According to sources maintenance crews do an exterior inspection daily when light falls on the facility and this will be the opportunity for our way in. Our agent will be inserted about 100 yards from the facility with a 45-minute air supply, so timing is everything.
I (Chad) slip in the facility with the maintenance crew armed only a map in my head of where I need to go to cripple the reactor since no weapons are allowed near any off-world facility without an atmosphere for fear of accidents to life support systems which is why a one-man covert action was chosen. I immediately head for my target location, as I round the second corner, I am surrounded by six guards.
Sun (pronounced; soon) is standing further down the corridor, she is a very innocent looking wisp of a woman although her stance commands respect. She speaks with an authoritative tone "Did you honestly think we did not know you were coming"? " We have had you under surveillance the second you landed on my moon". "I know who you are, I have been following your classified career since your transformation". "My guards are all Masters in Kung Fu, I am a Master in four different disciplines of Kung Fu including "Silat" and a ninth level Black Belt in TaeKwon-Do". "Your resistance would be futile".
(Silat - is one of the deadliest forms in the world. Unlike some martial arts that stress spirituality or self-perfection, Silat is all about one thing: violence.)
My entire body is on heightened alert. My enhanced genetics & implants allow me to hear dust falling and feel the slightest change in air pressure. Sun makes a hand gesture to her guards; from my point of view everything goes into super slow motion. I close my eyes and rely only on my enhanced senses. FIGHT!!! I drop into a squatting position and twirl around while fully extending my right leg knocking all six guards off their feet, I rise into a Praying Mantis stance opening my eyes and am able to connect with the paralyzing nerve points on the first two guards to rise behind me, they fall back to the floor wide eyed but motionless.
The remaining four guards are now extremely pissed that I made them look bad in front of the boss. This is good for me because pissed fighters often throw caution to the wind. They run at me, I use my knowledge of Jiu jitsu to use their own momentum against the two I was able to manipulate by adding my weight to theirs and pulling them into the wall behind me headfirst. They were out. The remaining two guards were now aware of my skills which made them more focused which made my job more difficult. It took another fifteen "hard" minutes to clear that corridor.
Sun stood there looking at me with this calmness and just said "Impressive". I pointed at her saying "You are a danger to all existence with your rushed non collaborative experiments, I do not want to hurt you, but this must stop now"! I walked towards her, and she didn't budge. As I came face to face with her, I raised my hands to grab her shoulders and she struck me in the chest with blinding speed and tremendous force with the palm of her open hand and then resumed her posture as if nothing happened as I flew across the floor. I quickly stood with my chest pounding with pain to resume the fight and she just stood there.
I was both curious and confused, I had never had this happen before, but I knew she was dangerous, so I decided to treat her as such. I became very aggressive in an attempt to subdue her so I could complete my mission. She effortlessly blocked or diverted like twenty of my best moves and again penetrated my defenses and did that strike me in the chest thing only more forceful. I was much slower getting up this time.
She resumed her posture and said, "I will not fight you, but I will however agree to have a dialogue with the people who sent you before performing any further experiments". " Will that work for you"?
I did not see another option at this point.
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