The Assassin
Chapter 4
After being introduced to all the Titans Alecto walked over to the couch and sat down next to Raven. He felt the couch shift as she discreetly tried to move closer to him. "Wow, I wonder if she knows how old I am" The assassin thought, "then again it's what you are not what you should be that counts". As he laughed to himself a spontaneous explosion of reactions began to take place around him. It seemed to have started when a small device on the Titan's belts began ringing, it moved out from there. Cyborg and Robin ran off to prep. stations located on the either side of the room, Beast Boy, Raven and Starfire however opened a window and stared flying towards the city. The next thing Alecto knew Robin was shouting at him "The police found one, we don't know witch, but they have him holed up in a hotel downtown".
The assassin quickly got up and followed Robin down from the T-junction of the tower to a long flight of stairs which they practically slid down. When at the bottom the Robin shouted for him to take a bike. The assassin looked around the garage in wonder at who financed these teen heroes, not one to waste time the assassin quickly mounted a BMW sports bike. As Alecto pulled out of the garage he saw Robin on a Ninja and Cyborg driving what appeared to be a white and blue economy car, but he could tell by the blue flames shooting out of the tail pipe that there might have been some modifications.
The joy of speed overcame the assassin as they raced through the city streets, "how long has it been he thought", "too long", he slammed back the throttle and raced past the other two Titans laughing as his bike broke 200mph. The joy of the ride was shorted lived though for soon the assassin heard police sirens. A change seemed to come over him, his eyes deepened and seemed to develop the same merciless stare as the night when the Titans found him. He stopped the bike with Robin and Cyborg in front of the hotel, Cyborg shouted over "he man that was some awesome flying, were did you learn to do that". With no reply the assassin dismounted his bike, as he did he pulled off a pair of headphones and for a second the other two could here the saxophone of Charlie Parker singing through the night, he looked over to Cyborg "just around" he replied, giving a dead smile as he walked towards the police blockade.
The assassin looked up at the hotel as the policeman started to brief the Titans. It was about 30 stories tall, with a windowed front, "we think they set up base on the tenth floor", around the building lay an expanse of trees before it met the street, "they have hostages, so we cant let them see anyone enter the building" the bottom five floors were a large foyer and banquet hall, all with glass windows, he could see the guards all armed to the teeth. "We cant let all of you go in said the policeman, I'd be to risky", "We have there cell phones jammed but if we don't get them back on or if they hear anything they said they'd start dropping hostages off the roof". For the first time the assassin looked down from the building and spoke to the officer, "how many hostages and do you know were they are", "yes" the officer respond "there are twenty, all line up on the roof". The assassin turned to Robin, "I have a plan"
"I agree", robin said, "just be careful, and… do what you do". The assassin nodded and walked silently towards the entrance to the hotel. He approached the doors and tapped on the glass. A guard quickly turned and fired a burst of bullets throw the glass doors. The assassin jumped out of the way rolling, pulling out the white gripped desert eagle he rose from the roll into a kneeling position and fired, a burst of blood appeared between the guards eyes as he fell to the floor dead. Then the lights killed, it was pitch black the assassin dove head first throw the broken window landing on his chest with his arms and legs held off the floor. He slid across the tile floor coming slowly to a halt. The lobby became a firestorm of atomic weapon birsts, windows broke, shells clinked against the ground and bullets hissed through the air. As soon as the shooting stopped the assassin jumped to his feet, pulled out the second pistol and began shooting. His arms a body moved in a blur as he fired. Shot after shot landed with a dull thud in human flesh as he attacked with surgical precision and martial arts stile movements. A few seconds later it was all over, every one of the twenty guards lay on the floor, everyone dead, every one with of them with a hole between their eyes. The assassin ejected the spent clips quickly sliding in new ones from the quick load holder on his belt, two clicks of receivers sliding forward resounded throw the empty lobby as the weapons once again were ready to deal there deadly justice.
Soon after, the assassin heard several explosions from the roof, he saw Starfire and Raven land on the ground carrying between them the twenty hostages (17 of which in a black bubble). Then he heard the swishing of helicopters as they took off from the ground carrying reinforcements to the battle for the roof. "Good" he thought to himself, now comes the easy part. He picked up six firebombs in duffle bags he had left by the doors, after setting their fusses he walked towards the elevator. Once he got in he pulled out a police radio and told the ground crew to turn the power in the hotel back on. As soon as the lights came on he punched tenth floor button and walked to the doors of the elevator. The elevator started going up; he reached his hand in the door and held it open. As he passed each floor the assassin threw a firebomb out through the doors, hearing confused talk as guards came to examine the odd duffle bags. When he got to the top he waited inside the elevator and listened, after a few seconds he heard six loud explosions in rapid secession, soon after the cackling of M4s and MP-5s as the SWAT team stormed each floor through the broken windows. The whole time a constant drone of screaming voices could be heard over the confusion, a seemingly endless cry of someone being burnt alive by the seething furry of white hot napalm.
The assassin smiled in satisfaction as he chanced a glance around the open doors of the elevator. No sooner had his head peaked around the corner then a hail of bullets tore into the small metal room. Thinking quickly the assassin braced himself against the back wall and pushing off quickly, he rammed through the side of the elevator and the preceding wall with a loud yell. The assassin quickly drew his sword and turning it upside down in his hand jumped at the nearest guard. As he flew past the man the blade of the sword protruding from the bottom of his hand severed the guard's head from his shoulders. The assassin landed in a forward roll up to a kneeling position, pivoting on his knees to gain momentum he turned and rammed his sword point first into the kidney of a guard to his right, pushing forward until the blade shown on both sides of the guard's stomach. Quickly standing up and pushing forward with his hand he sliced out of the guard's stomach cutting through the intestines and out full on through the guards stomach spilling bile and dismembered organs onto the floor. The next guard turned to shoot; the assassin dropped his sword and stepped out of the way. He grabbed the guard by the wrist and pulling a tanto from his belt he slashed up into the man's inner arm leaving it totally useless. Reversing his thrust he turned the blade side ways and stabbed into the guard's temple, killing the man instantly. Using the guard's now dead body as a body shield he pushed forward and used it's bulk to slam the last guard into the wall. He quickly picked up his sword from the ground and stabbed it through the two guard's chests, leaving them both pinned to the wall, dead.
He heard the footsteps of a guard running down and adjacent hallway. The assassin drew his shot gun from the sheath at his back and advanced to the corner were the two halls met. As soon as the guard rounded the corner the assassin caught him full on in the forehead with a shotgun round, a grey matter and blood mess on the wall were all that was left of the guards head. He side stepped around the corner shooting a round at two more guards running down the hallway. As they fired in return he stepped back behind the corner just as the bullets thundered into the wall. He stuck his shotgun around the corner and began firing at them.
A heated gun battle ensued until the assassin's weapon was struck by a bullet through the barrel rendering it completely useless. He waited until he heard the click of the two guard's machineguns and the clank of empty clips hitting the ground. Then he ran around the corner, the first guard already had a clip in the bottom of his Uzi, the assassin jumped at the guard grabbing his right wrist with his left hand and chopped down on the clip with his right breaking it half. Then grabbed the guard's wrist with both hands and turned, placing the guard's elbow joint again his shoulder. He then pulled down on the wrist completely reversing the man's elbow while throwing him over his shoulder onto the ground with a sickening thud. The second guard already had a knife out and sliced at the assassin's throat, the assassin ducked under the swinging arm and punched up into the man's trachea. He stepped forward placing a foot behind the guard's legs and pushed forward, as the man fell back the assassin followed placing his knee on the guard's left rib cage. When they landed a crunching sound echoed through the hallway, then the slow hiss of air being released from a punctured lung.
All of a sudden, down the entire hallway, hotel room doors opened and guards came pouring out. The assassin drew his two desert eagles once again and began shooting at the nearest guards. By the time the first guards began to fall he had already unloaded both of his clips, he used his back to prop up one of the falling guards for a bullet shield as he reloaded. After reloading he turned and placed his arms under the guard's shooting as he ran sideways into one of the empty hotel rooms.
When he got into the room he let the dead guard's bullet ridden body fall to the floor, as the guard fell he retrieved the Uzi he was using from the strap around his shoulder and a fresh clip from his belt. The assassin reloaded the automatic weapon along with his own and laid down behind the dead body using it as a makeshift sandbag. He then proceeded to fire through the thin walls of the room out into the hallway. The guards that had been shooting at him from farther down ran towards the room the assassin had gone into, however before they could make it to the door they were cut down by the rate of fire and outright power of the .50 desert eagle and the Uzi blasting through the wall. By the time the assassin had fired both of his clips every one of the thirty five guards involved in the ambush lay dead on the floor.
The assassin then stood up and walked out of the room down the hallway towards room 1088 the room one of the three lay in wait