Every one is listening to the last minute briefing form Thietian. It's the lovely witching hour as some would call it, 3 am, perfect for what we're about to do. We're about to start snapping to the areas we've been designated to go to. We are to be quick as possible and get the information we need to help show the world the truth and bring to light the evil workings going on right under societies noses. Every one of us is ready, armed and equipped with not just tools of destruction, but zip ties and stun guns are part of the arsenal to take down or make anyone captured unable to cause problems.
Before we left a familiar looking case of blue bottles showed up and Thietian told everyone to have a shot before we left. John and I had forced down ours already so we stayed put. Once everyone was done, we waited for Thietian to give us the green light. We had noticed a few humans even take a shot of the bottles contents, which had me and John sharing a glance to remember to talk to them later.
Thietian held up his hands and did a countdown with his fingers,
5.....
4....
3...
2....
1.....
"GO."
*SNAP*
We are at our desired locations and already on the move. Soon the entire area goes black. The team that took care of the main power system did their job quickly as we began to snap around taking out cameras and guards in the darkness unseen and unheard. We had five minutes before the hum of the back up generators powering on could be heard.
It was hard at first to control the instinct I'd built up over the past few years to not leave survivors. Soon though I was simply snapping them to where Thietian had told us to without even thinking about it. With the return of emergency power from the generators we had made it to the security room inside the building and subdued the guards on duty. Their walkies were getting plenty of chatter as we heard more guards that hadn't been taken care of yet were calling out over them. When people weren't responding John got the ingenious idea and responded through garbled clicking of the switch.
"shish kish shi....com....kish .... issues.....kish sis shish....."
We heard them come back over the com saying to head to the guard house and switch out the walkie-talkie.
Using the still usable screen, we just snapped the people we saw who were unarmed to the area we sent captives. The ones that were armed John would snap there knock them out quickly snap them back to the security room where several others of our team were taking weapons and restraining them.
Soon me and a few others made our way to the labs and offices gathering all the information we could get. Whole PC's were snapped away and filing cabinets to boot, the stuff in the labs we took pictures of and destroyed what ever we could. We were done in an hour before snapping outside the facility and waited for everyone to be accounted for. Our clocks said 4:45 am when the place went sky high and we snapped back before the debris started to rain down.
We are the first team back and as time starts to go by, we realize something must have gone wrong.
"Turk can your squad go to the north lab and lend a hand? Take Rogo's team with you. The rest of us can go to the East lab and see what's going on there. Show up well enough away from the site so you won't be noticed at first just in case things have really gone south for them. We don't want anyone showing up and getting blown up or caught in a trap." I quickly grab extra ammo clips even though mine are still full. I don't want us being to careful.
Turk and his teams snap and we follow suit. Sure enough they're exchanging fire from one side of the complex to the other side.
"Okay my team go for their right flank and Toksin your team go for the left. That way we can push them back into a corner with no where to go. Someone locate cover zones and report!" I quickly go on with Toksin's team to tell them how to push them back where we can easily overcome them. One of the trolls comes back and tells us what our cover positions are and I send him on to warn our side so we are not caught under friendly fire.
He comes back telling us done and we snap to our agreed upon positions.
Immediately we begin to do controlled bursts of fire in the direction of the guards firing on our people. We take out a few and this distracts their attention from the center to us. While they are preoccupied with concentrating more shots at us now, Toksin's team attacks from the opposite side. Pretty soon we're advancing on the guards and not wanting to waste anymore bullets or lives, I ready my Katana and snap over into the middle of the area where they have taken cover.
Sweat drips down my forehead as the shots ring out, my breathing is steady as I use my sword to cut tendons and muscles on the legs of two guards in front of me.
Their cries ring out as I snap to another set of guards sliding my blade down the opposite direction across their Achilles tendon and back up to swing it sideways into another guards side. I snap away and let the teams advance further onto the guards.
The coppery scent of blood invades my nostrils as it drips from my blade. John is not here and I quickly look around not finding him. A shred of panic grips my heart and I snap over to where the original squad was making their stand.
I see Lar directing some of his people to start going inside and finishing up what they came to do.
"Lar have you seen John?" I shout over to him.
"INSIDE!" He yells back as he takes a few more shots at the guard house where the guards are all holed up now.
I snap inside and there's more chaos here then there was outside. I'm running around avoiding the shots being fired from friendly or foe, I'm not sure of. The backup generator lights here were dark red instead of the brighter LED lights that were in our location. I make my way to an area taking out security cameras as I go that I can tell has our people there.
I take a spot and ask them what's the problem and how many.
"They're holed up in the security room. Everything has been cut they can't get calls out, we set out the signal blockers but we can't get in there. The last two that snapped in, haven't come out. Then the ones down the hall blasted through a window and are holed up popping up to fire at us when we try to advance. Same thing happens when someone snaps over there, they haven't come back."
I take a quick peek around the corner and see the broken window and see the barrels pointed out over the window edge that are firing at random. I take a couple of flash bangs and pull the pin and throw them around the corner as hard as I can. The second they went off I snapped down there and tossed them into the window area and took cover. After those went off I jumped in and took out the three guards that had been keeping us from accessing the security room. The two Fae who had attempted earlier were shot dead on the floor. I snap their bodies back to the house so they will be given to their families.
As we start to approach the security room, the door opens and a unconscious guard falls out of the door way. We peek in the open doorway and see the other two Fae wounded but alive and John is tying up another guard. With that taken care we quickly go and start doing the rest of the job quickly and get the hell out of there.
Back at the house Turk and Thietian's teams were there nursing wounds on some and laying some bodies on lawn. Thankfully not too many losses were incurred, 6 were still too many than desired, but not as bad as it could have been.
Walking over to Thietian, I look him over noticing some cuts and bruising, but noting serious.
"That didn't go as planned for Lar's team. What happened on your team?" I plopped down on the grass beside him taking the bandages he was wrapping around his larger wounds away.
"Did you at least clean these first?" I asked looking at them, knowing my answer I grabbed the saline rinse from the first aid bag in front of him and rinsed it while he filled me in.
"They had automatic generators there, they must have upgraded them in the past few months. It took less then a minute for their power to return and catch us on the cameras from the security room. We had to fight our way through a few areas. Turk and Rogo's team showed up as we were making our final push. What happened on Lars team?" He asked as I secured the bandage around his arm.
"Not entirely sure, he'll have to brief you on that one. When we showed up they were fighting off the guards still and inside the security room had some backup that took out two of our men. John helped save the two that tried to take out the security room guards. They were a little bit tougher there." I help him stand up and do a visual survey of ones who are injured and go the the ones who need help.
John joins my side and we help check and clean wounds and wrap them up. When we're done I look around and can't find Thietian so I look for Cass. Neither one are on the property.
"John did you see Thietian or Cass?" I ask him still looking around at all the faces. He shakes his head no and shrugs.
I shoot Elena a text if she has seen Cass and wait for a response. The team leaders are starting to ready to give their reports to Thietian and get their next orders.
*PEW* My phone alerts me and I look down at it.
-He's here he wanted to check on me, he's coming back now.-
I sigh and head into the guest house to set up some tables and chairs for us to sit at. A few minutes later Thietian shows up with the teams leaders coming in. It's time to go over events.
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Each one of our teams were to go through the information we had received and weed out the useless information and also go through all of the imprisoned workers. We had a lot of work to do to get the evidence to to prove to the masses all around the world they were being forced into slavery.