Hey guys. So when we last left off on this story, David and his team attempted to capture Penny in the government building in Shanghai, but Penny managed to escape with the help of Bolt and threw the team off their guard. In this chapter, David and his team will find the file that Penny looked at and attempted to leave with, and come across a startling discovery that will have them questioning, and lead to a sudden change. I want to thank everybody who has read my story for reviewing and I hope that it continues as it goes on. Enjoy the chapter, and make sure you review after you guys are finished.
Chapter 6
Time: 0925 hrs.
City: Shanghai, China
Location: Unknown Government Building
In the government building in Shanghai, a large section of the building was still flaming and in debris. David helped Lori with the other team mates who were recovering from the events that had transpired. David was still thinking about the target, who he just realized was a young girl, he didn't know why, but he had a few questions that he wanted to ask Calico once they get back. But first, he had to tell his teammates about what happened with his encounter with the target. Lori got up after helping Chao and went over to David.
"What happened over there?" Lori asked him "Did you get the target?"
"No" David replied "But I'm wondering why our boss didn't tell us about the target because I saw that she was just a girl"
"What do you mean?" asked Harry.
"I went out to stop the target from getting away" David explained "And when she turned, I saw that she was just a girl"
"What did she look like?" Klaus asked.
"She looks to be about 13 years old, short red hair, red shirt, black pants, boots, and a back pack. She looked pretty innocent"
"Why would Calico send us after a girl?" Blaze asked.
"I don't really know" David said "But it seems like there's something that he's not telling us" as he paced the floor, his boot felt something at his feet. He looked down and saw the black folder and discovered that the target dropped the file while she was trying to get away with it. He knelt down, and picked up the file, holding it up so that everybody in the room could see it.
"Well, looks like the target dropped something" Klaus said with a smirk. But there was something on it that caught Harry's eye.
"Why is there a label on it that says Calico investigation on it?" Harry asked.
"What?" David said, wondering what he meant. He turned the file to the front side, and sure enough, there was a label on the top of the file that had the words Calico investigation written on it. "What is this?" David was curious, along with Harry, Klaus, Blaze, and Chao, but Lori was the only one that wasn't as curious as the rest of the team.
"Come on boys" Lori said trying to get their attention "Let's just put the file back and tell the boss that we got the file"
"Hold on Lori" David said "We just want to take a look at this for a moment" David and the others walked over to the table and laid the file flat on the table.
"I really think that we should just leave it and go" Lori said trying to talk them out of it.
"Lori, just let us look at this file" David said to her.
"But David"
"What" David said to her "Do you know what's in this file?"
"No, of course not" Lori said to him.
"Then you'll let us look at this file" David said to her. She stood there for a minute, and decided that she shouldn't mess with her teammates.
"Alright fine" Lori said before the other teammates gathered around David, and he opened the file. Inside were things that they didn't expect. The saw blueprints of weapons they didn't know about, newspaper headlines about events in other countries that were connected to Calico's organization. It seemed surprising, but what struck them the most, were identifications of various government agents that look like targets they had taken down in the past, and physical records of each team member. David and the others instead of Lori were shocked by all of this, wondering why they didn't know about this before.
"What is all of this?" Chao said, shocked by all of this information as well as the rest of the team. David decided that now was the best time to get some answers.
"Klaus" David said "Get Calico on the line now, I've got a few questions I'd like to ask him"
"I bet we all do" Klaus replied. He got out a small device, pressed a few buttons, and started to beep before projecting Calico at his office out of the device.
"Ah, David" Calico said "Come to report have you. Was the mission a success?"
"Partially" David said "The target got away, but we have the file. I just want to ask you a few things?" Calico looked at him, but figured that he should hear him out.
"Go on" Calico replied.
"When I tried to capture the target before she escaped, I found out that she was just a girl, probably no older than anyone on my squad" David explained to him "And another thing that you didn't tell us was what was inside the file because we looked in it, and saw that there were lists of targets that we've killed, that were identified as government agents. And a file that contain the physical and mental health records of each member of this team and places that we were from that we never knew about" Calico's eyebrow went up, and felt that they had just found something that they weren't supposed to find.
"When did you find out about this?" Calico asked David.
"Just minutes ago sir" David said "What's going on here?" there was silence for a few minutes, David was waiting for answers, and Calico feared in his mind that they may start to know too much.
"Alright then, you'll get your answers soon" Calico said breaking the silence "I'll send a chopper to pick you all up and we can discuss this latter" he then pressed a button on his desk.
"Fine, we'll see you then" David said before they signed off. As soon as he did, he turned to his other team mates.
"This all feels very strange" Chao said.
"Yeah I agree" Klaus replied. David agreed to his other team mates, but he noticed that Lori wasn't there.
"Wait, where's Lori?" David said. They all looked around and saw that she wasn't where they were. Suddenly, they heard the sound of a gun cocking and stopped; they all turned around and saw that Lori was standing in front of David, with a gun pointed straight at them. David saw this, and quickly ran for cover. Lori fired her gun, and the rest of the team ran for cover in all directions. David hid behind a desk, and the rest were scattered.
"Lori what are you doing" David yelled from under his hiding spot.
"My job" Lori replied coldly.
"You're crazy" Harry called out.
"Am I?" Lori asked sarcastically "Do you all actually think that this organization is part of the US government?" David peered at her and figured that she has been hiding something for them. He hand signaled Chao to distract Lori. Then, Chao leapt out of the air duck where he was hiding, and moved across the room. While Lori started to fire her gun trying to shoot him, David snuck up behind Lori and grabbed her, taking her gun away from her hand and held it against her head.
"Alright Lori, talk" David commanded, she stood silent for a little bit, until David pressed the barrel of the gun harder against her face "TALK!" Lori took a deep breath while the other squad members came out of their hiding places and held their guns up to make sure Lori didn't try to escape. Then, she started to talk.
"Everything you all think you know about our bosses organization has all been a lie" Lori started.
"What are you talking about?" David asked wanting to know more.
"Years ago, my father found several orphans that he knew would become the perfect assassin's for his organization" Lori said to them "So he took them in and started to train all of us, teaching us, making all of you think that this organization was secret to the United States government" David and the others were slowly starting to grow more and more curious about all of this, and David started to take a hint.
"The boss is your father?" David asked quietly to her.
"Yes" Lori said "The whole thing was a ruse, everything that you've been told was all a lie so that you would all still obey him"
"So, this all being part of the government?" Harry said.
"Lie" Lori said.
"Us born to families that we were taken from after being selected to join the program?" Klaus said.
"Also a lie" Lori said again.
"What about the company, and it being a weapons contractor?" Blaze asked "Is that a lie too?"
"No" Lori said "The company is real, this organization is just a secret part of it" David and the team were so surprised by all of this, believing that everything that they have been told their entire lives has all been a lie to keep them from seeing a huge plot. Suddenly, Lori spun around and freed herself from David's grasp and now turned to face the rest of the group, who still had all of their guns trained on them.
"Why did Calico tell you all about this?" David asked her.
"Well, since I'm his daughter, he trusts me with keeping all of his secrets" she said to them "He trusted me to hide this from the rest of you while I worked with you all of these years" David and the others were all still trying to get over the shock that everything that they have been told was just a lie so that something bigger would be hidden from them.
"There's no way you're all getting out of this alive" David said to Lori.
"And why would you say that" Lori asked them sarcastically.
"Because, there's about five of us, and only one of you" Blaze said.
"Not for long" Lori said "You see, when Calico said that he would send a helicopter down here, he didn't tell you that there would be more troops coming down here for backup. So, after this, we'll see who will be the one getting out alive" David was thinking what she meant, as were the others. Soon they heard a helicopter moving towards the building, and then it went to the top of the building where the hit squad troops were deployed on the rooftops and went down the stairs to where David and the others were.
"Looks like our backup will be up soon" Lori said to them. Then, she grabbed David's arm, spinning him around and grabbing his gun, and held him by the neck with the barrel of the gun now pressed against his head. The squad members all pointed the guns at Lori, but knew that they couldn't risk killing David.
"Times up" Lori said. Suddenly, a few squads of Calico troops burst into through the doors, with their guns loaded and pointing at the area that David's team was in. David knew what was going to happen, and turned towards his squad.
"Guys, Run!" David yelled to the others to get them out, but it was too late. Automatic gunfire was heard from the other side of the room, and Blaze, Chao, Harry, and Klaus were all gunned down on the spot "NO!" David cried out as all of his squad members, the ones that he had known his whole life and worked alongside with, were all killed on the spot in a brief storm of bullets. Now he felt that he was all alone. He was deceived his whole life, his longtime friend and boss betrayed him, now he felt all alone. Lori still had David by the neck as he watched all of them die. After the bodies fell to the floor, the troops moved in to where David was and prepared to shoot him, but David acted fast and smacked the gun out of Lori's hand. He then kicked her away from him and shot down several soldiers with accurate precision. With some time to spare, he reached down and grabbed the file while he shot two more soldiers down to avoid getting hit. Then, with no other option, he ran, dodging bullets that flew towards him, as he ran across the room with all of the energy he could use. He reached the shattered window and jumped as far as he could towards the other building. Once he landed, he ran down the stairs and headed towards the alleyway so that he could avoid being detected from Lori and the others. Once he was sure that he was from far distance and alone. He slumped himself against the wall and fell to the ground sitting, getting over the shock of everything that had just happened. He had discovered that his whole life, he had been told a lie, Lori and Calico betrayed him, and his entire squad was just gunned down right in front of him. He felt anger inside of him and felt that revenge would be his, but he also needed to find out more about himself, who he really is, and where he really came from. He also knew that he had to redeem himself, but he didn't know how. He got the file out of his pocked where he hid it, and then he remembered the girl, and why she and Bolt were after the professor. He got a transmitter out, and decided that he needed to talk to the professor. He dialed a few buttons, and up popped an image of a man with brown hair and beard; he was in a dark room of some kind. The professor reacted and looked at the screen and figured someone from Calico was contacting him.
"Who is this?" The professor asked nervously.
"This is David Strider of the elite squadron" David replied.
"What do you want" The professor asked.
"I need your help" David said "I've been betrayed"
"Betrayed?" The professor replied curiously "By who" David then began to explain everything that just happened. How he and the squad was sent on the mission, how he found out what the target he was after truly looked like, what was in the file that he found, and how he was betrayed by both his second in command and Calico and watched as the rest of his squad was killed right in front of him before he escaped.
"So you've found Penny" The professor said to him.
"Is that what her name is?" David asked him.
"Yes" the professor replied.
"I need to find her" David said to him "I need her help, and you know where she went to"
"Yes, she said to me that her next stop was Istanbul, Turkey" The professor said "If you say that you need help, go find her, I'll contact you if there is anything else that I find out"
"Thank you professor" David said.
"Oh, and one more thing" The professor said to him "Please, just… Promise me that you will help her and help Bolt keep her safe"
"Yes, I promise you" David said to him.
"Thank you" the professor said to him.
"Your welcome" David said "I have to go, I don't want them to trace this call"
"Alright, good luck" The professor said before signing off. David then put the transmitter in his pocket, hid his gun and headed out onto the streets off to find Penny with one thing in mind.
"Next stop, Istanbul" David said to himself.
Phew, I'm finally done with the chapter, which I'll say is the longest one I've ever written. Sorry if my updates are a little slow. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. The next chapter will be where Penny and David finally meet in Istanbul. Please review and tell me what you think about the chapter. Oh, and I have a poll that's on my account, don't forget to go over there and vote. See you later.