Ajax the Professional!

A Story by Abishai100

A cool assassin named Ajax works in California for a goodly employer ridding barons and bad cops but must rescue an angel.

One coda-piece inspired by a really outstanding Luc Besson movie, the Gary Oldman modernism masterpiece, The Professional. Enjoy (and stay safe!),

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In a modest LA apartment lived an assassin-for-hire named Ajax, an Algerian-American who studied at SDSU before becoming a freelance mercenary, lending his special shooting skills out to special employers seeking to weed out the worst criminals and vampires in southern California. Ajax lived in a small place with a nice window and liked reading comic books. He was in for a real adventure, though he continued to live simply in his quaint LA apartment.

AJAX: With all this Coronavirus stuff now, I have to be extra-careful, since everyone wears a mask now.

Ajax liked what he did and he was terrific in his work. He started out as an Algerian orphan pickpocket before moving to America and studying at SDSU where he studied psychology. He tried his hand in Divinity Studies and traveled to Nepal before returning to southern California where he began lending himself out for the worst kinds of assassin work in America. Ajax nevertheless kept a calm demeanor about his certain assassin skills and a nerdy humble face...and glasses!

AJAX: My favorite gun is this red rifle I picked up during an excavation mission in Del Mar ridding a complex of barons.

Well, now Ajax was in Compton and had to find two druglords working for a California governor shipping in blood-diamonds from Africa to fund new terrorist groups in Canada. Ajax was supposed to break into the building and exterminate the two druglords and make it look like an arson accident. He shot them in the chest as they ran towards him down a hallway before lighting the hallway on fire and climbing down the window with a rope. The newspapers called the druglords the worst blood-diamond element in California, but they're now dead so no one cared.

AJAX: I did the druglord job with that blood-diamond mess in Compton, Luigi.

LUIGI: You know I love when you come into my pizza store, my godly Ajax.

AJAX: You have another job for me?
LUIGI: Yes, I want to hire you to protect a fashion-model from evil cops.

AJAX: And you'll just eat your pizza, right?

LUIGI: Don't fall in love, Ajax.

AJAX: I'll just watch you eat your tasty pizza, friend.

Ajax kept in his room a small robot-wolf toy which he talked to and named Leon. He considered Leon his best and only friend in America. That's because he could really trust Leon. Ajax told Leon he might move to Hawaii someday and try to open a bar and be a bartender. Leon seemed to believe in him.

Ajax learned this fashion-model was targeted by bad cops in LA because of her work with IBM in creating anti-hacker algorithms for Cigna. This would prevent terrorist groups being funded by corrupt intel pirates in California. The bad cops 'assigned' to kill this fashion-model who was a computer-genius were renowned for their cruelty and evil. Ajax decided to first stakeout the IBM building itself and wait for the woman he'd protect to walk out before he explained the situation to her!

AJAX: We have to steal a box of gold guarded by these bad cops.

FELICIA: How'd you know all this, man?
AJAX: I'm a professional!

FELICIA: How're you going to steal the gold?

AJAX: I have a pizza delivery box with a crossbow in it.

Ajax stole the baron cop gold from the police-station costumed as a bearded pizza-boy using a crossbow and sedating two guardian cops working for terrorist outfits. He walked out with the gold box through the bathroom window of the station before reuniting with the fashion-model and computer genius Felicia who he's been serving as a bodyguard in his LA apartment. He told her that he'd hide the gold with his missionary-employer Luigi. He then sent an anonymous email to the LA Times stating, "Bad cops are losing gold to Robin Hood agents interceding terrorist blood-diamond conspiracies in Cali!"

STANSFIELD: Hey, I;m the most evil cop in California, and I'm going to murder this Robin Hood and her b***h, Felicia.

Stansfield was the head crooked California cop 'assigned' to kill Felicia. He sent some of his LA goons out into the streets to wait and see if this mysterious 'Robin Hood' guy (Ajax!) would walk down the street with Felicia in his arms. When Ajax spotted two of these minions, he had no choice but to kill them with a lethal injection with a syringe containing arsenic!

FELICIA: I love you, Ajax.

AJAX: Do you love my robot-wolf-dog, Leon?
FELICIA: Yes, I love him too!

Ajax made sure Felicia drank plenty of Parmalat milk while she's hiding in his LA apartment with him to evade Stansfield and his legion of bad-guys in southern California. They shared a lot of Parmalat milk together in California at that time, and he promised her that if he ever retired from such mercenary-work, he'd take her on a special joy-vacation to a dairy-farm or to Hawaii. She believed him too!

Ajax used his crossbow to kill two more of Stansfield's minions who're hiding out near his LA apartment after midnight. Ajax walked up to them with a guitar case with the crossbow inside and offered to play music for them for some dollars, and after he killed them, he sent a notice to the LA Times stating, "More bad cops dead because of Robin Hood internal affairs operation!"

Two weeks later there was a riot crowd outside Ajax's apartment. There were masked cops with helmets and night-sticks and guns. Stansfield had 'arranged' this entire sordid event after uncovering the fact that Ajax ('Robin Hood') lived in that area of southern California. Ajax knew he'd have to act fast to get Felicia out.

STANSFIELD: I'm not worried about Felicia being clever, but this Robin Hood guy's a pest, so don't think he's a lazy.

Ajax shuffled Felicia down into the basement of his LA apartment building and had her crawl out of a dug-out tunnel he'd made one year earlier. She'd come out some distance away with enough time to run to the home of Luigi who'd hide her from here on until someone would transport her to a witness-protection program on the East Coast. Meanwhile, Ajax dressed up like a crazy photo journalist and blended into the riot crowd in the street outside his apartment!

Ajax was wielding a handsome silver silencer pistol in his pants, and when spotted Stansfield walking inside his LA apartment building, he decided to creep up behind him and pull out his gun and told the evil cop, "Time to pay for all this stalking, Stansfield."

Stansfield turned around and revealed he was concealing a grenade and was suicidal enough to blow up the entire building unless Ajax showed him where Felicia was hiding. Ajax explained he'd already had her tunnel out of there. When Stansfield's helmet-wearing minion-cops stormed in to shoot Ajax in the back, he fell to the ground on reflex and shot them all in the knees before he shot them in the shoulders. He then grabbed Stansfield and pulled him to the ground and pinned him down. Stansfield had already pulled out the pin in his grenade, unfortunately, but Ajax whispered, "I had this entire building evacuated, Stansfield, so Felicia is truly...done."

One year later, the safe and secure Felicia returned to California and planted a tree in the park near Ajax's apartment, promising him that she believed he'd made it to Hawaii now that he's in heaven. This was a sad tale of a really great guy who happened to be an assassin and expert mercenary living in America.

Ajax gave Luigi a pair of knitted wool brown gloves his mother gave him as a present to Felicia, and she got the present and realized then that she was safe from all these California blood-diamond crazies like the doomed Stansfield, a madman of certain disease.

Ajax had also made an anime computer-graphic of Felicia which he gave to Luigi before he died, and she'd get the nice art-gift from him. Meanwhile, more blood-diamond matrix hellmouths were being opened and closed by more and more responsible cops and civil authorities. Ajax had won his sacred war.