The Immortals

10 Eternal Preparation

"Get some rest before dinner,you need it. You get some rest too Grace. You two had the most intense battle I have ever seen with this thing." Harmony says as she pats the console,"And Reath,dinner is in two hours,so you have a bit of a wait anyway."
"Okay. See you in two hours." I reply with a nod.
Grace leaves to her sleeping quarters to get into something more sleep appropriate and I go to the sleeping quarters. Once I arrive,I get into my bed,finally in a comfortable bed unlike the one in the medical bay. I snuggle in and fall asleep,feeling calmed and relaxed.

I wake up feeling energised and powerful again. I notice Grace is also awake,sitting up with her feet on the floor,but she does not look well. She is facing the floor,breathing heavily with deep breaths. I walk up to her quietly,hoping to find out what is happening.
"Are you alright?" I ask Grace,concern in my voice and face.
"Don't worry. Just a bad dream." Grace replies with a weak smile.
"Just wondering,would you say we are friends?" I ask with my eyebrow raised.
"I guess we are!" Grace replies,her smile now strong. "You ready for dinner?"
"Does that really need asking?" I reply with a grin.
Grace just laughs and begins to exit,me close on her tail.

We walk to the dinner table,the only free seats been between Harmony and Jaidyn,Harmony in her usual white apparel and Jaidyn in a black t-shirt and shorts,allowing me to see his face. He has blue eyes,pale skin and light brown hair.
Harmony gestures for me to sit next to her and for Grace to sit next to Jaidyn.
The white Veil walks in,clip board still in his hand.
"Before dinner commences I have something to say. I have tracked down a Veil production lab,a very large one. I am guessing that they are beginning to improve the Veils by the labs size,it is far too big to be a regular lab. We need to destroy it as soon as possible,before they find us and use these new Veils to attack. Agreed?"
Harmony replies.
"Agreed. Everyone,stay here after dinner,we will need to organise the attack. We attack at midnight." Harmony says,checking her watch. "It is five o'clock now,that gives us seven ours to eat,prepare and sleep.
On that note,lets eat."
Grace places her hand on the table,the symbols forming in front of people,the food appearing. The food is a home-made meat pie with potato on top.
"Meat and potato again eh?" I mutter to myself.
I eat a section of the pie and yet again,it is amazing. I eat it up with haste.
Once we finish dinner the Veil comes in,takes all the plates and then leaves,allowing us to organise for the attack.
"Firstly I will designate the usual three team leaders." Harmony begins with,"They will be Grace,Jaidyn and I. Alasdair(the stocky guy),you're with Jaidyn. Reath and Victor,you're with Grace. And Morgan and John are with me. Any questions?"
"Who's Victor?" I ask,feeling like I should already know.
"That would be me." The Veil says as he raises his hand.
"I have a question." John raises his voice, "Grace,Reath and Victor have done nothing even close to this scale before,so why are they all together? And most of all,why is Grace taking my position as a team leader."
"I believe Grace has been with us long enough for her to know how we operate and she is far more powerful then you could ever be. And secondly,I have those three as a team because we need a strong group like them for this raid.
Anymore questions?" Harmony asks,a little irritation in her voice.
With no answer,Harmony continues.
"Jaidyn,you are to stay back and take out any other snipers from a distance,and Alasdair will take out any curious enemies that get too close. My team will cause a distraction outside the front of the lab,so Grace's team can infiltrate the main building and find out what is happening inside.
Team leaders,get your teams gear ready,then get some sleep. We leave in six hours and thirty minutes. See you all then."
All but me,Victor and Grace's leave,following their team leader to the armoury to prepare for battle.
"Grace. The gear for you team is all in room 13 in the private quarters." Harmony calls back as she leaves.
"Why room 13?" I ask Grace,my curiosity getting the better of me.
"All the prototype gear is stored in there." Grace replies,a hint of curiosity and excitement in her voice.
"We should go get our gear ready so we can get rest,although Immortals do not require much sleep,we will be needed to be to be well rested."
Grace nods in agreement and we both stand,beginning to make our way to room 13.

We arrive at room 13 and unlike the other doors that are wood,this door is forged of steel. Grace opens the door and we find that it is divided in three main sections,each with our names.
Each section has a piece of highly advanced,black mechanical armour,each designed to suit the person.
Victors armour is large and well armoured with retractible blades in the gauntlets for close quarters combat and a medical kit is also upon the back.
Grace's armour is thin and light,obviously designed to allow free movement when worn. It has a belt that holds small knives and also has a gun holster with space for the carrying of more spare magazines. A scabbard designed for a katana also is upon the armours back. It also possess no helmet,possibly to allow the head to move without any restriction.
My armour is a medium size. The armour plating thick enough to probably withstand a small grenade blast,but thin enough to allow high mobility in small spaces. A helmet with a flat,curved face is is stationed upon it's shoulders,only two small glass eyeholes interrupt the smooth surface.
We each walk up to our armour. The eye slots on my armour begins to glow a bright blue and the entire set of armour begins to walk up to me. It stands still before me,the entire front of it begins to open up,allowing space for me to enter. I step inside the armour and once I do,the front closes up. It is dark inside,until the whole inside of the helmet lights up like a television. I can see like if I was not wearing a helmet,except for the additions upon the screen,such as armour durability and weapon systems.
I turn to see that Victor and Grace have also put on their armour,making them look slightly robotic,similar to that of Jaidyn's armour.
I turn back to my section to find a assault rifle and pistol there as well. I load both weapons,then putting the rifle on my back pistol on my right leg. I will for the armour to let me exit it and as I do,the front section of the armour opens up so I may exit. We all exit our armours,them now standing there like metal statues.
"Now for some sleep." I say as I rub both my eyes.
We all go to the sleeping quarters,everyone else now asleep. We all quietly sneak into bed and go to sleep.
I am woken by Harmony's loud voice.
"Everyone! We leave in thirty minutes. Get your gear on,then meet at the hanger.
I get out of bed,leaving to room 13. When I get there Grace and Victor are already in their armour ready to go. I walk up to my armour and let it engulf me. I then pick up any spare magazines for my rifle and pistol. We leave the room and me not knowing where the hanger is,I decide to follow Grace and Victor. We eventually come to a huge room with three small infantry transports,one for each team.
We walk up to the last one and as we do,the ramp at the back lowers,allowing us to enter. We sit down and strap ourselves in,Victor's head almost touching the ceiling. I turn to the cockpit to see that an android is the pilot.
"When the pilot tells us to drop,he wants us to jump out. He will open the back ramp before hand. We will not need parachutes,because our armour is designed for these kind of air drops, so it will absorb the landing easily." Grace informs me.
"Thank you." I reply with a quick nod.
The transport begins to ascend and I look out the window to see we have exited through the roof,which is in fact now just a large whole in the ground.
"So the the base is underground." I think to myself,"That explains the lack of windows"
We travel for about twenty minutes,and then the pilot begins to speak.
"Drop in one minute."
We all stand up,getting ready.
"Drop in thirty seconds."
The ramp begins to open.
"Drop in fifteen seconds."
We begin to approach the edge of the ramp.
"Drop in...three...two...one. Commence drop."
At this,we all jump.
The raid has officially begun.