Operation Nightingale

[Odrin]

"As I said before, I gotta make an example. Can't have any more undercover cops trying to bust my deals. Besides, might even weaken the ISB." He said, shrugging casually, as if he weren't talking about torturing an ISB Agent. "We're here. Guys, take the agent to the back room." He the turns to look at Nicki, giving an almost insane smile before sayin "So let's get down to business! Tell me what you want, I'll tell you how much it will cost you!"

[Dominion of Compassion]

She smiles. "I want whatever information you have on a group called 'the League of Shadows.'" She said, getting into the car and waiting expectantly.

[Odrin]

As the young ISB Agent was dragged into the warehouse, she began fighting back, her yells muffled by a hastily inserted gag. He steps back into the car once he sees she is inside and sits down across from Nicki,crossing his legs before saying "The League Of Shadows? Got a couple things on them... One second" He says, fiddling with a small laptop that he had pulled out from under the seat. "Aha! I have a couple things on them."He says, turning the laptop to face her, making the file names visible. He then says "300,000 USD. You get partial dossiers, locations, and reports on The League Of Shadows."

[Dominion of Compassion]

She frowns slightly. "300,000, for several incomplete documents and pieces of information? Are you sure we can't come down a little?"

[Odrin]

He frowns slightly before saying "I can give you 230,000. That's as low as I will go. If you want, you can try your luck at other dealers if you find it exorbitant, though I doubt you would find any deals better than mine."

[Dominion of Compassion]

She smiles again. "That's perfect. At our next stop, I'll withdraw the appropriate sum, and you'll have it, cash in hand. Untraceable, untrackable, off the grid. Sound good?"

[Odrin]

His face lights up as he grins, shaking her hand "Sounds great! I will have one of my men take you to a bank. You transfer the money to my account, he confirms it, and I send the documents to you. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go get started." He says, stepping out of the car and walking towards the warehouse, waving one of his men towards the car. The man nods before walking to the car and stepping into the drivers seat.

[Dominion of Compassion]

She leaned back in the seat. "Question; is walking into a bank after kidnapping a government agent a good idea?"

[Odrin]

The man driving sighs before saying "You have heard of online banking right?" Before handing a small laptop back to her. He muttered, just loud enough for Nicki to hear "Besides, It wont just be a kidnapping for very much longer..." As he said that, the man began to nervously tap his foot on the floor. When he realized what he was doing, he immediatly stopped before quickly saying "So where are you from?" as if trying to draw attention away from what he had just said.

[Dominion of Compassion]

She rolls her eyes. "I'm from the Dominion. And in regards to the banking, what a great idea. Let's just leave an electronic trail of the transfer. That'll go over well with both of our countries." She pulls her scarf out and weaves it around until it's her traditional headdress and veil again. "Ive missed this d**n thing."

[Odrin]

He begins driving without a word, arriving at a nearby bank within fifteen minutes. He steps out of the car and waves for her to continue on before pulling out his phone and making a call.

[Dominion of Compassion]

Suspicious, she gets out of the car. Putting it out of her mind, she enters the bank, and approaches the counter. After exchanging pleasantries with the teller, she withdraws the sum agreed upon, and waits for the teller to count it out, while drawing looks from her headdress.

[Odrin]

The teller, upon seeing the masked and armed woman enter the bank, hit the silent alarm under the counter before trying to stall for as long as possible. The teller begins to speak nervously "So...Uh...How much money do you want to withdraw mam?¨ Off to the side, a door opens and two plainclothes ISB Agents emerge, searching the bank for a moment before making their way towards Nicki. Meanwhile, the driver, who is still speaking into the phone begins pacing back and forth. His face suddenly drains of color before he started running towards the banks doors, drawing his H&K P30 as he sprints through the front doors.

[Odrin]

Torbin stepped out of the sedan that he had arrived in and surveyed the area. The house was surrounded by ISB and OPD forces, who had formed a perimeter around the area. He walked swiftly toward an ISB Team Leader, barking "Einziehen!" The man responded with a nod, waving for his men to follow. The group of six men moved swiftly toward the house, stopping at the front door. At the count of three, they breached the door, storming into the house, guns at the ready. After several minutes of silence, Torbin's radio crackled to life. "Keine hostiles , erscheint OPD und ISB Vermögenswerte zu überleben. Bestellungen ?" Torbing responded "Bewegliche Stützkräfte in jetzt . Sie nicht auf sie schießen." Before sitting down for a moment to think. Why were the men still alive? Everything that they knew about the mob boss indicated that he left no survivors. What had changed? Maybe the helmet footage would answer some of these questions...

[Odrin]

The civilians in the bank, now noticing the drawn weapons began streaming out the front doors. The two ISB Agents push their way through the crowd towards Nicki, raising their pistols and yelling "Legen Sie Ihre Hände hinter den Kopf ! Du bist verhaftet!" One of them mutters "Straf Abschaum..." under his breath. The driver, obstructed by the flow of civilians begins pushing through the crowd.

[Dominion of Compassion]

"You're f***ing kidding me." She groans as she draws her whip. "GET THE F**K DOWN!!!" She screams cracking the whip over their heads. She takes advantage of the moment, diving behind a counter and chucking another knockout gas grenades right in the middle of the group.

[Odrin]

As the grenade releases a cloud of gas, both of the Agents fall to the floor coughing. One of them manages to pull himself clear of the cloud before reaching for his scanner, his hand shaking and his gun lost in the cloud of gas.

[Dominion of Compassion]

"Sit the f**k down." She says as she kicks the scanner away and then gives him a boot to the side of the head. She marches back to the bank teller. "Now. I would like to make a damn withdrawal. Now." She points her pistol at the woman's face.

[Odrin]

The manager slowly walks to the vault door, swiping a key card at the same time as a guard before stepping back as the door begins to open. He waves for two tellers to follow him as he steps into the vault. They return moments later, wheeling a cart out of the vault. They wheel the cart over towards Nicki before beginning to move the money to her bag, quickly emptying most of the cart. "$460,000 Dollars mam..." The manager says weakly, his hands shaking.

[Dominion of Compassion]

"God you're slow." She rolls her eyes as she pushes the manager down for no apparent reason. She grabs one of the officers and drags him to the door, where she runs into the driver. "Help me. Get him to the car." She passes him off to the driver.

[Odrin]

He pauses for a moment before returning his pistol to its holster and grabbing the unconcious officers arms and draggin him to the car. He lifts the man into the back seat before entering the drivers seat and waving for her to get in the car. In the distance, sirens can be heard converging on the location. Noticing the sirens he waved insistently and yelled "We have to go now! Get in the backseat, tell me where you want to go!"

[Dominion of Compassion]

Jumping in and buckling, she shouts, "can we lose them before we get to the warehouse?"

[Odrin]

He nodded before beginning to drive. He drove down several backstreets before pulling up and parking outside of a small garage on a backstreet. He quickly opened the garage, driving a silver sedan out. He waved for Nicki to take the officer out of the previous car before driving it into the garage and closing the door. Stepping into the drivers seat, he waited for Nicki to move the officer to the car and get in safely before pulling out of the alley and beginning to drive once more. Several minutes later, they had turned around a corner to find a checkpoint. Two ISB Lenco Bearcats and several other police vehicles were arranged in a makeshift roadblock in the middle of the street. There was already one car at the checkpoint where ISB Officers could be seen searching the trunk, peering inside of the car, checking the drivers identification, and checking under the car using mirrors. After about thirty seconds, the officers gave the all clear and the vehicle was waved through. The driver pulled forward and one of the officers stepped forward and said "Identification please." The driver reached into his pocket, withdrawing his wallet and showing the officer something inside. The mans eyes widened as he examined the card before waving to his fellow officer and yelling "All clear!" And waving them forward. The driver continued on, finally approaching the warehouse. He pulled up outside stepping out and opening the door for Nicki.

[Odrin]

Back at the checkpoint, the officer ran to the command vehicle leaning inside and saying"Sir , der Undercover-Agent wurde uns gesagt, um nur durch den Checkpoint bestanden! Was soll ich tun?" The team leader had the man describe the vehicle before calling it in. "Wir fanden das Ziel . Eine silberne BMW, keine Teller , geht nach Osten von dem Kontrollpunkt etwa eine Minute und eine Hälfte vor . Unser Mann fuhr, eine junge, blonde Frau in den Rücken und ein anderer Mann war."The voice on the other side of the phone responded"Recieved . Wir reagieren jetzt . ISB taktischen Teams kommen." All throughout the area, ISB, OPD, and NDA teams began converging on the area.

Back at the house, an ISB Officer quickly approaches Torbin, before whispering "Wir haben eine bestätigte Sichtung der Ziele Sir. Bestellungen?" Torbin gave a tired grin before moving quickly towards a nearby Lenco Bearcat and yelling "ISB taktischen Teams vier, fünf , acht und dreizehn , bereiten sich zu bewegen ! Wir haben eine bestätigte Sichtung!" The mean sprang into actions, checking weapons and armor, loading equipment, and climbing into vehicles. The armored convoy sped away in under two minutes, rapidly approaching the area.

[Dominion of Compassion]

Hidden Ritual Chambers

Jace, panting and famished, enters the hidden entrance after navigating the long stretch of sewer to get there. He placed his hand on the door handle, once again trying to swallow his rising doubts. The years of being involved in this hideous organization were taking its toll on him. There was only so much brutality he could take. But if Elaina or- God forbid- Cora found out he had soared those soldiers, he was done for. He just didn't know how much more he could take. Sighing, he pushed the door open. Striding through several antechambers, he reached the inner sanctum, what they called the "ritual room." Elaina and Cora were deep in meditation when he entered. Cora's head snapped up with rapt attention. "Jace?" She exclaimed hugging him tightly. "We thought those ghastly soldiers had killed you! Are you ok?" He smiled slightly. "Yeah, I'm fine. What's going on here?" Elaina and Cora made eye contact and smiled menacingly. "Well, with the recent... Unfortunate... Passing of the previous leader of our league, I have stepped forward and taken the mantel." She smiled, borderline maniacally. Elaina clapped her hands joyfully. God help me, Jace thinks to himself, his despair building beneath his stony expressionless mask.

[Dominion of Compassion]

"Thank you." Nicki nodded politely, dragging the officer with her. "Now let's get him in there and situated. It's time to have a little fun." She smiled menacingly, cracking her knuckles and removing her veil and headdress. She drew her dainty dagger and entered the building.

[Odrin]

As she steps in, one of the mobsters quickly enters a back room, emerging several moments later with the mob boss in tow. The man smiled, trying to wipe blood off of his sleeves before speaking "I see you have the money! And you brought another friend! Would you like to use the back room?" He says, not waiting for an answer before waving one of his men to drag the officer to the back room for Nicki. The mob boss then directs Nicki to the back room. As they step in, the man can be seen tying the officer to a chair. In the corner, another figure is keeled over in a chair, gasping for air. The mob boss quickly smiles before stepping out with his man, closing the door behind him.

[Dominion of Compassion]

Nicki smiles and slinks up towards the officer. Restraining him in a chair, she checks his pulse, and sees he's still alive. Slapping him a few times, she says "wake up, you've got some explaining to do."

[Odrin]

He glares at her angrily as he awakens.

[Dominion of Compassion]

She perches on another chair across from him, smiling sweetly. Somehow it seemed almost dangerous. "So, do tell: what do you know of the situation? What was your mission?"