June 15th, 2552, 1:49 AM

We had all been sitting there in the tunnel for a few hours now. We all remained silent.

Ryan was kneeled down looking out from the tunnel entrance with his binoculars watching any troop movement. The remaining twenty of us sat there wondering what will happen next. We had killed around seventy of them at the cost of four of our own, would we lose more ahead I wondered.

A few soldiers where whispering to each other.
"If they knew we where here, why would they attack when at such a disadvantage? Not only do we got the environment for support but also where mechanized and their basic troops. Why would they do something so stupid?" I could hear one man asking.
"Hell if I know. They got their reasons though." another replied.

I glanced over at them and then looked away.
'Why.' I said as I turned to my left, thinking Steve was there.
"Why, what?" Asked a grunt soldier that sat beside me.
He looked at me and I was looking at him.
"Sorry, I thought you where someone else." I replied and looked away.
I had forgot Dave and Steve where on patrol with a small group. They had taken the sniper and MG to use as defence cause they where more outnumbered out there than we where back here at the tunnel.

I sat my gun aside and got up and stretched out my body. I made my way to the tunnel entrench and looked out. All was quiet and looked peaceful, except for the bodies. I looked out at the cliff side to the right, by the group of large rocks and saw Jake, Dave, and Steve with another trooper. They where making there way up the cliff side.

"What are you having them do?" I asked Ryan who sat nearby. He glanced up at me and replied.
"I told them to move to that hill out there. From there they can be our forward eyes. Mainly I want them to observe what's going on and check for possible snipers along the way." he pointed out to the bodies on the hill. "Then when we know its safe. Well go over there and check for intel on the dead over there.

"May I go join my brother, sir?" I asked. He looked up at me again.
"Go join them?" He asked puzzled. "You would be by yourself on the way there." he added.
"I don't care sir." I answered. He continued to glare at me, then stood up. He walked closer to me.
"Alright. Heres what well do. The soldier I have with them is to relay messages back and forth between us. You will do that instead." I looked at him though his visors. I could make out a little of him but not much, not enough to get an expression that may help on what he's thinking.

"Alright." I answered.
"Okay then. Get your gun and get over there." He turned and put the binoculars up to his visor and glanced out.
I grabbed my gun and made my way down the cliff way. I got to the end where the flankers where at.
"Where you going?" One asked. I stopped and looked at him.
"To the enemy in a manner of speaking." I said.
They patted me on the back and I turned and hopped down into the grass below.

I started making my way down along the cliff side toward the small cave where I had set the traps up at. I glanced in as I walked by and stopped in disbelief. I put my gun up and looked down the sight.
"Don't move!" I yelled.
A Royal Trooper was alive in the cave and had a slightly damaged radio by him. 'Oh shit' I thought to myself as I looked at the radio. Ryan looked down at me from the cliff above.
"What's going on?" He asked.
I went into the cave and pulled out the man. He was hurt bad.
"Is he alive?" Ryan asked. I looked up
"Yes, sir. He's got a radio too sir."

Ryan jumped off from the cliff and landed with a thump on the ground. He stood up and bolted into the cave where the radio was. I knew what he was doing, he was checking to see if the radio was transmitting.
"Fuck!" Yelled Ryan. He brought out the radio and slammed it to the ground in front of the wounded soldier. He looked up at me.
"It was transmitting wasn't it?" I asked.
"Yes." he answered.

I knew it, the enemy was listening in on everything we where saying and reported movements we had made. I glanced over at where Steve and Dave where in fear.
"They know we have troops on that cliff." Ryan stated softly.
Ryan looked over at the wounded soldier, then walked up beside him. The wounded man watched Ryan in fear, he swallowed to clear his throat. Ryan examined the soldier and kneeled down beside him.

"Êàê Âàñ çîâóò ñûí." Ryan said.
I glanced at him strangely from the language he was speaking.
"Abakum." replied the man who started to shake a bit.
I glanced at the wounded soldier and knew he was about to die.
"Ñêàæèòå ìíå, ÷òî Âû çíàåòå." Ryan said.
There was a silence between the two of them for a second.
"Íîâîå ïðîèñõîæäåíèå." replied the man and began to laugh slightly. Ryan stood up. The soldier started to cough allot and continued shaking. The trooped looked up into the sky, he's body quit moving and his mouth opened up a bit.

"What did you say to him? What did he say?" I asked Ryan.
Ryan looked over at me.
"I asked him his name and what he knew... He gave me his name and answered 'A new genesis' for what he knew."
I stood there confused. What could he have meant by 'a new genesis.' I glanced back at the cliff where Dave and Steve where. I had forgot about them in the moment.
"Get going, get them back here." Ryan ordered.
I looked up at the hillside where Ryan had hopped down from. Faces peaked over the edge above, the others had been watching. I glanced off toward the large group of rocks that lay ahead. I decided to head that way first and make my way up the cliff side to Steve and Dave. I bolted off.

I was at the rocks within six minutes of sprinting. I stopped and sat down on one of them to catch my breathe. I had sprinted from our position to here. My armor and equipment I had to take along really tired me after running. I looked to my left though the gaps of tall standing rocks and saw the cliff side ahead. I stood up and started jogging to it.

I heard a crack and I jumped to the dirt covered ground and looked around, dust covered my sight a bit but I had my gun at the ready. I thought it was a gun shot. I looked back at my feet and saw I had stepped on a rock and it had broke under my feet. I let out a sigh and got up and continued on ahead. I came up by a rock and ahead was the cliff side, it feed directly off the ground and made it way up along the hillside.

I came up to the big rock, little rocks cracked under my feet, lots of little rocks thought until I noticed the dirt kicking up by me. I took cover in behind the nearby bolder. I peaked around and saw a figure hide back in behind where the hillside turned at. I shot back to show that I was going to fight back.

I hid in behind the bolder. Fear that my friend and my brother as well as the other man being dead hit me and anger rushed though my veins.
"You think you can sneak up on us! I'll kick your ass you russian bastard!" A voice yelled out.
"American!" I yelled out. "Friendly!"
"Check, check, check!" He yelled back.
"Woot, woot, stepping out!" I answered and stepped out with my gun above my head.

I glanced up at where the other man was, he stepped out and wore friend armor. He waved me up after he spotted me. I started on up and stopped when I reached him.
"Sorry." He said. "I just saw a figure dash in behind a rock and thought you where one of them sneaking up on us."
"No." I replied. "I'm here to tell you guys to head back, they know your here."
Dave came around the corner. "Thomas." he said approached me.
"Get Steve, we gotta go now."
"Why?" Dave asked nervous.
"Just do it we..." I stopped and looked out at the enemy base.
We all turned to it, we heard the same noise. A squealing sound was coming from a distance that we couldn't see off behind their base...Tanks. There was no questioning that.
"Lets move it!" I said.
"Steve, Jake where going." Barked David. Seconds later they came around the corner with the MG and its bipod and ammo.

We bolted down the hillside toward the the rocks and out into the open toward our defensive point. We ran as hard as we could. We started to come up on our point and I saw Ryan step out onto the hillside.
"Tanks!" I yelled, "They got fucking tanks!"
He quickly went back in. We made our way to the flankers.
"Tanks are coming, get into the tunnel with the others!" I screamed. They started their way up the hillside to the tunnel, us right behind them.

We all came dashing in. I dropped to the ground when we got in and laid there catching my breath. Ryan came over to me
"Are you sure soldier?" He asked rather loud.
"Yes, sir." I said panting. "We could hear the squealing of them off in the distance."
Ryan paused and looked over toward the dead. I looked over in that direction at the dead sacks full of packages of food and water in bottles.

Ryan walked over to the sack on the far left and opened it. I was surprised to see he pulled a radio out of it as he sat it on the ground beside him. He also pulled a headset with a attached mic on it out of the bag as well. I began to wonder what exactly was in all those bags with the labeled 'food and water'. He flipped a switch and entered a bunch of numbers on the top of the radio box. He put the headset on and sat there.

"This is commander Ryan of fifth squad, fifteenth airborne troop, American division." he started. "Id code 0027269." He sat there for a few seconds again.
We all watched, our eyes focused on him.
"Field report." he said into the mic and sat again. "Cutting short. Four men lost by enemy attack on our position. Assault was repealed. Reco..." he stopped for a second.
"Yes. Yes, sir. Recon was launched, we have enemy armor inbound to our position." he said.
"What!" Someone among us yelled and then was quickly silenced by everyone.

I stood there. I heard it... the squealing. I stepped out and looked out toward the enemy position. I couldn't see anything still, but I could hear the squealing of the tanks. Others began to emerge out as well.
"Copy that, sir." said Ryan over the radio. "Over and out."
I looked back in at Ryan.
"Fall in." he said.
We all took a knee in by him.

Evac is on the way." he stated.
We all let out a sigh of relief.
"But... the enemy is sure to attack before they arrive." he stopped.
We all sat there for a minute. I sat my blackish-gray rifle down and looked back up at Ryan.
"Heres what well do. Thomas." he said.
"Yeah." I replied.
"You and I will make our way down to those trees our there." He said and pointed out.
I looked out the tunnel and saw the trees a ways out. It was about as far as Ryan had gone to observe the enemy with his binoculars.
"Why sir?" I asked.
"Don't question." he said. "Dave!."
"Yes,sir." my brother replied.
"You will cover us against infantry with the sniper rifle. Don't shoot until we've bombed the armor with our grenades."
"Yes, sir." Dave replied and got into position.

So now I knew what we where doing. We where going to advance and hide under the cover of the three trees and ambush the armor with our nuclear grenades.
"Everyone else will hold inside the cave. Fix your bayonets, the enemy will most likely to breach the position."
Everyone pulled their bayonets off their belt and attached them to their guns.
Within seconds we acquired some string from the squad sapper.
"Lets move!" Yelled Ryan and where out of the tunnel heading down the cliff side

We came up along the hillside that was opposite to the position where the others where in the cave. It didn't stretch out as far as the one where the cave was in. We came up the the corner where it turned left and the three trees would be at. We came to a sudden stop.

"Òàêèì îáðàçîì òàì â òóííåëå íà òîì ñêëîíå?." I heard a voice say.
The voice came from the trees.
"Äà òîâàðèù."
Ryan looked at me. Shocked that the enemy was on the other side of the corner by the trees as well.
"What he say?" I whispered to Ryan.
"He asked someone if our position was in that tunnel. The other said yes." Ryan whispered back to me.
We sat there listening, Ryan translating quietly to me about what they said.

"Âû óâåðåíû òàì âñå åùå òàì, ÿ íå âèæó íèêàêîãî âèäà äâèæåíèÿ òàì?"
-Are you sure there still there, I don't see any kind of movement up there?-
"Îíè òîâàðèù."
-They are comrade-
"ß íå ìîãó æäàòü, ÷òîáû îòîìñòèòü òîìó, ÷òî îíè ñäåëàëè íàøèì ñîðàòíèêàì çäåñü. ×òî ìû áóäåì äåëàòü äëÿ ýòîãî êîìàíäóþùåãî íàïàäåíèÿ?"
-I can't wait to get back at what they did to our fellow soldiers here. What will we be doing for this attack commander?-

This is something we need to know, Ryan listening in carefully.
"Ìû áóäåì ïîðàçèòåëüíû ñêîðî. Áûëî ïîñëåäíåå, ÷òîáû íàáëþäàòü ïîëîæåíèå, òîãäà âñå ìû íàïàäàåì. Ìû áóäåì íàïàäàòü ñ äðóãèìè êîìàíäàìè ïåõîòû íàøåãî ðàçäåëåíèÿ. Ýòî áóäåò ñîñòîÿòü èç íàñ Êîðîëåâñêîãî Îòðÿäà, òðåõ ðåçåðâóàðîâ, è êîìàíäû ìå÷èíèçåä ïåõîòû."
-We will be striking soon. Were the last to observe the position, then we all attack. We will be attacking with other infantry squads of our division. It will consist of us of the Royal Troop, three tanks, and a squad of mechanized infantry.-

They said a few other things, but Ryan didn't translate for some reason. They laughed slightly about something and then I could hear them leaving.
"So they've been watching us for awhile from this position." Ryan said. "Now they will be attacking with armor and mechanized infantry, like ourself."
I stayed quite, I knew we would not hold under those conditions.
"Lets go." said Ryan and he moved around the corner.

We came up to the trees, which also consisted of a large rock. We hid in behind them. I looked out and could see The Royal Troop squad heading off to the structure, the one that was just here. I watched them. One tripped to the ground and the others stopped to help him up. Another dropped to the ground along with another.
"Sir." I said.
We looked out and soon they had scrambled out. Another dropped and another. Soon they where all down on the ground, dead.

Ryan looked back at the tunnel with his binoculars.
"Your brother shot them." he said. "He better not of given away our movement somehow..." he paused and looked out at the dead bodies. "We gotta move them." he said.
"Why?" I asked, "Isn't it better that there dead?"
"No, if they come over that hill and see them dead out here, then they may think where out here somewhere. It could give us away."

I looked around, the dead bodies where a bit out from our position. Further out than even the dead body that Dave had shot while they retreated from the previous fight. I realized that if the enemy had been here after that fight a few times. They may notice the new bodies out here and get suspicious.
"Your right." I said.

We dashed out and grabbed hold of the closest bodies and began to drag them back across the rough dirt, each of us dragging two of them. We got them back to our position and where about to head back for the others when the sound of drums started playing. I looked back out. We had only made it worse, now a line of blood was pointing at us.
"Shit!" Ryan said madly when he noticed. "Forget it, listen, take this piece of string and tie all your grenades together." he ordered and handed me a piece of string and I did as I was told.
Ryan did the same thing.

I held the tied grenades consisting of two frags and the nuclear grenade.
"Now when we throw them, pull all the pins at once, toss your grenades on the armor. Hopefully this will damage them enough to put them out of the fight." he said.
I swallowed a knot that had developed in my throat.

The enemy started to form up. We could hear the squealing of the armor and the ground around us shook slightly. The armor came up over the hill first, followed by the infantry. I could see units of The Royal Troop and Russian mechanized in their shinny blue armor. Fear swept past me.
"Don't freeze up." I whispered to myself. "Stay clam." The armor started to come by us.
"Now!" Said Ryan. He pulled the pins on his and thew them out in front of the tank. I threw mine... but I didn't pull the pins.

Ryan didn't notice but would find out when they didn't go off. His landed and a tank rolled right beside it. The grenade exploded. I watched the thing go off and as the metal armor of the tank being torn apart and people scream. Pieces of the tank hit my armor as well. A second detonation happened, mine had gone off. I watched as more of the tank and another took damage followed by more screams and flying bodies. I sat there in disbelief mine had gone off. The explosion from his must of set off the frags which set off the nuclear one I thought to myself.

"Lets go Ryan!" Ryan said, pulling me up a bit with him. We bolted around the corner, gunfire hit the side of the hill as we ran by. We then heard the crack of Daves sniper going off. We stopped at the small ledge where the flanker would have been and hoped up. A tank rolled around the corer and fired at the top of the cliff. Putting a new mini cave above the cave entrance where the others where. Chunks of rock rolled off and fell down the cliff side.

"This way!" Ryan said and took off the the right, away from the others. I took off after him.
We entered the flanking cave which turned out to be a tunnel and stopped. I looked down the tunnel a bit and saw water at the bottom where it sloped down the most.

Ryan peaked around the corner at the enemies. He opened up on them and I turned back to him. I head small splashes. I turned toward the water and saw Royal Troop infantry coming this way. I pulled my gun up and took aim, they noticed me. I fired, filling the air with a spray of bullets. The three man team dropped into the water dead. Ryan glanced over.
"Watch the rear!" He yelled and then continued to fire at the enemy.

Seconds later Ryan feed in behind the wall as the tanks machine gun fired at him.
"Thomas." Ryan said. "Go down the tunnel here, try to flank the firing line that putting fire on the tunnel where the others are!" He ordered.
I paused.
"Thomas!" He yelled.
"Yes..Yes, sir!" I yelled back.
The order caused me to panic, but I forced myself to go anyway. I felt the warm water on my legs and I looked down. I wasn't in the water yet and it couldn't touch me while in my armor. I had wet myself a bit in fear. I ignored it and made my way though the water. After crossing the water I came up to a corner and light coming out the other side. I peaked around and at the entrance, it was clear. I made my way up and out.

I looked around. The three trees where a bit off to my right along with a Royal Troops Squad. I took aim fired, killing them. I lowered my gun and looked around. A hand grabbed me on the back of my shoulder. I turned and threw a punch, knocking Ryan's visor and to the ground. I looked down at him.
"Sorry." I said quickly as I helped him to his feet.
"The enemy over ran my position." he said. "Get to the trees."
We headed over and took cover in the trees. I could see mechanized infantry making there way up the hillside to the tunnel. Ryan fired behind me. I turned and found a dead russian solider fall to the ground by us.

I looked back at the small hill in the open, in front of the cave where the others where. A squad of the Royal Troop where taking cover and shooting from behind it. I reloaded my gun and took aim down their line. I fired. They jumped a bit as the rounds stuck them. One stood up and started to move down the other side of the hill for new cover. I got him in the back of the head just in time. Fire soon rained down on our position, a round hit my armor and bounced off, leaving a dent and knocking me back a bit.

"Are you alright?" Asked Ryan.
"I'm fine." I replied as I took cover against the new threat. The fire came from the mechanized line by the tunnel entrance. I noticed about ten or so blue armored bodies on the ground in front of the tunnel entrance. I fired on the mechanized line. They lied down and fired back. Ryan joined me. We fired our MA5Bs, the enemy fired back with their SMGs. We had cover and gun advantage over them and they soon found out. They got up and retreated down the path and out of sight.

"I'll watch the rear for them!" Said Ryan.
I looked over at the tank, I hadn't noticed its cannon was pointing straight at me. I looked at it wide eyed and jumped to the ground. The hill side beside me exploded. Dirt filled the air and chucks of rocks fell on me. The tanks machine gun opened up on my position. The tree I laid down behind started to be shredded into pieces.

I tried to move, but couldn't. My legs where pinned under large rocks, I was trapped. The tree bark was soon shredded by the tanks machine gun and broke. The tree fell to the ground with a loud whomp. Tank machine gun rounds landed all around me. I put my hands over my head, I no longer had cover.

There was a loud explosion and dirt was no longer kicking up around me. I looked up and over small pieces of rock and tree. The tank sat there smoking and on fire. In the air, a Pelican circled the position. The Pelican faced over towards me, the forward machine gun under its nose pointed toward me. It fired. Bullets filled the air by me. Screams came from around the corner in front of me, I quickly remembered the mechanized infantry that had retreated. The Pelican then took off and launched an aerial assault on the enemy structure.

I looked back as best I could and could hear the Pelicans MG firing and its AV Missile pods shooting. Explosions filled the air around the enemy base. The Pelican soon returned.

"Thomas! Thomas are you okay?" Ryan slid in beside me.
I looked up at him.
"Don't worry, i'll get these rocks off of your legs." he said laughing.
I felt the rocks being moved around. I was glad I had mechanized armor or the rocks would have crushed my legs. Soon one leg was free and my other followed soon after.
"Can you get up?" Ryan asked.
"I think so." I replied and stood up. My legs where a bit shaky though. The Pelican circled our position and touched down on the hill in front of the tunnel, where we had been dropped off at.

"Lets get out of here." Ryan said laughing a bit from happiness.
We headed off toward the dropship. "Go get the others, tell them where leaving and get them loaded up. I got to talk to the pilots." Ryan said.
"Yes, sir." I answered happily and headed off to the others.
I got up toward the entrance. About fifteen dead people in blue mechanized armor lay there in front of the entrance.
"Friendlies!" I yelled.
"Come on in." someone said back. I entered.

Everyone was in the back corner, away from the cave entrance. Steve had the M41 set up looking at the entrance, easily explaining why so many dead people lay there. Everyone inside here seemed fine, the enemy was not able to breach.
"Lets move, evac is here!" I announced.
Everyone let our a cheer and dashed out. Jake and Steve un did the MG. I waited for them, Dave was with us too. Together we made our way out and down the hillside and to the dropship. The CO stood outside the dropship waiting for us. I stopped for a second and viewed the land while Steve, Jake and Dave got on. The hills around us where covered with bodies, blood, smoke, and fire. Busted up tanks and torn apart bodies lay everywhere. I had never realized what a actual fight would turn out like. I looked back at the dropship and got on. .

The CO looked around and then looked in the back at us. He began to speak.
"You all will remember this day... You will remember it until you die." He started.
I looked at Ryan, I had great respected for our new CO.
"You all fought long and hard, I never commanded a better group of men... and never will until we meet again."
We all looked at him. He smacked the side of the dropship a few times and the dropship started to lift off, Ryan not onboard. He saluted as the Pelican started to take off.

I started to stand up and was held down, we where already airborne. I yelled out his name as we flew off without him.