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As if on cue, a flash of light brightens the forest from the sky momentarily. Looking up our transport craft has just detonated in the upper atmosphere. "Pick up the pace men, they're gonna be looking for survivors soon enough." """understood""".

After 15 minutes of silent trekking, our formation reached the outskirts of the facility, "alright you have your missions Delta, you're with me, were going in to install explosives everyone else maintain the perimeter, this place is top secret so the military presence should be small, but one can never be too cautious with the union." ""Yes sir""

Me and the leader moved toward the darkened facility in the dense forest. "HOLD!" "What is it Delta?" "Sensors ahead, we won't make it through with our mechs sir, I suggest we leave them and move in on foot. But, if necessary, I can disable them" "No need, good eye delta keep that up and you'll fit right in, let's move on foot"

With the Leaders order, we tuck our mechs into the brush better to hide them. Then I grab my Custom A-7 R-PDW (R Being Rail powered) I check my battery and ammo then dismount my machine.

"Alright men listen up were heading here to this power signature" a light glow appears on my HUD with a distance indicator stating 1.3 km. "This would appear to be the power supply for this facility, our job is to get in Blow it and Fuck off, Understood?" """ Yes sir""" "MOVE OUT"

We Start Sprinting as a group towards the facility dodging patrols, Sensors, and spotlights with ease, within a half an hour we arrive at an Armored hangar like facility, looking down the light hue had gotten a bit brighter, but it is still about 500 meters below us. "Alright Delta get door, Misfit see that guard tower take your rifle up and I want overwatch, don't kill the guard just sit on top of the tower and let us know if anything gets amiss" Misfit starts sneaking towards the tower with a grapple like device to climb the tower. "Fritz, Tumble Keep delta safe, the rest of you with me I wanna find out what these guys are keeping in that massive fucking armored hangar near the runway, The rest of you with me"

As I get to work on hacking the door The colonel starts with the other 3 members towards the runway area. Holy shit, this is stupid advanced for a small research base, what are they hiding here? About 15 minutes pass and I am almost through, …. uhhh... "Colonel" "Go ahead Delta" "Sir, I've almost popped this lock but there's a problem, if I pop this without the proper code and alert will go off and I can't disable it its hard coded in" "all right that's fine me and the others found something better, Weve set explosives down and it's time to leave forget the reactor, Start Evac return to our mechs the timer on these explosives is an hour max, we had to jury rig a timer as we don't have time to blow the enemy radio jammers"

Well fuck, all that time wasted what a great mission, I pack up my toolkit and move with tumble and fritz back out to the mechs, Along the way I spot a lot of enemy men looking... Nervous? What is that about.

As we reach the mechs we mount up and start back towards the border, about 30 minutes later. "Alright we should hear the boom in 5 seconds" we pause and turn back 5 seconds go by, then 15, Finally after a full 30 seconds of nothing. "Fucking hell either it's a dud or they found and disabled them" alright we don't have a choice were going back, move."

We start moving back for a few minutes when suddenly Colonel's hand goes up, recognizing that to be a combat signal we all rearrange into firing formations, A tense full minute goes by as I scan the surrounding foliage for any targets. "Guess it was a false alarm" The colonel puts his arm down then, Hell starts. Some green like orb, it looked solid, but I saw it pass clear through several trees without damaging them, it flew true and struck the colonels mech chunking the cockpit and main area including the reactor, on impact it expanded and engulfed most of the mech before disappearing leaving nothing left but a few bloodstains, reacting instantly I shout, "MAN DOWN, COMPUTER ENGAGE PLASMA WALL!" Without delay I jump in front of the rest of the formation two spikes stab from my rear mounting me in place as my reactor spins up to high output with sparks and bolts crackling out of the two newly protruded coils a bout 15 meters in front of me a thin plasma shield created from ions and superheated plasma is magnetically held in place, it spans about 40 meters across, just in time several more of the green bolts appeared, 2 impacted shield and were stopped but one landed to the side detonating killing Fritz instantly much like sanders thankfully it seems the plasma shield is effective but its won't hold forever even with my reactor recovering just those 2 shots drained 22% of my energy reserves.

Misfit spoke over the comms, "all right fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK, LOOK team lead is dead so is fritz this shield won't last forever we need to get out our best bet would be the airstrip at that base rather than trying to make the border, Delta can you move with that shield active or surround us with it?" "Well Yes and no I can move with it, but it will shrink to about 30 meters as for actually surrounding us, I can't but I could concave it to about a 22 or so degrees." "That will have to do, All right were down to six I've triggered fritz reactor to blow, the colonel's is already destroyed" As Hes speaking he open fire with the railgun decimating a small area leaving a pile of green colored flesh" on my mark we open up the taps on our reactors and sprint for the base"

Then without warning 5 more green orbs impact my shield breaking it upon which dark purplish quadrupedal creatures sprint out of the forest towards us 2 more green orbs come through the trees killing tumble and one of the others, "FUCK MEEE FIRE EVERYTHING I'M NOT GOING QUIETLY, we all open with Misfit in the lead firing his railgun ever few seconds, within a minute I'm the last one standing with my shield back up and down, I've compressed it as much as possible to give it strength but it's not enough, Then overhead a 3 man fighter squadron zooms by, Then without warning an explosion and everything goes dark.