Captain Hale was a six-year veteran of the GSS. A Special Forces soldier with an exemplary career, he had been in command of GSS Team Six for a year and was eager to prove his superior’s faith in him.
Him and the entire Team Six were coming in hot aboard a VP22 Tilt Rotor combined attack and carrier chopper. It had the capability to attack ground targets with its array of gatling guns and rocket pods, as well as being able to transport up to thirty troops to a combat zone.
This particular VP22 carried the entire Team Six, all twenty men, to the Mistral Labs.
They would arrive in less than thirty seconds confident they had the situation well under control. They were about to be proven wrong.
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“Sir, we have an incoming vehicle, looks to be a troop carrier,” the man on guard duty a
