One Week Later, Paris France

"Lord Davies is a very meticulous man," Shinji remembered M telling him at the mission briefing, "he likes to do things at the same time and with the same people. You can make the case that he replays the same year every year. There is some medical data to back that up, suffered some blunt force trauma when he was 26, and some mental trauma when his father died later on that year. Recruited into SEELE in 1999, ascended to one of the twelve pillars very quickly by taking control of their criminal arm, Quantum."

"The very same Quantum that you ordered 007 to stop pursuing because he kept killing everyone," Shinji asked.

"The very same. I'll be putting 008 on Quantum while you go after the main part of SEELE."

Taking a look at the seemingly abandoned building across the street from his hotel room, Shinji took out a pair of thermal goggles to scan the building. The building was lead lined, so there was a problem for his x-ray goggles that he carried with him in his mission load out.

Speaking into his radio, Shinji spoke saying, "White Knight to White Rouge, do you copy?"

He heard Bill Tanner on the other end of the line, saying, "White Rouge here. What is your status White Knight?"

"The building is lead lined, White Rouge. Thermals are working properly. I spot three guards on the top floor along with a man sitting alone in a corner office. On the lower floors, there are people who appear to do some office tasks. Oh, bloody hell, I've been spotted. I have to abort."

"White Knight," M spoke over the line, "What is your situation?"

"AP sensors picked up footsteps just outside the elevator on this level. I may have to use the fire escape to get out," Shinji spoke as he got his PPK-L out, ready for a fight, "You have a leak somewhere, find it before I end it."

"Understood, Ikari."

Taking the time to barricade a door to his room, Shinji sneaks around to the other entrance to defend it with his life.

Suddenly the door kicked in with force as the gunmen on the other side start firing their weapons at him. Shinji, being smart with his return fire, fired back at the gunmen, killing two before the rest rushed through the door to surround him.

Knowing he was beat, Shinji disassembled his PPK-L before putting his hands up. Suddenly, a woman walked through the bloody corpses with a gun of her own. Yet, the only comforting thing to Shinji was that gun fired tranquilizer darts, or a .500 caliber round pistol round, either way, it would put him away for a very long time.

"Shinji Ikari, agent of MI-6, am I right," the woman asked. Both knew the answer already as she fired a dart from her gun. "Sleep tight," she said as her men dragged Shinji from the room.

Author Notes and ramblings

My apologies for cutting this short, but I needed this as a proper chapter break as I have seemed to have written myself into a corner. No worries, I will work myself out of this mess later.

It also appears that the site is rolling out image covers for the site. This is nice feature for those who are graphically talented. I will make full use of the feature in my stories in the future.

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