The Lockdown

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Dallas, Texas

Date: June 6th, 2021

Time: 2:34 P.M.

Derek POV

You were sitting on the couch in the living room watching T.V. while attempting to bullet walk a 9mm round.

Derek: Damnit...

Sean was sitting on another couch with Veronica drinking his coffee while watching you fail again, and again, and again.

Mickey: Dude like I said 20 minutes ago, it's not possible, you'd have better success with you HKs 5.56x45mm NATO rounds.

Derek: Which I can already bullet walk, but I need to learn how to bullet walk with this 9mm.

Mickey: Its too small.

Derek: Its just the right length.

Mickey: That sounds so wrong.

Derek: You trying to compensate?

Mickey: You wanna take this upstairs and measure?

Someone started knocking on the wall and you looked up towards the second floor and saw Mark staring down at the three of you.

NATO: Dont mean to intrude on your fruity conversation, but I'd recommend switching to Channel 11.

Sean did as he was told and switched the channel. The news title was "Galleria Mall under lockdown". You looked over at Sean and then back to the T.V.

Hick: 10 minutes ago the Galleria mall was stormed by a group of masked individuals donning white. It's suspected that they are the white masks that have slowly become more and more of a threat worldwide... Dallas police have surrounded the complex with the Texas National Guard and have so far been unable to enter the building.

You looked back over at Sean and he started to shake his head.

Mickey: Nope, I specifically told Harry I wasn't doing anything while on my vacation.

Derek: I wasn't asking you.

Mickey: What're you gonna do, run in their with one of my kitchen knives?

Derek: Nope...

He took a second to think and then realized once he saw you were holding the 9mm cartridge.

Mickey: Oh God damnit, you brought your glock with you, didn't you.

Derek: You're so dense sometimes.

You walked upstairs and into your room that you were sharing with Franklin. You put on your vest over your T-shirt and holstered your glock while also putting the 2 mags on your vest with your knife. You put on your balaclava, walked out of your room and back down the stairs.

Mickey: Dude, what are you doing.

Derek: Helping. George, Key me.

He opened up a drawer and tossed you your dodge keys as you walked out of the door. You got into your 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and drove towards the Galleria Mall.

You arrived at the mall and parked your car outside of the police barricade. You got out and ran towards the police and national guard but was stopped.

Officer: This is a restricted area, get back in your vehicle and leave.

Derek: Well by the looks of things, you guys haven't made much of a dent.

Officer: Sir, I'm not going to ask again, leave this area.

Derek: Oh for the love of christ...

You showed him your I.D. and he examined it.

Derek: Rainbow Taskforce Operative, now if you'll excuse me we have civilians who need to be helped inside.

Officer: Whats your plan.

Derek: If you can make a loud enough noise and distraction, I should be able to break into the East entrance.

Officer: Take this radio and let us know when you're in position.

Derek: Gonna need a sub machine gun if I'm gonna be going in.

Officer: Best we can give you is a 9mm MP5.

Derek: I'll take that.

You jogged over to a Swat vehicle and grabbed a silenced MP5 with an extra 3 mags and made your way to the East entrance. You got in position and turned on your radio.

Derek: *radio* Alright, I'm in position.

Officer: *radio* Make it quick.

You heard a series of gunshots in the distance and broke into the Mall. The gunshots died out and you didn't hear anyone moving to your position.

You scanned the store that you were in and saw that there was no one inside. You exited the store and into the large open hall as you heard commotion. You hid behind a pillar as the footsteps got louder.

WM 1: I'm telling you I heard a noise from over hear.

WM 2: And I heard nothing with all those cops firing into the glass at the front entrance.

You let the MP5 dangle across your chest as you unsheathed your knife.

WM 1: It had to have come from this Abercrombie & Fitch store.

As they got close, you stopped hugging the pillar and slammed one of the masks against the pillar while stabbing the other in the throat. You quickly pulled out the blade as you pushed the other mask against the pillar with your arm and stabbed him 4 times in the chest. You let the masks body drop to the floor as you sheathed your knife and aimed your MP5 down the hall. Your radio started to come on as you fixed the frequency.

Officer: *Radio* Operator do you copy.

Derek: *radio* I'm here, what is it.

Officer: *radio* We've got eyes on a patrol of 6 masks on the 3rd level scanning stores for any civies, get up there and get those civilians outside. We're trying to relay you more intel but there's only so much that we can see without alerting them of your presence.

Derek: *radio* I'm on it.

You turned off your radio as you headed towards the stairwell and made your way up to the 3rd level. You scanned both ways before you left the stairs and started check every store one by one. You walked into an American eagle store and saw the store clean. You moved towards the back where the changing rooms were and noticed the doors were closed. You saw a couple shadows underneath the door and gave a slight knock.

Derek: This is Taskforce Operative Colt from Rainbow, if you guys want to get out of here, I'm going to need you guys to open the door.

There was a bit of silence before you saw a set of feet and the sound of a lock being undone and the door opening. You were surprised, it was a group 3 girls and 1 boy who didn't even look older then 16. They look terrified.

Derek: See? I'm one of the good guys. I'm going to need you guys to stay close behind me and stay as silent as possible, got it?

They nodded there heads as you signaled them to follow you. You started to leave the store until you heard that patrol they were talking about.

WM: Alright split up, sweep these stores.

Derek: God damnit.

You signaled them to go back towards the changing room. As you hid behind the counter. You aimed your MP5 at the doorway as you felt a tug on your shoulder. You turned to see one of the girls.

Derek: What are you waiting for? Get back inside the changing room.

Girl: The door closed and it's locked.

Derek: Damn, alright get behind this counter and stay low. Don't even let out a peep.

You heard a pair of footsteps enter the store as you held your breath.

WM 1: Check it out, lots of clothes to wear.

WM 2: Shut it Rick, check the back to see if there's anyone in the changing rooms, I'll start heading out to check another store.

WM 1: Whatever you say.

The mask got closer towards the changing rooms and as he passed the counter, you grabbed him and brought him down. Holding your grip you unsheathed your knife and dug it into the masks throat until he stopped squirming. You looked over at the kids and realized that you just killed a man right in front of them. Your thoughts were interrupted when you heard the other mask.

WM 2: Rick? What was that crashing sound.

You heard the footsteps get closer as he started to talk again.

WM 2: Come on Rick this isn't funny. Did you find anyone or not.

You got out from behind the counter you grabbed the mask by his head and slammed it down into your knee. He drew his head back up as you punched him across the face and threw him towards a clothes rack. It toppled over as you flipped your knife and tossed it at the masks head. You quickly grabbed your knife from the masks head as you looked back over towards the entrance of the store.

WM: You 3 form up on me and move to the American Eagle store.

Derek: For fuck sake.

The 4 masks entered the store and saw the dead mask laying on top of a toppled over clothes rack.

WM: Search this entire store, I want whoever is responsible for this dead!

You thought about your choices on this situation, stay behind the counter where they could be closer to the kids? Or attempt to shoot from behind cover while they have their weapons drawn. Every possibility was going through your head until you stuck to one. You peaked out of cover with your hands in the air.

Derek: Alright, it was worth a shot.

WM: You, step forward, with hands behind your head.

Derek: Yea yea yea, I know the routine.

The boy who was with the group silently whispered to you.

Boy: What are you doing?

Derek: Shhhh.

You stepped away from the counter with your hands behind your head and walked towards the masks.

WM: Alright, now get on your knees.

Derek: Lets not get hasty, don't you want to know how many people infiltrated the building with me?

He pushed the barrel of his L8 into your chest and you noticed that he didn't have his finger on the trigger.

WM: I said, On. Your. Knees.

Derek: Oh, and that was your first mistake.

You grabbed the barrel of his rifle and slammed your elbow into his chest. You took control of his L8 and shot down 2 masks. You held the barrel of the L8 as you slammed it down into the masks head, you unholstered your glock and shot the 3rd mask and pointed it towards the mask you left on the ground.

Derek: Always keep your finger on the trigger.

You pulled the trigger on your glock and shot the mask in the head. You holstered your glock as you look back behind the counter.

Derek: They most likely heard those shots so we don't have alot of time, lets go!

They got out from behind the counter and followed you out of the store. You saw more white masks down the hall.

Derek: Down the staircase, Go!

You switched to 3 round burst and fired a few rounds towards the masks killing 3. Once the kids got into the stairwell you moved there aswell and looked towards them.

Derek: Go down the stairs and get to the Abercrombie store, in the back there's a door that leads outside. Police are outside that door and are waiting for you.

Girl: What about you?

Derek: I need to get through these masks to the other hostages now go!

They listened to you and ran down the stairs. You peaked out of cover and shot a couple more bursts towards the masks.

Derek: Should've asked for a couple bangs aswell.

Swat *radio* 4 children exited the east entrance.

Derek: Well atleast they made it out.

You heard footsteps moving up the stairwell as you switched the mp5 to full auto. Once you saw the white hazmat suits you opened fire into them until your gun clicked empty. You swung the mp5 around and quickly unholstered your glock and shot the last 2 masks on the stairs. You peaked out of the stairwell and shot another mask down before retreating back to cover after receiving shots back.

Derek *radio* This is Colt, does anyone copy.

Officer: *radio* We hear you. What's going on inside.

Derek: *radio* Getting the kids attracted attention, my covers been blown. Do we have snipers?

Officer: We have two snipers via helicopter relaying information.

Derek: Can you get them to help with covering fire? I'm a sitting duck in here.

Officer: Notifying them now.

You turned off your radio as you heard 2 shots and glass shattering. You peaked out of cover to see another dead mask and shot another 2 down. You moved up to another pillar as another set of shots came in through the ceiling. You peaked out and shot the last mask dead as you moved down the hall. You stopped in your tracks after hearing flashbangs go off followed by yelling and gunfire. You broke into a full sprint towards the noise until you started to see the food court in the distance and also the masks in a firefight with a small swat team. As you ran closer, you aimed your MP5 and shot 2 masks in the back before being tackled to the ground.

You lost grip of your MP5 as it skid across the floor. You slid across the floor aswell into the middle of the food court. The unknown picked you up by the collar of your shirt and threw you into a nearby booth. You regained your footing as you realized that this was another enhanced.

Enhanced: I've been waiting for this moment.

You stared at the enhanced and instead of readying for a fight, you laughed.

Enhanced: Whats so funny.

Derek: The fact at how you think your punky ass can actually take me on.

Enhanced: My senses have been amped to the next level, I'm stronger, faster, and smarter than you.

Derek: Thats what the last four said... before they died ofcourse.

Pip: I'm not those four, I'm not so easily clouded by power. My name is Pip, and I am going to make you suffer!

Derek: Isnt that why you got that serum coursing through your veins. Sounds like you wanted power.

You turned to the small group of swat members and held out your hand signaling to stop aiming.

Derek: Get these hostages out of here, if he wants to prove that he is different, then he can die right where he stands.

Swat: You heard the man let's go.

They started to retrieve the hostages as you stared at the enhanced.

Derek: So how are we gonna do this. You gonna come at me.. should I come at you.. should we come together, Ooo at the same time?

Pip: Why can't you take this seriously.

Derek: Because if a man named fucking Pip is gonna stroll on up to me with his little super soldier serum, I'm going to have a bit of a laugh. I can also tell by your physique, that serum you took was a weaker version.

Pip: Weaker version or not, I'm still stronger then you.

Derek: Does it... does it really.

Pip: Yes, it does.

Derek: If you're so confident in that, then come at me.

5 minutes later

Galleria Mall Parking lot

3rd Person POV

The small swat team went out through the main entrance as paramedics and local officers helped guide the hostages out. The officer who originally talked to Derek approached the swat team.

Officer: Where's the Rianbow Operative that was sent in before you guys?

Swat member: You mean the masked guy in the T-shirt and cargo pants? He told us to grab the hostages and go while he dealt with what seemed to be some kind of enhanced person.

Officer: You didn't shoot on sight?

Swat member: He gave us specific orders not to, he wanted to see if the guy had it in him. Something about the last four didn't have what it took to take him down.

Officer: I don't care what he told you. I want another squad sent into that buil-

The group went silent as they saw the Rainbow Operative exit the front entrance of the mall, his MP5 hung across his chest. The group looked closer and noticed hands were bloodied with stains on his shirt. Colt approached the group and handed a Swat member the MP5.

Derek: Thanks for letting me borrow this.

He walked past the police barricade and through the crowds of people watching from a distance. He got into his car and drove away.

Officer: Since when did Rainbow hire such deadly advocates.

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