Phase 18: Skyhook
The trio is enjoying a simple breakfast with morning coming to the cold island as the radio terminal comes to life. "Yo, good morning guys. Seeking out the next key today?" Peter asked on the radio.
"Yes, we are going after the one which is on top of a tower on the other side of the island," Elza said.
"Hey, did you find any pieces for my combat suit yet?" Rachel asked.
"Oh no, there are only two pieces of kit left. The Armored Vest and the full armored helmet which are both made in the same thicker spider silk material make them much tougher than the bodysuit giving you good coverage to make you feel safe," Peter said.
"I hope I can complete the set so I can be more capable in a fight to help you guys," Rachel said.
"No doubt, I will meet you there at the site," Peter said to cut off the radio.
"The more the merrier," Rachel said.
"Well Rachel, you are going to be covering us via sniping from the cliff with the bot action rifle," Jack said as Rachel grabbed her new AXMC sniper rifle to slip it on her back. Rachel is taking the revolver and the auto pistol which are put in her thigh hoists on her suit.
"Let's go meet Peter at the sky lifts," Elza said as she checked her MPX for them to head outside to meet the endless snowy tundra of the Alaskan Isle. "Still chilly as ever," Elza said as they looked up to see helicopters flying away.
"Seems like Gwen is on edge," Rachel said.
"We are getting close to opening the gate," Jack said as they headed over to the cliffs.
Elsewhere Gwen is looking over the situation to see Peter has joined forces with the US agents. "Seems like the Agents are working with the traitor. They have gotten three of the 8 keys along with going for the fourth one," she said.
"You need to step it up and not let them get into the city," the Overseer said.
"Even if they get into the city, it's a hellish zone filled with Ooze and other bioweapons. Few survivors managed to escape the wrath of the crazed Mayor Wells," Gwen said.
"He is loyal to the point of spreading the T-Abyss into the air to infest almost everyone inside to cover everything up," the Overseer is pleased with this.
"Well, I got my troopers reinforced at the locations including vehicle assets," Gwen said.
"Do what you must, you have to stay alive with you holding the 8th key," The Overseer said.
'Of course, I am preparing my rifle to take them out when they come to me. How is your pet project in the US with those crazy cult militia New Dawn?" she asked.
"I am playing them like a viola. These ultranationalist groups are so easy to mislead and even make them believe I am their goddess who will guide them to the new world. Like a pack of idiots like them deserve to live in my perfect society based on a new species of humans created through genetic gifts through the virus I create," the Overseer said.
"Yes these far-right weirdos are insane believe in the most weird nonsense. They are useful idiots and will be tossed aisle when I am finished with them. In the meantime, the New Dawn will continue getting guns, gear, and bioweapons to spread bioterrorism all across the US to distract everyone from my true goals," the Overseer said.
"Of course, I will help any way I can madam," Gwen bows to her as she smiles at her.
"Good, keep doing your duties," the Overseer said as Gwen looked at her tablet to see the info on New Dawn which has about 50,000 members strong and is based within Bright County in a closed-off valley in the middle of Montana.
"They will spread chaos and through that, the Overseer will bring order to this broken world. Killing off the weak and making humanity much better in the process," Gwen thought as she kept doing her duties.
Elsewhere the trio heads for the cliffs to see the tower nearby perched on top of a tall rocky structure which is not reached without using the platforms connecting back and forth between cables. "There it is, we need to cross that to get to the tower where the fourth key is," Jack said.
"Just, that is one deep fall," Elza said as they saw the cabin cars going back and forth between the tower and the station connecting them both.
"I see you," Peter said as he waved to him to come towards him. "Good to see you all in one piece," Peter said.
"Good to see you too," Rachel said.
"Well, Miss Busty is in high spirits," Peter said.
"She is always like that," Jack said.
"Lucky man, always having a bright smile to greet you every morning. The best dream a man can ask for. Anyway, we need to clear out the station before using the cable cars. I see you have a sniper rifle," he said as Rachel had a sniper rifle.
"Yes I will be giving you cover when you hit the station and tower," she said.
"Oh, Miss Busty. I got a gift for you," Peter said as he handed her a pocket shotgun called the Super Shorty pump action shotgun. "This will hand in a pinch if you need something for close range," he said.
"Pretty nice little package," she said as this little pump action shotgun held two shells plus one in the chamber. Peter hands her buckshots and slugs for the pocket shotgun. She puts away her revolver into her backpack and uses the Super Shorty as her second sidearm. She puts a round into the chamber and loads two shells into the small tubular magazine.
"Okay, let's go hit that station," Peter said as Rachel split off to get into a position to set off the bipod on her AXMC to lay on her stomach on the ground.
"I am in a position," she said on the radio as the trio of Jack, Peter, and Elza went up to the station which has several Undertakers guarding the place. Rachel can spot the Grunts wielding SG 553s and P90s patrolling the area.
"Cool, we will go ahead when she takes the shot," Jack said as Rachel looked through the scope to land a headshot into a grunt. "Here we go," Jack said as the trio headed into the building with Rachel putting shots into the grunts.
"Got them," she thought as she took out Undertakers via headshots to clear out the first part of the station. Peter slips through a window to use his ACR to pump out several 6.8 SPC rounds to tear through the mutant soldiers' bodies to drop them onto the floor.
Elza uses her KS7 to blast apart Undertakers inside the building spreading blood and bones all over the place. She rolls the grenade on the floor to take out a group of Undertakers behind crates.
Jack gets behind cover to wield his AK Alfa sets up his grenade launcher on his gun to lob a round into a group of enemies. The grenade blast takes out a squad of Undertakers scattering their lifeless bodies onto the floor.
Rachel can see more Undertakers further into the station to begin taking them out. Rachel gets hit in the shoulder but the reinforced shoulder pad manages to block the sniper round to see a few Undertaker Scouts trying to use their MDRX DMRs to take her out.
She rolls away to change position to take out the Scouts but pops their heads open with blood spreading onto the floor. She fires another round to cut through around enemy sniper to clear out another set of Scouts.
She spots two sets of jeeps coming up the cliff. Rachel gets out of her sniper position to switch to her new weapon the Super Shorty. 8 Undertakers are approaching her sniper position so she goes behind some trees.
"Nighttime," she said as she fired two shots to take out two Undertakers to get behind cover. They pepper the trees with bullets with her firing a single buckshot to tear the head of the Undertaker in half. She reloads the little pump action with three more shells.
She blasts three more Undertakers with her pocket shotgun. She switched positions to get hit a few times in the chest to make her flinch but they were too weak to pierce her special combat bodysuit. She loads some slugs to put them into the two remaining mutant soldiers to clear up the area for now.
"I got some trouble, I got rid of them," Rachel said as she got to another position to set up her rifle.
"No problem, there are a few more soldiers on the roof," Jack said.
"I will take care of it," Rachel said as the trio were encountering resistance with Fenrirs patrolling the large station complex.
The large mutant wolves head for Jack as he is shooting his assault rifle to take each down with one tackling him onto the floor and trying to bite his face. He draws out his Glock 40 to put two hot lead bullets to pierce through its skull instantly killing it.
He kicks another Fenrir into a crate and droves his knife into its head twisting it inside. He finished off the monster dog and grabbed his fallen assault rifle to resume going forward.
Peter is using his semi-auto shotgun to take down enemies while avoiding gunfire from the Undertakers including Engineers wielding P90s and setting up auto-turrets. "Just great," he thought to toss a flashbang to blind some soldiers.
He pulls up his ACR 6.8 to strike them through the chest to drop them onto the floor. Peter can see two auto-turrets in the area with a few Engineers putting bullets into his position with two Undertakers trying to flank him. He aims his carbine to shoot them in the chest while he tosses a grenade to take out the auto turrets.
Elza is wielding her MPX to look through the red dot sight to put 9mm rounds into the skulls of Fenrirs and Undertaker Grunts. She leaps over a window to put rounds into the chests of the mutant soldiers. "Hush puppy," she said putting bullets into the bodies of the Fenrirs' bodies.
She goes for her M4 Super 90 to pump out several buckshots to cave the heads of the mutant canines leaving guts and body parts scattered onto the floor.
They get to the control room to see a bunch of Farfarello appearing before them before cloaking their presence. "Hate these Hunter types," Jack said as their cloaking made it hard to see them.
"Smoke grenades will help mark them," Elza tosses one smoke grenade to unleash plumes of grey smoke which covers up the humanoid beasts with grey marking them. "Perfect," she said as she was putting rounds into the tough hide of the Hunter variants.
Peter tosses a sticky grenade to latch onto Farfarello's chest for it gets split in half by the explosion. Peter is putting rounds into the chest of a bioweapon until it falls onto the ground. Elza puts slugs into the shotgun to put them into the heads of the monster reptiles.
"Okay, we cleared up the station. How is your end?" Jack asked on the radio.
"I got rid of the threats nearby me, I am going to set up a position to protect you while you head for the tower," Rachel said as she set up the bipod on the cliff that overlooks the cabin cars.
Jack turns on the cable cars to see them turning on. "Time to go on this wild ride," he said as the three got into the cable car to go over the chasm below which leads to a river.
"Better watch it, they can easily blast out down into the chasm below," Peter said as they took a position in the cable car with Undertakers coming up the cables to begin attacking their car.
Rachel is on her stomach and steadying her aim with her sniper rifle to begin laying fire on the incoming soldiers to put bullets into their heads. "I got your guys' back," Rachel said on the radio as they opened fire on the incoming Undertakers.
Jack lobs a grenade from his rifle's M320 to take out the cable car making it fall below. He wields his AK Alfa 556 to fire several bursts of 5.56 bullets into the bodies of Undertakers. At the tower, two Undertakers Grenadiers are wielding SMAW launchers to shoot rockets at them.
"Oh shit," Elza said as the rockets misses the cable car to slam into the cliff.
"I got them," Rachel said as she adjusted the scope on her rifle to begin shooting the first Undertaker to clip through its head to move to the next one to swiftly take it out as well. "Knock them dead," Rachel said as she reloaded her AXMC sniper rifle.
"Cool, we are almost there," Jack said as they saw more Undertaker squads going up on the cable cars to attack the group. Rachel fires onto the connector to cut off the cabin car from the cable to fall into the abyss below.
"Okay, let's get that key," Jack said as they managed to get to the tower to see all the Undertakers were killed by Rachel's expert sniping skills. They see a box that has the fourth key within as he slips it into his bag.
"Time to get out of here before more soldiers come up," Elza said.
"Well, that was fun. One step closer to getting back to the city. I need to split out of here, I will be around," Peter said as they got back to Rachel to part ways with Peter, for now, to head back to the bunker with four keys down and four more to go.
