Holding our guns up we shot down hostiles. We ran ahead and to the tree line where we took more shots, the two of us covering the other. One caught sight of me and took a few shots before I came out and shot him in the head.  Mike signalled to go further on. But he stopped me.

"woman Sharp shooter 70 yards." I nodded and aimed then pulled the trigger. I stood panting behind a tree as I changed the the magazine, that I had but hadn't used in a while.

"Ready? Mike asked me. I nodded.

"Ready." We came out and I shot two making my way closer to the front door. I saw Stevenn injured but still fighting. I grabbed him.

"Hey stranger."

"Gracie." We ducked behind the wall.

"Did you really have to go all out just to ask us to come back." I rolled my eyes in attempt to ease his situation. Gallows humour.

"You know me, Carson. Can't get enough of ya." I looked at the side of me and saw Tim with a neck shot. I put pressure  on his neck.

"Come on Tim, Come on hang in there." Mike muttered I felt his life go and looked up to Mike shaking my head. another body.

"Where's the president?" I asked one of the agents

"I don't know." he replied. The Gunfire continued as I checked how many bullets I had left. More agents came out of the house. I looked round the corner see them all ducking down.

"Shit, down, down down!" I yelled taking cover. It was a slaughter for the agents that had just come down ad the were going so fast. Mike pushed me down as we watched men and some women that we knew die. Mike let go to what else was coming.

"RPG!" I was pushed down back to the ground as it was set off at the main entrance to the house.  all but destroyed and anyone close to it.

"Get in! Get inside!" The two of us bolted in. I took a shot getting behind the door but one went down who was right behind us. I knelt down as Mike was stood taking more shots. Agent One went to run in but was shot."

"Come on!" I held out my hand and he took it but another round of Bullets killed him.

"No!" I yelled

"Gracie, Gracie we gotta go." I was pulled over the rubble and dead bodies up the stairs. We looked as Koreans stormed in shooting any survivors and shooting them just to make sure. I looked at my gun  was out of bullets.

"Shit." we ran up the stairs. We dodged them as they were walking around and when it was all clear we came out. I saw the corridor of dead bodies left.

"They're all dead." Mike muttered, I nodded in understanding but then turned to him after that moment was over.

"Yes and we're gonna mourn them once these assholes are dead. Now you need to be hard ass crazy Mike to get through this okay?"

"I'm not emotional. Grace." he sighed

"We're all emotional. compartmentalisation. Were at war." I started checking the bodies  as Mike shakes his head and followed.

"Roma's here." I walked over and knelt down to our fallen friend.

"Shit got personal." I muttered looking up at the security camera." We made our way to the security room. Mike held his hand up for me to wait. I nodded keeping alert. I heard grunting and looked in. Mike had stabbed a man. I walked in.

"You know I should feel sorry but he just brought it on himself." Mike took the enemy's gun and checked it as I made my way past him.

"Grace look" I turned around and he showed me a small picture of Connor. "It was in his pocket." he told me as my jaw clenched as well as my visits. He tucked the picture into his pocket while I  a extra gun and mags then punched the code into one of the hidden safes. In it was a device that would allow us to override the security system. I highly down they had gotten down to the nitty gritty of changing everything even though it had been 18 months.

"Catch." I looked back and he threw me another gun. I caught it and I swung it across me. Plugging in I initiated over ride by putting my thumb down. It asked for the second

"Mike thumb." He came over and did so. "I'm glad they haven't got round to changing everything." I watched as the internal feeds went down. Blinding them, it wasn't a hard leap to know that they had people on the inside maybe even down in the bunker and if we were gonna find she out and do something about it. We needed a level footing.

"I need to get to the Presidents room. Come on." I told him

"Why there?"

"Some stuff to pick up." we made our way out and through the corridors. We ran in and I went straight for one of the paintings. Opening the safe I pulled another gun and a earpiece. But there was something missing.

"The sat phone must be in the oval office."

"Let's go then." We moved quickly through the tunnels. When we got there I tried the phones while Mike got the phone and another earpiece." we connected the call.

"Mr President?" A man voice came over the phone.

"Negative." We replied to the unknown voice yet to identify himself.

"Echolin Four." Mike told them.

"Are they yours?" the same man asked talking to someone else on their end

"Designator?"

"Oscar Zulu 309 and Juliet Romeo  408."

"Jesus. Banning? Carter? Where are you?" We heard the familiar voice of Lynne, grace our ears in a sigh of relief.

"Nice to hear you too. We're in the Oval office." Mike answered and I pointed to the President's desk. Mike nodded and opened a secret hatch.

"Is the president in the bunker?" I questioned and There was a long pause, it was never good when there was a long pause by the people who were supposed to know everything. Actually knowing powerful people they were probably arguing on whether on not we could be trusted

"Excuse me, I know everyone can here me so listen. Right now you have two loyal people willing to move heaven and earth for this country. Now I suggest you stop having a dick fight and tell us what's going on." I spoke into the emptiness of silence. "Lynne, tell the cock blockers we're good people for fuck's sake." Mike shook his head as he took out another gun.

"Yes the president's in the bunker, he's being held hostage. " Lynne confirmed coming back on the line.

"What do they want?" Mike asked as he put everything back into place.

"We're trying to find out."

"Well who's in charge?" I asked

"Trumbull. Are they're any survivors with you?" Came the answer. Ah the Speaker, he was good people, even though we had a difference of opinion.

"Negative sir, just us. They've wiped us out. They have commando's roaming the hallways with enough explosives to take out an army" Mike sat me down I looked at him oddly then I noticed the bloody arm. I had been shot. I dug his fingers and I groaned " Looks like the doors and windows are rigged with C4 explosives and Carson is injured."

"I'm okay. just a arm wound. You do your job and we'll get through this. " I told Mike I took the laptop off him as I began wiping the files, that would and could compromise national security if anyone came looking

"Who knows what tricks they've got up their sleeves. Any team coming in is gonna be ringing the front doorbell pretty loud." He got the bullet out and wrapped his tie around my arm.

"They shut the power down , lights off and I assume they closed off the air vents. We killed the surveillance but I don't know how long that will last." Mike told them while I found the bottle of bourbon in a draw. I took some too numb the pain.

"Where's Connor?" I asked

"We still have no status of his location, but he is presumed to still be inside."

"Well they're looking for him. They have his photo. Sir we're here use us."  Mike replied as the files finished deleting themselves.

"Okay Banning and Carson. Sit tight we'll get back to you." The line was cut and I stared at the pictures on the desk, we sighed. Just then  our ears picked up we heard footsteps. Holding our guns up we took either side of the door. Two men walked in and we fought them I grabbed a knife from my boot and whipped it across his neck. I took his protective vest off and searched him taking anything I needed I watched as Mike smashed the other guys head in with a bust.

"Oooh that has got to hurt." I checked him over and saw a tattoo behind the ear.

"I got a tattoo." I told my partner

"Same" He took pictures of both. I then relieved the two of all weapons on them and Mike took the other protective vest.

"Jacobs, I got something coming your way. I've got two Korean commando's in front of me.

"Are they alive?" I scoff.

"Ask us a serious question." We retort, seriously had then not been informed on our background?

"Well whoever they are, they're fucking good. They are well trained and well organised. But I guess you know that already."

"So what have you got, talk to us." I say sitting on the desk checking all the gear that we pulled, then adding it to our arsenal.

"They want us to recall the seventh fleet and pull our troops out." Turnbull informed us as i added a mack to the machine gun and then swung it over across body.

"Oh is that all." I snicker at Mike's sarcasm.

"A cerburus code has been entered". I glanced at my best friend in confusion, they tied my hair back for my sanity.

"What's Cerburs?" we wonder

"That's classified?"

"Is that General dickhead, boss?" I ask and Mike shakes his head at me.

"Now is not the time for your antics Carson." Lynne low key answered my question, me and this guy had issues, when i was on detail with the president. Oh he bugged me.

"It is General dickhead. And Classified really? have you been sleeping this whole time. Amateur. Its these type of guys that get where they're are by not really seeing what we have."

"Yeah, I think right now we have the proverbial need to fucking know." Mike backed me up.

"I second that, ya'll tucked up in a nice room watching this from screens. it's us that are on the front lines of this and we need to know. Boss, tell these shit heads that not telling us is a dumbass move. And I really hope there are not dumbasses."  there was a pause.

"Cerberus is a highly classified military protocol. A three pronged failsafe of an inadvertent nuclear launch. It allows us to access the self destruct system in our ICBMs in flight ."

"So even if one of our nuke warheads was launched and we wanted to abort..." Mike trailed off

"Cerberus is the only way to stop it from reaching it's target. No one person has all three codes."

"Let me guess the three people that do are all in that bunker. Lovely." I commented "How do they know this shit."

"Unfortunately" Turnbull replied "President, Secretary of defence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs."

"With those codes, they can destroy and Long range nuke that we fire. And that would make America vulnerable to a nuclear strike. " Lynne added to the explanation of what we were up against.