Chapter Eight - pt 2 - The Losers Family

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"Remember the plan," Clay spoke up, looking towards the back of the exterminator van that Pooch had managed to get. Cougar was busy pulling his rifle case onto his shoulders while Jensen stowed his laptop in his backpack. Roque was checking over to make sure he had his guns and the taser he would be using. Smoke had been silently gathering her magic to use just in case one of her teammates died, she could bring them back with one strong spell and if she got to them fast enough. After they had all decided to go back to the Port, they had quickly regained their guns before setting off.

They were all ready to end this.

"Whatever happens today," Smoke began, causing them all to look over at her. "This ends today. And I'm real glad that y'all turned out to be my team all those years ago. I couldn't have asked for a better set of brothers-in-arms then you all."

The men smiled. "Hey no chick flick moments!" Jensen said, clearing his throat.

That caused the emotional atmosphere to change as they all laughed quietly. Then they turned serious again.

"Roque and I take out the guards and get in—"

"—so we can get in," Smoke cut in, motioning to herself, Jensen and Cougar. "Cougar sets up and watches everyone's six while I am to do whatever Jake says.."

"I get in, get the info, get out and save the day," Jensen added on with a grin.

Pooch rolled his eyes as they came up to the first drop area where they'd leave Cougar, Jensen, and Smoke. "And I wait in the van so we can haul ass outta here when we're done."

"Everyone keeps in contact," Clay ordered as the van slowed. "You three, get moving."

"Aye, aye," Jensen grinned as Cougar opened the back and the three hopped out, immediately ducking down behind an old beat-up looking car right beside the fence. The second that the van rolled out of site, the three began climbing over the fence. Cougar was the first one up and over so he could scan the area to make sure no one saw while Jensen and Smoke hustled over the top.

"We're in. Status?" Clay's voice cut in.

"The Pooch is good."

Cougar moved closer to the two and pointed the large shipping containers that were stacked high above them.

"You go. We'll cover you. Smoke, get ready to move after Cougar's in position. I want you high as well."

"You got it. Cougar, go." Smoke ordered. She watched him disappear through the shipping containers before turning her attentoin back onto Jake. "Be careful, okay? I don't want to have to raise you from the dead if you get yourself killed."

Jake looked at her wide eyed. "You can do that?!"

Smoke rolled her eyes. "Of course I can. I'm a witch aren't I?"

Jake just continued to stare after her as she left him behind and traveled to her own spot on top of a shipping container a little bit away from Cougar but still hidden by other containers around her from any looking for her.

"Jake, you're up," Smoke muttered through the comm as she followed him with her scope.

"Remind me again why I'm the one that has to do this and not the witch that can save herself with a wave of her hand if she fell?"

"Because said witch doesn't feel like doing something stupid today. Ask me to do it tomorrow."

"Smoke, Jensen, focus." Clay ordered.

Jensen grinned before jumping down through the open skylight, his rope making a zipping noise as he touched down on the ground. He unhooked himself and ran over to the metal doorway in the large building where he heard soft knocking. He pressed his ear against the door. "What's the password?"

"Let us in or I'll kill you," Roque retorted, his voice slightly muffled through the doorway.

"Correct," the blonde grinned as he opened the door and let his team-mates in. "The main server is two skylights over," he explained pointing towards a white door on the wall across the large room. "I'm going to be coming out that door."

"Get ready to move as soon as Cougar hits the fire alarm," Clay ordered. When he saw the blonde nod his understanding he gestured towards the rope. "Get gone."

Jensen nodded again and ran over towards the rope hooking on again before he shot up the rope, climbing back onto the roof. He ran across the roof and hopped down to the lower level.

It only took a minute for him to see the problem. "This skylight isn't open."

"Then it looks like you're going to have to make an opening." Smoke replied.

"I'm above the computer room, maybe thirty seconds out," he said over the comms.

"Wade's here. Last chance to get the hell out of dodge," Pooch's voice came over the comms.

"Roger that."

"Whatever you do, don't pop your stitches. I don't feel like having to patch you up again today either."

"You aren't up for anything today, are ya?"

"I'm up for shanking Max's a** but other then that, nope."

Jake grinned and he could hear the muffled chuckles over the comms at their female soldier. Finding out she was a thousand years old and a witch, and that werewolves and vampires were also real, had done nothing to change their perspectives on her. She was still their bad*ss sister-in-arms.

He jumped, crashing through the glass and repelling down to the ground. He was okay, his stitches weren't popped and he was about to get the information from the servers. Jensen grinned. "And the crowd goes wild!"

Almost immediately lights were on him and he heard the sounds of gun safety's being turned off. He looked up in surprise and saw that he was being surrounded by the Kryon soldiers, pointing guns his way. "Where are you going?" One of the men challenged. He internally cursed and held his hands up.

"How are you guys doing?" Jensen asked, loud enough for his team to hear him on the comms.

Smoke tensed at Jensen's words and panned her scope towards Cougar whom seemed to not have heard Jake's words. She could see Cougar still in his spot, sprawled out on the container with his rifle aimed at the fire alarm on the building in a different direction. He was so focused he didn't even notice the Kryon men approaching him from behind.

"Cougar, watch your six!" Smoke hissed into the comms. She saw the man tense up even from her distance before she saw a red laser targeting dot on his chest. He must've noticed it too, because he looked down before the three Kryon man surrounded him, aiming their weapons his way. He lowered his rifle down and held up his hands, his eyes meeting Smoke's, even from the large distance between them. She looked back at him helplessly, not sure what to do.

"Cougs? Cougs?" Pooch's voice came through.

"Guys, Jensen and Cougar are caught, Kryon is all over," she said into the comms as Cougar was hauled up to his feet and the comm was pulled out of his ear and thrown onto the ground so he couldn't communicate with the others. She waited for a response from Pooch or the others, but none came. Her heart started beating harder after seeing first hand that the Kryon were taking out their comms. "Guys, c'mon I need you to talk to me here," she muttered, ducking down into a crouch and scanning all around her, her eyes continuing to flicker back to the sniper who was trying to keep the men's attention on him so they didn't look her way. "Clay, Roque, Pooch, c'mon someone start talking."

"Smoke, where are you? I'll come get you," Roque's voice came over the comms.

"I'm okay for now, but where are the others?"

"I'm not sure. Kryon surrounded us and took Clay. I just managed to get away. Where are you?"

Smoke's eyes narrowed. The Kryon were getting them too easily, like they knew where they would be. The only reason they didn't know where Smoke would be is because Jake had ordered her to get up high and she had chosen her spot, neither informing the three on the ground what Jake or Smoke had done or said. Roque had asked her twice where she was. She started scanning the area more thoroughly, noticing that the Kryon had gotten Cougar down off the shipping container and were pulling him along on the ground while another group moved towards them, Jensen among them. "I'm next to the skylight waiting for Jake."

"...no you're not."

Her blood went cold at the words and the malicious tone of voice that Roque had taken. Things started to click into place and anger and betrayal started to flow through her. "You betrayed us."

"Yeah, about that... I'm sorry, Smoke this was the only way. Now tell me where you are."

"No... You've just made an enemy out of me, Roque. And if even one piece of hair is out place on my guys, you'll find out exactly why my family is feared by the creatures of the dark."

"Smoke-!" Smoke took her comms out of her ear and threw them onto the ground, breaking them.

Smoke then sensed eyes on her.

"Up there!" Smoke's eyes snapped up to see that the Kryon soldiers were looking her way.

Jensen, Pooch, and Cougar were all looking at her with wide eyes before her one of her brothers screamed. "SMOKE RUN!"

None of them wanted their sister to be killed like they were surely going to be.

Smoke didn't need to be told twice although she did hesitate about leaving her guys behind but knew that if she did escape, she could come back and rescue them. Smoke took off, sprinting across the shipping containers. Almost immediately she heard the men shouting for someone to stop and grab her, but she didn't look around to see what they were doing. She leaped over a gap between two containers and kept running before she caught a glimpse of the water.

She ran as fast as she could and heard the sounds of boots stomping on the containers behind her. She chanced a look back and saw that there were around five men running along the containers on her tail. She cursed before looking forward again, spotting the docks just ahead of her. She quickly jumped off the container she was running along, rolling on the concrete before shooting up and running towards the fence.

"Don't let her get over!"

Smoke ran at the fence and climbed it in two steps, hurtling over the barbed wire and landing onto the docks as soon as the bullets started flying. She ducked her head down and scrambled to her feet, sprinting towards the docks and diving into the water. The water was extremely cold and she had to do her best not to gasp. She breathed out through her nose in an attempt not to float up to the top before she looked around. In front of her was just open water, but behind her were the docks. She swam towards it and surfaced underneath the wooden boards, breathing in air as quietly as she could while trying not to make noise as she treaded in the water.

Boots stomped on the docks just above her and she chanced a look up to see that the five men who were chasing her were now standing on the docks, guns raised and aiming into the water.

"Does anyone see her?" One of them shouted.

Flashlights were immediately clicked on and Sky looked down to see that their lights were flickering through the water, shining as they tried to search for her. "Where the hell did she go?"

"She can't be that fast of a swimmer that she's gone already."

"Maybe she drowned herself. That would save time."

"Let her go," one of the men ordered. "We just needed the other four. She's not important. We weren't supposed to kill her."

"Yeah, and we're not supposed to kill the other four either, but we're gonna do that anyway. Just because that Roque guy told us not to kill them doesn't mean we should listen to them."

"Let's just go help Alpha team tie up those others. It's better than trying to find wherever that chick went."

"Hey? You want to mess with those losers?" One of them spoke up with a small laugh. He pulled out a gun and shot in the air three times before holstering his gun and snickering. "Let's go tell those idiots that we killed their little wh*re. That outta get a rise outta them."

"I like it!"

Smoke glared up at them through the boards but didn't do anything. She had to plan how to rescue Clay, Jake, Cougar, and Pooch. And to do that, she had to hope that Aisha had big enough b*lls and hatred towards Max to come back by herself.

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Smoke casted a tracking spell after she got out of the water, drying herself with a spell before casting the tracking spell. Aisha wasn't far.

She came up behind Aisha in a warehouse that was next to the docks.

Smoke drew her gun and aimed it at Aisha's head.

"I should blow your head off." Aisha stiffened and whirled around, her hands rising when she saw that she wouldn't be fast enough to draw her own gun with Smoke pointing her own at her.

"Nothing is stopping you."

"Actually, there are four things stopping me."

Aisha looked confused, causing Smoke to roll her eyes. "Pooch, Clay, Jake, Cougar."

"Not Roque?"

Smoke scowled still hurt and angry about him. "Roque betrayed us."

Aisha eyes widened. "So what do you need me for?"

"You're going to help me rescue my guys."

"And why would I do that?"

"I won't blow your head off, for one. And two, Max is out there. You won't get this close to him ever again."

Aisha was silent for a moment. "Agreed."