text: 's knife. Sharon twists the knife-armed henchman, breaking his hand. The baseball bat-wielding man strikes again, but his bat is hold by her left hand. She does a sweeping kick, causing both opponents to fall into the ground. She stomps the bat-wielding guy, and he grunts in pain. The knife recovers and uses his left hand to attack her instead. He swings his knife, which is easily evaded by his opponent. He follows up with a thrust, but Sharon misleads his arm and spins it forty-five degrees, before holding his head and catches him off-guard, making him to hit the floor.
  
  Other two guys join the show. They have Glocks on their hands, so Sharon pulls out her Mark 23 and downs them before they could shoot. Her draw is extremely quick for pulling out a two kilograms handgun. This shows her great strength. She doesn't know if the men with pistols are really dead, but at least they are out from action.
  
  The last henchman pops out from behind a table with a machete. Sharon tackles his arm and kicks him in the stomach. She turns around and kicks him into a table. She proceeds to bang his head against the table, before slamming him into it.
  
  > The Asian flower accosts Sharon...
  The beauty comes out and walks past the knocked out thugs. She stares at the taller woman ahead. Sharon wonders what her intention is. The girl takes a look at the downed thugs, a few are killed.
  
  "A new girl joins the show, eh?" The girl says.
  
  "Who the fuck are you?" Sharon asks cruelly.
  
  The girl draws a pair of Beretta 92A1s out of her back. Judging from this, she must be one of Craig's hitgirls.
  
  "What about you?" The hitgirl asks back.
  
  "Someone who's here for her job."
  
  "I'm here for my job too. And killing you will be a pleasure," the girl says, walking closer toward Sharon.
  
  This girl seems to be a tough one. With all those dress, makeup, and accessories, she looks pimpin'. A clash between two female assassins. Sharon draws her Mark 23s and get ready. Time to show her who's the better girl.
  
  > Gun fu
  Sharon walks into her and fires her pistol at her. The hitgirl counters her and knocks Sharon's gun out of her hand before delivering some kicks. Sharon recovers quickly and uses the gun on her left hand to shoot her. The hitgirl climbs over and takes cover behind the counter. Sharon picks up her dropped gun and cautiously walks into her opponent, both handguns trained at her.
  
  The hitgirl pops out and fires a round at her. The bullet goes into her mouth... and she's still alive. It turns out that Sharon catches the speeding bullet with her teeth. Sharon spews the nine-milimeter out.
  
  "What the hell?" The hitgirl says in surprise.
  
  The two continue to exchange blows of gun fu. Both combatants try to shoot at each other at point blank range while parrying and evading their opponent's guns. It continues until Sharon wrestles her into the floor. The hitgirl quickly raises up and avoids Sharon's bullets with her acrobatic maneuvers, before diving into a cover and return fire. Sharon slides into the counter to take cover. Then, both of them pop out and realize that their guns are out of ammo. They both decide to holster their guns and show off their martial art skills.
  
  > Unarmed fight clash
  Sharon and the hitgirl holster their guns and clash into an unarmed combat. Sharon's punch collides with her kick. Sharon shows her kickboxing skill by attacking her with combination of punches and kicks. Her opponent plays defensively by evading and parrying her attacks. When she gains the momentum, she strikes Sharon with a flurry of kick-based attacks, catching her off-guard and throws her into the ground with aikido technique.
  
  Both combatants use mixed martial art techniques, in other words frestyling. After a minute of fighting, Sharon blocks the hitgirl's kick with her feet and proceeds to twist her leg, before throwing her into the ground. She knocks her out by choking her until she passes out. Her strength is superior to her opponent.
  
  > So who's the better girl now, huh?
  "Holy fuck... it's just like... the whole Yang trailer..."
  
  Sharon turns into the voice. He is a very young man wearing a shirt with Rooster Teeth logo on it. He is short and thin, and he is hiding behind a chair the whole time.
  
  "I uhh... sorry ma'am. I was just... surprised. Please don't kill me," the boy says, feeling a quiver of fear.
  
  "Who the hell is Yang? Another of those girls?"
  
  "No, no! Just... forget it."
  
  Sharon turns away from the boy. Craig's personal Chinese-American hitgirl has been neutralized. Anderson is still lying on the floor. All she has to do is to carry him back to her car and put him in the trunk. But she's not a total bitch. Before she finishes her job, she comes up into the female bartender who previously she called out.
  
  "Sorry for the mess," Sharon says as she puts a stack of money on the counter.
  
  The bartender only nods as Sharon leaves her. Sharon carries Anderson all the way to her car, put him in the trunk, and get the hell outta the place. This job is fairly simple, and yet somewhat fun for her.
  
  > continue to next chapter
  Friday, 17 May 2015
  
  GRS Delta One Team
  
  The black SUV races through the morning, its tire kicking up water from the rainy day previously. The slippery road does not hinder its movement for a bit, largely due to it being a four-wheel drive. The car charges along at fifty miles an hour. It stops at a nearby compound, skidding to a stop away from the front door. The doors open and four men get out from the vehicle.
  
  The men are contractors of Global Risk Security (GRS for short) -- a private military company that focuses on providing security services. They wear digital blue-camouflaged jackets under their tactical armor vests, khaki pants, and load-bearing gears. All of them are equipped with helmets with integrated headsets, tinted combat goggles, elbow and knee pads, and skull bandanas. The four-man team get their primary weapons from the trunk of their car.
  
  The weapons are a HK416 assault rifle, SCAR-H battle rifle, KSG bullpup pump-action shotgun, and a P90 submachine gun. Each man has his own specialization and duty, and their weapons and equipment suit them for their job. The team leader acts as a jack-of-all-trades, the marksman's battle rifle allows him to pick off targets at long range with better accuracy, the breacher acts as the pointman and he has breaching charges and breaching shells for his shotgun, and the mercenary with submachine gun acts as an engineer and has access to several useful gadgets.
  
  The team leader silently signals the others to order his team to form a formation. They form in a tight stack near the entrance, and the pointman reaches forward and tries opening the door. Finding the door locked, the pointman loads his shotgun with breaching rounds and aim the hinges of the door. With two enormous booms, he blows them off and kicks the door. The door falls and the rest of the team rush inside.
  
  Cracks of gunshots ring. The men engage the dummy targets and they do it swiftly and soundly. Targets go down one by one. Within a few seconds, the room is cleared and the team moves into another area.
  
  They move through a hallway. The engineer watches their back with his P90 while the others advance. This is just a training exercise, but they do it very seriously. In a real situation, There is not even a bit of room for error. The pointman blasts the door and the others come in. They proceed like this all the way to the final room.
  
  > Final room
  The engineer uses an optic cable, also known as snake camera to peek under the door to scout ahead before entering the room.
  
  "Four AKs. They have the hostage in here," says the engineer.
  
  "Ox, get a breaching charge on the door," orders the team leader.
  
  "Roger that."
  
  The pointman plants a breaching charge on the door, and the team stacks in. In three seconds, the pointman detonates the breaching charge. It sends the two dummy targets in front flying, and the team storms in and shoot the remaining targets swiftly. They have saved the hostage.
  
  "Thanks for not shooting my ass off," says the man who acts as the hostage.
  
  The man is the former Soviet soldier named 'Misha'. He looks very relaxed, smoking a cigar. He doesn't even move when Delta One comes in. Misha used to be in the 103rd Guards Airborne Division during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. He fought in the war, gained some scars, lost fellow comrades, and survived. Since he's done with the Soviet military, he became a mercenary and bounty hunter. He is currently hired by the GRS to be one of their instructors. Most of his military dossier is classified, but he is no stranger to death, misery, misfortune, and special operations.
  
  For a man in his forties, he looks much younger than he actually is. His hair is shaved, and he has blue eyes. He wears a dark-colored special operations suit with chest-rig, shin and arm guards, gloves, and ammo pouches.
  
  "Fifty one seconds. Quite good," Misha continues.
  
  The men of Delta One pull off their masks and catch a deeper breath. So much for a training exercise. The team leader is Ray, a former US Navy SEAL. The marksman is Grim, a former US marine sniper. The pointman is Ox, a former British SAS. Lastly, the engineer is Dynamite, a former US Army Ranger. Misha stands up from the sofa, handing the lighter to Ray. Ray gets his own cigar and uses the lighter to lights his cigar, before handing it back to Misha and smokes.
  
  "Had an annoying CO back when I was a SEAL. I'm glad that I don't meet him anymore," Ray says.
  
  "Mine isn't that bad though. My CO refused to talk when the Mujahideen got him, saying that he doesn't want to sell his comrades just for his life. He eventually got executed. It was a pity -- he was such a great leader," Misha shares his experience.
  
  "Sorry to hear that. I guess the Ruskies aren't as bad as most people think back in the Cold War era."
  
  "Some are assholes, some are good," Misha replies.
  
  "Hey, mind if you tell me how you defected to the CIA back when you were still in the Soviet military?" Ox asks with a british accent.
  
  "It's a long story, and I got a job to do. Maybe later."
  
  "Alright, then. Good luck, my Russian friend," Ox fare wells before Misha leaves them.
  
  > play as Misha
  Misha
  
  Yesterday, Sharon killed some Inner Circle henchmen, let Misha extract Tommy Craig, and captured Steve Anderson -- wrecking the night club in the process. He is aware of how deadly Leo and Sharon are, as they are human-vampire hybrids -- which means they are better than humans in almost every aspect. Despite their superior combat capability, Misha can still go toe to toe with one of them due to his battle-hardened experience.
  
  Leo and Sharon are former SWAT officers. They don't have as much experience as Misha. He has been to worse outcomes than them. He fought in Afghanistan for several years, and he went rogue and became an undercover agent for the CIA. His cover was blown and he got captured by a GRU detachment when he was hiding with friendly Mujahideen fighters. Russian Spetsnazs were not to be underestimated.
  
  Good thing that CIA agents managed to rescue him and brought him back to the nearest Mujahideen compound. At there, he gave them information that could turn the tide of the war. He defected to the Americans mostly because of financial problems and his girlfriend. Love was one hell of a thing. When his girlfriend was in the hospital, he knew that her family didn't have the money to pay for the costs. So when a CIA agent captured him and persuaded him to be an undercover, he accepted the offer mostly due to the CIA offering money in exchange for his service. Sadly, his girlfriend died due to her cancer being too unforgiving. Nevertheless, he continued to be undercover.
  
  When the war was over, he worked for the CIA for a plenty of time before he became a mercenary and assassin. By 2015, he got paid by the Peshmerga forces to train their troops and became an instructor during their battle with ISIS forces. After several engagements and experiences, he was hired by the GRS for a while. And this moment is probably the most interesting experience in his life.
  
  This is a clandestine operation. The US government hired the GRS and tasked the human-vampire hybrids and them to deal with Inner Circle. Whenever police undercover agents are sent, they always never return alive. They have access to mercenaries and military-grade arsenal. The GRS objective is to protect the city and important targets to various threats. But it would be best to attack and learn new things too, not just to defend.
  
  When Sharon interrogated him once more, Anderson revealed that one of their officers is stationed at a mansion on the eastern side of Velcro City. He is currently receiving various equipment from the arm dealer's men. He can't allow them to gain more firepower. Anderson also said that the mansions is guarded by a security force. Their security force consists of former soldiers and police officers hired by them to protect their operations. This is going to be harder than Leo and Sharon's missions previously. Leo and Sharon fought less-experienced henchmen, but Misha gets to fight better-experienced enemies.
  
  Misha's objective is to infiltrate the mansion, eliminate their captain, and destroy their precious cargos by any mean of necessary. He is the most skilled when it comes to covert operations. He will do the mission alone, but Delta Two will provide him with transport and extraction. Failure is not an option.
  
  > Launch mission
  Misha gets inside a black SUV. There are three contractors in the car, and he sits on the backseat.
  
  "Ready when you are," says the driver, awaiting order.
  
  "We'll begin it now," Misha confirms.
  
  The driver hits the gas and the car begins its journey to the mansion. They go past the main roads all the way to the mansion. It takes twenty minutes to get there. Once they are near the entrance, they stop by the road -- seeing trucks bypassing them. The trucks stop by the mansion's gate. The security details check the trucks via a security camera. After a security guard opens the gate from inside, the trucks go inside the compound.
  
  "Cargo trucks -- probably carrying all the cool toys. You know what you have to do. We'll wait here," says the driver.
  
  "Understood."
  
  "Good luck, and don't die out there."
  
  Misha gets out from the car and opens the trunk. All his weapons are inside the stashes. He opens the bigger stash and gets his SCAR-H battle rifle. He slings it over his shoulder and opens the smaller case. Ah... the FN Five-seven, his favorite pistol. Twenty rounds of armor piercing rounds and highly accurate, this pricey handgun always suits his job. He takes the handgun and holsters it. His firearms are equipped with silencers. He already has the ammunition and gadgets in his chest-rig and pouches. He puts on his balaclava to conceal his face. He closes the trunk and proceeds with the mission.
  
  > Continue
  Going through the gate is too risky, so he goes through the park beside it instead. There is a sign near the entrance of the park, which reads, "PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO TRESPASSING". Ignoring the sign, he opens the small gate and enters the park.
  
  He sees a man wearing a jacket, cargo pants, and tactical sunglasses examining a flower. His appearance shows that he is a security guard. His pistol is holstered by his thigh. Misha hides behind a trunk to avoid being seen. He has to kill the guard before proceeding.
  
  > shoot him with your pistol
  Misha pops out of cover and shoots the man right on the head. The 5.7-milimeter pierces through his brain. He drags the dead body and hides it behind the trunk before moving on.
  
  > Proceed
  Past the park is a basketball court. There is a security guard watching the garden below him while chatting with someone on his phone.
  
  "Sure, buddy. I'll meet you at the cafe once I'm done with this boring-as-fuck guard duty. At least it pays me good though."
  
  > sneak up on him and knock him out
  Misha slowly approaches him from behind. The man ends his phone call and turns around to see an 'intruder' sneaking up on him. He punches Misha in reflex, but Misha dodges it and strikes his neck with a karate chop. The security guard holds his neck in pain before going down. Misha hides his body in a trash container before going down to the garden.
  
  > To the garden
  Misha goes down the stairs and enters the garden area. There are four security guards, all patroling in different sectors. Another two guards with armed with M4 carbines stand guard in the middle of the garden. It's too risky sneak past them, so he must eliminate them first.
  
  > kill the two guards with carbine rifles first
  Misha draws his SCAR-H and aims at the first guy with M4. He peers through the red dot scope and has the red dot on his head, before squeezing the trigger. The bullet pierces through his head. The second guy is shocked when his partner goes dow, but he meets his demise two seconds later. One of the guards patroling sees the dead bodies of the rifle wielders. Before he could shout, Misha shoots him in the chest two times.
  
  The other three guards soon notice their friends lying on the ground, covered in blood.
  
  "Enemy attack!" One of them shouts.
  
  Misha quickly shoots two of them in the chest. The last guy notices Misha, but he goes down before he could shoot his gun.
  
  > pass the garden
  Misha goes past the garden and climbs through a fence. He enters through the back door of the mansion. The mansion is luxurious, and there are some CCTV cameras around. He frequently moves from cover to cover to avoid getting spotted. He can't shoot down a camera as it will trigger an alert.
  
  There are two areas that he can explore -- the first floor and second floor.
  
  > First floor
  Misha is in the first floor. He hides behind the furniture to evade the security cameras. There are some guards patroling the area. He sneaks past them and choked some to unconscious. There are some places that he can explore here.
  
  > Armory
  Misha enters the armory to see firearms being put on weapon racks. The collection of weapons is various. This must be the armory for the security guards. There are M24 sniper rifles, M4 carbines, UMP submachine guns, and Mossberg 500 pump-action shotguns. But the most eye-sighting of them all is a Barret M107 anti-material sniper rifle lying on a weapon crate. It would be useful for eliminating his targets.
  
  > Picks up the anti-material sniper rifle
  Misha takes the forteen kilograms anti-material sniper rifle alongside its magazines. The magazines are loaded with armor piercing explosive rounds. What a beauty -- this will get the job done.
  
  Misha goes past the garden and climbs through a fence. He enters through the back door of the mansion. The mansion is luxurious, and there are some CCTV cameras around. He frequently moves from cover to cover to avoid getting spotted. He can't shoot down a camera as it will trigger an alert.
  
  There are two areas that he can explore -- the first floor and second floor.
  
  > Second floor
  Misha goes up the stairwell into the second floor. He hides behind the furniture to evade the security cameras. There is only a handful of guards here. He kills them all silently and hide their bodies in containers and closets. There are some explorable places.
  
  > Display cases
  The hallway has many display cases lined up in the middle. Inside the display cases are various weapons and equipment. There are medieval-era longswords, greatswords, and shields. There are also Japanese katanas and native American tomahawks.
  
  Several military-grade equipment such as Remington and H&K weapons and proximity mines are also shown. Most of them are top-tier weapons, such as the Remington ACR and AK-12. Hell, there are even Panzerfaust 3 rocket launchers! The owner of this mansion must be one hell of a weapon collector. It's worrisome to see how easy these guys can get these illegal toys.
  
  > pick up a rocket launcher
  Misha opens a display case and picks up a Panzerfaust 3. A rocket is already loaded on it. He also picks up two additional rockets. This can be useful for destroying the trucks.
  
  Misha goes down the stairs and enters the garden area. There are four security guards, all patroling in different sectors. Another two guards with armed with M4 carbines stand guard in the middle of the garden. It's too risky sneak past them, so he must eliminate them first.
  
  > kill the four guards with pistols first
  Misha draws his SCAR-H and aims at the first and second guys with pistols. He peers through the red dot scope and has the red dot on the first guy's head, before squeezing the trigger. The bullet pierces through his head. The second guy is shocked when his partner goes dow, but he meets his demise two seconds later. One of the guards patroling sees the dead bodies of them. Before he could shout, Misha shoots him in the chest two times.
  
  The other guards soon notice their friends lying on the ground, covered in blood.
  
  "Enemy attack!" One of them shouts.
  
  Misha quickly shoots the last pistol-wielding guard in the chest. The M4 carbines spot Misha and train their weapons at him. Misha manages to shoot the first guy, but the second guy fires his carbine rifle at Misha. The guard is either skilled, or lucky to hit Misha in the head. Misha drops his weapon and drops into the ground.
  
  GAME OVER -- Misha has died