Chapter 1

Crossfire

A helicopter flies above Station Square, it made a steady landing in the middle of the road. There were GUN soldiers outside along with the police. They were dealing with a familiar group. The chopper landed a mile away from the building since it was the only spot that has space for it to land.

Two people Agent Topaz and newly-elected mayor Soren Clay stepped out and walked. Topaz explained what happened. "Glad you can make it sir. They said if the mayor doesn't arrive they will take matters in their own hands, and you know we don't want another body bag in the morgue."

"I agree with you," said Clay. "Is it that last of them?"

"We're not sure. There might be a few others under our noses. We did managed to eliminate four of them last month."

"The organisation split up?"

"Into different groups. I want you to know that one of our men is posing undercover as one of them."

They walked to the police and met the chief. "Mister Mayor, perfect timing."

"What do have at this time of day?" asked Mayor Clay.

"It's another group from SWAT, they're in that rustic school building hasn't been used for years."

"What do they want?"

"They want 500 million Mobiums or they'll kill any random policeman or GUN soldier there is outside."

"Are they equipped?"

"With the finest arsenal; machine guns, sniper rifles, shotguns...the works."

A GUN soldier walked over to Mayor Clay and handed him a folder. "Mr. Mayor here's the dossier of the undercover agent. He's new at this."

Clay read the file without a glimpse of the mug shot. He only cared about the person's experience, DOB etc.

One of the men was peeking through the blinds, there was barely any sunlight. He was chewing gum and informed the leader. "He's arrived."

The leader happened to be Ainsley. He was holding his mobile phone with a tight grip. The smell of alcohol fumed those surrounding him. His face shows that he's not fooling any mobian or human. "Thanks Wagner."

A telephone on a desk rang, the leader never expected it. He told one of his men to answer it. The person he called for walked over and picked up the receiver and spoke. "Mayor Clay?"

The voice was recognized by Topaz, it was Anthony Benedict. He was older, has a 5 o'clock shadow, his hair was shorter than usual. He was the same uniform as the others. Clay answered pretending that he doesn't who the person on the other line. "We've have your ransom, now let the hostages out of there."

"I'm not the leader," reminded Anthony. "You're talking to the wrong person."

He told Ainsley it was for him. The only thing he said was: "I picked you to do my dirty work so I won't get the shaft. If I do, I'm taking you with me along with my men."

One of Ainsley's men overheard and thought his leader is about to betray him and the rest; he did hear the entire conversation. What he doesn't know is that Anthony only covered 1/3 of the speaker which made Topaz and Clay hear the entire conversation. One of the GUN soldiers ran towards Topaz. "I've located the hostages, they're in the room next to SWAT."

"Are there any more of SWAT?" wondered Topaz.

"About five."

"How many hostages?"

"Eight from my count. GUN snipers are hidden in the bushes are equipped with silencers so we won't spending out paychecks on body bags. I made sure that they had to fire at the same time."

Clay and Topaz hoped it will go well. A radio managed to pick up a voice. "Agent Topaz, this is Sergeant Tollier. All the personnel of SWAT are deceased."

"Message received and understood," Topaz responded.

SWAT men guarding the hostages spotted a gleam of light in the bushes. The sniper reported on what's happening. "I think one of the guards spotted us shall we open fire?"

"Is he holding a weapon?" Topaz wanted to make sure.

"He's about to aim at us."

"Open fire now!"

The snipers fired bullets causing the guards to drop dead. The only sound being made were glass breaking and loud thumps of bodies and guns. The hostages were panicking, until a guard who's also in the same room fired to keep them quiet until he felt bullet entering his neck. He struggled out of the room and went to Anisley dripping blood. He started to feel dizzy. "GUN open fired on us."

Ainsley was furious. "How did this happen?"

"Snipers outside the corridor windows. I was trying to keep the hostages quiet until one of them got me."

The person who eavesdropped pointed his magnum at Ainsley. The wounded SWAT guard struggled to speak. "I want you to know if any person tries to play cute. Like this guy."

He shot the SWAT member with a magnum right between the eyes. Everybody open fired which startled GUN soldiers and the police outside. They soon fired back killing four of them included the wounded SWAT guard. Ainsley killed four more and spotted Anthony lying on the ground. He pointed his shotgun in front of the undercover agent's head. Anthony can feel the fear inside of himself. "Didn't think one of my men could turn against me. Once I was given the chance to be the new leader of Strategizing War And Terrorism, I thought I'll be leaving St. John and Williams in the dust. Dylan however knew what coming to him once I cut his arteries open after some bullshit about St. John as the creator of SWAT, I know he's wrong it was a different person or persons. I'm afraid I can't let you leave with this information now that I spoke-"

Ainsley accidently pulled the trigger and the gun is empty. Anthony grabbed the magnum and fired four bullets. Ainsley got hit 3 times in the chest and 1 in the chin which entered the brain. He couldn't show a sigh of relieve after that encounter.

The police escorted the captives safely, Soren Clay congratulated Topaz and Anthony for finding and eliminating what's left of SWAT. They spotted one of the mentally scarred captives gasping for breath and started to panic.