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-Diamond Foxes Texas Base-

John rushed into the base with the silver flashdrive in hand to report his finding to Meryl, Rogue and the others. Even while John is wearing his cybernetic cyborg suit, which gives him enhanced strength and stamina, he felt winded and out of breath. Because when he successfully retrieved the flash drive from his now demented and psychotic father, he called for an extraction chopper out of Japan, but he did not wait in one particular location since he did not want to risk his father following or chasing him.

Once he called for an extraction he told the pilot that he would not be waiting at one spot. The pilot was to track John's movements and be at the extraction point at the right moment. Thankfully, he was. Because John made a mad dash and a dangerous jump from the edge of the country of Japan to the inside of the chopper. When John was safely inside the chopper, he checked himself to make sure he still had the flash drive that held important information that could help the fight against Gomez and the Vultures.

Thankfully, he still had it and he let out a huge sigh of relief as he headed back to the base. Which brings John to his present status of running through the base looking for Meryl, but as he was looking for her, he noticed that Diamond Foxes personnel are loading up every single piece of equipment into cargo trucks or large containers.

Curiosity was getting the better of him, so he walked up to one of the female soldiers and gently tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around to see who tapped her then saluted when she saw it was John. "Ma'am, why is the equipment being loaded up?" He asked her, trying to catch his breath. She turned her head for a moment before looking back at him to answer. "Commander Silverburgh gave the order to load up the equipment to move to our new base in the Seychelles. We were given new device's by the bases AI to clean up the bases rust and make it sturdy and strong again." She answered.

John gained a look of confusion, but also worry. "The AI? Is the Commander sure that she can trust it?" He asked. The female soldier nodded. "Yes, she's sure. The new recruit, Adam, seems to trust it. That and the AI hasn't given us any reason not to trust it, so, I honestly don't see a problem." She answered.

John thought for a moment then nodded before he turned around to continue looking for Meryl. It wasn't long before he bumped into Carla. Not the person he was looking for, but she's part of their small group, so he'll take it.

"Whoa. John, where are you going in such a rush?" Carla asked him. John to a another moment to catch his breath before he answered. "We have to find Meryl. I completed my mission in Japan, but not without some trouble." He said before continuing. "I found this flash drive where Dr. Madnar was killed, but I wasn't the only one looking for it." He told her while holding the flash drive in his hand.

Carla looked at it before looking at him. "What's on it? Do you know?" She asked him, but John shook his head. "No. That's why I have to find Meryl and the others. We have to find out what's on it before we make any type of move against Gomez and the Vultures." He said to her. Carla nodded her before turning around to lead him to Meryl.

With Phantom at the mansion in Germany...

Phantom patiently rode the elevator down to the mansions lower levels before it suddenly stopped with a gentle jerk. Phantom readied his primary weapon and waited for the elevator door to open.

When it did, he was welcomed to a disturbing and gruesome sight.

The lights were still functioning, but it didn't change the fact that the floor, the walls and the ceiling had blood splattered all over the place. There were a few scientists lying on the floor with their bodies torn apart or in half. There was one scientist that had her hand reaching out for the button to call the elevator, but whatever got to her ripped open her back and yanked out her spine. The look on her face just screamed that she died painfully.

Phantom tried to keep himself from vomiting, but it didn't help the fact that he felt sick to his stomach. Before he walked anywhere else, he closed his eyes and took in a few deep breaths to calm himself, but the smell wasn't exactly helping. It smelled like a slaughterhouse.

He shook his head and quietly coughed before looking back at the scene before him. "If this doesn't give you Resident Evil vibes, I don't know what will." He thought before checking the magazine for his primary weapon then his secondary. When he saw that they were both good on ammo, he started to walk, but each step he took was a little slippery.

After walking through the first door of the lower levels he shook his head when he was greeted to another gruesome sight. This one looked worse than the last. "Jesus. What could've done this and is it even still down here?" He thought to himself as he continued to walk.

After walking for several minutes and finding a stairway that lead further down into this laboratory, the lights flickered before they suddenly went out, leaving Phantom in the dark.

"Shit." He thought before he turned on the flashlight that was strapped to his belt before putting on his Night Vision Goggles. He then pulled out his iDroid to look at the map of the lab before he made another move. "Ok, Silent Phoenix is another couple floors down below me. I better get moving. Whatever's down here I do NOT want to encounter it. I'm not in the mood to fight any science lab monsters today. I'd take the Fenrir Combat Unit for all I care." He thought as he put the iDroid away and continued walking.

Minutes later...

After walking down a couple of floors to where Silent Phoenix is supposedly being held, Phantom walked through another door...

RAWRRR!!!

Phantom crouched down with his primary at the ready and remained silent after he heard the roars coming from all directions. He looked in all directions to see and hear if anything was coming towards him. Thankfully, nothing tried to charge him... yet. He quietly stood back up and pulled his iDroid back out to take a glance at it. He saw that he wasn't too far from Silent Phoenix's location. "Ok, just a little farther now. Then I can grab Phonix, call for an extraction and get the hell out of here. I'm not in the mood to be in a horror movie setting tonight." He thought as he put the iDroid away and continued walking in the direction he was supposed to go.

Little did he know, in the distance, in the corners of the lab, there were figures hiding in the dark. All were gritting and grinding their teeth before one of them whispered in a raspy voice. "Ad... A... Adam..." The creature spoke as Phantom slowly and quietly walked away. The creatures then back away further into the dark to continue watching their prey.

10 minutes later...

Phantom walked into a room that was leading to the area where Silent Phoenix was being held, but something was strange. This room was the only area in the entire laboratory that had guards. The rest of the lab that Phantom had walked through had staff and personnel that were scientists, but this small particular area of the lab had enemy guards. And it looked like they were trying to cover the entrance to Phoenix's holding cell. Phantom them looked to his left and noticed one enemy sentry with a blinking red light on him.

Phantom narrowed his eyes. "Was this guy recording?" He wondered as he walked over to the corpse and lifted up the bodies left wrist then pressed a button on, what looked like, a watch to stop the recording. He then pressed another button to eject a disk that popped out of the soldiers utility belt. He picked up the disk and put it inside his own utility belt to look at later. "This can wait. I have to get moving." He thought as he walked over to the door leading to Silent Phoenix.

He quietly and slowly turned the doorknob before opening then silently walked in.

He saw multiple holding cells when he walked in, and the majority of them looked empty, but he could just barely hear someone breathing slowly in the distance. Phantom began his search for Phoenix as he slowly walked and thoroughly checked the cells. Six of the holding cells he passed were all empty until he reached the 7th holding cell.

He saw someone with long black hair lying down on the floor with their hands tied behind their back. And their breathing was slow and quiet. He looked at the way he came in from to make sure no one, or nothing, had followed him. When he was sure nothing was there, he took a step near the cell and tapped one of the cell bars with the barrel of his primary weapon. "Phoenix? Silent Phoenix, can you hear me?" He whispered, but he got no answer.

He crouched down and took out his lock pick tools so he could pick the lock and get her out, but stopped.

To his left, he could hear heavy but quiet breathing along with a few snarls. He turned his head and looked to his left to see multiple figures with glowing pale green eyes standing in the doorway he came in from. "Damn..." he thought as he slowly stood up and back away from the cell slowly. Some of the figures hissed and made to move into the room, but stopped when the small petite figure in the front put its hand up to stop them.

Phantom stared at them with his amber yellow eyes and they with their pale green eyes. "Damn it, are they Skulls? What the hell are they doing attacking their own men?" He wondered as the one Skull in the front took a step forward into what little light that was in the room.

Seeing the features of the Skull in the front made Phantom widen his eyes in shock and despair. "Oh, my god..." he whispered with sorrow.

With John...

"Sunny, I don't mean to rush you, but what's taking so long?" John asked as Sunny was typing in codes to look at what is in the flash drive he recovered. Sunny sighed while she continued to type. "This flash drive has so much security and firewalls on it it's ridiculous. Whatever Dr. Madnar found, he obviously didn't want to hack into it so easy. He was going to make them work for it, just like I'm doing now. So just be a little more patient would you, John?" She said to him as he paced back and forth nervously.

Meryl looked at him and stopped him in his tracks making him look at her. "John? Take a deep breath, ok? Breathe in then out." She instructed him as he did so.

He did it a few more times until he stopped, then looked at her. She smiled. "Better?" She asked. He nodded. "Yeah, much better." He answered.

"Got something! But it's not much right now." Sunny yelled with excitement as she looked at the screen. What she found made her eyes widen and cover her mouth in shock. She turned and looked at Meryl. "Meryl? You need to look at this." She said trembling. Meryl and John walked over as Sunny got up and walked away from the screen making Carla walk over to comfort her.

Meryl and John's eyes were next to widen in shock. The information they were now looking at made them sick and want to vomit. "Meryl, where the hell is Adam?" John asked urgently making Meryl look at him with fear.

"Germany."

With Phantom...

"Ad... Adaaam..." The female Skull hissed as it slowly walked towards him.

His body trembled as tears built up in his eyes. One of the Skulls standing before him was...

"Lynn...?"