"Grab the 'Monkey'?"
Joshua would be very unhappy if he knew the codename they used for him
It was okay is it was "Fox" or "Tiger" but wtf was "Monkey"?
Joshua could have pretended to not have noticed them and continue to lead them on inside the city and then lose them there without too much of a hassle but that was time-consuming.
or his other options was that he could just kill them all right now and there and escape, but he didn't want bloodshed in a place where he conducted his business.
since this identity was burned he didn't know what more information was leaked so he decided to ditch the identity and assume another one as soon as possible.
today was a big day he was carrying three billion dollars in cash on him and wanted to deposit it in his various bank account in the next few days.
It was all hidden in the pretty nifty dimension storage he got from that god as a gift. it was 400m long and 40 m high and 40wide.
let's be honest, even if it was 1mx1m it would still be quite awesome..
apart from the cash, his storage was carrying an arsenal of weapons ranging from machine guns and submachine guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols, revolvers.
Twenty-five customized variety of the AR-15 rifles, hundreds of Glock 17 and Beretta 92FS, fifty Heckler & Koch MP5A2 submachine guns, Heckler & Koch HK416 rifles, dozens of M4A1 Carbine, M16A2 rifles, Heckler & Koch G36C, Zastava M92, MPi-KMS 72, AMD-65 and his personal favorite 15 suppressed Heckler & Koch HK417 sniper rifle.
a couple of dozens of FN MK 48 Mod 0 machine guns and Browning M2HB Heavy Machine Guns.
then there were other guns that though he didn't use much but were still part of his arsenal like FN SCAR-L, Mossberg 500A Mariner, Remington 870 Police (which he took off a bunch of dead NYPD police officers). Brügger & Thomet MP-9.
and then rarely used, thousands of M26 Hand Grenade, FGM-148 Javelin, RPG-7, GE M134 Minigun, DPMS Panther LRT SASS, Browning M2.
If he wanted to, he could go to war against an entire Marine expeditionary brigade (MEB) of 14,500 Marines and still come up on top, having more weapons and ammo stored than them.
and most amazing of all he had 2* tanks each of "Leopard" and "Gepard" tanks from a german arms company that he bought from the corrupt German intelligence BND.
if he was ever caught and stripped-searched they wouldn't find another dime on him apart from the $2000 he was carrying in cash.
"The Magician" was just one of the many different faces he wore since came back.
He also went by "Oliver Caldwell" for arms smuggling.
"Brigham Banks" the secretive owner of the similarly secretive private military contractors.
"Doran Wells" assassin for hire.
the world knew them as the big shots of a highly lethal new organization "The Coven".
they just sprang up one day, nobody knew where they came from, what was their origins. but the stars of this organization conducted their business more successfully and undetected than any other.
it was only much later that they came to hear about the boss of "The Coven".
He went by the code name "JANUS".
how powerful must he be to get these bigshots to follow him, and for them to believe in him to lead them?
the world would be amazed to find that an unassuming handsome Banker Joshua Cox was the one who pulled all the strings, there were additional members too in the coven, but they too like the world believed them to be different people. they had no idea that their boss "JANUS" was also their colleague or colleagues.
it was just him, but a dangerous organization projected more of a threat than a single individual.
"Walt Burdett" or Joshua looked in his rearview mirror at the boys from langley following him.
he smiled to himself knowing he could destroy them in minutes if he wanted to, he saw them more as bothersome roaches than any actual threat.
so different from how he had led his previous life when he started as being the moneyman for the local drug gangs in his town after he got his first teller job at the bank.