Chapter 3: That's Urban Warfare for Ya!
Jump City is usually a rather vibrant and active city. For now however it was earily quiet. All the usually active and out going residents were gone and the streets were all but abandoned. The occassional parked car or building was broken into or on fire. And high above the now abandoned streets was a Black Hawk Helicopter being escorted by two flying female superheroes and a Green Falcon. Inside this Chopper were the Turagut brothers, looking down upon the rooftops below.
"I hate the uncomfortable silence." said Rack leaning on the Chopper's minigun.
"Agreed," Snipe commented "the calm is most unsettling."
Starfire flew over to the open door of the Balckhawk.
"How much further must we travel?" She asked
"According to my map the Landing site should be just a few more blocks down." Rack responded looking at the small GPS device in his right hand.
"This has been way too easy." Raven said as she floated over to Starfire.
"You mean the whole getting over here?" Reige asked
"Exactly." Raven responded
"Well then consider it a good thing we got here with no problems. Otherwise, there would be gunfire and bullets and-" Reige was interuppted when they heard the unmistakable sound of gunfire emanating from the rooftops below.
"Enemies on the rooftops!" The pilot shouted
Rack looked down from his postion and saw the shooters.
"Well, there's that gunfire now. Thank you Reige." Rack said quite annoyed
"Why me? I didn't do anything?" Reige retorted
"You're a jinx that's why." Snipe shot back.
"Less talking," Raven yelled "more hitting!"
With this the Titans launched themselves at the Mutants on the roof. Starfire blasted several backwards as they fired upon the chopper. Beastboy landed and morphed into a rhino trampling all that came within striking distance of his charge. One of the Mutants took aim at the rhino as it charged, but even as Beastboy noticed this and tried to stop a blast of dark energy knocked the mutant to the ground. Beastboy quickly noted his saviour.
"Thanks for the save Raven." Beastboy saluted after changing back into his original form
"You owe me one." She answered back
Raven saw that the Chopper had moved ahead and was now being fired at from another rooftop. Muttering her mantra she lifted a nearby billboard and sent it crashing down on the Mutant's heads. The chopper moved on to a small intersection in the road and was about to land when two transport trucks arrived and began to let troops off to fire at the Blackhawk. Rack fired his minigun at the opposers but more were streaming out of the building and the sudden arrival of machine gun mounted truck wasn't good either.
"Well they set up themselves quite nicely huh?" Reige thought.
Beastboy had landed next to the truck as a mountain gorilla and wrenched the mounted machine gun free of its owner. He then simply flipped the car on its side. This prompted the Mutants onboard to scurry away as fast as possible. Raven lifted one of the transport trucks offf the ground and crashed it into the second one. Raven then heard a distinct clicking sound behind her. A mutant was holding a pistol to her head
"If I see you hands glow American I will shoot!" The Mutant shouted
Before Raven could figure out what to do, a certain Green Gorilla provided the answer as he grabbed the Dinosaur's head and threw him several yards away. The Gorilla turned back into Beastboy.
"I think we're even now." Beastboy stated triuphantly
"You still me owe me for all the other times Beastboy." Raven retorted
Beastboy just frowned at this, even if he did know it was Raven's way of saying thank you.
The Black Hawk landed very soon afterwards and the Raptors' piled out.
"Okay, the insertion went off without a hitch." Rack said looking around "Now the tricky part getting to the actual Parking Garage."
"If these guys are anything like the other Mutants they should be no problem." said Beastboy smoothly
"I do hope that Robin and Cyborg have had a safer journey then us." sighed hopeful Starfire
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Another Mutant Roadblock was crushed beneath the APC as it blasted through terrorist after terrorist steadily approaching the rendezvous point. The Machine gun was manned by a Raptorian soldier as Recon and the two Titans with him rode along. all the while gunfire and bullets were bouncing around on the armour outside the vehicle.
"Okay," Recon said looking at Cyborg and Robin "when we reach the Parking Complex, Rash will be immediately transported onto the APC. We have two other APCs behind us, they will transport the remaining soldiers and your friends back to the safety of the tower. But first we got to make sure extraction will be smooth, so we are going to have to take out any enemy units that show up. Rash being such a high profile target, you can bet there will be resistance."
"We'll keep them off your back long enough for you and the major to get away." Robin stated
Another distinct cling hit the vehicle and then the gunner dropped down clutching his arm.
"Damn it, those little Mute asses shot my arm!" He said trying to close the wound "I can't shoot."
"Will you be okay?" Recon asked
"I just need a first aid kit. Medic!" The Raptor on board as the medic approached and wrapped the Raptor's arm up.
"I'll take the gun." Recon told the Titans as he got up into position on the APC.
Clicking on his target designator, Recon scanned the area. As a Mutant appeared out of the alleyway he quickly took him down. Another three mutants came up when they turned the corner. Recon again was able to get a target on them and kill them. Next Recon's designator named two hostiles on the rooftop above them. Quickly firing upwards he dispatched them. Recon could only think of one thing as he saw how easily he was leading the APC convoy through the enemy lines.
"I love technology."
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Turagut Squad and their Titans were having their own set of trouble with the Mutants. They seemed to be around every other corner and made things increasingly difficult. Eventually however they arrived the Rendezvous point just a few yards away from the Garage.
"Arrived right on time." said Rack
"But, where is Robin?" Starfire asked surveying the area
A second or so later the APC convoy arrived and let off the Cyborg, Robin and Recon.
"Did everyone manage to find their way here okay?" Recon asked
"Let's see," Beastboy said counting off things on his fingers "constant ambushes, crazy gas mask wearing dinos with guns shooting at us every two minutes, an explosion or two there, yep it was pretty relaxing."
"We're all alive you know." Snipe informed him
"I don't usually get shot at everyday with guns!" Beastboy yelled "Not to mention have worry about getting shot just walking through my own city!"
"That Urban Warfare for ya." Rack responded
"Could you please just calm down." Snipe pleaded
"I'M COMPLETELY CALM!" Beastboy screamed
Snipe slowly backed away and looked to Raven.
"Is he always like this?" He asked
"Usually," Raven answered "but he isn't used to this whole war thing. None of us are. So could just give him a little break."
Recon ordered the group to head towards the parking garage. Inside they found exactly who they were looking for. Pistol in hand and surrounded by a car baricade was huge muscular Raptor that towered over everyone in the complex. He was wearing his officer's uniform complete with hat. And the several bodies outside his small barricade indicated that he had used his pistol a lot today. The rest of Raptor soldiers were with him. Recon approached Rash.
"Major," The captain saluted "good to see you handled yourself okay."
"Damn it boy," said the Major in a gruff loud drill sargeant voice "what took you so long? I was just about to break out of here myself and take as many as these Red bastards with me as I went."
"I we have an APC outside waiting to take you back to Titans Tower sir." Recon told him
"Not yet," Major Rash stated "we still have to deal with some terrorist pests. Just across the street from here is a store where the Mutants have set up shop. I want it annihalated immediately."
"Alright," Recon complied "Turaguts to the roof. Lets see what we can do about this problem. But they won't be easy to kill inside that building" He then turned to the Titans. "You guys think you draw them out?"
"I know just the thing." said Robin
With the Turaguts positioned on the top floor of the garage overlooking the store where the Mutants were amassing, now covered with sandbag and barbed wire, Robin was preparing three esplosive disk to fly straight into the structure. With a flick of his hand the disk launched right into the building and the Mutants ran out. Trying to determine who threw the lethal devices at them. The Turagut Brother's fired on them. Snipe picked off any that appeared on the roof of the store while his brothers concentrated on ground units. Cyborg, who was with Robin, fired his sonic cannon at the Mutants that came out of the store as well hoping to push them back. When it was all over the Mutants had apparently retreated.
"Booyah." Cyborg said smuggly.
"Outstanding boys and girls." Recon congratulated as he came out of the Garage to oin the Titans. "But from here on out it only gets tougher."
"It gets worse?" Beastboy wondered at the ominous proclomation
"When does it ever get easy?" Raven asked back
"We still have to find Karvisko and restore order to this city." Recon told them "Lets get the Major back to the Tower before we do anything else."
"Good because I was getting hungry." Said Roger, turning his attention to Starfire "Say Star can we have a victory feast with that Gorck stuff?"
"Of course!" She answered "Glorck for one and all."
The Turagut brothers smiled, the other Titans just wanted to find a place to vomit.
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