Chapter 4- Crash and Burn, Part 1
"Well if there are no questions, I shall be taking my leave, oh by the way son," he said as he looked at Zamfir "your belongings were already moved before your flight here, you will find a suitcase in your room with everything you need, and by the way, I've left a little present down for you in the basement below, how about when you're finished with everything up here you go and check it out," and with that statement he left. When the door slammed shut, an ominous and uneasy silence filled the room, as the three sat there, seemingly trying to think of something to say, it was somehow ironic that it took the meow on the cat to break the tension.
After clearing her throat, Ava began, "Well as he said, this is merely an investigative assignment, however, because of the circumstances surrounding the bureaucrat it was deemed necessary to send us instead of the normal folk, so expect the unexpected...."
"You don't need to tell me how to do my job, I was working quite well before I met you," Zam snapped
"I am sure you were working quite well alone before you met us, that's why we are babysitting you now I take it," she replied calmly. After a brief moment of exchanging looks with each other, Kensei who had been quite silent for most of the evening, got up, and walked towards Zamfir.
"My name....is X, call....me Kensei, nice to meet....you," he stuttered out, then disappeared through the door at the rear of the room. Zam stood there for a while bewildered for a second, then got up to follow him, Ava did the same.
"Don't worry about him, for as long as I knew him, he wasn't much of a talker" Ava told him as she walked down a narrow hallway leading to 3 doors, "the farthest on the left if yours, then it's me after and Kensei's last. Oh and by the way, I'm not ecstatic either about you being here, but the syndicate was never known for doing things we want so jus live with it, when you're finished unpacking, follow the hallway to some stairs and meet us in the basement."
Zamfir opened the door, and immediately smelt the odour of fresh paint oozing out of the room. The walls were a ghostly white colour, dotted with a few spots of paint which had not dried as yet. In the corner far to his left laid a small bookshelf which was filled with old English texts covered in multiple layers of dust. The bed however was well made with clean, white sheets and on it laid 2 small suitcases, and one large one. One of the small suitcases contained some of his clothes, while the other had various amounts of important world currencies; it also contained several passports and driver ids. After changing his clothes he opened the large suitcase and gave a smile of approval, as he found what he was looking for, his equipment.
In it he found one custom made sniper rifle, 2 high-powered shotguns, a few semi-automatics, couple assault rifles, and plenty of ammunition need for them. Under all of that, he found a small bag which contains the 2 hi-powered Brownings he used on a normal basis. After making a quick check to see if everything he wanted was there, he outfitted himself with the 2 guns, and made his way toward the basement. When he got down below, he noticed Ava and Kensei, who had already changed, standing next to what seemed to be a car. However since the vehicle was in the dark of the already dim lighted room, he could not quiet tell what it was until Ava moved aside abit and turn on more lights. Standing in the middle of the room, was a 1976, custom built, black dodge charger. He recognized it, because it was the same car he was working on 2 years back while he was on a job in Virginia. When the job finished however, he completely lost track of the car, since a few issues had turn up on the assignment which forced him to move out sooner than he expected.
"Blake told us you would know what to do with it, and since he did not give us the keys, I assume you already posse them," Ava said. He reached into his jacket and pulled out a set of keys he remembered being given to by the air hostess earlier in the day. He pushed in one of the keys and turned the lock, pulled open the door, and sat down inside the lush, beige, leather interior of the vehicle. He gripped the stirring wheel and noticed even though Blake had finished up the work that was started on restoring the car, it still retained its old feel.
"So this is his way of paying me for this assignment, well, he does know which strings to pull that old man" he then said, "so when do we leave Miss Dagmar?"
"In 20 minutes were scheduled to depart, so I suggest we go and change into more suitable clothing, Zam, Blake said you can find your work clothes in the trunk, and that's it's ok to go wild with the car, or something like that." She replied
Zamfir then smiled to himself then smacked the hood of the car saying "Well, time to see how much rubber this baby can really burn."