Chapter Two
"If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush." Infantry Journal
Callie sped through the 3 remaining pages she had left in the chapter before she tapped the upper right corner for her bookmark. She closed her iPad and made her way to the front of the plane. As Callie made her way to the front of the plane she felt her smile growing wider and wider. She wasn't sure if it was the fact that she was about to join the mile high club or the fact that she gets to have sex with Arizona and not Karen. Either way they were both a plus, and she couldn't be happier about it.
Her smile, however, disappeared with when she turned the corner to see Arizona knocked out on the floor with her feet tied together, her hands tied behind her back and her mouth taped shut. "Ari," Callie whispered as she took two steps forward towards Arizona. In the process of walking towards Arizona, Callie took out her pocket knife so she could untie Arizona.
"That's enough movement from you." Karen said from right behind Callie.
Before Callie could say anything she heard the clicking sound of a hammer being pulled back to what sounded like the Rainbow issued Beretta 800. Karen had Arizona's secondary weapon in her hands, which didn't sit well with Callie. Karen had her hands on her girlfriend.
Callie just clinched her jaw in anger before she raised her hands slightly and slowly turned around to face Karen.
When Callie turned to face Karen, Karen was grinning like an idiot towards her. "I told you, I always get what I want." Karen paused as she looked down at Callie's hand. "Drop the knife and kick over towards me."
Callie did as she was told before she spoke. "Why do what Arizona so badly?" Callie questioned.
Karen just shrugged as she left Callie's gaze to look over at Arizona who was still knocked out on the floor. "I was told to I had to get her to my employer by the end of day. I have no idea what they want to do with her."
"So you flirting with her was just an act, so you could get close to her?"
"No I still find her cute, and will probably have some fun with her while I wait for my next set of instructions." A sly smirk came across Karen's face. "How about you make this easy and return to your seat, and pretend like nothing happened."
Karen still had her gun aimed towards Callie as she started to take a few steps to her right, causing Callie to take steps to her left. The two continued moving until the roles were reversed and Karen was standing next Arizona and Callie was standing where Karen was standing. Karen made sure to pick up Callie's disguarded knife on her journey back towards Arizona.
"You have to be mistaken if you think you are going to be able to get Arizona off this plane without a fight." Callie managed to take a few small steps backwards so she was standing in the doorway that led into the fuselage of the plane. "When Arizona wakes up she will be pissed and will put one hell of a fight and plus you still have to get passed me and 4 other people."
"I think I handle Arizona, and I have people to take care of you and the others." Karen pulled out another needle. "She starts to wake up I'll inject her with this and she will be out for another 8 hours."
While Karen was talking Callie was looking out the doorway through her peripheral vision. She could see perfectly down one of the aisle ways. Alex and Addison would have been the closest to her but from what she would see they were sitting on the other side of the plane. The next closest person to her was Cristina, and in true typical Cristina fashion she was passed out in her chair.
Callie knew that Cristina loved her sleep and could sleep through anything except for one thing. Rainbow's distress call which consisted of two high pitched whistle chirps back to back. Callie's eyes snapped back Karen when she noticed that she was about touch Arizona. In a heartbeat Callie did the whistle to not only get Cristina's attention but Karen's as well. "Don't touch her." Callie growled.
As soon as the whistle left Callie's lips Cristina instantly woke up and looked around. When she looked around everything seemed normal and she was going to ride off the call as nothing until she looked up towards the front of plane. For a brief moment she and Callie made eye contact and in that moment she knew that something was wrong.
Cristina pretended like she was stretching when she reached down to her left ankle, which was where she kept her secondary weapon. Her face contorted and she continuously grabbed her ankle and felt nothing. Her weapon was gone, and panic started to set in as she leaned back into her chair.
It took her a few minutes to realize where it went when she started to retrace her steps. She remembered getting into an argument with a TSA agent in New York. He wanted her put her weapon in her bag which she refused. Teddy had to order her to do it before they could all leave. When they got gate Cristina planned on putting it back on her ankle, but the love triangle between Callie, Arizona and Karen had gotten hers, Alex and Addison's attention.
Cristina's weapon was in her bag in the overhead compartment, which should have been no big deal but it was. When Cristina unbuckled her seat beat and went to stand up a large man that was 5 inches taller than her got up as well and had a Smith & Wesson Pro Series aimed right her. "Sit down," the man demanded as he stepped closer to Cristina.
Cristina did as she was told right when the woman who was sitting right next her gave out a blood curdling scream alerting everyone to the situation that was about to happen. When the woman screamed Teddy looked over towards Cristina. Unlike Cristina when she got the gate Teddy remember to put her weapon back in its hiding place which was at the small of her back. Teddy reached behind her and grabbed her gun, but before she should get up or show her weapon she staring down the barrel of a Smith & Wesson as well.
Addison and Alex, who were sitting next to each other, were about to get up and see what was going on when the man that were sitting in front them made himself known. At the moment the four of them were stuck.
"Calm down ladies and gentlemen, we don't want to hurt you. Stay where you are for the remainder of this flight and I think we won't have any problems and we can all go our separate ways when we land." The blonde haired man next to Teddy said.
"You're not the only one who came here with back up." Karen said with grin. She didn't need to see what was happening; she knew perfectly what was going on in the back of the plane. "You may want to rethink your statement about getting Arizona out of here without any problems."
"No," was the only response Callie gave.
"No?" Karen raised an eyebrow. "I'm not the one at a disadvantage. I have the guns and the girl. I think I win."
"I wouldn't be so sure of that for two," Callie paused for a moment, "make that three, reasons."
"And what reasons are those?" Karen questioned.
"One, you are making it perfectly clear that you have never shot a gun in your life. So even if you somehow find the balls to actually shot at me you'll probably miss even through you are standing no more than two feet away from me. Two, the safety is still on." Callie smirked as she watched Karen lower her weapon to see if Callie was right.
Callie took advantage of the moment as she lunged towards Karen. She grabbed Karen by the legs and pushed her into the wall behind her, hard. When Karen slammed against the wall she dropped Arizona's weapon. Callie managed to kick the weapon out of both of their reach as she maneuvered herself behind Karen. Callie wrapped her left arm around Karen's neck and started to squeeze. "Three, never lower your weapon and take your eyes off your enemy." Callie whispered before Karen's body went limp in her arms. With a huff Callie just let Karen's body fall to the ground not caring if she injured herself during the fall.
The commotion from the front of the plane got Karen's men attention and just like Karen for a brief second they took their eyes off the Rainbow members. All four them used the opportunity to strike. Cristina's leg popped out kicking the man next her hard in the knee. The kick was so hard it caused it break and sent him crashing to the ground. In a second Cristina was out of her seat with her knee right in the middle of the man's back and her hand squeezing his injured knee. "Drop the weapon," her voice left no room for argument, and with the position that the man was in, he had no choice but to listen.
When he dropped the weapon Cristina grabbed both of his hands before she stood up lifting him up as well. "Walk towards the front of plane. If you try something stupid I will not only break your other knee, but I will break your wrist as well." The man only shook his head complying with what Cristina said. Slowly the man limped up towards the front of plane with Cristina right behind him holding on to his wrist as they went.
The man that was by Teddy looked towards the front of the plane and then over to his left to see Cristina take out one of his friends. The gun was still facing Teddy but the man's attention wasn't focused on her. In the blink of an eye Teddy reached up and grabbed the man's gun. She was able to grab the top of his pistol on both sides, her hand squeezed down before she pulled it back towards engaging the pistol slide and causing the gun to fall apart in the man's hand.
When the pistol was in pieces she used her left hand to grab his right hand again. When she got a hold of his hand she snapped it backwards and moved it slightly to the left. He let out a yelp of pain as Teddy stood up and repositioned herself right behind the man in the aisle. "Try something stupid and I move your wrist to the left another inch causing it snap, now walk." Teddy said as she pushed the man towards the front of the plane.
Alex and Addison had it a little easier because it was two against one. Just as like Teddy at the back of plane, Addison reached and grabbed the pistol slide causing the pistol to break in the man's hands. When the pistol was broken and before the man could back away out of their reach Alex stood up and punched him in the temple knocking him out.
When Karen and her men were tired up at the front of plane Callie rushed over to Arizona's side. "Ari," Callie whispered as she freed Arizona from her restraints. Callie held Arizona in her arms rubbing her arms and shoulders hoping to wake her and for a moment it seemed liked it work because Arizona gave a light groan and mumbled something before going completely silent again.
Arizona's palms were sweating and she was trying her best not to shake her leg, which was something she did when she was nervous. She was wearing her dress uniform, and even though she had on three different layers, her undershirt, her dress shirt and her jacket she was pretty sure she had sweated right through every layer.
"The following hearing is for Chief Master Sergeant Arizona Robbins." A deep voice said out of nowhere which caused her jump a little. She was in trouble, and not the slap on the wrist type of trouble, but the' you could get kicked out of the military for your actions type of trouble'. And what made it worst was it wasn't even her fault.
"On the 13 of November 2004 Chief Master Sergeant Arizona Robbins crashed her plane in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean while trying to land on the aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson. Her reports claim that the oxygen gage was faulty and was giving her false readings." There was brief pause as Arizona stood at attention in front of the Air Force's advisory board. "When did you realize that there was a problem with the oxygen gage, Chief Master Sergeant?"
"I first noticed this problem in the middle of my training exercise, sir." Her voice started out a little shaky but she regained her composer the more the spoke.
"And what did you do when discovered this problem?"
"I ordered my squadron back to the Carl Vinson. The maneuvers that we were preforming were too much for us to handle without the right amount of oxygen. I was the last in line and guess my body couldn't handle the lack of oxygen anymore and I passed out. The next thing I remember is being in the water trying to fight my way to the surface, sir."
"I find this hard to believe Chief Master Sergeant Robbins. Do you know who makes the F-22 Raptor?"
Arizona's month instantly went dry. "Lockheed Martin, sir."
"And who designs the fuel and oxygen gages for them?"
Her heart started to pound in her chest, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Her battle hadn't even started and she already knew that she lost. "My father, sir."
"Your father," there was a brief moment of silence. "When this crashed happened we asked him for a report and he said that there was nothing wrong with the oxygen gages. If fact he blamed the crash on you. He said and I quote 'Arizona likes to push herself to limit so she can be a better person.' This makes me believe that the crash was your fault and not your fathers…"
"Sir, if may-" Arizona said.
"I'm not done Chief Master Sergeant!"
Arizona closed her mouth, she could feel the lump in her throat start to form and the tears were knocking at her doorstep.
"If there was truly a problem with the oxygen gage then I believe that the other members of your squadron would have crashed as well, which didn't happen. And instead of taking responsibly for your actions you blame it on others around you, which is something we don't tolerate here in the Air Force."
"Sir, I'm not making this up. Be happy that it only happened to person who is still alive. There is still time to stop this before it becomes a big problem. "
"I have read all reports in this matter, your father is a long time and trusted engineer in the military and when he says that there is no problem with his machines I believe him over you. Effective immediately you are relieved of your duties here in the United States Air Force, Chief Master Sergeant Robbins."
Arizona went from standing at attention to just standing there in front of the board defeated. She slowly turned around and left the room. Fired, she was fired from the Air Force for discovering a mistake that wasn't even her fault. When she walked through the doors to leave the room she was greeted by a white light before everything went dark.
Arizona let out groan before she opened her eyes. She was in a semi dark room with a pounding headache. She lifted her head for a moment before she realized that she was back on the base in London. She was laying in one of the bunk beds in the sleeping quarters. She laid there for a moment trying to remember what happened and how she got there. The last thing she remembered was being on the plane talking to Karen. After that everything went fuzzy.
Arizona tried to sit up when noticed the tan arm that was wrapped around her stomach, Callie was laying right next her passed out. A lite smile came to her face as she turned to face Callie some more.
Her movement immediately woke Callie out of her slumber. Callie moved her arm from Arizona before looking around the room for a brief moment until her eyes landed on Arizona. "Hey, how are you feeling?"
"Besides the fact that my head is on fire I feel fine." Arizona paused to scratch her head. "What happened?"
"Karen was hired to kidnap you for some unknown reason. Lexie is working on it."
Arizona closed her eyes and gave out another groan before she went back to lying down.
"You're head?" Callie asked as she propped herself on her elbow.
Arizona didn't say anything. All she did was shake her head yes.
"You know having an older sister as a doctor has its perks, because she told me an interesting cure for headaches." Callie smirked before she repositioned herself on top of Arizona.
Callie leaned down and kissed Arizona. Their kisses started out slow and passionate but the more they kissed the more heated it became. Callie was the one who broke away from kissing leaving a breathless Arizona in her wake. Callie moved to the right side of Arizona's face as she kissed along her jawline.
Arizona let out a small moan as she spread her legs wider and wrapped her arms around Callie's back. Callie kissed her way to Arizona throat and Arizona rolled her head back deeper into pillows to give Callie more access.
Callie licked, nipped and kissed her way down Arizona's throat until she got to the collar of her dark blue button up shirt. Slowly Callie unbuttoned Arizona's shirt kissing and nipping at the exposed skin as she went. Callie could feel Arizona's hands her on her back encouraging her to continue.
Callie's hand slipped underneath Arizona and slowly slid up her back, not stopping until it reached the clasp of Arizona's bra. Callie's lips were a full second behind her hand as she kissed her way back up Arizona's body. Callie leaned down and kissed Arizona one more time on the lips while she unclasped Arizona's bra.
Arizona gently bit down on Callie's lower lip and gave a low growl when she started to back away. Callie just smiled when Arizona finally let go, and Callie lowered herself so her face was buried in the crook of Arizona's neck.
"I heard voi- son of a bitch." Teddy said as she left the room just as quickly as she entered.
Callie and Arizona just smiled at each other, before they got out of the bunk bed. Without saying anything they took a moment to make themselves look presentable before they left the room.
After being together for a little over a year, one would think that after being caught in the act several times by Teddy they would learn not to have sex when they were at headquarters and just wait until they both had a moment free at home. But when it came to Callie and Arizona they just couldn't keep their hands off of each other.
Like always Callie would be the first to leave the room, she would always look at Teddy for a second before she would blush and quickly walk away. Teddy didn't know why Arizona waited to leave the same room, it wasn't like them being together was a secret, everyone knew.
A few minutes later Arizona left the room still fixing her shirt. She and Teddy were silent as they looked at each for a few moments, "vagina blocking robot!" Arizona said breaking the silence between them.
Teddy just rolled her eyes and sighed, "Shut up, I'm not. I was told to come get you when you woke up. We could have real problem on our hands."
"You always manage to show up right when my shirt comes off or when Callie's pants come off, which makes me believe you were probably built in some government fucking lab."
"Are listening to me? We could have a World War 3 type problem on our hands."
Arizona stopped moving and gave Teddy her full attention, "What?"
"Altman! Robbins! The gossip can wait! Get in Central Command, now!" Bailey said from the staircase.
Teddy and Arizona followed Bailey into the Central Command where the rest of the Rainbow team was. They were sitting around the conference table that faced one of the large computer screens on the wall. When it came to briefings there was no assigned seats, Rainbow could sit where ever they wanted to, but it seemed as the years pasted they silently formed assigned seats. Alpha team sat on one side of the table while Bravo team sat on the other side. They even sat in certain places on their sides. On the left side of the table, Alpha's side, Alex sat close to the far end of the table right next to the table head. Next to him was Owen, than Addison, Meredith, Sloan, Lexie and Derek, on the other end closes to the computer screen. On the right side of the table, Bravo's side, Cristina sat across from Alex, with Izzie right next her. She was followed by April, Jackson, Callie, Virginia, Ben and Eli.
Henry and Sydney where sitting in the back of the room controlling the computer screens. Standing at the head of the table by Cristina and Alex were Arizona and Teddy. Both were standing on their team's side. To the right of the table stood Bailey and Webber getting ready to start the morning debrief. Both of them looked at each other for a moment before they looked over to Lexie.
Lexie gave a slight head nod before she got up and went towards the front of the room. "So after a few short hours of interrogation of Karen and her accomplices, I was able to find out they were hired help," Lexie paused and touched the screen to show a picture, "for this man, ex-Navy Seal Gary Clark. A few years ago he went missing during a black ops mission in China. The Navy thought he was dead, but it looks like they were wrong. We don't know why, but at the moment he is our enemy for unknown reasons. He has also put a pretty high price over your head, General Robbins." Lexie looked over to Arizona. "$100 million cash to bring you to him alive."
"Why?" Arizona questioned.
"You are the only stable living family member left." Lexie replied back, "On October 31 at 9:30 P.M Gary Clark stormed your parents' house. He kidnapped your father and shot your mother. She is in ICU at John's Hopkins, she is still critical but she's stable."
"Where's Tim and Nick?"
"They have been MIA since October 20th. Tim, Nick and the rest of U.S. Army Special Forces Delta team went to North Korea to perform 'Operation Aurora.' They were sent there to find and stop hacker Dominic Copper. Several months ago Copper hacked the Pentagon and stole several WMD blue prints from us. What they found or saw, is anybody's best guess. They along with the small island that was housing Dominic and his men are now completely submerged underwater."
Arizona became quiet as everything came crashing down around her. Her mother was seriously injured and her brothers along with father were MIA. Granted she wasn't that fond of her father and spent almost 5 years avoiding the man like the plague, but this was different. She finally understood that meaning 'you don't know what you have until it is gone,' until this very moment.
Arizona let out heavy sigh, Lexie didn't have to say anymore. Well at least not to her. "The blueprints that Dominic stole for Gary belonged to my dad, and Gary either doesn't know how to build it or he is missing something. Tim and Nick might have been an accident but going after my mother and me was not. Gary probably wants to torture me in front of my father until he tells him what he wants to know." Arizona said in a cold voice, while looking down at her feet.
"Correct," Lexie said not really sure where she should be looking since Arizona was no longer looking at her.
"Which blueprints did he steal?" Arizona asked.
"We don't know. Everything that could be useful to us was destroyed on the 20th of October."
"Well maybe we can figure it out," Webber jumped in. "Arizona what was your father working on?"
"I don't know," Arizona lightly shook her head, and then looked over towards Webber. "I haven't talked to that man in years."
"Well we do know that he is an engineer…" Lexie started.
Lexie started giving the history of Arizona's father and his military accomplishments. At this point as much as she tried to fight it she felt herself zoning out when Lexie started to talk about her father. Arizona knew every single one of her father's military engineering accomplishment like the back of her hand, and she didn't know why. She didn't know why she would give a rat's ass about that man's amazing engineering designs; after all he did choose them over his own flesh in blood daughter.
"Please will you just talk them, they will listen to you. They respect you, just tell them that it was a mistake and that you fixed it, and there was no need to let me go from the Air Force." Arizona said to dad as she watched him look high and low for something in his office.
"Arizona, sweetheart, let it go. You were fired from the Air Force; it's not the end of the world." Daniel said as he flipped through one of his folders.
"IT IS!" Arizona yelled, "It's a big fucking deal. I need this; I need to be the Air Force. I didn't do anything wrong, I found a mistake. Your mistake and I'm the one who gets in trouble for it."
Daniel paused and turned to face his daughter for the first time in over 10 minutes. "Flying planes? That is what you're so upset about? Fine," Daniel walked over to his desk and flipped through a few business cards. "Here, call this woman, Jamie Meglic. She is the hiring manager at Delta Airlines, tell her I sent you and she will see that you become an instant captain."
Arizona just shook her head and crossed her arms. "I'm your daughter, have not been listening to a single word that was been coming out of my mouth for the past 29 years of my life. I don't want to be a pilot, I want to be an astronaut and this is the only way I can get there. It's my dream, it always has been."
Daniel retracted his card and put it back with the rest. "I'm sorry Arizona, but I think maybe it's time to find a new career path." Daniel paused for a few minutes. "I can't make the report that you want."
"Why?"
"My contract is up for renewal for the Navy and Air Force at the end of this month…" Daniel started.
"Stop, just stop." Arizona paused for a moment and turned her head to look out the window. She shook her head lightly before she turned her attention back to her father. "We both know the disappointing speech that is about to come out of your mouth. You're not going to help me, because it will hurt you."
"Arizona," Daniel whispered as he started to walk up to his daughter. "When you get older you'll understand."
Daniel was standing right in front of Arizona looking at her, but Arizona refused to make eye contact with him she just looked up towards the ceiling. "No, I will never understand because I would never do that to someone that love." Arizona clenched her jaw trying to fight back her tears. When she thought she got a hold of herself she finally made eye contact with her father again. "What pisses you off more the fact that I moved up in the military rankings faster than you and have received just as many military accomplishments as you in half the time, or have you been lying to my face for the past 10 years and you aren't ok with me gay."
"Arizona," Daniel whispered again as he reached out to touch his daughter.
"Don't touch me," Arizona swatted his hand away from her. "Mom, Tim, Nick and even Derek have all offered to help to me, and I would gladly take their help if it would do something for me. But we both know at the end of the day it comes down to you, and you won't help me. So with you being the only person to not help me makes me believe that you are upset with me."
They stood and looked at each other in silence before Arizona bit her lip and shook her head. "Wow, I was kind of hoping that you were upset with me instead of proving that you are nothing but a selfish asshole who only cares for himself."
"Ari,"
"Save it," Arizona said from the doorway. She was just about to leave when she stopped to turn and face her father again. "You should know that Navy and Air Force are planning to enter the F-22's into their fleet by the end of year. When your equipment fails and it will, don't come to me for help." Arizona paused for a moment, "in fact don't come to me for help for anything that you might need in the future. You have made it perfectly clear that I'm not your problem so why should you be mine."
There was silence one more time between them before Arizona finally turned around and left, for good.
It had been a full week since Arizona talked to her father, and it had been two weeks since she was let go from the military. Arizona knew that she should have been looking for job, but at the moment a job wasn't high on her priority list. Drinking herself into a stupor was, which is what her days for the past week consisted of. Everyday Arizona would go to Pickles Pub and sit in her usual corner booth and drink the day away until Julie came and got her.
It was a late on a Thursday afternoon when Arizona got an unexpected visitor. Arizona had just finished her 8 glass of scotch. The waitress came with her 9th glass when a voice started to talk to her from across the table.
"Master Sergeant Arizona Robbins."
"Nope, it was Chief Master Sergeant Arizona Robbins, but now it's just Arizona Robbins." Arizona slurred as she leaned forward to pick up her new glass of scotch.
The voice just gave a chuckle, "I'm sorry former Chief Master Sergeant."
"What do you want Colonel Webber?"
"Well first it's General Webber and two I wanted to talk to you."
"Oh, General, well good for you." Arizona took a sip from her glass. "I don't want to talk."
Webber just lightly shook his head. "I understand, I heard about what happened. I am truly sorry about that." Webber paused for a moment before he continued to talk. "I have just become leader for a special task force based in London, and we could really use someone like you on our team."
Arizona didn't say anything. She only looked at him for a moment before she took another sip of her drink.
Webber took the hint and shook his head and stood up. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a card. "I'll be in town until next Friday. If you could get back to me by then I would really appreciate it."
Webber just gave a sigh and put the card on the table when Arizona made no attempt at grabbing it from him. Before he turned around to leave his right hand reached across the table and slapped the glass out of Arizona's hand sending it flying across the room.
"GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS ROBBINS! You got discharged from the military because of a stupid mistake, but sitting around drinking and feeling sorry for yourself will do nothing for you. I have seen people get discharged from the military for far less, and they didn't sit around drinking their sorrows away. They fought and worked hard to make up for that lost ground. I'm giving you a once in a lifetime offer and you're going to throw it away because of a dumb mistake. If you keep living like this where do you think you'll end up?"
"OUT OF SCOTCH. THANKS TO YOU, ASS!" Arizona yelled back.
"Think about it Robbins." Webber said before he left the bar.
"Guys," Henry said from the back of the room. "I don't think we have to brainstorm any longer. Facial Recognition in Bolivia popped positive for Daniel Robbins and Gary Clark."
"Alright let's not waste time Rainbow. Dixon and Sydney will join Alpha and Bravo. I get the feeling like we will need their help with the locals." Webber said as he walked over towards Henry's computer.
"Sydney yes, but Dixon no." Bailey started, "Robbins and Torres know Spanish and one is in Alpha and the other is in Bravo."
"True, but I need Robbins and Torres to do what they do best. Be my muscle. We are dealing with Gary Clark; he has already shown that he is not afraid to kill his own men so I will need all hands on deck until we can get more people. So for the time being Dixon and Sydney are going no questions asked, now go suit up Rainbow." Webber said as his team split up and went their different ways.