"I see it...Adjusting aim" Another replied.
The figure slightly shifted as it adjusted the aim on the sniper rifle slowly tracking the guard patrolling the back door to the base. The two figures, doned in grey armor that seemed to literally shed the light that shown on them like water on vinal lay positioned in the forest conciled by a layer of foliage. One of them had a high powered rifle with oracle scope and silencer attached and watched the guard intintly. The other lay beside them with a pair of binaculors acting as an active spotter.
"Wait till he stops then take the shot. Remember, account for wind speed, distance, and the drop of the bullet" The figure with the binaculors said.
"Yes I remember...Taking the shot in three...Two..." It replied squeezing the trigger of the long rifle.
A silent puff went off as the anti material round tore from the barrel and began it's path toward the guard. The round impacted into the mans head causing it to explode in a spray of blood, brains, and skull shards as the headless corpse fell over and slumped aginst the wall, dead. The figures belly crawled out from the underbrush and rose to a crouch and slowly made their way over to the corpse by the wall.
"I told you to go for a chest shot, now if anyone comes by they'll raise the alarm for sure" The figure said.
"Hey, I had a shot and I took it. Just be happy I made the shot, you know I'm not good with a sniper rifle" The other replied.
The figure put away it's binaculors and sighed it's pitch black armor making a black silouetee aginst the the light that hung over the door. The other figure donned in dull grey armor dropped the sniper rifle and drew a rifle. The rifle looked like a cut down version of the standard MA5B rifle but was insted a specialized version of the MA5K carbine. It took a magazine from an ammunition pouch on it's waist. It checked then magazine and slid it into the cut down rifle and pulled the bolt into firing position.
"Now remember the mission. Were going to infiltrate the base via this door, and make our way over to the fuel supply, plant the charges. Then make our way over to the research facility and get that data. Then we detonate the charges destroying the fuel depot and make our escape to a waiting pelican during the confusion...Got it?" The black figure asked the other.
The grey one looked at the black armored figure and said "Yes yes I know, it's not like it wasn't drilled into my skull before we deployed."
"I'm just making sure. Last time we did something like this was a year ago" The black figure said shaking it's head and drawing another MA5K carbine.
The figures activated their armor's cloaking system and slowly blended into the terrain till they became nothing but shadows in the twilight. The grey figure slowly opened the door and walked through and crouched behind a stack of crates. The black figure followed suite and closed the door and took a position behind it's partner and raised it's rifle. The grey figure peeked it's head out from behind the crates and almost gasped at the sight.
What the grey armored figure saw was an expansive base. A huge compound filled with several buildings one of which was easilly identifiyed as a barracks where an active guard of two men stood. Several scoprian tanks rolled around going to their positions inside an expansive building that resembeled a air hanger. Inside the hanger were seven warthogs armed with the standard machine gun turrents, gause cannons, and one with a prototype missle delivery system. Along side them were fourteen mongeese and six scorpian tanks.
Six dozen scores of men roamed around in view checking the area as if searching for something...Or someone. The grey figure used it's helments X5 zoom feature and zoomed in on one building and activated the helments VISR function. The building lit up a dull yellow and standing beside a window on the top floor of the three story builing that lighted up a dull white. The figure was identifiyed as a high value target for assassination but.
"Are you seeing this, he's actually here out in the open." The figure said still fixated on the man standing in the window.
"Yes I see him. But remember, he's only a secondary value target. Right now our main priority is the data in the research facility." The black figure said in a annoyed tone.
The grey figure zoomed out and nodded to it's partner. It looked over and saw a guard coming a bit to close for comfort near their cover behind the crates. Grey motioned to Black to take a position near the other end for a quick kill. Black nodded and crouch walked over to the other end and poked it's head out and looked at the guard. Grey moved on the other end and saw the guard looking at a lable on one of the crates.
Black called out "Hey Charlie"
The guard turned to where the voice came from and Grey moved out from behind the crates, drawing the knife on it's chestplate. The guard didn't have time to react to the foot steps behind him when the blade from Greys knife appeared through his chest piercing his heart. Grey broke the mans neck and withdrew the knife and sheathed it back into the chestplate as it drug the corpse behind the crates out of view.
Black said "Another clean kill, good job"
Grey nodded to Black and raised the MA5K and slowly made it's way over to another stack of crates ten meters away Black following closly. They took up a position behind another stack of green crates bound up with straps and straped to a pallet. Gray looked out and saw small group of three men holding .30cal automatic rifles. They tended to go by the name confette makers since they were able to tear through someone at point blank to close range. Black took a position beside Grey and raised the MA5K it was holding as did Grey.
The two figures took aim at the two outermost men of the group and opened fire. The two rifles puffed out single three round bursts killing each man with three rounds into the men's backs. The last figure turned toward the fire and the two figures concentrated fire on him. Three holes exploded from his chest each of the three rounds piercing each lung and his heart. Three more holes appeared in his head as blood sprayed from the wounds and he fell down dead beside his comrades.
Grey and Black moved up to the group and drew their M6C's and put a single round in each mans head the only noise happening was a light puff from the silenced pistols. They holstered their pistols and picked up their carbines and Black said "Ok, now we just need to make it over to the-"
A crack of thunder interupted the figure as both looked up at the sky. About two miles in the distance a storm began showing itself over the snowcapped mountains and began moving toward the compound. Grey winced slightly at the thunder and said "We better hurry."
Black nodded and began moving slowly away from the pile of corpses and Grey followed. They began moving a bit faster and the pair slid behind a building that has long since been abandoned. Black piered out from the broken wall they had taken cover behind. Black jumped over the wall and layed down and crawled under the fallen roof and took out the binaculors.
Grey stayed outside the building and looked around and then down at the feet of the armor. The armor completly mimicked the concrete of the ground and the shadows of the ever fading twilight. Two guards holding MA5B's were talking to each other as they passed by where Black lay. They paid no attetion and continued walking. One of them stopped and cut the rifles light on and turned around to the building. He walked back and crouched down and looked directly at Black. He stood up, shrugged, and continued walking with his partner.
"That was to close" Black muttered over the comms to Gray going back to the binaculors.
Grey looked out from behind the wall of the abandonded building and kept the rifle trained on the pair. Black said "Ok, I see the fuel depot. It's a bit to far for our usual sneaking method. Hope your ready for a quick jog."
"Yeah, by 'jog' you mean an all out sprint right?" Grey replied jumping over the wall and crouching.
"You know me all to well" Black replied crawling out from the roof and going beside Grey.
They looked at the sky to see the storm was already on top of the base. The sun has already set and the lights had cut on around the buildings and the rain began to fall. After about five minutes the rain was pouring down heavily and Black said "Ok, everyone seems to be either inside, or taking cover from the rain."
Grey looked at Black and said "You think we'll be able to run as fast in this downpour?"
Black stood up the lightning cracking across the sky showing the silouette of the cloaked armor and replied "Heck yeah. Now get ready, we move in three"
Grey jumped out of the buildings remains and hunkered down by a wall and Black got behind. They both stood up and bolted from their position and began moving across the open terrain to their goal. The sky cracked once more with lightning lighting the entire area up and making the faint sillouettes of their armor appear for a split second. They finally arrived at their destination and slid to a stop behind a truck.
Grey said panting a bit "I...Hate you..."
Black chuckeled a bit and said "Hey, sprinting five hundred meters non stop isn't that bad."
Grey hit Black and said "Ok, you got the charges?"
Black took out a satchel and opened it showing two charges of C-12, enough to demo a building. Black took out one of them and handed it to Grey and they crawled over to the fuel depot and craweled behind it and set the charges. Grey took a firing position beside Black as the figure began syncing up the charges to the detonator. Grey looked up the rain pattering onto the cloaked helment as a whomping noise appeared in the distance. Three hornets appeared flying in a V formation around a Falcon as they made their way to the helipad on the other end of the base.
Gray stood up and looked over the giant fuel container and zoomed in on the helipad. The Hornets hovered in the air as the Falcon landed and a suited figure appeared from the flying machines gut. The man was in his late fourties, with pale caucasion skin and a beard that matches his greying brown hair. He has hazel eyes and a slight kelft chin and wore a monical on his right eye. A guard came up to him with an umbrella and the man took it and nodded to the guard and they began making their way off the helipad as the Falcon took back to the air.
Black tapped Grey's leg and said "Hey, stop stairing off into space and get down here. The detonators scynronized with the explosives and is ready to go whenever we need it."
Grey nodded and crouched back down and looked Black and was about to speak when a gunshot rang out. Both of them stood up and looked at where the sound came from. The man in the suit that had recently arrived has drew a revolver and shot the guard in the head. The barrel still smoking from the gunshot was returned into it's holster as Black said "What the...We need to get this done now! He wasn't supposed to arrive for another twenty four hours!"
The two crouched down and began forming a plan as to how to deal with this turn in events...
