Martin Mystery: New Allies
By: Ominae
Rating: PG-13
NOTE:
All characters of Martin Mystery are under the copyright of Marathon; Yu Ominae is a copyright of Striker/Spriggan; John Vattic is a copyright of Codemasters and Free Radical. The character Mark Sy is under my jurisdiction and some parts of his life are based from my experience. The character Patrick Chan is also under my jurisdiction.
Previously:
With the discovery of recent, but strange activity in the province of Pampanga, the task force was deployed to the province in order to uncover any sign of the Berserker, as well as to apprehend the notorious Gio Valdez, leader of a psychic terrorist group. Will they be able to succeed? Will they be able to save the Philippines and the world from total anarchy? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.
Chapter 8: Infiltration gone wrong
50 meters near excavation site, somewhere in Pampanga, Philippines -10:10 A.M.
Mark, Yu and Patrick were near the trunk of the Range Rover SUV, unpacking the duffel bags with parts that appeared to be for firearms with slings. Martin, Diana and Java were near a ditch, making plans on approaching the situation while John leaned near the vehicle, holstering his Taurus PT92 pistol into his Morane Consult Concealed Holster. Mark, Yu and Patrick were now wearing ARCAM's Armored Muscle suits with its gloves and they were wearing UTG Deluxe Tactical Quick Draw Vests over their suits. Mark had a Philippine Army DPM BDU, with a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) Sakura beret placed under the BDU's shoulder epaulet cloth, worn over his Armored Muscle Suit. He also took out the headset that M.O.M. gave to him the other day from the duffel bag and mounted it on his right ear with its mic flipped up for the purpose of portability. Yu took out his dual arm bands with wire anchors and clipped them on his arms with ease.
Patrick unzipped one of the duffel bags and handed to each of the ARCAM agents an Alinco DJ S40 radio extender and he handed a Tactical Command Industries Inc. (TCI) Special Air Service (SAS) Tactical Headset while he took another for himself before he clipped two British-made L64A1 smoke grenade and American-made M67 frag grenades to his vest, as well as handing the two same grenade types to Yu and Mark. Mark, for the meantime, simply clipped a wire that lead to his Alinco DJ S40 radio extender to his headset; it was specially modified that the headset M.O.M. gave him would also be compatible with most radio extender models. The three agents clipped the radios on their pistol belts and attached their Tactical Headsets (With the exception of Mark for obvious reasons) on their necks before resuming their works. Martin, Diana and Java simply looked at the three with awe as they never expected that they would receive help in the forms of automatic firearms or martial arts. John simply laughed under his breath while he observed the two teenagers and the caveman.
Mark got the Kydex Nylon Black Military sheath of the Fairbarn and Sykes Commando Pattern 1 Knife with its Omihalcon blade before he clipped it on the pistol belt. Yu did likewise when he took his customized Omihalcon combat knife with knuckle guards, but he slipped it on his waist and placed it on his pistol belt.
After assembling the various firearm components and slings, Mark checked his Howa Type 89 assault rifle chambered in 5.56 x 45 mm NATO caliber and slapped a 30-round magazine before he slinged it on his back and holstered a Sig Sauer SP 2002 pistol, his backup pistol,in his vest since his FN Five-Seven pistol was not available for the duration of the mission due to ammo problems, particularly in the procurement of 5.7 x 28 mm SS190 bullets. Yu did likewise with his Heckler and Koch G3A3 assault rifle and loaded a 20-round magazine before he slinged it on his shoulder and holstered his Sig Sauer P226 pistol while Patrick had a Norinco QBZ-97/Type 97 assault rifle, chambered in 5.56 x 45 mm NATO caliber since it was an export version of the QBZ-95/Type 95 rifle; he slapped a 30-round magazine to the weapon itself with his CZ-UB 100 pistol in his vest. Before they trekked off to Martin and Diana's location, Mark and Yu had a curious look at Patrick's weapon before walking off,
"Something wrong guys?"
Mark and Yu turned around and replied to Patrick's query with a 'no' by shaking their heads left and right. But secretly, the two were wondering about his choice for his weapon.
"Commie lover!" thought Mark.
"Weird choice!" thought Yu.
When the entire team was near Martin and Diana's position, Martin suggested that they should head to the site of the excavation site. Everyone nodded in agreement. Yu and Patrick took front point and lead the team while they aimed their weapons at anything suspicious. Martin, Diana and Java were behind them. Taking up the rear was John and Mark, who had their weapons drawn out as they slowed walked towards the former excavation site.
Former excavation site, somewhere in Pampanga, Philippines - 10:30 A.M.
"That's strange. There's seems to be some activity going on here." Yu placed his Heckler and Koch G3A3 up his shoulder while he used his hand to check the ground for signs of footprints.
"Martin! I found some slime!" yelled Diana as she urged Martin to approach her. Mark and John came along while the others continued to comb the area.
"WOW! WHITE SLIME!" Martin began to appear cheerful as he reached his hand out to touch it before he felt a boot hit on his face.
PAK!
"Ow! That hurt!" shouted Martin. He kept rubbing his cheek since it had a boot mark on it.
"MARTIN! THERE'S NO TIME TO GOOF AROUND!" shouted Mark as his ear.
"It's best if you collect the sample instead of touching it." added John in agreement.
Martin began to feel grumpy as he activated his U-Watch for the Slime Scanner. He took up a scooper and got some of the white sample and replaced it back in the Slime Scanner with an automated reply:
"Analysis inconclusive. Slime is of unknown substance."
"That's strange. Better ask Billy to take care of it." said Martin while fumbling over the findings of the Slime Scanner.
"Hey guys!"
Martin, Diana, John and Mark were shocked when Billy shouted from behind.
"Billy!" screamed Martin. "You've got to stop doing that one of these days."
"Besides, are you out to give us heart attacks before the end of the mission?" commented Mark.
"Er.." Billy began to blush over his mistake. "Sorry guys! Won't happen again!"
"It better." Martin thought before he scooped up some of white sample and handed it to Billy, who had a microscope slide on his hand, "Here Billy, can you analyze this for us? The scanner can't seem to work on it." He then slowly placed the white slime on the microscope slide.
"Sure Martin. I'll take care of it." A portal then appeared behind Billy before saying good bye, "Good luck guys!"
"Guys! Over here! I found something." yelled Patrick. Moments later, everyone began to jog near Patrick as he pointed out the strange footprint patterns on the mud.
"There were human tracks and the tracks of a strange being. Most likely the Berserker. They can't be far." Patrick pointed with his index finger the direction to where the footprints went to.
"Okay peeps." Martin rocked his head left to right before walking to the footrprint's direction. "We've got a country to save." The others followed suit and walked behind him.
Near outskirts of unknown cave, Pampanga, Philippines - 11:15 A.M.
"Man, how long is this trek?" Martin began to pant under his breath while on the earth.
"Stop complaining Martin! You're the one who told us to trek forward." replied Yu as he marched forward while pointing his Heckler and Koch G3A3 rifle forward. Java came along beside him.
"Yea. Besides, you can't stay tired now." Patrick slinged his Norinco QBZ-97 rifle on his shoulders while Mark shouldered his Howa Type 89 rifle while lifting Martin up their shoulder. "Crap! He's kinda heavy for a typical 17-year old." thought Mark while he helped Martin up his feet.
"Thanks guys." Martin brushed himself of dirt from his clothes. John and Diana were walking nearby the three youngsters while the two were striking up a conversation.
"Hey John, I'm wondering if we'll get through this, one way or another." John looked at Diana and saw that she was nervous.
"Don't worry Diana". He placed an assuring hand on her shoulder. "We'll get through this."
"I hope so." Diana smiled at John while she jogged to join Martin and the others.
"Quiet guys! I think I see some activity ahead." whispered Mark as he gestured to the others to come along beside him.
"What is it, Mark?" asked Martin when he was beside him in a whisper.
"Don't know yet." Mark turned to Yu, who was crouching behind him. "You got binoculars?"
"Yea." replied Yu's whisper. He handed it to him when he unzipped his vest to get it from his inner vest pocket.
"Thanks." Mark took the binoculars and peered at the cave entrance and noticed the Berserker, with its mini-cannon at work on some corpses. Suddenly, the cannon came to life as a blue and yellow laser emitted from it onto the corpses and from a science fiction movie, the corpses came to life and walked slowly towards the cave entrance in a civilized manner, but not before grabbing some weapons on a crate near the Berserker. Two of the former corpses guarded the cave entrance while the others went inside with the Berserker following behind.
"My god!" Diana was shocked to see what took place, but it had already happened.
"Heh!" Mark chuckled under his breath. "Smart zombies."
"What?" asked Diana.
"They're like the ones I fought in India." said Yu. "They're quite similar to cannibal zombies, but these are created through the works of science."
"Looks like we can kill them like the ones that we see in the movies." joked Patrick.
"But who's going to disable them?" asked John..
"I have a plan..." said Martin while the group congregated their plans to assault the cave and hopefully, end the madness.
As the two smart zombies were cradling Colt M-16A1 assault rifles on their hands, they failed to notice someone dashing near them and in a matter of minutes, a fist came crashing down on one of the zombie's decomposing head, smashing it completely with blood and guts flying out from it.
The other smart zombie noticed the figure and raised his Colt M-16A1 automatic rifle, but another figure came around and its head was impaled by a sudden and quick thrust from a quarterstaff to the head. The second figure then collapsed on the brown earth and later, figures emerged out of the forest and ran to the cave entrance. They can only watch Martin and Mark admire their handiwork on the smart zombies. Diana became a little nervous when she saw Mark's fist with blood while he clenched it.
"Sweet!" whistled Patrick.
"What now?" asked Java.
"Martin, better check on the Legendex on the Berserker." blurted Diana immediately.
"Right!" Martin activated his U-Watch and selected the Legendex.
U-Watch activated. Legendex selected. The Legendex hologram soon appeared in front of Martin; he navigated through the Legendex directory while Mark, John, Patrick and Yu chose to guard the rest. Martin was able to find some information on the Berserker and informed the others on his find.
"It said that the creation of the Berserker dates back from an ancient advanced civilization. The Berserkers were robots, created to be a mindless, killing machine whenever it would be activated unless someone had the controls of the transponder." Martin pressed his finger on the hologram and it showed the image of a transponder with a red button in the middle. "It looks old, but that thing is said to be the one that works the thing. Now as I was saying, there were two types of Berserker. The one that Yu and the Strikers have fought were from that civilization and the other..." Martin sighed before resuming his speech, "appears to be from another planet, created from the same technology. Also, the Berserker has the ability to regenerate any lost tissue that may be acquired from fighting its so-called enemies."
Diana was overwhelmed with the information that Martin had divulged, but Patrick replied to Martin with some blunt, "If this is true, then we can defeat it with the same techniques that we Strikers have went through."
"What do you mean?" replied Martin as he turned off his Legendex hologram.
"I mean the Berserker has a self-destruct device built in it. If we can lob off its head with any kind of sharp weapon, it'll blow up in a matter of seconds." commented Patrick.
"You wouldn't want to wait for that thing to blow up on your face." chuckled Yu as he checked the now dead corpses of the smart zombies while kicking the weapons away from their hands.
"What we do now?" inquired Java, who was scratching his head.
"We better head in now. Wait, let me contact M.O.M." Mark flipped down the headset's mic close to his mouth before he started communication. "Mark to M.O.M, Mark to M.O.M., come in please."
"M.O.M. here. What's your status?"
"We just had our first clash with super zombies. It seemed that the mini-cannon on the Berserker was meant to create an army of mindless soldiers, like the ones that Yu and I fought in India."
"I see. What's your next course of action?"
"We're going in. I believe that Gio's inside the cave with his men."
"All right. Good luck to all of you, agents. M.O.M. out."
"Mark out." He flipped up the headset's mic up before facing the others behind him.
"We better head inside before it's too late." suggested Martin while making fancy martial art moves with his quarterstaff.
"I agree." added Patrick while he unslinged his Norinco QBZ-97 rifle.
"I'm ready." commented John with his Taurus PT92 pistol on his hand.
"Mark..." Diana placed her hand on his shoulder, "We have to stop these terrorists before it's too late."
"Java ready to help." said Java while flexing his muscles.
"When's the action?" asked Yu while he unslinged his Heckler and Koch G3A3 rifle.
"Thanks guys." Mark took out his black balaclava and wore it over his head and he took his JGSDF Sakura beret from the BDU lapel before he wore it on his head as well. He unslinged his Howa Type 89 rifle on his hands before he replied to their queries with a grin, "Let's go and get those psychos."
Since there was some light inside the cave, Mark and the other ARCAM agents did not equip their rifles with mounted torches. Mark lead the way, followed by Yu and Patrick. Martin, Diana and Java followed behind with John and Patrick securing the rear as the team when in silently without making any kind of noise that would arouse any attention to their presence.
Inside cave, somewhere in Pampanga, Philippines - 11:30 A.M.
There was certainly some kind of strange activity going on deep inside the cave. Martin and others were able to sneak inside without gaining the attention of the guards. They took cover behind some rocks while they saw some startling activity inside the cave.
A team of psychic soldiers, who were wearing SF-10 Avon Gas Masks with black jumpsuits, boots and gloves. They were armed with Beretta AR 70/90 assault rifles, chambered in 5.56 x 45 mm NATO caliber, were guiding smart zombies in excavating major parts of the cave. The Berserker was nowhere to be seen though. This made Martin clueless to what was going on right now since there was a lot of machines placed near the middle of the cave.
"How'd they get such good weapons these days?" whispered Martin in awe.
"From his drug business. Where else?" answered Mark. He recalled their debriefing from the Center a few days ago since it was explictly mentioned that Gio hada drug business in order to purchase advanced weapons for his men.
"What's our next step?" asked Patrick.
"I'm kinda scared." said Diana.
"I think we should..." Martin accidentally kicked a small pebble on the ground that made a light sound to some machinery equipment. Minutes later, swarms of smart zombies and psychic soldiers swarmed on their position, pointing their automatic weapons at their hiding place. "Damn!"
"All right!" said a gruff voice. "We know you're in there. Come on out."
Instantly, the team rushed out to their hiding position with their weapons at the ready, with the exception of Diana and Java since they went into their unarmed combat stances. They forgot that they're facing an overwhelming number with a lot of smart zombies and psychic solders with guns aimed at their chests, in which not one of them may come back alive. The backs of each team member were facing one another as they were cornered everywhere else.
"Martin! This is all your fault!" yelled Diana at Martin's ear.
"Martin blew chance to solve mystery." added Java.
"Heh! The Center should have sent you back to infiltration school." chuckled John.
"Yea, yea! Whatever!" said Martin sarcastically as he swiftly used his X-Staff and made a pose from Jackie Chan's "The Drunken Master" (A/n: Think of the restaurant scene where he used bamboo sticks like a big staff. )
"What now, genius?" asked Yu sarcastically in reference to Martin's reply with his Heckler and Koch G3A3 rifle at the ready.
"Looks like we're outnumbered." commented Patrick as he aims his Norinco QBZ-97 rifle.
Mark raised his Howa Type 89 rifle at one of the smart zombies, closed his eyes briefly, then he opened them and said, "Well... if we have to fight these faggots, then..." He hesitated for a few minutes before he said, "I'M WILLING TO GO DOWN FIGHTING!".
As the others got ready to engage the overwhelming bad guys, Mark had his back against Yu's while he placed his index finger on the Howa Type 89's trigger. He closed his eyes and depressed the rifle's plastic trigger. Then...
PS
1. Got the reference on how the psychic soldiers look like? CLUE: From two games, one from Konami and other from Codemasters.
2. Did you know the reference on the smart zombies? CLUE: It's from a manga. Look at my NOTE above. HE HE! ;)
3. The appearance of Mark Sy wearing a beret and a black balaclava with a military BDU on is a homage to the Ocelot Unit in Metal Gear Solid 3.
That's it. My first references implanted in a fanfic. Enjoy!
Chapter 8 END