Luka walked the hall heading for the training facility as Harding stepped out of his office. "Novak, can I have a word?" Harding said as he stepped out of the way. "Sure." Luka spoke as he stepped inside the office. He stood vigilant with his hands behind his back as Harding walked around his desk and grabbed the tract phone. He held it up. "You remember this?" Harding asked.
Luka nodded his head. "A few months ago. We took that. You finally going to let me know what's on it?" Luka asked as Harding grabbed his transceiver and handed it to Luka. He started scrolling through it. "High political people. I don't understand." Luka admitted. "Go into the confidential file." Harding stated. Luka tapped on the file as it pulled up images of Higher Authority individuals that have been in their building before. Luka looked up at Harding. "All these people are Higher Authority?" Luka asked.
Harding smiled. "They have been keeping these men as their front to go to different factions and ruffle feathers and to keep us in check. We now have names and faces of all Higher Authority individuals." Harding insisted as Luka smiled. "This is incredible. What do you want to do with this intel?" Luka asked.
General Harding walked around his desk and sat down on the edge in front of Luka. "I think you and I are both in agreement that the Higher Authority has been a threat to us." Harding insisted as Luka looked at him perplexed. He licked his lips as Harding continued to speak. "They have done everything to try to take us down. We keep rising up, and it's not going to stop. I feel we should take them out." Harding admitted as Luka looked deep in thought.
Luka chewed on the inside of his lip as he tried to put everything together. "Going after these guys could be the death of us. This is a lot of people." Luka admitted. General Harding shrugged his shoulders as he kept his gaze on Luka. "I thought I had THE REAPER in my midst. The ghost, the specter, whatever the fuck they want to call you. You don't think you can accomplish this?" General Harding asked. Luka smiled and nodded his head.
Luka scanned through the images as he was deep in thought. "I have a plan. I'm going to have to get in good with Red Star International again. Let them know the Russian Reaper isn't dead, well Alexei's gone, they'll just have to accept me. This will get me exclusive hits list again. I might have to do some shit for them to get in their good graces, but once I get that list back up. I'll send it over for Gabe to hack into and run it. We'll put all of them on there, make them feel like someone put a hit out on them." Luka stated.
Harding stood for a moment and pursed his lips. "Does it state the Reaper is onto them because it's going to give us away." Harding insisted. "When Gabe hacks the RSI system, I'll be a ghost again. They won't know who is after them, and it will all lead back to RSI." Luka stated with a smirk. "I knew you would figure it out. Dismissed." General Harding stated as Luka handed him back his transceiver and went to walk out. He turned and looked back when he heard his name. "Tell Reed is he is not allowed to go with you. He can be part of the plan, but he can't go with." Harding stated. "Yes sir." Luka said. "Could I make one suggestion?" Luka asked.
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Battle Born
Science FictionLuka Novak was a product of Deep State programs, hidden from the world most normal civilians knew of. Born into MK Ultra, modeled into the dark society to become a super soldier, battling other factions in the Deep State, battling extraterrestrial...