Life On Helghan.
Right been pretty busy recently as you all know, but here it is.
Chapter 11.
The last six months are a blur, I can remember every person I met and spoke to and every other thing I did beside my training sessions, how I trained to become what I am and how long the sessions took I can't remember, it must have been part of the hypnotherapy, make our minds forget the training in case we got captured and we wouldn't be able to tell the enemy how we trained.
It felt strange, the way I could move and my agility that at this point felt natural, everything I could do felt like instinct but I couldn't remember where it all came from, I tried my best not to dwell on this too much since I was on my first mission only a few hours after recieving my new uniform, the captain was of course with me too, we were tracking a small squad of ISA soldiers, just typical grunts nothing special about them, we knew the reason, Stahl needed weapon test subjects.
We tracked them to a small makeshift base in the middle of a snow-covered mining complex about eight miles from the main weapon depot, I laughed when I clicked on at how nobody had found this base before now.
"All right Captain Lente how do we handle this?"
I'd recieved a promotion because of my selflessness to save a soldier during combat training who almost got crushed by a training course obstacle that was poorly suspended.
"I think we should use some demolition and diversion to split them into two teams, we should be able to handle both teams separately."
"Good idea."
They were all in a half-collapsed building on what seemed to be the edge of the complex most likely discussing their next mission or something trivial like that since it didn't really matter anymore.
We entered one building and got to work setting explosives on the second floor, we had to be careful where we set them because the whole thing was itching to collapse so we set them in the centre of a large room away from the walls so they'd just blow the floor out, plus they were weak, all we needed them to do was make a loud bang, not a powerful explosion, after the explosives were set we set snare traps along the corridors of the first and second floor, while the idiots were trying to help one of their unlucky comrades I'd charge in and take them all by surprise.
"I'll take this building captian, you all right to set traps and explosives in the other building?"
"All right Lente, I'll send word once everything's set up, who detonates first? It's your call."
"You detonate first, then when I see them leave the building I'll set off mine, if it doesn't work I'll move over to you quickly."
"Right, see you later"
He left, I started looking around for a decent hiding place and eventually found one on the second floor, a small niche in the upper half of the wall, too high for them to check but not too high for me to jump in, I settled myself in comfortably and decided it was good enough, i jumped out and went to a window overlooking the ISA base and called Hakha.
"How are you doing captain?"
"Everything's set, I'm just looking for a hiding place."
"(Chuckle) You looking for wall niches?"
"Actually no, not a bad idea...found one, it's pretty high up too."
"Which floor?"
"First, near the stairwell."
"Right whenever you're ready, detonate."
Next thing I heard a loud explosion through the radio.
"FUCK! That fucking hurt my lughole, shit...anyway the building still seems intact minus a floor to a room."
"Radio silence from now on."
"Understood."
I stood at the window staring at the ISA building, after a few minutes they came out, one of them pointed at the captain's building and they all started moving toward it, I grinned in my helmet and raised the detonator in my hand and pushed the button, the captain was right about how loud the explosion was but I kept my eyes on the squad, they all turned and raised their guns at my bulding, the sergeant began moving his arms around and pointing to both buildings, and making the over-the-top gestures everyone does as he was telling them to split up, two soldiers left the sergeant and his teammate and came toward me, I leapt back up into the niche and got settled.
After a few minutes I heard a scream downstairs as I realised one of my snare traps had done it's job, I'd made them too tight to untie and the rope couldn't be cut so I knew he'd have had to leave him there as he came up to the second floor, I heard his slow footsteps coming up the stairwell, as he was moving past me I could hear him breathing heavily with fear and even his gun was rattling, he really was scared which surprised me, must've been a rookie, made me feel a bit bad about what I was about to do but orders are orders, I poked my head out of the hole and looked in the hallway, he'd moved past me and had his back to me so I took the opportunity to jump down silently and grab him from behind, he didn't even get a chance to react to an instant knockout hold.
He slumped to the floor unconscious before I went downstairs to check on my other catch, he was even more scared than the last one.
"Pant pant...please, please don't kill me, I don't wanna die here."
And all the usual crap someone says when begging for theor life, I had to chuckle at how ridiculous he looked hanging upside down before I punched him in the face to knock him out, I went into the room next to the hallway he was in and untied the rope at it's source, I heard a thud and went upstairs to drag the other one down, they were both lying on the ground and I awaited confirmation from the captain that he'd captured his half when I heard one of the ISA troop's radio.
"Derwillwer, Jackson, we've got a Capture Trooper here, he's out cold and we're taking him back to base, you two get your lazy asses back too."
'Shit' I thought, I went upstairs to the window and saw them coming out of the building carrying the captain, things had gone pretty badly wrong at this point, I didn't have time for a plan but there were only two of them so there was no real point, I had no idea how the captain had ballsed it up but I didn't have time to wonder, I waited for them to enter their building before going downstairs and tying up the two soldiers in case they woke up, then started running for the base, I leapt up to the roof and looked in through a skylight, the room was empty so I jumped down, I checked the hallway, empty too so I checked all romms on the second floor, I found makeshift sleepin bunks, a kitchen, and even a locker room, all had been used too.
I went downstairs and heard voices coming from one of the rooms, I decided to get closer.
"What should we do with him sir?"
"When he wakes up we interrogate him for information on Stahl's depot then shoot the fucker, where the hell are Derwiller and Jackson?."
He grabbed his radio as I decided to make my move against the unarmed men.
"Where the fuck are you two."
"They got sloppy and I caught them."
He turned arond along with the other man.
"Ah fuck."
I grabbed him and took him down quickly, the other soldier had ran down the gallway to get his gun, luckily I ran after him and saw him grab his gun which had been left leaning against the wall by the entrance, I felt the bullets hit my armor as I ran at him, I leapt through the air and stabbed him in the shoulder then clocked him in the face and he was out, I dragged him into the room with the sergeant and tied them both up then went looking for the captain who was sat in a chair in an otherwise empty room, he was already coming to but just kept looking at the floor realising he was tied up.
"Ah fuck I'm screwed."
"Not yet Hakha."
He looked up at me.
"Right...nice job on taking them all out."
"Cheers but what the fuck happened to you?"
"(Sigh) I'm an idiot, the hole I found wasn't big enough for me, I was finding it difficult to stay in, after my snare caught one of them on the second floor I tried dropping out but...I fell out and landed face first into the floor, I've been out ever since."
I couldn't help but start laughing.
"A clumsy Capture Trooper?"
"Yeah yeah, you finished yet?"
"Right sorry, let me untie you."
"Cheers and hey do me a favour, don't say anything about this."
"Understood."
After I untied him I told him to go drag the two in this building outside while I went across to the other building, I found them both still out cold so picked one of them up and gropped him where the captain had left one of his then went back for the other, on my way back I could see the captain waiting by them.
"Right I'll call the dropship. Captain Hakha to Ergus six, mission accomplished, we need pickup eight miles southeast of the weapon depot...thanks we'll be waiting."
Ten minutes later the dropship landed, we picked up the soldiers and put them onboard, then the dropship took off taking us back to the depot.
End of chapter 11.
Thanks Stuch for your suggestion on sending them both on a capture mission, you had a good point I thought I needed to do something with them both since I've been avoiding action sequences out of fear of writing them, I hope this was OK since it's not something I'm used to, so I hope everyone enjoyed it and I'll look forward to reviews.