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Falling Towards the Enemy
by Rickard Feiff
Standing on top of a high building gave him a new
perspective on life. He could see all the people move around hundreds of
stories down. Fantastic. None of them were aware of him standing on top
of the high office-buildning. They were unaware of the danger they were
in. He was surprised over the fact that he had once been one of them. A
ordinary man walking the streets looking at his feet and not looking
around at the terrible world around him. Curse! How could he have been
so ignorant to the worlds problems! And now he was looking at the
beautiful city of San Dorado. Main City of Mars. Capitols city. The
City. He looked at the beautiful sunset. The sky was red. A beutiful
sight. He knew he might die today but when looking at a view like this
he felt immortal. He could have faced any enemy right now. And down
there was his enemy. he could see him move out from the opposite
building. Dressed in a suit and wearing sungalsses when the sun almost
had set in the horisont. He knew the man for what he really was. The
Enemy. So Henry L. Smith took a step from the roof and started to fall
towards the ground. Feeling the wonderful sensation of gravity grabbing
him and pulling him down. He took a firm grip of his weapon. He would
not miss. He would only get one good chance. One surprise. His superiors
had told him that. "You must take him by surprise", they had said. And
he would. The ground was getting awfully close now. So he aimed. It was
difficult but he tried anyway. He ignored the thought of the ground
coming closer, and tried to compensate for the movement. He had
preapered himself for this difficulty by using a hyperactivator-drug. It
helped him to move more quickly and to compensate more efficiently. He
needed that. He could see the Enemy in his imagining scope now. A good
aim. He had the back of his head in the sight. A very good aim. He
carefully squeezed the trigger. The bullet left his SR-50 "vampire"
with a "pop"-like sound. He loved silencers. He would have shot him from
the roof, but at that distance... He was after all the enemy. At the
distance the bullet was fired, Timothy Haroldssen, Archheretic and spy,
never felt the danger until it was too late. His head and all the bio-
and necrotechnology it housed was blown of. And Henry activated his
jetpack that was integrated in his Martian Banshee-armor, and the crowd
could see a red flash rising towards the sky. Once again he had served
his corporation against the Enemy they had made him aware
of.
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