I've been fighting with hangovers, some type of depression and I'm feeling like shit even when I don't have a hangover, even with all that I will try to continue writing but it will take time.
"Okay guy we will move in twenty, I don't want unnecessary attention to us." Wilhelm said but everyone could hear that his mind was troubled and his speech was little different then in most times.
He heard few affirmative answers with slight sadness in their voices, but it didn't matter to him so much because he knew that those were mostly from people that had been flirting with women and were sad because of their work will be mostly wasted.
After eighteen minutes everyone were moving to their planes and boarding them when they got in everyone noticed that Lucifer and other leaders except were sitting near wounded people and looking after them, in that time Wilhelm was sitting near one of seven body-bags and looking really sad.
It was a nice change that Wilhelm wasn't wearing his helmet, because everyone could see his emotions on his face which was a mix between sad and being in pain, and no one worried, they were in middle their travel and Wilhelm had sat down and looking down to body-bags, bet then one of medics had went to Wilhelm started all most panicking because she had discovered blood underneath Wilhelm.
"Dammit Wilhelm you could have said that you are wounded, we could have treated you right away." Medic said looking like little in panic and started to take off Wilhelm's chest plate to get to two holes in his shoulder that were bleeding quite heavily.
"Didn't want to take off your attention from our wounded solders." He gritted his teeth "Dammit, I didn't think that medicine will wear off so fast and it will start bleed again so fast" He said looking little dizzy and pulled out a needle and injected himself after witch he smiled. "Well I'll see you at the other side." and then he closed his eyes and stopped moving.
Three alarms worked in Lucifer's, Althaisa's and Mike's comms, they all jumped up and ran to Wilhelm. They checked for pulse and were stunned by fact that there were none. While Althaisa and Mike were looking at Wilhelm's body Lucifer took needle and looked at it, "There is no need to worry," he said which surprised everyone, "It's is a drug that will simulate death for few hours, he used it because we are almost out of painkillers so pulling those bullets would be too painful to just sit still and he knows that those guys," He gestured to wounded men "could use it more."
Most of the journey went whiteout any incidents. When they landed all wounded including Wilhelm were rushed to their Med-section, it was small and mostly counted to hold four people at time so it was really understaffed and couldn't hold all wounded so those with minor wounds were taken care by anyone who knew first aid.
After that incident Med-section was increased as much it would need, but always there was a problem with medical staff, because not so many doctors would work with criminals and murderers even when offers were in five digits in year.
Time came and went Wilhelm went on occasional jobs, but his new recruitment and policy of organization didn't give him much time, because he and others of elites were training most promising recruits so they could join organizations third ring which was one one new thing that were implemented in it.
There were four rings, first was for elites and most trusted solders of organization, R&D, CC, CIC (counterintelligence center) and med-section, second was the core it housed all trusted solders, the third ring were housing all recruits that were already in organization, the forth was place were people that wanted to join organization was housing.
Every ring had their own architecture, restaurants and pub/bars accordingly to the ring. In first and second rings they even had chefs, lured there by the salary because most of money earned were by solders were spent either in restaurants or bars. In bars at first ring there were very exotic drinks and no one except first ring knew from where it came, because it came from other universes and mostly form Mass Effect universe, because buying and transporting anything bought that so tasty that it was unrealistic was much more easier than in any other universe that he had been.
- Wilhelm's POV
I slowly opened my eyes, to understand that some asshole had opened blinds so I would wake up faster. After last night I didn't want to do shit, because my head hurt from now very familiar feeling of hangover.
"Ohhhh, for the fuck's sake." I said closing my eyes, "I should start to punish those cunts for punishing me like this." I stood up, but fast movement was too fast for my state and that was notified by increasing headache.
I slowly almost crawled to bathroom were my stash of medicine were located, I opened it up and I made note in my consonance to buy more painkillers because they were running low because of late time killing after training next addition to rank 3 and having some pretty intense training myself, like I wouldn't have enough training those crazy fucks, they are not skilled enough in sword fighting to take me down, but wounding and having to defend to every side isn't as easy as it you could thing, they really make me sweat in lessons.
At last pain was subsiding and I could get on with my day. As there wasn't planed and lessons for today I grabbed my coat with hood and made fast teleport to outer circle and went inside crowd. In last moth I got into a habit to walk around, well now pretty much a city like encampment around base, believe it or not but there were even children and women here, somebody even had opened a school for them, well when we heard about that we were amazed and of coarse helped them as much as we could.
The fact that there will women and children here was pretty much known a long ago because we offered protection to everybody that was living here, and people that wanted to live here were many, and it wasn't a surprise after what Talon did to them.
For almost a two years every mercenary and assassin that didn't want to join Talon was hunted down and executed, those with best set of skills were brainwashed and made to join Talon. After a time brainwashed agents were going off grid, because they were experiencing things that they had done before and they started to remember their past and the things that Talon had done to them. For me it was always easy I allowed them to join our ranks, but not after I did a trick which I had learned recently, I used psionic powers to break into peoples mind, but it needed lot of concentration.
But back to the street, I closed my eyes concentrating on peoples feelings, it worked something like karma, if you had did something wrong your feelings will be still attached to it, so after about two minutes of standing there I had a feeling of people around here, there were few that were still thinking about their last missions and I could feel that it had been massacres.
I myself had already made some kind of immunity against these kind of felling, well almost for any feeling. Still getting occasional dose of lust and wrath, but nothing more than that. But one of minds troubled me, it was mind of a young girl just barely six years old, she was troubled by the fact that her parents were missing. There were no other options, I needed to help her because I just couldn't just leave her alone in such a crooked place that I had made my self.
I went over to her, and sat on one knee leveling my head in the same level as girls. She stopped crying and looked at me, but she got scared because of mask on my face, I showed a badge that was on my coat that meant that I was with law enforcement in this city so she could trust me. She slowly stopped sobbing at told me that her father had came from job, but had had a problems and he had needed to talk to his boss, but when mother had learned about that she had ran to dad's boss and they are still to return.
I asked her does she know where dad's boss is, and she answered affirmative. After about five minutes we came to shack near the wall in section of contract issuers, I particularly knew the man inside, he was lowly politician, not afraid to intimidate his enemies and were in constant sights because his contracts were on edge of the rules.
When I came next to the house in which girls dad was located, I saw that it had two rooms one with probably idiotic guard who will react only to brute strength, the smart one/s should be inside with the politician. I went inside without a knock scaring bodyguard standing at doors, he put his hand in jacket, probably after a gun, but my boot connected with side of his head way before he could pull out a gun. Bodyguard almost wasn't standing on his legs, just one moment and he would fall, so I kicked his chest throwing him into second doors.
Doors busted open showing two men sitting at table, contract in front of man in casual clothing and a smirk on face of a man in suit that disappeared when he understood what had happened. Girls mother was standing next to her husband and almost crying, probably just saying some words to poor man to try and boost his spirit.
As I had expected two giants standing next to now non-existing door didn't try to go for the guns and after seeing my badge they looked at each other. One of them made a gesture to his face and grew pale, other looked at me more closely grew pale too and after picking up their unconscious friend and moved out of room. I went closer to the girls mother and put a hand on her shoulder and gestured to the side where little girl was standing, she looked at me still not knowing to say thanks or curse me and when to her little girl. When they were out of the shack I took a chair and sat down next to both of them.
Michael's POW.
'God fucking dammit where am I gotten myself into now, three day back I took my child to school just before I went to one of missions, it should have been pretty easy. Money was already paid, and they had given me a decent amount of explosives to nuke the house sky high, but it all went to shit when I saw that in targets house was three little girls, all of them year older or younger then my own and they had came down because they heard noise.'
'If it doesn't feel like nothing bad then let me make it clear for you, I had been paid to kill everyone in this house, including these girls. Of coarse me and my bloody kind heart didn't let me to do the job but I had already received the pay. By all standards I had three choices, 1st I could go to contract issuer and break it paying the fine and going trough all legal process and possibly lose a license for jobs in the city. 2nd I could do what must be done and blow the house up, but saving the girls before. 3rd would be killing contract issuer because he had made me to kill children.'
'Of coarse all of these wouldn't work just because contract issuer would have muscle to protect him, not having a license would mean not having money, and if I would just spared just children I would get killed because I wouldn't have done contract the right way. So when I got back home with help of my wife I had came to conclusion that I need to go to contract issuer and push him because contract included killing children, and now when we had gotten to a point where I would pay almost all what I have have but still have my license, this cunt barged in scaring the shit out of everyone, even me.'
'When contractor's muscle had gone away I looked closely at the man's mask and understood that it looked like it was alive, it moved and showed feelings, but I could understand that it didn't show right because I could feel how neutral he is but mask had this big ass smile that was triggering me so hard that I needed to work a little on my self-control not to kill him.'
"My name isn't important as well who am I, all that matters is that one of our man's were tricked into taking contract of exterminating whiteout really saying what need to be killed, that I can't just let it slide. I will need you all to cooperate with me to understand who will take the blame for all of it." a mysterious man said and it sounded like he hadn't moved in a decade or so because all of his bones were cracking.
"I think this should do the trick and make you forget about everything that you got to know about all of that." contractor said giving the mysterious man a healthy pack of money. Man took it in his hand and before contractor could smile, money started to burn with black fire. 'Wait a minute a black fire showed up only when our leader was burning that bout with his dead pal on it.' I said my thoughts and only then I understood what had happened. The God had heard my prayers and will let me live with help of this man.
The angry composure had disappeared form mask and now in it's place was replaced with a smile of a madman when he is tearing someone up with a knife. 'Even if all of this is really happening there is possibility that I won't get out alive because I failed contract and fine for it is very expensive to say the least.'
"Put your hands on the table and relax as much as you can, this won't hurt, not much at least." Man said looking straight in my eyes. His eyes were green with little blue in it and had dark spots in them. I couldn't stop looking at them, they were like black hole that pulled in my consciousness and didn't let go till the moment that they changed color till completely dark, it looked like they were pulling in all light and sending out only darkness.
"Well it was clearly a setup. You t sent him to kill all and gave him explosives only so he wouldn't see kind what failed too, and now you even are trying to lie to me." Man stood up and darkness started to circle around him like a whirlwind. "Aghhh." contractor felt to his knees experiencing pain.
"I allowed you what you wanted, but you broke your promise, so here in darkness our contract you fulfill." Man said coming closer to contractor looking in his eyes and grinning. "It's done, your soul from this moment shall be mine" He said grabbing contractor's head and he started to let out darkness that Man consumed. Contractor's skin became old and in the end became dust, his bones became dust too and only his skull stayed.
Man turned around and came to me throwing skull around in his hand, "And so my child, we both know that you failed contract, but you should understand that even facing that doesn't mean that I dislike the fact that I could get this fool off my back." 'Loud crack sounded trough room as Man crushed the skull and scream could have been heard coming from somewhere.' "You can ask me for one thing, but ask carefully, form your choice depends what will happen." Man said and sat on desk crossing his legs.
"Ask for one thing huh, what can I ask from you? I have no idea." I asked him to witch he answered leaning back to the wall. "Well you can ask me for better aim, forttune, better luck with women, fuck it, you can even ask for immortality if it is what you want. But you need to know that I will give you what you will ask for, not what you wish for."
"And as always, there is a dark side of every coin." I said to which he only answered with smile, it wasn't just a smile, you could see that his smile was one of a man seeing that some one had found out something that he wouldn't have said to just anyone. "What if I asked you to help me get better?" I asked him.
"Nice question, last one who asked for something like that is now one of best assassins in world, only ones better that him are leaders of this city and he is my successor and after some time my powers, my burden will become his." He said to me looking down and pulling out interesting looking cigarette out of pack. "Your burden?" I asked him looking at him lighting a cigarette.
He took a slow smoke and answered, "I tried to protect everyone by gaining as much power as I could before something bad happen, but I was too late. When I didn't have a mission in my life I used my power to kill and trick people, and when I was given a title, Lucifer, I acquired some very interesting powers, I made pacts, contracts, I written a pact for my soul, it will be payed later when I will be done in this world. And now I have been stuck between being a man, monster and a mutant. I'm not one and I'm not other, but in the end I think I'll become monster, even now I have hate in my mind and it is so powerful that I almost can't think clearly." he said all this slow and had smoked almost whole cigarette, and I hadn't noted the interesting smell of it. 'If I'm right then he is getting high' I thought to my self smiling inwards because this meant that he is human after all.
I looked into his eyes and said "I will ask you to teach me to be better assassin", this caused man to laugh and in the same second I felt presence in my brain. It wasn't like hearing voices or shit like that, it was more like some one would be in room and he would turn everything over to find everything that is in this room. I can't say much about what happen after that because my mind couldn't take it and I blacked out.
Next chapter will be how our new hero will get trained and will acquire new mission in his life which will be changed forever.