This chapter is taken from my Alpha force/Harry Potter crossover woodlands, and is written from the alpha force point of view of a rescue operation
Tower Assault
Li was revved up.
In five minutes, she, along with the other four members of Alpha Force, would assault a building where a ring of international slavers had their main warehouse.
Like all of the other members of the team, she was wearing close-fitting black clothes made out of a coarse cloth, with a Gortex lining over a SAS style bullet proof vest, and carrying a MP5 sub-machine gun, a Glock 18 sidearm and a set of three L2 fragmentation grenades, accompanying five stun grenades and two smoke grenades in her considerable arsenal. The slavers were an unknown quantity, but were believed to have dart weapons, shotguns and possibly automatic weaponry. The darts, she had observed on a tracking mission where a young girl had been abducted, were likely tipped with chloral hydrate and would cause near instant incapacitation if they hit and penetrated.
Li glanced over at her South American boyfriend, Paulo, and gave him a coy little smile. The smile, as well as being an outright flirt, sent an unspoken message: it was time to go. The team slowly stalked towards the tower, avoiding several humiliatingly simple Special Forces traps, such as snares, nets and the occasional buried bullet trap. Hex, who was on point, was carrying a long handled metal detector and was marking the traps with cones.
A half hour later, the members of Alpha Force were in their attack positions around the tower's single front entrance. Alex, the team's qualified explosives technician, was aiming a large tube at the double doors. He pulled the release and a HEDP rocket was slammed into the door, blowing it from its hinges.
A slaver on the top parapets began firing down towards them with a shotgun. Li saw the source of the shots and returned fire as several other defenders opened fire on them with shotguns. She watched as a stream of bullets from Alex's gun tore through a window shutter, a bullet proof vest and the chest of a slaver, who was hurled across the room by the hits as the shutters were smashed in through the window frame. From another window, a thug wearing a black robe opened up with a Kalashnikov. The volley narrowly missed Amber, who was already returning the fire. The seam tore into the ground feet from her prone body, starting next to her head and moving down her body, before a final round nearly creased her ankle. Her return volley felled her attacker and destroyed a gargoyle. Even while all this was happening, the first clip was being ejected by Li before she reloaded her gun.
Even as the gun battle was in progress, Hex and Paulo were storming through the main door, their laser sights seeking targets for storms of lead shot such as a man armed with a rifle who stepped from a guard room. Within seconds, he was cut down by a hail from both guns without a challenge. The two of them moved deeper into the fort, felling several more slavers in the speed of their assault.
Meanwhile, the gun battle at the entrance was over, Alex and Amber moved towards the upper floors, while Li headed off in pursuit of Hex and Paulo. Volleys continued to sound periodically as the upper floors were cleared.
Paulo came sprinting up from the lower sections of the castle so fast that Li almost shot him.
"Paulo, what's wrong?"
"There's a girl chained up down in the dungeon"
"Ah, you thought your great charms might fail to reduce her to a slavering mess longing for you," Li replied sarcastically.
"Yeah, something like that," Paulo replied, deadpan. "Anyway, I thought that even such a great symbol of the male sex as me might be received badly, given her state of dress."
Smiling, Li said jokingly, "Are you feeling OK, Paulo? That is definitely not like you, not going into a room with a half-naked girl? Write to the national papers, he is no longer a testosterone-charged idiot but has matured from that stage."
"Still, I might not be available tonight."
"Or you might, if?" She smiled sweetly at him.
"If nothing comes between us."
"Not sure I can permit that," Alex said from behind them, "on pain of being the target in all future sessions of target practice."
"No way, amigo," Paulo replied, looking a tiny bit down.
"Alex, Paulo, while you are arguing about this a young girl is lying there cold, scared and alone in a dungeon, waiting to be rescued, even if it is not by Captain Masculine there," Hex broke in.
"Li, you're on rescue duties, so get in there," Alex finally muttered.
When she arrived at the dungeon, Li was cautious. She had previously heard of similar techniques being used to trap hostages with whom to bargain an escape, so she entered the room without her gun aimed, but in a way so she could bring it to bear in seconds.
The girl was just lying there with her mouth gagged, her hands fastened behind her back, a collar around her neck and a ball and chain attached to her left ankle. There was a key-ring on the wall to the left of the door. It had a number of different keys on it so Li retrieved it.
The first thing she did was removed the gag from the girl's face, then introduce herself quietly, making an effort not to scare the young woman.
"Hi, my name's Li."
The girl replied, "Ginny Weasley."
Li removed Ginny's handcuffs and passed her canteen over.
"What happened to you?"
"I was walking through a wood near my home when I was knocked out by something and I woke up here. Where am I?"
Li was able to give her an answer instantly. "In a Norman keep style folly. about ten miles from where you were picked up."
"How do you know that?" Ginny asked curiously.
"I was watching," Li replied. "Now, do you want out?"
"Definitely."
Li helped Ginny to her feet and supported her as they took her home.
As she returned to the team jeep, Paulo was waiting. "So, what about some fun?" he asked with a wink.
"Have to catch me first..."
"You're on."