I wake up and look outside the window. I'm fronted with a dark sky, bending trees and flashes of lightning. Todd wakes up and joins me. His expression sours and he looks at me. I grin back, his expression worsens. An hour later i'm climbing into the Galaxy with a white faced Todd and his crew. I clamber into the cockpit and secretly switch on the intercomm.
"We can't fly in this weather! It could set off some of the explosives!!" It was the voice of one of Todd croonies.
"We must, we're behind and need to get the cargo moving."
I think on this, but decide to go ahead. At least I know of our cargo now. I taxi to the runway and contact ATC.
They give me the all clear and I power up and take off, heading for Tokyo!
I climb up and over Hong Kong and past the mountians behind
An hour out of Hong Kong and the weather clears. I smile as the sun shines through into the cabin.
After about half an hour of flying I hear a voice over the intercomm.
"Boss! He's flown the AG!! He knows about the tanks!!"
I get a sinking feeling in my stomach. I look out the window at the view to keep calm.
I fly on putting everything out of my mind and concerntrating on just flying. I'm about to radio Tokyo for directions onto final when I hear the cargo door open, the sound of snapping ropes and the door closing again.
Todd's voice cracks onto the intercomm "Scott, I've got some bad news. The cargo door malfunctioned. We lost the AG-14, I'm sorry."
I sit stunned. My mind goes on autopilot and nothing else registers.
I somehow fly to Tokyo and land, but I have no recollection of anything. The next memory I can recall is waking up in a bed in a hotel with the sun at high noon.
Todd walks in. "I'm sorry, the ropes snapped and the AG slid and hit the cargo doors, forcing them open. There wasn't anything we could do." I sat there thinking about my plane, sitting at the bottom of the ocean. My mind niggles me that something about what he said isn't right, but I push it aside.
Recap: Leg 1. I fly out of Sydney international in a small, modified AG-14. My destination is a small airfield on the tip of Australia. Half way there I black out and the AG-14 crashes. I'm taken to Brisbane where I meet a guy named Todd in hospital who offers to collect my AG-14. A few days later my AG-14 arrives under a Chinook and is loaded into a C-5A Galaxy. I'm told the AG-14 is damaged and can only fly very short distances. I fly the C-5A to the Phillipines. There I discover an email on Todd's laptop about a thankyou for removing a Chinese diplomat. I soon discover that there is also other cargo on the C-5 which I am ignorantly carrying around for Todd and his gang. I fly to Hong Kong where I decide to fly the AG-14. I discover that it is in perfect condition and I have been lied to. I put it back in the C-5 before they notice it missing.
