Free Rise of the Empire 1: Olympus by Ivan Kal

capability draws heavily on its power reserves, or boosting the user’s strength or speed, but one of the most important breakthroughs was the ability to control all suit systems by implants. The wearer of the suit could turn on and off the suits systems with a mental command, conserving energy ensuring that the suit doesn’t run out of energy in tight situations. Elias turned his attention to the HUD in his helmet, it displayed various information concerning the suit. The information he needed to address now was displayed in the right top corner. Representation of the suit was showing there, with its lower back flashing red, indicating that he had taken a bullet there. He had barely felt the impact, the suits armor was good for a couple of shots in the same place, but the hit had actually damaged one of the power lines of the suit, meaning that the power to any systems below his hips was cut off, meaning his speed was severely reduced as he would need to move using just his own power. He jumped through the door deeper into the house were his team was. As he passed inside two members of his team positioned themselves at the door and covered the hole they came in. One covered the window at the back of the house. Elias came to his feet in the middle of the room, he checked his power reserves and calculated time and amount of energy the suit would spend to repair damage to the power line. The damage wasn’t big, just critical, and it would take at least 2 minutes for the nanites in his suit to repair it, but would also push his energy reserves down to 30%. He activated the self-repair program, and approached the window. The fire from outside had stopped.
    “Anything?” He asked over his team’s channel. They were all connected via a secure link, provided by their implants.
    “Nothing, I don’t believe they have any heavy weapons, so they’ll most likely surround the building and wait us out.” Laura his second responded. Elias crouched in a corner letting his suit repair itself without his movement interrupting it. It could move and repair at the same time, but each time he made a move that interfered with the repair process , time on the countdown clock rose a few seconds. He didn’t bother to inform his team why he did so, they all had access to his suits systems and could read its telemetry. The two other members of his team Niko and John kept their backs turned to him and Laura.
    “Any ideas?” he asked.
    “We could try to run to the evac point.” John said.
    “ No way. They have us surrounded by now, as soon as one of us steps outside of this building we are history.” Niko responded.
    “You do realiz e that it doesn’t really matter whether we survive this or not right?” John asked calmly.
    “Shut it boy.” Laura answered instead of Niko sharply.
    “Oh, c’mon it’s not like we-” John started but Elias interrupted him
    “Stop. It does matter, we will get out of this.” Elias coldly. “ Do you understand me?”
    “ Yes sir.” John said softly.
    “Alright , now, I want options.” Elias said.
    “Well, first they don’t seem to have the same suits as us. The intel said to expect it, yet they clearly can’t see us inside, since we would have been already dead.” Niko said.
    Elias nodded he had suspected the same, both from the way they managed to ambush them like that and the reason Niko mentioned. Their suits were equipped with infrared vision and could have easily seen through these thin walls.
    “Yes and they had trouble keeping up with us at full speed.” John said.
    “So we know that they don’t have heavy weapons, since we aren’t buried in rubble, they are most likely short on ammo since they aren’t wasting any on a lucky shot through the walls, they managed to sneak up on us and ambush us.” Elias said, he thought back on the ambush and something struck him as odd. “Anybody had a visual on the enemy?” he asked.
    “No” Laura said.
    “No, but then I was too busy