The base had been well designed,

The base had been well designed, it had 1 entrance, and it was completely paved. He had to hand it to the Commander he thought, he sure as hell knew how to build a base. 17 miles to the SouthEast lay a main NOD encampment. This was a shoddy affair, and all the men knew that with the commanders leadership abilities they could easily defeat the NOD Base. But they weren't allowed too, The Supreme One (as the Commander called General Solomon) had informed them days before the final assault had been scheduled to take place, that the NOD Base had to remain, damaged, but still be functional. 3 Days on, and there were literally shit-loads of Titans, Disruptors and those irritating Hover vehicles hanging around the base, the commander had no idea what to do with them. So they sat and waited their fate.

The Private sat in the RPG Launcher, idly flipping through a magazine (RPG Monthly), when he heard the noise of many Titans restarting their motors, and moving upto their standby tempo, next thing the Gate opened, and the Titans walked clumsily by, the entire ground shaking. At a rough estimate, they're must have been about 30 Titans walking out of the base. He craned around to look back into the base, they're were still plenty more, what the hell was the commander playing at?

A messenger informed the Commander that the Titans were in position, encountering only a few NOD Buggys. The Commander smiled, he never knew the purpose of these people, did they not understand that he had a football sized radar view in front of him, and that he could tell easily when the Titans were in position? Obviously not. He dismissed the irritating sod and turned his attention back to the radar screen. At the same time, he also got the Orca Bombers on standby, and he requested his right-hand radar operator to inform when the time came.

He waited.

The crew of the Titan's waited.

The Orca crews waited.

Everyone in the base made a pretence of working, but in reality, they too, waited.

The NOD Base waited
Then they heard, then everyone heard.