Chapter 4: Venom Dog

Monochrome agents disguised as police snipers overlooking the European Drug Conference event.

## Story

### Unit Involved

Monochrome Team

**Venom Dog** is the fourth mission in the Hidden Order Saga. A week after the rescue of John Meredith by Monochrome Team, Marshal Fischer is nearly poisoned in a failed assassination attempt. After learning that their only lead, Charlie Gurrola, had also been assassinated by the same neurotoxin, Monochrome set out to find and capture the president of the Chinese Pharmaceutical company that manufactures the rare chemical.

## Synopsis

### Backstory

Upon the successful rescue of John Meredith (an American criminal legend) by Monochrome, the team learns that someone attempted to kill Marshal Fischer by poisoning their drink at his temporary lodging. In an effort to gain a lead on who may have made an attempt on Fischer's life, agents of the Order are sent to find Charlie Gurrola, the former agent who tipped off Meredith to the FBI. When they arrive at his witness protection home, they find that he has been killed using the same exact neurotoxin found in Fischer's drink.

With their only lead gone, the team instead try and track down the distributor of this rare neurotoxin used almost exclusively by underworld assassins.

### The Setup

Kaihua Pharmaceuticals is a Chinese pharmaceuticals company with many ties to the criminal underworld. They are most notoriously known for their distribution of Torgan-V, a chemical neurotoxin which is difficult to trace and often used in targeted killings. Their president, Jin Wei Zhu, was the target of Monochrome's next operation.

Mr. Zhu was giving an inaugural speech at the yearly European Drug Conference held near Warsaw, Poland. The team prepared to set off explosives near the high profile event and kidnap Mr. Zhu in the panic. The team made their way from a safehouse over to the city center where the event would be taking place. Since the pharmaceutical companies wish to be seen in positive light, they often pay off the police to keep protestors away and only allow supporters into events.

Monochrome split into two teams: the ground team and the sniper team. The ground team was responsible for dressing up as paramedics and acquiring an ambulance from the local hospital, while the sniper team was tasked with setting up overwatch on the event and taking out counter-sniper teams.

The ground team was able to sneak their explosives passed event security under the guise of being event medics, and the sniper team silently took out a police sniper pair and took their weapons. When both teams were in position, they prepared for the ambush. It was at this time that one of the Monochrome snipers recognized one of the police sergeants on the stage who was not real police, but rather a private security contractor.

### The Ambush

After detonating the explosives setup near the event, the sniper team engaged PMC police and allowed for the ground team to snatch Mr. Zhu. As they fled the event, the sniper team dismounted and attempted to shake off any pursuing police. Once the heat died down, the team met up at a water treatment facility just outside of town to interrogate their hostage.

When confronted, Mr. Zhu initially admitted to not remembering the name of the person who had made the purchase order for the Torgan-V, instead telling the agents that he was asked for one fully potent version of the compound and one that was extremely diluted. This confused the agents who wondered why a non-lethal dosage of the drug was purchased to assassinate Fischer. It was at this time when Mr. Zhu informed the agents that the name of the buyer sounded like "Fish".

With this new information, the team attempted to contact Fischer and command, but the radio went silent as police reinforcements encircled the compound. Out of time and out gunned, the team decide to take Mr. Zhu and drive through the forest whilst radioing for help on an open criminal channel. After making contact with a local Polish criminal organization (under contract with the Order) who offered to rescue them for a price, the team hunkered down in an abandoned heliport. As police reinforcements arrived, so too did the Polish gangsters who provided the agents with an airlift away from their mission area.