"Hemorrhage, take point."
"Copy."
Agents Stryker and Hemorrhage were entering a building near the Demolition Site Control Point.
"Be advised Omaha Actual, Agent Hemorrhage and I are entering a building directly east of Control Point DS, how copy?" Stryker reported.
"Omaha Actual copies all, be careful Stryker. Omaha Actual out."
"Stryker, the signal is coming from a floor above us. Cover me, opening an elevator door."
"Copy."
"Omaha Actual, this is Stryker, advice any militia to set up perimeter around the building, something is going on here and I am not sure I like it."
"Copy that Stryker."
Hemorrhage attached himself to an elevator cable and launched himself up. Taking up a position along by the door frame, he signaled for Stryker to follow. Stryker had just reached the top when Hemorrhage saw it.
"Jesus Christ!"
Agent Edward Washington, callsign Raven, was dangling from some electrical wires from the ceiling.
"Someone is gonna pay for this." Stryker said in an extremely pointed tone.
"Oh are they?"
Both agents slung their firearms toward the mysterious voice, they were too late. Stryker had spun just fast enough to see Hemorrhage take a bullet in the face.
Ah fuck
"Last thing she saw was an extremely heavily armored and armed person leave the building. She noticed the faint glow of an orange ring just before slipping into conscience.
Agent Stryker woke up on a medical bed. She tried swinging her legs over to stand up when someone ran over and tried holding her down.
"Get. The. Fuck. OFF ME!"
"Stryker! Calm down! Its Manny! Just cool it. Calm down, your safe."
Obviously sensing her confusion set on her face, he explained how when they hadn't checked up, he sent in a team of militiamen and they found them both passed out.
"They also found agent Raven. Shame what happened, he was good agent, we're running low on those."
"Manny, I saw who did it." Stryker said in the most terrified voice that Manny didn't know she had.
"Who was it?" Manny knew that Stryker had seen shit and she was one of the strongest people that he had. The fact that she was scared only made him more scared.
"In New York, we called them Hunters. When my team finished up mopping up the LMB, we were sent into the Dark Zone, what we encountered there, no one could've been prepared for that."
"But what are they agent? How can we stop them?"
"Did I ever tell you what happened in New York?"
"No, but you also didn't see that much inclined to share."
"There were four of us, all second wave Division. There was Agent Carter Monaghon, callsign Archangel, he was the team leader and one of the first two agents of the second wave other than Faye Lou. Then there was Agents Tomas Juarez and Chancellor Williams, callsigns Scorcher and Truck, respectfully. And lastly, there was me. Archangel was team leader, Scorcher was the technician, Truck was the team heavy, and I was the team marksman."
Manny sat silently, just listening to her tell her story.
"When the four of entered the Dark Zone it was just like any other place, full of hostiles and in need of cleaning up. We encountered the expected hostiles but then came the hunter. Clad in head-to-toe in black. And we all saw the ISAC watches strapped to his backpack. I've never seen someone fight like that. It was obvious that he was hunting division agents, for pleasure or business, I don't know. And then… and then."
Stryker started to tear up.
"Shhhh. It's alright. Just breathe."
"And then he killed Scorcher. Not even quickly, with a bullet. He did it with a hatchet. He nearly crippled Truck. Archangel carried his body out while I helped Truck. Once we got back to the BoO and settled down and got medical assistance; it was clear that we were all changed. Truck required immediate surgery. He survived but had to go to therapy for a while. Which left me and Archangel. Eventually, we got things under control and when we got the emergency broadcast giving me the coordinates of DC, I was dispatched. I've never seen one again, but listen, from what I saw it was the same one."
"Alright. Get some rest. I'll update the militia and put out a warning."
"Manny, he has the know how to hack into Division tech. And, what happened to Hemorrhage?"
"Huh? Where is this sudden affection for your teammate that you've never shown before? Well, he survived the shot to his face, but he'll be scarred for the rest of his life, a rather gnarly looking one too."
The nurse was putting Stryker back to sleep.
"Don't put me to sle…" Stryker was soon fast asleep.
"Don't worry agent, we'll find this asshole. We will. For Scorcher."
