Unseen War

Chapter Two





There was a light snowfall and the men were having trouble seeing into the distance. "Sergeant where are we right now?" Scott looked back behind him to see the Sergeants face. They were kneeled behind a rather large cluster of boulders.

"Were three clicks west of the base sir! I suggest we put on our face gear and turn the radios on. If you use the alpha three nine frequency no one should be able to pick up our radio signals."

"Ok make it done." With that the sergeant turned around to the rest of the squad and put his hand in a fist and pulled down with it. All the men put their masks on, and turned their radios onto the special frequency. Scott pulled his mask down and turned on the radio. "Bravo team do you read?" With that a slur of affirmatives came in. "Ok boys we are three clicks west of the base. Now our recon boys said that there were still ex- confederates in the base. Our job is the capture them and hopefully turn them to our side. If not you know what we have to do. Lets move."

The team of rangers wore specially modified ghost suits, with another layer of titanium armor, and there guns were armor piercing assault rifles. Colonel Cord had decided to send in the small team of 8 men and Captain Kiefer to take care of the confederate pests inside the base.

They slowly made there way through the extremely rocky terrain making sure not to set off and traps that may have been set out here. They came up to the main radar detection station about 300 yards outside the base. They checked inside but only found a layout of the base. However Scott decided to use this to his advantage.

"Ok guys check out these observation points here, here and here." While he said that he pointed to three towers. "We need to take out the three men that are arming these towers. So Ill need three of you to mount scopes onto your rifles, and remember shoot only to disarm. We may be able to use these guys later. After the towers are taken out the rest of us will enter the base through the supply docking area. We will clear the base out starting here in the mess hall, then to the armory, and then last of all the barracks. After we have cleared the base out drag all the confederates to the barracks where we can sedate them and wait for medics to arrive with the rest of the rangers and alpha team. We got it? Good. Now you three mount your guns with scopes and go to that bluff over there." He pointed over to a large bluff that was about 200 yards away from the base. "And work out what tower you guys will take. The rest of us will need to make our way down to the supply docking area. Now lets move, move, move!"

Why did these damn confederates have to stay here after the freaking confederacy disbanded? Now cause of them I'm freezing my ass off in the middle of some cold ass planet. Scott was thinking this to himself while him and the rest of the team ran down towards the back of the base. "Sergeant. get ready to blast the doors on my mark." The Sergeant went to the docking bay doors and started to wire up some explosives. Kiefer looked of towards the bluff to see if the snipers were in position. "Snipers are you in position?"

"Yes sir, we have our aims dead on as we speak." One of the snipers said into the radio.

"Sergeant you ready to make some sparks fly yet?"

"Sir the explosives are ready. On your mark Ill take the door out."

"Ok on three you snipers take out the towers, and Sergeant you blow the door. Everyone take cover, and prepare to storm the base. One, Two, Three!" A giant hole appeared in the door and the men rushed in. At about the same time three men laid in their positions yelling and groaning from sniper shots.

They rushed into the mess hall where three soldiers were eating. Two of them looked up from what they were eating. "Oh shit." The solider fell down groaning and holding his leg. The other one made a mad rush for the armory.

Scott took aim and pulled. A red cloud appeared from the marines' leg. "Ahhh! Oh god!" The marine was looking around wildly, and then passed out. They heard a noise from behind the kitchen counter. Suddenly a man popped up with a shotgun and started shooting.

Scott tipped a table over for cover. The rest of the men followed his example. Scott pulled out his knife and got onto his knees. He popped out from behind the table and threw the knife at the man. Scott ducked back down. He poked his head around the corner and the man was laying over the counter, dead.

"Damn captain, you think that he ever expected to get killed by a knife in a gun fight?" One of the rangers was surprised by how quickly he took out the man with a knife.

"Well come on boys we need to check out the armory and barracks." He started to walk to the armory when the snipers said something.

"Sir we already came in and checked the barracks, and there were only two marines asleep in here. The armory is locked shut. That's where we are now. We already have the tower guards and the barracks boys sedated and were awaiting orders."

"Ok then, Sergeant go to the communications room and radio in that we have the base secure with seven prisoners." The sergeant walked out of the room and Scott walked over to the man he had killed. "Sorry about that buddy, but I need my knife back." With that Kiefer pulled his knife out of the mans head and walked off to wait for reinforcements to arrive.