Chapter One: Concerning the Beginning
'Ello mates, this is my first multi-chapterstory, so i'm up for reviews and criticism. Enjoy!
All across the badlands a single shot was heard as it glided through the air like a soaring eagle, reaching its destination with a scream and a squeak from its prey before it flipped backwards, and landed with a sharp thud. The sound of cocking shell indicated that the eagle was returning for its afternoon snack, and sure enough the gliding projectile found its mark once more. The perpetrator of the shining cylinders was no more than 30 feet away in a rickety. Old red barn like structure. Under his breath, the marksman uttered "thanks for standing still, ya little bugger". The man's name was Lawrence Alistair Mundy, a 1st degree murder convict from the outback with a taste for blood, and a Saxton Hale Poaching Club Card tm in his back pocket. Right behind him was his partner in crime Xander Reginald Boufileshi, an ex-assassin from Paris, France, and Lawrence's secret guard. The two of them were inseparable since they met on a mission to kill the same man, (which ironically let the target get away during their argument on who got to deliver the shot to his temple), and hit it off while smoking a pack of Cubans Xander got from a smuggling job. The two of them were together the best team of assassins the world had never known. However, a botched job in San Francisco, had led to a misfire on the mayor, and a 1st degree charge for murder. On the death row, the two were approached by Reliable Excavation and Devastation, with an offer for a job. The job was simple enough, except for one fact: every time they or their target died, he would come back to life via a complex machine called RESPaWNED (Reliable Excavation Safety Protocol and Waiting Negator Effecting Death) created by a brilliant man named Radigan Cohagner. It truly baffled the mercenary's minds, but they tried to not dwell upon it. Lawrence was hired as a sniper, and Xander was hired as a spy. The technology available to them both was amazing, laser rifles, invisibility watches; the list went on and on… "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH""BWAH HA HA, I VILL KEELL LEETLE MAN". Approaching them at high velocity was their team's scout, Johnny Arron, a wisecracking blur from Boston who was practically invisible himself. Following him was Mikhail Zabolotny, a Russian convicted for the murder of 59 men, and who preferred to load thousands of bullets into his enemy and eat his lunch over the dead corpse. The Russian heavy weapons guy was followed by the team's expert medic, yeretz boitbiut, the combat doctor from Austria, Germany and the proprietor of the medical-Regeneration-Gun. The two were as inseparable as the sniper and spy, and had the same deadliness to match. There were others amongst the army of merc's, but today would be their personal reckoning, and the foreigners and Bostonian would and could only stand by and watch, as the war they knew grew beyond themselves, and everything changed forever.