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Part 12: A Game Changer

After the very short briefing, the Fireteam Elder members stood and headed for their barracks to customize their weapons and prepare themselves. "Fellas, remember Operation Payday?" Elder 1-1 transmitted to the others. "Yeah, what about it?" 1-2 responded, 1-1 speaking after. "Should we main machine gun like them for this op?" "Hell yeah." The rest of the team responded.

The fireteam members immediately started equipping DBCKs onto their HPB guns, and enchanting their gear with new M38 Enchanters. They also spent a while with each other talking about potential setups they might use, until they decided to use the same attachment setup. Elder 1-1 started up a shooting range simulation and tested his gun, finding the setup good enough.

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"MO - Operation Blackout"

December 24, 35794 - 19:00:00

Elder 1-1 'Overmatch' 

PPD Facility 'Alpha', 

 Common Republic of Starin

A single M60 VTOL, fully cloaked, flew into the orbit of an icy planet, with the planet having a particularly high thaumaturgic signature focused on one point, which is where the facility is. The VTOL's controller marked the point, and fired 5 geometrically-shaped diamond-like pods out of its fuselage. The pods engaged their thrusters and accelerated towards the planet, spinning as they did.

The pods impacted a few hundred meters away from the power facility, embedding themselves a few meters into a glacier towering over the facility. The ice they hit melted and slightly cracked as the fireteam's pods disintegrated around them. Elder 1-1 gestured for the others to head over to him. They followed, lightly running over the slightly cracked yet still stable ice.

Their target was visible below the glacier's 'cliff', with multiple large extractors embedded deep in the ice and pulsing with colorful thaumaturgic energy. The floating rings that seemed to be making up the factory's pipelines seemed to be working in optimal condition, large beams of thaumaturgic energy flowing through them and into a main building in the center.

A bunch of large buildings neatly placed around the facility seemed to be beaming the energy towards the CROS home world, and a medium-sized building at the massive facility's outskirts and on a hill with multiple organized arrays on its roof and on adjacent land seemed to be their communications building. Elder 1-1 pinged the building and instantly activated his jetpack, blinking over to it.

He ran a quick scan and only found armed personnel in it. Knowing this, he drew his M1290, lifting it up and adjusting it to his eye level and then immediately headshotting several CROS personnel with pinpoint .999 AD fire. The massive 25mm round designated for killing deities, naturally, used on CROS personnel, "sent them to the forever box".

Crashing through the door, clearing some hallways and then turning into the main console room, 1-1 ripped open the console panel and shoved a thaumaturgic jammer inside, then placing back the part he ripped off. He also reaffixed it to the main frame, and then left the room, crashing through the door again, heading towards the main facility as the console crackled from the jammer shoved inside it. 

Elder 1-1 repeatedly teleported towards it until he reached a relatively tall surrounding wall. Not caring about it, he proceeded to blast it with .999 rounds until it exploded, which it did, some ammo box likely being the source of the explosion. Pinging the opening for his teammates, he scanned the facility and located several unarmed signatures deep inside the main facility, all bound in a circular formation facing outward.

"Got some unarmed sigs in the main building, prolly hostages. Clear outside, watch inside." Elder 1-1 ordered. The others followed him through the wall break and proceeded to start unloading their M1290s. The beams flying from these guns, the .999 munition, ripped through more unfortunate CROS personnel. Autonomous CROS tanks onsite armed with twin 50mm gatling guns, attempted to drive towards the fireteam and eliminate them.