A Life Left Behind.

[Tactical Nightmare]

0630 Hours, GC time- Street outside Hotel.


[color=#000000] Keel opened the trunk of the ground-car, pulling out his Sub-Machine Gun, an armored vest, and Tobias's Sniper rifle. It was Tobias's pride and joy, He'd kept it after he retired. Now Keel hoped it'd help rescue him.

[color=#000000] He was worried, He didn't want to tell the girl. He doubted that the kidnappers, having seen the way they operated in the security cameras that had traced them to this hotel, would hesitate to shoot Tobias if they felt they were compromised.

[color=#000000] He loaded the SMG, and slung the rifle over his shoulder, Tobias had kept it loaded, just in case he'd needed it.

[color=#000000] Angelina stepped out of the passenger side of the ground car. "[color=#6633ff]Can I help?" She asked.

[color=#000000] Keel walked to the alley between two buildings on the opposite side of the multilevel super-street from the hotel. "[color=#00ae00]No, I'm getting onto this building. If I can snipe the leader, Tobias can handle the rest." I hope, He added silently. He jumped onto the enormously long ladder up the side of the alley and tried to climb it. His knee screamed in protest. "[color=#00ae00]DAMMIT!" He roared, Dropping to the ground.

"[color=#6b2394]What?" Said Angelina, rushing forward.

[color=#000000] Keel cursed for a second. "[color=#00ae00]I forgot.... Son of a- I forgot I can't climb ladders. I took a bullet to the knee during the Leeds riots. It's never worked right since..." He panted.

[color=#000000] Angelina stared up the ladder. "[color=#6b2394]Give me the gun. I'll go up there."

[color=#000000] Keel stared at her. "[color=#00ae00]Are you sure? Can you even shoot?"
"[color=#6b2394]Yes, Tobias taught me." She lied, He'd taught her to fire pistols, Not a monster like that.

Keel hesitated, A new plan forming. "[color=#00ae00]OK, take it. It's bolt action, .338 Lapua magnum. They're in the north suite on the top floor. I'll go book a suite on the same floor, so I can get into the room once you take the shot."

[color=#000000] Angelina nodded solemnly, slinging on the rifle. She jumped onto the tremendous ladder and began to steadily climb. Keel hoped she was up to the job as he stuck the SMG under his coat and ran to the hotel's front door. Then he thought. Of course she was, She regularly put on a suit of powered radiation armor and stepped into a live reactor. She used her degree in Nuclear physics in a way her professors had probably never anticipated.

[color=#000000] [color=#00ae00]But.... He thought as he stepped into the elevator and settled in for the twenty five story ride, That rifle was calibrated for Tobias, three inches taller than Angelina and right handed, Angelina used her left.

[color=#000000] [color=#00ae00]Oh god, Oh god. He thought, the pre-battle adrenalin thundering in his heart. [color=#00ae00]We've sure buggered this up...