"When and where?"
"By tonight, I don't know if you've heard of this Lt. Kerenai but there have been recent troubles over in Uganda, well things just hit the boiling point early this morning and I mean really early this morning"
"How early is early?"
"By our estimates about 0200 hours. We only just got confirmation about everything an hour ago. Now then we highly doubt you'll be able to get the leader of the whole thing but hopefully you should be able to get high ranking officials, not to mention giving us a chance to evacuate our embassy there"
"How many people are still in the Embassy?"
"Last estimate was about fifty people some of them civilians, and Lt. according to reports one of those trapped is captain Marissa Fairborne of the EDC"
"What is she doing in Uganda?"
"No idea, when we told Mark this he requested to leave his post to lead an operation in Uganda, he was temporarily turned down"
"How did the Marines do that?"
(Snorts) "I believe they didn't do a thing besides order him to stay at his post. The President promised that if his first plan failed Mark would be allowed to lead the mission"
"Does he know I'm involved?"
"No you know the rules about that"
(Sighs) "I do, sorry just thought he might want some reassurance about Fairborne"
"Don't worry due to your...unique situation that both you and your brother is in he'll be informed the truth if you succeed or in the event you're captured"
"It finally went through?"
"Yes it finally went through, now then as for the rest of the mission debrief..."
An hour later they were up and ready to deploy. On the plane they had to talk loudly to be able to be heard
"So Kerenai what do you think about our plan? I noticed that you seemed a little dismayed at the plan"
"I do have a concern that not many have"
"Like what we're taking out a bad guy"
"Quintessons, if I'm right they might be behind this in any form that you could think of. If that's the case I'm going to be a high value target"
"Why didn't you say anything during the debrief then?"
"Simple because there's not a whole lot that can be changed in the plan to keep me safe"
"Then what can we change?"
"Keep me in the middle of the group as much as possible, but if things go sour I'm going any where's I need to go so that everyone's safe"
"Understood we'll do our best for that plan, and everyone if you get captured do what you can to resist and buy us some time to actually get people to safety"
"Sir if I'm correct there should be a Navy ship nearby, maybe we can ask them for some backup and a place to land the chopper if need be"
"Good idea and already way ahead of you, the Navy is simply waiting for our signal, when and if we give it they'll come swooping in giving us cover fire and allow us to land on the ship"
"Okay now that that's settled I have one more change to the plan that might be better for us"
"Like what?"
"We start a little further away then originally planned from the Embassy"
"What for Lt.?"
"Easy, we're putting everyone at risk landing that close, if the enemy hears us landing..."
"And you didn't say anything until now?"
"Just thought of it, because I may be a good planning, but I sort of forgot the location the Embassy was in until now"
"Okay we'll tell the pilot to try and find another location that's a little further from the Embassy"
Finally they started the attack to free the Embassy and they actually within five minutes caught a high ranking officer. Another fifteen minutes later they needed the help of the Navy to get any further and they realized they also would need that help for evacuation purposes
"Echo one Bravo six we need help coordinates one niner five mark zero three I repeat coordinates one niner five mark zero three, we also need help evacuating the Embassy"
"Roger Foxtrot we're on our way"
Soon afterwords there were planes giving the Rangers backup and everyone appreciated it, though they still lost two soldiers which Kerenai was there for
"Lt. we've lost two men"
Sara went over to the two soldiers and knew they were dead and that she didn't have time to bring their bodies so instead she grabbed the tags off the bodies and simply continued to the Embassy
"Come on let's get that Embassy evacuated"
"But the men..."
"Are dead, and we will be too if we don't leave now"
Finally they made it to the Embassy and told everyone that they were evacuating in waves
"When you hear the helicopters go to the back door, we'll keep the front as clear as possible"
Finally they were told that the only ones left were the soldiers and it was time for them to evacuate
"Lt. we're gone!"
Sara and her team boarded the chopper and the gunners on the chopper took over the protection of the soldiers. A few minutes later they were finally on the deck of the ship
"Is everyone okay?"
"Yeah we're fine, but I think you'd best be on the lookout for followers, I couldn't say anything earlier but now that we're on deck I can"
"Don't worry we've been watching our backs since we started and there have been jets in the area as well just in case"
"That's good to hear, now then I think my team and I need quarters so that we can rest and recover"
A day later Sara was actually in the hanger for some workouts and to do some hand to hand combat training which was good, and then a Navy SEAL upped the ante knowing that Kerenai was special forces at the moment
"Hey Lt. three against one?"
"No problem, but if anyone gets called to the bridge we stop"
Everyone else stops to watch the fight and are shocked that Kerenai could handle herself, in fact she was fighting so well almost no one noticed when suddenly a ship wide announcement called for Sara using a codename picked out for just such a situation where at the moment no one could know her identity. Few minutes later on the bridge
"You called for me captain?"
"Yes just got a message for you"
She reads the message and nods
"Okay tell the Ranger team leader that he's losing a member, since I'm already here I'll just change into my non special forces uniform and join your crew after I've changed"
"I see the President got my request then"
"He did, and it makes sense you've lost a few people on this mission and need immediate replacements if they are available and it just so happens I'm available"
"And the stipulation that's given about every special ops member?"
"Still there if you need to explain how I got here without a COD tell them I was brought in with those from the Embassy"
"Okay and in a way it's not a lie either, but wait what if people ask the Embassy members?"
"Only the civilians won't understand the importance of keeping the full truth quite and those that work at the Embassy are keeping an eye on the civilians so we shouldn't have any issues"
Fortunately there had been so much chaos that the civilians hadn't payed attention to who was there and those that worked in the Embassy who had payed attention understood that what she was doing was too important to tell the truth so they agreed to the lie