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The guards looked over the paperwork and waved her through. She Dove on through to the camp, stopping behind the mess tent where the men would muster.
The camps sergeant came up. "Wasn't expecting recruits but I'll take what I can get what with his high and Mightiness sitting pretty up on the Dam and Forlorn Hope gone to the dogs." The sergeant said as Aurora stepped down from the cab.
The sergeant looked at her
"Don't I know you... Cosgrove..." he thought for a moment. " yeah you were at Forlorn Hope, doing that talent show. Damn you were better than hot mama Horton!" He smiled and Aurora blushed,
"Thanks sarge." She grinned.
"You were stationed at Hope, how'd you miss that party?" He asked.
"Was on leave in Vegas. " she replied. "Now I'm at McCarran."
The sergeant nodded as the Centurion incognito came to stand beside Aurora. The sergeant noticed the woman pale a little.
"You alright soldier?" He asked.
"Yes sarge, need something to eat, haven't had anything since last night plus the heat today's pretty bad, especially in the cab of the truck."
The sergeant nodded,
"Alright Cosgrove, go get some chow before you get back to McCarran." She nodded and moved off with Sejanus on her heels.
If it were this easy to get into an NCR base, Titus wondered how their spy in McCarran was discovered all those months ago or even why nobody had tried this before.
Peeking from the back of the truck he got his answer.
Veteran Rangers with high powered rifles stood lining the main building on the resort. If any of them were alerted during the raid, that building would become near impregnable.
It was late in the afternoon, so they didn't have long to wait until nightfall. They would play their parts until the sun went down, they silently dispatch everyone in their sleep, leaving the patrols and guards in their towers on the night watch to be picked off by the scout snipers in the hills.
He and his disguised men climbed out of the back of the truck and walked round to the sergeant who Aurora had just been talking to.
"Ah, fresh meat." the Sergeant beamed at them. He went on to tell all the Legion men how they would begin their training here tomorrow morning and that tonight they would be sleeping in the tents closest to the lake, along with the troopers misfits. But Titus wasn't paying much attention. All he could think about was how similar this was to when he was conscripted into the NCR many years ago.
Putting his burning anger aside for the sake of the mission, Titus followed the sergeant with his men to eat - he felt like he had to act like the insufferable weaklings who joined up to such a pathetic fighting force.
While they ate, in their own corner, isolating themselves from the NCR scum here, they did a head count of the troopers here. Roughly 30 here, eating, another 15 on patrol around the camp and maybe 20 or so rangers up in the main building, and some more who were dotted around the base.
Wouldn't be all that difficult if everything went to plan, though Titus wished Caesar had granted him a few of his Frumentarii - they would make this level of stealth look easy.
Titus had no idea where Aurora and Sejanus had got to, but he trusted the Decanus would make sure his property didn't wander off.
After the meal, which was awful at best, the disguised men and many of the real troopers decided to retire to their beds. The Centurion wasn't used to such a cramped tent, but his spirits could not be dampened by such trivial things, as soon he would have this brilliant camp and the ranger chief up on the cross.
Maybe he'd get Aurelius to look after Forlorn Hope so he could have his whole centuria out here - it'd be more useful than having that useless excuse for a centurion whiling away the months down in Cottonwood Cove.
Mags sought out Aurora when she had heard that she was in camp. The girls chatted away for a while, Sejanus looked bored.
Soon Mags and the rest of the troopers departed the mess hall. There were a couple of cots set up in the corner for them as space was at a premium with the new "recruits" arrival.
Aurora sat on a cot and sighed. Waiting for the inevitable was torture in itself. Sejanus threw a piece of red cloth at her.
"What's this?" She asked.
"Put it on your arm." Sejanus snapped peevishly.
Aurora took up the cloth and tied it to her arm. She sighed and settled in to wait.
The hours passed slowly. The anticipation drew each minute out longer than the men had thought possible. In the large tent by the lake, one of Titus' men stared intently out of the opening to see the sun go down and the men go to sleep.
Though there were fewer men out than before, it seemed to camp patrols had been upped in lieu of Forlorn Hope being taken. Thought they didn't know the time exactly, the Prime Legionary by the exit of the tent told Titus now was the best time, and with that, they all took red rags and tied them around their upper arms. They drew the NCR combat knives they had looted from the slaves and got ready to leave the tent.
Titus felt very naked going into this without his own armor. There was nothing substantial between him and the gun of a ranger, but it needed to be done. The auxiliaries in the hills had all the incognito men's gear.
On Titus whisper, the Legionaries left the tent in twos and quietly entered the surrounding tents, slitting the throats of all those sleeping. The Centurion thought he heard one man in the neighbouring tent struggle - maybe he had woken on the sound of his comrades gargling their own blood - but he was quickly dispatched.
Over the next few minutes, the disguised Legion men worked their way up the line of tents, silently thinning out their enemy's numbers, until finally they reached the officers' tent, right below the ranger's building. This was both where the comms were, and so close to the ranger sentries that any wrong move here would spell disaster for the rest of the operation.
Titus and a handful of veterans entered the tent slowly, treading on the balls of their feet. Only now did the centurion appreciate the lightness of his gear. One communications officer was still at her post, quietly writing requisitions, but the rest of them, including the sergeant looked sound asleep.
Titus nodded to a veteran who crept up behind the woman and slit her throat, dragging her body to the floor quietly as she bled out. Good.
The rest of the men positioned themselves over the ones sleeping in the tent and waited for Titus word. The centurion himself was standing over the sergeant from earlier. On his signal, the legionaries took the necks of their targets.
So far so good, thought Titus. This camp really did deserve to fall if they were going to make his job so easy. If this were a legion camp, the mongrels would have alerted him to any intruder already.
Sejanus was tense, and it made Aurora edgy. She knew the legionary would rather be out there murdering her comrades in their sleep.
Aurora sat on the floor beside the cot and looked at the two pictures from her pocket. She sighed at the memory of the day that she left home to start her training. She noticed Sejanus watching Her from a corner of the tent.
She put the pictures into her bra where they lay between her left beast and the material of her bra.
The atmosphere outside the tent changed as someone screamed. Searchlights were activated and gunfire started as the Rangers were alerted to the attack.
Aurora was quietly hopeful that the Rangers, the best of the best of the NCR would win the day.
The sounds of shooting and shouting continued.
There was a noise by the back door to the tent.
An NCR ranger stood before her. He looked at her and noticed that she had a red armband. He raised his hunting revolver and aimed it at her.
"Don't you move, bitch." The man said angrily. Aurora raised her hands showing that she was unarmed.
The ranger went for his radio and began to call for reinforcements.
His call was cut short however with Sejanus cutting his throat from behind.
Sejanus carefully wiped clean his blade and hauled Aurora to her feet. The mess hall was now no longer a safe place for the Centurion's property, they would have to risk going outside.
Sejanus gripped Aurora's arm and marched her out into the chaos outside.