Raptor One – Chapter 52
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Standing outside the Avali zone elevator, me and Jason are waiting for the elevator check, going up is a question of patience as we need to wait for the full in check, no exception.
I nod at the Su brothers, and they nod back, they didn’t recognize me yet.
“Nice Power armor.” Ruby say to me and i give her a look.
“I thought you only knew how to follow orders.” i ask Ruby.
“Naa, just don’t want to get yelled back.” She reply.
“Da, understandable.” i say.
The Su brothers look at each other before widening their eyes.
“Captain!” A synchronized salute is given by the Su brothers, so i take off my HEV helmet.
“Ey, tovarishch.” i say and smile.
Ruby also wide her eyes now that she know it’s me.
“Is this your new armor?” the three ask at the same time.
I chuckle before saying. “Da, got it yesterday as a gift from a fellow tovarishch.” i nod. “How’s the order of the STL drive?” i ask the Su brothers.
“Last time i checked it the Adeptus was finishing it.” Su’ra say to me
Su’zu receive a communication on his console, so he take some distance to check it, less than fifteen seconds later he returns.
“Check’s complete Captain.” Su’zu say.
I nod and put my helmet back as i walk forward into the now open elevator with Jason.
“You got some nice pack members, take care of then, brat, they won’t let you down.” Jason give advice, must come from his friends experience.
“Da, at first when i had no intention to join a pack, but these misfits managed to persuade me, after i gained my permits i had thoughts of leaving it after seeing the state the ship was in and the pack’s relationship, but they again changed my mind when i pointed the guys forward... I think of those misfits as Sem’ya, they won’t see the end of me any time soon tovarishch.” i say as i relax a little.
“Good.” Jason give me a nod of approval before going silent.
After some time, the elevator open and we walk out, ready.
“Remember the job?” Jason ask one last time.
“Da. Lurk into their territory and find their den, avoid conflict, if not possible execute on the spot.” i say.
Jason nod before giving the sign to move.
“Going ghost.” I give Jason a heads up before cloaking.
As soon as i cloak i start running, after giving the roofs a good look i jump into one easily, the power armor leg servos are crazy powerful.
What’s worse is the padding, it don’t let a single sound out.
After running for some time as i jump from roof to roof, i start seeing that the streets are all empty, not even the other gangs and their territory have people, the place looks like a ghost town.
Getting close to the north west side of the town however i start finding some people on the streets, but my scanners all point the persons as hostile, sometimes i have to jump into another roof because there are watchers on some of the roofs.
The search for their den is hard as i find not even a single clue, they look to have taken over the north west side of the underworld, their grouping apparently random.
As I'm looking out for any inconsistency on the north west part of the area, my helmet flash a warning as i jump to another roof, so i stop and look over, nothing, so i take a look at the logs.
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“There’s someone in power armor inside the building, energy type weapon, assault rifle class.” Sigma give me a very interesting clue and show me the photo of the person.
I look down to the street where the person is located, there are several watchers around in the buildings, on the streets there are some groups chatting idly, but close inspection confirm they are all armed and ready for battle, this place is fishy.
Looking around some more i don’t detect the use of explosives and detectors, that’s a plus, they should be in a hurry for something or they did not get their hands on some yet.
Jumping down I'm almost detected, but using my dexterity i manage to disappear again before being detected by moving into the persons blind spot, and as soon as my cloaking stabilized i move in for the building.
Arriving in front of the building i give the door and windows a look for explosives and scanners again, clear, now i just need to wait for someone to give me a chance...
I did not have to wait long for someone to give me the chance i wanted, and using it i managed to sneak right in.
The inside looks very different, the front of the door and windows have barricades, ready for a shoot out, a group of heavy armed pirates stand guard on each side, ready to defend the front while flanking the door from both sides yet having shot clearance for the windows.
I try to use as little time as possible to scan the place and the reinforced door, it have a detector, luckily the guy that gave me the chance to enter is chatting with the pirate guards, this is my chance to hack the detector.
With the combined effort of me and Sigma, we manage to hack the detector easily and not leave any trace of tampering.
Now is to wait for the chatterbox to give me the next chance.
The person take some time chatting, but with patience and time on my side i get the chance to sneak further inside.
What i find is a lot.
They are trying to take over the station by brute force.
“Whiskey to Alpha.” i say after sealing my helmet so the sound won’t leave.
“Alpha here, what’s the status.” Jason ask me.
“We got a take over, Modular mech included.” i say and send him the pics and the coordinates.
“Good job, I'll forward the intel to the security, care to give me some details about what I'm seeing Whiskey?” Jason ask me.
“Da, simple parts first, ‘Meka’ type modular legs, ‘Exitus’ type modular cockpit, ‘Ro’ type modular thrusters, now the problem part, ‘Mech Rifle’ ‘HE’ arm with working CQC, ‘Annihilator Cannon’ energy laser with enough power to mine the station from outside in, and the optional ‘Defense module’, class five, that means if this modular mech in finished, only armor piercing SAP rockets will damage it.” i give a full on report.
“This could be bad if we where a day late.” Jason say, mirroring my thoughts.
After Jason got all the intel data i got from the infiltration i just waited for the iron to start flying.
After some time waiting while i was relaxing on top of a box i started hearing yells, after tuning my hearing a bit it was clear they are saying the security is on top of their ass.
I look as one of the guys run inside and start yelling to speed up the ‘modular mech’ construction, while another group run for a crate, of which in my boredom i scanned it and found some good ol propelled explosive.
The group just run into the crate and open it, not even inspecting it, i shake my head and return my head into the cover of the metal box I'm sitting on.
I hear a yell, too late.
*BOOM!*
My sensors tune automatically so my hearing ins't damaged, when i look again at the group i see only pink mist on the ground, the pirates working on the modular mech also suffered, most of the ones working just lay dead, some rare ones still groan on the ground, their wounds gushing out in droves wetting the ground in red blood.
One of the group of heavy armored guards run inside, ready for combat, the front end of their weapons passing by my line of sight and back as they look, yelling, trying to know what happened.
I just keep looking as if they are idiots, i got no yautja training, but i saw enough to emulate and bait all those idiots into having their heads made into trophies.
I decide they were yelling too much so i decide to give some ‘Unhealth Care’, one of my shoulder cannon rises, aiming at a random heavy armored pirate i start the cannon, the guy health display shows up, and i make a reverse care and watch.
Seconds later the guy i gave a unhealth care kneel up, *thump* he hit’s the ground face first, dead.
The pirates close to him take his vitals after shouting his name a few times and start talking about his sudden death.
I just nod in approval at the cannon effectiveness, only certain waves of electromagnetic detectors will get a glimpse of it before the guy inside dies, only extra locked armor will work against this medgun.
I watch as they start taking his heavy armor off, so i decide to give both person some radiation damage.
Before any of the two can react i see their helmet get coated by a spray of tainted blood before both fall down dead, this get the last two into emergency mode however as they panic and start firing in all directions, a bullet fly my way but i just deflect their trajectory with my psionic capacity before getting a lock on the last two panicked heavy pirate troopers.
Some simple decisions and... done, heart’s off.
I watch both person let their weapon fall as their hands go for their heart, before they drop dead, the workers got scared when the first one dropped dead so they took cover, they are all in terror induced panic, shaking, loss of breath, sweating, high rpm of heart, etc.
I shake my head at the terrorized guys before executing each one with heart failure.
The sudden silence seen overwhelming while outside the melody of steel sing it’s death song, so i decide to help and take the last five heavy armored pirate troopers.
Opening the reinforced door while not exposing my frame was easy, i was not met with a hail of bullets, that means i have the drop on the group as i watch one of the five look my way in slow motion.
The group being made only of humans, of which have a natural disadvantage are slow to react for me, so i easily take my Railgun pistol and blast a hole on the looking person’s head, the other four starts looking my way in slow motion while ducking, i take aim at the next one and pull the trigger, the person’s head jerks pack as he fall dead, last move before meeting a barrage of fire, the third one’s head also jerk back with a hole in it as he also drop dead so i decide to take cover.
The combat is in close firing range, any shots can easily hit someone, i must be ready.
Two burst of kinetic rifle resound, some bullets ping close to my cover as i watch both survivors jump into cover as i give reactive fire while deploying my tower shield for extra insurance, my aim find the guys chest easily, the shot find his heart, the guy slump back, his weapon firing everywhere, the bullet hell miss me, hit his friend and make him fail to react, giving me time to shoot him once, but my shot go wide and open a big hole on the wall behind him as he ducks into cover, so i anchor up and get ready to shoot his head out, but he just place his gun out and fire a blind burst, a bullet go wide, but two bullets find me anchored behind my tower shield, it’s energy deflector changing the course of both bullets as they hit the wall besides me, so i fire at his gun, i hit it and the gun get completely wrecked.
I watch what he’s going to do, and i don’t like what i find out, i stumble a little but i manage to holster my pistol and grab the flying grenade in time and with the precision of a combat medic specialist i lob it back to him and dive into cover behind the wall.
*BOOM!*
Is all i hear before the guys signature disappear from my sensors.
Three groups soon storm my position as they break the windows on both sides while blasting the front door off.
The guy in power armor is also back.
I’m liking this job, i grin to myself.