Upheaval - The Brieder War I

[Shana]

The gunfire ceased as the Brieders yelled retreat. Soon after all the growls and sounds stopped. They had succesfully neutralized the enemy ambush.

 

- "Continue ahead!" - Faith said as all the soldiers ran through the pipes. She then looked at Tirin.

 

- "Take point and guide us Tirin" - Faith said.

[Curt-Man]

"On it." Tirin ran to the front, periodically taking out the blue prints until they reached a room with no doors out. "No its not a dead end, but when I said it'd be tight, I meant tight." Tirin said as the pulled the grate off of the wall. "Its the fastest way, I hope you brought your knee pads." Tirin joked then crawled into the hole.

[Black Knight of Keno]

"For the love of..." Alex grumbled and raised a hand to the short-range radio he had that connected him with the squad members.

"Report in" he said while still looking at the hole.

"Fireteam 1 reporting in"

"Fireteam 2 reporting in"

"Fireteam 4 reporting in"

"Fireteam 5 feporting in"

"Where's Fireteam 3?"

"Fireteam 3 reporting in. We're pinned down and taking heavy fire. We are due northwest from the Generator room"

"Fireteams 2 and 4, aid 3 and find your way to the radar station. From now on radio silence. Good luck out there" Alex said before looking at the squad members still with him. With another grumble he attatched a silencer to his MP5 and crawled into the hole.

[Grace]

To this point, Liz had been an efficient soldier, firing only when necessary and achieving a killing shot with each pull of her trigger. As the soldiers began moving out, Liz was neither first nor last to move; she positioned herself somewhat in the middle of the movement, but still with enough room for movement and return fire if necessary.

 

Now, as they came into a room with no apparent exits, Liz shook her head. That's when she caught sight of the grate on the wall. A flicker of what could have been amusement crossed Liz' face and she thumbed the safety on her rifle, slinging it over her shoulder. But the flash of emotion was gone faster than it appeared as Liz drew a pistol and crawled into the hole, just ahead of Alex, behind Tirin.

[Jedi Atomic]

Name: Art Jed

Gender: Male

Age: 21

 

Personality: Art really doesn't have time to do anthing but train, has no time to play with others or socialize. No one besides his squad know him the most.

 

Biography: Like their brothers, the shades, this squad of 5 have been learning to use armored personal units since about 10 years old. The only difference is that they are volunteers. These five guys all the same age, were street kids wondering around looking for food. They all were thinking about joining the army but refused to do so, until they seen a newspaper ad for training in the use of some walking vehicle. They joined and have been training until now.

 

Strengths: being in the APU; heavy weapons(machine guns)

 

Weaknesses: fighting outside the APU; light weapons(pistol, sub-machine guns, or rifles)

 

Appearence: Art Jed

[Curt-Man]

Tirin, for his size was an exceptionally fast crawler. He lead them through twists and turns. Until he came to a vertical shaft.

"Here." He said then stood up in the shaft, and started to climb the walls until he came to the grate that covered, wichy was firmly set. He took some powder out of his pack and put some of it on 2 of the sides of the grate. Slowly it started to burn that grate. Tirin then bashed the grate off and hauled himself up. Once up he extended his hand to Liz.

[Master_Archon]

S202A had remained inconspicuous, and fairly unnoticed, which worked to his advantage. To remain hidden to your allies, is to say that your enemies see you less.

 

He didn't have his chameleon tech. on, no, he was just quiet, and for that part unnoticed.

 

He had been asigned to this particular squad of soldiers, working with them to complete whatever mission had been set before them. He had followed and complied as he should; so far he hadn't fired his weapon yet, it was the new Y2, a simple title, but the military wasn't expecting to use it for any great purpose, so a simple name was welcomed.

 

The fact he hadn't fired HIS weapon, did not mean he had not been firing, no, he had used a heavy machine gun off of a fallen soldier in the trenches, using up the rest of the ammo in the gun.

 

He had followed the lieutenant as protocol dictated, and as they came to the shafts and tunnels in the dead end room, he waited for everyone to get inside, before taking flank. His weapon was what ultimately decided his position, because it was perfect for being dragged backwards through the tight tunnels, while it was too large to be carried on his back, or with him in general if he had been somewhere in the center.

 

As the last of the men slipped into the shaft, he sat down inside, then slipped in, backwards. He began shuffling in a rather uncomfortable position, backwards throught the shafts, watching ever-so-often to see where he was going, but ultimately viewing behind the group, ensuring they weren't being followed.

[Shana]

The recon Tower was just ahead of them, through a courtyard that seemed to be an abandoned depot. No brieder's were around and it seemed too quiet, not a good sign ever. Faith had been behind Liz and as soon as she got out she climbed out of the hole herself. She looked around and looked at Tirin and Liz.

 

- "You hear that?" - Faith asked them in a whisper and then narrowed her eyes - "These bastards are waiting for us".

 

She then looked at two other soldiers coming out of the whole.

 

- "Makamura, Scott and Hayes, take that left side just behind those containers, keep your eyes open. Gregorovich take the right and assume sniper position just over the sidewalk on the right ladder" - Faith said - "The rest stick together".

 

(Be sure to insert any fight you wish to make things excitiong as we reach the tower, you got creativity let's see it )

[Jedi Atomic]

(Here's a good point to join in the fray. There can still be a fight though.)

 

Art and his guys walking in their APU's, coming across a depot of somesort. Art walked up to the wall raising his foot, which made the unit follow his movement, striking the cement wall. Art backed off as the cement crumbled to the ground. He waited for the smoke and dust to settle before they continued on.

 

Once the dust settled, Art slowly stepped in noticing soldiers alll pointing at him. "Uh not Brieders, right? You don't look like them."

 

(Your group Miracle.)

[Curt-Man]

"Nice suit." Tirin said to the newcomers. Then continued slowly up ahead, until he reached some cover and waited for the rest of the group.

[Master_Archon]

(Fine, seeing as no one is starting a fight like Miracle wanted, I will.)

 

S202A, who was just reffered to as Gun Sergeant, because of his rank, and the the fact that calling him by his number was long and pointless to most common soldiers, was the last one out of the shaft, pulling himself up, he noticed the large vehicles that had suddenly entered the area, but ignored them, seeing as they were friendly, for the most part.

 

He had heard the last orders of the lieutenant to stick together as they approached the tower. He trotted up to the group heading towards the building, his gun in a ready, but relaxed position, as he took flank, as usual.

 

S202A tensed as he seemed to detect something, he raised his rifle slowly, a thin red targeting laser coming from his goggles, the beam no thinner than a wire. Suddenly shots rang out and a man in the group fell.

 

Brieders seemed to come cralling out of the woodworks, firing at the group, some were even weaponless, but that didn't stop them from charging forward and getting upclose and personal.

 

S202A opened fire, one shot more than capable of killing a Brieder on strike. His weapon was slow firing when it came to his canister rounds, but it was more than sufficient for killing the Brieders, which was all that mattered.

 

A Brieder came careening towards him, his clip was empty, and he didn't have time to reload, reaching back, he pulled out a fairly large combat knife, bringing it across the Brieder's neck, the Brieder screamed as it dropped to the ground, blood spraying.

 

S202A put his rifle on is back, putting his knife away, he pulled out his sidearm, a raptor magnum, opening fire with it in rapid succesion. He wondered when the lieutenant would order them to get moving, they couldn't hold out forever against these Brieders.

[Curt-Man]

Tirin tossed a custom grenade at one of the more larger groups of Brieders and blew them to pieces. Then took his rifle and began to fire.

"Orders Sir?!"

[Shana]

- "We got to make it to the tower!" - Faith yelled over the gunfire as she also took out several Brieders with her assault rifle. One Brieder charged at her but she had a knife as bayonet and sliced the head of the Brieder from his neckline. She then looked over at a grenadier who was with her group.

 

- "Clear a path soldier!" - Faith said and the man opened fire on a bunch of crates directly on their path which blew up giving them a space to run to the tower.

 

- "Make to the tower men!" - Faith said covering her squad as she began to move for the tower.

[Curt-Man]

Tirin took off at full speed. He was the first to a cover. He turned around and covered the running soldiers flank, firing as precisly as he could. He snagged a marksmen and tol him to take his position. Then he took off again to the tower.

 

Once there he took the remainder of the white power and poured it on the doors lock. After it vaporized Tirin opened the door and made sure it was clear.

[Jedi Atomic]

"Guys ready!?" yelled Art to his squad.

"Yes Sir!" they yelled in unison. They lined up as the other soldiers ran between them towards the tower.

"Fire!" A barrage of bullets showered the enemy, knocking a small fraction of the brieders out. "We'll be lucky to survive. We will not be here long if we don't have foot soldiers defending us." He said to Faith as she had a patch on her arm, giving some signal she was a commander. "Which means the tower won't be a good place for us."

[Curt-Man]

"Where the hell is Cortez! ah the hell with it!" Tirin yelled to the troops piling itno the tower. "I want three snipers in windows, artillery on the roof and infantry guarding exits and other windows, conserve your ammo, choose your shots!" Tirin barked out.

[Shana]

- "No wait! I want Makamura, Nichol, Perez and Jameson with the APU guys, cover them! One sniper and Grenadier with them as well, protect their sides and rear!" - Faith said walking into the tower as Tirin gave the order - "We are more than capable of handling this situation if we position ourselves right. Antitank gunners on the second and third floor windows, Marksmen on the roof, Infantry guard exits and lower windows as Tirin said, move it!".

 

Faith moved to the comms room where she found a radio that was turned off. The comms officer tried to turn the radio on but the power was off.

 

- "Damn it! We need the generator on the left side of the building up and running or we'll never be able to call in the airstrike!" - the comms officer said.

 

Faith turned to Tirin.

 

- "Take Mitchell and Gregor and get that generator back up soldier!" - Faith said.

[Curt-Man]

"yes m'am." Tirin said then ran off with Mitchell and Gregor. Using silent commands they ran through the halls until they got to the generator room wiht was underground. Tirin got right on it.

"Ah hell this is old. Alright, Mitchell grab that throw swith over there and Gregor, get that throw swith over there, when I say, throw the switches and hopefully this thing will get going." Tirin opened one of the pannles and cut two different wires. cut the coverings off and brought them close together. "Ok, 3...2...1..Go!" Tirin said and as he borught the wires to touch the two men threw the switches, and power was restored. Tirin let out a small laugh and taped the wires together and closed the panel. "Alright, lets get back there, Mitch, lock the door." Tirin said as they went to leave.

[Shana]

As the generator went back online all the instruments on the comm gear started to light up. The computer's voice was heard in the room.

 

"All instruments online. Perimeter defences online."

 

- "Good, we'll need those. Activate perimeter defenses, shoot hostiles only. Program that computer Nasaki!" - Faith said as the soldier sat infront of a computer screen and the defences opened fire practically eliminating the opposition that the APU units were facing. The comms officer established connection with the command center.

 

- "This is Alpha calling to White Tower, over" - the comms officer said.

- "Alpha, damn good to hear from you, this is White Tower, how are things on that end?" - a voice in the radio said.

- "Zone is clear, now we have to call in the airstrike. I'm sending you the coordinates to the Brieder Camp as we speak" - comms officer said.

- "Damn good job Alpha. Alpha team leader?" - the voice on the radio said.

 

- "Yes sir?" - Faith responded.

- "Well done, we need your assitance on another front, but for now we need you back here for debriefing" - the voice said.

- "Thank you Colonel" - Faith said.

- "We have a Hawk heading to your position, tell the APU units with you that we're sending a Gullship to pick them up" - the colonel said.

- "Yes sir!" - Faith said.

 

The communication ended and Faith gathered her soldiers.

- "Everyone back to the depot courtyard, we'll get pick up from there" - Faith said as she walked out of the building and called Tirin on the radio.

 

- "Tirin, good job, hurry back, we got transport incoming" - Faith said and then looked at the APU guys - "Gullship's on the way to pick you up soldiers, great job".

[Curt-Man]

"Wait what? whos gunna man this station! we bust our butts and lose some good soldiers to get here and we're just gunna leave it! this is BS...sir." He said as he headed to the courtyard. "They better bring a crew to man the tower..."

[Jedi Atomic]

Faith said and then looked at the APU guys - "Gullship's on the way to pick you up soldiers, great job".

 

"Yes Ma'am."

 

"Ok guys, guess this is where we're not needed. Nothing we can do but wait."

"Oh man I was just getting started."

"Yeah but don't waste all your energy in the first 5 hours of your life."

"I need some rest anyhow."

All 5 men jumped out of their units and layed down inside the tower to rest.

[Master_Archon]

S202A paced around the courtyard looking at the fallen Brieders, it was a fairly grotesque sight, but nothing he hadn't already seen.

 

He wondered when the ship would be there for pickup, this was, after all, his last mission. He didn't want it to end, so young still, and such a needed soldier, yet he was running out of options.

 

He looked over at the lieutenant, he had served in her group before, on several other missions, but the lieutenant hadn't really noticed him in those missions, just like the other men, though she most likely knew he was in the group. This, as usual, served the Shade's purpose, remain unknown to your allies, unless the mission dictates otherwise.

 

But seeing as the mission had ended so soon, much to his dismay, he could only do the only sensible thing he could think of, and say a fairwell to the lieutenant and other soldiers.

 

S202A approached the lieutenant, saluting as he approached, he spoke in his silky, yet cryptic voice, "lieutenant, I have come to give my formal regards."

 

S202A paused, this was the first time adressing the lieutenant in full, he had only usually responded with a 'yes sir' or 'no sir' in the past, the few time he had been called upon. Not only that, but this was the first person he had truely 'talked' to really, he normally only spoke to his fellow Shades, the 'Prism' trainers, and assignment officers.

 

"You have served as one of the best officers I've served under, I hope you go far. As for me, my service to the military will end soon, so as an honor gift, I will give you this," he told her, pulling out his combat knife, which was longer, and wider than most, and was designed stragely, and specifically for the Shades, for a non-Shade to have one was either a sign that you killed a Shade, or that you have earned a Shade's respect, a hard thing to do with a being that has little emotion.

 

He stared at the blade a moment, then he took his hand and wiped the blood off each side, then he handed it to her, ignoring his now bloodstained hand he stood to attention.

 

"I will take my leave now," he told her, saluting, he turned on his heel and began walking away slowly, staring at the ground, still wondering when the ship would arrive.

[Shana]

Faith looked at the Shade, though she had only met him briefly when he was assigned to her squad, she always felt curious about the man behind the perfect soldier. She took the blade in her hands and replaced her combat knife with it.

 

- "Thank you" - she said as she saw the shade walking away. Who knew what they did to the Shades that were pulled off the war. She was still looking at him when the Hawk Transport and the Gullship arrived.

 

One by one all the soldiers went inside the transport. The Hawk soon lifted off and took course to the capital. Moments later they saw the hills get bombed by the airstrike team that took off the Brieder Camp. Cheers of celebration were heard everywhere but soon were muffled by rocket fire that hit both the Hawk and the Gullship.

 

- "Damn it! We're going down! Brace yourselves!" - the pilot said as the Hawk quickly fell to the ground in a forest nearby. The Gullship fell not to far from the position they were currently in. The video screen was turned on and the Colonel was there.

 

- "Cortez! Answer me!" - the colonel demanded.

 

- "We're here colonel" - Faith said and looked around doing a headcount, thank god everyone was alive.

 

- "We have picked up Brieders on your position as it seems they carry a cargo of biological weaponry that we need you to seize" - the colonel said.

 

- "I guess our rest is postponed" - Faith said with a grin.

 

- "No rest for a soldier Cortez, now get moving and secure that cargo. The Brieders are moving through the hills of the forest, going south of Glay Valley, by the way you need to rendez-vous with the APU units just east of your position, but be careful Brieder troops were detected heading for them as well" - the colonel said.

 

- "Alright, everyone! Check your ammo and weapon's condition and start looking for the APU guys" - Faith said.

[Jedi Atomic]

As the gull ship went down the squad was already maneuvering to release the APU's from their attachments. "Hurry guys, they'll be crushed if we don't get them out from below this ship."

A few moments later, "Sir all but one released. That one is yours."

"Argh. Give me a plasma torch." A member handed him a torch and Art jumped around onto the belly of the ship. He torched the metal as he clung onto the arms danglying from the belly. Once he managed to break the metal his APU went flying to the ground. He jumped from the ship, as did the others. "Brace for impact!"

[Curt-Man]

Tirin checked his ammo and weapon. Both would do fine in a firefight. He stepped out of the gullship and looked around, gun ready. Coast was clear. Tirin was mechanical and explosives, but he also was a scout, form time to time.

"Coast is clear Sir." Tirin said to Cortez.