Hazmat: Reclaimer Role Play

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Rek smiled at Kat and finished the ration bar. He turned to Daran. "You ok buddy?"

Daran nodded but didn't look up. "Fine. I'm ok, really. Just a little tired."

"Get some sleep, we'll need all of us when the time is right." Rek watched Daran nod then chuckled. "He'll be fine I hope." He returned the favor and kissed Kat on her cheek. "You ok?" As he asked the question his eyes became dark and hollow. "Carlos.." Rek had felt his mind join the collective thoughts of the many. "Carlos! Pull in at the next service station." He ordered and reattached his helmet, feeling the cool flow of modulated air on his skin. "We have a rendezvous with someone." He said.

Frank looked over at Rek then remembered Sam, his old partener. "Sam where are you?"

Rek turned to Frank. "Don't worry bud, he's not infected... yet."

***

Millitary Base. 5 miles from Norad.

The siren began wailing as the alert went out. "Attention! Red alert! Red Alert! All troops prepare for combat!" Echoed over the sirens as troops rushed to the perimeter defense stations and gun towers. Helicopter gun-ships were preped but not activated until given clearance while armoured vehicals of all types, from tanks to jeeps, to APC's all raced to their own stations. "Repeat: Red Alert! Infected have been detected by our sentry posts! This is no drill!" The sirens faded as troops took their stations, loaded and ready for combat. It suddenly went deadly silent. The waiting game.

One of the soldiers on the gun towers scanned the ground around the Military installation. "I don't see anything.. this had better not be another damn drill!"

The soldier manning the heavy gun nodded. "Command has been really jumpy, you think this is just another false alarm." There had already been three false alarms that day, it was a wonder why they were not on constant alert.

"Maybe.." A third soldier chimed in. "After all, we're at war."

***

'Jacob.' Rek spoke mentally. 'What are you doing?' He kept his eyes on the APC's door.

"I'm fine. Just getting a little nervous." Kat smiled and nodded before setting her hand on Daran's forehead. "Try to relax. I'll stay in here with you to keep watch." She pulled a clip from her pocket, realizing that it was her last. 'Damn it.' She thought. Reluctantly she pushed the clip into place and sighed softly.

"I'm not stupid enough to tell you my plans." Jacob turned to Ben. "We'll overtake the Norad from the southern launch pad. Send a distraction force to the base." Jacob and Ben both climbed into a working vehicle and took off down the road heading to the southern edge of the base.

'Why? What made you join the many? Leave the few?' Rek looked over at Kat.

Daran nodded. He offered a weak smile.

***

"We got movement. South road."

"Rodger. Gun-ship enroute."

A tank and a troop transport were patroling the road when Jacobs vehical was spotted. The tank didn't even wait to confirm but opened fire. The shell tore through the air and exploded in the road several meters from its targets. The explosion shook the vehical. Patroling troops turned and began to fire across the great distance.

The Gun-ship took off and flew across the base over open country and down towards the road.

The tank turned, its machine guns firing. Another shell leaped fourth and exploded.

She frowned and looked up at him. "No. It's just the calm before the storm. I'm nervous about what might happen." She ran a hand through her hair and looked over at Shannon who had fallen asleep.

Jacob hit the gas and kept the truck going steady while Ben was out the window taking pot shots at the soldiers around the base. A force of ten-thousand infected make their assault target, the front gate of the Air base. "If we can make into the Norad's docking bay, then we can make our way straight to the Command Center." Ben looked over at him. "Won't they just lock it when we get close?" Jacob shook his head. "No, it can't shut or lock until they start the lift off process." Ben quirked a brow. "Won't they just take off?" Jacob laughed. "They can't, at least not without MY code." They both laughed as a tank round hit right next to the truck. "Ok, now it's serious time! No more laughing!"

The Gun-ship got a lock and fired off a few missiles. Its machine guns blazed as it completed its first pass, the bullets tore head-sized holes across the road, then chewing through the back of the truck. The missiles followed the truck and exploded close to it, one hitting a tree, the other flying through the back of the truck and exploding in the air beside the cab. The M1A1 Abrams battle tank, fired yet another shell which ripped up the 'Restricted Area' sign on the road-side.

***

Tracer fire scattered across the ground, bullets zipping into the inferno of infected bodies. Gun-ships pounded the crowding infected with 50 caliber bullets and rockets, tearing through zombies in a bloody haze. Ground troops fired from their secured defense bunkers as the infected hoard grew. Gun-towers fired down into the swarm, cutting down any who dared come close enough to the Main Entrance. Explosions sent the infected flying in pieces.

An F-35 blurred across the air. It dropped a fuel bomb. The canister fell into the attacking infected's midst, and exploded in a 200 meter wide fireball that evaorated flesh in every direction. The infected soon began to dwindle as a huge blackened, smoke filled gap was created in the attacking wave. Another pass of the F-35 had its vulcan cannon dotting the ground with massive holes that tore through infected flesh like butter. Soon the ground became blackened, scourched and blood soaked, while smoke rose from the still burning bodies and the ground.

Five M1A1 Abrams battle tanks surged out of the Air-base. Triple machine guns firing at any remaining infected of the first attack swarm. Its 120mm cannon swinging around on the turret to fire upon the still standing groups with 105mm shells. Some smarter Alamagators tried to run but were crushed under the Abrams treads, then the tanks stopped giving chase.

Silence followed.

***

Rek waited till the APC stopped, his hand on his rifle.

"Thanks, but I'll be fine." Daran shook his head.

Rek nodded. "Get some sleep soldier." Rek moved over to the door seat. The Leaper laying soundlessly in the back stood up and stretched its limbs. It whined. "Shhh!"

The Leaper immediately stopped silent. Frank glanced at the Leaper then to Kat. 'We need to talk about Rek.' He mouthed. Not wishing Rek to hear.

Jacob laughed as the back of the truck fell to the ground and two make shift thrusters on the back of the trucks frame fired and sent the truck in the are. As the front faced the ground two on the front axel fired sending the truck hurdling over the base gate and defenses. Ben aimed an RPG modified with a newly designed cluster rocket. "Survey say.. you're dead." Ben squeezed the trigger and the rocket shot towards the tank, and about half way there, it split into multiple targets that pounded at the tank heavily. By now the thrusters had burned out and brought the truck rolling. When the truck came to a stand still, they both lept from the wreckage and into the docking bay of the Norad.

Alarms instantly began wailing out as the truck flew over the perimeter fence. On the landing pad entrance and the pad itself were two M60A3 MBT's (Main Battle Tanks) and several support troop squads. The 105mm guns swiveled to face the truck as Jacob and Ben leapt out. Their combined fire turning the truck into flying shrapnel and creating blackened craters in the pads ground. The M60A3's 7.62mm mounted co-axial machine-gun manned from inside the turrets began letting lose a flurry of bullets in the intruders direction. One tank turned to track Jacob while the other moved off the access ramp and onto the pad itself. Its 105mm gun blasting a third crater in the pad where Ben had been moments before.

The troops filled out and instanty overtook the tanks. Their M15's raised and aimed at Jacob and the others at Ben. "Put your weapons down sir, the tanks behind us won't hesitate to fire if you do not comply." He said strongly but slightly shaken with that thought.

An M1A1 Abrams rolled onto the pad behind the two M60A3 MBT's holding the entrance ramp. It stopped as it aimed its gun at one of the two Race Lords.

***

At the entrance more Infected had been attacking but quickly driven off each time. Another Gun-ship left its pad and headed towards the breach alert. When it arrivered it hovered over the area with its weapons trained downwards at the two attackers.

(( 🤨 You thought taking this place was going to be easy? Think again! This place has a very large platoon of tanks and air-ships. I'm just trying to be realistic, after all this is a millitary compound/base/headquaters/facility/air-base. Don't be so vein in thinking the military are just going to hand Norad over to Infedels/Infected without a fight. Just being realistic, this is what you would encounter on a small scale. I'm gonna make your life hell. Mwhahahahahaaaaa! 🤨 ))

((This was just an airfield where the Norad came to refuel. It was only a military frieghter, but then again that would be something you would want to protect during an incident like this.))

Jacob and Ben quickly flew into past the docking bay doors carrying only side arms. Ben had already sustained two wounds on his back from shrapnel and one gunshot. Jacob was relatively unharmed but still suffered from some blunt force. They were both warn out but still felt a little safe, since onlt ground forces could attack. "We should be safe from the tanks now." Ben glared. "You neglected to mention they had tanks! You said there would be little to no resistance!" Jacob turned to him. "You were part of the army, you know what they could have sent at us!" Jacob sighed and looked away. "You head up to the control room and set the ship in take off, but only set up the perimeter shields. I'm heading down to the lab holding cells.. there's something I need to see." Jacob made his way to the elevator which quickly took him to the labs. They were relatively abandoned except for a few scared scientists, but they weren't his interest. It was containment cell seventeen that was his priority. "So, you came?" Jacob snapped back in his head. "I didn't come to free you, I came to take your power." The voice played through all of the heads of the infected. "Ha ha ha, I am where you come from. I AM the infection!"

((actually, the modded rpg wouldnt have worked anyway. tanks of the time the infection took place would have anti missile and rocket systems to destroy the rockets before they got close enough to do damage. 😛 ))

carlos brought the apc to a halt and exited. he waved his hands to signal the helicopters to drop off the tank. it was an m1a2. one black hawk unloaded the tank crew, while the other one used extra fuel tanks to refuel to ch-46 "hey rek, why'd you ask me to stop here?" the 2 black hawks began their journey back to the norad.

(Oookay wierd!)

The troops quickly persued Jacob and Ben, but seeing no other way to get at Jacob they disabled the lift shaft with a few timed explosives. They figured easily repairable. Then half the platoon followed Ben up by the stairs.

Tanks began to surround Norad, some LAT's (Light Assault Tanks) and ULAV's (Ultra-Light Assault Vehicals) boarded the access ramps. Gun-ships not protecting the air-field hovered around the 'Norad' Air-freighter. Several F-35 jets danced around the airspace and some UH-60 choppers dropped reinforcements into the hanger-bays. (Shields? What is this.. Science Fiction?)

The guards protecting the control bridge began firing at Ben the second the saw him, causing him to duck back down the stairs for cover. The controllers desperately tried to disable the Freight-craft by encoding the main computer.

The spun grabbing side-arms as the door was blown open and began firing.

***

In the labs, one smart scientist sealed off the containment cells with light blast-door. "Th- this is-s Docter Oeken, request h-help. Containmen-ment lab 1-A." The sientist finished as the closed light blastdoor exploded open a minute later.

Actually an Abrams M1A1's armour is said to be inpenetrable by that kind of attack. I have a book on Tanks of the World. Yea, we'll not start introducing too many new tank just realistic ones. Though my book has a few ultra modern tanks that never saw full production due to costs.))

Rek climbed out. "Good. How far are we from Norad?" He glanced at Carlos. "Well we need supplies and fuel for the APC."

((well, there is such a thing as an m1a2. look on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams oh, and there are people coming up with systems to protect tanks from close range attacks by antitank missiles and rockets. 1 rpg wouldnt be enough, but 10 would be more then enough. which gives the need for anti missile tech.))carlos glanced at the black hawks as they sped off. "a few miles maybe." he turned. "well, lets see." he walked over to the gas station thing and pulled out the hose. he squeezed the mechanism at the end of the hose and gasoline came out. "allright, open the fuel port."

Jacob opened cell seventeen and watched as a twelve foot creature emerged from the cell. The creature infected a scientist by grabbing his head and lifting him into the air. "No more shall you use me to create your virus!" The scientist tried his hardest to escape, but quickly ceased movement. The resulting creature stood up and had a two foot jagged bone jutting out of it's wrist. "Kill all the humans you see." Jacob opened all the remaining cells and released a flurry of random creatures made from the virus. Ben waited a few moments before pearing at a vent that lead down. "Eh, what the hell.." He tackled through the grating and dropped into the now deserted baracks. "Wow, these guys get moving quick.." Jacob examined the destroyed shaft and sighed. "I know marines are typically not the smartest.. but destroying the lift, while there are still stairs leading up.." He shook his head and made his way over to the stairs and stood facing a blast door. "Ok, I didn't give enough credit." The creature with the long blade on his arm grunted and forced the door open as far as he could, feeling the doors automated arms try and force closed. Jacob graciosly took his chance to move. "What am I even doing, no doubt there are guard in.. the mess hall. Thank you! A break!" Jacob took the chance to move freely through the mess. "If I remember correctly.. the Bridge is up ahead to the left.." Jacob sprinted ahead and tackled the first guard he saw, infecting him quickly and shooting the next he saw with his pistol. Jacob forced himself to his feet and bust into the bridge, to find no one. "Oh you have got to kidding me!!"

Kat nodded to Frank then quietly looked back to Rek.

did you not see jr post that there were gaurds on the control bridge?))

((I am playing it off that the troops all went off after Ben. He is bigger danger after all. He's also why the captain is no longer there. They are escorting.))

((The computers were encoded too so you cant use them, yet.))

((Jacob can. He set up a code on the computer so the encoding was usely. All controls to the ship have been locked down. See he thought ahead before the attack on the town even began. Either way this ends with him and Ben overtaking the ship and "leaving"😉)