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Disc in Flight

Chapter 1 – Hollywood

By Pelican (Pelican_13@yahoo.com)

08/28/2002

            If you are finding this, I have worked up the courage to finally do what I have been meaning to do for three months now.  I wish not to reveal my name.  I am just another victim of the war against Yuri.  If you care about this poor soul lying dead in one of the allies of Los Angeles, let me tell you my story.

            I was trained at an ordinary barracks as a spy.  What was unordinary, however, was the location of the base I was stationed in.  Historically, it is known as Area 51.  For the three months between my deployment and Yuri's invasion it was more than my base.  It was my home.  I had virtually no life outside of the walls of the top secret facility.  My duties were nothing fancy either.  Usually I would patrol the perimeters with a group of GIs.  To anyone looking at us, I was just another GI.

            Unfortunately, this was all about to change.  Relations with the Soviet Union began to deteriorate and we were put on random alerts based on the most whimsical rumors.  Then came some of the worst hours in our nation's history.  I shouldn't need to tell you about the invasion.  The transports unloading in New York harbor and Kirovs dominating the skies over once the most powerful city in the world, the tanks that rolled across the southern border with ease, and the combing of the streets of Los Angeles by those damn psychics, are all news everyone has heard before.  While the Statue of Liberty fell on the east coast and the Golden Gate Bridge was badly damaged by Dreadnoughts, the team from the future arrived and began to offer an early resistance to an alleged "psychic invasion" that would dominate the world.  Every military man on the planet must have felt the change of events on that day.

            Once the "Psychic Dominator" on Alcatraz was destroyed I was sent with other units from our base to locate an enemy base somewhere in the outskirts of the city we lost track of.  The team of eleven GIs, two engineers, me, and a SEAL leading the team traveled in three Nighthawk Transports.  I recall one of the engineers sitting next to me got airsick and almost vomited.

            Our flight course took us over Hollywood itself.  I remember looking out one of the windows and seeing the famous Hollywood sign.  In fact, that was one of the last moments of peace I ever had.  Shortly after, we began drawing fire from an unknown location.  Shells punched into the lead copter and quickly destroyed it.  In a ball of fire it crashed into the street below, followed by another explosion.  The pilots and five GIs aboard were killed instantly.  The remaining transports landed and unloaded.  We really should have tried to get farther away before landing.  The extremely loud gunfire roared again.  This time two GIs and one of the engineers fell.  Their bodies has been pieced in so many areas it was obvious there was no way to save them.  The SEAL led the team away from the unseen gunfire.

            I am guessing that gun, which I later found out was one of Yuri's Gatling Guns, destroyed the other two Nighthawks.  We never saw them again.  Those of us remaining were continuing down one of the side roads, being led by the SEAL.  I honestly can not figure out what in the world he was thinking.  Maybe he actually expected to bring down the entire enemy presence in the city himself.  Around the corner we spotted one of Yuri's infantry patrolling the city.  The SEAL took a good aim and dropped him in one shot.

            After that our team moved forward, over the body of the fallen Yuri infantryman.  I noticed a strange orb sewn into his mask above his eyes.  At this time I had no clue what its purpose was.  I still find it hard to imagine that such a seemingly insignificant object could be an object of such attack capability.  We moved unopposed for about thirty seconds towards the interior of the city.  Ahead we could see the tall standing walls of one of the video studios.  As we approached a T in the road ahead we fell under attack again.  From both streets two Gatling tanks zipped to our location and began spinning those damn guns of theirs.  The remaining GIs deployed into their sandbags at impressive speed and used their heavy machine guns to return fire.  I turned and ran.  I couldn't have been of any help anyway, but now that I think of it, the world would have been helped drastically if I had just stood there and been gunned down.

            I heard the death scream of one of the GIs as I ran.  The engineer was right behind me.  I can still remember feeling nothing but fear at that moment.  Those tanks could have easily caught up with us and mowed us down.  As I got farther and farther down the street the roar of heavy machine gun fire grew fainter and fainter.  Then it died down all together; I knew one side had won.  I never again saw the other members of our team so I assume Yuri's tanks had been victorious in that fire fight.

            Damn it.  I'm out of paper.  I'll have to go back and get more.  I didn't expect my final note to be this long, but I might as well explain everything that happened now.  I'll finish this, come back, and put all my troubles to rest

forever.