The Raven Adventurers: New Begining

[KDuncan]

The intruder jumped at the noise that echoed across the landscape, travelling farther due to the cold air. He whirled around to see what caused the noise. KDuncan and Ben rushed from his behind and grabbed him while Tom leveled his gun at the stranger.

[Tom Jones]

Tom cursed himself silently for being so clumsy, but he realized that he had more pressing things to be worrying about at the moment. The middle-aged man’s eyes narrowed at Jones as he spun around and saw a glistening silver handgun pointed in his face. Digging into an inside pocket of his jacket an annoyed expression crossed his face. He pulled out something clenched in his gloved hand but KDuncan and Ben were already on him. They grabbed both of his arms and pined them behind his back.

Groaning he clenched his teeth and closed one eye. “Quite impressive Dr. Jones…especially the little blunder that alerted me that you were behind me, quite ingenious.” The lanky man attempted a chuckle but KDuncan tightened her grip on his arm and he grunted in pain.

“Save it! I want to know what the hell you were doing with my jet!” Tom angrily stabbed his handgun at the aircraft and then back in the man’s face.

“Actually Dr. Jones this jet doesn’t belong to you or any of your other companions for that mater. It belongs to the United States Air Force.”

The flare in Tom’s eyes died slightly as he realized that the man was right. “That maybe so...but you were tampering with it buddy and I don’t think that they'd be too happy to hear about it.”

“You’ve got the wrong idea Dr. Jones I was actually sent here by my wife Jodi.”

[Deadlock]

Deadlock nodded, "That should work. Be back in a minute."

He kept low and circled around toward the back of the newcomer's chopper. Before the rotors even slowed, four Japanese gunmen jumped out and converged on the first helicopter.

"Crap." The mercenary considered taking a shot from where he was, but knew that he was well out of the effective range of his pistol.

Deadlock abandoned stealth and started sprinting.

The thugs tried to open the door of the chopper. But their attempts were frustrated. The girl had locked the door. They shouted furiously and pointed at the door. Inside, the girl had no intentions of complying with their demands. One of the thugs aimed his Uzi at the side of the door. Bullets sparked and ricocheted off the armored skin of the helicopter.

Deadlock continued to close in.

Suddenly, the rotors of the gunmens' helicopter quit. The pilot left the cockpit and approached his four passengers from behind. The gunmen took no notice of him. Without a word, the pilot raised an Uzi of his own.

With a single burst of automatic gunfire, the four thugs lay dead and bleeding in the snow.

The sniper stopped dead in his tracks. He looked back toward where Paden was sheltered.

What the hell?