Chap 5: Going home

"OK then, I'll wait here and tell everyone that your coming! Stella's gone to California with dad, so only me and mom are home for now, I'll tell them you're coming home! That should bring them back." Brad said.

"Why? What's with them? Going all the way up to California, did something happen?" Lyle asked confusedly.

"Nah, just some expo or sort, don't worry over it brother, even if something happened, sis would let us know." Brad said.

"OK bro, I'll call you back when I get to the airport, don't forget to pick me up or else I'll go Chuck Norris on your ass." Lyle said with a smirk on his face.

"Alright alright, since you are my lil bro, I'll send some time to come pick you up." Brad smiled on the other side.

"OK then, see you later! Bye bro" Lyle hung up the call and looked at the group.

The others also turned around at the same time to see of he's done with the call. Lyle smiled and walked towards them.

"Any news?" Reginald asked.

"I gotta go to Boston if I need the information." Lyle replied.

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, but they still nodded their head as they trust him to do the right thing.

"What's our next course of action?" Flynn asked.

"First, me, Reginald and Ed will goto Boston and get all the info we can while Guido, Putok and Sam will goto France! Meanwhile, Flynn and the others stay here and see if you can find anything." Lyle immediately said and they all nodded their head.

"But.... Why France? To look for information?" Guido asked.

Lyle put his hand on Guido's shoulder.

"Guido, we know you are one of the best soldier and our best pal! But he is still your family, go meet him one last time and send him off." Lyle said softly. Everyone smiled.

Guido didn't know what to say, he was getting emotional.

He saluted Lyle.

"Sir yes Sir!".

Lyle took his hand off.

"Men! Move out!" Everyone stand in attention and saluted him.

"SIR YES SIR!" They shouted in unison and then left to put their gears back in the armory as there is no use of them for now.

Lyle walked towards the direction where the Strike Force resides. Their residential quarter was not bad looking, it was like a four stories apartment. He walked in through the front door and took the stairs to go to the third floor.

He got to the third floor and knocked on the second door from the stairs. He kept knocking three more times, no one answered the door.

Lyle finally gave up knocking.

"I know you are inside! If you don't open in 10 seconds, I'll blow this door without a second thought!" He said.

Sound of someone rushing to the door came from the other side. *click*. A man who seemed to be like in his 40s with his shirt buttons undone, opened the door.

"Oh it's just you, sorry I was busy with something...." The man said with an embarrassed look.

A women looked like she was two years younger than the man came out, half naked.

"Who is it?" The women asked.

"It's Connor, I thought someone else was here." The man replied.

Lyle gave that man a weird look.

"Hooooo..... Were you waiting for someone else? Even though you got a beautiful lady like Miss Jane, you still want someone else? How low can you be such a low life!? Or were you planning to try threesome!?" He teased.

The man's face lost all color and became pale as a paper.

'WHY THE F*CK ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME CONNOR! YOU ARE ADDING GASOLINE TO A FOREST FIRE!" He was screaming inside.

He slowly turned to look at the women behind him and saw that she was releasing an imposing aura that of a demon ready to eat him alive.

"Ah- no, this is a misunderstanding! He is doing this on purpose! Don't believe him! I truly like you and I'm not cheating on you! It's the tru-" a punch landed on his face when he could finishexplaining.

"I know that he was messing with you, I just felt like punching you." Jane said.

"Haha Miss Jane, you are ruthlessas always, but I like it!" Lyle laughed.

"Well thanks for the sweet talk and its about time you said why you're here right? Why don't you come in? We'll talk over a drink." Jane smiled as she asked.

"I'm all in but.... What about him?" Lyle asked as he looked at the man laying on the floor.

"Hmm? Just dragging him inside is fine." she said it simply but Lyle didn't know whether cry or laugh at her words.

And so, he dragged the man inside and put him on the sofa with the help of Jane. She then started to make some coffee.

"What brings you here today? Since you are in your formal uniform, any mission you need help with? I don't think you just came here to 'drop by and say hi', what is it?" She asked as she was making the coffee.

"Your sharp as ever miss Jane! You really deserve the name 'The Recon Rose Jane'! Being the best recon team in our division, who else can I go for help if not you?" Lyle smiled as he started to sugarcoat things.

Jane smiled seductively.

"Don't you think you are adding too much sugar? Get right to business now or drink this and come back when you want to say it." she placed the coffee on the table and looked at him as she took a sip from her cup.

"Guess I licked your boot too much huh?" Lyle smiled as said.

Jane just smiled at his remark and took another sip.

Connor took a sip from his cup.

"I'll get right down to business, I want your team to accompany us to Boston". Jane put her cup on the table and closed her eyes, thinking.

She opened her eyes after sometime.

"I know how you guys roll and I trust your judgment, but care to tell me why Boston? Please tell me you guys aren't going there with guns flashing, I know you guys are nuts but this is under the category of 'Insanity'! If you are doing something like that, then strike me the f*ck out of the equation!" She let out a big breath.

"Do you think that we are that eager to die?" Lyle'slips twitched as he said.

Jane shook her head.

"It's not that, you guys sometimes tend to be reckless! Even though you guys are 'U SOLS', it doesn't mean you won't die if you got shot in the head." She said.

"Come on Miss Jane, we maybe impulsive sometimes, but that doesn't mean we are always crazy!" Lyle smiled.

"Then what category does that mission when you guys took a whole Russian convoy down!? There were at least 75 escorts and 25 original guards in it! If that doesn't count crazy, I don't know what does." Jane said.

Lyle was loss for words. It is true that he once led his team to take out a Russian convoy of one hundred soldiers and came back in one piece and with no casualties on his side but total annihilated the other side.

"Even if they are Russian, that doesn't mean they are Russian military alright? They were a separatist militia force and the Russian government asked the UN to stop them!" Lyle said rebutted.

Jane opened one of her eyes.

"Then why was the 'K' squad of MGUAF doing the job of UN for them? Explain!" Jane asked.

"Well we were patrolling the area and those guys were the ones that intruded our territory! We had the order to 'Eliminate hostiles wandering into the borders of MGU' and what will you do if you have that order and see dozens of vehicles rushing into our border with armed personals inside!? We did exactly that! At first we thought it was AFF, but after we finished killing them off did we notice that they were Russians, things were pretty messed at first but it went smoothly later and we were commended for our action of killing the intruders and rebels." Lyle sighed.

Jane lifted her hands up in the air.

"OK fine! I give up! I can't stand toe to toe with you! Now tell me why you want to goto Boston?" She asked.

Lyle drank all the coffee in one go.

"My parents live there and there's a certain someone who I want to ask some information, so I'm going there with two others from my team and only the three of us will not be enough in times of danger, so that's why I need your help." He said.

Jane raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Wait you're from Boston?" She asked.

Lyle nodded his head.

"Wow that's a surprise! My parents are there as well!" She said.

Now Lyle raised his eyebrows.

"Now that's a news! You're from Boston as well? That's amazing!" He said.

"No worries Connor, we'll accompany you guys! When are we leaving?" Jane smiled as she asked.

"Immediately!" Lyle became serious and said.

Jane nodded her head and sent him off, so she can make preparations.

Lyle didn't delay and went straight to their quarters and started packing up his things for the trip home. When he came out of the room, he saw Reginald and Ed were standing near the door with bags in their hands and were wearing casual clothes.

"You guys ready to go?" Lyle asked.

Both of them nodded.

The trio said their byes to their team and went towards the Airbase.

When they arrived at the Airbase, they saw that Jane and her team of three were waiting for them in casual attire.

Jane walked forward towards them.

"I thought we were going to the airport? Why did CJ called me and said that he was going to give us a lift? Care to explain?" She asked.

Rest of them also looked at Lyle and gave him a weird look.

Lyle rubbed his nose.

"Well I was planning to use the airways, but since we need to goto Michigan and then Boston to avoid suspicion from my brother who will be visiting me at the airport, CJ said he will help me in this aspect, so why not accept his offer I thought." He said.

"Then does coming out of a military jet in a public airport not raise suspicion?" Jane shook her head as she asked. Rest of them nodded their head.

"Now did I say we are using a military transport to fly over there? I don't remember." Lyle let out a sigh as he said.

Everybody got confused.

"Then what are we using?" They asked.

"Private jet of commander Dylan." Lyle said.

Everyone dropped their jaws when they heard him! Did he just say that he got permission to use the division vice commander's private jet? They didn't know what to say.

"I'm gonna restrain myself from commenting!" Edward said.

The rest of them nodded their head.

Lyle shrugged his shoulders. Only he knows how hard it was to convince Dylan, but in the end he did so that's all that matters now!

CJ arrived 20 minutes later and greeted them after which they all boarded the jet and took off to Michigan.