Chapter 4

Lily entered the cabin of the Warrior, there where bullet holes all over the walls and seats. There stood in the middle of it all; the masked attacker without a single wound on him. Alby's pistol dry clicked; the dead man's click. He panicked and without another magazine to put in it he did the first thing that came into his head. He threw the pistol and caught the attacker right on the nose.

Crack, blood, screams of pain and anger. The attacker was stunned; Lily pounced. She fired two shots, one to the back of his knee the other into his shoulder causing him to spin as he fell; crashing to the floor lying on his back. He dropped his pistol it slid towards Alby; he scooped it up and pointed with shaking hands. Lily couldn't have been more different; she stood pistol held firm in her grip, her stance strong and threatening. A crop of black her hair lay across her face, panting hard and pissed as hell. (See what I did there eh, eh? Massive quote there for Reilly fans ha-ha).

'Who the hell are you and what they hell you doing here?' she growled in a low threatening voice. Sky Monster arrived behind her and levelled his shotgun. She was only distracted for half a second but the attacker on the floor moved quickly but Sky was quicker; he grabbed Lily and dragged her out the path of a flying knife. Alby fired the pistol, this time he did not miss. The bullet spat silently out the end of the barrel and slammed into the back of his head, blowing the front of his face apart. Silence followed.

'Alby you ok?' Sky asked cautiously.

'I think so, I got shot again. My mom is gonna kill me then Jack for letting this happen again.'

'We'll worry about that later but for now let's try and get my Dad on the radio again.'

'Ok Lily you got it. You're more and more like the 2 of them than you realise.' Sky said before bounding up into the cockpit to call Jack on the radio.

Lily dived over the dead attacker sliding to the floor beside Alby, she looked at his wound. 'It's ok just a scratch. I can patch it up in a second or two just need to...' Lily was cut off. Alby had placed his hand on her cheek and made her look him in the eye, they held that gaze for a few moments and then Alby kissed her. He kissed her and didn't stop kissing her for a while. 'Alby... where the hell did that come from?'

'I was trying to tell you before. I love you Lily.' He replied staring into her eyes with loving intent.

'Well Alby... it took you long enough to come out and say it.' She hugged him tight.

'Lower your weapons guys,' Jack told his team, 'you have bought yourself a window Major. But do not think for a minute that your safe, if you step out of line, we will fire on you.'

'But of course Capt West. I should not expect anything less from a man with a reputation like yours. Now we need to discuss the problem at hand. There are 4 Assassins on their way here to kill you and you're five Pillars. The Pillars of knowledge, heat, sight, life and death. The sixth went into the abyss along with your father. Of course you reported that all of the Pillars fell into the abyss.' Adams reported.

'How the hell do you know that?' Zoe pressed, gripping her gun tighter.

'Ah you see, we work for a group who let Mossad know what they know. So in reality Mossad knows everything we let them know.' He smiled slyly.

Jacks team was dually confused and shocked at the claim. Adams pressed on, 'so in finishing I know an awful lot and we came across you in our dealings with other rather nasty people out there...'

'Real nasty people. Horrible pains in the tail.' The girl with the cat ears interrupted.

'Yes quite... thank you Tara.'

'Who do you normally deal with?' Stretch asked.

'We are Illuminati hunters.' Adams answered, 'we've been at it for quite a while and are pretty good at it.'

'The Illuminati. Seriously? We've all read Dan Brown's novels. The Illuminati do not exist in modern culture.' Jack scowled.

'Yes they do Capt West. You've fought against them, your father was one. Capt Schofield came up against a branch known as the Majestic 12. They are out there just hiding in plain sight under different names.' Adams explained.

'Wolf was Illuminatus?' Pooh asked.

'The whole Caldwell Group was.' Adams explained.

'Well I'll be damned.' Mother breathed, 'so half of the US Government and Military are linked to the Illuminati?'

'Pretty much but it's significantly less than half.' Cassie explained.

'Either way, Capt. West, I am here to secure the Pillars, you and your friends and family in a secure location until our people deal with the assassins after you and we have to move fast.'

Jack mulled it over. At least he was going with the Pillars and everyone else. His head was telling him to open fire and make a run for it himself but his gut was saying to trust this Adams, for just a little bit longer. 'Ok we'll go with you, but I will not let the Pillars out of my sight or one of my team's sight, is that clear?'

'Crystal. Now hurry up get things squared away, we have very little time and a plane waiting for us in Perth.' Adams pressed walking towards Jack on the deck, but stopped in his tracks at the sound of multiple gunshots. They locked stares...

'That wasn't us, except the pilot all of us are right here in front of you.' Adams explained, pulling his rifle up. They kept staring at each other. Jack flicked the straps holding his pistols in their holsters off and had his hands hover beside them. Adams slowly and softly flicked off his safety catch. Everything was tense, everyone was tense.

'Boss I don't think we're alone out here.' Tara said nervously.

'Jack this isn't right.' Zoe called out. Jack was thinking the same.

Everyone's eyes where pealed wide scanning for trouble and scanning each other. There was nothing around them but sand and dust, it was so still and silent it that a mouse could breathe and you'd hear it. Adams knew there were at least 3 other people out there that shouldn't be but he couldn't pin point where they were. It was pissing him off, were the fuck are you? He growled inside his head. The group was shaken from their trance when a series of small distraction charges went off and bullets raked the air. Adam's team dropped to their bellies under the zooming bullets, Adams dump tackled Jack to floor. Adams was surprised when no bullets where coming anywhere near them. Jack's team ducked under the window edges.

'Holy shit these guys have been here a while to lay this ambush Major.' West shouted above the din of gunfire.

'I concur Captain they've been here a while, but they can't shoot for crap, missing us by a mile.'

'Ah that'll be one of my secret weapons; deflects bullets but not rubber ones.'

'That's rather cool. So I can charge these guys and they can't shoot me to shit?' Adams asked hopefully. Jack nodded rapidly, 'spotty dog. Back in a bit.'

Adams leapt to his feat and powered through the sandy ground at the nearest attacker, screaming at the top of his lungs.