In one of the apartments, a half-cat and tanuki were sitting on the floor seemingly hiding.
"What the fuck." A half-cat woman was trying to turn on her phone, but the screen kept bugging out and was not able to display anything.
The half-cat was Jayde who was relatively short at 5'2 being the smallest in the squad. Jayde had black hair that went to her shoulders and underneath her hair was vibrant green as well as her eyes. Her accents on her uniform shared the same colour as her eyes and on her back was a green accent p90 smg alongside a silenced USP which was given to her from Aoi
"It seems like the eruption has caused an EMP effect." Aoi the half tanuki was peeking out the window.
Aoi a female half tanuki with a height of around 5'9" carried a USP handgun which was silenced. She also carried a silenced MK-14 marksman rifle which was lined with white on her back. She usually had 2 handguns but had given one to Jayde as they were silently making their way past the guards and Jayde's p90 was not the quietest weapon.
Aoi had slightly long black hair with it only going to her neck and underneath it was completely silver. Aoi's eyes were silver and her uniform had grey accents. Aoi was observing some of the mutants that were wandering outside the building.
"AHH, this is annoying, I can't contact Reia and we are surrounded by a bunch of monsters." Jayde was beginning to panic and threw her phone across the room.
"Calm down Jayde, we just have to make it to the hideout and seeing that we no longer need to be discreet, pass my pistol back." Aoi held her other hand out and Jayde passed back the USP.
"I-i know but what if they turned into mutants, what are we going to do." Jayde was thinking of the worst-case scenario.
"You know how strong they are, if you can survive, they are able to, so stop worrying!" Aoi yelled as right now they needed to focus on getting out alive.
However, because Aoi yelled, some of the mutants were drawn to them.
"Shit! Jayde get ready, we accidentally made too much noise." Aoi got up and went to the door of the apartment they were hiding in.
Jayde shook her head trying not to think about the squad while getting up from the floor.
"Let's go, the quicker we get moving the quicker we can see them." Jayde reassured herself and pulled out her P90.
Aoi opened the door and quickly rushed out to the street followed by Jayde.
The mutants came running around the building towards Jayde and Aoi.
Jayde felt like vomiting at the sight of them as it was a rather disgusting sight to see them.
"Let's hope they die." Aoi put away her pistols and pulled out her rifle.
The Mk-14 began to glow white before firing, but no sound could be heard from the gun. The air around the bullet was non-existent like a small vacuum. Jayde had not realised Aoi had shot until she saw the white glowing bullet go past, piercing right through the mutant's body.
Aoi had hit the core and seeing a shattered crystal come from the mutant had given them a slight hint on how to kill them.
"Jayde, they seem to have a core, use your p90 and see if you kill them by just shooting them in the head." Aoi wanted to test if the core was the life force of the mutants.
Jayde nodded and crouched, aiming down sights.
Her gun began to glow a bright green before firing a burst of green bullets at the ground.
The bullets hit the ground and rebounded heading straight for the heads of multiple mutants. The heads of the mutants were blown off but continued to move like nothing ever happened and slowly regenerated the missing part.
"Looks like we have to aim for the core, so do not assume they are dead unless you see a broken core." Aoi got the confirmation she needed and began to fire into the small horde.
"Umu" Jayde understood and began to run to the side while shooting at the floor and the horde.
Their bullets rained down on the horde with Aoi aiming for the core while Jayde whittled down the mutant's bodies making it easier for Aoi to guess where the core was.
Many of the mutants fell before getting close to them but due to Jayde's gun being loud more mutants nearby had been attracted to them.
"We may need to just run." Jayde was not sure how much more would keep coming and rather conserve her essence.
"Let's get running, but we ha-" Aoi was interrupted as the explosion at the base of the tower occurred.
The tower began to fall to the left of them but still needed to move as the blast of the crash would most likely kill them.
"Jayde we have to get as far as we can!" Aoi freaked out and started to run down the street.
Jayde, also realising the gravity of the situation, began to follow Aoi. The mutants continue to charge at them with Jayde blindly shooting behind her hoping to pick a few of them off.
Jayde was lagging behind Aoi leaving a small gap between them and a mutant tiger from out of nowhere jumped between them.
"Shit!" Jayde jumped to the side and began to run down an alleyway leaving Aoi.
Aoi turned, seeing Jayde continue to run to the side, grateful she was safe, but now had a tiger to deal with.
"I know she didn't mean to leave me for dead, but damn this isn't ideal." Aoi kept running but seeing it was a tiger, running away may be the worst decision.
Pulling out her dual pistols she started firing down on the tiger while moving back, as expected the tiger was able to just move quick enough to dodge her bullets.
"Tch." Pulling out her rifle quickly fired at the tiger and thanks to it not making a sound messed with the tiger's timing causing one of its back legs to be blown off.
Aoi fired again, this time hitting one of its front legs and knew she would be able to run away without getting caught.
"Nice! Okay, time to sprint." Aoi was walking backwards slowly, so she could aim down properly only stopping for a moment before shooting.
Aoi wanted to run in the same direction as Jayde but when she looked to the side, more mutants emerged from the side making it impossible to catch up to Jayde for now.
"Looks like gate 12 it is." Aoi and Jayde were by gate 12 which was to the left of gate 1 making them relatively close to the squad but due to how big the base was it still took a bit of time to get to the next gate.
Aoi sprinted making her way to the gate at the end of the street and rushed through the door finally escaping from the base.
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Jayde was running down the alley heavily breathing as she was terrified. She briefly stopped to look behind and realised she had left Aoi.
"Fuck, I left Aoi behind." Jayde began to stress as she was now left alone and she couldn't run back unless she wanted to face the horde.
Not sure what to do Jayde kept moving forward getting closer to gate 11 hoping Aoi would have gone the same direction.
While moving down the alleyway a mutant spider had crawled around the corner.
"EEEK!!" Jayde screamed as seeing a massive spider terrified her.
Jayde quickly started to fire her gun at the spider and thanks to her bullets being able to bounce off walls the alley started to fill with bullets.
The spider had nowhere to go and because with each bounce the bullets went faster, the spider found itself unable to dodge.
Bullets started hitting the spider destroying its legs and making it fall to the floor. Since the spider was larger it was stuck on its side making it easier for Jayde to kill.
Bullets from all directions pierced the spider filling it with holes till eventually the core was destroyed.
Jayde had closed her eyes while shooting and when she heard the shattering of the core finally opened her eyes.
The body of the spider was melting into the floor leaving an oily slime behind and Jayde knew she had killed it.
This would not be the end as more mutants from the horde were now in the alleyway behind her and she needed to keep moving.
"Why meeee." Jayde already wanted this to end and looked up to the sky.
Seeing a ladder that led to the roof, Jayde had found her way out.
Getting a slight running start Jayde ran up the wall and was just barely able to grab the ladder.
"If I was taller this wouldn't be a damn issue!" Jayde felt like it was harder than it should be as in reality, the ladder wasn't that high up.
Jayde climbed onto the roof escaping the alley.