CHAPTER
FOUR
After
taking out Tahir and Alex, Hadiza tracked Dike effortlessly through a far more
sophisticated tracker only she and the Director had in the whole of the SS.
She
followed his car steadily as he moved into the heart of the city.
But
she couldn’t help feeling a bit ruffled. There was no plan to shoot either of
them but they had discovered her and would no doubt have reported to the
central command who in turn would have ordered her arrest. She had informed the
CG and DCC who maintained it was alright and that she must put that behind her
and move on with the mission.
She
was not happy with their death but she was forced to. It was sad, they had been
her colleagues and that mattered to her. If her own colleagues could go, then
Dike would go too.
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When
he returned to the control room, Felix ran the bare-check again and again. Ben
had reported the loss of his team and here he was about to get a glue
Click
……….click …..Click
The
tracer displayed Hadiza’s profile!
What the devil is this? It
displayed her activity profile and indicated she had been the one ahead of the
command. Most shockingly, she had been in contact with the CG and DCC more than
ten times already.
I’ve got to speak with Director
Dennis! Felix decided. He tried his office phone but it
wasn’t connecting. He decided to walk there
As
he turned the knob, Director Mustapha was standing by the door
“Going
somewhere, Felix?”
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At
Emerald computers, Dike pulled his
car over at the parking space in front of the four-storey building where he had
been working since his dismissal from the Army. It was here that he had built
what was threatening his life now, the override programme.
As
he sat in his car, Dike thought about many things. He thought about Mustapha’s
offer, the honour he talked about and he thought of the Military too. True, he
wants to wear the uniform again but now it’s all slipping away.
He
had been in contact with an SS guy, Ben, who had pleaded with him to turn in
the programme with assurances that he would cut out a Presidential amnesty for
him. Of course, he had refused, confused, not knowing who to trust.
To hell with them all!
As
he got out of the car, he saw a shadow behind the adjourning building, someone
was hiding there. Quickly, he took cover behind his car, hoping to catch a
glimpse of who it was. The shadow was gone
In
a jiffy, he got into the car, ignited the engine and roared out of the
environment only to see a sports car right behind him.
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“Director
Mustapha, what’s happening?” Felix asked terrified
“Nothing
is going on, Son”
“No,
something is going on. I thought this mission is classified”
“Top
grade level ‘A’” he emphasised
in his reply
“Then
why is agent Hadiza who should be on leave now currently involved?”
“Who
told you that?” The Director’s eyes narrowed with a shock
“I
saw it on my bare-check!”
“Bare-check?”
“Yes,
I made it months ago”
“So
what do you think is happening?”
“Lets
call in the Field Ops Director, may be he can suggest”
“No,
we won’t”
“Then
you know something about this, don’t you?”
“Let
me explain something to you, son”
“No!”
Felix
made to leave and a mild struggled ensued
“I
said listen to me, Felix!”
The
struggle turned violent and in a moment of accident, Mustapha pushed Felix and
the young man hit his face on the wall before collapsing on the ground. Within
few moments, he had passed out with blood gushing from his mouth.
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As
she sped towards Dike’s car, Hadiza took out her pistol. She was close enough
to take him out but instead shot and deflated his tires. The car swings
backwards, hitting another car and another before coming to a halt. There was
smoke everywhere.
In
the confusion that ensued, Hadiza smiled as she caught a glimpse of Dike
running as he ran into a building across the road.
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“Hello!”
Dike called out loudly on the phone
“Lieutenant!”
Ben screamed, surprised
He
was pleasantly shocked Dike was calling him
“Listen,
I’m being pursued. I’m going to tell you where to get the override, and in case
I don’t make it out please destroy it”
“I
promise!”
He
told him everything he needed to know and that he was severely wounded in the car crash and bleeding
profusely
“Give
me the pass key!” Ben requested “the pass key to the lab”
“834MK……..”
Just
then Hadiza appeared just some 50 yards away from him
“Go
on!” Ben urged
“034…………”
Hadiza
blazed the light of her torch on him blinding his eyes as she cocks her
berretta
“Dike!”
Ben screamed
“444,
that’s it” he submitted
with a painful groan
Hadiza
fired and Ben could hear Dike scream. She smiled enjoying seeing him in pain.
The bullet had caught him in the arm and the phone was now on the ground. She
picked it up
“Don’t
get any dull, sweet heart, I’m coming for you”
She
made sure Ben heard that before smashing the phone on the ground
“Let
me go!” Dike demanded
“Of
course I will, just tell me where the system is”
“You
will never get it”
She
pressed his wound and he screamed in pain
“You
better tell me, may be I can be merciful to you”
“Who
the hell are you?”
“Don’t
worry about that, honey”
“He’s
going to get it before you”
“Who?”
“Go
to hell!” he spat on her
face and she grew angry
She
pressed the wound again this time harder
“Go to hell!” he yelled "i'm not telling you anything!"
She
didn't need him to do that
anyway, she already knew it was Ben, the Director had told her.
“Where’s
he going to?”
“To your father's party, now let me go!"
“Oh,
of course”
True to the Director's words, Edwards was a SERE
graduate and would not be easily broken to given information. She has no other
option than to return to Emerald computers and run the wild goose chase, and if
lucky, the proverbial goose will run no more.
At
that, she got up and started moving out.
If Dike Edwards had ever thought in those moments that Hadiza had spared
him, he was wrong
“I’m
sorry, honey” she said turning back” but thanks, anyway”
She
fired three bullets into his body and walked out.
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