13 New Mission and It is So Nice Being on The Battlefield Again

Recap: Right before Doktor and I went back into the building. I hear the sliding of a sword back into its sheath and then being place on the ground. I also hear the crunching of grass under feet and I assume she is now practicing her acrobatic moves. I see Doktor is waiting for me at the door and I continue to walk to the building with the sounds of Marie practicing in the background.

*************Back the present*************

Callista's POV:

'It is raining outside and I am so way happy, I am inside this aircraft.' I think to myself.

Dad is in the seat beside mine. We both are heading to our next location as we speak.

Raiden's POV:

We are lying down on our stomachs in the aircraft, 'I just hope Marie isn't getting airsick on her side of the aircraft.' I think to myself.

"How is it, Raiden, Lavender-eyed?" Boris asks us.

"So far so good", "Same here", "We've got a clear visual." I say then Callista adds her input too.

I just smile at her and she does too.

"A direct feed to your optic nerve for you Raiden, and it is through your sun goggles for you Callista. Yes, I'd should hope so, eh? I mean...How does it feel? To fly like a bird!" Boris asks us as he leans forward in the screen.

"Like a bird strapped to a remote-control rocket." We both say at the same time to him and he just laughs at our response.

"We will give you both in safely, tovariches. Just relax and enjoy the ride." Boris tells us.

"Right." I say back and Marie just nods her head in agreement.

"Can you hear me Raiden, Kind?" Doktor's image comes up on the screen.

"Doktor." Marie calls out.

"Remember the two procedures to maintain your new bodies: one, seizing nano-repair units from your foes. And two—." He starts to remind us but I interrupt him by saying, "Absorbing their electrolytes."

I am then interrupt by Marie, "We got it, Doktor." She says.

"Yes, enemy cyborgs should provide plenty of MCFC electrolytes once you slice them open and... extract their fluids." Dok tells us and I see Marie's disgust face.

I just smile at her again.

"They're terrorists. We were planning on that anyway." I tell him.

"Oh, and their left hands, if you please." Dok continues to tell us and we both give each other a confuse face at each other.

"Excuse me?" Marie and I say at the same time again.

"Their combat data, stored on holographic memory, typically located on the left hand. That data is very valuable. Ehem...I am authorized to offer you both upgrades and services in exchange for it." Dok offer to us.

"How generous." Marie says back.

"Ich liebe Kapitalismus! Had the wall come down a few years earlier, I would have a Nobel Prize on my shelf." Doktor starts to tell us, but I then notice something off in the distance.

"—There. I see land." I quickly say.

"Three miles out and closing. No activity at the air base. Looks like we don't need to worry about interceptors." Courtney tells us, while Kevin moves her coffee mug away from the edge of her desk.

"Great, then we have time for a quick briefing." Kevin starts to say with his signature hand salute.

"I know you miss us, Uncle Kev, But we've both been all over the materials." Marie tells Kevin.

Callista's POV:

"That's what you both said before Montenegro. Look, just humor me, niece and buddy. Objectives, of course, are enter Abkhazia, neutralizes the terrorists, and restore the rightful government... or what is left of it, anyway", I roll my eyes, "The president and most of the cabinet have been killed, and a military junta's been established", many pictures come up while he is talking, "The terrorists brain-jacked all the high-ranking officers, and their cyborgs scattered the rank-and-file." He tells us, while Courtney takes a sip then places her mug back on the edge of the desk.

"The few leaders who survived have no way of openly opposing the new regime. That's why they called us," quick glimpses are shown of everyone's face but split screen on both my face and dads.

"Andrey Dolzaev, leader of the occupation forces. An extremist, linked to both the St. Petersburg massacre of 2015, and last year's terror spree in Georgia. And his arm supplier? None other than Desperado Enforcement, LLC." Boris said while shaking the back of both Uncle Kevin's and Courtney's chairs.

"N'mani's killers." Dad asked.

"If we don't stop them here, they could destabilize the entire region. But our more immediate problem... is Jetstream Sam and Sakura. I believe you've both met." Uncle tells/asks us.

As when Sam's and Sakura's name came up, my eyes widen. But I do not say anything because the memories are coming back.

Dad sighs as his eyesight goes straight to my image and gives a little worry for me because my face pales a little.

"The only problem Marie and I see is those nicknames. We've got our enhancements this time. They won't be an issue." Dad says for the both of us.

"They may not even be in-country, but keep an eye out just in--." Uncle starts to say but stops himself.

Both my eyes and dads widen at his mistake. "Oh...uh...sorry." Uncle apologizes and puts up two of his fingers, points to his eyes, then to ours.

"Ready for insertion." Both dad and I say at the same time for the third time.

Then the conversation is drop, while dad's side of the aircraft drops lower to the ocean's surface. Mine drops right beside his. Both hatches open, and our platforms lower both of us down. Then our feet hangers boast up, we look up and it launches us at the same time to the island in front of us.

This is the fun part, both dad and I then point our bodies up. Dad just does a backflip and then lands on his feet. While me, since I went a little higher in the air, I get to do more moves I love to do. So I freestyle my flips like a backwards flip, a few sideways twists, and one more backflip before landing on my feet besides dad. As we land, it causes the water to make huge ripples to form. Dad just gives me a look saying 'show off!' I just smile at him. I then look up to see my masterpiece I did to his hair yesterday before we headed out.

As we start advancing out of the water and onto the land. The camera does a close up between dad and me on our new upgrades we both are given leaving our faces for last. Dad's visor opens first and his only eye opens to show only red like he is going to go into his ripper mode, and his other eye has a cloth patch cover, but the new hairstyle I have given him somehow fits his new body.

Mine is just sun goggles and when I take them off, I have an actual eye patch Grandpa Snake wore, over my new huge scar on my face that only covers about a third of it. But as I open my only lavender eye, my pupil looks like a cat slits and then goes back to a normal human pupil.

"Lavender-eyed of course you make it more dramatic than your father. But the tricks are always cool to see." Uncle says to me.

"Thanks Uncle." I tell him back.

"Lavender-eyed, Raiden, you both landed safely, da? First, head inland. The waypoint is marked on both of you solition radars. Contact us on codec if either of you have questions." Boris tells us, while we start running to a set of stairs to get out of the coastline we just landed at.

But when we get close to the road, we both sense an enemy heading in our direction. Somehow dad couldn't see the enemy, but I could with my psychic sight of my right eye.

"The b@$#!%ds are using stealth camo to ambush you both. Nice try, but it won't do any good against a state-of-the-art cyborg and a half-borg like you two, eh?" Boris asks over our earcoms.

As two more came out of hiding. I went to the one on the right, dad went to the one on the left, it take us both about only two maybe three cuts before they go down. Then we go for the last one and tag team together. Now with the fact I have a sword as my main weapon with a small pistol glock 22 in a holder on my right thigh, I can now team up with dad by his side than at a distance.

Once the last enemy is beat. We get a call from Uncle, dad opens his caller and I look from over his shoulder with my sun goggles.

"Had your fill you two?" Uncle asks us.

"With these new limbs, I feel lighter than I did with my last ones. It definitely would be an advantage on my speed to defeat the enemy." I say and then dad says, "With this body, I could take these guys with no eyes. Intel wasn't exaggerating on the cyborg count." I nod in agreement.

"Well, you both know how fast the tech's been spreading these last few years. That CNT muscle fiber packs the power of a jackhammer into every limb. What enterprising soldier of fortune could resist? And cyborgs are still human... real thinking people. Way less risk of collateral damage than your typical UAV Strike." He states.

Then Courtney comes up.

"And don't forget the PR angle. Nations start playing Frankenstein with their troops, and the public goes nuts; PMCs on the other hand, are off the ethical radar" She states while uncle grabs her coffee mug again and moves it away from the edge of the desk.

"Yeah, they still don't even count PMCs in official death tolls. With SOP out of the picture, private militaries needed a new edge on the market. We got it." He says.

"In a way, cyborgs are just SOP troops by another name, only all muscled up and less predictable." She says and I nod in all out agreement.

"But it makes you wonder...Where'd Desperado find these guys?" Uncle questions.

"I'm not complaining and neither is Lavender-eyed about that matter. They're like walking vending machines." Dad said and again I nod in agreement.

"Right vending machines full of blood...WHAH!!" Uncle pretends to be a vampire and both of us move back a little, "Easy there Dracula and Jr. Like I said, they're still people."

"People, who terrorize and take innocent lives for money. They sowed their fate when they took this job. We're just the reapers." I said and dad nods his head in agreement.

"Dam... Bit cold, Lavender-eyed, Raiden. Even for the both of you." Uncle tells us.

Dad and I just look at each other.

"Any way...Uh, it's cool. Let's get to work. Time to increase the peace." Uncle says to try and brighten the mood.

"Right." Dad and I say at the same time before his caller screen disappears.

Then we start heading to the building, straight from where we entered the area, and then we get a call from Boris.

"Raiden, Lavender-eyed, this is Boris. Give me your status." He asks.

"Looks clear. No one in sight." Dad states back, while I am checking the area around us with my sixth sense.

"Good. Let's recap the route you both will take. ASI said, the enemy's HQ is in the refinery along the coastline. Dolzaev has been spotted there using satellite photography... Also on-site: Mistrai, a Desperado captain." Boris tells us.

"So we go through the city, cross the bridge into the old town, then head down to the rear of the refinery." Dad summarizes what Boris just told us.

"Still, I think they anticipate us. They will probably have a grand reception awaiting you both at the old city. Do not let both of your guards down." Boris reminds us as his screen disappears.

We start moving again and jump onto a bunch of crates in order to get to the upper level. Then move to our right to get through an open door way. I notice a Hostile in the lower flank. I don't tell dad, I don't make a sound to get either of their attentions, and jump from above the enemy. I grab my rapier and side flip so my metal limb is above my rapier, then slam both down on top of the hostile. Dad notices me missing, but hears a thump from below. He looks at the lower floor. As he is looking down, I am back flipping off the enemy, to get my rapier out of the enemy, as he then jumps down to see I just kill an enemy, nods his approval to me.

I put my rapier back into its magnetic sheath as we start running to the open door in front of us. I jump as I get to the ledge of the doorway and front flip to the ground, while Dad only does it once then want to go down the stairs on the right, like the old man he is. Then we both start running to the right but we hear some voices in the background with our enhanced hearing.

"What are you doing here? This area is off-limits!" A cyborg asks a civilian.

"What? No! I am not doing anything!" The civilian replies.

"Can we just kill 'em? It'll be easier. We're supposed to have driven them all away already. So... self-defense, right? Easy." The cyborg says to the other right beside him.

Dad and I get to the edge and right before the two cyborgs could even kill the civilian. We jump with our swords under our feet and slam them down the cyborg's spinal cords, killing them with ease. Then we back flip to get our swords out of our victims' bodies. While we are doing that I notice a third one. During my back flip, I quickly grab my glock from its holder and shoot the third one right in between the eyes. Dad took care of the fourth one with ease too.

We then sneakily went around the back end of an abandon school bus and then straight. Right after we get past a tree and some blockades. We could hear a sound coming close to the area we are in.

When we look up to try and find where the sound is coming from. I see a metal gear on top of a roof of a building and then it jumps to the ground in front of us. It then roars at us and it gets the cyborgs attention in the same area as us.

I told dad to distract the metal gear, while I handle the cyborgs. He nods then starts trying to get the metal gears attention. I then grab my next magazine of bullets but they are my infamous armor piercing type bullets. So I switch my magazine in my glock with my other one quickly and start killing the cyborgs in a flash with one bullet each.

Once I finish off all the cyborgs on my end, I switch out my pistol for my rapier and join the battle between dad and the metal gear. But while I am running to get to dad's side, I notice the metal gear's movements are similar to that of a Spanish bull.

So I stop running and look around for a building with a flag still on it. I find one and run to the building. I jump up to grab the flag and yank it hard enough off of its pole. I turn back around to where the metal gear is.

"Hey you, metal head with two chicken legs." I call out to the metal gear to get its attention.

The metal gear looks in my direction and it sees me with a flag in my hands.

"Toro, Toro, you overgrown cow." I taunt it with the flag going up and down with my left hand.

It then changes its position and starts kicking its one leg. It roars and charges at the flag.

Right before it could even hit me, I move the flag and myself out of the way and swipe my rapier at its leg closest to me. Dad caught on to what I am doing and signals to me to come to him.

I see the signal and run to him before the metal gear could even change its position again. Dad ducks down, in order to hide behind the flag and grabs his sword.

I taunt it again with the flag and it charges at me again. But when I move both the flag and my body out of the way, dad jumps on top of it's head and starts to stab the top of its head about four or five times before it knocks him off of it.

We continue to tango with it until we give it the last blow, causing it to be cut in half. Then with one last roar, the metal gear blows up.

Then we notice about two more of the similar metal gear we had just beaten. We decide to separately take one and we get hit about two or three times before we grab the nano-repair units from in their body to help repair the damage we have receive and defeat them along with a few cyborgs too. But for me it only repairs my metal limbs on my body not the flesh parts.

"I swear, it is so nice being on the battlefield again. Than being cooped up in the hospital or even at home to just recover from our injuries." I tell dad and he nods in agreement.

We then head forward and went to the left side. We see metal double doors and went up to them. I press the top button to open the doors. After the doors are open we then walk in.

TO BE CONTINUED...