Time Leap (part-6)

(Tuesday, May 18, 2000)

I'm currently at army headquarters in Washington, waiting for the people in charge who passed the mission intelligence to me.

Honestly, I'm leaving the US Army, this mission has a hint of conspiracy, I just need to know who the spy was infiltrating Al Qaeda to be sure.

After a few minutes of waiting, a group of old people entered the meeting room, everyone is stone-faced, it seems that this failure was not in their plans, something is happening at the highest levels of government.

"Major Blazer, Captain Bell, tell me what happened in Afghanistan three days ago?" asked General Mustang, in charge of Washington HQ.

"I arrived in Afghanistan on the fifteenth of this month, I asked my men to carry out this operation according to the information provided to me, it turns out that the information was leaked to the enemies and 28 soldiers died under my orders in Afghanistan! I agree with the captain! Bell, someone leaked this information to the terrorists!" says Major Blazer.

"Gentlemen, our entire radio conversation was recorded at the base in Afghanistan, you know what happened, I have nothing to say, my words remain the same! Who is the spy inside Al Qaeda? And why is he not more active!" I repeat my words.

"Put yourself together Captain Bell! You don't ask the questions in this room, we do!" says one of the men in uniform.

"I'm not asking questions, I'm demanding answers! You can say what you want! Do what you want, but because of this information you gave us, 28 good men died.

Men who had families to support, a life to live and you are worried about a damn mission that was a trap!" I scream at the end of my words, with tears in my eyes, after all, Leo and the rest of my unit were with me in the good and bad times.

"Major Blazer is this how you discipline your men?" asks General Mustang dissatisfied.

"My soldier is kind of excited, but I agree with him, the mole transmitted false information that led to the deaths of my men! Surely Captain Bell is right, someone is passing information to the terrorists, and you are defending the prime suspect! If I can't share this information with my men and go after this guy, I'm going to accompany Captain Bell and ask for my discharge!" Blazer imposes itself in front of superiors.

" You!!!!!!" General Mustang slams both hands on the table dissatisfied.

"Calm down Mustang, you know they're right. You, as a man who fought on the front lines and bled with his battalion mates, know how these two are feeling! Major Blazer, you have my permission to go after Jack Brooks! I want him here for trial, dead or alive!" Says the President of the United States, as he enters the meeting room.

"Wait!! Major blazer, is this Jack Brooks the son of Ray Brooks?"

"Yes, it's him, why, do you know him?" asks General Mustang

"I don't know this Jack, but his dad is friends with Camp Chief Alan Fitch, I saw the two of them talking when I was training there!

This Ray Brooks is someone with great connections if he finds out we're going after Jack Brooks, he'll make the boy disappear from the map if he's still alive!" I tell half-truths and half-lies to achieve secrecy in the mission.

"Okay, I see what you mean! General Mustang applies martial law with the death penalty if this mission leaves this room, if anything leaks, everyone in this room will be killed! without exception!" says the impassive president.

"More... Mr. President, this is an exaggeration! putting our lives at risk for leaking information! we are neither informants nor terrorists!" says one of the old men.

"Exaggeration you say? where have you been that you haven't seen our embassies being blown up, or our patriot soldiers being killed in ambushes, not to mention the innocent civilians who were killed just for being at the wrong time in the wrong place! and you tell me that I'm exaggerating! I don't care. Just by your stupidity I know you don't deserve this position, you can deliver your dispensation to my desk tomorrow, looks like old age has hit your mind.

Major Blazer and Captain Bell would like to thank you for your services, and humbly ask that you accept this latest mission, and take this Mole, Jack Brooks, to court-martial or to be buried, depending on the situation." Says the president kindly to us.

"Mr. President, I would like to accept, but our unit is in the medical wing, we took a lot of damage in the ambush in Afghanistan, my men can't go on this mission, so I can't accept", I say Cold and indifferently. I'm well aware that this was the work of the conspiracy, it's not just a terrorist attack, it's a domestic situation.

So I don't want to mess with this shit anymore until I have the strength and clout to deal a heavy blow to these bastards.

"Sorry to hear that, I thought you'd be interested in finishing what you started in Iraq three years ago!" says the president with a weak sigh.

"What do you mean?"

"So... The mission this time is to escort Saddam Husseim, we managed to corner and capture him, now we are trying to get him out of Tikrit, Iraq." says the president with a false sigh.

"But because you specifically need me, there are several capable soldiers, why me?"

"Just because Al Qaeda is going to try to free Saddam and form an alliance with him, maybe we can use Saddam to get information from Jack Brooks, what do you think?"

"Fine, I accept! I'm just going to do this mission, after that, you retire me!" I say sighing. Even I don't know why I accepted this mission.

The moment I accepted this mission, my fate was set, I was going to end up under Ray Brooks' crosshairs on that cliff.

The president kindly looks at Alex and says "'Alright, last mission! But no need to rush, we're having a friendly 'conversation' with him"

"How long until this 'conversation' is over?"

"Three months is enough, until then your team will be able to carry out the mission without any problems!"

"Understood!" I salute and leave.

(Friday, August 20, 2000)

We are currently in Iraq, more precisely in an improvised army hideout in Tikrít, we came to get Saddam Husseim, to be tried in the United States.

"Hello, my name is Alexander Bell, leader of the extraction unit, you should already be expecting our arrival, here are the transfer documents."

"Yes sir Captain Bell, the superiors have already informed me, but it's not just the prisoner that will be transferred, we're all going with you!" said the shelter sergeant.

"Alright, pack your bags, we'll be out in 5 minutes"

"Yes sir"

After everything was ready, we were leaving, and then there was an ambush, after some casualties the team under my command managed to escape with the prisoner.

While I remain hidden, preparing to infiltrate the enemy's ranks, my mission is to find or obtain any information about Jack Brooks.

After a few months of infiltrating with the terrorist cell that attacked the shelter, I found Jack Brooks and recorded a conversation between him and Al-Qaeda leaders saying to advance the airstrike on the United States.

After that, as I prepared to run away with the information, I went through all the events that led me to the cliff where I was shot, and here I am listening to the villain Ray Brooks' monologue.

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( Y/N: So guys, give your opinion about this Flashback method I used, As I said before it's a technique I saw in a movie and I decided to use it, I don't know if it was good, tell me me me what you think.

PS Pass your POWER STONES or Ray Brooks will eat your cookies!!