Chapter 2

Nightfall

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49 years after the Colorado Outbreak

Rapid Reaction Force - CIF Team 1

Finland (Yellow zone)

In Tracking snow vehicle

The tracking snow vehicle driving through the snow, after Emilia send coordinates to the location of Nightfall before offline. Rapid Reaction Force was commanded by Michael "Odin" Schulz, the former G.H.O.S.T and currently member of the CIA. G.H.O.S.T., GnK, StateSec and Stasi has to face a new threat, which is an alien that have never seen. They send out, FTac Recon, Vargo 52, FARA 83, M4, AR-15, AN-94, AK-12, Aiden, Angelia II and Claire Hudson the former member of the Task Force Spectre, who is driving the snow tracking vehicle as Markus give a brief to FTac Recon. Short story, AK-12 was recovered after Yuri manage to recover her remains and bring it to Persica to recovered.

Markus: *COMMS* Remember, the objective is to find Doctor Emilia, she's been offline since her last message to US government, but not the Moscow.

AK-12: But why the Moscow? What is so important, to send Moscow?

Markus: *COMMS* *sigh* Because, Moscow cannot contact from Emilia, because that Specimen is pretty dangerous, if she contact Moscow, the soldiers from Soviets will decimated by Cryptids.

While having Brief, Markus could feel his head pain, and groaning.

Vargo 52: Commander? Are you okay?

Markus: *COMMS* N-nothing... got a serious head problem, little bit stress Glaz. 

After finished brief, Clarie turned her head to the group.

Claire: Alright, everyone were here...

They arrived at the entrance of the Nightfall, which is currently, the gate was locked. The group got out from the tracking vehicle. 

The Dolls scanned the area, checking any lifeforms, but no sign of lifeforms.

AN-94: No sign of lifeforms.

Angelia II: Must be abandoned, since Emilia send a last message.

Claire: Whatever, he did this... must be planning of those creatures, my drones shows E.C and Paradeous are heading this way.

Aiden: How much time?
Claire: About 50 minutes, let's get inside.

As Claire got a pliers in her hands, FTac Recon, could noticed his head felt something.

FTac Recon: Wait!

He halt Clarie, FTac Recon put his hand on his head, as he can sense something movements coming from the other side. It was a soldier running to the gate. The CIF Team 1 ready their weapons, as the man spoke.

???: Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

Aiden noticed an english, he tell his team to cease fire.

Aiden: Hold your fire! Those are soldiers.

Claire: Really, that soldier was part of the Nightfall members.

Aiden denied if that soldier was Nightfall member or not.

Claire: Looked, man I don't know what are you doing alone, unless are going to warn the others?

???: N-no no, madam, this is seriously important!

Angelia II: What important?

???: Please, we need to get back to that snowcat and get the hell outta here.

Claire: No, no, no unless, we're here to investigate the facility.

???: Listen, Madam, your are in grave danger-

As the soldier convinced them, they heard a loud roaring sound echo the area. M4 could see the soldiers panic.

M4: Why are you so panic?

???: Listen, those things, you don't understand...

There was a ceiling shaking, the group looked up seeing many ice or dirt falling, it could be only one thing... the cryptid is Breeder.

The Dolls, Angelia II, Aiden except Claire shocked seeing the humanoid size creature, climbing the hills. The soldiers panics attempting to remove the gate as he begged him to let him in and he could tell anything they want before he get stabbed by his claw.

???: AHHH! LET ME IN! I'LL TELL YOU EVERY-- *screaming in agony*

The Breeder climb back after stabbing the soldier, before his endless body dropped to the ground with more blood spatter the floor, As Dolls couldn't believe their eyes of what they saw was a humanoid size while Angelia too.

AN-94: *stunned* What is that, creature...

FARA-83: I've never seen that thing looks like a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

Then a voice coming from their radio was Michael.

Odin: *COMMS* This Odin, to CIF Team 1, it's started... contain the outbreak before it spreads any further and don't let Paradeous and E.C. take those Specimens.

Henry: *COMSMS* Taylor, listen, I want to bring those blood samples, I need to analysis those creatures. It may be the way stop those things.

FTac Recon: Copy...

FARA-83: How the hell are we gonna prevent the outbreak?

Claire: First things first, target the hives. It may be scattered across the facility, did you guys have a drill?

Aiden: We all did.

Clarie: Good, spread out, find the four hives, deploy the drills and the established a defensive perimeter.

All: Yes Madam.

After briefing plan, the cryptid coming out from the tunnels is Cryptid type called Scouts. 

The scouts army lured towards them as Dolls looked at their HUD seeing red dots. Claire, recognized those creatures, she turns around and see the Scouts, coming right towards them.

Claire: Contact!

Claire fire her weapon as the Aiden ready his assault rifle and Angelia has her pistol. The Dolls engaged the Cryptids known as Scouts.

Angelia II: What the hell are those? Claire?

Claire: That thing right here Ange, this is Scouts the type of cryptids. They are cannon fodder, smallest and weakest specimen of the Cryptids, my team and I encounter those scouts back in Colorado 2017.

Claire explains as she fire her gun at the scout.

Aiden: Split, up! We have to destroy those Hives!

The group split up to find four Hives into four of two, then Michael heard on their Radio.

Odin: *COMMS* If we lose control of the situation, this'll end just like Colorado...

With Claire and AR-15 on top second deck of building, Claire, set up a sentry nest while AR-15 had a drill in her hand. She looked what she was a Hive that Claire told them about.

AR-15: Major, are those-

Claire: Yes, those are hives... they contained of producing more Cryptids.

Claire told her as she set up two Sentry nest while AR-15 lay more mines, after their defence position. AR-15 place the driller into the Hive as it drill deeper in the hives. Alerting more cryptids.

CLaire: Here it come AR-15, your about to witness those creatures.

CLaire and AR-15 ready their guns, as the wave started. The type of cryptids coming from the South-East is another cryptid type called Hunters.

The hunters runs towards both, Claire switch to her MG firing the bullets onto the hunters killing few while the other focus on AR-15. AR-15 on the other hand, she looked through her scope, aiming at head of the Cryptids called hunters, she took a headshot on the Hunters as more keep coming. Claire use her combat knife, stabbed the Hunters.

Claire: Damn, those guys never give up! *as she stabbed the Hunter coming from behind*

AR-15: Major are those-

Claire: Hunters, that's another type of Cryptids, they are the essentially evolved scouts, they shared their similar body shape, albeit and three times larger. 

The scout jump on the led as two defend the driller while the sentry nest auto fires the cryptids, scouts and Hunters. The driller finally reach to the core of the Hives, as the driller began malfunction as the driller deeper, then ignited destroying the first hives and both finished the remaining Crytpids. As the storm keeping coming. Odin appeared on their comms.

Odin: *COMMS* ... interference... storm. If we lose contact, your orders are to located Dr, Lhati and collect intel... related to the Nightfall... Secure the compound and standby for further orders. Good hunting. CIF 1.

With FTac Recon and M4 heading to fourth Hive.

M4 finished off the Scouts with her cannon, and FTac Recon set up traps and sentry to surround the Hive. Then someone interface their COMMS making FTac Recon a brainwashing hearing a numbers... through his head as number appeared all over his HUD.

FTac Recon: *groaning*

23, 7, 48, 30, 51, 3, 20, 17, 11...

M4 looked FTac Recon who felt his pain from his head. She come over, and asked him.

M4: Recon, are you okay?

10, 55, , 9, 3, 25, 13, 23...

FTac Recon: *groaning* Nothing... I got-

A voice was heard all over their COMMS.

David Archer: *COMMS* If I'm not wrong... you were the different outfit who cleaned up my mess back in Colorado. That was a good job of work if I may say so...

FTac Recon/Aiden: *vengeful glare* Archer...

That voice was none other than David Archer, the head of the Nightfall and former SAS

AN-94: Who's archer?

FARA-83: David Archer, is the former SAS and the current member of the Inner circle. I never thought, David Archer was dead back in Germany. But now he's alive.

Odin: *COMMS* Archer...

David Archer: *COMMS* Well, well, well if isn't the former G.H.O.S.T. Michael Schulz and current leader of Rapid Reaction Force after Godfather and current CIA. I hope you're not planning to set off another nuclear bomb just like in Colorado back then.

Odin: *COMMS* Time to pack it in, Archer. Too many people have died already! And billion people died because of ELID fluid.

David Archer: ... And if I stop now, they'll have died in vain. I'm afraid I can't do that, Schulz.

FTac Recon: And you supposed to be dead back then...

David recognized that voice from before, he smirked at his COMMS and spoke.

David Archer: *COMMS* Well... Well... If isn't Taylor. I never thought I see you in first person on the radio. Damn you killed Ivan, Khristenko, and Raul.

FTac Recon: *vengeful glares* Shut up... my brainwashed is broke, thanks to Cpt Mason.

David Archer: *COMMS* Really, you think your brainwash is over, no kiddo, there's only one missing is me... yeah... that's right, I'm the last one... what is left. 

After the voice COMMS, FTac Recon could heard a number sequence and voice of Dima Chernov echoing him.

Dima: David Archer... Must die.

FTac Recon: *vengeful Glares* I'm coming after you Archer...

Then he snapped out as M4 spoke to him.

M4: Recon... are you okay? I saw your face is...

FTac Recon: There's no need to worried M4, *breath* Let's... let's just focus on the mission.

FTac Recon and M4 check the room, they grabbed many ammo to prepare and Recon got more sentry nest. As M4 check the stash, she found a video recorder on the monitor with the flash drives. 

M4: Recon! I found something.

FTac Recon went inside the room were M4 was there inside.

FTac Recon: What is it?

M4 pointed a the video record on the monitor. He press play button as the video started hearing Emilia's voice talk.

A file on the Nightfall Program appears.

Emilia: I've been here a month, but I still freeze up every time I hear that shrieking coming from hatchery. Archer says its a normal reflex, something hardwired in our DNA from prehistoric times. He calls them Cryptids.

M4: Cryptids, isn't that Claire said that?

FTac Recon: Yeah, I think...

Both listened Emilia's journal logs.

Emilia: I've seen specimens from a dozen different species, plants, animals, things they don't even have a name for, an entire ecosystem since the Relic Technology.

Files on the Hunter and Seeker appear.

Emilia: It's the greates scientific discovery of the century. Why are the keeping it all secrets from the public since World War 3 ended and the country to bless the Rosstarism. Why did they fly me halfway around the world to see this? Maybe, the Cryptid had advanced technology than the Relics to find?

The video log ended, FTac Recon type on the keyboard, the monitor shows one more video record, and it's said Origin.

M4: Origin?

FTac Recon: Maybe, something about Cryptid's Origin.

He press the play button.

Emilia: It's been two months. I've been studying the records of the Nightfall program in Finland. I thought Finland was destroyed or infected by the Collapse Fluid. After the caverns were breached by an ODIN strike, Archer discovered the colony in Colorado back in 2030, when the scientist expedition team started led by Henry J Morse.

The video shows Young Henry in mid 20s alongside with his Biological teams, with Former Task Force Spectre Claire and David Archer taking a picture at the site of Caldera park site were the nuclear detonated. FTac Recon and M4 were surprised of that man was Henry

FTac Recon: Henry... is he part of the expedition team in Colorado?

M4: So Henry was involved, in Colorado... Persica told me about him.

FTac Recon: You knew M4?

M4 nodded

M4: Yes, Persica told me about Henry, he was part of scientist expedition groups to investigate Colorado, Caldera Park when he was young back then.

Both then focus on the video record.

Emilia: They found out later that the Cryptid homewo0lrd was a harsh planet. It's skies stained black and from the ash of a thousand volcanoes. A comet ignited the oxygen in the atmosphere. With that fire storm, it incinerated every living thing on the surface of the planet. And that planet... was Earth...

M4 and FTac Recon shocked hearing Emilia said about Cryptid's origin homeworld was earth their home planet.

FTac Recon: W-what?!

M4: Those aliens are originated at Earth, our home...

FTac Recon: T-t-that's impossible! No other Cryptids live another planet, but they lived in our home, Earth.

Emilia: ... three hundred million years ago, which is why Archer hates when people drop the "A' world. There's nothing alien about the Cryptids. They've been here longer than we have.

Video log ended.

M4: So those aren't aliens, they were Cryptids originated at our home...

FTac Recon: Were gonna tell the others about this.

Meanwhile back in HQ

Markus was on his computer, checking records about Relic Technology and the Cryptids. Suddenly, he felt his head in pain and the voice spoke.

Ancestor: *voice in his head* Your friends are going to die, if you refused to become the king of the Cryptid army.

Markus: *groaning* S-shut up... *breathing* *thought* What the fuck is going on from my head?!

Flashback

2035

Markus was young and he got a brain surgery since he got infected by the ELID on his brain, Henry then place the Cortex contained of Brain of Cryptid Ancestors, place it inside of his head and make sure to heal it until he place him on the Cryo chamber to recover himself until 2047.

Flashback ended

Markus: *thought* Could it be... that brain from the Ancestor, place me inside my head?

To be continued.

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