London
Julie
bursts into the bedroom startling Spencer awake. "It's me," she says when he brings a pistol out from beneath the pillow and into her face. "We need to go now," she says before he has a chance to begin asking questions.
Spencer throws the covers off and quickly slips into his pants. Julie already has her gun belt strapped to her waist and is sliding
Kogarasu Maru
into a duffle bag.
"What's going on?" Spencer finally asks once he is fully dressed. He checks the pistol and pulls back the slide already sensing the danger of the situation.
"MI6 is here in the building, coming for us," she answers calmly.
"What do they want?"
"How the hell should I know?" she asks looking at Spencer like he is crazy for thinking she has all the answers.
"Hey, I was just asking," he says waving his hands defensively in the air. "How long do we have?"
"Not long," she says peering out the door into the main room.
Spencer looks past her and doesn't see the laptop or any other evidence of their being here or proof of the place being a safe house.
"Alright," he says with a shrug. "What's the plan?"
Julie turns around and smiles. "We go through them and out the back."
Spencer is displeased and his face shows it. If Julie caught his displeasure she shows no sign of it other than to keep smiling. "If we keep racking up bodies, especially allies, it's going to come back on us."
"If you want you can use the window," she says sarcastically then continues. "Besides we only need to worry about that if we're caught and if we're caught we're dead."
Spencer opens his mouth to speak and is cut off when the door to the apartment blows inward. Smoke follows the shards of wood into the main room. Spencer can't see through the thick of the smoke, neither can Julie. It becomes quickly apparent to Spencer that Julie doesn't need to see. She knows where the door is and that is where she opens up fire at.
Shouts of the men entering the room are halted suddenly as Julie's bullets hit their mark. With Julie covering the front, Spencer has ample time to deal with the intruders as two swing in through the bedroom's windows. Their boots smash through sending shards of glass throughout the room.
Spencer has to bring his arm up over his face to avoid being cut. A few pieces of glass do cut his arm and elbow, but he simply ignores the pain. Right as both the MI6 soldier's feet touch the ground they have a bullet strike their heads. Their heads fly back as blood and brain matter spray out the backs of their heads and onto the curtains and floor.
"Come on!" Julie urges.
Spencer looks back to the two men and pushes away the guilt that flows into him. He doesn't care to kill the good guys, but from now until who knew when it was him or them. He turns and runs after Julie.
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The
two agents fight their way down the staircase while the MI6 agents are attempting a pincher move, closing in from beneath and above.
"Any other brilliant plans?" Spencer yells when he begins to see the hopelessness of their current situation.
"A few!" Julie returns the shout, matching his same angry tone.
They are pinned down between the first and second floor. Their only cover comes from the concrete of the stairs above them and the uncertainty from the MI6 agents of being shot. The more immediate problem remains with Spencer and Julie as the concrete is slowly being eaten away by the suppression fire of the MI6 agents.
"Then how about we try one of those plans of yours?"
Julie throws her head back so suddenly Spencer thinks for a brief second she has been shot. It isn't until the eruption of laughter does he know otherwise. "I took you for someone that enjoyed danger," she says through her laughter.
"I don't mind the danger," Spencer says. His face is screwed up, not really certain where she is going with it. "I dislike dying in a stairway full of people that seem to want to kill us."
Julie turns away from him and digs into the duffle bag she carried from the room and produces what looks like a glob of putty to Spencer. She splits the putty-like substance in half and then rolls both halves into little balls. When she is done she shows them to Spencer and says, "You may want to cover your ears."
Spencer does as suggests and she throws the first ball into the far wall. It splatters almost flat like paint. He has no idea what the stuff is made of, but he can't wait to see it in action. Julie waits a few seconds then throws the other. As soon as the ball leaves her hand, she covers both her ears.
It splatters just like the first and barely a second goes by before the chemicals mix and blows a human sized portion of the wall outward. The sound is deafening and even though Spencer has his ears covered it does little to shelter his ears from the sound blast.
With his ears ringing he tries to stand as a hand reaches out to steady him. He looks over to see Julie keeping him balanced and she otherwise unhindered by the blast. It takes only a few moments before the ringing begins to fade. Julie waits patiently while he recovers.
"Quite a blast," she says excitedly. All Spencer can do is nod.
"What the hell is that shit made of?"
"Something new we have created. Hurts the ears but you get used to it," she explains.
"You didn't seem to be too much affected by it," he remarks.
"I have tested it out more than once," she answers nonchalantly then says, "Now come one before our attackers have time to recover."
"I agree."
Spencer follows Julie out the hole. The drop to the ground isn't as bad as Spencer had anticipated it would be. Julie seems to either have good luck or knows where the carport would be from the inside.
It was about a ten foot drop and both agents landed with a roll doing no harm. Julie scoops up the duffle bag and leaps off the side of the carport onto the roof a car below. A yell follows by the owner of the car with Julie responding with a
Go fuck yourself.
