Young Writers Society

The helicopters blades whirled, making everything else inaudible. I looked over to my partner, Chad. He looked at me and nodded. We were both ready. We slid down a rope and onto the top of the skyscraper. The task was simple, I knew when and where our target was going to be, I just had to terminate him. I pulled my long sniper rifle off my back. This was to kill the target. Chad prepared his weapon as well. The man was to walk out of the building across the street in less than an hour. That was my chance. Chad kneeled down on the edge of the building and perched his gun. He was in perfect position. I was about to lift my gun when I heard the roar of a helicopter. I looked up, it was not the same helicopter, it was red.

“Enemies! Get down!” yelled Chad.

He ran down the stairs into the abandoned building and I followed. We made it down two stories when he turned to me.

“Our cover’s been blown,” he said “How are we to complete the mission?”

“Floor twelve has a series of windows, we can fire from there.”

“Gotcha, you stay here and keep wa—“

“NO!” I shouted.

“Wha--?”

“We will stay together.”

Chad was confused by my outbreak, but didn’t have time to argue. We headed down the stairs. When we got to that floor we heard voices. This was an abandoned building, why would we hear voices? Two men stepped around the corner. Chad and I had no choice. We each pulled a pistol off our belts and fired a single shot. The two bullets were enough to kill both men instantly. The room was immediately filled with the scent of blood. The men didn’t even have a chance to register the scene before their demise came to them. Chad and I quickly found a closet to stuff them in and closed the door.

“If they were here, will there be more?” inquired Chad.

“Possibly, did the heli get the wrong coordinates?” I asked.

“Must have, these men are dressed for business.”

“Where do we head now?”

“To the next building over, and hope it’s not full.”

We begin back up the stairs. We make it up to the top floor when we hear the elevator ding. We both line up our pistols and shoot the man and women who stepped out. There can be no witnesses. I turned to Chad and he nodded, we needed to get out, no time to hide the victims.

We climbed up the flight of stairs to the roof. Chad looked into the sky, the red helicopter was nowhere in sight. We jumped the short crevasse between this building and the one over. We hear sirens in the distance.

“They found the bodies,” cried Chad “We must work quickly.”

We climbed down into the building to scout for people. It seemed that we had found an actual abandoned building this time, now we were safe, but for how long? All of a sudden the windows of the top floor exploded. We glimpsed down to see police lights. They had opened fire. I laid down on my stomach and pulled a grenade off my belt, yanked the pin and tossed the baseball sized explosive out the window. Chad and I ducked behind a couch to avoid any shrapnel. All of a sudden there was a deafening bang followed by screams of death. We peered back out the window to see blood covering the ground in every place imaginable, but that had not finished the police. There were still many left, but they were outmatched by us.

“We have to find the target before the special forces arrive” I yelled to Chad.

“Yeah, but where are we, and where is he?”

“I don’t know, but we aren’t going to find him here.”

“Let’s head back up to the roof.”

I chucked another grenade out the window and ran up the stairs. We heard the explosion, but it seemed to have less of an impact than before. Now on the roof, we had view of everything around. I peered across the street and saw a restaurant, that was it.

“Chad, the target’s in there!” I shouted.

Chad nodded, he began to set up his gun when there was a whirl of bullets. We looked up to see a helicopter shooting down at us. We were unable to hear it due to the carnage below. Special forces were on their way. I swung my gun around and peered down the sights at the pilot. With a single deafening sound a bullet soared through the windshield of the helicopter and took out the pilot. The machine was out of control and soared into the building opposite of us. Creating an explosion of fire.

“SPECIAL FORCES ON THE WAY!!” yelled Chad.

There were more shots fired from the ground and we ducked. I had to finish this. I stuck my head up tossed my last grenade and perched my gun. Looking down my scope I shot and killed every armed person in sight. This had to end. I had only one bullet left when I saw my chance.

“HERE COMES THE TARGET!!” I yelled.

Chad perched over the wall, lined up his shot and-

BANG!

Finally, my mission was complete. I swung the gun back over my shoulder and walked away from Chad’s dead body. The red helicopter returned and dropped a rope. I climbed the rope into the vehicle and sat down. There was a man in a business suit and sunglasses next to me.

“The money will be loaded into your account.” He said with absolutely no expression.

I nodded and the helicopter flew away undetected.