Chapter 1- Escape
*Dreaming… *
W e were in a helicopter waiting to land. Everyone was quiet and focused on completing the mission.
“Landing in five!” Yelled the Pilot.
I looked around at the men in the chopper with me. My team contains four elite Navy Seals other than myself. John Carter, Assault position, highly trained military combat expert. Aaron Gold, Sniper and Gunslinger, he never misses a shot, always loaded with a bullet in the chamber. Chris Doll, Medic and support, before he was in the Seals he was a doctor that lost all his family from The Voice, you can see the vengeance in his eyes. Terrell Jackson, Defense Position, bodybuilder that has a passion for breaking things, especially doors. We have been together for a long time they all became family to me. I looked down and pulled out a picture of my daughter, Sarah.
“You have a beautiful girl there captain … She reminds me of mine,” Chris said.
“Thank you Chris, and do not worry. We will avenge your family. Today might be the day we stop The Voice.”
“I sure hope so captain… I sure hope so.” (Chris turned his head and focused his attention out the window.)
The pilot of the helicopter hovered over the ground.
“Were in standby Captain!” Yelled the Pilot.
“Open the doors.”
The cold breeze started to spread into the helicopter.
“Throw the ropes! Chris, Aaron! Go!”
They grabbed the rope and started sliding down.
“John, Terrell! Go! Thanks for the ride.”
“Anytime captain, I’ll see you on the other side, take care!” said the Pilot.
I saluted him and grabbed the rope. I jumped and started to slide down from the chopper to the ground, my team was holding their positions.
“Here we are Gentlemen, Alaska. ”
“Our communication to headquarters cut out captain,” John stated.
“There has to be some technology here interfering with our signal,” Chris responded.
“ Communication jammer?” Terrell asked.
“It’s more than likely a jammer , we have to find it and disable it or we won’t have any transportation back to the U.S.,” Chris said.
“Let’s start moving, k eep all eyes open, we don’t know what we could be dealing with here…The sun will begin to set soon, the target must be terminated before the sun goes down.
“Looks like a bliz zard will come during the night,” John said.
“We s hould find some shelter captain,” Aaron said.
“Right, everyone keep a look out for some shelter. It looks like we will have a long night ahead of us.”
W e traveled through the forceful weather that Alaska presented us. After some time of trying to keep warm along with kicking our feet through the thick snow, we encountered an abandon town.
“The communication jammer could be somew here in one of these buildings… Follow.”
We rushed to the closest building. It was a smaller building compared to the others.
“Terrell, door. Aaron, window, Status? ”
Aaron peeked through the window. “Clear.”
“Door ready to breach, three… Two…One…” *BOOM*
We breached into the building.
“Search the building, Aaron you’re with me. Terrell, Chris, John, clear upstairs.”
“Copy that.” The three of them went upstairs.
“There’s nothing in here captain just furniture,” Aaron said.
John came down from upstairs. “You got to see this captain.”
We headed upstairs. “Do you see that building?”
“Yes… What about it.”
“ There is a satellite on top of the building. If you look at the others, none of them have a satellite. That looks like the building we need to clear out.”
“ Hmm…Okay listen up, put your suppressors on and night vision goggles. We’re heading to that building.”
We geared up the suppressors and goggles and headed down the stairs. We sneaked from building to building. There was no sight of any living things. The building was on the other side separated by a big opening.
“ Chris.”
“On it.”
Chris
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