Side Chapter Hood 3: Moonglow Emergency Red

  “I will ask again.” Deep within the moon inside the reinforced base, Juptar’s commander asked again to his silent audience. “I need a status report on what just happened.”

  Everyone was wearing their full body equipment ready for the mission at hand, but even with their facial features hidden, everyone had a clear tinge of nervousness visible surrounding each of them.

  They were prepared, everything was on track until whatever happened. What had exploded in their face?

  Juptar’s commander audience was made of three team leaders and a bunch of other high-level members on the base.

  One of them who just finished talking over communication spoke up, “Understood. From 4:45 Juptar, 8:00 Earth Newcastle Operation time, when Operation Moonglow started. An intruder hijacked one of our teleportation pads and made their way into the base. Three individuals however were successfully teleported onto Earth, but 96% of everyone else who was in the waiting bay has passed away.

  Currently, we have ordered 80% of the 1~5 tier members to chase after the suspect after they blew a hole in the base. Leader Neva along with his squad that were stationed on Juptar have gone to incept the suspect as well.”

  “Thank you Four.” Juptar’s commander turned to another member, one of their technicians. “Do we know what portal the intruder entered from?” An important question for the after-mission report.

  “We don’t, but the information should be stored and transferred to our Earth database. We just can’t access it directly right now due to those communications being destroyed.”

  “Good, the after-mission team can deal with the potential Leak.”

  A morbid curiosity spread among the group. A leak was a big deal and they had the methods to track one down, but they all knew they wouldn’t get an answer until after the situation was dealt with.

  The Hood member who gave the status report earlier spoke again, “Got a message, Neva has gone to directly incept now.”

  “Good.” Juptar’s commander replied.

  After a few moments another female member spoke, “We’ve reconnected with the Earth operation, our personnel on the ground have located Nina Crword, and are prepared to engage.”

  “Tell them to follow the pn, we will get the leaders down in a moment. We have spare pads but it will take an hour to contact them.”

  “Understood, they have been informed and now are keeping a general watch from a safe distance.”

  This was an important operation that Juptar’s commander was for sure not going to let fail just because of one intruder.

  A little bit of time passed, “Has the intruder been dealt with?”

  “Not yet, Neva is still attacking them. It should be over soon.”

  “Good.” Juptar’s commander replied again, his confidence from earlier still remained.

  Neva was over level 250.

  Many people had trouble exceeding the level 150 barrier, even more so with level 200. Dominous Hood was no expectation.

  In the hunting industry, to be called a high-level hunter, you had to be above level 200. Besides the strength, to reach that level, one would’ve needed to have had a lot of experience in the field. And to be considered a Team Leader in Dominous Hood, unless provided a special exception, you needed to be level 250 or above.

  Dominous Hood had many harsh training sessions, aiming to get their members up to around level 150. After that, they couldn’t find a way to consistently get people above that threshold so they just left it to natural talent and made up for any gaps with state-of-the-art equipment.

  They had killed many high-levelled hunters even at a lower level through their pnning, experiences, and equipment, they knew full well how to handle human-level threats.

  Then they received an emergency signal through their communication. One that would automatically go through when someone disconnected.

  Juptar’s commander gritted their teeth, “Neva has gone down.”

  One of the Hood members asked, “Do we give up on Operation Moonglow?”

  “No.” Juptar’s commander stood up, “We are just going to change the approach.”

  He activated the communication line. First, he sent a message to two individuals, “Leaders Brox and Beta, regroup with me at site five. We will be dealing with the threat.”

  Then he sent a second message to everyone else, “Everyone, prepare for a one-way jump, spread out over sites six to eight. Follow your Leaders, but after the trip disperse and hide. It will be a one-way trip.”

  Aunty… what the fuck are you doing…

  Li was once again communicating with her leader, and the situation was far from good.

  From the little she could gleam, the situation on the base was bad. Which would normally be a good thing for Li, but from how her leader was talking, it seemed like they were about to take drastic measures.

  “Argh well, it’s not too often I get to flex my muscles.” Her leader compined over coms.

  Li was internally screaming, as she tried to stay in position to get a wide view of the city while having the Stel family nearby.

  Dammit Nina, why the fuck did you have to show up there?!

  Bobple