The day my new world crashed down around me.

Been some time since the team has needed me. Being in 2072 is different than 2022. The world has moved on from a lot of it's modern problems. Now it's a power struggle. In the most literal meaning of the word. The more I am here the more I don't understand why the everyday people can't have all the power they need? As long as they aren't trying a darkening who is bothered. Not me! I am a very sympathetic power overlord.
 
Flown out to Tennessee. I'm happy to be back in some mountains. Popped into a land unit and drove over to Clarksville. The brief is short. Revenge for a fallen IREA team and to darken anything that resists.
 
Never met the other team. But if it was me that was KIA I would hope they would do the same for me. Everytime out it gets more and more real. More and more personal!
 
The contact Spencer leads us to a wall and tells us the next block is occupied by a rogue Lfer cell. Leaders of the free energy resistance. Pretend to be benign. But....Some of them are nothing of the sort. If this crew has taken out the first team dispatched to sort them out I want a bird's eye view of what we're up against. Why be able to fly and not use it as an advantage.
 
That took no time at all I'm being sprayed with gunfire. Nothing says welcome to the neighborhood more than shoot first ask questions later.
 
In go the Agents and of course staying behind giving orders is Axiom. Here comes the welcoming committee. They engage with the agents. I was going to help out until Axiom tells me to go after a shooter on the roof. Against my will I go.
 
Fly right over and into shooter on the roof. Whom to my surprise doesn't fall off the roof. Move back and tries to shoot me. A tussle insues and the rifle fires but all his rounds miss me. My highly sensitive hearing has ringing in my ears like never before. So much so I barely hear the agent's screams as they get it. Get all of it by the huge wolfman!
 
And like that the rout is on. Came a long way to take a beating this bad. I try to reason with them. Asking them to let me take the agents and go. They are hardcore and want the bodies. Somehow while I fly back toward the prone agents. George flies up to greet me. Axiom is in my ear piece tells me to take George and go. This was not a good day for us. Leaving Charles behind was terrible. Later find out they got the local contact Spencer. He hasn't been heard from since!
 
Twin Rivers is a day that will live in infamy!