Darren, Ito, and Anya headed into the locker room to find a fair number of teams getting ready, "Wait.. wasn't this going to be team on team?" Darren asked, "Nope! its a four team free for all!" Anya said excitedly. "You didn't think this information might be necessary for me to know when I was coming up with our plan!" Darren said confounded, "Well it makes it more interesting, now you have to adapt on the fly!" she replied. Darren had many things he wanted to say to her however coming up with an effective strategy seemed more important at the moment, he quickly decided the best method would be to send Ito and Anya to one of the weaker teams first.
After everyone was at their starting point the match began, "We'll sit back and watch to start things off" Darren said, "I'm going to rig a few traps in the building then head to the roof to scout things out." "I'll watch the stairs" Ito said confidently, "Guess I'll try to rig some countermeasures in the server room" Anya said.
After all their set up Darren headed up to the roof Anya trailing behind, they had been set up on a medium sized building, the systems random time selection selected night time for the battle so only the street lights below provided illumination. Darren flicked his rifle scope to night vision and began scanning the other buildings and street, he saw a team using cover to approach the largest building. They seemed to be equipped with mostly breaching gear, the man in the lead was carrying a combat shotgun, "To bad for them" he whispered moving his rifle up to the windows above them. Gunshots broke the silence on the streets as the two teams spotted each other "What's happening," Anya whispered, "The team in the largest building are stressing defense it looks like" Darren responded. He counted two at the windows firing down but didn't see the third. All three were present for the team that had intended to breach the building. Darren moved his scope up the path the ground team had likely taken, "Anya, take Ito and exit from the back of our building head to the four story gourmet restaurant across the street at the back over there, it should be clear" He said. "What about you?" she asked, "I'll defend this time" he responded.
Before heading back down to the server room Darren took careful aim and took out one of the two shooting down into the street from the largest building with a clean shot to the head, he was gone before anyone could trace his fire. Anya and Ito had left before Darren got back downstairs, he continued down into the basement and shut down the breakers to every light source in the building before returning to his post. He watched from various windows as the light skirmishes outside continued, it seems the team on the street had successfully infiltrated the large building. Darren set up his rifle and various pieces of building furniture to make it appear he was aiming out of the window and watching the large building before clicking on his helmets night vision and disappearing into the shadows.
They heard footsteps rush passed them as they ducked into the darkness of the parking structure, Ito was familiar with the building having spent a lot of time here in their first training match, "They're headed to our building" Anya whispered, Ito shushed her. One of the two stopped and looked around, "What?" a woman's voice asked, "Nothing" the curious male responded as they continued towards Darren. "Should we warn him?" Anya asked, "He already knows" Ito responded before they continued up towards the building Darren had indicated.
It didn't take them long to get there, the team who had abandoned it hadn't bothered to prepare ahead of time, they must have been going for a blitz attack. Anya spotted a shadow in the second story window, "Someone's in there" she whispered, the two hurried into the building and carefully checked their steps as they moved about. There was an elevator on the first floor, Ito reached inside and set it to go to the second floor before the two headed for the staircase, they heard gunfire above them when they assumed the elevator would have reached the second floor. Ito rushed to the second floor and tossed a smoke grenade down one hallway while her and Anya made their way around back, as expected they heard more semi auto fire when the smoke grenade went off. Ito and Anya separated there Anya heading to the managers office while Ito stalked their target.
Ito quietly moved around the opposite hallway into the main dining area, she kept low using the tables as cover, she could faintly make out the shadow of a person lurking around where the smoke grenade had landed. Ito tossed a second one towards the now closed elevator, her target turned at the sound while Ito used the climbing gloves and boots Darren had suggested to scale the wall and hide in the shadows of the ceiling. When the smoke started spilling out the young lady who was her target looked in the direction of the opposite entrance expecting it was another decoy, the girl quietly stalked in that direction. Ito got a little over eager and dropped to soon her stun gun flashing, the woman fell back and leveled her sub machine gun in Ito's direction. Ito quickly kicked the gun out wide as she landed catching herself on both hands and flipping to her feet, the woman moved the gun back in but Ito was to close. The woman managed to dodge strike after strike of Ito's stun gun, she let go of her gun and pulled a combat knife so she had a fighting chance. Feeling at a bit of a disadvantage Ito dropped to the floor and pulled the pin from a flashbang she had hanging from a strap across her chest she closed her eyes expecting the surge of light. Her target followed her movements going in for the finishing blow when the light blinded her, she brought her knife down where Ito had been, the force of the grenade going off had pushed Ito to the side slightly causing the blade to miss. The woman fell to the ground as a surge of electricity passed through her body.
Anya had moved to the back of the building finding the office door, she turned the handle but it wouldn't budge, seems the team had locked it before they left, Anya removed a small incendiary charge from her bag. She secured the charge to the door and backed away several feet before activating it, the hall filled with a bright blue light as the device went to work melting through the steel. When the light had burnt out Anya gave the door a push and it swung open, the interior of the handle had been completely melted away, she quickly moved over to the PC and began setting up her equipment. It didn't take Ito long to get passed the computers basic security, she was logged into the managers account in no time, she found the encrypted files she was supposed to recover, the security was a little more difficult. She ended up using a digital key plugging a flash drive in that searched the computers registry and fired codes in with the potential passcodes it found till the file opened.
Ito tied her target securely with zip ties then waited for Anya to finish up, her captive began cursing at her once she regained enough of her faculties to do so, "Its not my fault you're incompetent" Ito said.
"All done!" Anya exclaimed entering the room, "Same here" Ito said, Ito had grown tired of the curses and had gagged the woman, she then secured her in an embarrassing pose, Anya pulled out her communicator and started taking pictures. "Why?" Ito asked, "Well I have to show Darren what you did" Anya giggled, Ito suddenly blushed and tried to stop Anya, Anya laughed and ran away from her.
After they had settled down the two women made for the stairs, "We should move quick, never know if another team is on their way here" Ito said, Anya nodded in agreement and they quickly moved down the staircase. Once outside they spotted two people headed towards the building, they quickly moved around to the back while they waited, "Who would have thought taking that big building would be so easy" one of them said, "To bad they took out Shea" another said. "Wonder what happened to their third member, didn't see anyone around the building," the first said "Who cares it made our job easier" the second replied, Anya stifled a giggle, Ito glared at her. "Just wait till they find the present you left them" she said laughing once the two men were out of earshot, Ito blushed beet red, what had come over her to do something like that she thought to herself.