Jin took a few steps back and started running towards the weakened portion of the underground door and with a leap, he extended his leg to dive and smash through the entrance.
“NOW!” Jin’s command enabled Click to simultaneously cut the power underneath the church premises, causing the blackout within the Rebel’s tunnel.
This sudden change in the environmental setting caused the Rebel Mechanoids holed up in the tunnel to have a lag in their processing speed. While they were not like humans to process the shock, the loss of lighting plus the instance of Jin smashing through the entrance is like a flashbang to their decision making tree.
This brought Jin a few precious seconds to readjust himself while Yinn was already right behind him providing covering fire and eliminating a few Mechanoids at the rear. While it was more suitable for Yinn to provide more breathing room for Jin, the commander told her that he could handle the front ones. This would further incapacitate the Rebel Mechanoids in this sneak attack.
Once gathered his bearings, Jin would then rush using his P90 submachine gun as suppressive fire while his main weapon, the electric drill pierce the Mechanoids’ life system out of array.
“Thank god for the earplugs.” Jin thought to himself as he could even hear how terrifying the sound of gunfire and electric drill buzzing loudly even with his earplugs. But that thought of relief to his ears instantly transformed to killing intent as the Mechanoids did not have such a problem once they recovered from the ‘shock’.
They had the ability to block all sounds and now that they had transitioned their vision to night mode, the rest were taking whatever shots they could against the trespassers.
“Argh! I am hit!” Jin said as the firing intensified but this was actually a command for the rest. Click upon completing her initial objective had already placed a time based programme to sabotage the rebel’s 3D printer and started to run back to the church to aid with the rest of the Squad.
When she heard the signal, Grey Bear 04 started to sprint as fast as she could so that the combat engineer could assist with the firefight. Jin started to fall back and he could see that the Mechanoids were bent on killing the Commander the moment one of them saw his mouth movements.
The Rebel Commander was delighted when he heard the update from one of the Mechanoids and the live footage of the Grey Bear Commander limping slightly. It proved to them that they were as human as they could get and made them believe that they had a shot at clearing their tainted reputation for losing this many Rebel Mechanoids.
“Go! Go! Eliminate the Commander as quickly as you can!” The Lead Rebel Commander said in anticipation of a win.
However, that realisation of a trap did not come into his mind as it was filled with adrenaline to win. Jin should be thankful that the rebel commander had his emotions riled up which caused him to fall into Grey Bear Squad’s best case scenario.
As the first Rebel Mechanoids emerged from the underground tunnel, Tellie had already sniped her down. The rest immediately knew there would be resistance and decided to use the dead Mechanoid body as a shield to rush out. The next Mechanoid was shot by Yinn but they did not stop as they continued to rush based on their Commander’s orders.
It was until the fifth dead body that the Rebel Mechanoids began to hesitate a little to emerge that quickly. They began to throw smoke grenades and high explosive grenades to deter the shooting from Grey Bear Squad as they rushed out.<.com>
“Thank god.” was the literal expression in their entire squad’s minds as the Rebel Mechanoids were still rushing out of the underground tunnel. By then, Click had already rendezvous with the main squad and was able to shoot a few unsuspecting Rebel Mechanoids who thought that the defenders were only at the front.
“Boss, you have two minutes before the sabotage starts!” Click said and compiled with Jin’s initial orders. As this was supposed to be a rescue mission, Click felt it was counterintuitive to cause a fire underground.
“Okay,” Jin said as he took cover for a moment and consulted with the Tactical System. If he rushed through the underground tunnels to reach where the kids were, it would take a minute. There would be not enough time to sweep the area for the Lead Rebel Commanders who were situated even deeper down underground.
But this was not a sweep. It was a rescue mission and an attempt to cut off the Rebels’ exit.
“There is no way, you can rescue them yourself,” Yinn said as she determined it to be reckless.
“Who said I am going in, myself?” Jin smiled as he closed the Tactical System and reload his P90 submachine gun.
“Sometimes I want that old useless good for nothing commander back. At least, he won’t give such ridiculous commands.” Diaz said as she too reloaded her weapon.
“We are going in to rescue the kids. Grey Bear 03 and 01 will follow and assist. Grey Bear 04, plant explosives around the tunnel. Grey Bear 02, provide cover for Grey Bear 04. We will start in 3, 2, 1. GO!” Jin said as he stood up and shot any Rebel Mechanoid he could see.
“This commander is mad!” Diaz shouted but even as she cursed him, a smile unknowingly emerged on her face. Even as Yinn concentrated on the enemies, she could not help but grin when she saw Diaz’s elated face.
Click also assisted to ensure that there were no more Rebel Mechanoids in the open before she took out her remaining explosives which she had stolen from the dead Mechanoids near the artillery site.
Jin once again did the very same flying kick to push the Mechanoids away but Yinn had already known what her crazy commander would do so she had already thrown a flashbang so that the moment, he kicked into the Mechanoids hanging around the entrance, he would not be sprayed with bullets. After which he followed him closely via foot along with Diaz covering and killing any remaining Mechanoids with her shotgun. (After all, unlike humans, Mechanoids still can shoot unless their life systems were annihilated.)
This shock and awe tactic forced the Rebel Mechanoids to subconsciously retreat based on protocol to find cover immediately but Jin was berserking with his P90 and electric drill once more.
1 minute and 30 seconds to go.
