Chapter 2 - Siege
It was 2:00am when Robert Demane was awoken by a loud crash from below.
Kenji ran into the room. \"Sir! Cuban Rhino tanks attacking!" he shouted,
smashing a window with his M60 machine gun and firing out of it. Demane
smashed another pane of glass and used his binoculars to look below. Sure
enough, there were two Rhino tanks firing randomly at the building. \"Damn!
Must've got a tip-off!" shouted Demane angrily. He ran to the console and
punched up a number. A radio crackled. \"This is Eagle Squadren Black Fire
reporting!" came a Korean accented voice. \"We're under attack from Rhino
tanks over at the East View hotel, we need aerial backup!" shouted Demane as
another shot hit hit the building. \"Okay, we're on our way!" said the voice.
A second later, the rest of Demane's soldiers poured into the room and took
positions with their M60's. Suddenly, a shot was fired at the floor below,
and the floor began to creak and splinter. \"Hey, get away from the window!"
shouted Howard and the men leapt to safety just as the floor caved in to a
vicious fire below. \"They're onto us!" shouted Howard. Just then, a
screaming wail came over the building and two Black Eagle fighters flew
over, destroying the Rhino Tanks. As the operators climbed out, the GI's
gunned them down without mercy. As Demane examined the mess, the door opened
to a civvy, who walked in with a shotgun. \"How the hell did you get in!"
shouted Demane, leaning down for his M-16. As he did so, a neat hole
appeared in the civvy's head and he slumped to the ground, leaving a blood
trail up the wall. \"Sniper! Sniper! Stay down!" Demane ordered as the men
ducked. After some time, Bouten had an idea. \"Hey, someone get me a mirror.
Cap'n, pass me the dead guy's gun please." he asked. A moment later, he had
a shard of mirror attached to the shotgun. Bouten stood next to the window,
and cautiously extended the gun. A loud crakk sound rang out and the end of
the gun fell off. Bouten ducked down again. \"He's in the opposite building,
on the roof." he whispered. Demane was now thinking hard. If anyone went
near the window, they would die. So how would they get this guy. The Eagles
had returned to refuel, no ships were in the area due to mass submarine
activity and no tanks were around. This would be hard. It was early in the
morning and dark, so the guy was using NV. NV screwed up in the light,
effectively blinding the user temporarily. The actual building would still
be empty, the sniper was probably a resistance member. \"Okay guys, I have an
idea. I want one of you's to use that Hi-Amplitude beam torch from the packs
to temporarily blind the sniper whilst I run across the street and blow his
ass to kingdom come. Can you do that?" he ordered. \"Can do sir!" said Howard
enthusiastically. \"Good, I'll give you the signal as to when to use the
beam. Let's do this!" he said, before crawling out onto the landing and
sneaking down to the lobby. He took the emergency exit out into an alleyway.
\"Okay, now!" he said down his radio. A bright beam appeared some way above,
he had to run! Without stopping, he charged across the street, past the
wrecked tanks, and toward the door of the building. He barged through the
glass and lay still. No shot, he was safe. \"Great job!" he said down the
radio. \"Yeah! Double Time!" shouted Howard back to him. Great, he was in and
alive, now to bust that sniper. After he had quietly reached the top floor,
he learned that the roof access door was jammed shut. Shooting it would be
too noisy and the sniper would have a chance to run. Instead, he took the
hard way, climbing out of the window, he caught his breath and slowly
climbed up to the roof. The wind was quite powerful as he dropped quietly
behind a water tanker. He could see the sniper some way away. Although he
appeared to be civvy, he held an extremely powerful Sniper Rifle, the type
used by the Psi-Corps Virus snipers, except lead bullets instead of poison
needles. Silently, he crawled up to the civvy until he was inches away, the
wind distracting his hearing. Demane aimed his M16 at the mans head, and
fired mercilessly. The sniper's head exploded like a melon and the corpse
began to fall. As it did so, Demane grabbed the rifle. There was also a big
box of ammo on the floor. Great, he now had a sniper rifle! Suddenly, his
radio crackled. \"Yo, boss! General Garlow has given new orders! A Cuban
official is at a club called \"Blue Paradise" exactly ten clicks north of
here, he wants us to get a keycard from him." explained Kenji. \"A keycard?
For what?" demanded Demane. Sector two is sealed off by an impenetrable wall
sir, the only way in is a huge gate via keycard." explained Kenji. \"Ok, you
stay put. I'll fetch it. I found me a sniper rifle!" he told his team. \"Okay
sir, have fun!" replied Kenji. Now he had to get down from the building with
his spoils of war and assasinate this official. Time to get back to work....
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