Chapter 5: First Mission
"Nervous?"
Violet sighed, then nodded. "Yeah, a bit".
Mist just chuckled. "Don't worry" he said. "I was nervous on my first agent mission too" he admitted. "But this is going to be easy, so just relax and think about the roasted turkey waiting back at the base" Mist assured her, another chuckle escaping his lips.
Violet just rolled her eyes as they waited for the last bits of the sun's rays to disappear behind the Russian hills. For a veteran field agent, Mist sure was a care free guy.
"Finally" he said as the sun at last disappeared completely. He stretched, then cracked his knuckles. "Alright, let's get this over with" he stated and then began walking down from the treeline they had been hiding in.
The Agency had sent Mist, their best hand to hand instructor other then Master Mawr, and a knife collector, and Violet out to a Russian military base near Moscow, which had a file that the US government wanted, supposedly the file had something to do with a possible nuclear attack. Or so Violet had heard.
The base was located in the middle of a hilly region, with trees and large ponds and swamps scattered around the area. The base was only three stories high, but it had some impressive security. Motion tracker turrets and infrared cameras, along with a entire Spetsnaz company, two hundred men strong, all very much elite and very well armed.
However nothing could prepare them for a pair of supers. Now that the sun was down and the morning guards were about to switch with the night guards. About halfway down the hill closest to the base, spotlights swishing near them, they stopped. Mist closed his eyes and began concentrating and a thick mist began to grow around the hills, keeping the Spetsnaz troops from seeing more then two feet past their own two feet.
Violet immediately summoned a shield, making it large enough for Mist to squeeze in. One of the things she had learned back at the training school was that any power could have more then just the obvious meaning. And this was proof of that. While her shields could keep out pretty much any type of weapon or other danger, it also deflected the Infrared and motion trackers as long as she and Mist were invisible, which she only had to be touching his sleeve to do so. Effectively, unless the guards were using radar, they were completely invisible to the naked and computerized eye.
After they got to the compound, it was a simple climb up a ten foot steel wire wall, easy compared to the thirty to fifty foot climbs they had put the recruits through back at the training base, showing that Shade had been right about preparing them for something like this. Once they were over the wall, they split up and while Mist took an access hatch, Violet headed off towards the command room, to make sure they weren't detected and to shut off all the defense and security measures, as well as the power. Both she and Mist were equipped with night vision goggles, so this action would only hamper the guards as they tried to figure out what was going on.
Sneaking into a high grade military outpost was actually a lot easier on the inside, since they put most of their security on the outside, and only basic stuff on the inside. Then again, Russia hadn't been attacked in years, why would they have to fear a attack on a base that only a handful of people knew of and even less knew what it was for?
Violet figured that had to be the case, and opened the vent hatch, exiting the vent that had allowed her to bypass the high security door, and the pair of guards standing on either side of it.
Still invisible, Violet moved down the hall she had entered ad turned a corner, just as a soldier did. They collided and the man began looking around, surprised, only to get a hard punch to the face and then crashing into the wall, neutralized and out cold. Moving the guard into a nearby closet, Violet continued down the way she had been going and found the double doors that led into the command room, and the pair of guards standing before it. Suddenly a thought came to her and she reached into one of her pouches.
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Petrov Gerasimov and his fellow guard, Vladislav Sidorov, stood before the control room of their outpost, diligently standing guard, and waiting for the night guards to finally show up, so they could go back to their bunk room and play cards with the other day guards before heading off for bed.
Suddenly he heard a faint ruffling of feet down the hall to his left and he turned and stared down it. "Hello?" he called. More shuffling. "Hello?" he said again as he and Vladislav drew their guns slowly. "Is that you Misha?" he called, then he saw a coin appear out of thin air and land near him. "Huh?" he said aloud and bent down to pick it up.
Inspecting it, he found it to be nothing more then a normal American coin. But why and how did it show up here? "Vladislav, what do you make of this?" he asked as he turned around to face his partner, only to find thin air. "Vladislav?" he called. Something tapped him on the shoulder. "This better not be another one of your pr-" he said as he turned around, only for his face to meet a black glove.
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Violet watched the guard crash to the ground with a thud as she hit him in the face, then picked up her discarded quarter and tied the man with some rope, before stuffing him into a shadowy corner.
Taking a calming breath, Violet palmed the door controls and watched the doors slide open. Inside was a small half circular room with a double row of monitors in the wall above a curving desk with keyboards on it, four technicians were busy at work and didn't even realize what was going on until Violet had knocked out two of their number. The last two drew pistols, but she had already knocked the first out and the second jumped out of his chair and ran for it, only for the super to trip him and send the technician to the ground, banging his head into the now closed door.
Leaving the techs in their seats, and the one on the ground, alone, Violet slid into the only unoccupied seat and began flipping through the cameras and floor plan. She then began shutting down the security, then stopped on the power to everything but the computer room they had to get to. Violet then moved her hand to the mic control tucked behind her ear and raven-purple colored hair.
"Mist?" She whispered.
"Line's clear for the moment. Go" his calm voice said over the com line.
"Cutting the power in three...two...one..." Violet informed him, then pressed the command button and all her cameras switched to infrared as the power shut off. She then disabled all other security measures, then initiated the kill code for the base and it's hard drives, after downloading all she could fit onto her small data drive. "I'll meet you at the computer room" she said, then shut off her com.
Moving towards the door, she made sure all four men were tied up and gagged, then opened the door and moved the two guards inside, before changing the door to locked and setting a new code. That done, she closed the door once more and changed to being invisible again and began moving down the hall, heading towards a staircase that would lead her to the bottom floor.
Reaching the metal door, she used her energy cutter to slice the lock, then opened it and started moving down the block like stairs that were common in schools, churches and pretty much any building that was above two floors. Reaching the bottom, she cut the lock and slid it open and entered the hall, just as Mist removed his favored knife, a double bladed curved edge blade with a twisted handle with a skeleton head with red rubies for eyes on the end of the hilt, from the corpse of a dead spetsnaz guard.
Seeing her stare, he opened his mouth. "What?" he asked.
Violet just shook her head and moved towards the only door that had light, illuminating the door in the dark hall. She cut the lock just like she had done with the other two doors and then moved inside, letting Mist in as well, who shut the door. She then moved towards the computer and turned it on, then started working on the infiltrator software. Each agent was taught how to use the software, which could break nearly every military and civilian grade computer defense software known to man back at the training school, and it was a good thing too, because she wouldn't have been able to do this a year ago.
Letting out a mental victory cry as she broke through the defensive firewalls and counter hacking measures, she began looting the now vulnerable files, finding the one she was supposed to download, labeled NIC. She dumped the file, and anything else that looked important into her data stick and then backed out of the computer, initiated the kill code, and then pulled out her silenced pistol and fired it at the computer and hard drive, making sure they never learned about the hack and stolen data. She had no problem shooting computers.
Just as she and Mist were ready to get the heck out of there, the lights shot on and an alarm blared. "What's going on?" Mist hissed at her.
Before she could answer, the door swung open and a figure stood there in a duster, their face and gender hidden by the bright light streaming into the computer room.
Mist must have recognized them however. "YOU?" he shouted in confusion, only for the figure to raise it's pistol and fire the gun three times, hitting Mist in the chest.
"NO!" Violet shouted and blasted the man out with a force field, slamming the door as well, just as the shot aimed at her went wild and hit the roof above her, plaster raining down slightly as she ran towards a wounded Mist. "Mist!" she said, trying to check for a pulse.
His mouth was moving, trying to form words, but the blood leaking out was keeping him from saying it. Fighting harder, he swallowed what sounded like a lot of blood, then spoke. "The..Agency...Tell...Tell..." he tried to speak, but the blood was returning.
Violet nodded. "I Will. I'll tell the Agency" she assured him, watching as his eyes closed.
"No..." the man whispered, but the rest of his words died in his throat as his eyes froze up and his jaw loosened, his fists unclenched and his chest stopped falling and rising.
Seconds later the door blew open and the figure returned, only to find a dead Mist and a empty room, the back corner of roof's plaster coverings hanging down.
