Authors note: hey it's me again here is a second chapter as always reviews are welcome but not really needed.
Ten minutes later
I had been in the cockpit for five minutes talking to Cressida and wondering were Johanna was she was normally the first one in the cockpit all of a sudden the intrusion alert sounded and the thermal sensors in the cargo bay kicked in there were a few armed marines giving suppression fire for a navy seal task force I turned off the thermal sensors so I could see better as soon as I could see who they were firing at I knew I needed to get down there. The next thing I knew I was running through the door to the armory which held the best weapons the agency had so I immediately armed myself with my custom barrette 50 cal' an m-723 bulldozer LMG a standard m-1911 sidearm and a belt of vortex grenades. After I had finished armoring up I was sprinting down the hall towards the elevator. As I got about halfway down the hall the elevator doors opened and I ducked behind a support beam just as three navy seals exited the elevator. It didn't take much to take to get past them I only had to use one vortex grenade. I got in the elevator and hit the button for the cargo bay when I got there I saw Johanna over in the corner next to the nighthawk I could tell she was wounded she had been hit in the arm and the marines were closing in on her and then I knew what I was going to have to do I was going to have to kill them. I pulled out my rifle aimed down the sight took three deep breaths and pulled the trigger three times Bang Bang Bang three shots rang out as the three marines dropped dead each with a gunshot wound to their temple as soon as I saw the bodies hit the ground I got up and ran to Johanna who was lying behind the a-1 apache nighthawk I saw that she had lost quite a bit of blood and was unconscious just as I picked Johanna up I heard a I heard Cressida come over the intercom telling me to get up to the cockpit fast so I put Johanna in the med bay and went up to see what was going on. As I entered the cockpit I became aware of two things one was the weapons consoles radar was lighting up like a Christmas tree. The other was that the perimeter breach alert was active meaning we had enemy fighters approaching. I approached the weapon console and armed the rail guns hoping to eliminate them before they got any closer but right as the rail gun fired I saw something there was a part of the sky was shimmering. As soon as I made it out I knew what it was. Then it happened the cloak fell revealing a specialized b-2 spirit bearing the seal of the U.S. air force. Then I saw something out of the corner of my eye but I didn't realize what until I heard the explosion they had fired anti-aircraft missiles at us and knocked out one of our engines. I immediately snapped back to reality and armed all of our weapons systems I immediately targeted the b-2 and fired. All I saw afterwards was a hail of plasma and ultraviolet rays and missiles as the plane was decimated by the weapons system and one by one the fighters began to break away until eventually the sky was clear it was then I started thinking straight and remembered Johanna who was in the med bay. As I entered the med bay and there she was standing in her military combat armor same as this morning she was facing the other way so I knew she didn't know I was here so I decided to walk closer and wait for her to hear me. After three long strides she turned around smiling and I knew everything was going to be okay as long as she was alive and safe. Then i hear her speak and she sounds like she's going to cry "I'm so sorry Katniss." But that's all I let her get out because I know exactly why she is apologizing. "Don't apologize to me you have nothing to be sorry for." I say as I pull her into a deep embrace "yes I do I made you kill three men for nothing if I had kept myself safe you wouldn't have had to protect me and their blood would be on my hands not yours."I giggled a little at that "three dead men is nothing to me Johanna you have never killed before I spent most of my career training and killing trying to find the man that killed my parents I have so much blood on my hands that if you could see it they would be permanently stained red." At that moment I knew that I was not letting her go until we landed maybe not even then.
It had been about twenty minutes since we had landed in Moscow it had been fairly quite since we had gotten to hotel all except for the sounds of cars driving by outside and the TV I skipped through the channels. Until something caught my eye the news apparently was doing a story about about a Russian goat farmer who claimed he saw a United States bomber fly over his farm while engaged in a dog fight. But what really caught my eye was where he was standing he was standing in front of the debris of the b-2 spirit . When I saw what I did I felt sick there were corpses everywhere what really surprised me was what the secretary of defense said about it "yes the bomber was shot down by the same criminal that killed the president we now know she is armed and dangerous she is suspected is believed to be accompanied two rouge cia agents we sincerely apologize to the families of the crew of that bomber." then all I heard a knock at the door and instinctively grabbed the desert eagle form the table. As I made my way to the door I could hear voices and I immediately knew what was happening so I ran to the bedroom and immediately grabbed the m-4 from under my bed and the flash grenade from my bedside table and just as I got back to the living room it happened the door flew open and a special forces unit came through the door BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG one by one they fell to the ground bleeding from their shoulders then I realized something they weren't American special forces they were Russian which meant we needed to get out of here soon then I remembered what the news said and before I knew it I was bolting for my car once in my car the ride to the air strip was relatively quick but what I saw when I got there made my heart pound in my chest Russian spec ops had taken control the air strip and were now searching. But then I saw it a small shimmering patch of air accompanied by a bigger one and then it happened the cloaks dropped revealing the apache and a new surprise a b- spirit bearing the insignia of the cia and then all hell broke loose as the two aircraft immediately opened fire on the air strip after the gunfire had died down. I looked around and surveyed the damage there were blown up tanks and apc's more dead bodies than I could count and the wreckage of about three helicopters the b-2 and the apache had landed. And Johanna stepped out of it and immediately ran over to see that I was okay. Then I saw something that surprised me there was a commander that was still alive but that's not what surprised me what surprised was the fact that I knew his face and before I could think I picked him up and hand cuffed the man who had killed my parents. Then I heard a voice come over the ear piece I was wearing "hey guys can you guys hurry up we don't have all day there going to send reinforcements when the men don't check in so let's go." Cressida said I realized she sounded slightly annoyed so I decided it was probably best to listen because an angry Cressida was not someone I wanted to spend three days on a plane with. As I entered through the b-2's cargo bay I was amazed at what I saw there was a fleet of drones the thunder hawk sat in the corner next to the apache and two A-10 warthogs but what really surprised me was the fact that there were military grade weapons and armor up against the back wall next to about 900,000 lbs worth of napalm and other explosives.
It had been about three hours since we had taken off I had spent most of that time trying to figure out how to get answers out of the Russian we had cuffed up in a holding cell. I had decided that I was going to give him two options he could tell me what I wanted to know or I would find out myself I was on my way down to see him when Cressida stopped me in the hall "what was up with you back at the airbase when you saw that guy." She asked I knew she wanted to know why I brought him on board so I decided to tell her "that Russian is the man who killed my family twenty five years ago I want to know who hired him and why, OK!" I shouted agitated that she was asking me about something she didn't need to know Cressida stood there staring at Katniss she hadn't meant to make her angry she had just wanted to know the the significance of this Russian commander they were currently holding but now that Katniss told her she understood why she was angry it was none of her business so she decided to leave the conversation at that. It took Katniss about five minutes to get to the cargo deck where the holding cells were. Once she had calmed down enough she entered the cell it was a small twelve by twelve room I forest green walls and a nice black rug. It had a bed in the back right-hand corner and a small coffee table surrounded by chairs with a small TV in front of them. the Russian was sitting and watching the TV the news apparently had started report on what happened at the airstrip "why" Katniss said as she walked in the door the Russian just sat there silently as though she wasn't there "why did you kill my parents" Katniss said as she stomped up to him "fuck you bitch" he said and Katniss decided just asking wasn't going to work. So she decided to try a truth serum.
It had been an hour since Katniss had finished with the Russian all she had gotten out of him had been a name of terrorist group called ground zero. She had remembered the name from a mission from about six years ago.
Baghdad (Six years ago)
It was a simple mission eliminate the rouge C.I.A. asset now working for the terrorist organization ground zero It had been the first time I failed a mission it was also the first time I had met Johanna. Cressida had gone in to try and reason with the asset but hadn't come out and I had begun to worry about her but then I saw her come out but he was also there and he had a gun to her head and he was shouting for me to come out so I did. It had taken three days for a Special Forces strike team to find us. And when they did I was glad that they had gotten here before his ground zero friends did. I always hated that day because it made me feel weak knowing I had failed because of my mission partner. But I always told myself that if that never happened I would never have met Johanna and we would never have become friends. I'm pulled away from my thoughts by a knock at the door already knowing who it is I open the door to see Johanna she was wearing a pair of tight black jeans and a dark green short sleeve shirt. I pulled her into the room and shut the doors as soon as I was sure the door had shut fully I pulled her down onto the bed and so we laid there for hours until we fell asleep.(Katniss's dream) I wake up and realize I am in a military tent and my old marine uniform and I realize I'm back in Iraq at the base camp the seal team dropped me of at after they had rescued me then I remembered what happened next so I dropped to the ground just in time as all hell broke loose and machine gun fire broke out and then I blacked out.(back to reality) I'm jolted awake when the plane shakes a little and I realize that Johanna must have taken my shift in the cockpit because she is not here and her shift was over twenty minutes ago and she hadn't woken Katniss up for hers so instead of trying to go find her she decided to go check on their prisoner to see if he knew anymore about ground zero than just the name and leaders. But when she got there she immediately saw something she knew was wrong Cressida was in the cell beating the man trying to get more information about him and why he had killed Katniss's parents. Before Katniss could even think she was through the cell door and pinning Cressida to the wall with her forearm as she swung her right fist towards her as hard she possibly could knocking her out and dragging her to the med bay. Cressida awoke in the med bay with a headache and a throbbing jaw. She couldn't remember what had happened until she turned her head and saw an x-ray and grimaced she had a broken nose a bruised jaw along with four broken fingers on her left hand.