Anon: So, after beating Elsword for trying to take Nuke, I finished this next chapter!
Ara: *Sighs and sits off to the side*
Anon: Oh come on Ara, you're in my story now.
Ara: What? REALLY!? :D:D:D:D
Anon: Why yes, yes you are.
Ara: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! *Glomps Anon*
Proto and Saki: *Death glares*
Anon: *Sweat drops* Well at least you're happy.
So now, lets add Ara's class to the mix with her as a Sakra Devanam.
Meet The Ghosts
Blaze's POV:
The helicopter ride was a quiet one with little chatter and I decided to take a short nap on the ride to have my sister poke me awake. The rotors on the V-TAL were flipped up wards as we made our descent down onto an airfield. Through the small port hole in the V-TAL, I could see outside a tall red haired person standing on the edge of the pad waiting for us. the Osprey touched down gently and Eve pulled a few levers and flipped a few switches killing its systems before getting up from her seat and walked out towards the exit.
"Well, here's our stop." She said as she walked past us. Chung got up and followed her my sister and I picked up our bags before walking outside to see Eve and Chung talking to the red haired person. He scooted past them and came up to us.
"So, you're the new recruits?" He asked.
"Yes, we are, sir."
"Good. Now let me introduce myself to the two of you. I'm Elsword, leader of Delta squad, call sign Ghost Lead. You've all ready met our pilot and robotics expert and heavy machine gunner Eve and Chung also known as Delta-4 and 5. Follow me to meet the rest of Delta Squad." He turned around and started to walk towards one of the buildings when a tall man, with black hair with some red on the sides, came up to him.
"Ah, Elsword, good news. Our new equipment just arrived and who are those two behind you?" He pointed his thumb at us and Elsword turned around to talk to us.
"Oh them? There the new recruits, Delta-8 and 9, our new sniper and communications expert."
"I'm Blaze."
"Ember."
"Nice to meet you Blaze, Ember. I'm Raven, Delta-6 and the explosives expert for Delta Squad."
"Explosives expert? Sounds fun."
"More than you know it. I like you two, I think you two will just fit in just right." Raven then turned around walking onto one of the large hangers that were near the bunker that we were heading too. Elsword opened the door and we all walked in to see a long hall way with multiple doors on either side and he walked us down to the last few ones.
"So, this will be your rooms. Blaze, you'll be bunking in with Chung and Ember you're with Eve. Now you two can just throw yourself bags in and follow me to meet the others."
I opened my own door to find the room plain, clean, and simple with a couch on one side and a desk on the other. I chucked my bag onto the top bunk before turning around and closed the door behind me.
"Hey Chung, tell me, do you snore?"
"I don't. Why do you ask?"
"'Cause the first few days of basic training, there was a person that snored there and we all got little sleep."
He chuckled as we went over to the hanger and when we entered, I could see a purple, green, haired girl in soldier uniforms and a black haired girl in a flight suit all around some boxes with Raven. Off to the side, an Apache, the Osprey that we arrived in, along with a Blackhawk stored inside. When we got closer, the purple haired girl noticed us and waved and we waved back.
"So, these are the new recruits you told me about?" The purple head asked.
"Why yes, yes they are."
"I'm Blaze and this is my sister Ember." We both stuck our hands out for a shake and she took it with a smile.
"I'm Aisha, second in command for Delta Squad as Delta-2 and I'm the door breacher of the group." We walked over to the pile of crates and the two other girls stuck there hands out in greeting as well.
"I'm Ara," the black haired girl said, "copilot with Eve for Delta Squad as Delta-7 but I also can run support in the Apache."
"And I'm Rena as Delta-3 and the medic for Delta squad." We shook both of their hands before we all turned towards the wooden boxes.
"I've kept the boxes sealed like you said until the others arrived."
"So can we open them now?" Raven whined.
"Jeez, you sound like a little kid at Christmas. Sure, you can go to and open them now." Everyone started to grin widely as we started to sort the boxes out for our own classes. I pulled one out designated for the Recon and when I opened it, I swear I had a litter of kittens (XD Majorslack reference).
"Sweet, I get my M-RAD!" I picked it up from the packaging and held it in my hands getting the familiar weight and feel for the rifle again before placing it down on the table we set up behind us. Slowly but surely, we've managed to empty all the boxes and arranged all the weapons on display on the table.
(Warning, gun overload incoming. Gun overload incoming XD)
"Wow, the most sophisticated arsenal I've ever seen yet." We all stepped back and looked at the spread of weaponry and we couldn't help but smile.
"It's like Christmas morning."
Looking through the table, I could see which new weaponry everyone has gotten. Raven got an M468 assault rifle along with a new FGM-172 rocket launcher. Chung got a new M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW for short and even with it being a pretty large gun, it fits Chung's hands perfectly. Aisha got a new KSG shotgun along with a new kit for door breaching that is small, yet packs a punch. Rena got a new Mp-7 SMG with a new medical kit and Eve also get a P90 SMG and this new backpack sized UAV called the MAV. I got my favorite sniper rifle, the M-RAD and my sister got her M110 and we both also got these new M39EMR's. We all also received a Kimber ICQB 1911 pistol and all the necessary parts to place a suppresser along with some others to add to the weapons as well.
I look through the pile of opened boxes making sure that we got them all when I came across one that wasn't opened and it wasn't designated to any specific role.
"Hey guys, does this belong to any of you?" I held the box up and Elsword only smirked.
"It doesn't belong to any of us, it belong to Ember and yourself." I looked down at it puzzled and looked back up at him as my sister came to my side. "Go on, open it."
I took out my knife and cut the tape off and flipped the flaps outward to find these two monocles inside along with these two patches that looked like the color of our skin.
"Those are one of the Ghosts best weapon we have, the Cross-com. It will link your data to your whole team and be able to communicate with the others through those sub-vocal transmitters. Those patches just got right onto your neck and they will act like a regular radio. You no longer have a name on the battlefield for you are a Ghost amidst the combat. You shall work with all of us to complete the objective and we will complete the objectives as quickly and efficiently as possible. You've got your gear and equipment, you've got the training to fight with the best of us, Ember and Blaze, welcome to the Ghosts."
-A few months later-
I was with Eve inside of the Osprey after a mission as she went through a systems check making sure everything is ready for a mission. I sat in the copilots seat and looked on as she went through the analog and digital mechanisms that helped the pilot fly the plane.
"Hey, Eve."
"Yeah Blaze?"
"I'm wondering, how do you fly this V-TAL?" She smiled as she set her laptop aside and looked at me amused.
"It's very simple really. It might look hard with all of these gauges, buttons, and lever but it's all real simple to use." She straightened up and looked forward as if she was going to fly this before she started to point to multiple different gadgets and levers telling my what they were. "These central levers down here control the engines power level, this lever up here adjusts the tilt of the twin rotors from vertical to horizontal and anything in between. The screen in front of you shows what would be the tilt of the nose and this button here turns it to the mounted gun beneath. These levers up above controls the fuel and oil inside of the engines and these ones over here control the landing gear." She pointed at them all and I absorbed the information quickly and placed it down into my memory when Rena popped her head into the cabin.
"If you two are done chatting, we've got an urgent mission to complete. Don't worry about the Osprey for we are going to be parachuting in. Everyone is gathering in the briefing room and are just waiting on us three so lets hurry." We both nodded and Eve closed her laptop and shut down the rest of the systems as we exited it and walked over to the briefing room to hear what our mission is going to be.
The cabin was loud with the drone of the C130's engines and I stood with a face mask over my mouth when Elsword placed his finger on his Cross-com to activate it. We all did the same and the monocle came alive with a complete HUD and a picture of my squad mates in the upper right hand corner.
"All right, we're nearing the drop point. Opening the cargo bay door now." Elswords voice came over the radio as he walked over to the end of the plane pushing a button to have the ramp fall down causing air to whip in creating a deafening noise. The light on the side of the ramp was red and Elsword stood at the mouth of the cargo hatch and I pulled out my pistol checking to see the suppressor tightly attacked to the end of the barrel along with the one at the end of my M39.
"Once the light turns green, you're clear to jump. Land on the designated target as quietly as you can, you don't want to alert the enemy or our mission will be a failure. Switch over to your night vision so you can see the target and see you guys down on the ground" We all nodded and I racked the bolt on my rifle looking over at the light to see it shut off before turning green and time slowed as we started to move forward.
"Go, go, go!" Elswords voice rang out as he motioned his hand forward. What seemed to move in slow motion, first Chung, then Rena, followed up with Eve and Raven jumped over the edge of the rear ramp and disappeared into the dark sky before I jumped as well. Time resumed its normal pace as I began to free fall with my arms spread out wide and I could make out the others clearly through my night vision and everyone else must be close right behind my. The target building was insight and we all were right above it and as we reached the right altitude, one by one, we pulled our chutes. We floated down easily and we all touched down softly packing our parachutes away and we all got on the radio checking in.
"This is Delta-8, I'm here with Delta-4. We've set up our repelling rig on the side of the building and we have visual on the target. Delta's-8 and 5 are on the other side waiting for the command Ghost Lead."
"Roger that. Delta's-2, 3, and 6 and we made our way down to the doors entrance."
Eve, Chung, Ember, and I pulled on our harnesses and repealed down the side of the large structure so we were just above the windows to see our targets inside. Three men lay squatted in a line bounded with armed guards surrounding them and the leader lecturing them.
"Mark your targets Delta Squad." Imaginary lines coming from the others in the squad started to appear as they locked their own target and I locked my own.
"This is Delta-2 door charge is set and waiting for command to blow."
I look down into the area to see that the commander had stopped and was walking behind them with a pistol.
"Shit, there about to execute the rebellion commanders!" I hissed into the mic. "We should make a move or they all will die."
"Roger that. All right Delta Squad, engage them." I gripped my rifle with my one hand while also grabbing onto my rope as I looked over at Eve. She nodded and readied her SMG before we kicked off swinging into the window and shooting it to break it. We synchronized our attacks having both windows smash in as the door was blasted open and I took my first shot at my target driving a bullet through his head and the enemy soldiers inside were panicking. Chung unloaded a long burst into a group of enemy targets diverting their attention to us as Eve, Raven, and Rena rushed in grabbing the three commanders and hauling them out of the line of fire. Eve, Chung, Ember, and I had repealed farther down reaching the ground and unhooked as we fanned out to take out the enemy. I was hugging a wall and came around the corner when an enemy kicked my rifle out of my hands and came around with a knife in hand swinging at my chest. I stepped to the left and swung my hand to the side deflecting the swing before ramming my fist into his shoulder. He swung back around with the knife and I blocked it again knocking it out of his hand and drew my own knife. I stabbed at him and we locked hands having a battle between strength. Before long, I slowly advanced driving the tip of the knife slowly into his neck before he went limp and pulled it out whipping the blood off as I re-sheathed it and picked up my rifle to join back into the battle.
Before long, the gun fire stopped and all the targets were dead on the ground. We started to exit the building checking our six as we made it out to find the three commanders a little bruised but otherwise unharmed with Rena treating their wounds when one of them stood up.
"Who ever you soldiers are, I thank you for your assistance."
"Anytime Penensio. Now you three should get back to the resistance HQ, everyone there must be worried sick to your presence. There's a truck in that back that you can use."
"Thank you, all of you. But before we go, what are your names?"
"We're Ghosts, we don't have names."
"Ha, well until next time, 'Ghosts'." He turned around to leave with the others when he turned around again.
"Say, how are you going to get back?" Ember then perked up as she listened in before nodding.
"We've got that covered." An Osprey flew over our heads and circled around as a spot light lit up aimed at us. "Speaking of which, there it is."
"This is Charlie-11, I've got eyes on you Delta Squad and am coming in for a landing." I looked back down to see the armored truck, that the three rebels took, speed away and our own ride touched down with its rear hatch opened. We all entered and strapped in when the copilot popped his head out.
"How did the mission go?"
"It was a complete success though I thought Delta-7, Ara, was going to be picking us up."
"She must have ate something earlier that didn't sit well with her since we got a call to pick you guys up. Now plotting a course back to Fort Sapphire. Let's get you guys home." The V-TAL took off and before long we were on our way leaving enemy territory. I tossed my head back with a sigh and a yawned and shut my eyes for the flight. About five minutes into it, I reopened them and looked around to see that everyone had the same idea as me to get some shut eye but something didn't sit well with me.
"Hey, copilot."
"The names Eden."
"Right, Eden, since we're over enemy territory, wouldn't we have to worry about enemy AA fire?"
"You don't need to worry about that sir, we've plot a course through an AA gun free zone so there's nothing to worry abo-" He was cut off when a red light started to blink with a beep and both the pilot and copilot were chatting back and forth frantically. "No, this isn't right, there isn't supposed to be any AA guns stationed here." Everyone was woken by the beeping when the red light turned a solid color and a constant tone was drawn out.
"We've been painted! Radar's tracking us. This isn't right there shouldn't be anything here!" The constant tone of the first beep was then accompanied with a rapid been of another one and I knew that couldn't be good. "Shit, missile lock! Taking evasive action! Everyone hold on tight for this is going to be a bumpy ride!"
My stomach lurched as we rolled over into a small dive and rolled back over. "Launching flares!" He pulled a lever and a small popping sound came and the rapid beeping stopped but left the solid tone.
"Missile evaded but we're still locked. Where is it coming fro- AGH!" the thunk of bullets hitting metal rung through the cabin and the plane rolled off to the side before recovering and screams of pain came from the cockpit. "I'm hit and the pilots dead!" The copilot yelled and all of us went wide eyed. I looked over at Rena and Eve and they both nodded and unbuckled out harnesses. We ran into the cockpit and the pilot laid slumped over to the side lifeless with a large hole in his chest and blood splattered the windshield. The copilot was holding the stick with one hand with the other clutching a bullet wound in his leg. We unbuckled both of them and Rena helped out the copilot out of his seat and strapped him down in one of our seats and clamped down her harness to the V-TAL's floor and went in to treat his wound. I sat down and buckled into the copilots seat whipping away the blood away from my monitor and then the windscreen as Eve did the same.
"You remember what I told you earlier today?" I nodded and she clutched the the stick and looked ahead. "Good because you'll be helping me pilot this bird home." She pulled on the earphones that were taken off of the pilots and placed it on her head and I did the same.
"This is Delta-4 to command, command do you read?"
"This is Mic-1 Juliet to Delta-4, I read you loud and clear. What's the situation?" A feminine voice came over the radio and we both looked at each other as the V-TAL shook form an explosion.
"The pilot has been KIA'd and the copilot is in critical condition. We're under enemy AA fire and I'm the only experienced flier in the group with a squad mate in the copilots seat. I would like to request some escorts to help lead us back over to friendly lines over."
"Roger that, we are aware of your situation and am sending a new flight course for you to take and friendly F-35's are taking off to assist."
"Roger that, Delta-4 out. Blaze, switch over to the gunner mode and change over to inferred. Take out any target you see." I punched the switch and the gun cam came online and I flipped over to the inferred mode and the targets lit up like it was day time. I rotated the stick around as we banked following the new flight path and a AA tank fell into the targeting screen. I pulled the trigger and the roar of the M134 minigun erupted underneath and I could see the bullets hit the target destroying it. I looked around further when I saw a SAM sight getting read to launch and I light that target up causing an explosion destroying the installation when I saw a large heat signature take off from the ground and started to fly towards us.
"What the heck is that!?"
"Shit! It's an enemy helicopter!" She pulled up to get some altitude on him and I placed my sights on him. "Light him up Blaze!" I pulled the trigger and the V-TAL shook and I watch as the bullet impacted the ship but it kept on climbing up to meet us when the missile warning light stared to blink.
"They're trying to lock us." She pulled the plane into a hard left and the other helicopter followed before the light was a solid red and a solid tone sounded. "We've been painted! Blaze, keep on firing!"
I yanked the stick turning the gun around and pulled the trigger to get a click in return. I puled it again to have another click.
"Fuck, it's jammed!" There was a beeping and Eve pulled up hard before pulling a lever.
"Deploying flairs!" Behind us a small explosion sounded as the missile struck the flairs but we still were locked.
"Damn it, we can't shoot back and we're out of flairs. Where are those escort fighters!?"
A missile then flashed by as and the helicopter behind us went down in a ball of flames when a flight of F-35's flew over us.
"This is Yellow Jacket to Delta-4, we've got a visual on you and no other air threats are detected. Let's bring you guys home." I slumped back in my seat with a sigh and looked over at Eve to see she was smiling at me.
"You weren't half bad out there you know."
"Thanks, but I'd rather stick to being the passenger if you don't mind."
"I'd want you to fly as my copilot if I could. You did well Blaze, you got us through that mess and you kept a cool head through it all even with all of that pressure."
"Anything to get our squad back alive." The rest of the ride back home was a quite one and I left the landing procedure to her and we hauled off both of the casualties off the Osprey and the rest of us got off as it was hauled into the hanger for repairs. We went into the hanger to drop off all of our gear when Ember and I saw a familiar person standing there waiting.
"Staff Sergeant Stella? What are you doing here?" Everyone saluted her and Elsword looked at the two of us a bit confused.
"Staff Sergeant? Blaze, she's a Colonel in Ghost command." Both Embers and my own jaw went slack on that as we looked at her and she grinned slightly.
"I'm one of the few officers for the Ghosts that go out into the other units of the military to scout out potential candidates to join the Ghosts. The are stationed all around from the Marines, to the Seal's, Army, and others units."
"Though why are you here?" Aisha asked.
"Because I'm giving your squad a mission that will help win this war. You know about the resistance that fights for their freedom from the invaders right?"
"Right." We all said in unison."
"Well, I'm sending the eight of you to assist the resistance. You'll be disguised as the rebels. With the training you have, you will be a deadly asset to have behind enemy lines. Don't worry, most of your equipment will be shipped out underground to the rebel command post and you'll be inserted a few miles away from their command post and from there, you'll be escorted by truck to their base. You'll be wearing civilian clothing but you can keep the body armor underneath it all along with your sidearms as long as it's concealed." We all nodded and we turned around to see a table set up with multiple weapon cases opened up. "Keep your Cross-com's hidden until you're on a mission with them, accomplish all of your mission, and please don't die, make your country proud." She saluted us and we saluted back when she left.
"So, lets get packing." With a simple statement from Raven, we went in placing our weapons into the black cases, securing them before hitting the showers and falling asleep. The next day, Ara wished us luck as we loaded into the Blackhawk with in our civilian clothing and took off. I pulled out my pistol making sure that the silencer was screwed on tight before concealing it again underneath my clothes. We were dropped off at the LZ and just like Stella had said, the truck was there waiting for us. We all piled in and off we went into the run down town that housed their command center deep in enemy territory.
Anon: And scene.
Ara: YAY I'M IN THE STORY!
Anon: Though sorry for such a long time of non-uploading =w= writers block, I hate it =m=
And if some things are a bit confusing, here are the character info:
Elsword: Call sign "Ghost Lead", is Delta-1, the Leader of Delta Squad with an M468 Assault Rifle
Aisha: Second in command as Delta-2 and is the Door Breacher of the group armed with a KSG Shotgun
Rena: The medic of the squad as Delta-3 and is armed with a MP7 Sub Machine Gun.
Eve: The main pilot for Delta Squad as Delta-4 but might not do so much flying during the story armed with a P90 Sub Machine Gun and is also the robotics expert in the group.
Chung: Known as Delta-5 and is the support/gunner of Delta squad armed with a M249 Squad Automatic Weapon or SAW for short.
Raven: Known as Delta-6 and the explosives expert of Delta Squad and is armed with a reload able FGM-172 Rocket Launcher and a M468 Assault Rifle.
Ara: Delta-7 of Delta Squad and is the copilot with Eve but she is the one that is going to be seen flying around in the planes more than Eve.
Blaze: The new recruit for Delta Squad as Delta-8 and is the sniper expert of the group with the help of his sister, Ember, as his spotter and sniper. He has a choice between the M-RAD and the M38 Enhanced Marksman Rifle or EMR for short.
Ember: Also a new recruit for Delta Squad, is the older sister of Blaze, and is known as Delta-9. She is the communication expert of the group along with a secondary sniper and spotter for Blaze. She is armed with a choice of either a M110 Semiautomatic Sniper Rifle or an M39EMR.
Everyone in Delta Squad has a Kimber ICQB 1911 pistol as a side-arm and it can have a suppressor attached to it.
Raven: So, what now?
Anon: You'll see.
Raven: Meh... *goes to read a magazine*
Anon: How many times have you read through that?
Raven: *Shrugs*
Eve: I know what's coming up, and I get a new toy :3 a cool little new toy~ THANK YOU ANON! *Hugs him*
Proto: *Death glare*
Anon: Hehe... well until next time!
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