Chapter Three

0820 Hours, September 4th 2738, (Military Calendar)/

Neptune Base, Surface Planet Claotar

LaTymee had gathered the rest of Silver Team. They all sat down in what chairs they could find and listened to LaTymee brief them on the operation. "Command received a distress call from a weapons testing facility dubbed B-13 on the planet of Prime III. There's not many UNGA on the planet, and no civilians except archeologists. So here's the deal. The facility went silent four days ago and we have made no contact since. When the distress single was sent there was a mention of something killing all of their personnel. So our job is to go in, search and rescue any and all live personnel. And if necessary find and kill what ever was taking them out. We have two days left until we leave for Prime so do what you have to." Announced LaTymee.

"Any questions?" He asked looking at each of them, none saying anything. He nodded and left them to their business and walked off.

Lieutenant Erik Kahl of Black Spire Squad, breathed heavily as he sparred in the gym with one of his other team members. He blocked two punches and went for a uppercut on his teammate Sergeant Lisa Sforza. She side stepped and went to kick him in the ribs. He grabbed her by the foot and threw her down onto the mats. She quickly spun her foot and tripped Kahl onto his back. They both got up and continued on with their training. PFC Joe Licovoli and PFC Alyssia Bartone were in the shooting range. Licovoli took steady aim with his M6C and waited for the targets to pop up.

As they did he unloaded into each, either hitting them squarely in the chest or far from any part of the wooden board. Alyssia took extremely careful aim with her sniper and waited for the target down the corridor to pop out. As it did she quickly turned the sniper in that direction and pulled the trigger. The head of the target exploded and wood was sent flying out behind it. Two more targets were blown open through their chests.
Over the loudspeakers the team was called down to the command center. Erik and Lisa left the gym and found Joe and Alyssia next door. They all went down the hall together and entered the elevator. They arrived at the top floor and exited. They turned down the hall and entered a small door. As they came in, two marines stood quickly at attention.

A man in a dress uniform, decorated with war ribbons and a few medals walked up to them. His rectangular tag pinned to his uniform read Col. Chepinskas, Matthews.

"Good morning Dark Spire. Commands got another mission set up for you. Four days ago, Weapons Testing Facility B-13 on Prime III, lost contact with us. Command has two other teams going with you to check it out. Silver Team and the Bloody Knights ODST. You'll go with them and see what's been going on. Lieutenant Kahl, here's some more information on the Op." The Colonel handed Erik a folder and turned away. Erik turned the opposite way and walked out the door they came through.

"Alright guys, to the training field. I'll meet you there after I finish reading through these." Erik said waving the folder. "Move it out." He finished.

Commander Zagamaye 'Octuree stood at the bridge of his destroyer the Grasp of Death. Zagamaye turned around and took a seat in his chair. He partially drifted off to sleep until he heard a gruff "Ahem."

Zagamaye's eyes shot open to the cold glare of his superior, General Octure 'le, standing before him. "Commander, the Special Operations teams down on Claotar have been scheduled to be picked up tomorrow by General Kazel. They will spend the following night on board the ship until we are cleared for Slipspace transit." Octure 'le finished.

"Yes sir. I'll send shuttle two twenty eight. I also believe we have the quarters needed for them." Zagamaye concluded.

"Well Commander that will be all. Continue with your previous actions." Octure 'le finished with question.

Alyssia watched the training field from below her perch, high up in the rafters. Concealed in darkness, she switched the night vision of her S2-AM on. She slowly trailed it downwards until she found the rest of Dark Spire below her. She watched as they slowly moved forward, in a small arrowhead formation. She ten brought it back up and aimed it farther down the course. She scanned the position directly ahead of the squad, nothing. Damn ODST always take forever to come out if they're not dropped from orbit. Though it was just training and a friendly challenge with shock rounds.

"Alyssia you see anything from up there?" Inquired Kahl from below.

"No sir, nothing on scopes. They're probably hiding out in the shadows. Sneaky crappers they are." Alyssia replied.

"Alright keep an eye out and we'll keep moving up." Alyssia looked back down at the squad. Erik pointed quickly at Joe and then to forward and to the right. Joe broke off from the formation and crawled up a small ramp. He knelt down, switched his night vision on and checked ahead. Two black armored humans stood behind cover, one giving orders to the other. Joe then crawled back down slightly and keyed his mic.

""Sir I've got two contacts behind cover twenty meters to your left. One of em's giving orders to the other."

"Roger that Joe, do you have a shot?"

"Negative on that sir, they're out of range."

"Alright stay there and keep us updated on their position."

"Roger that sir, keeping targets in sight."

Erik tapped Lisa on the shoulder and she turned to follow. They moved up to the ODST's left flank and around a couple of obstacles. They turned the corner to find the two ODST still there. Erik and Lisa raised their BR55's and took aim. Lisa fired first, catching the ODST on the far left in his ribs. A small shock was sent through his body and he went down onto the floor. Erik then fired on the other, the triplet of shock rounds caught the ODST in the upper left leg, sending him sprawling onto the floor with a small electric charge.

"Lieutenant you've got another two contacts moving up moving up to your position. I've got a clear shot on one of them sir."

"Green light Alyssia, green light to fire on contact." Alyssia steadied her snipers crosshairs onto the ODST's chest and pulled the trigger. A fourteen point five millimeter shock round spat out of the barrel and connected with its target. The shock emitted from the round and the ODST went down on the floor. The other ODST turned to find the source of the shot, but only to receive a triple shock round to the left leg and up to the chest.

Alyssia turned her sniper to find Joe with his rifle up and smoking at the tip. Under her helmet she smiled wickedly.

"Black Spire squad, regroup on my position. Let's give the ODST a 'good job'."

Alyssia rappelled down from the rafters and met up with the squad. The ODST pulled the shock rounds off from their armor and let them drop to the floor. "Good job out there ODST. You gave us a run for our money." Erik said happily to the ODST.

"A run for our money? It was like taking candy from a baby." Joe quietly murmured. Erik reached his arm around Joe's neck and jerked him down. "As a present, Joe here will carry your equipment and ours. He'll also come back and pick up all these rounds."

"Ah Christ, should've known this was coming." Joe whined under Kahls arm, only to receive an even tighter grip. Alyssia quietly laughed to herself at Joe from under helmet.

Hey all, more to come! Working on getting more of Silver Team (Literally the team itself) into the chapters cause they've barley been in the story.

-Knight 56