San Francisco, 2018
"Rhino group, you are cleared to engage the enemy. Don't hold back."
"Roger that command, commencing assault. Ok All tanks follow me!" The Abrams accelerated forward and downhill, running over some of the enemy soldier's not fast enough to get out of the way. As they made their way down to waterfront, they saw more and more soldiers heading their way.
"Jesus Christ, these guys are dressed as knights and medieval soldiers."
"Stay focused Connor." The commander said.
"Yes ma'am." He said. The Commander's name was Amy Watson. She was by far the calmest person to lead this offensive push. She climbed through the hatch to get on the tank's roof mounted machine gun. They were given direction to the ground portal from the intel officers. She opened fired on a group of heavily armored soldiers running straight at the tank.
"This is Rhino 6 Actual, we're taking fire from the top of the hill." She heard over the radio.
"Roger that, take them out. Ok listen up, according to the intel officer's map, the portal should be somewhere near Fisherman's Wharf." Amy said. They just made it to far end of the Wharf, where you can see the Golden Gate bridge. Ok so the portal has got to be somewhere in this area. I got it, well split the forces and come back together in the middle of the wharf. She thought.
"Ok, here's what we'll do, Rhino 4, 5 and 6 will split off here and start searching at the far end of the Wharf. 2 and 3 will stay with us." They tank commanders all agreed and split off. As they advanced, they started to see some army soldiers taking cover, she looked at them and they gave a sign not to advance.
"All tanks halt." She said. One of the soldiers then ran over to the tank. He climbed up so that he could speak with Amy.
"Second Lt. Darrien of the first platoon, reporting. We can't move forward because of a dragon, one of the recon teams we found was toasted, literally. Until that dragon is gone, we can't do anything." He said. Then a dragon appeared from around the corner. It roared, breathed out fire, burning the building next to it.
"ALL TANKS OPEN FIRE!" She shouted. She got on the machine gun and unloaded into the dragon. The recoil from the 120mm gun was knocking her back a little, but she retained balance. The shells all impacted the dragon, one hit the head of the dragon, knocking it unconscious. The beast fell and a final shell from Amy's Tank killed the dragon. The three tanks continued their advance, running into light resistance from time to time.
"Jesus, Amy, where is the damn portal? I swear we've driven all over the Wharf and we still haven't found it." She heard the gunner say. Amy decided to poke out the turret to try and recollect her thought's. She poked out the turret to see a flight of F-15's starting to engage an even larger dragon out over the bay. She watched as one Eagle go down in flames, while another tried launched a missile that missed. She turned to see that a large garrison of enemy soldiers was trying to throw anything they could get their hands on at the planes, they then turned their attention to the sitting tanks.
"Umm, Amy, we got multiple enemy contacts!"
"Ron, get us out of here! Try to find a position where we can re-attack" she barked. "Rhino 2, Rhino 3, open fire. Destroy the enemy force. We'll run the down if we have too." The small group of tanks moved forward to try and break through the enemy force, and breakthrough they did. They HE shell from the 120mm alone could take out a vast amount of people if they're close enough. The tank fired, the shell impacted near the front of the group. Parts of humans and shrapnel from the explosion blew a gaping hole in the group, that hole closed up quickly, more soldiers took their spots.
"Shit, at this rate the only solution is to run them down. Drive into them, full speed!" Amy shouted. The tank accelerated forward and ran into the large group of soldiers. The sound of bodies and other things hitting the tank grew louder and louder until it suddenly stopped.
"Are we through?" Asked Connor. He knew the answer, but he didn't want the action to end this way. He only saw the cold stare of is commander as she realized what she had commanded. He opened his mouth to say something, but decided to keep it to himself.
"Rhino 6 actual, this is Rhino 1, the portal isn't in this area. We gotta regroup and head back to base." She said into the radio. She waited for a response, but nothing came back. She tried again, but nothing came back.
"Rhino 6 actual, come in. Rhino 6 actual, come in. Dammit Ryan, you better answer me or I swear on my rank I will kick you balls into your stomach!" She yelled. "According to their last report, they were near AT&T park. Ron, you know where to go." She said. Though this conflict has begun, she feared the worst for her fellow tankers, but she had to take it on the chin. This was war after al people live and people die.