Chapter 2 – New Arrival
Phantom Guards actions began to reach the ruling monarchy.
The few survivors who could make it to the capital told stories of the horrors that had happened, as the supply and weapon caravans they guarded were struck with no warning, and everything was taken, and that the mages were the first to go down, the rebels using fast attacks, ambush and even attacking with explosives.
They left few survivors, many of whom died shortly from their injuries.
In the Londonium, Sheffield, the current leader of Albion was getting troubling news about the attacks, and that most of the convoys that were sending supplies and weapons to ensure the coming offensive succeeded was troubling for her.
She decided to take drastic steps, and soon a squadron from Albions Dragon Corps was mobilized, along with 500 soldiers and Nobles.
She believed it would be enough to crush a simple rebellion.
However, she underestimated her enemy.
Phantom Guard made use of long-range scouts, and sent some on recon behind the lines, their training proving outstanding, and soon several recon teams returned, telling of the force that was mobilizing against them.
Keeper received word, and checked on the progress the Development Team was making, the people and blacksmiths worked hard to make the new cannons, and even succeeded in making new fire-arms, basing the design from the cartridges of the Ghost's ammunition, which they got from the MULE.
The weapon was the RAS-1 bolt-action rifle, which was an almost perfect copy of the Enfield Rifle, and the team was very impressed at how fast the former peasant army had progressed, though they could only make 247 of them, and about 2,567 rounds of the rifle ammunition.
The Howitzers, all of which were 150 mm types, were ready, the blacksmiths toiled day in and day out to make at least twenty-one of them ready, along with 181 shells.
They would meet the enemy at a heavily forested ridge, which was split by a river, and it would be the largest engagement to date, where they would use practically 75 percent of all Phantom Guard forces, and the Hammerhead drone would be brought in to it as a sort of AA support against the dragon Knights.
The plan was made, the training was done, and they even went to the field of battle ahead of time to set things up.
The army was moving in, a large force that had once been mobilized for a different attack, as many of them were in fact veterans of a former minor conflict.
If one would call the destruction of the territory of Saxe-Gotha which had done nothing wrong to the country but only displeased the king and nothing more, and the brutally assaulting the people there for no other reason but the fact that they could and then killing them.
They had no idea of the meaning of Karma, but very soon they would get a brutal and fatal lesson about it.
Their final lesson anyway.
The army arrived, the dragon knights flew overhead, though could not do much as the soldiers were walking through the forest, and some suffered attacks from the creatures in the forest, though nothing they could not handle, and it was fast becoming nightfall, the sun was already setting.
They soon arrived at the river, the noble commander had a smirk on his face, as a line of water mages came forth, and all drew their wands, preparing to freeze the river, twenty-four mages in total.
He smiled at what looked like an easy victory.
Then a high powered round blasted through his head, and then the mages went down instantly, bullets tearing through their skulls, all twenty-four went down instantly.
The commander's body, which had been on a horse, flopped dead onto the ground, and with that, pandemonium swept through the ranks.
Keeper watched this from his concealed postion, hidden by military netting from the MULE.
He grabbed his detonator, and with a click, started the show.
The night before the army came, bombs and explosives had been set in the forest ahead of time, and they were in special clusters, many explosives linked to a single detonator, and there were twelve explosives to a detonator, linked by copper wire.
There were twenty-five detonators in total.
Roughly 300 explosions ripped through the forest, all set where the army would most likely cross, and the explosives tore through the army, killing over 267 soldiers and maiming and injuring many more.
Then the army was fired at, Phantom Guard units had put themselves in pre-positioned hiding spots throughout the forest, and using their marksmanship and camouflage clothing, they began to gun down the army.
The knights tried to protect themselves with their shields, but the Phantom marksmen and the archers using a better version of the steel reinforced crossbow, attacked the legs of the enemy, causing them to drop to the ground and lose their hold on their shields, exposing their upper body and allowing for a decisive kill.
The Albion army was now being driven back, the enemy mainly targeted the mages, who were easy to spot as they had only wand like weapons and wore more flashy clothes, allowing the marksmen to easily pick them out, though many of the kills were from Gaurdian, who was an S-class marks-woman, the highest that could be achieved, and it is said she went higher.
The mages were dying quickly, and the soldiers were losing ground, already the mage forces of the Albion army were now at only 42 percent, and the numbers of the army now stood at only 244.
The mages then decided to bring the hurt, and the fire mages chanted fire spells, and launched the attacks across the river.
Only a few of the attacks hit, as many of the mages were killed when they cast, causing the fire-balls to fade away, but soon a fire had started and the Phantom Guard soon pulled back.
The Albion army force then decided to go on the offensive, and attacked, a bridge of ice was made and the mages put out the fire, allowing the army to run in.
Then they emerged from the forest into a very large clearing, which was at least two miles long and wide, with some trees.
They saw their enemy waiting on the other side.
The Phantom Guard wore uniforms that seemed to melt into the forest, and they wore hoods over their heads, also of the same pattern as their clothes, their faces obscured by the hoods, especially as the night fell.
Phantoms of the forest
The Albion army saw that their enemy was only at 160, and yet they had so easily thinned their numbers, this caused rage to build up in the enemy, as they had once swept away far larger forces than what was in front of them, and to go back saying that they had lost to a force far smaller would be the greatest dishonor that had befallen any of them.
The acting commander threw all caution to the wind, and ordered the charge.
They entire force soon rushed forward, like a tidal wave ready to flatten a small town, ready to swallow it up and crush it.
They would not fail, no matter what.
Then a whine came from nowhere, and the charging army should have paid it mind, as the front of the charge was blasted apart by a powerful explosion, tearing the front of the charge apart in an instant, killing well over 43 soldiers and mages.
Then the explosions tore through the clearing, and mages and knights were blasted to pieces by the attacks, either blasted to pieces or outright vaporized, while many were tossed by the blasts like rag-dolls, left with severe and crippling injuries.
It looked like the battle was lost for the Albion army, and they thought the battle would be lost.
Then a fireball came from the sky and slammed into the ground near the Phantom Guard, injuring a few, and causing them to look to the sky.
It was the Dragon squadron, thirty fire dragons all attacked the Phantom Guard, and once again they retreated, taking their wounded with them.
This emboldened the Albion army, now numbering at only 167 charged forth, though slower now due to the number of injured.
"This is Keeper, the enemy dragons are here, we are heading for you right now," Keeper said through the Cross-Com (thankfully the Future Warrior System used cutting edge solar energy systems to function, and were maintenance free, making them very useful and durable, but very expensive).
"Roger that," said Frontal from his system, "Me and Hammer are ready for the party," he said, saying the (rather unimaginative) pet name for the Hammerhead drone.
They reached the area, the dragons were right behind him, and one was ready to swallow Keeper as it came down.
Then a burst of automatic fire tore into the creature, killing it in a few shots, and its rider was also killed.
The drone locked onto the dragons, firing its chain gun at the dragons, the high-powered bullets tore into the dragons as they flew, and Full Frontal also joined in with his SAW to blast away at the dragon knights, the Machine Gun tore into the enemy, and soon many dragon knights had died.
Then a fireball struck the drone, causing it severe damage, and it soon shut down.
They were now on the ropes, they needed something to happen, and fast.
Earth …
A JSF Blackfoot gunship flight, and an armed V-25 Goshawk Transport Tilt-rotor had been escorting several supply trucks, ten in total carrying weapons, fuel, armor, ammunition and other material to a nearby base, and was guarded by four M118 Fastbacks and two M5A3 Schwarzkopf Main battle tanks, which now had a more fuel efficient gas turbine engine, allowing them to run far less fuel than in the past design.
Then they were attacked, and were quickly surrounded by an enemy attack from the Spetsnaz Guard Brigade, and it appeared as though they would be killed.
Then a portal of light, came from a hillside, and the thoughts of self-preservation took over the need to find out what the strange portal was, and soon the supply trucks, helicopters and the combat armor went through it quickly, the portal closing just as the Spetsnaz arrived, getting nothing now.
The group exited out the other side, and encountered the same problem as the Ghosts in that all communication had shut down, and wondered if it was only them, especially after the saw the two moons in the sky.
Then they picked up the Ghost teams IFF's and saw the battle on the horizon with the Dragon Knights, and the four Blackfoot Attack Helicopters soon rushed forward, the Tanks and IFV's stayed behind to guard the Supply trucks.
Keeper saw the drone go down, he saw the Dragon knights winning, and in his head he prayed for only one thing …
… a miracle.
Just as a Dragon was ready to unleash a fireball at Keeper himself:
RATATATATATATATATATATATATA
Intense fire soon tore the dragon to shreds, and instantly killed the pilot, and five more dragons soon followed.
Keeper, Frontal and Guardian look to the sky, and saw what was probably the most beautiful sight they had seen thus far.
Four Blackfoot Helicopters soon hovered over their heads, the Phantom Guard soldiers were in fear at what they were, but seeing the reactions of their leaders they realized that their leaders knew what they were, and guessed that they would be okay, for the moment.
A link soon came in through Keepers cross com, "This is Eagle 1 to Ghost lead, could you maybe fill in the blanks about the fact we are on another world."
"I'll tell you everything I know, but only when this battle is over, the guys in the camouflage are with us, the ones in the medieval armor and fancy clothes, along with the dragons are the enemy, there are only a few left, do you think you can take out the dragons while we deal with the soldiers," Keeper said the Eagle 1.
"Roger that, Eagle flight, let's take them out!"
The Blackfoot Gunships soon attacked the dragon knights, using only their 30 mm chain guns, and the rounds easily tore through the Dragon Knights, the creatures were capable of dealing with non-magic type weapons like bows and muskets, but the armor piercing, high-powered 30 mm rounds of the Blackfoot's was far past any of those, and soon the remaining seventeen dragon knights had been torn to pieces in a matter of moments.
The remaining Albion forces tried to retreat, but then found themselves now completely surrounded by the Phantom Guard, and now night had fallen, and the Phantom Guard, while good at fighting in the day, fought twice as good in the night, and they tore into the enemy, now panicked and scared, even the mages were now in panic as their air support was now completely gone.
Then a Blackfoot showed up, and then it launched a salvo of rockets, the rockets slammed into the ground, causing large explosions and tore the last of the Albion force apart.
Keeper was now with his men, and saw that they had lost four of their number, with at least 15 injured, however the enemy was defeated and dead, they had been victorious.
Keeper then pumped his fist into the sky in triumph and soon the other Phantom Guard members did the same and even Guardian joined in, screaming to the Heavens and lifting her fist to the sky.
They were Phantom Guard, and in their first ever large scale battle ….
… THEY. HAD. WON!
After the battle, the JSF forces met up with the Phantom Guard, and they heard of the situation that was happening.
The tank Commander, Harris Glen, decided to join the fight with Phantom Guard, since they were in a world where the JSF did not exist, and he also agreed the current system of ruling did not go well with him and the others, so they soon joined in as part of Phantom Guard, and luckily the Supply trucks carried lots of fuel and weapons for the Tanks, IFV's and the Blackfoots, and also carried many Infantry weapons, though it was Eastern bloc weapons taken from the Spetznaz, and a few EU weapons, mainly AK-47's, AN-94's, FAMAS rifles, and several G36's, all of which had lots of ammo, ammo made the Phantom Guard incredibly impressed, though they did get training on how to use them.
It also turned out that a weapon specialist was with the convoy, named Herbert Johan, and he decided to offer his aid to develop better weapons for the Phantom Guard and soon he joined the Development teams, and the help he had along with the new guns began to allow the Development team to make new headway.
Now new players had come in, and it was already the third week, so now Phantom Guard prepared itself.
It would soon get very busy.
