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around this chair till I get back here tomorrow morning. You know what to do if you see those two. The rest of you stay close by till tomorrow morning.
“There is another place on my list to visit; an interesting person I’ve been reading about lately in the paper; someone with a cause who will be willing to pay us handsomely for these.”
I grabbed Ara’s hand pulling her away from the doorway and we quickly walked back down toward the mouth of the cave. Now being out numbered, we needed to bide our time till we could get to the chair. I also noticed some of them had heavier arms with strange looking rifles I had never seen before. Professor Gratten must have made quite a few recent trips in order to acquire some of these newer concept articles that I had noticed on the island including their handguns and that rifle.
We would wait until things had settled down and the men inside had relaxed their guard, then move in. We needed to get the chair and we had to take them by surprise. The thought ran through my head for a moment this would be a good time for me to extricate myself from this whole affair and go home. Ara would have to follow in a tracker to retrieve the chair but I could be out of the picture and on with my life.
As I was looking at Ara readying herself to make an assault into the conduit and waiting intently for the right moment, I couldn’t pull myself away from it all. I had actually become an integral part of her vital cause and for conscience sake would have to see it through.
We double checked our weapons and began to making our way back into the cavern, both of us well aware that the element of surprise would be important. We waited till it was all clear in the tunnel and we were able to sneak up to the entrance of the conduit. The guards were talking and joking amongst each other about who was going to get the bonus that Anders had offered to the one who was responsible in capturing us so we listened for a minute…
“Why don’t the rest of you guys go to sleep, I’ll take care of both Ara and her boyfriend when they get here.”
“You couldn’t take care of yourself on a rainy day, It’ll be me that gets the bonus and no one else, mark it.”
“And what if we all get ‘em at the same time, do we split the bonus four ways?”
“What is this bonus anyway? I doubt he even has one, he just wants them caught promising anything to get that done.”
Just then Ara and I looked at each other, nodded and we both entered the room at the same time, weapons out.
“No one gets the bonus today; you’ll all end up with a punishment if anything, now drop those weapons!”
They all looked at us as if they had seen a ghost and slowly put down their rifles.
“What? Where did you two come from, how did you get here without the trackers?”
“Never mind how we got here.” I motioned with my weapon. “All of you get over there where we can see you.”
“Richard I’ll watch them while you get to the controls. I need to take that chair to London and find my father; it might already be too late!”
I went over to the desk and ran my hand across the metal plate. The display lit up with the recticle and crosshair centered over the Tower of London, the last place it traveled to.
“Where is it you need to go Ara?”
“Thames Parkway… the furniture warehouse.”
I slowly moved the target recticle to Thames Parkway and looked closely at the warehouses till I recognized the one I saw targeted when I had first arrived. I was carefully centering the target recticle over the warehouse building while Ara stepped in front of the chair, her weapon still trained on the four men.
“Ok Richard I’ll see you soon, hopefully with good news.”
She began to sit down in the chair and suddenly another one of them grabbed me from behind. My hand, still holding the leaver, jerked violently to the left and then to the right just as she sat down. He grabbed my gun while holding one in my back. I struggled
“There is another place on my list to visit; an interesting person I’ve been reading about lately in the paper; someone with a cause who will be willing to pay us handsomely for these.”
I grabbed Ara’s hand pulling her away from the doorway and we quickly walked back down toward the mouth of the cave. Now being out numbered, we needed to bide our time till we could get to the chair. I also noticed some of them had heavier arms with strange looking rifles I had never seen before. Professor Gratten must have made quite a few recent trips in order to acquire some of these newer concept articles that I had noticed on the island including their handguns and that rifle.
We would wait until things had settled down and the men inside had relaxed their guard, then move in. We needed to get the chair and we had to take them by surprise. The thought ran through my head for a moment this would be a good time for me to extricate myself from this whole affair and go home. Ara would have to follow in a tracker to retrieve the chair but I could be out of the picture and on with my life.
As I was looking at Ara readying herself to make an assault into the conduit and waiting intently for the right moment, I couldn’t pull myself away from it all. I had actually become an integral part of her vital cause and for conscience sake would have to see it through.
We double checked our weapons and began to making our way back into the cavern, both of us well aware that the element of surprise would be important. We waited till it was all clear in the tunnel and we were able to sneak up to the entrance of the conduit. The guards were talking and joking amongst each other about who was going to get the bonus that Anders had offered to the one who was responsible in capturing us so we listened for a minute…
“Why don’t the rest of you guys go to sleep, I’ll take care of both Ara and her boyfriend when they get here.”
“You couldn’t take care of yourself on a rainy day, It’ll be me that gets the bonus and no one else, mark it.”
“And what if we all get ‘em at the same time, do we split the bonus four ways?”
“What is this bonus anyway? I doubt he even has one, he just wants them caught promising anything to get that done.”
Just then Ara and I looked at each other, nodded and we both entered the room at the same time, weapons out.
“No one gets the bonus today; you’ll all end up with a punishment if anything, now drop those weapons!”
They all looked at us as if they had seen a ghost and slowly put down their rifles.
“What? Where did you two come from, how did you get here without the trackers?”
“Never mind how we got here.” I motioned with my weapon. “All of you get over there where we can see you.”
“Richard I’ll watch them while you get to the controls. I need to take that chair to London and find my father; it might already be too late!”
I went over to the desk and ran my hand across the metal plate. The display lit up with the recticle and crosshair centered over the Tower of London, the last place it traveled to.
“Where is it you need to go Ara?”
“Thames Parkway… the furniture warehouse.”
I slowly moved the target recticle to Thames Parkway and looked closely at the warehouses till I recognized the one I saw targeted when I had first arrived. I was carefully centering the target recticle over the warehouse building while Ara stepped in front of the chair, her weapon still trained on the four men.
“Ok Richard I’ll see you soon, hopefully with good news.”
She began to sit down in the chair and suddenly another one of them grabbed me from behind. My hand, still holding the leaver, jerked violently to the left and then to the right just as she sat down. He grabbed my gun while holding one in my back. I struggled