Captain, Joshua Price, of the New California Republic rangers, was currently crouched, his dual silenced semi automatic 10mm, smg's one in each hand, held above his shoulders next to his head. He had a full set of veteran ranger armor his duster was flapping in the dusty Arizona nighttime wind. Behind him crouched behind the crumbling wall of the legion stronghold in the capital of Arizona were 3 other rangers dressed the same, directly behind him was Kelly fernson their medic and second in command, behind her was Robert gundal nicknamed bear for his minigun and his love of explosives, and finally behind him was tom rolard their sniper and stealth specialist.

The team had been sent from an outpost at the edge of Arizona to take out this stronghold which trained the legionaires who had proved themselves in battle to become centurions. They had parked their humvee with mounted a 50 calibur machinegun a mile away from their current position.

"Alright on three bear blow the front and east walls then on five blow us a door here Kelly and tom you two get to the ammunition dump and motor pool, me and bear will provide a distraction, rally back here" "go" Josh said

Suddenly there were two very large explosions in the tan 20 foot high walls of the fortress followed by a third smaller one. As they entered Kelly and tom immediately split off to finish their respective tasks leaving bear and josh measuring up their challenge. "327 according to intel" josh said looking at the rows of tents aligned neatly in the center of the fort, currently m ost of the legionaires were rushing towards the ramparts to challenge an enemy who wasn't there. "ill take the 180 on the left you can have the rest" bear said as he tossed three frags to josh. "Haa your funny over my dead body, good luck see you in a few" Josh said as he sprinted towards a nest of sandbags and shot three with his smg's before any of them even noticed something was amiss. Josh Heard the whine and then the rat tat tat of bears mingun behind him and decided it was time to make an entrance.

Taking one of the frags he had josh pulled the pin and threw it at the support of the main rampart that went around the whole wall. With a reounding crack the age old wood splintered and for a minute everything was queit until the rampart crashed to the ground now only supported by a few posts. The eight legionaires who had been under it when it collapsed were now human sirens as their wails alerted the entire base everywhere the legion poured out of hidden buildings in the wall. "Shit it was a trap" switching the comlink in his helmet on he said "Break, everyone rally at rally point drop everything we've been led inot a trap lets go people." Josh snapped in two fresh clips into his smg's with a deep breath he got up from his position and turned fired 3 bullets into one legionary and sprinted towards a pile of supplies and jumped up onto them tossed a grenade behind him and jumped onto the already rickety rampart bullets hitting spaces he had occupied only seconds before.

As he sprinted on the rampart only three thoughts entered his head survival, the safety of his team, and finally a plan. As he ran he shot at the places where the supports on the wall held the rampart to it. Every support that snapped the rampart got more and more shaky until finally he felt it start to buckle under him and he leapt into the air and landed into a roll. He turned threw his last frag and looked at his team who where at their makeshift doorway.

Kelly had her arm draped around tom blood dripped from a bullet hole in her leg and shoulder. Her helmet was missing too.

"alright tom sprint to that building and hit them when they come out bear take Kelly and give me 4 frags I know you got some more, also any c4 or claymores would be helpful" Josh ordered as a plan of how to get out started to form in his head. "Thanks bear we've got roughly 50 more seconds before they get their shit together and come through that doorway balls blazing we have to get to the humvee it's the only way out of this godforsaken city." Josh said as he sprinted towards the sight of his trap, even if they did get him they were gonna pay a heavy butchers bill. Josh thought.