The Mission
In the year 2016 North Koreans had developed a cloning machine and were planning to clone their glorious leader, Kim Jong Il. The President of the United States, Buck Short, knew there was only a small window of time, where the machine was being built, to stop the North Koreans. The President told his Five Star General, Matthew Gosbeth, to construct a team of men who could infiltrate and destroy the machine and kill Kim Jong Il. The team consisted of four men; Patrick, who was a pistol and knifes expert; David, the sniper of the group; Nathan who was good with his AK-47; and Zach who was deadly with a shotgun. Their mission was to infiltrate North Korea, destroy the cloning machine and kill the tyrannous leader, Kim Jong Il. The mission began when Patrick infiltrated North Korea by himself because he would blend in the best because he was South Korean. Slowly and painstakingly to perfection, over the next year, he managed to bring in the rest of his team via North Korean shipments and other various ways. Once the whole team had made it in, they started to plan their mission.
After a year of planning and observing the North Koreans security they decided that July 4th would be the date of attack. The mission began according to plan; David was set up on the rooftop across the base where the team believed Kim Jong Il and the majority of North Korea’s high officials were located. Meanwhile Patrick, Zach and Nate began to clear the guards with as much stealth and quickness as a striking cobra. It all was going perfectly, until the worst stroke of luck happened to Zach. While Zach was taking out a guard, another guard happened to be going to the bathroom and saw his comrade killed. He immediately rose the alarm and then bad things started to happen really fast. The first of which, was about 100 more guards than the team had anticipated streamed out of the base. Also, the officials were attempting to flee via Kim Jong Il’s personal limousine, but David put a stop to that by putting four nicely placed bullets right in the tires of the vehicle this made the officials retreat back into the base.
The rest of the team scattered, under cars, behind boxes, basically wherever they could find cover. Nate pulled out his AK-47 and shot an explosive barrel across the compound, and it blew up taking five guards with it. Zach began running around like a mad man and was pulling off shotgun kills left and right while David covered him from the rooftop. Patrick was diving and rolling everywhere pulling off crack shots with his dual pistols. Eventually, after thirty minutes of an intense fire fight, the team had dispatched all of the guards. None of them had received any major wounds; only a couple of minor scratches.
David then rappelled down from the rooftop and joined the rest of his team at the door of the base. David pulled out his sidearm scorpion he carried, Patrick reloaded his duel pistols, Zach hefted up his shotgun in one arm and pulled out his pistol in the other, and Nate put a new clip in his AK-47. They blew the first door and ran in together shooting while they went. They hit the first wave of guys and blew them away because they had the surprise factor. However, from their research they knew there were three more rooms to go and each got progressively bigger so they could hold more men. They made it though the next two rooms, but Patrick got shot in the left arm, Nate was shot in the right leg and Zach and David both got shot in the shoulder. The team of four elite men stood and looked at the door. They had come so far and their target and 250 of his best men were on the other side. Patrick broke them out of their reveries, “So this is it,” he stated simply. “If anybody wants to back out, the time is right now. If you do, the rest of us will understand.”
“Nobody is going anywhere,” Zach answered.
“Yeah,” David added somberly.
“We’ve gone too far and risked too much for anyone to back out now,” Nathan said logically.
“I’m just saying, the risk is greater now than it ever was,” Patrick answered. “None of us will probably make it out of that room alive, and I know you all have a lot to lose. Nathan, you have a wife and kids back home, David you got a fiancé waiting for you. And Zach has two brothers that are depending on him.”
They all stood there for a minute and David said, “We knew the risks when we agreed to come along with you on this crazy mission.”
Zach continued on David’s thought, “Yeah, we’re all a family here, and if anyone left, it would feel as if he were leaving his brothers behind to die.”
Patrick opened his mouth to retaliate, “But−”
“But nothing. We’re all going inside that door,” Nathan said.
Patrick was convinced, “Well, boys,” he smiled, “let’s see who’s home.”
“Really, Patrick, you just had to bust out the cheesy one-liner?” David joked.
“Of course,” Patrick answered.
Zach stated his thoughts, “I was thinking more along the line ‘Let’s go out with a bang.’”
Nathan added his into the mix as well, “What about ‘we all go in and we all come out’ just like in that Columbia mission?”
“Yeah, I remember that,” David exclaimed, “didn’t we−”
Patrick cut him off, “Are we going to kill Kim Jong Il sometime today or not?” as he brought them out of their reminiscing.
“Yeah, let’s do it,” the other three answered. And the four of them rushed into the room, guns blazing, to meet their destinies.
They rushed into the room, and as soon as they entered the room, Nathan and Patrick veered left, while David and Zach went to the right. They caught most of the guards by surprise with their speed and hit them in a cross fire. However, it seemed like an endless amount of guards. The four of them knew that to stay alive they must keep moving no matter what because the base provided little cover except for the concrete pillars around the sides. Even then, they provided little cover from the sheer amount of men the North Koreans had in the base. They fought their way through the men and killed about half of them when things started to get worse. All of them had taken numerous shots to the arms and legs but managed to keep fighting. Also, they noticed Kim Jong Il was trying to escape out of a secret doorway in the back, but it was in the open so he couldn’t get to it without exposing himself to them. They eventually killed all except for twenty men and could now use the concrete pillars as cover to catch their breath.
“Give up now,” yelled the voice of Kim Jong Il, “and your lives will be spared.”
“Yeah right,” yelled David, “as soon as we step out behind these pillars, you’ll shoot us right then and there.”
“Okay,” replied the tyrant, “then you will die anyways.” And right after he said this, a hail of gunfire from the remaining twenty guards was blasted at them.
“Man, we are in some big trouble,” Nathan said as he casually reached around and let off a burst from his AK-47.
“Yeah I’m not sure if we’re all going to make it out of this one,” said Zach as he shot around his pillar and killed a guard.
“I say we just rush them,” Patrick said, “what’s the worst that can happen?”
“We could die,” David answered.
“Yeah but the way I see it, we’re almost out of ammo and before long, Kim Jong Il is going to escape out that secret doorway,” Patrick countered.
“I can make the decision easy for you,” Kim Jong Il barked. “In my hand I hold a pressure sensor. If my hand comes off this sensor for three seconds, the base will blow up.”
“Well that sounds like a challenge,” said Nathan.
“Ok we rush on three,” Zach stated as he made up the mind for the group.
“Alright,” David said, “I get to count. One…two…three!”
They all ran around their pillars and began shooting at the guards and within twenty seconds, all of the guards lay slain on the floor.
“Well that was easy,” Patrick stated and as soon as he said this there was a loud bang and he was bleeding from his chest and fell to the floor. Kim Jong Il had pulled out the pistol he had hidden up his sleeve and used it to shoot Patrick in the chest. Immediately after the other three had shot Kim Jong Il and Zach hurried to pick up the pressure sensor.
“We gotta get out of here,” Nathan thought aloud.
“And quickly,” David added, “Patrick is bleeding pretty badly.”
Four hours later they were back in their base they had set up and Patrick was patched up as well as the others. They sat around Patrick’s bed and talked about the mission they had successfully completed. Then Patrick realized something and he stated his revelation to the group, “How come Kim Jong Il was so willing to let himself die? He must’ve known we were going to rush him even with the pressure sensor in play.”
“I don’t know. Maybe he knew it was his time to die and there was no trying to escape it,” Nathan answered.
“Or,” Patrick continued, “maybe our information was wrong and he did use the machine.”
The group pondered on this for awhile and Zach broke the silence, “Well I guess the mission isn’t over yet then is it?”
“No,” Patrick answered “the mission has only begun.”
