The moonlight reflects off of a Smooth Silver surface of a large cathedral building. Shots ring out across the street. The shots calm down and three soldiers in all black run in slamming the door behind them.
"Winter you said there were would be no resistance from the town!" One of the bigger soldiers says to the others seemingly angry.
"Well when you are burning a town to the ground you should expect some resistance, and don't use my name numbers only, Jackson," Winter says in a threatening and commanding tone Shoving Jackson.
"Hey calm down guys we have been in gunfights before and now is not the time to fight" says the third man in the group of soldiers who has a tall, lean build less bulky than the other two. Winter and Jackson both taking seats on the cathedral benches.
"We are going to head back to The New Dawn and get more orders to let them know what happened," Winter says getting up and heading to a window at the back of the Cathedral. Jackson following behind him. "Come on get up Lyken and let's go," Winter says gesturing to the third squad member. Before magnetically attaching his Assault Rifle and pistol to his back and jumping through the window. Jackson and Lyken following behind him as they run further into town getting in the first car they see, using a manual override to start driving it out of town Lyken pulling out a map to guide Winter. Speeding down roads as buildings burn in the distance and gunfire rings out bullets hitting their car.
"Everyone get down!" Winter yells over the gunfire and engine
"well, thanks I definitely was just going to stick my head out the door!" Jackson yells back sarcastically.
"Down this street take a left and head straight yep more streets and we will be out of the town!" Lyken yells as the car speeds up. They make it out of town, the car riddled with bullet holes. Driving for a solid 5 hours and taking shifts regularly just to reach The New Dawn. The squad of 3 pull in to a large Black and Silver building that reaches high into the sky, lights shining out the windows. matching with the rest of the city backdrop with the other buildings only being slightly smaller. They get out of the car, drawing curious and slightly alarmed onlookers. Walking into the building they reach the main desk.
"I'd like to get a room to contact Six if possible," Winter says walking up to the counter while Johnson and Lyken stand behind him looking around.
"And what is the purpose?" The decent looking woman behind the counter says seemingly, unfazed by a group of three soldiers coming to the desk with guns on their back.
"To report on a razing operation, as usual of course," Winter says in an unconcerned voice
"Ah alright let me type it in... and I have you booked for room 324 at the end of the hall 15th floor," The woman at the desk says obviously bored. Winter just grabs the keycard from off the desk and goes to the elevator pressing 15 with both Jackson and Lyken following.
"How do you think Six will take the news," Lyken asks winter in a slightly worried tone.
"It's a supercomputer that coordinates military tasks, if anything the fact we got shot at is its fault for not letting us know people were still there," Winter says not even looking back at Lyken instead of just continuing to stare at the door. Forcing him to stop talking due to winter's cold attitude.
"Ah don't worry he's probably the angry cause of how the operation went south you know how he is," Jackson says patting Lyken on the shoulder heavily, Lyken nodding and looking a little less nervous. They all look at the door as they hear a ding from its opening and they walk out and down the hall to a large door with 324 on it. Opening the door they come to a round table everyone taking seats Winter at the head. As a giant blue projection of an Eye comes out of the table.
"Team 88 what is your report for the operation." A feminine and slightly robotic voice says seemingly coming from the eye.
"Well the operation went not the best we failed to raze the town and met resistance almost suffering damages," Winter says in a flat tone trying not to show any emotion on his face either.
"I clearly told you the plan and what you needed to do what went wrong." Six says in a flat tone void of emotion.
"It was my fault as the Team Leader I must have passed down orders incorrectly," Winter says in an attempt to soften the punishment for Jackson and Lyken, instead taking it on himself.
"Your team has had a record and very rarely makes mistakes, so I'm willing to let you off with a warning to do well in your future operations. I will contact you and your team for another operation in two days to get some rest." Six says as the eye stops being projected.
"I swear Six gets worse every time you see it, I thought we were gonna have some punishment," Jackson says looking over at winter with a lightly appreciative look, even though the gesture had failed Winter still was prepared to take the punishment for them.
"You can say that again but honestly what do we do now we have a good amount of money left over from the last operation." Lyken says in a cheery mood after not getting punished by Six.
Note: Lyken is pronounced like • in