Battlefield: BAD COMPANY: Birds of Prey
Episode 3: Operation: cold Incision
'Thinking/Preston's view'
"Talking English"
"Talking Japanese"
'Thinking Japanese'
(Play the song: Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top)
'So, we had our own tailored business suits, I felt like I could move a move a mountain with my hands. I have got to admit that with the new power in my hands, it's like I'm invincible. All of us were wearing these suits, in our hands this kind of power can make miracles happen. I heard the stories about the other suits, now I could make my own stories. Just have to keep in mind that we're only human.'
The boys had begun testing their suits in the underground testing facility the base had built for training Nano-suit operators. The boys were putting their skills of destruction to use, their already decent physical capabilities and skills were amped to 11 by the suits. Recoil from their weapons was almost completely absorbed by the strength enhancing Nano-fiber mesh encompassing their bodies.
Marlowe's aim improved exponentially, his targets were being eviscerated by the dead-shot accuracy he now possessed with a custom M16 rifle. The same goes for Sweetwater with his custom M60 being on target despite the heavy recoil from sustained fire. Haggard used his new head mounted laser designator to keep his guided SMAW rockets on target and tracking any airborne threats he shot at. Sarge was using his newly found speed to swap between and take down targets almost effortlessly, the suit's ability enhancements were proving invaluable to the soldiers of bad company. When they ran a course for basic combat training they excelled. When they lifted weights, they could flip over a Humvee without even trying. When they worked together to fight an army of drones, they won with flying colors. the boys had all chosen their gear, Marlowe would be using an M16 rifle with an adjustable stock, acog scope, grenade launcher and laser sight. His other two weapons for ranged combat were an M9 pistol with a laser sight and an M107 Barret .50cal sniper rifle. Haggard chose a SMAW rocket launcher, an M4 rifle with, acog scope laser sight and an under-barrel shotgun with grenade slugs and an M1911 .45 pistol. Sweetwater stuck with his scoped M60 that now fires .308 JSP ammunition, an M1014 shotgun with extended tube, red dot sight and adjustable stock. Sarge chose an M16 with a similar loadout to Marlowe except sarge picked an M1911 .45 and an M14 EBR with hybrid sight, adjustable stock and under-barrel grip.
Bad Company was just what they needed to be, themselves above and beyond their best.
"Is it just me, or did we become the Avengers?" Haggard said happily.
"If we're the Avengers then I'm Iron man." Sweetwater said with a cocky tone.
"Naw, you're more like Bruce Banner, the nerd." Haggard said in a taunting mood.
"You mean the hulk, right?" Sweetwater said trying argue with haggard.
"No, you're the nerd. Plain as the glasses that are usually on your face CSI new jersey." Haggard said coolly.
"I am not the nerd. I prefer intellectual." Sweetwater said trying counter Haggard's verbal barrage.
"You are too a nerd." Haggard fired back.
"I am not. You damn dumb knucklehead."
"Are too. You should work on your comebacks, they stink."
"Your delivery needs work Hags. Where did you learn comedy, a graveyard?"
"Oh, ha hah ha. At least I know to quit when I'm a head."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Sweetwater said indignantly.
"Shut the hell up you two, now!" Sarge shouted angrily.
"B-but Sarge!" Haggard and Sweetwater said in sync.
"Both of you shut up! And if we're the avengers I'm Captain America, Preston's war machine, Sweetwater you're Spider-man and Hags is Wolverine." Sarge said finishing the argument.
"I'm good with that." Preston said trying to ease the tension.
The members of bad company were all doing their thing as usual. After practice and the argument, they had gotten used to their armor for the most part but still needed to tryout the cloak, nano vision, and maximum armor modes. They were almost ready to begin the next phase of their mission after taking some time to relax and prepare themselves mentally for what was going to happen later. The four of them took their time relaxing with colonel Barclay watching a football game in his office, having some beer and eating nachos. The boys and colonel all cheered except for Haggard when the other team made a touchdown.
"Hags, you owe me five bucks. The colts won, cowboys lost, pay up."
"Here you go Sarge." Haggard said begrudgingly pulling out his wallet and giving five US dollars to Sarge.
After the game was over night had fallen and the operation was set to begin. First though, they had to meet up with miss July, their old friend from their first adventure together. She was a young brunette in in her late 20's with a very shapely figure and a pretty face to boot. If anyone could make a class-A US Army uniform look hot she did, and she did it good. The boys were all giving her compliments and she rebuffed haggard and sweets advances respectively. Then the colonel showed up and told them it was game time.
"Boys once you get into the city, you're on your own. We won't be able to get any transmissions in or out so it's all up to you once you reach the harbor. Good luck Bad Company." The colonel saluted to the team. And they saluted back. The boys all made their way to the runway to meet with fellow ops team, Fireteam Hammer.
"Time to nut up or shut up." Haggard said uttering a badass catch phrase.
"You got that from zombie-land, didn't you?!" Sweetwater said killing the moment.
"Yeah, it's one of my favorite newer movies, and I like that catch phrase." Haggard replied.
"Sweetwater, just shut up." Sarge said irritated as usual
"Ok, fine." Sweetwater said shutting up.
(Play the song: Millionaire by Queens of the Stone Age)
The four of them reached Fireteam Hammer's location in a hangar off of the runway, the 2 teams greeted each other with professional courtesy. Well professional for Fireteam Hammer at least anyways. The 8 soldiers then proceeded to board a civilian ferry that would get them and a custom high speed Humvee into the city through the harbor. The soldiers reached the coast and boarded the ferry into the city.
The Humvee had been customized with a browning .50cal machinegun, high powered V-10 big block gasoline engine with racing suspension, turbo and nitrous kits, and was painted desert tan similar to the armor of Bad Company. All US markings had been erased from the vehicle to complete the visage that Bad Company would be assumed to be mercenaries by any authorities who would attempt to capture them. The team were all ready for combat, the city was similar in appearance to any other major metropolis, high towers, small businesses, but one building in particular stood above the rest. MBI tower, the throne of their soon to be foe Minaka Hiroto. The teams were all settled in more or less, in position for battle. The ferry reached the harbor and docked at a concrete pier.
The Humvee was unloaded with the engine being kept to a purr, to keep it confused with the sound of the ferry's idling motor. Then the harbor lit up around them, they were expected by Minaka and his forces. Just then a grey-haired woman wearing a black leather top, grey kimono-like jacket, black boots, stockings and a black mini skirt approached the fireteams' vehicle. Her cohorts, a pink-ette with red combat gloves, and a slender white haired girl with razor sharp bladed gauntlets followed her. The boys stayed in the vehicle much to their chagrin while the grizzled Fireteam Hammer shivered in fear at the sight of their approaching enemies. The gray-haired woman gave a sadistic laugh and grinned menacingly at her prey. The soldiers who had seen the horrors of war, were used to fear in face of death but this woman and her associates gave off an aura that made anyone flee in terror.
She drew her sword and rushed the soldiers, they responded with a barrage of bullets that just kept missing her. The hail of lead seemed to only annoy her as they screamed in fear, which she enjoyed. Bad company had enough and rolled the vehicle out of the ferry, Preston hopped out of the driver's seat as grey-hair cut down 2 members of Fireteam Hammer. Just as soon she was about to kill another member of the panicking soldiers, Preston charged in and caught her sword between his bare armored hands. The grey hair was surprised, no mere human possessed this kind of strength, to her humans were inferior and to be despised. But this armored warrior had stopped her cold without even trying. Then the soldier in armor spoke in a distorted tone that made him sound as if he were a machine.
"Leave them alone witch. If you want a fight, fight me!" Preston said as he pulled her sword to the side and headbutted her. The speed in which he did it surprised even bad company who already had an idea of what the armor could do. Preston then punched her in the stomach sent her flying backwards. She recovered in mid-air and somersaulted landing on her feet. She wiped the blood from her lip and readied her sword, her eyes half-lidded with bloodlust towards the armored lone soldier. She charged at Preston again swinging her sword at points that she perceived as weak spots, only to be met in kind with a large combat knife. The knife block had made her even more annoyed by the fact she couldn't kill this weakling. She Karasuba, the black sekirei, couldn't kill a puny human in a tin suit, the thought boiled her blood. Granted he was standing half a foot taller than her because of his suit, but he was still human trash. Her cohorts the other members of the disciplinary squad, Benitsubasa and Haihane, were stunned by the fact that there was a human that could give their leader the fearsome Karasuba, a run for her money.
"Is that all you've got?! I can do this all night! Huh! Bring it on!" Preston shouted angrily bringing his fists up into a fighting stance.
"You worm! How dare you challenge me! I am the Black Sekirei, Karasuba! And you will die human!" Karasuba shouted back in a venom filled tone.
Haggard hopped out of the vehicle and moved to get the last 2 members of fireteam hammer into the vehicle with Sarge and Sweetwater covering him. Karasuba noticed this and signaled to her underlings to kill them. Benitsubasa and Haihane begrudgingly followed their master's orders and moved in to eliminate the last 2 unarmored soldiers. Haggard intercepted the Pink-ette but was unable to stop the slasher from killing Fireteam hammer's last two members, even with Sarge and Sweetwater keeping a steady stream of gunfire raining down on the nimble killer. Their blood was spilled and Haggard was furious, he clashed fists with Benitsubasa, slugging it out punch for punch. Sarge got into the driver's seat and honked the horn.
"We have to go, Fireteam Hammer is gone! There's nothing we can do now! We'll get payback against these motherfuckers later, there's heavy armor moving in, for now we have to move! Get in the goddamn vehicle now! That's an order boys!" Sarge shouted ordering his team to retreat from the battlefield.
Haggard turned on his helmet's translator function and shouted in Japanese.
"This isn't over you daughters of bastards! We'll be back and you will regret it! You hear me?!"
"You aren't getting away!" Benitusbasa shouted at Haggard, but he gave her a swift uppercut, stunning her and ran back to the Humvee.
"Marlowe, disengage. That bitch will get what she deserves later, but right now soldier, we are leaving!" Sarge shouted to Marlowe over the radio, who begrudgingly broke off of fighting with the sword swinging psychopath.
"I'll be back witch, you'll pay for what you've done. You got that?!" Marlowe said in Japanese punching Karasuba upside her head, and making a mad dash for the vehicle as a tank that had been purchased by MBI, rolled into the docks. Marlowe made it to the vehicle, jumped in the driver's seat and gunned the motor, getting a great burnout on take-off. Marlowe swerved around the sekirei, who dodged the high-speed truck, and swapped paint with the tank as it turned its barrel to fire on the Humvee. The boys then escaped to the crowded streets and were being chased by other privatized military vehicles left and right. Thanks to the engine that Sweetwater and Haggard had worked together to build, they left the other vehicles in the dust. Preston activated the nitro kit and they took off like a bullet, leaving the crowded city center and making their way into a residential sector of the city.
MBI TOWER-CONTROL ROOM-around the same time
Takami was already stressed about her day, with her incompetent subordinates constantly annoying her but what she was about to hear was the last thing she needed. A subordinate approached her and meekly explained what had just happened. She spat out her cigarette in surprise at the news.
"What the fuck! Four soldiers made it into Shinto-teito and escaped the disciplinary squad?!" Takami shouted furiously.
"Y-yes ma'am. The soldiers have escaped our security forces and aren't coming up on satellite view. Their armor and vehicle suggests that they could be mercenaries."
"That is just great! Now we have a group of armed mercenaries loose in the city that risk disrupting the sekirei plan, and making my life even worse!" Takami ranted, making the subordinate went is pants in fear. "Well, anything else to say?!"
"Y-yes ma'am, the disciplinary squad eliminated half of their force. We are looking them up in multiple databases as we speak, they appear to be the soldiers who previously escaped capture some time ago. The equipment they wore suggests that they were also most likely mercenaries. But another possibility is that they may all be American special forces that were sent here to investigate the sekirei plan."
Just then a man wearing a high collared lab coat with an outrageous einstein-like hairstyle burst into the room. It was none other than Minaka Hiroto himself. Minaka looked around the room and then at Takami, who relayed the news to him, all of it.
"If the Americans truly knew what was going on, they would have sent an army, no. This is a recon force or perhaps a small team sent to put a stop to the sekirei plan at most. Which means that if we either eliminate, scare off or capture them, the Americans won't risk another team or sending a major force here, without causing major political backlash. This seems to be a minor problem at best." Manaka replied with a grin on his face.
"Actually sir, there is one more thing." The subordinate piped up.
"Spit it out, I don't have all night." Minaka said impatiently.
"They were wearing Hargreave-Rasch-Crynet Nano-suits." The subordinate said while shivering nervously before his unpredictable boss.
"Hargreave, that arrogant fool. He is always getting in my way. I don't care what it costs, get me a Nano-suit prototype from Russia. The Russian suits may be slightly inferior to his suits, but I can improve it to surpass his creations with my own perfection. Besides, it'll make the game even more interesting." Minaka said, breaking into a classic supervillain laugh.
-END CHAPTER-
