November 1st,2062

Alpha Base

1300

Knock Knock

Hyena wakes from his bed to the knock at the door leading into his room. He sits up groggily and looks towards the door. He wipes his eyes as he gets out of the bed. He wears a black tank top, his dog tags hanging from his neck, and wears black boxers. He slowly attempts to pull on his black slacks.

Knockknockknockknockknockknock

Hyena rushes the door, his slacks sagging at the waist, and opens it.

"WHAT!?" Hyena shouts through the now open doorway.

Hyena makes eye contact with the frantic knocker. He recognizes this cat-eared girl that stands outside his door.

"IDW?" He questions.

"Present, nya." IDW answers giving a playful salute. "You really sleep in late." She says, pushing past Hyena and entering his room. "Long cat-nap, nya?" She says, inspecting the room.

Hyena places a hand to his face and another by his slacks to hold them up. "Something like that." He says, slightly annoyed. "Wait, why are you here?"

IDW lunges into his bed and starts to roll around on it, ripping up the sheets from underneath the bed. She stops rolling around and looks at Hyena. "The Commeownder wanted me to get you. Something about a mission, nya."

"I see," Hyena says, scratching his neck. "So, the boss has a new mission for me." He says, pondering the aspect.

IDW tilts her head and looks at Hyena intently. Hyena spots her from the corner of his eye and turns toward her.

"What?" Hyena asks.

Without a word, she gets up from the bed and moves towards Hyena and places her hands on his face, squishing his cheeks. She rubs his cheeks once then removes her hands.

"What was that for," Hyena asks slightly perturbed.

"Nothing, nya. Just making sure you were human." IDW says with a big smile.

"As human as it gets," Hyena says with a deadpan expression. "Now, do you mind leaving."

IDW makes a pouty face. "I don't wanna, nya." She makes another colossal leap and lands on Hyena's bed.

"Fine," Hyena says. He pulls up his slacks to his waist and moves to the bed from the doorway. "Just make some space on the bed."

IDW shifts herself towards the head of the bed, leaving a lot of room near the foot. Hyena nods as he picks up the rest of his uniform from off the ground. He slips on the white shirt and tie, tucking the shirt into his pants. He puts on the trenchcoat leaving the front open.

IDW slides off the bed and starts to sneak to the mini-fridge. Hyena quickly spots her trying to sneak around him.

"Don't touch the fridge. There's nothing in there that a cat would want." Hyena says, fixing the beret on his head.

IDW turns towards Hyena and pouts. She walks back to the bed and sits on the edge of it. Hyena heads towards the doorway and beckons IDW to follow.

"You're not staying in my room alone," Hyena says in a severe tone. "I still haven't acquainted myself with the layout of the base."

"So, you need a guide?" IDW says smugly.

Hyena lets out a defeated sigh. "Yes. Yes, I do."

A big grin grows on IDW's face as she steps in front of Hyena and playfully bows. "Then, I shall lead the way to the Commeownder!" She shouts gleefully.

Hyena quickly places a hand to her mouth and places a finger against his. "Jesus pipe down. The others might still be sleeping!"

IDW nods then uses her hand to remove Hyena's hand from her mouth. She grabs hold of his hand and leads him out of the room and into the hallway. After walking through the halls, they make it too familiar double doors. IDW pushes them open, causing a gust of cold wind to hit both of them. They continue their walk past the helipad and into the Commander's building. They make it outside the Commander's office and stop just before it.

"The Commeownder is just through there," IDW says, releasing Hyena's hand.

Hyena lets out a sigh. "Yeah, I knew the way here once we passed the helipad. You really didn't have to guide me the whole way."

IDW gives a smug smile then leaves Hyena in front of the door. She walks down the hallway and disappears around the corner. Hyena knocks on the Commander's door twice.

"Come in." The Commander's voice is heard from behind the door.

Hyena opens the door and enters into the small office. He notices that the guitar is nowhere to be found and that there are a few more decorations on the wall. What really strikes Hyena is the flag that hangs from the ceiling, which he does not recognize. The Commander sits by his desk. The desk is completely covered with documents all addressed to the Commander.

"How did you sleep?" The Commander says his gaze focused on the papers in front of him.

"I slept well." Hyena answers. "The bed you gave me is quite nice." He says somewhat happily. "So nice the girls can't help but jump on it, however."

The Commander places down the papers in his hand and beckons Hyena to come closer from out of the doorway. "Don't think ill of them. They're just playing around, sadly there's not much to do on the base outside of the missions I give them."

Hyena sits down in the chair in front of the desk and folds his hands in front of him. "So, you needed to see me?"

"Yes, actually." The Commander gets up from his chair and heads towards the back of the room. He presses a button against the wall, and a projector lowers from the ceiling. It starts to project a map onto the barren back wall. "I have another mission for you."

Hyena gets up from his chair and joins the Commander by the back wall. "What's the mission, Boss?"

"Do you remember the base you raided with PPsh-41?"

"I do."

"Well, I'm sending you back to that base. That base used to be a foothold that G&K acquired from the Russians. Unfortunately, when SF came into power, it was quickly overwhelmed, and the base staff was slaughtered to the man."

Hyena reclines against a wall. "What does this have to do with the mission if I may ask?"

"When SF moved in, they not only took control of the base but also the data held inside the servers. Base blueprints, T-doll strategies, base locations, the manpower of every base in a 100-mile radius." The Commander looks towards Hyena. "I need you to infiltrate that base and steal back the data."

Hyena shrugs. "Sounds simple enough." He gets off the wall and stands up straight. "Is that all the mission is?"

"That's the first part." The Commander points to the map. "I also need you to destroy the servers of the base. Stop them from extracting any more data than they already have."

"A simple get in get out mission." Hyena makes his way back to his chair and sits down. "Am I going in alone?"

"Unfortunately, you're going in alone. I would send some T-Dolls as a backup, but they are hardly trained for a stealth mission." The Commander says, scratching his neck and moving back to his chair sitting in it.

"Don't worry about it. I'm better off alone if its a stealth mission." Hyena says with assurance. "What gear will I be given for the mission?"

"Just the basics. A few satchels of C-4 for the mission and a silenced pistol. Of course, you will be equipped with simple survival gear-" The Commander takes out a cigarette from his desk and sticks it in his mouth. He lights the cigarette and takes a quick drag from it. "There's also a third optional objective I didn't mention."

"Oh?"

The Commander searches through the papers on his desk. He picks up two photographs from underneath the pile of documents and places them in front of Hyena. The pictures have been taken with a high-resolution camera and depict a little girl wearing a black miniskirt and white twin tails.

"I've gotten word from the recon team that there is an enemy commander located in the base. Apparently, we stirred the nest a bit too much with the raid." The Commander says, taking another drag.

"What should I be expecting from this new Commander?" Hyena asks

'New patrol routes are definite. I'm not sure what else you will encounter on the mission. We've yet to decode SF strategies."

"Alright, so I'll be extra careful. How does the new Commander fit into the optional objective?" Hyena asks curiously.

"I want the new Commander turned to scrap metal. This is a personal mission from me." The Commander puts out the cigarette on the bottom of his boot.

"I see. I will attempt to carry it out. Is there anything else I should know?"

"No, that's it. It's currently 1405. I want you airborne by 1445. The helicopter will purposely go slow so that you make it by nightfall." The Commander stands up from his chair and moves towards the back of the room, turning the switch, turning off the projector. "Take it slow and be careful. Unlike the T-dolls, I can't replace you. Dismissed."

"Understood, Boss." Hyena stands from his chair and gives the Commander a salute. He then makes his way to the door and leaves the office.

Hyena makes his way out of the building and passes the now running helicopter. He heads into the main building and makes his way to his room. He opens the door to his room to find nobody inside. He lets out a relieved sigh as he begins undressing. He strips down to his skivvies and opens the closet door grabbing hold of the winter BDU inside. He slips it on and puts on his balaclava. He pulls the white scarf above his nose and raises the hood above his head. After doing a few checks of the fit, he nods with satisfaction and leaves the room. He heads out of the building and towards the helipad.

The rotors of the helicopter are spinning at full speed, but the helicopter does not leave the ground. Hyena opens the sliding door to the helicopter and jumps into the interior of it. He checks his watch.

"1435. Just on time." He says to himself, taking a seat in the cabin of the helicopter. He moves to the front cockpit of the helicopter and touches the black mass that takes up the pilot seat.

"Ya, miss me?" He asks the black mass.

The lights of the mass flicker in response to his question.

"I'll take that as a yes." He says. "Take us up when you're ready."

As he says this, the helicopter hovers off the ground and begins gaining altitude. The cabin walls shake as the helicopter struggles to get into the evening sky. It keeps climbing until, eventually, the shaking stops. The helicopter then moves forward, taking off in the direction of the SF base.

Hyena sits calmly in the cabin as the shaking stops. He checks underneath his seat to find a bundle. He tears open the package to find satchels of C-4 and a Colt M1911 with a suppressor attachment. Inside the bundle is also a small backpack. Hyena opens it up to find MRE's and smoke grenades. He takes out the grenades and puts them in his BDU pocket and stuffs the C-4 in its place. He rechecks the bundle to find mags for the M1911, four mags to be exact. He finishes up his preparation by sticking the Colt into his leg holster. He leans back and rests while the helicopter flies to its destination.

Hyena is woken up by the telltale shaking of the helicopter. The shaking can only mean one of two things that they're either taking off or they're landing. Hyena looks out the cabin window. The darkness of the night hides the descent of the helicopter, and the snow messes with any thermal imaging that the enemy might be using. The heli finishes its descent and hovers just above the ground, ready to take off again.

Hyena gets out of his seat and waves to the black mass. He equips the backpack on his back and jumps out the helicopter, landing on the snow with a loud crunch. The instant he jumps out, the helicopter begins its ascent again and flies off into the night. Hyena watches it leave until it disappears into the night.

"Not much for goodbyes, huh," Hyena says sarcastically.

Hyena shrugs as he makes his way over the familiar hill and gets visuals on the town surrounding the base. He lies down prone on the snow and takes out a pair of binoculars. Just like the Commander said the patrols are different than when he came with PPsh-41. He gets up from the prone position and starts to head down the hill towards the town.

Hyena stays low as he enters into the town. Enemy patrols are tight and leave little space for Hyena to pass through into the main base. He sneaks into a nearby building and moves to the upstairs of it. After reaching the second floor of the building, he looks out the window to get a better look at the nearby patrols.

The closest patrol is heavily armed with two vespids and a ripper class T-doll. Another patrol that interests Hyena is one manned by only one ripper. This patrol has a short route and guards a nearby collapsed wall. However, this patrol is intersected by two heavily manned patrols.

"I'm going to have to either take it out or sneak past." Hyena thinks to himself.

He starts to walk down the stairs back to the first floor of the building. As soon as he reaches the first floor, he exits the building and positions himself parallel with the collapsed wall. What separates him from the wall, and what gives him the most cause for concern, is the open street. There's no cover, so he will have to move fast. The snow also doesn't help his ability to sneak past as the crunching is loud. He watches the patrols move about for some time carefully studying their blindsides.

The patrols intersect once then go their separate ways leaving just the one ripper as a guard. Hyena uses this opportunity to carefully sneak across the open street, making sure to step lightly to avoid the sound of the snow under his boots. As he approaches the one guard, he starts to unholster his pistol. Luckily the guard moves away from the collapsed wall and into the main base leaving the passage into the base clear. Hyena lets out a deep breathe and holsters his pistol as he sneaks over the collapsed wall and into the base.

As he hops over the collapsed wall, he is greeted by a big building which he determines must be the main building. He looks around his surroundings to find that there are no patrols on the inside of the base, just sporadic placements of rippers throughout.

"Lucky me." Hyena thinks to himself as he stays low, heading toward the main building.

He enters into the main building without any trouble. The interior of the building is a mess. The ceiling is half destroyed, and there are exposed pipes from explosions. The hallways have hastily made sandbag emplacements throughout. Whoever was fighting in the building made sure that SF paid for every inch. Hyena looks around for a directory. He eventually finds one on a nearby wall and looks at it.

"Server room. Server room." He says, running his finger up and down the directory. "Found you." He points at the words SERVER ROOM in bold and looks at what floor it's on. "3rd-floor room 312."

Hyena looks around for a staircase. After a quick run around of the lobby, he spots an emergency staircase. He enters into the staircase only to find that part of the stone stairs has crumbled, leaving a gap between the 1st and 2nd floor. Hyena steps back and gets a running start and jumps the gap grabbing hold of the stairs leading up. He hauls the rest of his body up and continues his way up the stairs.

Some time passes as Hyena climbs the stairs to the third floor. As he reaches the third floor, he crouches down again and opens the door leading into the lobby. He sneaks down the hallway making sure to stay light-footed. Hyena walks down the narrow corridor until he reaches the room 312. He opens the door into the room and is greeted by the lights of multiple servers. He gently places the C-4 against each of the servers and leaves the room.

"Alright next; the data room." He thinks to himself.

Hyena looks around for the directory again and finds one. He puts the finger on the directory and drags it along the metal plate. He spots the words DATA ROOM on the directory and looks to find that it's closeby at room 320. Again Hyena crouches down low and sneaks his way to the data room. After some walking, he makes it to 320 and enters into a vast room with multiple panels. He begins his work.

Outside the main building, a girl in a black dress stands. Flanking her sides are SF brand grenade launchers. Her hair is white and tied in twin tails.

"So, there's an intruder in the base." She asks the ripper next to her.

"Yes, Destroyer. We detected it on the scanners. From what we know, it's heading towards the data room." The ripper responds.

Destroyer smirks. "Let's greet this little intruder, shall we."

As she says this, a group of vespids appear behind her and follow her into the building. The group enters the building and begin to make their way to the 3rd floor using the elevator in the lobby of the 1st floor. Just as the elevator approaches the 2nd floor, it suddenly stops causing the group to jostle forward.

"Oh whoops did I hurt any of you." A male voice speaks sarcastically over the intercom.

"Where is that?" Destroyer quietly asks a nearby vespid.

"The data room."

"We know where you are human; it's only a matter of time before we catch you!" She smugly yells at the elevator's intercom.

"Destroyer, the intercom is one way…."

Destroyer looks at the vespid. "I knew that!" She yells.

"Well, I'm sure you would love to come and catch me." The voice says over the intercom. "So let's play a game. A simple game of cat and mouse. I'll be the mouse and you guys, the cat. Does that sound agreeable? Good."

"This human has a lot of balls." Destroyer says angrily

As she says, this power is returned to the elevator, and it reaches the 3rd floor. As soon as the doors open, the group quickly evacuates the elevator and sets up defensive positions. In total, including Destroyer, there are 6 of them.

"Now, to find that human." Destroyer says.

As she finishes her sentence, a shot pierces the head of one of the vespids knocking the vespid out of commission. All at once, the rest of the vespids start shooting in the general direction that the shot came from.

"Hold fire!" Destroyer commands.

At once, the vespids cease their firing.

"1 down 5 to go." The male voice says over the intercom.

Destroyer grits her teeth. "Spread out, find him! Check every room!"

The vespids nod in unison and break up into groups of 2, with Destroyer being the odd man out. She stays by the elevator and stands guard.

All is silent in the hallways as the 2 groups walk down them. One group stops by room 302 while the other rushes to room 312. They both stop at their respective doors and give a slight nod of readiness. They both bust open their doors, and the group by 312 is greeted by a massive explosion that rips apart the room and part of the hallway.

"From the sound of that 2 down 3 to go. This is a fun game we're playing, isn't it." The voice on the intercom smugly says.

Destroyer stomps her feet on the ground. "Useless! Useless! Useless." She screams. "Rally on me!" She shouts through the hallways.

As she says this, the vespids regroup on her.

"Enough playing around! We're going to the data room and shutting this intruder up for good." Destroyer shouts tears starting to form in her eyes.

"Yes, ma'am!"

They walk down the adjacent hallway and head towards the data room. They rush towards the data room without caution. Destroyer leads the way, and busts open the door. She rushes toward the intercom leaving the two vespids by the door. As she approaches the intercom, she sees that there's a radio right next to the intercom.

"Looks like you found me." The voice says through the radio. "Shame about your guards."

"My guards?" Destroyer asks as she turns around toward the doorway. As she turns, she sees the bodies of the last two vespids on the ground dead.

She starts to cry, angrily. She roughly picks up the radio and brings it to her mouth. "Where are you! You coward!"

"Coward? Now that's a bit rude, don't you think." The voice responds over the radio. "Why don't you look behind you. You might find what you need."

Destroyer turns around to see that the walls are covered in C-4.

"Adios, Senorita." The voice coyly says through the radio.

"Shit." Destroyer says through tears.

The data room is consumed by the explosion as well as the rest of the rooms on the third floor. Destroyer's body is shot through the windows of the data room, and she lies on the cold snow just outside the building. Her arm has been blown clean off as well as her legs. Part of her torso has been blown away, and her grenade launchers have been lost to the explosion.

"Ugh. This hurts." Destroyer weakly says.

"Yeah, I bet it does." A familiar voice says. "I bet all the people you killed in this base also were in pain when you killed em."

Destroyer looks over towards the general direction of the voice and sees a man wearing a winterized BDU. He smokes a cigarette and has his hands in his pocket. He squats near Destroyer.

"You look like shit." The man says, taking a drag from his cigarette.

"No thanks to you." Destroyer says, slightly sobbing.

"Aww c'mon, don't start crying cause you lost. You put up a good fight." The man tries to assure.

"No, I didn't. I completely blew it. I mean, look at me I'm a mess and all-cause of you."

The man takes another drag of his cigarette. "Yeah, yeah, its all my fault." He unholsters a gun from his leg. "Anyway, its time for me to complete my mission." He points the gun towards Destroyer.

"Wait, don't kill me, please." Destroyer begs through teary eyes.

The male looks at her on the ground. After a few minutes of staring, he holsters his gun. "You're lucky that you're an optional mission."

"You're not going to kill me? Even though we're enemies?" Destroyer asks, sniffling.

"No, senorita. You're too cute to kill." The male says, sticking his cigarette in her mouth. "Till we meet again. Adios!"

The male runs off into the night, leaving Destroyer alone in the snow. Her tears dry up as she calms down, smoking the cigarette. With her good arm, she takes the cigarette out of her mouth and places it in the snow. She thinks to herself for a bit through the pain. Her cheeks go red with embarrassment.

"He called me cute." She says quietly to herself.

November 2nd, 2062

Alpha Base

0930

"So, how did the mission go?" The Commander asks

"All objectives completed. The server room was destroyed, and the whole floor was leveled." Hyena places a USB drive on the Commander's desk. "And the data was secured."

"Great job, Hyena." The Commander picks up the drive and places it in his pocket. "You become more of an asset every mission."

"Glad to be of service, Boss."

"You're dismissed. You can debrief me later on the details. Go get some R&R. You deserve it." The Commander assures.

"Roger that, Boss," Hyena says, leaving the room.

Hyena walks back to his room gleefully. He opens the door to his room to see a new bed in his room. Before he can question why there's a new bed in his room, a figure appears behind him.

"Can I help you tovarisch?" A feminine voice says from behind him.

Hyena lets out a sigh and turns around to look at the figure. A female stands behind him about his height. She has bright yellow eyes and wears a black tank top, with the letters KS imprinted on it, and black hot pants. Her teeth are all sharp like a shark, and she smiles at Hyena.

"Yeah, you can. Who the hell are you?" Hyena asks

"The names KS-23. I'm part of your echelon." KS-23 says gleefully

"My what?" Hyena says, defeated.