Time

Chapter 3

3 weeks later

UCLA campus

7:30 A.M

School had just gotten out for the rest of the school body except for some college students who want to graduate a few semesters early. Holly was starting in a summer course at UCLA. As she was walking to the office to report in and fill out some paperwork she saw Caleb with some other boys. At least she wasn't alone here which in this case is not a good thing. She continued walking and put on her sunglasses.

Order outpost

10:24 A.M

Sam was really bored with the order recently after Caleb left 9 months ago. Everything had been postponed, all plans on The Facility and until a few months ago The council declared a watchlist position on Caleb. Then Holly left and he was put on the council. Honestly he thought it was all stupid,but of course he couldn't say that. All he needed was a good beer at this point.

UCLA

12:12 P.M

Summer courses had started at UCLA and when Caleb was walking through the law enforcement area of classes and he saw a familiar face,Holly,walking down the hall. He immediately turned around and followed her. She was in one of the entry classes for law enforcement. At least he would be in downtown San Francisco for summer.

Calebs apartment

8:30 P.M

Caleb brought his laptop home and started doing some research on the order. These guys were a "ghost" among the espionage community that believed they existed. He "believed" that they existed because he knew they existed. After about 30 minutes or so he came across a government file. He opened it and he signed in to his profile. It was a C.I.A case on the members of the order profiling them as rogue government agents formerly stationed at Omega site in California. When he zoomed in on the security footage of their escape he noticed the structures on the roof and recognized the building to be the one in San Francisco. He left for the station immediately.

Omega site

10:54 P.M

Several years ago he was a low level scientist working here under Dr.Ongor. He was extremely brilliant,worthy of being the head of the "project". He was now after he attempted to murder Ongor and then found him in the streets of San Francisco. What a persistent guy. He really admired him It's just that he needed control. On the thought of him,he needed to send out the execution order. Of course he couldn't send it to the government,that would get him fired possibly even executed himself. No he never killed him he would probably be get a life sentence. Then he thought why not contract it and even get some information. Oh the things crime can get.

The streets San Francisco

10:54 P.M

While driving to the Police station the radio buzzed to life officers calling for backup near Lombard street. Coincidentally he was quite close. As soon as he started driving a Porsche Cayman GTS speed by followed by a barrage of police units. He joined in the pursuit crisscrossing between lanes speeding ahead closing in on the cayman when it suddenly disappeared. The chase was called off and he went home.

SFPD Headquarters

7:38 A.M

Caleb traded in his vehicle for one of the SFPD's undercover speed enforcement units.

Overnight there had been a sudden spike in speeders over the city. The Hospital had already received 12 ICU patients due to the speeding crisis. The car arrived and it was a Porsche 918 Spyder. He absolutely loved the car and,as anyone would,he wanted to test drive it. He was an excellent enforcement driver already but,because of stupid rules,he needed a "certified driver" next to him. Caleb started the car and it instantly roared to life and he drove away. Unlike most supercars it didn't need to warm up so it was ideal for chases and quick response. As a favor to himself and the car he drove by Omega site. He quickly scanned the area so he could file for a search warrant.As he was driving a BMW i8 zipped past. Caleb,being himself,recklessly sped off not noticing the sniper on the rooftop.The sniper fired two shots,one hitting a customer in the restaurant near Caleb and the second hitting Caleb in the shoulder. The impact of the bullet caused the steering wheel to turn extremely fast nearly causing the car to get t-boned. In a split second caleb reacted by wrenching the wheel right causing the car to go into a drift which saved his and the passenger's life. He pulled over the car,got out,and pulled his pistol from it's holster. Obviously the sniper had gotten a head start so Caleb called into the station reporting a terrorist situation and ordered for a perimeter to be established around the city and SWAT teams deployed around the city.Caleb caught a glimpse of him running along the fire stairwell. He ran like his life depended on it which it did.

Omega site

10:05 A.M

Caleb sprinted along the soft and wet grass being mindful of the wound on his shoulder. He decided that rather than running all the way up the fire escape why not just climb it. So he continued on his pursuit,coming to the escape and grabbing onto a ledge and scaling it. When he reached the top he was greeted with a turret on the roof aiming at him. While the turret was spinning it's barrel,Caleb unclipped and threw a grenade. The blast threw him against the railing of the fire escape. He continued his pursuit of the terrorist. A couple of minutes later Caleb heard a ticking noise,like a time bomb. It came from behind the wall,so Caleb pointed his glock at the wall readying the grapple. Seconds later a blast knocked him of the railing and luckily in time he grappled on to the underside of the fire escape. The blast was followed with military commandos firing into the smoke of the bomb. Caleb attached the grapple to hooks on his holsters,then he pulled out his second pistol. Both pistols loaded he started pumping shots into the escape while running down the side of the building.When Caleb was about 10 feet of the ground when his line snapped and he fell to the ground. He spotted a flashing red dot on the escape and recognized it as a bomb. He started yelling at the civilians and emergency services to get as far away as possible. Caleb tried to get up but couldn't. It was then that the pain of his broken leg shoot up through his body. Trying to ignore the pain he crawled to a squad car where officers helped him up. At that moment the bomb exploded.