Ch 3
Blair was walking down the hall of the rebel apartment at about 5
o'clock in the morning. He was making his way past Sarah's room when he
heard a deep voice. Blair stopped at her doorway and put his ear
against the door. He could hear a Russian voice speaking from what he
thought was a TV or radio. Then he heard another voice.. It was Sarah's..
"...we are growing very inpatient Ms. Jenkins. Have you found the
Yankee intelligence information?" the Russian voice asked. "No sir but
I believe it is with the group of Americans we found yesterday." "Very
good we will be there to retrieve the information soon. You will be
paid 100,000 American dollars when I have the information."
the Russian said. "But what about the Americans? What should we do
with them?" Sarah asked. "Eliminate them..." the voice said back.
"With pleasher sir." she responded...
Blair then realized that they had been double crossed so he ran to his
room to get the package. He had to warn his team and John about this
before it was to late. When he got to his room he grabbed the metal
chase and headed to Amelia's room. When he got there he saw John and
Amelia in bed sleeping. Blair had no time to be nice about this wake
up so he pushed John and Amelia out of the bed. John got up and looked
at Blair with an angry face. "What the hell was that..!." John was
cut off by Blair as he said, "no time to explain John we need to get
the hell out of hear." Amelia was now awake and she asked "why?"
"because Sarah sold us out to the Russians and has been ordered to
kill us! That's why!" he retorted.
"What!?" John and Sarah said at the same time. Blair looked at them
again and said, "Like I said! We have no time to explain! Now fallow
me!" john and Amelia fallowed Blair to the doorway. When they got in
the hallway the could hear footsteps coming from the stairway. Blair
then pulled everyone into the empty room next to them quickly.
Blair then looked out to see Sarah and three armed rebel soldiers stop
in front of Amelia's door. "We will take care of the ones hear then move
downstairs to kill the rest of them."" she said as they all entered the
room. When they were all inside her room John, Amelia, and Blair all
ran for the stares. When they got to the second floor Blair woke his
team up and got them armed. By that time they could hear people
upstairs saying, "Where are they?" "They must have escaped! Quick alerts
the others!"
The group then made for the stares and into the lobby. When they got
outside they could see three trucks parked in front. They all hopped
in the vehicles and drove off. As they were passing though the gate
the rebel soldiers were firing at them with RPG's. One of the trucks
was almost taken out by the rockets as they moved though the gate.
When they got clear of the complex John yelled over to Blair "now
would be a good time to activate the survival beacon!" "Right!" he
replied.
Just then John saw 5 SUVs pull out of an alleyway. "Hey Blair! We got
company!" John said. The trucks then started peppering John's truck
with gunfire. "Get down!" john yelled as they fired an other volley.
Blair swerved the truck around the corner missing a dumpster by
inches. One of the SUVs hit the dumpster and swerved out of control.
"Hey Blair! Not that this isn't fun or any thing but..." he ducked as
they were hit by more gunfire "...but I think we should start shooting
back!"
"Here!" Blair handed back his M-16 "... I'm driving right now so
you deal with it! You do know how to use a gun right!?" he said
sarcastically. "Not a good time to be funny Blair!" John said as he
flipped the safety off and fired at the SUVs behind them.
"Blair hold it steady! Let me get a good shot!" John yelled over the
gunfire. "Alright!" he said as he kept the truck in a straight
line. This gave John the chance to line up his sights. John Aimed at
the tires of the lead SUV and fired. The front tires of the SUV
exploded causing it to swerve then roll uncontrollably. The other
three SUVs despreitly tried to get out of the way. One of the SUVs
swerved right into a building at a turn in the road. The other two
were hit by the rolling SUV and started a pile up that blocked the
entire road.
"Woo! That's how its done man!" john yelled out as they just started
to exit the town. "Hell ya man!" Blair yelled out among the cheers
made by Blair's team.
"What do you mean they escaped?!" Sarah was just informed that Blair's
team, John, and Amelia had all escaped early this morning with the
intelligence information she needed. "Yes ma'm we sent an attack force
to go after them but we just lost contact with them."
"Damn it!" she said as she pounded her fist onto her desk. 'What am I
going to tell the Russians' she thought. Just then her laptop flickered
to life. On the screen was a Russian commander in a jeep. "Ms.
Jenkins I am almost here. Do you have the information with you?" she
looked at the Russian with an angry face and said "no but we are
working on getting it back right now. The Americans escaped with it
early this morning." "What!! How!?" the Russian was angry but then
he calmed down to a more relaxed face. "Very well... I'm sending two
of my helicopters to support you... Do not fail me this time Ms.
Jenkins... Or it may be the last thing you do." the man disappeared
from the screen. 'Great' she thought 'now how am I going to find them?'
Suddenly her radio crackled to life as she heard a voice coming from
it. The voice sounded just like... Blair's voice.
"This is Sergeant Blair Troop to any available coalition forces! Dose
anyone copy?!" just then another voice, "This is Charlie one to Sgt.
Troop. Do you have the package secure?" "That is affirmative Charlie one!
We are heading south on what appears to be...uh... Highway 235!"
Sarah then looked over to the rebel soldier and said, "Inform the
Russian helicopters of their position... And ready our troops... Were
going to get those bastards."
Blair had the radio in his hand as he heard the voice say "roger we
will meet you at the sun devil bridge. ETA 10 minutes." Blair then sat
the radio down and yelled "John! Choppers on the way!"
"Great" he replied.
They were about 3 minutes away from the bridge when they heard the low
beat of a helicopter approaching. "That must be the rescue helicopter!"
Blair still had a concerned look on his face. But then over the tree
line they could all see a Russian attack helicopter moving closer to
them.
"Blair! We got a problem!" john said as a missile streaked past them,
missing one of the trucks. "Ya think!" Blair replied. Blair team and
John started firing up at the helicopter. It rocked back and forth
avoiding the small arms fire. It then accelerated ahead of them as
they neared the bridge. "Blair! Look out! He's going to take out the
bridge!" John yelled over the gunfire.
But it was to late.. The Russian helicopter fired a barrage of missiles
at the bridge. The entire middle part of the bridge slowly fell into
the river. "Hang on!" Blair yelled as he slammed on the breaks. The
trucks tires screamed as they neared the bridge. Finely the truck
stopped just before the drop-off. "Everyone out! Form a defensive
parameter!" Blair ordered his team. He then looked over to John and
handed him the metal case "give this to Amelia. When the rescue
chopper arrives have her take it with." "Ok" john responded.
Blair then looked up to see the Russian chopper circling the bridge
looking for survivors. "Mac! Take out that chopper!" Blair yelled to
his demolitions expert. Mac got out his heavy shoulder fired Javelin
rocket launcher and put it over his shoulder. He waited until the
chopper was in a hovering position and fired the javelin. The missile
streaked over them and stuck the helicopters tail rudder. It then
spiraled out of the sky and into the river. Blair team then cheered as
the helicopter exploded when it hit the water.
But one of soldiers stopped yelling and said "heads up! Troop
transports!" Blair then saw 4 trucks pull up about a hundreds yards
away from them. Troops then started to pile out as Blair yelled,
"cover!!"
The area soon became a full-blown shootout as Blair's team peppered the
rebel soldiers when they came out. But there were to many of them.
Blair's team couldn't hold off them for long. Just then he saw a US
black hawk helicopter fly over them. Blair grabbed his radio "Charlie
one LZ is hot. Pick up the package at the end of the bridge we will
then fallback to your position!" "Negative Sgt. Hold your position
another chopper will be here to pick you up. Be advised more enemy
troops are moving in on your position. Air support will be standing by
in 2 minutes." "Roger that Charlie one."
Blair then saw the rescue choppers door gunner open up with his
Gating gun on the enemy troops. This gave him the chance to run over
to john. "John! Take Amelia and get to that chopper!" John nodded and
looked over to Amelia "are you ready?" she nodded as well and said "ya
let's go" they both then made a run for the bridge.
When they got to the end of the bridge the rescue chopper was just
touching down. Two soldiers then jumped out and ran over to them. "Do
you have the package?" one of them yelled over the helicopters noise.
Amelia then held up the metal case and said, "Yes its right here". The
soldiers then lead them to the helicopter. When they got to the
helicopter the pilot said "hey wait we only have room for one more!"
john replied to the pilot saying "its ok! I'll wait for the next one!"
he then helped Amelia up into the chopper and said "I'll see you when
I get back to base." she smiled sweetly at him as he slowly turned
away from the helicopter.
But just as the helicopter was lifting off Amelia watched as two holes
formed in his chest. John slowly fell to his knees and then to the
ground as he was shot twice in the chest. Amelia was screaming when
she saw his body get smaller and smaller as the helicopter flew away...
Blair knew that they couldn't hold them off for much longer. He then
gave the order to fall back. As they made there way back to the bridge
Blair toke cover behind one of the trucks. He looked to see that his
team was doing the same. Just then another helicopter was heard
overhead. He looked up to see another Russian attack helicopter slowly
going into a hover above the Enemy troops. Blair watched as it fired a
missile at one of the trucks. The truck exploded knocking his team off
there feet. Blair's ears started to ring as he saw his team was mostly
on the ground. He knew it... They were dead...