Operation Leap of Faith

Chapter 4

There's a cameo of certain two assassins in this chapter, can you tell who they are?

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Present day - USA, Vermont

The university campus was big and picturesque; it looked like someone had taken it out of a movie. However, all Kapkan could think of was how uncannily similar it was to Bartlett University. He looked at the green expanses surrounding the building and the students milling around in groups and joking with their friends, and all he could see was clouds of yellowish and dense gas, bodies strewn on the ground. That had been Rainbow's first big-scale operation, and the one that the five original teams would never forget.

Kapkan shook these thoughts from his head, instead focusing on observing the people coming out of the main building. According to the information the White Masks had shared with Glaz, the unfortunate soul Kapkan was waiting for would walk through that door any moment now. Morgan Hayes Jr., such a pompous name for such a young man. Kapkan had researched his family and friends extensively and found no sign of him being even tangentially connected to the brotherhood. Nothing about him singled Morgan out as someone who the Templars might want to get rid of, and yet here they were. There was a small chance he'd just been randomly selected, but it seemed unlikely. The emails Six, or more likely Harry, had sent had shed no light on the matter.

The investigation of Glaz's new companions hadn't been fruitful either. At first, Kapkan saw an Abstergo employee called Layla and dared to hope he'd found who Shrike was, but the employee turned out to be Layla Hassan, and Six had confirmed she was under assassin custody now. Not the same Layla then. At least he found some information on Damien, namely that he had a younger brother and a couple of old police records from his younger years. Aside from that, no trace of any other legal documents about him. Whoever was covering the cell's tracks was good, better than Kapkan definitely. Although if they could get Dokkaebi on it, she'd have mountains of information about these people in less than a day. Such a shame Six didn't want to involve anyone else in this operation.

Someone matching Morgan's description got out of the building, walking next to a young woman who fit the description of his girlfriend. Kapkan tugged at the strings of his hoodie while he watched them kiss before going separate ways. Walking slightly hunched to go unnoticed amongst the crowd, Kapkan followed him from a distance. The target went towards the parking lot, a mostly empty place and probably the best moment to grab him.

"Morgan Hayes?" Kapkan put a hand on his shoulders, trying to get a firm hold of him. However, the man elbowed him in the ribs and ran like the devil was after him, getting into the parking lot at an amazing speed.

Muttering a string of curses, Kapkan went in hot pursuit, vaulting over a half wall to not lose sight of him. Morgan was standing next to a car, fiddling with the key but his nerves made him keep failing in what supposedly was an easy task. Eventually, he did it, and the poor guy was trying to start the car when Kapkan caught up with him, getting into the passenger's seat as he belonged there.

"Please don't hurt me! I don't have money, the car's old but you can have it if you want, just don't hurt me!"

Being scared shitless was an appropriate reaction, but he was scared of the wrong person. "We need to talk."

"Oh my god, are you with the Russian mafia?"

Either Morgan was involved in some shady stuff, or he had quite an overactive imagination. Kapkan threw him a withering glare and took out of his pocket a folded piece of paper, which he tossed in his direction. The paper landed on Morgan's lap, but he only looked at it, then back to Kapkan like he was following a tennis match.