Chapter Seven
"Incoming Fire has the Right of Way." – Unknown
The flight from the London to L.A. was nerve racking, whether they liked it or not they were about to be a part of history. They were going to go into battle, something they hadn't really been in since they each served their tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Webber along with the other officials that knew they were coming were sure that it would only take the a few minutes before they got the hang of things, the nerve racking and history part was the fact that they would be fighting on home soil. Something that they knew was possible but never thought would happen.
The whole 12 hour plane ride was quiet, everyone was in their own world preparing themselves for what they were about to witness and do when they stepped foot in L.A. The bump and screeching of the aircrafts tires hitting the ground brought everyone to attention. The back door opened, and they found themselves on the runway at Royal Air Force in Las Vegas, "we have to take a helicopter from here." Derek said though the radio. "General Grey was wrong. Russia decided to come early and L.A. is a complete war zone. Things aren't looking so good for us, something about our communication being down. I've been instructed to take you guys to the main base camp and then report to the airfield after that."
Derek along with Alpha team got into one helicopter while Ben and Bravo team got into another. With the United States' communication being down Derek and Ben flew low to the ground; they flew just 1 to 2 thousand feet above the ground so that people on the ground could see the U.S flag and tell that they were friendlies. Arizona and the others were looking down at the ground, they watched as the houses and buildings below slowly deteriorated in the black piles of ashes. They could see Marines escorting people out of the area on foot, a few miles later those people started turn into buses; School buses, Greyhound buses and local buses used in everyday travel. They were filled to the brim with people, innocent people that didn't deserve this.
The sounds of the gunfire and the propellers on the helicopter were loud, and the closer they got to L.A the more they noticed the radio silence; Derek wasn't exaggerating when he said there was no communication. They were so focused on the ground the below and the area around them was too loud, so they didn't hear when Derek started to yell. Derek banked the helicopter to the left hard, causing everyone to hold on before they fell out. They didn't need to look up to the front of the helicopter to see what was going on. A missile came out nowhere and the hit the line of buses that were trying to make it out of the area. The area was soon surrounded by military staff, and they worked franticly at getting the people out before another missile came.
Once that scene came and went their attention went to the front of the helicopter. The scene before them was something that came straight out of a video game or a movie. L.A was completely destroyed. Skyscrapers were either on the ground in pieces or missing their top 50 floors. There was smoke and fire everywhere. They could see fighter jets as weaved in and out of the buildings and fought with one another. The Pacific Ocean was filled with aircraft carriers, destroyers and other types of battleships. They watched as the enemy swam to shore only to be met with gunfire which they happily returned.
The last few miles of their ride was a bumpy one, finally both Derek and Ben landed their helicopters in the large parking lot that was housing several other helicopters, tanks, and military trucks. At the moment the United States Military had turned Rodeo Drives Women's Health Center as it main command post.
"Good luck, guys." Derek said before he took off to the nearby airstrip. The minute he saw the current state of L.A. he knew that he and Ben would be up in the sky dog fighting with the others.
Arizona and the other members of the Alpha them just nodded their heads and wished him good luck before they met up with Bravo team and went inside.
"Rainbow, glad you could make it." General Grey said as she walked into a conference room that she had converted into her office. "As you can see I was wrong about their time of arrival, but that's not the problem." She started as she and the members of Rainbow gathered around a large conference table that had a huge map of California with ships, tanks and people figures scattered on it. "The problem is they are jamming our satellites and towers so we have no communication. We are literally fighting blind. We were able to confirm that they have equipped several of their Boeing 747's and 777's with jamming equipment, and they are flying over our heads as we speak, but Air Force is currently working on that situation. But we were able to locate another signal coming from the ground only we haven't worked out where it is coming from."
"It's coming from the U.S. Bank Tower," a voice said from the doorway.
Everyone looked up from the map and over towards the doorway. The new guests in the room were greeted with blanks stares from everyone except from one person, "Tim?" Arizona questioned.
"Hey Flagstaff," Tim said with a light smile as he and delta team walked into the room and gather around the table with the Rainbow team.
Tim walked over and stood next to his younger sister. Callie was standing right across from them and she couldn't stop her eyes as they went back and forth between the two siblings. Tim and Arizona were a spitting image of each other. Hair color was same, same blue beautiful eyes; even though it wasn't time for smiling she could see the small hint of dimples.
"I thought you were killed in North Korea." Arizona said.
"Come on, Flagstaff. You know I don't go down without a fight, and you can bet your ass I taught that to men as well." Tim said with a smile, "we can catch up later. Right now the Russians are kicking our ass. Kev, you were saying."
"I have located the signal; it is coming from the U.S. Bank Tower. It's the tallest building in L.A and is pretty much untouched." Kevin continued. "They are protected this building by blowing up anything that gets within a 10 mile radius of the building. My guess is the 747s and 777s are jamming the Air Force and their planes while the building a jamming everything else."
"Can you stop the signal if we can get you close enough?" Arizona asked.
"He's a computer nerd, of course he can hack the signal." Nick said as he slapped Kevin on the back.
"I'm not a computer nerd," Kevin said under his breath.
"Dude, you play World of Warcraft," Nate jumped in.
Kevin just rolled his eyes at Nate. "We have to be careful because the Russian are using their new military weapon the Scinfaxi. It's a large submarine that is armed with everything that you can think of. It's the only thing that is protecting the tower right now."
"Ok well computer nerd or not Kevin is coming with us to hack the signal," Arizona said. She paused for a moment before she told the others what her strategy was. "Alpha team, which includes Bailey, Kevin, Drew and Brain, we are going to go to the U.S. Bank Tower. Bravo, which includes Lexie, Tim, Nick and Nate, you are going to the submarine. Once all is said and done we will meet back here for our next mission, understood."
Everyone expect for Tim and Nick just shook their heads agreeing with her, while Tim and Nick stood at attention and said, "Yes ma'am," in unison.
"Knock it off," Arizona said with a light chuckle.
Once the plan was set Rainbow went their separate ways. Bravo went out the front the building and made their way to Venice Beach while Alpha used the east side exit that lead to further into the city.
Alpha hugged the remains of the hotels, stores and restaurants that lined 3rd street. There was no need for them to stay in the shadows because it pointless for them to stay hidden. The enemy was looking out of them; they knew that they were coming. The entire time that they traveled on the 3rd street they were met with silence. They could hear yelling and gunfire off in the distance surrounding them but there was actually nothing around them.
Like always Arizona and Alex were leading the pack and everyone else was close behind them. They hugged the walls and stayed as low to the ground as they could get, every time they heard a nose they would turn the top part of their body in that direction while stilling moving east on 3rd street. They found themselves quiet as they were all on heightened alert; the slightest movement or noise got their attention.
Arizona was about to the turn the corner to move south on Los Angles St when she immediately stopped and raised her right fist telling the others to stop moving as well. She watched from the shadows as a group of Russian solders went into a large building that used to be used for eyeglasses.
She turned her head slightly to look back at her team, and in a series of hand movements she told Alex, Meredith, and Bailey to go across the street. With their current new additions Bailey gestured for Kevin and Drew to follow her while Brian stayed with Arizona, Owen, Addison and Mark.
Once Alex and his small team was in place across the street Alpha moved up Los Angles St for 20 feet until they were just outside of the eyeglasses store. Arizona didn't want to risk being seen so she and the others on her team just stayed on the side of the door. Arizona looked over and watched as Alex got into position on the other side of the street right across from the entrance of the eyeglass store.
Alex and she made eye contact. When this happened Arizona held up one index finger and pointed to the inside of the building. Her response was in the form of Alex looking inside the building before he held up 5 fingers and flashed it 3 times, indicating that there were 15 visible people. Next he held up his fist and started to fan out his fingers telling her that the men were starting to fan out. Arizona lightly shook her head and pulled out a grenade, she pulled the pin and threw it inside the building. Seconds before the grenade went off they heard Russian yelling, but before they could do anything the grenade went off. It killed at least 5 people and severally wounded at least 2.
After the grenade went off Arizona and her team entered the store. Arizona and Addison quickly went to the left side room while Owen, Mark and Brian covered the right side of the room. With Arizona's team covering the sides, Alex and his team moved from across the street filling up the space in the middle as gunfire took place in the store.
Arizona and Addison were hiding behind a small desk shooting at three men that were hiding behind a fallen bookcase that was used to shelf glasses. The gunfire was too heavy for them to raise their heads and see where everyone was at, they knew if they raised their heads the end result would be getting shot.
Addison raised her gun above the desk while keeping her head down and fired blindly over towards the bookcase. When she fired she managed to hit one of the men, when he fell to the ground he got caught in the cross fire and was shot several more times from both sides. Arizona on the other hand decided to pear around the corner of the desk when she noticed that that the gunfire on their side died down. When she looked over at the bookcase, she could see one of the men hiding behind the bookcase. He was half shielded and half exposed. She held up her gun and fired at his helmet, which caught him off guard. He grabbed the left side of his helmet before he leaned forward. When he leaned forward he exposed himself to Mark and Owen who had manage to sneak along the wall on the right side of the store. The moment he leaned forward Mark took the shot that killed him. From their angle they were also able to take out the third man that was hiding behind bookshelf.
Mark and Owen who were on the right side of the store had an easier time hiding and shooting. All the cases and desks were flipped in their favor, and it made it easier for them hide and shoot. The last remaining five people in the store were hiding in a large circular desk in the middle of the store. With Alex and his team blocking and shooting from the front and Owen and Mark shooting from the right side there was nothing could do and nowhere they could go. Owen managed to shoot and kill a man before he was able to duck down behind the circular desk.
When Alex and his team stormed the building they were able to take the remaining four men behind the circular desk. Once the store was clear they noticed how the enemy was moving around Los Angles without showing their faces. They had blown holes in the sidewalls of the stores so they can move around without ever stepping out on the street. This made it so they didn't have to worry about exposing themselves and giving their position away. The remainder of the time they spent on Los Angeles St they used the holes in the walls that were created by the enemy. With Arizona and Alex leading the group they made it the corner of Los Angeles St and 5th street.
Arizona held her fist up causing her team to stop; she and Alex started to survey the area trying to figure what happened. "This smells like an ambush." Alex said.
Arizona took a little longer to survey, "maybe, but I don't think the ambush is meant for us."
"Are we looking at the same thing? Because I see a perfectly good tank just sitting in the middle of the street."
"Yeah, but that is a Chinese tank with Chinese bodies laying around it. They clearly wanted to continue down Los Angeles St, but the U.S. roadblocks stopped it. It looks like it stopped them long enough for the U.S. to take them out." Arizona countered. She looked up at the remains and blown out windows of the buildings surrounding them. There were no signs of life any of the buildings. Arizona gave a heavy sigh before she turned her attention back to the tank in front of them. "If we get to that tank and it works. It will be smooth sailing to the Bank Tower, or at least what's left of it."
"Let's go for it." Alex said.
Arizona raised her hand and motioned for the rest of her team to come and join them. They gathered around Arizona and Alex, "alright guys Alex and I are going to try and commandeer that tank. I want you guys to watch the buildings while we try to get to the tank."
Each member shook their head before Alex and Arizona turned their back to them, "Let's do this." Arizona said under her breath. They made a crouched run to a row of highway concrete dividers. Once they got there they took cover. With their team watching the buildings that were, at the moment behind them, and to the left and right of them, they took a moment to scan the buildings that were in front of them. The building that they had just ran out of. When they cleared those buildings the jumped over the dividers and ran to the fiery remains of a military truck. Once again they cleared the area around them before they ran towards the tank without any problems.
Arizona was in the haul as the driver, while Alex took over the main turret. "Shit!" Arizona yelled from haul.
"What's wrong," Alex yelled back.
"Everything is in Chinese."
"Grey knows Chinese, her and Yang are pretty much butt buddies."
"Yang is Korean, Alex." Arizona hissed back.
"Yeah, and she also speaks Chinese and Japanese fluently. And she also taught Meredith everything she knows. So Meredith can speak all three languages fluently as well."
"Alright, get the rest of team over here." Arizona said.
Alex motioned for the rest of the team to join them, which they did. "Meredith, Arizona needs your help inside. Everything is in Chinese." Alex said as everyone got into position around the tank.
Meredith made her way into the haul of the tank while Addison and Bailey climbed to the top of the turret with Alex and took a sit on either side of him. Addison was a good long-range shooter, which was why she was always the sniper for Alpha team. Meredith was also a good long-range shooter, but she was needed so Arizona could drive so Bailey took her place. As for Mark, Owen, Kevin, Drew and Brian they stood on the outside of the tank and walked right next it proving cover fire if they needed it.
Once Meredith was inside it only took a few minutes before the tank started to move, and soon they started their 4-mile journey to the Bank Tower. For the entire four miles they saw and heard nothing, which made everyone a little uneasy. Out of past experiences they knew that quiet was bad, very bad.
When they made it to the tower, which was once 73 floors, only stood with about 48 floors and at the top at the 48th floor was where the jamming signal was located. Just like the drive to the building they were met with silence when they entered the building, expect for the gunfire in the background, which was miles away from them.
They were able to get inside of the building with no problem and they were able to climb the 48 floors with no problem.
"Anyone else besides me think that it is a little weird that we have made it this far with very little interaction from the enemy?" Mark asked as they gathered around the final door that led to the towers new roof.
"No I find it weird it too, Mark. But there are two people on the other side of that door." Arizona said as she opened the door only about an inch before she closed it.
"Just two?" Mark questioned.
"Yep, just two. This means that they have people in the other buildings watching this floor." Arizona continued. "Addison, switch places with Karev."
Arizona waited 30 seconds before the two switched places. "This is plan, Addison is going to shot the man on the left and I'm going to shot the man on the right. Once they are down Addison, Meredith, Bailey, Alex and myself will take care of the people in the surrounding buildings. Owen, Mark, Brian and Drew will escort Kevin to the computer so he can stop the signal."
Arizona got confirmation from everyone on the team before she and Addison stood up. She glanced at Addison for a second before she opened the door. When the door was fully opened Arizona and Addison's body filled the doorway and almost immediately they took out the two men that were standing by a laptop guarding it.
The minute Arizona and Addison stepped out of the doorway they were greeted with enemy fire from the surrounding buildings. Arizona ran and slid into the wall to her right, while Addison did the same to her left. Meredith took cover over by Arizona, while Bailey and Alex went over to aid Addison.
The guns that they were using at the time were meant for medium and close range shooting. Not long range which is what they were using them for at the moment. Since their guns weren't meant for long range shooting it took Arizona and her group a little longer to shot and kill the people in the surrounding buildings. Mark and others waited for 5 minutes when Arizona and others had the chance to do some damage when they entered the roof. Mark, Owen, Brian and Drew had their guns drawn and shooting at the surrounding buildings while they made their way to the other end of the roof where the laptop was.
Kevin was able grab the laptop before sitting on the ground surrounded by desks and bookcases to somewhat protect him while the others focused on the buildings surrounding them. It took Kevin 20 long painful minutes before he successfully disabled the jamming signal.
"This is Kilo Romeo on Delta team, can anyone hear me?" Kevin yelled in his radio.
The line was silent for a few minutes before slowly one by one other members of the army started to respond to him. A smile came to face when he successfully disabled the jamming signal. At the moment Mark was standing right next to him when he took cover to change his clip. "Hey, what frequency do you guys use?" Kevin yelled over to Mark.
"399.75900," Mark yelled back before he stood back up to fire.
Kevin changed his radio to Rainbow's frequency before he talked again. "Alpha team, we have communication again."
"Thank God!" Bailey yelled.
"Great work Rainbow," General Grey said over the radio, "return to base, we might have another mission for you."
"Alright, lets move Alpha." Arizona said, "there are too many of them and we will waste our ammo trying to take them out."
Slowly the members of Alpha started to make their way to the door that they used to get to the roof. Everyone was focused on the buildings around them when a large flash got Owen's attention. "In coming!" Owen yelled before the dove behind cover.
Alpha didn't get the chance the look and see what he was taking about when a missile that came from the Pacific Ocean, and hit the lower part of the bank tower. From the previous missile hits that the tower took hours earlier it was in very unstable condition and the hit from this missile caused the tower to fall 669 feet to ground with Alpha team still on top of it.
Unlike Alpha team who were heading away from the fight, Bravo team travelled east as they made their way to the Pacific Ocean, they were heading right into the heart of the battle. The shore line between Santa Monica Pier and LAX, which was currently being used by the Air Force was where the enemy was striking.
Members of the Army and Marines were in man made trenches and shops that lined the shore as they fired at the enemy as they made their way from the ocean to the land. The Navy had ships lined up along the sides at Santa Monica Pier and LAX to prevent the enemy from expanding their range farther outside of their current lines.
When Bravo got closer to the shore their routine changed a little bit. Instead of continuing on their path to east towards the shoreline they turned to the south. They passed LAX and were traveling away from the battle now. They were in a standard issue military truck as they traveled to Manhattan Beach. It was a good distance away from the battle, which would be easier for them to enter the water unnoticed and sneak aboard the Russian submarine the Scinfaxi.
The Scinfaxi was the reason why half of L.A. was destroyed and why most of the rookie pilots in the Air Force were shot down. It was the biggest tool that the enemy was using to cripple the U.S. along with them jamming their communication signal.
With the addition of Derek, Ben and Eli to the Air Force they were able to take down the last five 747s that were jamming the radio signal for the Air Force. Once those planes were down the Air Force was the first branch of the military to have their communication back. Even though they wanted to tell the other branches that they had communication and could use their frequencies they became preoccupied with the Scinfaxi as well. When they realized that Air Force was starting to pull heard of them the Scinfaxi began launching missiles in the sky that took out anything that was between the altitudes of 5000 and 10000 feet.
A usually 30 minute drive to Manhattan Beach was driven in less than 20 minutes. When they made it to the beach where they were greeted by the USS Tuna, whose current staff were the survivors of the USS Viper. Bravo was able to get in the water and onto the submarine without any problems. While the USS Tuna made its way back to the battle Bravo found themselves changing out of their fatigues and into black wetsuits with waterproof vest to house any accessories they might need for the mission.
"Alright so the Scinfaxi is about 20 miles off the coast, Derek and others in the Air Force have hit it enough times that it has lost the ability to submerge and is stuck floating at the surface. Right now the Air Force is providing us with decoy so the Russian and Chinese ship that surround the submarine are focused on the planes above them. So we should be able to get on board the submarine without anyone noticing us." Lexie said to the others after they all changed.
"Since we still don't have communication we will have to stay close together." Teddy said as she made her way over towards Lexie who was the front of the room. "Lexie will lead us to submarine, we will us RS1 Sea Doo's to get us there, we have to remember to be careful and remain unseen while we sneak aboard. The Scinfaxi is heavily armed and can do a lot of damage." Teddy turned her back to the team as she left the room, "let's move Bravo."
The USS Tuna was able to cutoff 10 miles on their 20-mile journey to the Scinfaxi. When the USS Tuna surfaced the crew along with the members of Bravo were expecting to be greeted by gunfire from the surrounding ships and submarines, but Lexie wasn't joking when the enemy's full attention was focused on the US Air Force. Bravo as able to exit the USS Tuna and enter the water with no problem.
With the exception of Lexie and Ben, everyone on Bravo team severed in either the Marines or the Navy so working in or around the water was their forte. The fact that Lexie wasn't as skilled as the others didn't mean that she couldn't do it. Teddy and Arizona made sure that everyone in central command was trained to do basic tasks in the field if they were needed, and for Lexie this was one of those times.
When they made it to the Scinfaxi Lexie slowed down while Teddy went ahead and to check the surface. Once she checked the surface she submerged back underwater and through a series of hand gestures she told the others that they had four guards standing on the outer part of the submarine. Callie and Cristina moved to the front of the ship to take out two guards, while Teddy and Jackson moved towards the back of the submarine to take out the last two guards.
No communication was something that Marshal Webber tried to prepare his for just in case something was to happen. So when it came to taking out people at the same time with no communication Bravo could do it in their sleep. They knew when they got into position they were to count to ten before they would strike, which is what they did. Since Jackson and Teddy got into position first they took out the back guards first. They were lucky that the distance between the men was big enough to not alert the guards at the front of the submarine. And about 5 seconds after the back guards were taken out Cristina and Callie took out the front guards.
With four guards died and falling towards the bottom of the Pacific Ocean Callie, Cristina and Jackson climb aboard the submarine. Before Teddy climbed aboard the submarine she motioned for the remaining members of Bravo to join them on the board.
By the time everyone made on top of the submarine Callie and Cristina were in the back with Jackson. They were right next to the entrance door waiting Teddy and her orders. Teddy just looked over to Cristina and Callie and nodded her head giving them confirmation to enter the haul.
Cristina grabbed the handle and started to turn it slowly opening the door while Callie grabbed a flash bang out of her vest. Once Cristina fully opened the door Callie threw a flash bang down below, when it went off Cristina jumped in with Callie right behind her. Like all other missions in the past, real or fake, Cristina took the left side while Callie took the right side. There were 5 people total that were right by the entrance. There were 2 men on Cristina's side and 2 men and a woman on Callie's side. The 5 of them were blinded by the flash bang and the two women were able to shoot and kill them before they could even realize that their enemy had just entered the submarine.
Once the Cristina and Callie fired the first shot they both gave a winch of pain when their gunshot rang out loudly throughout the submarine. The one thing they forgot to do when they were on the USS Tuna, put on their silencers. There was Russian yelling, which caused Callie and Cristina to take cover when other Russian sailors entered the hallway firing blindly.
Cristina peaked her head out to see how many people had entered the hallway, but she couldn't get a head count because they started shooting in her direction when they saw her. When this happened Callie decided to use this opportunity to her advantage. For a brief second she emerged from the doorway that she was hiding behind and shot and killed two sailors that were standing in plan view before she abandoned her doorway and slid to another one.
The remaining 4 sailors started to fire at Callie's old doorway making it Cristina's turn to emerge from her doorway. When she emerged from the doorway she had successfully shot and killed one sailor, and wounded another before she followed Callie's lead and chose another hiding spot. The wounded sailor fell to the ground exposing himself to Callie, she took a second to line up her shot before she finished Cristina's job.
Callie raised her head to see were the remaining sailors were, but when she lifted to head to see, four gunshots were fired from behind her killing the remaining sailors. It was Teddy and Jackson as they entered the submarine.
Once everyone was in the submarine they stayed close together and cleared each room along their path to main control station on the submarine. At the moment the rooms were empty, even through the US was fighting blind with no communication they were still putting up one hell of a fight. Most of the personal on the surrounding ships and submarines found themselves forced to go to the shore, making most of the ships around them have a skeleton crew.
Bravo made it to the door that led to the main control room for the submarine. The door was too thick for them to use a snake cam to see how many enemies were on the other side. So Teddy sent her sharp shooters first which were Callie and April. Rainbow was the best at everything they did, which is why they chose the people that they did to be a part of the task force. When it came to shooting Callie, April, Addison and Meredith were the best, which is why they were always the snipers when they were needed. Since Lexie needed the computer system to take over the submarine and use it against the enemy the computers could not be damaged which meant that Callie and April had to clear out the room.
This time it was Callie who opened the door and April entered the room gun drawn. She turned to her right and immediately took out two men who were standing in front of her. April was able to enter the room unnoticed but when she shot the two sailors she got the attention of the 5 people in the room. Callie was able to take out the 2 people that were on her side, which only left three people in the room. There was a man at the fair end of the room who was tangled in his chair and couldn't get down in time before he was shot by April. Callie and April were in the middle of the room still standing making no effort to hide. There was a man on the on the right side room, from April's angle she could not see the man, but Callie could and without hesitation she took the shot. The room was silent as they listened and looked for the remaining man. Somehow he managed to get by them and was sneaking towards the door where the women had just came from. Unfortunately he ran into Cristina who took him out immediately. When Callie and April cleared the room the others on Bravo team joined them.
Lexie immediately made her way to the main computer system, she started to play the system for a few minutes while Bravo kept looked out, just in case they didn't fully kill anybody that was in their path or if they missed someone that was hiding in one of the rooms they thought they cleared.
"Oh God," Lexie said as she broke the silence that was in the room.
"What?" Teddy questioned as she walked over to Lexie.
"I don't know if this was Dixon's doing, but they have a large scale EMP device on this submarine." Lexie said as she moved her gaze over from the screen to Teddy.
"How many do they have?" Teddy questioned.
"At them moment, just one."
"At the moment?" Cristina jumped in.
"There are other subs and ships around us, I don't know if there are more on the others." Lexie said.
"If they have this EMP why didn't they just use it on us?" April questioned.
"I think it's pretty safe to say that they are beating us right now. There is no need to use it yet, but I think its safe to say that if things go wrong they will probably use it against us."
"Well we control it now, can we use it against them?" Teddy questioned.
"I could, but it will kill everything that is in a 2 mile radius of the submarine. That includes our Air Force pilots." Lexie paused, "I need to alert to people before I launch this thing."
The room was silent before voices started to fill their heads.
"Alpha team, we have communication again."
"Thank God!"
"Great work Rainbow, return to base, we might have another mission for you."
"Alright, lets move Alpha. There are too many of them and we will waste our ammo trying to take them out."
"Arizona and others stopped the jammer," Jackson was the first to state the obvious.
"Okay," Lexie said under breath as she grabbed the radio. After a series of clicks she changed the frequency to 123.0500, which was the universal frequency that everyone in the U.S military used. "Active Air Force pilots flying over or around the Scinfaxi this is TWACS Thunderhead, you have exactly 2 minutes to climb to an altitude of 11,000 ft or you will be blown out of sky." Lexie said over the radio.
"Copy that, Thunderhead." Was repeated several times before Lexie pushed the button to launch the missile.
"This TWACS Thunderhead, the missile has been launched. If you haven't started your climb do it now." Lexie demanded.
Lexie, along with Teddy and Cristina watched on the radar as the missile launched itself into position. "TWACS Thunderhead, the missile will hit in 10…9…8…" Lexie counted down until zero. There was a huge flash and all surrounding enemy submarines, and ships lost their communication and their planes fell from the sky. Now that the roles were reversed the enemy couldn't handle it.
"They're retreating!" someone said over the radio.
"About damn time!" came the response on the radio.
"I found a motorized raft," Callie said as she reentered the room.
"Okay, let's get out of here Bravo." Teddy said as she walked over to Callie, "Yang and Avery you know what do."
As Bravo made their way to the raft, Jackson and Cristina lined the submarine with C4 so that the enemy could not reuse it on them again at a later date. Jackson and Cristina were a few minutes behind the others before they got onto the raft. They waited until they 3 miles away from the submarine before they pulled the trigger and blew up the submarine and several ships that were around it.
It took Bravo another 50 minutes to make it back to base. When they walked in they were expecting to see Alpha already there going over another mission or getting ready to back to the London, but they were greeted with more chaos as other members of the military set out to do rescue missions for anyone lucky enough to survive.
"Ma'am," Teddy stopped General Grey as she was walking back to her make shift office. "Where is Alpha Team?"
General Grey paused for a moment; "infirmary" was her only response.
When Teddy turned around she noticed that her team was already down the hall making their way to the infirmary.
Arizona was laying on her back in one of the beds. She let out a low groan before she slowly opened her eyes. She was greeted with the face of a young girl with blonde hair and green eyes. Her vision was still a little blurry, which made it harder for the to make out the rest of her features. She watched as the women's hand came into view and was heading straight for her face. Arizona closed her eyes briefly before she swatted the hand away from her face.
"Arizona, stop. She's trying to help you." A voice said from her left side. Arizona let out another groan before she slowly turned her head to the left to see who else was with her, but before could complete the turn she passed out again.
When Arizona opened her eyes again she was greeted by the memory of what happened a few minutes before their rescue. When the tower fell to ground it knocked a few of her teammates out, Arizona being one of them. When she opened her eyes her head was on fire and there was a continuous ringing in her ears. She tried to standup on her own but she only fell over when she hands left the ground. Breathing heavily she looked around to see Owen on his knees shooting upwards along with Alex, Addison, Brian and Drew. Upon closer inspection Arizona noticed that the tower that they were in created a small crater that currently Alpha team was occupying, and the enemy had them surrounded.
Once again Arizona stood up on her own two feet before she raised her gun and started to fire back. Together the five of them shot back while Bailey took care of Meredith, and while Kevin and Mark were still unconscious on the ground. Arizona was in the middle of changing her clip when she received a bullet to the top part of her helmet, which knocked her out almost immediately.
It was three hours later when Arizona woke up again, only this time she was in the somewhat safety of their make shift central command. The ringing in her ears had stopped and her headache wasn't as bad as before. She felt something tight around her forehead, which caused her raise her hand and touch the bandage around her head. Arizona only sighed to herself as she lifted herself up to sit up straight in the bed.
"What are you doing?" Callie said from the chair that was in the left corner of the room, which was out of Arizona's vision at the time.
"I'm trying to sit up," Arizona responded without looking over to her left. "What happened?"
"What happened was we successfully completed our missions, but before we could take over of the Scinfaxi it fired a missile at the bank tower while you guys were still in it. You guys fell over 600 feet to ground, and you General Robbins got shot in the head, luckily your helmet stayed on during the fall. Now lay back down, you need your rest."
"No," Arizona whispered as she swung her legs over the side of the bed. "We need to find and stop Dixon before another event like this happens again, and that possibility grows every second I spend doing nothing."
"Lay down!" Callie raised her voice leaving no room for argument.
"Not this time, Torres" Teddy said as she walked into the room. "Don't get me wrong I love that fact that you can put her in her place, but she's right. Dixon has proved that she is a force to be reckoned with, and Henry found her. He thinks Dixon might be selling Return to Sender to Russia, which if that happens we will be royally fucked. Can you walk?"
"Yeah," Arizona slid out of the bed and took two wobbly steps at first before she started to get the hang of walking again.
"Alright then, next stop for Rainbow is Portugal." Teddy said as the three of them made their way to the airstrip.
Several miles outside of the city of Odeceixe in Portugal was the Vicentine Coast Natural Park. Right off the coast stood a two-story cabin, which was surrounded by trees until you reached the back of the cabin. There you would find a small 100-foot drop to the North Atlantic Ocean. Inside of the beautiful cabin on this property was the current prime minister of Russia, Dmitri Cherlin.
Dmitri was in the late 40's early 50's making him one of the youngest prime minister's in Russian history. He stood just under 6 feet tall at 5'11; he had a round face with a square jaw and a little stubble around his face. He had grey eyes and medium dark brown hair. He was wearing a black suit with a matching tie and a white dress shirt underneath.
"Miss Dixon," Dmitri said with a heavy Russian accent. Dmitri stepped into the living with his own personal bodyguards. He gave Dixon a small grin before he shook her hand. Once the handshake was over he unbutton his suit jacket and took a seat on the couch. "I've been told that you have something that might interest me."
"I do," Dixon took a seat on the couch as well. The room as well as the house perimeter of the house was surrounded by Dixon's men. Dixon was wearing a black pin stripe women's pant suit, with her hair flowing down to her shoulders. When she sat down she reached under the coffee table and pulled out a metal suitcase and placed it on top of the table. "Inside this suitcase is something that will help you destroy the Americans, but it comes at a price."
"What is it and how much are you offering?"
"It's a satellite called Return to Sender." Dixon paused for a moment. "Think about it, you the Russians, can send missile after missile after missile to the United States and they will be able to do nothing about it. Because when they send their missile to you, all you have to do is push a button and that missile will go right back to where it came it from. You could be the first country to put America in its place."
Dmitri took 10 long minutes to think about his situation. So Dixon decided to give him a few words of encouragement. "If you don't take it I know General Grey will." Dixon gave him a small smile when Dmitri's head snapped over to her.
"You just said that you wanted to put America in its place."
"No, I said you could be the first country to put America in its place. At the end of the day I'm an entrepreneur, and I will give this piece of technology to the highest bidder. It could be you, it could be America, it could be China, hell it could be England. If someone will give me my money, this lovely piece of equipment will be theirs."
Dmitri didn't want to give the U.S a big upper hand in this war so he jumped at the opportunity. "How much?"
"Now that is what I like to hear," Dixon's smile grew wider. "2 billion dollars, American."
"I can't give you that, it's too expensive. I'm sorry." Dmitri shook his head.
"Ok don't act defeated just yet. I have another proposition for you, a trade. I'll give you Return to Sender, if you give me your launch codes for your nuclear missiles."
"I don't-"
"Let me finish," Dixon cutoff. "In my line of work, I have been double crossed one too many times. I won't use the codes on you or anybody else, the codes will act as a reminder to you to leave me alone when the times comes for us to go our separate ways. I want to make sure that when I go to my private island you won't be sending a missile my way."
Dmitri took another 10 minutes to think about his situation again; only this time Dixon let him take his time about the decision. Dmitri didn't say anything, but when he made up his mind he looked at the doorway to one of his men. The man left the room and went outside to the car and got a small leather briefcase and bought it inside. He set the briefcase in front of Dmitri on the coffee table before he returned to his original spot by the doorway.
Dmitri opened the briefcase and took a green folder, "the launch codes." He said as he had the folder over to Dixon.
Dixon took the folder and handed it to one of her men. He left the room and went into the kitchen. Once he was in the kitchen he opened the laptop that was on the table and proceed to check the list to make sure that the codes were correct.
"People have the tendency to be greedy." Dixon said with a smile when Dmitri gave her a puzzling look.
It took the man 20 minutes to double check the list, "it's the right list." The man said as he re entered the room only this time he was empty handed. The folder was nowhere in sight.
"Well Dmitri," Dixon stood and Dmitri followed her lead. She extended an arm and shook the man's hand again. "You might not be greedy, but I am." Dixon took her Colt M1911 pistol and shot Dmitri in the head, and her guards took out the rest of his men before they could even register what had happened.
Dixon checked the room making sure that Dmitri and his men were dead. When Dixon made it to the front of the room she was greeted by one of her own men who looked like he just shit his pants. "Something wrong, Jonathan?" Dixon took a step closer to the young man who looked no more than 25 with short light brown hair and tan skin.
"Yeah, you just killed the prime minster of Russia. You just killed us all." Jonathan said.
"One I didn't kill the prime minster, I killed his body double. Who had the real launch codes, which fascinates me. Two killing him and getting the launch codes was always apart of plan to watch the world destroy itself, and three." Dixon took out her pistol and shot Jonathan in the head. "Who else wants to question my power of authority?" Dixon turn around to address the others in the room, and was greeted by silence and her men shaking their heads no. "Good, now lets go get the launch codes from the U.S, England and China so we can sit back and watch everyone kill each other." Dixon said as she left cabin, she was about to step in her Tahoe before she stopped in her tracks and turned around to face her house.
"Something wrong, ma'am?" one of her guards said.
"My main enemy either already knows about this place or will know about this place. Let's leave them a surprise." Dixon said with a smile as she stepped back inside the house.
Dun Dun Dun... Iamnotapotatoe: What can I say, I love my cliffhangers ;)