Page 59 of Unraveling Connections

“You won’t by the time he’s done,” Jensen says, a shiver running through him.

He was not a fan of our training. A fact that still amuses me, especially since he was actually the top of our class in most of the training exercises. He just fucking hated it.

“Someone should probably go outside and wait for the teams to arrive,” Cash suggests.

“I’ll go,” Rage says.

“I’ll come with you,” Luc says.

We watch as they walk away, and then I turn to Pete, “Do you have your wand thing that checks for microchips?”

Pete nods, “Yeah, we should probably start checking them. We should also get the handlers to check for anything in their mouths that could be broken and end their lives.”

“Good point,” Trick agrees.

I decide to go around with Pete and see if any of them have any chips; as we approach the first one, I ask, “What’s the protocol for if we do find microchips in one of them?”

“We deactivate it, which these things can do as well as detect them, and then we cut it out,” Peter says and then, seeing my raised eyebrows, chuckles slightly before adding, “They aren’t that deep under the skin, all you need is a little shot of topical anesthetic and a tiny slice, then you take some tweezers and take it out, you don’t even need stitches after.”

“Oh, okay, that doesn’t sound too bad. Not that I'm usually opposed to the bad guys suffering a bit of pain, but we know thathe blackmails a lot of people, so some of them are innocent.” I explain.

“I know,” Peter grins.

It doesn’t take long for us to go through the ones in the warehouse, and I am unsurprised that all of them have chips in them.

“Cash?” Pete calls.

“Yeah, man?” he replies as he jogs over.

“All of these have the chips,” Peter replies.

Cash takes a bag off his back that I didn’t even know that he was carrying and says, “Okay, I can start removing some of them now, since Luc’s gone to meet the others and I brought my kit as well, the last thing we need is for these guys to start dropping like flies.”

Pete nods, “We need to check the ones outside. Do you have a pen in there?”

Cash nods, and pulls it out handing it to Pete with a slightly confused frown. Peter takes it with a brief thank you and then goes around the group of hostiles again, he scans them and then places a mark, in pen, where the microchip is.

Once he is done, he comes back and hands the pen back to Cash, as he explains, “This way I don’t need to scan them with you, you can get to work removing them while I head outside and scan the others.”

Realization dawns on Cash’s face and he says, “Good idea. Take the pen and mark the others as well if they have the microchips, that way we can get them out a lot quicker when the others get here, we don’t really want them to be leaving this area with the chips still in them even if we manage to deactivate them.”

Peter nods and takes the pen, I follow him back out the way we came, coming to the back entrance of the building, when we open the door, we come face to face with some of our people.

I hold up my hand, “Before we move them, we need to scan for microchips and remove them.”

“Okay, Ever.” One of them says, “I have got my medic bag with me just in case any of you needed assistance, and so has Felix, who is with the team that has gone to collect the hostiles from the side entrance. We have both been trained in removing them.”

“Great,” Peter says and holds up the pen and the scanner, “I'm going to scan and deactivate the chips, then I will mark the exact area on each one where the chip is. That way, you can remove them without me needing to wait for you to do one before you move on to the next.”

“And we can move more quickly onto the hostiles at the side door, so they don’t move them before we can get the chips out,” I add.

“Got it,” he says.

I watch as Pete goes around and marks every single one of them.

“We better get to the side door quickly,” I say as Pete nods, and we jog around to the side entrance.

We go through the same thing there, explaining the plan and then getting on with it.

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