BULL is running down the hallway to get to his quarters. He stops at the door and swipes his card in the reader. He walks in to see everyone packing their stuff. NOMAD looks over from his bag, "There he is, the stud. Welcome back." BULL rolls his eyes and grabs his bag from the side of his bed.
He sets it down on his bed and he notices a scent emanating from his bed. "Why the hell does my bed smell like... strawberries?" HANAMI walks out of the bathroom clad in her tactical gear. YOUNGIN is caught staring for a few seconds too long, as she throws her empty shampoo bottle at his head. YOUNGIN snaps out of it and gets back to packing.
"Why the hell are you smelling where I slept last night?" She said firmly. BULL freaks out a little bit and picks up his bag and sets it atop his dresser. NOMAD chuckles from across the room.
There's a knock at the door and NOMAD opens it up. He looks out the doors and sees a cart with all their gear they will be using. "I have presents fellas, and uhh fellettes!" NOMAD brings in the cart as everyone walks over to it.
"That's a big rifle. What the hell is this round size? It's as big as a can of Red Bull." HANAMI says in reference to the Hercules-1. YOUNGIN picks it up, "It's my Big Fucking Gun that's what it is!" HANAMI turns her head around to hide a smile. She turns back around with her usual straight face.
BULL puts on his buster gloves and does some shadow boxing. NOMAD attaches his maneuvering gear to his belt and the transmitter to his head.
There is a bag on the table as well with 5 capped needles in it. "What's this," HANAMI asks. There's a note attached to the side of the bag, Hey HANAMI I packed some of these stim needles in this here bag inject your squad mates with them for a boost of strength :) - O5-2. She slips them in the holes designed for shotgun shells on her vest.
"We best get goin now people." NOMAD orders as they all leave the room closing it on the way out.
The group is walking down the Sector-X hallway. They stand out quite a bit with their shiny new gear, especially YOUNGIN carrying a sniper the length of a desk. ISD and IA agents are staring at them all. "You guys are near these spooks everyday?" HANAMI asks.
YOUNGIN scoffs, "They don't like it when we call them 'spooks' they prefer 'disciplinary experts'." She rolls her eyes. She still isn't used to being near all these people who could shoot her for no good reason. They walk past an ISD agent and he snaps his head toward her.
She yelps a little bit and jumps behind YOUNGIN. "Just don't pay them any mind, they can't touch you much less hurt you." YOUNGIN says. His heart is beating very fast. HANAMI notices she is still behind YOUNGIN and pushes him away from her. They reach the end of Sector-X. BULL swipes his card and the massive doors begin to open to Sector-Alpha.
NOMAD notices there is a new security guard. He then starts to feel guilty. Because he talked to the old one he's probably dead right now or worse. The new guard nods his head to the group as they walk past. NOMAD doesn't even act like he exists.
They reach the massive hangar where a Lockheed C-5 Supergalaxy is parked and ready to take off. All around them there are orange suited technicians working on fighter jets, pilots in small groups chatting, and boxes being moved by transport.
They go to the lowered ramp of the Supergalaxy where the mixed forces of Beta-7 and Pi-1 have gathered in their new suits. Beta-7s suit looks like a skin-tight mass of red honeycomb and Kevlar. The PHANTOM operative from the briefing room is explaining something to them when Fireteam Sparrow shows up.
"Welcome, SPARROW nice to see you finally show up." The PHANTOM says. HANAMI leans over to NOMAD, "Who's that guy?"
"That is a PHANTOM operative you wouldn't know about them, but they are the ISD combat branch." He says to her.
The PHANTOM walks up to her and looks her up and down, "Do you ever wonder who makes people disappear in this organization? The people who take you away if you see something you definitely weren't supposed to?"
HANAMI is sweating profusely, it's 72 degrees in the hangar. The PHANTOM clears his throat, "You all know what to do, I want to hear good things about this operation! Load up people!" SPARROW begins to walk up the ramp.
HANAMI is walking up fast, she doesn't like people to be behind her at all. While she is walking she feels something touch her butt. She turns around in a flash and sees a Beta-7 operative pull his hand back.
HANAMI is furious as she walks down the ramp to confront him. The other operatives know that she isn't to be trifled with and all step away from the guy. "What the fuck are you doing bitch walk back up the ra-'', HANAMI cuts him off by picking him up by the collar and shoving him down the ramp.
She pulls a scalpel out of her medical bag, "I think I want to cut your hands off, and when I'm down with that I'm going to cut your cock off. Maybe I'll do it slowly so you can really feel it." The guy at this point is pleading to her.
YOUNGIN notices this altercation and goes back down the ramp. He sprints up in front of HANAMI and puts himself in the way of her, "Hey. I saw what happened and I'm all for you cutting his wee wee and hands off when we get back. But we might need him for this op. When we get back if he's still alive you can do whatever you want to him. But right now we don't wanna do that."
HANAMI puts her scalpel back into her bag, "I'll make sure he stays alive. If I see you out there you're a dead man." She tells the Beta-7.
YOUNGIN leads her back up the ramp. A few times she tried to break free and rearrange that guys face but YOUNGIN got her back. The two get inside the plane and see two rows of seats at either side of the plane with straps in the shapes of an X there to lash them down. "Hmph I thought we would at least get some comfortable seating before we walk into our deaths." HANAMI complains.
YOUNGIN scoffs at her comment, "You need to be here a while to truly appreciate how nice your life has been until now." HANAMI raises an eyebrow at him, "It seems like my life hasn't been much better ever since I met you." YOUNGIN turns to her with a smug look on his face as they begin to sit down, "Y'know you spend a lot of time complaining about me and very little time trying to "fix" me." HANAMI's face gets hot as she turns away from him.
BULL and NOMAD both sit next to each other. NOMAD initiates the conversation, "So how are you and the girlie?" BULL looks over to him with a small grin on his face, "Honestly we're really good. We are together almost every night since the date we had."
NOMAD is nodding in approval. "I'm glad for you two. Every single time we had a session before I always noticed her giving you a look, like she wanted all of you."
BULL nods over to YOUNGIN and HANAMI, "What about those two? They seem to be getting along pretty well from what I can see." YOUNGIN is pestering HANAMI as she tells him off with one of her signature eye rolls. "This plane ride is gonna take a while so I hope I can see both of them start something." NOMAD says with envy.
"When you get as old as me you're chances with the females goes down in the dumps. Make the most of your youth kid, it only gets harder." NOMAD says. BULL takes this in and is determined to make the most of his life together with Cyn.
NOMAD and BULL are chatting for a few hours as the day slips into night.
Another few hours go by and most of the plane is asleep. A few conversations are popping up among the MTF members but three out of the four members of Fireteam Sparrow are asleep. It's BULL who is awake. He looks over at HANAMI and YOUNGIN. HANAMI is laying her head on YOUNGINs shoulder while he's is drooling onto the shoulder of the Pi-1 Operative next to him.
Seeing them makes him miss Cyn. He misses her hugs, her touch, her warm embrace, and her kisses. He thinks about how he may never see her again, and that honestly scares him. He knows what NOMAD thinks, how falling in love in this profession is only a burden and will carry you down. But BULL doesn't give a damn. He sees how Cyn looks at him, like how a religious man would look at an angel. Thinking about Cyn makes him sleepy as he drifts off waiting for morning to come.
BULL wakes up to the plane landing and the hydraulics of the landing gear bouncing. This wakes the rest of the raiding force up. YOUNGIN wakes up before HANAMI and notices her laying down on his shoulder. He pokes her head, "Now I know I'm amazing and everything, but I'm not a pillow pet. Not that I'm complaining or anything."
He keeps poking her head until she wakes up, "Whas happenin?" She asks half asleep. She rubs her eyes and she realizes that her head has been on YOUNGINs shoulder the entire plane ride. She quickly unbuckles herself and grabs her gear from overhead.
The plane wakes up and everyone grabs their bags from overhead. Pi-1 all had separate bags for their new armor. YOUNGIN lugs his sniper from over head and it almost crushes him. The raiding force exits the plane. They seem to be landed at the Maré Airport. HANAMI is gawking at the size of the airport, "I've never really been outside of America, I've never even been in an airport so this is new to me." NOMAD pats her on the back as she is relieved of her trance. Near where the plane landed there are two unmarked armored SWAT vehicles waiting for them.
"Load up everyone we're heading to Maré so we can begin this operation," NOMAD tells everyone. They all load into the vans 7 in one 8 in the other. Fireteam Sparrow are all loaded into the same van. The drivers are dressed in simple white polos and black hats with a chandelier of gear on their belts. NOMAD pounds on the back of the van to tell the drivers to take off.
They are supposed to be on the road for 30 minutes until they get to Maré. YOUNGIN looks over at NOMAD, "Hey aren't some y'know... other people supposed to be accompanying us on this op?" NOMAD understands that he means PHANTOM operatives, "Yeah, I think they are already there. That or the Brazilian branch have provided some of them for us." YOUNGIN nods. He is too nervous to even crack a small joke right now.
The van is silent the entire ride except for a few coughs and sniffles. When they finally reach the outskirts of the town they see something they never expected. The entire town hasn't been evacuated yet. There are civilians walking up and down the roads going about their normal lives. All the while there are Chaos Insurgency troops patrolling the town giving it over watch.
"How the hell did the Insurgency take over this town? How is the Brazilian government allowing this?" A Pi-1 Operative asks. NOMAD grunts, "I think there are some Chaos agents working high up in the government right now. They probably are being played off as a police force right now."
YOUNGIN loads his rifle, NOMAD attaches his canisters, and BULL slips on his gloves. The raiding force looks pretty intimidating, but they are heavily outnumbered about 5:1. "Lets get a move on everyone, you all know what to do!" NOMAD says commencing the operation.
The entrance of the town is empty except for the handful of C.I. guards stationed there for protection. It's still very early in the morning so the task force has some form of cover under the darkness, but not much. There is a pathway leading into town where they are going to enter from with a bushel on either side of the path. Pi-1 and Beta-7 are on the left side while Sparrow
is on the right. They all stop on either side of the guards. NOMAD gives a bird call and the guard detachment is taken down in an instant.
The task force moves into the town posing as special police. They hear mutters from the civilians in Portugese, "Ótima, mais polícia!" They hear from a shady character in an alleyway. BULL looks over at him with his balaclava on with a design that looks like a bull. The man scampers down the alleyway in fear.
The raiding force reaches an intersection that octopuses all around town. NOMAD signals Beta-7 to go left, Pi-1 to keep moving forward, and he brings Sparrow to the right. "When you hear shots from around town we go in loud. For now keep it quiet." NOMAD commands the entire task force. With that Sparrow takes down the road to the right.
Fireteam Sparrow are walking down a street lined with Brazilians. People are watching them from above on rooftops, behind stalls, in buildings, and from alleyways. They're still walking when a Chaos Insurgency infantry-woman stops them in the middle of the road. She has an RPD "Who in the ever loving fuck are you?" She asks with an American accent. YOUNGIN steps up, "We're a special division transferred from Rio De Janeiro." The woman raises her eyebrow, "I never heard of a transfer from Rio. Much less a special division."
HANAMI steps up and gives her one of the signature eye rolls, "Look, obviously you aren't going to know that a special division is going to show up. Let us pass." The woman raises her RPD. "You all better not move or else I'll mow you down, I swear to Christ!"
NOMAD huffs and thinks, Forward, to his propulsion gear and zips right in front of the woman. He brings his knee up to the barrel of her gun and grabs it as it's pointed towards the sky. The woman begins firing wildly into the air scaring the surrounding civilians into their homes or alleyways. NOMAD slams his head into her forehead dazing her and throat punches her, knocking her out cold.
He continues with his group walking forward. BULL who brings up the rear equips his M4A1-S and blasts the woman in the face killing her instantly.
"That bitch probably alerted the entire Favela that we we're here. Pi-1 and Beta-7 are gonna go in hot now." HANAMI says to the group. YOUNGIN stops at the entrance of a house. "I need to set up shop, this rooftop should do pretty well for a while. Good luck everyone, and don't die." He winks at HANAMI, she gets flushed under her balaclava. YOUNGIN then bursts into the house, screaming at everyone to get out.