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Part 5: Thaumaturginite

An explosive detonated right in Allen's face, which caused him to dash back and run through the right side door, which had a large central table. Allen took cover just as portals began appearing and his fireteam began firing. Different infantrybots began to flood out of the portals, open firing on Allen's fireteam. These infantrybots were also accompanied by what looked like their own ISUGVs, opening fire on the squad as well. 

"FUCK! ENEMY INFANTRY AND ISUGVs! ROCKIES [Rocket gunners], POS[ITION] BY THE DOOR AND FIRE THROUGH! NO FRACTURERS FOR NOW, COULD BE RISKY!" The Sergeant transmitted. As expected, the infantrybots armed with TEAAMLs and M154s fired through and took out a good 60% of the enemies in the room in two salvos, also irreparably damaging some furniture that was previously usable as cover. 

Sgt. Allen pulled the trigger on his PLLMG, and began wreaking havoc alongside his other machine gunners. Some riflemen and submachine gunners activated their experimental XM116 shields, rushing the enemy infantrybots. Their charge, combined with Allen and the others' suppressing guided machine gun fire managed to wipe all of them out.

There were two doors at the top of the staircase, both leading to the same area. "Team, AlphaBeta groups. Each group through one door. Might wanna pick up some trophies from the... enemy before forming up." Sgt. Allen transmitted orders. The teams passed breached the two doors, finding no enemies behind. They only found a deep hole walled with the same building material as the rest of the building and a long winding staircase heading down it. The hole was so large that the bottom was dark. The Sergeant once again had a plan for this though.

"DeltaGamma group, head down the stairs, see if there's anything there. Intel, weapons, materials, anything. AlphaBeta Group and I will will wingsuit down. Corporal James, see you and your team on the other side." Allen transmitted. "See ya later, sir. Good luck." the Corporal responded. "Good luck to ya too."

The members of AlphaBeta Group activated their jetpacks and wingsuits, and jumped down. The hole was deep enough for all of them to fly in essentially any formation they wanted, but they assumed a V-shaped formation and flew down with a slight whirring coming from their jetpacks. 

Soon, they landed onto the floor, though not without one of them hilariously faceplanting on the shiny smooth ground at the bottom of the hole. Two of Allen's squad members next to him internally rofl'd. They quickly recomposed themselves and began scanning the room with their tri-band optics. They found what seemed like massive garage doors, though obviously more advanced. The only other thing they found was a statue in the middle of the room. Allen sensed trouble.

"Form a perimeter around that statue, facing it. Might sound weird, but t'fuckin thing might come alive." "I get ya sir." the Corporal responded. "Thanks." Allen said, while inspecting the surrounding doors. A sound made him and everyone else turn towards the statue, which now, upon inspection, looked like some sort of super soldier. "Oh fuck--" the statue began cracking and falling away as he spoke.

"LIGHT 'EM THE FUCK UP!" the Sergeant yelled, as he and the rest of AlphaBeta group started shooting at the statue super soldier. All of the surrounding stone fell off, and a now very obvious object was beginning to be lifted by the super soldier. It looked like some sort of rotary autocannon, about 25mm in diameter, just bigger than their PLLMG machine guns.

It began firing its rotary autocannon at one of them while they were firing at it, and a red bar appeared in their UI. "Did we bring our TEAAML Private Second (Class) when we winged down?" "No sir, just our M154 guy." a squad machine gunner replied. "Fu-" Allen was interrupted by a, well, TEAAML explosion fired from one of the stairs above.

It completely annihilated the super soldier and left the room in a cloud of dust. The pressure from this explosion also forced open the doors around AlphaBeta team, revealing massive veins of fluorescent ore, confirmed to be the source of the mana peak. "Ok, uhh, let's get these ores mined and shipped to base, since they're the mana source. GammaDelta, find anything?" Allen said. "Found a whole ass armory sir, somewhere at an upper floor. Looted all of it." "Alright, like I said, let's get all this shit looted and sent to base." "Roger that sir."