Vampira: Underworld

 

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Preface 

His mission was clear, Infiltrate and report. All he had to was wait for the signal then he could go into the building and plant a bug in each office.  It had been 2 hours since the last contact message, the signal should have come by now. What was taking so long. He decided it was time to check in with mission control.                                                                 “Alpha team to control”

“This is control,  Go ahead Alpha”

“Whats the ETA, on that signal”

“ETA was 10 minutes ago.”

Crap something was seriously wrong, the signal was 10 minutes late and he was on the clock, he had to make his move now , or it would be too late. Slowly he opened his  van  and crossed the street to the underground entrance of the lab. The door was locked. Another bad sign. He took out his tool belt and started working on the door, 30 seconds later he heard the metallic click and the door was unlocked. He had 10 minutes to go in and plant the bug before the guard made his round sweep of the office, and he had to do it quietly without sounding any of the alarms. This was a routine mission for Agent Ross but something told him he was missing something. What was it the training officer had told him “there is no such thing as coincidence, if something is not going according to plan , it usually spelt danger.” He continued maneuvering through the building setting up all the bugs ,when all of a sudden he realised why the signal had not come around. His contact was lying on the floor with a slit throat. Who else was in here , usually it was just the guards , and they would have no reason to slice his throat like this, this guys works here. His mission was clear, infiltrate and report, nowhere did it say anything about fighting or killing anyone, its time to abort .

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Chapter 1 

It had been a month since that last failed mission and he had now been reassigned.  Jimmy Ross was now a desk agent , worse he was working with geeks in Lab 101 , where they did research on non-human being . Things like Vampires and Werewolves. Beings that could pose a significant threat to mankind. He had been reduced from the top field agent to a mere science officer . Those bastards at head office had screwed him and screwed him hard.  His debriefing had been brutal. They all believed that it was somehow his fault that the contact had been killed.

“You  should have known something was wrong when the signal did not come through.” his supervisor had said . “To top it all of you did not complete the mission and because of you we lost out on the biggest bust that this agency could have had.” “I'm sorry Ross, but you leave me with no choice , you are facing an official  hearing at HQ, and after that you will go on a week suspension and when you come back you will be reassigned.” The hearing at HQ had just been a joke, they all took in turn embarrassing him , and after 2 hours of being yelled at by desk jockies who could never make it in the field , he was fined a full month's salary. 

“Ross, I need those cultured tubes before you go home”

“Yes sir,” the order had snapped him out of his daydreaming. The worst thing about working in lab 101 was working for the douschebag Carlton,, the guy was definition of Satan. Rumors had it that he had Butt kissed his way to the top and that he was also a spy sent from District 6 , the countries most sophisticated intelligence branch. For the past three weeks , Ross had been stuck in lab 101 from 7:00 am to 23:00 and he rarely got weekends and to top it all of , he could not see how his work was valuable because there where no such things as vampires. There never was and there never would be. 

 

The only positive thing that came from his re-assignment to lab 101 was the fact that he could spend more time with his wife , and not have to go on missions across the world without knowing whether he would see again. They had gotten married just before his first mission and it had been tough convincing her over the years to stay with him. She had been through a lot over the years and he could not begin to imagine a world without her. 

 

The time was now 23:00 and it was finally time to go home. He quickly shut of all the computers and equipment and walked to Carlton's office to hand over cultured tubes. He knocked but it turned out that Carlton was on the phone so he decided to leave it outside his door and leave. He was just about to open his when he heard a loud scream from outside. He quickly ran outside the the building , but found nothing , that was strange he thought.  he went back to his car and drove  home. When he got home he found his wife sitting in the lounge sipping coffee. 

“Good evening, how was your day at work?” she asked, because of the nature of his work, Ross had never got to tell his wife what it was he actually did and whenever she asked him this question he always had to lie to her. “Boring, like always , whats for dinner ?” Actually today for the first time since he started working at lab 101, his day had actually been interesting, they had gotten a call about an abnormal being with enormous amount of strength and now they were about to start tracking him. But of course Ross did not say this. ' Today we are having Mac and Cheese, but before that , sit down I need to tell you something." “What is it, is everything okay?” he asked worriedly,  Instead of telling him what was wrong his wife silently stood and went to her bedroom, and came back with a pregnancy test. Positive 

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Chapter 2  

The next day early in the morning Ross got a call. 

“hello?”

“Agent Ross, You are to report to district 5 and attend a meeting at 10:00 am with General Whittacker." Before he could say anything else the line had gone dead. Damn it, what did District 5 want with him now. District 5 was where all the navy seal training took place and if you ever got called in District 5 it only meant one of of two things, you were getting deployed, or you where about to get drafted into the seals. Usually you would need to apply to be a seal, and go through the 8 week training and only if you survived , would you go for another 6 week training and if you survived that would you only be a seal.But once in a while it happened that trained secrete agents were called up to district 5 and deployed on a spy mission, one that was too dangerous for a seal team to  go on because they would easily be detected. Ross woke up and got ready without waking up his wife, he left a note on the table in kitchen simply stating, “ Sorry I woke up early, had to go , emergency at work, I might not come back for a while see you when I do . P.S I can't wait to be a father to our beautiful child. ” All of a sudden , Ross felt a surge of emotion. It was this part of the job that he hated more than anything, Nancy was his life partner she deserved better than this.  He quickly dismissed these feelings and got into his car.  He drove for about 2 hours. When he finally arrived at District 5, he was stopped at the gate. “ID, please,?” Asked a tall guard at the gate. Ross provided it and 5 seconds later the gate was open. He drove another 100 meters before he to the next gate. This time another guard came to him “ Agent Ross, please step out of the vehicle ." when Ross stepped out , he was led to a small room where he had his bio metrics scanned and his voice recorded.   He got back in his car and had only driven another 100 meters before he was stopped at another gate, this time the guard that met him asked for his license and registration. He wanted to complain, but ended up just providing what he was asked. He continued driving another 100 meters and this time he was met by an unmanned gate, but when he drove up the gate, he was asked to stop the car “ Name and surname please?” the invisible voice asked, “Special Agent Jimmy Ross” He replied feeling a little bit silly and annoyed. “Welcome Special Agent Ross, please proceed to Building E, an officer is awaiting you in the reception.”  The gate opened and all of a sudden an illuminated path showed up, he followed the path and parked in the guest allocated spot. When he entered the building, there was a tall dark man waiting for him. “Special Agent Ross?” he asked . “Yes, that's me ”. “My name is Sargent Quint, please come with me  and oh before I forget please wear this name tag and do not take it of whilst you are in this building please." “ Umm, Sargent, what is this place." “I am not sure I am the right person to tell you that, but what I can tell you is that this place is the most secretive and secure place on the planet. The reason why you had to go through all the hustle when you came in. It is fitted with latest voice recognition software there is. In fact right now our voices are being analysed, should they not match up to the database we will be dead with in seconds." “Okay, that's a little scary. Can I ask , why I was called in, the gentleman on the phone just said I must report here.”  “ I am sorry for all the secrecy Agent Ross, but everything will be explained to you by General Whittacker. He is the only one authorized to brief you on what is to be expected of you." All of a sudden they reached a large wooden door . Automatically it opened and on the other side of the door was General Whittacker. “Ahh, Special Agent Ross, how are you, I trust you did not have any troubles finding us ? ” “Good morning General, no troubles at all, just a little hustle at the gate but otherwise a fine trip” “Ohh, Sorry about that, we are  little bit big on security here, the best in the world. ” “Yes, Sargent Quinton told me about your security features, very impressive sir” “Please sit down Agent Ross, and can I have anything brought in, coffee, tea , water” “Water would be just fine thank you General.” two minutes later a waiter entered the office with a jug full of water. “ Now I'm sure you are wondering why I asked to meet with you here?” “Yes sir, but Sargent Quinton said you were the only one with the clearance to brief me.” “Well, two days ago, the seal team 4, raided a supposed terrorist compound in Syria. only what they found was more sophisticated than anything we have ever seen. After some more digging we found out that the compound wasn't actually a terrorist compound , but one of our own. Inside that bunker where plans ranging from the assassination of two high ranking Russian military to something else. Unfortunately, our computer guys could not crack the rest of files. You see we have reason to believe that those files are Lab 101 encrypted, meaning that the only people with access to the files are Lab 101 stuff. ”  “I am sorry sir, but that can not be possible, as you most probably know our agency only has one lab and that is located  here, how could  our files end up on a computer in Syria.” "That is the question that I have been asking myself , and unfortunately without any of those encrypted files we do not have any answers."  “when do you want me to start on the files sir. ” “The sooner, the better.. I have already sent a transfer order, and it has already been approved. I'm pretty sure this goes without saying Agent Ross, but this is beyond secrete, no mentioning any of the work and what you find to anyone but me , understood? ”  “Yes sir, I understand." 

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Claire Stolworthy

This quite hard to read as it is laid out wrong. please put in indents and paragraphs.

Chapter 3 

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chapter 4 

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Chapter 5 

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