The door closes behind Fernando with a loud slam.
 
After a quick review of the pair, Marco and Fernando head to the one who was still awake.
 
Fernando: You want to take of him or shall I?
Marco: Why don't you take care of him yourself?
Fernando: I'm rather fed up with all of this. If he says anything to further piss me off, I'll just kill him outright here and now!
Prisoner: I'll tell you anything you want, I swear!
 
Fernando takes the folder from Marco, which contained the investigation information, including the infiltration mission Bink and Tammy were on. He opens if and pulls out the picture of Bink and Tammy from their mission briefs, holding it up to prisoner's face.
 
Fernando: You know who these two are?
 
The prisoner can only shake his head.
 
Fernando: They were my wife and daughter... and somebody from your organization killed them, you know how?
 
The prisoner again shakes his head.
 
Fernando: Some bastage from your organization threw LSD at my wife's face while she was driving on the highway, causing her to hallucinate. So give me a damn good reason why I should not gut you like a fish and leave your carcass in the forest for the feral animals to eat the flesh off your bones...
Marco: Fernando, you're scaring him.
Fernando I want names, addresses, supply run routes, time schedules, everything you know and may then I will decide your fate... depending how many others I go kill for my revenge.
Prisoner: But The Other Said That He Would Talk To The Judge!
Fernando: I am... Your Judge, Jury and Executioner... Now... Talk Or Die.
Prisoner: Aren't you the police?!!
Fernando: #$@! the police... We are just one big family here, a rich and powerful family- one you and your friends have hurt, so now we have pulled our resources together to do what the police will not do...
 
Fernando pulls his gun and puts it to the prisoner's forehead!
 
Prisoner: NO! WAIT!
Fernando: What do you have to say?
Prisoner: Let me sit down, and get me the map from the truck...
Fernando: What for?
Prisoner: So I can show you, everything!
 
Fernando steps away backwards, lowering his gun.
 
Fernando: We will be back with your map. Marco, lets go.
 
Fernando walks over to the door, allowing for Marco to leave first. He then turns off the lights before stepping out and slamming the door behind him.
 
Marco and Fernando walked down the underground hall.
 
Marco: That was one of the cruelest interrogation I have ever witnessed.
Fernando: Oh? I hear you're just as vicious, often leaving bodies behind when you're done.
Marco: Like I said, 'witnessed.'
 
They continued to walk back to the safe house, going up through the basements and to the main floor. Fernando makes his way to the kitchen, taking on some water. Marco sits down with the others who have made the dining area into the meeting area. He gets Priscilla, Olga and Ferro to join them and starts discussing with them about the prisoners in the basement. A few minutes into the discussion, Ferro calls to Fernando who was leaning against the service island counter top that separates the kitchen from the dining area.
 
Ferro: Fernando?
Fernando: Yes?
Ferro: You did what Marco is telling us?
Fernando: I'll do it again if I must.
Ferro: Where did you get the intell to go about on your own like that?
Fernando: Intell is my business. Seeing patterns in random data is my forte. What else you want to learn?
Ferro: Tell me why would you not join us? We need somebody with your abilities.
Fernando: I like my life the way it is. Pick up money here and there for jobs that I do, freedom to do as I please. And no higher ups breathing down my neck.
Ferro: We would make it very comfortable for you. Give you a little killer tot-cyborg of your own, freedom to do as you do like right now, free room and board, a good 6-figure  pay, and a medical plan that cant be beat.
Fernando: No.
Ferro: No?
Fernando: You lost me at the 'little killer-tot cyborg' part. Tell me, how can you do this to the girls like Angelica and Bink?
Ferro: They were already dead when we got them...
Fernando: That gives you no excuse to turn them into cyborgs and  send them on killing missions.
Ferro: It gives us all the rights...
Fernando: Who knows many lives I have saved in my time, I lost count a long time ago. Brought them back from the claws of death, but that did not give me the right to do with them as I please when they were breathing again.
Ferro: You are just a person, we are an institution.
Fernando: Keep thinking like that, don't you. Many in the Nuremburg Trials all said the same thing- 'We Were Only Following Orders...' Well, following orders is no excuse to allow what is going on here.
Ferro: You propose for a better idea?
Fernando: No. I am not of your nation, and have no voice in the matter of those in charge.
Ferro: Then remember that. You and your friends will be rewarded for your assistance and capture of those involved.
Fernando: I'm not in it for the reward, though I not an idiot not to accept it. I am in it for 2 others.
Ferro: I see. Well, they have accepted positions in our organization. Why don't you?
Fernando: Do they have freedom to leave at anytime? Will I?
Ferro: No.
Fernando: Then there is a problem.
Ferro: We're not stopping you or Tammy from having a life together, or getting married and having a family. You would be free to live a life, but like any other job- is tethered to the responsibility to the company you work for.
Fernando: Her freedom is more valuable than any responsibility you can throw at her. And as for Bink, how many years she has left? 4, 5? She would be dead before she hits her twenties according to my calculations. Is that fair for her?
Ferro: What is done is done. If it were not for us, Bink would be buried with the rest of her family.
 
Fernando goes into the frig and sees a few bottles of beer and wine that were placed in there. He takes one of the wine bottles and a glass from the over hanging rack.
 
Fernando: You have prisoners to attend too. I got a date with this bottle and the roof.
Ferro: Our offer still stands.
 
Fernando finds a bread roll, and takes it before starting to walk away from them. He walks up the stairs as quietly as possible.
 
He makes his way to the storage room and attic and then to the balcony. He takes a ladder that was stored in the attic, placing it against the roof. In a few seconds, he was sitting on the edge of the front of the house looking out onto the highway. He began munching on the bread roll and drinking from the wine, losing himself in deep thought.
 
Voice from behind: Thought you would be up here.
Fernando: So, what of it, Hondo?
Hondo: Hey, I'm not the enemy here.
Fernando: Who says you were?
Hondo: Then why the attitude?
Fernando: Well, let me tell you a long story.  
Hondo: I'm all ears.
Fernando: A very long time ago, there was a city in the clouds called Aerodina.
Hondo: I thought that was only a legend like Atlantis.
Fernando: Oh it was real alright. It was where all civilized beings that could fly lived in. The birds, the bats and us flying squirrels- all lived there in peace. We looked down on the ground dwellers for thousands of years as they developed technologies and cities of their own, but they were always on the ground. We developed science and mathematics, studied the heavens, and while the ground dwellers professed that the world was flat, we knew that it was round, orbited about the sun and stars and there were other planets like ours out in space. It was our own arrogance and misguided self interests that destroyed us. Nothing is left Aerodina, except for our collective memories, the tales we tell our children and our inborn arrogance and attitude. Tell me Hondo, how does one undoes a mille-generations worth of social programming?
Hondo: You think you're better than anyone of us here?
Fernando: Ask any bird and any bat you see and they will tell you the same thing- because as can fly on our own without technology, that we are. But that's a collective social conditioning. Personally, I don't care anymore.
 
Fernando gulps down the wine from the glass and then refills it. Then he takes a bite from the bread.
 
Hondo: You fell like you're alone in the world because there are no other flying squirrels around?
Fernando: No.
Hondo: Then what is it?
Fernando: There has to be a better way... as like it was in Aerodina- during its prime, before the great fall of the cloud city. Peace, understanding, love and respect for all living creatures.
Hondo: We got a long way before we realize that.
Fernando: A very long way. I know that.
 
They both sat there looking out onto the highway. Fernando continued on with eating the bread and drinking the wine. It was gone before the hour was. Hondo gets up and sticks his hand out to Fernando.
 
Hondo: Give me your car keys.
Fernando: What for?
Hondo: You're too loaded on that wine...
Fernando: Aisapi can drive for me.
Hondo: That's not the problem.
Fernando: Then what is?
Hondo: I don't want you to go out on solo missions like this.
Fernando: Like what, drunk? I'm not drunk. Not in the full sense of the word.
Hondo: Then show me that you're not drunk.
 
Fernando reaches into his pocket and tosses at Hondo an open Packet of RU-22, an alcohol neutralizing pill.
 
Hondo: What the... I thought this was just fake.
Fernando: For the mass market it's a low dose version. For us in our cloak and dagger world- its at industrial strength. Of course, it upsets my stomach, which is why I took the bread.
 
Hondo looks over the packet.
 
Hondo: Don't do anything stupid then, or I'll let the air out of your tires.
Fernando: I don't mess with your truck, don't threaten my Porsche.
Hondo: I'm just letting you know.
Fernando: Then rest up for a while. I got another hunch to go after later this evening.
Hondo: Any flying again?
Fernando: No, this time it will be at Rome.
Hondo: Who are we going after this time?
Fernando: Go ask Rose and Marco for a copy of the intell that I gave him. In there it will be rat we would be looking for.
Hondo: I see. I'll be back then.
Fernando: By the way- ask Bink for some E-String Violin strings.
Hondo: Huh?
Fernando: It will be needed.
Hondo (as he starts to walk away): OK, then boss.
Fernando: And cut it out with the Boss thing!
-- -- -- -- --
As if in a dream, a scene repeats itself.
..
.
Fernando: Why are you here?
Anne: Just paying my respects for the kids who died at the hospital recently.
Fernando: Is that so?
 
Fernando walks over to a grave marker several stones and an aisle away from Tammy. He looks down at it.
 
Fernando: You know, this poor sap had nobody show up at his funeral.
Anne: You knew him?
Fernando: I would say that the three of us did.
Anne: I knew him?
 
Anne walks over to the grave marker and looks down at it. It says:
Quote:

Anne can only stand there staring at the stone, covering her mouth as she stares.
 
Fernando: That was one of your bombs, wasn't it?
 
Anne remains silent, not wanting to answer, not sure how to answer. Tammy stops crying and looks at them both from her kneeling position.
 
Fernando: When life loses its meaning, and is taken for nought, then the pact is Revenge.
 
Fernando takes his AA .45 out of his holster and he puts it at Anne's chest between her breasts.
 
Fernando: Was that your bomb?
 
Anne tries to remain as silent as possible, though tears begin to pour down her face.
 
Fernando: I have defused 2 of your constructs, so I know what you are capable of and can identify it when I see it.
 
Anne looks up at him.
 
Fernando: Was it one of your bombs? All I want is a 'Yes' or a 'No'
 
Anne: And if I say 'Yes'?
 
Fernando: I don't want you to lie to me. That would break a silent but sacred trust between us.
 
Anne: You are too trusting.
 
Fernando: And you have cost me my life.
 
Anne: You seem to be doing fine for a dead man.
 
Fernando: I'm not into games, Ms Rossellini Now about that answer.
 
Anne: I have Franco waiting for me at the gate.
 
Fernando: So? One answer will have you seeing him again, the other will have your blood enriching the soil of my grave while your dead body rests on it. Now, which one is it?
 
Anne: Yes it was mine.
 
Fernando: You knew that there was a possibility of me and other other rangers on that plane.
 
Anne: I only knew...
 
Fernando: I flew that plane here, I was the pilot of that plane back. I was to fly it back with my co-pilot who is a ranger. I was to bring back the rangers, the UN investigators and the SWA prisonners back to New York.
 
Anne: Then explain why you are still here.
 
Fernando: I found the bomb and had no tools to defuse it. I also found another 2 bombs cloned from the one you made; each one attached to the landing struts. There could have been more, I am not sure. But I do know this... I was not going to endanger my team and my mission when I find a danger in our way. Nor was I going to endanger anyone else, so that UN Team was not on that plane. It was only made to look that way because you and I play a most dangerous game.
 
Anne: Then who flew the plane?
 
Fernando: It was done by remote control. You actually think I was going to allow innocent people to be killed like that?
 
Anne: So all of this was a rouge?
 
From several rows down, a voice can be heard calling for Anne. It was Franco, walking towards them.
 
Franco: Woman, what's taking you so long?!!
 
Fernando turns to face him, seeing that Franco has started to reach for his gun that was stuffed into his belt. Fernando reacts quickly, putting a .45 round into his forehead. Then he puts the gun back at Anne's chest. Anne wants to react against him but it met with a 9mm SIG to her temple. It belonged to Tammy.
 
Fernando: I would not move if I were you...
 
Anne (as tears ran down her face): You might as well kill me here and now.
 
Fernando: And what, do you the favor?
 
Anne drops the flowers on the floor.
 
Anne: You do not know what you have done.
 
Fernando: Somebody coming at me reaching for his gun will be met with the same force he intends to use. Unfortunately for him, I am a lot faster than most. So I know what I have done.
 
Anne: You do not know what you have done to me.
 
Fernando: I killed your bomb making partner. Any coupled pair in such a task are usually lovers, so yes, I know what I did to him, and to you. All I can say is- One down... one to go. Tammy- leave us.
 
Tammy: No.
 
Fernando: Tammy...
 
Tammy: Just like he was her partner in all this, I am yours. And if she is to suceed in killing you, I will kill her.
 
Fernando: She wont suceed in that task.
 
Tammy: I will make*---....
 
Anne turns to Tammy to try to take her gun, pushing Fernando's arm away. Fernando quickly recovers his aim and releases two shots into Anne's back. She falls as she struggles with Tammy in taking her gun. Anne lets go of the gun before she hits the floor. She lays there dying, just barely holding onto life.
 
Fernando reaches down and picks up the spent casings and pockets them. He then turn Anne on to her back and lays her on the floor. Blood spews out of her mouth as she tries to talk. Fernando covers her eyes and gently closes them.
 
Fernando: Save it for the creator... I already passed judgement on you, and this is the price you pay for breaking our trust.
 
Anne takes one last gasp of air before coughing up a ball of blood. For a second as she does, she goes taught and then limp...
-- -- -- -- --
Anne wakes up, suddenly sitting up despite the pain she is enduring in doing so. She breathes heavy, almost gasping for air.
 
Mr. Christiano: Glad to see you up and around again, niece.
 
Anne looks at him, almost blankly and then takes the blanket to her face and starts crying. Mr. Christiano leans over the bed and puts his hand to her back.
 
Mr. Christiano: There, there... its all over, things will be better now. Just a few more days in the hospital before you can leave.
 
Anne keeps her face covered, but stops crying for the moment.

Marco takes the map and other evidence with him along with Ferro, Olga, Priscilla and his cyborg Angie. They untie him and sit him down to a table in the with the map and other evidence for him to explain. Thus far all was working well, though he was wondering why was a little girl in the interogation room with them.
 
During the questioning of the cooperative suspect, the first one slowly wakes up and starts acting beligerant to the group in the room, and making threats of death. Marco gets up and walks over to him.
 
Marco: You stupid piece of garbage, I am getting tired of hearing your mouth.
 
Marco starts to untie him.
 
Marco: I dont want to hear nothing from you except for evidence that will add to this case.
 
First Prisoner: Go #$@! Yourselves...
Marco: Have it your way then. Angie, tenderize this mo-fo for the interogation.
Angelica: Yes!
 
Angie pounces on the prisoner, who was freed to defend himself, but find titanium joints, carbon fiber bones and synthetic muscles hitting him at forces higher than humanly possible. He soon becomes a babbling ball of crawling boy-hood crying for his mommy to save him as Angie beats him into a bloody pulp.
 
20 minutes later they leave with notes filled with where the bases and loading places are, the roads they take and at least the names of the local bosses he reports too. A copy is given to Alex II.
 
Marco: You think you can keep your mind off Bianca to go out on a scouting mission?

John: Pino, I want you to go see Mr. Christiano. Tell him that we will find Anne's killers in a couple of days now. Also tell him that his two operatives- Bianca and Michelle flown the coop.
Pino: What does that mean- 'Flown the coop?'
John: Its an expression, meaning that they abandoned us and the work at hand.
Pino: I see.
John: Call me when you find your 'uncle' and gave him the message.
Pino: Will do, sir.
 
John throws him a set of car keys.
 
John: Take the Mercedes.
 
Pino nods his head as he catches the keys. Soon he was walking out the door.
 
John takes to his seat with a bottle of American imported whiskey. He sits down and starts drinking it from it.
-- -- -- -- --
 
Hondo starts to head to the roof again, to give Fernando the folder of intell Rose had given him.
 
'Its as if it is all an act, not caring like he is, being an arrogant snob... one he is not so easily putting up because I can see right through it.', Hondo thinks to himself.
 
In a couple of minutes, Hondo is climbing the ladder to get to the roof where Fernando still was.
 
Hondo: You still here?
Fernando: Where else would I be?
Hondo: Your room perhaps?
Fernando: With Tammy and Bink in there? No; I need a little privacy.
 
Hondo hands him the folder.
 
Hondo: What's on your mind?
Fernando: Nothing and everything, all at the same time.
Hondo: Having second thoughts about this mission?
Fernando: Having second thoughts about dragging all of you in.
Hondo: We all had a choice on staying with you. Most of the others left when you got Tammy to finally defend herself.
Fernando: Yes, but she was lucky. She is still slow... thinking before reacting, which is good, but taking too long to make that decision. Tell me, how many have you killed in order to save yourself?
Hondo: Too many to think about it. You?
Fernando: Lost count a long time ago.
Hondo: And we are trying to get our girls to be able to do what we do... hmph...
Fernando: Questioning it?
Hondo: Not really. Being in the Navy, Rose should have those skills in place. It like...
Fernando (interrupting him): she does not want to use them.
Hondo: Right.
Fernando: Nothing wrong with that, provided that once she returns to a civilian life- she may never need to use those skills again. But she is still in the thick of it, and need to have those things at an instant's call.
 
Fernando starts to go through the paper work, pulling out his Mont Blanc fountain pen, and starts to write on the paper.
 
Fernando (to himself): Don't know what is wrong with these people...
Hondo: What do you mean?
Fernando: They are too technology dependant. Here is all the information of at least several LSD pick up and delivery places. At least 2, no 3 Ergot processing factories, truck routes, the trucks themselves. Money handling with bank deposit accounts, and looks like a names and addresses of higher ups. Yet they need to have a computer go through this for hours and I get this done in seconds.
 
Fernando writes on a few sheets of paper. A series of GPS Coordinates, a couple of addresses with names, and then pulls out a single sheet of paper with a photograph clipped to it.
 
Fernando: Remember that face.
Hondo: Who is this.
Fernando: Read it.
 
Hondo reads the paper, finding it to be a dossier file of 'John Doe'. Fernando finishes his work, organizing the papers within into two separate piles.
 
Hondo: So he is a rat...
Fernando: In more ways than one. When I entered the service, I remember hearing about an agent who returned from the gulf war and he came back changed. On his next mission in France, he 'disappeared.' They only found his car in the river with his belongings in it. How appropriate.
Hondo: A traitor?
Fernando: That remains to be proven, at least for now he is a deserter. Looks like he joined the cause here. Anyways that is who we are looking for.
Hondo: He is one person. Rome is a large city...
Fernando: Everyone has a pattern. And I saw him last he was in the expensive part of town. Considering that he's sided himself with Mr. Christiano, it looks like that is where he will be.
Hondo: Mr. Christiano?
Fernando: Multi-Billionaire industrialist and shipping mogul. He's the one pumping money into the terrorist groups. And he is also Anne's uncle.
Hondo: Now it begins to make some sense.
Fernando: Really?
Hondo: If Italy breaks up, then those with money and power will be in the ruling positions. Seems to me that Mr. Christiano is trying to make seat of power for himself.
Fernando: Yeah. (he lets out a sigh) Everyone wants money, fame and power. It seems that the extremely rich only managed to get 2 out of the 3, and is starving for the third. Sad to say that they will do anything for it.
Hondo: I agree with you there.
 
Fernando hands him the folder.
 
Fernando: Make sure Alex II and Rose get those papers I marked up.
Hondo: Alex? Why him?
Fernando: I want him to cross the border and confirm these locations and people. I figure it will take about a week of scouting about and lots of private investigation. Tell him to keep it key. We don't need fireworks on this one. Just to come back with the information. Let the SWA deal with the cutting off of beast's heads.
Hondo: You want him out of the way?
Fernando: No- The SWA can not cross the border unless it is absolutely necessary. Alex II will provide the proof they need to get this. And it has to be done covertly as possible.
Hondo: That may prove impossible. He sure loves his gadgets.
Fernando: All the gadgetry in the world cannot replace what one can do with their brain.
Hondo: I see, and I agree.
Fernando: Remind him that he will be in another country, so he should be on his best 'dumb tourist behavior' so he wont get caught out there. And remind him-that if he gets caught- I and the agency will- 'DISAVOW ANY KNOWLEDGE OF HIS EXISTANCE...'
 
Hondo can only grin.
 
Fernando: Dress your best, and I'll meet you by the Porsche later.
 
Hondo nods before leaving.
 
In a couple of minutes, Hondo goes find Alex II and Agent 47 in the basement as they were checking up on equipment inventory.
 
Hondo: You wont be needing that... except maybe the camping stuff.
Alex II: Huh?
Hondo: Fernando explained to me your mission.
 
Hondo then hands him the papers Fernando marked up.
 
Hondo: You are to cross the border to Slovenia and check out these places and people. Nothing fancy, no killing, no blowing up things. If you come back with pictures, that would be good.
Alex II: I see. Why are we doing this and not the SWA?
Hondo: The SWA can only cross that border once to start chopping heads of the beast. If they cross it more than once, Slovenia can declare war on Italy, so this has to be of the utmost secrecy.
Alex II: I see. How long is it going to take?
Hondo: Fernando think it should take you a week. I would say longer for a proper job.
Alex II: But what if I get caught?
Hondo: That's your problem.
Alex II: What?
 
Hondo looks at Agent 47 before turning back to Alex II.
 
Hondo: Fernando told me to remind you, "if you get caught- he and the agency will- 'DISAVOW ANY KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR EXISTANCE'..."
 
Alex II can only look at Hondo and indignantly nod at him. He then takes the papers given to him and places it on the table in the middle of the room. He spreads out the papers and looks them over, along with the map of the area with and the satellite images. The three look at the papers.
 
Alex II: A small town, a couple of warehouses, a church, a small city with a few apartment buildings.. hmmm... tell Fernando I can return in 4 days.
Hondo: He wants a week out of you. Get what you can, all of it and be neat about it.
 
Alex II seems not to be in agreement of this.
 
Hondo: And one more thing- no fireworks. Nothing that will bring attention to you. You got that?
Alex II: Got it.
Hondo: You leave as soon as you are ready.
 
Hondo starts to walk away from them.
 
Agent 47: Lets start with the church first.
Alex II: Why the church?
Agent 47: Just call it a hunch.
-- -- -- -- --
 
Hondo then meets up with Rose, where he gives her the papers and tells her to forward the information to Captain Eddie of the Texas, with instructions to wait for detailed intell. She agrees.
 
Hondo: Looks like Fernando and I will be heading out soon.
Rose: Will you two be going?
Hondo: We be rat hunting.
Rose: Rat Hunting?
Hondo: Looking for somebody.
Rose: I see. You be careful out there.
Hondo: I will.
 
Hondo starts to walk away, but stops. Then he turns around to Rose again.
 
Rose: Something wrong?
Hondo: No, not really.
Rose: Then...
Hondo (interrupting her): How about a dinner date when we return? Night out on the town maybe?
 
Rose can only smile for the moment.
 
Rose: Lets see how it goes.
 
Hondo slowly turns away and starts to walk away again. He goes to his room and starts to get himself freshened up for the mission that is surely to last into the night. Fernando goes to his room about to do the same, but finds Tammy and Gadget sitting on his bed talking girl talk. Bink was at the other side of the bed, sitting with them and listening in. Gadget turns to see him as he entered the room, the door was already opened.
 
Gadget turns to face him and he looks at her.
 
Gadget: Anything wrong?
 
Fernando continues to gather a few things to take with him to the bathroom: A towel, fresh set of clothing, personal grooming things, etc. As he gathers his things he tells her.
 
Fernando: That's my bed...
Gadget: Oh. It is? I did not know, I thought it was Tammy's bed when she sat down on it, so I sat down with her. But if its your bed, why would she sit on it unless it is her bed too...
 
Then Gadget turns to face Tammy with her jaw dropped open.
 
Tammy: Its not what you think.
Gadget: Only married people should sleep in the same bed, unless you're litter mates, and I know you two are not litter mates!
Tammy: Nothing happened between us, Gadget. And he promised me that nothing will happen until we get married.
Gadget: Married? You and him? He's old enough to be your father... yes, he is too old for you. Why him? You know he causes plenty of problems with his personality and besides, isn't he and Jeanette Isabelle already partners? And what about Tinkerbelle? I swear, if he does anything to hurt you, Tammy, I'm going to hurt him something good.
Fernando: I don't question your love or loyalty to your husband- Chip. In fact I cant stand him. But he is your husband, and therefore I keep him away from me as far as I can put him. But it is my opinion that he is a poor leader and you as a group only get by on garbage tech and a lot of luck. One day that luck will run out and the garbage tech fail on you. And somebody is going to get hurt because of it. What then? At least I promised Tammy that I will get her and Bink home somehow. Until then, we are stuck here, but at least we are not living in a tree and going after idiots who believe that they have power over a few. We are up against government agencies and international organizations who think that you are just a means to an end. Don't you remember when you got caught and that chip put in? You are still running with that program in your head, it was only I that managed to put a pause to it.
 
Gadget gets up to steps over to him as he has an arm full of things to take with him to the bathroom.
 
Gadget: That was so unfair to say.
Fernando: That was the truth. To be unfair, you would not be here with Tammy. Who do you think send you the information to get here?
 
Fernando puts his things to the foot of the bed, and then goes into a box in the closet, and returns with a sealed package, handing it to Gadget.
 
Gadget: What is this?
Fernando: It's a bullet resistant t-shirt. Wear it.  
Gadget: Why?
Fernando: As long as you are here, you are not safe. People are after us and want us dead. You now became part of our group.
Tammy: Gadget, please put it on... I would feel better if you did.
 
Gadget: But... what about him?
 
Fernando gathers his things from the bed again.
 
Fernando: I'll be in the bathroom for a while.
 
Fernando start to walk out of the room.
 
Gadget: Tell me that all this is a joke. That you will be back home in the café soon. That you and him are not sleeping it the same bed.
Tammy: We got a lot of talking to do. But first (she shows off the engagement ring on her finger), this is real.
 
Gadget takes Tammy's hand and looks at the ring. She takes out a lube form her pocket and examines it closely.
 
Gadget: Wow... Its kinda small though, isn't it?
Tammy: Its what he could afford, for now.
Gadget: Afford?!! He's a Time Traveler! He gave Jeanette The Star Of India, and they are 'just friends!'
Tammy: Gadget, don't question it. It does not matter how small it is, it's the giving and what it represents that counts.
Gadget: But, Fernando?!! I thought you were going out with somebody else? Maybe what's his name- Alex something or other?
Tammy: That's my cousin!
Gadget: So? I know many cousins that married each other.
Tammy: they all happen to be mice too, right?
Gadget: What does that have to do with anything?
Tammy: We squirrels don't marry our cousins.
Gadget: But he's to old for you. His daughter is older than you are. And what about Jeanette and Tinkerbelle? Jeanette can be reasoned with, but Tinkerbelle? She'll bop you with that wand of hers and who knows what she will turn you into! You know she's a jealous little fairy!
Tammy: We will deal with it when we get there. Besides, Fernando told me that she is just a friend.
Gadget: There are rumors that they slept together.
Tammy: Just like I have?
Gadget: Tammy! You didn't! He has no respect for you!
Tammy: Nothing happened!... first of all, and I chose to be there with him. In fact, I snuck into his bed when he was already sleeping.
Gadget: Why would you do that?
Tammy: Because... I wanted too. I thought it was the best thing to do at the time. Because I was scared to be lone...
Bink: And because its squirrel mating season.
Tammy: BINK!
 
Gadget drops her jaw before answering Tammy.
 
Gadget: That's why! You want his puppies! Listen to me girl, this will pass soon enough. You have to stay away from him at all costs!
Tammy: No Gadget... listen to me, OK? I Love Him... since the first mission we tried to get Bink back. And He Loves Me Back. He may not say it, but he shows it to me. If not, he would not be here to help me complete my mission. And that is what counts. Why else would he promise to marry me when after the mission is over?
Gadget: Why not marry you now? If you are going to be sleeping with him in his bed, you might as well do it right, because right now you two are living in sin!
Tammy (letting out a sigh): Look, we have not coupled up or joined, we just slept together. We are not having sex, as you may think we are, and everything is innocent between us.
Gadget: If you are sleeping with him, then marry him... or get out of his life. That's it, you're coming home back with me!
Tammy: No, I cant!
Gadget: And why not? He has you drugged, that's it! He has you under some spell! Say it! Say it, And I will set you free... uhm... you got something heavy for me to hit him with?
Tammy: Look, Gadget- I cant leave just yet. I have things to deal with for Bink, she needs special medical needs that the only the doctors here can give her, and until then, we have to stay until they can give the OK for her to leave. Then I also have a job and a home here, at least for now. Its... just too much to pick up and leave just like that. And I want you to understand that I got a life here and that life includes him, whether you like it or not. I love him and I want you to respect that. OK?
 
Gadget can only sit there stunned, unsure to answer that was told to her.
 
Tammy: OK?
Gadget: You really do love him?
Tammy: Totally.
Gadget: Does he love you back?
Tammy: He does not need to say, but he shows it.
Gadget: I'm not happy with this.
Tammy: I was not happy when you married Chip. But what was a teenage girl with a crush to do? I chose to do the only think I could do, and that was to respect it. I'm just asking the same from you.
Gadget: OK, you got it. But if he hurts you, or takes advantage of you, I will hit him with something heavy.
Tammy: If anyone is being taken advantage of, its me taking advantage of him.
Gadget: How so?
Tammy: I was given a simple mission to get some information about drug smugglers. It turned into something awfully big and beyond my control. They even tried to kill me, more than once. But he was there to help me with this mission, giving me access to resources that I would not have otherwise, and to take on this monster of a mission as best as I could. Look Gadget, I'm scared, but I cant let the fear take over and freeze me where the bad guys can do bad things to me. He taught me that much. But I'm still scared.
Gadget: Why are you scared?
Tammy: I or Bink could be killed for one. He could be killed, but yet he is not worried about it. I am.
Gadget: Don't let that fool you. He's probably all chicken shit right now.
Tammy: No he is not. Believe me. We been through enough for me to know. He is not... But Gadget, what if he gets killed? I don't want to face that.
Gadget: Then you two should get married now.
Tammy: We cant. Not now. After the mission.
Gadget: If he loves you as much as you say he does, then get married now. Why wait?
Tammy: He promised me that after the mission, we would. Right now, getting married would get in the way.
Gadget: That is the biggest load of crock I ever heard!
Tammy: Think about it Gadget- if we get married, and one of us gets killed in this mission, that leaves the other to deal with it alone as a widow. He does not want to do that to me. And I agree that I do not want to do that to him. So we're willing to wait until this mission is over before we get married.
Gadget: And how long will that be?
Tammy: 2 weeks. Maybe 3 at most.
Gadget: 3 weeks?!! That does not given me enough time to plan!
Tammy: Plan what?
Gadget: Your bridal shower, the wedding arrangements, flowers, the reception, everything!
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After a long hot shower and a while to dry and fluff up his tail, Fernando gets dressed in the bathroom, trying to look his best. The black Hugo Boss suit goes well with the Armani shoes and the Versace shirt and tie. His shoulder holster mounted under his right side as where he likes it to be. Only thing he hates about suits is that it restricts his flying ability. Too may unnecessary layers.
 
Once done, he takes his former clothing and puts them into a plastic bag he brought with him to the bathroom, before stepping out and heads back to his room. He sees that Gadget and Tammy were still on their bed talking. As to not to interrupt them, he tosses the bag on the desk where the computer was at.
 
Tammy: Hey- why you did that for?
Fernando: I did not want to interrupt you two, so I'll take care of that when I return.
Tammy: I'll take care of it for you then.
Fernando: No, leave it there and I'll take care of it.
 
Fernando starts to walk away, going down the stairs and out the back to where the cars were parked. The helicopter was still in the swimming pool, so he opens the door to his Porsche, and turns on the car's electronics. After the basic diagnostics, Fernando gives the Porsche its command.
 
Fernando: Aisapi, override House controls and return the helicopter to its underground maintenance facility.
Aisapi: Authorization code please.
Fernando: User- Fernando G.  /  Authorization- Voice Print Recognition.
Aisapi: Not enough inputs.
Fernando: Define needed inputs.
Aisapi: You're not seated on the driver's seat. Nor are your hands on the steering wheels.
Fernando: Request reason for enhanced Biometrics scan.
Aisapi: You don't sound like yourself.
Fernando: Hmm.... OK.
 
Fernando sits down and takes hold of the steering wheel. The car turns itself on.
 
Fernando: Aisapi , why is the engine running?
Aisapi: Israeli Anti-Theft systems charging. Biometrics scanning.... Done. You should go see a doctor about that fever you have.
Fernando: Fever?
Aisapi: Biometrics shows that you are running at 104, and your species of squirrelidae  is at 102.
Fernando: Thank you for your concern. Mind putting away the helicopter into the underground maintenance facility?
Aisapi: Helicopter storage routines activated. Will that be all, sir?
Fernando: Just release driving controls to User: Hondo. We will be on a hunting and gathering mission for the next several hours.
Aisapi: Understood sir.
Fernando: Just one more thin, Aisapi.
Aisapi: What would that be, sir?
Fernando: You weren't really going to use the Israeli Defense system on me, were you?
Aisapi: Only if Biometrics scans failed, sir.
Fernando: Nice to know that I am loved.
Aisapi: What was that sir?
Fernando: Never mind Aisapi. Set yourself on silent running until further notice. Hondo does not need to know that you're in this vehicle too.
 
Aisapi turned off its vocal and speech processors. Fernando steps out of the car and waits for Hondo to arrive.

Hondo dressed up like asked, well sort of. He wore a pair of soft black jeans that made no sound as he moved, a black shirt, black gambler vest, black frock coat, black flat top hat and black soft soled boots. he wore a black leather double shoulder holster that carried his .50 cal dragoon and his .45 la matte. he wore a double back holster which held 2 colt 1911's w/ironwood handles. he wore a black leather side holster for his .45 colt revolver and had a .36 walsh navy 12  shot in the waistband of his pants. he also carried 2 derringers loaded with two 3" .410 shells (fletchlet load) up his sleeves. even though he was heavily armed he wore the weapons in such a way the blended in and looked natural on him. he can out to the car with a small carry on bag with a change of clothes and ammo if needed and carried his revolvin' shot gun and his Marlin 30-30 lever action too. Fernando gave him a look.
 
"What?" Hondo asked.
 
"Nothing. you drive and well talk on the way." Fernando said as he walked over to the passenger door of his car. Hondo got in and look at the car. her hear nothin' but was sure of somethin'.
 
"This car is Aisapi equipped, right?" Hondo asked.
 
"Why would you think it is?" Fernando asked.
 
"3 reasons: 1) your lettin' me drive you car with no qualms. 2) its your car and you need it at times and all the other cars i've seen you with has it 3) too many buttons, lights and sensors in this thing for it not to." Hondo said. Fernando just looked at him blankly for a few seconds.
 
"ok, ok! I'm drivin'!" Hondo said. He started the engine and took off down the road.

Alex II and Angen 47 got up at 6 AM Italy Time they took a Shower septer, Got dress, put there sutecase in the car then head to Mcdonnals get some 4 Egg Mcmuffians with no meet, 8 Hash Browns, 2 coffies with 5 Creams and 5 Surgers, and 2 Orange Pops as they got on E70/E55/A4 to Trieste to stay there for one night and leve tomorow  
 
Alex II Calling his frined "Yea Hay Nick yea You in Trieste
 
Nick (on the phone): Yep I am  
 
Alex II: Good We will meet you there what Hotel you staying at  
 
Nick: Hotel Trieste right on 558 near E70 so Exit on E70 and get on SS58  
 
Alex II: Ok See you in Six Hours  
 
Nick: Ok  
 
*Then he hang up as he eating his Egg McMuffian same as Agent 47 as they contune drive to Trieste  
 
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Anthors: Well ok *THen he turn the Car around then make a Quick Phone call "Hay Pall yea it me Look I won't see you today right now I got a Job to do so once I finshies my job then I Will see you yea Bye *Then he hang up and call his other friend in Rome "Hay Yea I need you to bring my weapons 4 AK-47, 8 9mm With Sinceres, one Sniper, 4 Uzzies, 2 Rocket Luncers and 4 Katanas aka Ninja Swords yea Meet us on outskirts of Notherin Rome yea I will see you there *Hang up then he look to Bianca* "I Hope this Guy you work for pay us More" As he contined to Drive to Outskirts of Northern Rome*