A crow caws.
 
Moro does not know where that came from. Nevertheless, she trusts her fellow Spirits. "Let's let Queen Elsa decide."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

A crow caws again.
 
Moro thinks. If this is not a Hail Mary pass, then what is? "Ah, yes. Let's let Queen Elsa decide."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

Jeanette goes with the officer. The only identification Jeanette has on her person identifies her as an EMT. The rest of her identification, if need to be seen, is in her bigger wallet in her suitcase.
 
Jeanette Isabelle

(Fernando is not going to argue pricing with somebody who has a shotgun aimed at him. It's 5 gold coins or lay on the ground dead and let his oozing blood fertilize the soil for this summer's begonias.)

"You are his partner. You are to assist in what situations that befalls on him as he is to assist you in what situations befall you." The sheriff tells Jeanette, "He is making an arrest of an individual, you are to assist in that arrest whether you deal with those children you have, take care of the victims that are here or help detain the perpetrator."
 
The sheriff takes a pause for that to sink into Jeanette's head before he continues, "Now, as the law in this town and for your own safety, I ordered you and your group out before sundown. Spirit or mutant, we do not care for their kind here and have had bad experiences with them over the many years. Therefore any such person or persons with powers and abilities far from mere men we chase out of town. If they decide to stay, then they will be killed by either my deputies or by the mutant hunters who live here. If you decide to stay, I can not guarantee your safety. It is for your best that you are to leave as soon as you can. Leaving now would be the best of all options as this situation is attracting a crowd that I will need to deal with. There's a small settlement down the road an hour or so away, they are sorta mutant friendly there. You understand what I am telling you?"
 
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After the talk the Sheriff had with Jeanette, he talks to his deputies, telling them where to go and what to do. Officer Jackson stays with Fernando for the interim. No fewer than a couple of minutes is when a rolling wreck of a tow-truck comes and parks itself to block the view of the crowd being handled by the others.
 
"Did somebody ordered a couple of batteries and some cables?" The tow-truck driver yells out from his window.
 
"Over here, Wally." Officer Jackson calls to him.
 
Wally comes out of the tow truck and looks over the two VW Camper/Ambulances, asking, "Which one of these is broken down, I can git dem fix'd."  
 
"This one, as it is electric and all it needs is for me to put in batteries and I can be rolling along." Fernando tells him.
 
"HMPH..." Wally lets out, "A golfing park cart... that won't git you out of trouble when your on da highway."
 
"That's why I have one of these." Fernando says as he shows off his 1911M2-A2 in his hand, "16 rounds, more than enough to deal with most situations. Now about those batteries?" As he puts away his firearm and goes into the VW Camper's passenger side to remove a multi-meter from the glove box.
 
Wally follows him with his eyes, seeing the little black box with a couple of thick wires coming from it in Fernando's hand.
 
"What's that?" Wally asks.
 
"In words you can understand, an electric meter." Fernando tells him.
 
"Why you need that?" Wally asks.
 
"Make sure that those batteries are charged up and ready to go." Fernando tells him.
 
"He's making sure you do not cheat him by selling him some dead batteries." Officer Jackson tells him.
 
"Dey are over here." Wally leads them to his truck. He opens a box panel by the back of the cab showing off a pair of batteries that has seen better day though Fernando identifies them as 24V/3K-amp Tractor-trailer Truck Batteries and not 12V/700-amp car batteries.
 
Fernando nods, "Pull them out."
 
Wally pulls them out as Fernando sets up his multimeter to read a maximum of 50V of DC Current. As soon as one of the batteries is placed by his foot, Fernando puts the probes to the terminals, measuring 24V. A flick of the switch he measures the amps, reading a bit less than 2.7K amps. The second battery measures 24V at 2K amps. More than enough power to get him going but he is not going to let them know that.
 
"Hmmmm, they're a bit run-down." Fernando says, "But I'll take them as is. How much? The price agreed too was 5 gold pieces for new batteries. These are not new." Fernando tells him.
 
"Dey work and dey will git you out of here." Wally throws at him, putting a pair of wires on one of the batteries connected to a headlight, showing how brightly it shines. "You see, it shines like new!"
 
"What it does for a light bulb is not what it can do for pushing my ride to the next town. Now I'm not arguing about them as I will take them as is along with the cables. I'm just stating the price was for new batteries, not used ones." Fernando explains.
 
"Dis is as new as you will git anywhere." Wally points out.
 
"I suggest you pay Wally for the batteries and cable." Officer Jackson tells him.
 
"Lets see those cables." Fernando says.
 
Wally reaches into the back of his truck and throws out a pair of battery cables with the clamp end on them though they were a bit corroded.
 
Fernando nods as he looks at them, "I see. OK. Throw in a large bottle of soda pop and then it will be 5 gold coins."
 
"What?!!" Wally lets out.
 
"Get him a large bottle of pop from Anne's across the street and I'll make sure he has the money ready for you." Officer Jackson tells Wally. Wally walks away saying something to himself.
 
Fernando reaches into his pocket and pulls out 5 gold coins from his pocket and shows it to Officer Jackson, "I got the money, though I'm not happy with this deal. If I return to this town, you owe me a few favors." He puts the coins back in his pocket before picking up one of the batteries and takes them to the back of the VW camper, sliding it into its engine bay. He does the same to the other battery and was picking up the battery cables. when Wally arrives with the large bottle of soda.
 
"Here... where's my money?" Wally holds out the bottle to Fernando.
 
"Macey, come get this for me." Fernando takes out the coins from his pocket. Macey takes the bottle of soda to the opened side door of the camper and puts it on the floor. Wally looks a the gold coins at an odd way.
 
"Republic of Texas?" Wally asks.
 
"Good, you can read." Fernando says to him, adding, "They're real. Want to bite them to check their purity?"
 
"Hmph... You think you's funny?" Wally throws back at him.
 
"If you were funny, I would be laughing. Now if you don't mind, I got work to do and you got your money to spend." Fernando tells him before pulling out a tool box from the VW Camper. Closing the door, he heads to the back where engine bay is with the tools and battery cables.
 
Putting his things down by the engine bay, he goes back to the driver's seat and flicks all the knobs and switches off with the exception of the radio which is switched to 'solar.' Going to the back, Fernando calls to Macey, "Macey, bring the soda and a cup or glass from the cabinet."
 
Macey does as she was told, bringing the soda and glass to him as he opens the rear cargo hatch up which leads to the bed in the rear of the camper. Fernando takes Macey up by her waist and sits her on the edge of the mattress, with her legs hanging off the edge to the outside. He takes Macey by the knees and puts them together, telling her "Cross your legs at the ankles, never at the knees and never sit with your legs open when you are wearing a skirt. You do not want everyone around you looking up your skirt and see what panties you are wearing."
 
Macey looks at him and nods as he takes the wires' ends and strip them off some insulation.
 
"Pour my some of that soda in the glass." He tells her.
 
"You thirsty?" Macey asks as she opens up the bottle.
 
"No." He answers, "Here, let me show you..." As he takes the glass and stepping back from the camper before pouring some of it onto the cable ends. Where the soda hits the copper cable, it begins to bubble up and foam. He explains, "See that. It is a chemical reaction where the soda is cleaning out the wire where it is rusted." He then pours out the soda onto the wire until it stops foaming, "There, now the rust is gone."
 
"I'll be..."  Officer Jackson says.
 
"You're still here?" Fernando throws at him.
 
"My orders are to observe what you are doing until you leave." Officer Jackson replies.
 
"Good. Then observe and learn. This will only work on a few things but for electrical, this is great. Macey, get me a pot of water." He says to them.
 
Macey puts the soda bottle by the wall of the camper and crawls on the bed to the kitchen of the camper, getting a small pot and filling it with water. She brings is back to Fernando through the bed cargo door before sitting down like she was before.
 
Fernando takes the pot of water and douses the exposed wire, "This is to remove the soda from the wire, because you want a clean connection. The soda took care of the rust but if you leave it there, it will cause rust later on. The water washes out the soda that is still on the wire, leaving a clean connection. Now if you will excuse me..."
 
Taking a few tools and other items with him, Fernando goes into the engine bay and starts working inside, connecting the battery wires in parallel to the battery circuit that was already there. Though it is enough to run the camper for a lot longer, the excess power begins to charge up the batteries the camper has. It takes him less than an hour to complete the job which includes checking and rechecking his work.
 
"I think I'm done here." He tells Officer Jackson.
 
"Good, now you can get out of here in peace." Officer Jackson tells him in return.
 
"Yeah, but first I'm not leaving hungry. Take my girl to the store and let her get 16 rolls, 5 pounds of sliced roast beef, 2 pounds of Swizz cheese, 3 pounds of American cheese, a small jar of mayonnaise and another small jar of mustard. How much you think that will cost?"
 
"Hmmm... 5 silver coins I would guess." Officer Jackson tells him.
 
"Good. Take her and bring her back and after we prepare the food, we will be leaving. I'll be here washing up." Fernando tells him as he give Macey 5 silver coins and points to her skirt pocket to put them in before helping her down, "And be a gentleman and carry the bags for her."
 
"Follow me, Miss..." Officer Jackson tells Macey, taking her to Anne's across the street.
 
While they were gone, Fernando cleans himself up. It only takes Officer Jackson and Macey a few minutes to return with the food.
 
"Good, and thank you." Fernando tells Officer Jackson as he accepts the bags of off. He takes 4 rolls and begins to make the sandwiches of roast beef and swiss cheese with 2 having mustard and the other 2 with mayonnaise for him and Macey, wrapping them up in paper towels and placing them on a plate. Wrapping rest up, he closes up the bag and takes it to Jeanette who with the other girls have been observing him all this time. He hands over the bag to her, "Here's something to munch on. Since you want to not deal with a prisoner, you deal with Moro. If she escapes with Elsa, I'm bringing her dead carcass back and use it as a bumper warmer for the electric camper. And that's me being nice. I would not be nice with you, however. See you in the next town."
 
Fernando walks away, not listening to what Jeanette or the others had to say. He closes up the Electric camper before getting into the driver's seat. Macey was already in the passenger seat with the plate of sandwiches on her lap. He carefully flicks the switches to battery, before putting the camper in gear and gives the accelerator pedal a slight tap. The extra voltage made it jump out of its parking spot like a souped up hot-rod. Fernando takes his care to drive the Electric camper out of town, not caring what happens to the girls he leaves behind though the Yeasu radio was on in case Jeanette wanted to say something.
 
He also turns on the modified CB Radio he put in the dash, listening in on channel 65 - a frequency which he set aside for time-travel use as it is so hard to get too without some expensive radio equipment. Nothing was there except for an occasional faint Morse code of distant stations calling out for each other. In the least he has a 5 minute head start over the others, and a lot more power for speed which he does not use yet.
 
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EDIT: Corrections made to spelling.