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Landry heard his soldier speak to him. He only nodded in return.

The lights turned off a while later, sending the whole base into darkness. The only spots of light were the areas near the windows and the doorways which were open.

Landry turned his night vision on with the right side of his visor, and the black vision on the left side. He could see every living thing outlined in white, with everything else in darkness, and only faint outlines of obstacles. His nightvision helped him see the obstacles whenever he came across them, and the white "aura" radiated from things that lived. It used an energy signature to find living things, and heat which dissipated from the objects dissipated into the air, leaving the aura.

His vision helped him through the vents, and he came to the armory. The officers had already ran here while everything else had gone on. Landry popped open the vent and dropped down, with barely any noise. The officers flinched as he dropped, but he flashed the helmet light to signify he was with them.

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The officers sat in the room, tied and watching the rebels watching them. They were all standing at ease, and with the safeties off of their weapons. Suddenly, a rebel's head burst open from one side and left him to die. The officers, knowing the way a bullet hits and how it acts as it comes out, knew which way the round came from. They didn't look as that would giver their rescuer away. They were smarter, and they watched in humor as the rebels were taken out and they had no idea what was happening.

The rescuer came through the vent and told them what to do. They nodded in agreement, and the rescuer went back into the vent and left them. They huddled together and reassured themselves. They turned off the lights and cautiously went out the door, towards the armory. There were, thankfully, no rebels around. Most were already outside or dead, and so they were home-free.

A shot rang out and a rebel fell dead from a catwalk above them, a bullet wound to the head, from a sniper outside. There were more than just this one SpecOp and the infantry.

They made it to the armory and loaded up. The lights went out just as they were finished putting on their armor and grabbing their weapons, closing every port for weapons automatically. An intruder dropped down, very silently, and they heard it as just the faintest of sounds. They turned and aimed their guns at it, but two flashes of light reassured them that it was the SpecOps guy.

They moved out and into the corridor, the SpecOps man in tow....

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Landry followed the officers to the corridor, and made sure noone snuck up on them. He ran in front of them, clearing the areas of any resistance. They all moved forward, the officers in a circle formation, covering every angle except the walls.

As they made their way towards the roof, two rebels were standing guard in front of the roof access door. Landry took out one, and the officers fired on the other one, each firing, and the rebel went down with holes and punctures throughout his body. He bled profusely, still having a small bit of life in him...that was ended when Landry pulled out his pistol and fired a single silenced round at the man's head, splattering blood along the ground and partially hitting his gun. He wiped it off and kicked in the door.

There was no need for much stealth now, the rebels were all outside or dead. The snipers had done their work, and now Landry had to save these officers, and they were right behind him. They hadn't been shot yet, thankfully.

The roof was bright and the sun welcomed as the door to the roof was kicked open. The vents the SpecOps had come through were still there, with only one repaired. The officers made their way to the middle of the roof, and kneeled, waiting for dust-off.

Landry, in the mean-time made his way to the ledge overlooking the infantry and the rebels. One of the infantry had his legs all shot up. The other was covering him, and one had already broken through the window. His snipers were still at their post and he could see them firing inside the building.

Landry pulled out his rifle and tuned the scope. He aimed it down at the rebels below, and he shot one. The bullet flew out of the barrel and hit the man's head. However, it didn't end there. The piece of lead hit the brain and made the man paralyzed and dead, frying up tissue as it passed. It traveled through the neck and down past his vocal chords, hitting the heart and tearing that into shreds, and then passed through his kidney, disintegrating it totally, and passed through the waist, leaving a gaping hole. The man slobbered blood, spitting it out involuntarily. His eyes rolled up and he fell down, crumpling from head to foot. The rebel next to him recieved a similar fate, this time, only passing through his head, leaving a gaping hole the size of a canyon.

Anoth rebel farther away was shot through the side, with the bullet passig through one lung, collapsing it, then the heart, and then the other lung, collapsing that also. He fell dead, bleeding profusely. The infantry just had a load taken off of them.

Andrea noticed two rebels look up and aim their guns. Before either fired, she placed two bullets into each. One through the knee, that's for fun, and the other through the head, that's for pissing her off. She then looked to where they were looking and noticed one of the grunts sliding down a zipline into the second floor window. Great idea...expose yourself to the enemy with no cover, she thought sarcastically. She fired at the remaining rebels and then started to snipe through the windows. A few on catwalks, some patrolling hallways. Didn't matter, they were the targets now.

Shadow Fox smiled as he snuck out of the vent after turning the generators off. He flipped on his night vision and slowly crept down the hallway listening as well as looking around. He found himself in a large warehouse type facility. It was the garage of the military base. The military vehicles and tanks were all parked as well as the patrolling catwalks above. He heard loud rifle shots and noticed some bodies fall from the rafters. He turned a corner, unholstering his knife as he saw a rebel looking around confused. As he got closer, he noticed two other ones, the three moving around showing they couldn't see their own hand in front of their face. As he approached the first rebel he wrapped his open hand over the mouth and placed the knife through the chest, all the while pulling him back. The man let out a small gurgling noise as he choked on his own blood. Shadow Fox looked at the other rebels who didn't show any sign of hearing it. As he approached the next rebel he stepped on broken glass and immediately the two turned the sound and raised their weapons. s**t, Shadow Fox thought as he instantly lowered himself to the ground, prostrate. The bullets flew over him as the rebels fired at whatever the noise may have been. Shattering glass and bullets hitting metal could be heard as the rebels fired at the vehicles in the background. After a couple seconds they stopped firing, "Did we get him?" One of them asked. Before the other could answer, Shadow Fox swiped kicked one of the rebels and lifted himself up. He then threw his knife at the standing guard and before anyone else could react, he kicked the fallen rebel with a strong, solid boot.

Andrea thought she heard soft footsteps from behind her. As the footsteps kept getting closer, she expected that the rebel would prefer to shoot at a closer range as long as she didn't notice him. When the very soft sounds got on top of her she immediately turned around, pistol out, and aimed at the person sneaking up on her. At the same instant she rolled to the side to avoid any fire..."Marcus!" she exclaimed in slight joy. "Hey, kid," Marcus replied holding his hands in the air. "I see you've been doing your job." Andrea lowered her weapon and then got back into the seriousness of the present. "That's right. Are you able to fight now?" She went back to her rifle and continued scanning windows. "Yeah," Marcus replied as he set up his rifle about three yards from her, "after the medic fixed me up, he got a call for another wounded. I hope that soldier's alright" He looked through the scope of the rifle and then said, "What are the orders?"

((Screw it...after waiting 4 days for an OK from Xenos...I'll edit it if I have to!))

Anderson continued looing into the room and then the lights blew. He switched his HUD to NV mode. He looked at the ground and saw bodies in the corner and more stuffed in barrels. He looked around and saw that they bore the Imperium flag on there right upper arm on the side of the bicep. He picked up a head of one of them and stuffed it in his pack. He said to himself, Oh no... He ran though the hallways to the roof and did it realatively fast because all rebels had been killed from someone else's doings. He kicked the roof access door open and swiched his firing to grenade. He ordered an Infantry fire sector on the officers. He fired a grenade and the perimeter of them and bew 2 of them off the roof.

Meanwhile, Eversmith got the order and carred Price up to a nearby roof. Price fired a round right through an officers head and Eversmith just held his trigger down, dropping them like flies. Anderson then fired on more solitary round into the neck of the lead officer letting him drown in his own blood.

Anderson stepped up to Landry, " Before you yell at me your tll me what I was doing...or tell me our Spec Ops should have been out here solo and how Infantry messed it up...or just in general on how we are inferior to you..." Kyle threw the head at Landry's feet, "You were just about the lead the rebes into our base. The officer's are dead...all of 'em. Remember Landry, We ARE Infantry. But we're Infantry Special Ops (ISO). Everyone, even you, have hard senerios with enemies with great tatics and defense. Just cause you haven't had one YET...doesn't mean you won't."

Anderson looked down to see that debris had pushed his D-Link on so everyone in the vicinity heard it, "So much for one on one..." Anderson started to make his way over to the bodies to try and get ID off them.

((Yes....but.....yea))

((And this is minus the getting up part and everything after it. THIS IS A CLIMAX IN THE CHAPTER!!!))

Anderson listened to his rant and then heard the insult about his family kicked Landry off of him and got up, " DON'T YOU EVER SPEAK ABOUT HIM!!!!" Anderson then drew his sidearm and aimed it at Landry, " DO NOT MOVE!!! Lieutentant Brian Landry, in the name of the Imperium, you are under arrest for obtruction of justice, aiding and abetting a traitor and betrayal to the Imperium..., "Anderson continued from about 10 yards away from Landry.

Meanwhile, Price and Eversmith saw this going on, "s**t! EVERYONE TO THE ROOF!" Eversmith carried Price on his back and hauled a** to the rooftop. By the time they got there the other infantry were already there watching with the guns at their sides.

Anderson ended, "...do you understand your rights?""

((After yes or no or ******** you and whatever xp ))

Anderson quiped, "Ya know what, Landry? You're right! I'm not the same man I was at Namus Rock...I'm alot smarter! You don't see me jumping out of cover blindly. You...on the otherhand... are to busy showing everyone whose the best that you didn't fully clear the room! There were friendlies in there...dead. But you wanted to clear that building in record time...meanwhile, abandoning the one thing you came for!" Anderson removed his helmet revealing his peircing stare and sweat filled brow, "If I didn't deserve my rank...I wouldn't be here right now. I didn't pay anyone off. Why would I pay for my own death?"

((WOW, just...wow))

Carlos ran from his knelt position to the wall next to a door. After two seconds he turned around and peered in, rifle shouldered. Empty, he thought. He listened as he quickly moved to the next door. He then received the strangest order he ever had. Kill...the officers, he thought as he hurried to the stairs leading to the roof. "Price, Eversmith, positions," he said over the Infantry only link. He stopped at the stair case and held his rifle in a position to aim quickly at both entry points, the hallway and the roof. "I'm currently standing at the roof access staircase. I want to know cover and current situation of Anderson." He then heard Landry's order that all should head to the roof, I guess that means it's clear. He then ran to the door and opened it slowly. He saw Anderson and two other infantry. Their were also bloody bodies of what he assumed to be the officers. He went to Anderson, gun now lowered, "Soo...why did we kill the officers now?" he asked completely unaware of the possible Imperium military civil war. "And where are them damn speccies?" he asked with a slight jest.

"This isn't personal, Landry. There are the exact number of bodies in that room down there as dead REBELS up here...they bear the Imperium mark. You were about to aid these rebels and take them into the Imperium. You then aggressivley tackled me to the ground when the deed was done. Training unit my a**! YOUR TRAINING UNIT IN DEAD DOWNSTAIRS! You did save our asses back there! I am grateful but when it comes to you thinking your always right because your tatics are flawless. I'm not a traitor...I'M A SOLDIER!"

Anderson let Brian do his gymnastics behind the the wall, " ONe of mine shot an MP while under INTENSE FIRE! Your snipers saved us...You're right. BUT..My other soldiers desisions CANNOT hold me or our title of Infantry inferior. We're fighting for the same reason...PEACE AND ORDER!"

Anderson laughed, "You know what Landry you're right! I shouldn't have done that! BUt at this point...I don't ******** CARE ANYMORE! Anything is better then being constantly crtiqued by the flawless spec ops...who are obviously NOT human because humans make mistakes. But do you wanna know why you're not human...the number one reason? YOUR NOT HUMANE!" Anderson turned to Carlos, "You've got command." Anderson turned to the spec ops snipers, " SHOOT ME! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO! YOU KNOW LANDRY WANTS YOU TO...ADMIT IT>>>YOU HATE ALL INFANTRY...ESPECIALLY ME BECAUSE I GET ACTUALLY LEAD! I HAVE TAITICS! SHOOT ME!!! SHOOOOOOT MEEEE!" Anderson grabbed his rifle and fired at the snipers postions for about 2 shots and then into the air, " KILL ME! YOU KNOW YOU HATE ME!"

Anyone and Everyone could see the fearlessness in Kyles eyes. He had not gone crazy. He was alert.