ground. He would also be able to track, trace and follow Romanovich’s car if he managed to leave the building before Lucas reached the ground. Lucas headed to the helipad on the roof and brought out his retractable hand glider. It took just a couple of minutes to set it up and attach it to his back. He set up his goggles in a tracking mode and pulled up the maps on the screen, so that he could use the same to navigate. He also checked the dial of his watch to redirect the signal to his goggles. He could see Rosmus’s last location on the map of his screen and was pretty sure that Romanovich would be heading over to the same direction.
Rosmus’s tracker was not emitting a signal any more, most likely due to interference from signal jammers. Lucas jumped off the western end of the building like the paratrooper commandos with whom he had been trained. He opened up the hand glider and glided towards the harbor. He glided carefully as Romanovich’s tracking signal started to appear. His car was heading in the same direction as Lucas had anticipated. What really surprised him was that Romanovich had been able to get off the building so quickly even with the number of guests who had jammed up the emergency staircase. Surely a large number of guests must have been forcefully cleared or eliminated to ensure that the Russian could escape from the building unharmed. Romanovich was travelling in a black Rolls Royce being escorted by a black SUV.
Lucas was lurking near the western entrance of the harbor as he noticed Romanovich’s convoy. Based on the tracking signal, he had anticipated that the safe house Romanovich was travelling to, was the Castillo De La Real Fuerza; a perfect place to set up operations. Being a UNESCO designated heritage site as well as a popular tourist attraction, no one would ever expect a base of operations to be located there. Also the fortification in the castle along with the number of mercenaries securing the place, made it a perfect place for Rosmus and Romanovich to carry out their shady operations.
As Romanovich’s car passed through, he hurled himself onto the SUV which was following it. He managed to attach his grappling hook to the rear bumper towing hook of the SUV as he continued to be dragged on. In spite of the enormous pain and damage that he experienced being dragged on by the speeding SUV, he tried his best to keep his head low and pull himself onto the rear of the car without the driver noticing him in the rear view mirrors. By the time the cars had reached the Castillo De La Real Fuerza, Lucas had managed to slide himself below the SUV as he continued to hold on. The cars passed through the security in the main entrance and headed to the rear of the castle.
As the cars came to a halt in front of the keep and Romanovich was being escorted by multiple viper agents, Lucas looked around trying to familiarize himself with the surrounding. He could see at least twenty five viper agents with weapons ranging from shot guns to automatic rifles patrolling around. The signal jammers and security cameras were placed all around the main keep. There was a make shift hangar located to the south which was heavily guarded. Lucas was pretty sure that something interesting must have been going on in there. He would need to visit the hangar whenever he had an opportunity. On the southern side beyond the inner walls was the draw bridge over the waterbody leading to the Gulf of Mexico. Lucas sneaked out from the car and took refuge behind a nearby watch tower. He needed to figure out a plan quickly as to how he would rescue Annie and find out what Rosmus was up to.
Castillo De La Real Fuerza
The ‘Castle of The Royal Force’ as it is commonly known, was a perfect platform for Rosmus and his associates to work from the shadows. The castle provided a defensive framework on its own apart from whatever Rosmus had set up. However, the environment and the weather was