2 Days Ago
Location: Abandoned Factory somewhere in Neo-North America
Time: 21:00
"Talon One, this is Ghost One, do you copy?"
The pressing of the button against the headset opened the lines of transmission. "This is Talon. Go ahead with message, Ghost One."
"Copy, we've completed primary and secondary sweep of the exterior portion of the area. Negative findings. We're standing by on the set coordinates for your arrival."
"Copy, keep me posted, Ghost One." Releasing the pressure on the button, the female Commanding Officer, sat back on the railing as the Black Sparrow began its descent.
It weathered the storm fair enough, she supposed. A small, support helicopter for an infantry squad would have been suicide to use if they had grounds to believe the enemy's territory had anti-air capabilities, but from the sound of the recent report, there were no signs of defense at all. She didn't like this setup though. Not at all.
"Ma'am, thirty seconds until we land at the drop-off point," announced the pilot over the intercom.
The young woman looked up at her squad of four armored troopers, brushing blue strands of hair from her eyes. "You heard the man. Ready yourselves."
It was difficult to discern the whirring of the rotors form the incoming Sparrow over the pouring rain, but 1st Lieutenant Trent McCloud was sure the Nexus agent assigned to his ground team heard it. He heard a little about her, mostly about her incredibly good looks. Though the rumors were true, McCloud knew how to keep pleasure and business separate.
The helicopter was within earshot as it swept over the LT and his team. From it, five steel cables descended. Talon's team rappelled quickly, not wasting any time taking tactical positions with the rest of the soldiers behind the building near the objective. Talon came down last, shouldering her short M6 carbine as she approached the LT.
McCloud snapped to attention and saluted. "Area secure, Commander!" he shouted over the rain.
Talon rendered a quick salute. "You said there were no hostiles inside?"
McCloud nodded. "Affirmative."
"I don't like this setup."
"A trap, of course."
A nod from Talon. She pointed to random teams and began reviewing the course of action (COA). It was a simple strategy of storming the facility from all sides while keeping to defense. Team Alpha would storm in from the north side and clear out the building up to second floor before standing by for Team Bravo. Bravo would enter from the south side, clear it, and join up with Alpha to clear the rest of the floors.
Charlie—which would consist of Talon, McCloud, and the Nexus agent and remaining Storm Soldiers—would do conduct more thorough sweeps of each floor to ensure no clues were overlooked. The Storm Soldiers were well fitted to face any opposition. Heavies came equipped with M75 Saw Machine guns while the Assaulters had the standard issue M7 Carbines. Though it wasn't so much opposition that had the Commander concerned.
"Something wrong?" The Nexus Agent's sultry voice and smile wasn't comforting. Talon didn't trust her. Talon knew of the relationship between her association, the Inter-Galactic Police Force, and Nexus. The IGPF was a private military organization like the World Heroes, but the Neo-US government privately funded Nexus. It was no coincidence that their interests laid in this single mission.
No, there was much more to that woman and her group's objective tonight. Hopefully, they wouldn't have to collide.
Hopefully.