Their base had been attacked and destroyed, they were the only ones left alive from the attack. Having managed to escape in two Humvees before they rang out of gas themselves.
Trekking the rest of the way to their translator's home village where there was a telephone so they could call for Evac and support.
They managed to reach a hill top water line where they stopped, the village just on the other side of the hill but they all needed a break.
That was when the first cry was heard and the sound of bullets flying overhead. One of her team was the first to go down, taking a bullet to the head while he had his helmet off.
"Run!" Ruby shouted, turning to fire at the general direction of the enemy, who she could see sprinting towards them and firing at the hip.
Neo joined in before Ruby got her to run as well and finally breaking off herself. The rest of the Special Forces team sprinted across the open desert towards the rather large village.
Ruby saw the majority run away but some of them ran out with weapons but thankfully they fired at those chasing Ruby's team.
"Get to cover and return fire. Neo, phone!" Ruby ordered as she jumped over a low wall and turned to fire at the advancing enemy.
Neo grabbed the translator, who guided her to his house and his father, "Telephone?" Neo asked, making the gesture for one and she was quickly handed a small flip phone.
"Thank you." Neo replied, flipping it open and dialling a well-known number for her.
"This is an emergency Pentagon call. Do you understand this is an emergency Pentagon call?" Neo shouted into the phone, trying to ignore the gunfire outside until an RPG shattered the windows causing her to fall.
"Suppressing fire!" Ruby shouted out to her team outside, keeping a constant rate of fire towards the advancing enemy.
"No I don't have a credit card!" Neo shouted.
"Ma'am the attitude is not going to speed things up any bit at all. I'm going to ask you to speak into the mouth piece very clearly." The phone operator on the other end replied.
"I'm in the middle of a war. This is fucking ridiculous." Neo replied, sprinting out of the house and towards Ruby, ducking as best she could underneath the incoming fire.
As she was running towards Ruby she called out, "I need a credit card!" Neo shouted, falling into cover next to Ruby asking, "Rubes, where's your wallet?"
"My pocket." Ruby replied, firing again.
Neo crouched down behind Ruby, going up to her ear and asking, "Which pocket?" She asked.
"My back pocket." Ruby shouted back, keeping up her fire rate.
"You've got ten back pockets." Neo replied, attempting to feel which pocket held the wallet.
"Left cheek! Left cheek!" Ruby shouted out in reply.
Going straight to the pocket Neo pulled out Ruby's wallet and took her credit card out at the same time and started to rattle off the details to the operator on the other side.
"Ma'am, would you like to try our premium gold package?" The operator asked.
"No I don't want a gold package." Ne shouted in reply and as it started to connect through she called out, "Ruby. Pentagon!" She shouted, throwing the phone over to Ruby who caught it.
Just as this was happening it seemed the enemy brought along two technical with heavy machines guns on the back and even a tank.
Back in the Pentagon different personnel were running around trying to sort through the information while the general and Sectary of Defence came running in with the post commander.
"Give me a status." Glynda Goodwitch asked immediately.
"Ma'am, we're tracking a special ops team under fire. They say they're survivors of the base attack." The man replied.
"Survivors?" The SecDef, Ozpin asked.
"They've got armour we can't deal with! We need gunships on station ASAP." Ruby said into the phone.
"Predator's coming up on scene now." A drone operator stated.
"Linking the call to the nearest AWAC." Glynda informed them.
"Predator ETA two minutes." The operator said.
Back in the desert Ruby and her team were trying to avoid getting hit as the tank fire, hitting one of her team's positions and sending the man flying through the air.
"What the hell is all that?" Ozpin asked, unsure what to make of the large force.
Glynda having taken in all the information immediately said, "We need air support and we need it now. Roll in strike package bravo on known targets. I authenticate Tango Whiskey, time 0300 Zulu." Glynda ordered as images of pilots scrambling for their A-10 warthogs on a carrier and Black Hawk pilots.
"Attention all aircraft this will be a danger close fire mission." An AWAC in the air handling the air support.
"Weapons I just got a call from Falcon ops, whose closer to kill box One Alpha." The lead operator asked to his crew.
"Send the Hogs sir." One of the other operators said.
"Ok send the Hogs over to kill box One Alpha, danger close fire mission." He started to explain.
"Alright send the Hogs to kill box One Alpha, danger close. Three hundred feet." Another said into his radio.
"Friendlies in the area." They said as two A-10's found themselves in the air above a desert.
Ruby with a smoke grenade in her hand said, "Seven man team. North avoid smoke!" Ruby shouted out, making sure the orders were received as she threw the smoke.
"Proceed kill box One Alpha, engage hostile." An operator told the pilots.
"Attack direction west. You're cleared hot." Ruby ordered.
"Hog One-One, Darkstar status?" The operator requested.
"Heats coming! Laze the target." Ruby ordered, raising her weapon up while Neo got everyone to mark the target as she moved to get a clear line.
Keeping up the steady fire from everywhere the tank fired again, hitting another guy as they waited for the two aircraft.
Ruby saw the two aircraft just before she heard the gunfire, the familiar and distinctive sound of the A-10's main gun tearing through the enemy, and hitting the tank but for good measure they fired a missile at the tank, hitting it dead on and exploding it.
As the smoke cleared there was still enemies up and running towards them, not caring for about the aircraft in the air.
So Ruby said, "Spooky Three-Two, use one-oh-five shells, bring the rain." Ruby requested.
Aboard the AC-130 the pilot relayed to the weapons officers the call from the ground, "Be advised, ground team is requesting One-oh-Five Sabo rounds." He relayed as he brought the large aircraft into an attack vector.
As they came overhead all three guns, the twenty-five millimetre Gatling gun fired at its unbelievable rate of fire. With the Forty millimetre canon hitting away at a steady beat.
Both of these were interrupted by the heavy thump of the one-oh-five howitzer artillery piece smashing into the ground.
A second tank that appeared was destroyed in seconds as the main weapon of the gunship hit the vehicle. While the other two guns, each operated by two different people made short work of any other ground troop there.
As the smoke cleared they checked the area, seeing that they were either dead or fallen back it gave them a chance to deal with their injured.
Two had died from the tank shells while one person had taken a bullet, and that person being Neo. Sprinting straight over to the woman Ruby had already called out, "Blackhawk One, immediate medivac. One injured, gunshot wound to the shoulder and chest." Ruby called out before passing the phone off to someone else.
"Come on Neo, you're alright. Come on you've got to be." Ruby cried out, quickly dealing with the gunshot wounds but noticed Neo smiling up at her.
"Body armour." Neo managed to breathe out in reply.
This made Ruby notice that the gunshot to the chest was stopped by her body armour right over her heart, while the other on went straight through Neo's shoulder, missing the bone.
As the Blackhawk arrived they all climbed aboard and Neo was being seen to by a doctor on-board the helicopter while at the same time Ruby leaned down and kissed Neo on the lips, "Next time you're wearing a bomb suit into combat." Ruby teased lightly as she was glad for the heavy armour.
Back at the Pentagon Ozpin looked at the scene and heard the call, "We've got them. Two KIA and one injured. Heading to the carrier." The pilot told them all.
"Bring them home. Debrief in twenty-four hours. I want both Miss Roses and their team home." Ozpin ordered as he turned, leaving the room.
A/N
So you might recognise this, the scorponok scene from Transformers one with slight changes. This is one of my favourite scenes because the music and action all mix near perfectly together.
Going to ask this again as well, would you like to see unfinished pieces and ideas that I've partly written but won't be finished posted amongst this lot as well? Or would you rather not see that rubbish? Review or PM me you're answers if you'd please.
Anyway that's it so thank you and until next time. ^_^