Chapter Four
"Aim towards the Enemy" – Instruction Printed on US Rocket Launcher
The helicopter flight from Sucre to the Atacama Desert was about 2 in a half hours. For most of Rainbow the flight went by quickly, expect for Arizona. As Henry went over everything that they would be doing in the desert Arizona couldn't help but give questioning glances to the other two women on Alpha Team. Meredith seemed like a trustworthy and faithful person who loved her country just as much as Arizona did. Arizona, Addison and Teddy had been friends and severed together since boot camp, Teddy, was the leader of Bravo, and she knew Teddy too much to believe that Teddy would ever turn her back on her or this team, or her country, or did she know Teddy? Teddy and Arizona handpicked this current Rainbow team, they argued, yelled and fought each other for every individual on Rainbow, minus Webber and Bailey, and now one of them was in the process of betraying them.
"Alright guys we are looking for a box or a machine that can produce nuclear gamma rays. It will probably be inside the plane, but when you enter the plane you will have to enter with extreme care because you guys will be dealing with nuclear gamma radiation which is deadly. There is a large chance that the box or machine was damaged and leaked during the plane crash which means that the site could a nuclear disaster so I will have to clear it before you get near it. If the box is still in tacked then removing it will be a process as well because before and after the crash it will be unstable and the slightest touch the wrong way can set it off and Rainbow will be without an Alpha team, got it?" Henry said over the Rainbow.
"Man, what have I gotten myself into?" Mark said with a head shake.
"You're saving your country soldier." Derek replied back.
"Alright Derek, you're getting close to the landing site. It is another 5 miles west of you." Henry said, "Nobody knows the exact location of the crash site, but Gary is close. The machine was equipped with a pinging device to help locate it if it ever went missing. Gary has set up three different campsites to try and triangulate the site. He is using computers but they are too heavily encrypted for me to hack from London so, I need you guys to take over each site and I will be able to walk you through how to hack the computer and find the location. Right now I have bought you guys about 3 to 4 hours to find and take over each campsite, I have been bugging their systems to the point where they keep crashing, but it will only work for so long before they figure out what is happening."
"Alright ladies, gentlemen, and Mark we're here." Derek said with a smile over the radio.
Once they landed it was Lexie's turn to take over the radio. "Alright the first campsite is about 2 klicks west of your position. From the satellite image it looks like its a nice clear path to campsite no place for you guys to hide, sorry."
"Nice, I have been on the ground for about 2 seconds and I'm already drenched in sweat." Addison continued, "I think I just lost 10 pounds."
"Yeah will it's sweat your ass off or freeze your ass off in the Andes." Arizona replied.
"I choose sweat," Addison said as they started their hike to first campsite.
I was another 15 minutes before they made it to the first of three campsites. It wasn't hard to miss this site because there was a lone 3 story building right in the middle of the desert. Lucky for Alpha team before they left the remains of their safe house they changed into desert color cameo, so when they were laying on their stomachs looking at the building they somewhat blended in with the background, if someone looked hard enough they could make them out.
Arizona was using her thermal binoculars to see how many people were in the building while Addison used the scope on her on her rifle looking through the windows to get an estimate.
"I get 10 people," Arizona said looking over to Addison.
"Me too, 6 on the first floor, 2 on the second floor and 2 on the roof," Addison responded.
"Let's make our way to the building without alerting the people on the roof," Arizona said as the six of them made it to one of the doors.
Arizona found herself on the left side of the door with Alex standing right behind her hugging the wall. Across from them was Mark with Owen standing right behind him. Still on their stomachs were Addison and Meredith, with their guns up waiting for Arizona's word. Arizona felt uneasy for a moment not really trusting them; one of them could 'accidently' shoot at them after all.
Arizona pushed the thought aside and took out her snake cam and proceeded to scan the room. "Addison was right there are 6 people on this floor. 3 are on the left side, 2 are on the right side and 1 is standing right in front of the door.
"I've got the guy in the middle," Addison said over the radio.
Arizona just clenched her jaw slightly, why did her dad have to tell her that one of the women in Rainbow was a trader? "You want to honor Sloan," Arizona asked as she put away her snake cam and took her primary weapon.
"I thought you would never ask," Mark said with a smile as he took out a flash bang.
Arizona grabbed the door handle with her left hand, and with her right hand she counted down from three. At one Arizona opened the door and Mark through the flash bang inside the room. Before the flash bang went off Addison shot the man standing in the middle. The four them looked away while the flash bang did it job before Owen and Alex swiftly stepped over Mark and Arizona and entered the room with Mark and Arizona right behind them. Before the men could register what had just happened Alex and Arizona shot the 3 men on the left side, while Owen and Mark took out the 2 men on the right side.
Alpha made the task look easy, as it was something they practiced on a daily basis, and if it weren't for Alex it would have gone smoothly. Expect Alex forget to put on his silencer, and the two shots he took to take out the 3 men could be easily heard throughout the building. Arizona didn't have the time to tear into him because the 2 men that were on the second floor came downstairs shooting causing Alex, Arizona, Owen and Mark to take cover. The four them were exchanging fire with the two men only hitting the wall and table around them. It was Addison and Meredith, who were hiding on the left side of the door, who took out the men.
"Sometimes," Arizona said as she lifted her hand as if she were going to backhand Alex.
Carefully Alpha cleared the second and third floor. They were standing at the door that led to the roof. This time the roles were reversed as Alex and Owen found themselves crouched down by the door, looking at the other side with the snake cam while Arizona and Mark were standing right behind them. Addison and Meredith were hiding the best they could right in front of the door in the shadows.
"There's two of them, they are standing under a make shift shaded area with their backs towards the door. It looks like they are heavily engrossed in their computers." Alex said as he put his snake cam away and looked up to Arizona.
"Well they would have to be heavily engrossed in their computer not hear the noise that we just made." Mark shot back.
"They didn't hear anything," Henry interrupted. "I made sure to turn up the audio on their headphones. Unless they get up and go downstairs they are completely clueless about the status of their…people, or whatever you call them."
"Am I the only one who gets creeped out about what Henry can hack into?" Mark questioned. "Like I'm expecting the next I take a dump he's going to have the toilet hacked to wipe my ass."
"Nope, I fell the same way." Owen replied.
"Just be thankful that he is on our team; now let's focus before our remaining two people decide to get up and go downstairs." Arizona said in a dry monotone voice.
"Right boss. How are we going to do this?" Alex asked.
Arizona took a deep breath as she tried to think. Using a flash bang would do absolutely nothing to help team because it was ready bright outside, they wouldn't get the same effect as if they were inside. There was only one other way for them to take out the remaining people on the roof. "Alex you are going to slowly open the door and Meredith and Addison are going to do us the honor of taking them out from where they are." Arizona looked over to where the girls were hiding and she could just barely make out a head nod from both ladies.
"Whenever you're ready Karev, and be quit this time."
Alex just rolled his eyes at her before he slowly opened the door. Once the door was open Addison took the man that was on the left while Meredith took the man that was right. "On my count Grey," Addison started. "Three…two…one…shoot."
Together Addison and Meredith shot and took out both men. Once they hit floor; Owen, Mark, Arizona and Alex entered the roof with guns drawn checking to make sure there weren't any more people.
After they cleared the roof Henry started to walk Alex through the hacking procedure. "Alright while Alex is hacking the computer we need to go to the other campsites," Arizona paused as she thought of a strategy. "Meredith, you stay here and keep guard with Alex."
Arizona's pairing of Alex and Meredith wasn't a random one, if her dad was right and it turned out that Meredith was the one that couldn't be trusted she knew that Alex could take Meredith down if need be. Every time those two sparred Alex always had the upper hand.
The four them left Meredith and Alex and went downstairs. "The closest campsite was 20 miles east of your position." Lexie said.
"20 miles? In the desert? Are you crazy?" Addison said as they stepped outside into the heat.
"Calm down, Addison. We aren't hiking 20 miles." Arizona said nothing more as she pointed to her right.
There sitting along the wall of the building were 10 ATVs. After a 10-minute search back on the first floor they found the keys and soon they were on their way to campsite two out of three.
With the help of the ATVs the 20-mile hike to the second campsite only took about 15 minutes. When they made it to the second campsite they hid their ATVs behind a sand dune before they took the time to scope out the campsite.
This campsite was just like the first one but it was a little smaller. They were greeted with a one-story building. Just like the first campsite Arizona was using her thermal binoculars while Addison used the scope on her rifle. "I see 1 one the roof, if I can stop sweating long enough to double check, and I only see 2 people inside." Addison said as she looked over to Arizona.
"Close but no cigar, Addie. There are four heat signatures inside the building." Arizona said back. "So, this is how we are going to do it; Mark, Owen and I will take out the people inside while take out the person on the roof, or are you too sweaty to do it?" Arizona said with a light grin. "I would suggest that you get a sweat band, but I'm pretty sure I would just hear you bitch about the tan lines."
"I'll never let it go because Yang will make it her job to point out my tan lines every day." Addison countered.
"Well show her whose boss," Arizona replied with a grin before she and the guys went to the front door. She double-checked to make sure that there only four people in the room before she opened the door. They cleared the room and roof in standard textbook Alpha team style. This time she left Mark and Owen on the roof, with laptop because at the end day Arizona could take Addison down with ease.
"Alright according to GPS the final campsite is 10 miles north of us." Arizona said as Addison and her got on to their ATVs.
They made it to the final campsite, and just sat on their ATVs looking at the huge disadvantage they were in. The final campsite was the remains of what looked like a 4 or 5 story building but sandstorms over the years has buried most of it. There was a curved path that led to the top part of the building and there were several boxes and oil drums scattered throughout the path.
"I think we're going to have to stay hidden for as long as possible and push forward the best we can." Addison said with a look of concern over to Arizona.
Arizona just gave out a sigh, "you're right. You're the sniper so you take the left side of path seeing how it curves to the left. You'll be able to take out the people that are far away and take the people that are close by."
"Let's do this," Addison said as they made their way to the bottom of the path.
Their plan was working and they had managed to clear the bottom part of the path and cleared the long curve. They were in the process of taking out the remaining people on top part of the building, but the scope flash from both Addison and Arizona alerted the remaining people of their presents. Despite being seen they continued on the path shooting and taking cover when they needed it. It took them 20 minutes to kill the remaining 10 people at the top of the building. Because the top part of the building was exposed and they were out in the open they had to stay crouched down as they cleared the area.
Once the area was cleared it was Arizona who was working on the laptop. "So what are we doing, Henry?" Arizona said as leaned over the computer.
"We are going to turn into a zombie so I can control it. I'm half way done but I need you to do a few things for me." Henry started, "first go to the download folder and find a folder that says rainbow."
"Okay I see it."
"Click on the 'w'."
Arizona clicked on the 'w' and a dialog box popped up asking for ID and a password. "It's asking for an ID and a password."
"Alright, the ID is rainbow. All lowercase." Henry paused for a moment so Arizona could type the ID. "The password is R (24) Alpha Romeo."
Once Arizona typed this she got another dialog box, 'Error - wrong password'.
"I think I typed it wrong because I have an error message."
"No, you typed it right. Click on the 'o' in Error."
Another dialog box came up asking for ID.
"It wants an ID again."
"It's General Robbins. The 'g' and 'r' are capitalized"
Arizona typed 'General Robbins' and another dialog box came up saying 'prove it'. "I think it's asking for a password?"
"It's pixy, all lowercase."
Once she typed this the screen when black before it went blue, "I think it worked."
"NO!" Addison shouted before she tackled Arizona to ground.
Arizona was two seconds away from punching Addison thinking that she was the trader, but the huge explosion behind them let her know that Addison was trying to save her. Without realizing it a enemy helicopter had found them on the roof of the campsite and was about to start firing at the two ladies.
At first Arizona and Addison were greeted by a missile before the helicopter started to rain down a flood of bullets towards them. Arizona and Addison took cover the best they could. The only thing that was on the roof was a few sandbags and the small makeshift shaded area. They were forced to take cover behind the large rocks that were on the path they used to make it to the roof.
Using the rocks for protection they tried their best to fire back, but they had no success at taking the helicopter down because 10 minutes later both women ran out of ammo. "Shit," Arizona said as she looked at her gun.
"Yeah, I'm out of ammo too." Addison yelled back.
At that time the helicopter stopped shooting at them, but was still hovering right behind them. They didn't need to turn around to know what was about to happen. They both looked at each for a moment, "make a run for it on three?" Arizona asked.
Addison just shook her head yes. "It was great severing with you, Robbie."
"Likewise… go!" Arizona yelled as they both stood up and started to run further down the path they used earlier. Right as they pushed off the rocks they were hiding behind was when the helicopter fired another missile at them, it missed them, but the missile that came from the campsite number 1 didn't. It hit the tail of the helicopter causing the helicopter to spin out of control and crash into the ground with a huge explosion.
Both Arizona and Addison were on their stomachs covered in rubble. Addison was the first to get up, after a few seconds of getting her bearing back she made her way over to Arizona and helped her up. Together they stumble back to the where the laptop used to be only to see that is was a pile of ash, completely destroyed by the helicopter.
"Fuck," Arizona said under her breath. "The computer was destroyed, Henry."
"That's okay. I was able to clone it before it was destroyed."
"Nice," Addison as she turned around to face the direction were the helicopter was hovering a few minutes before. "Who shot down the helicopter?"
"AHHH!" was her response.
"Meredith?" Addison questioned.
"Meredith shot an RPG at the helicopter and went flying backwards," Alex said over the radio, "she dislocated her shoulder, and is being a pussy about it."
"I got the signal!" Henry interrupted. "I'm uploading it your GPS right now."
Arizona looked down at her sleeve on her new jacket. This jacket was Henry and Sydney's latest invention for Rainbow, a GPS screen on the outside sleeve jacket of every member of Rainbow.
"Alex, Meredith, there are ATVs outside on the west side of the building. See you at the crash site." Arizona said as she and Addison got on their ATVs and started to drive to the location.
Arizona and Addison had been driving for 15 minutes before Henry spoke again. "Signal says your getting close, but I don't see any traces of radiation which is weird."
"It's not weird, Henry. You said that there was a possibility that the box could still be in one piece." Arizona started, "and I know for a fact that box is still in one piece."
"How?" Henry questioned.
"Because Addison and I are at the sight."
Addison and Arizona took a moment to look at the remains of the Demon of Razgriz before they entered the plane. They were looking at the cockpit of the plane as it stuck up out of the ground. Most of the fuselage was buried under sand, and parts of the wings were buried as well. The back part of fuselage was sticking straight up out of the ground and looked like it was seconds away from tipping over.
Both Addison and Arizona got off their ATVs and looked for a place to enter. They had just passed the right wing when they saw a hole in the back part of the fuselage. This was where they were going to enter.
Arizona took out her secondary weapon and a flashlight before she entered the plane, Addison did the same thing right behind her.
"Holy shit, it's like a sauna in here." Addison said as she wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"Yeah," Arizona said breathlessly as she walked further inside the plane. Arizona was the left side of the plane, while Addison was the right side. They were inside of the plane for 10 minutes searching through the cargo on board for a medium sized black box.
It wasn't until they were all the way in the back of the plane before Arizona found the box that they were looking for. "I found it."
"Alright, remember Arizona be careful because it is extremely unstable." Henry reminded.
Arizona just shook her head and handed her gun over to Addison as she took the box and carefully walked out of the plane. When they came out of the plane the other four members of Alpha along with Derek greeted them.
Once everyone got on the helicopter Derek spoke, "where am I going, Lexie?"
"Ecuador, Bravo is on their way there right now as well."
While Alpha was dealing with the extreme heat, Bravo, on the other hand was dealing with the extreme cold. Bravo found themselves at the bottom of the Andes right outside Santiago de Chile.
Lexie had set it up so two black jeep wranglers would be waiting for them when they got there. Teddy, Izzie, April and Dixon were in one jeep, while Cristina, Callie, Jackson and Sydney were in the other one.
With Teddy leading the way they made it up the mountain until they reached a small campsite that was about 40 miles up the mountain. In typical Teddy Altman fashion she wanted to flank the campsite, so her jeep drove around to the back of the campsite, while Cristina, Callie, Jackson and Sydney stayed were they were as they waited for Teddy's word.
Teddy and the others made to back and were in process of getting in position when a guard spotted Dixon hiding behind a tree and proceeded to open fire on them. "Our cover is blown!" Teddy yelled as she started to return fire. "Clear out the campsite for Sydney."
Teddy, Izzie, April and Dixon pushed their way forward through the back part of the camp while Cristina, Callie, Jackson and Sydney did the same at the front part of the camp. For Cristina and her group they were lucky because the first grey one story building that they cleared was the main computer room. "I need you guys to hold them off while I work." Sydney said as she made her way to the front of the room where the main computer was.
Cristina, Callie and Jackson split up by taking cover around one of the three doors that lead to the room. Jackson was covering the door that they used to enter the building, Cristina was covering the door that was right across from Jackson and Callie had the door that was located at the back of the room.
For the next 20 minutes Bravo team defended Sydney as she hacked into the satellite. Soon the campsite was cleared Teddy, Izzie, April and Dixon found their way over to the building that Sydney and the other were.
"I managed to the hack the satellite and I told it to land in that small little valley that is right outside this campsite." Sydney said while never taking her eyes off the computer screen.
"Why do I feel like there is a giant 'but' coming on?" Teddy said with sigh.
"Because there is one, when the satellite was re-entering the atmosphere it collided with another satellite, and is now on a crash course for the Andes Mountains."
"Well do you know where it's going to crash?" Cristina asked.
"Somewhere in the Andes Mountains." Sydney replied back.
Jackson only heard parts of the conversation between Sydney and Teddy because he was busy going back and forth inside and outside of the building making sure the coast was clear. He was about to step back in the building when a large flame ball flew overhead and crashed some ways away up the mountain. "My guess is it crashed about 50 to 60 miles up ahead of us." Jackson said.
"How do you know?" Sydney questioned.
Jackson stepped back outside and pointed to the large plume smoke that was further up the mountain.
"Alright let's get up there, quick. Because I bet we are not the only ones who can see this, and I want to be out of there before someone else comes to investigate." Teddy said as she, Izzie, April and Dixon ran back over to their jeep. Cristina, Jackson, Callie and Sydney did the same, and followed Teddy further up the mountain.
The drive up to the mountain only took about 30 minutes to get there. The satellite crashed and skidded right in the middle of an abandon town. There were about 10 to 11 one to three story buildings that were surrounding the satellite's crash site.
Sydney alongside with her escorts Callie, Cristina and Jackson made it up to the satellite first. Sydney was in the process of the trying to break open one of the compartments when Teddy and the others joined.
"I hate to put you on the spot Sydney, but it looks like a blizzard is about to hit us. The sooner we can get out of here the better." Teddy said as she looked up at the sky to see dark angry grey clouds come towards them from the top of the mountain.
"I'm working as fast as I can." Sydney countered as she opened the compartment to reveal a small keyboard and computer screen.
Sydney was in the process of typing something when movement out of the left corner of Callie's eye got her attention. Callie looked over to see a group of five men making their way towards satellite. "We've got company," Callie pointed to the five men.
Everyone expect for Sydney and Teddy held up their guns ready for a fight. "Put your weapons down Bravo, they could be friendlies." Teddy warned as she stepped in front of the group.
The minute the five men saw Teddy they immediately split up, while taking cover and firing at her. Teddy as well as the other members of Bravo took cover as well, "Hostiles in the area! Take them out Bravo." Teddy yelled from behind a building wall.
Callie and Cristina found themselves hiding behind the remains of a wall that belong to a building that had been torn down some time ago. Callie was ducking behind the wall changing her clip while Cristina was standing up over the wall firing at one of the buildings.
Callie turned around and peeked up from the wall to fire back, but at the moment all was quiet. She looked over to Cristina briefly who had her gun aimed at a first floor window to a building on their left. "There are two of them inside that building. I know one is hiding under the forth window to the left. I think the other one is about two windows over to the right." Cristina said while never taking her eyes off the spot. Before Callie could aim her gun at the window that Cristina talked about a man popped his head up, and Cristina fired. For a moment it looked like Cristina shot him in the neck and he went down, but Cristina only grazed his neck and caught him by surprise. When he popped up again Cristina shot him twice in the chest and again in the neck only this time when she shot him the neck she didn't graze him, she hit him.
Cristina ducked down as Callie took the time to scan through the windows of the first floor of the building looking for the other man. She had just passed one of the windows when movement got her attention and she brought her aim back to the previous window. She could see the top part of the man's head as he hid behind one of the windows. Through the scope of her gun she raised her gun to aim upwards a little guessing how tall her mystery man was, that way when he popped up she would have a clear shot at him.
When the man finally stood up to fire Callie was off by a few inches, but she still did not hesitate to pull the trigger and fire at the man. She shot him in the chest causing him to stumble backward letting her now that he was wearing a bullet proof vest. She fired one more time at his chest to keep him confused for a little while longer while before she fired at the man's head.
When Callie shot him in the head he went down instantly, and she lowered her gun while she scanned the area for the remaining man. She knew that before she and Cristina took cover together Teddy was the first to fire and she hit at one them because Callie remembered the man going down and not getting back up again. She knew that Teddy was working on another man that hidden too far to the right of them and at the moment only Teddy was the one who could see him. As for the fifth man, he was MIA unless Jackson, April, Izzie or Dixon got him.
Callie lowered her gun some more when a flash and a barrel of smoke coming right at her and Cristina got her attention. "Shit, RPG on the roof!" Callie yelled as she grabbed Cristina by the collar and dodged out of the way in time before the missile hit the exact spot that she and Cristina were occupying.
Izzie was hiding in the building that located to the left, when she saw where the RPG came from she ran out into the open and slid behind the remains of the fiery wall that Callie and Cristina were just using. In the middle of her slide she managed to hold up her gun and fire at the man that was on the roof. She hit him three times in his right leg causing him to lose balance and fall off the roof head first. It was only a three story fall something Rainbow could do in their sleep, but the fact that the man landed on the top of his head breaking his neck was what killed.
"You know sometimes I wish you were on Alpha Team so when we have our drills and you pull some fancy shit like that I could just kill you, show off." Cristina said as she stood while helping Callie to her feet.
"That's right, Yang. Be jealous I have more flare then you." Izzie shot back with a wide smile.
"Let's stop the chit chat! There are more of them coming from the east!" Jackson yelled as he moved to a building that facing the east side with April. Callie, Cristina and Izzie ran over to the building that was opposite of Jackson and April to help them. Teddy however stayed where she was because she still focused on the last man from the original five.
He was hiding behind a stack of crates that seemed be made out steel and looked like wood. Teddy was sure that she had shot those crates to the point where they would be in pieces on the ground, but they were still standing strong. There was long pause and she was sure that he ran out ammo, she was about to peek her head around the corner when she heard a soft thud and saw something dark green bounce in front her.
"Oh hell no!" Teddy said as she reached for the grenade and threw it back at him.
The man had no time to react because the moment the grenade landed next him it blew up killing him and finally destroying the crates.
When Teddy made it to where the rest of team was they had cleared the entrance. The town was back to being just as quiet as it was when they got there. "Torres, Yang, go cover the west entrance. Kepner and Avery you stay where you are, Stevens come with me." Teddy said as she and Izzie walked over to where Sydney and Dixon were standing.
By the time Teddy and Izzie made it over to Sydney and Dixon it started snowing without warning. "Did you get it?" Teddy asked.
"Yeah, right here." Sydney said as she pointed down at her feet at a large black box.
"Alright Bravo let's get out of here." Teddy said as the four them made their way over to the jeeps.
Teddy, Izzie, Dixon and Sydney found Callie and Cristina and together they walked to the jeeps, except Sydney was having a hard time caring the laser because it was too heavy. Callie noticed the hard time she was having and offered to take the laser off her hands.
Callie struggled with it at first but she soon figured out how to hold on to it. By this time it was snowing so hard you couldn't see your own hand if it were right in front of your face.
Jackson, Izzie, Dixon and April had been given the go ahead to drive down to the bottom of the mountain, and Teddy and Cristina would wait for Callie and Sydney. Because of their exchange Sydney was the first one to make to jeep.
"Where's Torres?" Yang yelled looking behind Sydney.
"She went down in the other jeep," Sydney yelled back. "We saw them pass by us. They had room for one more so she went with laser."
For some reason Cristina didn't really by her story, but she had to trust her because they couldn't stay in the blizzard much longer or else they would stuck there until it was over and it was safe enough for Ben to come and get them.
Teddy started to drive the jeep down the mountain, but unfortunately Sydney was lying to them because a few minutes after they left Callie showed up to where the jeeps should have been. She looked around the best she could before she pick up the laser and made her away to one of the abandon building.
The building that she was in wasn't that much of help. The windows were blown out so some snow was getting in; there was no heat so it was just as cold inside of the building as it was outside the building.
Callie was forced to wait out the storm or wait until someone noticed that she wasn't with them.
Teddy, Cristina and Sydney made it to the bottom of the mountain where the others were when Cristina noticed that Callie wasn't with the others.
"Where's Torres?" Yang asked as she looked around.
"Thought she was with you," Jackson said as he shook his head a little bit.
"You piece of shit," Yang said as she turned around and punched Sydney across the right side of face breaking her cheek.
"Yang, calm down!" Jackson yelled as pulled Cristina off of Sydney.
"Calm down, she lied and left Torres up there in that fucking blizzard." Cristina yelled as pulled herself from Jackson's grip. "What are you up to? Did you not want us to find the laser?"
"If I didn't want you find the laser why did I tell you where it was?" Sydney spat back as she held her cheek.
"You didn't tell us, Jackson told us."
"Not right now," Teddy stepped between the two women. With her back to Sydney she started to talk to Cristina. "It was a mistake, you can barely see anything up there and it was really windy so she could have thought she heard Callie talking to someone. Let's see if Ben can go up there and get her. It's Torres, she is one hell of a fighter, I'm sure she's fine." Teddy turned around and faced Sydney and just glared at her. "I'll deal with you later."
"Tor…he…me?"
Callie pressed her finger to her ear when she heard radio going in and out. "Henry? Lexie?" Callie yelled before she gave a slight hiss of pain. Her earpiece along with her ear as well was ice cold and pushing into her ear didn't help.
"Torres…It's…Lexie… can…you…"
"I can barely hear you Lexie." Callie yelled. She was currently huddled in the corner of the room trying to keep warm.
"Get…Out…There…"
Callie tried to make out Lexie's message. It sounded like get out, but she couldn't be sure if she heard correctly. The blizzard was in full effect and she was stuck there until the blizzard stopped or let up a little bit. Movement from the front door got her attention, she took out her secondary weapon and paused for a second before she fire twice killing the two people that were trying to enter the building.
Lexie was trying to warn her; apparently more people had shown up the town. Callie had to get out of there, and it had to be fast and she had to be unseen. She grabbed the laser, which was harder to pick up since her muscles frozen from not moving. She peered out the front door and could just barely make out another building not more than 10 feet ahead of her.
She took the laser with both hands and made a run for the other building. It was another one story building and it was empty at the moment. She found another door, which wasn't the front door but it led outside. Once again she peered out the door only to duck back in the building when she saw two men walking up a path that was close to the building. Callie stayed perfectly still as she heard the men walk past her, it sounded like they were speaking Russian but she wasn't sure. When the talking became distant she peered out again, and this time the coast was clear. Just like before she could just barely make out another building, only this time it was about 25 feet away from her.
She took the laser and started to make run for it, the closer she got the building was when started to realize the building was being occupied. One of those people was standing outside blocking her entrance to the building. At the last second she slide down to one knee and slide right in the man knocking him over, but before he fell over she used the rest of her momentum to thrust the laser upwards knocking him out completely. The second person which was a female must have been right by the door when Callie came because she was able to hear the noise that she made and came out right away.
The woman didn't have the time to adjust to situation because Callie instantly lifted her foot and kicked her square in the head knocking her out as well. Callie set the laser down in the building before she put both bodies of the guards inside as well so they wouldn't get unwanted attention.
As Callie pushed her way down the mountain there were less and less people around her and weather was slowly getting better to the point where she no longer needed to hide. Callie made it back to the first campsite at the start of their mission. She didn't go back inside of the campsite instead she chose a large tree to hide behind while she caught her breath. "Is anybody there?" Callie tried to call out over the radio, but she got no reply. Breathlessly she reached up to her ear to play with her radio only to realize that her radio was not there. At some point when she was running down the mountain her radio must have fallen out and she was too focused on getting out a live to notice that it fell out.
"Shit," Callie said to herself. Callie was trying to take in her surroundings when she heard the sound of a helicopter coming towards her. Not sure if it was her team or the enemy, she stayed put.
"Torres!" Yang yelled as she jumped out the helicopter before Ben had landed it.
"Right here!" Callie responded in a raspy voice. Callie got up and made her way over to helicopter.
Callie dropped the laser before she fell to her knees in the snow. Jackson took the laser and put it in the helicopter before turning around helping Callie get in the helicopter.
"How are you? Did you get shot or break anything?" Cristina asked as she gave Callie the once over.
"No, I'm just fucking freezing. Please can we get out of here?" Callie said breathlessly.
"Not a problem," Ben said as he started up the helicopter. "You can warm in Ecuador."
The safe house that Rainbow was looking for was in the town of Cayambe in Ecuador. Unfortunately the one time when Derek and Ben needed land there they couldn't. Showing up on both of their GPS was a Temporary Flight Restriction over the entire town. Usually for Derek and Ben because of their security clearance they could see what it was for. Most times it was because Air Force or another high power political leader was in the area, but this time they couldn't see why there was a TFR over the entire town of Cayambe.
Ben followed the coast all the way up South America so the closet he could get to Cayambe was Pichincha. Pichincha was a small town that was located just outside the city of Quito. As for Derek he had taken a different route to Cayambe. He didn't follow the coast, instead he was given a vector to follow which took him all the way to Cayambe, or as close to Cayambe as he can get. He was forced to land in Reventador National Park.
With Alpha and Bravo team on opposite sides of Ecuador they were forced to hike the rest of the trip and meet in the middle which was Cayambe. Alpha team's hike was shorter because Reventador was closer to Cayambe then Pichincha. Alpha team was waiting in clearing that was right on the ledge of the Cayambe Mountain. It was another 45 minutes before they were joined by Bravo.
"Took you long enough," Alex said with grin.
"Whatever," Yang countered, "we have a fucking laser that is like 5 million pounds." She set down the laser in front of her. Each member of Bravo had taken turns every ten miles carrying the laser, which was the main reason why it took them so long to get to the meeting point.
"Save it, Yang." Alex replied. "We have been walking and flying like we were on ice because we have very unstable nuclear chemicals."
"Both of you save it, we have the components and that is all that matters." Arizona corrected in a stern voice. "Now let's get to the safe house and figure out what we are going to do with them."
"Alright according to GPS the safe house is about 20 miles up the mountain." Teddy said while she looking down at her sleeve.
"Your turn, Stevens" Cristina said she walked over next to Meredith.
"It's a waste of time hiking up 20 miles to that three story safe house." Dixon said.
"Why is that?" Arizona looked over to Teddy before they both looked over to Dixon.
"It's no longer there," Dixon replied.
"Henry just uploaded the coordinates to our GPS; if it's no longer there he would have told us." Teddy said.
"That because he looking at the old picture before it was blown up." Sydney jumped in. "He's not the only who is amazing with computers." Sydney walked over and stood next to Dixon.
Dixon had her gun pointed at Arizona, "give me the laser and the nuclear chemicals" Dixon said.
"Not a chance. There are more of us than there are of you." Arizona spat back in disgust.
"I might want to rethink that statement if I were you General Robbins," Gary said as he emerged from the woods with several men, each of them armed and pointing their guns towards the Rainbow team.