SS-Sturmbannführer Alexander Von Herrmann.

SS Spezialeinheiten, 2nd squad.

Pierrou Village, France.

June 20th, 1941. 12:37am.

- Hey boss, any idea of when will the contact show up! - Hans said while looking outside from the entrance.

- Any moment now. - Helga said, she took out a pocket watch and checked the time, she was sitting in the steps by the altar.

I was sitting at the bottom of the spiral staircase having a smoke and eating some crackers.

- Contact North! - Hans yelled from the top of the staircase.

- How many? - I asked.

- Just one, female, lightly armed. -

- Hold your fire Hans, if she doesn´t reply with the code phrase shoot her. - Helga said.

Klaus was already crouched beside the entrance and aiming, I dropped the scoped rifle I had picked up earlier, grabbed my Mauser and did the same, Helga walked out and took cover beside the truck.

- With the flick of the finger! - Helga yelled as the woman reached the center of the graveyard, she must´ve been 30 meters from the entrance.

She was slim and not very tall, about 5´3 I would say, her skin had an olive/brown tone to it, her hair was jet black, short and in bangs, she was wearing a burgundy beret, light brown trousers tucked in combat boots and a olive green blouse, a magazine bandolier was strapped across her torso and she had a STEN slung across her back and a revolver in a belt holster.

 - The domino falls and topples it all! - The woman raised her hands and yelled back in German surprisingly.

- Come inside, we´ve been expecting you. - Helga said and lowered her weapon, the woman complied and they both walked in.

Once inside Helga sat down in a bench.

- Is this it? Just three soldiers? - The woman asked.

- There is one more up in the tower. - Helga replied.

- Big difference, I advised your superiors that we´d need a force of 10 minimum is they wanted the Doctor alive. - She said with a tone of exasperation, her German was decent but one could notice her french accent.

- Change of plans my dear, the doctor must die, just point us in the right direction and we´ll take care of it. - Helga said while standing up again.

- Ah, that´s better, in that case you people should be enough, the doctor is to be moved today, the resistance is planning in taking him to Paris so the allies can fly him out of France, if we move fast we should be able to whack him on his way out, the church is not far from here and the streets are mostly clear since most of the army and resistance troops retreated to Paris last night, does that truck outside work? - She said while lighting up a home-made cigarette, I could see Klaus was just dumbfounded by her looks.

- It should work, it was there when we got here, but it looks fine. - I said.

- Well, then let´s take a look, by the way, you may call me Domino I was instructed not to give out my real name. - She said holding her hand out.

- I´m captain Helga, the boob there by the door is Klaus, this is Alexander, and Hans should be here in a moment. Hans, come on down we are leaving! - Helga yelled while shaking Domino´s hand, Hans came down shortly after.

- Hans, Domino, Domino, Hans. - Helga introduced them both.

- Whoa, he´s tall. -  Domino said.

- Tell me something I don´t know. - Hans replied.

- Ooooh, grumpy. - Domino said and chuckled a bit

We walked to the truck, I opened the hood and made sure the truck hadn´t been damaged in the firefight, Domino jumped on the driver´s seat.

- You guys should ride in the back, you might stick out like a sore thumb if seen by any resistance fighters, make sure you put down the cover when we set off I´ll drive you to a location that has an overview of the church. - She said, cigarette still dangling in her mouth.

- You heard the lady, mount up. - Helga said and jumped aboard, she stretched her hand and helped me up, Klaus did the same with Hans.

- Come on big buddy, we´ve got places to go. - Klaus said as he pulled him aboard.

Once we were all in, Helga pulled the pins and the back cover dropped, concealing us in the cargo area.

- Were good to go! - I yelled, Immediately afterwards Domino started the engine and began to drive, there was a small window that connected the cabin with the cargo area, she slid it open and said:

- We should be there in a few minutes provided the roads are clear, the church is near the center of town but I know a route that should be safe, if things go wrong and we run into a checkpoint of some sorts get ready to jump the gun. - The fag was now gone from her mouth and she was wearing a mask that covered the bottom half of her face revealing only her eyes.

- What´s that for? - I asked while looking at her through the window.

- I can´t risk it being seen with you, safety measures, it´d blow my cover you see. -

- Makes sense. - I said and laid back.

The ride was bumpy, but not unbearable, 15 minutes later the truck came to a halt.

- We walk from here. - Domino said and jumped out, we got off as well.

We were now in a back alley, houses and small buildings around us gave us plenty of concealment, we followed her to a 4-story warehouse.

We entered from the back and climbed to the 3rd floor, we set in a room and crouched in order to not be seen, the wall that faced the church had been partially blown out and the huge hole provided a good view of the front of the church and it´s courtyard which were some 200 meters away, up front there were some cars and some of those motorcycles that have a sidecar with a mounted machine gun, many men were hanging around, some on patrol others just having a smoke but all of them armed, I raised my binoculars and could count at least 20.

- That´s the place, right now resistance leaders and some captains of what remains of the French army are having a discussion on where will the doctor be dropped off, there must be 20 to 30 more well armed men and women inside, once they have decided on the route they´ll load him and other VIP´s up and drive them to Paris, all those vehicles are part of the convoy, there´s 2 Panhard 178 light armored vehicles that will join the column as well. - She said while she sat on the ground with her back against a wall.

 I turned to Helga and said:

- A frontal attack is out of the question. -

- Well... most of the vehicles are in the front so my guess is that when they board the VIP´s they´ll be briefly exposed, Hans could do some magic but I´d need you to be his spotter, only you can recognize him to us he is just a name on a list, by the way, come take a look just in case any of these names happen to be here as well. - Helga said turning to Domino.

- What´dya say hot shot? You think you can nail the good ´ol doctor from here? - Klaus asked Hans.

- At this distance... If I can see him, I can hit him. - Hans said bleakly without diverting his view from the scope.

- Well seems like you are lucky, captain Jean De-la-Croix arrived this morning as well, he´s here alright. - Domino said, Helga just smiled pleased.

Echoes from voices came from behind the building, everyone froze and I walked to the back to take a look through one of the windows, Domino followed and so did Helga.

4 men were down stairs checking the truck and 2 more were walking towards the back entrance of the building, Domino peeked out and spoke to them, after a brief exchange Domino look at Helga and said:

- They´re not having it, they´ll come in and check the building.

Helga looked at me and said:

- So much for a fucking stealthy op. - She rose and fired full-auto at the 2 that were walking towards the building, mowing them down, 3 of the other 4 ran behind the truck and 1 began running down the street.

- Don´t let him get away. - Domino said while running down stairs, Helga followed and I tossed a grenade towards the truck, it blew up in a huge fireball, killing three men behind it.

I saw the man running and tried to shoot him but I missed, he stumbled and fell then took out a flare gun and shot a red flare up.

- Ummm... Hey Alex?, we´ve got some company on the way. - Klaus said, I turned and went back to the room, there were 3 motorcycles and one of the armored vehicles headed our way, the whole place looked like a hornet nest, people were running and jumping into vehicles, I then heard a loud ¨BANG, BANG¨ from behind the building, I ran back and saw Domino holding her revolver, the barrel was still smoking and the man that shot the flare was dead on the ground, Helga was closely behind.

- Domino get back here, we need you to ID the targets! - I yelled and they both ran back.