Karen was in the shadows when Commander Benson admitted he was a Navy Seal. The fact that he said we also suggested that Lopez and Peck were Seals as well. She thought this changes things. She wasn’t threaten by Commander Benson style or his team, in fact she was glad that they were here. If things failed here and the pellets started flying having the Navy Seals here would be a good thing, but why were the Navy Seals using the U N S F’s A P hand guns and A R rifles here?
What’s more who ever the new guy was, he was holding what appeared to be an A P one hand gun, but why? And then she remembered the body they found. Who ever he was he may have had the A P one hand gun as a back up weapon and had it hidden on his leg. The hand gun was small enough to fit there. But why take that and not the more powerful A P twenty one that was left behind. Then it hit Karen when she saw the new guy’s right hand holding the A P one hand gun. His three fingers were so bulky he couldn’t have possibility fit his finger thru the trigger hole. But since the A P one was designed to be used in space and with the possibility of using the weapon with a space suit’s bulky glove fingers the weapon would useful to this new guy and she did notice the yellow safety level was down meaning that the weapon was active.
Karen recognized Jack Baxter’s voice while he was conversing with Commander Benson and when he made reference to the woman being his ex-wife with their son would mean the woman in question would been Jack’s third wife Janice and their son Gordon, but why were Janice and Gordon here?
Too many unknowns and not enough time, on one hand Karen need to capture alive this new guy. The fact that he was using an A P one hand gun and the fact that she, Commander Benson, Lopez and Peck where ten to fourteen feet away way beyond the A P one’s effective range. They would get hurt if fired upon at this range from the weapon but not seriously hurt. However the fact the hand gun was pointed directly to Jack’s temple, if discharged it would kill Jack.
Karen needed to get involved, she just hope that Commander Benson wouldn’t interfere with her.
She then touched her left ear and then her left wrist to turn on the radio she had on. Hopefully the people in Press Box would pick up her signal now. Then she heard on her left ear “Tac channel seven active. No other units are using this channel.” She just hope Peck wasn’t on Tac channel seven as well. If so things could get dicey.
Karen then used both her hands on the A P twenty one hand gun and stepped out from the shadow and greeted Jack. She also noticed that the trail of blood that they was following came from the new guy’s right calf. She could see blood coming down from the leg.
“So today is not your day” said Karen
“Yeah, go figure” said Jack “Say Commander Benson, I take it that back, my day just got even worse.”
“Enough of this nonsense, all of you.“ said the new guy “Two!”
“Carvalho, what the hell you are doing, I said I was in charge of this.” said Commander Benson
“I thought you were part of the U N S F, but you just said you are a Navy Seal.” said Karen “I hate to break it to you but this is a U N building and I am the ranking U N officer here, never mind the fact that I belong to the pansy ansy science fleet.”
“So what?” asked Commander Benson
“Please stay Commander” said Karen “I need your help. But please let me say a few things here.”
Karen turned her attention to Jack and said “Jack who is holding you?”
“It is Ashlo” said Jack
“Enough of this nonsense, you are wasting time and time is what you do not have” said the new guy
“Wait, Ashlo, isn’t it” said Karen “What do you want?”
“Carvalho are you crazy.” said Commander Benson “You don’t deal with terrorist.”
“Commander please bear with me for a while.” said Karen, she then turned her attention to Ashlo and said “So Ashlo what do you want?”
“You know what I want.” said Ashlo
“No I don’t” said Karen “Why don’t you say what you want. I was not there in the auditorium during the speech so I have no idea what you want.”
Ashlo didn’t say anything, he paused then Karen said “Come on Ashlo, here is your chance, what do you want?”
Ashlo then said “To enforce the will of the Imporium upon this world.”
“Why?” asked Karen
“It is necessary” said Ashlo
“Why is it necessary to enforce the will of the Imporium upon this world?” asked Karen
Ashlo paused for a while and then he said “You threaten the security of the Imporium with your weapons.”
“Which weapons?” asked Karen
“You know which weapons.” said Ashlo
“Enlighten me Ashlo, which weapons threaten the Imporium and why?” asked Karen
“You waste my time.” said Ashlo “You know why.”
“Honestly Ashlo, I don’t know why, really I don’t know why.” said Karen “How can we threaten the Imporium. We don’t have the technology to get there. So how can we threaten you?”
“You will one day” said Ashlo “And your fear of us will threaten the Imporum for all time to come.”
Commander Benson was shaking his head at what Ashlo was saying. This did not make sense.
“So Ashlo” said Karen “How will you enforce the will of the Imporum upon this world?”
“You have seen what the weapon can do” said Ashlo
“That is only one weapon.” said Karen “You can not expect to rule this world with just one weapon.”
“More will follow from the Imporum.” said Ashlo “And when they do your time on this world will end and the Imporum will rule this world as one of it’s own. It is your fate and our destiny to do this.”
“Not if we can help it.” said Commander Benson
“Oh great” said the woman “That’s all we need is the men to be making war around here. Which one of you bozos is in charge around here?”
“Listen Janice.” said Karen guessing that the woman was Janice “This may not be the right time, but hows about you and Gordon, move from there and get in back of us.”
“Who are you?” asked Janice “How do you know me and my son?”
“Janice” said Jack “Listen to her, just take Gordon out of here.”
“Enough of this!” said Ashlo “Surrender your weapons, it is now the count of three!”