The Hit...Woman
Chapter 1 - Initiation
DISCLAIMER - I do not own anything. And if I did, it wouldn't be nearly as successful.
It was bright and early for the inception team members who were meeting in a warehouse somewhere in a small secluded town in Ohio. Cobb was somewhere out searching for someone and the rest of the team members were waiting impatiently with nothing to do.
"Can someone explain to me again why Cobb called us here so bloody early? Does he want to torture me this early in the morning?" The very grouchy forger asked "And why on bloody earth are we in this hick town?"
"He said he has another job. I don't know what else he's doing. And we needed to be secluded in case people are still on the look out from the other job." The pointman explained calmly.
"He just can't keep away, can he?" Ariadne questioned, shaking her head.
"Cobb, what on earth are you doing here?" A grimy looking arms dealer asked his old friend
"I need someone who can shoot a gun, and well." Cobb answered after taking a sip of his coffee.
"You came to the right place." He said, smirking. "But tell me, do you have gender preferences?"
"As long as they can shoot they're fine." He answered curtly.
"Fine, follow me please." He said leading him down a hallway to a narrow set of stairs. Cobb could already hear the gunshots as they made their way farther under the ground. They temporarily stopped, he guessed they were reloading but it was only for a few seconds before he opened the door and she was shooting again. She was standing on a long half circle room with a dozen targets hanging at different angles on the wall. She shot one and before they could blink she shot another, she shot them quickly and she shot them accurately, always hitting the bulls eye. "She's the best I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. She rents out this room every day to practice." The gun dealer said, noticing Cobb's reaction to the sharp shooter. Cobb turned to say something, but he was gone.
"Is there something I can help you with?" She asked, shooting the last target on the wall
"I'm Dom Cobb. I have a job offer for you." Cobb said
"Gianna. What kind of job?" She asked, taking off her ear muffs and looked at Cobb.
"First, I need you to pass a requirement test." Cobb said "Follow me. And bring your most powerful gun." He said leading her back upstairs after she nodded her head. He took her to his sleek, but subtle, black sedan in the parking lot. She closed her eyes in the car, she always got headaches in the car, and she felt vulnerable.
She opened her eyes when the car came to a stop and looked around to find herself in the middle of an empty intersection in who knows where.
"Where are we?" She asked, taking in her surroundings, not recognizing anything. She had only closed her eyes for a few minutes...Right?
"What I need you to do is shoot these twelve people moving towards you as fast as I can count to ten." He said ignoring her question completely.
"Wait, there are real people? I can't shoot them! Thy haven't done anything to threaten or harm me or you!"
"No, they're not real. Go." 'Technically.'
"One." One was shot.
"Two." Another one down.
"Three." Two men shot.
"Four." Three shots rang through the area.
"Five." Two more, gone.
"Six." One more down, they were closing in on them.
"Seven." The last two were gone before she could even hear the 'n' of the seven. "Very impressive."
"So, why the hell did you bring me here to shoot random strangers?" Gianna asked as they sat down on a park bench.
"I need you to be my hit...woman. I need you to cover myself and my team when we go into missions."
"Cover? Missions? Are you spies?"
"Not exactly. I perform a thing called extraction. It's not particularly legal."
"Oh, and killing twelve innocent strangers is? Don't try to B.S. me into believing they were real, I've shot dummies before."
"Yes, well it was necessary."
"Extraction? I've heard of that. Where you go into the mind and take vital information, right?"
"Yes. What we need you to do is protect us when we go into jobs. When we go into dreams, we're on a mission and can't be looking everywhere, that's where you come in."
"I see. Can I ask a question? Where are we?"
"Let me ask you a question. How did we get here?"
"In a car?"
"But you don't remember getting out of the car and coming here. When you're dreaming, you always come in in the middle." Cobb explained as he had to Ariadne.
"We're in a dream? Awesome!" She said looking around.
"Yeah well, enjoy it now. It's about to end."
"What do you me-" All the sudden, Gianna woke up in a warehouse and looked around at the strange men, save for Cobb, and woman standing around her. "Um, hi. You have some explaining to do Cobb." She said.
A/N: I don't know how I feel about this, just thought I'd give it a shot!
Good? Bad? Lemme know!