5 Chapter 5: Unexpected

As Adam gave his last moral boosting comment, the battle began. The guards on the guard towers began opening fire on the Mammoth as it barreled towards the main gate. As the Mammoth raced down the trail towards the gate, the rear most Warthog with the rocket turret loadout took aim and fired two shots right into the guard towers, with accurate precision the rockets penetrated the guard towers walls and exploding at the perfect moment to cause the largest damage possible.

This was why the Mammoth troop transport was so widely used even though it had no offensive capabilities, it was a full on defensive and support vehicle. It carried heavy armor and a mobile sensor array that could link with other vehicles and feed tracking information and target acquisition information directly to the attack vehicles weapon systems. Plus with its intimidating size it was able to draw most fire directly to it since they led the charge to smash down any obstacle in the way of the convoy.

Within moments the Mammoth smashed thru the front gate with a bang, the main gate and barricade were demolished completely allowing the Warthogs easy passage. Immediately after entering the main gate Adam broke off to the left while the vehicles went right which would take them directly to the main loading dock to begin taking the optimal position to hold the areas of interest.

Adam went straight for the main security station, his objective was to cut the power to the elevators and lock down areas to slow down reinforcements and funnel them down a single hallway allowing the heavy gunners to be able to easily mow down as many enemies that show up.

As soon as he broke away from the rest of the team Adam picked up his speed, he knew exactly where to go. Using his advanced eyesight he saw four men quickly putting on battle gear such as kevlar vests, helmets and night vision goggles.

"Armor piercing rounds" Adam gave the verbal command to change the type of round to be fired. Timing his shots with each step, he was able to fire accurately and kill the four men before they could figure out how or where the shots came from. Being able to puncture through the walls cleanly made the bullet holes small even on the exit side of the bullet, so by the time they figured out the direction they were being shot at from, it was too late.

After reaching the door Adam looked up at a camera above the door and gave a pointing gesture, then quickly entered to be out of sight and pointed a finger into the USB port to inject nanobots into the system, then began using the security system to lock down all unnecessary areas, leaving only a path from the loading dock to each storage unit they needed.

As Adam waited for Eve to download and encrypt a hidden backdoor that would allow a constant data stream via a secured sub-light frequency transmitter created by the batch of nanobots, which had travelled thru the network cables directly into the server.

As he scanned the monitors he saw many of the HYDRA soldiers begin to break down doors using fire axes or large caliber weaponry if available.

"Adam, you have an elite attack squad en route to your location. Estimated time to arrive... 90 seconds." Eve notified after she detected the squad approach.

"And what gives you the idea that they are elites?" Adam couldn't help but ask.

"The way they are moving, they are clearly a well seasoned unit. The formation they are using is quite unique and effective, no matter if you come to them or if you wait they will box you in. You are quite lucky they aren't equipped enough to hurt you." Eve responded back.

"Gee... thanks for the vote of confidence there Eve, really good motivation there.. You know.. Nevermind I don't know why I was about to argue with an AI.. How long till you have everything?" Adam asked as he shook his head at his own thoughts.

"45 seconds till complete..15..5..1... Complete... Signal active... Data stream stable... Any updates or additional files added to that server will automatically be sent to the Infinity database... Would you like to receive update notifications as well?" Eve responded back after she completed her mission assignment.

"Hell no... Filter out mundane updates and only send me notifications on the files that I select after I have time to review them. Now how do I make this fun? Do I go all Juggernaut on them, or go solid snake style with the light saber?" Adam said aloud to himself as he wondered how he wanted to fight the team heading his way.

"Light saber? Do you mean your Energy Sword?" Eve asked curiously, it was the first time she had heard such a term used. It wasn't hard for her to correlate a light saber to an energy sword due to a saber and sword are both similar, plus it was the only other weapon he had saved within the weapon options saved within the suit that could match such a description.

"Tomato, tamato... Potato, Patato... It's such a light saber, and you know what? We are going to do both.... Freaking Energy Sword... you can label that name all you want... it's a fucken light saber... especially now since I may have made a few minor adjustments to the handle... and modified the shape of the blade a tiny bit..." Adam replied as his rifle turned back into liquid and reshaped into a metal handle that any Star Wars fan would clearly know exactly what it was, and waited for his queue to begin the fun.

It wasn't long till Adam heard shouting in Russian, he could only assume since they were in Russia, but thankfully Eve translated for him, "He says they have you surrounded and to come out with your hands up or else..."

Adam couldn't help but laugh a little, "Is this guy John Wayne? Is he playing cops and robbers or something? I mean, who says that anymore besides cops? Hey I wonder if that guys day job is da popo."

Little did Adam know his voice was being translated to the men outside.

Another round of shouting from the same person was then heard, "He said, you and your partner have to count of 10 to show yourselves before we start blasting..." Eve translated.

"Really! We're counting now? I wonder if he's mentally challenged, like he got stuck at a first grade level mentality. I mean the idiot thinks there are two people in here, is he guessing? Oh shit, it sounds like he is really counting. And did he really say 'blasting', I gotta meet this cartoon character, but first I wanna see if he can actually count to 10. His numbers sound like they are slowing down."

Then a short round of unintelligible loud shouts was heard followed by a round of gun fire, soon after bullets poured into the small office building. Adam watched as bullets deflected off his suit's energy shield.

"Ha, I knew it. He made it to six possibly seven." Adam couldn't help but laugh.

"Actually he said, Fuck you! I can count to 100 and that he will show you who the cartoon character is..."

Eve responded back, which stunned Adam after hearing her reply.

"Wait, wait... First he can only count to 100? Like is that for real, or is it supposed to be a quip? Cause if that's real I feel sorry for him slightly, and how did he know I called him a cartoon character, did english steal that from russian?" Adam couldn't help but halt his attack, especially since they had stopped firing.

"Well I activated the universal translator in your suit so they have been hearing you speak Russian thru the suit."

"Humph, explains a lot. Must be why they stopped firing when I said wait. Well learned something new, that wasn't in the brochure tho. Anyway, alright time to make my Marvel debut." Adam said as he pushed all thoughts besides combat to the back of his mind.

As soon as Adam stepped into the doorway multiple shouts were heard but he didn't need a translator to understand what they said.

"Ironman!!" The men shouted in fear thinking they were being attacked by the Ironman.

"What the fuck, Ironman? Really? Ironman wishes he looked this good, also does Ironman have one of these?"

After Adam asked this question he activated his 'light saber', a blue energy blade extended out one end shocking the group of men surrounding his building.

"Light Saber! Ironman is a Jedi!" The men shouted as they began opening fire on him.

"Well that's unexpected, but again wrong. I'm the SPARTAN, bitch.." Adam dashed forward and cut two men in half before as the rest began firing wildly at him.

A blue energy force field absorbed the impacts of the thousands of rounds of bullets, each impact causing ripples across the shielding.

"Ironman wishes he was this cool." Adam remarked before dashing towards the next group, practically vanishing before their eyes and appearing in the middle of a small group of four easily cutting them in half. No blood spilled out due to the wounds instantly cauterizing shut as it passed thru flesh and bone like a hot knife thru butter.

Adam even began to practice his force pull which sped up the losses on HYDRAs side, pulling men directly to him for him to cut to pieces. He even got to hear the infamous 'cut off one head' final quotes a few times, to his delightful banter he continued to throw at the goons as he killed them ruthlessly.

"How long till the two heads grow back after it's removed, it's been a little bit and none of your friends grew a second head.."

"Hell even the Ironborne have a better parting death phrase than yours, most of your buddies couldn't even finish it since it's so long. 'What is dead may never die.' See short and sweet and the ultimate verbal middle finger."

"Are we talking about the same head? Is it the top one or bottom one that grows back? I always assumed it was the top one cause then that would just be sexist if it wasn't. Women would never regrow two heads under your regime since they don't have a bottom head, test we must if it is top or bottom."

Within moments of Adams final comment the remaining elites that were left alive began to quickly retreat, some to look for a bigger gun while most others just didn't want to participate in such a test.

No amount of brainwashing or mental programming that was done to them by HYDRA could over rule the protection of said head, there's a reason they are nicknamed family jewels.

"When they ask who kicked your asses, tell them it was the SPARTAN! " Adam shouted as he stood around a mangled mesh of body parts, watching the retreating figures.

"I thought you said they were elites." Adam commented to Eve, before she could reply his team radioed him.

"Commander, you coming? We are loaded and ready for transport, the first transport full of supplies is already en route back home." The voice of one of the communication experts radioed in.

"Damn good job people, I'm on my way." Adam responded as he powered down his new favorite weapon.

After regrouping with the team they began their systematic attacks, shock trooper style which thanks to their simulation battles prior to the mission as well as basically being Captain America level soldiers they were able to bulldoze each base. Within two hours five HYDRA bases were curb stomped and robbed of all supplies and intel as well as their servers bugged and connected.

By the time SHIELD showed up at the first location, Adam and his crew had finished with their final base and were already off planet enjoying their success and with only a minor injury.

One of the soldiers decided it was a good idea to slap one of the female soldiers on the ass which earned him a swift, accurate and beautifully executed Van Damme uppercut to the groin by said female. Thus earning a few hours on the gurney for the trip home.

As the crew enjoyed their estimated full day journey to Infinity, back at the first base Adam and his team attacked, a one eyed bald black man wearing a long leather trench coat stepped off a Quinjet and surveyed the base.

It had been abandoned after the attack and HYDRA leadership realizing they had been robbed completely, they knew the base would be found after such a large fire fight. So they quickly packed up the servers and took what was important and destroyed the rest in a hurry.

Finding who he was looking for, Fury strolled over to a red haired woman in a tight form-fitting leather body suit who was bent over a pile of torsos, arms, legs and heads.

Natasha studied the wounds in depth, she had seen many things in her life. She always told the people closest to her that her 'ledger was drowned in red', this wasn't just because of what she has done. It was mostly for things she hadn't done that it was filled with red.

It was why she tried so hard at being an Avenger, to make up for all the inaction she had done previously. She watched as families were torn apart, entire villages being killed off of all adults just to get more young boys and girls for the Red Room.

What she was seeing now was beyond her, this excited her a bit. She rarely found a challenge but this was definitely a message, and she intended to retrieve that message. If she knew who the message was for it would help narrow things down. She heard someone walking up to her, without looking back she knew it was Fury wanting a report.

Fury's voice was heard just as he came close enough for a private conversation, "Agent Romanoff, what have we got so far?"