Fighting for Life
The small green truck finally made it to the docks coming to a screeching hault. Though the time it took to get there the sun was starting to set and some lights of the harbor were blinking on in the shadows of the large storage hangers. Nathan sat in the truck looking to make sure that this was the right place, he even double looked at the dock name and searched three times before getting out.
He pulled the seat back and took out some papers Hacker had printed out for him awhile ago. Just as he closed the door and turned around, one of the Team Vipers men was right there. His icy stare scared the living crap out of Nathan as he fell to the seat.
"Don't do that!" he had his hand on his chest.
"Your Nathan H. right?" the A.S.T. mercenary asked.
The Merc was dressed in full body armor and armed with a strapped sub machine gun. The chest armor looked like a regular vest at first, with all the pockets and zipper jacket. Though his legs were padded by Riot Police issued protection pads and he had a state of the art special forces radio head set. But the overall face of a gun veteran made the suit perfect.
"Yes where is Cap. Viper?" Nathan asked regaining his composure.
"She's inside come follow me." The man said turning to the dock hanger and walking to it.
Nathan followed but his eyes were alert to all around them, hopefully there was no one tailing him here. Or else their plans would be scrapped. Thankfully he saw nothing except the small cameras at the far corners of the hangers roof edges. The Merc stopped at the left side of the doors and operated a hidden retinal scanner. Upon looking in, the huge doors budged open just enough for one man to enter at a time. He let the Merc go first and then followed, inside only the center lights and the far back stairs to another portion of the Storage facility had any lighting.
The young man walked half into the place and stopped at a table with many papers spread across it. Those papers were highly detailed schematics of the Check-in point they would enter soon. When Nathan stopped gazing he pulled out the papers he brought and held them at the ready. He was told to wait a minute as the Merc talked into his head set.
"Cap. we have the guest inside and he's got some more info with him." He said and received garbled replies.
The mercenary looked to Nathan and nodded, just about the same time the far end door opened. Four mercenary's came out and walked down the stairs heading to the two in the center. They were Cap. and a three others like the one by him following unarmed.
"Well, I finally get to see the man behind this mission. I must say, you are a victim of the most devious S.T. cartels, this will be fun." She said cheerfully leaning on the desk of papers.
"I have the targets info, where the girls are being held, and the number of guards to add to your information you must already have." Nathan said emotionless.
The woman looked through the papers fast as if she were scanning it by memory. She then threw the papers to the desk and pulled out a PDA that she used for the next five minutes or so.
"Okay your facts have been put into the equations and I expect us to get in and out without any loss. Our sniper will take care of the outside escapees should anything go array and we will deal some death to these animals. Been quite some time since I've received such a big assignment, usually its just a small group trying to take a school sized amount of girls but not an entire hanger of high ranking S.T.'s. I'll let you kill the leader if you can." She laughed a little.
"Glad to be of help, they say your squad is the best of the best to the Anti Slave Trade Organization." Nathan commented them.
"We've killed and captured many criminal rings in our time yes, but this will take the cake. I want to see these men die as much as you, we all know they'll just command the cartel from prision so why not stop them in their tracks. It's a dirty job but someone's got to rid this world of the underground evils." Cap said as she went up to him and put an arm around him.
"When will we head out?" Nathan asked feeling unsure.
"We'll move when I've seen how good you are with guns. Come…I've got a training room with all the weapons you'll be using." The female mercenary led him up the stairs and the room she came out of.
After going in and through three more doors, they went into an indoor shooting range and Cap. watched the young man perform gradually greatly. But in the end, she only issued him the gear the Mercs wore and a HK-G36k as his weapon. They walked through the plan and tactics once they got into the check-in buildings proximity. Just a simple walk in the park, as everyone would go to a specific spot inside after covertly taking out the guards and sealing the entrances. Then establish a firm connection before opening fire on the S.T.'s to rescue the girls likely held up in the basements and boiler rooms. After all have been killed and the girls released the police would be contacted and arrive on scene just after the whole squad left with Nathan and his sister.
Taking every possible outcome into play, the only fear in this was the Slave Traders having body guards inside. They would pose the most troublesome problem, since they'd be in full body armor and armed with heavy stuff there was a raise in the possibility of death.
Nathan accepted the chance and so packed up and jumped into the squads vehicle. A normal looking 2006 VOLVO XC90 but converted inside to hold the squad and their equipment.
Hackers House
Jeremie and Ulrich reached the house after some time just before Nathan got to the docks. They felt what Aelita felt seeing the dogs, but upon reaching the house and seeing Aelita they all forgot about them.
Jeremie swerved his car onto the drive way and jumped out leaving the engine on. He rushed to Aelita and literally hugged her as they spinned, her legs never touched the ground.
"Oh Aelita….I'm so happy your okay!" Jeremie cried out as he began to cry tears of joy.
"It's good to see you too!" the pink haired girl giggled.
"Aelita!" the others said coming out of the vehicles and racing up to the two.
"Guys, guys calm down I'm safe." She said trying to regain her balance after being spun around.
That was when Hacker came outside still having his shot gun by him. That completely put Jeremie on the defensive and pushed himself in front of Aelita. He gave such a death glare to the informant, but he'd been though enough in life that the blonde boy didn't scathe him.
"Jeremie stop, that's Hacker. Nathan's friend, he's kept me safe ever since I came here. You can trust him." Aelita told Jeremie with a scolding tone.
At first Jeremie didn't want to move, but when the girl forced him to face her he understood everything. To what he didn't know.
"Well where is Nathan?" Yumi asked as the others gathered around.
But Aelita didn't respond, instead she looked away like someone had died and her friends didn't know. The others looked puzzled when she didn't answer them, so Hacker filled them in coming down to the gang.
"He's off to save his sister, even if his life is at the cost." The shotgun toting man said, his face didn't show anything.
"What do you mean at the cost of his life?" Odd asked.
"Ya, what's going on?" Ulrich and Guerrmo joined.
"Long story short, he's found where those men are and where his sister is. She's still alive and he's going to kill the Slave Traders." Aelita sighed leaving to Jeremie's car, "Can we just go already, the Traders might still have their scouts out on the streets."
"Oh ya, come one lets leave now!" Odd and Kila darted to the car as well.
"But..?" Yumi and everyone else was lost to the whole picture but understood the danger they were in.
They all embarked and started to leave the street, when Jeremie asked something.
"Aelita…?" he asked looking at the trees and houses pass by.
"Yes." She replied looking out her window.
"….never mind." He didn't bother to ask what he wanted to know.
The gun fight
Nathan called Hacker before they arrived, he only knows as far as now that everything was going as planned. Cap. parked the Volvo behind a few large stacks of crates and got out. There was no need for any words, they reviewed their orders and strategy still fresh in their minds. One of the Merc's, the one putting together a sniper rifle, loaded up some ammo and left for a perfect nest to get situated. While Cap., Nathan, and the other Merc's armed and headed out to clear the place of guards.
Nathan found several patrols and took them out as Cap. had told him to. Two in the chest one in the head, the bullets made their marks and the men fell to the ground. But he didn't delight in the kills, there were still more out there.
Cap. ahead of everyone took out the cameras outside and seven guards sent out to fix them. Her team mates killed everyone in the front parking lot and took care of the front doors with an aggressive sealant. Nathan did his doors and dispatched several guards there as well, he reloaded his first mag due to his accurate shooting. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for his anger and hatred towards the S.T.
Once everyone was taken out, the sniper kept an eye through the windows of the warehouse and killed any new comers to the gathering obviously late. His silencer attachment kept the gun hidden from ears as the bullets traveled through the windshield and doors with deadly accuracy.
Nathan heard the faint rifle fire before heading in and sealing the door. A grin spread across his face, after doing his second objective he headed up a latter to the catwalks in the top. He did his best to minimize the sound of his boots clatter up the latter and on the catwalk above the gathering. They all had to be fast because some of the inside security was feeling the loss of communications outside. Only a matter of time before they figured out they had intruders.
"Nathan to squad, I'm in position." He said into his head set.
"Cap. here, so is everyone else but we have a problem. The leader had four of those guards we didn't want, I'm afraid that this will not end well. But…everyone continue on and open fire on my mark and gather at the bottom after you've killed all the guests." Cap waited for all the guests to get into position, "Three…two…one…now."
Down below, the leader was taking a sip of some kind of wine when he heard sporadic gunfire blast into his ears. He saw the many visitors fall to the ground with a gunshot to the head and blood spray to the ground. His guard assembled around him in a protective cocoon of Kevlar. In a matter of two minutes all the guests and most of the inside security were killed dead on and the shooters disappeared.
"You and you search the place, I want you to find the gunmen and kill them." The leader commanded and the two bald men in black, armed with pistols, moved out.
The men didn't make it to the corner leading to the catwalk latter's before a round ball round under their feet. As they looked down and noticed that the ball was a fragmentation grenade, the frag detonated and flung them to their backs. The shrapnel punched through their bodies and literally put tens of marble sized holes in them. The smoke cleared after a couple of minutes of silence, only to be broken by the bullets wizzing by the guards heads from a stake of oil barrels.
"Take down those guards now!" Cap shouted.
The S.T. leader escaped the battle to the basement where the girls were at, he had a plan. But till then, the Viper team went into a furious gun battle with the guardsmen behind some crates or overturned tables. Nathan signaled to the others that their bullets weren't making any damage so, a grenade was more suitable to disperse them. He said this with his hand gestures and they all nodded to him.
"Cover fire!" Cap yelled as their guns poured onto the guards who immediately took cover.
Nathan unlatched the grenades and held them so that when they fell, they exploded a few seconds then. A way to avoid receive them back if one of those guards caught on. He sprung up and chucked two explosives between the two tables and one behind the crates.
"Fire in the hole!" he yelled as they ducked and a gruesome explosion rocked the building.
All they heard was the eruption and cries of pain that soon faded away. Cap. and her squad moved in and shot the occupied guards dead. When Nathan arose, he proceed onwards to the squad looking around for the leader. But they found no sign of him, so Cap ordered the search of the girls. The Mercs went to the boiler room and released the fear stricken young girls, trying their best to not let them see the dead bodies and blood. But when Nathan checked the basement door, he got a bullet to his left arm and fell down. The leader walked up with a girl in hand and his pistol aimed to her head. Cap. and the other Mercs brought their rifles to bear leaving them in a deadly stand off.
Nathan squirmed on the ground as the pain grew worse and blood spurted out. He felt the bone broken by the bullets impact so he didn't have any use of it. But through the intense pain, Nathan kept a hateful stare to the man.
"Well, well, well…if it isn't the boy Hernandez who's come to rescue his sister. I didn't expect you to come with these low brow Merc's or come at all." The old man snickered, "Seems someone has been a busy little bee. But I'm sure my men have already found you friends and are ready at my order to shot them."
"Why…why all of this!" Nathan growled.
"Because, I've got to make a living in this world. Oh and you should be grateful that I've kept your sister here, safe from most of the pain the others go through. I haven't touched her though but maybe my men might have had alittle fun…" he laughed evilly.
His words pierced the man's soul, that girl in his arms was his sister! He didn't even take that into account, she didn't look like the girl he knew back as a child. Time had its way with her, her black hair was hip long, skin lighter due to the time inside as his play thing, and her arms looked blotched with bruises. Nathan's anger was like throwing gasoline soaked logs onto an already bon fire sized flame.
"You dirty son of a bitch! The pain you have caused me and countless others will not go unpunished you hear me!" Nathan howled to him getting up staggering.
"What are you going to do, shot me?" the old man scoffed.
"No he's gonna beat the crap out of you." Cap. said as she accurately fired and shot the S.T. leaders hand dead on.
The pistol fell to the ground and fired off into the walls as it bounced, the leader found himself tackled by the injured young man. The young girl fell off to the right and after she hit the ground she watched in fight. Both had one arm disabled and viscously trying to kill each other. The two men fought with punches, jabs to the face mostly, attempts to the eyes, and kicks or knees to the body. They tumbled around the floor, Cap. and her men stood watching incase this didn't end well they'd be the killer.
However, that was not needed after Nathan rolled the leader onto an old nail from the girders and gained an advantage. Nathan grabbed a rusty pole lying on the ground and had it hovering just above the leader.
"You gave me something through all of this…my sister back into the family, my family back, and a special someone. I'll leave this with you as you die!" Nathan jabbed the pole into the man's neck.
The sharp rusted end went in easily and blood gushed out of the wound. The Slave Trader gurgled on his own blood as his eyes opened wide with pain and soon closed for good. When the victorious man stood up groggily he reached for his gun, pulling it to bear with one arm he unloaded the entire mag into the dying but now dead man. His blood pooled around in a dark red blobby shape. Nathan just stood there trying to calm his avenged rage and anger. That was when Cap. got a call from their sniper on a roof.
"Sir, I missed someone. They jumped out of an open window and took off!" one of her Mercs told her.
"Dam, call the police now tell them the appearance of the vehicle now!" Cap raised her voice and ran to Nathan.
"Hey kid, someone's gotten through us. Don't worry we got the police on the way. But we need to leave before they do arrive." Cap. said to him as she pulled him away.
"My sister! Sister!" Nathan smiled looking hopefully at the girl getting up.
She ran to him and both went into a deep embrace. Their eyes poured tears of so much unbridled joy from so long of separation. That smart girl he knew grew up, seemingly cared for to the extent she deserves but with some old marks of past resistance. But her brother didn't bother with that, instead he kissed her on the forehead and had her jump on his back as they left the building littered with bodies. The girls were led to the front just before the squad exited the area, their sniper stayed to ensure their safety. As they reached the docks were the waves mildly crashed the sea wall, his sister looked out with amazement at the world she was so long ago taken from. The colors of the world delighted every sense organ she had and almost overwhelmed her.
"You think this is beautiful, just wait till you see this wonderful girl who has kept me sane for the past years. She has pink hair and I'm sure your eyes will fall in love with this girl, a real angel if you ask me." Nathan giggled to her as they neared the car.
"I have missed a lot, I want you and this girl to help me learn it all after we see our parents and family." She said happy to no end.
"Our family will stop quarreling once they see you." Nathan told her putting her in the far back seat before getting in himself.