Chapter 9
Gaz looked up and around at all of the people and buildings; this was the forefront of the war. If she took over the Libyan government, then the war would be over and she could move on to the next country. The Chad's would be grateful, so their armies would assist her in the coming battles. Surely there would be a few Libyan's who would help her out too, since she was going to rule over them anyway.
Killing politicians wasn't the same as killing soldiers, but at least she could use her new ability. Plus she could possibly get bonuses for perfect health, and style points. Assassinations always have to be done with style, after all.
"Access map of targets," ordered Gaz.
To her left a map of the area with an aerial view, took up an entire wall. Three red dots blinked on an overlay of the map, letting her know where she was supposed to be heading. Two of them looked pretty close together, but the other one was almost off the map. The best choice was to take out the two closest to one-another and run to the second location, before word got out about the deaths.
Gaz turned her character in the direction of the two dots and started walking in that direction. If she had learned anything from the Assassin's Creed games, it was that: when you run, you look suspicious.
'People are too sto0pid to see that something doesn't belong. They're all too self absorbed to even notice what's around them.' Gaz thought cynically.
Once her destination was in sight Gaz slipped into a small alcove in the street. Without anyone noticing she activated her Invisible Assassin mode and exited back out into the street. Weaving in and out through the people was an easy enough task, and slipping under the security bar into the building was just as easy. It was making it to the targets that was going to be the hard part, there was still a lot of security to get through. And then she had to take the stairs up to whatever floor they were on, since the elevators would be too risky.
First, she had to figure out where exactly in the building her targets were. For that she needed to be somewhere that she could move without fearing accidental contact. Just to her left, beyond a flock of security guards and metal detectors was the ladies bathroom.
Jumping over the x-ray machine, Gaz made it through the first road-block. Now she just had to wait until someone else went into the bathroom, or the guards were all distracted. But why wait, when you're invisible and holding a bag full of ammo and explosives collected from the bodies of fallen enemies?
With one bullet in hand, Gaz threw it hard through one of the metal detectors, setting it off. With no one near that particular device, everyone's heads turned to see what was going on. This gave Gaz the chance to slip into the bathroom and lock herself in the handicapped stall.
"Narrow map to building, show all floors," she ordered the game.
The map showed a see-through view of the building from the front and a floor map of her current location. There were fourteen floors in total with targets on the eighth and twelfth. Now it was just a matter of which one was closer to the window, to decide who her first victim would be. But that decision could wait until she reached the eighth floor.
Sneaking out of the bathroom was easy, since everyone was still fretting over the 'malfunctioned' device. When she reached the stairwell, Gaz debated whether or not she should just climb the stairs normally or have a little fun. With a shrug of her shoulders and a smirk Gaz jumped into the air, landing on the guard-rail of the second flight. She repeated her jumps until she reached the eighth floor.
Out of the corner of her eye, Gaz looked at the map to see where the target was. Sadly, he was in the middle of the floor, but he was moving outward... slowly.
"This had better not be a glitch," the purple haired girl grumbled as she planted her feet on the ground.
With as little sound as possible, Gaz pulled the door open, just enough for her to be able to get out. She took in the room; it wasn't really what she was expecting from a government building. It looked like a short and bland dance hall, lined with desks against the walls. Only three people were at the twenty-or-so desks, which gave the room a really empty feeling.
Another side-glance gave her a general direction to head in. To the right was a hallway, which she took, being extra careful not to make any sounds on the un-waxed floor. The hallway had five alternate routes; the second hall on the left was the way to go, according to the map. But a quick peek at where the other paths would lead wasn't that bad of an idea, either.
So off she went, padding softly through the halls, peering into one room after the other. However, by the time she was done, there was nothing to show for her time; except of course, the new route she had found to target one. He was on the other side of the wall she was leaning against. Now she just had to wait for the seconary target to be in the right position.
Oh, how Gaz hated playing the waiting game. Ten minutes... twenty minutes... thirty minutes, and Gaz found herself sitting on the floor, organizing all of her items in her bag. Finally, after fourty-three minutes the secondary target was standing at the window four floors above.
Without a moment of hesitation, she kicked open the door, sending it off the hinges and crashing into the desk just across the room. With the invisibility perk, Gaz rushed forward with her sword and stabbed straight through the large politition. When the hilt smashed into the mans chest, Gaz didn't even bother stopping. Insead, she forced the mans body to be her shield as she crashed through the thick glass.
The two of them were suspended in the air for a few seconds, simply moving out into the open air from the sheer force of the charge. Now Gaz only had a few seconds to react properly, or she wouldn't be able to make it up high enough to get the second target. She ripped the sword back, sending blood spraying out onto her.
"Stealth has been compromised," ROFL informed her. "Invisible Assassian is now shutting down."
Still, Gaz continued with her plan, invisiblity wasn't really an issue for what she needed to do anyway. Gaz pushed off of the man, using him like a springboard to reach the twelth floor. When she saw that the target was staring out the window, no doubt trying to see what was going on outside, her adrenaline kicked in. The nano-seconds that it took for her to pull out her gun, and then fire three consecutive shots; each one peircing the plexiglass with ease, and striking the heart, and through each eye; seemed to flow in short eternities.
She was even able to see the final horrified face of realization before she was snatched by gravity and pulled back down towards the spectators below. For a moment Gaz forgot what she was supposed to do in order to prevent player death, but that only lasted for a moment.
"ROFL, activate fast-travel to session starting point," Gaz ordered coolly.
"Activating fast-travel," the game announced as the screens faded around her.
Gaz thought back to the moment when she had killed the second target, she had been so absorbed in the game that it had been as if she was really doing it. She could have sworn that she could feel the wind, the trigger, and even blood that she hadn't realized had landed on her face. Then when her character had started to fall, it was like the floor had openned up underneath her. It had startled her so much that she had to look down to make sure that her feet were firmly planted on the ground.
"Session starting point reached," ROFL stated as the screens lit up again.
With a quick glance at her map, Gaz started running towards the final target. Stealth wasn't really an issue anymore, since she only had to kill one more person. There were a couple of city blocks that she had to traverse before she reached him though. Gaz found herself pushing people out of her way, and jumping over cars at the intersections.
After making it through eight city blocks, Gaz finally realized that the last target was moving. The way he was moving, meant that he was in a car, or more accurately, some sort of limo. With another look at the map, Gaz started off in the direction of where the target was going to be, rather than where he was. She pushed through a crowd of tourists just as the limo pulled up to the red light.
However, instead of going straight for the kill, Gaz turned right and crossed to the other side of the road. She couldn't kill the last politition if there was a chance she would be exposed by the tourists, let alone the traffic cameras. Gaz had forty seconds to get as far down the block as possible, before the light would let them through.
She stopped halfway between the next light and the previous one, and faced the road, waiting for her chance to jump on the limo. Ready to jump, the limo came into range and she thrust herself forward onto the roof. With her sword drawn, Gaz cut out the sun-roof and she dropped in right in front of her target. Even with the three women clinging onto him, Gaz managed to only remove the mans head, and leave the others unharmed. Or, at least they were physically unharmed.
"Mission complete," ROFL stated and the screens faded out.
