Michelle approached Milo and asked him if there was any success in finding the satellite images.
"No. I have tried everything to get in. There are satellites in that area, however they are decrypted. I have tried everything but the source codes just don't match. It doesn't make sense, I mean, earlier I used those images to help Jack, and now, it's as if somebody has purposely encrypted them. But there is no way to access those images." Milo explained.
"Okay. I guess this is another thing that will make Chappelle even more angry with me today," Michelle sighed.
Once Michelle had left Milo smiled to himself, it was he who had hidden them under an encryption, as ordered by Dean.
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The noise of the grenade was deafening, and the force and power of the explosion threw all three off there feet. Palmer flew through the doorway and was laid in the hallway, trying to compose himself. Jack felt himself smash into the wall, the stitched on the back of his head had pulled open and were bleeding again. Kim lay on the floor next to the bed. Jack crawled across the room to her and pulled her into a hug asking her if she was okay. She was. The two stayed low the floor and crawled out of the room, where they saw Palmer.
"Sir, are you all right?" Jack asked.
"I'm fine. What the hell happened?"
"It was some sort of grenade thrown in through the window."
"Why are we being attacked?"
"I don't know sir. Where is Ms. Palmer?"
"She is downstairs," Palmer answered.
Jack looked around the room alert. There were no weapons of any sort inside the house, but Jack remembered he had his gun in his ankle holster. He quickly pulled this out and cocked it, he had 12 shots.
"Sir, who knew we were here?"
"Nobody."
"Okay listen, my guess is we are still under attack. I want you and Kim to hide up here somewhere and I will go downstairs and find Ms. Palmer and bring here back here, and see if there is any threat."
Kim began to protest, but Jack quickly interrupted:
"Kim, listen sweetie I will be back here in 5 minutes, but it is not safe for you to come with me. I promise you I will come back, so please do this for me."
"Okay Dad, but be careful."
"I will." Jack turned his attention to Palmer, "Sir I am going to contact CTU is there a phone downstairs?"
"Yes, there should be but I don't know where."
"Okay, I want you two to wait in here," he motioned to a small closet room, "I will be back in 5."
He set off down the hallway, when the lights went out leaving the house in total darkness. He readied his gun and slowly stepped down the staircase ready for anything. He wanted to shout Sherry but at the same time he didn't want to risk giving himself away if anyone else was in the house. He decided to stay quiet for the moment. He continued down the stairs, holding his breath, listening for any sound showing he was not alone. He got to the bottom step, he could go either left or right. He chose right. He crept down the hallway and entered a room. There was a large sofa and a big cabinet housing a large screen t.v. He silently checked nobody was hiding behind the furniture and saw a phone. He ran over and picked it up, hearing no dial tone; someone had cut the line as well as the power.
He heard something hit the floor, and could see something small rolling along the floor towards him. It was very dark and he could barely make out what it was. He steadied his gun and went to see what it was. When he got closer he realised that it was yet another grenade. He turned around and began to run when the explosion threw him off his feet. He landed heavily on the floor and could feel sharp pains throughout his body. The man who threw the grenade came forward with his gun pointed at Jack. Jack frantically reached out for his gun and saw it at the archway, just inside the next room through the open door. It was out of reach. He must have let go from the force of the explosion. The man began to laugh, and Jack could see that it was Walker. He looked pleased to see Jack and he ordered him:
"Get on your knees and put your hands on your head, Jack."
Jack looked at him with the coldest stare, he may be the one who had killed Kate he thought to himself. He decided he would kill him the first chance he got. Slowly he got onto his knees and brought his hands up to his head. He could feel the warm blood coming from his head.
"Good Jack. Nice to see you are being so co-operative. You really can't stay away from me, can you."
Walker started to laugh and punched Jack in the eyebrow, causing blood to run from it, Jack fell onto his stomach. Walker leant down and grabbed Jack by the hair as he called for the others. Jack took this opportunity and smashed his elbow into Walkers groin. He fell to the floor coughing and Jack grabbed his machine gun and fired a round through his head. The others entered the room as soon as they herd the gunfire and Jack killed them all. This took about 10 minutes, but Jack was sure he had them all. He wasn't far off, but one man had made his way upstairs. Jack looked for identification on the men but found none. He took two guns and shoved them in his waistband, and then set off looking for Sherry, machine gun in his hand.
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Kim and Palmer were sat 2 foot apart in the small room. They both herd the explosion and gunfire, and both had a bad feeling, but neither said anything. After the first explosion Kim jumped up to see if her Dad was okay but Palmer would not let her go. He said it was too dangerous, so she complied and waited, praying he wasn't dead.
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Jack had searched the entire floor and saw no sign of Sherry. He wondered if she was the one who set them up, he did think she was crazy. He made his way upstairs. He opened the door to the room Kim and Palmer were in and explained what had happened, and that Sherry wasn't there. Palmer seemed upset. They stepped into the hallway and Palmer switched on a solar lamp that didn't require power to be operated.
The three were stood in the hallway when the unseen man, Stephen, stepped out. He came up behind Palmer and hit him on the head. He went down. Jack headed for him straight away, as the man headed for Jack. The two collided and knocked the lamp onto the floor. They didn't realise, but it began to set fire to the carpet. Jack yelled for Palmer and Kim to get out of there. The two ran downstairs and left Jack as he began to fight. Jack had put his machine gun down earlier, he had the 2 guns in his waistband, but had no chance of getting to them.
Stephen went for Jacks stomach, which he blocked and replied with a fist to his jaw. The man went down and Jack dived on him, hitting him again in the face. The man managed to head-butt Jack, which startled him and allowed the man to get another punch into his nose. Jack thrust his fingers around the mans throat and began squeezing. The man tried to fight him off and began clawing at Jacks arms. He grabbed at Jack's knife wound and he cried out in pain, falling off him holding his bad arm. Stephen used this opportunity and kicked Jack in the stomach, leaving him gasping for breath. He headed for the stairs, seeing the fire that was growing rapidly.
Most of the upstairs area was on fire, as was part of downstairs, it had spread quick. The man reached the stairs and Jack gave chase after him. They reached the top of the stairs and Jack flung his arms around the man as they fell down the stairs. They reached the bottom and both men were in great pain now. Stephen was looking for his gun, as was Jack. He pulled himself up and grabbed it from his waistband. He aimed at Stephen and fired 2 shots to his chest. He would die slowly, and it would probably be in the fire.
Jack looked around the room and saw it was engulfed in flames, there was no way out. He could feel the smoky air getting heavier as he tried to breathe in, and he dropped to the floor in a coughing fit. He crawled across the floor trying to find an exit. He saw a window and pushed it open, then climbed through it. He staggered outside and saw Palmer on a mobile phone, and Kim running towards him.
"Dad, are you okay? Palmer is ringing someone he says we can trust who will pick us up."
Jack couldn't hear his daughter, he was breathing heavily and coughing. He saw Palmer approach them asking Jack if he was okay. He didn't reply. He looked around at the burning house and it was blurry, he realised he was dizzy and everything was starting to darken. He looked a Kim and tried to speak but his words wouldn't come out. He took a step back and fell to the floor on his back, unconscious.
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