Chapter 19 - Chapter 17-Turbulence

"Truth is just a matter of perspective."

A Female News Reporter spoke on the TV "However, many Russians still blame America for it. The President's own cabinet may not sign treaty. Presidential plane ready to take off within minutes at Moscow Airport. Russians still blame America for massacre at Zakhaev Airport. (Breaking News: PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFT LEAVES.)

"The duty of every soldier is to protect the innocent, and sometimes that means preserving the lie of good and evil – that war isn't just natural selection played out on a grand scale."

Female News Reporter says, "But for now, it looks like the world may finally know peace."

"The only truth I've found is that the world we live in is a giant tinderbox. All it takes is someone to light the match."

(September 3rd,2016)

{President's plane, Russia}

"Mr. President." Natalie Speaks in Russian.

President Vorshevsky shook her hand, "Miss Price."

Vorshevsky and his cabinet take their seats. Harkov and Fedorov take their guard positions in the room.

President Vorshevsky sat down, "Gentlemen," He looks to Nat, "And Miss Price, we have only two choices: peace or war. Life or death. For the sake of our children, we must seek peace with the West."

"Mr. President,now is not the time to appease our enemies." Nat spoke up.

"We eliminate our enemies when we can make friends with them. If we cannot end our differences, at least we-"

Gunfire is heard behind the door across the room.

"That's gunfire." A commander stood up.

The Commander, Nat, Harkov, and Fedorov pull out their Five Seven pistols while the other agent in the room grabs his AK-74u. Fedorov and the other agent keep Vorshevsky down.

"Mr. President, get down. Team 3, status report."

"We need backup!"

The plane shakes to the right.

"Damn it, Team 3! Report!"

"Return fire! Return fire!"

Nat took charge. "Everyone down! Protect the President! Code red. I repeat-"

A beeping sound is heard, and the door explodes as three hijackers try to enter the conference room. They fire into the room and killing some of the President's cabinet. Commander Leonid Pudovkin fights one hijacker and shoots the other before killing the first. Harkov takes out his pistol and finishes off the third. Nat manages to obtain one of the hijackers' AK-74u to use in place of her Five Seven.

"We're taking the President to the safe room!"

As Nat and Harkov move to the main lobby, the plane shakes to the left. At the main lobby, more agents are holding position at the stairs.The plane suddenly shakes up. Everything jumps, and then so violently that everything begins to float in zero gravity as the plane begins to stall and lose altitude. The plane shakes again as Harkov kills the hijackers. Then the plane shakes down and gravity returns to normal. As Nat and the other agents get on their feet, Pudovkin kills any remaining hijacker just as the plane levels. The agents move downstairs past the kitchen and engage more hijackers. The Team 2 agents move to try and get into the cockpit to help the pilots. One agent attempts to use a fire extinguisher to breach the door down while the other covers him. Hijackers are eliminated as they move through the operational room. The cockpit door has been jammed shut.

"Mr. President, we have to keep moving." Nat says.

The agents push forward into the cargo bay. Alena is seen being held at the back of the bay.

"Help me!" She cries out. The hijacker tosses her behind some crates before engaging Harkov and Pudovkin. Nat engages the hijackers at the cargo bay. The agents kill all the hijackers in the cargo bay. Vorshevsky and his daughter reunite. The plane begins shaking again. Harkov and Nat move into the passenger quarters while Pudovkin stays with the President and Alena. More hijackers enter from the back doors and they exchange fire with the agents.

"Brace for impact!"

Suddenly, a quick silent moment, then the plane crashes on the runway. Loud screeching sounds of metal grinding as the plane's fuselage scrapes along the runway. The tail section of the plane begins cracking and breaks apart, which rolls down the runway and collides with the air control tower, destroying it. Fedorov can be heard screaming as he falls out of the plane into the ground. The plane the jerks to a stop. One of the plane's engines torn off from the torn-off wing comes towards the fuselage and towards Harkov, which crashes and the Nat's vision blacks out.

...

Nat wakes up in the wreckage of the plane. Harkov sees him and helps her up. Slightly injured, they walk slowly through the wreckage, down the landing gear bay, and out the plane. As they walk, radio chatter between several agents are heard talking about the condition of Command Point and agents' status reports. Fires burn on the trees as they come out to the snow. An agent is seen securing Alena. Nat and Harkov move to search for Vorshevsky. As agents everywhere look for the President and secure their locations, one agent sees a surviving hijacker and kills him. Pudovkin waves to get a helicopter's attention before it moves on. As they continue, several agents are looking over wounded agents.

FSO Agent Team 4 says, "This is Team 4. We're taking heavy fire and multiple enemy vehicles are inbound."

Enemies arrive in vehicles and the agents engage.

Nat shot a hostile, "The President's not secure; we need backup immediately."

They engage hostiles near the hangar. The agents continue their engagement, and the hijackers begin losing. Harkov engages the last hijackers at a vehicle back at the wreck. An Mi-17 lands near the wreck where Vorshevsky, Zhukov, and an agent are waiting. The agent protecting them holsters his Five Seven once he sees Pudovkin and Harkov. The agents help Vorshevsky to the chopper.

Nat approches them, "There's the President. Mr. President, we have to get you out of here."

"Where's my daughter?!" The president asks.

Harkov looks at him, "She's being secured sir. We need to move you now. Get the President inside! Open the door!"

Nat goes to the chopper and opens the side door. But when she does, Makarov is inside. Makarov aims his pistol and shoots and she falls on the snow. His men come out of the chopper and shoot the remaining two agents and Zhukov and one of them grabs Vorshevsky. The other executes Zhukov and the agent that had been securing them. Wounded, Pudovkin tries to get up, only to be executed by Makarov, as Vorshevsky and Nat watch helplessly. She stumbled to the President's side.

"You know who I am?" Makarov's voice sending shivers down Nat's spine.

"Yes." The President stated.

"Then you know what I want."

"You're insane." Nat says uneasily.

"Russia will take all of Europe, even if it must stand on a pile of ashes. I want the launch codes, Mr. President." Makarov smirks.

"You'll never get them."

Makarov's cruel smirk fades. "Every man has his weakness. Find the girl."

Makarov's men take Vorshevsky and Nat into the chopper and also look for the girl. Harkov attempts to grab a pistol next to Pudovkin's dead body. But before he could aim it, Makarov sees Harkov, draws his pistol, and executes him.