The doors open and even as Katerina pretends to raise her hands in surrender bullets whiz around her, hitting the three guards opening the door-like gate. With liquid fast reflexes Kat has her own gun unholstered and the two lay waste on the guards at the door before proceeding in. They're relying on Al to cover the wall and the guard towers, and Serena to help in any way she can.
Past the walls is the courtyard, full of various buildings to pack, ship, and distribute cocaine. Thugs file out of them quickly, and Katerina and Arya are forced to make their stand at the gate, unable to go in any further.
"Grenade!" Kat yells, yanking one out of her belt and pulling the clip with her teeth before tossing it into a throng of thugs. The courtyard lights up as blood and bodies fly everywhere, diminishing their numbers by a few, but not by many.
"There are more men then I've seen in one compound before," Arya snapped, ducking behind the wall to reload.
"Looks like he was expecting this than," Kat replied loudly, "Let's just hope someone gets to him before he runs off."
In truth, she still harbored a loathing hate for the man, and if she got the chance to put a bullet in his head she would. But the mission was to clear the whole compound out.
"Grenade!" Arya yelled, tossing another one in and calling through her radio, "Al there's reinforcements coming down the south east wall!"
It took a while but eventually the numbers diminished to only a few, the girls and the sniper taking on most of the courtyard while the men had snuck around back to take that side and whoever they found inside Narco's mansion of a hideout.
"I got these assholes," Arya called over to Kat about the three men hiding in the factory on their right, both of the ghosts unharmed other than a few scratches from bullets, "I'll plant the C4 if you want to canvas the other buildings.
Kat nodded and ran ahead, ducking in and out of buildings making sure no one was left as she made her way towards the main building. When she got to it she blew the brains out of the two guards at the front door, before going inside.
All was deathly quiet.
There was no one here. She toured the main floor and found no one, then snuck up the stairs to the second floor, looking down the left hall and then the right...
"Shit Lion!" her breath stuck as she rushed down the hall, dropping to her knees beside him, and the group "Is he alive?"
Alex was amazing.
She watched him in fascination, taking down men miles away on that roof top. Using her binoculars she could see them fall, each shot hitting its target.
But a rustle in the bushes behind her made Serena's attention turn, as her head swiveled. She knew Al had to be completely focused on his task, or any of their team mates could suffer from a missed shot.
"It's probably just a rabbit or deer," Serena shrugged off, leaving Al to focus as her brown eyes stared into the jungle behind them.
She knew better than to think rabbit or deer lived in Bolivia. Sure, there was the chance it was a small animal, but it could also be a number of predators. She didn't have long to wonder as the bushes rustled again and she caught sight of metal amongst the leaves and a hand before she dove.
The bullet barely missed her leg as she rolled sideways and jumped up, trying to find the assailant in the trees again. Her heart pounded and she could barely breath, adrenaline and terror rapidly filling her.
"Al there's reinforcements coming down the south east wall!" Arya's voice buzzed through the radio Serena had dropped by his hip.
She knew then and there Al would be torn, between doing his one duty to the mission and protecting them from both ending up dead. And they'd left him with a partner who had no training and could hear the blood rushing in her ears.
In a split second decision Serena yelled, "I got it!" while lunging away from another shot her knees digging into the dirt as she slid up beside Alex. She grabbed his hand gun from his hip, not sure how to use it, but ready to try.
Another shot fired and just missed her shoulder as she rushed towards the trees, and by pure luck tackled him. Both of them tumbled into the bush, disappearing from sight as they wrestled for the upperhand, the assailant wanting one last death for the cartel, and Serena fighting for not just her life but her boyfriend's too. Too quickly though she lost the gun in her hand, watching it fly away and back onto the cliff ledge, meters from where she struggled with the man trying to kill her. Now there was only one gun, and they both fought for it, Serena clawing and kicking at him while he continued to jab her sides as use his strength against her. They tumbled and tossed, rolling deeper into the trees as she tried to scramble away and he caught her, only to be kicked in the stomach as she turned and threw all her weight into her legs. She couldn't see Alex anymore of the cliff ledge, all she could see was colors of green and brown. Serena knew her strength was outmatched, as well as her aim with a gun. But adrenaline drove her to continue fighting, letting the fear push her to the limits.
Suddenly the gun loosened from his grip and she sent her elbow into his nose, trying to gain possession of the weapon. It slipped from her fingers though and he kneed her in the hip, shattering the bone as she screamed, both in pain and fury, the gun dropping down beside them. Her fist hit dead center into his nose, breaking it as he also yelped and grabbed at his now bleeding nose. His eyes shot right towards the gun as did hers and they scrambled for it, each reaching in hopes they'd get it first........
BAM!
A single shot fired, and the trees went silent.
