Infiltration
7:13PM
Paris, Sewer system
The clacking sound of Leon descending the ladder echoed through the circular sewers tunnels that were paved with stone. Leon jumped and landed knee deep in a murky, putrid water, his nostrils stung as he breathed in. It smelt appalling.
Leon snapped the light attached to his USP on, a narrow beam of milky yellow light danced along the walls. In one hand he gripped the gun and in the other he tightly held the black duffel bag containing all his stuff. He needed a place he could put this down and get ready; he scanned around and spotted a likely location. It was a small alcove carved into the wall.
He set his bag down and unzipped it; Leon took of his jacket and dumped into the bag. He donned a black Kevlar vest and black webbing over it. Leon armed himself with a black Colt M4A1 with M3 Tactical Illuminator, Aimpoint M-2 Red Dot Scope, and a Knights Flip down Rear Sight Leon pocketed a silencer for the M4 as well.
Along with the M4 he took out a dozen frag grenades, a black steel 8 inch long combat knife with a smooth edge, GPS navigation pad, extra clips for the M4 and USP and 6 M2 SLAM mines. The last thing he brought out was a black face mask, thigh holster for the USP and a pair of fingerless gloves.
He stuffed the bag into the alcove and made a quick note of were it was so he could grab when he came back. If he came back.
Leon slapped a clip into the M4 and racked a round into the chamber as he set down the tunnel. He spent at least thirty minutes running through knee-deep water searching for a door or something but his searching was coming up with nothing.
Just as Leon was about to retrace his steps he spotted a door, it was small and seemed to be part of the wall. He wouldn't have seen it if weren't for the grimy skull that was placed underneath a small sign with the words Denfert-Rochereau Ossuary carved in ornate writing The Empire of the Dead.
Leon had reached the Catacombs.
He placed his fingers inside the eyes of the skull and pulled it; the door gave way and opened outwards. Leon ducked into the entrance and found himself in the Sepulchral Lamp. Water dripped steadily down from the ceiling all around Leon, slowly forming stalactites on the ceiling, and slowly cementing all the bones together with a shiny glaze of limestone rock.
Pillars supported ceilings of pointy rock that dripped with water, the walls was pattern of skulls and bones from humans more bones lay in the corners of the room. A testament to the supremacy of Death. Leon stepped across the room with the M4 raised he swept the muzzle of the rifle around the room.
"He's down here, move," A frosty voice boomed.
"What the?" Leon stuttered. He turned to find 4 soldiers pound through the open door opposite Leon. They wore grey containment suits, full face gasmasks and grey helmets; they carried HK UMP45s with flashlights and double clips.
Umbrella Special Forces.
Leon opened up and poured 3 round bursts into the group; two of the assailants flailed their arms up and fell backwards. The other two separated and moved behind two pillars, Leon fired another couple of bursts at them and the bullet pockmarked the ancient stone.
They returned fire and forced Leon to find some cover of his own, a pile of bones. Bullets flew past his head.
"Move in and take him out," As they gingerly walked to Leon he rolled from his cover and landed on one knee. He put them down with a cascade of gunfire; he reloaded and scanned the room, Leon heard the patter of heavy footsteps and decided to go.
He ran the opposite way the goons came from and cleared several long dark hallways but he kept on running. As Leon ran he began to wonder what hole those goons had crawled out of, if there here then the facility must be close Leon thought.
Leon stopped then ran right back the way he came when he spotted another four soldiers barrelling around the corner. Leon slipped and as he did he managed to switch his M4 to full auto, he fell on his ass but he managed to swing his gun round to Spec-Ops soldiers as they sprinted for him.
He opened up and watched in satisfaction as the rounds tore through flesh and bone, gore splattered across the bone patterned wall. Leon got to his feet and ran away from the corpses he managed to find a hallway he hadn't used before. Leon sprinted down it and managed to grab a ragged breath, he stopped dead when he found a door on the side of the wall-open.
He was going to pass it up but was convinced when 4 more assailants opened fire on him and with no where to go he jumped into the darkness.
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"Sir zero-four-six is on the way. We will continue to pursue until you say so," The soldier spoke into the radio standing just were the man had jumped through the hole.
The radio hissed then a gruff unknown voice replied "Roger Delta team continue pursuit,"
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Leon gasped for air but only managed to swallow a load of dirty water; he flung his head up and pierced the surface of the water. He coughed up a pint of water and started to breath heavily. Once Leon had his breath back he looked around to find himself in a dimly lit underground hall with metre high water at the bottom and a single ladder leading up into darkness, above a grated catwalk dominated the ceiling.
"Were am I?" Leon muttered to himself.
He reached for his assault rifle only to find empty water, crap Leon thought. He unholstered his USP clicked on its light and started to get up and head for the ladder.
Leon ascended the stepladder and ended up on the start of the walkway he walked along it; squinting his eyes at the end he could see an opening- and 4 more of those soldiers pouring out. Christ were do they come.
There was no escape this time all they had to do was aim forward and shoot, Leon considered jumping over the side but realised he'd die just as quickly. What happened next surprised Leon, the soldiers just moved forward they didn't fire. However when Leon raised his pistol to put them down he was shot at but it wasn't meant to kill him.
They wanted him alive.
Leon wouldn't let them; he turned and ran back to the ladder. The soldiers behind him flicked on their lights which illuminated the wall in front of him and revealed another ladder leading up even more. He quickly moved up it.
Leon reached the end and found a manhole cover blocking his way, using his shoulder he cracked it open and popped his head through.
The room he saw looked like something out of an Umbrella lab, the concrete walls were painted with a dual strip of industrial orange around the middle it stopped by a door with the words B3. Leon pulled himself through and closed the manhole cover.
"Looks like I'm here" he muttered to himself.