Galifi June 2, 2009 standard.
The chateau was surrounded by a large complex, situated on top of a hill overlooking the city of Galifi. The port could be seen in the distance freighter ships rolled in and out of the harbor their slow progress could be easily marked from the wall. Derrick had just scaled that wall, except that for now he wasn?t Derrick but Sledge. The telepath pushed out with his mind projecting his thoughts into any mind he encountered. This place was easy, the people seemed unprepared for his particular talent. That didn?t stop him from being picked up by vid cams. He couldn?t change what they would see, too much interference and distance between him and the room that housed them.
A voice sounded in his earpiece as he looked into the compound. Above him the camera panned back and forth. Those were to be Laz?s responsibility. ?Alright Sledge remote access accomplished?move in thirty.?
One thousand and one?the count began in Derrick?s head, but he spared a moment for Lazarus. ?Thirty seconds? You couldn?t give me more time?? He got into position, continuing his count silently. It was more time than he needed enough to make his break across the compound and be inside. Laz would have all the remotes recording so Sledge would need to get past the cameras within that one minute window.
?You wussing out Sledge? Hells, Nemesis moves faster than you and he's loaded for bear, besides, any longer and it will be very noticeable on some of those cams.? Sledge shook his head and charged onwards. He looked very strange dodging and juking around people but there was good reason. His ability made them see and hear nothing. A physical touch would give him away and leave him very exposed. He was armed well, but not well enough to take out the amount of people between him and his extraction.
A second voice cut across the channel at them. ?Can the chatter? this signal may not be secure.? Lee was a good leader, her priority was getting her boys out alive, mission accomplished. Her boys made them all chuckle as she was the youngest of the crew, except for Hel that is, new to the team and very much a carbon copy to Lee. Derrick didn?t trust her, second gen serum user. Sure they had pushed that crap into him supposedly to enhance his ability, but truth was he didn?t feel any different now than he ever had.
Karl, the final member of Black Op group designated Outsiders laughed into the coms. Derrick wanted to tell him to get bent but the man outranked him, and Lee would of course be pissed if he broke coms again. He hated to disappoint the dark haired leader though he really couldn?t say why. She called him Sledge, well she called him many things including pretty boy. He assumed it was because of the pony tail, either way it was funny.
?In position.? Hel?s voice, Delia had cool tones at the best of times for her teammates. This particular version was used in Derrick?s opinion to rub his nose in it that she had reached station first. Course she didn?t need to worry over the cameras and bumping into people. One disguise and act like she belonged. It was one thing to try and prove yourself, another to try and prove that you could replace any of the team. She was ostracized for it too. Lee had tried to reign her in, include her but she just didn?t seem to want to be a part of what they shared.
Derrick stepped out of a stairwell silently, he moved stealthily down the hall towards the door at the end of the corridor. ?Control, am in place to pick up the CEO, awaiting imminent arrival?? He held outside the room waiting for Laz to grant access through the electronically locked door. Moments ticked by with no sound forth coming. ?Sif??
Sif?s voice cut across his hearing. ?Abort?we?ve been made.? There were sounds of gunfire across the earpiece and then static.
?Sif? Laz? Nemesis?Dammit! Hel someone better start talkin?.? He stood stock still, his team had never not spoken before. One maybe two wouldn?t be able to respond but never the entire team. A soft voice in his ear came then, though it was not the one he had hoped for.
?She?s dead Sledge, they hit her position and leveled everything that moved. Proceed to secondary extraction point. I can see the others positions, they are pinned down. That?s an order Specialist.? Derrick felt cold inside, the entire crew wasn?t possible. He moved quickly though he was beginning to feel fatigue in his mind. His route took him down the service elevator and out through the loading dock. The further away he got the safer he was. There was a ship out in the harbor that he would meet with. A set of keys under the dash of a speed boat would take him to the place.
Derrick hit the floor of the boat and sat at the helm. He searched for keys that weren?t where they were supposed to be. ?Sledge.? A voice behind him came unexpected. This had been his secondary extraction. They had each made their own ways to get out to that ship, better chance that they wouldn?t all be caught. He hadn?t told anyone, but the smirk faced man behind him said that somehow they had known. More importantly though, the man in the boat with could see him. He held up a hand to forestall Sledge?s immediate reaction. ?The others are gone, I?m Breaker with Psi, sent to get you out. We received word that the mission was compromised but couldn?t get here in time.?
?You mean dead don?t you?? Psi, that at least told him why he was able to ignore Sledges glamour. He Moved to the back of the boat and?.
The scene repeated itself once, and again for a period of thirty seconds, then it moved forwards with a strange sort of jump. Breaker lay face down in the back of the boat, blood oozed from beneath him and bits of his forehead could be seen briefly until the river of red oozed over them. The image stopped and lights came up. A voice in the back of the room echoed over the heads of a large group of men and women.
?We lost contact with him here, somehow a thirty second loop managed to be recorded and broadcast back to the surveillance cameras. This man has been trained to disappear, literally folks before your eyes, fact of the matter is he could be in this room now and none of us would know?or almost none of us.? The speaker locked eyes onto the backs of two or three heads. Two men and one woman all from Psi division, all who had proven useful against the sort of powers that Sledge used.
?Computer Access file, Derrick Masters? Code Name: Sledge? A holo-display was now on screen. The speaker looked at the screen along with them. ?We attempted to bring him back for debrief and transfer into the Psi division. These attempts resulted in the loss of agents. CEO has been issued for Sledge? Control didn?t mention how many attempts were made, the number may have driven a few from the room.
?Each of you has a copy of his Dossier?now let?s take a look at Mileena Lakic AKA Lee, Codename: Sif?
The chateau was surrounded by a large complex, situated on top of a hill overlooking the city of Galifi. The port could be seen in the distance freighter ships rolled in and out of the harbor their slow progress could be easily marked from the wall. Derrick had just scaled that wall, except that for now he wasn?t Derrick but Sledge. The telepath pushed out with his mind projecting his thoughts into any mind he encountered. This place was easy, the people seemed unprepared for his particular talent. That didn?t stop him from being picked up by vid cams. He couldn?t change what they would see, too much interference and distance between him and the room that housed them.
A voice sounded in his earpiece as he looked into the compound. Above him the camera panned back and forth. Those were to be Laz?s responsibility. ?Alright Sledge remote access accomplished?move in thirty.?
One thousand and one?the count began in Derrick?s head, but he spared a moment for Lazarus. ?Thirty seconds? You couldn?t give me more time?? He got into position, continuing his count silently. It was more time than he needed enough to make his break across the compound and be inside. Laz would have all the remotes recording so Sledge would need to get past the cameras within that one minute window.
?You wussing out Sledge? Hells, Nemesis moves faster than you and he's loaded for bear, besides, any longer and it will be very noticeable on some of those cams.? Sledge shook his head and charged onwards. He looked very strange dodging and juking around people but there was good reason. His ability made them see and hear nothing. A physical touch would give him away and leave him very exposed. He was armed well, but not well enough to take out the amount of people between him and his extraction.
A second voice cut across the channel at them. ?Can the chatter? this signal may not be secure.? Lee was a good leader, her priority was getting her boys out alive, mission accomplished. Her boys made them all chuckle as she was the youngest of the crew, except for Hel that is, new to the team and very much a carbon copy to Lee. Derrick didn?t trust her, second gen serum user. Sure they had pushed that crap into him supposedly to enhance his ability, but truth was he didn?t feel any different now than he ever had.
Karl, the final member of Black Op group designated Outsiders laughed into the coms. Derrick wanted to tell him to get bent but the man outranked him, and Lee would of course be pissed if he broke coms again. He hated to disappoint the dark haired leader though he really couldn?t say why. She called him Sledge, well she called him many things including pretty boy. He assumed it was because of the pony tail, either way it was funny.
?In position.? Hel?s voice, Delia had cool tones at the best of times for her teammates. This particular version was used in Derrick?s opinion to rub his nose in it that she had reached station first. Course she didn?t need to worry over the cameras and bumping into people. One disguise and act like she belonged. It was one thing to try and prove yourself, another to try and prove that you could replace any of the team. She was ostracized for it too. Lee had tried to reign her in, include her but she just didn?t seem to want to be a part of what they shared.
Derrick stepped out of a stairwell silently, he moved stealthily down the hall towards the door at the end of the corridor. ?Control, am in place to pick up the CEO, awaiting imminent arrival?? He held outside the room waiting for Laz to grant access through the electronically locked door. Moments ticked by with no sound forth coming. ?Sif??
Sif?s voice cut across his hearing. ?Abort?we?ve been made.? There were sounds of gunfire across the earpiece and then static.
?Sif? Laz? Nemesis?Dammit! Hel someone better start talkin?.? He stood stock still, his team had never not spoken before. One maybe two wouldn?t be able to respond but never the entire team. A soft voice in his ear came then, though it was not the one he had hoped for.
?She?s dead Sledge, they hit her position and leveled everything that moved. Proceed to secondary extraction point. I can see the others positions, they are pinned down. That?s an order Specialist.? Derrick felt cold inside, the entire crew wasn?t possible. He moved quickly though he was beginning to feel fatigue in his mind. His route took him down the service elevator and out through the loading dock. The further away he got the safer he was. There was a ship out in the harbor that he would meet with. A set of keys under the dash of a speed boat would take him to the place.
Derrick hit the floor of the boat and sat at the helm. He searched for keys that weren?t where they were supposed to be. ?Sledge.? A voice behind him came unexpected. This had been his secondary extraction. They had each made their own ways to get out to that ship, better chance that they wouldn?t all be caught. He hadn?t told anyone, but the smirk faced man behind him said that somehow they had known. More importantly though, the man in the boat with could see him. He held up a hand to forestall Sledge?s immediate reaction. ?The others are gone, I?m Breaker with Psi, sent to get you out. We received word that the mission was compromised but couldn?t get here in time.?
?You mean dead don?t you?? Psi, that at least told him why he was able to ignore Sledges glamour. He Moved to the back of the boat and?.
The scene repeated itself once, and again for a period of thirty seconds, then it moved forwards with a strange sort of jump. Breaker lay face down in the back of the boat, blood oozed from beneath him and bits of his forehead could be seen briefly until the river of red oozed over them. The image stopped and lights came up. A voice in the back of the room echoed over the heads of a large group of men and women.
?We lost contact with him here, somehow a thirty second loop managed to be recorded and broadcast back to the surveillance cameras. This man has been trained to disappear, literally folks before your eyes, fact of the matter is he could be in this room now and none of us would know?or almost none of us.? The speaker locked eyes onto the backs of two or three heads. Two men and one woman all from Psi division, all who had proven useful against the sort of powers that Sledge used.
?Computer Access file, Derrick Masters? Code Name: Sledge? A holo-display was now on screen. The speaker looked at the screen along with them. ?We attempted to bring him back for debrief and transfer into the Psi division. These attempts resulted in the loss of agents. CEO has been issued for Sledge? Control didn?t mention how many attempts were made, the number may have driven a few from the room.
?Each of you has a copy of his Dossier?now let?s take a look at Mileena Lakic AKA Lee, Codename: Sif?