Rescuing the King

The carriage ride is bumpy, but we decided it was the safest way to infiltrate the city. We are wearing dark cloaks we got from the knights, the walls of the east gate are still impressive to look at. Katrina told us to pay the guards three gold coins to gain access into the city, in my opinion, that doesn't seem very safe. Mark who was driving the carriage tossed three gold coins to the guards, we in.

The main street is much more crowded than yesterday, the assassins probably had something to do with that.

"How long till we reach the palace walls?" I look at Mark.

"According to the map the Princess gave us, about 30 minutes at this pace but with this traffic, it may take up to forty," He looked at the carriages all around the main road.

"let's hope that our distraction buys us enough time to pull this off," I check my watch, "We have 35 minutes to get to the palace gates."

After a while, we finally made it to the palace gates with two minutes to spare. Mark slowly brought the carriage up to the palace guards, who were just in a disguise.

"Identify yourselves!" One of them shouted.

*boom*

The explosion resounded through the air, followed by the sound of a crumbling wall. The guards were stunned at the loud noise, it was all the time we needed. We threw our cloaks off and brought our guns up to the terrified guards, four suppressed shots rang out and the two guards fell, Fabian and James run-up to the gate and started to push it open. Mark hopped off the carriage and left it there, we took up a wedge formation and pushed towards the main palace building, two of the 'guards' spotted us and started and charge forward, I moved my rifle and the small kickback of the rifle massaged my shoulder as the two 'guards' fell forward. We quickly reached the palace doors and placed our shape charge and took up positions on either side of the doorway. I nodded toward Fabian and he pressed the button of the detonator.

*Boom*

The door caved in and we pushed through searched the main lobby.

"Clear!"

"Clear!"

"Clear!"

"Clear!"

"Clear! Okay we're moving towards the Bedrooms," I ordered them to move, taking up both sides of the stairs we moved up towards the second floor, many of the 'guards' posted around the palace had been drawn to the noise and had run off to go see the commotion. This left the palace mostly empty, on the second floor we encountered some maids who shrank away in fear as we passed. We had been ordered not to engage any of the staff apart from the guards according to Katrina, those were the ROE that we were working with.

We reached the first door and split into three teams, Fabian covering our rear, me and James, and Mark and Rob split up and set up either side of separate doors that were the king and 2nd princess's rooms. Giving James a nod I stepped out and kicked the door, the sound of the wood splintering as the lock failed filled the corridor, I rush into the room and see a 'guard' posted over the kings battered body, I pull the trigger twice and the guard falls, I hear two more shots to my right and see another guards body fall.

"Clear!"

"Clear! Right James get on first aid and patch him up," I say

*Arrrrgh*

"Shit! Moving," I shout and start running to the room Mark and Rob breached.

I run through the door with my rifle raised, I look around the room and see a dozen or so palace staff tied up on the floor with make and Rob slowly cutting them free of their bonds.

"This is some Fucked up shit," I say

"I know, this seems bigger than just some people with a grudge," Mark replies

I pull out my combat knife and walk over to a young girl and start cutting her free of her bonds.

Once we had cut them all free they all seemed relieved to know that we weren't going to do anything to them.

"*stchk* Fabian, James we have multiple friendlies coming out. Over," I explained over the comms

"*stchk* Copy that we're ready to move, HVT-1 is stable. Over," James replies

"*stchk* Ok, we'll move once we have located HVT-2. Out," I say

We walk out of the room with the girls following close behind, I turn around.

"Have any of you seen the 2nd Princess?" I ask the maids and butlers following behind

"Uhh, I was with her but she was taken to the throne room," a young girl said quietly.

"Shit! Right ok, change of plans, Fabian you with me, James, Rob and Mark you take the king and these fine ladies to the front and wait there I'll radio for assistance if shit hits the fan," I ordered quickly.

We went our separate ways, me and Fabian started to jog to the throne room. We encountered little resistance, thank god that explosion drew them away from the palace.

The doors of the throne room quickly came into view, we take separate sides on the doors. I quickly replace my mag, before nodding at Fabian, we both stepped back and kicked the doors. They swung open with remarkable force, the Throne room was filled with 'guards' and on the other side, the 2nd princess was tied up next to the throne. A large figure was sat upon the throne, he seemed to be their leader. I look at Fabian who has his MK46 raised, I nod at him, the loud noise of the unsuppressed machine gun causes everyone to cower in fear. The bullets tore through the crowd and the 'guards' start dropping like flies, those who got close were quickly cut down by the suppressed shots of my HK416 carbine. After a mere 30 seconds, the 'guards' were completely subdued, only the man on the throne and the 2nd princess were left unharmed.

I started walking over the bodies of the 'guards' groans of pain could be heard all around the room. We made our way closer and closer and the man on the throne started to cower in fear and the 2nd princess tried to pull away from us but couldn't, we got within about 2 meters of the man who had already begun crying silently.

"Who are you!" I shout at him aggressively, making sure my voice dominates the room.

"Arrrgh, we're the bandit warriors, a-a-a group of outlaws, but we got paid to do this I-I-I swear, the nobles of this country paid us to do it," he screamed while tears streamed down his face.

"Fabian, help the 2nd Princess, we'll return to the team," I say as I pull out my suppressed Beretta M9 pistol and raise it to the man's head and pull the trigger.

"Lowest of the low, true scum," I say coldly.

"Eek," the 2nd princess squeals

I look at her and smile,

"Your sister sent us, don't worry,"

A look of relief washed over her face, "I thought these brutes and had captured her."

"No, but they almost did, if it weren't for us she wouldn't be alive," I say as Fabian helps her up.

"Wait, really… you guys must be strong then," She replies.

"I don't really know, whatever any way we best get moving the others are waiting outside," I turn and start walking towards the door.

"The others?" the 2nd princess exclaims. I continue walking towards the door while stepping on armoured corpses.

"The king and the rest of the staff members that were captured," I grin as I hear her pace pick up to catch up to us.

We soon made it out of the palace and headed to the rendezvous point at the front gates, the princess quickly spotted the king on a stretcher and started to run over to the group. I quickly increased my pace to match hers with Fabian following close behind.

"*stchk* Friendlies about to rendezvous with you. Over,"

"*stchk* Copy that. Over," Mark's distorted voice responded over the comms.

We arrived at the group of rescued staff members, I walked over to Mark and notice a small young girl hiding behind him. She only looks around nine or ten, she seems to be wearing a luxurious gown.

"We did one last sweep before we left and found her hiding in one of the rooms," Mark says anxiously, noticing where I was looking, "We tried contacting you but got no response, the mass of walls between us must have blocked the signal."

"Ok, anyway. We are about to break out of the city, the 'Guards' may or may not have been alerted to our presence," I shout clearly so everyone hears me, "System, Summon two MRAP RG-33L's!"

[Ok, summoning MRAP RG-33L X2]

Two large magic circles appeared behind me, and two large 6x6 extended MRAPs started slowly rising out of the ground. I turn back to Mark and see the group of palace staff and royal family gawking at the vehicles, that rose seemingly out of know where.

"Alright, Mark take the one on the left, Rob, take the one on the right, the rest of you divide yourselves evenly between the two vehicles and Mark and Rob will show you how to get in. Okay, James and Fabian, we'll take an M-ATV. Move out."

While Mark and Rob, open the doors of the MRAP's I summon an M-ATV through the system and I tell James to drive. Fabian climbed into the top turret and kept an eye out for any approaching enemies.

"*stchk* This is Bravo 1-5 We're all good to go here. Over," Rob says over the comm.

"*Stchk* Bravo 1-3 here, we are two seats short can you take one. Over" Mark replies on the comm system.

"*Stchk* Bravo 1-1 has 3 seats spare you can send them to us. Over," I report over the radio.

"*stchk* Copy that Bravo 1-1, they are on their way to you now. Out,"

I got out of the M-ATV to see the young girl mark was with and the 2nd princess walking towards me, I move towards them to greet them and open the back door of the M-ATV and help them in. I opened the front door and climbed in next to James.

"*Stchk* All Elements confirm," I order.

"*stchk* This is Bravo 1-3, good to go. Over," Mark replies.

"*stchk* Bravo 1-5, ready and waiting. Over," Rob states, with the loud noises of the engines spluttering into life.

"*Stchk* All elements confirmed, let's roll," I say as the convoy starts moving steadily picking up speed.