Seven days went by, and their suspension was lifted, just as IQ was cleared for active duty. The nine of them sat in their table, debating over when they would actually be given another operation after their recent screw up, only to have the argument settled by Twitch when she walked up to their table.

"Zofia's looking for you." She said, the slight panic in Rook's eyes not going unnoticed to her. "Don't worry, she can't do anything to you here."

"Thanks." Rook said, getting up to follow her. "That means way more than you think it does."

The two of them arrived at her office just as Doc emerged from the door. He gave Rook and Twitch a nod as he went back to the medbay. Twitch gave Rook a pat on the back for good luck as he entered Zofia's office. She was behind her desk, just finished taking a few pills that Julien could only assume were painkillers, after all, she was in a car crash just a week ago.

"What do you want?" he asked her.

"Oh I'm sorry, did I interrupt your moping around while you wait for another operation?" Zofia asked. "Sit down."

Rook pulled the chair and sat on it, studying her face as he waited for her to speak. If she did know he and the others were involved that night, she hid it well. She reached in her desk drawer to grab a file, wincing slightly as she used her bad arm, but it was enough for Julien to notice.

"What happened to your arm?" he asked.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you cared." Zofia answered.

"Well I do if it affects my CO's ability to hold a rifle properly."

"If you must know, I fell down the stairs a few days ago." Zofia said.

Rook raised an eyebrow. "Your room and office are both in the first floor."

"What, can't I go upstairs?" Zofia asked, her patience running thin. "Are you going to waste my time or will you actually listen."

Julien leaned back on his chair with a smirk. "You tell me."

Zofia gritted her teeth as she tried not to yell at him. "There's an operation in France and since this is the first one we have there, Six wants former GIGN operators to come along as guides. We already have Pichon, but something came up and Doc has to stay here. Now, with you being the only other french operator here-"

"You're sending me on an op." Rook said, cutting her off as a goofy grin spread across his face.

Zofia sighed. She was working with children. "Alright fine. I am, now do you accept or not?"

"I do." He said "But I get to choose who comes with me."

"You are not in any position to make negotiations Nizan."

"And you're in a position where you don't have a choice."

Zofia glared daggers at Rook. It took all her willpower, and her injuries, from lunging at the man in front of her, whose grin turned into a smirk that just pissed her off even more. "Fine. Be ready by noon." She all, but yelled at him. "Now get out of my office."

"Give me a second." Rook said. "I want to take in the feeling of victory."

Jesus Christ she's going to kill him. "You'll be taking my foot up your ass if you don't get the fuck out of here right now!"

Julien knew she wanted to sound threatening but he could barely contain his laughter as he left her office. Just wait until the others hear about this.

/

"Guess what I just did." Rook said as he strutted to their table.

"I'd rather not." Castle said indifferently. He may be talking to Julien but he wasn't paying attention. None of them were.

That was about to change.

"Zofia talked to me about an operation in France." Rook said " Pack your shit, we're going to Tours."

The news actually managed to get their attention. Ela pulled at his arm so he was facing her. She couldn't help but smile. "You actually managed to get her to give us an op?"

Julien mirrored her smile. "She had to, otherwise Six won't approve it."

By now, everyone at the table was excited when Jager decided to speak up during the celebrations.

"I'm not going."

"What? Why not?" Rook asked.

"My suspension as an operator is over but my suspension as a pilot isn't." Jager replied.

"You're more than just a pilot Marius."

"Maybe. But I don't want to get in the way of you guys."

"I'm applso staying." IQ said, although no one was really that surprised. "I just got two bullets removed from inside me. I'm not in a hurry to get any more."

"I'm out too." Buck said "I need a break."

Mira raised her eyebrow at him. "You just had three weeks worth of a break." She said, but Buck just shrugged at her.

"If that's it, we have to get going. Zofia told me to have you in the hangar by noon and she's pissed enough at me as it is."

/

Rook led Ash, Thermite, Castle, Mira and Ela to the hangar where Twitch, Sledge and Zofia were waiting by a plane.

"I told you noon, Nizan." Zofia said as they walked in.

Rook glanced at his watch. "It's just three minutes, calm down."

Ela could see Zofia physically restrain herself to stop herself from decking Julien. She could also see a familiar look on her face. The look of someone harboring anger at a person who they can't do anything against.

The look Ela usually gives her.

At first she just wrote it off as her rage against Julien, but it was still plastered on her face even though he was already in the plane. Then she realized it wasn't aimed at Julien. It was aimed at her. This confused her because no matter how much of a little shit she could be, there was nothing Ela could do to her sister that she won't get over in a day. Unless…

"Guys," Ela said to the others when they were in the air. "She knows about the other night."

"What?" Mira asked in a whisper, even though Zofia was in the other side of the plane. "You can't be sure of that."

"Yes I can. I've never seen her that pissed at me before."

"That's why she let me bring you guys." Rook said "It's easier for her to order the white masks to take you out if you're not in the base."

They all looked to where Zofia was sitting. She was staring out the window as if deep in thought. If Ela was right, then going on this operation was a big mistake.

/

They landed on a private airstrip used by the GIGN. Rook stepped out and breathed in the fresh air of Tours, France. If it wasn't for the immediate threat that was Zofia, he would have actually enjoyed being back in his home town.

Two soldiers approached them, one was a man and the other a woman, and led them to a van where they'd drive them off to the GIGN base of operations, which was now one of Team Rainbow's recent outposts. On the ride there, Rook looked out the window remembering all his childhood memories when he felt a tap on the shoulder.

It was Mira, and she looked skeptical. "That woman's a white mask." She said pointing to the operator next to Zofia, who was quietly arguing with her. Rook told Mira she was being paranoid, although he didn't dismiss the thought. At least not completely.

They arrived at the base, both Rook and Twitch excited to relive their lives before team rainbow. The two of them strolled down the halls of the base, laughing at the various memories that they could remember.

The others, however , had to be shown around briefly before they would all meet up in the briefing room so Zofia as well as the precinct's commanding officer could de-brief them about the operation. The CO pressed a button on his remote and two people popped up.

The first was a middle aged man, smirking as his mugshot was being taken, as if he was confident that the GIGN won't keep him there for long, which was a pretty stupid assumption. But then again, they wouldn't be here if they did. The other was a younger woman whose picture made Twitch clench her fist under the table, but before Ela could ask about it Zofia was already introducing the first of the two people on the screen.

"Salvador Reyes." Zofia said, zooming in on the picture of the man. "Chemical specialist turned white mask. He played a major role in the attack on Bartlett as well as countless other white mask chemical attacks. He was sentence to death couple of weeks ago but his transport was ambushed on the way. None of the operators survived."

She stayed silent for a bit before proceeding to the next picture. "Adelaine Bernard. Recently recruited and was the one behind the ambush that broke Reyes out. Armed robbery, kidnapping, breaking and entering. The only thing not on her rap sheet was murder and she changed that a few days ago."

Next to Ela, Twitch's fingernails were nearly digging into her palms as she looked like she was trying her best not to scream. From across the table, Rook noticed and gave her a slight shake of the head. She ignored him and left the room with Julien following suit.

The CO saw this but continued speaking, as if this was a common occurance for them, but he did know Twitch longer than Ela did so maybe it was. "After the ambush the two of them had been laying low for a while but one of our sources spotted them recently. The white masks haven't been active lately which can only mean they have something big planned. Catch them and bring them back alive."

Ela was gearing up in thee female locker room with Ash and Mira when Twitch entered. She was still pissed but not nearly as much as when she stormed out of the briefing room. They were all silent as they waited for her to finish readying before they all went to the garage where two police cars and the others were waiting for them.

In an effort to avoid her sister, Ela sat in the other car with Castle, Mira, Ash, Twitch and the CO. Unsuprisingly, Ela wasn't the only one who noticed Twitch was acting weird as seen when Castle sat next to her looking worried.

"You okay?" Castle asked.

Twitch closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I'm fine." She said and although Castle knew she was lying, he didn't push any further.

The CO drove them to a crappy apartment complex and parked the car in an alley a few blocks away from the complex. The other car soon rolled up and parked behind them. The others got out and walked over to their car where the CO had the blueprints of the building sprawled across the hood.

"They're on the second floor, room 308." He said "One of you drone ahead, see if they're there."

Thermite walked forward, grabbed a drone from his backpack and set it on the ground before pulling out his phone. The others stood around him, running last minute checks on their gear while waiting for him to finish.

"There's three in the room, Reyes and Bernard and I think the other one's an arms dealer."

With that, they stepped out of the alley toward the complex. The CO flashed the receptionist his badge and signaled her to be quiet. He did the same to other residents that exited the room as they went through the second floor so they won't be alarmed by the nine armed people barreling down the hallway.

They reached the room and spread out so both sides of the doorway was covered. Sledge stood by with his hammer at the ready, waiting for Ash's signal.

Three.

Two.

One.

He broke the door open and Ash lobbed a flashbang into the room before they all entered, gunning down the arms dealer as he blindly fired at them. Behind him, Adelaine took off for the ladder near the window while Salvador reached for the automatic rifle on the bed. Rook tackled him before he could get a shot off. As he pinned him to the ground to cuff him, he saw Twitch go after Adelaine.

"Campbell, go after her before she kills Bernard!" he yelled.

Castle ran towards the window. Both of them were already on the street. Castle began to climb down the ladder when Adelaine entered a nearby restaurant, with Twitch hot on her heels. She ignored the angry yells of the people in the restaurant as she pushed them aside. Twitch saw her go for the backdoor so she turned for the kitchen hoping to cut her off in the back alley. She knocked a few dishes and pans as she rushed for the back exit. She kicked it open just as Adelaine passed in front of it, the impact sending her to the ground. She pinned her down and pulled out her knife, ready to bring it down on her.

Just as she was about to swing it, a hand grabbed her wrist stopping it. She tried to pull her hand free but the grip only tightened. She looked behind her to see it was Castle stopping her from finishing the job.

"We need her alive, Emmanuelle."

Twitch wanted to argue but Adelaine got one of her hands free and grabbed an empty bottle from the street and smashed it on Twitch's head. She fell backwards in to Castle which brought them both to the ground. Adelaine got up to run and Twitch grabbed Castle pistol from his holster. She raised it to fire but before she could land a shot Castle grabbed the pistol and pointed it down so it shot at the ground before Castle wrestled the gun from Twitch.

"What part of alive don't you understand Pichon?" Castle yelled at her.

Twitch didn't answer him as she got up and left him on the ground and walked back to the others. They were putting Reyes in the back of one of the cars.

"Where's Bernard?" Zofia asked them but Twitch wouldn't meet her gaze.

"She got away."

Zofia sighed. "It doesn't matter. We have Reyes."

/

They all waited outside the interrogation room as Zofia and the CO had been trying to get information from Salvador for the last twenty minutes. Next to Rook, Ela kept her head low.

"If Pereira was still here she'd be done by now." She said.

Rook put a hand on her shoulder and pulled her so that she was facing him. "Ela, for the last time, that was not your fault."

Ela pushed Rook's hand off her shoulder and instead, wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug. Rook hugged back and ran a hand through her hair just as Zofia emerged from the interrogation room. They quickly pushed each other off but she'd already seen them. Thankfully she didn't say anything.

"Reyes said the white masks plan to attack the CEO of one of the companies that decided to testify against them at a gala tomorrow." She said "We need to intercept them and get the CEO to safety before they could attack him."

"What about Bernard." Thermite asked.

"I'll get her." Twitch responded before Zofia could. "I know more about her than anyone else here."

Castle scoffed. "And who'll stop you from killing her?"

"You will. Go with her, make sure she comes back here alive." Zofia said, putting emphasis on alive as she stared at Twitch.

Twitch rolled her eyes and walked toward the female locker room to gear up. Castle followed, heading to the male locker room to do the same.

Now it was just Zofia, Ela, Rook, Ash, Thermite, Mira and Sledge that were left.

"What about the rest of us?" Sledge asked.

Zofia was about to answer but Ash beat her to it, with a grin on her face.

"We're going to a gala right?" she said "Let's go shopping."