Operation Bolt ch 10

"Okay, look. I don't want anyone to get hurt here, all you two need to do is just walk away." said Jason. He was concerned about Bolt's safety, but was focused on getting on with his mission. He had wasted enough time so far and wasn't planning on wasting much more.

"Only if she agrees to let the possum go." said Bolt trying to make it seem like he wasn't afraid.

Emerald looked at her brother with regret "Yeah, whatever. I'll let her go." She still wanted to beat Bolt to a pulp, but she didn't want to have Ty see it.

"Alright, now that that little fight is over maybe we can-" started Jason, but he had to stop himself when he started to look around. Maybe about 20 yards behind Emerald there was a large rock, about the size of a large desk. That wasn't the thing that bothered him; it was the thing that was poking out of the rock. Just behind the rock there was a metal, and that metal was part of a gun.

Just as the fox's eyes widened he realized that he was staring down the barrel of a gun. He opened his mouth to warn everyone, but wasn't in time.

"Open fire." quietly commanded Simms, and White followed his order.

Now, when you are new to the art of killing you make many mistakes. If you don't react on a dime everything that you've planed could go up in flames in an instant. Private White was one of the best shots in his division by far, he could hit a wooden target with a pistol from 50 meters away and the bullet would hit the head. However, he had never shot at a live target before. There is huge difference between shooting some wooden dummy that could just be set up again and shooting a living, breathing creature and human or not, he hesitated in shooting Jason. After a quick millisecond he squeezed the trigger.

As the private pulled the trigger the gunpowder in the bullet ignited sending the lead round spinning through the long barrel, through the silencer, and out into the air. It then went about 10 meters before hitting the fox.

Little did Jason know that by turning his head to look at the Sergeant he had saved his life. The bullet just grazed the right side of his head before imbedding itself in a tree trunk. The operative staggered forward in shock.

Bolt instantly registered that the situation was now very dangerous and knew that he would need to get he and his group out of it. He retreated back to Rhino, Pearl and Mittens. He crouched behind at tree to provide some sort of safely.

"What was that sound?" asked Mittens as she looked at Jason staggering over.

Jason hugged his back to a tree and peeked out to see if he could see where the bullet had come from. Just as he poked his head out he spotted one of the men in a ghillie suit. He then pulled his head back behind the tree.

"Okay, stay behind some cover," he said before looking at Bolt "I'm not willing to lose you now Bolt."


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"How did you miss?!" almost screamed Sergeant over the radio. He couldn't believe that White had missed the shot; White was one of the best.

"I-I'm sorry sir, its just... I've never actually shot a real living ... thing." replied White, still unsure about how he missed.

"Well then learn!!" yelled the Sergeant over the mic. He took a few heavy breaths to try and calm himself, before turning to Griffin and Jacobs "Alright, first we need to take care of the wolves, make sure that they don't bother us."

Jacobs and Griffin exchanged glances for an awkward moment.

Simms rolled his eyes and signed "You don't need to kill them," he turned his glare over to the two wolves "just us the darts."


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Emerald was looking around franticly, for some reason the white dog and the fox were hiding from something. She got closer to Ty in an attempt to protect him, but she would soon see that her efforts were futile.

"Emerald... what's wrong?" nervously asked Ty while he cowered next to his sister.

However, before Emerald could respond a dart flew through the air and imbedded itself into her. The wolf looked down at her flank in terror and started to stagger.

"Emerald, are you oka-" started Ty but was stopped by another dart that shot him in his shoulder. Before a few seconds had passed both wolves were on the ground unconscious.

"Are they... dead?" nervously spoke Pearl as she slowly dragged herself to safety.

However, Jason wasn't concerned with the wolves too much. He needed to get Bolt out of there, but he desperately needed some type of distraction.


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"Alright, White, throw a stun grenade at the animals. Over" commanded Sergeant Simms.

"Permission to speak freely sir? Over." replied White in a slightly nervous tone.

Simms rolled his eyes and signed before saying "Yeah, sure. Over."

"Um, why can't we just, you know, go in there and shoot 'em? Over." asked the private.

"Because Private, that fox is considered extremely dangerous and will not hesitate in killing you. Now throw the stun grenade. Over"

Private rolled his eyes at his sergeant; he didn't think that there was much need to go through all of this precaution just to kill one dog. Unfortunately for him it wasn't his choice. He pulled a stun grenade off his belt and placed the pin in his mouth before pulling the pin. He then proceeded to toss the grenade.

As already mentioned, White had one of the best shots in his company, but he wasn't that good at throwing things.

Including grenades.

The stun device was thrown much too hard and off to the side. It ricocheted off a tree and landed right next to the private's squad mates. What followed next was a series of shrieks, coughs, and a few colorful words.

"Screw this." said White as he stood up and pulled a silenced USP. He was gong in.