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Origins of Codenames: Reaper

“WELL NOW WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO ?!” Cheshire hollered, slamming the barn door behind her and pressing her back against it.
Charlotte was looking around the rather decrepit structure frantically. She could hear the roar of engines getting closer. Their guns were jammed, Cheshire was frantic, and Charlotte… well Charlotte was annoyed to no end.
“I need a weapon…. AH HA !” She held something up triumphantly just as a BMW shot through the barn door and turned it into splinters.
Cheshire didn’t see what she was holding, she was too busy chucking bricks from the floor at the windshield.
Three men got out of the car, one was stunned almost immediately by yet another brick, but the other two were big, burly, and approaching Cheshire swiftly.
That is until Charlotte beheaded him with the scythe she’d just discovered.
A few minutes later they stood in a puddle of blood, staring at the BMW .
Cheshire was humming Don’t Fear the Reaper.

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