The General: World War III Chapter 10: Nation Losses, a halo fanfic

June 16th, 255211:02PM

Only one man wounded, that wasn't bad at all I thought to myself as we made our way back to our structure. Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie followed me. We hadn't taken any losses, only a man from Bravo team was wounded. We made our way by a tank, it was suck in a crater. It angled a bit in, the back left of it was suspended in the air a bit. "I told you it wouldn't make it!" yelled someone. "Im sorry commander." another voice replied. I laughed a small bit and smiled at the sight.

We came up on our structure to find a line of tables in place outside. Pots where set out among them. "Looks like there giving out food boy!" I yelled. Everyone glacned over, we where all hungery. "Dismissed!" I yelled. The others headed off a slight bit to the right toward the line of food, I conintued ahead alone. Jake glanced back and saw I wasn't coming. "Well catch you in a few." he yelled. I waved out to him.

I entered the structure and made my way to the center where Ryans quarters where. I stepped in and stood there. Ryan was filling out some papers, he glanced up. "Ah, my top commander." he said with joy. I looked at him confused a bit. I saluted. "At ease." he stated and I put my hands behind my back. "I heard you lead an assault attack on the enemy position, no?" he asked. "I pre-ordered my team commanders to move in when they saw fit, sir. They lead the attacks" "Team commanders?" he asked. I explained how I had organized my squad.

"See, I knew you where the man to put in charge." he said. "You organized your squad great and thought out the fights before they were fought. You also quickly reacted to a enemy position that was hiding in the rocks to ambush us." I opened a cabit and pulled something out, it was covered in his hands and I couldn't see what it was. He stood up and made his way infront of me. "For your valor in the face of the enemy and unbelieveable leadership with your team, I proudly promote you to Sergent." he annoucned and held out a badge.

I looked down at it and took it from his hands slowly. I had gone from Buddy team leader to Sergent in one battle. I looked up at him. "Thank you, sir." I said softly. "You earned it, you preformed much better than I thought you would. You make a fine commander." he said.

The raido by his desk went off. "Urgent, repeat, urgent news. Ryan Smith please respond over." We looked over at it. "Well... you better get going, go get some food while you can." he said. He saluted me, and I returned the favor. He made his way back to his desk and sat down. "This is Lieutenant Ryan." he replied over the radio as I made my way out.

I made my way out of the structure and out into the dirt ground, the sound of dirt clumps being crushed under my feet. I found the others pretty easily. The entire squad was sitting together eatting. I made my way over to them. "There he is." a soldier sitting on his helmet said. "Our unstoppable commander." The squad let out a hoot. I smiled. "We showed them didn't we..." the soldier glanced at my hand. "Sergent." he said again. "You dog you."

Steve glanced over at me, "You made sergent?" he asked curiously. "Yep." I replied and showed him the badge. "Don't forget to give that into command when we get back to Containment so they can airbrush the tag onto your armor." said Dave. "I won't." I replied. "Did you all see the way Thomas acted out on the field?" another soldier said. "Hell yeah, lead us to victory and we didn't even lose a man." said yet another. The squad let out a hoot again.

I took my helmet off and sat down on it with them. "Wait until next time too, he was just waming up this round." I laughed a bit. "Yeah." I said. "But don't forget, a commander can't be good if he dosen't have good troops." They let yet another hoot and continued eatting.

When they where done eating, we did a 'yo mama' joke contest. Who ever could tell the best joke would win. We sat back and laughed hard at the funny ones as well as the stupid ones. We declared Jake as the winner. He won with the line 'Yo mama is so stupid that she thought hamburger helper came with a friend.' We moved on to other topics to talk and joke about.

After about a hour of messing around we stopped when a Pelican flew in and landed infront of the structure. We all looked over and watched. A person came out the back witha steel briefcase. We looked at him strangely. He was a troop from the Brazilan Division. "What are they doing out here?" asked a soldier. "I heard they where defending the industrail areas off to the north." he added. We turned away and began to talk again. I could hear the Pelican taking off soon after.

The troops began to talk about something, but I was looking over my patch that I held in my hands. I focused out everything around me and stared at it. I was soon brought back to reality when a soldier set his red helmet down beside me and sat down. "Well, how have you been, Sergent?" asked Andy.

June 17th, 25521:17 AM

The troop remained silent as Andy continued. "The Chinese invaded Brazil and took the capital within a few hours. The somehow figured out that the entire Brazilan Division was here in Antarctica and their capitol was defenceless... Brazil is considered out of the war now, but their military is launching a counter attack in a day or two." he stopped. "This means the Chinese have armies in Brazil now." said a soldier. "They can hit us from the north or make an assault on Mexico, putting them out of the war... and onward to America." said another. "Thats probally what they will do." Andy said. "They will take Mexico while the nation is near defenceless. They will be slowed at America, I hear the 27th Mechinized Infantry troop is moving in on the border to protect America."

I glacned at the ground, our time of fun was over. What was our next phase of action. Would we retreat around though the sea to defend Mexico or stay here and keep them from taking Antarctica. I looked around the troop. "What are you thinking, sir?" asked a soldier. I layed out our possible actions we may take. We thought them over as to what we may do.

Orders came down from General Flood. We where all leaving the line of defence here and to head back to the fort. Pelicans came in and landed everywhere, there was about a thousand of us here and only thirty to forty pelicans, there was not enough. A convoy was established and would be used to move the rest. We made our way to a nearby dropship and the troops piled on. I looked around one last time. I looked up at a high chunk of land that stood out of the hillside. I saw movement and noticed a German scout watching us from the cover.

"You see something?" asked Steve. I took my glance from the man or women and looked at Steve. "No." I said and mounted up on the dropship. Ryan quickly got on as well and made his way into the cockpit. Within seconds the air convoy was taking off and headed for Fort Containment.

June 16th, 255211:02PM

We decended down for landing. I could hear the chaos around the camp already. "Touchdown." the piolt yelled and we piled out. I dashed out and onto the ground. I looked around and threw my head side to side to pop my neck that had become stiff. "Si eres un miembro del Mechinized mexicano. Cargar por favor para arriba en los Pelicans que se enviarán a México." a female voice said over the camp speakers. -If you are a member of the Mexican Mechinized. Please load up on the Pelicans to be sent to Mexico.-

"China está avanzando en Mexcio. Todo el Mechinized mexicano marcha por favor carga para arriba en los Pelicans que se enviarán para defender México." -China is advancing on Mexcio. All Mexican Mechinized troops please load up on the Pelicans to be sent to defend Mexico.- I looked around. To my left a wave of roughly three to fourhundred Mexican Mechinized soldiers where making there way to the Pelicans. We stepped out of the way to give room for them to bored up. Once a Pelican was loaded up it instantly took off into the night sky.

Night sky? I thought to myself. It was supposed to still be daylight in Antarctica. Huge lights where up all along the fort line and out in the open around us. "Why is it dark?" someone said. "Shit if I know. Something must be wrong." another man replied. I still still focused looking in the air. A C709 Stealth Fighter flashed overhead though the night. We all took a step back from the wind it caused on the ground, it had come by extremely low and extremely fast, we didn't even hear it until it was above us.

The Pelicans began to take off. Only two remained on the ground soon after. A second later the other one took off leaving on the ground and two squads of Mexican Mechinized, there wasn't enough room for all of them. "¡Ir! ¡Haré mi manera con los americanos más adelante hoy! ¡Ir!" -Go! I will make my way with the Americans later today! Go!- One Mexican CO said to the other. They saluted and the one team got on and was soon gone. The other team made its way back to the fort. We followed them.

We entered the fort. "Soldiers of the American Armed Forces." the speakers started up again. "Please pack your belongings and see fit to move out in a few hours." We walked into the fort, Ryan at point and I was behind him, everyone followed me from behind. The speakers clicked on again. "If you are running low on ammunation, please replish your supplise at any of the nearby ammo supply dumps."

"Whats going on?" Ryan asked as a soldier walked by. "Where moving out, thats all I know?" he said back as he continued to walk on. "Fall out still remains to the south-west, radation will not reach this position." the speakers started up again. "If you do not have radational air filters, they can be aquired at any of the supply dumps." Ryan stood there. "Someone used a fucking nuke!" he yelled and threw a punch into his left hand. He began to make his way into the quarters, he was walking extremely fast as though he may suddenly take off running.

"Supply up!" he yelled as we walked by a supply dump that lay on the ground. We looked around at eachother. "Someone nuked us?" A soldier said, he sounded extemely tence. "How far is this war going to go?" Jake said. "You think well all kill eachother?" Steve said. This continued a bit as we resupplyed. Everyone was just throwing questions out instead of answering, kind of answering a question with a question. Questions where all we had to reply with, we had no answers.

I picked up seven additional magazines for my gun along with three additional magazines for my sidearm and put them in my belt. I aquired four Frag Gernades and took a Nuclear Gernade and attached them to my belt. I looked back down at the box and picked up two more nuclear gernades and attached them on as well, My belt was now over filled and I put extra Frags into food pouchs along with extra ammo. Everyone else was overloading themselfs as well. I had roughly eighthundred rounds for my gun and about five frags and three nuclear gernades.

Ryan made his way back with a M19 SSM Rocket Launcher. "Has anyone ever fired one of these?" he asked. Only one person in our squad had ever held one. He went though what is was mainly used for and how to use it along with reloading it. "Drop your belt son." he said and the soldier unstrapped his ammo and gun holster belt and let it drop to the ground.

He handed him the Rocket Launcher. The soldier held it and looked over it. Ryan picked up a weird type of ammo holster and put it on the soldier like a backpack. This 'backpack' has a big hole int he side of it and the top was open, the 'backpack' it self was metal. Ryan went back over and pick up a rocket. Rockets for the M19 came in pairs, they where locked together. Whent he trigger was pulled, one would shoot out of one of the barrels on the launcher, when the person pulled again, another would shoot and then he would have to reload. That was the big knowlege I had on the gun and how it worked.

Ryan slid down the pair of rockets into the metal pack and they slid to the hole in the side. I looked at it and got it. When the person had to reload, he could reach around and pull out the ammo easily from the pack from the hole where it sat. Ryan put in another pair of rockets and patted the soldier on his shoulder. "You'll get the hang of it." he said to him.

"Squad Sapper!" Ryan yelled and a man in red armor stepped forth. Ryan went over to the ammo dump and came back with a M7057 Flame Thrower. "Have you used this before?" Ryan asked. "Yes, sir, I know how to use it." the sapper replied. "Good." Ryan said and handed the Flame Throwed with a painted... I took as a sharks faces or something, on it.

"Did everyone aquire additional ammo?" he asked aloud. "Yes, sir." we replied. "Alright then." he said. "I found out whats going on and I think I should tell you." he started. We watched him with much interest of finding out. "Its not night here, as you all know. Thats dust you see in the sky." We all glanced up into the 'night' sky. To think that is all dust I though to myself and then looked back at Ryan. "That dust was thrown into the air from a nuclear bomb." he started again. "The Chinese for some reason nuked the middle of nowhere out to the south-east. We haven't nuked them back yet, seeing as they didn't hit any civil areas or military. The Chinese themselfs have their armed forces and are about an hour away from Mexico and advancing ever closer. They will put Mexico out of the war." he finished. "Any questions?" he asked.

"Yeah." I spoke up. "What are we going to do about it?" I asked. "Well, from what I heard. We will be launched to Brazil and from there and on foot, walk all the way to America." "Why?" I asked. "Why not just fly to America?" I finished. Ryan looked deep into my visor. "We are moving on foot so we can retake any troops that may be in the areas and reclaim their capitol. Same as Mexico. If we do this and they attack America, then we can also make a strike from behind." I nodded to him with understanding.

"We launch in five hours." Ryan announced. "You all go get some sleep and food while you can. Dissmissed!" he said and saluted. We stood up and saluted him back and made our way for some food. It wasn't in the normal spots, the line of food was by where the guards at the sleeping area would of been, except there was no guards this time. Instead a sign was above the door saying 'sleep when you please'. We got our food and went and sat in the beds. They where in both rooms and more than enough for the few hundred of us.

We all sat in our beds eatting and talking among eachother. My squad stayed together while other squads we had returned with sat where ever. Steak, porkchops, potatos, corn, chips, milk, cola, and water is what the meal consisted of. The general was making this special on his troops sence it was the last night we would be here. We all ate every bite and to my supprise, Marines came in and took our trays and trash away. Me and my team where the only ones that thank them.

We all fell asleep, dreaming of battles we had already fought and of fights soon to come as the war slowing turned into nuclear warfare.