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The Devil's Symphony
By Jon Hall And Greg Housley

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chapter 4A


      Sanc Kingdom
	23:00 Hours

	The air about was calm in the darkness that stretched through the Sanc 
Kingdom. Shadows played off the surrounding trees with malicious glee, the 
moonlight beating down upon the peace driven lands, it almost seemed 
inconceivable that the hour at hand had at last arrived. Twenty three 
hundred hours flashed in digital green numbers across the face of the 
figures watch. An almost giddy feeling washed it's way through the veins of 
the awaiting Squad leader. It's time, it whispered silently.

	"This is Pack Alpha.. Pack Alpha to wolf squadron," the figure whispered 
into it's headpiece mic, "twenty three hundred hours at designated points, 
operation meteor three sequence one to commence. Alpha one, two, and three 
secure inner perimeter. Omega one, two and, three secure outer perimeter. 
Move! Move!"

	Immediately the squad leader sprint from its point of concealment and 
rushed to the west wing of the palace building. It stopped short only 
several yards from a patrolling guard and ducked behind a nearby bush. He 
seemed to be weary from his nights patrol and inattentive to his 
surroundings. This was exactly as the figure had suspected, the operation 
known as sequence one was planned at twenty three hundred hours for a 
reason. It was the moment of guard rotation so patrols were minimum and the 
ones posted would be groggy from a long nights patrol. The figure smiled to 
itself. This one looked particularly tired and very easy to overcome. It 
reached down to small throwing knife at its belt and silently slid it from 
its sheath. With precise accuracy the knife flew silently from its hands and 
into the jugular vain of the patrolling guard. Only a faint murmur could be 
heard from the man as he slumped to the ground clutching at his bleeding 
neck, an instant later the man was dead. The squad leader looked back down 
to its watch, twenty-three zero three, beamed out from the band about its 
wrist.

	"Pack Alpha to wolf squadron. West wing secure. Alpha one, north wing?"

	"Secure." A voice spoke through the figures headset.

	"Alpha two, east wing?"

	"Secure."

	"Alpha three, south wing?"

	"Secure your highness."


	"Alpha three your out of line." The figure scolded.

	"Sue me." Alpha three commented.

	The figure sighed, why'd they have to stick Dane in on this mission? "Omega 
one two, and three, state status of outer perimeter A, B, and C."

	"Omega one reporting, all three outer perimeters have been secured, Pack 
Alpha."

	"Very good! Wolf squadron converge on entry point three, east wing, over."

	Moving on cat's feet the squad leader bolted from behind the bushes and ran 
around the front of the palace to the east wing. It would have to be fast it 
knew, five minutes had passed since twenty three hundred hours and in 
twenty-five minutes more the patrol rotation would be complete. If they were 
still around at that time they would be done for. Only seconds passed before 
it stood before the six other members of the squad. With a simple silent 
nod, Omega two began working with the security devises installed into the 
door of Entry point three.
The squad leader watched the locks expert and silently marveled. The squad 
had been fitted with the best of the best. One munitions expert, one 
security tech, one pilot, two sharpshooters, Dane and itself. Comprised the 
members of wolf squadron.

      It didn't take the locks expert long to attach his digital equipment 
and hack through the code systems, and in no time they were working their 
way through the inner hallways of the palace's east wing.

      The squad leader checked its watch. Twenty-three zero seven. Good, it 
thought, they were making good time, however the hard part was yet to come. 
The small group stealthily made it's way down the corridors silently 
dispatching any guards they encountered until they reached a set of long 
stairs leading up into the second level of the north wing.

      Without hesitation they began their ascent. This is where things get 
tricky, the leader thought silently. With that thought it wasn't long before 
they encountered their first set of guards. The three men who sat guard 
outside the students dormitory rooms were caught completely off-guard at the 
unexpected encounter. Throwing they're card table from their laps, knocking 
playing card everywhere in the process, the three men were barely able to 
reach for their side-arms before they lay dead. The squad leader silently 
motioned a halt after that. Though their guns were silenced the small ruckus 
might still be enough to call attention to them.
Several seconds trickled by and gradually the leader, with a wave of its 
hand, called for a resume march.

      They found another stairwell located at the far end of the hallway and 
without a word began to make their way to the third floor. This was where 
their mission's objective was located, the leader remembered.

      Once they stood at the top of the stairway the squad leader peered 
skeptically down the hallways extent. No sentries were present, and this 
brought concern to its eyes. It was at this point it had expected the 
greatest opposition, though none were visible. It brought up its hand to the 
squad members and signaled for caution, something wasn't right here. Slower 
than before they made their way down the hallway until reaching the target 
door. Still no opposition was encountered, sweat marked its brow. It 
signaled for Omega two once again, and again he attached his digital 
security hacking device. At an incredible speed the machine began flipping 
letter by letter of the door panel code. Once through Omega two made an 
effort to show the code to the figure. It rolled its eyes. 'Heero Yuy'

      The target doors locks snapped open and quickly they flooded into the 
room. Within it was dark, and instead of flipping the lights the seven squad 
members pulled down a set of small optical lenses and powered the night 
vision glasses up. The room about them came into focus within only several 
seconds. Within the tiny glasses the figure could read the digital numbers 
twenty three thirteen. Seventeen minutes, it thought, provided everything 
went as smoothly as it had up till this point they would have no problems at 
all. They approached the figure asleep in it's bed and peered down into her 
sleepy face. She seemed unaware of anything save her own dreams. The leader 
smiled to itself, when you awake Ms. Peacecraft you will awake to a hell 
unlike anything you've ever known.

      Silently the squad leader produced a small vile and cloth and dipped 
the cloth into the liquid of the vile. Satisfied the cloth was thoroughly 
saturated it pressed the cloth hard over the mouth and nose of the 
unsuspecting sleeping figure. Her eyes flew wide awake and her body began to 
thrash, but before a decent struggle could be had, the girls eyes began to 
fall back to sleep and her body began to grow limp.

      The squad leader again smiled. "Alpha three," The leader looked up at 
the man closest to it. "Grab Ms. Peacecraft and lets be on our way." With a 
simple nod the man dipped his arms underneath the limp body and gently 
tossed it over his right shoulder. The small party then turned and began to 
make its way from the hallway without, but as they reached the doorway, they 
began to hear shouts from both sides of the hall. Looking down the extent of 
both directions, the squad leader could see shadows playing off the walls as 
people began to rush their way up the stairs to the third floor.

      "We've been discovered!" The leader gasped. It looked about the room 
in desperation and quickly shut the door engaging the lock. Catching sight 
of the window the leader began barking new orders "Wolf squad! Contingency 
plan Beta zero zero three!" The squadron began as ordered, opening the 
window and latching a grappling gun to the railing, Alpha two began lowering 
himself down to the ground, Once their he pressed a switch at the guns side 
and the device began winding itself back to the others at the window. The 
figure looked over at alpha three, who was carrying Relena Peacecraft, 
"Dane, you must get her back to the rendezvous no matter what. Remember 
she's the mission's objective without her it's a botched operation."

     The man nodded, "You can count on me." The squad leader nodded back, it 
knew it could.

      From without several shouts could be heard along with footsteps 
rushing from everywhere. Those fools, the leader thought, they have no idea 
what their up against. It looked over to Omega one. "Omega one, remotes."

      "Aye." The man replied without hesitation." He ran to the door and 
quickly pulled free a large putty from his vest pocket and secured it 
against the door. The figure looked down to see the other five plus Relena 
safely awaiting their descent.

      "Omega one your up!" The figure commanded. And with that the man 
quickly made his way over to the grappling gun and made his decent. Loud 
crashing noises could be heard without as the figure stood alone waiting for 
the gun to return. Only a few more seconds, it thought.
The gun finally made it's way to the top again and the squad leader greedily 
grabbed for it and began to make its way to the ground. Just as it did 
though the lock to the door broke and the door swung open with a ferocity as 
the armored soldiers began making their way into the room. "Omega one blow 
it!" It called to the man below.

      As instructed the man pulled the antenna to his remote and pressed the 
ignition button. A large explosion rolled through the room vaporizing the 
men within and flowing several yards out of the wall. The figure felt the 
rope go limp and felt it's stomach lurch as it began to freefall to the 
ground.

      The six members of wolf squadron gathered about their fallen leader as 
Alpha one helped it up and they began to quickly make their way through the 
palace grounds. Gunshots rang out through the air towards the fleeing 
kidnappers as they made their getaway. Alpha one helped the squad leader 
keep pace since it had sustained a pretty bad sprain from its fall and 
severely bruised torso and arms.

      Barking could be heard as several dogs began to converge on their 
location, the palace grounds was lit up like a carnival now as soldiers from 
everywhere began to give chase to the squadron. "Alpha two, Omega three, 
provide some cover for us!" the men freed their side arms and one by one 
began to pick at the soldiers as they began to advance. Palace guards left 
and right began to fall at their tracks as the sharpshooters began laying an 
effective cover for the retreating squadron. The dogs they had heard earlier 
finally came into visibility, eight in all, and before any could lay claw or 
tooth to the members all lay in puddle of it's own blood. Very effective 
cover, the squad leader thought.

      Finally the fleeing members of wolf squadron caught sight of their 
getaway vehicle and the squad leader felt a sigh escape its lips. "Alpha 
one, hop to it!" The leader commanded. The twin blades of the war copter 
came to life as the trees about began to shudder from its force. "Lift off! 
Lift off!" The leader commanded. And with only moments to spare the chopper 
was off the ground and making its way home.

      "Initiating cloak." Omega two called back.

      The men from the ground halted their shooting on the departing copter 
as they watched in stunned silence it simply vanish.

      Relena felt her consciousness begin to return and began to notice her 
head was cradled into someone's lap. Groggily her eyes slipped open and she 
looked up into the unfamiliar eyes of a girl close to her own age. She felt 
her heart tighten at the memory of someone holding her head down with some 
strange smelling cloth. The cold brown eyes that locked on Relena's made her 
shiver with fright. "Wh-Who are you?" She finally asked.

      "Welcome to the first moment of your new life Relena Peacecraft, I'm 
the leader of this operation, They call me Pack Alpha but you can Call me 
Rei Akagi.

      Relena tried to swallow, but her mouth was too dry. She knew that 
something bad was about to happen, she just wish she knew what.

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