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LOCSIN WAS IRATE at getting tossed off the roof and not only losing the Picasso but failing to kill Cabrillo

He saw the chopper approaching and ordered several o after Cabrillo and the others to retrieve the cache of RPGs As soon as they had theue helicopter was lying on the cavern floor in pieces

Locsin was going to take out that helicopter one way or the other, so he raced to his own chopper The rotors were already spooling up

“Get this piece of junk in the air now!” he screamed at the pilot as he jumped in the back

This helicopter already had the un mounted on the floor He flicked the switch to on and was ready to cut the other chopper to ribbons

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“THERE’S GUNFIRE co,” Gomez said as he cranked the MD 520N to full speed

Linc sat in the front passenger seat while Eddie and Raven took the outer seats in the back with Beth squeezed in thetubes The doors of the chopper had been reht just in case they needed to fire weapons in flight As soon as Eddie saw that Juan was under attack, he knew they’d ht decision His assault rifle was now fully rearazines

Juan was pointing to the opposite side of the building and said over the radio, “There are unwanted guests co up the ladder”

Go, and Eddie and Linc each took out two round, and no h they did take potshots at the helicopter as it came in to land on the roof

Gomez touched down, and Juan handed the Picasso tube to Beth as he heaved hileefully added it to her collection, which she cradled like they were her newborn children

Since there wasn’t another seat, Raven slid up and let Juan take hers With nowhere else to go, she sat on his lap Eddie noticed that Juan didn’t seem to mind the discomfort of the close quarters Juan leaned his head back for a moment as he put on a headset

“You okay?” Eddie asked as they lifted off “You look like you had the snot beat out of you”

“And a bunch of other stuff,” Juan replied