“This is the correct man, we have a bargain, are you satisfied?” asks the man holding his hat.
“We are,” replies Juthamah.
“Excellent,” says the man with the hat. “Also, on behalf of myself and a few other very senior executives at the agency, I want to thank you for your excellent service and for the utterly amazing work you have completed for us over the years. Your work has been exemplary in every regard. Please enjoy your retirement. Should you ever decide to become active please do contact us.”
Hat man puts his fedora hat back on, they cut the restraints from the Jihadist and secure him in the rear of the Suburban, then climb into the front seats, the Suburban starts up, turns around and drives away to the South.
“Stand by while I complete a thorough 360 degree vicinity scan, I don’t want anyone sneaking up on us when our guard is down and we think we are safe.” says D.
Huey, Dewey, Mongo, step back onto the loading ramp of the ship and flick out of sight. Frosty, Beast, and I hold position until D gives us the all clear.
When D and the ship finish their short, medium, long range scans she gives us the all clear. Frosty, Beast, and I walk back to the ship, look around one last time, and walk up the ramp to a new future.
Chapter 34: Epilogue
“I’m telling you there were goddamned snakes all over that damn dry lake bed.” I curse. “The sidewinder type, not the rattlesnake, the sidewinders, the desert snakes.
“Never saw a one, never heard one, none dropped by for a ‘who the hell are you’ either.” replies Frosty calmly.
“I was all over that desert and I never saw a one Boss. You must be imagining the whole thing.” xmits Beast. “Stress will do that to ya!”
“Aren’t you fuckers just the funniest ever? I had one of those goddamned snakes within arm’s reach of me. The son of a bitch was just slithering along moving sideways and eyeing me up. Shit it was as big around as my wrist and six feet long. I’ll tell you straight I had the Kukri knife out and humming up a storm for that fucker I can tell you. It was within a fraction of a second of being hacked into forty pieces.” I shook my head and rubbed my face.
“It’s stress, no doubt of that, maybe some PTSD, or SSD,” suggests D.
“What the hell is SSD?” asks Frosty
“Severe snake disorder,” replied D, laughing!
Everyone is laughing and cackling at me, Beast launches across the room and lands on me and the chair, Beast and I go over backwards. Beast holds me down and licks my face making his happy wolf woo-woo sounds.
“Arrggghh, you’re all a bunch of smart assed bastards,” I splutter. “Get off me you big hairy son of a bitch.”
Then I bust out laughing along with the rest of them.
“There were two sidewinders over by my position,” says Frosty.
“There were all over the damn place and sand vipers too,” xmits Beast.
“It was just too good of an opportunity to tease the hell out of you.” chuckles D.
“God, what a terrible crew I’m stuck with. Crank this bus up woman, we have a whole world to explore.” I say shaking my head.
The ship rises, scans 360 degrees and accelerates upward and away.
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