Diversion

Another Six Sentence part of Clark and my ongoing serial featuring Rue DeNite, Rocco and Moonbeam. This week's prompt word from Denise, our host of Six Sentence Stories,  is Core. Previous parts of our story can be found here.
And now, ...of Heroes and the Misunderstood  continues:

The SUV screeched to a halt at the roadblock at the entrance to the approach road to London City Airport… this was the only vehicle on the road, as had been the case for the last three quarters of the journey… Moonbeam opened the window as an extremely wet policeman approached.

‘You’ll have to turn back, sir,’ the policeman said, ‘the airport’s closed due to a large fire nearby, all flights have been diverted to Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton… you can’t drive any closer.’

The sound of a jet engine overhead caused the policeman to look up, and Moonbeam question what he’d just been told, ‘that sounds like a plane taking off…’ he quipped.

‘Regardless, you can’t go any closer… turn around, sir…’ the policeman looked oddly at Moonbeam and then looked beyond him towards Rue DeNite in the passenger seat; reaching for his radio, the policeman made Moonbeam feel tetchy, so before another word could be said, Moonbeam drew down his dark essence and sent the constable into a deep slumber, slammed the SUV into reverse and sped away back along the road.

‘Bubblegum,’ Moonbeam spoke into his earpiece, ‘can you find out who was on the last flight to leave London City, and where it was going…’ Rue watched the expression on Moonbeam’s face change several times over the next few seconds, before he spoke again, ‘Iceland… OK… is The Lady’s jet still at the Thames Hangar Core Facility… it is… be a babe and call ahead and get it ready for us… we should be there within the hour.’

Moonbeam glanced over to Rue who gave him a puzzled look in return, ‘who’s Constantine Sharbow…’ he asked, mishearing the name his colleague had relayed to him, ‘he’s on that flight we’ve just seen taking off, with Isla Sora and a Michael Blake… Rocco will probably be on that plane as well.’