Note: This chapter has a lot more cursing in it considering they are at war. There will also be violence.
It didn't take long for the fighting to start. Roy had ordered his team to stay together. They would do the harder stuff. But, at the moment, they somehow found themselves in the middle of the battlefield. How? Cadet Pisano, that's how. He managed to mess the up and now they had to face about fifteen soldiers from Aerugo.
"Throw a grenade!" Riza yelled at Pisano.
"Huh?" He asked, strangly in a calm voice.
"THROW A FUCKING GRENADE!" She yelled again. This time he heard her. He pulled out a grenade as they all were sitting behind a wall for protection at the moment. As he threw it, though, it hit the top of the wall and fell back down to them. Riza grabbed it and threw it over the wall at the enimies, almost not making it before it exploded.
"Are you trying to get us all fucking killed?! What the hell Pisano?!" Everyone on the team was more scared of Riza at the moment than they were of the war. They don't usually hear her use the work 'fuck' so much, and she doesn't usualy yell, either.
"Hawkeye, he didn't mean to. Lay off.. We can't be fighting each other while we have a whole freaking army after us." Riza knew Havoc was right. She didn't want to yell at the poor cadet, so she let her anger out by punching the wall.
"We could have all been dead, dammit. We can't die in this fucking war! Not when he still needs us to help him to the top..." The cadet wasn't really sure who or what she was talking about, but by the looks on everyone else's faces, it seemed like they knew and it wasn't good. Breda was going to speak but Riza did before he could. "Let's keep moving." She said in a calm-ish voice.
Riza peered behind the wall to see that most of the soldiers were dead while the other were injured bad enough that they wouldn't notice her team moving. She ran across the opening and to another wall, and waited a moment before signalling her team over.
Their mission was to find the closest enemy base. After that they could go back to their base. Simple enough, right? Well, maybe if you didn't have a cadet who can't even throw a grenade right.
It only took about ten more minutes until they found the base. "Alright, we just need to remember this location and we're good." Hawkeye whispered.
"Wait, thats it? We aren't going to attack them or anything?" The cadet asked.
"Are you out of your freaking mind? How the hell would the five of us take down a whole base?"
"Breda, he didn't know. Just let it go." Hawkeye said.
"But h-" She turned toward him and looked him in the eyes.
"I said, let it go." He nodded. "Alright, I think we should head back to base and update the general." Everyone nodded and they headed back to camp.
Arriving at their camp, they saw someone else familier. "Rebecca?" Riza asked. Her friend turned to face her and smiled at the fact that she now knew some people there and didn't have to make new friends. "What are you doing here?"
"I was shipped out with everyone else. I guess we just didn't see each other on the train." The thing about Rebecca was it wasn't hard for her to make new friends, she just didn't want to make any here because she did not want to learn to like them and then they die. It was blunt but this is war. "So, who the hell is running this? They aren't doing a very good job, I haven't been able to find them anywhere."
"We are in charge, Rebecca." Riza said pointing at her team.
Havoc threw in. "Which means Riza is in charge!" Rebecca laughed and RIza rolled her eyes.
Hawkeye turned around to face her other team members. "Fuery, I want you to set up a radio so we can inform the general of our mission." He saluted and went to an empty tent that was set up for Hawkeye
"Orrrr, you just want to talk to you boyfriendddd?" Rebecca said, in a joking voice. Riza turned back around with an almost angry look on her face.
"This is not the time for jokes, Lieutenant Catalina." Riza said and walked into the tent to see if Fuery was finished.
"Whats wrong with her?" Asked Rebecca to Jean.
"She doesn't take war too lightly, especially after Ishval." He spoke quietly as they were both looking at the tent she had just entered.
"Oh damn, I forgot about Ishval.." When she saw Breda and Pisano walk by as they went to the fire she had to ask about the cadet. "Whos the kid?"
"FNG" Havoc said with a quiet laugh.
"Ahh.." She spoke, understanding. The two of them walked to the fire the others had started to keep warm.
"Have you been able to get through yet?" Riza asked as she walked into the tent.
"No, sir. It should take very much longer, though." Riza nodded and sat down, pulling out a note Roy was able to hand her before she left. It said: 'If you die I wont be able to marry you.' And thats when she made up her mind. She sure as hell wasn't go to die, not if she could help it.
"Sir, we're through." She pocketed the note and walked over to the radio.
"Thank you, Fuery. You can go relax now." He nodded and left. "General Mustang,"
"Hawkeye? Give me the report." Roy spoke on the other line. It was good to hear her voice and know she was okay.
"Yes, sir. We have located their base and found that they had three soldiers on each side of the base. Also, they had two snipers in abandoned building, at least thats all I was able to count." He nodded and there was silence on the other end of the phone. "Whats our next move, sir?"
"What do you see is best fit for you and your team? I can't really tell you what I think because I'm not there to see what everything is like." He was doing this on purpose and she knew it.
"I suggest we set up snipers of our own. We need to take out their snipers before we can attack their base. I'll go with another sniper in the group to take out the two and set up there. After that, we will take out the guards that are outside. Then, we will contact a team I will put together to set up bombs on the outside of their base." Their base was in a small, run-down building that shouldn't be too hard to explode.
"Sounds good. I want you to report in after that mission." He didn't want their conversation to end but knew it would soon.
"Thank you, sir. I will call back tomorrow to give you an update." They both disconnected their radios and Hawkeye went out to assemble her team and explain to them what they were to do.
Note: FNG means 'fucking new guy'. They used it in the Vietnam war.
Also: I hope this chapter was better than the last! And, I figured since they weren't on the battlefield when they got back to camp they could use first names.
And, I know Riza may seem OOC because of her yelling, but during the Ishvalan war, she wasn't in charge of a group and she was just slightly freaking out especially since Pisano was being an idiot. She also was probably scared since she was now in charge of what the others lives and didn't want them to die.
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