Disclaimer: See the Prologue
Chapter 11 – JSSDF Smashed
"SHIT, TAKE COVER!" the JSSDF Officer cried as Gordon fired upon him and his men.
Gordon scored another kill, bullets penetrating the chest of a Grunt. He cried in agony as he fell.
'Man, these f$#$ers are easy!' Gordon thought, smiling, noting the fact their wore body-hugging suits instead of armour.
The Marines back at Black Mesa were difficult to kill, as they wore those Powered Combat Vests, but these so-called Grunts were hell easy.
And all this time, Misato and Shinji noticed that Gordon showed no compassion in dealing with the JSSDF.
'Dr. Freeman's incredible,' Shinji thought, 'He'd probably stand his ground against an Angel.'
'Where can we get more guys like him?' Misato thought.
The remaining JSSDF Grunts turned tail and ran towards the lift. Gordon smiled and pulled out his Gauss Gun. He charged it up and fired, drilling through the Grunts in a straight line, like a Rail.
"There's the lift," Gordon said, "Let's get out of here."
Suddenly, Gordon's suit begun to pick up radio transmissions from someone familiar on the surface.
Mein Gott! The whole JSSDF is here!
Thinking fast, Misato pulled out her communicator and begun setting it to the appropriate frequency. She couldn't pick up any more NERV personnel in the whole of the complex, as they were all dead.
"Asuka?" Misato cried.
Misato? Asuka replied, both from Gordon's suit and the communicator, Damn, I thought you were all dead. What the hell's going on here?
Gordon snatched the communicator.
"It's a very long story!" Gordon said.
Who the f#$# is that? Asuka asked sternly.
Gordon shuddered, "Listen, we're coming up through the service elevator to the surface. Can you cover us?"
Errr…all right, Asuka replied, There's a shit-load of JSSDF up here.
"Just keep them busy!" Gordon said, then tossing the communicator back to Misato.
"You heard the guy," Misato said, "See you up here."
She closed the communicator.
"We should…go now," Shinji said.
Misato and Gordon nodded.
"Follow me," Gordon said determined, holding his Gauss Gun.
The JSSDF outpost outside NERV was in chaos. Troops, tanks and jeeps were rushing everywhere, preparing to face Freeman and Unit-02.
The Commander himself was perspiring with fear. Freeman was tearing the JSSDF apart from the inside while Unit-02 was tearing them apart from the outside.
'What the hell is this man?' he thought, 'This can't be happening. Fighting Angels was easier than this.'
"SIR!" a tech cried, "The Red EVA is heading for our position."
The Commander nodded, than grabbed the com link.
"Soldiers of the Japanese Strategic Self-Defence Force," he begun.
Everyone outside heard his voice from the speakers of his mobile command post.
Prepare to defend yourselves.
The Grunts loaded up their weapons: Submachine-guns, Shotguns, Rocket Launchers, grenades, everything.
A sergeant was leading a squad towards the service lift.
"Follow me!" he cried, "We gotta stop Freeman!"
In the elevator, Gordon loaded his Gauss Gun. He had plenty of power for it and knew he would be facing both ground armour and airborne.
"Where did you get that?" Shinji asked.
"Black Mesa," Gordon replied, "It was an experimental weapon."
'Black Mesa,' Misato thought, 'That sounds familiar.'
Gordon then reached forward and pulled the emergency break, stopping the elevator.
Misato's mind snapped, "What the hell are you doing?"
Gordon turned to her, "They're waiting for us up there. We have to plan this out."
Misato nodded, seeing sense, "We do we do?"
"We fight our way out!" Gordon explained, "Unit-02 can provide support. We'll jack the nearest jeep and drive to the nearest 5 Star Hotel."
Misato smiled, then Gordon handed her his M4.
"You can cover me," Gordon said.
"What do I do?" Shinji asked, knowing he wouldn't be forced to do this, but decided he needed to do something to help.
"Just stay out of the way of the bullets," Gordon replied.
"Err…ok," Shinji, said, hesitantly.
Gordon nodded, before noticing there was an escape hatch above them.
"Say Misato," Gordon begun, smiling, "Do you still have that grenade you swiped from that decapitated Grunt?"
On the surface, guns were trained on the service lift doors.
"All right," a sergeant said, .50 at the ready, "When the doors open, give that bespectacled bastard your best shot!"
"Yes sir," the Grunts replied.
Sure enough the doors opened and they fired.
"DIE YOU MOTHERF#$#ING SCIENTIST!" the sergeant cried, letting loose his Desert Eagle.
They stopped firing when they realised…
"Hey, the lifts not up," a Grunt cried.
The doors were open, but the lift wasn't there.
"Check it out corporal," the sergeant ordered, "We'll cover you."
"Yes sir," another Grunt acknowledged.
Grenade Launcher in hand, he slowly walked towards the elevator shaft, and looked down.
Sure enough, the lift was frozen still down there. The corporal smiled and pointed his launcher down there.
"Got you, Freeman," he said.
Suddenly, someone who was climbing up the shaft ladder grabbed his launcher from below and pulled.
"What the he…ARGH!"
The Grunt fell a few meters, before hitting the roof of the lift with a sickening thud. The launcher landing in the car through the hatch.
"OH SHIT!" the sergeant cried, seeing his man fall.
A grenade was hurled from the emptiness of the elevator shaft.
"GRENADE!"
It went off, taking out the group of JSSDF with it's blast. The sergeant was thrown back, landing on the ground.
Then, emerging from the shaft was the man himself: Gordon Freeman.
"Oh God no!" the sergeant groaned in pain.
The lift car then reached the surface behind Gordon, out emerging Misato and Shinji. Misato was holding the grenade launcher.
Gordon wasted no time; he pulled out his 9mm and shot the sergeant in the head, before turning to Shinji and Misato.
"Let's go," he said.
They then heard a massive roar. Out in the distance was Unit-02, running towards NERV.
"About time," Misato said.
In the EVA, Asuka was pushing herself to her own limit…that is if she had any limits.
'Only a minute left,' she thought.
She saw the guys down there: Shinji, Misato, and some guy in a Hazard Suit.
"Who the hell is that?" she asked herself.
Suddenly, Ospreys and Apaches converged on her, letting loose barrels of missiles and Vulcan.
"This is Eagle Thrust 7, bring that bitch down!" an Osprey pilot said.
Unit-02 knocked them out of the sky, before noticing another batch of JSSDF choppers heading towards NERV.
Gordon saw this…
"RUN!" he cried.
Grabbing Shinji's hand, Misato and Gordon ran from the lift, knowing missiles would have locked on to them. They were right, as the elevator shaft went up in smoke.
Gordon charged his Tau Cannon and fired at the Ospreys. He destroyed a rotor and the Osprey's fell out of the sky, it's occupant's screams echoing from his suit.
"TANKS!" Shinji cried, letting go of Misato's hand.
A column of tanks rolled towards them. Misato began firing grenades from her 'burrowed' launcher, which exploded on impact and took one out. Gordon charged up another round of Gauss and fired, taking out another.
'Damn,' Misato thought, 'There's too many of them.'
Suddenly, Unit-02 foot came down before them, taking out the other tanks. The guys smiled.
"That was close," Gordon said.
His suit and Misato's communicator emitted Asuka's transmission.
You guys, Asuka begun, I got less then 20 seconds. I'll soften up that JSSDF encampment for you. I'll then eject.
"You do that," Misato acknowledged, "We'll you see on the ground."
Will do, Asuka replied.
Asuka smiled in her EVA as she ran towards the encampment and begun crushing everything she can find: Tanks, jeeps, trucks and troops. The JSSDF began to scatter under Asuka's relentless assault.
In the mobile command post…
"GET US THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" the Commander screamed, fearing imminent death. This whole ordeal had left him weak of mind and almost sanity.
"Yes sir," the driver cried.
The post begun to navigate through the burning wreckage of JSSDF armour, before receiving a mighty kick to the side from Unit-02. It flew a few feet in the air, before crashing down before Gordon, who had gone ahead of Misato and Shinji.
'HOLY CRAP!' Gordon thought, 'She wasted that entire camp in 15 seconds.'
In Unit-02, Asuka felt everything shut down.
"Well, it's been fun" she sighed, before ejecting.
Her plug was blasted out of Unit-02 and, quite coincidentally, landed right next to Gordon, who jumped out of the way.
Gordon walked up to the plug. He touched the plug door, before tearing it open. LCL splashed onto his suit, before he reached in and lifted Asuka out, before laying her on the ground.
'This is the pilot of Unit-02?' she thought.
Asuka opened her eyes slowly, looking up at Gordon softly. She was quick to react…
"HEY LET GO OF ME, BRAINIAC," Asuka wailed, standing up quickly.
"I beg your pardon?" Gordon said, stung.
She then noticed Shinji and Misato running up towards her and Gordon.
"ASUKA," Shinji cried, "HEY ASUKA!"
Asuka smiled softly and nodded.
They reached them, breathing harshly from running.
"You…you're alive," Misato said, catching her breath.
"You don't think I'd let an alien invasion and a half-arsed military organisation bring me down?" Asuka said humorously, folding her arms and turning up her nose.
"Of course not," Misato said smiling, before turning to Gordon, "Dr. Gordon Freeman, this is Asuka Langley Sohryu, pilot of Unit-02."
Gordon smiled at her, despite being insulted a second ago.
Asuka looked at him blankly, before thinking, 'Freeman? Where have I heard that name before.'
"Err…Asuka?" Shinji spoke up.
Asuka woke herself up from her thoughts, before saying, "Oh, ah…great to me you, Dr. Nerdlinger, I mean Freeman."
"Likewise," Gordon said, trying not to frown.
He then remembered the totalled JSSDF command vehicle a yard before them.
"I'm gonna go check out that vehicle," Gordon said, "Whoever's in charge of this military organisation may be in it."
He then turned to the group behind him.
"Wait here," he said with a serious look.
He then walked menacingly towards the vehicle, exchanging his Gauss Gun with his crowbar.
'Whoever's in command of these military pricks here,' he thought, 'He has hell to pay!"
