Ramon smiled victoriously as Nina reluctantly passed him the silver case and the virus which was safely tucked inside it. The men surrounding them acting as security for Ramon, backed off slightly, aware of the power he held, and how deadly it could be.
"Well done Jack," Ramon said slyly, "and of course Nina, I have to thank you for your efforts too."
Pedro and Tomas moved closer knowing what would soon be expected of them. Unless Ramon wanted to do the deed himself, out of respect for his brother who still laid in the barn, soaked in his own cold blood.
"As a reward for the results you produced," the briefcase was lifted to indicate the 'results' he was referring to, "I shall give you both painless deaths."
Jack raised his hands as Ramon drew his weapon, Nina took a step back slightly, her eyes were focused on Jack rather than Ramon as a look of annoyance slid onto her face. 'I told him this would happen.'
Chase held the binoculars in one hand as he ordered the assault teams to move in, he couldn't let them kill Bauer, not after all he had done to prevent the virus from falling into terrorist hands.
"Ramon," Jack panicked as he watched the drug lord caress his gun, "we had a deal."
"The deal is finished!" The man yelled, his voice making all of his men flinch behind him. "Hector is dead because of you Jack, you couldn't possibly think I'd let you walk away," he sneered, before spitting on the flood near where Jack stood and taking aim.
"Teams go!" Chase yelled as he took aim with his own sniper riffle, "they're gonna kill him!"
Nina wavered on her feet as she watched Ramon aim his weapon, Jack was still pleading for their lives. Chase lined the aim up with the body of Ramon Salazar and took the shot as Ramon fired his own weapon at the two former agents frantically.
Bullets flew from everywhere, Tony couldn't hear anything other than shots and shouts at CTU, frustrated he threw his headset away, before seeing the stunned and startled expressions on the faces of those still listening, and pulling the earphones back on.
Chase, carrying the riffle under his arm, ran towards the chaos no longer firing, afraid he'd hit a friendly in the rush. The assault teams were in and the shootout had died down. Two men were fighting hand to hand combat but Chase didn't recognise either so he hurried past them.
He closed his eyes for a brief moment and dropped the riffle as he approached the bodies that littered the ground. He felt his hear pumping against his chest as sweat ran into his eyes - no pain from the incidents before registering in his mind, he was functioning on pure adrenalin… and fear. Fear that Bauer was one of the bodies sprawled out on the sand.
Tony was speaking to him over his radio but Chase couldn't understand the mans words. He ignored the noise and focused on the helicopter that was circling overhead. "Team 1 this is Edmunds, shine your light down onto the bodies."
The command was fulfilled instantly and Chase took another step towards the rubble. He cursed out loud, startling some of the commando's who were restraining the Mexican's that had survived the fire-fight.
"Tony its me," Chase said, defeat ebbed his voice, "Ramon escaped, with the virus."
"We need to start a search now," Tony replied, before pausing, "what about Jack?"
He closed his eyes as he waited for a response. "He and Nina Myers are both gone too."
Nodding his head grimly Tony shut of the radio before slamming his fist down onto the computer work surface with anger, worry and frustration.