Chapter 15 – The Plan
Suddenly the printer next to Noda's desk began printing out papers. "Its a house! Look here, its not big at all!"
Both Nishiwaki and Mifune crowded over Noda's shoulders to look at the terminal. "Those plans don't look quite like your typical house."
"Its owned by some kind of corporation, I think its rented out for corporate retreats. There are 2 other nearby buildings and then nothing else for over a mile. I'm printing off the plans for all the buildings just in case. Then I'll check on who its all rented to."
Nishiwaki patted Noda's shoulder. "Good work, and fast too. We are all going to have to be quick. I want to break him out before daylight.
"Before daylight?!" Mifune exclaimed. "But why so fast?"
"If he's still alive and they haven't had him very long they may be planing on giving him truth serum as soon as the day starts."
That comment got the silence it deserved. They all knew what would happen if the Instructor – or for that matter anyone who held a certain level of security – was injected with the drug.
A couple of hours later ..
"Okay, so thermal readings indicate that there are only 4 or 5 men in the outer homes, probably guards who are off shift. There are 3 guards on duty, walking a perimeter and the rest are in the same house as the Instructor. Since its a high scale conference house, there are several balconies all over it. We'll take out the exterior guards and then put teams on each balcony and we'll all attack at the same time. We should be able to mop everything up without too much trouble."
Nishiwaki looked up from the plans he was examining. "We've got 3 hours for everyone to catch a short nap and then get ready. I'll wake the rest of the garrison up at 3:30 am and tell them we're going on a volunteer only secret mission. It'll take time but as everyone gets in the helicopter to move out, we'll have them dump all electronic devises from their pockets. That way if the spy IS in the group, he won't be able to communicate with anyone. Guns, stun devices, flashlights, etc will all be issued at the rendezvous site. When this is all over, the entire garrison is going on lock down until we do a triple security check on each and every worker here."
Mifune headed out the door for his room and Noda started turning the computer off. Nishiwaki picked up his cellphone and dialed a number. "Iwasi?" He listened as the other man answered and then went on. "I've got a rendezvous site for you." He gave him the coordinates and local directions. "Can you be there by 4:30? … Good. Yes, we're going in after him. We'll hopefully be early enough that no one is up yet. Yes, I swear I'm letting you on it. I know you'd never forgive me if I didn't. I'll see you there in a few hours. Bye."
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Nishiwaki watched at men climbed into the helicopters. Well, he had done what he could. They had only accepted volunteers for a secret raid taking place immediately. Even though no one knew what was going on, they all knew it was unusual. Breaking into buildings, going on the offensive was not what the group was about, they were about defense and protecting others. But they all had training in rescuing kidnapped victims, one never knew when the politician you were guarding might become a hostage. Every person had been checked for metallic or electronic devices before entering the helicopter landing field. Still, they wouldn't be told their goal until after they had landed and were getting read to board the vans.
WHUMP...... WHUMP..... WHUMP
Nishiwaki peered through the early morning gloom. The helicopter was coming up on the landing area. He had planed the course to fly low and come in behind a hill a good 2 miles from house Ishikawa was being held in. Even if seeing helicopters that far from the place would alert the guards patrolling at the conference center, they shouldn't be able to see or hear them due to their flight plan. Yes, there! There was the landing site. They were landing in a large parking lot and he could see the vans they would switch to sitting under the security lights, it looked like Iwase was there already.
After landing and a quick conference with Iwase to bring him up to date on the plans, Nishiwaki called all the men over to stand behind one of the parked vans. He stood just inside the open back doors of one of the vans. "We've kept this top secret because we know there is some sort of leak in the garrison." A whisper of shocked murmurs ran around the group. "But that's not the most important thing right now. The Instructor is being held captive in a house about 30 minutes from here." This time the comments and exclamations of shock were loud enough that Nishiwaki had to pause for a moment. We don't know how long he's been held captive and in all reality, although we hope he's alive, we don't know for sure. Our number one priority is to rescue the Instructor. Number two is to capture those who have him and find out how they knew where to find him. I don't really think this needs to be said; but the first priority is the most important. If you have to shoot to kill to save someone, do it. If you see someone running away and the Instructor in the other direction, ignore the ones running away and free and protect the Instructor instead."
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I've really never written anything this long before. Please feel free to say what you don't like about it. I refuse NOT to finish this story but I won't bother writing more if no one likes or tells me how I can improve it to make it inetersting.