The heavy bass music blasting from the speakers shook Hannibal’s room. Rebecca Li, naked under a silk red robe, danced in front of Hannibal. He stared at her until she stopped and faced him.

“I get high, I get a little crazy,” she said with a hazy smile.

“Don’t be shy girl,” Hannibal whispered, and clutched her hand, pulling her toward him.

His lust swelled as she turned away, swaying with the music. He opened her robe, and caressed her tits.

Rebecca pulled back, while Hannibal wrapped his arm around her, stopping her. “Don’t you move!” he warned, and she froze as he palmed her ass and ravaged her from her breasts down.

She tried to pull away, “I’m sixteen,” she whimpered.

Hannibal ignored her and grinned. “You girl..your eyes...we don’t have girls like you where I’m from.” He tasted her, “You’re coming back with me.”

“No!” Rebecca cried, then scowled and pointed behind him at someone in the room. “What's she doing here?”

Hannibal spun and stared at the new girl dancing in his room.

“M-My Lady?” he gasped.

Maya, naked before him, two-stepped to the music. Her long brown hair covered her front like Lady Godiva. Hannibal, in disbelief, released Rebecca and dropped to Maya’s feet.

“There are none before you, my lady,” he whispered with his head down.

Maya smirked and stroked Hannibal’s hair. Then she pulled his face into her womanhood.

“Hannibal?”

“Yes, my lady?” he answered, inhaling and wrapping his arms around her.

She raised his chin, “The last man who tested me failed..So please study hard, study long, and don't fail," she said.

He gazed at her wanting to answer, but she vanished.

And he woke up.

♫♪ I get high, meditate like a monk, preposterous when I get drunk…♪♫

“Oh for fuck’s sake!” Hannibal shouted at the music blasting in the living room.

He hopped off his bed and barked, “Tidus?”

“What?” yelled Tidus from the living room.

“Turn it up! I like that track!”

The barons kept a hideout on the other side of the desert, away from the city. A two bedroom shack. Darna took the master bedroom, Hannibal took the small bedroom. Tidus and Zane slept in the living room.

It neared midnight and Hannibal wanted to hit the road to Albuquerque to steal the ampsediun diamonds. He strolled in the living room and found Tidus staring out the window.

“What are you looking at?” he asked peeking out.

In the front of the house Darna shouted at Zane at the top of her lungs, “You are not my man and have no say in what I do you fucking asshole!” The two went back and forth.

“Huh?” Hannibal turned to Tidus, “Hey, were those two ever a thing? You know...were they ever together?” he asked puzzled.

Tidus shook his head and laughed, “Ha ha, no! Darna rejected Zane a month ago, and now he’s jealous of her earth boy.”

“Really?” Hannibal frowned, “Zane, you’re a punk!”

Hannibal opened the front door to console the fighters.

“Hey you two! Shut the fuck up and let’s go!”

Two minutes later they hit the road to Albuquerque.

Heist

The barons reached Albuquerque before three a.m. Outside the city limits they split into three vehicles. Hannibal and Zane drove a stolen grey car into the city. They’d break into the jewelry exchange and steal the diamonds.

Darna followed four cars behind them on Leif’s motorcycle. She would scan for police cars as a rear lookout.

Tidus parked outside the city limits in Hannibal’s black pick up. As the final getaway driver he shut down every alarm and camera in a fifteen mile radius using his wrist gear.

With everyone in place, Hannibal and Zane circled the block of the Albuquerque jewelry exchange. The building stood on a corner with a parking lot behind it.

“Pull into the lot,” said Hannibal scanning the small structure.

Wearing black jackets and jeans, the two barons exited the car and hid in the dark behind the building. Darna rolled by on the street and gave them the all clear. They placed an explosive charge on the door and muffled the explosion with a force field. In seconds they were inside the exchange.

Scrambling in the building Zane read the ampsediun reading and pointed to a large vault. Again they muffled an explosion and cracked the vault.

And the alarm went off.

“What the hell?” shouted Hannibal as bells rang in every direction.

Zane lowered his head and grabbed the ampsediun diamonds from the opened vault. “It’s a mechanical alarm, not connected to a computer!”

“How efficiently low tech!” laughed Hannibal as the two raced out of the noisy building.

Intercept

Two policemen in a squad car heard the alarm three blocks away. The officers hit their lights and raced to the scene. The passenger cop radioed to dispatch.

“Dispatch, this is car twelve checking on a ten-fifty two, audible alarm on the ...dispatch?..hello dispatch?..Hey, the radio’s not working!”

“No time partner, let’s go!” barked his partner driving the squad car. He then floored the pedal with the sirens on.

As soon as the cops hit the block they both spotted Hannibal and Zane jumping in the grey stolen car.

"That's them!" shouted the passenger cop.

But one second later the back of their squad car lifted off the ground and the whole cruiser tilted forward.

“Ahhhh!” shouted the officers as the car flipped over and landed on it’s roof with a crash in the middle of the street.

“What the fuck just happened?” yelled the driver cop.

Both cops were upside down and trapped in their car. Neither barely had a description of the two suspect.

Amazing

Zane raced away from the scene while Hannibal watched the police car flip over in the rear window. Behind the squad cruiser, Darna sped down a separate block. Hannibal slapped Zane’s shoulder, giddy.

“Ha ha! Did you see what Darna just did?” he shouted.

“She’s amazing like that,” answered Zane.

Hannibal stared at him and smirked, “How the hell would you know? Haha!”

Driving to the city limits they passed parked squad cars of police talking to each other in person, with non-working phones and radios. Hannibal laughed at the carnage.

“Ha, a child’s hack can shut this entire city down like this? Hooo...That means there’s nothing stopping me from taking this planet.”

Zane turned to him,“One thing at a time, Hannibal!” he warned.

“I know baron. We have business on Eres. And once we get both grounders together” he took a deep breath and smiled, “Then we’ll be gods! Hm hm hm!”

Hannibal took the bag of diamonds out of his pocket and defiantly threw them up on the dash board. “Damn earthlings don’t even know we’re here,” he grunted.

The barons drove the stolen car to a field outside the city and torched it. Tidus maintained his communication shut down of the whole county, then raced to pick up Hannibal and Zane with Darna behind.

Hannibal jumped in the passenger seat of the pickup, “Tidus! play some loud metal and don’t stop driving until we reach……..”

♫♪♫♪♫♪

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

The barons stopped at a truck diner off the twenty five in the small city of Truth or Consequences. They all squeezed in a booth eating pancakes and everything else. Darna wanted to visit the Rock Canyon Marina, a famous attraction in the city.

“The websites say it’s beautiful this time of year,” she said to the barons.

They all chuckled.

“Maybe when we return, baroness. Right now I want to get some sleep,” said Hannibal.

“Why?” asked Darna,“So you can be fresh to see my cousin this afternoon at her school performance?”

Everyone stared at Hannibal. He gulped and blushed. “I’m attending because lady Maya is the Marchioness of C-”

“You seem fond of her,” said Darna, expressionless.

“What?~” gasped Hannibal, wide eyed and caught off guard.

Tidus and Zane burst out laughing and Hannibal pouted. Darna remained expressionless, as she noticed the cop outside the diner.

Pursuit

Trooper Pat Sanchez of the New Mexico state patrol entered the diner as the barons paid their bill and exited. They brushed passed him and stepped out to their black pickup, with Darna’s motorcycle in the truck’s bed. To trooper Sanchez there was just something off about them. The way they reacted when he entered the Diner. And their look. All dressed in black. Possible Alburquerque suspects?

The trooper called his dispatch, “Dispatch be advised, one white male and one hispanic male possibly fitting the description-..dispatch? Sandy are you there?” His radio didn’t function.

Outside the barons sped off down the highway in their pickup truck. The trooper, alone and without a radio, ran out to his patrol car and raced after the barons with his lights blaring. He tried calling dispatch from his cruiser radio.

“Sandy? Dispatch?” Nothing. He tried his cell phone, no signal and his dash camera no longer recorded. “La verga!” he cursed at the electronics in his car. But kept pursuit of the black pickup.

Without a radio or backup, Trooper Sanchez hoped his blaring lights would draw attention to him. He closed in on the pickup truck and shouted a warning on his loudspeaker.

“Driver! Pull over!”

The Trooper warned one time and backed off allowing the pickup to pull over on the shoulder. But the black truck never slowed down. A second later the truck passenger window opened and thunderous metal music screamed from the vehicle.

“What the hell?” muttered Sanchez as he unstrapped his sidearm in his holster.

He lifted the walkie to his mouth to issue another warning. As he prepared to shout he witnessed a large male open the passenger door of the speeding vehicle, and step on the ledge.

What's he doing?

The large man on the door ledge pointed a weapon at the trooper’s cruiser, muttered something, and fired. Trooper Sanchez slammed on his brakes and turned his wheel to avoid the shot-

…..The red beam that hit the cruiser, blew the hood off the car, and set the engine on fire. One second later…

The New Mexico state police cruiser, exploded in a fireball on the dark highway. Leaving no recording, radio dispatches, or witnesses.

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