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their arsenal. For months Hydra had been the only group to possess significant armored vehicles, but Ragnarok had started to debut their own. They were wheeled, so they lacked the off road mobility of their Hydra counterparts, but they were still useful. Even though they had less armor than a Ram or a Bull, they could move quickly and provide armor support that would trouble infantry.
    “Can you hold them off?” Nora asked.
    “ Not unless we get help, and we're going to need a lot of it,” Sam replied. “Reinforcements are coming from across the river, but it's going to take time, and Ragnarok might have something else planned.”
    Nora paused for a moment. “Sam, we can't spare any reinforcements. The only thing I have here is the garrison force for the bastion, and even that is understrength right now. Most of our troops are in Indianapolis right now, and they're currently fighting. We have no way to get them to the battlefield right now either. We took a pounding in the battle for the district.”
    “We need help. Anything,” Sam said.
    Nora thought for a moment. “There's always some members hanging around up in Old Chicago. I'll ask them for volunteers to come and help you. Sorry we can't do more, but we're tied down pretty badly here.”
    Suddenly the building shook. It sounded like an explosion had gone off outside.
    “ What the heck?” Selene said.
    Nora and Sean looked at each other, then winced as another explosion went off. Alarm sirens started to blare throughout the command center and the bastion.
    “What's going on?” Sam asked.
    Nora opened up her menu and started to send a message to the rest of Hydra. “We're going to have to cancel those reinforcements,” she replied. “We're under attack as well.”
    Her alert beeped. Yusuf was on the other end of the line.
    “ Nora! Tell everyone in the bastion to take cover!” he said.
    “ What's attacking?” she asked.
    Then she heard it. A long series of explosions went off outside. It sounded like they were close together, and they were nearly simultaneous. What was going on here? Artillery couldn't fire that fast unless they had dozens of guns, and no one had that many resources to spare. Maybe-
    Nora was thrown backward as the roof suddenly caved in. A chunk of masonry narrowly missed her head by inches. Another explosion rocked the building. Someone pulled her up.
    “ Move!” Selene shouted to her.
    “ What about-”
    “ He's dead,” she replied. “Come on!”
    Selene took off at a dead run, and Nora was close behind. More explosions rocked Hydra HQ. Part of the stairwell had been blown apart when they reached it. Selene cleared the large gap with a flying jump. Nora followed, though she landed heavily and almost fell backward down the gap. Selene hauled her up.
    “Get on the line with Yusuf. I'll get the rest of Black Wolf assembled,” Selene said.
    Nora opened up her radio as she ran. “Yusuf, HQ is gone. What is Ragnarok using?”
    “They're firing rocket artillery,” Yusuf replied. “A lot of it too. That explains why all the explosions happened at the same time. Be advised that we're coming under heavy fire at the north wall.”
    “ Are they attacking?”
    “ They're firing, but they're not advancing. It might be only a matter of time, though.”
    “ Roger. We'll get there as fast as possible,” Nora replied.
    “ Logan's getting the rest of the company together, but it's going to be rough going. Perfect time for us to have none of our officers present,” Selene complained.
    Nora shook her head. “At least we don't have to do anything complicated. We get on the wall and we hold them off.”
    Selene frowned as they ran. “You would think that they would be attacking us right now instead of waiting.”
    “ Maybe they're trying to suppress the wall defenses?” Nora suggested.
    “ I think the better option would be to rush us while we're still reeling from the rocket attack,” Selene said. “Unless that's not their