Chapter 91 - Setting the Rescue Stage

28 December, Airport, City K

The last domestic flight from the capital pulled up to its arrival gate at City K's airport. Unlike everyone else on board, a group of twelve men sat waiting for everyone else to depart the plane.

When the plane was otherwise empty the airline staff approached one man and said "Major Dang, as per the request we have stairs waiting for two of your party to deplane and secure the items that you placed in the hold, and have otherwise made efforts to secure your departure from the airport with minimal attention."

"Thank you."

"It is not a problem. Unusually the crew on this flight are all ex-military, and given the indication we received that you needed assistance for something secret it is not an issue for us to have cooperated with you. Please let us know if there is anything else that we can do for your team."

"All we ask is that you say nothing about us being military, just treat our presence as normal passengers."

"That is not a problem."

With that two men were quickly escorted down to the tarmac to secure all their luggage from the hold, while the rest of them followed the staff to a VIP airport exit, where two trucks and three four-wheel drive vehicles were waiting for them. Quickly the group loaded themselves into the vehicles and drove to a warehouse that had been loaned to them by JL International, to serve as their staging base. Once they were inside the warehouse and set up their jamming equipment, they quickly sat down.

Major Pang started "Gentleman, you all know why we are here. Each one of us owes Colonel Rong for something he has done for us. For Majors Dang, Wang and myself he saw something in us when we were young and stupid and gave us a chance to resurrect our careers within the military. He has done something similar for each one of you. Now we are going to help him."

"The Colonel, who is originally from City K, was just reassigned to become head of the special forces here at the base. From what we have been told he attended a family function last night and was given a lift to his personal home from his sister-in-law to be. She was targeted for kidnapping by the Devil and ISX. The Colonel simply appears to be collateral damage when this kidnapping was effected."

"As the Devil and ISX stuck in the city, the local special forces group is not being used. This is to prevent any impacts on the rescues mission, hence our presence. We have a general location, south of the city, but are awaiting confirmation of an exact location to execute a rescue mission. The priority is securing Colonel Rong and any other hostages we find there. Taking prisoners rather than killing the terrorists is preferable, but that is a secondary matter."

"As to where the general location is, you need to get ready to move out in thirty minutes, so we can get to a closer location to stage ourselves for the final movements once we have our confirmed location."

There was an immediate "Yes Sir," and nine of the group quickly started readying their equipment.

"Ben, what are you thinking" asked Joseph Wang.

"Joseph, David. You know we owe the colonel, but we all know the Devil's actions. National headquarters are hopeful that they will have a location in about an hour from now, when they have received enough locating signals from the Colonel's talisman. Assuming that the Devil does not get any intelligence about our actions we have a high likelihood of success, but if he has any information those odds reduce."

"True. You know that the Colonel suspects Major Hung or someone in his intelligence team is leaking information?"

"We know David," responded Joseph Wang. "Hence why he has arranged for our reassignments to City K. My wife is happy on that, returning to her hometown after so many years, and I know your wife is also the same Ben."

"But not my wife. Unlike you two, our oldest children are at school, and we are moving within the next couple of weeks so that they can start school when it resumes, rather than having a disrupted start. She told me that Colonel Rong better make it worth our while or she will kill him."

"David, we all know what they will find out in a few months, that will make it worth it. Now we better stop being distracted about what is happening and focus on moving out for this rescue mission. Distractions will be risky."

The three of them moved over to the rest of the team and finalised their initial staging before moving out.

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