Chapter 1: "Convoy"
As the sun rises on Roanapur, Rock is woken up by a flash of light and suddenly a roar and ratling of engines coming from a distance. Rock quickly gets up and calls out for his companions:
"Revy!"
No one responds
"Dutch, Benny!"
No one was in the apartment and the roaring and ratling is getting more intense.
Rock leaves the apartment and walks down to the street to find out Dutch, Revy and Benny have been standing there for quite some time.
"Finally up are we?" Dutch said with a grin on his face
"Well this is an unusual time for me to get up but it's Satu…" Rock was interrupted in the middle of the sentence by a column of armored vehicles passing by.
Column consisted of Humvee, Stryker MGS, and a couple Tank Transporter vehicles that had tanks on them presumably M1 Abramses of an older generation
"So that was what made all of the rattling and noise from a distance" Rock thinked to himself
While passing through the narrow streets of Roanapur the armored column came to a halt
"Who are these Jackasses and what are they doing here" Revy spattered as she lighted a cigarette and pulled out one of her guns.
In a moments notice a machine gun and an assault rifle from a humvee that was right in front of her had their sights pointed at the seemingly always annoyed women
"Come on shoot you don't have the balls"
"Hearts and minds everybody hearts and minds calm down" a sudden voice came from the humvee as the door of the vehicle opened and closed in an instant and a figure in a woodland uniform appeared.
With an AK74 strapped over his body and with the motion to remove his helmet a gesture of peace, calmness, and one of peace which was not so common for Roanapur, it's rare to see someone here not pulling a gun on you immediately
"Just who are these people US Army? no he is using an AK, Russians not doesn't look like a Russian what the hell?"
"It's a sort of a coalition Dutch you know maybe even a private military force of some sorts look at the patches on their uniforms all different countries, US, Russian, German, Japanese." Rock interrupted Dutch with this statement and was quickly staggered in place as he noticed a Japanese flag as he said.
In his heart he felt some kind of warmth as he never saw a Japanese man come here yet he saw them when he was back in Tokyo with Balalaika on their little business excursion but those people were cruel and vicious none of them actually represented the people of Japan and Japan itself they represented only themselves and their personal benefits.
As the men lowered their weapons and the machine gunner pointed the gun upwards and laid his arms on the metal plates that were there to protect him, the man standing in front of them started introducing himself
"My name is Jovan we are the GDF"
"Global Defence Force?" Rock spouted
"You would be right, i guess you know are mission and our assets maybe you could explain your friends what we do and who are we"
"GDF was a project initiated by a person in the Balkans that was unsatisfied how military and counter intelligence agencies worked on curbing the spreading of terorism and how they did more harm than help that even when it was called for emergency purposes the Army would be unable to suffice due to the lack of judgement poor planning and nationalistic tendencies,
GDF basically call themselves protectors of ordinary people, many people joined the cause as the first operation proved a success due to cracking a massive network of human and organ trafficking."
"You would be correct Sir. if i may know your name"
"Rokuro Okajima, Rock in short"
"Rock here explained everything essential to your knowledge"
"Lieutenant we need to go the convoy started moving" the driver of the humvee shouted
"I need to go I hope I will meet you again you seem like a fun bunch to potentially work with I will explain everything when we meet again" Jovan put his helmet back on his head and hastily went back to the vehicle and the convoy drove of leaving the members of Lagoon in a dizzy from the first encounter.
"Just what the hell are they doing here don't they know this city plays by its own rules no people saving no bravery just money and violence and business nobody wants a police like force patrolling here." Revy said in her usual aggravated and annoyed voice.
"I am very curious what will Balalaika say about this, say Benny could you try tapping into their comms maybe" Dutch suggested
"I may try" Benny responded
But as everybody started seeing and predicting the shattering of the status quo that has been held here by many mobsters and warlords that technically run the city. Rock had a little bit of humanity that he lost return to him as for the first time in years he saw people that actually could help this city and potentially help him.