C3 CHAPTER 3
In a tired state, the first thing you think of is rest, after working for 6 hours straight trying to explain the most basic steps in a complex program to a team supposed to be made of experts, anyone would be exhausted and Dela was no exception.
Getting to bed and forgetting the troubles of the day would be one's number one plan, but waking up to guns pointed to your head and being threatened to quietly leave your house is never part of the plan.
She tried to move as cautiously as possible hoping any form of co-operation would save her life, She heard the sounds of boots and her abductors worked with precision and order. The room had been too dark for her to make out their faces or possibly what they were wearing.
Was it possible they were soldiers… that’s not a bad thing, right?
It could be good, maybe the commissioner sent them to get me.
But it all didn’t seem right.
She did as they instructed following their every word. They had tied her hands, gagged her mouth, and covered her face so she couldn’t make out where they were headed. They had changed vehicles so many times she had lost count and now she knew they were airborne.
I must be on a plane!
Panic set in- what if they were taking her out of the country, taking her somewhere where they could kill her quietly. Which one of her clients was behind this.
She shuddered at the thought of being killed like a dog in another country.
Oh Lord…
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Somewhere in the dark dark chambers of the earth, the phone rang, The dark being who ruled upon the heart of men here, Picked up the phone and only one message was sent.
” child 1 is on the move” and the line went dead.
The table was set, it was time to play!
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The restrictions were taken off and she could see, she was taken into a room with a one-way glass. It looked like an interrogation room. A tall heavily built man, in military uniform, came into the room. He was a well-decorated officer, He was probably a general or a warlord or both.
” Dear Miss Dela,” he said with a smile.
It was bone-chilling creepy.
“ You eloped from your country because you were madly in love with one of our soldiers-a General- you came to this country of your own accord without any force or cajolement from us or from your lover and got married to him today, am I right?”
Dela gave a nervous laugh “ I knew from the beginning that this would have been a mix up of some sort, my name is Dela, but I’m not married neither did I elope. Your men must have mistaken me for someone else, I’m not in love with anyone from your country” she said standing up
” I’ll just be on my way then, you don’t have to take me back home, I’ll show myself out,” she said with another nervous laugh as she headed towards the door.
The minute she felt the metallic coldness of the gun to her head, she stood still.
” Miss Dela we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your pick”
30 minutes later Dela had signed a wedding agreement, she was officially married to a General Wilson, who she had just met when she was signing the agreement and now she was holding a press conference spurting out all the lies the man with the creepy smile had said earlier, who she now simply knew as Shebat. No rank, no extra information simply Shebat.
She was taken back to the military base, where they were all going to watch the proceedings of the press conference, did the press really buy it?
She was sure there was no way the whole world would buy that stupid story about falling in love and eloping. She was a very sane, serious-minded young woman, nobody would believe such nonsense about her.
Dela’s mouth was hanging wide open in shock.
they actually bought it!
How in the world did anyone believe that a sane young woman would leave her house in the middle of the night and elope to another country without any prior notification, just because she was in love .she stared in shock at the thought
Wild laughter and applause filled the room, the soldiers were congratulating themselves. Shebat was the loudest of them all.
She pressed her head into her palms.
So this is how sheer hopelessness feels
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“ What I don’t understand is, why it has to be her ? or why we even have to kidnap anybody for that matter, we can pay a million programmers and ammunition teams to work for us without having to be involved in any clandestine activity”
Commander Shebat smiled, He knew General Wilson was dedicated and also one of the youngest high ranking officers, he also knew that when Wilson understood the vision for a mission, he ran with a fire that was contagious and could go to the extra mile just to ensure all was achieved and for that reason Shebat knew Wilson needed to hear the rest.
“have you ever heard of the holy creek operation”
“Yes, it was the one about those unidentified slaughtered children at the catholic orphanage, years ago, it’s being unsolved and remains quite a mystery. Why do you bring it up now?”
“Do you know the story behind it?”
“No”
“ I’ll tell you, 13 years ago 8 children were sent to a catholic orphanage, the children had no history, no evidence of where they might have come from, they all just seemed to pop up, they were all between the ages of 7-10. You see these children were undercover weapons of war created by the IRSC. “
“ Isn’t that the underground cabal that is responsible for some of the highest profiled and unsolved assassinations”
“right, but they’re more than that; they train assassins the very best you’ve seen, they begin their experiments and training from as far back as when these children are still in the womb, they build up humans who are weapons, innocent looking angels with an almost unbelievable intelligence quotient and physical skills. It was once said that just one of those little demons they build can quite easily defeat a whole army. Their smarts and skills are quite amazing; ammunition building, coding, medicine, assassination, name it! They build children into an all in one massacre kit. They went underground and have not been seen or heard of after the holy creek operation”
“ what happened ?“
“ They had sent the children into the orphanage to get information from and kill a priest who they were sure was somehow sabotaging their operations. Even though they couldn’t seem to decipher how a mere priest had information about their activities and could monitor them so closely that he found a way to spoil or somehow slow down their attacks- even now no one understands how he did it- but their plan backfired, they had not expected or realized the children could react so strongly to emotional contact- they fell in love with the priest- He became a father to them, something they had never known. And I’m sure you can guess what happened?”
“ the children refused to kill him”
“ even worse, they rebelled and turned against the IRSC they had all somehow become Christians and were all saved, believers. They revealed who they were to the priest. He tried to save them all and hide, but it was too late the IRSC came in killed the priest. The children turned on them and it was quite a battle. For The IRSC it was a bittersweet moment, to see the full strength of what they had created. Just at 7-10, the children seemed unstoppable just imagine if they were older they could do much more and unbelievable harm and the bitter part was that for rebelling they would have to kill the children and set out a more precise way to keep them under control”
“ It wasn’t easy the children would have destroyed the IRSC but they knew their creations weaknesses, and that was what they simply were, humans manipulated to become evil weapons of men. They killed the children, the IRSC went underground-disappeared like a dog to lick its wounds- they never surfaced again. One of the children survived, it’s a mystery how she did, she was sent far, far away and raised by a very normal family, who would risk taking a weapon of war into their home. The world is still afraid of that child, the IRSC refuses to resurface to face its creation. They fear she would wipe them out for revenge, imagine how powerful she would be now”
“ where is she? And how does that pertain to the question I asked you?”
“She’s your wife”
