Henry pulled back the black curtain covering the small window to see if the Altherium defenders had a clue of where he was. He saw them walking up and down the streets, but not a tank in sight or the sound of one either. "Albert, can the Templar's FoF system see through smoke?" Henry asked.

  "Yes, to an extent. You have to be close enough for the Templar's other sensors to pick them up," Albert answered.

  "That's all I need to know," Henry said as he took another look out of the small window. He turned around and faced back into the wide-open room with only a couch. Henry pulled up a map of the small town that was built to house the workers and their families. There was a small blinking marker to indicate where he was. "So I am here, and the forge and AA are beside each other over here," He thought to himself as he moved the map to see the forge and tall AA used to fend off invading ground forces. "I can't fight house to house, that will take too long. The only choice on getting to my first objective is if I fight in the street and hope they don't have any more armor," Henry said hoping for Albert to interject with a better plan.

  "That... or you can do the more sensible thing and just slip through the alley working and side streets. You will surely have some small encounters, but it poses far less danger of ambushes," Albert said.

  "That sounds like a plan to me," Henry said as he highlighted the route that he was going to take. He walked through the house to the metal back door that led into an alley and started walking through it, scanning all the surroundings for ambushes. The FoF system would give him a brief heads-up on any ambushes. He stopped at a corner of the metal-walled alleyway and peered around the corner. Four soldiers were joking and laughing. The laugh that the Altherium had reminded Henry of one of Earth's animals the hyena. "Damn, they are right in the way," Henry muttered. He slowly unclipped his Plasma rifle and then sprung out into the street. He rapidly killed the four soldiers before they could even register what had happened.

  " You need to hide the bodies before another patrol comes along and finds them," Alfred warned Henry.

  "Yeah, you're right. Dead bodies can help them find me, or figure out where I'm going," was Henry's reply as we grabbed two bodies at a time and tossed them behind a house in the very alley he was in after grabbing their grenades. Henry kept on the route to the forge, navigating through the dull grey metal and concrete town. After a few more quick encounters and 22 more dead bodies, he reached the forge.

  Henry cranked his neck to see the roof of the forge. The building was massive, at least 5 stories tall. "The maps never do show just how big these buildings are," Henry said as he looked at the white stone towers bellowing out white steam and smoke.

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  "No, they don't, but I suggest you get a move on before you're spotted," Alfred said and Henry ran to a metal door that's writing translated to employees only. Despite the strong urge, he didn't rip the door off its hinges. Henry slowly opened up the grey metal door and slipped inside, closing the door behind him.

  "Eeeyaaa Eeeyeaa Eeeyaaa," Screeched the alarms the moment Henry closed the door.

  "Gawd damn it," Henry said as he readied his rifle. He looked white room that he deduced was a break room. It had vending machines and only one other entrance.

  "You got to hurry through that door, now!" Albert said as Henry bolted through the door. As soon as he passed through the door he was bombarded with laser fire. He returned fire, rapidly picking off the ambushers while he moved to cover. As he was fighting Albert was using the helmet's camera to look around and figure out how they were going to bring down this massive forge. When Henry looked up that is when Albert spotted a critical design flaw. Something that old Earth learned long ago.

  "Henry we need to set off the sprinkler system," Albert told Henry.

  "Kinda busy fighting," Was Henry's short answer as he was forced to move out of behind the 3-foot wide I beam as it started to glow orange, the heat from constant laser bombardment heating up the metal. "What the fuck," Henry groaned as a huge group of Altherium swarmed into the massive assembly line where they were making massive ship parts.

  "This day just keeps getting better," Albert said sarcastically as Henry through a grenade.

  "Yep, this is what I think about as a great time," Henry replied with a small smile as he kept stacking bodies and moving from cover to cover. He took a grenade and through. It landed on a soldier's foot. He stopped shooting and made what Albert interpreted as a religious symbol, accepting his death. One of what must have been his friends let out a shriek of anger and busted out into a full sprint at Henry.

  "Is he serious?" Henry asked himself. Henry let him get close and then backhanded the Altherium full force, leaving his neck, but not enough face to verify his identity. One of his comrades couldn't hold his lunch down after seeing the gruesome sight. After a couple of more minutes of fighting and moving Henry took down the remaining defenders.

  "What is our body count up to know?" Henry asked his AI friend.

  "If we are going off of the ones you killed 182 people. I still can't process whether or not the guy who fell to his death trying to escape you is a confirmed kill for you or not," Albert said with a chuckle.

  "Eh, it doesn't matter. I still can't believe he pissed himself," Henry said laughing as he walked over to the fire alarm and pulled down the handle, causing the sprinklers to let water out. As soon as he pulled the handle Henry sprinted towards the door, busting through it. He looked back as the water hit the exposed molted metal, expanding and blowing up the furnaces and causing a massive explosion that took out half of the plant. The other side couldn't operate without the molted metal to turn into parts for ships. With the forge effectively mission killed, Henry started to make his way to the massive AA to disable it for his later extraction.