She was still on the plane inbound for the USAF occupied military establishment. One would see a schoolgirl playing soldier, but in reality it was the exact opposite. Sif Aasen sat reading the mission briefing on her PDA, clothed in a size too big USA military uniform for the jungle. It was a compromise, because they - the swedish MUST - KFI (Militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänsten, Kontoret för Särskild Inhämtning) didnt had any other field clothes that was normal looking. There was a bag and a case next her legs, and she was armed with a Pistol 88 - a swedish Glock 17. The only other weapon on her was the bayonet.
The information on the PDA was interesting, but a little outdated.
"On March 17, 2009, The FARC-EP released Swedish hostage Erik Roland Larsson - formerly researcher for the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Larsson, paralyzed in half his body, was handed over to detectives in a rugged region of the northern state of Córdoba. Larsson was kidnapped from his ranch in Tierralta, not far from where he was freed, on May 16, 2007, along with his Colombian girlfriend, Diana Patricia Pena - the possible traitor who give out the information about the research - while paying workers. She escaped that same month following a gunbattle between her captors and police. The FARC-EP had sought a $5 million ransom. One of Larsson's sons said that the ransom was not paid."
It happened in Colombia, but it was something to do with the current problem.
Then the sought after biologically and cemically resistent plant research was unfinished. Now they got another scientist missing, and with her the leading knowledge in the heading fields of biology and botany, trying for something new... Maybe GMO resistant plants and animals. And the cannabis was always great test subject...
So the KFI sent the one and only female agent they had after them, she masquarading as the daughter of Katarine Bunge, the missing person. Elsa Beata Wrede was only a cover, but enough false information was pumped into the bureaucracy to be possible. Nobody asked for any ransom - yet, but she would be perfect to play the concerned family member for any government.
The Swedish Armed Forces enlisted even the geospatial technology for this quest, giving the most advenced equipment to compensate for the second almost alone live action of their top female field agent. She was anything but a new recruit, but everybody always underestimated her.
Her golden hair, thanks to the nano keratin application, was incredible. Increased length from the military proper, eliminated frizz, strengthened hair strands, extended life of the colour, improved manageability and shine... and it helps to repair the hair through frequent colouring, perming and straightening - a must for any secret agent.
The form fitting Gore Tex and Kevlar bodyglove with silent passive magnetic Zippers was only in the tryout phase. Matt black, resistant to knives, tearing, and even told to stop some small caliber ammunition from penetrating. Incorporated woven wire and rubber mesh to stop electricity and some of the bludgeoning damage, but she would get blue and green from any hard force hitting it. If not wearing the field clothes on top of it, she would look like a wet dream...
Of course her code name - Asa the Furir - sometimes got laughed at, as it could be translated to "heavenly woman cook". She usually smiled enough to make them forget that this meant a lot for her. Being the first woman in the Swedish Navy, then transferring to the Amphibious Corps so she got conscripted into the Army too. After two years she finished that training and service, and she tried to be accepted into the cavalry, but only the Home Guard had given her the possibility. She was content with her new job as a sergeant with her horse Baldr and trained sensor dog Thor at the age of 25. Then she got the news: she can be the first fighting female agent in the secret service MUST - KFI, but that means she got to try out the Air Force too … Of course now it was only professionals accepted, so she had to do 8 months as any fresh recruit before leaving for the agency… But she got the rank of a "Kapten" out of it.
She looked a lot younger with the make up, and got the expected clothes for a foreign student in her bag. Of course the multiple knives tucked into it would get suspicious, if not hidden under the sexy undergarments, into the toilet-case and the vanity bag.
The case contents would make any soldier salivate. The new HK416D with the full Aimpoint system and the M203 grenade launcher with cases of different rounds, and then the SUAV system „Falken” made the added saber seem almost obsolate. The night vision goggles with the headwear and filter mask for her armor looked like something out of a bondage movie - but the same young technician designed it for her as the form fitting armor. There was a camouflage cloak with thermal dissipation for it too.
They was late, but the informations about the local team needed time to be verified and looked at. It was not the first time they worked with the USA military, but the last time in Colombia the joint action was unsuccessfull in retrieving the scientist. They 'kicked their asses', as her last partner said, but the largest and deadliest smuggling ring for animals and drugs known world-wide somehow smuggled out her too. Now, they could have another go at it!