Scouts

Seon sat the table his hands clenched and his eyes still on his tablet. His mouth was still trembling and he tapped his foot nervously while he waited. Soon X entered the room causing Seon to look up. He was followed by five other gentleman and the general that assigned him the mission. He bit his lips his eyes turning back to his screen.

He stood up as each of them sat down. Grim was standing at the corner of the room his eyes completely lost of life. Seon quickly stood Infront of the man. He quickly tapped his tablet. He couldn't do it with his system because it's been down since the incident warning.

"um .. a few days ago my squad was assigned a mission to rescue man from area 67." he started displaying information given to him by the government.

"However I'm not one to go one old information … I started seeking information about the area seeing it's … nature. I was also concerned because the people who went missing were tier 1. So I um … I mortified the drones we have in our unit to travel through the area-"

"You did what "

"did they work .."

"How-"

"We send the drones out to scout the area" He continued and then tapped his tablet and the footage played.

Seon had spent the past hours editing and rewatching the video footage and every time that fraction of a second that revealed the truth did not change. He paused the footage and as soon ad he did he heard chairs screeching and gasps.

"How recent is this footage" One of the man asked 

"It was taken four hours ago" Grim answered.

The clip was clear. It was a red portal with thousands of camps Infront of it. With in the camps were monsters. Monsters foreign to the knowledge of the military but the scariest thing was they were wearing the newest military uniform yet to be released or tested.

"How authentic is this footage?" This time X asked. 

"It was all recorded live" Grim answered again.

"How many man know about this" 

"Only those present in the room" 

The whole room fell silent and Seon could only seat down. This was bigger than him and his freshly recruited unit. He was terrified. The has never been an instance where a portal was any colour than blue and every monster on every planet was recorded. The had never been a situation where by the monster no matter the grade or tier possessed any sort of intelligence. Yet . These monsters were setting up camp, moved like humans and even war armour. 

"The drones were are they ?" Someone asked. 

"They were destroyed" 

"Who made them?" 

"Seon-woo , the boy me mortified them" 

"Do it again and then we'll sent them out again. We need to be absolutely sure that this is not some glitch. If this is true I'd rather believe it with my own two eyes."

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Seon sat on his bed testing the drones. They were definitely better than the last ones he used. He'd already called out his Enders to got back and preparer the control room to go again. He advised the to have lunch because it was going to be langer since this time he was going to be prepared. He moved from his bed back to his desk to add a few fixtures. Instead of just changing the celestial energy running the drone he imbedded it directly into the material of the drone so the drone itself could survive in the fog a little longer than this morning. 

He had watched the footage so many times that even unconsciously worked to improve the mistakes he saw. He doubled the number of drones this time. He prayed what he saw was a mistake. A figment of his imagination. However, deep down he knew it was true. he was sure it was, he had no doubts at all.

He had a knock at his door was decided to test out his alpha drone. It was the one that he had started last week. It was supposed to be the one that would head straight in to the path that lead to the portal. It was as small as an insect but with a better camera and the purest core. The drone showed him live footage as he moved it to the door. He scanned the pad and it opened. 

He watched a grim slowly entered the room and walked directly to the room Seon was in. 

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"Launch the drones in 2 minutes" Felix yelled. The man from earlier sat at the back with X and Grim. 

Seon took his seat at the commander station as the squad checked if the drones were working. Seon looked at his tablet and connected it to his station before motioning to Felix to start the countdown. 

"Right wing speed up now. Left wing slow down keep pace with the right wing. Apex surround the Alpha now. we split in 10 minutes" Seon ordered.

He took control of the Alpha keeping it in the middle of the Apex group. They were almost at Area 67 and the drones were working better than his predictions. Nothing much had changed from what the saw earlier. The forest was still empty, still quiet.

"Left wing, right wing split now" He ordered as the holoscreen begun showing multiple angles.

"Right wing split now."

"Left wing split now" 

"Apex swarm the Alpha. Activated the defence for the Apex. I want every drone shielding every inch of the alpha now." He ordered switching to different angles.

"Fog coming in in 2 minutes" Felix reported.

"switch to the inferred now." He ordered.

Seon has switched the inferred with Celestial insight. The right wing and left wing were all around the forest looking for any habitats, monster or anything about the fighters.

"Entering in 3 .. 2 … 1.." Felix counted down.

"Apex begin moving counter clockwise now"

"Speed to 300" 

"If we do that we might destroy the drones"

"They'll hold. Speed up now" 

He ordered before starting the Alpha. The circle of drones sped up moving threw the fog. The holoscreens were white from the fog. Seon knew the plan was risky but he needed to get through whatever barrier shutdown his system.

"speed to 1000"

"Cap-"

"Speed up now"

The holoscreen flashed a bright white making the whole room shield thier eyes before it turns black with only the right and left wing footages showing.

"Captain we lost them-"

"Hold" He orders

"But-"

"Hold" He orders louder this time.

The room goes quiet with all eyes on the screen. The tension rises the more they wait and then the holov starts up again and seon lets out a breath of relief.

"Everyone connect to your drones yell down if you cant and up if you can" He orders before reconnecting to the alpha.

He hears and takes note of who was still connected and those who were not. Once he reconnects he finally connects to the main screen and as soon as he does. The tension in the room shifts and the room goes quiet.

"Right now is no time to be scared keep your ears on my voice and eyes on your console. Connect to your drone and form the right and left wing now" He yells snaping his team back to thier senses.

He finally looks up and his breath hitches. Infront of him is a huge land of green and beyond that hundreds of tents and creatures he could not see properly. 

"Right wing left wing split in four and spread out as far as possible away and around the camp. alpha will move up" He ordered still half dazed.

The drones split showing move angles and the alpha moved up and towards the camp. The moved fast but the footage was clear. Soon the alpha arrived close enough to the camp to get a good look at the monsters. They were at least 12 feet tall, almost resembling half lizards half humans. They stood, walked and talked like humans.

"Cap we find the area 67 monsters" Someone yelled 

"switch cameras" He ordered