It began at a late shift. I was about to checkout but the chief called me into his office. I hoped he gave me time for vacation but I thought wrong. I knocked at the door and opened it. It was a rainy night that made us tired. My chief stood at the window looking outside sipping a coffee.
"Guten Morgen." he said. Translated into english he said good morning. "Do you know why you are here?" he said. "No." I answered looking with tired eyes at him. He turned around to me with tired expression. "I got a call from high politcian." he told me and pointed with his arm at the chair. I and colleagues know that he means we should sit down.
He sat down too and took his smartphone from his desk. "Do we get more money?" I asked him to light our moods. He shook his head and looked me directly into my eyes. "You were in the GSG9 didn't you?" he asked me. "Yeah I was for 2 years." I answered instant. He still looked at me. "Why did you left?" he asked me. I turned my head to the window to the shopping mall next to across the street. Then I turned my head more left and saw the old buildings of the town. "My family lives here. And to be honest the GSG9 was boring. I had only one mission in the two years. A smuggler at the border polens had bombs and other things." I answered and I turned my head to the chief. I didn't knew what he wanted. I was thinking about getting kicked out because of reason I don't know.
"Schmidt. I have to transfer you." he said. My eyes widen. Transfer? Do they gonna transfer me because of my skills or is it because of one of my old cases. "Transfer?" I asked. "Yes. And you lied to me you had two missions in the GSG9 in the 2 years. There was this other smuggler and your unit didn't caught. He escaped and now they found him and want you to arrest and interrogate him." my chief said. I calmed down it was just for the case I'm not allowed to talk with normal police officers without permission. After I arrested him and interrogated him I gonna get back here. "Where is he?" I asked.
"Texas." my chief answered. "Texas...?" I said confussed. "You mean in the United States?" I asked still confussed."We don't have any permission to work in other countries and I mean the USA is across the ocean." I said. He read in my face that I was totally confussed. "Calm down. The Texas Police and some US politicians asked by there self and our politicians give them the OK. I want you to grab you uniform, get some sleep and take the next flight at the Airport to Dallas. Is that clear?" he asked me. I nodded.
The next day...
Wearing my civillian clothes, sitting in an aircraft that took off a half hour ago waiting for reaching dallas. Cause I'm german and speaking it I read some english texts to get into the language again. I hadn't to use it a while since I wasn't in the GSG9 anymore. To be lucky I came into that language fast.
After hours I became bored and watched some movies at the TV in front of me with headphones on. I watched a horror movie that got a good rating and had many jump scares and other scary things in it. But somehome I can't get scared when I watch movies. The reason for that is simple. I don't fear what isn't real and I don't fear what is normal even how brutal or scary it is. I fear nothing except one thing.
After some more hours the aircraft reached the US and was about to land there. I really wished I didn't left this plane but there is no way that I could expected what was coming next.
A taxi drove me to the headquarter of the Dallas. The few cops outside looked at me when I entered the building with my bag. My chief texted me that they will find a place where I can sleep for the night. I asked at the reception to speak the chief and after some question that I became, they lead me to the chief.
I became an apartment in small hotel close the police headquarter. He also told me that I have two hours to get back here and in uniform. Well my german uniform. An american cop that was one of my colleagues now drove me to the hotel. I was a bit fascinated about the fact that cops in the USA do not have partners like we in germany do. Their cars are like a mobile offices.
Later at night I was waiting for information in the office area in the headquarter. They gave me some papers and some equipment. On the papers stood some basics about the american laws. It was similiar to our germans but some exception were on it too but it hadn't anything to do with the mission. The equipment was what I expected. A hand gun and a bulletproof vest. On the vest were some pockets where I can put the change mags. It really looks like they gonna prepare for a raid.
The others looked like they were preparing too. I thought I came in the right moment. The chief came into the office area and told me to follow him into the garage. The truck was full of SWAT units and other cops. He told them that I knew the guy we are chasing. I got in the truck the other cops looked at me because they thought I couldn't understand them. As they tried to speak some german words what sounded like my ears are bleeding.
I turned to them with serious expression. "Other european countries are asking why does germany speak english that well." I said. The guys that thought I couldn't understand one word widen their eyes and tried to apologize. The others who knew I speak german laught at them. After they calmed down they asked me why I got send into the US.
I told them what I'm allowed to say and they were fascinated about my live in the GSG9. So they asked questions about me, the GSG9 and my home country. I told them to focus on the mission because we are nearly there. Speaking of the devil when I spoke the words the truck stopped and we got out of the truck.
We were about 20km outside the city and in 2 km in front of us was an old factory building. I saw that Cops from other towns of texas met with us at this location. I had to do a small briefing before we gonna enter the building.
I got an blueprint of the building and the area. And mark good position were armed people could be. I showed the units three entering points that we can use. One over fire escaped, one at the roof and one at back side of the building. I told the cops that aren't entering the building are gonna surround the building and patroling the next streets in radios of 4 km from this building. I also told them that I gonna get in and arrest the target with my team.
Our target was a smuggler from polen. Now he is dealing blackmarket guns to other criminal groups in the USA. His name is Frank Jakobowski his age is 48. He knows how to deal with illegal objects. I wished I arrested him at the polish border.
After few minutes of waiting we entered the building and took some people down. My memories aren't strong enough to remember how that ended but what I know is who I am, where I was and what I am.
My name is Jonas Schmidt. I'm a cop from germany. An ex-member of the GSG9. My chief ordered me to the US to take down Jakobowski who escaped in my two years in the GSG9. And now I'm freezing. It's cold. Damn Cold. I can't feel my hands anymore. Am I dying? Why is the wind so loud? Is that snow were I lie in? What's the pain I feel in my whole body? Are the questions that flew through my head.
I heard the sound of a shutting car door a bit away from me. My sight came back to me. I saw something that lit blue around the corner. Then I saw a shadow that past the corner. Around it was snowing. Snow in August? In Texas? Where am I? The shadow turned to me and a flashlight was blinding me. I heard steps on the snow. I noticed I still held something in my hand. It was colding my hands but I knew what It was.
I don't know what will happen next but in case. I have this by my side. I turned it into the diection of what was coming closer. It was came closer and closer. My finger at the trigger. I pulled slowly the trigger. Then I saw it. The red eyes I stared into it. I pulled the trigger deep and heard a click.
"Red Eyes." I said before my eyes shut. It was a dream I said in my mind. I hoped so but it wasn't. And this is how my story began.
Chapter 1 Prologue
"Wake up." a womens voice said. A smile rose in my face. "So that's what happeneds after the death?" I asked. "What?" the womens voice asked with a bit confussion. "Hey Ma'am You're not allowed to wake people. Even when they commit a crime." another voice said. "Commit crime?" I asked. "Sorry but I have to interrogate him." the female voice said. "He is maybe part of a crime?" the female voice said again. "He looks more like an accident between different speciest." the other voice said.
I heard a door shut. "Am I still alive?" I asked quietly. "Yes. Poorly. Had to drag you on the ground into my car and got you into the Pred General Hospitel." the female voice said a bit annoyed. "Did you tried to commit sucide out there?" she asked still with this annoyed voice. "No but I can't see you." I answered. "What is that on my head." I said.
I knew I was in a bed but I never heard of a hospital that blindfolds the patients. The bed lightly moved. "Sorry." the women said. I slowly opened my eyes and saw a creature with head that looked like fox. My left eye began to blink often. I shut my eyes again. "What drugs did you gave me?" I asked my voice was changing a bit into a crazy one. "Drugs? The pred hospital aren't allowed to give patients medicine." she said.
"Oh, okay. Then I think I'm crazy." I said. I opened my eyes and turned to the right. I saw my gun lying there. "What?" she asked. I took the gun and hit it on her head. I stood up and saw I was still dressed in my police outfit. My vest was lying on the seat. I saw it lying on the ground. She tried to grab a radio. I kicked it away. "What are you doing?" it asked me.
I had a grin on my face. I thought I was crazy. I watched it trying to crawling to it's radio. My grin slowly faded. It tried hard and it was bleeding. It held his paw on it's head. I took a deep breath and kicked the radio back to it.
Then I left the room and tried to went downstairs When I was about to reach it I saw more of those creatures. They looked different as that one in the room I woke up. They looked all like animals no not just like them just like mammal animals. I ran up again the stairs were big enough for someone that three of my sizes could use it. I saw the door it was much bigger as a door for disabled people. I opened the door and saw the snowing world. I left the building walked slowly outside. It was cold and I was more the summer type. As I reached the edge off the roof I feel on my knees. What that in front of me was. It dosn't exist in this way.
A city. That was build on a moutain. With multiplen levels. I counted at least four. "Don't move." a voice yelled at me from behind. I turned around to see the fox creature again it held something gun kind in its handshaped paws. In reflex I pulled my gun. Then something hit my shoulder. "I told you. I told you not to move." it says. I felt a bit weak but not weak enough. It wasn't getting stronger. I slowly pulled it out. It was a kind of arrow that hat green liquid in it.
Its eyes are widen. Its red eyes. Something at its neck turned yellow. She walked few steps back. The door behind it was shut. It walked slowly backwards to the door. I aimed with my 9mm at it. My finger at the trigger. I went closer. And closer. It feel on the ground leaning against the wall. How scary I am. To do that to a creature that knows how to talk. That knows how to build an civillization. A creature that saved me.
As I remembered that it saved me. I slowly put my finger away from the trigger but still I cam closer to it. As I reached it I leaned myself at the wall next to it. Before I sat down I took a breath. "I'm too weak to take it's live." I said and sat down next to it. It looked still locked scared. "I can't anymore." I said. "And sorry that I hit you." I said. I saw tears in it's eyes. I opened one of my mag pockets and pulled a pack of handkerchiefs.
I opened the pack and pulled on of it out. I hand it over to the fox creature. Now that I'm sitting close to it. I noticed it wasn't bigger than an elementary school kid.
'Meine größte Angst ist, jemanden Angst zu machen.' Translate into english: My biggest fear is to scare someone else.
End of Chapter 1 Prologue
