The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 30

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 30

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Back in Abuja, the conference
room which was now the
mission control room was
filled with nervous humans
who strained their necks at
every sound coming from
each person present. A lot of
them are used to late night
meetings and the lack of sleep
did not bring fatigue but the
nervousness did and they all
tried to stay sharp. The
captains of thetwo squadrons
attacking the Tetuan
presidential palace was
always in touch with them
and also had visual feedback
to tell them how their mission
was progressing andsome
wrote down on their pads
while othersjust sat back,
watching and waiting.

There was radio silence
between the actual team
going in to get the president
and them as although there
was no evidence that
messages sent between them
could be tracedand
intercepted, it was too great a
risk to take and hence, they
were not to communicate
unless something really
important came up but during
certain stages,they were to
send messages similar to
bleepsto tell what stage they
were so when the firstcame
in, they knew what it meant.

As the mission went on, they
had received three of such
messages and with the time
they were running with, they
knew the mission was going
according to plan
They had some human asset
in the Tetuan government and
some of them were guards
and they had arranged for a
truck and also some to be
their eyes and ears. The assets
don’t know one another and
it was better that way so if
one of them is compromised,
the others can remain. There
were also some DMI agents
who watched the palace but
were not involved in the
mission. These just watched
as things progressed and
reported back what they saw,
The first message the Team
sent was sent when they left
the safe house for the
presidential palace, the
second was sent when they
got the truck that had been
arranged and the third when
they gained access into the
palace building itself. Both
Ifeoma and Kuyi had gone
through the interpretation of
each message since a large
part of the mission itself had
not been discussed with some
of the members of the service
chiefs either due to time of
because the DMI and Palace
guards did not want to share
it.

When the third message came
in, Ifeoma allowed Kuyi
explain the interpretation
while she excused herself and
went into the bathroom. She
used the urinal and when she
got out, she looked into the
mirror and saw that her
feature were turning out as
her face was turning white.
She had watched Kuyi explain
the message which was that
since the team had gotten
into the palace, the next thing
to do is to locate the president
and get her out of the palace
and she had felt her stomach
contract out of fear. The
mission was at that moment
out of everyone’s hands and
depends on how the team
was able to handle themselves
inside the palace. They were
to send an emergency
message if things within the
palace does not go as they
planned and the army would
push forward towards the
palace to help. They had some
agents who had slipped
through from the army on
grounds who could attack the
palacedirectly too but that
would depend on the success
of the team itself and that
made her cringe. She had no
control and even though Kuyi
seemed to be confident that
his men would get her out,
she was scared out of her
senses.

She knew she could not show
her concerns and fears in
front of everyone else so she
washed her face and opened
a box above her head and
brought out a makeup kit she
had kept there for situations
such as this andshe went to
work with it.

Kuyi saw the fear in not just
Ifeoma but everyone present.

As the head of the DMI, he
was also good at reading
people’s emotion and facial
gestures and he knew a lot of
people around were scared
but some were just too afraid
for his comfort and he began
to wonder if a lot of the
people in the room had
psychological evaluations
before appointed into the
office they occupy. The NSA
had opted to stay back in Aso
Rock with the Vice President
where he said he was more
useful as he can advice the
Vice President on what to do
in case a serious decision had
to be made and Kuyi had an
idea what the decision would
be.

The NSA had never supported
Nigerian troops in Tetuan as
he saw Lucas as someone
who should be removed. He
did notthink about the
sovereignty of Tetuan and had
even said Nigeria should
support the rebels and help
them win the fight. He
knowsthat his advice would
be that the army moves
against Tetuan immediately
the president was out and he
was not so bothered. He had
other things on his mind.

Things which he feared
within himself but he did not
speak out because the picture
was still forming.