Hey guys, so here is the next chapter. The arms fair has arrived and David, Penny, and Bolt are going to find the EMP hardened helicopter, and make sure that they put the tracking device on it before Lori and some of Calico's men manage to steal it. There will be some chapters left; I just hope that I'll get this done before summer starts. I hope you like it, and make sure you leave a review.
Chapter 11
Location: London, England
Time: 1200 hrs.
Event: British arms fair
It was a bright and busy morning in London, and the day of the arms fair had finally arrived. People were looking all over the main lobby that was filled with weapons of all kind, from machine guns, to tanks, planes, and other vehicles and firearms that were on display. Later, the expo was going to give a demonstration of a prototype for a new helicopter designed by Calico industries and made to withstand an electromagnetic shockwave and still maintain flight. David was the first one to walk through the door followed.
"Alright, so here's the plan" David said "I just got a special coupon that gives us a private tour with one of the manager's here, and he'll lead us to the EMP hardened helicopter, once we make it, Bolt will keep you covered while you plant the tracking device on it, so that way, if Lori and the other get away with it, we'll know where they will take it to, did you get that.
"Yeah" Penny replied "I think I got it"
"Good" David said "Let's go". They started walking towards the entrance, until Penny noticed that there were metal detectors at the security area and grabbed David by the shoulders.
"Wait a minute" Penny whispered to him "What if we can't get past this security?"
"Don't worry about it" David "I coated my gun and your gun with a special covering that makes them undetectable to metal detectors, we use to use them a lot on missions" and sure enough, when they went through the metal detectors, the red light didn't go off. Penny sighed in relief to herself and David whispered "See, I told you they wouldn't be noticed". Just then, a woman with blonde hair came up to them.
"Excuse me" the lady said to get their attention "Are you two here for the private tour"
"Yeah, we are" David said to the woman.
"Right this way" the man said to them "Your guide is waiting just up those stairs" he pointed to a flight of stairs that led to the next floor.
"Thank you very much" Penny said to the woman.
"It's my pleasure" The woman replied "Have fun" Penny and David looked at each other, then walked across the main floor where they proceeded to walk up the long stairs where the tour guide was waiting for them. Once they got up the stairs, they met the tour guide, who came from the British military.
"You're the VIP tour group I presume" the man said to them.
"Yes we are" Penny replied.
"The name's General Jackson" the man said shaking his hands "I came down here today to give a special tour of the arms fair, follow me please, and stay close" Penny and David heard him and began to follow him across the second floor area as they started the tour "As you can see, this arms fair is the largest housing of high grade military weapons, vehicles and other things from all over the world, including the new EMP hardened helicopter that will later be given a demonstration, any questions so far"
"What are the security measures here?" David asked in curiosity.
"Oh it's quite tight" Jackson said to them "I can tell you nothing will get past it"
"How can you be sure?" Penny asked. Jackson stopped for a minute and looked down on the area below them.
"We have security cameras in every room, and a few armed guards nearby every exhibit and display, if anybody tries to steal this stuff, these boys are willing to take any measures to protect this high grade equipment, basically, if it moves we'll kill it" Penny felt a little nervous at those last few words, and looked at the guards as they continued to walk across the platform towards a smaller area. David could feel that Penny was nervous, and moved beside her.
"Don't worry Penny" David said "Like he said, these guys are here to do their jobs"
"That's just about right" Jackson said hearing David's comment to Penny "Now come along, I'm gonna introduce you to the pilots that will be making the demonstration later, they are the best that this country has to offer. They continued to walk with him, but David had a strange feeling that another group was at this place too. They followed the General to a door that was on the left side of the hallway. Suddenly, as if he knew, David saw that there were enemies on the other side of the door, and saw it before anyone else would see it.
"Look out!" David yelled. He pushed Penny back and sure enough, a stream of bullets came flying from the other side of the door and hit General Jackson. After he fell to the ground, David got up and looked to see Lori with a group of Calico's men, with guns in their hands, and knew that they were here for the EMP helicopter. He got Penny and Bolt to a safe area where they could plan their next move.
"Looks like we weren't the only ones who came all the way here" Penny said to David.
"Yeah, I need to take care of them" David said to Penny while pulling a small tracking device out of his pocket and handing it to her "You and Bolt go up to that boat and place this tracking device on the helicopter"
"Got it" Penny replied. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the Walther PPK that David gave to her. He looked with a smirk.
"You know how to use that?" He asked in a playful tone. Penny just looked back at the gun, and with her other hand, she took the top of the gun, and cocked it into firing position.
"Yeah, I think so" Penny said with a smirk.
"Alright" David said "Good luck, and be safe"
"You too" Penny said before she and Bolt rushed off to find the helicopter. After they left, David went off to find Lori; after all, he did have a score to settle. He ran into a large room that was part of the exhibit with a group of men, she gave an order to half of the squad to get the helicopter, and they left while the other half was with her. David raised his gun and fired a shot at an object that was next to her to get her attention. She turned around slowly and saw her old friend and former leader right across the room from her.
"Well, looks like somebody has finally decided to catch up" Lori said sarcastically.
"Don't be so playful" David said "I know what you're up to"
"Really" Lori said "I have a job to do, and you're getting in the way" They hesitated for a few minutes, until finally, they drew their guns. Soon, bullets were flying all over the room, with Lori attempting to shoot David with her gun, and David gunning down a few of the men while the others attempted to take cover. After taking down a majority of the men, he took cover behind a sign so that he could reload his gun.
"Who knew you were still pretty good at stuff like this" he heard Lori yell to him "After all, you always were my daddy's favorite, everybody talking how great David Strider was, but now, you're an enemy to our organization" she stopped a bit to make a few signals to what's left of her men to advance slowly to where David was hiding "Even Blonski said that there was always greatness in you". When Lori said that name, David stopped, Blonski was the man that trained them in the first place, and knew them when they were very young, and he knew that if he wanted the truth about where they came from. Lori's voice interrupted him "So you might want to start praying, and soon you'll die like all of your other friends did in Shanghai".
"They were your friends too!" David yelled as he took out a concealed grenade. He pulled the pin off the top, and rolled it on the ground towards the other side of the room. Lori saw the grenade roll straight towards her and ran for cover. Unfortunately, the last two men didn't notice the grenade and were too late to run when the weapon exploded. Lori jumped and slid across the floor and escaped through the door just in time to escape the explosion. After the explosion cleared, David saw Lori rush off on the roof and was heading near the boat, and David remembered that Penny was off to place the tracking device on the helicopter, so he rushed off, hoping to catch up to Penny before Lori got to her first.
Meanwhile, Penny had just gotten on the boat and was making the way through the insides of the boat towards the helicopter where she would place the tracking device. Suddenly, several bullets hit the wall that caught her and Bolt's attention. They turned to see a group of men that were with Lori that were sent after her, while also going for the helicopter. Penny knew that they were after her and knew that she had to react.
"Bolt, kick" Penny said to her dog. Bolt obeyed her command and saw a barrel that flew right towards the men, and after it hit them, Penny and Bolt started to run as fast as they could across the hallways of the boat, making their way towards the main platform. After making it through the hallways and evading the followers, she made it out onto the platform where the EMP hardened helicopter was on the platform, several men where already getting inside the helicopter and were about to take off, and she and Bolt seized the moment.
"Alright Bolt, Throw it" Penny said to Bolt, giving him the tracking device. Bolt picked it up in his mouth and ran out onto the docks. The helicopter was just about to take off when Bolt threw the device out of his mouth and it soared through the air until it attached itself to the bottom of the helicopter and the small light on its side started blinking. Penny smiled as Bolt came running back to her as the helicopter was in the air. Then, Bolt stopped, looked over to Penny's right, and started to growl and positioned himself into battle ready position.
"Bolt, what's wrong?" Penny asked, not knowing what had gotten into him. All of a sudden, the sound of a gun cocking was heard from behind her, and turned around to see Lori pointing her gun straight at her.
"Well, well, well, it looks like the cat has finally got the mouse" Lori said with a smile.
"Oh, it's you" Penny said nervously.
"My father has special interest in you" Lori said to her "He will be very proud of me when he hears that we have you"
"Your father?" Penny asked curiously. Until she finally realized to herself that she was probably Calico's daughter, and that she knew that she was gonna be the hunters prize. Then, Bolt charged at Lori and knocked her down to the deck, and caused her gun to fire in the air, missing. Bolt looked at Penny and knew that he had knocked down his opponent and knew that it was only a matter of time before she got back up.
"Hey" a voice called out to them. They both turned to see David inside the boat, calling over to them and both ran to him.
"Did you get on there?" David asked them when they made it back to him.
"Yeah, well Bolt got it on there, but it's on there" Penny replied.
"Good" said David "We need to get off this ship, follow me" The three of them started to make their way through the hallway to the other side of the boat where they would make their way to the river which they would use as their escape route. Suddenly, machine gun fire was heard, and they saw that the helicopter was still flying near the ship and its weapons were armed and pointed at them. They ran faster and faster, as the firing weapons was tearing the boat apart, until they reached the edge of the boat, and the only way, was to jump into the water.
"Now what" Penny said to him. David looked and saw that the helicopter had followed them and was about to fire it's missiles at them.
"Jump!" David yelled, and when the missiles fired, the three of them jumped off the edge of the ship and landed in the water, while the side of the ship exploded above them. Underwater, David was looking at Penny who seemed alright, who knew how to swim, and figured that everything was gonna be fine. But suddenly, a piece of metal came down and David lifted his arms as the large chunk of metal came falling down and was heading in his direction. Then, Bolt swam all the way over and pushed the piece of metal over to the other side, preventing the piece of metal from falling down on him and saving his life. After that, he swam over to Penny, and they started to swim to the other side of the river where they would surface when they made it. Once they got to the surface, both of them started gasping for air, and drip-dried on the dock that they had just arrived to. Bolt was right next to them when they got out and started shaking all of the water off of his body to dry like a normal dog would.
"That was close" Penny said. She looked at David and noticed that he was thinking about something "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine" David said "I just feel like I need to see an old friend of mine"
"Who?" Penny asked.
"The man that my team knew when we were younger" David replied "I'll explain along the way" So after they finished drying up, they headed up the stairs of the dock and back out onto the streets, where they would head back to their hotel to plan once again.
Wow, another long chapter, but in my opinion, it was worth it. I hope you guys liked it, and this chapter has references to another level from "Goldeneye 007" (I hope you don't mind). So the next location will be Paris, France, and the next chapter will reveal something about David's past that was kept a secret from him and the other teammates, (except Lori of course). Please review, I will update soon.
