Well a lot of people like this story apparently or at least like where it's going, well there are going a few more chapters involving the what will now be called the 'Kepler conflict' I've also been playing RF: Guerrilla recently again to help with this story and I've got to say I like the assault rifle in that game better than the one in Armageddon. Mainly because of how it looks
Question when I say ancient evil returns to destroy life just because, and that the hero is a human spec-ops officer who has to use a power from an extinct ancient civilization to defeat the evil…what comes to mind-
-someone watch fifth element and compare the story to mass effect!
Well anyways here we go
P.S. to Heir of empires about your joke; well the RF Handbook keeps these guys from getting 'holy' if get what I mean
It'd make more sense if you trained carmine in Gears of War 2,
RF Handbook
Kepler City: The first and currently only city on Kepler and as such is named after the planet after the planet itself…at least that's the official story. In reality the guy in charge of naming the city went with the 'aw screw it' plan and now were with current events.
(AN: I was the guy in charge of naming the city…)
RF command bunker, 2 weeks into conflict
Col. Jackson was looking over the holographic display of the current setup the invaders had several camps surrounding the city and their forces are making the gradual push into city though the RF has been putting out heavy resistance and have not made it easy. "Can someone give me the strength of the enemy's forces?"
"We have an estimate of a hundred-thousand ground units including what we believe to be a few tank divisions" said one of the tactical officers around a holographic display table, the RF military presence on the planet numbered around 5,000 troops with a worker force of 8,000
"You believe?" asked Jackson
"Well…yes, Sgt. Hunt-the commando- reported seeing large vehicles with what looked like a cannon mounted on top during a scouting mission, he believes it was a tank"
"Did he say where it was going?" asked Jackson
"He said that group looked like it was heading towards the enemies' southern base the one in the flat-lands, not only that but recon units and entrenched soldiers have seen large amount of tanks moving that direction to"
Jackson thought about what this could mean, one thought came to mind "Blitzkreig"
"Sir?"
"A blitzkrieg, they're going to try to rush us from the south with their tanks to root out our forces and have their infantry overwhelm the city"
"What's your plan Colonel?"
"There's no way in hell I'm sitting around and wait for them to come to us" he replied "get Sgt. Hunt I have a demolition job for him"
RF underground passage ways,
Grayson was sleeping by the edge of the tunnel among a platoon of the soldiers defending eastern part of the city and the pounding of artillery and sound of gunfire could be heard nevertheless he continued to sleep.
"Man look at him" said a soldier on the other side of the tunnel
"Who?" said Another
"The commando." Replied the first "with all the fighting going outside he's just sleeping there"
"Well I heard that commandos get shot at by artillery for a few days during training"
"Seriously!? And these guys volunteer for that!"
"Apparently." As the conversation continues no one noticed the major walking down the hall towards them.
"Sgt. Hunt!" he shouted making the commando jump up guns at the ready before noticing there was no enemies "stand down Hunt, the colonel as a mission for you." the major handed him a disk which he inserted it to his wrist device to look over the contents "and you are allowed two soldiers to accompany you." Grayson looked around before seeing the two soldiers talking about him while he was sleeping
"You two what are your names and roles" the soldiers quickly stood at attention
"Pvt. Ramirez, rifleman sir!" said the one who started the conversation
"Pfc. Mackenzie, grenadier sir!" said the other
"Alright good enough" said Grayson "you guys are going to help me go tank hunting!"
"Yes, sir!" they replied and they moved down to the tunnels leading out to the badlands or rather the unexplored areas because the entire planet is one big badland.
"Gray, three men seems inadequate for assaulting an enemy base" said S.A.M.
"it'll be fine"
RF Eos HQ, Mars.
"General, a report was sent from the Kepler colony a few weeks ago and it just reached our comm. station" due to the Kepler colony being new they have yet to set up radio buoys so radio transmissions can take weeks at a time
"What it is it"
"Well they claim they're under attack"
"What!" yelled the general "does the Alliance want the planet back or something!"
"Actually, they said they were being attacked by aliens… I'm not sure if there just pulling a prank or some radio glitch but they sounded panic and either way they're being attacked!"
"Didn't we send the Parker there last week?" asked the general
"Yes recent reports they were few days from the mass relay" the people of mars have yet to make an FTL system to mount on ships though a marauder and RF science team is working on it and progress is coming along adequately.
"The what?"
"The construct that transported the colonization group to Kepler"
"Ah"
"By now they should have entered the mass relay and my estimates say they should reach Kepler in two days"
"Let's hope they can hold out that long" solemn silence came over the room "and someone get me the alliance military online they have some explaining to do!" roared the general
Kepler few hours after mission deployment
The three RF fighters were watching an alien tank go by "so when are we going to kill this thing?" asked Mackenzie lifting his charge launcher for emphasis
"As soon as it leads us back to its base then we can take all of them out with these demo-charges" Explained Gray holding up a large bag "it's like hunting cultist back on mars you find a patrol and then follow it to their base"
"And then what" asked Ramirez
"Well, then we just raze the place" he finished the two infantry men shrugged as they continued to follow the tank with the commando, as they moved deeper they found more and more infantry emplacements as the snuck around them "well someone is setting up shop here" muttered Gray it wasn't long before they came up to a valley entrance that seemed well defended they remained hidden and watched the tank go in
"Alright there's no way we're sneaking pass that without getting detected" said Gray and turned to the two soldiers "so enough with this covert-ops bull! We're going in guns blazing!" the two soldiers looked at him like he was crazy.
"Gray, that seems overly reckless" said S.A.M.
"Okay fine, I'll cause distraction you two sneak in and blow up the tanks parked there"
"That still seems reckless" said Sam
"TOO LATE" he yelled and with that Gray handed them a bag of charges and unhooked a plasma launcher from his back and fired a shot at the fortification causing massive damage "alright you alien scumbags, you picked the wrong faction to mess with!" he then switched to his assault rifle and used jump pack to take the enemy by surprise and sound of gunfire could be heard.
Gray
Gray kept up the fire, he noted that the enemies had shields of their own but the high caliber of his assault rifle made short work of the shields and their armor didn't offer much protection, their weapons on the other hand didn't offer much damage per shot but they shot bullets so friggin fast makes them fearsome weapons, one of them charged Gray who then switched to his shotgun and unloaded a shell at point blank range blowing away the shields and sending the newly made corpse into a squad which tripped over their dead comrade. Gray followed up by shooting a plasma round at the group killing (and mutilating) the entire group. He then used his jump-pack to get to the closest alien grab him and switch him around just in time to block a hail of bullets. As the fighting continued more and more aliens showed up.
Demo team
Mackenzie and Ramirez hurried over where they thought the tanks were Ramirez taking the time to look back "holy crap" he said "Hunt is tearing those guys apart" he said watching the commando who apparently dual wielding the enemies assault rifles causing havoc on the aliens
"Good for him" replied Mackenzie as they rounded a corner and noticed a sight there that made him pause "holy crap there's enough tanks here to start a third revolution" and then looked at the bag "I don't think we brought enough explosives…" this was his belief until he opened the bag and that shocked him even more "what the Fu-"
Gray
Grayson through the assault rifles down and his behind a boulder he's been using as cover 'okay unlimited ammo, low recoil, but bad spread and over heats before a tough enemy dies…all in all it's a high tech piece of crap' of course he was comparing it to the RF assault rifle which had a higher caliber more damage per shot, almost no spread, and the damn thing can decapitate a human sized target just like he dead to three aliens that tried to shoot he killed two and decapitated one. As more and more enemies appeared the higher the body count rose eventually they began to panic.
"Everyone one fall back get to the tanks" yelled one of the enemies
"What the hell you guys speak English!?" said Gray surprised but as soon as a few aliens ran for where the tanks were there was loud explosion and two humans ran out guns blazing running killing the aliens running for the now destroyed tanks.
"Hey, guys" greeted gray while firing his weapon "I take it you succeeded"
"Yes" Replied Mackenzie "and where the hell did you get a M.O.A.B.!?"
"Commando, remember?" said Gray referring to himself "those are standard issue demolition ordinances for us."
"the more I learn about commandos the more they scare me…" muttered Mackenzie
"ah you'll get use to it….maybe" replied Gray "anyways we should get out of here before reinforcements arrive" and with that they took off running being pursued by the aliens who got their fight back seeing their enemies retreat.
Turian command ship in orbit around Kepler
"What the hell was that…" said Sarrus, he just witnessed a human dressed in black massacre his troops at the staging area and report say that their armored divisions was destroyed because two humans snuck through all the chaos and planted highly explosive devices that either completely destroyed the tanks or damaged them beyond repair. "Spirits, they ruined the plan for tomorrow" during the course of the conflict the humans were obviously based out of the sole city of the planet but have been pulling numerous hit and run tactics on convoys and supply depots Sarrus thinks they are far outnumbered by the forces but these humans are putting up an admittedly good fight. But even more surprising these humans seem to have 'directed energy weapons' which is why he has been unable to move tank groups into the city because the defenders weapons blow straight through the shield and effectively destroy the vehicle. He figured he could overwhelm them with rushing them with the full force of their tanks and finally break into the city but so far this has been unsuccessful
Back on the ground
"Well this sucks!" yelled gray while firing his assault rifle, when they got a ways from the enemies' southern base they were quickly cut off by hostile reinforcements so they went down a narrow path that eventually led to a dead end, the good news is that they have a cluster of boulders to hide behind and the enemy was bottlenecked bad news is that there's ten crap-loads of enemies out there, they are trapped and running low on ammo.
"Last mag!" yelled Ramirez reloading
"I'm out!" yelled Mackenzie who has switched from his charge launcher to his side arm Ramirez has given them all his pistol clips so he was done.
"God damn it, I knew is should have bought the ammo mod for the nano-forge!" yelled gray the ammo mod allows the nano-forge to create ammo in essence means someone with the nano-forge will never run out of ammo
"Why didn't you!" yelled Mackenzie, the Ammo mod was well known among the RF and made many of the soldier jealous of the commandos for having nano forges
"Because the damn thing cost 10,000 credits! And I have to pay for it out my own wallet!" yelled back Gray who then through him a shotgun and they fought on a little longer eventually Gray resorted to holding them off with the plasma launcher. "Well we are screwed" he said turning and sitting back down after they have totally ran out of ammo, he said this but he said this with smile on his face. The enemy fire also seemed to stop.
"Attention humans." Came a voice from the alien army "you outnumbered and trapped your only option is to surrender!"
"They speak English?" asked Ramirez, shocked
Yeah apparently" sais Gray "Well time to do what a commando does in this situation, and go down swinging" and with that and took out this sledgehammer and climbed over the rocks "listen up!" yelled Gray gaining the aliens attention "you should be the one to the surrender!" the two RF soldiers face palmed though out of sight from the aliens.
"and why would we do that?" yelled an alien
"I'm sure you saw what I did to your buddies at you southern base" the aliens were just staring at him "well guess what I'm a experimental super soldier!" this seem to stun almost all the aliens
Is Gray really a super soldier will they make it out alive tune in next time…whenever the hell I get making a next time.