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Henry, Anna and Elizabeth are getting more and more confused as the situation gets more complicated. Their kidnappers claim that they were just given protection but against whom? That question remains unanswered. “You’re telling us you saved us from something. But there’s no proof. Show us something that can…” Henry said but John interrupted while dropping the contents of a plastic bag in front of the Randolph family. Two chips fell. “Do you know what these chips are? These are trackers placed at the engine of your cars.” John said. “Someone has been tracking you Mr. Randolph. And believe it or not, it’s not us.” He added. Then someone from behind the family spoke. It’s Stephen one of the guys who grabbed Anna and Elizabeth. He said, “We also found hidden cameras placed at your home. Well, Andrew hacked into it to fool the perpetrators that you’re still in there.” “If everything you’re telling us is true, then it sounds like you know these people?” Henry asked. Then Kevin said, “Yes we know them. They’re once our colleagues.” Out of confusion, Elizabeth asked Kevin, “Colleagues? Since when did you become someone like them?”
“It started during the war. The country was so poor at the time. Phoenix was just beginning. No jobs were available and it was really a time of depression. Then someone came to me and to everyone in this team. They said that they are willing to give us jobs and that if we would like, we could work for Phoenix.” Kevin replied. “Well, I guess we became a puppet for them. Phoenix formed a covert organization, CSTO or the Council for Special and Tactical Operations. It was entrusted to ‘wipe off’ Phoenix’s enemies. The job they promised us was becoming an agent of CSTO, a political assassin, a killer for their personal gain. We were given no choice but I guess we just didn’t search for a better one.” Kevin added. Elizabeth got stunned of Kevin’s answers. Then Anna interrupted and said, “Yes I heard about that group but the Phoenix kept on denying it until some time, the issue just disappeared.” “Of course they’ll deny it. That’s why the former CSTO agents got angry because after abolishing CSTO, Phoenix left every agent behind. Now most of the mercenaries in dark zones are former CSTO agents, expressing their anger against Phoenix.” John interrupted. Elizabeth then asked, “So for the past years you’ve been a mercenary?” “No. After CSTO was abolished, we stopped. We lived a normal life since then.” Kevin replied. Henry then asked, “Then why are you back?” Then John replied, “Because we know that someone will get hurt and the right thing to do is to prevent that from happening. This is a way of redeeming ourselves.” “But why us? If there are so many mercenaries then there would be several targets as well right?” Anna asked. Then Andrew answered, “You’re one of those ‘big fishes’. The one assigned to you is currently the best in the industry right now. Well, aside from us, they’re the best.” Then Henry asked, “Who are ‘they’? How do you know that they’re the one responsible for whatever you’re protecting us from? Lastly, what are you really protecting us from?”
“That’s a lot of questions Mr. Randolph. As you might have heard a while ago, I was a former classmate of Elizabeth. We had constant communication even after your family left the country. There was a time when I called your daughter. My phone is usually connected to a computer to detect 3rd parties or we can informally call as hackers. That time during the call, I noticed one hacker was monitoring the call so I called Andrew and asked him to trace who the guy is.” Kevin then answered. After that, Andrew said, “I still don’t know who the guy is but when I dug into the hacker’s system, I found out that it was not focusing on Kevin but on Ms. Elizabeth instead. Then I found all kinds of information about your family in his system. Schedules, telephone and mobile numbers, name them. After some deep hacking I found out that he reports to a Dennis Fray, a former CSTO agent. He’s the head of the team we’re talking about a while ago. I also found out that they were scheduling a kidnap operation for your family. If you want proof I have everything in my laptop.” “I must reiterate that Dennis’ team is good. We may have won over them this time, but later on it’s going to be hard fighting against them.” Then Henry asked, “But why? What do they want?” Andrew replied and said, “That’s something we would find out together. Well of course if you join us. But for now, our goal is to get you to our custody.” Then John said. “Now here’s the part where you decide to either come with us or to go home. We will untie you and you may look into all the evidences.” Each family member was untied. Then Andrew showed different proofs of the kidnapping plans including video footage of the family from a hidden camera, recorded calls and location traces.
“It started during the war. The country was so poor at the time. Phoenix was just beginning. No jobs were available and it was really a time of depression. Then someone came to me and to everyone in this team. They said that they are willing to give us jobs and that if we would like, we could work for Phoenix.” Kevin replied. “Well, I guess we became a puppet for them. Phoenix formed a covert organization, CSTO or the Council for Special and Tactical Operations. It was entrusted to ‘wipe off’ Phoenix’s enemies. The job they promised us was becoming an agent of CSTO, a political assassin, a killer for their personal gain. We were given no choice but I guess we just didn’t search for a better one.” Kevin added. Elizabeth got stunned of Kevin’s answers. Then Anna interrupted and said, “Yes I heard about that group but the Phoenix kept on denying it until some time, the issue just disappeared.” “Of course they’ll deny it. That’s why the former CSTO agents got angry because after abolishing CSTO, Phoenix left every agent behind. Now most of the mercenaries in dark zones are former CSTO agents, expressing their anger against Phoenix.” John interrupted. Elizabeth then asked, “So for the past years you’ve been a mercenary?” “No. After CSTO was abolished, we stopped. We lived a normal life since then.” Kevin replied. Henry then asked, “Then why are you back?” Then John replied, “Because we know that someone will get hurt and the right thing to do is to prevent that from happening. This is a way of redeeming ourselves.” “But why us? If there are so many mercenaries then there would be several targets as well right?” Anna asked. Then Andrew answered, “You’re one of those ‘big fishes’. The one assigned to you is currently the best in the industry right now. Well, aside from us, they’re the best.” Then Henry asked, “Who are ‘they’? How do you know that they’re the one responsible for whatever you’re protecting us from? Lastly, what are you really protecting us from?”
“That’s a lot of questions Mr. Randolph. As you might have heard a while ago, I was a former classmate of Elizabeth. We had constant communication even after your family left the country. There was a time when I called your daughter. My phone is usually connected to a computer to detect 3rd parties or we can informally call as hackers. That time during the call, I noticed one hacker was monitoring the call so I called Andrew and asked him to trace who the guy is.” Kevin then answered. After that, Andrew said, “I still don’t know who the guy is but when I dug into the hacker’s system, I found out that it was not focusing on Kevin but on Ms. Elizabeth instead. Then I found all kinds of information about your family in his system. Schedules, telephone and mobile numbers, name them. After some deep hacking I found out that he reports to a Dennis Fray, a former CSTO agent. He’s the head of the team we’re talking about a while ago. I also found out that they were scheduling a kidnap operation for your family. If you want proof I have everything in my laptop.” “I must reiterate that Dennis’ team is good. We may have won over them this time, but later on it’s going to be hard fighting against them.” Then Henry asked, “But why? What do they want?” Andrew replied and said, “That’s something we would find out together. Well of course if you join us. But for now, our goal is to get you to our custody.” Then John said. “Now here’s the part where you decide to either come with us or to go home. We will untie you and you may look into all the evidences.” Each family member was untied. Then Andrew showed different proofs of the kidnapping plans including video footage of the family from a hidden camera, recorded calls and location traces.
After some time, John said, “We may have done some bad things to you and your family today Mr. Randolph but we’re the only ones you’ve got right now. I’ll be asking you, will you stay? Or will you go? You’ve seen every proof we can show you. It’s your call.” Then Kevin interrupted and said, “You can trust us Mr. Randolph. We’re here to protect you even though we’ve been off with a bad start. But I can assure you, you can trust us. And if ever you choose to leave, then we’ll escort you to the safe zone and we will be prepared to face the consequences of our actions.” “These things you showed us are convincing but some things are still unclear. And yeah, you did some pretty bad things to us, I won’t forget that. Unfortunately, it appears that the only one we can rely on is your team, especially after realizing that Phoenix is not trustworthy at all. Well I guess we have the choice to leave but I don’t want to risk my family. I guess me and my family is on the same page right now and we’ve decided to stay. You better be right about this Kevin. I’m entrusting our lives to you.” Still, confusion is filling the minds of the family. They haven’t completely understood what’s happening but they decided to stay with these guys. Believing that these guys can help them understand the situation. Old questions have been answered. New ones appeared. Why are they a target? What does Dennis’ team wants?
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