Chapter 25: Mission: Assassination

Luthi was literally right next door to the Alpha base, the closest inhabitable planet within reach without the need for warp. It was a world very much like Earth; rotating around a nearby star, green plants providing oxygen for the inhabitants, water based oceans and people who had evolved naturally into a thriving interstellar economic location. The main difference between Earth and Luthi was that the Luthians hadn't polluted their planet over the years and it was still able to hold life.

The biggest part of Luthi the city of Carsemoon, a ship building port where many space crafts, including most of the IPF's fleet, where constructed.

Because the fleet was built here, the IPF had a very strong influence around the city and RED, wearing their insignia, wasn't given a second glance as she walked around the docks.

It didn't take too long to find the warehouse she was looking for, it was the only one in the district that wasn't either filled with people working or stockpiles of parts. She spent a few hours watching it from a far, judging its entrances and exits, observing the people who went in and out of the doors. She crept closer over the hours, keeping to the shadows or roofs.

Deciding the roof was her best option, she climbed to the top of a neighbouring building and looked in through the glass roof, observing the inside.

Her heart burst into overdrive with anger and hate.

There was about ten people inside who she could see from her advantage point, wore administers on their backs. Her hand closed into a fist. He was at it again. Dimiti was experimenting on people, on humans, trying to perfect the Notriz.

She had to back away, leaning on a wall with her eyes closed to try and stop herself charging in blind, save those people and shoot anyone who got in her way.

Blindness is not the key. Think, just stop, think and plan. She told herself over and over, rubbing her forehead to ease herself back.

Finally she had enough control to continue observing the people in the warehouse. There didn't appear to be many subjects, not like when she was one. Perhaps he was keeping it small so they could be moved if discovered.

There were guards too, thirty to her count. A few too many for such a small number of subjects but not if they were expecting her. She could take thirty of them out in no time.

Another sign this was a trap.

But with all this in her head, RED couldn't back down now. Not when she could see him; standing over his subjects with a holopad in his hands, writing notes as he did, just as she remembered.

He began to walk away and RED took the moment to strike. She stood and jumped over to the other building and grabbing hold of the edge before she fell. Hanging on to the ledge, RED let out a deep breath and shimmied her way over to an open window. Still dangling from the edge of the roof, just out of sight of the window, she reached to her side and pulled away a hand sized device.

It was one of the two weapons she had kept secret in her room, a grenade of her own design which she now pulled the pin of and threw thought the open window into the warehouse.

The grenade's outer shell was made of a special rare material that made its landing on the floor silent before rolling across to a wall. Once secure, it clicked and began to release a deadly, concoction into the air, followed by a soft white mist.

In seconds, the all of warehouse's air was filled with the invisible chemical that choked anyone who inhaled more than three breaths, sticking to the inside of their lungs and starving them of air while the mist began to obscure their vision.

Giving the weapon a minute to work, RED pulled a black scarf up over her face and nose, enabling her to move easily though the mist and sneak up behind the few guards who weren't already suffocating from the lack of air and easily snap their necks.

With the grenade killing over half of the people in the warehouse and RED finishing off the last, she soon found herself in the middle of a mass murder, by her own hands. The mist and chemical were beginning to fade from the air now, enabling her to see the bodies around her. But RED wasn't finished.

Her real quarry remained.

She walked over to Dimiti as he lay on the ground, gagging for air as the chemical clotted his lungs, his breath wheezing with each movement. After a moment to compose herself, RED knelt beside him and reached into her belt, pulling out the second item from her room. This was a small injector pen which she roughly stabbing into his arm.

Instantly he began to breathe easy and turned to look at her as she grabbed his neck and pulled him to his feet. With her spare hand, she pulled her mask down from her face. "I saved from the gas Dimiti only because I want to kill you myself." Her eyes narrowed on him. "You remember me, don't you? You're little masterpiece."

The doctor sunk in her grip, still pale and weak from the gas. "You… you're… you're mistaken."

RED frowned as she tightened her grip on his throat. "Mistaken? For what, you coward!"

"I… I'm not Dimiti."

"I am."

Before RED could turn to face the voice, she was pulled to the floor, her arms pulled out to the side as they were restrained by bolts of electricity. A man, older than the one she had saved, walked around her from behind and stared down at her.

He grinned. "I heard you like this kind of restrains, Rin. Thought you'd appreciate being trapped by them."

RED grunted as she struggled against the electric bonds that clung painfully to her wrists and held her to kneel at his feet. She was now surrounded by another ten soldiers, all of them pointing weapons at her. The real Dmitri spoke to his double for a moment as RED struggled then grinned over at her. "I have to say, I'm impressed. You were prepared for my trap, RED. Just as I would expect from you."

Exhausted from the restraints, RED fell still and just stared at the man with all the hate and anger she could manage. "What are you waiting for Dimiti? Kill me."

The doctor laughed at her. "Kill you! If I wanted you dead, I would have done so already. You are too dangerous to keep alive Rin but unfortunately… you are too valuable to kill." His cold blue eyes locked on hers as he reached out and grabbed the back of her hair. "I have too many questions, too many tests to do. It's been so long, I want to see how my favourite subject has coped over these years." His grin grew. "But then, after have my samples… I am going to do as I do with all my subjects when they become obsolete. I'm going to destroy you."

"A bullet isn't good enough for you, Dimiti." RED hissed into his face. "When I get free, I'm going to kill you with my own hands. No more than a monster like you dissevers."

The monster smiled. "We will see, Rin. We will see."

A/N: Short chapter I know but please, don't kill me! Don't forget to review!

PS, now working on chapter 30! Man, this story is over 70,000 words long! And I have only just reached the second story arch! Wow!

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