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“listen , see let me tell you , this man is desperate I bet if we asked him for his life right now he will give us , he has made us an offer ,what’s so wrong about taking it , besides I am not ready to do anything without getting something out of it neither should you , listen its better this way than the police like I have explain, get your phone , we will take a few pictures as a collateral and demand some money , besides you and I could use some of it , or aren’t you tired of been poor , you know your mom’s condition and your sister , this is a good opportunity to earn something good I tell you”

Eric pressed on his views on the matter.
“I don’t know about this , I really don’t know about this but…”
Joseph paused for a second and took a stare at his friend who seem confident about his plans.

“..but I trust you ,yes I trust you on this”

Joseph concluded shaking his head as both guys then walked back to the room, once inside the room they found the man still shaken up by the scene and was still trying to check for a sign on the body.
“you didn’t call the police did you? , please tell me you didn’t call the police , I swear..”

“It’s okay ehnnn Joseph take the pictures “

Eric said with a straight face much to the confusion of the man, joseph had gotten some good ones and had started recording the scene when the man again began to panic sensing danger of some kind.
“what, what is this, what are you guys trying to do, why are you recording ,what are you trying to do…”

“..listen Mr. man, listen carefully first of all what my friend is doing right now is called collateral okay, I know the likes of you , you can easily sweep this sort of things under the carpet and get others to take the blame for it and even if we help you ,you might come back and start threatening us but now we have proof of what really happened here which we can anytime turn to the public and the police, secondly we are going to help you with the body , I mean we can help you dispose of it but on one condition, we will need some money from you, you give us what we want and you can walk down that door and forget about all this ,you can go on with your normal life then”

Eric replied passing a stare at his friend who seemed unsure about whatever was happening right now.

The man seem to have calm down a bit more having thought through what he had been told.

“you mean you will help me dispose of her, what will you do to Mirah, what will you do to her body?”
He asked still.

“Mirah is that what you call her, nothing we will ride out and look for a place to put the body where she can be found easily and identified that’s all after then you are going to drop us right here and then move on with your life”

Eric concluded, indeed he had thought of the whole plan, he thought to himself.
“hmmm….”

The man paused for a minute as if to think and then stared at Joseph who felt a bit uncomfortable about it.
“..is your friend going to help us too?”
He asked Eric.

“We want 100, no we want 200 hundred thousand naira right here right now , if you don’t have it , we will call the police and you can forget all I have just told you”

Eric said ignoring the man’s question.
“I don’t ..i don’t have that …”

“..then forget it , joseph go use the telephone to call the..”
“..i mean I don’t have that much in cash, I can...”

The man paused for a minute , a bit saddened and sullen as he took another long look at mirah who was still sprawled on the bed lifeless.
“..I can make a transfer if you have an account number here with you”
He said wiping off some hot beads of sweat from his head, he had been sweating so much he didn’t even realize the air conditioner in the room was working, eric offered his account by which the transfer was done upon confirmation of the transfer , Eric passed a dull smile at Joseph.

Joseph asked Eric.

“reduce your voice a bit ,wait we cant do this..we cant do this like this…”
Eric paused for a minute and took a good stare at the body and then the man , he exhaled sharply and shook his head as if to clear a thought before he continued.

“…come with me , I want us to talk about something now”
Eric concluded as he beckoned on joseph to follow him outside ,shutting the door behind the man and the body in the room, once he was able to drag joseph to a good distance from the room , he made his intentions clear.

“Joseph I don’t think the man is responsible”
Eric opened up to his friend.

“And so what, there is a dead girl in his room, if he is innocent then its the job of the police to find that out not us , what we have to do now is to go report the matter now,do you know what would have happened if he had escaped and left the body in that room, I bet you and I would be the suspects of the police”

Joseph replied clearly having none of what is friend was saying, it wasn’t even something to discuss , the consequences of not reporting the case to the police was very serious.

“what if..what if there is another way out ,what if we don’t have to report to the police and we still can sort this out”
Eric replied again.

“what?, what are you talking about ,how on earth ae we supposed to sort this out , we have a body , a lifeless human being in a hotel room where I work ,how do I sort that out eric?”
Joseph asked angrily.

“okay, okay we cant just sort it out but just listen to me , joseph that man is stinking rich, like I can see it in his eyes that he is swimming in money , listen ,listen call me crazy …”
“.you are crazy eric…”

“..wait joseph please hear me out, you are not thinking this straight , if the police come hear ,first of all , they are going to sweep us all to the station, then the hotel is going to be locked indefinitely putting you out of a jo and probably beat the statements out of us , this man is a wealthy man I can feel that , if he is willing to offer us money do you think he wouldn’t also offer the police money and when they do accept, who do you think will take the blame for the murder or have you forgotten you also sell illegal performance drugs here, this people can easily manufacture one story and force you to sign it as a statement and once that’s done , who would want to listen to what we have to say then eh?”

Eric said and a for some minutes Joseph thought hard of what his best friend had said ,truly this was a good and likely scenario , in a country where even judges could be bribed what chance does he , a nobody in the society without money have against someone like this, he didn’t like the outcome and wondered why he hadn’t thought about the implications on his path.

“But you know that’s not true, we had nothing to do with the girl , you know that”

Joseph replied dully and quite nervous now.
“listen the worst comes to the worst , the police can charge us even as accomplice to the murder if that’s what really happened, there is no way we are getting off this easily Joseph but I have a plan and you are going to trust me on this if it’s to work and I promise you dear friend if you do we might end up been rich”

Eric said unable to hide the excitement in his eyes.
“okay,what do we do then?”
Joseph replied.
“good, listen we are going to demand some money from him…”
“what,why ….”
“just listen like I said this man has money, joseph I can get rid of the body , listen…”

He paused to see the shock on his friend’s face once he said that.
“listen I know of a place not far from here where a body was discovered last three weeks , its just a road side junction , at this hour I bet no one will be there , see we are going to take some pictures of the man and the body just in case this man tries to act funny with us in the near future , demand some money from him and let him go”

Eric said , he was in fact good with making up plans for whatever situation he needed to handle, a small time burglar and a onetime car thief , it wasn’t hard for him to think of something out of the situation.
“but why do we have to ask money from him , it feels a bit wrong for me”

Joseph said again.

Why was he acting all weird and strange , Joseph wondered as the man began to tip toe towards the door , alarm bells suddenly went off in his head before he jumped out of the toilet to catch the man unawares as the man tried to force his way through the locked lobby doors.
“Hello, sir is there anything the matter “

Joseph asked , he could see the fear and confusion on the man’s face once their eyes met.

“Please ,please I swear to you , I didn’t kill her”
The man replied almost going down on his kneels, the sight sent a shock wave down joseph’s spine who found it hard to process what was happening , the slow quiet movement which would have helped him slip through the door without no one knowing , the nervous and scared look in his eyes all made it clear what had happened.
“Eric…Eric!”

Joseph screamed as he gave hard slaps to eric’s back who immediately sprang up a bit agitated and pained by the slaps.
“Oh God what is it now!”
Eric asked as he winced his eyes.

“I think this man may has killed someone”
“I swear , please no it’s not true , I didn’t kill her , I swear on my life”
The man countered on his kneels, sweating profusely and sobbing like a child.

“What, how did this happen ,who, I mean where?”
Eric asked still trying to recover himself fully.
“We have to go call the police now”

Joseph said hurriedly reaching out for his desk phone.
“Please , please, please I am not a killer , I dint kill her you have to believe me , the police will arrest me please ,please..”
“Shut up , ehmm wait Joseph , where is the body ,what if she isn’t dead yet , we could help her , drop the phone first let’s go and check her now”
Eric screamed fully realizing what had happened now.

“yes, please that’s a good idea , please let’s go and check ,she could still be alive , oh God , she could still be…”
“Oga shut up and let’s go check her now”
Eric countered angrily forcing the man up as joseph followed behind shortly ,dropping the phone immediately.

Once all three were up, they went straight for the room and found the lifeless body of the girl right on the bed, foam in mouth, upon a second thorough check by all three , they were able to confirm she was indeed dead.

“Hah, I am finished, I am done for “
The man said in between hot tears once they confirmed she was truly dead.
“Joseph go and call the Police , she is…actually dead”
Eric said quite scarred now.

“you stay here while I go down , let me call others who are still in the hotel so they know whats happening”
Joseph suggested .

“please , please you have to believe I didn’t kill her , I am not a killer , I swear , please ….”

The man hesitated for a moment seeing how little attention the two paid to him before he continued again.
“okay..okay please don’t go yet , I ...I have money , lots of money , I can give you money , anything you want , I swear just don’t call anyone yet please”

He continued again sobbing and crying.
“Are you out of your mind, are you sick or something , there is a dead girl in your hotel room and you want to bribe us ,whats that going to do?”

Joseph replied angrily as he made his way for the door.
“I am sorry…I don’t know what else to say , I don’t want to go to jail , please I am innocent”

The man replied in again in hot tears amidst his confusion and fear.
“Jo…joseph ehm wait first, please wait …”
“Wait what, what are you talking about?”

uneasy about something.

He had wanted to ask her what was the problem but then had waved it off and had decided to just go on with their earlier discussion.
“what is it that you were saying?”
She managed to say.

“Ehmm I wanted to tell you about the side effects of the drug…”
He paused seeing how conscious she had become once he said that.
“..relax its nothing , its just that once the drug wears off , your man will likely fall asleep, it’s really nothing to worry about but if he has some appointment or something to do then you can get him to wake up”
He added.

“Really oh that’s perfect, ehmm just in case I too try to rest a bit and by 12 I am not up please can you ring the room, from the looks of it , your drug could make my man stress me a lot tonight , I have some place to be so can you?”

She asked with a mild smile hanging on her face.
“that’s no problem at all, I will ring up the room by 12”
Joseph said convincingly as he handed it over to her.
“and don’t worry I won’t charge you for this one because it’s your first time here”

Joseph added with a smile as he walked back without waiting for her to reply.

Later on both guys had settled down finally to watch their match and enjoy their meal.

By 2:00am Joseph was forced to wake up and go take a piss when he realized eric was dozing off , curled up in the long chair right, besides the toilet door there in the lobby, he smiled dully and found his way to the bathroom , he was still taking a piss when he heard a creak right in the lobby, he paused for a minute and tried to listen for another which didn’t come , perhaps a rat or something he thought and then again he heard the same creak , this time a bit erring too, was it Eric up to his pranks which he played on him from time to time but listening closely he could hear Eric snore letting him drop that thought dead in its track, he decided to take a look , upon opening the door as slowly as he could , he immediately made out the feet of a someone slowly descending down the steps which were situated right behind his office desk, he held a grin as he waited for the figure to fully reveal himself, definitely it had to be one of the customers who hadn’t paid yet and was hoping to get the jump on him, it did happen in the past a few times so he wasn’t surprised, he passed a glance at Eric who was still dozing and shook his head regrettably , never the less he waited patiently as the feet descended slowly , it was only a minute when the figure had climbed down the stairs totally and was now in the lobby , Joseph realized it was the rich man who had tipped him earlier.

Observing closely before deciding what next to do , he realized how nervous , scarred and sweaty the man was in fact had it not been for his retentive memory he wouldn’t have remembered the face.

She asked much to the surprise of Joseph who passed a stare to Eric and then back to her.
“Okay , we can talk outside the lobby if you want just let me put these down”

Joseph said as she walked outside to wait for him soon afterwards, once at the desk he passed a wink at Eric before returning to entrance of the lobby where the girl was waiting.
“So what is it you want to tell me?”
Joseph asked and for a minute she had kept silent as if thinking if to say something.

“you can tell me anything , if it’s something you need I can get it for you too I don’t mind”

Joseph said hoping to ease her perceived tension and uneasiness to say something.

“I was hoping I could get some….something for the night to help man …”
Joseph chuckled a bit letting her pause for a minute out of curiosity to find out why what she was saying seemed funny.
“…what is it , what is so funny about what I said?”
She protested a bit irritated at Joseph’s attitude.
“Oh no nothing , I am very sorry ,well I may be able to help you with you with that , you know what just wait here , I will be back”

Joseph said before running back into the lobby , it was no secret apart from the fact he was the hotel receptionist , he did personally sell illegal aphrodisiac and performance drugs to customers to make money when the opportunities were there and tonight presented an easy one for him, he searched this private compartment in the desk where he stored his stash of the drugs, picking one of his products he believed was the right one he rushed out to join the girl once more.
“This will do the job ,its in powder form so he can lick it and trust me when he is done , you won’t recognize him any longer, its very powerful and very trust worthy, just a sachet for him is what he needs but there is something I have to tell you about though”

Joseph paused for a minute hoping to let her in on the little side effects of his drug but she hadn’t been able to respond when her phone rang.
“Excuse me , I have to take this please”
She said before talking a few steps away from where they stood although not so much that he couldn’t hear what she was saying.
“yes we are at the hotel…”

She paused again and took a hard stare at Joseph before taking a few more steps away not that it did help her as Joseph continued listening .
“..yes I know what to do , am not an idiot you know..why do you want it now I thought….” She paused again seemed to be angry at something before she continued the call.

“..okay ,okay fine , its 5322,baby I have to go now , I will call you when I am done okay?”

She ended the call and returned back to Joseph ,this time a bit

“How long do you intend to stay sir , a night is N3000 here , if you won’t be staying over the night that would N2000 then”
Joseph replied with a set of keys in hand , he had picked out of the key racks

“Just gimme me room alright, here you can keep the change”
The man said producing some wads of sharp 500 naira notes and dropping it on the desk, something Joseph noticed the girl wasn’t particularly happy with but that didn’t stop Joseph from collecting the notes as quickly as he could before producing an entirely different key quickly from the rack which belonged to one of the rooms he himself usually took his time to clear out and was fitted with an air conditioner and a working telephone for his well know customers who tipped him good each time they came around.

“Oga Sir, you can have this one, its for special people sir , I bet you will enjoy the room sir, take the stairs and go up , the last room on your right ,the number is right at the top of the room”
Joseph instructed happily as the man and the girl walked away, once they were out of sight Joseph produced the notes and counted it to find out how much he had been tipped.
“jesus Christ, 4,500!?”

He asked himself with a smile taking N2000 out of it and placing it into the drawer where the sales money are usually kept, He sat there starring at the cash which he drew to his nose to smell , what a nice feeling to be rich and to have enough to throw around he thought , somehow he did envy the girl who accompanied the man because she more than him would be having a whole lot more once they were done.
“Did you see the car , that’s parked out?”
Eric asked as he walked into the lobby with excitement written all over his face.

“It must be the rich man who just lodged in some minutes ago”
Joseph said a bit relived his friend was now around.
“That car looks way too expensive for just a mere rich man , we are talking about lots of cash here, wow some people are just lucky to have everything they want you know”

Eric said before he joined Joseph at the desk and then revealing the content of the small nylon he had brought in.
“here I brought some beans cake and some bread for us , I know you haven’t taken anything since “
Eric continued.

“Thank you very much, you are truly a life saver dear friend, let me go get some water for us before the match starts properly”
Joseph said before he left the lobby and headed out to get some water, a few minutes had passed before he arrived with two sachets of water just in time to see the girl who had accompanied the man upstairs.
“Excuse me , is there anything you want?”
Joseph asked as soon as his sight fell on her.
“Hmmm , can we talk somewhere else?”

Chapter One

It was about 8:13 PM in the Evening at the Sterling Hotel, when Joseph the Hotel Receptionist decided to change the little TV which hung above his desk at a corner for the supposed football match , he and his friend Eric had made plans earlier on to watch although Eric hadn’t arrived yet nor had the match started yet , he felt it wise to tune in the channel early to0 catch up with the preliminaries besides he hadn’t much to do , the Sterling hotel wasn’t what anyone would recommend to anyone for a standard hotel room , it was one of those sketchy set ups with a few rooms , located in the heart of Lagos whose affordability and ease of access made the sales and kept it in afloat. He tried adjusting himself on his chair when he got a message on his phone, barely looking at it his face bore a frown after which he replaced the phone back into his pocket, it was his landlord who had taken his antics a step further by sending him a message warning him of his overdue rent and the possibility of meeting his properties outside if he returned without paying; as if he didn’t have enough debts and overdue payments to make already.

Right now , his concern was finding what to eat before the match started, he hadn’t been lucky with that throughout the day and the thought of sleeping another night with little to nothing in his stomach wasn’t a good idea , he was still trying to figure out what to do when a man probably in his fifties dressed in a white t-shirt and shorts drove in and walked into the lobby with a girl by his side, the man looked a lot older thought he was in pretty good shape and seemed quite decent , in fact if he didn’t know better he would say the man may have lost his way coming to a place like this but again the Sterling Hotel was built for the purpose of all , privacy itself was the key , no questions was ever asked about those who walked in none any asked about their business there except for a lodge book where they customers who felt it necessary to put down their details and payments were always in cash.

“Hello, how much for a room here?”
The man asked as he drew close to Joseph who quickly stood up to answer the waiting customers, he glance at the man and then to the girl who looked quite younger , a lot younger he could consider the girl a daughter to this man , she was fair and a bit skinny but overall she looked beautiful too beautiful to be one of those road sides pick up he had become so familiar with since four months ago he took this job.
“hello, are you listening to me?”

The man asked again with some urgency in his tone making Joseph realize he had been starring longer than was necessary.
“Oh I am sorry sir, What do you say you want?”
Joseph replied with a smile.

“I asked for a room , how much is it here?”
The man replied taking one look at the door soon afterwards as if to check if anyone else was coming in before retuning his attention to Joseph who had began to stare through his key racks to check up on the available rooms.

CHAPTER TWO JOURNEY MERCIES


I checkef my clips and ammo as did andrew and seven others , lietenant hassan our team leader joined us shortly , through the three days of massisve intelligence, training and analysis on our mission prospects he rarely said much unless when he needed to ,whitefield on the other hand well pioneered every intelligence and every joke the white collar offered and those they didnt , somehow i was happy he wasnt field leader

The mission was simple , turns out the entire area where the base black cat was held up was recently worn over by the soldiers from terrorists ,as a former military personel that was a bad news as such a place was and by tactical rules of engagement that place was still a ground zero for attacks , by tactical and geographical stats the white collar team pulled up for us , we had three routes all leading to a single narrow one at half the entire distance .

Three routes was a good one ,each could lead us to the TADHAR BASE and even more we could get drone support , navigation systems worked and tested great with at least two of those routes , thats the good path the main problem comes with the single narrow route, it turns out it was a shit show for a path , last renovated for a road eight years back , it became the perfect hideout and stops for for all types of ill minded people, the armed robbers , kidnappers, cattle rustlers and all , the kind that mades google maps sick in terms of navigation , dubbed the hell way , with surroundings that made up for the animal kingdom ,a damn forest dense and shitty , whitefield scoffed at some point and told us to write our death certificates but he laughed hard at the thought of seeing how scarred we were.

" over twenty two attacks within the last two and half weeks of three different factions of militia groups , three raids whcih left a group of travellers kidnapped and a few of them dead !" whitefield said reading from his files while we listened.

"Cant we use the drones to clear the path for us?" andrew asked ,who i had later found out was the second lucky employee of TADOPT for field assignment atleast in my set .

"yes thats correct except , we would also destroy what is already a highly Inefficient , unstable and one of the worst excuse for narrow road, hell i would gladly take a tunnel than that but its all we got , we start throwing missiles on that damn thing we wont have a road , making a new one isnt in the books , we have to manage what we got boys, am sorry ,your country is one hell of an adventure island !"

Whitefield said , that wasnt an insult for a citizen thats a compliment , Day zero was upon us , whitefield was hysteric about one of the traditions he was used to up in his country .

"you know if you sons of bitch*es are going to get screwed like bullet screwed not that i dont have faith in us but f**k it , it will go south sooner or later and i know your capabilities as a team will be the defining line between a bunch of idiots wielding guns and you guys so tonight at 9 , for all the virgins and non virgins , you are all mandated i mean commanded to be at STAR DARK CLUN HOUSE , hassan knows the drift , he will get the details , you are going to get drunk a bit get laid and if you like one of them you can even get married ,atleast someone other than your family can mourn you "

family , he said , the word rang cold in my ears.


to be continued...

chapter two comes up today

"i know you must be wondering why we called you ,the thing is this two weeks ago after we had reviewed our successful applicants across all sectors in the agency , we came to find out about some corruption scandal involving five police commissioners , a senator and a military general whilst this is not a concern for us , it turns out during interrogation , one of the commissioners spilled information about TADOPT ,this very organization and that is a big problem , if you recall no one is supposed to know you work for this agency nor suspect this agency is nothing more than a waste of building for security intelligence only and this idea is something onky governors and elite military personel should know about , for a police commissioner to know such we knew we had a mole , a leak in the organization and so we began to search and scrutinize the top officials of this organization and thay includes the president himself who came clean as did us all so we knew someone from the new boys was or could be selling active information out " whitefiled said .

he was indeed telling me the truth, i could see it .

"sir , if you think so...why call me i mean i could be the exact mole and now i know about this i could know your next move "

i said .

"It turns out wr had began scrutinizing your guys and currently you came out clean actually spotless clean so we know it couldnt be you but now wd will let you know why you are here , lieutenant hassan please brief the agent on MISSION BLACK CAT " whitefield concluded.

" two days ago , a sting operation in the northern borders of kano , got the military men coming under fire from what they thought were herdsmen coming into the country , two hours of intensive gun Battles got our men capturing NASIR EL ABDUL aka BLACK CAT , they didnt know who they had caught and once they returned to base , the information came in ,BLACK CAT STANDS as the most wanted kidnapper crime boss and the ring leader of one of the most wanted human trafficking syndicate across africa ,europe and asia and yes he is a nigeria , ever read about the 389 illegal immigrants found shot to dead upon a cargo ship up in italy a month ago?"

he asked me ,of course i had had heard about, it was said to be a horror show , decapitated , headless loads of body ranging from kids to the elderly littered the ship on arrival .

"yes sir!" i said.

"good, that was black cat 's work well atleast his command carried out by his men , among the recovered loot by the soldiers were a whooping $28 billion dollars valued gold bars found in two trailer loads , black cat is a dangerous personnel with governors ,military personnel and police men in his pay grade , the facility up in kano so far where he is been kept has already come under attack sixteen times just in those two days and many lives have been lost so far , we far the facility will not stand much longer , the USA , ITALY ,CHINA, BRAZIL AND FRANCE are all over this even the international communities are watching closey , the president feels this is what NADOPT needs to get the private financi backing it needs to keep us afloat , black cat cant be air lifted from base because its not suited for it and the attacks so far have shown our enemies to have missile launching capabilities , a bird goes over the base ,they will bring it down for sure but we have a solution 785km away from the base is a newly constructed military base called TADHAR BASE which is not in use for now with good missile defense system with air lift capability , our mission will be to air drop at TADHAR BASE get to this other base ,take black cat , bring him back to TADHAR BASE and airlift him out of there , the mission will take three days jounrey in total , I personally will spear head the mission once we are cleared for drafting within the next two days , in the mean time we have drones enroute to the base to help them clear the areas for hte next two days and provide them with tactical supports , the reason why we brought you in on this is the fact we dont know how this is going to play out ,if we have a mole in the organization that is bad because balck cat organization has moles in every where our best bet is to watch out , we know you are. dedicated and true to your calling , if things go out badly on this mission , you will be tasked with putting a bullet in balck cats head , we cant afford to lose him ever again , its a direct command from the president ,is that understood?" hassan said.

"yes sir ,you can count on me sir !" i said if only they knew how reluctant i wad in my head ,but i knew what i was getting into before i signed those papers .


THE END.

We were still talking when. my senses picked up another hear beat within reach just thrn the soft knock came on the door.

Lieutenant Djoro hassan stood before us , bulky black and muscles so ripped i wondered about the safety of his uniform , he was seasoned military personel turned DSS agent and now TaDOPT agent , my on field commander as i was later Introduced to by whitefield together both were responsible for the operations regarding the entire on missions, whitefield coordinated a special group of selected personels who i am sure did go through the hell i went through their duties revolved from providing on field intelligence , aerial surveillance and geographical intelligence , tactical guardlines and analysis and more ,the white collar he called them , i still hadng known why i sat before my superiors until whitefield dropped the bomb.

to be continued..

My appointment letter came with my gear and combat suit , the smell was the selling point i was taking about US military grade A combat weapon and gears from assault rifle HK 416 little to no recoil ,portable and deadly ,fire power just rivalled any thing I had ever come across in the army to the desert eagle 50 and the fully body armor delivered with full head gear and mask equipped with night vision lens .

Well I bet this was my second surprise from the fact that my interview two weeks ago had me sitting right in front of white military personnel, I had the fact that I was out of active services for a long time a major talking point even when I aced the physiques test , each was a military genius based on one sector , intelligence, combat , tactics and transportation no wonder I left the intense 2 hour interview feeling I had gone through hell .

my gear were custom made and designed for an active field duties officer but to the world and every other military organization in the country we were nothing more than ghost workers working for a convert security agency directly under the strict supervision of an elite few generals comprising of foreign heads who report directly to the president ,yes the damn head of state.

Pay rivals with that of a military commander so I had no issue with that when I signed my contracts oh and yes we weren't permanently employed for reasons unknown our employment status was bent on a six month review so if in the next six month I was to Bleep up a mission or break one out of the 1,500 codes of conduct and rules of engagement for each field operator it was bye bye and never see you again.

It was damn strict but it was OK, my adrenaline was high up on the 10th floor you can say , I resumed work the next day my combat gears fully placed in. a special case I could move around ,you weren't expecting me all geared up for war ,were you?

I reached for our commander's office Lieutenant Whitefield which I had directed to see by chief secretary , a US gun for hire mercenary who had pledged loyalty of my country for some some well good dough , he had welcomed me into the interview with at least over fifteen questions on military tactics and maneuvers something I excelled so yeah I did impress the fella.

"sergeant Johnson " he said with a dull smile up his cheek as I saluted , my nose caught the smell of nicotine , his heart beat which was healthy for a man I believed was around 50 ,the smell of damp and cold air .

"sir!" I said with a smile.

"sit down and wait for commander Hassan !" he said offering me one out of the two vacant seats in front of him.

We sat and for the next fifteen minutes we talked,cheered anf reminisced about war stories turns out the old chap was a war hero before he had lost his left ear in a combat operation , the army ket him go and he went international serving as a body guard, mercenary and military instructor and tactical off field instructor .

"do you know what i like about your country and why i stayed?!" he asked , i could sense the spike in his andrenaline as he asked .

"is there something to like in this shit hole ?!" i asked.

"oh no it s definitely not a shit hole , trust me i have been on active field operations in 12 different countries around the world i can tell you that your country is not that ugly , its beautiful and the average man isnt all that bad , i stayed because your country has the most resilient and hardworking people ,people who believe theres always a tomorrow , who enjoy life and enjoy good company you know and i like that alot"

he said ,his heart beat wa calm and rythmic as he spoke on ,something that supported the fact he was telling the truth or atleast he believed he was telling the truth.


to be continued.

CHAPTER ONE: RECRUITS




"Is this your first !?" a taller figure sitting directly opposite me finally broke the 30 minute silence that had had me by the throat .

We all looked like models applying for a banker job but sitting right in the newly commissioned security agency THE NIGERIA SECURITY AGENCY FOR TRANSPORTATION AND DISPLACEMENT OF HIGH PROFILED TARGETS TADOPT .

Before this I had been in active service in the military, six years and then I had a bullet after me and my squad members were ambushed coming back from a reconnaissance mission, we had little gear and little ammunition, I survived the massacre , a bullet to the hips and three more lodged in my chest , the bandits wanted to make sure we were all sea putting a bullet into each lifeless body but the army came just two bodies from mine .

I was done serving for real , reports had me that I wouldn't be able to walk again but I came through and at twenty seven I still had something to offer , honestly I would have taken a bank security job but then ,a general who I had worked under passed my papers once I told them I still had something out there to give.

My name is Ajaiye Damola Johnson and today , my fifth interview in a series of interviews which cut the number of applicants from 250 to 15 men and luckily I was still an applicant and if I was lucky I would be one out of two on Field agents who do the dirty jobs of transporting high criminal targets or hits ,you see TADOPT's sole responsibility is mainly transportation of two sets of people , targets marked people who were highly sort out for by criminal elements say witness who testify in high profile cases or hits the so called baddies , the guys who ran the underworld , we are talking about the worst of the worst kinds ,drug Lords ,kingpin's, terrorists name it .

"yes it is my first " I tried to put up a smile , I could read his body language , his heart rate was racing through the ceiling , his hands moved every now and then pacing as much as his eye lids were , saying he was nervous was an under statement , some how his eyes communicated another message, one I couldn't understand yet perhaps I was thinking things hard I mean the sixth applicant just came out of the hot room with eyes red just like the others.

I could tell none had it funny, you see my mother was born blind whilst she didn't give birth to a blind kid I always believed she gave me a gift , heightened sense I guess.
I can tell lies from true just by listening ,I can tell heart rates from each other, I can see emotions just by looking at faces , i can read even the most complicated body expressions you can think of , i also can differentiate and track practically anything from just a scent ,you can say I would give any tracking dog a race for its pay its a gift that has kept me alive and each day I thank God for this gift.

"applicant number 234 please come in"

A female voice came through the intercom stationed on the wall , her voice expressed a level of desperation and fatigue .
I stood up and gave the best smile I could having aced my other interviews, this should be an okay one I told myself.
Then again I heard that odd heart beat from the fellow , it was disturbing yet I had to wave it off.

to be continued...

GENRE
ACTION
SCI-FI
THRILLER

ADVENTURE

SYNOPSIS :

A THREE DAY MISSION TRANSPORTING ONE OF NIGERIA'S GREATEST
ARMED ROBBER AND KIDNAP KINGPIN BETWEEN TWO STATES TURNS
OUT TO BE THE WORST DAY TO START A JOB FOR NEWLY PROMOTED
AGENT AJAIYE JOHNSON .
WHILST A GIFTED MARTIAL ARTIST AND AN IMPECCABLE BODY LANGUAGE ANALYST ,HIS SKILLS ARE ABOUT TO BE PUT TO A THREE DAY TRIP TO HELL .

excepts :

"When did the army start mounting road blocks in the middle of
nowhere? "
"idiot, those are not the army , those are men in army uniforms!? "

watch out for MISSION BLACK CAT


GENRE

ACTION
SCI-FI
THRILLER
SUPER HERO
ADVENTURE


SYNOPSIS :


A THREE DAY MISSION TRANSPORTING ONE OF NIGERIA'S GREATEST ARMED ROBBER AND KIDNAP KINGPIN BETWEEN TWO STATES TURNS OUT TO BE THE WORST DAY TO START A JOB FOR NEWLY PROMOTED AGENT AJAIYE JOHNSON .

WHILST A GIFTED MARTIAL ARTIST WITH AN ALMOST DENORMAL GENE FOR PRECONCEPTIVE MOVEMENTS AND BODY LANGUAGE, THE NEWLY TRAINED IS ABOUT TO BE PUT TO THE GREATEST TEST OF HIS LIFE.


excepts :

"When did the army start mounting road blocks in the middle of nowhere? "

"idiot, those are not the army , those are men in army uniforms!? "

in case you are a typical Nigerian wondering how rich and wealthy I became, how skull got blasted into oblivion by a missile and what that red box contained well it turned out the bounty on police was shared among well you guessed it right the police.

I had my life and to be honest I was grateful for it, skull's full arm was found miles away from the bombarded building, expect he had black voodoo to help him survive that he was marked dead .

a week later, me, flex and Gaga had retreated to the farm and recovered the box and boy oh boy did I retrieve a major pay day.

seventy five ATM cards with a little diary that contained the passwords and the amount each contained and mehn I swear the total amount would make the bounty embarrassed to be called money.

Maybe finally this was my pay out from the life I had known all my life, yeah but no, me and the boys may have all the money, but the street is life it self, it gave me a home, friends who were more brothers to me than I could remember and lessons that preserved that life.

Would I still get in a street fight sure, would I still drink on credit definitely, would I still live like a broke son of a gun ,no definitely not .


THE END.

and by painless I meant literally painless, I searched my body for my spilled bodily fluids, eyes still closed tightly, if that was helping me absorb the pain I had no idea.

'idiot! ' my mind blasted me again.

'
"Gboah!!" the tremors send me scampering for, so I wasn't shot I figured, as I regained my eye sight I found the big lifeless goon on top of dogo with an arm scattered like a road kill.

There was visible chaos as men ran to and fro, shots rattled the air endlessly as empty shells went to the ground, damn it. y brainwashed trying to calculate the nearest and safest route to freedom when I felt the earth shook.

'Krakom!'

the missle bombarded a nearby incompleted shelter miles away but damn it, I felt my heart abandoned me and for the first time, I didn't want to die, oh yes the street toughness turned out to be for situations I could handle, rocket propelled grenades from God knows where was out of my league and from the further scampering from some boys who had abandoned their guns and made way for various safe zone I knew they too understood the obvious.

I ran right into skull's mansion as did many others.
'are you stupid or what? ' my mind cautioned me as I ran deep into the structure, well if war movie scenes ever thought us anything it is that, hideouts are like missile magnet, call them the Romeo and Juliet of war films but I wasn't stupid, for some reason I needed to find something or someone.

'help!! '

I stopped as some boys dragged a few suit cases stashed with cash I guess, it was basically a free estate for all, In time of great chaos the poor have a fair chance of becoming rich it all depends on how valuable your life is, I made way for the direction and found my self in front of skull's second goon and sprawling on the floor in front of him was the girl, yes the beautiful one I couldn't guess what was her function in the whole set up, she laid in a pool of her blood.

He made for me quickly but hadn't looked where he was stepping on, liquid and tiles according to human knowledge spells unfortunate injury or demise , he came sprawling and tumbling as his right boot came in contact with the blood whilst he tried the balancing act I delivered another flying kick and boom, he flew like a sparrow well actually no the idiot was as hefty as a gorilla he did stumble back and landed on the bed.

'weather for two ' my silly mind said as I jumped on the bed with no intention of Bob risking the guy, my hands descended multiple times on his face as fast as I could and bang he gave me a four star rated head butt, the kind that scans your skull for your brain and then let's you know they were in danger.

I left him for a moment and tried to make sense of the head butt and then I felt the sharp object right into my sides Letting me scream out like some sex worker who was getting more than she was paid for.

the stab came deep and for a moment I paused and slided off him to the bed side, he got up rolled out of the bed and continued searching for something in the bed's drawer .

'oh come on stop whining and give that guy his knife back ' my mind said.

I was bleeding out real good, somehow I felt the knife hit jackpot on me this time , he paid no attention to me, in his mind I was done for and boom another missile sent shock wave to the building this time walls cracked and I could hear somefew persons scream, the building wasn't going to hold on much longer but that was not the real deal my assailant lost his balance for a second time letting him hit his butts on the bed and to think he thought I was that easy to put that, I mean I have been stabbed in the back, shoulder, legs, hands, neck and many a time in my stomach infact there was a time where my stomach housed more cuts than I could count, knives, bottles, machete, portable axe even sharpened wood had done the job yet my path with death was one hell of a contract deal worth alot of time for me.

He hadn't seen me perhaps he hadn't thought much of it but like a jolt from a lightning, I dropped hard the knife once I drew it out from my body right into his neck bone breaking the handle with brute force and lodging the blade deep in, his neck fell to one side as blood gushed out ,I could see him try to get the blade as he stood only to lose his balance and went numb once his body hit the floor.
'there , are you happy now? ' I asked myself yes I could now add murder to my answered questions on WHO WANTS TO BE A STREET THUG , I found a cover sheet and torn it quickly and wrapped my waist as tight as I could not that it did stop the bleeding but it was safe to say I could encourage myself that I did something.

'the wardrobe... the red box! ' someone muttered I made turn and found the girl saying one hand stretched towards a fallen wardrobe on the other side.

I tried going for her but her face immediately went pale once she had said that.

'water don pass garri! ' my mind said as I rushed for the wardrobe and turned it over ,what I was looking and why I was looking for it were questions my mind was demanding strong answers for.

I found a red box hidden among the clothes I turned over, it was tightly locked and it seem to contain stuffs that sounded like plastics, I think the third missile drop was no longer a reminder, I took the damn thing ,scaled the fence and found myself scampering for the bushes but then my eyes caught of a young guy who had my shoes on.

the idiot had my shoes with the tracker inside, what an idiot he was been tracked but wait does this mean these were the police?

I ran deeper into the bushes and made for a farmland I came across, clawing the ground as deep as I could I buried the damn thing as fast as I could, what the hell I was doing I had no idea but damn you should see me going Barry Allen on the whole thing.

once done I went for some shrubs and hid carefully to take my First survey of the situation.

'Round them up! ' someone shouted from a far, well no bad guy uses that word I don't think I have ever been relieved to see armed men in uniform walk past The farm hunting for others .

'na JJC oh make una no shot me oh na JJC " I screamed out I wasn't going to be shot by mistake or by one other story police men usually come up with, I laid on the bush as they thronged my direction.

I relaxed a bit as I held my stomach again.

'mission over! ' my mind said somehow I believed it, the police took me up and identified me again and then two others stood with me as others continued their search.

it was really over.