The Haunting Past: Deadly Sins

The escape

John was ready, his men were ready. He activated his implants to receive the data stream from Jim. He synched his implants with his personal computer to calculate the best scenario. Based on the calculations he made an accurate attack plan pointing details on his men and steps to be taken. His men got his orders in real time directly to their visors.

He ordered Vlad, Lexi, Lani and Angela to take a defensive position at the East entrance to the hangar. He and Gigi went straight to the West entrance.

Once there he tried to peak in to get a visual confirmation to the situation but did not dare to risk being noticed. He had to rely on the data from the nano drones and the gunship.

Even though he had seen battle before countless times, being injured a few times and having lost men in battle he still felt uneasy going into battle. He didn't mind it since he knew a sane amount of fear was going to keep him alive.

Still he felt that he was getting old. It used to be allot simpler when he was younger or at least that is what he remembered. Time gives and time takes. There was a time when doing crazy dangerous shit with his friends was just fun. Now he is just satisfied to get his feet up on a table, grab a beer and read a good book.

He shook his head in disbelief and laughed at himself.

Gigi wondered, "What's so funny?"

"Nothing... I think I just realized that I am getting too old for this shit," John replied and smiled.

"Hah! Welcome to the club! I've been feeling too old since my boy was born. You start feeling old when you realize you used to be cool and do cool shit. Then one day you find yourself arguing with a smaller version of yourself about how to take dump in the toilet."

They both laughed, it reminded the major about the times when he was visiting Gigi and Alexa. Gigi was chasing his youngest who had just escaped from the toilet with a diaper in his hand and toilet paper in the other had. It was hilarious to watch a grown man tumble and fumble while trying change a toddler's diaper.

He shook his head again and replied with a cheer in his heart, "Yep, we are definitely too old for this shit. When this is all over I'll take the whole crew, the kids, dogs and cats: the whole bunch. We'll go to Laho beach. We'll eat, drink, play games and visit Rusty at his bar. We definitely need a break!"

Gigi had a big smile on his face, "I hold you to your word John."

They were both ready and in position, John gave the order to Jim. All he had to do now was wait for the sounds of hell.

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The gunship's AI kicked in. The AI powered the engines and slowly took of the platform. Instantly the android's attention was caught at the gunship. The engines made a god almighty roar when the ship was levitating above the androids.

The androids made the first attack firing at the hull of the gunship. Luckily the hull was reinforced and did little damage to the ship's hull. Next the AI's attack patterns initialized calculating the best odds of success based on its telemetry. It fired its big guns taking out one android after the other but there where many of them. Some of the droids where carrying bigger guns. The ship started to take damage.

Alexa had positioned herself above the upper lever of the hangar allowing the androids attention to be consumed by the presence of the gunship. The drones did not take notice of her. She was waiting John's order to start attacking.

John had moved into the hangar with Gigi. They took position behind some sturdy looking service machines. He waited for the androids for a few more seconds to make sure they were in disadvantageous positions. John took a deep breath and then he enabled integration mode to his implants.