Chapter 2
Shaded Introductions
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They were cold, tired and miserable. Sitting in a little cabin, they had nothing to do but seemingly freeze to death. This was because the radiator that had been installed had fallen into disrepair some time ago and the frosty temperatures of the French peaks weren't helping. Each of them huddled closely around the radio on the table hoping for any sign they could leave this place. Originally, on the plane they had been briefed to remain in the cabin and look out for MI6's agent and then they could provide necessary help if the agent fell into danger. So far however, there had been not a sign of life outside on the steep, snowy slopes and no more instructions on what to do.
"How long do we have to stay here again?" Eagle questioned with teeth chattering.
"No idea. They tell us we would be stayin' a bit, but now? Who knows?" Snake replied, fighting the urge to just return on a flight home. It would be so much warmer and so less boring.
"Come on guys, where's your team spirit?" Fox said with as much enthusiasm as he could muster.
"Out the window," Wolf ruffed, keeping his attention to the window.
"Well, we could always… erm… talk? No, erm… play a game? No, or how a-"
"Good idea Fox, now how about we play I-spy again? I'll go first," Eagle interrupted bustling with excitement to do something other than stare at the old, battered radio on the table.
Snake gave a visible, and rather overdramatic, shudder to the idea.
"Now look what we're havin' to go through. Thanks Fox. In fact you can play with him."
"I spy with my little eye something beginning with 'w'."
Fox sighed but tried to guess anyway. "Window?" Eagle shook his head.
Snake just rolled his eyes and tried a guess, believing he knew exactly what it was.
"Walls?" Eagle shook his head with a grin.
Fox tried again. "White?" Eagle shook his head again, but Snake raised an eyebrow.
"White?"
"Well the snow is white," Fox reasoned.
"Winter?" Snake guessed.
"Wires?"
"Wood?"
"Wall?"
"We've had that already," Snake reminded Fox. Meanwhile, Eagle watched in delight as they tried to get the answer, he couldn't believe they hadn't gotten it yet. Wolf didn't join in and instead remained vigil as he watched the outside scenery.
"Erm… wool?"
"W… w…," Fox stuttered trying to think of anything else, "Oh, I give up."
Snake smirked, but, scrunched his eyebrows when he also failed to think of anything else, even glancing around the cabin failed to help.
"No idea. I givin' up."
Eagle bounced up and down in a childish fashion.
"I can't believe either of you didn't get it. It was so easy and like when I mean easy, I mean easy! How could you not have got it? It was just so, very, ve-"
"Shut up, we've got movement over here," Wolf shouted unnecessarily, since the cabin was small and they were near one another. He pointed at the hill.
"Is that… snow bikes?" Eagle asked squinting his eyes, the blobs on the mountain hardly identifiable so far away.
"Snowmobiles, let's move out," Wolf muttered to his unit.
Each of them filed out and positioned themselves on the slope at different points, all of them armed with guns and enough ammunition. They were ready.
When the shooting began they were surprised, it seemed that the snowmobiles had somehow incorporated machine guns into the sides of them. They noticed quickly that they were firing at something and it was highly probable it was at the agent.
It didn't take each of them long to deduce the limited chances that the agent had to even make it as far down as them, never mind being able to brief them on any information found. They still weren't in range to fire yet and on top of that, their shooting could endanger the agent even further.
As the party went into the trees all the unit could do was wait patiently, they had no idea if they would be heading anywhere near to where they were and at that moment were not able to spot them. The silence droned on. Suddenly, from the forest a giant explosion exploded into view, the light temporarily blinding them. The trees caught fire and the agent burst into view, travelling dangerously quickly down the hill on what appeared to be a snowboard.
Snake was the first to notice the grey van. Two men each positioned with machine guns stood just after the valley, over the railway track. He angled his gun and fired taking out one of the two, and then went to move onto the second.
Fox noted the light in the distance, he was stood just to the far right by the railway track and was staring at the enlarging light from the distance. It was a train, he wasn't sure which one, but he was nervous that it was right on time for an accident. The agent was getting closer and so was the train and Fox couldn't help but worry.
Eagle gave a sigh, so far nothing. All was well from his position. Well, until that was that he noticed Wolf shouting from afar. He couldn't quite make it out, it was all babble from where he was stood, too far away to make out any words. It was only when Wolf pointed at the agent and then at the railway that he understood and took off at full speed down the slope to one of the others.
Only it was too late.
The agent had skated down the slope and when faced with one of the men, that Snake had yet to take out, landed on the roof of the train. It was lucky he hadn't collided with it, but unfortunately, as the unit began to believe he was safe, he slid off the roof of the fast train and was hurdled onto the snowy ground.
Fox was the first to reach the agent having seen him bounce onto the ground and land into the barb wire, he sprinted towards him. As he gazed at the agent he bit his lip, the injuries would be severe after that kind of fall. It was very fortunate the agent hadn't landed on his head and that he was wearing a ski suit. Since, without it, the barb wire would have easily have killed him.
He wasn't quite sure where to start, or whether he should begin without the others. He went ahead anyway, knowing full well that the sooner he was helped the better. He grabbed the agent's arms and carefully began to pull him up, it was a good thing the agent was light enough, so that the body would be off the barb wire. He moved the agent upwards and was shocked when the body lifted easily, having expected the flesh to be speared onto the metal. However, as he grabbed the agent's leg and began to pull he encountered a problem.
The leg of the agent appeared to have been caught in the barb wire. Since Fox already had a hand pulling the agent's body and an arm round the agent's leg, he wasn't quite sure how he was going to dislodge the flesh from the metal without any arms free.
It was a good thing Eagle had ran.
"Need some help?" he called as he hurried towards him.
"That would be nice, especially if you can get his leg free. But be careful."
Eagle nodded and examined the leg.
"The ski suit's protected from most of the damage it seems but his leg has got a deep gash. I'll just get the barb wire out the way."
Eagle carefully pried the barb wire away, taking care to keep the leg away from it. As soon as that was complete he nodded at Fox.
Fox pulled him from the barb wire and then placed him onto the snow. Eagle noticed the blood coming from his leg, the snow turning a bright red below.
"Damn."
Fox agreed with the statement and planned to rip some of the top of the agent's ski suit into bandages. However, as he went to found the material impossible to rip. Eagle looked curiously at his attempts.
"No wonder, he never sustained any other injuries from the barb wire. Without this suit, he'd have been a goner. Now Eagle, are the others coming? And is there any bandages?"
"Snake is just coming and you can use this as a bandage for now," Eagle said taking off his scarf from around his neck.
"Right." Fox wrapped the leg with the scarf to stem the bleeding and spotted Snake coming.
Snake came over and frowned.
"Is he alive?"
"Yes, well he's unconscious, been that way since we found him. Don't think there was any head injuries, but he has a gash from the barb wire over there and I don't want to think about the internal injuries he's received. Although, the suit he has should have protected him slightly."
Snake nodded and Eagle looked curiously at the agent, a ski mask obscured the identity of the agent. He wondered what face lay behind it. Old or young? Bald or hairy? And up until now he'd only presumed it was a man, but maybe it was a woman. It was very tempting to rip it off, but he resisted, reasoning that since it was MI6 they were temporarily helping, keeping the mask on was a good idea.
"Wait, where's Wolf?" Eagle wondered to which Snake swiftly replied.
"Gone to phone for the emergency services, he had to go to the village."
The faint sounds of an ambulance came into hearing distance.
"And here's them now."
The ambulance arrived and a stout female jumped out. A male also emerged and tended to the agent, loading him onto a stretcher.
"Do any of you have injuries?"She questioned in French. The unit glanced anxiously at each other, they all had a basic knowledge of languages but they weren't sure what she had just said.
The female rolled her eyes. The man had finished loading the agent onto the ambulance and had gotten into the driver's seat.
"You, English?" she asked. Fox nodded.
"In," she commanded, pointing at the ambulance and followed them into the ambulance, closing the door behind them with a large bang.
From there the ambulance travelled through the streets to the second-biggest hospital of the city: Service des Urgences.
End of Chapter
Well this is slightly early, but I'm sure you don't mind. I know this chapter jumps between characters a bit, but after this chapter characters will have longer paragraphs with their emoticons/feelings/thoughts and I also will include a bit more than that. So thanks for all the support so far! Thanks to Complicated-little-Jellie, Bastet'syoungestkitten, NinjaOfDark, Emma and Rangerfan58 for their reviewers. Thanks also to the favouriters, followers and readers! So next chapter should be in a week.
