Love Legacy & Courage (book 2)

Early the next morning, I went to see mom and let her know about our final move on the plan, but despite his body healing, dad was still in a coma and couldn't give us the valuable feedback we needed so mom would be running the show with grandma and the president. The rest of the day was spent communicating and making sure our forces were armed, in the proper places, knew the targets and the mission plans. However me, Ernie and Mac headed for Washington to assist in the white house raid, but for me, it felt for like revenge. We arrived in Washington during the late evening hours, accompanied by the president's security team who provided us a blueprint of the Whitehouse from a security standpoint. They showed us all escape tunnels, areas of importance that need to be secured before the other teams are allowed to enter and etc.

After the briefing, we distributed weapons and waited for nightfall, knowing that we had the toughest mission and there was no turning back. When nightfall came "grandma said "we are mission go in 5-4-3-2-1 attack!. Me and Ernie went in after with Mac and the first 2 teams after putting on our exosuits and helping to secure the underground tunnels. The tunnels had no augments due to little knowledge of these tunnels by the public or non-security personnel and at last phase 1 was complete and equipment and personnel began to flow into the white house, taking up strategic positions. Meanwhile, across the other 49 states, the savage fighting continued and had no end in sight. Our team known as the alpha team killed several augments before quietly taking the operations room that contained all cameras and communications in the building in order to assist with the assault.

Over the next few minutes, other teams moved to capture other key points such as the primary and secondary powerplants and ground-level entry points and awaited our signal from the president to initiate the final assault. After a few minutes, the president initiated the final assault and within a few seconds, the power went down as gunshots riddled the Whitehouse, and much as I wanted to kill augments, we couldn't. The other teams radioed that the augment soldiers were converging on the main power plant and operations while 2 of our other teams were completely taken out but that what the several reserve teams in the tunnels were for. After several minutes of heavy hand to hand combat that killed half of our team, we reached the oval office and smashed open the doors, revealing Mr. Gearing, working on a small computer inside a suitcase.

Mr. Gearing grinned and said "you're too late, I've set every nuclear warhead in the united states to launch and double back; nuking this entire country and leaving my augment armies to become the new generation of the human race, so kill e but my children will live on and besides id be worried about my augment party on its way to your base " and I said "no, take him alive and he said "what" and I said "your time will come soon "as Mac froze him in a portable stasis pod and took him to the extraction team in the basement and alerted base of the incoming threat. I quickly ran over to the laptop and it read: nuclear missile launch in"4 minutes and to make things worse, augments were beating on the doors and I didn't know how long they would hold or if mac would get back in time so I desperately yelled through the radio" I need some help, these nuclear missiles are going to launch in 2 minutes!!!".

As the timer went down, I could see my life flashing before my eyes and I thought about Jamie and how I would never get to make things right and tell him how I felt but before things seemed hopeless, dad and the president came on the line. The president came on and said "my top security team advisers are off keeping the augments from getting into this building so we don't have much time and your dad will have to walk you through this. Dad's voice was strained, but with his help, I entered the deactivation codes and introduced a protocol that prevented access to the launch protocols for the next 4 days while the remains of our team held off the augments. Dad said "be safe" but before I could reply, I heard him say grab a gun Mr. president, they're in the building. Ernie came in and said they've cleared the hall and I said "Ernie we have to get back to base, they're under heavy attack.

After Mac reported Mr. gearing was secure in the car on route to base, I ordered all Whitehouse assault forces to retreat and return to base immediately to render assistance with getting the missile scuds launched. While on route to base, I began getting numerous reports from all states, that they were running low on men and firepower and that the missiles need to launch now but I still received no answer from the base but little did I know, mom heard me and tried to reply but the communications were garbled. Thirty minutes passed as I feared for everyone on the base, but most of my worries went away when our pilot detected numerous warhead launches flying past us which made us all shout as radioed "the pizza is on its way". Two hours later, our forces all over reported that chemical warheads had an excellent effect on the targets and that augments were choking, vomiting, and experience skin discoloration as well as seizures.

I radioed mission has been a success, but weapons were still being sent in to deal with small remaining groups if any survived, but despite our success, all I could think about was how bad would the carnage be when we arrive at the base in a couple of hours.