Moving Right Along

JP with Jaxx, Redsword, Trustno1 and Cindy

The very large silver and white RV, with the trailer holding Alyssa's sacred van moved down the road with the hacker at the wheel.

After the last assignment, most of the team had spent time traveling around. They had been told they needed to find a base, and while that had been unsuccessful as of current status, traveling together, taking in sights and having the journey together had been fun and bonding.
The RV itself was the luxury sort, with enough room for all, a nice kitchen, sitting area, even a bar. Also two bathrooms with showers. Enough sleeping areas for everyone but tents, air mattresses and such had also been brought along when more privacy was warranted. The RV looked like a regular RV, albeit on the high end, but, of course it wasn't. It had the most advanced wi-fi possible and was armored.

They had already traveled to the West Coast, gone all over that. Then south. Florida and Alyssa insisted on checking out the amusement parks, as she had never been. If no one else went with her, it was their decision and possibly loss but she dragged Peter through all of them. (How much dragging was necessary was debatable.) But she got to just have fun for awhile.

The dark thing did appear a few times, while in the van. Fortunately, never while she was driving but she tried to stick to driving during the day, and it tended to prefer the night. Whether the knife was with her not didn't seem to matter, the dark still appeared.

She had gotten more familiar with the knife but there seemed to be something else, perhaps some other ability the hacker wasn't quite getting.

They had just left Hersheypark in Pennsylvania when Alyssa got a text, she stopped dead in her tracks. Her mother had texted her asking her to come home, saying they needed to talk. Her mother was never in contact with Alyssa. She actually had heard directly from the woman in a long time. This had Alyssa, understandably, concerned. "We have to go to New York. My mother just contacted me." Alyssa explained.

“What exactly what she want after all this time of not speaking to you?" asked Sartre.

"Who knows. It's probably nothing good, however." Alyssa responded, clearly concerned.

"You shouldn't let her push you around. We both know you are much bigger now. What would she think of our relationship?" Asked Peter.

"I don't really care what she thinks of it, but I can't ever guess what my mother would think of anything." Alyssa looked at Peter. "Maybe, when we're in New York, I can also get a chance to speak with my father."

Agent Powers and Princess Ekaterina were in the back of the RV doing a mission report on her laptop. Since she and Dahlia came in at the end of the prior mission, Agent Powers needed to fill her in on the missing information. Ekaterina was now growing fond of Agent Powers as they spent more time together. They had a lot of common interests such as training, good food, cutting edge weapons and traveling the world. Of course she was a much better scholar that Max was but she never made him feel bad about it. She liked the idea of molding her ideal guy and Max fit the bill. She was even planning on getting Agent Powers some proper credentials (unofficially of course) so he would be permitted to be with her in public. Of course that was another story for later on. Once they finished their mission reports, they decided to do some research on some other topics that they were interested in.

"It will be good to see how your father is doing." He reached to take her hand.

The van wasn't moving yet, so Alyssa turned the driver's seat to face the others in the back. "We need to head to New York, next. I need to take care of a few things." Hoping that was alright with everyone. "When I'm done, there are some places we might want to check out in some areas in central and northern New York."

Agent Powers looked up from the computer screen and gave Alyssa a smolder then replied, "No biggie Alyssa. Do what you need to do first." Ekaterina elegantly smiled as she asked, "New York huh? I wonder if we could make time to see a Broadway play there?" Agent Powers gave the princess a smolder then asked, "What's that?" Ekaterina elegantly smiled as she replied, "I hear in places like New York they do extravagant dramatic plays on stage." Agent powers was shocked by this as he asked, "Plays huh? Like what kind?" Ekaterina elegantly replied, "Well I recall them advertising the play called "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." Agent Powers was shocked as he replied, "I don't remember that movie. Is it new?" Ekaterina elegantly smiled at Agent Powers as she replied, "No they made the play from the book. They never made that one into a movie. At least not yet." Agent Powers was more shocked as he asked, "Wait they made a book too?" Then Ekaterina elegantly explained to Agent Powers that the books came first then the movies and plays. He was shocked by his lack of knowledge of the arts as the princess educated him in a polite manner.

"Oh, we must do a play, especially if you've never been to one. We'll have to see what's playing. I'm afraid Broadway never quite recovered from the money it lost during the pandemic. Many plays never reopened." Alyssa sounded excited by the idea. "Actually, we can certainly spend time in the city. There's so much to do there." Alyssa paused for a moment then answered the first question. "My mother texted me, she wants to see me. To talk to me about something." The hacker sighed.

Agent Powers nodded as he replied, "Is that a personal meeting or a work meeting? Just checking if I will be invading your privacy while I am guarding you." Ekaterina was in awe that Agent Powers was respecting Alyssa's boundaries.

"Personal, my mother doesn't work for any agency. I am not certain she even knows about them." Then again, after all these years, it would be weird if the woman didn't know something was going on with Alyssa and her father. "I'll have to come up with some reason why you're there."
Agent Powers was confused as he replied, "Well you just tell part of the truth then. Just say your dad assigned me to work with you on a project for work. You are not lying to her and your dad will confirm it if she asked him. My father told me not to lie to much since I would have to remember all my lies and I lack the personality and mindset for that type of work. That's why I do demolition and wet work instead of espionage."

Sung just sat and listened to everyone if they were in the main area. This was not his ideal way to have things, but it would be interesting to see how the team acts now, living in a small space. He wondered if he should start some chaos. Well, that was not his job. he sat just wiping down his sword with a white cloth and inspecting the edge of the word (edited)

Alyssa nodded at Max, "That sounds like a good plan." She did have the mental capacity to lie to her mother and keep it straight but didn't want to. Omitting what her mother couldn't know would work. She paused, then "Well, let's get going then."