Chapter 5 starts
<7:00A>
I wake up, shower
and start to get dressed, ’ “C” please wake up N sync and the
protection team.’ ‘Will do Bob.’ Finish dressing, grab the passes
and tickets. Go to the armory, get my laser pistols and the
riffle ready to go if needed. Then head to the transport control
room to get things ready, grab a cup of coffee, sit down and
go over the hotels blueprints.
<8:00A>
Both groups show
up together chatting and laughing. ‘Bob why are dressed in black?
You are intimidating enuff as it is.’ ‘Yeah…but first impressions
are important Joey, since I’m supposed to be the “head honcho”
I need to look the part, and dressed like this goes a long way.’
‘Yeah I’d say so,’ says Connie, ‘If I didn’t know you, I’d be
afraid of you.’ ‘Ok does everyone have their tracking rings
on?’ they all nod, ‘Yeah.’ Pass out the maskers, and they put
them in their pockets, ‘Ok lets do this, “C” activate the doppelganger’s
beacon, and put ours on stand by.’ ‘Activated Bob.’ get up and
lead the way to the transport room, ‘This will be a little different
from when I rescued some of you, but it will work the same,
so don’t worry, just follow me.’ I close my eyes and an arch
appears, it is surrounded by blue light, all that can be seen
is darkness. ‘Ok everyone hold on to each other, Lance, Connie,
take my arms and just start walking forward.’ I throw up a kinetic
shield and start to walk forward, enter the darkness, look around
and see a blue flashing light, check it’s call sign, and head
for it. As we get close to it I open the portal, we walk in
to the hotel suite.
<Hotel suite>
As I enter I
see the doppelgangers of Justin and J.C. still sleeping, ‘Well
sleepyheads what are you going to do on your day off?’ The two
shoot up in bed, ‘Damn Bob…you could have called first.’ ‘Sorry
Jamie, Doug, but I thought you knew I was coming over early.’
‘Yeah, but not how early, now I have to change my underwear.’
‘Well Doug I know twice in the same week is new for you but
you will get use to it.’ <grin> ‘Very funny, very funny.’
‘Jamie would you call the others and have them come over?’ ‘Sure
thing.’ Jamie and Doug get up and get dressed, 10 min. later
the other four walk in. ‘Well intro time again, this is Jamie,
Doug, Dean, Dan, K.C. and Sid.’ the guys shake hands and look
at each other closely to see how close they look to the originals,
‘Ok guys morph to normal, and have a good day off.’ ‘Oh, we
will.’ ‘Remember be back here at 10P and be all packed up and
ready to go.’ ‘Yes…Dad.’ ‘By the way who is in charge of security
for the tour?’ ‘That would be Tim, he seams ok, but you never
can tell.‘ ‘What’s his number so I can call him?’ they tell
me and I call and ask him to join us in Justin’s room.
<Knock…Knock>
Justin goes
over and lets him in, he comes in and looks around with a frown,
‘I see your here to take over.’ ‘No Tim, I’m here to help, not
take over. We’re here for back up if needed.’ I walk over to
him and reach out to shake his hand, he looks at me for a second
then shakes my hand, ‘What makes you think you can help?’ ‘Well
I have a few tricks up my sleeve.’ Tim looks at me for a
second with his mouth open, ‘Yeah I guess you do, this could
take some time to get use to.’ ‘Would you lead the way to breakfast?
I don’t want the guys to be late.’ Tim takes the lead, I follow
last, turn and say ‘Remember guys use the A&A credit cards
not the Jive cards, and be back by 10P, and please turn off
the beacon. See you later.’ Go to the banquet room, the protection
team and I eat slowly while N sync shovel it in like there’s
no tomorrow. I come up with something to slow them down ‘Well
you guys sure worked up a good appetite last night.’ they
look at me and start to turn red, Justin looks around to make
sure no one is watching, then sticks out his tongue. ‘Sorry
Justin I don’t French kiss long distance, at least when so many
people are around.’ He turns redder and the rest of the
guys start to snicker, then they take a drink to cover up the
snickering so no one would notice. ‘I may take you up on
the offer later.’ After breakfast the guys do the meet and
great for some lucky fans, they sit and talk to the fans and
sign autographs. When they are done we head to the buss for
the ride to the venue. Tim and I take the lead so I can throw
up a shield if needed, but we didn’t need it.
<Venue>
Escort the guys
to the building and start to look around while they do their
sound checks, and practice the choreography, back to the hotel
for a rest and meal, back to the venue for makeup and the concert.
I stand off stage watching for anything unusual, the protection
team stay in the V.I.P. area watching both the crowd and the
concert. After the concert the guys have a few fans in the dressing
room for another meet and great. Then back to the hotel. Have
the doppelgangers morph back to N sync and Bill, then open the
portal to the complex. ‘ “C” beacon on please.’ A green
light starts to flash, check the call sign and open the portal
back into the transport room.
<Transport
room>
Put the maskers
in the chargers, collect the passes and tickets. ‘Ok people,
is any one hungry?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘I should have known, what do you
want? We can go to the kitchen and see what we can come up with,
or go to the rec. room for some pizza or sandwiches?’ ‘Lets
go to the rec. room.’ Jason suggests.
<Rec. room>
Find a large
table, order our food and drinks, sit around and talk till our
food shows up. When we’re done eating the trainers come over
to see how it went, I tell them with N sync butting in if I
miss any thing. They hit the dance floor, and I get drug out
there again. It starts to get late and we are about to head
to our rooms , I get up. ‘Well people that went well today,
keep up the good work. I’m proud of the job you did today.’
The protection start to blush. ‘Bob would you help with the
training tomorrow?’ Sara asks. ‘Sure, why?’ ‘I want you to bee
there as an unknown quantity, to keep us on our toes.’ ‘Sure…ok…have
the medics ready just in case.’ ‘Of course.’ ‘What time?’ ‘How
about 10A and 2P?’ ‘Sounds good…I just hope I don’t hurt any
one, Remember I do level 7 alone.’ ‘I’ll keep reminding you
.’ ‘Ok I’m heading out, see you tomorrow.’
<My room>
Check my email
and voice mail nothing important, ‘ “C” Rogers voice mail please.’
‘Sure Bob.’ ‘Roger every thing went well, all the guys got along
fine after the tour security figured out that I wasn’t going
to take over. Sara asked me to help with the training tomorrow,
so I will be out of my office most of the day. I’ll talk to
you later, bye.’ ‘Bob are you busy? This is J.C..’ ‘No
come on in.’ J.C. walks in looks at me, then the floor and
starts to turn red. ‘What’s up Josh?’ ‘Do you mind physical
contact?’ ‘No…why?’ ‘Would you stand up?’ ‘Ok.’ He comes over
and hugs me, ‘Thank you for being there today. We were so scared
about the concert till you said that you go. Then all we had
to do was look at you today and our courage came back.’ ‘I thought
you guys were watching me a lot…but I had no idea why.’ ‘Yeah…seeing
you standing there so calm did wonders for us.’ ‘ Are the other
guys coming over as well?’ ‘As soon as I give them the ok, they
sent me in first in case you got pissed off about the hug, I’ll
call them now.’ ‘Go ahead, I’m going to get a cup of coffee.
Would you like one?’ ‘It’s a little late for me…but what the
hell, if you would please.’ ‘Ok guys…its safe.’ J.C.
sends to the rest of the guys. The rest of the guys come in
looking sheepish, they look up at Josh to make sure he’s ok.
‘No I didn’t hurt him.’ <grin> They start to laugh. ‘So
guys when’s the next concert?’ ‘In three days, at least its
not as hectic as the last tour.’ Chris says. ‘Grab something
to drink and have a seat.’ We shoot the bull for about half
an hour. ‘It’s getting late, I’m going to bed. Will I see you
at breakfast?’ ‘Yeah you will.’ We get up, they start to the
door, then Lance says ‘Group hug.’ They come over and hug me,
‘Thanks for being there today, we really appreciated that you
were there today.’ ‘Ok off to bed, I’ll see you at breakfast.’
‘Yes…Dad.’ They hurry out before I can do any thing to them.
‘ “C” BSB chapter 1, low volume, 8A wake up call please.’ ‘Good
night Bob.’
<8:00A>
Get up hit the
rest room, put on my work out gear and head to breakfast, grab
a large table and start to eat. In a few min. the trainers come
over and sit down. ‘Well do you think you guys can handle having
me in the Danger room today?’ ‘We’ll try not to make you look
bad.’ ‘Thanks guys, I know you care about my ego. So I’ll try
not to hurt you to bad.’ <grin>. 15 min. later J.C., Joey,
Chris, Bill and Lance walk over, ‘Bob would you go wake Justin
up? I tried but I couldn’t.’ ‘Sure…you aren’t mean enuff, be
right back.’ ‘pop’ to Justin’s room.
<J.C. and
Justin’s room>
‘ “C” A/C on
full please.’ pull his bedding off, he starts to shiver, ‘Justin…
wake up.’ ‘Don’t wanna…m tired.’ ‘Justin…I’ll ask you one more
time, please get up.’ He mumbles and rolls over, “Ok… I tried
to be nice.’ kinetically pick him up, move him in to the shower,
turn on the cold water and hold him there for a few seconds.
‘BOB THAT’S COLD.’ ‘I’ll see you in a few, my breakfast is getting
cold. “C“ temp. back to normal please.’ ‘ Yes Bob.’ ‘pop’ back
to the dinning room.
<Dinning room>
‘He’s showering
now.’ <grin.> ‘And how did you do it so fast?’ J,C. asks,
I tell them, they all start to laugh, Pat walks up, sits down,
‘Ok…what’s so funny?’ I tell him what happened, he falls off
his chair laughing. Ten min. later Justin walks in with a pissed
off look on his face. ‘That’s a nice look there Justin, is that
your new look to keep the fans away or what?’ ‘Just what we
need, a comedian in the crowd. I think I’ll have blue balls
for a week.’ We all start to laugh again. ‘Well I warned you…’
‘Yeah…right.’ We finish eating, I stand up ‘I just thought of
some thing I need to check on, I’ll meet you in the Danger room
as soon as I can.’ Head to the kitchen and drop of my tray,
go to Brent’s office.
<Brent’s office>
<Knock…knock>
‘Come.’ ‘Hey
Brent, you got a few?’ ‘Yeah…what ya need?’ ‘How many maskers
do you have?’ ‘I’ve got 25, why?’ ‘Does that include the ones
you gave me?’ ‘No…why.’ ‘I was thinking about Rogers precog.,
that’s all.’ ‘What was it?’ ‘I thought you knew.’ ‘Only that
he had one about the next R&R mission, that’s all.’ ‘Let
me link with you .’ He nods and I walk over and put my hands
on his temples and meld with him. When I’m done I unmeld. He
looks at me, ‘well that’s not much to go on.’ ‘I know, that’s
why I’m checking on as many things as I can just in case I need
them.’ ‘Well let me know if you need any help.’ ‘Thanks Brent,
will do. I’d better get to the Danger room to help Sara and
her crew, see you later.’ ‘pop’ to the Danger room.
<Danger room>
‘Good timing,
we’re just about ready to start.’ ‘No Sara, I didn’t time it.’
<grin> ‘Smart a., you know what I mean.’ ‘Yeah….so what
level?’ ‘Around level 3.’ ‘Remember that I will be working on
both sides, not just N sync.’ ‘Thanks loads.’ ‘No prob. Mike.
Pat are you ready?’ ‘Yes, lets start at level 2.5 and go up
to 3.5?’ ‘Sounds good to me,’ Sara replies, ‘How about you Bob?’
‘Fine by me, lets do it.’ ‘Ok, program on line.’ I take off
and fly around watching the action as N sync and the trainers
do their thing. When I see someone slacking off I get their
attention, a lighting bolt here, a fire ball there, a kinetic
push somewhere else, and verbal taunting seam to get their minds
on business. Once in a while they would try to get me but all
are either near misses, or something I could counter with out
much trouble. At the end of an hour Pat calls time out. I fly
over to the group, ‘Does any one need to be fixed up?’ ‘Only
a few and nothing to bad.’ ‘Good, I’ll go get us a table, see
you in a few.’
< Dinning
room, after a stop in the kitchen>
As I enter the
dinning room I see Paul R. sitting alone and ask him to join
us. We have a good time eating and picking on each other. ‘Well
I’d better get back, I’ll see you in about an hour.’ ‘Ok Pat,
we’ll see you then. Hey Paul what are you doing this afternoon?’
‘I don’t think I have anything planed, why?’ ‘Would you like
to join us around 2?’ ‘Let me go check my schedule to make sure
and if I’m free I’ll join you.’ ‘Great, we’ll see how they do
against you.’ After Paul R. leaves . ‘Well what’s his power?’
‘That would be telling Chris, just wait and see. I’m heading
to my office to see if I have any messages. See you at 2.’
<My room>
Check my voice
mail and email. The only thing is from Roger telling me that
he had gotten my report and to keep up the good work. I relax
for a while then head for the Danger room.
<Danger room>
I meet Paul R.
at the door and go in. N sync and the trainers look up and smile.
‘Ok what’s with the grins?’ they just shake their heads, ‘Paul…link’
‘Ok, ready.’ ‘I don’t trust them…take off now.’ He
starts to vibrate, then to hum, he raises his arms and he has
extra cloth between his wrist and waist, as the hum gets louder
he takes off, and I throw up a kinetic shield and follow. As
we take off I help Paul with his mental barricades, then strengthen
mine, I glance over my shoulder and the guys that can fly are
following us. ‘Paul, divide and conquer. Attack!’ We
split up, head towards the corners of the room, Paul turns and
hits his followers, I turn and fire lighting bolts, fire balls,
and kinetic blasts, all of the guys that can fly are down. All
of a sudden I start to feel like I’m going to through up, I
mentally reach out and put the healers to sleep. Paul hits the
last group with a sonic blast that shoves them in to the wall
unconscious. All 11 down. We start to head towards the door
then the lasers start to fire, Paul starts evasive maneuvers
as I blast the turrets, next three doors open and robots start
coming out Paul takes one door and I take the other two, Paul’s
shake apart and I hit mine with lighting and fire balls, when
they are all down, ‘What the hell is going on? Program off,
shutting down.’ Pat says. Paul R. and I head over to the healers
and wake them up. As they start to check the others out I ask
‘Rick, Lance, do you need any help?’ ‘Yeah, it wouldn’t hurt.’
I open a portal to the infirmary, stick my head thru, ‘We could
use some help in the Danger room please.’ After they come thru
I close the portal, check that everyone is being cared for,
then I walk over and lean against a wall and start to shake.
Paul walks over, ‘What’s wrong Bob?’ ‘Paul…I could have killed
them. You know what I can do. They are lucky I remembered at
the last second… or who knows what I would have done to them.’
I look down and shake my head. Paul puts his arm around my shoulder
to try to comfort me. ‘They must have had something planed,
but you were just to fast and figured it out.’ Pat walks over,
‘Sorry about the lasers and robots, but I thought that you had
cooked some thing up after I left after lunch, then I saw you
two peal off and start to take them down, I knew that some thing
was off but I couldn’t get to the override in time.’ ‘No problem
Pat, not your fault.’ ’Bob…would you come over here please?’
‘In a few Marsha…I still need to calm down.’ ‘Bob…’ ‘Just give
me a few Josh…please.’ <sigh> ‘Pat, Paul, go on over
to the guys, I’ll be over in a few.’ As they leave I start to
float, get in a lotus position, and try to relax. Ten min. later
I go over to the group. <sigh> ‘Ok…’ ‘Wait Bob… it’s our
fault! We thought we could take the two of you on…12 - 2 seemed
like good odds.’ ‘And now?’ ‘Maybe 50 - 2.’ ‘Pat how long did
that take?’ ‘About three min. total, about 1.5 for each .’ ‘So
in about 1.5 min. I almost had 12 funerals to go to.’ I look
at the trainers, they look at the floor, ‘It seemed like a good
plan when we thought it up, what went wrong?’ ‘12 Cheshire cat
grins for some reason gave it away. Was any one hurt bad?’ ‘No…’
‘Good… now get some rest, ALL of you! Now I have to report to
Roger, maybe he will accept my resignation now.’ As I spin around
and head to the door. <GASP> ‘NO…Bob…don’t.’
Email
me or fill out this respond
form with your comments.
.gif){kind=tracking}
