SIG
A routine inspection around a navel base, leads to one lieutenant being kidnapped,
Warnings: Blood and Injury, mild swearing, crying, drugging, broken bones, mention of sick
Word count: 3,504
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Amber was a few steps behind Grey
Eyes flickering around the base as the captain talked with tge petty officer about navel and security of the base, Amber mildy amused with grey showing his former navy roots, seeming at ease in his stance as he stepped with the petty officer.
Amber was second eyes for the sweep, of the base, its main purpose? designing ships to carve through the ocean, with speed and stealth.
"I'm sure the lieutenant would love to test that" Greys voice came through and Amber glanced at them with an eyebrow
"The weapons on board as precision, built to cripple targets, not eliminate" the petty officer smiled
"Means your targeting more of tye prepellas no?" Amber responded, making tge petty officer laugh
"Something along those lines, lieutenet" the officer smiled "think of it like a ship capture for submarines"
"Huh..."
The petty officer paused taking out his phone "sorry...I have"
Grey waved him off with a half smile, Amber watched
"Your distracted"
He looked at the captain and sighed "I'm fine"
A slight tossle to his shoulder and he sighed "alright...working security, watching it incase of seeing a mysteron or something"
Grey sighed "were secure Amber trust me"
"I still want to check the perimeter grey...just incase alright?"
The older agent gave the blond a look, before giving In
"Alright, but I want you reporting in if you see anything and I mean anything" Grey stated "also want your eye on the weapons so be back in time alright?"
A grin came over Ambers face
"Course Grey, you keep taking to your other navy lads with your slang and banter and ill be actually doing the job-"
A long sigh from the captain, with a noticible eye roll "don't let the carpet trip you up snipes"
A laugh followed as he watched the lieutenant disapear around the cornor to do his sweep of the base
Grey sighed gearing the petty officers return
"Where did the lieutenant go?"
"A sweep, just normal spectrum business" Grey followed the officer "say how many knots can this ship do again?"
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Amber walked the corridors silently, eyes flickering around the halls, just doing a sweep, he would smile to other crew mates, passing by who nodded back, leaving the lieutenant alone to sweep for anything suspicious
His mind wondering to the past few months, the tensenes around the world from the mysteron threat, colonel whites worry for him, before it settled on Black death, returning to them again...but not as Conrad they all once knew
he paused inhaling sharply
No, best not to think of that, not now, not here
Conrad is a threat and an enemy, but still a part of him still thought
If Scarlet could free himself from the Mysteron control, why not Scarlet?
He continued on his walk, pausing at the server room door, it would have been usually locked, but it appeared it is half a jar, latched almost, as if someone was propping it open
Raising an eyebrow hand going to the butt of his spectrum pistol
Opening the door steadily
stepping in checking the corners,
glancing over the servers, he closed the door behind him with a faint whisper of a click
Darkness enveloping the room, apart from the faint beeps and flickering lights of the rows of servers, and the low purr of fans within the room.
He stepped steadily, before pausing eyes falling on the slumped form against the work bench.
He rested a hand on their shoulder, giving a delicate shake
"Hello?"
No response, not even a flutter of their eyelids.
He checked for a pulse and stopped
Nothing-
His radio speaker dropped down "Grey- captain Grey come in?"
Static- must be the damn servers, maybe?
He spun heading back out, gripping his pistol tighter, ready to be jumped by an attack
But a chill caught him off guard, as it slivered up his spin, stealing his breath
His visioned swarmed suddenly making him stagger
Shaking his head to try and shift the growing feeling, but had little to no affect
His gun clattered to the floor, his suddenly hands numb
Sweat broke out from his brow, blurring his vision
His knees buckled under his fleeting strength
"h-how..."
He glanced towards the slumped form, who was now stood
Looming over his weakened form with a cruel smile
Amber breathed out falling onto his side as the numbness spread up his forarms, He gasped trying to catch his breath.
Vision blurry as the figure leant down into view, a cold hard cradling his jaw, which numbed with the simple touch
Ambers hair stood on end, seeing the faint green glow
"You-"
"Shhhh...just sleep now little lieutenant" the Mysteron smiled
And Amber was unable to fight off the wave of numbed sleep
———
Grey scowled "Captain Grey to Lieutenant Amber come in."
Nothing
He cursed leaving the American to sweep alone before sighing "Captain Grey to sky base"
"Captain, this is sky base" Green voice met him
"I've-" He sighed rubbing the bridge od his nose "I've lost Amber"
"Ha...again?" He heard the amusement in lieutenets tone, before a sigh "pinging his cap"
"Ah huh?"
"Looks like their in the server room"
Grey sighed, its never like Amber to get lost, he followed where Green stated the younger agent would be
Eyes on the server room before stepping in, hand resting cautionsly on his weapon seeing no sign of the Lieutenant
"You sure he's in here? I don't...-"
His eyes flickered to under the work bench, and froze, mouth going dry
Leaning down grasping, Amber's fallen pistol
he swallowed the lump in his throat, gaze sweeping around the room
"Captain Green, spectrum is red, Amber's been taken"
———
Amber woke with a groan, groggy he tried to lift his head, everything felt so heavy
The effects of what ever the toxic still evident in his system, his still felt the same numbness on the base
He exhaled, swallowing thickly
How long was I out? He thought
He breathed out, slowly, calming his panic,
No point in panicking, only lead to more issues
He trying to shift his arms again, feeling the mild strain up his arms, definitely bound
His gaze glancing down at himself
Just in his black under tunic and boots, Great
He rolled his jaw, forcing his head up
The room was dark, a light just above which hurt his eyes making it hard for him to see beyond the glare of the light, hard stone flooring under him which scraped against his boots
A shiver crept through Amber's body, alright breath focus
He closed his eyes trying to listen for anything that gave away his position
A low hum somwhere and that's all he got, he grunted, trying to shift his arms again feeling the faint tingles of pins and needles steadily settling in as feeling flooded into his joints
hearing footsteps
He stopped eyes scrunching up as the door opened, light hitting his eyes, the door closed
he opened his brown eyes again, staring up at his captures
———
Grey found Ambers cap shoved away in one of the server panels, the comlink damage, but its beacon still intact
Now he was just mapping out what could have possibly played out to catch the lieutenant so off guard.
He shifted his scanner around the room, he stopping at the scanners worrisome chirping showing an outline of a man leant againts the the work table, the outline pulsed with a worrying toxin signature, known to numb and make a target collapse with what it just seems to be a bad case of the flu
Must be how they managed to grab him with ease....
He mentally kicked himself for not keeping an eye on the younger agent
He backed out before he could get exposed any more standing oustide of the room
"Grey to colonel White..." He chewed his tongue
"Colonel White to Grey, go for?"
He resisted to rub his face "what I'm getting is that Amber got nosey, during his spot check route...they used a drug on him, believe it may have been the XS4"
"Are you positive captain?"
"Used scanner on it, chemically it links to it, but we have no further signs until we do further tests"
"SIG, get Scarlet and Blue to provide aid"
"SIG sir" He called off glancing at his hands he needed to wash them...
He pointed to the two guards
"No one gets in that room unless it's spectrum or the hazmat team, clear?" They nodded standing either side of the door
And Grey went to look for a bathroom to scrub his hands, just incase.
———
Amber spat blood his jaw ached as he bared his teeth at his kidnappers.
His face was grabbed, nails digging into his cheeks
"You will tell us where skybase is."
"Up your ass." He spat and a slap across the face made his head snap to the side
"No use boss, he's stubborn."
"Yet the stubborn can be broken." His hair was grabbed and he winced coming eye level with the capture
Amber glared, at the almost impossible to read eyes, likely because of these men were already dead.
"Mm...definitely has that fire in his eyes...."
He spat blood which splattered on the man's pale skin
His hair was let go, as the man laughed wiping his cheek smearing the blood
"Definitely fire."
He door opened and he was left alone in the silence, the cold settling in as Amber panted
Breath He thought, im still alive
He spat a thick glob of blood against the floor bowing his head as he was left with his thoughts
He exhaled slowly, wiggling his fingers, feeling the restraints against his bare wrists, lightly tugging, still locked tight...fuck
Footsteps returns, Amber looked up as the door opened
His jaw tensed ready for the next wave of pain.
———
"The hell you mean there's nothing?" Scarlet snapped eyes flickering over the recordings, scanning for the bright orange uniform, finding nothing.
"How the hell did they get him out?"
"Were going through as best we can-"
"He's bright orange. You can't miss him." Scarlet huffed
"Im sorry sir...we've went throigh twice, unless they had a cloak of invisibility...we don't know where they took him"
Scarelt rubbed his eyes, they've been at it for hours scanning through the video tapes and nothing was found, they saw Amber enter the server room, but nothing from then
No sign of anyone entering nor leaving
"I'll send the recordings to sky base." He sighed trying to ease the worry In his tone "Thank you."
The operator nodded, letting Scarlet send the videos towards sky base for more eyes on
He stepped out, eyes on Blue and Grey
"Anything?"
Blue shook his head
"Part from eye witnesses, they passed Amber doing a sweep" He sighed "other then that we have nothing scarlet"
Scarlet chewed the inside of his mouth, thinking
"We gotta inform the colonel, if They have Amber...its a security issue"
Scarlet glanced at the two other captains before his communicator flickered down
"Colonel-"
"We were just about to call captain. The recording was tempered with-"
He was already twisting towards the cctv room, Blue and Grey looking at eachother before following the storming Scarlet
He barged back into the room, making the operator yelp
"Who has access to this room?'
"Wh-"
"Who has access." He snapped
"J-just security!"
"I want a list on who's on duty."
"S-sir?"
"Did I stutter?"
The operator fingers clicked and a list was brought up on monitor, of all the security officers on duty
5 names lit up red
"Uh...that's not-" the operator typed more
"They were supposed to be on duty..they haven't reported in..."
"Their the kidnappers..." Grey huffed
"Any ideas where they could have gone?"
The operator swallowed shaking his head
"Least we got closer to people who grabbed him" Blue gave a half smile "send, base the photos we can look for em"
"SIG"
———
Amber inhaled, humming low the pain thrombing up his likely broken arm, he swallowed down the taste of nausea breathing out a slow steady breath.
Sweat dripping down his nose into his already blood stained lap
He was still alive...thats the best...least he was still alive...for who ever is coming to retrieve him...
He grunted slowly shifting feeling the pain blossom up his arm, biting his tongue to hide the whimper that tried to break through, he breathed out
Gotta get out
He breathed, slowly moving his good arm, steadily pushing his thumb, feeling the soft pop under his skin, as he dislocated his thumb
He panted before slowly inching his hand out of the restraints
They were tight, even with his thumb dislocated, using his sweat almost as a way to ease his hand out of the restraints
He gasped as his hand came free
pain blossomed up from his broke arm, nearly whitening out his vision
He stood stakely, knees giving out almost falling to the stone floor
He sucked in a lung full of air, steadying himself
Keeping his broken arm tucked close, he peaked out of the bars finding the door was-
unlocked??
What?
He thought staggering out keeping low, steadily collecting his bearings
His feet light as he moved keeping to shadows listening for anything that sounded like people coming his way
He saw light and moved towards it, the rush of trees, a forest
Fuck- where was he?
Just move gotta get out
He pulled what strength he had and bolted
Boots crunching the dirt underneath his steps, panting, pain ebbing up his shoulder, he slipped and let out muffled scream as he jarred his arm, laying sprawled on the...
Road?
He patted the tarmac with his good arm, trying to force himself up, a swarm of headlights met him and his eyes widened at the skidded, just a few meters away from him, hearing doors open, eyes on the blond and brunet who stepped out the car, his vision making it hard to see any details further, catching the red and blue uniform, could it be?
"B-blue? S...Scarlet?" He panted shaking eyes widening at the sight, his vision darkening as he tried to pick himself up, with no use
As the cold wet tarmac met his face
———
Amber layed in the medical bed, forcing himself to stay awake, the cast was a good weight around his arm, keeping him settled, cuts and bruises tended to, but the pain was still strong, he refused the morphine
He blinked hard, trying to get comfy, with the pain still flooding through his system.
His eyes flickered over the Grey uniform and half smile
"Hey buddy"
"Hey.." Amber croaked, trying to hide the pain
"Gave us a scare you know that right?'
He nodded exhaling
He watched as the senior officer settled beside his bed
"So..."
Amber chuckled "Ya gotta wait...still trying to process it myself with what happend"
"I know...I know...had us worried you know" Amber watched, Greys gaze, before watching the captains gaze flicker to the morphine counter
"You aren-"
"No...I rather stay lucid Brad..."
"Amber-.."
"I aren't alright?"
"Your in pain."
Callum tensed his jaw, he never liked morphome due to its side affects on him.
"Amb..."
His brown eyes flickered to meet Greys own, brow furrowed seeing the captains hand wrapped around the button
Callum swallowed, licking his lips
"Brad..."
He knew this was a loosing battle, he swallowed the lump in his throat
He heard the delicate click, he inhaled softly head leaning back against the pillow as the medication flooded his system through his IV
Feeling something holding his hand, it felt colder, the guys probably been outside for a while...
"Still with us?"
Amber nodded eyes flickering, to Grey his heart monitor spiking
"Hey...gonna stay here alright...what ever your seeing aren't here...just me and you in this room, alright?"
Callum swallowed nodding silently
"I'm going to keep talking" Grey said softly "keep holding your hand too alright bud?"
"Y-yeah" He croaked
He closed his eyes breathing out, feeling the fuzziness slowly start sinking in, holding Greys hand tighter feeling him delicately stroke his knuckled
"Still hear buddy" his voice settled his mind "your safe bud"
He exhaled
"Th-"
"Yeah?"
"The naval base....how did weapons testing go?" The lieutenant smiled
"Weapons testing?" Grey questioned "we didn't run any"
Amber's stopped, eyes opening, looking slowly towards the captain
"We were running security only" Grey continued, the heart monitor spiked steadily
"Huh...must of really hit my head harder...." Amber licked his lips
"Say..." Amber started "what does...SIG mean again?"
Grey half laughed "wow, must of really hit your head hard, amb..." Grey smiled squeezing Amber's hand tighter"
"Connect to fire arms-"
Ambers heart monitor beside the bed spiked
Grey barley reacted to it, eyes locked onto Ambers own
Amber pulling his hand away from 'Greys' hold
"You can't leave Amber-"
He swung his legs out of bed
Nearly falling out of the bed with a clatter, Grey standing up smoothly, following the panicking lieutenet
Amber panted, yanking the IV out, wincing as blood oozed from the inside of his elbow, heart monitor cutting into a long beep as a green light flooded the room
"No-"
This had to be a dream, a fucked up fever dream
Amber backed up eyes wide, he staggered wincing as he slammed hus back into the wall, jarring his arm which sent pain up his arm
He was falling suddenly
Nothing around him
Before he slammed hard onto the ground
He gasped
Pain throbbing up his shoulder, gasping as bile rose in his throat at the pain, curling up almost onto himself, struggling to breath, his face scrunched up in the blinding hot pain
Mumbles around him, all felt too far away
Too much, too little, he curled up tighter feeling a wait on his shoulder, gasping
"S-st-op-"
A sharp pain in his hip
He whimpered feeling a hand cradle his head, running a hand throigh his hair soothing almost
"St..stop..."
He slurred before the darkness pulled him in again
———
Grey held his hands together, his palms sweaty with worry, as he glanced up at Gold, standing instantly
"He's stable, had to introduce a sedative"
Grey nodded
"This...this is my fault-"
"None of it is captain.." Gold voice soft "but right now he needs someone that he can trust"
Grey nodded "thanks doc.."
He was lead into the quiet room, eyes on the heart monitor, steady better then it was atleast
Eyes tracing over, sickly dark blues and purples painted over his pale skin around his face and his eyes, stitches marrying his skin back together, lip busted, arm casted up and that was just some of the wounds they noticable that the kidnappers inflicted over Amber
Tox screen came back with a cocktail of fucked up drugs
When they did find him, He was barley coherent, and a state that no one has saw Callum in
Scared
Even in his scared state, he managed to land a hit into Blues jaw
Grey would have laughed under any other circumstances, but a heavily drugged hallucinating marine who's been held hostage, for nearly 5 weeks for information?
Not laughing matter
He sat beside the blond, just watching the rise and fall of his chest
Eyes on the restraints incase Callum woke up aggravated
Just a saftey precaution for himself and the medical staff
He inched his hand into holding Callums cracked nailed ones, feeling the fingers twitch around his hand
"I'm right here brother, all here"
Another finger twitch and he gave a small smile at it
"I'll keep watch"
———
Hours tick on by, and Grey found himself reading through the naval base report he wrote, beside Callums unconscious form, now just spot checking over what he wrote
The tablet laying propped up on callums bed, Greys other hand still holding the lieutenants hand as Grey read
He felt Amber's hand tighten around his own and his gaze flickered up, meeting the tired dark brown eyes
"Cal-"
"What-what does- SIG mean-" the man croaked
"Wha-"
A tight squeeze against his hand which made him winced slightly
"What. Does it mean" the lieutenant growled
"Spectrum is green"
He watched as the lieutenant, eyes widened, breathed out a wheeze, tears bubbled up and he felt the grip ease instantly
"Bra-"
He dropped the tablet "Hey hey hey-"
Crap-
"Gold!" He called back for the doctor
He cupped the lieutenants face
"Hey...on me. Eyes." He ordered
Amber's eyes locked onto Greys, tears falling down his face
"There we are...your safe. Your on skybase alright?"
"Y-yeah" the smaller lieutenant hiccuped
"We found ya" Grey said calming down the lieutenet, who hiccuped
"Still with me?"
A quite nod ans he eased a breath out
"Glad ya still here Cal..."
"Y-yeah..." a wheeze leaving the Callums lungs "me too..."