Chapter 3 - The Vanquisher?

The next morning, Cale went out of his room and checked the time. It was still 7:30 in the morning, thirty minutes before the deadline he gave Colonel Sanders.

He walked towards the open field which was right outside the main base of Earth Alliance.

Major General Cale, as one of the leading figures of Earth Alliance, was given a luxurious villa, but he declined the offer and chose to live inside the base camp together with the soldiers.

The top brass of the Alliance were perplexed when he rejected their gift, but they still did not give him much problem as they were afraid of making the infamous Gun Sovereign angry.

Cale himself had his reasons when he rejected their offer. It was not just him who sacrificed his life in repelling the unknown group, but he received better rewards as he was a Major General. So as to be fair with the low ranking soldiers, he declined all the material rewards and just had the Alliance provide his squad with better equipments.

He arrived in the open field at exactly 8 in the morning and saw the Phantom Wolf Squad were already there waiting for him. Even the cowardly Colonel Sanders was already with them.

Cale stopped in front of them and regarded the squad members one by one by nodding his head in approval.

"My brothers, the mission we are about to do is something unlike any mission we had before. I felt something different this time which has never happened in my 49 years of living. This might be a bad omen of some sort, but I knew no one else can accomplish this mission aside from my Phantom Wolf Squad. I took the mission as this might help mankind turn the tides of war. That is of course if we accomplish it successfully. Despite this foreboding feeling I'm getting, I am a hundred percent positive that we can accomplish this mission as what we always did." He looked at them solemnly and his gaze stopped at Colonel Sanders. "Colonel Sanders, tell them the details of the mission." Cale said without a hint of change in his emotion.

"Sir yes sir!" Colonel Sanders saluted Cale and said "The mission is to save Major Murphey and extract the information about the origin of the unknown group from him."

The Phantom Wolf Squad members listened intently and one of them could not help but ask "Where was he last tracked?"

Colonel Sanders gulped nervously and said with a grave tone "Before we lost communications with Major Murphey, his last location was at Ndebele Village, Zimbabwe. It appears that the Eagle Reconnaissance Squad was discovered when they were about to escape from the enemy territory. The worst thing is that Ndebele Village is one of their largest base camp. Major Murphey also said on his report that there were a lot of elite soldiers guarding the camp and they also spotted about a dozen fighter robots. And this mission was given the highest importance level since this involves the origins of our enemy."

The members of the Phantom Wolf Squad looked indifferent, but they felt nervous inwardly when they learned that the last location where Major Murphey was found was inside one of the enemies main bases. The fact that the base camp had about a dozen fighter robots also signified its importance.

"If you are afraid of joining me in this mission then you are free to leave. Don't worry, I won't hold you accountable." Cale said coldly as he studied his squad. He felt relieved inwardly that no one stepped out.

"Good! I know I did not took in some disloyal mobs, I have faith in this squad and I believe that we will be able to accomplish this mission." Cale said as he got inside a futuristic revamped hummer. The hummer was huge enough to fit a dozen people. Aside from being huge, it was plated with Z-Steel plate armor and its mountable high powered laser cannon gave it a terrifying appearance. If this behemoth was placed on Earth 20 years ago, then it will surely bring fear to mankind.

"Get inside! I know that your equipments are already prepared." Cale ordered as he sat at the back of the huge hummer.

They all looked at each other before they went inside the hummer. Colonel Sanders sat beside Cale and gave him a short folder which was labeled as 'Top Secret'. Cale received the folder and hastily read what was written inside.

He already knew several information on the report, but there was a line saying that one of the six S-class fighter robots was guarding that camp. The robot's name was 'The Vanquisher', as its name suggests, it has vanquished all the enemies it faced in the battlefield. Few humans survived its onslaught, and for them to face this monstrosity was nothing but bad news.

Cae read the line again 'The Vanquisher might be there.'

His palms were covered in cold sweat, although it was merely a possibility, but if ever that S-class robot was indeed the guardian of that base camp, then this mission will be at least ten times harder.

After ten years of fighting this alien group, the Earth Alliance have already gathered a lot of information about their weaponry.

They were unsure of the exact number of S-class robots the enemies had, but they have already encountered six of them. All of which had terrifying strengths.

These S-class robots are capable of flattening the hardest tanks of humanity. Ordinary bullets had no effect on their tough armors. Even the largest true rifle bullets of humanity has little effect on these monstrous metal behemoths. Only large missile rounds had some effects on them.

Some of the top figures of the Earth Alliance also suggested to use their nuclear weapons against the enemies, but the grand commander strongly opposed this as it might destroy the whole world completely.

Cale read the last lines of report before tearing it into pieces. He looked at the Phantom Wold Squad members as they got inside the hummer with a look of guilt. 'I hope nothing untoward happens in this mission.' He sighed heavily as he thought.