Hey guys! I know I still have a chapter or two left on my other story, but truth is, inspiration is completely gone for that story at the moment. I promise it'll get finished; I just needed a little break from it. In the meantime, this is a story that won't leave me alone that I have been working on for a few weeks. The outline is pretty much finished for it so it just needs to be typed out. As of right now its probably going to be two separate stories unless I can come up with a way to combine them both into one. Like I said, the outline is practically finished and I have to say, this could quite possibly be one of my longest stories yet!

It was no secret that Bravo had an uneasy feeling about this mission. They made their feeling clear from the beginning.

Chann Khmer is one of the smartest, most dangerous bomb makers that they've come across so far. He claims to be responsible for multiple terrorist attacks throughout Europe and Asia, killing hundreds of innocent people including a good number of Americans. He has been at the top of the 'most wanted' list in multiple countries for the past few years. Every time there has been a chance to capture or kill Khmer, he somehow managed to slip away and wouldn't resurface on anyone's radar for months.

Lately though, Khmer has been getting a little cocky. A German team almost managed to grab him alive three months ago. Not surprisingly, he got away, but he has shown his face in public four times since that day. It's almost like he's taunting them now.

Now though, it's Bravo's turn to go after him, and because he's such a high value target, Alpha will be joining. Mandy and her team have been communicating with other agencies around the world and have finally built a solid intel package. As she places his picture on the board, they all lean back in their chairs.

"As all of you are aware, this Chann Khmer. We have solid intel showing us he has been working out of an old warehouse in a small village in Mimot, Cambodia. There have been multiple sightings of him in and around town in the last few weeks and we have reason to believe he is planning an attack on American soil." Mandy began to inform them.

"How do we know it's not a trap? This guy is a freaking ghost. He's only seen when he wants to be seen." Jason interrupted.

"We don't know it's not a trap. In fact, we believe that there is a pretty high chance that it is one. The higher ups believe it's a chance worth taking though which is why we are sending our two best teams in. This will be a kill or capture mission. Due to the impending threat of an attack on American soil, you leave in 3 hours." Mandy finished.

Three hours wasn't much time to get home, pack, say goodbye to the family, drive back to base and load the plane but the understood the urgency to get in the air. They manage to get everything done with time to spare, allowing them to get in the air quicker.

As they prepare to land, Mandy fills them in on a few last-minute details, showing them floor plans of the warehouse, satellite images of the village, village population which is rather small due to many people abandoning their homes looking for a safer place to live, and where in the village Khmer is believed to be.

They arrive to the outskirts of the village around 3 am. Just about everything is dark and quiet, just like they were hoping for. The only building with a light on is coming from the warehouse. They carefully enter the sleeping village. As they approach the warehouse, they can see the shadows of people moving around on the walls.

"Ray, Clay, I want you two on overwatch. Head high." Jason whispers.

Ray and Clay nod and then make their way to one of the abandoned homes across the street from the warehouse, staying in the shadows along the way in case they also have someone on overwatch. As soon as Ray and Clay reach their position, Ray notices a blind spot. "Bravo one, Bravo Two… We got a blind spot on the south east corner. Requesting permission to split up. Keep six here and I'll head over there." Ray asked through the radio.

"Copy Bravo two. Let me know when you're in place." Jason replied.

With permission granted, Ray and Clay fist bumped each other and Ray was on his way. It took him no more than 3 minutes to reach the new position. "Bravo One, I'm in place. You're good to go." Ray radioed to Jason.

Once Ray and Clay were both in place, it was time for the remainder of Bravo and Alpha to enter the warehouse. Once they enter, their surprised to see the first floor practically empty. No signs of anyone and definitely no signs of bombs being made. They are about to head up the stairs when Davis's voice come to life in their ear pieces.

"All Bravo elements, be advised, ISR shows two large vehicles heading your way." She said.

"I got visual." Clay said, being the first to see the incoming vehicles in the distance.

It only takes a few minutes for the vehicles to become Close enough for Ray to also have a visual.

Meanwhile back inside the building, they find the owners of the shadows they seen on the walls. As it turns out, they were just a couple of curious teens who snuck out in the middle of the night to see what was so scary about the warehouse and its occupants that caused so many people to move out. Unfortunately for all of them, there was nothing to be found. No bombs, no guns, but more importantly, no Khmer.

"Bravo one, be advised, the two vehicles are approaching your location." Clay radios to his boss.

"Take care of it Bravo six, no one gets in here." Jason responds.

Clay opens fire almost immediately after Jason tells him to take care of it as people begin to pile out of the vehicles. Moments later, Ray joins in on the action.

It takes mere minutes for a majority of the group to be wiped out. Three of the guys managed to scramble back into one of the vehicles and drive off.

As the gunfire dies down and coming up empty on the warehouse, Jason instructs Ray and Clay to rejoin the team before any more hostiles show up.

Clay quickly packs his stuff up and begins to head down the two flights of stairs he came up. As he turns a corner to head down the last flight of stairs, the butt end of a rifle straight to the face catches him by surprise, causing him to lose his balance and tumble down the remaining stairs. On the way down to the bottom, he somehow manages to lose his helmet and his right shoe.

It takes him a minute to recompose himself. His head is pounding, he has a large gash on his cheek that's bleeding pretty heavily and his entire body aches. During that minute it takes to recompose himself, he has three guys on top of him.

Despite still being slightly disoriented from both the gun to his face and the fall down the flight of stairs, Clay manages to fight back as hard as he can. He does surprisingly well until one of them pulls a knife and stabs him in the back of the shoulder. Clay instantly drops to his knees as the large, ragged edge blade pierces his skin and then is ripped out as another guy tackles him to his back.

Clay can feel the blood pouring out of his shoulder, but before he can do anything, is turned over to his stomach and his wrists tied behind his back. Clay tries his hardest to keep fighting but the pain and the three large guys wrestling with him are just too much for him to handle.

With his hands tied behind his back, two of the men roughly grab an arm and stand him up, causing a slight growl of pain to escape from Clay despite him trying not to give them that satisfaction. They hold him up as the third guy appears right in front him with an evil grin on his face.

Despite the blurry vision that is now setting in, there is no denying that Chann Khmer is the guy standing in front of him. Clays stomach churns at the sight of him.

Khmer eyes Clay up and down as if he's examining his new trophy or something. Clay's not sure if its his vison playing games with him but he definitely doesn't like the look in his eye. Clay finds himself in a staring contact as they lock eyes.

Not wanting to waste too much time and risk the rest of the team coming to look for their missing man, Khmer orders his two men to head for the tunnel. As they turn and head towards it, they stop. Khmer grabs Clay's radio and throws it against the wall, the impact causing it to break into three pieces. They then disappear into a hidden tunnel in the wall.

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Ray makes it to the ware house rather quickly. He turns around expecting Clay to be right behind him. When he doesn't see him, he begins to get that uneasy feeling again.

"Where's Bravo six?" Jason asked, expecting them to both arrive at the same time.

"Not sure. Didn't see him exit the building, was hoping he was already here." Ray stated.

"God dammit." Jason muttered as he reached for his radio. "Bravo Six, Bravo One, come in." After receiving no reply, he waited a few seconds before trying again. "Bravo six, status?" This time he had a little more urgency to his voice. When Clay still didn't answer, he felt sick to his stomach. "Sonny, Brock, take Cerb and go find him."

Sonny, Brock and Cerb didn't make it more than three steps before the building Clay had been in, exploded and crumbled to the ground, taking part of the neighboring buildings with it.

They all stopped in their tracks and watched in disbelief, hoping and praying that Clay made it out before the building collapsed.

"Bravo One, this is TOC, what did we just witness?" Blackburn asked with concern apparent in his voice. "Give me a SITREP, over" he said again when no one answered.

Jason was so focused on the collapsed building, still waiting for Clay to come out of nowhere and rejoin the group that he didn't even hear Blackburn. In fact, it was Full Metal that replied. "TOC, Alpha One, the building Bravo Six was in was just blown up. No sign of Bravo Six yet."

"Good copy Alpha One, keep me updated." Blackburn replied.

"Will do." Full Metal replied to Blackburn then turned to the rest of the group. "Let's go find our guy."

Hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter. As the story unfolds, there's a good chance some of the chapters will get longer and longer, which I know will make a bunch of you guys happy.