Sleep well. You earned it. Wraith stands over him for a moment before turning and walking away, taking his seat. "ETA?"

"A few hours."

He nods absent-mindedly, considering other things first. "Any word on Wolf yet?"

"Yes, sir," answers the pilot over some idle noise. "They have a position already, but it isn't very clear. Somewhere in the States."

Wraith pauses and looks down, thinking hard. All the way back in the States...

(( Please don't make any rash assumptions. ))

Hiraku nodded as he watched some of the soldiers doze off. "Today went well." He however saw one injured. Wanting to help, he walked over to him and kneeled down. "Is everything all right?"

"Naw... I got shot in the leg." He clenched his teeth and tilted his head back in pain.

"What you did was very brave. I'm sure you will be rewarded greatly."

The soldier gave him an odd look. "Who are you anyway? You look like that Monk guy."

"I am a monk, but I am not Monk. I was called here to check up on things." He looked around. "However, it looked like my presence here was not important."

The soldier shook his head. "Actaully. I like to have someone who looks a little different around, especially someone with religion on the shoulder. Hey, could you... prey with me a little? Help me forget and maybe ease the pain."

Hiraku nodded and stood up. "Of course." He lowered his head and started a chant in Japanease. It was beautiful and soothing all at the same time.



Monk took the PDAP and gave it an odd look. It wasn't like the one he used to carry, and the face on the other end was not an expression that he saw a lot either. "Why are you giving Wraith command of that mission?"

Monk gave him a puzzled look. "Mi... Mission? What mission?"

"Don't play stupid with me soldier! I know what the hell's going on! You can't keep things under my nose."

"Uh..." He looked around and started to rub the back of his neck. "You see..."

"What would make you think that it would be okay to have him launch with a team of special forces to Russia for some unknown reason!?"

"Uh... You see sir."

"And where were you? If this was such an important mission, why didn't you go? Or Wolf!? He's at least second in command. Oh wait! He's in the other side of the world for again, another unknown reason! Do you know why they left!?"

Monk looked for answer, but nothing came to mind. He was still afraid of the General yelling at him. "Uh... no sir?"

"No!? NO SIR!? I give you command, and you don't even know why you're sending all you're soldiers around."

"I didn't give... such... commands." It was hard trying to speak in military jargon.

"Oh, so let me guess, they just ran off while you were off playin' on you're computer?"

"Uh... I guess so. Sir."

"God damn it! Why are you playin' dumb with me? Why won't you tell me what the hell is going on? I'm the General for god's sake!"

"Uh... everything is code clearance... red..."

"Red!? Are you... You've been on the computer way too long soldier. Where have you been?"

Monk looked for an answer but none came. "Uh... I got to go sir."

"What!? Are you just gonna...?" Monk shut the PDAP on him. "Uh... I got scared." It soon started to ring again. Monk looked at it, then up at Jade. What do I do!?"

Jade looked at the PDA while it ringed. Jade grabbed it out of Monk's hands. "I'm sorry General, but Jade isn't feeling well, she'll be with you in a second." "Well see that she is." Jade took out a piece of paper from her pocket and scribbled something down on it. She then handed it to Monk. "Here, read this out to the General."

Monk looked at the piece of paper and tried to deciper what was written. There were a few words he could make out, but it was still odd. He never knew how bad his writing was until he saw it thorugh another's person's eyes. He squinted his eyes, but nothing came to him. "Jade!?" He could hear the General screaming.

"Yes!" He threw the paper over his shoulder. "I'm not... feeling well. You see... I have..." He thought of a ailment, but nothing came to mind. Until, "Uh... it's the time of the month."

The General was stunned for a moment as he contemplated what was just said. "Uh... I see."

"So... get off my back, huh!?"

The General was now on the defense. "Uh... I'm sorry. I didn't know. Uh... I'll just talk with you... later..." And this time he was the one to hang up.

Monk nodded in victory and held out the PDAP to Jade. "All right. That should keep him away for a little while. How was that? Did I do good?"

OOC: Oh.My.God.

BIC: Jade turned bright red and her jaw almost dropped to the floor, which was really funny looking in Monk's body. "You didn't...How...But...You don't..." She couldn't even find the words to explain what just went on. She just walked up to Monk and patted him on his...her..whatever shoulder. "Don't talk anymore ok? Let's just go." Before walking out of the room, she took her pda back and dialed up Coyote. "Uh, hi Coyote. I have a favor to ask of you."

"Fine, I'm bored any way. What can this salty dog do for my lovely ally."

Jade explained the situation to Coyote...((OOC: Too long for me to bother with here)). "So I need you to pose as me...well Jade except that I am Jade...you get the idea. Just keep the General out of our hair until we come back. I really appreciate it." Jade turned to Monk. "Let's go, and remember...no talking."

Coyote summoned a mirror and changed into jade and checked him/herself out in the mirror.

"I really hate being a girl." He/she said in Jade's voice. He cupped his/her boobs. "Honestly what is the point of these things?"

"She is so going to owe me for this. I do have to admit she does keep herself in good shape."

OOC: Must...not...laugh...HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH ! <clears throat>...now back to seriousness...i think.

BIC: The soldiers amassed again for a third time, coming at the cave harder and faster than before. Wolf knew that there were more soldiers than ammo, and he began to worry. He tried taking soldiers down with one-shot kills, but he realized it was impossible to do under the circumstances, so he just kept blazing away. On the other side of the cave, Katlin was doing the same.

Mastermind's troops fell in droves, but they just kept coming.

Wolf reloaded his last AK clip, rather than throw the weapon, because he knew that he still had a grenade left. He looked for a replacement weapon, and noticed that the M16 lay on the ground, in plain view unfortunatley, but he didn't have a choice.

I still have two clips for it, now's the time to use them.

Wolf emerged from cover, shouting and firing as he did. He moved quickly, bulletes whizzing through the air around him. Picking up the M16 in his right hand, and holding the AK in his left, he began working his way back to cover, firing away.

That's when his luck ran out. First a round punched through his upper left arm, causing him to twist from the force. Then a second bullet struck his right thigh, causing him to lose balance. The third bullet that hit him...punched right through the flak jacket and went through his right torso. Wolf fell, but managed to fire his last grenade, hitting the last recon buggy, destroying it, and killing 10 other soldiers. The force of the blast also caused the remaining 100 or so troopers to run for cover, fearful of another grenade.

Wolf edged his way back behind cover, coughing up blood. Lung hit... he thought.

Katlin made a move to go to him, but Wolf gestured for her to stay where she was. Katlin did, remembering there were still hostile soldiers out there.

"How bad is it?" she asked.

"I've been lung shot. I'm not sure if the nano augmentations can patch it up in time, I've been working them pretty hard."

Willing his legs to work, Wolf propped himself up on a rock, and began to painfully reload the M16. "I only have one more clip after this." he said, his vision beginning to tunnel from the pain and blood loss.

"We don't stand a chance do we?"

"We still have a chance...but in case one or both of us don't survive this..." Wolf replied looking right at her, "I just want you to know...that I love you."

Katlin smiled. "You didn't have to say it...I alredy knew. And I just want you to know that I love you back. Now let's make sure these bastards don't get us. Like you said eariler, I'm not letting them get you that easy." she said, turning back to face the enemy.

Wolf did the same, gun firing, determined to die fighting if necessary.

OOC: Now would be a good time for some kind of rescue...

OOC: Monk did bad? Monk did g... no? Monk did Bad? (Lowers head) Monk did bad.

Monk gave her a look of confusion and followed her down the hallway. "What? What did I do? Why am I not allowed to talk? Wait! I don't understand what went wrong. You told me to hold off the general, so I did." By now, JAde was already halfway down the hall. HE started to chase her, "Wait! What did I do!?"