Blood Cult - Part 3

As night falls Crow makes his way toward the cave, avoiding the spotlights and other guards. "Weird, it's much more guarded today..." Crow though as he took a short break next to the makeshift gate.

He then started to climb the side of the cave entrance, making his way towards the ceiling towards the small hole above the makeshift gate.

barely fitting in the hole, the cave was dark with only some dim light hanging on the cave walls. Taking advantage of the darkness he continued his way deeper into the cave passing some patrolling guards on his way. As he got deeper the cave got smaller and narrower at some point the cave split paths one being larger than the other. The larger path seems to be used as a parking spot for the car as there are some thread marks and footprint going in and out but the smaller one doesn't have thread marks.

"I will go check the large path first, since I might bump into some cultist if I enter the smaller one." He thought as he made his way down. Although he is no longer on the ceiling he is still climbing the cave's sides so he doesn't create any footprints. After all, the floor is muddy and anyone could easily create and spot a footprint.

In the end of the large path as expected there were multiple cars parked in an unorderly fashion, exploring the room further it was clear that it was only a stop to keep the cars and other vehicles.

"With the amount of vehicles here it would be possible to bring the whole cave down. Yeah I will do just that." Crow started placing explosives all over the hangar. almost clearing his suit, he still kept some grenades and the flash grenade, as he needed the explosive grenade to start the chain reaction and the flash grenade isn't exactly the best to explode stuff.

As he was finishing placing the explosive some footsteps can be heard. it's getting closer and closer by the second. Thinking fast Crow hides beside one of the cars waiting to ambush anyone who is getting closer with the pistol he had.

Step step step.

The sound kept getting louder and louder. It was clear that there wasn't only one person coming over. Two people passed Crow, the first person didn't seem to notice Crow but the other made eye contact with Crow.

Thinking he was discovered, Crow threw an uppercut at him and fired two shots at him, one hitting him in the stomach and the other his neck finishing him off. He then quickly aimed his pistol towards the other person, Crow shot him right between his eyes piercing clean through. As Crow thought that was it.

BANG!

A bullet went past him, Crow panicking almost lost his balance but he managed to get himself together and shot towards the general direction where the shot came from. Although he hit the target, he hit the cultist's shoulder so with all his might the cultist shouted. "INTRUDER!" before being finished off by Crow with a hole in his head.

"Tch!" Crow clicked his tongue. "Stealth is no longer an option," he thought. thinking fast they ran towards a car with a mounted turret. It was an old model where it still uses bullets as ammunition though the car is powered with a energy core like any vehicle you can find here. Crow pushed the car, with the help of the exo-suit it wasn't that hard. Crow pushed the car until it aligned with the exit and boarded the turret. searching for ammunition in the car he found a box full of bullets left in the car. Crow quickly loaded it to the turret while the sound of cultist marching gets louder and closer.

The cultist, not knowing what was waiting for them, quickly ran toward the hangar. seeing the red robe Crow started firing, mowing down the cultist. Crow kept firing until he was out of ammunition, seeing that there wasn't any movement Crow sighs in relief though this sense of relief didn't last long some of the cultists were able to hide form the hail of bullets by hiding by the wall. then realizing the hail of bullets had stopped revealed themselves and started firing.

Crow managed to hide in the car avoiding most of the shots, though some that hit him didn't pierce through his suit he still felt the heat and impact of their shots. the cultist not giving Crow time to react they slowly get closer while still firing at Crow hoping that he won't be able to move or react. Crow with no room to act, in an act of desperation Crow took a flashbang and threw it out. This caught the cultist off guard, Crow took advantage of this slight opening to take down some cultists with his pistols and change position. He ran towards the car he was hiding when the first 3 cultists came and took one of the nearby guns.

Finally regaining their vision they continued their barrage of bullets not knowing Crow had repositioned. "six more..." While they were blinded, Crow counted how many cultists were left. Now having time to think he noticed that the cultists have no sense in team work they just fired randomly hoping it would hit. Thinking that they got him the cultist went into the hangar slowly. As they were about to enter the hangar Crow jumped them and went full automatic, emptying his magazine and wiping the remaining cultist.

"Phew..." Crow sighs with a hint of both relief and exhaustion. "Are any of them their leader?" Crow went to check the corpses, looking if any of them are the leader while making sure they stayed down beginning with the three cultists in the hangar to the pile of bodies in the hallway.

"None of them... so he is still deeper in the cave." He said after checking all the dead bodies. "Since I was found that means they are now preparing to greet me down there, then." Crow took any gun that he could carry with him along with one of the cultist cloaks. "Alright, I'll gladly accept your welcome"