12 may 2002

Central Manchester plaza, near Manchester College and university

Ghost Squad, SAS ETCU

Echo 1's hearing returned first, due to the incessant beeping, in his ear from the on-board computer telling him that an electrical burst had been detected, then his vision returned, flickering slightly showing him the sky which was still fairly cloudy, he twisted round, the visor automatically darkening as he looked a the sun, finally feeling returned top his legs and arms and he picked himself up. Void 2 and Spectre 4 were still in combat mode, with rifles raised and continually sweeping the area, when they noticed he was alive and well he rushed over to him

"Sir, are you alright?" Echo 1 nodded

"What the hell was that? It felt like I was hit by lightening" Void 2 pointed at a prone figure on the floor, a black viscous liquid pouring out of a wound on its head

"dunno what it is, hits hard as hell though" echo 1 stalked over to it and kicked it, it rolled over revealing its very alien appearance, the third arm and about 5 eyes for instance

"keep an eye out, if these bastards keep appearing out of thin air were in deep" he then walked to his assault rifle and picked it up, the gun had undoubtedly born the brunt of the attack, the plastic was half melted and the metal was badly scorched due to the grass that had set on fire when it ha been thrown out of his hand into a small patch of grass

"Damn"

"Sir?"

"My rifles been fried" even as he said that he took out the remaining rounds and put them in his ammo box.

"Do we have any spare?"

"This wasn't meant to be a shot out; all we got is a pistol"

"It'll have to do" Echo 1 then walked over and took the 'Falchion' pistol, which was actually a heavily modified 3rd generation Glock 17 pistol, designed with an extra 'universal Glock rail' below the barrel. The top rail mounted a laser sight and the bottom a tactical light, specifically modified with a widened beam to allow easier use in situations without sufficient light. It carried 33 rounds of +P munitions so it would work in more traditional role of sniping without the time it takes to set up a sniper rifle. The pistols used by the ETCU had a final modification by removing the disconnector so it could fire automatically.

The pistol felt fairly heavy in one hand but after consideration Echo 1 took another, one in each hand. Once he had done that and they were all ready, they had to decide on a course of action.

"We need to get back to HQ, that is the primary consideration"

"How? It's at least 100 miles if, not more, away"

"Where's the jeep we came in? If we can get that it'll have enough fuel to get us back to base" they all nodded and headed out, unaware of the carnage that was to follow.

AN if anyone has any info about the 3rd generation pistol and has seen that the bits I wrote are wrong please PM or review about it, my info did come from Wikipedia.

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