Enlisted: A Rainbow Six Siege Story (Book 2 of the Recruited series)

Chapter 5: Aether

     I wake up and stretch. It's 7:00 when I wake. "Well then," I say and get out of bed. I go to the bathroom. I start thinking about our mission yesterday. "Edward, what have you done?" I say in a German accent. I finish in the bathroom and go to the closet. I start digging through it, trying to find something. Mira stirs and sees me digging in the closet. "What are you doing?" She asks. "Trying to find an old radio. Seen it?" I return. She gets out of bed and walks over to her dresser. She opens the bottom shelf and pulls it out. "This?" "Yea, hand it here?" She hands it over and I turn it on. "Stone to Dempsey. Come in, Dempsey." I say into it. There's a bit of static. "Stone!.....Need.....zombies......overwhelm.....Tak..........Nik......Doc......Ain't good!" I get as a response. "Shit. Time for interdimensional travel." I say. I walk to Harry's office. "Harry! I got to go. I can get some intel on Richtofen while I'm gone." I tell him. "And I'm taking Blu and Mira." "Clearance granted. Do good work, as always." He responds, and I'm off to go get Blu. Mira follows. "Hey, jackass,  want to go see Edward?" I ask him. Binary's on a mission with IQ at the moment, so Blu's all alone. "Hell yea! Which dimension?" He asks. "Dempsey, which dimension are you in?" I ask the radio. "Doc!....Dimension?........Just......Nevada!" The radio says. "Well then, we're going to Nevada!" I say. We get into my truck and go to an airport. I tell the person that we're military and on a mission to Nevada. "Which branch? ID?" She responds. "Look, I don't have a lot of time here, so I need to get 3 on a plane to Nevada," I say. "Well, I can't do that without proper ID and which branch you serve." She says. "Look up Lieutenant Colonel Stone, that should give you something," I say. "Which branch?" She asks looking rather annoyed. "USMC," I say. "Ah, yes. Welcome, Lieutenant Colonel Stone, who are your companions today?" "My wife and best friend, also military. Elena Alverez-Stone, G.E.O, and Chase Dixon, US Army." I say. She adds them to the flight. "You'll be on the next flight to Las Vegas, Nevada. It's 3 gates down, to the left. 737, leaves in half an hour." She says. We say thanks and hustle off. I grab the radio. "Tank! We got a flight, be there in 2 to 3 hours!" I say. "Hurry.........Dyin' here!" I hear. We got a first-class flight as well. We chat about what's about to happen. "Once we get into Nevada, there's going to be a special area called Nuketown. You won't be able to see it until we jump dimensions. Once we get there, I'm going to use this." I say pulling out a vial of 115. "Once this is placed on the spot, I'll use my blood to transport us into the dimension they're in. Do you have your weapons?" They say no. "Good, because you receive a pistol upon arriving. Everything else gets stripped away." The flight is called, and we get on. All 3 of us rest while we're on the flight.

     The plane lands, and we get off. We get off the plane and leave the airport. I take them to the spot. It's just a mile off of the airport. "Ok, here we go," I say, pulling out the vial. I pour the vial out onto the stone slab we uncovered. I start the ritual. "The ritual has...begun," I say, cutting my arm as I say "begun." My blood drips onto the slab, and it activates. "Kneel! It'll hurt less!" I say and they do. It takes a total of 10 seconds for the dimensions to switch. "Alright, get up and move, we don't have a lot of time before the zombies notice us," I say, racking a round into my pistol. "Dempsey! Where are you?" I say into the radio. "We're at the APD. Get here quick; something's about to happen." He says. I take them to the APD. We grab perks and guns on the way down first. "It tastes like shit, but it helps out," I tell them. We also grab some Wonder Weapons. I grab the Ray Gun Mark II-V. I also grab a Hades and Pack-A-Punch it. We take turns Packing and fending off the zombies. Once we all have fully upgraded weapons, we go to the APD. We grab shields while we're there. "Hey, Tank. Long-time no see, huh? How ya been?" I ask him. He turns and pulls me in. "It's been a while. Been good, killing maggot-sacks makes a good time. You?" "Started working for a Black Op, killed a bunch of terrorists." I continue to greet the rest of the crew. "Alright, let's do this," I say, and we activate the APD.