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// Story: Skyfall: Lightning Strike 
// by NOBLEDASH77 
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      The sun was blazing, hurting his eyes. Lightning  put on a pair of sunglasses. Saddle Arabia. The only place he'd ever been were you can fry an egg on the street in under a minute. He followed Glid into a bar. He walked over to the bar. It was practically empty, except for the bar tender. 

"A hay shake, my friend." Glid said, an odd tune in his voice. 

"Ah, you're here and right on time." the bartender said.

Lightning walked over to a table, sighting down with Glid next to him and the bartender in front of him.

"Well you're looking for who now?" the bartender asked.

Glid slid a folder over to the bartender. He picked it up, finding a dossier of the dealer. 

"Ah, I know him, his name is Back  Street, he comes here every now and then. He has a house outside of the town. There are some small huts surrounding it, not sure if that will help you."

The two discussed  the topic for a very long time. Lightning sat there, letting the information sink in. Finally, the two stopped talking.

"Thank you for your help, here's you reward." Glid slid a bag of bits across the table.

Glid and Lightning walked out of the bar, the heat hitting their heads. Soon, Lightning thought, soon well leave this fireball of a country. 



Lightning put his collapsable  rifle together. Glid took point. The small huts made it easy to sneak around. Lightning searched around. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Lightning didn't like that. A guard crossed passed on of the huts, seeing Glid. Lightning took out his knife, letting the steel go into the guards body. He looked down at the guard, he was a pony. Lightning felt sick, he actually killed a good colt.

"Glid, come and take a look at this." Lightning said. 

"It's a Learsi  mercenary , HQ is gonna want to know about this. Don't worry, you got a bad guy." Glid said. He pulled out a camera, taking a picture of the operator.

The building was large, it had a courtyard with a fountain and over dozens of rooms. Lightning took point. He saw Harp across the way, signaling her to move. Everything was silent, until Lightning pulled the trigger and broke the silence. All of the sudden, several Learsi mercenaries opened fire. Union returned fire, and got to cover. Lightning went up a staircase to an overlook of the house. He took several Semtex, throwing them at the mercenaries. One Semtex landed on a wall exposing a room. Lightning jumped off the lookout, then flew into the room. Lightning picked up an Aks-74u from a dead mercenary and opened fire in the room. He moved to the next room, the rest of Union following him. Lightning breached the door, clearing the room easily. Lightning breached the next room, clearing it.

"No sign of him yet." Shadow said.

Then, Lightning reached under a bed in the room, and found Back Street.

"Hello sunshine." Lightning said sarcastically. 

Lightning brought him to the courtyard, by the fountain.

"Tell me why you were hired and were the other weapon caches are." Lightning said.

Back replied with a simple "no". Lightning dunked his head into the fountain, trying to drown him. Lightning took him out of the fountain.

"I could have just killed you just then, my objective is to kill you, I'm just trying to get information out of you. If you work with me, I'll let you live."

Back, gasping for air and throwing up, replied in that mix, "no".

Lightning dunked his head, one more time yelling, "tell me what I need to know!" 

Lightning took Back's head out of the fountain, giving him a minute to respond. Back's response was, "I'm a weapons dealer hire by Chysaliz to give him experimental weapons. And the weapons caches, ummm... another one  is in the Black Ice Mountain's."

Lightning threw him to the floor, grabbed the pistol that Back had on him, which he though looked oddand tied him up, leaving him for dead. No one talked to him. Lightning was seen as a lethal operator after that, not as a rookie  operator.