Chasing ghosts

The Hunt

The air was silent, stale even, and the moon shone down dimly on the ground below. Only a single person walked down the silent ally way, dressed in what resembled a hazmat suit. This person was a hunter. For what one might ask? A hunter for the glitched, this is a world where humans and robots live in tandem. Occasionally, however, these robots would spark a glitch or something that causes them to malfunction and that's when the special ops team SDS comes into play. You see these bots are not your run of the mill toaster, some of these have fought along with real men on the battlefield. Which makes em' even more of hazard. These bots had been human before, but their death put them in those tin cans. Most people blew off the idea that one of these beasts would go rogue. What a joke. I've dealt with many of em. I lost my arms to a group of rouges. Terrorist fits the description better. Those Robo thugs thought they could get everything outta me, I didn't struggle, I've been tortured before then but that's a story for another time. These bots are dangerous, in fact, that's why the SDS was formed.

Our mission was simple, enter location A, find the glitched, contain them, then if they couldn't be fixed, destroy em. But as luck would serve us, that wasn't going to be the case this time. We are prepared for every possibility. Poison gas, biological hazards, Cybernetic hazards, grenades, gunfire, etc. But nothing prepared us for what we are going to see in there.

Commander Fox paces about before turning to his squad. "Our goal is to get in there and neutralize the threat" Fox turned to the man beside him, a doctor, that would be joining them for this mission. "Anything we should know about these bots doc?" Fox eyed the man through his mask. Doc coughed "They are incredibly dangerous the ones we will be dealing with are heavily modified compared to their civilian counterparts. Just be aware this is going to be different from your usual tasking." Doc said zipping his suit up, then grabbing the pistol that lay on the table. Ghost, who was leaning against a crate looked at Fox. "So if these things are as dangerous as your saying shouldn't we try and stay hidden?" Ghost chipped in. "That's the goal, the only problem is they'll see us coming. Doc said they're heavily modified, meaning that they most likely carry things like thermal vision technology as well as tracer capabilities. We'll have to be careful about our approach." "Commander, we have a situation" a small display projected on to the wall. It was Viper, SDS's recon and scouting specialist. "What the situation Viper?" Fox turned to the screen, his yellow suit shining slightly, in the light of the room. The screen showed Viper, standing somewhat high up on a building. "They have a hostage, identified as Andy Grace. According to what I gather they are trying to press information out of him" Fox didn't change his stance "Also it looks as if they have some kind of explosive..." Viper finishes talking before Fox sighed "Alright Viper, this is a stealth mission, do not engage unless necessary" Viper nodded before disappearing from the screen. It was raining as Fox and the rest of the Delta unit made their way to where the hostage was being held, as well as the unidentified bomb. Ghost was first to approach the sight, it looked as these robots had an entire operation going on. Ghost made for a silent approach, while Fox and the doc took a slightly more direct route. The scene seems grizzly, bodies of what looked like factory works and robots littered the ground. Covered in some sort of powder. Fox's mind drifted slightly upon seeing the bodies, could a couple of glitches pull something like this off? Then it crossed his mind, yea they could, they probably could pull something off like this even better than a human could. Doc, who was close behind Fox, looked towards Fox. Doc was about to speak when loud footsteps. "How long till he learns!" One of the unknown voices screams. Fox signals Doc to follow him behind cover, which happened to be a crate. "Relax, we'll get the info out of him one way or another..." Replied the seemingly level-headed female replies. Fox and Doc slowly make their way to the main room, surprisingly avoiding detection from the glitched around them. Viper's drone flew by Foxs and Docs feet, the small and flat drone seemed to run around the room before scampering away, presumably back to Viper. Ghost, in the meantime, had already found the hostage. He had to be extremely careful or something bad would happen to him and the hostage. He had a plan, a very risky plan. Yes, there was a bomb in the room, yes there are many "guards" here as well. But if his plan worked he could save the hostage and find out what happened here, after all these glitches weren't prepared for a sneak attack and they weren't dressed in any "specialty" gear. If it wasn't for this situation they are in, they'd just seem like common street thugs.

Ghost pulled out two smoke grenades, preparing to throw them towards the "guards" that were standing there. In a split, the second Ghost slammed the smoke grenades down creating a thick cloud of white smoke. Ghost ran towards the hostage, quickly removing him from his lose restraints, before running into the shadows as the smoke cleared. The glitches blew the alarm faster than a cheetah can sprint. Fox and Doc had realized this when a voice rang "Spread out and search for any intruders!" Followed by thundering footsteps. Viper in the meantime was cornered, some of them found him. Viper was now being held at gunpoint by a thug. The thug looked at Viper, they were both by the edge of the building. Viper held his hands up, in a surrendered kind of way. Viper had a trick up his sleeves, aside from combat training of course. He got pushed back into the building he had been using as a hideout. "We got one over here!" He screamed at his comrades. Viper honestly thought it was the end, even if he could access his emp drones. They dragged him off towards the explosives they have ready to blow. "Tell me where's the rest of your squad?" One of them asked Viper, who just stayed silent. The glitched aimed at Viper's leg. "I said WHERE'S THE REST OF YOUR SQUAD?!" He screamed practically in Vipers' face. Viper looked to the bot. "Go to hell" Viper replied. The bot shot viper in the knee. He gasped in pain. "Feel like talking now?" The bot looked towards Viper. Viper chuckled "I may be a Snake, but I'm sure as hell no rat" he Replied. The glitch shot him in his other leg, basically paralyzing him. Viper just looked at the glitch with cold, unwavering eyes. "Your a fool if you think you'll get away with this for long" Viper spoke in a calm, accepting tone. "This wouldn't be the first time you glitches underestimated us" The bot looked at Viper before bursting in a pile of sparks. Viper chuckled "Emp drone, no one sees it coming till it's too late." He could feel the warm blood draining out of him. Footsteps approach him, it was Fox. Doc had been trailing behind him as well. Gunfire rang from the building. "Lethal force authorized, our covers blown, I repeat our cover is blown," Fox says over the comms. Doc started patching up Viper to the point they could get him out of the building. Ghost had seemingly disappeared with the hostage, while Fox and the squad were stuck with a bomb. "Viper can you hear me?" Fox yelled to his squadmate. Viper nodded, before looking towards the metal crate he was thrown against. Fox looked into it, shocked by what he found. A cluster of could only be described as a bioweapon. "We need to get moving! NOW!" Fox yelled while picking up Viper. Doc was already a little bit ahead.