The Tales of Sorath (part eleven)
"I'm glad that I finally got back up that damn elevator shaft." Zachary said as he jumped out of it and onto the ground floor. "Yeah but the suns gonna rise in less than four hours so get your ass moving." Gordon said. As Zachary looked around he realized why Bill was notorious amongst the group. There were only five people before he went down the elevator shaft with him but now there were at least three hundred bodies strewn across the room around Bill. "Bill." Zachary yelled as he ran over to his teammate. "When the pill wears off I get really tired, that and the smell of blood overwhelmed me." Bill said through very deep breaths. "Okay good. I thought something happened to you." Zachary said as he leaned back in one of the few spots on the floor that wasn't covered in blood. Suddenly, they both heard the glass double doors at the entrance shatter. "What the hell?" they heard a feminine voice say from down the hall.
"Don't forget that you only have one clip left for each gun." "Yeah I know." Zachary said as he made sure his guns were fully loaded before pointing them at the hallway. "Zachary, what is that scent?" Bill asked while sniffing the air. Zachary smelled the air and could make out a strong scent that smelled slightly of flowers. "Whoever it is, they're covering their scent up with lotion that smells like roses." "I knew that I recognized that smell." Bill said as he stood up shakily. "You don't have enough strength to fight." Zachary said as he stepped over to Bill's side. They both watched as the female stepped around the corner. "Which one of you stole my pendant?" the dragoness asked Bill and Zachary. "What the hell are you?" Zachary asked as he stared at her. She ran at him and smacked him across the face with her metal tipped staff, knocking him into the wall.
"You are the one who has my pendant, give it to me."she said glaring at him. He said nothing, pointed his guns at her, and fired. She nimbly avoided all of the bullets and charged at him again. Bill ran at her and punched her in her side, knocking her off course. "Two against on isn't fair you know." she said as she stood up without a hint of pain. "Where do you come from?" Bill asked with his fists clenched. "I am from Russia. Where are you from?" "We are both from America." Zachary said as he stood up. "Are you okay Zach?" Bill asked, never taking his eyes off of the dragoness. "Yeah, I'll live. What is your name?" "That is none of your business." "I merely want to know the name of the charming young lady that we are facing." Bill said with a smile. "Flattery will get you nowhere. I wish to have my pendant back. Hand it over or face death." "I don't know what you're talking about!" Bill yelled at her. "You mean this thing?" Zachary asked as he held up the necklace with the pendant on the end. "Hand it over right now you thief." she said while extending her hand, palm side up, towards Zachary.
"First tell me your name." "You are in no position to make demands. I could simply kill you and take back my pendant." "Why would you go through all that trouble though. It's just a little worthless trinket." Zachary said as he threw it across the room into a puddle of blood. The dragoness ran to where her pendant fell and tried to search for it, but in vain. "You shall burn in hell for this!" she yelled at them as she charged. "Damn, she's fast." Bill said before the tip of her staff came up from below and struck him on the bottom jaw. "Zachary, listen to your brother for a little while. I have to get back some strength." Bill yelled as he watched Zach get into a fighting stance. "Dammit Zach, why do you always piss people off like that? Dodge to the left." Zachary did as he was told. He threw the pistols over to the side and pulled out his knife. "I've never seen a blade like that before. Where did you come across it?" "Sorry, but I can't tell you that." he said as he held the knife up. "I still wish to know the name of our attacker."
"My name is Tanya,. Now you tell me your name and the name of your friend who you're distracting me for." "I am Zachary and that is Bill." "Now that I know your names I can kill you with no regrets." she said as she threw her staff at his head like a spear. He dodged to the left and saw the staff go halfway through the brick wall. Once he looked forward again he saw Tanya's foot right before it slammed into his muzzle. "Dammit." Zachary yelled as he clutched his bleeding nose. "Never take your eyes off your opponent dumbass. That's the first and only rule of combat." "Well do you wanna fight this bitch?" Zachary yelled, causing him to take a punch to the chest that knocked him into the wall. "Hell no. Your body, your fight. Take two steps to the right and then kick at your eye level." Zachary did exactly that and Tanya ran face first into his foot. "How did you do that?" she asked as she threw a punch at his head. Following Gordon's instructions he moved one half step to the side, grabbed her arm, and flipped her onto her back.
"OUCH. That really hurt my fuckin wings." she yelled as she grabbed his arm back and threw him through the wall into the front yard. She walked through the hole she made with him and picked up the detonator that fell out of Zachary's pocket. "I wonder what this does?" she said as she flipped the lid out from over the switch. Before she was able to flip the switch Bill tackled her from behind and tried to slash her back before jumping over to Zachary's side. "Do you know what would've happened if you damaged my scales? I would have to torture you to death." she said as she stood up with a slight stagger.
"What the hell? My claws are still perfectly sharp. How didn't I go through those scales?" "That was a slashing attack, so the scales acted like chain mail and stopped you from doing any real damage to her. That, combined with the fact that those scales are so hard and compacted, means that she is almost invincible to attacks from the outside. However, we can still do some internal damage to her." "That was your brother wasn't it?" Bill said with a slight grin. "Yeah. Do you know what happened to her pendant when I threw it?" "Yeah, it landed in a puddle of blood. I grabbed it before coming out here." he said as he patted his pocket.
"Tanya, I have your pendant." Bill said as he pulled it out of his pocket. "Hand it over, thief." she said as she extended her hand towards him. "I will give you the pendant if you come with us back to our base." "Fine, just come over here and give me back my pendant." He walked over to her and placed the pendant in her hand. As he let go of it and lowered his hand he scraped his fur against her scales by mistake. "What the hell?" he said quietly. "What is it?" Tanya asked him. "I expected your scales to be cold, not warm." "Damn reptile stereotypes, I hate them." "If you two would stop flirting, we need to start leaving now before the sun comes up." Zachary said as he climbed back out of the hole in the wall carrying Tanya's staff.
"We weren't flirting." Bill said as he started walking back up the mountain. "I could fly you two over if you want." "I don't think you could carry both of us Tanya." Zachary said as he started walking over to the base of the mountain. Tanya stretched out her wings and took flight. She then grabbed Zachary's shirt with one hand and, after a minute or two, grabbed Bill by his bulletproof vest with the other one. "Why the hell did you open your mouth Zachary?" "I don't know, I just did." Zachary said as he looked at Bill. "The mountain top was about two hundred feet ago." Bill pointed out. "Okay then." Tanya said as she went into a dive bomb, with the two others in tow. About thirty feet before she hit the ground she leveled out and casually drifted down the next few feet. "Why the hell did you open your mouth Bill?" Zachary said mockingly. "Shut up and get in you two." Bill said as he climbed into the cockpit and flipped the detonation switch.
"I'm back guys, and you won't believe what I saw." Jack said as he walked to his room to put up his gun. "What did you see?" Sorath asked him after he came out of his room. "I saw another one of us. I had to kill him though. He had a hunting bow with an arrow pointed at my head." "What was it?" "It was a rabbit." "Okay, that makes one more left at most." "What are you talking about? There weren't supposed to be any more of us." Jack said as he walked with Sorath to the kitchen. "The Russians also made at least three beings like us." he said as he grabbed out some ham out of the fridge. "Great, just fuckin great." Jack said as he stepped out of the kitchen. "Guys, I just got a call from Zach. He said that as soon as they drop off the vial and get the money they are heading straight back here with a surprise for us." Delilah said peeking her head out of her room.
"Thanks, where's Veronica?" Sorath asked as he looked around. "She's doing Bill's job of taking down targets. Why do you ask?" Jack asked before heading into his room. "HELP ME!" they heard yelled from the phone room. As they all ran there they were afraid that they were being attacked. Once they all looked into the room they all burst out laughing at Veronica. She was laying down on the ground wrapped up in the phone cables. "It's not funny you guys, I really need some help here." Veronica said as she tried to get out again. "Jack, go get ready for your next mission while me and Delilah help her out of this little mess." "How did you even get tangled up like this?" Delilah asked as she started untangling Veronica's feet.
"I answered one phone and started walking around without paying attention. Then another phone rang so I answered it and started trying to take all the information down for both of them. I wasn't really paying attention so when they both hung up I forgot that the phones weren't cordless ones and decided to do a little bit of a spin since I had done a good job at getting the information down without a problem, hey watch it back there." she said as Sorath accidentally pulled her tail fur while undoing a cord. "Sorry about that Veronica." he said as he finished undoing the cables around her tail. "Anyway, after I found out they did have cords I panicked and started running back to the receivers without undoing the cables and tripped, spinning while I fell. That's how I ended up in this mess." she said as she stood back up with one cord still hanging off her ear. As Sorath reached up to get it Veronica turned around and bumped their muzzles together. Out of surprise they both fell backwards and landed on their tails.
"Dammit Sorath, if you wanted to kiss me you could have told me instead of making us bump our muzzles against each other." Veronica said as she stood up while rubbing her butt. "I didn't want to kiss you. There was a cable hanging off your ear so I was trying to get it when you turned around." Sorath said as he rubbed his muzzle. "Stop lying you stupid bastard, I know you still have feelings for me." she yelled poking his chest. "What the hell are you talking about?" "You still have the same feelings for me that you did at the facility." "I already told you, that side of me died when we escaped." "I'll see about that." she said as she ran towards him. He turned around and ran out the door with her following behind him by only a few feet. "Ugh, I guess it's about time for the guys to go on vacation like they do every year." Delilah sighed. She picked up the ringing phone right next to her and took a deep breath. "Hello, this is Delilah speaking how may I help you?"
"Stay right here Tanya, and please don't touch anything." Bill said as he carefully covered the jet in the empty parking lot. "Fine." she said from under the cloth. "Where are you going Bill?" "We are going to get our payment." Bill said as he grabbed the case from Zachary's paws. "What should I do?" "Get your knife ready for an attack. Once she hands over the money you count it, make sure it's the real stuff, and all that." "What do I do if we get attacked?" "That's why I told you to get your knife out. If any collectors are attacked or harmed in any way during a collection then the deal is off and we have to kill the person who hired us." Bill said as he opened up the gate.
"Any idea why we had to get so close to a city?" "Probably easier for the person who hired us to get here. There she is." he said as he pointed at a lone figure in a field. "Are you Bill?" the figure asked. "Yes I am, do you have the money?" "Bill, this woman sounds familiar." Zachary said in a hushed tone. "I have the money right here. Do you have the strain?" "Yes I do." Bill said as he stepped five feet in front of her. "Come into the light to do the transaction." Bill said as he held up the case in his left paw. She silently stepped into the light and stood in the light. "Is that you honey?" Zachary asked from the shadows.
"Who said that?" she asked as she pulled out a butterfly knife and flipped it open. "Watch it." Bill said as he held his gloved left arm up. "What the hell is that on your arm?" she asked as she backed away from Bill. "Zachary get your ass into the light so that she can see you and put that thing away. This glove is covered in the blood of the people you sent me and him to kill." Zachary stepped into the light and saw that it was his wife who had called them to steal the viral strain.
"I thought you were finally gone after that one day. I guess that I have to do the deed myself." she said as she charged at Zachary, who was just standing there paralyzed. "Zachary raise up your arm." Bill screamed quickly. "Do I have to do everything around here?" Gordon said before raising Zachary's right arm and slamming the blade into his wife's chest. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO." Zachary screamed as he just realized what Gordon had done. "I guess that settles that. Come on Zachary, it's time to go home." Bill said as he grabbed the briefcase from where it had been dropped. "No." Zachary said as he sat there crying for his wife. "If you don't get your ass up I'm going to leave you here." "Go ahead, I don't care any more."
"Fine. You made your decision." Bill said as he walked back to the jet. As he pulled the cover off he saw that the cockpit was empty. He watched as Tanya landed on the other side of the jet with her hands full of bags. "Where the hell did you go? I told you to stay in the cockpit." He yelled as he got over to where she was. "Well I got hungry so I went over to the town and raided a fast food restaurant. I also realized that I was getting tired and thirsty so I went next door and raided the supermarket of all sodas and energy drinks." "How could you do that?" he asked as he watched her climb into the back seat of the cockpit.
"It was very easy since everyone ran out the door screaming their heads off." she told him as he climbed into the front. "Where's Zachary?" "He decided to stay with his newly deceased wife." Bill said as he turned the engine on. "So you're just going to leave him here?" "You can fly with him behind me if you want but he said he wants to stay." she hopped out, ran over to Zachary, grabbed him, and started flying upwards. "I guess that problem's solved." Bill said as he took off with Tanya flying behind him.
"Delilah, can you help me out here." Sorath yelled from his room. "What do you need help with?" Delilah yelled back to him from the kitchen. "If you would look at my door you would see why I need help." "I'm coming." Delilah said as she dried off her hands. When she opened the door and looked towards Sorath's door she immediately saw the problem. Veronica was standing right outside the door with a net gun in her hands. "Veronica, why do you have that?" Delilah asked as she walked up beside her. "I'm going to catch Michael with it." "Why do you want to catch Sorath in a net?" "Once I catch him, I can make him love me again." "That isn't the way to make him love you. There is no physical way that you can force him to love you."
"He will love me, and this needle will make sure that happens." she said as she held up a syringe filled with a colorless liquid. Delilah pulled out the pistol she had in her hip holster and shot the syringe, shattering it. "Hey, watch it out there. Almost everything in this place is bulletproof and yet you choose to shoot through my door, the one thing that isn't bulletproof. What the hell?" "Sorry about that. She was gonna drug you." "I will get you Michael." Veronica yelled as she slammed into the door with her full force, going straight through it. "Dammit."Delilah said as she pulled a needle out of her pocket and threw it at Veronica, hitting her in the back. She turned around and Sorath came out from behind her and depressed the plunger.
"Thanks Delilah." Sorath said as he handed Veronica over to her. "No problem, you really should get out of here before she wakes up." I'll call Bill to warn him not to come here for about a week." "Don't forget about Jack. You know that he would stay here all week if he could." "Fine I'll warn wolfy too." Sorath said as he grabbed a set of keys off the wall. "I'll be taking one of the blackhawks out." "It's yours so I don't see why you're telling me." Delilah said as she set Veronica down in her room. "I think I'll take myself a little nap." Delilah said as she closed Veronica's door and went to her own room.
"Hi buddy." Jack said before blowing the mans head off with a shot to the head. "Come on, are you guys even trying to hit me?" Jack asked as he dodged every bullet coming his way. He saw one person coming behind his selected hiding spot and decided to use him as a human shield so he shot the man through the heart and grabbed his shirt. He then charged into the group of gang members that came to the sound of his shots. "Kill him at all costs." said the leader at the back of the hotel lobby. Jack watched as the elevator opened and he saw a little girl running towards one of the bodies. "Daddy!" she yelled as Jack watched a gang member level his gun towards the girl. Jack jumped in front of her before being hit in the back with three bullets. He grabbed the girl, ran with her over to the elevator, handed her to the mother, and then pressed the top floor button. He felt a gun hit the back of his head. "The monster has a bleeding heart. Who woulda thought." Jack did a 180 and hit the man in the side of the face with one of his pistols before shooting it through him into another gang member. "I hear the sirens of police, time to end the fun." he said before pulling the pin out of a grenade in his teeth and throwing it into the entrance. After it exploded he ran through the smoke and got hit in the side by something. He was trying to think what it could be before it started sending electricity through his system. "That really hurts." Jack said as he ripped the taser prongs. "I've been through worse though." he said before running into the alleyway to the right.
Before the police even got to the entrance of the alley they saw a jet black lambo peel out. Jack floored the gas and only heard one bullet hit the car. He rolled down the window, leaned out with a Desert Eagle 50 in his left hand, turned around, and shot back at the cops. "DON'T FUCK WITH MY PAINT JOB!" he yelled before going back inside and rolling the window up.
"Don't just stand there men, get going." "We can't, he shot through our engine blocks. The cars are useless." "Who shot him anyway?" "I did." said the sergeant in the back. "The bullet had a GPS beacon in it, so we can follow the car wherever it goes." "Next time, tell someone when you pull some crazy ass stunt like that. Somebody, call the station and tell them what just happened, and you corporal Hunt." the commander said glaring at the corporal. "You aren't in SWAT anymore. You need my approval before opening fire with lethal ammunition." The commander yelled before going to pull up the GPS signal on his phone.
"Hey, Jacks coming back." Sorath said before shutting off the chopper. "I hear Bill's jet coming too." Delilah yelled from inside. As Jack got out of his car they say Bill land a few feet away. "Hey guys." Bill said as he climbed out of the cockpit. "Where's Zachary?" Delilah asked, stepping out of the hangar. "He's being carried by our 'guest'." Bill said right before Tanya landed with an unconscious Zachary in her arms. "He passed out about three minutes ago. He's still breathing though, so he's alive." "Well I'll be damned. You were right Delilah, the other one was a dragon." My name is Tanya. I am only here because I agreed to come here with Bill so he would give me back my mother pendant." "I'm Sorath and this is Delilah. We are here because we can't live in a city." Sorath said while shaking her hand. "Does anyone else hear that beeping?" Tanya asked as she raised her head in the air. "No." everyone said in unison.
"It's coming from that car." she said pointing at Jack's lambo. "I only got shot with one bullet in the side, it shouldn't have damaged the engine at all." Jack said as he went and looked into the bullet hole. He saw a slight glint and pulled it out. Sitting in his paw was what he recognized as a small GPS beacon. "Oh shit." Jack said to himself before showing the beacon to everyone. "Set up our defenses. Then grab the rest of the weapons you can and load them into different aircraft. After you grab the weapons load up with ammo and weapon accessories. Grab all you can, we will be leaving her within twenty four hours." Sorath yelled to the group. "Sorath, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-" "Shut up and do as you're told. You aren't in trouble since you were doing a mission at the time. Get Bill to show Zachary how to fly an attack aircraft." Are you talking about the AC130?" "Yes, now go."
As Jack left he stared at the beacon in his paw. 'As death smiles in my face, I shall smile back. I will never go back to that facility, even if I must die by my owns hands.' Sorath thought as he crushed the beacon and went to unload his personal weapons collection into the B2.
"We have a lock on his location sir." said a private with a GPS unit in his hands. "Okay lets-" he was interrupted by someone knocking on the door of the station. "Who is it?" the sergeant asked as he opened the door. "I am Colonel Hodges of the CIA, I am taking control of this mission. You and the other members of this station have assisted us greatly. You are all now on one week of paid leave. I would like everyone to exit the premises except for the colonel here." he stepped aside ans everyone except for the colonel rushed out to their cars. "I am sorry about this, but we have secrets that must be kept." Hodges said with a grim look on his face. "What are you-" they were interrupted by a large explosion.
"What did you just do?" the sergeant said as he ran to look out of the window. He looked out and saw a large crater on the side of the road. "Who knew that there were terrorists working inside our own government? Good thing Hunt found one of them." Hodges said as he withdrew his pistol. "What are you-" he said before being hit between the eyes while turning around. "Congratulations Hunt, you're being promoted back to your old position due to you finding the terrorist on our own nations soil." Hodges said as he slid his pistol back into his coat. "Thank you for restoring my position."
"Don't thank me just yet, you're first mission is to lead a small combination of the Army, Marines, and Air Force against that person who's car you shot and his group. You will have roughly two thousand men under your command. You will have twenty tanks, ten fighter jets, seventy helicopters, thirty humvees with M134 miniguns mounted on the roofs, and one gunship. Every one of your men not operating machinery will be armed with M4 rifles. All of those who are operating machines will be armed with two SMG's. If any of the men try to escape, shoot them. Do you understand all of this?" "Yes sir, I do." "Good, your army is waiting for you at the place marked on this map. It will take you five hours to get to the enemy's camp and a firefight will erupt when you get there. Get going." Hodges said as he handed Hunt a file and walked out the front door to his car.
"That should take care of the threats to security." he told himself as he dialed a number into the cars touchscreen and pressed enter. After the verification process the person on the other end answered. "Hello?" "It's me sir, the folder has been delivered, all the threats have been neutralized, and I am heading to get the food." "Okay good. Please get me some sushi, I'm feeling exotic today." "Yes sir." he said as he hung up the phone and drove away from the station before the fire department responded to the explosion.
"Guys, are our defenses set up?" Sorath asked as he stepped out of the explosives room. "Our anti tank guns are lined up on the roof under the edge we made." Bill yelled from above them. "Our machine guns are located at the windows that we added." Jack from the other side of the building. "I have all of the mines set up around their route." Delilah said as she started getting the dirt out of her fur. "How do you guys know where they're coming from?" Zachary asked from inside their makeshift flight simulator. "It's the only way they can come from and survive the trip here." Tanya said as she finished loading all the guns and arranging extra ammo.
"You don't have to stay here Tanya. You should go, that staff of yours is pretty much useless when it comes to bullets." Sorath said as he watched Bill come down the stairs. "All of the extra weapons have been loaded into the jets, the coordinates for our regrouping point are programmed into each one, Zach has gotten the training down, and the underground portion of the base is packed with thirty pounds of explosives." Bill said with a salute. "I guess that everything's ready. I already set the charges in the explosive room to go off once this gets out of range." he said as he held up a little box. "Veronica is flying away right now in a helicopter, albeit grudgingly." "Thank you Delilah. Tanya, are you sure you want to stay here?"
"I will fly off once the fight begins and distract their troops for a few moments. That should be enough for you to set your plan into motion." "What plan is she talking about Sorath?" "I'm going to throw a water balloon filled with gasoline and a prepped C4 charge into the middle of their formation and detonate it. After that we will open fire on them." "Why did you even get Bill to set up the anti tank rifles on the roof? I doubt that they're planning on shooting us with tanks." "Jack made it onto the news with his last mission since some pedestrian got a video of him shooting out of his window. I can pull it up if you want." "Sure." Delilah said with a short stare at Jack. As they watched they clearly saw Jack, as a wolf, sticking his top half out of the window and shooting behind the car. "That guy had a good video camera."
"Of course he did, it was a news crew that was setting up for an interview with the police when they apprehended him." "Who wants a drink?" Sorath asked as he held up a soda bottle full of moonshine behind a makeshift bar in the kitchen. Everybody just stared at him in shock. "What? I'm pouring the drinks and mixing them." "Okay, I'll take one." Bill said as he stood up. After Sorath poured them a few drinks everyone toasted to the best of luck when their enemies got there.
"Is everyone ready?" Hunt asked from the ground. "Yes sir." responded the man on top of the tank. "Okay people, lets go. Tanks will stick with the humvees and foot soldiers while the jets and helicopters go ahead and break through their defenses. The gunship will be sent in last, as a contingency plan." Hunt said before hopping on top of a waiting tank.
"Hey guys. They finally showed up on the sensors. They have a few tanks, some humvees, a group of choppers, and even a couple jets. I'll take down the jets and copters right now." Bill said as he stood up from the sensor array that he normally kept hidden in his room. "We'll get on the guns. How long do we got before the tanks and shit come?" "About twenty minutes, but the jets will be here in less than two." Bill said as he climbed the stairs. As he got up to the top of the roof he saw the jets as specks in the distance. He positioned himself behind one of the guns and took aim at the lead aircraft, a jet.
"I have a visualization on the target. There seems to be a lone person on the roof. I don't know what he's doing but I shall open fire in three, two-" he was interrupted by his left wing exploding. "Watch out." he managed to yell before slamming into the jet and copter that was behind his left side.
'You clip the wing in flight, and the bird will drop.' he told himself before firing into the next few jets. "And finally." he said as he stood up with the rifle in one hand. He fired the shot and it hit the jet dead center. "I think I'll put this one into the B2 since it's out of ammo and I don't wanna reload it." "It stays and so do you." Delilah said from the top stair. "Damn. When did you get up here?" "Only about five shots ago." she said, looking at her claws. "Okay pretty kitty." he said with a smirk. She clawed him before he even turned around.
"We need to get those claws fixed." he said turning around a putting the gun back. "Whatever. I'm just glad that Sorath let me have one of his copters for my swords and stuff." "Yeah, he's a nice guy. That's why I'm not leaving without him." Bill said before sitting down and taking out a flask. "That's our good scotch aint it?" Delilah asked as she sat down beside him. "Yeah, but I thought that you said it smelled and tasted like rubbing alcohol." he said taking down a gulp. "Yeah, but that was the cheap shit you kept drinking." she said before snatching his flask out of his hands and took a gulp of it.
"That is the good stuff." she said before handing the flask back to Bill. "You two better not be getting drunk up there." they heard Sorath yell from inside the hangar "Damn. How the hell can he tell that we're drinking?" "I have no idea." "I can hear you. You're right above me. That, and the fact that I know you Bill." "Okay fine." Bill said putting the flask back in his jacket.
"Okay men. They took down our choppers and jets already but now they will die." Hunt said before his tank struck a mine. "They mined their own base. How crazy are these bastards?" Hunt asked before he saw an RPG7 round heading straight at them. He jumped off the tank just before it exploded into a fireball.
"Nice shot Tanya." Sorath said while looking at the group through a pair of binoculars. "Thank you. It was one of the first things that I learned how to shoot. That and the fact that this one is perfect for my form." "I thought you'd like to fire one of our customized ones. Do you want to try one of the rockets that Delilah made herself?" "Sure. What is the difference though?" "Trust me, you'll see the difference when you shoot it." he said as he handed her a purple RPG7 round. "I like the color." she said as she prepped the rocket for firing. She then aimed it at a different tank with a stupid engineer stepping out of the top and fired. As she watched the rocket travel she realized that the tip was expanding outwards.
"What the hell is it doing?" she asked as she turned towards Sorath who had a button in his paw. As he pushed it she looked back at the rocket she saw the cone, that was the tip, harden and stay that way. "How many were behind the tank you fired at?" "Two, why?" He pointed back towards the tank and she saw that the rocket was out of fuel. As she continued watching though a second rocket began, but this time it was going even faster than the other one. As it impacted the first tank it punched a clean hole through it, the rockets engine turning it into an oven and burning the occupants alive, went through the other and the exploding into a multicolored cloud in the middle of the third one, sending shrapnel into all of the soldiers around it and killing almost all of them. "Oh my god." she said before her and Sorath burst out laughing. "I knew that you'd want to shoot that." he said before grabbing a gun from his side.
"What is that?" "This is a combination of the accuracy of a sniper rifle, the firing speed of an uzi, and the caliber of an AK47. Everyone except Jack worked on it. Bill even gave it something like a switchblade bayonet." he told her holding it up. He did a thrusting motion with it into the air and the bayonet's blade popped out a went back inside the compartment in the blink of an eye. "Nice." she said as he went up to the window and started firing. He went slow at first, to get the ordering that Hunt had set up, but then he started firing as fast as the gun would let him, striking them all in the head or chest. They also saw the tanks being neutralized before they could even fire at the base. "Humvees, three o clock." Sorath yelled to Delilah. As they watched a line of det-cord explode. The humvees drove through but the explosion had surprise many of the gunners and Sorath took that advantage to neutralize them.
"Target neutralized. We still have ten humvees, one tank, and a helluva lot of footsoldiers to take out. How is your ammo supply Bill?" "I am out of rounds for the rifles up here." "I've got this covered. Just make sure you cover me." Tanya said as she hopped out the window. As Sorath gave her covering fire she ran at the tank and jumped onto the roof. She then punched her fist through the top and ripped it off and jumped in. After about twenty seconds she jumped back out,covered in the soldiers blood. She then spread her wings, spraying the surrounding soldiers in blood, and flew off. "Good luck you guys." she yelled as she waved and dodged bullets. Sorath waved back and then got hit with a bullet in the top of his chest by the gunner on top of the one humvee that was still useable. Sorath rose up and shot the driver and gunner before he fell back down again out of pain and blood loss. 'I guess this is where I great death.' he thought with a grin on his face. "You're not getting out of this that easy." he heard someone say as they drug him away from the window. He opened his eyes back up and saw Zachary, in his jet black fur, staring in his eyes.
"You're really lucky that it was a small entry wound, but you better stay here for a minute or so for the inside wounds to heal up." he said as he threw a grenade out the window and ruined the humvee. He then ducked before the footsoldiers bullets hit him. "That was close." he said to himself. They both listened and heard a chopper land on the roof. "What happened to Bill and Delilah?" Sorath asked before seeing a pilots body fall onto the window frame and get impaled by a piece of glass that was sticking up. "I guess they took over the bird." Zachary said before watching the helicopter take off of the roof and heading over to the enemy. Once the chopper got right above the enemies its own men the engine cut off and it fell into them. "We took care of the chopper." Delilah said as she hung off the edge by her fingers. As Bill pulled her back up she got shot in the tail. "I just grew that back you son of a bitch." she said as she shot the man that did the deed.
"Delilah are you okay?" Bill asked her. "Yeah, just a little pissed is all." "Where the hell is Jack anyway?" "I was setting something up under the enemy." he said climbing up the stairs "You want to flip the switch Delilah?" "Sure." she said as she pushed the switch up. Then an explosion shook the whole building. "What the hell did you do?" "Just wait until they get right in front of us." One soldier got to the front door and was swallowed by the ground crumbling under his feet. "Damn." "Oh just wait, it gets better." They watched as cracks formed underneath the rest of the little army and the ground crumbled out from underneath them. "That's everyone." "No it's not, there's still one guy right there." Bill said as he pointed to a man clinging onto the edge. "Let's just leave him be, he doesn't even have a weapon. Besides, this place has been discovered so it's useless to us now." Jack said as he walked down the stairs.
"Dammit." Hunt said as he pulled himself out of the hole. He pulled out his radio and turned it on. "Get your ass over here and level this place Reaper." "Yes sir, on our way. We shall be there in T minus thirty seconds." "I won't let them kill me." he said as he stood up. And started walking, with a limp, over to the building.
"Guys, we gotta get our asses moving." Sorath said as he started heading out the back door. "Why?" Zachary asked. "There's a gunship coming, and it has enough explosives to make us a direct route to hell." Sorath said as he threw the other packs to the rest of the group. As he looked them over he saw that they all had multiple bullet holes in them. "I am happy to have fought with you all against a greater number of enemies. This is where you all decide to either stay with me or go our separate ways. Either way, the location of where I will be is programmed into all of your jets. Don't forget to stay above the clouds." After he finished he saluted to all of them and went to his jet. They all went to their respective aircraft and started them up at the same time. They all then took off in their separate directions.
"I finally made it here." said Hunt as he limped into the abandoned hangar. He headed towards the only light that he saw, the one in the explosive room. As he opened the door he realized that there was a milk jug in front of him that said 'nitro' on the side. As he looked around he saw what looked like a timer an a battery connected to it. He nimbly avoided the jug and detached the wire from the battery, hoping to stop the countdown. He looked up and saw a smiley face with the word goodbye below it. "Fuck." he said before the explosion of an eraser sized charge of C4 beside him. "Wait, I'm alive? Awesome." he said before carelessly turning around and knocking over the nitroglycerine jug, setting it off.
"Sir, the base has been destroyed from the inside. What do I do?" asked the pilot over the communication network. "Return home sir. Good job." "Works for me." the pilot said as he turned around and flew away from the mushroom cloud that was the base.