In the command helicopter, Colonel Perez checked out on her coordinates, and then tapped on a special operative's shoulder before motioning him to give her a headset to communicate with the ground troops. After being given her headset, Colonel Perez then put it on her head and set the radio frequency to the one used by the assault teams.
« Good. Rapier team this is Control, do you read me ? » Perez said.
Inside the lead Blackhawk helicopter, Grace heard Perez on her helmet-mounted headset. Knowing Perez would oversee the whole operation from a command helicopter not far from the area of operation.
« Control, this is Rapier team. Got you loud and clear out. » Grace politely said on the radio.
Just then, a call alerted the assault element. It was Robinson, who was at the command post observing the whole situation thanks to satellite feed. Lieutenant-Colonel Robinson and the others saw someone moving to a group of cars and remarked the person in question was followed by some heavily-armed guards before the building exploded while the cars drove away.
« Control and all teams, this is Red Crown. We got a visual on the target building being blown up. There are also several cars heading northwest. » Robinson told on the radio.
« Copy that. » Colonel Perez said before turning the pilot. « Okay. Go Northwest. Target is driving there. » she ordered.
The four UH-60M and the command AS352 helicopters then flew northwest before the lead pilot spotted the targets indeed driving towards hostile territory. Grace understood this was the climax of a long and protracted hunt for the one called The Cleric.
The lead Blackhawk then easily caught up with the lead car while the fourth car was intercepted by the fourth Blackhawk. Grace then pointed her M4A1 carbine at the windshield of the front car and fired at the driver, killing him with two bullets to the chest and one to the head. Just before the guys behind could fire, a US Army Green Beret in the back of the second Blackhawk fired his HK417 rifle at the gunman, killing him instantly. The two other US Army GB commandos behind him fired their HK416 rifle at the two other gunmen and shot them dead while the German operatives fired their G36K rifles at the second car, killing the terrorists inside.
The operatives inside Colonel Dawn Perez's helicopter and Perez herself fired their rifles from inside the AS352 Cougar at the fourth car, killing all of the fleeing gunmen while the NZSAS operatives inside the fourth Blackhawk killed the last fleeing bad guys.
As the third Blackhawk circled around, Perez's helicopter and the first Blackhawk landed on the ground before Perez, the French operatives and Rapier team disembarked their helicopters and ran to the third car. The occupants, among whom none other than Don Totges, tried to run away, only to be shot dead by the French operatives, Brock, Greg, Dan and Rick in the third helicopter. Totges himself then faked surrender while at gunpoint from Perez and Grace.
« Get down ! » Perez yelled as she pointed her M4A1 carbine at Totges, who walked towards the duet.
« Get down ! » Grace agressively told the gunman, unaware he had an explosive-filled backpack.
Totges then kept walking forward before revealing a detonator, causing Grace and Dawn Perez to shoot him with two shots in the chest each. Grace and Perez saw Totges slumping forward dead before coming to the dead body, which they promptly searched for any evidence connecting him to the group named Army For the Lord.
Just as she searched the terrorist's left pocket, Grace found something. Taking it out, she found out it was actually a crude drawing of the place of his next planned attack, which was actually the Louvre Museum and Notre Dame. Colonel Perez searched Totges' satchel and found some blueprints of Paris, where he was planning his next attacks. She also found a roster of the police patrols and their patrol routes signed with the initials of the Army For the Lord.
« Grace, I found out why this guy Totges was so keen on bringing the two of us with him. » Colonel Perez said.
« Yes, Ma'am. I think The Cleric is Totges. » Grace announced as she took a list of the Cleric's contacts within law enforcement.
Grace and Colonel Perez watched the evidence they collected, since they now knew they killed the terrorist mastermind, Don Totges aka The Cleric. Colonel Perez indeed found out the part with « The Cleric » written on had Totges' signature while the other documents also had the same imprint.
Colonel Perez, Grace and the other operatives boarded their helicopters back with all of the evidence needed, as well as the bodies of the gunmen and their leader's.
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Task Force Cobra
Fiksi UmumA compilation of short stories featuring female operatives within multinational special operations Task Force Cobra. Their goal? To protect their contry and their interests. Their name? Confidential. Their past? Confidential.
