A/N
Hello everybody. Thank you so much for reviewing and reading. It really does brighten my day to the point where I'll be grinning like an idiot for a few hours after seeing that people still enjoy this story. It really does mean the world to me and I can't thank everyone enough.
One thing I want to make clear before starting this chapter is that the gameplay I'm using as reference for this mission is from the Beta so if the number and types of enemies in this chapter seem off, that's why but it shouldn't be too much of a difference. Now, the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: TC's The Division belongs to Ubisoft and it's respective developers. I only own some of the characters and the some of the plot. Any names that are similar or the same completely coincidental.
Now onto the story.
Pennsylvania Plaza, Manhattan, New York
After leaving the Base of Operations, Henry, Alex, and Ada caught a glimpse of the Colin and his team jogging around the corner passed Madison Square Garden as they headed off toward their objective after telling something to the JTF officers. In the opposite direction, they could see Ryan and his team walking away from the base and heading the street. Turning back toward the direction Colin and his team went, it was a short jog until they arrived at the entrance of the Madison Square Garden, seeing two JTF soldier setting up a breaching charge as radios came to life.
"We've got a lot of hostiles inside, agents. They're holding Dr. Kandel and her staff. We need those personnel back at the base so we can get the medical wing functional." Faye said as they approached the doors. The JTF soldiers noticed them just as they finished and pulled them to the side.
"You must be the agents that other group just told us about." One of the JTF soldiers said. "Stack up. We'll get the door for you." The three agents nodded and took positions on both sides of the door behind the JTF soldier.
"Clear!" The other one yelled as the two looked turned away from the charge. A few seconds later, the breaching charge exploded, destroying the doors and the metal gate behind it. "We're in! Go! We go your back!" The JTF and the Division agents moved in, quickly securing the entrance.
"We'll hold here to cover your back. Then we'll escort the medical personnel when you've retrieved them." One of the JTF soldiers said as the two found cover and made sure no one was trying to come up behind the agents. Henry nodded and pushed up with Ada and Alex following in a tight formation. Entering the lobby, they found it empty.
"Empty?" Ada asked cautiously.
"Maybe they didn't hear us?" Alex suggested. Just as he said that, small arms fire erupted from the escalators, causing the three agents to dive for cover.
"How many?" Henry asked as a bullet ping off the hospital bed he was hiding behind. Leaning out, he fired a burst causing the Rioters shooting to duck.
"I'm counting three, all armed with pistols from the sound of it." Ada called back before firing her UMP-45 at the attacking Rioters.
"Heads up, they're flanking." Alex said as he popped out his cover and put a burst into the chest one of the flanking Rioters. "One down." Standing up, Henry was able to take down the Rioter that was trying to pin down Alex with a well placed burst.
"That's two." Henry called out just as Ada put a round in the heart of the last man. "We're all clea-" Just before he could finished his sentence, a second group came rushing down the stairs wildly firing SMGs and handguns. "Oh you've gotta be kidding me." Henry swore ducked back behind cover. "'Maybe they didn't hear us?' You just had to say something!" Henry shouted as he blind fired the rest of his magazine. "Swapping mags!"
"Not my fault!" Alex called back as he primed a grenade and tossed it. "And you said we were all clear!"
"Boys, we can point fingers later but can we deal with these guys first?" Ada shouted at both of them as the grenade went off, killing the Rioter who was hiding behind a desk.
"We can do both." Alex replied as Henry dropped another that was trying to flank. Ada just huffed in frustration as Alex and Henry pumped the took down the last two.
"Spook, Recker, cover me. I'm pushing." Henry called out as he made his way around the hospital bed. As soon as he got close to the escalators, a single Rioter fired down at him from the top of with a handgun. "Son of a- We got one more, top of the escalators."
"Get him to pop out his cover for a second." Ada said.
"Got it. Moving...now!" Henry quickly dashed to the other side of the escalators. As soon as the Rioter popped out of his cover to fire upon the agent, he received a bullet to his head, courtesy of Ada's M700.
"He's down." Ada said as she pulled the bolt back and load another round into the internal magazine to replace the one she just spent before sliding the bolt forward to chamber another round. Stepping out of their cover, the three agents cautiously got into a loose formation as they headed up the escalators.
"If you patch me into the security system, I might be able to find Kandel's location." Faye's voice came over the radio.
"Copy that." Henry said, picking up the pace a little bit. Heading up the small set of stairs and past some UV light filters, the group of Division agents soon found themselves in the security room. "Who wants to patch Agent Lau in?"
"I got it." Ada said as she moved leaned her rifle against the table desk and began typing.
"How long do you need?" Henry asked as he and Alex shouldered their weapons in case anymore contacts came by, doing their best not to look at the dead JTF officers in the room.
"Only need a minute or two." Ada said as her hand flew across the keyboard. True to her word, two minutes later, she was done.
"Patched in... Let's see what I can find." Faye said as she began her search. A few moments later, the screens on the wall, at least the non busted ones, changed to show a woman standing over a hospital bed with a Rioter standing next to her with a AK-47 in his arms, looking around nervously. "Can you see the CCTV feed. Looks like Kandel and her staff are being forced to treat their wounded. That's the only reason they're still alive." The feed showed the man with the AK looked over Kandel's shoulder before throwing his weapon to the side and push Kandel away and trying to do CPR on the man in the hospital bed. The agents didn't watch for too much longer as they quickly went up the stairs and out the door to proceed into the hallway that lead to the show floor.
"It looks like they've got people upstairs, in a restaurant." They heard Faye as she continued to monitor the CCTV feeds. "There's a lot of these guys, but if you use cover, you should be able to pick them off without making yourself a target." She said as the three walked onto the basketball court turned medical room floor. Quickly taking cover by the entrance, the three observed situation around them.
"Alright, I'm seeing about three enemies on the far side of the court. Anyone else got eyes on any more?" Henry said.
"Nope."
"Negative." Ada replied. "What's the plan?" Alex looked to at Henry as well.
"What? Why are you both looking at me?"
"You're the team leader here. You call the shots." Ada said.
"You've gotta be kidding me." Henry groaned but the two made no attempt to take charge. "Fuck it, fine. Recker, head to the far side of the court. I'll focus this side. Spook, you're in the middle but hang back and pick them off with that rifle of yours while Alex and I push up the flanks. Copy?"
"Copy." The both said as they headed off to their spots.
"In position." Ada reported.
"Ready." Alex checked in.
"Got it. Spook, if you'll be so kind." Henry said. A second later, a shot from Ada's rifle echoed through the building, the bullet finding it's mark in one of the Rioter's head. The other Rioter's quickly wiped around at the sound of the shot in surprise. Ada quickly found her second target and fired, killing the Rioter as well. As the second Rioter fell over dead and the third one dove for cover, their ear pieces came to life with with a chirp.
"Additional hostiles detected." ISAC informed them. Looking around, Alex spotted the movement from the bleachers above.
"Enemies above." He called out and started firing off bursts of rounds at them. Following the bullets, Henry soon saw the Rioters as they tried to make a break for the scaffolding at the other side of the court and quickly added in his own fire. The combined fire of Alex and Henry was enough to drop two of the three Rioters as they jumped down to the scaffolding. The last one was able to jump down to the ground while the two agents were reloading and join the singular Rioter still left alive.
"Additional hostiles detected." ISAC once again informed them.
"You've gotta be kidding." Henry said as he slammed home a fresh magazine as he moved to new cover to avoid a smoke grenade. Popping out of his cover, he saw the hostiles ISAC was referring to and quickly put some suppressing fire on them while Alex and Ada focused on dealing with the two on the ground.
"Pushing forward!" Alex called out as moved forward to get better shot on the two pinned Rioters. The Rioters above saw this and tried to fire down on the out of cover agent but were quickly forced back to abandon that idea and quickly ran for the scaffolding when one of Henry's rounds got lucky and hit a Rioter in the throat. Once Alex now in a new position, he quickly opened up on the two Rioters, hitting one in the knee and causing the other to panic and running out of his cover and right into Ada's crosshairs, who put a bullet through the man's chest.
"Warning: Addition hostiles detected." ISAC announce.
"Oh come on! How many of these guys are there?" Alex said as he reloaded and fell back as the two that Henry were firing quickly jumped down and began opening fire on his position.
"I don't know about you but I think they heard us this time." Ada said as she tried lining up another shot but was driven back behind cover by the new enemies wildly firing their SMGs. Henry laughed as he dropped the empty mag from his weapon and inserted a new one while Alex just groaned at the joke.
"Anyone got eyes on how many hostiles?" Henry called out, picking up a grenade and tossed it back.
"Sending out a pulse." Ada called out as she send out a pulse scan, revealing four Rioters remaining.
"Really?! You've had pulse the entire time and now you decide to use it?!" Alex yelled from behind his cover as he blind fired his magazine.
"We didn't need it before!" Ada shouted back as she loaded more rounds into her rifle.
"Ladies, focus, we still got hostiles." Henry said as he leaned out his cover and opened up with his rifle before taking cover again as bullets pinged off the side of the desk he was hiding behind. "I'm pinned down. Recker, do you still have your turret?"
"No, it was destroyed when we were securing the Base of Operations and they didn't have any replacements."
"Shit. Alright, I only got two left after this. Deploying Seeker." Henry said as he dropped the automated orb on the ground. The automation came to life with a beep and quickly shot off to attack it's target, rolling under and around desks and hospital beds. Just as Ada's pulse was starting to wear off, the Seeker Mine reached it's target and exploded, killing two of the four Rioters and wounding a third. "That got 'em. Let's wrap it up people."
"Roger." Ada said as she sighted in once more. To their surprise, the remaining Rioter quickly threw his pistol to the side and got up with his hands up while the three agents all pointed their weapons at him.
"Oh god, please don't shoot. We surrender." The man cried out. The three agents quickly glanced at each other and kept their weapons trained on the man.
"Get the other guy up then both of you keep your hands where I can see them." Henry called out them. The Rioter compiled despite the pained protests of the injured one not wanting to get up. Leaning the injured Rioter on one of the beds, they both raised their arms in surrender while Henry and Alex pushed up to them. As Henry searched them, Alex and Ada kept their aim on them. After removing any other weapons they had on them, Henry zipped tied the two a hospital bed and began treating the injured ones wounds.
"Do we have time for that?" Ada asked as she jogged over and saw what Henry was doing.
"We'll make time." He said as he quickly treating the wounds with the supplies nearby. "Are you two hurt?"
"No, we're fine. Thankfully, they weren't very good shots." Ada said looking over bloody corpses of the Rioters that were killed by the Seeker Mine. As Henry started cleaning last wound, their radios came to life once more.
"Kandel and her staff are still upstairs, stashed in the kitchen at Koby's." Faye said. Quickly bandaging the wound to make sure the person didn't bleed out, Henry stood up and headed to the exit at the side of the court. Finding an elevator sitting there waiting for them, they quickly piled in and took it up to the floor they needed. "To get to Koby's, you'll have to pass by some contaminated areas."
"Contaminated areas? What were they for?" Ada asked.
"There use to be plenty of sick people getting treated there, before they got shot. So, be careful." With that, the radio call ended.
"That doesn't sound good." The group pushed past the contaminated area soon found themselves at the door. Peeking through the windows on the door, they quickly saw a handful of Rioters waiting for them across the platform the gap by the kitchen. "And that doesn't look good."
"Spook, send out a pulse." Henry said. Ada did so and it revealed three Rioters standing guard by the medical staff. As they all walked around, the three agents quickly opened the door and slipped out to slide behind cover. "Pick your targets."
"Got mine."
"Target sighted in."
"On my mark. 3...2...1...mark!" On that command, the three of the fired, one bullet have some explosive results as it struck a propane tank. With the three Rioters down, the three agents heard a door open saw two more Rioters run out and opened fire. As the Rioter engaged the Division Agents, the medical staff ran out of the kitchen and over to the far wall to get out of the crossfire that had formed between the two factions. The firefight quickly ended, however, as the agents were quickly able to eliminate the two newcomers. Running over to the doors on the far side of the room, Henry quickly opened it as the Ada and Alex watched the other side of the room to make sure no more Rioters were coming. Once they were through, they were greet with the sight of Kandel and the medical staff hiding behind some of the chairs. "Doctor Kandel, I presume?"
"Yes, that's me." She said looking up at the agents.
"We're with the Strategic Homeland Division. We're here to get you get you out. There's a JTF team in the lobby waiting to bring you back to the Base of Operations. Once we're clear, head down and meet up with them." Kandel nodded and turned to the rest of her staff.
"Keep your heads down and keep it quiet!"
"Warning: Hostiles detected." ISAC notified the agents.
"We got incoming!" Alex called out as he took cover behind some seats while Ada took cover behind the box on the table. Rushing to cover, Henry watched as Ada sent out another pulse, showing four Rioters as they busted through a doorway on the other side of the restaurant. However, the agents were prepared and quickly put heat on them as the group ran around the bend. killing two before they could even knew what hit them. The last two were lucky enough to scramble to cover. Two more Rioters quickly ended the fray from the side door and tried to support the their allies. As the Rioters started firing back, the two with baseball bats tried to flank through the kitchen to get the drop on the agents but were noticed by the Ada as she was reloaded her submachine gun.
"We got two flanking through the kitchen." She said as she chambered a round.
"I got them." Henry turned as focused his aim at the kitchen door next to him. As soon as the Rioters ran out of the doorway, he opened up on them, their jackets and clothing offering no protection against the 5.56 rounds shoot by his rifle. "They're down. I'm flanking through the kitchen. Cover me."
"Copy." The other two turned their attention to the Rioters and fired at them whenever they tried to peek their heads out of cover. Making his way through the kitchen, Henry was able to line up a shot one of the Rioters and fired, killing the Rioter almost instantly. The remaining Rioters got startled by the death of his last surviving ally and jumped back with a scream, leaving him exposed to the combine fire of the other two agents. Sending a pulse out, they let out a breath of relief as it came up clear.
"We're all clear." Henry said as they jogged back to the medical staff. "Get downstairs and meet up with the JTF team." Henry said. "Oh, and Doctor Kandel, there are two Rioters downstairs on the basketball court zipped tied to a hospital bed. One of them is injured." Henry said.
"We'll grab them on our way out." Kandel said, knowing where the conversation was going. As the medical staff started heading out, their radios came to life once more.
"The escort party's taking heavy fire from the roof. They can't move until you get up there and take down that gunner." Faye told them. The radio then swapped over to the JTF radio as it crackled to life.
"We're pinned down. There's no way we'll make it across alive unless someone can get up there and take out the big guns." One of the JTF soldiers from earlier told them. Through the radio, they could hear the sounds of weapons fire in the background.
"All yours, agents." Faye simply said. The three nodded at each and ran toward the other side the room, following the navigational assist ISAC provide on their HUDs. Climbing up the ladder, they soon found themselves on the catwalks above the scoreboard. The path split two ways, hopefully reaching the same end point. With Alex going right and Ada and Henry going left, they made their around the catwalk, making sure no other surprises were waiting for them. Looking down, Ada and Henry saw Kandel and her staff assisting the two Rioters to their feet as they were headed out. Jogging to catch up with Alex, they regrouped at the ladder and one by one they went up the ladder. Once they were all up, the team of agent headed outside. "Alpha escort, we have agents on the roof. Has Kandel made it your position?"
"Affirmative. She and her staff just arrived. As soon as the hostiles on the roof are gone, we'll get her across safely." The JTF soldier said. As the group pushed forward, they saw an NYPD helicopter go by and hover over the roof. Rushing up the stairs and they took cover behind various objects. Once Ada pulse reached it's limit, it showed four Rioters, not including the man firing the LMG from the fair end of the roof as he was out of range.
"Let's make this quick." Alex said as he watched the helicopter start trailing smoke as it pulled away.
"Pick your targets." Henry ordered. Each of the agents quickly found their targets and called out they were ready. "Drop 'em." The three fired and three Rioters fell over dead. The last Rioter jumped in surprise and ran for cover but wasn't quick enough as the several bullets ripped through his backpack and detonated the grenades inside. The man with the LMG looked over and yelled something before heading jogging over the roof he was on to get to bed cover as the agents began firing at him, a few rounds managing to nick him or hit his body armor.
"We got more incoming." Alex yelled as she saw a door open. Ada immediately shifted her aim and saw three Bruisers rushing out the door and dropped the one leading the group. The Bruiser right behind him tripped over the body of the front while the last one jumped over the two fallen Bruisers, only to have his chest riddled with bullets. One last Bruiser exited at doorway and caught sight of what happened.
"Hutch, we need help down here!" The Bruiser yelled at the man above. The man got out his cover and began unloading the rest of his RPK magazines at the three agents, causing them to duck for cover. With the agents preoccupied, the Bruiser ran over and helped the downed one get up and into cover.
"Spread out!" Henry yelled as he bullets pinged off his cover. The other agents acknowledged the order and moved as Henry leaned out of his cover to lay down suppressive fire on Hutch. With Hutch effectively suppressed, one of the Bruiser tried to peek out to see where the agents were only to have a bullet go right through it. The last Bruiser cried out for his lost friend before something pinged off the railing by him and landed near by. Looking over, he let out one last curse before the grenade went off, killing him. With the last Bruiser dead, the agents thought they had finally caught a break until another door burst opened.
"Warning: Addition hostiles incoming." ISAC informed them as four Rioters ran out, firing their pistols and SMGs off in the agent's general direction, driving them to cover.
"You think, ISAC!" Henry yelled as he reloaded while taking cover. In that moment, Hutch took the opportunity to jump down from the roof to join the Rioters below. "Anyone got an angle?" Henry asked as Hutch opened up with his light machine gun once again.
"Yeah but I need you to cover me!" Ada yelled back.
"Got it! Recker, on my command. 3...2...1...Suppressing fire!" He shouted as he and Alex both stood up with their weapons switched to full auto, spraying bullets at the Rioters and claiming the life of one of them. Coming out of her cover, Ada sent out another pulse and lined her crosshairs up with the spot she knew where a Rioter would stick their head out and waited. When Alex and Henry went to reload, the Rioter tried to peek out to see if they were done, only to receive a bullet to the head, further dissuading the others from coming out.
"Last one. Grenade out!" Alex called as he toss the explosive. It land near two of the Rioters, causing them to run out of their cover and into line of fire, where they were quickly killed. Hutch let out a curse as he watched the last of his support get gunned down. Reloading his RPK, he braced himself against his cover and opened fire, nicking the sniper in his desperate spray of bullets, talking a bit of pleasure when he heard her cry out in pain.
"Ada, you okay?" Henry called out.
"Yeah, just a graze." She called back, clutching the wound.
"Getting really tired of this guy." Henry said as got a Seeker Mine out. "Seeker going out!" He said as he dropped the autonomous orb on the ground. With the Seeker on it's way, Henry fire a couple of quick burst at Hutch to distract him, hitting him in the shoulder and arm. That proved to be enough as the Seeker Mine reached him exploded, seriously injuring him and sent him out of his cover. As Hutch struggled to his feet, the three agents slowly approached the man with their weapons raised. Seeing the agents, he made a grab for his light machine gun only to find it had gotten to far away from him to reach. His last desperate gamble was trying to draw his pistol from his holster.
"Don't do it." Henry warned him. Hutch, however, didn't take the warning and tired firing the pistol but shot too high, missing the agents completely, and soon was riddled with bullet from the three agents. With smoke exiting the barrel, the agents kept an eye on Hutch to make sure he was actually dead. A nudging his leg with his foot and a subsequent pulse from Ada, the agents were able to let out a sigh of relief as they were finally clear. "All clear."
"Got the medics safely across. Kendal and all staff accounted for. No causalities." The JTF officer said cheerfully. A mission as successful as this would go a long way to boost the morale of the JTF and more importantly, bring the return something most people had lost; hope.
"We're off to a good start, agents, Wish I could have had your back out there, but I think we still make a hell of a team anyway. When you get back to the base, we'll talk to Kendal, and we'll see what she can do for us." Faye said over the radio. With that, Henry quickly patched up Ada's arm and the three agents happily headed for the exit, eager to get back to base and relax.
A/N
And that's a wrap. Thank you so much for being here. We finally have the first actual mission done and over with, leaving us with two more to go. Now here's what I want to know, what mission do you want to see next, Subway Morgue or Lincoln Tunnel Checkpoint? I want to hear from you.
Now for those that picked up on it earlier, I know I left out one bit of dialogue, that being Faye's line about the state of the event center and how she use to see games there with her father. While the line was part of this mission, I felt that it was bit too personal for Faye to say to people she doesn't really know that well. That being said, the line will still be said but it'll be during the Subway Morgue mission while she's talking on a private channel with Colin so yeah. Look forward to that I guess.
Anyways, thanks again and as always, have a great day.