Ch 8 captured
"Go, go go!" Price yelled, as they busted a door down, and hosed the room with gunfire. The chi-blockers were dead.
"Onto the next room." Ghost said.
It had been a week since the first fight with the equalists and they were now conducting hit and run attacks against them.
Price and his squad were impressed by the Krew. They were getting the hang of it real fast.
"Check your corners. An equalist could come out any second." Yuri replied.
Leaving the building, they got inside the sato-mobile and headed to the air temple, only for a shot to ring out.
"Sniper!" Ghost yelled.
Asami pulled over and everyone scrambled to cover.
"Where is he?" Mako asked.
Makarov grabbed a piece of metal and stuck it from his cover. Another shot came from the sniper, showing his position.
"Building ahead of us, 3rd floor up. Mako, shoot lighting at him." Makarov said, aiming his AK at the sniper.
Mako charged a lightning bolt and fired, blowing up the sniper post. Debris, a rifle, and some blood fell on the ground.
"Yuri, Bolin, go in and search the building. If anyone's left, kill them." Price said.
The two went inside and the building, and found nothing.
"Building's empty!" Bolin shouted.
"Nice. Lets just broadcast our area to every equalist in the goddamned city. Brilliant." Ghost spat.
"I'll cap him if you want." Makarov said, chambering a round in his desert eagle.
"No, Makarov." Korra growled.
At the temple, they sat around the dining table, cleaning guns and eating food.
"We need to think about the defense of the temple. If the equalist gain control of the city, this will be our Bastogne. Our Leningrad." Makarov said.
"What's Bastogne and Leningrad?" Mako asked.
"In the second world war, there was a country called Germany. Under the command of their leader, Adolf Hitler, they conquered all of Europe, and invaded the western part of Russia. But during the fighting, two important cities refused to fall to the German juggernaut. Bastogne, was manned by outnumbered and outgunned American troops. They fought on until General Patton arrived with his army and drove the Germans back into their country. Leningrad was in Russia. The Germans approached it in 1941. They laid siege until they were driven away in 1944." Ghost said.
"Damn. That's a lot of fighting. Hope we don't see something like that over here." Bolin said.
"Hope is irrelevant. The war has already started. And the equalists have the upper hand. As far as I can see, we're the only one fighting them back. Tarrlock's task force isn't doing a damn thing against them. We should take him out of the equation. He'll only get in our way." Makarov said.
"He hasn't done anything, but I agree with Makarov. We what it takes to end the war. Anything." Price said.
"Where's Korra and Asami?" Yuri asked, now noticing the two women were gone.
"Said they'd be hitting the hay. We all could use a break." Ghost said, leaning back into a chair.
As the soldiers cleaned their rifles, they heard noises from upstairs. Standing up, they listened carefully, only to sit down and laugh at what they heard.
"Korra and Asami?" Tenzin asked, slightly mortified.
"Let them enjoy it. They're still alive. I don't blame them." Price said, putting his M4 back together.
"How can you stand that?" Tenzin asked.
"Go thru combat enough times that you learn to tune out certain things. The two having sex, qualifies as certain things." Makarov said, pulling the slide back on his desert eagle.
That night, they were on another patrol. They saw an equalist satomobile, escorted by two motorcycles speeding away. Asami closed the distance on the equalists, and pulled out her Skorpion.
She fired the machine gun at the mooks, and killed one of them. The other motorcycle rider slammed on his brakes, and chased after the satomobile. Price aimed his rifle at the equalist, hosing him down with led.
Last was the truck. Mako fired lighting at the vehicle, blowing a wheel off, and causing it to crash. Asami pulled aside it, only to see the squad open up with assault rifles.
When the shooting stopped, they entered the bullet riddled vehicle, and found dead equalists.
"We got company!" Asami shouted, putting on an electric glove.
"Defensive positions, now!" Makarov ordered, leaning against an open door. He aimed his rifle at the approaching headlights. He lowered his rifle when he saw it was the police. About time the reinforcements arrived.
"What are you doing, Korra?" Tarrlok growled, walking out of the lead vehicle.
Strike that. More enemies to fight. Makarov aimed his rifle at Tarrlok and flipped the switch from safety to full auto. One good burst in the bastard's back would kill him where he stood.
"Gee. The police, nor your task force showed up, until we killed the equalists." Korra said, absently looking at her fingernails.
"This is your last warning, Korra. Stay out of my way!" Tarrlock growled.
Air Temple Island
Next morning
The krew learned more about the squad. The 4 soldiers were damn good fighters, but were also cynical. The krew however, were decent fighters (compared to SAS/Spetsnaz), and idealistic. You could never find two separate groups.
They learned about their countries. Price and Ghost came from Great Britain, an island country that was a republic. Yuri and Makarov came from Russia, a federal republic.
"I have an idea. How about you guys train us in hand-to-hand? The way you were trained?" Bolin asked.
"Not gonna happen. SAS training is extremely brutal. Few make it. And Spetsnaz training is even worse. People have actually died in the training." Price warned.
"Your country allows that?" Asami asked.
"Yep. There's a reason the Spetsnaz is the most feared. In the Chechen wars, when the Spetsnaz were sent in, the rebels fled like none other. One time, we won a battle, without sending a single shot. We just sent in a platoon of Spetsnaz, and they surrendered like that." Makarov said.
Tenzin came in the house, looking distressed.
"Tarrlok just passed another law. It's illegal to be a member, or associated with the equalists, and non-benders must be inside at nightfall." Tenzin said.
"What?" Asami asked, rightfully afraid.
"He's just making the tinderbox more and more volatile. All we need, is someone to toss in a match." Price said.
"I'll do it." Makarov said. "I'll kill the fucker."
"No. We're not going to kill our own leaders. That'll make things worse." Korra said.
Makarov glanced at Korra but waited. He wanted to go back home to Russia, and if keeping Tarrlok alive would help, then he'd do it.
Next night, they were on another patrol, when they got another call.
"All available units, please respond to the fifty six hundred block of Dragon Flats borough. Equalists have taken over the streets. Consider them armed and dangerous. Proceed with caution."
Asami floored the gas pedal and they headed towards the borough. As they got close and closer, they noticed the power was shut off, giving the place an eerie feeling. Turning around a corner, they found the mob, but it was civilians, not equalists.
"This isn't an equalist rally. What the hell's going on?" Price asked.
Leaving their guns in the car, they approached the new-brewing situation.
"Please, help us! You're our Avatar too!" a women cried.
"Don't worry. I'll put a stop to this." Korra said, then headed towards Tarrlok.
"Tarrlok! You need to turn the power on, and leave these people alone." Korra said.
"Korra, you and your friends have no business here." Tarrlok said.
"Tarrlok, they are normal people, not equalists. Leave them alone." Asami said, walking next to Korrra.
"Arrest them." Tarrlok ordered.
The officers looked at each other, then coiled the civilians with the metal barricades and lifted the ground they were standing on, before putting them away in police trucks.
Korra walked in front of the metal benders and released the captured civilians. Tarrlok growled in annoyance, before capturing Asami with a water whip.
"What the hell?" Asami asked.
"Arrest her. Her father is a known equalist, and she's a non-bender outside past curfew." Tarrlok said.
"Asami has nothing to do with her father!" Mako said, throwing a fire ball to dissipate the water whip.
"Arrest those two as well." Tarrlok said.
As Korra's friends were thrown into a police truck, the squad looked on.
"Sir what do we do?" Yuri asked.
"We wait. Tonight, we spring them out of the prison. And kill Tarrlok in the process." Makarov said.
"Just like old times, Makarov." Price said, reminiscing over similar mission on the past.
"Da. Just like old times." Makarov said.
As they drove towards the temple island, Korra asked to be dropped off at the station.
"I'll talk to Saikhan. See what I can do." Korra said.
The squad gave her demeaning looks, then drove away.
Arriving at the air temple, they entered the MRAP and grabbed night vision goggles, gas masks, Kevlar vests, and more assault rifles and shotguns.
"Here's the plan. We move hard and fast. We rescue the trio from their cells, and leave before anyone knows what happened. Remember. If you see Tarrlok, shoot to kill. That's an order." Price said.
Police station
Midnight
"Stack up by the door." Price said, as he and Ghost were at the door. Makarov kicked he door down and walked in, AK-47 raised.
"Search the cells. If we find them, we take them home." Yuri said.
Asami sat in her cell, thinking over her current events. Her father was working for the equalists, she was arrested, for trying to do the right thing. She could only hope Korra wasn't going to do anything stupid. And what about the squad? What were they doing?
Suddenly, her door was torn open, and Ghost walked in.
"We're breaking you out of here." He said, handing Asami a shotgun.
"Thanks." She said.
The group walked down the hallway and continued to search the various cells. Finally, they found the brother's and broke them out.
"Hey, a little privacy here!" Bolin exclaimed, zipping up his fly.
"Where's Korra?" Asami asked.
"She asked to be dropped at the police station. She would try to talk to the new chief to break you guys out. We knew it wouldn't work, so we took matters into our own hands." Price said.
They arrived at the temple, and Korra wasn't there. They waited well into the morning. Asami was restless.
"That's it! I'm going after her!" She exclaimed, grabbing a G36C rifle, and an electric glove.
"Asami, wait. You can't just go after her. You need to plan this thing out." Makarov said.
"Well you guys just went to the station and busted me and the brothers out." Asami said.
"We planned it beforehand. We were prepared for a shoot-out. Are you?" Ghost asked.
Asami sat down in defeat. They were right. She had no plan for the moment. No-one did.
Bolin turned the radio on, and heard that the equalist attacked city hall, and captured the Avatar.