Operation Whitewaters: The Wrath of the Unknown Enemy – XIII

Disclaimer: This is a pure work of fiction and any resemblance to any events or characters is purely coincidental.  

Continued from : Operation Whitewaters: The Wrath of the Unknown Enemy – XII 

Operation Whitewater Phase B starts : 05-Jan-2016:
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18:00 Evening Time

Kshitij had decided that since most of the probable action in Xanade had ended, they can go back to calling each other by their real names. So Rajesh was back to his real name Vir Goel and Hari to Shyam.
The four of them got two rooms at a local Hotel- one was shared by Shyam and Kshitij and one by Rajesh and Ranbir, albeit with arranged names. Their capture Hardeep was a patient suffering from acute fever and shivering and one who needed much rest, so the Hotel staff would not get suspicious.
Well, they had some fun in the form of some good food at the Restaurant of that Hotel, which cheered them before another arduous journey.
By 9 o’ clock however they all started feeling very sleepy. Yet since they had to keep a man under watch, they decided to rotate and sleep.

Ominous road ahead
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20 Kms away from where Kshitij and team had put up was just another shanty suburban area full of dilipated buildings and some brick and mud small two room houses.
It was 8 in the night, and while most of the activities in this sleepy area had come to an end,
one of the houses with a 1.5 Tonne AC and some fancy lights, an anomaly in the area.
A tall and bald man with a rugged face and a muscular body sat with two mobiles in front of him, relishing Oily chicken with rice and a bottle of white wine, which was perhaps his prize from a previous “assignment”.
He had been on a call on of his mobiles and for 2 minutes after listening intently and patiently, he spoke.
“Sir, if we attack the Eagles now, they could call up vultures and it might be difficult to get the rat from their hold. It is way too risky.”
“Whatever be the risk, carry out The Night Prey. Period.”
“Yes sir.”

For the bald man, named Richard Zangi, such a directive from his boss was nothing less than an order from God. In fact, in some ways, he was more than God for him, for under his patronage he had earned all the luxuries in life, which he could not even had imagined in his poverty ridden childhood.

He dialed another number and in low tone said “10 Ammo units 2 vehicles and smoke bombs”
Something truly ominous was ahead……

Mayhem in the night
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At around 2 in the night, Shyam heard a noise. He suddenly woke up, and found bathroom lights on.
“Kshitij might be feeling very stressed, so he is probably getting freshened up”, he thought and went back to sleep.
He took a look around, and their catch Hardeep was also sleeping comfortably on a mat, hands and legs bound, and the injection still working fine.
He went back to sleep.

However, after around 1 hour, he heard a loud sound of a few gunshots and woke up with a jerk.
Both Hardeep and Kshitij were absent from the room. He put on his shoes, and loaded his pistol and ran out of the room. Ranbir and Vir too ran fully loaded from the adjoining room. They were on the first floor, and the noise seemed to come from the garden on the ground floor.
They saw two cars’ lights flashing from a distance. They suddenly got on to the garden and ran towards the back gate.
At a short distance, they saw something and it shocked them.
The body of Kshitij was lying in a pool of blood and they saw a slip of paper alongside.
Ranbir took the slip of paper and read:”This man did not knew that the wrath of the commander is much more than the wrath of God, and saw his end.”

They were shocked but suddenly knew what to do. Vir heard noise of a car about to start. They all jumped from the gate, and ran towards the two cars they had seen at a distance.
The cars had started.
Shyam took out a torch from his back pocket and switched it on and directed at the tyres of the car which was a little behind.
The laser that he pointed was enough to destabilise and melt a part of one of the tyres. The assailants had to stop the car and start running.
However, there were a few gunshots from behind and all the four men who had started running fell down to the ground.
One of them was Hardeep, the man whom the assailants had came to get out.
Vir and Shyam got hold of Hardeep.
Suddenly, the other car turned and aimed at the 3.
Ranbir shouted “Get away.”
Vir and Shyam dived along with Hardeep and the car missed them.
However, Ranbir aimed his pistol at the car and fired a few shots in quick succession.

The shots damaged the front and side window panes. The driver lost control and hit a side wall.
Ranbir ran towards the car. However, he saw one of the persons in the car aiming a grenade towards him.
He dived and missed by a few yards.

There were two men in the car, who started running. But they could not escape the shots of Vir and Ranbir.

Vir, Shyam and Ranbir now had to take out Hardeep towards another location. Hardeep was shot in his leg but was still alive.

However, suddenly a shot came out from nowhere and hit Hardeep in his back.

Vir took a look and saw a biker turning away. He ran and fired a few shots but the biker sped away.

Shyam shouted and asked Vir to came:”This man is dying but he is saying something.. let us listen; it could be important.”

Vir ran towards Shyam……
+++++++++++++ To be continued +++++++++++++

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