The Regent scientist still trying to pronounce proper English, stammering away as Daniels has his suppressed pistol in his right dominant hand. Pointed directly at him. The scientist does almost a crab walk and scurries rapidly pushing the computer cart with him, as it abruptly stops as it hits the nearest wall.
This room was as cool as ice, but he was sweating as if he was outside in the heat of the desert.
Daniels grasped the neck of the scientist, lifting him high above him with one arm, with the suppressed pistol barrel digging into his neck.
“And I’m not fucking taking ‘No’ for an answer.” Daniels said in a low growl like voice.
Daniels looked down at the display of his ID badge, with the happy smile of the now horrifically scared Regent in his hand. Seeing his name, and his title under the name, “Special Weapons Analyst”.
“Mr. Dardgh Garld. Is that right? Well Mr. Garld… what say you?” As Daniels clicks back the hammer to his pistol. Garld stammers and replies, “O-o-okay!!! Okay!!!! Just let me go!!!” He finally gained some vocal stability. As requested, Daniels let Garld go in mid-air and Garld clambers to the ground, rolling his ankle. “Ouch! I didn’t mean it literally!” He exclaimed as he sucked in air through his teeth holding his ankle, moving back and forth embracing the pain.
Daniels then holsters his pistol with a click as it secured itself, leaving the hammer locked back.
He then walks over to the computer terminal in the icy cold lab, well lit, and well protected. With a key press he opens up a command prompt. Daniels then enters the password,
“Enigma Five”
The computer beeps rapidly and the screen changes rapidly to different windows. With a few rapid strikes against the keyboard, he accessed some of the records of various locations and buildings in each Regent and WEC facility.
He searches through schematics and stumbles upon floor plans of important locations.
“How… how do you know where to go? Those terminals are encrypted!” Garld said still holding his ankle, looking up at him from the floor.
Daniels says nothing, suddenly points to the screen at a location in the base, the main core that he needs to get to and destroy.
“I need to get here.” He said without looking at Garld.
“You know how many grunts will be there to protect that? It’s on constant 24 hour surveillance, plus roving patrols! It’ll be walking into an ambush!”
The word ambush suddenly brings Lee Daniels into memory land, briefly.
Daniels hits the dirt as the team he’s brand new and assigned to is attacked brutally by Regent forces wearing stealth optical camouflage. The first time they ever encountered rogue Regent forces when war was first declared. Both sides of the path was nothing more than a blood bath. Daniels low crawls into a ditch and sees one of his comrades bleeding profusely from the throat. Daniels immediately grasps this soldiers throat with his bare hands to stop the bleeding.
“We…we walked into an ambush, Daniels. Leave me here.” Reynolds, a new soldier just like him, said looking up at Daniels, gurgling on blood and choking as he coughed. Speckles of crimson was on Daniels face.
“Leave me…and get out of here alive.” Reynolds said as the gurgling got worse, as bullets and energy weapons were still firing over them. Daniels watched Reynolds eyes roll back into his head, as he slipped further into decompensated shock from airway complications and blood loss.
And then, Daniels felt the pulse disappear in his blood soaked hands.
“You know nothing of an ambush, Garld. Now, I need a weapon. My pistol can only do so much. Where is your weapons cache?” Daniels looked at Garld through his crusader visor helmet.
Garld begins to start getting onto his two feet, no longer nursing his ankle. His hair was slightly undone, and starts to fix it quick while Daniels stared him down. “If I show you, promise me you won’t kill me. I don’t want this conflict as much as you do. I don’t have a family, I don’t even have friends here. I hate how things have gone.” Slightly limping over to Daniels, and looks at where he suspects his eyes are through his visor. “I want this over with. Just don’t kill me.”
“Fine, don’t get in my fucking way.” Daniels responded almost immediately. Garld walks in front of Daniels with his simple casual shoes as the heels and ball tapped the metal platforms down a corridor to the left of where they first interacted in the icy cold room. Off to the side he inputs several codes and the door opens with a hiss and a click.
“This is one of the quick reaction force areas where they rapidly arm up.” Garld points as he stands next to Daniels, to all the weapons lockers. “This side over here, from left to right, is mostly rifles and rapid fire machine guns. Explosives.”
Daniels looked at the giant weapons holding area and scans everything. He hadn’t been in quite an assembly of weapons like this in quite some time.
“I want something mass casualty producing.” Daniels said without looking at Garld, now barely swallowing the words that Daniels asked.
“Well, um…” he ended as he walked past Daniels and accesses another ground container as long as roughly six feet. Two feet wide. And about two feet tall. Garld inputs a few codes and the latch unlocks, revealing an energy driven mini gun. Hand held. The size was roughly three and a half feet long, from trigger to end of the eight spinning barrel rotator. A backpack with the energy pack to feed this beast of a weapon was placed delicately next to it.
“Will this suit your needs?” Garld said looking over his shoulder to Daniels, as Daniels walked to the container.
“Exactly.” Daniels said. Looking down at the mini gun. The reflection of the mini gun could be seen on the visor as Garld looked at him.
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