April 16 2006 3:30 AM Rockport Valley Airport, Rockport, Massachusetts.
Kandinsky arrived at Rockport where he was met by his cousin Yakov.
"Привет (Hello) cousin, good to see you" Kandinsky greeted pulling him in for a hug.
Yakov looked at the 2 men standing behind his cousin.
"You must be, Timofey's informants, nice to meet you" Yakov greeted shaking their hands.
"Nice to meet you Yakov, did Hernandez get here yet?" one of the men asked.
"Yes, he's waiting outside" Yakov answered.
The men walked outside where they were picked up by Hernandez in his black Land Rover lr3.
"See you guys got here in one piece" Hernandez greeted.
"Yes, at the cost of most of my business venture's in Moscow, I've come to recoup my losses and will be operating alongside my cousin" Kandinsky said as he lit a cigar.
"Don't worry, we managed to secure a flight for some of your associates, so your gang will be operating here in no time" one of the CIA contacts said.
"So what's the plan cousin? what do you plan on doing with your lieutenants back home?" Yakov asked
"I've instructed Vladimir to take over the remaining fronts in Russia where he will run them with Mr. Seung and Mr. McCarthy" Kandinsky explained.
After a short drive they arrived at Kandinsky's penthouse in Downtown Rockport which contained a bar, restaurant and nightclub. A place he purchased a few years ago and where Kandinsky conducted business when in the US. Once they arrived Kandinsky held a meeting in his nightclub's office.
"With the EOA closing in on my operations in Russia it's only a matter of time before they arrive, this time however they won't be so lucky" Kandinsky pulled a folder from his desk which contained 3 pictures of high end vehicles. "These are some prototype's that were built with the same engineering as those vehicle's used by Mr. Hernandez's former associate's. They were made by our friend's in Dubai and will be shipped here tomorrow"
"You're welcome by the way" Hernandez said.
"We are very grateful Mr. Hernandez" Kandinsky paused then continued "Whenever they arrive we will be taking the fight to them"
"Not to worry, my men will be on alert" Yakov assured.
Kandinsky concluded the meeting and everyone parted ways, Kandinsky however stopped Hernandez to ask him a question.
"Now that you're with me, how can I be sure to trust you?"'
"Realized that there's more room to grow in your organization than with my previous employers" Hernandez answered.
April 16 7:30 AM CIA safehouse, Near Moscow, Russia
MacDougall, Monique, and Wallace were having breakfast and Paul was on the phone with his fiance when Drake came downstairs to speak with MacDougall.
"Heard from Martinov, he told me that Seung is heading to Uzbekistan to oversee an arms deal"
"Arms dealing? isn't that more of Vladimir Kandinsky's job?" MacDougall asked.
"Sources from Valery tell us that with Kandinsky laying low, Vlad's been promoted to acting boss of Kandinsky's Moscow operations, which means Vlad for now is the head of the Shadow Corp and now is in command of his brother's Shadow Warriors faction in Russia in addition to his own faction"
"Hmm, so that must mean Seung has also been moved up" MacDougall figured.
"Most likely yes, which brings us to our next course of action, Seung will be in Uzbekistan by 3:00, but we'll need to be there before he does, we're sending 2 teams of 3 to Uzbekistan, and the other 3 will focus on taking down McCarthy"
"Fair enough, who's joining us" MacDougall asked.
"Ana Makarova and Andrei Kozlov, Andrei took down McCarthy's gambling fronts in Kazakhstan, and Ana took out his gambling fronts in Kyrgyzstan" Drake finished.
"Fair enough, who's working with who?" MacDougall answered.
"That's for you to decide among your colleagues" Drake responded.
Ana and Andrei arrived shortly after and from there MacDougall decided the teams.
"Monique, Ana, you're with me, we'll be going after Seung, Paul, Wallace, and Andrei you lot will be going after McCarthy" MacDougall finished as everyone nodded in agreement.
MacDougall and his team arrived at Tashkent at around 11 AM where they were picked up by CIA agent Martin Ventura, a light skinned hispanic male approximately in his late 40s with short black hair, a beard and wearing a black shirt, with green commando pants and boots driving an Humvee.
"So, this is the team you've assembled?" Ventura asked, MacDougall could tell he seemed unimpressed.
"Is there a problem?" Monique asked with a bit of sass.
"None, just the fact that you brought 2 women, what are y'all gonna do seduce Seung?" Ventura laughed.
Ana was about to speak before being cut off by MacDougall.
"Oi lad, you're one to speak with all that cheap hairspray and that comb over that's showing early signs of hair fall"
Ana and Monique couldn't help but laugh as Ventura who was embarrassed changed the subject.
"So..Seung is gonna be meeting with a Uzbek gang, from what I've gathered their meeting somewhere in the Kyzylkum Desert near the Kazakh border at an old Soviet military outpost. Ventura explained.
They reached the outpost and from a distance Ana spotted A black armored Hummer arrive with 3 red Escalades. One of the men in the red Escalade had a red beret, with red camouflage pants and a black tank top with sunglasses.
"Those red suvs, they could be from Vladimir Kandinsky's faction" Ana said.
"This should be all the more interesting" MacDougall said.
Everyone exited the Humvee and loaded up. Ventura scoped out the area with his binoculars
"Alright there's Seung, in the green jacket, and the guy with the red beret wearing the red camo pants is Ramzy Abdulin, Vlad Kandinsky's right hand man who runs the Uzbek gun running operations for him" Ventura explained.
"Ms. Makarova you will provide sniper support while, Ms. Lapointe and I will be moving in, Mr. Ventura you spot for the lass" MacDougall ordered.
"All right Mr. big shot, we'll rush in if shit gets heavy" Ventura replied.
MacDougall and Monique using scoped M4 carbines made their way to the meet taking cover behind an old military truck. They could hear Seung and the others talking in Russian but couldn't understand.
"These Dragunov's are brand new, never used" Seung said handing the rifle over to the gang leader who carefully inspected it.
"Interesting, and what's the price?" the leader asked.
"These go for about $6,800, a piece, my price to you 5,700" Seung answered.
"We'll take 30 for $171,000" the leader said.
"Very well, Mr. Abdulin please have your men unload the cases from my truck"
MacDougall radioed Ana.
"Take out Abdulin when you have the shot" MacDougall said.
Ramzy made his way to the back of Seung's truck, as he opened the trunk to help his men unload the rifles. Ana readied her M40A3 that Ventura gave her taking aim at Ramzy who's back was turned. Locked on to Ramzy Ana fired hitting Ramzy in the left side of his upper back. Seung and everyone else looked in horror as Ramzy fell.
"There's a sniper, you set me up!" Seung yelled as he pulled out a Nagant M1895 and shot the gang leader in the head.
Seung took cover behind one of the SUVs as MacDougall and Monique began firing at the Uzbek and Red Shadow members. Ana managed to pick off a couple more of the Uzbek gang members as they began scrambling to their vehicles.
"Shit looks like some of the Red Shadow are bailing too" Ventura said to Ana.
"Dammit Seung is making a run for it" Ana said as she fired at Seung but missed.
Seung spotted MacDougall and Monique and began firing at them.
"You again? I'll make sure to finish the job this time" Seung ran towards his Hummer firing at MacDougall and Monique. Seung fired up his Hummer and took off.
"Shite, we're going after him" MacDougall called to Monique.
MacDougall and Monique jumed in an Escalade and sped off after Seung. Monique fired at Seungs truck but did no damage to it.
"No good, it's built like a damn tank" she said.
"Looks like he's going towards the border into Kazakhstan" Ventura said following behind them.
They all eventually crossed into Kazakhstan where they were fired at by Kazakh border guards.
"Dammit why aren't they firing at Seung?" Monique asked as she ducked down.
"He probably paid them off" MacDougall answered as he swerved to avoid the bullets.
MacDougall's suv was too badly damaged to keep going and they were forced to stop in a small town losing Seung.
"Damn it all to hell!" MacDougall yelled slamming his fist into the steering wheel.
Ventura and Ana stopped to pick them up.
"Dammit, I lost the bastard, that slippery cunt got away again" MacDougall cursed.
"Well at least we took out Ramzy Abdulin, with him gone Vlad can't move guns through Uzbekistan anymore, further crippling the Shadow Corp" Ventura said.
"I'll call Drake about getting us out of here" MacDougall said.