by Danny Dunn
Tom jokingly asks Pong not to wreck his beautiful plane! Pong tells him thanks and suggests that Joe could pilot it down to Costa Rica. Tom, I think if Joe could make it through flying with the Blue Angels without crashing, he can handle this and tells Pong to go get em'.
Pong also tells Tom, "We have the drone shipments, the magnet shipments, and more is falling into place. Once we found a link, they all fell into place. What is so ironic is that the first link that put us on the right path was the frogs which, the CIA was hiding because they screwed it up.
"What led us to the frogs was the emails in which they referenced my name. Get this, the President told the CIA to pin the attack on me by the way. And he called me a little bitch.
"Plus, look at this. Pong shows Tom the search results.
Individuals to have searched poison frog, GPS services, premium map services, carbon fiber material, and receive emails with any of the following numbers; 41.40338, 2.174032.17403 21.50344, 3.55401, 36.22311, 3.34445
in the last 8 years = 2
Tom calls the airport and tells them Pong's people will be picking up the plane for a pleasure trip and asks that they fuel up the aircraft.
Joe, "The CIA will be looking for anything happening Costa Rica. I would like to have everything point to Panama and change it at the last minute in flight.
Tom "Sounds great. You guys make sure to be extra careful. The CIA is crazy."
Pong "Thanks again, Tom. If they crash it, I will buy you a new one."
Pong hands David 10 drones with video cameras, GPS, Audio, and tasers; 10 burner phone numbers for you to call and $10,000 cash. Pong tells Michael she and her team will continue through the night and will update them when they land. I will send you an encrypted message to this laptop, telling you what we found.
Michael, Alby, and Joe head to Costa Rica in communication silence until they are low enough to call from their cell phones in Costa Rica.
They unload a bunch of bags of gear from the car and put it into the cabin of the plane. They all buckle up. Joe gets cleared, and they take off.
Back in the control room, Adam is hacking everything he can to find anything related to Pedro Rodriguez and Costa Rica Trading company. In going through Pedro's F.B., Tax Returns Adam finds family member names and tax I.D. numbers.
Pong is using government databases for the same. Pong and Adam are talking back and forth as they work. Pong tells Adam, "Juan is an agent who is based in Costa Rica in the Drug division. He has been with the CIA for 5 years and has a spotless record.
Adam, Well, maybe not so spotless, I am in his wife's bank account, and she has received lots of cash deposits. The deposits are not massive, but each time Costa Rica Trading receives a payment, a day or two later, a deposit goes into his Juan's wife's account.
Pong "He's taking bribes. I have a new message from Paul Thomas to Pedro telling him that the President has put me on the payroll. They don't seem to know I have access to the email databases. Pong laughs, the President didn’t realize that for me bar none as it says in the agreement includes the government agencies and he hasn’t told the agencies about our agreement. That is too perfect.
"So much for the need to know basis. I think the CIA deletes the messages as standard operating procedure and are unaware I am seeing them before they trash 'em."
Message Alert
keyword: Pong
from: Paul Thomas
Section chief Costa Rica
To: Pedro Rodriquez
The President has put Pong on the payroll.
Adam "Bingo, I have a $10,000,000 deposit that went into Pedro's kid's trust account in Bolivia 3 months ago. Let's see who it came from."
Pong, "I am looking for $10,000,000 wires from the U.S. to Bolivia. Woe, let's move to Bolivia."
Adam "Yeah, drug money galore going into Bolivia. I bet that Pedro loaded the poison into the cartridges, and they shipped them up to the U.S. fully loaded. I will see if I can find rental trucks or trucking companies that went to the property over the last 4 months."
Pong "I will look for all shipments over the last four months into the U.S. Ships only take two weeks, I'll start there. I just found several $10,000,000 wires to Bolivia around 4 months ago.
"What is the account number?"
Adam "2114489526
Pong "got it. Oh my, it came from...me. "Great, I am being framed by the CIA on orders from the President of the United States."
Pong puts the wire transfer form up on the video wall. In the bank's transmission form, my name is listed as the sender. It is listed as Pong Zaria, I never told anyone my full name other than those in my family, which means they revised the form recently.
Pong "Adam, please stop what you are doing and help me get into the trash in the CIA message system. If the President doesn't have to keep his end of the bargain, then neither do I.
"I am releasing the Kraken."
Adam starts doing his hacking thing while sitting in Pong's station and logged in as Pong. "Ok, already being inside the server helps a lot.
Adam "Once you are in the rest is not so hard, tada, there you go."
Pong "Thanks, Adam." Pong enters a new search.
All emails referencing Pong =1,876
Pong - downloads all 1,876
Pong searches the CIA trash
Search keyword: "Pong."
Results = 125 messages
Pong "Adam, could you access the FBI, Homeland Security, NSA, databases and download all emails and files referencing me, please. Do it from my station, so it looks like it was me that did it. I need to know if anyone else is out to get me for the President."
ITEM 1 of 125
from: P.O.T.U.S
TO: CIA director
Subject: Pong
I want you to get that little shit. Whatever it takes. She embarrassed us in Albuquerque. I want her gone. I have the Vatican, the AI industry, the robotics industry, all threatening to cut their donations if she is around much longer.
XXXXX
ITEM 2 of 125
From: CIA Director
TO: P.O.T.U.S
subject: Pong
ok, I am with you on that.
ITEM 3 of 125
from: CIA director
TO: P.O.T.U.S
Subject: Frogs
We have some terrible news; we were working with the maker of the frog toxin. Our deal went sideways in Costa Rica. Our guy sold the toxin to a third party who used it in the attack on the U.S.
XXXXX
ITEM 4 of 125
from: P.O.T.U.S
to: CIA director
subject: WTF
Fix it, blame it on Pong if you have to.
XXXXX
ITEM 5 of 125
From: CIA director
TO: P.O.T.U.S
Subject: Great Idea
I will put it into play. Inviting Pong to join us on the search was a great move. We can box her up and wrap her in a bow.
ITEM 6 of 125
from: P.O.T.U.S
TO: CIA director
Subject: Do it
We will see who is the smarter of the two.
XXXXX
Search keyword: 2114489526
found 125 items deleted
ITEM 1
from: Pedro Rodriguez
to station chief: Juan Parker
subject: bank information
Enrile Rodriquez
Bank of Bolivia
routing 211448522
account number: 2114489526
XXXXX
ITEM 2
date: xxxxx
From: Juan Parker
to Pedro Parker
XXXXX
ITEM3
Subject: Got the account number will send
from: Juan Parker
To: Pedro Rodriquez
message: The deposit is complete
XXXXX
ITEM 4
from: Pedro Rodriquez
to Juan Parker
Subject: I se
e it, it is only $10,000,000. the deal was $20,000,000 upfront
ITEM 5
from: Juan Parker
to Pedro Rodriguez
Subject: More to follow when the job is complete
XXXXX
Item 6 of 125
From: Pedro Rodriguez
TO: Juan Parker
Subject: fucking CIA
Message: No honor, I worked 5 years for that toxin, put my family at risk, and this is how you treat me.
XXXXX
Pong wakes up David, who is sleeping in one of the beds in the control room. She taps him a few times, and he is slowly waking up. She tells David the Costa Rica team lands in 10 minutes. David says roger that David is still groggy and says he will be ready in 5. Pong heads out to the control room.
Pong and David meet at the conference table while Adam works.
Pong, "Take a look at these." Pong slides the messages across the table she and Adam found while David was asleep.
David "Wow, does our Costa Rica team know."
Pong, "No, we found these after they were out of reach."
David "They will turn on their burner and laptops on their approach, which is in about 2 minutes.
Pong "What are your thoughts."
David "We continue as planned, so far, I don't think they know we have a team there. I don't believe they know we went through their trash or that we know they are framing us. If anything, we have even more reason to get what we are after. One thing about the spooks, when they have you, everything is on their side. I would suggest we send the team but use the drones to recon the area to get a feel for the situation. After that, we decide whether or not to go in."
Pong "Sounds good."
David tells Pong that having their own plane and making it look like it was going to Bolivia bought them time. You know Pong, we could gain a lot of leverage by bringing Frog Man back with us. Pong smiles and loves the idea. He will make an excellent insurance policy, indeed. David says yes, and he knows who bought the toxin, and the most likely knows who carried out the attack.
At the other end of the table, the team is still going at it. Alex says he has an idea. Alex suggests it would save a fantastic amount of programming time if the perps had their 100 guys drive around each metro area, marking the obvious targets with a GPS. Especially the gas stations and other smaller targets.
We could review the video cams and look for someone walking up to a tank with devices in their hands. If we got lucky, maybe we could get a video with a license plate we can track. That would lead us to the person, their credit card, country, and other links like bank accounts. Pong agrees and puts it into motion.
Pong asks Karen to create a page that puts up 100 cams at a time and to feed it directly to the Pongettes. The Pongettes can scan them internally much faster. The Pongettes scour every top-100 markets for video at gas stations, stadiums, propane facilities. As they find videos that show 1 person walking up to a target, they put it up on the wall.
David's burner phone rings, it's Michael. David answers by asking if he brought his tanning oil. Michael responds affirmative and adds that he also brought some lounge chairs.
David "We have developments. The CIA hired Frogman to make the poison for a project of their own. The CIA paid half of the $20M instead of the agreed payment in full. Frogman got pissed and sold the toxin to another buyer who used it in the attack in the U.S. When the deal went sideways, the CIA and the President decided to pin it on Pong. Michael tells David he hates the CIA. David tells Michael that is seems that the CIA is unaware you are there, but we are not sure of it. David tells Michael that this isn't what you signed up for, so Pong and I would be fine with you just turning around right now if you want."
Michael responds with not a chance. He tells David and Pong that Joe and Alby can hear you, and they say no way in hell. Michael tells David and Pong that they are here to get this guy. David recommends that Michael go there, but adds that when they are close, they are to release a couple of drones to do recon. Once we see the situation, we will all agree on a plan. Michael tells David roger that and Michael's team rent a van and head to the Frog Man's shop.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team continues to zero in on the other leads. They get a printout of everyone flying from the 100 markets to the two countries over the 2 days.
Karen, "I have a list of the shipments of the 600g carbon fiber material to the 100 cities.
Adam, "I have the drill bits manufacture's ship to list. It includes our targeted 100 cities.
"Pong, look at this. I have shipments to the U.K. billed to the same account."
When they land, Joe insists that they refuel now. “you never know what our situation will be when we are leaving.” They all laugh.
About two miles from Frog Man's shop, Michael pulls off to the side of the road and releases two drones. They immediately head down the highway about 1,000 feet up and off to the side of the road. Michael calls David, and David puts them on the speakerphone. Pong says they have the video and are copying it to their second burner. Michael, Alby, and Joe are watching. David says to look for parked cars. Michael says that they haven't seen any so far. David laughs and says, yeah, government workers, they would park 40 yards from the site, and they all laugh.
The drones get to the site, Pong has one drone hover on the opposite side of the highway looking into the intersection and sends the other to the shop. She has the shop drone about 500 feet back and about 200 feet up and has it slowly circled the building. Everyone is looking in the building but also along the tree line for spooks and security guys.
Michael says that it looks quiet. There are a couple of cars, and a van backed up to the loading dock in the rear of the building. Two guys are loading bags and computers into the van. Pedro walks out to look around and walks back in."
David "That's Pedro, Michael. I want you to hang around a couple minutes to confirm it is just the three of them."
David "Roger that, the plan will be to taser the helpers, tie them up, gag 'em and toss them into the back of the vans. We need to convince Pedro he and his family are all about to die if he doesn't give us everything we ask for.
"Michael, we just found that the same customer that ordered the toxic cartridges for the U.S. also had Pedro ship 40,000 cartridges to the U.K. Zero in on that right of way in your questioning. If he admits to doing it, ask how many, if he says 40,000, he is probably telling you the truth.
David says that the paperwork confirming the U.K. shipment might already be in the van. You need to be in and out fast, so just toss everything useful, including Pedro and his helpers into the van and reduce on the way to the airport. Then ditch the rental van on the way to the airport.
We are sending you the names and pics of the family and the wire information to use against Pedro. Pedro rented the van, so the CIA would be more likely to be tracking our rental van. If there is a GPS in Pedro's Van yank it out. If there is a GPS is in your vehicle, disconnect it or rip it out.
Michael "Ok, David, we are going in. I am sending up a drone as a lookout, Pong can you control that."
"Pong, "Yes, I can control the drones. Please send up three. I will use the two others as a lookout down the road to give us more warning time. We have you on video heading in now. Michael, Alby, and Joe all have their earpieces on, and Pong is talking to them as they approach. Michael is still in the car, and Joe and Alby walk around each side of the building. Pong tells them that the two helpers are placing things into the van and are heading back into the shop. You can go on 3,2,1, Go. Joe and Alby turn the corner and hustle to the roll-up door. Each wait for them to pass them as they head back out to the van. The two helpers each have a couple bags of paperwork in their hands. Joe and Alby taser them both and pulls them off to the side. They tie and gag them. Michael drives around with the van and backs it up alongside Pedro's Van. All three have their guns out and turn the corner looking into the shop just as Pedro is heading out with an armful of computer stuff.
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bsp; Pedro "Who the hell are you?"
Michael "We are the guys you screwed Pedro." They cuff Pedro's hand and feet, and then Alby and Joe head out to the vans to cuff, tie, gag, and load the helpers and the stuff into their own van.
Michael sits Pedro down and shows him pictures of his family and of the $10 Million wire transfer. "We have a team with your family Pedro, and you have about one minute to give us what we want, and all will be fine for your family. "If not, your family will never see that $10,000,000. There is no option B for you, Pedro.
Where is the paperwork on who you shipped the toxin to? Including the U.K. shipment.
"Pedro points to the desk, "Bottom drawer."
Michael radios Joe to check out a desk. As Joe enters, Michael's gestures to Joe to get what is in the drawer."
Michael "What computers have your emails."
Pedro "The one I was carrying and the two in the van."
Michael "Where is your laptop?"
Pedro "I don't use one. Everything is on the computers you have."
Joe goes through the desk and confirms there is a lot of intel. Alby takes pictures of all the docs as Michael interrogates Pedro. Alby and Joe are hustling and toss everything into a bag and toss the bag into the van.
Think hard, Pedro, is there anything else you know we will want.
Pedro "right over there is the shipping dock desk, take everything in the bottom drawer. There is a folder called "Misc." that has things in it you will want."
Michael "That has the U.S. and the U.K. shipments?"
Pedro, "yes."
Michael "How many cartridges loaded with toxin did you ship to the U.K.?"
Pedro "40,000."
Michael sends the interview video to Pong. Joe hustles to the shipping dock desk. He grabs the documents in the drawer and tosses them into the bag.
Joe radios Michael
Joe, "Ok, got em."
Michael "Great, we're good to go."
Joe locks up everything to make it appear Pedro and his team moved out. They drive out in the 2 vans. The two helpers are in the van Pedro rented, and the intel is in their van. The two helpers are waking up, and David tasers them again.
Michael "Pedro, we are going to take you with us, which means you and your family get to live a sweet, comfortable life if you cooperate.
