Tracked Down
Eren's POV
"Stephen Hart." said Recon
"Who's Stephen Hart?" asked Levi
"He's the man behind the attack. I interrogated some prisoners and they said that they were hired by a man name Stephen Hart.
"Armin, get some information on him." ordered Levi
Armin starts typing things into his computer and after a couple minutes he raised an eyebrow.
"There's no Stephen Hart no one in the entire world is named Stephen Hart." said Armin
"That's not possible, every Sentinel I interrogated said his name." said Recon
"Is there a possibility where they communicated together?" asked Hange
"No, I interrogated Sentinels from different levels of your jail system." replied Recon
"Well, no one is named Stephen Hart." said Armin
"Brats, keep looking." snapped Levi
"Sir with all due respect I searched every person with person's individual file but no one has that name." said Armin
"What are we supposed to do now?" I asked
"For now let's try to figure out what Ghost is up to." said Recon
"He won't tell us anything." replied Armin
"Then we hunt him down and force him to talk." replied Recon, "But this time, we try to predict what they're going to do."
"Yes ma'am." said Armin
"Oh and do another thing." said Recon, "Track Ghost's foster parents and Emily's father."
"Ma'am?" Armin questioned her
"Bring them to me, no I'll go to them." said Recon, "Also track down, Echo."
"Lieutenant Echo, leader of the Raptor jet fighters?" asked Armin
"Yes, bring him to me." said Recon, "I'll tear apart what Ghost's loves one by one by one."
"Are you going to kill the kids?" asked Armin
"No, not just yet." said Recon
Armin gave me a worried look and I felt really bad for Ghost's family.
"Well, we do know where they live..." said Armin
"Really, let me know, I'll be leaving right now." replied Recon
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1 day later
Recon's POV
I had my old outfit on since I'm outside and in America. I walked around their house and entered a room with sleeping babies. I smiled to myself and picked up the boy who looked like he was around 4 years old and held it in my arms.
I hear the door open and voices could be heard from downstairs. I look at the baby and play around with him for a while until I heard someone open the door behind me.
"Who are you?" asked a male voice
"You shouldn't be keeping babies in the house alone." I ignored his question
"I asked who you are." growled the same male voice
"I'm a friend of Ajax." I lied
"Ajax, he sent you?" he asked
"You must be his dad, well his step dad." I said
I still had my back towards him so I couldn't see his expression.
"I called the cops so you better not lie to me." said the man
I turn around and see two men and one female outside.
"You must be Emily's father." I told the second man who was Asian
"So you are Ajax's friend." said the Asian man
"Now that's where the tricky part comes in." I said
My undercover soldiers came out and pushed the three of them in and they were all confused, the men were pretty pissed off but the female looked scared.
"I don't want any bloodshed especially with his kids." I said, "What are their names?"
"The one you're holding is Malvik."
I started laughing from the name he was given.
"You sure are a good friend Ajax, naming your son after my boyfriend."
"Boyfriend?" asked the Asian man
"You must be Tessa." said the other man
"Smart, I can't believe that Ajax talks about me." I said
I look at the baby and touch its cheeks lightly.
"Take them away." I told my soldiers in Russian
They handcuffed them and led them to the cars outside. I left the house with Malvik in my arms sleeping while another soldier carried the other baby.
"Did you leave my recording in the house?" I asked the kid who was in the torture chambers back in Eldia
"Yes ma'am." he quickly replied
"Good." I replied
Ghost's POV
I remember watching the computer screen of the footage of my mother's death. She was assaulted by a group of men who didn't seem to die. She was able to take down more then half of them but went down. When she went down a man approached her and shot her twice. But she was still alive and with all her strength said her last words and gave me her gun. I couldn't get that video out of my head.
"His house is right there." said Hacker
His fucking house was literally in the middle of a fucking hot ass desert. We wait for about 25 minutes until I see a jeep approach the house. A man gets out of the jeep and heads inside the house.
"Marksman?" I asked through the earpiece
"That was him." he replied
I got up and walked towards the house and kick open the door. The man inside get scared and drops his beer bottle.
"Richard Santos?" I asked
"Yes who are you?" he asked
I kicked him so hard that when his back hits the wall there's a hole in the wall.
"Remember Kairos Kan?" I growled at him
"K-Kairos?" the man said in fear
"The man you fucking killed!"
I picked him up and threw him over my shoulder onto the table, breaking it.
"August 28 2013! You rammed into a car, a hit and run!"
I grabbed him and punched his face twice before throwing him into the wall and breaking it completely. He went through it and ended up in the living room.
"That was so long ago, that was 14 years ago!" yelled the man in fear
"He had a family to go to, a son but you fucked up everything!"
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't want to, but I wanted a better life for my family so I took the offer!" franticly yelled the man
"What offer?" I asked
"Money." he replied
"From who?!" I yelled
"A man name Stephen Hart!" he yelled back tears coming out of his eyes.
"Everyone regroup on my position." I said through the earpiece
"Who are you?" he asked
"No one special." I snapped back
The others began to file into the house, causing him to become even more worried and scared.
"Hacker find out who Stephen Hart is." I ordered
Hacker starts typing something but shakes his head.
"No one is named Stephen Hart, not a single one." said Hacker
I grabbed the collar of his shirt and lifted up Richard.
"No there has to be a mistake he told me his name was Stephen Hart!" pleaded Richard
"Then why is there no one with the name Stephen Hart?!"
I punched his face three times before slamming him to the ground.
"I swear there has to be a mistake I'll tell you everything!"
I got up and let out a long sigh.
"Tell me every detail." I growled at him
"On August 25 2013 I was at a job interview at a company but I was turned down. My family is poor, we were barely surviving and because of the war I couldn't do anything. The Marine Corps wouldn't let me back in and I didn't have another job." said Richard
I let his shirt go and he falls onto the floor.
"So I put on social media, I'll do anything for money. And a man replies, he stays anonymous for a while and he said I'll pay you 2 million US dollars so I accept. We meet in person but somewhere I don't remember cause it was somewhere remote, no one was around. He was in his car when I arrived there. So I get in his car and he gives me instructions of a man named Kairos Kan, secret service. So I accepted it because I thought he was bad person and I was marine, so why not just kill another person." said Richard
"2 million dollars, that's a lot." said Hacker
"But after I did kill him, I met up with him and he gave me the 2 million dollar in cash. I wanted to know who I killed though so I did some research and I felt so fucking guilty when I learned that he wasn't a bad person but a hero during the war." he begins to sob, "I couldn't live with this guilt that's why I'm living in isolation so that I could avoid any more of this."
I felt literally no sympathy towards him at all, after all he did ruin my life. But killing him won't do anything so I turn to leave.
"Wait!" yelled Richard
I stop right before I left the house and turn to look at him.
"If you ever meet the child of Kairos Kan, please tell him that I'm sorry." he said
I look at him as tears were welling up in his eyes.
"I am the son." I replied
He gasps and falls down onto his butt, so I leave the house with him sobbing.
"Sir sir!" yelled Hacker, "We need to get to your parent's house now!"
"What happened?" asked Phantom
"Recon abducted them!"
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2 hours later
I barge into the empty house and run to check every room but there was nothing. My kids weren't in the cribs no one was home.
"Dad! Dad where are you!" yelled Phantom
I punch the wall in frustration and sighed. I try looking for anything that was left behind, and I notice a package on the dining table labeled with my name. I open it and inside was a recorder so I press the play button.
"Looking for your kids?" a voice came out and I immediately recognized it as Recon's.
"Recon..." I growled
"Don't worry they're in safe hands, so are your parents and of course Emily's dad." continued the recording, "But not for long, if you don't surrender I have no choice but to kill them one by one. Of course you don't want that."
"Fucking bitch." growled Phantom
"I don't know exactly when you're going to be listening to this, so I'll give you five days from May 23. I better see you on May 28 2027." said Recon, "And I don't have much time so every hour that passes, one person get a bullet to their head."
The recording clicks indicating that it was the end. I was so mad I crushed the recording in my hand and throw it against a wall.
"What do we do?" asked Kit
"Fuck five days is not enough to find whoever the fuck Stephen Hart is." said Hacker
"Sir, losing you will mean losing everything we've done so far." said Bomber, "But I don't want anything to happen to your kids."
"Sir, we'll surrender instead." said Juggernaut
"No, no." I whispered, "Three days are enough, we'll find Stephen Hart by then."
"How sir?" asked Hacker
"Is there any bank account with the name Stephen Hart?" I asked
"Bank accounts why bank accounts?" asked Hacker
"Whoever this Stephen Hart is has to have a private and secret bank account. That way he can pay the killers." I replied
Hacker opens his computer and looks for it until his eyes gets big.
"There's at least a hundred of them." said Hacker
"Now find the which one of them has the most amount in it." I added
Hacker typed something on his computer and gasped.
"This Stephen Hart has over 5 billion dollars in it, he's a fucking billionaire." said Hacker
"What's a billionaire doing hiring people to kill people?" asked Phantom
"That's what we're going to find out." I said, "Who owns that bank account?"
"Michael Langston."
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3 hours later
Eren's POV
"Michael Langston." said Recon
"He's the Stephen Hart?" asked Levi
"Yes." replied Recon
"How do you know?" I asked
"The Sentinels who were part of the attack were offered a couple thousand dollars." explained Recon
"And?" I asked
"You have to rich in order to pay them all, so I searched bank accounts with his name and ended up with over 100 private and secured bank accounts with his name. So I looked for the one with the most money and found out that the most was 5 billion dollars." explained Recon
"5-5 billion dollars!" yelled Jean in surprise
"Yes and the owner of that person is Michael Langston." said Recon
"Holy shit but why is a billionaire hiring people to kill people?" I asked
"We're going to find that out soon, get ready we're leaving." said Recon
"To where do you know him?" asked Armin
"He's the founder of a famous company for technology, might pay him a visit." said Recon
We left and changed into civilian clothing but Recon just changed to her old outfit and we got on an a bogey and headed towards America.
Ghost's POV
"Tomorrow he's going to Russia." said Hacker, "He's going to OKO Tower to do some business deals."
"We're zip-line in from the neighboring towers. Have grappling hooks on your wrists at all times, make sure you have your parachutes prepped. This is a stealth mission so make things as quiet as possible." I said
"How are we going to keep things stealthy in a bright tower?" asked Kit
"We go to a dark floor first, enter in by using the glass cutter. Then we'll cut off the power from there."
I look up and everyone nods in agreement and starts loading.
"We'll be there tomorrow night so it'll be a long day for us." said Ghost, "Let's finish and go home in one piece."