The Ghost, The Spectre, and The Skull
Prologue
Load Full StoryNext ChapterIt was a dark day over Virginia as the rain down poured over the ruins of buildings that had once stood tall but now were nothing more than crumbling shells, devoid of the life they once held. The things that resided in the buildings were either wild animals looking for nests and prey or the living dead that wandered slowly looking for more victims to devour or add to the their numbers. The day that this started was dubbed by any and all survivors as 'The Day of Anarchy', the day the dead roamed the earth, and the day when humanity fought and lost. Since the that day humanity's ugly side started to show more and more as numerous gangs and raider groups began to form and soon the value of friendship seemed to be gone as betrayal, and murder became common while trust and loyalty became the most sacred and rarest thing that one could acquire. There is one thing that all scum of the newly appointed 'Wasteland' have come to fear however, and that fear is known by many names.
Some call them monsters, or demons others call them heroes, and protectors and they have received many titles such as 'The Angels of death', 'The Spirits of Justice', and 'The Ghosts of the Apocalypse' but they simply go by the name 'Phantoms of Anarchy'.
As the rain still poured down all was silent except the sound of a running car engine, a large black jeep drove down the road that lead to what was left of Virginia going deep into the ruins and heading in the direction of Potomac River. The jeep itself was heavily modified as thick and heavy plates of metal looked to be welded to the outside to make a reinforced tank out of the vehicle, the front had reinforced windows and sharp scraps of metal welded in the front if anything stood in the way it would be severely wounded and killed shortly afterwards. The jeep housed three men that looked to be in their late teens, the driver was fairly tall at least six feet, he had buzz cut blond hair and green eyes, his body build was somewhat above average and had a tan tone to it, he wore a green T-shirt, regular jeans, and black combat boots as well as the rest of the men. The man that sat next to him in the passenger seat was slightly shorter than the driver being as tall as five foot nine, he had brown hair that wasn't too long or too short as well as light tan skin, he also had a five o'clock shadow that grew all around his face and had teal eyes, he had a somewhat better build than the driver, he wore a red long sleeve shirt and khaki pants that were stained with blood splotches. Finally the man in the back looked younger than both of the men sitting in front of him, he had short black hair with amber eyes,he had a somewhat slim build to his body compared to the other men, he was the same height as the passenger in front of him but was a bit paler than the others, he wore a grey T-shirt with a black hoodie with the hood up, he wore black jeans as well as a gas mask that covered his face.
The group sat in silence for a majority of the drive and the drive seemed to prefer it that way. The silence continued until they stopped in front of the building that they traveled so far to get to. The jeep stopped in front of a very large building and all three of the men got out and proceeded to the back of the car. When all of them meet at the back the driver addressed them "alright guys we made it to our destination, Spectre are you sure about this? I don't want to take any unnecessary risks here" the man with the gas mask, now known as Spectre, nodded his head.
"Yes Ghost, but we must have extreme caution I don't know how many of the infected are in the Pentagon and getting to the sub-levels may involve getting past surviving military personnel if there's any left." Ghost nodded and opened up the back of the jeep inside were a multitude of weapons he grabbed a SPAS-12 shotgun and tossed it towards the third man of the group "heads up Skull" he said as the shotgun was caught by the man, now known as Skull, and proceeded to grab himself a weapon. Spectre pulled out a silenced semi-automatic sniper rifle, a revolver magnum, and a black karambit knife he looked at ghost who inturn just nodded to scout ahead as the sniper of the group went on ahead Skull pulled out a machete that was still in its sheath and strapped it to his side. Ghost pulled out a Type 95 assault rifle, a 10mm pistol and a sharp kukri knife.
"Hey Ghost, what do you think we'll find in there?"
"Don't know, but Spectre thinks there's a large cache of weapons located inside if there is that's more than enough reason to go digging around." Ghost understood that Skull was on edge, hell even he was they were going to break into the Pentagon or what was left of it after The Day of Anarchy. The two made it through the front entrance and saw that the military here were easily overrun and if there were any survivors then chances were they fell back further into the complex. Spectre was searching some of the bodies nearby when he noticed that he had company he turned to see Ghost and Skull looking around the past carnage that stained the inside of the building and proceeded to walk over to them and held out his hand.
In his hand were three earpiece communicators "found these on some of the dead soldiers figure we could use these when separated take one and switch it to channel seven thats what we'll use" the other two teammates each took one, and set it to the channel before putting them in their ears.
"Testing, testing 1,2,3...guess it works" Skull said in a humorous tone.
The team went further and further into the ruins of the Pentagon and the more they traveled the more dead they saw, some of which were still walking but were put down from knives in the neck or a machete decapitating them entirely. They eventually came across a hallway that looked more empty than the rest and even more suspicious completely clean of blood unlike the rest of the facility. Spectre found this to be very weird and decided to address this to the rest of the team.
"Is it me or are these walls a bit too clean."
The group stopped to give a look around to find that Spectre was right. There was no blood stains anywhere or bodies, it made little to no sense as to why this place was clean while the rest was covered in some sort of damage. "Ya know Spectre has a point Ghost, everywhere else has been covered head to toe in blood but this are is just fine" Spectre started to examine the area a bit more and noticed a potted plant sitting right against the wall and by looking closer he saw that there was something inside of the plant, a little red button.
Spectre pushed the button and immediately jumped back when the wall opened up to reveal a large elevator that looked like it could hold a dozen people inside at once. "Good job Spectre, hopefully this will lead us down to the lower levels" Ghost said as he made his way into the elevator Skull was the last one to go in watching the rear before backing into the elevator. As the group descended they prepared themselves for whatever waited for them down below Spectre strapped his sniper to his back and pulled out the revolver along with his karambit knife since using a sniper in close quarters was as smart as firing an RPG point-blank. The elevator stopped and opened to reveal a large armory room that had almost been picked clean but had a few things left over.
"Well Spectre looks like your theory was right there is still stuff left let grab what we can carry" ordered Ghost.
The team spread out and searched the armory for anything useful there wasn't much unfortunately but enough to last them a little while longer. All three grabbed a duffel bag and began to fill up as Ghost was cleaning out a locker he found a set of black riot S.W.A.T gear and decided to go put it on he turned to leave but noticed Skull was not in the room. He then heard loud foot steps from one of the changing rooms and raised his rifle, the foot steps got louder and out came Skull wearing a full juggernaut suit with a skull carved into the helmet.
"Damn it Skull next time let us know before you go off somewhere I thought you were some new infected."
"Sorry Ghost I found this armor along with a M249 LMG thought it would fit me better than yo or Spectre."
Ghost sighed "its fine just let us know net time alright" Skull nodded before going back to filling his duffel. Ghost took this moment to put the riot armor on, it fit perfectly but it felt weird. Ghost shrugged it off before going back to see Spectre had found some sort of light recon armor on with his hoodie, Ghost knew how much Spectre loved to wear that damned thing and he couldn't blame him if you were walking and out of nowhere you saw a guy in a black hoodie with gas mask with a gun and a knife standing in front of you, you would probably piss your pants and run screaming like a little bitch. Ghost saw that he was wearing a different gas mask it was black with scarlet red lenses and looked like it had some futuristic armor, he also had a weird wrist computer on him and looked to be searching through it's contents.
"What do you have there Spectre?"
The sniper looked up before answering "its a tactical wrist pad it has a bunch of data on this place and a lot of memory left over but it turns out the stuff we just found was experimental armor, the juggernaut suit increases strength and durability making Skull a walking tank, your new armor gives you a speed enhancement unit and has a healing unit, while my armor has an active camouflage unit, and lets me fire snipers and other weapons with no recoil which will be easier for me to use my sniper since it uses 50. caliber rounds, and the mask gives me a motion tracker as well as heat, and night vision."
"Damn, sounds like all this stuff could be useful I think we should look around for anymore of this high tech military equipment" Skull got up and proceeded down the hallway with Ghost and Spectre behind him. After a while they came across more tacpads, which were given to Skull and Ghost, as well as some more food, they then came across a big room with what appeared to be a large reactor.
"This must be whats been powering the pentagon no wonder why this place survived the EMP blast" Ghost continued to inspect the reactor and take key notes of how it operated. Skull was looking around with his new machine gun making sure there were no hostiles in the area, and Spectre went to one of the main consoles in the room and began to download important data to his tacpad. While the team was busy they didn't notice a man with pistol and in military uniform aiming at Ghost fortunate for Ghost, Spectre saw movement on his motion tracker, took his revolver, and fired. The bullet hit the man in the head killing him but not before he fired and hit the reactor causing it to fizzle and explode blinding all who were in the room before the teams vision faded to black.
Author's Note
So what do you think by the way voting is up for who is in their harems comment who you want with who and we'll see what happens afterwards.
Ghost: None
Spectre: None
Skull: None
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