Hellsing: Battlefront

Chapter eleven: Search and Rescue

Location: Airspace twenty miles outside Munich

Time: 20:00 hours

John and the rest of the rescue squad sat in the C-130 transport plane, waiting for the signal to Para drop. John scanned the rest of his squad sitting with him. His squad consisted of three vampires. The first one, a man from America, named Shawn Douglas. He was the heart and soul of the squad. His arsenal included a variety of grenades, an automatic pistol, two SMGs, a backpack of explosives, and the standard M16. The second one, Mui Nilsson, born and raised in Japan, was the more serious one of the squad. Armed with the M16, a handful of grenades, and a combat knife, she stuck right to the book. And lastly, Joseph Daganov, born and raised in Russia was a ruthless killer. Armed with his own personal sniper rifle, modified it himself, two SMGs, and a missile launcher, just a bit larger then the standard one though.

John looked from his squad down to his new PDA that he was issued. The PDA gave him a personal link with an advisor that he chose himself. An English girl named Sarah. The PDA gave him any Intel that Sarah found for him. And it played MP3s, with a little modification of course.

"John? You ready?"

"You know it."

"What about you Shawn?"

"Huh? What? Oh sorry, I was taking a nap."

"Mui?"

"Ready as I'll ever be."

"Joseph?"

"Point me at the enemy, and stay out of my way."

"Right. Listen we don't want too much destruction now."

"Alright, I'll try and limit myself."

"Remember Joseph, this is a Covert Op, nothing too big okay?"

"Yes sir."

"We're two minutes from the DZ, get prepped back there." Said the pilot over the COM.

"Roger." Replied John, "Weapons check."

The team went through their equipment, checking that nothing was clogged, broken, or strapped down tight enough.

John got up and went over to the door control, "Tell me when pilot."

"We're coming in low and fast, don't break anything when you hit the dirt."

"We won't, permanently."

"Open the door."

John grabbed the leaver, and pushed it down. The rear hatch of the plane opened up. Two red klaxon lights began to strobe, and the warning siren blared. John signaled for the rest of his team to stand up and take their positions at the exit ramp. He held up his hand and began a count down. Five…four…three…two…one, and they leaped simultaneously down to the forest below them. Behind them the plane closed its hatch and arched up and away from the DZ. John brought his arms up to his face as the treetops rapidly came closer. Although he leapt forward, the velocity from the plane kept him going backwards. So when the tree branches came whipping by him, he clenched his teeth and prepared for a rough landing. Which came sooner than he thought as he slammed into a tree trunk. This knocked the wind out of him, what good that did. He slowly began sliding down the trunk, and touched the ground softly. He looked back up at where he hit the tree, and saw a fairly large dent in the trunk. He was about to walk off to the rendezvous point when the tree he happen to 'land' in, started to groan loudly, and fall backwards. John looked back and grinned slightly as the tree fell with a mighty crash. "Whoopsie." He mumbled to himself. He began running toward the rendezvous point.

It was several minutes before he arrived. Thanks to his military training, he had his rifle out and ready. He heard a slight rustle in the bushes, "Flash." He whispered.

"Thunder." Came the gruff reply shortly after. Joseph stepped from the bushes, along with Mui and Shawn.

"What took you?" asked Shawn.

"Ran into an old friend."

"Ran into a tree didn't you?"

"You might say that."

"Where do we go from here?" Asked Joseph.

"We head to Munich, capture a high ranking officer there, interrogate him, kill him, and rescue the POWs."

"That's all?"

"That's the short version. The problem is that we have to do this without being caught, and leave the city as quickly as we came. Which shouldn't be too hard."

"Well duh, we are vampires."

Mui punched him in the arm, "Shut it, and let John finish."

"Like I said, this is Millennium we're dealing with here. We still haven't had to deal with and lychens yet. As far as intelligence goes, there's only one of them."

"And he's the Major's personal messenger."

"Right. So we have little Intel on what's going on in there, but all we need to do is rescue some POWS." Said Shawn

"Correct."

"Sounds easy enough. Its only man made vampires anyway."

"Enough talk, we're wasting time as it is." John began sprinting as fast as his legs could allow him toward Munich, with the rest of his squad on his heels.

It was shortly after when they reached Munich. They had taken to the rooftops, leaping from one roof to the next, being as quiet as possible. Only once did they stop, laying low until a panzer rumbled down the street in front of them before moving on.

"John, I have some Intel for you. Its on the position of the officer."

"Show me."

"Apparently, from what I see, there is a building approximately eight hundred meters to the north west that is heavily guarded. Two tanks are parked outside, along with a lot of foot soldiers. You might want to sneak in through the sewers."

"Roger. Headed there now."

"I've marked the location of the building on the map, you shouldn't have trouble fining it."

"Squad, were going down." He told them through his thoughts.

"Where, hell? I've heard it's a nice place. Warm fires, lovely host too."

"Not that far, in order to infiltrate the building, we've got to go through the sewer system."

"Oh, just great."

"Not like you smell bad enough Shawn."

"Cut the chatter you two." Mui snapped.

John peered over the side of the building to se if there were any soldiers below him. There wasn't. He jumped over the side of the building, and landed on the street as quiet as a cat. Shawn, Mui and Joseph were right behind him. John followed by his squad fazed through the pavement into the sewer system. All four landed with a splash in the sewer water.

"Oh this smells lovely. Like a field of tulips by a babbling brook with a hint of lemon."

"Alright squad, the building should be this way."

The squad walked down the sewer tunnel, John leading them. John halted, and climbed up the small ladder to the manhole. He retrieved a fiber optic cable, and pushed it up through on of the vent holes. He plugged the cable to his PDA, and slowly rotated the cable. Above them, was an alleyway. It was devoid of life, save for a stray cat. He pulled the cable back down and motioned for the team to go above. They fazed into the wall and reappeared in the alleyway. John spotted a door farther down the alleyway, and motioned his team to follow him.

He shouldered his rifle, as did the rest of the team, and took up position around the door. He noticed a computer pad on the right side of the door. Security locking.

"Mui slice the security mainframe."

"Roger boss."

Mui took out her own PDA and plugged it into the security pad. After a moment a green light shone on the pad. She gave the thumbs up.

John opened the door slowly. The hallway was dark, but his eyes adjusted to the darkness. John motioned the team to slip on silencers to their guns, this was a covert-op, don't want any noise. They continued down the hallway, checking every room they came across. No resistance. Strange, this was a heavily guarded building, but there was hardly anyone inside.

"Stay on your guard squad, I don't like this."

"Roger boss."

"Affirmative."

The team continued to the next floor of the building, still no resistance. They went up to the next floor, and into the first room. One officer. They quickly subdued him, and locked the door.

"Where are the hostages?" Growled John.

The officer, scared out of his mind, sputtered out something incoherent. John took out his pistol and pressed it up against the temple of the officer.

"Tell me where they are, or your just dist in the wind Kraut."

"F-f-fourth floor. T-t-t-they're being I-I-interrogated. T-third door on the right."

"Thanks." He fired the pistol, the officer quickly turned to dust, "You Nazis are going to learn how I am a lot scarier than you are."

He holstered his pistol and turned to his squad. "Alright, you heard him, next floor, on the double."

They exited the room and quickly made their way to the fourth floor interrogation room. They burst through the door, and found only five members. Seras, Amelia, Mendez, Johnson, and Keys were all tied up in chairs. Most of them looked up at them, expecting to be interrogated more, until they laid their eyes on the four. Their faces brightened up dramatically, most of all Seras. Tears began to well in her eyes. John rushed over and began to untie her, the rest of the team began to untie the other captives.

Once she was free Seras embraced him tightly, weeping into his chest. John comforted her as her tears flowed freely. She was done her crying within a few minutes. He helped her up, and walked her over to the rest of the squad as they helped up the rest of the captives.

"All right, lets get you out of here."

John was about to open a portal, when a figure in the doorway made himself noticed.

"Well well well John, long time no see."

John turned around and faced the origin of the voice. Its owner was a tall man, blood red hair, and Waffen SS uniform stood in the doorway.

"Its been a long time, brother."

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