Not related to story – sorry this took two weeks but I was very busy but I have a two week holiday next week so that mean more free time and it will lead to more stories *yay* so im asking you guys (and girls) to hold tight and understand my situation. Well anyway enough rants and here is the second part of the story, all reviews is appreciated)
Hydraulic pistons hissed as the floor seem to split in the middle and machineries pulled them apart to reveal a set of stairs leading downwards into the secret base.
"Ok then good work people but this is just that start, Dino you take point, I want no chatter when we're in there and keep your eyes open and remember the route we are taking. I don't want to end up lost down there." Wolf Ordered.
"aww common I just chopped someone's head off and your asking me to take point?"
"Don't whine trooper and I said no chatter."
"Yes sir, understood sir." "Asshole" Mumbled Dino as they went down the steps, their steps as light as possible and their breathing controlled.
After going down the stairs that seemed endless, they finally reached the end and was greeted with a corridor that looked about 5 meters long and at the end of it a door of which seem to belong to an elevator. A single light bulb at the middle of the corridor hangs from the ceiling laminating the corridor.
Darn how deep are we going to go? It would be bad if our only way out is this goddamned thing. Thought Dino as they made their way to the door of an elevator and calling it up as they reached it, as it traveled up, they went prone10 steps away from the elevator door in case there were passengers in the elevator.
It seem to take forever as they waited for the elevator to reach the top but after a while a 'ding' was heard coming from the elevator, sounding its arrival, as the three of them aimed down the attached sights on their weapons.
The doors slowly opened and revealed that no one was in it, Rat let out a sigh of relief as they got up and entered the elevator, but as they took they stepped in the blub started to swing around slightly, causing their shadows to dance around.
Wait a minute, a gust of wind? How is that possible? We are underground unless some one opened…awww shit. Thought Wolf as he pushed the rest inside and pressed the lowest button on the elevator's control panel, which turned out to be a door open button, cursing softly to himself he punched the door closed button followed by the down arrow button. And as the door started to close agonizingly slow for his liking, foot steps could be heard coming from the stairs as heavy boots come in contact with the metal floor. Just as the door closed Wolf caught a glimpse of a boot stepping into view before the elevator's doors shut and started it's descend.
Wolf let out a sigh before realizing that he have been holding his breath and sweating slightly with his heath beating against his chest which seem to sound as loud as a drum.
Once inside they looked around and spotted a small hole at one corner of the lift's ceiling where a security would have been located. Must have been in the process of being replaced thought Wolf as he looked around the roof of the elevator for a maintenance hatch, which he soon found out that it was properly concealed with white paint at the middle of the elevator's ceiling.
Not wasting a moment Wolf asked his men to boost him up as he tried to barge it open with the combined strength of this legs and his men. After a failed first uncoordinated try due to Rat shooting up to boost Wolf before Dino due to his over eagerness causing Wolf to fall side wards and bang his head hard on the side of the lift. They finally managed to get the hatch open and Wolf being the first one up pulled Rat and Dino up one by one before replacing the hatch.
As the elevator grind to a halt and open it's doors with the uncommon "ding" Wolf let down a 'snake cam' to find that there was no guards. Carefully letting more of the camera down and with it peeking out of the door, his first thought that the 'lab don't have enough security' is instantly demolished as beyond the door lays another corridor, but just half the length of the previous one which they just came from. The other differences was that this time the corridor was twice as wide with a few metal crates around the room some stacked to the top, its contents unknown, but the main problem that Wolf spotted was that is a sentry gun attached to the ceiling of the corridor with a light source behind the gun. This immediately gave Wolf that idea that it runs on a thermal targeting mechanism, but it don't add up as that way it would shoot anything that walks through the door of the lift, unless the light source was placed behind the gun so the operator could see forward.
His first plan was to drop a smoke grenade down the lift's hatch, and another under the sentry gun but faults were quickly raised as he remembered the previous narrow escape. Turning to his team and explaining the situation and his plan as quickly as possible as he could, he told them to all jump down and get behind the crates, either way he knew something was gonna go wrong with the operation. Heck one way or another there will be something that goes wrong in every operation, thought Wolf.
As Rat and Dino checked their guns, Wolf packed the 'snake cam' away and just as he hooked it to his belt, he heard the elevator's doors start to close. "Go now" he ordered in a low but all the same threatening voice.
A low clang was heard followed by two more caused Romanov Ravitzki to tear his eye from a magazine for entertainment and morale as his friend, which he borrowed the magazine from, would call it, to look at the several monitors that lays in front of him. Almost every monitor shows stretches of corridors besides the central monitor that depicts a circular room with a ramp leading to an elevated platform found at a far side of the room. At the end of the ramp was a circular gateway that was wired to the many computers that if found close to the walls of the room, which are manned and operated by several scientist and a few patrolling guards that frequently enter and exit the circular room. The rest of the elevated area was surrounded by glass that could withstand almost any shock applied to it, and above the platform hangs six sharp edged poles that are twisted to the middle of the platform, which seemed like legs that belonged to insects to Romanov.
Scanning every screen form the bottom left to the top right screen, one of them particularly got his attention, the access lift doors was half closing but no one was leaving or entering it, turning the sentry to look below, he still did not see anyone. For a second he wanted to alert his officer but he remembered that that Natico was a trouble maker and did not really liked him, and it could be that he sent the lift down, empty, to make him panic and get into trouble by raising a false alarm. Ohh no you wont fool me heh nice try though. Though Romanov not knowing that Natico is dead, his body hidden in a bush, his head decapitated and hid in a pile of unsorted hay.
Rat was the last one to get into the cover of the crates and just as he got into cover, the whine of the sentry gun's movement could be heard and no one dared too peek out until the whining stopped. Wolf pulled one of his flash bang grenades from his belt before ordering Dino to move from cover to cover to the end of the corridor, he placed his finger in the safety ring of the grenade, ready to throw it towards the sentry gun incase things got ugly.
After a few quick, short dashes from cover to cover Dino managed to get to the other side of the corridor without being noticed by the sentry gun. Rat then followed him under Wolf's order to move up. Hooking his grenade back onto his belt, Wolf dashed from cover to cover and eventually linked up with the others, safely out of the sentry gun's field of view, that is unless it turned for some reason or another.
The blast doors opened as Dino hacked into the console and then the database, he then downloaded the lab's blueprints and sent it to his team's SAS (Situational Awareness System) through its wireless links, so they know where they will be going. Assessing the blueprint, one particular room that is circular in shape and bigger than most of the other rooms, this room was immediately marked as the first priority of investigation but they would first have to find the lab's computer data banks so Dino can work his magic.
The rest of the trip to the data bank was uneventful besides having to time their moves when they encountered rotating security cameras and motion sensors. Leaving their electronics expert Dino in the data bank, which he happily started tapping into, Rat and Wolf made their way towards the circular room that was only two corridors and a room away but the room that they have to cross is a gym that is currently being used, radioed Dino through their PRR(Personal Role Radio). Wolf's first plan was to find another route but it was instantly scrapped as Dino informed that the other access routes to the circular room are frequently patrolled.
Their other plan was to wait until those inside leave the room but it was uncertain how long they would stay there or if other would enter and just as they were about to join Dino in the data bank room, Dino radioed in that an accident happened in the gym and a loss of a personal was reported. The victim was bench-pressing when he loss his grip on the bars causing it to fall and this caused 120 Kilograms of weight to ram straight onto his windpipe, crushing it and the resulting momentum caused the head to snap back, breaking his neck, killing him instantly. Others in the room, who saw this instantly loss all motivation to continue working out, thus heading for the lockers and shower rooms, some, the friends of the victim, carried the body with heads hung low and hearts heavy towards the medical room.
Dino gave the go and Rat and Wolf moved in but as they moved half way across the room, the door opens and a moderately built guard who returned to get his canteen he left behind. They looked at each other for a moment dumbfounded before the guard's body slump to the ground, a hole in his head that first leaked blood then a clear liquid with brain matter. Rat was still in a daze with the sudden change of events until Wolf grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the door while radioing Dino to regroup ASAP (as soon as possible). Their cover would be compromised in the matter of seconds and they have yet to complete their objective.
By the time they regrouped in the corridor after the gym, the alarm was raised and they dashed into the circular room using the sudden outburst of confusion and panic as their final cover, weapons ready neutralizing every hostile with well-placed shots to the head or to the chest. Several overseer scientists tried to draw their pistols but were shot down before they can take the shot, while others ran out of the room, some stayed behind and started typing into the computers connected to the gateway on the ramp, causing the six poles to charge up and spin like an extraction fan.
Several doors opened and guards poured into the room but SOT8 was ready for them and they were using the computers as cover and picking off targets one by one, this time with short burst as more scientists evacuated the area. SOT8 had messed up and is most likely to die here, but if we are to die here, then we will drag as much of these sorry khekers along to hell with us too. Thought Wolf as he fired his gun at the advancing guards.
"Shit! I'm pinned!" shouted Rat as his cover was being chipped apart by the guards with a constant rate of fire. Seeing this Dino threw a fragmentation grenade towards an area where some guards were using as cover before shouting "Frag out!" killing 2 guards and wounding another. Seeing the chance Rat took a dash to another cover closer to the ramp while bullets zip past him, as he was running back he saw that a scientist stayed behind and was still working furiously on something which became clear when red flashing lights flooded the room and a mechanized voice sounded on the PA (public system) system. "I think they initiated a self destruct system." Shouted Dino from his cover, as the guards shut the doors and left them too their doom. "Then what is that guy doing?" asked Rat as the last scientist is now rushing between computers, and typing furiously in them. "Hey!" shouted Wolf, but the scientist just ignored them, Dino pointed his gun towards the scientist, before remembering that they can't kill any civilians but he still kept his gun pointing at the scientist.
Electricity shot out simultaneously from each pole, that is now extended and spinning round quickly, and struck the ground but leaving some kind of white swirl in the middle of the platform. The poles start to spin even faster and cause the swirl to grow bigger until it covered the platform and stopping just before the gateway. Suddenly the scientist dropped into a crouch, the sudden movement made Dino fire a shot towards the scientist but missed and struck the computer instead, causing it to spark and flare. The scientist dashed towards the gateway and disappeared into the mist. "You know I think we should do the same thing he did." Suggested Rat "it's worth a try, I mean a try is better than just standing here and waiting for this place to blow up." Just as he said that the computed that Dino damaged blew up and caused the six poles to send another burst of electricity towards the platform, this time causing a black tear in the white swirl. "Go now or never." Ordered Wolf as they all dashed into the tear just as the self destruct count down ended.
Orbiting high above earth, a spy satellite that is recording the barn and its surrounding area watches as a pillar of flame burst through the barn from the underground turning rocks into deadly shrapnel and that showered the small batch of white coated scientist and other survivors that managed to squeeze into the elevator that led them into safety.
Watching the live feed, the general concluded the operation a failure and called the evac units to pull out leaving no evidence that they have ever been there.
I don't know why I left the ending like that but i hope that you did not get confused with this chapter, anyway please if you find any faults or have any opinions on my story then please PM me or write a review, I always look forward to read them.