Niva didn’t bother to watch Gabriel or Rogue slip into the facility. If she had, she would have been impressed, something she rarely was. She saluted the guard and drove around back to the maintenance yard where the few vehicles and aircraft were stored. Almost before the red van rolled to a stop, she was out and headed toward an Apache chopper that was in the hangar’s rear bay.<br/><br/>“Hey, Dave,” she called to the man who was in the cockpit,  tightening the last bolt on the control panel.<br/><br/>“Babe,” he said as he wiped his hands on a red grease rag. Without missing a beat, he wrapped her in a steamy embrace and whispered some provocative phrases in her ear. She laughed in response and gave his ass a little squeeze but then immediately was all business.<br/><br/>“Need this bird to fly blind and I need this van to disappear with not so much as a bubble to trace her.” She ordered.<br/><br/>Dave nodded and tossed the GPS mechanism to her.<br/><br/>“Tweetie is ready and Lucy will be gone in a few.”<br/><br/>“Dave,listen. If you see anything going down, you work your way around the back, enter through the service door. Hit yourself in the head with a wrench and lay down on the floor. You don’t want to be implicated. And besides, I might need your services again soon.” She grinned at the double entendre.<br/><br/>He nodded to her and then to the red van. “Babe.” And he was running toward the van.<br/><br/>Niva didn’t waste any time but hitched the Apache to the tug and drove it out to the helipad. She jumped in and switched on the controls. The blades began to slowly turn, picking up speed. She checked the time.<br/><br/>13 minutes had passed.<br/><br/>Niva noticed some personnel beginning to gather in the windows overlooking the flight line. One man used some big binoculars to examine the area. She hoped she wasn’t just being paranoid because it sure looked like he was pointing those things at her.<br/><br/>14 and a half minutes. Where were Gabriel and Rogue? If any of those people made a move toward her, she was out of there. She saw movement around the edge of the building and moved the throttles toward full on for take off.