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Shot rained down onto the murder. Ken sprayed them until they didn't get up. The Blackhawk chased after the birds. Some smashed against the windshield. Others were sprayed out in a plume of feathers from the machine's rotor blades.

"What the Hell are those things on the ground?" asked the pilot.

"Alonzo!" screamed Ken, "Spray them with the minigun!"

"Those things are civilians!"

"Those things will kill the civilians!" screamed Ken, "Hit 'em with the M134!"

The rounds shredded the zombies. Their forms withered away under the minigun. Ken noticed that there were still crows all around them.

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Ken continued to spray them with his AA-12. Black feathers floated all around him. The sound of death filled his ears as the birds continued to fall. It was sad really. They couldn't allow any infected crows to live, which meant all of them had to die.

"Where are the other choppers?" yelled Kagura.

"En route," said the pilot, "ETA thirty seconds."

"What does that mean?" asked Kagura.

"Shut up and shoot these damn crows!" yelled Ken.

"I don't understand half the words that come out of your mouth Sugimori," said Alonzo, "because half of them sound 'mash' something."

The Master Sergeant continued to fire his minigun at the creatures on the street. He aimed at the huge groups of slow moving people. The rest he left unharmed.

How much longer can we keep this up? Ken looked at everyone who stood next to him. Before we run out of ammo?

"There are the other birds ladies and gentlemen. They sure are a sight for sore eyes!"

"What the Hell is that pilot whining about?" asked Richardson, "We're the ones doing all the hard work!"

The Blackhawks moved beside the giant skyscrapers of Tokyo. It was a ballet of steel eagles flying around concrete oaks. They each went their separate ways. They had a city to clear. Ken knew that there work wasn't done yet, not by a long shot.

"Where the Hell did you get those weapons anyways?" asked Ken.

"From a friend," said Kagura.

"I'm sure."

They had run up to the roof as the Blackhawk had landed. Ken noticed someone emerge from the shadows. The man's face was partially covered with black fabric. He'll never change. No one does that partial face thing anymore.

"Good to see people I can trust."

"What's the CIA doing here?" asked Ken, "I thought you guys didn't deploy quickly."

"You're right," the man's face had tightened, "We've known about ATGM's plans for quite some time. People have been holding back important information from you Ken. Now there's only one thing you need to know. ATGM has plans to deliver this virus to China, and North Korea. The outbreak in Japan is meant to serve as a distraction. To keep CNN and the world busy while the last two communist countries on Earth are destroyed from within."

"Sounds like some conspiracy theory bullshit," said Alonzo, "How can we trust a spook?"

Ken looked at the dark skinned man.

"He's an old friend of mine, and he sucks at lying."

"I know where they are," said the man, "Where ATGM is storing the virus. They really are foolish. They have all of those pathogens stored in two separate parts of Tokyo city. I'm going after the one nearby," the man handed Ken a slip of paper, "Don't take too long."

"Are you just going to let him go?" asked Alonzo as the man jumped over the side of the building.

"He's made up his mind," said Ken, "And we have to stop these untouchables before the Navy kills everyone in this city."

"Why would they do that?"

"Orders from the President," said Ken, "They were initially going to send in ground troops to clear the city out of human life, room by room. Now they've decided to launch several nuclear missiles. The new goal is to flatten the city."

"How long have we got?"

"Seventeen hours."

The Blackhawk moved towards Tokyo Bay. Ken watched as ships moved across the blue water. Any of them might have the virus onboard. Ken merely hoped that they could find it soon. The F-16s needed to know where to drop the napalm.

"How many fucking ships are there?" asked Alonzo.

"Only one that we care about," said Ken, "Find it."

"No shit Sherlock," said Alonzo.

"Someone is locking onto us! Missiles in the air, chaff has been deployed!"

Ken watched as a bright cloud moved towards two dark black shapes. The black shapes zoomed straight through the cloud. Ken watched as one passed right by him. The rush of air pushed him backwards. He fell, the helicopter was in front of him growing smaller.

Oh God. A fireball erupted before Ken as he hit the water. Shapes appeared in front of his eyes. The roar of jets filled his ears. He felt himself being dragged. Ken saw that one of his shoes was missing.

"Get up already!"

Ken's head turned towards the voice. What? It was that girl again.

"Are you going to stay awake this time?"

"How did you survive?"

"Because I know how to swim," said Kagura, "Any other stupid questions?"

"What's gotten into you?"

"Nearly dying for the fifth time today has gotten into me!" Kagura looked down at the American. "I thought you were some badass FBI agent anyways."

"Well I'm not," Sugimori pushed himself off of the ground, "I just happen to be a good shot."

"It's too bad one of us doesn't have a phone."

"What about the virus?"

"The ship blew up," said Kagura, "I don't really know why."

"I do."

Ken turned around, to see the Director.

"Come on Special Agent in Charge," said the Director, "It's time to go home."

"What happened to the others?"

"The Maritime Self-Defense Force is looking for them right now," said the Director, "It's a good thing we had an Apache following you guys. Once it found the location of the air defenses, we were able to destroy the tanker ship with napalm."

Ken tried to shake the water out of his ears. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Then again he hadn't believed that ATGM was still operating a week ago.

"Some people in Washington really wanted this outbreak to work," said the Director, "The Attorney General is asking us to find them. Will you come home Ken?"

"What happened to Murphy?"

"Murphy is dead, or he's missing. That CIA man sure is hard to find. You need to come home Ken, you've been here for ten years now."

Ken looked at the Director with a slight amount of distrust.

"Why do you need me home so bad Director?"

The Director pulled out a revolver.

"I don't. I just can't let you stay in Japan."

Kagura backed up towards the water. The two agents trained their M4s on the young girl. Damn it. All of my guns are gone!

"What the Hell is this?"

"Don't be stupid Ken," said the Director, "You need to come back with me to the states, end of discussion. If you don't, my agents will kill you, your cousin, and your little friend here."

"You killed Murphy didn't you?"

"I didn't," said the Director, "The Army Rangers did."

Kagura kept backing up. She was getting closer and closer to the water. The agents kept their assault rifles trained on her. They weren't going to let her swim away.

"You helped set this up didn't you?"

"ATGM? No, I set up the people who destroyed the facility. I'm sure you met Dick while you were inside the research facility. I needed someone that I could trust, he never suspected that I would double-cross him."

"How so?" asked Ken, "He kept going on about how he was making the world a safer place."

"He was making it safer," said the Director, "He was giving me the opportunity to show Darpa something very interesting. But the Pentagon wanted to use this agent on a friendly nation. I just couldn't allow that, we would need them in the coming war."

"What war?"

"You may not believe in conspiracies Ken, but we do. The Chinese, the North Koreans, they need to go. We were hoping that ATGM could supply us with the materials to accomplish this."

"You were going to kill a billion people?" said Ken, "That sounds like something beyond the level of the FBI."

"I'm not just a cop," said the Director, "I'm a member of the United States Army. Now that we have stealth drones that are mission capable, we can destroy any military force on the planet. Planting the virus in China would give us an excuse to go in. We'd be able to say that we were preventing a civil war. The Diet and the South Koreans have all agreed to our plans, even the outbreak in Tokyo. Destroying those two nations is the first step to unifying the world Ken, and you can't stop it."

"You're right about one thing," said Ken, "The unification of mankind is something I can't stop. But you're not an officer Mr. Director, you're just scum."

"Kill them both," said the Director, "Our work here is done."

Ken grabbed the Director, forcing the revolver under his jaw.

"What happens if I kill you?" asked Sugimori.

"You'll be hunted the rest of your life, and it won't stop our attacks on those two communist nations," said the Director, "You won't last a week, 1st SFOD-D will come in and kill you. My agents will kill your family, and everyone you know. The virus can't be stopped now Ken. It's already in Beijing Square, millions of people will die, it's sad but unavoidable. When the dust settles, we'll still be on top, but no one will come close to matching our power."

"You won't live to see it," said Ken.

Ken fired the revolver twice. The bodies of the two guards fell limply onto the sand. Ken slammed the revolver against the Director's skull.

"We have three officers down," Ken said into one of the guards' headsets, "We need an ambulance ASAP. The Director is unconscious, I say again, the Director is unconscious."

"We understand. We have a medical team on standby, HRT is on its way."

"Good, Special Agent Sugimori out."

"Why didn't you kill him?" asked Kagura.

"I didn't need to," said Ken, "He told me everything I wanted to know."

"What good will it do to keep him alive? He's the reason I almost died," said Kagura.

"If he's alive he can go to jail," said Ken, "I need to tell someone important about this, but I don't know who I can trust."

"Neither do I."

"Murphy."

"The one and only," said the CIA operative, "The Director of Central Intelligence will be very interested in your conversation with the Director of the FBI. It sounds like he was doing things behind the President's back, and that's a big no no."

"How can we stop the virus?"

"My friends and I have already stopped it, do you know why Delta Force wasn't guarding your cousin?"

"You?"

Murphy shook his head. "The Director instructed the President to send them to Thailand. That was where the virus was being stored. They managed to take it out one hour ago, they cut it pretty close."

"This was just crazy," said Ken, "I think I'm done for a while."

"That's good," said Murphy, "I wouldn't want you to be killed anytime soon."

Kagura couldn't understand what they were saying to each other. Their English was too good, and hers was simply too poor. She just hoped that they were done, for good this time.

"Let's go home," said Ken, "I'll drop you off."