"Okay, this can't be too hard," Heliang walked up to the control panel confidently. "If those techies from beta can reprogram these buggers, we can do it."
"Most of those techies also have a degree in computer science," Kush spat, "all you got is a degree in stupidity from the university of Smart-Ass."
"You ever have any good insults?" Heliang ignored Kush and opened the panel.
"You ever have anything worth my insults?" Kush retorted.
"Will you two just shut up and get on with the silo," Ivan hissed, scanning the distant trees as snow fell about them. Something didn't feel right, usually the EU counter attack came right after the PAC took control of a silo, but on this particular silo, there was nothing. Then again, based on his squad's performance, the PAC didn't exactly control this silo.
"Uh, we might have a problem" Heliang turned around.
"Did you finally realize you can't decipher what's on the screen?" Kush leaned on his rifle and smirked.
"No, this silo is run on a triple-buffer state encryption device that won't respond to the normal ohm-three flux charges that we're equipped with." Heliang replied matter-of-factly.
"Wait, say that again, but in Russian," Ivan turned around, surprised by Heliang's grasp of silo technology.
"We can't crack this silo" Heliang stated.
"You couldn't have said that in the first place?" Zhang Yi asked.
"It would've been less dramatic," Heliang smiled.
"Move over, maybe if we just shoot it, we can disable it," Tanya pushed the two out of the way and aimed her Krylov at the panel.
"Wait, you don't want to" Heliang didn't get to finish as she emptied her clip into the panel.
A missile immediately flew out of the silo and headed straight for the Orlov. But unlike normal silos, which had a twenty second delay between firing, this silo started pumping missile after missile into the sky.
"Oh shit," Tanya grumbled as she saw twelve missiles fly into the air. "Those anti-missile guys better be good."
"They're not, I spent a few days with them and I was half convinced that either they were the result of a horrible breeding program or they came from mothers who drank well throughout their pregnancies." Zhang Yi said as he watched the missiles arc gracefully into the sky.
"On the bright side," Heliang broke the tense atmosphere, "most of these missiles aren't armed. Since the only reason for the pause in firing is to arm the missiles. So the commander won't be too pissed with us, but I don't think even gamma has ever screwed up an operation like this."
That was enough to put the fear into the entire squad. They realized that the failure of this mission meant a possible failure to Operation Motherland. They also realized that if Operation Motherland failed, their people would starve.
And to make matters worse, the ground started to tremble at a regular interval.
"Is that what I think it is?" Zhang Yi asked.
"Yep," Ivan replied as he gripped his rifle and turned to his squad. "Battlewalkers."