Heroes of a Forgotten Time

Chapter 1: Six

Dennis Raleigh Brighton, a member of the Damocles Project and so far it's best operative, was on a shuttle headed behind enemy lines. His call sign was Apollyon, but most called him Six on the account that not only did he have six fingers on each hand due to a rare genetic mutation, but he was also the sixth member of his team. "Apollyon, we're coming up on the drop now, the shuttle will be cloaked, good luck out there."

With that, Six lifted his rifle and stood up. "Copy Viper, see you in a bit." He got off the drop ship which flew away as he started walking. His mission was to take down a shield generator that was preventing vehicles from getting through and fire support for soldiers that had been laying siege to a city for three months now. Multiple teams had been sent to take down the generator, a few of them Damocles Operatives, but none of them came back. Dennis' rifle was a weapon that he created himself. It was a plasma based weapon, able to switch between a carbine, sniper, and SMG modes. For now, it was in it's sniper mode. He made his way up to an outpost outside the shield.

He switched to view from the scope of his rifle and looked over the outpost. There were fourteen guards, one of them was carrying a heavy plasma thrower, he was the first target. Dennis took a deep breath in and aimed for the guard's head and pulled the trigger. An orange-yellow beam cut through the darkness of the night. The beam penetrated the guard's helmet and the guard collapsed onto the ground. The other thirteen looked around as they were picked off one by one. Dennis stood up and made his way past the outpost, stopping outside the shield. "Command, this Apollyon, about enter shield and going dark. See you soon." He says before switching his rifle to the carbine mode. He then entered the shield and started making his way to the tower of hard-light in the distance. It was at the center of the city which had been evacuated when the Valtrazians landed. A large enough EMP in a close enough proximity could shut it down, he could also simply shut it down. However, Dennis did things differently and harder than everyone else. He was going to blow it up.

Dennis could see the trapped Federation soldiers and the city. Plasma, kinetic weaponry, and rockets flew back and forth. They had managed to get a single MT-56 tank back online, but the Valtrazian tanks were shielded and MT-56s were Main Battle Tanks, meaning they only had a single barrel unlike the MTB-37 Tank Destroyer which had two barrels, one for knocking the shield out and the other for punching through the armor. He started making his way down to the Federation lines. The enemy was doing an all out assault, trying to force the Federation soldiers away. A Valtrazian walker tank came up over a hill, about to fire at a group of pinned Federation soldiers when Dennis' boot slammed into the gun, knocking it off of the tank. Two Valtrazian soldiers climbed on top of the tank only the be shot dead. He shot two more soldiers who were approaching the tank before tearing the entrance hatch off of the tank and tossing two grenades in. He calmly stepped off the tank, which exploded behind him. "Where's your commander?"

A few soldiers aimed at him ready to pull the trigger. "Friendly! Friendly!" Another soldier yells, signally the soldiers to lower their weapons. "Up on that hill, he's thinking about ordering a retreat but we might be cut off from our exit soon." One of the soldiers says as he dragged a wounded comrade behind cover. He lifted his machine gun, placing the bipod on the destroyed wall he was using. "Get hin out of here! Now!" Two soldiers grabbed the wounded soldier and dragged him away. "We can't hold here for long, not without help."

Dennis looks at the oncoming enemy and changed his weapon to it's sniper configuration. "You boys worry about the infantry, I'll take out their armor."

"With Just that?" The soldiers says looking at Dennis' rifle.

"I'm stronger and faster than you with the chemical augmentations alone, but this armor makes me so much stronger." Dennis says, putting his rifle on his back. "Just worry about the infantry." He took the knife off of his shoulder guard and pushed a button which caused the blade to glow an orange color. He then started sprinting faster and faster down the hill, heading straight towards a tank, slamming into it full force. The tank was knocked upwards upon impact. Dennis took this opportunity to kick the tank over so it was upside down. There was an access hatch on the bottom in case something like this happened the Dennis ripped off as if it were a sticker. The tank crew looked up it him as he raised his sidearm, firing multiple shots inside. He looks at the approaching forces and smiled.