An Assignment To Accomplish (Rebooted)

14. Inception

Seiryu: "We're here. Gamila, get everyone up here. It's time."

She nods, obliging as she starts leaving the bridge to inform everybody who's downstairs in their personal quarters as Seiryu keeps driving the ship through the waters and toward the port of Macau. About 4 minutes later, Gamila returns with everyone there, waiting for the next instructions.

Hoshiko: "We're all here, what now, boss?"

Seiryu: "Now, we prep up. Get evil. Here."

He stands up from his seat, and grabs a duffel bag from the side, unzipping it before grabbing out a neck gaiter with a vest and a temporary tattoo that has Al-Qatala's logo.

Seiryu: "Grab a vest and a tattoo. When you're set, head to the deck. When we dock, we get off and everyone follows my lead."

Everyone starts grabbing a chest rig and a temporary tattoo. Seiryu starts putting the fake tattoo on his wrist before covering it with his jacket's sleeve. He looks to see everyone including Xu put the vests on and conceal them with their jackets, not wanting the vests to be seen.

Seiryu: "Good work on concealing them. Oh, and Xu, no Mandarin. We don't want them to know we can speak that language?"

Xu: "Why? They could just think we're national terror groups."

Seiryu: "It's been like a day since the attack on our soil. The NPLACCP have gained control of Macau and some of the citizens of China. If we strike, speaking Mandarin, they'll jump to conclusions and realise it's retaliation."

Xu: "How do you know all this?"

Seiryu: "You can thank one of my employers, the contact. Captain Price. His drones did a lot of work."

With that name being said, Hoshiko stops what he's doing, looking at Seiryu, surprised by hearing Price's name.

Hoshiko: "何？！ THE Captain Price?"
(What?!)

Other contractors including Deniz and Mikhail recognise the name.

Mikhail: "The SAS Captain of 141?"

Seiryu: "That's him. Now let's not get carried away with this. Xu. Gear up."

Seiryu's cousin nods, sighing and complying with his cousin's orders, seeing that he's in charge of this operation. The ship begins moving once again after Seiryu gets the anchor back on board and he watches as everyone begins moving outside to the bridge where they stand and look over the rails, watching as they move closer to the port. 

Everyone's got walkie-talkies with them so they could communicate whenever they're at a distance. Seiryu keeps steering the wheel toward an empty space at one end of the port, moving to anchor and dock the ship. Seiryu begins driving left, moving toward a space where he can stop the ship and anchor it so they can start getting off.

*HONK*

Seiryu unleashes its deep fog horn as he parks it before disembarking with everyone else; multiple staff begins tending to the ship, removing cargo from it as Seiryu and the others make it to the lands of Hong Kong.

Seiryu: "Remember, follow me."

Everyone obliges, Xu sighing, clearly not liking the way Seiryu operates on missions of his. Hoshiko glances at the large amounts of containers in the port, seeing multiple brands on those containers. Beside him, Dae and Deniz look around too, seeing the staff hard at work. Dae squints slightly, noticing something odd. One of the workers closes a container that's got weapons in it.

Dae: "Seiryu. They've got weapons in containers."

Seiryu: "NPLACCP's influence. It's a lot stronger than it sounds."

They make their way to the parking lot but pause upon seeing a van, sitting there by some containers, sitting there, unguarded and acting as a window of opportunity for Seiryu who grabs a paperclip from his pocket and starts reshaping it into a lock pick.

Xu: (Whispering) "What are you doing?"

Seiryu: (Whispering) "We're taking this."

Xu: (Whispering) "I thought that you meant we were taking a car that's probably prepped by your contact, not stealing one! What the fuck?!"

As the 2 banter, Michael looks behind him, seeing one of the workers shining a flashlight at them and he shouts at them, making Seiryu and Xu stop arguing.

Port Staff: "你他妈的以为你在做什么？ 那是我的货车！"
(The hell do you think you're doing? That's my van!)

Seiryu places his hands up, head level and starts acting as the rest of the group backs up, hands up and palms open, not wanting to harm the civilian. Seiryu begins speaking in Arabic, acting as an AQ fighter who's pretending to be a civilian.

Seiryu: ".انتظر انتظر. لا أفهم ، كان هناك شيء في سيارتك يا سيدي"
(Wait, wait. I don't understand, there was something on your car, sir.)

The man starts getting aggravated and begins walking forward, poking Seiryu in the chest harshly as he shouts at him.

Port Staff: "听着，混蛋。 我要报警了。 你留在这儿，好吗？ 他妈的就在这里！"
(Listen, asshole. I'm calling the cops. You stay right here, alright? RIGHT FUCKIN' HERE!)

*WHACK*

Seiryu strikes the man in the stomach, causing him to bend over in pain, groaning and spitting a bit. Shocked, the mercs watch as Seiryu knocks the port staff out by grabbing his head and smashing it through the car's window and pulling him out, where he lies on the floor unconscious.

Seiryu: "Fuck... Alright, everyone in the van. This will have to do for now."

He reaches into the front through the smashed window and unlocks the doors before getting in the driving seat and hotwires it as he places his bag on his lap while everyone but Xu gets in the back as Xu sits next to Seiryu in the front.

Seiryu: "Buckle up."

Xu: "You..."

He pauses. Seiryu turns his head, facing Xu who's sighing and shaking his head slightly, baffled by Seiryu's tactics. He resumes speaking.

Xu: "你现在已经在监狱里了..."
(You'd be behind bars by now...)

Seiryu: "徐。 我做了我必须做的。 如果他跟注，我们就错过了追王的机会。 现在，让我们做我们在这里要做的事。 我们有任务要完成，徐。"
(Xu. I did what I had to. If he called them, we would've missed our shot to get after Wang. Now, let's do what we're here to do. We've got an assignment to accomplish, Xu.)

The special forces operator sighs before sitting upright in his seat as he stares out his window and at the crates while Seiryu begins stepping on the pedal, driving them out of the container area. Here, their mission begins. It's the inception of their operation in Mainland China.

To be continued...

(EDIT: I edited Seiryu's story of why he became a mercenary)