[OPERATION]

Date: 2036/4/23

Time: 8:28 AM

Location: Iraq

Mission: Recover 'The box'

Somewhere high in one of the floors of an abandoned sky scrapper, we can see Seven lying in a prone position holding a binocular close to his eyes. A high caliber sniper rifle lies near his right arm as he looks on to the distance.

His point of view reveals a small group of people, no more than 20, in the distance. People stand out with unique outfits, some with red handkerchiefs around their mouths, around twelve of them, while eight others wear special uniforms. It's not difficult to recognize them. They are the Mort Vénéré, a well known mercenary group in the Underworld. They can get your work done for a relatively low price, which has helped them to surpass other competitors. We can see them holding a variety of firearms, cheap and rugged they are, but firearms none the less. Our attention focuses on the two central figures in the group.

"I hope you got the stuff the Big man asked for." The first person spoke with a French accent.

"I have brought everything asked from me, my friend." The other person said. He sounds like a local.

"Better to let me have a look at the spoils." The first guy said.

He waves to one of his men, and soon the man brings him a suitcase and he hands it over to the mercenary.

"There we go, my friend. "

Upon looking inside the suitcase, the mercenary was greatly impressed.

" Well, I'm impressed. Looks like those dogs back in America were just badmouthing you for no reason." He said.

"There is not a need for your praise gentleman. All we ask for is our payment, and in return we would do your bidding." The other guy said.

"Well, whatever, you aren't very different from us after all." He then points to a light armored vehicle behind him and says, "That's your pouch right there."

Immediately, the masked man waves again, and two men approach the vehicle.

"This is the new and improved LAV-28. You can carry up to 8 people in it. It has two 9.84mm light machine guns, two smoke grenade launchers and one 28 mm heavy mounted machine gun. The heavy machine gun can be controlled manually or with a computer. It has numerous advance weapon systems, communication systems and a built in AI to assist first timers." A Mort Vénéré personnel informed them.

"That is a big number of things! What is so important in that box?" He asked, surprised by the number of features on the vehicle.

A reply came to him, " Don't know. Don't care."

"Well, we will call it even. The vehicle will serve us well." The leader replied.

"What is your Name Sir?"

"Hector Ponce. It was nice working with you." Saying this, Hector proceeded to shake hand with the other person.

But just as he extended his arms, a projectile comes flying and obliterates the persons head sending blood flying everywhere.

Back on Seven side of the scene, we hear naine talking to him through a ear piece -

"Have you located your target"

"Yes.Target has been spotted and all the preparation has been done." he replies

"Good, you may proceed with your mission on your own. Just remember to bring the back the artifact."

As Naine hangs up Seven proceeds to pull out the rifle from under his arm. After properly positioning it he does some last minute adjustments, aims it and pulls the trigger.

*BANG*

The bullet soared, ripping through the air and precisely penetrates the skull of the man.

The Hector is in disbelief as he watches several men get dismembered and killed in front of his eyes as 9 more bullets come raining down on them.

He yells as he snaps out of the shock -

"SMOKE! NOW!" soon they are surrounded by a thick screen of smoke and Seven is unable to see them clearly.

"Gotta say thanks to Naine for this." He mutters. He proceeds to put an attachment in front of the scope. This attachment can turn any regular gun sight into thermal sight.

"Where are you? Where are you? ....... Ah! There you are!" He says to himself as he spots the remaining people through the thick smoke.

Going back to the people in the smoke. We can see Hector is searching for something.

"There you are darling." He mutters to himself while picking up the suitcase. He puts the suit case in a truck of their own and then tells his men to get inside.

"Let's get out of here. Can't risk that paycheck." He says after getting inside the truck himself.

On Seven's side he was able to pick out five more personnel. That's when he notices the truck trying to get away.

"OH No! You Don't!" He says to himself and aims at the truck's left hind tire and pulls the trigger. Luckily the bullet lands and the tire pops.

The people inside the truck feel the shock.

"What The -?" He pauses "What The hell happened?"

"Looks like a tire is busted sir." The driver answers. He thinks for a minute, trying to think of a way out.

"FUCK IT! We are charging that BASTARD!. Three of ya boys come with me." He tells them and run towards the armored vehicle. The smoke is almost clear and Seven can now see normally. As they make run towards the vehicle, a barrage of bullets rains on them. Thankfully none of those hit them and after getting inside the armored vehicle they don't need to worry about that as it's armour makes it impervious to these bullets.

Seven sees them charging towards him at full speed.

"HOLY COW! They are daring." He yells in surprise.

"Normals bullets won't work huh? Well, when will that thermite round come in handy." But before he could chamber the round, he catches the heavy machine gun above turning towards him.

The bullets came in a frenzy as Seven moves from his initial position and hides behind a wall.

"SHIT!!" He screams to himself as he runs to hide behind a concrete wall. The wall endures the bulk of the bullet frenzy.

"I NEED TO FIND AN OPENING!" He thought to himself. They were only about 4 km away from Seven's location and the top mounted gun was unloading on Seven, but that won't last for long as it would eventually run out of ammunition. And that would have been Seven opportunity if not for the fact that they were just about to reach the building.

"We are here sir." The driver told Hector.

"Let's get that Son Of a Bitch!" They get out of the vehicle and climb up stairs to 3rd floor

"You, smoke the 4th and 5th floor. I saw that bastard was camping the 6th floor."

The men follow their superiors orders and throw smoke to 4th floor. Hector then signals one of his men to go up. One guy proceeded to the next floor, he sinks into the smoke and then analyzes his surroundings, he looks at every dimension and after being assured that it's safe he turns around and gives a thumbs up to his captain.

*BANG