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Yes, these are all real weapons.
Oh, and internets will go to those who spot the reference with the whole "shotgun and crossbow" thing. This fic shares its genre (action/horror) with the movie that this is a reference to. Review and guess~!
In case you didn't know, watching someone's 6 is military lingo for "watch my back". The 6 is a reference to a clock, with the 6:00 being behind you.
This part 1 of 2.
Rin, Len, Miki, Meiko, Teto, Hibiki, Lily, Honne Dell, Ring, Yukari, Kokone and Taito creeped into the campus of the abandoned college. This was a larger team than usual, as this was a larger place to search for evidence about the blast.
"We split up into pairs. We have distress signals activated," Meiko asserted.
The two twins paired up to explore the lecture halls and classrooms, Hibiki and Ring went off together to scout the offices of the staff, Teto and Taito wandered off to the roads and shopping areas, Yukari and Kokone parkoured up to the rooftops, Lily and Honne went off computer labs towards the and Miki and Meiko ran off towards the dorms.
The pair of siblings slowly walked through the dark lecture halls and classrooms of the college.
"Sis?" Len asked Rin.
"Yeah?" she replied.
"Are you ever scared in this world?"
"Of course I am. What isn't there to be scared of? We have to live on limited resources, we're part of a small minority of living creatures, most of our loved ones are dead, have been eaten, or have been turned into andros and then killed, and we have mutated monsters walking around trying to eat us or turn us into one of them."
Len digested his sister's answer.
"Wait a minute. Stop," Rin shook him out his thoughts about her comments.
The imposing doors to the library in front of the two twins beckoned them.
"Watch my 6," Rin requested of Len.
"Always do," he replied quickly.
"You weren't doing that 2 minutes ago. You were pondering fear."
"Okay, I'm watching your 6."
Rin pushed open the doors and stepped inside, keeping her T91 assault rifle on guard, with her modified crossbow strapped to her back. Len also had his Heckler & Koch MP7 at the ready, with his modified Benelli M3 Super 90 Shorty shotgun belted onto his back.
"We might find something here. If you encounter an andro or fera, be careful not to destroy a book that we might need," Rin warned Len.
"Roger."
Miki cocked the M16 assault rifle and slowly walked through the hallways of the dormitory.
"Do you think you are ready for the waves of enemies that we are bound to encounter?" Meiko whispered.
"You positive?"
"College is hectic and populous. Lots of people would have died, been mutated, or been devoured."
"Graghurkghhgh..." a disturbing gargle echoed throughout the hallway.
"Told you we'd encounter something."
Meiko turned on the weaponlights on her Barrett REC7 and swept the corridor with light.
"Grughhargh," The noise came from behind them.
Meiko turned around and saw a 6-foot tall andro slowly waddling towards them. She opened fire on it and shot it in the chest, where it fell down dead.
"Are these things really that dangerous?"
"The mutations spread. We have to kill them, or else they'll indirectly kill all of us."
Ring pointed the SIG-Sauer P229 E2 in the Weaver position and walked into the office of a professor. Hibiki followed soon after.
"We might find something here."
Ring ruffled through the drawers of the office.
"This officce apparently belonged to Professor Lawrence Kentson, who was a leading researcher on the field of hypothetical extremes. I believe that is the study of what would happen in the most extreme conditions, scientifically possible or not. He's also a believer in the idea that being superhuman is possible."
"Are you saying an experiment to create superhumans caused the blast?" asked Hibiki
"I'm not saying it is. In fact, it's unlikely that that is the case. But I didn't say it wasn't a possibility."
"Keep looking, and maybe we'll get more info."
Ring continued to bag anything she found interesting into the briefcase. She also took some phone records and other evidence. The secret to solving The Blast is gathering evidence.
Lily sat down in the chair, began clacking away at the computers in the administration rooms, placing her Smith and Wesson M&P 9mm.
"Keep on the watch. I'm trying to find if they have any info on the blast," she commanded Honne.
Honne cocked the AKS74U and took a spot outside the door of the lab. He would just have to wait.
Yukari swung her morning star through one of the andros. It fell backwards and died, but there were still more of them. More of them that she could handle without her MP7 or her Desert Eagle .357.
They had gotten into a little pickle. There was a horde of andros surrounding them. The two survivors were each blaming each other for their current situation and not currently on good terms.
"Shut up, bitch! I can handle this by myself!"
Kokone cut off the arm of an andro with her battleaxe. She then shot another one of them in the stomach with her FN High-Power Browning 9mm.
Suddenly, she felt extremely cold hands crawl across her chest.
An andro was right over her.
"Shit!"
Yukari saw what was going on, stopped what she was doing, and ran up towards the attacking monster and struck it in the back. A loud crunch was heard. The monster fell down towards the ground.
"Press the distress signal!" Yukari yelled to Kokone as she pressed a button on her belt.
Kokone did what she was told.
Teto stopped in her tracks, as she heard a beeping distress sound in her ear.
"You hear that, Taito?"
"Yeah, I do."
Teto ran towards a black mid-size sedan parked on the side of the road and piled into it.
"Don't you need the keys to the car?" Taito asked.
"I don't need them, I have them. I have them all."
She pulled out a small grey metal slab from her chest pocket and slapped it onto the center of the steering wheel, where it dissipated into little blue squares that spread out over every surface of the car.
The car's engine turned on and Teto sped off towards the building.
Hibiki heard the beeping in his ear and perked up.
"Ring! We need to get to Kokone and Yukari!"
Ring didn't turn away from the cabinets.
"Shh. We don't want to attract attention to ourselves...oh...wait...yeah..." She realized what was going on and stepped away.
"How are we going to get downstairs quickly?"
Ring paused and observed the window out of the office.
"We jump."
"What?!"
"We jump out the window."
Ring lined herself up and put her SIG-Sauer P229 E2 into it's holster, grabbed the briefcase, and jumped out of the window. Hibiki shrugged and followed suit.
Teto and Taito sped the car through the roads of the college campus. Teto could see the sun slightly rising over the college campus.
Suddenly, Taito heard the sound of two cars.
"Wait, are those two cars revving up behind us?" he asked.
"Pardon?" Teto asked dumbfounded.
A silver SUV revved up beside the left side of the car, and a red minivan pulled up on the right side.
The window opened on the silver SUV and a college student stuck his head through the window.
"Hey, bitch! This is our fucking turf, so get the fuck off this shithole college campus!"
The college student pulled out a Glock 17 and fired it into the car.
Teto swerved the sedan into the SUV. The cars connected and Taito took the close-range opportunity to pull out his shasqua and stab the driver in the throat. Once Taito retracted the sword, the driver got a lead foot and sped off into a building.
BLABOOM!
An explosion occured on contact with the building. Teto sped up the car away from the blast.
"One down, one to go!" Teto yelled.