Wranglers of Chaos ch. 2: As they are…
A/N: I do not own rainbow six or life is strange and any reviews will be great
Getting down out of the aircraft in Hereford, the smell of the four drinks he had consumed on the flight with Chloe lingering on his breath, CJ grabbed his duffel bag and watched with a twinge of loneliness as he saw Max slip her hand down to Kates fatigue bottom and give it a tight squeeze getting a cute little meep from her lover, whose face was a shade of a fresh tomato, Dom just shook his head as Jack Junior, who they had met up with as he was the boots on the ground liaison, shot his eye brows up with a barely suppressed chuckle. As Ding saw what was going on, he gave a short, rasp cough, which got the two looking around before John slyly passed Alstair a twenty-pound note, as he had bet the two were more than friends.
Seeing that was going on, Junior just rolled his eyes at the sappy display before Clark and Stanley took Alpha and Bravo to the SUVs and they quickly went off to the theme park in Brussels, which was modeled in the theme of world war two, something which raised major eyebrows upon completion and Chavez grabbed Jack by the collar before asking
"CJ you god bro? I mean I know you have trained for this but with that look in your eye, I know if you tell me you are fine that will be a load of shit" and Jack, who they all knew as CJ to avoid confusion with John Clark replied quietly
"No mano I am nothing even close to okay" and he expected Chavez to tell him to man up and thus was surprised when his commander, who had a good 6 inches and 100 pounds on him, with ding tipping the scales unloaded at 245 with Jack being 6 foot and 145 pounds of solid muscle, wrapping him in a hug before remarking
"Boy if you are afraid of never getting home to see your girlfriend or are jealous that Erica and Max are operating side by side with their girlfriend, I can have Stanley and bravo team use Erica as a breach expert" and all Jack would say in way of a quiet rebuttal
"my one fear is that I may be losing my half-sister and big sister" and Ding looked and asked
"Is Max your half-sister?" and Jack remarked with a short bitter cough,
"What the hell did you think C stood for? I mean it's a bit of a mystery but you could have used logic and figured it out" not really caring if he, a simulated captain, was shooting his mouth off to his commander, a simulated major. Locking eyes with Ding, Jack prepared to be punched out cold or restrained and was surprised when Ding just smiled and said
"Tell me about it on the way".
12 years earlier
Having been the bastard child of the Caulfield family, with his father never being mentioned, Jack looked around and saw Max, one year his junior getting showered with attention before she ran off to play with Chloe, leaving him alone and wondering exactly what he was going to do besides wander around arcadia bay and help himself to what ever he could get his hands on, as he was an infamous kleptomaniac and it was mostly to keep himself entertained. Quickly pilfering a pack of cigarettes and a lighter someone had left out, he wandered to the old junkyard and quickly lit up the smoke before washing out the taste of menthols out of his mouth with a swallow of a beer that, if he had to guess was out for a day or two, but beggars can't be choosers. Quickly sitting down and kicking off his boots, one of the few things his mom had bought him after max was born, he heard a faint voice hollering
"Max how could you leave without me like what the hell. We were supposed to be best friends forever!". Promptly pushing himself up onto his feet, throwing his boots back on, he spilled the beer, tipping it over with his boot, before seeing Chloe running off crying and max heading toward their home and naturally he was left behind to fend for himself, knowing it was better that way but thinking he'd never see max again, that is until he turned 19.
Present day
Having heard his comrades heart wrenching tale, Ding spoke up, not remarking on the tear that slowly crept its way down Jacks face,
"So I take it you had lived in the town with a friend and as your file said you lived with the Price family before you were adopted by John Clark for military training so we all thought that your last name was Clark". As Jack listened to Dom, he remarked
"I would rather leave everyone else thinking that I am mister C junior you know. He is my 'old man' after all" and both laughed before Jack booked it to the group as they had been on stand-by but they had just gotten the go order. Quickly pulling his Improved Modular Tactical Vest on and his SCAR-L that he used as a secondary loadout, before seeing Kate slinging an MP5N and a P90 as well as her 45 into holsters, before smiling at Jack and blowing a kiss at Max, who had a saiga shotgun and SCAR-L readied to go and the others all saw the snipers riding the rollercoasters near where the hostages were and setting up a vantage point. Watching the last two, Chloe and Rachael packing breaching gear, with shotguns and automatic rifles at the ready, he was given the order to move up and Clark moved in a heel-toe fashion before lining up with alpha team and max slide next to ding and Jack on the other side before a shot split the still air, showing him the sight that would haunt him to his dying day, a hostage taker took aim at a young girl, who he had to guess was 8 or 9, with an AK74 carbine, before callously putting a bullet into her before dumping it out with all the care of a man taking the garbage out.
Seeing a young girl in a wheelchair, her chocolate orbs set into a pale face that were forever glazed, one that had shown signs of regaining life, slumped against the straps, a bullet having punched through her chest, Jack yelled over the radio, as he set off a pair of flash bang grenades,
"Go and check your fire but we move fast" and they all moved in with a focused look on their faces as the hostages had all dropped down exposing the hostage takers, who had been yelling for the men to kill the hostages, only to meet the fate of 9mm and rifle rounds, well the lucky ones anyways. The two men who had survived the initial fusillade of rifle and submachine gun fire, found out why CJ had a smile on his face, one that to the uninitiated looked like it had been harvested from the depths of hell, as he drove the blades of his combat knife and two combat tomahawks into the men, who having not seen the weapons, allowed him to close the gap before they tried to fight him, not knowing they were fighting a very pissed off krav maga and systema expert. Watching as the two ended up dropping dead, Max looked at the dead girl's name tag and saw her name was VC and under it had her full name of Victoria Collins. Dropping to her knees, feeling Rachael and Chloe setting their hands on her, Max said a quiet prayer as Kate gave her last rites then started to render aid to the hostages and police who had been wounded either during the rescue or previously. As they all started to leave, the Alpha team's machine gunner Glen Richards looked around wondering if he should put in for a transfer to a regular military unit.
Limping around after hopping off the aircraft after a 20-hour nonstop flight to NAS Everret and a hour drive to his home in the woods outside of Arcadia Bay, Jack passed out as he heard Victoria asking
"CJ honey are you okay because you were a lot cheerier before you left" and he rolled over off the bed and stole a quick kiss before regaling the details of the mission that for the most part had been a success, except for the haunting memory of that young lady, a life cut to short that the team wasn't fast enough to save. Quickly curling up into a ball, Jack started to shake with sobs, choking out
"I should have been faster, I had a clear shot. If I had only squeezed off the shot that little girl would be able to live a happy long life". Quickly hearing a chirp from her phone, Victoria looked around and read the message that Max had sent her, and Jack was slapped as Victoria said, her voice full of worry
"Hey boy you might want to get dressed because we just got invited to a party at max's dorm room and I know I am usually across the hall but I haven't been able to make them budge on having a boy in the dorm, at least not yet and are you sure you are okay?" and he just shot her his best smile and nodded before getting up and sighing as the cold air hit his skin, soothing the pain from the workout he put himself through. As he quickly got dressed, Jack and Victoria took a quick kiss before he passed her a large package and he explained
"The clothing is designed to protect against VX and Nova agents as well as sarin gas" and instead of looking at him with nerves, she nodded before they headed out knowing the others all had the same type of clothing.
Quickly driving into campus in a matte black Chevy Camaro, Jack smiled and wandered out before opening Victoria's door and was amazed by her glowing angelic smile. He had once lived on the streets as a gutter snipe, which was a slang term for a kid who had fallen between the cracks of the foster system, although it was a closely guarded secret, and he was thusly surprised he made it that far with his own car, and a nice one at that. As they walked in, Victoria noticed the tension in the air was thick as the fog that rolled in the harbor, as the others from rainbow were either watching cartoons like my little pony or hamtaro and the others were playing psychological thriller games. As they sat down, Victoria saw that Kate and Jack both showed the ticks of Senua, who suffered from psychosis and that made Victoria worry about the two but she wasn't sure how to approach it, although she would have to make the decision sooner than later as the actions they carried out had marked the group for death, that for some would be a better fate.