This chapter is dedicated to Puberbeer for very politely telling me my French is shit, and then sorting it out.
Only a short one, but ENJOY none the less.
The Captain looked over the sorry looking group of recruits and fought back a sigh. They were all obviously exhausted, faces pale and pinched, weary lines covering their faces. This was only a quarter of them, he was waiting to test them on their shooting skills, half had already gone, one clear sharpshooter, others clearly medics.
"You go." He ordered pointing at yet another recruit, this one was tall, graceful and moved like a dancer. He also seemed familiar. The Captain waited until the target was in then froze. He had seen those groupings before,
"Wait." He snapped to the owner of the shots,
"Go." He told the next person, he then pulled out his walkie talkie, "K unit, is Jaguar on site, over?"
"Yes, over." Wolf's voice came through the machine,
"Send him to the firing range, stat, over." The connection broke off, a few minutes and three recruits later Jaguar and Fox appeared deep in discussion with Snake about something, Jaguar brightened when he saw the man the captain had put to one side,
"Cheetah, said you'd be back." They clapped each other on the back,
"And I'd said you'd complete this if it killed you." Cheetah laughed,
"How's the arm?" Jaguar asked,
"And the leg." Ben put in,
"And the ribs." Snake continued, Cheetah smiled ruefully,
"Good as new. Can't say the same for Hawk, still walks with a slight limp if he exerts his leg too much." Cheetah replied,
"What is this a bloody mothers meeting?!" Captain Reynolds exclaimed,
"No sir. What did you want sir?" Fox asked smoothly,
"I wanted to know if Jaguar taught Cheetah how to shoot like this." Reynolds gestured at the target, Fox whistled lowly,
"Almost as good as you Jag." He teased,
"Almost. That'd be a little too much of a graze to be on the safe side." Snake tapped the head shot, "And that would probably render them a cripple for the foreseeable future." He now tapped the leg wound,
"Is it good?" Reynolds asked,
"Yes, it'd get the job done. Jag's survived well enough." Snake confirmed,
"He also has the luck of the devil, remember that." Fox commented,
"You can say that again." Cheetah muttered,
"You're just sore because in the truck accident in the storm that made you drop out with three weeks to go last time Jag only got a few measly injuries." Fox laughed,
"Too right." Cheetah agreed,
"But those measly injuries, when medics aren't told about them, sometimes turn into bad ones. Don't they Jaguar." Snake hit him over the head,
"Ah, nice to see it wasn't just me who had issues with him." Cheetah commented, "See you around." The recruits left the firing range heading to the mess. Fox ruffled Jaguar's hair,
"Your little friend is back!" He teased,
"At least I have a friend!" Alex shot back,
"Touché."
"Is that the best you can do." Alex raised an eyebrow at the other spy amused,
"I have to agree Fox, that was shit." Wolf agreed arriving just as they entered the mess, "Even by Eagle standards that was shit."
"HEY!" Eagle cried out,
"You saying it's not true?" Ben taunted, Eagle pouted and stabbed his food with vigour, the rest laughed amused at his childlike actions. Alex's phone rang within seconds every SAS member was silence, the recruits falling silent in confusion, they had been told, and they had tested it, that signal could not be obtained here. Alex answered it, then three seconds later hung up,
"Three, two, one." Ben's phone rang right on Alex's countdown,
"Yes... yes... goodbye." Ben hung up and smirked at Alex, "One day they'll get grumpy at you hanging up on them every time." He commented,
"That is the general plan." Alex grinned,
"They won't fire you you're too good." Lynx sighed,
"What this time?" Wolf sounded resigned,
"Don't know. They're sending a car for us." Ben replied frowning,
"Bet it's black." Alex laughed,
"Bet it's a Mercedes." Eagle added,
"Who's sending a black Mercedes?" Parrot asked sitting down,
"Who do you think?" Jay sighed,
"'6. Again?" He glanced at Alex,
"And Fox too this time." Alex defended himself, he wasn't sure why but felt the need to.
"Great, the two top spies, what's going on; world domination?" Hare laughed, Ben grinned at Alex,
"How many of them have you stopped?" Anteater queried,
"Turkey." Alex replied,
"Istanbul." Ben continued,
"Australia."
"More so Indonesia." Ben corrected,
"Sorry. America."
"England."
"Brazil."
As Ben opened his mouth to add to the list Leopard stopped them,
"You have just broken the OSA in so many places I lost count. Shut up, you can't list countries without telling us what happened there." He told them.
"Sorry, classified." Ben and Alex grinned. Both unit leaders, Wolf and Bear, took it upon themselves to hit the two spies in the head,
"Jones didn't seem happy." Ben commented,
"Bet it's the French." Alex grinned, Ben shook his head,
"Russians." Then they both grinned,
"Australians." They exclaimed in unison,
"Don't you need to go?" Snake commented,
"Unfortunately." Ben muttered, a late recruit entered the mess,
"There's a car here for Fox and Jaguar sirs." He gasped out then sat with his 'friends',
"Lets go." Ben sighed,
"Call us if you need anything." Wolf smiled at them, the two spies nodded then left the mess, the recruits erupted into gossip,
"Christ, you'd think they were teenage girls." Lynx sighed,
"Let's go see them off. God knows when they'll be back." Jay announced,
"Yep." The three units stood leaving behind the only other full unit in confusion,
"Why do they all know who he is and we don't?" One of them murmured,
"Jag's the only one who got through selection last time round. We got to know him pretty well." Leopard called across,
"Only one." A worried voice carried across the hall from the recruit section.
"Yeah. Have fun." Wolf flashed them a grin then ducked out. The remaining unit collapsed laughing at the pure fear on the recruits faces.
"Hey, good luck." Wolf smiled slightly at the two spies, his unit members.
"Come back in one piece." Snake added giving them brief 'man hugs'.
"Don't die." Eagle mock sobbed hugging them,
"Eagle." Alex laughed then they slipped into the black Mercedes and left the camp.
"They had better come back in one piece or there'll be hell to pay." Wolf growled,
"They promised they will call if they need something." Snake placated him. The unit leader stalked off to their hut anger flowing off him in waves. Snake sighed as everyone looked at each other, "I'll go." He was always like this when the two spies left from here.
"See you in hell mate." Eagle clapped him on the back then vanished with the others,
"So much for team solidarity."
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