PROLOGUE

 

Angela and, Ashley stepped off the private jet and hopped into the SUV that awaited their arrival. They had just arrived in London. But they weren’t there on vacation or to site see, they were there on business.

“Okay, Troy talk to me. We didn’t have time to get briefed on the jet for this mission so you’re going to have to fill us in,” Angela said as she and, Ashley checked the magazines on their handguns.

“I would have loved to make the trip with you ladies but the captain had other plans for me,” Troy said as the trio communicated through their earpieces. “Well it seems like several of our country’s best agents has been coming up dead. Twelve in the last two months.”

“Where were these agents last seen?” Ashley asked with a concerned look on her face.

“A few of them were sent to go capture a man that goes by the name, the Lion. Needless to say all the agents never returned or was ever heard from again,” Troy paused for a second. “The other agents were all murdered in their homes along with their families.”

“Sounds fishy if you ask me,” Angela said. She knew it wasn’t easy to kill a trained agent. You had to have some serious skills to pull something like that off. “So what are we doing in London?”

“One of the missing agents popped up in a hospital in London when he gave them his name it popped up in our data base. You and Ashley need to get as much information out of the agent as possible we need to know what he knows about, the Lion and if he has any info on any of the other missing agents.”

“Copy,” Angela said as the SUV pulled up in front of the hospital, and from the looks of it, the place was packed. Angela and Ashley entered the hospital with serious looks on their faces. Twelve agents gone missing and presumed dead wasn’t something they took lightly. “What room?”

“704,” Troy’s voice crackled through Angela’s earpiece. Angela and Ashley stepped on the elevator and pressed seven. The doors to the elevator closed and the elevator carried them up to the seventh floor. Angela and Ashley stepped off the elevator and immediately saw several nurses running down the hall in a panic they looked up and saw the number 704 above the door. Angela ran to the room and looked inside. Laying in the bed was a man with both of his legs missing and a large bandage wrapped around his head. The monitor above the agents head held a loud steady beep pronouncing him dead. Angela grabbed the nurse closes to her by the arm. “What happened?”

“I...I don’t know,” the nurse said nervously. “I just checked on him ten minutes ago and he was fine.”

“I saw a tall man and a short Asian woman exit this room just as the monitor went off,” another nurse volunteered.

“Do you remember what they were wearing?” Ashley asked.

“Yes they were both wearing black trench coats,” the nurse informed.

Angela and Ashley quickly exited the room to look for the couple in matching black trench coats. “Troy I need you to be my eyes we’re looking for a tall male and a short Asian female both wearing black trench coats.”

Troy pressed a few keys on his computer and hacked into the hospital’s security cameras. “Found them. They’re on the elevator heading down to the lobby.”

Angela and Ashley took off in a sprint towards the staircase. They ran down the stairs skipping two at a time until they finally reached the lobby. Angela stepped out of the staircase and walked at a normal pace. “Okay Troy, where are they?”

“Straight ahead. You can’t miss them,” Troy replied. “Be careful I doubt they’re wearing trench coats for a fashion statement.”

“Copy,” Angela said as she looked over at Ashley. “I’ll take the tall man and you take the chick.”

“Why do you get to have all the fun?” Ashley protested. “I want tall man.”

“Fine I’ll take the chick,” Angela said as the woman in the trench coat looked back and made eye contact with her. “I think she just made me so get ready to move.”

* * *

“I think we have company,” the woman in the trench coat said to her partner.

“You sure about that Roxy?” The tall man asked.

“Positive,” Roxy said looking for the quickest exit. “We split up. Move on my que,”

“Copy,” tall man said as he reached in his trench coat and grabbed the handle of his machine gun. Roxy took a couple of more steps before she flung her trench coat off and spun around holding a machine gun with an banana clip hanging from the base. She squeezed down on the trigger and swayed her arms from side to side killing any and everybody in her line of fire.

“Get down!” Angela yelled as she dived behind a wall. Ashely quickly dashed inside the room closest to her as bullets decorated the wall just above her head.

Roxy turned and took off in a sprint towards the exit, when out of nowhere, one of the hospital police officers roughly tackled her down to the floor. Roxy hit the floor and bounced backed up to her feet before the officer could count to two. The officer threw a wild right hook with bad intentions Roxy caught the officers arm in mid swing, landed a vicious elbow to the man’s rib cage, raised her elbow, and broke the officers arm, then finished him off with a violent hip toss down to the hard floor. Another officer ran up, but Roxy quickly removed her back up 9mm from the small of her back and put a bullet right between the officer’s eyes, in a rapid succession, she put down three other officers with pinpoint accuracy who called themselves trying to be heroes. Roxy sprang back up to her feet when she was tackled from behind. Angela tackled Roxy from behind and the two went sliding across the floor. Angela went to apply a chokehold on the female assassin, but before Angela could lock her arm under Roxy’s throat, she somehow squirmed out of Angela’s grip. Angela punched Roxy in her face then rushed her back into the wall. As soon as Roxy’s back hit the wall, she dipped up under Angela’s next punch and landed three quick blows of her own. The punches snapped Angela’s head back and stunned her the punches came so fast that Angela could only use her face to block the punches. Before Angela could recover from the blows, Roxy ran and charged Angela. She hit her hard lifting her slightly off her feet as the two went crashing through the glass door that said emergency only on it. Roxy made it up first but Angela quickly swept her feet from under her sending her crashing violently down on a pile of broken glass. Angela mounted Roxy, and landed a few punches to her face. Just as Angela was about to go in for the kill a police officer tackled her off top of Roxy from behind. The officer had no clue what was going on all he knew was that shots had been fired and he was trying to gain control of the situation. Angela flipped the officer off her, grabbed him by his shoulders and jammed her knee in the pit of his stomach., Then she landed a sharp elbow down into the officers back she then pulled her Five-Seven pistol from her holster and aimed it at the fleeing assassin but she couldn’t take the shot because there were too many innocent people in her line of fire. “Shit!” Angela cursed as she took off after the Asian assassin.

* * *

Ashley sprinted down the hall, chasing after Tall Man. She had a decent shot but wanted to get closer. If possible, she wanted to take the Tall Man alive and see if she could maybe get some information out of him. Tall Man reached the end of the hall way and opened fire on the staff as well as a few police officers trying to get In his way.

“Hey!” Ashley yelled. When Tall Man turned around Ashley fired four shots into his chest dropping him instantly. Ashley eased towards tall man’s body, once she was close enough she kicked his machine gun out of arms reach at the same time Tall Man raised his leg and kicked Ashley in the chest sending her sliding across the floor. The impact from the kick was so powerful that it caused Ashley to lose possession of her gun. Ashley quickly sprang back to her feet as Tall Man closed in on her. Tall Man threw a powerful jab that if connected would of more than likely broken Ashley’s face. Ashley slipped the jab and delivered a hard knee to Tall Man’s stomach, followed by a hard elbow to Tall Man’s temple. Ashley landed several hard blows to Tall Man’s face but the blows didn’t seem to faze him. Tall Man grabbed a hand full of Ashley’s hair and slammed her head violently into the wall. Ashley ducked the next punch, pulled a sharp knife from her utility belt, and sliced Tall Man’s arm. Ashley followed up and sliced Tall Man across his chest and his thigh before he even realized what was going on.

Tall Man looked down at his blood and flashed a smile. He quickly reached behind his back and produced a small handgun; he raised his arm and fired off a shot.

When Ashley saw Tall Man, reach she did an army roll, came up, and tossed the knife in his direction. She looked on and watched as the knife flipped through the air before finding a home in the tall man’s throat. Tall Man tried to remove the knife from his throat but it was no use blood gushed out of the wound and quickly covered his fingers. After a few seconds Tall Man finally collapsed down to the floor and took his last breath. “Tall Man is down where are you Angela?” Ashley yelled through her earpiece as she ran outside in hopes to catch up with Angela.

* * *

Roxy ran out into the street like a mad woman. Up ahead she saw man riding a motorcycle heading in her direction., Without thinking twice Roxy stuck out her arm and close-lined the rider off the bike. She ran and snatched the helmet off the man’s head, then hopped on his bike, and burned rubber. Just as Roxy pulled off she felt a bullet explode in the back of her bulletproof vest. The impact from the shot almost made her lose control of the bike but she somehow managed to keep control.

Angela ran out into the middle of the street and fired off a shot that hit the Asian assassin but she somehow maintained control of the bike. Angela quickly ran and stopped the first car she saw which happened to be a black Camaro. “I’m sorry sir but I need your car!” she said as she removed the man from his vehicle at gunpoint. Angela got behind the wheel and gunned the engine. There was no way she was letting the assassin get away. The Camaro zipped through the streets at a high speed Angela navigated the sports car as if it was a race car. The engine revved loudly as the speedometer rose quickly.

Roxy weaved in and out of traffic like a mad woman. She quickly bunny hopped onto the curb and rode on the sidewalk forcing pedestrians to damn near kill themselves trying to get out the way of the mad rider. Roxy hit the corner hard leaning herself along with the bike so low to the ground that her knee threatened to scrape the ground. Up ahead, Roxy noticed a busy intersection. Without thinking twice she sped up and ran through the intersection barely avoiding several near death collisions. Behind her, several cars slammed into one another causing a semi roadblock. Roxy then took that opportunity to hop on the freeway.

“Shit!” Angela cursed as she swerved around several damaged vehicles barely avoiding a few collisions herself. Car horns blared loudly as people got out of their vehicles yelling and screaming. Angela cut the wheel hard to the right and merged onto the freeway. The Camaro’s engine roared as it picked up speed. Angela kept her eyes on her target the Asian assassin was only four car lengths in front of her.

Roxy looked over her shoulder and saw the black Camaro speeding up on her left side. She quickly swerved and weaved from lane to lane, her hair that hung out the back of her helmet flew wildly all over the place as she reached speeds well over 100mph.

Roxy glanced over her shoulder again and noticed that the Camaro was still keeping up. She then quickly removed her 9mm from her thigh holster, aimed behind her, and fired four shots into the Camaro’s windshield.

Angela quickly ducked her head down as several bullets shattered her windshield. Angela held the steering wheel steady with one hand, grabbed her Five-Seven pistol with the other hand, and stuck it out the window. Angela sent several shot in the Asian assassin’s direction.

Roxy weaved from out of one lane to the next when a bullet hit her back tire causing her to lose control of the bike. “Argggghhh!” she yelped as her body was thrown from the bike. Roxy’s body landed violently on the unforgiving freeway. When Roxy hit the ground, her momentum from the crash caused her body to roll across the concrete for at least fifteen seconds before finally coming to a stop. Roxy quickly peeled herself up from off the ground and took off in a sprint., She ran with a slight limp and wasn’t able to reach her maximum speed due to the crash. During the crash, Roxy loss possession of her pistol and was now weapon less. She ran over towards the ledge of the bridge, took a deep breath then swan dived off the bridge down into the water below.

Angela pulled the Camaro up to the ledge and hopped out. She ran over towards the ledge, looked down into the water, and didn’t see anything. Angela kicked off her boots and climbed up on the ledge.

“I know you’re not thinking about jumping down in that water!” Troy’s voice crackled through Angela’s earpiece. “Angela think about this.”

“No time to think!” Angela said as she drove off the ledge down into the water. The coldness of the water shocked Angela’s body at first but she knew in a few seconds her body would get used to the frigid cold. Angela swam under water blindly. With the water being so dirty, it made it hard for her to see clearly. As Angela swam, she spotted movement out the corner of her eye she looked over to her left and saw a pair of legs enter some sort of underwater cave. Angela swam over toward the cave and just as she arrived, the Asian assassin slammed the steel-checkered door shut and turned it lock. Angela tried her best to get the door open but it was no use. 

Roxy and Angela stared off long and hard at one another before Roxy finally swam away leaving Angela there on the outside looking in.

Angela hit the door out of frustration, as she had no other choice but to swim back up to the surface.