Protection Done Right!
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I own nothing but what you see here. This is set a week after Heat Wave's Night Out and if you haven't read that yet, go do that! This story will feature the Suicide Squad on a protection assignment.
A week after Amanda Waller's trip to Central City that would pretty much give her a nervous break down would see the African American woman who is in charge of ARGUS sending out the Suicide Squad to protect an old friend of her's. More than one person had made cracks about what happened to her in Central and it had made for a very high strung Waller. So much so that Lyla Michaels-Diggle had been practically begged to come back to ARGUS to help them deal with the woman and her issues. Lyla had quickly gotten Waller on a prescription for happy meds that put her on a cloud of happiness that made her more easier to be around. More than one person had been witness to seeing her giggle insanely about finding the man in the monster truck and putting him on the Squad while she was pretty much high.
But on Friday afternoon, Amanda got a call from an old friend of her's saying he needed the best protection available that he felt only she could provide. Luckily she wasn't on her pills just yet so she'd been able to give him a reasonable response that he would get the protection he needed his way very soon. Waller made her way to a conference room with Lyla following closely behind, inside the room was several members of different Suicide Squads that had been chosen for this task though they didn't know any specifics just yet. These members were Carrie 'Cupid' Cutter, Ben 'Bronze Tiger' Turner, China White, Scandal Savage, Peter Merkel Jr. aka 'Rag Doll', and Colonel Rick Flag Jr. who would be leading the team. Currently however, the team was in something of an argument with one another that had even the Colonel involved. Much to Waller's annoyance and Lyla's amusement.
Waller cleared her throat to get their attention and failed to do so. Trying several more times got the same results and she was quickly growing tired of being ignored in favor of their foolish argument over some cooking show. It made her honestly prefer to deal with Harley Quinn's insanity over this garbage. Crossing her arms and feeling one of her eyes twitch, Waller finally cut loose on the team. "QUIET DOWN RIGHT NOW!" Screamed out the woman and quickly making them all go silent.
"MA'AM! YES MA'AM!" Shouted out Colonel Flag moments later much to her annoyance.
I need a damn drink. Or my happy pills. Either one is good for me right now. Groused Waller in her head.
Deciding to get on with things so that she could go take her happy pills, she nodded towards Lyla who shut off the lights and activated a projector that showed the image of a brunette man with something of a pudgy stomach while in a suit. "The man on the screen is your assignment and an old friend of mine by the name of Jethro Markus who heads a Pharmaceutical company. He has made the request for protection from someone looking to assassinate him and I've chosen to have you lot assigned to the protection detail until the threat has passed. Col. Flag will be the team leader for this. If it at all possible, I want this assassin either captured and questioned or dead. Is that understood?"
She got a chorus of confirmations and was happy with that. At least until Merkel Jr. raised his hand into the air despite the very oddball position he had himself in. "Yes Mr. Merkel?" God help her if he had some sort of inane question.
"Uhh… What about Cake Wars boss? Cause that's comin' on tonight and I'd been really lookin' forward to it." Hell he wasn't the only one since the others were looking forward to it as well!
A sniffle from Carrie however showed that perhaps not all of them were. "Oh… How I wish my Floyd was here with me to enjoy that show." She said in a sad tone and making China and Scandal roll their eyes at the nutty redhead.
Turner smirked as he found that to be amusing as Hell and figured that's probably why his old team mate had allowed himself to get blown up to escape such a crazy ass lady! "Yeah, I wish he was here too." If only to see how the man would handle her advances since all he had to go on was Lyla's stories!
Carrie smiled at him while completely missing the fact the man wasn't even being geniune with his words. Thankfully Lyla intervened as she got the feeling Amanda was about to lose her grip on her temper with the team. "We will uhh… We will have it recorded for you Mr. Merkel so that way you won't have to worry about missing it. Okay?"
"Sounds good to me!" Replied Rag Doll cheerfully with others nodding in agreement.
I LOATHE how far I've fallen. Muttered China White but at least she had Ben with her in all this.
Its times like these that I am so damned glad I got picked up by ARGUS after that little whole sale slaughter fest my dear old dad did and I got blamed for. Thought Scandal with a smile.
But damn if she didn't want to beat the ever loving crap out of him for that! "Good, now off you go then." Lyla gave a nod to Flag who took things from there.
"ALRIGHT SQUAD! LET'S GET TO INVENTORY SO THAT WE CAN GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD!" Yelled the man and making Waller groan in annoyance over the whole unnecessary shouting.
"SIR, YES SIR!" Yelled out the team and the head of ARGUS was wondering if whether or not this was some plan of theirs to drive her further into the crazy house!
Soon the team was gone from the room, leaving Waller and Lyla on their own. "Michaels..."
Looking towards her boss and wondering if she was about to cut loose then and there after that debriefing. "I will be in my office so handle anything that is needed unless its highly important that I need to be involved. Understood?" God she couldn't wait to get some of her happy pills!
"Yes ma'am, understood perfectly." Waller gave a satisfied nod to that and left the other woman alone.
Who had a small smile on her face. I can't wait to tell Johnny and Oliver about this. I just know those two are going to enjoy it! Especially Oliver considering his past with Amanda!
Author's Notes: Heh, and so it begins! I've decided to ignore the fact that in the Arrow comic, Ben Turner died during a Squad mission since it seemed like such a waste. I figured China White would be part of the Squads too so that's why she's here. The only character in this who isn't from the comics is Jethro as well. Just what'll happen next you wonder? Well you'll just have to wait and see! (insert big ol' grin) R and R!