Imperatrix

chapter 38

Jack landed on her feet, unclipped her parachute and shrugged it off. She watched as the others slowly landed as well. The men holding the dogs dropped them and they ran to meet her. She turned and started jogging, the dogs followed her, leaving the others to follow as well. They had stopped a few kilometers away from the building Lucas was kept. They had to be fast before someone found the parachutes.

They had to drop like that because she wasn't sure if the Koreans could detect their presence if they used vehicles. Lord knew how many mines he'd set out for them, but she was taking no risks. The homing signal had brought them to Hong Kong. She looked at the device in her hand, they were getting closer. Her team of efficient men moved silently and swiftly through the woods, jumping over logs, and dodging low hanging branches.

The only ones who got hit were Dong Hyun's men. The branches smacked them across the face. Pablo suddenly stopped and sniffed around. She stopped and they all stopped. He was sensing something. He sniffed around and walked to a tree scratching it. They looked up and hidden in the branches was a camera. They could see the red beeping light. She nodded at Angela who promptly hacked it, so it was seeing only trees and not them. She used the device they'd taken from one Mr Dorian. Really nice man.

They couldn't disable the cameras cause it would be obvious. Now that it had been hacked, they had only thirty minutes before they were discovered.

She set the timer on her watch and they began running again. All her training finally being out to use. Kyung's house was in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woods. They reached the edge of the trees and Jack held up a hand. They stopped and waited for her next signal.

In the clearing was a huge grey warehouse surrounded by an electric chain link fence. Guards patrolled in twos and threes. And from what she had observed, they passed every four minutes. Which meant they had exactly four minutes to take out the guards patrolling and the guards in the watchtower.

She signalled Dimitri, he nodded and led five men away. Jack looked up at the high fence and saw that there was a branch hanging over it. She looked at Angela. Strapped to her back was a scabbard and in it were dual broadswords. Another skill she was a master at.

"You'll find the switch for the fence in the control room. Five minutes," Jack said. Her voice was a soft whisper.

Angela dropped her rifle and crouched, then she launched herself up, catching hold of a branch. She swung and hauled herself up on it. Then she disappeared among the branches. The leaves barely shook as she moved. Angela was their best climber, she literally climbed like a leopard.

Suddenly she dropped into the other side and gave Jack a thumbs up. She crouched low as she ran swiftly and hid in the shadows. Sneaking up behind a guard, she slit his throat with a knife and held a hand over his mouth as the blood gurgled from his throat. She caught him and lay him gently on the floor as she moved to her next victim. Then she went into the watchtower and they couldn't see her anymore.

Jack placed an arm around Sugar and Pablo as she made sure their black Kevlar vests weren't too tight. They waited for Angela's signal. She glanced at her time, 8 minutes left. They waited in silence.

A voice came through her earpiece, "We are in," Dimitri said.

"Roger that," she said softly. They were waiting for Angela now.

Come on Angela.

Pablo shuffled as if he knew they were wasting time doing nothing. Jack patted him to calm him down. Sugar sat still as she focused on the fence. Her men blended into the trees, none of them moved a muscle.

Suddenly someone coughed behind her and she turned to glare at the Korean. It was one of Hyun's men, her soldiers would never do that.

What the hell was he coughing for?