NCIS: Take-off Chaos

Emma and Connie had managed to successfully get onto the plane a head of Logan and his little school trip, although they both noted the distinct lack of Druiff. However they decided to not linger on the missing teacher and instead focus on the teacher in front of them who was basically holding their friends hostage, even if they did not know it yet.

Tom and Jack were slightly behind them, having stopped to shut off the flow of passengers to minimise casualties.

Once all the kids were seated, Emma and Connie sprung up from their seats and began to leisurely make their way down towards Logan just as Tom and Jack made it onto the plane. Then suddenly, without warning, the engines roared to life and the plane began to move backwards, snapping the entrance tunnels off the side.

            “Found Druiff,” Tom groaned as he pushed himself up of the floor and moved towards the pilot’s chamber. “Help them,” he ordered Jack, pointing down the isle towards Logan.

While Jack moved covertly down the isle, Tom turned and moved towards the door to the pilot’s cabin and knocked, alerting those inside to his presence. Inside he heard hissing as Druiff instructed the co-pilot to get rid of whoever was at the door.

            The door opened slightly and the pilot poked his head out the door to see who it was before saying: “Go away, we’ll inform you of the situation as soon as possible.”

            “I’m not going anywhere,” Tom snarled. “Get everyone away from the door. This plane is not taking off.”

            “Okay,” he responded calmly. “Thanks for the memo, now please go away.”

Tom stepped back a few steps before counting to ten silently inside his head before bringing his hands up to the ready, his palms aiming at the door as he prepared a small ball of temporal energy. He silently continued counting from ten and once he hit fifteen he released the energy and completely demolished the hinges holding the door in place as it flew backwards and straight out the window at the front of the cabin.

            Suddenly he was inside the room with the pilots and Druiff and after turning to look her in the eye said: “You really should have just let the plane fly its course.”

            “He can still set off the bombs,” the teacher snarled. “He can still make a choice.”

            The words hit Tom in the chest as a dream came back to him, a dream that he believed may soon come to a fold. “The choice is mine, and mine alone,” he winced before turning to Druiff. “This has been a long time coming,” he stated with a smile, while his right hand gripped upon his weapon as she did the same. “This doesn’t have to end this way,” he warned as her hand took full possession of her weapon.

            “But it does,” she smirked as she drew it. Unfortunately for her, Tom was faster, much, much faster and already had his gun out and pointed at her head before she had hers at stomach height. The same fraction of a second later and she was dead on the floor.

Meanwhile out in the main cabin, Emma, Connie and Jack had successfully managed to trap Logan in the middle of the isle. “Routine inspection sir, sorry for any inconvenience but we must look through your bags since nothing at all was detected.”

            “Yes, certainly,” he stated innocently, handing down a bag to Jack, unnerving him greatly.

            “Thank you…” Jack stated uneasily as he unzipped the bag to discover a small explosive device. He put his plastic glove-covered hand into the bag and removed the device. “You know anything about this?” Jack asked politely as the device clicked and sent out a deafening temporal blast that temporarily decapitated both Emma and Tom as he exited from the cabin.

            “I have no idea what that device is,” Logan replied. “I haven’t seen it before.”

            “All your bags are full of them,” Connie responded as a small white portal opened next to them.

            “Jackie…she wanted sometime alone with the bags before we left, she is the person you are looking for,” Logan revealed. “What is it? You seem especially worried about them.”

            “They’re bombs,” Jack explained as Tom managed to crawl around the wall between the isle and the cabin.

            “Portal. NOW!” he yelled in pain as he moved towards them. “Throw them all through now!”

            “Okay,” Jack sighed as he threw his device into the newly formed portal. Connie likewise did the same with her two. Logan and Jack both began grabbing devices and chucking them through the swirling white vortex. Once they had all passed through the threshold and the portal relinquished its connection to the real world, Tom and Emma were suddenly able to move again allowing them the chance to get a brief breath of air before they set back to work.

            “What was that?” Emma asked angrily.

            “A weapon that would’ve levelled Devon on its own. That many on the many planes would have destroyed most of Europe,” Tom explained. “Basically Geoff designed weapons that are amplified if their radii touch another of the same energy type. It would have been the largest explosion this planet has ever seen.”

            “Where’d we send them?” Jack questioned.

            “Universe 08,” Tom revealed. “There was an accident there and the majority of England had already been destroyed.”

            “So we’re just blowing up a location that is already dead?” Emma asked.

            “Yes. The only reason it would have done so much damage here is because they wanted each plane to be over a different country when it exploded…” Tom elaborated. “And we stopped them. So yay?”

            “Until the next lot screw us over,” Jack complained.

            “Or until they come out to play,” Emma snarled.