A/N: So I'm not going to lie I'm a little nervous about this chapter. There is a terror attack in the chapter that may hurt the feelings of some, and I don't mean to upset anyone. But logically it has to be done to move the story along. I will put up a warning before the attack so you can skip through it if you want. If you don't read it I tried my best to make so you don't miss anything. With that being said I hope you enjoy, and please do kill me if you get upset.
Chapter Six
"The Death of One Man is a Tragedy. The Death of Millions is a Statistic." – Joseph Stalin
The punch to Arizona's face didn't knock her out but it did catch her off guard, and even though she didn't start the fight she still had the upper hand the entire time. Gary had just grabbed the parachute from her hands and was about to jump from the plane, but Arizona was able to grab the parachute off his back. He was about to strap himself in when Arizona grabbed on to the parachute. When she grabbed on to the parachute it slid easily off his arms, when the straps of the parachute made it to his elbows Arizona lifted up her right leg and kicked him right in the middle of his back. The kick pushed him forward causing the parachute to slide completely off his arms and into the hands of Arizona. In this process he lost his balance and fell out of the plane 15,000 feet to his death while Arizona floated down the Amazon below her.
As Arizona was floating down, pieces of the plane were starting to catch up to her. She tried her best to maneuver around the pieces but that was proving to be easier said than done. She managed to get out of the way of an engine that was falling from the sky, but the drastic turn caused her miss the open field where the rest of Rainbow were, and she ended up tangled in the branches of some trees.
Arizona tried to wiggle and unstrap herself from the parachute, but it seemed like she was not getting out. Finally after a few moments of trying to unstrap herself, she lifted up her left leg and grabbed her knife. She was in the process of cutting the strings above her when she heard the loud thud of Gary's body hitting the ground a few feet away from her.
Arizona had cut through half of the strings above her when she heard Callie screaming her name as she ran towards Gary.
"It's not her, Arizona!" Callie yelled as she completely ignored Gary's lifeless body.
"Right," Arizona started but stopped as she fell ten feet out of the trees to ground when the last two cables of her parachute snapped. "Here," she finished as she slowly got up from the ground.
Arizona didn't get the chance to get a good look at her surroundings when the angry Latina ran up to her and slapped her across the face, catching everyone off guard. Everyone was expecting Arizona to go off on Callie for hitting her, but it was the opposite way around. Callie unleashed holy hell on the still stunned blonde.
"Don't you ever do that to me again!" Callie screamed, "I almost had a heart attack thinking that you died."
"It's part of-"
"I'm not done talking," Callie cutoff, which made Arizona quickly close her mouth. "I have lost too many people that I love in past and I will be damned if I let you fall into one of those people."
Callie continued on her rant but after Callie said the word love nothing else was really getting through to Arizona. They had been seeing each for the past year, but in Aria's words they became an official couple not more than 6 months ago, and those three words never really crossed either of their minds. Or at least it did for a minute, but both women were stubborn and didn't want to be first to say it out of fear of what the other might say. Arizona wanted to say it several times but she had worked hard to get Callie back after the drama with her ex-wife and she didn't want to ruin what she had been working on so hard to get back. "Are you even listening to me?" Callie yelled over to Arizona snapping her out of her thoughts.
"You love me?" Arizona asked.
Teddy's head snapped over to Arizona, "out of all of that, you only heard that she loves you. Simply stunning." Teddy shook her head before she walked away.
Callie eyes grew wide when she realized what she said during her rant. There had been several times were she wanted to tell Arizona behind closed doors, but she was so scared that Arizona wouldn't have the same feelings in return and things between them would end. So the end result ended in Callie just keeping her mouth shut. "I do," Callie whispered.
Arizona gave her loving smile and looked at her as if they were alone.
"I hate to break up this disgusting love fest but the douchebag known as Virginia Dixon is still on the loose. We don't know what she up to, and she proving to slimier than an eel so this EMP device isn't all she has up her sleeve." Cristina interrupted.
"She has a point," Teddy stepped back into the scene. "We don't have radio contact with our base in London, we are low on ammo and I think it's safe to say that all the safe houses in South America are compromised. We need to get back to London and come up with a new strategy."
Arizona broke eye with Callie and looked over to Teddy, "your right. Ben can you handle all of us?"
"I can, but we will be stopping a lot because of our weight." Ben replied back.
"That's fine, as long as we get back to London in one piece." Arizona said as everyone on Rainbow made their way back to Ben's helicopter.
The 5-hour helicopter flight back to base took another 3 hours due the weight issue that Ben said earlier. With the addition of Arizona, Alex, Cristina, Teddy, and Meredith, Ben was unable to give the helicopter a full tank of gas because it would be too heavy and wouldn't be able to lift itself off the ground. Ben had to make a few stops to refuel but after their 8 hour flight Rainbow was back on their base in London. When they made it to the base Webber allowed his team to take a quick hour break before they reconvened back in Central Command to come up with a way to find and stop Dixon.
Unlike some of the others on her team Arizona decided to stay at HQ and take a shower. The hot water that flowed down her body was welcoming after the events that just took place. Arizona was facing the wall where the shower head was; her arms were fully extended as she leaned up against the wall. Her head was facing downwards and the hot water just ran down her back. The entire time she was in the shower she has having a hard time trying to wrap her brain around everything that just happened. She was having a hard time processing the fact the both Dixon and Sydney, two people that Teddy and her fought for so much, could turn around and do this to them.
Arizona was deep in thought when she heard someone else enter the shower with her. She didn't move to see who it was because on some level she already knew who it was. She felt warm hands touch the middle of her back and then slide around towards the front of her body. Arizona was still looking down towards the ground when she saw the tan hands as they wrapped around her stomach.
She felt Callie push her hair to the right side so she could kiss the top of her back at the base of her neck. She placed butterfly kisses along the top part of Arizona's back as she worked her way to the left side of Arizona's neck. When Callie made it to her left side Arizona turned her head and the two gave each other a deep passionate kiss.
Arizona turned around to face Callie as the two kissed each again. Callie managed to turn the both them to the left a little bit so Arizona's back is facing the wall. Without saying anything Callie lifts Arizona up. Arizona let out a small gasp as the friction from her center rubbed up against Callie's firm stomach.
Callie's hand massaged up and down Arizona's thighs while Arizona's hand moved up and down Callie's back as the two continued to kiss passionately. They didn't get very far in their new position because not soon after they heard footsteps enter the shower area.
"Shower time is over, Robbins. Webber wants us in Central Command now." Teddy said from the main door way.
"It's already been an hour?" Arizona questioned as she broke away from her from kiss with Callie.
"No, we still have like 45 more minutes but something big happened, and Webber isn't happy." Teddy said before she turned around left.
The seriousness in Teddy's voice caused for Callie and Arizona to break apart from each other. Without saying anything to each other the two turn off the shower before drying off and getting changed.
Callie and Arizona were the last ones to enter Central Command. The two went to their 'assigned' seat. When the two were in place Webber stepped to the front of the room to address his team.
"Our problem with Dixon is no longer just our problem. It officially became the problem of the entire United States military." Webber started. "At 14:00 hours on November 5, 2011 the Prime Minister of Russia declared war against the Untied States of America." Webber continued he saw the confused looks on everyone's face.
"While you guys were flying back here, I was able to locate Dixon for a hot second in Paris before she went off the grid again. Unfortunately when she popped back up she was in Russia and it was too late for us to do anything." Henry jumped in.
"What do you mean too late? Where in Russia is she?" Teddy demanded.
"She was last seen at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow," Henry said as he played the surveillance video for everyone in Central Command.
Dixon and Sydney along with some other men were standing in the parking garage of an airport. Both Dixon and Sydney had on black women pant suits, and the men and women that were standing with them had on the same outfit as well.
"Our intel just texted, Gary didn't make it." Sydney said as she put her phone in her back pocket.
Dixon showed no empathy for Gary. "Well that is what happens when you don't listen me." Was all Dixon said as she opened the back of her van and took out two large light green duffel bags.
"But the EMP is important to us." Sydney said.
Dixon stood up straight and gave a loud sigh of frustration. "There was nothing important about that stupid EMP. I only pretended like it was important so Gary would shut up and do the things that I asked and to give us a head start for when Rainbow starts to come after us. The truth be told, Russia has had a device like this for the past 15 years, but we have been a peace so they have no reason to use or let the world know about its existence." Dixon paused to look over at Sydney for a brief moment. "Starting today every powerful country is going to not only destroy themselves but their allies as well, and we are going to sit back and watch it happen and when the time is right we'll make ourselves known and let the world know that there is a new country, my country, that is in charge of how things work on this planet and there is nothing that they will be able to do to stop me."
Dixon and Sydney just looked at each other for a moment before Dixon broke their eye contact. She bent down and opened both duffel bags to reveal an assortment of guns and hand grenades.
"This is like Robert Stark only more violent and grotesque." Sydney started, "look at what happened to him."
"I'm not a failure like Robert Stark, I have years of military strategy under my belt. When the United States sends their best team after me, which is Rainbow. I will know every move they do before they do it, so when they attack me I will make sure they each get a bullet in their head. When Rainbow fails every country will launch whatever they have at me which will do nothing but go back to where it came from thanks to Daniel's Return to Sender. See I'm a better version of Robert Stark, just follow my lead and you'll see." Dixon said as she picked up an M16 rifle. Sydney just shook her head agreeing with Dixon as she picked up an AK-47 rifle.
**Now would be a good time to jump down to the end of this section if you don't read about a terrorist attack. **
With their weapons well hidden around their bodies Dixon, along with Sydney, and her men made their way to one of the entrance elevators to the airport. Just like Rainbow, Dixon, made sure that everyone took a pistol as back up. Dixon and her men were standing in the elevator with their weapons locked and loaded and ammo flowing out of every pocket. They were all wearing bulletproof vests that were strapped tightly to their bodies. They waited patiently in the elevator for about 5 minutes until it dinged and the door opened revealing the main terminal to the Domodedovo International Airport.
Dixon and her men stepped out of the elevator and stood in a straight line blocking the only real exit out of the terminal. Dixon and Sydney stood right in the middle of the line while the other 10 people that they had with them stood on either side of them. They were quiet with guns hidden perfectly behind them. They were standing right in front of the security check point just watching almost waiting for someone to notice them.
They had only been standing there for not more than 2 minutes when a group of college kids who just got done with their semester aboard noticed them. It was an even mix of five girls and five boys from the University of Pittsburg that stopped unloading their bags and just stared back at Dixon and her men. They had light smiles on their faces, they were expecting Dixon and men to do some sort of flash mob dance, but they would soon find out that they were wrong. With college students focused on Dixon and her men it didn't take long for others around them to turn around to see what they were looking at.
It was another 5 minutes after that when everyone that was around the security check was focused on Dixon and her men. Without saying a word Dixon pulled her M16 from it's hiding place, which caused the other 11 people next her to do the same, and soon the 12 of them opened fired on everyone that was security checkpoint.
There was screaming and utter chaos as people that were at the checkpoint ran for life or fell to the ground, dead. With Dixon and others blocking the only exit the people at the checkpoint were forced to run into the terminal. The people that thought they would wait until Dixon and her men pass them so they could run to real exit proved to be a bad idea as they shot and killed anything that they passed by.
As they continued to push their way through the airport they were forced to split up. Domodedovo International had two main terminals. The A terminal which catered to domestic flights, and the B terminal which catered to international flights. Once they reached that split Dixon and five of the men went to the left going into terminal A, while Sydney and the remain five men when to the right going into terminal B.
They continued up push their way through the terminals before they made it to the very end. Once they were done inside, it was quiet. The once lively terminal was dead quiet with wave after wave of dead bodies lying on the floor in their wake. At the end of each terminal there was an employee door that led down to the airport ramp.
When they made it on the airport ramp they hid behind ramp trucks and anything big enough to hide them. They only had to make it 20 feet up the ramp to another employee entrance door, which was now being blocked by the Russian police in full riot gear.
Two canisters of smoke bombs went off as the police got into formation, but before they could do anything Dixon quickly ruined it for them when she threw a grenade into the smoke. The grenade killed most of the police and her men were able to kill the other officers that were wounded or stumbling around dazed and confused. Sydney on the other hand was focusing on the police officers that were using the jet bridge against them. There were only about 2 or 3 people in the jet bridge that Sydney took out with ease.
When the coast was clear for Dixon, Sydney and the others, they made a run for the employee entrance door. They were able to get inside uninterrupted. Once they were inside they followed the hallways until they made it back to the parking garbage where a Russian ambulance was waiting for them.
Dixon's men were the first to enter soon followed by Dixon then Sydney. "I think we sent a clear message to Russia and Rainbow." Sydney said with a smile on her face.
"That wasn't the message," Dixon said as she turned around and extended a hand to help Sydney get into the ambulance. "This is," With her right hand helping Sydney get into the ambulance her left hand grabbed her pistol, which was hidden on the small of her back, and she shot Sydney in the head right between the eyes killing her instantly. Without saying another word Dixon closed the doors to the ambulance, "drive, Eric." Dixon said as she made her way to the front passenger seat. "Russia is going to find Sydney's body, and when they find out that an American Soldier committed this crime the whole country will cry war." Dixon said with smile as they easily made their way through the sea of police cars heading to the airport.
** You can open your eyes now. It's safe to read I promise. **
Rainbow was clueless about what went on when Dixon and her men went into the employee entrance on the airport ramp since there were no cameras in there. The only thing that they knew was Dixon or the Russian police shot and killed Sydney, but since Sydney was American that was the first country that they pointed their finger at.
It was safe to say that after one quick glance around the room the look of disgust and sadness was on everybody's face. They just witness what the press was calling the Domodedovo massacre. There were at 2,000 plus people at that airport and about 95% were killed, people that were already on planes waiting to get off or takeoff to their destination were forced to say on the plane until police arrived and cleared the scene.
"Sick son of bitch," Addison whispered as her eyes stayed glued to the screen.
"I see you have caught your men up on everything that is going on, Marshal Webber." General Grey said from another screen located to the left of the main screen.
General Ellis Grey, Meredith and Lexie's mother, was the only six star general in the United States Military. After the commander in chief, she was the next person in line to run the military. She was a living legend. Everyone in the military wanted to be just like her, and if they told you otherwise they were lying.
Even though Richard Webber went by Marshal, he was still a general but a 5 star one. He and the other 5 star generals were nowhere close to achieving 6 stars. The 6 star ranking was made for Ellis Grey and no one else.
Arizona, or general Robbins, was 4 star general, and would stay a 4 star general until Marshal Webber retired, which wouldn't be for another 5 years. When Webber retires Rainbow will become Arizona's baby because Bailey has stated several times that she couldn't handle the pressure like Webber or Arizona do.
Finally Teddy, or general Altman, was a 3 star general. After her work in Brazil she was called up for a promotion. She was going to be a 4 star general and since she was the same age as Arizona she would stay a 4 star general until Arizona retired or died. Seeing how both Teddy and Arizona planned on retiring at the same time, and both her and Arizona refused to die in the line of battle she would be stuck as a 4 star general which was ok with her. The paperwork for her promotion started a mouth after she got back from Brazil. She knew that military liked to take their sweet time with paperwork so she knew it would be a full year before she was promoted. But now that the United States was at war, her promotion might take another year or two.
"We'll discuss Dixon at a later date when it is just you and I, Richard." General Grey started, "right now, we have a bigger problem on our hands. As you already know Russia has declared war against us. They apparently found allies in the form of China, North Korea and Japan, and to make matters worst Russia and their allies are coming to fight us on home territory." Ellis paused for a second. "We have been able to confirm that they are sending every fighter jet, submarine, aircraft carrier and destroyer our way. We estimate them to be in Los Angeles within the next 15 hours. It's all hands on deck right now, Richard. We will need all the help we can get, I know we are going to have covert side missions to help weaken their forces and with missions that are so in depth and detailed we will need the best combat team the US has to offer, which is Rainbow."
"I understand, general Grey. I think we here at Rainbow want to find and stop Dixon from whatever she is doing more than anyone. With the exception of myself and Henry, my entire team is in your hands." Richard said.
"Great, send Rainbow as soon as possible. I want them to be here before Russia gets here."
"They are on their way right now."
Once their conference was over, Rainbow suited up and made their way to the hanger. This mission wasn't going to be like the rest where they were only an hour or two helicopter ride away. Nope they were going back to the U.S. to fight a war on U.S. soil, which was something that hadn't been done in over a 100 years. So instead of getting into their usual nighthawks they got into their rarely used Lockheed C-130 and started their trip to Los Angeles to help defend the United States.
A/N: So I was watching the Military Channel during Christmas and they said out of all the countries to date, Russia is the next biggest military power compared to the United States which is why I chose Russia to help move things along. Anyways I hope you don't hate me and I'm sorry if I upset anybody out there.