Part 3 – Rio
Life at Konoha Enterprises for Sasuke was even better the Army.
His mother and sister were a little freaked out by the fact he now had a fully-synthetic arm, but they got used to it.
The following month, Sasuke and Naruto was customizing their EXOs when Tsunade herself approached.
"Ma'am," Sasuke said as he and Naruto stood at attention.
"As you were," Tsunade said, "We've got a situation," Tsunade held out a tablet to Sasuke who opened the file, "About twenty four hours ago Jiraiya, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil was taken hostage while attending the World Cup with Brazil Prime Minister Marcos Mariana. We believe this to be the work of the Akatsuki."
"The Anti-U.S. Japanese Terrorist Group?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes," Tsunade said, "They've only attacked U.S. bases in Japanese territory, never before have they taken such a bold course of action."
"And after all that, the organization's leader's whereabouts are still unknown," Sasuke said, "You want Alpha Team to go in?"
"Yes," Tsunade said, "Your primary objective is to link up with the Eastern Military Command, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Rene David Manticore and save Prime Minister Mariana. If you can, your secondary objective is Ambassador Jiraiya."
"Alright," Sasuke said, "I can have my team ready in half an hour."
"Very good," Tsunade said, "See that you do."
Sasuke and Naruto instantly got on their phones and called Sakura and Hinata as they finished up their EXOs.
Naruto kept his EXO classy with a solid army green with a Navy pinup girl that had long, flowing blonde hair on the back.
Sasuke went with a simple design by painting certain sections dark Egyptian blue, and painted the Uchiha fan on the back of his EXO.
The team boarded the next Konoha flight to Rio, along the way Sasuke was tinkering around with his EXO.
"What are you doing," Sakura asked when she noticed Sasuke messing around with the EXO calibration using a mirror.
"I'm trying to find out what's wrong with my EXO," Sasuke said as he rotated his arm, "The calibration on my right arm is off."
"Let me give you a hand," Sakura said as she opened the back of the EXO, and checked the circuit-board, "Ah here's the problem. You've got a loose wire."
Sakura reattached the wire, and when she did, she shocked herself slightly, and fell back against the wall.
"Hey," Sasuke exclaimed as he turned around as she fell, and knelt in front of her, "You ok?"
"I don't know," Sakura said as she held her hand.
"Let me take a look." Sasuke said.
Sakura held out her hands, allowing Sasuke to examine the damage, a tiny blister and some redness around the fingers.
"It's fine," Sasuke said as he grabbed some ice, and placed it on her fingertips, "Some slight burning, nothing serious."
"I thought I was the team medic." Sakura said.
Sasuke chuckled, "It doesn't take the mind of a medical genius to figure out these types of minor injuries," he said as he looked up at Sakura.
The two found themselves caught up in the moment, and just before they could kiss, Hinata walked into the room, "Sis, I think we should…" she said before she saw Sasuke and Sakura snap into attention and look at her, "Oh, sorry."
"It's alright," Sasuke said as he stood up, then held out his hand to Sakura who accepted his hand.
Brazil…
"Alright," Sasuke said through the team's radios, "I want this done right. Goldenboy, status?"
"Almost ready," Naruto said as he set up his DSR-10 Sniper Rifle.
The DSR-10 Sniper Rifle is the successor to the DSR-5 which was created in 2025 when the U.S. Military needed a lightweight heavy-hitting rifle that can maneuver in urban conflict and open-battleground conflict.
The DSR-5 had some success but was never put into production, then the DSR-10 came along, and the Military had found their replacement for their battle-tested, but overweight Barret M28A1.
Naruto assembled the rifle, and after attaching the tripod, he pulled out the scope.
"What's that?" Hinata asked.
"That is the Remington SG12 scope with a five mile zoom-lens," Naruto said as he pulled out another attachment which was another lens that fit over the zoom-lens, "Plus this little baby," Naruto placed a small battery-pack onto the ground next to the rifle, attached a two-pronged power cord from the battery-pack to the side of the lens attachment, and powered it on.
"What's that little attachment?" Hinata asked.
"A bio-scanner," Naruto said, "Reads bio-density through almost anything, but that's only one part of the puzzle," Naruto pulled out the magazine with a bullet that was about five inches long, "This is the final piece, 55x20mm anti-tank round, this bad boy has two functions, the tip is solid titanium which is designed to punch through thirty inches of solid steel, the secondary function is in the bottom. After going through the steel a high powered 20mm flash-charge is mean to disorient anyone standing around the point of impact."
"How is this legal?" Hinata asked.
"It took a lot of political maneuvering to get this approved for military use," Naruto said as he started to load the bullets into the magazine, "But this primarily is used against tanks as a way to stun the tank operators before tanks can go in for the kill. Various hostage-rescue teams in the Continental United States have been using this as a stun-charge to disorient the hostiles before breaching the door."
"So we're going to use this to take down hostiles that have hostages?" Hinata asked.
"We just need to take down one hostile, and Sasuke, Sakura, and Rene will take care of the rest," Naruto said as he powered up the battery, "Blood-spray, Goldenboy and Violet in position."
"Roger that," Sasuke said as her powered up the tablet that would control the bio-density camera that Sakura was setting up, "X-ray scanner almost ready."
Sakura then flipped the switch, and the bio-density camera let out a high pitch ring as it came to life, "Ready." Sakura said.
"X-ray scanner ready," Sasuke said as he set up the eyepiece, "I.D.-ing hostiles."
The eyepiece Sasuke was using looked like one small bent telescope that was mounted on a tri-pod that held the X-ray eyepiece in place, the eyepiece itself though was connected to the four other cameras stationed around the building via Bluetooth-type technology.
Looking through the eyepiece, Sasuke could see the hostiles were preparing the place to hold of an Army, "Blood-spray this is Nickle-Back," Lieutenant Colonel Rene said over the radio, "What's the situation inside?"
"Seven armed hostiles are guarding the front with Heavy Machineguns," Sasuke said as he observed the front of the building, "Switching camera," Sasuke flipped a switch on the side of the eyepiece, and switched from the North-northwest side of the Rio football stadium's secondary building's west side, "We have five hostiles in the west hallway, small arms, SMGs. Switching cameras," the view changed to the camera set up on the east-northeast side, "Two snipers on the east-northeast side, floors five and six, Barrett M28A1s and what look like thermal scopes. Switching cameras," Sasuke then switched the camera to the south side camera, "South side is…" Sasuke stopped when he saw something that shook him.
"South side is what?" Rene asked.
"Holy shit," Sasuke said, "Switching channel to Command," Sasuke switched his radio to command, "Command this is Blood-spray, we have a very serious update."
"Go ahead," Kakashi said over the other line.
"I have eyes on the Snake," Sasuke said, "The Snake is here."
The Snake was the codename for the Akatsuki leader who called himself The Snake Lord.
"Get ears on that meeting," Kakashi said, "Your primary objective is the Brazilian Prime Minister, not the Snake."
"Roger that," Sasuke said as he switched channels, "Rene, we need a bug."
"Copy," Rene said as he signaled some of his BOPE soldiers to ready a sticky-microphone.
The sticky microphone was loaded into a four-shot pump-action grenade launcher, when they signaled it was ready, they fired the microphone which stuck onto the side of the building, and then burrowed into the wall, and drilled a small incision about a millimeter away from coming through the wall.
"Bug in place." Rene said.
"Good," Sasuke said, "Send me the feed."
Rene adjusted the signal so Sasuke and Command were both receiving, "We are receiving now," Kakashi said, "Turn up the volume."
"Adjusting," Rene said as he turned up the feed on the bug.
"I'm receiving," Sasuke said, "Sounds good," Sasuke placed the extra cord that would connect to the satellite that would send the video-feed to command and the troops, "We live in five, four, three, two…" Sasuke pointed at Sakura who sent the feed to Command and to the troops, "And, we're rolling."
Inside the Snake, a six foot six Japanese male with skin as pale as the moon, long black hair, and solid red eyes dressed in a pair of tactical boots, military-style cargo pants, an elbow-length black tee-shirt that was covered by a black-metal bullet proof vest.
Ambassador Jiraiya was handcuffed to the meeting table when Ambassador Marcos stood up, "Look, there's no reason to keep these people here," Ambassador Marcos said as he walked over to the Snake, "Look at this man, he is having an asthma attack. He needs medical attention!"
"He will get what's coming to him," the Snake said, "You all will, we come into this world kicking and screaming, blind, deaf, and stupid. Death comes for us all, the only question is when."
"We live by God's mercy," Marcos said, "This man's killing achieves nothing."
"You're right, it won't," the Snake said, "But it'll send a message," the Snake pulled out a Bulldog, and fired one round through Jiraiya through the stomach.
"Ah shit," Sasuke said as he picked up his FN2000, and twisted on a suppressor, "Command this is Blood-spray, the Snake just injured a hostage we're moving in now!"
"If you attack now soldier they'll kill the Prime Minister." Rene said over the line.
"Not if we respond fast enough," Sasuke said as he readied a zip-line to fire at the stadium.
The zip-line firing system was the size of a Wailing-era harpoon-launcher that was mounted on top of a mobile half-track robot.
Sasuke lined up the shot to the side of the stadium, and fired the line.
The zip-line latched onto the side of the building, and locked into place.
"Line attached," Sakura said as she pulled out her line-hook which would allow her to fly across the gap with Sasuke.
Sasuke helped Sakura attach the hook, then looked over at her, and nodded.
Sakura gave the hook a swift 90 degree turn, and the two zipped across the gap toward the center, upon reaching they found themselves right above the glass-skylight.
Sasuke swung around his FN2000, looked over at Sakura, and nodded.
The two disconnected from the lines, and dropped ten feet onto the roof.
After attaching their rappelling lines, Sasuke and Sakura dropped down the North-northwest side and the east-northeast side.
When they dropped down the sides, Sasuke lined up his breach point directly with the windows that led into the hallway where the five hostiles were while Sakura lined up her breach-point with the spot where the snipers were.
"Blood-spray ready." Sasuke said.
"Pinkette ready." Sakura said.
The BOPE on the ground hacked into the hydraulic-window controls, and gently opened the windows allowing Sasuke and Sakura their entrances.
As the soldiers walked over to check why the windows opened, Sasuke and Sakura sprang into action.
Sasuke came in fast with his FN2000, and mowed down the five hostiles with the small arms while Sakura pulled out her Sig Sauer GSR pistol, and shot each of the snipers twice in the head.
After squeezing through the windows, Sasuke and Sakura met at the entrance to the conference room.
"Goldenboy, Blood-spray and Pinkette in position," Sasuke said, "Is the Snake still in the room?"
"Negative," Naruto said, "But it seems he left his temporary second inside."
"How many hostiles?" Sasuke asked.
"Counting the temp second," Naruto said, "Four."
"I need you to drop the one holding the Prime Minister," Sasuke said, "We'll clear out the rest."
"Roger," Naruto said as he flipped off the safety on the DSR-10, "Ready."
"Rene," Sasuke said, "As soon as we breach the conference room, I need you to breach the front of the building and deal with the hostiles in the window."
"Roger that," Rene said, "Ready to breach on your word."
"Naruto, Rene," Sasuke said, "Action!"
Naruto pulled the trigger on the DSR-10 which was slightly uncomfortable.
A regular 50 caliber bullet has enough of a kick to snap a thin piece of wood clean in half if you were to fire it with the butt-stock flush against the wood. A 55x20 mm bullet round is designed to split an inch and a half board of wood in two which is why the butt-stock of a rifle that fires the round utilizes a padded-gel stock.
The bullet flew across the gap to the wall, dug a hole straight through the wall, and dug a hole in the side of the hostile holding the Prime Minister at gunpoint's head.
The secondary 20mm charge blew the hostile's head to bits, the shockwave hit the three other hostiles like a flash-bang, and caused the Prime Minister to dive to the floor.
As the hostiles at the front of the building heard the explosion, and as they turned, the BOPE showered the windows with a hail of machinegun and assault rifle bullets.
After busting through the door, one of the hostiles turned to face Sasuke who shot him five times in the face.
One of them turned to take out one of the hostiles, but was stopped when Sakura shot him through the back of the jaw, and blue out the front of his face.
As the final turned to take out the PM, Sasuke acted first, and emptied the magazine into the hostile's side and head.
"Mr. Mariana," Sasuke said as he walked up to the Prime Minister, and helped him to his feet, "We're a Konoha Enterprises Rescue Force, we're here to help you."
"Thank you soldier," PM Marcos said as the BOPE entered, "The ambassador has been injured."
"The BOPE will secure him," Sasuke said as two BOPE officers picked up Jiraiya, and carried him out the front, "There was a man," Sasuke put his hand on Marcos's shoulder, "Six foot six, pale skin, long black hair and red eyes, where'd he go?"
"He took some of the engineers attending the match," PM Marcos said, "The Akatsuki wanted them."
"What?" Rene asked into his radio.
"What's going on?" Sasuke asked.
"My men just spotted the Akatsuki in a Ford Airliner van heading toward the entrance to the bay," Rene said, "And they've got the engineer."
"Goldenboy, get the bird in the air," Sasuke said, "They'll being heading for the bridge of the bay, and we need to head them off."
"Gotcha Blood-spray," Naruto said, "We'll get the bird in the air."
"Alright," Sasuke said then turned to Prime Minister Marcos, "Mr. Mariana, you'll be safe here."
"Thank you soldier." PM Marcos said.
"Sakura, let's track down a van," Sasuke said as he lightly jogged over to the exit.
Sasuke and Sakura exited the conference center, and the chopper Naruto and Hinata were in was hovering above the streets with several rappelling lines hanging on the streets below.
After Sasuke and Sakura hooked the lines onto their EXOs, they were lifted into the chopper, and the chopper took after the van.
They found the van heading across the bridge that was built over the bay in 2056.
One of the hostiles saw the chopper in the rear-view mirror, and grabbed his IMI M90 SMG, loaded a magazine into the grip, and pulled back on the cocking-drive which was located on the side of the SMG.
The hostile leaned out the side of the van, and fired at the chopper.
"Shit," Sasuke said as he ducked into the chopper to prevent being shot, the bullets missed him by an inch, and after dropping onto the ground, Sasuke reached into his side-arm holster, drew his Bulldog revolver, leaned out the side of the chopper, and emptied the cylinders in the hostile's direction.
Four rounds bounced off the ground while the other three struck the hostile once in the hand, and twice in the chest.
Sasuke flipped the revolver open, reloaded the cylinders, and flipped the revolver shut, "I'll be right back," Sasuke said as he lowered himself onto the helicopter's skids.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Sakura asked.
"Saving the day," Sasuke said as he dropped onto the top of the van, landing right on the roof of the cab, right next to the driver's side door.
The driver drew his own Sig Sauer GPS, and as he turned to fire, Sasuke grabbed him by the throat, pulled him out of the van, and threw him into oncoming traffic.
The van spun out of control, and right before he could grab the wheel, the van slammed into the side of the bridge, flipped over the side of the bridge, and threw both Sasuke and the van into the bay.
After the van started to sink, he swam up to the back of the van, slammed his fist into the lock, and smashed it with one blow.
As the lock smashed, Sasuke pulled the handle, and the door flew open, sending dead Akatsuki out the back along with the engineer.
After the engineer was free, Sasuke heard something heave strike the water, he looked up, and saw the same line he used to get in the chopper out in front of the stadium in the water above him.
Sasuke was running low on air as he swam up to the line, but his EXO was weighting him down, but after attached the line to his EXO he gave the line a tug, and was yanked out of the water, and finally caught a breath of fresh air.
Once he was free of the water, the engineer looked up at him, and spoke, "Who are you?"
"I'm a soldier." Sasuke said.
Guess what happens next, I don't think you'll ever get it right…