Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 6 - The General

Jakarta at night, in a Luxury Suite of a 5-star hotel, a middle age man sitting half-naked on a bed, even in his forties, he has a muscular figure, and there are a few scars that can be seen all over it. There are a few bottles next to him, it seems he has been drinking. Even though there is a beautiful woman lying naked next to him, he has his attention fully on the TV.

The news is reporting an incident that happened a few days ago. A police operation went wrong, DENSUS 88, an Indonesian police special forces similar to SWAT in the United States, right in the middle of a mission to eradicate terrorist cell, ended up killing an innocent civilian during the crossfire. Although the mission successfully killed 11 terrorist members, there were also the casualties of 2 police member. The half-naked guy who currently watched the news knew both of the deceased police members pretty well. In fact, he was their trainer and their superior. His name is Rico, Indonesian police Brigadier General. The lowest ranking General but compared to all the other Generals, he is the youngest ever having this rank. A rising star in the police department. Although the government praised him, even the President personally gave him a reward, he never cared for them, he only thought of the lost lives and losing his subordinates.

Recently, the terrorist/religious extremist are getting more and more daring.. In the last few months, there were 3 attempted and 1 successful bombing. The government is currently giving a lot of heat to his department. He took another bottle, drank it and continued on with his "sessions".

Rico dedicated all his life to the country, he's a patriot, hence he never has time for family, his wife left him a long time ago. All his mind and energy he gave for his country, his comrade and sometimes to his "hobby". When the "session" finished. the beautiful girl left the room, obviously, this girl is one of his favorite escorts, as he calls on her when he's down. After he went for a shower he heard a knock.

"Did you leave something?" Rico said.

But when he opened the door, it is not the girl, but a guy wearing black clothes, simple clothes mask and holding a gun to his head. The guy said a word slowly to him "No sound, raise your hand and slowly get inside"

Rico's brain start calculating, he has been in many similar situations before, but he senses a few things missed, the first; Rico has 2 of his subordinates outside, not far from his room, it seems this guy disabled them and took their gun, the gun pointing at him is a Glock, not easily found in this country. And the second reason, obviously this guy knows him, and Rico himself is an active policeman with a black belt in Pencak Silat (Indonesian martial art), but this masked guy eyes and voice is just too relaxed.

The guy sits on the chair facing him and starts talking, "Don't you worry General Rico, I am here just to talk. Actually, I came here to help you, I want to be your friend"

Rico said "if you really want to be my friend what is with the mask and gun"

"I can't be too careful these days, General, but you got a point"

The mask guy's response shocked him, the guy actually put down the gun on the table, and took out his mask, the guy's face looks like an ordinary family man, but the smile he gave and his eyes scared him.. he can tell from his experience, this man is dangerous, this guy put down the gun as if there is no difference with it or without it.

Yes, the black-clothed man is Alex, he has 10 years of constant dangerous near-death experience in his past life. It seems Rico can feel it. Rico asked, "What is your name and what do you want?"

Alex replied casually with a smile "At the moment I think I will keep my name secret, these few days I will be very busy, I don't want you and your friend to annoy me. and for your second question, it's not what I want, it's actually what you want. In this USB I have data information of some terrorist cell base locations in Indonesia, all the ones that I know. I trust you know what to do with it"

Rico's brain starts calculating again. 'Who is this guy and what is that he really wants? Is he part of the terrorists? That is why he knows so much? I should try to capture him and interrogate him later.'

Rico then suddenly picked up a bottle near him and threw it at Alex. He then quickly aimed for the gun on the table, but he was shocked to see how Alex easily crushed the bottle with a punch and took a second gun from his back and put it on Rico's head. "He's fast" Rico suddenly regret and felt stupid because of his action, he forgot to calculate the other gun from his second subordinate. He blamed it on the alcohol for his bad reasoning.

While holding the gun Alex said "Wrong move general, if it's other people I would already pull the trigger, but I like you general. I feel like meeting an old friend" in fact Alex knew the General in his past life. At that time the General was one of the leading figures and his friend. "Take this USB, trust me, you will be thanking me. My only wish is that you'll be able to eradicate most of them by this month or it will be trouble later. Also, I hope you can tell me the report afterward. I will be leaving now, I guess the noise will bring more trouble."

Alex took the gun on the table and casually walk out the room, Rico said: "How can I give you a report if I don't know how to reach you?"

"Don't worry General, I will contact you" as Alex walked out of the room and stealthily avoided the hotel camera, he then took a look at his hand and it was currently bleeding...

"Damn... currently my body is still normal, what a stupid move… if my wife sees it how should I explain.."