Metal as Hell(4)

Underneath the city of London was another city, a perfect replica of London which is named as Unlondon, in the replicated city, Sgt. Johnson, Lawrence and Sophia were in there to investigate from the reports saying about the dead bodies they found of the Unlondon Officers and MTF Soldiers as well.

From the reports, the Unlondon Officers seemed to have some sort of stab wounds on their bodies, even MTF soldiers' bodies had the same marks as the officers. But the rest of the MTF soldiers on the other hand had a weird death, because their bodies were just hollow husks, as it seems their insides were absorbed, which is... Quite bizarre. 

"Someone really did a number on them." Johnson remarked while looking at bodies in shock.

"Well whoever did it must be long gone by now." Lawrence said.

"We could check the camera's on their helmets. It might have captured some footage." Sophia said to the two, pointing to one of the deceased MTF Soldiers.

"Good thinking Sophia. Let's check their helmets."

The three began to check the deceased MTF soldiers' helmets and tried to find which one had a camera attachment to it. Lawrence found one helmet having the camera attachment and removed the hard drive from it. 

"Found it."

"Good. Now let's head back to the top side. Sophia, call a team from your radio to pick up the bodies. It's the least we can do for them."

"Yes sir."

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At the entrance of Unlondon, the three were now standing outside of the cave entrance of the city after getting the hard drive. Lawrence transfers the footage from the hard drive into a laptop. Playing the footage on the laptop, the footage showed the MTF team being attacked by a humanoid with long fair hair and having a tattoo shaped similar to a gear on his right lower eyelid. 

This was Santana. 

But for the three, they didn't know what or who he was but the way the footage showed how he dealt with the MTF soldiers showed that he was incredibly dangerous.

As they were about to continue to watch the footage, Johnson's phone starts ringing and he picks it up.

"Hello? Yes this is Sgt. Johnson... wait! Vegas?! When did this happen? I see. Alright thank you for informing me." Johnson ended the call with a surprised look on his face 

"Who was it?" Lawrence asked in concern after noticing Johnson's expression and reaction from the call.

"It was Simmons. He told me that hell literally broke loose in Las Vegas."

"What?" Lawrence and Sophia reacted in surprise.

"Some entities that are supposed to be in a video game have started some sort of invasion in Vegas and Queen's Requiem, Hammer Down and Jäeger Bombers are handling them right now."

"Great. The last thing we needed was an invasion and finding out that a guy with a gear tattoo took out our best MTF members. So what's the plan?"

"A chopper will come pick us up and a team for picking up the bodies will be here as well."

"...Did Simmons say how big this invasion is?" Sophia asked him.

"Quite big according to him. But we won't know the full details until we head back to a nearby site."

'I hope Rodeo and the team are alright.' Sophia thought.

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Back on the city of Las Vegas, Queen's Requiem and Finn's gang were underneath the overpass of a small bridge, taking some rest and checking their gear as well before they will start moving north again. 

Queen's Requiem was also quite surprised that McQueen of all people was turned into Wheel of Fortune and him having a form that allows him to walk on two legs. Finn, Nikolai, Robert and McQueen also explained to Queen's Requiem how they ended up in the SCP world and Queen's Requiem did the same, explaining how they ended up here and what's been going on up until now. 

"Damn, lad. You guys have been through a lot of stuff in just one month." Finn said, couldn't hide his surprise.

"Yeah. I'm still surprised we're still breathing after all of this." Rodeo said.

"But we admire your bravery and resolve, comrade. Handling this much, while it might be a hard task, you're still here. Seems like fate favors you the most." Nickolai said in admiration.

"Yeah. Anyways people let's move. Break over."

Everyone nodded and started moving forward while keeping an eye on their surroundings. They kept on hearing the sounds of explosions, roars and gunfire echoing throughout the city. 

"This entire city has become a war zone." Miguel said after hearing all the endless noise.

"Yeah. Hey Finn, you said that you guys found the portal first right?" Michelle asked Finn.

"Aye. There's an easy road we can take from here and head there faster. But this city is swarming with hell's forces. I highly doubt they'll let us live or try to let us even get close to the portal's location."

"Then we just have to fight our way there." Rodeo said in the front as he continued to move forward, followed by the rest.

As the team continued to move and made a right turn, they saw something they shouldn't have. 

"Oh. My. God." 

What they saw was a sea of wreckage vehicles, broken and torn apart as they were lying around left and right, but their...  were also bodies of civilians, and soldiers, both from the MTF from the Foundation and the US Army that previously raided the city only to get annihilated for a matter of hours.

Some of them were ripped apart, blasted by plasma rounds or had severe lacerations around their body, most of the buildings and stores around the area of the road they were looking at were burning or destroyed. It wasn't a pretty sight to witness. 

"...Keep moving team. They are already gone." Rodeo said, looking down as he kept moving forward with the rest following close behind him and looking at destruction around them. 

The two video game characters, Krieg and Spy were used to this type of sight but still, it didn't help seeing the bodies of innocents and soldiers who were trying to help them escape the city just lying dead around them. 

Michelle meanwhile could see two bodies of a couple hugging each other and were lying on the ground dead. They must have held on to each other in their final moments.

'I hope you two are in a better place.' She thought sadly.

The rest could only look in sadness, horror and regret at the death and destruction around them. Rodeo although was getting more flashes in his head but always stopped. He shook his head and continued looking around in a brief silence until he heard Amelia's voice from his helmet's radio. 

[...Rodeo?]

"...You're seeing this right?" 

[...Yes we are. There's nothing you could have done, Rodeo.]

"...Amelia, I'm starting to think that ever since me and the Stands started showing up, we are just bringing more chaos around ourselves and to this world. One disaster happens, then another and this just keeps going on, and more people start dying or get hurt around us."

[Rodeo, don't ever blame yourself for bad things happening around you. Please just focus on what you need to do right now.]

Rodeo sighed, "You're right. I need to stay focused."

[...What the?]

"Is something wrong?" Rodeo asked, feeling unease by her tone.

[Rodeo, you and your team are not alone in that area. The UAV drone picked up some movement.]

Checking the 3D map to confirm if her words were true, Rodeo noticed there was truly some movement in the area they were in. The movement was coming from the buildings that were around them, and based on the numbers of movements were extremely alarming.

This is where Rodeo realized something...

This was an ambush set for them. 

"Son of a lunatic, AMBUSH!"