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Chapter 7 – JSSDF Assault


Sergeant Kei and his 3-man squad fought their way through towards the Infirmary entrance, killing anything that didn't look human that strolled into their crosshairs.

"Where almost there," Kei cried, ramming his rifle into a zombie, then pulling the trigger.

They were near the Infirmary 2 doors across when they saw it, a big gorilla-like creature that was trying to knock the door down. It was wearing 'armour' on its head, shoulders, knees, chest and feet. And it had what looked like a weapons grafted into one of it's hands.

"Whoa!" one of the NERV soldiers cried, watching it kick down the door. It then noticed them, and roared.

Kei wasted no time. He raised his rifle and fired, followed by his squad,

The bullets deflected off its 'armour' as it fired it's Hive Hand, wasps homing in the squad. They dodged them by jumping sideways into a hall, except one who was struck by the wasps, which lifted him off the ground from the force, before landing on the floor, dead.

Kei pulled out a grenade, which he managed to reserve. His others had been expended on the aliens down at Central Dogma.

"GRENADE!" he cried.

He jumped from hiding and through it at the Alien Grunt, before taking cover. The Grunt grabbed it, before stupidly examining it. It then realised it was one of those small bombs that the human soldiers back at Black Mesa used.

But too late it exploded, scattering pieces of it all over the hallway.

Kei and the two remaining soldiers ran to the Infirmary door, where they opened it. Asuka wasn't there.

'Shit,' Kei thought.

Meanwhile, Gordon and Misato were at the locker room, equipping themselves with Gordon's firepower.

"Shotgun or M4?" Gordon asked.

"Shotgun," Misato replied.

Gordon tossed her the SPAS. She loaded it up while he gripped the Assault Rifle, but not before storing the Tau Cannon in his suit.

"Man, if Gendo finds out you smuggled all this down here, he'll have you ass," Misato said, smiling.

"F#$# Gendo," Gordon said, smiling back, "Let's grab your kids and get out of here."

Suddenly, a zombie busted out of the vent. Misato raised her shotgun and fired, the recoil hurling her back, but taking off it's head.

"Let's go," Gordon said, "We got people to save."

In the vents, Asuka crawled through quickly to the EVA Cages, eager to be back at Unit-02.

'Ultimate failure!' she thought to herself over and over again, like crazy, 'I'll show him ultimate failure!'

In the control room, Kouzou watched as the invaders slowly conquered the facility.

"Status report," he said.

"Were losing all levels apart from Section One to Level 5," Makato said, then he looked at his screen again, adjusting his glasses, "Hey, what the…"

"What is it, lieutenant?" Kouzou said.

"The alien lifeforms are retreating," he said.

"How?" Maya asked, no longer noticing the blood stains on her uniform.

"They are moving down to the lower levels," Makato reported.

'But why?' Kouzou thought.

Bearing down on the NERV, from all sides was the Japanese Strategic Self-Defence Force, possibly the least effective military organisation in history. Trucks, APCS, tanks and aircraft beared down on the facility.

The JSSDF Commander sat in his mobile command post as he looked over a video readout of the facility. The radio transmissions echoed around him.

This is fire team Yamato, approaching north entrance, over.

Eagle unit, moving into position, over.

We're on the ground and awaiting orders, over.

But that wasn't what he was focussing on. He was more interested in the transmission coming from NERV, accompanied by gunfire, people screaming and animal like growls.

Control, this is Sector 43, were abandoning position…!

Godd#$#$#, they're everywhere! They're all around us.

SHIT, SHOOT IT!

GET IT OFF ME…AHHHHHH!

"Attention all units," the Commander said into the com, "Prepare to strike the facility. Consider all NERV personnel as hostiles."

Meanwhile on the surface, a group of NERV technicians had made it out of there alive. They stepped out of the service elevator, two of them carrying their mortally wounded comrade.

"OH GOD," he screamed in pain, "IT HURTS! OH F#$#!"

They laid him on the ground, an engineer trying to calm him.

"Don't worry," he said, faking a smile, "We're out of there. We'll get you to a hospital."

The stricken technician grabbed his shirt, his blood staining the engineer uniform.

"Tell…tell my wife I love her," he said, choking on his own blood, "And my daughter…"

He finally succumbed. For someone who had his legs ripped off and electrified, he had suffered a lot of pain.

"Oh God," another one said.

Another technician, holding his assault rifle, walked away from the group. He held his head in despair.

'What now?' he thought.

Suddenly, he felt something grab his neck from behind and a hand cover his mouth. He then heard his own neck snap.

A JSSDF Grunt dropped the body on the ground.

"Enemy down," he said into his helmet radio.

More Grunts moved from the shadows and beared down on the escaped NERV staff.

"Oh thank God you're…AHHH!"

The Grunts fired upon the staff, killing them in cold blood.

"Hostiles eliminated," a JSSDF Officer said, "We've reached service lift 1."

Roger, his radio cackled, Head down there immediately.

"Yes sir," the Officer said, then turned to his 30-man platoon, "Let's get down there."

In control…

"OH CRAP!" Makato cried, "The JSSDF have arrived. They just wasted those escaped staff."

Kouzou knew the facts. SEELE was coming for them, and would start by using their own National Guard against them.

'Just like Black Mesa,' Kozou thought, 'Just like what he said.'

"Sub-Commander," Maya begun, "What do we do now?"

"Open the blast door," Kouzou ordered, "I'm going out."

"What!" Makato cried, "But…"

"I must stop Commander Ikari before he kills us all," he thought, "You people are permitted to leave your posts and escape."

"With all due respect, sir," Makato said, defiantly, "We're staying here to monitor the situation."

Kouzou nodded.

"If you will please open the door?" Kouzou asked.

Makato nodded, almost sadly. He pushed a button and the door opened slowly. Kouzou equipped his .50 Desert Eagle and walked through the door.

'It's been an honour to serve you, Fuyutsuki,' Makato thought.

Meanwhile in Section One, Gordon and Misato left the locker room, locked and loaded.

"Shinji will probably be where we left him," Misato said, 'I hope to God not, though. He must have escaped by now.'

"Right," Gordon said, "Shit!"

A Bullsquid tore down through a hallway towards them. Gordon pointed his assault rifle and fired, killing the beast.

All this time, Misato watched Gordon fight. She was confused over the kind of person he is. Is he a scientist, or a commando?

'This guy's incredible!' Misato thought, 'He must have been prepared for this.'

Suddenly, Misato's communicator beeped. She reached for it.

"Talk to me!"

This is Sergeant Kei. We've reached the Infirmary, but Pilot Sohryu isn't there.

"What!"

She must have escaped through the air ducts.

"Airducts?" Gordon said, "That's the worst place to be in."

Misato thought for a moment, before saying to Gordon, "She must be heading for Unit-02."

"The EVA Cages?" Gordon said, eyes wide with surprise, "That's suicide."

Major? Major?

"Copy," Misato said.

The communicator crackled as interference wove in, Repeat, your breaking up. OH SH…..MAJOR…UNDER ATTACK…JSSDF….F#$# AHHHHH!

"Kei?" Misato cried, "Are you there?"

'That can't be good,' Gordon said, gripping his assault rifle.

Sure enough, they all heard massive gunfire echo throughout Section One.

"Misato," Gordon turned to her.

"Yeah?"

Suddenly, a NERV Technician ran towards them.

"RUN!" he cried, "THEY'RE KILLING EVERYONE THEY SEE!"

He was struck down, he fell before their feet. Gordon looked at what killed the technician: A black uniformed soldier, holding a smoking submachine-gun, and staring down at Gordon and Misato.

"Oh shit!" the JSSDF Grunt said, "Freeman's real!"

Gordon looked down at the dead tech. He felt both remorse and anger built up inside. Everything was happening again.

"NO!" he practically screamed.

The JSSDF Grunt raised his Heckler & Kock submachine-gun, but felt several rounds of Carbine going though him, as Gordon fired.

Meanwhile, more JSSDF Grunts used the main elevator going down the surface to reach the main entrance of NERV.

"This is Fire-team Gasaraki," Major Takeru said, "We're approaching the northern entrance.

Roger that Gasaraki, the radio blurted, Be advised, intelligence reports Gordon Freeman has been sighted. Neutralise with caution.

"Affirmative," Takeru replied, then thought, 'So, Freeman does exist. What are these stories of him wiping out an entire detachment of US Marines? All wearing Powered Combat Vests?'

He and his company were before the entrance into NERV, where 2 NERV Guards stood guard.

"Oh shit!" one of them cried.

"JSSDF!" Takeru cried, "Throw down your weapons!"

The guards did as they were told. The Grunts threw them to the ground, where they pointed rifles at them.

"Open the doors," Takeru ordered.

One of the guards suddenly became alarmed.

"NO, DON'T!"

"What?" Takeru said, looking down at the guard.

"Don't open the doors," the guard begged, "Those things are in there. We can't let them get out."

'These people are clearly insane,' Takeru thought, 'Trying to start Third Impact has muddled their brains.'

"Shall we open the doors, sir?" a JSSDF Hacker asked.

"Do it!" Takeru replied, without a second thought.

The Hacker took out his laptop and begun typing. The doors opened up slowly as the Grunt's loaded their weapons.

"Prepare yourself, men," Takeru said, "This is where Third Impact will begin, so expect God-awful things in there."

The second the doors opened, a body was flung from the darkness, and landed before the JSSDF. Their eyes all went wide.

"What the hell…?"

Suddenly, a human looking monstrosity ran from the entrance and stood before them all. It was a Headcrabbed Zombie, but a different one. The crab itself looked a lot thinner than any other crab.

And it was one of the same breed of crab that took over the security guard Takeshi.


NEW LIFEFORM DETECTED

Fast Headcrab

Faster than a regular headcrab, the phase of zombification takes less then 10 seconds. This new type of zombie is faster than the common zombie.

APPROACH WITH CAUTION


"What the f&# is that, sir?" a young looking Grunt asked Takeru.

The Fast Zombie roared at them.

"FIRE!" Takeru cried.

The JSSDF fired at the creature, which spluttered in half, due to so many bullets flung at it.

Suddenly, more zombies appeared from the entrance. Not fast one, but the slow, lumbering kind.

Takeru looked at the approaching enemy, fear creeping into his mind.

"Oh shit!"

The JSSDF Grunts readied themselves for combat.

On the surface, the JSSDF had sat up a command post a few yards from the complex. The Commander looked on as JSSDF begun to swarm into the complex.

'We will find you, Freeman,' he thought, then smiled, 'This time, unlike the Americans, we're ready for you.'

A mile underground in the facility. Gordon and Misato kept their backs to the wall as they moved slowly through the hallways. The aliens had retreated for now, allowing the JSSDF to advance into the base.

"Stop," Gordon whispered to Misato.

"Why?" Misato asked.

Gordon indicated with his fingers 4 Grunts around the corner. Misato peered in and saw them staring down at some corpses of NERV personnel, dead from the aliens.

"What the hell did this?" one the Grunts asked the other.

"I don't know," another replied.

Suddenly, another Grunt noticed them, from behind.

"HOSTILE!" he cried.

Gordon spun around and charged at the soldier, knocking the Grunt's gun out of his hand with his crowbar.

"What the…!" the soldier cried, not expecting a scientist to fight back.

Gordon than smashed the Grunt across the face with the crowbar, knocking his helmet off. The Grunt punched back, and figured he might as well be hitting a brick wall.

"F#$#!" the soldier cried.

Gordon than took the initiative. He drove the crowbar into the soldier's gut, then ripping it out, along with his entrails. The poor Grunt screamed in pain, alerting the other soldiers. Gordon than rammed the crowbar up through his skull, the other end protruding out through the brain, completely ending the JSSDF Soldier's life.

Gordon, horrified at what he had just down, tore at the crowbar, and what remained of his skull. He had killed people before, but not this grisly.

"GORDON!" Misato cried, "Look out!"

The JSSDF in the facility heard the scream. Their radios blurred like crazy…

All units, we have detected to heavily armed NERV Personnel in Section One. One of them is Freeman, repeat: Freeman. Search and destroy.

The Grunts then ran to the source.

Gordon tore out his assault rifle and pistol. In Gordon mind, time seemed to slow down as he and Misato prepared to face the Grunts.

'It begins,' he thought, 'Me against my fellow human beings…again.'