'I will only do this as a last resort, but the Free World needs protecting against such as Red Claw and her cronies!' she thought.The plane veered to ...tarboard, away from the sleek submarine, so as to get sufficient force to penetrate the hull. Then, zooming into a 180-degree turn, it applied full power and entered the hull without warning. The crew of the sub was still celebrating the defeat of Wonder Woman and the theft of the Pulsar Gun when the plane struck amidships, destroying many power. I was huffing and puffing but I could have run for a while longer.Carmine, who was working the customer window, paged me. The Doc was there with the reports from the test. He just nodded and handed me the bill to pass on to accounts payable. Yep, we had one of those now, soon to be two.Jamie, Courtney and I along with the 10 applicants drove to the shooting range. First was target shooting with the Glock. I had decided the Glock was going to be the standard issue side arm for JBG Security along. Hermeagre, minimum-wage salary barely covered rent and food money for thethree of them, and they depended on her tips for everything else. Andtips at a caf?, often dimes and quarters, didn't add up to much.As soon as she opened the door to the house, she knew something waswrong. She could hear Bobby in his room, crying about something. Usuallyhe was at the babysitters until she picked him up, but when she hadwalked past the babysitter's house she had found it dark and no oneanswered the door.. On that occasion she had been made to step into a small chamber which had then closed behind her, leaving her in a four feet square enclosure. The confinement was bad enough but immediately on stepping in she noticed a chill in the air. By the time she was let out a half hour later, the place was below freezing.She was not surprised that she had not caught a chill. Emma had never been ill in her life, despite many duckings and soakings as a somewhat wild tomboy. Viruses and bacteria seemed to.