Fan Fiction ❯ Traitor to Unatco ❯ The Job ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer- I do not own Deus Ex and I think we all know that so this is the only time I am going to say it.

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Part 1

The Beginning

I sat alone in the back of an old-run-down bar. No one was in the bar. This place, almost the entire town now that I think of it, was deserted. The place stunk with the lingering decay of death. Most of the people living here either left or were killed by the Gray Death, a mysterious plague that killed millions of people. I had forgotten the name of the town I was in, but it didn't really matter. Someone had sent me a message telling me to meet him here. It was probably just someone who had found out that I was augmented and wanted me as a bodyguard. With any luck the pay would be good, and I could get out of this country, again. I was supposed to be the government's first nano-augmented soldier, but I never liked working for them.

One day I heard two guards talking about me and how they could activate a "kill switch" for any of their nano-augmented soldiers. They said that all they had to do was enter a code in the main computer. If the kill switch was on, I would die in 24 hours. I knew that I had to get out of there soon. I hacked into the main computer and changed the code to activate my kill switch and erased and copied as many files as I could. I sent the disk I had with the copied files to a friend in Trier, Germany. Before I left, I hacked into the ATM machine and stole a few credits. Well maybe more than a few. I knew that in time they would figure out the new code and then they would activate my kill switch. There was only one person who could stop that from happening; Tracer Tong.

I used most of the money to hire a pilot to take me to Hong Kong. There I met Tong, he looked like he was in his forties, and had dark hair. He removed my kill switch for free but wanted me to do him a favor. How could I refuse, he may have just saved my life. At first he just wanted me to take some jobs for Unatco. I did that for almost two years. Then he found a new mission for me. He gave me some money to come back to America. I was supposed to see if it was true that they had a new nano-augmented agent. I found out there was one and that his name was JC. Denton, who was working for Unatco. I expected Tong to give me some money so that I could return to Hong Kong, but he didn't. Instead he wanted me to wait here in town for a new job. He had said that someone would meet me here in two weeks. It had already been three. After tonight, if nobody showed up, I would have to leave. Unatco, a military force for the government, had already sent some of its soldiers here to look for me, but I was able to hide from them. I was about to leave but decided I should wait one more day. When morning came, I went up the stairs leading to the roof of the bar. The door to the roof was locked. I kicked it once. It broke off its hinges and went over the edge of the roof, then crashed onto the street below. I could see Liberty Island and The Statue of Liberty from were I was, or what was left of it anyway. A few years ago it was destroyed by a French Terrorist group that didn't think the Americans deserved it; personally, I would have to agree with them. I waited on the roof until it was getting dark outside. I was about to leave when I heard footsteps downstairs.