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Chapter 7
Eastern Northern Tip of Vale
12:00AM
The sky was an inky black as the moon's light was blocked by the recent cloudy weather.
In the skies of Vytal were four lone vertibirds the could be seen cruising through the skies as moments later three of the aircrafts began to slowly descend downwards until finally landing unto the ground.
The doors of the aircraft slowly opened as over two dozen soldiers in a mix of stealth suits and advanced power armor poured out of the craft. Finally coming out of the vertibird was Adam Taurus, one of the CIA's top agents. A tall male bull faunus with bright red hair and a grimm mask over his face.
"Alright everyone, listen up" commanded Adam as the soldiers turned their attention to him. "Intelligence is saying that the Atlasieans are working on a new line of superior atlas knights. We have confirmation that there is indeed a base a few miles from here working on these prototypes."
Adam slightly pulled down his shelve as he quickly checked the time before re-addressing his men. "In a half hour our boys in the sky are going to be giving the research base a little taste of an EMP. When that hits the base's, communications are going to be off for at least an hour" explained Adam.
"Before than all of us are going to be split into 5 teams of 4." Adam then proceeded to point to the three squads of power armored soldiers "You three will be getting the attention of the base's security, giving the stealth team the necessary time to infiltrate the base" said Adam as he turned around the stealth team. "Your squad's objective is to infiltrate the base while attention is focused on the heavy squads, while in the base you are to acquire all research in the new knights as well as persuade the researchers to come with us."
"As for me I'll be going with the infiltration team" added Adam, "Now if that's all then let's get going people" hollered Adam as he and his men headed towards the base.
20 minutes later, near research base
Cutting down the last of the shrubbery Adam and the stealth team entered a rather large clearing in the surrounding forest.
"So, this is where the emergency exit must be" mused Adam as he turned back to his men "Fan out and find the emergency exit location" ordered Adam. The teams spread themselves out as they searched for the entrance of the emergency exit that would lead them straight into the base.
After a few minutes a feminine voice rang out as Adam turned to the source. "Sir, I think I found the entrance" said the agent. Adam quickly reached to the agent's location as he observed what the agent had found.
And indeed it was, hidden under a slightly elevated sheet of grass was the emergency exit to the research base. However, it seemed that entrance was locked, luckily that had come prepared.
Adam motioned one of the agents forward. Kneeling down the agent took a quick look at the lock before getting to work.
"Electronic lock huh" muttered the agent as he dug into the suits hidden pockets, pulling out all the necessary equipment to break the lock. Dismantling the locks casing the agent quickly got to work on unlocking the lock.
Minutes passed before a small click could be heard as the locks color changed from a red to a green. "There, that should trick security that lock hasn't been opened" said the agent as he opened the hatch. Adam and the rest of the agents entered the exit, making their way through the tunnels before reaching another door.
Adam motioned the soldiers to halt before motioning two of the them to take to the sides of the door. Taking a look at his watch Adam brought one of his hands up as he slowly retracted each finger slowly.
"… 5 …"
"… 4 …"
"… 3 …"
"… 2 …"
"… 1 …"
The lights in the tunnel began to flicker before turning off, seconds later the lights came back on but this time in a dull red color. As the lights had returned moments later the ground began to shake.
Adam motioned the men to open the door. Slowly opening the doors one the agents peered through the opening while holding a 12.7mm pistol in one hand. Seeing no one in the vicinity the agent motioned that room was in the clear.
Giving a nod Adam turned to the rest of the men as he motioned them to activate their suits. The faunus watched in fascination as his men in an instant disappeared from his eyes, the only noticeable thing was the slight shimmering coming from the edges of the suit.
"Alright everyone get in" ordered Adam as second later the rest of Adams men poured through the door. "Alright, stealth team 1, you will be going as red team and stealth team 2 will blue team, and remember to use your pip-boy's communication line, got it" said Adam.
"Sir yes sir" replied the agents.
"Good, now let's head out people" order Adam as he and the teams quickly split apart, each with their own adjective.
Minutes later with red team
"Slow down everyone, we're coming near an intersection" ordered red-1. Red team quickly came to a crawl as they reached the intersection, there were three ways to go, left, right, and the last was through the metal door in the front.
"Red-2, Red-3, go check the left and right side, Red-4, check those windows near the door" ordered Red-1.
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"Nothing in my sight Sir" replied Red-2.
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"Me neither" Red-3.
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"What about you Red-4" asked Red-1.
"Yeah, I got something, looks like a couple of scientist are doing something" replied Red-4.
"Any soldiers" asked Red-1.
"Three, standard Atlassian gear … looks like there aren't any droids either Sir" answered Red-4.
"Hmm … Red-2, Red-3, take the other side of the door, on my mark were going to breach the door" replied Red-1 as he went towards Red-4.
Once everyone was in place red-1 brought his hand up, slowly he began to retract each finger before retracting the last finger.
Red-2 opened the door as red-1 and red-3 quickly entered the room with red-4 trailing behind them. The guards turned around and barely had time to raise their weapons.
Red-1 unloaded three rounds into one of the guard's head, the first two shots were absorbed by the guard's helmet before the last one broke through and pierced through the guard's skull, ending his life quickly.
Red-3 went into a crouch as she fired a few rounds at the second guard, the first shot missed while the other two slammed into the guard's neck and lower jaw.
Red-4 loaded almost a half of his rounds into the third guard's chest as the armor absorbed the first three rounds before the last round pierced the heart.
Once the guards were dead red-2 entered as he unslung his tactical shotgun and shut the door closed.
As for the scientist, who just moments ago were in the process of packing up their equipment, who witnessed their protection fall to ground with bullet holes littered throughout their body and with nobody else in sight began to panic. One of them quickly emptied their stomachs from the mere sight.
But before they could panic anymore the scientist a ripple forming in the air as man wearing odd armor appeared right before their eyes, holding a gun near their heads as well.
"Shut it, make one sound and I unload a bullet into your brain" growled red-1 as he deactivated his stealth suit. That quickly quieted the scientist as they looked at red-1 with fear in their eyes but none of them dared to make a single noise.
"Good, now why don't you tell me about what you were doing" asked Red-1.
"W-We were just assistant r-r-researchers, we were just finishing packing up the last of your research data" explained the head of the group.
"I see, so then where would the head scientists be" asked red-1
"I-I guess in the right wing if I had to say" answered the assistant.
"Hmm, if that's the case than thank you very much for your cooperation than" thanked red-1.
"S-So now w—" asked the assistant before a bullet hole formed on his forehead, as well as the rest of the group in quick succession.
"That's what happens next" replied red-1 to the corpse as put the smoking gun away and turned to red-3. "Grab the data" ordered red-1 as he kneeled down and searched the corpse for anything useful.
Red-3 gave a quick nod as she went to work on finding any relevant data on the new knights. After a few minutes of searching she found a few hard drives filled with early preliminary data on the new knights thou nothing else sadly.
"Sorry boss, but this all I could get, I bet the good stuff must be with the scientist" said Red-3. "Your probably right Red-3" responded red-1 as both of them followed red-4 and red-2.
With blue team
"Get down" roared Adam as he tackled the agent next to him away from where they were standing moments ago as multiple bullets slammed onto the floor.
The two quickly scrambled themselves up as they saw the rest of their team fighting a group of huntsmen, and by judging their attire it seemed that they were mercenaries. The agent barely had time to unsling his laser rifle before one of the huntsmen charged straight at them.
Adam brought his blade up in time to block the incoming axe, the two aura users locked eyes as both struggled for dominance against the other. As Adam felt his strength slowly began to wane he heard the joyous sound of the hunters scream as crimson beams slammed into the hunter's side, bypassing his aura completely and burning into his skin. The hunter briefly staggered, giving Adam enough time ram his sheath up to the hunter's lower jaw before unloading multiple consecutive shots, easily tearing his head from the rest of his body.
The two heard a scream of horror following shortly after, moments later a hail of bullets zoomed past the air and straight towards Adam and the agent. Adam barely had time before using his body to temporally shield the agent, giving him the necessary time to get into cover. Adam soon followed short as he fired a few rounds to where the gunner was forcing the hunter to take cover as the bullets slammed near her.
"You two …" shouted Adam, over the gunfire, to the rest of the agents covering behind some nearby desk "… flashbangs, now."
One the agents dug into his pocket before pulling out a small cylinder object no smaller the palm of his hand, pulling the pin on the top the agent quickly threw the flashbang to where the hunters were hold up. A moment or two passed before a bright light could be seen momentary as well as a loud bang and a few curses from the hunters.
The agents got up as they unleashed multiple rounds to the hunters. Two of them quickly died as most of their upper chest and above were completely vaporized. The last was shot in the legs, soon the hunter's legs were almost covered in charred skin and burn marks. The huntress desperately crawled away before a sickening *SLEPUCH* was heard as the huntress turned around to see a crimson blade sticking out of her back, a moment or two later the last thing she could see was the rest of the mysterious soldiers stare down on her before darkness enveloped her vision.
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"Status report" ordered Adam as he turned to the rest of his men. One of the agents went up to him before speaking, "Sir, lucky our casualties were kept to a minimum besides a few slashes and tears from bullets a few stimpacks should fix us up. As for our suits, they seem to be functioning and are still usable" answered the agent.
"Hmm, blue-2 and blue-3, take point where the hunters last came, make sure none can surprise us. As for the two of you, take a stimpack and get yourself back to better shape, after that we will continue on. As for me, I'm going to see how red team is doing" said Adam as he brought his pip-boy out.
Adam quickly contacted red team, as he did the speakers quickly gave out radio static before the sound of gunshots could be heard as well as the occasional curse word there and there. Moments later the sound of someone could be heard.
"Is there something you need" grunted out red-1 as he let out a cruse moments later.
"You seem be having a interesting time" commented Adam as another explosion went off.
"You can say that Sir, also were getting near where the scientist are be held" replied Red-1.
OUTSIDE OF THE RESEARCH BASE
Sargent Amaranth was a simple man, he born and raised from Atlas, he didn't ask much in life. Becoming a soldier wasn't his first choice but after having a bad run with trying to find jobs and needing to pay his family it quickly became the only choice available. His squad and few others were stationed to research outpost for few months as tensions raised between atlas and the TA.
Their assignment was to guard a group of researchers using the nearby field to test some kind of new droid or at least that's what he had heard from rumors. At least that would explain why there some huntsmen around the area.
Life at the outpost was dull for most of the time with those few moments of panic when large grimm group attempted to swarm the outpost being the only outlier. So when the sound of explosions and subsequent gun fire burst out of nowhere while he was sleeping definitely shocked him.
Amaranth barely had time to done his armor a explosion went off near the barracks, shattering the windows as the pieces rained upon him. Hastily grabbing his rifle Amaranth barely got out of the barracks as he froze for the briefest of moments as he let a gasp.
The main doors to the outpost were blown open with only remains being the scattered burning pieces of oak. Near the doors where the burnt corpses of squad 3, Amaranth mustered his willpower as he refused to let out tears to the fallen friends at the moment.
But what horrified him the most was who was pouring through the door, clad in ceramic plates and mechanized motors stood one of the worst things any soldier could face … power armored soldiers.
Nicknamed by many veterans of the war as the walking tank a power armored soldier was one of the worst things to face, unless you were equipped to specifically deal with them. Those walking metal monsters could take entire clips and yet still be able to function even through that, but what made them dangerous was the weapons they brought. Those suits could carry weapons that should be mounted on armored vehicles and give the user the ability to use them.
Will Atlas did research into power armor the main problem stopping any real development was simple … the battery. Current power required a large amount of power to work and to able to store it for a long time was absolutely critical. The TA have not only produced a battery to meet the energy requirements of the armor but also created one that could last days upon days.
But Amaranth's musing could not last as it seemed that one of the armored soldiers turned its attention towards him, barely having time he threw himself unto some nearby cover as the soldier pulled the trigger on his laser rifle as a crimson beam flew through the sky and onto where the Amaranth once stood.
Bringing his rifle upward, two times did he pull the trigger as two bullets burst from the barrel as they zoomed and impacted against the power armor plates. Sparks formed as the bullets impacted the armor, the soldier inside buckled slightly from the force.
Capitalizing on the moment he pulled on the grenades he nabbed from the barracks before pulling the pin off and throwing it towards the soldier. A few seconds later a loud explosion rang.
Amaranth dared not to leave is place out of fear of being seen and shot by the other power armor soldiers. Amaranth waited for a few moments before slightly tilting his head for a brief second … no one shot it.
Slowly Amaranth reared his head out of his cover to check his surroundings
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Red was the last thing the Atlesian soldier saw as a crimson beam crashed into his face, melting the flesh the bone, rendering the head into a pile of hot glowing grey goop.
"F-Fuck you" whispered the power armored soldier as he laid on ground as his armor began injecting stimpacks into his body, halting the bleeding as well as numbing the pain to point that the soldier could get begin to get up.
While this was happening all around the base the rest of the Adam's men were clearing out the rest of the remaining soldiers. The Atlesian soldiers were simply unprepared to face the overwhelming force the TA brought, however that did not mean they didn't put up a fight, almost an eighth of the TA forces were lost during the firefight.
After almost an hour the last remains of the Atlas forces were finally exterminated, just minutes after that that Adam and the rest of the infiltration team appeared out of the underground section of the base as they towed with them a small group of scientists who looked quite fearful with their current situation.
Most of them dared to speak out against their current invaders, but that did not mean that more than few of them emptied their stomachs from the sight of the remains of their previously defenders.
Adam wrinkled his nose in disgust from the sight of the scientist as he brought out his pip-boy to contact their transports.
"Oh God, why are they doing this what do they hope to achieve" whispered one of the scientist.
"Ssshh, quiet, do want them to shoot us" replied the other scientist as he tried to quiet his associate.
"Oh? And why would they, I doubt they kill us after what they just went through to get us" hissed back the scientist.. As the scientist was about to continue speaking one of the soldiers looked over to the two scientist, "Oi, shut you mouths there" demanded the soldier.
"Or What" demanded the scientist as he ignored his co-workers attempts to stop him.
"Hmph, looks like we got a tough guy here" said the soldier as he looked down at scientist. "Butter learn to close that mouth of yours or I will."
"You don't scare me, you won't kill me or any of us" replied the scientist as he glared at the armored soldier.
Instead of responding the soldier turned to face Adam, who was looking at the scene with minor curiosity. "Sir" asked the soldier as he looked for his commander's response. Adam looked at the soldier for a few moments before slightly dipping his head in allowance.
The soldier looked backed at the scientist who was still waiting to see what he do, before the scientist could open his mouth a laser pistol was whipped to the scientist's head before a crimson beam burst through the skull, easily melting the entire head into a pile of red glowing goop … no one dared to speak.
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"I now hope you understand your current predicament …" spoke Adam as he stared at the rest of the horrified scientist "... if you try to do something similar to what your deceased friend did than what you just saw will happen to you as well, however, if you cooperate and refrain from rebelling you and your loved ones will not come to any harm" explained Adam as the roar of engines could be heard as the teams vertibirds descended from the skies.
"Now, shall we" said Adam as he motioned the rest of scientist to go in first. Minutes passed as the last of the scientist entered the aircraft and the rest of soldiers strapped themselves in as well, leaving only Adam and a few others still outside.
"Set the beacon, I want no possible evidence that we were here" ordered Adam to remaining soldiers as he entered the craft. The soldiers pulled out a diamond shape device that glowed a dark rust orange color, firmly placing it on the ground one of the soldiers flicked the switch on top before boarding the last of the vertibirds just as it began to lift off.
As the aircrafts ascended into the air and back to hidden CIA bases a harsh howl was heard as those who dared to look back at the outpost could see dozens of beowulf's pour inward, as drawn there be some force.
Such a sight could not be seen forever as eventually the clouds began to block any sight as they disappeared into the night sky.
END
Well, I'm not dead if that's what you guys are wondering. Sorry for such a delay while I could easily come up with some kind of excuse the truth is simply a mix of writer's block, sheer laziness, and addiction to electronics.
But enough of that stuff, as for the next chapter of cloth and scythe will be next with (hopefully) the next chapter of my other story chapter one (check it out if you have time).
Now off to Doctor Oobleck class time with his assistant Ruby Rose.
Thank you, very much mysterious voice, in the sky" said Doctor Oobleck as he turned his attention back to the viewers. "Now I do hope you are ready to continue where we left off dear viewers, ~ahem~ Miss Ruby is may" said Oobleck as ruby quickly appeared as she began draw today's lesson.
COMBAT DRONES PART 2
"For today class we will now be discussing about the TA's own combat drones" explained Oobleck as he grabbed a piece of chalk and quickly drew a humanoid drone that resembled that of a female figure.
"This here is the assaultron, created by RobCo before the great war and sold to pre-American army. Now while at first glance these assaultrons may resembled that of the Atlesian Knight-130 created by core robotics they are not" explained Oobleck.
"Why not, they seem pretty or at least closely related to the AK-130" asked Ruby.
"True, at first glance they do, but in combat they function much differently" replied Oobleck. "One of key differences between these two is how they react to enemies, an AK-130 would try to keep some distance between itself and an enemy and would only go into close combat if it is fighting an aura user or if quaintly is on its side."
"An assaultron on the other hand would automatically try to close the distance between it and its prey. In close combat most non-aura user would be in an incredibly deadly situation as the assaultron are designed with speed and agility far greater than that of average humans and faunus. Not only that but the hands of an assaultron have in-built combat claws that can easily tear through exposed flesh with ease" explained Oobleck.
"But should an assaultron not be able to close the distance between its target than the assaultron would use its head laser, a powerful laser that can blast through most types of body armor available at great distances. However, the laser does have disadvantages such as a long charge up as well as an electric glow that can be easily seen when it charges up." Said Oobleck.
"~shudders~ Yikes, I hope don't have to fight that anytime soon" said Ruby to herself.
"Trust me Miss Rose, you wouldn't … if you have the chance, avoid them" advised Oobleck as began to draw the next drone.
"You umm have personal experience of something" asked Ruby to the professor.
"… Let's just say that a long time ago I had the unfortunate chance of encountering one" replied Oobleck as he finished the drawing.
"Now, let's get ourselves back on track shall we" said Oobleck as he showed the next drone to the viewers. This drone had a large bulky upper torso that heavily armored and three legs with each a wheel instead of feet.
"Now this drone here is the sentry bot, created before the great war with the express purpose of participating in the heaviest of firefights during combat. As you can see the sentry bot armor is made up of multiple layers of anti-ballistic armor. However, this is not the same throughout all models as depending on their variant some may have more or less layers" explained Oobleck.
"Wow, do you know the different layers among their variants" asked Ruby. "Sorry to disappoint Miss Rose but that knowledge is strictly kept close to the TA military" apologized Oobleck.
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"Though I have to ask Miss Rose, what do you think the sentry bots carry, judging by their purpose and design" asked Oobleck.
"Oh, umm …" replied Ruby as she took a closer look the sentry bot picture "… Hmm, if I had to guess … definitely some of kind of heavy weapon. Most likely a minigun on one of the arms to keep enemies from getting to near, after that the bot would most likely need a long-range weapon … I'm thinking of laser weapon of something close to that" explained Ruby.
"Well, you are almost right Miss Rose, indeed the sentry bot usually carry a minigun on one of their arms at all time. On their other arm they carry a rocket launcher to long range targets as well as deal with large crowds of enemies if the situation arises" answered Oobleck.
"Really, I can see why they would but wouldn't it be better some kind of laser weapon instead, those weapons have far greater range as well as being harder to block than normal kinetic weapons. I pretty sure their frames could handle a shoulder mounted weapon like a grenade launcher." argued Ruby.
"Hmm, that is a possibility there Miss Rose and one I wonder if members of the TA might take" mused Oobleck as he took a quick look at his watch.
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"It seems were almost out of time Miss Rose" said Oobleck before he turned to the camera. "Well I guess this all for today than class, next class we will finish up the last of the combat drones in the TA before moving to our next subject … Synths" said Oobleck as the camera turned off and everything faded into black.
FIN