The next morning Graham woke up with a slight hang over. He just wanted to lay there and wait for it to go away, but no such luck. Getting out of bed he was a bit sluggish but quickly found the aspirin to deal with his aching head. He had a lot to do so he got moving as quickly as his sloshing brains would allow him. Quickly showering and dressing he got into his Jeep he went back to the bank. At the bank he walked up to the teller and made out a with drawl slip. He handed it to the teller she looked at it, and her eyes almost fell out. She said,

"How would you like this sir."

"Cash please, then he gave her a small duffel bag." Graham knew he was going to have to wait so he sat down while the girl went to her manager. The manager came over and said,

"Sir there is a small problem, we do not have this kind of money at this branch." This irritated Graham but it was probably just the hang over. He said,

"Well what branch would I have to go to in order to get my money in cash." He looked through some sheets and said,

"You would have to go down town."

"Well that is no good, what can I get that is as good as cash."

"I can give you a certified check or a money order both our not quite as good as cash but it is the best I can do."

"Give me the money order, I guess it will have to do." The manager left him and came back a couple of minutes later. He handed Graham the money order and his bankbook. Graham then got back in his Jeep and headed to the pub.

At the pub he met up with everyone else. They were all ready to go, Denise said,

"What are we waiting for?"

"The equipment I ordered should be ready anytime now." They had lunch and just as Graham's lunch showed up his cell phone rang. He answered it, after talking for a second he got up and saying,

"The equipment is on the way to the plane. It took a little longer then expected because the lenses had to be specially made. I have to go and meet with them and hand over the final payment. Anyone want to come and meet some gun runners?" They all looked at him and laughed, then Suzanne said,

"We are all going to sit here and enjoy our lunch."

"To bad this guy is really cute at least I would think so if I were a woman."

Graham wrapped up his sandwich and headed for the airport. He only had to go to Buttonville, so he was there well before the shipment arrived. Graham walked out to the plane opened it up and climbed in. He made a pot of coffee, sat at the conference table and had his sandwich while he waited. He had just finished when there was a knock on the door to the plane. Graham opened the door to find Baz standing there in front of a small truck. He climbed down out of the plane and started to the truck. While Baz walked beside him, Graham handed him the cashiers check for the rest of the money. Baz looked at it and said,

"You have to learn that people like me deal only in cash. This time don't worry about it because I am going down to my bank in the islands next week."

"I tried to get the cash but I would have had to go down town and I would have been late. Sorry, the next time I will think ahead and have the cash, but this was a rush job."

Just then Graham saw the rest of the group coming out towards the plane.

"Good here is the rest of my group they will be able to help unload the truck and put it on to the plane." Baz smiled at that and opened the back of the truck. The crates were all unmarked and Baz said,

"Do you want to check the stuff out before you go?"

"No I have faith that it is all there and in working order." Graham then turned to the rest of the group and said,

"You are just in time to grab a box and load it on to the plane." Everyone grabbed something and it was all loaded in a matter of minutes. Baz then got back into his truck. Before he drove away he said,

"That has to be one of the best looking commando teams I have ever seen." Graham had watched him giving Christine, Suzanne and Denise all a once over with his eyes. Graham smiled and said,

"One of the fringe benefits of working as an independent." Then Baz drove away.

The group then climbed into the plane. Christine showed everyone to seats, then over the intercom she said,

"We will be taking off in just a couple of minutes, please fasten your seat belts. Our first stop will be just outside of Ottawa. There we will have a short rest stop as we bring on more passengers. Thank you for flying with air UFO busters." She let out a small chuckle over the intercom at her own little joke.

Graham powered up the engines and the roar was almost deafening even inside the plane. Slowly the plane rose up into the sky and started to move off in a northeasterly direction. The people in the plane were amazed at the vertical takeoff ability. When they were in the air and everyone could get up and move around. Dave and Darren quickly made their way up to the cockpit. The two of them started to ask Graham all sorts of questions about the plane. Graham turned them over to Christine, who was in the copilot seat and said,

"I have to go and unload the equipment I bought and make sure it is in working order." He got up and gave his seat to Dave, who sat down looking with fascination at everything. Both Dave and Darren were given a crash course in how to fly the plane from Christine.

Graham moved to the back and started to open the crates until he came to the command center for the communications and optical equipment. This he started to install into their own system, Suzanne and Mil came over and gave him a hand. It was a good thing to because Graham had never been very mechanically inclined. By the time they got to Ottawa the whole thing was set up, thanks mostly to Suzanne. Graham had put on the goggles and soundless radios to try them out while Mil sat at the communication center. They had tested most of the functions by the time they landed at the base outside of Ottawa. Graham left on the equipment when he got out to meet with Maureen. The four UW's were with her. Graham walked up to her and said,

"Is everything ready?" But before she could answer, Mil came running out of the plane.

He ran over to the UW's and started to run his hands all over them. Mil slowly started to revert to his natural state of a creature that seemed to be made up of a golden light. He arranged the UW's around him as if he were performing some sort of right on them. The golden light was spreading from him to the UW's and the glow was getting brighter. Maureen said,

"What the hell is going on? What is he or it doing to them?" Graham looked at her and just shrugged. The rest of the group came out of the plane upon hearing the commotion and saw what was going on. Christine looked to Graham but he just shrugged again. Graham moved over to the group and Christine asked,

"What is he doing?"

"I don't know. We were testing the goggles and the communication equipment, he was at the monitoring station when I came out to help Maureen aboard with the UW's. He just came running out and you see what happened." Maureen said,

"You had better come and take a look at this." They all moved so they could see a small computer on which she was monitoring the UW's. The numbers were going crazy. What ever he was doing he was having some sort of an effect on the UW's.

At this point a group of MP's came running over with Major Webber in the lead. Major Webber steeped forward and opened his mouth but just then he saw the circle of UW's with Mil in the middle. The golden light was getting stronger and stronger. It was almost to the point where they could not look at it. Graham had no trouble though because he still had on the goggles. They mellowed the light so he could see what was going on. There were tentacles of light flowing out of Mil and into each of the UW's. To Graham it looked as if he was helping them in some way, but he could not fathom what he was doing for people who were dead.

Major Webber regained control and looked to Professor Brown, he said,

"Professor what is going on here? Are we in any danger, should I get my men to stop this what ever it is?"

"No Major everything is fine, I think you and your men are going to be a witness to something absolutely fantastic." Christine looked at Maureen and Maureen said,

"What do you think is going on?"

"I think that creature is giving up some of it's life energy in order to give the UW's back their life."

"That is impossible! We know that can not be done." Maureen paused, "but then again who is to say what they can do."

"Yes you are right we can not do it, but who is to say they can not do it." Christine thought about that for a few minutes then said, "I have studied the anatomy of these people and they do have an excess of Electro-chemical energy in their bodies." Suzanne said,

"Look it is dying down I wonder if it worked." Maureen said,

"I am getting some very strange readings from the UW's. It is hard to tell what he has done but their life signs are far more normal."

Eventually the light died down and Mil was still in his golden light form. Christine walked up to him and said,

"What happened?" Mil slumped down as if he was exhausted and Christine put her arm around him to support him. It took Mil a few minutes and then he said,

"These humans were just about dead, I have given them back some of their life energy so they should be fine." Christine looked at him and said,

"You gave them back their life energy! How can you do that?"

"Our people create energy in our bodies if we do not discharge it every once in a while we will get over charged. It can cause serious problems for us. All I did was release some of that energy into them."

Major Webber walked over to Christine and said,

"What is this and how am I support to report this?"

"This Major is an alien and you will not report it at all not to anyone. I will have orders on your desk by this afternoon that you will be under direct control of my group and this base will be are control center. Is that a problem for you?"

"No ma'am."

"Besides who would believe you if we all denied the who thing? Now take your men back and debrief them as to what I just said and make sure they know the consequences. This is a matter of international importance."

"Yes ma'am." The major then walked away and took his men with him.

As soon as Mil had finished Darren went to the UW's. Going right up to Angie, he noticed that the color had returned to her skin. She moved to run her fingers through her hair and Darren saw that the movement was fluid not jerky like it had been. He said,

"Are you OK? That was pretty weird, what just happened?" She looked at him with a blank look on her face. Then she said,

"Do I know you?"

"Angie it is me Darren, don't you remember me?"

"No I am sorry, I don't know who you are. Are we friends or something?"

"Yes we were something, but that was over a little while ago. What do you remember of your past life?"

"I remember growing up, it was not a very happy time in my life. I remember my best friend Jeniffer, then there are little bits and pieces of things all jumbled up together."

"Don't try to hard it will probably come back to you a little at a time. Let me go check on the others and see how they are doing." Darren moved to Denzel and said,

"How are you feeling?"

"Your name is Darren and we work together at a restaurant?"

"Yes, but you also worked for a government agency called the Canadian Security Service. Do you remember any of that?"

"Was I a good guy?"

"Well yes but you got used by the bad guy's. Does that bring back any memories?"

"Yes it brings a name to mind, Chico, he was my friend but he betrayed me or something. Oh I can't remember."

"Yes he was. Do you remember someone called Jeniffer?"

"No that does not ring any bells. Who is she?" Darren pointed to Jeniffer. "She is very pretty isn't she."

"Yes, yes she is." Darren then went to talk to Jeniffer,

"How are you feeling?"

"Fine but I seem to have a few holes in my memory also."

"OK, as you heard they should clear up in time." Darren then turned to Maureen and said,

"How are they?"

"If I did not know any better, I could not tell they had been in the condition they were in."

"You mean dead," said Darren very quietly.

Denise interrupted and said,

"We have to get going Chris still needs our help." She then started to load everyone on to the plane. Christine worked with Maureen and they got Chico, Jeniffer, Denzel and Angie settled in to their seats. They all seemed calm like they had no concept flying. Maureen on the other hand was not. Christine said,

"You don't like to fly do you?"

"No, I really hate it."

"Why did you say you would go with the team to monitor the UW's if you hate to fly?"

"I need to see my experiment through to the end. It is a problem I have always had."

"Dedication like that can get you killed you should learn to control those impulses." At that moment Graham came over the intercom and said,

"We are lifting off in a couple of minutes. Please take a seat and do up your belts."

Graham then started up the engines and contacted the Communication center of the base. They got permission to takeoff and Graham powered up the engines and tilted them for a vertical takeoff. He slowly lifted the plane off the landing pad and they started to rise up into the air. He took it up to a cursing attitude and set his course for the Congo. Dave got on the computer and started to research the Congo. He found out that their official language was French so he pulled up a program to teach himself French. He worked on it for a couple of hours and became fluent in the language. He then passed it to Suzanne so she also could learn French. Darren joined her and worked on it as well. Christine had just finished making sure Major Weber would get his orders and was now talking to Maureen and Jeniffer. They were trying to determine what Mil had done, but no one could come up with any sort of an answer. They also needed to check and see if the enhanced memory was still intact. Running all the tests they could think of, they both came to the conclusion that they did not have a clue what had happened or how or if it had effected the implants. They decided to plug Angie into the computer and try the learning program. Taking their time hooking her up and watching the monitors at every moment, nothing out of the ordinary happened. So they started up learning program then input all the information on the monitoring equipment for the goggles and the communication equipment. Everything seemed to work great because when it was finished she knew everything about the equipment and it uses.

The flight to the Congo was not a direct one. They had to land in England to refuel and they took some time out to have a meal. At the mention of a meal Denzel said he was hungry. Christine and Maureen looked at each other thinking that should not be possible. Christine said,

"OK lets take them and get some food."

"Our you crazy who is to say how they will react. Not to mention how the public will react to them."

"Hay you wanted to monitor your test to the end, well just call this a field test." Maureen grudgingly gave in and Christine got them some clothes to ware that would hide their physical appearance. There that covers everything except the eyes. Maureen walked into her lab and came back with four eye patches, which she said they could see through. The six of them then went to a small cafeteria at the airport. The UW's were fine but Maureen was a wreck. They did not stay very long but while they were there Maureen made a phone call. She called an old friend of hers from university. Her friend was now involved in UFO research for the British government. When she got a hold of her Maureen said,

"Jill how is everything going?"

"Not good, we had a problem here a while back and we lost our subject. We got it activated and it just took off, now all I have to work on is a limited amount of research information that we got before it left."

"Well I may have something for you in the near future. We are going to look for a base belonging to some aliens. If I can get out with any useful stuff I will bring it to you, OK."

"God, that would be great, I am having trouble getting my funding renewed. When will you be going? I would like to come with you?"

"No that will not be possible." Jill let out a little sigh of resignation and said,

"Well how long will you be gone? I really need something to keep my work from going down the tubs."

"It should only be a couple of days. I have to go I have a plane to the Congo waiting for me. Bye." Then she hung up the phone. Making her way out to the plane she got there and boarded with everyone else. Then they were on there way again.

The rest of the flight was quiet and most of the people slept. Jeniffer, Angie, Denzel and Chico were plugged into the computer got a refresher on combat tactics. Graham flew them into Brazzaville the Capital of the Congo. As he was getting closer to the city, he called into the tower. They allowed him to land, and told him to taxi to a specific hanger. Graham taxied the plane and shut it down where they told him. Then he said,

"we will be staying over night and then moving on into the interior." The tower told them that they would have to report in at the immigration office in the morning. Graham said,

"no problem."

Graham went to Jeniffer, Angie, Denzel and Chico and said,

"Are you guys tired?" Jeniffer said,

"No we are fine we rested while hooked up to the computer. It is a great way to utilize one's time."

"Good can you set up security for the plane." Jeniffer nodded yes and Graham went to his cabin. Two of them went out and started to patrol around the plane. The other two inside setup an internal security patrol. One of them started to patrol while the other one got onto the monitoring station. It was late in the night and Graham fell right asleep. The night was quiet and still until about 4AM when everyone was woken by a burst of automatic gunfire.

Angie and Denzel where out on patrol when Denzel noticed a heat source moving towards the aircraft. He waited until the heat source that was within 50 ft. of the plane then he moved to intercept it. The heat source stopped and hit the ground not knowing that Denzel had all ready seen it. Denzel radioed in and told Jeniffer that he was going to investigate an intruder. Angie moved to a position so that she could cover Denzel. When Denzel was within 10 ft. The heat source moved and pulled out a revolver. Denzel went down and yelled out.

"We know you are there if you just back away from the plane we will not force the issue. You have ten seconds to start moving away." He then started counting to ten. When he got to ten he fired a bust over the intruder.

The whole plane was awake, by the bust of rifle fire. Everyone ran out into the control room. They made their way to Jeniffer on the control center and at once saw what was going on. Darren said,

"Do we have an idea who is out there?" Jeniffer said,

"No they have just slowly made there way up towards the plane."

"Can we get him? We should find out who he is and what he is doing?" said Suzanne.

"I don't know," said Jeniffer, "but we can try. Angie can you circle around and capture our visitor."

"I don't know but I will try." Angie then started to move, circling around. The visitor had not moved yet. When she was in position she said,

"Don't move, put your hands out where I can see them." The person on the ground did not move. Then Angie said then same thing in French. This time the person moved his hands out where she could see them. While this was going on, Denzel had moved up. He had his gun trained on the person on the ground. Angie then said in French for him to get up and keep his hands where they could see them. The man as they could now tell stood up and put his hands on his head. They then walked him back to the plane as everyone came out of the plane.

The group surrounded the man and Dave stepped forward. He asked the man in French,

"What are you doing here?" The man just looked at Dave, there was malice in his eyes and his silence was full of contempt. The man was small and very rat like. He had long thin legs and arms but they were still well muscled and was obviously a native both by this skin color and his dress. Dave then said,

"Maybe we should just shoot you as a prowler?"

"Do as you want but I will tell you nothing," said the man.

"Oh so you can talk, well lets try again. What are you doing spying on our plane?" Nothing but silence followed. Jeniffer then moved in behind the man and grabbed his arm and wrenched it up behind his back. The man let out a small scream of pain.

"Tell us what we want to know and she will stop. If not she might just rip it out of the socket," said Dave.

"Brake it if you want, but I will not tell you anything." Dave looked at the man right in the eye, he saw the determination there as well as fear but not a fear of them. He said,

"This man is not going to tell us anything he is to afraid of someone else and much more then he is afraid of us."

"What should we do with him?" asked Christine.

"Well we can hold on to him and see if anyone comes looking for him, which I dough. Or let him go, with a message for his employer." said Dave.

"Jeniffer you and Denzel watch him while we go inside and decide what to do."

Dave led the group back into the plane and when everyone was inside he said,

"I think we should put a tracer on this guy and see where he leads us. Someone obviously knows we are here and why." The rest of the group nodded their agreement and Dave went and got a small tracking device from a bag he had brought along with him.

"I brought these just in case of an emergency." The group then headed back outside. Walking back up to the man Dave said,

"We are going to let you go, but tell your boss if he wants to know what we are up to come and ask us. Do you understand?" The man nodded and Dave grabbed him by the back of the shirt and gave him a kick in the ass. The man staggered for a couple of steps then he started to run away. Dave said,

"security team back to your patrols." Jeniffer and Denzel started off, while Angie and Chico moved back into the plane.

The rest of the people also moved back into the plane. They went to the control center and Darren asked Angie to pull up the map of the area and put the tracer on it. She punched some keys for a couple of minutes then the map came up on the screen. After another couple of minutes they saw a flashing light come up to mark the tracer. They watched it move out of the airports grounds and then obviously got into some sort of vehicle. Watching it for another couple of hours it headed straight into the area they were planing on going into tomorrow. It stopped in what looked to be out in the middle of nowhere. Dave said,

"Angie mark those coordinates, we will have to take a look there tomorrow." It was now getting close to sun up so they all decided to get a couple of hours of sleep before they were going to take off again. They had only been asleep for about an hour when an alarm was sounded. Again everyone came running from his or her rooms. They collected around the security monitor again but this time they found that the people approaching the plane looked to be representatives of the government. Darren and Suzanne said,

"We will handle them. Then the two of them made their way out of the plane. They walked towards the two men that were making their way towards the plane. When they were within a couple of yards, Suzanne said in French,

"What can we do for you gentlemen?" They looked at Darren and said,

"We have been sent to inspect your plane and answer a complaint that you harassed one of our citizens last night." Suzanne looked at Darren. Then she turned back to the two men and said,

"We did not harass anyone but we did stop someone from trying to brake into our plane." The man still ignored her and talked to Darren,

"That is not the report we have." Suzanne was getting mad at this point and said,

"Look here stop ignoring me, and we have already told you we did not harass anyone."

"Well lets move on from that issue we need to inspect your plane."

"Why?" said Darren.

"We need to know if you have any contraband on board."

"Well we are planing a trip into your wilderness so we do have a great deal of unusual equipment on board."

"Well you may have to pay for permits for such equipment but that should not be a problem for a group like you." Suzanne then turned towards the plane and started to walk away from the two men. Darren then turned and followed her and signaled for the two men to follow.

They all entered the plane and Darren said look around gentlemen but please do not touch anything as the equipment is very sensitive. Darren followed the two men around as they looked at everything but it was obvious that they did not understand any of it. One of the two men turned to Darren and said,

"What exactly are you here to do?"

"We are using a new method of oil exploration, and we think there could be some large deposits of oil under your country. If we are right it will mean a great boom to your countries economy."

"Oh, so that is what all this equipment is for?"

"Yes, so do you think we will need permits for it."

"The equipment no, but I also noticed you have a great deal of weapons on the plane."

"Yes well we have to protect ourselves, plus oil exploration is a very cut throat business. More then one big find has been stolen through the use of physical force."

"Yes I have heard that, but we will still need a permit fee of $50.00 US. for each assault rifle and $10.00 US for each pistol. This of course will be given back to you when you leave, minus a service charge."

"That will not be necessary, I am sure it will go to a good cause if we leave the money here in the country." The two men looked at him and both of them smiled in an understanding way.

"Yes sir it would be put to excellent use."

"We are going to the north west in the afternoon what can we expect to find?"

"If I were you I would not go that way all that land to the north west is owned by Duke Rowbuc and his wife Hei Chi Lin."

"Who are they and why would they not allow us to survey the area for oil."

"He is a billionaire collector who specializes in collecting ancient Chinese artifices. He is very important in the country and can get just about anything done. I remember once I was assigned to tacking down some one who had got onto the Dukes lands. Our captain was very admit that we find the man. Like a fortune rested on it. Which it might well have done as the Duke is very generous to people who have helped him."

"Tell me more of these people?"

"The Lady of the house Hei Chi Lin is a mystery in herself. She has been at the Chateau for at least forty years but she does not look a day over twenty. I am not sure of the truth of the story, but it is said that she was a mail order bride of royal lineage. Which is important to the Duke because he sees himself as royalty. The Rowbuc family have been at the Chateau for almost two hundred years and they rule the area that he owns as if he were a king."

"How come the government has not done anything about the Mini Dictator?"

"Well from what I can tell he pays to much money to the government for them to do anything to him. Even if they had any complaints against him which they do not."

"There must be some way on to his estate?"

"There is only one time a year when anyone outside of the estate is allowed to enter. That is when Hei Chi Lin throws the Dukes birthday party. Then people come from all over the world to pay their respects to him."

"When is this party?"

"Let me think." There was a pause for a couple of minutes then he continued, "why it is in two or three days from on. Three years ago I was sent with a platoon of security men to over see the security of the Dukes party. It will probably not happen this year. Things have not been good and I have not been able to help keep my boss in the life style he wants."

"Well this should help you get back into his good books," and Darren gave him $1,000.00 US. He then gave the same to the other guard. "For the special permits we will need to carry are weapons into your country. Thank you for your help." Darren walked the two men out and shook their hands.

Darren then walked back into the plane to find everyone had got up and was having breakfast. He sat down and poured himself some juice. He then started to tell them about the Duke and his wife. The group could barley believe what they heard. How could something like this still be going on, a man with his own personal kingdom. Then Suzanne said,

"How are we going to get on to this guys land."

"Well it just so happens that it is his birthday in a day or two. His wife always throws a party for him on his birthday. People fly in from all over the world."

Suzanne then said,

"Well I think we should split into two teams. One will go into the party and see what they can find out. The other will stay with the plane and do the air-search." Graham said,

"Those kind of parties bore me I will stay with the plane."

"Me to," said Mil. Maureen said,

"I should stay with the plane to because I guess that is where the UW's are going to be." Christine looked at the rest of the group and said,

"I want to go to the party, but I guess I should stay here." The rest looked around and Denise said,

"OK, it is settled, Dave, Darren, Suzanne and I will go to the party."

The four of them then spent the next couple of hours getting their invitations. They then packed up some clothes and went to the weapons locker and each took their favorite weapon, complete with silencers. Then getting a taxi they went to the most expensive hotel in Brazzaville.

The rest of the group started mapping out their search pattern for the area. They were going to start outside of the Dukes holding but that would last less then a day. Then they would move in on the fringes and by the time of the birthday they should be right on top of the Chateau.

They started their search that afternoon.