Meanwhile...
"Templar, Reile. Johnson here. As soon as Echo squad gets there pull out and let them do their job. You guys get your asses back here pronto. Theres been an incident..." Templar sent a double click sound over the coms as acknowledgement.
Templar cursed in his mind yet he was silent. Reile had paused mid-step and started backtracking to Templar. Before he was even halfway back, Echo squad emerged from the terrain around him. And that was that, he didn't stay to resolve the situation. Templar backed away from his sniper position before standing up and taking off at a full sprint back to base. Reile wasn't far behind.
The whole trek took less than ten minutes to get back to base and another minute to get back inside where Johnson was just getting inside a humvee. He was finishing up the zipper on a body bag. He was then sitting shotgun. Connors was driving. In the backseat a man was sitting, holding a blood stained gauss wrap tightly to his neck.
Templar scrambled around the side and got in behind Connors. Reile didn't even bother with a door as he scaled the humvee with two steps, landing on top. He then swung his legs down, keeping steady on the platform in the vehicle. His hands quickly grabbed hold of the .50 cal machine gun, cocked it, and was fully alert.
Connors floored it as soon as the all clear was given by the checkpoint guard. The humvee roared out of the vault door and down the dirt road towards the town.
Templar glanced at the speedometer over Connors shoulder. The humvee was going 85 when the tires hit the paved road pointed into town. It was one hell of an emergency to make them go this fast. They passed several war statues of tanks as they passed the "Welcome to" sign. It read:
"Welcome to Rapture. Population 567."
They were in town when the lab worker next to Templar started acting funny. At first the man was sweating. Then he seemed to nod off or even die. When the humvee slammed to a stop in front of the hospital, the man had abandoned his gauss wrap and was biting Reiles' right leg. Reile was cursing and screaming in pain.
Templar cursed as he grabbed the man by the throat and threw him back against the seat, pinning him under the neck with Templars' forearm. It took 5 seconds for Connors to actually park and get out while Johnson was all over the guy in 2.
"Wait here." Said Johnson over his shoulder. Between Connors and Johnson, they managed to wrangle the guy and carry him into the hospital. Templar was handing Reile a bandage to wrap around his leg when he took in the town.
There was a museum right across the street with a banner that was advertising a military tour. Any person in the block or the musuem would have heard the screams and cussing. And those screams attracted attention. Over a hundred people were looking at the remaining two people in the humvee...
|