Hey all so chapter 9 of military man is here. Special thanks to reviewer ILKikeComps for the reviews he gave. In response to his/her query, yes they did have regular classes, English, maths, ect. I just had them have fun classes the first quarter in the premise of getting them interested. In response to Commando678, yes there will be magic in this fic, but not for a little while. Anyway thanks to you folks who enjoy my writing. Please read, review, and vote on the poll on my profile.
Military man chapter 9
8 September 1991
Thetford Junior Royal Military Academy 2130
Harry and his small contingent of cadets were working their way through the trees toward the small campsite that had been created for their training simulation, they were about a klick from the camp when they made contact with the other squad.
"Down, down, return fire." Harry screamed, slamming himself into the ground and firing blindly into the surrounding tree line, from the looks of it three of his squad were 'injured' and two more were pinned down, Harry crawled over to the three who'd gone down, not fast enough to follow Harry's order. Harry grabbed the 'med kit' and threw a few bandages around the 'wounds', handing the cadets their weapons and leaping to his feet firing off to the left, where he saw a few cadets from Bravo team. He fired and hit one twice in the lower abdomen, Jacobson had nailed one of the others in the chest, and Ariel had pegged the last two in the heart. After they had helped their wounded and cleaned up a bit, they had to make a new plan.
"They'll know where we are now, we have to switch up the plan." Jacobson said in a panic.
"No, that's what they think we'll do, they've probably shifted over to the other side of camp by now, we stick with the plan, except if there is an opening, Team A will take it, while Team B will hold back a few more minutes than planned. That means if Team A gets a shot at the intel, you take it understood." Harry said in a commanding tone, well as commanding as an eleven year old can get.
"Understood." his squad hollered back, moving off into their different positions, while Harry and Nico moved into the vantage point. Harry watched as Team A moved uninterrupted through the camp.
"Be a tad more cautious lads, they are at the other side of the camp, but you never know if there's a straggler." Harry said quietly into his mic.
"Copy that sir." Karin, the leader of Team A said quietly. Harry could see that the other squad was getting restless, some of the cadets were arguing about the effectiveness of waiting at the other side of the camp, Harry was proud to see that the members of Lightning Squad were quite vocal about their opposition of Bravo Squads plan.
"Change of plans, Team B engage at will, do not let the head back to the camp." Harry ordered as he watched the cadets of Bravo Squad begin to head back into the camp. Harry loaded his sniper as he got confirmation from Jacobson that they would engage. "Karin divert Conner, Alain, and Kaidan to the back side, tell them to attack on my command, I want to make sure we have as little casualties as possible." Harry ordered, firing, and taking out a Bravo Team cadet. The fighting was brutal, Team B was giving no quarter, and Hannah had reminded them about the 'lights of their eyes speech' the Bravo Team cades were gaining ground but they lost cadets for every inch they took, Harry was providing support but it wasn't enough. "Send them in Karin." He ordered picking off another cadet.
"Yes sir." Karin said. "We've secured the documents and are on our way to the evac, orders?" she asked.
"Leave two men with the package and return to aid Team B." Harry said.
"Copy sir." she said, and Harry saw a few men from Team A running out of the base. Harry put a few more shots into Bravo Squad as he watched the three cadets from Team A fire mercilessly into the backs of Bravo Squad, those cadets were sandwiched between six people and were being slaughtered. Over half of the already depleted squad were down in minutes. "Sir, we've secured the package, returning to the fight." Karin said over the mic.
"Solid copy, the enemy is being suppressed, once you've secured the other cadets we'll pull out." Harry said, putting three rounds in a cadet. "Jacobson, regroup with the other team, we're ready to pull out." Harry ordered.
"Understood sir." Jacobson said, firing at the now pinned down Bravo Team.
"Nico, pack it in, we're leaving in five." Harry said quietly, popping off a few more rounds, Bravo Squad was now down to eight active fighters.
"Got it sir." Nico said. Except he didn't sound like Nico. "Shit." Harry murmured quickly leaping up, pointing his sniper rifle at the grinning Alistair.
"Hey Cap, how you doing?" he asked smirking. Harry saw Nico laying on the ground, a line of paint around his neck, showing how Alistair had crept up on him, Nico mouthed sorry before going back to being 'dead'.
"How's it going Alistair? You lost you know." Harry said as if discussing the day's weather.
"Indeed, it took me too long to discover where your shots were coming from, else I'd have been here sooner." he said disappointed.
"Eh, you put up a good fight, disrupted out plans a tad." Harry said, grinning at his friend.
"Yeah, quite a few of us were unconvinced of the plan to switch spots, but we were over ruled." Alistair said, slowly drawing closer.
"That's why I had what was to be the extraction team begin to fight you." Harry said with a smirk.
"I figured they were too small to be more than a recon squad, that's why I started looking for you." Alistair said lunging for the rifle. Harry sidestepped him trying to get a clear shot, Alistair continued to come after him, dodging and weaving, making sure Harry never got the shot. Alistair swung his knife wildly, hoping to at least wing Harry a bit. He succeeded within the next few minutes, knocking his blade along the rifle barrel and down Harry's hand. Harry let the hand drop and elbowed Alistair in the face, before kicking out into his gut, grabbing his own knife in his off hand and clumsily lunging at Alistair's bent over form. Harry ran the blade down his back and 'stabbed' him in the spine a few times.
"Alpha Leaders, are we all good?" Harry asked retrieving the mic he had dropped when Alistair had first engaged him.
"Where the hell were yah? We've been trying to reach you for the past ten minutes." Ariel and Jacobson yelled over the air.
"Nico and I were ambushed by Alistair Kenrick right before we pulled out, Nico is down but I got Kenrick. I've got Nico and we're proceeding to exfil. What's the status of Bravo Squad?" Harry asked, slinging Nico over his shoulder.
"We got them all before exfil, minus Kenrick. We'll be waiting for you at the LZ." Ariel said.
"Solid copy, I'm coming in from the west, ETA five minutes." Harry said, grunting as he carried Nico down the hill. He was met by the entirety of Alpha Squad, a few had bandages on 'wounds' but for the most part everyone was unharmed.
"Jolly well done chaps." Hannah said in her best American-British accent.
"Yes jolly good." Harry, in the same voice, said as they climbed into the truck grinning like fools.
TBC
So I discovered a break in my schedule that gives me some time to write, so expect good things, sometimes. Anyway I hope you enjoyed it, review and vote on the poll please. Ta all.