Becky watches as Marshal Bullock drove them. She was curious as they left downtown Knoxville and headed into the suburbs. She turns to look at Bullock “how do you know this person?”

“We’ve worked a few cases together. She and her family are professional bounty hunters and private investigators.” Which was something new that Kat’s family has recently gotten involved with.

“What’s so special about them?’ Becky was curious.

A smile appears on Bullock’s face. He wanted this to be a surprise both for Becky and for Kat. He does wonder how another person like Kat has come into existence. Kat had assured him that she was the only unique one around, besides her sister that looked like Gadget from
Disney’s Rescue Rangers.

“You’ll see when you see her.” Bullock continues to drive.

Becky sits back against the soft leather seat and watches what route they take. She was trying to memorize the route, just in case this person they were going to see, tried to kill her like the others. She reaches over to the environmental controls and turns the air down. She was feeling a little cold.

After twenty minutes, Bullock arrives at Kat’s and Paul’s residence. He noticed that Kat’s 1969 Mustang Boss 429 has been restored from the damage it took. Also, the armor Terradyne Kat’s team was using now, thanks to the one case they worked on.

He parks on the street and turns the truck off. He gets out and walks around to the passenger side and helps Becky down. She had a small gym bag of clothes Bullock bought for her this morning on the way to his office. She follows behind him as he walks up the driveway.

Becky looks at the armored Terradyne and the Mustang as they walk by them. The tags on the mustang were antique license plates but she spotted the police lights the police use now.

“Why does your friend have police lights on an antique car?” Becky was curious.

“Her father uses to be a police officer before he died.” Bullock had dug into Kat’s and Paul’s past.

Kat was the adopted daughter of a nurse and police officer. She got turned down by the Memphis police department because of the chief of police and because of her looks. The Chief of Police held a grudge against Kat because of her accusing him of the death of her father.

Paul on the other hand uses to be an enforcer for an Italian mafia family in New York that had been taken down by the FBI. Somehow he escaped arrest and it wasn’t because he turned on them either. The FBI just didn’t have a strong case against him and the Attorney General of New York didn’t have any witnesses or evidence to charge him.

He teamed up with Kat a year later after leaving New York and worked with her chasing down bad guys. After a while, the two of them got married and later adopted Brittney and Terri. They worked a case of a gay conversion camp that Brittney’s parents supported and showed the public what went on there.

He leads Becky to the backyard and knocks on the wooden fence door. He knew since Kat and Paul adopted Brittney and Terri they have worked on some high-profile cases. They have been in the news and hunted down by assassins from India sent by Brittney’s parents.

“Come on back, Bullock.” Kat had her hand on her gun just in case it wasn’t Bullock.

Bullock opens the wooden gate and steps aside to let Becky into the backyard. Once Becky walks past him, he secures the gate and leads her further into the backyard. He spots the above-ground pool that has recently been added to the yard and the new patio furniture and patio.

Becky stops behind Bullock as she looks at the backyard. A muscular man was standing behind a silver grill and she could smell hamburgers, hot dogs, and something else cooking on it. She has never smelled the other food before.

She also notices a woman that looks similar to her, wearing a black bikini, light shoulder-length blonde hair, and a scar on the middle of her chest looking right at them. There were two little toddlers near her in baby walkers. She also notices another girl with dark hair sitting at a patio table eating a hamburger. She was wearing a one-piece neon green swimsuit.

Kat and Paul immediately spotted the cat girl hiding behind Bullock. She couldn’t be any more than six or eight years old and had light blonde her with white tuffs. She looked like Kat did when she was younger. Paul looks toward his wife and notices she was stumped as well.

The girl looked like Kat did when she was little. He has seen some of the childhood pictures her mother and father took.

“Kat, Paul I would like for you to meet Becky.” Bullock gently coaches Becky from hiding behind him.

Becky stands in front of Bullock and wonders if this was some joke or if this was real. She looks at everyone and notices the woman who looked like her, was staring right at her. The look on the woman’s face was surprised and bewilderment.

“Becky, I would like for you to meet Kat Romano and her husband Paul Romano. Their daughter Jill and their twins Paul Jr. and his sister
Christy.” Bullock knew Christy was named after Kat’s mother. He didn’t see Terri anywhere.

Becky looks at everyone, but her gaze rests on Kat. For some reason, there was something familiar about her, but she couldn’t remember what it was. She waves at everyone as she stayed near Bullock.

Kat couldn’t believe that there was a younger version of herself standing in front of Bullock. So many emotions and feelings were going through her. She had been worried that the twins would have come out looking like her, but they didn’t.

Kat stands up and walks over towards Bullock and Becky. She kneels in front of her “it’s nice to meet you, Becky.” As Kat extends her hand to her.

Becky tentatively extends her small hand out and takes Kat’s hand. She feels Kat shake her hand gently as the two of them lock eyes. She noticed that Kat’s eyes were the same color as her own.

Kat could tell Becky was a little nervous and concerned. She could smell the nervousness coming off of Becky.

“You have nothing to fear here, little one. I won’t allow anyone to hurt you.”

“Do you promise?” Becky was relaxing slowly in Kat’s presence.

“I promise. Also, my husband won’t allow anyone to hurt you either. Isn’t that right, Paul?”

“You got it. I won’t allow any harm to come to you, Becky.” Paul flips a few burgers on the grill.

“Why don’t the two of you come on over and sit down at the table. I bet you are hungry.” Kat knew when she was Becky’s age, she could eat a lot of food.

Becky nods her head yes. She watches as Kat stands up and continues to hold her hand as she is led to the patio table. She feels Kat pick her up and place her in a chair near Jill.

“Paul, can you fix a plate for Becky?” Kat looks over towards her husband.

“Sure can, sweetie.” Paul looks at Bullock “what would you like, Bullock.”

“Two of those Bratwursts I smell with onions and peppers if you have any.” Bullock had skipped breakfast.

“We got them. That’s the only way Kat will eat them along with mushrooms and sauerkraut.” Paul looks at Kat and notices she was still
stunned by how Becky looked. However, she was in mother mode and goes about making sure Becky gets everything she wanted.

“Don’t forget the mustard. I like mustard on my bratwursts as well.” Kat walks over and stands next to Paul and fixes a plate for Becky.
Becky watches everyone. Especially Kat, since the two of them look so similar.

“Becky, what type of soda do you like?” Jill looks at the little cat girl sitting near her.

“I don’t have a favorite.” Becky has never had soda before.

“Well, let’s see if we can find out for you then.” Jill gets and grabs a Pepsi from the cooler over near her parents.

She also grabs a yellow solo cup and puts some ice in it. Just before she leaves the cooler. She looks over towards Mr. Bullock “would you like a beer, Mr. Bullock?”

“Sure, Jill and thank you.” Bullock smiles at Jill.

“You’re welcome.” Jill grabs one of her father’s favorite beers and takes it over to Mr. Bullock.

Bullock noticed Paul was going the bald route. A smirk appears on his face “going bald now, Paul?”

“I thought I would give it a try. This summer is supposed to be hotter than last year. Also, after going to India and tracking those assassins down. I wanted to try something new.” Paul works on Bullock’s plate.

“Well, I hate it. I like running my fingers through your hair.” Kat liked running her fingers through Paul’s hair.

Kat works on Becky’s plate. She knew what a girl her age will eat and how much. It use to drive her mother crazy when Kat was little and still hungry.

“Where’s Terry at?” Bullock noticed she was home.

“She’s working with my sister. She wants to become a lawyer like my older sister.”

“Don’t we have enough sharks already?” Bullock didn’t like lawyers that much.

“I think it suits her, Bullock. She’s the book type and when she is right about something, you better watch out.” Kat was proud of her younger daughter.

“Well, I hope your sister can teach her not to defend crooks. We already have enough of those sleazy lawyers.”

“She won’t. You have to remember she is still my daughter and has a strong sense of right and wrong.” Kat knew what type of lawyer Terry will be.

Jill walks over and places the beer in front of Bullock. She places the solo cup with ice in front of Becky and pours the soda into it.

“Take a taste and let me know what you think, Becky.” Jill stands near Bullock and Becky.

Becky picks the yellow solo cup up and tentatively takes a sip from it. The bubbles tickle her mouth and the drink was sweet. It was also cold as well. She looks at Jill “it tastes good.”

A smile appears on Jill’s face “another convert.”

Jill sits down at her place at the table and takes a sip of her drink, after sitting the rest of the soda in the can near Becky.

Paul, Kat, and Bullock watch as Jill shows Becky how to swim. Kat had another swimsuit that belonged to Terri that would barely fit Becky. It was the first swimsuit that Kat had bought Terri when she came to live with her and Paul. The suit was a little big on Becky, but it covered Becky enough. She’ll have to take Becky shopping to get the proper suit for her.

“What do you know about her, Bullock?” Kat looks at Bullock’s face.

“Not much. She came stumbling out of the woods on the highway I was traveling on and almost hit her. She looked like you do when you let your temper get the best of you.” Bullock has seen what Kat was like when she was pissed and her anger gets the best of her. She was like most cats when you pissed them off.

“Did you go and investigate where she came from?” Paul was curious if Bullock did.

“I have a forensics team at the location right now. From initial reports, it looks like where she escaped from was doing genetic research and training.” Bullock takes a sip of his beer.

“What happened?” Paul looks at Kat to make sure she was keeping her cool.

He remembered the first time he and the whole family had been kidnapped. The people that kidnapped them wanted Kat’s and Rebecca’s DNA. They also used nanite technology on reengineering the girls, by turning them into real girls. Their genetic structure had been modified, so when they have children, it will carry on into their DNA.

“Don’t know. All the security cameras and equipment had been taken out. All Becky can remember is being set free from the cage the researchers kept her in. She does remember that the person who set her free smelled like a cat.” Bullock was surprised when Becky told him that.

“We’re you able to identify any of the researchers?” Kat knew the person they chased down was dead.

“We're still in the process of doing that. There were at least twelve people found dead, either with their throats ripped out or disemboweled.
Whoever or whatever killed them have very sharp claws.” Bullock was still getting reports from the team.

Kat looks over towards Jill and Becky as they splash around in the pool. The twins were laying down in their portable playpen, sound asleep. She wore them out in the pool.

Paul looks at Kat “did we miss someone?”

“I don’t think so.” Kat knew they killed everyone that had been on the island and chased down the doctor and the others to Washington D.C.

“What are you two talking about?” Bullock was curious.

Kat turns her head and looks at Bullock. She was a firm believer in making eye contact when talking to people.

“Several years ago, after we adopted Brittney and Terri. We learned about Rebecca and her family. They had come here to our house, so we could meet in person. While they were here, a mercenary group knocked all of us out and took us to some island down past Florida. We managed to break out and track down the doctor who created me and Rebecca. While we were his prisoners, he modified Brittney, Terri, and August and turned all of them into real women. He was going to sell them into sexual slavery. As for me and Rebecca, he took samples of our tissue and DNA. He even took a sample of our eggs as well. We managed to break out thanks to Rebecca’s husband Levi and Paul.
Afterward, I, Paul, Levi, the girls, and Rebecca tracked down the person who created us and sent him and everyone he worked with on their way. I had Morgana wipe their computer system clean of any trace of our DNA. She saved the nanite technology they used for herself.”

“Are you sure you killed the person who created you and all his research?” Bullock looks at Paul and Kat for an answer.

“We’re sure. The building he was hiding in, was blown up because of a broken gas line.” Paul remembers because he and Levi had gone after the scientist who had stolen Rebecca’s and Kat’s DNA.

“Could he have shared the information with someone else when you guys were unconscious or in the prison cell?”

“If it had been, Morgana would have found it. She’s very thorough when she wipes a computer system clean.”

“But the doctor could have sent the information before you told her to wipe the system.” Bullock wasn’t a computer expert like Morgana, but even he knew the information could have been backed up in the cloud.

“True, it's possible. Also, Morgana didn’t have the resources she has now.” Kat remembered Morgana having multiple servers linked together and working as a giant supercomputer with a program she got from NASA.

“So, you’re thinking whoever created Becky used genetic material from Kat?” Paul looks at Becky and saw some similarities from her that Kat would have had when she was that age.

“Maybe, you did say that they took eggs from you and Rebecca, right?”

“Yes.” Kat was trying to see where Bullock was going with this.

“Well, if they took genetic material from you and Rebecca. What’s to say they didn’t take genetic material from the girls once the modification to them was done?” Bullock was thinking that one of the three girls might have been modified.

“Well, it’s not, August. She has a normal-looking son.” Kat knew that for a fact.

“Then it could be Terri or Brittney. We need to have both girls brought in and have samples taken from them.” Bullock isn’t sure, but it's possible the girls could have been re-engineered to have babies like Kat and Becky.

“Terri it shouldn’t be a problem. Brittney on the other hand is. Brittney, Crystal, and Valentina are in the process of getting the new office up and running.”

“She can get the testing done where she is and have the results sent to my office.” Bullock figures there had to be a testing center where Brittney is.

“I’ll tell her. So, what exactly do you want us to do?” Paul was wondering what Bullock wanted them to do.

“Just babysit, Becky. I figure she would be more comfortable around someone like herself.” A smile appears on his face.

“And if someone comes looking for her?” Kat looks at the girls as they played.

“Do what you normally do. Teach whoever it is that they have made a mistake. However, I do ask that you keep them alive, so I can question them.” Bullock knew what Kat and Paul were capable of.

“There’s no guarantee, but we’ll try. How are you going to explain things to our young friend?” Kat wonders how Bullock was going to do that.

“Gently.” Bullock turns to look at the girls and notices they were having fun.

Becky was enjoying being in the pool with Jill. At first, she had been scared and thought she was going to drown, but Jill reassured her she wouldn’t let that happen. Jill taught her how to doggy paddle and once she learned that. Jill showed her how to hold her breath and duck underwater.

After she was comfortable with the water, she and Jill started tossing the ball back and forth in the pool. She was enjoying playing with Jill. She Bullock, Kat, and Paul were talking about her and a few other things. She caught some of their conversations.

She does notice that Kat sneaks a peek at them ever so often. She figures it must be the mother instinct Kat has developed. Even Paul observed the two of them every once in a while.

She noticed the scar on Jill’s leg and wondered how she got it. She noticed that Jill had a few scars and wondered if Kat or Paul did it for punishment. She looks at Jill “did Kat or Paul give you those scars?”

Jill stops and looks at Becky “God no. The people who kidnapped me and abused me did. Kat and Paul have been nothing but loving and caring.”

“Why?” Becky was curious.

“Because that is the way they are. Kat and Paul are parents most kids would love to have. Sure, they have their rules and such, but are only looking out for us.” Jill was glad that Kat and Paul adopted her.

They go back to playing again, after talking.

Becky wakes up the next morning in a bed she has no memory of getting into. The last thing she remembers was watching a movie last night, laying next to Jill on the living room floor. She notices she still had on the nightgown Kat gave her to wear.

She looks next to her and notices she was in Jill’s bedroom. Jill was sleeping on a bed next to the one she was laying on. She gets up out of bed and heads to the bathroom. Kat had given her a tour of the house.

She lowers the panties she was wearing and sits down on the toilet to do her business. Afterward, she finishes doing her morning business and washes her hands. Bullock had informed her, while he was investigating what happened to her. She’ll be staying with Kat, Paul, and their family.

When she walks into the kitchen, she spots Kat, Paul, and their other daughter Terri already in there. She notices that Kat and Paul were drinking coffee. Terri looked like she was eating scrambled eggs and sausage. Her nose twitched from the smell.

“Well, good morning sleepy head.” Kat spotted Becky walking into the kitchen.

Becky waves at Kat as she walks in. She walks over to the kitchen table and sits down. She watches as Paul gets up and grabs a juice glass and pours Becky some of the juice from the pitcher.

“Here you go, kiddo.” He sets the glass down on the table in front of her.

“Thank you.” She picks the glass up and takes a sip from it.

Becky tasted that the juice was a combination of orange juice and pineapple juice mixed. She loved how it tasted. A low purring sound could be heard coming for her.

A smirk appears on Terri’s face when she hears Becky purring. She looks towards her mother “she’s louder than you, mom.”

Paul tries not to smirk at his daughter’s comment. He takes a sip from his coffee.

“I uses to be as loud as she is when I was younger.” Kat knew her adopted mother loved it when she purred like that.

“Really?” Terri was a little surprised by that statement.

“Yes.” Kat just smiled as she listens to Becky.

“What would you like for breakfast, Becky?” Paul watches Becky as she puts her glass.

“Can I have what Terri is having, please?” Becky loved what she was smelling from Terri’s dish.

“No, problem sweetie.” Kat opens the refrigerator grab everything she needed to make scrambled eggs and sausage for Becky.

Becky watches as Kat cooks her breakfast. She noticed Terri was almost done with her breakfast.

“Terri, what type of work do you do?” Becky was curious about Terri.

“I’m an intern at my aunt’s law firm.” Terri liked working for her aunt.

Becky looked confused because she doesn’t know what an intern did.

“What does an intern do?” As Becky watches Terri.

“Well, I do a lot of paper filing, and researching former laws or cases that fit what the lawyer is working on.” Terri was still learning other things as well.

“Do you do it just for your aunt or the whole law firm?”

“I work just for my aunt right now. I’m her intern, so whatever she needs me for I do.” Terri knew the other partners had an intern or two. Plus, their paralegals as well.

“So, tell me, Becky. Do you remember who your parents were?” Terri was curious about Becky.

“No, I have no memory of my parents. I was raised by a bunch of people wearing white lab coats.” Some of Becky’s memories have been coming back.

Paul looks at Kat when Becky mentions being raised by people in white lab coats. He noticed that the statement Becky mentioned caught Kat’s attention. Her curiosity was piqued.

Kat goes back to cooking and when it's done. She puts everything in a bowl-like Terri’s and carries it over to Becky.

“Here you go, Becky.” Kat sets the bowl down in front of Becky.

“Thank you.” Becky takes a tentative bite of the food. She’s been tricked before and didn’t want to take any chances.

Once she was sure the food wasn’t spiked, she takes another bite. She has never tasted the spices covering the eggs before.

“How is it, Becky?” Paul watches Becky as she ate.

“It’s very good.”

“Mom’s cooking is always good.” Terri loved her mom’s cooking.

While Becky is eating her breakfast, Jill comes walking into the kitchen. She waves hello to everyone as she walks over to Kat and hugs her.

“How are you feeling, sweetie?” Kat looks down at Jill.

“Sore.” Jill was feeling the sunburn she had.

“I’ll get you some aspirin to take. What do you want for breakfast?” Kat strokes Jill’s hair and hugs her back.

“Cereal.” Jill has come to enjoy being hugged by Kat and Paul.

“I got you covered, sis.” Terri gets up and grabs a bowl, spoon, and Jill’s favorite cereal.

Paul grabs the cereal out of the pantry. He knew what Jill’s favorite cereal is.

“Here you go, sweetie.” He sets the container on the table.

Kat escorts Jill over to the table and lets her fix her a bowl of cereal. She watches as Terri gets up and walks her dirty bowl over to the dishwasher and places it inside the machine.

“I got to go and get ready for work. Dad, can I get a lift from you, please?” Terri looks at her father when she asks him for a ride.

“Sure sweetie. I know your mom is taking Becky and Jill shopping.” Paul knew Kat was taking the girls out.

Kat cleans the kitchen while Becky and Jill eat their breakfast. She also fixes herself another cup of coffee as well. When Jill and Becky are done. She sends them to their bedroom to get ready to go out.

Medical Lab:
Bullock walks around looking at the medical lab Becky had escaped from. The place looked like a war zone. There was blood everywhere and damaged cages. He walks over to a computer tech that was working at a computer she managed to salvage and put back together.

“How’s it going, Mika?” Bullock looks at the Asian-looking woman as she searched through the solid states drives.

“Slow going. Half of this stuff, I don’t understand.” Mika was a computer expert and the information she was recovering was about biology, gene splicing, and advanced growth technology.

“Do what you can, Mika.” Bullock knew Mika was extremely good.

“I will.” Mika goes back to work.

“Bullock, you have to see this.” Anthony has been looking around when he came across something weird.

Anthony examines the contents of the refrigeration unit that still has a bunch of frozen embryos in it. The writing on the side of the containers didn’t make any sense to him until he managed to break the code, they were written in.

“What did you find, Anthony?” bullock walks over to him.

“It looks like they were going to create or have created more hybrid beings.” Anthony shows the embryos he had found.

“Are those still good?” Bullock looks at the collection of vials.

“All you need is a woman to put them in or in those chambers over there.” Anthony points towards a bunch of chambers that were designed to allow a human to grow in.

“How many different species did you find?” Bullock was curious.

“At least six.” Anthony managed to make out six different hybrid species so far.

“And those six are ready to be implanted into a womb or those chambers?” Anthony wonders how long they have been up to this.

“I can’t believe our government was funding this.” Anthony couldn’t believe what he was learning.

“They might have not been.” Bullock spotted something and walked over to see what it was.

Anthony noticed Bullock walking over to something on the floor. He watches as Bullock picks up a white bloody lab coat and look at it.

“What did you find?” Anthony was curious.

“This lab coat has Dia Lab on it. Have you ever heard of it?” Bullock looks at Anthony.

“No, but I might know someone who might know.” Anthony pulls his cellphone out and sends a text to a buddy of his that does a lot of surfing on the web.

“Who are you texting?” Bullock was curious who Anthony was texting.

“A friend of mine that specializes in conspiracy legends and myths. He’s a little weird and kind of out there. However, the information he manages to find is always on point.” Anthony knew Craig suffered from brain damage from an accident he had been in.

“Well, if you trust him. I’ll trust him as well.” Bullock knew Anthony was pretty good at finding the right person.

Crystal and Brittney’s Resident:
Brittney was sitting on Crystal’s butt giving her a back rub when she hears her cellphone beep. She picks it up and looks at the text she just received from her mother. She wanted her to go and have several of her eggs removed and analyzed.

“This is strange.” Brittney wonders why her mother wanted her to do what she just read and why she wanted the results sent to Mr. Bullock.

“What’s so strange?” Crystal was curious now.

“My mom wants me to go and have several of my eggs removed and analyzed. Afterward, she wants me to have the results sent to Mr. Bullock.”

“As in Marshal Bullock?” Crystal turns around under Brittney, so Brittney was straddling her waist.

“Yep.” Brittney looks down into Crystal's eyes.

“I wonder why?” Crystal was puzzled.

“This is weird.” Brittney never knew her mother wanted something like this done.

“Well, I guess we should get it done. When do you want to do it?”

“As soon as possible.” Brittney figures Bullock needs the DNA test of her eggs.

“Okay, let’s go and have it done.” Crystal moves Brittney off her waist and gets up to get dressed.

A few days later, Crystal and Brittney are at a doctor’s office that specializes in removing eggs. Brittney is put to sleep, so the doctor can remove several eggs from her body. Crystal paces back and forth as she waits for the process to be done.

When Brittney is in the recovery room. Crystal stays by her side, waiting for her to wake up. When Brittney opens her eyes “how do you feel?”

“Sore.”

Brittney slowly sat up on the bed she was resting on. Crystal studies her as she looks at the nurse in the room with her.

“Is this normal?”

“For some women, yes. You’re going to have to keep pressure here for a little bit. Afterward, you’re going to need to take it easy for a while. If there is any bleeding or anything. Let us know.”

“Will do.”

Crystal takes Brittney back home and makes her rest when they get there.

City Park Near Kat’s House:
Kat and Charlotte watch as Teddy, Freddy, Jeff, Jill, and Becky play. The girls were on the swings, while Jeff was playing catch with his best friend Freddy. The children looked so happy playing.

“I can’t believe how quiet the twins are.” Charlotte looks down at her niece and nephew as they slept in the stroller.

“I know. I thought Teddy was going to start dressing as a boy again?” Kat was curious why Teddy has gone back to dressing as a girl again.

“She didn’t feel comfortable dressing as a boy. Plus, every time she did dress as a boy and tried to act like a boy. She would get teased. Teddy decided she was going back to dressing as a girl, even though she is biologically a boy.”

“It’s the hormone drugs that the coach gave her that have changed her appearance,” Kat remembers Teddy being examined and what the coach had done to her.

“I know. Whatever drug he used on her, has damaged her testes and she will never produce enough testosterone for her to develop as a boy. She would need to take testosterone hormones for the rest of her life.” Charlotte took Teddy to see Doctor Swing and he said that the drug used on Teddy has damaged any chance of Teddy having a normal life as a boy.

“I’m sorry to hear that. Brittney and Terri have gone through the process of being girls.”

“I remember until they were experimented on.” Charlotte looks at Kat.

“Yeah, but now we think there is more going on.” Kat couldn’t get over how close Becky resembled her.

“You’re talking about Becky, aren’t you?” Charlotte saw the resemblance between Becky and Kat in the family photos Ben kept at their house.

“Yes, she looks too much like me when I was that age.” Kat was watching Becky as she played with Teddy and Jill.

Charlotte watches as Jeff and Freddy let another boy join them as they toss the baseball back and forth. Ben and she were happy when Freddy asked to join the community baseball team. He has been opening up more ever since they got back from Kansas.

“So, when is Jeff’s first game?” Kat wanted to be a supportive aunt.

“Next Saturday at 9:00 a.m. at Johnson field.” Charlotte couldn’t wait to see Jeff in action.

He and Ben have been practicing every afternoon when Ben wasn’t at the firehouse. Even the guys at the firehouse have been practicing with him.

“I can’t wait to see him play.” Kat knew Jeff and Teddy had been through a lot.

The coach that adopted them had been a major pedophile and made sex tapes of the two boys. Teddy was in every sex tape that had been made dressed as a girl. Jeff was dressed as a girl too, but you could tell he was a boy pretending to be a girl, whereas Teddy passed without any problems.

“Ben says Jeff is very good and I have to agree with him. I’ve been going to some of his practices and he has improved a lot.” Charlotte was proud of Jeff’s accomplishments.

“I’m happy he is doing well. Do you think he is going to pursue being a baseball player?” Kat watches as Jeff runs and catches a high-flying toss from the other boy that joined him and Freddy.

“Yes, I do.” Charlotte smiles when she spots Jeff catching the baseball.

“Are you going to adopt Becky?” Charlotte looks at Kat.

“I don’t know yet. I told Paul that the next child we adopt would be a boy. He’s outnumbered by all the girls we have.” Kat knew Paul didn’t care how many children they had or that they only had one boy.

“I think Becky would be better off with you. You already know how people are going to react to her uniqueness. So, you can help her through the problems that come up.” Charlotte had asked her husband about Kat and what her life was like.

“I know.” Kat watches the girls as they played. Jill was doing better as well.

Kat stands up “alright kids, let’s go and get some lunch.”

Charlotte stands up and next to Kat. She watches as the kids come running towards them.

“Where are we going, Aunt Kat?” Jeff looks at Kat.

“We are going to Dairy Queen, Jeff.” Kat figures the kids deserve a treat.

Becky looks toward Jill “what’s Dairy Queen?”

“I don’t know.” Jill has never been to Dairy Queen before.

Both girls look towards Teddy for an answer. She smiles at both of them “it’s an ice cream place. Mom and dad take us sometimes.”

“Oh!” Both girls respond at the same time.

Teddy just smirks when Jill and Becky respond. She shakes her head as they walk towards Kat’s armor SUV. Charlotte helps put the twins in their baby seats.

The girls climb into the SUV and fasten their seat belts. Kat was driving as she takes all of them to Dairy Queen for lunch and ice cream. Kat orders four footlong hot dogs with the works and to medium blizzards for herself and Paul. Charlotte orders a large blizzard for herself. All the kid's order meals and Kat upgrades their small blizzards with larger ones.

She knows Becky alone could eat several meals, because she could when she was that age. Everything they order costs them seven-five dollars.

“Thanks, Mom and Aunt Charlotte.”

“You’re welcome, kids. Be careful with your food and ice cream, please.” Kat drives them home.

“Why did you buy four footlongs?” Charlotte wonders if Kat was going to eat them all.

“Because they are for me and Paul. He likes the footlong hotdogs.”

“I thought so.” It only takes twenty minutes to drive from DQ to the house.

“Alright, kids. Take whatever trash you have with you.”

“Yes, mom.” The girls all answer together.

Charlotte helps carry the twins into the house. All the children follow behind her with Kat bringing up the rear. She spots Paul outside through the sliding glass doors. He wanted to stay home and spend some time in the garden he planted.

Charlotte puts the twins in their playpen and sits down between Jeff and Teddy. Jill and Becky plop down in their respected bean bags. They still had their blizzards to finish.

Kat sticks her head outside “Paul, I brought lunch home for you.”

Paul stands up and heads towards the house with a smile on his face. He dusts his hands off and sticks them in a pail of water to rinse them off.

“What did you get me, sweetie?” He kisses Kat.

“Two footlong hotdogs with everything and a large chocolate blizzard.” Kat returns the kiss.

“Cool.” Paul walks into the dining room and spots the hotdogs and blizzard.

He grabs them and walks over to sit in his favorite recliner. He notices all the kids had their favorite meal and ice cream.

Two Weeks Later, Marshal Bullock’s Office:
Bullock has been getting weekly updates about Becky. According to Kat and Paul, she was behaving like any young girl her age would. She was getting along with Terri and with Jill as well. All three of them have formed a sisterly bond.

Kat had sent him a video showing Becky playing with her other two adopted sisters. A smirk appears on Bullock’s face as he watches the video. He was happy that she was adjusting to a normal life.

The reason he was happy, was because of the material they had been finding at the lab. The people sponsoring the lab had plans for Becky and they weren’t very nice plans either. She was being raised to be a trained assassin. They were going to use her to take out people who spoke out against the government. Also, to remove certain congressmen and senators who were stopping them from achieving their goals.

They were planning on creating more like her, by harvesting her eggs. However, Bullock came across another piece of information concerning Brittney, Kat’s adopted daughter, and the experiment they had performed on her. According to the information his people found, there was something special about her.

He looks at his email and notices there was an email from the medical lab he had Brittney submit her eggs and blood sample. He starts reading the email about halfway down, the DNA breakdown of several of Brittney’s eggs hits him between the eyes like a brick. According to the DNA breakdown, Brittney was carrying Kat’s modified DNA in all her eggs.

The DNA matched Kat’s altered DNA and the DNA from Becky as well. Bullock leans back in his office chair “holy shit!”

If Brittney was a normal girl who preferred men over women, she would be producing babies like her mother and Becky. He was floored by that information and wondered should he tell Kat or should he tell Brittney himself.

The DNA from Terri’s eggs came back normal. She would have normal children and they already knew August gave birth to a normal baby boy. They also knew that Rebecca gave birth to normal twins, like her sister. So, why is Brittney the only different one?

Bullock couldn’t figure out why they chose Brittney. He knew Brittney, August, and Terri had been experimented on. The girls were going to be shipped out after converting them and sent to certain people to live as their sex slaves. Unless Brittney was supposed to be done that way and sent to where ever the organization had set up its main office.

She would have been used to breed these mutant babies for the organization. She would be the Eve of their new assassins. Bullock needed more information, but the main problem now is, should he tell Brittney himself or should Kat?

K&P Services II, Victoria, Kansas:
“They’re coming your way, Brittney.” Crystal and Valentina were chasing two men who skipped out on a million-dollar bond.

“Roger, I’m already for them.” Brittney had something special for the two perps.

Just as both men turned the corner of a building, both of them get smacked hard by Brittney swinging a cricket stick at their chest. Both men fall backward from the blow from the cricket stick. Unfortunately, the cricket stick had a large crack in it from smacking both men across their chests.

“That will teach you to run from three gorgeous, dangerous women.” As Brittney takes a pair of quick cuffs and secures the two men.

Crystal and Valentina come to a stop when they see the men laying on their stomachs and the cricket stick that Brittney used laying nearby. A smile appears on Crystal’s face “you had to break the cricket stick in, didn’t you?”

“Hey, dad says to use whatever you have to, to bring down assholes this big. Plus, who runs from three beautiful women?” Brittney smiles back at Crystal.

“You’re not women, but demons. BITCH!” One of the men spits at Brittney.

Brittney kneels near the man “we got your sorry ass, didn’t we?” Brittney stands back up.

“Come on badass, help us with these brutes.” Crystal helps one guy up off the ground.

“Okay.” Brittney helps Valentina with the other one.

All three women escort the men over to the black armor SUV Kat and Paul sent them. They load the men into the back and fasten their seatbelts.

“I’ll sit back here with our prisoners.” Valentina gets in on the other side of the SUV and seats behind Brittney in the front passenger seat.

Crystal gets behind the wheel on the driver's side and starts the SUV up. She starts driving towards the nearest police station to turn the prisoners over to, to collect their pay. Once the men are dropped off, they head back to the shop.

“I wonder why Bullock wanted some of your eggs, Brittney?” Valentina looks towards the front.

“Who knows. Terri said that they have a little girl that looks like mom staying with them.” Brittney heard from her sister recently.

“What does she look like?” Valentina was curious.

“Like this.” Brittney brings up the video her sister sent her.

It shows everyone in the backyard enjoying the pool and barbecue on the grill. Kat waves and so does Paul. Jill and Becky were in the pool splashing each other. Terri shows a close-up of Becky.

“Oh, wow! She looks just like your mother.” Valentina couldn’t believe how the little girl looked.

“I know. Marshal Bullock found her wandering down a street covered in blood.” Brittney wonders if the girl is related to her mother somehow.

“Ladies, we got a tail.” Crystal noticed a black SUV pull behind them and started tailing them.

Valentina turns around in her seat and looks out the back window. She notices the vehicle was speeding up.

“Crystal, they are speeding up.” Valentina braces herself as the other SUV taps their rear.

“Don’t those assholes know this is an armor SUV and capable of stopping a damn grenade?” Brittney couldn’t believe how stupid they were.

“I say, let’s give them a new paint job.” Valentina has been reading some of the reports Kat and Paul wrote. Kat had pulled this trick when she first got Brittney. Also, it had been done by a person on a motorcycle down in Texas to a border agent.

“I agree with you. Hand me my paint gun and the paintballs, please.” Brittney was going to do what her mother did once.

Valentina changes out the pepper ball paintballs and puts some bright green and pink paintballs into her and Brittney’s paintball guns. They brace again as the other SUV taps their rear end.

“Open the sunroof, sweetie.” Brittney moves towards the back with Valentina.

Crystal opens the sunroof for Brittney and Valentina. She watches the men in the SUV seeding towards them.

“Wait for it. Let them hit us.” Crystal slows down.

Just as the SUV taps its rear end. Valentina and Brittney pop up and start peppering the SUV with paintballs. Brittney empties the container on her rifle. Valentina does the same thing.

“Reload.” Both women duck down into the SUV to reload.

Crystal smirks as the SUV backs off some. She whips their SUV around, so they were facing them.

“Hey, this isn’t my mom’s mustang.” Brittney had fallen on top of Valentina and paintballs were all over the floorboard.

Crystal guns the SUV “alright assholes, let’s see if you want to play chicken.”

“Oh shit, she’s gone batty!” Brittney knew what Crystal was going to do. She could see smoke coming from the rear as Crystal burns rubber.

Crystal lets her foot off the brake and shots forward towards the other SUV. It tries to get out of the way, but the other SUV gets hit in the right-hand corner by Crystal. She sends the other SUV spending out of control.

When it comes to a complete stop, all three ladies exit from their SUV armed with the paint guns, filled with pepper balls. They slowly approach the other SUV. As they do, one of the men gets out and fires at Valentina and hits her in the chest. She looks down at it and notices it was a fucking taser.

“I’m wearing a vest, dumb ass.” As Valentina fires several pepper balls at him.

The guy starts coughing and choking on the military-strength pepper balls. The other guy near him in the back of the SUV comes rolling out of the SUV coughing.

“Two for one, Valentina.” Brittney had a teasing smile on her face.

“Let’s see you do better.” Valentina looks toward Brittney with a smirk on her face.

“Okay.” Brittney fires several balls into the SUV and two more guys fall out coughing as well.

“Now we can have fun.” As Crystal starts cuffing the men.

“Can we use the branding iron this time? I want to burn my initials into their skin.” Brittney had an evil look on her face.

“We'll, see.” Crystal knew Brit was kidding.

NorthStar Computer Forensics Lab:
Mika was still working on the solid-state drives they recovered from the illegal medical lab. While she was working on a solid-state drive, she managed to clean up the information that was stored on it. She notices that this drive didn’t have medical research stored on it, but some sort of training video. She watches the footage and couldn’t believe what she was watching.

Whoever the scientist or medical engineers were that engineer, Becky. They had engineered several others and she was watching them in action right now. She records everything to another drive to preserve the original drive.

Once she makes a clone of the original drive, she goes back over the footage she found and clears it up. She watches as two huge humanoid tiger men rip into the people at the illegal lab. The cage Becky was kept in, had some sort of medical unit built into it. She watches as it activates and knocks Becky out.

As for the other two men, they go on a killing spree inside the lab. After killing everyone, they leave the building and the cameras lose them.

“Bullock might want to see this.” Mika picks up the phone in the lab and dials Bullock's number.

K&P Services, Ellis County, Kansas:
Brittney was sitting at her desk filling out paperwork on the latest bounty they just did. Crystal was out in the field tracking down fatigues for the local sheriff's department. Ever since word has gotten around, about how successful they were in tracking people down. The sheriff's department has been engaging its services. Also, a few private investigators from the neighboring town were engaging their services.

While she is finishing the report, her cellphone starts ringing. Brittney picks it up and notices it was her mom. She presses the accept button “hi mom, what can I do for you?”

“Sweetie, I need for you to come home for a few days. Can you do that?” Kat spoke with Bullock early in the morning and he said that he needs to talk with her, Brittney, and to bring Becky.

“What’s wrong, mom?” Brittney was concerned.

“Nothing is exactly wrong, sweetie. It’s about the results from the eggs taken for you. I need to speak to you face to face.” Kay felt it would be better for Brittney to be home for this.

“Okay, the soonest I can be home is tomorrow. I’ll have to call August and arrange with her a flight home.” Brittney knew August could have one of the private planes fly her back to Tennessee.

“That’s fine, sweetie.” Kat wishes Brittney could come home sooner, but tomorrow will be fine.

“Is there anything else going on?” Brittney wonders how her mother and family are.

“Everything else is fine, sweetie. How is business?” Kat was concerned about how well the girls were doing.

“We’re staying busy, mom. Valentina is out with her girlfriend watching a married man. Crystal is tracking down a small-time bail jumper. The Sheriff's department hired us to locate him.”

“I’m happy to hear you guys are doing well. Where are you right now?” Kat was curious.

“I’m at the office finishing up the report you want all of us to do after each job.” Brittney knew her mother looked at these documents.

“You know there is a reason why I want those reports.” Kat had explained to her daughter and everyone that works for her and Paul, why she wanted those reports.

“I know mom. You want them because of possible lawsuits and things the perp might accuse us of.” Brittney knew why her mother kept records.

“Yes. Anything new going on?”

“No ma’am. Wait minute, me, Crystal, Valentina had a run-in with guys in suits. They were following us back after we caught a bounty we had gone and arrested. They wouldn’t talk to us and deputy Halstead those men were bailed out after an hour. Some fancy lawyer from DC came in.”

“That’s strange. Did you find anything on them?” Kat wonders who they were.

“No ma’am, but I did send their facial pictures and fingerprints to Morgana to run through her system.” Brittney used one of the new fingerprint scanners they bought.

“Good. Morgana will identify those men for you.” Kat knew how good her friend was.

“Well, I better go, mom.” Brittney saw a law enforcement officer walking toward the office.

“Okay, sweetie. Be careful and safe.”

“I will mom. Love you.”

“Love you too, sweetie.” Kat misses having her girls home with her.

Brittney looks at deputy Vinny Winter as he comes walking into the office. She wonders what he wants with them.

“What can I do for you, deputy?”

“I need you to find this girl.” Deputy Winter shows Brittney a picture of a young woman with long reddish-brown hair.

“What did she do?” Brittney looks at the picture.

“Nothing, she’s in terrible trouble with the Ice Reapers.”

“Why is she in trouble with them? And who are they?”

“She’s the son of the leader of the gang. And they are one of the worst gangs around in this area. The last time they came through here, Rebecca’s father and several veterans from the airfield ran them off.”

“So, why does he want her found?” Brittney was curious.

“She has information that will shut his operations down. We have been trying to shut his operations down for a while.”

“So, if you can get the information she has. It will allow you to shut them down.”

“Right.”

“I’ll let Valentina know. I have to go out of town.” Brittney writes everything down.

“The sooner you girls can find her, the better off she’ll be.” Deputy Winter knew her father was checking everywhere.

“No problem. We’ll find her.”

“Let me know when you do, Brittney.” Deputy Winter turns to leave.

“Will do.”

Flying Towards Tennessee:
Brittney was reading the latest laws regarding bounty hunting and laws regarding bail. Some people felt that the bail program was geared towards the bail providers. Her mother has only recently started doing bail. She didn’t like it, because it was too risky. However, since they were known as a well-known bounty hunter. No one they issue bail to was too stupid to jump on them.

Brittney was reading another article when the plane she was traveling in started banking towards the right. She is thrown up against the wall.

“Jerry, what’s going on?” Brittney was wondering why they were banking so hard.

“Someone is painting us.” Jerry couldn’t believe someone was dumb enough to paint a private plane.

The next thing Brittney feels, is missiles exploding near them.

“You better put your seatbelt on, Brittney.” Jerry uses to be a professional jet fighter pilot, before leaving the military.

He heard about the airfield at Walker Airfield hiring vets. When he went to apply, he learned they had private air service. He applied and a week later, he was hired as a private pilot for the airfield. This was the twentieth job he has done for the owner of the air service.

Brittney was gripping the armrest as the private plane she was in banked and rolled. She could hear the plane moaning and groaning as it was doing things it wasn’t meant for. The next thing she feels is the plane being hit by gunfire.

“Prepare for a crash landing, Brittney.” Jerry did everything he could but in the end. Whoever was after them, managed to hit their engines.

He sends out a mayday, as he looks for a place to land. He spots a clearing that was going to be tricky. He lowers the landing gear and glides in. He does everything he can to bring the plane in carefully, but the landing gear gives out and he ends up skidding on the belly.

The plane finally comes to a stop. Brittney was still in her seat, but her head hit the side of the aircraft and was bleeding. The seat buckle
wouldn’t come undone, so she pulls her pocket knife out and cut the seatbelt. Her father told her to always carry a pocket knife with her. The plane was broken up as she makes her way towards the cockpit.

“Jerry, are you alright?” Brittney looks toward Jerry and notices he was knocked unconscious.

“Damn!” Brittney starts unbuckling Jerry and carefully pull him out of the pilot’s seat. She hopes he doesn’t have any neck or spinal injuries.

As she is pulling him out of the plane. A sharp piece of metal scraps against her leg, leaving a deep gash. She grits her teeth as she pulls Jerry out. She pulls Jerry as far from the plane as she can.

She stops and lays Jerry on the ground. Her left leg was bleeding profusely. She tears the dress she was wearing and uses the cloth she just tore to bandage her leg. She could hear sirens coming towards their location. She also hears an airplane coming toward them as well.

She looks up into the sky and notices a blackout A-10 'Warthog' Thunderbolt II flying towards her location. It starts firing its main cannon mounted on the nose. She moves towards some trees, hoping to draw the plane away from Jerry.

She has never seen that plane before and she has no idea who it could be, either. She makes it to the woods, just as the plane flies over her. She wishes she had her cellphone, but it was still on the plane. She watches as it flies off as the fire department and police show up.

The paramedics rush Jerry off to the nearest hospital. She has to wait for another ambulance to show up. While she is waiting for it. Officer Dawson interviews her to get what happened.

She learns that they crashed in Jamestown, Tennessee. The firefighters, let her go inside the plane to grab her bag and cellphone. It was a good
thing her cellphone was in a tough case and was protected. The rest of her stuff was protected as well. The only thing she lost was her luggage. When the engines got shot, the fuel from the engines as the tail end of the plane to catch fire.

Brittney dials her mother’s cell number.

Private Airfield, Knoxville, Tn.:
Becky, Jill, and Kat were waiting for the private plane Brittney was arriving on. As she is sitting and waiting for her oldest to arrive. She could hear Becky and Jill in the back seat playing a game. She had gotten the girls a Nintendo Switch game system. It took both girls a while to figure out how to play the games, but now they couldn’t get enough.

While she waited for her oldest to land, her cellphone starts ringing. She looks at the id on the screen and notices it was Brittney. She presses accepts “hey sweetie, how far out are you?”

“A ways, out mom. The plane I was on was attacked by an A10 warthog.”

“How could that be?” Kat was worried about her baby.

“I don’t know, but Jerry managed to land the plane in some sort of field in Jamestown, Tennessee.”

“Are you hurt, sweetie?” Kat wonders who would attack a defenseless plane.

“I cut my leg and I’m going to need to get stitches.” Brittney knew the gash was deep.

“I’ll come and pick you up, sweetie.”

“Alright, mom. Let dad know so he doesn’t send the National Guards out to find you.” Brittney knew what her father would do.

Kat just smirks at her daughter’s comment “I will, sweetie. See you in a little while.”

“Bye, mom.” Brittney ends the call.

The second ambulance shows up and takes Brittney to the hospital.

Jamestown, Tennessee:
It takes Kat almost two hours to drive from Knoxville, Tn. To the hospital in Jamestown, Tn. By the time she arrived with Jill and Becky. Her temper had gone down some. She was very protective of her children, especially her oldest. Her poor baby has experienced things that no child should ever experience. All her girls have experienced situations that they should have never experienced.

She pulls into the parking lot of the hospital and gets out of the armored SUV. Becky and Jill follow behind their adopted mother as she leads them into the hospital.

“Mom, the emergency room is this way.” Jill points out the sign she spotted.

“Thanks, sweetie.” Kat walks toward the emergency room and finds Brittney waiting on her.

Kat notices Brittney’s leg is bandaged up. She looked like she tried to freshen up some. Kat walks over to her baby “how are you feeling, sweetie?”

“Like I have been put through the wringer, mom. I had no idea there were so many agencies involved when a plane crashes.” Brittney had been questioned about everything that had happened to her and Jerry.

They also asked her why someone wanted to kill her. Brittney laughed at that question. Between working for her parents and running the second office in Kansas. She’s made a lot of enemies.

“How’s Jerry?” Kat was concerned about August’s employee.

“He’s going to live. He’ll need to spend a few days in the hospital. I called August and told her everything. She said that Rebecca might be able to track down the A10 Warthog that attacked us. There were only a handful of people who owned those, and she makes parts for them.”

“Leave it to your aunt to find it. Are you ready to head home?” Kat was watching her oldest to make sure everything was okay.

“I was ready to blow this place an hour ago.” Brittney hated hospitals. She had spent too much time in them, either injured or when her mom and dad were seriously injured.

“Well, we’re heading home. Was there anything that survived in the plane that you want to get?”

“No, ma’am. I managed to grab my laptop bag, but the gym bag that had all my change of clothes was burned up when the rear engine got hit.”

“We can always buy you new clothes, sweetie.” Kat places a kiss on Brittney’s forehead.

Jill and Becky grab a wheelchair to take Brittney outside. They wait with her while Kat gets the SUV.

Brittney looks at Becky “you must be Becky. I’m your older sister Brittney.” Brittney holds her hand out to Becky.

Becky shakes Brittney’s hand. She noticed that Brittney had a friendly handshake.

“How come you’re not at the house?” Becky was curious.

“Because I and my girlfriend are managing the Kansas office.” Brittney wonders if Becky knew they had a second office.

“A second office?” Becky looked confused.

“You know mom and dad are bounty hunters, right?” Brittney looks at Becky to see if she knows.

“What are bounty hunters?” Becky was confused.

“I’ll explain on the way home.” Brittney spots her mother coming towards them with the armored SUV.

“Okay.” Becky watches as Kat pulls up to the curb.

Becky and Jill help Brittney onto the passenger seat. After securing Brittney, they get in the backseat and buckle up. Kat watches Becky and Jill as they buckle up.

“All right, girls, let’s head home.” Kat put the SUV into drive and started driving back to Knoxville, Tn.

Brittney looked at her mother as she drove “so, why did I need to come back to Knoxville, mom?”

“Bullock got the test results from your eggs and wants to talk to me, you, and Becky.” Kat glances at Brittney.

“Why?”

“I don’t know, sweetie.” Kat was curious as well.

Brittney watches her mother’s facial expression. She’s gotten good at being able to read her mother’s face. However, as she looked at her
mother, she couldn’t tell. Her mother had her poker face on.

Top Steak Restaurant:
Bullock looks at the teenage girl sitting across from him as she devours a T-Bone steak. He couldn’t believe how his younger sister was able to eat the whole thing. Not only was she devouring the colossal steak, but she finished off the vast loaded baked potato, half of the blooming onion, and cream spinach she loved so much.

“You must be starved.” Bullock just shakes his head as he looks at her.

“I haven’t eaten anything for the past two days. I was on a survival course, and the pickings were slim.” Jessica looks at her big brother.

“Why were you out on a survival course?” Bullock looks at his baby sister with a confused look on his face.

“I signed up to take it. I might be going overseas and doing some recon work for the agency.” Jessica knew her big brother didn’t like it that she did work for the CIA and DEA.

She was a free agent and did jobs for the United States government. They usually called her for jobs they didn’t want any of their people involved. They could claim plausible deniability about her if she got caught.

“So, what brings you to Knoxville?” Bullock was suspicious about his little sisters’ motives.

“This.” Jessica pulls out a twenty-dollar bill and hands it to her brother.

Bullock looks at the bill. He couldn’t tell that anything was wrong with it. He pulls a twenty from his wallet and compares the two. After examining it, he still couldn’t find anything wrong with it. It felt and looked like the real one.

“I can’t tell the difference.” Bullock looks at his little sister.

“That’s because it is made with the same type of ink and paper as the real thing. I came across it while working on a case. I managed to trace the bills back to a shipping firm here in Knoxville. When I went to investigate further, they couldn’t produce this. However, I managed to get where they picked it up.” Jessica was going to head there next.

“So, you’re working for the Secret Service, now?”

“Yep, they are short-handed right now, and I have a good reputation with the DEA and CIA. They hired me to locate where the funny money is being made and where they get their material from.”

“What have you learned so far?” Bullock watches his sister as she finishes the steak off.

“The paper came from a shop down in Panama. The ink was sold out the back door of the manufacturer. And the plates, believe it or not. Someone managed to force an engraver from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to make the plates they need.”

“So, you have found the plates. I take it?” Bullock knew his sister was good at her job.

“Yes, and no. I almost had them before I got sucker punch from behind. The bastard ran off with the plates before I could apprehend him.” Jessica knew she was lucky she didn’t get caught in the explosion they had set to destroy the evidence.

“So, what’s your next move?”

“Take some time to look over what I managed to snag from the bastards and try to predict their next move. Also, I heard a rumor that a two-million-dollar bounty has been put out on you. You might want to watch your six.” Jessica was worried about her older brother.

“Do you know who put the hit out on me?” Bullock wonders who it could be.

“Nope, because it was posted on the dark net website called Villeneuve. You can get or buy almost anything on that site. No one knows who the webmaster is.” Jessica hired a couple of hackers she knew, but they couldn’t help her.

“Has anyone tried to shut it down?” Bullock knew a few things about computers.

“Yes, and it just pops up somewhere else. Whoever is hosting and maintaining the site is doing a pretty good job ensuring it stays up.”

“Thanks for the warning. I might know someone who can take it down.” Bullock was thinking about Morgana.

“Good luck.” Jessica knew how hard it was to shut it down.

After lunch, Bullock goes back to the office to meet up with Kat and her family. He still couldn’t get over the fact that this case ties back into one of Kat’s first cases. He returns to his office and takes the elevator up to his office floor.

Just as he was about to use his entry card to enter his office, he dropped to the floor, just outside the door. A figure appears with a huge white cloth basket and puts his limp, unconscious body inside it.

The person heads towards the service elevator and takes it to the garage. Once in the garage, the person walks over to a van. The person lifts Bullock’s unconscious body out of the linen basket and secures his hands and feet. The person puts Bullock’s body inside the van and secures the back door.

The person walks around the van and gets in on the driver’s side, and drives out of the garage.

Bullock has woken up abruptly as the cold water hits him in the face. He finds himself naked and tied to a metal chair in a plain white room. There was a plastic cart sitting near him with a device with wires running from it towards him.

Standing in front of him was a person dressed in medical scrubs wearing a surgical mask. Bullock notices that the person was wearing rubber sole boots as well.

“Where’s the girl?” The man in the medical scrubs looks at Bullock.

“What girl?” Bullock looks at the person, trying to see anything about them.

“Wrong answer.” The person presses a button on the device the wires were connected.

Bullock seizes up as electricity travels throughout his body. After a few seconds, it stops. He leans forward as much as the restraints would let him.

“Now, let’s try this again. Where’s the girl?”

Bullock doesn’t say anything. He spits at the person.

The man touches the button on the device connected to Bullock. Electricity travels throughout Bullock’s body. He shakes violently as the man holds the button.

The man keeps interrogating Bullock but is unsuccessful at getting anything from him. The man watches as Bullock passes out after the seventh try. He walks out of the room and removes his surgical mask. He looks at the other three men in the other room.

“This is going to take a while.”

“He’s a US Marshal, you didn’t think it was going to be easy, did you?” A guy with salt and pepper color hair responds.

“I would expect a person with military training to resist this torture, but not a US Marshal.” Stellan looks at his companions.

“We still have other techniques we can use to extract the information from him.” Marius knew several other ways to extract information from people.

“How is the operation to apprehend that Brittney girl?” Lars looks at the other guy working with them.

“According to my man, the plane she was on landed safely and she managed to survive along with the pilot. However, before he could send two members of his team to apprehend her. She was already discharged from the hospital and picked up by her mother.”

“Her mother lives two hours away. How did she get there before the people you hired?” Lars looks at Laszlo for an answer.

“My people were busy on another job. You don’t think this is the only job I have my people busy with, do you?” Laszlo looks at Lars with a
puzzled look.

“What part of this job don’t you get, Laszlo? We need those eggs from her body. Besides Becky, she carries the DNA we worked so hard to
engineer.” Lars was angry with Laszlo. The people financing their experiments wanted results.

“Then you should have never allowed her family leave to that island.” Laszlo looks at all three men.

“You should have killed them, instead of performing your medical experiments on them. This all started with you and your damn experiments.” Lars looks over towards Stellan.

“Who would have thought that a mechanic, two bounty hunters, and a truck driver would have been as creative as they were.” Stellan was still amazed that all four adults had managed to escape from the research lab.

“Who would have thought that the truck driver uses to be a Russian KGB agent and that Kat’s husband use to be a Mafia enforcer?”

“You men should have done your research on those men since you created those women.” The person who tortured Bullock looks at the other three men.

“How were we supposed to do that? Those two girls disappeared twenty-one years ago. Their birth mothers escaped our custody and went in different directions.” Stellan remembers the day that the women he planted their eggs in escaped from their custody.

“And now we have to recapture them.” Lars looks at the torturer.

“Not the women. Their eggs won’t do us any good. We need to find Becky and Brittney. They are carrying the modified eggs that we need to produce more of their kind.”

“If Brittney is with her mother, there’s no way we can get her back from her. She’ll be too well protected.” Lars looks at all three men.

“I and my people can get her back. All we need to know is what her routine is.” Laszlo figures he and his people could capture Brittney.

“You don’t get it, Laszlo. Going after Brittney while she is with her parents or at her parent’s place is asking for trouble. Maybe at one time, it might have been possible to capture her. Now, getting her from her parent’s place is asking for trouble. They are connected to some very dangerous people and they are very dangerous. Brittney’s mother along with hunting us down and skin us alive.” Lars has been keeping track of Kat and her people.

“Then we go after Brittney’s girlfriend in Kentucky. We use her to get Brittney to come to us.”

“Or we use Bullock here. He’s connected to them and they consider him a friend.” Lars figures they might do it.

“That won’t work. However, we can still use Bullock to capture her.” Marius was thinking about using him as bait to lure her here.

“You mean, set a trap and use Bullock as bait?” Laszlo liked the idea.

“Yes, if they are friends like we know they are. We can use Bullock as bait to get Brittney and Becky.” Lars figures that they could get them.

“And if they don’t go for it?”

“We kill him and her girlfriend.” Lars looks at everyone.

“So, we are going after Brittney’s girlfriend?” Laszlo looks at Lars to confirm what he just said.

“Yes, we’ll use her as leverage as well.” Lars wants to get Brittney and Becky back.

“I’ll get my people on it.” Laszlo pulls his cell phone out and makes a call.

“While you gentlemen get the ball rolling. I’m going to go and make Mr. Bullock talk.” Marius puts his gear back on and walks into the room where Bullock was.

K&P Services, Ellis County, Kansas:
Crystal was driving to the office when she noticed a fast-approaching truck in her rearview mirror. She increased the speed of the armored SUV she is in. She wonders who would be dumb enough to try and come after her. Wouldn’t they know Brittney would have called her and told her what happened on her way to Knoxville?

Crystal keeps an eye on the truck as it keeps accelerating toward her. As she approaches a side road, a black pickup comes out of nowhere and hits the front of the armored SUV. Crystal fights to control the SUV as it spins out of control.

The other pickup truck pursuing her smashes into the rear end of her SUV. She comes manages to keep from flipping over.

“You clowns want to play demolishing derby. Let’s see how well armored your trucks are.” Crystal puts the gear shifter into reverse and gives the SUV some gas.

She aims for the pickup that slammed into her from the rear. She sends the pickup spinning out of control. She looks at the other truck that came out of nowhere and floors the accelerator. It shoots forward as the heavy SUV rams the side of the truck.

She pulls her handgun out and gets out of the SUV. She walks over to the man in the pickup truck. Crystal was pissed, as she slams the butt of her gun against the window, shattering it. She puts her gun to the temple of the man’s head “you better tell me what the hell you are doing or so help me. I’m going to put a bullet through your skull.”

Ron looks at the pissed-off black woman. He felt the barrel of her handgun pressing against the side of his head.

“I was sent to capture you.” Ron was reaching for his handgun.

Crystal notices Ron reaching for his handgun. She flips her handgun upside down and smacks the side of his head with the butt of her gun. She secures his hands to the steering wheel as she walks over to the other pickup truck.

The men inside the truck were knocked out. She secures their hands to the steering wheel. Afterward, she pulls out her cell phone and calls their contact at the sheriff’s department. Once Crystal finishes talking to their contact. She dials Valentina’s number to warn her about these men. She knows Valentina will contact her girlfriend and tell her.

She dials Kat’s number to inform her about these men. She knows Kat will protect Brittney, if not go after them herself.

K&P Services, Knoxville, Tenn.
Kat, Paul, Brittney, and the girls are in the office when a young man walks into the office carrying a skateboard. Paul recognized who the person was right away “Skeet, what brings you in here today?”

Skeet looks at Paul and smiles at Paul. “I have some important info for you.”

“Oh? What do you have?” Paul knew Skeet was well connected on the streets.

“Do you happen to know a US Marshal by the name of Bullock?” Skeet heard Kat and Paul might have worked together.

“Yeah, we know him. What have you heard?” Paul looks at Skeet.

Skeet was dressed like your typical skateboarder. Skeet looks at Paul “depends. How much are you going to give me for the info?”

“Depends on what information is, Skeet. You know the deal.” Paul sometimes, wishes he never saved Skeet’s life.

“Fine! Rumor has it that Bullock was kidnapped out of the Federal building. No, one knows who did it or how they did it. However, I heard from some men down at the Neptune lounge that the people who have him. They will turn him loose if you bring your daughter Brittney and some cat girl that isn’t Kat.” Skeet looks at Becky when she says that.

“That’s not happening.” Kat holds Becky against her.

“Look, I’m just letting you know what I heard.” Skeet looked at Paul and saw the angry expression on his face.

“All right. Do you know where they are holding Bullock?” Paul wonders who was brave enough to kidnap Bullock and where they might have taken him.

“I’ll find him. I think I know who might know where he is.” Kat knew a few people that she could get in touch with.

“Here’s a hundred, Skeet. Don’t spend it all in one place.” Paul pulls five twenties out of his wallet.

“Oh, come on. Can’t you do a little better?” Skeet looks at Paul, hoping he’ll give a little more.

“Fine, I’ll add an additional forty to the total, but no more,” Paul adds some additional bills to the total.

“Thanks. I’ll see about where your friend might be.” Skeet accepts the money and puts it in a secret pocket.

Just as Skeet leaves the office, Kat’s cell phone starts ringing. She looks at the number and notices it was Crystal’s cell number. Kat presses the accept button on her phone.

“Hey Crystal, what’s going on?” Kat was still holding Becky against her.

“Kat, I was just ambushed by three men. Two of them were in one truck, and another guy was in another truck. They tried running me off the road.”

“Are you okay?” Kat was worried about Crystal.

“I’m fine. They were trying to kidnap me. They wanted to use me to get to Brittney.” Crystal got additional information from the first guy she threatened.

“Did they say anything else? Anything pertaining to Bullock?” Kat knew whomever these men are. They were making a big mistake.

“No, all they were interested in was me. I sent Valentina and her girlfriend a text warning her.”

“I bet they wanted to use you against Brittney.” Kat looks at her oldest daughter.

“Well, they found out what happens when they messed with me. However, Rebecca is going to be pissed, because the SUV is beaten up. They wanted to play demolish derby with me.” An evil smile appears on Crystal’s face.

“I’m surprised you didn’t do more to them, Crystal. Here, I’m going to put Brittney on.” Kat hands her cell phone to Brittney.

Brittney accepts the phone “hey, baby. Do you miss me?” As she walks away from everyone.

Unknown Location:
Bullock was in a lot of pain from the torture he just went through. He could barely see out of one eye, and he had several teeth missing. His hands were secured to the metal chair he was sitting in. The guy that tortured him had a gleam in his eyes as he inflicted pain on him.

Bullock leans his head back against the chair. He wasn’t going to tell the bastard anything. He takes a shallow breath as he tries to breathe.

He was about to pass out from the pain when he hears several loud rapid booms in the next room. The door to the room he is in goes flying off the hinges. Stepping through the doorway was a small woman with neon blue hair. She was carrying a huge gun with laser sights.

She was wearing two bandoliers, that were crisscrossed. Each belt had several blue and red shotgun-looking shells running the length of each belt. She was also wearing a tight form-fitting black catsuit. She was also wearing a gun belt with little pouches on it and guns in holsters on each hip.

Tempest spots a naked man secured to a metal chair. There was blood covering him and on the floor. He looked like someone had worked him over. She walks over to the man and lets out a little hiss. He looked like some of the people she uses to torture for information.

Bullock looks at the neon blue hair woman standing before him “who are you?”

“Someone who is going to get you out of here. Who did this to you?” Tempest sets her big shotgun down and pulls some lock picks and starts on the handcuffs securing Bullock.

“That doesn’t tell me anything. As for who did this to me, I have no idea who the person is.” Bullock watches as the young woman picks the locking mechanism on the cuffs.

“Well, whomever the person is really doesn’t like you.” Tempest works on the restraints.

“Who are you?” Bullock looks at the young woman.

“Names, Tempest. I’m your fairy godmother.” Tempest looks up at Bullock with a playful look on her face.

The lock she was working on clicks and falls away. She works on the other restraint and it clicks. It falls away as well. She kneels before Bullock and works on the ankle cuffs.

“Are you done yet, Tempest?” A huge man that stood taller than Tempest and bursting with well-defined muscles comes walking into the room.

He was wearing a form-fitting body suit as well. There was a silver pair of goggles that covered his eyes. He was carrying the same type of rifle that Tempest was carrying. He also has handguns on each hip and a thick black leather gun belt.

“Keep your panties on, Ox.” Tempest opens the last restraints.

Ox walks over to the man they had been sent to retrieve. He looked like a wild tiger had gotten a hold of him.

“I wonder why those men wanted this guy?” Ox didn’t know who this person was.

“I don’t know, but he is going to need medical attention. Do you think you can carry him?” Tempest looks at Ox for an answer.

“Really? You’re going to ask me that question?” Ox shoulders his rifle and scoops the naked man off the metal chair.

“Hey, you know I will always ask that question.” Tempest chambers another round in her rifle and walk out before Ox.

Tempest looks at the men that they had to kill. These men should have realized that kidnapping a government agent would have brought the special task force down on them.

“It’s a good thing we were near here when Striker called us.” Tempest leads Ox to their custom van. She tries not to leave any bloody footprints behind.

“I want to know why he was here and how Striker knew about him?” Ox lays the guy down on the stretcher.

“Who knows? Striker has connections all over the place.” Tempest gets in on the driver’s side of the van.

Ox secures the man and connects the portable monitor to the guy’s body. Once he is done, he walks around to the passenger side of the van and gets in.

“All right, let’s get this man to a hospital.” Ox sits back and lets Tempest do the driving.

Trenner’s Garage, Walker Airbase, Ellis County, Kansas:
Rebecca looks at the SUV that belonged to her sister’s company as it is towed in. It looked like someone had used it to play demolishing derby.

“Are your sister’s employees always this rough on their vehicles?” Lisa was standing next to Rebecca when they spotted a rival tow truck company approaching them with one of K&P services SUVs.

“I don’t know, but after what happened last night. I wonder if there is any connection.” Rebecca was glad the guard dogs they had protecting her place got the intruder’s last name.

She and Lev had been asleep when one of the guard dogs they owned went ballistic. Someone had managed to pick the lock on the office door and came into the living area through the office. The thing was, they hadn’t counted on two well-trained German Shepherds guarding the place.

The commotion outside their bedroom door had woken her and Lev. Lev grabbed his shotgun and walked into the hallway with her behind him. She had her father’s old army-issued Browning, in her hand.

They spotted a guy dressed all in black being attacked by Samson and Hercules. Lev called the German Shepherds off and pointed his shotgun at the person. He went over to interrogate the person while Rebecca and the dogs watched the intruder.

The tow truck stops in front of Rebecca, and Crystal jumps out. Crystal spots Rebecca and her assistant Lisa watching her.

“Hey Becca, Hey Lisa. I got a little problem.”

“I would say you have more than a little problem, Crystal. What did you do to this poor SUV?” Lisa walks forward to look the SUV over.

“I agree with Lisa, Crystal. What happened?” Rebecca walks over to Crystal.

“I was attacked by three red necks. They tried attacking me with their trucks. According to one guy I interrogated, he was sent to capture me.”

“They could blackmail my sister into doing what they want, with you as their hostage.” Rebecca has seen that play used before.

“Do you think that was why they attacked you last night, boss?” Lisa looked at Rebecca after signing the receipt from the towing business.

She would add it to the work order for the SUV. She turns around and walks over to where Crystal and Rebecca are standing. She tucks the receipt into her back pocket on her coveralls.

“You got attacked last night, Becca?” Crystal was surprised someone would be that stupid.

“Yeah, but Sampson and Hercules took them down.” Rebecca watched as Lev tortured the person sent to capture her and her family.

August had also informed her that a blacked-out A10 warthog had attacked the private jet Brittney had flown home in. Rebecca wonders who or what was after her sister’s family and why they broke into her place last night.

“You wouldn’t have another vehicle I could use, would you?” Crystal looks at Rebecca.

“Yeah, but try to bring this one back in one piece, please.” Rebecca turns to walk into the office where she kept all the keys.

“I better get to work on this one.” Lisa grabbed the floor coasters to maneuver the damaged SUV into the garage.

Crystal gave Lisa a hand putting the coasters on the SUV so they could move it. The two push the SUV into the garage and removes the coasters.

“Do you use these all the time?” Crystal looks at Lisa for an answer.

“Yes, it makes it easier to move the vehicles around. Now, let’s go ahead and get you another SUV to damage.” A playful smile appears on Lisa’s
face.

St. Francis Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.:
Tempest checks on Bullock while her partner Ox remains with their van. She knew Ox hated hospitals after what was done to the two of them.
After he helped get Bullock admitted to the emergency room, he haul-tailed it back to the parking lot.

She wasn’t as sensitive about being inside a hospital as her partner. The doctors that had worked on Bullock were supposed to be the best the hospital had on staff. She knew if she had to. She could contact a few doctors she knew that she and Ox trusted with their lives.

She had to leave her rifle in the van, but she wasn’t going to leave her handguns in the van. She walks into Bullock’s private hospital room to see how he is. She had some formal training as a nurse before her transformation.

She notices Bullock is connected to several machines as she checks his vitals. They were better than they were when they brought Bullock in. She checked the medicine they had given him, and once satisfied, she walked over to the window in the room and looked around.

She could see the parking lot, and there wasn’t anywhere a sniper could set up to shoot Bullock. She wonders why those men that had Bullock took him. She personally knew the bitch that kidnapped Bullock from the federal building. The two of them have had a few run-ins before. It was good that she didn’t know about the hidden cameras the building had or the one mounted outside on the telephone pole.

Tempest plants a few small cameras in the room to monitor Bullock. Once they are planted, “how’s the picture, partner?”

Outside Parking Lot:
“Coming in crystal clear.” Ox saw the images on the HUD screen built into his unique silver shades.

“Good. I’ve double-checked his medication and what the doctors did to him. He should be safe here. As soon as our replacements arrive, I’ll join you in the parking lot.”

“Who is going to babysit Bullock?” Ox was curious.

“Another agent like us. Striker said she and her partner are medically trained.” Tempest wonders whom Striker was sending.

“There aren’t many like us.” Ox knew there were only a handful of agents like him and Tempest.

“I know.” Tempest sits in the chair near Bullock’s bed and watches him sleep.

St. Francis Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.:
Tempest looks at the two women that were replacing her and Ox. The smaller of the two was a black woman that went by the name of Dr. Jocelyn Emery. Tempest had heard her name before and knew she used to serve in the US Army as a field doctor and worked with doctors without borders a few times.

Her companion was taller and built like a walking brick house. Tempest figures she could give Ox a run for his money. Tempest figures that she must have some medical training, or Striker wouldn’t have sent her to protect US Marshal Bullock.

Dr. Jocelyn looks at the young woman guarding US Marshal Bullock. She read the briefing she was even about the Marshal, the young woman, and her partner down in the parking lot. According to the file, both had been experimented on at an unauthorized medical facility.

The doctor who experimented on them was known to experiment on criminals and some patients of his. Tempest and her partner had been patients of the doctor. He was experimenting on them without them knowing about it.

“How’s the marshal?” Dr. Jocelyn looked at Bullock and could see he had been worked over severely.

“Recovering. The doctor had to reset several ribs and set several bones that his torturer broke. He’s going to be here for a while.” Tempest knew
Bullock had several internal injuries as well.

“So, we’re talking about a long-time assignment.” Lenda figured they were going to be here for a while.

“Yeah, Ox and I have been assigned to track down the rest of the organization that did this to him.”

“Ox? Really?” Lenda couldn’t believe someone went by that name.

“He’s from Texas and used to herd cattle.” Tempest knew why Ox went by his code name instead of his real name. Just as she went by her code name instead of her real name, she was no longer that person.

Lenda just shakes her head. She should have known that Ox was a cowboy at heart.

“Well, good luck hunting those people down.” Dr. Jocelyn knew how hard it was to find people who didn’t want to be found.

“Oh, we don’t need luck. I have an inside person that managed to get into their organization.” Tempest had a snitch inside the organization.

“Still, good luck and good hunting.”

“Thanks. You two protect this, Marshal.”

“He’ll be in good hands.” Lenda will make sure Bullock is protected.

Kat’s and Paul’s Resident, Knoxville, Tenn.:
Striker and Larka stop in front of brick, ranch-style house. There was an old black ford fastback Mustang parked in the driveway. Parked next to it were two Knight armor SUVs.

“What type of bounty hunters are these people?” Larka couldn’t believe that there were two knight armor SUVs in the driveway.

“According to the file I received about them. They have gone after some of the worst fugitives around.” Striker had scanned Romano’s file before leaving Texas.

“What do we know about them?” Larka looks at his boss for an answer.

“Well, Kat Romano is part cat. She looks like a Neko from Japanese anime. She’s a lot like you and Baloo. She was adopted by a nurse and a
Knoxville police officer. Her adopted brother is on the Knoxville Fire Department, and her adopted older sister is a high price lawyer.

She’s a licensed bounty hunter and private investigator and owns a bail bond business. Her husband is a former mob enforcer from New York.
He’s her business partner, and they have four children. According to their file, they have worked with Bullock on several cases and are currently protecting a young girl that looks just like Kat herself.”

“That’s got to be weird.” Larka knew what it was like to be different. He looked like a humanoid wolfman.

Just like Baloo looked like the character from Tailspin. Bruce was a humanoid cat person like him, and that isn’t counting little Charlie, who was a mouse girl.

“No weirder than you.” Striker looks at his friend when he says that.

“Oh, you are so funny today, boss man.” Larka exists on the passenger side of the SUV.

A smirk appears on Striker’s face as he gets out on the driver’s side. He walks around toward the front of the SUV and joins Larka. The two of them walk towards the house together.

Inside the house:
Kat was coming out of her bedroom. The twins were over at her brother’s house for their safety. Becky, Jill, Brittney, and Terry were at home with them as she was walking past one of her windows. She spotted two people walking up towards her front door. One person was human, and the other one looked like a humanoid wolf person.

“Paul, we have company,” Kat yells to her husband.

Paul comes walking out of the kitchen. He had been in there fixing breakfast for the girls. He spots Kat by one of the large living room windows. He walks over to join his wife.

They watch as the two men walk up the sidewalk toward their front door. Paul noticed the human was in a tailored business suit while the
humanoid wolfman was dressed in military-style fatigues. He wonders if either man was carrying.

A few seconds later, the doorbell rings. Paul walks over to the front door and opens it. He knows Kat is standing nearby just in case she needs to pull one of the hidden handguns they have around the house.

Striker and Larka watch as the front door opens. When the door opens, they spot Mr. Romano standing on the other side.

“Can I help you, gentlemen?” Paul looks at both men.

Now that they were closer to the house and standing before him. He notices that the humanoid wolfman is wearing a military-style gun belt with holsters on each hip. The other man, Paul, couldn’t tell, but he figured he was carrying a concealed weapon as well.

“Mr. Romano, we’re here to help you and your family. Would you mind if we came in to talk with you?” Striker spotted Kat standing back behind her husband and watching them.

Paul steps aside to let both men enter the house. He watches as they walk past him and into the house. Once they are inside the house, he closes the door behind them.

Kat looks at the man in the suit because he seems to be the person in charge. She walks up to the two men and extends her hand “welcome to our home. Is there anything I can get you, gentlemen?”

“We’re fine, Mrs. Romano. Is there somewhere we can talk?” Striker looks at Kat and notices she is observing them. He saw how alert she was and how she was ready to spring into action.

The picture they had of her didn’t do her justice. She was rather attractive and moved with grace. She could give Peyton or even Larka a run for their money.

“Yes, if you gentlemen will follow me.” Kat escorts the men to the living room.

Larka could smell that Kat smelled like a cross between a human being and a cat. She wasn’t a predator type of cat like Bruce was, but she was more than a house cat. He notices that she is wearing sandalwood perfume as well.

Paul watches both men. He was curious about the humanoid wolfman. He notices both men had a military style of walking about them. He has learned to watch Kat’s body language and notices she is ready to strike if either man decides to cause trouble.

Both Larka and Striker notice family pictures decorating the walls of the living room. There was a display case as well, and it held different trophies from either sports or bounty hunting awards.

“Please, have a seat, gentlemen.” Kat motions to the sectional that took up most of the room in the living room.

There are also several enormous black and pink bean bags and a leather recliner. Striker sits down on the sofa part of the sectional. Larka sits
next to him. Both men notice Kat sitting across from them, with Paul sitting next to her.

“So, what brings you, gentlemen, to our home today?” Kat looks at both men when she asks that question.

Striker looks directly into Kat’s cat-shaped eyes. “Mrs. Romano, how long have you and Mr. Bullock been working together?”

“I would have to say, several years now. We each have helped each other out on some critical cases. Why?” Kat was curious.

“Do you know that marshal Bullock has been captured and tortured?” Striker continues to watch Kat.

“We just learned about him being kidnapped yesterday. The kidnappers wanted to exchange him for my daughter Brittney and the young girl he brought over to us to protect. We had set a time and place for the exchange already. Why? Has something changed?”

“You don’t have to worry about the exchange. Some of my people have already rescued him, and he has been taken to a secure hospital.”

“I’ll have to let my people know because we have already developed a plan to rescue him and capture the people who want my daughter and the little girl staying with us.” Kat wasn’t going to turn Becky over to the men.

“We’re glad to hear that. However, we want to know why they want your daughter and the little girl marshal Bullock has placed under your protection.”

“That’s a long story, gentlemen.” Paul has been observing the two men.

“We have time, Mr. Romano.” Larka has been keeping watch on Kat and Paul.

“All right, gentleman.”

Abandoned Finland Air Force Station, Finland, Minnesota:
“What do you mean, Bullock, escape?” Dr. James White looks at Trevor as he stands before him.

“Two highly trained government agents showed up and took our men out.” Trevor managed to recover some security footage.

“And the girlfriend?” Dr. James looks at Trevor for an answer.

“She took out our people. They’re being held in Ellis County jail.” Trevor reviewed the report he got.

“Send Sidney Powel to bail them out. She can handle a backwoods country judge and place a call with Judge Heller and get him to back her up. What’s the situation with the Trenner woman?”

“Our agent was captured. Our intel on her family hadn’t included that she had two guard dogs.” Trevor was looking over the notes he had.

Dr. White pinches the bridge of his nose. He was hoping to capture both Mrs. Romano and the little girl. He hated to do this, but even with them dead, he could salvage something from their deaths.

“Contact Mr. Moore and tell him I’ll offer him six million dollars to kill Mrs. Romano and that little girl within twenty-four hours. Also, find out where Mr. Bullock is and kill him as well. If you can’t find Mr. Bullock, go after his family.” Dr. White turns to look at Trevor.

“Are you sure about this, sir? This could draw attention to us. Also, what do you want to do if Mr. Moore doesn’t complete the job within twenty-four.”

“Turn it into an open contract. That should be enough incentive for Mr. Moore to get the job done and to bring Bullock out of hiding.” Dr. White wanted Bullock and the Romano’s dead.

Trevor turns and walks out of Dr. White’s office and back to his own. Once he is in his office, he sits down at his computer to send an encrypted message to a site Mr. Moore used. He writes out the message, and the amount of the hit is for. He also informs Mr. Moore that if he accepts the contract, it is only suitable for twenty hours before it becomes an open contract.

Once that message is sent, he breaks into the US Marshal database to see who Mr. Bullock’s emergency contact was and if he had any living family members as he looks through Mr. Bullock’s personnel file. He notices Mr. Bullock has a brother in New York City that is a detective at the 29th Precinct. A younger brother in Athens, Georgia, who is a detective as well. He also has a sister that is an independent truck driver that lives in Settle, Washington, and a younger sister that lives in Newport News, Virginia.

His younger sister works for the Yorktown Weapon Station and has four children. Her youngest son is disabled, and her oldest is in the US Navy. Her next oldest son works for a seafood company on their boats, and her youngest daughter is married to a Marine stationed in Norfolk, Va.

Her husband works at The Port of Virginia as an overhead crane operator. He digs into their income and notices that both of them make good
money. Their disabled son was born with an Ambulatory disability. He had problems moving around without some physical aid.

Trevor continues to gather information about Bullock and his family members. They might have to hire several different assassins to kill Bullock’s family. The ones that are police detectives, he could hire local talent to kill them.

He inquired about the Romanos and discovered that they had been targeted before. He looks through information about them and notices several people have put bounties on their heads. He read about the incident in Memphis when they were rescued by a young woman dressed as the Baroness from G.I. Joe.

He continued to read the article about that incident. He discovered that they had been with two women who were the daughters of a Telecommunication owner named Jack Bounty. There was another woman there that was a police officer that had gotten hurt as well, and she was the daughter of Cheshire Patel. According to Mrs. Patel’s background, her real name was Mazie Park Hong, and she was a well-known zoologist specializing in big game cats.

He wonders why Mrs. Hong uses an alias instead of her real name. He does some more digging around and comes across several articles and social pictures of Mrs. Honk and Mr. Bounty at events and such. He does get curious about the two women that had been there at the warehouse.

He digs into their background and discovers that the woman named Julia Bounty was a well-known K9 police officer with the Caldwell police department. He finds out that she doesn’t use a dog but a wolf. The picture taken of her shows the wolf standing halfway almost to her waist. She also looked like the actress Charisma Carpenter.

The other woman, her sister, was Asian looking and was the owner of Chaos Security Services and the director of an organization called The Phoenix Foundation. He couldn’t find anything about the organization except it specialized in environmental hazards and helped establish clean water systems and installed solar panels for remote villages.

According to the article, she was the wife of an attorney in Montana. She also owned a wolf as well. When he saw the size of the wolf, he mistook it for the one standing next to Julia Bounty. They looked almost alike. There were minor differences between them, but they looked identical.

He goes back to Kat and Paul’s background. Kat had an older sister that was a lawyer and an older brother that was a firefighter for the Knoxville Fire Department. They also had five other children besides Brittney. Their next oldest was Terri Romano, and she worked at her aunt’s law firm as an intern. They had a set of twins that were three years old. They also had two more younger daughters still in high school.

Trevor leans back in his chair and wonders if it might be better to go after the Romano family. Including Kat’s brother and sister? He’ll have to get Mr. White’s permission before proceeding.

Kat’s House:
“So, let me get this straight, Mrs. Romano. You were found abandoned and taken in by Sedberry and raised as their daughter?”
Larka looked at Katherine and couldn’t believe it. She didn’t look human at all.

“Yep, my adoptive parents didn’t care about how I looked. They treated me as if I had been born from them. They protected me and looked after me. Even my adopted brother and sister. Sure, I got into fights when some bullies would pull on my tail or tease me about how I looked. But my parents understood why I did what I did. As long as I didn’t start it, they would always forgive me, but if I started it. Well, my father would punish me.” Kat can remember several times when her father punished her for starting fights or doing stupid things.

“I wish I could have gotten to know them.” Terri would have liked to meet her grandparents.

“Me too, sweetie. They would have loved to meet their grandchildren.” Kat hugs her oldest.

Paul looks at Striker “do you guys have any leads on who is trying to take Becky and my daughter Brittney?”

“We still don’t know who is behind this. However, I have my people working on it.” Striker had his two newest recruits back in Texas trying to identify who was behind everything.

He was lucky to come across both of them at the same time. One was a computer genius, and the other could build anything from junk. They had caused a significant problem in the town they lived in.

“We know a computer expert that could help your people out. She’s done some work for us in the past.” Kat was thinking about Morgana and her company.

“What’s her name?” Striker pulls his cell phone out.

“She goes by the hacker handle, Morgana.”

“As in the Morgana from King Arthur legends?” Larka looks at Kat for an answer.

“Yep, she’s just as good as the legendary Morgana.”

Kat hands her cell phone to Striker so he can copy her number. She watches as Striker copies the number and hands her phone back.

“Thanks. Tell her I recommended her to you. Otherwise, she won’t take your call. And don’t try to hack her. You’ll regret it.”

A smirk appears on Larka’s face because he would love to see someone give Cypher a challenge

Abandoned Finland Air Force Station, Finland, Minnesota:
Julie starts to come around slowly. Her head still felt fuzzy, and her body ached. She is lying on a stretcher and watches as she passes under some lights. She slowly looked around and notices her arm had an IV going into it. There were several people surrounding her.

“Where am I?” Julie notices her tongue felt swollen

“Dr. Parsons, she’s coming around.” Nurse Rachet looks at the young teenage girl. They were moving to start programming her mind.

All the bodywork that was planned for her has been completed. Now they just needed to wipe her mind and reprogram it. She looks down into a set of amber eyes.

Dr. Parsons grabs a syringe from his pocket and inserts it into the girl’s arm. The next thing he knows, the girl changes forms and turns into a lion. It leaps off the stretcher it had been secured on and started attacking him and the other medical staff around him.

Julie noticed the skinny man walking next to the stretcher reach into his lab coat. She noticed he had a syringe in his hand. She got scared, and the next thing she felt was her body changing. Her bones started rearranging themselves. Fur started covering her new form, and her head turned into some large predator cat.

She felt an overwhelming need to protect herself and attacked the medical doctor and staff. After she killed them, she started running the corridors hoping to find a way out. She runs right into some men in black uniforms. She notices them trying to capture a young woman dressed in some sexy lingerie. She charges through them and towards the young woman. She turns around to face the men dressed in black uniforms.

Angel spotted a weird-looking tan fur lion break through the guards trying to capture her. She watches as it turns around in front of her to face off with the security guards. When one of the guards moves towards her, he gets smashed by a chunk of wall across the corridor.

Two humanoid cat people come walking through the opening carrying swords in their hands. One was a woman who had a huge scimitar sword in her hand. She had blonde hair and was dressed in some body armor. The person standing next to her was a bald panther-looking humanoid cat who held two swords.

Angel looks at the young girl with huge boobs and the strange-looking lion protecting her. She couldn’t believe she and her partner had managed to find this base.

“If you want to live, come with me, you two.” Angela looks over at the young woman and the huge strange-looking lion.

“Who are you?” Angel runs over to the woman and the guy.

“I’ll tell you once we leave this joint.” Angela wanted to look around to see if there were others.

The lion growls and follows the young girl. She saw the security guards getting up off the floor, the ones that weren’t killed. She could tell that there were others coming their way.

Angela presses a button on her gauntlet, and the cloaking screen on their tank disappears. Angel and Julie run out with the two humanoid cat people and notice a giant tank that looked like it was a cat.

“Who are you, people?” Angel shivers from the cold air hitting her naked body.

“I’ll tell you later. Now, get into the tank.” Angela leads angel and Julie around to the back of the tank and opens a sealed door.

Angel and Julie run into the tank. She hears the door they came through close. The next thing they know, they are on the floor as the tank moves at high speed.

Angela looks at her partner. “I wonder what they had planned for that girl and her pet?”

“Who knows what that place had planned? Everything I’ve been hearing about it and picking up on their cell phones hasn’t been good.” Panthro knew Kit had been using all the equipment he had installed for her at the mansion.

Angel gets up off the floor and sits in a cushioned chair. She looks at the vast cat that came to her rescue and notices it has fallen asleep. Her stomach started growling, and she felt extremely hungry like she hadn’t eaten for two days.

“Do you have any food?” Angel yells out and hopes someone hears them.

There’s a hissing sound, and a door opens towards the front of the tank. Julie watches as the cat woman comes walking into where she is.
Julie watches as she walks over to a foot locker and opens it. She watches as Angela reaches inside and takes out a brown square shape package. “Here, this should tie you over until we reach our destination.”

Angel catches the brown package and notices it was an army-issued MRE package. She looks at it and then back at Angela “do you have any water for this thing?”

“Yeah.” Angela grabs a cold one-liter water bottle out of the mini-frig and tosses it to Angel.

“Thank you.” Angel opens the MRE package.

Angela looks at the cat sleeping and notices that its body has started to change. The cat disappears and in its place is a young naked girl with light brown hair and medium size chest. She looked to be about average height for a girl her age.

“Well, that’s something you don’t see every day.” Angela walks over to the girl, scoops her off the floor, and lays her down on the bench seat.

She secures her so she doesn’t fall off and hurt herself. She grabs a blanket and covers the naked girl up. She looks towards Angel “do you want a blanket?”

Angela nods her head yes. She munches on the candy bar that was inside the MRE kit. She didn’t care about what was done to her. She has always wanted to be a woman. However, she did have a problem with them turning her into a slut. They were going to hook her up to one of those strange chairs that turn women into empty head bimbos

Angela grabs a blanket and places it on Angela. She could tell the poor child was cold.

“Thank you.” Angela felt better with the blanket wrapped around her.

“You’re welcome.” Angela looks at Angel. “Why were you there, if you don’t mind me asking?”

“I wasn’t there voluntarily.”

“So, they kidnapped you?” Angela sits down in one of the other cushioned chairs.

“I went there to apply for a job. The next thing I know, I’m waking up in a wheelchair and wheeled to a room with some looking chair in it. Whatever they gave me turned me into this big titty girl you see before you.”

“So, let me get this straight. You used to be a male, and you got changed into your current form? How about that young woman who used to be some huge lion? Do you think they did that to her?” Angela looks at the light hair girl.

“I think they did do that to her. As for me, yes, I have the desire to be a full fledge woman, but I didn’t go there for that. I went for a job, not to be turned into a woman with a huge rack.” Angel looks at her breasts and figures she must be a D-cup or bigger.

“What was the last thing you remember?” Angela was curious.

“I was taken to a room for an interview. The woman interviewing me seemed to ask me questions that no one else would know about me. I mean,
I didn’t mind answering her because she had a nice figure on her and her clothes showing off her assets.” Angel loved how the woman looked.

“Let me guess, they offered you a drink, and the next thing you knew, you were in that wheelchair.”

“Yep, that’s what happened to me. Now, I have a question for you. Why do you and your partner look like something out of an old comic book?” Angel was curious about their appearance.

A smirk appears on Angela’s face. She said she would explain, “an alien device changed my friend and me. We had gone to a comic con
dressed as humanoid cats. My friend went dressed as Panthro, and I went dressed as you see me. What I didn’t know was that the alien device that changed my friend and me was part of the decorations on my sword. When the two of us put on a sword demonstration, the device activated and turned us into humanoid cat people.”

“So, you were a female already?” Angel was curious.

“Actually, no, I wasn’t. However, like you, I have always wanted to be one.” Angela felt that she should have been born a woman.

“I wonder what her story is?” Angel was looking at the girl, that used to be a substantially weird-looking lion.

“Well, when she wakes up, she can tell us if she wants to. Go ahead and get some sleep. We won’t be back to Cats Lair for a few hours.” A playful smile appears on Angela’s face when she says that.

Angel shakes her head as she eats the meal in the MRE.

Jessie watches quietly from her perch in the air vent in Marshal Bullet’s hospital room. They had gotten word that a high-price hitman had been hired to take him out. She knew it would be stupid for the hitman to try to kill the US Marshal with the guards at the hospital.

She knew Dr. Emery and her partner Lenda. She figures the assassin would have to be pretty stupid to attack Bullock. She watches as the medical staff assigned to Bullock come and go from his room.

She flies around the hospital room a copy of times, ensuring everything is secured and safe. She knew there weren’t any bugs or cameras. During the morning time, Bullock gets a few visitors. He was still unconscious, and Jessie noticed that the people visiting Bullock were Marshals themselves.

Jessie manages to take a few breaks during the day. She stays nearby and grabs some food. She wonders if the information Cypher intercepted might have been off. A smirk appears on her face when she thinks about what happened when he tried to hack the computer systems of Camelot Network Services.

Cypher thought she was dealing with some average computer person. She found out other wised when she tried to break into their system. Not only was she stopped by the person, but the computer system they had at the ranch was sized. If that wasn’t bad enough, a young lady’s face appeared on her computer screen, threatening to burn the ranch down using their own electrical system.

April threatens to ground Cypher for a month for what she did. She has certain rules about the safety of the ranch and doesn’t appreciate having someone break into the house’s electrical grid. Even Dr. Green didn’t like it because it messed with the medical equipment they had at the ranch.

Jessie returns to Bullock’s hospital room and resumes her perch. Sometime around midnight, she spots a figure walking through the wall. She knew it wasn’t Stacy because she was on another case.

“Okay, whomever you are. It’s time to see how you like to do the electric boogie.” Jessie darts out of her hiding spot and light the area up with her electric abilities.

The figure screams as the air around them crackle. Blue electric sparks dance around them.

“Surprised, asshole!” Jessie grows to her full height and tackles the figure.

Jessie was glad she was immune to her own abilities. She could still feel the electrical energy she generated cascading around the person. She feels a sharp pain in her side. She rolls off the person and moves just in time as the figure fires something at her.

“Oh, no, you don’t.” Jessie tried to move but couldn’t.

Lenda returned to Bullock’s hospital room with two cups of coffee in her hands when she heard a ruckus inside his room. She tosses the cups and charges into the hospital room. She spots Jessie on the floor, holding her side and a figure dressed all in black. The figure was pointing a gun toward Bullock’s unconscious form.

Lenda charges toward the person and tackles them. The two go through the hospital window and fall to the ground. The figure tries to escape Lenda’s grip but hits the ground.

Lenda hears the bones in the person she tackled break as they hit the ground. It stuns her for a few minutes, but she manages to stand up. She looks down at the figure and removes its mask. She looked at the person and was surprised to see that the person was in their mid-forties. They had short black hair and lightly tanned skin. They could easily blend into a crowd, and no one would remember them.

Dr. Jocelyn heard the ruckus and the sound of broken glass coming from Bullock’s hospital room and ran into the room. She spots Jessie on the floor with a pool of blood under her. She rushes over to Jessie and kneels next to her. She spots a knife sticking out of Jessie’s side.

“Jess, are you all right?”

“I can’t move.” Jessie was finding it hard to stay conscious.

Jocelyn looked over towards the window and noticed it was smashed. She lays her hands on Jessie’s wound and tries to stop the bleeding. She wasn’t a healer like Payton, but she could at least determine what was wrong with Jessie.

“Shit!” Jocelyn pulls the knife out of Jessie’s wound and tries to stop the bleeding and neutralize the poison the blade was covered with.

She manages to stop the poison from spreading and neutralize what is already in Jessie’s system. She looks down at Jessie “don’t move or use your abilities. Peyton needs to finish what I started.”

“That bad, doc?” Jessie looks at Jocelyn for an answer.

“Yes, whatever this drug is, it is a nasty piece of work.”

“How’s the marshal?” Jessie was concerned about the person she and the team were supposed to protect.

“He’s safe.”

“How about Lenda?” Jessie couldn’t believe Lenda had gone through the window.

“Shaken, but all right. She has survived worst.” Jocelyn knew Lenda had gotten up and walked away from a thirty-story fall.

“Good.” Jessie wanted to close her eyes but didn’t.

“Lenda, what’s your condition?” Jocelyn hoped Lenda still had her earwig.

“I’m fine, but I think our assassin is dead.” Lenda put her fingers on the pressure points to see if the assassin was still alive.

“All right. Take a picture of the assassin and send it to Cypher to dig up info on.”

Lenda takes her cell phone out and snaps a picture of the assassin. She liked that Jerry had encased their cell phones in high-impact plastic, especially hers. She was going through cell phones left and right. She sends the picture off to Cypher to identify.

A medical team shows up in Bullock’s hospital room and takes Jessie to surgery. They also take the knife she was stabbed with so they can identify the poison used on her. Jocelyn helps a team of nurses move Bullock’s bed to another room since the window in his room was destroyed.

Conference Room, K&P Services, Knoxville, Tenn.:
Striker, Larka, Kat, Paul, Brittney, and Kat were all sitting around the huge conference table in the room. Becky, Jill, and Terry were at home being protected by a giant humanoid bear who looked like the cartoon version of Baloo from TaleSpin. There was a female bear person with him that looked like the character Rebecca Cunningham from the same cartoon.

Accompanying them was a teenager with long white hair and pale skin. She dressed like a Goth and had guns in holsters connected to a belt around her waist. The center belt buckle was in the design of a pentagram, and she had a pentagram hanging from a necklace around her neck with a smoky black crystal in the middle of it.

There was another woman that had come with them. She was dressed in similar clothing to the teenager but had a sword and two polearms mounted on her back. The only difference between her and the other teenage girl was the fact that she was wearing a pair of dark sunglasses inside the house. She also had a choker with a skull in the middle of it and was wearing skull earrings.

Striker looks at Kat and Paul “don’t worry about your kids. My best people are protecting them.

“If you say so.” Larka snorts when Striker says that.

He knew Grim Reaper and her girlfriend, Death Wish wasn’t as skillful in combat as he and Striker. Still, they were better than Peyton and Jerry. As for Baloo and Becky, they had the strength to crush you. Becky was quick and agile as hell for a bear woman.

“Well, if necessary, they can lock the house down and be safe there. We had the whole house reinforced after the last team of bad guys attacked us.” Kat couldn’t believe how much it had cost them to have the house armored and be able to survive off the grid if need be.

The house had an independent water supply, a power supply, a communication center, and a safe room. That’s not mentioning the armory where they stocked up on weapons, ammo, body armor, and an escape tunnel to escape from the house if need be.

“That’s good to know. I have information on where the person responsible for coming after Brittney and Becky is located.” Striker received the
information from a woman named Morgana. It seemed she was more talented than Cypher was.

“Let me guess, Morgana got you the information?” A smug look appears on Kat’s face.

A smirk appears on Larka’s face. He had to give the cat woman credit for the hacker she put them in contact with.

“You could say that. She’s as good as you said she is.” Striker heard what happened at the ranch when Cypher tried to hack this Morgana woman’s computer system. He wasn’t pleased with what she did in return.

He also wasn’t pleased to learn she took every bit of information the ranch servers had. Plus, he wasn’t pleased that the electric grid of the ranch had been compromised either. He let April punish Cypher for that.

“She’s the best. Sometimes, I think she has a unique talent for merging with the computer system.” Kat suspected that even Morgana might not
even know she has the ability herself.

“There’s a test we can perform to see if she is one of those humans born with unique genes.” Larka recently learned that there were people in this world like Stacy, Peyton, Jessie, April, Dr. Green, and a few others that have recently been added to their team that was born with special gifts.

“Let me talk with Morgana first to see if she would be willing to take the test.” Kat knew Morgana was still adjusting to being able to use her legs again and being a married woman as well.

‘Okay, as for the location of the people who have come after you and Bullock. Would you guys want to be included?”

“Does a bear shit in the woods?” Kat wanted to show her displeasure for coming after her children and her friend. Bullock was considered a friend among her and Paul.

“Mr. Striker, asking my parents and myself if we want to be included in the raid to apprehend this sick bastard was a smart idea. Because if you hadn’t, my mom and the rest of us would have gone after him.” Brittany knew what her mother and father thought.

A smirk appears on Larka’s wolf-looking face. He was right about these people and figured it might be a good idea to employ them every once in a while. He’ll have to talk with Striker about using them.

“When are you planning on attacking the location of this person?” Paul looks at Striker for his answer.

“Soon, we will have information from a team operating in that area. They have been reconning the area for a while and rescued two people from that location.”

“Won’t security be increased at the location then?” Kat figured it was something she would do.

“Yes, but we must see what else they have protected that place.” Striker wanted to see what reserves Dr. James White had available to him.

“What did you learn?” Paul figures they must have learned something about this Doctor.

“Here’s what we have learned so far.” Striker puts a small projector on the table, hook it to his cell phone, and shows them.

Ellis County jail, Ellis County, Kansas:
Sidney Powel storms out of the jail center and can’t believe that the people she had been sent to free weren’t in there. All the information she had been given said that they were there. As she walked back to her car, several kids on mopeds and scooters were horsing off nearby.

She pays them no mind as she gets into the expensive rental car she had gotten. She gets in and starts driving away from the jail.

“She’s leaving now, Valentina.” Barbra watches as the woman she was given a picture of drives away from the jail.

“Thanks, Barbra.” Valentina watches as the woman comes driving towards their location.

Crystal had her binoculars out and watching as well. Their contact inside the jail had informed them that a lawyer representing the people who came after Crystal had shown up. She had sent a picture to them. It was a rushed job, but they managed to devise a quick plan to capture the woman.

Sidney tried to call Trevor to give him an update but wasn’t getting a signal. She had a signal when she drove out to the jail, but now she didn’t. She sets her cell phone down and lightly taps on the brakes. There was a traffic jam ahead of her that she needed to stop for.

While she is in traffic, the car doors lock, and an invisible mist pumps out of the vents. She starts getting light-headed, and the next thing she does is pass out. The doors unlock, and the windows roll down.

“I can’t believe that worked.” Valentina and Crystal were surprised as they watched everything from their car.

“Your girlfriend is a genius, Valentina.” Crystal was amazed at how easily everything had gone.

Barbra and her friends had managed to equip the car with everything they needed to do while Mrs. Sidney Powell was inside the jailhouse. The knockout drug they pumped through the air vents had worked fast.

“Follow me.” Crystal moves the unconscious woman over to the passenger seat and secures her.

“Okay.” Valentina gives the okay signal to the people in front of Mrs. Powell.

All the cars blocking traffic were filled with friends and employees from Piper’s business. She had called them up to see if they could help on short notice. While Mrs. Powell was tied up inside the jail, they arranged everything, and she gave each person a hundred dollars for helping them.

Ellis County District Court, Hays, Kansas:
Judge Heller had gotten a call from Trevor and was instructed to help Sidney Powell to get the release of several men imprisoned at the jailhouse in Ellis County. He had made the necessary call and would go home and enjoy the woman Trevor had sent him. He couldn’t wait to shove his manhood down her throat. He gathers his things up and walks out to his car. He couldn’t wait to see who the woman was. He gets in his car and speeds home.

Once he arrives home, he rushes towards his place and walks inside. Sitting in the foyer in the nude was his old secretary, whom he loved a lot. She had been completely made over to the point that she was no longer the woman she had been.

Her DD-size breasts had been enlarged, her face had been enhanced, and her lips were nice and plump. He couldn’t wait to see how they felt around his manhood. Her butt had been enhanced as well. He liked that her waist was smaller. He noticed that she was primed for him.

“Oh, I can’t wait to fuck you, my dear.” He closes the front door behind him and starts walking toward the woman.

“Too bad you’ll have to wait to get your jollies off, judge.” As Carmen shoots the judge in the back with her needler.

The judge collapses to the floor as the fast-acting drug takes effect. Carmen looks at the woman as she disappears. The hologram device she used worked like a charm. The woman it had been projecting was safe and was undergoing deprogramming.

She and her partner had intercepted the woman meant for the judge. They had been staking out the warehouse where she had arrived along with several other women and a few men that had been given female features. They managed to subdue the men guarding the people and take them to get medical assistance. She knew the woman’s husband and children would be happy to get her back.

She picks the judge up and carries his heavy self out to a pickup truck she had waiting. She changes the plates on it and gets in. Her partner was helping the medical team sent to help the others.

She leaves the judge’s place by a different route. No one paid her any mind as she drove by them. She sends a text message to her partner, letting him know she has the chicken.

Cats Lair, Mountains of Missoula, Montana:
Julie wakes up and finds herself lying on a huge bed and wearing a cream color silk nightgown. There was a slight chill in the huge room. The covers covering her body kept her warm, and the sheets she was lying on felt soft.

As she looked around the room, she noticed a huge flat-screen television set mounted on the opposite wall from where the bed was. There was a desk made of glass, and there was a hologram being projected from it. A bunch of butterflies was flying around in a circle. There was a medium-tall refrigerator.

When she gets out of bed and steps on the white marble-like floor, she feels the warmth from the stone surface. Two huge windows let in a huge amount of natural light. She notices another door that was opened. She walks towards the open door and notices it is a bathroom. There was a walk-in shower big enough to accommodate several people.

The coloring of the bathroom was a light blue color. It looked like it gave the person of being at a beach. The floor had a clear material that had sand underneath it. She walks over to the toilet and sits down on it. She didn’t see any handles or anything. The toilet seat felt warm against her bare flesh.

She was confused about where she was and how she got there. She finishes doing her business, and when she stands up, the toilet automatically flushes. She did feel a squirt of water hit her groin area, but it was warm, like the seat. She washed her hands and noticed the faucet was motion activated. She looks at her reflection in the mirror mounted on the sink wall and notices the changes that have been made to her.

Whatever the doctor did to her, she hated it. Her eyes looked like cat eyes, and she had long, light sandy colored hair past her shoulders. She looked at her breasts and couldn’t believe how big they were. They had a big pink areola that took up the front of her breasts and a small nipple. She also noticed that she had a medium skin tone, where she used to have fair skin.

She spots a house robe hanging in the closet in the room and a pair of fuzzy slippers. She put the slippers on and couldn’t believe how soft they felt. She slips on the house robe and loves how it feels against her skin.

She spots the door to the room she is in but does see any handles. She walks over to it, and it opens automatically. She notices there is a swooshing sound to it when it opens. She walks out into the hallway and looks around. There was a glassy black strip in the middle of the cream color wall. The floor was the same type of marble as the flooring in her room.

“Where the hell am I?”

“You’re a guest at Cat’s Lair. Where would you like to go?” A computerized voice echoes in the hallway.

Julie almost jumps out of her skin when she hears it. She looked around the hallway to see if someone was playing a trick on her.

“Where is everyone?”

The black strip in front of her on the wall lights up and shows the location of everyone in the building. According to what she saw, there was at least twenty people in the building or on the grounds.They were spread out throughout the building and grounds.

“Who is in charge of here?” Julie wonders who ran this place.

All the dots that had appeared disappear, and a female humanoid cat woman’s face appears on the stripe. It showed her location as being in the main office.

“How do I get to her?”

“Follow the arrows.” A bunch of arrows starts running down the black stripe.

It took Julie a few minutes to get to the office where the woman in charge was. She did pass a few humanoid cat people. Some of them looked like ordinary house cats, while a few looked like they were either tigers, loins, or a cross between humans with cat tails and ears.

The door opens automatically when she arrives at the office. A female humanoid cat person was sitting behind a high-tech-looking desk. In one of the unique design chairs, she sees a human girl wearing a pastel blue leotard. Sitting in a chair next to her was another female humanoid cat person. She was wearing a black form-fitting leather-looking bodysuit. There were weapons on her hips, from what Julie could see.

Angela looks directly toward the young woman they rescued three days ago. The poor thing had reverted to her human form, and according to Doctor Blackwell, she had used up all her energies and was slowly rebuilding them.

“Ah, your finally awake, Julie. How are you feeling?” Angela looks at the young woman.

“Sore, like every bone in my body is recovering from being broken.” Julie hadn’t noticed, but she did feel sore all over.

“Well, I'm not surprised after the little show you put on.” Angela had Doctor Blackwell scan Julie when they brought her in. She also had the good doctor take blood samples from Julie to determine what had been done to her.

“I don’t remember what happened.” Julie couldn’t recall what had happened to her.

Angel turns around in the chair and looks at Julie. She was surprised that she was about the same age as herself. She also wonders did the good doctor turn her into a female as he did her.

“Well, I can say this, Julie. You saved my life, and I am grateful for that.”

“I did?” Julie was confused.

“Yes, you did, Julie. Let me introduce my head of security here. This is Montoya, and she is the head of security here.”

Montoya turns around to look at the young woman. She had already seen her when Angela and Panthro brought her in.

“Hi, I hope you are feeling better.” Montoya holds her hand out to shake Julie’s.

“Just extremely sore.” Julie shakes Montoya’s hand.

As soon as Julie touched her hand, Montoya received everything about Julie. She knew Julie had been plucked off the streets of New York and taken to Dr. Parsons to be experimented on. She saw the good doctor injecting some milky white fluid into Julie.

She also felt another presence inside Julie as well. It was feline and very ancient. It was also very protective of her as well.

Julie noticed Montoya stiffen and tighten her grip on her hand. She felt something inside of herself stir but quiet down. A low growl had escaped from her lips. After a few seconds, Montoya lets go of her hand.

Julie looks at Montoya "what did you do?”

“Sorry, I have a gift that tells me everything about a person. You young lady are very unique. You have a protective spirit that residents inside of you.” Montoya felt the ancient spirit inside Julie.

“What do you mean I have an ancient spirit inside of me?” Julie looks at Montoya with a confused look on her face.

“That would explain why she changed into some sort of lion.” Angela had seen her revert back to a human.

“What are you people talking about?” Julie looks at Angela for an explanation.

Angel looks at Angela “can I?”

“Let me get my camera out to record this.” Angela sets her cell phone up to record.

Montoya gets out of the way as Angel stands up. She watches as Angel walks over to Julie.

“Give me your hands, Julie.”

“What are you going to do?” Julie was nervous.

“I’m going to summon the spirit inside of you, and we will record it so that you can see for yourself.”

“I don’t know.” Julie was nervous.

“You’ll be okay.” As Angel takes Julie’s hand.

She focuses on her ability and causes Julie to start changing into the animal form she had been in when they were rescued. All the clothes Julie had been wearing rip as her body grows and changes. Once the change was over, a prehistoric saber loin stood in her place. It was confused why it had been summoned from its human host.

“I don’t believe it.” Montoya looks at the huge creature. She wasn’t sure if she should get close to it.

“It’s all right, Montoya. It’s not angry with you. It’s just confused why it was summoned.” Angel could feel the confusion the big cat had.

“Can you force her to turn back?” Montoya looks at Angel.

“It’s too soon for her to change again. Besides, she’s a little pissed at me right now.” Angel could feel the cat in front of her was pissed at her.

“I think she’ll feel better after eating something.” Angela taps the hologram letters and orders some food for Julie.

Afterward, she puts a report together and sends it off to Striker.

Striker looks at Kat and her people. All of them were decked out in full body armor that covered their body. He wonders how a bounty-hunting company was able to afford such armor. He knew Kat had called in two of her people that sometimes work with her. They were considered reserve or part-time members.

They also stopped in Victoria, Kansas, to pick up two more members of Kat’s people. They were outfitted in the same body armor as Kat. The others carried a gym bag full of weapons with them. All of Kat’s people were carrying FN P90s. They also brought three Barrett M95 sniping rifles with tungsten rounds.

Larka watches Paul as he checks the rifles over. He saw the ammo they were loaded with.

“Damn! Where did you guys get tungsten rounds from?” Larka didn’t think civilians had access to those rounds.

“We know the right people.” Paul puts Kat’s sniping rifle back in its case.

“I would say so. Who are the snipers among your little hunting party?” Larka was curious about who among Kat’s people were the snipers.

“My wife, Brittney, and Pauline.” Paul points out the snipers in their group.

“I met your wife and daughter. Who’s the other woman?” Larka wondered who Pauline was.

“Pauline was one of our original bounty hunters when Kat and I started the business. She’s former military police and is married to a navy captain. After she got injured in the explosion that almost killed all of us, she decided to retire from bounty hunting. She also retired from the military because of her relationship with an officer. She became a stay-at-home mother to a young girl we rescued from a group of sex traffickers.”

“I hope her skills aren’t rusty from sitting on the sidelines.” Larka knew what retirement could do to a person’s skills.

Paul leans towards him. “I wouldn’t say that around her, or you might find this sniping rifle shoved up your ass. She is as deadly, if not more deadly than my wife.”

Paul knew what Pauline was capable of, and he bet on her every time. He goes back to checking the sniping rifle once done with it. He puts it back in its case.

Striker was looking over the blueprints they had of the property they were going to storm. Kat’s sister Rebecca found out whom the blackout warthog belonged to that attacked the Learjet Brittany had been flying home in. Some federal marshals apprehended the pilot, and three others were in on the contract, from what he heard from a friend in the Marshal service. The marshals that went after them weren’t kind or gentle. A few of them had a few accidents on the way to federal prison.

“So, have you found us a way in?” Kat noticed Striker looking at some blueprints.

“The boss man needs to send Stacy and me in to recon the place.” A young girl with emo color pink hair grows in front of Kat.

Jessie had dyed her hair and sat on Striker’s shoulder while he looked over the blueprints. She spots Stacy standing nearby just in case she needs to react. She looks at the cat lady standing in front of Striker.

“Who are you?” Kat looked at the young teenage girl as she stood near Striker.

“I’m one of the old man’s agents.” A smile appears on Jessie’s face.

“I can see where your ability gives you an advantage. Who’s this Stacy person?” Kat was curious.

“That would be me.” Stacy looks at the cat lady standing near Jessie and Striker.

Kat looks at the shoulder-length black-haired woman. She wore a form-fitting body suit that displayed her curves and a cloak wrapped around her. It even had a hood to protect her head.

“Are you like this young lady?” Kat points towards Jessie.

“There’s no one like me. I’m one of a kind.” Jessie had a mischievous smile on her face.

“I’m different from my companion. I can walk through solid objects.” Stacy passes her hand through the tablet Striker was using.

Kat notices the tablet flickers for a few seconds and returns to normal. An image of Kitty Pryde from the X-men comic book pops into her mind.

“So, you’re like Kitty Pryde from the X-Men?”

Jessie and Stacy look confused because they have never heard of the X-Men. They had no idea what this cat lady was talking about.

“The girls have never seen the movies or read the comic books.” Larka knew whom Kat was talking about.

“All right, dog face. What are you talking about?” Jessie looks at Larka.

“This.” Larka pulls his cell phone out and finds the movie and an online comic. He plays it for Jessie and Stacy.

The two women look at it as it plays. They don’t spot Paul as he walks over to his wife.

“I thought everyone reads comic books.” Paul looks at the girls as they read the online comic.

“Not this generation. They are into other things.” Larka knew how Jessie and Stacy were.

The rest of the flight, Larka, Kat, and Paul got to know each other.

Private Airfield Near Cat’s Lair:
“I’m bored, Angela.” Hawk looks at Angela and Panthro as they lean against the tank.

“You’re always bored, kiddo.” Panthro looks at Hawk as he stands nearby.

“I can’t help it, Pan. That doctor did something to me when he experimented on me.” Hawk hasn’t always been hyper. He used to be laid back and relaxed about things.

“Well, the transport Striker is on is only ten minutes out.” Angela was in contact with Kit back at Cat’s Lair.

“Why is he bringing extra people?” Hell Cat was sitting on top of the tank.

“Because the people he is bringing have skin in the game.” Angela knew whom Striker was bringing. She hopes she can keep her people from attacking the woman responsible for them being turned into Anamorphic cat people or nekos from the anime books.

Moon Spirit lands near the tank and the others. She looked like a humanoid cat person like Angela and Panthro. She was pure white and had a light glow surrounding her. The form-fitting suit she was wearing showed off her curvy figure.

She looks towards Hell Cat “be patient, Lilly. The transport is almost here.”

Hell Cat looks down at Moonie “don’t call me Lilly. I’m not that person anymore.”

Moon Spirit looks up at Hell Cat “you will always be your former self, Lilly.”

Hell Cat ignores Moon Spirit and closes her eyes to meditate. It took a lot of her willpower to keep from bursting into flames.

“You know, it’s not wise to make her upset.” Spirit appears from out of nowhere.

“I’m not worried about Lilly’s control. She has been working hard to control her ability.” Moon Spirit has been working with Lilly.

A Jaquar comes running up to the group of humanoid cat people and changes into a large humanoid male. He looks towards Angela and Panthro “the airfield has increased security, but it should be no problem to infiltrate the place. The misfits are still in their cages.”

“I feel sorry for those guys. The doctor messed up on them.” Hawk was glad the doctor hadn’t pushed his experiments further on him.

“I know what you mean. I went to school with one of them.” Hell Cat had opened her eyes to look down at Morph.

“I hear them coming closer.” Hunter appears nearby. He had been scouting the area.

“GOD, HUNTER! Don’t ever do that.” Hawk nearly peed himself when Hunter spoke and appeared out of thin air.

Moon Spirit smirked when Hawk jumped like a scary cat. She knew Hunter was nearby. She was aware of everything around her.

Everyone on the ground watches as the transports engines transition from horizontal to vertical thrust and gently land nearby. They wait for the engines to shut down and watch as the rear ramp lowers finally.

“Hey, Panthro, do you think you and Mech could build an updated version of that transport?”

“I think so.” Panthro looks at the transport and figures that with Mech’s help, they could build a newer version of the transport.

As the ramp lowers, Striker walks down first, followed by Larka. Behind him was Stacy, with Jessie flying pass her, in her small form. Behind them, was Kat and her people. She saw the group of people standing over at some sort of tank.

She also notices that all of them looked like humanoid cats as well. She glances towards her husband and noticed he saw them as well.

“Mom, they look like humanoid cats.” Brittney had leaned in close to her mother.

“We are.” Hawk had raced ahead to greet the new comers.

“What the!” Brittney had felt a breeze and then heard a voice.

She turns and spotted a tabby color humanoid teenage male cat person standing near her. There was a surprised look on her face “where did you come from?”

“From over there.” Hawk points towards the others.

Hawk leads everyone towards Angela and the others. As they get closer, Hell Cat opens her eyes and spot Kat. She stands up and is surrounded by flames as an angry look appears on her face.

“It’s you.” She directs a jet of intense flames towards Kat.

“Hell Cat, no.” Angela jumps up on top of the tank to try and stop Hell Cat.

Kat jumps out of the way just in time. The flames hit where she was standing. Paul could feel the heat form them, when he moved as well.

Angela uses the flat of her blade and hit Hell Cat on the side of her head. She could feel the heat surrounding Hell Cat and was glad her sword was nearly indestructible. She watches as Hell Cat falls onto the top of the tank, unconscious.

“What was that about?” Striker wanted an explanation for the attack.

Moon Spirit looks at Kat and couldn’t believe she looked like the Doctor’s assistant. She was identical in every way.

“Because of her. She’s identical to Dr. Parsons assistant.” Moon Spirit watches Kat.

“Mom, you don’t think they made a clone of you, do you?” Brittney was curious.

“I don’t know, sweetie.” Kat looks at the humanoid white Persian cat woman.

Striker looks at Kat and then back at Moon Spirit “is this going to be a problem?”

“No, Striker.” Angela jumps down from on top of the tank with an unconscious Hell Cat thrown over her shoulder.

She hands Hell Cat to Moon Spirit “put her inside the tank.”

Moon Spirit cradles Hell cats unconscious form in her arms. She really cared about Lilly and knew what the doctor and his assistant did to her, messed with her mind. She enters the tank through the rear hatch.

Kat looks at the weird looking cat woman. She saw how she was dressed and the two swords on her back. “Are all of you victims of this doctor?”

“Yes, except me and Panthro over there aren’t. We were turned by an alien device.” Angela figures the truth was always best to tell.

“Hey, are we going to take that prick down or what?” Hawk was getting impatient.

“Easy Hawk. It seems we need to get things under control, before we start busting heads.” Hunter had walked over to the group.

“First, did you guys get any intel on how the place is setup and where we can find everything?” Larka wasn’t to thrill about going in blind. That’s why they always brought Jessie and Stacy with them.

“Who’s the dog face?” Morph looks at Larka with a puzzled look on his face.

“Your worst nightmare and don’t go coping me kid.” Larka knew what Morph was capable of.

“You wish I would.” Morph looks at the two teenage girls standing near the one called cat.

“You two look like you are the partying types.” Morph liked how Crystal and Brittney looked.

“We’re married.” Brittney watches Morph’s expression.

“Your husbands don’t have to know.” Morph smiles at the girls.

“Who said anything about husbands?” Brittney kisses Crystal.

Morph’s jaw drops when he sees the two women kiss.

“All right people, huddle up.” Striker wanted to know what they were getting themselves into.

Inside The Base:
Jessie had managed to fly down to the lower levels of the base. Mostly what she was seeing, was that the place had several incinerators that were used for the disposal of bodies. There were stretchers and folding wheelchairs/platforms.

It also had a smell to it. She leaves the room and searches for another room, that looked like it was used for storage. She moves up to the next floor above her.

The place looked like it had state-of-the-art operating rooms and cells to hold their victims. She notices that several of the cells were occupied. One cell had three young kids in it that were identical in appearance. The kids didn’t look like they were in good shape.

She moves to another cell and noticed that the occupant had been heavily experimented on. Their limbs and part of their face had been replaced with cybernetic limbs. She noticed that the figure had spotted her and was watching her.

“hhheeelllpp me, please.”

Tonya stops and grows to her full height. She looks at the restraints holding the person. The locks securing the restraints were mechanical and very strong. It would take a plasma torch to cut through the locks. Good thing for her that she knew how to pick locks. She radios to Striker about what she had found and where she was.

In The Mansion:
Hunter was moving quietly among the rooms on the top floor. The rooms looked like they belonged to the staff members working for the dear doctor. Several times, he had to hide as some of the medical personnel walked by him. He was sending everything back to Striker on a secure channel.

He comes to one room, that had a teenage girl secured in some sort of BDSM device. Her arms were stretched to the top corners of a rectangle frame. Her legs were spread as wide as they could be and secured to the corner of the frame. There was a spreader bar locking her knees in place.

She also had what looked like a ball gag in her mouth with a clear tube that went down to her groin area and into her urethra opening. He noticed there were little white pads all over her body, including on her nipples. A huge object had been shoved up into her anal opening and another object with wires connected to it into her vagina.

Hunter could see she was in pain, from the expression on the girl’s face. Sitting near her, was a control box where the wires were connected and a few small bottles with the strange looking liquid inside of them. A razor blade lay nearby and so did several needles.

Hunter kills the power going to the device that the electric wires were coming from. He removes the gag, that went all the way down into the girl’s throat. The look in her grey eyes looks cloudy and defeated.

“Striker, we need to take this doctor out.”

“We will, Hunter.” Striker was seeing everything everyone inside saw.

Panthro, Paul, Morph, and Hawk was disabling all the vehicles they found. Pam, Kat, Hell Cat, Angela, and Moon Spirit were taking care of the security personnel they could locate.

Brittany, Crystal, Larka, and Stacy were inside the place looking for the person assigned to them. Larka was going after Dr. Parsons because
Striker didn’t trust anyone else to go after him. He was worried they might kill the doctor.

Kat had just finished taking out a security person and was about to leave. When she spots movement coming toward her. She moves out of the way just in time.

Azrael was leaving the torture room when something didn’t seem right to her. She spotted a person wearing black cat shape armor taking one of the security guards out. An evil smile appears on her face, as she races toward the person. She pulls the knife she always carries with her out and goes to attack the person.

She is amazed that the person moved out of the way as fast as they did. She glares at the person in the armor “who are you?”

Kat looks at the woman and couldn’t believe how she looked. She was identical to her in every sense of the word. She removes her helmet and looks at the woman “the original cat girl.”

A smile appears on Azrael’s face “finally, I get to kill the bitch that Dr. Parsons has been so obsessed with.”

“You can try, bitch.” Kat watches the woman.

Azrael rushes Kat and tries to attack her with her knife. She knew that her knife wasn’t going to penetrate the body armor Kat was wearing, but Kat’s head was exposed. Azrael tries slicing at Kat’s head.

Kat blocks Azrael’s attack and backhands her with her gloved hand. She figured out what the woman was trying to do. She blocks another attack and notices the woman was getting faster.

Azrael smiles as she increases her attack against Kat. She wanted to kill this bitch and make her pay. She uses the special gifts that the doctor gave her and speeds up her attack against Kat.

Kat strikes Azrael right in the middle of her chest. She hears several ribs break when she struck the woman. She blocks a knife attack to her face and kicks the woman’s knee out.

Azrael lets out a scream from Kat breaking her knee and heard several of her ribs crack from Kat’s punch to her chest. She backs up and looks at Kat with a sneer on her face.

Kat looks at the woman “give it up. You don’t stand a chance against me.”

“Never bitch. I should have killed you and your damn brats when we first had you.” Azrael was disappointed she couldn’t do anything against Kat the first time they kidnapped her.

“Your funeral, bitch.” Kat pulls out her handgun and puts a bullet right between the woman’s eyes.

She puts a second bullet in Azrael’s chest to make sure she didn’t live. Kat couldn’t believe how this woman looked. She was identical to her.

“Striker, how is everyone doing?” Kat knew Striker was monitoring everyone.

“Everyone is doing fine Kat. The dear doctor has been apprehended and is safe. His medical staff has also been arrested as well.”

“Good. What are we going to do with the ones called brutes?”

“I’m going to relocate them to a special farm out in Wyoming. There people out there that will be able to help them.” Striker also figures his teammate Jerry could use his ability to restore or fix what has been done to the brutes.

“Striker, I have a problem. It seemed that the dear doctor was experimenting with cybernetics as well. I found one of his experiments locked up and his cybernetic limbs need recharging.”

“Can’t you recharge him?”

“My power doesn’t work like that.” Jessie knew her ability didn’t work like how Striker was thinking.

“I got her covered, Striker. There’s a portable generator in the tank I can use to charge the cybernetics.”

“All right, Panthro.”

Hunter had covered up the teenage girl he had found. The poor thing looked like whoever had been torturing her, has been doing it for a while. He carries the girl up to where everyone was gathering.

He walks over to the tank and lay her down on the seat. As he releases her, she grabs his hand and squeezes it.

“You’re safe. I won’t allow anyone to hurt you ever again.”

The girl slowly releases Hunter’s hand as she falls asleep. Hunter grabs a blanket and covers the girl up. He hopes doctor Webster will be able to help her.

Pam was carrying a little girl that had been locked up in a cage. She looked like Bree but was more like a cat. The poor thing looked like she had been abused. The girl was clinging to her.

“Look what I found?” Pam shows the little girl to everyone.

“She looks like the doctor was trying to make another Bree.” Brittney was looking at the young girl and how she was holding tight to Pam.

“There seems to be a lot of experiments he has been conducting. Most of these people can stay at Cat’s Lair with us.” Angela looks towards Panthro to see what he thought.

“We got the room and they would blend in with us.” Panthro knew what Angela was thinking.

Striker looks over towards the man Jessie found and figures he would fit in with him and his people. He is curious why the doctor did what he did to the man.

“What is your name, sir?”

“Guy Conley.” Guy wonders who all these people were.

Striker does a background search on Mr. Conley and discovers that he was a former special force soldier. He had lost his right arm and left leg while serving overseas.

“Do you have anywhere to go, Mr. Conley?”

“No, why do you ask?” Guy looks towards Striker for an answer.

“I own a ranch down in Texas and also have a team there. I think you would be a good fit and I think I can help you out as well.”

“Do you mind if I think about it? I’m still getting used to what was done to me.”

“No problem. I’m going to send you to our rehab place.”

Epilogue:
Guy ends up joining Striker’s team in Texas. As for Bree, Kat and Paul end up adopting her. All the other experiments, including the teenage girl, end up at Cat’s Lair where Hunter takes her under his wing.

The Brutes end up going to Wyoming to help them cope with what has been done to them. Jerry manages to undo a lot of the modifications that had been done to them, with his abilities. Some of the brutes appreciate that they were more human looking.

As for the doctor and his medical staff. They are taken and imprisoned in a secret black site. They were going to spend the rest of their life there. As for the base, the department that handles the abuse of science and medicine comes in and removes everything.

After they remove everything, April uses her ability to seal up the lower levels and restore the top portion to nature.