Black Eagle - Chapter 02
Black Eagle returns to the apartment through the window she originally entered through. All the gang members are still unconscious on the ground where she left them. She slaps one across the face until he comes too.
"Where is William Lucroy?" she asks with a cold, emotionless voice.
"Who the hell are you, bitch?" replies the gang member.
"My name is Black Eagle. Now where is Lucroy?"
"I ain't gonna tell you nuttin'!" is the gang members less than intelligent reply.
She grabs him by the feet, drags him over to the window and hangs him out by his ankles. "Want to talk now?"
"Y-you ain't gonna drop me. 'sides the fall won’t kill me."
"Are you sure?" She lets him slip through her grip a little before grabbing back on.
"Okay! Okay! He's got an office in an old ware house on Lincoln Avenue and Washington Street!" yells the gang member.
She hauls him back in and lays him on the ground. Just then she hears footsteps coming up the stairs. She draws her grappling gun and fires it out the window and zips off into the night. Just then the door burst open and heavily armed cops spill into the room.
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Black Eagle lands on the roof of the warehouse where William Lucroy is supposed to be. She moves to a skylight that looks down into an office. Several filing cabinets fill one corner, a large wooden desk sits in the center of the room, a bookcase sits against the wall behind the desk and a few paintings hang on the walls about the room.
She finds a latch, opens a section of the skylight and drops down to the floor with almost no sound. She moves to the filing cabinet and finds it locked. She makes short work of the simple lock with her lock picks. After searching through the files she quickly realizes there is nothing except legitimate business files. She moves over to the computer and powers it up. Once it finishes booting up she quickly starts searching through the files on the computer. She finds a few encrypted files and copies them to a thumb drive she connects to the computer.
Then she searches for a safe and finds it in one of the most cliché places, behind one of the paintings. Upon examing it, she realizes that she won’t have time to crack the safe and takes out two micro-explosives from her utility belt. She places one on the dial and one on the hinge. With a soft pop the two charges explodes and knock the door off the safe. Inside the safe is a pistol, some ammo, a few thousand in cash, some papers and a small stone tablet with strange writing on it. She takes the stone tablet, but leaves everything else behind. She quickly searches the rest of the warehouse, but finds nothing of interest and no sign of Lucroy. She leaves the way she entered and heads off into the night.