Hello there fellow readers, I hope you guys have waited patiently, because here is the next chapter for "Shadow of Vengeance". In this chapter, David will introduce himself to Penny, explain why he is helping her, and how both decide to plan their next move. It has taken me a while to get these updates in because I have been thinking about other Idea's lately. But I promise you that I will continue to work on this story until it's done. I hope you guys enjoy it, and make sure you leave some reviews when you're done.

Chapter 8

Time: 0200 hrs.
Country/City: Istanbul, Turkey
Location: Unknown apartment

The afternoon sun shined bright in the city, and the streets were still busy. At a nearby apartment, David had gotten Penny and Bolt to a safe place on the top of the roofs and knew that it was time they figured out what was going on. He was taking the silencer off of his gun, and placing it in his bag, he got up and went over to Penny, who got up, while Bolt growled a little bit, not sure if he could trust this guy.

"Do you need help with anything?" David asked her.

"No, I'm fine" Penny replied.

"I almost forgot to introduce myself" David said holding out his hand "My name's David" Penny slowly raised her hand and shook his.

"Penny" she said softly.

"I know who you are" David said to her "You look nervous"

"Of course I am" Penny said "You were with that squad that attacked me and Bolt in that building in Shanghai, and I saw that tattoo on the back of your neck, you're an agent of Calico"

"I was" David said with his head down "But not anymore". After he said that, Penny felt confused, and curious at the same time, why wasn't he with Calico any more, what happened to the others, and why was he helping her?

"What do you mean?" Penny asked quietly. David lifted his head up and looked at her. He then decided that it was time that she knew who he was and what happened to him. So he told him everything about his life, how he was found as an infant, had been trained with other to become the perfect assassin, and how he was betrayed by Calico, his second in command and friend sold him out, while the others were gunned down right in front of him. After David was finished telling his story, Penny felt both amazed and sorry for what he's been through.

"Whoa" Penny simply said. She was surprised that he had been through so much his whole life and what had happened to him recently. Most of Calico's assets would end up dead or betrayed, but she didn't know that it would be a boy her age with the skills of a mercenary. "Well then, why are you helping me?"

"I made a promise to the professor to help Bolt keep you safe" David replied "Which reminds me, why are you after him"

"Because, he's my dad" Penny replied "He was kidnapped a year ago by Calico so that he could work on something for them, but not until he gave Bolt all of his powers so that he would protect me" David was surprised, Calico had never told him that the professor had a daughter, it seemed like there was a lot more things that Calico had not told him that he needed to find out for himself. After thinking for a few seconds, an Idea popped into his head.

"Ok then, how about I'll make a deal with you" David said "If you can help me find out more about who I am and where I came from, I'll help you get your father" Penny was hesitant at first, but figured that his skills could be helpful.

"Alright" Penny said taking David's hand and shaking it "Deal, I guess I could use a little help from someone like you"

"Yeah" David said "Plus there are some personal issues that I'd like to take care of" suddenly, he remembered that the tracking deice was still in Penny's backpack. He went over to where Penny's backpack was, and pulled out the tracking device. He threw it on the ground and destroyed it with the bottom of his boot.

"What was that?" Penny said.

"Tracking device" David said to her "While you were in Shanghai, one of our inside men placed a tracking device in your backpack, I'm just getting rid of it so that they won't be able to find us" Suddenly, his transmitter was beeping and knew that the professor has some new information that they would need.

"Who's calling?" Penny asked.

"It's your dad" David said to her "He said that he would contact me in case he had any information that would be helpful to us"

"Put him on" Penny said anxiously. He laid out the transmitter on a crate that was near them and David pressed a button that soon projected an image of the professor in his lab.

"Hello David" The professor said to him.

"Hey professor" David said "Before you tell me what you've found, I have someone that want's to say hi to you" he turned to the side and let Penny go to the screen to see her father.

"Daddy" Penny said, happy to see her father.

"Penny" The professor said relieved to see his daughter.

"Are you ok" Penny said.

"I'm fine" the professor said to Penny to relieve her "Are you and Bolt ok?"

"Yeah, we're fine" Penny said to her dad "We're lucky that David found us"

"Good" the professor said "I'm glad he was able to find you in time"

"Alright professor" David said "What have you got for us?"

"Well, I was able to find something that may be useful" the professor said to David "Over the years, Calico has been shipping large weapon caches that.

"What does this have to do with Calico?" Penny asked her father.

"Well, he made a phone call last night to a Russian gangster named Zukovsky; looking for an EMP hardened helicopter" The Professor said to them "He's one of Calico's best weapons dealers"

"Where can we find him?" Penny asked him.

"He operates outside of a nightclub in Moscow" the professor said to them. Then, a digital image of a map of Moscow that led to Zukofsky's night club appeared on the screen as he continued "I don't know what Zukovsky looks like, but the only physical characteristic that I could find, is a terrible scar across his right cheek" an image of a man with his face looking away appeared, and the scar was being shown.

"This Zukofsky" David said "First name Valentine?"

"Yes" the professor said "How do you know?"

"I gave him the scar" David replied. He never forgot that mission that he and his team took on in the past, when they were hired to capture Zukofsky after a deal had gone wrong. When they had him in his prison cell, David was ordered by Calico to leave a cut in Zukofsky's face as a warning if he failed him again.

"Alright, I've got to go" The professor said "Good luck" he signed off and the screen went off. David threw his bag on his shoulders and then looked at Penny.

"Looks like we're partners now" David said to her. He held out his hand so that it would be official, Penny took out her hand and shook it.

"Yeah, I guess we are" Penny said with a smile.

"Alright then" David said "Come on, we're going to Moscow" so they both grabbed their gear, Penny whistled for Bolt, and they went off to their next destination. Meanwhile, in a room on the other side of the street a group of men were spying on them and taking a few snapshots of the two as they left. One of the guys turned to a man who was right behind them, he was wearing a white collar t-shirt and brown pants.

"They just left" one of the guys said to the man "Should we grab them now?"

"No" the man said to them "Let's just follow their steps, and see where they will go first"

Alright, it's the end of the chapter; David and Penny are partners now and are heading to their next destination. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and I'll let you in on a little spoiler alert, those men at the end are not with Calico, who the man is I'll reveal later on. Anyway, PLEEEEAAAASSSEEE review and I will update soon, Bye.