Milo

Milo was silent the whole way to Bulgaria, lost in thought thinking about everything thats happened between the hell beginning and now, all the dead people, all those he failed to save. "Out! out you rats! let's make this quick! Follow my lead and stay low, enemy snipers may lurk ahead in those ruined buildings." Milo heard the big man shouting, snapping him form his thoughts. Grabbing his rifle and pistol Milo walked off scanning the area around the ship before rounding up near the Heavy.

Tiffany

Tiffany was off in her own little world, she did as she needed mindlessly before snapping into it as the VTOL hit the ground. Quickly grabbing her rifle she ended up leaving her pistol behind. She stayed back on overwatch near the Drop ship. "Gath, I'm going to stay near her for a bit. Something doesn't feel right," she called up to the leader.

Will, after taking the rookies pistol, ran out of the ship and quickly gave the rookie her pistol back and with a quick "You forgot this," he was off. Assassin took cover at a nearby wall, looking around. He glanced, absently, to his new Vibroknife. This little beauty packed the punch of a chainsaw without all that noise and easily concealed and sheathed. This is gonna be more than a little useful. He thought, before he snapped out of his thoughts and scanned his surroundings. "Going on Overwatch." He spoke on intercoms.

Ilsa and Teresina were up front. Suddenly, a cry for help was heard. Ilsa warned Teresina that it could be a trap. However, the warnings fell on deaf ears as Teresina wanted to rescue what sounded like a survivor. Teresina quickly arrived at the source to find out it was an ambush. Five ghouls with crossbows appeared along with a side of a trio of skeletons, a new enemy. The skeletons were wielding another new weapon: A magic carbine that utilized a scope and a revolver's swing out chamber system. The skeletons seemed to be more armed and competent than their ghoul counterparts and as a result, Ilsa attempted to land a head shot on one of the skeletons. It was a success as Ilsa's rail sniper landed right between the eye sockets of the skeleton closest to her. Teresina directly retaliated at the ambush with a shotgun blast to the one of the ghouls. After the attacks, both would hunker down. While the enemies were to find better cover, one of the ghouls shot at Teresina, who was in low cover. Although she was hit, the powered armor proved its improved strength by shrugging off the enemy bolt! This was a testament of humanity advancing in a matter of weeks. Now it was the rests to demonstrate their prowess.

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Will stared at Gath. "You know what? No. We AREN'T leaving our comrades to die. You lead the...'Pups.' I'm going."He ran off to where he heard the shots, finding the large amounts of ghouls and a trio of skellies. "Shit..." He muttered, eyes lingering on the carbines. They got an upgrade, huh? He thought, grimly.

Pulling out his pistol, he took aim. The HUD helped his aim, if only a little. Breathing slowly, he pulled the trigger at equal speed.

Kiril frowned. "Sergant Gath. I have requested a real-time data feed from the cameras installed to our armor in order to observe the situation. Something seems wrong over there - i've looked through the Paracom database, and i must say that several enemy units look like nothing i have seen before," - he said, hoping that Goliath would change his mind.

"Assasin, confirm contact with unidentified enemy forces!"

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Xavier noticed Teresina being shot at by the ghoul. Being an experienced sniper, he shot at the ghoul. The ghoul had no cover and was promptly hit right between the eyes. This was done as Xavier was moving. Eventually, the team with Goliath was able to make it to the data without incident. Goliath would notice a key and a briefcase in the area. It may contain the data that the paranormal forces were trying to secure!

William and the other two rookies made a great effort as a distraction. William's pistol, utilizing rail technology, was able to hit a skeleton right in the sternum, having the skeleton's bones shatter like glass. Just as with ghouls, the new weapons also broke into fragments. William will have to tell the rookies to spare the last skeleton for capture. Ilsa was engaging a ghoul in high cover. Although Ilsa was unable to kill the ghoul outright, the cover of the enemy was compromised. This meant opportunity for Teresina to finish off the ghoul. However, she missed her target! The attacked ghoul was scrambling for new cover. The skeleton retaliated against William, but was unable to penetrate the armor. The powered armor was not invulnerable despite demonstrated durability.

Milo

Milo kept with Gath the whole way through, orders dominated in an unknown area with people he didn't know. "Tiffany should be fine, she can take care of herself" Milo thought to himself, "She'll make the right choice even if it's not the same as mine." "Sergeant," he asked looking at the briefcase and moving towards it, "Is this what we came for?"

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Tiffany

Tiffany saw the fighting start, "Damn it, she's in danger, I have to help her, but Milo is going with Gath!" her conflictions were eating her alive. "Stay calm, he's with a higher rank he'll be fine, she might not be though" she though moving down towards the firefight. She got behind the front of a car further down the way and took a shot at the skeleton shooting at Teresina.

"Contact confirmed! Shit!" Will answered the rookie as a stray bullet hit him. The armour took the blow, but he still felt it. "Moving to better cover." He spoke through intercoms, moving to a nearby pillar. He would slowly advance towards the skeletons, but for now, he took aim with his pistol and shot at the skeleton who shot at him.

Charles rushed to Will's side as he found cover throwing a stun grenade toward a skeletons rib cage. "Are you hurt?" He said pulling his med kit out instinctively, but he noticed that the shot hadn't broke through the armor. "Damned lucky then?" He said dropping his med kit to his side as he radioed up to Xavier. "What's it look like we're dealing with here? You think its safe?" Charles risked a peak over the barrier quickly.

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Xavier quickly made his way to cover, crouching down behind it before placing his new railgun-sniper rifle on the top of it, holding it there as he steadied his aim on one of the bone-monkeys, skeletons as it was in the middle of the remaining ghouls, slowly steading his breathe as he answered Charlie quietly, hearing his question through his hud, "Got a trio of meat-bags and bone monkeys left." He slowly breathed in, ready to fire a round, whatever the hell this new, beautiful weapon did, when he noticed the ghoul attacking Teresina. Immediately his aim changed, aiming over the that ghoul's head, pausing to let his scope get a perfect aim on him. He inhaled deeply, his finger slowly squeezing the trigger, muttering, "Now only three meat-bags." He fired.

Goliath and the rookies following him were able to secure the data and opened to find dozens of protected holographic layer discs. The discs cant be played back at ParaCom, as they were the memory storage of the 2020s. Tons of information can be derived from one disc alone. The amount of information would be nearly limitless if it was recovered back to the base. Perhaps Center has a man for that job.

Charles got the drop on the skeleton with a stun grenade after Tiffany's barrage lead it to the line of fire. Though Tiffany didn't hit the skeleton, it did kill a ghoul via collateral damage. William and Xavier were able to kill the skeleton in tandem while Tiffany's shot being the catalyst. Reasons being that while William hit the center of mass, Xavier shattered the head! The three ghouls were left out of the picture. However, one was able to knock Teresina out cold for the purpose of capturing her. Ilsa also followed suit in rushing to rescue her, blasting with her pistol to rescue Teresina. She attempted to wake Teresina, but to no avail as it was too tough of a job! With that vulnerability, another ghoul showed up and knocked out Ilsa! Who was behind all this? It revealed itself. "How are you doing ladies and gentlemen? I really do want my data back! If you dare steal something from me, I shall steal something from YOU! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" This was played into the radio messages to the operatives. In fact, the voice sounded sinister and familiar to the veterans. Ilsa and Teresina were being carried off as they were knocked out cold while attempting to suppress the nearest enemies as they were running: The ghouls were strong enough for one hand for each task!

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"It was the same bastard who took Laz!" Will spoke as he continued shooting at the two skeletons. But, sniping was not his strong point and they were retreating fast. He wanted to chase them. Hell, he would. But for the first time in a long time, he just slumped and spoke over intercoms. "Centre, we've lost two rookies. Got the data. Skeletons are retreating with recruits, knocked out. Permission to pursue?"

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Center promptly responded, "Permission granted! ENGAGE! Besides, we do not negotiate with terrorists." Center gave the authority to engage the kidnappers. This was an attempt to stem Kalleh-e Marg from getting more experiments performed. "ALL ROOKIES TAKE THE DATA AND HEAD BACK TO THE SHIP!" Goliath, William, and Xavier were free to pursue the kidnappers. Goliath's suppressing fire canceled the attacks of the ghouls. This gave William and Xavier leeway to attack.

"Such gorgeous girls will make a fine addition to my laboratory! If not, they can always fill the stomachs of my minions!" Kalleh-e Marg was threatening to either experiment or have monsters eat the two women. Either way, it would be a harrowing trial. However, it was not the officer's fault, but the rookies who arrived guns blazing. If they weren't kidnapped, they would have been disciplined by Center and possibly Alina.

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"Acknowledged, sergeant. We can transfer you with our scientists and engineers. I'm well aware of his methods. We'll bring him to justice sooner or later!" Center decided that Dilana went through too much and needed rest and therapy later.

The women were then suddenly dropped while the third ghoul was taking the two women. The ghouls were getting smarter with their tactics. However, the ghoul carrying the women was slowed down considerably. Once the two women were being carried, they have limited time before they go into two porous sarcophagi! The linen wrappings stack did not help their intentions.