Chapter Eight
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war." – Napoleon Bonaparte
Once Arizona was cleared to leave by the doctors, Rainbow made their way back to Las Vegas were they got back on board their C-130 and flew to Portugal with addition of Arizona's little brother, Tim and the rest of Delta Team.
It had been a long few days for Rainbow ever since they started their first mission in South America they had been running around nonstop trying find and stop Dixon, but she was proving to be at least two steps ahead of them every step of the way.
The time they spent in the air was used to recharge and ready themselves for what might lie ahead. They spent the time in the air eating MRE's, changing and cleaning their weapons along with getting maybe one or two hours of sleep.
It was another 15 hours before Rainbow touched down at Faro international airport, once they touched down alpha team and bravo team got into the two Blackhawks that were waiting for them as they made their way over to Vicentine Coast Natural Park. The helicopter ride was a shorter than their plane ride, it was only 30 minutes before Derek and Ben touched down in a small clearing in the park.
Both teams stepped out of their helicopters and gathered around Arizona and Teddy. "Alright guys; Dixon's cabin is 2 klicks to our west." Arizona said while she looked down at her GPS on her sleeve.
They spent the short hike blending in with the background, while quietly and slowly surrounding her cabin. When both teams finally arrived at the cabin, they completely surrounded it the best they could. The fact that the back part of the house had cliff for its backyard made it both hard and easy for the team. Both Arizona and Teddy noted that there were still several black Tahoe's parked outside, making them question if Dixon was still in fact inside the cabin.
Addison was facing the front of the house along with Arizona and Alex. She was the first to switch to thermo vision and check out the house. "I'm picking up several heat signatures, there are differently people inside." Addison said as she lifted her head up from the scope.
"I'm getting the same thing too," Meredith confirmed. Meredith was on the left side of the house right next to the cliff with Cristina and Mark on her right side.
A few seconds after Meredith spoke April was the last of the snipers to back up Addison. April found herself across from Meredith on the right side of the house next to the cliff. Teddy and Callie were on the left side of April.
While Addison, Meredith and April checked out the inside of the cabin the best they could, Teddy was checking out the back part of the cabin. Seeing how she could use it to her advantage.
"There's a small hidden blind spot on the back patio that Yang and I can use, Arizona. I'm thinking that Yang and I along with Alex and you can flush them out while everyone else takes care them." Teddy said over the radio.
It took Arizona a few seconds to respond as she tried to come with a plan so she and Alex could make it to the front door without being seen. Once she had finally chosen her path was when she responded to Teddy, "sounds like a plan." Arizona said before she looked over to Alex, "Karev," she nodded.
Once their plan was confirmed the four of them made their way to their spots by the cabin. With Addison, Meredith, and April still using their thermo scope, Henry was able to see everything that the girls were seeing thanks to a camera that he designed during the teams down time between their mission in South Africa to the start of what CNN and other news stations were calling, World War 3. He was able to see the bodies inside the house and then some. Along with seeing the bodies he was able to pick up heat signatures that were inside and outside of the cabin.
He was sitting in Central Command with Marshal Webber just letting Rainbow do what they do best. As he scanned the three different screens in front him, it wasn't until he looked at Addison's screen in the top left corner when he noticed several things that were wrong.
First when Addison scanned the front of the house both Arizona and Alex's body came into the view on the screen. The outside air was at a nice 77 degrees, and when Arizona and Alex came into the screen they were registered at the 81 degrees, they were still a little warm from their hike to the cabin. Henry zoomed in on Addison's screen. The more he looked at it the more he noticed that his camera wasn't picking up on the heat signatures inside the cabin. Then it dawned on him that the whole time that he had been looking at the screen, nobody inside the cabin moved.
The people that were sitting down didn't move an inch and the few people that were standing up didn't move as well. Henry could understand little to no movement from the people sitting on the couch, but it was something different for the people that were standing up to not be moving. Standing for that long would cause for them to shift their weight just a little bit, which didn't happen.
"Their walking into a trap," Henry said under his breath.
"Hm," Marshal Webber said as he turned to face Henry.
"Their walking into a trap," Henry repeated. "Those bodies inside aren't alive, and knowing Dixon there has to be a trap in there somewhere."
Henry reached for his radio and put it in his ear, "Arizona, Teddy get away from the house! It's a trap!" Henry all but yelled into the radio. Both Henry and Webber were quiet waiting for the one of the two generals to respond, but they got no response so he tried again with the same result.
"Dixon's jamming our signal," Henry sighed.
"If she's jamming their signal, they'll figure it out and abort the mission." Webber said with a somewhat uneasy voice when he saw Henry shaking his head.
"After the situation with Reed, Dixon and I became fascinated on how she could control who to block when it came to communication. We worked around the clock to figure it out, and looks like she figured it out and didn't tell me."
"Is there another way to warn them?" Webber asked.
Henry sighed and began to the study the screen of the all three cameras. His face lit up when Addison paned to the left showing him the line of the Chevy Tahoe's. "There might be away to warn them." Henry zoomed in on the one of the Tahoe's and wrote the down the license plate number before opening up another computer screen.
Henry was typing and clicking furiously, while Webber looked at the large screen in front of him as the schematics of a Chevy Tahoe popped up. Webber was just standing there stunned as he watched Henry hack into the cars GPS system so he could use the cars computer to his advantage.
Arizona and Alex had just made to the front door. Alex was on the left side of the door, while Arizona was on the right side. At the back of the house Teddy and Cristina were in their hiding place waiting for Arizona to lead them in the countdown so they can storm the house.
"Are you guys in position?" Arizona asked over the radio.
"Yes ma'am," Teddy responded.
"On my count," Arizona said as she readied her gun. "5…4…3…2…"
Arizona's mouth was in the shape of 1 and it was about to leave her lips when the alarm system for one of the Chevy Tahoe's went off. Arizona and Alex's head snapped behind them and their guns were raised expecting someone to come out of the car and start shooting at them, giving away their position.
Arizona was the first of the two to drop her weapon and tilt her head to the side as she just stared at the Tahoe, but it was Alex who pieced what the Tahoe was trying to say.
"Three short, three long, three short," Alex paused to think for a moment. "Is that Tahoe signaling SOS?"
Arizona went from looking at the car to looking at the house. The car was signaling SOS and she was willing to put money down that it was Henry. The car had been going off for well over 2 minutes now and nobody came out of the house to investigate the car. "It's a trap," Arizona started to say in a whisper. "Get away from the house Teddy! It's a trap!" Arizona yelled as the four them ran away from the cabin.
Arizona, Alex, Teddy and Cristina were no more than 10 feet away from the cabin when it exploded. The explosion was so large it engulfed the whole house and took out anything that was in a five-foot radius of it. Alex and Arizona were far enough away from it to only feel the heat from the fire. They were both breathless just looking at the fiery mess the cabin left behind. "Yang, Altman, Are you guys alright?"
"Yeah," was the only thing that Teddy said in response.
Once they realized that they were still alone the various members of the Rainbow emerged from their hiding spots.
"It's pretty safe to say that we don't have communication with Central Command back in London." Arizona said with a heavy voice. She had spent four nonstop days fighting with Dixon, and every step of the fight Arizona was 2 steps behind and it was starting to take its toll on the general.
Rainbow spent the next 15 minutes going through the debris looking for something that could tell them what Dixon was up to, or if they were lucky where she was. Arizona was at the cliff looking down at the water before she turned around with a sigh. She was about to tell Rainbow to call it quits because if something was truly there they would have found it by now, but Kevin opened his mouth before she could open hers.
"General Robbins, I found something." Kevin was standing next to a now beat up Chevy Tahoe. The driver side door was open and so was the door that was right behind the driver side. Kevin had his back towards the car and he had a tablet in his hands.
"I found this tablet sitting in backseat of the car. It's the cause behind our jamming problem." Kevin was still playing with tablet as he talked.
"Can you stop it?" Arizona asked.
Kevin just shook his head no, "I have never seen anything like this before. The computer language that it is written in is completely foreign to me."
Arizona let out another sigh of defeat, and this time she was joined by Teddy, Cristina and Alex. Cristina was standing right next Kevin looking down at the tablet and just watched as Kevin continued to play with it.
"Wait, what's that?" Cristina pointed down at a small icon on the screen.
"Let's find out," Kevin said as he pushed on the icon.
The screen when black for a second before it opened up what looked like Dixon's email. "I think we are inside her email," even Kevin had to question the statement as it left his mouth.
Kevin and Cristina spent a few minutes looking at the tablet, before Cristina pointed out something that Kevin had missed again. Like before Kevin pressed the letter to open it and together he and Cristina read the email in a somewhat shocked state.
"Dixon's ordered over 20 tons of Strontium 90, Cobalt 60 and trinitrotoluene." Cristina said finally looking up from the tablet.
"Those are the components for a dirty bomb." Teddy said as she turned to look over to Arizona.
"Yeah, she is having it sent to…" Both Kevin and Cristina's face contorted when they tried to pronounce the name of the place.
"This place," Cristina took the tablet from the Kevin's hands and faced it towards Teddy, Arizona and Alex. "Hochst, it's an industrial park in Frankfurt Germany. They house over 90 companies on that propriety. Some are pharmaceutical and some are chemical. Ordering these chemicals to this place won't raise any red flags." Alex said as he took a closer look at the tablet.
The five of them sat in silence just thinking until Teddy finally broke the silence. "What's on your mind, Chief? Your usually all gun hoe and like 'let's go to Germany, Rainbow' " Teddy looked over to a still thinking Arizona.
"This doesn't feel right. A tablet left in plain view; with an email that isn't password protected pretty much handing Dixon to us on a silver platter doesn't seem right. I think she is setting us up for another ambush."
Teddy took a minute to think about what Arizona said. "I think for the first ever, I'm okay with walking into an ambush. I know everyone here on this team would sleep better at night if they had to fight their way out of ambush instead of not checking on the place that could be building something that could hurt millions." Teddy paused for a moment, "she has over 20 tons of chemicals that could kill millions of people, and we know she is not afraid to use them. What's the worst that could happen to us? We have to shoot our way out of there? Not like we haven't done that millions of times. We should go."
Arizona lightly shook her head agreeing with Teddy. "Alright, Rainbow it looks like we are going to Germany." Arizona said as she turned around to walk back to their helicopters.
Now that Rainbow was back on the stomping ground the flight's between places were only taking 1 to 2 hours max, which is something they were starting to enjoy. The fact that they had been working for 4 long days was starting to take a toll on them. Arizona knew that she still had 2 more full days before their performance started to the go down. She hoped that Dixon would be there so they could finally put an end to her reign of terror.
They were able to touch down in Germany and make their way to Frankfurt unnoticed, at least in their eyes. Only time would tell if they had been seen or not, when they made it Hochst.
Rainbow was in the shadows just outside of the gate on the west side of the park. "I have good news, Rainbow." Webber said before Arizona could up with a game plan. "Because this place is so big we have more back up. We have the German, French, English as well as US military waiting for my word. When you can confirm that the dirty bomb or bombs are in your possession, I will send in back up to take care of the rest."
"Okay, this place is pretty big and they probably out number us by a lot." Arizona said as she turned around to face her team. "We won't be able to quietly shoot our way through this place, so without killing anyone we have to find that bomb, and quick. With that being said not everyone is going into that park with me. It's only going to be myself, Alex, Addison, Tim and Nick who are going with me in that park."
The four of them took a step closer and joined Arizona's side. "Take off your vests, jackets and helmets. Leave your primary weapons here. If you have to kill somebody use your knife, secondary weapons are only for emergencies." Once they did as they were told the five of the snuck into the industrial park.
"Alright guys, I have some good news and some bad news." Henry said over the radio. "The bad news is you want to stop the 20 eighteen wheelers that are on the other side park, which is about 37 miles away." Henry paused of a second. "The good news is I used the CCTV's in the park and have mapped out a route for you to take with the least amount of people."
Once Arizona and the others got into position Henry spent the next 30 minutes guiding them through the park. Since their vest, jackets and helmets were off it made it easier for them to move around hide. On the way Germany Rainbow changed into black cargo pants, tight black short sleeve shirts with a black jacket. They also had black vests, black helmets and goggles. It was going on 1 o'clock in the morning; expect for the lights that were scattered throughout the park it was pitch black and hard for anyone to see Arizona and her team.
Finally after a slow and painful 30 minutes Arizona was finally able to get a visual on the trucks. She and other were hiding along the outside wall of one of the empty warehouses, "we can see the trucks, Henry. Looks like we made it just in time. Arizona said in her radio.
Arizona and the others watched as the men carefully loaded the trucks with barrel after barrel of what they could only assume was Dixon's dirty bomb. They waited patiently as the men loaded all 20 trucks before they got into a van and drove away leaving the trucks alone and unattended. "Alex," Arizona whispered.
Alex didn't need to look over to Arizona to know what she was asking. Alex and Arizona remained in the shadows as they made their way over to one of the trucks, while Addison, Nick and Tim just stayed where they were.
Arizona picked the lock to the last 18-wheeler and opened the back door and stepped foot in the truck. When she opened the door she and Alex were greeted with over 40 barrels strapped to the inside of the truck. "Webber, we have the trucks." For the first time in over four days Arizona gave a sigh of relief, she finally won a battle against Dixon. It might have been a small one to some people, but Arizona didn't care. She still won.
Once Arizona confirmed that she had the dirty bombs, Webber, gave the order to the other troops that were waiting outside of the park. Within seconds several helicopters hovered over the industrial park, and soldiers fled on to the property in every direction. The people that were working in the park, whether they were good or bad, threw their hands in the air instantly surrendering because they knew they didn't stand a chance.
As Arizona watched the scene unfold in front her she got a feeling in the pit of her stomach, which caused her turn back around and face the inside of the truck. She walked over to one of the barrels and with her knife she carefully opened one of the barrels. "No," Arizona said to herself as she walked over to another barrel on the other side of the truck. She opened it, empty. "Fucking bitch," Arizona whispered to herself as she continued to check the barrels in the truck. "Addison, Alex, Tim and Nick check the other trucks, now!" Arizona yelled.
The next fifteen minutes the five of them checked the trucks, and just like the first one they got the same results. Every barrel was empty. Arizona and the others were now standing in the first truck in the line of 20 when the other members of Rainbow found them.
"What's wrong, Robbins" Teddy was the first address the upset general. She knew full well that Arizona was getting ready to yell and go off on someone, but nobody wanted to be that person. Even though Tim and his Delta team were new, they could see that Arizona wasn't one you crossed when she was upset.
"What's wrong? Every single truck is fucking empty!" Arizona yelled as she kicked a barrel over that was in front of her.
Tim and Nick had always been there for Arizona when she upset, and they knew better than anyone there how to calm her down. They were about to step into the truck to talk to her, but Callie beat them to it.
"Hey," Callie whispers as she put hands and on both sides of Arizona's arms.
"Don't," Arizona started, "don't tell me to calm down, and that we didn't waste valuable time because we did. There is nothing here, and Dixon is somewhere watching on a computer screen laughing at me. So don't." Arizona snapped.
"Look, at one point Dixon was here, and just like before she probably left something behind to tell us where she is or where she's going." Callie said as she looked around. "Look around you. Dixon went through a lot of trouble making sure that the details of these decoys were perfect, which means she has the real thing we just have to find them before she can use them. Okay?"
"Okay," Arizona whispered back as she slowly started to calm down.
Tim and Nick just stood there with perplex looks on their faces as they watched how close Arizona and Callie got.
"If I didn't know any better I would think that Arizona is sleeping with Callie." Nick leaned over and whispered in Tim's ear.
Tim just gave a small chuckle before he shook his head. "Married and has a woman on the side. I told you. The Robbins trait lives in us all, and you owe me 200 bucks asshole."
Nick just sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Henry, can you find Dixon's trucks?" Arizona asked over the radio. "We need to find them before they make it to their destinations.
"I'm working on it," Henry replied.
5000 miles away in a small city in China sat Dixon with her small group of bodyguards and the president of China, Xi Zhang.
"I don't know why you want to talk to me because my answer is still the same as last week, which is no." Xi's accent was thick, almost too thick for Dixon and the others to make out.
Dixon gave the man a sly smile. "Well I thought I would ask politely one more time. Now I will just have to take from you while teaching you lesson."
"There is no way you will be able to steal the Chinese nuclear launch codes from us. It is hidden secretly in the city of Beijing. Only I and two other people know where they are."
Dixon just smiled at the man again before she felt her phone buzz. She took the phone out of her back pocket to see that she got a text message from her number 2 in command, Eric.
'Found the codes, changing the passwords as we speak.'
'Good,' Dixon sent back. She closed her phone and put it back in her pocket before she looked back over to Xi. "You want to know what makes me so powerful. I single handedly started the fight between Russia and U.S, and I have the power to make everyone on the planet hate you and your country. Do you really want to tempt me?"
Xi just laughed in Dixon's face. "What could you possibly do to make the U.S and Russia stop fighting each other and come after me?" Xi paused to laugh some more, "Nothing."
"That's what you think. See I have man in France at the Corlier Aerodrome waiting for my phone call. If I don't call him in the next five minutes he will ship out over 300 barrels of dirty bombs to every major city on this planet. Tomorrow afternoon they will simultaneously go off, then after a day of reconstructing the bomb they will find that everything is in Chinese and that the drivers of the trucks were Chinese as well causing everyone to point their finger at you."
Xi stopped laughing when he saw the seriousness of Dixon's face. "You wouldn't dare."
"I would. I'm the one who killed most of the people in the Domodedovo massacre and then killed one of my own to make it look like the Americans did it. You don't have worry though because I don't plan using the dirty bombs in China. I'll let Russia and every other will take care of killing you for me." Dixon stood up and straightened her suit jacket before she started to walk towards the door.
"Wait," Xi jumped and reached for her arm causing her to turn around. "Can't we negotiate something here?"
"I have nothing to negotiate; I already got what I wanted from you." Dixon said with a smile as she took back her arm.
"You don't have Chinese nuclear launch codes."
Dixon just took out her phone and showed her the last text from Eric.
'Done'
Xi just stumbled back in shock.
"You might want to round up the troops and protect your boarders. You're going to have a lot of pissed of countries coming for you this time tomorrow." Dixon re fixed her jacket again, "maybe next time, if there is one for you, you'll do as I say. Now if you would excuse me I need to get to England before the bombs go off if I want to kidnap the Prime Minster of England without any problems."
That was the last thing Dixon said before she left the room and made her way to the airport to fly to the England.
A/N: If you don't want to read about another terrorist attack then this is where the chapter ends for you. Just like before you don't need to read it to understand what is going on. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. This is the last terrorist attack I have for this story I promise.
"Come on, let's go!" Miata yelled as she ran down Av. Pierre Loti. "We're going to be late, and lose our reservations and I have been dying to eat at 58 Tour Eiffel."
Miata's father was walking at his normal pace smiling as he took in the sights that Paris had to offer. The man was 6'5 so his strides were long enough to keep up with his eldest daughter, who was 6'2. Now Miata's mother on the other hand wasn't that tall. She only stood at 5'5, and if they would been in Paris 7 years ago right when her daughters hit their growth spurts, she would have been running just keep up with them because her walking strides were only half of theirs. But after years of practice she knew that as long as she could see her family she was walking at an okay pace.
But Miata's mother and father weren't the ones that were holding her back; it was her little sister, Tia. While Miata was running towards 58 Tour Eiffel, Tia stopped at one of the many food stands along the way to get a snack.
Miata and her parents had just crossed Av. Gustave Eiffel and were standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. Mary and Luther were being tourist, taking pictures and looking around, while Miata stared at the road that she had ran down, looking for her little sister. A few minutes later while walking down the path with a gyro in her hand was her little sister.
"Are you serious?" Miata yelled.
"What?" Tia said with a stuffed face as she just shrugged at her older sister. Tia paused for a moment to let a white business truck pass by. Neither Tia nor Miata paid attention to the truck as it pulled up to entrance in front a restaurant, Le Jules Verne.
Miata marched up her sister as she finished crossing the street. She didn't say anything to her expect Miata raised her hand and slapped the gyro out of the Tia's hand.
"I was going to eat that, asshole" Tia said as she bent down to pick up the mess.
"We are about to go to lunch at the Eiffel Tower, you don't need to be eating a gyro right now." Miata scolded.
"It was my appetizer."
"You can get appetizer at the restaurant," Miata said in a monotone voice.
Tia stopped to think for a second, "It's an appetizer before the appetizer." Tia gave a sly grin.
"You're ruining this trip for me." Miata said.
"This isn't even your trip." Tia snapped at her older sister. "Mom and Dad wanted to take me to Europe for graduating college. I didn't mope around and play the guilt card when they took you to Australia when you graduated. I stayed away from the trip because I knew your OCD and need to control everything would ruin that trip."
"Fine," Miata huffed. "When we go to Rome tomorrow I'll let you plan everything." Without saying another word Miata turned her back away from Tia and started to walk towards the entrance of the Eiffel Tower.
Tia just rolled her and started to follow her older sister inside the restaurant. The two young ladies only took about two steps when the truck that had passed them by earlier exploded. The flames engulfed Tia and Miata along with several other people in and around the restaurant.
When Mary and Luther saw the explosion they ran to where their daughters had been standing. The more they moved and the closer they got to the blast sight they realized how hard it was for them to breath. They weren't even close to where their daughters had been standing when they both collapsed to the ground and passed out from the fumes in the air.