Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 2

Sinon laid down on her stomach as she was looking out from atop a hill in the Wasteland as spread out many meters away and around her was her squad, or at least the squad she was currently rolling with at the moment. Although it wasn't part of a huge squadron, it was a large squad of 20 members, including her, and they all tended to sway towards Physical-type guns than Energy-type guns.

Physical and Energy were terms to describe the type of attacks weapons did. Energy weapons were all guns and the more famous Photon Swords as they all used a energy-type, for example plasma or energize photons, all could be blocked by an energy shield. Physical guns used normal bullets instead of plasma bursts or ever laser as they could pass through energy shields and were only blocked by cover or a really thick shield.

Her Hecate 2 was a Physical gun, using a .50 caliber round to kill her opponents, and she also had on her belt a MP-7, another Physical gun, and a Glock 18C with an extended clip, her last Physical gun.

Using Physical guns were mainly meant to use against players, since all players had energy shields, whereas the Energy-type weapons were perfect to us against monsters that often congregated in dungeons and dungeon entrances.

This meant the Squadron of 50+ players, 45 who all had the energy weapons, were at a disadvantage when it came to firepower. The other 5 had M249's, M240-B's, and RPK's as they were the men to keep everyone else alive.

They, from what her squad leader had told the squad, was going to a Bomb Site and would be trying to enter a high-level area.

Bomb Sites were the only way to access dungeons directly and were often protected by dozens of monsters. However, the Bomb Site had been already cleared out by one of the squadrons squads previously and now all that was left was to plant the bomb.

Her squads objective at the moment was to wait for the squadron to enter before charging in and attacking them while monsters were attacking them.

And so, she was on her stomach, watching as the large squadron slowly made its way over the wasteland as she heard over her radio, "Alright, boys... keep calm and stay out of sight..."

She watched as the huge squadron slowly made its way to the Bomb Site and as one of them began to put down the bomb, he placed it next to a crate full of explosives that every Bombsite had but could only be blown up by that level or higher explosives. Which meant wooden doors could be blown up by grenades and C4 but steel doors could only be blown up by C4 or larger explosives.

This door, located is the side of a cliff face, was a thick admatium so they were using a advanced, lv.60 Plasma charge, which looked like a huge circular disk about a thick as a brick and had on its top a grip and four buttons to make a combination to arm the device. And as she watched through the scope of her rifle as the player put it down on the site, the 49 other players spread out as they were suppose to be covering the bomb from being defused.

Most players, if they really wanted to, could effuse the bomb for some decent XP but they risked either getting killed by players, killed by monsters, and generally ticking off everyone around them so it didn't really ever happen.

The bomb was planted and as she watched the timer appear, about 2 minutes, she watched as the players slowly moved a distance away from the site as they spread out across the rocks that were around the site while a few began to set up sandbag barriers to use as well.

"Alright.. looks like we're golden.." said her leader and she kept her breathing normal.

Suddenly, from next to the bomb site itself, she watched as a player suddenly rise up from the sand as their cloak, which was  what looked like a Metamaterial Optical Camouflage, as they suddenly took the bomb and began to hold the handle and defuse it as they also were spinning around like a complete idiot.