"Zeref? You mean that terrorist guy?" Natsu was looking at the screens that had pictures of the dangerous man pulled up on them. Cold black eyes stared out from shaggy black hair. Most of the pictures he was wearing a business suit and wasn't smiling in any of them except for the ones where he was shaking somebodies hand.
"Who cares about that?! Did you say the United Nations?!"
"Yes I did Levy. It seems that Zeref, only the Lord knows why that's the name he uses, has finally over stepped his boundary." The screen flickered to show a close up of Zeref standing beside an asian man with a North Korean flag on his military hat.
"He's been selling to the wrong countries for to long. At first it was simple things; food, guns, ammo, stuff like that. Then it got a little more complicated." An aerial shot of a coastal city showed something very large and very bomb-like being loaded off of a boat. "This is the town of Singchang in North Korea. I'm sure you can guess what that is."
"Trouble is what it is. So if they know that he's selling nukes to them why doesn't the UN or NATO or somebody go after him instead?" Natsu was staring at the screens with serious concern, his eyebrows furrowed in concentration.
"They can't technically touch him. He lives in Hong Kong most of the time and China won't let anybody touch him cause he's so good for business." Laxus was talking and pulling up more pictures now. "They tried some other companies while they were at it. Apparently Pegasus in Australia laughed at them, the Mermaids hung up the call and Sabretooth used words that rival Cana's vocabulary during a drinking contest. Needless to say we're the last resort and being completely fucking insane we said yes."
"So why do we need two teams then? I mean if it's the UN asking us I'm assuming they're willing to let us get into any countries we need to legally and all that. It should be a pretty simple mission at that point right? Plant a couple of explosives on a chopper, snipe him through a car window, something like that?" Lucy had sat back in her chair and was playing with one of the buttons on her green done up shirt.
"Well we don't want to take the chance. Especially with these guys. You two may be good with explosives and locks but ShadowGear is our close-range gropu. This guy is highly trained in about three different martial arts and to be perfctly honest Natsu, even though you've been training, if he gets close enough to you you're both dead. End of story. Which is why-" The door swung open again.
"I'm sorry Boss, I was taking a shower." Erza sat down beside Lucy.
"No problem. Which is Erza will also be joining you. Now I know this seems like an excessive amount of people but it's for your own good. I want this going perfectly. Laxus? Fill them in the rest please." Makarov promptly got off his stool and strode from the room, closing the door behind him.
"Alright bitches listen up." The tech manager adjusted his white muscle shirt which made the welding goggles that sat around his neck twitch abnormally.
"Zeref isn't his actual name but to be perfectly honest nobody knows what his real name is. They guy is about fourty-something and was married with a kid. His wife got kidnapped though and the guys who kidnapped her, Mongolian extremists, tried to force him to pay fifty million dollars cash to geet her back. Well he did end up paying the money, except instead of cash it was in high grade explosives. Wiped out the whole fucking town and everybody in it including his wife." Laxus' fingers flew across the tablet and the pictures on the walls changed to him holding hands with a girl who didn't look any older than twelve. Her hazel brown eyes shone in the sunlight as she walked down the tarmac away from a jet, her black/blue pigtails bouncing around her head and her left hand held by her fathers right.
"This is Wendy, his daughter. She's about twelve-years-old now and really has no clue about what her dad does. At her age though I don't think exposing it to her is right but hey, what can you do right? Anyways she is defintely not part of this hit. If you can't take him out without taking her out as well then you don't take her out. This week the two are travelling to Calgary, Albert up in Canada where Zeref has some kind of business deal going on involving the partial ownership of an oil company. At the same time as that though, the city is hosting its annual Stampede. Think Dallas' rodeo except less about livestock and much more fair and rodeo with the whole city getting into it. Literally two weeks of concerts, rodeos, drinking and partying so you can bet that his daughter is gonna want to go to this at least once in the week they're there."
"Canada has agreed to allow you access to the airport and anything else that you need while he's there for the week. Now of course they can't oficially help you and if you get caught they will prosecute you the same as any other country would. So you know, the usual, except this time you'll technically be in the country legally." Laxus grinned at the others around the table.
"So what do you think we should do then?" Erza was studying a map of the city that had been brought up on the table in front of them.
"Well that's really your decision but if I was you I would scout them out for the week. Take in a little bit of the rodeo and the sights while your there, I here Banff is nice during the summer, and at the very end of it all blow the mother fucker sky high when he leaves in his private jet. But, if you uget the chance, you can always decide to take him out in his hotel. Supposedly the Canadians have somebody who will meet you there and get you all set up with either of those two options. If you choose the first one great but if it comes down to the second one, well, be careful, we don't want another Lisanna on our hands." The statement left the room dead quiet before Erza moved the conversation forward.
"What about his daughter?"
"She has to leave two days prior to his departure back to Hong Kong." Erza nodded.
"Right! I like Laxus' plan so let's go with that. We can get into the country, scout Zeref, follow him for the week and then blow him up." Lucy's plan recieved approving nods from around the table.
"That's all fine and dandy but I've got one more thing for you to deal with, his bodyguards. They call themelves the Oracion Seis and let me be the first on record to say I ain't fuckin dealing with them; though that's mostly cause I don't have any info on them. As much as I can tell these are hand picked bodyguards and they are loyal to the extreme and that makes them particularly dangerous, hence the extra people for this mission." Laxus flicked his tablet and the TV's turned off.
"You guys need to complete this mission. The reputation of the Fairies and the safety of them rests on this as well. If you fail, he'll find out on his own who tried to do it and that's gonna put a lot of people in danger. You leave in thirteen hours; don't be late."
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