Frost Dogs: Dogs of War
Chapter 2
Mance Rayder didn't know what to make of these people, he'd never seen anything like them, nor heard anything of them, and those strange metal beasts they had were perhaps the most peculiar but also the most terrifying things he had laid eyes on in his life. Now he was riding in one of them as he taken to gods know where, at least they had done him the courtesy of fixing his wounds.
"Where are you taking me?" he asked the 'doctor' who had helped him back on the beach where they had found him.
"To our home, mother base we need to give you a thorough medical examination to ensure there are no complications, then my commanders might have some questions for you, nothing too invasive I assure you."
"I'm sure and what is this mother base I've never heard of it."
"I'm not surprised it's... new"
"What do... you...mean" his question was quickly answered as he was able to see the large metal platforms of mother base as they came into view of the helicopters side door window. The large metal structure completely took the former crow off guard, he felt his jaw drop as he gazed at the massive structure before him, then something clicked, that weird construct I spotted earlier while lying on the beach, I thought I was hallucinating. As the metal beast landed the young woman next to him opened the door and got out before turning to face him, Mance took the opportunity to glance around at this strange metal island before he was urged on by the two soldiers who were also escorting him.
He was led into a fairly large white building where he was placed on a bed so that he could rest while they readied the medical staff readied their equipment; as he lay there he contemplated all that had happened to him... and what would happen to him now on this strange Island.
Back on land the FOB was starting to take shape after hours of painstaking labour. While nothing had been properly built yet, the outlines for the buildings were set and base development staff were working hard laying the foundations for the walls. In the mean time the soldiers deployed here had set up a small camp with winter tents and campfires clearly visible, they had also set up sand bag walls for the heavy machine guns and mortars and dug a number of fox holes around the camps perimeter. The 2 tanks and 4 armoured vehicles that had been brought along sat idle in the middle of the camp their guns facing in different directions ready to provide support in case of an attack.
Snake wondered around the camp checking on the soldiers under his command, he could tell the soldiers were all still slightly nervous about what was going to happen to them in this new world and how they were going to survive, but they were more at ease now that they had a job to do.
"BOSS!" Snake stopped and put his finger to his ear piece.
"What's wrong?"
"Boss, we've got company" Snake bellowed out the order to get to defensive positions immediately after hearing this, every soldier in ear shot began grabbing their weapons while warning their comrades, vehicles were manned, heavy machine guns and mortars were mounted and various other weapons were cocked and aimed. Snake made his way to the perimeter edge where the contacts were coming from as the scout explained to him what he had seen.
"I was out checking the perimeter of the compound when someone grabbed me and dragged me behind a tree, I managed to get free before they could slice my throat open or something but when I looked behind me I saw a lot of locals sir, couldn't get an accurate count, I managed to out run those that gave chase and hide but they are bearing down on camp sir."
"Good work soldier wait until the fighting has died down then get back here."
"Yes sir." The line went dead.
"Alright listen up we've got contacts closing in, prepare yourselves and fire on my signal." Snake jumped into a fox hole and waited for the oncoming storm.
After a minute of waiting the forest seemed to come alive as at least 100 people came out of the surrounding forest and into the clearing the camp occupied, they all began to shout and jeer and bash their weapons together. Snake smiled as his mercs remained stead fast and quiet in the face of such a display.
A man made his way forward adorned in the bones of what must have been his fallen foes; he seemed to look over the camp before speaking in a mocking voice.
"Hello outsiders you seem to have found yourself onto my land, well there's a price for using my land... that being your lives." His men cheered. "Now I'm in a good mood today so I'm going to give you this one chance, surrender and I may have a nice fitting 'place' for you in my clan" there were chuckles from the assembled wildlings. The lord of bones looked out over the strange new people that had entered his land and expected them to start surrendering in droves, not that it would help them, he had no intention of keeping them alive. He was rather displeased when the new comers just remained in their little holes waiting for the inevitable.
"You're choice then" turning to face his men he nodded they all yelled and charged the seemingly pitiful camp each and everyone of them expecting to overrun the new comers in a matter of minutes.
Snake watched the charging mass coming towards his defensive line; he waited until they were half way there and then gave the signal his men had been waiting for.
"OPEN FIRE" to the charging wildlings it was like the wrath of an angry god had fallen upon them, all along the line; assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, heavy machine guns and shotguns let loose a blistering wave of steel and lead that brutalized the wildling charge. The wildlings were so shocked and traumatized by the sudden wave of fire that they faltered in their charge due to shock, this made their situation even more dire as the mortars, tanks and armoured vehicles added their own considerable firepower to the fray, the wildlings lasted another 6 seconds before the last one fell, his torso blown open by a direct hit from a tank shell.
The lord of bones tried to crawl away from this demonic force the lower half of his leg was gone, pumping arterial blood onto the snow, he didn't get far before he was flipped on his back to see one of the demons standing over him, they aimed their strange weapon at him, there was a flash of light and then his brains were blown out onto the snow staining it crimson.
Snake watched as his men put the wildlings out of their misery, he couldn't risk taking any of them back to mother base and they couldn't be treated out here so he ordered his soldiers to finish the job, no matter what his moral objections to the matter.
(POV change)
Benjen stark watched in mute wonder as the strange people he had been watching systematically executed the wildlings that had survived the attack on the camp, the shocking and awe inspiring power that these strange people had displayed had shocked Benjen to his core, he knew these peopl were dangerous the moment he began observing the camp a few hours before the wildling attack while out on a ranging. When the attack had begun he had been sure that the small camp would have become a blood bath for the defenders. But to his enormous surprise the small camp had unleashed what could only be described as the wrath of a wrathful god as they slaughtered the charging wildlings to a man.
"The Lord Commander needs to know about these people, they could prove either a great ally, or a tremendous threat." He spoke to himself as he quickly but quietly snuck back to his horse. He mounted it and set off back to castle black to warn his fellow brothers about the potential danger this new group posed.
(POV change)
Mance Rayder lay on his bed silently observing the doctor as she finished putting away the equipment which had been used for his medical examination.
"You're people are a strange lot" He said suddenly.
"Sorry?" she asked looking at him in a perplexed manner.
"The way you all carry yourselves, the odd weapons and beasts you use and this manmade island in the middle of the shivering sea... I've seen a few things in my life time but never anything like this."
"Well that's not for me to tell but maybe if you're lucky-" she was cut off as the door slid open and a man walked in. "Commander Ocelot sir" she straightened her back as she saluted her commanding officer.
Revolver 'shalashashka' Ocelot was a well respected and like officer that served on mother base, his western outlaw get up was odd considering his Russian heritage but many people chalked it up to him and his revolver obsession.
"At ease lieutenant just came here to check up on our guest, how are you feeling?"
"Considering that I should be dead right about now, pretty good all things considered" Ocelot chuckled.
"Glad to hear it. Now if it's okay with you I'd like to ask you a few questions." Ocelot pulled up a chair and sat down.
"Should I leave sir?" asked Grey chameleon
"Yes please Lieutenant."
"Sir!" she saluted and left.
"Now then" he pressed record on the tape recorder in the room, usually used to record surgical logs. "Now then let's start simple; what is the political structure here in this land." As he said this Ocelot poured two cups of water, he handed Mance one and kept one for himself.
"Thanks, to answer your question I'll have to explain a few things." Ocelot nodded for him to continue so Mance did. "On this side of the wall there is no government, aside from the clans that live here that is. On the southern side of the wall there is the seven kingdoms, all are ruled by a king in kings landing."
"Who is the king currently?"
"Currently as far as I know it is King Robert Baratheon, he won the iron throne from the Targareyns when he won the war known as Roberts rebellion."
"What do you mean as far as you know?"
"When I ventured this side of the wall I found it unsurprisingly difficult to keep up to date on a kingdom which the free folk don't give two shits about. They keep us this side of the wall simply because they were on the right side when it went up."
"I see... thank you for your time Mr. Rayder, I will be back to ask you some more questions another time."
(3 hours later)
Kazuhira Miller was reading over the reports handed to him by the unit heads. Morale while shaky was relatively high, resources were being properly distributed between the different departments and all personnel were accounted for, all 1,300 of them. Before the expansion to 8 platforms earlier in the year mother base couldn't hope to hold this many personnel but thanks to the additional platforms that wasn't a problem, taking a head count took forever though.
*knock, knock*
"Come in" called Kaz as he set the reports down on his desk. The door opened allowing Mance Rayder and his guard, a tall Scandinavian Merc called Howling Bear, to enter.
"Commander Miller, he wanted to speak with you sir."
"Thank you corporal, now how may I help you Mance" Mance looked at the commander for a few seconds before speaking.
"I hear that these soldiers you command are all mercenaries, most of the volunteered to serve by your side, some others needed some 'convincing', most impressive."
"Thank you Mance, every man and woman here faithfully serves the Boss; they would gladly follow him into hell if he ordered it. But why did you bring this up?"
"I have a request to make."
"Go on..."
"I want to join Diamond dogs."
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Boom cliff hanger because I'm evil like that... i'm not sorry
So Mance may (or may not) be joining our merry band of mercs on their adventures in westeros, but how will this affect the fight in the north. Well wait and see. Now i would like to address some reviews.
Guest: yes i have beaten the truth ending and yes i do know that big boss was never a diamond dog however i did say in the first chapter his mind was somehow put in his phantoms body. It's about halfway through in on of the larger blocks of text.
The Black Pen -Former Digger92: I hope to meet your expectations
Bigs-Post: thanks for the info the summary has been fixed
