I ran out of cover, ducking down while dashing through, bullets passed around me as i neared their cover, seeing flashes of light followed by the whistles of bullets as they struck things around and behind me.
At last, i reached their side, sliding to one of the cars and sought cover for now. My allies were keeping their heads down while peeking out rarely to return fire. Stagnant.
Did they notice me? I stayed down while thinking more. To my right were the flashes of the guns of the enemy, guess they don't know.
I looked down on my gun, preparing to move to the left side for a possible flank.
I peeked to the left, it was empty with no weapons on top or at the side of cover firing, nor any visible enemies behind cover. I moved out, my back practically grinding on the side of the car, still laying low.
On the other end, i could hear the loud gunfire just next to me.
I readied myself, gotta be about 3 or 4 beyond this cover.
Still crouched, i peeked from the corner, they were blind firing, the floor next to them was flooded with golden casings. In a squeeze of a trigger i emptied my magazine at their direction, befroe they could redirect fire at me they were hit, falling on the ground still carrying their rifles with a few firing upwards into the ceiling.
The shooting stopped. The small battlefield turned silent once again, enemies who were once shooting at my allies in front of me were now down, getting up to head out.
I stood up, i saw as my allies approached the other side, still aiming up, one of them raised their hand to me, giving a thumbs up for the flank, i nodded in response. They all stepped out, now that the field was silent, slowly, they split to check the other cars and obstacles for anyone left, if there was. The team on the stairwell stayed, still holding up their weapons.
Just as i was about to sigh out of relief, shooting started again, i watched as my allied teams were cut down, falling down onto the ground with only 2 who managed to escape the attack.
The shots came from the other side of this floor. I moved up, staying low and moving from car to car.
There were 4 flashes from different parts.
As i stayed down, i heard footsteps and the sound of the shooting shift, rapidly moving. Peeking out, they were running away, running up the ramp. The teams on the stairs exchanged fire but were suppressed, staying behind cover while they moved up.
The shooting stopped, they escaped, and took down alot of our allies in the process. Out of cover, i looked at the remaining teammates i was with.
On the stairwell, one of the teams ran out, walking past the entrance of the ramp, they ran towards where the enemy mercs were in, rapidly running and searching the cars and obstacles if there was any left. They shortly left without firing a round. So that was the last of them on the floor
It was just awkward eerie quietness after, we stayed frozen to where we stood, i snapped out of it, moving towards the ramp by myself while the 2 behind me folllowed after.
The ones on the stairs started slowly making their way up with the team that went out now joining with them, we were done with this floor.
"8 MINUTES LEFT" A loud voice announced. Shit, we gotta take them out faster.
After the announcement, we heard echoing footsteps from below, multiple of them hastily running up until it reached us. The bulk that was taken out returned.
We formed up just like before, all of our weapons were raised up while we moved up. Our pace was faster but we kept our silence.
We moved up to prepare to supress the enemy, but we didn't put out our weapons to fire. The team up front was counting down.
As the hand turned into a fist, we opened fire, spraying blindly. I angled my rifle downwards in case there was anyone there.
After the row front team and the 2nd row advanced, we started moving up. But there wasn't a continuation of shooting.
Up at the top there was no flashing on the other side, it felt empty. Something was wrong, me and my team moved towards the other side, our weapons up and looking at different directions.
Propping up on both sides, we found nothing, we went up the cars, there was nobody there. Empty cars and unmanned obstacles where they would normally be in before.
Despite this, we stayed behind the cars, hiding, one of the teams tried to move to our side, but as they did, we witnessed as half of them were hit before they could join us. Only 2 of them got to us, hiding with us in the car. The other mercs hid as well on their side, mercs from the stairwell peeked out to shoot.
Looking under the car, i aimed my scope under to try and hit their legs, but there weren't any visible limbs to hit, flashes from different parts of their side continued, some from cars and the rest from pillars, they're hiding well.
My team and the remaining mercs that got to us got out from cover, running on the railing side from car to car. As we did, bullets started flying towards us, forcing us down as we were halfway to them. Peeking under, i still didn't have a clear shot on them. One of the mercs peeked as the shooting kept on, returning fire. I peeked up from the car, i couldn't see any heads peeking up to fire, either they're blind firing or we just don't have a shot on them.
We continued moving, staying lower than earlier. Our allies still stayed behind cover, not advancing like us.
As we approached nearer, it seems they realized were near as the shooting felt more intensified on us. I peeked under, but was frightened as my eyes caught a few who were also prone, staring back at me with their rifles ready.