Ohhh that punishment conditonig f*cking sucked d*ck, 100 yard bear crawls, pushups, suicides, situps, and 100 yard wheelbarrows in full pads! i didnt know it was possible for a human being to have that much endurance, now im really looking forward to boot camp. next chapter. rated M for war violence

Balto continued sniffing out the missing recon team, it was no easy job even with his wolf sense of smell since there were hundreds if not thousands of other scents on the island

"Balto how much further are they?" Bruto asked, after dogding enemy patrols and hostile wildlife for hours they had not found the missing squad yet. The troops were beginning to doubt Balto's abilties.

"Were lost!" a Marine shouted

"shut up private" another Marine replied

"We shouldnt have let a half breed lead the way, he probably smells something else" the Marine said again. This angered Balto, even after all he had done it still seemed like he was an outcast. He made no effort to hide how hurt he was by the comment and sat down and covered his face with his paws.

"Dammit private! look what you did!" a Sgt shouted pointing out Balto who was hurt by the rude comment

"Oh come on sir hes just a dog, he cant understand me" he private said. The Sgt walked over to the private very pissed off

"Listen here private, and you listen good" the Sgt snarled "Balto was the one who sniffed out the krauts in Nome, if it werent for him Hitler would have invaded canada and the U.S and with most of our military in europe or the pacific, we would have gotten our asses kicked and all you have done is bitch about being lost! you havent done anything remotely close that shows you are a Marine yet so shut up and keep moving!" the Sgt yelled. The private just stood there shocked and ashamed of himself

"THATS AN ORDER PRIVATE!" the Sgt yelled

"yes sir!" the private said as he got back in formation wanting nothing more than to prove himself a Marine. Balto did feel a little bad for him

"He probably shouldnt have been that hard on him" Balto said

"Balto are you kidding me? you heard what he said" Bruto began to say

"hes just frustrated i know he didnt mean it" Balto said again

"I can see why Jenna likes youze so much, youze the forgivin kind" Tony said "If that were me i would have clawed him a new one" Tony said again before putting his nose in the air

"I smell it too" Balto said "lets go!" he said as he, Bruto, and Tony began barking to get the soldiers attention and began to run. After about five minutes they came to a stop at a ledge overlooking a large clearing. The Marines pulled out their binoculars and took a closer look. It was indeed a POW camp, there were atleast seventy japanese guards. Towards the left there were three poles with a man tied to each of them,they were the missing recon team they were covered in bruises and blood.

"Hey werent their ten of them? where are the rest?" a Marine said when he looked further to the left and saw seven dead bodies in a plie

"Those motherfuckers!" a Marine said in anger while cocking his Springfield rifle.

"Allright men heres the situation!" the commander said "We got three of our missing recon team still alive and it looks like they dont got much longer so we gotta move fast! Sharpeye and Flinch will provide sniper support while Sparky radios back to base we found the missing squad and need reinforcements on standby. Wildman, Dagger, Cowboy, and Gunny will come with me and draw enemy attention while Stogie, Yankee, Tiger, Smoker, and Wickman will get the POW's outta there, Doc will follow anyone who needs medical attention and the dogs will come with us to alert us to any Japs who are sneaking up any questions?" the Commander said, he refered to everyone by their 'nicknames' they came up with. The commanders nickname was Viper

"No sir" the Marines replied

"Good lets move out" the commander said as Sharpeye and Flinch took aim with their Sprinfield sniper rifles and began to pick off Japanese guards as Viper, WIldman, Dagger, Cowboy, and Gunny got enemy attention resulting in the POW's being unguarded so Stogie, Yankee, Tiger, Smoker, and Wickman could release the POW's. While they were rescuing the POW's Balto began to bark when he caught an enemy scent.

"SNIPER!" Viper yelled as a bullet flew past his head. Sharpeye and Flinch took aim at the japanese sniper and killed him. Bruto began to tug on Viper to get his attention

"What is it boy?" Viper asked as he followed Bruto to a lifeless body

"DAMMIT! THEY GOT DAGGER!" Viper shouted as he pulled the dog tags off of his fallen comrades neck. Out of the corner of his eye he saw blood coming from Gunny's arm

"MEDIC!" Gunny yelled as the last of the japanese guards were picked off. other than Dagger no one else had been killed. Doc ran down and put a bandage around Gunny's arm to stop the bleeding

"man that was close" Bruto said. adrenaline still pumping through his tense body

"yeah but we lost one of our guys" Tony said pointing to Dagger's dead body

"Thank you, we would have died if they tortured us again" a POW said as he picked up a dead Japanese soldiers gun

"What happened?" Viper asked

"We were reconing the area when they came out of nowhere, we surrendered when we ran out of ammo and our knives were lost. When we got here they began interrogating us for info. When nobody cracked they began to kill us one by one, we were next when you showed up" the POW said

"Killing POW's? Thats against the damn geneva code!" Wickman said. It was against the code of war to kill an unarmed prisoner unless they attacked first

"No one follows those damn rules anyway" Wildman said. The allied soldiers and axis soldiers hated each other so much that they often killed each other even when one surrendered. Deep down Wildman felt he would kill a Japanese POW. Wildman was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked and he felt nothing but hatred towards the japanese.

"Uh guys?" Balto said sniffing the air "We've got company"

"Uh oh" Bruto said "I smell somethin other than human, this isnt good at all"

"Hey looks over there!" Tony said pointing to an area of trees which were falling down. All three dogs could hear the nerve-racking sound of tank wheels grinding on each other. Armies intentionally neglected to oil the treads because the sound of a tank coming would scare the shit out of any soldier and it sure did work because the dogs put their tail in between their legs and began whimpering.

"Sir, i got a visual on three japanese tanks heading towards you plus about eighty jap troops, they must know we are here" Sharpeye said over the radio

"Shit! tell Sparky to radio back command that we NEED armored reinforcements NOW!" Viper said

"Will do sir, Flinch and I will try to thin em out before they get to close" Sharpeye said as Viper put back his radio and called the Marines to take up battle positions. Normally since it was a jungle there would be plenty of places to hide but since it was a clearing it was pretty hard to hide among the foliage. plus all the places that would make good combat spots such as the watchtowers and the pillboxes would be the first targets for the tank so the Marines took cover behind walls and debris. Cowboy took cover under the dead bodies of japanese soldiers so it would be hard to find where the gunfire was coming from.

"What do we do?" Balto asked frantically. Humans were relatively easy to stop if you bit their throats before they shot you but the Japanese were much more fierce in combat than the germans and italians back in Africa. And the metal monsters the humans called 'tanks' could not be harmed by guns, let alone dog attacks

"We'll surely get killed if we run out there but we wont hide like cowards" Bruto said

"Allright stay away from those metal monsters and only attack a japanese soldier when he isnt looking, and if we go out, were goin out like dogs" Tony said as Balto and Bruto and him lay behind bushes waiting to ambush any japanese soldier who walked by.

The battle begun as Sharpeye and Flich began to pick off japanese as they entered the clearing. The rest of the Marines began to open fire on the japanese. even though the japanese outnumbered the Marines 8 to 1, the Marines were loyal, tough, strong, brave and each had a personal grudge against the japanese for pearl harbor. In the midst of all the gunfire the japanese had their backs turned

"NOW" Balto yelled as him Bruto and Tony began to attack the japanese soldiers. The took down about eight before a round from the tank whizzed past their heads and struck the POW camp killing Smoker, Yankee, Gunny and Stogie. Because tanks werent expected to be present due to the thick foliage and uneven terrain. The team had not come with anti-armor weapons, they had to wait until air support arrived.

"Command this Lance Corporal Carter Sparkinson, we have located the missing recon team but have been ambushed by enemy armor, we need support!" Sparky shouted over the radio

"roger than LCpl P-39's inbound five minutes" the radio said. Only 20 japanese troops remained but the tanks were becoming a incredible problem as they leveled the POW camp in an attempt to kill the Marines taking cover inside. Balto began to run at a Japanese soldier who had his back turned but right when Balto jumped, the japanese soldier turned around and kicked Balto in the stomach. Balto's vest absorbed most of the blow but was still knocked to the ground. Balto looked up to see a rifle aiming down at him

"Im sorry i couldnt comeback for you Jenna, take care of our pups" Balto thought to himself as he prepared for the end but when he openede his eyes again, he was still in the jungle and alive. The only difference was the soldier aiming the gun at him was now dead and had a golden retriever standing over him.

"Need a hand partner?" the golden retriever said holding out his paw.

Now thats a good chapter. there may be a lot of grammar mistakes because my hands were real shaky when i was writing this because of the 200+ pushups my coach made me do. R&R