Magnum was somewhat nervous when he got a message from an old team member who he had led in for three years, tracking terrorist cells, saying that they all needed to meet up, and disappear. That was a couple of days ago now he just had to go tell Higgins, a lie, validating his reason for leaving for an unprecedented amount of time.
Walking into Higgins's office the occupant of which was talking on the phone affectionately to someone who he assumed to be Ethan.
"Higgins sorry to interrupt, but this is important," Magnum said somewhat nervously.
"What Magnum," Higgins said with a sharp bite in her voice as she covers the speaker on the phone.
"How high was your security clearance in MI6," Magnum asked.
"Level 7," Higgins said while hanging up on Ethan sensing that this was not going anywhere that was a good place.
"I have to go back overseas, top-secret stuff, one more level above that but I need you not to tell the guys until tomorrow, all my stuff is already packed up I put it in one of the closets in the guest house, here are some letters, for the guys including one about what to do if I die. you are going to have to tell the guys that I left, there are letters for each of them, you included read your immediately after I leave. I called a uber to take me to the base," Magnum said as he set down several envelopes, "I got to go now Higgy, bye."
Magnum turned around and started to leave Higgins office before Higgins said,
"Magnum wait."
Magnum turned around and looked back at Higgins, only to be wrapped in a tight hug, which he gladly returned.
"Stay safe out there, I do not want to have to break it to the lads that they can not have their favorite chew toy anymore," Higgins said.
"I will try," Magnum said.
And with that Magnum left the house and hopped over the gate to the awaiting car, leaving Higgins looking out the window.
Higgins was still in shock she knew that she should go tell Rick, TC, Gordon, and Kumu that Magnum left she was honestly still in shock herself though. She knew that magnum was a very skilled SEAL, but him being out there tracking a terrorist that had eluded him for two years was not an easy task, but then she remembered that Magnum had left a letter for her, opening it she read.
Higgins,
Sorry for leaving on such short notice, but it was necessary.
This is the type of op that even if I go MIA, POW, or am KIA you will probably not hear about it for a while.
If I am announced dead open the big envelope and follow the instructions.
Higgy you can clear my stuff out of the guest house if you want, I do not know when I will be back so…
Anyhow, just tell them that I got called into an op, short notice, the less they know about it the better.
Bye,
Higgins.
Higgins finished reading the letter and headed down to the La Marina, not quite sure how to break the news.
Upon arriving at the La Marina Higgins headed in, and was immediately greeted by, Rick saying,
"Higgy, what is wrong,"
"Where is TC?" Higgins asked.
"Right here," TC said.
"Well, Magnum, was called into a mission, and he has already left," Higgins said nervously.
"He what, when," TC said shocked.
"An hour ago Magnum came into my office telling me that he got called into a mission, then he left to catch his flight," Higgins said sitting at one of the bar stools.
"Any idea what the mission was about," Rick asked turning serious in a matter of seconds.
"He was cryptic about it asking about what my security clearance, then leaving," Higgins said.
"He just left," Rick asked.
"Yeah, said, bye, before hopping over the gate to a car he ordered and drove off."
Magnum hopped over the fence and into the awaiting car, sitting down he scanned over the people in the car.
"James, Red, Kat, Luke, Seth, and Tala you all here," Magnum said looking at the people as he went. James or James Taylor was of average build with, brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin and he was a pilot for the air force special forces. Red or Rebecca Elise Drew was average build, with red hair blue eyes, and a splash of freckles across her nose, Red was a self-taught sniper, and EOD tech, Kat or Katrina French, was short, and petite built, with shoulder-length black hair, and emerald green eyes, Kat was a CIA analyst. Luke, or Luke White, was a few inches taller than himself, with a bulky but muscular build, dark brown hair, and hazel eyes, Luke was an army ranger. Seth or Seth Smith, is a big African American, tall and broad, Seth, was delta forces, one of the only ones who did not constantly mock seals, and Magnums second in command. Tala or Tala Allen was a petite-built Native American, who was a K9 Officer.
"Yes, Lieutenant," multiple voices chorused at once.
"Allen you have a new dog," Magnum asked curiously as he did not see one.
"Yeah, she is in a crate in the back, her name is Striker," Tala said.
"Okay, Taylor, we are going to break into a private airport and steal a plane, from there we head towards Alaska, refuel, before landing in Russia where we will lay low until we get to the Middle East," Magnum said.
James started towards the private airfield that Magnum had said.
"How is everybody in terms of supplies, weapons, ammo, first aid, food, water, tech, etc," Magnum asked.
"I handled food, and water, along with some ammo," Seth started, "Kat, got tech and weapons, and fake IDs and passports, Luke got vests, and gear, James got first aid, Tala got more food water, and Ammo and Red got more Ammo and Weapons."
"Everybody still as their chain of contacts and everything?" Magnum asked.
Turning around Magnum looked at the other occupants of the van, and asked,
"So what has everyone been up to in the last few years, you know since we only kept in touch about non-personal things." Magnum asked, "Kat, did you and White tie the knot."
Smiling Kat looked at Magnum with sparkles in her eyes, and said,
"Yes, we have a five-year-old daughter, Rose, we left her with an old contact of mine and changed her identity, so hopefully she will be safe," Kat said, sadly.
"Congratulations, I am glad you guys got to be happy for a while, until, Ivan read the books, which he found out were based on me and recognized my style, from the books, and figured out it was us how wiped out all of those terrorist cells. Now we need to go hunting, them until, we wipe them out," Magnum said.
"Hey it is not your fault," Luke said.
Pulling into the airport they all pulled on black masks and gloves, along with their already black outfits, and not seeing anyone there they, found a tiny cargo plane, grabbing their bags and weapons from the back of the van, stripping the plates, and putting the van into neutral, they started pushing it towards the cliff, before fully pushing it over the end, James had opened the hatch to the plane and everyone got in, James, turned the plane on and took off, with Seth as his co-pilot.
Gordon, was going over all of the recent reports since there had been no recent homicides assigned to him, nothing caught his attention, he was so bored that he was debating whether or not to just hang around the La marina until Magnum came in with a case, which told you something.
Magnum was something, there were times when he came off extremely irresponsible, but then there were other times where there was this haunted look in his eyes. He would complain about the smallest things that hurt him, but then when it came to broken ribs he completely ignored, them and managed to take down a rogue FBI agent.
Deciding to take a break and go hang out at the La Marina in an attempt to find something interesting.
Magnum looked at his comrades from the back of the tiny cargo plane they stole, he knew that they were flying low, to stay out of the airfield. Tala was sleeping with her dog, Kat and Luke were sitting next to each other and talking quietly, James and Seth were flying. Red moved over to sit by Magnum, and asked,
"Hey, how you feeling,"
"This is all my fault, we would have been all living our lives if it was not for the book," Magnum said putting his head in his hands.
"Hey we all knew that this would come back to bite us," Red said, trying to comfort Magnum.
"Yeah, but we thought that by separating we could go on with our lives," Magnum said.
"Bundle up guys we are about to land in Russia," Seth said.
Upon landing in Russia, they gathered all of their supplies from the plane and started trekking towards the general direction of the Middle East.
Gordon went inside of the La Marina and was caught off guard, by seeing Rick, TC, and Higgins, but no Magnum.
"Where is Magnum," Gordon asked.
"He got redeployed," Rick said.
"What," Gordon.
"He is somewhere overseas or something," Higgins said.
"Wow," Gordon said sliding into a seat at the bar.
"Yeah," TC added.
One week later.
Magnum looked back at his guys trying to gauge for levels of tiredness, in the past week, they had hiked around thirty- five miles a day and were nowhere close to where their intended destination was. So far they had managed to stay away from people, and hopefully, it stayed that way, at least for another week.
They had rationed food from the start and had enough left for a few more weeks, but they knew that they would need to get in touch with people to leave a dead drop, of supplies. Everybody had gotten into their old groove, where they could read each other's minds.
"Magnum we going to turn into a ghost unit, again leaving people wondering who the hell was taking those terrorists out," James asked curiously.
"Yeah, they will never know what hit them," Magnum said.
"Honestly I just want to get this over with, and kill the people we need to kill," Red said.
"You got that right," Kat chimed in.
"Yeah," Luke said.
"Okay, who wants to hear a funny story," Kat said, but before waiting for anyone to answer she dove straight in, "Rose did not start by walking, she started by climbing, she was just over a year old, and what did she do she climbed over, the baby gate that we had by our steps the preceded to crawl up the stairs."
"So she is pretty much a younger Kat," Seth said laughing which was joined in by everyone else.
Juliet was looking for Zeus and Apollo, but she could not find them anywhere in the house. Heading towards the guest house on instinct she started looking for the dogs, when she reached Magnums room she found the dogs laying in a pile of Magnums clothes.
Frowning at them, Higgins sat down started petting them.
"I know I miss him to," Higgins said sadly, as she continued petting them much to their content.
Zeus picked up his head beckoning at her that gave her, a look that made it seem he was asking her a question.
"He is going to come back you know," Higgins said, although she did not know who she was convincing, herself or the dogs, but she really hoped that Magnum would be alright.