The third operation was targeting Alexei Volgin in Berlin when everything went catastrophically wrong. The assault team breached his apartment at precisely 2:00 AM to find it empty except for laptop displaying message in English and Russian: "Did you really think I wouldn't notice pattern? Three operations, three dead colleagues. Fourth operation walks into trap. Welcome to your deaths. -Network Command"
"Abort! Abort!" Dmitri screamed into comms, but explosion tore through apartment before team could retreat. Shaped charges hidden in walls detonated simultaneously, collapsing structure onto operatives who had walked into carefully constructed killing zone.
Ral watched in horror through drone feed as building pancaked, smoke and dust billowing into Berlin night while sirens wailed and em
