Alliances

Chapter 6

She opened to files on the flash drive on the computer Owen had unencrypted. She finally decided to check out the missions that could lead to the guardians.

"Operation heart attack" she mumbled to herself before opening it

The first thing she noticed was mention of the cia

What?

She read on

Trials of a gun. But not just any ordinary gun. We've been developing one which doesn't shoot your average bullet, you shoot the person with shell fish residue frozen inside water, the bullet melts, the toxin dissolves, causing heart attack like symptoms. The death is chalked up to a heart attack because there is no evidence of injury.

A weapon to take out high profile targets with no trace.

She read. She scrolled down to see videos

She pressed play to see a man strapped into a chair
Across the room was a man wearing a suite, hair slicked back, high quality leather shoes. He held what looked like an ultra shriek hand gun

"Human trial one" the scientist behind the camera said

The man holding the gun preceded to aim the weapon

"No, no please!" The man in the chair pleaded

The well dressed man continued to pull the trigger

The test subject flinched, but not as drastically as he would have if he was shot normally

He then tensed up, there was a vein in his forehead that perturbed.

Callan watched in horror for 8 minutes as the man had a painful death. Slow, agonizing, and all for the sake of weapon training.

Finally his eyes glazed over and his torture was finished

She scrolled below the video

The gun doesn't last as long as an actual heart attack would but further testing could improve that, not that anyone could know unless they knew what to look for

Was written. She was appalled. More human testing then. Even if for no other reason, partnering with Owen was simply the right thing to do.

In the months that she and Owen had been trying, he showed her a number of ways to hack computers and little tricks. She made a copy of the text from the document, encrypted it, and sent it to Elliot. They both knew it was dangerous, and Owen forbid it, but he was her best friend, she couldn't go through this without him.

She had taught him to unecrypt

Owen walked into the room

As soon as her email had sent she deleted the history of it right before Owen would see her screen

He bent down over her shoulder to look at what she was.

"Ahhhh, operation heart attack. As awful as it is, it's one of the easier missions." He said

"What?" She asked

"There's one file, for instance, about hitler's faked death."

"No way."

"Yeah, but there's no way in hell we'll pull that off as a two man op."

"So how does the cia's heart attack gun play into the gaurdian?" She asked

"It's not how it plays in, but when." He said standing back up

"How?"

"The file says how the weapon needed more testing, there's been time for that, it's also mentioned 'erase targets without a trace' that's referring to alliance. Jackson started it but only 9 people currently know about it. Not even the president, those people obviously have places of power."

"You're saying, member 3 is high up in the CIA? And we'll be able to trace it when they use it?"

"Persisely." He said walking to a second laptop

He opened it and started typing.

"See, I'm searching all the major news outlets.. Here we are" he said pulling up a news story from the day before

"The 3 top drug lords all had heart attacks?" She asked reading his screen next to him

"Ironic isn't it? First of all, why drug lords?"

"What happened to their cargo?" Callan asked

It was quit while they skimmed the article

"No where to be found. Interesting." She said

"Opiets and cocaine are two of the pricier drugs.. Who's funding alliance? I know some tax payer dollars are used but if they're stocking up they might need more.." Owen thought out loud

"That's it! They used the gun on drug smugglers so they could sell the drugs for their own profit.. The next question is what are they planning that's bigger?"

"First things first, there's two other smugglers I learned about going through their program. The previous 3 died before delivering to America meaning the price has gone up here and they're sure to know that. They'll be coming here. Luckily one is coming from Mexico, the other from South America, so both will probably make their stops in Miami, Orlando, or Jacksonville before heading to New York. We'll watch for them, as soon as they die we'll follow the killers. After they sell the drugs the money will go back to the one most responsible for the finances and we'll catch them then."

"Alright. So what's the plan?" She asked, actually excited for the first mission

"Pack for Miami. They'll stop they're first. I'll explain on the way." He said

She stood up to go

"Oh and Callan."

"Yes?" She asked looking over her shoulder

"It'll happen somewhere black tie standards so pack something elegant." He smirked at her