Word of warning, the next two chapter may seem a bit repetitive so forgive me if they are.
October 18 2007
4:22 pm
"One of the realities of stealth is eventually, no matter how good you are, you'll be caught, that's when arms training comes in." I said. Karen was standing to one side while Jordan was holding burst pistol. "What you've got there is my favorite weapon the burst pistol. You pull the trigger and it fires three bullets, that will be enough to take out someone if they see you." I had set up a cardboard cut-out of a person about thirty yards away.
"Now," I said. "I doubt you'll be firing from this long range but it pays to prepare. The gun is point and shoot, all you have to do is aim it at the cut out and pull the trigger." Jordan aimed the gun with both hands and fired. She absorbed the recoil a lot better than I had thought she would, and she made three dead hits on the chest.
"Wow…" I said. Jordan smiled.
"I have a little pistol training myself, dad didn't want me to end up being a victim…" it was the first time I had heard Jordan mention her late father, she seemed to take it in stride. "You know that's one reason I want to fight, I want to get those fuckers for what they did to my dad." She shot again and hit the neck this time.
"Well," I said trying to keep her focused. "Since you know a lot about arms then it's time to move on to hand-to-hand. Now you don't want anything flashy, no Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon stuff. What I'm going to teach are simple hit-and-run moves."
"How do you know all this stuff?" Jordan asked.
"Karen's dad was an Aikido instructor, so I know a lot of moves, and if you think I know a lot should see Karen here, which reminds me," I turned to Karen. "Do you want to teach her this?"
"No I think you should, you're a better teacher than me anyway." Karen said. I turned back to Jordan.
"OK, chances are you'll be fighting a man so I want you to make a chop hand." She did. "now you take the pinky side of it, and feel, OK you found the hard spot, OK you strike with that." I showed her the moves first using Karen as my dummy. "You go, groin, stomach, neck and run. Now what I just showed you when done hard and fast should give you enough time to run from anyone, but if you have more than one person to fight you're in trouble. So it's best to avoid large groups of people whenever you can.
" Here give it a try one me, don't go easy, now I can morph off any, ow," Jordan did the combo I told her quickly. I fell over in pain. "not bad…" I said. "Karen, could you be a dear and find my right testicle, I think it landed over there…" Jordan laughed a bit, then looked concerned.
"You okay?" She asked. I got painfully to my feet with Karen's help.
"Fine, Fine…" I said I morphed cougar to repair the damage to my groin then morphed back. "Let me guess, you've had self defense classes before too?"
"A few." She admitted. "But hey every bit you of information you can give me helps.."
"I'll be honest with you Jordan. I think you know about everything I do."
"Then can I come with you on the next mission." I sighed.
"Jordan," I said. "The next mission is very dangerous, and I'm going to be using the entire Animorph team and my entire team on it, I'm going to need some back up plans, so I want you to stay here and continue the fight if we die."
"How am I going to do that alone?" Jordan asked. "And don't say things like that, you guys are not going to die."
"If we do then you'll be the last hope, and I'm going to give you the morphing power." I said. I got up and walked over to a bag I had brought with me and withdrew a small green box.
"I though the box was blue." Jordan said.
"Ours isn't exactly the same thing," I said walking over to her from where I put the bag down. When I got over to her she reached out her hand but before she did I stopped her. "I have to warn you the kind of morphing we do, it's painful, and it will leave you sterile, I know this is a big sacrifice so I want you to think before you touch this box." She waited only afew minutes then touched the box. I saw teeth grit, and knew she was feeling the shock from the box that felt like you had grabbed an electric fence.
"I already know how to morph," She said. "is there anything else you can teach me?"
"Nothing," I said handing her the cube. 'You go home OK, hide this, and don't tell anyone about it, if Jake finds out he'll hit the roof, and if we don't come back take the cube and give the power to some of the others here. Just hold the cube while they touch it."
"OK and I won't tell anyone." she said and left. I walked over to Karen and sat down. She sat down next to me looked at me and smiled.
"You're a good teacher." She said.
"Thanks," I blushed a little. "I hope I did the right thing I mean I just took away her ability have kids and have condemned her to horrible pain."
"Erik you did what you had to," she took my hand. "If we all died then there'd be no hope for the world, we need to have someone to carry on the torch. And she hasn't morphed yet so she could still have kids."
"She'll have morphed by the end of the day today she has too much of her sister in her not to." I laughed. Then it sunk in big time.
"One month… and then we go to fight, this could be our last month together." Karen smiled, she took my hand and put it on her breast.
"Then we should spend this last month well." She semi tackled me and we rolled around kissing for a while. We slipped each others clothes off and made love. After we finished we got dressed and returned to our cave.
We satyed in the cave for only a few minutes before a Hork-Baijar knocked on our door.
"Sir," He said after I opened the door. "Shipment come in, you must check." I kissed Karen and followed the Hork-Baijar. Danny had four large crates that he was wheeling in on carts with the help of other Hork-Baijar. They set the crates down and the Hork-Baijar opened them with their blades. I looked in the crates.
In the first one there were more guns. Four AK-47s with 100 clips of ammunition, that made our total 10 Aks, and 400 clips of ammo. We were defiantly ready gun wise. The next crate contianed the specialized C-4. It looked like a normal plastic explosive, but on the bottom was a special coating, it was a platinum-diamond alloy created by the Chee, once the alloy was activated (by peeling off the paper on the bottom.) It would be impossible to move the C-4. The third crate contained more C-4. The fourth contained Kevlar vests and gas masks.
"Looks good to me," I said. "Do we have anything else coming?"
"Yeah," Erek said. "We've got some flash/bang grenades coming along with more AK ammo and I think we may be able to scare up some M-16s, and HUD's if our guy in the military can sneak them out." HUDs were special masks that would inform someone if someone was near them. The HUD's would be only be used to ID allies for our purposes though, if it showed hostiles, well the screen would be full.
"How long do you think that'll take?"
"One week, then another three for you to get everything in order, right now it looks like we're going to do this on November 10th."
"OK then." I waked back to the cave. Karen was sitting on the bed waiting for me.
"So?" She said.
"November 10th"
"A new D-day" She said.
'Already in radio mode aren't you?"
"No," She said with a huge smile. "If I were in radio mode I'd say: Senator Bishop is the biggest liberal in the senate and I can't believe he could call himself a republican." I laughed aloud.
"Would a liberal do this?" I asked, I grabbed her by her head pulled her to me and kissed her. She looked up.
"Yes." She pushed me down on the bed and for the second time that day we made love. Afterwards we just lay there for a few minutes admiring each others bodies, then there was a knock at the door. I hastily put on my underwear and a pair of pants and Karen pulled on a shirt and cutoffs. I opened the door.
"Hope I didn't interrupt anything," Marco said noticing our hastily put on clothes. "But you need to get to the meeting hut, Jake wants to know if you've got a concrete plan together yet. I growled.
"That little bastard is in no position to demand anything from me but I'll be there, just give me a few minutes." I got fully dressed and walked arm in arm with Karen to the hut. Jerry was sitting outside teaching Sarah how to hack into secure sections of websites. I motioned for him to follow me.
The rest of the two teams was already there.
"I want you plan now Bishop." Jake said.
"If you insist," I said then murmured. "You dumb mother fucking son of a bitch"
"What was that?" Jake said.
"I didn't say anything."
"Children," Cassie said. "Can we please get on with the meeting.
"Fine," I said. "There is a Yerk Pool entrance at the train station we went to two missions ago. So Jake what we're going to do, Jake, is have the members of strike force Wrath already in position. When strike force Scorn breaks in I then I want you act like your afraid of the other team. Once strike force Scorn has secured a person to open the entrance we will take members of Wrath "hostage". Wrath will go in first and act like normal controllers. Scorn will hide near the entrance and not enter until Wrath gives the OK.
"Once wrath gives the OK scorn must enter with all guns blazing, this is meant to look like an all-out assault on the Yerk Pool so I want you to fire and kill anything that moves. Right now it looks like we may be able to get HUDs so friendly fire shouldn't be a problem. As for C-4 each member of Wrath will be given a map of locations to place the C-4. They must be placed there and no where else for the explosion to do any damage. We have plenty of C-4 so use it all, if you have extra stick onto bug fighters, blade ships anything you can get it on.
"Once we've expended all our ammo I want Scorn to go battle morphs and cause more problems there's only 400 clips total so that comes about 66 clips per person, each clip contains 60 shots that 3960 shots on full automatic I'll wager we'll be in battle morphs in about thirty minutes. When the C-4 is position we need to run, get out of there quickly and give the detonation signal. Then, games over."
"That's your plan, how are you going to accomplish it without killing someone?" Jake said.
"I doubt it'll work that way," I said simply. "There will almost certainly be casualties, so I want to know if your still behind me."
"We are," Marco said. "I want this to end." Around the room there were murmurs of affirmation.
"Very well then," I said. "November 10th."