A Punishers Punishment
Chp 2: Insurgency in New York
The Punishers apartment was in the outskirts of New York, it was a dark and lonely place that was deeply overshadowed by the fast living and carelessness for life that the Punisher possessed. The apartment building barely had any tenants and had the broken down old fashion look that came from a building that hadn't been renovated since it was built in the early 1900's. Everything in his apartment was just plain dingy, it wasn't that bad of a place but he didn't take care of it that entirely well. A lot of his stuff was old and raggedy, probably furniture that you would pick up at a junk yard. Numerous traps were placed all across the apartment that only Frank knew about, he didn't ever have visitors over so they were in place as safety precautions should some uninvited guests decide to make an appearance. Cages lined the back wall filled with all kind of weapons, he had a small armory right there in his apartment that probably enough firepower to take down a whole platoon of soldiers without Frank even breaking a sweat. The television was turned down low, all but muted. On the screen the news flashed messages of the war in Iraq, another day with more deaths, suicide bombs, and new developments with the insurgents. Frank Castle sat across on the couch with a collection of folders he had found at the apartment of the rapist he just stopped. Surprisingly the plot seemingly thickened the more he delved into the criminals personal files. There was a lot of intelligence in these files that led to the 11th commandment terrorist group; Frank didn't necessarily suspect this when he was hunting down the rapist. The rapist's involvement with the 11th commandment terrorist organization was probably one the reasons that the police were having such a hard time tracking the killer down. One document read of arms deals and explosives that were dealt nearby in the United States, this criminal was obviously more than a rapist and must have had some serious terrorist connections other than the infamous 11th commandment. Frank new this wasn't uncommon, he had often before come to find out that most criminals were involved in numerous activities that were often unrelated. It was surprising though that the rapist was involved in arms deals given the mediocrity of his apartment. It seemed sufficient now though considering how hard it was to track him down, terrorist connections can often make a person pretty hard to find when they don't want to be found.
Frank castle sifted though the documents taking down notes of useful information until he came across one that said something about Ali Kal Salad. Ali Kal Salad was one of the leading terrorist insurgents in Iraq; Frank Castle was well aware of some of his connections and was surprised to find that Ali Kal Salad had dealings here in New York. Frank spent a lot of time learning about Ali Kal Salad during his time with the Central Terrorist Unit and Federal Bureau of Investigations. The 11th commandment terrorist group was not known to have dealings with radical Islamic terrorist groups but this information suggested otherwise. The 11th commandment had only shown its hand as an local American group based on chaos theories and a common goal of the destruction of the United States government. There are thought to be small sects of the 11th commandment throughout the nation but its prominent headquarters was proven to be here in New York city, although never found their most prominent attacks took place here and various locations along the east coast. Finding out that the 11th commandment was having dealings with an Iraqi terrorist group related to Ali Kal Salad was a surprise to Frank despite the 11th commandments actions in the past. The 11th commandment had conducted terrible acts since Frank first heard about them just over a year ago but the 11th commandment never had interests in overseas affairs because it didn't correlate with their main goal of overthrowing the United States government, unless dealing with an Iraqi terrorist group was a means to an end in destroying the government's dealings in the Iraqi war which was the most likely scenario.
It wouldn't be the smartest move for the 11th commandment to have all the governments attention devoted on them instead of a major portion of it devoted to Iraq but that was probably what they wanted considering that a lot of the terrorist activities that they had completed before were very flamboyant and meant to attract attention to the 11th commandment. It seemed that the arms deal that had taken place with Ali Kal Salad was just downtown in an old warehouse that used to be used for storing shipments that came in from overseas, not exactly the best place to hold an arms deal with an international terrorist but the 11th commandment was not really know for their sedulity. Frank was surprised to find all this information, for a murderer/rapist this criminal kept a surprising amount of documentation; his gainful organization would prove to be regrettable.
Frank leaned over off of his raggedy couch and picked up a shotgun off of his coffee table. It was the same shotgun he took from the rapist's apartment, a Mossberg 12g single barrel modified with a silver stock and a black grip that had silver tribal markings wrapped along it. He placed a large home made silencer on the end of the barrel and aimed the barrel at the old beat up mattress he had placed as a target against the wall; behind the mattress were layers of Kevlar lining to keep his practice shots from going through the wall. Frank had spent the better part of that morning constructing the silencer for that shotgun after he had secured all the files he found. You see most people don't believe it's possible to make a silencer for a shotgun but it is, it's just not as effective as silencers for rifles and pistols. You see the shot cup has to be held shut until it clears the end of the silencer. To do this the silencer has a tube with holes drilled into it to vent off the gun powder gases into the silencer body and keep the shot cup closed. A shotgun shell has a wad in which the shot sits. When you fire the weapon, the wad carries the shot out of the barrel; the wad falls away after probably five yards, so it is definitely possible. The wad would make sure that the shot wouldn't hit the suppressor, and thus making it possible for there to be a suppressor Frank pulled the trigger on his shotgun, it packed quite a punch. The shotgun put a whole in the mattress big enough to throw a football through square in the middle of the mattress, while barely making a sound. Frank walked up and inspected the whole in the mattress; the Kevlar did a good job of protecting the wall. The shotgun would the perfect weapon to go find some answers at the warehouse; it would be more than sufficient for making his way into a warehouse and working his way through close quarters without drawing to much attention to his presence.
Frank collected up the shotgun and grabbed a black bag that was lying next to his coffee table before he headed out the door. He went down the steps of his apartment building and walked up to his 1967 Ford Mustang. He popped the trunk to the car and threw his equipment inside. Then he got in and took off, whoever or whatever was at this warehouse, the Punisher is about to put an end to everything that their up to.