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"Any suggestions Lupo? If we open door and see that we are not civilians, we will be taking showers of lead. And there's no cover to hide behind."
"If there's a duct I could ambush them."
"No. If we are going to get the drop on that number of soldiers, we must all do it together. I don't see a duct anywhere, so either way it won't work." Lupo immediately vetoed Viper's offer.
"I will go. Beltway, give me two flash bangs." Beltway rummaged through the pack and tossed two thin canisters with pins in them towards Vector, who pulled the pins but kept a tight hold on it and the safety lever. "If I keep my head down and get behind them with these, I can start the ambush."
"You will be screwed if you open door, no?"
"I have my cloaking gimmick, in case you've forgotten," Vector replied as he demonstrated.
"I second Vector's plan." Viper spoke up firmly. "We all know Vector doesn't make stupid mistakes. They'll probably think the blast messed up the hinges or something. People tend to be on alert for things that they can see, so if the door opens and they see nothing, then they'll let their guard down a bit. They won't know what hit 'em."
Lupo was not too keen on Viper's assumptions of how the soldiers beyond the door would act as a professional, but as there were no other viable options, she gave them the go-ahead.
"Detonation is the signal. Spectre, figure out exactly how many there are. See if you could get into the CCTV feeds of the building to see their positions too, if there are any."
"Copy that. Stay hidden, chameleon."
The hooded coat shimmered before Vector disappeared. The coat he wears is a special piece of equipment made by Umbrella's department of research and development that grants him the ability to become invisible temporarily as he blends into the scenery. As a reconnaissance expert, there was no gear better suited for him. Viper had asked him time and time again for his own, but Vector brushed him off, saying that there wasn't anything that was in his size.
Vector slipped through the gap of the door once he eased open inch by inch taking care not to let the door creak unnecessarily. There was no gunfire. He was still unnoticed.
Spectre looked down at the monitor mounted on his arm indicating relative enemy numbers and positions as Beltway quietly fed a grenade round into the M203 under barrel grenade launcher of his rifle.
There was a flash and a large cracking noise that flooded the room, shaking the windows and the Wolfpack's eardrums violently.
"GO!" Beltway's metal leg tore the door off its hinges as it smashed into it like a battering ram, followed by a loud pop, a whooshing noise and another explosion. Each soldier took their positions as they positively picked off the SPEC-OPS one by one.
"Clear."
"Clear."
"Clear."
"All clear. Make sure they're all dead before we move on. This is definitely not the last we'll see of them." Each of them went around, making sure the soldiers were indeed deceased, and when they found some that were alive albeit barely, they finished them off mercilessly, stepping on their throats, breaking their necks, and delivering the final shot.
"Command, we have reached City Hall." While they did not respond, periodical situational reports were mandatory, so once Lupo made the short report, she and her soldiers replenished their ammunition from the dead who have no further use for them.
"Spectre, what's up ahead?"
"Security room. No cameras in there, obviously so I can't see personnel or positions." The other option was to use another stun grenade, but as they had no knowledge of enemy numbers or positions, it may be a waste. "But, I do have this." Spectre produced a handheld monitor and a thin cord several meters long. Once he connected the cord to the monitor, he pointed the other end at Viper, and his face appeared on the screen.
"A snake cam. Nice." Beltway clapped softly.
"I would have brought CornerShot but not enough space. This works just as well." He gently slid the camera underneath the door and used the monitor to control the camera's movements. He held up two fingers indicating the number of men posted there.
While this was good news, they suddenly felt stupid for tensing up so much as they looked at each other. "Probably not trap but….Lupo, any suggestions?"
"Mow them down. Viper, are there any factors that we should be worried about?" Viper closed his eyes for five seconds, completely silent before shaking his head. "Alright, cover each other, don't break ranks." Lupo operated the bolt of the M26 Mass as the shotgun fired a slug round destroying the hinges. Beltway's lunging kick sent the door flying as they jumped in, taking down the two soldiers.
"Command, we've entered the security room." Viper deadpanned
"There should be a console. Use it to override the security lockdown."
"My field of expertise." Spectre swiftly overrode the security as his fingers danced across the keyboards. "Done."
"Good. Now you can access the server room and destroy all of the city's records."
"Now we can move on," Lupo exhaled slowly through her nose as she rubbed her temple.
Viper browsed through the dozens of screens and stopped as he moved closer. "Hey, cap'n? The security feed on this monitor is from earlier today." As the feed played on, the familiar face of Nicholai appeared. Once he came through, he drew his side arm, shot the men in his team and closed the door behind him as infected creatures began to swarm them. Judging by the men pounding on the door he seems to have barricaded the door somehow.
"Nicholai and his men…." While Lupo's lower half of her face was covered, her eyes gave no effort in hiding her indignation towards his actions as she bore a hole through the monitor with her hard stare.
The three men left behind fought valiantly until they ran out of bullets and more infected began converging. One of them tried to climb up onto the lockers but was immediately dragged down after getting a large piece of his right calf was torn off.
"Weaklings. They put up a fight." While reasons differed, Vector sniffed disapprovingly at the events that unfolded on the screen.
"Isn't that against some company policy?" Spectre chuckled.
"No one cares about a few dead UBCS. We've got a job to do."
"Cover!" Before anyone took a step forward to the door leading to their next destination, Beltway stood in front of them with a grenade in each hand, their pins and safety levers already removed. He shoved everyone back after tossing them towards the door, blasting it apart as more undead came lumbering towards them. "Four Eyes! Remember the pheromone canisters?"
"What about them?!"
"Time for a field test! Make them cluster at the threshold!"
"Fine!"
"Hey! Don't even think about trying to use pheromones and explosives when we're boxed in like this! We've got company from behind as well!"
But Beltway ignored Vector's shouts as he covered Four Eyes who pulled out a canister whose shape was similar to the stun grenade. As she removed the pin and lobbed it towards the door. With a sharp hissing noise, streams of red gas began to spout from it and the infected creatures turned their heads and moved towards the origin, pushing, falling and stumbling into each other. Lupo, Spectre, Bertha and Viper wasted no time in peppering them with bullets until their clips ran dry as they fell to the ground, dying once more, permanently.
Beltway lured one of the infected towards him and jammed a grenade into its mouth, and shoved it with his foot towards the leftovers that were still moving. He watched with his hands on his hips in admiration as the explosion vaporized a majority of their heads. "Orale, cabron! That was fucking awesome! My plan was fucking awesome!" Beltway repeatedly pumped his fists and ran in a small circle as if he had just singlehandedly won the Super Bowl.
"Awesomely stupid," Bertha spat as she pulled the bloody machete out of a corpse and pointing it directly at Beltway, its tip a mere inch away from his face. "You fucking musclebound sack-of-shit-bomber. If I died, I would have cursed you for all eternity. Actually, no….I'd rather operate on you with tainted equipment." She slapped both sides of his masked face with the flat sides as she wiped the blood off with the corpses' clothes. "Or should I spike your drink with Rohypnol and let the men in prison have their way with you?"
Viper laughed upon hearing those words. Rohypnol was a well known hypnotic misused as a means for drug-facilitated sexual assault and robbery in the United States and Europe. It is a potent drug to begin with, but its potency increases significantly when mixed into alcohol. "I can't imagine Beltway of all people getting his ass stretched by inmates."
Besides, being a behemoth of a man, a regular dosage would never work properly on him and a high enough dosage would be brain dead within minutes. "Bertha, listen to me—"
"What? You did almost just blow us up to kingdom come. I don't care who or what you blow up, do it outside. Dying from a building collapsing on our heads because of an explosion is by far one of the most humiliating ways to die, and I want no part of it."
"Alright fine, Dios mio!" He raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, only before muttering that he would never make such a dumb mistake.
They pressed on up to the second floor where the server room was located, and once they reached the second floor, Lupo signaled everyone to stop. This was the crossroad of their life. As long as they are small fry, getting past the infected will be no problem. Destroying the data in the server room would be no trouble either. "We'll sweep the floor before we get to the server room," she announced.
Nobody said a word to Lupo's decision. After working together for many missions, they have all grown to understand each other's thoughts and anticipate each other's movements with almost consummate ease. The primary worrying matter for Lupo was the military personnel deployed in Raccoon City. Their existence was top secret within Umbrella Corporation not to mention the outside world. Therefore depending on the situation, they were to destroy, capture or kill any and all evidence and witnesses.
Just as the phrase "divide and conquer" denotes, doing so would be more efficient, but this with so few numbers, doing so would be the absolute height of folly. In the worst cases, some would be incapacitated if not dead, a risk which she was not willing to take. Therefore Lupo laid emphasis on steadiness than efficiency.
"Contact with SPEC-OPS is unavoidable. Ignore the infected unless the only way is through. Make every shot count."