For a city as lively as New York City, the Latverians' aircraft were no less shocking than the spaceships flown during the Alien Invasion. Fortunately, the unrest was quelled by the afternoon. Eliza, commander of the FBI New York Field Office's Special Weapons and Tactics unit, led a team into Avengers Tower, replacing the SEAL Team dispatched by the Pentagon to handle VIP protection.
However, there was no longer any SEAL Team left for the FBI SWAT unit to replace. Team leader Eliza watched grimly as her colleagues loaded the previous team's bodies into body bags. What should have been an easy task now took a considerable amount of time, because the agents and coroners had to determine whether the mutilated bodies matched the severed limbs scattered across the floor, and which people the chunks of flesh blasted apart by large-caliber live ammunition had belonged to.
Having come from the Israeli Defense Forces, Eliza had participated in the famous Operation Orchard and the Second Lebanon War. Her seven years of service had exposed her to many horrors that ordinary people could scarcely endure, but the sight before her now was a different kind of war. Other than the reserve soldiers ambushed by Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War, she had never again seen such a one-sided slaughter.
"The killer jumped down from here and landed directly among the armed SEAL Team personnel coming up the fire stairs." Eliza pointed to the enormous indented handprint on the stainless-steel railing, saying it could be used to estimate the killer's height. Then she pointed at the busy coroners and FBI agents below, speaking with the practiced certainty of someone tracking prey. "There are shell casings down there, which means the SEAL Team fired. The bullets are embedded in the ceiling and the stairs,