.

“What now?” Amelia finishes cooking the order and puts it up to be carried out.

“This.” Charlie shows the picture to Amelia the image.

She couldn’t believe how much the woman looked like her. She had the same facial features and hair hairstyle.

“Where was this picture taken?” Amelia was curious.

“It says here that the picture was taken at SONY HALL. New York, NY.”

“When was that picture taken?” Amelia was curious.

“A year ago. It says here that her name is Aylin Jagger, and she owns Helping Hands Outreached.” Charlie looks up at Amelia.

“I might call my mom and see if she is of any relation to me.” Amelia knew she had been adopted.

Her parents had told her when she turned fifteen years old. It initially shocked her, but she realized she was always different from her siblings and cousins. No one in the family had her looks or hair color.

Charlie saw what time it was. “I better get back to work.” He tucks his cell phone in his back pocket.

Amelia watches as Charlie walks off and returns to his spot on the line. He was a good line cook, and she was glad she managed to keep him during the pandemic. She goes back to cooking the orders coming in.

Helping Hands Outreached, New York:
Aylin looked at the response from Mr. Slim about the property she wanted to buy from him. The asshole wanted three times the price of what the property was worth. Because she wanted to turn it into affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness in that area. The bastard wanted to squeeze as much money from her as possible.

She stands up, walks over to the window in her office, and looks out of it. She has bought up all the other surrounding property to build on. The owners of those properties had been reasonable and accepted her offer. An evil smile appears as she walks over to her desk. If this asshole wants to play hardball, she’ll show him she could be his worst enemy.

She takes her cell phone out and presses the number six button. She listens as the other phone rings, and a familiar voice answer, “Hello?”

“Hey Jessie, I need a favor.”

“All your favors are used up, Hatter. This one will cost you.” Jessie knew Hatter only called him when she needed something illegal done.

“Fine, send me what you need. I need you to dig into a person’s background for me and find me some dirt I can use against them.”

Aylin remembers the lessons her mother gave her. She said if you can’t kill someone, blackmail them.

“Who’s the person you have in your sights?” Jessie knew never to piss off Hatter because she would get revenge one way or another.

“Davis J. Slim. I want you to dig into all his business dealings and private life.” Aylin spins around in her high-back leather chair and looks out the window behind her.

“Do I want to know what he did to piss you off?” Jessie was sure that this was a revenge mission.

“Nope, just get me the information, and I’ll reimburse you.”

“On it.” Jessie ends the call and starts working on Aylin’s request.

Aylin closes her cell phone and grabs some cash from her purse. She was going to have lunch at her favorite food truck. As she exited her office, she looked over toward Tammy. “I’m going to go and get some lunch. Would you like anything?”

“A pineapple smoothie, if you don’t mind.” Tammy liked the last one Aylin brought her.

“No problem.” Aylin starts walking towards the main entrance in the lobby.

She wonders if Michael is working today since she helped him get a job in the Parks and Recreation department. He had a little difficulty adjusting to having a full-time job, but he managed. She learned that he loved working outside and was good with plants.

She doesn’t spot him as she approaches her favorite food truck. She placed her order while it was being made. She orders a smoothie for Tammy. She leaves a hefty tip at both food trucks as she returns to her office.

Hatter’s House:
Hatter was glad the day was over. The afternoon meeting she attended with some of the directors of the homeless shelters her company sponsored wasn’t encouraging. There had been an increase in shelter incidents, and she wanted to know the cause. Some knew some of the people the shelter took in had mental and emotional problems. However, she had staff trained to help them.

A few shelters had to hire extra security because some had a large veteran population suffering from PTSD and other problems. She ensured the security people were properly trained to subdue and not injure the veterans. Sometimes things could get out of hand, but she felt sorry for the veterans and wanted to do everything she could for them.

She enters the code to the front door and walks inside. She could hear music coming from the den and walked towards the den. She stands in the entryway and watches as Hollace and Julie dance. A smile forms on her face as she watches her two young girls have fun. She adopted Julie after a child-servant friend called her and asked if she could take her in. The poor girl had been abandoned at a park by her mother. Julie was only a year older than Hollace, and they were inseparable.

She saw Bear and Cody watching the girls. Cody was a stray Jamie rescued from a frozen pond. Someone had thrown him into the pond, trying to drown him. She jumped into the pond and saved him. She nursed him back to health but couldn’t keep him. She and Taskhtali had rescued a
family of cats that didn’t get along with the puppy.

So, instead of taking him to the pound. She adopted him and gave him to Julie. Once he gets older, she’ll take him to the same trainer that trained Bear.

“Mom, we’re home,” Bree yells for her mother.

Sakura shakes her head as she closes the front door behind her. She was still hurting and recovering from her beating two weeks ago. She was also trying to recover from Bree’s driving as well. Since she was a licensed driver and twenty-one years old, she let Bree drive since she had her learner’s permit.

She knew little Mark was over at Jamie’s house with his siblings. Also, Justice was in town and volunteered to watch Hollace and Julie while she was picking up Bree from school. They noticed Aylin was home from her car parked in the driveway.

Bree looks around for her mother. She was excited that Sakura had allowed her to drive home from school and wanted to tell her mother. She spots Justice in the kitchen cooking dinner.

“Aunt Justice, do you know where my mother is?” Bree looks at her aunt.

Bree knew her aunt was studying to become a US Marshal, like the guy that saved her. She noticed that her aunt was wearing a comfy dress.

“Have you checked the den?” Justice figures her older sister might be in there checking on Hollace and Julie.

“Nope, guess what I did today, Auntie?”

“What did you do today?” Justice could tell her niece was excited.

“I drove home today.” A big smile forms on Bree’s face.

“Sakura was brave enough to let you drive?” Justice couldn’t believe Sakura had let her niece drive home.

It took Anika several months after she got her learner’s permit before she would allow her behind the wheel. Even then, it was just on the farm before she was allowed to leave the property. Ron took her out and let her drive his old pickup truck.

“Sakura said I did pretty good.” Bree liked Sakura.

“She did, Justice.” Sakura had walked into the kitchen to grab something to drink.

The pain pills she was taking made her sluggish, but it was helping her recover. She was supposed to be invaluable, but there had been a person who could neutralize a person’s ability with just a touch. Not only had that person negated her ability, but they beat her so severely. When she woke up days later, she was in a private hospital hooked up to a life support unit.

Justice looks at Sakura as she drinks from the bottled water she grabbed from the refrigerator. She knew Sakura had a soft spot for Bree as a cousin.

“Maybe next time I drop in, I’ll take you out for a driving lesson.” Justice wanted to see how good Bree was.

“That would be great.” Bree liked her aunt.

Bree turns to find her mother and spots her standing at the door to the den. She steps up behind her mother and hugs her.

Aylin felt someone hug her from behind. She was about to react when she smelled the perfume Bree likes wearing. She relaxes. “What are you up to, munchkin?”

“I got to drive today, Mom.” Bree lets go of her mother.

A playful smile appears on Aylin’s face. “Who was brave enough to let you drive?”

“Sakura. She said I did well.” Bree moves to stand next to her mother.

Aylin looks at her daughter’s face and still can’t get over the fact that it has been six years since she and Mark adopted Bree. Bree was her first daughter, and she taught her a lot about being a mother. Something she never thought she would be.

“We’ll have to see when I take you out this weekend.” Aylin hugs her oldest.

Ravenstonedale, England;
Archie was curious about his older sister and did some research online. He knew she had gone by the name Mad Hatter. He does a Google search on her and finds that she has appeared several times in news articles in New York and elsewhere. However, most news articles have her as being in New York mostly.

A few people had posted videos of her. He clicks on them and watches as she kicks some serious ass. It shows her taking down men twice her size and build. Other people were fighting with her, wearing weird outfits.

Someone caught her running with a bunch of kids her age jumping buildings and sliding down guardrails. She wore an outfit similar in design to the one she killed their father in. He still didn’t know the reason behind that. He wanted to know why she killed their father. He pauses the video, picks up his cell phone, and calls his best friend.

Theo was out relaxing by the pool when his cell phone rang. He picks it up, looks at the caller Id, and notices that it is his best friend, Archie. He presses accept, “Hey dude, I thought you were coming over?”

“Not today, Theo. Hey, do you think your parents would permit you to go to the United States with me?”

“I don’t see why not. They think of you like a second son. Why are we going to the United States?”

“Why not? We have been to Spain, France, and Germany. Why not the states?” Archie knew Theo had some fake IDs they could use.

“True. You want me to call Leo and Freddie and see if they also want to go?”

“Sure, we can go clubbing and bar hopping together. Call me back when you get their answers.” Archie hopes they say yes as well.

“Okay.”

Archie hears Theo’s phone go dead. He puts his cell phone down and does some more searching. While searching, he stumbles across an
article about a chef in St. Ives, Cornwall, England. He clicks on the article, and when it appears, he is surprised to see a woman who looks like his sister without makeup.

He brings up the MMA fight he saw his sister fighting in and freezes the image. He enlarges it and compares them.

“I will be a monkey’s uncle.” He couldn’t believe the similarities between the two.

They were identical in every way. Same face, eyes, eye color, hairstyle, and build. There was no way the second woman he was looking at was
his sister in New York. He plugs his portable hard drive in, searches through the files he copied to it, and finds the second birth certificate.

He couldn’t believe it. He had another half-sister that was a twin to the other one. Why did his father only keep one girl? He knew his father could be mean at times and had a temper, but why would he not support both of his daughters? Also, why did his half-sister kill him? He needed answers to these questions, but first, he needed to check this other woman out to verify that she looked like she did.

Amelia’s Place, St. Ives, Cornwall, England:
Amelia covers up a yawn as she walks into her house. She was tired and it was late. She puts her keys to the restaurant and house in a crystal bowl by the front door. She knew her husband was already home and sleeping.

She walks into her girl’s bedroom and notices that Carrie had left a movie playing on her laptop. She picks up the tablet and turns it off. She places it on the nightstand next to her daughter’s bed. She tucks the blanket around Carrie and places a kiss on her forehead.

She turns around and looks at Carrie’s twin Angela. Angela was the complete opposite of her sister. She was the wild one and loved to get into fights with the boys at school. Both her girls were talented and smart as whips.

She tucks Angela in and places a kiss on her forehead. She had been surprised that she was pregnant with twins. Her husband had twins on his side of the family, but she didn’t know anything about her birth family.

She called her mother and arranged for her to come by the restaurant tomorrow. She told her about the other woman she was shown a video of and wanted to talk to her mother about that woman. She knew her mother uses to be a private nurse and midwife.

“Sleep tight, my little angels.” Amelia closes the girl's bedroom door as she exists and walks across the hallway to her bedroom.

As she walks into her bedroom, she notices her husband was sound asleep. She undresses and crawls into bed, after putting her nightgown on.
She fluffs her pillow and falls asleep. Sometimes during the night, she feels her husband spoon up against her and hold her.

She loves feeling his strong arms holding her. She wiggles closer against his body. She falls into a little sleep. Since she had children, she has never allowed herself to fall into a deep sleep.

Around five in the morning, the alarm clock goes off in the bedroom. She buries her head under her pillow and elbows her husband. He always set the alarm for five in the morning. She feels him stir as he reaches over and turns the alarm off.

A few minutes later, the alarm goes off again. She elbows her husband, as she gets up and walks across the hallway to wake the girls. Getting either girl up and ready for school was a chore first thing in the morning. She opens the girl’s bedroom door and heard their alarm clock going off.

“Up and at um, girls.”

“Do we have to, Mom?” Carrie sits up in bed and looks over at her mother.

“Yes, you do sweetie. Get up and put your school uniform on.” Amelia walks over to Angela’s bed and pulls the covers off her.

“Come on Angela, time to get up.” Amelia looks down at her daughter.

Angela was born a few minutes after Carrie, but when she was in her womb. Angela was the more active one, whereas her sister wasn’t.

“I’m up.” Angela rolls out of bed and falls onto the floor.

“Are you sure?” Amelia reaches down and helps her daughter up off the floor.

Amelia notices that Angela’s nipples were pierced. She shakes her head “Young lady, when did you get your nipples to pierce?”

“A few days ago, Mom.” Angela knew lying to her mother was out of the question.

“You do know you are underage, don’t you?” There was a serious look on Amelia’s face when she looked at her daughter.

“I know, but I did it myself.” Angela was proud of the piercing she did.

Amelia shakes her head and wonders where she went wrong. She couldn’t believe her daughter did her piercing.

“Do you have any more piercings?”

“Other than the ones in my ears, no ma’am.” Angela has been thinking about getting a belly button one and maybe one on her clit.

“Next time you decide to pierce your body, talk to me first, please?” Amelia was upset with her daughter, but it was her body and she had to live with the consequences.

Amelia turns and shuts the bedroom door behind her. She walks into her bedroom and starts getting dressed. When she spots her husband “Do you know what Angela did?”

“No, what did she do now?” Ralph looks at his wife as he puts an undershirt on.

“She pierces her nipples.” Amelia puts on a clean pair of panties and sprinkles some baby powder onto her body, before putting her bra on.

“She is getting wilder and wilder every day. You know the school called me yesterday about her.” Ralph couldn’t believe he got a phone call about Angela.

“What did she do now?” Amelia looks at her husband.

“She punched Billy Cornwall in the chest and knocked him to the ground.” Ralph couldn’t believe his daughter knocked the wind out of a guy that was a foot taller and well-built.

“That reminds me. Charlie showed me a video on YouTube of a woman that looks just like me in an MMA fight.”

“Yeah? I would love to see that. Your afraid of spiders and scream like a little girl when you see one.” Ralph knew his wife didn’t like spiders or mice.

“They are scary. I had Charlie send me the link so I could show you.” Amelia grabs her cell phone and shows her husband the fight.

Ralph watches the video and couldn’t believe that the woman fighting was identical to his wife. She was quick and fast. He couldn’t believe how she looked. He had to look at his wife a few times to compare them.

“Your right, she is identical to you. Have you spoken with your mother about her?” Ralph hands the cell phone back to his wife.

“No, not yet. I asked her to come by the restaurant so I could talk with her.” The woman in the video was puzzled to her.

“Let me know what your mother says.” Ralph kisses Amelia, before leaving the bedroom.

Amelia checks to see if the girls were ready, after fixing a light breakfast for them and packing their lunches. She knew their friends were jealous because her girls always had nice lunches.

“Alright girls, come on and get a move on.” Amelia watches as her girls rush from their bedroom.

Both girls sit down and eat their light breakfast. When they are done, they grab their lunches and follow their mother out to her car. Angela takes the front seat, while her sister sits in the backseat.

Amelia drives the girls to school and drops them off. Before they exit the car “Dad is coming by to pick you up. Go and learn something.”

“We will, Mom.” The girls get out of the car and head toward their friends.

Amelia watches as her girls head toward their friends. She drives towards the restaurant to begin prepping everything for opening. She didn’t do the breakfast crowd but opened for lunch and dinner. It gave her time to spend the morning with her girls and to go by the market to pick up fresh vegetables and spices.

The Abbey, St. Ives, Cornwall, England:
Edith walks into her daughter’s restaurant and was immediately seated. She loved coming to her daughter’s restaurant and knew Amelia worked hard to maintain it. Her daughter worked hard to make a name for herself as one of the best restaurants.

Even when Covid hit, Amelia kept her business going and helping her people. She spots Clair walking towards her with a wine glass filled with her favorite wine.

“Amelia said she will be a few minutes, Mrs. Young.” Clair sets the wine glass on the table before Mrs. Young.

“Thank you, Clair.” Edith smiles at the young woman.

A smile appears on Clair’s face as she walks away to tend to some of her customers sitting nearby. She liked Mrs. Young and how she cared about her daughter’s employees. She walks over and sees what her customers want.

After a couple of minutes, Amelia manages to leave the kitchen. Her line chef could handle everything while she talked with her mother. A smile forms on her face as she spots her mother sitting at her favorite table.

Edith spots her daughter walking over to her and smiles. She couldn’t believe how successful Amelia had become.

“Hi, mom.” Amelia hugs her mother.

Edith hugs Amelia back. She looks at her daughter as she releases her “What is on your mind, sweetie?”

Amelia sits next to her mother and looks at her. She pulls her cell phone out and looks through the pictures she had managed to capture from the web. She looks at her mother “Mom, do I have a twin sister?”

Edith looks confused and wonders why Amelia is asking that question. She looks at her daughter and notices she is holding her cell phone “Why do you ask, sweetie?”

“Because my friend Charlie found a woman on the web that looks identical to me.” Amelia shows the picture to her mother.

Edith takes Amelia’s cell phone and looks at the image. After a few seconds, she looks at Amelia and back at the image. Aylin couldn’t be alive.
She had learned that Aylin committed suicide when she was just eight years old in the mental hospital she had been sent to.

According to what she heard. Aylin had slit her wrist and bled to death. Her father even had a funeral for her. She wasn’t there, but the dead girl in the casket looked like Aylin.

Amelia has been watching her mother and notices several different emotions cross her mother’s face. She loved her mother and had been told that her birth mother had put her up for adoption because of her father’s plan to kill her.

“So, it’s true, Mother. I do have a twin.” Amelia wonders why this had been hidden from her.

Edith looks at her daughter “We all thought she had died from suicide. Your birth father put your twin in a mental hospital. According to what I heard, your sister had caused your birth mother to fall down a flight of stairs, killing her in the process.”

“And they put my twin in a mental hospital for that?” Amelia looked skeptical.

“Your birth father said your twin suffered from mental problems.” Edith had heard that Amelia’s father was spreading rumors that Aylin had gone crazy.

“Why did my parents keep my twin sister and not me?” Amelia wanted to know why she was sent away.

“It was for your safety, Amelia. Your birth mother knew your father was going to kill one of you. He thought your mother was going to have a son and a daughter. So, your mother asked me to take you, raise you as my daughter, and keep your twin. I told your father that the other twin died at birth.”

“So, what happened to my birth father?” Amelia was curious about that.

“According to a newspaper article. A criminal known as the Mad Hatter broke into the mansion where you were born and killed him. You have a half-brother as well. Your birth father got remarried after the death of your twin and your birth mother.” Edith wasn’t going to hide anything from her daughter.

“So, it seems my twin didn’t die but somehow escaped the mental facilities.” Amelia looks at the picture of the woman.

“It would appear so.” Edith couldn’t believe that the woman she was looking at was Aylin Christian Green. Everyone thought she had died.

“You said my birth father remarried after my sister and birth mother died. Do you know who my half-brother is?” Amelia was curious.

“Unfortunately, I don’t, dear. I wanted to keep you safe. If your father knew you survived, he might have come after you.” Edith didn’t know why Amelia’s birth father hated girls so much.

“Why would my birth father come after me?”

“I don’t know, sweetie. I know I promised your birth mother I would keep you safe. Your birth father was abusive towards your mother in private but nice to her in public. I know he wanted her family fortune because he squandered his family fortune.”

“Did he ever get my mother’s family fortune?” Amelia wanted to know if her bastard of a father managed to get his greedy hands on it.

“No, your mother ensured that only you girls could get it. Since Aylin was classified as dead, her share went to you.” Edith used a little of it to help Amelia to build her restaurant.

“And my birth father never realized this?”

“No, as far as he was concerned. Your mother donated the money to a private fund that your father couldn’t touch unless he had her signature, but because he killed her off. There was nothing he could do. He got the mansion and the grounds but not the money or family antiques. Those are yours.”

“I know this question is a little jealous of me, but why did my mom keep my sister instead of me?” Amelia was curious about that.

“Your sister was born five minutes before you. So, your mother decided to keep her, but she did hold you when we switched you for your sister for a little while. Even your father didn’t realize we switched you two. Your mother loved you very much and always called me about you.”

Sara walks over to Amelia. They needed her in the kitchen for a second.

“Amelia, we need you in the kitchen.” Sara looks at her boss.

“All right, Sara.” Amelia looks at her mother.

“Go, sweetie. When you can, I’ll try the day’s special.” Edith loved her daughter’s cooking.

“I’ll send it out right away, mom.” Amelia gets up and follows Sara back to the kitchen.

Aylin’s House:
“So, how have things been at the office this week, sis?” Jamie carries the salad she made for dinner into the dining room.

Her wife Taskhtali was following behind her with one of the side dishes she made. They were having their weekly dinner with Aylin and Mark. They try to come over either once a week or more so the triples could spend time with siblings.

“Busy, I have a person being unreasonable about selling some property I need to build affordable housing for low-income families.”

“What have you learned about this person, sweetie?” Mark knew his wife would have done some research on him.

“That, he has collected insurance money on several properties that were burned down by an arsonist. The property I need to buy from him is vital to what I want to do.”

“So, do we need to pay him a visit?” Jamie looks at her sister with an evil smile on her face.

“As much as I would love to do that, sis. Let’s play this by the rules first. If he becomes unreasonable. Then I will personally invite him to a nuts roasting party.” Aylin was trying to be more reasonable than she uses to be.

Taskhtali looks at Aylin and her wife “You wouldn’t do that, would you?”

“Oh, you piss my sister off enough, she’ll do it.” Jamie knew what Aylin would do. She didn’t like bullies or cruel people.

After everything is brought out of the kitchen and set on the dining room table. Aylin goes to get Bree, Hollace, and Julie. They were in the den watching a Disney movie. She pokes her head into the room “Girls, dinner is ready.”

“Yeah!” Hollace stands up first.

Bree wanted to help with dinner, but her mother asked her to watch over her sisters. She escorts her two younger siblings to the dining room. When they enter the dining room, Julie sits next to Jamie and Hollace sits on the other side of her mother. Bree sits near her father and Taskhtali sits across from her wife.

The boys and their little sister had already been fed. They were in their crib upstairs in the nursery. Jamie serves Hollace and cut up everything for her. Aylin was doing the same for Julie, even though she was a year older than Hollace. Taskhtali was watching with amusement on her face. They would be doing the same thing for the triplets when they get older.

Jamie flinches when her bra rubs against her sore nipples. The boys have been sucking hard on them when she feeds them.

“What’s wrong, Jamie?” Mark noticed Jamie flinching when she was cutting up Hollace’s veggies.

Jamie looks at Mark “Your sons have been little piggies lately.”

“Oh!” Mark knew what Jamie was talking about. Aylin went through the same problem with Hollace when she first started breastfeeding.

Even when Aylin wore her most comfortable bra, the bra would still chafe her sore and raw nipples. Mark remembered how frustrated Aylin would get because of her nipples being raw. She was glad when she stopped breastfeeding Hollace.

Aylin looks at her sister “Now you know how I felt.”

“Yeah, but you only had one child to feed.” Jamie was glad that her wife helped her out with the triplets.

Bree had a confused look on her face as her mother and aunt talked about something in secret. She knew her mother, father, and aunt sometimes spoke in code. She looks at her mother and back at her aunt and wonders what they were talking about.

After dinner, they enjoy some dessert. Aylin prepares Hollace and Julie for bed. She tucks them into bed and goes back downstairs to spend with her husband, older daughter, sister, and sister-in-law.

Jamie looks at Mark “Has anything exciting happened at Eruption lately?”

“Nope, thank god.” Mark was glad his job at Eruption Communications was boring.

Taskhtali wonders why Mark took such a boring job at Eruptions. She knew he, Aylin, and her wife went after some of the bad guys in New York or other places. The last job the three of them did, before Jamie and Aylin had to pause while they were pregnant. They went after some weapons smugglers.

She couldn’t see Mark being happy being a company security officer with his credentials. It wasn’t like he needed to work with the prize money he saved up from his MMA matches. She knew her wife did bounty hunting jobs and a few drag shows as well.

After a few hours, Jamie and Taskhtali head home with the triplets. Aylin checks on her girls, after making sure Bree gets ready for bed. She tucks Bree into bed and places a kiss on her forehead.

Afterward, Aylin heads toward her bedroom and starts getting undressed. She feels Mark walking up behind her and wrapping his arms around her waist. She leans back against his chest, as she enjoys feeling his loving arms holding her. She feels him nibbling on her neck and his hand inching her panties down.

A low moan escapes from her throat as she enjoys his lips on her neck and his fingers teasing her. Eight years ago she wouldn’t have never allowed him to do what he was doing. But now she didn’t mind Mark holding and fingering her. She turns around in his arms and starts kissing him as she moves back towards the bed.

“You have too many clothes on.” As Aylin bites his throat carefully.

A smile appears on Mark’s face as he falls on top of Aylin on the bed.

Amelia’s Place, St. Ives, Cornwall, England:
Amelia adjust her glasses as she looks through the scrapbook her mother had kept about her birth family. Her mother knew she would one day want to know about her birth family. A smile appears on her face as she looks at the pictures of her and her sister after they had been born.

She had done the same thing when her girls had been born. She had pictures of them after she gave birth. She reads the police report her mother had managed to get about the death of her birth mother. According to the police report, her twin sister had been the cause of their mother falling down the stairs and breaking her neck.

There was a report about the mental review that had been done on her sister. It said her sister suffered from schizophrenia and that she had been admitted to Topeka Lunatic Asylum. According to the obituary her mother clipped from a newspaper. Her twin sister had died from suicide.

According to the medical report done at the Asylum by Dr. Jakob Knepp. Her sister had managed to get her hands on some broken glass and cut the main vein in her wrist. According to the report, her sister had been eight years old when she died.

There was a newspaper clipping of her birth father getting remarried two years after her sister was declared dead. It seemed he didn’t waste any time having another child. According to the newspaper article. Her father and his new wife had a baby boy.

Ralph looks at his wife reading next to him. She was holding an old-style photo album.

“What are you looking at sweetie?” Ralph knew his wife liked reading in bed.

Amelia turns and looks at her husband “Some information my mother collected over the years about me. Remember when I told you about that woman that looked like me?”

“Yeah, did your mother know about her?” Ralph was curious about his wife’s past.

“Yes, but according to everything my mother has collected about me and her. She is supposed to be dead.”

“Dead?” Ralph had a puzzled look on his face.

“Yeah, according to my mother. My birth mother asked my mother to take me to protect me. It seemed that my birth father doesn’t like girls and thought I would be born a boy. So, to protect me, my birth mother asked my mother to raise me as her daughter.”

“Okay, but how does this relate to your sister and being dead?” Ralph was curious about that.

“Well, according to a police report about my birth mother. She fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck. Our birth father said that my sister was the one responsible for our mother falling down the stairs. When the police went to question her, she started yelling and attacking them. When a mental evaluation was done on her, the doctor who did the evaluation said my sister was suffering from schizophrenia. Later on, when she was eight years old, she committed suicide while in the mental hospital.”

“Man, that is weird. Was it proven she was dead?” Ralph was curious.

“That’s the thing. There was a funeral for my sister and there was a young child in the coffin, but my mother doesn’t have a picture. So, there is no way to tell if it was her or not.”

“But the doctor or mortician would have to verify that it was your sister.”

“The mortician at the mental hospital she was in verified that it was her.” Amelia couldn’t believe her adopted mother kept newspaper clippings of everything.

“I also discovered that I have a half-brother as well. He was born two years after my twin was declared dead.”

“Is your father still around?” Ralph wonders if Amelia should talk with him.

“No, someone by the name of Hatter killed him in front of my brother and his mother.” Amelia had come across a news article about her father being killed by a notorious killer that went by the name of Hatter.

According to the article, she was responsible for four murders between the years of 2010 to 2012. No one knew who the Hatter was or where she came from. There was a picture of the Hatter in the newspaper. You could tell that the person was a woman from her heavily made-up face.

As Amelia stares at the picture, she started noticing that the person looked like she would with makeup on. She reaches for her tablet and brings up a picture of herself. She starts coloring the picture like the person in the picture.

“No way.” She was shocked when she realized that it was her twin.

“What?” Ralph looks at his wife.

“I know who the Hatter is.” She couldn’t believe her twin killed their father.

“Who?” Ralph was curious about who the Hatter was.

“It was my twin sister.” Amelia couldn’t believe that her sister was alive.

“But you said she was dead.” Ralph was confused now.

“That’s what everyone believed. No one knows what happened.” Amelia wonders if should she get in touch with this Aylin Jagger person in New York and confront her.

She closes the photo album and put it on her night stand, along with her glasses, tablet, and cellphone. she turns her lamp off and lay down. While she is sleeping, she thinks about going to New York and seeing if Aylin Jagger is really her twin.

Archie watches the GPS on his cell phone as he drove towards the restaurant owned by his older sister. He had the top down on his Aston
Martin and was enjoying the warm weather. Music was blaring from the radio and his best friend George was sitting next to him.

“Dude, why are we driving all the way out here to St. Ives?” George looks at Archie for an answer.

“George, remember when I told you I have an older sister, but she died when she was eight years old?”

“Yeah, didn’t you say your father had put her in a mental hospital, because she killed her mother?” George remembers seeing a picture of a woman holding a baby when he visited Archie’s house.

“That’s what I was told. However, what I wasn’t told was that my older sister had a twin.” Archie had come across the paperwork written in a woman’s handwriting that had been buried in another storage trunk along with a picture of two female babies.”

“You’re joking, right?” George couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“Nope, it seemed that my birth father was a royal prick and tried to hide my other sister.”

“How did you track your other sister down and are you sure she is your sister?” George figures that were where they were heading.

“Oh, I’m sure the woman I located is my sister. There’s too much resemblance between her and me. Also, the midwife that delivered my sisters never had a daughter until a few days later.” Archie had done some research into the midwife that delivered his sisters.

“How do you know all this?” George knew Archie was smart.

“I did some research, into my family.” Archie was thinking about joining MI5. Plus, he wanted to know more about his family.

“Are you still thinking about working for MI5?” George knew Archie has always wanted to join MI5. It has been his dream since junior high.

“Yep, you know it’s been my dream.” What Archie couldn’t tell his best friend was that he has already applied and was accepted.

He was just waiting to do his training. Until then, he was free to pursue other interest. He hated keeping secret about being accepted, but it was necessary.

“So, is our trip still on for New York?” George heard about the trip from Theo.

“Yes, it is. I’m going to arrange for us to stay at a nice hotel.” Archie remembers the last hotel he and his friends stayed at. Actually, it was a
house of a family friend when they went to Germany.

“Well, I can’t wait to meet some American women. I heard they are easy to seduce.” George was thinking about having some fun.

“That’s what you said about the German women and you ended up getting your face slapped.” Archie remembers one woman slapping his friends face so hard. He bit his tongue.

“I’m not going to make that mistake again.”

“Right.” A smirk appears on Archie’s face.

After thirty minutes they finally arrive at the restaurant. Archie finds a nice parking space and parks.

“The Abbey, nice name.” George follows behind Archie after they exit from the car.

As they walk into the place, they are met by a young Asian looking woman. George looks at her and loved how she looked.

“Hi, welcome to the Abbey.” Sara smiles at the two young men as they come walking up to her.

“Hi, we would like a table for two if any are available.” Archie noticed how busy the place was.

“If you’ll follow me, please.” Sara knew of a table available.

She grabs two menus and escorts them over to the table “here you go. Your server will be right with you.”

“Thank you.” As Archie accepts the menu from her.

George watches as the waitress walks off. He turns and faces Archie “so, where is your sister?”

Archie looks at all the servers and didn’t recognize any of them. “She’s here. She owns this restaurant.”

“Maybe we can get our meal for free, then.” George opens the menu and look at what he might want.

“I doubt it.” Archie looks at the menu as well.

After a few minutes, a young woman with dark hair approaches their table. The name tag she was wearing said her name was Patty.

“Hi, what can I get you gentlemen to drink?” Patty looks at the two young men sitting at her table.

“I would like a Coke Cola, please.” George looks at the young woman.

“And you sir?” Patty looks at the other guy.

“The same please.” Archie looks at Patty when spoke.

“I’ll be back with your drinks.” Patty turns and walks off.

George watches as Patty walks off and likes how her butt wiggled. He loved how it was shaped and how the tight pant she was wearing showed it off.

“If the chef here is your sister, she knows how to hire some cute servers.” A smile appears on George’s face.

Archie just shakes his head. He knew how George was when he was around women. He looks through the menu and notices his sister wasn’t opened for breakfast.

“I wonder why she’s not open for breakfast?” Archie was curious about that.

“Ask her when you talk with her. You do know it’s your turn to buy lunch, don’t you?” George looks at his friend.

“Yes, I know.” Archie just shakes his head.

A few minutes later their waitress comes back with their drinks. Patty places the drinks in front of each guy.

“Are you gentlemen ready to order or do you need more time?” Patty had her order pad out.

“We’re ready. Do you happen to have a chef here that is named Amelia Ann Alston?” Archie looks at Patty when he asks.

“Yes, we do. She’s the owner.”

“Would it be possible for you to give her this note for me?” Archie pulls out a note he prewritten before leaving home.

“Sure.” Patty accepts the note and tucks it in her apron.

“As for our order.” As Archie and George place their order.

Archie watches as Patty walks away and head towards the back of the restaurant.

The Abbey:
Amelia was in the kitchen preparing the next order that was on the order wheel. It was a house special that had been ordered.

“Hey boss, I have a note here for you from a customer of mine.” Patty pulls the note out of her apron to hand to Amelia.

“I wonder what they want.” Amelia opens the note and starts reading it.

Patty starts picking up the order she came in to get. She notices her boss reading the note.

Amelia looks up from the note and back at Patty “What table is your customer sitting at?”

“Table twelve. The note was given to me by a young man with short light brown hair. He’s sitting with another young man with dirty blonde hair.” Patty knew the other guy was googling her. She caught him a few times watching her ass.

“Thanks.” Amelia finishes what she is doing.

She looks at her assistant chef “Jake, can you cover for me for a few minutes?”

“Sure.” Jake starts working on the next order.

Amelia takes her apron off and walks out into the restaurant, she spots the young men sitting at table twelve and walks over to them. As she is walking over to them, she notices they were waiting patiently for their meal. She knew she had a younger brother from her birth father.

Archie spots a woman with short red hair walking towards the table he was sitting at. She was taller than he remembered, but her facial features matched the woman that attacked his father. He was younger, but he could swear she was shorter.

He watches as she stops at his and George’s table. He looks at her face and then her eyes. She had the same color eyes as the woman that killed his father, but her eyes didn’t seem to have that wild look he saw in the other woman’s eyes.

“You wanted to talk to me?” Amelia looks at the young man with the light brown color hair.

“Yes, is there somewhere we can talk in private?” Archie didn’t think he should talk about what he learned about her.

“Not right now, I’m kind of busy with the lunch crowd.” Amelia knew today was going to be busy.

“How about later, because I need to talk to you. What I have to say might answer a few questions you have about your past.” Archie wanted to
talk to this woman.

“I close at eleven today. Can you come back then, so we can talk?” Amelia wanted to know what this guy had to say.

“Sure, me and my friend can hang around town until then. Until then, you might want to look over this.” Archie pulls out the photo he found of her and her twin being held by her mother.

Amelia accepts the photo and looks at it. It was her as a baby along with her twin being held by a woman with reddish brown hair. She noticed that the woman looked tired and proud at the same time.

Amelia has seen the woman from the photo her adopted mother showed her. She goes to hand it back to the young man.

“Keep it. I have some other things to give you later.” Archie had brought along a dairy that Amelia’s birth mother kept.

“Thank you. Consider your meal on the house.”

“Cool, does that mean we can get some wine to go with our meal too?” George was going to take advantage of their luck.

“Yes, but nothing too expensive.” Amelia didn’t want to be taken advantage of.

“Thank you. I’ll make sure we don’t abuse your hospitality.” Archie looks at his friend when he mentions that.

A smile appears on Amelia’s face as she turns and walks back to the kitchen. She does glance at the photo a few times.

“You know, if she is your older sister. She looks nice.” George couldn’t believe how cute Amelia looked.

“She’s, my half-sister.” Archie was thinking about the other woman that killed their father.

Their meal arrived a few minutes later along with a glass of wine. Archie was impressed by how good the food tasted. He also liked the wine as well.

“Man, your sister can cook.” George loved the food.

“You’re not kidding.” Archie liked his sister's cooking.

After they finished their lunch. Archie finds out that they didn’t have to pay anything for their meal. So, he leaves a hefty tip for their waitress. George and he go out and look around the town. They spot a retro arcade place that had all the original video games.

“Now, I can get used to this.” George was impressed with the place.

Back at the Abyss:
Amelia, her husband Ralph, Archie, and George were the only ones in the restaurant. George was over at a booth playing a game he bought at a pawn store in town. He has been looking for this old game for a long time. He figured Archie and his sister might want to talk in private. It was also nice of her to give him some dessert as well.

Ralph looks at the young man claiming to be his wife’s brother. Some facial features matched hers, but he was still skeptical about the two being related. His wife called him at work and told him about the meeting. She had already made arrangements with her mother to babysit their daughters.

Amelia looked at everything that had been shown to her by her brother. He also included a DNA test he had done as well. He showed her the results that she had done for her daughters. The results were from the same company that he used for his.

“Why after all these years are you looking me up?” Amelia was curious why this Archie person was looking for her.

“Because I never knew you existed. It seems our father was a royal asshole and your mother knew it. According to her diary, she suspected that
he was cheating with my mother. When she found out that he planned on killing one of you, she knew she had to do something to protect you. As much as it hurt her, she asked her midwife, the one woman she could trust to raise you as her daughter. She kept tabs on you as you grew up. As for your twin sister, she saw the abuse your father committed against her.”

“So, it's true?” Amelia had tears leaking from her eyes.

“Yes, and I think your twin was the one who killed our father.” Archie has been gathering as much proof as he could. He found out that anything about their sister was classified or removed right away.

“What do you mean?” Amelia was curious.

“When I was eight years old, a woman dressed as the Hatter murder our father in front of me and my mom. She looked like you, but her face
was covered in heavy makeup. Here’s a wanted picture of her.” Archie shows a wanted poster of the Mad Hatter Interpol had put out to all police stations.

Amelia looks at the wanted poster of her twin and was right when she thought it was her. She hands the poster to her husband so he could look at it.

“That still doesn’t explain why she was declared dead. I think we should find her and ask her what happened in the mental hospital she was sent to.” Amelia wanted to know why her twin did what she did.

“I agree and from what I have learned. She lives in New York. Where exactly, I don’t know, but I have some friends in New York that might be able to find out for us since she is an MMA fighter and runs a charity organization called Helping Hands.”

“What type of charity organization is that?” Ralph was curious about Amelia’s twin.

“The business helps the homeless and supports soup kitchens feeding the homeless. She’s in the process right now of building homes and apartments that the homeless can live in.” Archie was amazed at what his sister was doing.

“She sounds like she is trying to make up for her past.” Ralph thought what Amelia’s twin was doing was honorable, but questionable.

“Well, I would like to meet her and find out what happened to her.” Amelia wanted to know why her sister did what she did.

Mark And Hatter’s Place:
Aylin checks on the girls after she gives Sarah the pain pills their doctor prescribe for the poor girl. After all these years of fighting crime and helping people. She still couldn’t get over the cruelness some people have towards the gay and trans community.

Sarah didn’t deserved what was done to her and if she hadn’t stumbled out in front of her car. She thinks Sarah would had been found dead from her injuries. Sarah had been very lucky.

After checking on the baby, the girls, and Bree. She heads back into her bedroom and take her house robe off.

“How is Sarah doing?” Mark looks at Aylin when she starts taking her house robe off.

“She’s still in pain, but the pain pills Dr. Collins prescribe should allow her to sleep.” Aylin drapes her house robe over the chair at her makeup table.

“We need to find the people responsible for nearly killing her.” Mark felt the same way Aylin did when it came to bullies and people who go after people like Sarah.

"Oh, I plan on making the person who hurt her pay.” Aylin was going after the bastard herself.

Aylin lays down on the bed, next to Mark.

“How are the girls?” Mark knew Aylin checked on Julie and Hollace. He had tucked them in, while his wife was helping Sarah.

“They are doing okay. Hollace likes having a sister near her age.” Aylin knew there was a huge age difference between Hollace and Bree.

Mark kisses Aylin on the lips as he holds her to him. He doesn’t feel sorry for whoever hurt Sarah. What he wants to know, was why did they attack her? Did they know she was trans or was thee another reason? He knew he’ll find out when Aylin gets done with them.

Manor House, Ravenstonedale, England.
Archie sat at his desk looking at the website for Helping Hands. He was looking for the address and who the person in charge was. After a few minutes of digging and looking at the address and doing a google map search of the place. He pins it down and look at the outside images of it.

As for the director of the place, a person by the name of Aylin Jagger was the ceo of the place. He already knew that his sister was going by a different name. He does some more searching and finds out that Aylin Jagger is the daughter of an Anika Jagger.

He learns that Anika Jagger is the sister of a one Jack Bounty who owns Eruption Communications. She was listed as being part of the excutive branch of the company. The information didn’t give her position in the company.

He also learns that Aylin’s husband Mark was the assistant security chief of Eruptions Security force. He was surprised that Aylin’s husband was doing security for the telecommunication company. He figures with both of them being MMA fighters that they made a lot of money considering the two of them had impressive fighting record.

He looks at Aylin’s record and learns she has only lost two matches and she has competed in twelve matches. Her husband has only lost two matches as well and he has been in fourteen matches. He saves everything and sends the links to his sister.

Archie doesn’t get Aylin’s address, but he does get the gym location of where she practices at. He learns about Aylin’s and her husband’s trainer. He owned the gym they trained at. It wasn’t a modern gym, but more of an old style that boxers would train at.

He looks the man up and sees that he has impressive fight record. He uses to be a boxer and had an impressive fight record, before he was forced to retired for medical reasons. Archie wonders what the medical reason was.

Archie does some more searching and learns that a bounty hunter by the name of Jamie Williams was suppose to the sister of Aylin Jagger. He does some more research about her and her wife Taskhtali. He discovers that Taskhtali Williams was a researcher who specialized in ancient Egpytian history and culture.

“So, I have another sister? I wonder how that came about?” Archie was curious how his biological sister ended up with another sister?

He checks his bank account and reads a few emails from his friends that were accompanying him to New York. He makes the arrangements for their plane tickets and rental. He chooses a moderate price hotel for them to stay in while they are in New York.

New York, New York:
Archie, George, Theo, Leo, and Freddie had already planned out what they wanted to do when they landed last night from England. Archie and George were going to check out the gym Anika Jagger trained at, while Theo, Leo, and Freddie were going to hang out with some girls they met on the plane last night.

Church Street Boxing Gym:
Archie watches as their cab driver takes him and George to the gym his sister and her husband trained. It was an old-style boxing gym located in the heart of New York. Archie found out that his sister’s trainer was a guy by the name of Rex Haze. He did some research on Mr. Haze and found out he used to be a boxer and had an impressive fighting record.

When the cab stops at the gym. Archie and George exit from it and look at the front of the building. It had two huge large windows and you could look inside and see people working out.

“Why would your sister choose a place like this to train at?” George couldn’t believe the place.

“Who knows? All I do know, is she and her husband come here to train.” Archie walks into the building.

George follows behind Archie and couldn’t believe how many people were inside training. There were four rings set up with people inside the ring training. He saw that there were a bunch of people training of various races.

“Can I help you?” Sabrina had spotted two well-built young men walking into the gym.

She tell right away they looked out of place. Also, the way they were dressed gave them away as well.

“Yes, I’m looking for a Rex Haze.” Archie turns his attention to the young light-skinned African American woman.

“He has passed away.” Sabrina was missing the old man.

“I’m sorry to hear that. The reason I’m looking for him is that I’m trying to track down this woman.” Archie brings up an image of Aylin on his cellphone and shows it to the young woman.

Sabrina looks at the picture of Aylin when the young man shows her it. She knew Rex was Aylin and Mark’s trainer.

“Why are you trying to find her?” Sabrina knew how to get in touch with Aylin and her sister Jamie.

“Because she is my long-lost sister and I would like to meet her.” Archie figures he should be honest with this woman.

Sabrina noticed that the young man had a British accent like Aylin. As far as she knew, Aylin didn’t have any family other than Jamie.

“I can’t give that information out without her permission. However, if you leave me your name and number. I’ll call her and see if she doesn’t mind me giving it to you or she can contact you, herself.” Sabrina knew how much Aylin valued her privacy.

“Okay.” Archie writes his name and cellphone number down on a slip of paper and hands it to the young woman.

While Archie was talking to the young lady. George had wandered off to watch a young woman with shoulder-length white hair, tied back in a ponytail, workout. She was punching a boxing speed ball and her moves were nice and smooth. He stands there and watches her.

Trixie noticed a well-built young man watching her. She concentrated on what she was doing, instead of paying attention to him. When she was finished, she turns to look at him.

“Can I help you?” Trixie wanted to know why this guy was watching her.

“I was just admiring your technique. You have good hand and eye coordination.” George loved watching the young woman.

“Thanks. You're not from around here, are you?” Sabrina noticed the young man spoke with a British accent.

“How did you guess?” George smiles at the young woman.

“Your accent. I’m Sabrina Jones by the way.” Sabrina holds her hand out to George.

“George Flagship.” George shakes the young woman’s hand.

“So, what brings you to my uncle’s gym?” Sabrina was curious why someone from England was interested in her uncle’s gym.

“I’m with my friend over there. He’s looking for his sister.” George figures it didn’t matter if he mention that info.

“What’s her name?” Sabrina knew there were a lot of women that trained here at the gym.

“Aylin Jagger.” George watches Sabrina’s reaction.

“I know Mrs. Jagger. She’s one of our supporters.” Sabrina knew Aylin and her husband trained at the gym and brought people in to be trained at the gym as well.

“Could you give me her address?” George was hoping he could help Archie.

“I can’t do that, but I can give you her number.” Sabrina starts walking towards the office.

George follows Sabrina toward the office. He liked how her butt moved in the shorts she was wearing. He might try to get her number as well.
Archie spotted George talking to a light skin African American woman. She was cute and he knew how much George loved the women. The woman that helped him had walked off to a patron. So, he walks around the gym, and out of the corner of his eyes, he spots a poster with his
sister on it. He walks over to it and notices she was still wearing the white makeup on her face.

She looked different and more toned than she did before. She is still dressed in a style he has seen her in. He wonders why law enforcement never came after her. He knew she has been associated with several murders.

“Are you ready to go?” George spotted Archie looking at some posters.

“Yeah, I’m ready.” Archie turns and starts walking towards the door.

“Oh, I have something for you.” George holds up a piece of paper.

“What’s that?” Archie was curious as they exit from the building.

“That is your sister’s cell phone number. Sabrina gave it to me along with her number. I’m meeting her for lunch tomorrow.”

“Thanks.” Archie accepts the piece of paper.

“You’re welcome. Now, let’s go and get some lunch. I’ve heard about a nice restaurant not far from here.”

“Okay.” Archie follows George down the sidewalk toward the location of the restaurant.

The Ice Box, The Bronx, New York:
Jamie looks at Aylin as they pull up to the bar they are going to. She finds a place to park her Porsche Boxster.

“Here we are, sis. The guys that went after Sarah hang out here. There’s a bouncer at the door, but I know him. There’s also two more inside I don’t know very well.” Jamie has been doing some background research on the people who went after Sarah because she was transgender.

“How many are we looking at, sis?” Aylin looks at Jamie for an answer.

“At least four. They are members of the local chapter of the Proud Boys.” Jamie parks the Porsche and turns the engine off.

“I don’t care who they are members of. They shouldn’t have gone after Sarah.” Aylin was pissed.

“I know.” Jamie knew how her sister was when a person went after someone she cared about.

They exit from the Porsche and start walking towards the entrance. She and Aylin were dressed for a night out on the town. They were getting looks as they walked up to the door, past the patrons waiting to go inside.

Ralph spotted two beautiful women walking towards the entrance. He was about to stop them when he recognized Jamie’s face. He didn’t know who the red-haired woman that was her was. However, he knew to let Jamie in.

“Ladies,” as Ralph steps aside to let them pass.

Jamie smiles at Ralph as she slips a hundred-dollar bill into his hand. She knew Ralph could use the money for his daughter. As she and Aylin walk into the club.

“Where are they?” Aylin looks around for the men.

Jamie had managed to get pictures of them and showed them to Sarah. Sarah had confirmed who the men were and nearly had a panic attack from looking at the pictures.

“Back in the backroom. The owner has two private rooms he rents out to special parties. He’s also a MAGA member as well.” Jamie did her research on the owner and the manager of the place.

“That explains everything.” Aylin couldn’t wait to dish out some punishment.

Jamie glances at Aylin and could see her sister was pissed about something. She would ask her about it later. They make their way through the crowd and toward the back room where the Proud Boys were holding their meeting.

When they arrive at the door, Jamie knocks on it. She glances towards Aylin and could see the excitement in her eyes.

“Enter” As the door opens for them.

“Let the fun begin.” As Jamie cracks her knuckles.

The Blue Marlin, Downtown New York:
Archie, George, Theo, Leo, and Freddie were out enjoying themselves with some women they met. Theo, Leo, and Freddie were having fun with the women they met on the flight to New York. George was with Sabrina the woman he met at the gym earlier that day. Archie was dancing with a young woman he just met at the club they were at.

She was a little shorter than him and was dressed moderately. She was wearing a figure-hugging dress that showed off her curves. She had short brown hair that came down to her shoulders. The dress she was wearing exposed her shoulders. On her right shoulder, was a well-drawn and detailed tattooed raven.

She had emerald green eyes, a small mouth, and a button nose. Archie loved how detailed the raven was. He had spotted her all by herself and asked her to dance with him.

As they were dancing, he noticed that she was very good. A smile appears on his face.

“You dance pretty well.” Archie wonders if she was a professional dancer.

“Thanks. I have to say, you aren’t bad yourself.” Mia noticed how well Archie moved.

“Thanks, my parents made me take dancing lessons.” Archie didn’t mind it too much when he took the lesson. He had a nice female partner to dance with.

“Is this your first time in the States?” Mia noticed that Archie had a British accent.

“Yes, I take it this is your first time in New York.” Archie noticed that Mia had a Southern accent.

“How could you tell?” Mia was curious how this young man discovered she wasn’t a native.

“Your accent. It has a southern draw to it.” Archie has met people from America with that type of accent.

“You’re very observant.” Mia figures she needs to work on losing her accent.

“I’ve been told that. So, how often do you come here?” Archie was watching Mia’s emerald green eyes.

“This is my second time. So, what brings you and your friends to New York?” Mia has seen him with the others when they came into the club.

“Family matters.” Archie wasn’t going to tell this woman he just meet everything.

“I hope it's not too serious.” Mia smiles at Archie.

“It’s not.”

“Good.” Mia continues to dance with Archie and enjoys his company.

Archie gets a text from his friends that they were going to head back to the hotel with the girls. George was escorting his date home and would meet up with everyone.

Aylin’s House:
Aylin felt sore as she gets out of bed. Her knuckles were hurting, and her left eye was black and blue. One of the guys her and Jamie fought last night managed to sucker punch her. She got even with him, by breaking his arm in three places.

She went all out on the men and busted their scrotum wide open. She wanted these men to feel the pain and injuries they inflicted on Sarah. If she had her portable torch, she would have roasted their testicles. Instead, she used her steel toed heels and kicked them in their groin area as hard as she could.

Mark looks at his wife as she moved around the bedroom slowly. He saw how badly she got hurt from fighting the four guys last night. He knew Jamie was in a little bit better condition.

“Do you want me to stay home and help around the house?” Mark knew Aylin wasn’t in any condition to go to work today.

“I’ll be alright. Jessica is supposed to come over today. She’s been asked to join a black agency law enforcement group.” Aylin couldn’t believe
Jessica was asked to join a black agency sponsor government agency.

She knew Jessica has worked as a private investigator for the past five years. She was changed by a weird looking necklace she had cleaned. She bought it at an estate sale along with several volumes of huge books written in ancient Latin and Sanskrit.

“I wonder what they want with her?” Mark knew that Jessica specialized in ancient magic and such.

At first, he and Aylin didn’t believe in real magic, but after fighting the Hunter Organization and the Human Supremacy League. They have changed their minds about magic. He knew that Jessica could wield real magic, compared to the simple tricks and illusions stage magicians used.

“What does she want to know?” Mark knew Jessica liked working for herself, but she did have a few run ins with government agents and such.

“Can they be trusted and who is running the group. She wants mom to check into the group, since mom and uncle Jack have resources, she doesn’t.” Aylin knew Anika and her uncle had people inside the government.

“Well, if she is coming by today. I’ll drop Bree off at school.” Mark didn’t mind dropping their daughter off at school.

“Thanks. If I show up at school, there would be questions and looks.” Aylin knew the last time she showed up at Bree’s school, looking like she went ten rounds with a bull. There was question the other mothers wanted to ask but didn’t.

Everyone in Bree’s school knew she was an MMA fighter. However, she hasn’t been in a match since having little Mark. Since she had little Mark, she has cut back on her fighting and concentrated on running Helping Hands.

“Well, if you need to go out, sweetie. Just be careful.” Mark places a kiss on Aylin’s cheek.

“I will.” As Aylin returns the kiss.

She watches as Mark walks out of the bedroom to get Bree ready for school. Knowing her husband, she figures he was going to let Bree drive to school. She picks up her cell phone and send a message to her assistant, telling her she wasn’t coming into work today.

Once that was done, Aylin goes to check on Sarah and the girls. When she looks in on Sarah, she was still sound asleep. She leaves Sarah’s room and check on Hollace and Julie. The girls still had another hour or so before they had to get up and ready for school.

She gets the girls school uniform out of their closet and their Mary Jane shoes as well. The private school she had them enrolled in, had a uniform policy for the girls and the boys. The girls were allowed to wear tights or pants during the winter months. However, during the Spring and Summer months the girls had to wear skirts or dresses. Their shoes had to be dress shoes. The girls couldn’t wear anything that had a heel to them.

Even the backpacks had to be clear plastic style, so the security personnel at school could see what the kids were bring into the school. Aylin and Mark didn’t mind the security personnel inspecting the kids bags.

After she gets each girls uniform and undergarments set out. She wakes the girls up to take them to school.

Helping Hands:
Archie looks at the building before he walks into it. He had gotten up and had breakfast with his friends and the girls they brought back to the hotel. He and George were going to check out his sister’s business.

“You know something. Your sisters are different. One runs a restaurant and the other one owns a business that helps the homeless.” George wonders how twins could be so different.

“Well, my sisters were brought up differently. One was in a mental hospital and the other had a nice mother.” Archie hated the fact that he didn’t get a chance to grow up with his half-sisters.

He wanted to know more about them. As he and George enter the building. They come to a reception area and spotted a young woman with emo colored hair sitting behind a reception counter. They walk up to the woman and smile at her.

Carol was finishing up some paperwork that needed to be faxed when she spotted two young handsome and well-dressed guys walk up to the counter. She looks at them as a smile appears on her face.

“How can I help you gentlemen?” Carol looks at the two gentlemen.

“I’m here to see Mrs. Aylin Jagger.” Archie wonders if his sister is available.

“Let me see if she’s in.” Carol buzzes Mrs. Jagger’s assistant to see if she finally came in.

Archie watches as Carol talks to his sister’s assistant. They look around the reception area and notices that there were several expensive paintings and such. The place had a nice warm and welcome feel to it.

“I’m sorry sir, but Mrs. Jagger isn’t in right now. According to her assistant, she has called out for the day.” Carol knew it was unusual for Aylin to call out.

“Do you know if she’ll be coming in tomorrow?” Archie needed to talk with his sister.

“I don’t know, but if you leave your name and number. I can pass that information onto her and she might call you.” Carol knew Mrs. Aylin never fell to contact people who left their numbers.

“Do you have a piece of paper?”

“How about a sticky note instead?” Carol hands a pad of sticky notes to Archie, along with a pen.

“That will work.” Archie accepts the sticky note pad.

He writes his name and number down and hands it back to the young woman. He smiles at her “you can reach me at any time at that number.”

Carol looks at the number “I’ll make sure she gets it.”

Archie and George turn and leave the building. George looks at Archie “what now?”

“Well, since it’s not lunch time yet. Let’s go and visit one of the museums since we are here.” Archie figures they could do some sightseeing while they are in New York.

Noon Time, Aylin’s House:
Aylin stirs the homemade soup she made for Sarah. It was a Mexican soup that was spicy and rich in chicken broth. She learned how to make it from a cooking course she took with Mark and Dakota. She had been surprised to see Dakota in the class.

She took it to increase her cooking knowledge and talents. She could follow a recipe from a cooking book, thanks to her mother teaching her. She found out that she loved cooking and developing new dishes.

Sarah was sitting at the counter watching Aylin as she made lunch for the two of them. She was glad that Aylin had found her when she did. She watches as Aylin adds some spices to the soup she was cooking. She inhales the aroma floating around in the kitchen.

“Boy, Aylin. What is that you are cooking?”

“Chicken Fajita Soup. I thought you might like it. The chicken broth in it is good for you.” Aylin picks up a spoon and scoops some of the soup out for Sarah to taste.

She walks over to Sarah with the spoon “Open wide.”

Sarah opens her sore mouth for Aylin to put the spoon in her mouth. She feels the spoon enter her mouth, as she closes her lips around it and swallows the soup. A low moan escapes from her lips as she swallows the soup.

“Oh, man. This is good soup.” Sarah looks at Aylin with a smile on her face.

“Good. It’s not too salty or spicy for you, is it?” Aylin loved spicy foods, but her tolerance level for spicy stuff was higher than most.

“Not at all, it’s perfect.” Sarah loved the heat level and everything.

“Good.” Aylin turns the burner off and gives the soup one final stir before serving up a bowl for both of them.

After serving up two bowls and making some toasted cheese toast to go with it. Aylin sits down next to Sarah and eats her soup. Little Mark was upstairs in his crib asleep. She finally managed to put him down for his noon time nap.

Sarah turns and looks at Aylin “This is good.”

“Thanks, it’s one of my favorites.” It was one of Aylin’s favorites.

Sarah eats a few more bites of the soup. She was hungry and feeling sore all over. She had to be careful because she had a couple of broken ribs and both her wrist were sprained as well. Her right ankle was sprained and both her eyes were black and blue.

Her jaw hurt when she spoke or ate anything hard. If Aylin hadn’t found her when she did, her broken rib would have punctured her right lung. As it was, her broken rib had bruised her lung.

The last thing she remembered, before blacking out was hitting the asphalt and seeing Aylin’s face before her. When she woke up, she found herself in the spare bedroom of Aylin’s house. She has spent a few nights at Aylin’s and knew she was safe from her attackers. No one was dumb enough to come after the Mad Hatter.

“How do you do it, Aylin?” Sarah looks at Aylin when she asked that question.

“What do you mean?” Aylin looks into Sarah’s bloodshot hazel eyes.

“How do you manage to be a mom, a fighter, a wife, and a CEO of a company?” Sarah was curious because her parents never had time for her. She was lucky if they remembered her birthday or volunteered to go on a school field trip with her.

“Very, very carefully. I have to organize my time to be able to cover all my responsibilities. Some days I’m worn out and other days, I feel like I am carrying the world on my shoulders. But the real reason, I can do everything I do. Is because I’m not doing it alone. I have Mark to help me.” Aylin was glad she had Mark, Jamie, her mother, and everyone else in her life that helps her out.

“Well, I hope I meet someone as dependable as Mark.” Sarah knew her luck with men hadn’t been the greatest.

“You’ll meet the right person, Sarah. There is someone out there for everyone.” Aylin didn’t believe that at first. It took time for her to trust Mark and his friends when she first met them. After that, she knew Mark would never disappoint her.

As Aylin is eating her soup. Her cell phone beeps, letting her know her assistant was sending her a message. She picks her cell phone up and looks at the message. She reads it and her eyes get wide. She wonders why her half-brother is trying to get in touch with her.

Sarah looked over towards Aylin when she hears Aylin’s cell phone beep. She watches Aylin’s facial expression and notices Aylin’s eyes get wide for a second. Normally, Aylin was hard to read, but not now.

“Something wrong, Aylin?” Sarah was wondering why Aylin seem a little upset.

“No, just curious about something.” Aylin puts sets her cell phone down on the counter.

She doesn’t know if she is ready to confront her half-brother. It’s been years since she killed their father and Mark has been telling her that she needs to bury the hatchet with her brother. It wasn’t her brother’s fault that she was put into the mental hospital. He was just as much a pawn by her father as she was.

After thinking about it for a few minutes. She picks her cell phone up and switches to her privacy mode on it. She types in her address and her brother’s number and sends the message to her brother.

As she puts her cell phone down on the counter, she hopes she is doing the right thing. She also wants to know why after all these years he was looking for her.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City:
Archie and George were exploring the artwork in the museum. George had a major in Art and loved the old Masters and art from the past. He was enjoying their exploration in the museum. He looks over at Archie as he read about some piece in the gallery, they were in.

“Man, can you believe the collection of artwork here?” George looks over towards Archie.

“Who would believe they could amass such a collection for a country so young.” Archie was impressed with all the artwork and artifacts in the museum.

The place was on par with or better than any of the museums back home. He was fascinated with the place and the collection.

“I agree.” George walks over to where Archie was standing.

As he approaches Archie, he hears Archie’s cell phone beep. He wonders if it was the others letting them know where they wanted to meet up for lunch.

“Who is it?” As George watches Archie reach towards his back pocket for his cell phone.

Archie pulls his cell phone out of his back pocket and notices a message had appeared from an unlisted number. He saw that it was an address here in New York.

Archie looks at George “my sister.”

“How did she know you were looking for her?”

“Someone at her business must have passed on my number to her.” A smile appears on Archie’s face.

Late Afternoon Aylin’s House:
Bree was coming downstairs with her hands full with her dirty laundry basket. Since she has gotten older, her mother started making her wash her laundry. She didn’t mind because she knew her mother was preparing her for when she decided to go to college and get her degree in sports medicine and teaching disabled children like herself.

Just as Bree walks by the foyer, the doorbell rings. She stops and walks towards the front door. She looks at the image of the person standing on the other side of the door on the small video monitor mounted next to the door. She didn’t recognize the person. She puts her dirty clothes basket next to her and opens the door.

Archie had taken a cab from the hotel, and his friends were staying. George had gotten together with the girl he met at the gym the other day. He was surprised when the cab driver dropped him off at a normal-looking two-story house with a two-car garage. He noticed that it had an eight-foot-tall privacy fence that came off the corner of the garage and went back behind the place.

The front yard was well maintained, with flower beds planted in front of the house. He walked up to the front door and pressed the doorbell. He had a feeling he was being watched. He couldn’t put his finger on it or locate the hidden cameras he figured his sister had guarding the house.

After a few minutes of ringing the doorbell, it opens, and a young girl with light brown hair dressed in a pair of shorts and a baby blue t-shirt with a picture of the Mad Hatter from Disney. Under the image was a saying, “I knew who I was this morning, but I have changed a few times since then.”

He also noticed she had an artificial left leg as well. It looked like it had a flesh covering, but it looked more solid than her right leg. It also looked more hi-tech than a normal artificial leg.

Bree looks at the young man standing on the other side of the door. His hair was darker than hers, and he had a handsome look.

“Can I help you?” Bree was curious about who he could be.

Archie recognized that the young girl standing before him was his sisters’ oldest daughter. He had seen her in a few pictures with Aylin and her husband.

“I’m here to see your mother, Bree. Is she in?” Archie smiles at Bree.

“How do you know my name? And who are you?” Bree watches the strange man standing before her.

A smirk appears on Archie’s face. “I’m your mother’s half-brother. Can I come in and speak with her?”

Bree looks at the man suspiciously. Her mother never mentioned having a half-brother.

“If you are my mother’s brother. Where was she born?”

“Ravenstonedale, England. A midwife delivered her.” Archie was impressed that Bree wasn’t taking his story at face value.

Bree was still debating about letting the man into the house. She figures he could easily push by her if he wanted to. She steps aside to let the gentleman into the house.

“Thank you.” As Archie walks by Bree.

He hears Bree close the front door behind him. He noticed the house had a small foyer and a set of stairs not to the left of the foyer. He turns
around to look at Bree and noticed she had picked up a basket of clothes.

“Laundry day?” Archie figures Aylin must make her oldest do her clothes.

“Yes. If you’ll follow me, please.” Bree leads Archie from the foyer into the kitchen, where her mother was fixing dinner.

Archie follows behind Bree as she leads him through the house. He could smell a nice aroma floating in the air. He notices he was escorted into the kitchen, where he spotted his older sister cooking.

“Mom, this fellow says he is your brother.” Bree watches her mother.

Aylin turns around when she hears her daughter’s voice. She looks at the young man standing near Bree.

“Archie, what brings you to America?” Aylin wondered why her half-brother was there.

“It’s good to see you, Aylin.” Archie noticed that Aylin wasn’t coming around to greet him.

Bree looks at her mother and back at the young man. She wonders why her mother never spoke about her having a brother before. She hefts the basket higher on her hip ‘I better get my laundry going.” As Bree walks off toward the laundry room downstairs.

Aylin looks at her brother. “How did you track me down?”

“The pictures that had been taken of you. Your face might not be covered in the makeup you used to wear, but I still recognize you without it.”
Archie watches his older sister.

“Okay, what brings you to me now, after all these years?” Aylin wanted the truth from her half-brother.

“Because I want to learn more about you and what drove you to kill our father. Also, I came to tell you you have a twin sister.” Archie watches Aylin’s reaction.

Aylin looks at her brother. “This better not be a sick joke, Archie. I know for a fact that I don’t have a twin.”

“You think you know, Aylin. I have proof to show you that we have another sister and that she is your biological twin.” A smile appears on Archie’s face.

Aylin looked at her brother with a skeptical look on her face. Her childhood memory was still a little fuzzy, and she didn’t have a twin as far as she knew.

“Show me the proof.” Aylin wanted to know why she didn’t know she had a twin.

“First, you must answer a few questions before I do.” Archie watches his sister.

Aylin looks at her brother and wondered what he wanted to know. She also didn’t feel like playing games either. She narrows her eyes. “Fine, but if you lie to me about having a sister. You’ll see why I was called Hatter.”

Archie heard the threat in Aylin’s voice and felt a shiver. He knew this wouldn’t be easy, but he hoped she had changed some since she was older.

“My first question is, why did you kill our father?” Archie wanted the answer to that question the most.

‘Because the bastard put me in the mental hospital and left me to rot. He told the doctor who ran the place that he could use me as his guinea pig for his horrific experiments. He didn’t care about me. All he cared about was having a son instead of a girl. He was also cruel and abusive toward my mother and killed her.” Aylin still has nightmares of her mother being pushed by her father.

“What exactly did the doctor of the place do to you?” Archie wanted to know what his sister suffered through.

A smirk appears on Aylin’s face. She puts the knife in her hand and looks at her brother “he electrocuted me and pumped me full of drugs that wrapped my body and mind. He used me to conduct his research into what makes people fear certain things and such. If that weren’t enough, he would remove sections of flesh off my body so that you could see my muscles and veins under an onion skin layer.”

Archie couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He wonders how the doctor got away with it.

“How often did he do this to you?”

“Whenever the mood hit him. His favorite torture was electrocuting me. He loved that the most. He would attach electrodes to different parts of my body. That included shoving a metal dildo inside my anal opening and vagina.”

Archie flinches when he hears what was done to his sister. He wonders how she survived it.

“Is that what drove you to become the Hatter?”

“Between that and being pumped full of experimental drugs and such, yeah. I didn’t know what was real or fake anymore. I wasn’t his only victim. Others were older than me that he experimented on. I was just the lucky one that survived what he did.” Aylin could recall the others that didn’t survive the experiments conducted on them.

Archie shakes his head. He opened the folder he had with him and lay it on the counter so Aylin could look at it.

“Here is the proof of what I found, Aylin.” Archie knew it would take proof to prove what he said about her having a twin. His other sister wanted proof.

Aylin washed her hands and came around to see what her brother had brought. She sits down on the stool next to his and looks through everything.

Mark comes walking into the house a few hours later. He could smell the meal that Aylin was cooking floating in the air. He walks into the kitchen and spotted Aylin speaking to some guy. He didn’t recognize the guy from behind.

“I see we have guest.” Mark was ready to react if the person was dangerous.

Aylin looks at her husband and notices he was ready to react. She watches as her brother turns around on the stool to look at her husband.

“Hello Mark, I’m..”

“I already know who you are Archie. You’re Aylin’s half-brother from England. What brings you to the states?” Mark knew right away who Archie was when he saw his face.

Aylin looks at her husband and wonders how he knew what her brother looked like. She didn’t show him any pictures, which she had a few.
She kept track of her brother through some people she trusted in England.

“My sister. How did you know who I was?” Archie was curious about that.

“Through connections I have in England. I’ve been hoping my wife would get in touch with you.” Mark has been wanting Aylin to get to know her brother better.

Aylin looks at Mark “it seems I have a twin sister.”

Mark stands stun where he was. He looks at Archie and back at Aylin with a confused look on his face. “Are you sure about this?”

“Very, and she wants to meet her twin.” There was a smirk on Archie’s face.

“Okay, I’m confused now.” Mark wonders why Shigeko hadn’t uncovered this information when she did a background check on Aylin.

“I’m sure and I want to put my sisters back together.” Archie wanted his family back.

“Do you have evidence to back this up?” Mark looks at Archie when he asks that question.

“Right here.” Archie shows the evidence he brought with him.

Mark sits down and start going through the evidence Archie had gathered and put together. He could believe the picture of the other woman in the file. She was identical to Aylin.

A few days earlier, Mouse’s bedroom, London, England:
Zoey runs into her older sister’s bedroom with her sketchbook in her hand. Mouse was getting dress for work when Zoey surprised her. She looks at her little sister “Zoey, you need to knock before entering.”

Zoey ignores her older sister and shows her the sketch she just got done doing. She hands her book to her sister. She was still in her night clothes.

Mouse accepts the book and looks at the open page. It showed a picture of the Hatter from Disney, except it had Aylin’s features. There was a mirror with a reflection of the Hatter that look identical with another male she didn’t recognize looking at the two women. She recognized Mark’s image, because the drawing had him dressed in his leather overcoat.

Mouse looks at Zoey “who is this person?”

Zoey signs back brother.

“Your brother?” Mouse was confused.

Zoey shakes her head no and points to the Hatter and the reflection. She was confused when the image came to her.

“Hatter’s brother?” Mouse knew Aylin had a half-brother.

Zoey shakes her head yes. Then points to the reflection and the man.

“He’s related to Hatter and that reflection?” Mouse was trying to put the two together. Sometimes she hated when Zoey drew things and you had to figure them out.

She looks at the reflection of Hatter, but not Hatter. She noticed that the reflection wasn’t wearing Hatter’s trademark outfit, but a chef’s hat and apron. After staring at the picture for a few minutes, it dawns on her what it meant.

“Hatter has a twin sister?” Mouse looks at Zoey and notices she was smiling and shaking her head yes.

Zoey was smiling and was happy her older sister had figured it out. It had been confusing to her at first.

“There’s nothing in her file about her having a twin.” Mouse knew Hatter’s file by heart since she did all the backgrounds on the Bounty family.

They had classified Hatter’s file as top secret and all the murders she had committed in England had been pardon. Everything Aylin had been involved in had to have special clearance to view. Hatter and most of her relatives in the United States still had their SIS clearance.

Mouse looks at Zoey “can I keep this page?”

Zoey shakes her head yes. She normally didn’t like people tearing pages out of her sketchbook, but this time she didn’t mind. She accepts the book back from her sister and skips back to her bedroom.

Mouse takes the page and goes to show her mother. Since her mother was the director of the MI5 department. She knew she would want to see this.

Aylin’s Place the Next Day:
Mark had called Anika and informed her that he needed to take a week off for personal reasons. He didn’t go into details about it. She gave him the week he was asking for.

Usually, people at Eruption had to go through human services for their vacations and sick leave. However, he answered Anika since she was technically his boss, even though Harry Jones was Eruption’s security department head.

After notifying Anika that he wanted to take the week off for personal reasons, he knew she would want a full explanation. Afterward, they introduced Archie to Bree, Hollace, Julie, Mark Jr., and Sarah.

Later in the evening, Archie left and returned to his friends. He and Aylin discussed everything and reviewed the information Archie had left for her. Archie had told them that he had everything backed up on his laptop.

Since he stayed home, he took Bree, Hollace, and Julie to school. He looks at Aylin “So, what do you think of what your brother showed us, sweetie?”

Aylin looks at her husband and didn’t know how to answer him. She never knew she had a twin.

“I want to meet her, Mark. I want to meet my sister.” Aylin had tears leaking from her eyes.

Mark walks over to Aylin and wraps his arms around her. He holds her against his body and lets her cry. It was very rare when she showed her emotions. And not just the bad ones either.

“Do you want to bring the kids or just go ourselves?” Mark wanted to know if the kids should come with them.

“I don’t know.” Aylin didn’t want to put her children in danger.

“Look, let them come so they can meet your sister. I’m sure Charlotte wouldn’t mind watching them or assigning some agents to protect them.” Mark figures Aylin’s sister would like to meet her nieces and nephew.

“Let me think about it.” Aylin was protective of her children.

“No problem. I’ll get in touch with Shigeko and see what she can find out about your sister.” Mark pulls his cell phone out and dials Shigeko’s
number.

While Mark was talking to Shigeko, Aylin looks through the information again about her birth and wonder why her mother kept her, instead of her sister. Not that it matters, but why?

When Mark gets off the phone, he looks over towards Aylin and notices she was reading and looking over the paperwork that her brother brought them. He could tell she was curious about everything. While Aylin looks at all the information, Mark walks into the kitchen and fixes himself a cup of coffee.

After fixing himself some coffee. He fixes some tea for Aylin. She wasn’t a coffee drinker like he was. He fixes her, her favorite blend. She buys it from a tea shop owned by a local family they rescued from human traffickers.

He makes the tea just the way she likes it and carries it back into the living room where she was sitting. Just as Mark sets the teacup and saucer down on the living room table, the baby monitor goes off. Mark Jr. Was upstairs crying.

“I got him, Aylin. Enjoy your tea.” Mark heads upstairs to the nursery.

Aylin watches as her husband leaves to tend to their son. She picks up her tea and blows on it to cool it down some. She knew her husband made the tea the way she likes it. She takes a sip from the tea cup and enjoys the taste of it. It was her favorite blend and Mark did it justice.

While Aylin was enjoying her tea, she could hear her husband moving around in the nursery. A smile appears on her face when she hears her husband complain when he changes their sons’ stinky diapers. At least he didn’t have to worry about their son squirting him.

Why little boys do that she will never understand. She enjoys her tea while reading the information. She pulls her cell phone out and clicks on an app on her phone that she uses to scan documents and scan a few of the documents in the file.

Mark finishes up with their son and carries him downstairs with him. He knew Jr. liked being around his parents. When he walks into the living room, he spots Aylin scanning a few of the documents in the file.

“Someone was missing Mommy.” Mark walks over to Aylin with their son.

Aylin looks up at Mak as he carried their son over to her. She holds her hands out for him.

“Mommy wants to hold you.” Mark hands little Mark to Aylin. He knew that Aylin loved their son a lot.

Aylin accepts Mark Jr. from her husband and smiles as soon as her arms cradle him. She looks down into his green eyes and smiles. “Hey, sleepy head.”

A smile appears on Mark’s face as he watches Aylin hold their son. He had his mother’s looks, but some of his features. After his birth, it hit Aylin hard that she couldn’t have any more children unless they used a surrogate. Which, they knew Jamine would do for them.

Aylin holds her son while his breasts feed from her. She has gotten used to him feeding from her, while she does something else.

“I’m going to call Countess Basset and see if she would watch the kids while we are in England.”

“Okay.”

Mark walks away from Aylin and calls the countess. While Mark is on the phone, Aylin breastfeeds their son. She noticed that her twin sister had daughters of her own and that they were a little older than Bree and were twins as well.

Thames House, London, England:
Countess Basset was about to leave her office when her cell phone starts ringing. She looks at the id and saw that it was Mark from America. She wonders what he wants. She presses accept “Hello Mark, what can I do for you?”

“Hello, Charlotte. I have a favor to ask from you.”

“Oh? Would this have something to do with Aylin’s sister?” She had been surprised when Mouse showed her the drawing.

“How did you know about that?” Mark was surprised that Charlotte already knew about Aylin’s sister.

“My daughter Zoey.” Charlotte knew she could trust Mark and Aylin. They had helped Mouse in apprehending the people after her.

“Oh!”

“So, what can I do for you, Mark?” Charlotte was curious why Mark was calling her.

“Aylin and I are thinking about visiting Aylin’s sister and we want to bring the kids. However, we want to check things out first, before we bring the kids to meet her.”

“And you want to know if I’ll watch the kids while you do that?” Charlotte could see where the conversation was heading.

“Yes.”

“I think I can help you. When are you guys thinking about coming to England?”

“Sometime this week. Aylin’s half-brother is over here right now and that’s how we found out that Aylin had a twin sister.”

“Let me know when you are coming, so I can arrange things for you.”

“Thanks, Charlotte.”

“You’re welcome, now tell me more about Aylin’s brother and how did he track you guys down.” Charlotte wanted to know more about Aylin’s brother Archie.

Mark starts telling Charlotte about what they learned from Archie and how he tracked them down. He tells her that they have all the paperwork to prove everything. He gives Charlotte the phone number to Archie’s cell phone so she could have Mouse access his cell phone. He knew what Mouse could do.

“Send me what you have so far proving Aylin has a twin sister over here and I’ll have a couple of agents check her out.” Charlotte was going to double-check everything.

“Alright, I’ll send the information to you after I get off the phone.”

“Okay. Mark, how did Aylin accept the news, that she has a twin?”

“She couldn’t believe it at first. However, when he started showing her evidence that she had a twin sister. She softened her stance and wants to meet the woman.”

“Alright. Send me what you got and I’ll check it out.”

“Thanks, Charlotte.”

Mark says goodbye and heads back into the living room.

Somewhere Over the Atlantic:
Hollace and Julie were looking out the window of the private jet they were traveling on. They had been surprised when their parents told them they were going to England. Bree couldn’t wait to see her aunt Charlotte again or her cousins.

Aylin looks at her daughters, as she held her son in her arms. She hated leaving Sarah behind, but she was still feeling the effects of her injuries and she wasn’t in any shape to travel. Her brother had contacted her and informed her that he was heading back with his friends.

As for the background on Aylin’s twin sister, Charlotte had sent Casey and Casey’s second wife Charlotte to check on Aylin’s twin sister. Leslie, Casey’s other wife was on maternity leave. Charlotte was related to Cheshire, so both women knew what to look for.

According to the pictures and background they did on Amelia Ann Alston. There wasn’t anything in her criminal record. She also looked identical to Aylin, except in height. Amelia was a little taller than her twin sister. Charlotte figured that was because of the drugs and experimentation done to Aylin when she was in the mental hospital.

Bree looks up from her tablet towards her mom “mom, how long are we going to be visiting Aunt Charlotte?”

“I don’t know yet, Bree. I did talk with your teacher, and she is going to send me your assignments, along with any lecture’s she does.” Aylin hated pulling her daughter out of class for a week, but she didn’t want to leave Bree home by herself. She knew Bree was responsible enough
to care for herself.

“Dang!” Bree was hoping she wouldn’t have any schoolwork while she was gone.

“You didn’t think you were going to miss your schoolwork, did you?” Mark looks at his older daughter with a smile on his face.

After a while they land and are picked up by Mouse and her friend Camille Porcher. Bree was happy to see her cousin and so was Hollace as well. Julie has never met Mouse before.

“It looks like you adopted another little girl, cousin.” Mouse looks at the young girl standing next to Hollace.

“Yeah, I just couldn’t resist.” Aylin hugs Julie to her.

“Well, Julie its nice to meet you. I’m your cousin Mouse and this is my friend Camille.” Mouse smiles at Julie.

Julie noticed that both women had emo colored hair. Where Mouse’s hair coloring was blues and purple. Her friend Camille went from purple to white on the tips. She smiles at both women.

“So, where is your mom putting us up at?” Aylin was curious where her aunt was putting them up at.

“At the family manor in Bristol. The London house isn’t big enough for everyone. Your sister’s restaurant is only a three-hour drive from Bristol.”

“Is that where I should meet her?” Aylin hadn’t talked to her aunt yet.

“You and Mark might want to go and see her first there. Afterwards, once you know everything is okay. Casey and Uncle Theo can escort your children to the restaurant, or you and Mark can do it. It’s your choice.” Mouse had been surprised that her mother had called Uncle Theo in to protect Aylin’s children.

She knew Casey was a capable fighter, but uncle Theo was up there with her uncle Jack. He was a former SAS solider before he retired. Now adays he spends his days operating a security company for high class and royal clients.

“I think Mark and I should meet her first.” Aylin was holding little Mark in her hands as she sat next to Mark in the SUV that they were traveling in.

The kids were being entertained by Camille. She was performing simple magic tricks for them. The driver, of the SUV was an older gentleman that worked for Charlotte and was part of MI5.

Bristol, England:
Three hours later the group arrives at a large property. It had a gated entrance and the driver had presses a button hidden on the dash of the SUV. By the time they arrive at the large house. The kids were already partially asleep.

Mark, Mouse, and Camille help carry the sleepy kids into the place. Bree was helping Aylin with all the baby stuff. They are greeted by a middle-aged woman named Leandra. She looked to be of Spanish descent.

“Aylin, this is Leandra. She is the head housekeeper here at the property. You’ll be taken care of by her capable hands.” Mouse knew Leandra was trustworthy and has been the head housekeeper here at the property since she was twenty-five years old.

Aylin smiles at Leandra “it’s nice to meet you, Leandra. Thank you for looking after me and my family while we are here.”

“Think nothing of it, Mrs. Jagger. The nursery has already been arranged for your son. If you’ll follow me, you can inspect it for yourself.”
Leandra had been informed that Aylin had a newborn baby boy.

“Lead the way please.” Aylin knew little Mark would be happier in a crib, instead of her arms.

Leandra leads the way to the nursery and the bedrooms she fixed up for the younger children. She was informed that Julie normally shared a room with Hollace and didn’t like to sleep by herself. So, the two younger girls had a room together.

The rest of the afternoon Leandra helps get everyone settled in. She makes a light supper for everyone that night.

Bounty Manor House, Bristol, England:
Aylin wakes up being held by Mark. Last night after they had arrived and had dinner. She called to see if Archie had arrived home yet. He informed her that his flight was due today and that as soon as his plane landed, he would call her after calling her twin to arrange a meeting time and place.

She had the baby monitor on the nightstand beside the bed. She noticed that little Mark was still asleep. She lays next to Mark, protected by his arms. She listens to his breathing as he nuzzles the back of her neck.

Aylin could feel his manhood pressing against her butt cheek through his boxer shorts. She never thought she would ever find herself like this. When she was in the mental hospital, she wasn’t treated like a person but like an experiment.

When she broke out and killed those responsible for what they did to her, she couldn’t ever imagine she would have a life like this one day. When she was forced to leave England, she never thought she would ever come back.

Every time she thought she would never be able to do something. Life would give her a second chance and prove her wrong. She was drowning in madness. If Cyril and his wife Lottie hadn’t found her and helped her overcome the madness. She might have perished without ever knowing what her life could be like.

Aylin listened to the baby monitor and Mark’s heartbeat as he held her. She wonders what her life would have been like if she had grown up with her twin sister. Also, will her sister accept her after everything she has done?

Aylin slowly drifts back to sleep, thinking these thoughts. She wakes up when she hears little Mark start crying. She gets out of bed, slips on her slippers, and goes to the nursery. She spots little Mark having a hissy fit.

She checks him and notices his diaper is wet. She shakes her head as she goes about changing him. She makes sure to cover his penis so she doesn’t get sprayed. She learned the trick from Jamie’s mother.

Once little Mark is changed and happy. She goes about feeding him. The nursery had a rocking chair in it. Aylin sits in the chair and slowly rocks back and forth while humming a tune she knows little Mark likes.

When little Mark is done eating, she burps him and cleans up afterward. She checks on the girls to ensure they are all right. She spots Bree barely covered by her blanket and holding a plushy that resembles Bear. She wishes she could have brought the dogs with her. But she didn’t think it was wise on this trip. Maybe she’ll bring the boys with her on their next family outing.

Aylin checks on Hollace and Julie and finds them snuggled against each other. Julie was sleeping with Hollace, and both girls were cuddling the teddy bears that her sister Jamie had won for them at the fair. She’ll let them sleep a little bit longer before waking them up.

As Aylin walks back to her bedroom, she smells bacon drifting up the stairs. This wasn’t the American-style bacon, but English bacon. When she returns to the room, she puts her robe on and kisses Mark’s cheek before leaving.

When she walks into the kitchen, she notices Leandra making breakfast. She also noticed that Leandra was brewing coffee as well.

“Morning, Leandra.” As Aylin walks into the kitchen.

“Morning, Mrs. Jagger. Would you like some coffee?” Leandra was surprised when she heard Aylin’s voice.

Aylin noticed that Leandra jumped a little when she spoke. A smile appears on her face.

“No, thank you. I’m more of a tea drinker.” Aylin walks over to make herself some tea.

Leandra was surprised that Mrs. Jagger was a tea drinker. She watched as Aylin walked over and began making herself some tea.

“I’ll have to remember that, Mrs. Jagger. Is Mr. Jagger a tea drinker?” Leandra wonders if she made a mistake in brewing coffee.

“Mr. Jagger is a coffee drinker, just like our daughter.” Aylin knew Bree only drank tea when she wasn’t feeling well or her period started. She
liked to drink ginger tea when she was on her period.

“I’ll have to remember that while you are staying here.” Leandra wishes Mrs. Basset had informed her what the Americans liked.

“It’s no problem, Leandra.” Aylin finds the tea in the cabinet and a teapot.

“I can take care of that for you, Mrs. Jagger.” Leandra moves to take the teapot to fill it.

“You don’t need to do that, Leandra. I’m fine doing this myself.” Aylin didn’t mind boiling her tea.

“Mrs. Jagger. Is there anything special you and your family want me to cook while you stay here?” Leandra looks at Aylin to watch her reactions.

“Whatever you would like to cook for us is fine, Leandra. My family isn’t picky about what we like. I know my girls like English food a lot.” Aylin knew the girls liked what they ate when they visited their aunt over the summer.

Aylin waits for the water to start boiling. She finds the cabinet where the tea cups are kept and prepares a cup. The aroma of the food was causing memories long buried to surface. She used to love helping Lottie in the kitchen when she cooked.

Aylin watches as Leandra cooks the food. When the water starts to boil, she turns the burner off and lets it settle down before pouring it into the cup. She puts the tea bag into the cup and lets it soak.

“Would you like cream or sugar, Mrs. Jagger?” Leandra didn’t know how Aylin took her tea.

“I’m fine, thank you.” Aylin didn’t like anything in her tea.

“Mrs. Jagger, if you don’t mind me asking. I noticed your oldest daughter had an artificial leg. How did she lose it?” Leandra noticed Bree had an artificial leg while helping the young girl settle in last night.

“She was born that way, Leandra. Her left leg didn’t completely form when she was in the womb. She has had to wear a prosthetic leg since she
was born.” Aylin had gotten a complete medical record on Bree when she adopted her.

“I’m sorry to hear that. She’s a strong young lady.”

“That’s why I love her so much. She doesn’t let her handicap limit her. She has competed on her school’s track team and has done gymnastics as well. She has also won several martial arts competitions since she was ten.” Aylin was very proud of Bree.

“She sounds like a very special young lady.” Leandra wonders if her nephew would be as motivated as Aylin’s oldest.

“Do you have any kids, Leandra?” Aylin wonders if their housekeeper had any.

“Unfortunately, I can’t have children. I had cancer at a young age and had to have a Hysterectomy.” Leandra was devastated when she learned she could never be a mother.

“You could always adopt, or if you still have your ovaries, have your eggs taken and implanted into a surrogate.”

“I know. I’m just not sure that I want to do that. The guy I was married to at the time left me. He wanted a family, and I couldn’t give him one.” Leandra remembered the arguing and the fights they used to have over the subject.

“I understand.” Aylin lays her hand lightly on Leandra’s shoulder.

Leandra looks at Aylin when she lays her hand gently on her shoulder. She could tell Aylin meant what she said. She feels that Mrs. Jagger knew what it was like to miss something that made you a woman.

“I smell some delicious food.” Mark was following his nose with Hollace on his back. Behind him was Bree carrying Julie.

“Here come the troops, Leandra.” Aylin looked towards her husband as he carried their daughter on his back.

Leandra looks at all four of them. “Go sit down in the dining room, and I’ll bring you your breakfast and coffee.”

“I’ll give you a hand, Leandra.” Aylin starts gathering the plates and such.

“You don’t have to do that, Mrs. Jagger.” Leandra goes to stop Aylin.

“I know, but I don’t mind.” Aylin smiles at Leandra.

Leandra shakes her head as she starts putting everything on the serving plates.

Bert looks over towards his partner as they drive to the Bristol property. Charlotte had contacted them and told them they were assigned to protect and escort Aylin Jagger and her husband to St. Ives, Cornwall. She gave them background information about Mrs. Jagger and her family. She informed them that Mrs. Jagger and her husband were highly trained agents from America and were related to her brother.

“You woke up several times last night, Angel.” Bert knew his partner still had nightmares of what was done to her.

Angel turns to look at her partner. Her amber eyes observed everything going on around her. She signs back that the nightmares have come back. She knew it had been four years since her partner and the people rescued her, she now called friends.

“I know you went through hell with what was done to you. But you do know, you don’t have to worry about the doctor and his twisted medical team anymore. They are all blown to hell.” Bert and his team made sure of that.

The good doctor had taken runaways off the streets of London and a few other European cities and experimented on them. The good doctor and his team had done all sorts of medical and genetic experiments on them, turning some of them into monstrous-looking creatures. Some of the victims didn’t survive what was done to them, while others did.

Angel happened to be one of the ones that had survived. She had been turned into a human sex doll. Her chest had been enhanced on her tiny body to the point that it looked too big on her slim frame. All the hair on her head had been replaced by artificially grown electric blue hair. The pubic hair in her groin area was permanently removed. Her vaginal opening and outer folds were made smaller and tighter. The sensation she received from her clit and g-spot was extremely sensitive. So, she would always be wet and ready when she wore tight panties like thongs and rubbed against her opening.

The buyer paying for her conversion had paid to remove her vocal cords. He didn’t want to hear anything from her when he used her body. He had her eye color changed to amber and all her teeth pulled and replaced. Even her ears had a pointed look to them.

When Angel was rescued, Bert and his team members found her covered in blood and holding a scalpel. She had stabbed the guy that had been checking her over and preparing her to be shipped out to the buyer. It took Bert talking her down to prove he and his partner at the time didn’t mean her any harm.

Angel signs back that she understood that, but she would never be normal again. The doctor and his crew made sure of that.

“You have done better and recovered faster than some of the others. You know, getting you assigned to my team took a lot of convincing.” Bert reassured his commander that Angel was ready to do fieldwork. He knew she pushed herself to overcome everything done to her.

After about thirty minutes, they arrive at the gate of the manor house. He presses the buzzer to let the occupants know they are there. He knew if the place was owned by MI 5, the occupants already knew they were there waiting.

Inside the Manor:
Leandra hears a beeping sound coming from her apron. She pulled her cell phone out and noticed a black SUV at the main gate. A man was wearing a dark brown dress shirt on the driver's side. On the passenger side was an electric blue-haired woman. She didn’t know either one of them.

“Can I help you?” Leandra watches both people.

“Yes, the Snow Queen sent me and my partner here. Were to escort the Hatter and her companion to the court for a meeting.” Bert was given the code to let the housekeeper know it was safe to let them in.

Leandra presses a button on her cell phone to open the gate. Once the gate opened, she watched the SUV come up the driveway. The sensors concealed along the driveway scanned the SUV for additional passengers or explosives.

Outside the Manor House:
Bert drives carefully up the driveway. He knew from experience that the place was rigged with scanners and hidden weapons. Most places he has been to weren’t as big as this place.

Inside the Manor House:
Leandra heads upstairs to the bedroom Mrs. Jagger and her husband are sleeping in. The girls were horseback riding on the grounds with Casey and her friend. Mr. Theo had a meeting this morning and couldn’t get out of it. So, he had to call off, which was fine because Casey had arrived.

Leandra noticed the bedroom door was shut. She stops and knocks on it.

“Mrs. Jagger, your escort is here to transport you to the meeting.” Leandra had been informed about the meeting Mrs. Jagger was going to.

The door opened, and Mark was on the other side. A smile appears on his freshly shaven face. “Thank you, Leandra. Aylin will be ready in a few minutes. Why don’t I come down and meet our escort?” Mark wanted to meet their escorts.

“Very good, sir.” Leandra turns and walks back downstairs towards the front door.

Outside:
Bert parks the SUV next to another identical SUV like the one he was driving. He notices it is like the one he drove to pick up Mrs. Jagger.

“Looks like they shop at the same dealership.” Bert gets out and puts his business jacket on. He typically leaves it off when he is driving.

Angel gets out and adjusts her handgun. It was in a back holster at the small of her back. She wore a nice roomie blouse that allowed her to move her arms. Because of how big her breasts were, it was hard to find blouses and shirts that didn’t restrict her movement.

She was wearing a custom-fitted pair of slacks and low heel shoes. She hated wearing heels that were two inches or more. She was forced to wear stilettos that were ten inches or higher. It made her take baby steps and show off her ass in the tiny, tight clothes she was forced to wear.

Leandra spotted a tall man wearing a custom-fitted business suit and sunglasses. He had to be at least if not taller than Mr. Bounty himself. He had the build of Mr. Theo, but she could tell he had some military training from how he carried himself.

The young woman standing near him was shorter, at least as tall as herself, with long, flowing electric blue hair. She was wearing a pair of sunglasses that were identical to the ones the man was wearing. Leandra noticed that the woman had a petite build but a busty chest. The other woman’s waist was so tiny. She could put her hand around it; she had never seen a woman with a petite build like the woman standing before her with a busty chest. Not only that, but the lipstick the woman was wearing matched her hair color.

Bert noticed that the housekeeper was looking at Angel. He knew most people couldn’t get over Angel’s appearance right away.

“Excuse me, but we're on a tight schedule.” Bert knew he had to do something before Angel started feeling uncomfortable.

“I’m sorry, please come in. Mr. and Mrs. Jagger will be down in a minute.” Leandra stands aside to let the man and woman into the manor house.

Angel follows behind Bert as they enter. She knew from experience that her appearance always drew attention to her. Which in some ways was helpful to what they were doing. It allowed Bert to survey the area or look at something else while she held the other person's attention.

Leandra shuts the door behind the two people and escorts them to the den. She wonders if the two people were members of MI 5. She knew Mouse had emo-colored hair and worked for them, but this other woman’s hair looked unnatural.

“Can I get you anything?”

“We’re fine, ma’am,” Bert answered for them.

He watches as the housekeeper walks off, leaving them alone in the den. He glances around the room and notices the place has a rustic look.
There are books against one wall. Several pictures were mounted on the wall. The images in the picture showed women of various ages and styles of dress. Some he recognized as taken at familiar places he has visited.

Somewhere in Europe, a few looked like they had been taken in America or Asia. He notices that Angel is alert and watching the two doors that lead into the den. He knew she never let her guard down after what had happened to her.

A few minutes passed, and a young man with dark hair dressed in a fancy three-piece suit walked in. Bert could tell the young man was a skilled fighter from several scars he spotted on his face. He also noticed how observant the young man was as well.

Mark spotted their escorts waiting in the den when he walked in. The man, he could tell, was alert and trained. His posture gave him away. As for his partner, he had seen that look in her eyes before. It was the same look Aylin used to have when he first met her.

Every once in a while, it would return, but only when Aylin got mad or wanted revenge. It meant that her Hatter personality was surfacing, and that meant trouble for whoever pissed her off.

“Sorry for taking so long. I’m Mark Jagger, by the way.” Mark extends his hand to the man.

“Bert Goodspeed, Mr. Jagger. This is my partner, Angel Mason.” Bert introduces Angel to Mark.

“And this is my lovely wife, Aylin Jagger.” Mark noticed Aylin walking into the den. He motions her over to him.

Aylin walks over to Mark and the two people he was talking to. She noticed that the gentleman had a specific posture about him. She wasn’t as good as Mark at reading body language.

However, when she looks into the eyes of the woman with the electric blue hair, she recognizes that look. It was a look she was very familiar with.

“It’s nice to meet both of you. I’m Aylin Jagger.” Aylin holds her hand out to be shaken.

She usually didn’t like strange people touching her, but she knew it was proper manners. Her mother ensured she knew not everyone was out to hurt her. It was a lesson she didn’t take too right away when Lottie tried to teach her.

Bert shakes Aylin’s hand first, followed by Angel. When Angel looked Aylin in the eyes, she could tell this woman was dangerous. It was like watching a lion that was ready to attack. She also noticed that Mrs. Jagger wasn’t very tall either. If nothing else, she was shorter than she was. She stood a good five foot six inches tall. Mrs. Aylin was at least six inches or more shorter than her.

A smile appears on Aylin’s face as she looks at Angel. She could tell this woman had been hurt and wanted to share that pain.

“Don’t let it control you. It can poison your soul.”

“What do you mean?” Mrs. Jagger’s words took Angel by surprise.

“I think you know exactly what I mean, Mrs. Mason.” The smile on Aylin’s face never wavers. She also noticed that the young woman signed back to her. It was a good thing, she learned how to sign when she adopted Bree.

Bert had listened to the conversation between Mrs. Jagger and his partner. He noticed the smile on Mrs. Jagger’s face. Something about it sent shivers down his back.

“Well, let’s get this party started.” Mark slaps his hands together to get everyone’s attention.

“Let me go and tell the girls goodbye first, sweetie.” Aylin kisses Mark’s cheek before she leaves the den.

All of them watch as Aylin walks out of the den. Mark knew Aylin always said goodbye to their children. He knew it was to reassure them that he and her would return.

“So, Mr. Goodspeed. How long is this drive?” Mark already knew the answer to the question because he looked it up beforehand.

“It’s a three-hour drive. We should arrive an hour or so before your meeting starts.”

“Good. It will give us some time to scout the area out.” Mark didn’t want to go in blind.

“You’re like you don’t trust who you are meeting.” Angel looks at Mark when she says that.

“I trust everyone. I don’t trust the devil inside of them.” Mark loved that saying from The Italian Job movie.

A puzzled look appears on Angel’s face.

Aylin walks back into the den and looks at their escorts. “let’s get the ball rolling.”

“This way, Mrs. Jagger.” As Bert leads them out of the manor.

Days Before Aylin and Family Come To England:
Amelia stares into Ralph’s brown eyes as he kisses her. She felt his thick manhood pump in and out of her body. She digs her nails into his back, leaving light welts as she rakes his back. She was enjoying the feeling of her husband inside her body. Every time, he bottomed out inside of her body. She felt him hitting her cervix. It was a little painful, but she didn’t care.

She had her birth control device removed a few days ago. She loved feeling his body pressing against hers. The two of them cum together as she holds him tight against her body. She feels him erupt inside of her body.

A smile appears on her face as she rubs his back. She knew she left welts on his back from her fingernails. Her fingernails weren’t very long because of her being a chef.

“Ready for round two?” As Amelia kisses her husband.

Ralph shakes his head as he returns his wife’s kiss. He knew they weren't getting any sleep when she was in this type of mood, and he didn’t mind.

“Only if you are.” As Ralph nuzzles Amelia’s neck.

The next few hours, Ralph and Amelia make love to each other. Amelia tries not to be too loud during their love making but fails. She hoped she didn’t wake their girls.

They finally fall asleep at two in the morning. Ralph was holding Amelia tight against his body, with his manhood still buried inside of her body. He left a few hickeys on Amelia’s neck and her breasts, right on her nipples.

In the morning time, both his girls give him and their mother looks. Carrie and Angela couldn’t believe how loud their mother had been. They could hear her moaning all the way to their bedroom.

“Mom, was Dad that good that you couldn’t keep quiet?” Angela looks at her mother with a smirk on her face.

“Sis!” Carrie couldn’t believe her twin sister just said what she had said to their mother.

Amelia looks at her daughters with her cheeks red. She hadn’t realized she was that loud.

“Your dad is very talented in the art of loving making.” Amelia has already had the birds, and the bees talk with her daughters.

“Well, I hope I meet a guy as talented as Dad.” A teasing smile appears on her face when she says that.

“I hope not until you’re older.” Amelia didn’t want to be a grandmother at a young age.

“You weren’t that old when you and Dad had us.” Angela looks at her mother when she says that.

“True, but I already had the restaurant, and your dad was working for his father.” Amelia knew she had become pregnant on their honeymoon.
She didn’t get the birth control implant until after the girls were born.

It wasn’t until recently that she decided to have it removed. Now that she was older and the girls were in their teens. She was considering having another baby.

Amelia gets dressed and takes the girls to school. She does her morning shopping and when she arrives at work. She spots someone digging through the trash. Sometimes, some homeless people dig through the trash, looking for food. She parks her car, walks toward the back of the restaurant, and spots a young girl digging through the trash.

“If you're hungry, I can fix something for you.” Amelia wonders how old the girl is.

Amy turns around when she hears a female voice. She was hungry and sore from the whipping her drunk mother gave her. Her eyes still hurt from where the alcohol from one of the guy's glass spilled onto her face. Her mother had backhanded her, and she hit the table with her back where the guy’s glass was sitting.

Amelia watched the girl as she stood near the trash cans. She noticed the poor thing had bruises on her arms and face. She was wearing no shoes, and it looked like the girl had some dry blood on her head.

“I promise you’ll like it. I have two girls of my own, and they love my food.” Amelia was trying to coach the girl too.

Amy feels her tummy growl and rumble. She looks at the woman and starts walking towards her. She was really hungry and didn’t like eating out of the trash.

Amelia holds her hand out to the young girl. She felt sorry for the poor thing. When she feels the girl’s greasy hand grab hers, she doesn’t flinch.

Amelia looks down at the girl “Let’s go and get some food.”

Amelia walks towards the back door and opens it. She escorts the young girl inside. She takes her over to the sink and cleans her up.

“Now, let’s cook you up some food.” Amelia begins fixing the young girl some food.

Amy watches as the woman cooks. She saw what she was adding to the food. She loved how it smelled.

Amelia looks at the young girl. “My name is Amelia, and I own this restaurant. What is your name?”

Amelia stirs the food she was cooking for the girl.

“Amy.”

“Well, Amy. Do you live near here?” Amelia doesn’t recall ever seeing the girl before.

Amy shakes her head yes.

“Does your mother know you are gone?”

Amy shakes her head no. She didn’t want her mother to know she ran away.

Amelia finishes cooking the food and puts it on a plate for the girl. She looks at Amy “Let’s go and sit in the dining area.”

Amelia carries on a tray and pours the girl a glass of juice. She escorts Amy to the dining area and the staff table.

“Here you go, Amy. Enjoy. If you're still hungry, let me know, and I’ll fix you some more.” Amelia still had to bring the groceries she bought this morning inside.

Before Amelia walks off, she watches as Amy starts eating. She walks away and goes to get the groceries she bought this morning. She wonders
who Amy belonged to. The poor thing was dirty, and from the way she looked. It looked like someone had abused her.

While Amelia goes about getting everything ready to open for lunch, she checks on Amy and notices that half of the plate of food is already gone. She figures Amy must have been very hungry.

“Amy, would you like more juice?”

“Yes, ma’am.” Amy was enjoying the food and the juice.

Amelia refills Amy’s glass with more juice. She was curious why Amy was out on the street and why she was so hungry.

“Amy, did you run away from home?” Amelia watches Amy's expression.

Amy looks at Amelia “Yes ma’am. Please don’t send me back.”

“Why don’t you want to go back? Are you being abused?”

Amy shakes her head yes. She didn’t want to return to her mother’s or her friends.

“Why don’t you finish eating your food? I’m going to call a friend of mine.”

Amelia stands up and heads back to the kitchen. She pulls out her cell phone and calls a booby. She knows the guy personally because he always comes to the restaurant. She hopes Freddie will be able to help her. If nothing else, Amy could stay with her and her husband until everything is figured out.

After leaving a message for Freddie, she calls her mother and asks her to stop by a store and pick up some clean clothes for Amy. She could stay here with her at the restaurant for the day.

Just as Amelia gets off the phone with her mother, it rings, and she notices it is her brother. She presses accept.

“Hi Archie, what can I do for you?”

“Everything is a go, sis. Aylin and her husband want to meet you and your husband.”

“I didn’t think she would. Well, we could meet here at the restaurant. My place is too small for everyone.” Amelia figures Archie would want to be there as well.

“I think your restaurant is the perfect place. What time and day would you want to meet?” Archie thought the restaurant was perfect.

“Okay. What day?”

“Would this week be okay?”

“Sure, but it would have to be on Thursday night. Fridays are our busy nights.”

“What time?”

“Either before I open or afterward.” Amelia didn’t want to interrupt business.

“I think later would be better. They have to drive from where they will be staying.”

“That’s fine. Let’s say around eight o’clock.” Amelia didn’t think her patrons would mind her closing early.

“Cool. I’ll inform Aylin, sis. See you then.” Archie ends the call.

Amelia looks out into the dining area towards Amy and hopes she can help the poor girl. She walks back out to her.

Thursday Morning, The Abbey, St. Ives, Cornwall, England:
Amelia arrived early at the restaurant after doing her morning shopping. She spots some guys walking around outside her restaurant. She wondered who they were and what they were looking for. She pulls into her usual parking spot and parks. She grabs the can of dye she carries, typically just in case she is attacked.

As Amelia exits from her car, she looks at the men. She closes the car door but keeps her hand on the handle if she needs to enter it.

“Can I help you, gentlemen, with something?” Amelia watches the men carefully.

Henry hears a female voice coming from the parking lot. She had red hair and was of average height. He has seen her here at the restaurant before.

“Yes, we are looking for this girl. Have you seen her?” Henry shows the picture of Amy to Amelia.

“Yes, I saw her. She dug through my trash for something to eat a few days ago. Are you her father?” Amelia had already learned who Amy’s father was from her friend.

“No, just a friend of the family. Do you know what happened to her?” Henry was watching the young woman.

“I took her in and made her some food. While she was eating, I called the local police station, and they sent someone out to help her.” Amelia wasn’t telling this guy that Amy was staying with her.

The local group home she would have been sent to was full. So, Amelia was willing to take Amy in. Her daughters were already bonding with Amy and calling her their little sister.

Henry closed his eyes and knew trouble would be coming his way soon. He wanted to strangle this woman’s neck, but they were out in public, and she was well-known in the neighborhood. He’ll wait until later and come back to deal with her.

“Thank you.” Henry turns and walks away.

“You’re welcome.” Amelia watches as the men walk away. She waits a few minutes before getting the groceries out of her car and carrying them
inside the restaurant.

She noticed the sign was still up, letting her customers know she would close early tonight. Most of them knew she normally closed early on Thursday and stayed open late on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. She carries the groceries back to the kitchen and starts prepping everything.

Manor House, Ravenstonedale, England:
“Mom, I’m going out and won’t be back until late tomorrow.” Archie wasn’t going to tell his mother what he was up to.

As far as she was concerned, his half-sister died after jumping out of the window after killing their father. He knew she knew who the Hatter had been that day, especially after she said that they would be better off without him. The thing was, his mother still refused to acknowledge that she was his older sister.

“All right, honey. Be careful and stay safe.” Maddison wonders what her son was up to.

She knew he went to New York with his friends and had been busy since returning from his trip. Still, she trusted her son and whatever he was up to. She’ll let him be.

Archie grabs the keys to his Aston Martin. While he had been in New York. He and his mates rented one of the new Hellcats and loved the speed the car had. He has been thinking about buying one and shipping it to England. He knew his friend Theo was already in the process of having one. He knew Theo’s parents spoiled him.

He heard back from MI 5 and has an appointment to visit the assessment center to be interviewed and answer some questions. He’s hoping they will take him. If not, his second choice would be to serve in the military and try again from there.

He listens to music being played through the speakers of his Martin. The day was nice and will be happy to see his sisters together. He hopes they will get along.

The SUV From Bristol:
Mark watched as Bret drove the SUV they were traveling in. He noticed that the woman who was Bret’s partner was quiet and kept watch as they traveled. A smirk appears on his face because if someone were dumb enough to attack this SUV, they would be inviting trouble they have never experienced.

He looked over at Aylin to see how she was doing. “How are you holding up, sweetie?”

Aylin turns to face her husband, “nervous. I hope my twin sister isn’t be offended by what I did to our father.”

“Sweetie, what you did was put down a mad dog. Your father tried to pretend you didn’t exist and permitted a madman to experiment with you.” Mark grabs Aylin’s hand and holds it.

“You think?” Aylin looks into Mark’s eyes. She knew he would never hide anything from her.

“If she is anything like you. She’ll understand.” Mark places a kiss on Aylin’s cheek.

Angel had been listening to the conversation going on between the Jaggers. She wonders what experiments had been performed on Mrs. Jagger and what doctor they discussed. She glances towards Bret with a puzzled look on her face. She signs to him, asking him who they are talking about.

Bret notices Angel signing to him and shrugs his shoulder. He knew nothing about Mrs. Jagger, except what they were told to do. He looked at Angel and could see she was puzzled.

Since he couldn’t sign back while driving, “ask them.”

“Ask us what?” Mark heard Bret reply to something his partner was asking him.

Mark noticed earlier that Bret’s partner Angel couldn’t speak. He had seen the surgical scar on her throat.

“My partner wanted to know what doctor your wife was talking about.” Bret looks at Mark in the rearview mirror.

Mark looks at his wife. “Do you mind explaining?”

Aylin looks towards their bodyguards up front. She had noticed that the woman sent to protect and transport them couldn’t speak. She wonders if someone has done something to her.

“When I was little. I was put in a mental hospital, and illegal medical experiments were performed. The doctor who did the experiments was the director of the mental hospital. When I escaped from the place, I blew him to kingdom come.”

“How about the rest of his staff? What did you do to them?” Angel wondered if the person who experimented on her and the others worked for the man Mrs. Jagger killed.

“As far as I remember. I didn’t do anything to anyone except the orderlies that raped me. Some of the staff were nice to me.” Aylin couldn’t remember everything she did that day, but she did remember blowing the doctor up and killing the two orderlies who raped her.

“Do you remember a middle-aged man with dark brown hair and grey eyes?” Angel was signing as Bert translated for her.

“I couldn’t tell you. My mind was completely gone at the time.”

“Was the Doctor’s name William Dippel?” Bret wonders if the doctor Aylin killed, was the doctor who taught the one who performed experiments on Angel and several others.

Aylin closes her eyes and thinks back to that time. Her mind had been very cloudy from the experiments and drugs used on her. She tries to remember the face of the doctor she killed.

A memory that had been buried surfaces of a young man dressed in a white lab coat. He had injected her with some bright green liquid that made her sick as a dog. It caused every muscle in her body to seize up. It felt like he was enjoying what he was doing to her.

She squeezes Mark’s hand as her body responds to the memory. Her eyes open as she looks around her location.

“Easy, Aylin. You’re safe.” Mark holds Aylin so she feels safe. He knew her senses were enhanced, and the cologne he wore would snap her out of whatever just gripped her.

Aylin smells Mark’s cologne as it reminds her that smell means safety. She inhales Mark’s scent and counts down from ten. She could feel her Hatter personality stirring. She snuffs Mark's neck again and manages to calm down.

Angel had watched Aylin’s reaction and felt that Mrs. Jagger knew the doctor she cut up just from watching her. She wonders if the doctor Mrs. Jagger killed taught the person she killed.

Mark felt the pressure on his hand loosen and looks into his Aylin’s eyes. He could tell whatever happened was slowly loosening its grip on Aylin. “I take it, it brought back some memories you buried?”

Aylin shakes her head and looks into Mark’s brown eyes “yes and I have to say that whoever Angel was experimented on by was the doctor’s assistant I killed.”

Bret was surprised when he heard Aylin’s voice. There was sadness in it.

“Bret, how much longer before we arrive?” Mark looks towards Bret.

“We’re almost there.” Bret glances to the GPS to see how much longer they had.

“All right.” Mark just holds Aylin.

Angel turns around in her seat and look out the windshield.

Thursday Evening, The Abbey, St. Ives, Cornwall, England:
Archie had arrived early and ordered some dinner. Since he was early and didn’t eat anything before leaving the house. He already knew the food was good, from having lunch here before.

His server was a young woman with black curly hair. She had a light accent to her speech when she spoke, and was kind of cute. He’ll have to ask his sister what her name is. He watches as she walks back towards the kitchen to place his order.

As he scans the restaurant, he spots an older woman sitting at a corner table by herself enjoying a glass of wine. Every so often, her server would walk over to her and either refill her glass or check to see if she wanted anything else. He spots her looking towards the kitchen area occasionally.

He also noticed how the restaurant wasn’t as busy as it normally was when his friend visited last time. He didn’t know why, because the food his sister made was better than some of the high-class restaurants he had gone to. He wasn’t a food, foodie and posted about where he ate.

His interview with the Secret Service division had gone well and was approved for training. He was informed that he would begin training within two weeks. He was also informed that once his training began, he couldn’t tell anyone what he did.

Which he understood. On the day he went for his final interview, he spotted a young woman with emo-colored purple hair walking by him. He was surprised to see someone like that among a bunch of professional agents and supervisors. The thing was, whoever she was, she was able to enter places no one else was allowed.

Edith had been invited by her daughter to come to the meeting of her twin sister. She was surprised that Amelia’s twin was still alive. She thought she had died along with everyone else. She wonders how Aylin looks and where she has been hiding all these years. She also wonders if the stories were true that she was the wanted criminal the Mad Hatter.

While she was sitting at the table Amelia kept reserve for her and enjoying a glass of her favorite wine. Her server Kelly, was tentative to her and would refill her glass and bring her something to nibble on. She loved the appetizers Amelia sent out to her.

While she is sitting at the table, she notices Amelia’s stepbrother come walking into the restaurant and is escorted over to table five. She knew the arrangement of the tables and why her daughter arranged the restaurant that way. As she is enjoying her wine, she wonders how Aylin looked after all these years. Sure, she saw the pictures her daughter showed her, but seeing a person on a video and seeing them in person is another thing.

The young girl Amelia found digging through her trash, was at home with her husband and her grandchildren. The poor thing had been abused and was malnourished. She felt sorry for the poor girl but knew she’d have a better life with her daughter.

The restaurant slowly starts to close for the night. The bus boys and some of the servers who have been working for her daughter for a while were in the process of cleaning the place. They were surprised that a young man was staying behind. They knew Amelia’s mother was known to stay behind to talk with their boss. As they leave one by one with take-home orders their boss always made for them. They wave good night. One of the servers heard a commotion coming from the back of the restaurant.

Their curiosity gets the best of them and when they walk back towards the noise. They spot two guys and a woman watching a woman with red hair who looked like their boss, beating the daylights out of two guys. They heard one of the guys watching the fight say that they messed with the wrong woman.

Bret, Angel, Mark, and Aylin had arrived early and saw that the restaurant was still open. Mark figured since the place was still open, they would scout the area out. Mark knew Aylin wanted to stretch her legs for a while. Since it was a big area, they went ahead and split up. Angel and Bret teamed up since Angel couldn’t speak. He went by himself and Aylin went by herself.

He was heading back towards their meeting spot when he heard a commotion coming from behind the restaurant. He went to investigate and saw Hatter being attacked by two well-built guys. He was about to interfere when he spotted his wife drop one guy like a rag doll.

A smile appears on his wife when he watches her work. He knew she was enjoying herself. He hears footsteps running towards him. He turns to see who it is and spots Bret and Angel running towards him. He stops them when they want to help out.

“Let her be. She’s got this.” Mark knew these guys were going to end up going to the hospital after his wife got done with them.

Bret and Angel looked at Mark like he was crazy. They were told to protect him and his wife.

“Mr. Jagger, we can’t do that. We were told to protect you guys.” Bret knew he could get in trouble.

“I bet that wasn’t Mrs. Basset’s concern. I bet she wanted you guys to protect whoever was dumb enough to attack us.” Mark knew how deadly he and Aylin were as a team and individually.

Henry and his friend had decided to work over the red-haired woman who turned Amy over to the authorities. Amy’s mother had gotten a visit from child services over the abuse her daughter had received from her. Since he knew where to find the woman responsible. He was going to wait until her restaurant was closed and then attack her.

Henry was surprised to see her walking around outside by herself without her purse or anything. He and his friend had managed to surprise her and when he went to work her over. She did something he hadn’t expected and was finding himself and his friend getting their ass's hands on them.

He didn’t realize this red-haired woman was such an experienced fighter. Just as he is knocked out, he spots three other people standing and watching them fight.

“That’s my girl.” Mark walks over to Aylin when she knocks both people out.

Aylin turns around when she hears Mark’s voice. She didn’t have a mark on her “This guy wanted to hurt my sister.” As she kicks the guy in his stomach.

“How come, sweetie?” Mark was curious.

“Over some girl.” Aylin looks down at the guy.

“Well, I think he learned his lesson.” Mark had a cheshire smile on his face.

“He’s lucky I didn’t kill him.”

“Why don’t you two head inside? We’ll handle this.” Bert figures he and Angel didn’t need to be there at the family reunion.

“Okay. If you need us, you know where to find us.” Mark escorts Aylin toward the front of the restaurant.