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Chapter 14
Michael stood in the doorway to the room where Nicky had been taken after he'd been examined by the doctors. He motioned for Dom to come out into the hallway to talk to him.
"What did you find out?" Dom asked quietly.
"A couple of Horn's men said that Hawke took off in Airwolf about an hour and a half before our attack. He's taking automatic weapons down to Argentina," Michael answered.
"Well, what are you waiting for, go after him!" Dom replied raising his voice.
"It isn't that simple," Michael commented. "There are a lot of routes down to Argentina and we don't know which one he took. Airwolf, as you know, can fly undetected, plus he hasn't activated the other homing device. As soon as we find out where he is, we'll go after him," Michael reassured Dom.
"Let me know as soon as you find anything out. I'll be down here with Cait and Nicky," Dom answered. He started to say something else, but then decided against it and walked back into the room. Cait was sleeping on a cot that the nurse had set up for her and Nicky was asleep in the crib. They were both all right. He just prayed that String was too.
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Hawke was flying a roundabout route and slower than normal to get down to Argentina because he was waiting for word that the attack had gone as planned on Horn's hideout in New Mexico. He just had to be patient and wait for news.
Ten minutes later, the incoming call button flashed. Anxiously, he picked up the call before Horn's man could.
"What?"
"Let me talk to Jasper," the voice on the other end of the line said.
"Just a minute," Hawke replied. He turned in his seat and said, "It's for you."
"How do I get the call?" Jasper asked.
"You flick the third switch from the left. That should let you hear him," Hawke replied. 'And it will let me listen in, too," he thought.
"Jasper, there's been an attack on the compound in New Mexico. Horn wants you to finish delivering the weapons and then go to his compound in Guatemala. Watch out for trouble!"
"Okay. See you soon," Jasper replied and cut off the connection.
Hawke had a smile on his face as he plotted his next move. He switched on the auto-pilot and carefully grabbed the knife that was hidden down in the controls. Pretending that he hadn't heard the conversation, Hawke asked, "What did he want?"
"Nothing, just wanted to be sure we'd be getting there on time."
"Yeah, we'll get there on time," Hawke replied, then started counting down—3, 2, 1. When he hit one, he pivoted around in his seat and thrust the knife at Jasper catching him in the shoulder. Jasper already had his gun out and pointed at Hawke. He pulled the trigger as the knife connected with his shoulder. Hawke immediately turned his attention to the gun hoping to disarm Jasper before any more damage could be done inside Airwolf. They struggled for control of the gun as it went off 5 more times. Hawke then realized that Jasper had stopped struggling for control of the gun and fallen sideways in his seat towards the door.
'Good, that's gotten him out of the picture. Now I need to fly this bird back home,' Hawke thought. He reached over and turned off the auto-pilot. It was then that he realized that he'd been hit too. He saw blood on the front of his flight suit and felt moisture dripping down his neck. This was not a good turn of events. He just needed to turn on the homing device, land Airwolf, and wait for the Firm to show up to rescue him.
Hawke tried to reach the homing device with his left hand, but found that he couldn't move his arm, so he reached with his right arm and finally managed to activate the device. A sickening feeling came over him as he pulled his arm back. 'I'd better get this baby landed and fast or I won't make it,' he thought. Black spots started to interfere with his sight the closer he got to the ground and when he was still a hundred feet off the ground, he blacked out pitching the helicopter down into the ground with a loud crash.