Preparations
Club in south L.A.; 10 pm, two weeks later.
Logan and Sam enter the club, "Logan, what are we doing here?." asks Sam, nervously.
"We're meeting with another member of our crew." replied Logan.
In the corner of the room, a small, rough looking man is poker with a large ,muscular man. "Four aces." said the large man, throwing down his cards.
"You cheated!" yelled the angry smaller man.
"No I didn't, your just not very good at poker so just pay up."
"Oh, I'll pay up." said the smaller man, pulling a concealed pistol from its holster. Before he can even point the weapon, the larger man pulls his own pistol and puts a bullet in his shoulder, the man collapses to the floor in pain.
"Please tell me that's not the guy." said Sam, seemingly disgusted at the man.
"Don't worry, he's a bounty hunter." said Logan, the two walk over to the man, who is just finishing handcuffing his catch.
"Why do you criminals always try to kill me before I spring the trap? You're lucky I'm such a good shot or that may of missed and hit you in the chest." said the man.
"Edward Rossmoor?" asks Logan.
"Only the cops call me that, call me Ed."
"Its me Logan, we talked on phone."
"Oh yeah, you want me to be your bodyguard for your trip in Borneo. Guess you heard that I now how to knock out a large predator with my bear hands."
"That and the fact you survived a year in the heart of the Congo after being ejected from of a drug dealer's airplane."
"One of the few times my pray got the better of me. Guess it was good I brought that parachute." said Ed with a laugh. He lifts the man he shot by the back of the neck. "I'll meet you at the airport. I've got to cash in on my bounty.", he turns to the bartender, "Sorry about the mess." he said as he leaves.
"Are you sure that guy is trustworthy?" asks Sam.
"Yeah, I hear he's very trustworthy." replied Logan.
"And why do we need him? I'm your guide."
"Would you rather deal with him or the jaguars? Did you forget what the zookeeper we visited in Borneo said about how a jaguar kills its prey? Let me think, it was something about it crushing its victims' skull in one bite."
"Point taken."
"Now we need to go meet with the final member of our team."
L.A. International airport, 10 am.
Outside the unloading deck, Logan, Sam, and Ed wait for one of the passengers before boarding their plane. Ed walks over to Sam, "Say I think I've seen you before somewhere, have we met before last night?" asks Ed.
"No, never." said Sam, in a strangely defensive tone.
Logan walks over with a Japanese girl about his age who is holding a laptop, "Guys this is Miki Saegusa, a graduate of an E.S.P research institute in Japan." said Logan.
"Hello, I'm glad to meet you." said Miki, holding offering a handshake.
Sam accepts it followed by Ed. "Hello, I'm Sam Mercer, so you can see the future or something like that?" asks Sam.
"I knew you would say that."
"You did?"
"No, I just like saying that. I'm a telepath but I can do minor telekinetic stuff like lift a pin."
"Look lady, I don't mean any disrespect but why do we need a psychic on this trip?" asks Ed.
"Miki is not just a psychic, see also is very talented at reading satellite photographs. Which could come very much in handy, you know in case there's a landslide or something like that." said Logan.
"That's also another reason I'm coming. Please have look." said Miki, she sits down and opens her laptop. A picture of Borneo pops up with thermal imaging, she enlarges a elliptical object on the east slope of Mount Kinabalu. "This is a heat sensitive satellite photograph of Borneo. The object I've enlarged was uncovered by a landslide about three weeks ago, we have no idea what it is."
"I saw something when I was flying over the mountain two weeks ago, the plane moved out of range before I could get a closer look, it was huge." said Logan.
"Our estimates place it at about 120 meters long and 17,000 tons."
"That's massive." said Sam.
"And look at the thermal image, its far to warm to be a rock."
"Well I say we go check this out, Sam's boss is paying the tab and I charge by the hour." said Ed, the group boards the plane.
Ok theres another chapter down, sorry the chapters are so short at the moment, it will pick up I promise. I'm also sorry if I offended anyone in L.A. by useing it the way I did. Make note of how Sam acted in this chapter, it will have bareing later on Next up we have some action as Logan and his crew trevel into the rain forest.