Chapter 4: Special Ops

I stepped into Cody's Office at 2150 hours, he was sitting in a chair talking to Supafuz, the Two-Star General and Doctor Tsunami, the One Star. Why would Cody be leading this OP if Tsunami and Fuzzy were going.

I soon found out that neither of them was going only Colonel Cody and I were, which made me feel a little insecure. "Hello Snacky, okay here's the rundown. My better half, Colonel Killadawg360 was on a secret mission to the blue base at Waterworks. But the whole OP went south after his team was killed, and right now he's either dead or being tortured for Intel..." he said, stopping for a moment to let the information sink in.

After that Cody hit a couple of buttons on the computer keyboard sound began to pour from the speakers, "And here's the last transmission we got from him."

Boom

"Noo...am...mmooo, tteaaamm...killeedd...don't come after...me.."

Ckc

"Now I don't care what Killadawg wants, we have to go and get him...or at least his armor which contains valuable information stored in his missions folder." He grabbed his helmet and snapped it into place. "Now go gear up, ill be waiting in the Pelican...Now move!"

When I arrived at the Pelican, Cody was already strapped in. I climbed in and sat across from Cody so we could discuss tactics. The whole trip to the Blue underground cavern took roughly an hour. When the Pelican touched down in the center of Waterworks, the column in the middle of the cavern shook with a vengeance.

"What the hell is that?" I asked Cody.

"Why do you think they call this place Waterworks, it's the water processing station." He said, as we jumped down and ran along the a side wall until we got to directly under the construct in the middle.

"Okay, from the Intel I have, the Blue holding cells are directly above us." Cody said, and signaled for me to head up the ladder first. When I finished my ascent, I gave the all clear sign and Cody followed behind. We patrolled the halls, Battle Rifles on the ready.

I slowly moved around a corner, and spotted three blue soldiers. I ran across the hall and shot a 4-shot burst in their direction, all of the shots hit, but they had energy shields!

So far, all of my encounters with blue soldiers hadn't come with energy shields. Cody followed suit by finishing them off with two more 4-shots.

"Cody, what the hell is going on, why do they have shields?

Cody went over and checked them,

"They aren't enlisted soldiers; we just took out a Second Lieutenant, and two Warrant Officers. Anyone above a Warrant officer gets a shield generator, I have one, but unfortunately you don't." He said with a dark tone in his voice.

I had nearly come to near death at Acension, but that made me think, why did Micro get hurt so badly? His shield generator must have been offline, but why? No time for that now, I had a mission to complete. After silently taking out a few more soldiers on the way to the cell we arrived at our destination. It was a sickening scene...blood everywhere...Killadawg's body was laid out on the floor. Cody approached the cell door and almost ripped it apart. He walked over to Killa's body, kneeled down, took off his helmet, and it looked as if he was saying a little prayer. That's when Killa reached out grabbed Cody by the Armor and said, "You disobeyed a direct order...good man." he said, coughing up blood.

Cody quickly grabbed some Biofoam off his belt and injected it into Killa's gaping stomach wound. The other wounds were not bad enough to warrant an injection.

"Let's move, before they catch on." Cody said, helping Killa stand up. But Killa's armor was still missing. "No...we can't." I said, looking towards Cody, I could tell what Cody's expression was even through his visor.

"We need Killa's armor, the blues are probably cracking it right now!" I said and Cody knew I was correct. Killa looked at me, told me that I have to complete my mission and his as well.

"Yes, Sir!, Cody I know I'm not leading this OP, but you need to get Killa out of here, I'm going to find the armor and either get it back to pelican...or destroy it."

Cody knew that if I activated the self destruct sequence on the armor, that not only the armor would be destroyed; I would be as well...