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"When the country is in danger, the military's mission is to wreak destruction upon the enemy. It's a harsh and bloody business, but that's what the military's for. As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. "- Richard Grenier
A RWBY Universe Story
The 8th squad: Day in the park
Sargent Cobalt Bale of the 8th squad ducked back from the corner of the building as rounds from the arm cannon of an Atlesian Knight-130 ripped into the buildings concrete sending a spray of dust into his pale gray eyes as he ran.
"Hey Indigo get ready I got its attention," he said into his short range communication head set blinking the dust out of his eyes, then quickly checked himself over as he ran. He knew that his aura would protect him to a degree but, the standard issue Vale Military forces armor was an added comfort.
The only thing he liked about the ensemble was the better armored boots for longer marching and the field equipment . He knew that most of what he wore was an obvious knock off of the Atlas military armor, just with a change of color. With the Vale counsel moving funding away from human based soldiers to more mech based new equipment for the remaining manned unit's was not on the top of the list.
Like most of his fellow soldiers he had long ditched the vision constricting helmet for the simpler black communication head set and patrol cap that covered most of his out of regulation auburn hair. He kept his MK-4 dust powered combat rifle close to his chest as he ran, the gunmetal gray short carbine style dust munitions rifle was popular with most of the for the urban combat that had been seen the past few years.
As round's skipped off the concrete in the sidewalk as he felt two quick tugs at his leg near his Mk-2 dust munitions pistol. On his next step he felt a sharp pain in his leg looked down seeing a red line of blood staining his uniform. He ignored it as best he could as he ran risking a glance over his shoulder to see the AK-130 bearing down on him. Its black armored humanoid robot helmet visor slid down its sensors scanning the street trying to get a better lock on him. Cobalt saw one of the many large raised flower bed's that decorated the sidewalks along the agricultural district and slide behind it quickly propping his rifle up over the lip taking aim.
The Ak-130 had been the standard security robot for the city for years, but with the new Atlas upgrades on the way the city was decommissioning the old bots. Problem was today that someone in the agricultural district had made "upgrades" to a few while they were in storage when they activated they began to attack the area.
The police were called first to the scene yet with their limited equipment they,soon requested help from the Vale Military Forces to bring down the rogue bots. Thankfully they had evacuated most civilians or had they shelter in place hopefully away from windows. At least Cobalt hoped they did. As Cobalt watched the robot stomp its way into the middle of the street, barrels spinning up as it's searched for a target red dot trailed up its glowing chest to the face plate.
"Eyes on target boss," came an ice cold female voice into his head set, Cobalt smiled to himself.
"Take the shot Indigo," he said calmly followed by a loud rifle crack a solid hole appearing in the Ak-130's head as its mechanical body went limp crashing into the street. Cobalt looked back and up seeing their scout sniper, Indigo White on top of a fire escape.
White wolf ears perched upon gray hair peeked out from the hood of her camouflage cloak. Indigo was a small thing, but her shot was unparalleled in the regiment.A pale slender finger released from the trigger of her Mk-10 high caliber dust sniper rifle, a she slung it over her shoulder climbing down the quickly ran over jumping up to pull the bottom of the ladder down for her.
"Nice shot, "he said as he pulled his scroll from his hip pouch pulling up the map and communication's menu.
"You were expecting me to miss? Well I did pull to the right a bit…" Indigo replied as she hopped down from the ladder unslinging her rifle looking down the scope at the downed bot.
Cobalt just shook his head looking down at his scroll kneeling down next to Indigo as she covered the street, the image of a large man appeared on the scroll screen. It was the squads heavy weapons specialists Lu Xiong him.
Lu was a mountain of a man with the build of a ursa, he made even the tallest of men feel small in his presence. He had bald head a slightly rounded face and a set serious dark brown eyes. Lu was wearing a bandanna solid gray bandana with a luck symbol painted on the front of it.
Cobalt could see him cradling his belt fed MK-2 dust powered medium machine gun as gunfire sounded in the back ground as he heard Lu grunt, "Lu, how's your side looking?"
He could see Lu swing the scroll around to show two smoking Ak-130's on the ground, "One left, doc Vermillion is working on one wounded civilian, and Areo is covering the street." Lu said calmly as an explosion was heard in the background.
"Alright we will make our way over to you south side is cleared of all rogue bots, be there in three," Cobalt said as Lu simply nodded as the screen went blank. Cobalt stopped for a moment to put a quick bandaged on his leg tying it off before he looked looked to Indigo "Let's move..." he said as they started running towards the sound of the gunfire.
Cobalt and Indigo arrived to the booming voice of Lu yelling out "Areo second floor! Covering!" followed by the heavy staccato of Lu's medium machine gun.
"Friendly's coming in." Cobalt said into his head set as he rounded street corner. Cobalt and indigo quickly took cover behind a parked vehicle as Cobalt spied Lu and their medic Vermilion Kase taking cover in an alley way up the street.
Vermilion Kase was five foot eight with a medium build. With dark tanned skin short cropped brown hair and eyes from his northern remnant heritage. Vermillion was clad in the standard armor with the exception of a red cross on his shoulder pad. He had his Mk-4 slung on his shoulder, his medical backpack right next to him as he worked on the wounded civilian woman. He was busy tying off some bandages to her upper left shoulder and giving some comforting words as he worked.
"Doc how is she looking?" Cobalt said into his head set looking down the street to an abandoned two story building that Lu was peppering with rounds.
"Though and through to the upper shoulder, she is stable for now but needs to get to a hospital, bullhead won't land until the last bot is taken out." Vermillion replied as he shouldered his medical bag unslinging his rifle staying close to the wounded woman.
"Hey boss this one is a bit smarter than his fellows," came the voice of the last member of the squad their rifleman, Areo Bystro. Cobalt looked down the street seeing the rifleman ducked down beside a bullet ridden car ducking his head back as a few more rounds glanced off it. Areo was five foot six with a slender runners build to him, he has light brown eyes with a spikey mop of dirty blond hair sticking out from under his field cap. He was clad in the standard armor with added pouches around his waist for extra ammo and a few dust grenades. Areo's sharp angular face winced a bit as a round ricochet off the vehicle striking the shoulder pad of his arm causing him to drop his Mk-4 at his feet.
"Areo's hit, you alright?" Cobalt said into his head set taking aim at the AK-130 on the second floor sending a quick bust of rounds as it ducked back.
"I'm good boss bounced off aura and armor hurts like a mother though. Hey tin head you're not making me miss my date tonight!" he radioed back as he got down lower behind the vehicle picking his rifle back up.
"Alright here is the plan standard assault, Lu, Doc and Indigo pour fire into that building keep the dammed thing pinned down. Areo, you and me are going to rush into that alley way just ahead of you on your left and flank around," Cobalt said quickly into his head set looking around at his team hearing a solid "Rodger!" at the same time. Cobalt took a deep breath watching his squad get ready and said "Cover fire!" as they all raised up sending a fusillade of fire towards the building. Rushing around the car Cobalt saw Areo get up sprinting ahead of him ducking into the alley way waiting for him.
As Cobalt rounded the corner he jogged alongside Areo checking his shoulder pad over, seeing the dimple in the armor.
"Sure you're alright?" he asked as they came to the corner rounding it slowly their rifles raised up scanning the area seeing was clear they ran on.
"I'll be fine just going to have a hell of a bruise, interesting story I get to tell my date tonight." he said as they stopped sort of the end of the alley way. The side of the building they were facing was half open from demolition with a few large industrial dumpsters left out in a small clearing next to the building. They peered around the corner seeing the impact of the bullets on the building's second floor the Ak-130's armored head ducking down, as stucco from the buildings wall fell down on it.
"Alright cover behind that dumpster then toss some ice in there, ready?" Cobalt said as Areo gave a short nod as they both pulled blue glowing dust grenades from their waist pouches. They rushed across the street ducking down by the dumpsters, pulling the timer pins on the grenades they both tossed them into the second floor room both of them yelling "Grenade out!". With a pair of loud booms and a sudden blue flash of light a pair of large jagged ice balls formed on the second story instantly cooling the surrounding area.
"Squad hold fire where going in." Cobalt said quickly as the firing on the second floor stopped. Cobalt and Areo rushed the building, rifles raised as they swept through the first floor finding the gutted out building empty. Cobalt covered a half demolished stair well as Areo made his way up scanning the landing as he made it up to the top.
" Its immobilized, heck look at this boss," Areo said over his headset with a smirk his rifle half lowered as Cobalt joined him. As Cobalt climbed to the top of the stairs he could see the Ak-130's body frozen in ice with only its robotic head twitching, "Intruders detected, intruders detected" its robotic voice rambled on.
Areo aimed and put a short burst of fire destroying the head the red glow fading from its body as Cobalt got on his radio "Where clear squad all targets down, doc move the woman over here theirs an empty lot we can land the bullhead in,".
"Understood where on way," Vermillion replied as he looked down the street from the second floor seeing him and Lu loading the woman onto their portable stretcher. Indigo jogged alongside them as Cobalt pulled his scroll out calling in for their pick up.
Cobalt watched as the wounded civilian was loaded onto a medical bull head, being treated by the two on board medics as its doors closed lifting up into the sky. The police had moved back into the area and civilians were starting to wonder back into the streets to see the damage done. As he and the squad waited Indigo came up to him tapping at his left leg,
"Hey boss, looks like you had a close one." Indigo said as Cobalt looked down pulling his pistol out, a hole was in the bottom of the frame rendering the weapon useless. "Day in the park right?" she said looking at him.
"Yep day in the park," Cobalt said softly as their bullhead landed near by kicking up the dust and the wind. As the squad started walking over to load up as he placed the pistol back at his side a little shake in his hand.
About doomtrooper28: The author's first foray into the world of fan fiction/OC fiction. He spent seven years in the Texas State Guard as a 38B civil affairs specialists before leaving in 2014. Is an active outdoors man and tactical shooter, currently working in the private security field while finishing a college degree.
Special thanks to: Curay for helping edit this story and input.
The 8th Squad will return in
"The Tunnels of Mountain Glenn"