I forgot last time but sadly I do not own any of the characters and any of the story that sounds familiar is not mine!

Bold sentences are directly from the movie

Stall, stall, stall, thought Face desperately. He had been thrown in a car and brought out to the middle of the dessert where Tuco apparently had a base camp set up. He knew that by now Hannibal would be on the way with some brilliant plan to rescue him, he just had to make sure he was still alive when he got here. Maria was frantically begging for forgiveness.

Face saw Tuco looking at him and quickly started chatting away. "Heck of a place. Just a heck of a beautiful place. Is this a time share? Id love to get in on this." Face babbled on. Just had to keep him busy, postpone his death for a little bit longer.

Tuco laughed along for a little while before switching to Spanish. "You came here to throw me in a bag across the border but instead you have sex with my wife."

Now here Face had an option. He could do the smart thing and try to calm Tuco down, or he could make a smartass comment. "Well first of all, she's so hot and we both hate you. So that's just sort of how it…" thud. All right so he didn't do the smart thing. I mean where was the fun in that. If Hannibal knew he'd probably get angry but Face just never could keep silent when people set themselves up so perfectly. Well as he had already antagonized Tuco, "Good morning. Now it's a party. Is that your best shot?" thud. Face just kept smiling and preyed that Hannibal was close.

When BA woke up this morning, he had made a decision. He was done with this life. He was going to get his girl and get out of town. He reluctantly broke into a nice looking car and raced away from the trailing cops. Damn these fools get slower every time, BA thought as they lost him. He pulled into the garage and told the men he was out. He wanted to laugh when his 'friend' threatened him. Come on fools. BA Baracus is not someone you want to make angry. He quickly ended any thoughts the punks had to force him and lovingly stroked his girl before jumping in and heading out of town.

Hannibal was handcuffed to a chair while getting punched repeatedly. He drooped forward looking finished. In his head he was praying that this worked, that these men didn't end him. He heard the goon approach with a gun and froze with dread until he heard the second goon tell him to use Hannibal's own gun. Thank god he might make it through this. Obviously his own gun was useless and he had to bite back a smile when they decided to leave him for the dogs. "Next time amigo, plan ahead." The thug whispered in his ear before stalking out. Now Hannibal did smile as he used his gun's firing pin to unlock the cuffs. Has he lit his cigar Hannibal was already thinking of the next step to the plan.

He took off running. There was a lot of chances in this plan. The cops could have killed him, and now he was betting that there would be a car he could hijack on the way. If not, Face was dead. He ran across the desert, looking desperately for that cloud of dust that he finally saw approaching.

BA slammed on the break. Man what kind of fool stood in the middle of the road when a car was coming. He peered through the dust when he heard the unmistakeable click of a gun. "Oh hell no." He was ordered to slide over but BA didn't move. "You jacking me? What is this opposite day?"

"I'm not a thief but if I don't reach my friend in time, he dies." Hannibal said to the large man in the van. He knew that most people would probably give this guy a wide berth, and while he didn't want to fight this guy, he knew he wasn't exactly easy prey either. The guy continued to sit there and argue with him. Shit thought Hannibal, I really don't have time for this. He quickly lowered his gun and shot the man in the arm. Had to show the damn driver he was serious. He went around and climbed in the passenger seat keeping his gun trained on the man. That's when he saw it, the ranger tattoo. Really what were the chances that he would find a fellow ranger out here in the middle of nowhere.

BA was not expecting the man who just shot him to break into the ranger oath. Who the hell was this punk anways? "Colonel Hannibal Smth. 75th Ranger Regiment." Oh hell no! BA couldn't believe it. He was sitting next to Hannibal Smith. The man was literally a legend, with all his wild schemes that saved so many lives of his fellow men in arms.

"Corporal BA Baracus, or at least I was until I was discharged for some bullshit." BA was almost embarrassed to admit it. Hannibal quickly steered the conversation back to needing the van, needing to save Face. He was relieved when BA started up the car and he directed him to the tracker.

Meanwhile Face was starting to get stressed. He'd been beaten up for awhile but now here he was standing defenceless in a bunch of tires. There was a noose being made and he was covered in gas. But then Tuco told him that his rescuer was eaten by dogs. Face's grin grew bigger. Hannibal Smith, eaten by dogs? Yeah right. Hannibal was near and he would bet all his money that he'd placed a tracker. "You know what's funny? Is that you actually believe that you got me. You actually think you're gonna kill me." Face laughed and continued to taunt Tuco who looked a bit nervous but laughed it off. He walked away looking at the money he had taken from Hannibal. "Alpha, Mike, Foxtrot." Tuco realized he was in trouble as he found the tracker hidden in the money. "Adios, mother fucker!" Face shot out as the van shot up over the hill and Tuco's men dove to the sides. Face watched in horror as one of the men dropped a torch that shot up the gas trail towards him. He hopped to the side but tripped over and was being held up by the rope around his neck. "Hannibal!" he croaked.

Hannibal jumped out of the car shooting. He looked around frantically until he heard his name. Glancing over he couldn't believe it. Only Face could get in these situations. He was stuck in flaming tires, hanging by his neck. Hannibal shot the rope strangling his lieutenant and then kicked the tires so that Face rolled down the hill. There, that would put out the fire and get him out of the way of the bullets. He heard Face cursing at him as he rolled away but just smiled. The kid deserved it for this hell he had been through. He grabbed the woman and threw her in the van in front of him. Once they came to the bottom of the hill, they stopped to pick up Face. Face sat up and promptly threw up everything in his stomach. BA started up and they raced back to civilization.

Hannibal wanted to kill Face. They had all just risked their lives for him and he was making out with the woman in back. Then he came up front and was acting like it was all a big game! "Did you see Tuco's face? When you came over, that was unbelievable. The timing was perfect!" Face was gleefully saying. Damn this kid. Doesn't he ever think about what could have happened.

Hannibal quickly cut him off. "How many times did I say it, Face? I told you not to take down Tuco alone." The kid actually looked confused! Then he sarcastically apologized for not planning ahead. "That move snowballs Face. You almost got yourself killed. Which almost got me killed and almost got him killed. Five year old." God as soon as we got back home this kid was in for it.

BA was pissed. His baby girl had a whole bunch of new bullet holes in her, his arm was hurting and this fool was wearing his favourite shirt. He smirked as he listened to him get told off by Hannibal. Honestly he couldn't see why Hannibal was so invested in this fool. Pretty boy who almost got them all killed and was just continuing to hook up with the chick in the back. "You look like you got a real bad attitude." The kid was actually back talking to him. Oh hell no. BA put him in his place real fast. "Did you get shot for me too?" the kid asked, finally seeming to care that they might have been injured cause of him. When Hannibal cut in to say he was the one who carjacked him, the kid started to laugh. "Wait and he still got you to drive?" the kid obviously thought he was a push over. BA lifted the bandage off his tattoo and the kid backed off. He introduced himself and thanked him so BA let him off the hook and reciprocated.

Hannibal waited for the boys to make nice before continuing with his lecture. He needed Face to understand why they make plans, before the kid got them in a situation they couldn't walk away from. Face interrupted his lecture trying to make excuses. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that I have feelings for a human being. That I fell in love." Love? Was the kid crazy or did he just forget that Hannibal knew him. He had just been with someone a couple weeks previously. No, love was not the reason for this whole episode, lust was. "I was just trying to save her." Face said when he realized that Hannibal wasn't buying the love thing. Hannibal wasn't buying the save her thing either. Well he knew the kid would want her away from Tuco but that wasn't his reason. He got his point across by questioning how Face was going to save her exactly? "Okay, I hadn't thought about that yet." Face reluctantly admitted. Exactly thought Hannibal. That was the whole problem. He handed over all the paperwork he had done to rescue the poor woman and Face admitted defeat. "Do you have a mag?" and just like that the discussion was over for the moment.

Murdock was shaking, he was so nervous. He had managed to find a doctors outfit in a hall closet. He had slipped into it and pulled on a mask to hide his face. Now all he had to do was get past all the people in the building. He took a calming breath and slipped out of the closet. He walked right past his doctor and a dozen nurses. Almost there, the door was within sight. That's when he felt the hand grab his arm and he was spun around to see a young man. "Hey, Doc, you got a second for a wounded vet?" shit thought Murdock. How the hell was he supposed to get out of this one. He allowed the man to lead him into one of the rooms where a big ass black man was sitting. Murdock grabbed a needle and thread and started stitching him up while babbling on about tattoos and rangers. He was just about finished and then he could get the hell out of here. Of course that was when a nurse came waltzing into the room and caught him.

Face froze. Did that nurse just say that the man stitching up BA was a patient? "Are you crazy? What's wrong with this fool?" BA asked. Face ignored the man who was babbling on about gas and quickly went to look at BA's arm. Face really hoped that BA wouldn't kill him for this. There stitched onto his arm was a lightning bolt. This wasn't Face's fault though right? I mean they were in a hospital so you would just assume that obviously the man in scrubs would be the doctor. His arm was starting to feel hot. "You on fire man." BA informed Face who confusedly looked at his arm. Oh jesus, his arm was on fire. This crazy freak had lit his arm on fire!

Hannibal exited the room. He had been looking into a man they had locked up in here. One captain HM Murdock. He was said to be the best pilot the army had but he was also apparently insane. He had been looking for a new pilot to help them on missions and had been planning on coming down to check out the captain. He could handle a bit of craziness but the man had to be functional. When he realized Face had run off after Tuco he had preyed that when he got here they would find a man who was capable of getting them out of here at least. He heard a commotion coming from down the hall and sighed. "Damn it Face." He knew it must be him and BA, who else would be picking a fight in a hospital. He quickly cut through the crowd. "Hey! Hey, come on! This is a hospital!" he walked past a yelling Face and saw BA with his fist around the neck of the very man he was trusting to get them out of here. He grabbed BA and yanked him back. "Corporal off, back off." He warned. He saw the anger on their faces when he told them that Murdock was coming with them. Face started ranting about how he lit him on fire and that he was not ok with this plan. BA glared and said something about a lightning bolt but Hannibal was already turning his attention back to Murdock who seemed to be getting his breath back. From what he could see, the man seemed eccentric but he insisted that he was able to fly them out and it wasn't like Hannibal had a lot of options at the moment. "Good enough for me." He ignored Face as he continued to whine that he didn't agree to this. "You know what Face, you brought this down upon us so you don't really get a say in the matter. Now move your ass to the roof." Hannibal snapped and they quickly moved towards the helicopter.

Face shut up when Hannibal snapped at him but by the time they reached the roof he had started up again. Murdock was talking to the chopper and Hannibal was once again talking about planning ahead. God dammit he didn't need to hear this lecture again. As Hannibal asked him about the most important part of a plan, he continued to rant. The answer came like clockwork by now "To be one step ahead of the enemy, not to be running away!" Face was furious. Yes he had screwed up but Tuco had been right there! He couldn't believe they were just going to run away now. "What we are going to go in this dinosaur with this freak show?" he couldn't believe this but just then armed Mexicans burst onto the roof and he didn't really have any other choice but to jump in the chopper. The crazy ass pilot was going on about cartoons and superheroes, and Face didn't know who was crazier, the crazy pilot or the man who decided that he was competent enough to risk their lives. He watched in disbelief as Murdock knocked the air unit off the roof right onto BA's van. Man if they survived this BA was going to kill him. BA was currently yelling at Murdock, almost crying. "This is a mistake." Face said worriedly. They were flying away from the enemy chopper that was shooting at them and next thing face knew they were upside down. What the hell! But it worked and they evaded all the bullets. Then their chopper was going straight up and Murdock was hitting switches. The helicopter stopped, they were in a free fall. This man was going to kill them! Hannibal snapped Face back in the moment and Face turned to see BA hanging outside the chopper. He swore and lunged across the compartment barely managing to grab BA's arm before he let go. It took a lot of his strength and abilities to haul the big guy back into the helicopter but he managed. He then looked at BA who had paled drastically. He looked like he was going to be sick and who could blame him? He had almost fallen to his death. "Boss, the idea is to kill Tuco not the other way around." Face snapped.

Hannibal sighed in relief when Face managed to drag the corporal back in the chopper. He had been worried that he was too big for him to hold. He was starting to get annoyed with Face's attitude though. The kid had been whining and complaining about him all day and he had about had it. He risked all their lives for him because Face couldn't follow orders. Yah they would be talking about this later. "One step ahead of the game isn't a plan, kid. Two to three steps ahead. Beating an enemy's move before its made, that's a plan." He quickly called for hatchet getting them to lock on his location and gave the enemy chopper fair warning. Just in time for them to enter the states and get blown away. Face all of a sudden was apologizing and Face and Murdock were agreeing that the plan was awesome. BA was currently insisting he would never fly again and Hannibal happily lit his cigar. "There's a plan in everything kid. and I love it when a plan comes together."