Chapter 2: zero dark thirty,
Down in castle chuck, Casey and Sarah were sitting round the table with General Beckman, "well team you done a dam good job with removing Quinn from causing any more problems, well I'm sure I don't really need to say any more on recent events other than thank you for everything you have done and the offer stands if you ever wish to return to work for us again" with that the general closed off her brief case and headed off out of castle and up the stairs to the elevator. Casey got up and started to walk out with his bag on his back "hey where you going to now or can you not say" chuck asked Casey "I'm going to find her, it's been good run with you bartowski, things will sort themselves out am sure of it" Casey grabbed chuck into a very tight bear grip type hug "there's one thing Russians do well and that's hug, look after yourself chuck" Casey said as he picked up his bag and followed suit of the general and headed up the metal steps to the elevator in search of the only woman he cared more about that his mother land of a country, Gertrude verbanski.
Sarah began to follow suit with the general and Casey in leaving castle for the last time as she began her accent up the stairs chuck walked the doorway out of the briefing room "hey Sarah" chuck mumbled, Sarah stopped in her track and turned and looked towards chuck "yea chuck what is it!" "it's probably nothing but Morgan had this ide…" chuck stopped what he way saying "you know it doesn't matter any way, where are going or can you not say" Sarah was looking back at chuck with a kind of sympathy and heartfelt love that she couldn't try to understand why she was like this with him she had this whole life that he knew practically everything about her, what she liked, what she hated how not to press her buttons to piss her off or even those same buttons can make her smile. "I don't know chuck I'll just have to see, I'll see you around, I'm sorry chuck" Sarah turned and carried on heading back up the stairs to the internal elevator to leave castle "how did this even manage to happen to me, everything was perfect for all of us and then those dam glasses why, why, why Sarah why did you even put them on, AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H"
Chuck let out a massive scream of pure anger and hurt at the revelation of every that has happened, letting his head hang down he headed towards the steps take a few steps the staircase chuck stopped to look around at castle and a few thought ran though his mind of everything he had done down here with the very people he came to love, trust and honour as his closest friends and family a bond that was not easily broken until now the whole gang has now split up and went their own separate ways to do other things, other jobs even and here he was still a brainy electrical engineer with the new intersect 3.0 in his head but what to do with it? Use it for the one idea he had before Sarah had lost her memory and create a technical cyber terrorist unit through Carmichael industries and stop the treat of hackers in the world, thoughts like that ran though chucks head but he carried on up the stairs possibly for the very last time maybe or maybe not.
1 day earlier…..
"Location mike how far to LZ bravo, I have 3 x-rays in sights ready for shot" "we are roughly 7 mikes (miles) out sarge silencers on take shots when ready, I'll take the two on left you get one on right" corporal reeve said, all of a sudden there was the 3 poofs off their rifles firing with a silent shot taking out the three armed men in their way, their bodies fell to the ground as if they had been effortlessly knocked out but these guys aren't getting back up time soon, /2alright lets roll we have 7 miles to cover and short time to do it have we got comms back up to command yet mike?" "Negative sarge they still have us on closed circuit unable to get them on any frequency, I have a bad feeling about this" corporal reeve said to the sergeant "were expendable assets mike and I guess we have just been expended, wrong place wrong time and we got screwed over big time, come on we gotta go we don't have far to go" the sergeant said, moving off the two of them threw their rifles onto their back a massive load out for two operator's with their scoped rifles and assault rifles and then their standard side arms.
Moving as fast as they could the two operators move through the shanty type villages in northern Afghanistan "distance to LZ is about 1 mile now mike lets haul ass we can get there and get home" the sergeant said, their m4a1's drawn to combat any armed threat to their front they moved with speed and determination to get to their pick up point in hope that really hadn't been expended by their own, a fate pretty much worse than death would be to be disowned and forgotten by a unit they thought always had their backs but radio silence was in effect and had been now for the last few hours as they headed to landing zone bravo as their primary pick up area was swarming with artillery and heavy mounted machine guns the 50 Cal versions body splitters cause if those things let off they went through u like a red hot knife through butter not a very nice thought or sight when it happens, a slight crackle came over the radio "hold up I can hear something on the radio" mike shouter to the sarge "raptor two-four, raptor two-four, this is sierra golf one-niner do you read, we are on route to your hot zone bravo be advised we have window of extraction of 60 seconds for drop down a evac do you copy over…" the voice on the radio spoke in a broken tonal voice, sarge grabbed the radio comms unit and transmitted back "sierra golf one-niner this is raptor two-four we copy your message we are 3 minutes from zone bravo we will be awaiting your touch down, we copy window of 60 seconds we will be ready for wheel up upon touch done and evac asap do you copy over…., right mike let's move we have 2 minutes to get the bravo and get ourselves out of here" the sarge put the radio unit back on its receiver and the pair of them moved to LZ bravo with momentum and speed "chopper in bound, stand to and protect LZ 12 and 6 formation down" both of them moved onto each other's back weapons raised covering their sectors till the chopper had landed, it was a American black hawk helicopter, its wheel touch down and the doors opened and a unit of marines jumped out with weapons drawn and 2 men in suits walked behind them "drop your weapons now, do it" one of the marine shouted at the two operators "what the fuck were on the same team what's is going on here" sarge shouter back, then a loud crack came off the side off his head as the sarge fell to the ground with the corporal turning to him to help his team mate who had just been hit by one of the marines weapons "what the fuck is going on here, lower your weapons dammit were on the same side assholes" corporal reeve shouted at the marine how hit the sarge "stand down corporal, your under arrest, well the sarge is we've been looking for you sergeant Gibson been a while since we have had the ability to finally track you down, you really are a ghost aren't you raptor two-four or should I say raptor, your hacking skills have a lot to answer for back Langley there's a few people who would greatly like to have a few words with you" the suited man said "take them to the chopper we are moving out now" the other man said to one of the marines.
As they walked over to the chopper one of the men in the suits pulled out a sat comms radio and turned it on and dialled in a number and waited for the unit to ring,
"we have him in custody and were bringing him in ….. No ma'am there was no trouble from them or him ….. yes ma'am it is him we have him … am sure it the one who they call raptor he matches all of the criteria of the man we have been hunting for … am sure he can help after all Orion used some of his tech research for the intersect 2.0 prototype … he was slightly hostile upon meeting but am sure that will not be a problem when he meets them … of course we will have him back soon enough… I believe so he will be able to help them….. General Beckman".
End of chapter 2…
