Heyyyyy sorry about the wait. I had to rewrite this chapter several times because I didn't like how it turned out. This chapter would have been 2000 words so I split it up. Another chapter will come out tommorow
POV CHANGED
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“Blackjack!!”
Exclaimed Bill.
Agent Franco groaned. Him and his squad were currently playing card games in a rundown Hong Kong apartment.
Will had his feet up on the table and was puffing smoke out of a cigar.
Squad leader Madison walked into the room and slapped Franco on the back.
“Why do you always do that it hurts.” Franco grumbled.
Franco knew that the leader meant well but every time he saw the other man he got a slap on the back.
Madison looked over his men who were drinking rum straight from the bottle, and smoking.
“Guys I know I said to relax but the target is almost here.”
Will took another puff of his cigar and lazily lifted it away from his face.
“Why so on edge chief, the target is just a little girl.”
Franco frowned he was also wondering why 8 highly trained members of the international security agency should be hunting a little girl in Hong Kong. Shouldn't they be out there watching the communists in China or helping stop wars in the Middle East?
Madison's eyes widened.
“Wait… You guys…. Do you even know who the target is?!”
Bill was the one who answered this time.
“Yeah, just some young girl in her 20s why?”
Franco turned his eyes back to Madison who had started to freak out.
“Shit! Shit! You guys didn't even read the briefing! Everyone get the fuck up! Oh shit we're gonna die!”
Franco jumped out of his chair as Madison swished its contents onto the floor.
“Boss? What's wrong!?”
“We're all gonna die that's what's wrong!” Madison yelled.
“we aren't hunting some girl, were trying to kill Laria Zeric! And I bet you guys barely even brought weapons.”
Bill dropped his cigar.
“You mean THAT Laria Zeric, the Berlin sniper Laria Zeric.”
Madison nodded his head
All of the men at the table scrambled around panicked looking for weapons and ammo.
Franco was scared, he had heard of Laria before. She was known by several names, the Berlin sniper, blood lotus, immortal dead shot. She had one of the highest kill counts in history only losing to Simo Häyhä and his confirmed 505 kills.
Her history was a very short one. She had been first sighted In London, 2019, at the time it was the height of the new Cold War and tensions were running high, Alfred Frater the American Secretary of State was coming to meet the British Prime minister.
Frater’s plane was coming in for a landing, but moments before the plane landed. Ye pilots lost contact with the control tower. Thinking it was just a radio malfunction the pilots proceeded with their landing.
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After touchdown screams were heard throughout the plane. Frater was found dead in his seat with a hole the size of a pink prick in his neck. The same hole was found in the plane window that Frater was sitting next to.
A few hours later the personnel in the control panel were found unconscious, with the same pinprick hole in the control tower window.
The control tower personnel had no memories of how they fell unconscious or who did it to them.
The case remained cold until 2 years later when an anonymous hacking group leaked classified government files onto the Internet. One of these files was on Project:Lotus with the lone test subject being Laria Zeric she was identified as the London sniper as well as the cause of several hundred other unanswered murders.
Later that year was the Berlin Incident….
‘Knock knock’
All 8 of the mercenaries in the room froze.
Franco could feel his heart race.
Bill was the first one to whisper.
“Not it.”
Quickly all the mercenaries said the same thing.
Franco who was lost in his own thoughts didn't notice and was still staring into space.
After a few moments he noticed that the rest of his squad was staring at him.
“What?”
Madison,will, Bill, and the other 4 agents looked at Franco with pity.
“It seems you will be the one to answer the door.” Madison said sadly.
Franco's eyes widened.
“What!? Is she here.?!”
Madison looked at his other four agents.
“Raker you're in charge of squad B, get the weapons and set up in the bedroom. Will, Bill you guys are with me get your sidearms and any ammo you can scrounge up.”
“Roger that.”
Raker gave a short 2 fingered salute, motioned for the B squad to follow him and they hurried out of the room.
Bill and will pulled out a pair of matching
.44 magnums and began to look through their packs for spare bullets.
Madison turned back to Franco grabbed his shoulders, and looked directly into his eyes.
“Buy us as much time time as you can, Raker had most likely already contacted squad C on the floor above us of her arrival, that means that there are 12 of us heavily armed and just one of her. We don't even know if she has a weapon on her. Just try and delay her as long as possible. Can you do that?”
Franco nodded his head.
Madison smiled and slapped his hands down on on Franco’s shoulders.
“Thatta boy, now get out there she's probably getting impatient.”
He lightly pushed Franco forwards and walked away.
Franco on the other hand like towards the door, and gulped.