A Somerset Farm
and Unit One Collaboration
Attack
and Response
Chapter
3: Soar Like The Turkeys.
By; Jamie Haze and GhostRyder15
Jap
put his arm around his lover and told him all about
Erick and the rest of the New Jersey group. On
the way down to the mess decks, they decided to take
them out to the hangars and show them around the facilities
after supper. Being Saturday of a two day weekend
meeting, the mess decks were fully staffed by Jason
Tembler's catering people, which included a four star
chef. Better food could have been served, but
only in places like New York, San Francisco, London
or Paris. While some of the younger boys didn't
pay any attention to anything but the quantity served,
most everyone else knew how high the quality was and
usually went back for seconds and sometimes thirds.
While everyone was getting their fill, Jap and Jacky
walked over to Jordan Littlelk and Connor Beck's table
and sat down. Jacky looked at the two boys and
said; "Matt and James said we should take you guys
along when we take the visitors to the airfield in case
some of them might want to jump."
Connor looked at the visitors and nodded, "If they
haven't jumped before, we can do a 'static line jump’.”
Jap nodded; "Yeah, that's what James said, if they
do jump we're going too. It's been awhile since
we jumped and I kind of like it.”
The four Squadies gathered up their guests and moved
them up to the garage via the elevator. Once in
the garage, Jap introduced the group to Jordan and Connor,
then asked; "We can
truck you out to the strip, or you guys can use one
of the FAV's or the Quad Runners."
You could see the looks of anticipation on their faces,
that is until Jacky dropped his bomb; "Two
things guys, number one; you gotta wear a helmet, number
two; you guys can't go hotrodding
around on these things. The terrain is nothing;
I repeat nothing like you've seen before, if you loose
it here, someone's going to get hurt."
The little guy, with round gold rimmed glasses who looked
like he was one of the boys being protected stepped
out along side of Jacky; "Listen up guys, you follow
these men's orders or I guarantee that whoever doesn't
will be taking a nap while everyone else will be doing
something neat."
Naturally Mark was the first one to say something; "Oh
man, why do you old guys have to fuck with us all the
time?" Noah started walking towards Mark
who said; "Oh yeah, now I remember, come on Noah,
I was just ragging on you, can't you take a joke?"
Mark moved behind a much larger boy, a boy who looked
like an older more muscular version of Mark. As
Noah approached the two boys, the larger boy quickly
moved to the side and gave him a clear shot at Mark.
Before Mark could move, Noah reached around his back
and did something to him. Mark's eyes rolled up
into his head and he collapsed to the floor, Noah and
one of the other boys caught him before he hit the floor
and eased him the rest of the way down. Noah looked
at the sleeping form and said; "That's for calling
me 'Old'."
Jap and Jacky gawked at Noah, Jap asked; "Is he
Okay, I mean he's not hurt or anything is he?"
All of the Jersey boys laughed, the one Mark resembled
spoke for the group; "Naw, he's okay, Noah has
to make him take a nap every once in a while just to
get his attention. We can just put him in one
of those Dune Buggy looking things and he'll be awake and ready
to go when we get to where you're taking us to.”
Jap and Jacky had a couple of the boys put Mark in the
back seat of the HUMVEE they were taking and then got
everyone set up with a FAV or Quadra Track. When
everyone was ready they drove to the hangar the Jumpers
used; half way there Mark woke up; "Fuck, I hate
it when he does that."
Jap and Jacky had no idea what the 'that' was, but they
laughed at Mark's comment anyway. Mark hadn’t
been awake for thirty seconds when he started taking
pictures again. He noticed Jap driving the HUMVEE
and asked; "Do the Batemans know you're driving
this Hummer?"
Jap chuckled; "I've been driving these things for
over a year and a half now, I just can't drive them
on the public roads until I'm old enough for a driver's
license."
It only took the caravan about fifteen minutes to get
to the hangars, once there the four Squadies had the
boys and men park the vehicles along side the hangar,
Connor went over to a cipher pad mounted on the wall
by the hangar doors and punched in a series of numbers,
after the last number was entered, an ‘aooogah’ horn
sounded and the huge doors started sliding open.
As they opened, a C-130 Hercules could be seen parked
in the hangar; towards the rear of the hangar several
sets of shelves could be seen. The shelves contained
what looked like backpacks and brightly painted helmets,
one whole section contained nothing but camouflaged
helmets. As they were looking around, Fred Brown
and Bill Carson walked off the after ramp of GhostRyder
One Seven and waved at Connor and Jordan.
When the visitors saw the pair coming down the ramp,
they all stopped and gaped at the two men. The
shorter of the pair looked like a large khaki covered
bowling ball with blue hair, the taller man, at least
six and a half feet tall was extremely handsome, extremely
well built and was totally a flamer. He wore a
tailored flight suit with a 'Rainbow Triangle' on his
right shoulder and a pink scarf around his neck.
Both of the men had multiple body piercings, including
several earrings each.
The short one looked at Jap and asked; "Hey Jap,
whatcha got going?"
"Nothing much sir." Jap responded. "Matt
wanted me to see if this old clunker could get off the
ground today or if we'd have to use One Six."
Brown laughed at the little redhead before saying; "You
just remember you called 'Ole Maxwell' here a clunker
when we take you up next time."
When the laughter was finished, Jap introduced the boys
to Fred and Bill. Two-thirds of One Seven's flight
crew, the two crew members then took the boys on a quick
tour of 'Maxwell' and answered any questions they had.
Afterwards Connor and Jordan took the group to the back
of the hangar and explained the gear to the boys and
men and answered any questions they had. After
the briefing, Mark stepped forward and asked Jordan;
"I've never been sky diving before, any chance
we could do some?"
Jordan nodded and said; "Sure, but you gotta put
your camera away and do everything we tell you."
Mark smiled at the big handsome Indian boy and said;
"Everything?" When Jordan nodded his head
yes, Mark's smile got bigger and he said; "Well
all righty then, let's get started."
Hearing the 'all righty then' Noah came over and put
his hand on Marks shoulder before saying; "Mark,
you wanna another nap? You remember what Bucky
said before we got here don't you?"
At the touch of Noah's hand on his shoulder Mark cringed
and moved to get away from the bodyguard’s hand on his
shoulder while saying; "Yeah, I do and I wasn't
going to do anything, honest Noah."
Noah looked him in the eyes for a couple of seconds
and nodded; "Okay, I'll take your word for it,
just be sure you remember it." Releasing
his hold on Mark's shoulder he turned to Jordan and
said; "If Mark or any of the rest of the guys gives
you any shit, let me know and I'll take care of them."
Jordan smiled back at the shorter Noah and said; "No
problem sir, if any of them give me too much trouble,
I'll turn my boy friend loose on them and he'll whip
their ass for me."
Noah got a surprised look on his face and glanced at
the blonde boy standing behind Jordan. The boy
had long blonde hair, appeared to be in good shape and
was close to being a total flamer. Noah knew that
appearances could be deceiving so he just nodded and
went back to the group of body guards and talked softly
with the two youngest of the group.
Jordan and Connor took the group of boys through an
abbreviated ground school on parachuting, after which
they issued them each a flight suit and the necessary
equipment and made sure everyone was properly set up.
While Jap and Jacky were donning their own suits and
equipment, Jap noticed that Erick seemed to be scared.
When he was finally dressed out, he waddled over to
Erick and asked; "Hey bud what's the matter, are
you okay?"
Erick stood there and nodded than shook his head, like
he didn't really know. Looking at Jap he said; "I
think I'm about to shit myself Jap, I've never done
anything like this before and I'm scared."
Jap nodded his head and said; "Been there, done
that, I even got the T-Shirt. All I can say is
that it's one of the neatest things you can do with
your clothes on. The first time I jumped, I almost
pissed myself, for the next six jumps I did I had a
hard on you wouldn't believe. Last summer my boyfriend
Jacky was kidnapped by a local asshole's kids; we made
a jump from close to 25,000 feet, at night, with no
moon. I was worried about Jacky, but you know
what, the minute I went off the ramp, the only thing
I could think of on the way down was how great it was
to be flying without an airplane. I didn't even
know it when the chute deployed I was so happy.
Look don't sweat the small
shit, I'll be the guy who checks you out before its
time to jump and I'll be right in front of you on the
way out the door."
Erick smiled and nodded at Jap; "Thanks Jap, I
think I'll be okay now. Maybe you should let me
be in line before you so you can, well; you know maybe
give me a push if I need it?"
Jap chuckled and nodded; "No sweat, I'll help you
out the door if you need it."
Jacky had taken it on himself to shepherd Mark Wilcott;
he knew that the guy needed someone to watch after him,
actually, he needed a ‘Keeper’. When everyone
was suited up, Connor had them all put on their helmets,
then spoke to them over the Unit net; "Okay, I
know you all have a communication net of your own, the
net I'm talking over will allow you to communicate with
us and the flight crew. I just want you to remember
what we've shown you in the last couple of hours and
do what any of the Squadies or flight crew tell you
too. When we get on One Seven, every one find
a seat along the port side of the aircraft just forward
of the door. Bill's going to be the 'Jump Master'
today, so make sure you listen if he says anything.
When we get to jump altitude, we'll go through final
jump prep, Jordan will be the first out the door and
I'll be last. So if there are no questions, everyone
line up in the order you want to go out the door in
and follow Jordan on board."
While the jump training had been going on, GhostRyder
One Seven had been towed out of the hangar and parked
on the ramp facing the runway. The necessary walk
around and pre-flight checks were completed while the
boys were going through their ground school.
Naturally Mark wanted to be second out the door so he
could get pictures of the rest of the group coming out
after him. Jacky put him second in the stick followed
by himself and then Erick
followed by Jap. The big Germans arranged themselves
so that they would have their two 'Principals' Evan
and Billy between them, with Herman first and Hans behind
them. When the 'stick' was arranged according
to everyone's satisfaction, Jordan led them onboard
and took the first seat, securing the safety belt at
his waist. As everyone got comfortable, Jap looked
at his charge and asked; "You gonna make it?"
Erick gave him a weak smile and nodded.
Fred Brown came over the helmets' communications net
and said; "Sorry for the delay, but we got a couple
more people who want to jump. You guys relax;
it'll only be a few more minutes. To help you
pass the time we'll provide you with some music for
your listening pleasure."
The Jersey Boys heard groaning through their earpieces
just before they heard an off key voice trying to sing;
"Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be . .
. Now stop that dang it, ahm
a singing here."
The next thing they heard was the voice of the co-pilot;
"On behalf of the crew of GhostRyder One Seven,
I apologize for the static and interference in the communications
net. I promise you it won't happen again."
The sound of the Unit One Squadies laughing came through
loud and clear to everyone's earpieces, Connor was the
first to speak; "You guys got to forgive Fred,
he thinks he's a country and western singer and tries
to do that to us every time we go up."
Shortly after the aborted C and W concert by Fred, a
HUMVEE pulled up to the back ramp which was still down.
The passenger side doors opened and the man named James
got out and was followed quickly by the blond headed
kid who always carried a medium sized canvas bag with
him and followed James around all the time. Both
were dressed like the other jumpers who were already
on the plane, with the exception of their helmets which
they both carried in the crook of their arms.
They climbed up the rear ramp and found seats near the
end of the 'stick'. Connor who was going to be
the last out of the door had gotten up and given James
his seat and then sat down again in the last available
seat.
As James was putting on his helmet, everyone on the
aircraft heard him say; "Yes Nana, I'll listen
to Connor and Jordan."
Erick noticed Jap looking at the blond kid and giving
him the 'thumbs up' sign. Looking at Jap he said;
"What?"
Jap smiled at him and clicked off his radio and motioned
for Erick to do the same; "James lost his arm and
leg in an auto accident last May, this is his first
jump since before the crash. That blonde headed
guy is Jesse Stevens; he's been acting as James' aide
and physical therapist here at the house. So far,
Jesse has saved the lives, or been instrumental in saving
two guys and helping several others . . . Including
me. As you can see, he won't let James get away
with anything. This is only his second jump, when
we went in to get Jacky back from them fucking Princes,
he jumped in with us from twenty some thousand feet.
That guy has balls the size of melons and the whole
Unit loves him."
Just then the port outboard engine started its whining
spool up, with a burst of grayish white exhaust smoke,
the engine caught; soon the multi-bladed prop was up
to speed. When the flight deck crew
were satisfied with the way the jet turbine was
working they lit off the other three engines and completed
the preflight checklist. While the flight deck
crew were getting One Seven ready for takeoff, Erick
said something to Jap, Jap quickly turned his radio
back on and asked what he had just said.
Erick repeated his question; "What altitude are
we jumping from?"
"From what Jordan and Connor had said, I think
it'll be about 8,000 feet AGL. When we get up
to jump altitude, the command pilot, Fred, will give
us the latest wind speed and direction. Once your
canopy opens use your guy lines to steer with.
Make small adjustments with them and when you're close
to landing try to maneuver so you're facing into the
wind.”
Erick seemed to be calming down, he wasn't shivering
anymore and he gave Jap a weak smile; "Okay, by
the way, what's 'AGL' mean?"
Jap returned Erick's smile before replying; "AGL
means Above Ground Level, the area we're jumping into
is around 200 meters above sea level. Our jump
altitude will actually be around 2,600 meters or so,
in feet that would be around 8,700 feet above sea level.”
When the 130 got to its jump altitude, it started to
bank in to a gentle left turn orbit over the Bateman
brothers' property. After the racetrack turn was
set up a red light by the port side aft personnel door
came on, accompanied by a buzzer that could be heard
throughout the cargo bay. Bill Carson stood and
spoke into the radio; "Stand up." The
jumpers released their seat belts and stood, you could
tell by looking at them which ones were really scared,
Bill's next command was to; "Hook up."
Everyone hooked their static line to the steel wire
rope that went from the personnel door all the way forward
to the front of the cargo bay. When everyone was
hooked up he ordered; "Check equipment."
Every one turned to one of the other jumpers in line
and inspected the other persons' parachute and other
equipment. When everyone's gear was checked out
Bill ordered; "Stand in the door." Jordan
Littlelk moved to the opening and leaned forward and
braced himself with both hands on either side of the
door. The green light came on, the red light went
out and the buzzer was replaced by a ringing bell.
Bill leaned forward and slapped Jordan on the butt while
saying; "Go." Jordan, using his
hand to propel himself out the door leaped into the
sky above the Bateman property. Mark, closely
followed by Jacky, stood in the door, just as Bill slapped
him on the ass, Mark reached back and unhooked his static
line and leaped out of the door. Jacky, realized
what the kid had done, he released his own static line
and leaped out of the doorway, quickly putting his body
into a delta track, legs straight back, arms at his
side and head up he dove after the beautiful empty headed
Mark.
Mark was having a good ole time taking pictures of the
one boy with an open parachute and another one diving
straight at him. Just before Jacky collided with
him, his body flared out and he grabbed him with both
hands, Mark not knowing what was going on tried to struggle,
The next thing he knew, his canopy deployed, the jerk
from it's opening greater than it would have been because
of the weight of both of the boys. Mark was wondering
what the fuck was going on when everything went black.
Back on the plane, Jesse saw what happened and unhooked
himself from the static line
and moved to the door and dove out after Mark and Jacky.
Like Jacky he dove on the two boys but released his
chute at around 1,000 feet AGL instead of Mark and Jacky's
400 feet. As he descended, he noted that both
the boys were down, speaking into his chin mic; "GhostRyder
One Seven this is Medic One, over."
"Medic One . . .
One Seven, go."
"One Seven . . . Medic One, contact GhostRyder
base and have Doctor Davidson respond to my location
for a medical emergency, over"
"One Seven."
Just as Jesse's feet hit the ground, he saw both boys
start to move their arms and legs. Dumping his
chute, he opened the quick disconnects on his harness
and moved quickly to the boys. Mark was unconscious
and had stopped moving while Jacky was fully awake and
tried to stand; "Stay the fuck down you fucking
idiot, you could a killed yourself with that stunt,"
Jacky moaned a little and lay back down. Jesse
quickly started to check Jacky for any breaks or bleeding.
Finding nothing, he said: "You just stay there
while I checkout 'numb nuts' here." Jordan
landed next to the recumbent bodies as Jesse moved to
the still unconscious Mark and went over him just as
thoroughly as he did Jacky, finding no apparent injury
he stood up and watched as One Seven was making another
drop run. Soon the sky immediately overhead was
filled with canopies; shortly the jumpers were landing
all around them and rolling up their chutes.
The first one to reach them was a highly pissed Jap;
Going to his boyfriend, he asked; "What the fuck
were you doing you stupid fuck, ya shoulda let the little
shithead auger in. If he doesn't have to go to
the hospital because of this, I'll fucking send the
cocksucker there myself." All the time he
was talking, Jap was crying and touching Jacky's face
with one hand while the other was gently rubbing his
shoulder.
Paul Wilcott ran over to his brother and knelt down
beside him; "You stupid cocksucker what the fuck
were you thinking of, if it weren't for Jacky, you'd
be dead. Well if he don't
kill you when you wake up I will asshole."
Jap looked at Paul and said; "You're gonna have
to stand in line, he almost killed my boyfriend and
I get first crack at him."
James limped over to the group surrounding Jacky and
Mark; "Jesse, here's your gunbag; you kind of forgot
it on the way out the door." James looked
at the two boys lying on the ground then stared at Mark
before saying; "Okay, who's first and where do
I get in line to strangle the little fucker?"
This caused everyone to laugh, including Jap.
As the group was laughing, Doctor Davidson was driven
up by Mitch Babcock in one of the F-250 Crewcabs, followed
closely by another one. Getting out he ran over
to the boys and started examining them while Jesse told
him about the examination he had done after landing.
The Doctor looked at Jesse and said; "Jesse, if
you don't go to med school when you graduate from high
school, I'll personally strangle you."
Jesse looked at the doctor and blushed; "Umm, I
just did what I learned in NOLS and from you Doc, that's
all."
Jap looked at Jesse and said; "That's bullshit
and you know it." Looking at the Doctor he
went on; "Before anyone knew what was really going
on, this guy was out the door in a low altitude freefall
jump. By the time everyone else was on the ground,
he'd completed his exam of these two and was keeping
Jacky from moving and maybe hurting himself."
As the men and boys were talking, two HUMVEE's arrived,
the first one out of the front vehicle was John Wilcott;
"Is he okay, is he alive, because if he is I'm
going to strangle him."
This caused everyone to laugh, John looked at the group
of men and boys and asked; "What?"
James, still chuckling looked at John and said; "Mark
seems to make everyone want to strangle him, at least
most of the people here."
The noise from everyone laughing caused Mark to wake
up; "Unnnnnnh, what . . Where . . . Where's my
camera?"
Paul who was standing on the other side of Mark from
his father said; "It's going to be up your ass
if half the people here have anything to say about it."
Mark looked around at everyone and asked; "Hunh?"
The Doctor broke in; "Alright, lets all calm down."
Looking around the group, he saw Jordan and Connor;
"How bout you two grabbing the backboards out of
the back of the Ford for me?" The two nodded
and headed to the pickup. Turning to Jesse he
asked; "Do you have any neck braces in your gunbag"
Jesse nodded and started digging in his bag, shortly
he pulled out two plastic wrapped packages and a very
small hand pump. Handing the first one to the
Doctor, he opened the second and gently adjusted it
around Jacky's neck. Taking the small hand pump,
he inflated the neck brace until it was just snug.
Jesse handed the pump to the doctor who repeated the
procedure. Being a good doctor he didn't allow
himself to pump the brace so much that it choked Mark,
although the urge was definitely there.
When the boys returned with the backboards, Doc had
the men and boys help strap them to the boards and then
put one of the boys in the bed of each pickup.
Doctor Davidson told Jesse to ride with Jacky while
he went with Mark. Naturally Jap climbed in the
back of the truck with Jacky in it and rode back to
the house with his lover and Jesse. As they were
about to turn the corner of the house, Mitch slowed
the lead vehicle and stopped. The reason was soon
apparent; one of Moreland's Traumahawk air ambulances
was landing in the parking lot. When the
helicopter was down, Mitch moved the truck closer to
the Traumahawk and the onboard EMT's transferred Jacky
to the aircraft. Jap had to be restrained because
of the lack of space as Mark was loaded on. James
took Jap by the arm and spoke to him softly; "Calm
down, we're going to drive into town, Mr. Wilcott can't
even fly with his son. Just take it easy, he's
going to be okay."
End
of Chapter 3
Next, Chapter 4; We're Going To War
By; Jamie Haze and GhostRyder15
I'd
like to thank all of you who have written me about this
story and the original 'Kombat Kids' as well as 'Somerset
Farm' by Jamie Haze. Jamie has been sort of a
mentor to me since I started writing KK, you may have
noticed how rough the early chapters were, thanks to
his editing and suggestions, I do believe KK got better.
I'd also
like to thank Peter for doing a final edit on this chapter.
His hard work has made this chapter much more
readable, making me look less like an ignorant sixth
grader writing an English assignment. Thank you Peter.
If you care to contact us, we can be reached at; horti123@cfl.rr.com for Jamie Haze, and
at Gstrdr15@msn.com
for GhostRyder15. Once again, thank you.
Also, you can read 'Kombat Kids' and 'Somerset Farm'
along with Phantom of Aurora and Boys of Aurora by John
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Stories' at; http://www.gayauthors.org/ghostryder