<span style="color: #FF0000"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Tanita Carmen Alessandra Lopez-Delgado</span><br/>“Tania“</div></span><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/5f3673cb-dd40-4cf2-8eee-811a68c2052a_zpsc04e9728.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Tania was totally confused. Why were the wings gone? The idea to speak to the two pilotes sounded very tempting. She had dozens of questions. But first of all they would have to tell her, how she was expected to make the meeting this evening at the West Coast? It would take probably an hour until the rescue team would arrive and then they had to fly back to the base and take another plane. It will most likely cost her a day. There went the first day of her holiday after she finished the job. And she didn't even start yet to negotiate. Damn.<br/><br/>She was ready to take the hand of the college professor, as she had nicked him, when a soldier stepped in and whirled him around. Huh, that was fierce. That guy looked like he went to cellar to laugh. No friendly company, but she revised it a little when he was polite to her. Something that pissed the college professor. Tania grinned a little. Yeah, it was not bad looking like she did. Before she could thank the soldier, he was ordered into the cockpit. And Tania could hear the urgency in it. That confused her again? What should the pilotes fear? Oh, my god. Terrorists. Tania had heared horror stories of the terrorists killing the men and raping the women. She sank deeper in her seat. <br/><br/>When the soldier rushed back and shouted orders to his group, she wished herself back in Boston. The commandos took position right and left of the door. Tania registered for the first time that two female soldiers were within that group. Then she heard the countdown over the loudspeakers. What was going on? At zero the officer started to countdown from ten. At zero the door was opened and a gust of foul air rushed into the plane. Boah, what a stench! Then suddenly shots were heared and finally a voice.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80BF00">"One Tango down."</span><br/><br/>The soldiers returned dragging three bodies with them and the door was closed again. She saw the two pilotes emerging from the cockpit and the commanding officer securing the hands of two of the bodies with cable ties. Obviously they had made prisoners. The third one was bleeding and left in a corner. Tania felt her stomach turn. She looked in another direction and focused on the face of the Major. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"What?"</span><br/><br/>The word escaped her mouth before she could stop it and the commandos glared at her, but the face of the Major lost the hard look when he looked over to her. She could see that he was fighting with himself to give an explanation. Finally he sighed and turned to them.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80BF00">"Ok. I think I owe you an explanation. We had a completely failure of communication and navigation two hours ago and we practically returned blind to the east coast, as the sight was zero. When we tried to land we crashed into some trees, but luckily none was hurt other than my co-pilot as it looks. <br/>We have a big problem though. We have no idea where we are. The nature looks like none we have ever seen, we have no contact on any military frequency and those three folks inspecting our plane carried weapons, we have never seen before. So we decided to play it safe and take some prisoners to find out where we are. Unfortunately we had to kill one of them, before he could fire his weapon."</span><br/><br/>Tania had listened with her mouth dropped open. What does that mean? No contact, unknown weapons, strange nature? And what does the Major wanted to say with having no idea where the were? The east coast wasn't Amazonia, it couldn't be so difficult to find some help. And why was there such a stench outside?<br/><br/><span style="color: #80BF00">"I am positive that they are humanoid. One is male, one is female. The look like westeners. The weapon could be some light or electric weapon. But I have to try it to be sure about it."</span><br/><br/>The soldier who had talked early to her had given some more information to the Major, but it was too much for Tania. Humanoid? Why should they question that?</div>