Chapter 3 13 - The
kidnapping
"Boss I really don't do field work" wined
Vex.
"Yeah well, suck it up!" snapped Rodyille "we
need to get this guy and we need you here to do that!"
They
where at the top of a building a kilometer away from the target's
apartment block, it was Rodyille, Vex and Wilkenson.
The only
reason why Vex was tagging along was because they needed him to
monitor the police com channels with the long range vox and hack into
the apartment buildings apparently, decent security systems, Rodyille
didn't want this to turn into another blood bath.
Wilkenson lay
near the edge of the building his Long las on a Tripod watching the
target through the apartment's windows with the rifle's
scope.
Latashe and Zerkas where on the ground view, Rodyille
raised his own scope to his eye and watched the pair, Latashe was
disguised as a local cafe waitress who was out on her lunch break
sitting on a stool amongst the crowd of people twenty meters down the
road was Zerkas dressed as a busker playing a local instrument (which
he'd already mastered even though all he had done since the arrival
was sleep)
"Lynn the target still in position?" Rodyille
asked Wilkenson dropping his scope and looking at the gun
specialist
"Yeep!" said Wilkenson, his eye seemed glued
to the scope "According to the crystal it's this is this guy's
day off right?"
"Yes Wilkenson" replied Rodyille
"that's why I chose him"
Wilkenson grinned "Poor
bastard"
Rodyille turned to Vex "got anything on the
fire?" he asked.
"No!" replied Vex still a little
whiny "what do you think I am a woman? you've got me doing three
things at once and I can hardly do two"
"Tch!" spat
Rodyille snatching the Vox horn from the hacker and placing it to his
ear, nothing new from the reports they still truly thought that it
was a lost battle against a rival gang.
He chucked it back onto
Vex's lap "keep monitoring!" he snapped and turned back to
the building side.
"Anything new?" he asked the
ex-guardsman.
"Nothing!" answered Wilkenson "jeez
boss could this guy be anymore boring?"
"Perk of the
job!" piped in Vex "this guy's a system's analysts in the
target and the thing that's in side there is like super top secret so
he cant lead a life, he always has to keep a low profile"
"Humph!"
grumbled Wilkenson "any 'perks'?"
"A big as frig
paycheck" replied Vex.
Wilkenson took his eye from the rifle
scope looking back at Vex "how big?" he asked.
"Would
you two shut up and get back to the job at hand! Rodyille snapped.
He
then turned back to his wrist vox "Amaraa, Zerkas I need you
closer to the target building please"
They acknowledged and
Rodyille raised his scope to his eye seeing that Latashe had melted
into the rushing crowd of people and Zerkas had plainly disappeared
they were professionals at the highest mark.
"Sorry boss"
said Wilkenson though he had nothing really to be sorry about.
"What
ever!" snapped Rodyille dropping his scope to the floor "what's
the frigging target doing now?"
"Nothin' boss just
watching his Telescreen"
Rodyille turned to Vex "when's
the target's next day off?" he asked.
"Three weeks boss"
replied Vex "but--"
"But!?" interrupted
Rodyille and Vex was finding himself not liking this new Leonard "but
what Vex!?"
"this info has only one more day before it
expires"
"Crap Vex!!" shouted Rodyille "why
the frig hadn't you told me this before?!"
Vex was as scared
as hell "I-I thought that we would be moving in with no recon
work"
"Yeah well Recon work is important Vex!"
snapped Rodyille "we only resorted to violence yesterday because
we had to!"
Then he turned to Wilkenson "has the target
moved yet?" he asked.
"No boss" answered the
ex-guardsman as much as Wilkenson enjoyed Vex getting his arse told
off but this was a bit to over the top even for such a big mistake as
this.
"Good" said Rodyille getting to his feet and
sticking his micro bead in his ear "Vex change vox channels to
the local cop com line and hack into the apartment building's
security, Wilkenson watch the target's activity post me on any
movement"
"Yes boss!" they both chorused Rodyille
was back to his normal self and both the other men felt
relieved.
Rodyille raised his wrist Vox "Amaraa" he said
in the speaker "first you go in and secure the subject; Zerkas
and I will follow your wake and back you up and secure the exit"
Both
Latashe and Zerkas acknowledge.
"Alright move out!"
14
- Espionage
Latashe maneuvered the crowd with finesse.
It was
midday and the high living district was absolutely teeming, not the
best time to act through a kidnapping but Rodyille would think of
something, he always did.
Nonchalant, Latashe turned into the
target's building meanwhile she clicked the pen in her pocket, but
that wasn't any ordinary pen, but a high tech device used in
espionage, when clicked once it sent out a signal that scrambled any
security system, it caused Surveillance cameras to replay the last
five minutes of it's recording and that wasn't the end to it, it
scrambled metal detectors and closed any local com lines.
But it
had it's weaknesses it couldn't work for more that ten minutes if
anymore it would overload and explode and after being used it took
twenty four hours for it to recharge.
A second click deactivated
it.
"Vex in a pen" Wilkenson called it and the name
fitted, in more ways than one.
Almost straight away a security
guard was on her, a big man in his late forties, almost intimidating
if he wasn't going to fat.
"Excuse me mamzel" he said
"before you can go any farther may I ask that you place any and
all metal items you have in this tray"
He held up a small
plastic container.
"Sure!" replied Latashe with forced
enthusiasm and chucked her coins and other crap she carried into
it.
The man stepped away and Latashe got a full look at the lobby,
it was surprisingly small only about fifteen meters wide, the walls
and floor made from a dull white marble.
There where only two
guards on duty the other sat next to the metal detector and the other
one from before was handing him Latashe's tray.
The first guard
turned back to her.
"Mamzel my I ask that you step through
the metal detector please" he said.
She complied and he led
physically as if she was some old woman Latashe could barely contain
her anger but she grinned and beard it (inwardly grinning of
course)
She stepped through the detector, there was no beep
despite her carrying her double bladed knifes in her jacket
sheaths.
"All clear" said the other guard handing
Latashe her tray "your free to go"
With a friendly nod,
she emptied the tray into her jacket pocket.
"Have a good
day" said the first guard.
"Oh I will" said back
Latashe as she started up the white marble staircase and she raised
her wrist vox to her mouth
"I'm in" she said.
15
- Rodyille's weakness
"I'm in" came Latashe's voice over
Rodyille's vox speaker and he silently commended her, Latashe was
certainly the espionage expert that was why Rodyille had sent her
first.
Rodyille dodged through the crowd and found Zerkas outside
the building, he had changed from his busker clothing to a far less
attention attracting Imperial civilian tunic.
Rodyille still wore
his trademark deep black storm cloak and deep black Carapace
armor.
Rodyille stepped next to Zerkas finding it hard to do so
with the rushing crowd and raised his wrist vox.
"Vex"
he whispered into the speaker "are you in the system yet?"
The
infiltration technique that Rodyille and Zerkas were resorting to was
allot less artful than Latashe's because it relied on brute force but
it guaranteed both a entrance and an exit.
"Boss do you
really need to ask?" answered Vex's voice from the speaker "but
I can only allow you a twenty minute window for everything
boss"
"More than enough time" said Rodyille with a
grin and Zerkas nodded.
"I'm going to start the program"
said Vex "you guys ready?"
"Vex we're always ready"
replied Rodyille.
"Okie dokie boss okay it's on in
five...four...three...two...One!"
Rodyille and Zerkas burst
through the door, the first security guard never knew what hit him,
well in fact it was Rodyille's foot, luckily for him Rodyille held
back or else his skull would have been crushed.
The second never
saw the blow that struck the first guard unconscious but he saw his
colleague fly through the air, getting up from his chair he drew his
Las pistol but it never discharged Rodyille was in his face to fast
and he fell, just as incapacitated as his colleague before.
Rodyille
turned to Zerkas.
"You ready?" he asked the master of
disguise.
Zerkas grinned "I'm always ready" he
replied.
Rodyille ran up the stairs and checked his wrist
Chrono nineteen minutes left, more than enough time
He got off at
the fourth flight and ran down the corridor.
Apartment four H was
the target's apartment and Rodyille found it, the door was closed and
he reached for the door knob, it was unlocked and Rodyille stepped
inside closing the door then locked it, all done in silence.
Rodyille
turned on his Micro bead and drew his silenced Auto pistol.
"Lynn
I presume that Latashe has neutralized the subject?" he
whispered in his wrist Vox.
"Confirmed boss" answered
Wilkenson.
Rodyille relaxed and stepped into the subject's living
room and there he was completely unconscious sitting on one of his
leather chairs Latashe stood over him like a Vampire.
Rodyille
holstered his Auto and nodded to Latashe "good work" he
told her.
Latashe shrugged an apathetic shrug "all in a day's
work boss" she replied.
"Well I got the--"
There
was a click as the door unlocked and then it swung open.
"Darris!?"
came a call and a kid entered the room.
He was no older than
sixteen, tall and lanky; he stopped in his tracks not a little bit
scared by the sight of a pail man wearing a black Storm coat and a
grim faced woman standing over "Darris" who was limp and
lifeless.
The kid turned and took flight.
"Crap!"
hissed Rodyille "Amaraa look after the subject I'll get the
kid!"
And he sprinted out the door.
Rodyille burst out
onto the roof and into the bright Kimos IV sun.
Rodyille had no
idea why the kid had elected to go this way and there the kid was
cowering up against the small out crop wall at the edge.
"Please,
please don't!" the kid begged.
Rodyille was frustrated,
angry, angry at his own stupidity, at how he rushed in like this
angry at Vex and how he had neglected to tell Rodyille vital
information until the last minute, Rodyille saw red and then it
happened it happened again.
Latashe came out onto the
apartment roof and saw the thing that terrified her more than
anything she ever knew before.
Rodyille stood near the edge of the
building his arm extended over the side the arm's black gloved hand
gripping the choking and suffocating kid's neck the kid's feet
kicking and dangling over the air.
"Amaraa" said
Rodyille without looking back his voice monotone.
"Rodyille!"
she cried back.
"You were not meant to see this" he
said.
"W-what the hell are you doing Rodyille?! pull him back
in!!"
"Why?" he asked voice still monotone.
"WHY!?"
she screamed at the simplicity of the question "why?!"
Then
the kid looked straight into Rodyille's face and despite the iron
grip on his wind pipe, he started to scream and scream and scream his
eyes white and wide with absolute terror.
Then Rodyille let go and
the kid fell sixteen stories screaming the whole way.
Rodyille
turned and started back to the horrified Latashe but suddenly he fell
to his knees, tears soaked his cheeks.
"Oh by the Emperor,
What have I done?!" he screamed "what have I done!?"