Love Struck Delusion
Chapter 19 – And Those Of A Practical Follower Will See Them As Just.
Raptor's POV, A few hours later.
The capital was no more then a block away from this place we were hitting. And as we prepared it was clear we were outnumbered ten to one. Thankfully it was getting late and the soldiers were getting ready to hit their cots.
Looking to my bandana, I carefully pulled it over my face and glanced on over to Wreak who was getting himself checked.
"You got a plan on getting in there?" I asked him as he readied his rifle.
After checking his safety and putting on his bandana, he replied.
"Last time I was here I saw two ways through the gates. So long as they didn't fix them."
"So what's our options?" I asked as we overlooked the facility from on top of a roof across the street.
Looking towards the right end of the road, Wreak replied.
"Over on the east end over there, should be a break in the fencing. As long as it wasn't patched up we should be able to sneak right on in."
"Or?" I wondered as he looked towards the manhole along the street in front of us.
"Or we could attempt to go under them. Chances are that facility has a disposal entrance. We might be able to get into the main building that way."
"Difference?" I questioned as he quickly replied.
"We go through the gate we would be dodging any guards and making our way on foot. Might clear a path for our exit, but nothing better then getting there without any trouble. Which is why I mention the sewer. It's you're choice Major. I don't mind getting my feet wet." Stated Wreak as I looked towards the nearby airfield to spot our chopper resting on it's pad.
Slowly looking back to him, I suggested.
"How about this? One of us could go through the sewer and plant the charges, while the other secures the chopper? That way we could leave the second we blow the place to hell. Might make the difference in us getting away without any trouble."
Wreak thought about the idea as I waited his response. Not soon after a quick look towards the bird did he reply.
"Yeah that sounds good actually. Shouldn't be too much trouble anyway. What one you want?" He wondered as I calmly stated.
"Well since I'm the only pilot out of the two of us, I'll go get the bird prepped."
Lifting up his gun, Wreak replied.
"Then I'll get to the sewer. I'll radio you once I plant the charges."
Nodding, I gently ordered.
"You make sure to get to me first before blowing the building. We need as much time as possible to get airborne."
Giving me a single shake, Wreak began his way off the side of the building.
"Just be ready to go Major."
Watching as he quickly jumped off the roof, I covered him from my location as he crossed the street towards the manhole. With some effort he got it off and made his way down, leaving me with the fence.
Quickly proceeding down off the building, I made my way towards the east end of the base to search for the broken fence Wreak mentioned. In time and a bit of a walk, I came to it and pushed my body through and onto the base.
Thankfully as I entered no one was around to see me. The fence was in the open leaving me with no cover to hide. Quickly heading for the airfield, I soon began to understand I was not going to have much to work with ether way. The way to the airfield was nothing but open ground. Anyone looking around would see me.
Taking my time to think for a way across the open terrain, I looked towards the main building to see a large truck begin pulling out of the back. With only a driver heading my way, I quickly acted and took my chance to try and latch on as best as I could to the rear of the truck.
Letting my hands grip on the bumper, I quickly pulled myself up and into the back where a few crates waited from within.
With my rifle on my back, I looked to my vest to draw my blade. A long black tactical knife.
Turning it to the side, I sneak to the front of the truck and applied the tip into the driver who was immediately caught off guard. Quickly shoving the steel all the way in; I wrapped my left arm around his throat and pulled him into the back so that his foot couldn't hit the gas.
With his legs kicking as I dragged him to the floor, I brought the blade through his neck and opened him up. Slowly he gagged to death and I went to take control of the truck to continue driving the course.
Keeping one hand on the wheel, I put my knife back under my vest and drove straight for the airfield.
So far there weren't any guards as I neared a parked chopper.
Slowly bringing the truck to a stop before the helipad, I looked out the window to see what I was going to soon be piloting. A G.U.N Viper. This beast was the main attack helicopter of the G.U.N military. The last time I saw one of these things was back when Shadow was in command of Pakistan. This chopper can really do some damage.
Gently getting out of the truck, I checked my immediate area to see not a soul in sight.
Carefully proceeding up the pad, I examined the chopper some more.
Equipped with a main gun and a secondary rocket system, I approached the cockpit to take notice of a large chaingun under the co-pilot's seat.
"Fuck this thing was a monster." I said to myself as I looked for the main latch to open the casein.
Finding the latch under the glass, I popped the hood and went to climb inside.
"Ahhh god I think Alicia was right. I'm getting old." I stated as I used a good bit of power to pull myself up and into the seat.
After setting myself straight in the seat, I looked to the control boards to look for the starter. I haven't flown in nearly twelve years. Most of this would be done on pure luck.
Finding the starter near my right end, I went to hit it, when all the sudden I got from my comm link.
Wreak's POV, Sewer, Ten minutes ago.
Leaving the Major to his task, I took the lead and proceeded through the sewer. It fucking reeked down here but I knew it would save me some effort of dealing with the guards.
"Now where are you?" I asked out loud as I approached the end of the tunnel to see an exchange going up the wall.
Letting out a sigh, I threw my rifle around my back and tried my hardest to get a grip to go up the pipe. If I was right this would lead me straight inside. Somehow.
After receiving my grip up, I began to climb. Nothing could prepare me for the smell though. This pipe was crawling in filth. It was close to making me gag.
With my tongue down my throat in fear, I made it about halfway through when all the sudden I began to hear some sort of swishing above my head.
Slowly looking up, I widened my eyes to see a large brown rush of water coming right for me.
With nowhere to go, I shouted.
"Oh fuck me!"
As the words left my mouth, I could only let go as I was engulfed in waste.
Falling back down the pipe, I landed among the sewage and was forced to take it as the water kept coming. Mixed in I could feel chunks of feces landing on top of me. It took nearly thirty seconds for it all to end, and when it did I opened my eyes to see my state.
I could only now gag. My quills were pure brown and in some places I could see corn and other abominations among my body in chunks. Slowly crawling away and back to my feet, I threw up among the garbage.
"Fucking Christ!" I said in disgust from the smell as I looked back to the pipe.
In complete lack of words or actions for how to react to what had just happened, I said fuck it and quickly attempted to climb back up. With speed on my side this time, I soon found an intake vent that I was able to push up and off it's hatch.
Carefully bringing my body through, I looked around to see I was in the maintenance section of the main building. And it was clear I was in the waste disposal portion of it.
Quickly climbing up and over, I fell onto the ground and took my time to breath in clean air.
"Never again." I muttered to myself as I got the energy to get back on my feet.
Dragging my rifle over to my front, I looked for an exit to this hell hole.
Finding a door on the west side, I made my way over to exit out onto a stairwell. Following it back up to the main floor, I took the next exit into the halls.
With my body dripping brown and letting off an ungodly stench, I did my best to remain silent.
Now all that was left was to find the storage room. This hopefully wouldn't be too hard to do, seeing as that all this building was used for was storage of supplies. Taking my time to walk through the halls, I came to a corner to see a guard making his way over to me. Slowly coming to a stop he asked out loud.
"What the fuck is that smell? Jesus Christ."
Not taking a chance, I turned the corner to send the butt of my gun into the side of his head.
"Bash!"
Falling to the ground as it hit him, the guard looked back to me to try and aim his rifle.
Bringing up my boot, I kicked him in the hands to watch as the gun hit the wall in force.
Now unarmed, the guard widened his eyes as I sent my knee straight up into his mouth.
"Bash!"
Falling onto his back by the force, I walked to his topside and sent my boot down onto his throat.
Quickly putting his hands under my foot to try and push up, I used all my strength to pin it on his neck. After a few forceful seconds all that was heard was the loud snap and last release of air from within his lungs.
Taking my boot off his snapped spinal cord, I retook my posture and made my way past his corpse and towards a set of locked double doors. Examining the lock to see it was basic, I took out my tanto from my vest and stuffed it in between the door frame to begin shimmying the lock.
"Click!"
Hearing the lock undo itself, I pushed open the door to head inside.
With most of my effort overlooked by my smell, I found myself in a storage room with a lot of wooden crates.
Bring my tanto to one of them, I popped the top to see inside was a surplus of gas cans and oil drums. I had to be in the right place.
After putting my blade back, I felt towards my rear to reach for one of the pouches I had. Pulling out a C4 charge, I applied it to the crate and set the connection to the clacker. After it was done, I went to comm to say.
"I got the charge set. Where are you?"
Grabbing my rifle back, Raptor replied.
"In the chopper. I think I got this bad boy ready to go. Get heading my way. I'll have the propeller spinning up by the time you get here."
"Copy that. I'm on my way now." I stated as I made my way for the exit.
Exiting back out into the hall, I looked left to find a guard turning the corner into his dead comrade.
"What the fu..?!"
Taking aim, I sent a burst of rounds into his chest.
"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"
Landing on his ass, I began to jog for the nearest exit. The alarm soon came as I found one leading back onto the base.
Raptor's POV.
With lights coming on all around the base, I looked towards the main building to see Wreak exiting via the front door.
Taking that as my answer to get going, I spun up the bird and checked all the systems.
Wreak who was now sprinting my way began to panic as armed men proceeded out of their barracks to see us getting away.
With him a good distance away still, I took my rifle up to aim out the hatch at his pursuers.
"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"
Taking down two men who were taking aim at him, Wreak kept up his pace as a Humvee came through the main gate. It must have came from the capital.
Bringing two more with it, I retook my seat and shouted to Wreak who was coming up the pad.
"Get in!"
With the chopper now taking hits, Wreak jumped into the co-pilot's seat and brought down the hatch to order.
"Go! Get us up!"
With an ungodly smell coming from him, I replied.
"Man the chaingun! I need those Humvees gone!"
Nodding, Wreak looked to his lap to take a hold of the gun.
Refocusing on my task, I pulled back on the flight stick to begin pulling us up.
"Come on!" I ordered the chopper as it was hesitant to the idea of flying.
After some struggle, I got us off the pad and Wreak began to open fire on the men below. The chaingun was louder then a clap of lightning, but with thirty millimeter rounds making impact with the threats it was worth it every bit.
Hitting some of the auxiliary switches, the chopper began to tilt forward like I needed it to.
Wreak who was unloading the chaingun kept his fire up as the Humvees began to ignite into flames.
Still with enough small arms hitting us, it was hard to get this thing steady.
"Hit them Wreak!" I ordered him.
"I am!" He replied as I pushed the stick forward.
With our heads down, the chopper finally began to move.
Leading us over the gates, Wreak drew the clacker and detonated the charge.
"BOOM!"
The explosion went off like a firework. Fire spread and people burned as Wreak shouted.
"Burn you fucks! Hahaha!"
Taking us up above the city, I looked out the right window to see a small black bird coming our way from the capital.
"Oh shit!" I said as Wreak asked.
"Oh shit what?!"
"Viper! Right side!"
"Fuck!" He replied as I quickly stated.
"I'll get us out of here don't worry! Just try and hit it!"
"Don't have to tell me twice!" Stated Wreak as I flew for the boarder.
With the rival chopper getting closer as our tail wing smoked, I soon got us out of the city and into the desert.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
"What is that!?" Asked Wreak as I looked to the screen under my chest.
"Their locking onto us!"
"Beep! Beep! Beeeeeeeeeeep!"
"Missile incoming!" I shouted as I brought my hand up to a switch above my head.
Wreak widened his eyes as the missile was launched from the rival bird, and I quickly hit the switch releasing flares.
The enemy missile ran right into them as Wreak asked.
"What the fuck are you doing!? Get us out of here Major!"
"I can't! That chopper will just follow us! We need to take it down! Hit them with the chaingun! They can't do anything to that!"
Taking my order to heart, Wreak unloaded what ammo was left into the enemy bird.
Quickly switching to our missile system, I brought my sights around to them and began a lock on attempt.
"Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beeeeeeeeeep!"
Launching our missile, I wasn't surprised when they launched flares.
Now with our missile useless, I switched to our miniguns and began to open fire.
Sparks flew off the enemy bird as Wreak shouted.
"Take them out Raptor!"
With the guns overheating, I widened my eyes as they began to spin up their own.
Turning the stick to the left, I attempted to move our bird, but with hundreds of rounds coming our way, our bird was forced to take them as I looked back to Wreak to order.
"Take over the missile system and hit them! I'll get the guns back up and...!"
With my focus on him, I was caught completely off guard as a round from the enemy bird came through the glass casein and into my vest.
Wreak panicked as I gagged up some blood and almost lost control of the bird.
Taking what grip I had left, I managed to maintain control, and with what speed our bird had left I turned us back towards them to order.
"Hit those assholes!"
With blood running down my chin, Wreak refocused and began his lock on as I unloaded our miniguns into the enemy bird.
"Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beeeeeeep!"
Letting the missile go, I went still as one of my rounds managed to hit the rival pilot. I must have gotten his head because as our missile neared they began to already go down. But before that could happen our missile had made it's contact sending the bird into a blaze of glory.
"Fuck you!" Shouted Wreak as I turned us for the main road.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
"What's that!?" Wondered Wreak as I looked to the screen.
"Our fuel line was hit! Get ready to bail!"
"What!?" He questioned as I hit our ejection seat buttons.
With the hatch popped, Wreak widened his eyes as we were launched away from the bird in speed.
With the chutes opening, Wreak and I then watched as our bird crashed into a large dune below.
"Ughkk!" Gagging up some more blood, Wreak looked to me as we quickly neared the ground.
"Hold on Major! You hear me!?"
Placing my hand on top of the wound, I reopened my eyes to see we were heading right for a dune ourselves.
"Brace!" I shouted as Wreak tensed up.
Slamming right into the side of the dune, Wreak and I were tossed out of our seats. To my surprise, Wreak was sent over the dune as I was sent down with the seats.
Quickly rolling with them, I soon came to a stop to hear.
"Raptor!"
Keeping my wound shut with my hand, I rolled onto my back to look towards my chest.
The round had gone straight through. I knew it. I could feel the blood on my back.
Remaining still as best as I could, I was soon ran at by Wreak who had came from over the dune to my side to look at my chest.
"You're going to be okay Major. Just stay awake."
With my eyes open, Wreak and I both looked to the left as what was left of our bird had blown up into bits.
With flames around us, I calmly ordered.
"Help me up. We need to get to the main road. They'll have a search group out soon. We can take a Humvee back to the city."
"Can you move?" Questioned Wreak as I attempted to roll back onto my front.
"I have too. We need to get out of here."
Getting under my arm, Wreak pulled me back onto my feet and began to move us towards the main road that was only a few meters away.
"Over there. We can blend in with the dunes." I stated as there was a small sandbar near the road.
Bringing me back down onto my belly, Wreak urged.
"Lay on your back. Here."
Gently helping me on my back, Wreak then stated.
"When they get here let me handle it. We need to get you home without any more injuries."
Nodding I replied.
"I'm not going anywhere. Don't worry Lieutenant."
Giving me a smile, Wreak helped keep my wound down as we now waited for G.U.N to arrive.
"You think Archer and Marx made their move?" Wondered Wreak as I calmly replied.
"I know they did. G.U.N was hit good today because of them. And because of us Iraq will soon be free...?"
Wreak's POV.
With my heart spiked, I looked towards Raptor who had gone silent. Seeing that his eyes were shut I muttered.
"Raptor? You good? Oh fuck."
Bringing my ear to his chest, I heard a heartbeat and came to the conclusion that he must have passed out.
I need to get him back to the HQ and fast.
Letting my hands leave his chest, I looked onto the road to see lights heading our way.
G.U.N was pissed. They had sent more then just a simple Humvee to recon our crash. Alongside it was two BTRs and two troop transports. This place would be a nest in a matter of time.
Keeping the Major and myself in cover with the sand and night sky, the vehicles came to a stop before us.
"Spread out and find any survivors! General Monroe want's confirms on the bodies in five!" Stated a G.U.N officer as I counted the hostels.
Over twenty men took lead for the opposite field away from us, leaving me to decide what to do now.
An officer hung back and the BTRs watched the roads. I had virtually no options. Doing anything was suicide for both me and the Major.
With my mind at a blank, the world went cold as the ground began to rumble. And in a sudden break of light; an explosion went off near the capital. It was so big one could say a nuke went off. Marx and Archer must have done their job right.
With a cloud forming through the night, the officer radioed in.
"What the fuck was that!? Command come in!"
Listening in as all the men who were searching came back, command replied.
"It was the depot! Someone just took out our main fuel line! Get your men over there now! General Monroe needs a damage assessment!"
"Copy that! Everyone back on the truck!"
"What about the pilots?" Questioned a soldier as the officer quickly replied.
"You three hang back and find those bodies! The rest of you get on now! That's an order!"
"Yes sir!" They all replied as I kept my head down.
With the BTRs turning back for the city and the truck leaving with the majority of the trouble, I looked forward to the three men who remained in search for us. But as soon as the convoy was out of sight, I brought up my rifle to take aim, emptying what was left in my clip into the three soldiers who were focused on the crash.
With their bodies bleeding onto the sand across the street, I threw my rifle back and tried to lift up Raptor who was still out cold.
"Stay with me man please." I begged as I carried him over to the Humvee. Opening up the back, I laid him down and shut the hatch.
Gently getting in the driver's side, I shut my door and took the opportunity to leave while I could.
The HQ was a good twenty minutes away. I hope to god Archer and Marx are back by then.
Well that was fun. Sorry about taking some time to post this. I had work till closing for the past three days. Ether way I'm still sticking to my word and continuing this. Please review and let me know what you think.
mT Shadow.