Chapter 6:

Iron Fist Rises

Ashes of War


"Finally they're switching. Let's get started." said Takahiro and placed a special jammer produced by JGSA, only to disable security cameras.

As soon as the door got closed, Gina moved forward and cut the first mans throat. At the same time, Takahiro was already climbing the pipes.

As he reached the roof top, he checked his clock.

'13 seconds, not bad.' he thought.

He moved fast but silently towards to door.

"Gina managed to enter the building, seems like she's undetected." said Shin. JGSA were following the whole operation through the bodycams, and giving report to Takahiro and Gina. With that way, both of them stayed in touch without saying a single word.

Bodycams they use were specially designed by the japanese army. They can detect heat and heartbeats without any problems. It also had some kind of resistance to other jammers, but it wasn't important at that moment. Only one bodycam costed them a fortune.

"It won't take long before they realise the jammer. You should find the security room, they're usually located somewhere up there." said Shin.

Takahiro checked his surroundings and started walking through the hallway. As he turned the corner, he saw the security room.

"Two person inside."

Takahiro slowly approached to the door and knocked it.

"Contact in 3.. 2.. 1!"

As the guard opens the door, Takahiro pulled the trigger. Then he aimed for the other guard and neutralised him. He carried the first body inside and entered the room.

"Nice job, Lieutenant. Gina took out 6 person so far. There are a lot of heat sources on the first floor, can you see anything through the security cams?"

Takahiro checked the clock again, it's been roughly 60 seconds.

"Negative. Jammer is still active, we need at least one more minute."

Takahiro didn't waste any time and started searching the lockers and drawers. Then, he saw a map and radio station on the other side of the room. There was multiple locations marked on that map, a schedule plan was pinned at the right corner.

"We took a photo of it. Jammer will be disabled in 15 seconds."

Takahiro used that time to memorise the whole map. Finally, he found where that bunker is.

"30 km, northeast of the city. There's a path leads to bunker through the highway." said Takahiro, and returned back to the security cams.

"Jammer is disabled." said Shin, but Takahiro already started counting.

"There are 5 manufacturing lines, every line has 3 person. Other than that, 7 person are patrolling around."

"22." said Shin to inform Gina.

"Two person coming upstairs, I will take them down."

Takahiro kept watching them through the cameras. He wasn't sure where were they heading to. There wasn't too much room upstairs. Security room, a small cafeteria, staff room, management office and finally WC.

'Or maybe this time it's a real smoking break...'

As they reach upstairs, one of them entered cafeteria and other headed towards to roof top.

'Close one.'

Takahiro left the security room and headed towards to cafeteria. He silently took the first guy down, he had a pistol and radio attached to his belt. Then he went after the second guy. He left the body on the roof and contacted Shin again.

"Upstairs are clear once again. What about Gina?"

"He took down 2 more, 3 men left. Others are still working on the manufacturing lines."

"Tell her to wait for me. And open some music for me, as loud as you can."

"Music? What're you planning?"

"Just do it."

He took the radio from the guy he killed at cafeteria. He turned it on and placed near to his own radio. Then, a classical music started playing. It wasn't too loud, but it still worked.

"Hey, somebody left his radio on." said someone on the other side of the radio.

"Hey!"

The silence continued.

"Damn it, somebody go check that little bandit. I think it's upstairs."

Takahiro waited the guy at cafeteria. As he came, he took him down immediately. Then, turned the radio off and took his own.

"It worked." said Takahiro.

"I'm glad it worked. 2 more left and you'll be done with the patrols. We don't know if the workers are harmless or not so be careful."

Finally, Takahiro started going down the stairs. He stayed behind the big crates and took a look to see where Gina is. But instead, he saw the last two guy that patrolling around. Then, Gina showed up behind Takahiro.

"Hey."

"You know the downstairs better, any safe spots to take them down?" asked Takahiro.

"Mostly everywhere around here. Manufacturing lines are at the other side, they are coming here from there."

"Good, then on your mark."

Gina moved to left side and took a cover behind another crate. She counted down with her hand and gave the mark. Then they took the last patrol down without any problems.

"I didn't find anybody with a scar on its face. Did you find any?"

"No, seems like Scarface is not here. Let's clear the rest and took two hostages for cross-examination."

"Roger that, sir."

Operation was succeed. They took two hostages and took a truck from the factory to ride back to shack. Hostages were unconscious.

After arriving to the schack, they took one of them inside. Hostage was getting conscious again.

"Wakey-wakey." said Takahiro.

"W-who.. who's that?"

"It depends on your answers. I might be a friend or an enemy, an angel or a devil."

"Huh, do you think you.. you are a devil?" Hostage tried to laugh, but coughed very hard instead.

"You'll see that very soon."

"I don't who you are, buddy. But if you.. if you are after Iron Fist, I must say you lost already." He managed to laugh a bit this time.

"What is that Iron Fist?"

"A revolution." said the man. He started laughing as he said that. Takahiro joined his laughs and they laughed together for a while. After few seconds, Gina entered the shack.

"Other guy is awake." As he heard Gina, he punched the guy front of him. The guy became unconscious again.

"And this one got back to his sleep."