Chapter 5: Sleeping Tiger
Pierre stole a glance down at his watch as he pulled on his combat armor only to see that he was going to be late if he didn't leave his barracks right now. If there was one thing he couldn't stand, it was being late for combat training, especially since he was a squad leader. Pierre quickly put in the combination to the safe under his bunk and pulled out a pair of dual magnums. They would be issuing weapons at the briefing, but Pierre always liked to have a little reassurance.
As Pierre stepped into the small conference room on the first floor, he found to his relief that he hadn't been late at all. In fact there were only two other people in the room, but he didn't recognize either of them. Since there were no instructors to ask him to seat down in the room Pierre didn't dare. The room was the same hunter green color as the barracks, and there were no windows which gave Pierre a sense of security. Steel gun racks lined the walls, but the decorative piece was a marble table that sat in the middle of the room.
Marius must have been right behind Pierre, because he stepped into the room a second behind him. His muscular body looked even more intimidating in the issued full body armor and tinted black helmet. Marius would definitely be a strong link in the team; even though he was 6'4 230 lbs. and all muscle he was faster than the boys that were half his size. He was great at hand to hand combat, but his real talent was with a knife and a sniper rifle.
"Hey Pierre, where's our little tag along?" Marius asked as he walked over to stand beside Pierre.
"She's probably running late, I would expect as much," Pierre said.
As if on cue, Madison stepped through the doors along with the rest of stragglers rushing to get in before the clock flashed 6:00 am. The soldiers all took their places standing along the wall as the instructors took their seats at the table.
"Today, we will be assigning you an artificial environment to infiltrate. There you will need to eliminate all targets, but the targets won't be humans they will be Umbrella's BOW prototypes," the instructor announced as he gestured for each squad leader to come up and receive their assignment.
Pierre felt a chill of excitement run up his spine as he listened to what the instructor was saying. Umbrella was giving him an opportunity to really show off his skills, he would show them everything they wanted and then some. With Marius working under him there was no way that he would fail, but the girl might pose a problem. He could always eliminate her though; a stray bullet might hit her if she slowed them down any. She had nothing to offer the team; although she was decently talented she had a temper that made her lose focus of a mission. Pierre wouldn't want her on his team for that reason alone, but she also had an attitude and he was sure that she thought she should be squad leader.
The instructor identifying him as Pierre handed him a stack of papers and a locker key. Pierre strode back to where he had stood before only to realize that Madison occupied it. The soldiers were quickly dismissed to their new barracks to look over the information that they had received though, so he didn't bother with Madison. Unfortunately for Pierre that meant that he would have to be in the same barracks as Madison. As they neared the barracks that they had been assigned Pierre opened the manila folder and sifted through the contents. It held maps of the area and directions on how to get there, along with the codenames they would use, but no information on which BOW they would be facing although it did say that there would be five of them and that Umbrella would provide information on them in a small crate that was located somewhere. The locker key was obviously for one of the weapons locker in the basement.
"So, what are our code names?" Marius spoke up after reading Pierre's expression.
"Yours will be Dark Bear, mine is Night Hawk, Madison's will be White Rabbit, and the name of the mission is Sleeping Tiger," Pierre said as he scanned down the page.
"Nice choice of names. Does it say what environment we will be working?" Marius asked.
"Yeah, it says Jungle environment II, and it's about three miles from here in the bio dome," Pierre answered without looking up from the papers.
"Alright, all I need to know is what weapons we have to work with," Madison said finally speaking up.
"We don't have as much as I would like, but Marius will get a Sniper Rifle, dual Berettas, and a two combat knifes. I'll take an AK-47, a combat knife, and I already have dual magnums. Since you are going to have to be on the squad we'll give you a combat knife, a desert eagle, and an AK-47," Pierre said reluctantly.
"Now, we need to get our weapons out of the locker and get moving to our point. From this point on we only use codenames when we communicate through the radios in our helmets," Pierre said taking on the leader's role.
Pierre hated to have Madison to slow him down, but now that he had a mission he didn't have time to worry about her. She would either make it through the mission or not, I know that Marius will and all a team really needs is two. Besides I wonder what BOW we are going to have, Pierre thought as he stepped through the door to get to the weapon lockers.
"Are the video cameras operating in all of the facilities?" Lord Spencer asked to Mr. O'Neal as he gazed out the window.
"Yes sir, they are all up and active and I doubled the cameras in the Jungle environment as you asked," Mr. O'Neal said.
"Good and you brought half of the guns back from Operation: Sleeping Tiger's locker, right?" Lord Spencer said not moving his gaze away from the window.
"That's correct, and I also doubled the BOWs in the jungle environment as you requested," Mr. O'Neal said puzzled at why Lord Spencer had him do those tasks.
The heat was oppressive to the team as stepped into the man made jungle. Umbrella had made different Bio domes to fit the needs of the BOW that they were developing. Pierre had been out to a few of them just to be able to see what Umbrella was doing and what they needed him to do. They told him that he would be needed if there were any chemical outbreaks, and that if there were he and a small team would be sent in to clean it up. Umbrella had gotten so good at developing the artificial environments that you would think that you were really in the jungle, desert, or frozen tundra.
"Dark Bear take my left flank, White Rabbit take my right flank," Pierre said over his headset.
Pierre moved forward into the man made jungle to take point in front of Marius and Madison. The undergrowth of ferns muffled the three's footsteps as they walked towards the heart of the jungle. It was unusually quiet for a jungle Pierre thought. There was barely a sound except for the distant sound of running water. The trees loomed over their heads shadowing the ground. To their left the ground rolled up into a hill and on their right the ground leveled off and led to where the rushing water sound seemed to be coming from.
"Where to, Night Hawk?" Madison asked over the headset.
"Let's move to the right up the hill, so that we can get a good look at where we are," Pierre answered as he moved to climb the hill making sure not to let his magnum drop the least bit.
Pierre had underestimated the size of the hill, it was not really a hill at all but a small mountain covered with trees. The incline was so drastic that it almost forced them to crawl up it. The immense humidity and heat of the jungle along with the fact that they were in full body armor only worsened the situation. After what seemed like eternity, they finally reached the top. As Pierre had thought it did look over the entire area. It was quite a big area that was covered in dense foliage, but the most stunning part of the man made jungle was a huge waterfall that seemed to appear from no where.
"I think we should work our way over to the waterfall," Madison said.
"It will probably be our best chance of finding the BOW information," Pierre said in a tone that hushed Madison from saying anything else.
As they started their decent back down the small mountain, Marius stopped half way down it. What is he doing, Pierre thought as he turned around to see what had stopped Marius.
"Do you hear that?" Marius asked as Pierre strained to hear.
Marius had never been one to joke around especially in a serious situation, but Pierre had to question him now. There was nothing, no sound, no movement, no nothing.
"It must have been the wind," Pierre suggested.
"It sounded like a growl or roar or something, but you might be right," Marius said as he started to walk down the hill again.
The heat seemed to get more intense the more time that they spent in the jungle. They had made pretty good time though once they figured out where they were going. The sound of rushing water had droned everything else out by the time that they reached it.
"There's what we are looking for," Pierre said as he pointed to a small crate that was floating in the river. It contained the information on the BOW that they were looking for along with a map containing the extraction point to meet at when they had completed their objective.
"One of us has to go swim out there and bring back the information," Marius stated.
"I am the lightest and probably the best swimmer among us, so I should probably go," Madison said, but made no move to go without Pierre's permission.
"No, I wouldn't ask any of my teammates to do something that I myself was not willing to do," Pierre said as he made his way down into the water.
Although it was tempting to send Madison in maybe to her death, Pierre didn't want her to screw up the mission by tripping an alarm. And he was taught not to send a team mate to do something that you yourself wouldn't want to do, Pierre thought as he dove into the cold water. Even though it was so hot and humid in the forest, the water was freezing making it hard for Pierre to swim very fast.
"I'm going to push the crate back to land," Pierre announced as he reached the floating crate.
As if on cue, a fin cut through the water just ahead of Pierre. The fish if you could call it that was about six feet long and might once have been a piranha with razor sharp teeth. Long surgical marks covered the thing's face only allowing its eyes to be seen. It was cutting through the water at an incredible pace. Without saying a word, Madison brought out her dual Berettas along with Marius and started shooting the thing like mad men.
Pierre finally got atop the crate and brought his magnum level with his eyes. One well placed shot just above the thing's eye stopped it in its tracks. It slowly floated to the top, and Pierre dropped back into the water to continue pushing it to shore.
"Well, that's the American shooting theory in action, if you shoot enough bullets you're bound to hit something," Pierre said in an uncharacteristically joking tone.
Pierre quickly wedged his stainless steel combat knife in between the lid of the box and the rest of it, and opened it with ease. Inside was a map of the facility with an area about a mile away from where they were circled in red. But what caught his eye most in the crate was a stack of papers labeled "PREDATOR."
CODENAME: PREDATOR
OUR FIRST ATTEMPT AT AN ANIMAL FROM THE FELINE VARIETY, WE INJECTED THE T- VIRUS INTO A SEDATED TIGER. THE DETERIERATION OF THE ANIMAL IS AT AN INCREASED RATE DO TO ITS HIGH METABALISM, BUT ITS SPEED AND AGILITY AS WELL AS EYE SIGHT WERE ALL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED. UNFORTUNATLY, ITS HEARING DETERIRATED GREATLY, BUT THE GREATEST ADVANTAGE OF THE "PREDATORS" WAS THAT THEIR PRIMAL INSTINCT TO SURVIVE WAS HEIGHTENED GREATLY. THE CANINE TEETH WERE ALSO GREATLY INHANCED.
"Lovely sounding animals," Madison said trying to get back on Pierre's good side.
"Well, whether they are nice or not, we have five of them to hunt down and kill and if my animal science is still up to date they are going to all be together, so lets get moving," Pierre said as he started walking into the jungle.
Their best chance of finding this pack of lions was to go straight into the heart of the jungle and make their way to the evac point. That's if the tigers weren't already hunting them down. Being on terrain that was unfamiliar to him and having to hunt on it was what he had been trained for along with the others, so he didn't have any problem with the situation. The jungle seemed to be getting hotter with each passing moment that went by as they made their way through the jungle. Pierre's hair inside his helmet was plastered to his face with sweat as they came across an unexpected sight waiting for them in the next valley of the jungle.
Below them paced the five "Predators" that they were looking for. The smell surrounding them was horrific, but the sight of them was even worse. The five white Siberian Tigers had hunks of rotting flesh along their bodies hanging off along with many patches totally missing. One tiger in particular though looked fresher than the others, and Pierre took him to be the leader of the small pack. Besides the one that was fresh who was a male, they were four others pacing behind him that were all at the same stage of deterioration that were females.
"Dark Bear, see what you can do with your sniper up here," Pierre instructed over the headset.
Marius took careful aim at the striped predator following in the far back, and fired a lone shot into the temple of its head. The predator didn't even have time to change its position as its blood splattered the near tree, its dead weight hit the ground. Although, Marius had taken the last one out to keep from alerting the others, he had misjudged the power of the recoil. The recoil of the shot sent him sprawling backwards, the weight of his body breaking a loose twig that alerted the rest of them to his position.
Pierre snapped his head around in time to see that the predators were running to their position at an incredible speed. There wasn't much time and Pierre had to think of what to do to keep his team safe. He knew that there was no way that he was going to be able to kill all of these by himself and that he was going to have to rely on his team a little, which he hated.
"Dark Bear, I want you to go to strictly sniper rifle, and pick off as many as you can before they get here," Pierre said as he tried to think of a plan.
"White Rabbit, I want you to fade behind this undergrowth and see what you can do when they get up here, but when they get within 100 yards I want you to climb up a tree along with Dark Bear," Pierre ordered as he shimmied his way up the nearest tree.
Pierre squatted his self on the lowest branch and holstered his magnums and unsheathed his stainless steel combat knife. Hopefully this would work because if not, they were going to die, both him and his team. Pierre glanced up and saw that Marius had been successful in killing two of the things and that Madison had her way with one of the others by the time that they had started climbing the tall trees. The only one that was left was the male who had doubled his speed after seeing his companions fall, and was barely 100 yards away from them.
"Dark Bear, drop out of your tree," Pierre commanded as the tiger grew ever nearer.
Not questioning his leader at what seemed to be a suicide mission for him Marius dropped out of the tree behind him. His knees buckled as he hit the ground and nearly snapped under his body weight as the predator ran and made a lunge for him.
Without warning Pierre dropped out of the tree and onto the predator, sending it to the ground under Pierre's weight. Without hesitating Pierre drove his knife as far as it would go into the thing's neck and circled it around completely severing its head. The head fell to the ground as the crimson red of blood began to stain the jungle floor.
"Didn't you trust me?" Pierre asked as he flashed a short smile at Marius.
"If I didn't would I have jumped," Marius said returning the glance.
Madison jumped gracefully down to where the two young men stood, and picked up the severed head.
"It will make a good trophy don't you think," Madison said as she chased after the rest of her squad.
"We lost half of our trainees with your little BOW training," the board of directors said as they focused on Lord Spencer.
"We only need three good ones, besides we have probably rooted out all the week ones now" Lord Spencer said as if he were talking about the weather and not people's lifes.
"Fine, but we will not tolerate such a drastic lose of money in these trainees as we did today," the shadowed man at the end of the table said.
"With the board's approval, I have decided to inject Pierre's squad with a small dose of T-Virus in order to heighten their senses and to try to make them more efficient killers," Lord Spencer said getting down to business.
"As you wish Lord Spencer. I also saw something I didn't like today. Pierre seems to be considering his teammates not only as that but as his friends. As you know that can be deadly," the shadowed man said.
"Yes, this I know, but I assure you that I have things in control," Lord Spencer said as he stepped out of the room.
Pierre stole a glance down at his watch as he pulled on his combat armor only to see that he was going to be late if he didn't leave his barracks right now. If there was one thing he couldn't stand, it was being late for combat training, especially since he was a squad leader. Pierre quickly put in the combination to the safe under his bunk and pulled out a pair of dual magnums. They would be issuing weapons at the briefing, but Pierre always liked to have a little reassurance.
As Pierre stepped into the small conference room on the first floor, he found to his relief that he hadn't been late at all. In fact there were only two other people in the room, but he didn't recognize either of them. Since there were no instructors to ask him to seat down in the room Pierre didn't dare. The room was the same hunter green color as the barracks, and there were no windows which gave Pierre a sense of security. Steel gun racks lined the walls, but the decorative piece was a marble table that sat in the middle of the room.
Marius must have been right behind Pierre, because he stepped into the room a second behind him. His muscular body looked even more intimidating in the issued full body armor and tinted black helmet. Marius would definitely be a strong link in the team; even though he was 6'4 230 lbs. and all muscle he was faster than the boys that were half his size. He was great at hand to hand combat, but his real talent was with a knife and a sniper rifle.
"Hey Pierre, where's our little tag along?" Marius asked as he walked over to stand beside Pierre.
"She's probably running late, I would expect as much," Pierre said.
As if on cue, Madison stepped through the doors along with the rest of stragglers rushing to get in before the clock flashed 6:00 am. The soldiers all took their places standing along the wall as the instructors took their seats at the table.
"Today, we will be assigning you an artificial environment to infiltrate. There you will need to eliminate all targets, but the targets won't be humans they will be Umbrella's BOW prototypes," the instructor announced as he gestured for each squad leader to come up and receive their assignment.
Pierre felt a chill of excitement run up his spine as he listened to what the instructor was saying. Umbrella was giving him an opportunity to really show off his skills, he would show them everything they wanted and then some. With Marius working under him there was no way that he would fail, but the girl might pose a problem. He could always eliminate her though; a stray bullet might hit her if she slowed them down any. She had nothing to offer the team; although she was decently talented she had a temper that made her lose focus of a mission. Pierre wouldn't want her on his team for that reason alone, but she also had an attitude and he was sure that she thought she should be squad leader.
The instructor identifying him as Pierre handed him a stack of papers and a locker key. Pierre strode back to where he had stood before only to realize that Madison occupied it. The soldiers were quickly dismissed to their new barracks to look over the information that they had received though, so he didn't bother with Madison. Unfortunately for Pierre that meant that he would have to be in the same barracks as Madison. As they neared the barracks that they had been assigned Pierre opened the manila folder and sifted through the contents. It held maps of the area and directions on how to get there, along with the codenames they would use, but no information on which BOW they would be facing although it did say that there would be five of them and that Umbrella would provide information on them in a small crate that was located somewhere. The locker key was obviously for one of the weapons locker in the basement.
"So, what are our code names?" Marius spoke up after reading Pierre's expression.
"Yours will be Dark Bear, mine is Night Hawk, Madison's will be White Rabbit, and the name of the mission is Sleeping Tiger," Pierre said as he scanned down the page.
"Nice choice of names. Does it say what environment we will be working?" Marius asked.
"Yeah, it says Jungle environment II, and it's about three miles from here in the bio dome," Pierre answered without looking up from the papers.
"Alright, all I need to know is what weapons we have to work with," Madison said finally speaking up.
"We don't have as much as I would like, but Marius will get a Sniper Rifle, dual Berettas, and a two combat knifes. I'll take an AK-47, a combat knife, and I already have dual magnums. Since you are going to have to be on the squad we'll give you a combat knife, a desert eagle, and an AK-47," Pierre said reluctantly.
"Now, we need to get our weapons out of the locker and get moving to our point. From this point on we only use codenames when we communicate through the radios in our helmets," Pierre said taking on the leader's role.
Pierre hated to have Madison to slow him down, but now that he had a mission he didn't have time to worry about her. She would either make it through the mission or not, I know that Marius will and all a team really needs is two. Besides I wonder what BOW we are going to have, Pierre thought as he stepped through the door to get to the weapon lockers.
"Are the video cameras operating in all of the facilities?" Lord Spencer asked to Mr. O'Neal as he gazed out the window.
"Yes sir, they are all up and active and I doubled the cameras in the Jungle environment as you asked," Mr. O'Neal said.
"Good and you brought half of the guns back from Operation: Sleeping Tiger's locker, right?" Lord Spencer said not moving his gaze away from the window.
"That's correct, and I also doubled the BOWs in the jungle environment as you requested," Mr. O'Neal said puzzled at why Lord Spencer had him do those tasks.
The heat was oppressive to the team as stepped into the man made jungle. Umbrella had made different Bio domes to fit the needs of the BOW that they were developing. Pierre had been out to a few of them just to be able to see what Umbrella was doing and what they needed him to do. They told him that he would be needed if there were any chemical outbreaks, and that if there were he and a small team would be sent in to clean it up. Umbrella had gotten so good at developing the artificial environments that you would think that you were really in the jungle, desert, or frozen tundra.
"Dark Bear take my left flank, White Rabbit take my right flank," Pierre said over his headset.
Pierre moved forward into the man made jungle to take point in front of Marius and Madison. The undergrowth of ferns muffled the three's footsteps as they walked towards the heart of the jungle. It was unusually quiet for a jungle Pierre thought. There was barely a sound except for the distant sound of running water. The trees loomed over their heads shadowing the ground. To their left the ground rolled up into a hill and on their right the ground leveled off and led to where the rushing water sound seemed to be coming from.
"Where to, Night Hawk?" Madison asked over the headset.
"Let's move to the right up the hill, so that we can get a good look at where we are," Pierre answered as he moved to climb the hill making sure not to let his magnum drop the least bit.
Pierre had underestimated the size of the hill, it was not really a hill at all but a small mountain covered with trees. The incline was so drastic that it almost forced them to crawl up it. The immense humidity and heat of the jungle along with the fact that they were in full body armor only worsened the situation. After what seemed like eternity, they finally reached the top. As Pierre had thought it did look over the entire area. It was quite a big area that was covered in dense foliage, but the most stunning part of the man made jungle was a huge waterfall that seemed to appear from no where.
"I think we should work our way over to the waterfall," Madison said.
"It will probably be our best chance of finding the BOW information," Pierre said in a tone that hushed Madison from saying anything else.
As they started their decent back down the small mountain, Marius stopped half way down it. What is he doing, Pierre thought as he turned around to see what had stopped Marius.
"Do you hear that?" Marius asked as Pierre strained to hear.
Marius had never been one to joke around especially in a serious situation, but Pierre had to question him now. There was nothing, no sound, no movement, no nothing.
"It must have been the wind," Pierre suggested.
"It sounded like a growl or roar or something, but you might be right," Marius said as he started to walk down the hill again.
The heat seemed to get more intense the more time that they spent in the jungle. They had made pretty good time though once they figured out where they were going. The sound of rushing water had droned everything else out by the time that they reached it.
"There's what we are looking for," Pierre said as he pointed to a small crate that was floating in the river. It contained the information on the BOW that they were looking for along with a map containing the extraction point to meet at when they had completed their objective.
"One of us has to go swim out there and bring back the information," Marius stated.
"I am the lightest and probably the best swimmer among us, so I should probably go," Madison said, but made no move to go without Pierre's permission.
"No, I wouldn't ask any of my teammates to do something that I myself was not willing to do," Pierre said as he made his way down into the water.
Although it was tempting to send Madison in maybe to her death, Pierre didn't want her to screw up the mission by tripping an alarm. And he was taught not to send a team mate to do something that you yourself wouldn't want to do, Pierre thought as he dove into the cold water. Even though it was so hot and humid in the forest, the water was freezing making it hard for Pierre to swim very fast.
"I'm going to push the crate back to land," Pierre announced as he reached the floating crate.
As if on cue, a fin cut through the water just ahead of Pierre. The fish if you could call it that was about six feet long and might once have been a piranha with razor sharp teeth. Long surgical marks covered the thing's face only allowing its eyes to be seen. It was cutting through the water at an incredible pace. Without saying a word, Madison brought out her dual Berettas along with Marius and started shooting the thing like mad men.
Pierre finally got atop the crate and brought his magnum level with his eyes. One well placed shot just above the thing's eye stopped it in its tracks. It slowly floated to the top, and Pierre dropped back into the water to continue pushing it to shore.
"Well, that's the American shooting theory in action, if you shoot enough bullets you're bound to hit something," Pierre said in an uncharacteristically joking tone.
Pierre quickly wedged his stainless steel combat knife in between the lid of the box and the rest of it, and opened it with ease. Inside was a map of the facility with an area about a mile away from where they were circled in red. But what caught his eye most in the crate was a stack of papers labeled "PREDATOR."
CODENAME: PREDATOR
OUR FIRST ATTEMPT AT AN ANIMAL FROM THE FELINE VARIETY, WE INJECTED THE T- VIRUS INTO A SEDATED TIGER. THE DETERIERATION OF THE ANIMAL IS AT AN INCREASED RATE DO TO ITS HIGH METABALISM, BUT ITS SPEED AND AGILITY AS WELL AS EYE SIGHT WERE ALL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED. UNFORTUNATLY, ITS HEARING DETERIRATED GREATLY, BUT THE GREATEST ADVANTAGE OF THE "PREDATORS" WAS THAT THEIR PRIMAL INSTINCT TO SURVIVE WAS HEIGHTENED GREATLY. THE CANINE TEETH WERE ALSO GREATLY INHANCED.
"Lovely sounding animals," Madison said trying to get back on Pierre's good side.
"Well, whether they are nice or not, we have five of them to hunt down and kill and if my animal science is still up to date they are going to all be together, so lets get moving," Pierre said as he started walking into the jungle.
Their best chance of finding this pack of lions was to go straight into the heart of the jungle and make their way to the evac point. That's if the tigers weren't already hunting them down. Being on terrain that was unfamiliar to him and having to hunt on it was what he had been trained for along with the others, so he didn't have any problem with the situation. The jungle seemed to be getting hotter with each passing moment that went by as they made their way through the jungle. Pierre's hair inside his helmet was plastered to his face with sweat as they came across an unexpected sight waiting for them in the next valley of the jungle.
Below them paced the five "Predators" that they were looking for. The smell surrounding them was horrific, but the sight of them was even worse. The five white Siberian Tigers had hunks of rotting flesh along their bodies hanging off along with many patches totally missing. One tiger in particular though looked fresher than the others, and Pierre took him to be the leader of the small pack. Besides the one that was fresh who was a male, they were four others pacing behind him that were all at the same stage of deterioration that were females.
"Dark Bear, see what you can do with your sniper up here," Pierre instructed over the headset.
Marius took careful aim at the striped predator following in the far back, and fired a lone shot into the temple of its head. The predator didn't even have time to change its position as its blood splattered the near tree, its dead weight hit the ground. Although, Marius had taken the last one out to keep from alerting the others, he had misjudged the power of the recoil. The recoil of the shot sent him sprawling backwards, the weight of his body breaking a loose twig that alerted the rest of them to his position.
Pierre snapped his head around in time to see that the predators were running to their position at an incredible speed. There wasn't much time and Pierre had to think of what to do to keep his team safe. He knew that there was no way that he was going to be able to kill all of these by himself and that he was going to have to rely on his team a little, which he hated.
"Dark Bear, I want you to go to strictly sniper rifle, and pick off as many as you can before they get here," Pierre said as he tried to think of a plan.
"White Rabbit, I want you to fade behind this undergrowth and see what you can do when they get up here, but when they get within 100 yards I want you to climb up a tree along with Dark Bear," Pierre ordered as he shimmied his way up the nearest tree.
Pierre squatted his self on the lowest branch and holstered his magnums and unsheathed his stainless steel combat knife. Hopefully this would work because if not, they were going to die, both him and his team. Pierre glanced up and saw that Marius had been successful in killing two of the things and that Madison had her way with one of the others by the time that they had started climbing the tall trees. The only one that was left was the male who had doubled his speed after seeing his companions fall, and was barely 100 yards away from them.
"Dark Bear, drop out of your tree," Pierre commanded as the tiger grew ever nearer.
Not questioning his leader at what seemed to be a suicide mission for him Marius dropped out of the tree behind him. His knees buckled as he hit the ground and nearly snapped under his body weight as the predator ran and made a lunge for him.
Without warning Pierre dropped out of the tree and onto the predator, sending it to the ground under Pierre's weight. Without hesitating Pierre drove his knife as far as it would go into the thing's neck and circled it around completely severing its head. The head fell to the ground as the crimson red of blood began to stain the jungle floor.
"Didn't you trust me?" Pierre asked as he flashed a short smile at Marius.
"If I didn't would I have jumped," Marius said returning the glance.
Madison jumped gracefully down to where the two young men stood, and picked up the severed head.
"It will make a good trophy don't you think," Madison said as she chased after the rest of her squad.
"We lost half of our trainees with your little BOW training," the board of directors said as they focused on Lord Spencer.
"We only need three good ones, besides we have probably rooted out all the week ones now" Lord Spencer said as if he were talking about the weather and not people's lifes.
"Fine, but we will not tolerate such a drastic lose of money in these trainees as we did today," the shadowed man at the end of the table said.
"With the board's approval, I have decided to inject Pierre's squad with a small dose of T-Virus in order to heighten their senses and to try to make them more efficient killers," Lord Spencer said getting down to business.
"As you wish Lord Spencer. I also saw something I didn't like today. Pierre seems to be considering his teammates not only as that but as his friends. As you know that can be deadly," the shadowed man said.
"Yes, this I know, but I assure you that I have things in control," Lord Spencer said as he stepped out of the room.
