Part 4 – The Battle for New Eden
Sasuke and Naruto arrived back at Tisis around the late afternoon, and proceeded directly to the control room after disabling their armor.
As the two put their weapons down, and walked into the command center.
"Hey," Melina said as Sasuke and Naruto walked into the separate command center for Team 7.
"So what's the word," Major Stone asked, "We sending this one off?"
"Well," Naruto began, "Unfortunately… this team is now in need of… a new bunk," Naruto held out the computer-chip that contained the information they needed.
"Alright," Major Stone said as he clapped his hands, and took the chip, then lightly punched Sasuke on the shoulder, "Welcome to Team 7 my boy."
"Thank you sir," Sasuke said, "But right now, we need to start prepping our forces."
"I'll decide when that happens," Major Stone said as he walked over to the console, and plugged in the chip to the console, and saw what the Revolutionaries were planning, then turned toward Sasuke, "We need to start prepping our troops," Major Stone pointed at Melina, "Melina, call Fifth-class General (one star general in 21st century terms) Paul, and tell him what these plans are, and see what he'll lend to Sasuke and Naruto."
"I'm sorry?" Sasuke asked.
"That's right Sergeant," Major Stone said as he turned to face Sasuke, "You and Naruto are going to be leading the defenses for New Eden. The senior officers and I have to plan out our way to find evidence that the BDR is behind this."
"Ok," Sasuke said, "Naruto, let's get something to drink."
Sasuke and Naruto walked to the local pub which was right next door to the command center, and both took a seat at the bar, "Hey," the bartender said as he walked up in a white uniform, "Some Special Activities boys, what can I get you two?"
"Beer," Sasuke said, "Clean glass, no ice."
"Gotcha," the bartender said, then turned toward Naruto, "And for you sir?"
"Old Bronze Cup." Naruto said.
"Got it," the bartender said as he grabbed a clean glass for Sasuke, poured a beer, and placed it in front of Sasuke.
The bartender then grabbed a shaker, filled it with ice, poured a quarter ounce of whiskey, a quarter ounce of vodka, half ounce of Pomegranate juice, he slapped a top on it, shook it up, poured it over ice in a bronze cup, pulled out his soda-gun, and topped it off with Root-Beer.
"Nice," Naruto said as the bartender placed the bronze cup in front of Naruto.
"To Team 7," Sasuke said as he raised his beer.
"Team 7," Naruto said as he tapped his glass against Sasuke's.
The two drank their glasses before Sasuke received a call on his on-duty communicator which was based on the Star Trek the Next Generation model communicators, except this one is the symbol of the Invictus Army which is the symbol of Konoha cast in silver metal that is placed on top of a gold metal circle.
Sasuke pinched the communicator, and opened the channel, "Uchiha."
"Sergeant, get over here," Major Stone said, "We've got a lot of toys for the defense of New Eden."
Sasuke and Naruto paid for their drinks, and walked into the command center.
"Hey boys," Grim said as they entered, "Good work on getting that data-drive."
"Thanks," Sasuke said, "What've we got for the defense of New Eden?"
"A whole lot of firepower," Grim said as they walked over to the console, and tapped on the screen, "We've been supplied with a lot of weapons. Right now we've got thirteen hundred ground troops, several hundred Spider-Tanks, and two Railway Guns."
"Railway guns," Sasuke said, "Now that's something I like to hear."
Sasuke and Naruto walked outside in their full armor with their side-arms holstered, and their assault rifles hanging from their shoulders as the soldiers, mostly Corporals, and Privates were loading up their guns for the defense of New Eden.
"COMMANDING OFFICERS ON DECK!" one Private shouted.
Everyone shot into attention as Sasuke and Naruto approached.
Sasuke climbed up on one of the Railway guns, and began his speech, "Men," he exclaimed, "I do not want to begin to describe what we might be up against, but I will tell you this, we are the last line of defense between the Revolutionaries and New Eden. If they take New Eden, they can take Tisis! We cannot and will not lose New Eden! But let me make this clear! I do not want anyone to take unnecessary risks! No one is dying on my watch! We will win this day! Do you hear me troops!?"
"YES SIR!" They all yelled.
"Mount up," Sasuke exclaimed, "Let's take the fight to them!"
The troops mounted up, and took their seats on the train.
The train ride to New Eden was not short, the entire planet is a forth of a planet bigger than Earth, and New Eden is on the other side of the planet from Tisis.
Apparently the Invictus Army had already gotten word out about what the Revolutionaries were planning because with the soldiers had arrived, all the civilians had moved into the shelters located five stories underground.
"Alright," Sasuke exclaimed as he jumped off, "Get those Rail-Guns up and working! Unload those Spiders! Everyone to defensive position! Snipers, set up in those buildings! Let's move it people!"
Two hours later, the small army was all set up.
The soldiers lined up along the front of the train, their weapons at the ready.
As they were preparing to face the mortars, there was a crack of lightning from above their heads, they all looked up, and it started pouring rain down on top of them.
Sasuke and Naruto looked up, and as soon as they did, buckets upon buckets of rain came pouring down upon their heads.
Despite the rain Sasuke and Naruto heard something, they looked down, and several puddles started to vibrate, a large pounding sound came from the distance, and soon a large metal leg appeared over the mountain.
Sasuke instantly knew what it was, "SCORPION!" Sasuke yelled.
A Scorpion is a walking fortress that has a large cannon stick out the top like a scorpion's tail that fires a powerful beam weapon that could vaporize a human in an instant, the entire thing stands forty feet tall, and can carry up to fifty soldiers.
"Rail-Guns," Naruto exclaimed as the rest of the Scorpion came over the mountain, "FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!"
The Rail-Guns took one shot each at the Scorpion, the large walking fortress lost two legs, but kept going.
The Spiders then advanced, shooting at the Scorpion.
Spider tanks (as I should have mentioned before) are large ten foot tall tanks that walk on four legs, it has a large double-barreled cannon on top that fired solar-powered shells at its enemies, and below they have a helicopter machinegun (a machinegun that sticks out in four different directions) and fires solar-powered bullets.
The Scorpion fired at the Spiders as the ground-troops fired at the Scorpion.
"We have to get up there," Sasuke said as he ran over to a bike lying on its side in the dirt.
"Please tell me you know how to use this thing," Naruto said as he grabbed onto the back of the bike.
"I've done some riding," Sasuke said as he reeved the bike, and started forward, Naruto's boots dug in the dirt.
Naruto quickly jumped onto the back of the bike, his feet were really aching after dragging his feet for a while.
As Naruto held onto the back of the bike, Sasuke gunned it, and used a melted Spider-tank as a ramp to launch both him and Naruto onto the side of the Scorpion.
The motorcycle slid across the surface of the Scorpion, knocking twelve Revolutionaries off the Scorpion.
"Let's go," Sasuke said as he helped Naruto to his feet.
The two ran over to the entrance to the Scorpion, and instantly retreated back behind cover as several Revolutionaries fired at them.
Sasuke then held his M16 inside the cabin, and blind-fired, empting the assault-rifle clip, then shooting off a grenade, killing the Revolutionaries.
The two soldiers walked inside the Scorpion, and saw almost one hundred revolutionaries inside, Sasuke and Naruto grabbed all the grenades off their belts, activated them, and threw them all inside.
The grenades all exploded, and set off several other grenades inside, causing a huge shockwave that knocked Sasuke and Naruto to the ground.
Both of them walked into the main cabin, and found that everyone was killed in the explosion.
As soon as they reached the cockpit door, Sasuke opened the door, and both Sasuke and Naruto emptied their magazines into the driver's body.
After emptying the magazine, Naruto pulled the driver out of the seat, pulled a spare grenade out of the pilot's belt, selected Molotov, activated it, and tossed it into the cockpit as Sasuke slammed the door shut.
The Molotov went off, causing the cockpit to burst into flames.
The two then ran out of the cabin as the fire exploded through the doors, and spread around the cabin.
After reaching the edge, Sasuke and Naruto jumped, Sasuke landed first, and it dislocated his leg, Naruto landed next, then helped a limping Sasuke over behind the train.
"All troops, take cover," Sasuke exclaimed as he pressed two fingers to his ear-piece.
All 1,300 troops who had by some crazy miracle survived took cover as Naruto snapped Sasuke leg back into place, and the Scorpion spun off further away from the city, and exploded, sending a shock wave that launched the final trooper into cover, and onto his back.
Sasuke, Naruto, and the entire small army they had peaked out from behind cover as the Spiders returned to them, "We did it," Sasuke said as he stood up on the train, "We did it! We won," Sasuke turned to the troops, "WE WON!"
The entire small army loaded up after making sure all civilians were accounted for, and took the train back to Tisis, every last one of the troops either sat on top of the train or on top of the railway gun, and they were all singing Paths of Victory.
As the troops sun the last line, they clapped, and cheered, Sasuke slapped a few shoulders, and shook a few hands as he moved back toward the Rail-Gun.
Sasuke climbed on the Rail-Gun's platform, and sat next to Naruto on a platform mounted almost at the end of the Rail-Gun's barrel.
Sasuke on the right platform, and Naruto on the left platform, "Some battle eh," Sasuke asked as he raised his leg to check on it.
"Yea," Naruto said as he took a swig from his flask, then passed it to Sasuke, "How's the leg?"
"It's alright," Sasuke said as he let his leg dangle off the edge of the platform with his other leg, then took a swig from the flash, and flinching from the taste, "Holy shit that's strong. What is that?"
"It's called Mylar," Naruto said as he capped the flask, and slid it into the pocket of his armor, "It's from my planet. It's actually just Moonshine from my planet mixed with June-Berries."
"June-Berries," Sasuke said, "Nice."
June-Berries are a special kind of berry that grows in certain areas of the known Cosmos, and is used to add flavors the finest kinds of wine.
"I'm not surprised you don't have a taste for this," Naruto said, "Hurans grow up drinking this stuff. Have it every holiday, including special occasions."
"I'll bet," Sasuke said as he lightly drummed on the railing, "Where do you think the Revolutionaries got a Scorpion?"
"Three letters," Naruto said, "B-R-D."
"One word," Sasuke said, "Obviously."
"They must have gotten desperate," Naruto said, "They were so intent on getting the government off this planet that they were willing to smuggle one of the largest weapons ever created onto this planet."
"Maybe what's happening to them is what's happening to the Soviet Union back on Earth in 1991." Sasuke said.
"What they're going bankrupt," Naruto asked, "The Soviet Union ended three hundred and fifty eight years ago my friend. I doubt the BRD will be running out of money anytime soon."
"Maybe buddy," Sasuke said as he laid back against the floor of the platform, and put his head in his hands, "Maybe."
The two then relaxed as the train continued the remainder of the journey back to Tisis.
When they arrived, they were greeted by the cheers from their fellow Invictus Army soldiers.
The over 1300 soldiers were now heroes because of their work against the Scorpion, and saving New Eden.
The party that night the soldiers threw was glorious, loud music, beautiful dancers, and lots of booze.
In the middle of the party, one of the soldiers silenced the music, and stood on a table, "Alright everybody listen up," he exclaimed, "I would like to propose a toast," he turned toward Sasuke and Naruto, "To Sergeants Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki, without them, we would not be here! Sasuke and Naruto!"
"Sasuke and Naruto!" The entire bar exclaimed as they all raised their glasses.
"Alright everybody, alright," Sasuke said as he calmed the bar down, "But this victory wasn't about what Naruto and I did, it's about what all of you, plus us did," Sasuke slapped a wad of credits on the bar, "A round for the house in me and Naruto's toast to you guys!"
The soldiers cheered, and clapped as Sasuke raised his glass, and smiled as the bartender poured a round of beers for the 1,300 soldiers in the bar, it was a good night for those guys.
That night, Sasuke and Naruto walked into Team 7's quarters only to find the entire time was gone.
"They'll be back tomorrow," Naruto said, "Let's get some sleep."
Sasuke walked over to his bunk which was next to Naruto's, "Good night Sasuke." Naruto said.
"Naruto." Sasuke said as he fell asleep.
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