Chapter 10: Time Is of The Essence:
The Rebels still on top ground weren't easy to take down since they seemed eager to play hid and seek with the Fed soldiers. Riku and his team were able to take out half of them while Sora and the rest took out the remaining Rebel soldiers. Then 2 Federation battalions covered the entrances underground, while everyone else headed down underground to take out the remaining rebel soldiers and destroy the bases ion cannon controls.
Only 20 minutes under the base, then everyone heard the worst thing they could hear over the com radios. It was this, "This is the Flagship U.S.S Norad, to all Earth Federation soldiers, you guys have 30 minutes to take that ion cannon out or were going to have to send in the U.S.S Venture, (Frigate Class) and taking it out by heavy force, repeat you have 30 minutes," and then the submission ended.
"What, that sucks then!" Sora heard one of the ensigns in Riku's Battalion say.
"I know, but we have our orders, so let's take those ion cannon out or were going to have more trouble on our hands," Riku told his battalion and Sora.
"Yes, sir!" his team answered.
"Got it," Sora said with a grim voice.
"Then let's move out!" Riku told his team as they began to walk off.
As Sora walked all he could think about was this one sentence in his mind over and over, "You have 30 minutes".
They walked for 5 minutes, through the halls, when all of a sudden someone yelled get down, and then the next thing anyone knew several laser blasts fired through the air, causing everyone to drop to the ground for cover behind some boxes nearby.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Riku yelled as he dropped flat on to the ground.
Sora slowly lifted his head to see a laser machine gun and 4 soldiers. (2 were manning and loading it, while the other two seemed to be there for cover fire)
"CRAP WE GOT A PROBLEM!" Sora yelled to Riku.
"WHAT IS IT?" Riku asked.
"WE HAVE 2 SOLDIERS MANNING A MACHINE GUN, AND TWO MORE FOR GOOD MEASURE!" Sora answered.
"DAMN IT, WE DON'T NEED THIS TYPE OF PROBLEM RIGHT NOW!" Riku yelled.
"YOU TWO, USE YOUR GRENADES AND TAKE THOSE BASTARDS OUT!" Riku ordered, two ensigns.
"YES, SIR!" The two ensigns answered.
The laser fire was so loud that you had to yell in order to talk to each other.
The two ensigns got their grenades and threw it at 4 soldiers causing 2 of them to fly over the laser machine gun, and the other two were blown to bits.
After that everyone got up and went over to the remains of the blast from the grenades.
"Let's keep moving people," Riku told his team. The team and Sora then walked down the hallway, turning a couple of corners. They then ran into a hallway with several doors.
"So, which door to choose?" Sora asked Riku.
"Well, we will have to go by order then," Riku suggested.
The first door they opened was a janitor closet. The second door turned out to be a sleep quarters area. (It was empty though) The third door was a room filled with rebel weapons, but no ammo. Then the team approached the fourth and last door in the hallway.
"So, this is it, you guys ready?" Riku asked as he began to push buttons on the wall to open the door.
"Ready!" They answered.
Riku then pushed the last button and the door slip open. What was in it was a hallway, but this one had no doors in it. The group slowly walked into it and there they turn a corner. They run right into another fed battalion an almost shoots them.
"HEY WATCH WHERE YOU POINT THAT THING! YOU ALMOST SHOT ME!" Riku yelled to the second lieutenant.
"Hey it's not my fault we ran into you ok, so stop shouting," the second lieutenant said back.
Then the two joined up and turned around to continue walking down the other hallway.
They approached a door and was about to open it when they could hear people talking inside. 3 ensigns slowly approached the door and began to place charges near the door and then they slowly backed up. The 3 then got ready and got to position around the door.
"You ready?" Riku asked the second lieutenant.
"Ready as ever," the commanding officer said back.
"K then let's blows that door and those soldiers behind it to bits!" Riku ordered.
"Aye sir!" the private with the bomb detonator said.
Then he pushed the trigger and detonated the bomb. There was a huge explosion and the group could hear the yells of several soldiers as they were stabbed by several bits of the bomb and wall fragments.
"MOVE IN!" Riku yelled as he stood up and charged into the now devastated room with his M2 rifle. Sora and the others followed in with their rifles ready to kill as well. The room was large and there were 1 door on all sides of the room (except for the one they destroyed). There were 8 dead soldiers on the floor.
"No survivors," Sora said to Riku.
"Good, now let's check these doors out," Riku said to 2 privates.
"Sir, yes sir!" they said back and headed toward the doors (each taking their own) and began to listen for any sounds on the other side.
"Any thing?" Riku asked them.
"Nothing," one of the privates said.
"I don't hear anythi-, wait I hear something," the private said.
"What is it?" Riku asked.
"Sounds like footsteps or," the ensign was then cut off in speech when the door opened and knocked to the ground.
In the door way was a rebel soldier holding a cup of coffee, with what seemed like a laser rifle strapped over his shoulder.
When he looked up from his cup and saw the federation attack group he quickly dropped his cup and tried to grab his laser rifle. While the Riku's attack group was still staring in dismay. The soldier then began to move backwards and then he yelled, "ALARM, ALARM!"
Before he could pull his rifle's trigger or even move his feet anymore back he was shot in the head by Riku's and Sora's laser pistols. The soldier slowly fell back and landed on to the floor, while his body began to soak in his blood.
"Keep on your feet people or that uniform will be the last thing you will ever see here," Riku told his group.
Though they were still dismayed and a little freaked by what just happen, they finally got their act together and answered back, "Sir, yes sir".
"Uh huh, then lets move out double time," Riku told them.
"Theirs bound to be more ahead, their is probably a cafeteria nearby too," Sora told them as he looked down at the rebel soldier's cup of coffee.
"You heard him so keep up and on your feet alright?" Riku told his unit.
"Sir, yes sir!" the 11 privates said back.
"Then let's move out!" Riku told them, and they all headed down the hall and toward the enemy cafeteria.
As they passed by a corner their was a panel that showed the whole bases map on it.
"Hey Sora what do you make of this?" Riku asked Sora.
"Looks like a map that shows the whole base," Sora answered.
"Not that you ignorant stick in the mud, I mean that thing," Riku said as he pointed to a large room on the map that was next to the room that was labeled ion cannon control room.
"It seems to be a cafeteria, maybe the same on that the rebel soldier came from," Sora answered.
"Then it looks like we have to fight our way pass the cafeteria to get to the control room," Riku said.
"Looks like it," Sora said back.
"Then let's move out!" Riku yelled and he, Sora, and the group headed off down the hall.
They slowly began to turn a corner and they saw the revolving doors off the cafeteria. Riku did a hand signal that told the ensigns to head close to the door, but not enter it. Then Riku told Sora and the commanding officer, "Both teams will go in first and provide cover fire while we move to the other side and take out the controls of that ion cannon got it?"
"Yeah," Sora said as he began to load his assault rifle to full.
"You?" Riku asked the second lieutenant.
"I'm ready as ever," he told Riku.
"Then let's go kick some ass!" Riku told the others.