It was now 9:00, and the fight was still raging. Vasily and the others had been forced into the interior of the depot, with the assault in full force. Normally, the West don't just zerg rush bases like this. Something about this supply depot must be important. Only about 20 of the troops remained inside the base. Vasily had lost track of Oleg, but he was sure he was still alive. Vasily had raised his kill count by about 30 during the attack, and was still going. He had run out of ammo for his Jackhammer, and was now relying on his .44 revolver. An issue was ordered to retreat to the helipad, for immediate evacuation. Vasily knew he was cut off from the helipad by the West, so he and two others retreated into the storage area. Whilst hiding inside, Vasily discovered a trap door, leading to a sub-basement. Vasily ventured down into the basement, wondering what was inside. He had not been briefed about this area, which must meant if had very high level clearance. He and the two anonymous Eastern soldiers entered the hatch, seeing a man by a table, studying some kind of green material.

"What are you people doing? You can't come down here!"

Dmitri took a quick change of focus and lit up Chris' back as a distraction, he then went back to firing at the surrounding enemies

'Why,' thought Rob, 'would someone try to rush in heavy armour?' Rob completed his reloading before the man was even halfway there. He fired again, this time aiming dead centre for maximum accuracy. Not waiting to see the result, Rob began reloading. As he was doing so, he knelt down, bracing himself against the ground. From his should, a stream of missiles burst forth.

Damien smiled. "No, i expected that. however, check your systems. let's just say that was the HIVE virus of machines." He heard panicky voices as the Norton system was deactivated then destroyed. "Second wave, activate."

He saw a man shooting at chris. "Hello," Damien said. "New target. you like picking people off? let's see how much you like it when it happens to you?" Damien dashed towards this new enemy, faster than anybody could hope to follow.

Chris looked around, but noticed a large, sizzling mark on his chest. He sank to his knees and called for a teammate weakly.

"Someone... help me..."

Peter slowed down. He had just seen a fellow soldier have his head blown off running at the Berserker. He realised he needed to be sneakier about this.

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"Emergency fail safe activated, Counter Virus released" Hydra said in a monotone "I am the most advanced computer ever made, you can not destroy me." She said in somewhat insulted that she had been underestimated.

Nikolia flew down at Chris with his knife drawn.

Dmitri opened a channel to hydra "The commander's down, I suggest 17 focus on flyboy before he take out the only other sniper in our battalion!"

Chris noticed a man flying down to him with a knife. He held up his own with what strengh he had. He noticed that every time the blades met, his began to burn. Soon, it had been cut in half. He raised his fists and said, "Fight like a man, will you?"

"The bastard who broke my leg, he was headed towards the sniper up on the ridge last I saw him"

that's a negative, The current target is the enemies squad commander. Hydra responded over the mic. Nikolia growled as his knife cut through the enemies knife, not showing mercy on his opponent. He quickly drew his other knife and began to stab towards Chris.

"Requesting scout armours, I require short range defence, to my position if available." That incident had highlighted his need for support. No sooner had he sent out his radio signal than he saw another armour coming towards him, another heavy. It was moving oddly fast but still not fast enough to worry Rob. Did this army not have scouts or something? Rob raised his rifle and fired again, reloading as soon as he had. He hoped that he could hold him off for just a bit longer...

Damien saw what the sniper had done to his friend Chris, and he was pissed. the pack on his back opened up, and two Direct Energy cannons swung forward on his shoulders. He opened fire, plasma streaking across, obliterating everything it touched. He dashed back to Chris, the DE cannons going back into the pack. He was now behind the man standing over Chris with a knife. He grabbed the man by his head, huge fingers gaining purchase. He twisted and threw the man. With the help of the servo's in the armor, the man went at least 20 feet. Damien knelt by his friend. "Hang on buddy, i ain't letting you die yet." He rummaged in his bag and found what he was looking for, sealant spray. He sprayed the contents liberally into Chris' wound. the spray foamed up in the wound, killing all bacteria, closing the would, stopping all bleeding, and accelerated the natural healing process of Chris' body.

The plasma fire lashed the ground around Rob, a wild undirected salvo. He survived realativly unscathed, probably owing to the fact it was more suppressive fire than anything else. However it did mean that he couldn't fire, not with his face being planted firmly in the ground. When he finally managed to look up, he saw that the medic had completed his task and was standing up, probably to help his friend up.

"Unless you haven't noticed, we've been fighting for hours up there. We need to hide." said one of the anonymous soldiers. He was an American, Vasily thought.

"Well, you can't hide here. We can't risk being discovered!" whispered the Lead Researcher.

"Listen, we have nowhere else to go. We have been cut off from the evac point, and we figure we could hide out down here until reinforcements come." Vasily explained. "Besides, we have guns. We can protect you."

"Ok, fine. Come down here. But, if you tell a soul about this, we will have you killed!" One of the scientists shouted.

The three men walked down. The lab was well lit, and its walls were sterile white. There was an entire tank of the green material that the scientists were observing. The hatch was locked down, and the scientist continued their work.

"What is all this stuff?" asked the American soldier. "Some kind of new material?"

"Well not exactly. It's-" one scientist began.

"It's nothing you need to know about." the Lead Researcher interrupted. According to his name tag, his name was Robert McCallister.

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Rob lamented that his missiles were still reloading, otherwise he could get two for one. However a stationary target was just as good. Rob hesitated a moment. Normally he wouldn't shoot medic but this one was fully armed, he couldn't take the chance. He pulled the trigger, sending the bullet spiralling at the kneeling figure.

Nikolia hit the ground near a building, it felt like he was hit by a train and he had the worst head ache imaginable. "Nice one number 17, you flew really far" Hydra said sarcastically to Nikolia "Whatever, i downloaded the information from that guys system, his name is Chris!" she said with a tone of excitement.

"And that matters why?" Nikolia muttered to Hydra, picking himself up from the ground.

"i like that name, I wish your name was Chris...." She replied playfully to Nikolia, Nikolia hatted when she acted like this.

Dmitri, in the meantime, was trapped on a roof, isn't that exciting!?

"Rather then get yourself killed why don't you patch up that sniper?"

"Fine!" He shouted at Hydra, flying back up to the roof. He knelled onto the ground once he reached the roof. Reaching into his emergency supply kit, he pulled out a few syringes containing a mixture morphine, ibuprofen and other liquid painkillers along with another needle containing healing nanobots. "Okay this will only take a second" Hydra said calmly to Dmitri. Nikolia injected the two needles into Dmitri's leg, the wound and bone quickly rehealed within a matter of seconds. "you feeling alright?" Nikolia asked the mercenary.

Dmitri tested out his leg and then nodded "Aside form a significant lack of a sniper rifle, yes."

Damien grabbed Chris and put him on his back in a fireman's carry. he activated the boosters and laid him down gently about half a mile away from the battle. He created a bunker in the ground and waited for Chris to wake up.

"Well that's good, do you have a handgun or something?" he questioned sliding his two knifes back into his sheaths.

Dmitri removed and a bulky pistol from its holster on his hip "Yes, yes I do."

Peter watched with horror as his target was flown away from him before his very eyes. In his frustration, he lobbed all of his EMP grenades wildly into the air. One lucky shot knocked out the cloaks of a nearby scout squadron. Grinning maniacally, he took out his knife, and proceeded to stab each of them through the heart.

He took off back to the frontline, hoping to get a few potshots from behind enemy lines.

Nikolia looked down at the pistol, rather big for a handgun, possible a magnum. "Very nice" he turned his attention towards the battle field, a good deal of the enemy forces retreated, a victory by forfeit. "So, whats your name?" Hydra asked Dmitri in a playful tone.

"Dmitri Kamarov, at your service." He responded to the computer, adding a bit of a bow for no apparent reason.

Rob had been forced to give up his position before the enemy retreat. With the absence of the two heavy armours, the army was not holding together well and as they were pushed back, they came closer the Rob's position. Rob returned to base, hoping that there would be enough time to patch his armour. Despite their retreat, there was still a possibility of the enemy rallying. All he could hope for is that the scout armours kept them too busy for that.

Christopher woke up. "Mommy... is that you?"

"No, it's Damien. Your squadmate, remember?"

"Oh, right. Thanks for saving me, by the way."

"No problem." Chris pulled out his comms device and spoke into it.

"We need a medical evac, ASAP. Repeat, medical evac ASAP."

"No one calls you Nikolia.." Hydra muttered. "And that voice your hearing is Hydra"

Dmitri grinned "Hydra, eh? she's got alot of spunk compared to most A.I. programs"

"Yeah, they developed Hydra with a personality, creative choice by the developer." Nikolia muttered, resting his Mac 10 to his side.

"What a wonderful choice that was, wasn't it?"

"Yes, wonderful....." Nikolia said somewhat frustrated by Hydra "Any way, we should probably regroup with the rest of the western troops."