Assassin Team Janus

Team Janus --- Independent Contract Assassins

Eile Chica is an ex-special forces operative, an expert in guns, explosives, and hand-to-hand combat, plus surveillance, stealth, and electronics. Her team had been sent in to destroy a terrorist lab making biological toxins, but it was betrayed when the Administration made a deal with the terrorists to get ahold of stolen nuclear material. They were all killed except Eile. She destroyed the lab, but went underground and became a freelance assassin. She is a consummate professional, who always reduces the risks to as low as possible.

Sonne Hiver is an ex-medical scientist, an expert in drugs, poisons, and diseases, plus computers. She worked as civilian scientist at USAMRIID, specializing in highly-virulent diseases, especially those that had been modified for weapons use. Budget cuts threatened her position, so she sent letters laced with anthrax spores to various government, media, and entertainment personalities to make it look like a terrorist attack. It succeeded, and she got more funding, but she was soon found out and she went underground. She became a freelance assassin, using her medical knowledge to kill her targets. She is a thrill killer, who gets a rush out of risky capers, the riskier the better.

They first meet when they are contracted to go after the same target. Sunny kills the target first, in a spectacular fashion that calls too much attention to it, threatening Eile's contractor, so he sends her after Sunny. However, the contractor betrays Eile to save himself, and she and Sunny must work together to avoid being caught. When they find out how well they work together, they become partners and form Janus.

They are totally apolitical, and do not discriminate as to ideology. They don't care why someone wants someone else dead, as long as they get paid. They would gladly accept a contract from Al-Qaeda on Monday to kill the Director of the CIA, then take a contract from the CIA on Wednesday to kill Bin Laden. they have only three scruples:

First, they do not accept contracts made against kids. They don't care what they're suppose to have done, kids are too innocent to understand what they've gotten involved in.

Second, they do not accept contracts for hits in Colorado by domestic contractors, or in the USA offered by international contractors. They have to have a safe haven to go home to after they've completed a hit.

And third, they do not kill innocents. Nothing gets law enforcement and the general public enraged faster than blood and bodies all over the street. So they plan their hits to do as little collateral damage as possible, even if it increases their own risk.