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Chapter 16 - WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN

It didn't take long for the SWAT team to arrive at the spot where the reconnaissance van was parked. Sera and Jason had worn bullet proof vest in wait for the assault team to arrive.

"Are you sure you can do this?" Jason asked Sera who he had taken aside to query.

"Jason, I have been doing this all my life, I know you worry because this same guy took out your partner. "She paused and dragged Jason closer. "I have seen the way you look at me, I feel the same way too, but I will be just fine." Sera said.

As Jason was about to say something Fin interrupted their conversation, "Boss we are ready." Jason stood there for a few more moment before turning and joining the rest of the team.

"Guys, we know these guys are very good at what they do, let's show them we do this for a living and make them pay for the lives of our colleagues and innocent civilians that have lost their lives to this menace." Jason said and sneaked a peak at Sera who nodded.

"Coms check?" Jason called out into his radio." After a few seconds no one registered coms issues, he called out again, "Weapons check." Jason called out again. He too had equipped the Ferfrans Soar just like the rest of the team. He hung the strap over his head and checked his side arm too.

"Alpha Team, what's the status?" Jason asked over the coms.

"This is Alpha one, the last batch of the crates just came out the truck. Out" Alpha one reported.

"Do you have a clear shot on Cash?" Jason asked.

"Positive." Responded Alpha 1, he swerved his rifle a bit to the left as he aimed at the head of the man in the white suit.

"We need him alive." Jason said and got on the side of one of the five armor rescue vehicle. "Let move out!" Jason screamed and the sound of the helicopter could be heard move audible now as it flew towards the T. W. Dockyard.

The assault team together with the detectives got on the trucks and they drove speedily towards the gate of T. W. Dockyard. One of the SWAT guys took out the armed guard at the entrance as the trucks stormed the premises heading for the dockyard.

"Alpha team, weapons free we are in." Jason said as he held the Ferfrans comfortably. He stole another glance at Sera who was hundred percent in her combat mode and didn't even notice him staring.

"Copy that, out." Alpha1 responded and a few seconds later the two patrol guards covering the abandoned ship where Alpha 1 and 2 where hiding slumped with bullet holes in their heads.

The three guards watching over the Asian captives dropped one after the other and screams rose from among the captives who began to scamper.

Soon the sound of the helicopter filled the entire area and the loud instruction was heard from every corner of the dockyard

"You are all under arrest stay where you are and put your hands up." The voice kept repeating.

"Is Cash in view," Jason said as he jumped off the truck that came to a screeching halt blocking off the exit out of the dockyard. "Come in Alpha team." Jason said and discharged two bullets into the first armed guy that rushed towards him. The man tried to get back on his feet and Jason knocked him out with his knee as he shot at yet another armed man who had discharged two bullets that flew wide.

Jason squatted on a knee and searched for Sera in the midst of all the scuffles, he saw her dishing punches at one of the armed men who ambushed her beside a container, she had left her rifle hanging over her head as she assaulted the guy with smart punches and swung her legs at the man's head and broke his neck.

He smiled at her combat skills and before he could focus on what was ahead a bullet hit him and he dropped down, he couldn't hear the loud bangs of gun fighting anymore all he heard was a blurry muffled sound.

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Cash had been engulfed with monitoring the movement of all the consignment from the ship to the truck that he didn't even bother to do a follow up with his contact in the police department. He heard flapping sound from the distance, he knew it was a helicopter but he never knew it was the cops. The dockyard was always bursting with the sound of helicopters taking specialist out to sea, either to work on rigs or to work on the big ships that cannot batch here at shallow waters.

He had seen two men drop beside the Asians and he knew there was trouble, he took immediate cover and crawled to the closest container beside him and screamed for Bill to join him.

"Snipers." He thought when shells dropped beside him from on top of the container he was hiding at. A bullet hit beside his head and he crawled further away towards the far end of the rows of containers, staying down.

He reached for his phone and saw an unread message he clicked on it as he kept looking out for any possible threat. "There are Eagles everywhere".

"Shit." Cash screamed and got up still conscious of flying bullets. Where the hell is Bill? Cash thought, as he came across the corpse of one of his hired guards. He grabbed the semi automatic rifle and made his way towards the side of the dock where he had last seen Bill.

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Sera had shot her way to where the Asian where laying flat on the ground, she tried to reassure them that they were safe now and they should remain on the ground. One of the armed guys had hit her hard on her face and her lips still bled a little but that was not what bordered her right now. She hadn't seen or heard Jason over the coms.

"Does anyone have eyes on Jason?" She asked as she shot at one of the armed men hiding behind a crate.

The man had docked before the bullet got to him, he shot back at where sera was bent on a knee and the Asian women screamed and a woman reached for her daughter and held her very tight. Sera was quick to make a decision, she had to take the shooting away from the civilian's or there will be lots of civilian casualty.

She rolled over to the right hand side and the man shot a few more times at her, missing his target again before he docked back behind the crates. Sera looked at the position of the snipers and saw that Alpha 1 was better positioned to take out the shooter.

"Alpha1, I have a shooter on me, he is east of the Asians behind the crates." Sera said into her radio.

"This is Alpha1 I see him, stand by." Alpha one replied. A few seconds later the shooter dropped dead with a bullet in his ear.

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Jason woke up to a familiar bang of gunfire, someone jumped passed him without giving him any attention, but he didn't bother because he had thought that death had finally happened. He sat up and touched a part of his chest that seems to hurt, a bullet had hit his chest but the vest had protected him. If it had gone just a little bit wider the bullet would have lodged into his shoulder. He grabbed his rifle and scanned his position.

He saw a man hiding beside a Mercedes bens, must be the guy who just sprinted over him, Jason held up his rifles and shot three bullets into the back of the armed man dropped dead.

"Does anyone have eyes on Cash?" Jason asked through the radio.

"This is Alpha three, he ran behind the container right after the black Mercedes."

"Alright guys, cover me I am heading towards the container now." Jason said and got up and felt a little dizzy. He shook it off and ran towards the Mercedes, when he got to the car he noticed a man crawling out from the other corner of the container, it was Cash.

"Cash! Stay where you are and drop your weapon!" Jason screamed pointing his riffle at Cash.

Cash turned and shot a few bullets at Jason before docking behind a small speed boat. His bullets hit the car and where Jason had been before he saw that Cash was about to shot at him.

"What happened to covering me?" Jason asked over the coms.

"Sorry it wasn't a clear shot." Alpha 3 responded.

Jason repositioned and ran across the short distance to the container, he waited for a while and dashed towards the small speed boat and released a few bullets before he charge towards where Cash had ran into and no one was there.

A few minutes later the commotion at the dock died down and the armed men were either short dead or cuffed and about to be taking away. The dockyard was once again sprawling with lots of people and it didn't exclude the press.

Jason sat behind one of the Medical vehicles and was receiving treatment. The gun shot did not penetrate but it left an area of red spot which was now been rubbed an ointment.

"You are not hurt, why are you taking up the time of others who are hurt?" Sera asked "You should allow the people hurt to be treated you know." Sera continued to tease.

"It does hurt Sera, Imagine what would have become of me if I wasn't up suited up" Jason said.

"Now let not think about that, let think about how to get you away from this van so people hurt can get attention." Sera said and tried to drag Jason up.

"Now there you are." A voice distracted them from the corner of the van.

"Captain Ben, sorry didn't know you dropped by." Sera said as they both stood up to face their superior.

"This is a big discovery even the Mayor is not in bed." He smiled and shook hands with them.

"What has happened here is a major operation and I should be throwing my weight at you guys for not running through me but let just say I am happy none of my men was lost so I would ignore your insolence, both of you." Captain Ben said.

"It was my fault I was being careful not to blow the discovery up among us to avoid corrupt officers giving them a head start." Jason said.

"Well, someone did give Cash a head start, I just bumped into Inspector Fin, a phone was discovered with a coded message sent from the mobile of one of our SWAT guys, and he has been arrested and would be prosecuted." Captain Ben said. "I am sure Fin would run it by you soon." He said and turned to look at the busy dockyard. "You guys have done well here, but how does all this tie up with the murder you are investigating." Captain Ben asked.

"It is obvious she was here at the very time this same kind of operation was going on and they knocked her out." Sera said.

"Remember the truck that was intercepted on Saturday, filled with women and weapons." Jason asked "The murder took p the night before that truck was intercepted my bet is that this are all tied, if we catch Cash we catch the murderer." Jason said.

"Get some rest guys, nice job down here." Captain Ben said and walked away.