Chapter 5: Mercenaries of the 2070s
*Western China*
"What do you want? I'm working."
"Spectre, there's a large quantity of armed guards beyond that door. I advise that you take a different approach."
"Copy that, Outrider. Reaper, is there a vent nearby in those floor plans of yours?"
"Air vent to floor grate in target room located at north wall, 3 meters to your right. Grate has been sealed, but has a structural weakness. Small explosive charge recommended to break through to objective."
"Acknowledged, Reaper. Will a semtex work?"
"Chances of success with a semtex explosive are calculated to be 96.75%"
"Yeah, so it should work."
"Affirmative."
Spectre entered the vent. "I feel lucky. A robot told me something could work." No one could tell if that was sarcastic, but they assumed so. "Breaching in 3. 2. 1. Semtex planted. Nomad, through the window, now!"
The floor collapsed, with a figure in black with dual blades on his arm jumping out of the rubble to kill 3 of the surprised guards in the room with the blades. Nomad jumped through the window and fired on the remaining guards. Seven bodies fell to the floor.
"This is Spectre. We are clear, and ready to download the data. Outrider, keep the curious away from this section."
"Acknowledged, overwatch perimeter established"
"Hey, wasn't Section that guy who took down Raul Menendez?"
"Get off the line, Ruin."
"Fine, fine. I'll just stand guard by tall, dark, and metal over here. By the way, are you done yet with those files?"
"Even with augmentations, these files are going to take a few dozen seconds to download. Lots of data here. Nomad, cover me." Spectre ordered.
Nomad equipped his H.I.V.E. weapon and fired it at the door and the window. No one would get in without the nano-bots tearing them to shreds.
"Bad news." Spectre said. "This is only half of the data we were looking for. The other half is in a maximum security bunker in Cairo, Egypt." An alarm started blaring. "And they have a monitor on their computers that triggers alarms."
"Let's get the hell out of here, then!" Ruin slammed through a door, firing at the guards behind it.
"Prophet! Status on ex-fil!" Outrider asked.
"The mothership is inbound, but you have to survive and wait for get here first." Prophet stood, firing his Tempest at the multitudes of robots trying to breach the building where Spectre, Nomad, and the others were. Outrider helped him take on the robots, but from above. Ruin had a rocket launcher on hand, and decided to help out Prophet with clearing out the autonomous war machines.
Reaper joined in on it too. "Worthless. Consumer models. Annihilate!" His arm transformed into his renowned (and feared) weapon, the Scythe. They all mowed down the robots with ease after that.
Prophet looked up. "The dropship is here. Let's go home." They evacuated onto the ship, and got up to Outrider's position. She jumped into the craft, and it flew away. Anti-air fire pursued, to no avail. "Seraph, take us to our next destination. Marking it on the mothership's GPS."
Seraph checked the map. "Hmm. This is disturbing. How did the 54 Immortals get a base operational in northern Russia without my knowledge? But it doesn't make sense why they would choose the Siberian area. Too cold for their tastes." She was still linked to the 54i, making her wary about them attacking their bases. It also made the others in the group wary of her. "ETA to base: 10 minutes. Get some rest; I don't know what's there."
Then a loud boom was heard by the occupants of the ship. They looked out the window to see the base blown to hell. Reaper gave out confirmation of what just happened. "Orbital strike successful. Evidence and enemy resources destroyed." The others couldn't tell (maybe Prophet could), but in his mind, he smiled at the destruction.
*10 minutes later*
"Outrider here. Boots on the ground. Going to scout out the area." She had equipped the arctic getup for the environment, which helped conceal her since she was wearing all white. She made her way to a ridge overlooking the 54i base. "We have a problem. The base is covered with motion-sensing defenses. There's no chance in hell that we can go in quiet, even for Spectre."
Ruin made a suggestion. "Then I suggest we go in loud and overwhelm them."
Battery loaded up her War Machine. "When do we start? My trigger finger is itchy."
"Up from your nap already?" Ruin joked.
"I don't nap. Ever. Let's kill things."
Soon multiple hostile were annihilated by the mercenaries' weapons and skills. They hadn't even disconnected from the zipline that reached the base. When Ruin reached the end of the line, he used his gravity spikes to burst through the wall.
"Made it to the server room immediately. Lucky me."
Prophet connected to the servers to act as a conduit to bring the information to the dropship. "Outrider, since you're up there, keep overwatch."
"Aye-aye." She equipped a Locus sniper rifle and proceeded to eliminate all who approached the building.
Prophet looked at the rest of the data in awe. "Oh, my stars. It's beautiful." All other noise was drowned out to his ears, and he gazed upon the plans. "Our evolution… is here. There's a bunker on the other side of the base. What we are looking for should be there."
"That may be difficult." Outrider reported. "Multiple enemy P.A.W.S. are inbound."
"They should have brought more." Reaper commented. "Destroy them all."
*Interruption. Unauthorized-*
"Oh, shut up about me being unauthorized. I'm me! Would you care to explain what these fine fellows are from?"
*sigh. Black Ops 3. You happy?*
"Usually."