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Chapter 13: Suppression of the mansion

An hour passed by quickly and soon the helicopters were 1 kilometer away from the politicians mansion. They landed roughly a kilometer away and disembarked.

When everyone had exited the helicopters, Jack and Daniel did a head count and Jack did one last confirmation, “I'm going over this one last time. Our objective is the mansion belonging to Jax Freed. He is a politician, but it is confirmed that he is part of Nirvana. We will completely take over the mansion and everyone within will be placed under arrest. There are also supposed to be several abducted people detained there so do not kill anyone on sight. You are only allowed to kill when they attack first, but our primary objective is to get as many people alive as possible. They may be our only way to reach the upper echelons of Nirvana.”

All the people present nodded and on Jack's signal, they moved out. They were all divided into a group of 5 plus 1. The plus one was the medical personnel that Clare brought with her. On foot and through the night, infiltrating them was going to be easy. The people selected for this were experts in nighttime infiltration and suppression.

20 minutes after heading out, all the teams reached their designated points and were waiting for the order to move in. This had to be done precisely by the clock, experience had shown that if this did not work like a clockwork, then there would be an extremely high chance of them getting away. When everyone had reached their positions, Jack did one final check and signaled everyone to move in. 

The mansions were needlessly big and was surrounded by a three meter high wall. Since Jax lived there, there were a lot of guards. Since he was a politician, it wasn't surprising that he had bodyguards, but on closer inspection of the surrounding guards, everyone noticed there were a bit too many of them. This mission had two ways of execution: Stealth as long as possible and when they were discovered, then it would become a fight. Since they had not been exposed yet, they were still in the stealth part. The best case scenario was that it ended in Stealth as well.

Everyone moved in, silencing the guards as quickly and quietly as possible. Since they entered from 11 different points, there were places where the security was more lax. Jack, Daniel, Clare and Alex formed the only four man cell in this operation. They entered through the back and headed straight for Jax's bedroom. The amount of guards they met along the way was small but even those few guards were quickly silenced by Daniel and Alex.

After entering the mansions second floor, they couldn't spot any more guards. At first they thought that it was a trap, but soon they realized that the second floor, where Jax lived with his family, was off limits to the guards. After scurrying around the second floor for a few minutes, they reached Jax's bedroom. 

Just as they entered, they could hear someone immediately shouting, "Haven't I told you idiots enough times already that you are not allowed on the second floor?" The teams eyes focused on a figure on top of the bed. Fat, half-naked and bald like a pig. They could see the person expression going from confused to shocked when he realized who entered his room. Daniel, Clare and Jack instantly moved to cover all of the exits.

Alex started walking towards the bed with an expressionless face and red lightning streaked across his arm. As the lighting reached his fingertips, a sword made of red crystal appeared in his hand. "Where is Sandra being detained?"  Alex asked in a cold, detached voice as he just kept walking and looked into Jax's eyes.

Jax immediately stood up and yelled, "You bastards, do you know who I am? Do you think you can get away with this just like that?"  The team could see sand started swirling around his now opened palm. Jack reached his hand into his pocket and took out a folded piece of paper. Everyone in the room was now standing still, Alex included. He stood close enough to attack at a moments notice. Jack unfolded the paper in a leisurely manner and Jax asked him, "What is that?"

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Jack just turned the paper around and said while smiling, "This is a warrant for your arrest."  Hearing this Jax's face turned grim as he asked in a cold voice, "On what charges? I'm an influential politician, you can not arrest me due to my immunity so get lost before I have all of you fired."  

Jack just shook his head and said, "Your immunity doesn't mean shit to us. The four of us are from Dragoncross. Thanks to our privileges we can arrest you when we want and on whatever grounds we deem fit. Currently you are going to be arrested for being part of the underground organization Nirvana. If you resist we will kill you."

Hearing this Jax let out a maniacal laugh that stunned everyone. He looked at Jack and said, "You lousy mutts, you actually have a sharp nose for once. If you figured out this much, then bravo but you should all know what we, The Nirvana is capable-"  His line was cut short as Alex cut off his right arm that had swirling sand on top of it.

Jax immediately grabbed the stump that was left. "I don't have time to listen to your grand speech. Now you also can not break your poison capsule, so you will be completely at my mercy with this one. So where is Sandra?"  Alex said in a cold voice as he started walking towards Jax. Fear was starting to surface on his face. He started regretting not breaking the capsule the moment they said that they knew he was part of Nirvana.

The capsule was located in his pinky finger. Usually the person who got caught would break his pinky and the poison would kill him in a matter of seconds. Now that the arm was detached, he couldn't suicide like that anymore and as he grit his teeth, he started to gather sand on top of his other palm. Alex's eyes flashed and he immediately cut the hand off of his wrist. When everyone saw that, their expressions were still the same, this kind of situations were not that uncommon.

Suddenly a voice echoed out from the transmitters earphones, "This is the third team. We have found a door leading underground, we believe it to be the door to lead to the laboratory and the holding place of the hostages."  Jack grabbed his microphone and said, "Good, stand by there. How are we doing on suppressing the guards around the mansion?"  Soon after, every team reported in and it was concluded that the mansion was suppressed.

All they needed to do now was get past the door to enter the underground lab. Jax had lost his worth to Alex so he immediately raised the blood crystal sword to cut his throat when Jack stopped him, "Wait, we do not know what security there is. It is more beneficial to us if he is currently alive so we can use him for the passwords."  Alex just looked at him and was void of all emotion, he was like a machine.

Clare and Daniel looked at him with pity in their eyes as they knew that this was what happened when his switch was flipped. He locked down all of his emotions leaving only a calm and rational mind. Hearing Jack, he thought for a second and nodded. Clare stopped Jax's bleeding and they moved to the door that lead underground. The door was hidden in the tool shed and as they entered the shed, they saw that to open the door they needed an Iris scan.

They all sighed in relief as they had not decided to kill Jax back in his bedroom. Jax was completely lifeless as he could not use his ESP power anymore, he was only glad that his wife and child were visiting his in-laws at the moment.Jax's ability allowed him to manipulate sand with his fingers. He couldn't create it or control it with his mind like people usually did. He only joined Nirvana because they promised him to “upgrade” his ability. 

As Jax opened the door, a loud order came out, "Rain them down with bullets!"