M4A1's POV

I quickly kicked the door down as I looked around, my rifle shouldered As my eyes scanned the area of the abandoned Research facility. My breaths slow as I glance at the three other women next to me.

"Looks abandoned...What do you think M16?" I quietly turned to her as she turns to me, her rifle also raised. "...Mission first, just gotta clear it...Lets go."

As we slowly walk forward, pass by the decayed remains of human guards from a time long ago, a time we didn't get to expierence before everything happened, 

The ancient research facility had been a hub of human activity before the world's descent into chaos, but now it lay abandoned, a haunting relic of a forgotten past. It was a place of untold secrets and foreboding discoveries.

As we ventured deeper into the facility, their metal frames barely making a sound as they moved. The dim, flickering lights that once illuminated the corridors only served to accentuate the facility's eerie atmosphere. "This place gives me the creeps..." SOPMOD Says quietly as M16 Glances towards me. 

I felt synthetic muscles hummed with readiness as I took a deep breath, as we continue delved deeper into the heart of the abandoned research facility. My eyes, which resembled the deep, unyielding blue of a cloudless sky, scanned the environment with a laser-like precision. But there was always that feeling, of, wanting to be normal. I still can't understand it.

The facility's interior was a disorienting labyrinth of corroded pipes, flickering lights, and the echoes of a forgotten past. It was as if time had come to a standstill, preserving the remnants of human ambition and scientific curiosity. 'Wish I saw how the world was back then." I thought to myself, The atmosphere was thick with an uncanny silence that seeped into her mechanical bones, making her eerily aware of the facility's unsettling history.

I couldn't shake the feeling that were not alone. Just then my eyes went red, my sensors picked up irregular movements, faint hums in the distance that didn't quite match the echoes of their own mechanical footsteps. "Guys, Theres something ahead." I warned them as they nod, shouldering their rifle. Since I was newer than them I had fresh upgrades they dont.

Just as we approached a massive chamber at the facility's core, a sudden, bone-chilling hum filled the air. My internal sensors went on high alert, and before I could react, the ceiling above them split open. Old security drones, remnants of the facility's defenses, descended with a malevolent purpose. "Contact above!" I yell, quickly aiming my M4 Above and firing, letting the 5.56 Full Metal Jacket rounds tear through the incoming drones.

I also felt the others leapt into action, our combat protocols engaging with mechanical precision. As M16 came beside her and fired a rapid burst, targeting the closest drone. The once-sturdy machines had been battered by time, their metal shells rusted and frail, but their programming still resonated with a determination to protect the facility.

SOPMOD unleashed a barrage of high-velocity rounds, tearing through one of the drones with surgical precision. As she quickly dodges a drone that was about to fly into her. "Son of a gun!" I hear her yell as I quickly fired another drone.

I glance to AR-15 and M16 as they fired with unerring accuracy, their weaponry a symphony of deadly force. Suddenly one of the drone's old weapon compartments, unlike the others, opened, revealing a chaingun as it started to fire at us, forcing us to take cover behind a crumbling support pillar.

"Dammit." M16 Mutters as I notice SOPMOD grab a decayed guard's body with a knife sticking out of the back of the skull. As SOPMOD reaches to the knife. 'Watch this!" She yells, Quickly rolling from cover and threw the knife at the drone, gitting it directly in its sensors as AR-15 Finished the Job with one well placed shot. 'That was awesome!" SOPMOD exclaims as M16 Pats me down for injuries. 'Your good Rookie."

I nod as I step out of the pillar, glacning at the destroyed drones as I continue to scan the area, AR-15 Walking next to me as we start to notice something. "Hey...Look at the bones." I say as M16 Turns to one of the bones to see a well placed bullet hole on the side of the skull. "Hm...Must've been an operation taken place here before everything when down."

As I glance towards the Hallway in front of us, I only saw identical bones who met the same fate. I glance down towards my M4, looking at it as I took a breath. "Are you okay M4?" I heard the familiar voice of AR-15 as I turn to her, giving her a reassuring smile. "Yeah."

The walls of the facility bore the scars of time and neglect, crumbling and giving way to the relentless march of nature, with vines covering the walls. We maneuvered through unstable corridors and dodged hanging wires, our advanced sensors detecting and adapting to the ever-present dangers making it a piece of cake.

As we Enter the Research area, My sensors detected a sudden change in the temperature, almost becoming Freezing cold as I saw the others feel it as I slowly turn my gaze to a closed entrance to a research room dubbed "TD-19283" detecting where the sudden drop of temperature is coming from.

"Whats in there...?" SOPMOD Mutters as M16 approaches the old console, wiping the dust of it. "Only one way to find out." She says as I look around, the cold was, well freezing, but were machines that can feel, and despite the freezing air it won't kill us.

"God its freezing." AR-15 Mutters as M16 Manages to open the door, we were instantly hit with negative temperature as we enter slowly, we pass by old T-doll designs, as we continued. My sensors picked up something that confused me, faint heartbeats, multiple of them as I turned around a counter and saw multiple men laying on the ground, frozen beyond what I can see but somehow, they were alive, it didnt make sense. "Guys we got a problem."

(Howdy, New chapter posted, I was gonna do 2.5k words but Locus has, an ungodly amount of school work so I did this solo, starting to get rusty)