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Chapter 6. Casualties

"GWE-" Ben looked around and held a hand to his head as he remembered he was in the theater settlements break room. He shook his head as he looked over, seeing Tianna sleeping right next to him in full gear. Ben looked at his watch and flipped it around getting his watch to the better form of checking his writs rather than his forearm and shook his head as the watch read 4 in the morning. Ben swung his legs over the side of the bunk and stood up before he walked over to the doors letting them go outside and onto the roof.

It was silent as Ben walked out onto the rooftop, not dead quiet but silent as just a few people were walking around or working. He looked over to see Elaine going over Medical supplies and walked up to her.

"how's the shoulder?" Ben shook his head as he leaned onto the foldable table in front of him. and crossed his arms as he looked out.

"better thanks" Ben looked back at her for a moment before he turned his head seeing Allison walk up the ramp carrying an open box of water in various containers. "I see Allison's back"

"I'm surprised your not calling her Ally, and nothings leaking?" Ben was fixed on Allison as a few people came up to her smiling and taking some of the waters moving them and shuffling them around before they took the cooler from her getting her to yawn slightly.

"yeah… yeah I mean nothing leaking, no blood and no signs of infection" Ben turned around seeing Elaine smiling just a little before she pulled out a small bottle labeled Penicillin and handed it to him.

"just in case…just one right now though, I don't have that many and until Aly or another runner can get me some more I have to make sure I have it for smoothing really bad" Ben nodded as he took it and downed the pill.

"I know the drill, and if something changes ill need to come back and tell you" Elaine nodded as she took the bottle back and put it with the others. Allison walked over with a smile on her face as Elaine put the clipboard down and walked up to the counter.

"Allison Moore it is four o clock in the morning why are you still out?" Allison chuckled as she sat down crisscross on the table that Ben was leaning on.

"well sorry MOM, I was going for water last night and had to take a detour route, there was True Son's all over the place" Ben looked at Allison a little puzzled.

"still, though I think people would be fine if you came back after you found some sleep if your gone for more than fifteen hours" Allison looked over to Ben who was still looking a little confused.

"wait why aren't you giving Ben shit? He's up right now and two days ago he was running around blowing up a hotel at five in the morning, I could hear it from the Castle!" Ben looked at her and held his hands up.

"hey, I'm in this fight"

"exactly because he has a gun" Allison pulled out a little pistol and raised her eyebrows at Elaine.

"what does that have to do with anything?" Ben chuckled as he looked to the door to his right, seeing Craig and Tianna walking out yawning.

"that what I meant. He has a gun and has to do more important shit with the limited time he has awake, it's not my fault if he's a dumbass and doesn't sleep" Ben tuned his attention to Elaine who looked at him for a moment before she looked back at Allison.

"before he get me into this fight, can you answer me who exactly it is running around out there?" Allison looked at ben and shook her head.

"go ask agent kelso, I need my sleep" Allison got up and walked away brushing up against Ben as she did hitting his shoulder making him groan slightly as he bent over.

"she get your shoulder?" Ben growled as he nodded his head. "I guess she's still mad then"

"Wouldn't you be?" Elaine nodded as the door opened with Tianna walking out yawning.

"why don't you just tell her" Ben shook his head as Tianna rounded the corner.

"can you just tell me who's running the show outside besides the hyena's, please?"

Jefferson Trade Center: 1 hour earlier.

Agent Espinoza crept his way through the water filled hallway, looking at his watch as he did so when he stopped and took cover behind a piece of plywood next to a chain link fence.

Footsteps were heard down the hall as they came closer and closer. Espinoza ducked down a little further and held his breath as they came right on top of him.

"the fuck you mean you heard something down here?"

"I heard footsteps"

"like hell you can"

"listen you dumbshit, the water" The hyena splashed around for a moment. "see? The water making noise like that. Maybe if you'd think for a minute you wouldn't be here dumbass"

"fuck you" The hyena's laughed as they looked around, while Espinoza waited for them to pass before he stck his head up and looked around. He stood up and slowly went down the hall following the noise made by the heyna's when he looked behind him at the sound of running.

"Oi, SUZY" as he turned around, he felt something hit his head before his whole world went black.

Meanwhile.

Kelso ran up the ramp in the theater seeing Ben and Tianna standing near Elaine. She quickly got up and looked around only noticing them.

"Ben, Tianna we got a problem?" Ben turned around and looked back to Elaine who seemed concerned.

"hang on" Ben turned back to Kelso who was walking up. "whats wrong" Kelso looked at Tianna who stayed close to Ben.

"wheres the rest of your team?"

"Craig is on Envoy with some people from the Castle and Emeline is back at the white house helping Nomad with something, what's going on?"

"Espinoza's in trouble" Ben was taken back for a moment before he looked at Kelso.

"who?"

"Agent Espinoza, he went to the Jefferson trade center and was due back to report or come back two hours ago"

"and?"

"his comms reported that not only did he never get out of the center, but he was taken" Tianna looked over to Ben as he crossed his arms.

"do you have a location?" Kelso nodded as Ben looked at Tianna and nodded. Ben clicked his watch getting Isaac to light up. "ISAAC send word to Craig" The orange in the watch circled for a moment as Ben heard Craig in his ear.

"Ben, hey what's up?"

"whats your progression with the castle?"

"so far so good but things are still going, why is everything okay?"

"I don't know, Kelso needs our help with running a rescue op for Agent Espinosa"

"do you want the support?" Ben held onto the thought for a minute before he shook his head when the door opened next to him with Tianna cocking a shotgun while a vector without its rear guard.

"negative, you and Em keep working, but if you finish early and she get through to you, tell her to meet us at the Jefferson trade center"

"you got it, Craig out" Ben pulled out his pistol and dropped the mag before he slid it back in and put it back before he walked into the room and looked for his bag.

"what the hell's going on?" Ben turned to his right and noticed as Allison was laying down on a couch, zipping up a bright yet still dirty yellow hoodie.

"something happened with another agent, we might need the backup, where's my bag?"

she rubbed her eyes and she stretched out on the couch, as Ben noticed his bag next to the window and grabbed it making sure his MK. 16 and mp5 and walked to the door.

"wait, something happened?" Ben nodded as he slowly closed the door and rejoined Tianna. Kelso was gone as Ben looked around before he slung his bag on his back before he looked to Tianna. "ready when you are" Tianna nodded as she went to the ramps and went to the entrance. Ben pulled his pistol and clocked it before he followed her. Tianna leaned on the wall as Kelso paced back and forth for a minute before Ben came down and took his MP5 off his back and looked at them.

"its just us for right now, if Craig gets done, he'll get word where to go" Tianna nodded and pulled a Mp7 from her back and cocked it.

"let's go" Kelso nodded as they took off almost immediately going to the Jefferson trade center. Tianna walked along Ben's left side and looked at him as he slid on a pair of sunglasses. "looks like rain" Ben looked up and nodded.

"yeah" Tianna smiled as she continued to look at him.

"and here you are, wearing sunglasses when the sun's not even out… seems to me that its almost like your hiding the lack of sleep"

"I don't know, I think the sun's gonna come out soon" Ben shook his head as they walked down the street when lighting struck to the left of them.

"it couldn't have been the dream you had last night, with Gw-" Ben looked over to her with intent as he removed the Sunglasses. Tianna looked at him for a moment before he looked ahead "right, sorry" Kelso looked over to them with a hint of confusion before she peeked her head back and looked at the streets to the trade center.

Rain started as they reached the trade center. Kelso simply flipped the hood of her windbreaker, while Tianna took a hat out of her bag and threw it on keeping the same grey track pants and green t shirt. Ben looked down seeing his t shirt soaked and pulled out a yellow button down throwing that on and wrung out the t shirt before he threw it in his bag. Tianna looked over to him before she turned around and pulled her pistol out before she took a sigh and nudged Ben.

Craig walked up to them in a soaked pair of jeans and blue plaid shirt as he pulled out a black baseball cap and put it on backwards.

"thought you couldn't make it" Craig smiled as he walked up to them.

"finished early" Ben nodded as he ran a hand through his wet hair and looked behind them dropping the smile as he moved past Craig.

"what the hell are you doing here?" Craig turned around seeing Allison in a pair of blue jeans and a light blue hoodie walking up with a pistol in her hands.

"helping, I thought you need the help getting your guy" Ben walked up to her and took the pistol from her. "Hey!" Craig and Tianna walked up to them.

"we good Ben?"

"yeah Allie was just leaving" Craig looked at Ben and then to Allison who seemed frustrated.

"like hell I am, you need the back up"

"have you ever even shot a gun? We have all the firepower we need"

"bullshit you know that" Craig stepped up.

"Ben, you know an extra gun would help" Ben shook his head.

"I said no, not even a question" Craig placed a hand on his shoulder getting ben to look at him.

"look Ben, if this about the shit in Manhattan and Gwen" Ben snapped at Craig as he shrugged his hand off his shoulder.

"I said no Craig, lock it down now" Ben looked over to Allison who seemed curious. "and you" Ben emptied the clip and clocked it back in before he handed it back. "Go back, we don't need your help" Allison shook head and took a step forwards.

"But i-"

"JUST DO IT" Allison jumped slightly before Ben turned around and walked into the trade center. Craig looked over to Allison who seemed defeated and looked at him.

"sorry Allison"

"who's Gwen?" Tianna and Craig looked at each other and back to her.

"you should get back to the theater" Allison nodded as she wiped her face, getting the still streaming down from her hair and her face, before she turned around and walked into the rain that was now pouring down. Craig looked at Tianna before they followed as Gunshots were heard from inside.

White House.

Nomad looked over the map on the table and carefully looked over each piece as a cup was placed down next to his hand.

"thanks" he looked up seeing Em taking the same position he was, leaned over the table looking at the map.

"so what are you looking for right now?" Nomad took the cup and took a sip before he came back to the map.

"activity, I know we cant see it, but anything with the red sharpie is somewhere we have intel that might help with clues leading to Arana" Em nodded as they looked over it and looked south of the Theater settlement.

"what about here. The trade center?" Nomad nodded as he looked at her.

"there's a satellite center underneath the center that if rebooted we could access any logs about activity in the city"

"so why not go after it"

"we'd need extra firepower"

"you got me till Ben calls me, I'm extra firepower" Nomad went over it in his head before he shrugged and grabbed the map, folding it up before he walked to the bunks getting the rest of the Ghosts to sit up and wake up.

"get your gear, we're moving out"

As always feel free to comment or leave any feedback its more then welcomed, sorry this one was a little shorter than normal but ill try to get the next one out soon, Till then Have a good one and I hope you enjoyed!