Once Drake was show the training area. He waited for Tocsax to leave before he got down to business.  He examained the shoot range and found a disk launcher. He walked out into the area where it would fire and pointed his sniper rifle out into the empty air. He waited for a few seconds before he yelled, “Pull!” a small disk, about the size of a diner plate soar through the air. Drake tracked it through his snipers scope before he pulled the trigger. The bullet tore through the air and collided with the disk. Shattering it to pieces. He pulled a lever on his sniper rifle and an empty shell flew out before he aimed his rifle at the air again. 

“Pull!” another disk flew through the air and again he followed it before he fired and the bullet shattered the disk. He pulled the lever and another shell exited his rifle before he pointed it to the air. He yelled again and another disk flew through the air. As he followed the disk, a memory flashed in his mind.

[i]memory:[/i]

He looked through his sniper rifle at the intersection atop a building. He was there for almost the entire day before he saw his target. He quickly reached down and pressed a button on a small device next to him. The light at the intersection quickly turned from green to red as a blue limo came to a stop. He switched his scoop to infrared and the scoop scanned the people in the limo before he identified his target sitting in the back of the limo. He waited for a few seconds before he pulled the trigger.

The bullet left the barrel and soared through the air. The tip of the bullet spun clockwise while the bullet itself spun counter clockwise. It tore through the windshield and through the secondary window before it tore into the man’s head in the back. 

In seconds there was screaming as the front doors of the limo opened and two bodyguards rushed out while the back door behind the driver opened and the man’s 12 year old daughter rushed out and rushed over to her father as the bodyguards as they pulled her father from the limo.  Drake didn’t seem to care as the girl tried desperately to keep her father alive, but she didn’t know he was already dead. 

The man was a politician. He was pulling ahead of his opponent in the poles so his opponent had contracted Drake to kill the man. Drake was use to people like politicians or others with power coming to him to have someone killed. They would pay him anything he wanted to just have someone they didn’t like killed. However, this wasn’t the last he’d see the girl.

Years later she’d hire him to kill the politician that had her father killed. He did the job and got paid, but then the politician’s wife would hire him to kill of the girl. He never let on he was hired by the other at one point or the other. He’d kill for one client, only to kill that client down the road. He didn’t care, as long as he got paid.


[i]Present day[/i]

He pulled the trigger and the bullet soared through the air and shattered the disk. He unloaded another shell before he aimed at the empty air and yelled “Pull!” the disk flew through the air and Drake followed it, but another memory flashed in his mind. a burning building.  It stopped Drake from pulling the trigger and the disk hit the floor. Drake sighed as he had another disk fly through the air. Again he followed it, but again the burning building flashed in his mind causing him to miss his chance. He sighed before he decided it call it quits.
He walked out of the training room and as he did. He remembered what he told Apokaukos: “I don’t kill kids.” This made Drake sigh as he took a pill bottle from his pocket and swallowed another pill.

“Yeah, keep telling yourself that,” Drake said to himself before he headed towards his room.

[i]Time skip[/i]

Drake followed the group as they were leaded to their new destination. While they met and talked with Emperor Michael, Drake scrolled though the hologram from his watch. He was listening to their conversation while checking his inventory. He wanted to make sure he had enough equipment for the mission. He looked up from the hologram when Tocsax told him he’d be pared with Seth and they would be going after Stalin and Lavinia. After Tocsax finished, he looked over to Seth and shrugged.

“I’m cool with the arrangement. As long as I’m not paired with the robot I'm cool,” Drake said before he added, “You got anything you want me to store in my watch Seth? I have space to spare for any equipment you don’t want to carry.” When Ryteb asked about packing a lunch, Drake just sighed and rubbed his eyes.

“This isn’t some field trip kid. We’re going to be fighting for our lives here. It’s them or us. So if you’re going to crack jokes, just stay indoors and let the grownups handle this,” Drake said before he added, “if I’m understanding this world correctly: we’re going to be killing human beings. So if you have a weak stomach. I’d suggest staying here.”