*I would like to apologize in advance if some of the translation work isn't up to par. I am using Bing translate, and I don't speak Japanese…

*If you're wondering which version of Motoko I'm using, it's the Standalone Complex version (2nd GiG) – looks better (personal opinion)

Part 1 – The Situation

The Oriental Horizon Resort and Spa, one of Japan's most exclusive relaxation hotel: thirty-two floors of nothing but pure luxury.

Two men sat in the same room, the one on the right: five-foot-nine, Japanese, and wore a fully black tuxedo with a black shirt and a white tie. His hair was tied up in a ponytail, and his eyes were a deep shade of brown.

The one on the left was six-foot, Caucasian, and wore a pair of white shoes, white pants, a white shirt, and a black jacket with a black tie. His hair was professionally combed, and his eyes were a deep emerald green.

This was, of course, the Japanese male's room, this was just one stop off before his train would take off the following morning to go to Osaka.

His train had to wait for the day as a snowstorm somewhere in the Mie Prefecture, most likely in the Suzuka Mountains which had experienced heavy snowfall that previous night.

While train travel is advanced, it still leaves a lot to be desired as the train still needs to be in contact with the rails to move. When the tracks are completely snowed over, it doesn't do much towards keeping the train on the rails.

"I'm glad we could meet like this," the Caucasian said as he leaned back in his seat, a can of High Rise Craft Brewing Company Beer in his hand, "Our governments have been close friends for more than a century."

"I know," the Japanese male said, "I have to say, I was surprised when I received your call. With you boys off working on the other side of the planet I honestly didn't expect you to travel to Japan to meet with me."

"What's a few thousand miles and an ocean between friends," the Caucasian asked as he raised his beer before continuing his drink.

"Knowing you," the Japanese male said, "There's something else going on. I honestly can't believe that nothing bad is going on."

"Nothing truly bad is going on," the Caucasian said as he set his beer down, "But we do have a small problem. Mostly right here in Japan."

"What problem would that be," the Japanese male asked.

"Well…" the Caucasian said before there was a knock at the door.

"You expecting anyone," the Japanese male asked as he looked at the door.

"No," the Caucasian said, "You?"

"No," the Japanese male said.

There was a swift sound of polymer on plastic as the Caucasian male pulled a Glock 33AV, he slowly pulled back the slide to do a brass-check, fully loaded and ready to go.

The Caucasian walked up to the door and looked through the peephole: nothing.

He reached down to the door, and slowly turned the knob…

Kawasaki-Ku, Kawasaki

Section 9 waited outside in their assault vehicle, terrorists from the C2G terrorist organization had taken hostages inside the Golden City Hotel.

"What's taking so long," Batou asked as he placed his head against his fist.

"Permission," Saito said as he watched the building from a spider nest across the street from the hotel with a CM2010, "Nothing we can do."

"At least right now," Azuma said as he checked the bolt on his ARC1-G2, "As soon as the Colonel gives us the all-clear, we move in."

"Don't get too excited," Togusa said as he laid his C26A across his chest, "We probably won't move for another two hours. We all might as well get comfortable."

"Major are you tracking," Aramaki asked over the communicator.

"Yes," Motoko said as she looked through her goggles into the building's systems.

There were five hostiles on the sixth floor holding an equal number of hostages. There were two on the ninth floor holding three hostages. On the eighteenth, there were three holding seven hostages.

"I count ten tangos," Motoko said, "And thirteen hostages."

"Floors," Batou asked.

"Sixth, ninth, and eighteenth," Motoko said as she raised her goggles, and rubbed her eyes before lowering them back to look through them.

"Something up with your eyes, Major," Ishikawa asked.

"No matter how much of a cyborg you are, you can never get used to something," Motoko said.

"How long have you been looking through those," Ishikawa asked.

"Since we got here," Motoko said, "It's like what happens when these kids today play those VR racing games too much."

"Or any VR game," Batou said.

"What would you know about that," Motoko asked.

"You'd be surprised, Major," Batou said as he leaned over the steering when of the team's assault vehicle.

"Ease up on the steering wheel," Motoko said, "Lean on it any further and you'll snap it in two."

"Funny Major," Batou said, "Very funny."

"Major," Aramaki said, "The tangos are making contact."

"Patch me in," Motoko said.

"私たちは首相の代表に話をしたい," the apparent leader of the group said.

He was about six-feet-tall, heavy-set build, Japanese male with his hair down in dreads, he wore a white shirt with a thick red leather waistcoat, a pair of black jeans, and a pair of black leather boots. His right arm had been replaced with a clear-shelled prosthetic.

Motoko knew he was on the eighteenth floor because there were two others with him.

"This is him," Aramaki said, "Let it be known that we are more than happy to extend a plea should you let the hostages go."

"すごい," he said, "それから首相に伝えてくれ我々が人質を釈放するという条件で我々は500万ドルを受け取る."

"Five million," Aramaki asked.

"とバス," the leader said, "彼らはジェットであるでしょう最寄りの飛行場に私たちを取る準備ができて、燃料を補給し、世界のどの国に私たちを取る準備ができて."

"Authorization for a jet has to come from the PM," Aramaki said, "If you have half an hour, I can give you an answer."

"私たちを待たないでください," the leader said.

"The PM will never go for it," Motoko said.

"I know," Aramaki said, "Major you are go," Aramaki said, "Repeat, you are go."

"Copy that," Motoko said as she pulled the KRIS-SV out from underneath the seat, and pounded on the back of the assault vehicle's cabin.

"Let's move," Pazu said as he kicked the back door open, and piled out along with the rest of the team.

"Move, move, move," Togusa exclaimed as the team rapidly approached the front entrance.

As they approached the front, Motoko signaled Borma forward, "Scanning," he said as he pulled out a scanner, and as a set of lasers scanned the area in front of them, he started picking up singles, "Explosives, trip lasers. I count them all around the perimeter."

"Cut them," Motoko said.

"Way ahead of you Major," Borma said as he walked up to one of the trip-mines.

The mine was triangular shaped, made of grey metal, and had a small blue light emitting the laser.

Slowly taking off the casing, he held it out to Pazu who walked over and held the casing steady.

The inside of the explosives was a bundle of wire connected to two vials of gunpowder filled with nails, child's play for Borma who simply found the wires connected to the vials, and with a simple pull disconnected them.

Borma then went to the one below, and after repeating the process, he signaled the team forward.

The team quickly took cover beside the front door before Togusa opened the door for the team to go through.

"Last man," Azuma said as he entered, allowing Togusa to enter behind him.

The lobby was completely empty, "Management must have emptied the lobby when they started taking hostages," Batou said.

"Probably," Motoko said before signaling the team to form up to go over the plan, as the team formed up, she placed a small device on the table, displaying a 3D image of the building, and the location of the hostiles, "Alright, we know the boss is on the eighteenth floor. Batou, he's ours."

"Ok," Batou said.

"Togusa, take Ishikawa and Azuma to the sixth and deal with five there," Motoko said, "Finally, Pazu, Borma, take the two on the ninth."

"Yes ma'am," Batou said.

"We need to hit the rooms simultaneously," Motoko said, "All Agent stay on Mind-Comms, and wait for my signal. When you see it, then you attack. Let's move!"

Togusa led Ishikawa and Azuma over to the stairs, and they quickly began their ascent.

Meanwhile, Motoko, Batou, Pazu, and Borma had pried the elevator doors open and began their own ascent to their own floors.

Their ascent devices looked like a pair of metal clips connected with a set of loops with shiny, metal teeth along the sides.

As they began their ascent, Motoko knew that their presence would likely not go undetected for long.

They had to maintain the element of surprise for as long as they could in order to keep the hostages safe.

On the ninth floor, Borma pried the doors open as Pazu climbed onto the floor with him.

"Major," Saito said over the comm, "I got one tango on the balcony of the nineteenth floor."

"Take him out when I say," Motoko said, "Let's keep moving."

Motoko and Batou arrived on the eighteenth floor, and after Batou pried the doors open, the two of them proceeded down the hall.

It wasn't long before they heard a door at the end of the hall opening, and the two of them dove into cover.

It was one of the hostiles in the room with their boss who simply looked up and down the hall before closing the door.

"In position," Togusa said as he, Ishikawa, and Azuma took cover next to the door leading to the first hostage location.

"Ready to breach," Pazu said as he and Borma took cover next to the door that led to the second hostage location.

"All teams, stand by," Motoko said as she and Batou took position next to the door leading to the last hostage location, she looked up at Batou who nodded, "Execute!"

Saito quickly activated his Hawkeye, and simply adjusting for elevation and bullet-drop, he squeezed the trigger as the hostile saw the glimmer of his scope.

The shot splattered blood against the window, causing the leader of the hostage-takers to exclaim, "What the fu…" before the teams barged in.

Togusa, Ishikawa, and Azuma charged into the first hostage location, the hostiles appeared to be using mini-UZIs with red bungie cord wrapped around the grips.

Togusa took the two closest to him, they only managed to raise their UZIs up to knee-length before two bursts from Togusa's C26A dropped them like a ton of bricks.

Azuma took the two middle: his ACR1 made short work of the one on the left as his head exploded with blood, and the one on the left was only able to watch his buddy go down before he too went down.

The first of the last two was quick work for Ishikawa's C-30, the one on the right had his UZI up to the group's waists before he was mowed down. His friend had the UZI up to full only to pull the trigger, and then realize he loaded it with the wrong ammo when the thing tore apart in his hand.

The man bent over holding his wrist, his index finger was bent completely out of alignment, the tip of his middle finger was bent at an anatomically impossible angle, and his last two fingers were severely cut.

Ishikawa walked up to the man, drew his SN 5-7, placed it against the hostile's skull, and pulled the trigger.

On the Pazu and Borma charged into the room on the ninth floor, Pazu's C26A made short work of the one on the left while Borma's Seburo MG turned the other one into blood soup.

On the eighteenth floor, Batou charged though the door to fire one round into the secondary hostile in the room as the boss grabbed one hostage off the floor, and placed the barrel of a nickel-plated revolver against the woman's skull.

"戻って来てください," he exclaimed as he cocked the lever of his revolver, "彼女を殺してやる!"

"Major," Borma said as he dropped to the floor to reveal Motoko who fired one round through the leader's mouth.

He let go of the girl, and slowly went to his knees on the floor.

"All tangos down," Motoko said.

Half an hour later

"All hostages are accounted for," Motoko said as she was reporting to the Prime Minister, "No casualties, all hostiles down."

"Well done Major," Prime Minister Kayabuki said, "This is another win for Section 9."

"Thank you, Prime Minister," Motoko said as she bowed in front of the screen.

"You have a good evening Major," Prime Minister Kayabuki said.

As the screen cut, Motoko walked to the front of the assault vehicle where Batou was waiting, "I know you were looking forward to going back to your apartment tonight," he said, "But not going to happen," he tapped behind his ear twice, "We got a call: shots fired at the Oriental Horizon."

First Chapter of my first Ghost in the Shell Fanfic, what do you think?

Translation:

私たちは首相の代表に話をしたい – We wish to speak to the Prime Minister's representative

すごい – Great

それから首相に伝えてくれ我々が人質を釈放するという条件で我々は500万ドルを受け取る – Then tell the Prime Minister we'll release the hostages on the condition that we receive five million dollars

とバス – And a bus

彼らはジェットであるでしょう最寄りの飛行場に私たちを取る準備ができて、燃料を補給し、世界のどの国に私たちを取る準備ができて – Ready to take us to the nearest airstrip where they'll be a jet, fueled up and ready to take us to any country in the world

私たちを待たないでください – don't keep us waiting

戻って来てください – Get back

彼女を殺してやる – I'll kill her