After they were all loaded in, Kris slammed the door, and Marc hopped out of his stretcher and into the copilot's seat. Rugget was groggy, so he remained on his stretcher... Eric and Kris went in search of food
"See if ye can't find some golden grams... I skipped breakfast" Called Barney
Eric Rummaged through the fridge... And found a very old box of them
He walked over, carrying the box and said "Sure. But the experation date was in 1964... Then it happened... Eric stepped on someone... "Sorry Kris" He said... But then he looked down... and it wasn't Kris at all. It was a NOD sniper. Barney Hopped up from his seat... and Kris replaced it. He swiped up the sniper rifle and aimed it at the gunman.
"So," He said "Thought you'd pull a fast one on Barney Kapp, eh?"
"What's it to ya?" he shot back
Barney jabbed the barrel of the gun into his head "Don't ye get glib with me!"
He jabbed it again "Ye bastards got anything elts up yer sleves?" He growled
"What'll ya give me if i tell ya?" He asked
"A doggie treat" snapped Barney
The Nod troop grinned "All right. I'll give you a clue. It's big, its black, it hefts a plasma cannon, it is loyal as hell. Our Cyborg Commando. We need something, scince you SOB's destroyed our Banshee."
"We didn't have to" Chimed Eric "It destroyed itself."
Then a sam battery discharged rounds into the cockpit, Marc and Kris diving out of the blast just in time. As It careemed across the ground Barney made a human chain. He dove out, pulling everyone after him.
"Fall back, squad 1, FALL BACK!" Shouted Staff Seargent S. Christopher Homer "Destroy the sam sites so we can get in reinforcements, MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!!"
"SEARGENT HOMER!" Yelled Barney "Reinforcemtnts have arrived! This is the last of them!"
"Then we're screwed!" He replied "They got rocketeers all over... and cyborgs too... We managed to take out the devil's tounge before it got out of hand.
A great explosion roared over the plains, as the hand of nod went up in flames... if one of them backed off, it would be the start of the tiberian twilight
The roar of the M16's Made Eric shudder, He wyrmed his way over to a nod corpse, and pryed a Chem Spray cannon out of his hand, He slammed the butt of the cannon into the ground, and a great green cloud spouted from its nozzle, killing all the nod troops, except for the cyborgs and tick tanks.
Kris got up to make an assult, but a cyborg whacked him over the head with it's mighty robotic arm. The cyborg took aim with it's chaingun and prepared to fire, but Barney sacked it, and it shot a spray of chaingun bullets to the side of Kris. Barney socked it in the face, then crammed a chaff into it's mouth, he rolled over, there was a small explosion, then the cyborg froze. Barney walked 20 feet away then turned around and started running, he stopped at the cyborg and punted it's head "High and Mighty"
"That's for tryin' ta kill my kid brother, you cybotic freak!" Barney shouted after it
Then a site came that was a horror to behold... the cyborg commando. Mack Hollander leapt out of a foxhole and onto it's head, it stumbled around, then socked mack in the gut. He slumped off, and escaped the battle with nothing more than a large bruise. It fired it's plasma cannon at someone, then came GDI's savior.
Six Disruptors rolled through the bush, and Senchronoly attacked the Coybtic horror, ending its meaningless life. They went on to destroy the entire NOD encampment. Eric ran over to the soilder the CC managed to get... It was Dave Clarke.
"...Eric, Eric, Is that you?" He groaned "Tell me it's gonna be okay... ... ... ... It's not is it?"
Eric looked him over... He was missing his left arm and 1/3 of his torso
"Please," Dave Begged "Tell camilla I love her"
Eric cradled his head and said "You're gonna be okay"
"MEDIC!!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed "MEEEEEEEDIIIIIIICCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
There was silence... And then Dave Clarke rolled over and died... A soilders death... No, A war hero's death.
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The next day there was a funeral for Dave Clarke, and a 21 gun salute. Eric saw a 6-Month-Pregnant woman there, It was Dave Clarke's wife, Camilla. He told her that he loved her, their unborn son, and he had died a war hero's death. After that, everyone was issued a promotion. So ETC and crew were Corprals, Everyone else was Private, First class. Barney Kapp got a purple heart and Was promoted to Lieutenant, 2nd class. And Base Commander Roy Masterson was issued the rank of O3, Captian.
Later that night Eric watched Barney and Captain Masterson have a chat about Barney joining the Officer ranks, Then he heard a man groan, and a woman giggle. Eric looked over with his noc's, and saw the unspeakable... Mack Hollander and some other gal... Well, you know... Then he saw something worse... Captian Masterson coming twoards the bunkroom door...