In an abandoned factory between the borders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. A group of ten heavily armed men stood around discussing a matter, and from the heavy atmosphere one could guess that it was of utmost importance.
It didn't take long for one of the men to shout out loud in frustration, as he blamed one of his comarades saying:
"Richard you F*ckin' A**hole look at what you've gotten us into you dumba**!"
Without a second delay, the man who was on the receiving end of those insults fired back at the man responsible for those less than gracefull words.
"Hmph, Cristovao you spineless coward. Weren't you so happy when i proposed the plan a few days ago and now look at you b**ching more than a woman on her period, hahaha what else can you expect of a portugoose"
"Say that again you F*cking limey."
As both of these men spoke, one can clearly differentiate their accents, and make a guess as for their country of origins, plus the slurs they had just hurled at each other were a dead give away.
Richard hailed from England, and Cristovao from Portugal. Both of them were members of the 'Brotherhood of Anarchy' a criminal organization, some went as far as labelling them a full fledge terrorist organization.
They placed in the top ten most dangerous group in the world, and with good reasons.They were founded in 2007 and in those day they were only in the crossairs of many local police from around the world but that quickly changed as bursted onto the limelight in 2009, when they claimed responsibility for the bombing of Russian consulate in Argentina, and in 2010 the assassination of former French president Valéry D'Estaing.
But they did not stop there, for the next six years they remain active and branched out in all forms of criminal activities, from drug trade with Columbian cartels, to providing muscle and trainning for the Mexican cartels.
They also got a leg in the human trafficking game, not even the gold, diamond, arms smuggling industires were safe from their reach, not even the sex industry which is have deep ties with the human trafficking ring were spared.
As they were also busy in Africa, they funded the local terrorrist group boko haram. Which in term got them strong ties with the extremist terrorrist group based out of Syria called ISIS.
Some even reported that they helped and funded the president of Bolivia Evo Morales's rise to power, but so far that was never proven true by the experts nor the thousands of spies sent by all major world power.
The 'Brotherhood of Anarchy' operated like a well oiled machine, their identities remained highly confidential, very rarely did they used their real names, not only that they used skin masked to change faces as well as fake passports and documents when operating.
They also avoided being at the same place, at the same time in order to keep the authorities on their toes. They kept contacts with various criminals from around the world, both black an white color criminals.
Also one reason as to why they were feared, was because of their modus operandi. It was all over the place, and had no clear end goal, like most organization who sends manifesto's and so on, they never did suh things only claiming responsibilities via highly encrypted message sen to the authorities.
Like most good runs, they all eventually come to an end. And that is where we are at this very moment, over the decade the 'Brotherhood' had been active they, have finally dropped the ball this time around.
They decided to kidnap the son of a highly successfull chinese buisnessman who happened to be on vacation. The reson why they did so was to get to that man and to gain a contact ledger with information about members of a specific group 1% worldwide.
But that plan severly backfired on them. The boy was in Russia for vacation but because of his father's buisness, the Ukrainian FISU (Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine) the Russian KGB (Committee for State Security) and the Belarussian KDB (State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus) all mobilized they're forces to monitor him and see if he is not here to meet up with other opposing parties.
During they're seperste operation however, they witnessed the kidnapping of the boy by a group of unidentified indivudals. These group of ten, were heavily armed, and they deffinitly received specialized military trainning as they wounded the agents on sight and escaped with the package.
Following this debacle Russia dispatched their FSB unit in hot pursuit of them. And after three days of fconstant fire fights, they managed to push them here, in a DMZ between the borders of Russia,Ukraine and Belarus.
They have not suffered any casulties, but are running low on amo, food and sleep. Having retreated in a DMZ has provided them a breif moment of rest as the FSB cannot operate in this erea, but soon it will not be them who come knocking.
Now this is a regarded as a military matter, and all three contries will be mobilizing their respective special operation units to quell them, kidnapping a valued target and retreating towards the border erea seperating of three countries is no laughing matter.
This can tip the balane of power world wide, as it involves not three but four different countries. Just thinking about this caused Critstovao to have a headache, so he naturally lashed out on the one who proposed the plan in the first place.
Richard was not fairing any better, as a former member of the british S.A.S, he knew first hand the method of operation of these three countries special forces units, since the fall of the late Soviet Union these countries have been at each others throats.
And their elite reflected that, despite the lack of ressources and money spent on the military by both Belarus and Ukraine, their elites both have a pension for both gratuitous violence, and lack of mercy.
And not only that this may very well be a joint operation with Russia, in other words this will be a direct showdown between Belarus Ukraine and Russian Spetsnaz units on who can get this done faster.
So being blamed by Cristovao for this botched kidnapping.how could he not be upset, luckily someone stepped in between them before this could escalate any further.
"Comarade please stop, this will not change this sitution we in"
With a heavy russian accent a big man with slavic features steps in a pulls them apart, his name is Sergei a former member of the Russian mechanized infantry unit.
"Sergei is right guys save your breaths for later, besides it's annoying."
At this moment another voice with a different accent broke out from the corner, there was a slightly tan man sitting down cleaning his weapon, from his laid back attitude one would of never thought he was in danger, seing his attitude sent cristovao to the edge once again.
"Elam aren't worried? we are trapped between three special forces units here, how can you be so calm about this?"
"Not really, i mean we have three choices here. One is to cut a deal by contacting the boy's father, in exchange for his release we get a way out of this mess,which is what i think the boss is trying to do right now .
Two is we surrender, and hopefully we get treated fairly, or three we fight and die. i mean it's that easy really so what's the point of yelling. i mean for all the shit we've done in the past you didn't expect us to have a happy ending did you? if you did than you're an idiot, when i was in the IDF they always told us death is better than capture so i chose death."
After hearing is response cristovao sighed. As a former member of the portuguese army commando, he knew that what Elam said was true, after all that they've done over the years being captured was not an option.
After closing his eyes for a few seconds, he suddenly felt someone tap his left shoulder. Looking up he saw another tan man but this time he had distinct asian like features and was a full head shorter than everybody present.
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The man nodded his head and gave him a thumbs up before walking away, shaking his head cristovao started laughing at this man's action, not only him but Sergei and Richard who was relatively quiet.
His name was Andri, he's from indonesia and was a former member of their famed kopassus unit. But after being discharged because of budget cuts, he needed to make ends meat so he became a mercenary.
"well well why wasn't i invited to this party huh guys"
A voice broke through the darkness as a man came walking up to the group, he was a man of average height and weight, one you couldn't remember from a crowd of caucasian men, he had no distinct features at all everything was average.
He was not ugly, nor was he a handsome man like cristovao, he also was not as alert and anti social as Andri. But he was the opposite of Elam who was cold and serious.
He on the other hand was bundle of happiness, he and sergei were best friend as he would like to drink, party and have a jolly ol good time. Some people thought he was an odd man out because of his personality but make no mistake he was as deadly as they come as he was a former member of the french foreign legion.
"Hey Paully how is it out there?" asked Sergei
"Well ther is movement to the east, west and north of us so un my calculation we have about an hour before they come knocking" responded Paul before he turned to his right and called out to another man laying down and had both of his eyes closed "Yo Jackson, got any cigs?
Opening only one of his eyes the bald african american, who was lying down said in a low tone saying a few word before going back to sleep "Nope, besides you still owe me a since our service days in iraq"
"Ugh, still remember that? jesus Jacks what are you a loan shark now?" replied Paul in a defeated tone but Jackson didn't let up at all and fired back at him.
"Well yo should be lucky since i didn't add the ones you bumbed off me since boot camp, as your long time friend and battle buddy from the legion i will say this for your own good please pay back what you borrow"
Much to Paul's displeasure the whole room erupted in laughter, it was a rare sight to see them laughing like that. I mean even the cold Elman was in on it too, and that rarely happens.
Suddenly a muffled voice was heard followed by thrashing and wiggling, every pair of eyes were fixated on the source of that noise, on the far corner of the room a faint silouhette was seen.
"Well looks like sleeping beauty is finally awake huh." said cristovao said in a low tone.
"Yea anyways who's guarding him?" replied Richard in a lazy tone
"I am why?" a voice that had faint traces of feminine traces in it immediatly replied, when Richard looked to his left muscular woman stood there wipping her wet hands on a towel.
She stool about half an inch taller than him, her shoulders were wide, her back was buldging out of her clothes, she had a perfect shape torso evidently even through clothes.
If one had to categorize her it would in one word 'Amazonian'. her voice was rough and deep, if not for her haircut one could confuse her as a man.
"Lauren, i didn't see you there? anyways he's up." replied Richard as he pointed at the boy.
nodding her head the woman called Lauren walked over in a brusque manner unfitting of a woman, in a flash she arrive in front of him and rmoved the cover that was over his face.
upon making eye contact the frightned boy, with delicate features visibly calmed down a bit. Unlike those men who kidnapped him, this woman was always nice to him during the whole process.
she made sure he ate even during the fire fight she held him tight with one arm, while shooting with the other, she also helpped him with the injuries he received during the event.
She fed him, even used a wet rag to wipe the sweat that was covering his body due to his fear. She also called 'Misha' ("bear cub") overall out of the group she is the only one who treated him like a human being.
Due to his childhood the boy named Ye Xiongwas highly sensitive to the people around him, he was also an expert at reading their eyes, he could see whether or not one was genuine about their actions and words.
So after observing this woman, he began to realize she was sincere about her actions. Sohe let his guard down around her, and as for the others well he wanted nothing to do with them.
Lauren was a medic in the icelandic defense force, her father was a high ranking officer, and her mother was a chinese financial advisor who moved to iceland in persuit of a career.
because of her father's influence she joinned the military after high school, because her father did not want her to be in arms way, he also forced into medical school saying that being a medic is the best way to make a difference in saving lives.
She also had to meet his requirements, both physically and mentally. she was required to completly transform her body, she had to follow a bodybuilding regime to the letter, and to cut off all distraction.
Since young she firmly beleive in that idealogy, she had time nor fancy in romantic relationship. It wasn't that she was lesbian, it was that she believed that romantic relationships were a distraction.
By the time she reached college she was a towing six feet three inches and weigh-in at two-hundred fifteen pounds of muscle, in her native of oceland it was not uncommon to see such women, but in the outside world it was.
Upon joinning the icelandic Defense Force she broke many records after records, such youngest to complete the all the marksmanship tests and earned her expert badge in all categories (small bore pistol, sub-machinegun, machine gun, rifle, recoilles rifle)
She also earned the badge of expert knife fighter, during her college days she earned countless medals and world championship titles in judo, wrestling, sambo and kickboxing.
Those made headline across Europe at that time as it was done by a woman, even though she is a pure breed amazonian, she is still incredibly attractive nontheless which also shattered the hearts of many, i mean who'd be crazy enough to court a deadly weapon such as her.
During a NATO joint exercise the plane carrier her father was aboard was shut down accidently. This event further broke her when the high officials covered it up in order to protect the son of a general.
Her mother striken by grief died soon after due to poor health, so at the age of 23 she left the military in order to travel the world, there in Brazil she worked at a free clinic she helped out an injured man.
After recovering the man explained to herhis goals, after that he offered her a job, thinking about the injustuce her father suffered she decided to give it a shoot, that was over a year ago.
During her time with the Brotherhood she was a killing machine with no emotion at all, it even scared the daylight out her comrades. even paul had to be on his guard when near her, but all that changed upon laying her eyes on this boy.
When she was tasked to look after him she thought it was a shitty job in all honesty, but the second their eyes met she felt her heartstring tug, this boy from his eyes one could tell he was in pain mentaly, physically and emotionally.
As a doctor and psychologist, she was able to diagnose him in a heart beat. Somehow she felt like it was her duty to protect and help heal him.
So in the brief time they were together which was less than a day they spoke and got closer to each other, he looked at her as and an older sister figure even bordering as a mither figure in his life.
Suddenly a loud shout was geard in the small office that was in the other room. A tall man walked out, and fury was evident on his face, behind him was another man sitting on a chair with an alienware laptop.
Upon seeing him like this Richard asked in a worried voice
"Mike, what's up?"
The man stopped in front of the group and said out loud "all of you line up we have to change plans"
Without hesitation the group hundled up in a circle, even the man with the laptop moved, he put the computer back into a blue backpack and after sipping it he walked up to the bound up boy and placed in besides before joinning the group.
After seeing the full line up Mike began speaking in a grave tone.
"So i called that bastard Ye Wentian in order to arrange a ransom, but that f*cker told me to go a head and kill the kid he could careless about him before hanging up"
After saying that everybody in the room sighed except for Lauren, she on the other hand was frowning, yup her guess was right. The boy was raised in a horrible home enviroment.
After taking a deep breath mike continued on.
"Now what we need to do is leave this place we have lost our leverage, so we need to evacuate pronto. We will bring the kid with us untill the borders, than we will leave and each of us will go our seperate ways, we will rendez-vous in paris in four days from today"
Everybody nodded, and each went on getting ready. Lauren walked up to Ye Xiong cut his restraints up and helped him, after standing up he thanked her.
She smiled and helped him put his backpack on, and turned around in order to walked him to the group. suddenly out of the corner of her eye she sees something flash past.
In a hurry she cries out to everybody present.
"watch out"
In the mean time she grabs Ye Xiong's arm and pulls him in closer to her embrace before throwing themselves down on the ground
Whithin seconds a defining sound rang out, it was followed by raging fire, the once peacefull room became hell on earth, screams could be heard.
very quickly bullets also rang out, the footsteps of the men responsible could also be heard. Ye Xiong was in between consciousness, images of his life kept flashing before his eyes.
He only had one thing, and that was regret. He regretted being born, he regretted that he couldn't make something out of himself, he regretted he listened to his father and came here to Russia.
He laid there as his vision was getting darker and darker despite the room being lit a blaze by the fire. He could hear men speaking, yet he could not make out what they were saying.
And soon he took his last breath.
Like a theif in the night, without being seen by every men present in the room a red glow shone on his body, after it died down whisp of red fog escaped from the body of the dead members of the brotherhood and entered his body.
After thirty seconds, it disapearred like it never happened. But once more the heart in his chest started beating once more, and a smug like s,ile appeared on his face.
But he laid there motionlessly,