3So you want me to go on a resupply for one of those settlements?" Sera asked leaning on the doorway while Spectre crouched down next to the foot of the bed.
"That's the plan" he replied while brandishing a combat knife, she raised an eyebrow but chose not to ask.
"Why? Last time I checked you seem quite annoyed around me?"
"Yeah and still are but it's more bearable" he tapped the floor around the area he was until he drove the blade into the floorboard, twisting the blade and prying the board off before starting on next.
"And besides how can I trust you after a while you'll try to stab me in my sleep" he continued taking a second plank off.
"I didn't try to kill you so isn't that enough on the subject of trust" Spectre took a third plank off stacking them together.
"You were too wounded to even walk fast but now since you're feeling better now I can't be too sure" it wouldn't take a blind person to see through that bullshit but she'll play along for now.
He's a horrible liar but I'll play along" she thought.
"Fine, you're lucky I'm bored...what are you digging up anyway?" He grunted as he managed to pry a fifth plank, he took out two duffel bags throwing them on the bed before putting back the planks.
"Guns" he mumbled.
"Really just guns?" Spectre unzips one of the bags and Sera eyes widen. These weapons look like straight out of a movie, each weapon had numerous attachments and mods even having a different cameo sprayed on.
"Holy shit….these weapons definitely aren't around here...where ya get them?" He only shrugged.
"They're pretty decent weapons, most of these weapons have just had mods sloppily slapped on them, I was gonna scrap them for parts but you could take your pick" Sera eyes were practically glinting as she stared at weapons below her.
He left the room and went down the hall while Sera looked down at her selection of weapons.
There were smgs, rifles and marksman rifles as well with sidearms deeper in the bag. Sera grabbed an tiger stripped aug with a holographic scope and large extended magazine below.
"Looks awesome probably performs just as better" she thought, grabbing the weapon and setting it aside.
Spectre came back with a Kevlar vest with a serpent insignia on the left side of the plate, handing it to her before going to grab his backpack and rifle.
"Lightweight but sturdy, can help with reflexes and movement and won't put too much pressure on the stomach" he explained, giving his weapon a once over before holstering it.
"And here a radio, it's connected to my radio attached to my gear for precaution" She hummed and pocketed it.
"Now are we ready because I'm itching to move my legs?" he answered with a curt nod and cracked his neck.
"Sunlight never felt so good" Sera stretched her arms one last time before jogging up to Spectre, who was already walking ahead of her.
"Sooo...what kind of settlement are we helping?" She turned to Spectre, looked over every nook and cranny as at every alleway as if they were going to be attacked at any second.
"It's called Campus, they need help collecting resources in True Son territory" he simply replied which got a pout from the woman.
"Come on give me more details!" Spectre raised an eyebrow under his mask.
"What? That is all the details" Isac pointed down another alleyway that shortened their distance from Campus while Sera kept pestering him about details.
"Hey, wait" She stopped him, he turned to her pointing down an alleyway where a hyena corpse was laying.
They examined the body for how bizarre it was. It was only one person and that's it and from the looks of it there was little to no struggle.
"He was shot in the back of head, and guessing by looks of it, this was a fresh kill" He stated. Sera grabbed the man's duffel bag and slugged it on her shoulder, she smiled as she peeked into the inside.
"What's in there?" He asked to try to look but she shooed him away.
"Hyena stuff now leads the way" He considered just grabbing the bag but chose not to so it didn't damage her trust, he just hoped she didn't take a duffel bag of drugs but looking how careful she was being he was hoping that wasn't the case.
What they didn't see was the silhouette on top of a roof watching them silently before disappearing when the pair is out sight
They had made it to the Campus entrance a little earlier than expected but good timing nonetheless while waiting Sera tried to snatch Spectre drone from his pack which he fixed her a glare.
"What? I wanna see it" she shrugged.
"By trying to take it?" He raised an eyebrow under his mask.
"I want to see how it works. I mean when will I ever get the chance to tinker with something so complicated" she argued but he shook his head.
He was about to counter when the large container that acted like the gate was pulled up with five people leaving the settlement.
Three men and two women, one of the men with short hair introduced himself and the group and told them where they were going.
"Scouts manage to intercept a group of suppliers on their way to bring supplies to the True Son hideout luckily they manage to fend them off but the supplies were too much" the
"not much but from what the scouts had reported they are most likely holding out until reinforcement arrives to secure everything at once" he continued.
"Then let's make sure that doesn't happen. Lead the way" Spectre and Sera had taken the rear while the group was in front of them.
While they were walking, Sera had forgotten how many stray dogs were in DC, she had seen about five different dogs on their way to the place.
"Psst, Spectre" Sera whispered.
"What?" He answered while messing with his isac gear.
"What is your favorite type of dog?" She asked, earning a raised eyebrow from the agent who had stopped messing with tech to look at the woman.
"My favorite type of dog?" He repeated.
"Yeah, a simple question," she said.
"And my question is where is this coming from?" Sera growled at the mask man. did he think there was a alter motive behind that question?
"It's a simple question, why do you gotta make it difficult?" She barked. Spectre didn't want to admit but she did look pretty attractive when she's pissed.
"Alright, I'll tell you" they talked about which dog was more interesting, one that could survive in a fight or which would make the best companion. Sera had seen at least two or three glances at their direction but waved it off.
"Heads up we're here" the leader had called out and pointed to an empty building with a built-in restaurant.
"Question, where the hell are True Sons?" Sera asked as she slugged her rifle over her shoulder. There wasn't a son in sight.
"We told there was a True Son presence here and all I'm seeing is dust particles" Spectre noted as they entered.
"Check the basement, that's where they said the supplies were found" the leader ordered two of his colleagues.
"I'm going to go with them, watch the entrance for me" Spectre said to Sera in which she nodded. The three descended down into the basement, they came upon a locked steel door when the man tried to open it.
"Watch out" the man stepped back to let the woman work, she pulled out two red cylinders from her back pocket and tied it to the latch.
"Thermal charges?" Spectre asked which she nodded.
"Vendor gave some to us just in case, glad it came in handy" the thermals chew through the door causing it to hang open, she beamed but right as she was about to enter, Spectre grabbed her shoulder.
"Wait" he used the flashlight attached to the sidearm and pointed to the floor...where a thin wire can be seen.
"Looks they've already been down here and left us a little gift" he shined the flashlight to end the wire where three grenades were tied to each other dangling centimeters from the ground.
"Damn it, Henry isn't gonna like this" the man commented.
"The Campus still has the farm or did something happen?" Spectre asked.
"Outcasts have been making bolder moves, they have been attacking known resource locations and people and thanks to that more people have been flocking to the settlement" Spectre nodded.
"Which leads to more mouths to feed" he disarmed the trap and gave the grenades to man before looking around, she was right they were beaten here alright but luckily the tracks were still fresh.
"Look over here" the woman pointed to a crushed can in the corner , its contents still oozing out. When they got back to the top floor, they relayed their information to rest.
"So mission failure" Sera voiced.
"Not quite," Spectre said before the sprites formed in the middle of the room, they moved and took shape before forming four figures entering the restaurant.
"Holy shit!" Sera said at loud. They took one look at figures and knew these people were True Son troops.
"play the audio" he commanded.
"Playing audio"
"Are you sure this is the place?" One voice whispered."Yeah, Spike said he caught one them scouts coming in and out of this place on different days and always left at different times which means there has to be something they're hiding" the second voice said clutching a rifle."Well let's see if there is anything valuable they've been stocking up" the third following the other two."It seems the scouts didn't take into account if they were being tailed" Spectre exclaimed.
"At Least we found the fuckers who left you guys such a nice present" Sera followed up pointing to the grenades the other woman was holding.
Can you track them?" The leader asked in which he nodded.
"There was a camera in front of the restaurant, I should be able to get more information from that" he went outside with them in tow. Luckily it did the sprites change and more figures were seen.
"Woo wee look at the goods we hauled today!""Yeah good idea getting the some of the boys to help clean this place out""Yeah but we should find place to lay low until we move this stuff to the others""There's a garage not far from here just a couple blocks north""Alright let's move out" with that the transmission ended."A couple of blocks north huh" Spectre said before drawing his rifle.
"Well let's get going then or are we just gonna stand here with our heads in our asses," Sera walked off.
"She's very forward," one of them said while Spectre shook his head.
"This should be the place" Spectre exclaimed, pointing to the garage with it's gate and shutter closed.
Spectre activated his sonar pulse revealing ten hostiles inside, he was quite confident they could take them without much of a problem but there was a slight problem.
"Listen, we have ten nothing more than a couple standards but they also have a juggernaut with a minigun" Spectre stated to the group.
"Don't you have any Division gadgets that work?" The leader asked in which Spectre shrugged.
"Not in the sense that I can one shot no, what you need to worry about is you and buddies not to get ripped to pieces"
"Now we need to suggest we do a frontal assault on the garage, hit them hard and fast" The leader suggested, Spectre shook his head at that idea.
"Did you not hear me say something along the lines that there's a fucking juggernaut inside and they no doubt be expecting attack that way, no we sneak inside the building and enter the garage that way" he was about to argue but Sera quipped in.
"How about both?" They both turned to her.
"One team entered through the garage entrance and the other went through the building to pin them with a simple pincer attack," Sge explained. they looked at each other and then at Sera before nodding.
"Yeah that could work come let's make teams" Spectre gestured while Sera just gave him a confused look.
"What?"
Spectre will take the man and woman, he had before and head inside while Sera and the rest bust through the front.
"Alright, when I radio in I'll tell Isac to open the garage, after that you guys make a crap ton noise then we'll hit them from the back" Sera and the other guy snorted.
"Okay let's move" they split off, Sera mouthed a good luck in which he nodded, Spectre and the two entered through the front entrance of the building carefully.
"When we get down there follow my lead and don't try to make too much noise our biggest priority is killing that juggernaut" he ordered, he stopped them at the bottom peering around the corner.
""I see the door….hold got eyes on two leaving and coming our way" he dug into his back pocket and pulled a suppressor and attached it to his pistol before giving it to the man next to him.
"When I grab one of them, you shoot the other quickly," the man nodded. The footsteps were drawing closer, he took out his knife and waited.
When the two rounded around the corner, Spectre sprung into action, grabbing one of them and clasping his mouth shut before plunging his knife into his throat and chest.
The other couldn't react in time before the wall behind him was painted a new red, they dragged the corpse to a corner before crepting to the door.
"We're in position, opening the garage shutter doesn't get shot" the gate opened painfully slowly as True sons were already aiming at the door.
"Shit we might need to attack first, they might-" Spectre thought was interrupted by one soldier being blown to pieces before they could react, Spectre saw a woman behind the car shooting at the ground frantically before meeting the same fate.
"Sorry, I thought about giving these guys a little present!" Sera's voice chimed through the comms as the sound of a toy car was heard.
"I'm guessing that is the work of your friend?" The man asked.
"Let's just get the job done" Spectre kicked open the door and began firing before ducking behind a car.
"You! Suppress that engineers don't let them set up!' One of the engineers turned to fire at the group before catching a burst shot head by Sera.
"LOOK OUT!" The leader yelled before a barrage of bullets whizzed past her, the juggernaut stomped his foot on the ground before taking aim again this time on Spectre group.
"Shit" Spectre thought, getting low just before the juggernaut started firing. unfortunately the man beside him wasn't fast enough and got his shoulder hit.
"Arrgh!" The man cried out, dropping his gun and instinctively grabbing his shoulder.
"Grab his attention" Spectre said through the comms while dragging the man to safer cover with the help of a drone in shield mode.
Sera reloaded her weapon and fired into the juggernaut back but he paid it no mind his focus on the agent and wounded man trying to pull back.
She looked around and noticed the woman who was with her, who had shot a true son who tried to flank her leader. The grenades are still on the belt.
"Hey! Pass me a grenade" the woman looked at her like she was insane.
"We're in a garage full of cars don't you think it would be a bad idea to throw a grenade!?" She questioned. Sera rolled her eyes and snatched one of the grenades from her belt.
"Throw?...I got something better" she moved around the cars, crouched as the juggernaut took his attention to the Spectre who had left the injured man to the other woman's care.
"Stop running agent and fight!" The Juggernaut taunted as he sprayed at the agent, Spectre wanted to jam his knife into that Juggernaut eye so badly but it was kinda difficult when your'e ducking around cars.
Sera scowled at her target, even if she got close there was no way she would move away before catching hail bullets.
"Spectre, can you grab his attention long enough for me to pull something?" she said over the radio.
"Fine, hold on" Spectre grabbed his stim launcher from his hip and turned the dial twice, the light on the side went orange, he peeked from the support pillar he was hiding behind and fired at the juggernaut's feet.
The canister rolled and stopped, the juggernaut went to kick it away but it popped open letting out small drones flying around.
"Argh! Fuck!" The fireflies swarmed his body digging into the nook and crannies of his body armor and burying inside searing his body as well.
"Now do it!" Sera rushed to the Juggernaut shoving the grenade into the exposed neck and pulling the pin, she ran away just in time for the juggernaut to grab his minigun and swing around but it was already too late.
*BOOM*
Chunks of burning kelver and flesh splattered the ground, the smoking remains of a corpse was left. The group managed to kill the last soldier after the juggernaut exploded claiming their victory.
"Man if this what you guys run into on supply runs regularly then I understand why you need an agent" Sera huffed her heart racing.
"Usually our runs go way smoother than this I guess today had some special for us" the man patted her back.
"Hey…." Spectre tried to get their attention.
"That was awesome the way you jammed that frag into him" the woman complimented while she carried the wounded man who was bandaged up.
"...Hey," Spectre said again.
"Well whatever let's get the supplies and get back to campus I want a cold one so bad right now" the leader spoke.
"Hey!" Spectre yelled, grabbing their attention. He pointed to a car riddled with bullets and leaking gas all over the concrete but was more bad that a piece of burning kelvers was mere inches away.
"Shit! Get that man out of here and meet us outside, the rest of you get the supplies!" The leader ordered.
"I saw them in the corner near that white van come on!" Sera pointed with rest quickly behind her. There were multiple boxes stacked on top each other and not only that there were munitions as well.
"Damn these guys were stacked" she thought.
"We can't not move these all at once" Spectre pointed but an idea hit her.
"Spectre and boss man open the back of the van, you two move those boxes inside" Sera went toward the driver seat and burst open the window and unlocked the door.
"Are you sure about this?" The leader turned to Spectre who just shrugged.
"Better then coming back with only one to two boxes" they opened the doors of the van and helped the two load the stuff into the van.
"Come on, Come on!" She mumbled as she hotwired the van, the lights up as the engine grumbled, she let out a quiet 'fuck yea' as she put the van into drive.
They finished putting the last of the cargo inside and went inside as well as she hit gas leaving the garage before another explosion echoed that night.
When they got back to the apartment, Sera flopped onto the couch and groaned as she dropped her aug on to the ground.
"Finally got to move my legs and now I just want to be couch ridden again" She groaned.
Spectre, who had just left his room to drop all his gear off, sat beside her.
"Really so I can take care of you more?, no thanks being an agent is tiring enough as it is" She gave a kick in arm and a finger before digging into the duffel bag beside her on the floor and pulling out a couple of beers.
"Where did you get that?" He asked.
"When we were unloading those supplies at the entrance of the campus I found a case of this stuff when when I knocked off the lid took a couple for our troubles" she pushed a bottle toward him.
He considered a little before taking it, he twisted the cork and tossed it on the coffee table, he turned to Sera eyes staring intently at him.
He chuckled before rising up and heading into the kitchen and coming back with a straw.
"Oh you are so fucking lame for that" She groaned as he took a sip. He hadn't had alcohol in some time so the buzz was a little more strong.
She took a swig from hers and stared off into space before questioning.
"Do you ever wish things could go back to the way they were before?" She asked.
"I'm pretty sure everyone wishes for that everyday...hell even those who died during all this wishes for that miracle" she hummed.
"What did you do before all this?" Spectre turned to ask.
"Eh simple really worked at a mechanic shop for some time before working at some astro company Whatever as an engineer before all this shit went down" she explained. Spectre thought it would be a good idea to keep family out of this to not bring up any troubled memories.
While she was talking she managed to down three beers and was swaying slightly while she talked.
"And when me and Karen got back, he was swinging his gun like a madman saying "Roaches can fly!? Why the fuck can they fly!?" It was fucking hilarious" She laughed as leaned against him.
She sighed and laid her head on his shoulder causing him to tense for a second before soon relaxing, she yawned and smacked her mouth a couple of times.
"I miss my crew, I really miss them but I know they aren't coming back. I just hope some are still out there surviving and are okay she yawned again.
Spectre soon heard soft snoring coming from his side implying that she fell asleep. Spectre carefully picked her up and took her to the guest room.
He gently placed her on bed and removed her cap, placing it on the nightstand beside the bed. He had to resist the urge to touch her face, mentally degrading himself for trying such actions.
He quietly left the room , closing the door behind before leaning against the wall and burying his masked face into his hands. What the hell was happening to him? Why was he feeling this?
While he was going through it. He didn't notice the small smile just before he closed the door.
Author note: wow this took a heavy while to write but I finally got the time to finish and I'm happyStay safe.
