Chapter 4 Hunted
Day 2 - 03:02:41
Western Russia
Sgt. Catra
22nd SAS Regiment
Catra stirs awake in the helicopter and glances at her watch... (15 minutes, hm not Bad). She sits up from her slouched position getting a jolt of pain from the uncomfortable position (Yeah I'm gonna be sore for a bit) she looks over at adora looking out the side of the helicopter in her own mind. She looks at Seahawk seeing him nursing his wounds with new bandages and everything. She sees Glimmer got the same idea she did, she's dozing off in her chair slouched over some. After a minute she joins Adora and looks out the side of the helicopter watching the Russian countryside zip by.
Catra sees a flash of light from a barn and trail of smoke, Adora sees it too "What the hell is that?" Red lights begin flashing "Shit! Missile incoming trying to evade it!" one of the pilots yells. The missile hits the tail of helicopter severing the tail rotor from the body sending it into a spin. Adora grabs her chair "Everyone hold on! Brace for impact!" Catra holds on her chair for dear life she looks at Glimmer who's wide awake holding her chair and then at Seahawk who is... Smiling?
Catra starts to feel dizzy and everything starts going dark and her grip slowly loosens on her chair and she is pulled from the open helicopter door, Adora tries to grab her hand but can't in time.
Catra awakens slowly seeing a blurry orange light and figures moving around one of them runs up to her and shakes her some and she focuses her eyes "adora?" she asks with a raspy voice. Adora smiles at her "Thank God your still alive, i thought I'd find you dead after you fell out the helicopter." Catra laughs some but starts coughing "Alive? Yeah... i don't feel like it." Adora laughs and helps her up "Yeah? well your still in one piece so we need to get out of here before search parties arrive."
Adora walks over to the burning wreckage of the Black Hawk helping a limping Catra. "Status report?" she asks Glimmer "Paulsen and both pilots are dead, and we're fucked up but we are up." she says while collecting their dog tags. Adora grimaces "Fuck... Alright grab a rifle and all the ammo you can carry, we will probably have to fight our way to an extraction point." she hands Catra a MP5 and she grabs her M4A1 Glimmer picks up a G36C and Seahawk still has his AK74-U. Catra grabs some magazines from one of the pilots and she checks for her pistol (It's still there good. Now just ignore your probably broken ribs and fight on.)
Adora checks her radio and calls command. "Baseplate this is Bravo Six, we were shot down, three KIA and we're slightly wounded but we can move, over."
"Bravo Six this is baseplate we copy you. There is an extraction point about 10 Klicks to the NorthWest. We have an AC-130 Gunship moving to give you support but it will be some time until they are in a position to assist, over."
"Copy Baseplate, Bravo Six out." Adora turns to everyone "Alright we have an extraction point to the NorthWest now let's move before search parties show up." She starts down a small road toward a bridge with the squad following. She crouches near some bushes putting up a fist signaling them to stop and looks down the road seeing some headlights "There is some vehicles coming this way, under the bridge." she says and moves under it with everyone else huddling underneath the bridge listening to the trucks rumble over head.
Catra leans against the bridge support holding her stomach and grimacing (yeah definitely something broken... fuck.) She tries to straighten up and just listens to the engines of the trucks to ignore the pain. After a minute the trucks go silent and Adora calls to move forward, Catra following behind her. Adora moves up to a barn of a small farm and opens the door scanning the room and after seeing it's empty she crouches behind the main door looking through the glass "Looks like we have some company." she says while watching a squad of ultranationalists 'question' a old farmer. Catra watches the leader of the squad grab the old man by the shoulder showing him a pistol "Are we just gonna sit here?" she asks. Adora looks at her "Right, let's kill them before they kill the old man."
Adora shoulders her rifle picking a target the soldier behind the farmer, Catra the squad leader, Glimmer the soldier by the truck, Seahawk the soldier covering the area. Adora counts down "3... 2.. 1.. Fire!" Four bursts of Rifle and SMG fire break the silence of the night and four bodies hit the floor. Adora kicks open the barn door and Catra moves out clearing the yard, she hears footsteps behind the truck and she kneels under the truck seeing two feet, she shoots the feet and a body hits the ground and then she puts two rounds in the soldiers head.
The squad moves out of the barn, the old man watching them Seahawk looks at him "Заходи, друг, забудь, что видел нас, да?" he tells him, he nods his head quickly "да, я никогда не видел тебя" he responds quickly then runs inside closing the door. Adora nods toward the fields "Alright let's move." Everyone hops the fence moving over the field, Catra hears the sound of a helicopter "Helicopter get down!" she whisper yells to the squad. Everyone drops to the ground Catra doing so with a grunt of pain but staying still as the helicopter passes over head with a search light illuminating the dark field but then passing on. "Alright i don't think it saw us. Move up to the farm house the other side of the field." Adora orders.
As the squad moves across the field a truck drives down a road spotting them crossing the field it pulls of the road the soldiers hopping out. "Fuck! They spotted us and the helicopters turning around!" Glimmer yells while taking cover behind a tractor with Catra. Adora and Seahawk take cover behind some farm equipment, Adora looks at the door to the basement of the house behind them "Glim get the Basement door open! Cat hit the soldiers crossing the field Seahawk assist her! I'll get the chopper Gunner." Everyone wordlessly acknowledges her and does as their told. Glimmer begins breaking the lock on the door, Catra and Seahawk take potshots at soldiers moving across the field taking down a few. Adora looks down her sight and focuses on the gunner of helicopter firing a few shots, they ping off the side of the helicopter, She fires again hitting him in the chest, he slumps forward and falls out of the helicopter.
Glimmer hits the lock with the butt of her Rifle finally snapping the rusty bolt and she throws the doors open "Doors open! Everyone inside now!" she yells. Seahawk moves inside then Glimmer then Catra while Adora covers her, Adora slams the door shut. "Alright that door won't hold them back keep moving." she orders everyone moves through the basement till they find the stairs to the upper floor Catra takes point. She moves through a hallway until she finds a open door leading into a living room she moves in some scanning the room until something crashes through the window "Flashbang!" she yells averting her eyes while ducking behind a couch. She hears the bang of the grenade and her ears start ringing badly she looks up with her MP5 drawn and sees a soldier moving into the room she fires a burst into his chest watching him jerk back and hit his friend behind him causing them to stumble down the stairs. Glimmer and Adora move into the room and fire out the window at the soldiers attempting to get into the house.
Catra moves out of the house stepping over the bodies scanning the outside (Nothing? Weird.) Glimmer notices it too "It's too quiet, Where the hell did they go?"
Catra scans the area ahead "Well they're probably regrouping, planning to cut us off somewhere up ahead." Catra responds. Catra moves up looking left down an alleyway and forward both empty. Adora points forward "Me and Glimmer will take this path, Catra and Seahawk the other." Catra nods and moves ahead about to turn a corner when her gun is shoved out of her hand and she's pushed up against a wall and Seahawk is tackled. A soldier is trying to choke her holding his elbow over her throat she pushes back but he punches her in the ribs right on the broken ones and she yells in pain faltering and loosening her grip on his arm and he starts choking her again. She pushes back but it's weak with the pain from her ribs, she looks into the glass of the soldiers gasmask as her vision darkens but then the soldier is knocked upside the head with a rifle. Catra collapses against the wall gasping for air she hears muffled gunshots and screaming before she's grabbed by the shoulders by Seahawk "Come on lass! Snap out of it we've still got a war to fight!" he yells while giving her the MP5 she dropped.
Catra rests the MP5 on a barrel and fires at some soldiers taking cover behind some boxes, she feels a sharp stinging when they fire back but ignores it.
Adora takes cover behind some barrels then pops up firing a burst through a wooden wall killing a soldier behind it. Glimmer moves up to the wall while Adora covers her flank, she's about to jump over when a dog jumps over the wall latching onto her arm knocking her to the ground. Adora turns around and kicks the dog off of glimmer firing a short burst into it killing it then helps Glimmer off the ground "You okay?" she asks "Yeah it didn't do too much." They're interrupted by a squad of soldiers firing at them, they quickly drop behind cover. Adora looks across the way and sees Seahawk and Catra coming out of the other side taking cover as well behind a destroyed car. Adora looks over the wall and sees the soldiers behind a brick wall all bunched together, she pulls the pin on a grenade tossing it behind the cover the soldiers try to scatter a few jump over the wall. The grenade explodes killing two soldiers and knocking the rest down.
Catra sees the soldiers picking themselves up and fires at the soldiers who jumped the wall killing them splattering blood on the wall. The rest of the squad fires on the disoriented soldiers quickly dispatching them. Catra follows Seahawk to the squad who are at a fence leading out into a small ravine. She walks up and leans up against a stack of pallets breathing heavily (why do I feel so lightheaded?) she wonders, she looks down and sees red staining her vest and undershirt seeing a bit drop to the ground. "Ah fuck... i got hit." she grimaces at the pain hitting her after the adrenaline subsides. Slowly sitting down she looks up and sees the world spinning and darkening, she hears some shouting and then everything goes dark.
Adora runs over and kneels next to catra shaking her shoulders "Hey Catra! c'mon wake up!" Catra stirs some. Glimmer runs over with a first aid kit and takes off her vest beginning to patch up any wounds she has "Adora this place ain't to safe go with Seahawk to scout ahead some, i can stabilize her but no guarantee she'll wake back up may have lost to much blood." Adora hesitates for a few seconds "I'll be okay adora and catra will be fine too go ahead." Adora nods and moves with Seahawk to the nearby ravine following it till crouching at the edge of a field. Adora looks across the field and sees multiple squads of soldiers setting up a checkpoint at an abandoned farm, they begin to move back to Glimmer. "You think she'll be okay?" Adora asks Seahawk, he nods "From how I've seen her fight this day the lass will do just fine. She has the fight of ten men combined!" Adora laughs a little "But Adora i know you care for her but don't think about it to much your the captain it's your job to lead, so lead us all to safety and you lead her to safety got it?" Adora nods "Yeah i know but recently she's cought my eye more than someone usually would." Seahawk gasps "Ah I see now You are going on the greatest adventure of them all... Love!" Adoras face reddens "W-what? No no no no it's not that she's just really... Skillful! Yeah Skillful." Seahawk laughs "Whatever you say lass but i know she'll make it out just fine as long as we make it out." Adora nods and contacts command "Baseplate this is Bravo Six. We'll need that AC-130 a lot sooner."