Excellent Quick action scene contest entry Another Day on the Job by DragonSkulls      Quick action scene Contest Winner

Warning: The author has noted that this contains the highest level of violence. It was two in the morning when I unhooked from my parachute, beneath the cloak of the moon. I had my orders and they were to be carried out alone. I opened my compass and started hiking.    Once I was near town, I stuck to the shadows even thought the city streets were dark, avoiding any person I came across. The layout of the buildings were nearly exact to the map I memorized. Three houses down, on the north side, and that's where I start earning my pay.    I climbed the outer bricks and quickly scanned the rooftop. There were two, I'll call them, terrorists perched near the ledge. One, a lookout, the other, a sniper. I silenced my .45 and slowly inched onto the roof behind them.    I drew my double edged dagger from my boot sheath. In one swift move, I grabbed the lookout by his forehead, yanking him backward and beneath the base of the skull, where the spine connects, I thrust the blade into his neck. Before his body fell, I already had the .45 aimed at the sniper's head. Before he could gasp for breath, he was dead.    I climbed back to the ground, ready to continue. I looked in the bottom window and the ground floor was clear. My motto is, "F them, go straight through the front door." and that's exactly what I was going to do. The stairwell had thirteen steps to the next floor. That means there could only be, at the most, six gunmen on the steps. Another motto: "Always over calculate."    It was big gun time. Stealth was no longer going to be an option. The charge I put on the front door would easily kill the first one. That's five left.    "Party time." The blast blew the door into splinters along with bad guy number one. There were only two more in the stairwell. Easy pickin's. Before I reached the top step, in three mighty bounds, I lobbed a flashbang grenade into the left room. I swiftly murdered the four blinded enemies there with headshots and instantly turned around for the only room left. If my target wasn't dead yet, he soon would be. I shoulder dove into the door and shot as I fell. One of the two brutally splattered all over the back wall. The second grabbed my hostage and put a pistol to his head. Before he could even get a word out, I charged him, slamming him and my hostage to the floor. When he stood, I blocked his attack, crammed a grenade in his mouth, pulled the pin and kicked him out the window. Simple enough. I slapped the vice president's face. "I move, you move! I stop, you stop! Got it?" "Got it." The van outside had the keys in the ignition. "These people are morons." A mile and a half later, the helicopter picked us up. Another job well done. Another hefty check to a mercenary. I love my work.   Writing Prompt Write an action scene using a word count of under 500. Envision 007 and other crime scenes. Have a lot of fun. :) Quick action scene Contest Winner

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