(I had an idea sitting in my head for a bit, I should just publish original work and be done with it lol!)
Stephanie Plum isn't mine, if she was, she'd be with Ranger, and Joe and Helen would not be here!
Summary: Boundaries created by all of mankind are tested and broken, Ranger faces treason to set those boundaries back on a mission to get a package. This package is much more than it seems, Ranger and the people around him will have to face hell and high water to protect the package. (OOCs, Ocs, AU, and as always, it's a BABE!)
Experiment 089
"This is treason," A voice said, horse with the severity of the situation, "You're asking me to go against my country and kill military men."
Carlos Manoso, also known as Ranger, looked up at the group of people who were watching him with careful eyes. This was madness! They were expecting him to go through this mission?! They were expecting him to go off and kill a group of US military men and scientist just to get a package? He couldn't fathom how important the package was to the people sitting in front of him.
"Why are you giving me this mission? You know how close I am to the US military," Ranger said softly, looking over the file.
"That's why we gave it to you, Carlos," A woman said softly, her pale grey eyes resting on his handsome face, "Is because of your close proximity to the US government."
"And remember, ," A man said sitting up, looking Ranger with sharp brown eyes, "your loyalty lies with us first, before the US government."
"The US government has been playing a role, no human should ever play," another woman said pulling her glasses off, "They've been playing God, and there are are boundaries that they know of, and crossed, I understand your loyalty to them, Carlos, but the US government must be punished, destroy the laboratory, and bring us the item that made them cross the boundaries."
"Jeanne Ellen will be going with you, since you will need a sniper to get past the gate." The grey eyed woman said, "Please, be quick and careful about this mission, this is a Red level mission, if something were to go wrong, please, abort the mission, and destroy the package."
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Ranger walked out the large office room, his mind in turmoil, why did It have to be him to do this? He was about to commit treason, and for what, a package?
Ranger leaned against the wall, putting a hand over his face, his eyes closed. He really didn't want to do this, that would mean that nearly 15 years of service would be for naught, he would be a marked man for sure, unless the Suits covered it up and he had a feeling that they would.
As Ranger leaned against the wall, he heard heavy footsteps come close to them, and then stop, right beside him.
"So, they choose you," A man said softly, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning on the wall beside Ranger, "Fucking shame, I know you're dedicated to the government…."
"Yeah, well, I hope this package is worth the treason I'll face," Ranger said softly, looking over to the man and giving him a look, "I thought you were off on some mission, Diesel?"
"I was, you know how those suits are, they give me those weird missions, vampires, demons, fairies…..the last mission was to calm down a mermaid, she wasn't happy at all, nearly killed me," Diesel said before he turned to Ranger, "Why do you get all the action pack mission, while I get all the Disney themed ones?"
"I don't know, maybe because you are a demon," Ranger said with a chuckle, looking over to Diesel, who made a sound and nodded his head, "Besides, I think your missions are much dangerous than my missions."
"I don't think so, they're just magical crazy creatures, you get to go after the dangerous terrorists and dictators." Diesel said, running a hand through his blond hair, "So, you gonna go and see you know who, before you go?"
Ranger nodded his head, ignoring the cooing sounds Diesel made, "This may be my last mission, Diesel, this one could end my life."
Diesel turned to Ranger and said, "I'll pop in a bit while you're gone, just to make sure she's alright."
Ranger nodded his head and said in a rough voice, "You're a good friend, Diesel, even if you're annoying," pushing himself off the wall and walking out the white hallway.
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Ranger stared silently at the lump in the middle of the narrow queen sized bed. He watched the lump breath softly in their sleep, the rise and fall of their body almost hypnotizing. He liked to watch Stephanie Plum sleep after a mission, but he needed to watch her sleep now, before this one, due to the fact that this mission would be the one to test him, and or kill him. He spent the last few days reviewing the files given to him by the Suits from the Agency. He had been given pictures of symbols and shapes to look for on the package. He had been given the names of all the scientist and doctors he would have to kill. He would of course destroy the building in a massive explosion, to prevent any more of what was happening to continue. He would label as a traitor and hunted down to the death. He hoped that the suits had a plan, that they would cover this whole thing up, use the pull they have in the government or something.
Ranger let out a rare sigh, and got up to leave, all he needed was to look at Stephanie, to feel better; Tank would tell her where he went when she would make her way to the bails bond office, in the morning.
Range had turned to leave the bedroom but a soft, "Ranger?" had him stopping. Ranger turned and in the darkness he could see his Babe, his Stephanie, sitting up to look at him. Ranger heard Stephanie shift on the bed, and turn on the bedside lamp. Both people in the room blinked against the harsh light the small lamp gave off. Range could only smile at the sight of his Babe. Her brown curls were flying everywhere, and she was rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. she was wearing a thin black t-shirt, and possibly nothing underneath.
"Ranger, what are you doing here?" Stephanie asked through a yawn, "It's 3 in the morning, you could have come a little later…"
Ranger smiled at the teasing tone she took on, god how he loved this woman. Ranger walked over to Stephanie and sat down on the bed close to her. he cupped her cheek and said in a soft, "Babe, I'm going on a mission, I don't know when I'll be back, just take care of yourself, call Tank if you need anything, and I have a friend who'll pop in on you, just to make sure you're okay."
Stephanie leaned into the hand cupping her cheek, placing her own hand over the hand holding her face. She had this inkling feeling that Ranger wasn't tell her something. She wouldn't push him for the answers, she'd let him tell her when he was ready, "Just get home safely, that's all I want from you, Ranger."
Ranger leaned down and kissed her on her lips and said in a soft voice, "Take care of yourself, Stephanie."
"And you go save the world, Batman," Stephanie said with a smile, as Ranger let go of her face to stand up.
Ranger smiled softly and said, "I will, Babe," before he turned and walked out her bedroom, leaving Stephanie on the bed, watching him leave her behind.
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Jeanne Ellen Borrows watched with grim satisfaction as the last of the men guarding the laboratory went down with a sniper bullet between their eyes. She slid the empty clip from her weapon of choice and slid a fresh pack into it. She wasted no time sliding down the large tree she perched herself in to shoot men off as if they were nothing but fish in a barrel. Jeanne swung her short hair back and said to her partner, "Alright, cowboy, let's go finish this fucked up mission, I would like to get some pussy before the military police find us and shoots us in our sleep."
Ranger nodded his head to his partner and together, the two were running across the field, blending in the darkness in their black suits. Ranger had been mildly surprise to find out that the laboratory was located in heartland America, in North Dakota. He had expecting it to be somewhere underground, in a mountain, or a dessert. He would have never thought about a farm surrounded by wheat. It was a plain white building with no windows, surrounded by a sold black fence that was ten feet high and had lethal look barb wire on top of it.
Jeanne had taken care of the outer security and the guards inside the fenced in area. They maybe had 30 minutes until back up came. Ranger wanted to be out of the building with the package in less than 15 minutes.
Jeanne picked up speed as she got closer to the fence, and with a kick to her feet, was over it landing gracefully on the other side. Ranger mimicked her moves as well, landing right beside her. they sped off to the entrance and forced their way in. Ranger had taken out something to scramble the curcuits and cameras in the building, while Jeanne placed plastic explosives on the wall as they ran deeper into the laboratory. They killed everyone they ran into; scientist, guards military, no one was spared, just like the suits told them to do. The package would be found on the fourth floor in the area deemed top secret.
Ranger kicked down the door blocking the entrance of the fourth floor, and walked into the dimly lit area, Jeanne waling in behind him. He had to keep his emotions in check, as his took in what he saw. Jeanne wasn't so good at keep her reactions in check. She had let it all out.
"Holy shit," Jeanne breathed, her eyes wide with horror, "What the fuck were they doing in this place?"
Ranger looked around the place, and whispered, "They were playing god."
The walls of the corridor was lined with large human sized tubes, which were filled with blue liquid and persevered humans, or they used to be humans. The bodies were mutated, some had several heads, others had none. Many had several arms and legs, twisted and warped around torsos and heads, while others had no limbs but sported two torsos. The faces on these creatures, or those that had heads and faces were etched in pain, as if the lives they lived had been full of constant pain.
Jeanne walked past Ranger and said, "Fucking A, if I had known what these freaks were doing, I wouldn't have signed my life off to the military in the first place….what were they trying to get out this whole thing?"
"I don't know, but we're leveling this place," Ranger said as they moved quickly down the fourth floor corridor.
They raced past the tubes, past rooms that had floor to wall windowing, as if they were observation rooms. Inside of them there were more grotesque creatures, these creatures were alive, and were letting out loud sounds of agony. They kept running until they came to the end of the corridor, in front of a single door that had a sign on it which read;' Authorized Personnel Only Beyond This Point. Alpha Level Badge Required.'
Jeanne pulled her pistol out and said, "Fuck a badge," before she shot the key pad and badge pad three times. Ranger kicked the door down and together the two entered a tiny room that was littered with papers, books and a single metal box, sitting on top of the papers on a metal desk. Ranger paused and walked up to the box, seeing strange symbols written across it. he touched the metal box expecting it to be cold, but found it warm, and thrumming softly, as if something was inside of it, like a machine. This was the package, why was it in this tiny office, as if it was nothing important?
Ranger turned to Jeanne and said, "Found the package, let's get the fuck out of here, before reinforcement comes."
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Stephanie let out a sound as she sat down on her lump couch in her sparsely furnished living room. She pulled the bad of full of greasy fast food to her chest, kicked her sneakers off and propped her pink sock covered feet on the coffee table. She tried to get her mind off of Ranger, but she couldn't. A week ago, he had kissed her and left her room. The kiss he had given her, it had felt like more of a goodbye, as if it would be his last kiss, and he had wanted to savoir it. Ranger was coming back, he always did, no matter how dangerous it was. He had to come back to her, Stephanie didn't know what to do without him.
Stephanie grabbed a fry and stuffed it in her, trying to ignore the burning sensation from her eyes, as the tears threatened to fall.
Luckily the tears were interrupted by the tumbling of her locks coming undone, and then the door opening to reveal Diesel, who was wielding a bag of doughnuts and a case of beer.
"Oh ho!" Diesel said, kicking the door shut a smile on his face, "Starting the junk food party without me, well, I'll take these Boston creams and this beer back to my pad, since you have enough-"
"Get your ass over here with the sugar and booze!" Stephanie said, her eyes serious, but she had a smile on her face, "I could use more blood clotting teeth rotting junk!"
Diesel smiled and walked over to the woman sitting beside her and passing her a beer and a pastry. They watched some television in comfortable silence, just enjoying each other. Stephanie had never known that Diesel and Ranger were best friends. Then again, there was much about Ranger Stephanie didn't know. Two days after Ranger left for his mission, Diesel had pop up with junk food and booze and a shoulder for her to cry on. Diesel was a good friend to have in this time of need.
"So how was bounty hunting?" Diesel asked, after he finished his second beer, "Must have been tired and teeth pulling, you got two Big Macs."
"Whatever, I had to chase this one skip down for ten blocks, and he as butt naked and covered in baby oil," Stephanie said with a huff, "And then Joe got on about changing my career and settling down with him and popping out babies."
"He such a dick," Diesel said in the gayest voice he could make up, "OMG girlfriend, you need to drop him like a bad fad."
Stephanie let out a snort, before she dissolved into laughter, holding her side. Diesel ignored her and turned the channel saying, "That Joe, he's a man stuck in his ways, he's never going to be supportive of you and your decisions. "
Stephanie nodded her head and said softly, "Yeah, but my mother wants me to marry him so badly, she keeps telling me that he's my last chance."
"Your mother Is like that man too, set in her ways, though, she's never going to support you for anything you do, Stephanie, I'd think long and hard about the people you have in your life, some want you to succeed, while others want to keep you back." Diesel said with a yawn, before he perked up looking at the TV, "Hello…"
Stephanie sat up too, watching as the news reporter on the local news went on about a deadly explosion in North Dakota. It had been a farm research facility, everyone in the building had died from the explosion, the FBI had been called in, but it had been deemed that the explosion had been caused by chemicals and gases from the facility.
Diesel frowned and said in a soft voice, "Odd, I didn't know….." before he got up and left the living room.
Stephanie watched him leave, but then she turned back to the Television, to watch the woman on air drabble on about the deadly explosion. Diesel came back moments later with a smile on his face, "Okay, Steph! I could use some more food, let's say I go get a pizza and more booze."
"Sounds like a plan," Stephanie said with a smile, before she turned the news off.
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Ranger was getting cabin fever. That's all it could be, he and Jeanne had be debriefed from their mission, but were not forced to stay in this hotel room until one of the Suits came and gave them the green to go home. On a further odd note, The Suits let them keep the metal box, stating that Ranger now had to watch over the box, until they said so. That had been four days ago.
"They need to hurry up," Jeanne growled from her spot on the couch, "There's only so much I can do in a hotel room, and they left me with a man…bleh."
Who knew that Jeanne loved the female population, after the first time they had sex, Jeanne had turned to Ranger and said, "Thanks for confirming it, pal, I'd rather eat pussy than fuck a dick, later….." got up and left. Ranger hadn't known if he should have been insulted or what. To top it off, Jeanne was even worse than Lester in the picking up girls from the bar, she took three home with every night.
"I'm sorry if I'm lacking the parts you so desire, Jeanne," Ranger said with a chuckle, sitting on the other couch, "I apologize for being a man."
"Damn right!" Jeanne said, before she turned the TV off and turned to Ranger, "Hey, guess what I stole from that government lab?"
Jeanne pulled out a battered leather bound book and tossed it on the coffee table in between them. Ranger leaned forward and said, "Why did you steal this book?"
"Because, it was open when were in that dinky little office, and it had the same symbols written in it that are found on the metal box." Jeanne said, sitting up, "they're both connected in some ways."
"Oh are they," Ranger asked picking the book up and flipping the fragile pages, "Jeanne this book looks very old."
Ranger turn to the end of the book and said, "This is a very old book, it was made almost 2000 years ago."
"Impossible, books weren't created until at least the medieval period!" Jeanne said, but she looked at the date and said, "Holy shit, and it's in this condition too? Something's going on here, Manoso."
Both Jeanne and Ranger turned to the dining table where the metal box sat. it was making odd sounds and letting off cold steam.
"Gestation period has been completed, incubation period is done, decompressing and the evacuation of liquid from the incubation chamber has been started." A female voice said just as red liquid began to seep from the sides of the metal box.
"Holy shit," Jeanne said getting up and going over to the metal box, "Manoso, what the fuck is going on?!"
"Your guess is as good as mine, Jeanne." Ranger said, walking over to the metal box, "gestation, incubation, those are words you associate with-"
"Decompressing and evacuation of liquid is done," The voice stated again, "Experiment 089 is complete."
"Experiment 089…." Ranger said, going over to the metal box and opening it. Warm steam blew up softly, and Ranger had to take a step back as tiny cries filled the area.
Jeanne looked down in the box, turned to Ranger and said, "Congratulations, you're a dad!"
The inside of the metal box was cushioned with something soft and slick and there, resting at the bottom of the box, was a baby, a new born baby, covered in a red liquid, crying loudly.
"So this is the real package," Jeanne said looking at the infant, "Well, don't just stand there looking shock, Manoso, pick it up!"
TBC…
(Well, this is a good start to an action story? Reviews and feedback are like speed to me, the more I get, the faster I write, hint, hint..)