Exposed! Ch.9
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The smoothing yet over-enthusiastic voice of Valkyrie never seem to leave troy's headset. "I was able to successfully hijack their communications satellites while you were down there, your helmet can now translate multiple languages fluently, including the universal one. I do recommend that you take the time to learn it naturally instead of relying on your suit." Her motherly tone never missing a beat which can annoy Troy at times. He and spark stepped through the hole followed by two large squads of spectres close behind them, they hugged the walls quickly making their way down the ramp while the two walked down the middle. "Thanks val, let me know if you discover anything else and keep supplying us with more troops. I rather not come back out to see that im surrounded." He said while pressing a button on wrist, activating the miniature flashlight on his helmet.
" umm actually, i have detected several unidentified aircraft closing in from the east a few minutes ago. My best guess is that they are a quick response force from how low they flying to the ground." This made him raise a eyebrow, "well it sounds like a challenge to me val but deploy some phantoms to intercep them and maintain air superiority around the base, if they do get through then i would be more than happy to take them on." It wasn't long until the group reached the bottom of the facility, the human took note of the large amounts crates that were stacked atop one another, some contained ammunition and weapons varying from shape and size while others held medical supplies. "This is a big place everyone so spread out and proceed with caution and for all that is holy, please find something that's edible. I haven't eaten anything since i left the damn fox boy's house!" He ordered as all of the spectres started to secure the surrounding area.
The feeling of someone tapping the back of his shoulder made troy turn to see spark right behind him, troy turned to face him only to see a blood covered bodyguard. "Spark what the heck happen to you?" Small droplets of blood from his visor fell to the ground indicating that it was still fresh, spark examined his hand and forearm and simply shrugged. "My apologies sir, i guess i overdid it with that officer. I will clean myself up once we make it back to the dragonova." Stalkers were brutal to began with but these two were on a whole different level. "Fine, you'll be sticking with me on this one. Once we locate and recover stella-1, we'll leave before more enemy reinforcements arrive." Spark nodded while pulling out his x-55 devotion and checking the chamber. "Sounds like a plan sir, you lead and I'll follow."
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The sounds of rumbling could be heard throughout the corridor of the underground facility, spark turned to his captian softly rubbing his stomach and leaning his head against the wall. "Sir you should have ate something back on the ship, now im to have to carry you like i have always done ." He joked but was given vicious hiss in return. "Don't you dare touch me or I'll turn you into a toaster, im just really hungry is all. The security station should be around the corner, we'll know the exact location of stella if we access one of the computers." Just as he turned the corner, a barrage of bullets came screaming down towards him, successfully connecting onto troy's right shoulder and lower thigh, his armor deflected the rounds easily but the shock from the sudden attack left him temporary disoriented until spark pulled him back into cover.
"There seems to be two hostiles from the looks of it, I'll take the one on the left and you will go for the one on the right." Spark said while pulling out a small cylinder object from his pouch, Troy snapped out of his daze and quickly nodded in agreement. "F-fuck ok, on your mark buddy." he pressed a button at the center of the device and flicked it out towards the guards. It burst open mid-air, releasing small marble size spheres that exploded with blinding light. The human swiftly made his way to one of guards which was a lion who just a few inches shorter than the him. The animal's vision was still impaired from the sudden flash but was still determined to land another hit on the attackers so he lifted up his SMG to aim but it was too late since troy was already in the air with his foot recoiled back. He landed a mid-air roundhouse kick with tremendous force to the lion's throat, crushing his windpipe completely. Blood flowed out from his nostrils and month as he held on to the area where troy struck with both of his paws, slowly choking from his own fluids.
Troy didn't let up as he tackled the animal to the ground and moved on top of him with his pistol in hand, firing two shots. One connecting to his chest while the other to the skull. The lion's thrashing ceased instantly but still had a shocked expression glued to his face. Troy didn't have enough time react as the second guard, mix canine breed of some sort turned to him with his weapon raised but spark was already behind him. the stalker effortlessly lifted the mutt into the air before slamming him directly into his knee, shattering the spine into multiple pieces. "Both targets neutralized sir." Spark said while softly pushing the mutt's body off of him. Troy stood and headed over to the computer behind the security desk, it asked for identification for access so he pulled out the badge he acquired from the officer back on the surface. He placed the badge to a nearby scanner and waited for a moment, the monitor transitioned to a typical desktop homepage, with the picture of the countries flag as the background.
After some navigation, the pilot managed to reach a program that controlled all of the surveillance cameras around the facility, some had spectres engaging security staff while other's showed anthro's in lab coats running in a panic. One camera in particular had a titan suspended in the air by heavy duty chains, the armour was striped off completely with some of her limbs removed as well, there was signs of movement or indication that she was even online anymore. "It seems like the northstar is located in hanger 2, that's not that far from here." Spark chimed in, troy nodded and talked into his headset. "All units, we have located the objective. Converge in on hanger 2. I repeat, everyone get your shiny asses into hanger 2 immediately! Val, we found stella, i want all available goblins ready for extraction and make sure that no signals enter or leave the base." He barked as he stepped away from the computer and jogged down hallway to his left with spark following close behind once again. "Sir there's a good chance that her data core have been breached, if that's the case then they must have classified information in their systems." Spark said. "Im well aware of that, it's the reason why i told your sister to make sure nothing leave this base digitally. We will then wipe this place from the face of the planet with a single blow." That last statement peaked spark's curiosity. "Sir? How do you plan on doing that?" Troy simply smiled as the two made a sharp turn to another hallway, "you'll see when we're at a safe distance."
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Eventually, they regrouped with the rest of the spectres that were standing in attention by the hanger 2 gate. "Seems like we missed the party spark, what a shame." Troy said slightly disappointed as he glanced at what was left of the gate. "They are built and programmed to invade entire worlds with ease, im not surprised that they would be able breach and take over this place so easily without much human supervision, i am surprised that they were able to do it in such a short period of time." As the two made their way through the door, one of the spectres immediately ran towards troy and offered him a bar that was sealed in some sort of plastic wrapper. "Finally, something looks good?" The pilot said while slowly opening it and taking a sniff before bitting a chunk off. He made sour expression before deciding to just swallowing it completely. "Taste alittle bland but it'll do for now until i get back on the ship, great work finding me something to snack on." The spectre squeaked rapidly before returning back to it's previous position. The pair continued their way inside the hanger where more spectres could be seen standing idlely by with exception of a couple circling around something.
"You must be the leader here, please let us go! We are just engineers and researchers doing what we are told to do!" A voice cried out from the direction of the spectres standing in a circle, a small group of anthros were seen huddled up together, troy could clearly see that the spectres that had their weapons raised and pointed at every last one of them. "Please do kill us, w-we can give you information about the Federation or or or even the nobel empire." a young golden colored dragon choked out from within the group. She wore a lab coat like the majority of her comrades but from pasture, seem as though she held some sort of high rank. "If you want leave this place and return to your families then i suggest you answer me truthfully, refuse or even god forbid lie to me then I'll have my friends here rip you a new one." She nodded and stood up, troy continued. "First of all, you did not have permission to steal a Remnant Fleet titan from me nor did you have permission to FUCKING STRIP HER TO NOTHING! How much information did obtain and you better not leave anything out." He yelled while gesturing towards the hanging northstar in the center, his outburst alone could be heard throughout the entire hanger which made the dragon slightly flinch. She took a deep breath and golped a mouthful of saliva before speaking up: "our satellites detected a large object that suddenly appeared a few days ago within the upper reaches of our atmosphere, hours later a small object was observed separating from main one and headed straight for the surface.Both objects vanished from our scanners soon after as if they were never there." This made troy mentally punched himself in the face, he should have told valkyrie to activate the jammers as soon as they had eyes on the planet. "We sent a team to investigate the last known location of the object that landed on the surface and it didn't take long to track down that machine of yours." Anger filled his heart the more she talked, not exactly because of the inhabitants but more of him not taking the necessary precautions to insure the secrecy of him and his ship. "It didn't resist when we tried to capture it until it was fully under heavy restraints, the language was unknown to us once we were able to successfully bypast it defenses which wasn't easy so we couldn't do anything further i swear!"
A faint twich of her eye already told him that she was lying from the start, they knew much more then what she was giving. It didn't matter now, he can't leave any witnesses but he wasn't going to terrifie them. "Well since you were honest with me, I'm gonna give you and your people a ten minute headstart to leave this base, failure will simply result in your death. Now get out of my sight!" The dragon beamed with happiness and nodded before going back to the group to help guide them out of the hanger, quickly getting out of view. "Captain, we can't just let them leave like that, she clearly wasn't telling you the full story." Spark protested but troy held up his hand to silence him. "I know spark, just grab stella's data core and let's get out of here quickly, val drop the payload on my position in exactly ten minutes. All remaining units, im calling a full evacuation of the enemy base, embark any available dropships and return to the dragonova, our mission is complete." Spectres did as they were told and made their way out of the hanger. Spark in the other hand went straight for the husk of the northstar, taking extra care not to damage the sensitive components that was inside her data core which was located in her main eye. "Sir i recovered her core, all we need to do now is give her a new body." Troy nodded and they both made their way to the exit.
It wasn't long before they reached the surface level, most of the spectres had already left the base completely. "Welcome back pilot, i was able to successfully hold off this position but my weapon malfunctioned mid-battle and i had no choice but to resort to traditional means." The ion said while lifting up her feet to show troy what she done. Both of her legs were covered in a disgusting mix of blood and dirt with some bits of flesh wedge in between her joints, even a hand could be seen dangling as well. It was disturbing but admits that he'll do the same if he has to, the sounds of bones being crushed under his titan's heel and the muffled screams was something he will always remember in great detail and tiny part of him enjoys it every time. "Great job love, i guess that these poor saps were quick response force val was talking about, now wait for pick up and get yourself cleaned up once on the ship." The titan bowed to the pilot and stood in place, waiting to be snatched up by any of the goblins.
"Hey troy! All units have been recovered, including the two titans. You are the last one down there and i got a dropship with your name on it coming to get ya, also the R.F.G. payload will impact in one minute so please don't dilly dally." Valkyrie said as a goblin suddenly warpped into the airspace, troy and spark waited patiently as the ship came to a low hover but not fully stopping. The side door slide open with the pair casually stepping inside, "hey don't warp out just yet but maintain a safe distance from the blast zone so i can see the action." Troy said to spectre operating the transport craft. Its engines roared back to life as it tilted the nose skyward, quickly gaining altitude. "Captain, we have the objective right here, i see no reason why we should stay an---." Before spark could finished his sentence, a ear piercing screech could be heard from above, the stalker looked up just in time to see another object falling from the sky but this one was traveling at a higher velocity than a typical titanfall or even a drop pod. It landed right in the middle of the base, penetrating deep within the surface, causing large chunks of rocks to be flown thousands of meters into the air. Structures and vehicles could be seen flying as well, some of which are still fully intact. The whole ordeal lasted for a few seconds but caused considerable amount of destruction that only left a large crater where the base should have been. "The Rod from god, one of the many weapons developed by humans to kill humans. It's efficient, leaves no fallout, simple to produce and can kill just as quickly as a thermonuclear warhead.
Spark we are the first to step into the darkness with our blazing swords held up high, we will Smite down thoes who dare oppose us, tear down walls that block us and protect thoes who rally behind us. May a archangel's light never burn out."
"Let's head home."
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