The Rescue, Part 2
Posted on 241403.16 @ 1:28am by Major General Nikkos Tyris
Mission: Insurrection [Fleet Plot]
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Whlie eight of their comrades spread out around the perimeter, not only searching for stray marines, but giving the appearance of actually being the personal guard of General Taylor, four more casually searched the house, not wanting to spook the ousted Commandant.
Of course they didn't realize that he was already aware of them... or that he had a friend.
One man approached the back quarter of the upper level, listening carefully. The house was too quiet, it was starting to make a few of the agents suspicious. A man not expecting to be shot wouldn't be so quiet.
Unless he was sleeping, another agent had pointed out. So they had spread out, carefully moving through the house on the ruse of simply being guards. One wonders why they bothered, since Taylor's marine guards were out of the picture and the man was hardly as combat effective as they were... But 'hit squad' wasn't a common assignment, and they wanted no loose ends. No mistakes.
This agent made his first and last mistake by attempting to enter the armory. General Taylor was standing in there and the man turned, feigning surprise. The agent felt a rush of exuberance! He had found the target! Finally!
Which was when Nikkos Tyris' knife found the agent's throat and cut the yell right out of him.
Taylor wrinkled his nose in disgust at the messy result.
"I'm going to have to replace that carpet.... So much blood." He said, shaking his head.
Nikkos looked mildly amused. Taylor was a very reasonable man, but sometimes the upper class upbringing broke through the civility... Worrying about blood on the carpet at a time like this!
Nikkos quickly searched the body, retrieving only one item of interest: A PADD.
"What's he got?" Taylor asked, curious.
Nikkos swore in disbelief as he read the PADD. This idiot agent had kept everything on here and carried it with him.
"Anybody connected with myself, Towers, or Sharpe is going to be rounded up and arrested. This is a list of the targets." Nikkos said, tossing Taylor the PADD.
Taylor's eyes widened. "Arrested and then what? Whoever is running this show clearly has no problems with murder."
"Exactly. And there's some people on that list I'd rather not see stood up against a wall and shot." Nikkos said.
"We need to get this information out of here." Taylor said.
"I was going to do this stealthily, but I think we need to make up some time." Nikkos rummaged through the bag he had brought. He didn't have much, but one grenade was enough and he had that.
"Get ready." Nikkos said. He walked to the front door, looked to make sure nobody was watching, armed the explosive, and hurled it off to the side of the yard, as hard as he could.
The explosion drew Intelligence agents like a magnet, and they would be moving swiftly towards the sound.
"Now." Nikkos said. He and Taylor bolted in the opposite direction, heading for the edge of the inhibitor field.
One agent saw them and opened his mouth to bark an alarm. Taylor was the fastest and shot him in the face. He dropped to the ground as the two officers jumped over him, running at full bore. For a man in his late fifties, Taylor could still haul ass.
It didn't take long for the agents to figure out what was going on, they weren't complete fools after all, and shots started singing the air around the pair as they ran. Nikkos didn't even bother to fire back over his shoulder as the shots would go wide and the action would only slow him down.
Sparing a glance at his tricorder, he saw they were 10 meters away from the edge of the field.
More shots. Phaser blasts cracked into trees nearby and overhead. The agents were running after them while they fired, which wasn't the most effective way to do it.
Five meters... two meters.
"Got it." Nikkos said, grabbing Taylor's arm to extend the transporter lock to him and hitting the comm badge in his pocket.
The two were quickly whisked away with a blue shimmer of light, in perhaps the messiest and stupidest extraction Nikkos Tyris had ever successfully undertaken.
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Major General Nikkos Tyris
Cerberus Group CO
Starfleet
Lieutenant General Alan Taylor
Former Commandant
SFMC
