Blitz Protocol: The Hunt

A black VTOL aircraft soared across the night sky as it made its way towards the Bavarian Alps. It was reminiscent of a cargo plane, just smaller, and with rotating thrusters on the wings. Its body was completely black except for the blue lightning bolt that ran along each side. The craft was known by its team as the Nachtvogel.

At the controls, sat Erika Schlödder, keeping her eyes dead ahead on the horizon whilst monitoring its many screens. "Contact ahead, 5 kilometers." She said into her headset.

"How close can you get us?" Andreus Schmidt, the team leader replied.

"There's a clearing 3 kilometers from the site; we'll have to go the rest on foot."

"A midnight walk through a Bavarian forest. Either the recipe for a good time or a trash time." Emma Jaye said, slinging her rifle over her shoulder.

"We're not here to have a good time Emma. We need to find what's making these pulses." Hans Hilton said.

"Lighten up a bit Hans. It could be nice." Dutch Tudyk said, trying to reattach his scope.

"Yes. Think about it, walk under the trees. Emma telling us nonsense stories. Maybe you could even get Erika to hold your hand Dutch." Wess Haber, the last member of the team said. Dutch went red and Emma chuckled.

"Alright everyone, hang, we're going in." Erika said over the comms as the Nachtvogel entered a tight turn.

One on the ground the team disembarked and readied their weapons and shovels. Andreus pulled out a device which measured electronic pulses and fired it up. Immediately an anomaly appeared ahead. He motioned to the team to move out, and they began the long track through the forest. "Eyes open everyone. If we've found this thing, I'm sure Krieger knows it's here too." Andreus said.

"Great, last thing we want is that madman crashing our party." Emma interjected.

They continued until they were on top of the anomaly. "Contact below. Now to start digging." Wess said.

"You ladies sit back and relax. I'm sure we can handle this." Dutch said to Erika and Emma, causing them both to chuckle.

"How gentlemanly, what'd Emma? Should we sit back and let the boys do the work?" Erika smirked.

"Sounds like a good idea. How long do you think... Oh, shoot!" She swung her rifle forwards as something large and metal began moving through the trees.

"Automatons! Guns up, stay sharp, strike fast!" Wess said., drawing his own rifle.

A blast of energy ripped through the trees and struck the ground causing an explosion. The team immediately ducked for cover as the large metal humanoids moved closer. "Hope Krieger didn't anticipate for moving in small places." Dutch say, readying a grenade. "Fire in the hole!" He threw it, and it landed near the closest Automaton. Before it could react, the grenade went off, blowing it to pieces. The others darted from their cover and opened fire. Their ammunition struck the metal hunks, puncturing armour and snapping wires. The Automatons soon returned fire, beams of energy firing from their hands. The team dodged and ducked away from each attack before firing back. Finally, two Automatons fell to the ground.

"I count another three; Emma, do you think you can handle them?" Andreus asked.

Emma smirked. "Luckily I come ready for such an occasion." She reached back to the quiver on her back, pulling out a rod with an explosive charge. She armed it, then threw it at the nearest Automaton. It pierced the machine's body before detonating, blowing it to pieces. "Covering fire!" Hans yelled, firing at the last two. They slowly turned his way as Emma darted out, arming two more charges."That's one." She impaled one into the closest foot. "And two." She impaled the last in its leg. Then she stopped and pulled out a detonator. "And boom!" She triggered it taking both down. The first seized function, but the second still moved, though struggling. Wess stopped it with a few bullets in its CPU.

"Do you really have to say that every time?" Hans said.

"It's my trademark." She replied.

"Good news, those things seemed to have blasted the whatever-it-is out of the ground. Seems like you chaps won't be doing any digging. Sorry Emma, guess we didn't get to sit back and relax." Erika said.

Wess put a glove on before reaching for the device. It looked like a metal tablet, with strange carvings on it. On the back was a sort of connect point. Dutch came over to him with a case and opened it. Wess put it in and then locked the case. "What is it?" Dutch asked.

"Seemed like a control panel of sorts. Let's get back to Nachtvogel before more of Krieger's abominations show up." Wess said.

"Agreed, let's move out." Andreus called.

The journey back seemed much quicker, though this time everyone was on high alert. One blast from those Automatons could reduce a human to a puddle of flesh. Then they broke into the clearing, the Nachtvogel just across it. However, opposite the craft was a helicopter. The team didn't notice it at first until they were well into the clearing.

"Going somewhere?" a woman said, stepping off. The team turned to see her pointing an unknown type of weapon at them with a smirk on her face. Wess blinked then rubbed his eyes upon seeing her.

"Mercy?!" he exclaimed, a bit confused. Mercy Braun just chuckled. "I'm just as surprised to see you Wesley."

Next time: Blitz faces off against Mercy Braun. And Doctor Blitzkrieg puts his plan into action.

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