HA3 0.0 – Prologue

Saturday morning, today Hide wanted to introduce new weapon system to Takeo and Shizuka, so he came to the workshop earlier than usual. Then, he was about to finish arranging everything in the back area when Takeo and Shizuka arrived at shooting range through hidden leave. The two immediately walked over to Hide.

“You have arranged everything,” Takeo asked as he checked the neatly arranged equipment in front of Hide.

“Yeah,” Hide calmly said. “Are you ready?”

“We do,” Shizuka replied.

“Let’s get started then.”

Wasting no time, Takeo and Shizuka put their backpack to the floor near the back wall, and then returned to Hide.

“It’s time to introduce you to second weapon system,” Hide said as he took an office mail envelope from the table, and then opened it and took Haka MP5PDW with 20-round magazine from it. “To be precise to a PDW.”

“Nice,” Shizuka said as she looked at the MP5PDW in Hide’s hand with sparkling eyes.

“Yup,” Hide happily replied.

“This MP5PDW looks different from the one we got from Villa Tigera,” Takeo said after studying the PDW for a moment.

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“Correct,” Hide calmly replied before putting the picture of MP5PDW in his hand to the electric whiteboard on the back wall, “And this is the modification I have done on it.”

Without delay Takeo and Shizuka put their eyes to the MP5PDW’s picture and read the explanation that being pointed at its part one by one, and with ease they grasped the modification.

Basically, Hide had replaced the broom stick hand guard with M-Look hand guard, covered it with mini slate grip panel on the side, and regular slate grip with vertical grip on the bottom.

Then, he mounted back the tactical flashlight on the right position in a way so it wouldn’t create shadow if he attached silencer. He also replaced the thick side-folding shoulder stock with compact and collapsible telescoping stock. On the upper part of the receiver, he also put a mount to attach ACSS Micro Red Dot.

This MP5-PDW was so compact and slim to the point you can put it inside medium-size office mail envelop, which mean you could also put it in second compartment of laptop sling-bag along with three spare 30-round magazines.

“Now, watch carefully,” Hide calmly said before carrying the MP5PDW to the shooting area along with three spare magazines, and started a shooting drill.

Beeb!

Multiple human-shaped hologram targets popped up as soon as the timer started. Hide immediately took instinctive counter terrorist stance and started sending rapid double tap. For a target below 8 meters, he would hit them in the head. For a target between 8-25 meters he will hit them in the chest. Occasionally, he would switch into conventional stance and take aim through Micro Red Dot if the target hid behind a hostage.

Then, without pausing the live-fire drill continued to the range of 25-75 meters. For this distance, Hide fully used conventional stance, took aim through Micro Red Dot, put a double on the center mass, and he did it in rapid and precise manner.

Beeb!

Then, the timer stop a millisecond after Hide hit the last target, and the score in the display screen was 8.6 for 40 targets. The high score did not surprise Takeo and Shizuka anymore, but it still gave them awe. At the same time, Hide inwardly smiled as he saw a glimpse of fighting spirit in their eyes.

‘It’s a good thing to have highly motivated teammates,’ Hide calmly muttered, and then he firmly said, “Starting today, you will train using human-shaped target. Get 8.0 points out of 40 targets with three spare mags, you are a marksman. Get 8.5 point, you are an expert marksman.”

“Is that the standard scoring system for our military?” Takeo curiously asked.

“No.” Hide firmly replied. “The standard marksmanship scoring for our military is, 30 hits out of 40 rounds, you are a marksman. 35 hits out of 40 rounds, you are an expert marksman.”

“Why we use only three spare mags in the drill?” Shizuka asked.

“Three spare mags is the minimum fire power we bring to a job.”

Shizuka nodded and said, “We train like how we fight, right?”

“Correct,” Hide casually replied. “And for the next two weeks, reaching a marksman level both with PDW and sidearm, using my scoring system, is your goal. Got it?”

““Got it,”” Takeo and Shizuka replied at the same time while fighting spirit flashed in their eyes.

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