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Chapter 11

Everyone gathered around to hear Devan tell the story of Chris's last mission. Devan looked around at everyone before taking a deep breath and began his story.

Chris had just got done writing his letter when Devan walked into his tent and flopped down on his bunk. He looked over and seen the letter that Leo had written and picked it up and was fixin to start reading until Chris snatched the letter away from him and popped him on the head.

"Hey, what was that for" Devan asked while he rubbed the the back of his head.

"For snooping" Chris said as he finished the letter and put it in the envelope.

"So you write home to your ol' lady?" Devan asked

"Yea, I miss her but I am sure we will be going home soon" Chris answered.

Just then Chris and Devan's Senior officer walked and and both stood up and saluted him. After returning the salute the Captain adressed them.

"Get yourselves ready, you have another mission, mission details will be given at the command center in 30 minates" the Captain said.

"Yes sir!" Chris and Devan both said. The captain turned and walked out the door as Devan sat back down on his bunk.

"Well so much for a day off I guess" Chris sighed.

"O come on, you know you love to go on missions. Everytime we are out there you just keep grinning ear to ear" Devan teased.

"Well I love what I do I guess" Chris replied.

After getting their gear together they walked to the command center and waited for the other eight men in their team. As soon as the others arrived the commaneder started giving everyone the details of the mission that they were about to depart for.

"Alright men, the mission is simple, there is group of insurgents that are moving weapons in sector 5. I want you to intercept them and destroy all of the weapons that you find. Sgt. Chris Hamato, you will lead the mission. Are there any questions?"

No one raised there hands. "Then that is all, good hunting! Dismissed!" the captain said and everyone got up and started walking towards their humvies.

When Chris and Devan got to the lead hummer, they got in with Devan driving while Chris sat on the passenger side and two other soldiers got in the back with one in the turret. About an hour after leaving they were only about 10 miles from their destination when Chris radioed to the other humvies behind him.

"Alright guys we are almost there, everyone keep an eye out for insurgents, this is not going to be as easy as the Captain thinks" Chris said and hung up the radio.

"Devan, when we get about 500 yards from the warehouse I want you to stop, we will continue on foot under the cover of darkness" Chris todl him.

"You got it" devan said.

When they got to the warehouse and everyone stopped, they all exited their vechiles and gathered around Chris as he gave his orders. After giving them they all made their way to the warehouse and went find all the weapons and no one around guarding it.

"This doesn't seem right, I mean where are all of the guards that should be around here" One of the soldiers asked Chris.

"I don't know, set the charges fast and lets get out of here" Chris said.

After setting the charges Chris and the others started making their way back to their humvies and oddly enough met no resistance on the way. This had Chris on high alert as well it had everyone else.

"I want two humvies to go south to the other side of town to make sure there is no insurgents waiting for us, My humvie will go back the way we came, when we get out of town we will wait for the other two humvies to meet up with us before heading back, alright. Let's go" Chris said.

When they got back in the humvies Chris told Devan to start back towards the base as he was setting the primer and would blow up the warehouse when they were a safe distance from it. As they were making their way back, they had only made it about 100 yards when an insurgent fired a RPG(rocket propelled gernade) at his humvie.. When it hit, it exploded, destroying the engine but not hurting anyone inside.

"Get out and take cover!" Chris yelled as he and the others got behind the crippled humvie.

"What do we do!" Devan yelled

"We need to get back to the other humvies" Chris told them, he then radioed to the other humvies that were about 2 miles back and comming to meet them.

Insurgents had them pinned down and were trying to advance on their position. Chris looked up and seen one of them getting ready to fire another RPG and quickly raised his M-16 and fired on the man killing him instantly. Seeing that they were sitting ducks where they were and help was still about five minates away, Chris knew he needed to do something, he only counted four more insurgents hiding behind a wall. He looked over and seen a old truck sitting beside a house and got an idea.

"Cover me I am going for the truck!" Chris yelled

"Are you crazy?" Devan yelled back

"Don't worry you know me" Chris smirked

"I know, thats what I'm talking about" Devan said

Chris made his way to the truck as Devan and the others provided cover fire for him. When he got there, Chris got in the truck and found the keys were still in the egnition. He started it up and slammed his foot on the gas and drove the truck straight into the wall that the insurgents were hiding behind, causing it to tall on two of them and killing them. Chris got out of the truck and found the other two dazed and shot both of them.

Devan and the others made their way to him and gave him pats on the back.

"Your one crazy bastard, you know that" Devan said smiling.

Just then the other two humvies came into view and were only about half a mile away when there was an explosion behind Chris and Devan. They looked and seen about 12 more insurgents coming towards them. Chris, Devan, and the others knelt down behind the truck as they were taking fire from the insurgents.

"What do we do now Sgt?" one of the soldiers asked.

"We have to make a run for the humvies, We will go one at a time, as one goes the others provide cover fire, Private, you will go first, !" Chris yelled as the private got up and ran towards the humvie.

After the next soldier got into the humvie, the only ones left were Chris and Devan. The insurgents were almost right on top of them and there was no way either of them could make it to the humvie without getting shot.

"We are not going to make it are we?"Devan asked

"Yes we are. Listen when i give you the signal I want you to make a break for the humvies got it?" Chris said

"What about you?' Devan yelled

"Don't worry about me, I will be fine" Chris said, " I left the detonator in the humvie that was disabled, I have to get to it and destroy that warehouse". Devan was about to protest when Chris grabbed him and shoved an envelope into his chest and looked at him, "You know what to do".

"GO!" Chris yelled as Devan ran towards the humvie and Chris ran towards the disabled one. When Chris got there he found the detonator and seen that there were insurgents running towards the building, trying to get the weapons out of it. Chris smirked and smashed the detonator button, and there was a big explosion and the warehouse blew up.

As Chris watched Devan make his way to the safety of the other humvies he looked back to where they all had been and seen 6 insurgents comming at the humvies and two of insurgents were carring RPGs, Chris knew what he had to do. Chris loaded a full clip into his M-16 and put it on full auto, then he grabbed a picture that he kept in his top cargo pocket in his jacket and looked at it one more time and rubbed his finger over the image of Angel, his eyes watering.

"I'll be waiting for you" he whispered and got up and ran towards the insurgents.