BULL wakes up to the sound of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter landing down near their camp. He pokes his head out of his tent to see NOMAD and YOUNGIN packing up their tents and other provisions. YOUNGIN notices his head poking out and lightly jogs over to him. "Hey sleepy head, we decided to let you sleep in tonight for your hard work yesterday." YOUNGIN lightly pats him on the cheek hoping to wake him up a bit. YOUNGIN walks away and continues to load equipment into the Chinook. BULL puts on his boots and coat and begins to pack up his stuff into the Chinook. Still wondering where the hell those thoughts from last night came from.
They're in the Chinook for about two hours as they sit and make small talk over their headsets. YOUNGIN is constantly making jokes, trying to make light of their horrible lives as RRT operatives.
Everything was loaded onto the chopper as NOMAD signaled for the chopper to take off, which the pilot responded with a thumbs up. They take off and ascend to an altitude of 5000 feet. NOMAD being the big brother type looks over at BULL immediately noticing he's distressed. "Hey what's wrong kid?" NOMAD asks with concern in his voice.
NOMAD obviously cares deeply about his fireteam as he considers them his own children. BULL looks over at NOMAD not eager to tell him about last night, "I'm just still reciprocating from the cold," he lies. NOMAD immediately knows he is. He gives BULL a slight smirk and shrugs, he's gonna pry it out of him one of these days.
They dip low into a canyon and descend slowly down. They've finally made it to the closest place that they can call a home as Response Team operatives. The chopper lands and the hatch at the back of the helicopter goes down revealing a helipad atop a large natural stone spire in a cave. Technicians and white shirted Foundation Personnel rush to the helicopter to unload the equipment from the chinook. They stand to the side waiting for the fireteam to exit the chinook.
The 3 men walk down the ramp as the Technicians and FP gawk at them with envy and fear in their eyes. BULL glances at a female FP as she flinches in fear of him. The Rapid Response Team falls under the jurisdiction of the Internal Security Department, and as such they don't necessarily have to follow the Code of Ethics, a strict set of laws put in place by the Ethics Committee to reign back the Foundations almost limitless power over the world. And as such the RRT is exempt from any laws put in place by the Ethics Committee. The RRT isn't allowed to speak around Level-2 Personnel and below so they just silently walk past the small gawking crowd.
The group leaves the small cave and enters the main facility, it's called Site Delta. NOMAD swipes his card through the reader, and the 8 foot tall 6 inch thick titanium doors open to reveal a hallway that the fireteam walks down. NOMAD looks over at BULL with a blank expression still wondering what the hell is wrong with that kid.
The group takes a left turn to the entrance of Sector-X, a sector of the facility that is unknown by Level-4 and below. It is highly classified as it houses all of the ISD agents and some quite terrifying things that the regular human mind was never meant to see. They can hear the roar of some monster coming from behind them.
These monsters are referred to as SCPs by the foundation. They are anomalous entities and objects that are too much for the public eye to handle. So the Foundation takes it upon themselves to contain and research these SCPs to further learn about them and contain them better. But there are instances in which the anomalies escape into the world and that's where the containment units come in. Usually there is an MTF (Mobile Task Force) deployed to deal with it, but if the SCP proves to be too much for the task force to handle they call in an RRT containment unit. BULLs unit isn't a containment unit. They are something much more than a regular RRT squad actually. These 3 men make up what is known as fireteam sparrow. They are a special unit that reports directly to the ISD high council, and sometimes even to the administrator himself.
The group gets to the entrance of Sector-X. The two security guards immediately know to let them through as they both salute the team, and open the door. Fireteam Sparrow enters the one place they can actually call a home. "I really hate the fact that we aren't allowed to speak, I want to say so much but I can't," YOUNGIN says to NOMAD and BULL. "Why do they always gather around us like we're the second coming of Christ, it gives me anxiety," BULL says.
The other two men laugh at his joke, "I think it might be out of fear, but they do know we can't just kill everyone without some kind of a reason. Right?" YOUNGIN asks with a tad of curiosity as if he was considering the idea. "Nah man I think they just know to get out of the way. They fall too low on the totem pole to even be considered by the most basic RRT units," NOMAD says sadistically. That statement worries BULL, he knew NOMAD was a bit of a sadist but those people are his colleagues and he speaks down on them so casually...
The group is walking down the long hallways of Sector-X as they look to their lefts and right. They see groups of Intelligence Agency (IA) operatives and ISD operatives do paperwork in glassed out rooms. These type of people are what many in the Foundation consider the "spooks". They are the ones that kidnap personnel under the suspicion of treason or traitorous actions. They are as merciless as they are loyal to the foundation.
They don't speak in any known language so many people who actually know of their existence just think that they speak in some made up language. They always seem to have some kind of facial covering on whether it be a mask or some sort of balaclava. Even the O5 council and their faithful task force Alpha-1 (Red Right Hand) which is supposed to be the best and most elite (known) combat unit in the foundation are terrified of what these men can do to them.
They operate outside of the CoE to the point where the highest ranking Ethic Committee members can't even touch these guys. Fireteam Sparrow doesn't even flinch. They know that even the invisible PHANTOM (ISD combat branch) operatives can't touch them... and if they tried they would be dead within minutes.
Fireteam Sparrow finally makes it to their quarters. It's a drab dark gray room with three twin sized memory foam beds, 3 dressers with clothes of the three operatives choosing, a 52" wall mounted flat screen, a bathroom with 3 showers, a fridge stocked with nutritional items, and a small kitchen.
The first thing BULL does is belly flop onto his bed as he sinks in, "Ahhhhh, i'm so glad to finally be back bro," he says to the rest of his team. YOUNGIN sits down on his bed and turns on the TV to put on his favorite anime Blue Exorcist "Dude come watch this with me, we're almost done with the first season," he says to BULL. NOMAD goes into his dresser and picks out his plaid pajamas and
underwear, "I'm gonna hop in the shower I smell like an Italian restaurant," which brings out a laugh from BULL. NOMAD is happy that he got something out of BULL as he's still worried about what's wrong with him.
There's a quick knock on the door as it beeps and slides open. A small Indonesian woman walks in, she is about 5'2 with childlike features but that's typical for Indonesian women. It is none other than O5-2, Fireteam Sparrows' official physician and therapist. There are two Alpha-1 guards flanking her carrying a chair, as she motions them to stand outside and guard the entrance. O5-2 oversees the Medical, Combat Medical, and the highly [REDACTED] Medical Association departments. She is a kind and soft spoken individual who has a strange obsession with the foundation's head researchers, they don't know if it's a sexual obsession or just psychological but it is strange all the same. She can be very childish at times, probably because of her young appearance, but no one knows exactly how old she is.
"Whatcha guys watching," she asks as she hops on BULLs bed sitting right next to him, with no regard for his personal space. BULL scoots to the right relative to where she is positioned next to him as to make some space between them. "Blue Exorcist, we're almost done with the first season so hush," YOUNGIN says, not looking away from the TV. -2 looks to the left of her to see NOMAD coming out of the bathroom finishing the last buttons on his pajamas. "Oh, hey -2 didn't hear you come in from the shower haha." -2 giggles at him "I'm glad you finally put on your clothes before you left the bathroom, remember last time when you came out and your junk was flying everywhere haha." NOMAD grumbles and blushes slightly "Thats because you just walk the fuck in without any regard to our privacy." -2 blows a raspberry at him, "Alright everyone, turn off your anime let's get on with the session."
-2 steps out of the room and orders the Alpha-1 carrying a chair to hand it to her, it's almost as big as her. She's walking like a penguin as she struggles to take it to the center of the room, BULL assists her by lifting it and placing it down. "Thanks big guy," she says as she pats him on the back.
She sits down as she flutters her medical coat behind her, it's slightly too big for her. There's a clipboard on the side of the chair that -2 pulls out. There are doodles with Foundation researchers drawn with no shirts on. "Soooo how was the assassination fellas? Did you get him or no?" BULL sighs heavily "Yeah I got him right in the jaw too it wasn't pretty. But there was something... concerning. When I killed him there was... a little girl no more than 12. She looked like Hill so I assumed it was his daughter. No one told me that there was a kid present, much less his daughter. The look on her face was..." he trails off in thought with a sad look on his face.
-2 is writing all of this down as she has a concerned look on her face. Her medical and helpful mind is coming in full force. She wants to go to Colorado and scoop up that kid and provide a home for her. "Did anything happen to the kid? Did she do anything concerning that would provide any information?" BULL shakes his head slowly, there's a lump in his throat, he's going to cry. -2 notices this immediately gets up and strokes his hair placing her cheek on his scalp, she has to stand on her toes. "Anyone else wants to comment," -2 asks the rest of the group.
NOMAD grunts, "Stop being a pussy BULL, shit happens get over it. A lot of the men you kill are probably dads, it's just how it-", BULL is tackling NOMAD before he can even blink. YOUNGIN gets up to help, but -2 puts her arm out to stop him. The Alpha-1 Operatives storm into the room guns
pointed at the two men, but they notice -2 is perfectly safe. They don't lower their weapons but they don't shoot either. BULL is throwing punches at NOMAD while he's down, but NOMAD is known for his hand to hand prowess so he immediately kicks BULL off and gets up at lightning speed. This time NOMAD is on the offensive as he goes in for a flying kick BULL tries to block it but the force is too much and he gets knocked into the left wall. NOMAD is on him in an instant, careful not to telegraph his moves to BULL.
After receiving a beating from NOMAD, BULL manages to use the wall to kick NOMAD in the chest. He flys at him and slugs him in the face. NOMAD responds with a flurry of punches that BULL somehow manages to block effectively. BULL side kicks NOMAD in the stomach and pivots back to palm strike his nose. He hears a faint crack knowing immediately he broke NOMADs nose. NOMAD too surged up on adrenaline, ignores it and charges the man yelling like a viking as he spears him. BULL desperately pounding NOMADS back is slammed into the wall again making it crack.
BULL felt that one as his knees buckle and shake. BULL is passed out, NOMADs nose dripping blood as -2 and YOUNGIN just stand there. -2 pulls out a radio "I want Medical Association personnel at the Fireteam Sparrow quarters, we have a broken nose and a possible broken back, over." There's chatter from the radio, and one minute later there are 3 men in gas masks and a stretcher on the scene. They load up BULL on the stretcher and ask NOMAD to follow them. "Kepada Tuhan... what are we gonna do with those two," she asks rhetorically. She turns around to face YOUNGIN, "There's a reason I didn't let anyone interfere. Trust me they won't be fighting anymore after all that." With that she turns to exit the room with her Alpha-1 guards leaving an astonished YOUNGIN in the room.