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.