Before I start I would like to point out to everyone that the VG Cats website has been updated for all of you who haven't visited it in the past week. Now then the story, yes there will be some romance in this story, it will be more apparent in some chapters than others, so just keep a look out… OH! Before I go on anymore, I must point out that the character Fisk Black is not mine (He's Jay Naylor's) so I don't take credit for him at all. Also this chapter will be long so just bear with it.
Chapter IV Welcome to WW3
Marrakech, Morocco (Africa)
Fisk bounced up every now and then due to the back of a cargo truck not having real seats and the streets not being properly developed. Fisk looked down at his gun and inspected it. The barrel is still relatively clean, sights haven't shifted. He took out the magazine that was already in it and pulled the rifles slide back a few times. Still slides fairly smooth. He shoved the mag back into his M-16 and cocked his gun. He sat it down and looked at the buildings that they were driving past. He always had wanted to visit Morocco, however under better pretences. He sat down his gun and looked over at his squad mates.
Leo was tapping his fingers on his gun and whistling a little tone to himself. He bobbed his head up and down a little bit and tapped his feet to the sound of his melody. Eventually he began to sing the lyrics to the song, "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around, and hurt you."
"Really?" Aeris protested. She slammed closed a little notebook she was writing in, which Leo suspected was a journal, or since she was a girl, a diary. "Of all the things you could possibly sing to annoy me, you sing probably the worst song ever made!" She groaned and looked back down towards her notebook and began to write again, thinking that that was the end of the conversion, but Leo being too stubborn couldn't let it go.
"Are you kidding me? That song is an internet sensation!" Leo pleaded.
Aeris sighed as she closed her notebook, knowing that she wouldn't be able to write in it for awhile. "The song is only famous for tricking people. What they did was try to find the worst possible song ever created and make you listen to it instead of watching the video you wanted to. It's like a slap in the face."
Fisk looked up from his rifle, satisfied with its condition. "I think it was a pretty decent song." Fisk admitted. Leo looked over at Fisk and held out both of his hands towards him in a 'see?' kind of fashion.
"Well then I think both of y'all need to start to listen to better music-" Aeris was cut off by Fisk.
"What's your idea of better music?" he asked defensively. He held his head in his hands like a smart ass.
"Well just off the top of my head." Aeris began. "Linkin Park-" Fisk this time cut her off.
"You've got to be kidding me." Fisk said. He opened his mouth to begin talking but the convoy suddenly stopped. Confused, Fisk stood up to try to figure out why the convoy had stopped. He looked back to see that Leo and Aeris were both standing up now to see what was going on.
Leo tried to look up towards the front of the convoy but couldn't see past all of the dust that the trucks in front had stirred up. "I can't see anything." Leo said in dismay.
"Yeah, me neither." Aeris replied. "Black do you know what's happening?" She held up her hand to block the dust that was now blowing towards them, it wasn't much but just enough to be a nuisance. She silently spat out a curse word as she slipped her goggles over her face.
Fisk held up his finger. "Hold that thought." He took the same finger and pressed it up towards his ear. "Control, this is Oxide Three-Six, can you give me a sitrep on the convoy, over?" He waited a few seconds until a voice came into his ear.
"Oxide Three-Six, this Overlord Actual, we are getting reports that there is some sort of argument between our forces and the locals up ahead, standby."
Leo and Aeris looked at each other, hearing the conversion from their own communicators. Leo had a worried look on his face, was he really about to fight someone? Or even kill them? He began to breathe rapidly until Aeris put her hand on his shoulder.
"Calm down Leo, I'm sure its nothing. You'll be fine, I promise." Leo looked up at Aeris and her reassuring words. He lightly smiled but didn't say anything.
Fisk turned around and looked at the two of them. Pfff, rookies he thought to himself. He stared at the two of them for a few more seconds then went back to the radio. "Overlord, can you patch me through to the lead driver of the covey?"
"Yes, one minute." The voice went back through his ear.
A minute later a voice rang through his head. "This is Private Derrick reporting, Sir."
Fisk put his serious face on. "Private, what's going on up there?"
"Sir there is a woman who standing in front of the truck talking a mile a minute. I'm trying to get a hold of a translator now but…" The Private suddenly stopped.
"Say again, what's the situation up there?"
There was a few seconds of silence until the voice returned. "I was saying that… Hold on… SHIT! BOMB! GET DOWN! GET DOWN!" A sudden boom was heard not too far from them followed with radio static.
"What just happened?" Leo asked with a shaky voice, he stood up and looked towards the front of the convoy where he could see black smoke.
Fisk looked back at him but saw a figure holding out an assault rifle begin to peer out of a window near by. "AMBUSH! OUT OF THE TRUCK NOW!" Fisk shouted.
All three of them quickly jumped out of the truck and ran behind a building that was only 10 feet next to them before they had stopped. They stood against the wall and caught their breath; Fisk straightened up his back and motioned for them to follow. He ran towards a door and stood right next to it, waiting for his crew to catch up to him. He received a pat on the shoulder from Aeris, indicating that they were in position.
He turned his head over his shoulder to give a little speech. "Ok, its just like we've practiced and trained for. Go in fast and keep your weapons tight. Don't take a shot unless there is one and keep track of your rounds, you don't want to go into a room with an empty clip. The biggest thing is don't panic, your training will take over." He turned back around and reached his hand towards the door.
As he turned the knob his heart started pounding, but he wasn't nervous, just anxious. You never know what's on the other side of the door. He swung it open and quickly pointed out two average sized males standing next to the window with rifles. Fisk brought his rifle and fired a shot into the one furthest from him. Without waiting for him to drop he immediately turned his rifle towards the other male. He fired another shot and it struck true, straight into his back due to him not turning around fast enough.
"All-clear." He said through his communicator, on his squad's channel. Leo and Aeris both entered with their rifles raised. Unlike Fisk, they both were equipped with M4A1s, the same gun they had used during training.
Leo looked at Fisk for awhile. He didn't see a change in him after he had just killed those two people, no sorrow in his eyes, no regret, or blood thrust; he just looked pensive like he always had looked. Leo began to feel relieved and he slowly felt his smile come back. Maybe I'll be fine, maybe it's not such a big deal after all.
Fisk looked over at Leo and mistook his relief for admiration. "Leo, take point." Fisk ordered.
Leo snapped back to reality and shook his head to clear his thoughts. "What?"
"Take point, you have the next door."
Leo slowly began walking up the stairs to the next pair of rooms that needed to be cleared. Aeris looked over at Fisk, but before she could say anything he gave her a look that said 'Don't question me on this'. Leo raised his rifle towards the hinge of the door and placed his hand on the knob. He waited for the sign to enter, which was the pat on his shoulder. He waited for what seemed like an eternity until he eventually felt a firm hand near his neck. He took a deep breath and opened the door quickly.
The whole time this was happening Leo though to himself. Black was right, you're training takes you over. He barely even remembered what happened when he went into the room. All he knew was that he had killed a man. He looked down at the dead soldier who had an AK-47 a few inches away from him.
His mind began to race a million miles an hour. His heart was pumping hard and fast and he could feel his breath getting lighter. If he were over back home he would have been called many things: a killer, murderer, psycho. But all he got was a "Good job", from Fisk as he walked past him. Leo began to feel his stomach getting sour and he felt like he was on fire.
"Oh my god." He silently said. "I just killed a man. Oh god, what have I done? FUCK! I didn't want to come here I didn't want-"
Fisk butted in. "HEY! Snap out of it." He shook the shaken up Leo. "I'm your commanding officer, so anyone you kill is on MY shoulders." Fisk saw Leo begin to return to normal. "Straighten up; we still have to help out our boys down there."
Leo nodded and stood back up. He raised his rifle back to his shoulder and went over to the window; he took up a position and began to place shots to the other building across the street. Fisk looked over towards Aeris and smiled an 'I told you so' look came on his face. However he looked past Aeris towards the building that Leo was shooting at and saw a curtain begin to move on its own.
"Leo, get away from the window." Fisk ordered. Leo however didn't hear him, he continued to place shots towards the other building. Fisk looked back towards the curtain and his heart dropped into his stomach when he saw a RPG peek through the curtain. "Leo! RPG! GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOW!" Fisk barked. Leo however still couldn't hear him.
Aeris swiftly threw her gun down and ran towards Leo. She grabbed him and threw him back towards the other side of the room, just as she got done she heard a slight 'SHHHH!'. She jumped but the RPG had exploded into the outside part of the wall. The blast sent her across the room, not too far from where Leo was at.
"AERIS!" Leo screamed. He quickly scurried over the floor and held her in his arms. "Aeris?" he begged as he shook her slightly. Fisk searched through his pockets and retrieved a small syringe and handed it to Leo.
"Stick it in her heart!" Fisk explained. Leo ripped the lid off the syringe and stabbed Aeris in the chest with the metal needle. She immediately jumped up, however from the position that Leo was in over her, she smashed her head with his and he fell down on top of her.
Leo was now on top of Aeris, he was staring into her big blue eyes and tried to look away but couldn't. Aeris also was caught in the glare; she was gazing into his emerald eyes and for the life of her couldn't turn away. Leo was about to say something but-
"You two will have plenty of time to fuck later. Hell you can even use my bunk. But if you don't mind, there's a fucking war going on outside!" Fisk snarled at the two of them.
Leo got off of Aeris and helped her up. Aeris stood up and looked over at Fisk. "Go fuck yourself."
"That's go fuck yourself, SIR!" he replied showing a little humor. However Aeris did not find it funny. A voice started in his ear again and he thought to himself, perfect timing.
"Oxide Three-Six, this is Overlord Actual. We need you to return to base camp at once."
"What? We're in the middle of something here. We've just been ambushed and-"
"That's not a suggestion, we have a situation developing over here and we need free hands."
"Yes sir." He looked back towards Leo and Aeris. He didn't want to leave everyone in the convoy but he wasn't one for disobeying orders. "Alright, you heard the man. We're returning to base." He began to walk away with the other two not far behind him.
They took the back way and stayed behind the buildings in order to avoid getting caught in a firefight. They eventually reached the end of the convoy, which hadn't been affected by the ambush, and hitched a ride back to the base.
They eventually reached a large outpost and got out of the jeep. A man walked up towards Fisk and they spoke for a few seconds until Fisk turned around and waved his hand for the other two cats to follow him. They walked into a tent with a bunch of monitors around them, most of them were set to a news channel. The whole squad had stopped in front of the screens and couldn't believe what they heard. Almost all of Europe had been attacked by terrorists using poison gas. They continued to watch until they were waved to continue and they were shown a virtual map of Europe with blips where the attacks took place. He stared at the map until a voice rang into Fisk's ear again, as well as Leo and Aeris'.
"This is GIGN HQ! My men are dead or dying. I've been exposed." They heard him coughing for a second longer until another voice came in. This had more panic in it.
"This is Rammstein! We're under attack!" Then another voice joined in, this one Fisk recognized as Overlord, the same one who commanded him earlier.
"Roger, we're aware of the gas attack and are sending decon units you're way."
"Not the gas! We're under attack by Russian ground forces!"
"Say again Rammstein. What Russian forces?"
"The entire Russian army! Request immediate assistance!"
Then everyone looked back over to the TV monitors, it showed Russian tanks moving down the streets of Paris. So what the man on the radio was saying is true, Fisk convinced himself.
"This was no act of terrorism." Overlord continued. "The attacks were meant to cripple our defenses and pave the way for an invasion. We need to hit them now with everything we've got."
Just then a man approached Fisk and handed him an envelope. He ripped it open and read it silently. He sighed and crumpled the letter then threw it towards a trash can, but missed terribly.
"What is it?" Aeris asked, however she could already guess the contents of the letter.
"We're being re-routed to Europe." Fisk replied coldly.
Christ this was a long chapter. Review please, if I don't get reviews then I don't know if anyone is reading the story, and if no one is reading it then there is no point in updating it (catching my drift?). P.S. Yes, love can blossom, even on the battlefield. Ha!
