"Did they hurt you? Are you ok?" Laura asked him nervously.
"Yes, I'm fine. Could you unlock me?"
"Hang on, I need to set a destination on the auto pilot. There." Laura crawled toward Enver.
"Do they know the combination?" She asked.
"No, but they have the combination for my old debit card that expired last year. It happened to be an important date to them, so I guess that the disguise is perfect for now." Laura finished untying him.
"Did you find their location?" She asked hopefully.
"Yes, I did, and you will not believe where they are right now."
"Try me."
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"Oh, I don't see her anywhere! I can't see the plane either!" Rebecca said in frustration.
"Maybe she's in a submarine instead of an airplane." Xarissa said thoughtfully.
"What?"
"Oh yeah, you had just left for that public school just before the mini planes were updated with the ability to become submarines. Hey, do you remember when the car's transformation to a plane was new?"
"Or when the mini planes in the plane that turned into a car were new too? Yeah, we were so excited." Rebecca smiled at the memory.
"But can you find Laura?"
Xarissa looked at Rebecca as if she had just asked her to find water in air.
"Of course I can! And I will!"
She was about to get started when they heard Laura saying,"Don't follow us. Things here are going to get ugly."
“Us?” Rebecca asked, looking at Xarissa. She noticed just then how empty it seemed without Caitlin, Sarah and Laura.
“It’s confidential,” Laura explained. “We need to do this on our own. Don’t try to bust in.”
Rebecca put a hand to her head and sighed. “Laura, just…”
“What?”
“Just…be careful out there.” Rebecca sat down tiredly.
“Will do,” Laura answered, and there was a sound that marked their disconnection.
Rebecca sat there for a while, and Xarissa wondered whether or not she should go back to the pilot seat. “So, any plans?” Xarissa asked.
Without a word, Rebecca got up and walked to the front. She sat down in the pilot seat and put on the headphones. She started up the engines.
“Laura said we have to trust her on this--”
“I know,” Rebecca intercepted. “We’re going back to Arizona.”
"Why?" Xarissa asked.
"One, we're almost out of gas. Two, we need to report to Adm. Taylor. Three, what else are we going to do to? We can't just wait around in the air-we might as well go back to base. And four, I want to check out that house in Flagstaff to see if there's anything interesting other than booby traps there."
Xarissa waited, then asked,
"Is there a number five?"
"No--yes. I'm homesick."
"That makes sense." Xarissa responded.
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"Do you think that they're gone?"
"For now." Laura confirmed. "But now, we need to go to Montenegro."
"Yes, Montenegro."
"Montenegro."
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"What? What do you mean by, he gave us the wrong combination?"
"Well, sir-"
"Nevermind, I don't want an explanation. I want you to make sure that that girl never reaches Montenegro! She can't retrieve those prisoners!"
"Yes sir! Immediately, sir!"
"You do know what could happen if you fail me again, right?"
"Yes sir."
"Good. I don't want to be forced to do this to you. Make sure that you succeed!"
"Understood, sir."
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