Jackson Hunt and Colin heaved themselves up on to the Cat from the water edge. They changing into the mission suits. They quickly wiped up any sign of water on the deck and peering from the main cabin. They scurried off the Cat well supplied with weapons and several Gas grenades. They hid in the foliage which this island was covered. Looking at the PDA's Charles' maps was showing the rest of the group still in the Dining area then another set of dots were congregating at the barracks. That is where they were moving slowly toward.
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The dinner was over and Casey looked at the clock it was 7:55 only 5 min to reach the rendezvous point. Casey talked quietly with Charles then he nodded his head. Gids looking after Mary noticed Casey was leaving.
"Mr. Casey? Are you leaving?" Gids asked.
"Yeah I am not needed for the demonstration and I am going to walk around." Casey said.
"Well in that case take Daniel he will escort you around. There are some interesting places on this island." Gids said.
"Sure Daniel let's go!" Casey said exiting the building and opening up one of his cigars. He offered Daniel one. Daniel accepted.
"I am sure to be away from those stuff shirts that tall one especially I know he's your boss but Gee playing with toys at his age! When I was his age I was in the streets of Fallujah." Daniel said.
"Yeah I been there and Afghanistan Too" Casey said.
"I figured you were a vet." Daniel said. "Army Rangers! Hoorah!"
"Marine 24 years!" Casey said getting out his pictures of his guns.
"Hoo that is nice one" Daniel said. "I have something on this island which would interest you."
"Oh what is that?" Casey said following the younger man.
"Why don't we have a shooting contest winner has to buy the beer." Daniel said.
"It sure beats sitting around doin' nothin' You are on." Casey said pulling out his pistol.
"Only a 9 mm? that is pretty wimpy!" Daniel said pulling out his double eagle 50 cal.
"Nice guns. So where is this range?" Casey asked.
"It is by the barracks. Do you want to try to snooker the rest of the team? We could get a betting pool going." Daniel asked all enthused on winning back his money he lost in the last poker game.
"Yeah? Let's go and announce the contest Army Puke vs. Marine!" Casey said.
The two men passed by Jackson hidden in the bushes. Jackson motioned Colin to follow.
Getting to the barracks the two men stopped.
"You go in first and announce it I am going to finish my smoke! Make sure you get everyone together to place those bets." Casey said.
"Yeah you bet I will be right back." Daniel said.
Jackson slid behind Casey and tried to take him out. Colin locked all the exits then before the last door was locked he threw in the Flash bangs and Gas grenades.
Jackson was having a very hard time with Casey they were pretty evenly matched.
"Who are you?" Casey asked as he dodged a blow to the face from Jackson's foot.
"I'm your worse nightmare!" Jackson tried another round house kick but Casey fell back and it missed. "Tell me how do you like working for Bracken?"
"Bracken Hey Guy I do not work for no Bracken I work for Charles Carmichael and Who are you?" Casey said starting to get winded.
"Carmichael? Charles and Sarah? I know his mother Mary!" Jackson said stopping his attack. "Oh so sorry I mistook you for one of the Xe Corp pukes. Jackson Hunt CIA."
"Oh you are with Frost? And who is that with her?" Casey asked.
"Oh she is a disgruntled Xe Corp employee coming to tender her resignation personally." Jackson said when Colin arrived.
"I've tied them up and the gas will hold them for 10 hours or so long enough to alert the Seal teams." Colin said "Dad who is this fellow?"
"Oh I don't know. Who are you?" Jackson asked.
"Oh yeah I'm John Casey former NSA now chief of security for CI." Casey said reaching out his hand.
Jackson took it and then said.
"We need to get to the mole and take her to safety." Jackson said.
"The mole? I do not know who that mole is?" Casey said.
"Oh right she is Carmine Bracken's Daughter Caroline." Colin said.
"Oh her she was being escort into that hallway there." Casey pointed at the large building.
Casey along with Jackson and Colin returned to the building and incapacitated Caroline's thug guards quietly with twilight darts. Colin pulled them into a room and tied them up.
Caroline's eyes were wide when Jackson stepped up to her.
"Hi I am Jackson Hunt. We are here to escort you to safety." Jackson said.
Caroline hearing her savior's words hugged him.
"I knew you would come." Caroline said. "We must hurry my Mother is about to watch that demonstration."
"Colin take her to the Cat then hide her." Jackson said.
Colin stepped up.
"Hi I'm Colin Jackson is my Dad please come with me." Colin said.
The young woman took his hand then they left for the safety of the Cat.
Jackson satisfied started incapacitating guards wherever he found them following the PDA showing where they are. Jackson was using the twilight darts and left Casey to return to the demonstration room.
Charles noticed when Casey appeared a bit ruffled. He raised his eyebrows at him. Casey just shrugged. Charles was standing in the middle of the room.
"Ok as you can see there are two terminals both terminals will have their screens put on the overhead video monitors so you can see what the adaptive software is doing. There are three overhead screens. One in the middle is the adaptive software commands and responses. The one on the right is Laz and the one on the left is Black Arrow. These men are highly feted by their peers in the hacking community. Now gentlemen you have 15 mins. As soon as you are seated you can begin and Now!" Charles said.
Charles standing next to Carmine was commenting on how quickly the attacks were thwarted and adapted to each hacker's style.
"You see the program learns about the intruder then can anticipate what their next move. As you can see in the middle screen highlighted in Red the way the software is learning moves from Black Arrow. But notice for Laz no learning taking place. Laz is using a method called in hacker terms Freaking the Castle. The attacks he is giving have no discernable reason but notice he is not able to confuse the software. He is just not letting it learn anything from him." Charles said.
At the end of the 15 minutes the demonstration was over neither hacker was able to penetrate the adaptive firewall.
"Impressive but I think I will not be buying your software Mr. Bartowski!" Carmine said.
Carmine now had a pistol on Chuck.
"Come Come now you surely didn't expect that you would capture me this easily?" Carmine sneered.
"What do you mean I am selling software!" Charles said.
"I know all of you!" Carmine said. Sarah Bartowski of CIA fame, Mary Bartowski also from CIA, you I don't know at all, Black Arrow, The Bryce Freaking Larkin also from CIA. Laz I have no info on you but as you can see my men are holding guns on all of you." Carmine said.
Laz seeing he was not needed sprung into action.
"Well since this little get together does not include me I am blowing this popsicle stand!" Laz said as he jump up and caught the chandelier. With one quick motion he swung that chandelier. It broke off its mooring then crashed through the panoramic plate glass window along with Laz over the cliff it over looked.
Having that diversion team Bartowski acted and soon they were in hand to hand battle.
Colin had contacted the seal team for extracting the prisoners.
They had been waiting for the call and had been position low on the horizon so they would be arriving in 10 mins.
Carmine noticed the blips coming in on her PDA.
"Men get the missile battery ready! If they want a fight well I will give them one" Carmine said as she rushed out to her sealed bunker.
Charles tried to catch her before she disappeared behind a sliding secret wall.
Getting to her lair she push the button to fire the laser guided missiles but the command did not respond. Desperately she pressed it again and again.
Then the view screen in her lair lit up. It was the face of Charles Carmichael.
"As you can see Ms. Bracken your commands work! Too bad you did not buy the software then you would know how to remove the adaptive firewall I placed in your system. You are entirely locked out. But there is a consolation. Everyone here will be going to prison with you. I do not think you will be much welcomed." Charles said.
The door opened to her lair then Sophie and Jackson came in.
"Carmine Bracken you are under arrest for the Murder of 7 security guards, escaping lawful custody and for criminal conspiracy." Jackson said.
Sophie came up to the woman and slapped her silly and knocked her out.
"There I resign!" Sophie said stapling her resignation letter to Carmine's forehead while she was passed out.
Jackson escorted the passed out Carmine to the waiting choppers. She was bound and the ships were brought to the island.
Gids was astonished see all this firepower level at his island.
"I had no dealings with this woman. I worked for the Xe Corp and maintained the island." Gids said.
"Ok Gids I will tell you what I will do is you can stay here and watch over the island until it is sold. Then you can negotiate with the new owners whoever they are." Jackson said.
Sarah hugged Charles and asked. "Where did Laz Go?"
Laz hearing his name poked his head up from the window frame.
"You're looking for me? Is the shooting over?" Laz asked. "Ah Sarah so touching!"
He climbed over the window frame and entered the room.
"Great diversion Laz we could not have done this without you." Charles said patting his frenmy on the back.
The center view screen lit and a familiar figure was shown to all.
"Great Work Team!" The figure said.
"Hey Diane I thought I no longer work for you." Charles said.
"You don't I was talking about them!" The General was pointing to Jackson, Mary and Sophie.
"Thank You General!" They all said then Sophie giggled.
"Hey you all want lift out of here?" Charles asked "there is plenty of space in the CI jet."
"Thank Charles I would appreciate a lift back to NYC if you don't mind." Jackson said.
"Well we can go to Teeterboro is that close enough?" Charles said.
"Yeah it is fine I have family in NYC to see." Jackson said.
Colin said good bye to his Dad and was escorting Carmine to be placed in UK jurisdiction first.
The Navy was mopping up any resistance which was limited and started to dismantle the massive weapon systems installed on the island.
Charles removed the proprietary software.
Everyone said goodbye to Gids. They all climbed aboard the CI jet and it was winging its way to NYC.
"Sarah?" Charles asked.
"Yeah Chuck?" Sarah replied.
"I hear there is going to be an Island for sale soon?" Charles asked.
"Yeah I heard that too." Sarah said.
So what do you think do you want to buy an Island? Charles asked.
"Nah! I'm kind of bored with island life let's get back to Burbank!" Sarah said kiss her husband.
A few seats away Casey was seated next to Morgan which was describing in detail which sandwich he bring to a desert island. Casey just groaned.
Caroline sat next to Jackson and Sophie. She was excited to go meet her most favorite author.
Mary was in the back talking with Stephen.
"Mary please, Will you remind Jackson to tell his Son about writing the sequel!" Stephen said.
"Right Stephen I will see you in DC soon." Mary said hanging up with her husband.
"Bye Mary." Stephen said to open air.
Mary walked up to Jackson who was sort of dozing.
"Hey you wake up." Mary sweetly said.
"Hey Mary what can I do for you?" Jackson asked.
"When you go back to the loft tell your son Stephen still wants to see that sequel written. Can you do that?" Mary asked.
"Yeah for Stephen I will." Jackson said going back to sleep.
Caroline hearing the conversation spoke up.
"Mary what sequel…? I have read all of Richard Castle books I wonder would it be another Nikki Heat? Or maybe another Derrick Storm…? I saw he dedicated his last book to his father." Caroline asked.
"No none of those Caroline…Wait I have a copy of the book he is referring to." Mary said as she left and brought it back.
Caroline was excited to learn of a book she did not know from her favorite author.
"Here it is" Mary said handing the book to Caroline.
"'Out From the Wilderness" She said reading the title "A True Life adventure of Katherine Castle Alone in the Wilds of a Pennsylvanian Forest with her return and rehabilitation. By Richard Castle and Katherine Castle"
Mary just smiled.
"Oh thank you I did not even know this book was out! Caroline said hugging Mary then soon she was reading deeply into the book.
Mary smiled and returned to her seat.
Soon the plane landed in the Azores for fueling and then it was airborne once again to NYC.