The deafening sound of the rotors made the shouts barely audible, but he recognized the commands '30 seconds to landing'. He gazed around the chopper, and confidence showed on everyone on the team. He reviewed the game plan in his head again and again, being sure not to miss details of the mission.
The V-22 Osprey a hybrid helicopter with tilt rotors specially built for special operations suddenly pitched right. Captain Tim 'Whack' Mitchell yelled out "Touch down, Touch down, move, move, move!" Before leaping out of the chopper and scanning the surrounding area. The area was full of boulders good for cover and good for night ops. He then pulled down his Night Vision Goggles, before switching his Barrett REC-7 from SAFE mode to SEMI – AUTOMATIC. His team quickly filed up behind him and started to spread around the perimeter and crouched down. The objective was to capture the final hide out of the Taliban and their last major strong hold. Since the US didn't declare war on Russia and didn't want to risk relationships with Russia, and creating another Cold War; they sent Whack's team instead of a full out invasion. Every member of the Night Prowlers reported in to Whack, while the units marksmen Sergeant Jerry 'Roach' Anderson took up his sniping position. Every member of the Night Prowlers had the newly purchased REC-7 except Jerry who had a SOG M-107 50. cal sniper rifle. Roach took a deep breath and said in the radio a muffled "Here we go" before unleashing hell on the guards of the Taliban mansion on the roof. Whack and the rest of the team sprinted to their designated locations, and breached into the mansion. The first 10 seconds of the breaching went in slow motion, Whack fired at the guard standing a few meters away from him while Lieutenant Luc 'Soap' Chanren fired a few dozen rounds on the extremists on the second floor. Whack and Soap dropped to their knees scanned the perimeter before charging up the steers, and taking position on the second floor.
Whack turned on the heat sensor of his new NVG9, and scanned the conference room two hundred meters from their location then commanded into the radio for Skip's team to execute phase two of the mission.
Private First Class Thomas 'Skip' Monroe lifted his REC-7 up and pointed it toward an armored personnel carrier and fired. The Russian made BVP-2 turned into a bright red fire ball and the flames engulfed the inner guard post including the Taliban fighters inside it. Skip and Private Harris 'Crasher' Davidson sprinted down the road that led to the conference room. They were caught in surprised when a volley of freedom fighters came into view with AK-47s drawn. They picked up some fire fight, but it ended in a few minutes thanks to Roach's fire support. They came to cover behind a wall about 50 meters from the conference room, then radioed "In position" to Whack.
Soap shot a M203 grenade round into the Taliban fighter's position before sprinting down the road, later followed by Whack. Whack ducked under some barbed wire and crouched out of view behind a wall, while Luc set his REC-7 to full automatic ready to provide Tim any fire support. But Tim didn't need the support, he spun the corner shot at the guard on the other side of the wall, after that he shot a Desert Eagle 50. cal round into the next ones head. Soap reported their progress to the rest of the team, and started the third and last step of the mission.
Sergeant James 'Roller' Ramirez and Major Eric 'TNT' Michaels climbed up the conference room roof, shot both guards on top, and then rolled two flash bang grenades down the chimney. Tim and Soap kicked open the main entrance of the conference room and rolled 2 more flash bangs into the room. The flash of four flash bang grenades can blur your vision and hearing for thirty seconds, before returning back to normal. Thirty seconds was enough for Tim, Soap, Skip, Harris, James, and Eric to barge in the room and pepper the room with plastic bullets.
Ten Taliban commanders, twenty foot soldiers, 1 BVP-2, plenty of drugs, and weapons it was the greatest raid in SOG history ever. But the victory was short lived, Tim saw four bright flames flying through the sky at 500 mph and knew the Russian air force had found them.
Ten minutes after Tim's team was ferried onto the deck of the USS George Washington, the Admiral came to greet them in the debriefing session. The look at his face made Tim think 'uh oh', but it was more than that. Admiral Kelvin Roosevelt walked into the room and almost immediately started to talk, "President Kevin Martindale was bombarded by the Russians just now about the mansion raid. And they have agreed for your team to stop operations for one year." He paused for a second before starting to talk again. "But the President gave you a new assignment which you guys have to go pick up at D.C., good luck." And walked out of the room not saying one more word.
The Night Prowlers showed up at White House at 3:00 pm Eastern time, they were showed to a room to wait for the President. There was silence after that, before Soap started asking "Hey Whack! Do you think you gonna see your mom and dad in there?" "I'm certain of my Dad since he's the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but I think my mom's in Iraq doing treaty stuff." Replied Tim grimly. "Aren't you tired? Never saw a twelve year old stay up for four hours after being in a war." Asked James, but before Tim could reply Skip cracked in. "Dude of course you only saw him survive those stuff, he is the ONLY twelve year old in fact the only person in the whole US armed forces to be seventeen and below." "He's right Roller, But I had to write the report on the mission to the President on the plane, if not I would've" but he was cut off by the Presidents secretary telling them the President wants to see them.
Tim walked into the Oval office and all eyes were on him and his unit, all including his dads. The President Kevin Martindale spoke first "Welcome gentlemen, please sit." Pointing to a big long sofa at the end of the Oval office, the whole unit filed in quickly and acknowledged the President. Kevin Martindale then told them about how the Russians found out about the raid and other BS. Everybody left the room after the meeting all except the members of the Night Prowlers, the President, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And the world's most well kept secret and most unbelievable truth was briefed to the Night Prowlers.