Hey guys, I know you guys have been waiting, so here it is. It took me a while to think about the setting in this chapter, which I thought that Moscow would be a good setting for the story. Also, this chapter will start to show a little bit of romance between David and Penny, and an action sequence that is set in a night club that I decided to put in the chapter. Alright, make sure you guys review when you're done, and enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 9

Time: 0600 hrs.
City: Moscow, Russia
Unknown hotel

It was a warm night in Moscow, or at least felt warm because of all the lights from the buildings and the noise of cars going through the streets. David, penny and Bolt had arrived in Moscow so that they could meet with this Zukofsky so that they could ask him for more information about the deal he made with Calico. David found a very nice, luxurious hotel, which was a big change for Penny since she has spent a long time holding up in old, dirty, and run down hotels, it has been a while since she's stayed in a place this nice. David just received the key to the room while Penny and Bolt were waiting, once they got up to the room, they looked around the room. It was a decent sized room with elegant decorations; it had two separate beds with the finest and softest cloth, and one bathroom. Penny looked around the room impressed.

"Wow" Penny simply said.

"Yeah, I know" David replied "It's nice"

"How do you get into places like this?" Penny asked him.

"Well, sometimes when we weren't on missions, some of us lived luxurious lives, and we would get access to some of the finest five-star resorts out there" David said "You like it"

"Yeah" Penny said "It's been a while since I've been in a hotel like this"

"Well, there are things we all have to get use to sometimes" David said "Alright, let's get unpacked first". Once they were settled, Penny looked at David, he noticed he was looking at her and stopped "What?"

"Nothing" Penny said "Nothing, I was just thinking for a minute"

"What were you thinking about" David asked her.

"I don't want to talk about it right now" Penny said. ever since David has joined him, she's somehow been, interested in him, and yet she only just met him, and that he was only helping her and Bolt, she somehow felt a warm feeling around him, but she decided to keep those thoughts to herself, for now.

"Alright fine" David said "Let's get dressed"

"Dressed for what?" Penny asked confused.

"We are going to that nightclub and I don't think we'll be going like this" David said. Penny knew that he was right, that they were still in their dirty clothing, and they needed to wear something clean and nice for tonight.

"What do you have in mind?" Penny asked him. David then went over to the side and pulled out a bag that had a red dress in it.

"Here" David said giving the bag to her "I'll get dressed first" then, he walked into the bathroom and locked the door. While he was in there, Penny decided to take the dress out of the bag so she could take a good look at it. She saw a beautiful short red strapless dress with a scarf on it that leads to the neck, it had decorative shapes on it and it reached down to the knees. There was also a pair of matching high-heeled shoes on the floor, kinds that she had worn before, but not a lot. Suddenly, David walked out of the bathroom. Penny saw he was wearing a black tuxedo, which made him look even more handsome than before. She looked at him for a little bit, and David looked at her for a minute.

"You go next" David said breaking the silence.

"Oh right, ok" Penny said as she grabbed the dress and headed for the bathroom door. Then, she turned over to David and simply said "Thanks" before she closed the door behind her. After a few minutes, the door opened and Penny walked out in the stunning dress and new shoes, she twirled a little bit and stopped in front of David who was right in front of her.

"You look beautiful in that dress" David said to her.

"You don't look so bad yourself" Penny said with a smile.

"Let's go" David said.

"Alright" Penny said "Come on Bolt" she called to her dog that was on the bed, he jumped off and went right to their side, and they all walked out of the door while Penny closed it behind them.

When they arrived in front of the nightclub, David and Penny got out of the Taxi, and Bolt came up from the sidewalk, as he was secretly following the Taxi so that he could keep up with them. Penny had her arm wrapped around David's, and before they walked into the front door, David turned to Bolt who was on the sidewalk.

"Ok Bolt" David said to him "Penny and I are going in to find what we're looking for, if anything happens Penny will give a whistle and you come rushing to us, got it?" Bolt then gave one, quick nod and went over to the side of the building where he would wait.

"Alright, let's go" Penny said to him.

"You better stay with me" David said. The walked through the entrance to the nightclub and walked up the stairs that led to the main dance floor. They opened the doors, and inside was a huge room with multi-colored lights flashing everywhere, and people dancing on the dance floor with a DJ playing the loud music in a DJ booth, there were three bars in three corners of the area, and right next to the third bar area, there were stairs that led to an upstairs area that was likely the office of the owner of the club, otherwise known as Zukofsky. Penny was amazed by the whole place, but at the same time had to stay with David and focus on why they were here. She saw the area where the stairs were, and turned to David.

"Is that where Zukofsky's office is?" Penny asked him over the loud music. David looked over to where Penny was pointing and saw where the stairs led to; he knew where they go since he had been here before.

"Yeah, that's it" David said "Follow me, and stay close" Penny did as he said as they walked down the stairs and made their way through the dance floor and made it to the stairs. When they made it to the top, there was a security guard that was in front of a rope that was for security reasons if there was anybody that needed to come through. David walked up to the man, and spoke something to him in Russian. Penny didn't speak Russian that much, but figured that he was telling the man that they were here to see Zukofsky. She felt relieved, knowing that not only was he skilled in combat, but knew multiple languages as well. After the man did a search through his jacket and pulled out his gun. He unclipped the rope and David and Penny walked into the doors, meanwhile, unknown to them, Lori was in the far corner of the dance floor, disguised as a waitress, with the golden gun hidden in her black dress, and looked up at David and Penny as they walked into the room, knowing that the time to eliminate Zukofsky would come soon.

When David and Penny walked in through the doors, they found themselves in a very stylish room with purple colored walls, a large window with a view of the city, and several long, curved couches, and stylized pictures of a man with a scar on his face. Penny looked at the pictures of the man and then turned to David who was right next to her.

"Is that Zukofsky?" Penny asked David.

"Yeah, that's him" David replied. They both saw that there was an area on the other side that they knew was his office. David went over to the door while Penny followed him; David then put his hand on the door handle and opened the door. Inside, they found a man that was in his desk chair with a woman that was right in front of him. The man, who they knew was Zukofsky was facing the opposite way as he was focused on the girl, probably having a chat with her.

"Oh darling" Zukofsky said to the woman "I swear I could never look at another woman" The, the Woman noticed David and Penny and looked at them, Zukofsky turned around in his chair to see who the woman was looking at, and in his sight, he saw the boy that tortured him long ago with a girl. "Tell me, David, give me one reason why I shouldn't press this button and bring my men up here, to use that tuxedo and that dress of your friend over there for target practice" Penny gulped a bit at that last part.

"You could" David said "But why waste bullets when you've got an EMP weapon?" Zukofsky knew that David was trying to tell him something, and knew that this should be private. He got out of his chair and allowed the woman to stand up

"Wait here" Zukofsky said to the woman. He walked slowly over to his desk while looking at David, and pressed the intercom on his desk "Bring me a drink" after he pressed the intercom, he turned back to David and Penny "Follow me" they followed Zukofsky towards the door where they could talk outside of his office. While they walked, he saw that he blew a quick kiss to the woman who was in the room while David closed the door behind them.

"The girls have ears these days" Zukofsky said to both of them "To what do I owe this, unpleasant visit?"

"Your phone call from Calico last night" David said to him "What does he want with an EMP hardened helicopter?" Zukofsky only chuckled a bit before turning to him.

"Do you expect me to just, turn the other cheek" Zukofsky said pointing to the scar on the left side of his face.

"I can always provide you with a matching set" David said coldly. Then, they heard a glass cup clinking and turned to see a young, blond waitress with a bottle of wine and a small glass on a platter.

"Come in my dear" Zukofsky said to the waitress as she walked towards them. While she was, Zukofsky turned to David and Penny and whispered to both of them "I'll tell you the same thing I told Calico, go to the arms fair, in London" Suddenly, they heard glass shatter across the floor followed by the sound of a gunshot, which hit Zukofsky straight in the chest and sent him flying towards the window, which shattered as his body fell to the dance floor and Penny, after seeing Zukofsky fall to the ground, turned in a flash to see that the girl was Lori who had just shot him with her golden gun, they heard noises coming from down the stairs and Lori hid the gun back in her dress and ran.

"They did it" Lori yelled to the guards "They killed Zukofsky" David knew that they had to get out now, he saw the guard from outside heading straight for him, and in a quick strike, he hit the guard in the face, pulled his gun out of his vest, and killed him with his weapon, and shot two guards that were coming up the stairs. Penny gave a loud whistle and in just a few seconds, they heard Bolt came climbing up the side of the building which sounded like thumping, and in the quick of a flash, he burst through the window unscathed and ran towards them.

"We've gotta get out of here before the local police arrive" Penny said.

"I know, there's a motor bike out in the back" David said "Follow me" and so, Penny and Bolt followed David through the hallway. Suddenly, more guards showed up, and David shot down three guards before taking cover, while Bolt finished them off with a super bark. After that was taken care of, David got up, as did Penny and continued down the hallway. Then, they stopped by another large room that had the music on a full blast, David moved to the side of the door, with Penny right behind him.

"Just one more room to go through, and then it will go to the hallway that leads to the back door" David said to him.

"Alright let's go" Penny said. Then, without another word, they burst through the doors and made their way to the room. The music was on full blast so every gunshot sound or voice was drowned out by the music. David shot his way through the guards while Bolt used his quick reflexes to knock down other guards while protecting Penny at the same time. The shots from the guns and the cries of the other men were drowned out by the music, which was the only thing anybody could hear, and the last thing they would ever hear as David continued to shoot down the guards as they finally made it to the door. Once they opened the door, the music became faint, and they noticed that police lights were on and knew that they had to get out of the building before they were caught.

"This is the police" a cop outside spoke using a loud speaker "Come out of the building now"

"Come on" David said "We've got to hurry up" So they ran through the hallway, with Penny struggling to keep up as the high-heels that she was wears were making it difficult for her to run.

"How can girls run in these things?" Penny asked herself. Soon enough, they reached the back door where David jumped off the railing first and landed on the ground, followed by Penny who David caught just before the fall. They found the motor cycle that David had talked about and both got on. David took the key out of his pocket, put it in the ignition and started it up. They sped off from the ally way of the nightclub and headed for the streets where they were heading back for the hotel, with Bolt running right next to them.

"That was a close one" Penny said "Who was the girl that killed Zukofsky?"

"Lori" David replied "One of my former squad members"

"The girl that you told me about?" Penny asked over him.

"Yeah" David said "We know that she will be after us"

"At least we know where we're going next" Penny said to him.

"Yeah" David replied "We'll head back for the hotel and leave first thing tomorrow morning, then get on the next flight to London" Then, David pushed the accelerator on the motor bike, and they were off to get back to the hotel.

Alright, I'm done. Took me a while to get this written out, in fact, this just might be the longest chapter I've ever written so far. I hope you guys enjoyed it. A little side note, the night club sequence and the meeting with Zukofsky was inspired by a level from the video game "Goldeneye 007", it was one of my favorite levels in that game, so I decided to have this chapter be based on that level. Please review, I will update as soon as I can.