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"You do understand that retrieving those prisoners is a large responsibility?" Adm. Taylor asked the girls.
"Yes, sir. But why would she do this alone?" Sarah asked.
"This is Laura's responsibility and hers alone. You need to stay out of it."
"But what if she fails?"
"She won't."
"But what if she does?"
Adm. Taylor remained silent.
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"Wow!" Rebecca was still awestruck, and they had been flying the plane for about 2 hours already. Connor chuckled.
"I knew that you would love it!"
"Will it ever run out of gas?"
"It's running on solar power. As long as it's outside, it will run. The battery also lasts for quite a bit. I'm actually really proud of myself!"
Rebecca was breathless. Dang! This is like a dream come true!
"We're going to land in about an hour."
It was so fast, it wasn't even funny.
"Remind me how this is possible again?"
Connor smiled and started explaining the technology again.
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"The prisoners are secure." Niko reported to Jace. "Now we can go look for that agent."
"Good, I'm going to stay here and think. I'll go out in the field tomorrow." Jace informed Niko. "If you find the agent, bring her to me alive. I want to see if she'll break." Niko frowned, but acknowledged the command and left.
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“You said before that there was something you didn’t want to do to us,” Xarissa mentioned. “What was it?”
The Adm. looked away. “I was going to ask that you find Kael, but I don’t know how that will be possible now that Rebecca’s gone. She’s the one who knew him the best.”
“Who’s Kael?” Sarah asked.
He looked back at them. “You might know his younger brother...Jace.”
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“Here we are. Budva, Montenegro,” Conner said as they stepped out of the plane. Rebecca shifted her backpack on her shoulders as Conner transformed the plane into a disk.
“Where do we go now?” Rebecca asked.
“I don’t know, it’s your mission,” Conner answered, picking up his backpack from the dirt.
“You said there was an establishment here? Some houses and stuff?”
“Yah, there’s a city close to the waterline. That might be where your friend is.”
“Alright. We’ll head there.”
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“Jace has a brother?!” Caitlin exclaimed, jumping up.
“Why would you need us to find him?” Xarissa wondered.
“Unlike Jace, Kael didn’t grow up to be a terrorist. When their mother died, he left, joining a different organization. Enver used to be part of that organization, before he came to us.”
“Enver’s dead,” Xarissa said.
The chief was silent. Finally he said, “Kael knows that his brother is part of the Chrys Ghoad gang, and has been trying to stop him for quite some time.”
“Why?” Sarah questioned.
“Kael blames his mother’s death on his father. He had tried to get Jace to leave, but Jace wouldn’t. Jace was young then, and needed an adult to depend on. It’s too sad that he chose his terrorist father.”
“So where can we find this Kael?” Caitlin asked.
Adm. Taylor turned to her. “He is near the western border of Ban, Montenegro. It’s a city very close to Budva.”
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"Ok, let's go to the quietest street here. Do you know where that would be?" Rebecca questioned.
"Let me see....ah, here. Ada Street. Let’s go there." The plane had turned into a Nissan GTR R36 Gray and as they turned a corner to Ada Street, they saw a motorcycle whiz by them. Conner paid no attention to it, and kept looking up and down Ada Street.
"Wait! The motorcycle! Stop! Turn around, find the motorcycle, and follow it!"
"Yes, ma'am. What's going on?" Conner asked as he turned the car around.
"The person on the motorcycle was Laura!"
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