Walking into the Naval Special Warfare Command in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA a SEAL Lieutenant with a name, Bailer who is a Caucasian American who stands at 6'3 with a muscular built, has deep hazel eyes, short red hair, a beard and is wearing a Navy SEAL AOR2 uniform was quickly met with a recovery mission. Nodding he took the file and started reading over it as he walked to the briefing room. Dropping his phone in the holder he entered the room, looking up to see he was the only one there so far.
"Three agents in the mountains. Killed in a bombing run by a retrofitted B-52 bomber, owned by Koko Hekmatyar." Bailer read aloud to himself as he took the flash drive provided and plugged it into the computer. "Great... Now Terrorists have their own air forces."
The sound of the door unlocking drew Bailer's attention away from the file as he watched his platoon file into the room, the two squad leaders taking their seats at the front of the table, closest to Jack..
"Morning gents." Bailer said as he turned on the computer and TV that it was linked to to begin the briefing. "We're tasked with recovering the bodies of three CIA agents after their Op against Koko Hekmatyar went sideways."
Some deep sighs were heard throughout the room. Each operator all had their least favorite ops, but everyone hated recovery operations equally. Bailer then spent the next couple of minutes explaining how the op went pear-shaped and where they would be searching for the remains.
"Wait." Jordan interjected from his seat. "You're telling me, one of our fucking targets has fucking air support."
"We might find some hands maybe a leg or arm, but we ain't finding any bodies, Lt." James, the youngest Operator said after Jordan had finished.
"We still have to find something to bury." Bailer said looking over his team. "It's what you guys would want in their situation."
With that final word everyone agreed in the grand scheme. After the briefing the SEALs left the room to go to their cage and grab their gear before boarding the waiting C-17 to to take them to the drop zone over the area where the remains are believed to be. Once airborne the SEALs went about their pre jump checks, ensuring their parachutes were ready and that the oxygen masks were functioning properly.
Hours later, the C-17 is now flying above the Czech Republic. As soon as the red light came on the SEALs got up from their seats, putting on their gear and securing their weapons to their body. As the ramp started to open the SEALs did their final checks of their gear.
"Thirty seconds." Bailer yelled before checking to ensure his oxygen mask was firmly secure.
Staring out the ramp at the night sky the SEALs waited for the light to turn green. Hearing the buzz and seeing the light turn green the SEALs started to jump from the C-17, waiting a few seconds before pulling the ripcord of their parachutes. Grouping up the SEALs floated down to the ground and regrouped before patrolling to the last known location. Walking up to the site they could smell the burnt flesh from the fireball that occured with the explosion and saw the craters made from the bombs as they looked over the site through the green hue of their night vision goggles.
"Shit man...you really think we'll find any survivors?" Asked a SEAL.
"No man...that's impossible. This place is destroyed." Said another SEAL.
"Just find any traces you can. I'm gonna head inside the cave." Said Bailer
Turning on the flashlight mounted on his rifle and flipping up his NVGs Bailer navigated through the cave looking to see if the CIA agents had left anything in there. Looking down he noticed bloody bandages and knelt down to examine them. Seeing that the blood was relatively fresh he continued deeper into the cave.
"USA Friendly coming in." Bailer called out as he ventured deeper.
Hearing movement to his right Bailer quickly snapped to that side. Aiming his rifle at the source of the sound, shining the light on the sound he saw a woman with blood stained bandages on her face.
"Holy shit…" The woman said quietly as she lowered her hand from the light. "I'm happy to see you."
"Come on." Bailer said taking her and leading her out of the cave.
"Holy shit… Corpsman!" Michael yelled seeing Bailer bring the woman out from the cave.
Matthew, one of the team's corpsmen ran over as Bailer gently set her down. Leaving Matthew to do what he does best Bailer went to call for extraction.
"TOC this is Alpha one. We have found one survivor and she seems to be in stable condition." Bailer said looking back at he to see Matthew carefully taking off the bandages from her face. "Requesting extraction."
"Roger that Alpha One. Night Stalkers will be inbound from a training exercise with German KSK. ETA twenty mikes." The CIA Agent at the TOC replied.
While Matthew tended to the woman the other SEALs went about collecting what survived the blast. Putting what the found into body bags and laying the bags out.
"We'll get revenge…" Nicholas stated before standing up and walking over to a group of SEALs.
Soon the uneasy quiet was broken by the sound of several Black Hawk Helicopters flying low and landing in the nearby clearing. Several SEALs went to pick up the body bags while Bailer went to go talk with the leading KSK Operator.
"Sorry to drag you from training." Bailer told the KSK Operator with a small chuckle, while the SEALs started loading onto the Blackhawks.
"You'll just buy us drinks when we get home." The KSK Operator laughed before patting Bailer's shoulder and the two got on board the helo.
Sitting with his legs hanging out the door of the helicopter Bailer stared out at the craters as the helicopter lifted off the ground and into the sky to head back into German airspace. Watching the trees below him he thought about how his team's life was about to be much different. After getting dropped at Ramstein Air Force Base the SEALs got off the helicopters, taking off their gear and putting them into their cases. Seeing the woman walking over to the C-17 Bailer went over to her and pulled her aside from the others.
"Koko's going to pay, I can assure you of that." Bailer told her as he reassuringly patted her shoulder.
"You're not going after her without me!" The woman argued passionately.
"How about your name first."
"Hex. And yours'?"
"I'm Lieutenant Jack Bailer, but I'm known as Wolf."
Hours later the SEALs walked back into their cages, dropping their gear off before going their separate ways for the night. Bailer on the other hand had to stay to debrief Hex. Walking into the briefing room, that he was in no more than twenty four hours ago, sitting down in a seat with Hex across from him.
"So Hex, I want you to go over what happened up in the mountains up until the point we found you." Bailer said opening a notebook and taking out a pen.
Hex sighed and rubbed her face thinking back to everything that had happened to her in the past couple days. After the operation to kill one of Koko's guards went sideways Hex and two of her agents found themselves hiding in the mountains of the Czech Republic. Blinded in her right eye she was sitting inside of a cave when the two agents had come back after raiding a nearby town for supplies to hold out for rescue. Then the undeniable sound of a B-52 flying over head was heard, drawing them from the cave, looking up to see the bomber flying overhead. Thinking they were about to be saved they were swept with feelings of joy before hearing the distinct sound of bombs falling towards them.
"Huh...guessed I really pissed you off." Said Hex with a smile on her face and the putting a pistol to her head. "See you in Hell Koko."
Hex then pulls the trigger but only to hear a loud click as her pistol jammed. At the same moment one of the agents pushed her towards the cave as one bomb landed, the shockwave throwing her further into the cave and into the cave wall, knocking her unconscious and the dust smoke starts to cover the entire area where the the bombs were dropped.
"Then I woke up to the sounds of people talking outside the cave I was in and you found me." She stated looking down at her hands and now looking directly to Bailer's eyes. "Now…you're going to help me kill all of them."
AN: Hey guys WFTC141. This story is like a special movie of my version of Jormungand where this takes place in 2013...after Jonah left Koko and working for Kasper. Co-author of this story is a friend from Wattpad, Wolf_Actual. He's also a fan of Jormungand. The OCs of Night Nine belongs to him. I hope you're enjoying this story and Mercenary Joins HCLI so far. Next Chapter will be out soon, PEACE.