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Xanatos didn't fire through the smashed door like Ai and David did. He was confident that her precision would be enough. His own input would only be a waste of ammo as well as it was already overkill. He did however, keep an eye out to see if anyone was in sight range of their 'entrance'.
Ai's shots riped through the Hostiles upper torso and throat. At the same time Davids shots cut throught the enemies eye and throught the bridge of his nose causeing the blood in the area around his cerabellum to boil. The hostile fell over in a pile unable to scream or pull the trigger to his rifle.David rushed up to the body that just fell behind the baricade to cheak to make sure it was dead and put two more shots in his head. "Time to get on with it. Back down the stairs. Two more floors and we will be at the hostages." David started back to the stairs and slowly and quietly advanced.
Charles watched as the Sentry walked down the stairs towards them. The sentry was completely unaware of him or his squad so he simply started to walk by the squad. Charles let him get one step below him before he moved in behind him and rasied his knife in his left hand and stabed in up into the sentry's neck into the windpipe and pulled it down through the jugular and carodid and dug it into scapula. He used the handle of the blade to fling the dead man to the ground and laid on top of his kill as the sound of the senty's last breath subsided.
"Un, Juni-sama." Ai started floating again and followed after David. She took a brief glance at the rather gruesome kill and shuddered a bit. Not exactly the picture she had imagined for her first kill. The turrets of the forearm weapons retracted as she descended the stairs.
Galar waited, until Charles made the kill. Once the grisly deed was done, Galar rushed past him to get a visual further up the stairwell. There was no one there, so, sticking to the wall, he made his way closer to the end of the hallway. So far things were clear. Nothing...yet.
Natsuko moved with Galar, just past Charles and the now dead sentry. As soon as she was past Charles Natsuko knelt down to provide cover for Charles. "Clear." Natsuko reported over the internal radio.
Xanatos quietly walked behind his two companions, making sure that no one was coming up from behind... somehow. "How many hostages were there, sir?" he asked through the comm. There didn't seem to be anyone following them, but that doesn't mean that there actually wasn't anyone there.
David continued down the stairs as he answered the Xanatos. "From reports there are the two senties, two door Guards and two ID-Sols with the hostages." David arived at the door to the floor the hostages were on and went down on one knee and used the Fiber optic probe under the door to see what was on the other side. He quickly opened a link to Charles. "How far are you and your team. We are ready to enter the Floor with the hostages. We will move in and wait for you to arrive before acting." David retreived the probe and slowly opened the door wide enough to fit through. He signaled the other two to follow him as he entered and advanced down a narrow hallway. the hallway ended at a left-ward bend. When David got to the bend and looked around the corner he saw the two door guards Standing in front of a wooden door that appeared to be to an office.
Charles responded to David as he reached the door to the floor that David was on. "We are here boss just give us a second." The door was open enough for the group to move through and as they steped out they exited on the other end of the hallway that David was in. "Hey Boss I can see you!" Charles nodded to David as he moved forward and brought his gun to bear on the two guards. "Ready when you are!"
"Aim for the head and shoot to kill" Was all David said as he swung around the corner and unloaded on the Guards.
The guards would go down as quickly as they'd realized what was going on but it alerted everyone else in there, the ones holding the hostages putting them in front of them like shields as the ID-SOL's turned their weapons in the direction of the guards who'd fallen. Charlie got down to it placing a breaching charge on the door to blow it open fully and gave everyone a gesture to stand back while he prepared to detonate the charge.
Ai stood back from the door, just waiting for the detonation. She had the forearm weapons ready to fire at a moment’s notice should any one go bursting through that door preemptively. It was a bit annoying not knowing what was going on the other side of the door. "Ano, Ashlyn-sama," Ai opened up a com,"whats it like on the main room?" Ai asked, remembering Ashlyn was outside as a sniper anyway, so Ashlyn should know some of whats happening in there.
"They'd barricaded themselves in a corner with the ID-SOL's ready for you it seems like, I can't get a bead on the other one guarding the hostages, but I have a clear shot at the other one." she said to Ai quietly over the communications system. "It'll be tight."
Galar asked the AIES, "Use the thermal sensors. Put them on maximum settings, I want to know if anyone is behind that door." As the thermal sensors went online, Galar was able to see everything in shades of blue to white. He turned his rifle slightly towards the floor and fired. The shots would find their way to the floor around the nearest IDSOL, hopefully destabilizing him. He wouldn't risk hitting the hostage.
Natsuko re-engaged her optical camouglauge, and prepared to rush in as soon as the explosive had detonated. In preporation Natsuko also pulled out a flash bang, "I'm sending in a flashbang as soon as the door is breeched. Make sure you're optical sensors are set to compensate." Natsuko said as she informed her AIES to do adjust for that.
Xanatos quietly prepared for the worse. He readied the pulse rifle for action as the doors were breached.
The shots from Galar tore into the ID SOL’s shins but failed to take the big man down and in fact seemed to just enrage him. Before he could respond to the shots by kill the hostage in front of him his Chest exploded in a flash of vaporizeing blood as Ashlyn fired on the exposed ID-SOL. The remaining ID-SOL responded: "either you lil' shits stop this shit or' I'll pop these hostages starting with the catbitch first!" as the breach went off, blowing the door off the hinges. David gave the sign to flick the flash bangs in.
Ai used gravity manipulation to accelerate quickly into the room, using the camo as well as the confusion from the explosion to get in. She did a quick survey just as she got in, adjusting her trajectory to head for the ID-SOL that was with the hostages. She'd tried her hardest to knee the large ID-SOL in the face at full speed, but would stop as quickly as possible if the ID-SOL somehow noticed her and use a hostage shield.
As Ai’s knee made contact with the ID-SOL’s face the flashbangs tinked and rolled across the floor and went off, provoking a hail of vulgar shouts and random fire toward the door with the weaponry they were armed with.
Galar was in pain from the enhanced thermal optics picking up all the light from the breaching charge. Luckily he had turned it off before the flashbangs went off, but he still had a massive headache. He rushed into the room after Ai, bringing his rifle to bear upon the exposed flank of the IDSOL and aimed for the chest. Firing a long burst into the man, Galar watched the combined effort take effect.
Natsuko accellerated right behind Galar, heading for the second ID-SOL. Natsuko raised herself up slightly and gently rolled the hostage away with her foot before decloaking on top of the ID-SOL with her arm cannon pointed at his face. "I wouldn't move if I were you." Natsuko said over the speaker.
Xanatos moved in, but he mainly went over to protect the hostages. The rest of the team had pretty much vanquished the entire enemy, so he didn't really need to fight. Most of them seemed to be unharmed... for the most part.
When the haze cleared one ID SOL had fallen and the other glaring nasty daggers at Natsuko while lieing on the ground with his face smashed in and tried to pull up his gun to shoot her in the gut at close range. "You dogs of Yamatai..." He sneered a bit. The hostages were ok, shaken up and one of the littler nekos crying in fright but the ID-SOL Ashlyn had shot raised a knife weakly at Xan to try and stab at the soldiers, still blinded a bit. Charlie moved in and helped Natsuko out with the last one. His dying words were a spat curse at them all and hope they died a horrid death.
Ai sighed, relieved it was over, hopefully. Unless they had set up some bomb somewhere hidden, just in case something like this did happen, then they were done. The neko looked over the hostages, doing a brief scan to see if they were alright.
Natsuko sighed heavily. "Well, there goes the neighborhood." Natsuko said over the internal radio. "I think this is everyone, sir. Orders?" Natsuko asked as she stood up and helped up the neko that she had rolled off the ID-SOL earlier.
Xanatos shuffled over to the crying neko and spoke through the speaker in a soothing voice, "Don't worry, you're safe now. We're the good guys. Are you unharmed?" He had his sensors scan the poor thing to get his answer, but the Yamataian also wanted to try to calm her down a bit.
The neko nodded to him lightly and whimpered a little and looked around at all that went on. Soon Caine would come through on everyone's comm systems, congratulating them on a job well done. "I've been watching your progress via live feed/
Galar moved the dead IDSOL away from the crying neko, as it would no doubt distress her further, and deactivated his active cammo as not to scare her. "I hope you aren't hurt; we are here to save you from those bad men." Over the comm, Galar asked David, "Is that all of them? Nothing else we have to worry about? If not, I would like to get these neko's out of here and into medical care, they are no doubt quite traumatized by this."
"That's all of them." David said over the comm. "go ahead and start helping the survivors out and to the waiting ambulance." He instructed them. Charles came visible and nodded to them as the survivors looked around and began to stand up, the little neko calming down some but still seeming a little shaken up. They could walk at the very least.
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