The Trap

Nylen had gone to the back door with the troops and waited for the guards to run for the gate and help protect it. He was surprised at how many troops there were. He counted at lest sixteen PAC guarding the back alone. A few moments later he herd an explosion and saw most of the guards leave but five still remained. A few quick burst from his Voss and the other rifles took care of them. He reloaded, and then he took out his shotgun attachment.

"Let's go" he said to the others. When they reached the gate he saw all of the PAC troops fighting the rest of Delta Force across the camp.

Mentally reviewing the map he saw that the building was to his right. At first glance he thought that it was an office building or a Lab building and he had a funny feeling that it probably was at one point. The door had an old fashion key pad lock that could easily be hacked but there was no time to do that. He shot the handle once and it flew off.

Once through the door the first thing that he noticed was that there were no guards. He looked around and noticed that there were three heat ripples near the windows but there were no vents on the floor or on the ceiling.

Ignoring them he told the other fore troops to guard the door and went up one level on a flight of stairs where he found the two prisoners behind a standard shield. One was a girl that looked like she was the same age as him. She had long brownish-blond hair. She looked unhurt and when she looked up she seemed eager to get out but there was something about the way she looked at him that warned him that something was wrong. The other was an older man with graying hair and was probably the girls' father. He looked like he had been beaten a few times but he was stronger then he looked. He was also wearing an officer's uniform so he was probably high ranking.

As the girl got up Nylen noticed something familiar about her but he did not dwell on this thought. Then the girl asked "are you a Delta?"

Nylen nodded his head and replied "my name is Spartan" he took out a data pad and started to hack the shield to bring it offline. Seeing that it would take several minutes for the computer to hack in he asked "so what's you're name" trying his best not to sound too casual.

"I'm Michelle" she answered "and this is my father his name is Eisenhower."

A sudden rush of realization hit him. If this man was Eisenhower then that would mean that he was the Supreme Commander. If that was the case then wouldn't there be more security?

"How long have you been here?" Nylen asked

"About 3 days Corporal." It was Eisenhower that answered this time

But before he could continue there was a burst of gun fire, along with loud screaming and cursing coming from down stairs. Then complete dead silence. He wanted to go down and find out what that was but he had to get Michelle and the commander out of the cell first.

Once the shield was down he told them to hide in the office that was across from the prison cell. Then he slowly walked down the stairs to see what had happened. The 4 solders were dead but the bullets entered at an angle that was from a frontal assault. Carefully scanning the room the only things moving were the shimmering heat waves. Then a chill of understanding came upon him. It slowly dawned on him that these weren't random waves of heat.

Aiming quickly but carefully he spread his gun fire across the room and one by one the stealth fields failed and the PAC troopers dropped dead. He carefully scanned the room making sure that he didn't make that mistake again. he went to the dead bodies and picked up the stealth wrist belts and examined them. He couldn't find any button that would normally be on a cloaking generator.

The he heard Titan on the helmet com "report contact!"

Nylen replied "PAC troopers with some kind of cloaking. I lost all fore of the soldiers but the PAC troopers are dead" there was silence on the com and then "they have cloaking fields now?" asked Hunter "they shouldn't have that. Did you get one for examination?"

"That's the problem I couldn't find anything on them that would activate it" Nylen answered. Then came something that caught him completely off guard. Capt. Steffen was screaming into the com. Nylen missed what he was saying.

"Sir say again" Nylen said. The response was " FALL BACK TO THE LZ. REPEAT: EVERYONE FALL BACK TO…" then there was a burst of static.

Then Nylen realized what the captain was panicking about. The static was a result of being jammed.

He ran up the stairs into the office where the prisoners were hidden.

He hadn't realized that the office was a small war room. But there was a more then just a map of the land. There were also maps that were normally used for dig sights and what looked like a battle plan.

Michelle turned to him and saw the fear in his face "what's wrong" she asked.

Nylen simply answered "we have to go now! Bring the plans too."

Michelle didn't like that he didn't answer her question or that he was giving her orders but took one of the plans while her father took the other.

She turned back to Nylen about to repeat her question but there was no need he looked at both of them and said "the PAC aren't coming" Michelle relaxed a little "they are already here and they are cloaked" all the color drained from her face and she started shaking.

Her father appeared to be looking for something and found a pistol in the desk drawer then said "they want both of us all alive so stay behind me."

They ran outside as fast as they could and headed for the LZ. He saw the rest of his squad, the remaining troops that came with, and twenty POWs not far from it there were big boulders that were set up like a barricade. Nylen would've laughed if the situation wasn't life threatening. He knew that Titan would do that. Next to the makeshift barricade was the transport that was supposed to pick them up but it was shot down. Titan had taken the gun emplacements to use them as heavy guns. As soon as he joined them he heard a loud siren then heard a weird static noise coming from somewhere in the distance. Nylen turned and saw five PAC Titans uncloaking and saw transports coming out of them and landing a few miles away unloading troops then taking off to pick up more.

Ben said what everyone else was thinking "O shit".

The trap was sprung and all they could do now was fight.

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