The Rangers allowed themselves a moment of celebration before the sounds of more advancing troops echoed up from the tunnel. Finally, the Reds sent in their heavy trooper - a flamethrower wielding brute defended by riot shield armed guards which nearly succeeded in breaking through the Rangers' defenses, however the Rangers manage to rupture the fuel tanks of the flamethrower which then exploded, taking out the heavy trooper and his retinue of guards. Artyom, utilizing a ramshackle Gatling emplacement, defeated these troopers with relative ease. With only a few Rangers left, the Red Line attempted to overrun their position with heavily armored shock troops. While the tank had been defeated, the Rangers had taken severe casualties and were forced to fall back to the final defensive position before D6, to await the oncoming onslaught. The resulting explosion killed the remaining Red Line troops in the vicinity. The Rangers' small arms could not damage it, however Artyom, armed with a Preved anti-tank rifle, managed to destroy the tank by disabling it's wheels and detonating the ammo stores. Armed with a heavy machine gun and rockets, and protected by thick layers of metal. However, the Ranger defenses in the parallel tunnel were overrun by a Red Line armored Rail Car, a tank. Despite heavy losses and Artyom being injured, the Rangers managed to defend the platform against the Red troops long enough for their forces to regroup against the next attack. The battle began with Red Line forces breaching the tunnel opposite of the Ranger defensive lines and deploying heavily-armored Red Line troops against Artyom and the other Rangers, with both sides taking heavy casualties and the first line of the Rangers being forced to fall back to a secondary defensive position. After a rousing speech from Miller, the Ranger forces moved to the front of D6 and the doors of the entrance sealed behind them. Using the Metro 2 train, the Rangers quickly made it to D6, with Artyom, Khan, Miller, and Uhlman among them. However, thanks to the Baby Dark One revealing his plans to everyone present, the Rangers had enough time to rush to D6 and set up a defense before the Reds arrived. Korbut's forces advanced on D6, while Secretary Moskvin stalled the Rangers at the Polis Peace Conference. The Reds now had a method of conquering the whole Metro, but they needed more of it - and only D6 contained more samples of the bio-weapon. However, the weapon had proven itself to be powerful and lethal - it would wipe out a station's population quickly, then go inert ready for invasion by the Red Line. They successfully occupied the destroyed half of Oktyabrskaya and were only stopped from penetrating the Hansa Ring section by Hansa troops. Safely back with his Red Line allies, Lesnitsky and Korbut tested the bio-weapon's destructive powers on an innocent station - Oktyabrskaya (the level Contagion) - and sent in troops to execute the infected, under the pretense that they were stopping the infection from spreading. His ruse worked, as shown by Uhlman's conversation with another Ranger as to the whereabouts of Lesnitsky. Under the command of General Korbut, he stole a bioweapon from D6, ransacked his own office to make it look like he had been kidnapped, and escaped to the Red Line. It's likely he was a sleeper agent long before the Rangers even found D6, since it would take a long time for the Rangers to fully trust him. He worked in D6's science labs, so had direct access to the bio-weapons found there. Unbeknownst to the Rangers, the Red Line had a double agent working for them inside D6 - Lesnitsky. As a result of these beliefs, other factions of the Metro felt the Rangers were being greedy - hoarding such wonders for their own good.Īll three major factions had plans to claim D6 - Hansa wanted to use diplomatic pressure (most likely threatening to stop supplying the Rangers) in return for a piece of D6 the Fourth Reich had a plan called Operation: El Dorado, devised by the Führer to attack and take over D6 and the Red Line's plan, which is the focus of Metro: Last Light. Rumors came out that D6 was full of weapons, food, and medicine, enough to sustain the Metro forever. Despite the Rangers attempting to keep its existence a secret, the rest of the Metro found out and were interested. The events leading up to the Battle began when the Rangers discovered D6 under the main Metro as part of the secret Metro 2 line and occupied it.
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