OPS Shenanigans

Zero Day Incident

What if during the shootouts in Zero day, things didn't go as well as planned.

"Eric you're exposed" Callen shouted over his shoulder while avoiding the Chechen fire shooting past his head.

"We're working. Ira, I need those orbital calculations. IRA!!" Eric shouts over the reigning gunfire, his hands flying over his keyboard. Now turning to have each hand planted directly over his and Ira's computer as Ira is taking cover behind an air conditioner.

Callen shoots down the first Chechen, he hits the floor hard causing his gun to miss fire.

"Deeks we need a diversion" Sma yells maintaining a cover position"

"Hell, diversions my middle name" Deeks shouts back.

The last shooter aims high above the air conditioner now aiming for Eric but misses due to his weapons recoil.

"Okay, here goes nothing" Eric says sucking in breath, ignoring the pain he could feel in his spine and typing the last line of code on the keyboard.

The shooter fires this time not missing, hitting Eric's and Ira's computers.
"Argh" Eric screams diving for cover behind a station.

"One, two, three" Deeks catapults across the roof distracting the shooter long enough so that Callen and Sam can put two bullets in his chest and hit the sniper on the roof across.

"Ha, ha, hoo!" Deeks yells after luckily escaping the gunfire. The shooters are down Deeks, Sam and Callen.

"All clear" Callen yells. "Deeks?"

"Yeah I'm good. But I am definitely changing my middle name."

Sam notices Eric still lying on the floor at this point he can only see his shoes

"Eric!!" He calls out.

Back at OPS Hetty and Nell hold their breath. They all run over to his place of cover, guns still raised. "Eric?" Same questions.

"Is it over" Eric mumbles his voice shaky. Sam pulls him to his feet.
"heh, it's over"

The attention is drawn away from Eri mad Callen taps back into Coms. "What about the missile" he asks Nell.

"Splashing down in the Pacific" Nell's breath still drawn, she would not be convinced that Eric was okay unless she saw it herself.

"Uh, guys" Eric said now stumbling over his own feet. " you know the odds of misfiring from there" he said pointing to the first fallen shooter" and hitting me, were like a million to one"

"Uh huh"

"The odds were in his favour" Eric crumpled to the floor, blood trickling out of a wound in his side. Sam knelt beside him putting pressure on his wound.

"Nell, call an ambulance Eric is down" Callen practically shouted down the Coms.

"Doing it now" Nell said her voice wavering, silent tears ran down her face. Hetty put her hand on Nell's arm in an attempt to console her. But Nell shook her off, staring blankly at the screen, her best friend was hurt and she could do nothing.

Deeks now also knelt down beside Eric checking his pulse. "Its weak but steady" he said to Callen. "Come on Beale pull through this, Nell is probably crying her eyes out by now and we don't want that, hang on Eric" Deeks whispered into Eric's ear. At the mention of her name Eric seemed to stir slightly.

"Deeks give Sam your jacket" Callen ordered. Deeks didn't even question it, pulling it off and handing it to Sam.
"Sam wrap Deeks' jacket around the wound we need to get him to ground level for when the Ambulance comes."