Chapter 310: Upper Butcher Shop
Jace stepped up to the door grabbing the morphed edge and pulling it to the side. It screeched as he pulled it open with one arm. A flashlight quickly waved over and focused on him. He fired a shot, killing the person holding the flashlight that focused on him. Then he slid behind a piece of cover.
"What the hell?!" One of them shouted. "What was that?"
"Hey! This is commander- Krrgh!" Jace leaned out and fired at the one speaking who was by the corpse he sent flying through the wall. Another flashlight fell to the ground as he moved to another position. He was worried that the muzzle flash would give away his position so he was constantly moving to new pieces of cover.
As he arrived at the next cover a person was walking right next to him so he pulled his Spectre Knife and sliced right through them. Already moving to the next target who had another flashlight. He was being careful as he stabbed the man to not get any blood on his clothes.
"Argh!" The man he stabbed made an audible noise and another flashlight focused on him. So he shot the person that was holding it and they collapsed.
"Hey, these people are dead!" Someone called out in shock. Then with a quiet click the man was dead as well. But it was already too late. They had caught on.
"Watch out there is someone here killing-" The man was killed as he spoke as he collapsed to the ground with his flashlight.
"Flashlights off!" He is using them to see us. Another person yelled. Jace turned in the direction of the person but did not shoot when he noticed the person was behind cover. It was too much for him to just shoot through so he just had to focus on the others for now. "Someone grab the night vision and infrared!" He called out a moment later.
Jace clicked his tongue in annoyance and noticed a person cowering in the corner. He grabbed them by the scruff and roughly tossed them to the middle of the room. "Arggh-!" Several shots from around the room lit up the person as they made an abrupt noise and collapsed on the ground.
"Someone go check on the others!" The leader of this room called out as he emerged from cover. "I will-"
Click
The guy went silent as he collapsed to the ground dead. Jace then fired at the other exposed enemies. Three more went down before the last two in the room snuck behind cover. Jace went to shoot one while they moved behind cover but his gun clicked again as he ran out of bullets again.
He sighed and quietly moved across the room as he holstered his pistol. He walked right around the corner where one of them was hiding. They jumped up and tried to attack him. But Jace just grabbed the man by the throat with one hand and there was a crisp crack as his throat was crushed. His life was slowly leaving him.
But several laser shots went off and hit the man in the back from the last person in the room. Jace threw his knife and the last person died as the knife went through him and embedded itself in the cabinet behind them.
Jace reloaded his Pyre as he walked over and pulled his knife out of the cabinet. Then he walked to a set of stairs that led upwards to the next floor. He walked up them expecting resistance at the top but instead he found that the entire floor had been emptied out.
He walked through the floor double checking before going to the stairs. Instead of walking right up he glanced up and then quickly pulled his head back as a laser beam scorched the wall behind where his head was.
They were waiting at the top of the stairs. They were standing at the top and shooting anything that came up to them. Jace frowned and stepped back, getting an angle on the railing. He then aimed and focused. He had not done this trick in awhile. But it was useful in situations like this.
He fired three quick shots and he could see with his electrical vision where they were going and he manipulated the minor energy to deflect the pieces of metal. They ricocheted up the stairs and he could see with his electrical vision as four minds went quiet as electrical impulses stopped. He was expecting two and maybe three. But four meant he got a two for one with one of his bullets.
The top of the stairs was cleared of enemies so he walked up just as he could hear them panicking. "They are dead!" One of the five people on this floor called out. The others quickly began panicking as Jace arrived at the top of the stairs and fired at them as he rounded the corner. They were all gathered at a corner of the room where an elevator was located. It looked out of place in this building, but that was because it descended to the subbasement where the real action was.
The five enemies all dropped dead. It looked like the majority of the people in this building were analysts but that was not his problem. Director Fenrir told him to clear out the building and destroy the long range detection systems so that is what he would do.
He walked up to the elevator and put power into it. There was a ding as the doors opened. Jace stepped inside the box. "The upper building is cleared. Heading to the basement floor now." He then pressed the button for the bottom floor.
"Understood. I am still standing by near the emergency exit door. I will be ready to take down any of the runners." Vana answered.
Jace took a look at his Pyre making sure he was read and flipped the Spectre knife in his hand. He then looked over himself and confirmed he had not gotten any blood on himself. He then looked at the indicator as the elevator descended.