Chapter 57: Assault Team
BOOOM!
The ground shook as two people started moving inside an alleyway. Both wearing similar types of long coats with knee-length tails the difference being one was lined cyan and the other crimson red.
"That must be lover boy, he really is making quite the noise out there." Ember quipped.
Her red hair tied into a bun made them easy to manage as they didn't get in her way during fights. Both of them had rifles slung over their backs but Ember's had an extra barrel attachment that being a grenade launcher.
"Do we need the extra firepower Ember?" asked Spark on the radio as he questioned her choice of attachment.
Although it was a question it sounded more of a taunt by the blonde, and Ember simply huffed
"A shut-in like you doesn't get to question my choice here when was the last time you came on a field mission I heard from big sis even that baby Champion has more hours on you."
"Ouch….. low blow Em ….Leader Ember is being rude again." Came as the reply as Spark pleaded for help from the only man that could at this point.
"Hey don't involve Leader in this that is not fair." Ember's anger did a 180 when she heard Spark ask for help from their Leader.
"Enough you two quit it." Frost shushed them quickly.
"But he started it, Leader." Ember pouted although you couldn't since she wore a mask to hide her visage nothing too fancy it was just a cloth one covering half of their faces as they planned to ditch them anyways.
Frost smirked under his mask as he spoke again.
"Leaf what is the situation do you see anything?" Frost asked.
"It is all going as planned, that Hoenn Champion did not pull any punches in his entry I must say."
"Good rendezvous with us at the insertion point, we are on our way."
"Copy"
Along the way another voice chimed in their private channel it was Rain keeping him posted on the movements of the three Champions.
"Damn that Sinnoh women poking her nose into places where it clearly doesn't belong." Ember voiced angrily not pleased with the news.
"I have to agree Ember," Frost added making Ember lighten up.
"Keep an eye on them, big sis." Spark joined as Ember and Frost reached a manhole near the edge of the block.
Coming to a halt Frost scanned the surrounding while Ember drew her rifle before a woman pounced from the ledge of the adjacent building landing in front of the two of them.
"Ah, it feels so good to stretch like this." Leaf said joyfully as dusted her uniform with the sub-machine gun hanging from her back she was also the only member wearing a small bag pack containing her field medical supplies.
To untrained eyes, all three of them looked the same but each of them had something different under their coats the most noticeable thing with Leaf being a tanto sword strapped to her back waist and Ember with her bandolier with grenade launcher ammo. Frost unlike when rescuing Cynthia on the hijacked plane was well prepared this time around with lots of utility and support items ready to use hidden in the various pocket in the inner lining of his coat. He and Ember also had a leg holster wrapped around their right and left leg respectively carrying suppressed handguns.
With all their equipment checked Frost gave the call
"Let us not waste the window Steven gave us." Herby signaling that the mission is a go.
Spark who was listening in also added
"Leader comms are going to be unreliable from now on so until you use the key I gave you, you are on your own."
"Copy That, Sparky keep eyes on everything and give me a rundown of the situation when we get back in touch."
"Roger that Boss and Good luck to all of you… Spark out." The radio fell silent after Spark's parting words as Leaf using her gloved hand pried the manhole cover open with ease as Frost and Ember hopped inside one after the other with Leaf falling suit.
The sewer system had many narrow tunnels that connected with the main water channels currently they were in one of these only making their way to the water channel as those were the direct route to the base entrance. The air was reeking with the stench of sewage but none of the three complained as they shimmied their way between the narrow wall.
Upon hearing the sound of the flow of water Frost warned
"It's close be on guard." and as predicted they reached the main water channel.
Frost was about to come out of the small space of the connecting tunnel but stopped abruptly as soon as he heard the sound of footsteps. The two women behind him stopped too as they saw a group of Galactic grunts run by them completely unaware of their presence.
"Amateurs…." Leaf smirked as they finally walked into the open space of the main water channel.
The noise the flowing water made was very loud almost completely masking the sound of the fight happening on the streets above. As they paced their way on the footpaths along the water.
Coming across their first turn Ember who had overtaken Frost along the way peeked around it to find a heavy metal door guarded by two armed guards about 20 meters ahead.
"Two guards twenty meters armed." She whispered as she upholstered the pistol from her leg.
"Camera?" Frost asked and Ember shook her head.
Frost nodded as he did the same but Leaf stopped them both as she said
"Save the bullets you two," she said as she asked Ember to give her some space.
After peeking around the corner once and confirming the location of the two guards she withdrew metal spikes from her coat she and with a quick motion jumped around the corner and swiftly executed her two unsuspecting targets.
"Show-off…" Ember sighed as Frost peeked behind her and saw the guards drop on the ground. Moving forward and reaching the entrance to the base he knelt to examine the first body, completely ignoring the spikes lodged in the now-deceased man's throat as he retrieved an ID card and swiped it on the door's terminal but not before hiding the bodies behind a stack of crates to the side of the door.
As gears turned, the door opened and Frost throws his Pokeball out calling Greninja.
The frog Pokemon appeared before them as Frost gave him an earpiece.
"There is no signal right now but when we'll get it back soon, till then keep watch and guard the area," Frost told as the half-dark type jumped into the shadow s and they went inside the base.
"You haven't lost your touch Leaf." Frost praised as they were running along the now well-lit metal corridors keeping an eye out for cameras and people along the way.
"I mean I wasn't going to let Ember steal the show so quickly." She replied with her usual upbeat voice.
"Well good to know someone's keeping up with training tell your boyfriend to better behave or I'll ask Stone to train him."
With a small chuckle, Leaf replied "Sure leader."
"Guys we have company."
Their little chat was interrupted when Ember pointed at the group of guards coming their way.
"Damn must've have tripped a sensor along the way."
"Leaf, Ember, get ready." Frost took the lead as he threw something at the feet of their opposition.
"GRENADE TAKE COVER!" someone shouted as the guards began to scramble but much to their surprise nothing happened.
It was a blank but before anyone realized that our trio had covered the distance between them and were now meters away from them.
Frost drew his pistol first as he fired three shots each connecting with three different targets and Leaf and Ember followed with two shots each and just like that seven more people fell and the three of them walked out unscathed and unfazed by their actions.
This happened three more times as they got ambushed by group after group, although they weren't fine by this they also weren't against this as these were the problems they could shoot their way out off, and that was something they could do with ease.
"We need Spark's support or we'll keep falling for traps like this," Ember growled as they ran away from the scene of the crime with haste as even thou their gunshots were suppressed the screams of the guards weren't.
"We need a computer terminal and we need it fast we are approaching the main lobby of the first floor there is bound to be one there," Leaf added in between as she controlled her breath while running in the halls.
Frost took a USB stick out of his pocket and handed it to Leaf.
"Take it and get to work, I and Ember will cover you." He said as they reached the first proper room of this base.
As soon as they entered the room they were being shot at it, as planned Leaf didn't stick around as she went around to search for a PC while Frost and Ember distracted the guards. Booking it to the nearest door the green-haired woman kicked the door down and disappeared from Frost's view.
Out in the lobby, Frost and Ember jumped cover to cover trying to contain the madness but this was an uphill battle any way they looked at it with the odds favoring the guards.
"Arceus Ember this is getting out of hand now," Frost yelled as she dropped another empty rifle magazine on the floor and reloaded.
"NO SHIT LEADER!" Ember responded while laughing.
Although they were in a pinch both of them were smiling and passing comments all around even insulting the guards in between.
They did this to buy Leaf as much time she needed to find a Terminal because soon they were going to begin their actual counter-attack.
Frost looked and Ember signaling her to be prepared, she responded with a smirk as started prepping.
"Give them hell Ember." He said as Ember countered with a 40 mm grenade launched out of her under-barrel attachment.
BOOM
The round blew up taking down almost everyone in the radius instantly but that and just for assurance another grenade was fired by Ember to make sure none of them escaped her clutches.
The flames died shortly after that as the water sprinklers kicked in and dowsed everything down.
"Great as this day couldn't get harder," Ember complained as she was standing under one of the sprinklers. She was grateful now that she tied her hair into a bun but when she glanced at Frost who was struggling to control his wet hair in control she couldn't help but laugh as her fearless leader tried to keep his kept.
"Here take this." She produced a hairband from her pocket and threw it at Frost who caught it with his free hand and started to tie his hair.
"Thanks," Frost replied embarrassed as the door Leaf went through opened, and both immediately pointed their guns in that direction.
"Relax you two." Leaf confirmed as she walked in obviously drenched as well.
"Did you patch Spark in?" Frost asked as he continued fixing his hair but since he was still struggling Ember swatted his hands and helped him.
"Yes give it a few minutes." She added as red-colored water dripped from her sleeve.
Frost's eyed her right arm suspiciously before Leaf responded.
"It's not mine, I had to ask for the computer password." She defended as Frost relaxed and Ember finished with his hair.
Leaf took this time to see if the two of them got injured and thankfully they were alright considering the state the room was in right now it was a miracle both of them were safe.
The water from the sprinklers mixed with the blood of the fallen and the entire room slowly filled with bloody water.
"And your boyfriend said this baby was too much," Ember said as she patted the grenade launcher.
Leaf sighed at the disfigured bodies in the back of the room and then replied
"I never objected."
"Ah, its good to be working again with you Leader." Ember changed the topic to take everyone's mind off the bodies.
"Yes, I missed this," Leaf added as Frost replied jokingly.
"What the dead bodies?"
"WHAT! Of course not I mean this." She pointed at the three of them.
Frost chuckled "I know I missed you guys too, sorry I had to leave."
"There is something I want to ask, why'd you leave in the first place," Ember questioned.
"Same question."
"I'll explain everything once all of this is over and we go back to base tomorrow," Frost replied and it seemed to have satisfied the both of them.
They continued to chat even thou they were in between a mission and that too in a room full of dead bodies, they took it easy because considering the number of people they offed in this first floor the likelihood of more coming was very little. It was surely a weird moment of familiarity Frost felt since he genuinely missed reliable teammates in the past years simply their presence made him open up and feel safe and this wasn't just him both Leaf and Ember felt the same as they continued to talk about unrelated topics nothing personal mostly random subjects just to take the edge off the situation.
"Alright enough chit-chat Let us rest for few minutes until Spark connects," Frost suggested as he propped himself to one of the tables as the bloody water flowed under his feet.
"Alright." Leaf said as she sat on top of the same table cross-legged.
Ember joined Frost in leaning instead of sitting.
The three of them took a well-needed breather as the water from the sprinklers kept falling on them and they rested for the time being and waited for their support to join them as Frost eyed the room again.
[Just another day.]
Author's Notes:
Another update so early wow. lol
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