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Chapter 4. Friendly fire
Ben stood there as the man in the suit introduced himself.
"I'm sorry where are my manners, my names James Harris I'm the director of team rainbow" Harris held his hand out as he waited for Ban to shake it. Begrudgingly shaking his hand Ben looked over to the four operators behind him.
"don't mind them, they just got back from the field there waiting to be relieved, "scooting his hand at the four behind them, the operators relaxed their position and walked away to the medical wing, probably to decontaminate from anything they touched that had the green poison virus. Ben stood at attention as he waited till the operators left,
"I'm confused when you said you're here to fix this fuck up?" Harris turned around and took a huff of his cigarette
"I mean Agent that Manhattan is no closer to being fixed than it was two months ago when the first wave showed up. DC sent me and my team to assess the situation, take the threats out and report" smiling now, Harris took
"why weren't we made aware of your arrival? There wasn't any word, not even a sound that you were coming"
"well seeing as how there's no commander for the second wave of you, there was no one I could've informed"
"I beg to differ sir, agent Faye Lau is acting commander for the second wave, or Cpt. Benítez could've been made aware instead you show up unannounced kicking a hornet's nest so with all respect sir, why are you really here?" Harris put his cigarette out and walked over to Ben.
"I was told by the secretary of defense we need a team in Manhattan to stop this fuck up before they make it worse, so if your done with your temper tantrum, your dismissed till I need you" walking away Harris looked at Ben again.
"where'd you serve?" Ben still stood at attention
"sir?"
"the way you stand at attention, your posture, where did you serve" Ben relaxed a bit.
"Afghanistan Sir" Harris walked around the table to look at Ben.
"rank?"
"Specialist: Benjamin Kelly of the Army Ranger's sir"
"a ranger?"
"In Afghanistan sir, here I used to be a paramedic before the call."
"than why do you look like shit specialist?" Ben smirked as he walked away towards the med bay. Walking to the desk, Ben took his shirt off as he felt around his chest to examine the damage. Muttering to himself Ben was oblivious as Kandal walked up to him.
"what's the count?" Ben looked up as he felt around his ribs to see what was okay and what wasn't.
"so far two broken and one sprain, you got a depressor around here?" Kandal walked behind the desk and pulled two tongue depressors out and handed them to Ben.
"Thanks" Putting them in his mouth, Ben took a deep breath as he snapped the fisrt rib back into its place.
"You want some help? Kandal asked after a grunt of pain followed by another snap came from Ben's Mouth. Spitting the sticks from his mouth Ben put his shirt back on
"a little late but thanks for asking" looking over to Gwen's bed, Ben leaned onto the table.
"how is she doing? Kandal walked over to the bed and took the chart, tossing it to Ben.
"look for yourself, you seem to know a little" Ben flipped over the chart to see anything negative, searching over the two pages, Ben sighed as he set the chart down.
"nothing to serious, no sign of internal bleeding, no infection, looking good so far"
"I'm amazed the bullet didn't hit anything vital" Kandal walked over to the bed and heart monitor to calibrate it.
"I was more worried that she would bleed out before we got here" Kandal looked up at ben as she finished fucking around with the monitor.
"you should get some sleep, you've been running on a few hours I'll take it from here and let you know how she's doing when you wake up, but you can't keep going on fumes" Ben nodded as he walked out of the wing and slowly sat down onto his cot. Looking at his watch, Ben sighed as it only read 11:45 in the morning, covering his eyes with his arm he then soon fell asleep.
"MEDIC!" Ben snapped awake as he looked around him to see five other men in desert flak jackets Realizing where he was, Ben looked over to a car on fire, with two soldiers, one on the ground and the other ripping off his jacket to get to the wound running over the car. Ben looked at the wound and quickly grabbed the medical supplies in his pack.
"what happened" Ben asked the solider.
"tango behind a car took some shots at us, I got him but the fucker got John here" Ben looked down as he examined the man's wound. Finding an exit wound in the left shoulder, Ben grabbed some morphine and bandages, to dress the wound. "nothing to bad here, but we need to get him to base" injecting the morphine into john's arm, Ben Placed the bandages over the holes and hiked the man over his shoulder.
"LET'S GO!" Ben looked over the man with the sat phone for a name as his Tag read Brick. "Brick call HQ tell them we got wounded and we need exfil" Brick nodded as he grabbed the satellite from his pocket and quickly called HQ.
"what happened?"
"don't talk John, you got shot, but we're getting you outta here."
"who patched me up?" John asked the man whose tag read Myers
"that new Medic assigned yesterday, I think his name is Kent or something" Ben chimed in
"it's Kelly" Hurrying over to the rest of the Squad, Ben looked over to the rest of the Soldiers as they laid a small cover fire for him to move behind the cover of the house they were occupying. Ben sat John leaning onto the wall as he ducked into cover to make sure nobody was going to flank them till the exfil showed up. Two minutes, ten, one hour, it seemed to go on forever as all the squad seemed to do was wait for the exfil, the shooting to start hell anything just no more waiting. Gunfire broke out as the squad readied themselves for the hell that was coming. Walking over to the wounded man, one of the soldiers looked ben
"how's he holding up?" Ben looked up to see the man's tag read
"Gentry" ben stood up he tried to use a wet napkin to take the blood off his hands.
"well so far, he's stable but we should get him to a hospital, they'd be able to fix him better than I could. Gentry saw how Ben was acting worried and leaned in closer to Ben
"how's he really doing?" Ben looked around at the other squad members and he turned back to Gentry.
"he's not looking good, it almost nicked his artery but he's still bleeding pretty bad, if we don't get him out soon he won't last" Gentry slid down the wall next to John
"fuck, and we have no idea how long it'll be till our ride comes to get us" Ben crouched down to redress the bullet wound
"Hey guys?" Gentry looked up to see Brick standing above them.
"we got problems" Gentry stood up as he met Brick at eye level,
"what kind of trouble?"
"we got what looks like a group of villagers who are loading up with something, we dony know what but my guess is AK's" Ben stood up now rolling his sleeves up to prevent blood getting on him.
"how many?" Brick turned to Ben as he spoke
"at least ten, maybe fifteen" Gentry took his helmet off and wiped the sweat from his head.
"fuck, is there any way we can move him into this house?"
"yeah, but it would be best if we laid him down but we can get him in the house and someone would guard him" Brick stood tall
"I'll do it sir" Gentry looked at Brick with confusion.
"why do you want to volunteer?" Brick looked down at the ground with shame,
"it's my fault, he's my best friend and I let him get shot, let me make it up to him please" Brick continued to beg Ben till he finally caved
"Fine, cover him while we make sure nobody comes close" Brick looked up as he showed a smile and quickly ran into the house to cover john who was now laying on the table. Ben and Gentry walked over to the side of the house to look at the action just in time to spot a few village men walking into a house carrying guns,
"well shit now we got trouble" Ben ducked behind the Side of the house and took the safety off his m4 and took the clip out to check if it was full. Tapping it on his head, Ben reloaded his rifle and readied behind Gentry who did the same thing to his rifle
"ready Kelly?" smiling Ben looked at Gentry "lock and load" the rest of the squad loaded their rifle as they all prepared for the hell that would soon follow.
It started with a crack and some dust settling behind a car to the left, two men slowly went to the car for a better vantage point while the four other men looked all around them to avoid an ambush. Cracks soon sounded off all around Ben as the villagers started to fire at them and shout at them in Arabic only Ben couldn't make out anything they were saying them. Looking behind the corner, reeled back in fear as he saw an angry mob carrying rifles and walking straight towards them.
"we got company Gentry" Ben turned around and looked at Gentry who went inside the house. "brick give me the radio, we need to call HQ" brick nodded and tossed the Radio to Gentry who walked back outside back into the ally.
"HQ, HQ come in this is Bravo 1 come in over, we are experiencing hostile's permission to engage how copy?" a minute went by till the static from the radio spoke back
"Bravo one, be advised we read you loud and clear, permission granted, I repeat permission granted over" Gentry looked over to the men behind the car readying an m60
"fire warning shots first, if they don't disperse, we have permission but wait for the warning shot" the men nodded as they raised the machine gun into the air above the mob and fired three shots to warn the mob to leave.
The crowd now shocked ducked and a few people ran off, still leaving about what looked like twenty individuals all wearing something over there face and carrying rifles till a man in a vest and black turban walked through the crowd carrying a Molotov.
"FUCK RUN!" the two men quickly dropped the m60 and ran from the car as the man threw the cocktail straight towards them. Dodging the Molotov barley, the men ran through the street and to the other side avoiding gunfire and covering behind an ally wall.
"Shit" Gentry exclaimed till pulling from cover and providing covering fire till the men were safe, Ben walked through the house and to a window as he slowly opened it to provide more covering fire, he fired his rifle as the man who threw the cocktail sending him to the ground.
"tango down, ill provide suppressing fire, Gentry and Jones, go to the ally and help our boys" turning around Ben looked at Brick who was sitting in a chair waiting for something to happen.
"get ready, we don't know what gonna happen" Brick nodded and loaded his rifle and aimed it towards the door.
Gentry ran across the street and aimed at the mob who now started to get into cover from Ben's covering fire and covered them as they all ran to the other side of the street with the squad.
"HQ this is Bravo 1 we still need exfil for wounded man, where are you I repeat where are you?" the radio sputtered some static before broadcasting
"Bravo 1 be advised we have a convoy on route ETA 3 minutes, just hold on" Gentry shouted over to Ben as he ran across the street with the two men.
"Kelly, we got a few minutes, how's our man?" Ben stopped firing at the mob long to look back at John, who still laid unconscious and Brick sitting beside him aiming toward the door
"were still goo-"Ben's heart dropped as he saw across the street on a rooftop a man carrying an RPG and aimed it towards the house. "BRICK RUN NOW!" Ben snapped up as he booked it towards the table John laid on, Brick leapt up and tried to book it out of the house. Ben grabbed John and threw him over his shoulders then made a b-line for the door.
Ben launched himself at the door just as the rocket impacted the side of the house sending him flying. Dazed and looking up Ben looked over to John, reaching out to him John's body danced for a few seconds as bullets riddled him, turning to see brick fall from a bullet hitting him in the arm. Ben sat up still dazed before snapping back awake and heading over to brick to fix his arm.
"HQ, THIS IS BRAVO 1, WE ARE HEAVILY OUTNUMBERED AND SUFFURING HEAVY CASUALATIES, WHERE ARE YOU?" the radio didn't tune back for a few minutes till the static spoke out.
"Bravo 1, be advised ETA about 3 minutes, I repeat 3 minutes you have to hold out till than" Ben felt a sharp pain in his shoulder as he looked down and saw blood trickle down from his arm, falling over into the dirt.
Ben snapped awake clinching his dog tags, till the pain in his ribs set in and made him grab his chest instead. Calming down from a nightmare, Ben grabbed his watch to look at the time.
"Good morning Agent Kelly, the time is currently 10;57 am"
"what day did I fall asleep?" Faye interrupted
"You've been asleep for a few days ben, I told nobody to disturb you while you slept" Ben rubbed his eyes as he saw Faye offer him a cup of coffee,
"thanks"
"bad dreams?" Ben nodded as he stood up from his cot
"I was back in Fallujah" Faye looked at Ben
"what happened?" Ben rubbed his shoulder as he felt a small pinch in the bullet wound on his shoulder.
"just the day I got this, and lost some friends" Faye looked at him as she walked towards him,
"it still hurt?" Ben shook his head
"only when it rains, or I have that nightmare again" chugging the coffee and poured a new cup to get him to forget the dream he just had.
"well we got some news for you, Gwen's awake" looking at Faye, Ben quickly grabbed a t-shirt and rushed over to the medical wing.
Walking over to Kandal's table Ben finished putting his shirt on and waited for Kandal to come out of her little room.
"Ben what are you doing here?"
"I heard Gwen is awake I wanted to talk to her" Kandal pointed to her bed
"you know the way" rushing past her Ben went straight into the clinic and saw Gwen sitting upright and eating blue jello. Walking over to her bed Gwen looked up and saw ben as he grabbed the medical chart from the foot of her bed, smiling at him she held out her jello
"want some? I know it isn't the red stuff but it's not bad" smirking Ben looked at the chart to make sure she was okay
"no thanks I'm still waking up, beside you need it more than I do" Gwen looked at him as she took another spoonful of jello.
"I woke up yesterday, were you in the field?" setting the chart Ben looked at Gwen and smiled a little
"no I was asleep, sleeping off this" Raising his shirt up Ben showed Gwen the bandages around his ribs
"two broken and one sprained but they should heal soon" Gwen ran her fingers across his ribs hoping to feel the damage
"how bad does it hurt?"
"not too bad I mean it's sore but I'll live, good enough to get back out there, how are you feeling?" Gwen pulled the sheets and raised the hospital gown up to show the bandages around her waist where she was shot.
"it hurts a little but im doing okay for now"
Ben looked around and found a chair and sat down by her bed, looking at the floor Ben rubbed his eyes still trying to wake up
"I'm sorry about getting you shot" Gwen pulled the sheets back up to warm herself up.
"it wasn't your fault, the bullet came from nowhere" looking up at her, Gwen smiled at Ben as he looked up at her.
"I never did thank you for saving my life"
"don't mention it" "I mean the first time, with the looters they would've killed me. Or worse" Ben smiled a little as he put his arms on the bed and was just about to put his head in them, till Gwen reached out for his hand.
"I heard you scream the first time and new I couldn't just let you get hurt, that's what I signed on for" Gwen looked at his shoulder and saw the tattoo underneath the sleeve.
"what's that?" looking over on his right, Ben pulled up his sleeve to show the tattoo.
"it's a keepsake, for the hell I endured… and cause when I served" Gwen squeezed his hand a little as she spoke again but with a little concern
"marines?"
"rangers, I was a field medic the first year I was over there" Gwen looked at his tattoo. The tattoo on his arm was a Parachute with wings, a ribbon on the top had the words Ranger above it. The wings on the parachute showed seven feathers falling, three on the left and four on the right, they stayed close to the whole piece but they were falling nonetheless.
Gwen looked at the art on his arm a little closer and looked at the feathers,
"what's with the feathers?" Gwen squeezed his Hand a little tighter as she asked him the question
"those are the kills I confirmed while I was there" Ben looked down as he looked ashamed of what he just said,
"it's ironic, I went over there as a field medic, but I feel like I did more harm than good" "how did you join the Division?" Gwen asked as she leaned down to catch his eye and bring him back up to the conversation.
"after this hell of a mission only two people from my squad made it through. During the debrief a was approached by a man in a suit asking if I wanted to serve for the greater good, I said yes and soon I was sent back to the states. In Washington, I was selected along with the other agents to become sleepers for the Division hoping we would never be called." Gwen smiled a little to try and get him to smile
"is that where you learned to save lives?"
"yes and no, I learned the basics in boot camp, after I got out I signed up with the paramedics in my home town, about a year later I got the call and came here" Gwen looked at Ben again with a puzzled look.
"wait how old are you?"
"28 I signed up straight outta high school at 18"
"where did you serve?"
"Afghanistan and a few other places" Gwen looked at Ben and pulled her hand away
"everything alright?" Gwen nodded as she flexed her hand.
"yeah, I'm okay, just thinking"
"about?" Gwen looked back up at ben.
"just what might be going on in your head" ben reared back
"what do mean?"
"I mea-"before Gwen could finish her sentence a man in desert camo came bursting through the door with a bloodied shoulder
"FUCK" Ben stood up as he walked over to the man and looked at his arm
" what happened?" a women in blue fatigues and flak jacket came through the door after him with Kandal following.
"gunshot, we were out in the Garment district following some men, probably looters when they burst into flame when four men came through the alley"
"fucking cleaners" Ben scratched his head as he muttered more
"what the fuck are they doing so close?"
" we tried to fight them off, but the flames almost got me when Blackbeard got shot in the arm, I'm so sorry Craig" The man looked at her with a half-smile clearly in pain
"oh don't worry so much, I took the bullet from those shitheads, not you" Ben grabbed a needle and shot it into Blackbeard's arm
"this'll help the pain"
"thanks doc" Ben reared away for a second,
"not a doctor I'm an agent, I was just a paramedic before this" Blackbeard looked at him " well still thank you"
Kandal cut in as she took Blackbeard from the group.
"ill need to get the bullet from his arm, I think Harris or whatever his name wanted to speak with you, and YOU should go back to your bed" Ben turned around to see Gwen walking towards them in her hospital gown and scrub pants carrying what looked like his jacket
"I needed to talk to Ben" Ben walked over to her
"what's up why are you out of bed?" Gwen held out the jacket for him
"I asked the Nurses to wash it if they could" Ben pushed it back to her
"it'll keep you warm, I got a few other jackets I can use don't sweat it"
"well agent, it seems I may need your help after all" Ben turned around and saw Harris standing in the doorway to the medical wing
"I have men in hells kitchen who need some help, I need you and that agent, I think his name is Elliot? Anyway I need you and him to regroup with my specialists outside and go help them out" Ben turned to face Harris
"who are these specialists?" Harris smiled a little.
"they're names aren't important, but you can call them BUCK, and IQ" Ben nodded as Harris walked out the door "Ben?" Ben turned around again and saw Gwen looking at him with concern "Please be safe" Ben smiled a little and nodded before going to his room to gear up.
Ben immediately threw his gear on as Elliot walked through the door
"What's this I hear that that rainbow team needs help?"
"yeah that's the situation, we gotta go and help them"
"wasn't it like two days ago that Harris asshat was like "oh I got this we don't need you" I don't get him" ben smirked as he rummaged through his rucksack till he found his brown bomber jacket and a white hoodie and set it on his cot
"yeah, he thinks he's something else" Ben finally put his gear on and grabbed his jacket as him and Elliot walked out of the room and to the arms vendor.
"if we're going up against cleaners I want my shotgun as well as that M416" Elliot nodded as they went to the vendor and pulled what they needed. Walking out the post office Elliot was sporting his normal M870 and M60 while instead of the Burst fire MP Ben walked out with an M870 and his M416. Ben put his beanie on just as Elliot nudged his elbow and beckoned towards a man in white fatigues, wearing a black beanie and all his gear was black smoking a cigarette while leaning on a car. While the woman Ben saw from earlier was sitting on top of the car the man was leaning on but she was fidgeting with that computer on her wrist.
The man looked over and saw them, smiling he threw his cigarette into the snow and grabbed his rifle leaning right next to him.
"you the agents?" Ben nodded as Elliot and him walked over to them
"I'm Ben, this is Elliot" The woman on the car quickly jumped off, grabbed her rifle and walked over with the man
"Nice to meet you, my names Sebastián, this is Monika, but for safety reasons please call us BUCK and IQ" Ben nodded as he shook Buck's hand while Elliot shook IQ's.
"well let's cut to the chase, Harris needs your guy's help with something going on in hell's kitchen" walking Ben and Elliot started to walk as Buck and IQ followed
"whats the situation?"
"we got men with flamethrowers and axes mounting an assault on our men inside hell's kitchen they're fortified, but we still need to help them" Ben looked over to Buck and smiled "let's get to work"
Hello again I'm sorry it took a little while for this chapter to get out, school caught up with me. I had fun writing this but again I wanna know what you think so feel free to tell me what you think. I'll try to get the next chapter out quick, but with the shit that's about to hit the fan it'll be interesting to see how much I can get cause of all the fighting, I hope your enjoying the chapters so far and I'll be posting defiantly cause I'm not done with this story!