Welcome to Rainbow Six: Grim Sky! This is a start of a new era… a new beginning… and I lost your interest. If you're still here, thank you so much! Anyways, this is my first Fanfic, so take it easy on me. I hope you guys enjoy the first chapter!
"You got a smoke?"
"What do you think Nelson?"
"Maybe. I saw you smoking one once." "Well, I did. I regretted it almost instantly."
Craig "Blackbeard" Nelson looks back at Meghan "Valkyrie" Castellano from his perch, "Well, Monika told me differently." "Does anyone ever listen to Weiss and believe her?" Nelson chuckles, "Good point. She's a pathological liar." "I heard that!" They hear over the comms. "Sorry," Meghan says back, "you weren't supposed to hear that." "No shit." Monika "IQ" Weiss says back. Nelson looks back at her, and shakes his head, "Damn Castellano. Cold hearted." "Fuck off."
"Could you three cut the chatter?" "Sorry Cap, this stakeout has gotten to me." Mike "Thatcher" Baker scoffs, "Say that to Six if we fail the simplest of missions." Castellano winces, "Yeah, we don't need that. Six is already is in a bad mood as it is." "Thank the Russians for that." Nelson responds.
Castellano looks down from their position to see the Russians crouching behind a picket fence, peeking between the cracks, "That was all Shuhrat's fault." "Mine? Fuck you Glazkov." "Fuze, Glaz, cut the shit. Focus." Baker says, all serious. "Damn Brits." I hear Shuhrat say, but Mike says nothing back. "Well, I mean, you did kill the hostage." Castellano says. "Yeah, well, I didn't know she was in there." "We told you the room was clear and we were grabbing the hostage, you fucking…." "Stop," Baker says, "we've got company."
Everyone perks up to attention for the first time in hours as a car pulls up to the sting house. Castellano stands up next to Nelson, "Elias, Gilles, are you ready for a push when necessary?" "We got you covered." Elias answers. "Eliza, Seamus, you got the rush?" "You know it." Eliza answers with a holler from Seamus, the craziest Brit in the S.A.S. "We are ready Cap." Castellano says. "Good. If they need help, Fuze and Valkyrie will rush, Glaz and Blackbeard will stay back to cover your asses." "Roger. Heading there now." "Be careful." Baker says, before switching, "we are ready." "Okay. Let's see how this goes."
"Do you see anything?" "No electronics detected. We are good." Eliza "Ash" Cohen nods at Weiss, "Okay. Seamus, are we ready?" Seamus "Sledge" Cowden nods, practice swinging with his sledgehammer, "I'm good lad."
Eliza steps up behind Gilles "Montagne" Toure and Elias "Biltz" Kotz, placing her hands on their shoulders, "Ready for the push?" Gilles turns towards her, "We're good. Just make sure to stay behind us this time." Eliza chuckles, "Gotcha." She steps in front of both men, pulling out her breaching rounds, "Thatcher, we are secure." "Roger that. 15 seconds till insertion."
Eliza takes a deep breath, listening to Baker countdown. "You are ready to go." Baker says. "Let's go." Eliza shoots a round into the wall in front, exploding into shards. Blitz and Montagne lead the way, with IQ, Ash and Sledge behind them. Before they can fully enter the building, they are bombarded by flashbangs. They all cover their eyes, and then feel several hard balls hit their chests and shields.
They recover, and Eliza looks at her chest. Paintballs, everywhere. "And...we are dead." "Always expect the unexpected," a voice comes from above them, "poor effort. Try again." Gilles sighs, wiping his hand across the paintball streaks, "Damn Six." Elias chuckles, "Back to the drawing board." Back outside, Castellano shakes her head, "This is going to be a long night."
"You would figure they be back by now."
"Da."
"The simulation should be easy."
"Da."
Tina "Frost" Lin Tsang looks over, "Maxim, are you paying attention?" Maxim "Kapkan" Basuda has a screwdriver deep into his EDD Mark II, his hood and mask on, concentrating on fixing a wire. "Maxim!" He perks up, pulling his mask down, "What woman?" "They aren't back yet." He looks around, as if he is expecting something else, "Okay. So what? Sometimes the simulation takes all day." Maxim doesn't say anything else, so Tina places her feet up on the table in front of her, "Thanks for the talk Maxim." He doesn't say anything else, but Tina swore he heard him say, "Canadian."
Tina sighs through her nose, before she hears loud footsteps coming from the stairs. She sees Elias and Gilles walk in, entirely exhausted from the looks in their eyes. Tina stands up, "How'd it go?" Gilles walks past, as Elias places his hand on her shoulder, "Not well." That didn't sound good. She sees IQ, Ash and Sledge, followed by Valkyrie and Thatcher, who are talking about some strategic shit that Tina didn't care about as she saw Blackbeard walk in. She froze in place.
He takes his boot off, shaking something out of it, passing by Tina, "Oh, hey Tina." Tina somehow got something out, "Hey Craig. You okay?" "Yeah, just tired. I'm going to pass out back in my dorm." "Hey," Seamus yells, "get your ass over here. We are going to drink some booze!" "And drown in my sorrows? I'm good. You guys go on," Craig looks at Tina, "night Frost." "Night Blackbeard." He smiles and Tina burns up as he walks away.
She finally breathes as Eliza steps up next to her, "You need to make a move at some point." Tina sighs again, "I know. I just don't know how to go about it." "Yeah, Craig's a tough son of a bitch. It's hard to read him." "How'd you get with Monika?" "I asked her out," she looks back at Monika, who's already drinking with the Brits, "and then just took it from there." "So, just ask Craig out?" "Not necessarily. Just, become friends with him first." "We are friends." "We all are. We are obliged to be. Get to know him more than that." Tina nods, "Okay." Eliza pats Tina's shoulder and begins to walk away, before saying, "Calling each other our codenames is a good first step. It's cute." Eliza winks and walks over to Monika, kissing her on the cheek. Tina looks back at Craig, who just enters his room, and smiles.
Emmanuelle "Twitch" Pichon sits up in her bed, the loud noises of down the hall entering her bedroom, waking her up from her beauty sleep. "Ughh, what is that racket?" The French operative says, grabbing a hairband and putting it into a ponytail. She steps out of her room in her pajamas, walking down the hall and closer to the impending noises.
A door opens next to her, and Marius "Jager" Streicher sticks his head out, "Oh, hello Emmy." "Hello. Noise wake you up too?" "How couldn't it? It's like our own fucking disco club." Twitch chuckles, "Yeah. I'm going to tell them to quiet down." "Please. I can't stand the racket." "I sure will. Night Marius." "Night Emmy."
His door closes and Emmy continues to walk, finally reaching the main hall where all operatives are spread out. Emmy could tell from a quick glander that about half of the people here were drunk. She sees Monika and Eliza making out on the couch on her left, and Maxim and Alexsandr talking next to them, like they don't know what's going on beside them. Then, she sees all of the Brits, along with Sebastien and Jack, drinking shots on shots of whiskey, no doubt drunk.
She completely avoids them and sees Tina and Meghan, the only sober ones talking at a table. Tina sees her as she approaches, "Oh, Emmy…" Meghan follows her glance, "Oh no." "Looks like everyone is having fun huh?" "Well," Tina says, shrugging, "not everyone." "Did training go that bad?" Meghan snorts, "What, did you catch that conclusion from all the drunk fucks in the room?" "I'll take that as a yes." "Sorry it woke you," Tina apologizes, "trust me, I don't like this either." "I'm surprised no one else has woken up." Meghan says. "Well, Marius was awake when I came down here." "Oh damn. I'm surprised he hasn't come down and shut this shit down himself." "I don't think he could stop 4 drunk Brits, a Canadian, and an American." Emmy answers. "Well, Sebastien is nice, drunk or not. He's probably the only one who can understand." Tina says. "And you know this how?" "I'm in the same division as him. We've worked together for years, even before Rainbow. We know how each other tick." "Tick?" Meghan asks, an eyebrow raised. "Not like that you sicko." Tina says, chuckling nonetheless.
"Whatever, I guess I have no choice but to stay up." Emmy says, sitting next to Tina, playing with her ponytail. "Sorry." Tina apologizes again. Emmy smiles, "Your Canadian heritage is showing." Tina sticks her tongue out, Emmy punching her shoulder, "I'm just teasing." Tina laughs, "I know." Emmy looks from her and looks around the room, with everyone still drinking and the Russians still talking, then she sees someone enter the room, in their pajamas as well. Oh damn. It was Elzbieta. Emmanuelle's heart started to pick up for some reason.
"Noise wake you too Ela?" She nods, running her hand through her short green hair, "Yeah." "You're usually a deep sleeper, so if the noise woke you up…." "The bitch is going to break some fools." Meghan says. She and Tina laugh, and Elzbieta smiles, before meeting Emmy's eyes with hers, "Hello Emmy." "Hi Ela. You okay?" She shrugs, "Other than being pissed off, yeah, I'm fine." Emmy wanted to say something, but it gets caught in her throat, and she makes a weird noise. If Ela heard it, she didn't show it, as she says, "I going to get some water. If I don't drink anything, I'm going to be punching everyone in this room." She leaves, and Emmy's eyes follow her.
She looks over to both Meghan and Tina staring at her, smiling. "What?" "Could you make it anymore obvious?" Meghan answers. "What do you mean?" Tina rolls her eyes, "Oh my god Emmy, you are staring holes into that girl. You can't even speak around her." "That doesn't mean…." "Emmy, admit it. You like Elzbieta." Emmy doesn't say anything. Tina looks at Meghan, "The silence is proving it." "Tina, just…. don't push this." "How could I not? You know how Eliza and Monika got together?" "How?" "I shipped that. I was the one who got them together. Girl, I know it, you know it, and I can see it in your eyes. You love that woman." Emmy sighs, leaning her head back,
"Ok, fine…. but how do I know if she feels the same?" "You don't. You just wait." "Wait?" "Wait," Tina confirms, nodding along, "you know Elzbieta's history right?" Emmy nods, "Yeah, I do." "So you know she doesn't open up right? The more time you give her, the more she gets closer to you, and the more she'll open up." "How do I do that?" Tina shrugs, "You have to figure that out." Emmy sighs inside, looking back at Ela at the bar, who's taking a drink from her bottled water, then down to her yoga pants that she wears and has millions of. "You are looking again Emmy." Meghan says, breaking her out of her trance. "What?" Both girls laugh, and Emmy grunts.
He was enjoying his sleep until someone slapped him the face. "Wake up you daft cunt!" Mark "Mute" Chandler woke up with a start, "What…?" "Get up! We've got a debrief at 0800." Mute's blurry eyesight cleared to show Thatcher's serious face. "Wait… what…. when was that announced?" "Last night. But if you weren't drunk off your fucking face, you would know that." Mark places his feet over his bed, and clutches his head, "Ugh, I think I have a fucking hangover." "Visit Gustave then. We don't need you hurting when we have an operation coming up." Mark suddenly felt guilty, "Damn, I'm sorry Chief…" "Don't apologize. Just get your ass up."
Baker leaves the room, just leaving Mute to himself. He slowly stands up, his temple starting to throb as well, walking over to the bathroom. He turns on the water faucet and splashes water on his face, looking at his face, "Come on Chandler. Get your act together." He turns off the faucet and walks into the closet to change. Mark comes out wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans and walks out of the dorm and into the hallway, where some of the operators are heading towards the debrief room.
He sees Jack "Pulse" Estrada and Miles "Castle" Campbell talking and jumps in, "Morning boys." Jack grins, "Oh look, you're not dead." "Yeah, with the amount of alcohol you drank, I'm surprised you didn't have an aneurysm while you slept." Miles says. Mark chuckles, "Yeah, Thatcher needed to slap me to wake me up." "You were that hungover?" Mark nods. "Damn," Jack says, "well, it's safe to say that you shouldn't do that again." "Oh," Miles says with an raised eyebrow, "you don't think?" "You did it too!" Mark points out. Jack shakes his head, looking at Miles, "No I didn't." "You know what our SWAT lieutenants think about that." Miles says disapprovingly.
"Well, at least if Six is okay with it, then she can override the ruling."
"Are you sure about that?"
Jack is silent for a second, "Maybe."
Mark chuckles, "Nah, it won't happen."
As they walk, they see more operators join the line, along with Yumiko "Hibana" Imagawa and Masuru "Echo" Enatsu, who are the quietest ops on the team, then Mute sees the South Korean ops join, and sees a flash of dark, long, black hair. He instantly freezes when he sees Grace "Dokkaebi" Nam's beautiful face come into his view, "Hi Mark." Mark smiles, trying to make it as loose and natural as possible, "Hi Grace. How'd you sleep?"
She shrugs, "Fine," then she looks at Mark sternly, "were you a part of that loud ass party?" Mark struggles to answer, "No." "I know you're lying. I smell the bullshit coming off of you. Plus, you look like shit." He sighs, "Yeah, well… we had a bad practice last night, and I was kind of stressed…" "But that doesn't mean you have to drown yourself in booze." Grace says in a motherly voice. The way she talks is going to get Mark into DEEP trouble. "I did, so…" She pats his cheek, "If you're stressed talk to me, not the booze. It doesn't hurt to let it all out to somebody." Mark smiles, "Thanks Grace." "Anytime," she says, skipping away to stand next to Chul Kyung "Vigil" Hwa, who always has a stone cold expression on his face.
Mark finally takes a breath, which he held in for minutes, before walking by the SWAT members in silence.
Author's Note: I hoped you guys enjoyed my first chapter of my first Fanfic! I really love playing the game so I thought I could display that into this story. If you'd like more, please let me know! Review as well, as it not only tells me what you guys want, but what I can do better! Thanks for reading, and I'll see you in Chapter 2!
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