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Chapter 8 - chapter 7

remembering back to the meeting of the planetary defenders, Hacker recalled a name that seemed to stand out: Deadly. It seemed much more menacing than the other names, so he decided to look into the guy. Hacker opened the purple keypad once again; this time, he used it to search for the name "Deadly " by hacking the world's memories of the man. 

Yet he found this to be in vain, as he found very little information about him. finding out stuff he had known, such as deadly was an assassin and a very good one at that, so good in fact he was ranked number one in the assassination organization. The odd part, however, was that there was no information about him until 5 years ago. He seemingly popped out of thin air, with no mention of an assassin that was as good as he was, and no information about the way he looked. And it wasn't as if he changed his name either, as it would've been something people would know about and therefore remembered.

Gaining no info from this, he decided to hack all records on the planet for more information, though he still only found very trivial stuff, such as his financial situation, to put it bluntly, was unfathomably rich, possibly the wealthiest man to ever grace the planet. but the odd part was there was little transations within any of the wealthy sectors specificly non within sector one. 

This was odd but not unheard of; a lot of rich people lived in the other sector, but he seemed to have spent almost none of the money he had earned on food or living expenses. All that had been spent was on technology and materials for technology. The man was an enigma, a ghost, a blank slate. It was like he never existed until 5 years ago. 

Finding no information on the man, he decided to give up the search and wait until he made a move; a man like him would eventually do something of note. This was quite interesting.

Having no leads on anything, Hacker decided to just wait for a while until something interesting happened, since nothing was going to happen until later in the year if MPT was to be trusted. He decided to hack his brain to wake him when something good was about to happen, and so he sent a surveillance eye to watch the planet, as he slept.

The eye was something the hacker had been using to watch all the heroes up until this point. It was completely invisible and impossible to interact with. making sure there was no risk of detection. 

The eye was set to survey the sectors every day to find anything noteworthy, then the eye would watch and send the information to Hacker for him to see as soon as he woke up simmilar to a memory; it would be as if he had seen it when it occurred.

A few days had passed with nothing transpiring, until 5 days had gone by within city 3, a man in an interesting way was spotted by the eye.

The man wore an open, pure blue heavyweight jacket with a white interior and no discernible pockets. The man had a suit underneath the jacket, which was red and appeared to be metal, but it was just above the skin to not reveal any finer details; both of the sleeves had been rolled up to reveal the suit's red arms. On each of his knees, he had black padding seeming from the suit as they possessed no straps to the body; on his feet, he wore black tactical boots that were also seeming from the suit. It almost appeared as if everything but the jacket was a part of the suit.

The strangest part of the man was on his head; he had a full mask on that was the same color and material as the suit. The face of the mask featured a crescent, seemingly where the eyes would be located, curving towards each other and glowing with a blue hue. The glow was a bit brighter on the bottoms of the curves. where they formed a small circle. On his mouth area, there were three small black dots arranged in a triangular formation. The mask did not fit his face, so it did not reveal the identity of the man.

The man was seemingly very fit from the little amount seen, and was around 5 feet 11 inches tall. What had caught the eye's attention, though, was the fact that the man was aiming a pair of binoculars at a window across from him, and he sat on the top of a 16-foot-tall building, this being sector 3, assassins were quite common, yet this one was different.

From the little information that Hacker had gathered, the man matched the description of Deadly, so the eye watched and waited until Deadly was ready to kill his target. After only 3 or so minutes of waiting, Deadly moved the binoculars away from his face, and they seemed to quickly rejoin the suit.

Meaning this man had a nanotech suit on a invenention that had only come to light around 4 years prior, and was mainly used for medicine; it was very expensive to boot, so having an entire suit would cost nearly entireity of sector 4s GDP. Yet from the information Hacker gathered, there was no paper trail, so there was no way for him to have bought this, making it clear that the creator of this suit was Deadly.

Deadly began to run towards the edge of the building, and as he approached it, he leaped as both of the boots seemingly gave him a boost of air below him. As he neared the building that was formerly across from him, he stuck out both of his arms and tilted his hands down as two small lancher apeared on the tops of his wrists, and fired two hooks connected by a rope. They shot at the building and connected to the walls just before the windows. He then moved both of his arms forward and launched his body through the window, crossing his arms and retracting the grappling hooks before landing into a roll, landing directly in front of his target as he stood, a sword reminiscent of a katana, yet without a tsuba or sheath, materialsed into his right hand. The entire weapon was red with a blue plasma edge. Once the blade was done being made, taking only a singular second, deadly swung the blade cutting the man's head off. 

bloodshot up and was incinerated upon contact with the blade, almost completely cauterizing the neck. The head landed onto the ground, still spilling blood. The cut was absolute perfection, and the man was dead. The target was dead.

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