The abandoned supermarket had officially transitioned from a temporary hideout into the tactical command center for Dud and his volatile alliance of misfits. Today was an exceptionally critical juncture for their campaign, because Skull had confidently asserted that he possessed the direct channels to summon a highly specialized, lethal organization to augment their forces against the Billion Bloodline group. The operational hurdle, however, was twofold.
The elite unit Skull was referring to was the Black Hand, a black-market mercenary syndicate that possessed absolutely no inherent ideological or territorial reason to wage a war against the Billion Bloodline. Fortunately for Dud's faction, they were purely profit-driven assets available to the highest bidder.
