Ingrid found herself lying on sandy ground in the Afghani desert. Having a silenced Intervention sniper rifle with her, she waited for Doug to give the order.
A hand appeared to pop up from under the sand - actually it was a sheet of cloth coloured to look the same as the desert. Doug got up, wielding a silenced TDI Vector sub-machine gun with an ACOG sight attachment. It had taken them fifteen minutes to get out of the cold weather of Siberia, change into suitable desert camouflage suits, grab new weapons, and then arrive at the destination. She got up from her prone position, falling in behind him.
"Ingrid, I'm picking a thermal spike up ahead. The cave must be somewhere over the edge," he whispered as he walked to the ledge. They both went prone and looked over. They saw some guards patrolling the road deck below, with parked vehicles and a German Shepherd. The road deck overlooked a wide canyon, where Little Bird helicopters zoomed past in one of their patrols.
"Hold up. Enemy patrol. Hold your fire. I should've seen this coming," whispered Doug as he looked at the black-clad guards with desert-coloured helmets. The patrol of five men and a dog began to split up; the dog and two of the men walked further away while the other three stayed.
"Good, they're splitting up. Let them separate. I hope my cracking abilities are up to it," said Doug as he pressed a series of digits on his radio. It came to life as information from the PCMSPS' communications leaked into their headsets.
Go ahead Alpha.
Riverbed all clear, over.
Bravo?
Sandstorm. Not much to see here, over.
Zulu?
Uh... starting patrol east along the canyon. North side access road, over.
"Let's focus on the group on the right first, directly beneath us. Let's take them out first. I'll take the one on the left. On my mark," said Doug as he zeroed in on his target. Ingrid held her breath as she looked through the scope of her sniper rifle. Doug counted down.
Three.
Two.
One.
The bullets hit their targets and the soldiers died silently.
"Just like old times," remarked Doug as he slid down the ledge. Ingrid followed, to land on the road deck behind the other two patrolling guards.
"Just take the shot," whispered Doug. Ingrid aimed down her sights and took both the soldiers down with one bullet. Doug took out the dog.
"Tango down," remarked Ingrid.
"We don't have much time before they find the bodies. Let's keep moving," whispered Doug as he went to the railing and hooked a rope on it. Ingrid did the same on another railing. They both stood up on the railing, ready to jump into the canyon below.
Disciple Four, Oxide. What's your status over?
"Go" Doug jumped and rappel down the cliff face. Ingrid followed after.
Disciple Four, Oxide. Do you copy, over?
"Two guards directly beneath us," stated Ingrid.
Both of them slowly rappelled down until they were a few feet away from two other unsuspecting guards. Both of them drew out their knives.
Hey, I'm not getting anything from Disciple Four, north ridge. Could be a bad transmitter.
"Do it," said Doug. Both of them grabbed the guards by the chin, driving the knife deep into the artery. The guards gave muffled screams; their pupils dilated. Ingrid let go of her victim with a sigh, and then dragged him to some bushes where no one would see him. She drew out her silenced ACR assault rifle at the same time that Doug drew out his silenced Steyr AUG assault rifle.
"Let's go," whispered Doug as he entered the cave. Ingrid was behind him, following in his every step. A rock chipped off from the cave ceiling as a guard walked towards a standard CRT television. Doug hid behind one of the cave support struts and observed him. He then quickly came out and walked to the area on the left.
"Patrol coming our way. Go left, quickly!" whispered Doug as he entered the area. Ingrid managed to get in before the patrol walked past.
"Let them pass," said Doug, watching the patrol of ten men and three dogs walk to the cave entrance.
Butcher Seven, Oxide. We've lost contact with Disciple Five.
Probably just the sandstorm that's rollin' in or a bad transmitter. Send a team to check it out, over.
Roger that, Oxide. I'll send Viktor and Asad. Butcher Seven out.
"Take out the guard having a smoke, or wait for him to move along," whispered Doug, his attention on the guard who was facing the television. Ingrid slowly crept behind him and knifed him through the back.
"Tango down," remarked Ingrid as she kept her knife. Doug came out of hiding and hid behind a wall. There were more guards walking around, mingling and taking coffee through their balaclavas.
"Easy now," said Doug as he crawled alongside the wall. After seeing that no guard was looking, they went across to a tunnel. Crouching at a bend, they saw two guards who looked as if they were actively searching for intruders – namely, them.
"We've got two tangos with tac lights coming down the stairs under the red light, dead ahead," whispered Doug. Ingrid aimed and fired at both of the guards. The guards dropped dead without making a sound.
"Impressive. Clear. Go," remarked Doug as they headed to the stairs. Doug spotted a guard standing at the top.
Disciple Six, we've lost all contact with Disciple Five. Check it out, over.
"On top of the staircase. He's mine," whispered Doug as he slowly climbed the stairs and reached the guard. He drew out his knife and immediately stabbed him through the chest. The guard went down quietly, and they went into the steam room.
Roger that Oxide, we're on the catwalk, heading to the steam room. Standby.
Doug and Ingrid walked towards a conjoined stalagmite and stalactite and hid behind it. The room began to go dark.
Disciple Six, go dark. Breach and clear.
"Here we go – Get ready," said Doug as he aimed at a doorway. Ingrid was ready with a grenade in her hands.
Door charge planted. Ready to breach.
Hit it!
Breaching! Breaching!
BOOM!
The cave shook, spilling loose rock from the cave ceiling. The metal door was no more; replaced by a ray of light and plenty of laser designators. The soldiers herded into the room, searching for hostiles they had yet to discover.
Foxtrot Element, sweep left.
Ingrid threw her grenade at the group. A confused soldier heard the 'tink' of the grenade rolling towards him.
BOOM!
They're here! Open fire! Stay frosty, hunt them down!
Doug and Ingrid exchanged fire with the soldiers, throwing frag grenades into the mix. The soldiers were unprepared for the stinging sensation from the metal bits in the grenades. After the last of the soldiers were down, Doug and Ingrid came out of the cave from the blown-out entrance and headed to the catwalk at the edge of a very steep cliff.
Disciple Nine. Your rearguard just flatlined.
That's not possible. We've just cleared that area. Nobody's-
It's the Wanderers.
That final line scored home. Doug identified Aryan's voice, and he immediately quickened his pace.
Backup priority items and burn the rest. Fire teams, just delay 'em until we're ready to pull out.
"Ingrid, use the shield to draw their fire. I'll take care of the mooks," said Doug. Ingrid activated her ray shield as she climbed up the stairs to the open area of the catwalk. On the opposite catwalk, there were soldiers firing on their position.
Oxide, Disciple Nine, we've got hostile contact approximately 50 meters from the nest, over.
Terminate with extreme prejudice. All personnel - be advised, we have two enemy foot-mobiles on the catwalk heading to the crow's nest.
"Heavy fire here, Doug! I don't think I can hold much longer!" yelled Ingrid over the ricocheting bullets.
"Just bear with for a while! I almost got all of them!" replied Doug, peeking out behind a concrete guardrail and aimed on the soldiers.
Doug fired on the suppression team, each bullet scoring a body shot. They went across the bridge to the other side, and finally reaching the entrance of the crow's nest the soldiers were holding.
"We're clear. Move in," said Doug, entering the crow's nest. Ingrid switched to her ACR, and followed him behind.
Butcher One-Five, rendezvous at the nest and prepare to extract Gold Eagle to the LZ.
"Gold Eagle must be Aryan. We're running outta time, let's go," remarked Doug, firing at some of the soldiers that scaled down a rope. They both hid behind ammo boxes; bullets ricocheting on the ground and on their covers. Doug tossed a flashbang, blinding the soldiers. Ingrid took them out quickly, allowing them to enter another section of the cave.
More mooks scaled down another rope. Ingrid fired on the troops, and they fell dead on the ground. Doug looked across the ravine and saw smoke covering the opposite area.
"They're using thermals through the smoke! They're digging in, Aryan must be close! I'll draw their fire and you flank them from the right!" yelled Doug, firing a burst of rounds.
"Roger!" replied Ingrid as she entered a tunnel on the right. There were soldiers going into the smoke, which was hard to see through. She then spotted a SCAR-H assault rifle with a thermal scope. She picked it up and fired into the smoke from the right flank, hitting any white, glowing bodies. Once the glows dimmed and the smoke cleared, Ingrid ran towards an open doorway. A soldier peeked out and slammed the door shut. Doug joined her soon after.
Oxide, Butcher Five-Actual. I've got a severed det cord - we're gonna need ten mikes to get the trunk rigged and the EBC primed, over.
Negative. Gold Eagle wants those charges hot in less than three mikes. Get it done, out.
Ingrid planted a frame charge on the door and waited for the fuse to go.
BOOM!
Ingrid entered the room, firing headshots on all the soldiers to make sure she didn't hit the explosives lying around the area. In a second, the room was cleared and they checked it out. Doug went to one of the computer terminals and began sending data to a remote server.
All units, be advised, this is Gold Eagle. The site has been compromised. I am executing directive one-one-six bravo. If you're still inside, your service will be honoured. Aryan out.
"Override the door controls, hurry!" exclaimed Doug as he clicked through the keyboard. Ingrid went through the 'cmd' of the computer, and managed to get the door open.
"Doors opened, Doug!" exclaimed Ingrid as she rushed out. The monitors in the room began showing a countdown.
"Run! Keep moving! This place is gonna blow-" And flames engulfed them as they reached the exit.
-
Shell-shocked, Ingrid propped herself up. They were finally out; the cave entrance had caved in and Doug was behind a sandbag, firing several rounds at the attacking soldiers.
Excalibur, this is Gold Eagle. Fire mission – target package Romeo. Danger close.
But that's within a hundred metres from your position sir!
That's not a suggestion. Send it.
Roger! Fire mission, danger close!
"Incoming! Get down! Get down!" yelled Doug as he ran towards Ingrid. He grabbed her and pulled her down, facing the caved-in entrance as artillery shells screeched and bombarded their position. Doug covered Ingrid's head and body, protecting her from any shrapnel that might fly across towards them. When the barrage was over, they got up and observed the damage. The soldiers who had been attacking were completely immobilized; on fire and shell-shocked.
"Let's go! Stay close and follow me! To the west, Ingrid, go!" yelled Doug as he made his way through the bombarded weapons cache area. Two helicopters hovered over the site, dropping troops into the area. Doug and Ingrid managed to find some working AT4 rocket launchers and shot down the helicopters, bringing down all the reinforcements.
Sir, sandstorm activity is picking up here. It's too risky for flight ops.
Understood. Head for the tunnels. We'll use the Zodiacs.
Yes, sir.
Doug and Ingrid ran for another cave entrance and encountered light resistance from the PCMSPS troops. They were immediately gunned down, and both of them entered the tunnel.
"Aryan mentioned Zodiacs. There must be a river access nearby," said Doug.
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(Start music 'Zodiac Chase & Waterfall Ending' by Hans Zimmer, MW2 OST; 0:00)
"They're just around the corner, let's go!" yelled Doug as he ran down a flight of steps. They both saw Aryan jumping into the boat in front of the jetty, then driving off with a few guards. Doug hopped into the boat at the back; Ingrid seconds later, manning the motors. The motors revved up, propelling the boat forward. Doug fired at some guards who were standing at the shoreline, trying to slow them down. Ingrid helped by firing with her Mini-Uzi sub-machine gun. Some of the guards went down; others hid behind rocks. Doug fired on one of the barrels on another jetty. The barrels blew up, setting those nearby on fire.
"Ingrid, up the bridge!" Doug yelled as troops atop a suspension bridge fired rockets in their direction. Ingrid manoeuvred the Zodiac and dodged the missiles while Doug attempted to hit the soldiers on the bridge. Ingrid then raced to the cave entrance, where Aryan's boat had entered.
"Through that cave!" yelled Doug as he launched a grenade at an army checkpoint; blowing it up. The boat raced through the cave with Doug firing at the boat in front of him. Blinding light began to enter their eyes as they came out into the open lake dotted with rock formations. More boats joined Aryan's boat, with helicopters flying above them.
"Stay clear of open areas!" yelled Doug as he fired at one of the escort boats. One of the boats flipped over and crashed into a rock formation. A helicopter in the distance was facing them and spooling their side miniguns.
"Ingrid, dodge that helicopter on our six! Take evasive manoeuvres!" yelled Doug, firing a grenade at another Zodiac. It flipped and threw its occupants out. The miniguns on the helicopter fired bullets at Doug and Ingrid.
"Left! Left!" The boat went through the gaps between the miniguns and the chopper flew above them. Water splashed on them as they reached a broken bridge filled with PCMSPS troops. They fired rockets at the incoming Wanderers.
"RPGs on the bridge!" warned Doug as the boat swerved and dodged the missiles. The missiles impacted the water as the boat went past the bridge and on towards Aryan's boat. A boat tried to steer them off, but Doug lobbed a Semtex grenade into their boat. The boat blew up as they went forward. Ingrid wiped her eyes when water splashed into their boat, and focused on driving the boat. Another helicopter far ahead was ready to make another run at the Wanderers.
"Go right! Right!" Doug yelled as the helicopter fired its miniguns at them. Ingrid manoeuvred the boat off and away from the gunfire. They went past another bridge with a series of rockets after them. They finally neared some rapids, where Aryan's boat drove into.
"Rapids up ahead! It's gonna get rough, hang on!" Doug yelled as the boat flew up and entered the rapids. The boat shook violently, trying to toss its occupants overboard. Doug ducked into the boat while Ingrid held tight to the rudder handle while trying to navigate though the rapids, the water blinding her vision. They finally reached a slow moving stream, where some of Aryan's escort boats entered the field. Doug and Ingrid fired at the boats, killing off the occupants and flipping the boats. Another bridge loaded with soldiers fired their salvo of rockets at them. Ingrid steered the boat and dodged them, passing through the bridge. Aryan's boat was within their sights. A Pave Low helicopter entered the view and flew past them.
Avatar One, gimme a sitrep, over!
I have Warhorse 5-1 standing by. Pave Low's down river, sir.
Copy that! Warhorse 5-1, be advised! We're coming in hot!
Roger – dropping hatch – keep it above 30 knots and watch for vertical clearance.
The two watched Aryan's boat enter the back end of the helicopter, then take off. Doug and Ingrid knew they were running out of river; in front of them was a 30-foot waterfall. The helicopter flew in front of them, and then turned around in response to a sandstorm heading its way.
(2:04)
"Ingrid! Hold it steady!" Doug yelled as he loaded a new clip into his rifle, with FMJ written on it. Lead bullets, encased in a cupro-nickel shell, strong enough to give the penetration power needed to destroy the chopper's engines.
"Steady!" Doug aimed through his scope, trained on the helicopter's main engines.
"Steady!" The boat dipped down and reached the end of the river. Doug immediately shifted his aim to compensate for the boat's movement against the water.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The third shot hit the helicopter's jet engine. The engine caught on fire; the main rotor began to lose power, decreasing its capability to lift. The helicopter then spun out of control, disappearing behind the waterfall. Doug looked over the edge and signalled Ingrid to put the motor in full reverse.
"Back up! Back up!" yelled Doug as he held onto the boat. The river was very unforgiving; it suddenly gave a rapid push on the boat, causing it to go over the falls. Ingrid was thrown away from the boat as she fell into the waters below. The only thing she remembered was crashing into the water head first.
(2:26)
Ingrid woke up with her vision blurred; she found herself at the edge of the river, on the shoreline. The area was under a haze of red dust; the sandstorm was hitting the place hard. She pushed herself up and coughed out water. She panted and wiped her mouth, saliva dripping from the edges. She got up and drew out her knife, turning and sighting small fires through the sand screen. She hobbled towards the flames and identified Aryan's crashed helicopter. A soldier crawled away from the crash, leaving a blood trail behind. Ingrid slashed the soldier, and he lay dead in the sand.
She continued hobbling towards the site. Another soldier was propped up on a rock face. He saw her approaching. He reached out to a gun and pointed it at her. He pulled the trigger. Nothing happened, other than the clicking sound of the hammer against the empty barrel. The soldier sighed in disappointment and laid flat on the rock face. Ingrid continued on, seeing Aryan walking out of the wreckage, coughing from the smoke of the wreckage. Ingrid came close and slashed her knife. Aryan ran off. She looked up and watched him disappear into the blanket of dust and sand. She wandered aimlessly, searching for him, her blurred vision still not getting any better.
Then she heard a cough. He was close. She went towards the sound of coughing and saw a car's wreckage, with Aryan resting on it. She lunged at Aryan, swinging her blade. But Aryan grabbed her swinging arm, yanked her forward and slammed her head on the roof of the car. She cringed in pain as she lay on the ground, disorientated. Aryan grabbed his knife and stabbed deep into her chest. Ingrid coughed blood and blacked out.
When she opened her eyes again, Aryan was emptying his revolver.
"You had to stand in the way of my revenge," Aryan spoke as he loaded two bullets into his revolver. He clicked the barrel back into the gun and pulled the hammer. Ingrid feared the worst and took a deep breath.
"Good night" The barrel turned to the chambered round just as Doug rammed into Aryan. The gunshot went off target, and both of them engaged in hand combat. Aryan tried to aim the revolver at Doug, but Doug kicked the pistol out of his hands. Ingrid watched the pistol land nearby; she mustered her strength and dragged herself across the ground, crawling to the revolver. Grunts were heard as Doug and Aryan landed punches on each other. Doug was then tossed in front of Ingrid as she reached the gun. The gun was kicked away, and Ingrid got a boot to the head courtesy of Aryan. She blacked out again.
(2:44)
When she woke up again, Doug and Aryan were still duking it out, sending each other punches and kicks. At first it seemed that Doug had the upper hand, but Aryan slowly regained control of the fight. Aryan landed a punch to Doug's gut, dropping him. He quickly came on top of him, sending punches across Doug's face. Ingrid saw the knife stuck in her chest. She grabbed onto the handle, and began pulling it out.
Aryan grunted as he punched Doug repetitively. Ingrid had the blade halfway out of her body. She used her other hand and yanked it out, blood slowly tricking out from the wound. Ingrid grit her teeth as she held in a scream of pain.
The knife was out, and Ingrid panted heavily. She twirled the knife and held it by the blade, then turned to Aryan, who was beating the snot out of Doug. Doug was already unconscious, and Ingrid yelled his name to grab his attention.
"AR – YAN!"
(4:10)
Aryan looked up, and Ingrid threw the blade at him. He didn't have any time to react; the knife went into his eye socket and directly to his brain. Blood squirted out as he fell dead on the ground, lying in his own pool of blood. Ingrid's vision began to black out again as she fought to stay awake. Then, the sound of helicopter blades hovered near her. Three heavily-equipped masked men came out from the sand storm and looked over the bodies. One of them came towards Ingrid and felt her pulse on her neck.
"She's alive. Get her to the chopper," said the masked man. Another man came to him from checking out Aryan's body to Ingrid. He immediately took some bandages from his Kevlar pocket and wrapped it around her wound, stopping the bleeding. He then reached his hands under her body and carried her to an awaiting helicopter. She turned and saw the other two men injecting adrenaline into Doug's chest, sand then pumped his chest with their hands to resuscitate him. After a while, one man punched Doug's chest in frustration. Ingrid and her saviour reached the helicopter, where another man was piloting it.
"noob_killer, when are the others coming in?" asked the pilot.
"They'll come in later, Gaz. Just get us outta here. She needs medical attention," said the man. Ingrid then blacked out again.
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
Insert Another Classic War Story Here (part 3 of 5)
"Charis, Charis, are you there?" exclaimed Tash on the microphone as she saw static strewn over the Society monitors. Emily was typing frantically, trying to find a signal, but to no avail. Then a call rang.
"Tash, a call from the Author," stated Emily, pressing the 'Enter' key. The Author appeared on the screen.
"Did you manage to get hold of my Agents?" asked Tash.
"I was going to ask you the same question," replied the Author. Tash had a confused look on her face.
"You too huh...?"
"What does this mean?" asked Tash with 'frantic' all over her face and worry in her voice. The Author gave a long, deep thought before answering.
"It must be a 'Fandom Nullifier', a jamming device in fandoms. I had one experimental version in one of my bases," explained the Author in a calm tone.
"I believe its function is to nullify the fandom's presence?" questioned Tash.
"Yes – A Sues' dream come true. It seals the fandom to the point where no outside intervention can enter while he or she can come out and get away with ruining the fandom..." explained the Author as the screens started to get fuzzy.
"Author, what is going on?" called out Tash as the screens start to fade. Tash looked into every monitor in the room; not a single one giving a clear feed.
Then static took over; the 'Lost Connection' message strewn across the screen. Tash's expression became something beyond terrified.
A blip resonated from her electronic inbox. Emily opened the 'No subject message' that was on the top of the email list. A video clip played.
"Tash! Whatever you do, get into the fandom and get your Agents outta there! My world is being attacked and I'm sealing it up! Attached are schematics to a Plothole Generator that will be able to overcome the device's barrier! Hurry – Time is of the essence!" yelled the Author's panicky voice before the short video ended with a faint 'We are under attack!' in the background. Tash instructed Emily to send the email to Jared immediately.
-
The Author looked up into the red skies over his world as the invasion sirens wailed across the city. Hundreds of enemy helicopters raced in the atmosphere, dropping enemy troops into their planned location of their invasion. Guards from the Author's palace ran out to the roads and commandeered several civilian vehicles. A soldier came to him and saluted.
"Sir, we have your convoy ready for evacuation!" said the Guard.
"Go save the civvies, soldier! Assist the police in any way they can..." They were interrupted by a guy dropping from the sky and landing in front of the Author. The black trench coat figure stood up from his crouching position and stared at the Author.
"Go! That is an order!" yelled the Author at the soldier. The Guard nodded and ran into the waiting vehicles. The vehicle convoy started leaving the scene.
"Aw, come on! Where's the fun if you don't use them!" exclaimed Aryan with a grin on his face as he charged up a ball of energy and hurled it at the convoy. The Author did a quick draw; pulled a pistol from his holster on his thigh, twirled it around his finger and fired at the energy blast while looking at his foe. The energy ball dissipated; the Author then moved his hand and pointed his weapon at Aryan. Aryan sighed.
"You always have to spoil my fun, don't you?" said Aryan before drawing out his sword from thin air.
"Not while you're alive I will," remarked the Author, pulling out another pistol from his holster and aimed at the rogue author. The rogue author laughed.
"Gone soft, eh? The last time I fought you, you had to use a bazooka and a battalion of troops," remarked Aryan swishing his sword, producing blue energy waves.
"I can't stay a loser forever, you know," replied the Author, firing a barrage of bullets at the waves and at the rogue Author.
-
Doug was sitting at Maddie's bedside in the medic ward aboard an aircraft carrier. Valerie was there, using her empathy to help with her healing, together with a few nurses and blood packs. Doug was holding her hand, hoping she would wake up after fainting when they were pulled out from that hell hole.
Terry knocked on the door before opening the door. Doug and Valerie looked at the general direction.
"Doug, we need you up the island," said Terry, referring to the control tower atop the carrier. Doug nodded and got up from his chair. He laid Maddie's hand down and nodded at Valerie before walking to the door to follow Terry.
-
"We've lost all contact with our Author. The best we could do now is hold on until he punches a plothole into the fandom," explained Ivan to the Wanderers and the Society Agents.
"What do you mean punch a plothole? None of our generation devices are working," said Ossa, feeling uneasy among the Author's characters.
"Whatever's sealing us in is a device. It has its limits, so a large-scale generator would work," replied Ivan when Terry and Doug came in.
"They're not going to open it," said Doug at the crowd. The Wanderers and Agents turned to him surprise.
"What do you mean?" asked Rina.
"Aryan's invading our world as we speak. Hoping to wipe the Author out, and us with him," replied her twin brother. The Wanderers looked shock; disbelief would be a better word to describe their present emotions.
"So we're all stuck here for eternity?" questioned Jess; her thoughts on not returning home was about to engulf her.
"With any luck, our Author would've sent schematics to construct one to the Society before he seals the homeworld." The Agents looked unsure on how to react to the statement.
"However, we must do our part so that we don't have to wait for help." Doug stated as he looked at the map of Russia. He pointed at a location near where he was rescued.
"14 miles South-South-East of Petropavlovsk, Russia." Terry made a side comment to Doug's action.
"Are you sure?" asked Rina.
"Aryan's men have big mouths. The jamming device is at the sub base on 'Contingency'." Doug was very sure on what he said.
"Good, we're going in for a drop then," stated Ivan before nodding for Rina and Lydia to go.
"What is a 'drop'?" asked Tom.
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Ingrid was dazed from the rough landing she had. The turbulence caused her parachute to change direction and she went into the trees. She bumped into some thick branches and broke some smaller ones before landing at a clearing not far from the main road. She could hear her radio crackle with a feminine voice at the other end of the line.
"Doug, did you see Ingrid's parachute? There's too much interference from the jamming device," spoke Charis on the radio.
"Yeah, I've found her. We're going Northwest to the sub base," replied Doug as he neared Ingrid. Ingrid took off her parachute and pulled out her M14 EBR sniper rifle with a silencer. Doug was sporting a Steyr AUG assault rifle with a Holographic scope and silencer, since sniping was not his forte. He also wore clear orange shades as his eyes could not stand the sunlight reflecting from the snow.
"The rest landed near your twin, pretty far to the east," said Charis.
"Tell her to proceed with the mission. We'll regroup if possible," replied Doug. Then he whispered to Ingrid.
"Follow me, and stay out of sight." Ingrid nodded at her mentor's notion. She followed him to the main road where they hid behind some bushes. Several soldiers were patrolling along the said road. Ingrid looked through her scope and trained the gun at the group.
"Contact. Enemy patrol. Five men, automatic rifles, frag grenades. One German Shepherd," reported Ingrid.
"Dogs... I hate dogs," commented Doug. They waited as a convoy of jeeps went past them. When the convoy passed, the patrol split up, leaving two guards at a bend while the other three and the dog went up and stopped at a bridge.
"Two of them stopped for a smoke. Take one and I'll take the other," said Doug. Ingrid trained her rifle at one of the smokers and gently pulled the trigger. The bullet whizzed to the said targets head, boring a hole through his skull. Doug did the same to the other guard. The two continued on and crouched behind the guard rail with the other three within their sights. The dog turned around and looked at their direction. The two held their breath as the dog trained its eye at their location; they sighed as the dog turned away.
"We'll take them out at the same time. Take the handler and his dog and I'll take out the rest," said Doug. Ingrid fired her weapon at the handler and he dropped dead. The dog looked confused as his master lay beside him in a pool of blood. Ingrid fired another shot at the dog, ending its misery. Doug hit the other two before standing up.
"Beautiful," remarked Doug before moving from the position. Ingrid got up and followed him to the icy bridge. Several helicopters zoomed over their heads, carrying equipment.
"We need to hurry up. They are en route to the homeworld," commented Doug as they both crossed the bridge and up the hill. Doug suddenly crouched and signalled to stop. Ingrid stopped and crouched as well. The rumblings were felt from the ground and engine noises became louder. Doug quickly stood up and began to run.
"Incoming!" yelled Doug as he ran towards the snow-covered pine forest. A BTR mechanized infantry vehicle went over the hill and stopped. It skidded on the icy road, firing its 30mm autocannon at the retreating Wanderers/Agents. Adrenaline rushed into the blood stream as bullets whizzed past their heads, hitting the tree trunks, causing some to collapse. Once they were way ahead of the vehicle, Doug turned around, crouched and aimed his rifle at the direction of the main road.
"Slow down. Their vehicles can't follow us this far," said Doug, panting, before turning back into the forest. Ingrid stopped and took a breather before she lifted her rifle up and aimed into the forest. She then followed Doug to a bush where they hid as a patrol with flash lights walk by.
"Let them pass. Looks like they're searching for us," whispered Doug. When the patrol was way behind them, they got out of the bush and walked forward and reached a pipeline. A patrol with a dog was up ahead.
"Dog patrol," reported Ingrid. Doug nodded and turned left. There, they spotted a a three-man patrol.
"Three-man patrol. Dead ahead. Take them out or leave them be. Your call," said Doug. Ingrid aimed at the patrol, but decided not to fire. The patrol then walked away from their sights. Doug got up and followed the pipeline and stopped before another patrol. Two were standing at a ridge while a handler and his dog were within line of sight of the first group. Ingrid hid behind a bush while Doug hid behind a pillar of the pipeline.
"We'll have to take them out at the same time. You take the two in front of you," said Doug. Ingrid fired two shots and killed the guards in front of her. Doug fired rounds at the dog and the handler.
"All clear," stated Doug before proceeding to the ridge and going prone. Ingrid ran up and went down next to Doug. A large patrol of six guards and three dogs went by.
"Your call," said Doug. Ingrid lined up her rifle to the dog handler at the back and fired. The guard went down, and the dog became confused. Doug took care of the dogs, and one by one, they took out the guards from the back. All that lay on the snowy ground were bodies and red ice. The two went down the ridge and went up the hilly forest. They reached another ridge, overlooking a small, abandoned village.
"This ridge is perfect – Charis, what's the status of our drones?" asked Doug on the radio.
"The Predator drone is en route to your position," replied Charis. Doug looked to Ingrid and spoke.
"Use the Predator drone and take out the anti-air defence hidden behind that house," said Doug. Ingrid took out a laptop from her back and opened it. The camera on the missile turned on, and she then pressed the arrow keys to guide the missile to the said location. The location went off with a big boom, displacing snow and ice all around the area. But the anti-air launched its surface-to-air missile to the drone before the Predator missile destroyed it. The drone blew up and its pieces fell off to the ground.
"Damn! Charis, get us another Predator. The SAM site just shot it down," said Doug on the radio before getting up.
"Ingrid, let's go. They know we're here. Switch to your assault rifle," said Doug as he unscrewed his silencer off his nozzle and kept it. He then slid down the hill to the village below. Ingrid switched to her ACR assault rifle and followed Doug down as well. They hid behind a house when someone yelled at them.
"Check your fire! Check your fire! Friendlies at your twelve!" yelled Ivan in his coarse accent as he came out of the forest and slid down the slope. Rina and the Society Agents appeared out of the forest and jumped down, joining up with Doug and Ingrid. They hid behind the house opposite them. Gunfire rang as more mooks appeared at the scene.
"Charis, I've regrouped with the rest of the team," reported Doug.
"I read you. A second Predator is almost in position," Came the reply when suddenly an energy ball zoomed past and hit the slope causing snow to rain on the team. Doug looked up and saw a woman with long silver hair and a one-piece that didn't fit with the frigid weather. She was sporting two katana blades.
"Sue up front!" warned Doug to the team opposite them. Ivan tried to peek out when bullets ricocheted on the walls, causing him to duck back.
"Dang! The guards are pinning us down!" yelled Ivan across the opening.
"Get whoever you can to snipe the guards! Ossa! Jess! Distract her from the front! Kyle! Tom! Get here and we'll hit them from the flank!"yelled Doug. Ivan went up the roof and pulled Rhia up as well. Terry followed soon after as they sniped the guards from behind the roof's apex. Ossa and Jess deployed their ray shields and went in front of the Sue, bullets ricocheting off. The Sue raced and attacked them with her swords, but Jess and Ossa held on, mostly pushing the blade away with the shields. Rina fired blindly at the guards while Kyle and Tom ran across the clearing to Doug and Ingrid. The group then went around the far left of the village, taking cover behind wreckage as they see fit.
Rina and Lydia trained their TAR-21 assault rifles at the Sue and fired at her, putting her at a defensive. However, the Sue made it easy by deflecting off the bullets with her swords with ease while bashing Ossa and Jess at the same time. Doug's team reached the far side of the village, in proximity of the trench where the guards were hiding. Doug pulled out a few Semtex grenades and threw it into the trench, causing the guards to retreat. Some of the grenades stuck to some of the guards; they blew up together with the rest of the group. The gunfire toned down as Ivan, Terry and Rhia took out any stragglers.
This allowed Ben to come out of hiding and sent energy blasts at the Sue, displacing some snow in its path The Sue was dazed; Ossa and Jess took the opportunity to strike quickly. Ossa drew out her katana and slashed the Sue, but the Sue blocked the sword. Jess rushed and landed a kick into her chest; the Sue was thrown back. The Sue flipped backwards and landed on her feet perfectly; she rushed into the two girls with her blades. Ben came forward and sent another volley of energy blasts at her. The Sue sidestepped and rushed towards Ben. Ben shielded himself with Bahamut, just in time as the Sue rammed into him, causing him to be thrown back and broke his guitar. The Sue wanted to go ahead with another strike when Rina stepped in and did an upward slash with her knife. The Sue stepped back, and was suddenly strangled by an unseen force.
The Sue reacted by slamming herself into the ground. Karissa reappeared from her invisibility and she wheezed; all the air was pushed out of her lungs. The Sue screamed as she prepared to jab the downed Karissa when Tom rammed into her with his entire bodyweight. Tom quickly rolled out and drew out his sword when the Sue swung a kick to his head. He was knocked out instantly; Ossa knocked the Sue's head with the butt of her katana. The Sue was floored; Ossa took out her Prohibitor.
But the Sue gave no chances; with the force of her feet, she pushed Ossa away from her. Ossa was thrown up, only to be caught by Kyle.
"You all right?" asked Kyle with concern.
"Yeah... I'm okay," replied Ossa between pants. She could see Tom was being pulled away by Ivan, as with Karissa by Jess. Doug and Terry were duking it out with the Sue; one with his sword, another with alchemy. Ice sculptures formed around the Sue and headed towards her general direction. The Sue used an energy ball and disintegrated all the ice sculptures. Doug lunged at her with his sword. The Sue dodged and landed a punch on his face. Disorientated, Doug was kicked in the gut and was thrown to the slope. Then, a grappling hook came and wrapped around her neck; 10000 volts of pure electricity raced into the Sue's nervous system as Ingrid held onto the Grappling Prohibitor.
When the Sue fell to the ground, Ingrid powered the winch and the Sue was dragged towards her. The Sue struggled, and Ingrid placed another Prohibitor around the Sue's wrist as she disengaged the Grappling Prohibitor. The Agents ran towards her and got the weakened Sue up, apprehending her. Normally they would open a plothole directly to the Library's basement, but since they're stuck in the fandom, some have to stay back and watch over her.
"The sub base is over the trench line. Some of us will have to stay back and guards the Sue..." said Doug as he turned his attention to an unconscious Tom and an injured Karissa. "...and taking care of the casualties." He wiped the blood from his nose he received from the Sue's earlier punches.
"Lydia and I will take them to the extraction point. You and the others should go on, just in case more Sues are in the way," said Rina, tapping Lydia's shoulder as she heads to the injured and the Sue.
"Let's not get their efforts wasted. Follow me," said Doug, bringing up his rifle and leading the team to the edge of the sub base. The rest followed, since Doug knows the fandom more than any of them. He stopped at a ridge and signalled the rest to line up on the ridge.
"The building near the sub with a radio tower is the control centre. Ivan, Terry, Rhia - get into sniping position on this ridge. The rest – we'll get into the base once the defenses are softened up. Ingrid, call in the Predator." said Doug in rapid succession. The Agents have no choice but to follow; as long as they're stuck in that fandom, they're going to have to rely on the expert. Ingrid pulled out the laptop and guided the Predator missile to a group of soldiers at the gates of the base.
BOOM!
"We're moving!"
Chaos ensued in the base as a helicopter took off from its helipad and soldiers came pouring out from the many buildings of the base. The Agents deployed their ray shields as bullets from the helicopter and the guards came battering on them. Ivan, Terry and Rhia fired shots from their sniper rifles, covering the assault team. Ingrid found herself near a weapons cache; she pulled out a Stinger missile launcher and aimed at the helicopter. After the definitive rings of a missile lock-on, she fired the missile, and it began following the helicopter. The helicopter swerved to dodge the missile, but the missile came in for a second pass and hit its tail rotor. The helicopter spun out of control as troop numbers at the gate began to dwindle. Ossa and Jess spearheaded the assault, going to the nearest mooks and bashing them with their shields.
"We're displacing. You'll be without sniper support for 30 seconds," reported Terry.
"Copy that," replied Doug as he pushed into the base. Kyle followed after, then Ingrid as the two women were having a field day with their shields and blades.
"Strike with the fury of a wounded god... Bahamut!" Ben entered the base in style; he strummed Bahamut, blasting some explosive barrels, adding some orange flames into the mix. Just as Ossa and Jess were outnumbered, the snipers took out the guards so they could retreat. As they all grouped up near some crates, Doug yelled out.
"Follow me and don't stray off!" Doug entered the warehouse in front of him, shooting the guards that were waiting for them. Terry and Ivan were right behind him straight away checking the building for any more hostiles.
"Area clear!" reported Ivan.
"C'mon guys! We're Oscar Mike!" said Doug.
"What?" asked the confused Ossa.
"On the move, it means," replied Doug as he exited the building through another doorway. The group hid behind some crates as more guards came pouring out of the building surrounding them. Ingrid pulled out her laptop and guided another missile at the guards, clearing them out. They moved on to the port authority building, where a BTR appeared from behind the building. The 30mm autocannon laid suppressive fire at the group, causing them to hide behind the pillars and walls.
"Ben! Hit it with Bahamut! The AGM is still arming! We'll cover you!" yelled Ingrid across to the pillar Ben was hiding. The bullets hit the pillar, chipping off concrete and causing him to duck. Doug, Terry and Ivan came out with ray shields deployed, drawing fire from the BTR. Ben immediately turned and aimed Bahamut at the imposing war machine, sending a blast wave at it. The BTR flipped and turned belly up. Some of the guards near the BTR were covering their ears, hurting from Ben's sound blast. The three retracted their shields and fired at the downed guards, silencing them. The group then advanced forward, reaching a building with a high vantage point. More soldiers appeared to attack the group from the flank.
"I'm going for the building! Ingrid, follow me!" yelled Doug as he ran past the building.
"Kyle! Catch!" Ingrid passed the laptop to Kyle and followed Doug into the target location.
"Everybody up the building! We need to cover their entry! Go! Go!" yelled Terry as he fired a few rounds at the approaching soldiers. Rhia got to the roof of the building, firing off a few sniper rounds. Kyle followed soon after, firing a burst of rounds at a group of soldiers. Once Ossa, Jess and Ben got up, Ivan and Terry got up as well and into sniping position.
Doug and Ingrid reached the door and planted a frame charge on said door. They lay along the wall as the fuse went off.
BOOM!
The door was in many flying pieces of metal as Doug and Ingrid entered, firing at soldiers who were pointing their guns at the doorway. They were dispatched immediately, with one surviving with wounds on his legs. They looked around; the supercomputers were processing distortion signals to jam small-scale plothole generators.
"Ingrid, go plant charges on the computers," instructed Doug as he headed to the incapacitated soldier, who was crawling away. He turned him around and pointed a pistol at his head.
"Which base is Aryan using?" Doug interrogated, but the soldier remained silent. Doug put a bullet through his left thigh. The soldier cried in pain as Doug slammed him on the concrete ground and pulled him up again.
"Where is he?" yelled Doug with the gun pointed at the soldier's shoulder blade.
"I'll never tell you!" replied the persistent soldier. Doug sent a punch to his nose, breaking it. The soldier was bleeding through it, and Doug put another bullet through his elbow.
"SITE HOTEL BRAVO!" wailed the soldier; the pain too unbearable. Doug relieved him from his suffering by a bullet through the head. As the pools of blood from each body joined together, Doug stood up and turned to Ingrid.
"Are the charges in place?" asked Doug.
"Yes, Doug," replied Ingrid.
"Good."
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"Doug! Ingrid! Are you there? We need to evacuate now!" yelled Terry on his radio as a portal opened in the base, pouring out trucks and tanks. The gunfire was now becoming too much for them to handle. Suddenly, the building blew up as Ben strummed Bahamut, flipping a few trucks and incapacitating hundreds of soldiers. Death Metal Bahamut then reverted to its original state, drained out all of its energy.
"What the fu-!" The Wanderers and Agents looked at the burning building, seeing no sign of Doug or Ingrid exiting the building. Plotholes opened behind them, one with Guards pouring out while another with Tash and Harriet.
"Guys! We have to go – NOW!" yelled Harriet as she dragged one of the Agents into the plothole.
"Wait! What about D..." Rhia was interrupted by Ivan.
"We'll take care of that! Your safety first!" One of the Guards fired an AT4 rocket launcher at an approaching tank, blowing it up. The Society Agents were ushered into the plothole, then closing up. The Wanderers and the Guards retreated into the plothole as a tank shell blasted the building.
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Aryan appeared from the smoke, wielding a recoilless rifle (more commonly known as a bazooka) and fired at the Author. The bazooka shell made impact, but the Author remained unscathed as the smoke cleared out, revealing a ray shield. The Author retracted it and pulled out a railgun, firing the weapon at Aryan. Aryan dodged as the beam flew past him, and he threw in a few smoke grenades at the Author. The Author jumped out of the smoke, not to be blinded by the smoke, but was unaware that it was a diversion. Aryan appeared above him, sending a kick right into the Author's chest. The Author was pinned down as Aryan raised his sword up, ready to strike the Author.
"Where's your Wanderers and your friends now?" spoke Aryan in a sinister voice, although distorted by the panting. He was ready the strike him down when he jumped away. The gunshot rang, missing the Author's legs. The Author stood up and smirked.
"Ha, speak of the devil," remarked the Author as plotholes opened around the city, pouring large behemoth tanks and artillery, taking out the PCMSPS army. The Author looked up to one of the broken down towers; on one of the windows was a person that looked like Terry, but had black hair with a few whites sticking out. The Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle rested on the window ledge as it repositioned to acquire Aryan.
Aryan jumped off as another shot rang and hit the ground he was standing on. He took a good look at the forces he built up destroyed but not the Author's own forces, but by another. He gritted his teeth and trained his eyes on the Author when another character appeared, trying to slash him down. This character looked like Ivan, but had light brown hair and hazel eyes. The character dropped the blade and immediately wielded an Intervention sniper rifle and aimed at Aryan. Aryan immediately opened a plothole and retreated. He had not anticipated this. He had lost the war.
The Ivan character walked towards the Author while the Terry character teleported to him when his flying dagger was near the Author. The Author smiled as he met with his two friends; his comrade in arms.
"ZetX, shouxen," greeted the Author.
"noob_killer," replied ZetX the Terry-like character, fist-bumping each other. That was when they were interrupted by Vespin.
"Author, we have lost contact with Doug and Ingrid, but their vitals are still on. We haven't been able to trace their present location. However, we have located the PCMSPS reserves and stockpiles in the fandom," reported Vespin.
"Good. Divert our forces to those locations," replied the Author.
"How about Doug and Ingrid?" asked Vespin. The Author coughed out a laugh.
"I know where they are. It's pretty obvious. Give them three hours," replied the Author. Vespin nodded and left the three friends together.
"Say, how about we get 'Gaz' in to pilot for us?" said the Author.
"Tash, a call from the Author," stated Emily, pressing the 'Enter' key. The Author appeared on the screen.
"Did you manage to get hold of my Agents?" asked Tash.
"I was going to ask you the same question," replied the Author. Tash had a confused look on her face.
"You too huh...?"
"What does this mean?" asked Tash with 'frantic' all over her face and worry in her voice. The Author gave a long, deep thought before answering.
"It must be a 'Fandom Nullifier', a jamming device in fandoms. I had one experimental version in one of my bases," explained the Author in a calm tone.
"I believe its function is to nullify the fandom's presence?" questioned Tash.
"Yes – A Sues' dream come true. It seals the fandom to the point where no outside intervention can enter while he or she can come out and get away with ruining the fandom..." explained the Author as the screens started to get fuzzy.
"Author, what is going on?" called out Tash as the screens start to fade. Tash looked into every monitor in the room; not a single one giving a clear feed.
Then static took over; the 'Lost Connection' message strewn across the screen. Tash's expression became something beyond terrified.
A blip resonated from her electronic inbox. Emily opened the 'No subject message' that was on the top of the email list. A video clip played.
"Tash! Whatever you do, get into the fandom and get your Agents outta there! My world is being attacked and I'm sealing it up! Attached are schematics to a Plothole Generator that will be able to overcome the device's barrier! Hurry – Time is of the essence!" yelled the Author's panicky voice before the short video ended with a faint 'We are under attack!' in the background. Tash instructed Emily to send the email to Jared immediately.
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The Author looked up into the red skies over his world as the invasion sirens wailed across the city. Hundreds of enemy helicopters raced in the atmosphere, dropping enemy troops into their planned location of their invasion. Guards from the Author's palace ran out to the roads and commandeered several civilian vehicles. A soldier came to him and saluted.
"Sir, we have your convoy ready for evacuation!" said the Guard.
"Go save the civvies, soldier! Assist the police in any way they can..." They were interrupted by a guy dropping from the sky and landing in front of the Author. The black trench coat figure stood up from his crouching position and stared at the Author.
"Go! That is an order!" yelled the Author at the soldier. The Guard nodded and ran into the waiting vehicles. The vehicle convoy started leaving the scene.
"Aw, come on! Where's the fun if you don't use them!" exclaimed Aryan with a grin on his face as he charged up a ball of energy and hurled it at the convoy. The Author did a quick draw; pulled a pistol from his holster on his thigh, twirled it around his finger and fired at the energy blast while looking at his foe. The energy ball dissipated; the Author then moved his hand and pointed his weapon at Aryan. Aryan sighed.
"You always have to spoil my fun, don't you?" said Aryan before drawing out his sword from thin air.
"Not while you're alive I will," remarked the Author, pulling out another pistol from his holster and aimed at the rogue author. The rogue author laughed.
"Gone soft, eh? The last time I fought you, you had to use a bazooka and a battalion of troops," remarked Aryan swishing his sword, producing blue energy waves.
"I can't stay a loser forever, you know," replied the Author, firing a barrage of bullets at the waves and at the rogue Author.
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Doug was sitting at Maddie's bedside in the medic ward aboard an aircraft carrier. Valerie was there, using her empathy to help with her healing, together with a few nurses and blood packs. Doug was holding her hand, hoping she would wake up after fainting when they were pulled out from that hell hole.
Terry knocked on the door before opening the door. Doug and Valerie looked at the general direction.
"Doug, we need you up the island," said Terry, referring to the control tower atop the carrier. Doug nodded and got up from his chair. He laid Maddie's hand down and nodded at Valerie before walking to the door to follow Terry.
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"We've lost all contact with our Author. The best we could do now is hold on until he punches a plothole into the fandom," explained Ivan to the Wanderers and the Society Agents.
"What do you mean punch a plothole? None of our generation devices are working," said Ossa, feeling uneasy among the Author's characters.
"Whatever's sealing us in is a device. It has its limits, so a large-scale generator would work," replied Ivan when Terry and Doug came in.
"They're not going to open it," said Doug at the crowd. The Wanderers and Agents turned to him surprise.
"What do you mean?" asked Rina.
"Aryan's invading our world as we speak. Hoping to wipe the Author out, and us with him," replied her twin brother. The Wanderers looked shock; disbelief would be a better word to describe their present emotions.
"So we're all stuck here for eternity?" questioned Jess; her thoughts on not returning home was about to engulf her.
"With any luck, our Author would've sent schematics to construct one to the Society before he seals the homeworld." The Agents looked unsure on how to react to the statement.
"However, we must do our part so that we don't have to wait for help." Doug stated as he looked at the map of Russia. He pointed at a location near where he was rescued.
"14 miles South-South-East of Petropavlovsk, Russia." Terry made a side comment to Doug's action.
"Are you sure?" asked Rina.
"Aryan's men have big mouths. The jamming device is at the sub base on 'Contingency'." Doug was very sure on what he said.
"Good, we're going in for a drop then," stated Ivan before nodding for Rina and Lydia to go.
"What is a 'drop'?" asked Tom.
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Ingrid was dazed from the rough landing she had. The turbulence caused her parachute to change direction and she went into the trees. She bumped into some thick branches and broke some smaller ones before landing at a clearing not far from the main road. She could hear her radio crackle with a feminine voice at the other end of the line.
"Doug, did you see Ingrid's parachute? There's too much interference from the jamming device," spoke Charis on the radio.
"Yeah, I've found her. We're going Northwest to the sub base," replied Doug as he neared Ingrid. Ingrid took off her parachute and pulled out her M14 EBR sniper rifle with a silencer. Doug was sporting a Steyr AUG assault rifle with a Holographic scope and silencer, since sniping was not his forte. He also wore clear orange shades as his eyes could not stand the sunlight reflecting from the snow.
"The rest landed near your twin, pretty far to the east," said Charis.
"Tell her to proceed with the mission. We'll regroup if possible," replied Doug. Then he whispered to Ingrid.
"Follow me, and stay out of sight." Ingrid nodded at her mentor's notion. She followed him to the main road where they hid behind some bushes. Several soldiers were patrolling along the said road. Ingrid looked through her scope and trained the gun at the group.
"Contact. Enemy patrol. Five men, automatic rifles, frag grenades. One German Shepherd," reported Ingrid.
"Dogs... I hate dogs," commented Doug. They waited as a convoy of jeeps went past them. When the convoy passed, the patrol split up, leaving two guards at a bend while the other three and the dog went up and stopped at a bridge.
"Two of them stopped for a smoke. Take one and I'll take the other," said Doug. Ingrid trained her rifle at one of the smokers and gently pulled the trigger. The bullet whizzed to the said targets head, boring a hole through his skull. Doug did the same to the other guard. The two continued on and crouched behind the guard rail with the other three within their sights. The dog turned around and looked at their direction. The two held their breath as the dog trained its eye at their location; they sighed as the dog turned away.
"We'll take them out at the same time. Take the handler and his dog and I'll take out the rest," said Doug. Ingrid fired her weapon at the handler and he dropped dead. The dog looked confused as his master lay beside him in a pool of blood. Ingrid fired another shot at the dog, ending its misery. Doug hit the other two before standing up.
"Beautiful," remarked Doug before moving from the position. Ingrid got up and followed him to the icy bridge. Several helicopters zoomed over their heads, carrying equipment.
"We need to hurry up. They are en route to the homeworld," commented Doug as they both crossed the bridge and up the hill. Doug suddenly crouched and signalled to stop. Ingrid stopped and crouched as well. The rumblings were felt from the ground and engine noises became louder. Doug quickly stood up and began to run.
"Incoming!" yelled Doug as he ran towards the snow-covered pine forest. A BTR mechanized infantry vehicle went over the hill and stopped. It skidded on the icy road, firing its 30mm autocannon at the retreating Wanderers/Agents. Adrenaline rushed into the blood stream as bullets whizzed past their heads, hitting the tree trunks, causing some to collapse. Once they were way ahead of the vehicle, Doug turned around, crouched and aimed his rifle at the direction of the main road.
"Slow down. Their vehicles can't follow us this far," said Doug, panting, before turning back into the forest. Ingrid stopped and took a breather before she lifted her rifle up and aimed into the forest. She then followed Doug to a bush where they hid as a patrol with flash lights walk by.
"Let them pass. Looks like they're searching for us," whispered Doug. When the patrol was way behind them, they got out of the bush and walked forward and reached a pipeline. A patrol with a dog was up ahead.
"Dog patrol," reported Ingrid. Doug nodded and turned left. There, they spotted a a three-man patrol.
"Three-man patrol. Dead ahead. Take them out or leave them be. Your call," said Doug. Ingrid aimed at the patrol, but decided not to fire. The patrol then walked away from their sights. Doug got up and followed the pipeline and stopped before another patrol. Two were standing at a ridge while a handler and his dog were within line of sight of the first group. Ingrid hid behind a bush while Doug hid behind a pillar of the pipeline.
"We'll have to take them out at the same time. You take the two in front of you," said Doug. Ingrid fired two shots and killed the guards in front of her. Doug fired rounds at the dog and the handler.
"All clear," stated Doug before proceeding to the ridge and going prone. Ingrid ran up and went down next to Doug. A large patrol of six guards and three dogs went by.
"Your call," said Doug. Ingrid lined up her rifle to the dog handler at the back and fired. The guard went down, and the dog became confused. Doug took care of the dogs, and one by one, they took out the guards from the back. All that lay on the snowy ground were bodies and red ice. The two went down the ridge and went up the hilly forest. They reached another ridge, overlooking a small, abandoned village.
"This ridge is perfect – Charis, what's the status of our drones?" asked Doug on the radio.
"The Predator drone is en route to your position," replied Charis. Doug looked to Ingrid and spoke.
"Use the Predator drone and take out the anti-air defence hidden behind that house," said Doug. Ingrid took out a laptop from her back and opened it. The camera on the missile turned on, and she then pressed the arrow keys to guide the missile to the said location. The location went off with a big boom, displacing snow and ice all around the area. But the anti-air launched its surface-to-air missile to the drone before the Predator missile destroyed it. The drone blew up and its pieces fell off to the ground.
"Damn! Charis, get us another Predator. The SAM site just shot it down," said Doug on the radio before getting up.
"Ingrid, let's go. They know we're here. Switch to your assault rifle," said Doug as he unscrewed his silencer off his nozzle and kept it. He then slid down the hill to the village below. Ingrid switched to her ACR assault rifle and followed Doug down as well. They hid behind a house when someone yelled at them.
"Check your fire! Check your fire! Friendlies at your twelve!" yelled Ivan in his coarse accent as he came out of the forest and slid down the slope. Rina and the Society Agents appeared out of the forest and jumped down, joining up with Doug and Ingrid. They hid behind the house opposite them. Gunfire rang as more mooks appeared at the scene.
"Charis, I've regrouped with the rest of the team," reported Doug.
"I read you. A second Predator is almost in position," Came the reply when suddenly an energy ball zoomed past and hit the slope causing snow to rain on the team. Doug looked up and saw a woman with long silver hair and a one-piece that didn't fit with the frigid weather. She was sporting two katana blades.
"Sue up front!" warned Doug to the team opposite them. Ivan tried to peek out when bullets ricocheted on the walls, causing him to duck back.
"Dang! The guards are pinning us down!" yelled Ivan across the opening.
"Get whoever you can to snipe the guards! Ossa! Jess! Distract her from the front! Kyle! Tom! Get here and we'll hit them from the flank!"yelled Doug. Ivan went up the roof and pulled Rhia up as well. Terry followed soon after as they sniped the guards from behind the roof's apex. Ossa and Jess deployed their ray shields and went in front of the Sue, bullets ricocheting off. The Sue raced and attacked them with her swords, but Jess and Ossa held on, mostly pushing the blade away with the shields. Rina fired blindly at the guards while Kyle and Tom ran across the clearing to Doug and Ingrid. The group then went around the far left of the village, taking cover behind wreckage as they see fit.
Rina and Lydia trained their TAR-21 assault rifles at the Sue and fired at her, putting her at a defensive. However, the Sue made it easy by deflecting off the bullets with her swords with ease while bashing Ossa and Jess at the same time. Doug's team reached the far side of the village, in proximity of the trench where the guards were hiding. Doug pulled out a few Semtex grenades and threw it into the trench, causing the guards to retreat. Some of the grenades stuck to some of the guards; they blew up together with the rest of the group. The gunfire toned down as Ivan, Terry and Rhia took out any stragglers.
This allowed Ben to come out of hiding and sent energy blasts at the Sue, displacing some snow in its path The Sue was dazed; Ossa and Jess took the opportunity to strike quickly. Ossa drew out her katana and slashed the Sue, but the Sue blocked the sword. Jess rushed and landed a kick into her chest; the Sue was thrown back. The Sue flipped backwards and landed on her feet perfectly; she rushed into the two girls with her blades. Ben came forward and sent another volley of energy blasts at her. The Sue sidestepped and rushed towards Ben. Ben shielded himself with Bahamut, just in time as the Sue rammed into him, causing him to be thrown back and broke his guitar. The Sue wanted to go ahead with another strike when Rina stepped in and did an upward slash with her knife. The Sue stepped back, and was suddenly strangled by an unseen force.
The Sue reacted by slamming herself into the ground. Karissa reappeared from her invisibility and she wheezed; all the air was pushed out of her lungs. The Sue screamed as she prepared to jab the downed Karissa when Tom rammed into her with his entire bodyweight. Tom quickly rolled out and drew out his sword when the Sue swung a kick to his head. He was knocked out instantly; Ossa knocked the Sue's head with the butt of her katana. The Sue was floored; Ossa took out her Prohibitor.
But the Sue gave no chances; with the force of her feet, she pushed Ossa away from her. Ossa was thrown up, only to be caught by Kyle.
"You all right?" asked Kyle with concern.
"Yeah... I'm okay," replied Ossa between pants. She could see Tom was being pulled away by Ivan, as with Karissa by Jess. Doug and Terry were duking it out with the Sue; one with his sword, another with alchemy. Ice sculptures formed around the Sue and headed towards her general direction. The Sue used an energy ball and disintegrated all the ice sculptures. Doug lunged at her with his sword. The Sue dodged and landed a punch on his face. Disorientated, Doug was kicked in the gut and was thrown to the slope. Then, a grappling hook came and wrapped around her neck; 10000 volts of pure electricity raced into the Sue's nervous system as Ingrid held onto the Grappling Prohibitor.
When the Sue fell to the ground, Ingrid powered the winch and the Sue was dragged towards her. The Sue struggled, and Ingrid placed another Prohibitor around the Sue's wrist as she disengaged the Grappling Prohibitor. The Agents ran towards her and got the weakened Sue up, apprehending her. Normally they would open a plothole directly to the Library's basement, but since they're stuck in the fandom, some have to stay back and watch over her.
"The sub base is over the trench line. Some of us will have to stay back and guards the Sue..." said Doug as he turned his attention to an unconscious Tom and an injured Karissa. "...and taking care of the casualties." He wiped the blood from his nose he received from the Sue's earlier punches.
"Lydia and I will take them to the extraction point. You and the others should go on, just in case more Sues are in the way," said Rina, tapping Lydia's shoulder as she heads to the injured and the Sue.
"Let's not get their efforts wasted. Follow me," said Doug, bringing up his rifle and leading the team to the edge of the sub base. The rest followed, since Doug knows the fandom more than any of them. He stopped at a ridge and signalled the rest to line up on the ridge.
"The building near the sub with a radio tower is the control centre. Ivan, Terry, Rhia - get into sniping position on this ridge. The rest – we'll get into the base once the defenses are softened up. Ingrid, call in the Predator." said Doug in rapid succession. The Agents have no choice but to follow; as long as they're stuck in that fandom, they're going to have to rely on the expert. Ingrid pulled out the laptop and guided the Predator missile to a group of soldiers at the gates of the base.
BOOM!
"We're moving!"
Chaos ensued in the base as a helicopter took off from its helipad and soldiers came pouring out from the many buildings of the base. The Agents deployed their ray shields as bullets from the helicopter and the guards came battering on them. Ivan, Terry and Rhia fired shots from their sniper rifles, covering the assault team. Ingrid found herself near a weapons cache; she pulled out a Stinger missile launcher and aimed at the helicopter. After the definitive rings of a missile lock-on, she fired the missile, and it began following the helicopter. The helicopter swerved to dodge the missile, but the missile came in for a second pass and hit its tail rotor. The helicopter spun out of control as troop numbers at the gate began to dwindle. Ossa and Jess spearheaded the assault, going to the nearest mooks and bashing them with their shields.
"We're displacing. You'll be without sniper support for 30 seconds," reported Terry.
"Copy that," replied Doug as he pushed into the base. Kyle followed after, then Ingrid as the two women were having a field day with their shields and blades.
"Strike with the fury of a wounded god... Bahamut!" Ben entered the base in style; he strummed Bahamut, blasting some explosive barrels, adding some orange flames into the mix. Just as Ossa and Jess were outnumbered, the snipers took out the guards so they could retreat. As they all grouped up near some crates, Doug yelled out.
"Follow me and don't stray off!" Doug entered the warehouse in front of him, shooting the guards that were waiting for them. Terry and Ivan were right behind him straight away checking the building for any more hostiles.
"Area clear!" reported Ivan.
"C'mon guys! We're Oscar Mike!" said Doug.
"What?" asked the confused Ossa.
"On the move, it means," replied Doug as he exited the building through another doorway. The group hid behind some crates as more guards came pouring out of the building surrounding them. Ingrid pulled out her laptop and guided another missile at the guards, clearing them out. They moved on to the port authority building, where a BTR appeared from behind the building. The 30mm autocannon laid suppressive fire at the group, causing them to hide behind the pillars and walls.
"Ben! Hit it with Bahamut! The AGM is still arming! We'll cover you!" yelled Ingrid across to the pillar Ben was hiding. The bullets hit the pillar, chipping off concrete and causing him to duck. Doug, Terry and Ivan came out with ray shields deployed, drawing fire from the BTR. Ben immediately turned and aimed Bahamut at the imposing war machine, sending a blast wave at it. The BTR flipped and turned belly up. Some of the guards near the BTR were covering their ears, hurting from Ben's sound blast. The three retracted their shields and fired at the downed guards, silencing them. The group then advanced forward, reaching a building with a high vantage point. More soldiers appeared to attack the group from the flank.
"I'm going for the building! Ingrid, follow me!" yelled Doug as he ran past the building.
"Kyle! Catch!" Ingrid passed the laptop to Kyle and followed Doug into the target location.
"Everybody up the building! We need to cover their entry! Go! Go!" yelled Terry as he fired a few rounds at the approaching soldiers. Rhia got to the roof of the building, firing off a few sniper rounds. Kyle followed soon after, firing a burst of rounds at a group of soldiers. Once Ossa, Jess and Ben got up, Ivan and Terry got up as well and into sniping position.
Doug and Ingrid reached the door and planted a frame charge on said door. They lay along the wall as the fuse went off.
BOOM!
The door was in many flying pieces of metal as Doug and Ingrid entered, firing at soldiers who were pointing their guns at the doorway. They were dispatched immediately, with one surviving with wounds on his legs. They looked around; the supercomputers were processing distortion signals to jam small-scale plothole generators.
"Ingrid, go plant charges on the computers," instructed Doug as he headed to the incapacitated soldier, who was crawling away. He turned him around and pointed a pistol at his head.
"Which base is Aryan using?" Doug interrogated, but the soldier remained silent. Doug put a bullet through his left thigh. The soldier cried in pain as Doug slammed him on the concrete ground and pulled him up again.
"Where is he?" yelled Doug with the gun pointed at the soldier's shoulder blade.
"I'll never tell you!" replied the persistent soldier. Doug sent a punch to his nose, breaking it. The soldier was bleeding through it, and Doug put another bullet through his elbow.
"SITE HOTEL BRAVO!" wailed the soldier; the pain too unbearable. Doug relieved him from his suffering by a bullet through the head. As the pools of blood from each body joined together, Doug stood up and turned to Ingrid.
"Are the charges in place?" asked Doug.
"Yes, Doug," replied Ingrid.
"Good."
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"Doug! Ingrid! Are you there? We need to evacuate now!" yelled Terry on his radio as a portal opened in the base, pouring out trucks and tanks. The gunfire was now becoming too much for them to handle. Suddenly, the building blew up as Ben strummed Bahamut, flipping a few trucks and incapacitating hundreds of soldiers. Death Metal Bahamut then reverted to its original state, drained out all of its energy.
"What the fu-!" The Wanderers and Agents looked at the burning building, seeing no sign of Doug or Ingrid exiting the building. Plotholes opened behind them, one with Guards pouring out while another with Tash and Harriet.
"Guys! We have to go – NOW!" yelled Harriet as she dragged one of the Agents into the plothole.
"Wait! What about D..." Rhia was interrupted by Ivan.
"We'll take care of that! Your safety first!" One of the Guards fired an AT4 rocket launcher at an approaching tank, blowing it up. The Society Agents were ushered into the plothole, then closing up. The Wanderers and the Guards retreated into the plothole as a tank shell blasted the building.
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Aryan appeared from the smoke, wielding a recoilless rifle (more commonly known as a bazooka) and fired at the Author. The bazooka shell made impact, but the Author remained unscathed as the smoke cleared out, revealing a ray shield. The Author retracted it and pulled out a railgun, firing the weapon at Aryan. Aryan dodged as the beam flew past him, and he threw in a few smoke grenades at the Author. The Author jumped out of the smoke, not to be blinded by the smoke, but was unaware that it was a diversion. Aryan appeared above him, sending a kick right into the Author's chest. The Author was pinned down as Aryan raised his sword up, ready to strike the Author.
"Where's your Wanderers and your friends now?" spoke Aryan in a sinister voice, although distorted by the panting. He was ready the strike him down when he jumped away. The gunshot rang, missing the Author's legs. The Author stood up and smirked.
"Ha, speak of the devil," remarked the Author as plotholes opened around the city, pouring large behemoth tanks and artillery, taking out the PCMSPS army. The Author looked up to one of the broken down towers; on one of the windows was a person that looked like Terry, but had black hair with a few whites sticking out. The Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle rested on the window ledge as it repositioned to acquire Aryan.
Aryan jumped off as another shot rang and hit the ground he was standing on. He took a good look at the forces he built up destroyed but not the Author's own forces, but by another. He gritted his teeth and trained his eyes on the Author when another character appeared, trying to slash him down. This character looked like Ivan, but had light brown hair and hazel eyes. The character dropped the blade and immediately wielded an Intervention sniper rifle and aimed at Aryan. Aryan immediately opened a plothole and retreated. He had not anticipated this. He had lost the war.
The Ivan character walked towards the Author while the Terry character teleported to him when his flying dagger was near the Author. The Author smiled as he met with his two friends; his comrade in arms.
"ZetX, shouxen," greeted the Author.
"noob_killer," replied ZetX the Terry-like character, fist-bumping each other. That was when they were interrupted by Vespin.
"Author, we have lost contact with Doug and Ingrid, but their vitals are still on. We haven't been able to trace their present location. However, we have located the PCMSPS reserves and stockpiles in the fandom," reported Vespin.
"Good. Divert our forces to those locations," replied the Author.
"How about Doug and Ingrid?" asked Vespin. The Author coughed out a laugh.
"I know where they are. It's pretty obvious. Give them three hours," replied the Author. Vespin nodded and left the three friends together.
"Say, how about we get 'Gaz' in to pilot for us?" said the Author.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Insert Gigantic Autonomous Robots Here
Alarms started blaring on the PCMSPS ship. Words like "Intruder alert", "spy" and "is in the base" filled the atmosphere. A girl in a pink nurse dress was running on the catwalk. She was about average height for a girl, had dark, long hair with parts of the fringe covering her right eye and a hair band holding it into a ponytail. Her expressions showed fear, but she remained steadfast. Footsteps behind her started getting louder. She ran through a doorway and dropped a grenade. Suddenly after that, an explosion and sounds of soldiers wailing in agony reached her ears. She continued running. Then, Uber-Stu appeared before her.
"You won't get awa...," before he could finish, she leaped and caught his head between her legs.
CRACK!
With an extremely quick twist, she broke his neck, and he fell down like a dummy. She rolled on the catwalk and continued running.
Suddenly, a rock flew towards her from the side. She deployed her ray shield, but the impact force pushed her over the catwalk. She quickly grabbed hold of the railings, swung herself at bars and hanging chains like a gymnast would. She landed in the middle of the cargo bay, and the soldiers surrounded her immediately. She slowly got up, looked around her and dropped a laughing gas grenade.
The smoke immediately engulfed the soldiers, sending them into a hysterical laughter as she ran off to the edge of the cargo bay with a cylindrical object in her mouth. She spat it out as she cleared away from the smoke, and was about to reach the exit door when she felt something hit her back. She fell down, and tried to crawl, but she couldn't move her body. Her vision started to blur, and the last thing she could make up was Aryan and Deraj looking down on her and the words "Wanderer", "won't let this go unanswered" and "trap".
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"Wanderers, listen up. We have a situation here. We've got a distress signal from our spy, Lydia Hei, and most likely captured by the PCMSPS," said the Author on the cell phone on loudspeaker. Ingrid and Doug were in the hangar.
"Who's Lydia?" asked Ingrid.
"That's Vespin's cousin. You haven't met her yet, but you will soon," replied the Author.
"Can we trace her location?" asked Ingrid.
"In fact, the signal traced her to the Transformers fandom. Movie-verse," replied the Author.
"Think it could be a trap?" asked Doug. There was a pause.
"It is, but it's worth the risk. No Wanderer gets left behind," said the Author.
"Agreed," replied both of them.
"Good. You go up ahead. I'll be sending Terry, Ivan, Rina, Maddie and Vespin will be there as soon as you get there," said the Author.
"We're Oscar Mike, out," replied Doug before closing the phone.
"Doug, what's Oscar Mike?" asked Ingrid.
"It means 'on the move', Ingrid. Come on, let's suit up," said Doug as they both headed for the armoury. Doug opened the vault and headed for the weapons rack. Each of them took a ray shield bracelet, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, a GPS locator, a pistol and a tactical knife. They got out of the armoury and headed for a plothole when Lily came in.
"Doug, Ingrid. What are you doing?" asked Lily.
"We're going off to the Transformers fandom," replied Doug bluntly.
"The last time I checked, there were no disturbances in the fandom. Why do you need to go there?"
"Don't need to know. Wanderer business," replied Doug. Both the Wanderers were about to enter the plothole when Lily blocked their way.
"Woah, not so fast. As Society members, you still need to follow protocols. Go to Michael and explain," said Lily. Doug got annoyed and pulled out a handkerchief.
"Does this smell like chloroform?" asked Doug immediately. Lily sniffed it.
"Yeeeeeeee..." Lily was immediately knocked out and Doug managed to catch her before she landed on the hard floor. He put her on a chair and they both entered the plothole.
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"Are all teams ready?" announced the Author on the PA system. He was standing on the observation deck with scientists. The scientists were fiddling with the controls to a portal generator, which was located on the floor. At the floor, the Wanderers were gathered together with military equipment, vehicles and Dark Guardian personnel. The Wanderers gave thumbs up in response to the Author's question.
"Stand by for portal activation," announced the Author.
"Increasing flux capacitors to 100%," said a scientist.
"Increasing direct current to 95%," said another scientist. At the floor, the portal cannon was charging with a humming sound above the Wanderers' heads. Suddenly, the portal cannon stopped humming, and the base started to power down. Lights went off.
"What happened?" asked Vespin. The Wanderers were confused as the lights came back on together with alarms blaring.
"Infiltration alert! Main generators down, backup generators are now online," announced the PA system. Up in the observation deck, the Author was instructing a scientist to switch on the emergency broadcast feed. A soldier appeared on the screen.
"Give me answers, soldier," stated Author.
"An infiltrator sabotaged the fusion generator by overloading it. We're pursuing him now," replied the soldier. Then a news feed of the saboteur running away from authority popped up on the left corner of the screen.
"Any casualties so far?" asked the Author.
"Just an engineer, sir," replied the soldier. The Author pinched the bridge of his nose. Then he turned to one of the scientists.
"Can the backup generator run the system?" asked the Author.
"If we can risk instability," replied the scientist. The Author sighed and turned to the microphone.
"Wanderers, the police are in pursuit of a saboteur. Get him alive!" announced the Author. The Wanderers complied and left with their respective Dark Guardian teams. The Author then turned to the screen.
"Assemble a team of engineers. I want that generator running within an hour," said the Author. The soldier nodded his head and the windows closed, revealing the Wanderers' logo. The Author then talked to one of his bodyguards.
"Get me a chopper in the air, pronto."
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Doug and Ingrid appeared on the cliff face outside the Hoover Dam, where the Allspark was hidden. Doug took out his binoculars and looked out. There were several PCMSPS soldiers patrolling the outer walls, and some obvious vehicles parked just within the Hoover Dam area. Doug reached for his radio.
"Spysat, this is Doug. Do you read me?" asked Doug.
"Loud and clear, Doug. This is Cheryl on the line," replied the voice.
"Are the others ready?" asked Doug.
"No, Doug. There has been a sabotage. We need an hour to get the generators up and running," said Cheryl.
"That's time we don't have, Cheryl. I'm going in first," replied Doug.
"Copy that. Take care," said Cheryl.
"Silencers, Ingrid. We're going in first," said Doug. Ingrid nodded and fixed silencers to her assault rifle and sniper rifle. The both of them took an nail and knocked it close to the edge of the cliff. Then they both tied ropes around the nails and hooked themselves on to it. Then they laid low and looked down their sniper rifle scopes.
"I'll take the two on the road deck, you take the four on the forward intake towers," said Doug. They both zeroed in on their targets.
"On three. One, two, three," said Doug before pulling the trigger. The six unfortunate PCMSPS soldiers were taken out immediately.
"Come on, let's go before they notice," said Doug as they both scaled down behind the shadow of the cliff face, then slid down a small hill to the road deck. They then rushed to one of the vents, opened it, and got down into it.
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The saboteur was running away from drones of helicopters and wails of the police sirens. He got out of the alley and saw a person entering a car. He pulled the person away and got into the car, stealing it and driving away. He tried to drive to the highways, but the squad cars were already blocking the entrance ramps. He turned the vehicle around and tried to turn to the corners but they were blocked by squad cars too. He proceeded straight and looked at the intersections, but the sides have been blocked by the police. Then at the front, a helicopter hovered just above the road and a Dark Guardian fired bullets at the car. The car swerved to avoid the bullets and crashed at a corner shop. More helicopters hovered down to street level and the Wanderers came out and rushed to the crashed car. The Author walked from the opposite direction and to the car. Terry and Ivan pulled the saboteur out of the car and restrain him. Ivan then stuck his fingers into the saboteur's mouth and pulled a cyanide pill out. The Author crouched and looked eye to eye with the saboteur.
"Get him to interrogation. I want whatever is in his head," said the Author. Terry and Ivan handed him to a soldier and he brought the saboteur to an awaiting chopper. The helicopter took off and was about to fly off when a missile came out of nowhere and hit the helicopter.
BOOM!
The helicopter burst into bits and pieces and the pieces were falling onto the streets.
"What the hell!" exclaimed one of the soldiers as they shielded their eyes from the blast. The Author gave a simple wave motion and the pieces slowed down and landed on the ground without causing collateral damage. Everyone else stared at the wreckage, shocked. The Author cursed under his breath.
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A plothole opened and Eolhc came out, lugging a Javelin missile launcher. Deraj turned and asked Eolhc.
"What happened to Commander Stu?" asked Deraj.
"He has outlived his usefulness," replied Eolhc simply.
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Doug looked on his GPS locator to check his location. Ingrid was quietly observing the generator floor which was teeming with soldiers. Lots of red shirts.
"If I'm right, the security room is through this vent," muttered Doug before pulling out a screwdriver. He unscrewed the screws holding the vent grills and slowly pulled it out of the way.
"Ingrid, you go on ahead. I'll watch your back," whispered Doug. Ingrid wasn't paying attention as she continued watching the floor.
"INGRID!" Doug whispered louder, grabbing her attention. Ingrid quickly turned her attention to Doug.
"You go first," said Doug. Ingrid complied and climbed into the vent. Doug followed after, putting the grill back into place. They crawled on to the end of the vent, which was the on top of the security room. Ingrid pulled out her fibre optics camera and dropped it through the vents to observe the security room.
"Two guards," said Ingrid.
"Use a flashbang. Careful not to break the glass," said Doug. Ingrid took out a flashbang grenade, pulled the pin, kicked the vent open and dropped the grenade. The grenade went off with a poof, blinding the guards in the room as she dropped down, gunning them down.
"All clear," said Ingrid. Doug dropped down and head for the security controls.
"Let's get to work, shall we?" said Doug, plugging in his USB device into the console.
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A giant plothole opened and out came two infantry fighting vehicles and three rail-gun tanks. One of the IFVs opened its back hood, allowing the Dark Guardians to come out with anti-vehicle weapons. They then got on top of the IFVs and tanks, and the vehicles drove off to the Hoover Dam.
Upon reaching the dam, they spotted the same peculiar vehicles near the dam, facing towards them.
"Get ready," said Terry as he came out from the other IFV. The vehicles transformed into the Decepticons, which some of them grouped together to form an even bigger transformer.
"Wait a minute, the Constructicons are supposed to be in this movie," remarked Terry as the Decepticons started to charge towards the Wanderers.
"It's about time to get me started," commented Terry as he stretched his fingers. Then he clapped his hands together and touched the solid ground, creating glass structures to impede the Decepticons.
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"Okay, I've got her. Sector 3," said Ingrid. Doug quickly headed to Ingrid's monitor. He saw the Wanderer hooked up on torturous medical equipment.
"Oh god," gasped Doug.
"What?" asked Ingrid.
"She's on torture equipment. Vespin's not gonna like this..." replied Doug.
"Come on, they just made one hell of a pissed off halfling," replied Doug. They both left the security room and headed to Sector 3.
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"Get me footage of the fandom, NOW!" exclaimed Michael as he walked into the observation office with a very dizzy Lily. Valerie ran her fingers across the keyboard and the footage of the fandom where Doug and Ingrid went came on. It showed the Wanderers taking on the Decepticons pretty well, but they're going to need more to get through them. Then another footage of Doug and Ingrid going into Sector 3. He could see PCMSPS soldiers watching their every move from the shadows.
"Get a team ready. They're walking into an obvious trap," said Michael as he walked out of the room. Valerie immediately reached for the microphone to announce an emergency briefing.
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Only a few soldiers were visible in the sector, and Doug just steam rolled over them in fury. Then Doug stuck a plastic explosive on the steel door to the hangar where Lydia was located.
BOOM!
The doors came down with a thump and Doug and Ingrid went through the doorway. Lydia was strapped on a chair with duct tape in the middle of the hangar. There were tubes flowing liquid down into her bloodstream. She looked horrible; her hair messy, black rings around her eyes, bruises on her wrists. Doug and Ingrid raced towards her to check her up.
"Lydia! Lydia!" called Doug as he tried to make her conscious. Ingrid quickly pulled out the needles and closed the wounds. Doug touched her neck to feel her pulse. The pulse was very weak and her eyelids were halfway open. Ingrid immediately radioed in for medical support.
"You and the Author had to get into my affairs. Now one of your own have to suffer from the consequences," said Aryan as he immediately appeared behind Doug and Ingrid. Doug quickly drew out his knife and it transformed into a sword. He swung it at Aryan, but a solid wall appeared between Aryan and Doug. The sword, instead breaking like normal ones, sliced through the wall like a hot knife through butter. The top part of the wall slid off the bottom part, which made Aryan jump a few feet away.
"That's my sword. Do you mind if I have it back?" Aryan said coolly. Doug just charged and tried to deliver a strike at Aryan, but Aryan formed a sword out from thin air and blocked it. The air that dissipated from the swing was enough to cause clothes to flutter. Aryan, without effort, pushed Doug away with his sword. Ingrid was slowly pulling the comatose Lydia away from the open when Eolhc appeared from the back and held a dagger to her throat.
"Not so fast, newbie," said Eolhc. Ingrid stopped immediately and stood still.
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The Wanderers were having a hard time dealing with the Decepticons and imported Fallens from the second movie when a plothole appeared and Michael and his team of Agents came out of it.
"Looks like you need a little help," said Michael. The a missile from Starscream was zooming towards Michael when Terry jumped forward and transmuted a glass barrier. The missile impacted the barrier, exploding, but the barrier remained intact. The proximity of the explosion made Michael jump.
"Pay more attention, otherwise YOU are the ones needing help," replied Terry. Michael nodded and rallied the Agents to attack the Decepticons following a kinetic shell from a Defender tank hitting the mega Constructicon at the two giant wrecking balls.
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Doug heard Eolhc's voice and turned back. Distracted, Aryan made a column appear from the ground and it hit Doug right in the stomach, causing him to fly off and land hard on the floor, dropping his weapon. Doug groaned and looked at Ingrid. Thinking of ways to get them out of the mess, he got up immediately and grabbed his sword.
"Hold it, Wanderer. Do you want to lose another one just because of your reckless actions?" said Aryan. Doug gripped his sword tightly, but remained still.
"The PCMSPS are with me, and I need you for my experiments. Surrender and they will be allowed to leave. Drop your weapon," continued Aryan. Doug stared at Aryan and then looked at Ingrid. Her eyes leered at him. He acknowledge her sign, and gripped his sword more tightly. Ingrid immediately reached her dagger and stabbed Elhoc in the knee. She staggered and fell, allowing Ingrid to piggyback Lydia away. Doug quickly lunged at Aryan and slashed him, but missed.
"Now!" exclaimed Aryan. Out of nowhere, Deraj appeared and swung his Flashbar at Doug's head, knocking him out instantly. Ingrid pulled out her weapon, but was blinded instantly. Doug dropped his sword, and Aryan pulled his body into a plothole. Deraj then lifted Eolhc and carried her into the plothole.
When she recovered, PCMSPS soldiers were pouring into the hangar, training their rifles at her. She immediately pulled out her ray shield and the bullets began to rattle her shield. With her back at a wall and a comatose Wanderer, she couldn't move anywhere.
Suddenly, the Wanderers and the Agents made an appearance, cutting down all the PCMSPS soldiers. Terry made a glass barrier around Ingrid and Lydia while Rina, Maddie and Vespin drew out the swords and sliced through them. Michael and his Agents beat the crap out of the troops, throwing them into the air like ragdolls. When it was all over, Vespin rushed towards Ingrid and checked on Lydia.
"Lydia-nee-san! Lydia-nee-san!" exclaimed Vespin. Lydia was unresponsive, but alive. Then, Cheryl and her team of medics arrived and headed directly to Lydia. She checked her pulse and eye movement with her tiny torchlight.
"How's she?" asked Terry. Cheryl turned to him and replied.
"Bad case of poisoning. Also includes overdose of Twilight," said Cheryl before turning to the medical teams.
"Get her to the emergency ward immediately!" commanded Cheryl. The medical teams loaded her on the stretcher and rushed out to an awaiting chopper.
"Hang on there!" exclaimed Vespin as they all left to the awaiting chopper.
"Where's Doug? I need a word with him!" said Michael, his tone filled with anger. Then he heard sobs. It came from the new Agent, Ingrid. Michael rushed towards her and began asking question.
"Where's Doug?" asked Michael.
"Th...th...they t...tt...took him!" said Ingrid between sobs. Terry rushed towards Ingrid.
"Where's Doug?" asked Terry.
"She said 'They took him'," said Michael.
"You got to be shitting me," commented Terry.
"What?" questioned Michael.
"Lydia reported that they're planning to make character foils for the Wanderers," said Terry.
"So?"
"So, with Lydia alive, we can assume that they had her DNA and power, which is reading minds. If they took Doug's healing abilities and fused it into one, you're going to have a being that can read your moves and regenerate at the same time."
"Like a Sue or Stu?"
"Yes, but be prepared of it to be hyped up in other powers as well. We heard that they 'sucked' the 'essence' of some Sues and Stus at one point." Michael was shocked by this new development. Then his attention turned to the sobbing agent, Ingrid.
"What about her?" asked Michael.
"She'll be with us for a while. Doug is a big brother mentor to her, so she is shocked by this incident," replied Terry. Michael nodded. As the Wanderers began to leave, Terry gave Michael a cellphone.
"We'll keep in touch. Hopefully the Society will give its full support to get Doug back and destroy Aryan," said Terry. Michael nodded as his team of Agents return to the Library.
"You won't get awa...," before he could finish, she leaped and caught his head between her legs.
CRACK!
With an extremely quick twist, she broke his neck, and he fell down like a dummy. She rolled on the catwalk and continued running.
Suddenly, a rock flew towards her from the side. She deployed her ray shield, but the impact force pushed her over the catwalk. She quickly grabbed hold of the railings, swung herself at bars and hanging chains like a gymnast would. She landed in the middle of the cargo bay, and the soldiers surrounded her immediately. She slowly got up, looked around her and dropped a laughing gas grenade.
The smoke immediately engulfed the soldiers, sending them into a hysterical laughter as she ran off to the edge of the cargo bay with a cylindrical object in her mouth. She spat it out as she cleared away from the smoke, and was about to reach the exit door when she felt something hit her back. She fell down, and tried to crawl, but she couldn't move her body. Her vision started to blur, and the last thing she could make up was Aryan and Deraj looking down on her and the words "Wanderer", "won't let this go unanswered" and "trap".
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"Wanderers, listen up. We have a situation here. We've got a distress signal from our spy, Lydia Hei, and most likely captured by the PCMSPS," said the Author on the cell phone on loudspeaker. Ingrid and Doug were in the hangar.
"Who's Lydia?" asked Ingrid.
"That's Vespin's cousin. You haven't met her yet, but you will soon," replied the Author.
"Can we trace her location?" asked Ingrid.
"In fact, the signal traced her to the Transformers fandom. Movie-verse," replied the Author.
"Think it could be a trap?" asked Doug. There was a pause.
"It is, but it's worth the risk. No Wanderer gets left behind," said the Author.
"Agreed," replied both of them.
"Good. You go up ahead. I'll be sending Terry, Ivan, Rina, Maddie and Vespin will be there as soon as you get there," said the Author.
"We're Oscar Mike, out," replied Doug before closing the phone.
"Doug, what's Oscar Mike?" asked Ingrid.
"It means 'on the move', Ingrid. Come on, let's suit up," said Doug as they both headed for the armoury. Doug opened the vault and headed for the weapons rack. Each of them took a ray shield bracelet, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, a GPS locator, a pistol and a tactical knife. They got out of the armoury and headed for a plothole when Lily came in.
"Doug, Ingrid. What are you doing?" asked Lily.
"We're going off to the Transformers fandom," replied Doug bluntly.
"The last time I checked, there were no disturbances in the fandom. Why do you need to go there?"
"Don't need to know. Wanderer business," replied Doug. Both the Wanderers were about to enter the plothole when Lily blocked their way.
"Woah, not so fast. As Society members, you still need to follow protocols. Go to Michael and explain," said Lily. Doug got annoyed and pulled out a handkerchief.
"Does this smell like chloroform?" asked Doug immediately. Lily sniffed it.
"Yeeeeeeee..." Lily was immediately knocked out and Doug managed to catch her before she landed on the hard floor. He put her on a chair and they both entered the plothole.
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"Are all teams ready?" announced the Author on the PA system. He was standing on the observation deck with scientists. The scientists were fiddling with the controls to a portal generator, which was located on the floor. At the floor, the Wanderers were gathered together with military equipment, vehicles and Dark Guardian personnel. The Wanderers gave thumbs up in response to the Author's question.
"Stand by for portal activation," announced the Author.
"Increasing flux capacitors to 100%," said a scientist.
"Increasing direct current to 95%," said another scientist. At the floor, the portal cannon was charging with a humming sound above the Wanderers' heads. Suddenly, the portal cannon stopped humming, and the base started to power down. Lights went off.
"What happened?" asked Vespin. The Wanderers were confused as the lights came back on together with alarms blaring.
"Infiltration alert! Main generators down, backup generators are now online," announced the PA system. Up in the observation deck, the Author was instructing a scientist to switch on the emergency broadcast feed. A soldier appeared on the screen.
"Give me answers, soldier," stated Author.
"An infiltrator sabotaged the fusion generator by overloading it. We're pursuing him now," replied the soldier. Then a news feed of the saboteur running away from authority popped up on the left corner of the screen.
"Any casualties so far?" asked the Author.
"Just an engineer, sir," replied the soldier. The Author pinched the bridge of his nose. Then he turned to one of the scientists.
"Can the backup generator run the system?" asked the Author.
"If we can risk instability," replied the scientist. The Author sighed and turned to the microphone.
"Wanderers, the police are in pursuit of a saboteur. Get him alive!" announced the Author. The Wanderers complied and left with their respective Dark Guardian teams. The Author then turned to the screen.
"Assemble a team of engineers. I want that generator running within an hour," said the Author. The soldier nodded his head and the windows closed, revealing the Wanderers' logo. The Author then talked to one of his bodyguards.
"Get me a chopper in the air, pronto."
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Doug and Ingrid appeared on the cliff face outside the Hoover Dam, where the Allspark was hidden. Doug took out his binoculars and looked out. There were several PCMSPS soldiers patrolling the outer walls, and some obvious vehicles parked just within the Hoover Dam area. Doug reached for his radio.
"Spysat, this is Doug. Do you read me?" asked Doug.
"Loud and clear, Doug. This is Cheryl on the line," replied the voice.
"Are the others ready?" asked Doug.
"No, Doug. There has been a sabotage. We need an hour to get the generators up and running," said Cheryl.
"That's time we don't have, Cheryl. I'm going in first," replied Doug.
"Copy that. Take care," said Cheryl.
"Silencers, Ingrid. We're going in first," said Doug. Ingrid nodded and fixed silencers to her assault rifle and sniper rifle. The both of them took an nail and knocked it close to the edge of the cliff. Then they both tied ropes around the nails and hooked themselves on to it. Then they laid low and looked down their sniper rifle scopes.
"I'll take the two on the road deck, you take the four on the forward intake towers," said Doug. They both zeroed in on their targets.
"On three. One, two, three," said Doug before pulling the trigger. The six unfortunate PCMSPS soldiers were taken out immediately.
"Come on, let's go before they notice," said Doug as they both scaled down behind the shadow of the cliff face, then slid down a small hill to the road deck. They then rushed to one of the vents, opened it, and got down into it.
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The saboteur was running away from drones of helicopters and wails of the police sirens. He got out of the alley and saw a person entering a car. He pulled the person away and got into the car, stealing it and driving away. He tried to drive to the highways, but the squad cars were already blocking the entrance ramps. He turned the vehicle around and tried to turn to the corners but they were blocked by squad cars too. He proceeded straight and looked at the intersections, but the sides have been blocked by the police. Then at the front, a helicopter hovered just above the road and a Dark Guardian fired bullets at the car. The car swerved to avoid the bullets and crashed at a corner shop. More helicopters hovered down to street level and the Wanderers came out and rushed to the crashed car. The Author walked from the opposite direction and to the car. Terry and Ivan pulled the saboteur out of the car and restrain him. Ivan then stuck his fingers into the saboteur's mouth and pulled a cyanide pill out. The Author crouched and looked eye to eye with the saboteur.
"Get him to interrogation. I want whatever is in his head," said the Author. Terry and Ivan handed him to a soldier and he brought the saboteur to an awaiting chopper. The helicopter took off and was about to fly off when a missile came out of nowhere and hit the helicopter.
BOOM!
The helicopter burst into bits and pieces and the pieces were falling onto the streets.
"What the hell!" exclaimed one of the soldiers as they shielded their eyes from the blast. The Author gave a simple wave motion and the pieces slowed down and landed on the ground without causing collateral damage. Everyone else stared at the wreckage, shocked. The Author cursed under his breath.
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A plothole opened and Eolhc came out, lugging a Javelin missile launcher. Deraj turned and asked Eolhc.
"What happened to Commander Stu?" asked Deraj.
"He has outlived his usefulness," replied Eolhc simply.
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Doug looked on his GPS locator to check his location. Ingrid was quietly observing the generator floor which was teeming with soldiers. Lots of red shirts.
"If I'm right, the security room is through this vent," muttered Doug before pulling out a screwdriver. He unscrewed the screws holding the vent grills and slowly pulled it out of the way.
"Ingrid, you go on ahead. I'll watch your back," whispered Doug. Ingrid wasn't paying attention as she continued watching the floor.
"INGRID!" Doug whispered louder, grabbing her attention. Ingrid quickly turned her attention to Doug.
"You go first," said Doug. Ingrid complied and climbed into the vent. Doug followed after, putting the grill back into place. They crawled on to the end of the vent, which was the on top of the security room. Ingrid pulled out her fibre optics camera and dropped it through the vents to observe the security room.
"Two guards," said Ingrid.
"Use a flashbang. Careful not to break the glass," said Doug. Ingrid took out a flashbang grenade, pulled the pin, kicked the vent open and dropped the grenade. The grenade went off with a poof, blinding the guards in the room as she dropped down, gunning them down.
"All clear," said Ingrid. Doug dropped down and head for the security controls.
"Let's get to work, shall we?" said Doug, plugging in his USB device into the console.
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A giant plothole opened and out came two infantry fighting vehicles and three rail-gun tanks. One of the IFVs opened its back hood, allowing the Dark Guardians to come out with anti-vehicle weapons. They then got on top of the IFVs and tanks, and the vehicles drove off to the Hoover Dam.
Upon reaching the dam, they spotted the same peculiar vehicles near the dam, facing towards them.
"Get ready," said Terry as he came out from the other IFV. The vehicles transformed into the Decepticons, which some of them grouped together to form an even bigger transformer.
"Wait a minute, the Constructicons are supposed to be in this movie," remarked Terry as the Decepticons started to charge towards the Wanderers.
"It's about time to get me started," commented Terry as he stretched his fingers. Then he clapped his hands together and touched the solid ground, creating glass structures to impede the Decepticons.
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"Okay, I've got her. Sector 3," said Ingrid. Doug quickly headed to Ingrid's monitor. He saw the Wanderer hooked up on torturous medical equipment.
"Oh god," gasped Doug.
"What?" asked Ingrid.
"She's on torture equipment. Vespin's not gonna like this..." replied Doug.
"Come on, they just made one hell of a pissed off halfling," replied Doug. They both left the security room and headed to Sector 3.
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"Get me footage of the fandom, NOW!" exclaimed Michael as he walked into the observation office with a very dizzy Lily. Valerie ran her fingers across the keyboard and the footage of the fandom where Doug and Ingrid went came on. It showed the Wanderers taking on the Decepticons pretty well, but they're going to need more to get through them. Then another footage of Doug and Ingrid going into Sector 3. He could see PCMSPS soldiers watching their every move from the shadows.
"Get a team ready. They're walking into an obvious trap," said Michael as he walked out of the room. Valerie immediately reached for the microphone to announce an emergency briefing.
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Only a few soldiers were visible in the sector, and Doug just steam rolled over them in fury. Then Doug stuck a plastic explosive on the steel door to the hangar where Lydia was located.
BOOM!
The doors came down with a thump and Doug and Ingrid went through the doorway. Lydia was strapped on a chair with duct tape in the middle of the hangar. There were tubes flowing liquid down into her bloodstream. She looked horrible; her hair messy, black rings around her eyes, bruises on her wrists. Doug and Ingrid raced towards her to check her up.
"Lydia! Lydia!" called Doug as he tried to make her conscious. Ingrid quickly pulled out the needles and closed the wounds. Doug touched her neck to feel her pulse. The pulse was very weak and her eyelids were halfway open. Ingrid immediately radioed in for medical support.
"You and the Author had to get into my affairs. Now one of your own have to suffer from the consequences," said Aryan as he immediately appeared behind Doug and Ingrid. Doug quickly drew out his knife and it transformed into a sword. He swung it at Aryan, but a solid wall appeared between Aryan and Doug. The sword, instead breaking like normal ones, sliced through the wall like a hot knife through butter. The top part of the wall slid off the bottom part, which made Aryan jump a few feet away.
"That's my sword. Do you mind if I have it back?" Aryan said coolly. Doug just charged and tried to deliver a strike at Aryan, but Aryan formed a sword out from thin air and blocked it. The air that dissipated from the swing was enough to cause clothes to flutter. Aryan, without effort, pushed Doug away with his sword. Ingrid was slowly pulling the comatose Lydia away from the open when Eolhc appeared from the back and held a dagger to her throat.
"Not so fast, newbie," said Eolhc. Ingrid stopped immediately and stood still.
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The Wanderers were having a hard time dealing with the Decepticons and imported Fallens from the second movie when a plothole appeared and Michael and his team of Agents came out of it.
"Looks like you need a little help," said Michael. The a missile from Starscream was zooming towards Michael when Terry jumped forward and transmuted a glass barrier. The missile impacted the barrier, exploding, but the barrier remained intact. The proximity of the explosion made Michael jump.
"Pay more attention, otherwise YOU are the ones needing help," replied Terry. Michael nodded and rallied the Agents to attack the Decepticons following a kinetic shell from a Defender tank hitting the mega Constructicon at the two giant wrecking balls.
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Doug heard Eolhc's voice and turned back. Distracted, Aryan made a column appear from the ground and it hit Doug right in the stomach, causing him to fly off and land hard on the floor, dropping his weapon. Doug groaned and looked at Ingrid. Thinking of ways to get them out of the mess, he got up immediately and grabbed his sword.
"Hold it, Wanderer. Do you want to lose another one just because of your reckless actions?" said Aryan. Doug gripped his sword tightly, but remained still.
"The PCMSPS are with me, and I need you for my experiments. Surrender and they will be allowed to leave. Drop your weapon," continued Aryan. Doug stared at Aryan and then looked at Ingrid. Her eyes leered at him. He acknowledge her sign, and gripped his sword more tightly. Ingrid immediately reached her dagger and stabbed Elhoc in the knee. She staggered and fell, allowing Ingrid to piggyback Lydia away. Doug quickly lunged at Aryan and slashed him, but missed.
"Now!" exclaimed Aryan. Out of nowhere, Deraj appeared and swung his Flashbar at Doug's head, knocking him out instantly. Ingrid pulled out her weapon, but was blinded instantly. Doug dropped his sword, and Aryan pulled his body into a plothole. Deraj then lifted Eolhc and carried her into the plothole.
When she recovered, PCMSPS soldiers were pouring into the hangar, training their rifles at her. She immediately pulled out her ray shield and the bullets began to rattle her shield. With her back at a wall and a comatose Wanderer, she couldn't move anywhere.
Suddenly, the Wanderers and the Agents made an appearance, cutting down all the PCMSPS soldiers. Terry made a glass barrier around Ingrid and Lydia while Rina, Maddie and Vespin drew out the swords and sliced through them. Michael and his Agents beat the crap out of the troops, throwing them into the air like ragdolls. When it was all over, Vespin rushed towards Ingrid and checked on Lydia.
"Lydia-nee-san! Lydia-nee-san!" exclaimed Vespin. Lydia was unresponsive, but alive. Then, Cheryl and her team of medics arrived and headed directly to Lydia. She checked her pulse and eye movement with her tiny torchlight.
"How's she?" asked Terry. Cheryl turned to him and replied.
"Bad case of poisoning. Also includes overdose of Twilight," said Cheryl before turning to the medical teams.
"Get her to the emergency ward immediately!" commanded Cheryl. The medical teams loaded her on the stretcher and rushed out to an awaiting chopper.
"Hang on there!" exclaimed Vespin as they all left to the awaiting chopper.
"Where's Doug? I need a word with him!" said Michael, his tone filled with anger. Then he heard sobs. It came from the new Agent, Ingrid. Michael rushed towards her and began asking question.
"Where's Doug?" asked Michael.
"Th...th...they t...tt...took him!" said Ingrid between sobs. Terry rushed towards Ingrid.
"Where's Doug?" asked Terry.
"She said 'They took him'," said Michael.
"You got to be shitting me," commented Terry.
"What?" questioned Michael.
"Lydia reported that they're planning to make character foils for the Wanderers," said Terry.
"So?"
"So, with Lydia alive, we can assume that they had her DNA and power, which is reading minds. If they took Doug's healing abilities and fused it into one, you're going to have a being that can read your moves and regenerate at the same time."
"Like a Sue or Stu?"
"Yes, but be prepared of it to be hyped up in other powers as well. We heard that they 'sucked' the 'essence' of some Sues and Stus at one point." Michael was shocked by this new development. Then his attention turned to the sobbing agent, Ingrid.
"What about her?" asked Michael.
"She'll be with us for a while. Doug is a big brother mentor to her, so she is shocked by this incident," replied Terry. Michael nodded. As the Wanderers began to leave, Terry gave Michael a cellphone.
"We'll keep in touch. Hopefully the Society will give its full support to get Doug back and destroy Aryan," said Terry. Michael nodded as his team of Agents return to the Library.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Insert Useless Crack Commandos Here
Doug was standing outside the classroom, watching Harriet invigilating a Society written test. The classroom was empty; there was only one student sitting at a desk, head bent down and concentrating on her test. She wore a gray sweater and gray skirt, and had short brown hair. Ever since the attack on the Society and the loss of the Librarian, the Society pretty much shut itself out from the rest of the world, almost refusing to take in any new Agents. But since Doug pleaded with Harriet, she allowed the new student in.
The time was up. Harriet collected the papers from the student and started marking the papers. Doug pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He was about to pull out a lighter when he heard footsteps. He quickly pulled the cigarette out from his mouth and hid it in his pocket. The footsteps grew louder and Aster came into the scene.
"Doug-kun, who is that?" asked Aster, curious on the new student.
"That's Ingrid Nunn. She came in today and took the Society test," replied Doug. Then Ingrid looked up and turned to the window. She gave thumbs up at Doug. Aster was shocked when she looked at Ingrid's face.
"Doug-kun, isn't that Maya?" asked Aster, looking ready to shift form.
"Was, Aster. You do know that we brought her back to have her memories wiped," said Doug. Aster relaxed, but she was skeptical. Then she remembered that she was holding a manga volume.
"Oh, I better return this before Adrian-kun yells at me again," said Aster before running off. Doug saw her leave; thinking about a dead comrade may be heartbreaking, but denying that he's truly dead is more painful. Doug couldn't blame her. She was too young to really understand about the acceptance of something this dreadful.
Harriet walked out of the classroom with the test paper in her hand. She walked towards Doug, who was standing by the window.
"How did she go?" asked Doug.
"She passed the test. Walk with me," said Harriet before heading off to her office. Doug walked beside her.
"Doug, she seemed very familiar. It's like… I've seen her before," said Harriet.
"Because she was Maya Mariana?" stated Doug. Harriet stopped immediately.
"Surprised?" asked Doug.
"No, my office is here," replied Harriet, turning to the left and opening the door. Doug followed her inside. Harriet set the papers down her desk and sat on her office chair.
"Actually, I'm not surprised since we already have two Heel Face Turn Sues in our ranks. But the matter is why do you insist on letting her join now? You do know the state of the Society is pretty unstable, so why not later? Why now?" asked Harriet. Doug stayed silent for a moment before answering.
"Harriet, I'm retiring from the Society," stated Doug. It came as a shock to Harriet, but she remained calm.
"And what made you think so?" asked Harriet. Doug shrugged.
"Adrian taught me a few good life lessons. So I've decided to retire," said Doug. Harriet nodded.
"You may leave," said Harriet. Doug nodded, turned around and headed for the door. Just before reaching for the door, Harriet asked a question.
"How much longer will you be with us?" asked Harriet. Doug turned and replied.
"About a couple," replied Doug before leaving. Harriet knew what he meant as the other anticipated word would result in the shattering of the Fourth Wall.
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"We've got a situation here. High levels of Suenergy are appearing out from the GI Joe fandom," stated Tash in her mission briefing. Ingrid, Doug and Kyle were standing by her, looking at the projector screen.
"And the story is lagging behind schedule?" asked Doug.
"Yes, apparently Duke and Ripcord hasn't even made contact with the Joes," continued Tash. Then she projected some readings from the Society computer on the fandom. The figures looked numbly disappointing.
"I want you guys to find out what's going on in it. Ingrid, this will be your training mission. Don't get yourself hurt on your first, OK?" stated Tash. The three nodded.
"Okay then, off you go," said Tash while she closed the presentation. The two Agents and the rookie came out of the mission room and walked through the corridors.
"Kyle, I know you'll have lots of stuff in your Astral Vault, but you're going to need some tactical gear that your vault can't offer. Follow me," stated Doug. Kyle and Ingrid followed Doug to his lab, where some workmen were removing the plates from Doug's laboratory door.
"Once I'm gone, this belongs to Ingrid," stated Doug. He put a pen-shaped key into the keyhole and touched a card on the sensor beside the door. The automatic locks unlocked with a click sound and Doug opened the door. Upon opening the door, the room that was Doug's lab is now a hangar. It had a Black Hawk helicopter; a modified, black GMC Terrain; a modified, silver W212 E-class Mercedes Benz and the armory entrance at the far side of the hangar.
"Doug, isn't this a little over excessive?" asked Kyle.
"Well, it's not going to be one person who gets to use all this," replied Doug as a plothole opened, and four soldiers came out. Two males and two females, they were all armed to the teeth and their uniform and body armor were all black.
"The Dark Guardians – Rapid Deployment Team. Meet Janice, Jocelyn, Jake and John," introduced Doug. The four waved at them and they got into the Black Hawk. Kyle was startled.
"Yes, let's go get your gear," remembered Doug as he led Ingrid and Kyle to the armory. He opened the vault door and flipped the switch. Rows and rows of light switched on one after another, revealing rows and rows of automatic weapons, bladed weapons, explosives and gadgets. Doug walked to a gadget rack and took out a bracelet-like device. Doug wore it first and gave a little demonstration.
"This is a ray shield. Just press this button…."
SHWRINGG!
The ray shield formed into a shape of a regular riot shield, but only made out of pure energy.
"….and this will protect you from any projectile other than anything bigger than Fuel Air Bombs IN THE DIRECTION THE SHIELD IS FACING. It doesn't protect you 360° like the ones in Halo," explained Doug as he turned off the ray shield. He then gave two bracelets to Kyle and Ingrid and they wore the bracelets. He then gave out two pod-like devices that have wrist straps.
"GPS locator and watch. Helps us find you when you're lost. I don't think we can lose you again in these times," said Doug as he handed the devices to Kyle and Ingrid. Then he took out two MP5 SMGs and gave one each to Ingrid and Kyle. He then took out two different scopes ad fitted them on the SMGs. Ingrid got an EoTech holographic scope while Kyle gets an ACOG scope. He then fitted two silencers on the muzzles and two miniature screens on the guns and tested it.
"Heartbeat sensor. The ones I used to find Cristoph when he's hiding," stated Doug. He then took out two M9 pistols outfitted with silencers and handed them to them.
"Drawing out you pistol is faster than reloading," stated Doug. Then he gave out SMG clips to the two.
"All these are loaded with Copyright darts. Use it wisely. I spent a buttload just to get them manufactured," stated Doug.
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(At a courtyard)
Author Doug was surfing through the net when a butler came by and set a letter on the desk.
"Invoice from the Cliffhanger Defence Technologies, sir," said the butler before walking out. The author opened the letter and sipped his tea. He then suddenly spit the contents on the statement.
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Doug then took out a Bushmaster ACR rifle and fitted it with a holographic scope, an M203 grenade launcher and a silencer. He pulled the bolt on the rifle and slung it to his back. He then took out a SPAS 12 shotgun and pumped it before slinging it to his back. And finally, he took out a USP .45 pistol and checked its clip. Satisfied that it's full, he put the clip back and kept it on the side holster.
"How come you get live ammo?" asked Kyle. Doug turned to him and replied.
"Because it's going to be me and the four J's on the Cobra facility, just in case. You will be backed by Ivan, Terry and their teams on The Pit. Good luck," said Doug. They all walked out of the vault and then Kyle opened a plothole. Doug put thumbs up and got thumbs up in response from Ingrid and Kyle. The two entered into the plothole as Doug approached the Black Hawk.
"Are we ready?" asked Doug. The team nodded. He got into the helicopter as the rotors started spinning.
"If all else fails; get some extra hands," stated Doug before the helicopter took off and into the plothole on the ceiling.
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"Whoo! This is hot! Do we even know which part of the Sahara we're in?" asked Kyle, sweating over the intense heat of the sun. Ingrid paid no attention to Kyle, and was looking at her GPS locator. Currently, it said they were within a kilometer away from The Pit.
"We're almost there, Kyle. Stay frosty," replied Ingrid.
"But it's freaking… Ew, what's that smell?" Kyle stuttered as the overpowering smell engulfed him. Ingrid stopped and spoke.
"Not very sneaky, Ivan," said Ingrid. Ivan popped out from his camouflage next to Kyle, which gave him a fright.
"Sorry, this place is very hot. Needed to drink," replied Ivan groggily. Kyle stared at him in amazement.
"Is he even combat competent?" asked Kyle. Ivan immediately shot back.
"Eh! I can take you out with this gun from a mile away, OK?" replied Ivan, pointing at his Barrett M82 anti-material rifle.
"Where's your team?" asked Ingrid. Ivan was quite for a moment, and then he choked on a snore and woke up.
"They're near the entrance of The Pit. Come, I'll take you to the vent where you'll make your entrance," replied Ivan. He then started trekking, with Kyle and Ingrid behind him.
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A Black Hawk helicopter quietly hovered above the white Arctic ice, low enough to avoid being detected by radar. The Black Hawk started to slow down, and five soldiers in white camouflage jumped out of the helicopter. They all observed their surroundings with their guns held up as the helicopter left before taking their items and started moving.
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"Ivan, which fandom did you decide to stay after traveling for so long?" asked Kyle, who was curious about the Wanderers.
"Since you asked, I stayed in the Fate/Stay Night fandom as a Legendary Hero. It is a very demanding fandom; requires you to be on your toes and sometimes a fanfic writer or two decides to corrupt it," replied Ivan.
"If you're right here, who's protecting it?" asked Kyle.
"That's why we have two Wanderers in the fandom. The other is having her hands full," replied Ivan.
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(In a Fate/Stay Night fandom where modern weapons replace the original weapons)
A short redhead was running through a trench in a battleground outside Fuyuki city. Bullets were ricocheting off the ground, kicking up dirt to her face.
"I hate being target practice for snipers," murmured Yulie as she kept running with her Enfield L85 rifle close to her. Then another Legendary Hero appeared before her with a SPAS 12 shotgun, pointing it at her.
"Hey, shorty-…" A blood vein popped out from her forehead as she booted the Hero on his face. She landed on top of him and pointed the pistol on his forehead.
"Another thing I hate: STOP-CALLING-ME-SHORT!" she yelled in anger before pulling the trigger.
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"Okay…" said Kyle. The three finally reached their destination; an air vent. Ivan pulled out a spray can and sprayed over the side of the grills, then pried the grill off. The gaping hole was big enough for the both of them to enter the vents. Ivan tied down an anchor to a rope and threw it down the vent shaft. Ingrid and Kyle secured the harness on their bodies and locked it to the rope. As Ivan looked out for any hostiles, Kyle went in first, followed by Ingrid. Before disappearing into the complex, Ingrid asked Ivan.
"Is Terry and his team ready yet?" asked Ingrid.
"Terry's preoccupied at the moment," replied Ivan.
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(In a forest outside Central, Amestris, FMA)
Red sparks filled the Amestrian night as alchemical reactions took place. Large structures of spikes and walls grew from the ground, followed by some thumping sounds and explosions. Closer in, a blonde man was running while clapping his hands, making spikes pop up from the ground. This was followed by Gluttony, a homunculus, flattening down the structures that impede him.
"EAT!" was all Gluttony ever exclaimed.
"I'MNOTFOOD!I'MNOTFOOD!I'MNOTFOOD!I'MNOTFO..." yelled Terry as he ran, horrified.
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"I'm sure he'll come as soon as possible," replied Ivan. Ingrid nodded and scaled down the vent. Ivan then put the grill back, welded it back in place, stuck a plastic explosive on the grill and then ran off.
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Crawling in the vents, Ingrid was leading while Kyle followed. She then reached a location and suddenly stopped. Kyle almost collided with her backside. The proximity made Kyle gulp. Slowly, Ingrid opened the vent and crawled out. Kyle followed soon after. They found themselves near the generators that power the base. They hid behind a pillar as two Joes walked past. With Kyle trailing behind her, Ingrid navigated her way through the Joes and reached the switch box. She then pulled out a tiny explosive charge and planted it on the switch box.
"Plan C," stated Ingrid. Kyle nodded. They then went to the entrance when there were two Joes coming in. They quickly fired their weapons, taking them out. Both of them stuck Copyright stickers on them and took back the darts. They left the two lying at the entrance and pressed on.
They were now on the catwalks of the base. They saw the Joes busying themselves on the floors below.
"Bad idea to get their attention now," commented Kyle.
They pressed on. They reached the commanders quarters, searching for the Sue; who is most likely commanding place. Just as they turned at a corner, two Joes with standard bullpup rifles spotted them and aimed at them. Ingrid and Kyle quickly dispatched them.
WWOOOAAAHHH!
Suddenly, the alarm started blaring. More Joes pursued them. Kyle and Ingrid started running away, returning fire as necessary. They then reached a lone hangar with a group of Joes standing in the open, pointing their weapons at them. Kyle and Ingrid were about to open fire when the Sue spoke.
"Stop, Society!" said the Sue in an intimidating voice. The two stopped, and looked at the direction of the voice. The Sue stepped forward from behind the group of Joes, with another two Joes holding Duke and Ripcord, two canon characters; in their custody.
"I can't let you waltz your way down here. What do you think you are? Joes? Don't make me laugh," stated the Sue.
"Well, if you're all so powerful, they why do you need hostages, Commander Sue?" questioned Kyle.
"Oh, just in case you're bringing some of your Society friends along. I'd drop all those weapons and that Communicator if I were you," replied Commander Sue. Shadowy characters watched the drama unfold as the two dropped their weapons and raised their hands. Commander Sue smiled to herself.
"Good. Go frisk them," commanded the Sue. Two Joes stepped forward and walked towards them. As the Joes approached them, Ingrid gave a wink to Kyle and pointed her thumb at her bracelet. Kyle was confused for a moment. Then, gunshots rang.
BANG!BANG!
The two Joes that were holding the canon characters were incapacitated, causing the other Joes to disperse. Commander Sue jumped as a shot rang and hit the spot she was standing on. Ingrid quickly ran towards the canon characters as Kyle, still confused, saw her run into the crossfire.
"Ingrid!" yelled Kyle as she jumped in front of Duke and Ripcord and activated her ray shield. Kyle quickly ran, activating his ray shield, to help her take the two characters to safety.
"What the hell were you doing? You could have got yourself killed!" exclaimed Kyle as the bullets ricocheted off the shields.
"I was signaling you to use your ray shield when the Dark Guardians open fire! Just protect yourself from the Joes' fire!" replied Ingrid.
"How was I supposed to know THAT!" shot back Kyle as they slowly backed themselves to the hangar gate. They came across two Joes cowering for cover from the Dark Guardians. Ingrid pulled out her pistol and fired two darts at the Joes, then taking the rifles from them and giving them to the canon characters.
"Non-lethal shots at the Joes. Commander Sue is our priority," stated Ingrid.
"I think we know that very well," replied Duke as he started using suppressing fire at the Joes. Ripcord quickly incapacitated some Joes firing at them.
Commander Sue was firing back at the Dark Guardians but kept missing them. They were concealed perfectly in the darkest corners of the hangar, and were visibly hard to aim. When the number of Joes started dwindling, four Dark Guardians scaled down the hangar and reached the ground. The Sue managed to get one in the shoulder, but the suppressing fire was too great. She then threw a flashbang grenade and made a run for it; running up the stairs to a corridor. Recovering from being blinded, the Dark Guardians were about to pursue her when Terry yelled out a command.
"Stay put and help take back the base! Ingrid, Kyle and I will pursue her!" commanded Terry as he raced up the stairs with Ingrid and Kyle trailing behind. Upon entering the corridor, Snake Eyes came and blocked their path. Terry stood firm as Snake Eyes charged at him.
PLONK!
Snake Eyes slammed on a hard, glass barrier, and was knocked unconscious. It was then revealed that Terry had done a transmutation; his palms were together. He then deconstructed the glass, allowing passage for Kyle and Ingrid to pursue the Sue while he stuck a Copyright sticker on Snake Eyes.
Ingrid and Kyle managed to catch up with the Sue, but she was already taking off in a Joe VTOL aircraft.
"So long, suckas!" yelled the Sue in triumph as she left the base. But what she didn't account for was that Ivan was standing in front of the entrance pod. He watched her grin turn into a frown as he took a shot at her with his sniper rifle. It hit her right in the abdomen, destroying some of the flight gear in the process. The aircraft spun out of control and crashed nearby. Ivan just lifted his rifle and rested it on his shoulder.
"All while drunk... hic!"said Ivan before suddenly falling asleep.
As the Sue crawled out of the wreckage, Ingrid and Kyle were standing before her; with a Prohibitor at hand. Kyle slapped the Prohibitor on her wrist, and her Sueishness faded away.
"You think that we'll lead you straight to our plan? I'm just a small cog in a very big machine!" exclaimed the Sue before biting onto something and dying in front of them. Kyle and Ingrid were surprised.
"Cyanide pill," explained Terry as he held up the drunken Ivan. Kyle shook his head in disappointment, took out the Prohibitor and kept it in his pocket.
"The takeover of the Joe base was just a diversion. Doug found the real prize at the Arctic," said Terry. Kyle and Ingrid turned to him; surprised.
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"So this is what they've been hiding," commented Doug as he looked around the Cobra base. He and his team saw the the base filled with clone soldiers with the PCMSPS logo on their uniforms. Cloning vats, training facilities, tank bays; it looks like the Society foil was preparing for a large-scale war. Doug quickly formulated a plan to destroy this base once and for all.
"Let's go to the main control. There must be a protocol for self-destruct sequences there," said Doug to his team. They all quietly walked through the base and to the main control. Doug put a frame charge on the door, then stepping aside for a breach. The frame charge exploded, destroying the door, and Doug and his team mowed down the soldiers at the control center.
The alarm started blaring; they have very little time for staying at the center. They quickly got to work; Janice and Jocelyn guarded the entrances while the boys were hacking through the system. Jake found the protocol, and set the mode to self-destruct. They quickly navigated through the base, gunning down any opposition they encountered. When they were about to reach their escape route when Osiris stepped out and blocked their path.
"Targets acquired. Terminate," said Osiris as a particle cannon popped out from his shoulder and aimed at them.
"Get back!" yelled Doug as he activated his ray shield. The particle cannon fired, hitting the shield with enough force to throw Doug meters away from where he was standing. The Guardians fired at Osiris, but the bullets just bounced off his body.
"Action registered as annoying. Eradicate threat," said Osiris as he aimed the napalm launcher at them. Doug continued to hold up the ray shield, but they were further pushed back into the base. As the first ice shards hitting the base, springing leaks into the base, it doesn't look like Doug and his team will be able to get out of the base in time. Then a voice was heard from the back.
"Get down!" yelled the voice. Doug looked back and saw Maddie, carrying an AT4 rocket launcher. They all ducked, and Maddie fired the rocket at Osiris. It hit him square in the face; Osiris dropped to the floor with his face smoking almost immediately. Maddie then waved at them to follow her.
"Is he dead?" yelled Jocelyn.
"Don't care! Let's get outta here!" yelled Doug as he trailed Maddie from the back. They kept running with a torrent of water rushing from the back. They entered a room and Doug closed the door shut. Maddie's Dark Guardians were already working in the room; the room was the launch facility.
"Launch the rocket!" exclaimed one of the Dark Guardians. The booster engines fired up, and then left the launch pad and into the tube.
"Get to the launch pads, hurry!" exclaimed Maddie as they exited the room from another door. They reached the launch pad and a rope fell down from the tube.
"Belt up!" exclaimed Doug as they all locked their hooks on the length of rope. After securing themselves on the rope, Maddie gave the command to pull them out. The rope began to tense up, and then one by one, they were jerked up to the Arctic surface. As they exited the tube, leaks sprang and water came gushing out from it. All of them made it out safely, and the helicopter slowly descended, allowing all of them to get off the rope. The last two were Doug and Maddie, and they laid on the ice, next to each other, panting heavily from the exhaustion. Then Doug spoke.
"Thanks for getting us out," thanked Doug.
"We're even now, OK?" replied Maddie. Doug just smiled, remembering the time he had to rescue her. He then reached out to her hand and held it tightly. She turned and smiled at him; he smiled back. Then Jake and Jocelyn approached them.
"Doug, Maddie, the chopper's waiting. Need a hand?" asked Jake. Doug put out a hand and Jake grabbed it and pulled him up. Jocelyn did the same for Maddie. They all then walked to the Black Hawk, got into it, and disappeared as the Black Hawk took off and entered a plothole.
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"They did really want to hit us at our weakest," commented Tash as she read the reports.
"I can say that this is the work of Aryan, rogue author. No one else other than authors can manufacture something this big, and with him teaming up with the PCMSPS; they could be quite troublesome," replied Doug.
"Are there any plans to combat this threat?"asked Tash.
"I think we've destroyed the main bulk of the forces they were creating, but the Author has set up an underground network to keep this growing threat in check. I'm pretty sure the Author will mobilize once he finds it," replied Doug.
"I sure hope he knows what he's doing. I don't want another assault on this Library again," said Tash.
"We'll keep you updated with our intelligence network. If it needs the Society to intervene, then the threat will be notified," replied Doug. Tash nodded and Doug left the office. Then Ingrid entered the office.
"Ingrid, stepping in the middle of a crossfire almost gave me a heart attack," said Tash.
"I'm sorry," replied Ingrid; her head was down.
"It's okay. You did what's right anyway. So..." Tash got up, walked towards Ingrid and gave her a badge. "Welcome to the Society."
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"I told you it was a bad idea!" yelled Eolhc as she worked on Osiris' eyes.
"So, how are you going to explain yourself, Aryan?" asked Deraj, looking very annoyed.
"Not to worry. This is a minor setback," replied Aryan.
"Minor? We lost at least 85% of our bulk there!" exclaimed Deraj. Aryan drew out his revolver and fired a shot close to Deraj's head. Deraj whimpered.
"It is because the Wanderers found out, not the Society," said Aryan before twisting the revolver around his finger and slotting it into its holster.
"This is an opportunity. Since we know what they're capable of, we just have to... create a counter," said Aryan.
Note: The rest of this plotline (aka the events of "Insert Gigantic Autonomous Robots Here" and "Insert Another Classic War Story Here") will be placed on a separate page as an out-of-continuity "movie".
The time was up. Harriet collected the papers from the student and started marking the papers. Doug pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He was about to pull out a lighter when he heard footsteps. He quickly pulled the cigarette out from his mouth and hid it in his pocket. The footsteps grew louder and Aster came into the scene.
"Doug-kun, who is that?" asked Aster, curious on the new student.
"That's Ingrid Nunn. She came in today and took the Society test," replied Doug. Then Ingrid looked up and turned to the window. She gave thumbs up at Doug. Aster was shocked when she looked at Ingrid's face.
"Doug-kun, isn't that Maya?" asked Aster, looking ready to shift form.
"Was, Aster. You do know that we brought her back to have her memories wiped," said Doug. Aster relaxed, but she was skeptical. Then she remembered that she was holding a manga volume.
"Oh, I better return this before Adrian-kun yells at me again," said Aster before running off. Doug saw her leave; thinking about a dead comrade may be heartbreaking, but denying that he's truly dead is more painful. Doug couldn't blame her. She was too young to really understand about the acceptance of something this dreadful.
Harriet walked out of the classroom with the test paper in her hand. She walked towards Doug, who was standing by the window.
"How did she go?" asked Doug.
"She passed the test. Walk with me," said Harriet before heading off to her office. Doug walked beside her.
"Doug, she seemed very familiar. It's like… I've seen her before," said Harriet.
"Because she was Maya Mariana?" stated Doug. Harriet stopped immediately.
"Surprised?" asked Doug.
"No, my office is here," replied Harriet, turning to the left and opening the door. Doug followed her inside. Harriet set the papers down her desk and sat on her office chair.
"Actually, I'm not surprised since we already have two Heel Face Turn Sues in our ranks. But the matter is why do you insist on letting her join now? You do know the state of the Society is pretty unstable, so why not later? Why now?" asked Harriet. Doug stayed silent for a moment before answering.
"Harriet, I'm retiring from the Society," stated Doug. It came as a shock to Harriet, but she remained calm.
"And what made you think so?" asked Harriet. Doug shrugged.
"Adrian taught me a few good life lessons. So I've decided to retire," said Doug. Harriet nodded.
"You may leave," said Harriet. Doug nodded, turned around and headed for the door. Just before reaching for the door, Harriet asked a question.
"How much longer will you be with us?" asked Harriet. Doug turned and replied.
"About a couple," replied Doug before leaving. Harriet knew what he meant as the other anticipated word would result in the shattering of the Fourth Wall.
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"We've got a situation here. High levels of Suenergy are appearing out from the GI Joe fandom," stated Tash in her mission briefing. Ingrid, Doug and Kyle were standing by her, looking at the projector screen.
"And the story is lagging behind schedule?" asked Doug.
"Yes, apparently Duke and Ripcord hasn't even made contact with the Joes," continued Tash. Then she projected some readings from the Society computer on the fandom. The figures looked numbly disappointing.
"I want you guys to find out what's going on in it. Ingrid, this will be your training mission. Don't get yourself hurt on your first, OK?" stated Tash. The three nodded.
"Okay then, off you go," said Tash while she closed the presentation. The two Agents and the rookie came out of the mission room and walked through the corridors.
"Kyle, I know you'll have lots of stuff in your Astral Vault, but you're going to need some tactical gear that your vault can't offer. Follow me," stated Doug. Kyle and Ingrid followed Doug to his lab, where some workmen were removing the plates from Doug's laboratory door.
"Once I'm gone, this belongs to Ingrid," stated Doug. He put a pen-shaped key into the keyhole and touched a card on the sensor beside the door. The automatic locks unlocked with a click sound and Doug opened the door. Upon opening the door, the room that was Doug's lab is now a hangar. It had a Black Hawk helicopter; a modified, black GMC Terrain; a modified, silver W212 E-class Mercedes Benz and the armory entrance at the far side of the hangar.
"Doug, isn't this a little over excessive?" asked Kyle.
"Well, it's not going to be one person who gets to use all this," replied Doug as a plothole opened, and four soldiers came out. Two males and two females, they were all armed to the teeth and their uniform and body armor were all black.
"The Dark Guardians – Rapid Deployment Team. Meet Janice, Jocelyn, Jake and John," introduced Doug. The four waved at them and they got into the Black Hawk. Kyle was startled.
"Yes, let's go get your gear," remembered Doug as he led Ingrid and Kyle to the armory. He opened the vault door and flipped the switch. Rows and rows of light switched on one after another, revealing rows and rows of automatic weapons, bladed weapons, explosives and gadgets. Doug walked to a gadget rack and took out a bracelet-like device. Doug wore it first and gave a little demonstration.
"This is a ray shield. Just press this button…."
SHWRINGG!
The ray shield formed into a shape of a regular riot shield, but only made out of pure energy.
"….and this will protect you from any projectile other than anything bigger than Fuel Air Bombs IN THE DIRECTION THE SHIELD IS FACING. It doesn't protect you 360° like the ones in Halo," explained Doug as he turned off the ray shield. He then gave two bracelets to Kyle and Ingrid and they wore the bracelets. He then gave out two pod-like devices that have wrist straps.
"GPS locator and watch. Helps us find you when you're lost. I don't think we can lose you again in these times," said Doug as he handed the devices to Kyle and Ingrid. Then he took out two MP5 SMGs and gave one each to Ingrid and Kyle. He then took out two different scopes ad fitted them on the SMGs. Ingrid got an EoTech holographic scope while Kyle gets an ACOG scope. He then fitted two silencers on the muzzles and two miniature screens on the guns and tested it.
"Heartbeat sensor. The ones I used to find Cristoph when he's hiding," stated Doug. He then took out two M9 pistols outfitted with silencers and handed them to them.
"Drawing out you pistol is faster than reloading," stated Doug. Then he gave out SMG clips to the two.
"All these are loaded with Copyright darts. Use it wisely. I spent a buttload just to get them manufactured," stated Doug.
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(At a courtyard)
Author Doug was surfing through the net when a butler came by and set a letter on the desk.
"Invoice from the Cliffhanger Defence Technologies, sir," said the butler before walking out. The author opened the letter and sipped his tea. He then suddenly spit the contents on the statement.
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Doug then took out a Bushmaster ACR rifle and fitted it with a holographic scope, an M203 grenade launcher and a silencer. He pulled the bolt on the rifle and slung it to his back. He then took out a SPAS 12 shotgun and pumped it before slinging it to his back. And finally, he took out a USP .45 pistol and checked its clip. Satisfied that it's full, he put the clip back and kept it on the side holster.
"How come you get live ammo?" asked Kyle. Doug turned to him and replied.
"Because it's going to be me and the four J's on the Cobra facility, just in case. You will be backed by Ivan, Terry and their teams on The Pit. Good luck," said Doug. They all walked out of the vault and then Kyle opened a plothole. Doug put thumbs up and got thumbs up in response from Ingrid and Kyle. The two entered into the plothole as Doug approached the Black Hawk.
"Are we ready?" asked Doug. The team nodded. He got into the helicopter as the rotors started spinning.
"If all else fails; get some extra hands," stated Doug before the helicopter took off and into the plothole on the ceiling.
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"Whoo! This is hot! Do we even know which part of the Sahara we're in?" asked Kyle, sweating over the intense heat of the sun. Ingrid paid no attention to Kyle, and was looking at her GPS locator. Currently, it said they were within a kilometer away from The Pit.
"We're almost there, Kyle. Stay frosty," replied Ingrid.
"But it's freaking… Ew, what's that smell?" Kyle stuttered as the overpowering smell engulfed him. Ingrid stopped and spoke.
"Not very sneaky, Ivan," said Ingrid. Ivan popped out from his camouflage next to Kyle, which gave him a fright.
"Sorry, this place is very hot. Needed to drink," replied Ivan groggily. Kyle stared at him in amazement.
"Is he even combat competent?" asked Kyle. Ivan immediately shot back.
"Eh! I can take you out with this gun from a mile away, OK?" replied Ivan, pointing at his Barrett M82 anti-material rifle.
"Where's your team?" asked Ingrid. Ivan was quite for a moment, and then he choked on a snore and woke up.
"They're near the entrance of The Pit. Come, I'll take you to the vent where you'll make your entrance," replied Ivan. He then started trekking, with Kyle and Ingrid behind him.
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A Black Hawk helicopter quietly hovered above the white Arctic ice, low enough to avoid being detected by radar. The Black Hawk started to slow down, and five soldiers in white camouflage jumped out of the helicopter. They all observed their surroundings with their guns held up as the helicopter left before taking their items and started moving.
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"Ivan, which fandom did you decide to stay after traveling for so long?" asked Kyle, who was curious about the Wanderers.
"Since you asked, I stayed in the Fate/Stay Night fandom as a Legendary Hero. It is a very demanding fandom; requires you to be on your toes and sometimes a fanfic writer or two decides to corrupt it," replied Ivan.
"If you're right here, who's protecting it?" asked Kyle.
"That's why we have two Wanderers in the fandom. The other is having her hands full," replied Ivan.
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(In a Fate/Stay Night fandom where modern weapons replace the original weapons)
A short redhead was running through a trench in a battleground outside Fuyuki city. Bullets were ricocheting off the ground, kicking up dirt to her face.
"I hate being target practice for snipers," murmured Yulie as she kept running with her Enfield L85 rifle close to her. Then another Legendary Hero appeared before her with a SPAS 12 shotgun, pointing it at her.
"Hey, shorty-…" A blood vein popped out from her forehead as she booted the Hero on his face. She landed on top of him and pointed the pistol on his forehead.
"Another thing I hate: STOP-CALLING-ME-SHORT!" she yelled in anger before pulling the trigger.
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"Okay…" said Kyle. The three finally reached their destination; an air vent. Ivan pulled out a spray can and sprayed over the side of the grills, then pried the grill off. The gaping hole was big enough for the both of them to enter the vents. Ivan tied down an anchor to a rope and threw it down the vent shaft. Ingrid and Kyle secured the harness on their bodies and locked it to the rope. As Ivan looked out for any hostiles, Kyle went in first, followed by Ingrid. Before disappearing into the complex, Ingrid asked Ivan.
"Is Terry and his team ready yet?" asked Ingrid.
"Terry's preoccupied at the moment," replied Ivan.
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(In a forest outside Central, Amestris, FMA)
Red sparks filled the Amestrian night as alchemical reactions took place. Large structures of spikes and walls grew from the ground, followed by some thumping sounds and explosions. Closer in, a blonde man was running while clapping his hands, making spikes pop up from the ground. This was followed by Gluttony, a homunculus, flattening down the structures that impede him.
"EAT!" was all Gluttony ever exclaimed.
"I'MNOTFOOD!I'MNOTFOOD!I'MNOTFOOD!I'MNOTFO..." yelled Terry as he ran, horrified.
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"I'm sure he'll come as soon as possible," replied Ivan. Ingrid nodded and scaled down the vent. Ivan then put the grill back, welded it back in place, stuck a plastic explosive on the grill and then ran off.
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Crawling in the vents, Ingrid was leading while Kyle followed. She then reached a location and suddenly stopped. Kyle almost collided with her backside. The proximity made Kyle gulp. Slowly, Ingrid opened the vent and crawled out. Kyle followed soon after. They found themselves near the generators that power the base. They hid behind a pillar as two Joes walked past. With Kyle trailing behind her, Ingrid navigated her way through the Joes and reached the switch box. She then pulled out a tiny explosive charge and planted it on the switch box.
"Plan C," stated Ingrid. Kyle nodded. They then went to the entrance when there were two Joes coming in. They quickly fired their weapons, taking them out. Both of them stuck Copyright stickers on them and took back the darts. They left the two lying at the entrance and pressed on.
They were now on the catwalks of the base. They saw the Joes busying themselves on the floors below.
"Bad idea to get their attention now," commented Kyle.
They pressed on. They reached the commanders quarters, searching for the Sue; who is most likely commanding place. Just as they turned at a corner, two Joes with standard bullpup rifles spotted them and aimed at them. Ingrid and Kyle quickly dispatched them.
WWOOOAAAHHH!
Suddenly, the alarm started blaring. More Joes pursued them. Kyle and Ingrid started running away, returning fire as necessary. They then reached a lone hangar with a group of Joes standing in the open, pointing their weapons at them. Kyle and Ingrid were about to open fire when the Sue spoke.
"Stop, Society!" said the Sue in an intimidating voice. The two stopped, and looked at the direction of the voice. The Sue stepped forward from behind the group of Joes, with another two Joes holding Duke and Ripcord, two canon characters; in their custody.
"I can't let you waltz your way down here. What do you think you are? Joes? Don't make me laugh," stated the Sue.
"Well, if you're all so powerful, they why do you need hostages, Commander Sue?" questioned Kyle.
"Oh, just in case you're bringing some of your Society friends along. I'd drop all those weapons and that Communicator if I were you," replied Commander Sue. Shadowy characters watched the drama unfold as the two dropped their weapons and raised their hands. Commander Sue smiled to herself.
"Good. Go frisk them," commanded the Sue. Two Joes stepped forward and walked towards them. As the Joes approached them, Ingrid gave a wink to Kyle and pointed her thumb at her bracelet. Kyle was confused for a moment. Then, gunshots rang.
BANG!BANG!
The two Joes that were holding the canon characters were incapacitated, causing the other Joes to disperse. Commander Sue jumped as a shot rang and hit the spot she was standing on. Ingrid quickly ran towards the canon characters as Kyle, still confused, saw her run into the crossfire.
"Ingrid!" yelled Kyle as she jumped in front of Duke and Ripcord and activated her ray shield. Kyle quickly ran, activating his ray shield, to help her take the two characters to safety.
"What the hell were you doing? You could have got yourself killed!" exclaimed Kyle as the bullets ricocheted off the shields.
"I was signaling you to use your ray shield when the Dark Guardians open fire! Just protect yourself from the Joes' fire!" replied Ingrid.
"How was I supposed to know THAT!" shot back Kyle as they slowly backed themselves to the hangar gate. They came across two Joes cowering for cover from the Dark Guardians. Ingrid pulled out her pistol and fired two darts at the Joes, then taking the rifles from them and giving them to the canon characters.
"Non-lethal shots at the Joes. Commander Sue is our priority," stated Ingrid.
"I think we know that very well," replied Duke as he started using suppressing fire at the Joes. Ripcord quickly incapacitated some Joes firing at them.
Commander Sue was firing back at the Dark Guardians but kept missing them. They were concealed perfectly in the darkest corners of the hangar, and were visibly hard to aim. When the number of Joes started dwindling, four Dark Guardians scaled down the hangar and reached the ground. The Sue managed to get one in the shoulder, but the suppressing fire was too great. She then threw a flashbang grenade and made a run for it; running up the stairs to a corridor. Recovering from being blinded, the Dark Guardians were about to pursue her when Terry yelled out a command.
"Stay put and help take back the base! Ingrid, Kyle and I will pursue her!" commanded Terry as he raced up the stairs with Ingrid and Kyle trailing behind. Upon entering the corridor, Snake Eyes came and blocked their path. Terry stood firm as Snake Eyes charged at him.
PLONK!
Snake Eyes slammed on a hard, glass barrier, and was knocked unconscious. It was then revealed that Terry had done a transmutation; his palms were together. He then deconstructed the glass, allowing passage for Kyle and Ingrid to pursue the Sue while he stuck a Copyright sticker on Snake Eyes.
Ingrid and Kyle managed to catch up with the Sue, but she was already taking off in a Joe VTOL aircraft.
"So long, suckas!" yelled the Sue in triumph as she left the base. But what she didn't account for was that Ivan was standing in front of the entrance pod. He watched her grin turn into a frown as he took a shot at her with his sniper rifle. It hit her right in the abdomen, destroying some of the flight gear in the process. The aircraft spun out of control and crashed nearby. Ivan just lifted his rifle and rested it on his shoulder.
"All while drunk... hic!"said Ivan before suddenly falling asleep.
As the Sue crawled out of the wreckage, Ingrid and Kyle were standing before her; with a Prohibitor at hand. Kyle slapped the Prohibitor on her wrist, and her Sueishness faded away.
"You think that we'll lead you straight to our plan? I'm just a small cog in a very big machine!" exclaimed the Sue before biting onto something and dying in front of them. Kyle and Ingrid were surprised.
"Cyanide pill," explained Terry as he held up the drunken Ivan. Kyle shook his head in disappointment, took out the Prohibitor and kept it in his pocket.
"The takeover of the Joe base was just a diversion. Doug found the real prize at the Arctic," said Terry. Kyle and Ingrid turned to him; surprised.
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"So this is what they've been hiding," commented Doug as he looked around the Cobra base. He and his team saw the the base filled with clone soldiers with the PCMSPS logo on their uniforms. Cloning vats, training facilities, tank bays; it looks like the Society foil was preparing for a large-scale war. Doug quickly formulated a plan to destroy this base once and for all.
"Let's go to the main control. There must be a protocol for self-destruct sequences there," said Doug to his team. They all quietly walked through the base and to the main control. Doug put a frame charge on the door, then stepping aside for a breach. The frame charge exploded, destroying the door, and Doug and his team mowed down the soldiers at the control center.
The alarm started blaring; they have very little time for staying at the center. They quickly got to work; Janice and Jocelyn guarded the entrances while the boys were hacking through the system. Jake found the protocol, and set the mode to self-destruct. They quickly navigated through the base, gunning down any opposition they encountered. When they were about to reach their escape route when Osiris stepped out and blocked their path.
"Targets acquired. Terminate," said Osiris as a particle cannon popped out from his shoulder and aimed at them.
"Get back!" yelled Doug as he activated his ray shield. The particle cannon fired, hitting the shield with enough force to throw Doug meters away from where he was standing. The Guardians fired at Osiris, but the bullets just bounced off his body.
"Action registered as annoying. Eradicate threat," said Osiris as he aimed the napalm launcher at them. Doug continued to hold up the ray shield, but they were further pushed back into the base. As the first ice shards hitting the base, springing leaks into the base, it doesn't look like Doug and his team will be able to get out of the base in time. Then a voice was heard from the back.
"Get down!" yelled the voice. Doug looked back and saw Maddie, carrying an AT4 rocket launcher. They all ducked, and Maddie fired the rocket at Osiris. It hit him square in the face; Osiris dropped to the floor with his face smoking almost immediately. Maddie then waved at them to follow her.
"Is he dead?" yelled Jocelyn.
"Don't care! Let's get outta here!" yelled Doug as he trailed Maddie from the back. They kept running with a torrent of water rushing from the back. They entered a room and Doug closed the door shut. Maddie's Dark Guardians were already working in the room; the room was the launch facility.
"Launch the rocket!" exclaimed one of the Dark Guardians. The booster engines fired up, and then left the launch pad and into the tube.
"Get to the launch pads, hurry!" exclaimed Maddie as they exited the room from another door. They reached the launch pad and a rope fell down from the tube.
"Belt up!" exclaimed Doug as they all locked their hooks on the length of rope. After securing themselves on the rope, Maddie gave the command to pull them out. The rope began to tense up, and then one by one, they were jerked up to the Arctic surface. As they exited the tube, leaks sprang and water came gushing out from it. All of them made it out safely, and the helicopter slowly descended, allowing all of them to get off the rope. The last two were Doug and Maddie, and they laid on the ice, next to each other, panting heavily from the exhaustion. Then Doug spoke.
"Thanks for getting us out," thanked Doug.
"We're even now, OK?" replied Maddie. Doug just smiled, remembering the time he had to rescue her. He then reached out to her hand and held it tightly. She turned and smiled at him; he smiled back. Then Jake and Jocelyn approached them.
"Doug, Maddie, the chopper's waiting. Need a hand?" asked Jake. Doug put out a hand and Jake grabbed it and pulled him up. Jocelyn did the same for Maddie. They all then walked to the Black Hawk, got into it, and disappeared as the Black Hawk took off and entered a plothole.
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"They did really want to hit us at our weakest," commented Tash as she read the reports.
"I can say that this is the work of Aryan, rogue author. No one else other than authors can manufacture something this big, and with him teaming up with the PCMSPS; they could be quite troublesome," replied Doug.
"Are there any plans to combat this threat?"asked Tash.
"I think we've destroyed the main bulk of the forces they were creating, but the Author has set up an underground network to keep this growing threat in check. I'm pretty sure the Author will mobilize once he finds it," replied Doug.
"I sure hope he knows what he's doing. I don't want another assault on this Library again," said Tash.
"We'll keep you updated with our intelligence network. If it needs the Society to intervene, then the threat will be notified," replied Doug. Tash nodded and Doug left the office. Then Ingrid entered the office.
"Ingrid, stepping in the middle of a crossfire almost gave me a heart attack," said Tash.
"I'm sorry," replied Ingrid; her head was down.
"It's okay. You did what's right anyway. So..." Tash got up, walked towards Ingrid and gave her a badge. "Welcome to the Society."
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"I told you it was a bad idea!" yelled Eolhc as she worked on Osiris' eyes.
"So, how are you going to explain yourself, Aryan?" asked Deraj, looking very annoyed.
"Not to worry. This is a minor setback," replied Aryan.
"Minor? We lost at least 85% of our bulk there!" exclaimed Deraj. Aryan drew out his revolver and fired a shot close to Deraj's head. Deraj whimpered.
"It is because the Wanderers found out, not the Society," said Aryan before twisting the revolver around his finger and slotting it into its holster.
"This is an opportunity. Since we know what they're capable of, we just have to... create a counter," said Aryan.
Note: The rest of this plotline (aka the events of "Insert Gigantic Autonomous Robots Here" and "Insert Another Classic War Story Here") will be placed on a separate page as an out-of-continuity "movie".
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