The Cover

The oozing silence in my room was even annoying than the noise i was used to back at the Academy. So i went over the dresser and put on the stereo for some music. I sat down on a chair by the bed and began going through my package. Firstly was the letter, it was so formal that i felt somewhat important, it read, Ms Arianda Norris, greetings from the interior ministry on behalf of the mayor of York. Your mission is highly sensitive, undercover and entails the cores to infiltrate, learn, report and disrupt the entire Bathom Cartel network by any means necessary . This whole process is highly classified and the items contained here in are therefore top secret, opening them will only mean that you have read and understood the terms of your mission should you choose to accept it. The ministry without plausible deniability should your cover be blown. On behalf of the mayor, the ministry wishes you and your team all the best. IMRAN SONAWANE, secretary of the interior ministry.

Everything was cool except the plausible deniability part of the letter. It echoes in my head from when the councilor said it this morning. It means if my cover is blown, they deny ever knowing me or that i am their operator in a foreign country. I began to open the parcel. There were a lot of toys that I started wondering where am i to put all this shit if we are undercover? A side arm, a nine millimeter browning from Czech with two mags of thirteen rounds each. A nozzle silencer and a pair of gloves all in one little box. At least they got my taste right this once. I love the nine mill, ever since I first stepped into the firing range, this girl caught my eyes and we be besties ever since. So i kept digging into the package. And my eyes landed on an envelope labeled " "THE COVER" " and i went, what the heck!!Isn't all this a cover already? I started thinking to myself that this is definitely a detective cadets' job, i mean i was in the customs school, destined to be a customs officer, nothing other than checking peoples passports and visa's before and after entering the airport. And now all this shit feels violent. I even think there will be lots of death and gun blazing here and there. And so i came to a conclusion that, i was selected for this program not for my talent or anything but my face. I hate to admit it but, damn am a babe. You should see my Instagram. I sometimes take a selfie even before i shower and the likes are like eleven thousand. The beauty without brains they say. It never bothered me, the part of "without brains" up until now. Damn i need brains, this shit is real and i have to be smart about it or i die, or even worse i end up in some foreign country prison cell. Holly shit this could be it!! I could feel my blood rushing as I stared at the envelope labeled the cover. Opening the envelope, my mind was still pondering on wether i needed brains or my good looks will get me through every obstacle! The envelope was finally open.

Inside was a dossier detailed about my cover. I am to be Mia Blanka. A low life towner who rose to power by seduction, Mia is 29, born 7th October 1971 in Westchest York. She was clever enough to be selected for Standaline College at 13, but never attended. She lost both parents at 12, she has been moving from one foster care to another until she was 18. From there her beauty got her bills paid and her table laid. She was a sadistic egocentric gold digger who bounces from one crime lord to another. According to the dossier, Mia finds life in York to be tough and so she is moving to Bathom to try her cards with the big boys. As i read this I realized how clever my superiors are, Mia Blanka is real! Well better yet was real. She was electrecuted to death at one of the government's black site while interrogating her. And it was kept under wraps. No one really knows how Mia looks like. She dyes her hair so often to avoid detection such that even the most top ranked official do not know wether she is white or Arab. Now since everyone thinks Mia went into hiding because the YORK pd kept a lot of pressure on King pins in the city, hunting and killing almost all of Mia's associates. The dossier went on, Mia is to smuggle herself into Bathom through human trafficking gangs and associates. She will enter Bathom undetected by both York border patrol and Bathom immigration officers. Once she is successfully into the City she will blend in and assume cover while waiting for protocol from her handlers. The content of this cover package are scribed of all identifiers within and here after, the bills, credit cards passports and the safe houses, are to be used for mission purposes and for missions purposes alone. Once your cover is blown, you are forfeited from the use of all the resources here in and after. The following are the covers of your colleagues to avoid interference. Your co female operative ISABELLA MOLINA will be coded VIVIAN ANTON a gun for hire to the highest bidder, we have commissioned a record of over 38 confirmed kills with 21 head shots at over 100 yards away. This places her at the top of the marksmanship job offers within Bathom and everywhere else. So your bound to meet at one point or another. Vivian Anton will be in Bathom ahead of you all, she will cross the border under another alias later today. This gives her a two days start ahead of you all. Once in Bathom she will setup at a prominent hotel known to house cartel variety. After two days from now, your cover commences. Your handlers will be working for a cargo company. They will be manning a truck cross country between Bathom and York, this way they can freely pass info to us while supplying you with essential and protocols from us.

NOTE 1. Should you at any point in the mission feel unsafe or have enough reason and evidence that you have lost cover, the following protocol will get you out.

Within your package there are four burner phones and one government issued blackberry. If and only if the conditions above are met, activate your government issued blackberry and text the phrase "SPARROW" to a number in the address book with the name "LOTUS" then remain at close proximity to the blackberry. This will activate an asset retrieval protocol in the ministry and we will take it from there. A four man black hawk helicopter is standing by on a warship off the gulf specifically for this purpose.

NOTE 2. If mission ends in a manner that, all heads of the Bathom Cartel (VICTOR , WILLIAM and FELICITY) and their top lieutenants are all in one identifiable location, and that your handlers are satisfied with ending the mission in this manner, activate the following protocol.

The same blackberry used for getting you out is very essential to ending the mission. Activate your government issued blackberry and from it text the phrase "EVEREST" to a number in the address book with the name "NEWTON" this will activate a demolition protocol and automatically activate an F18 stinger to bomb a 40 yards radius around the blackberry's location. If this protocol is activated, keep clear of your blackberry to over 100 yards within 20 minutes of activating the protocol. If we confirm the destruction of the entire Cartel structure, you will activate the asset retrieval protocol and be done with.

NOTE 3. Your handlers serve both as data analysts and handlers, due to information passed to and fro, their analysis may see fit for any of the two protocols above. Should they relay to you activation of either of the two protocols from their end is imminent, it is imperative that you follow the instructions as per protocol given here in. Any delays may render fatal results of which the ministry still holds plausible deniability for the later.The relay of information between your handlers and you, will follow a swift protocol of parcels delivered and the occasional use of your government issued blackberry.

If Bathom law enforcement agencies pose risks and (or) hinder your operations, report this to your handlers immediately, they will make it smooth to you through our embassy attaché there in Bathom.

Your have two days starting now, and mission will be 'a go' get familiar with your gear and rest well. As of now the ministry has activated ghost protocol.

Oh My Goodness!! This is it. Ghost protocol means the ministry doesn't recognize any of us as of now. Am on my own.