Chapter 133: Do It Now In a Minute.
After the night in the barn, the group were rather glad to once again get on the move, fortunetly it didn't take them long to make the final leg of the journey to the Fort of the Minutemen and doubly, fortunately, the call had been indeed made head of their arrival or they might have very well had somewhat of a different reception upon their arrival.
As the group stood outside of the gates with their hands up trying to look non-threatening a group of soldiers dressed in rather raggy camo fatigues as well as some wearing what appeared to be a kind of cowboy hat and duster coat garb approached them with weapons at the ready.
"You Fuller?" one of the group asked looking at him dead in the eye as he drew close.
The man was in his mid-forties and had a look that Fuller knew well, this man was most definitely a veteran as his whole demeanour simply screamed it.
"Yeah that would be me, I see that the captain called ahead for me," he said.
"Yeah he did, said you guys were a great help to his guys and he would be on his way here soon, said you had some kind of proposal for us to hear but I can't say I exactly approve of the company you keep," the man said glancing between both Malakai and Ven.
Before Fuller could respond Malakai got there first.
"And I can't say I approve of your dress sense or the care you take of your uniform, so I guess we got something in common already," he said causing the man to snap his attention towards the large Arachnakai in surprise before marching up to him.
"You got something to say spider boy?" he snarled and Malakai lowered his hands and then lowered himself on his legs so he was at the same height as the man before fixing his large frontal facing eyes on him.
"Yeah if you could sew as well as well as you can run your mouth you'd be immaculate," he said without ever blinking making the man snarl and bunch his fists like he was going to throw a punch.
"Wouldn't do that if I were you," Ven suddenly said and the man's attention snapped to him.
"Oh why's that then ya great scaley bastard?" the man said bitterly as Ven gave him a fang-filled grin at the challenge in the man's voice.
"Simple because he's a lot faster and a lot stronger than he looks, I can promise you he'll have you hog-tied and on the ground before that hand gets even halfway to him, but then maybe you're the type of guy who secretly likes that kind of thing, you certainly have the vibe of one," Ven said causing the man to snarl loudly before marching up to him and trying to square off with him which just looked ridiculous given Ven's size.
"And how the fuck would you know what type of man I am!/ You don't know me from fucking Adam you fucking oversized handbag!!" the man yelled and instantly Fuller felt the situation starting to spiral out of control here, he needed to get a handle on this and quickly.
He turned to GLory and gave her a subtle nod which she passed on to Yumi and before the man could escalate things any further Fuller stepped forward and punched him clean in the side of the head with enough force to drop him to the ground at Ven's feet.
As the other two armed soldiers wet to turn towards him both Glory and Yumi shot forward and snatched the weapons right out of their hands before Malakai seeing how this was going snagged the pair of them in his webbing and hog tied the pair of them faster than any of them could blink.
"Yeah not gonna let you insult my friends I'm afraid, if you have a problem with either of them then you got a problem with me," Fuller said stepping off to the side and dropping into a fighting stance that clearly showed his intention.
The veteran got slowly to his feet and spat out a mouthful of blood before rubbing his chin and jaw.
"Hell of a right hook you got on you there kid," he said slowly and in much less of a threatening tone as he glanced down at his two soldiers who were both tied up in thick webbing silk at Malakai's feet as the large Archanakai boy stood with his arms folded over his chest and still holding no weapon.
"You should see my left cross," Fuller said and the man chuckled and nodded.
"Alright now I know what you lot are about and how far you are willing to go you want to come in or what?" the guy said causing the whole group to glance around in confusion all except for Fuller who knew exactly what this was, it was a hazing test.
He'd seen plenty of them in his time in the Enclave, it was a kinda ritual among some veteran soldiers and it took a million different forms, everything from accepting a beasting to seeing how far you could push a new recruit before they lost their shit and started swinging punches, this had obviously been the latter.
"Love to but some names would be good first," Fuller said gesturing to Malakai to cut the two soldiers on the floor loose which he did without question and even went as far as to help the pair to their feet.
"Staff Sargent Ben Murphy at your service and these two green idiots are Corpeals Michals and Scott, sorry about the hazing but I needed to see for myself what lengths you were willing to go when someone threatened your friends there, must say I've never exactly had a polite conversation with someone who wasn't human before and I was kinda sceptical, but I can see now that you are as good as your word when it comes to standing together, I mean you could have easily had your rather odd friends here take us out and I doubt there would have been much that we could have done about it but you didn't and more than that you stood up for them, that's what in my eyes counts the most, a willingness to stand tall for your principals no matter what," Murphy said rubbing his bruised jaw again.
Fuller could see that the others were looking to him for clarification here as confusion was kinda rife.
"It's a cornerstone of what this group is founded upon, but you'll see that when the rest of our ambassadors arrive," Fuller said.
"Yeah the captain said something about that, said you were gonna organise some kind of sit down between us, the Brotherhood and some other group of bird people or something?" Murphy said and Fuller nodded.
"Yup not to mention the Railroad as well, we have an alliance going and we want you to be a part of it in order to create a unified Boston that is strong enough to repel people like the Enclave and the Raiders as well as more shadowy groups like the Institute," Fuller said.
Murphy instantly growled doing a rather good impression of a bulldog licking piss off a nettle.
"Don't talk to me about those fucking loonies, my boys and girls are fucking sick of mopping up those creepy fucking synthetic wannabes that are wandering around the place, now we keep hearing stories of them making synths that look and talk like normal people while replacing people with em to further their agenda, its lunacy I tell you," Murphy said.
"It's also the truth," Glory said and Murphy looked at her curiously, raising a bushy and greying eyebrow as he did.
"Oh? And what makes you say that missy?" he asked.
"Because I am one of those synths," she said flatly and Fuller could almost feel the smile that she was giving off as Murphy's jaw dropped open.
"Pretty bold claim there missy, but how do I know you ain't got one of them there mental illness thingies?" he said.
"Simple because I had quite a few of the institute courses trying to frag my ass when I escaped, the Railroad saved me and pulled my glorious black ass out of the fire, been running with them and helping free synths just like me from them ever since, you see that's the thing you have to realise about synths like me, we didn't get a choice on being created just like you didn't get a choice on being born but here's the kicker, we're just as sentient as you are, same thoughts, same wants, same needs, same feelings just built differently is all," Glory said.
"Well fuck me sideways I never really thought of it like that, I mean when you keep hearing all these stories of synthetic boogy men just popping out of thin air and making off with people it's real easy to get kinda jades you know?' Murphy said and Glory nodded.
"Yeah only too well, problem is most of those synths have absolutely no idea who they are let alone what, they don't do it through choice though that much I can assure you," she said.
"Well let's not stand around out here, it sounds like we got a bunch to talk about, any idea when those ambassadors of yours are gonna arrive?" Murphy said gesturing to the large gateway to the Fort.
"They are waiting for our call to make their way in, so if I could use your comms equipment to send a message that would be great," Fuller said.
"That shouldn't be a problem," Murphy said as they all began to troop past him towards the entrance though Malakai stopped when he was about to pass him and looked him up and down.
"I meant what I said about that uniform you know, but give me a space and I'll sort that shit right out for you, have it better than new in a heartbeat," he said and Murphy glanced at Fuller who simply grinned at him.
"He means it why do you think we all look so sharp?" he said before turning back to the entrance and making his way inside.
As the group made their way into the main yard of the Fort Fuller spotted the radio mast that they used for broadcasting their Freedom Radio station that could be heard all across the region.
They also seemed to have some large artillery cannons set up for lobbing shells over incredibly long distances should one of their members call for a strike, but by contrast, there were also small farm plots growing vegetables and even chickens running around pecking at the feed that was being thrown down for them.
"This whole place is like a tailoring nightmare!" Malakai said rotating himself on the spot and looking around as his pedipalps vibrated with nervous energy.
"Well, then what are you waiting for?" Fuller said and Malakai turned on the spot to look at him curiously.
"Oh come on don't look at me like that we both know that if I don't give you free rein to fix them up you are gonna wind up going bald with anxiety and then I'm going to have to answer to your sparkly missus when we get back and she finds out that you have a tattoo under there that says I love Tarantulas or something," Fuller said jokingly and Malakai twitched his pedipalps at him in annoyance but he spotted a woman walking towards the armour with a coat full of holes and he turned on the spot to track her.
"Oh for the love of all the gods, yeah alright you win I'm going!" Malakai said and before Fuller could even start giggling to himself Malakai had scuttled off to confront the woman, it took him a grand total of twenty minutes to wind up with a booth set up in the corner of the courtyard with a rather large queue running from it.
Once he'd made his call on the radio Fuller turned to Murphy who was keeping a close eye on him and he gave him a nod.
"All done, they'll be inbound soon most likely by Vertibird so if you can clear them a landing space that will be great," he said.
"Ohh fancy, we've only got one of those things that works at the moment and we called it in to go pick up the captain a while ago, should be arriving soon, but while we wait for that let me take you to the war room and introduce you to the rest of our leadership," Murphy said gesturing to a large retractable blast door set into the wall.
As the three of them walked given that Glory was still not letting Fuller out of her sight, Murphy turned to look at Malakai who was sitting on a couple of large sacks and had his head covered in his magnifying set up while he stitched.
"Well that spider boy of yours sure is popular around here," he said and Fuller chuckled.
"He's popular where ever we go, you'd be amazed how many doors having a spider boy who can sew and tailor opens, he's an absolute wizard when it comes to making soft armour as well, all this stuff you see us wearing is not just for show you know, that gear on Ven there can absorb machine gun fire and let him run right through it like you were dousing him with a water pistol, its fucking incredible stuff," Fuller said causing Murphy's eyebrows to shoot up in alarm.
"You mean to tell me that your Claw boy is bulletproof?" he said and Fuller laughed.
"More like bullet resistant but yeah it can soak up some serious damage before it reaches his scales which are like armour themselves, so yeah make of that what you will," he said.
"Fuck me if we had opened fire on you guys out there we really wouldn't have had much of a chance would we?' Murphy said and Fuller simply grinned at him.
"Always keep your friends and enemies guessing is my philosophy," he said with a chuckle.
As it happened it took less than an hour for everyone to arrive and boy did Raymond's group make one hell of an entrance, coming in multiple Brotherhood Vertibirds to deliver the whole group at once.
Though Fuller could instantly see the nervousness of the Minutemen as multiple Super Mutants as well as another Claw not to mention others all came down the ramps and formed up around the place.
After introducing himself to Raymond and his group Fuller guided the ambassadors of each group which turned out to be a Paladin of the Brotherhood and a high-ranking officer of what the Valkyries called the Featherguard as well as Raymond himself into the war room to meet the rest of the Minutemen leadership.
As well as the Captin who had helped out Fuller there was their new General who was a straight-talking woman in her mid-thirties called Molly Redfield, plus two of her regional commanders a tall black man called Preston Garvey and a rather thick-set man with flame red hair and possibly the bushiest moustache Fuller had ever seen in his life called Markus Clover.
Though Fuller did think he'd probably have to keep Malakai away from him just in case he was overwhelmed by an urge to knit his moustache into a scarf or something.
Once the introductions were done everyone took their seat at the table, Fuller was here only in an advisory capacity now as he was not really the diplomatic type given that his version of diplomacy involved hitting a target a few hundred meters out with a high calibre weapon, he'd rather leave that to the experts like Raymond.
"So young Captain Sanchez here informs me that you and your quite frankly extraordinary group of fellows here have quite the offer for us?" General Redfield said gesturing first to Captain Sanchez who favoured Fuller with a nod of acknowledgement before gesturing around the table to the others seated at it.
"Indeed, as I'm sure my college Ethan Fuller here formerly of the Enclave's ESF and now of the Free peoples informed him we represent a growing coalition of powers in the region, first of all, you have the Free Peoples of the Wastes a group dedicated to the unity and freedom of all peoples everywhere, no matter their origins or the face they wear, it is our aim to stamp out bigotry and misunderstanding between species as well as to end things like slavery for all races, as you can plainly see by the diverse group we bring we practice what we preach," Raymond said gesturing to the group around the table as well as to those still outside wandering around the courtyard and mingling with the Minutemen.
"Yes I have noticed that odd spider boy that Mister Fuller brought with him is surprisingly popular among my troopers," General Redfield said.
"His name is Malakai and he's an Arachnakai, a race of spider-human hybrids that hail from the Nevada area, he just so happens to be one of the best tailors you will ever have the pleasure to meet, he's also one of the nicest and most gentle people you could wish to meet unless you threaten him or his friends," Raymond said.
"I can definitely attest to that last part, I saw him throw an entire group of feral super mutants out of a tower block window because they shot at him," Fuller said.
"Quite," Raymond said before turning back to the table.
"Others present here today are Paladin Wright of the Brotherhood of Steel and Jewel Lighttail of the Valkyrie Featherguard, as well as Glory of the Railroad, both have been empowered to speak on behalf of their governing bodies as I am on behalf of my people," Raymond said gesturing to each of them in turn.
"Quite a lot of heavy hitters here then," General Redfield said curiously and Raymond nodded.
"We wished to show you that we are quite serious about this union between us all, but maybe it would be better if I turn the floor over to both Paladin Wright and Jewel Lighttail to explain how this union came to be in the first place?" Raymond said and the General nodded gesturing for them to continue you.
So with that, both Paladin Wright and Jewel went on to explain the nature of the war that they had been fighting for weeks, which was not news to the Minutemen as they had been aware of it, but what they hadn't been aware of was that it was thanks to Raymond and his people that it had been ended.
Then Glory told her tale of how Fuller had infiltrated her outfit before faking his death and turning traitor to warn the Free People's of an impending attack on them as well as efforts already underway to destabilise the region.
This seemed to very overtly concern the gathered Minutemen officers as it seemed to tie in with reports they had been receiving as well and to hear it right from the mouth of someone who was there really seemed to hit home.
"But that is why we are here today, we have successfully joined these mighty groups together under one banner, now each is not just an ally but are friends united in cause and we wish to bring this to your cause as well," Raymond said.
"What would we get out of joining your little caucus?" General Redfield asked pragmatically.
"Imagine this if you would General, say a farm on the outer fringes of your territory calls for aid but rather than taking a squad of your troopers a couple of hours to reach them a troop of Brotherhood Knights or a rapid aerial assault squad of Featherguard, or even a group of the Free Peoples respond first and make it there in minutes, together we could form a network that spans the region and props the others up, we plug the holes in the others defences and strengthen one another, trust me when I say this you have not seen power until you have witnessed highly trained Super Mutant soldiers or battle Claws on the front lines of a battle, nothing strikes fear into the hearts of raiders more than a fierce sentiant Claw leading the charge at them," Raymond said gesturing to Lia his proud and noble Claw wife.
'Trust me General I've seen what these good people are capable of on both sides of the spuctrum, from fighting like beserkers to handing out hot meals to freed prisoners and slaves, these people are verything they preach and more, plus they handle people with a very even hand, while they were hosting the sit down between the Brotherhood Elders and the Valkyries they favoured nither side, their only aim was to create a peace between our sides and it worked, now look at us, for the first time in its history the Brotherhood of Steel is not only working with but traveling with non-humans and from a personal point here it has been a truly eye opening experience, it has given me a much deeper and greater understanding of the plight of the sentient non-human residents of this world, because they unlike us cannot fall back on the belief of human goodness and charity, because their expperiences vastly differ from our own, but the Free Peoples aim to change that but before you go beliving that they are out here giving a free pass to all non-humans who would treat humans terribly do not belive it, I have seen how these good people handle non-humans who would openly hurt innocent people and let me say this, they are far better at it than any of us are, nothing quite says step the fuck back than an angry armoured Claw kicking your front door in an bellowing in your face," Paladin Wright said with Jewel nodding away at her side.
General Redfield turned to Raymond and Fuller could see her sharp eyes analysing him and weighing up her options, it was like she was going through a mental checklist of pros and cons and manually ticking them off.
"So what would you ask of us in return for what you offer to us?" she asked finally.
"Simple General, join our fight, as we will pledge to aid you in your struggles join us in ours because whether you like it or not our struggles will become yours one day or another but look at it like this, if we are an alliance fall there will be no-one left standing between your settlements and the Enclave from simply steamrolling over them and annexing them, then the Minutemen will cease to exist as will the freedom it represents, same goes for the Institute, you and a lot of your people fear synths and from one side of the argument I can understand this fully, but honestly it's not the synths themselves you should be fearing its those in the shadows pulling the strings and deploying these innocent people as sleeper agents among the groups, we need to cut the head off the snake itself and end this, with your help and manpower we will one much larger step closer to this," Raymond said plainly.
"This is a lot to consider Representative Raymond," she said and he nodded.
"Indeed and we fully understand this but what we'd like to do is to give you a demonstration of not only our commitment to the cause but of what we can truly offer you, words are pretty things indeed and in my personal opinion one of the greatest things created as they allow us to be heard and our intentions understood even by those different from ourselves, but sometimes more than words are needed, this is where actions come into play," he said and that really got the General's attention.
"What are you proposing exactly?' she asked.
"From what I overheard for the short time I was stood in the yard there were a lot of calls for aid coming in, allow us to deploy our allies to assist in this matter and we will prove to you our commitment to making this work, this also goes for ourselves too I might add, we of the Free Peoples would never send another to do a job we are not willing to do ourselves, so say the word and we will send a team of our best to any call you designate to resolve the problem at its root," Raymond said leaning forwards and placing his interlinked hands on the table.
The General looked truly amazed by this offer and she glanced between her advisors.
"We could really use the help out there General, there have been a lot of calls coming in lately, everything from Super Mutants to Raiders and more," Maurice said.
"Then let us help you," Raymond said and the General seemed to think long and hard about this before nodding.
"Alright Representative Raymond, if you and your people can help us clear our backlog of calls, we will give your offer very serious consideration, but I want to make it clear I make no promises here and now other than I will review your performance before I commit to anything concrete, acceptable?" she said and Raymond nodded placing his hand out on the table to her to be shaken.
She looked at it for a moment before taking it and shaking it.
"Well alright then let's get this party started as our leader Seven is so fond of saying, give us a list of calls and locations and we'll get right on it," Raymond said grinning all over his face.
The General nodded before rising and heading out with her staff to get to work on that list while Raymond led his people back out into the yard.
"Alright people we're gonna need all hands on deck on this one, I want this show to be a damn good one, we're gonna need everyone, Brotherhood, Free peoples, Valkyries and Railroad, I want this going flawless, so with that in mind I want people from this group here leading strike teams who will answer some of these calls, Jewel you take your featherguard and lead one, Paladin Wright you take another, Fuller pick out a team for yourself and Jack you take the forth," he said and there were nods all around.
"I'll organise us some rapid transit in the form of some Vertibirds, our leadership told me they are totally committed to this process so it's time for them to pony up and make good on that," Paladin Wright said which was a relief to the ground-based teams.
"We will not need transport all we require is a target and the Featherguard will prove its heart," Jewel said causing her comrades to clack their beaks and ruffle their feathers in approval and solidarity with their commander.
"Alright then people let's get this done, Fuller I want you to take Malakai with you as he is one of the most recognisable of us, he's also one of the best spokespeople for the group as a whole because who will scream non-threatening and friendly non-human more than a smiling Archanakai who will defend you from your enemies while also fixing the holes in your pants," Raymond said making Fuller nod and laugh before glancing over at the little booth that Malakai was currently manning.
"That's if we can actually tear him away from the Minutemen for five minutes, it seems that he's already winning hearts and minds one stitch at a time," Fuller said gesturing to the busily sewing and chatting Archnakai boy.
"Yeah he does that, you wouldn't believe how far a nice warm coat that both looks good and keeps you safe from bullets goes around these parts," Raymond said with a chuckle.
It didn't take long for the General to come back with a list of callouts she'd compiled and to hand it off to Raymond with a list of coordinates for each as well as the suspected issue.
There were a set of ten settlements on the list and Raymond got hold of a map and plotted each of them out before dividing them up.
"Alright people if we divide these up among the groups then we can take two each, Paladin Wright you and your squad take these two, Jewel you and your Featherguard these two, Jack you and the Ronin these two, Glory I know you are running with Fuller as part of his team but if you can relay these two to your heavy squads and finally Fuller you get these two," Raymond said drawing circles in different colours around the dots he'd drawn each representing one of the team sets.
Each of the leaders wrote down their targets and the possible problems that faced and as they were discussing their potential avenues of attack the Vertibirds that Paladin Wright had requested from the Prydwyn were arriving and landing outside of the Fort ready for pick up so she made a quick detour from the group to instruct each of the pilots who they would be taking orders from one of them also brought Oliver from the Brotherhood base as he had apparently wished to help out with the negotiations, so while he stood chatting with Raymond the teams grouped up and headed out to their Vertibird.
"There's no way in hell I'm gonna fit in the back of that thing," Malakai said looking up at the Vertibird's cramped rear cabin, this was an attack model rather than a cargo model.
"Though spiders were good at squeezing into tight spaces, or so Wisp tells us anyway?" Yumi said with a sly grin at the Archnakai boy.
He shot her a look with a series of raised eyebrows while he ran his pedipalps over his chin and fangs.
"Oh we are but If I get in the back of that care to point out to me where you are gonna sit?" he shot back and Yumi baulked at that as she glanced at the tight cabin.
"Err good point," she said.
"I have an idea, Malakai how good is your grip?" Fuller said looking at Malakai's eight feet.
"Excellent, why? Oh I'm going to fucking hate this aren't I?" the Archnakai boy said as he cottoned on to what Fuller was suggesting.
"Well he's a lot heavier than he looks," the pilot said as she applied extra throttle to lift the Vertibird high above the ground while Malakai clung to the bottom of the craft looking like a spider walking on the ceiling.
"I'll make sure to tell him you think his ass is fat when we land, he'll probably sew shoot me patches on the ass of your pants or maybe wide load," Fuller said making the pilot snort a laugh as she set course for their first settlement.
"I'd rather you didn't, once had a pet jumping spider that lived in the Prydwyn that I found in one of the crates that came in, little fucker used to munch on wasps like it was fuck all, it would be wandering around with these big fuck off wasps jammed in its gob looking real fucking pleased with itself, that spider boy of yours looks big enough to do the same to a fucking Vertibird," she said making Fuller laugh.
"I fucking heard that! And I'll have you know my ass is a perfectly reasonable size for my species and body type thank you very much, though I do like the wide load patch idea, I'm stealing that," Malakai yelled up through the floor of the Vertibird.
"Did I mention that he can hear with both his ears and the hairs on his legs?" Fuller said grinning at the startled pilot.
"No you left that part out," she said sounding a little perturbed.
"See the one thing I've learned since I joined the Free Peoples is the more you learn about non-humans the easier of a time you have with them," Fuller said with a grin aimed at the pilot while trying not to laugh at Malakai's makeshift biggles goggles what were covering his eyes up as he hung upside down under the vertibird.
"Yeah I'm actually starting to understand that, I mean when I saw my first Valkyrie up close I didn't know what the hell to think but then I got to talking one or two of the Featherguard and I kinda realised that while they look different from us they ain't no different on the inside, they just want the same things, plus I don't know if you've seen their floating city but the first time you do there will be no way on this gods green earth that you could say they are less civalised and sophisticated than us, hell if anything we could learn a fair bit from them, they pulled together and made themselves a floating eutopia," she said.
"Yeah I have been hearing about that place, you got to go up there?" Fuller said and the pilot nodded.
"Yeah running diplomatic missions, we have that chap Oliver and his entourage down in the base but we have an envoy up there too so we run missions between us, plus we run tech up to them that gets recovered from inside their territory by our teams as part of the deal we struck, it's really fucking something to behold it really is," she said glancing up at the clouds high above them as if she expected to see the floating city of the valkyries emerge from them.
"Amazes me that they managed to hide something that size for so long," Fuller said and the pilot nodded.
"They make real clever use of both mirrors and cloud cover, helps to make the whole place fucking invisible from the ground, hell you can only really see it from above, then you see all the different people flitting about just going about their day and it's truly amazing, it kinda reminded me of this sci-fi film I saw once but kinda combined with a giant Avery, but there's one thing I've learned its that you don't fuck with their Featherguard, they don't take no shit from anyone and fight like flying demons," she said.
"Sounds like you admire them, pilot," Fuller said and the pilot nodded.
"Hard not to when you think about what they did, we thought they were nothing but non-human tribal savages, but they not only fought us to a standstill but in places gained ground on us, thats no mean feat you know?" she said and Fuller nodded.
"Yeah even within the Enclave there's a decent amount of respect for the fighting ability and prowess of the Brotherhood, if there's one thing I know to be true it's only a fool who underestimates their enemy," he said.
"You ex-Enclave?" the pilot asked and Fuller nodded.
"Ex-ESF," he said and the pilot looked at him in amazement.
"Holy shit, heard some fucking serious things about you lot, think even the Enclave's own guys are scared of you lot," she said and Fuller nodded.
"With good reason, if they really needed a place to not exist or a person it was us they sent, went doubly for traitors," he said grimly.
"What made you leave then?' she asked and Fuller glanced at Glory.
"Two things and one person," he said.
"What things?" the pilot asked curiously.
'Truth and love," he replied and suddenly there was a beep from the pilot's console.
"Heads up we're thirty seconds out," she said.
"On the guns people, it's show time," Fuller said and the team began to brace.