207 Storming the Hospital Compound, The Emergence of the Advanced Mutated Infected (1/2)
Day 25 – 1:55 PM – Philippine General Hospital, Ermita, Metro Manila
Major Lopez stepped out of the opened Mobile Command Vehicle and looked around the temporary outpost they made. The teams that were supposed to enter the hospital were ready to go at command but the nervousness in their faces, especially the civilian groups, were apparent. Just several minutes ago, the outpost was attacked by several mutants from the hospital and the appearance of those mutants was too repulsive even if they were compared to the usual mutated infected.
Strangely, even though the outpost was just outside the front gate of the hospital, there were no leader types among the attackers. This made the Major feel that something bad would likely happen making him remind the people to be careful repeatedly through the command post.
After taking a peek at his watch on his left wrist, Major turned back and called unto the personnel in the command vehicle.
”Lieutenant Herrera, confirm the status of the sniper and monitoring groups.”
”Yes sir!”
The man who was sitting in front of the transceiver immediately replied before speaking on the mouthpiece in his hand.
”Command to Support Teams. Command to Support Teams. Ground operations will commence in ETA five minutes. State your status. I repeat. Ground operations will commence in ETA five minutes. State your status.”
After his voice faded, a series of replies came in one after another.
”This is Team Albatross. We're already in position.”
”Team Barbet. Also in position.”
”This is Team Cockatiel, we're we just arrive at the roof top.”
”Team Dove. Already in position.
”Team Eagle. We're still two floors before our destination. There's a lot of infected in our building.”
”Team Fairy.” Irene's voice was heard. ”We've been here for ten minutes already.”
”Team Goshawk here! We're still in the middle floors. Our building had a lot of barricades blocking our advance. Wait. We found three survivors!”
Hearing the replies of the seven support teams that were tasked to position themselves on the roof top of buildings around the hospital compound, Lieutenant Herrera looked at Major Lopez.
Major Lopez entered the command vehicle and took the mouthpiece.
”This is Major Lopez. Team Eagle, double speed. If your team needs reinforcements, say it. Team Goshawk, we'll send a retrieval group to take away the survivors. Continue on the mission and say if your team needs tools to remove the barricades. As for the others, wait in position. We'll start on time.”
”ROGER!”
”Team Eagle here. We could still manage. We'll get in position as soon as possible.”
”Team Goshawk. Please send some tools. Some of the barricades blocking the way are nailed to the floor and the walls.”
After contacting the support teams and the retrieval team to get the survivors found by Team Goshawk, the operation commenced.
***
Sounds of gunshots echoed across the whole compound as the teams of soldiers, Mutators and Evolvers stormed the three entrances of the hospital compound.
At that time however, as if waiting for their attack, the largest pods on the walls of the buildings within the compound burst open at the same time. It caused the gross smelling greenish liquid to splatter around the compound even covering the web like membrane that covered the grounds of the compound. In each pod, a mutated infected emerged.
The mutated infected were different from each pod. The monitoring personnel from Team Barbet that was positioned at the northern part of the hospital reported a mutated infected with bloated chest and moving in a strange manner came out of the pod in the northern side of the compound. Team Dove also reported a mutated infected that had bloated muscles in its whole body that was contracting and relaxing like a beating heart.
Upon spotting the irregular looking mutated infected, a plethora of loud gunshots echoed from six buildings around the hospital compound. It was the six teams composed of the sniper and monitoring groups. Their duty was to provide fire support and monitoring after all. Since the sudden threat appeared, they had to deal with it as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, not all of the mutated infected from the pods were killed. There were those that moved too fast, some had some impenetrable armor on their bodies and heads while the most alarming were those that moved to dodge the bullets. The fast moving ones were hard to aim at while the ones with armor had been blown away or were injured due to the high caliber sniper rifles. Those who dodged the bullets however…
Continuously dodged the shots fired at them.
These infected were those they called the [Leader Types]. They were the higher leveled mutated infected like those that led the horde of disfigured mutant infected to constantly attack Bay City in the past several days. It was still not known whether they developed intelligence since it was almost impossible to catch one and observe in captivity but the sure thing was that the [Leader Types] possessed high sense of danger and mentality similar to leaders of a pack of ferocious animals. Another troublesome thing was that they knew when to advance and retreat which made it several more times harder to kill them.
”Team Eagle to South Storm Team!” The voice of the leader of Team Eagle that managed to get in position in time could be heard. ”We spotted a [Predator Type] towards your direction! Proceed with caution! We lost visuals of the target on Sector 9-4!”