Time for some action on the Russian front.
Before I begin, I want to say that I am looking forwards to Gears of War 5, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Doom Eternal, Rambo 5, Star Wars Resistance Season 2, the return of Star Wars the Clone Wars and Star Wars the Rise of Skywalker. Aside from those things, I am also looking forwards to RWBY Volume 7 and I am so hoping that Wiess's dad and brother get their asses handed to them, I hate those bastards.
Onto reviews and PMs.
Mpowers045: Thank you. I wasn't planning on adding Central America aside from the appearance of the guys from Ghost Recon, but I am glad it worked out in the end. Kind of wished the chapter was a little longer, but no harm done.
Spartan-Wolf: Glad you liked the chapter. As for the part with the Mandalorians working alongside Germans who are descendants of Vikings, I am afraid I don't know much about Vikings. As for countries like Mexico, Sweden and Scandinavia, I am also afraid to say that I will only be focusing on England, Russia, Scotland and Ireland. Germany and France will be battlegrounds in time. I only know so much about the militaries of several countries. As for Velvet, she'll give Billy what he has coming, but it won't be for a while. Plo Koon will be fighting in this chapter, Obi-Wan will follow and as for Shaak Ti, she's with the Dragoons and 501st. As for the Gears of War story idea, I am not taking ideas for other stories at the moment, but I have been considering a possible story idea.
Nitro Zeus: I take it you are talking about the movie: The Great Raid and the real-life event, the raid on the Bataan Death Camp, Cabanataun. I think I can squeeze that in, but not for a while. However, I am considering on using a scene from Hacksaw Ridge at some point in the future.
Well, time to get started. Disclaimers are the same as before, please enjoy.
Chapter 36: Russia Strikes Back
June 23rd 2020 19BBY
Mount Yamantau,
Bashkortostan Russia,
Beloretsky District
Russian Armed Forces FOB
1600 hours
Normal point of view
Built at the end of the Cold War and similar to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in the United States, The Ural Mountain Super Base was the main area of operations for the Russian faction of the Wolverines. The base was so large that it housed several large hangers containing all the aircraft the Russians still had in working order.
Armored vehicle workshops, barracks for the soldiers and connected by a 'disused' rail line that was built back in the 1800's during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. It now served as a key military base for the Russian's.
While the success of the Russian Wolverines was significant in the early days of the occupation, when the enemy reinforcements arrived, the ground they gained was lost and they forced to retreat leaving many of their comrades behind who were taken prisoner by the Inner Circle and Separatists. Since then, they were fighting a losing battle.
The second largest military in the world known for having the largest tanks and some of the best aircraft in the world was now a shell of its former self. Everyday the front lines were falling further and further back to their main base. Putin was killed in one of those attacks and the leadership of the country now fell to Boris Vorshevsky.
The last enemy attack would have been the end of them had it not been for the timely arrival of Plo Koon and Kit Fisto who pushed back the enemy forces that had staged an all-out attack on base in an attempt to wipe the Russians out. Artyom, Anya and Nikolai were surprised to say the least when these new allies quickly turned the tide of the battle and were now regaining the ground they had lost after numerous defeats.
Now, they were in the briefing room of the base with Plo, Kit, Wolfe, Hitomi, Lincoln, Billy, Erik and Boris overlooking a map of enemy positions along the Volga river. A squadron of SU-24's and 34's that were returning from their mission to attack an enemy armored column that was heading towards an ally outpost had just reported that an enemy force was heading towards the base, this one several times larger than the last three forces that the last attacks. Thankfully, the strike fighter squadron was able to use the last of their ordnance and eliminated a few of the incoming tanks, but were shot down by several enemy self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
"It appears the enemy is set on crushing your men, Vorshevesky. I don't know if we can hold off the enemy long enough, you need to retreat." Plo said to the Russian President.
"I cannot just leave my countrymen to die while I run like a coward." The thirty-three-year-old responded, having already proven he meant every word since he was wearing the standard 6B22 Permyachka Infantry combat suit with the 6B45 Body Armor underneath it and the 6B47 Combat Helmet worn by his soldiers. Slung over his back was a customized AK-74M assault rifle with an under-barrel GP-25 grenade launcher. In his holster was the MP-443 Grach pistol.
"I understand your commitment to your country, Mr. President, but what will happen you daughter if you die in battle?" Kit asked. Alena Vorshevesky, Boris's five-year-old little girl who was safely in a safe house in the Kamchatka Peninsula, hundreds of miles from the active battlefront. To him, Alena meant everything to him and he dedicated his life to spend every moment he could after her mother passed away when she was two years old.
"My daughter is important to me, but my country is also important as well. How could I look at her and tell her I ran away when my country needed me the most? I may be the president of Russia, but I am also a soldier. I served two tours of duty in the middle east before I entered the political world." Boris explained.
"Well, looks like the Cossack leader has got a lot of balls in wanting to stay behind and fight, no offense." Lincoln said, impressed by the Russians determination.
"None taken, Comrade Clay. But I do agree with the Jedi, we can't hold this base for much longer. I know what Makarov wants, the launch codes for the Nuclear missiles hidden under the Kremlin. I am afraid the rumors of a silo underneath it are true. The missiles may be deactivated, but Makarov might be able to rearm them. If he does, the consequences could be deadly." Boris explained.
"Kind of surprising, that Cold War you had. You guys built a lot of nuclear weapons." Erik pipped up from behind.
"I regret that we built those weapons, but we have taken steps so that they are never used again. But if madmen like Makarov get the launch codes, I don't want to think of the consequences." The Russian President said in agreement.
"Then we must evacuate as soon as possible. Get the wounded men out first, load them onto the gunships. You have another base in Tyumen, yes? Use the trains and vehicles to transport the men there. Have your fighter pilots land their aircraft in our cruisers." Kit said.
Boris nodded and sent a message to all base personal to prepare for immediate evacuation. They had only fifteen minutes before the enemy arrived.
Inside one of the many hangers, flight crews finished making the final checks on the numerous SU-35S fighters. Built from the basis of the SU-27M as a multi-role air-superiority fourth generation fighter jet. Along with its incorporated canards and a multi-function radar, the aircraft also featured the thrust vectoring nozzle engines giving it far greater mobility than the MIG-21 and MIG-25.
Its top speed is 2,400 km/h the same speed as the MIG-29 but a bit slower the MIG-31 interceptor. Unlike the MIG-29 however, the SU-35S was equipped with twelve hardpoints, two on the wing tips and ten on the fuselage and wing stations which could carry a variety of air-to-air, air-to-ground, anti-ship and bombs. For close in dogfighting, the Flanker E as it was nicknamed was armed with a 30mm cannon and normally carried one-hundred-fifty rounds, however these aircraft were loaded with extra ammo giving the fighters a total of eight-hundred rounds for its gun.
Taxing by to the runway was the MIG-29 Fulcrum. Developed to counter the F15 Eagle and F14 Tomcat, the MIG-29 was armed with seven hardpoints, six underwing and one fuselage. It was equipped with the same 30mm cannon the SU-35S and the rest of the SU series were armed with, also loaded up with more rounds then the standard capacity.
Following the MIG-29 and SU-35's take offs, fifteen MIG-31 Foxhounds rocketed into the air. An interceptor fighter aircraft based on the early MIG-25, the MIG-31 was armed with a 23mm cannon carrying over eight-hundred rounds and eight underwing pylons which could carry a variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles. Faster than the MIG-29 and SU-35, it was ideal for attacking ground targets.
Following the Foxhounds, were the SU-57's that Scott Mitchel and his men recovered from South America. Designed as a stealth air-superiority fighter, the SU-57 was slower than the MIG-31, MIG-29 and SU-35 but carried a total of twelve hardpoints in its weapon bay or outside on the aircrafts body. For close in fighting, it was armed with a 30mm cannon mounted in the right LEVCON root.
As fighter jets scrambled into the air, exiting the vehicle bays were BMP's, BTR's and self-propelled artillery units. Flying overhead were dozens of MI-24 and MI-28 attack helicopters. Below them, rolling over the trenches that had been dug out were numerous T-72's, T-80's and T-90 tanks. Following them, were the new T-14. A main battle tank with a top speed of 50-56mph, the T-14 was armored with the 44S-sv-Sh Glacis with internal armor to reduce the penetration of HEAT rounds by 50%. For offense, the T-14 was armed with 125mm or 152mm smoothbore cannon, the 6P49 12.7mm or PKTM 7.62mm machine guns for handing enemy infantry.
The trenches were filled with soldiers armed with AK series rifles, RPK and PKM machine guns, ASG automatic grenade launchers and RPGS. Besides them were soldiers of the 104th Wolf Pack. Walking up to the front lines with Wolfe, Plo watched as Kit flew his Delta 7B, taking command of the fighter and bomber squadrons while the Kel Dor Jedi Master oversaw the ground battle.
"The primary target will be the president. Begin the evacuation." Plo said into his commlink.
Once the order was given, trains and ground vehicles along with LAAT's began to depart the base from the rear each taking different routes to Tyumen. As the first wave left, Plo felt a something through the Force. "What's the matter, General?" Wolfe asked as Lincoln, Billy, Hitomi and Erik joined up the general.
"I feel little Soka's pain. Tarkin is torturing her in order to get us to lose our focus and kill us." He stated. Before Wolfe could speak, the ground began to shake as Boost called out the incoming enemy walkers heading towards them.
"Here they come. Open fire once they get in range." Artyom instructed the men and women of the Russian military over the radio. The artillery units responded over the radio as a formation of SU-27's equipped with four B-13L1 S-13 122mm rocket pods flew overhead. As the enemy forces got closer and closer to the base, the AT-AT's open fired destroying several BMP-3 IFV's.
(Start Battle of Hoth)
While the enemy wasn't in range, Russian and Wolf Pack artillery and armor opened fired on the enemy forces. Cannon rounds, missiles, mass-accelerator rounds and artillery rounds screamed towards the enemy walkers as the landmines there laid in advance were detonated upon being stepped on by enemy infantry.
Or so they thought, a nearby ARC trooper looked through his range finder and watched as several unarmed Inner Circle LUV's drove into the minefield rolling over mines and saving their infantry who were using old T-64 tanks as cover.
Taking aim with her HK 417, Hitomi let lose several shots of 7.62mm lead taking out a few IC rocket soldiers who were in the middle of reloading their RPG's after taking out two T-90's. Erik followed her with a burst from his C7 machine gun, cutting down a dozen battle droids while Lincoln laid down suppressing fire from the second trench with his XM8 while Billy handed rounds to one of the 2S12 Sani mortar teams.
Comet, Sinker, Boost and Wolfe opened up with their blasters taking down numerous hostile units while grenadiers lobbed detonators and those armed with rocket launchers fired their launchers at several incoming AT-ST walkers. They could have attacked the AT-AT's, but their weapons wouldn't have any effect on the four-legged walkers' heavy armor.
What did have an effect on the walkers, were 122mm rockets and proton bombs from the SU-27s and Y-Wings which scored a direct hit on the enemy walkers' vulnerable neck joint. Following them were several MIG-31s, ARC-170s and Z-95's coming in for a strafing run on several enemy infantry fighting vehicles. 23mm and laser cannon rounds reduced the IFV's to scrap metal. They then pulled up from their run and went to engage the enemy fighters.
One of the SU-35s was hot on the tail of an enemy MIG-29. The pilot lined up the fighter in their gun sights and fired a short burst of 30mm rounds, hitting the enemy fighter which then spiraled into a death role and slammed into one of the AT-ST's. Just seconds after scoring their kill, the pilot looked back to see that they had picked up a missile which was seconds away from hitting the aircraft. The pilot had little time to react as the missile slammed into the aircraft, destroying it.
The attacker, a Droid Starfighter soon formed up with the rest of its squadron which soon dived down towards the trench lines and were about to strafe several retreating soldiers. They were just about to fire when the fighters were riddled with bullets.
Down below, Artyom looked in amazement as flying right through the wreckage was the only SU-37 they had. Developed from the frame of the SU-27M like the SU-35, the SU-37 nicknamed 'Terminator' was developed as an air-superiority fighter jet. Only three prototypes were built, two of which were destroyed during test flights and the last one was used by Sukhoi as a test aircraft which was used in the development of the more modern SU-35.
The top speed of the aircraft was twenty-five thousand kilometers at high altitude and one-thousand-three-hundred and ninety kilometers at sea level. For offense, the SU-37 carried twelve hardpoints, two wing-tip and ten wing-tip and fuselage stations which can carry up to any number of air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles. The fighter was also equipped with the same GSh-30-1 30mm cannon the other SU fighters and MIG-29 carried.
When the invasion occurred, Maya Rodionovna, granddaughter of a Russian WW2 fighter ace and Sukhoi test pilot took the aircraft which was almost stolen by the Inner Circle and linked up with the Russian Military who made her leader of Yellow Squadron, a squadron of MIG-29's, MIG-31's, SU-30's and SU-35s. Her callsign was Yellow Thirteen and since that day she had flown dozens of combat missions protecting civilians that were fleeing battles and assisting retreating allies.
This mission was just like all the others, expect Maya was flying alongside more advanced fighters and fighter bombers unlike anything she had ever seen and an alien fighter pilot, who had just downed a squadron of droid bombers. She watched in amazement as the triangle shaped fighter cut its speed and allowed the fighters that were behind it to overshot the fighter and were downed by a burst of cannon fire.
She returned to reality as her radio crackled. The enemy advance was far greater than they anticipated and were already past the fifth trench line. Despite the number of walkers they had lost, the enemy was nearly at the base entrance. Turning her aircraft one-hundred-eighty degrees to the left, Maya turned back towards the direction of the base only to have several enemy fighters overshot her. Arming the last of her R-40 long-range missiles, she pulled the trigger and fired her four missiles towards four enemy fighters, blowing them to scrap-metal. Once her missiles left her hardpoints, she pointed her aircraft towards one of friendly cruisers to rearm and refuel.
(End song)
Back below, Artyom and Nikolai dived underneath the closing rail network door after the last of retreating soldiers got inside before they did. As the door slammed to the ground, the two ran towards one of the last trains that had yet to leave the base.
"Load the wounded onto the front of the train. Everyone else take defensive positions on the platform. Don't fire until the enemy is in range. Make your shots count." Boris instructed the soldiers, who trained their weapons on the door. Just minutes after they trained their sights on the door, the doors were starting to get cut open. Soldiers and clone troopers tighten their grips on their weapons, scrambling to take cover as quickly as they could. Plo quickly ignited his lightsaber and held it tight while Hitomi, Erik, Billy and Lincoln quickly trained their own weapons down the tunnel.
Seconds later, a light from the outside illuminated the dark rail tunnel as Inner Circle and battle droids entered the tunnel and the battle began again. The noise of assault rifles, machine guns and blasters firing echoed through out the tunnel as medics quickly loaded the wounded onto the train as fast as they could. Radio chatter from outside indicated that the enemy armor was starting to fire on the mountain despite the attacks from allied fighters.
"We cannot hold them off much longer, General." Wolfe called out before he popped out of cover and fired his pistols taking down a few dozen enemy units.
"The train is still being loaded with the wounded. We cannot abandon them." Plo said to his trusted friend, slicing a droid in half before using the force to push back dozens of enemies allowing the others to fall back to the platform.
"Master Jedi. Get the men loaded onto the train, I will cover you." Boris said, loading a new magazine into his AK.
"We cannot abandon you. If you are captured then…." Plo began before Boris pushed him down and took out an enemy soldier that was about to take a shot at the Kel Dor Jedi. "I know. But they will never get the codes from me. I will gladly die before I give the codes to someone like Makarov. Take my men, protect them." Boris said.
Plo looked into the president's eyes and knew that his mind was made up. "All troops, get on board the train. We are abandoning the base." Plo shouted to his men who quickly boarded the train, everyone except Hitomi.
"Hoffman, get your ass onboard the train!" Billy shouted as the doors to the last car closed.
"I'll stay and help the president. GET OUT OF HERE!" She shouted as the engine, one of the preserved P36 steam Locomotives coupled in front of 2TE25A freight locomotive blew its whistle and departed the base as more enemy soldiers arrived. Firing their weapons at any target, Hitomi and Boris held of the enemy for a good ten minutes before they were over run and captured.
Hands behind their backs, both of them were brought towards Makarov who was waiting in front of a MI-8 helicopter, flanked by several Magnaguards. "You two know who I am?" the terrorist leader asked.
"Yes." Boris answered.
"Then you know what I want." Makarov replied.
"MOTHERFUCKER!" Hitomi shouted, her helmet already removed. Makarov walked towards her and pistol whipped her.
"Foolish girl." He said before turning back to Boris. "Russia will have all of Europe, even if it must stand on a pile of ashes. I want the launch codes, Mr. President." Makarov demanded.
"I'll never give them to you. You're a murder, just like Sidious and Tarkin. I will never give you what you want." Boris said with determination.
"Every man has his weakness. Take them away." Makarov ordered as his forces began to return to Moscow. Looking back to the retreating Russian and Republic forces, he gritted his teeth. One way or another, he would get what he wanted. He didn't know how wrong he was. While he had captured the President of Russia and one of the allies of the Lone Wolf, he had awoken the wrath of the Russian military.
June 25th 2020 19BBY
0807 hours
Hitomi's point of view
I think I might be going through the same thing Robert went through on Ryloth. Ok, maybe not exactly like what Robert went through, but close enough. My armor was removed and I was stripped only to bra and underwear, tied to a pole like one of the Disney movie girls which was connected to a battery which was hooked up to give me a shock every thirty minutes.
I've been through worse, but the Russian President was in a much worse condition. Every day, I heard the president scream in pain from constant interrogation, but never once did he give into the pain. The guy was tough, having served some time in the army during the mid-2000's fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban after 9/11. Guy was one tough SOB. I heard rumors from one of the guards that came in to torture me, the President was captured by the Taliban after an intense fire-fight in Khyber Pass while investigating reports of a Taliban weapons cache buried near the closed railway that once ran through the pass before the current war on terrorism.
He was beaten and tortured for weeks until he overpowered one of his captors and escaped while taking out the entire weapons cache singlehandedly. He was however wounded when he was rescued by a patrol of American and Russian Airborne troops who conducting the same type of mission he was given.
When he returned to Russia, he enrolled in the Moscow University and graduated several years later and entered the political world, serving as the Russian Ambassador to the United States. He spent several years living in Boston where he met his wife, a woman named Landry Knight who was of Russian decent. The two fell in love and dated for a few years before they married six years ago. Their daughter was Alena and she was only five years old.
Both his wife and daughter were hidden from Makarov and under the protection of the Federal Security Service or FSB for short, an elite counter-terrorism and intelligence agency. Kind of like the CIA and MI6. The thought of Makarov getting his hands on the president's wife and daughter made my blood boil, not just because he was a terrorist but his group was also the ones responsible for the death of my cousin Werner in 2016. I wanted revenge, but right now I need to get the hell out of here.
The 'here' in question was a factory on the outskirts of Moscow. In which part of the city, I had no idea. All I know is that I was in Moscow, which was now a shadow of its former self. Another jolt of electricity coursed through my body as another interrogator entered the room. Interrogator was being to kind. The guy just wanted force himself on me for his own pleasure.
I watched the guard place his weapons down, walked over to me and cut my bonds before he handed me something. The 'something' was lingerie similar to what Ahsoka wore for Robert after she left the order. Guess the guy wanted to make love with a sexy girl. This would work to my advantage. I've had plenty of guys try something similar to this back home, but not exactly like this.
Walking towards the bathroom, which was disgusting beyond belief I stripped out of my lowers and slid the clothing on. I finished sliding the gloves on and by the time I exited the bathroom, the guard had his back turned to me and the sound of liquid hitting the ground was heard. Seemed like the guy was taking a piss, this was even better than I could hope for. Just as the guy finished his business and zipped his pants up, I jumped him, grabbed his neck and choked the life out of the guy. His body soon fell limp to the floor. He wasn't dead, just knocked out.
I spotted my armor and put it on. As the armor shifted and covered my body, I grabbed the guard's weapons. A MP5A3 with a red dot sight and handguard. An AK74U carbine with the same attachments Robert had on his when he discovered who Sidious was and a SIG P226 handgun. This guy had plenty of ammo and tricked out his weapons for maximum effect. Kind of odd.
I left the room and went looking for the Russian President. I had to get him out of here.
As I made my way through the factory, I took down any terrorists I came across quietly and hid the bodies before anyone could find them. I continued further into the factory before I stopped just short of a communications room and listened to a transmission between Makarov and Tarkin.
"The stubborn fool hasn't given up the launch codes. He is a difficult man to break." Makarov said.
"You said you could acquire the launch codes easily. It appears you are not the skilled torturer that you claim to be." Tarkin stated.
"I will have you know that I am Zakhaev's protégé and am far more skilled in carrying out attacks far better than you are, Admiral. Let's not forget, I have destroyed my countries primary base and have pushed them back across the Volga while you," he started before he chuckled. "You allowed one of your own to free the prisoner. Without her, the Lone Wolf will be more determined to take back his world." He added.
"I'll have you know that…." Tarkin began before a familiar voice stopped the admiral dead in his words.
"Enough! The escape of the Lone Wolfs lover is of no consequence. I've already dispatched troops to bring her back. We must focus our efforts on the current issue at hand. The Wolverine's and New Republic are planning for a massive invasion soon and I need you to keep them occupied on the Western Front." Sidious stated to the two.
"I'll have the launch codes soon." Makarov said. He was wrong as Sidious soon instructed the Inner Circle leader to take several battalions of his men and reinforce the defenses of the United States. The interrogation of Boris would be left to his men in Russia.
Once the three ended their conversation, I let out a sigh of relief. Robert was going to be happy that Ahsoka had escaped and with help it seemed. I waited for Makarov to leave and returned to searching for the President. I soon found him in the assembly area of the factory and quickly dispatched the guys guarding him. "Let's get the hell out of Dodge." I said after cutting the Presidents bonds and handed him his weapons.
"No. We can't leave yet." The president said. Turns out Makarov had several chemical bombs stashed in a few trucks that he was going to use on several civilian prison camps inside the city. The bombs weren't loaded onto the trucks and it was only a few blocks away from where we were. "We have to stop those bombs." Boris stated. I nodded in agreement and followed him out of the factory before anyone else arrived.
We weren't the only ones going for the bombs. When we arrived, we found a couple of Spetsnaz guys just about to hit the trucks. Boris knew who they were. Timur 'Glaz' Glazhov, Shuhrat 'Fuze' Kessikayev, Lera 'Finka' Melnikova, Maxim 'Kapkan' Basuda and Alexsandr 'Tachanka' Senaviev. Rainbow Six Operators, the best of the best when it comes to Counter-Terrorism units.
I thought they were legends, but they were real. Needless to say, the reunion with these guys didn't last long before an Inner Circle sniper spotted us and opened fire, the shots also alerted the rest of his buddies who were starting to wise up to our presence.
"Chyrot." Glaz cursed before aiming his SUV and downed the sniper with a few shots. The body of the sniper then fell from the roof of the building before he popped out of cover and fired his rifle again taking down a few more with some well-placed headshots.
Once he reloaded, Fuze took point with his ballistic shield firing off his GSh-18 pistol at any one that was foolish enough to get between him and the trucks. Finka followed him close behind firing her PKP and keeping the enemy occupied while Kapkan, Tachanka, Boris and I flanked the enemy from both sides and got inside the compound.
Flanking them allowed us to get the drop on the enemy who were starting to set up a few machine guns after they exited one of the loading docks. A couple of grenades thrown at their location blew those guns away before they could even fire off a single round.
However, more terrorists started to pour out from behind several containers and were starting to overwhelm us, at least until Tachanka deployed some cover before he set up his machine gun, the RP-46. As a collector of antique weapons, Tachanka kept his gun in order by using original parts. Heck, the guy even made the components for his weapon if he needed to.
The Inner Circle guys were starting to get closer and closer, almost ending right on top of us until Tachanka opened fire. With a sixty-round pan magazine, the armored guy let lose a volley of 7.62x54mm rounds which blew off the limbs of a few terrorists while the rest of us moped up the rest of them with our pistols, assault rifles and submachine guns after Tach emptied his magazine.
"Let's move." The big guy said after picking up his cover after reloading his antique machine gun. These guys know what they were doing. We reached the loading docks and Glaz instructed Fuze and Finka to place breaching charges on the left and right side while Glaz, Tachanka, Kapkan, Boris and I stacked up along the front door. Watching the guy place the charges reminded me a lot of what the Bad Batch and Delta Squad did on a lot of their own missions, but this was a bit different.
"Detonating charges in three, two, one. NOW!" Glaz counted down and pressed the detonator, blowing the doors open and caught the terrorists off guard before we mopped up the rest of them along with the battle droids that were helping them load the bombs into the trucks.
"Fuze, disarm those bombs." Tachanka ordered as he set up his machine gun in front of the loading dock. Fuze nodded and went to work on disarming the bombs. Just as he started working on the bombs, two other Rainbow operators soon arrived these ones belonging to GROM, Poland's counter-terrorist unit.
"Zofia, Ela. Glad to see you two have survived this hell. Are there any other operators in the city?" Glaz asked as he took up an overwatch position on the catwalk above us.
"Yeah, Dokkaebi, Vigil, Ying, Lesion, Nomad, Kaid, Capitao, Caveira, Jackal, Mira, Maestro and Alibi are at the safe house. They sent us to check on a report about chemical weapons. Looks you guys beat us too it." Zofia explained as she placed a claymore just ahead of the entrance. Ela followed suit, placing her claymores down in hidden areas away from prying eyes. GEO, 707th SMB, BOPE, GIS, GIGR, SDU and Spetsnaz operators of Rainbow were all here. I then spotted something that would make a newbie piss their pants.
"HEADS UP! BADDIES COMING THIS WAY!" I shouted pointing towards several troop trucks that just stopped and whose passengers were starting to pile out of the trucks. "Protect Fuze, we need to buy him as much time as possible so he can disarm those dirties." I instructed to the others. They nodded and once the enemy was in range, we opened fired.
As soon as the enemy got in range, Tachanka and Zofia opened up with their machine guns mowing down a few the incoming terrorists before a bunch of battle droids were dropped in from a couple of Droid Gunships which then fled the area without even attacking us.
Ela and Kapkan opened up with their submachine guns while Boris opened up with his AK-47 each of them taking out a few terrorists. Glaz nailed a few of the attackers with clean headshots while Finza opened up with her Saritch nailing three SBD's right in the head section.
"One down." Fuze shouted before moving to the next bomb. I opened up with my carbine sending rounds towards the enemy units before firing my launcher at them. Fuze had soon finished with the second bomb and was now working on the third one.
Just as he was about to start, a burst of energy imploded by him forcing the guy the to take cover. "What was that?" he asked.
"TRANDOSHAN MERCS! THEY GOT CONCUSSION RIFLES!" I shouted aiming my carbine towards the location of the Mercenaries and fired. All my rounds did was hit the roof and force the enemy back away from the edge. Reloading my weapon, the lizards returned again this time with heavy units and standard soldiers arrived blasting our position with plasma cartridges which damaged my shields.
The ones with the concussion rifles soon returned and started firing again. Or they would have if Glaz hadn't given them a new hole in the head. "Mudaks are down. Focus on the ones with the heavy weapons." He shouted from the catwalk.
"COVERING FIRE!" Boris shouted firing a long burst from his AK. Ela, Finza, Tachanka and Zofia followed suit with their own weapons. Numerous spent pistol, machine gun and rifle caliber rounds littered the ground as the bodies began to pile up outside the loading dock. When the last enemy fell, we thought we were in the clear. We were wrong.
When Fuze cut the last wire to the bomb, the timer started to count down. In three minutes, the whole area would be consumed by poison gas. Finza then jumped into the truck and drove the truck away from battle site as fast as she could. We all watched as the operator drove the truck through the fence before bailing out at the last second. The truck then made a splash into the Volga where it rested silently for a few minutes before it sank to the bottom before a cloud of water erupted from the river.
"Well that's one way to get rid of a bomb." I chuckled.
"No shit, American." Finza added pushing the dust off her uniform before handing me the lightsabers Robert gave me. Clipping them to my armor we jumped into a stolen BTR-80 and made our way to the Rainbow safe house with the President with us. As the amphibious armored rolled through the desolate streets of the Russian capital I told the operators and Russian President what I overheard Makarov, Tarkin and Sidious talked about.
Normal point of view
June 26th 2020 19BBY
0600 hours
Just two miles out of Moscow, the Russian armed forces and Wolf Pack stood waiting as General Savvatimov Ilya Yegorovich stood on top of a T-14 tank, clad in the Ratnik combat armor looked down on the brave men and women. Behind the men were dozens of Russian self-propelled artillery, Rocket artillery and New Republic AV-7 antivehicle cannons and SPHA's stood ready to fire.
"Today, comrades. Our goal is not only victory. Our goal is Vengeance! For the people, for the world. AND FOR RUSSIA! ATTACK!" the general shouted as the BM-21 Grads fired their rockets at the city.
(Start Russian Theme, World at War)
"URA!" the Russians cried out and charged into the city with Wolf Pack and Russian tanks and fighting vehicles following them while fighters flew overhead and began to engage enemy fighters. Leading his men into battle Plo Koon deflected blaster bolts back at the droid forces while Lincoln fired short controlled bursts from his M60.
Following him were Artyom, Anna and Nikolai firing their Kalashnikov rifles from behind one of the advancing T-90 tanks which then fired its 125mm main cannon at one of the enemy T-90s vulnerable sides. Prior to the battles beginning, all Russian Military tanks were given a new paint job matching the color of the Wolf Pack clone trooper armor so as to avoid friendly fire.
This proved helpful when a friendly T-72B3 was almost blown up by an allied T-14. A friendly fire incident was the last thing anyone wanted. The same thing applied for the Russian fighter pilots. From the cockpit of her SU-37, Maya fired two missiles at an incoming MIG-31 destroying the fighter before she lined up her gunsights on what she thought was an enemy SU-27M. Thankfully, she stopped herself as her IFF confirmed the aircraft was friendly. Pulling away from the fighter, she then spotted an incoming flight of enemy MIG-27 attack planes making a run for several allied tanks.
"Yellows 2 through 5, take out those attack aircraft. The rest of you, continue to maintain air superiority, protect the allied armor as they make their way into the city." Maya ordered as Kit Fisto flew ahead of her and downed four incoming Vulture droids that were attacking her from the front. She dived down and avoided the wrecked droid fighters just in time.
Her squad mates followed her orders and broke off to engage their respective targets. As she searched for targets, cannon fire flew past her cockpit. Locking back, she spotted she had picked up a fighter one of the TIE fighters the enemy was using.
Pushing her controls down, Maya took her fighter into a dive which the enemy fighter followed her into. As the enemy continued to fire their cannons she drew nearer and nearer to the ground. When she reached five-hundred meters, she hit her brakes, allowing the enemy fighter to overshot her and slam into an enemy tank which destroyed both the fighter and tank.
Leveling her aircraft out, Maya spotted a pair of incoming enemy Fullbacks. Banking hard left she got behind the 34's and fired her 30mm cannon riddling one of the enemy fighter-bombers with bullets before she fired a missile at another Fullback before Kit dived in from 11 o'clock high taking out the other two Fullbacks.
"I can't let you have all the fun, now can I?" Kit asked playfully over the radio before he pulled away and quickly joined several navy SU-33's that were on an intercept course with a dozen enemy kamikaze's making a beeline towards the artillery placed on the other side of one of the rail bridges that connected to Moscow.
Firing their missiles and cannons, the SU-33's and Kit downed the kamikaze's before they could even get within distance of their targets. Just as the fighters pulled up from their run, half of the SU-33s were downed by several TIE Interceptors from the city. While the interceptors overshot the remaining SU-33's, the Russian aircraft were much faster and were quickly able to down the interceptors.
As Russian and enemy fighters duked it out in the air, back on the ground things were different. Enemy artillery had started raining down on the infantry and armor that were bogged down just several miles from the city entrance. An artillery round slammed into a squad of Russian marines, killing them all before a rocket barrage destroyed a formation of BMP's and AT-RT's.
Taking cover in a nearby crater, Comet, Sinker, Boost, Mortar, Spitter, Wildfire, Wolfe, Plo and Billy ducked their heads down as another salvo of enemy artillery exploded behind them. "We can't make it past that artillery. They must have spotters nearby." Wolfe told his general.
"I agree. We cannot advance further into the city unless their artillery is taken out." Plo said in agreement before he contacted Admiral Coburn and requested an airstrike on the enemy artillery. Sadly, Coburn informed the Kel Dor Jedi General that the enemy artillery was mobile and had already changed its location. Despite not being able to take out the artillery, the allied forces moved up quickly towards the city entrance. By the time they reached the entrance, the enemy artillery resumed firing.
A call over the radio and commlink soon confirmed that the enemy was using MQ-1 Predator drones as spotter aircraft marking Wolf Pack and Russian positions from the air and sending the locations of the attacking forces. Even in the cities the drones were going to continue to deliver the locations of the attackers.
Then as if by magic, the artillery fire suddenly stopped and the drones were all shot down. The Russians, who had suffered greatly from the invasion of Earth quickly moved into the city. They still didn't even know what caused the artillery to stop, but they soon would.
(End song)
Aiming through the sight of her ARX-200, Sanaa El Maktoub aka Nomad of Rainbow fired two shots from her rifle, followed by Dokkaebi and Glaz with their own rifles taking out the Inner Circle members who were attempting to rush their allies below them. Several Inner Circle soldiers attempted to flank the Rainbow Operators below from the left, but they were quickly mowed down by the submachine guns, assault rifles and machine guns.
They knocked out enemy artillery and activated the drones self-destruct mechanism and were now trying to hold out as long as possible until back up arrived. Whether it was droids, Inner Circle or Trandoshan's, the Rainbow operators and Boris held their position for thirty minutes.
A third attacker fell to the ground before Plo Koon arrived with his men. "Well done, all of you. I take it these people are members of Rainbow?" the Kel Dor Jedi asked. Glaz nodded as the snipers arrived from the building they were using as an over watch position. "Many thanks for your effort in taking out the guns. Now we must move quickly, we have to stop Makarov from acquiring the launch codes." Plo added.
Hitomi let out a small chuckled and explained what she heard from the conversation between Makarov, Tarkin and Sidious. "Seems little Soka is alive and has escaped. It is most fortunate; I am sure Robert will be pleased with the news." He said before he led his men, Hitomi, the Rainbow Operators and Boris to the Kremlin.
It took the entire day until at lost last the enemy was pushed out of Russia. At the request of master Plo, Boris gave Artyom, Anya, Nikolai and several divisions of tanks, soldiers and fighters orders to assist in the liberation of the United States. The Rainbow operators also said they would support the liberation.
None of them knew that in one of the abandoned buildings of New York City, Sandra and Ahsoka were waiting for an enemy patrol to pass. Just as they patrol passed them, a probe droid spotted them and quickly alerted the enemy to their location. The enemy was about to attack when they were all wiped out by several unknown hostiles.
"Let's get you out of here." One of their rescuers said.
"Who are you?" Ahsoka asked.
"My name is Connor Duncan. We're the New York City faction of the Wolverines." The lead rescuer a man said. Sandra was about to ask before one of the other rescuers pointed, they had more contacts coming their way. Piling in to their captured transport, the group left the area heading for their base. Ahsoka was free, but it wouldn't last for long.
And with that Russia has kicked some ass and we got some more Rainbow guys in the story. I wanted this to be longer, but this will do. Anyway, next chapter involves old Captain Price, Soap, Roach, The British, French and German Rainbow Operators along with Obi-Wan and the 212th. Until next time, please read and review. Got the new Gears of War and Borderlands.