0400 Hours
sound of an alarm blares in the night
RED ALERT! RED ALERT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL WE ARE DEPLOYING IMMEDIATELY! ALL HANDS TO THEIR BATTLE STATIONS!
All personal began running to their places. Gunners to their gunner stations and soldiers to the armories. Shinji and Asuka were in separate companies but the same battalion.
"Alright men, listen up." Ninja shouted out to this fire squad. "This is not a drill, this is the official invasion. It is a large scale invasion and there are many Zerg out there. Just remember your training and you will come home safely."
Shinji was scared shitless. He was dripping in cold sweat and feared what would happen. Then his mind came across Asuka. He wondered how Asuka was doing and where she was.
Meanwhile in the medical building
"Listen up ladies." Sarah "This is out first official combat. None of you are armed, but you can arm yourselves if needed. Your performance will be lowered do to the additional weight of the weapon and the spare magazines. Your first most duty is to treat all injured combatants, then to engage the enemy. Do you follow?"
In unison. "Yes Ma'am."
"Alright then." Sarah replied. "Suit up, ETA to take-off is 15 minutes."
Simultaneously all the medics began to apply their armor and gather the needed medical supplies they had to carry out onto the battlefield. After Asuka gathered up her medical supplies, she walked over to her locker and grabbed her C-14 Gauss Rifle, as so did the other ladies. Ammo was divided evenly and they began to pour out of the armories into the dropships.
Dropship Loading
Area
sirens still blaring
ETA TO DROPSHIP DEPLOYMENT 5 MINUTES.
As all the soldiers began piling into their designated dropships, Shinji's eyes crossed with Asuka's for a brief moment, before both boarded their dropships. Shinji silently hoped to himself that he would see Asuka alive again. As he took his seat in the crowded dropship along with the other Marines, Ninja walked in.
"Alright, everyone listen up." Ninja exclaimed. "This is a large scale invasion on Mar Sara. This is what we've all been training and waiting for. There will be those who won't be coming back, so just do your thing and we'll all come home in one piece."
Shinji was shaking in his boots, his mind began to race. He's only done combat simulation with the VR machines, what is it like when he meets a real-life zerg? A Marine next to him grinned and asked him a question.
"So, I heard that you've never seen combat before. Nervous?"
"Sorta..." Shinji lied, he felt like he was going to shit his pants.
"We'll if you start gettin' scurred...use the stimpacks, they help, trust me."
"Ok.." Shinji replied nervously.
"OK LADIES..." the pilot started speaking over the dropship comms. "You're going to be in for a rocky flight, so if you need to puke, do it in the airsickness recepticals next to your feet instead of all over my floor. ETA to landing is 10 minutes. Have Fun."
The Marine next to Shinji cursed under his breath. "Fucking pilots, they so damn proud of their planes. They aren't even fighting up front like us Marines."
"JOHNSON! KEEP YOUR SMART ASS REMARKS TO YOURSELF. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR I'LL RIP YOU A NEW ONE. THAT'S NO WAY TO TALK TO A LADY!" replied War Pig.
"SIR! I'M SORRY, SIR!" the marine replied.
"Alright listen up. The dropship will be dropping us off right at the front lines. We will fast rope decend into the trenches and try to keep the waves of zerg at bay until we recieve Goliath support." War Pig stated. "All of you know what to do, so do it right, and you'll go back home. If you don't know what the fuck you're doing, then take my advice...don't you dare get off this dropship or I'll shoot ya myself. YOU READ ME?"
All the Marines replied in unison "Ooorah! SEMPER FI, DO OR DIE, GUNG HO GUNG HO!"
Meanwhile on the Medical Dropship
Sarah began barking orders, notifying everyone of where they were going. Asuka's battalion was assigned to frontline combat and medical assistance along side the Marine Corps 2nd and 3rd combat battalions. The rest were ordered to rendevous with the Navy's Corpsmen regiment at the field hosptial and await further orders from the commanding officer on-site. This meant that Asuka would be fighting along side Shinji's battalion, so she had the slight chance of seeing his regiment on the battlefield.
"ETA TO FAST ROPE DECEND, 3 MINUTES!" shouted the pilot over the comms.
Back on the 3rd Battalion's Dropship
"LOCK AND LOAD MEN! WE'RE GOING RIGHT INTO THE SHIT!" exclaimed War Pig
As if it was second muscle memory, all the Marines began to cock their gauss rifles simultaneously. Many of the Marines we're either carrying some sort of secondary weapon, mostly the highly favored .50 AE Desert Eagle. Although many others we're carrying knifes, and a few had both. Shinji carried only a knife as a second weapon, he preferred to carry much more ammo for his gauss rifle. Remembering what Ninja had told him privately before he suited up...'Those who survive battle, are the ones with ammunition.' He checked his bullet counter which read 1000 and checked his safety. Just then, the dropship loading ramp opened up.
"GO, GO, GO!" War Pig yelled. As soon as the word was given, Marines began to decend onto the bloody battlefield...
sorry that its so short, that was all i could think of so far. kinda sucks after having writers block for so long. but hey, i updated the on-going saga right? my sincere apologies for those who waited so long. well, next chapter is action, blood and gore. i hope you guys who have been waiting for this part are just dying to see the next chapter.
