They're waiting for us to pop up. I take out my pistols and a crooked smile manifests itself. Zero looks over, shaking his head, I hop up, "Fuck it!" I get one in the head and the other gets me in the shoulder. "Bolt!" Tango leans out from cover and kills the other one. She grabs my shoulder, "Guess you're not a virgin anymore." She raises a brow as another turns the corner. I push my gun past her head and land a bullet in his throat. "Never mind."

*You guys upstairs?!* Zero leans into his radio, "Yeah, get up here, four guys down." Their boots clunk on the ground and a bullet hits the glass opposite to a lab's door. "Come in here, the bitch dies!" I lean in a little, a scientist has a gun to her head, "Don't you dare!" I turn away and another bullet flies just past my cheek. A door opens in earshot while boots clunk from behind. The door closes and I march in.

Open containers, fridges and four duffel bags. Canisters of liquid nitrogen? Zero sends the other teams down the stairs and Tango finds me over a guard, "What were they trying to steal?" I rub his dog tag, then rub my chin, "Classic terrorist cell." Tango turns, "What?" I shake my hands, "But why Nitrogen? They could have gotten fertilizer. Why hit a lab?" A team in yellow hazmat suits march in. "We need you to evacuate!" But we weren't exposed to anything.

I walk up to one and squint, "Alright, shady." They walk us down and out the way we came. "Arms up." After they finish spraying, I flag down a rough woman from another team, her plate reads Foxtrot, "Hey, you guys get him?" She leans back, "Nope, he got away." I growl and she puts her hands out, "Relax we'll get him."

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Tango nudges onto me, "Hey, where's Zero?" A gunshot goes off and everyone turns and waits. Zero comes on the Radio, *Suspect pulled a gun, he's gone. We got em.* I radio in, "Anything on him?" A moment passes before he replies, *He got away with a few canisters of Nitrogen.* Foxtrot leans back, "Of course Zero got him." I raise my brow, "Why him, exactly?" She just smiles until he comes back, "Zero!" "Foxy!" They bump fists as the cleanup crew take the canisters from him.

Tango smiles, "They seem happy, what you think?" I smile, "Can already hear the church bells." She smiles and I frown, "Did that cherry pop even phase you?" She tilts her head, then I stare off. "My first kill was devastating." "We kill bad people, right?" I raise my head and she cracks a smile. "I thought you wouldn't last..." She gives me that slightly offended, yet feminine stare, "But- I stand corrected."

Zero comes from behind and hugs both of us, "We're clear. Let's head back out." "Let's do it." Tango gets up and zooms to the car, "Shotgun!" I slowly get up and walk towards the car, "Come on, Bolt!" Before I close the sliding door, the hazmat crew hauls the canisters back inside like nothing happened. What a bunch of idiots. The marshal calls in, *Theta, report!* "Yes, sir?" *How's your first official day?* I watch them laugh up front and

I push to talk, "Great, they weren't that bad in the field." *I could have them transferred, if you'd like?* They look back smiling,

"Nah, they're a perfect fit." Tango punches the roof of the car, "Damn righ-ow!" I chuckle from the back seat and she growls, "What's so funny?!" *Good thing I chose right. When you're done, report to Outpost Six.* There it is on the map, just off our route. "Gotcha."