This is my first Fanfiction. So reviews of any type are welcomed by myself. This was inspired by a few Earth Remnant Rwby crossover Fics. Its safe to say inspiration has been taken from two in particular, but in no way is anything copied from either of them. Just Inspiration and Ideas came from these two fanfics.
Primary influence for my story: Earth Soldiers In Remnant by Rookie117
Secondary influences for my story taken from Emergence Series by Chris7721
Chapter I: Command This Is Team RAPIER We've Found it
BBC Reporter "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to stop you their Keith"... "This is a breaking news report. I can confirm that the nations of Iran and Saudi Arabia have officially declared war upon the nation state of Iraq. The declaration was made public two hours ago by both nations. It's evident to all observing this declaration. That these two nations which have despised Iraq for years. Intend to take full advantage of the Iraq's weak state, due to ISIS destroying most of the Iraq army during the previous years. We have reports that both Saudi Arabia and Iran have massed their forces on the border; we believe that they will commence their combined invasion within the next few hours. The date is 22nd February 2017, that's all for now."
Talia Litvenko stared at the TV screen in amazement. It was only a week ago she had been assigned to the training Team Rapier to begin her training to become part of the SRR (Special Reconnaissance Regiment). Deep down she felt a slight buzz of excitement if she was honest with herself, however that feeling was mixed with so many other feelings chief among them concern for her older brother Uri. She knew Uri had decided pretty early in his life his calling in was in the military. Talia cracked a faint smile at the memories of her brother, always saying to her parents that being a soldier was the only thing he ever wanted to be. 'Well it did always scare her mum and dad half to death every time he said so in front of them' she thought 'guess he got me to follow his footsteps alright'. She figured Uri was about half way through his training programme to become part of the Royal Marine Commandos. She knew the United Kingdom would either get its self involved in this new war or the United States would force our hand.
And that as much as it excited her to know that once she was trained there would be potentially be a war waiting for them and her team to jump straight into. She couldn't deny how scared she was for her brother. That given his occupation he would likely be at the most risk of being killed. Trying to storm a beach or establish and hold a bridgehead until his unit could be relieved.
Talia decided to push those darker thoughts to the back of her mind. As she done so she turned to one of team Rapiers members Jacques. "Heeey Jacques what's your opinions on this?" Jacques swapped his gaze from the TV to Talia. "Well to be honest I'm pretty fucking happy about this not gonna lie. I know we just started training and that but it's good to know we aren't gonna be sitting on our asses, when the training's over." Talia let out a slight chuckle and then smirked at Jacques agreeing with him at least on that. "Jacques you got any family members in the military?" "Well actually I have one. A sister though she is only a cadet at that. So she won't be seeing any action for a long while." Talia nodded to him in understanding indicating to both that they had similar situations regarding family. Talia returned to her thoughts.
She truly couldn't tell how Jacques was really feeling about it all. She could definitely see this being another Afghanistan which she truly dreaded having to go through that. She knew she bloody well was fortunate to just about miss the Afghanistan conflict.
In her mind she knew if anything happened to Jacques out there. It would either give Jacques sister the resolve to succeed against anything the field threw at her, or it would break her. She knew this well as Uri had always told her, 'if anything happens to me Tal don't let it break you... let it give you strength and not suffering. Use it to push through your challenges never let my demise or injury in the field hinder you against those that wish harm on us.' Talia only let out a 'likewise brother' Uri smiled at that fondly at her.
Jacques shifting his ass in the chair brought her out of that thought. Mostly because the damn chair moaned as Jacques shifted his huge ass around. Talia chuckled to herself as it all happened, Talia only stopped upon realising Jacques was staring her down. Talia simply cracked a half hearted apologetic smile at Jacques. He just grunted and went back to the viewing TV.
Talia focused on watching the TV but found herself drawn back to her thoughts. Inevitably these thoughts came to the first few days of meeting her team she would be training with. In which she analysed her SRR team's personality. She began to think on that as she just kind of blankly stare at TV only really half heartily paying it any mind.
Jacques she passed off as complex kind of guy mostly because to her nothing really stood out to her that much about him. Other than he was physically quite a big guy. Definitely not someone to get on your bad side, she noted.
That was in contrast to the other members. Her thoughts came to the only other female in her training team Monica. From what she had found out during the first week of her SRR training was interesting to say the least. Monica perplexed her in more ways than one. She saw her personality traits as confident, extremely talkative, and easy to anger but most of all, the trait that shocked Talia the most was Monica's will. She never picked up on it initially but she did admit to herself if there was one person that pushed themselves far too hard all the god damn time it was Monica.
Therefore she deduced that it was Monica that had this insane desire to achieve well beyond what she might well be physically capable off herself. Talia found herself being quite found of that particular attribute of Monica as her cheeks flushed red a little. But that didn't seem to faze Monica from what she saw of her during the first week of SRR training.
Talia's thoughts came to Alistair. She pretty much instantly recognised that Alistair has all the natural qualities of excellent leadership in the field. Confident, Aggressive to those that pissed him of at least, supportive to those he cared about, clearly had a tactical mind set far superior to her own. To her his best quality wasn't any of that, it was the fact he could be depended upon for pretty much anything. You gave him a complex situation he'd be the one to get all of you out of it. In her mind she was thankful for Alistair because she knew all too well that strong leader is a constant necessity in warfare. She shuddered slightly grimly remembering what happens when that strong leader is taken away in a situation the second in command ain't in anyway hell ready for.
All of a sudden Talia was brought out of her train of thought, when Alistair and Monica enter the canteen. Jacques and Talia turn to face the new arrivals wondering what they about to tell them both. Alistair asks "I trust you lot have heard the news then?" Getting a "yeah we have" they both said in sync. Alistair simply nods and hehmm's in response. "Soo you guys think we are gonna be deployed early or something? asks Monica" To that Monica found herself slightly shocked that they all take slightly longer answering her question. After all Monica was expecting a definitive no most likely from the three.
Alistair the first to respond as always "well no I don't think so; I think they might extend our training program to be honest with you Monica. Talia what about you?" "I'm kinda thinking that if all SRR teams are deployed in this, if well let's be honest when the UK gets involved, that we are going to be called up to fill that shortage of SRR teams" To that the 4 members in training give serious looks and nods at that. Jacques the last to speak his mind states his opinion simply states "look I think either option could happen for us right now. Just depends if our luck holds out right" Everyone lets out loud laughter at Jacques statement.
As soon as it dies down Alistair checks his watch letting out a "oh fuck aww shit" upon realisation that they need to get to the range. "We better be bloody quick about it ladies and gents" Monica lets out "What about Connor?" To which Talia responds "Heey don't worry about him I'm sure he's already there. We gotta get there quick otherwise the sergeant gonna be fucking pissed at us."
The group of four manage to get to the range in good time. They see Connor already waiting for them. "Where the hell have you guys been?" Jacques replies back to Connor in a sarcastic tone. "Hey now we were just having all this great banter without you and happened to be enjoying it too much to realise the time" He said whilst letting out one of his smiles toward Connor indicating to him that it was a poke at his constant absence from the group. Training Team Rapier only had mere minutes to compose themselves. The sergeant makes his grand entrance to the group. Everybody immediately straightens up at his arrival. As he walked toward them team Rapier while on edge was otherwise unfazed by him.
Talia thought to herself for a few moments taking the time to analyse the sergeant walking toward the team. To her she could recognise this guy had been through a lot of field work during his time. He looked to be late 30's at her best guess. He'd likely had done standard service before joining a Special Forces branch of some kind. She figured mentally saying to herself "They sure as hell wouldn't use a regular to train us lot. He has to be SAS or Parachute Regiment" She focused herself bringing her attention to the sergeant in front of her just before he spoke.
"Training Team Rapier this all of you" Team Rapier speaks loudly and clearly "Yes Sir" "well then, a good as time as any for introductions"
"Names Steven Whitaker I have been part of the SAS for a good 9 years now. Retired now, thank god, 39 is not an age you want to be at and still be in the SAS. Now then for some reason they want me to run through SRR weapons training with you. This particular part of your training is going to be run for three weeks. In which I am supposed to make you experts in the use of all SRR weapons that you lot can potentially be deployed with. And believe you me I'll make you experts alright not just in the use of these weapons but maintenance and quick repair techniques you can try in the field providing you have the materials for that. I trust you all know the basics given your all from Army or Cadet backgrounds?" The whole team responds with a "Yes Sir"
Steven responds to the team "right...Alistair Mcgowan trust you know your way around a L85A2" "That I do Sir" Steven responds to the team as whole. "Team Rapier I'm testing today your CQC ability. I'm aware some of the older members of the team have come directly from the field which is the usual norm requirement for joining this branch. However two of you have been selected from your exemplary performance in the cadets, that you were given an opportunity to join this branch. Right Alistair we are running through a course extremely similar to the one they put the SAS through. However it's a little more tailored to your kind of work. Alight Alistair you set?"
"Aye Sir" Alistair responds confidently as he switched from safety to full automatic "Alright in 3, 2, 1 GO GO GO" Alistair charged forth into the mostly Airbrick and plywood structure. 3 targets popped up Al gunned em down within seconds of each other making his way further into the training arena. Ordered to flash the room up ahead he prepped his flash bang to through before even getting anywhere near the room. He threw the flash bang through the door. Alistair only just about made it to where he needed to stack up, when the flash bang went off. Only taking mere mini seconds he charged the room sighting two hostiles. Gunning them down within only a few seconds total. The whole trial went well enough for Alistair earning him an easy pass well within the 35 seconds minimum time limit allowed. The rest of team bar Talia went up one after another some earned better scores compared to Alistair's some slightly worse than his score.
Talia had mentally prepared herself for this. She mentally taken down the positions of the targets as they all had a bird's eye view of the CQC combat trial area. She theorised were she needed be and when. And she had calmed herself to allow maximum focus not only on the targets but to allow for maximum control of her weapon. After being called she stepped up to the starting mark. That's when the sergeant mentioned something to her. Steven bellowed in that loud voice he had. "Alight Talia Litvenko let's see if you can beat Connors time Jacques accuracy ratio shall we" Steven looked at Talia in her mind he was gonna start counting down any second now as she watched from the corner of her eye. Talia never tried to let overconfidence take her but she truly couldn't help herself right now. Briefly she recalled her youth which her militaristic family taught her and Uri many important techniques to perform at the top of your game for often longer than most people could. Snapping out of it at the last moments she gave her classic smirk to Sergeant Steven as he counted down. "3, 2, 1 GO GO GO"
Talia dashed forward. She had memorised the positions of each target in the building she needed to clear. With her prior field experience and accumulating her childhood training, cadet training and her training she completed in joining the Regulars. She placed three expert shots in record time skilfully neutralizing three targets. Clearing another room making her way to the third Talia preps her flash performing the same move Alistair utilised but faster sliding into cover instead of running up to it. Taking only seconds to recover and assume a crouched position. Talia Knew from this position she would be able to not be where her enemies expected her to be. Again with a few bursts from the L85A2 she put down the targets. Proceeding through the building at lighting pace Talia cleared each room with an expert finesse only having to reload once during the trial.
Talia made it back to the group which was ecstatic. Talia "judging by your reactions team I'm guessing I done pretty good" Sergeant walked up to her simply stated to her "well I'll be looks like you lass managed to break all the SRR records for this trial. Talia could only offer a sheepish smile back. Talia figured she would do well but even she was surprised with herself. "Well Sergeant how'd I do" "Talia Litvenko you've scored a very very impressive time here. 23.34 seconds. Oh and third best accuracy rating I've ever seen on the SRR teams". Steven addresses the team as a whole"
"Well Team Rapier you've impressed me, that's for sure and believe me that is a hard thing for you to achieve. Hopefully we can keep up this level of training. After all your country your Queen expects nothing less from the best. It's up to you to deliver that when out there on the field. Am I right Team Rapier!" "Sir Yes SIR" "very good now I'd like to announce to you that SRR teams are being increased to a six member Team. I'm sure you know what that means for your team. I'll be first to tell you she won't be training with you but is due to join your team upon your completion of training"
Alistair the first to speak up as always "Sir why are we waiting till our training is complete to receive this new member and what purpose would she be serving in our team?" Sergeant Steven replied directly to Alistair. "Well Alistair we are waiting till your training is complete because she has already completed hers, that's why. And to answer the purpose she will be serving. she will be the teams tech expert. This is a mandatory change mind you to all SRR teams." Alistair responds in a calm manner. "Alight thank you sir. Might I ask where she is from?"
"She is from Singapore soldier. From what I know she is part of commonwealth SRR. That's another group of the same unit as you lot but formed from commonwealth soldiers. These are soldiers that chose to serve the UK/Queen Elizabeth II. In doing so these specialist units serve in commonwealth squashing terror threats to the commonwealth or fighting alongside us lot in commonwealth theatres. This is part of our efforts to increase trust between us and commonwealth. While I myself am not sure what her reason is for transferring to your team. That you lot will have to find out, when she makes it here. I'm sure she will make a fine addition to Team Rapier. Dismissed"
9 weeks later
BBC Reporter "We interrupt this report to bring you breaking news. As we have been made aware Iraq has officially been defeated. Its territory has been split between ISIS, Saudi Arabia and Iran. UK,US, FR,GR,PL and RU heavily suspects that Iran and Saudi Arabia have been cooperating with ISIS. As we are at war with ISIS, air strikes have been conducted against them on a regular basis.
Before the Iraq-Saudi Iranian war as it has come to be named began. It was well documented that ISIS had been losing major amounts of territory with mass desertion in its ranks. However this has now been reversed in this time. ISIS numbers are now well replenished and they have become very well armed. ISIS has seemed to have taken a large amount of Northern Iraq and some central areas. This has had the knock on effect of negating our air strikes against them. If there is proof that ISIS rearmament is down to Saudi/Iranian involvement. It heavily suspected that all nations currently at war with ISIS our expected to declare war on upon Saudi Arabia and Iran. That's all for now stay tuned for what is coming up next"
3 weeks later
BBC Reporter "This is a breaking news report. We interrupt this report to bring you news that as of 1st of May 2017 the current countries currently engaging ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria have no officially declared war upon Saudi Arabia and Iran. Evidence has surfaced that links without any room for doubt the actions of Saudi Arabia and Iran in their involvement in rearming ISIS forces. This is considered an act of war due to these nations supporting terrorism. As many of you know ISIS activity across Europe has seen a resurgence with 6 major attacks across Europe, have dragged in more nations against the Islamic Extremist threat. As of today many nations now stand together to eliminate the Islamic State and those nations that support it".
Alistair looked at the three present members of his team. Sighing he said "Well we knew this was coming didn't we?" All three present simply sighed and said "that we did" It was then Connor piped up "Anyone knows where Talia is? Surely she is going to want to see this?" It was then Monica replied "nah Connor she is meeting her brother for a bit today since he finished his training a week ago" We will tell her when she gets back if she hasn't already heard".
Somewhere on the base...Uri had just been let in by the guards and made his way to where he knew Talia would be. He remarked at how similar the base structure was to his Royal Marine Commando training grounds. Making his way over to the most likely spot he would find Talia, he was too lost in his thoughts to hear someone was running up to him from behind. Only managing to snap out of his thoughts at the last possible minute, he turned to see Talia about to jump into his arms.
Uri almost fell at the force of which Talia impacted him. Talia was actually quite surprised by the fact Uri almost fell. Both stared each other not saying a damn thing. Then both properly embraced each other in a loving by somewhat crushing hug. Staying like that for about a minute.
Uri said "So Sis how you been without me" smirking at her. Taking a few seconds to respond "you know I don't have to rely on you right?" chuckling a bit as she said it. "But yeah Uri I'm doing great here even without you to help me." "How's you been?" "You finished training last week right?" Both moved over to a bench to talk properly and catch up. Uri responded "yeah finished my training a week ago wouldn't be here with you otherwise. Oh and honestly becoming a Royal marine Commando is one of the best decisions of my life."Talia really put on that beautiful smile of hers when Uri said that.
It was then Uri noticed Talia hair was still the same platinum blonde of her natural hair colour with her pink hair mixed in. He noticed the ratio of pink was around 40:60% he sighed.
He asked "Talia please tell me that you didn't beg them not to force you to change that hair to a natural colour and keep it short" Talia became shy all of sudden and blushed as he asked it.
Slightly audible she quietly said "well noooo-oooo maybe not exactly okay" Uri just stared at her and simply said "You did didn't you?" While staring at her giving her that accusing looks when one of them tried to blame the other for something they did. As brother and sisters always did. Talia relented going "alright alright Uri I did beg them okay" slightly louder than she should have. "You know how protective I am off it." "Besides they let me keep the colour and let me keep it a little longer then they usually would" Uri relented sighing as he did so but gave her a fair warning about it" "Tal you know how our family doesn't like that." Talia just winked and said "I know"
The Two talked for hours catching up on pretty much everything that they had missed during the months of separation from each other. That time was cut short when her team came to find her as they had more training to do. Talia introduced Uri to everyone and from she could tell they all instantly connected. Talia felt pretty happy about that. Talia and Uri said their goodbyes sharing one last hug before they all went about the rest of the day.
BBC Reporter: "It's been 7 months since the declaration of war and the coalition against ISIS, Iran and the now Empire of Arabia has grown and has had huge success against ISIS and Iran. Reports suggest that Iran is teetering on the edge of full blown civil war/military uprising against the government. This is due to the response of neighbouring nations have rallied behind the original coalition to crush ISIS. These nations range from Pakistan, India, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan. All of these nations have come together to stop Iran from further expansion. Along with Russian and many western nations aid in the fight has decimated the crème of Iran's military force. From further reports it's suggested that 67% of Iran's current military is formed from conscripts. The rest of that percentage being all that is left of the professional fighting force"
"As for the Empire of Arabia many of you are likely wondering how such a thing has come to be out of Saudi Arabia. You may be wondering how this Empire came to be. Well Saudi Arabia upon its completion of its takeover of Iraq annexed Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and United Arab Emirates. However this rapid growth has plunged them into more war. With the resulting failed Coup de tâte of the country of Jordan, Jordan has declared war upon the Empire of Arabia along with the Egypt and Eritrea after the Empire of Arabia attempted to invade them".
"This has had a profound effect on our troops fighting in Kuwait as they have also joined the coalition for fears of invasion from the Empire of Arabia. With recent developments much of southern Iraq has been liberated from the Empire of Arabia and Iran"
"Many of you may be wondering what about ISIS? During the past five months of war ISIS has suffered terribly at the hands of the coalition forces. Their forces in Syria have now been forced into a siege of Ar Raqqah by our European members of the coalition. Also areas north of Mosul have fallen to Russian occupation as Mosul will also come under siege within the next few weeks. This has had the effect of creating a link between Ar Raqqah and the areas north of Mosul".
"Given our estimations we expect this Iran to surrender within the next few months given their own situation as per our reports suggest. Once our forces have secured both capital areas of ISIS we believe ISIS will fall apart within two months. This means that Iraq will finally be liberated. This would only lead our coalition to deal with the Empire of Arabia".
Alistair looked through his binoculars. He began to form a strategy for the situation his team was in now. He recalled the overall grand strategy everybody was now following. He knew him and his team were currently near Madan this town was directly south of Ar Raqqah. The area around Madan had been highly contested between ISIS and the Coalition Forces. This was the last link to ISIS territory for the ISIS defenders. In particular Russia and its allies in Armenia and Azerbaijan had been fighting here to finally link up with Western and Eastern European forces including around 5,000 Russian soldiers that were serving with the rest of the European counter parts.
His whole Team knew their mission assassinate an ISIS commander of Madan. To cause the moral of the ISIS militants to crumble before the assault to finally cut off the rest of ISIS territory from Ar Raqqah. Alistair radioed Rapier IV "Rapier IV have you located the commander yet. "That's a negative Alistair" said Monica.
Alistair sighed "look Monica for god's sake please use the bloody call signs" Monica visibly frowned when Alistair said that. She said in a coy voice "Alistair I've known you far too long to do that in these calm situations" she cracked a very playful smile. As she continued to look through her L115A3 scope onto the buildings this bastard of a Commander was in.
Alistair sighed and turned to Rapier VI Koneko Toujou. Team Rapiers tech expert. "You think we should deploy the drone?" Koneko replied "No sir I believe Talia's Keen eyes and Connors awareness will find this bastard from their overlook position. If our group has nothing, Rapier II and IV have nothing sir." Alistair perked up somewhat actually agreeing with Koneko on this one. After all Team Rapier made up of people just as smart in tactics as he was. But it was his strategies that made him the obvious leader which no one argued with.
Alistair radioed in to Talia and Connor. "Rapier III Rapier V anything to report your end?" "Rapier V here nothing to report...Hang about sir looks like we got this cunt." "Talia shoot" "Aye Connor" Talia focused her breathing slowing it down greatly. Under normal operations she was always the only sniper in the group. However this was an assassination mission after all she figured. Pressing her finger gently on the trigger. Taking just a few mini seconds to make sure before she took the shot. Finally happy with it she pulled the trigger the bullet soared through the air and hit the intended target. Rapier III radioed Rapier I. "Rapier V here. Rapier III has kill confirmed I repeat kill confirmed.
"Roger that Rapier V this is Rapier I operation complete. Commence ex-fill" All Rapier members "Aye sir"
Team Rapier made it to the ex-fill location and found a Lynx Wildcat waiting for them. To get them to Camp Chimera. British and Commonwealth forces main camp on the Syrian front. Team Rapier had become somewhat famous throughout the Special Forces branch at least. Everyone was kinda zoned out during the flight to Camp Chimera. Once she landed team Rapier disembarked.
A young private came up to the team. "Are you Sergeant Alistair Mcgowan?" "That I am private and this is Team Rapier as he gestured to the team. Look whatever it's about can it at least wait till me team has got some rest and food? We just spent 21 hours out there."
The private gulped and gave an apologetic look. "fraid not sir. The General wants to see the team. Didn't tell me what it was about but I'm guessing its summin important".
Alistair thought 'for fucks sake, doesn't the bloody general realise how long we were fucking out there today? Ugh I'm fucking hungry and want some sleep'. Alistair replied "alright we will pop in to see the general. As you were private" "yes sir".
Alistair turned around to see a very annoyed Team Rapier. Alistair saw how much it showed on Monica most of all. "You heard the private everyone to the general's office immediately" Everyone started making their way over. The guys had formed up into a little group as they walked and talked about something unimportant.
The three women of Team Rapier walked together all of them disgruntled by the fact they couldn't just go and get some sleep or food. Koneko spoke up "Talia Monica why don't we just ditch this and leave it to the boys eh" Both Monica and Talia considered they came to the conclusion this was the best thing to do."Koneko you life saver." Talia said slowly stretching herself as she walked. "Hell yeah Koneko never figured you one for disobeying orders" Monica said almost a bit too loudly. However the lads of the team just happened to be too engrossed in what they were doing to hear her.
As they began walking off to the canteen in their sleep deprived and hungry states they all failed to notice the general Arthur Daniels leaving the canteen. "Ahh team Rapier just the people I asked the private to fetch. It was only then the three girls snapped out of their states did they realise what just happened. "Aww Shit" they all said at the same time.
Talia took the lead with this one. Knowing that they're not getting out of this. "What can I do for you general?" "Didn't the private I sent to come and collect you?" Talia scrambled her words not knowing what to say. "ugh well ugh yeah he did but we urggh well" Koneko knew she needed to take over "Well sir he did but urgh, Talia needed to have a piss sir" Talia immediately started giving Koneko death stares. The General for his part simply chuckled at their collective responses. "Well by all means go have one then but I need you lot in my office in ten. Understood?" The tree of them responded half heartedly with a "yes sir"
After the three of them left the canteen and made their way over to the Generals office. Talia turned to Koneko "Why'd you have to say to him I wanted a piss?" Monica just started laughing knowing this was going to be good. Koneko sighed and said "Talia you know I couldn't say we deliberately left the guys right? "Yeah I know Koneko but couldn't you have come up with something better than I was fucking bursting for the loo." She just started laughing same as Monica and said "No...no I couldn't"
They finally made their way over to the general's office. "Ah come in ladies, we were about to begin without out you. So glad you could join us". General Arthur Daniels said. Right now what I'm about to say to you is highly important and it's also highly alarming to say the least" That last part perked the whole team wondering what the hell this could be about.
"During our scouting efforts around Ar Raqqah province. The Northern area specifically to the east of the Northern area yielded an interesting find. Now what you are looking at lies between Suluk and Al Mnjeer. That whole area to the east is currently infested with ISIS trying to hold of Russia and its allies. We estimate the Russians will be able to collapse the whole Al Hasakah line in two days. And successfully take Al Hasakah and its surrounding towns. Which will send ISIS into a panic; they will try to flee through Madan which we will have conveniently cut off from the rest of their territory by then. Since the Russians have also secured the south of that province they can join us during the final assault of Al Raqqah from Madan. Hopefully they can also join the attack from the East as well"
"Now as you lot can see ISIS is been doing heavy digging all around Ar Raqqah Territory clearly they are prepared to fight us here and defiantly to the last man. One of our spy places happened to capture this" As he handed Alistair a piece of paper with an image on it.
General Arthur Daniels then asked them "Team Rapier what do you think that looks like to you. Jacques replied back "It looks like they dug something major up, the defences around that specific area look miles better than the rest of the defences they are digging." Monica jumped in "looks like a temple to me if I had to be honest with you sir" Connor jumped in "Yeah and an old one at that" It was at that point Talia noticed something about the image Alistair was holding. "Sir? Are those what look like be giant crystals all over it?
It was at that point general Arthur Daniels confirmed that Talia's assumptions were indeed correct. "That's correct corporal"
Alistair stared the General directly in the eyes. "You want us to confirm that right?" Arthur replied simply stating to the group. "Aye that's what I want to know is this real?" "Sergeant Alistair your team will be deployed just before the Russian forces reach that line. At that point we and the rest of the military will be deployed and should off reached Ar Raqqah by that time.
4 Days Later
Somewhere near the temple. Rapier V surveyed the territory in front of him. He signalled it was clear and Team Rapiers Ajax Infantry fighting vehicle, to move up. This vehicle in question had been rolled out early for the Special Forces units of the United Kingdom.
Alistair knew they were close to front line of ISIS. As expected Russia had destroyed all ISIS forces in the Al Hasakah line and now was pushing against the defences of eastern Ar Raqqah. He could see the smoke as the Russian air force pounded the line. He thought "I just hope whatever General Arthur wanted us to find it better not be blown to bits once we get there".
He looked over his squad. All of them armed to the fucking teeth.
He himself held an L22A3 carbine version of the SA80. He eyed up the new version of the weapon he was holding. He had to admit being Special Forces meant you got all the new modifications first. His personal choice secondary was the L182A1 shotgun, which Connor also happened to use as his secondary. He also noted that his team really loved the L117A1 pistol since they all had one.
Eyeing up Talia weapons of choice. Alistair noted that it was her weapons that were taking up most of their Ammunition capacity in the Ajax and space for their extra weapons. Talia was the Sniper Specialist of the team. She had specifically requested that she be allowed to utilise all of the British army Sniper rifles while out on a mission which if he remembered correctly Talia mentioned it "gave her options" Alistair had to agree with that especially since assassination was what they had been doing most of recently. She currently was holding onto her trusty L115A3. If Alistair had to take a guess at why she was using this rifle instead. In his mind it would be because they were going to be danger close while scouting out the structure.
Alistair gave a quick glance at the weapon storage area. He noted the L118A1 AWC version specifically for when silence was needed. Unfortunately it hadn't had much of an opportunity to be used during this war. The next he noted was the L121A1 Anti Material Rifle. That weapon on the other hand had seen plenty of action especially when they got engaged by IS infantry fighting vehicles. As such extra ammunition for the weapon had been authorised. The third weapon he noted was Talia's designated secondary L129A2 Sharpshooter Rifle. She had received some new modification for the rifle along with most other SF units. Alistair fondly remembered asking Talia why she needed that if she had all the snipers her response was just classic her "Alistair I need options out there. I'm a woman after all" he cracked a smile at that.
Monica and Koneko both went for L85A3 standard rifles. Monica had been designated the medic of the group while Koneko had been designated tech expert for the team. Her drone was also in the back as well. Connor sported the L86A2-LSW however it had been upgraded very recently to the A3 model. Alistair remembered the conversation he had with Connor over the improvements. He said "Alistair you have no actual idea just how appreciative I am of receiving this model well before any of the regulars. Major major improvements let me tell you."The Ajax had a very healthy supply of ammunition in it for the various rifles the team employed on extended deployment. In fact Alistair noted that it had been oversupplied in this case.
Jacques had chosen L110A3 which was also healthy supplied with plenty of boxes all fully loads. His chosen secondary should he ever need to use it was the L7A2 however Jacques had done some tinkering on the weapon and had upgraded the version with some fairly decent improvements according to Jacques. Alistair noted it now had a heavy barrel and other improvements had been made to it.
As the vehicle came to a stop at the ridge everyone disembarked. The first thing apparent to team Rapier was the constant sound of Russian jets and the mayhem they where're causing out there. Thanks to the Russian offensive they could afford to have gotten far closer than usual. Alistair and the rest of Rapier Team lined up alongside the Ajax.
"Alight everybody just over that ridge is this supposed temple we have been sent to check out. I want everyone on alert. Rapier II Rapier VI I want you two in the Ajax if anything goes wrong right now. We will be needing a quick exit". Rapier II VI responded nodding as they did so "Yes Sir right away. They left to mount back up in the Ajax.
"The rest of you lot with me we are moving to crest the ridge". As they did so they found that intel on the structure was solid. Connor radioed in "Rapier VI inform command intel is solid over" "Roger that Rapier V" They saw that these strange giant crystals seemed to glow with some kind of energy. Alistair could make out that the structure went pretty deep. Its central core clearly was made up of this absolutely massive crystal this supported the structure. There were other large crystals nearby too that he could see. Talia and Monica just noticed how ISIS had their men and equipment all over the structure.
Rapier team noted the Russian jets had now pulled back they knew the artillery was goanna start raining in the next few minutes. Unfortunately for them ISIS had spotted the team and opened up from the left. Which alerted all the troops in the structure. Team Rapier quickly became too engaged and fell back to Ajax position taking up defensive positions around it. Alistair "alright Team defensive positions around the Ajax". Team Rapier dug themselves in and started firing off rounds down range toward the advancing ISIS infantry. The whole team quickly realised that even with the Ajax 40mm main gun firing into the main ISIS force now assaulting them head on form the temple. They had become to outgunned. While their only appeared to be 30 or so ISIS soldiers topside when they were engaged it quickly changed to about 200 making their way toward Team Rapiers Ajax. It was at that point that Rapier VI picked up Russian radio transmission to them since they were using coalition frequencies. "It said missile strike on structure authorised artillery authorised for the forces on your left flank be advised 20 seconds."
Sure enough 20 seconds later the missile and artillery rained down. And that caused something bad very bad to happen. Not 60 seconds later a huge colossal explosion racked the Syria that day. The last thing Team Rapier saw including everyone else in the assault on Ar Raqqah saw was a giant green beam go into the sky followed by the largest cloud of this strange pure energy expand throughout the blast radius that covered all of Ar Raqqah province. For many as this pure energy approached they figured they would all die.
No one in their wildest dreams or fears could even believe what really happened that day.
Meanwhile In Remnant
This is Lisa Lavender reporting from Bullhead 072 just off the South western Vale coast after strange energy readings have been detected in the middle of the Vale, Vacuao and Mimar Sea's. We have also gotten reports of earthquake activity however damage seems to be minor to the Vale as a whole. "This is extraordinary we have a new landmass suddenly I have no idea how big but on first analysis by our bullheads instruments indicate it's around the size of Lantis's main Island. This new landmass could have major implications on political tensions between the kingdoms. Vale and Vacuao are sending research teams to discover exactly why this strange landmass has appeared. That's all for tonight dear viewers. Stay tuned for more".