Stenka Razin watched the scene unfold from within the stands, hot dog sales has been booming tonight but he's real job had little to do with selling snacks to the glutenous crowd. With citizen Katz's rise in support something like this was bound to happen at some stage in the campaign, if anything, Razin was happy it was happening now, while Katz still enjoyed the electoral security measures.
As the crowd listened to Katz's broadcast arrest, Razin quickly made his way out of the stands, and to the top level of the stadium, pulling off the cheerful apron and shirt of his cover job.
"All units, still got those snipers covered?" Razin barked into his secure comms device.
"Unit 2, affirmative, waiting on your order"
"This is unit 3 we have more on our side, standing by"
Razin slid around the corner, stealthily moving to intercept the 3rd sniper.
Liberty prettyboy's, he thought to himself, you think Katz stands up there all by himself?
The hockey game, like all of Katz's speeches had been planed weeks in advance, with plenty of time for his electoral security to scope the stadium out, locate all possible weak points and develop counter strategies should a situation arise. Razin knew the exact composition of the stadium's roof, exactly what force of an explosion would be needed to destroy the outer walls and of course, where snipers would be located.
Razin moved quickly, springing under a "cleaning in progress" barricade, and moving upon the known position of the final sniper.
"All unit's go" he whispered into the comms unit, sliding his knife out of it's holder synchronously with the other unit's positioned around the stadium.
Razin ducked low before moving smoothly around the final corner and into the view of the enemy sniper, knocking the long rifle off it's target.
"Unit 3, target taken out"
"Unit 2, threat removed" he heard over his earpiece, distracting him long enough for the Liberty officer to get an elbow into Razin's gut.
Razin doubled over instantaneously with the unexpected force of the blow, though the shock was minor compared to that of the sniper as Razin, keeping low, slid his combat knife through the Libertonian's left leg, severing his Achilles tendon.
The sniper swore in pain, swinging his rifle round to fire on Katz as he stumbled backwards.
Razin lunged at the man's bloodied feet, bringing him down as the sniper let off a burst of rounds at the rink and up into the ceiling.
Razin, quickly pulled the man to the ground, putting his knife through the snipers arm to silence any further gunfire, and drawing his pistol against the squirming man's head.
"Liberty will not be responsible for any further death's of it's citizens" he scowled before pulling the trigger, the silenced round exploding out the back of the sniper's head and covering the floor with blood and brain matter.
"this is unit 1, target eliminated" Razin said over his comm. "all unit's get your area tidy, leave no traces"
As Stenka Razin slowly stood up, he glanced at the huge vidscreen overhanging the stadium. Usually used to display scores and highlights, it was now looping a clip of the sniper Razin just killed firing wildly before ducking out of sight behind the concrete balustrade.
He was fortunate enough to have been hidden by the balcony so far, but people would be arriving on his position soon.
Guess there's no time to clean this mess, Razin though to himself, smiling as he did and turning quickly away, and heading for the fire escape he'd conveniently left unalarmed.
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