Space Odyssey: Spectre

He could see a group of people prepared with weapons on the other side of the door. If he opened the door he would get gunned down. Or more likely the bullets would bounce off his personal shielding.

The tank began to shuffle to the side as Jace materialized his knife in hand. "You are free to join me." He informed the siren.

"A Squad on me!" The siren leading them called out. "B squad, take that building. C Squad, take that building. D and E squads set up in the nearby area in case the Trade bastards come up from behind."

Jace slammed his foot into the door.

Creak! Bang!

The door flew out of its opening and through the short entrance hallway. There were several sounds of metal on metal as bullets bounced off the door. While Jace followed it in and punched it again when it stopped in the middle of the hallway.

This time the door flew through air like a lethal missile and slammed into the back wall. Embedding itself in the wall along with a chunk of the two people it pushed back and the heavy weapon they were using. Jace could hear some whispers behind him as he walked further down the hall. There was no one else on this floor.

After a moment of looking he located the stairs leading further down using his electrical vision. He started making his way through while he searched the lower floors and found there was only a basement but it was filled with people.

It would take at least a few minutes to get through. He moved to the stairway and began to descend down the stairs. "So what do I call you? Or would you prefer I just call you ’friend’?" The siren asked as he followed Jace down the stairs to the lower level.

"Commander Jace, and you?" Jace informed him and then asked as he moved to the door. As soon as it opened they would be in combat. The entire floor was filled with enemies and they were all aiming at the door he was about to walk through.

"Guard Commander Italo, the rest of my people are guards as well. We were all kept together until our guards were distracted and we struck back." Italo explained. "We took our opportunity and started taking back the city. I heard several other groups were doing the same who were being held throughout the area. Then the jamming field went up."

"The jamming field is me. I am stopping the bombs from being remotely detonated. As soon as they are all disabled, I can disable the jamming field." Jace explained as his tank fired on a vehicle that was moving down the road. It appeared this group of occupiers utilized a form of hovertech. But it was clearly slower because the vehicle was moving at a snail’s pace.

The tank fired and began to take out the soldiers around the vehicle while a few bullets managed to penetrate the lower part and the front of the vehicle slammed into the ground. Exposing its roof which bullets tore through and killed anyone inside. Once that was done he had the tank move back and reposition in a different spot.

While underground he opened the stairway door and a flood of bullets flooded through the opening. "They really want us dead." Italo pointed out.

"They should have brought better weapons." Jace hummed out before slipping through the opening. Throwing his knife at the furthest enemy while he closed distance on the closest one. The knife embedded itself in the eye of an enemy soldier with a heavy weapon who collapsed like a sack of bricks.

The closest enemy was firing their shotgun at Jace. While Jace was lit up because of the golden hexagonal pattern from his personal shielding. He yanked the gun out of the man’s hand with one hand and threw it across the room while his other hand punched through the man’s unarmored chest and covered the back of the wall in blood.

There was screaming in their native language as Jace yanked his hand from the man’s chest and marched towards the next closest enemy. As he moved they scrambled to get away and tripped over themselves and fell to the ground.

As they fell, Jace launched his leg forward and kicked them square in the chest and sent them flying backward into another enemy soldier. All of the enemies were focused on Jace so the majority of them fell quickly to the siren’s laser fire. The few enemies further back ducked back into a different hall while one of them who were close to Jace used him as cover.

The enemy ran towards Jace while screaming and pulling out a round ball that was blinking with a green light. Assuming design is consistent, it is probably a grenade of some kind.

Jace yanked the grenade out of the enemies hand and threw it at the hallway. It bounced off a wall and around a corner before it exploded with screams of enemies hidden around that corner. There was a flash of green fire and plasma that coincided with the screams of dying enemies. As for the enemy he yanked the grenade from, their arm was broken as they reached for something else on their belt. But Jace reached out and into his open mouth before tearing upward and tearing the top of their head off.

He stormed down the hall as some of the sirens gagged but the guard commander quickly followed him. "You seem like you know where you are going?" He seemed to ask and point out at the same time.

"To the left side are a few enemy soldiers and the armory. To the right is my destination, several more soldiers hidden in a room and a large bomb. Not radioactive in nature but it would be enough to level this section of the city." Jace explained as he crouched down and yanked his knife out of a person’s head.

"I am going with you. The rest of you clear the rest of the basement. Is there anything aside from this basement?" Italo asked as he followed Jace down the branching hall to a different set of doors. "Can you defuse the bomb?"

"I can." Jace answered as he looked at the enemies in the room. "There are six people in the room. One by the door. I will take them out. Three hidden in the back and two hidden above. There is some cover to our left when we enter, you can use that while I get close to the bomb and disable it. I will use my knife to kill the person with a view of the cover you will utilize." Jace explained as he readied himself.

"Then I will slowly take out the others." Italo nodded, "I will follow you in."

Jace moved back and then shoulder bashed into the door. The doors swung open and Jace kicked the enemy soldier in the side who moved to attack Jace with a pipe. He flew back into a wall and there was a cracking noise before he collapsed to the ground. Jace threw his knife at someone to his right side who would have had a view of Italo’s cover.

Jace dashed across the room and kneeled, sliding on his knees as bullets bounced off his personal armor or around him. He stopped in front of the large bomb they had set up. It had mostly plastic explosives wired into each other but it had some wires leading to their version of a datapad. He accessed it and found a number ticking down. It was five minutes before the bombs detonated.

Despite their differences they still used the Ancient Earth standard numbers. After a moment he realized that he had a vague idea of the rest of the information. In the background he could hear a mix of lasers and gunfire.

He took a moment to enter the pad’s data systems and began to translate the base functions of the pad’s programming. He took a moment to understand the program and then began to modify the contents of the data on the pad. The remote triggering devices were interconnected but the moment he jammed them the timers started. If he releases the jammer the devices can be remote detonated but the timers would stop.

But instead he could stop the jamming after setting up a virus that would spread to the other bombs via the transmission data they were using to stay synched up. The virus would shut down the remote detonation and would neutralize all manual triggering devices. Basically making the detonation devices inert. The only way to fix them would be to simultaneously trigger a restart on all devices at the same time. If only one was restarted it would just get reinfected once the restart sequence finished.

Jace remotely deactivated the jamming his tank was sending out as an enemy soldier ran around the bomb and pointed his weapon at Jace’s head. Only for him to collapse as a green laser tore a hole through his chest.