Rainbow Six: The New Recruits
By: Ominae
Rating: Most is PG-13
Disclaimer: This story takes place after Raven Shield and Athena Sword
NOTE:
RAINBOW SIX is the exclusive copyrights of Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft and Tom Clancy from their respective years. The rest of the other characters are under my jurisdiction.
I have done some extensive research regarding real-life events and/or actual special/elite units. If there are some discrepancies, please let me know so's I can correct them. Thanks.
Previously:
When an unknown leftist group called the People's Democratic League emerged from the international spotlight with recent terrorist strikes in Canada and Japan, John Clark and the rest of RAINBOW are mustered in order to bring down this vicious leftist organization. Will they be able to bring them down or will they be the ones to go down fighting against the People's Democratic League? Stay tune on this chapter to find out.
Note to Cheah - Yes, the bombing attacks on the embasssies in Japan are fictional. Don't worry about the Singaporean PDL cell. RAINBOW in this story is not sure if majority of the cells are activated and most of them are quite new too.
Chapter 4: What lies ahead?
Date: April 21, 2008
Location: SAS Headquarters, Hereford, Britain
John Clark has been in his office for at least an hour now, seated in his office chair. Prior to his journey back to the office, Alistair has informed that RAINBOW intelligence will be able to debrief for a mission later next day since they have managed to compile most of the intelligence work that they have found on the "People's Democratic League", a previously unknown communist terrorist organization. While in his office, he decided to drink the rest of the coffee in his coffee mug, which had been sitting there for a few hours after he left his room in order to attend the debriefing session on the terrorist strikes. He was a bit nervous about the simulataneuous strikes committed by this new leftist terrorist group, but he wanted the group to act now before it was too late.
Suddenly, he heard footsteps approaching his office door. In a matter of seconds, he suddenly saw Alistair open the door with lightning speed and jogged to his table and herested afterwardssince he was exhausted.
"For the last time, can you please KNOCK on the door? I'm getting tired of this already!" shouted John as he was irritated with Alistair's problem of not knocking on his door.
"Sorry John, I forgot!" Alistair knocked on his table with his knuckles twice. "Anyway, Kevin wants you to come into the Watch room. He just managed to get some more key information on the PDL's key leaders."
"Interesting. All right, lead the way."
John and Alistair went out of the office and walked down the corridor to the Watch room. While doing so, Alistair handed John a memo, which reminded him that there was some updates on the collected intelligence on the group. John had his "PROFILES" folder tucked under his arm as he walked with Alistair to the Watch room.
Inside the debriefing room, all of the RAINBOW operatives were seen seated in their chairs while they were waiting for John, Kevin and Alistair to arrive. Some were talking with one anothers, others were trying to get comfy in their chairs and there were some who passed the time by drinking water or eating some chips. Later, they heard the door open and the RAINBOW team members stood up when John, Kevin and Alistair went inside. John walked to the podium while Kevin closed the door, but not before he drank a glass of water near the podium and began to address the entire team,
"At ease, everyone."
The team members took their seats while John continued to address them on the issue of the People's Democratic League.
"As you all know, you just had your debriefing about the emergence of the People's Democratic League. I managed to have a talk with Kevin about this piece of valuable information. He should debrief you on the matter."
John walked away from the podium and stood near Alistair. Kevin then took out a projector remote and pressed a button to turn the projector on. A few minutes later, he pressed another button that showed the first picture of an unknown man. He was a Caucasian, was in his early '30s, had shades, short black hair and he had a jacket on him. He was wearing a baseball cap on his head, though the picture quality is so poor that no one could even determine what it was. John kept pace with Kevin's debriefing session by reading his "PROFILES" folder.
"This man on the screen is Gerard Duchamp, a Canadian national and one of the two leaders of this shadowy group. He was born in Montreal, Quebec on January 22, 1976. His late father was a member of the FLQ and was killed during a manhunt operation conducted by the Sûreté du Québec in the late '70s. Mother was a homemaker. He joined the Canadian army in 1996 after completing his studies at secondary education and was deployed in Haiti and Afghanistan before he had an honorable discharge in 2002. He moved to Vancouver in 2003 and studied at Douglas College. At the same year, he was arrested for protesting the death of his father and has accused the RCMP of torturing and executing his father. After his release, he resumed his studies at Douglas College and graduated with a degree in Canadian Literature. He then gathered his leftist friends from Quebec and they've recruited like-minded people from all over Canada and they've formed the Canadian charter of the People's Democratic League. The initial cadre of this group consisted of selected members of the group from their initial cells in Vancouver and in Tokyo and have travelled to the Philippines in order to be trained under the New People's Army (NPA) and their initial training consisted of guerilla warfare, demolitions and urban combat."
Kevin pressed a button on the projector remote and the screen changed to another picture. It showed a man in his early '20s. He had a white t-shirt and in his hand was a can of Coke. He was seen talking to someone off the photo and in his back pocket, it appeared to be a folded newspaper.
"This man here is Ichiro Nishikawa, a Japanese national and the other leader of the group. Born in Tokyo, Japan on April 16, 1985. His father was a policeman and his mother was an elementary school teacher. He was first exposed to leftist literature when he was studying at Tokyo University in his freshman years. He was seen joining in leftist anti-war protests and was one of the many leftist students placed under surveillance by the Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA). Later on, he was arrested in 2004 for detonating homemade bombs at the American, British, Singaporean and South Korean embassies in protest due to their presence in Iraq and he had a manifesto in his possession, which called on other foreign troops remaining in the war-torn country to leave at once. He did graduate from Tokyo University with a law degree and he worked for the government for a year before he resigned in 2006. As of now, we believe that he is either in the Tokyo area or in Yokohama."
Kevin now took his seat near the projector screen while John walked back to the podium and addressed the team on a mission, which will be activated soon.
"RAINBOW intelligence has reported that the People's Democratic League has founded cells throughout the world, particularly in France, Ireland, South Korea, New Zealand, Italy, Germany, the United States, Singapore and Switzerland aside from Canada and Japan. We are not sure if these cells are active aside from the ones in Canada and Japan, but we do know is that the cells in the other countries are expected to be called into duty at any time soon. We are still researching on the group's finances, though we have some prelimenary intel that the group gets most of their money from sympathizers and various charity fronts for the victims of war and disasters. Our first target would be a recently activated cell somewhere in Australia. The cell is believed to be consisting of at least 15-20 members and were believed to be based in the outskirts of Sydney in an abandoned warehouse. The Tactical Assault Group (TAG) of the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) will provide support to this operations as they would cordon off the area for us before we move into the operating area, but we need to move fast and take them down at once. TAG intelligence has confirmed to us that the Australian PDL cell has made big plans to launch an attack on Sydney. If that attack pulls through, we'll be in big trouble with these guys since they've been tutored in urban warfare by the NPA and this cell is not a bunch of amateurs. Lately, the Australian cell has been in the local newspapers and television reports for getting into gunfights with the New South Wales Police Force and two constables were fatally shot by PDL snipers during a recent ambush on a rural road outside Sydney and their firearms were carted away, a tactic that was also taught to them by NPA cadres. Departure to Australia will be tomorrow at 1030 hours and we'll be liasoned by one of TAG's officers. I'll inform you people on the name of our liason officer tomorrow morning. But for now, you guys better take a break. Dismissed."
Everyone began to leave the briefing room in an orderly manner; Kevin was speaking with Alistair outside while John glanced at his watch since he forgot to check the time. A few minutes later, Kevin walked up to John and asked him about the agenda tomorrow,
"John, has anyone from TAG made contact with you so far?"
"Not yet so far. But hopefully, I should get a call from them either in the day or tomorrow early morning."
"I can't wait to find out from our TAG contacts on that new cell in Australia."
"Me too, Kevin." John sighed before resuming their conversation. "Me too."
Kevin and John walked out of the briefing room and into the corridor while pondering on their next move with one another.
Date: April 22, 2008
Location: On the outskirts of Sydney, Australia
It was pretty quiet. The moonlight was shining down on Sydney while the birds were chirping in the night. But not all was quiet. In an abandoned warehouse, a light source was shining on the second floor of the warehouse and the light was apparently from a room. Inside it was a man in his late '30s and he was seated on an old, dusty office chair. He was checking on the condition of a old Colt XM-177E1, which was an upgraded version of the original Colt CAR-15 rifle. He had cleaned it an hour ago before he loaded it with a 30-round M16 magazine to the weapon. Eyeing the cocking handle, he held it and cocked the rifle to check if it was operational. A 5.56 x 45mm NATO bullet flew out of the XM-177E1's chamber and he caught the flying bullet in a matter of seconds. The other rifles in the crates were really dusty since the Colt XM-177E1 rifles were bought through a contact in the Asian black market a year ago and were hardly touched. Placing it down on the table, he then heard a ringing tune from his LG C1100 cellular phones. He then grabbed it from his shirt pocket, opened the phone and pressed the call button while he began to speak with the recipient from the other line.
"How are things going, Harris?" inquired the Asian-sounding man
"Great sir! We should be operational by tomorrow morning."
"Good. Now make sure that the cadre is able to mount an urban warfare operation in downtown Sydney. Make sure that you raid the regional office and acquire more weapons for our cell in Australia."
"But what about TAG? They'll get us for sure even before we try to make a move."
"As long as you move quickly, there won't be any problems. Understood?"
"Right away, sir! I'll get the weapons ready in the morning."
"Good, I want to see the successs of this operation once it's over. Make sure that you pull it off our liberation war with no trouble."
"No problem. I'll speak with you again soon." He then pressed the end call button and kept the cellphone at his shirt pocket. He then took out his cot and blanket from the nearby closet, laid it on the floor and went to sleep. Tomorrow was the day that he was not suppose to mess up, unless if he gets in the way of RAINBOW, which he does not know of. Tomorrow was a big day for the extreme left to strike back after a decade of silence from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the prosperity of the West, but he hopes that he advance the cause of the People's Democratic League in establishing a front in Oceania for "the greater good" of the people.
Chapter 4 END