Chapter 9 – Crashing the party I

Sierra

The dinner yesterday was awesome, with a turkey and lasagna, I fell asleep in Fernando's room, like before our amnesia incident. I still wore my pistol and day clothes (including my Kevlar) and made sure the sidearm was on safety (I didn't have any grenades either).

I woke up, feeling recharged, it was a long time since I got some proper sleep. Fernando is still asleep and I tested my rifle.

"Good." I said, seeing everything was fine.

Walking into the hallway I heard a crash.

"OW! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" Doc shouted.

"YOU SCARED ME!" Johnson said.

"ALL I DID WAS TAP YOU ON THE HEAD!"

"IT COULD HAVE BEEN SOMEONE TAPPING A GUN ON MY HEAD!"

"Okay, you two, quiet down!" Weston said.

"Yeah, you were as loud as bloody thunder claps!" Said Bell.

"Yes sir..."

I opened the door and entered.

"Well I think everyone's up... From different reasons..." I said, frowning.

"..."

"Awkward silence..." Weston said, wiggling his fingers around in mid- air.

Everyone laughed.

"Ha ha, you do know how to lighten the mood, Weston." I said.

"Well, what can I say! Those years as class clown taught me a lot!"

"*Groan* What's with all the yelling?" Fernando said, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Sgt. Johnson punched Doc in the face." Bell said.

"Okay..." Fernando said and then his eyes went wide. "IT'S CHRISTMAS MORNING!"

Everyone ran down stairs to the library for the Christmas tree.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Linda and Tulio said to everybody along with Blu and Jewel.

"Santa had something for everyone! Grab your presents!" Tulio said.

Fernando's face lit up as he ran for the presents and started ripping.

"What are you waiting for? It's presents!" Weston said.

"He's right!" I said and dug in too.

"Come on!" Bell said.

I ripped open the box that held my gift, studied it and smiled.

"A solar powered LED helmet- light!"

I took the helmet off my head and unscrewed the old one, which kept running out of power. I screwed on the new one and tried it.

"Wow it's bright! I won't have to worry about running out of power now!"

"Check out this glowing Swiss army knife!" Johnson said, showing off his knife.

"Hey, me too!" Bell said.

"I got a nice butterfly knife! I've been dying to get one for myself!" Doc said.

"I got a... R/C car?"

"Oh that must be a mix up!" Linda said.

"Oh so that's why I thought I got a glowing Swiss knife thingy! Here you go!"

"Thanks!"

Blu

"So, how do you like that scarf?" I asked Jewel.

"It's great! ...Although I can't really wear it now, since it's summer in Rio while it's winter in the north..." Jewel said.

"Yeah..."

"It's still pretty though."

I kissed Jewel on the beak, our tongues met, and we kissed for a good thirty minutes.

"Looks like someone's making out!" Doc said.

"DOC!" I squawked loudly.

"Sorry!" He said and ran off.

"Pervert..."

"I don't know, he doesn't seem like one."

"Who else would spy on a couple kissing?"

"Maybe we caught him in a bad moment."

"...Maybe. But I'm still not sure."

"Don't worry, next time I'll watch out for him."

"Good."

Jewel started kissing me and pushed me into a corner.

"Jewel, honey at least wait until night..."

"Promise?"

I thought and looked down towards my feet.

"Come on, you agreed yesterday!"

"Fine."

"Good!"

Sierra

We spent a good two hours relaxing in the shop, only one or two costumers came in the shop to buy things as people are spending Christmas with family or doing other things.

"It seems you really like that M16!" Fernando said.

"Well, it has high damage and great accuracy." I said.

"Well, I'll just snipe you with the .50 cal then."

"Well... Not exactly snipe me."

"WHAT? HOW DID YOU GET BEHIND ME?"

"You were trying to snipe Bell." I said.

"You should've took the shot." Bell said.

"Gotcha!" Weston said as he shot Bell with his ACR.

"Fu-" Bell was about to swear when he thought of Fernando.

My cross- comms beeped.

"Yes?"

"Sierra, I have a positive ID on Alencar, he's attending a lunch party in a restaurant in the north part of Ipanema, we are calling your team in to capture him."

"We'll do." I said. "Come on, we're going to the base."

The team followed.

"Bye guys!"

"See ya, Fernando!"

I walked towards my prius and when everyone was on I drove to the base.

******THE BASE!******

"ID." Bob said.

I showed him a card and the gate opened.

In minutes we were walking in the halls and opened the door to the operations room.

"Sierra, it's going to be simple: Alencar is on the top floor, enter through the window, capture Alencar, extraction, got it?" Overlord said.

"Got it, Ben."

"You still remember that?"

"Uh huh."

"The chopper's in the parking lot, we'll get you on top of the roof."

We boarded the Chinook waiting for us.

****** THE RESTAURANT ******

I fast- roped off the Chinook onto the unsuspecting building followed by the rest of Azure. People in the building would have heard us, but it wouldn't know that we were directly above it, or that it was a Chinook.

I whirled my right finger at the Chinook pilot. The Chinook flew off, circling the building from a distance.

"Hook up to those railings." I said, and prepared to jump off the edge.

Everyone was hooked up and ready.

"Remember, shock and awe."

We jumped away from the building, and swung towards the large windows.

AN: If you are reading this, please review, I seriously don't know how I did on this chapter.