Zeck tightened his grip on the Remington .270, it was almost show time. He peered through the 5x scope at his target, Juan Carlos Guerra a.k.a The Knife (so named for how his enemies ended up without certain apendages…).

Click: Blackshire, Helo 5, do you copy?

Zeck nearly left his skin, “Ya. Am I a go?”

He heard two clicks in response, it was time. Zeck put his eye two inches away from the scope and put the cross-hairs on the forehead of Guerra, and began to pull back on the trigger…