"Eight Little Soldiers Went Off World One Day
Through The Galaxy And Far Far Away
Hammond Went Crap Crap Crap Crap
And Only Four Little Soldiers Came Back"
- Copyright © to Sonnie Naughty Devil Publications and Sausage Publications
As they walked across the tarmac, the group was laughing and joking around while carrying their gear. As they came closer to the hanger, they ignored the two people who appeared to be watching them.
"We fly high…"
"Because we ARE high!" Laughing they moved closer to the duo.
"Ky?"
"Let's get low, and lets get faaast!" She grinned as they past the duo. Laughing, they all high-fived each other, before a booming voice ran through their minds.
"Lieutenants!" Jumping the four turned around and snapped into attention and saluted to duo. "Haven't you been taught to salute a senior officer when you see them?"
"Yes sir,"
"Then why didn't you?"
"You're not in dress sir, we didn't know," Kya stated looking directly at him.
"You must be Lieutenant Rhodes!" He stated.
"Yes sir,"
"Well then lieutenant, from what I've been told you should know better!"
"Yes sir,"
"Lieutenants!" Another voice called. "Get your asses over here NOW!" Spinning around they jogged across the hanger. With the duo following.
"Sir?"
"Get your gear stored, briefing in five!"
"Yes sir!" They stated, saluting before quickly leaving. Looking up he glared at the duo.
"Who do you think you are? MY lieutenants have work to do!"
"You're lieutenants should learn to salute senior officers,"
"They know what to do! You stay away from them!" He hissed, before turning on his heal and stalking off.
"Right! What did we learn today?" He stated looking at the room, noticing the duo sitting at the back.
"To salute the Yankees no matter what they are?" Kya stated which got a laugh from everyone.
"Lieutenant…" He warned.
"Sorry sir."
"Anyone else?"
"That they're up themselves? Sir?" Smirking Kya bowed her head, knowing she was going to receive a glare any minute.
"Lieutenant Rhodes!"
"Yes sir!" She stated standing. As he came right up to her she swallowed.
"What did we learn today?" He whispered coldly.
"To take out the enemy before they know what hit them, sir. To be stealth and manoeuvre around them without letting anyone, including your team mates where you are, as the enemy could be monitoring the radio signals."
"Very good! Now lieutenant, can you tell me why this is important?" He asked moving away.
"So we don't get caught in the cross fire and go down sir,"
"More,"
"So that we don't give out our positions to the enemy and get our team killed, sir,"
"Anything else?"
"So we can get the job done with minimum casualties, sir,"
"Sit!" Turning he saw Kya sitting, and grabbed her arm pulling her back up.
"Sir?"
"You are to lead the next wave; I don't want anyone going down!"
"Understood sir!"
"Dismissed!" As the room cleared he let go of Kya's arm.
"Colonel?" She frowned.
"If anyone goes down Kya…"
"I know sir, if we lose one we loose everyone,"
"Exactly. Don't bother coming back if someone goes down,"
"Yes sir!" She stated, with a sharp salute, and quickly left the room.
"That's not really ethical is it?"
"Who the hell are you?" The colonel snapped glaring at them.
"Colonel Jack O'Neill, and Major Samantha Carter, united states air force,"
"And what is it that you're doing here colonel?"
"We're actually after Lieutenant Rhodes, we have her transfer papers. She is to come with us,"
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me, now if she doesn't come back from what ever suicide mission you have planned, you're ass will be court martialled!"
"You can't threaten me colonel! She is still under my command and we're in the middle of protecting our country from the Middle East terrorists!" He spat.
"Alright boys and girls, lets do this!"
"We got ya Roads!"
"Where art thou Romeo?" Kya laughed.
"We're here Roads!"
"Let's get low and let's get fast!" As they approached the enemy territory a voice came through their radios.
"Blue squadron, this is base"
"This is blue leader, base,"
"We have a situation, come back…"
"Base that is not an option,"
"Leader this is NOT up for discussion, you are to abort!"
"Base abortion is NOT an option, requesting radio silence! Alright boys and girls, radios off and let's do this!" As each pilot turned off their radios, they went through into enemy terrain, and dropped bombs, and fired at the planes they encountered.
Sighing he turned around, and looked at the board, while Jack and Sam stayed within ear shot, but out of the way.
"Sir, we knew it would be close,"
"I'm well aware of that captain,"
"Yes sir,"
"Colonel, no matter how close they were you knew Kylana wouldn't turn around, she's gotten to where she is by her willingness to…"
"I know," he sighed.
"She knows what's at stake. She wouldn't abort this if you called them back seconds after they took off!"
"Mm..." Sighing he turned to look at everyone. "Let's just hope they come home, keep all channels open and watch for anything!"
"Yes sir!" They all stated, moving back to work as he left with Jack and Sam in toe.
"What so that's it?" Jack questioned.
"She requested radio silence; I can't keep talking to her,"
"Yes you can! You're her CO!" Spinning around he glared at Jack.
"I don't know how you operate colonel, but I do NOT put my people in danger, Lieutenant Rhodes knows that! All their radios are off! There is no point in trying to contact them! When the job is done they will be back!"
"And if someone goes down?" He countered.
"She'll still have to report!"
"I swear colonel if anything happens to her out there I will have your ass court martialed!" Glaring at him, the colonel stalked off.
"Was that really wise sir?" Sam whispered looking at him.
"We need that kid Carter!"
"I know but accusing the colonel and threatening him…"
"Look, we need her and he told her basically to commit suicide if anyone went down. I'm not going to stand by and watch a kid do that!"
"Yes sir," she whispered.
Just over two hours later the radio came back to life. As everyone jumped they looked around waiting for something to come through.
"Base this is road runner," a whispered voice stated.
"GET THE COLONEL!"
"This is base, go ahead road runner,"
"Taken a hit, everyone's still flying high…"
"Because we are high!" Another voice came filtering through. This got a few laughs from the people in the control tower.
"What's your problem roads?"
"Need a medical team on stand-by. We're on our way back. I don't know how, but something hit us. There's a hole in the canopy. I'm struggling to keep her steady." She breathed. "We're going to be coming in hard. I can't see anything and goose will be navigating me in…"
"What happened roads?"
"I'm still not sure colonel! Target was destroyed! I repeat target was destroyed!"
"That's good to hear lieutenant!"
"We're on our way home sir," she whispered.
"Hang in there Ky, we're almost there!" He heard goose state. "Alright take her down… Ky not so fast! Go up, go up!" Sighing she closed her eyes. But soon felt the plane take another dip. "Kya, what are you doing?"
"Just tell me where the tar starts; I can see where the buildings are,"
"Ky, are you sure about this?"
"Not really, but if anything happens, it's been a total honour to have known you goose! You too guys! Romeo, Terminator!"
"Nothings going to happen Roads! Just get her down, and we'll see ya when you wake up!" Smiling she nodded slightly.
"Easier said then done tonight!" She whispered. Minutes later the plane hit the tarmac hard. As the brakes were applied the plane skidded to a sudden stop seconds before it ran out of tar. As the canopy was popped carefully. The medic's took Kya out and rushed her into one of the examination rooms.
"Right! What happened out there people?"
"Well sir, everything went to plan. We went in, and took out the target. There were some bogies hanging around I think waiting for us, but Roads took them out, and we moved around and covered each other. We don't know what happened. We were on our way back and as soon as the radios were back on, Roads called a may-day," Romeo said gently, looking at his hands the entire time. Sighing Terminator picked up.
"We wanted to know what was wrong. We tried to contact her, we think she was either ignoring our calls or switched off the radio for a period of time. When she finally started talking to us, it was to tell us that she couldn't see. Something had hit the canopy and she took a direct hit to the head. She was pretty out of it, and we tried to keep her awake by getting her to talk to us. She then contacted base," nodding the colonel then looked at Goose.
"Goose?" Keeping her eyes on the table she shrugged.
"I can't add anything else sir," she whispered.
"Goose, if you know anything about what happened then we need to know. You might not think it's important but it could save her life!"
"I understand sir, but I don't know what happened either. One minute we were talking the next there was a massive bang, and we spiralled for a few hundred meters before Roads got it back under control, and we got back in contact and came in,"
"You sure that's all?"
"Yes sir," sighing he nodded.
"Alright, go get cleaned up, and we'll find out what's going on,"
"Yes sir!" They all stated before getting up and leaving quickly and quietly. However as they were walking to their dorms, Jack had followed them, at a slight distance, but still in ear shot.
"Goose, you should have told him,"
"I promised her I wouldn't,"
"The colonel's right, it could save her life!"
"She's not that bad,"
"How do we know that?" Swallowing she stopped and looked at the two men with her.
"She made me promise! She made me! She told me if she found out I said anything…" Trailing off she looked away.
"Hey you know Ky's all talk! She'd never hurt any of us!" Sniffling she nodded.
"It's not that,"
"Then what?"
"She said she'd tell people who my parents were, who my father is, and… I joined the air force to prove my self, I changed my name and everything just so the connection wouldn't be made and I'd get anywhere like everyone else."
"You know she wouldn't blurt that out! Gees Beck!"
"I'm sorry I can't risk it! She's done stuff before remember!"
"That's only because we started telling people who HER father was!"
"I'm sorry guys, I don't need to be treated any differently, and I don't want to be! Kya's strong she'll pull through this!"
"It's head trauma!" Romeo exclaimed.
"I'm not stupid Roy I was THERE!" She yelled back.
"I'm just saying she needs us right now, and you holding shit back, isn't helping!"
"I don't go back on my promises like SOME people do!" She hissed, glaring at him.
"Hey I never promised anything!"
"Alright you two! That's enough! If Ky made Beck promise, then that's it! We'll take shifts by her side and see her through this!"
"Yeah and what about those two Americans? I bet there here hunting for new meat!"
"They want Ky,"
"How do you know?"
"She's the best you idiot! Why would they be looking at any of us when they can take her? She can tell you exactly where the enemy is way BEFORE they're on the radar! Of course they're after her!"
"Is that all the more reason to hinder her recovery?"
"I'm not hindering anything!"
"Then tell the colonel!"
"NO!" She screamed as a tear ran down her cheek. "You don't get it! She doesn't want to go! I can't say anything because she'd rather die then be transferred to the other side of the world!"
"That was the promise?" Terminator asked gently. Swallowing she nodded.
"Yes, she told me that what ever happened I couldn't say anything until she'd…" Swallowing she closed her eyes. "Until she'd gone," taking a deep breath the three looked at each other. Understanding in each gaze. Sighing they nodded.
"Alright, but after that you come clean! You tell the colonel! You tell him everything, and I mean everything! About the promise and her not wanting to go, about how she knew, about everything!" Nodding Goose swallowed.
"I will," and with that they parted and went into their separate dorm rooms.