Bonnie & Clyde

So, you’re bored and want some action agent Death Nail?

Chapter 2

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Derrick Neal, Agent Death Nail, eased back into his roller swivel-back chair and placed his boots up on the desktop. He had no worry that his footwear would stain or dirty up the highly polished oak finish which mirrored across the desktop surface. No! His black boots were as highly polished and reflective as the furniture top itself. He could almost brush his teeth in their reflected image.

Agent 453-21-768 was bored. He had spent six weeks on the Alliance cruiser “ Sea Witch” and for all appearances had shaped it’s crew into a disciplined batch of battle worthy individuals. Not that they would ever see battle, or war. The Alliance Coalition of Unified Planets pretty much ruled the known verse system in this area of space, and there was not a existing aggressor that could challenge their power at this point in time. Well, not in vast numbers anyway. The freedom fighters had been the last to make an attempt, and it been costly for them. Yet, they had actually produced some fear within the souls of Parliament.

The Allied Unified forces, with the help of special operations units such as Death Nail’s, had squashed that threat and sent the Independent army packing. Now agent 453-21-768 found himself reduced to the duty of babysitting the border planets, policing the conquered worlds so that insurrection could not take hold in the outreaches of the system and again mount an effective fighting force.

The only bright spot in his routine activities nowadays was when Intel acknowledged that there was a rebel force gathering strength on one of the rim worlds, or the report of a crime wave that might justify his attention.

Death Nail had, actually at the moment, two cases that were garnishing his interest. One, a man and woman, names unknown, that seemed to be running a little band of outlaws currently plaguing the 3rd quadrant. Small h