Hello everyone, it's KillerBriefcase again. I'm sorry I haven't uploaded in a while but I've been busy with GCSEs and stuff. Well I hope you get the pun in the title and also enjoy the chapter. Here it is!
He sat on the roof, binoculars, scanning the whole area. Nothing was there. All he had to do at the moment was wait for his target, Aleksandr Karlovic. He scanned the compound, nothing yet. He could see some guards from his viewpoint, but they couldn't see him. He adjusted the binoculars so that he was zoomed in at the window. He saw a board with the 'Hydra Corp' logo on it. He could see the monster in the middle and looked at the guards. The same logo seemed to be imprinted on the right sleeve of each guard. The guards moved in straight lines and carried assault rifles in their arms. He knew that this was definitely the place he was meant to be at. He looked at the locations of the guards and realised that they walked in squares, one guard per side. They walked like soldiers, their backs straight. They all seemed to have very modern helmets with night vision googles on the helmets.
Like always, there was a slight gust of wind every now and then. He looked at a reflective piece of glass on the floor and saw himself. He could see his black fatigues clearly against the white sky, but he wasn't visible to the guards as he was quite far away and was lying down. He threw the glass to his side so that it wouldn't reveal his location. The reflection was probably the worst thing about glass in general to him. It had revealed his location many times and had almost killed him. This was not what he needed right now.
There it was. He zoomed in at the back of the car and saw a man who had the same characteristics as Aleksandr himself. He was quite close to the car and it had parked right outside the compound a stones throw away. He zoomed in on the driver and took out his pistol from his pocket. He replaced the clip inside and slowly took the silencer from the tactical vest he was wearing. He crawled to the edge of the roof and saw the target enter through a large, metal door. He was checked by a group of guards who had suddenly emerged from the compound.
Bond slid down the roof and onto the grass below. He leaned against the wall and avoided the glare of the guards. He screwed the silencer on the P99 and aimed at the driver. By the time he had screwed the silencer on, guards had surrounded the vehicle. This would be impossible. He aimed at the driver and shot. A perfect shot. It had gone through the open window and straight into the drivers head. The guards were completely unaware. Apart from one who noticed the dead driver and told the guard next to him. Before he knew it, the guards had began to approach the building and he was trapped.
He went to the back of the building and stood towards the left corner of it. He heard footsteps approaching him and he turned and shot a guard who was approaching him. Not a sound. He looked behind him and saw a guard approaching with his assault rifle aimed at him. Bond ducked as the man fired at him and tackled him to the floor. He shot him and took the rifle. He placed his gun in his holster and held the assault rifle in his hands. His fingers gripped the cold grip of the rifle and he looked through the scope. It had some sort of modern scope with a target identifier. He was in big trouble if they found out about him.
He took the rifle and turned the corner. A green square appeared over his face and the name "Sven Bjelogrlic" came up next to it with his details. He pulled the trigger and considered how much trouble he was in. He went up a flight of metal stairs and aimed down at a guard below. There were three of them. One behind the other. He had to make this quick. He jumped from the roof and landed behind the one in the middle. He twisted his neck and fired at the one in front. He turned and punched the one behind who then tried to punch him back. Bond ducked and punched his stomach. The man fell to the grass and Bond shot him too. That was all the guards and now it was time for him to go in.
He crouched as he made his way around the compound. He found a hole in the metal fence that surrounded him but it was too small. He was running out of time to get in and he was near the control tower. This was his only chance. He touched the fence to test if it was an electric one. Luckily, it wasn't. He gripped onto the mesh and managed to climb over. He dropped to the stone floor inside the compound and noticed a guard nearby. He hadn't seen him. Yet. He hid behind a tree and waited for the guard to come to him. He threw a rock at a bush to distract him. It worked. Bond sprinted across the area and up to the man. He ran so quickly that he didn't have time to react. The man was thrown at the wall and shot. Bond ran towards a window and crouched underneath it. He heard a guard pass by him and jumped through the window and tackled the man. He was now in.
He saw a crimson door in the middle of the white corridor and saw that unlike the one he'd passed by, this one had "personnel only" written on the front in bold writing, the 'only' was in red. Despite the sign, he entered. It led into yet another set of corridors. He took out his P99 and walked through. He leant against the wall. "007?" he heard from somewhere. He looked around, astonished that he had heard that. "007!" he realised the sound came from an earpiece. He recognised it as tanner's. "Yes? Not the time now tanner!" he said as he walked through the corridor. "Go through the glass door at the end of the corridor and kill the man to your right" he said. Bond wondered how he knew all of this but he knew to always listen to him.
He opened the glass door and shot a man to his right. "Expect enemy fire from in front. Duck!" Bond wondered if he was receiving live feed from security cameras inside but he listened and heard bullets fly past his head. He followed the small barrier along and pulled out the assault rifle on his back and shot up. He saw the man fall on the floor. "Watch out! Sniper outside aiming at you!" he ducked and just avoided a shot from a window to his side. He could've died then but he kept low and hoped he would die another day.
He walked up a flight of metal stairs an opened a door at the top. There he was. Right in front of him, Aleksandr was being escorted by a group of guards. He heard one behind him and elbowed him in the stomach. He then hit him near his neck with his pistol. He took off the man's shirt and put it on after taking off his own. He then took the vest too and a chain with an access card. He took his gun and followed the escort at a safe distance. He avoided being seen and followed the escort to a large hall. There were roughly 15 men there and Aleksandr was seated by one of the glass doors to the side.
The hall looked very serious in its grey paint and Bond decided that it would be impossible to get in. However, he did notice that there was an office window towards the top of the hall that had a projector in the window. The lights weren't on but Bond decided that's where he'd go now. He went along the corridor and nodded at one of the other guards who, in turn, nodded back at him. He needed recognition to look as normal as possible. He pushed through another door and went to an elevator. He went and scanned the card on his tag. The doors opened and he walked in. "Going up" said the voice in the elevator. He looked at the large selection of buttons and pressed floor 20 because he had estimated the office to be on the 20th floor roughly. "007" he heard through his earpiece
"Yes tanner?" he answered, wondering what directions he'd receive now
"He's on the 19th floor"
"Oh" he said "I'll take the stairs". He had the feeling that it wasn't on that floor but he didn't do anything about it at the time. "Thanks for telling me before I got into the elevator!" he said sarcastically.
"Not a problem 007. Anytime you want to know something accurately and at the right time..." Tanner always had a sarcastic answer to any of Bond's comments. The doors opened and Bond walked out slowly and looked around. He found a grey door that had an icon of a man walking down stairs. He pushed the handlebar on the door and it slid open. He went down one floor and went through yet another door.
He found himself in a corridor with only one door. He knocked on the door and leant against the wall. He looked at the assault rifle in his hands and waited for the door to open. A man opened the door and looked to the side. Bond grabbed him by the neck and brought him out of the room. The man's head smashed into the wall and he fell. "Carl?" he heard from inside the office. There was another man there. He was probably controlling the presentation downstairs. He walked in and shot the man with his pistol so that nothing could possibly be heard. He looked around the office and found that this was actually the boss' office. He saw some filing cabinets and walked over to them. He slid open the drawer and let his eyes analyse the titles on each folder inside. There it was. There in his hands was a brown file labelled "OPERATION X". He only picked it up because it looked interesting and because he had plenty of time.
Aleksandr's POV
This was really odd. The PowerPoint was not working. After the boss had explained the functions of the new hydra satellite and how it could be used to keep tabs on all of the spy agencies in the world, the PowerPoint just stopped. All eyes were focused on the angry face of the boss as he stood on the stage, in front of his many potential investors. He looked around and took a radio out of his jacket pocket. "This is the boss. We have some problems in the control room that were not expected. I want an officer up-"
"Sir" interrupted Aleksandr "May I investigate" he asked.
"Yes, just make it quick. I don't want any other delays". Aleksandr got up from his seat, excused himself from the meeting and walked up to the elevator across the hall. He pressed the button to go up and waited for a couple of seconds.
He considered going for the stairs but the lift had arrived. He went in and pressed the button labelled 19. The elevator rose and he checked the safety catch on his gun wasn't on. The doors opened and he walked out. He stopped. There, in front of him, there was a dead body. He stood there, staring at the crippled corpse of the formally dressed man and lost his focus completely. It wasn't something he was used to be seeing. Usually, it was him killing someone. He preferred being the hunted than the hunter for some reason. He enjoyed the thrill of being chased, and not as much chasing. He saw that an assault rifle, armed with the new aiming system on the floor and this wasn't good. Whoever it was, had obviously taken the gun from someone, and to do that, you'd have to kill someone. He inched his way towards the doorway of the main office. He held the silenced pistol in front of him, and walked slowly, and silently.
Bond's POV
He heard the footsteps as soon as the elevator door had opened. The footfalls were hard to detect with only his ear, but he always knew when someone was coming. The way the person walked told him a lot about their plans and what they were about to do. This man had almost silent footfalls, which meant that he meant business. He had clearly had advanced training as this particular type of walk was used among only the best spies. Bond left the door open and slid the disk into his pocket. He waited behind the door and slowly pushed it so that it was ajar. The moment he heard the elevator doors, he had placed the other body by the desk, with his hand on the computer. He wasn't moving, but Bond hoped that a bullet would be wasted on the decoy.
He waited for the man to come through the door. He heard his footfalls approach the threshold. His time was nearing. He didn't usually fail to throw approaching gunmen off balance, and he didn't expect anything special. The man had stopped. He was listening. Bond stood completely still and hoped his breathing wouldn't be heard. He assumed that the man would think he'd stop breathing, which he did. The man had entered the small room and saw the dead body. The sound of a silenced shot was heard and the body fell to the floor. The man approached the desk where the man had been positioned. He placed the gun on the desk. Not a move Bond had expected. He stood quietly in his position behind the door, and heard the man bend over. This was his chance.
He kicked the door and shot above the man's head on purpose. He wanted information, so he let the man disarm him. The man elbowed him in the stomach, and taking advantage of his weakness at the time, the man gripped the gun in his hand and pulled hard, the gun was now in the man's hands, and Bond was at a disadvantage. He got up quickly and grabbed onto the man's arm. He pulled the man's arm and threw him against the floor. Now, the gun was his, and he was at an advantage. "Stand up!" Bond said to the man. The man stood up. Bond was tempting him to try and disarm him again. He was waiting for him to try, and hoped he would. He did. The man tried to grab for the gun but Bond replaced the gun with his other hand. He threw him against the desk and watched as the desk collapsed in two.
"Now before I kill you, what was that PowerPoint was about" said Bond
"It's over there, on the computer" he said, pointing to the computer.
"I've already looked. I want to test your honesty" said Bond
"Fine. Our group, Hydra Corp, are using satellites to control the capture of intelligence-bearing planes for the major spy agencies of the world. Planes would loose signal and crash into our bases. The information would either be sold or used against them. We can use this information to plan out assassinations and elaborate plots" Bond looked at him, surprised that he would reveal so much. No. This couldn't be it. He was lying or about to kill him. "Thank you" he said, breaking the silence.
He saw the man's hand slip onto the holster. In one movement, he pulled out a gun and shot. Bond ducked and the bullet embedded itself in the notice board of the office. Bond pushed him towards the window and watched as the gun fell to the floor. Karlovic's torso was hanging out of the window. Bond rushed over to see what had happened. There he hung, begging for mercy. Bond reached out and was pulling his leg when suddenly, an explosion of red came out of Karlovic's chest. Bond was covered in red, and Karlovic fell to his death.
Bond looked out of the broken glass that used to act as the wall. He saw a reflection from some glass in the distance and immediately ducked. His instincts had always helped him in major missions such as this one. There was a sniper on the roof of one of the nearby buildings. He crawled towards the table at the back of the room and stayed there. He heard footsteps outside and evaluated the situation he was in. "So there's a sniper outside, and three troops about to enter the room.
He got up quickly and rushed behind the door again. The footfalls were getting closer, but the sniper was no longer visible. He stayed behind the door and waited for the guards. Through the peephole, he could see the black fatigues that the guards wore. He recognised the logo of hydra and moved back. The third guard entered and closed the door, revealing Bond. Bond kicked e third guard, who in turn tumbled into the second. He grabbed the muzzle of the first guard's gun and pulled it out of his hands. He punched the man, giving him time to hold the gun properly. He pointed it at the first guard who had just turned back from his punch.
He shot the first in the chest and noticed yet another man swing through a window. The man jumped over the table and went up to Bond. He attempted to punch but hit the wall. The man flew back in pain. Bond kicked him and he crashed into the desk. As the second guard got up, Bond noticed that on top of the logo, the words 'ELITE TROOPER' were written. He ran up to him and punched him in the stomach. His hand had hit metal. He shot the man and opened the zips on his fatigues. It was all metal. This was a robot. He noticed that it had a clean, glass like finish. He had to get out, and fast. It was likely that more of this synthetic armed force might come after him.
He ran and jumped out of the window. It was a fairly large drop, but he had a chance. He braced for impact. He rolled on the marshlands that encircled the compound and touched his ear. "White knight is out and has the disk" he waited for a reply.
"Ok 007. That's fine. You can tell us all about it when you get back"
"What?" Bond said "I'm going back?"
"Yes, the details are all in your room" said tanner. Bond didn't reply. Usually, he'd know his timetable, but this time he didn't. He took the headset off and placed it in his pocket. This was odd. Very odd.
This chapter was a bit longer at over 3000 words but despite the length, I hope you enjoyed reading it. Thank you for reading and please please please review because I know you are reading this. Please review! Thanks again.