The Mission Begins

“So, it looks like everyone from our side is here,” John said as he surveyed the meeting spot. “While we wait for our final member, let’s go over the teams again,” John told his comrades. “First we have the Infiltration Team consisting of myself, Shelly, Gali, and Sam. Shelly and myself will be able to stealth in Gali and Sam. We’ll sneak in, try to keep the fighting to a minimum at worst and none at best, grab Shelly’s sister, and get out ASAP,” John reiterated to his team. “This team is not meant to fight, so try to keep it minimal. Now, as for the Distraction Team. That will be led by Fran with Idena and Tanya with our guest who doe-” John started before he was interrupted.

“I believe you mean me,” said the sultry demoness as she appeared before the group. “I can’t believe that witch talked me into helping you...again,” Uratha said in her introduction as she quite literally appeared in a puff of smoke.

“Really? Dramatic entrance with smoke and everything?” Fran asked with an exacerbated sigh. Her protege and a certain harpy, however, were very taken with what just happened.

“That was an amazing appearance!” Idena said with amazement in her voice.

“Right?! That was tots awesome! I wonder if I can do something like that too for cool entrances?!” Sam said with wonder in her voice. Her dreams were quickly shattered by her superior and lover.

“No. Just no, Sam,” Fran told her while she gave her a nasty glare.

“I...uh...ok Franny,” said Sam as she relented to Fran.

“I’m glad you could make it, Uratha,” John told the demoness in an attempt to get the meeting back on track. “Your terms will be met once the mission is finished,” John continued. “With Uratha here, our Distraction Team is complete. Your objective is to cause the biggest god damn ruckus you can to give us the cover we need to sneak in, get our girl, and get out. Uratha will be able to counter their zombie horde with a demonic horde. Idena should be able to deal with the fliers so you won’t have to worry about aerial attacks, and Tanya will be able to deal with any big undead they might have. At best she could take command of one and turn it against its enemies and at worst she should be able to handle anything in a fight,” finished John. “Everyone understand their roles?” John asked as he looked upon the women who stood around him. They all gave him a single nod in agreement with the plan. “Well then, let’s move out,” John said as he turned and moved to the breach point for the Infiltration Team. He was quickly joined by his team while the Distraction Team moved to their breach point.

“Ok, so the Distraction Team will breach first and we’ll give them some time to cause said distraction and then we’ll breach and go find your sister, Shelly,” John told his team.

“Sounds good to me,” Shelly said with some nervousness in her voice. She took a few deep breaths to calm her nerves as explosions, yelling, and alarms rang out in the distance.

“So Mr. John...sire...king...uh...” stammered Sam, not sure what to call John before he cleared it up for her.

“You can just call me John or king if you want to be fancy,” John told her with a little laugh.

“Ah, ok, um...John, we go in three minutes right?” asked Sam.

“Yeah, the Distraction Team goes in at 12:00 when they do a shift change and we follow in five minutes once their soldiers have rallied and are focused on them,” John told the youngest member of the newest member of the team. “I know this is your first real field op without Fran. I wouldn’t have you here if I didn’t think you could do this. Fran has sent me reports so I know fully what you are capable of. Fran has a lot of hope in you for helping her form my Inquisition, and I agree with her. Believe in yourself, no matter what the odds, and you’ll do everything you can to win. I know because that’s what I did when I fought The Order,” John advised the girl with a wide smile on his face. Sam sat quietly for a few moments as if she pondered the wise words John had just told her before she replied.

“Wait, but didn’t you totally get a power-up from Lady **** to stupidly OP levels?” she asked in a semi-serious tone. John was caught off guard by Sam’s question. It took John a few seconds to rebound from the question he did not expect Sam to ask him.

“Well...I mean...yeah I did...but I still believed in myself the entire time!” countered John before he quickly changed the subject. “Look, it's time to move out, GO GO GO!” John said as grabbed Gali, breached the fence perimeter, and rushed into the compound.

“OH EM GEE! REALLY?!” Sam yelled as John dashed off into the compound with Gali in tow.

“Girl, you’d be surprised how often guys pull shit like that,” Sally said as she cloaked Sam and the two ladies moved into the compound to follow John and Gali.

“Ok ladies, here’s the plan: Uratha will go first and summon her demons, specifically Hell Wraths who she’ll use to take out their first few waves with their explosions. I suspect we’ll get two, maybe three, waves taken out with her Wraths. Then she’ll switch over to Hell Prides and Envies to take out the soldiers and undead,” Fran explained to the group.

“My oh my, you know my abilities quite well, don’t you girly?” Uratha commented.

“Of course. I saw it first hand in the battle against the Order and when John told me he was going to see if he could get you in on this attack, I made plans based on you being here,” Fran explained to the demoness.

“Now, Idena, you won’t go through the breach but rather fly right over the fence and start harassing their aerial support right from the start. Keep them focused on you so Uratha’s demons can do their damage. If you fail, this op fails. I know that’s a lot of pressure, but you have to know this,” Fran told the harpy.

“You can count on me, Fran,” Idena told her. “Master told me to follow your orders so I shall do exactly that,” reassured Idena.

“Good. Tanya,” Fran said as she turned to the ebony **** knight, “as John said, we’ll leave the big undead to you. Do what you think is best with them. You and John are the only known **** knights as far as I know, so this is more your realm than mine,” Fran told her in an honest tone.

“Don’t worry, I’ll keep the big ones off you all,” Tanya assured her teammates.

“Alright, in that case, let’s get ready to move out!” Fran ordered as she looked at the time to see that it was 11:59. “Less than one minute!” Fran told her as she watched the clock count down. Once the second hand hit 12:00 Fran gave her order. “GO! GO! GO!” she said as she broke through the fence to allow Uratha into the compound.

“Yes, yes, I’m going, I’m going,” Uratha said as she got up and made her way through the hole in the fence. Once through the fence, she transformed into a smoky form to quickly move across the field to where the barracks were before she rematerialized. “Now come out my darlings, let’s give these troublemakers an explosive present!” Uratha said as she summoned multiple Hell Wraths a few feet in front of her. The demons slowly lumbered towards the buildings where the soldiers had wandered into for the change of guard.

“Is that the perimeter alarm?”

“Probably one of zose damnet undeat vonderet srough zee fence again.”

“I sought zey sere trainet to not do zat?”

“zey’re undeat, zey kan’t learn.”

The conversation was cut short as an explosion blasted the two men and anybody else near the entrance of that barracks as the Hell Wrath exploded when it saw the soldiers. This was repeated at the entrances of all the barracks as the Hell Wraths did their job. While all this happened on the ground, Idena had summoned her inner bird of prey and had quickly and quietly picked off the various gargoyles that were either flying around or stationary but acted as sentries. Fran’s unit quickly made their way into the courtyard of the base as the enemy troopers were finally able to push through the rubble and **** Uratha to switch from her Hell Wraths to her Hell Prides and Hell Envies to fight off the soldiers and incoming undead.