Chapter 2: 2-instinct
His ear twitched as he lifted his gun and fired two shots at the wall *BANG* *BANG*.
Right after two black men with ak 47 fell right in front of him across the door with one bullet hole in the side of the head each, one fell and slid a little past the door but the other fell with his face facing Michael his eyes wide open, they didn't even know how they died.
" hehehe, I just john wicked your asses haha...Cough cough " he laughed but was stopped as he coughed blood and he started becoming light-headed.
Going back to his train of thought it always baffled him that his mom left his dad who is an almost identical copy of him, with blue eyes, smooth hair and almost 2 meters tall and jacked, for a bald fat guy who smells, it just didn't make sense.
' Apparently, I can infiltrate, destabilise and ruin entire countries, go against dozens of highly trained men but I still can't understand how women think hahaha' he thought silently and laughed, this time in his head, he has learned his lesson.
Moving on to what got him to this situation he is in right now, after his mental breakdown that day
Something inside of him changed he planned to not contact Sarah the girl to who he lost his virginity too and just shut her out.
But in the end, he realized that he valued his peace and sleep more because she didn't give him a moment of rest, coming to his room, following him after class, in the library, during lunch break, in the gym and even in the men's bathroom.
he was shocked when she followed him there and that's what made him give up and open up after he went back to his room of course, because if she's willing to follow him there and risk getting in trouble at Harvard and ruin her future she would do anything and he also didn't want her to get in trouble because of him in end it wasn't her fault anyhow.
After he opened up she stood by him and helped him however she can, and although he liked her they didn't stay together.
because he wanted to run away from everything so as soon as he finished university and got his master's at the age of 21 he enlisted in the army, from there his life changed completely.
From his deployment in Afghanistan to yamen to the Iraq war, his skills kept sharpening and his rank kept increasing till captain rank, this was a chaotic period in his life which lasted 11 whole years from 1999 to 2010 if he didn't reject promotions by the year 2010 he would've been at least a colonel.
But Michael was a smart man since he was young and he knew if he went anything above captain he would have to get involved in politics which was something he didn't want, and another reason that nobody ever knew and that he kept buried deep inside, is that he loved it there.
He loved holding weapons, he loved killing people, he as much as it might sound sick, he felt liberated, in the wars he went through he thrived.
he unleashed a beast inside of him, inside of every man that he couldn't unleash anywhere else, at least not without any repercussions, he fulfilled a deep instinct he had inside of him as a man, an instinct that in today's modern society is hard for most men to unleash, that they are not even aware it's there, an instinct that is frowned upon and even condemned in this day and age, even though it's what protected us, what kept us alive as a species, the instinct ingrained in every man biology that they even become depressed if they don't fulfil it and they don't even know why.
This instinct that we thought we would be safe if we suppressed but in the end, it comes and bites us in the ass, as random violence, random shootings, rape, and hate, and we don't even know why those things happen in the first place.
The instinct for violence, For war, for conquest, to test our metal, to stab and get stabbed, to feel the blood of other men and beasts on our skin as we end them, as we beat them and come out on top, to feel the adrenalin and blood rushing through our veins, to feel our blood running down our body as an enemy almost kills us, it makes us appreciate life and know its true value.
That's why he didn't want to die now because he knows the true value of life, he wants to struggle for every opportunity he may have, till the last breath he doesn't want to give up.
*BANG* *BANG*
two shots followed by the sound of two bodies heating the floor were heard, again two perfect shots through the wall.
'even if there is a slim to non-chance am going to survive this I will take it, I never was one to quit' he thinks as he gathers his strength, move away from the window and shakily gets up.
Taking away his magazine he sees he still has 2 bullets left, so he switches to a new one and reloads before moving shakily towards the door while avoiding being seen from the window.
He thought back to the events that followed his retirement from the Amy, he got invited by a 2star General to join a special task force, and when he asked about it he was told he can only know the specifics if he signs the contract and joins.
Sitting in the meeting room alone with the general he thought about his life and what would he do in case he refuses the proposal.
he was at the peak of his life, 33 years old, with good money saved in the bank, a master's degree, and with the help of the connections, he made while in the army he can even have a meeting with the president if he wanted too let alone finding a job or starting a business.
He could find a woman or even contact Sarah again, he knows she's still single and he knows she'll get back together with him in a heartbeat, have a nice little family with a kid or two, no marriage of course he's not a fan of having half his stuff taken away if something goes wrong.
But does he want that, a calm life, a family, can he even go back to society now after all the lives he had taken, can he fit back in?
'hehehe why am I even thinking about something I know the answer to already.' he thought, and with that, he signed the contract if only he knew what he was getting himself into.
After signing the contract he went through another 2 years of intense training that made the training he had at the army seem like child play, most of the people who started with him gave up, but of course, he aced it as he did with most things in life.
He trained and went through every weapon in the book again, mastering them and perfecting them, advanced hand-to-hand combat, pilot training, endurance training, psychological tortures...etc.
But what surprised him is that he had to take courses in acting, learning new languages, learning accents of the said languages, human psychology, human behaviour, hacking and much more, he didn't rest for a single day, but he never regretted signing that contract for he knew he'll regret it much more if he didn't.
After 2 years of what he considered hell he finally figure out what it was all about.
From now on he will be joining a special highly trained task force and working for the CIA, and to be honest from the kind of training he went through he thought he'll be fighting demons or at least aliens so it was kind of underwhelming.
he will do all kinds of jobs, ranging from assassination to sabotage to even staging coup d'etats in other countries, manipulating politicians, information stealing, destabilising counties, sowing discord between nations...etc.
And for the next 9 years from 2012 to 2022 that's what he did, and he did it perfectly, each mission of his was a complete success.
At first, he was really surprised at what a highly trained group of 4 men could do, and so where his unit, as they drove through the streets of Egypt, the year 2013 with the entire country going down to sh*t.
Every one of them couldn't help but wonder if what they did was the right thing, or what was it even they would gain by doing this but either way their mission was done and it was time to withdraw after spending the last 8 months here.
For the next 9 years, they did all sorts of missions which brings us back to the current moment, about 1 month ago on the 1st of June 2022 Uganda discovered 31 million tons of gold which is crazy.
On the same day, he and his unit departed from the USA to Africa after resting for 20 days from their last mission.
Objective? To infiltrate the country as tourists and use any means necessary to facilitate the way for the US army to come and "help" Uganda take care of the gold they just found.
Everything was going well, all the chest pieces were in place and waiting for the right time to move, he and his unit and another 2 units, 12 people in total were spread around the entire country.
Today he woke up early in the morning, as usual, worked out, took a shower, wore his tourist clothes and went out to continue "exploring" and taking in the sights of this beautiful country.
As he exited the place where he was staying and started walking down the road with buildings on both sides, he suddenly stopped, with his years of experience and training he could notice things normal people don't.
For example, how the stall owners and people on the road staring at him from the corner of their eyes from time to time, how the people shopping aren't even looking at the goods, and the biggest is that all stall owners are different from the usual ones.
His senses started going into overdrive but before he could do anything a bullet went through the left side of his body from behind and hit the floor in front of him
Looking down he saw his shirt and jacket bloody all over.
Without even thinking his training kicked in and while he still has enough energy his body moved on its own took out his pistol and fired at 3 people who started to reach beneath their cloth right before he jumped into the open window to his left.
The three people fell on the floor with 3 perfect shots to the head, in their hands were 3 guns respectively.
Immediately the people on the road started taking out guns from stalls, from underneath their clothes and rushing to the window unaware of the two grenades left by Micheal where he was standing, just two seconds after he jumped into the window an explosion happened taking with at least a dozen people.
And that's how Micheal ended up shot and struggling for his life inside that apartment.
'guess I do deserve it, but if they think am gonna go down without a fight they got a surprise coming for them ' he thought with a frown as he took a peek outside the door, seeing nobody in the corridor Micheal took out his smartphone, selected his location put in a password and pressed confirm three times.
immediately a message came on his screen in red: "airstrike incoming ETA 2m 31seconds".
'i really want to live' thought Michael as he looked at his wound 'but with the amount of blood I lost it's almost an impossibility, but if am going down am taking this whole block with me.' a cold look flashed through his eyes as he struggled to walk to the corridor.
'I've made no mistakes, no I don't make mistakes, how is it possible that my cover was blown?'
"OVER HERE" shouted a man as he turned the corner and saw Michael.
His weapon was down and just as he was about to pick it up and point *BANG* his brain was blown behind him, ' rookie ' thought Michael.
'the only possibility is that we have a traitor, hahaha hundreds of enemies couldn't take me down but just one ally managed to reduce me to this state, the irony.' he said mockingly.
Reaching the man he last shot he looked down at him, it was a boy of no more than 20 years old and although he would have felt guilty for doing something like this when he first started his journey his years as a soldier had hardened him to the point that such sights don't even make him blink, he hates to admit it but it might as well have been a 5-year-old and it would have still been the same for him.' I really do deserve this huh'.
Moving to the house door he looked outside and he could see car after car rushing his way with foot soldiers already surrounding the house, in his current state no matter how he thought about it there was no way out.
Leaning against the wall beside the door he took out his phone and looked at the timing:ETA 0:30 seconds.
He also didn't see any messages from his squad so he could only assume they got to them too, and unlike him, they successfully took them down, but just in case he sent a message in the private communication channel warning them that they'd been compromised.
Looking at the timing coming getting close to 0 he couldn't help but think, ' i wanted to live, as everyone in my situation would have but I have no regret dying I lived a fulfilled life I regret nothing that's more than most can say.'
*Tump* reaching that line of thought his body fell on the floor, his face facing the sealing the only thing he saw in his last moments was a bright light followed by a deafening sound before he completely lost consciousness.
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