Hostage

Chapter 7:Defused?

Henkel stood rooted to the spot as he processed what had just been said. "C-Can you repeat that, Command?" he asked in the most calm voice he could muster up.

"The enemy has a bomb in a warehouse on Palace Street. Your orders are to link up with the rest of Gamma there and Defuse it, move Sargent!" then the com shut off.

Henkel gulped. He then turned and nodded to Munz before the two of them ran through the battle torn streets as bullets and explosions went off around them. They were still pushing it when the com went off again.

"This is Delta 1, repeat this is Delta 1, Bravo 2 and I are pinned down at Elm's street, requesting assistance to all nearby units!"


Daniel swore loudly as he hid behind a half destroyed wall, Jennifer, standing next to him against the wall, was reloading a MR-C she had found on the ground. "That armored car came out of nowhere!" he muttered before blind firing his rifle, hearing a few screams and Pings he guessed he had hit something.

As He reloaded his SA80's clip Jennifer took her turn at firing blinding. The building they were hiding in had a large amount of holes in it's walls, some large enough to walk through, and the terrorist's armored car had been trying to punch a few into THEM over the past five minutes.

As Jen's clip emptied she fired the grenade launcher attached to the bottom before sliding back behind the wall, just as a 45mm round slammed into the wall she had been near, cracking it as a bit of it blew off into the hallway they were in.

"We need to find the rest of Delta!" he yelled over the gun fire. "Where the heck is Gamma anyways?!" he fired another burst and ducked as the 35mm machine gun on the top of the car fired at him, barely missing.

"I heard some chatter on the com about a Black Hawk crash site, but that's on the other side of the island!" Burke answered as she fired her own gun.

Stevens growled while firing his rifle at the troopers. "Well dang, we better move NOW!" he said just as the 75mm cannon fired, blowing a large hole in the wall. The two Ghosts raised themselves up slowly and shook their heads for a minute before they ran back deeper into the house, Burke firing a grenade into the wall, blowing a entrance out of it for them.

As they jumped out of the crude entrance in the wall made by Burke's Grenade launcher a burst of 35mm rounds ripped at them, nailing Burkes leg three times. As the two tumbled to the ground Daniel heard her curse and scream at the same time before a chopper flew overhead, barely seen by the ghosts as it flew over the alley they were in.

Daniel pulled himself to his feet and checked Jennifer's leg. "We better find Alex" he said in a worried tone. Jennifer shook her head.

"No. just wrap it and give me some morphine" Burke said as she glanced at the road outside of the alley, "We need to link up with Dubois, were the hek is he anyways?" she muttered as she winced from the painkiller.


William, Dubois and Hume were flying down the road full throttle in a battered Hummer. Hume was in the passenger seat of the stripped down hummer, his rocket launcher duck taped to a turret stand. William was in the turret seat barking directions from his visor, getting the map of the island from a drone hovering over the city.

Luckily most of the island was in blue, only the top right corner remained red, the map showed him a handful of red dots moving around, these were cars or choppers, things that were big enough for the camera hovering a few thousand feet in the air could actually see.

"RIGHT!" he barked and Dubois, having more fun then when his paratrooper unit had missed the practice landing zone on some island and had ended up at a bar drinking until the commander had shown up, made a sharp turn to the right and flew down the street. Hume seemed to be a bit more on the 'god please get me off this thing' mood as he clung for dear life. A Frenchman who free fell several thousand feet for a living was not someone you wanted behind a wheel.

"LEFT!" he barked and the driver of the slightly unarmored hummer, only missing the front plates, did as ordered.

"This is Delta 1, repeat this is Delta 1, Bravo 2 and I are pinned down at Elm's street, requesting assistance to all nearby units!"

Dubois glanced up at William, despite the fact that he was driving down a narrow street with sharp turns at the moment, "Eh we go'n after them Sargent?" the French paratrooper asked before turning back to the wheel, just in time to narrowly avoid the wreckage of a tank.

William answered immediately "Right!" he said and Dubois glanced at him again.

"To which monsieur?" he called before turning again, barely avoiding another tank.

"BOTH!" William barked before the Frenchman killed the rest of Delta with his crazy driving.


Munz and Henkel ran into the warehouse, where Guram and Mike were staring at the them. "Ten minutes...i win!" Guram shouted throwing a fist into the air in triumph.

Mike scowled at his teammates, meaning no real harm, before forking over two hundred dollar bills to his team leader. Both of the German soldiers before them only looked confused for a few seconds before they snapped to their senses. "Where is the bomb?" Henkel said calmly, radiating a professional attitude.

"Over here" Mike said and lead them to a large pill shaped device. On the front of it there was a square device wired to it, a key pad covered the left side with a count down on the very top and the right side was covered by a light panel, at the moment the panel was red and blinking.

Henkel lost all the color in his face as he moved quickly over to the thing and started mumbling to himself while tapping various parts of the device. Munz moved towards the door to keep watch, knowing that he wasn't needed at the moment.

Guram and Mike on the other hand were trying to get Henkel to explain what he was doing and what the thing was, or rather what kind of bomb it was. To which the annoyed German replied, "If you keep talking while I am trying to work, we are all going to end up dead. Get back to me when you've made a decision as to which choice you would prefer."


Burke and Stevens were firing at the armored car in vain as it advanced on them again, this time however their only cover was a flipped over car that they had gotten behind after exiting the alley that was only a few feet away.

The enemy car was bringing its main gun, the 75mm to bear when they heard a loud WHOOSH! A second later and the armored car's right side, the side facing the other end of the intersection it was parked on, was covered in a mini fire ball as a anti tank rocket slammed into it.

The main gun stopped moving but the 35mm machine gun on the top was still keeping them pinned behind the car. Both fired at the gunner, and managed to blow half his head off. The gunner slumped against his machine gun as the car tried to turn around to bring it's gun to bear at the new arrivals.

A urban camo painted hummer, minus the front plates and glass, had come flying down the road at the AC and was the source of the rocket that had disabled the car's main gun. Already they could see the gunner reloading his rocket as the 45mm machine gun mounted on the top let loose on the AC.

The two Ghosts applied their own rifle's fire at the car as well, Burke even fired her grenade out of the bottom, blowing a wheel off. Before the crew of the car could react another rocket lept from it's launcher and slammed THREW the window of the AC, Burke grimaced, that was gonna hurt. And it did.

The interior of the car was bright with fire as the vehicle shook, some of the armor broke and the rest of the glass shattered as the machine guns turret seat, and the dead body, was launched into the air by the funnel of fire that shot out of the hole in the roof of the car.

As more miniature explosions went off in and around the car, Burke and Stevens waved at the hummer in thanks. The vehicle in question was still roaring right at them and they began to become uneasy.

Just before the car hit them they heard a "DUBOIS!" from the man manning the turret, who was becoming clearer as they drove closer, and then the hummer made a very tight turn. The brakes squealed as smoke poured out from the tires and the car stopped right in front of them, the power slide had nearly made the car flip over, going so far as the other side of the car was tipping till the gunner was almost hanging onto the turret to stop sliding out. Then the massive car leaned back down and the smoke cleared.

Both Burke and Stevens mouth's dropped open at the sight of Dubois at the wheel and Hume clutching the car's frame for dear life, William had just hoped out of the gunner's seat and was standing next to them. "Dubois I will court martial you if you EVER do that again!" William barked, though somehow Burke found the mental picture of Williams face as the car flew right at his commanding officer, funny, and was starting to fight the laughing fit that was coming over her.

Daniel ignored Burke and looked at William, "Good work there Jacobs. Thierry I thought I told you to stop driving after Huat" he said, grinning more then lecturing. "Ah good times as you American's say, now...we better go link up with the NG forces in the northern part of the island" he said and climbed into the back of the hummer as "Yes Sir!" followed. Burke got in the back as well while William jumped back on the roof and settled down into the turret seat as Dubois drove at the maddening speed most found insane in New York, towards the northern part of the island.


Henkel was busy with the bomb as the rest of Gamma sat around, bored out of their minds. The top part of the bomb's case was off and endless streams of wires were all over the device's smooth sides and the bomb expert in question.

"This is Ghost Command, Gamma what is your status, Over" the voice of Gamma's operator asked.

Henkel let out a frustrated/annoyed sound before keying his mike. "This is Gamma-3, bomb is still un-defused".

"Time?" the operator actually sounded worried.

Henkel had gone back to working on the bomb as he answered. "1 minute and two seconds and counting" he sounded almost distracted as he started working around the wires and other parts of the device.

The entire room was mirroring the com channel, dead silent. "One-One minute?" the operator asked in shock.

"Fourty five seconds now, actually." Henkel said, "Now be quiet" before shutting the channel off.

Guram was looking at the door and the bomb in a 'which one?' sorta motion. "Uh, don't you think we should leave?" he asked in a worried voice.

"No, if I fail then we won't even have to move" Henkel said, not trying to sound arrogant or important, just trying to get his dang job done without Ghost Command bugging him.

The entire room went silent as a BEEP! Went off. Henkel then sighed, "there..." he then pulled out a small box with a red and white wire connected to it.

"Uh Henkel" Mike asked, eyeing the 00:01 on the red timer that was frozen on the box. "How big of a bomb was that?" he got the distinct feeling that is was NOT a fire cracker box filled to the brim.

"Oh, I don't know, couple megaton...most likely more" he said as the others stared at him in shock. "I think it was most likely a Tsar Bomba".

Guram spit on the floor in anger, "That is a Russian name! That is a Russian Bomb!" he shouted in fury.

Henkel shrugged. "Most likely, but then again, terrorist's all over the world have used american weapons and bombs...so we can't prove anything yet..." he then tossed the box in the air, being no more then a base ball in size, and caught it. "But we were still a bit slower then I think we should have been, and then there was the...." Gamma just groaned as they all headed for the NG headquarters, Henkel was still his old self, even after defusing that dang bomb with only a second to go.


yes I stopped here..but do not fret I will have Alpha's chapter in about a hour after this one. Just figured it would be weird for Alpha to just pop up somewhere else in the US while everything else in this chap had been in New York....

anyways thanks for reading and PLZ PLZ PLZ REVIEW! I think I didn't make the bomb scene dramatic enough and that the fight scenes were a bit down in action and all that stuff, so plz tell me what you think about it. PLZ!

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