Briefing
"Okay, we've got 5 compounds 500 metres from each other. There's a massive A.O.E as we come up to each compound with very very limited Cover,MRAPs will be our cover with each squads Coyotes in the back with their MGS providing suppressing fire for each squad. Squad Alpha contains Iris, Francis, Graham and Me. Squad Bravo Mute, Jacl, Cvér and Mìtkel. Squad Charlie Trace, Harg, Trevor and Rechell. Squad Delta, Jenson, Lilley, Prog and Carol. Finally Squad Echo Giles, Nip, Çhes and Issac. R.O.E is shoot to kill but double check before you shoot. Any questions?" Azar asks after the briefing, Shakes of heads and silence from the 20 men and women. "Alright people, get loaded up. Alpha we'll be going the farthest, so I hope you're ready for a road trip."
I grab my helmet putting on top of my balaclava and after putting on Ballistic goggles over my eyes.
"Damn Iris, you look like you gonna go to war." Graham turns says looking towards me
"If this is the White Masks, trust me. We are going to war." I tell him slapping my rifles bolt shut
I load into the MRAP and sit in a seat, Azar sits next to me Graham sits opposite of me and Francis takes the .50 Cal on top of the MRAP. The engine kick starts and off we went. I looked out of the back window spotting the checkpoint close behind our Coyote.
After a good, 10 minutes we got to the halfway point I was talking to Azar about I joined the S.A.S before joining Rainbow, Graham, Francis and the 2 drivers were joking away having a bit of banter.
"I generally just followed orders and used my gadget and generally did what was expected of me in the regiment. Before I knew it I was being introduced into Rainbow. What about you?" I asked Azar, it was awkward and tense but I put it all aside if I were to get my friends and my teammates back I'd have to forget everything that's happened on base
"I joined the police to fight Taliban, my father died fighting them, my mother killed by them so it was only right I fight for what was right in my mind ki-" She's interrupted by Francis taking a bullet to his head and dropping down into the cabin, The Coyotes start shooting their .50s
Graham opens the door and jumps out the back and is immediately killed, I look towards the drivers and catch them take rounds and blood going everywhere, I aim at the door waiting for someone to try and enter, I look back towards Azar who's doing the same. Everything is quiet, the sounds of combat fade.
"Are they gone?" Azar Whispers to me
Before I could answer the MRAP takes an RPG to the side of the cabin knocking it over onto its side sending me and Azar onto our heads, I open my eyes, stunned. My ears are ringing and my eyes fuzzy. After a few blinks I was back to normal, I groggily get up from the blow and I see Azar unconscious on the floor. I grab her by the vest and begin to drag her out. I peek out to see the aftermath of the Ambush, our Coyote was burning with bodies of British, American and Iranian soldiers everywhere. I look up to see a cliff edge, bullet holes scattered all over them I guess that was where we got Ambush from. Looking up I see that the sun was beginning to rise, this was bad. I had barely any water and I'm not exactly wearing the best headwear for extreme hot weather.
"Overlord, this is Alpha do you read?" I call into my radio, it's replied with a bunch of radio static "Overlord I can't read you, repeat again." Again a bunch of static is given off, I scoff and I keep dragging Azar away I spot a compound down a fairly steep cliff, the same compound we were moving to attack. Looking down it was lightly covered by a few guards 3 at most.
I take a deep breath and hook my grapple to the cliff, hook Azar to myself and begin rappelling down the cliff side, I reach the bottom unhook myself and take out the guards, I unhook Azar and carry her on my shoulders. Kicking in the door I kill 2 more guys in the dimly lit, large room. On the far left is a radio and the right contained a few bunks and a door...where what sounded like muffling was heard, after laying Azar on a bunk which was fairly comfortable. I kick open the door, it swings violently to the left revealing Monika, Yumiko and Elias all tied up unfortunately all naked and unconscious. I sling my Rifle and quickly jog to the radio, I change the frequency
"Overlord this is Alpha, do you copy?"
A few seconds of silence
"Alpha this is Overlord, confirm your identity."
"Matthew Iris Hemoic, identity number 15858." I call out my number of identity
"Good to hear from you Alpha, you were to report 6 hours ago."
"Our convoy was ambushed hard, everyone is K.I.A with the exception of Azar. I we just 30 seconds from Objective when we were ambushed. I have secured the compound and have secured our objective." mid way through my sentence I look at me lower right abdomen only noticing the pain and shrapnel "I need medical for myself and extraction before enemy reinforcements arrive."
"Alpha stay put and secure the compound, a Blackhawk is on route to your position eta 30 seconds."
"Roger." I say before turning off the radio, I walk over to Elias, Yumiko and Monika, cutting them loose and wrapping them in light blankets from the bunks.
Within 30 seconds a pair of voices is heard, I turn around seeing American uniforms enter the building "Friendly!" I shout to signify I'm friendly, "Clear" is heard simultaneously and I look behind me seeing Trace
"How the do you live through these situations?" Trace and I high five
"I'm just that good." I say cockily.
"Shut up." He lifts up Yumiko and takes her to the chopper
I see Elias starts to wake up, he groans as he sits up. I call Mark as I take his hand and lift him up onto his feet
"vhere… Am I?" He asks clearly dazed
"Not safe, come on." I begin to walk him out as Mark walks up to me
"You called me?" He peeks his head around my shoulder and slips past me to get to Monika
I walk out of the compounds main doors, Trace holds Yumiko tightly, Giles looks around Azar for any wounds as I get into the chopper as it gets ready to take off again. Mark gets in soon after holding Monika close to him, Elias on the other hand looks out the other side at the cliffs before him
"Zhis… isn't Russia or England is it?" he asks me as I sit on the Hull floor, letting my legs hang out of the helicopter as we fly back to base
"Nope, this is Iran my friend. How are you feeling?"
"I am fine Danke, it is just the two girls I am worried about."
"They're fine mate, just don't you worry." I move my hands to the piece of shrapnel in my abdomen "Stingy fucker..This is.. Gah."
Before I know it, we're back at base. I help Elias off and give him to nearby medics, the others do the same but go off with their partners, Giles and Azar stand next to me
"You are a miracle worker Monsieur." Giles comments
"It's nothing, I got lucky however… I feel as if I maybe not be so lucky if I don't get this damn wound treated.. Medic!" I sit on a stretcher as a doctor rushes over to my aid
"Luck or not, you did an amazing job getting me out alive." Azar adds to Giles comments, I scoff looking up as the doctor works his magic
"Thank you I appreciate it." I say half heartedly "If I'm honest I want to get home at this point. I need some cold air rather than being in a frying pan." The doctor finishes patting my shoulder, I give the thumbs up as he walks off
"Unfortunately Monsieur, that is not a possibility."
I felt myself panic a little "Why the hell not? We've done what we came here for."
"The White Masks are planning an attack tonight or tomorrow. We were tasked to stay here and defend this base from the attacks. No choppers will be flying in or out until we know they won't attack." Giles explains
"Even with Injured?" I question
"Even with injured Monsieur. I don't agree with it either but it's our job."
I kick away an empty bottle in frustration "It's not the fact that we have to stay here, it's the fact that we have injured possibly even sick and they're stuck in the attack zone."
"Yeah, we've also had to cut radio signals of all kind because there's someone trying to give info out to the WMs. Sorry Monsieur."
I breathe a deep sigh of frustration "Okay, I'm off to nap. Don't be afraid to awake me for anything." I get up and walk off to nap, I didn't want to look at anything… I was too fucking tired.
Later that night
I open my eyes, I heard something vibrate in my bed, something like a phone. I looked at my wrist pad, nothing. There was no phones, so I guessed it was the bed or something. I threw the blanket off me as I swung my legs to the right side and from what I could tell, it was night time. Fortunately but also unhygienically I slept in my combat gear with the exception of my Tavor, I grabbed my Tavor and walked out into the cool night of Iran once again. I saw Mark and Giles taking post on the West Side of the base craig on the North, trace on the East meaning I'm stuck with the south which was covering a large open area leading from a city with a lamb slaughter there too. I walked up the stairs of the guard tower and at the top there was a .50 Cal DSHKA, big, mean and has the potential to dish a ton of damage. After replacing my Ballistics goggles with
N.V.Gs I looked out, all seemed quiet, peaceful not a threat in sight.
The base was getting surrounded by a mist, I was getting nervous. Night time, soft walls covering the base with only a few special ops soldiers being their main defence with a few lack luster soldiers as our help. Not to mention their Iranian meaning they can all of a sudden change their mind and decide to have a little gunfight with us.
As I check my watch, 4 am. Just 2 more hours until dawn and hopefully go home. I spot movement, a guy thinks he's sneaky when in reality I can see him really easily "I'm seeing one guy move up through the slaughterhouse, what's our R.O.E?" I ask through radio
"You are not to shoot until you see a weapon pointed or is in a 100 metre radius of you." Azar responds
I mount the DSHKA and aim, I watch as more people can be seen crouching their way towards me. I watch… And then one makes the mistake of aiming his gun at me, I pull the trigger and let all hell loose, the bullets shred through the insurgents an RPG zooms past completely off target, I keep laying down rounds as I hear the others start firing their weapons. I keep laying rounds until my DSHKA runs dry. I unsling my Rifle aiming it's sights to see the insurgents retreat, they all run back. One unlucky fella tripped on a rebar wire that's exposed impaling his head. Gruesome but it wasn't that I cared about,
"Guys, what are they doing?" Azar asks through radio
I watch as I lose sight. A few quiet minutes pass by and whistling is heard from the sky, I realise what's going on and dive out of the guard tower as its hit by a mortar round it explodes and topples over narrowly avoiding me. I roll and get onto my feet and start running for the main building. Mark holding open the doors, I push him into the building as a mortar goes off not far behind me, blasting me into the building, giving me a few chunks shrapnel as a death's kiss goodbye. Marks slams the door shut the building Shakes from tanking a mortar hit. I groan on the floor as I'm dragged by someone, I can't hear anything other than my breathing, ringing and heart beats. It starts fade, panicking of men and women is heard but the mortars are quiet. My hearing clears, I feel the chunks of shrapnel being pulled out of me causing me to hiss in pain
"Everyone there is no need to panic, the mortars have been dealt with my U.S air. We're safe." Craig shouts over the panic and Sighs of relief are heard
I sigh in relief with the rest, the doctor finishes patching me. I lay down on the stretcher
"Matthew get up, you're going home." Craig walks over, he grabs me hand and lifts me onto my feet
"What about you guys?" I ask
"You're injured, you can't fight with those wounds. The doctor said so."
"When is my ride home?"
Choppers rotors are heard and doctors with stretchers holding Monika and Yumiko run out, Elias behind them. I limp over to Elias leaning on him
"Matthew, aren't you staying?" He questions confused by my sudden appearance
"Apparently I'm going home." I reply not really sure myself
"Alright." He helps me onto the Blackhawk, it takes off with everyone accounted for
"Wake me up when I get home will ya?" I ask him falling into a nap
"Sure, have a good nap." he says brightly
A few shakes interrupt my dream, I blink rapidly as a bright, almost heavenly light forces through my eyelashes. I cover my eyes as I start to register where I am, the medical wing of home base. Sitting up I see Gustave writing on a clipboard next to me
"Morning Matthew, 3 days of sleep is new thing for you now?" He asks with a grin on his face
"3 days? What the fuck happened to me to be knocked for 3 days." My eyes shoot open in shock
"It was a joke don't worry Monsieur, you were put into a medically induced coma so I could pull out some fragments of shrapnel out of your legs and shoulder."
I try to look but Gustave interrupts "Don't do that! You'll pull the stitches!"
"Woah Woah…Sorry, I was curious what they look like and they're fucking itchy."
"Never had stitches? You're in for a rough time. As an old saying I say Les points sont pour les chiennes
d'imbécile."
"I'm English not alien."
"Stitches are for the dumbass bitches and French isn't alien thank you very much."
"Aw thank you, I appreciate the comment." I sarcastically say putting on my shirt since I realised it wasn't on me
"You can go but take painkillers which I've given to Emmeline, a very worried and mentally shattered Emmeline at that." he tells me
"And you waited to tell me this now because?"
"How else was I meant to tell you? Take those painkillers every until the end of the week. Then report back to me."
"What about missions?"
"No missions until the end of the week, sorry Matthew."
I nod, getting onto my foot. Gustave gives me a crutch, I thank him and limp off. I struggle getting upstairs, it takes me 5 minutes just to get up the stairs and took a damn good amount of effort making me huff as I get to the top, opening the door to my room I spot Emma striding in the room looking extremely worried
"Hey, what are you worrying about?" I smirk as I speak
She turns to me and gives me a bear hug, I use my one free arm to hug her back, she starts sobbing into my shoulder. I sit on the bed and continue to let her cry into my shoulder,
"I-I thought I…Lost you." Emma tells me through her sobs and sniffs as she cries
"You haven't lost me Emma, I'm right here. Please stop crying." I rub her back, trying to calm her down.
She begins to calm down, her breathing returning to normal pace and the sniffing begins to fade.
"There nice, calm and happy." I say softly
"S-sorry, I was was really worried when Mark told me you had gone silent on the field. You know I'm the type to worry about my friends when they go quiet for 6 hours while assaulting a enemy com-" She stops when I put my finger over her lips.
"Hush Emma, save your voice." I tell her
She looks from my finger to my eyes, moving my mouth off of her mouth, I put it back on childishly, giggling. She begins giggling with me pulling me onto the bed.
"Since you're off missions for a while, what's your plans for the time being?" She asks laying next to me and looking into my eyes
"Hang with you, eat, sleep, go to the shitter and stuff I can't be arsed noting."
"Hang with me is something I really like but it's inevitable considering I'm your...Nurse? I guess?"
"I wouldn't have anyone else looking after me, you're the perfect nurse in my eyes."
"I think you need your eyes tested Matthew hon."
"I'll have you know my eyes passed a sight test 100/100."
She Giggles before putting a orange pill into my mouth, making me swallow and then giving me water. It all happened within a blink of an eye, I was left stunned for a second before realising what happened
"My point is proven." I say with a smirk
"You like it quick and easy huh?" She smirks back at me, putting her hands under my shirt feeling my chest
"We doing this now? When I feel… woozy?" I say the world spinning around me
"Maybe after you take yet another sleep, rest well." She kisses me as I blackout