Title: Alternate Plans
Authors: Ange & Kathye
Rating: G
Summary: There is a change of plans.

The leader of the A-Team stood off to one side, his steely blue eyes surveying the scene while his team rounded up the last of the men they had been hired to stop.

"Move it!" Lieutenant Templeton Peck ordered, prodding one of the men in the back with his M-16.

Sergeant B. A. Baracus growled as he picked something up on the radio.

"Colonel!" Baracus shouted. "We got M.P.'s on the way! ETA five minutes."

The colonel's eyes squinted before he turned to shout to his lieutenant. "Peck! Hurry it up. We move out in three minutes."

Templeton nodded briefly before shoving the last of the men into the small shed and locking them inside. Looking over to one side, he saw Captain H.M. Murdock still on post, watching the road.

"Captain, it's time to go." Peck turned and ran toward the Team's transport vehicle.

The blond lieutenant hopped into the nondescript van with their pilot right behind him.

The large sergeant stomped on the gas and they peeled out of the parking lot, racing down the street.

"Aren't we cutting it a little close, Colonel?" Murdock asked as he tried to catch his breath.

Their leader just turned to glare at him before saying, "No choice, Captain. We had to make sure that those criminals wouldn't be able to walk away from this."

"Yes, sir."

Baracus jerked the van around a corner as he saw the M.P.'s coming at them from the opposite direction.

"Sergeant, take a left at the next intersection."

"Yes, sir."

The van skidded around the corner and came to a screeching halt. The road was completely blocked off. In front of the blockade, the men in the van could see their adversary, leaning casually against his jeep.

Chuckling slightly, Smith pulled a cigar out of his uniform pocket, lit it, and took a puff before saying, "Colonel Decker, by order of the U.S. Army, you and your Team are hereby placed under arrest."

He held the cigar clenched in his teeth and smiled broadly. "I love it when a plan comes together."

fin

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