Freelancer Ops
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Chapter six: Three times Tex nearly dies
Wash's P.O.V
It was about midnight and I had decided to walk around the ship again.
I was walking past the changing room when I heard someone throwing up in the bathroom.
Just as I was about to carry on walking, I heard footsteps coming out of the bathroom. I turned to see Tex leaving the toilets. She didn't look good. Her skin was pale, her black hair was dishevelled and she was sweating profusely.
"Tex, are you alright?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she replied.
"You sure? You look worse than you do after a night of drinking," I said.
"I'm… I'm… I…" She never got to finish, because the next thing I know she is falling to the ground. I catch her just before she hits the floor. I try to lift her up, but with her being in her armour she was too heavy for me to lift on my own, so I just laid her down carefully and decided to call for help.
"Maine, you there? I need some help," I asked.
I hear a grunt over my radio.
"What do you want?" Sigma translated.
"Tex collapsed in the changing and I need help getting her to the medical wing, so can you help me? I asked.
There was another grunt over the radio.
"I'll be there in a minute," Sigma translated.
I looked down at Tex and saw she was getting visibly worse.
"Just hold on," I whisper.
Maine's P.O.V
"What's going on Maine?" North asked whilst yawning.
I grunted.
"Tex has collapsed and Wash needs me to help him move her to the medical wing," Sigma translated for me.
"I'll come as well, just to make sure you don't run into any unwanted people on the ship," North said.
"Alright," Sigma said, translating another grunt for me.
David's P.O.V
I was walking around the Obama, when I saw Wash crouched over something in the changing room.
"Wash? What's going on?" I asked.
"It's Tex, she collapsed," He said, "I'm waiting for Maine to come and help me move her to the medical wing."
As he said that, Maine and North came around the corner.
"Maine, help me lift her," Wash ordered.
Maine walked over and helped him lift her up. They headed to the medical wing where the doctors looked at her.
"She hasn't got a pulse, get me a defibrillator," a doctor ordered.
When Wash realised what was happening, he fainted. Me and North caught him and we dragged him out the medical wing with Maine following. We sat him in a chair in the corridor.
Just then, the rest of the Freelancers showed up.
"What happened?" Carolina asked.
"Tex collapsed and didn't have a pulse and the doctors are trying to revive her as we speak.
"I'm going to assume he passed out when the doctors said Tex didn't have a pulse," South said.
"Yep," I said.
Just then a doctor came out and walked up to us.
"We were able to revive your friend and give her the antidote," the doctor said.
"What do you mean by antidote?" Wash asked suddenly waking up.
"There was poison in her bloodstream, quite close to her heart actually," the doctor said.
"Oh fuck," Wash said.
"What is it Wash?" I asked.
"When you sent us to take out that snipe," he started, "a merc jumped us and sliced Tex on the arm, the knife must have been laced with poison."
"Well anyway, to give the antidote time to act, we had to put her into a medically induced coma with the poison so deadly and so close to her heart," the doctor said.
And with that the doctor went back into the medical wing.
Everyone started heading back except Wash. I left as well sensing he wanted to be left alone.
Wash's P.O.V
'How could I have been so stupid?' I thought, 'I could tell she wasn't feeling very well when we got off the VTOL earlier.' I had taken off my helmet and was running a hand through my short blond hair.
"Hey there," I hear a voice say and I look to my right to see Crosby walking up to me.
"You're Agent Washington, right?" he asked.
"Yeah," I reply.
"Crosby," he says, holding his right hand out. I shook it.
He sits in the seat next to me.
"What can I do for you Corby?" I asked.
"I was just wondering why you look so glum?" he asked.
"It's just someone on my team isn't well at the moment," I reply.
"I heard all the commotion earlier," Crosby said.
"You did?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm sorry for what happened to her," Crosby said.
"I am too," I said.
"I better get back on patrol or Briggs will tear me a new one," Crosby said standing up from his chair.
"See you later," I said.
"Yeah, I'll see you again sometime," Crosby said.
He left and a doctor came out the medical wing and walked over to me.
"You can come and see her if you want," the doctor said.
I stood up and walked into the medical wing.
She was in the same room I was when I was in here.
I walked into her room and saw she was still very pale.
I walked up to her bed and sat on the chair next to her bed. I swept some of her hair out of her face. She looked so peaceful. Not like she usually, she usually looked like she could kill you just by staring at you.
At one point I was looking at her and the next thing I know I was being shook awake by North with my head lying on her bed.
"What?" I asked.
"David needs us at the briefing room," he replied.
"Alright, just give me a minute to fully wake up," he replied.
I got up out of the chair and looked back at Tex and saw there was a little bit of colour in her skin and I smiled.
Me and North headed out of the room and towards the briefing room.
David's P.O.V
Wash and North came through the door to the briefing and took their seats.
"Navy SEAL satellites picked up mercs moving nuclear warheads onto ships that are bound to send them to unknown locations," I started, " We need JSOC, and the Freelancers to take the ships, remover the warheads and bring them back here to be disarmed."
With the briefing over they stood up and headed to the flight deck to board the VTOLs that would take them to where they're needed.
I was staying behind to keep an eye on Tex in case her health worsened and they needed someone to inform the Freelancers over the radio.
I was the bridge of the Obama when an alarm was tripped outside the medical wing.
"Crosby, Harper with me," I ordered.
We were at the medical wing in less than a minute. I looked down at my comm and saw a second alarm had been tripped on the door going into Tex's room.
We rushed the room just in time to see Sniperz raising a pistol to Tex's head.
I raised my M-27 and took a shot that sent his pistol flying out his hand.
He looked at us and activated his stealth-tech and we felt as he leapt over us. We started shooting at the only door out of the medical wing and one of our bullets hit his suit, causing his camouflage to deactivate and making it easier for us to track him.
"After him!" I yelled.
We chased after him but he jumped into one of our VTOLs and took off.
"I want guards on Agent Texas' door and patrols to be doubled," I ordered.
The orders were followed and guards were placed on Tex's door and patrols were doubled.
Wash's P.O.V
The mission was successful and we hadn't taken any casualties in our side.
We had gotten back to the Obama and noticed that there seemed to be double the amount of guards.
"What do you think happened while we were gone?" I asked.
"Don't know, you don't think 'The Elites' made another attack do you?" I asked.
We went inside and all headed to the medical wing.
When we got there we found there were guards on Tex's door.
"That can't mean anything good," North said.
We went inside to find David talking to Harper, Salazar and Crosby.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"Sniperz got on board the ship again," David said.
"What was he after this time?" York asked.
"Whoever their spy is, informed them about Tex's conditioned and they sent Sniperz to finish her off," David replied.
"How close was he?" I asked.
"He was raising his pistol to her head and we breached the room, I was able to disarm him but he got away. I have ordered that patrols be doubled and that guards be placed on Tex's door," David replied.
I was enraged. The spy had now gone and informed 'The Elites' of Tex's condition and they had sent someone who had nearly killed her.
"You need to find that spy and take them out," Carolina said.
"I thought you hated Tex?" North asked.
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I want her to die," Carolina replied South sniggered behind her back.
"We're looking for them now," David said.
He left after saying that and was followed out by everyone else. I stayed and sat down next to Tex's bed.
Three days later
It had been three days since Sniperz attack and everyone was ready for the next time they show up.
I was in Tex's room waiting for when she would finally come out of her coma.
I was sat there when I heard her groaning. I looked down to see Tex's eyes start to open.
"Wash?" she said.
"I'm here," I replied.
"What happened?" she asked.
"You were…" I was unable to finish because I heard the distinct sound of a silenced gun being shot and someone falling to the ground.
I hit the red button on my radio.
The doors opened and in walked Assassin.
"I was hoping that there would be only Tex in here, but never mind," Assassin said smugly.
He raised his pistol and that's when all Hell broke loose.
David's P.O.V
My radio started beeping and I looked down to see Wash's emergency beacon flashing again, in Tex's room.
"Crosby with me," I ordered.
We rushed down to the medical wing and met up with the Freelancers down there.
We walked into the medical wing and just as we passed the door to the room next to Tex's room, the wall of Tex's room exploded and a figure followed it. We heard the sound of fist connecting with metal.
Once the dust had cleared, we saw Wash with an unconscious Assassin lying at his feet.
He pulled something out from the back of his neck and chucked it into Tex's room.
"Thanks for letting me use him Tex," Wash said.
"You're welcome," we heard coming from a now awake Tex.
"Who did she let you use?" South asked.
"Well isn't it obvious, she let me use Omega," Wash replied.
We all started at him like he had grown a second head. I had heard the story about hi AI implantation failing and him swearing to never let an AI in his head ever again. He walked back in to Tex's room through the hole in the wall and we followed while a couple of guards dragged Assassin off to the interrogation room where either me or Briggs will interrogate him on what he knows and why they want Tex dead.
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