Page 5 of Ulysses

“Probably no later than tomorrow night. My uncles didn’t live near enough to all get together at the same time. Each of Tomas’ sons led one branch of the family and they were spread in a wide circle. Tomas wanted his sons close by but the family was spread out over a large area.”

Boomer smiled now. “Well girl, we got time to set up a few surprises of our own. Something to let us know the moment they're close.”

Bouncer looked at his brother in awe, “You have more of those paint bombs, brother?”

Boomer nodded. “Got plenty more of those and something even better. But in order to use what else we got, we’re gonna have to seal up this place and seal it up good.”

Tracker grinned. “You got some of it with you, Dad?”

Boomer grinned hugely. “Packed some in Spider’s truck tool box. She told me to save it for something special and I think she knew we would need it for something just like this.”

“What the hell are you talking about?” Ridge asked with a confused look on his face.

Bouncer agreed, “And who the hell is she?”

Boomer chuckled. “Son, you ain’t gonna believe it unless you see it with your eyes. Just don’t breathe the smoke in yourself or things are gonna get RRQ.”

“What the hell does that mean?” his brother Bouncer asked.

“Ridiculous. Real. Quick.” Then Boomer let out a huge laugh at his clever phrase.

Tracker, Spider and Titus shook their heads.

Ironman turned to Lily and asked, “Where do you think the first round will come in at?”

“You’ll see Milo before you see anyone else. He’s the distraction for his brothers,” Lily assured them all. “But Estaban might set another distraction to separate you all as well.” She paused then looked at Boomer. “Do you have enough of those paint bombs to cover the woods on both sides of the fence”

Boomer nodded at her, then looked around the room, “Anyone here know how to use a bow and arrow?”

When Ironman and Lily raised their hands, Boomer shook his head, “Well two is better than nothing. Maybe we can ask more of the men.”

Then Aisha raised her hand as well.

Pyrite shook his head. “I can’t allow the women to shoot any arrow, guys. I mean come on... they both have gunshot wounds.”

Bouncer frowned and asked his brother. “What the hell do we need arrows for Boom?”

“Cuz, brother you sure as hell don’t want to catch a whiff of that stuff.”

Tracker and Spider both nodded their heads.

“No sir, you really don’t,” Spider said. “It’ll put you in LaLa land in a hurry.”

Tracker agreed, “And depending on how strong it is it might even keep you there... forever.”

“So we need to send it to them,” Boomer explained. “Away from us.”

“How accurate does the arrow need to be?” Ridge asked.

“It doesn’t need to hit anyone, just to land in a general area,” Boomer explained. “For Vadoo Smoke, we need distance more than accuracy. And I doubt the Sanchez family will be expecting us to use bow and arrows to fight them.”

Lily turned her head and stared at Boomer. “Vadoo Smoke?”

Boomer nodded. “We used it in the swamp and it turned the Camero Cartel members into five year olds.”

Ironman laughed and replied, “No way.”

“Yes way.” Boomer nodded at the men. “After Shay Montross dropped a bunch of Miss Maudie’s Smoke from his copter, we waited exactly ten minutes. Then we all simply stepped inside the gates of Camero’s compound. Easy as you please too. I mean no one was guarding those gates, so we had no trouble doing that. What we saw made us all blink for sure and we were shocked as all hell. You see... the day before this compound had been full of men patrolling with guns and they looked deadly as fuck. Well that was no longer the case. No sir, it wasn’t. Man, all we could do was stand there and stare at something we never expected to see. Then one of the girls that lives there told us about why we were seeing such a shocking sight...”