There was an understanding that the border crossings into Texas would need to remain open for an unspecified length of time for those with work visas, and so that revenue could continue to be gained from sources such as commercial trucking or those in quest of tourism options. As a result, several covert teams were able to enter the republic under the guise of the latter, and proceed to their various targets with no concern of being identified.

As many of those teams drove westward from Louisiana toward Austin in the evening hours of Tuesday June twenty-seventh, two similar teams were already commencing with their aspect of trash removal in or around the Washington D.C. area. Their task was to secure Ambassador Pearson and Commander Foster a few hours before any action could begin in Texas, and it needed to be accomplished while ensuring that neither would have the opportunity to contact number twenty-three or anyone else before being captured.

With that successful securing of number eleven and twenty-nine, the first of multiple abductions within the Austin area took place. Number twenty-three was easily taken from her home while she slept, and as Gail Matthews served in the role of communications hub for the organization, no warnings could be sent out by her to other operatives.

Having received a report that all three of those early objectives had been met per the plan, other covert teams then swooped in on the homes of number three, five, thirteen, seventeen, and nineteen. The final two on that list, Charlene Edwards and Braden Donahue, never knew what hit them until it was far too late as their abductors had acted swiftly. However the other three had a resistance force in place, as each of their lofty positions within the government structure came with the perk of a minimal security team at their residence. Nevertheless, those personnel were rendered unconscious from tranquilized darts so that the remainder of the six Austin targets could be secured. The entire operation was far easier than it should have been, which added proof to the fact that members of the organization believed they were untouchable.

Shortly after they were loaded into three large vans and driven southeast. Had the drivers of each continued on that course they would have eventually reached the coast along the Gulf of Mexico. However they had no intention of doing so, as time was short before the people they abducted would be discovered as missing. Therefore some assistance was required from another source to get them out of the republic as quickly as possible, and that help would meet them at a predetermined and somewhat remote rendezvous point roughly one-hundred miles southeast of Austin.

Well before dawn they had arrived ahead of schedule, and the covert teams waited impatiently with their most precious cargo. Then a distant sound of rotors could be heard, and four helicopters from the south came into view. Sent from the USS George H.W. Bush, two were transport models, while the other two were smaller protective gunships which hovered as the larger two touched down. They were only on the ground for a moment or two so that the cargo and their abducting teams could be safely transferred, and then they lifted off and set a course for the supercarrier that was positioned halfway between Corpus Christi and Galveston twenty miles off the coast.