Death is only Yesterday
Chapter: 3
Part.2 Rise Of The Commodore
Mars archive facility
They have just arrived inside the facility and met up with Liara D'soni the Asari and old friend to both Ashely and Shepard. They have already encountered Cerberus armored troops on the outside and they don't know how many more on the inside.
"How long Cerberus had been here" asked Bond
"Not long" said Liara "I was in the archives to retrieve the new data when they stuck and I was forced to flee"
"Cerberus must have the same idea to defeat the Reapers" said Shepard "We should be on the same side"
"Do not be so foolish to believe that Shepard" said Bond "People like Jack Harper the Illusive man only care about power, people like him always crave power and it was that very reason he wanted the human-reaper, when you went your suicide mission"
"Yeah, but still" said Shepard
"Men like him claim to be humanity's savior's in their narrowed vision" said Bond "The true agenda is to be their conquers and control their enemies"
"Like the Reapers" said Ashely
"Indeed" said Bond
"I get it now" said Shepard "So Harper's true agenda is to control the Reapers"
"It makes sense" said Liara
"So how long you two have been contact" said Shepard
"For some time now in secret" said Bond "Considering she is the new shadow broker"
"I always heard rumors of a uh... what is the human word" said Liara "Boogyman hidden inside alliance leadership, but never believed it"
"I recently learned this less than an hour ago" said Shepard "Can you continue your story of how you became the Commodore."
'I certainly can on the fly" said Bond "Well let's see, two years later after the Prothen cache discovered on Mars, and technology near Io as well."
"The alliance was formed" said Shepard "Everybody knows that"
"True, but what you don't know that there was a Prime Ministers debate on who would lead the alliance and a council as well" said Bond "Many candidates including Jack Harper's father, I had a feeling about his dark ambitions."
"Guess it was part of your job to gather intelligence on people and expose them for what they are" said Shepard
"Just like those old spy movies" said Ashely "Including the likes Austin Powers""
"You can say that" said Bond "And his movies made a mockery out of real spies."
"Right" said Ashely
"It's a life time of experience under my belt" said Bond "At the final debate before the vote for the first prime minister of the alliance, he didn't show up, claiming he had the flu"
"A lie no less" said Shepard
"Of course and I presented evidence in secret" said Bond "To law enforcement and the debate was attacked, but it was all a rush to draw the enemy out"
"And the attackers were killed" said Shepard "Right"
"Yes" nodded Bond "Jaden Harper fled from his corporat headquarters and no one knew where he went, but I knew where he was going and at the time the son was not with him nor the wife"
"Where did he go to?" asked Shepard
"A small island he owned in Caribbean" said Bond "And this where I come in"
Caribbean Island 2149 midnight
A stealth plane gets close to the island and the hatch opened up. James felt a cool breeze blow through his hair and leaped out. After that he parachutes down to the beach in the cover of night and is wearing black operations gear.
Tossing the parachute aside, he put upon his eyes new night vision contact lenses and James knows where the target is, deeper in the jungle of the island in a small mansion. A lone guard is patrolling the beach and then a knife is thrown.
The knife lodged in the neck of the armed guard and struggles to stay alive, but James quickly dispatch him in an instant. He still had the edge like always and he heard a person the radio wanted a status report.
Using a disguise like voice he told the person all clear. Then after that he heads into the jungle, using the cover of night and his super spy skills to keep quiet. He then climbed a tree to get a vantage point to use the high ground.
Discovering a trail that will lead to the mansion he spots to guards walking the trail and do not notice his presence. They stand under him talking about this and that, James jumped down on top of them. Knocking them out quickly with a bone chilling like sound.
He ties them up and disposes the bodies in the bushes, then moving through the jungle brush he got closer and closer. Then hiding behind a large rock he sees the entrance to the mansion compound and it was small with some guards.
He figured he will be well guarded on the inside, it's a beautiful night and he spotted a balcony to stand on at the top floor of the mansion. So maybe Jaden Harper might stand on the balcony. Quietly he assembles a sniper rifle with a silencer attachment.
A single light is on at the balcony and James watched through the scope and waited, he could of done the old fashioned way to simply attack the place head on, no he will use a different tactic. Then Jaden Harper steps out into the balcony.
Through the scope James can see the man drinking a glass of wine, not hesitating for a second and pulled back upon the trigger. Then he fired, the bullet made no sound and passed through the skull of Jaden Harper.
Blood splattered and a sickening scream, his body falls off the balcony to the ground below. He can see through the scope the guards rushed to see the body of the man.
"This is shadow night" said Bond "To speak easy the target is neutralized, you may lunched clean up crew now"
Copy that shadow night, clean-up crew in bound in five and pick-up as well
"Understood, I'm on my way" said Bond
Mars archive facility
Shepard and the others were battling Cerberus armored troops in a long hallway and it was a tight quarters fight, some troops tried to run away. James quickly dispatched them and they noticed these troops were no longer fully human.
Along the way James had been telling the story how he took down Jaden Harper the father of Jack Harper the Illusive Man, the leader of. Cerberus and his actions impressed them.
"So what happened after that" said Shepard
"The whole incident was deemed classified," said Bond "To the history books and Harper Industries was dissolved. Then the vote came and the 1st prime minister was named."
"Lawrence Churchill" said Shepard "I read the history books as a kid*
"The great grandson in Winston Churchill" said Bond "A friend mine arraigned for me to be the secret leader of the Alliance codenamed Commodore and humanity was at peace with ones self"
"Damn," said Ashely "You really know how to take a person down"
"It's nothing new to me" said Bond
"Looks like more Cerberus troops" said Liara
"We can take them' said Ashely
"I almost feel sorry for the poor saps, working for Cerberus" said Shepard
"Consider this their going away gift" said Bond "Shall we continue"
All three of them nod, go on the attack joining James to strike upon them.
To be continued?