Chapter Three

"In war, truth is the first casualty" – Aeschylus

"Alright, Derek and Ben, you guys want to go to Potosi. That is their last known location." Henry said over the radio.

"Roger wilco," both Derek and Ben said simultaneously.

The flight from London to Potosi was about 4 hours, while Rainbow were flying to Potosi Henry was trying his best to keep a close eye on both Daniel and Gary. He was able to follow them while they drove throughout the city of Potosi. Right when Rainbow had arrived in the area Daniel and Gray were just outside of the city. To Henry it looked like they were going to another city in Bolivia or they could be going to another country all together.

"It looks like they are about to leave, guys." Henry started, "Stay on your current heading and to your left you should see a small clearing. That is where they are. If you hurry you guys might be able to cut them off." Henry said.

"Roger," Derek and Ben said one right after the other.

It took both Derek and Ben another ten minutes to fly the course and to find the small clearing that Henry was talking about. To make it easier for Rainbow to get on the ground without Daniel and Gray's trail getting the two helicopters hovered over the clearing next to each other and each of the members on Alpha and Bravo team repealed down to the ground below them.

As soon as Rainbow's feet hit the ground they were met with enemy fire. Derek and Ben immediately cut the ropes that the team had used to repeal down before they flew away, getting out of the way of the enemy fire.

When Rainbow made it to the ground they huddled together in their teams. Without saying anything they scattered taking cover wherever they could. Alpha team was forced to go left while Bravo team was forced to go right. Their placement on the ground made it easier for Bravo to run and take cover in the woods.

Both Izzie and Jackson were the first ones to pass the tree line. The two were right next to each other, Izzie on the left and Jackson on the right. The two worked together as they took out people hidden in front of them. April was the next person to enter the woods and took cover next Jackson; she took a moment to set up her rifle before he peered around a tree and proceeded to take out people that were further away. Teddy, Cristina, Dixon and Sydney were off in the distance on Izzie's side. Teddy and Cristina were doing all of the shooting while Dixon and Sydney kept their heads down trying not to get shot.

Callie on the other hand was all by herself on the far right side a few feet past April. She had managed to take out two men that were on the ground and one that was hiding in a tree before she took the time to check her surroundings. There were still gunshots that were on her left side and right behind her but she wasn't worried, she knew the others could handle it.

She used the scope of her rifle to scan the area. She was about to put her gun down and clear her side of the woods when she came across a small dirt path that could pass as road. For some reason her gut told her look further up the road, which she did. She followed the road for a few more feet when she came across a black Chevy Tahoe. She watched as Gary threw Daniel into the SUV at gun point before they started to drive away. "Guys I have a confirmed visual sighting of Daniel and Gary. They are in a black Chevy Tahoe on our right and they are driving away from us." Callie said over the radio.

It took Teddy and the others another 15 minutes before they were able to clear the area around them. When area was clear they met up with Callie who was standing right next to spot where Tahoe once sat. "They went that way," Callie pointed down the road.

"Ok, let's get a move on before this trail goes cold. Alpha will find us when they are done." Teddy said as she started to follow the trail.

When Alpha was met with gunfire the tree line was too far away from them, and they couldn't use the woods next to them to their advantage like Bravo did. Alpha team was forced to stay where they were. The team was low ground and slowly picking off people as soon as their heads popped up out of hiding.

Meredith and Addison took care of the people that were hiding in the trees and people that were making a run for the clearing. Arizona and Mark took care of people that were hiding along the tree line to woods, while Alex and Owen took of anybody that was actually in the clearing with them.

It only took them 30 minutes to clear area, but to Alpha team it seemed like forever because it was like new people kept popping up when they took one down.

Arizona cleared the area and was the first to stand up. She walked up to one of the dead bodies and kneeled right next it, so she could get a closer look at it. "Next time, Lexie, warn us that the local militia isn't friendly to U.S. troops." Arizona said slightly annoyed.

"Well that's the thing, Potosi is U.S. friendly and they don't have a local militia." Lexie said back.

"So Gary knew that we were coming?" Alex's statement slowly turned into a question as he started to think about it more.

"Looks like it," Arizona said as she stood back up.

"How?" Addison questioned. "He didn't know that we coming and we didn't tell anyone that we were coming, so how could have known?"

"I don't know. Someone could have seen our helicopters when we were flying here." Arizona stopped to think for a moment. "That doesn't make sense if he knew that our helicopters were coming he would have tried to shoot us out of the sky. Something isn't adding up."

"Callie did say that she saw your dad and Daniel get into a car." Alex shrugged, "maybe we're being set up in several different ways. He knows that whoever didn't die in this ambush will follow that car into another ambush."

"Alright let's move because right now Bravo is walking into that ambush." Arizona said as they made their way towards the trail that Callie found.

Bravo had a 600 foot head start as they continued to follow the road. Bravo was using their surroundings to their advantage as they followed the road. Teddy, Izzie, Sydney and Jackson were to the right side of road hiding along the trees and bushes, while Cristina, Callie, Dixon and April were on the left side of the road. They were moving together silently for a few more feet before Cristina stopped moving and grabbed April by the collar pulling her backwards.

"What the hell, Yang." April whispered.

Cristina didn't say anything a just pointed to a clear peace of wire connected to explosive.

April followed her finger and looked at the scene before she slowly turned her head to face Cristina. "Thanks, how did you know that it was there?"

"My spidey senses were tingling," Cristina replied in a dry voice before she walked around April and the trap wire.

Callie and Dixon were snickering to themselves while April just rolled her eyes as they continued on their journey. They were only hiking for another 2 miles before they came to another clearing that housed only 1 one story building.

Teddy along with the other members of her Bravo team took the time to the scan the area. There were no signs of life in or around the building. April and Callie cleared the trees while everyone else scanned the ground.

"I'm picking a single heat signature in that building." April said.

"Alright, let's keep a close eye on the building and wait for Alpha to get here just in case we need back up." Teddy replied.

Bravo was waiting for another 30 minutes before Alpha team joined them.

"Took you long enough," Teddy said with a small smile.

Arizona just rolled her eyes as she got into position next to Teddy, "whatever. What do we have?"

"A single one story building with one heat signature, the heat signature could be your dad's. We wanted to what for you guys just in case we were walking into a trap."

"Alright then, Yang and Karev let's go," Arizona said as she and Teddy started to make their way towards the building.

As the four of them made their way towards the building the others knew that they were going to be the look out until Arizona and others cleared the building. The four of them made it to the door; Arizona was kneeling while Alex was standing right behind her on the left side of the door. Teddy was kneeling while Cristina was standing right behind her on her right side of the door.

Arizona took out her snake cam and positioned under the door. She scanned the room for a moment before she took it out and put it away. "It's just my dad sitting in the middle of the room tied to a chair."Arizona said.

When she put her camera away Arizona reached for the door handle and opened the door. When the door was fully opened Alex and Cristina entered the room with guns drawn, and they were soon followed by Arizona and Teddy.

Daniel was sitting in a chair in the center of the room with his hands tied behind his back and a few cuts and bruises on his face. Along with Daniel the room was filled with boxes of guns and ammunition.

After the four of them cleared the room, Teddy stepped in the doorway and motioned for the others to come in. Arizona moved to her father and removed the duct tape that was over his mouth and hands. "Are you ok?" Arizona asked as she untied her dad's hands.

"Yeah, I was hoping that I could stall long enough for you or Tim to find me."

"Good, Gary will be coming back soon and I want to be long gone when he gets back." Arizona said.

"That's not going to happen," Cristina said from one of the windows. "We have company, and lots of it. They don't look too friendly either."

Arizona moved over to the other window where Teddy was standing. Cristina was right; Gary came back with more reinforcements. At first it looked like it could be something they could handle until two tanks and several people holding RPGs came out of the woods.

"Fuck," Arizona said under her breath. She turned around and started to survey the room. "Derek and Ben, how far away are you guys?"

"About 10 minutes away, what's up?" Derek said back.

"Get over here ASAP, we will try to hold off Gary and his men for 10 minutes, but it can't be more than."

"We are leaving now, boss."

"Rainbow, grab as many weapons as you can go to the roof." Arizona said.

Each member of Rainbow grabbed what they could before they made their way up to the roof. Once they were on the roof they all went to the Northwest side of the roof and lined up next to each other. They were hidden behind a small wall, their backs were up against the wall and each of them was looking over towards Arizona and Teddy, waiting for their next set of instructions.

Arizona was the only one to slightly peek her head above to the wall to see how many people they were up against. "Ok," Arizona went back down to hiding behind the small wall. "Rainbow I want you to focus on the people, while Teddy and I focus on the tanks."

Simultaneously everyone shook their heads before they turned around and started to shoot. For the most part everyone focused on the people that were right in front of them except for Addison, Merdith, Callie and April. They were focusing on the people who were far away, and those people were more scattered than the people that were close by. The four of them just shot whoever was in their line of sight. While Rainbow focused on the people Teddy and Arizona were focusing on the two tanks that where on the far right side next to each other.

They had only been shooting for no more than 5 minutes, but it felt like an eternity. For both the members on the Alpha and Bravo team that were shooting at the people it seemed like their bullets weren't doing any damage or they were missing their target all together. Teddy and Arizona were having little to no luck as well. They had been shooting and throwing grenades at the two tanks nonstop for 5 minutes, but everything they were doing to the tanks did little to no damage to them.

Teddy, Arizona, Alex and Addison all ducked down behind the wall as an HE missile went flying past their heads. Rainbow didn't believe in luck because they believed that everything happened for a reason, but whoever was operating the tanks didn't know what they were doing which was lucky for Rainbow team because they should have been dead or injured by now.

Teddy's helmet slid down her face for second when her back slammed against the wall. When she repositioned her helmet she was greeted with the sight of a M16 rifle with a grenade launcher on it. "Check this out," Teddy said as she leaned forward and grabbed the gun. She examined the gun for a moment making sure it worked and was loaded, before she turned around to help Arizona again.

It took Teddy a few rounds of trial and error before she finally got the hang of her new gun. However, it was a complete accident when she fired a grenade from the rifle. When Teddy fired the accidental grenade Arizona threw a grenade at the same time. Together the grenades hit the tank that was on the left side. When the grenades hit it caused the tank to flip up in the air and land right on top of the other tank that was on the right side.

When the tank landed on top of the other one, it was in the process of firing another HE shell. Unfortunately before the shell could be fired the pressure from the other tank caused the barrel of the main gun to close so when shell was ready to be fired it had nowhere to go and just exploded while it was still in the barrel, this explosion took out both tanks and several people that were located right next to the tanks.

With the tanks out of the way, Teddy and Arizona could now focus on the people on the ground for the remainder of the time that they were waiting for Derek and Ben.

Ben was over of the building first allowing Bravo team and Arizona's dad to get in the helicopter while Alpha team and Derek continued to shoot at the people on the ground. Once Bravo was safely in the helicopter, they reversed roles so Alpha could get in their helicopter.

With everyone in Rainbow safety in their helicopter they started to fly away. "Where are we going to Henry?" Ben said over the radio.

"Sucre is the closest safe house; I'll send you the coordinates in a moment."

Sucre was only a 2 hour helicopter ride, and even through Arizona and her father were located in different helicopters the ride to Sucre was still tense. As they flew to Sucre every memory that led up to this moment was being relived in Arizona's mind.

After a quick two hours Rainbow was standing in the middle of their safe house in Sucre. The safe wasn't anything special, it was a middle size hut that was two stories and was right on the edge of the city. This safe house provided Rainbow with a good advantage because if they were ever compromised they had a clear exit to the jungle, which was their forte.

Rainbow was inside of the safe house restocking their ammunition, and they were eating MREs and drinking water. Arizona on the other hand was doing none of the above. At the moment she was leaning up against a wall with her arms crossed looking at her father.

"How about I just get right to the point, what are you working on to put your family's life in danger?" Arizona asked coldly.

"I won't say…" Daniel started.

"Here we go," Arizona cutoff under her breath. "Are you stupid or is old age finally catching up to you?" Arizona barked. "Whatever you are working on is apparently something to kill for. They shot your wife, aka my mom. Tim and Nick are missing and someone tried to kidnap me. Stop fucking around and pretending like you're the hot shot you used to be. Because the last time I checked, when you didn't listen to me you got 20 pilots killed over a fucking contract!"

When Arizona started to yell at her father, Callie was on the other side of room next to Mark eating a Chili and Macaroni MRE. Arizona was too hot headed to notice Callie as she set her stuff down as she walked over to her. It wasn't until Arizona felt Callie's hand on the small of her back when she started to calm down.

"You don't think I understand how dangerous this just got?" Daniel started to raise his voice as well.

"Then talk!"

"Not out here in front of everyone!" Daniel yelled back, "I tell you and only you on what I'm working on and how to stop Gary."

"No, you can say it in here in front of everyone."

"You don't under-"

"Just listen to him, Arizona." It was Callie who interrupted Daniel this time. "If he wants talk you then let him talk to you. The more time you fight the more time we waste and the farther we fall behind."

Arizona just looked over to Callie for a moment before she lightly shook her head. "Fine," she said under her breath.

Both Arizona and her father went upstairs to the first empty room that they found. Daniel was the first to enter followed by Arizona. Arizona had just closed the door when Daniel turned around to face her, "lock it and turn off your radio."

Arizona rolled her eyes and gave a heavy sigh before she did what she was told.

"I couldn't help but notice how friendly you and Captain Torres were back there. Is everything alright with Julie and you?"

"Oh hell no, we are not doing this. The day you chose your work over your flesh and blood, was the day you lost your right to know anything about my private life. I mean let's be honest, you don't care. So let's talk about something you do care about, like your work." Arizona snapped.

Daniel just lightly shook his head, Arizona was every bit just like her mother. She could hold on to a grudge until the day she died. And it was his fault that she was kicked out of the Air Force, who knew what life would have been like for the both of them if Daniel would've done the right thing and help his daughter. "Right now I'm working on two big projects for the Department of Defense. The first one is a large scale EMP device. From what I have over heard, Gary wants to build it and use this device against the U.S in major cities around the U.S boarder. The EMP will cripple the U.S long enough for an invasion, from who I don't know. He caught on that I was listening to him and moved to another room. The second project I'm working on is a missile defense system called RTS, or Return to Sender. If any country fires a missile at the U.S or our allies, all we have to do is access a satellite. Once we access this satellite it will send a virus to the missile causing it to turn around and go back to where it came from." Daniel paused for a moment and licked is lips. "The last component for the EMP is hidden in the Atacama Desert. The last time it was seen was when it was on the Demon of Razgriz, a B 52 Stratfortress that crashed somewhere in the desert. I don't know if it is still there or if it is in one piece. As for the control system for RTS, it is hidden in a French satellite that can only be controlled from a safe house in the Andes Mountain just outside of the city Santiago de Chile."

"And that's what he wants?"

"Yes, like I said before I don't know what he is going to do with it. He could sell it, or he could be planning on using it for himself."

"One more question?" Arizona asked.

"Shoot."

"Why are you only telling me?"

"I know I can trust you. Gary Clark isn't working alone; he is working with two other people. I know for a fact that one of them is downstairs right now. Whenever she entered the room they always put a bag over my head. Just in case you succeeded at saving me I wouldn't be able to blow her cover, but when it was just Gary and I, he didn't put a bag over my head. I recognize her voice when she spoke in the helicopter, its-"

"RPG!"

Arizona and Daniel heard Jackson's muffled yelling through the walls and floor. Before they could react there was a loud boom, and a huge explosion which caused the whole building shake before the returning gun fire started.

Arizona and Daniel went downstairs to see that whole south wall of the safe was gone. They could also see that in the buildings surrounding them there were several different people shooting into the safe house. "Shepherd," Arizona yelled.

"Yes boss!" He yelled back from behind a tree.

"I want you take my father to the Naval base in San Paulo, they know what to do with him when you get there. When you're done come back!"

"Yes ma'am," Derek said as he got in his helicopter with Daniel.

While Derek was starting his helicopter Arizona hid herself behind the same tree that Derek was using and provided cover fire for him as he took off.

Once Derek was gone she moved from the tree and went over next to Teddy. "There are six of them in that building to our left. Three on the fourth floor and three on the fifth floor, I can only see the fifth floor so you take out the fourth."

Arizona just shook her head as she they simultaneously turned around. Since the fifth floor was missing part of its roof it made shooting a lot easier for Teddy than it was for Arizona. Arizona was constantly going back and forth between people because they actually had some place to hide.

"Teddy I need a distraction," Arizona yelled as ducked her head down in time before bullet could hit her. Without lifting her head up she raise her gun and fired blindly to get remaining three men's attention, and it worked.

The three of them were focused on Teddy, and not Arizona. The first man popped his head up and started shooting at Teddy but Arizona shot first, it took her two shots but she got him in the head. Right as Arizona ducked down she saw another person pop up, they her and were shooting at her instead of Teddy. Arizona waited until the gun fire stopped before she popped her head up again. As she waited for person to lift there head she tried her best to recall the height that they at. A few minutes later the girl popped her up right into Arizona's sight. Arizona squeezed the trigger before the woman could locate Arizona.

Arizona was scanning the fourth floor for the last person, they were hiding on the balcony and the wall that they were using was not covering their body up at all. Arizona fired five times at the body before it fell over.

Once the building was clear both Teddy and Arizona noticed that all was quiet. The two of them stood up and the others soon joined them. They were by Ben's helicopter half listening half keeping guard as Arizona filled them in on what her father had told her, expect she left a few vital factors in his story. She left out the fact that one of the women in Rainbow is a trader and that she had sent her dad to a military base in Brazil.

It was another 45 minutes before Derek returned.

"Where did you go?" Meredith asked.

Derek and Arizona had been working together long before they became members of Team Rainbow. All Arizona did was change her face slightly and Derek knew what to do.

"I wanted to make sure that we had at least one helicopter to use to get back to London safely."

"Well we aren't going to London right away." Arizona chimed in. "Bravo is going to Santiago de Chile, and Alpha we are going to the Atacama Desert."

Slowly everyone on Rainbow grabbed what they could as they got ready to go to their new destinations. The entire time Arizona watched each of the women as they got ready. She had been in Rainbow for 8 years and worked with the current version for 5, she couldn't believe that one of them was good enough to pull the wool over eyes for so long.