Lieutenant Styles h.s AU

5. Retrieved

Longish chapter, crappy start. Unrevised bc I wanna sleep goodnite.

Location: ???

Time: 4:41 pm

The men prepared to fight, Niall and Sandy along with a handful of other men adjourned to the restricted section of the camp that held their their machinery such as their tanks, army planes and jets, missiles, and explosives.

"It's a small town, probably no more than 3,000 residents, leave all ground machinery, there's no way we can take a tank through the woods." Sandy stated entering the warehouse with the men following behind.

"Let's say 4 jets, 2 men in each?" Niall suggested.

"Yes, let's take that one over there," Sandy motioned to the jet directly in front of him which already had the back ramp opened. "Those two over there, and that one. Load up and be safe."

"Yes, sir."

"Okay, I'm going out to check on the rest of the men coming in, Private Horan, your in charge." Niall nodded waiting for Sandy to exit before sending his men to their jets. Sandy continued on to the center of the camp where men unloaded from helicopters in the distant. "Corporal Beales?" A man called in front of him approaching with his hand out.

"Colonel Jackson, second in command of these men."

"Yes, of course. We were about to take off in 5 minutes." Sandy said continuing to monitor the men behind him.

"Very well then, looks like you've got everything in order."

"Yes we do, if you'd like to help we do need more men taking the jets." Colonel Jackson chuckled placing his him.

"Actually I'm here to take over." Sandy's eyes shot back to him furrowing his eyebrows.

"Excuse me?"

"We're resigning you to Afghanistan along with a handful of your men." Sandy sighed knowing he didn't have time to deal with this at the moment.

"If you could excuse me, I have bigger things to deal with at the moment, so if you could inform everyone that we need to be on the outskirts of town within 15 minutes. I don't want anyone invading before we get our Lieutenant out of there."

"Can't we just fire and hope for the best, he is just one person." Sandy paused contemplating wether or not he was serious.

"Colonel Jackson, in the nicest way possible. You are an inconsiderate asshole. He might just be one person but he is one of my men, I will not leave him in there to die. He has a family and I ensure you he will get out safely. Now I must go." Sandy left Colonel Jackson standing there as he entered the security room.

Dan and Louis sat typing away disregarding the fact that Sandy walked in.

"What do we got?"

"Nothing to signal they have any complex machinery to fight back. Nothing to signal they're out to attack first."

"Okay, Tomlinson I want you on the front line to retrieve Harry." Louis nodded reaching for his gun but Sandy stopped him. "Don't take that, take a small handgun they won't be able to see noticeably. Get a bullet-proof vest on and wear some regular clothes. I want it to look like your just passing by. Once you locate Harry, report it and we'll get him out immediately along with you. Okay?"

"Yes, sir." Sandy nodded.

"Okay, I'll be in here find me before you leave." Louis nodded exiting quickly.