Young Heroes

Magadan, Russia

  "FREEZE!" The woman in front screamed, aiming a hand gun straight at us. I spun around so my whole body was facing her. "YOU ARE PLACED UNDER ARREST THROUGH THE AUTHORITY OF SDI FORCE! COME WITH US EASILY AND NO ONE WILL BE HARMED." She yelled. Her voice was as tight as the imaginary noose around my neck. She was average height and build, with her boring brown hair pulled tightly back into a ponytail. Her lips were set in a straight, thin light, and her eyes reminded me of a snakes.
  "You know, we've been chasing after you people for a while and this is the first time I've actually met one of you people." I said nonchalantly. "Is that all we had to do to get y'all to come out of the dark? Cause a little trouble? If it is, that may not be a lesson you want to enforce with us." I said, my lips kicking up into a smirk when Joe tapped twice on my wrist, meaning we were going to transport.
  "I just think that you guys might've missed your chances." I said coolly with a wink, and with that I gripped Joe's hand just as the gun went off, while he held onto Sophia, and Nathan and Carson went off themselves so we could all regroup.
  In the blink of an eye we weren't in the office anymore, but somewhere I'd never seen before.
  "Uhh...Joe I think you took us to the wrong—" I stopped short when I turned, and saw him clutching his abdomen, blood staining his suit, a look of pale shock masked his face.
  "JOE!" Me and Sophia both shouted. We ran to him and caught him before he collapsed, unconscious. I caught his head and Sophia held onto his upper body as we fell to the ground.
  "Oh geez, he was shot in..." I muttered in a panic, tying to pinpoint with my fingers. "Most likely the liver. If the bullet entered straight, it hit it like a direct bullseye. Put pressure right there." I instructed Sophia, pointing to where he was shot. She was visibly shaking and I squeezed her shoulder before standing up.
  I walk a few feet away, trying to get a location on where we were.
  I cursed when the service on my watch wasn't working. It was supposed to be linked to every service tower in the U.S.
  Unless we weren't in America anymore...
  I ran my hands slowly over my face, trying to think. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes, looking around.
  It was pretty barren and it appeared we were in the middle of a field of frosted grass with forest surrounding either side of us. A good distance away, you could see large, snow capped, breathtaking mountains. It was freezing, so that I could see my breath. That definitely would not be good for Joe.
  It's frickin February. Where the hell does it snow like this in February?
  The answer hit me like a ton of bricks. I've seen this familiar terrain many times before. We must be in Russia.
  "Dannazione..." I cursed under my breath.
  But the first priority was Joe. Then we'd worry about finding help later. Okay...first thing you do when your shot...
  Stop the bleeding...Sophia's probably got that covered. Then you have to clean it...we'll figure that out...then we have to get the bullet out...
  I groaned to myself and walked back to Sophia.
  "The b-bleeding is pretty much under control. I don't think the bullet went very d-deep." She said, stumbling over her words as she looked up to me. Partially because it was freezing, partially because we were all shaken up.
  "Sophia it's ok, I'll handle this now. I want you to try to get a signal or something...anything that can help us. But stay close so that you can hear if I call you." I said, gently taking her blood soaked hands off of his abdomen. The bleeding had pretty much stopped. At least one slightly good thing came out of the cold weather.
  I looked around for materials for my makeshift procedure. I stood up and ripped a large leaf from a nearby tree. The leaf was nearly frozen but whatever.
  "Sophia!" I called.
  She came running to me from the top of a small hill we were at the bottom of.
  "Ash, I think there's a barn or house that way!" She shouted excitedly, sliding down and landing on the ground next to me.
  "Oh, thank God, that's great." I sighed. "Okay, we'll go in a few minutes but first, I need you to put snow in that leaf and try to melt it, get it as warm as possible. But not hot." I said.
  She took it and shoveled some snow in and began slowly heating it with her powers.
  "Do you happen to have any kind of peroxide or alcohol of some sort?" I asked doubtfully.
  She pulled a small bottle of whiskey out of her cloak and threw it at me, not looking up.
  I made a face before ignoring it and taking the cap off.
  "Please don't wake up..." I whispered over and over to myself, looking to Joe's face as I slowly poured the alcohol on his wound.
  I let out a breath when he remained unconscious, and I moved to the next step. I needed to take out the bullet.
  Using my bare hands would do him more harm then good, and all I had on me were knives and arrows.
  "Sophia do you have anything I could use as tweezers?" I turned to her desperately.  
  "Hmm...oh! I have these things I use to keep up my hair." She said, pulling two hair sticks and a couple Bobby pins from her hair. 
  "That'll have to do..." I mumbled, taking them. I washed them with alcohol and hovered them hesitantly over my friends unconscious body.
  "Someone save us." I said to myself, before I took a deep breath, and began.