Chaos at the Steel Mill

Will Agent 17 capture Covidien at the steel mill?

Covidien is on a train stopped outside of US Steel!

I hit the road and headed north on Broadway up to US Steel’s Gary Works.

My source said Covidien was there in the plant. Hiding somewhere.

I headed over to Grant and went up into the truck entrance just north of the toll road below the bridge warning that any 13'6" semi-trailer pulling trucks would get stuck if they proceeded any further. All the trucks going into the plant that way were shorter than the bridges — or they’d be jammed into the Indiana Toll Road deck making the INDOT people mad.

I filled out my security forms at the gate and showed them my ID. I let them know I was on the hunt for Covidien. Word was that he had jumped off of a Ford car carrier hooked onto a CSX train that was headed to Detroit from the plant over on 130th Street by the Chicago River. It had stopped in the Kirk Yard right outside of the huge steel plant.

The sexy guard at the gate smiled at me, gave me a yellow carbon copy form to fill out so I could enter the works and explore the city-sized complex looking for a ghost. She asked if I needed any help. I said I’d let her know once I located Covidien.

I followed the road system inside the plant until I got to the scale for the metal scrap yard. I parked by the safety boss’ pickup and ran up the stairs into the scale house to ask if they had noticed anything strange in the yard. They had staffers roving around making sure truckers didn’t do something stupid and flip their dump trucks while delivering their metal loads. The thing with driving a Class A dump — it wasn’t “if” but “when” it was going to flip over. Drive it long enough and you were going to flip a dump truck.

The scale master called a safety guy in a pickup and he took me out into the yard to look for Covidien.

I saw him over by a mountain of scrap I-beams. Well, I didn’t see him, but my computerized scanner picked up his ghostly presence. Covidien was floating next to a 40-footer dumping a load right in front of the steel mountain. A loader was off to the side waiting to push the scrap up the hill to make it even higher than it’s 100 foot height.

Covidien spotted me. I told the safety guy to call the trucker to tell him to stop his dump, put the truck in neutral and set his air brakes. Before the safety guy could call, I saw the truck’s dump trailer lift into the air. I also saw Covidien on the side. Not good at all!

Before I could jump out to warn the driver, Covidien caused his chaos.

He pushed the truck over with unnatural force. The trailer was lifted in the air and tipped over in slow motion.

The driver jumped and ran from the truck before he got hurt.

Dammit!

Covidien floated away with a 15 MPH gust that blew off the lake and back to the rail line before I could spray him with my disinfectant spray.

He got away, but not before causing chaos and scaring everyone at the steel mill’s scrap yard.

— End of report for Agent Kat by Agent 17, “Unicorn.” —

Inspired by Jimmy Doom in “Flight of the Yellow Teeth”

And Agent Kat Lehmkuhl in “CHALLENGE.”

Using these words in prose: Yellow, Quest, Ghost, Help and Neutral.

Chris Hedges 🦄 writes and edits an erotica publication, if you’re interested in reading sexy stories when you’re curled up all alone.