00145. Targets found!

00145. Targets found!

After the kids were put to bed for the night, Jacob settled onto the couch with Daniel. After about a minute of comfortable silence as they snuggled Jacob asked, “You ready to tell me what happened at the meeting today?”

Daniel snuggled a little closer to Jacob as she asked, “Was it that obvious?”

Jacob leaned over slightly and kissed her forehead before he said, “I wouldn’t be a good husband if I didn’t notice my wife was lost in thought all night. I know the contract was signed, so what else happened today?”

“I was offered a job.”

Jacob turned slightly to look into Daniel’s eyes as he excitedly said, “That’s great! Is that what’s been on your mind... Or were you worried about how we’d take care of the kids with you working again?”

“Kinda...”

Jacob smiled as he said, “Then don’t worry about it, I can always cut back my hours at the shop to help out. Plus you know everyone else wouldn’t mind helping out either.”

Daniel smiled before she kissed Jacob on the cheek and said, “Thanks, but taking care of the kids won’t be an issue. Let me show you the job offer, so you can see why.”

Daniel stood up and went to the computer desk where her briefcase was. After she collected the blue folder and sat back down on the couch, she handed the folder to Jacob and said, “Read that.”

Jacob smirked and opened the folder as he said, “You know I won’t be able to understand half of this stuff.”

Daniel shook her head slightly before she leaned back onto his arm as Jacob started to read over the documents. It took him a few minutes but when he finished it he asked, “You’re going to accept this right?”

“I wanted to talk with you about it before I made my decision. Plus there is another issue with the job offer.” Daniel said.

Jacob nodded as he said, “You're worried your parents will find out and force the company to fire you.”

Daniel laughed lightly before she said, “No, I’m positive the owner doesn’t care about my parents or even making them an enemy. It might be because he’s a meta-human, but I’m not sure.”

“Oh... Wait, he’s a meta-human?” Jacob asked as he turned to look at Daniel.

Daniel nodded before she said, “Yeah, he even left the meeting by making a portal to California. At least that’s where his assistant said he went.”

“That sounds kinda convenient, just make a portal where you want to go... Is the issue that the owner is a meta-human?” Jacob asked.

Daniel shook her head as she said, “No.”

Jacob smiled as he said, “Good, cause the woman I married wouldn’t judge someone for being a little different. If that was the case, you wouldn’t have married me!”

Daniel nudged Jacob with her shoulder as she said, “You’re an idiot.”

Jacob quickly kissed Daniel on the lips before he said, “I’m your idiot.”

Jacob settled back as he asked, “Well what’s the issue then?”

“The more I think about it, the more it seems too good to be true.” Daniel said.

Kang stuffed another spoonful of blue goop into his mouth and swallowed before he said, “I’ll have a nice medium rare steak, mashed potatoes and a good beer.”

“If you close your eyes this almost has the texture of mashed potatoes.” Janet said with a smile before she said, “If you ignore the taste and smell.”

Kang rolled his eyes before he asked, “So what do you want to try today?”

Janet thought about it for a few moments before she said, “I think we’re close, that last attempt seemed to work. Maybe if we tweak the formula?”

Kang finished the rest of his bowl and stood up as he said, “Sounds good to me.”

For the rest of the day they worked on repairing Kang’s ship, well it would be better to say his ship’s damaged engine core. Hours on end without rest they tried and tried, but nothing seemed to work. They worked with pieces of scraps they collected and threw together into tools... If only they had better equipment they would have been done by now Janet thought more then once each day. She would be back home with Hank and their daughter and Kang would be free to travel the universe again.

Janet was pulled out of her thoughts as Kang said, “How about we call it a night, this will still be here in the morning when we get up.”

Janet looked at the new experiment they started before she said, “Sure.”

With that Janet and Kang headed back to their own rooms and turned in for the night. As they slept a tiny spec appeared on the horizon and made its way towards the hut they used. As morning came around Janet and Kang awoke and started their day. As they started to work on the new experiment, they didn’t notice the thing in the distance as it slowly moved closer.

It was about an hour later when the drone finally made it to the hut and scanned the area. When it pinged life signs in the area and humans at that, Hank and the others in the base were alerted. Hank popped up from falling asleep in his monitoring chair again and groggily looked at the screen. It took him a few moments to realize what the drone sensors picked up, but after he did, he was wide awake.

Hank brought up the drone in question and took manual control to look around the area himself. He saw a hut in the distance and a seat that rested in a large golden half orb... That was Kang’s ship... Hank let out a relieved sigh as he realized she was still working with Kang.

As he moved the drone closer to the hut, Ashina Uzumaki, Wong, Steve and Peggy entered the room. As they glanced at the screen Steve asked, “You finally found her?”

Hank nodded as he said, “I think so.”

Hank flipped a switch to activate the microphone and speaker on the drone before he cautiously asked, “Janet? Janet, are you there?”

Janet and Kang ran out of the hut to see a high tech drone floating in the air. Janet, with a hint of tears in the corner of her eyes, asked, “Hank?”

“Yes dear. I came to find you.”

Janet started to cry as she looked around in the distance and asked, “Where are you?”

Hank glanced at the map before he said, “Pretty far away, but give me a few hours and I should be able to get there.”

Janet smiled as she said, “Okay, I’ll be waiting right here for you!”

As Janet wiped the tears from her eyes Kang cleared his throat. Janet glanced back at Kang before she said, “Oh, Sorry. Hank, this is Kang. He was also trapped down here by an accident and we’ve been working together to get out of here.”

Kang nodded to the drone as he said, “Nice to meet you, I’m Kang. I’d like you to know there hasn’t been a day when Janet didn’t tell me a story about you or your daughter. You two are basically the only thing she talks about each day.”

Hank studied the man for a moment before he said, “Thanks for helping out Janet. Just sit tight and I’ll be there soon to get you both. I am going to put this drone in standby mode so I can track its signal and not get lost. I will see you both soon.”

Janet nodded as the drone lowered to the ground and a small dish opened on its back. Hank glanced at the image of his wife on the screen once more before he said, “Let's get ready to move.”