Chapter 2
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Samuel turns to one of his henchmen. "Take the explosives to the engine room. C3-type only."
The henchman takes the duffle bag and leaves the room. He knew Samuel was serious about the C3 explosives. He remembers 3 years ago during a terrorist attack. The explosives strapped to one of the suicide bombers had sound-sensitive explosives rather than the temperature-control kind. And after that, the group of remaining bombers had to bail out.
Upon arriving at the engine room, there are two others: Falco a racoon and Cash an ex-IRA Volunteer.
"Samuel said we have to use C3 explosives for the engine room," said the henchman.
"That's all we need to hear Dane," said Falco. He remembers the incident and decides not to mention it. Cash runs to the switchboard. He opens his duffle bag and draws out wires and connectors. He applies the connectors in numerous places and connected the wires together. He takes out his PDA and connects it to a connectivity cable and puts it in a hole in the switchboard. He hacks into the security monitor and deactivates the alarms. Cash turns his head. "I've deactivated the alarms Falco."
"Now we have to take out the crew," said Falco. "I'll tell Samuel that the security system's disabled."
Falco runs up the stairs and into the captain's cabin. Samuel is adjusting the controls. He once operated in a control tower in an airport 10 years ago. He didn't communicate much but his button-pushing and switch-adjusting is good. He knew the function of everything he sees in front of him.
Falco leans his head out of the door. "Security's been deactivated Samuel."
"Bring Dane up here. I want to talk to him," replied Samuel.
"Certainly."
Falco runs down the stairs. He runs to Dane sitting near one of the turbines. He's a cat wearing comeback leggings and a football jersey. He lifts his head and looks at Falco with an emotionless look. "He wants me" he said.
"Good Guess," said Falco.
Dane gets up and walks pass Falco. He enters the captain's cabin. Samuel detects Dane's movements like a wild animal resting in the grass.
"You have a lot on your mind, don't you?" said Samuel.
"Mostly on what you do and don't know," replied Dane.
"Try to focus on the main goal right now. If this is done right, everybody will think twice on what they thought is absolute."
"Not from where I'm standing."
"Put everything aside and tell the others that the next step has just begun."
Dane leaves the cabin and heads into the engine room. Cash and Falco are carrying luggage bags.
"The next step has begun?" asked Cash.
Dane stares at them with a depressing look. He didn't open his mouth. He turned and walked away. "We'll take that as a yes."
Cash and Falco take out carbine rifles from the luggage bags. Dane works over to a luggage bag near a chair, opens it and takes out an AK-47. He signals Samuel by showing a figure 8 with his hand telling him that they are ready to go. Samuel takes out the radio and changes the channel. He places his mouth near the receiver. "We commencing the hostile takeover right now, all is going to plan".
"Roger that, we're working on our first phase," said Jan the Armadillo. "The jet will be taking off shortly."
