Fireteam 404,Wednesday 17th October(Chapter five)
#6 of Fireteam 404
It was late Wednesday night by the time we made a move on the house. Nita had done some research, by that I mean she hacked into his daily planer and found out that he was going to a dinner party tonight. So the house was empty and easy to raid. For the last hour we had been observing the house waiting patiently for the owner to leave. Although for most of the day I was stuck with this feeling that the rest of the team wasn't telling me something, even Luke wouldn't talk. "The target is leaving the house and getting in the car, which has some sort of fish outline on the bumper." I turned to Luke. "What does that mean?" "I've told you before ma'am told me not to tell you." He replied "Ok three, Nita will take down the alarms then we move." "Roger that actual, three out." I turned back to Luke. "Although you did just tell me it was connected." I saw him think about it for a second then he punched me playfully in the arm. "You know you love me really." I teased.
The car sped down the drive. "Ok actual target is gone, good to go out." Luke and I moved in on the house. Annabelle and Taylor followed us moving quickly across the exposed driveway. Luke kicked down the door, literally, and made his way up stairs with his rifle ready, I followed behind whilst the other two searched downstairs. Along the corridor there were two doors on the left and two on the right. The first door on the right was a bathroom the second was a cupboard. On the other side both were bedrooms and, apart from furniture and a few personal items in the big one, they were empty. "Actual this is two, nothing here over." Luke reported. "Downstairs is clear too I think this might be a false tip. Search for hidden panels and when we are certain that there is nothing here make a mess but don't brake valuables, over." "Roger, willco out." I started wandering around the hall whilst Luke searched the master bedroom. I noticed that the left side could easily fit another room next to the cupboard unless behind the wall was roofing.
I looked in the cupboard first since in the movies it's usually where a secret panel is, next to book cases and candle sticks. I flicked the switch on the outside to turn on the light and walked in. it was small but big enough for me to stand in. I laughed at myself as I remembered the shower was right behind it. I turned around and flicked off the switch on the inside of the cupboard. The light stayed on so I thought the switch was broken. I then saw movement to my right and looked down the hall to see a hidden door swing open. I smacked my head against the wall for being so stupid. "Actual this is three I found something conspicuous upstairs, over." "Roger we'll be up in a minute, out."
I walked through the hidden entrance and searched the room. A person was in the room, I raised my gun up. It was a statue. I laughed at myself again. The person was about the same size as me and pinned to some sort of cross and he was defiantly human. I turned around and gasped in horror. Hung on the back wall was a tapestry or a copy of one. It was made in traditional Moreian style however it was the image that horrified me. A human was standing on a hill in pure white armour raising a sword to the sky. The sword was woven with real silver and it seemed to give off light. Below the human were Moreians, slain and depicting evil creatures that cowered from the light given off by the sword. "Do you remember know?"
I turned startled to see Luke standing in the doorway. A flag hung to his left which was the final piece of the puzzle. "The Christian freedom army. A bunch of extremist obsessed with wiping out your race." "Yes, almost a millennium ago the attacked Moran with a bio weapon which it is still recovering from. There strength was taken by The Ridolean kingdom and they are now small groups scattered about the Galaxy." "You should have told me, I know it's not our history, but you still should have told me." "I would have if Annabelle let me, anyway we came here to get information not talk about the past." Luke walked past me and started searching through a filing cabinet whilst I turned on the computer.
Fortunately there was no password and I had administrator access. It was incredibly easy to find all the files that were important and I started downloading the data. The two females came into the room and had the same shocked reaction as I had. "Ma'am we got heaps of information and records of bank transfers and orders." Luke reported. Annabelle came over and passed me a data stick which I plugged into the computer. "Ah ha, found a copy of the arrest form for the assassinated arms dealer." "good looks like this might be easier than I thought. Keep searching and get what we need." I went through a lot of files each with different information most I regarded as unimportant but still downloaded. I then planted a Trojan from the data stick onto the computer.
One file caught my eye as important. "Annabelle how much do you like me." "Depends on what you've found." I brought up the file to show her. "Information on every arms dealer, every warehouse, every phone number, every address in fact everything on them. I mean we don't need more evidence then this to ring everyone of them down." "Wow good work, we can pass this information on to H.Q. and get off this planet. Take the computer instead then we can scan for deleted files and anything else important." I removed the Trojan and turned off the computer. "Since you found that file you can help brake stuff. Nita take the computer back to the van. Unfortunately you'll have to take all of it to make it look like a robbery. "No problem ma'am although there is an easy way." She opened up a portal to her dimensional locker and put the computer in. "Next to the teddy bears." She joked. "Ok ma'am got a copy of all the paper I need and I think we can smash valuable items as all of them were bought with blood money."
She handed each of us a baseball bat. "Remember to make it look like a robbery or something." Everyone left the room to do something but Annabelle stayed behind. She went over to the tapestry and inspected it. "It's a fake anyway, the original hangs in the Ridolean art gallery." "Why? I thought it was C.F.A." "Although what it depicts is horrible it is well made and there is no reason not to have it." She pulled out a lighter and set fire to the corner. The fire spread over it burning quickly. She pulled up her bat and swung at the statue on the wall knocking off the head. I ripped down the flag and inscribed a symbol onto the wall with my knife. I went into the master bedroom and found that Luke had been in here since the four poster bed was now against the wall. I went downstairs into the living room and started smashing through the walls and mirrors, cutting up the sofa and taking a nice painting.
Within half an hour the house was a mess and we were running to safety. A neighbour noticed the noise and came to investigate but all he would have seen was three figures running away carrying bats. We went back the M.C.P. and settled down for the night whilst Annabelle made her report.