Chapter Five

2018 again.

YEAR: 2018 LOCATION: Clandestine HQ STATUS: Successful

“What did you find?” Red asks. I leap back when he appears in the doorway, tripping over my chair and sending it tumbling to the ground, me right after it.

“Don’t do that!” I shout, scrambling to my feet as he laughs at my clumsy attempt to escape.

“So? What did you find?” He repeats, ignoring my exclamation.

“I know where the person who hired them is keeping his lair,” I tell him.

“I’ll get the others,” he says immediately.

“Yeah,” I agree. “This’ll be an Alpha team mission.”

*

Minutes later, we gather in my office. “I have the coordinates to the lair of the villain in charge of this mess. In theory, if we take him out, most of the other attacks will stop.”

“When do we leave?” Ricky asks immediately.

“Soon, but we need to prepare. I have no idea what we might be walking into. I couldn’t access any of the cameras or computers that might be in the lair, so we’re going in blind.” They all gasp. “Yes, I know, I’m virtually unblockable, but this guy must have some crazy technopaths on his side to help him out.”

“Great,” Vicky sighs. “So we’re going in blind and we have no idea how many people this guy has in his army.”

“Pretty much,” I agree. “But it’s just recon, so we know what we’re dealing with. Not an actual attack unless we get the chance.”

“So we’re winging it?” Red grins. “That is what we’re best at.”