Three others were with Red in the safe house at Fort Pewter. The entire city was encircled in a solid metal wall with open doors to both the south and the east. Guards constantly patrol the wall and certain points of the city. A second wall was based in the northwestern part of the city that was armed and patrolled to every square inch.
Beside Red in the room was a middle aged woman, black hair cut short. Her face gave nothing memorable and her body had shown she wasn't in shape. She was code named Boulder Bear. Next to her was someone with the code name Poison Vine. He was a tall and skinny blonde boy around Red's age with brown eyes. The last guy in the room was an older man with a nice smile on his face. Red was convinced the smile was a deception of some kind. He was code named Aging Rock.
Red caught Sergeant Boulder walking out of the heavily fortified part of the city. He walked towards them through a crowd that seemed to move about its day with their own responsibilities. He walked through the door of the safe house, closed the door, and turned his attention to the group.
"Ok guys, plan is fully in action. Bombs are placed in the corners and all doors are rigged to open at 7:01, precisely a minute after the bombs go off." Sergeant Boulder was pointing at different locations on the map. "Before we continue, a few warnings for this mission. One, if you slow down or stop to make any poetic speeches about standing up against tyranny, you will be shot. Everything will be chaotic and any sign that you were involved will get you killed. Two, do not attempt to save yourself by appealing to me. I won't go out of my way to shoot you but your mission does not outrank my cover. If I have to, I will shoot you where you stand. Three, when the doors open many of the Medelline operatives who were captured in Pewter will be released. From my understanding, these operatives were caught against the Viridian pact and if word gets out things will be messy. So my advice would be to avoid the convicts because their presence in Fort Pewter is top secret. Any questions?"
Sergeant Boulder rolled up the map. Aging Rock began to speak up, "Where will you be when all of this goes down? I would prefer to avoid people who will shoot me and you seem to have mentioned something about that." Aging Rock's smile tried to hide his true intentions. Red could hear the threat from Aging Rock as clear as day.
Sergeant Boulder gave him a serious stare for a quick second before giving him a similar smile. "I'll be front and center, don't you worry. If you don't see me, then you aren't following the plan." There was tension between the two men as they stared each other down. The contrast of the two men was apparent. One was a man of experience in battle yet little recognition of his years of experience. The other side was a younger man who climbed his way to the top quickly.
Poison Vine broke the tension to ask an important question that Red was also wondering. "How will we identify the commander of Fort Pewter?"
Sergeant Boulder and Aging Rock broke their stare to look at Poison Vine. "He is not hard to identify. But that isn't the problem." Sergeant Boulder cleared his throat. "The problem is finding him." All four of them looked at him weird. "What? He never makes public appearances and rarely makes appearances with military events. He has short spiky brown hair and is always squinting at people despite the fact that he is younger than me. The key is to draw him out with so much chaos coming from outside that he will have no choice to take charge."
"So how do we do that?" Red spoke up. "It would seem that even with all the chaos that would be happening, he still wouldn't show himself."
"That's where your wrong." Sergeant Boulder was grinning now. "With enough chaos created by everyone in this room, he will have to come out and take control."
"Whats the plan once we get in?" Boulder Bear finally broke her silence. Red was confused about the objective as well. The plan to get into the base was set, but Red was clueless as to what to do once there.
"Have any of you heard of Mercury Fulmate?" Nobody spoke up to Sergeant Boulder's question. "Of course not. Its a special chemical combination that was accidentally discovered by the Orian empire in the mines of Mt. Moon a few years back. It is only found in small doses yet is quite powerful. Fort Pewter is secretly developing a super weapon through this chemical combination."
"How powerful is this? And why haven't they already developed it?" Aging Rock had spoken up again. "I mean this is all concerning but it seems unlikely that they haven't already developed this weapon yet. I don't feel like dying just yet for something that hasn't happened."
Sergeant Boulder gave another harsh stare before continuing. "I know you haven't ever experienced this chemical combination, but I have. A combo the size of your hand can take out a full building. Small pebbles can blow a hole in large walls. And all it needs to explode is a sharp change of direction. So if someone were to throw it, or drop it, the second it hits something and stops it explodes. Luckily for us, combining a large enough dose for what they need is nearly impossible. Our job is to keep it that way. Any research you find must be destroyed at all cost. They may not be close to completing their task, but if we destroy their research, they may abandon the project all together." Sergeant Boulder stood up and walked back to the door. "This can be the first of many major blows against the Orian empire if we do this right. Be ready, the operation begins in two hours."
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