Chapter 74 - M.D.B 74: The Not-So-Great Cause of Saint Lee (2/2)
”I need a little time to get familiar with the terrain before flying over it.”
”Have your time.” After saying that, Coulson turned around to Tina Johansson saying: ”Inform the military, we might need their cooperation at any time.”
”Yes sir.”
Half an hour later, SHIELD's Quinjet flew into the sky again. Besides Melinda May, the pilot, and her co-pilot, Coulson, the only passenger was Saint. The actual CIA agent, Tina Johansson, was asked to stay back at the military base.
Two hours later, after around 70% of the route drawn by Saint was crossed, he suddenly came out of the ċȯċkpit: ”Slow down, and then open up the rear hatch!”
”Did you find them?” Coulson immediately stood up from his seat, forgetting all about his co-pilot duties, looking more excited than he ever was…
Saint nodded, pointing to the southeast: ”A bit over 30 Kilometers in that direction, a lot of Ki is gathered suspiciously. I will have to fly in to confirm it's them.”
”Do you have to go by yourself?”
”It's nighttime in the States, but here, it's still daytime. I'm much smaller than the Quinjet, and should be harder to spot.”
”The Quinjet is actually invisible, and not only to radars; it could also activate optical invisibility if necessary.”
”Why didn't you say that earlier?!” Saint rolled his eyes. He had thought that SHIELD didn't possess such technology yet. After all, the Helicarrier wasn't yet made…
”May, let's vanish.”
Hearing Coulson, Saint remembered the same sentence said in the same tone by Fury on the Helicarrier. If those two weren't good pals, he didn't know who would be…
A few minutes later, the Quinjet was finally invisible. When on the move, it looked like a moving distortion affecting the air. When it stopped, it was fully unperceivable to the nȧkėd eye.
Through the glass in the ċȯċkpit, Coulson spotted a large amount on unidentified objects hidden with camouflage nets on the edge of a mountainous area. Just like Saint said, this area, which was supposed to be deserted, seemed to have some large scale action going in it. When he spotted a mass of gathering men, his eyes shined and he turned around to Melinda May saying: ”Can't we get any lower?”
”If we go any lower, the dust agitated by the turbojet engines might raise suspicions.”
”No need.” Saint answered Coulson as well: ”I have confirmed; Tony Stark is in a cave bellow.”
”Are you sure?” Coulson raised his eyebrows and asked with suspicion: ”On what basis?”
'The movie scenes fit this well…' Saint thought, and he then said: ”You don't have to worry about that, my Ki Sense can't be wrong. Tell the military to come this way. When it gets dark, I'll sneak in to make sure that Tony Stark is protected; you launch your attack at my signal!”
”You are going to help us save him?” Coulson was overjoyed, immediately becoming much more confident in the mission's success, but then… he remembered Saint's nature, and asked him suspiciously: ”Free Help?”
”How could that ever be?!”