Infiltrate and Save

Toyin placed a knock on Abbey's door, being gentle about it, after minutes or knocking, he decided to check at the bar, where Abbey was wet known with.

Toyin parked his car in front of the bar, alighted and walked in, entering into the bar, he kit a cigarette stick and placed it in his mouth, then puffed out smoke, before approaching the bar.

"Morning Sir, you can seat on a vacant seat, while you place your orders " a fair girl, said to Toyin, smoking brightly.

"Thanks for the hospitality, am here to see Uche" Abbey said showed the girl his batch.

Uche raised his head up, from where he relaxed himself and spoke.

"Police and trouble, what do you want again? "

Abbey looked sideways, where the voice came from and faked a smile, and walked towards Uche.

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"Alright Soldiers, here is the drop point" the man who piloted the military jet shouted.

Abbey opened his eyes, shut them and opened them again, he heaved and grabbed his bag.

Sitting opposite him, were three recruit, from what he could observe, they were inexperienced.

The door of the plane, came open, with Abbey, taking the lead, he stood by the door, like old times, feeling the rush of wind, he looked back and nodded his head before jumping out of the plane.

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Abbey removed the parachute from himself, and also, others did the same. He opened his bag, and brought out two pistols from it, inserted them in the gun sheath on both sides of his legs, and then a knife, which he held in his right hand and a rifle on the other.

"How close are we? " Abbey asked the one with the map.

The boy looked closely at the map, with him, and carefully studied it.

"Forward, about thirty minutes trek" The boy replied and folded the map, and dipped it in his pocket.

"Watch out, and be careful, we are in the territory" Abbey said and crossed over a fallen tree, threading with caution.

The tall trees, formed a canopy above them, shielding them from the terrible northern sun, apart from the dead leaves and branches that made little noise as they stepped on it, the forest was really silent.

Abbey noticed a presence some meters before them, and leaned behind a tree, and others did same also. He sighed and held tight to his knife, while the rifle was fully supported above the hand the held the knife.

A man walked out from a part of the forest, his Ak47 rifle hanging on his back, he was fully concentrated knotting his trouser.

Abbey raised his dagger up, and held it at the sharp tip, he closed his eyes and with swift reflex, he threw the dagger at his target.

The man fell to the ground, already dead, Abbey ran up to the body, and placed a finger on the neck, before pulling out his dagger from the neck and wiped off the blood stain from dagger, with the man's cloth.

Proceeding forward with caution, Abbey handed his gun at his back and held tight to his knife, from where they stood they could hear, voices from where they stood, although the voices were clear and audible, they still could not understand what they were saying.

Abbey raised his right hand up and pointed a finger to the left, and then two other fingers to the left.

Two of the soldiers with him, moved swiftly to the left, their gun, locked and loaded and the last person moved to the right, leaving Abbey alone handling the middle.

Abbey waited for the perfect moment, counting his oppositions, they were eight in number, with just only two holding their gun, while the rest got themselves busy, with games and chat.

Abbey rolled out from his hideout and threw his knife at the Armed one on his right, before the other could lift his gun, Abbey gave him a headset with his pistol.

Getting them unaware, the two who moved to the left, fired rapidly at two of thier opposition, before they could reach for their guns.

Abbey shot at one, while the soldier from the right pulled down last. Abbey entered into the tent close to him, and cane out again, and also at the same moment, others also cane out from other tents.

"Nobody is here" The girl among them said, looking at Abbey.

"The mission was clear infiltrate and save" Abbey muttered and pulled out his knife from the dead body on the ground.

"It's a trap " One said and signalled them to listen to the sound of the aircraft approaching.

A blast came from the forest before them, shaking the ground.

Abbey looked at the soldiers with him, and all of them took their heels, as fast as their legs could carry them.

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Toyin stood up to take his leave and dropped a thousand naira on the table, and passed it towards Uche.

"If I eventually discover, and get him red handed that he is Waziri, you'll be spending your jail term in his assigned toilet"

Uche smirked and picked the money from the table and stood up also.

"If I know who Waziri is, I will gladly sponsor his campaign " Uche replied and smiled.

"Nice talking threat with you, makes me feel better" Uche shouted as went out of his bar