Call Sign: Wolf Ch. 7

Chapter 7

It's a little after lunch time and the woods a few miles south of Jasper Park is all quiet and peaceful. Birds chirp happily to each other and other smaller animals are going around and doing whatever it is they do in the afternoon. A squirrel sits in a tree nibbling on one of its last nuts. To it, nothing could go wrong, nothing could…

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Four ATVs speed their way through the forest scaring the said squirrel off its perch. These ATVs were operated by four humans which were covered in riding clothes. These people were the final remaining members of their ghost team. They are Merrick the calm leader, Hesh the supporter, Logan the jack of all trades, and Keegan the sniper. After their amazing victory over the Federation and killing off their leader Roark, other countries started to stand up against the Federation to try to push them back to their own country and stop them from spreading like that again. Once the Federation was pushed back into South America, the U.S.A. with the help of some of its allies started to rebuild its broken country back to its once glorious state. With the Federation at bay and not in a position to make any moves and the construction of their country well under way, the ghost team was allowed a few months of paid vacation to do whatever they want. When Humphrey told them off Jasper Park, the ghosts got permission from the park rangers to camp out in the park for 2 weeks max. When they told Humphrey and Riley about this, Humphrey didn't even wait for them to prepare or for them to take off his armor before practically dragging Riley with him running north to Jasper saying that they would meet them up there.

Here is where we find our squad of ghosts rolling to Jasper. Each human had a small ear piece walky-talky under their riding helmets so they could easily talk to each other.

"So, how much farther to the railroad?", Hesh asks while concentrating on not crashing into a tree or rock.

"Not much farther up, should be about 500 meters or so.", Said Merrick who was also concentrating on driving.

Soon the four made it to the railroad and stopped briefly to gain their bearings and move on north-west following the tracks to their next destination, Jasper Park. As they ride next to the tracks, Keegan looks to his GPS to see how far they are from their destination.

After briefly looking at the digital map, Keegan looks back up in front of him and says, "We've got two more miles to go before we reach Jasper."

A chorus of "Got its" came from the other three riders as they neared their destination. A few more moments of silence followed before Logan spoke up.

"You think Humphrey has already found himself a girl?", Logan asked.

There were a few chuckles form the others before Hesh answered, "Knowing him, probably."

"I just hope Humphrey knows what he is doing dragging Riley with him here, because as far as I know, dogs and wolves don't seem to get along together very well", Merrick said with concern in his voice.

"I know there shouldn't be a problem with what he said about his pack, but still I can't help but worry.", he continued.

"Don't worry about it,", said Hesh, "I know we can trust him to take care of Riley and himself."

Merrick just nodded along with everyone else knowing those two could survive almost anything if they were together. Know was no different. As they rode along, they noticed that it was approaching 3'o clock and knew that they would have to stop soon to set up camp if they didn't make it to the park, but as luck would have it, Keegan informed them that they were only a mile from their step off point. Once they reached the end of the last mile, the saw a rocky clearing on the right of the tacks and turned off their current trajectory to see how close they were to the park. They slowed to a stop near the edge of the cliff and turned off their quads and walked over to the edge to see the view. As they looked around, they spotted some larger, rocky hills in the close distance that had what looked to be caves in them. Logan got an idea and walked back to his ATV and took out a tablet with some analog sticks, buttons, and an antenna attached to it.

He walked back, turned on the tablet he said, "Humphrey dragged Riley out before we could take off their gear, so riley still has his guidance camera on him," (A/N, I have no idea what that device you control Riley with is called), "so if we are close enough to him, we can bring him to use or see where he is."

Everyone nodded and looked to the screen to see if Riley was close enough to them and by extension, Humphrey.

With Riley & friends-10 minutes earlier:

Riley, Humphrey, Kate, Eve, Winston, Lilly, Garth, Tony, and Alex were in the leaders den talking about the new Delta program and who they thought would be good to join the program. Since this was new to everyone but Humphrey and Riley, they were going step by step to try and smooth the process out. They had just finished talking about how Humphrey and Riley were going to start training Alex in the coming months once they find more members.

"Alright, so now that we have a training schedule made up, we need to find more members for the Delta Force.", said Riley.

Everyone nodded, except Alex who was asleep at this point next to his new mother Kate. Kate smiled and looked down at him before lightly nuzzling him making Alex snuggle closer to her.

Winston smiled at the scene and said, "You to seem to like each other, it seems it was a good idea to make you his parent."

All Kate could do was continue to smile down at Alex's sleeping form. Everyone was quiet after that and was enjoying the peace before a small, odd sound that Riley knew all too well. Everyone looked to him and saw a small metal rod slowly rise from Riley's vest and a small blue light turned on signaling that the electronic device was working. When the rod started to move left and right making everyone besides Riley and Humphrey, who recognized the device once he saw it as he never really used one, confused as to what was going on.

Riley smiled and turned to everyone before standing up and saying, "It looks like our new temporary neighbors are here."