Chapter Four
Two Ninjas
Chechnya
Groznensky District
Nokovko Forest
August 8, 2001
18:14 hour
Nate proceeds the forest carefully. He slips through trees. A micro uzi in hands. There are no signs of the agent and rebels. Quietness surrounds him. He realizes that he is facing one problem. He doesn't know where to find the agent or perhaps even neither the missing agent knows another was sent to find her. She may be still there. Suddenly, a figure is seen leaning on a tree. Nate comes into an alert state, pointing the gun at the figure and moves to him silently. The figure might be able to spot Nate if he suddenly turns back but even when Nate is just a few steps behind him, he doesn't show any move. Nate grabs the man and put his sword on his neck as usual but to his surprise, the rebel has died. He sees a small blade sized smaller similar with his palm pierced the rebel's neck deeply in the middle. The man's neck and chest are bathed with blood. " Blood draining." Thinks Nate. When he sees to the right, he finds another two rebels died in the same way, with a blade on neck and chest pierced deeply. Nate guesses about it, " Could it be..." As he proceeds forward, he finds another three rebels, one of them wounded but unconscious with stabbing and slashing wound. Each not far from the other. Nate then continues his pursuit again. Till he finds a petite figure in black is stabbing a kneeling insurgent on his neck's nape. Near her, another rebel lies on ground.
" Awrggh." Growls the stabbed rebel. Blood gushes from his mouth.
The rebel collapses. The petite figure now realizes Nate's presence. Nate is sure that the figure in front of him is the wanted woman. Agent Rose. Suddenly, the woman points her Makarov pistol at him and shoots. Nate strafes left. The bullet is missing. The woman turns and runs. Nate chases her and shouts, " Stop! Stay on your ground!" But his orders is answered by two Makarov gunshots. She suddenly dissapears. But Nate knows, she is not far. Three blades are thrown from Nate's left which he evades immediately. They stick on a tree. Nate knows what they are. Shuriken that have form of blade. Steps of a running man is heard. Again, a blade shuriken thrown from Nate's front. The woman stands in front of him in disbelief. Nate is about to recognize her face when she suddenly turns and runs again. Nate chases her again with sword wielded.
" Stop!" Shouts Nate
" Stay on your ground!" His orders again unanswered.
Nate manages to overtake her. Now they run on each other's side only separated with line of trees. The woman suddenly stops at a field without trees and faces Nate. Now Nate recognizes her as the agent on the photograph. An Asian ethnic woman with a pair of large beautiful shining eyes fixed sharply on Nate and dark brown shoulder hair. But for a moment, she is wide eyed seeing her persistent pursuer not to be a Chechen. Both have a Mexican stand off. There's no doubt within Nate that this is the missing agent. What is more, Nate realizes that she is also a ninja, just like him. The only problem for Nate now is how to tell her that he is not an enemy. She wouldn't possibly just trust his saying.
Th woman suddenly attacks Nate swiftly with her tanto dagger. She gets close to Nate and try delivering slashes and stabs at Nate's throat which Nate evades. Nate doesn't want to deliver a deadly blow to her. His task is to save her. Several times her attacks are blocked by his swords. The two are involved in heavy and swift armed and unarmed martial arts melee. Running to flank the opponent and attack occurs repeatedly. The fighting continues until Nate shouts at her, " Agent Rose! Cut this out!" The agent stops but still in guarding position.
She starts to speak in New York accent, " How do you know my name? Who are you?"
" I'm Agent Nate from SAD. I was sent here to exfiltrate you from Chechnya." Says Nate while gasping.
" How do you prove it if you're CIA?" interrogates her.
" If I was your enemy, I could have shot you with this." Says Nate while takes his silenced micro Uzi to show it at her. " And I won't tell you to stop."
" How do you prove you're not a double agent?" interrogates her again.
" Listen. You're Agent Rose. Four months ago, you were sent to Chechnya to gather information about an insurgency suspect named Emil Dudaev. You were last tracked in Nokovko village after leaving a distress call. My order was sent here to locate and assist you in exfiltrating Chechnya to Georgia." States Nate.
Hearing that, Agent Rose lowers her guard but maintains careful attitude toward Nate. Nate asks her again, " Who is the bald rebel leader with a long cutting wound on his left cheek?"
" He is Movkar. Dudaev's lieutenant. I was actually captured during observation on their camp. But I managed to hide my tanto dagger. On their interrogation room, I killed an interrogator and slashed Movkar's face to escape. The Makarov I used to shoot you is Movkar's. They chased me into the village, used a slight chance to send a distress signal to headquarter and managed to get through it." Answers Agent Rose explaining.
Nate hides the village's fate from her and instead asks, " So where's your radio now?"
" It was captured by a rebel on the village in a shootout but I managed to destroyed it by throwing a grenade at him." Says her.
Suddenly, voices of men shouting in Chechen are heard.
" Go!"
" After her!"
" Spread out!"
" Move! Move! Move!"
Shiori throws a shuriken at Nate's direction, it passes him and strikes a rebel carrying an AK47 on his chest appeared not far behind Nate.
" They are here." Says Nate " C'mon, we must go now!"
The two ninjas runs leaving the area toward north. Movkar, after receiving reports from three surviving rebels decided to storm the area. The forest is now overrun by advancing rebels. A rebel approaches a dying insurgent Shiori threw by a shuriken.
He reports to Movkar. " This is Alvi, commander, he's dying. The woman was here just now."
Movkar grumbles and draws his Yarygin Pya pistol then in cold blood shoots the dying insurgent four times killing him then orders the checking rebel, " Go! Now!" which is immediatley carried out.
Meanwhile, Nate and Shiori keep running without knowing where they are. The rebels are sweeping the forest carefully behind. They are passing through a pond in the middle of forest. It is beautiful and tranquilizing there. Suddenly Shiori calls, " Agent Nate, we need more arms!"
" What? What do you mean?" Answers Nate.
Shiori suddenly stops and hides behind bushes naer the pond. Nate has no choice but to follow her.
" What do you mean by this?! We have to run!" Questions Nate
" Shhh. Prepare your gun." Says Shiori
Nate shakes his head but still wields his silenced uzi.
When Nate sees Shiori's Makarov, he immediately asks Shiori to use his silenced Tactical USP. After a moment, A group of five rebels appear entering the pond area. They are slowly moving toward the bushes. Nate and Shiori easily shoots down all of them in ambush fashion from behind bushes. One rebel was trying to return fire but immediately shot by Shiori resulting he collapses while his hands firing his AK74, making noise. The two ninjas leaps forward and takes two of the rebels' AK74 and ammunition bandoliers then runs again. The gunfire noise draws attention from rebels behind who soon storm the area.
On their run, Nate and Agent Rose unintentionally run into a group of Russian MVD soldiers in woods. The soldiers order the ninjas to stop,
" Stop!"
The ninjas quickly turns and runs from them underfire. Shiori turns and when she is about to shoot at the soldiers he is halted by Nate, " Don't shoot! What are you doing?! They are Russians."
The MVD soldiers came to forest on report about rebel activities from civilians. When they are about to chase them, the rebels run into the soldiers and both sides immediately involved in heavy close ranged shootout. As night comes, more rebels and Russian soldiers overrun the forest.
Groznensky District
Nokovko Forest
August 8, 2001
18:14 hour
Nate proceeds the forest carefully. He slips through trees. A micro uzi in hands. There are no signs of the agent and rebels. Quietness surrounds him. He realizes that he is facing one problem. He doesn't know where to find the agent or perhaps even neither the missing agent knows another was sent to find her. She may be still there. Suddenly, a figure is seen leaning on a tree. Nate comes into an alert state, pointing the gun at the figure and moves to him silently. The figure might be able to spot Nate if he suddenly turns back but even when Nate is just a few steps behind him, he doesn't show any move. Nate grabs the man and put his sword on his neck as usual but to his surprise, the rebel has died. He sees a small blade sized smaller similar with his palm pierced the rebel's neck deeply in the middle. The man's neck and chest are bathed with blood. " Blood draining." Thinks Nate. When he sees to the right, he finds another two rebels died in the same way, with a blade on neck and chest pierced deeply. Nate guesses about it, " Could it be..." As he proceeds forward, he finds another three rebels, one of them wounded but unconscious with stabbing and slashing wound. Each not far from the other. Nate then continues his pursuit again. Till he finds a petite figure in black is stabbing a kneeling insurgent on his neck's nape. Near her, another rebel lies on ground.
" Awrggh." Growls the stabbed rebel. Blood gushes from his mouth.
The rebel collapses. The petite figure now realizes Nate's presence. Nate is sure that the figure in front of him is the wanted woman. Agent Rose. Suddenly, the woman points her Makarov pistol at him and shoots. Nate strafes left. The bullet is missing. The woman turns and runs. Nate chases her and shouts, " Stop! Stay on your ground!" But his orders is answered by two Makarov gunshots. She suddenly dissapears. But Nate knows, she is not far. Three blades are thrown from Nate's left which he evades immediately. They stick on a tree. Nate knows what they are. Shuriken that have form of blade. Steps of a running man is heard. Again, a blade shuriken thrown from Nate's front. The woman stands in front of him in disbelief. Nate is about to recognize her face when she suddenly turns and runs again. Nate chases her again with sword wielded.
" Stop!" Shouts Nate
" Stay on your ground!" His orders again unanswered.
Nate manages to overtake her. Now they run on each other's side only separated with line of trees. The woman suddenly stops at a field without trees and faces Nate. Now Nate recognizes her as the agent on the photograph. An Asian ethnic woman with a pair of large beautiful shining eyes fixed sharply on Nate and dark brown shoulder hair. But for a moment, she is wide eyed seeing her persistent pursuer not to be a Chechen. Both have a Mexican stand off. There's no doubt within Nate that this is the missing agent. What is more, Nate realizes that she is also a ninja, just like him. The only problem for Nate now is how to tell her that he is not an enemy. She wouldn't possibly just trust his saying.
Th woman suddenly attacks Nate swiftly with her tanto dagger. She gets close to Nate and try delivering slashes and stabs at Nate's throat which Nate evades. Nate doesn't want to deliver a deadly blow to her. His task is to save her. Several times her attacks are blocked by his swords. The two are involved in heavy and swift armed and unarmed martial arts melee. Running to flank the opponent and attack occurs repeatedly. The fighting continues until Nate shouts at her, " Agent Rose! Cut this out!" The agent stops but still in guarding position.
She starts to speak in New York accent, " How do you know my name? Who are you?"
" I'm Agent Nate from SAD. I was sent here to exfiltrate you from Chechnya." Says Nate while gasping.
" How do you prove it if you're CIA?" interrogates her.
" If I was your enemy, I could have shot you with this." Says Nate while takes his silenced micro Uzi to show it at her. " And I won't tell you to stop."
" How do you prove you're not a double agent?" interrogates her again.
" Listen. You're Agent Rose. Four months ago, you were sent to Chechnya to gather information about an insurgency suspect named Emil Dudaev. You were last tracked in Nokovko village after leaving a distress call. My order was sent here to locate and assist you in exfiltrating Chechnya to Georgia." States Nate.
Hearing that, Agent Rose lowers her guard but maintains careful attitude toward Nate. Nate asks her again, " Who is the bald rebel leader with a long cutting wound on his left cheek?"
" He is Movkar. Dudaev's lieutenant. I was actually captured during observation on their camp. But I managed to hide my tanto dagger. On their interrogation room, I killed an interrogator and slashed Movkar's face to escape. The Makarov I used to shoot you is Movkar's. They chased me into the village, used a slight chance to send a distress signal to headquarter and managed to get through it." Answers Agent Rose explaining.
Nate hides the village's fate from her and instead asks, " So where's your radio now?"
" It was captured by a rebel on the village in a shootout but I managed to destroyed it by throwing a grenade at him." Says her.
Suddenly, voices of men shouting in Chechen are heard.
" Go!"
" After her!"
" Spread out!"
" Move! Move! Move!"
Shiori throws a shuriken at Nate's direction, it passes him and strikes a rebel carrying an AK47 on his chest appeared not far behind Nate.
" They are here." Says Nate " C'mon, we must go now!"
The two ninjas runs leaving the area toward north. Movkar, after receiving reports from three surviving rebels decided to storm the area. The forest is now overrun by advancing rebels. A rebel approaches a dying insurgent Shiori threw by a shuriken.
He reports to Movkar. " This is Alvi, commander, he's dying. The woman was here just now."
Movkar grumbles and draws his Yarygin Pya pistol then in cold blood shoots the dying insurgent four times killing him then orders the checking rebel, " Go! Now!" which is immediatley carried out.
Meanwhile, Nate and Shiori keep running without knowing where they are. The rebels are sweeping the forest carefully behind. They are passing through a pond in the middle of forest. It is beautiful and tranquilizing there. Suddenly Shiori calls, " Agent Nate, we need more arms!"
" What? What do you mean?" Answers Nate.
Shiori suddenly stops and hides behind bushes naer the pond. Nate has no choice but to follow her.
" What do you mean by this?! We have to run!" Questions Nate
" Shhh. Prepare your gun." Says Shiori
Nate shakes his head but still wields his silenced uzi.
When Nate sees Shiori's Makarov, he immediately asks Shiori to use his silenced Tactical USP. After a moment, A group of five rebels appear entering the pond area. They are slowly moving toward the bushes. Nate and Shiori easily shoots down all of them in ambush fashion from behind bushes. One rebel was trying to return fire but immediately shot by Shiori resulting he collapses while his hands firing his AK74, making noise. The two ninjas leaps forward and takes two of the rebels' AK74 and ammunition bandoliers then runs again. The gunfire noise draws attention from rebels behind who soon storm the area.
On their run, Nate and Agent Rose unintentionally run into a group of Russian MVD soldiers in woods. The soldiers order the ninjas to stop,
" Stop!"
The ninjas quickly turns and runs from them underfire. Shiori turns and when she is about to shoot at the soldiers he is halted by Nate, " Don't shoot! What are you doing?! They are Russians."
The MVD soldiers came to forest on report about rebel activities from civilians. When they are about to chase them, the rebels run into the soldiers and both sides immediately involved in heavy close ranged shootout. As night comes, more rebels and Russian soldiers overrun the forest.
To be continued
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