Disclaimers: I do not own anything of Konami or MGS4, other than a few of the made up characters, and vehicles, and factions I've made up.
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Metal Gear: Engagement
Chapter Six
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Author Note: I decided to start calling Liquids private army Haven Troopers since it sounds more proper and makes it sound like they're actual soldiers. This is longer than usual and I think I will keep longer from now on. Anyways on the Chapter Six.
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Darren dusted off one of the windows and looked out of the it; he wondered how much longer they would have to stay here. He checked his watch the time three hours after midnight. Luckily he had slept earlier after his patrol shift was over.
Day had soon turned into night, and instead of waiting evac HQ had changed their objectives to waiting for a CID team, under the name of Rat Patrol O1 to arrive. He hated that they weren't going to be picked-up, an instead they were going to be commanded by this Rat Patrol, once they've met up.
Darren sighed and looked away from the window and turned back to see Kelvana fast asleep lying down one of the dusty beds, she just could not seem to stay awake at all, and yet she gets the most sleep in the entire platoon.
He wondered if she felt anything for him, because she had no reason to join the T.F.E. For all he knew she could've joined just to assassinate someone in higher up in the chain of command, but she just didn't seem like the type of person to do such a thing. Ever since they've gotten back to base he was told to keep an eye on her for any suspicious activity, but so far she's been doing her part of the squad, better then they had expected.
Before he could continue with his thoughts he heard several footsteps coming from the small church across the street. It was most likely that CID team that was sent here.
He shook Kelvana. "Wake up sleepy head; we've got activity near the church. It could be those inspectors HQ want us to meet with." he whispered
Kelvana groaned as she rubbed her eyes. "Must you always wake me up?" she complained softly as got up.
"Well no one else will now c'mon." he replied as he opened the door into the relatively clear night outside.
When he fully opened the door he looked to see Wiseley and Emerson outside.
"I suppose you saw several figures as well entering the church." Darren questioned as both men nodded their heads.
"Have we told Dave?" Kelvana asked still half-asleep.
"Victor's already on it, now let's going and find out who's sneaking around the village." Wiseley answered as the squad slowly moved up to the church. "High chance it's the CID Team, if it's not you can yell at me after we're dead."
When they reached the church Darren glanced through the opening in the door, it seems the people who entered closed it. It was pitched black; he could not see a damn thing. Darren took out his flashlight and mounted on his rifle and turned it on. He signalled for his team to move in.
When they entered the lights went on, almost blinding them. It appeared the church had its own generator for the lights. Darren looked to see a team of four people. I woman whose hair was a reddish orange colour with a medium build, a black male whose arms had several black markings, a large male whose head was shaved aside from the middle, and another man who was wearing a balaclava and dark sunglasses. They all had an emblem called Foxhound on their fatigues and vests. He immediately turned his flashlight off to conserve power. The large man turned around and Darren looked carefully at his head to see his hair looked like an exclamation mark, which he found rather strange.
"So are you the inspectors HQ was talking about?" Darren asked, he had his rifle pointed at them in case they weren't
"That would be us," the woman replied, "now who's in charge here."
"That would be me." Dave answered as he entered through the door with his squad. Darren and his squad then lowered their weapons when Dave signalled them to.
"Sergeant Dave Palmer, T.F.E Eagle Platoon, Alpha Company." he said as he put out his hand to greet the woman.
"Commander Meryl Silverburgh, Rat Patrol O1, U.S. Army CID." she replied as she shook his hand.
After the introduction the two began to get down the business.
"We've got information that you need this conflict, we have the location of the man in charge of Outer Heaven, Liquid, he's in a base not far from here." Meryl said who then turned to one of her teammates. "Akiba." she called out to as the man immediately brought out the laptop and began typing something in. A map soon appeared of the layout of a military base and the area around it. The village they were in soon popped up onto the laptop.
Dave then turned to Darren. "Copy the map into your digital map system; I don't want anyone getting lost in the base."
Darren nodded his head as he pulled a small handheld digital map and hooked it up to the laptop. Several moments after downloading it into the system, Darren unhooked it.
"Exactly who's Liquid again." Emerson muttered to Darren.
"You haven't heard?" Darren said suprised. "He's a wanted man in the states, I do find it strange though how he managed to build such a large army rivaling that of the entire American army."
"We should hurry," Meryl said, "I think Liquid's private army may be sniffing around the area. They don't exactly like us after what we've done to their comrades in the Middle-East."
"Well let's go then," Dave replied as he signalled for everyone to move out of the church, "I've got point."
Meryl pulled something out of her bag that she carried and passed two small headsets to the squad leaders before they got out of the church. "We can use these to keep in touch. I don't trust the radio packs you're carrying around."
"Thanks." Dave said. "These will come in handy, now if only the entire squad had them." Dave commented as he put the headset on and turned it on.
The sound of feet landing on the roofs nearby signalled that the Haven Troopers were in the area and were looking for them.
"C'mon, put some hustle into it." Dave whispered as they began moving out of the village.
Several rounds then rung through the air, they've been spotted, several more Haven Troopers soon rallied to the position of the trooper that was firing at them.
"Get behind the walls of the buildings, move it Akiba!" Meryl shouted to as Rat Patrol took cover behind a house. "Now deep breaths, I don't want any screw up this time." Meryl said to Johnny.
"Right, got it." he signalled as he flipped the weapons safety off.
Darren exposed himself for a moment, firing his rifle, before he leaned back behind the wall, while Emerson leaned out firing a long burst with his machine gun.
"Emerson keep laying suppression fire," Darren ordered as he turned to Kelvana. "Kelvana you go out with the grenade launcher and try to blow them off the building."
Kelvana hesitated. "But one of them could be one of my sisters." she stammered.
"I don't care if one of them was your goddamn mother, father, or your damn sisters, it's them or us, just do what he tells you!" Dave shouted at her before she sighed and finally gave in, unholstering the grenade launchers strap around her shoulder.
Emerson moved back in and Kelvana leaned out from behind the building firing a single round at where a small team of Haven Troopers was located. The troopers jumped off the roof and onto different buildings before the grenade could impact then resumed firing.
"Watch it one with a sniper rifle!" Wiseley called out before he had to quickly fall back in to cover as the sniper bullet impacted the wall he was behind. "Location is the church tower." he finished.
"I've got her." Meryl's sniper, Ed replied as he quickly leaned out and fired a round which caused the trooper to fall out of the tower with a scream.
"We can't stay here any longer!" Meryl said firing several rounds from one of her Desert Eagles. "We're only going to draw more attention."
"Well you've got a better idea?!" Emerson asked loudly to her. "I would not prefer getting shot in the back as we run, I woul-" Emerson was interrupted as he was deafened by a flashbang, grunting as he tried to regain his vision and hearing.
"We move out in groups, each covering the each other till we exit this village." Meryl instructed to the T.F.E soldiers as Jonathan, Johnny, and she quickly moved out into the open firing rounds to keep the enemy pinned before taking covering behind another building not much further from the one they've been.
"We're next, Emerson, Wiseley, on me! We're moving!" Darren said as they quickly got out of cover with the other T.F.E soldiers and Rat Patrol covering them as they quickly ran to the next position then took cover bullets flying around them.
Rat Patrols sniper, and part of Dave's squad then started to begin their withdrawal down the path out of the village.
When they got behind cover the remainder started to move towards cover while the others covered their retreat. Kelvana stumbled, almost having tripped over pieces of debris from the buildings, but quickly managing to recover and keep moving where the squad was.
When everyone had taken positions for several moments they repeated the cycle again and continued to do this without taking a single casualty, although they weren't managing to cause casualties either, due to the troopers constantly shifting positions from being on the roofs to ground level and back again.
Just when it seemed clear a Stryker APC came down along the path behind them beginning to turn its machine gun around towards them. Everyone took cover behind what they could find, from buildings to rusted vehicles.
"Take that armour out!" Dave ordered as Darren readied his recoilless rifle and fired at the APC. The shell bounced off the frontal armour as the APC began firing at the soldiers.
Darren went prone and reloaded the recoilless and fired again when the gun was aiming elsewhere this time striking one of the wheels causing it to skid till it stopped nearby, its frontal armour still facing them.
Several gunshots whizzed past Darren forcing him to take cover. "Someone cover me while I take out that vehicle!" he demanded Darren almost dropped the round out of his hand as he quickly tried to reload it
"Hurry up and scrap that vehicle, if those troopers get any closer we're screwed!" Emerson stated out to Darren hastily as he began reloading his machine gun as the troopers closing in, jumping from building to building.
"I fucking know that, stop distracting me!" Darren shot back as he aimed for a moment then fired the recoilless one last time.
The round penetrated the vehicle and detonated inside the vehicle, there wasn't much of an explosion, but there was a loud boom coming from inside the vehicle when it detonated with smoke coming out of the hole made by the recoilless.
"Clear!" Darren shouted as everyone pulled out of the village Dave's squad throwing several flashbangs before they began to catch up with the others.
Dave stopped near the entrance back into the forest waiting for everyone to catch-up. "That was too close," he said. "Next time try not to draw more of those ladies towards us. They have a tendency to slaughter us T.F.E soldiers if they get close."
"Just seems to be a habit." Meryl replied as she moved in front of the group. "Follow me; we should reach the base in half an hour, if we don't run into any trouble." Meryl told everyone as they entered the forest, the T.F.E soldiers extremely alert trying to not repeat what happened last time.
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"This is to close," Graves said. "They're getting too damn close to the staging area." he finished as he continued to look at the monitor.
Not only have they've been pushed back; they've been put on the defensive with the PMC walkers closing with every passing minute, tearing through vehicles and infantry alike in their path. To make matter worse their artillery had just been taken out by those Haven Trooper, also nicknamed the FROGs. It would be only a matter of time till the PMC finally got their own artillery on the hill with no hopes of counter-battery.
On the screen he saw a walker explode only for its place to be taken by another. He didn't expect to see the PMC to retaliate in such massive force. This was the first time when he saw the full might of the PMCs of Outer Heaven. There was no stopping them, they were outgunned and outnumbered, and his forces just started to encounter problems and flaws with the Armadillos that were tasked in taking out the walkers in his forces. The vehicles treads were exposed more ordinary vehicles which made it extremely vulnerable to mobility kills, especially with the lack of armoured skirts, shortage of anti-infantry weapons and a slower turret traverse which was vital in keeping up with the movement of those walkers which were rather quick and unpredictable. If the things started to break down in vehicles they would be sitting ducks which would allow them to capture and then find more weakness and flaws in the vehicle.
Grave looked at the infantry that were sent to reinforces him hastily setting up AT guns, and defences. If they managed to fight the enemy off counter-attacking and take the hill would be the next thing they would do. The question was, however, could they last long enough to survive.
"Sir, enemy is closing in," one of his people warned, "E.T.A five minutes."
"How many of our vehicles are still making their way back here." he asked.
"Atleast seventy percent sir, but it's dropping." the person replied.
"Well I guess that's as good as it's gonna get, any word on the scattered T.F.E forces in the region?"
"The pressure on Charlie and Baker Platoon as lightened up, but they're still at the creek bed while Eagle Platoon has been scattered to hell out there, various squads calling for evac." the officer stated. "But we do have two squads from Eagle with the CID team; they're going after a man name Liquid the head of Outer Heaven's forces."
The radio then went alive from the colonel in the field. "Sir we're almost at the staging area, large force of infantry and walkers advancing behind us." the colonel reported as Grave heard the vehicle's main gun fire. "Any new on the air force, we really need their help here."
"Negative on the air support, they're still grounded till they can get enough planes running to take on enemy air-superiority which won't be till morning, there may be a chance I will have to tell the base to evac if UAV recon reports artillery being set on the hill." he replied.
"Roger that, commander, you better prepare the welcoming party for these guys behind us they're pretty persistent, like moths to a bright light." the colonel commented.
"We're already working on that, now hurry up and get your ass over here." Grave said as he shut the radio off.
He turned to one of his staff. "Has the sniper team been dropped off at their L.Z?" he asked.
"They should be arriving there now sir."
"Good," Graves replied sternly. "Tell them to wait till the CID Team arrives. Shoot any PMC that gets near when needed." he ordered.
"Sir, enemy arriving within our perimeter." an officer warned.
"Well then let it begin, we're as ready as we can get." he replied as the ground rumbled under the approaching armour.
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Darren kept scanning the forest making sure there was nothing suspicious about the area as the group continued their trek to the base. So far they've managed to evade most patrols in the woods, but he was still quite fearful that eventually they would be spotted.
"We should be coming up across a clearing any moment now," Meryl told everyone as they continued through the forest. "Ed any sign of approaching enemies." she asked.
"We've got a patrol not far from here, near the forest edge." Ed then saw several of the dots on his tracking equipment disappear. "Commander, it seems like someone is taking out PMC troops, unless my equipment is malfunctioning." he stated.
"Well, keep sharp then." she replied as her eyes narrowed, alert as ever.
The group continued at the same pace, when they finally reached the field Meryl gestured for everyone to halt. The grass was thick and long, up to an average person's waist.
"Someone is here." she said as she slowly moved up. The grass ahead shook, everyone raised their weapons.
Suddenly two men dressed in ghillie suits appeared up from the grass, one a sniper the other a spotter.
"Don't shoot we're friendly." the spotter said as the team approached. "Corporal Dennis and Private Leno at your service."
"Who sent you?" Dave asked as he moved out infront. "And why did they only send you two?" he finished.
"Commander Graves. We're as much as you're going to get, we have a shortage on manpower." the spotter explained.
"I guess it's better than nothing." Meryl said to Dave. "The base is just abit further up ahead." she stated as she signalled for everyone to move out.
"Why does the grass have to be some damn thick? This just screams you're going to get ambushed." Darren asked as he continued to move through the thick grass.
"Stop you're complaining, would you prefer to be in the open?" Wiseley replied back as Darren shook his head. "I guess that proves my point."
"Well atleast it's not as bad as the bugs." Emerson complained as he slapped the palm of his hand on to his neck and wiped a mosquito that was splattered on his glove a blood stain on the palm of it. "There's so damn many of them."
"Well it's night you idiot, this is when mosquitoes are usually active." Wiseley stated.
"Well I know that, next time if I want an answer I'll ask, thank you." Emerson shot back."God, I was just hate insects."
The two began to argue with each other as they moved Meryl turned around and sighed before turning around.
Victor turned his head to the others, he didn't seem amused. "Stop complaining it isn't that bad, just get used to it. Complaining will only make things worse, this is no worse then the blazing heat back in the Middle-East."
"Quiet all of you, just shut your traps and keep moving." Dave told them as everyone then quieted down. "You can talk all you want later."
The group stopped on a hill overlooking the base. Meryl then ordered Corporal Dennis, and Private Leno then began to take up positions in the tall grass near the edge bordering the forest as everyone else started to move towards the base coming from the west.
The base was surrounded by barb wire fences with four wooden guard towers on each side of the base. There didn't seem to be alot of activity coming from the base with only a few troops making patrols around the base.
The sound of approaching aircraft approaching at low speed soon filled the air. Several enemy V.T. soared overhead heading towards the base, one of them began to make a loop back around. Everyone dropped to the ground in hopes of not being spotted. The V.T.O.L made several runs over the area.
Darren heard Meryl whisper something to Akiba and it didn't seem pleasant. He sighed before his eyes looked back into the sky.
Moments felt like minutes, before the V.T.O.L finally pulled out of the area and head to base it seems it hadn't spotted them.
"Alright on your feet, move slowly towards the base, the sniper team will take out soldiers in the guard tower; we'll cut through the fence and from there on search for Liquid, we'll split into squads to cover more ground." Meryl instructed as she signalled for Ed and Jonathan to take point while she and Akiba took up the rear of the group.
"Do you think we can get into the base without being detected?" Kelvana whispered to Darren and Emerson as they continued to move.
"Well if the snipers do their job, we should be able to get into the base undetected." Darren answered. "The real question is can we actually move around in the base undetected.
Emerson squinted as he looked at one of the guard towers, a blood stain on the windows. "Well there's your the answers to your first question." he pointed out to the others as they finally managed to reach the fence.
"If you've got them mount suppressors, it'll draw less attention." as Darren looked to see Kelvana and Victor mount suppressors as well as Rat Patrol, Meryl switching to a USP with a suppressor, while her teammates mounted suppressors onto their weapon.
Akiba brought something out of his pack which was a spray can. He sprayed its contents on to the sire and it quickly began to corrode till he managed to grab it without even flinching and pulled out enough of the wire for an individual person to go through.
The radio then came alive. "This is sniper team one we've got your back we'll eliminate as many personal in our sights as possible." Dennis said through the radio.
"Roger, keep us posted on any activity around the base." Meryl acknowledged as her squad went its separate ways into the base to locate Liquid.
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The lieutenant lay on his back. He and his men were exhausted and they were getting as much rest as they could. Although they could've pulled back the risk of being ambushed in the forest was too great. He knew there were enemy troops just waiting for them in the woods. For all they knew there could be PMC soldiers behind them just waiting to strike.
He looked out to the open area infront of the creek bed. It was covered in craters and bodies, the smell of death, and rotting flesh still fresh in the air. It had only been recently since the PMC had stopped attacking, which was good. The lieutenant was down to only a single clip, and their force was made up of only thirty-seven worn out, soldiers.
The transports that were supposed to reinforce them haven't arrived, having suffered an ambush, but still intact, but delaying them even longer to patch up, he didn't even trusted that help would come since they haven't communicated with them anymore. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong so far with reinforcements being ambushed, scattered, air support not out till dawn, and the artillery now taken out. All he could think was how much longer would they stay here.
Several flares were launched into the air from the illuminating the dark sky. He then heard the rumble of vehicles approaching from behind them. He looked to see several armoured transports approaching and they were theirs. When he looked he saw PMC vehicles. Infantry then appeared out of the woods, while spotlights from a vehicle gleamed down on the troops in the creekbed.
"Looks like we've lost." he said as he stood up. "No point in fighting if it's just going to be a slaughter, it's time to give up, stand down people, stand down." as he looked at the PMC vehicles with his hands behind his head. "We surrender!" he shouted, as his troops also surrendered as PMC troops approached cautiously before they demanded for everyone to get drop to the ground then began searching each soldier to make sure they didn't have any concealed weapons before bonding their hands and escorting them towards the vehicles.
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Darren watched from behind the corner of a building, before he signalled for his teammates to move up. So far it was all clear; they hadn't encountered any enemies around, which surprised him, were they all at the hill or asleep?
"I think the Haven Troopers are still after us." Kelvana said quietly to everyone. "It's not like them to stop chasing us, when I was one of them we never stopped till we accomplished our mission."
"Well then we'll be ready if they appear." Emerson replied as he scanned the area with his machine gun raised.
"Area clear, sir." Wiseley stated. "No enemies so far, orders?" he asked.
Darren pointed to a building to the right-hand side of where they were towards are rectangular building with a round circular ball ontop, it appeared to be a radar dome. It was the largest building, aside from the hangers, in the base and seemed like where someone important would be. "We'll check out their radar dome, now on me we're moving." Darren ordered as they moved across the base.
He signalled for everyone to stop and get behind a pile of crates, they were still had some considerable distance to cover before they got to the dome.
Two dozen PMC soldiers starting to pile out of various buildings infront of them, it seems like they knew they were here. Soldiers split into various teams in search of intruders.
"Looks like they know we're here, Victor can we make it to the radar dome without being spotted?" Darren asked as Victor shook his head.
Darren raised his rifle, the other started to do the same. Darren waited till the PMC soldiers had moved to various parts of the base till there were only two teams in their line of sight before he gave the word.
"Carefully aim your shots." he ordered as the squad then several bursts at the enemy soldier killing members of the squad before they began to run for cover. The soldiers began to scatter, but one of them dropped dead, a shot clean through the head from the sniper team watching over them. Another PMC died soon after while the remaining PMC soldiers began to take cover in buildings for protection
"Base of fire till we reach the radar dome." Darren instructed everyone as he began to move towards the radar dome, Kelvana and Wiseley following closely behind firing just to keep the enemy pinned down.
After several close calls they made it to cover near the radar dome. Darren signalled for the others to move up before firing at the enemy behind cover so they would keep their heads down and not shoot at the members who were moving.
"Watch it you've got Haven Troopers entering the base coming from the area you cut through atleast two full squads." Darren heard through the headset. It was the sniper team. "We'll try to whittle down their numbers, but you guys better hurry and find Liquid patrols around the area are coming in to reinforce. Get into a place where you can hold out or run your ass out of there."
"Thanks for the heads up. We're already entering the radar dome, just keep us covered." Darren replied as the others finally made it into cover.
Wiseley was at the domes entrance and had realized the door was sealed tightly after several attempts at kicking it down. "Door's locked shut, Emerson get over here!" he called out as Emerson quickly grabbed an explosive charge from his kit and planted it on the door. He quickly blew the charge called for the others to enter the radar dome. When they entered they found it was relatively dark inside and mounted flashlights.
Darren passed the digital map system to Emerson. "Emerson you move ahead and call on us when it's clear for us to move in." Darren ordered as Emerson nodded his head and began moving deeper into the building.
Darren then got on the headset and began communicating with Rat Patrol and Dave's squad. "Screeching Eagles here, we're in the radar dome and engaged with the enemy from there." he paused as he signalled for the squad to move back abit. "Requesting your guy's status, over."
Dave was the first to reply. "We're near the barracks so far no enemy contact." several curses and shouts then filled Darren's ear as he flinched from their suddenness. "Scratch that they've found us, engaging the enemy, out."
Meryl then got on the channel. "We're in the base security and proceeding towards an underground entrance that runs through the entire base, so far no contact." she said.
"Well watch yourself sniper team recently reported that two squads of Haven Troopers have entered the base." he replied.
"Roger that." Meryl acknowledged as she switched off from the channel.
"I need some help over here, in contact with the enemy!" Emerson shouted from within the base. The group followed his voice and quickly found Emerson holding out against several PMC troops in a small sized communication room no bigger than several metres.
"I think I found Liquid." he said to Darren who had taken up position with him. "He's and old guy with long grey hair and a black coat. He just went down that hallway that PMC soldiers are covering." he pointed as he then shielded himself from several sparks flying from electronic systems hit from weapon rounds.
"We've got to hurry and kill theses soldiers or we're going to get flanked from soldiers entering the building." Victor stated as he looked behind his back to see if anyone was there.
"Got it!" Darren replied. "Bring out the grenade launcher Kelvana, and lob a grenade at them!" he ordered.
She hesitated seeing the room was small, but pushed her fear out of her mind and unslung her grenade launcher. She fired a single round. Before the PMC soldiers had time to react they were killed in a hail of shrapnel."
"They're down, move up and go after him!" Wiseley shouted as he was the first one to get out of cover.
They rushed down the hallway in the radar dome, travelling through the wide hallways twisting and turning to come across a large secured metal door in a large room which appeared to be storage for the base with boxes of ammunition, food, medical supplies, and anything else the base needed to function.
Darren looked to see strange scanner to the side of the door that read 'Outer Haven personal only'.
"Crap how are we supposed to get it opened?" Emerson asked as he turned to Kelvana. "Can you maybe get it open, you used to be part of the enemy."
"I don't think that would even work." she replied. "Seems like it works only if you have the proper nanomachines." as she just tried to make sure to have access denied pop up on the screen over the scanner.
"We'll have to blow it open then." Darren stated. "Emerson, Wiseley work on rigging the door, we'll watch your backs."
They then began assembling and attaching explosives to the door while the others watched the entrance making sure no one got in.
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Johnson approached Liquid with several of his personal troops behind him while several Haven Troopers were behind Liquid. They were underneath the base in a large underground hanger, the ceiling as high as a twenty storey apartment, taken as from government in the region for defeating a large militant group. The government worked long and hard to get it operational only to get it taken away soon after although Liquid did have pay a considerable price in cash, but it didn't matter; Outer Heavens' coffers were deep.
"We should get you out of here those T.F.E soldiers in the base are most likely after you." Johnson warned.
"I don't need your concerns Johnson our troops should be more then capable in taking the intruders out, and even if they do get here I'll be long gone." Liquid replied. "Soon the Patriots will be no more."
"Have you found Big Boss's body?" Johnson asked. "It's the only way you can get into the system. Even your near identical DNA along with your brother didn't manage to get into the system; we only got partial results that affected our own soldiers."
"I have, now I think I'll go pay a visit to Big Mama." he immediately began proceeding towards his personal helicopter with several Haven Troopers accompanying him. "I will leave a small group of my own soldiers at your command; they will meet with you shortly."
As soon as they boarded the helicopter began flying towards one of the exits above them. Several V.T. then took off escorting Liquid chopper out of the area.
Johnson rubbed his forehead as soon as the exits closed. He then turned to several of his troops behind him. "Find those intruders and take them out via any means."
"Yes sir." the soldier acknowledged as he signalled for his squad to move out.
He then turned to the squad of Haven Troopers who had just arrived via skilfully jumping down into the hanger area before the doors had closed. "I want your squad on guard duty for the hanger; stay on guard till soldiers above get down here to relieve you."
"Guard duty?" one of them questioned. "We'd be better off searching for the enemy we're not regular grunts you know."
"Let's not argue." one of them said. It was Kally his second daughter. "We've been given direct instructions to follow his orders. You want to be back up there with the other squad? I hear those snipers don't miss."
The trooper gave up arguing from there and took up her guard post near a wall where she could lean her back against, muttering how stupid this was to another trooper.
"To bad for elite soldiers they aren't much better than your average grunts at times." Johnson laughed his daughter who had taken off her helmet glared at him. "Not saying you're not a good soldier."
Kally turned and took off to her post. Johnson looked at her. "Watch your back, Kelvana's not there to be there for you anymore, I don't want to lose you."
"I will, and don't worry I'm a big girl I can't take care of myself." she replied as Johnson looked towards one of the entrances and began moving towards it. Before he had reached the door an explosion rattled part of the hanger. He turned to the direction the explosion had came from to see five T.F.E soldiers enter through the smoke and take up cover behind some crates.
He readied his rifle and quickly moved as close as he could to the T.F.E soldiers then steadied his sights on them. He took aim at one of them and fired, unaware he had aimed at his own daughter who he had thought was lost to the enemy.
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"What do you mean Liquid just left?!" Darren shouted through his headset to the sniper team. "You're telling me we're all the way here for nothing! You've could've sniped him out of the helicopter."
"It's not my fault I couldn't get the shot off!" Private Leno shot back through the headset. "We weren't in the proper position at the time!"
"Well I'll guess we'll have to find a way out, just keep us posted!" Darren informed the sniper team before he got on the line with Rat Patrol. "Bad news Liquid has already left and we're in the underground hanger in contact with the enemy requesting support here!"
"Roger that we're on our way, just making our way down into the hanger now." Meryl replied.
"Watch it two troopers on the right wall, they're trying to gain a vantage point!" Emerson pointed towards the two FROGs who were firing down upon them.
Darren signalled for Wiseley to adjust fire on them, managing to hit one which caused the trooper to fall to her death with a scream while the other got back onto the ground and took cover.
"Frag out!" Victor stated has he tossed a grenade over his head which, out of either pure luckiness of extreme accuracy, or abit of both, was shot when it flew through the air, exploding harmlessly away from the enemy.
Darren glanced to see there were seven FROGs, a few basic troops, firing at them while non-combat personal were fleeing to safety.
He turned and then saw Kelvana about to drop back down to reload when several bullets struck her in the arm and the side of her torso. She cried in pain as placed her hand over the wound on her torso applying pressure on the wound, her hands quickly becoming soaked in blood while she laid on the ground, Darren having to drag her back into cover and made her back lean against the crate.
"Victor!" he called out to who was nearby. "Kelvana needs medical attention can you do it?!"
"Just watch my back I don't want to get killed while treating her." he replied as he moved near Kelvana and pulled out a small medical kit from his pack and then removed her combat vest.
"Great it hit me in the same place again, and it hurts even more without SOP." she said in agony.
"Luckily for you it passed through." Victor commented as he quickly began cleaning her wounds. Kelvana winced, the pain nearly unbearable. Victor then began applying something to make the wound heal faster after he had injected morphine to dull the pain before he brought out some dressings and began wrapping them around Kelvana's torso.
Darren then dropped down to kneeled and picked up Kelvana's grenade launcher. "I hope you don't mind me borrowing this!" he said as he fired a single grenade flying through the air before coming back down to earth then exploding, deadly shrapnel being flung everywhere.
"Goddamn Rat Patrol better get here soon or we're fucked." Emerson exclaimed.
More soldiers began converging into the hanger, a few being shot as they entered. Several medics then made their way in towards their wounded comrades. "Don't fire at the medics on their side unless they shoot back!" Darren warned. "The Geneva Conventions still applies!" he then turned to Wiseley. "Wiseley can we retreat back inside the storage we were in?" he asked.
"Not a chance." he replied back to him. "We've got enemies entering that room." he pointed to several soldiers approaching from behind them in the storage room they had been in.
Darren then turned around and fired till the magazine of the launcher ran dry, the grenades killing soldiers who hadn't taken cover or had been near the blast shrapnel imbedding itself in them. He then ordered Emerson to keep them pinned as he switched to his rifle.
Emerson managed to keep the enemy from popping their heads out for the moment; he looked to see how many mags he had left to realize he didn't have any more. "I've got one last magazine and that's in that's in use." he told the others.
Wiseley took out a magazine from Emerson's machine gun and gave it to him. Emerson thanked him as put beside him.
"We've got to reposition!" Wiseley informed. "We're too vulnerable from behind."
"Nowhere else we can go this is as good as it gets here." Darren announced to the team after he quickly scanned the area around them as he then turned to Victor. "You almost done, three people shooting is not enough."
"Just let me finish dressing the wound." he replied as he quickly finished applying the dressing to her arm. "There that should keep you together till we can get out of here." he said as he picked up his SMG while Kelvana managed to pick up her weapon and managed to aim towards to the soldiers behind them.
Darren looked out again to see Rat Patrol had finally gotten down to the level and were now distracting the Haven Troopers. His headset then went alive in his ear, it was Meryl.
"Akiba has managed to hack into one of the helicopter's SOP system which we can now use to get us out of here, he's now working on opening the hanger doors." she told him as he looked to see Rat Patrol near one of the helicopters.
"What about Dave and his squad?" Darren asked who was now seeing if they could even get to Rat Patrols position.
"I've already asked them to leave the base and regroup with the snipers." she answered. "They'll be waiting for us."
"Well then, can you bring the chopper here, Kelvana is wounded and your position is between us and the enemy." he asked again as he threw a grenade at PMC soldiers behind them.
"Will do." she replied as she shut off again as both teams defended themselves while Akiba busily worked on hangers control room computer which Rat Patrol was near, bullets smashing into the glass, he flinched at the sound of the bullets smashing themselves into the bullet proof glass before he quickly regained himself.
"C'mon Johnny, you can't let the team down this time." he said to himself.
After finally managing to access the main controls Johnny quickly began opening all hanger doors, lights flaring and buzzing filled the hanger while the doors slowly opened.
"Doors opening!" Johnny called out as he exited the control room and regrouped with the others.
"Pathways clear to the helicopter!" Jonathan said to Johnny who then began moving to the helicopter the rest of the team covering him till he got onboard and began starting it up while the others got inside from the rear ramp, the helicopter they were in a CH- 47 Chinook.
"You better know how to fly this thing." Ed growled as he took positions near the side doors of the helicopter and fired out of it.
"Don't worry, if I cause this thing to crash then you can kill me afterwards." Johnny replied jokingly.
The helicopter began lifting off with Ed and Jonathan firing out of the sides, while various personal below kept firing their small arms bouncing off the helicopter. The helicopter began approaching Darren's team before turning around and ramp down. Darren helped Kelvana onboard before he set her on the bench and fired out of the rear as the helicopter began ascending Emerson being the last one up with Darren and Wiseley having to pull him onboard.
"Everyone's onboard go!" Darren shouted to Johnny as the hanger doors began closing due to the enemy trying to lockdown the base.
Johnny quickly sped helicopter ascent managing to get the helicopter out at the last possible moment the doors just managing to touch the side of the aircraft, before it quickly managed to break free.
The helicopter flew out of the base heading back to the T.F.E territory, stopping near the out skirts of the base to pick up Dave's squad and the snipers. While Darren looked the rear of the helicopter its ramp still open to see smoke billowing from the T.F.E staging area while various vehicles from their side drove away from the combat zone. When they flew over the airbase they didn't land, but passed it, due to an endless artillery barrage from the PMC raining down on it destroying runways and toppling various buildings.
"Don't worry the base has already been evacuated." Meryl announced which surprised them. "They left as soon as the enemy was at the staging area."
"Well that's good to know." Darren said as Emerson then passed the radio to him.
"Well it's the first good news we've gotten all day. It's Vespes he's okay!" he exclaimed.
Darren grabbed the radio out of his hands. "It's good to hear from you sir." Darren said. "Thought we'd lost you back in the woods, where are you anyways?" he asked.
"We're at Dosworth Base all T.F.E forces have essentially retreated here." Vespes replied. "We've lost, but there will be another time, just get back here and get some rest, it won't be long till we are sent off for another mission." as he then silenced the radio.
"Have we gained anything from this?" Dave asked who seemed annoyed that almost nothing was accomplished.
"Well we've got another shot at Liquid." Meryl told him. "While in the hanger control Johnny managed to get us a record where Liquid is heading to, a place where a person goes by the name of Big Mama."
"Wait that means he's heading to someplace in Norway." Darren commented. "If we find where Big Mama is located we can find him."
"That's right and when he shows up we'll get him." Meryl said, confident they would catch him.