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Chapter 4 - Heroes for the Job

May 5, 1965

On a winter morning in the Moscow, the Kremlin high command has decided to recover their old tech in the hands of their enemies as they are eager to have their hands on their old cybernetic tech that will drastically improve Soviet Union's arsenal thus they have decided to sent Boris in this mission and all thanks to the intel from the saboteur under the command of Commander Belkin in advance. Kremlin high command called Boris to give debriefing to this mission.

"Da, Boris has arrived" Boris the Hero of Soviet Union arrived in the debriefing meeting room which is a well lit room decorated with USSR flag and portrait of Stalin himself in the end of the room. Boris is wearing his war uniform which is his Ushanka with a red star, his brown long coat with various medal hanging around and a bearskin leather as his shoulderguard. He is also growing his beard after being away at Moscow for several years.

Boris then salute to his comrade before sitting down in his seat. He wasn't alone in this room but several people sitting around along the long table and around of them is Premier Alexander himself who is present to this meet, next to him was his Chief personal advisor Yuri who is currently observing, and others was high ranking officials like Comrade General Zhukov and Belkin who are talking to each other in a friendly manner.

And then Lt. Zofia, the second lieutenant responsible to debrief the matter and the intel to her superiors. She wears an intelligence officer uniform which is a overall red and maroon color pallete which gives her the distinct look of her maroon leather coat adorned by medals on her left chest and her red colored sleeves and epaulettes that signifies her rank as a second lieutenant. She has a black short hair and her distinct bold expression.

"Good morning Comrades and Premier Alexander Romanov" she salutes to her superiors especially Premier Alexander himself to acknowledge their presence. And she thus begin the debriefing about the matter.

"As you can see comrades that Kremlin needs to recover our old tech from our enemy, thus we need to sent our best men of Soviet Russia in this mission. Premier Alexander Romanov had given approval on this mission and grants us his personal support, thus he will personally support Boris by giving him an Improved arsenal and also granting Boris to call a partner to this mission." Lt. Zofia is debriefing the support of Premier to Boris himself and she will now stated current situation of the covert mission.

"According to the intel, the old soviet cybernetic technology was currently held on an old soviet tech center that its currently under American's control near the borders in East Ukraine. Getting to the American research compound was not easy as the area was heavily guarded by an Allied forces as according to the intel, Several patrols and guards are roaming the area, which is among of them was some few sniper who are stationed in the hill while few of them was nearby on the watchtowers and an unidentified objects roaming the area. Boris objective was to find and locate the tech center whilst avoiding to the chokepoints and to successfully leave the compound with the tech. Let's thank Comrade General Belkin by sending a reliable men to gain this intel" Lt. Zofia respectly acknowledged General Belkin contributions on this monumental mission which Belkin responded by nodding slowly.

"And addition according the intel, the saboteurs had already disabled all the cctv cameras in the compound, thus it will grant you a low profile around the base but be careful as the sounds of gunshot and explosion will attract the guards attention. It is best to prepare before commencing on our covert mission. Goodluck in this mission comrade, the debriefing is over. Premier Romanov will now share his insights to this matter." Lt. Zofia salutes and finished the debriefing session and she walks out of the room after acknowledged Premier's personal insights on this mission.

"Comrade, I will grant you a 7 days to call a friend on this mission and to prepare while my newly developed arsenal is available from my personal armory. This first act will mark the rebuilding of the Soviet Union to the next evolution!!!." Premier Alexander Romanov gives his support to Boris while sharing his vision that this mission will be the next evolution of their country. Which his chief advisor, Yuri nods as a sign of agreement but never said a thing.

"Comrade, I will give you my permission to use our experimental transport, the Iron wing to sent you anywhere around the world to recruit a partner to this mission" General Zhukov had given Boris, an access to the experimental transport just to recruit a reliable individual to this mission.

"I think its time to meet an old friend" Boris stands up to salute to his superiors before he walks out to the debriefing room and then he goes directly to the nearest hangar with an airfield where the experimental air transport resides, The Iron wing. A jet with sleek design capable of accelerating at high speed with little to no effort to take-off and reaching to mach 12 in terms of speed that is capable of flying anywhere around the world while the inside of the ship had an special field that negates the G-force for the personnel inside.

This experimental aerial transport is built back on second-great war as a means of rescue transport for the influential people and Soviet official but as the Allied had now occupied their mainland, the Soviet Union fallen leadership are forced to hide this jet in a junkyard as its hiding place. After 5 years of protesting, the jet is now free from the eyes of the enemies and had no intel about its existence.

Boris walks few minutes to arrive in the hangar directly towards iron wing. The pilot of the Iron wing walks out from the jet and then greets Boris then salutes.

"Where we going, Comrade? Gone to meet a friend?" The female pilot ask of the Iron wing had ask for the destination after saluting Boris, the hero.

"Lets go to Havana, Cuba where my friend resides, Comrade." Boris set the destination to Cuba which the pilot had follow his orders. The pilot estimate they will arrive at 30 minutes to the destination which the distance of Moscow to Cuba is indeed long but not to the Iron wing. He decided to meet an old friend of his which his friend was a part of an professional death squad and loyal to the Latin Confederation socialist alliance and that is José Arcadio Morales.

The pilot had now entered the run

Boris had entered the Cuban airspace and getting ready to get airdrop in the specific drop location near the Havana hotel. As they get closer to the location, Boris ordered the pilot to never used the runway for landing but to just open the hatch of his chair then turn around to return to Moscow. The pilot acknowledged to his decision and comply without hesitation.

"On my signal comrade, 3.... 2..... 1..... DROP!!!" Boris signal his pilot as he's ready to airdrop as the plane is approach the airspace of Havana hotel then he now granted a go signal to pull the switch that open his seat open and became an extraction hole on the jet. The airflow doesn't affect the inside nor the outside of the jet thanks to the reinforced protection layers near the opened hatch.

Boris falls down but when he reach a certain altitude his compact chutes open up which is a built-in system for the chairs of the Iron wing. The experimental aircraft also has a emergency system capable of fast-point loading personnel by calling the personnel to the ground to open their chutes enables the jet to pass by and take them off to the ground and transfer them inside of the jet. Fast but secured and guaranteed safety. Thus Boris is very lucky using this on his trip to Cuba.

Boris landed safety and make his way to the Havana hotel. His purpose in the hotel wasn't in the inside but for the outside as outside of the hotel several taxi cabs are waiting for their next passengers as a means of transportation, taxi drivers are reliable as they will send you to the right location as long you paid them enough for the service.

"Comrade, can I have a ride to this location? I will pay you greatly to your service" Boris enters the cab and talks to the old cab driver to send him to the location he's pointing to his map where Morales is stationed. Which the old cab driver agrees.

4pm of the afternoon. Somewhere in a lush jungle near the Cuban Military base, Morales is seen training extensively with his sniping skills. He puts a coin as a target on a branch of a tree nearby the barrack and he walks 1290 meters away from the tree to the nearest hill as he is about to snipe the coin as his target using his Mosin nagant equipped standard 6x scope and using standard 7.62×54mmR, his rifle was old but his marksmanship are very deadly. He measures the direction of wind, the angle of the position of him and his target and calculated the trajectory before laying prone to the ground and getting aiming to the little coin target. He used a binoculars to check his target which gives a small glinting flare thanks to the reflective shine of the sun on his binoculares which he had now aimed at and then fired a shot which the coin got shot in the center, causing it to crack and fall apart. Morales aim is infallible and won't miss an easy target thus he became a part of the death squad to assassinates the rivals of political leaders for the huge price.

Morales had return to the army base to examine the target and to clean his equipment. As he is about to clean his army boots, but he heard a familiar footsteps behind him thus he knows that his friend had arrive.

"Ohh!! Boris my friend. You had finally visit after several years." Morales removed his Military camouflaged boonie in his head and approach Boris to give an arm wrestling like handshake to his friend. Both of the bearded men is happy they have met again in this time. They had decided to walk around then stops by to Morales's hut in the base.

"It is my friend, its been a while to arrived here to this beautiful paradise, untouched by the Americans and it's favorite vacation place after a long grueling training in Moscow. But I will straight to the point my friend, Im recruiting you as a partner to a mission which You and I had to recover our old soviet tech that is now at the hands of the Allied. It will be a silent mission in this matter" Boris indeed reminisce the times he used to vacation to Cuba while he talks that its been a while they have met.

But Boris had to straight on his business of his arrival. He explains that he is in Cuba because of a mission that requires Morales help to infilitrate the American compound which the old soviet tech lab resides in East Ukraine. Boris hands him some pictures and some various classified documents about the location, and the situation.

"I had to pass my friend, as im currently taking some days off as I just recently finished hunting down several valuable targets in a span of months and the next week im about to be sent in a covert mission somewhere in Mexico to escort a convoy. But what would I get in this mission, my friend? A weapon, money, or much more better offer. I supposed its indeed a good one." Morales passed back the documents to Boris and tells him that he is not available in the matter. But asked about the rewards his mission would brings to them.

"Let see my friend, Premier Alexander Romanov himself will grant us to use the newly improved weapons from Premier's personal armory, a decent share of technology for the cybernetics and an enemy snipers to rival your marksmanship in. Its not a reward but the real experience you will crave will be more than reward." Boris counts about the rewards of the mission to motivates his friend to maybe will give him a change of heart.

Morales then laugh when he heard that there's some enemy snipers that are new to their field but inexperienced enough to face elite commando. But it is enough to motivates him to join Boris mission.

"Im in my friend, what can I say? I wanna shoot down some weaklings" Morales smirks

"Then let shoots some pigs tonight!!" Morales and Boris is now at high morale and both are on the mission that awaits a new revolution.