Author Notes: So I was just watching Starship Troopers and saw that there has never been a Harry Potter & Starship Troopers crossover. So let's get this over with, I do not own Harry Potter and I do not own Starship Troopers and without further ado I give you Dogs of War.
There was darkness in the command hub of Battlestation Ticonderoga, several crewmembers were working at their station preparing for the upcoming battle, but that didn't stop the station commanding officer from sitting in a chair overlooking the room. Rear Admiral Amelia Beazley allowed herself a moment to relax; this would be her only chance for a while.
"Ma'am, the Gaip just arrived in system," a tech said from his station, "and I was just locked out of the system."
Amelia was out of her chair in an instance and over to the area, as she moved toward the area she looked up at the Corvette Transport as it moved the base; looking at the screen she found herself inputting her security code.
"Stop all traffic and clear this room," she yelled to her command crew.
Within moments the room the personnel ordered a halt to all space traffic, which to begin with wasn't that much; and filed, out the room, leaving the Admiral alone as the face of Colonel Wen Yao appeared on a video screen. For a second Amelia was shocked to find this man in front of her as he was not the Commanding Officer of the Gaip; Yao was a senior member of the Military Intelligence.
"Colonel Yao, what can I do for Military Intelligences today," Amelia asked as she looked into his dark eyes.
Onboard the Gaip, Yao leaned back in his chair and looked at the Flag Officer, "Admiral, I need you to clear a section of your docking area for Intelligence use. I will be bringing some people onto the base and we need our own area, thank you."
As the channel closed, Amelia slammed her left hand on the arm of her chair as fury overwhelm her, she hated dealing with Military Intelligence because all they did was cloak and dagger shit. With a few taps of her finger on the armrest, the staff returned to their station and a few looked at the pissed off Admiral who addressed the room, "Clear a section of the base for Military Intelligence and post guards at the door."
Stepping into the Mobile Infantry section of the Gaip, Yao allowed himself a moment to relax as he looked at the lockers. It had taken a bit of work, but Military Intelligence had gotten a unit for this new solider, Yao didn't want to admit it, but he was kind of giddy. Intelligence had been waiting years to put him out in the field and they were finally going to get their chance.
His understanding was that General Ashley Olsen, herself had come aboard the ship to oversee this new soldier. Nodding towards the two guards outside the room, Yao entered to find the subject of his thoughts looking out the window at the Battlestation.
"We shall be docking with the station in a few minutes," Yao said as he moved to stand next to the young man, "General Olsen will personally be over seeing the transfer of the 81st Company to your command, have you thought of a nickname, Captain?"
The young man in question turned to look at the Colonel, allowing the man to look in the emerald color eyes, he could have swore he saw a smile tug at the man lips before he turned back towards the window.
"Call us the Warlocks," the man replied, "Potter's Warlocks."
"Very Well," Yao replied, "Pack you gear, Potter, we have a war to prepare for and Intelligence is making you our ace in the hole."
Yao moved toward the door and allowed the light to flood the room, allowing the guards to get a look at the young Captain. Before they had only seen his eyes and the eyes had freaked them, but now they could see his full form. The man named Potter had black hair that at time could hide his eyes, but it was the scar on his head that really caught you eye for it was in the shape of a lightning bolt.
Once the door had fully closed, the man walked over toward the wall and turned the lights on allowing himself to look at his uniform, for a moment he was reminded of the uniforms worn by the Nazis during World War II. Shaking his head he sat down on the bed and looked into the mirror and asked himself, "What have you gotten yourself into this time, Harry?"
Two hours later found Harry walking into the Operation Center of Battlestation Ticonderoga; his ever present bodyguards took up position outside the door with the other guards. He had to smile as he thought found himself in a room with high ranking member of the military.
Looking around the room he noticed the Asian Colonel Yao was talking to a woman with a dark skin tone that wore the uniform of Federation Fleet. As he walked over toward the two officers, he could feel the eyes of several officers on him; he could guess it was because he had a sidearm strapped to the side of his right thigh.
"...officer will fit in with ground force," Yao said as he noticed Potter walking toward him, "Ah, Admiral Beazley may I present Captain Harry Potter, the newly minted Commander of the unit now known as Potter's Warlock."
Harry had to admit that the elder woman look good for someone that was a Rear Admiral in the United Citizen Federation Fleet, but then again he had been in United Citizen Federation Intelligence hand since he had arrived in this time period.
Coming to attention, he rendered a quick salute toward the woman, "Admiral it's a pleasure."
Amelia covered her smile as she looked at him, he was different from anyone else in Intelligence but then again he was also a member of the Mobile Infantry.
"So tell me Captain what brings an MI, all the way to the Zone," she asked him as they moved to a group of chairs.
After taking his seat, Harry turned to look at her, "I go where Intelligence tells me to go and they want me and this new unit out here."
Amelia was stopped from asking her next question as the door to the room open and a younger officer walked into the room and stopped at the edge of the doorway, "Sky Marshal on Deck!"
Everyone jumped up as Sky Marshal Dienes entered the room, the Old Man of the Fleet looked around the room and nodded toward some of the officers he knew.
"Well, I say this is not what we expected," Dienes said as he moved to the center of the room, "However we are at this point and it must be overcome. As of a few days ago, I ordered all of our forces to meet here at Battlestation Ticonderoga. As of 1050 Hours, the United Citizen Federation has declared war on the Arachnid Empire and we are invading their space."
At the end of the meeting, Harry was shaking his head as he listened to this plan. This man was ordering all his force onto an enemy held world. It was like these people knew nothing about tactics, the enemy held system after system, and they needed to take those worlds before taking the main world and even then you needed a foothold to secure your forces.
Watching the Sky Marshal walk out of the room, Harry moved toward Yao, "It looks like Intelligence was right for once, I'm trusting that we have the required engineers on the ship so that we can build a base on the planet."
"There has been a change of plan," Yao replied as he led Harry out of the room, "You will be leaving before the rest of the ground forces arrive so that you can set-up."
"How long do we have," Harry asked as they walked the corridors of the base.
Stopping at a window, Yao took a moment to look at the stars before turning to Harry, "You leave in two hours, after that you are on your own until MI forces hit the ground."
Harry looked at his superior officer for a moment, crushing the anger before it showed in his eyes, "You are sending me with only two hundred twenty-five men plus a platoon of engineers..."
"Captain, while it might be called a company, it is anything but," Yao replied as he looked at Potter sternly, "You will have a Battalion under your command, which will providing security for the Engineers, those are you order from the Council itself, if there is nothing else, you are dismissed."
Yao didn't even wait to receive the quick salute as he turned around and left Harry to look out the window at the vast number of stars.
They were about to sent him and his new unit out ahead of the main force with the objective to secure a foothold and hold that position for according to the math in his head, ninety-six hours.
Moving toward the docking area that containing the doorway leading to the Gaip, Harry on had one though go across his mind, Oh, joy this will be so much fun.
Captain Cira Knight had been the commanding officer of the Gaip for the last five years and in that time Military Intelligence had only requested her ship's twice and both time she never had a Colonel come on and take command, yet now she had orders to take a man known as Captain Potter of the Mobile Infantry and take him and his unit to the Bug's home world.
As she sat in her chair on the bridge and was watching the loading deck, with the rest of her bridge and command staff; as the 81st Company awaited the arrival of their new commanding officer. They didn't have to wait long as the doors soon part allowed a white male to enter the room whom was wearing the full body armor of the MI forces.
"Officer on Deck," a voice yelled out as Harry entered the room.
Harry allowed himself a moment to look around at his command; he nodded at the Platoon Leaders ad he walked down the line, before coming to stand before the group.
"My name is Harry Potter and I have been appointed to be your Company Commander. Some of you may be wondering why you have been told to report to duty before the main forces arrives. Well I am here to inform you that the 81st has been selected to set up a beachhead on the Klendathu. Now, we will be guarding a company of engineers while they build out forward base, our job to ensure that this base is up and running within the next 96 hours."
"I know the MI has a policy that if a person is wounded then we are to leave them behind, however I have a rule, in fact it is brand new. This Company does not and will not leave any man behind, dead or alive, we leave arrive as one unit and we all come home in one piece," Harry replied as he turned to look up at a dark window, "We are going in as a whole company and we are coming out as a company, is that understood."
Inside the loading bay, it was like thunder had sound as the unit came to attention, "Sir, yes, sir!"
Harry watched as they went back to parade rest, "We are the Potter's Warlocks and in this case we are leading the way. Now, the Fleet will be transporting us down to the planet and will also be clearing LZ, I want to see the Command Staff and the Platoon Leaders in the Operation Center after everyone is dismissed, Master Sergeant take command."
Master Sergeant Galen Yuen had to admit this kid had the right stuff for getting his people energized and then for him to basically contradict year of training on leaving people behind, that took guts, he waited for the man to leave the room before dismissing the company.
On the bridge Captain Knight turned toward the Intelligence Officer and had to contain her smile as she looked at him, but he face was not in anger, in fact that man appeared happy, "So I'm assume that speech was Intelligence's?"
"Oh, no, that was all him," Yao said as he came to stand beside her chair, "He wouldn't tell us what he was planning to say, but damn he made his point and I think this will piss off some people and make some happy, that boy know how to shake things up."
"I have to admit, it is refreshing to see a change," Knight replied, "If you want, you can remain on the bridge, Colonel, we are about to launch our TACs."
"I think I will," Yao replied.
"Commander Li, you have permission to launch you fighter," Knight ordered over the communications, "Burn the LZ if you have to."
"Understood, Captain," Li replied as he lead his led group off the flight deck.
Inside the Operation Center, Harry watched as the TAC fighters took off and head for the planet, he nodded to a tech that changed the feed to the flight cams, he want everything recorded. Harry turned around as his Company Sergeant entered the room followed by his Platoon Leaders, waving them toward the planning table; he allowed them to look at the map that was there LZ and their base of operations.
"Well, I'm not going to sugar coat it, Intelligence has been running patrols over this zone since they decided that the Sky Marshal's plans were going to be FUBAR, so I was chosen to lead a unit to secure a zone for our brother in arms. As soon as the TAC finished cleaning up the area we launch..."
Harry was saved from speaking any further as an alarm began to sound, "Well I guess this is it, Gentlemen it time to clear our new home."
What was once an empty room was a hive of activities as troopers began to load onto the dropships as troopers rushed toward the waiting dropships; looking around Harry boarded his transport. He watched a section leaders began to make sure everyone was secured and Morita Assault Rifle were locked on their racks. Outside the ship, the blackness of space was lit up as blue lights began to appear from the planet, some of them were wide shots while other nearly hit the ship were it not for the F-76 Thunderbolts that were still attached to the ship moved into action. Within the time it took for the F-76s to attack what had not been identified as plasma, the dropships had detached themselves from the Gaip and were heading planet side.
Fifteen minutes after launching from the Gaip, Harry led his troopers off the dropship and took a moment to look around. There were a lot of dead Bugs around them and the soil was black from the bombing, but as far as the eye could see they had the area clear and there were no bug holes. Waving for his soldiers to take a step back, Harry moved forward while remove his glove from his right hand and moved the index of his left hand on a scar that ran along his right wrist. He took a dead breath as he raised his hand and the soldiers of the command platoon would swear that his eyes glowed with power as he yelled, "Valde Igneus Incendia!"
With that yell, a great wall of fire appeared in front of the shocked MIs and began to spread as Potter walked forward and it looked like he was controlling said fire. In the wake of the fire, the carcasses that had been there before were nothing but ash that was blown away by the wind. Harry ended the spell after ten minutes of walking and allowed himself a moment to look around at the cleared area before turning to a female officer that wore the rank of Lieutenant, "Lieutenant Dering, break out the heavy gear and begin digging."
Alexandra Dering nodded as she turned to the giant crate that had been landed behind the dropships, she was the Officer-in-Charge of the Engineering Platoon attached to the 81st and her orders were simple; follow Potter's orders to the letter.
"Alright, Engineers, let get started break open those crate and lets' get everything ready," she yelled to her people, "we have a base to build and you all know your shifts."
Nodding at the younger woman orders, Harry turned to his people and raised an eyebrow, "Defensive position and get those turrets up."
Seventy-two hours later, had the foundation of the base poured in and Harry was shocked to see that it was going to be a layers from metal, cement, metal, metal, cement. He had to admit that it was a good defensive idea in case the enemy was able to dig, then they would not be able to get past the fifty-six inch thick metal walls that were incased in the cement. At the moment, the engineers were finishing the seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth and third level which would be for housing the trooper and the second and first would be the command area. The eleventh and tenth level which had been complete after the foundation had been laid and they would house the armored units, with the ninth and eighth housing the armory.
Harry was standing on a ridge looking the horizon as the sun was setting, he had order several of his men to help the engineers so that they could meet their deadline in twenty-four hours. So far the Bugs had hit them twice and the turrets did their jobs of hold them back working with the soldiers on perimeter detail. Harry could hear the boom as several more dropships enter the atmosphere and head toward them; these were more engineers to speed up the process, because they had to expand the landing zone for troop dismemberment.
Bending down, Harry grabbed a handful of dirt and closed his eyes as he rubbed both hands together. He felt the lumps of dirt as they pass between his hands and opened them in time to see the particles get blown away.
"Captain Potter?"
Harry turn around to find one of his Platoon Leader and Company Executive Officer, she was a member of the Scandinavian ethnic group and if Harry remember her name it was Sóley Vilhjálmsdóttir, "Can I help you Lieutenant?"
Standing a few feet away from her Commanding Officer, Sóley looked over his shoulder before turning back to him, "Sir, we have a problem."
"Those are some famous last words, Lieutenant," Harry replied as he walked off the ridge and back to the base, "What happen this time?"
"According to the latest report, our heavy armor has been delay for three hours, which put us getting it after the invasion force arrives," she replied, "Also Intelligence has informed the Council that this planet is not the sole bug planet, but they still want to take this world."
Harry could feel the tension in his shoulders and every felt a headache coming, at time he really want to say fuck it and kill the council, "Distribute the heavy weapons and get everything ready. You every feel like nothing ever changes in our lives, Sóley?"
Giving him a sad smile, Sóley nodded her head as she said, "Everyday, sir, everyday."
Night had fallen over the planet and looking up, Harry could see the blue plasma as it rocketed skyward. The defensive wall had been completed before it had gotten dark and as such he had a platoon on the wall manning the guns and the automotive turrets were running. Harry was carrying his own rifle as he watched the dropships land and began unloading their troops who were shocked to find soldiers on the ground already.
As Major General Yumena Iwasaki walked off his dropship, he took a moment to look around before spotting a man standing in front of the landing zone. Yumena felt his age which was sixty-seven years old, but since he was a man of Asian lineage, he looked younger than he was; nodding to himself he walked toward the man followed by his staff.
Harry zoned in on the man that was walking towards him and after a moment of observing the man, snapped to attention and rendered a salute when he was a few feet away, "Captain Harry Potter, Commanding Officer of the Eighty-First Company. Welcome to Vanguard Base, General."
"Thank you for the welcome, Captain," Iwasaki replied, "You have done a lot of work in four days."
Nodding his head, Hary replied, "I just give the orders sir, it up to my people to carry them out. I can report that we have no KIAs, WIAs or MIAs."
Yumena looked in shocked at the man and he wasn't the only one, as the Command Staff of the Sixth Division looked at the man. There had never been a report of an opening battle having zero KIAs, MIAs, and WIAs.
"Nicely done, Captain," Yumena replied as he looked at the gate, "Why have you not opened the gate?"
Turning around Harry looked at said gate and looked toward the sky, "Waiting for the Air Wing to clear out the Plasma Bug before I let you guys go out."
The General was interrupted from replying as the roar of the F-76s as they entered the battle and began bombing anything outside of the base wall. Watching them move off, Harry turned toward the flag officer, "Now I can open the gate, sir."