While training his control on the lesser lightning enchant, each attack of his gained a penetration effect capable of pass through most armors. Hiding his hand blaster he went to the armory and asked for a weapon, and he left with the dual-storm pistol. A fire gun capable of shooting two different bullets as well as a box of ammunition for the pistol, a combination of water and earth bullets. A sniper rifle from the past era, equipped with a heat sensor and a packet of copper bullets.
"Are you sure all of this is needed? Don't you want a newer model for you rifle?" The armory's caretaker asked with a smirk on his face. Being the caretaker for more than ten years he was used to those young ones that just arrived on the fortress asking for the better weapons and armors while a member from the divine guardians sent to a mission like that is taking only guns forty years old.
"Yes, there is no need for the anti-matter rifle, the ammunition is too much expensive. Just give me a few sleeping and fire grenades and a grenade launcher."
"Okay." The middle-aged man picked a wooden box from one of the shelves on the far back of the armory and returned with what looking like a black nano-fibber glove with a metal shackle on the wrist.
"This is the grenade launcher NB-00, it shots nano-sized bombs a at 300 m distance. You can also have this red and silver disk, each disk holds ten nano-bombs. The red disk is the explosive lame grenades and the silver disk is the sleep gas. When you wish to hide it, just press the black bottom on the left side of the shackle and the nano-fibber will retract into the storage within the shackle. Despite all of, this launcher is really light, so you can put on you artificial arm and it will not break."
"Wait.. . You knew!?" Rick could not expect the man would notice his arm so fast and dropped both hands. He knew that despite being functional on daily life, it would be useless to fight with the arm on. It will break too easily just by receiving the energy brought by his lightning reinforce, maybe it's circuits weren't made to receive too much energy.
When Rick left he armory, he received the commander's call on his obelisk and headed to the lower docks. There was no need to call those who would be on his squad, the commander also took the liberty to call all of them to meet on the docks.
"I really want to see their reactions when they see it." Last night he received the list from the participants on his squad and he could not help by laugh.
Candidates for the special ops squad:
Leader: Specialist Rick Lawson(??)
Code name: Jupiter
Lightning Elemental Master(2nd Stage)
Scout: Lieutenant Lisa Fountain (20)
Weapon Expert: Cassius Guile (26)
Pilot: Captain Sharon Hunter (45)
With the exception of Lisa who he knew, he chose Cassius himself after reading about him. He was a member from the hunter guild who had the chance to provoke a silk-pants boy before in a mission. The rich boy has been accused of kidnapping underage females in the surroundings of the Northern sector grand market, doing all sorts of things to them, wiping out their memories and leaving them on the street.
Cassius observed the boy for three weeks until he could gather the evidences to prove him guilty. But on a specific day, he saw four men in black following a teenage girl out of school and pulled her onto a car. Until that moment his mission was just to investigate and he was forbid to do anything to the boy, however he couldn't care less if the boy's father was in the council or the contents of his mission. His burst into the car, using his wind element in a special way to make him close to invisible before he broke their necks.
The councilman who was the boy's father walked into the guild, demanding that they execute the hunter guilty for his son's death and that he would not stop until he see this man dead. Knowing the consequences of his deeds, Cassius left the guild for the fortress because he knew those assholes from the council would never put their feet on this area.
It was this and other stories he saw about this man that made Rick chose him. As for Sharon, there is not much about her. A lot of meritorious deeds, excellency on every mission she took part. And one of the few pilots that left the planet on a mission since the rise of the beasts. Now it was time to meet them and start their mission. Taking a look at his obelisk, he read the contents of the mission once again.
Special Ops Mission: Locate all the flame union's base outside Eden and destroy them if necessary. Don't kill any civilians. They must be brought for judgement.