The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 25

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 25

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Team Leader Micheal Olowo
was used to operations in
Tetuan and most of them has
been about to find out enemy
tactics and where they would
likely hit so as to prevent the
cease fire being breached.

That usually involved getting
behind the lines of both
parties and trying to listen in
on their conversations and
sometimes; twisting the arms
(literarily and implied) Lucas
Radonsolema of people he
makes contact with as long as
it gets the job done. He had
learnt the ways both sides
think and who makes the
decisions. He has also been
involved in blocking the arms
trading to both sides from the
outside world to an extent
and has a lot of human assets
in the country but the major
reason he was chosen to lead
the operation is that he had
lead an operation of the
magnitude once.

A group of Students from the
Obafemi Awolowo students
who were studying the effects
of civil war were once
kidnapped by a group of
soldiers who broke away
from the government and
were looking to use the
students to get money from
their parents. The soldiers had
hoped to use the to collect
money and move out of the
country but they did not think
there was a team of DMI
agents running an operation
on gun import from nearby
Liberia and their attention
was drawndue to the phone
calls they traced. The students
were rescued without even
their parents knowing and
since then, Michael had been
trained in weapons handling
and after years of dealing
with warlords and gun
runners, he learnt to survive in
places where no one else
would. He had learnt to run
operations either as a
member of a team or as a
single agent and he tended to
blend in where ever he went
and that worked for hima lot
as in Tetuan, a stranger would
be killed just because he is
suspected to be spying on
behalf of the enemy.

They sat down in the safe
house just minutesaway from
the palace and he looked out
into the dark night with the
moon just barely illuminating
the place. They did not use
any light except a little candle
in the corridor so as not to
attract attention. The
authorities of Tetuan did not
know the Nigerian
government had a house just
minutes away from them as
although they secured Lucas,
they kept a series of houses
around the country to
coordinate their mission there
which majorly involved the
control of weapons and
narcotics around the country
as an increase in the number
of those in one troubled spot
in the sub region would lead
toan increase in fire arms all
over and they might just end
up on the streets in Nigeria.

Michael did not have any
doubt in his mind that the
mission would turn well even
thoughhe had no idea how it
will happen. The director had
said they palace would be
empty by the time they got to
the palace and he believed
that, he just wondered how
that would happen. He looked
towards his team members
who looked calm on the
outside but he knew within
them, they were as worried as
him. The time was
approaching fast and soon
they would move towards the
palace and they had no
chance of failing.

Shade had never had an
operation in Tetuan before
but she was used to hostage
situations. Her operations are
majorly held onships and
against pirates who kidnap
the crew of ships on the high
seas and she enjoyed doing
just that primarily because it
mostly involve high gun
operations and the precision
involved. She had been part of
the team and was already
used to being part of acrew
as she always had people to
fall back onif all else fails. She
once did a programme in
telecoms while she was with
the navy and that put her in
charge of the
communicationson most of
the ships she served on and
when one day, her captain put
her in an operation with some
agents, she knew she did not
want to go back to the closed
communications room of any
ship again. The reason she
made the team was probably
because she was one of the
best in communications and
she is used to wiring and
fixing gadgets together.

Once she and her team had been
stuck on some ship which had
lost power and there was no
way to contact the base even
as the ship was drifting out to
sea gradually and they had to
sit out with the hostages they
rescued and the pirates in the
middle of the cold season
She is used to tough weather
and also used to sudden
missions which had no
margin for error and it
involved a lot of men which
people would normally call
tough and hard but she
always held her own and
sometimes save their
backsides once or twice but
something about this mission
made her jittery because as
much as the mission seem so
foolproof, she is a believer in
team work toher, a team can
be put together in 5 seconds
and absolute loyalty would be
found between them and this
was because they were all
sworn to one common
identity which was to protect
but this team made her wary
not because she did not know
them or because itwas a joint
team but the SSS agent looked
at her funny. The way she was
looked at while she was with
the navy
At the navy, very few female
officers actually did field work,
and even fewer are accepted
into the ranks. She joined as a
graduate in
telecommunications
engineering fresh from school
and fell in love with the sea.

Her superiors never saw how
a woman would fit into a
ship’s crew so for some years
she was stuck in an office
designing communications
options between naval
installations across the
country until she had the
opportunity one day. She was
at the Lagos port and a naval
coast guard boat had some
problems with its equipment
and she was the only one
available. She fixed it in no
time and chance had it that a
captain of a newly
commissioned frigate was
visiting the harbor to see a
friend of his and he took
notice of her but said nothing.

Two weeks later, the orders
came to Shade that she was to
join a crew on a ship in their
communications. She was first
jittery of the thought of being
stuck in one ship for weeks
but she accepted and worked
there for months until there
was a situation where they
were short of men. Most of
the men were fighting it out
on a pirate ship and they was
a fishing boat which looked
suspicious so Shade was
given a handgun which
everyone was trained to use
and put in a hurriedly
assembled team.

The fishing boat turned out to
be transporting weapons to
some war torn West African
country and a gun fight broke.

When reinforcement would
get to the boat, the team had
made a good account of
themselves and during the
brief, Shade was praised for
her bravery under fire and
that got the attention of the
DMI who contacted her as a
field agent. She was first
bothered about joining but
the experience on the fishing
boat was exciting to her; she
got to shoot at people and
make arrests which she never
had done but what she really
liked about the new job at the
DMI was that she would be
seen as a member and not
someone to use when there is
no one else. They would use
her as a human and not put
her behind because she was a
woman and she would not be
considered as a weakling. She
also had the added advantage
of having a background in
communications and the DMI
knew this would help the
team. Shade’s appraisal after
the mission on the fishing
boat told them she had the
natural ability to fit into a
team and also hold her own in
the face of danger.

That was all years ago and she
never had to deal with sexism
again until the SSS agent
looked at her with some
disgust in his face. He had
looked at her as if he was
looking at someone who he
was better than and he even
told her to go rest while the
rest of them planned on what
to do. She was jolted out of
her thoughts when Michael
said;
“I hope you all are alive and
awake. The Director told us
we will be moving in at a half
past midnight which is 30
minutes away and you should
all stay sharp and check your
weapons and your ear pieces”
All around him, the members
sat up and adjusted their
weapons each with little
doubts in their minds. They
checked their back packs to
make sure they were not
leaving anything behind as Izu
went to the corridor to
replace the candle. And as he
walked back towards the
room, he heard the sounds of
firearms in the distance. He
walked back into the room
and saw that the other
members had heard it too but
they were not all bothered by
it. They had been briefed
about the plan and were
ready to go with it.


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Lucas Radonsolema walked
out of his office slowly in
company of his two
bodyguards and when he got
to the corridor, there were
men running around as they
were all runningtowards the
exit as they had been called
out to defend against the
incoming attack. He had
expected them to come soon
but he was not expecting
them to come so soon and
definitely not that night and
he felt Unclad. He knew he did
not have enough guards to
keep them out if an all assault
came against his palace but
he also knew that if it came to
it, he could use the president
as a ticket out of there. The
plan was working so far and
it better work.