The Old Mine

Chapter 14: Back to Jump

       Cal stepped into the meeting hall ready to fight. Already seated at the table was the entire board of bishops, including Frakland. "Enter, you have a lot to answer too." Frakland sat beside the man speaking. He smirked, thinking he'd won.

      Cal stayed in the doorway, a smile across her lips. The room in front of her seemed dark, the energy was off...something was wrong and needed to be stopped. A loud alarm sounded from beneath her feet, it sounded like the alarm that had gone off in the bathroom back at the hotel; it was the jump alarm. Cal looked down towards the sound and noticed a gun in her hand... a browning Hi-Power at her feet laid a Walther P38. If she remembered correctly from history class, they were from the early twentieth century. She raised her arm, aimed... and woke up screaming.

       "Cal," Giana was already at her side "What happened" she brushed at Cal's hair to straighten it out a bit. Mom and Dad came in the room.

      "Nightmare, maybe... it kinda felt like the dream I had that warned about Recke..."Cal took a few deep breaths, trying to calm her rapid heartbeat. "I was entering a meeting hall, all of the Bishop Board was there... furious, like they were planning on removing me from even being able to be near the base. I had a browning Hi-Power in my hand and a Walther P38 was laying by my feet on the floor. The warning jump alarm was going off, the one that tells you that you have seriously messed up. I shot someone as I woke up, but I don't know who."

      "That means someone on the board has messed up a mission back in the early twentieth century. Who is on a mission there?" Mom was worried now.

     "Tahk is monitoring one there I know that." Brett was standing behind mom and dad, just outside the door in the hallway. "We were talking about it at class today."

     "Call him" Dad was frowning "I'm heading to the bishop chambers to get some answers. Cal you and Giana get dressed, get Recke and the team to the Portal and get ready for an emergency jump." Dad hurried out of the room to get dressed, fury screaming across his face.

      Cal and Giana were at the portal first, followed by Tahk and Brett. Cal was trying to identify what went wrong. Brett and Tahk were double checking everything about the mission and Giana was off to the side talking to Juju.

      Recke came in with Midnight and Easton right behind him. "East is familiar with this mission. He's here just in case we need anything... not to be beat up on again." Recke looked at Brett and laughed.

      Cal rolled her eyes "Then he needs to learn manners. Recke come here, look at this." Cal enlarged the screen to cover the entirety of the screens above their heads "Two of the battles for World War two are starting to change... could this change the outcome of the war completely?"

      "No, not those... but it will not be good if they do change." Brett looked back at Dad, who just entered with Alfred in tow. "How do we stop it?"

      "Someone needs to go back... Needs to give back up to the jump team handling it." Recke was standing there with his arms folded and frowning.

      "Not you," Cal pushed the chair back and grabbed a personnel folder. "You have training classes that cannot be interrupted." she flipped through the folder looking at names "Juju, would you and Easton be willing to go right now. Easton, we need you to be there since you are familiar with the mission and Juju, we need your attention to detail and photographic memory. I will send more back up as soon as I figure out who to send." she tapped a name and Brett started to contact them. Cal glanced back and saw that East was already prepping Juju and himself. "Two rules for you..." East looked right at her "The timeline we can fix later, your safety and the safety of the other jumpers is a one-shot thing... so jump safety is first." he nodded "Rule two, don't do anything without telling us; lack of contact and communication could sentence all of you to a fate worse than death." he nodded and turned for the portal with Juju.