The prisoners began to inch toward Natalie, she kept her cool demeanor as she grabbed her vest so tight to pull the intercom as close as she could without an ounce of strength leaving the grip on her gun.
"J.J.! Reid! Back up, NOW!" Natalie yelled.
One of the prisoners began approaching Natalie quickly, she fired.
Reid and J.J. heard the shot, J.J. responded, "on our way."
Reid and J.J. began running frantically, Reid's mind raced. He was running faster than he ever had before, he was sure of it. So much for cool demeanor, if they land a hand on her, he would…he didn't like his thoughts. He just ran, J.J. caught up to him, running behind him, maintaining her backup position.
Kyle joined in as Natalie heard other prisoners commenting on her appearance, it made her sick to hear their words but she shook her head to maintain focus. If she could calm Kyle down, that would help. She wasn't hopeful.
"They aren't coming. Natalie Adams doesn't get to be rescued every time!" He screamed.
"Kyle, please, don't do this." Natalie pleaded but a moment after her plea, Natalie saw an unexpected familiar face.
"Are you seriously trying to beg your way out of this? I might want you but I won't hesitate to kill you." Kyle replied.
Natalie tilted her head, rolled her eyes, "I'm trying to help you." She warned.
"You're awfully confident," Kyle replied, a little unsure.
"Look behind you." Natalie countered.
Kyle did, he saw Aaron Hotchner, the warden, and the inspector general approaching A-block with SWAT, ready to shoot first and ask questions later.
Kyle quickly started to walk back toward his cell as he didn't have a death wish.
With Hotch at the lead, the warden yelled, "Back in your cells! Hands up!"
The prisoners began to scream as shots had already been fired on those trying to escape.
SWAT, the Warden, and the two F.B.I. agents in the room began rounding up the prisoners, forcing them into their selves with guns in hand, ready to shoot if they moved funny.
Natalie sighed in relief as the crew breached the middle of the room, backs turned to different parts of A-block, waiting for someone on their side to gain access to the control room to shut this down.
"Hotch." She let out a breath.
"We got you. You got us?" He assured her, keeping his calm, cool demeanor.
"On your six." She answered.
Hotch nodded, "Garcia, control room?"
"Nothing, sir. I'm sorry. I can't gain access."
"Rossi?" Hotch asked.
"We're good out here, Hotch," Prentiss answered for him.
"They are holding them back and we are waiting for transfer now," Morgan replied.
"Copy. We're in A-block. We need control room access to shut it down. Can you breach?"
"On it, Hotch," Morgan replied as he nodded to Prentiss, they made quick work of entering the same way they did earlier. They were stealthily silent as they entered the control room.
"Hotch, no one's here," Morgan answered.
"Okay." Hotch's tone shifted a little to anger that they hadn't caught them before that. "Lockdown A-block. Work with Garcia to get us access."
"Copy," Morgan replied.
"Garcia, what do you need from us?" Prentiss asked.
Garcia noted to her what she needed to gain access and she got it quickly as Morgan shut down A-block.
"Uh, SWAT is in E-block," Garcia told them.
"We know. Reid and J.J. went there with SWAT to find Rawdon." Natalie returned.
"No, SWAT is coming towards the others!" Garcia yelled.
"J.J.? Reid? Do you copy?" Morgan asked.
J.J., Reid, and the SWAT man had heard Hotch and SWAT breach A-wing and they were sweeping the area.
SWAT saw the other SWAT team walking towards them with guards which made him briefly lower his weapon. He didn't realize quick enough to put it back up as the man in the SWAT suit fired at them. The SWAT agent with Reid and J.J. went down.
Reid and J.J. dove into separate cells for cover, each sticking their heads out to return fire as the guards and SWAT shot at them.
Hotch and Natalie heard the shots being fired, Hotch nodded and they began to run while Morgan, Garcia, and Prentiss continued securing the prison.
Some of SWAT stayed in A-cell block in case anything happened.
Hotch and Natalie approached the spray of fire.
"Get ready!" One of the "SWAT" men yelled.
They didn't see Hotch or Natalie, Hotch immediately fired which made the man that yelled dropped to the ground from the shot.
Hotch watched as what was in the man's hand fell,
"Flashbang!" He yelled as SWAT, Natalie, Hotch, Reid, and J.J. all jumped into crouching positions to avoid the damage that would cause.
Reid and J.J. emerged from their cells. Hotch and Natalie followed, SWAT grabbed the guards who were left standing. Hotch approached the man in the SWAT suit he knew to be Rawdon, that's who he shot but he didn't kill him.
He rolled Rawdon over, hard.
"Where's the bomb?"
Natalie was helping SWAT clear the room while Reid and J.J. stayed on Hotch for cover.
"You'll never stop it in time. Boom." Rawdon mocked.
"Last time you were going to assemble them in one of 3 locations and you're too compulsive to deviate. Arlington, but they're looking for you there. Appomattox County is too far away. They're at the Ivory tower." Hotch looked up to his team as he pulled his cell phone out.
"What? That's not true!" Rawdon yelled in disbelief.
"Whats the Ivory Tower?" Natalie asked.
J.J. swallowed, "It's a safe house for fundamentalist groups."
"Garcia, we have a location. I need you to give it to all available SWAT resources." He said as he began to walk out of the room.
Natalie looked around to the other agents in the room, Reid was relieved to see she was okay. The three of them along with SWAT began detaining each of the prisoners in the room, moving them outside and placing them with officers for security before going to the Ivory Tower.