A/N: Yay the semester is over, kind of. I know I should wait until December 10th to start this story when the semester is really over. But every time I turn on my computer and see this story sitting there I get a smile on my face because this is my favorite story so far, and I feel like I have share it with you guys. If my trademark laziness doesn't kick in over my winter break than I should my squeal to Monster finished by the end of this month. So enough of me talking, hope you enjoy this story. All mistakes are mine.
Chapter One
"Our world is made of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." – General Omar Bradley
"100 miles out," Sergeant Nate Mulder said as he walked into Major Timothy Robbins temporary office on the submarine, The USS Viper.
Tim just shook his head and looked back down at the blue prints that were on his table with the rest of the Delta Team. He sighed to himself as he looked at his first big mission in charge since became the leader of the Army Special Forces unit, Delta Team.
He wasn't expecting something this big so soon, but this was reality, missions don't start off easy and then slowly get harder, they start off hard and then do nothing but get impossible to complete. But his current mission was something that was out of his league, this was something that his younger sister Arizona should be doing. Knowing her she could probably do this mission by herself with one hand tied back, and just to be a showoff she would probably ask to be blindfolded as well.
At first Tim was confused to why Arizona and the Rainbow Team would turn down such a mission; it wasn't till he got the full details of mission before he understood why. Delta Team's mission was to sneak onto a secret island 50 miles off the coast of North Korea to find and stop Dominic Cooper.
Dominic Cooper was young man in his late twenties who had an extraordinary talent at computer hacking. Dominic was the man responsible for hacking into the pentagon and stealing the blue prints for a secret scalar weapon code named the 'Black Weapon'. The weapon was made by the military's top engineer, Colonel Daniel Robbins.
Daniel Robbins was Tim and Arizona's dad, and for the longest time Arizona did nothing but hate everything that the man stood for. When Tim found out that mission had something to do with their father he knew Arizona wouldn't even touch the paper work with a 10 foot pole.
The sound of the phone ranging on the table behind him brought Tim out of his thoughts. "Captain just called, we are sitting pretty 20 miles away from North Korea's water territory." Lieutenant, and best friend, Nick Dietrich said.
"20 miles we can't get any closer?" Tim asked.
"If you want to keep the fact that we are secretly invading North Korea a secret from North Korea, then no. Their defense system will pick up the Viper, and then we will have a big problem on our hands. Like a World War 3 type problem." Nick shot back in dry humor.
"We can use the underwater RS1 Sea Doo's." Kevin jumped in. Kevin who was of medium height and build with brown hair, green eyes and a well-defined jaw was only a private. The reason why he was good enough to bypass the years of military experience needed to be in the U.S. Army Special Forces was his computer knowledge. He could do anything and everything when it came to computers. "We can use the Sea Doo's to get shore unnoticed, we will be small and slow enough to be able to get pass the North Korean's defense system."
"Good call rookie," Nick said with a slap on the back. Together Delta team made their way to the upper levels of the submarine and prepared themselves for their mission.
Delta Team was comprised of six men. Team leader Tim, and his second in command Nick, followed by Kevin the tech guy, Nate, Brian and Drew were their heavy muscle. Once their wet suits were on, the six men made their way to the island coast.
The men followed Kevin's lead as they successfully made it to the coast of the island unnoticed. Instead of going straight to coast and making a beeline for the woods they took another approach. They quietly made their way to an empty but well-guarded military dock. They lucked out because standing keeping watch over the dock and the waters were six North Korean military guards. Delta team was still in the water under the dock when they each took a guard and on Tim's count they simultaneously took out all six guards.
Tim was the first to peek up from waters; once the coast was clear the other five guys emerged from water. They made a beeline for the line that marked the beginning of woods, staying in the shadows. They didn't kill or knock any guards that came past them, they just let them pass. They didn't want to make the mission harder by alerting the enemy that they were there. They followed the line of the woods until they made it to the main security hut for the island.
"Nick and I got this. You guys stay here and keep an eye out." Tim said as he and Nick quickly and quietly made their way to one of two doors that the hut had.
Tim took the left side of the door, while Nick took the right side of the door. Tim took a flash bang and looked over to Nick. "On my count," he whispered. Nick shook his head and watched as Tim silently counted down from three.
On three Tim opened the door threw in the flash bang. It only took three seconds for it to do its job successfully. Nick and Tim entered the hut, and took advantage of the 5 flailing guys in a matter of minutes. It wasn't as clean and precise like Rainbow, but it got the job done. "Clear," Tim said over the radio.
It only took seconds for the four remaining members of Delta team to show up. Kevin made his way to the computer to work his magic while the others took post keeping a look out. A few moments later Kevin successfully inputted a virus taking down North Korea's defense system, making the Viper invisible to their sonar.
"Virus is planted, Viper, it is safe to get closer. We will notify you when we are on our way back to the coast." Nick said over the radio.
"Copy that, November Delta" The Viper responded.
"This path will lead us to the warehouse that Dominic is using." Kevin pointed to a trail that led into the woods.
Just like they did on the coast, they stayed in the shadows, but this time they took out people when they needed to. They mainly took out snipers, and people that got too close to them for their liking. They followed the trail for another 20 miles before they made it to a large single story warehouse.
Nick and Tim led the group as they quietly entered the warehouse. Nick and Tim exchanged looks when they noticed how eerily quiet and empty the warehouse was. "I don't like this," Nick said.
"Yeah me too, they have the blue prints to a huge weapon. You figure there would be a lot people here trying to build it." Tim added.
"This could only mean two things, they already built it and are transporting it to their test destination or we have been discovered and we are two minutes away from being blown up." Nate said.
Everyone stopped moving and turned their attention to the six foot giant. Nate was a tall man, he looked somewhat thin for someone who was actively serving in the military, but looks can be deceiving. He was nothing but pure muscle, and he knew how to put his legs to good use because he holds the current record in the Army for the fastest mile, 4 minutes and 25 seconds.
"God I hope you are wrong." Nick said as cleared another empty room.
The guys stopped when they heard groaning coming from the main room of the warehouse. Tim held up his hand to tell the others to be quiet, as he slowly entered the room. With their guns drawn they entered the large opening of the warehouse. Tim and Nick had their guns pointing straight ahead; while Kevin, Nate, Brian and Drew were looking everywhere they thought a person could be hiding.
The main part of the warehouse was large and wide open on the left side was where they were building the scalar weapon. Tim let out a breath he hadn't realize that he had been holding because sitting to the left side of the warehouse was the scalar weapon, still in pieces and not even close to being done. On the right side was number of desks that were either covered in paperwork or had circuit boards and computers on them. But the dark figure tied to a chair in the middle of the room was the third thing that got Tim's attention.
Tim and Nick made their way up to this figure, while the others still guarded and looked around the warehouse. Tim reached out and lifted the man's head, "its Dominic."
"I thought his was in charge of this whole thing. Why would they tie and beat him up?" Nick asked with a look of confusion over to Tim, who did nothing but shrug.
"Because I'm not in charge," Dominic said in a low raspy voice. "I never was. I was blackmailed into doing all of this."
"This," Nate said while he was looking up scanning the catwalk above them, "what is this?"
"The black weapon is a large scale electromagnetic pulse generator. They wanted me steal and build it so they can sell it to the highest bidder." Dominic answered.
"Who is they and did they find someone to sell it too?" Was Tim's next question.
Dominic shook his head "yes," he paused of a moment and coughed up blood, "North Korea, why do you think we are here." Another brief pause, "North Korea wants to use over the U.S. so they can cripple the U.S. long enough to invade them with no problems."
"So why are you tied to the chair, can't really build anything when you are tied up." Tim added.
"Because there is a large component missing, without it the EMP doesn't work."
"What is it?" Nick asked.
"Do I look like a fucking engineer," Dominic snapped. "I don't know, I just do computers and that's it. They think I'm lying, so cue in chair and beating of my life."
"They, you keep saying they. Who are they?" Nate said as he dropped his gun and walked up next to Tim and Nick.
"Gary Clark"
"Gary Clark? As in –"
"The U.S. Navy Seal Gary Clark?" Dominic cut Nate off, "yes."
Next to Rainbow, Gary Clark was the next best thing the military had to protecting this world. A few years ago it was rumored to believe that Clark died during a mission but they couldn't recover the body, until now.
"There are two others, I know for sure one of them belongs to a top secret military organization based in London. I think it's called Rainbow, Team Rainbow…" Dominic was cutoff when the room exploded in gunfire.
"We got company!" Brian yelled as he fired back.
Tim and the Delta Team started firing at their enemy as they slowly backed out the way they came. It was pointless to try and save Dominic because he was killed in the cross fire.
"Delta Team, this is the Viper. We are taking heavy fire. We are leaving port in five minutes. If you are not here in five minutes we will leave without you."
"There's too many to fight off, go go go!" Tim yelled. "Where the hell is the rookie?"
"He and Drew are by the computers! He was putting a virus on the computer corrupting the files so the North Koreans will have nothing." Brian replied back.
It was like Kevin and Drew heard Tim yelling because in a few moments they rounded the corner to meet up with the rest of them. "Let's move," Tim said, "I'll deal with you later." Tim glared at Kevin.
Now that their cover was blown there was no need to be quiet and hide in the shadows, they took cover when they needed and shot their way back to the port where the Viper was. Tim was in the process of changing his clip when the ground shook underneath him for a minute and low to high pitch buzz was heard for a brief moment. Tim looked down at the ground and then over to Drew who was taking cover next to him. "What the fuck was that?" Drew asked.
"I have no clue, but it doesn't sound good and I don't want to be here to find out what it is." Tim replied back.
"Delta Team this is the Viper, we are leaving the port in exactly 2 minutes."
"Let's move Delta!" Tim yelled as he got up and continued to push forward with the rest of his team.
Delta managed to push their way back to the port, they had just stepped foot on the dock when the ground shook underneath them again and the same low to high pitch buzz was heard. "Get on the fucking submarine!" Tim yelled.
"Viper we standing on top of you, you can leave port, but wait to submerge" Nick said over the radio.
"Copy that," the Viper made its way out of the port while Delta Team stayed on top of the submarine providing cover fire until it got into the open waters safely.
It took the Viper 10 minutes to get out of the range of all the gun fire. Once the Viper was out of the harm's way, Delta team made their way to entrance hatch of Viper. For a third time but without the shaking of the ground they heard the same low to high pitch buzz which cause them to stop what they were doing and turn around to face the island. Before anyone could say anything about the noise, they saw a bright white light that lit up the whole sky causing them to cover their faces.
Tim was about to say something, but stopped when he watched in shock as the whole island suddenly sank underwater creating a large tsunami that was coming right for them. "Oh shit." Was the last thing Tim said as the giant wave engulfed the entire Delta team and USS Viper.
Eleven days after Delta Team disappeared off the coast of North Korea, Barbara Robbins found herself giving candy to last batch of trick or treaters. Right as she closed the door she heard the tornado alarm going off signaling that trick or treating was over and the city wide curfew was about to take effect.
Barbara closed the door and walked through the living room to get the kitchen to finish cleaning up after dinner. As she passed the T.V. she walked passed a bookcase that acted more like shrine to her two, well if you count the fact that Nick was always at her house when he was younger it would be three, children. There were pictures of Tim and Arizona on their first day of school, when they graduated high school and college; there were pictures of them in their military uniforms. There were also several pictures of just Nick and Tim together as well pictures of Arizona and Julie.
She paused at the bookcase for a moment and picked up her favorite photo of all time. A time when all five of them were together and happy, it was a group wedding photo at Arizona and Julie's wedding. If there was one moment she would want to go back to and never leave it would be on the summer day in July. Everything was so perfect, they were all happy, carefree and they had the widest smiles anyone had ever seen. She wished she had more family times like that. She would give anything to have just one more moment like that.
She put the picture back at is natural resting place, which was right by anyone picture of Nick, Tim and Arizona somewhere in the dessert. She picked up that picture and her fingers went over the faces of Nick and Tim, she refused to believe that they were dead.
Barbara was a military wife and mother; there had been times when they said they couldn't find Daniel and a few weeks later they found him held up in some small town. Same thing went for Arizona as well as Tim once or twice during a mission. Nope she refused to believe that they were dead until the United States Military showed her their lifeless bodies.
Barbara didn't want to dwell on the past so she the put the picture down and continued her journey back to the kitchen. She had just finished cleaning the pots and pans and was in the middle of putting plates and silverware into the dishwasher when the doorbell rang.
Barbara stood up straight and made her way to the door with a bowl of candy. There were always those few middle schoolers trying to milk the most of the time before curfew started, it wasn't unusual. She had just barely opened the door before someone on the other side kicked the door open. There were four men all dressed in black and wearing ski masks holding semi-automatic weapons, which caused Barbara to give a blood curdling scream.
Barbara wasn't alone in the house. She still lived there with her husband Colonel Daniel Robbins. Daniel was upstairs in his office working on a paper for a presentation he was giving to Navy on a new piece of machinery that would help sailors when it came to ship maintenance. When he heard Barbara's screams he grabbed his Smith & Wesson sigma and made his way downstairs. Before he made it to the bottom of staircase someone came from his left side and hit him the temple knocking him out instantly.
It was sometime later when he finally came too. When he did come too he was in the living room facing his wife, who was tied up just like him. "Barbara," Daniel said with a groggy voice.
He didn't get the chance to say anything else when a figure stepped into the line of vision next to his wife. "Well good morning, sunshine." Gary Clark said with a smile.
Daniel just glared at Gary, "What do you want?" he hissed at him.
"I think you know what I want. I want to know what and where the missing component is for your EMP device."
"I don't where it is," Daniel shook his head, "and I will never tell you what it is."
Gary shook his head and stood up. He took out his gun and pointed right Barbra's chest. "If you don't tell me I will kill your wife and I will make sure that is nice and slow for you to watch helplessly."
Daniel remained silent trying to call Gary's bluff. "Okay, you think I'm playing." Gary aimed the gun lower at Barbara's knee and shot her.
Barbara's eyes slammed shut and she started screaming. "I'll give you till the count of three before I shot her in chest, and then in the head."
"One," Daniel had tears in eyes, his wife was hurt and at the moment there was nothing he could about it.
"Two," Daniel's eyes went from his wife back to Gary over and over again. He had no clue how to pull the wool over Gary's eyes without his wife getting hurt or killed.
"Okay, have it your-"
"You need a machine that can produce gamma rays on a large scale, "Daniel cutoff.
"I take it that this machine is already built, so I'm going to ask where I can find it?" Gary relied.
"Bolivia." Daniel said with a shaky voice.
"Bolivia?"
Daniel shook his head vigorously while looking over to his wife. She was still crying but had stopped screaming. "It's at a military safe house, so you thugs like you can't get it."
Gary just gave a small chuckle before he shot Barbra in the chest and then grabbed Daniel by the arm dragging him out of the house. "Why! Why did you shoot my wife! I told you everything I know!"
"You called me thug. That hurt my feelings, so I decided to hurt yours" Gary threw Daniel in the back of a black SUV before getting into the front passenger seat. Gary looked over at the driver for a brief moment, "drive," he said before turning around to look at Daniel. "You better be right, because if you're not, I will kill your daughter Arizona, just like I killed your wife and your son Timothy."
Daniel looked out the window and could see and hear police sirens. He closed his eyes and hoped that they got to his house in time to save his wife. "Oh, and for calling me a thug." Gary said bring Daniel out of his thoughts in time to see Gary raise his gun and shoot him right in the knee. "Thug, that really hurts my feelings," Gary said before he turned back around.
"Pixy…something's wrong…" Derek said breathlessly over the radio.
"What is it Chopper, did he get behind you?" Arizona asked.
"No, but he's trying. The more high g maneuvers he performs the harder I find it to keep up with him."
"I agree with Chopper, Pixy." Another voice said over the radio, "I mean it's awesome that we are the first aircrew to fly the new F-22 Raptors but something isn't right here."
Arizona just sighed and put her crew's comments on hold as a target plane came into view. "Alright I'll figure something out in a minute." Arizona positioned her plane right behind the target plane and fired a missile only to the have to the other plane dodge it before taking off trying to reverse the roles that they were in.
Her target plane, an F-18, maneuvered itself straight up and then straight down trying to come up behind Arizona. It didn't work, as the plane was in the process of leveling itself out Arizona fired another missile knowing that there was nothing the plane could do because at the moment it was aerodynamically unstable to pull off any maneuvers.
Arizona's missile hit the target plane and green smoke came out from behind the plane signaling that she shot it down. A small breathless smile came to her face as she leveled out her plane. Her plane was in straight and level flight for well over ten minutes when she noticed that she was still breathless. She looked over at her oxygen gage to see that it hadn't moved since she took off from the aircraft carrier.
"I see the problem, Chopper." Arizona said over the radio. "I think our oxygen tanks are faulty. Wardog we're going back to the Vinson, that's an order."
"Rodger," Arizona's squadron said in unison as they made their way back to the aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson.
Arizona and three other pilots in her squadron lined up in the landing pattern for Vinson with Derek being first in line and Arizona being the last. One by one they all landed on the aircraft carrier until it was Arizona's turn.
Her plane started beeping letting her know that all of her oxygen was gone. She looked over to her gage one more time and it showed she had a full tank of oxygen. Arizona took of her mask gasping for air as much as she could. Even through she was landing she was still at a high enough altitude for hypoxia to kick in, which it did.
"November, 568 Echo Romeo…on final…" Arizona slurred into her radio. She was trying her best to keep the hypoxia at bay, but it wasn't working. She heard the tower say something over the radio but she couldn't comprehend what was being said. Before she knew it she lost consciousness and her plane began fall straight towards the ocean.
The cold water of the Atlantic was what woke her up. Her plane was completely submerged underwater and slowly sinking to the bottom. She managed to pull the emergency hatch to the cockpit and pull herself out of the sinking plane. Arizona was still underwater trying to fight to find her way to the surface, due to her hypoxia she was having a hard time figuring out which way was up. After a few moments she was able to see light at the surface of the water and began swimming to it.
It seemed like the more she swam the further away it was getting, but she still pushed herself to get the surface. A few moments later after she began swimming towards the surface her vision was becoming red, which she knew was a bad thing. Due to the lack of oxygen that she was getting her nose was being to bleed, which meant that she was moments away from passing out and drowning. This caused her to fight harder towards the surface. The more she fought the more she could start to see her peripheral vision start to fade to black. Right before everything went black Arizona made it to the surface.
Arizona's head flew back as she took one giant gasp of air right before her head slammed against the wall behind her. She was breathing heavily as she looked around to realize that it was a dream. A recurring dream that only came when she flying in an airplane, which is where she was at the moment.
Since the South Africa incident a little over a year ago, things have been going a little slow at Rainbow. They had a few missions here and there but nothing too big. And to keep his team from getting cabin fever, Marshal Webber assigned them this harmless easy missions. At the moment they were to provide protect for a princess. Princess Karen Peterson wanted to go to New York for summer and was on her way back home to London in a Boeing 747-200 provided by Virgin Atlantic.
Karen wasn't a real princess, but her parents treated and called her one. There was nothing on this plant that she couldn't have. Well almost nothing, when Karen met her escort team she immediately locked her eye on Arizona, which didn't sit well with Callie.
The whole time that they were sitting in the terminal at JFK international airport, Callie was forced to watch as Karen tried over and over again to flirt with her girlfriend. It didn't matter though, Karen didn't care that she was she seeing someone. In Karen's words 'I always get what I want, and I want you. It will only be a matter of time before you are mine.'
It took Callie an arm and leg to get her and Arizona and to sit together on the way to London. It only took an arm and leg because Callie was being nice and didn't want to get into trouble, because if it were any other situation Karen would have been picking herself up off the ground on the other side of the terminal.
Once all was said and done, mainly swearing and the occasional death stare to Callie from Karen. Callie and Arizona found themselves sitting in the front of the plane in upper class, with Alex and Addison sitting in the middle of the in Premium Economy and Teddy and Cristina were sitting in the back of the plane in Economy.
The configuration of upper class in Virgin Atlantic planes meant that Callie and Arizona weren't really sitting next to each, they were sitting across from each other. Arizona was a little on the tired side when they got the on plane and passed out before they took off so her seat was in the upright position, while Callie was leaning back in her chair taking advantage of the foot rest that was provided for her. "Are you okay?" Callie asked never taking her eyes off the book that she was reading, while threw a pocket pack of Kleenex over towards Arizona.
"Yeah," Arizona paused and put her hand up to her nose to see that it was bleeding. "Thanks," Arizona took the Kleenex that landed in her lap, and used to clean up her nose.
"So, who did it?" Arizona asked hoping to change the subject.
"The grandmother like I said earlier." Callie said with a grin as she turned the page of her new book. "Now I have moved on to another book."
If there was one thing that most people didn't know about Callie it was the fact that she loved to read. She loved her mystery novels but there have been times where she would curl up on the couch with a nice glass of wine and a romance novel.
"What book is that?" Arizona leaned forward hoping to get a small glance of Callie's screen on her iPad.
"Fifty Shades of Gray"
"Porn?!"
"It's not porn, it's an exotic novel," Callie corrected, but she got nothing but a blank stare from Arizona. "Whatever, think what you want. It's a good book, it's given me a few ideas' I would like to try on us."
Arizona just smiled at Callie who was still reading, when she unbuckled her seat belt and walked over to Callie. "Why don't you show me some of those ideas, because I have always wanted to be a part of the mile high club." Arizona whispered in Callie's ear as she returned the pack of Kleenex and slowly walked up towards the front of the cabin.
Callie was grinning from ear to ear as she continued to read looking for the right spot to stop while waiting a few minutes before she joined Arizona at the very front of the cabin.
Arizona was in the restricted part of cabin which was only reserved for the Rainbow Team members. Her back was currently facing the entrance when she heard someone enter the area. "Took you long enough," Arizona turned around with a grin, but was greeted by someone that was not her girlfriend.
There standing in front of her was a woman who was just a little taller than her, but was about the same height as Callie. She had long dirty blonde hair that just came past her shoulders, but it was up in ponytail. Her body was slender like a model, which was not a turn on her Arizona. She loved women that were fit and with a little bit of muscle. She always thought they looked way better naked. This woman was wearing dark blue jeans with high heels that said 'fuck me 'and a red long sleeve shirt, she did have to admit to herself this woman had nice boobs, like really nice. She was pretty sure that if Callie caught her looking all hell would break loose.
"Karen?" Arizona whispered with a soft small smile. "What are you doing up here? It's restricted.
"I saw you coming up here all by yourself, and I thought I would take advantage of the moment." Karen took a step forward, which caused Arizona to take a step back. "You are incredibly hot." Karen smiled at Arizona.
"Thanks," Arizona gave a light chuckle, "but I was being serious earlier I'm seeing someone, and she gets very territorial." Arizona backup some more.
"So," Karen closed the distance between her and Arizona, "haven't you been listening to me? I always get what I want."
Before Arizona could do anything she felt a pinch a on her right forearm. Arizona looked down to see that Karen injected something into her. "What did you just inject me with?" Arizona looked back up to Karen with a look of confusion.
"Don't worry about it." Karen said with smile as she caught Arizona right as she passed out.