Is this destiny?

In the airspace, East of Los Angeles…

Sarah and Aiden are in one of their super-silent helicopters, on their way to the mission they assigned to themselves: prevent disruption of the factory.

Aiden is piloting, and Sarah is going through a high level report from Eric which just arrived: 'The mission was a success. Casualties: three people suffered minor injuries and one person has a gunshot wound (he is currently in a stable condition). Note: Masika and Imani were impressive and the two of them played a big role with their marksmanship and first aid skills. Full report will be available by midnight.'

After reading through the report, Sarah used Eve to verify locations of Masika and Imani. They are less than a mile away from the Cliffside Villa. Girls are going home.

Eve also stored on the share recordings from the mission and from the post-mission meeting that Eric's squad had in the compound, but Sarah does not have time to go through that now.

What matters is that one out of four missions is executed successfully. Three more to go, and they will happen later in the evening.

Sarah is not worried about Ron and Zula, the two of them are a great team with many missions behind them.

Haru and Nala give Sarah confidence that they can handle any task, but she is curious to find out how they perform as mentors to Allen and Julius.

"Did Jeff send any additional information for us?", Aiden asked after some time. He is uneasy because they don't know what to expect once they reach Fallon.

Sarah sighed and shook her head indicating that there is nothing, yet.

One of the largest factories which produces and assembles equipment for White corp. is at the outskirts of Fallon. If Marcus manages to put the factory offline, it will cost millions a day. However, bigger damage will be to Jeff's reputation as the Master because it happened under his watch. That incident alone is not enough to sway people in the White foundation to support Marcus, but when that combines with other attacks that Marcus is planning, it will all add up to crack Jeff's current reputation and make him appear incompetent.

To Marcus' benefit is that news leaked how Jeff's wife is pregnant. He finds this to be his good fortune, because in addition to portraying Jeff as incompetent, he will use JoAnna's pregnancy as a proof that Jeff is too focused on his woman and because of that he is neglecting the organization. After all, most of the people are silent and they are loyal only to their own benefits. With all this mess and JoAnna's pregnancy, Marcus is confident that he will have enough proof to convince people that they will have bigger benefits if they support him instead of Jeff.

Jeff is irritated by the behavior of his Uncle who will not stop until he gets his way. Jeff and Aiden agree that Marcus is unreasonable, and they can't believe how he does not care about thousands of families who will be impacted if his attacks succeed. If factories stop working, what will people do without jobs? 

Sarah and Aiden took this mission because it had the least information: a factory in Fallon will be disrupted tonight.

With just that much, they planned to spend the night at the factory and wait for whatever comes their way. And because of so much uncertainty, the two of them decided to go alone (with Eve and the drones, of course).

Sarah refreshed her inbox and smiled. "Yes! Yes! It just arrived… Oh, so it's not a factory…", she mumbled while reading.

"What is it?", Aiden asked impatiently.

"Focus on piloting.", Sarah reminded Aiden when she noticed that he is distracted. "They want to disrupt the factory, but the target is a residential building which houses factory workers. They plan to make it inhabitable."

"What does that mean?"

Sarah shrugged. "This is all what it says."

Both Sarah and Aiden were thinking about what can hide between that vague description.

Sarah spoke first: "Attacking homes of employees will cause more damage to the business than if they go for the factory. It is White corp. so there is a security, Marcus can't do anything big and not be caught. At most, his people can sneak in and cause damage to the equipment. If they sabotage a machine, it can be fixed within hours. But if they make the building where employees live inhabitable, employees and their families will need to find another place to stay. The building has 124 apartments. Fallon is not a big city, and it would be challenging to find housing for so many people nearby and that means that potentially one hundred employees will not come to work and who knows how long that will last... Do you have any ideas what the 'make it inhabitable' means?"

Aiden thought about it for some time before responding: "They can start a fire, cause a flood by damaging pipes, or maybe a gas leak… Any of those will get people to evacuate and they can't get back until the building is verified by various inspectors as safe, and that will include repair time."

Sarah sighed. She is not happy that they don't know what kind of an attack they should expect, and also it does not say when. This additional information only changed their target from factory to the residential building, but they are back to where they were: whole night stakeout and expect anything. But this is also trickier. At night, a factory is empty, other than security guards, while residential building is full of people.

Aiden picked one of three landing spots which Eve suggested: on the top of one eight-story residential building.

"We should get Felix to set up our helicopters with that reflective surface, like drones. Then we don't need to worry about someone spotting them.", Sarah mumbled.

She is always uneasy to leave the helicopter like that, unattended. But unless someone can fly or comes to the roof, their secret is safe. Just in case, the two of them jammed the door with the roof access.

Aiden looked at the layers of bird droppings on the ground and he is confident that no human came to this roof in a long time. He hates that he needs to walk on... this nasty stuff. Disgusting! If it's up to him, he would throw his shoes away. Well, he will do it when they get back home.

Sarah checked time. "We have time for dinner and…", she saw him looking down while grimacing and she understood what the problem is. Ah, his inner clean-freak is fully awake.

"I'm sure there is an open shoe store."

Aiden's face lit up. "Let's hurry before it closes!" He is happy. Sarah knows him the best.

They got new shoes (for both of them) before dinner.

The two of them headed to the residential building which is marked as the target and scouted the area while setting up few cameras and sensors for Eve to use. Drones were in place and Sarah and Aiden went on the rooftop of the neighboring building to wait for the attack.  Aiden was delighted that this rooftop has significantly less bird droppings.

It will be a long night.

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