A Heritic in the Henhouse Pt2

                     ....and another tale from 40k


           Kara wiped her eyes and looked through her scope as she layed prone on the roof top.

           "no restrictions, wow first time I've ever heard that one." Erikson said from under his rain hood beside her, cross legged, looking through a range finder on a tripod.

           "You still on about that?" Kara said not looking away and wiping the rain off her forhead. The day was cloudy a drisuling but had just enough light to not need night vision. Kara was glad her camo cloke was water proof.

           "Yes I am do you relise what that means? We were given full freedom by an acting planitary governess. We can do anything we want!" Erikson said writing down some couculations on a scrap of paper. "Third window from the right patrol's time was" Erikson cheaked his wrist chrono. "three minuts and fiften seconds heading north."

           "I got em." Kara said agusting her scope and making a note on a pad of paper on her left. "Yes I get it. Its wieght is not lost on me. I've been tempted to bust into a nobles house to just see if they got gold tolits for their pets."

           "Ha your probly right, top left sentry is doing post change." Erikson scoffed.

           "You think this guys going to be here?" Kara said fiddiling with her scope.

           "Got to be, its his house." Erikson said. "If you could call this thing a house."

           The 'house' was a massive hab block near the border of the war but too north to be affected by the carnouge. The block appered to have been taken over by someones privet army. Guards potrled the roof, inside, and around the courtyard. The team was givin a special room in the back of the palace to call their own. Corbin had swept the room for monitering devices but found only one witch was dissconected and dead from lack of use. Folson made him destroy it anyway. As well as the room they were given accsese to all of the PDF's intel. After a long talk the captains desided to go for the millitants 'life blood'. Someone had been moving weapons and arms out of the palace store houses and selling them to the rebles. The PDF investigations did a good job of finding the kingpin of the scam but he skipped out before they could get him. Even thought he was gone arms still kept disapering. The mans name was Wallace Gibbs a superintendent of shipping for one of the store houses. Origanaly he had tampered with the shipment orders but now the PDF were stumped on how he was doing it. Several agents died tracking him down but he could not hide forever. The agents found out he used some of his ill goten gains to buy the contract for several mercinary companys who 'aquired' the hab block for him. Now Kara and Erikson sat on a roof two blocks down gathering intel on the buildings guards and their habbits.

           "Hay Kara?" Erikson asked

           "Ya." Kara chirped.

           "Why did the captains make Mira stay with the princ...governess? She would have loved to crach this party."

           "I thought that too but I asked the Tech Marine why." Kara's voice got low. "He said that... this was a semi-stealth mission and we needed the man alive. He said that Mira would probly lose control again and kill everyone with out thinking or give them enough of a warning so Gibbs could disaper again."

           "But she seemed so composed all the time, shy even." Erikson said. Kara relised he had never seen Mira fight before. Kara shivered when she remembered what Mira did to those men on the chimara three days ago.

           "Tact three this is Owl one and two do you read?" Erikson said over the vox net.
     
           "This is Tact three go ahead." Corbins voice came back over the net.

           "Transmiting potrol data and times to you." Erikson said turning around to a small computer box behind him and pressing a button.

           "Data reseaved, decoding. Data distributed, your orders, stay put and provide support. How copy."

           "Roger Tact three standing by." Erikson returned to his range finder. "Let the show begin." Erikson said with a smile.


           "Alright Kara get ready." Erikson said leaning into the range finder. Kara started to control her breathing and relaxed her shoulders.

           "Ok contact in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,..." Erikson counted and at 'four' Kara let off two shots that made both of the roof sentrys fall dead. The sound of the las bolts were muffled by a suppesion system on the end of her barrel. "3, 2, 1 hear they come."

           A grappling hook plunged into the roof from the building to the right and the metal cable was pulled tought. Shortly after vagly black shaps of team ten slid down the cable to the roof, caring nothing but bolt pistals and combat knifes, one was caring a large back pack that he droped off when they landed. The scout marines soundlesly conected three black boxs to the cable and left the empty back pack.


           "Shadow one, the guards will be there in 18 seconds." Erikson said to Captain Bretran over the net.

           "Copy." Bretran wispered as he hid next to the entrance to the roof. Bretran pulled out his combat knife from behind his back and waited for his pray. Bretran was Revan Guard and was well versed in the ways of stealth and espenogues. His skills shined when the guard opened the door and Bretran grabbed him and made his death soundless. The scouts melted in to the darkness of the stairs and disapered into the building.

           "Shadow one to Tact one entry acheved." Bretarns said over the net so low Erikson could berly hear it.

           "Roger Shadow one proceed with caustion." Folson responded.

           "Tact one this is Owl one I have viual on target." Kara chimed in.

           "Copy, position?" Folson asked.

           "Roger second floor, 5th window he's having a smoke. Visual on two guards." Kara relayed.

           "Copy, Shadow one the plans say thats apartment 6C how copy?" Folson said but got no responce. "How copy Shadow one?" Folson tryed again. The sound of a man panting then a sliceing sound was heard.

           "Shadow one copys." Bretran wispered. "Two more Combatants nutrilised Owl two"

           "Copy that Shadow one that leaves 13 guards." Erikson said.

           Kara watched as a guard looking out a window had a knife burst through his chest and be let down gently by Shadow two.

           "One down." He wipered.

           "12 left." Erikson responded. "Target room is down the hall on you left Shadow one."
   
           "Copy, positions of the guards?" Bretran requested.


           Gibbs was walking back and forth chain smoking. Gibbs was a short stocky man with a black short hair that used to be well trimed. He had stuble all along his face and he wore brown slacks and pocked button shirt. His hands were shaking as he lit up a nother cigeret.

           "You mite want to calm down there mister Gibbs." Said the first guard. Both guards wore the same red flack armor and had las pistals.

           "What you say?" Gibbs said with angure rounding on the man who stood at the door, the other leaned agenst the wall to their right. Gibbs crossed the small room in a flash steping over the papers flung everywere. "Calm down, CALM DOWN! listen here you jar headed Flakforbrains Mother Fucker I got a whole planet! That wants me dead! And your telling me to calm down like nothings happened." Gibbs was a good foot shorted than the merc but Gibbs made the man shrink were he stood, although the merc was not the britest of the bunch.

           "I just thought... You should settel down you might have a heart attack or sumthing." The merc replyed. The other merc shook his head because he knew the idiot should have shut up right then and there.

           "A heart att.... you listen to me you slag eating, squig humper!" Gibbs said kicking the man in the gron knocking him to his knees and choking the man with one hand. "YOU ARN'T PAYED TO THINK YOU SON OF A GREEN SKIN! YOU ARE PAYED TO WATCH FOR THE IMPERIAL DOGS UNTIL I CAN GET OFF WORLD GOT IT!"

           "(choke) Yes sir (choke)" The man stamered out and Gibbs let him go. Gibbs returned to his pacing and the merc stood slowly holding his throut.

           "A little up, to your left a little more and you got Shadow two." Kara said instructing Shadow two who was in the next to Gibbs.

           "Shadow two to Shadow one, ready." He said.

           The door to Gibbs room creeked open slowly and the first merc turned around to see what happened. The second stayed were he was. The door flung open and Bretarn grabed the merc and cut his throut. Shadow three made for Gibbs who back agenst the window. THe scout grabed Gibbs and got him in a sleeped hold. His feet dangaling Gibbs reached for the other merc who was still leaning agenst the wall.

           "What (choke) are you waiting for?" Gibbs cryed out to him. The man simply slumped to the floor as the combat knife was slowly pulled out of the back of his head and back throught the dry wall, were shadow two cleaned it of brain matter. Gibbs quickly went uncounsuse. Shadow three cheaked Gibbs pulse to make sure he was still alive.

           "Shadow one to Tact one target aquaried heading to estraction point." Bretran said as he tied Gibbs up and flung him over his shoulder.

           "Roger Shadow one." Folson responded.

           Kara and Erikson watched as team ten appered on the roof of the building. They tied Gibbs to one of the black box on the cable. As the conected themselves to the devises A merc holding a plate of food walked up the stairs onto the roof.

           "Hay did you guys see harry, or steve anywere?" The man said looking for the sentry guards. Then he saw the marines. The man froze as the marines staired at him.

           "Don't you do it, don't you do it!" Kara said lining up her scope on the mans head.

           The man slowly relaxed and started eating his food. The marines shared a look.

           "(piff) A-hole already payed me. I don't give a damn, go." The man said as he sat down on the ledge of the building watching them finish. The team activated the boxes and their moters spun up pulling them up the cable to their original starting point on the building next door.

            "Shadow one to Tact one were clear. Shadow one to Owl one."

            "Go for Owl one." Kara responded.

            "Would you kindly?" Bretran asked.

            "Copy." Kara said heavly.

            THe man sat comly one the edge of the building finishing the last of his meal. It was the best damn meal he had ever eaten. He set the plate down and took his helmet off. He pulled out a picture from his right cargo pocket and looked at it. The picture was of him and his father standing in a field, dirty and tired but smileing all the same. The man put the picture to his heart. Cryed as he put his hands in the Aquila, closed his eyes and Kara pulled the trigger.