Can't believe that no one picked up on the Transformers Armada bit I used in my last chapter and the Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue material I used when Dooku redeemed himself! Seriously, I thought at least one person would figure it out. Aw well, no use crying over spilled milk.
Now, I am glad that my beginning for the battle of Earth was well liked amongst so many people. I wanted to start it off with a bang.
DID SOMEBODY SAY BANG!
Loud explosion follows.
I love that guy, for those of you who didn't realize it, that explosion was the work of Crazy Harry. The pyrotechnic loving Muppet who always has a detonator ready for use when someone mentions a word that has something to do with anything that goes… well you know what.
Now onto reviews
Mpowers045: Like I said, I like to start things off with a bang.
Boooooommmmmm!
Cronus Prime: I was trying to figure out how to include the country you live in for the battle. If you have any ideas for the names of Australian Soldiers and fighter pilots, please send me the idea's via PM message. As for using Danger Zone, well its going to be a while. Say until the return to Hope County. As for the Ghost Recon material, the idea for that was given to me by Sr. Chief 'Maverick, considering I used Black Tusk, True Sons and the Last Man Battalion from the Division. I've been really enjoying Tom Clancy's works the last few years.
Spartan-626: I can assure you that there will be more epic battles like the last chapter. How long they will be, well that all depends. By the way, if you have any tips for taking an image and uploading it to DeviantArt please let me know, I have a few things I want to take pictures of and upload to my account.
1049: Glad you liked the last chapter. The reason I included the Death Star 2 was that since it took several years to complete the original, I'd use the second one. Plus, I also feel like construction of the Death Star began even before the Empire came into power. Even if it wasn't Fanfiction is freedom.
Now, time to begin the chapter. For all you Gate fans, 3rd Recon is coming back into the spotlight. Disclaimers are the same as before, please enjoy.
Chapter 33: Thus They Fought: Battle Japan
June 6th 2020, 19BBY
0700 hours
The Gundam Base
Tokyo, Japan
Normal point of view, five minutes before the destruction of the Death Star
Itami always said that his hobby was the most important thing to him. If anyone asked him to choose it was his otaku life for him. Looking back now, he was starting to think he may never get back to his hobby. When he returned to Japan with the other JSDF soldiers that survived the base attack in the Middle East, he immediately reported what they had seen to prime minister Taro, an old friend of his and fellow otaku.
Unlike the rest of the world, Taro believed him having been made aware by Keating about the recent increase in superior weapons to groups like Black Tusk who had already established a base in the Kanto region despite being told they couldn't do so. This was a sign the minster and Itami saw that dark times were coming and a much-needed overhaul, maintance and upgrade to the JSDF's equipment was ordered.
As for Itami, he was given a long leave of absence in order to keep the Japanese military build-up a secret from the rest of the world, who were starting to become paranoid and saw any military build-up by other nations as a sigh of war. In this time, Itami had purchased more manga's and attended several comic conventions in his time. He was a happy man, but at the same time he felt rather uneasy about what he had seen in the Middle East. It came as a surprise to many of his fellow soldiers when he began to train himself harder than usual, seeing as he was normally a slacker. What caused this change, no one knows.
When the invasion came, his country fought bravely against the Separatists then the other nations, especially considering that nations like North Korea and China had joined the separatist cause due to their leaders were overthrown by sleeper agents working for the enemy and were using their new-found power to take what they believed was rightfully theirs.
North Korea had moved into South Korea, captured Seoul and moved fast across the continent bushing the South Korean Army back to the coast. Special operations squads of the North Korean military had already executed hundreds of civilians in retaliation for the attacks made by the South Korean Resistance. The SKR, while a part of the Wolverines as torn apart between two members who had opted to fight on their own believing they could find a way to bring their brothers from the north to the peace table, this proved false when North Korean forces bombed the location of the planned peace talks killing the leaders of the resistance and many soldiers.
With this single act, the SKR fled to Japan where they were given refuge by the JSDF along who were given a medical check and upon arriving quickly joined the ranks of the JSDF and JSAF. That was over five ago.
Recently, one of the SKR KAI T-50 fighters had spotted some enemy activity in the Ginza district. Recent intelligence captured from an enemy tactical unit made it clear that the Jedi and a warrior the enemy called the Lone Wolf would be coming to Earth to retake his home. The aircraft was shot down and whatever the enemy was building, they didn't want anyone to find out what it was. Knowing it would be risky to send in another aircraft, Lieutenant General Kouichirou Hazama made the decision to send in the Third Recon Unit, establish an outpost in Tokyo and find out what the enemy was planning while identifying all enemy positions before the main force arrived within twenty-four hours.
The only vehicles the JSDF could spare were three Komatsu LAV's. The top speed of the vehicles was 70mph, armed with a Japanese produced version of the Browning .50 caliber machine gun and carried all the equipment they needed to establish an outpost. Going with them was Team Metal and their Humvee.
None of them thought they would set up an outpost in the Gundam Base, the largest store that sold Gundam Plastic model kits in the world. People old and young from all over the world would come year after year to see the life-size statue of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam, the models built for the store and most of all, to purchase Gunpla.
As the sun began rise over the island nation, Itami peered into his binoculars from the partially destroyed office building he, Frost and Kuribayashi were using as an overwatch position. Even without the binoculars, it was clear to all three of them that separatists, Black Tusk, Chinese and North Korean soldiers were setting up something big.
"Any idea what they are setting up Lieutenant?" Kuribayashi asked Itami and Frost.
"Don't know. But its something really big. The amount of manpower they need for this thing, its something dangerous." Itami answered, switching his focus to a group of North Korean machine gunners that were oiling up one of their PKP machine guns that was placed on a barricade protecting one of the avenues of approach to the enemy position.
"If you capture a city and you know the enemy is coming to attack then it would make sense to set up some kind of defense to keep the enemy from entering. Artillery, explosives placed at the right places to take out enemy infantry, armor hidden under rubble disguised as destroyed armor, anti-…." Frost began before a large explosion lit up the sky. Looking towards the sky, all three wondered what exploded.
They knew it wasn't a nuke, cause if it was then an EMP would have disabled all electronic devices across the city and the surrounding areas if it was detonated in the upper atmosphere. What ever exploded, it wasn't anything from Earth.
"I'm guessing that whatever exploded was a good thing for us." Itami stated.
"Geez, what was your first clue?" Kuribayashi retorted. Before Itami could even respond, Frost realized what the enemy was putting together.
"Their setting up an AA battery. That thing will tear apart any aircraft that come in range." The Delta Force soldier said with shock. The others knew he was right, packed up their gear and repelled back down to street level and made a break for the LAV they took to get there. They were just about to leave when a droid spotted them and sounded the alarm.
Putting his foot on the pedal hard, Itami drove like a bat out of hell, running over any droids that got in his way while Shino manned the .50 Cal while Frost aimed his M4 out the window taking down the enemies that the JSDF Sergeant missed. "KUWAHARA! THE ENEMY HAS SET UP A MASSIVE AA BATTERY! WE GOT ENEMY UNITS ON OUR TAIL AND ARE HEADING BACK TO BASE! GET EVERYONE ON THE PERMITTER, WE'RE COMING IN HOT!" Itami shouted into the radio.
"Roger that. Be advised, I think the enemy already knows our location." Kuwahara replied. Knowing his guys were in trouble, Itami drove even faster as Kuribayashi started yelling that she couldn't get a bead on the winged droids that were following the group.
(Haven City Guard Pursit, Jak 2 OST begins)
"HANG ONTO YOUR SHIT!" Itami shouted, skidding into four larger droids before shifting into fourth gear running down several more droids while Black Tusk soldiers jumped out of the way. Being an Otaku, Itami knew this area well.
Just ahead of them was railway bridge that connect some of the smaller suburban lines to Tokyo station. It was large enough to allow trucks to pass under, but for the enemies pursuing them they wouldn't be able to dive down fast enough to avoid slamming into the bridge. The droids were so focused on the enemy vehicle that they failed to notice the bridge in time and slammed right into the bridge as the trio passed under it.
"YEAH, THAT A WAY!" Kuribayashi shouted. Her excitement was short lived as several motorcycle-like vehicles suddenly appeared behind them, their drivers firing their personal weapons at them. "SHIT!" the buxom Sergeant cursed and resumed firing the vehicles machine gun.
Moving himself to the back of the vehicle, Frost opened up the rear doors, aimed his rifle and fired. He managed to take out one of their pursuer's whose bike went out of control and crashed into an abandon café where it exploded.
More enemy bikes appeared and joined the chase. Weapons fire hit the vehicles armor, but LAV held strong as Itami braked hard before turning left at an intersection close to one of his favorite Manga stores which was completely destroyed during the initial invasion. "They will pay." He said, giving the vehicle some gas and sped away as a few enemy units crashed into the wrecked store.
"KUWAHARA, WE ARE FIVE MINUTES OUT TO YOUR POSISTION! WE'VE GOT BOGGIES ON ARE SIX! WE ARE COMING IN HOT!" Itami shouted into the radio.
"NO KIDDING LIEUTENANT! WE'VE GOT OUR OWN PROBLEMS HERE!" Akira Tomita shouted into the radio. Like Itami, he was a fellow Otaku who had an interest in Catgirls which some saw as geeky. This didn't bother him one bit, as it was his hobby.
"Damn it!" Itami cursed, nearly avoiding crashing into a wrecked car.
Back at the Gundam Base, Truck, Grinch, Tomita, Kuwahara and Private Furuta Hitoshi the newest member of the Third Recon took up position behind several cars they used to form a makeshift barrier in front of the store. Having laid several anti-personal mines in cleverly hidden locations along the main route to the outpost, the group listened as the explosives detonated taking out a majority of the approaching enemy units. While the infantry was hit hard, the biggest threat to them was the enemy rollers and Warhounds.
Several of them were taken out, but there were just too many of them. As the enemy prepared to fire, the horn of vehicle was heard by both sides as plowing right through the enemy lines was Itami, Kuribayashi and Frost arrived on the scene, positioning the LAV in front of the stores entrance before exiting the vehicle, except for Kuribayashi who stayed on the turret and sprayed .50 caliber machine gun rounds at the enemy, knocking out several dozen Warhounds and rollers.
"That idiot." Hitoshi, said before he caught sight of a droid with a rocket launcher. "GET OUT OF THERE!" he shouted, but Kuribayashi didn't hear him until it was too late. The rocket launcher was fired and slammed right into the vehicle just as Shino was about to jump from the gun. The vehicle was destroyed and sent her skidding across the ground a few feet before colliding with one of the not broken display cases containing several models from the Gundam Seed universe. "MEDIC!" Sandman shouted.
(End theme)
Mari rushed over to Shino and much to her horror saw that Shino was hurt badly and was bleeding from the forehead, luckily, she was still alive but she couldn't fight anymore until she got medical treatment. "She needs treatment! Is command sending reinforcements?" She shouted, breaking out her medical bag and began to stabilize her allies' condition.
"Radio got shot. They probably don't know we're in the middle of a shit storm!" Truck shouted, loading a fresh magazine into his MK46 machine gun before returning fire. Despite the amount of firepower being sent towards the enemy, it was clear they were about to be overrun.
One of the enemy commando units hefted a rocket launcher and fired, further destroying the wrecked LAV and created an opening for their soldiers to enter the store. Several enemy fighters arrived and configured into their walking modes and prepared to lay waste to the building.
For a minute it seemed the soldiers were about to be killed when suddenly, a green blast hit one of the droids destroying it. "WHERE DID THAT COME FROM!?" Frost shouted. He soon had his answer, another fighter had its head section sliced off while the rest of them were blown apart by missiles. Enemy soldiers were taken down by fire from above and landing in front of them were several gunships unlike anything the enemy had previously used before. Emerging from the gunships were several dozen troopers wearing blue and white armor or orange and white armor holding black rifles and pistols similar to the ones that the LMB and True Sons were using. Accompanying them was a man in black and brown robes wielding a laser sword similar to a Beam Saber.
The gunships soon departed and what Third Recon and Team Metal saw made their jaws drop. Standing in front of them, alongside their mysterious saviors were six Spartan soldiers from the Halo series wielding weapons like the EVO 3, M1A, MP9, R4 and Glock 20. Hovering above them, was a white human sized mobile suit like object with blue wings. "What the?" all of them asked.
(Start Meteor)
More enemy fighters started to arrive during the confusion of who these newcomers were. Soaring up into the air, the armored figures wings opened up and the cannons on its hips extended forwards. As the fighters got closer, the figure opened fired. Volleys of plasma blasts and railgun rounds flew towards the hostile fighters which upon making contact with their target, plummeted to the ground where they crashed into several droids and sent many Black Tusk, Chinese and North Korean soldiers diving for cover.
"IS THAT A GUNDAM!?" Itami asked loudly, almost drooling with excitement. He may have only read a few of the Manga's, built a few models and watched a lot of the series but the closest thing he saw to the real deal was the life size Gundam statue.
"It's not a Gundam. Its battle armor that looks like a Gundam." The armored figure said, looking down towards the First Lieutenant of the JSDF before extending their hands forward where a burst of laser rounds sent downwards took out several attacking soldiers taking out dozens of them.
The other newcomers quickly took cover behind several other wrecked cars and began to join in the attack on the enemy forces, taking down what seemed like hundreds of enemy soldiers. The one with the saber in their hands leapt over the men, and began to deflect enemy weapons fire back at the droids while the Spartans went after both Black Tusk, Chinese and North Korean forces.
"REX! SHIFT FIRE TO THE RIGHT! WE GOT COMMANDO UNITS TRYING TO FLANK US!" The Spartan with the R4 shouted to the trooper with antennae on their helmet. The soldier nodded and sent orders to the other troopers with the same color armor as he had.
From what Frost saw, it seemed that these soldiers were well trained and more equipped than the droid invaders. An explosion off in the distance where the AA Gun was echoed through out the city and the Freedom look alike returned back to the base and landed. With a flick of their wrists, two beam blades emerged from the figure's hands and a hack-and-slash fest began.
Blue and green blades sliced the droids in half just as another ship arrived overhead dropping off five black armored soldiers along with a red skinned female figure with white and blue horns and tails on their head arrived, igniting their own saber and joined the other saber wielding ally against the droids.
Both Team Metal and 3rd Recon watched in awe for a few moments before Sandman broke the silence. "COME ON! WE CAN'T LET THEM HAVE ALL THE FUN!" he shouted. The others nodded and quickly broke cover and joined their new allies.
Truck quickly joined the bigger looking black armored trooper who like the GI JOE character Roadblock, held a M2 Machinegun without a bipod and fired off numerous rounds which hit their targets and took down numerous forces without even breaking a sweat. "COME ON YOU BASTARDS! SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!" the soldier shouted over the roar of his weapons firing.
A precise round to two enemy rocket troopers from the roof top of the store took out two North Korean Grenadiers before they could even lob their grenades. The enemy grenades were primed and fell out of the dead soldiers' hands which then exploded taking out several nearby allies.
"Guess they should have taken cover before they primed their grenades." One of the Spartans said, the voice clearly belonging to a young girl. Said girl then leapt over several battle droids and began to beat down on the enemy forces while her two companions either slashed or blasted enemy forces with their sword and pistols.
The Freedom looking figure deactivated one of its arm blades which was replaced by the bursts and gunfire of a .50 caliber machine gun. Bullets tore through the enemies' body armor turning their insides into jelly. The amount of firepower unleashed towards the forces was enough to get the enemy to retreat, especially when a flight of eight F-15J Eagles, F-2 Viper Zero's and F-4J Phantoms flew overhead with their cannons blazing, knocking out several Chinese J-11, J-10 and J-7 that were coming in for bombing run. All the Chinese fighters were blown out of the sky just as the JSDF forces arrived with General Hazama.
Not all the fighters were destroyed. Despite being given orders to retreat, a North Korean MIG-29 pointed their nose at the vehicle that General Hazama was exiting. The pilot of said aircraft was planning on ramming their aircraft into the ground hoping to kill the general. They never got the chance as the Freedom 2.0 as Frost started calling it, rocketed into the air and sped towards the approaching jet, its left cannon blazing as the MIG fired its 30mm cannon. The MIGS shots missed the Freedom, but the Freedoms shots made their mark, hitting the cockpit and killing the pilot, sending the plane into a death role where it then exploded in mid-air.
The explosion lit up the morning sky of the Japanese capital, causing those on the ground to cheer with excitement as the first step to retaking their city had begun.
(End Song)
Having taken a second to look at the miracle that just saved their lives, Mari was quickly joined by who she assumed to be a medic as proven by the red markings on his armor and backpack. 'She stable?' the medic asked, surprisingly in perfect Japanese. Mari nodded and watched as the medic injected a painkiller of some kind into Shino's neck. 'She'll live. We need to get her out of here.' the medic said again in Japanese.
The ally medic motioned over for two other troopers who had a stretcher with them and placed the wounded JSDF soldier on the stretcher as other medics, newcomer and JSDF headed into the back of the store where they began to treat Shino. While she was grateful to the help of their new allies, she was starting to wonder who they were.
She wasn't the only one. Her superior, Koichiro Hazama, a man in his mid-forties with short brown hair, short mustache of the same color and thick eyebrows, the Lieutenant General of the JSDF forces that were operating near Tokyo was for lack of better words, completely shocked. He expected the battle to simply establish a foothold to be a costly one even with the extra support from the South Korean forces. He didn't expect to receive assistance from people from 'out of town' as Sandman often said. Truthfully, he was a bit concerned that these newcomers were enemies in disguise.
He watched as the Freedom look-a-like gently touched down in front of him. Unsure of the intentions of there savior his aide, First Lieutenant Akira Yanagida ordered several men to keep their rifles trained on the armored warrior in case they tried something funny.
Much to the surprise of the soldiers, the armored warrior suddenly shifted revealing it to be a battle armor of some sort and its pilot operator was another Spartan, this one looking more like Hayabusa Power Armor from the popular Halo videogame series. The pilot then removed their helmet, revealing it to be a seventeen-year-old boy was wearing the armor.
Before anyone could speak, Itami walked up to the boy weapon slung over his shoulder and looked into his eyes. Yanagida was about to order Itami to stand aside, when the Third Recon leader gave the order to stand down. "He's not our enemy. Yanagida, if he wanted us dead, he would have killed us as well. He didn't so let's not do anything reckless. We need all the help we can get." Itami stated.
"Wise words, First Lieutenant, those are." A voice said from behind the armored boy. Everyone was shocked to see a small green alien with a walking stick walk towards them. "Lower your weapons you should, your enemy I am not." The alien said as again, the JSDF soldiers raised their weapons in concern. This time, it was Hazama who ordered the men to stand down who, just like his men were surprised at the appearance of the small alien.
"Its only natural we thank you for your assistance," the JSDF general said as he walked towards both of the new arrivals. "I am General Hazama of the JSDF." He added.
"Master Yoda, of the Jedi Council I am of the Jedi Order." Yoda introduced himself.
"You can call me Robert Lehner, Wolfs Dragoons Commander, New Republic Army, The Lone Wolf." Robert introduced.
"How is that possible? You were reported as among the dead following that terrorist attack three years ago in the rookies." Sandman inquired.
"It's a long story." Robert answered and began to tell his story.
Itami Point of View
June 8th
0450 hours
What that kid told us, its like something out of this science-fiction manga's I sometimes read. A person from our world being sent to another world and ends up fighting for the people who are trying to restore peace to the entire galaxy. Talk about mind blowing. Not only is this kid a person thought to be dead by the entire world and the son of the former leader of the Expendables, he had practically built several sets of that armor from Halo, managed to build several custom weapons, one from a video game and two of which were props he configured to fire live ammo, a powerful launcher/rifle hybrid weapon, a personally built portable heavy machine gun and used a weapon that reminded a few of us of a Gundam's beam saber.
Then there's the fact he's in command of his own military unit which had several really cool mecha's, tanks and VTOL's along with a smaller version of the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam from Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiney. Heard it used to be called the Barbatose, but with its new paint job and weapons, Freedom sounds a lot cooler.
Still, with the arrival of his Dragoons and the 501st helping us out in my homeland was a turning point for us. Black Tusk, the North Koreans and Chinese were kicking our asses and we were nearly pushed out of Osaka just weeks after we retook the place.
Either way, we had some back up and we are finally going to push the enemy out of Japan. Hopefully, we could link up with the group in Australia. There fleet wasn't hit as hard so it would give us the firepower we need if we're to go along with the planned liberation of the United States. I never trusted that bastard Trump.
'Make America Great Again'. That was his slogan when he was trying to become president back 2016. More like make himself great. Guy's a money-grubbing bastard and pervert, from what I heard he's gone bankrupt on several of his business ventures. Guys like him and Dirrel who place value on money and less on the lives of their countrymen makes me sick. We used to have a good relationship with that country, but then the newly appointed Secretary of Defense, one Paul Dirrel bypassed all international laws and treaties with us and had aloud Black Tusk and several other PMC companies the right to setup a base on our own homeland.
Dirrel was appointed the new Sec Def after the incident in the Middle East. Incident, huh more like massacre. A lot of my allies were killed with those droids attacked and not many of us survived the escape. Still, we were able to make it back home in one piece and minister Taro believed me about what I reported. At least one nation was preparing for the impending invasion.
Everybody thought when I started to train more and slack off less that I had been replaced by some alternate reality version of me. They didn't get it; I saw a lot of good people die and no one was doing anything about trying to figure out who attacked us. Well, maybe Task Force 141, but those guys were the best of the best and from all over the world, same goes for that counter terrorist group, Rainbow.
Yumiko 'Hibana' Imagawa, Masarau 'Echo' Enatsu. Those two were part of the Special Assault Team or SAT, our nations counter-terrorism unit. Trained by the SAS, GSG 9 and GIGN, they are our nations best weapon against terrorism and only the best were selected to join Rainbow. I would have joined, if I had any interest.
I looked up to see a pair of F-2's veer off and return to base. While we may have established a base of operations in the city, we were still in a shit load of trouble. Our armor and ground forces were able to deal with the enemy forces, our aircraft didn't have the fuel or ammo to launch an all-out attack against the invaders.
Sure, guys like Shinn and Akira managed to score a few victories here and there and were able to assist in saving a lot of lives, but our F4's, F15's and F2's weren't enough to deal with the enemy J's, MIG's and SU's. Not to mention the separatist fighters had laser cannons which took down many of our fighters within seconds before they could even get within range of their bombers. Most of our skilled pilots were killed in the first weeks of fighting back and most of the new guys were airline pilots who never even pulled the trigger.
I returned my focus back to reality when the kid, Robert I think his name is nudged me to take out my binoculars. Me, Akira, Takeo, Mari, Furuta and a fully healed Kuribayashi along with a couple of the kid's men decided to take a closer look at the enemy occupied Narita Airport. Of all the airports in Tokyo, Narita was the biggest threat to both us and the Republic.
Everyday, JH-7, MIG-23, SU-7 and Separatist bombers launched from this airport and constantly dropped their payloads on Kansai International. The constant attacks destroyed our stockpiles of 20mm rounds, missiles and other aircraft munitions, not to mention they damaged the Sky Gate Bridge and destroyed an entire train that was transporting some much-needed supplies from one of the bases in Kyoto.
With the bridge damaged and in need of repair, the island airport was isolated and running low on supplies. We were able to get a few of the ferries we commandeered with supplies over, but the enemy soon caught on to our efforts and sent fighters to attack our forces.
We needed to either take out or capture Narita and get the supplies we need, plus it would give us some new aircraft which we were going to need if we were going to get to Australia. From over ten clicks, I could tell the airport was heavily guarded. Walkers, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, SAMS and a whole lot of enemy infantry. Place looked like something from one of WW2 video games a lot of people play, one of the stealth ones.
"Full-Frontal assault is out of the question, Commander." One of the troopers, Breach I think said.
"No shit. We charge in guns blazing, we'll just get ourselves killed." Robert added. "Hey, Itami, you saw that Raptor they have on the Runway?" he asked me.
"Yeah. Looks like that thing is being modified to carry some new type of bombs. You got any ideas on what they are?" I asked, looking back to the Black Tusk F-22 that was undergoing maintance on the runway. Those things are beasts, but this thing looked it was being loaded with something new.
"I do and its nothing good." The kid answered.
"Well why don't we just sneak around the back? We catch with their pants down and bring the fight to them." The big trooper, Wrecker suggested.
"Bad idea. We wouldn't make it even two clicks into the terminal. Droids have setup an electric-sensor field around the back, we wouldn't be able to climb it either." Tech, the one with the goggles stated.
"We attack from here then they may just transport whatever they are loading into that Raptor away from the airport. We need to know what they are loading those planes with." The Rambo look-a-like, Hunter said in agreement.
The sniper, Crosshairs soon returned with 99, who looked like the comic book hero, Captain America with his muscles. "They've got some lookout stations along the road to the airport. Sneaking in isn't an option, we'd be caught within seconds, even if we got past one of them." Crosshairs stated.
The three other troopers in blue, Echo, Fives and Hevy brought up a holo-map of area, thanks to a sensor probe or something they threw into the air earlier. "All avenues of approach are covered. Bastards really planned for everything." Echo said as the map of panned over the airport.
"Wait! Can you get the probe to go back over the rail line?" I asked. The ARC Troopers, as they were called looked a little puzzled but did what I asked. "As I thought, they left the tunnels into the stations unguarded. That's our way in." I explained.
"Lieutenant, are you sure about that? They may have units inside the tunnels or have laid some traps." Kurata said with concern. I had to agree with him, we didn't know if those guys laid explosives all over the tunnels to go off if they detected any movement. Not to mention if we went loud, it would alert the entire base to our presence and we weren't exactly a Special Forces unit.
"Team Metal can place some charges on the lookout posts and detonate them when we get inside the station. The enemy will send some forces to investigate when the guys at the posts don't respond. That's our chance to get inside." Robert said before pulling out his commlink. "Lehner to Skywalker, we got a plan for taking Narita. I need Warlock, Iron Burger and Qoux battalions ready to move out." He said into his commlink.
I couldn't hear Skywalkers reply, but from way the guy looked back at me and the others, it sounded like we got the green light to proceed with the mission. Due to the mission we were each given a better weapon then our Type 64.
Akira was given the new HK433 assault rifle, Mari the DSA SA58 and Takeo a SCAR-H. All three of their assault rifles were equipped extended magazines, red dot sights, suppressors and under-barrel grenade launchers that were compatible for their rifles.
Shino nearly drooled when the kid handed her M468, which had better stopping power than the Type 64. Furuta was handed the M14 and I was given the Bushmaster Carbon 15 carbine. Like the others, our guns were equipped with suppressors and advanced sights, however ours weren't given grenade launchers but equipped with hand-guards. The first group was also given the MP7 and the rest of us were given the M-9 which we Japanese use.
This was a stealth mission, which I never trained for. Still, we had to take the airport if we were to help liberate the rest of the world. By the time we reached the tunnels, all of the units assigned to take the airport called in, having taken up their positions and were waiting for us to light the fireworks. Robert entered the tunnel first, followed by Breach, Echo, Fives, Hevy and The Bad Batch while the rest of us brought up the rear. This was going to be an interesting mission.
The whole tunnel was pitch black. When Black Tusk and the Separatists took over our nation, trains weren't exactly on the list of things they wanted intact, well maybe for the Separatists. The PMC guys, I don't really know.
"Night Vision up." The kid instructed. Each of us pulled down our night-vision goggles. Even if the lights were on, it would still be pretty dark in here. Power to the overhead catenary was off and many of the wires were broken in several places along this and other rail lines across the country. "Keep a tight formation. Check your corners, see a target take it down quietly and watch out for anything that looks like a mechanical Arachnid. Those things are deadly." He added.
All of us nodded and we continued forwards until we came to one of the abandoned E259 electric multi-units that ran the Narita Line. The thing looked like a complete wreck, the whole front part of the train set had slammed into the wall and derailed in a twist of aluminum. As for the rest of it, well the cars were derailed in several places, but still intact and littered full of the baggage of those who were either dead or missing. A nearby teddy bear reminded me of the little girl I saved when the attack came, both her parents were killed and now it was just her and her big brother.
"How could someone condone the slaughter of innocent people? War's are fought with soldiers, attacking civilians has no purpose." I stated silently, placing the bear back where I found it.
"Fear. That's what Sidious wants. Drive the people into fear and he will get them under his thumb. Slaughtering innocents, that's how he's been fighting the war. Republic or Separatist, so long as he can get the people to accept his rule, he doesn't care. They are expendable to him." The kid said through gritted teeth.
Something told me, he saw something like this a lot worse than what we saw. We soon continued forwards and were almost at the terminal one station when a gun shot rang out. We looked towards the platform to see the body of a police offer fall to the tracks. The two soldiers chuckled before walking off and left the platform.
When we got closer to the platform, we saw that the officer wasn't the only one down here. Dozens of officers, SAT soldiers and numerous civilians were scattered over the tracks, each of them killed by weapons fire of either Earth origin or separatist design. This was a war crime, executing those who couldn't fight back.
I looked back to see Kuribayashi was starting to get angry and when she gets angry, she tends to be reckless and charges in without a second thought. She was about to scramble up the side of the platform when Wrecker stopped her. "You charge in like that, you're just going to get yourself killed. I hate what these guys have done, but remember we have a mission to complete." The big trooper said.
"Damn it." Shino cursed.
I could relate. I wanted to get back at these guys, but we have a mission to complete.
We scrambled over the platforms edge and scanned the area; we were in the clear. Or so we thought. No sooner had I lowered my rifle, four North Korean soldiers exited the elevator and spotted us. They quickly snapped their rifles up and were about to fire, but Shino, Mari, Kurata and the kid quickly took them out with a precise shot in the center of their heads.
"That was too close." Hunter stated.
"No kidding. Alright, Wrecker detonate the charges. Everyone else, search and destroy. Take out any hostiles. Split up into squads of four and maintain constant communication. Remember, silencers and blades only." Robert instructed.
Wrecker, being the guy who loves to blow shit up, pulled out the detonator and pressed the button. Even from far away, we could hear the explosions and the distant sounds of enemy units running towards the scene.
Once we got confirmation that the enemy had fallen for the oldest trick in the book, the sixteen of us split up, each of us going for our designated objectives. My group, which consisted of me, the kid, Shino and Mari we had to take out the enemy communications. The Bad Batch, minus the guy they called 99 were to knock out the enemies' anti-air defenses and keep the Raptor from taking off. 99, Echo, Fives, Hevy, those guys were to look for prisoners and set them free. As for Kurata, Akira, Breach and Furata were to secure the armory.
We each left the station and headed towards the toughest battle we were about to fight.
Normal point of view
The moment Rex confirmed the detonation of the explosives, Barney, Kasumi, Honoka and Rally hopped on one of the Type 10 tanks as both Clones and JSDF soldiers marched towards the airport as Apache, Cobra, Huey and Black Hawks lifted off into the air. Following them and providing the only protection from enemy air-forces was Anakin and R2. From the data the recon unit sent them, the enemies anti-air defense made it too risky for a large formation of aircraft to attack the base. So, Anakin decided to protect the forces himself by flying ahead of the main force, get the attention of the enemy fighters and lead them into an ambush Hazama planned. Several Type 87 self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicles were hidden in several nearby buildings which had holes in the roof and were waiting to attack.
The main armament of the Type 87's were two 35mm twin autocannons which were designed for downing enemy aircraft. Hopefully, the enemy pilots would take the bait and follow Anakin towards the guns and have a majority of the enemy fighters eliminated by the cannons. The rest would be mopped up by the fighters and bombers of the 501st and Dragoons.
He soon came into view of the airport and climbed to nine-thousand feet before angling his fighter in front of the sun. "R2, increase power to front deflector shields and be prepared to divert the power to the rear shields the moment we pull up." Anakin instructed his companion.
R2 beeped in response. "I know, it's a risky plan, but we are the only ones who can do this. Don't worry, we'll be getting some back up as soon as possible." Anakin assured his droid.
Pushing his controls forwards, Anakin sent his fighter into a dive and armed all his missiles. Unlike the one he used on Cato Neimodia; Anakin's fighter was equipped with two concussion missile launchers he installed personally. These launchers carried a total of twelve concussion missiles could lock onto either a ground-based target or a fighter craft.
As his altitude dropped rapidly, the airport came into view and his ship was getting bracketed by anti-aircraft fire. The enemy's entire anti-aircraft screen was so focused on taking down Skywalkers fighter, that the ground forces didn't notice the Bad Batch had just disabled the enemy Raptor and we're quickly planting charges on several anti-air defenses. "Good work Hunter. Now it's my turn." He said as he neared the firing distance for his missiles. "Fox 12!" he shouted and fired all his missiles at the targets they were locked on to before he strafed several taxing Black Tusk, North Korean and Chinese fighters that were attempting to intercept him, destroying them. As he pulled up from his run, each of the defenses that were laid with charges showed up as blue blips on his radar before they were destroyed by the experimental squad.
He then began to climb and ordered R2 to boost the power to his engines and rear deflector shields. He did so just in time as dozens of droid fighters took off into the air and began to chase the two. They were quickly joined by several MIG-31B's, SU-35's, J-10s and MIG-29s. Leading the pack of fighter planes were four Black Tusk MIG-35S's, nicknamed the Fulcrum-F.
A further development of the MIG-29, the MIG-35 was equipped with an advanced systems care-package similar to the MIG-29. Unlike the other MIG fighters, the Fulcrum-F featured a uniquely designed optical locator system which relieved it from relaying on ground-control interception systems, allowing it to conduct independent multirole missions.
As a multirole fighter, the MIG-35 could conduct air-to-air combat or air-to-ground missions. For dogfighting, it is equipped with a GSh-30-1 30mm autocannon with one-hundred-fifty rounds, carried nine hardpoints which could be equipped with missiles, rocket pods and sixty-five thousand pounds of bombs.
By late 2019, the Russian Aircraft Corporation, MIG began to develop more of these fourth-generation aircraft following the base attack in Israel. By the time the new year arrived, they had produced over three-hundred of these new fighters and were beginning to outfit them with an extra cannon and be able to carry more rounds for its gun. However, the Inner Circle stole two-hundred of these fighters before they could be modified and sent them to groups like Black Tusk.
The lead MIG-35S quickly began to close the distance between itself and Anakin's fighter and launched one of its missiles. Noticing this, Anakin banked hard left avoiding the missile which streaked off into the distance before it slammed into a large office building.
"Skywalker to Hazama, they took the bait. The Sharks have caught the scent of blood. Leading them to the target point now. Have those anti-air weapons prepared for combat. Have a squadron ready to launch as soon as possible." Anakin shouted into the commlink.
Cannon fire from both droids and fighter jets streaked past his cockpit, some of them scoring a few hits on his shields but still, Anakin continued forwards and increased his speed to maximum, further baiting the enemy fighters. The moment he arrived over the target location; he pulled his fighter into a steep climb as the Type 87s opened up on the enemy fighters.
35mm armor-piercing explosive shells tore through the enemy fighters, sending some of them spiraling down into the empty streets where they exploded while others exploded into fireballs. However, only fifty-five percent of the enemy fighters were destroyed. "Skywalker here, operation is successful. I'll engage the enemy fighters until back up has arrived." He said into the commlink, cutting his engines and allowing one of the surviving droid fighters to overtake him before downed it with his cannons.
"Back up has arrived, Skywalker." A voice said over the commlink. Looking towards his rear, he saw a blue and white F15J fighter plane with a flaming unicorn insignia quickly downed two J-10s with its AAM-4 missiles before another fighter, a MIG-29 was downed by a F4J's Vulcan cannon.
"Shin Kazama, JSAF at awaiting your orders General Skywalker." Shin said, giving a two-finger salute from his cockpit.
"Lieutenant Colonel Akira Kamikoda, ready and willing to kick some ass." The F4J pilot responded. Anakin nodded as the Dragoon and 501st fighter squadrons quickly joined up with him. He then gave the order to attack and the massive dogfight for Japan had begun.
(Harsh Wasteland/ War Factory Dogfight Jak 3 OST starts)
Banking left over the Jedi Starfighter; Shin picked out a target. A North Korean MIG-23B that was attempting a bombing run on the allied armor and infantry heading towards the airport. Pitching his aircraft down, Shin quickly closed the gap between him and the MIG, fired his cannons taking out the aircraft before he peeled off and went after a SU-30 of the Chinese air force. This pilot was a skilled one, having been seen numerous times in the past mouths launching attacks on convoys coming in from the other regions of the nation.
Numerous lives were lost and his girlfriend, Ryoko Tsugumo was taken prisoner by the enemy when she went to deliver relief supplies to another base in the Kansai Region. Thankfully, she was alive but command couldn't risk a rescue mission on such a 'insignificant' target. This made Shin's blood boil. Thankfully, a JGSDF team along with Hibana and Echo were able to liberate the camp and the two were reunite.
This gave Shin a new purpose, to protect Yoko and end this war. To do so, he had to take out this ace. Sticking to his foe like glue, Shin predicted each and every move his enemy made before he got a lock and fired. A quick five second burst from his two 20mm cannons blew the enemy fighter to pieces. "That was for you, Ryoko." He said before turning around and heading back to the ongoing battle.
Leading the target into his gunsights, Akira's Phantom let lose a volley of 20mm rounds, blowing two Droid fighters out of the sky before the last two were downed by an ally, an ARC-170 flown by Trigger a member of the Dragoons.
Looking down, he saw the ground battle for the airport had begun. He then spotted an enemy gunship directly ahead of the ground forces its weapons primed and ready to fire. Diving down fast, he lined up his Phantom with the enemy Gunship as his tone for radar lock blared in his ears, confirming his missile were ready to fire. "FOX 2!" the colonel shouted and launched two AIM-9's at the gunship.
The missiles streaked towards the target where they made contact and destroyed the gunship. "Thanks Colonel." A voice said from below. He knew it was a clone, but he couldn't figure out which one it was since they all sounded a like.
He didn't have time to dwell on it. His back-seater called out that they had picked up a bandit on their tail. A Chinese J-7, a copy of the MIG-21 had launched a missile towards the Phantom and was tracking the two-seater aircraft. "BANK RIGHT!" the back-seater shouted. Kamikoda did so and the missile slammed into a building. The pilot of the J-7 didn't give up and continued to chase the Phantom only for it to be shot down by a F-2 Viper, flown by one of his hatchlings.
Rookie JSAF pilot, Kyoto Inari while grateful she had saved the life of her senior officer soon found that she had picked up a bandit of her own, a TIE fighter. The enemy fighters' cannons roared to life, sending green lasers flying past her cockpit. Realizing she was being targeted, she cut her speed and allowed the fighter to over-shot her, allowing her to shoot it down with her guns, scoring her second kill of the day.
Another enemy fighter, a Droid tri-fighter was coming straight at her with its cannons blazing before it was even in range. She was in range and launched one of her AAM-5's before she dived down to avoid the wreckage of the enemy fighter. The missile exploded and left nothing of the droid fighter before she climbed back up and spotted a New Republic Y-Wing being attacked by three Vulture droids. Pushing her engine to full power, Kyoto quickly climbed up and fired two more missiles at the fighters while downing the third with her cannons.
No matter how many aircraft the enemy scrambled, the JSDF and New Republic forces were beginning to overwhelm the enemy forces. The tide of the air battle had turned in their favor while on the ground, things were different.
(End Song)
The main force had arrived at the enemy held airport, but the number of enemy tanks was keeping them from even breaching the barrier the enemy had setup in anticipation for an enemy attack. A round from a nearby Thor's Medium Laser cannons tore through the armor of Pokpung-Ho tank before the rounds from an Atlas's Autocannons slammed into the barrier knocking it down and opening a path for the ground forces.
A rocket from a Chinese Type 69 launcher slammed into the side of one of the Dragoons ATTE's, hitting its mass-driver and killing the gunner. The soldier with the launcher was preparing to reload his rocket launcher when he was taken out by headshot from a JSDF soldier in one of the Huey's heading for the airport.
The soldier didn't get a chance to celebrate his victory as another rocket was sent towards the helicopter, only to be sent back to the one who fired it, courtesy of Yoda who was riding in the same helicopter. "Thank you." The soldier said to the Jedi Master. Yoda said nothing and continued to deflect enemy blaster fire back at enemy units approaching on STAP's.
Back inside the airport, Third Recon, the Bad Batch, Breach, Domino Squad and Robert had finished completing their objectives and were in the middle of firefight trying to get out of the airports main entrance to the first terminal.
(Start Gate Opening 1)
Taking aim and flipping her grenade launchers sights up, Mari fired a 40mm round towards an incoming Warhound unit. The grenade exploded upon impact, sending killing shrapnel flying towards several North Korean soldiers that failed to get out of the way of the blast.
Akira and Takeo followed suit with their own launchers and took out several more soldiers. Ducking down to load a new grenade into their launchers, the three almost had their heads blown off by a Black Tusk sniper that was using the nearby air traffic control as a sniper position. They weren't alone, with the sniper were several North Korean, Chinese and droid snipers. The amount of weapons fire was pinning down all three grenade-launcher equipped soldiers.
Then in an instant, all the snipers were taken out by Crosshairs who along with the rest of the Bad Batch and Furuta had managed to flank the snipers and got into the towers blind spot. With the snipers down, the others were able to move up and began to push the enemy back.
Pulling the pin on one of her grenades, Shino tossed the explosive towards several battle droids which were destroyed before spraying 6.8mm rounds towards the enemy infantry while Itami, Echo, Fives, Hevy and Breach covered her as she charged in recklessly. "She never learns." The Third Recon leader said, reloading his Carbon 15 with a fresh magazine before he too followed the others.
A Platoon of B2 battle droids started rush them only to be sent flying back into the path of an incoming Type 96 that had zeroed its sights on the group. Slinging his weapons over his back, Robert rushed towards the tank with his Lightsabers ignited and began to deflect weapons fire back at the enemy droids, dodging the blasts sent towards him by the tanks 125mm gun. Itami watched as the kid jumped onto the tank and slashed at the engine disabling the tank before he opened the hatch, punched the crews lights out before he hopped back out of the tank and ignited his sabers. "PUSH FORWARDS!" Robert shouted, extending his hands out and sent several crates towards dozens of battle droids.
In the excitement, Kuribayashi charged forwards. "BANZI!" She shouted, attaching a bayonet to the Barret rifle and stabbed several unarmored Black Tusk shotgunners before lobbing another one of her grenades towards several incoming North Korean Shotgunners. The grenade exploded taking the shotgun wielding soldiers out before she took cover behind a wrecked Warhound and continued to return fire with the enemy.
By the time the others reached the petite soldier's location, the main force had broken through the defense's and the enemy airpower was retreating to safe locations. Having been backed into a corner, the remaining soldiers surrendered. The battle for the airport had ended.
(End Song)
"Secure those prisoners and relieve them of their weapons. Get all technicians working on repairing those vehicles. Medics are to tend to the wounded of both sides. Search the area and mop up any droids we missed." Robert shouted.
He then jumped off the tank and looked towards Itami. "Good work, LT. You really know your stuff." He complimented as Anakin and the other fighter squads landed on the runway.
"Well, we JSDF do have our training. We may not be the same warriors we were during WW2, but we make up for it by not following the Three All's they had back in those days." Itami said, rubbing the back of his head.
"Got that right. KURUBAYASHI! FRONT AND CENTER!" Robert added and turning towards Shino. "You're reckless. You could have gotten yourself killed rushing like a maniac." He began causing the Sergeant First Class to get a little angry.
"However, you did good in helping us take the airport. You've still got a lot to learn, we all do. So, I'll speak to General Hazama and see if he can attach you guys to the Dragoons. We're going to need all the help we can get. This is only the beginning. If we're going to push back the separatists, we can't afford to have the best hand-to-hand combat soldier of the JSDF getting killed before the main event now can we?" he added.
Shino's anger soon disappeared and she gave the Lone Wolf a salute before he looked to see Hazama walking towards them.
A few days later, the enemy on the Japanese mainland had been pushed out and Japan was free. With the JSDF and its other units free from fighting for their homeland, the Dragoons and 501st turned their attention to their next target: The Land Down Under.
Damn, this took a while. I've been feeling a bit down lately, my hours at work have getting cut and no one seems to be answering my question as to why my hours are getting cut. I need the money to make a living and I love my job, so why can't anyone give me a straight answer.
And thus, the battle for Japan has ended. I mentioned Rainbow Six Siege, while I have not played the game, I like the characters and the weapons they use, so I guess that's fine. Itami has had a change to character, but is still the same Otaku we all know and love from Gate.
Anyways, the next battle ground is Australia, my way of saying thanks to Cronus Prime for all his support and reviews to this series. I ow him a lot. Anyways, please read and review and will see you all next time.