A/N : This is a mission chapter. Every mission chapter will be started in a different way. A little bit similar to the briefing on COD 4 or 6.
On with the war!
Disclaimer : I don't own anything except me, my plot and my characters.
Chapter 4 (Mission)
*Tactical Agenda - Playing*
UT Taskforce.
The console on the briefing room was activated, revealing planet Earth. A second later, it zoomed in, revealing the map of US.
"First day of duty, first time to kick ass!" exclaimed Jalal.
"Intel's confirmed the LZ of the shuttles landing on Earth." Reported Xan while a red line appeared on the monitor, which ended by an X mark. 2 seconds later, multiple red lines appeared too and ended with X marks. "They're raining the earth like meteor showers. According to them, Skaarj starts their invasion on small settlements and hidden places such as forests. They have very sophisticated mind at strategies, so we need to anticipate their strategies effectively."
"Well, they're not the only ones having brains for tactics." Commented Brock. "So where are they landing?"
"A small city in Arizona, not far from Liandri research HQ. The security on this city is currently low, so they must've taken the advantage on there."
"My team can handle this one for sure. I'll be preparing for defenses." Said Isa.
"One thing you need to keep in mind. We can't risk getting an entire army on one place, in case there'll be so much casualties. Be sure to limit the group you send."
"Do you think 5 TNBR's enough?"
"Sounds good enough."
"The Downing of Demons"
Somewhere in Arizona, 1500 Hours.
Captain Isa "Hande" Abdurrahman Handoyo
UT TaskForce – Epsilon
Status : Alive.
The city was so bright in the afternoon. My team's Hellbender Truck was rolling on a seemingly peaceful city. Kyla's driving the Truck. I was on the seat next to her. Jojo's sitting on the turret seat. Jonathan sit between the driver's place and the turret, while Shingo's on the back.
I held my AR770 Assault rifle tightly. This pistol-like machine gun was slightly alien to me. But at least, I knew how to use it. Primary's machine gun, secondary's grenade launcher.
Kyla drove the truck at moderate speed. She had enforcer pistol on her right hand, safety off. "Anyone see something odd?" She asked.
"Not for now." Jojo replied from behind.
"Keep your eyes on. Don't miss anything."
At that point, something caught on my eyes, flame on the sky, and a black ship. "Kyla, think that's 'something odd'?" I pointed at the object, which come closer and closer, until it landed on a crowd of people, who ran as fast as they could. Unfortunately, one old man was not so lucky. The object, which was revealed to be a shuttle crushed him. It then opened, revealing a bunch of reptile aliens, a.k.a. the Skaarjs. The warrior ones had raziks on their blade and dreadlocks. They are also... naked. The Troopers on the other hand, had no razik or dreadlocks and were properly dressed in uniform. Some of had Razorjacks, Skaarj version of Ripper, and Eightball Gun, the rocket launcher which shots up to six rockets/grenades at a time. There were at least 16 Warriors and 15 Troopers.
"Damnit! Those Skaarjs are already here!" Shouted Kyla.
"Open fire!" I ordered as I shot the Skaarj through the door window. The Skaarj were either shot by the Assault Rifle, Link gun (Pulse gun with power-connecting ability), the enforcer, or the ASMD powered sniper turret. We only took out 3 of the Troopers though.
5 of the troopers fired 30 rockets on the Bender. My soldier instict suddenly screamed at me to leave the truck at once. "Everyone! Get out of the Hellbender!"
As we got clear from the car, the rocket barrage exploded it to smithereens. My sight blurred and my ears became deaf for a while when the explosion occured just a few centimeters from me. Luckily, none of us was blown up. "Get to cover!" I ordered again.
My friends and I hid behind the trash bins. It wasn't really the safest place to get cover, when your enemies had rocket launchers and all, but might help us survive for quite some time. I pulled out a Ripper and shot it on the wall, hoping that it will bounce to the Skaarj.
It did bounce to their direction, and would've hit them, if they couldn't FORESEE the direction of where it would go. Now, how the hell could they do such thing? Were they some kind of fortune teller perhaps? Well, I didn't really have time to find out.
I did know how to deal with their inhuman reflex moves, and I was about to give it a try. I jumped from my spot, avoiding plasma spheres from their Raziks and shot a sharp blade hopper from my Ripper. As I predicted, the Trooper I was targeting once again jumped left, then I shot another blade again to the place it would land.
SLASH!
That did it. Its head flew on the air. The body however, still stood, searching for its head. Found nothing on where its head should be, the Skaarj body fell dead on the road. It was a bit funny seeing a sight like that, reminding me of cartoons in TV (Except the head wasn't really chopped off, of course.)
Unfortunately, this was no time for laughing.
"Fire in the hole!" I heard Jojo shouted. A flashbang flew and exploded right in front of the Skaarj's eyes, blinding and deafening them for a couple of minutes, since their eyes and ears were sensitive, and when I said sensitive, I mean EXTREMELY sensitive. We took the chance by raining them with bullets and plasma projectiles on them. The Skaarjs were massacred easily.
"Two Skaarjs running to the alley!" reported Jonathan.
"They won't get away. Jojo! Shingo! Get to the rooftops and ambush them from above! The rest of you, block every exit of this alley! I'm going inside!"
Jojo and Shingo were nowhere to be seen. That could mean good thing. "Where are those reptiles?" I said to myself.
My question was soon answered by 2 flying razorblade. One flew to my head, while the other flew to my leg. I jumped up and blocked the first razor blade with my Nighthawk knife, the knife made of Tarydium crystal. As I landed, a Berserker and an Officer rushed toward me, weapons bared. I was ready to kill them when...
KA-BOOM! KA-BOOM!
...both the Skaarjs were blown up by Longbow AVRiL rockets.
"Wow, you guys packed up AVRiLs?"
"Actually, Shingo was the one packing both AVRiLs" answered Jojo.
"Oh, so that's why you were sweating when you fought the Skaarjs."
Indeed, Shingo had been sweating all the time. He was also panting heavily. "Guess it's not a good idea to pack 2 heavy weapons." He said.
I just snickered. He probably thought it was like the Tournament, where we could bring as many weapon as we please. Well, that's because there was a device to make every weapons really lightweight on our backpacks.
"Well, that calls for the end of the mission. We should return back to HQ."
A/N : Okay! That's the first mission. Second mission will be a covert ops!
WARNING : Double Character death for the next mission.
I'm opening a poll for you to guess who will die.