Fourth chapter is up and is ready. Thanks mizzy-snoezy for being patient with me through the writing of this story. May change to M.
Anthony, Tim, Victor, and the other two guys part of their recovery team were all waiting for the cue to jump.
A voice came over their headset radios and said, "Okay guys, you're gonna be jumping from twenty thousand feet so enemy units won't spot the plane and call it in giving away the element of surprise. Keep your oxygen masks on until you touch ground. There is one change in the plan though. The military wants this target destroyed so you guys are on a time line. The bomb drops at 0100 hours. Its 1930 hours now. Sync your watches and give them hell. One more thing, don't deploy your chutes until you're as close as safely possible to the ground. Remember your training and you just make it out of this one alive."
As the voice stopped we got the cue to jump. Victor went first followed by Anthony and Tim then the last two guys they didn't know.
Anthony looked over at his brother who seemed to be sing as he fell to the ground. Anthony began reading his lips and realized Tim was singing "I Believe I Can Fly."
Tim noticed his brother looking at him and mouthed the word, "What?"
Anthony rolled his eyes at him and pointed down at the fast approaching ground. Anthony and Tim pulled their chutes and slowly descended to the rest of the way trough the canopy of the forest and touched their feet to the ground.
Anthony took his oxygen mask off and turned to look at his brother who was doing the same.
"Radio check, sound off and let's see which members of the team forgot how to work their parachutes," Victor's voice rang through the headset radio.
"Anthony."
"Tim."
"Bryce."
"Steven."
"Good no one died already," Victor said through the headset. "I hope you boys brought water because it's a four hour walk to the objective."
Anthony and Tim began their jog to their destination. Anthony looked over at his brother to make sure he was keeping pace with him still having the feeling that he would never see him again. He shook the feeling and continued to the objective.
It was night when the two chipmunks arrived at the meeting point outside of their objective. Victor was already their waiting for the rest of the team to arrive.
"Hey," Victor said noticing them approach. "It's about time were running out of time here. You two need to head in now and begin looking for the hostages. When the other two get here, we will start planting explosives at the north end of the complex for a distraction when you guys reach the hostages. As the guards run to the north end of the complex, you two will escort the hostages to safety at the south side. From there, the three of us will cover you incase something goes wrong and we have the whole fucking small army trying to kill us. If we get out of that, we'll head to the extraction point to the south of the complex. It's 0000 hours now; you guys have an hour to get in and out. Good luck."
The two brothers nodded in unison and ran into the jungle towards the complex. They reached the wall of the complex and Anthony jumped up to the top of the wall and over it followed closely by his brother. They looked at their watches nodded at each other and quietly ran inside the building making sure no one saw them.
Outside, Victor was joined by the other two members. Victor told them the plan and they ran to the north side of the complex and started to plant the explosive for the distraction. He looked at his watch, "Thirty minutes." He planted his last explosive as he and the other two men made their way to the south side of the encampment.
Inside, the two chipmunks at their watches again and Anthony told himself, "Fifteen minutes." Then they both continued their search for the hostages. Anthony looked into a room and saw the hostages and motioned his brother to stop. Two armed guards Anthony signaled to his brother and he pointed at the ceiling smiling.
The two guards heard a knock at the door. The one looked at the other as he got up to answer the door. The other guard looked at his book again, trying to ease his boredom. The guard opened the door and saw that there was no one there. He stuck his head out the door, looked left, and then right not seeing anyone. He turned around and went back into the room and closed the door as he proceeded back to his seat and sat down in the dimly lit room.
Anthony and Tim hung to the ceiling for dear life as the door opened and the made their way in still on the ceiling. The one guard was reading a book not paying attention to anything around him. Tim took a position over the guard as Anthony took his place of the empty seat the other guard was heading to. The guard sat down and Anthony looked at his brother and nodded as they pulled out their blades. They let go of the ceiling and plummeted their small swords into the heads of the two guards who fell limply to the ground. They removed their blades from the guards' heads and proceeded in cutting loose the hostages.
"Victor, we got the hostages. Blow the charges." Anthony said through his headset as he continued to cut free the last hostage.
They heard the explosion go off and the base's alarms were ringing off the hook. Anthony turned to the door as it swung open revealing a surprised guard who started yelling in his native tongue which the two automatically figured was him screaming, "Prisoner escape!"
Tim took his blade and threw it at the guard and he screamed as it slid into his eye and before he knew it, Tim was on his face pulling the blade and the guard's eye out of his face that slung off Tim's small sword as Anthony ran up and slit the guard's throat stopping the guard's screaming instantly.
"Lets move, lets move, lets move!" Anthony screamed at the scared prisoners as the got up and ran out the door following Tim to the south side of the encampment.
"We're going to be having company Victor," Tim said through his headset.
"Okay we'll be waiting for you guys," Victor replied through the headset. "You guys have ten minutes before the bomb drops."
The two brothers were at the south entrance and had gotten all the prisoners out and into the forest heading towards the extraction point when a group of guards appeared in the doorway.
"Tim, take cover!" Anthony screamed as the guards started shooting rounds at them.
"We could use some help over here, Victor!" Tim screamed through the radio as bullet shot over his head.
Victor turned to the other two members and screamed, "Covering fire!"
Anthony looked at his watch not noticing a grenade roll up not five feet from him.
"Anthony, look out!" Tim screamed as he took Anthony and spun him around so that Tim's back was facing the grenade as they heard a loud boom and Tim was thrown into his brother's arms.
Anthony looked at his brother whose mouth had blood starting to run out of it as Tim started to fall to the ground. Anthony caught him looking at his brother's back and noticed a large piece of shrapnel sticking out of Tim's back.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Timothy!" Anthony screamed as he got on his knees and his brother fell into his arms. Anthony looked at his brother's chest noticing that the shrapnel stuck out of his brother's stomach which has bleeding profusely.
"Oh God, Timothy!" He yelled as tears started to swell up in his eyes. His brother's light brown eyes started to lose their life as Tim looked into his brother's freakishly light blue eyes that were overflowing with tears.
Tim looked deep into his brother's eyes he said his final words, "I-I l-love you, A-Anthony." As he said that, the life that was left in Tim's eyes faded away as his body went limp.
"No, Timothy! Don't leave me!" He screamed as he hugged his brother's lifeless body and began to cry hysterically.
Victor watched in horror as one of his best friends died in Anthony's arms. He started to choke but held back his emotions knowing that his team was counting on him to make rational decisions and the most important thing at the moment was getting Anthony out of there.
"Cover me!" Victor yelled at the two frightened team members who nodded a continued to pump rounds at their enemy's positions. Victor hopped out of his cover and sprinted to Anthony who was still crying his over his brother's body.
"Come on, Anthony. I'm so sorry, but we need to go!" Victor screamed above the sound of gun fire. "Leave him, we have to go."
"No, I won't leave him here!" Anthony screamed through sobs of hysterical crying.
Victor had no other choice, he grabbed Anthony who was covered in Tim's blood and had latched on to his brother's dog tags and refused to let go. Victor pulled Anthony off his brother as he watched the dog tags snap and they were being held on to tightly by Anthony as Victor locked him in his grip. Anthony started biting and scratching at the inside of Victors wanting back out so he could go back to Tim's body that lied in a pool of his own blood. Victor got up and sprinted back to the tree line and signaled the rest of the team to go to the extraction point. Victor looked up as he entered the tree line and saw the bomber drop its payload. The bomb blew up behind him throwing him and Anthony into the air. Victor accidentally let go Anthony that was now flying through the air. Victor hit the ground and smacked his head on a rock. He looked beside him and saw Anthony unconscious next to him with a large gash on his face that extend from over his right eye through his mouth and finally stop at his chin. Anthony was still holding his brother's dog tags in a death grip as Victor felt himself being lifted up and being dragged by one of the other members of the team while the other picked up Anthony, then everything went black as they were loaded on to the extraction helicopter. The last thing Victor saw was a medic stitching up Anthony's facial wound as the medic tried to stop the blood flow coming from Anthony's face as the medic screamed to the pilot, "WE NEED TO GET THEM TO A HOSPITAL NOW!"