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Nordeland, Hulderlands
6:20 pm Nordeland time (28 April 1997), Monday.
Hulderlands Airspace
Cockpit of Trolberg Airlines ATR 72, Flight TR-01.
Captain Johanna
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking we are beginning our descent to Hulderlands International Airport. Please ensure you have your seat belts fastened, your window shades up, your seats back upright, and please stow your tray tables.
Thank you
Cabin crew please prepare for landing.
After the plane was given clearance by Air Traffic Control to land at the Cargo Terminal, and they have already landed. Captain Johanna and First Officer Freya Taxied the plane to the Cargo Terminal as per the earlier briefing by Captain Gerda Gustav.
6:30 pm Nordeland time (28 April 1997), Monday.
Hulderlands International Airport
Captain Johanna
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Hulderlands International Airport Cargo Terminal. The local time is Six Thirty Pm, the temperature outside is 6 degrees Celsius and the weather is partially cloudy this evening, with a low chance of encountering a herd of Woffs.
Please remain seated until we reached our assigned bay, and the seat belt sign is switched off.
Please take care when opening the overhead compartment, and ensure you have all your belongings with you when you exit the Aircraft.
To everyone onboard, on behalf of Trolberg Airlines, welcome home and thank you for flying with Trolberg Airlines.
A member of Global League and where adventure awaits at every destination we fly to.
After hearing “welcome home” everyone especially the Trolberg Police Officers, and Trolberg Safety Patrol Rangers who had underwent training in Jernhavn for Nine months felt a warm feeling inside as though as they had left Trolberg for over a year.
As the plane is marshalled to a designated bay, Captain Johanna and First Officer Freya saw the usual ground support equipment are waiting for them together with a coach bus, and a Trolberg Safety Patrol Lorry.
After the plane has stopped at the designated bay and everyone had disembarked, the Rangers from the Trolberg Safety Patrol together with the ground crew unloaded the plane’s cargo hold. The luggage are unloaded first followed by equipment belonging to the Rangers who had underwent Recon training, and lastly the four large green cases.
Which for both security and secrecy, the four large green cases are labelled as outdoor equipment on the cargo manifest and will be documented as such for the paperwork, and thankfully Alfur wasn’t present with Captain Gerda otherwise he would have thrown a fit for mislabelling items when doing the paperwork, despite the items being technically outdoor equipment.
As elves view labelling containers in a way that raises questions of the contents are considered as a grave insult to documentation. However, it can be excused as the elves have not yet learnt about minimising paper trails for security and secrecy, to which Captain Gerda would train Alfur in the future and he will train the other elves to do so.
After the items for the Trolberg Safety Patrol have been loaded onto the lorry. Captain Gerda together with Rangers Tony, Sam, and Paul, got into the Safety Patrol car that they had parked in the Cargo Terminal, while the other Rangers and the Police officers boarded the bus which they had loaded their luggage into earlier.
Once Captain Gerda drove the car in front of the Trolberg Safety Patrol Lorry, with the bus waiting behind the lorry. She radioed both the bus and lorry to follow her closely back to Trolberg, as the roads do not have streetlights once they leave the Airport. Hence, their only light sources come from the moonlight and the headlights of their vehicles, to which they acknowledged her order.
As it is standard protocol for non-emergency convoys, the lead vehicle must switch on the beacon for Safety reasons, and the sirens are not switched on.
After they had done the final convoy preparation, they headed out through the gate after being given clearance.
The Police officers on the bus wished they could get a motorcycle escourt for the convoy, as it is a standard protocol for all convoys. However, the Trolberg Police Force do not have any jurisdiction beyond the walls of Trolberg. Which is the jurisdiction of the Safety Patrols of both Tofoten and Trolberg, and to their knowledge have not yet acquired any motorcycles.
As they are leaving the Airport, Captain Gerda noticed a car belonging to Johanna waiting to leave the Airport, to which the mums have to wait, as by law the convoy is considered an emergency vehicle. Hence the mums have to give way to the convoy, and keep a certain distance from the convoy.
After the convoy has reached a certain distance, Johanna drove the car out of the Airport and followed the convoy at a safe distance back to Trolberg.
A hill overlooking the road to Trolberg from the Airport.
Meanwhile in a forested area, a man, and a woman. Both working for a notorious Criminal known in Trolberg as Polecat, are currently loading boxes containing Woff pelts, Woff meat and Red Wolf pelts onto a small lorry belonging to their boss.
Both of them obtained the Woff pelts, Woff meat, and Red Wolf pelts in the wilderness through poaching as Woffs and Red Wolves are considered protected species.
However, products from Woffs and Red Wolves are among the animal products that fetch a high price in the black market and they will be meeting the buyer of the items later, on the order of their boss.
As Gunter is keeping watch, she spotted a Trolberg Safety Patrol car in the distance with the blinkers switched on, she instinctively alerted her colleague Garth. Before he quickly covered the lorry and items with the camouflage netting, and they all got down on the ground. Where their position despite being elevated is well hidden by foliage and away from the line of sight of anyone observing from the road.
However, despite the area being lit only by the moonlight, the beacon of the lead car, and the headlights of the vehicles on the road. Both of them observed a Trolberg Safety Patrol car, a Trolberg Safety Patrol lorry, a coach bus, and a heavily used station wagon trailing far behind the coach bus. Driving past them in a convoy formation, heading towards Trolberg.
Instinctively after the vehicles have left the area, they removed the camouflage netting, loaded up the items on to the lorry and drove to the location their boss arranged for them to meet with the buyer and they will inform their boss of the sighting afterwards.
8:30 pm Nordeland time (28 April 1997), Monday.
Trolberg Safety Patrol Base
After dropping off the Police Officers and their luggage at the Trolberg Police Force Headquarters in the city, the convoy headed to the Trolberg Safety Patrol Base.
As they need to unload their cargo, drop off the Rangers and their luggage on the bus, meet up with the Rangers who took the Ferry from Jernhavn together with their newly acquired motorcycles, pack up their cargo, and motorcycles, and debrief her Rangers who had either flown in or came in by Ferry from Jernhavn before they call it a day.
When the convoy arrived at the base, everything is in order other than the Rangers who took the Ferry from Jernhavn earlier, talking to some of the Safety Patrol Rangers who are doing the night shift, about their dirt bikes and their training.
After the convoy arrived, Captain Gerda got out of the car and ordered the debussed Rangers to fall in at the parade square with their luggage, while she ordered the Motorcycle Rangers to pick up their belongings from the lorry before falling in at the parade square, and lastly, she ordered some Rangers to unload the four large green cases from the Lorry and place it the armoury inside the headquarters building, which she informed them they will unpack it the next day.
After the orders have been carried out successfully, she debriefed her Rangers before dismissing them for the day and she headed to her office. As everyone wants to return home as they all had a rather long day.
After entering her office she checked her to do list in her office and checked off the completed tasks.
She noted some tasks that needed to be done the next day and put it on her list. After completing some urgent paperwork, she saw it is already late and she decided to call it a day.
After locking her office, she freshened up and changed into her civilian attire before heading back home to rest for the next day.