CHAPTER SEVENTEEN BAGHDAD

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"Alright Wolfpack get ready to land! Eyes peeled!"

We land and move to a wall. I pull a thermal scope out and scan.

"Cold."

(Meaning no heat signitures,  no life. Warm, handful. Hot... means trouble. ) We move up carefully anyways.

"Wolfpack,  this is Crow, do you copy? "

"We hear yuh' Crow."

"Alright the file I'm sending you now is MalikIe's full intel,  so you'll have usual whereabouts when it's loaded.  Be careful,  this guy's tricky."

"Thanks Crow. "

"Watch yourself. "...

"Got it, this is the place alright. "

"Well let's make an entrance. "

We kick the door in, I shoot the first person I see and turn to another,  aiming at him now.

"MalikIe. "

That's all I need to say. They fall to the ground and point to the south side of the building.  I grab a beanbag shotgun and plenty of tacticals. I kick the door in and pull the pin to a flashbang,  I drop it, (my crew has propper gear for our tactics. ) it goes off, MalikIe goes to the ground. 

"Where's Almandez? "

MalikIe gets up slowly.

"You think it's that simple? "

I pull a chair out and set tacticals on the table, flashbang,  teargas,  nine bang, beanbag shotgun,  tazer.

"Where?"

"Screw you."

"Eanie,  meanie,  minie,  Moe."

I pick up the shotgun and shoot him in the chest. I shuffle the tacticals.

"Where?"

He gets up barely breathing.

"Ev en.. if.. I. Knew."

I grabbed one of the grenades I shuffled.

"Let's see what this does, shall we?"

I toss it against the wall,  gas pours out, we had masks on and I had one in my hand to taunt the answer out of him, but he was tough. Through the snot and tears he choked

"Fuck you!"

I crank the nine bang full nine clicks and toss it to his feet, it goes off. When it's done we turn back around and take our masks off.

"Now, where was that again?  "

"You want Almandez? ..."

He wipes his face, almost laughing.

"You got it."

...

The pain in my shoulder is excruciating , I fall to the ground and see Almandez aiming for my skull with his pistol.  I close my eyes.

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
                                                              -Plato

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