The Cross of Mithras Vol. 1: EOD Operation Welcome to Hell (99 page)

  “We want to have a word with you.” Bryce said to Hayes. (Ramirez left several minutes ago to begin the assault upon the lab complex.) Hayes didn’t say anything, he only looked pitiful at them.

  “We wanted to join them and begin our assault upon that damn lab complex. But no, because of your cowardly ass we’re stuck back here.” Cole said. He was close to being pissed off.

  “Are you even paying attention to what we are saying?” Mendoza demanded.

  “He better listen if he knows what good for him.” Cole said in a unsympathetic tone of voice.

  “You pull some stupid ass stunt like that again and you’re a dead man. I am not going to die for your cowardly ass! You damn wanker!” Bryce angrily said.

  “Come on. Let’s leave this goddamn little pussy ass motherfucker alone.” Cole mention to Bryce and Mendoza when they notice that Hayes would neither respond nor look at them.

  They had just lost all respect for Hayes and he knew it. His life had finally hit rock bottom. Hayes had finally accepted his fate – that he is going to die. He just couldn’t take it anymore. When he could no longer see or hear them, he took out his handgun and started to cry. He knew what he had to do. It was for the best – he thought to himself. He pointed the gun at his right temple and…

(5)

  Ramirez just got back from talking to Hayes and telling White Team that they will be sitting this one out. He then order Red, Blue and Green Team to report to the monorail minus, of course, Hoffneisten, Trivelli, and Moriarty, in order to give them the plan on taking the lab complex. Both Jaguar 42R and Viper 33X was there but not the rest of the Dragon Clones.

  Jaguar 42R spoke to each team. “The Dragon Clones will be divided into three groups dubbed Team A, B and C. Blue Team will accompany Team A, Red Team will accompany Team B and Green Team is with Team C. I, along with Viper 33X will make our assault with Team B. Team A will make their way to the lab complex via the underground north tunnel, while Team C will take the south tunnel and Team B will make their way up the road, with Martinez providing covering fire. Once inside, kill any Demon Xs and/or Cy-Xs that you encounter. Try to remember that there are scientists in there. So try not to kill any of them. Good luck and as your captain says, let’s rock.”

  Although Jaguar 42R prefer White Team to go instead of Green Team, because of the causalities that Green Team suffered from, he had no other choice but to pick a team that he was afraid might suffer more losses and would have to be disbanded. He put Green Team in with Team C because he assumed that they would not encounter any stiff resistance. (He was afraid that Team A would be the one who would encounter the stiff resistance.)

  While everyone was being debriefed on The Hammer of Doom they were ordered to memorize the layout of the lab complex. They knew that at the end of the tunnel was a small security station that was used to process VIP people and scientists who needed a safe/secure way to get to the buildings west of the lab complex. The drawback to using it was that it was so small that it force both Team A and Team C to go in single file. They also knew that there wouldn’t be anybody in there since one grenade would kill anyone in there. What everyone was afraid of is what game theory was telling them.

  Game theory told them that the enemy should not be in the small security station since it would have been suicidal for them to do so. Because there is a stairwell that curve upward from the small security station to a larger one on the 1
st
floor, and that is the only way out of the small security station minus the tunnel, the enemy would have set up a barricade and a defensive position at the end of the stairwell on the 1
st
floor. This gave them an advantage in that it created both a blind-spot and it gave them the higher ground. Game theory also told the enemy that since the attackers knows that they don’t have protection from a flash-bang grenade they would use them. This meant that in all likelihood the enemy would shoot wildly down the stairwell trying to hit the attackers if a flash-bang grenade is used. Both sides knew that stealth is critical in victory or defeat for either side in the stairwell assault.

  Viper 33X, in order to overcome the barricades and the defenders, took a belt with grenades, placed a flash-bang grenade on it, and ran a string through each ring in the grenades. He made two of them one for Team A and C in case they needed them. Using that grenade belt Team C was able to overcome the defenders and killed all of them. For Team A, one of the defenders was ready for them with a grenade and threw it down the stairwell when he saw the grenade belt come at him. The grenade hit the wall in the stairwell, bounded off of it, and exploded in the face of the Dragon Clone who threw the grenade belt. The grenade belt that he threw only destroyed the barricade and slightly wounded the defenders. Two Dragon Clones ran past their wounded comrade and was shot by the defenders. One was shot in the upper chest and the other was shot in the stomach. Both of them got to the defenders positions and fought them in hand-to-hand combat allowing the rest of Team A to rush in. All three wounded Dragon Clones would die of the wounds within five minutes.

  Viper 33X had a plan for kicking in the door of the lab complex. He had three Dragon Clones stand shoulder-to-shoulder and fire a bazooka at the entrance, which knocked a large hole in the entrance. Team A ran as quickly as they could to the entrance firing constantly into the hole. When they got to the entrance everyone took cover by either going to the left or the right of it. Eight Dragon Clones were killed and five were wounded in the assault. For Red Team they didn’t suffer from any causalities, but Martinez on two occasion came close to being killed. Just as Jaguar 42R planned, all three teams attack the lab complex simultaneously.

  As the Dragon Clones from Team C was fighting the defenders, Brewster, Kim and Choy rushed the defenders in the center of the security station. Most of the security personnel in the center were either killed or wounded when the three of them rushed the position. As Brewster came close he threw a hand grenade at the defenders which caused them to surrender. Despite that, there was a single Demon Cy-X amongst the defenders who refused to surrender. Kim and Choy shot that Demon Cy-X but did not kill him. The Demon Cy-X did nothing as Brewster, Kim and Choy came nearer to their position. He then unknowingly detonated an explosive (before the assault Dark Serpent 109T gave him the order to do that) that neither he, nor the other security personnel, knew was there. The explosion killed the rest of the security personnel as well as Brewster, Kim and Choy.

  “Ma’am, this is Nakada.”

  “Go ahead.” Vaistll responded.

  “It’s all over… including Green Team. Caparzo and I are waiting for your orders.” Nakada said, too stunned to cry over the lost but feeling the desire to do so.

  “Understood. I want Green Team to return back to the monorail.” Vaistll ordered him. She felt badly for him at the lost of his team.

  “Yes ma’am.” Nakada said in a depressed tone of voice.

  “This is Jaguar 42R.”

  “Go ahead.” Taylor responded.

  “Area is secure and I believe that all of the security personnel have been killed. We are now going to begin our search of the lab complex.” Jaguar 42R said.

  “Understood.” Taylor responded.

  “Team C, Blue Team, hold this position. The rest of you, you’re with me.” Jaguar 42R said to them.

  In the lobby, which was down the hall passed the elevators, were twenty-two Demon Cy-Xs in a good defensive position. Because they were newly hatched, each of them were not skilled enough in dealing with any enemy personnel and therefore all of them were killed without either the Dragon Clones or Red Team suffering any losses.

  “This is Ellis.”

  “Go ahead.” Jaguar 42R responded.

  “I found the scientists.”

  “What are their status?”

  “They’re dead. It looks like the Demon Cy-Xs killed them.”

  “Understood. Continue your search.” Jaguar 42R said.

  “Copy that.” Ellis responded.

  While Jaguar 42R and Viper 33X were searching the top floor on the eastern side of the lab complex, they ran across Dark Serpent 109T. Dark Serpent 109T was in a room and when he saw them he threw a table at both of them and then rushed them forcing them to fight him in hand-to-hand combat. Dark Serpent 109T was more than able to hold his ground with the two of them even after four other Dragon Clones came to the rescue. Dark Serpent 109T was stabbed four times, shot three times and was kicked and punched numerous of times and still he wouldn’t go down.

  The encounter with Dark Serpent 109T was over after he stabbed Jaguar 42R, killed the four Dragon Clones who came to help (one was killed with Viper 33X’s gun), and twenty-two Dragon Clones came to the rescue. Dark Serpent 109T threw Jaguar 42R at them, threw Viper 33X into a darken room, ran and jumped out a window into the river below.

  Before Dark Serpent 109T was able to jump out the window a Dragon Clone came at him firing and shooting him in the left shoulder before he jumped out the window. When the Dragon Clone got to the window both he and Dark Serpent 109T shot at each other. Dark Serpent 109T was shot several times as he was falling, and the Dragon Clone was shot in the left side of his neck. The shot went behind his eye blinding him, and out the top of his head.

  “I got him!” The wounded Dragon Clone said. As he turned around he put his right hand over the wound on his neck, dropped to the ground, and died. Eight minutes later Liebowitz and then Sanchez informed Jaguar 42R that the lab is secure.

(6)

  Lieutenant Hayes was in the parking garage with his handgun pointed at his temple sobbing. He then took out a picture of his family and mouthed the words, “I’m sorry.” He was on the verge of pulling the trigger when he heard a loud noise that indicated that someone, or some thing, ripped open the metal door to the parking garage. The door was nearby and was around the corner. Hayes then quickly put on his helmet and was shot on the right side of his face on the upper lip part of his facemask. He wasn’t injured since the facemask gave him some protection. Hayes, who was standing behind a car, turned around and saw eight Demon Cy-Xs twenty feet away.

  The Demon Cy-Xs, who were newly hatch, came from the lab complex through one of the turrets. Dark Serpent 109T ordered them to leave the lab complex after the lobby was lost, as well as ordering them to make that suicidal attack. Dark Serpent 109T knew that all of them would be killed, but he didn’t care. All he wanted was for them to kill as many humans and/or Dragon Clones as possible. He wanted extinction and if it meant sacrificing a few Demon Cy-Xs, then so be it.

  Before Hayes could get off a shot he was hit in the helmet. He then killed a Demon Cy-X at the same time another Demon Cy-X rushed him. The Demon Cy-X then tried to jump over the hood of the car, but Hayes shot and killed him. As luck would have it for Hayes the Demon Cy-X landed on the hood of the car and provided him with some protection (He was also lucky in the sense that they didn’t have any hand grenades.). Hayes was, however, shot two more times in the helmet before he was able to kill that Demon Cy-X. Two Demon Cy-Xs then ran around the car while the other four stood their ground shooting at him. Hayes kill one, was shot three times in the helmet and notice the two Demon Cy-Xs trying to flank him. He then killed them while he was squatted down and was hit on top of his helmet. He then noticed that the other three Demon Cy-Xs rushed his position. He killed two quickly, but the third jumped over the car, punched Hayes in the face at the same time Hayes shot him under his chin. Hayes stumbled backwards, hit the wall, his head then rolled back and hit the wall hard and then he stepped forward. After he step forward White Team came in at the same time his helmet fell apart. He was lucky to be alive and he knew it.

  “Sir, are you alright?” Cole asked him surprised that he was still alive. Hayes didn’t respond because he was touching his face to see if he was wounded. He was also too stunned to respond.

  “Sir! Are you alright!?” Cole asked again.

  “I need you to take the APCs down the road several yards and line them up bumper-to-bumper in a perpendicular fashion. Place two more in the same fashion between the monorail and this building.” Hayes ordered him.

  “Sir…?” Cole said confusingly.

  “Do it! Do you seriously believe that it is all over!? We need to hold this position until reinforcements arrive, or we’re dead! Do you understand!?” Hayes asked him.

  “Yes sir.” Cole responded.

  “Then do as I say. I then want you to take the vehicles in this garage in put proximity explosives in them and then place the vehicles in a strategic location around the monorail, the parking garage and several yards in front of the APCs. I then want you to destroy the monorail track a half mile away from us. Go to the building that Team A went into, bust out all the windows on the second floor and do the same with the building that Team C went into. I then want you to place our wounded in the rooms with the busted out windows. As soon as the lab is taken, and as soon as you can, destroy the tunnel under those two buildings. Make damn well certain that nobody can reopen them. After that, I want those APCs manned. Do you understand me!?” Hayes ordered him.

  “Yes sir.” Cole responded.