Page 6 of Poison
Shay and Pappy listenedand when Sergi was through with the story, they looked over at Faith.
“So after we went after Mr.White and killed him,” Bastian explained.“Mr Red sent out an army to ambush us.”
“If we hadn’t had Faith with us,” Cane said.“They would have slaughtered everyone.”
Viktor nodded.“I recall.We did the cleanup.”Shaking his head he admitted, “There were a lot of dead ninjas there.Someone wanted you all to suffer badly.I had thought it was a little overkill but I suppose he had to make a statement.”
Bastian nodded.“We locked him up on his ship and yet again, he surprised us by having another team of assassins waiting for us.We did hurt him though.”
Bane nodded.“We did battle with him and sank his boat, and we are hoping he was on board when the ship went down but we can’t confirm that.He was a pompous ass with his own set of super soldiers but we had Faith on our side.”
Viktor frowned and glared at the team.“He had more of those mindless men?How is that possible?”
Faith came over and joined them, “Apparently, Mr.White had more teams he forgot to mention.He’s been collecting them longer than we realized.Our research has uncovered that he’s been doing experiments on homeless people for the last decade.We thought it had been more recent than that.”
“Do you know how many men he has now?”Sergi wanted to know.
Faith shook her head.“We did find out that his earlier research wasn’t as successful as the later research was.He and his doctors made some very serious mistakes earlier on.They had to destroy those soldiers because they couldn’t control them.”
Sergi shook his head as he swore in Russian, “Bozhe moy, oni monstry.They are truly insane.”
“Do you believe there are more of these soldiers out there?”Nikoli asked.
“We have no way of knowing,” Bastian replied.
Nikoli looked at the group and had to ask, “Can we stop them?”
Bastain nodded.“I hope we can, otherwise this country is done for.It won’t matter much if we don’t.Too many people will die and none of their deaths will mean a damn thing because they didn’t need to die.Their deaths won’t be pretty either.They will die screaming and in terrible pain as the poison runs through their bodies and finally kills them.It won’t matter if they are men, women or children, they will all die screaming.”
Sergi growled.“So they are ready and willing to poison the grains we need to eat and survive and someone else is ready to poison the water we need to drink?Is that what you are telling us?”
Bastian nodded.“We also got someone willing to arm our enemies who will come in armed, willing to shoot anyone and everyone standing in their way.”
Rainey spoke up and said, “We also got more information on Mr.Black and the Pallor of Death too.We know who they are and what they plan to do but in order to stop them we have to strike all of them all at once.We have a slight element of surprise on our side but only for a short window of time.”
James nodded.“And we found out that Mr.Pallor has a fleet of small boats.I found a satellite photo of them in northern Minnesota.I took a photo yesterday and when I looked this morning, some of them were already on the move.”
“Where are they going?”Nikoli asked.
“There are seven major rivers that break off from the Mississippi River,” James informed them.“That would cover most of the nation.”
Sergi slowly shook his head.“What do you want us to do?How can we stop this madness?”
“We feel the best bet is to hit their places all at once with everything we got,” Bastian replied.“Take them down before they can release their poison on the world as we know it.If the Bratva Enforcers and Ghosts attack them on one end and us on the other, we may have some luck.Pappy, we would like you to reach out to your network and get as many of your people involved so we can get reports about what’s going on out there.”
Pappy nodded.“I can do that.”
Frank stepped up and said, “My people can work with them as well.The Knights are gonna want in on this.”
Bastain nodded.
Sergi leaned in and said, “My men can take down the silos of grain and seeds that have been poisoned as well.My Nomads and Ghosts can blow them up and get away without being seen.”
Bastain nodded.“That would help, we’re still working on knowing where they all are.”
“Do you have any idea what they are going to put in the water to make it undrinkable?”Shay wanted to know.
Bastian shook his head and commented, “Not yet, but we’re still looking.”
