A/N sorry about the wait the story has characters who are dead in it but it is in a separate universe to the usual TV storyline so please review and please no flaming

24 Hours to go 9:00 to 10:00

Jack arrived at NCIS along with his team of operatives.

Meanwhile back at CTU Chloe was bringing in personnel to replace her losses in staff. She decided to bring in Nadia Yassir, Mike Doyle, Curtis Manning and her husband Morris. She knew these were good operatives who could deal with a crisis.

"Ms O'Brian your operatives are here" The intercom crackled

Chloe got and walked quickly down the stairs seeing the motley crew of people. The man on the left was bald with a few days beard growth. He dressed in black long sleeve shirt and jeans. The woman was of Arabian descent and wore a sharp suit. The field ops men both wore black T-shirts with jeans and combat boots.

"So Morris, Curtis, Mike and Nadia welcome back to CTU and I am glad you are back for this crisis as it is a big one. I need you to take the place of my usual staff can you do that?" Chloe queried

They all replied with the same response but with varying degrees of speed and tone.

"Curtis and Doyle you two will run field ops, Nadia you'll be my second in command and Morris you will head up the analysts" Chloe announced

Jack parked outside of the NCIS building, it was designed to look like an old Spanish villa and from the rumours he heard from inside the intelligence community it was owned by one of LA's oldest families. He climbed out of the silver Charger surveying their base of operations noticing it was covered with camera surveillance.

He walked in the door first with his team following him. The ops building was large and in an open plan design. Desks were arranged in clusters with computer areas designated with both desktops and Acer laptops. There was a large staircase leading up to spotlighted office where presumably the NCIS team would be waiting.

"Come on guys up the stairs" Jack called to his team

"Is that a futah?" Tony mused to himself while glancing at a secluded office area filled with items from across the world including rare teas from the northern regions of Kandahar.

"Who is the leader of the cartel?" Callen queried

"Javi Hernandez former right hand man to Ramon and Hector Salazar" Jack said ringing out around the Ops Centre as the 14 pairs of eyes looked at him.

He walked forward slightly allowing the rest of his team to file into the office.

"Mr Bauer glad you could join us" Hetty said in her notable English accent, to Jack it sounded as if she was from Suffolk or Buckinghamshire.

The two teams stood standing locking eyes with each other and sizing each other. In Jack's case he was standing looking at a Caucasian male with long straggly blond hair. On his belt was both a LAPD badge and a Beretta .22 pistol.

"Good to meet you Shaggy, I'm Jack Bauer, CTU's head of field ops" Jack broke the ice

All of the NCIS team started to laugh while the lady of the group laughed and said "Deeks it is true you look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo" Kensi laughed

"First of all do I look like a Shaggy to you?" Deeks asked

"Yes, you do" Sam bantered with Deeks.

"Hey, the rest of team is Tony Almeida, Michelle Dessler and Edgar Stiles" Jack continued

"Good to know I am G Callen, my team is Sam Hanna, Kensi Blye and Shaggy as you so poignantly called. We also have two techs called Eric and Nell" Said Callen

Callen stood watching the team noticing like how Bauer had the same sadness in eyes, the loneliness. He also noticed that Tony and Michelle were married according to the rings on their fingers and judging by their closeness to each other. Marriages in Intelligence hardly ever happened partly because of the strain undercover missions put on the marriage and partly because special agents always have some skeleton in the closet which make them seem secretive.

"So do we know anyways of infiltrating this cartel or Russia's Salvation?" Callen asked openly

"I know a man who I turned when I was investigating the Salazar Brothers. This guy was high level so it was obvious he was going to be approached." Jack said

"Who is it?" Sam asked

"Our man inside is Federico Martinez. He was a mid-level guy who was tough and greedy this meant he wanted the Cartel if I put the two brothers away so he fed me snippets of information but once I completed the job and took the Cartel down, Javi Hernandez took over with him probably slotting in as a captain for Hernandez. His main man" Jack replied

"What do you mean probably" Kensi said unsure

"I don't know I haven't had contact with him for years, last time I saw him was at Las Nieves in Mexico, and I'm relying on you analysts to get me some data." Jack said truthfully

"So that is an entry point what about the terrorist group?" Deeks asked

"I'll talk to Arkady see what he knows and if he knows any entry to this group after all he is a retired KGB agent so he'll probably know about terror groups who are attacking specific targets i.e. Chechen Muslims" Callen replied swiftly

"Good Mr Callen and you to Mr Bauer

"We found our entry so let's infiltrate and stop this threat" Hetty said with a powerful voice.