August 16th, 2023
Specialist Derrick "Loki" Castellano
West Coast Rainbow HQ.
Portland OR. USA
"Castellano, stop calling for them. They. Aren't. Coming. You are dead to them."
"Then kill me….DO IT!"
"And lose my favorite test subject? Why would I do that?"
Derrick repeatedly stabbed the photo of the Butcher he had obtained from the briefing moments ago. Upon receiving it, he made a beeline to his bedroom and locked the door. He had assumed the form of Zofia and was banking on people to not ask him any questions or remember that Zofia was spending the day with her husband. That worked out. He nearly gave himself away when his name was mentioned. His "friends" viewed him as a liability or some kind of crutch. Their initial excitement upon seeing him had turned into them actively avoiding him whenever they saw him. Derrick figured that they only acted happy upon seeing him because they felt bad about laughing at him and calling him a failure for 3 months. Meghan hadn't really been that upset that he was gone. If she was, she would have hunted night and day for him.
"To them, you are a dead man."
Derrick ripped the picture of the Butcher in two. That rat bastard had relentlessly tortured him for 3 months while he begged his sister or best friend to come save him. But no, every single one of them thought he was a lost cause. Already dead. Fuck him and his feelings. They had betrayed him. Meghan especially. She had promised him that she would always be there for him when he needed her, even if he had called her at 4am. He had done that multiple times at the top of his voice as he was whipped, shocked, burned and deprived of sleep because he wouldn't tell who he worked for not out of loyalty to his "friends" but out of sheer spite. He wasn't sure who he was the most mad at honestly. Lukas? He was fucking the woman he still loved. Tina? She left him after lying about always loving him. Meghan? Busy with her own life. Eliza?
"FUCK!" Derrick shouted. Eliza Fucking COHEN. It was all her fault. He had remembered what had happened after crashing in the forest. He had survived the initial impact of his chopper hitting the ground due to his expert piloting skills but still suffered some injuries. He was pulled out of the wreckage by some dude in white who had taken his commlink from his head. Then he had been led off to some thick trees nearby because of the approaching footsteps. He had perked up when he heard Eliza calling his name. The guy in white, fired another rocket at the downed chopper which exploded. Derrick could hear screaming into his commlink but the 2 guys holding him were too strong for him to overpower and the guy in white answered
"Oops, did I do that?" before he crushed the comlink in his hand. That didn't matter, she, Craig and Lukas were bound to find him shortly...until he heard his "friend" utter those 2 words.
"Rainbow down,"
"She left you to die. Meghan left you to die. Tina left you to die. They all. Left you. To DIE."
Derrick's mood had only worsened the more time he spent away from his parents. He knew they at least cared about him. His dad had named that hill after him after all. He also found out eariler that Meghan BITCH ASS had been spying on him and apparently Lukas's fuck-buddy was going to attempt to talk to him tomorrow. Derrick had stealthily hacked the hidden Gyro Cam in his room after leaving the cafeteria to play a fake video of him working on his laptop for 20 minutes on a loop. The others might think he's just in his room for the time being but not for much longer. He was going to ruin their tactical operation by going in guns blazing and if he died while doing so, so fucking be it. The memories and the nightmares would finally be at an end.
"They want me out of the picture. Fine. FINE! I'm going to this place tonight and I'm taking this motherfucker with me!"
Later that very same night, around dinner time, Derrick assumed the form of a basic recruit and snuck out of his bedroom. The coast had been clear because he'd already disabled the other Gyro Cam Meghan had placed in the hallway. Not today Meghan, Derrick thought to himself as he walked down the hallway. He hadn't been bothered all day either which was surprising. Usually Lukas, Tina or Meghan tried to talk with him at least once or twice a day. None of the staff members gave him a second glance as he walked to the armory. Eliza was in there checking gear. Derrick nearly picked up one of the handguns and shot her in the back of the head but Eliza turned at his footsteps.
"Oh, hello Recruit. What brings you here?" she asked him. Derrick had to think of a voice that no one had heard him do before or at least not so often. Schwartzenegger and Ace Ventura/Jim Carrey were no gos. It was a little hard to think of something until he settled on a Christopher Walken-esque cadence.
"Oh, you know, I just needed to, work on my LMG handling. Came in this room to grab one, HEY, there it is. The M249 SAW. My favorite," Derrick said. Eliza cocked an eyebrow at him.
"What country did you say you were from again?" she asked.
"Queens, New York," Derrick answered in the same voice. Eliza nodded.
"Right well be sure to return it when you're done Private…"
"Shreck," Derrick answered. "Maximillian" There was no way she had seen that movie before, Derrick thought as Eliza nodded again.
"Shreck, got it. Well, again be sure to return it when you're done," she said and left the room. Derrick stared at her back, satisfied that the moron that left him to die had fallen for his disguise like mostly everyone else. He did grab the LMG, an M4 and already had his Desert Eagle holstered in his belt. He had to vigorously clean it in order to get the feeling of the Verräter out of it. He made it as if he was heading to the nearby firing range but went out a side door. The whole time, he had his eye out for Meghan's cameras. He'd seen 1 in the firing range area but that was about it. He walked outside towards the parking lot and towards one of the jeeps. One recruit was standing guard reading a magazine and smoking a cigarette with his mask pulled up over his mouth. The guy barely noticed as Derrick knocked him out with one punch and jumped into one of the jeeps that he had swiped the keys for. He put his weapons in the back seat and turned on the engine. It roared to life and he quickly disabled the Jeep's tracking system. He figured someone might track him and persuade him to come back.
"Fuck 'em" Derrick said as he pressed the accelerator. The jeep moved towards the front gates which opened automatically for him. He pulled over after driving two blocks away from the stadium to check to see where he was to be going. The camp was about a 45 minute drive from his location.
"Good. Cherish the time you have left Tubby. Loki is coming for you,"
August 16th, 2023
Specialist Lukas "Amp" Weiss
West Coast Rainbow HQ.
Portland OR. USA
After the briefing, Lukas had spent the past few hours with Meghan, Monika, Elena, Ela and Tina discussing what to do to help Derrick. They were still discussing it around 7pm that night.
"I'm almost certain this Butcher guy is involved somehow," Monika said.
"If he did that to him then...then I'll..." Meghan answered angrily.
"Meghan, relax. He's here. We know where he is. He's still in his room right?" Tina asked. Elena, who had her own phone connected to Meghan's cams as well, nodded.
"He must be working on a new project or something. I don't think he's left that spot all day," Elena answered.
"Are you coming on this mission tomorrow?" Lukas asked. Elena shook her head.
"My sister's coming to visit. In the meantime, I thought I would help Tina try to speak with Derrick," Elena said. Tina nodded.
"He might still be mad about you 'peeking' or something though right?" Ela asked. "What did they look like again?"
"Burns. It looked like someone either shocked him repeatedly or stuck a red hot poker against his skin," Elena said. Meghan punched the table again.
"THAT MOTHERFUCKER!" she shouted. Monika grabbed one of her shoulders to attempt to calm her down.
"Meghan, he's safe with us. He just needs to realize that we love him too," Monika said. Lukas had been hearing Derrick talk to himself through the walls recently too and relayed this information to everyone. He had discovered that Derrick held onto the belief that no one truly loved him and that they only pretended to care when he had been found. Completely not true. Lukas remembered how happy he was when he found Derrick. He heard how hard Meghan cried and saw how happy she was to be with him again. Jordan had told him that Eliza had called her niece to inform her that the "Funny Man" had survived and promised her that she'd see him again sometime soon. Why Derrick thought everyone hated him was beyond Lukas's comprehension. Elena's phone rang and she left the room in order to take the call as Tina and Monika continued to help Meghan calm down. Ela turned to him and asked him a question.
"You...you didn't sleep with Tina did you?"
"No," Lukas and Tina answered at the same time. Ela didn't seem to believe him. Lukas squeezed her hand and had her look at Monika.
"Monika, would I do that to Ela?" he asked her.
"Of course not," Monika answered. Lukas gave Ela an expression that read "See? Told you." Ela took the chance to peck him on the cheek. Lukas tried speaking some Polish to her.
"I like Polish girls better than Canadians anyway," he said. It was a bit rough but still, Ela smirked at him. She went to kiss his cheek again but was interrupted by the arrival of Zoifa who had run into the room with her phone in her hand. She spotted Ela and began speaking rapid Polish in a frantic tone. Ela answered a little slower and Lukas caught some words like "Who?" and "What happened?" and "Jana?!" Monika, who knew a little more Polish, looked from Zofia to Ela.
"They have your daughter? Who's they?" she asked in English. Zofia also answered in English, thankfully.
"They...the White Masks...they took my daughter...my husband says...they took her while she was...playing in the park with him after they got dinner….He'd gone to the bathroom when he came back she was gone. The fucker just called me…and told me that they had her and wanted….wanted..."
"Who called you? And what do they want?" Lukas asked. Before Zofia could answer, Elena came back into the room with the same expression on her face as Zofia's. This was bad.
"They...they have my sister….and they want…" Elena began but she was interrupted by Craig. He too was looking rather upset. He voiced his outrage by yelling.
"THIS BUTCHER FUCK HAS MY WIFE! HE PLANS TO TORTURE HER LIKE HE DID WITH DERRICK IF I DON'T GIVE HIM DERRICK'S LOCATION!"
"WHAT?!" Meghan and Tina shouted. Elena and Zofia nodded as well.
"The Butcher wants Derrick. If he doesn't get him soon, he'll...kill them…and move on to I guess 'more people'" Elena said.
"HE'S GOING TO KILL A LITTLE GIRL?!" Lukas shouted. "Zo, where are they? Do you know?"
"Of course she knows, they're probably being held at that prison camp we heard about a few hours ago," Ela said, holding onto Zofia's shoulders.
"What prison camp?" Zofia asked. Lukas was confused. She had been in the room, no? Everyone else did too.
"The camp we just talked about assaulting earlier," Ela said to her. "Don't you remember?"
"I was with Andrezj all morning and part of the afternoon," Zofia responded. Lukas went to answer her but glanced to the spot where Derrick's projector was. It wasn't there. His eyes widened and he quickly turned to Meghan and pointed this out.
"FUCK! HE WAS ZOFIA!" Meghan shouted. Lukas remembered something else that the projector could do.
"Meghan, he can hack cameras with that thing, remember!" he said. Meghan pulled out her phone, connected it to the screen in the room and pulled up the video of Derrick working in his room. Lukas pointed to the clock.
"Fuck! Look at the clock! It says it's around 1pm!" Lukas said. Meghan meanwhile was on the breaking point. This Butcher guy had tortured her brother and was threatening to kill more people if they didn't return Derrick to him.
"I'll go see if he's still in there Meghan." Lukas said and sprinted out of the room
He arrived at Derrick's bedroom about a minute later and knocked on the door.
"Derrick, open this fucking door! NOW!" Lukas shouted. No answer. He hammered on it.
"DERRICK. OPEN THE DOOR!" he shouted again. Again, no answer. Lukas raised his foot and with a mighty kick, blasted the door inward. Derrick was not here. The room that he saw was vastly different from what he remembered. First off, there was a piece of paper near the Gyro Cam that read "FUCK YOU MEGHAN" along with the files of the mission the team was planning on going on tomorrow. Derrick had devised his own plan of attack. It looked like he planned to just go in without giving a fuck about his safety.
"Oh fuck…" Lukas said as he saw the ripped up photo of the Butcher and a note in Derrick's handwriting that read "I'm taking him with me!"
"Son of a bitch Derrick…" Lukas said, grabbed the files and Derrick's note and ran back to the lab. Upon his arrival he saw that Eliza and Jordan were currently in there trying to help Meghan and Tina calm down.
"Easy, easy Tina."
"JORDAN, THE BUTCHER FUCKED DERRICK UP! HE'S GOT MORE HOSTAGES!" Meghan was shouting.
"WE'RE GOING. NOW!" Tina shouted at Eliza. "LUKAS! Please tell me Derrick was in his room! I SWEAR TO GOD!" Lukas, however, shook his head and held out the files to Eliza.
"How did he know?!" she asked before she looked at the empty spot Derrick's projector usually occupied.
"He imitated Zofia," Lukas said as Eliza examined Derrick's notes. He saw her eyes widen with fear.
"FUCK! HE'S GOING ALONE! AND HE'S GOING IN GUNS BLAZING!" Eliza yelled. That was the very wrong thing to say in the presence of 2 women that loved Derrick quite a lot.
"NO!" Tina shouted.
"HE'LL GET MASSACRED!" Meghan yelled. Eliza turned to Meghan.
"I think..." Eliza said softly. "I think...I think I saw him…" Meghan grabbed her shirt and got in her face.
"WHAT?! WHERE!"
"Does he do a Chistopher Walken impression?" Eliza asked. Lukas nodded.
"He often calls himself Max Shreck from Batman Returns when he does it..." Lukas said before trailing off at the look on Eliza's face.
"Put the base on high alert. We need to find Derrick. NOW!"
"Eliza...you saw his note didn't you?" Lukas asked as everyone else ran out of the lab. Eliza nodded.
"Lukas...we have to find him. I can't lose him again,"
August 16th, 2023
Specialist Derrick "Loki" Castellano
Exact Location Unknown.
Presumably near Portland OR. USA
Derrick arrived at the White Mask camp about 45 minutes after leaving HQ. He ditched the Jeep in a nearby parking lot, slashed the tires and made his way to the location on foot.
"I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN UNDERSTAND ME?!"
"NOT IF I KILL YOU FIRST FAT ASS!"
Derrick shook his head to clear it. He didn't need to relive his time as a prisoner anymore. This was going to be where he would die. He was going to take the fucker that tortured him with him to hell. Derrick cocked the LMG and made his way toward the base. His plan was to first imitate a White Mask. That was easy, he hid in some bushes and whistled at one of the passing guards. The guard went to go check on who it was and Derrick gave him a few new piercings that would never heal. Derrick assumed the form of the guard and made his way into the base listening for any sounds of that voice that had haunted his memories and nightmares for the past few weeks. He still couldn't believe that he hadn't even been back a month yet and his "friends" already wanted him to be dead again. Fine. They'd be getting their wish tonight after Derrick found the Butcher. He'd isolate that fucking bastard, deactivate his disguise and unload the entire LMG drum mag into his body. Derrick walked through the base keeping note of good "last stand" places to hold up when he overheard a conversation.
"You hear what we got?" one dude said.
"Yeah! We found out some intel on some Special Forces soldiers. I hope they are part of that group that keeps fuckin our shit up. I need to kill that one bald American with the heart beat sensor. Guy thinks he's so funny…" the other one answered. Derrick stopped and leaned up against the wall to listen.
"So what happened?"
"Butch did some digging and found some family members of people in Special Forces stationed nearby. A spanish chick, an American woman and a little Polish girl. You should hear the Polish girl crying. I don't speak that language but I do know the words for mom, dad and...I want to say aunt. Whatever "ciocia" is."
"Outstanding. What's Butch planning on doing with them?"
"Remember that Air Force pilot we captured in Washington? The guy escaped a few weeks ago. Butch was pissed about it and wants revenge. He deduced that the Air Force guy was Special Forces and began looking around the area for his supposed allies. He intends to torture and kill them if he doesn't get the Air Force guy back,"
"Oh yeah! I remember seeing those videos! You saw how he cried for his...sister I think. There was also one where he called for his mom. His fucking MOMMY! What a bitch!" Derrick quietly eliminated the 2 men immediately when they reminded him of that day. He violently stuffed their bodies in a nearby broom closet as he went over what he had just overheard. Fuck. These bastards had captured Zofia's daughter, Elena's sister and Craig's wife. At least that's what Derrick deduced. The good side of his conscience took hold and told him what to do.
"Ok new plan, I'll save them. Then I come back and die in a blaze of hatred," Derrick muttered to himself and began to make his way to where he thought the prisoners were being held.
He turned out to be right. He came upon a room occupied by 3 White Masks and 3 prisoners in separate cells. Derrick recognized little Jana, Zofia's daughter, crying in the corner for her parents and Ela. Elena's sister, a taller version of Elena with longer hair, was attempting to calm her down in Spanish as she was in the cell next to her. She sported a black eye and scrapes along her face. Craig's wife was right next to Derrick and she looked up at him. She also sported bruises and cuts on her face. Derrick unsheathed his knife and she recoiled but Derrick did a knife trick that he did all the time.
"Derrick?" she whispered just loud enough so Derrick could hear it. Derrick nodded and gave her his 2 fingered salute before he put both of his long rifles against the wall and closed the door with a snap. Seeing innocent people being held hostage activated his old personality and sense of morality.
"Oi, the fuck are you morons doing?" Derrick said in an Austrian accent. The other 3 guys, who had just been playing cards, looked up at him with puzzled expressions.
"Tim? Why are you speaking like the Terminator?" one of them asked. Derrick smirked under his disguise. How ironic.
"Because fuckers," Derrick deactivated his disguise and unsheathed his other knife, "It's time to die," The 3 men recoiled at the sight of Derrick.
"THE AIR FORCE GUY GAK!" One of them said before a knife lodged itself into his neck. Derrick turned to Elena's sister and motioned toward Jana, who was next to her cell bars. Jana's eyes were already closed because she was crying for Zofia but Derrick still didn't want her to see what was going to happen.
"Cubrir sus ojos" he said and relentlessly attacked the other 2. He broke bones, slashed and pummeled these bastards into bloody pulps. He stomped his boot on the last guy's face and moved the bodies off into a corner. Before making his way back to the other room, he noticed a computer nearby. He walked over to see it and he nearly exploded in rage again. The computer screen contained a list of names. They were as followed;
"Plan A:
Alvarez, Elena Maira. Spain. Sister coming to the states, grab her off plane. Photo attached
Jensen, Craig. USA. Wife stationed in Portland, grab her.
Bosak, Zofia. Poland. Sister also Special Forces. Husband and daughter in Portland. Grab daughter.
Castellano has 24 hours to reveal himself. Afterwards, kill them all.
Plan B (after one day of not receiving Castellano's location, send this list to everyone):
Brunsmeier, Dominic. Germany. Has a twin brother.
Goose, Max. Australia. Has a wife and children. Take your pick.
Cohen, Eliza. USA. Has a brother along with niece and nephew (rescued by Castellano).
Castellano, Meghan. West Coast, USA. Exact location unknown. I want to see her suffer.
Tseng, Tina Lin. Canada. Shoot on sight/identification. We know she's Asian but that's not enough."
Upon reading this, Derrick swore loudly. They knew. They knew about a select number of Rainbow Ops. How they did is something Derrick didn't understand. What he did understand was computers and how to completely delete information from a server. Derrick typed a few commands which in turn wiped the computer of the files and supposed locations of Rainbow Operators. He even took a few minutes to write a quick virus (these morons were using Windows XP so it was easy) which would destroy any trace of these names in the computer as well as the server. Satisfied, Derrick made his way back over to the prisoners and released them
"Derrick!" Craig's wife said and gave him a hug.
"Derrick? Castellano?" Elena's sister asked. Derrick attempted speaking Spanish again.
"Oh boy...uh...conozco a tu hermana, Elena," he said. She nodded and pointed to Jana.
"I do know English. Do you know her mother too?" she asked in accented English, thankfully.
"Yes, I do," Derrick said and knelt down to speak with Jana. Jana hid behind Elena's sister's leg. Derrick smiled at her.
"Come on Jana. You know me. Your mom introduced you to me once. Is it the hair and beard? Ruh oh!" Derrick said, imitating Scooby Doo. Jana smiled at him. So did the other 2 women. Derrick laughed like Scooby Doo which made Jana trust him and give him a hug. She must have remembered who he was too.
"Like, your mommy's worried about you. I'm going to get you away from the scary monsters" Derrick said, switching to Shaggy. I'm coming back though, he said internally as he turned to Craig's wife.
"Is there some sort of transport nearby?" he asked. She nodded.
"There's a parking lot outside that door, that's where they brought us in….how's Craig?" she asked. Derrick shrugged.
"Alright probably…"
"Derrick...do they even know you're here?" she asked. Derrick didn't answer. He grabbed his LMG off the wall and posted up near the door before turning into another White Mask.
"I'll secure an exit. Follow my orders to the letter. These people are bad guys," Derrick said to Jana. He figured Zofia taught her a little English because she nodded and clung to Elena's sister's leg again. Derrick took a deep breath. What had been surprising this whole time was the fact that no one else had come down to check on the prisoners and that the screaming in his head had decided to go away...at least for now.
August 16th, 2023
Specialist Lukas "Amp" Weiss
West Coast Rainbow HQ.
Portland OR. USA
Lukas and the others spent over an hour combing the base for Derrick. Eliza had apparently seen and spoken to him in the armory.
"Max Shreck...FUCK!" she had shouted. "I saw that movie when I was a kid with my brother. That was Walken's character!" Meghan and Tina were beyond any hope of being able to calm down despite Monika's efforts. They were sprinting all over the place and calling the civilian police. He had heard Tina describe Derrick to someone on the phone.
"He's just under 6 feet tall. Long brown hair, beard. Tattoo sleeves of Nordic runes. He's my boyfriend too and he's been really moody and angry recently. Please...you have to help us find him." Lukas had taken the time to speak with Zofia.
"I can't lose my daughter Lukas. I can't" she told him, holding her head in her hands. Lukas and the others had decided to attack the base tonight rather than tomorrow but they needed to find Derrick first. He had gotten a head start and Lukas figured that he was already at that base...if not dead already. Everyone else was sweeping the area and checking cams. The motor pool guard had been knocked out cold and one of the jeeps had been taken. Eliza had called that into the local authorities and within about 25 minutes it had been found abandoned with the tires slashed a few towns over. The team was beginning to arm themselves to bring Derrick back by any means necessary. Lukas went to answer Zofia when Ela called him on his commlink.
"Guys, I found Derrick. He appears to have come with a group of...oh God...That IS my niece...Wait, he's not getting out of the jeep. Dammit...I'll take the hostages. You guys need to move. He's going to the airfield. Eliza...I saw his face...it was empty. He's serious. He probably wants to attack via chopper...Move." Lukas jumped up from his chair after Ela stopped talking.
"Zo, Ela has your daughter. She's coming up here with her,"
"She...Jana? Where's Derrick?" Zofia asked.
"He's...he's...not OK. We need to help him. I'll find Eliza, Meghan and Tina. We don't have a lot of time,"
"LUKAS!" Monika yelled from the doorway. Lukas figured that she had heard Ela talk on the comms. Lukas followed her outside the room where he soon found out that he was running full speed alongside Eliza, Meghan and Tina. Meghan was pushing anyone and anything out of her way as she ran. Lukas knew that she didn't want to lose Derrick again. Tina was doing the same. They needed to get to him before it was too late. Before he did something that would cost him his life.
Mission Report:
Derrick set out on a suicide mission but ended up saving 3 hostages. He intends to return unless Lukas and the others can stop him.
