HA2 18.1 – Raid Simulation
In a corner of shooting range Shizuka calmly stood while having breathing exercise. In her right waist she had silenced Haka VP9 neatly holstered in a paddle holster, while in her left waist she had a trash pouch. As for the spare magazines, she put it into magazine pouch in her belly, well attached to her tactical vest, eight spare magazines in total.
The VP9 had its grip, slide, and magazines painted in bright blue. It was a mark that this weapon system had been converted to fire simmunition. Since a few days ago, while they built the mock-up corridor and mock-up Kamui Finance’s office, Hide, Takeo, and Shizuka had upgrade their firearm training into basic raid drill using simmunition.
And today was no different, while Shizuka was preparing herself, two steps behind her Hide was setting up the target practices using a tablet that was connected to shooting range control panel.
A moment later Hide turned his gaze to Shizuka. “Shooter, are you ready?”
“I’m,” Shizuka replied without turning her head.
Hide slightly nodded and then said, “Raid.”
Wasting no time Shizuka pulled her silenced Haka VP9 and held it close to her chest, pointed sideway to the floor, and then calmly walked forward. A few seconds later Hide pressed a button in the tablet as he said, “Target.”
In an instant four holographic circles popped up in front of Shizuka, in various height and distance. Shizuka immediately bent her knee as she pushed the VP9 forward, took aim without sight, and then gently squeezed the trigger without stopping her steps.
Be-beeb! Be-beeb! Be-beeb!
A series of silenced double tap echoed as Shizuka nailed the target one by one. When she fully emptied a magazine, she immediately changed it. In a swift movement she put the empty magazine into trash pouch in her left waist, and then inserted new magazine into VP9.
Once all targets were eliminated, Shizuka pulled back her VP9 close to her chest, but her eyes stayed vigilant. A few seconds later Hide gave her another series of bright red holographic circles.
“Target.”
Without delay Shizuka gave her best to eliminate every holographic, and the sequence continued until she run out of ammo.
“Shooter, stand by.” Hide gave signal before making a small calculation. “Nine magazines and 135 rounds in total, 19 hits out of 32 targets. You have some improvement, but it’s still not swift enough for Kamui job.”
“How bad is my record?” Shizuka nervously asked.
Hide calmly explained, “Considering it’s not even a whole month since you start the training, it’s not bad and pretty good actually. Not to mention, for a target under six meters you always nail it at first shot.
However, like I said, it’s not swift enough for Kamui job.”
“Hide, explain it in detail?” Shizuka asked as big question mark appeared in her forehead.
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“Unlike here in the shooting range, in a real situation your targets will not just stand still and do nothing when you miss. They will run or take cover. They can also shoot you back, or swarm you, arrive before you in matter of seconds and stab you to death.”
“I also won’t stand still when they come at me,” Shizuka firmly refuted.
“Yeah, but they are seasoned street fighter, train hard regularly, physically far stronger than you, and when they have the chance they won’t have second thought to kill you.”
After heaving a deep sigh Shizuka dejectedly asked, “Do you want to replace me with Twig?”
“Takeo’s score is indeed better than yours, but you can’t replace him to handle the surveillance and network infiltration.”
“So, how do we deal with this issue?”
“It’s pretty simple. In the Kamui job you just do double tap on the chest, and not in the head.”
“Double tap in the chest and not in the head?” Shizuka curiously asked.
“Yeah, that’s perfect solution for your current level,” Hide casually said. “Imagine the bright red holographic circle pop up on your targets’ chest, and not on their head.”
“What if it doesn’t enough to deliver instant kill at first shot?”
“Send second double tap, and so on, until your target fall and drop dead on the floor.”
“Got it.”
“Well, enough for basic raid drill. We have completed the mock up. Let’s put it in use for the real simulation.”
“Roger,” Shizuka firmly replied.
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The raid on Kamui Finance would be started from the rest room, so Hide, Takeo, and Shizuka gathered in this section for strategy meeting.
“Let’s review the update we have. Takeo, tell us what you got,” Hide casually opened the meeting.
Takeo immediately turned on the projector and displayed a picture of a meeting inside Kamui’s office. “They hold weekly meeting every Saturday night. Important people who knew how to run the organization will gather in this meeting.
Killing these people will disband Kamui Finance, and ensure they will never targeting Shizuka again.”
“How many opposition we have if we hit them when they have weekly meeting?” Hide asked.
“Last Saturday, 16 men attended the meeting. I guess that number will be the minimum opposition we have to clear,” Takeo replied.
“Isn’t Kamui has more people than that?” Shizuka curiously asked.
“Yeah, but they always place four men to guard their brothel house,” Takeo said as he changed the picture in the whiteboard with a big and beautiful building. “It’s located in south Nichiko, being registered as private beach bungalow, but in reality this place is a brothel house that specifically provide S&M and other nasty services.”
As she intensely looked at the beach bungalow on the whiteboard Shizuka asked, “Will we hit this place too?”
“For now, let’s put our focus on the main prize,” Hide casually replied. “First, we need to think a way to enter Kamui’s office without drawing attention, so a breach with explosive is no go.”
“The door has electric locking system. You need six digits password to open it,” Takeo made a rare grin before adding, “Fortunately, I already got the password. Some Kamui member stores it in their smart phone.”
“Good, we have no issue with breaching then,” Hide calmly said. “Let’s move to the gunfight. How good the room to contain it?”
“Good enough,” Takeo firmly replied. “When they have meeting, they will completely lower the curtain to cover the windows, so people from other building around Chikara Tower won’t see the muzzle flash.
The room is also soundproof so no one will hear the gunshot while the windows are bulletproof. It won’t break and cause unwanted intention when got hit by stray bullet.”
After a smile Hide said, “What an ideal place for a gunfight.”
“Yeah, but I also have bad feeling about it,” Takeo said in super serious tone. “Sound proof room and bullet proof windows can also be a sign that they have firearm in the room and ready to use it.”
“This possibility is under my expectation, and we will incorporate it to our training,” Hide firmly said.
“Understood,” Takeo said.
“Hide,” Shizuka said as she turned her gaze to Hide, “What about the silencer? We won’t need it if the room is sound proof, right?”
“No, we still need silencer,” Hide calmly replied. “We can’t dismiss the possibility of eliminating a target or two in the corridor.”
Shizuka nodded and said, “Okay.”
After observing the whiteboard for a while Hide said in a serious tone, “Takeo, you truly did a good job.”
“I just follow your manual,” Takeo casually replied, but from his expression it was clear that he was very happy.
“It’s still an excellent job, be proud of it.” After a moment of pause Hide continued. “We don’t have enough time to chew the whole menu of CQB course, so let’s focus the simulation to turn Shizuka into second door kicker.
And in the raid simulation, we will use adult size silhouettes as target.”
“Wait a second,” Shizuka tilted her head to the side before asking, “Did you two prepare adult size silhouettes without telling me?”
“No, this shooting range can generate it for us,” Hide calmly explained.
And Takeo happily added, “The array of micro projectors on the ceiling can generate almost any 2D or 3D image, and Hide had taught me how to operate it. I will be in charge to arrange the target for the simulation.
And just so you know, the silhouettes won’t disappear unless you hit it in the vital.”
“So, it’s like simulation of shooting a real human?” Shizuka curiously asked.
“More or less,” Hide casually replied, and then he asked, “Is our cover for the raid ready?”
“It is,” Shizuka replied as she pointed at two big sport bags in a corner.
“Let’s put it on when we have the simulation,” Hide said. “We train like how we fight.”
Shizuka nodded and replied, “Okay.”
A few minutes later, Hide, Takeo, and Shizuka had begun the first raid simulation on Kamui’s office.
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