Chapter 10

Windy nudged Roy with her nose until he woke up, after a moment of disorientation at finding himself in a strange place, he became fully awake. After watering a tree out of sight of any cameras and the house, he did his chores. It being Sunday didn’t constipate the horses. Doing them, the mundane, repetitive nature of his work relaxed him and took his mind off of what was going to happen in just under twelve hours! Today he might be meeting his future wife, he certainly loved her and knew that she loved him. But they were young and as unique as his new ability was, it could not tell him or devine their or anyone else’s future. His work went quickly, brushing each horse’s body, combing their manes and tails before letting them out to run in the early morning mist and cool air before the Texas sun burned the mist away and heated everything up.

Roy took note that the compost pile of straw, hay and horse apples needed to be turned soon. It was a job to be done with the tractor, not by hand with a pitchfork, for which he was forever thankful! Soon he was finished and went to the house and showered. He woke the other two girls in his life and started breakfast for the horde of people, most of them still sleeping. He brought out the huge coffee machine and started making just under two gallons of the black elixir which would resurrect the sleeping by it’s smell alone. Finding the styrofoam cups, he placed several stacks on the countertop next to the machine. Then he started thawing four pounds of sausage, and two pounds of bacon in the microwave. While that was going on, he found the toasters, one a four slice, the other an eight slice, and started twelve slices to heat. Paper plates, the good ones, were brought out of the pantry, several tubs of butter and margarine came out of the refrigerator along with four dozen eggs.

He brought out the huge cast iron skillet that had been seasoned to perfection and never ever on threat of dismemberment been washed, and started frying bacon. On a second not quite as large skillet he started making sausage patties and cooking them. Grabbing the toast and reloading, then turning the sausage patties, flipping the bacon, Roy established a rhythm necessary to cook large amounts of food for large numbers of people.

His Mom and Sister watched this dance performed without music for five minutes before joining the dance themselves. Jane took over the toast production, Beth the bacon until all of two pounds had been cooked, then she started with scrambled eggs, mixing in over three pounds of cheddar cheese in the three batches she cooked.

As predicted people followed their noses to the scent of coffee and wound up in the kitchen. Roy, finished with the sausage, mixed up a very large batch of pancake batter and started making pancakes. The sounds of hungry people eating filled the house! Everyone enjoyed the food and complimented the cooks on how delicious everything was.! The Governor quipped that they would all be back next Sunday, after Church of course!

Many of them pitched in on the cleanup and wouldn’t let the cooks do anything in that regard, and even heated up some of the food for them!

Rather than cook again, an order for twenty five extra large pizzas of various types were called in early to be delivered at one o’clock!

After the awesome breakfast they went back over the plan, double checking that the right people had been assigned to each area and that they had reached the staging areas and were ready to proceed. The checklist was rapidly being completed when everything came to a sudden halt! But it was a good halt, the pizzas had arrived. A minor problem did come up when the delivery person recognized the Governor, it was decided that she would have to stay and join the party rather than let outsiders know that the Governor was here. She was one of Liz’s riding students, so Beth called the pizzeria and told the proprietor, whom she also knew, that she was keeping her employee in order for her to enjoy the party.

By four o’clock all of the check marks had been made, foreword observers began giving reports of cars arriving, license plate numbers were recorded, photographs of the cars, license plates, and people in the cars were taken and the process of identifying them began. At the airfield the same was happening with the registration numbers on the tails of the aircraft. Some were single engine, some multi engine propeller driven, larger jet propelled planes or bizjets, two larger multi jet engine aircraft used the mile long concrete runway. Men in turbans and durags exited the large planes.

Someone in the Governor’s group thought that they should get the State Department alerted! The Governor shut that down immediately! No one was going to come into our state and molest and/or purchase our children and get away with it by claiming Diplomatic immunity! They might get accidentally dead before that would happen!

A team of Texas Rangers who had volunteered to kick things off raided the security bunker that had been identified by the traffic in and out, this was the nexus of their security, the video camera feeds went to this room where at least three, possibly four people monitored all the cameras 24/7. These people had to be silenced before anything else could happen. The five man team quickly entered the stairwell going down to the entry door to the underground room. Charges of a type of strong acid were placed on the door locks and the video inlet cables from the cameras. Both charges went off together and did their jobs in seconds, silently, the entry team were in the door and had taken the four men down before they realized that the fuzzy screens in front of them was not the only problem they had! The Sergeant then notified command that they could proceed.

As eighteen hundred hours approached the sheer number of cars and planes was astonishing. Cars from over thirty states, Mexico, and Canada. Planes from India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, France, South Africa, England, and Russia! Many security personnel were observed carrying AR-15, Uzis, and other similar weapons. This added a new and unpleasant wrinkle to an already dangerous situation.

The greatest fear was that the group inside would hold the estimated one hundred fifteen girls hostage! There could be no negotiation!

Roy looked at the Governor,

“Sir, have them send me the video feed from the drones you have flying above all the security people, I will take care of them!”

The feed from the surveillance drone stationed over the front of the barn in a stationary position, showed about forty men, most carrying some sort of weapon, there were more on rooftops and one on top of a water tower nearby. Starting with the guys with an overview of the area he touched the screen of the large flatscreen TV monitor on the image of each person and rendered each one unconscious by short circuiting their brains, each one took two seconds, working quickly he only had to do one person that had started running toward the door to the Center, his face plant on the concrete was going to leave a scar.

At eighteen hundred hours units started moving, roads were blocked, ATV’s moved down trails in the area and quickly cut them off. Over a hundred drones were launched and using both visual and IR bands of light they monitored the woods around the area. SWAT type armored personnel carriers brought over a hundred law enforcement officers to the front of the barn. They were on hold as Roy did his thing.

Roy touched the photo of the Judge, he was on a stage looking out at the assembled group of rich people. Behind him were thirty naked fourteen and fifteen year old girls, Julie was one of them! The Judge looked back to the crowd of mostly men. He was seeing dollar signs! He was about to auction off ten virgin girls for the right of first conquest; the highest bidder would break the girl’s cherry on camera while the rest watched on large monitors around the room.

He motioned for the first girl to be brought up to a dais at the very front center of the stage they were on. It was Julie! She was forced to spread her legs and bend over as the dais moved like a lazy Susan on a table top. Roy was enjoying the view, but he needed to act...

Roy left the Judge and touched Julie’s photo,

“Julie, I want you to look at the security people as you are turning, I need their locations and what kind of weapons they are carrying. Smile at the future felons and when the entry door opens I want you to get down on the floor and try to get the rest of the girls to do the same!”

As she was turning she looked at each security person and detailed position, and any weapons that they held. Roy marked each location on a scale drawing of the interior of the Center along with what weapons were visible. This information was given to the entry teams.

“Julie, if you can, watch what the Judge does when the entry teams come in the door! That’s about to happen!”

At the door the lead team’s leader, a Sergeant, entered the codes he had been supplied with; they hoped they were the same and hadn’t been changed on some type of schedule! But they worked! He opened it just a little. One last check and the door was opened fully and the teams ran in, separating as they went after their assigned security person. They were free to fire if the person raised a weapon, only one did and the silenced weapon with subsonic ammunition took him out permanently! All of the others were too slow in reacting and were in handcuffs before they could do anything.

On stage, Julie dropped to the floor as soon as the door opened, looking at the Judge as the realization that his world was about to implode hit him! But he had prepared for this eventuality, he grabbed a hostage, Julie, and dragged her off for a door in the back of the barn, it was a storage room. At least that’s what everyone thought! It was, but it also held a hidden escape tunnel entrance.

Julie’s internal mental scream penetrated Roy’s brain, Julie is in trouble! He touched her image and saw the Judge pulling her by her arm into the door in the back. He alerted Brent and the both ran for the back of the room, staying connected to Julie he watched as the Judge entered a series of four numbers into another lock on a door inset into the floor, opening it exposed a stairway going down twenty feet. Roy and his hostage reached the storeroom door and were through it as the door in the floor closed and locked. He entered the code and lifted the door, as they started down a bullet followed quickly by the sound of the explosion that sent it, stuck the door six inches from Roy’s face. Everything was happening so fast he hadn’t thought to switch to the Judge and render him unconscious. He stopped and was going to do it now, but he was too late. The Judge was driving an ATV down a narrow tunnel at thirty miles an hour, if he made him unconscious now the vehicle would crash and it could kill the Judge and Julie. And he had plans for them both!

Roy tried to stay connected to the Judge, the twelve foot diameter tunnel was curving gently to the left and started to slope downward. He and Brent had been running, there was no hope of catching the man but at some point he was going to stop driving, then he could make him unconscious without endangering both of them. The tunnel went down over a hundred feet deep, then began to go up after passing over a cast iron grate set in the floor, probably a sump pump. Roy figured that they had just gone under the river. They stopped every so often to check on the Judge. This time when Roy touched the screen the end of the tunnel was visible and the Judge was slowing down. When the ATV came to a complete stop Roy did his thing and the Judge slumped forward onto the steering wheel unconscious.

Julie, thinking the man was dead, got out of the ATV and ran back the way they had come, still naked and barefoot. Roy and Brent had started running as soon as Roy had made the Judge unconscious, they met Julie after running over a quarter mile. She saw them and rightly guessed who the younger of the two people was. She jumped into his open arms and knocked him to the floor. Their kiss went on for five minutes while Brent tried to look anywhere except the girl’s naked butt waving at him as like a red cape to a bull.

After the kiss they stood up, Julie had been naked for so long and in front of so many people that she wasn’t at all self conscious in front of Brent. They started to walk to the ATV and the Judge. As they walked Roy introduced Julie to Brent adding that he was going to be his stepdad. Brent stopped and looked at Roy,

“You told me that you couldn’t see the future, how can you know that?”

“You don’t stare at a woman and have her return that same stare with love in both your eyes without eventually marrying her! It’s not looking into the future, it’s simply paying attention to what your eyes are saying in the present!”

“Would you object to my marriage to your Mom?”

“Heck no, Dad!” he said as he jumped away from the slap intended for his head!

“Let’s get the Judge and drive back to the Training Center and turn him over to the Governor!”

“Would you mind if we do a couple of things first?”

“That depends on what you want to do!”

“First I want to see where this tunnel comes out, I think we are close to our house, or on our property anyway. And second I want to ask the Judge’s brain a few things before he wakes up!”

“Sounds reasonable son! Just trying it out, kinda feels good! How about you?”

Unaccountably tears swamped his eyes and he found it difficult to speak, Roy just looked Brent in the eyes, smiled and nodded. He noticed the same condition in Brent’s eyes!

“Now all you two have to do is convince Mrs. Calhoun!” Julie said.

“There is that little detail! But I think it’s only a minor one.” Brent said hopefully.

After ten minutes they reached the ATV and found the Judge in the same position that he had been in since he first passed out. As a precaution Brent placed handcuffs on the man’s wrists going through the hand bar on the dash first. He also pocketed the keys to the ATV.

In front of them was a small garage roll up door about eight feet square with another keypad on the concrete wall to the left. Roy entered the same code as the floor mounted door and the door rolled up exposing an elevator big enough for the ATV. They drove the vehicle inside and hit the up arrow, sliding doors slid shut and the thing began to rise to the sound of a hydraulic pump. The doors opened and they walked out into a small clearing on a trail. Roy recognized where they were instantl. It was the little used trail he had ridden on the previous weekend. Looking at the clamshell doors he found them camouflaged to look like the pine needle covered dirt around them. Looking around he found another keypad inside a hidden door in the trunk of a dead tree nearby. Entering the same number and then hitting the down arrow made the elevator go down and the doors close. Only by looking very closely could you make out the outline of the doors. Given a few hours you would have to know they were there to see them. Reentering the code and then pressing the up arrow brought the elevator back up.