Chapter 18: Snake Without a Tongue
The Lagoon Company's car was speeding down the road to escape from the killer maid that was directly on their tail. Benny did everything he could to shake the killer maid off but she was not giving up.
Roberta proceeded to jump on top of the hood of the car and started to claw her way into it. "Dammit why the fuck won't she die already!?" exclaimed Dutch. Rock, to slow her down grabbed his gun and said, "Fuck this… not again" He stuck his body out of the window and shot at the maid.
Roberta easily dodged out of the way of the bullets and kept hanging on. Rock eventually ran out of bullets but Benny had drove into the port of Roanopur. They drove into the cargo bay and Benny kicked the brakes.
The car lurched to a stop, flinging the maid into a container. The crew took a breath of relief but not before Rock said, "I wouldn't relax just yet… look" he pointed towards the container. To their horror, they saw the maid plainly detach herself and land on her feet. "Son of a bitch what is she made of" screamed Benny in fear.
"(GROAN) What the hell" said Revy groggily. "Revy your awake, that's good cause we need you right now" said Dutch. "Is that bitch in glasses still alive" asked Revy. "You're in luck there she is" said Benny while pointing to the maid.
"That's fucking great" said Revy while getting out of the car. "You know I'm gonna enjoy this" she said while taking out her cutlasses. The two killer woman stared each other down and proceeded to aim their guns and shoot at each other. Neither landing a hit while they both ran into the darkness of the container stacks. "Roberta…" whispered Garcia.
From the distance, the men could see the sound of gunfire and muzzle flashes. "Rock… when that maid was chasing us… she said something… 'La Serpiente sin Lengua' what did she say" asked Dutch. "It's Spanish… it means… The Snake… Without a Tongue…" explained Rock.
Both Revy and Roberta had taken cover and reloaded their weapons, Revy had been shot but not wounded. "Just what the fuck is your problem… your no ordinary cleaner bitch that's for sure… so what's your story" said Revy. Roberta remained quiet but she was deep in thought. "Since the day I came to the young master's home I vowed to never pull another trigger… I can never return now" whispered Roberta.
The two gun-toting women came out of cover and once more started shooting. They dodged through the air while taking careful aim at one another. They both landed on the ground and just when they were about to pull their triggers… the lights came on.
The group immediately saw military personnel that had their rifles trained on them. Then, to the group's surprise they see none other than… Balalaika.
She walks over to the two women and tells them that there is no need to fight anymore. The Russian gunmen shoot the women's guns out of their hands and Balalaika begins to speak. "My what would the Bloodhound be doing shooting up my city" wondered Balalaika. "Huh… Bloodhound…" asked Garcia. "Oh they didn't tell you well let me be the first to clue you in…" said Balalaika, but Roberta tried to shut her up, and the Russian woman put her gun to her head.
Balalaika then went on to say how Roberta was really, Rosarita Cisneros, the Bloodhound of Florencia. She stated that she was trained as a Cuban assassin and got her name from the unnerving drive to kill her target.
Roberta went on to confirm everything to Garcia, even all the international crimes she had committed and how she left her FARC regime when she found out that they were nothing more than a bunch of drug-dealing racketeers.
"But what I want to know is… what is that Delta Force operative doing here" asked Roberta while pointing at Rock. Everyone trained their eyes on him and asked him questions. "Delta Force… well that certainly is a surprise Rock… no wonder you're so good with military tactics" said Balalaika. "Why would you employ him… he will be the death of you all… a snake without a tongue" asked Roberta.
"Rock… how do you know this woman… and how would a Delta Force operative know a hardcore terrorist like her" said Balalaika while she demanded an answer. Rock just nonchalantly lit a cigarette, and everybody paid attention when he gave his answer:
"It was 1992, I'd been with Delta Force for almost 2 years then. I was on a government sanctioned blacktops mission in Bolivia. We were supposed to find this drug-trafficker and bring him in… but what the country didn't know… was that he was a part of Fidel Castro's regime."
"We were flown in and repelled into the jungle mountains and find his base of operations. Little did we know that he hired some muscle... A couple of FARC guerillas…"
~Flashback~
A chopper was flying over the jungles of Bolivia. Inside the chopper was, Rock and some Delta operators. They had hovered over a clearing and repelled down. Once they were on the ground they proceeded to go into the jungle and find their target.
After hours of searching they came up on a hill and found what they were looking for. "First Sergeant… take a look" said an operator while handing Rock the binoculars. Rock looked through them and saw a small camp with a massive coca field behind it.
"Alright listen up men… Sawyer and Broth, you two circle around to the west side while me and Crater take the east… I want light and noise discipline… hand signals only, alright move out men" ordered Rock. The two men did as they were told and Rock and his companion came to the east side. They saw the other two soldiers stealthily make it to the other side.
Rock used his comms and said, "Alright Broth… it's your call." The soldier called Broth quickly took aim, and the other three operatives id the same. Broth fired the first shot and soon followed a barrage of bullets from all the operatives.
When the smoked settled the Delta operatives met in front of a building in the center of the camp. When they opened the door, they saw that their target… had been shot. It was then that Sawyer was shot and killed by an unseen enemy.
"Shit… take cover" ordered Rock. "Who else is here, how the fuck did we miss them" said Rock. When Broth stuck hi out of cover, he got stabbed in the neck by an enemy and quickly died. Soon followed Crater with a shot to the head.
Soon it was only Rock.