The assult team was approaching the building. They had their orders. Kill all the guards, take take the scientists alive. The building itself was a squat, square, brick warehouse, it seemed. Inside was a hive of tunnels and corridors built in to a abandoned coal mine. Usually before entering the building the guards would stop, search and decontaminate the people enter. However the assault team didn't do 'usual'. They filed in silently, each with a Special Operation issue Welrods in their hands. The suppressed handguns spat out virtually silent rounds into the two guards watching the door.
They broke open the large NBC filtration system and, after pulling military issue gas masks out of their backpacks, they slipped a canister if tear gas into the filter. While that would incapacitate the guards in the upper levels, the bottom section of the complex was on a completely different air system. The advanced into the maze of corridors that formed the complex. As soon the guards realised that they were getting gassed, alarms started to go off and klaxons started. With the element of surprise gone, the assault team pulled out Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun. The 9mm rounds from these offered a substantial amount of fire power compared to the Welrods. The assault team moved forward, towards the large lift that would take them down to the lower level that their target was at. They had encountered no resistance from the enemy defending the base, which was unexpected even with the tear gas. However, two guards stumbled blindly, not seeing any thing because of the tears running their faces, into the firing line of the assault team's submachine guns. Hundreds of rounds slammed into them tearing the light body armour of the guards. The advance into the base continued.
They had got to a 'x' in the hallway, when, suddenly, twenty troops, wearing gas masks to protect themselves from the tear gas, sprang out. Fully automatic fire echoed as the security attacked the assault team. However the assault team had one thing the security didn't, grenades. Within seconds these explosive devises were towards the opposing forces. Now, out of the forty security personnel in the building, 20 were killed in the ambush, 2 at the door and the blind 2. That would leave 16 defending the lower section of the base. However assault team had casualties as well: 4 loses. But they still advanced, making their way towards the lift, identical to ones used in mines. Entering this they descended down the shaft, one of the few things that remained from the coal mine the warehouse was built on.
Once at the underground section they had to pass through an air lock and decontamination chamber. This is because of the separate air system and the various toxic chemicals stored in the lower levels. Stepping out of the air lock, they were pummelled by more 9mm submachine gun rounds as the 16 guards opened fire. However, the assault team expected this and rolled more grenades into the underground bunker. The explosions quelled any resistance in the guards and they tried to but their efforts were met with 9mm lead.
With all the guards dead, one of the assault team pulled out a radio and called into it, "Guards dead, scientists secure. Objective Pepperpot is secure.
UN Headquarters, Geneva
"Sir, a Special Forces team just attacked the Secure Research Facility."
"What!"
"There's more. They were British."