He turned his passion into a proper hobby that did not interfere with his personal life, He could cure the hangover and addiction of the powerful drugs he took constantly and live like a normal human being. He always had a craving for a little "adventure" just like everyone else in his team, he looked at the two girls lie asleep next to him, and he knew they could not live without it either. Some people just wanted to hurt other people to feel better, and he never felt better after a mission such as this. He went to put on his armor, and he put up a notice on the door that said "Going out for drinks" this was his favorite part of working on these missions, he checked the database and took a random ID and put it on the computer, a few moments later a perfect face was created with matching accessories, he put the mask on and then put the lenses inside, he printed a perfectly matching uniform and got to work, He stopped by the door and pulled a few plasma grenades into his pocket better be safe than sorry, He chuckled Jerry was his name now, and he was going to have some proper fun.
He took the lift to the bar area and had his ID visible, He had connected his camera to the pod where "Jerry" slept, and he slowly made the way to his quarter, he checked around the corridor and it was quite busy for his tastes, he went up to the door and swiped his id and stepped inside. It was completely dark, and he heard snoring from the bedroom. He pulled out a little ampule of liquid and connected it to his little wrist gun, he checked inside and saw Jerry sleeping alone on the bed, he fired the ampule into his legs, and he woke up in horror. Oleg saw him shaking uncontrollably with wide eyes and no sound coming out from him, quite a horrible thing that warrior designed, nano machines that the first thing they did was travel up to your vocal cord and destroyed and then just simply severing any artery around the brain and heart to kill you extremely painfully. Jerry was dead even before he stopped shaking, and he checked around for any good hiding spots, He frowned and then did a double check in the corridor, He could throw him down the garbage chute but it was risky, he settled on hiding the corpse in the fridge, he pulled out all the contents which were not a lot, and then dismantled all the shelves and put him inside. It was a tight squeeze but with a little glue and scotch tape the fridge held together, He waited twenty minutes and then removed the tape.
The Fridge held, and he put all the shelves and food goods into several garbage bags and went out into the corridor and threw them down the stairs, he double-checked his voice box to mimic Jerry, now that the nano machines had completely scanned his vocal cords before destroying them, He smiled and locked the door and went down to the bar area. No point in going undercover if you are not going to mingle. Neon woke up and checked the message and then saw the person Oleg had transformed into, This was the thing that excited her the most in every mission seeing if someone spotted him and gutted him and tortured him on the spot, She put the cameras on tracking, and she had a perfect vision of "Jerry" in the bar area sitting alone and sipping on a cheap beer.
Jessica woke up, and she also watched the footage together, the other grunts were probably busy taking drugs and pills to keep themselves busy with their captives for a long time." This seat busy?" A blonde lady said while smiling. Jerry pulled the chair back, and she sat down "Jerry is the name, Heh. Never knew that were some hot ladies here on the station, i would have volunteered for this mission earlier if i had known." he said with a smile.
She chuckled and sipped on her drink. Jerry just smiled and sipped on his beer. She glanced at his confidence and was bit interested, she was a high-level commander in this operation and that grunt just treated her like some final call at the end of the night, She was a little excited but the mission came first, she would just be polite and take it as a conversation partner nothing else!.
Jerry chuckled and said "Well' Seems transfers off the station are not happening anytime soon, and the situation is getting out of hand. Not sure what's going on and then command won't tell us anything, I had to get my rations from my superior instead of going to the mess hall. They refuse tell us low level employees anything." She shuddered at the scene in the mess hall, and she had been one of the officers that issued a gag order on the whole situation, the panic would not help them. They had to hold this station to help the war effort, they did not know how, but they assumed they would keep the south extremely occupied with the refugees and keep them boggled down when they did not know if they were just spies, soldiers or normal citizens seeking refuge. It was a genius plan to divide the people and the warriors and it would succeed as long as they held out long enough.
The normal citizen would rebel in time if they got treated unfairly which she knew they would be after several "rebels" taking stations randomly from the south.Jerry chuckled at her little body language at the mention of the "massacre", He loved to be in this situation, and he would just sit here and play around while the base was panicking. She started to chug her drink down with a frown. "Haha, Let's not think about these things, the top probably got it all covered say. My guard shift starts in about 2 hours, how about we both go on a walk in the park area? You know to enjoy the scenery, Not a lot of parks where I'm from in the north. Almost curious to touch a tree you know." he said with a chuckle.
She laughed at that, and she nodded, She did not have trees where she was from either on that cold station. She would have been so happy to have a park where she lived, but space was at a premium in the north too many people compared to the south. She had obviously seen and touched a "tree" before, but this was a excuse to clear her head, and she liked that. Jerry led her to lift like a gentleman. Several other people got onto the lift, and they all exited together at the park area, it was extremely occupied compared to the other areas, a lot of people were having their break in the park. Seems everyone appreciated the nature that was sought after in the north. Jerry squeezed her hands, and she blushed they walked hand in hand while laughing and small talking about the trees which name they were or what region of earth they originated from. She was extremely impressed at Jerry knowledge in botany.
"I dont think you never even told me your name." he said with a smile. "Christine, It's Christine." she said with a smile. He led her down the path, and they saw a couple kissing, She blushed and Jerry just led them past while holding her hand, They came to end of the park and this seemed to be premier dating spot between the crew cause everyone was holding hands and watching the stars from the giant glass window.
"Amazing what they can create, huh. Wish we had such beautiful sights in the north." Jerry said. "You know It's because the other sectors keep sanctioning and keeping us down, If the south had not stolen that knowledge from the North about the A1-Mineral we would have had this too, Shame about that terrorist attack that made us lose all that knowledge about space station construction. I can't believe how selfish the south was to ruin it for the rest of us. But we will soon re-discover that, our people are too good to fail." she said in anger while looking at Jerry.
She changed to a smile quickly not to show her emotions too much, but this was a sensitive subject in the north that was frowned upon to mention their shame. Jerry shook his head."It's okay, Let's just enjoy the sight while we can." he said. He never thought about the north and how they kept the people happy and now he kinda had a finger on it, they were completely lied too. They had the A1-Mineral first? They had the most advanced space stations until terrorist blew it up? Obviously themselves blew it up when they were experimenting with the highly unstable A1-Element. He had a read a few things about it, and this never hit him. Could the south really have done it? No. It's the same why the north did not have such advanced ships or anything else that matched the southern emperor technology. The lies trumped the truth in the north, and he assumed it was the same in all the other sectors.
"You know the rumors were that the north did not even have this technology and never had, they blamed the terrorist attack on the south to hide their shame, I dont believe it either that our warriors would do that.But this mission have me wondering about what we are really fighting
for when watching the stars, So much room for everyone to live out there. Why do this?" Jerry said with lament in his voice, His eyes were bit red. Christine was shocked at what he just said but when she looked at his face she turned soft.
"Maybe you are right, but we got to believe in them. They are doing the best they can for the rest of humanity, We have to keep everyone safe and to do that we have to be the bad-guys today. I'm sure we all can see improvement in our lives and in everyone lives in the galaxy the day we win, It's gonna take a while to get our military to match the south, but we are doing whatever we can by taking the west. They attacked us first anyway, so we should not care about them anyway!" she said with no emotion in her voice, she sounded like this was gospel. North good, rest bad.
He chuckled that the south was not so "good" either since he was still alive and employed, but now he knew why he existed in this chaotic galaxy. He was the anti-chaos, He would bring order to this station his way, and there were only one way to bring order to a station filled with enemies, By completely emptying of enemies while sending a message. He knew the information of his massacre would leak in word, but not in video. The north knew exactly how many people they sent to this station, and they are going to know exactly how many that died tragically. He was a message a gospel of war perhaps, And he looked upon the glas, and he smiled. He had a few plans.He quickly invited her back to this room and this time she accepted, He threw her down on the bed and had a passionate session with her, He saw that she was completely exhausted, and he smiled and went to the fridge he was about to open it when he remembered Jerry was still inside, he chuckled and wrote out of order on the fridge.
He wondered if he should take little Christine back down the lift to his private chamber but for some reason he thought otherwise, She was no longer his type, and he would not waste his time on her anymore, He wrote a message on the mirror that the real "Jerry" was in the fridge, and he was a impostor and the man responsible for the massacre in the mess hall, He pulled out all the plasma grenades and put them on the living room table, He wrote a message for some "instructions" if she wanted to live, This was his favorite part. Turn people against each other, he would keep his promise if she did what he said. Set the grenades to explode on a hour timer and leave them somewhere where there were a lot of people, do that, and she can live. Oleg loved this part and while the star base was under complete lock down and everyone was on the "ready" to attack any intruder on any floor, why not get the loyal northerners to do the dirty job instead.
Jessica and Neon was constantly following Oleg around on the camera while he was on his "Date" when they saw him entered the room they knew the fun was over, They got up on the sofa and put on their armor and weapons. They both entered the lift and stopped it in the half-way point and stepped outside and attached themselves to the side, they climbed into the ventilation shaft. They were crawling across the massive structure and after a half and hour they finally got to their goal, They saw a huge sewage treatment plant, and they lowered a camera down the vent to see if anyone was around. The area was completely empty and why would it not be? This area is fully automated, and they knew it was the perfect place to do some chaos. Neon pulled out a special studded bag and Jessica pulled the tiny cylindrical shaped bombs from the bag, She put them to explode automatically in 28 hours, or when activated. They kept pushing the bombs into the pipe and it traveled automatically down to the tank, When these bombs detonated the entire base would be without water recycling and proper waste disposal, and they would be living in their filth and despair while rationing, they had to spend several man-hours just to push the garbage out the airlock and with less water to drink they would soon be too exhausted to fight back or patrol, and that meant riots and mutiny.
They pushed the 8 bombs down the pipe and Jessica decided that she wanted to do some intelligence gathering, Neon rolled her eyes, and they slowly exited room and walked down the corridor.They spotted several soldiers guard the lift, and Jessica pulled out her laser pistol it was completely silent and the unarmored soldiers was easy picking, She fired with perfect aim killing all 6 of them before they even noticed, She motioned Neon to come foward, and they dragged their corpses to the garbage chute and threw them down, the armor had inbuilt exoskeleton that increased their strength so carry a few burly men was no problem.After a minute the room was clear. They peeked around the corner and saw the lights were out, seems they were conserving electricity to these parts. They double-checked the map of the station, and they knew this was a restricted area intended for just short access to the guts of the station. The water plant and the sewage plant, They thought about blowing up the water plant but that would give them no hope, and they probably just put them into a desperate situation they would just blow up the station themselves, no rescue was coming, and they knew it.
They had food and water for at least two years on the station, they would do something about that later. They had not had their fill of fun yet. And when they were finished that's when they would pull the "plug" so to speak, They checked the cameras and found a section that was poorly guarded with just two men, seems the others just walked off probably went to sleep or for some entertainment. They took the lift there immediately.
The lift door opened and Neon and Jessica fired a tranquilizer into each of their throats and then dragged them into the elevator, They let them keep there for a few hours while they poked around. They looked around and saw the corridor was empty it was a one way corridor to a dock, they peeked at the camera in the dock, and they saw several soldiers huddled around a few crates passing around alcohol and other loot they have "borrowed" from the shops in the station.
Neon looked at Jessica, and she pointed at the young man in the corner that had a black eye and holding his gut. She nodded, and they rushed into the dock with their guns ready, they fired the plasma pistols straight into the torso of the soldiers at the table. Several of them rushed behind the boxes and returned fire, Neon took a heavy plasma bolt to her chest, and she simply shrugged it off and walked forward firing the soldiers were screaming into their comms. They had already blacked out this section with their powerful jammers so there were no help, they shredded the survivors and the young man in the corner lept behind a box and hid. Jessica went forward and grabbed him by his wrist and raised him upright. They looked him over and Jessica pulled out her switchblade, she sliced his pistol holster and it fell to the ground. He did not even return fire in the panic that in sued, Jessica led him by his hand by having him clamped at the wrist he was struggling to keep up. They got into the lift and saw the two passed out men and dragged them along into their ship, Jessica smiled and brought them into her room, Neon frowned and got into her room.
She was a pirate and a murder sure, but she was not like these people, and she would never be. She sat down on the couch in her room and opened her communications and connected to Paradise. "Mommy! Mommy! Look, Daddy took me on a boat ride on the ocean, see!" She held up a picture to the videoscreen, and she saw her husband and daughter on their little pleasure boat. She smiled "Have you been a good girl?" she said playfully.
"Yes, mommy i even brushed my own teeth today two times!" her daughter said with a proud look and happiness in her eyes. "Mommy gonna be working for a few more weeks, but soon mommie will stay home for a loooooong long time, okay? So you wait and learn how to bake that cake so i can have something yummy to look forward too!" "Okay mommy! I have to go now, Rebecca is here, and we are going to the petting zoo, kisses mommie!" Jessica put her lips to the screen, and she saw her daughter run off in the background, she ended the conversation and shook her head. She checked if Oleg had returned, and he had, she pushed the button to the explosives.
Christine woke up from the rumbling and the alarms blaring out over the speakers, she looked around for Jerry, and she did not see him, she grabbed her purse and pulled out her communicator "Status!? What's going on!?" she yelled over the alarm. "An explosion hit the station, we dont think it was from the outside
, it's too soon to tell, but we are not losing any oxygen yet. But several safeguards has kicked in, and we are now without water recycling and waste disposal, so we assume it hit the lower sections of the base. We have sent a team to check it out." a voice said on the radio." I'll be there shortly." She got off the bed and went straight to the bathroom, she pushed the button and the light turned on light and got into the shower, she quickly left and went to the mirror, and she froze.
She was horrified at what she saw, and she rushed out the shower completely naked she looked at table and saw six plasma grenades on top of the table and a letter. She shook in fear and approached the table and took the letter.
"Dear Christine, As you know from the little message on the mirror in the bathroom, I am not Jerry, He died yesterday just shortly after we met at the bar. I very much enjoyed our little talk and our rendezvous later in the evening. That's why I'm going to spare your life today, and if you want to get off this station alive for any reason you should set those plasma grenades to explode and plant them in congested or important areas. If you do i will know and i will bring you out of here alive and you can have a perfect life in the south free of worry and plenty of trees. Signed. Oleg. Your worst nightmare if you dont. ps. Jerry is in the fridge so don't open it!"
She shook in fear and stared at the fridge, She saw the glue on the side, and she bit her lips and wanted to scream and cry. She quickly got dressed and looked at the grenades, She did not know if she should report this or do as he said. Should she ignore them, but what if they were already armed and would explode if she did not say anything? She did not know what to do, but she got interrupted that she was needed in the command central, and she left them there and quickly scurried to the nearest lift.
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