WELCOME TO MY THIRD CHAPTER!
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Chapter 2: An unexpected help.
Michael was passing near the SOS beacon waiting some kind of response from anyone, it's been almost 15 minutes, and nothing has reach yet, he was about to leave when a message arrived at the beacon, he immediate plays the message.
"This is admiral Angel Winters, from strike force N°7, central command has heard your SOS message and has dispatched us, to your location, ETA: 1 hour. You just had to hang on until we arrive, admiral Winters, out." Said the message.
"an hour… then I had to activate them, if we want to survive, but first" thinking out loud.
After that, he closes the panel and leaves the basement. He leaves his house and flies as fast as possible to the nearest alarm to activated, a few minutes later he arrives to the alarm and activate it.
All around Kuo Kuana, the people started to hear the grimm horde alert, the people started to panic and all guards, those that are sleep or awake, begin to put their guard armor and taking out their weapons, but for a dozen of those guards didn't do that, because they received a message.
"This is Michael, we got a big problem, a grimm horde class-3 is coming to Kuo Kuana, in an hour a fleet strike force is coming with reinforcement, but, we all know that the Menagerie's military doesn't have the weaponry or manpower to defend their home, so I want EVERYTHING that all of you have to set up a defense of this people, we meet at the mayor's house and be quick, we have at least 30 minutes" said Michael's message.
These men immediate went to their house's basement, where they tear a plank of wood, revealing a facial scanner and a retinal scanner, to which in each house 1 or 2 walls started to shift revealing their equipment.
10 minutes later, mayor Belladonna house.
To say that his house was a chaos, will be an understatement, after the grimm alert was activated, all guard lieutenant from the sectors of menagerie have only just arrive after organizing their guard's sectors to "reassure" the civilians, but now there are more important matters.
"Who activated the alarm?" ask Ghira.
"From what we talk about, before entering to your office sir, no one of us was even close to an alarm and neither any of the flying patrols go to the alarms, because they fly directly to us to inform of the situation and, no one has seen any grimm in the borders, right?" said one of the lieutenant, to which the other nod to what he said.
"Maybe it was Joshua, he isn't here?" speculate one of the lieutenants.
"No, he wasn't, he was here informing me about the humans the bomb our home and he didn't tell me, because of the alarm" said Ghira, surprising the lieutenants.
Meanwhile this was happening, Kali was trying to calm his nerves, after the alarm was activated, his husband has told her to stay in the living room and wait, until confirmation of this was positive. But no one has come to told her anything yet and it isn't calming her in any way possible.
She was so distracted that when someone knock on the door, she jumps a little, after calming herself a little, she stands up from the sofa and walk to the door, as she opens the door, she finds herself face to face with a group of people that she hasn't seen before.
Before she could even do anything, she hears a voice that she recognizes.
"please ma'am, don't do anything hastily, we're here to help" said the voice.
Kali turns its head to the voice, just in time to see the helmet retract itself, revealing the face of Joshua.
"Joshua?!" said Kali in surprise and disbelief.
"Hello ma'am, I know that this need to be explain, but right now we don't have the luxury to do that, so if you let us pass it, it will be appreciated" said Joshua, in a commanding voice.
Kali nods dumbly, because she knows of the situation and because she doesn't know what to make of the people in front of her, she steps aside and let them through.
Joshua, Michael and the rest start to jog to Ghira's office with Kali behind them, after reaching the office's door, Kali enters to the office.
After entering, Ghira sees his wife and sees that she is nervous.
"Darling, something wrong? Other then what's happening" ask Ghira, adding the last part.
"uhm… just that, Joshua has arrived with a few friends, but he's different" said Kali, nervous.
"What do you mean?" ask Ghira, which the lieutenants are wondering as well.
"uhm… I let them pass, for all of you to see" said Kali. Opening the door.
After that happens, the tension on the room skyrockets more than already has, and puts Ghira and his lieutenants in guard, because they see Joshua and a group of people wearing what looks like a "techno-suit", with weapons that looks more advance that even the standard Atlas weaponry and what appears to be drones, floating a little more then 2 meters in the left shoulder.
"Joshua… what… is this?" ask Ghira, dumbfounded, as well the lieutenants.
"This is something that had to be kept hidden until much later, but with the situation at hand, we didn't have any choice" said Joshua.
"But right now, we don't have the time to explain all this, we have at the very least 15 minutes to prepare for the incoming Grimm horde, so we don't have time to answer these questions" said Michael, retracting his helmet, surprising everyone (except the delta force team) in the room.
Ghira and his lieutenants stare at them for a moment, until everyone nod with their heads.
"They are right, we don't have time for this, BUT, after all it over and done, both of you had to explain all of this, alright" said Ghira, with a commanding voice.
"Yes sir" said Joshua and Michael, saluting him.
"Now, it's obvious that you had information about this, if you don't mind reveal to us, it will be appreciated" said Ghira.
Michael steep forward, with his drone, he tells the drone to do something, to which the drone come to the center of the group and open a sloth and moments later it shown a holographic map of Kuo Kuana and its surroundings, impressing everyone (except the spec ops team) in the room.
"From what my sensor array detected, there is a massive horde of grimms coming this way, most of the horde it's coming to the most affected area of the bombing, so it's coming directly to the epicenter of Kuo Kuana" said Michael, dread forming in Ghira and his lieutenants.
"How massive are we talking about?" ask one of the lieutenants, fear in his voice.
"Very massive, fortunate enough I contacted my superiors and they are sending reinforcements" said Michael.
"How long do we have to hold them off, until your reinforcements arrive?" ask another lieutenant.
"From the first Grimm that start to appear, we need hold them off for at least 30 minutes, then the navy and army forces are going to help us eliminate any and all Grimm resistance that's left" said Michael, relief and nervous can be seen in the faces of everyone (except spec ops team).
"So, what's the plan" ask Ghira.
"Our plan it's simple, we evacuated any civilians that live near the borders to at least 3 blocks, and turn that in a bottle neck with any everyone that knows how to use a gun in the second floors and melee weapons in first floor, you still following me, right? Explains Michael, he asks the last part, to which he sees nods.
"What about the alleys?" ask another lieutenant.
"For the alleys, we need to blockaded them with all the furniture you can find and we need to set up firing squadrons, in the end of those alleys, for when the grimm broke through, we know that the Grimm won't disturb this parts when the attack begins, but later on, they will try to broke through these positions, so we need to be prepared" explain Michael, he receives a nod from the lieutenant.
"What about the people?" ask Ghira.
"We need you, to evacuate the civilians to the sector where the attack won't be severe and that they can hold the off, what I'm saying is that you sent the civilians to the sectors that weren't bombed and destroy or block any entrances to those sectors" explains Michael.
"And the people near the coast" ask another lieutenant.
"From what I know there isn't any aquatic class Grimm coming here, but that situation can change pretty fast, so I need that you live at least a 100 guards to defend that zone I will let one of Joshua's men stays there, so he can keep us updated in that zone" Explain Michael, and the lieutenant nods.
"any more questions? About the plan or any preoccupations?" ask Michael. To which none said anything.
"Ok, gentlemen, let's begin, we got our homes to protect" said Ghira and everybody scramble.
After that, every guard was inform and begin the evacuation of the designated areas, as well to take out every furniture to block the alleys, every guard that knows how to use and shoot a weapon are in their positions, the spec ops team it's show to be placing mines near the defensive line and Joshua pass to Ghira and his lieutenants to maintain contact and to inform of any type of breach in the area.
When the first Grimm arrive, the area wasn't finish in the evacuation efforts.
"Dammit, the evacuation hasn't finish" said a spec ops soldier.
"Fuck it" said the spec ops and started talking through his radio.
"start shooting at them, it's obvious that they are more attracted to the fear of the civilians, we need to hold them off" said the spec ops.
After that every guard and spec ops started to shoot at the Grimm, successfully attracting the attention to the defenders, in under 5 minutes more and more Grimm started to appear from the forest, with it did their job more complicated.
As well with the apparition of Nevermores, to which a guard saw it and scream, "feather barrage incoming" to which everybody through itself to the ground with mostly alive with a few wounded and 5 deaths, including the guard that scream it the warning, he didn't have the time to take cover, before a feather struck him in the head and impaled him to the ground.
10 minutes in to the fight and reports came that one of the alleys barricades was destroy and Grimm starting to enter the city, the guards try to push them back, but the grimm had numbers in their advantage, breaking the defenders formation and living streets full of dismembered or half eaten bodies, with multiples packs of Grimm, try to enter houses to kill the civilians that weren't evacuated in time.
After that a messenger arrive to Ghira and Joshua, to inform the about the situation. Both of them weren't happy about this, they thought that they would have more time, but they were wrong. So Ghira send messengers to tell the guards in the zones to destroy the bridges.
These bridges were destroyed thanks to brute force or to well place dust fire or ice crystals, that when they were shoot the bridges explode in fire of turn into ice, to break it more easily.
MENAGERIE, KUO KUANA, COSTAL/PORT SECTOR.
In the port sector, to say it was crowded will be an understatement, it's full of families that live in what it's now a warzone in the borders of Kuo Kuana, all of them are nervous, scare or frighten, as well with the guards protecting them.
Matthew is the spec ops soldier that Joshua send to help protect the civilians and during all that time, he is been pacing around hearing all the updated of the situation through his radio and he doesn't like it, at all.
'God dammit, I hope that this doesn't get worse' thought Matthew, with a little of sweat in his head.
Meanwhile, while he was distracted with his own thoughts, Grimm started to pour out of the water, but this were types that are barely seen in the surface. (these types will be in the codex, if you want to learn more)
Matthew thoughts were interrupted when his sensor, starts to locate multiple contacts appearing in the beach, he looks at front and sees them and he curse.
"GET OUT HERE, GO INLAND, GET OUT HERE!" screams Matthew, and starts shooting the grimm.
All civilians started to run and scream in terror, and the guard try to fight the grimm and save their people, but some weren't lucky.
"Joshua, come in! dammit it, answer the fucking radio!" scream Matthew, as he takes cover behind a wall in a nearby house.
"Matthew was going over there, I can hear gunfire and screams from here!" said Joshua through the radio.
"We got at the very least 8 dozen of enemies in the beach!, from what I can identified, they are Mirelurks and Yagdras!" answer Matthew, shooting the Grimm and taking cover as Mirelurks shoot spines at his positions.
"Where the fuck it's the fleet?!, we need those reinforcements, NOW!" scream Matthew.
"I just got word from them, the fleet is 15 minutes from here, but reinforcements arrive in 5" said Joshua, gunfire can be hear through the radio.
"Roger" said Matthew, cutting the transmission, he is about to retreat, but sees civilians trap in a house nearby, surrounded by Grimm trying to break through.
"Oh, no, you don't" said Matthew, angry. He started running to the house, shooting his weapon at the Grimm.
After reloading his weapon, he kicks the door open and sees a family of tree under the table of the kitchen.
"COME ON GET OUT! I WILL COVER ALL OF YOU!" scream Matthew, as the family run to safety.
But his luck runs out, when a yagdra shoots his in one of his legs with high pressure hot water, that makes him stumble and fall in pain as he sees the skin of his legs fall.
He grits his teeth's in pain and limps to a nearby house to take cover and shoots the grimm, to at least slow down the advance and waits for those reinforcements.
15 MINUTES BEFORE, N°7 FLEET STRIKE FORCE, 89 MILES FROM MENAGERIE.
In the fleet, everyone was going to their battle stations, but the ships with more activity are the carrier and troop transports.
Within the troop transports are, in one is the 134th infantry division and the other with multiple divisions of APC and other variants, and knightmares, with a few pieces of artillery.
Every troop is in different decks, preparing for the deployment operation, meanwhile all squadron leader (infantry, ACs, artillery a knightmares) are waiting for the battle plan.
"I hope that we made it in time" said a soldier.
"Everybody hope that we made it in time, all pf us knows what a Grimm can do, remember that they are still packs of Grimm in the south of the country" said another soldier.
All that talk stop when the lights in the decks turn off, and a hologram appear showing to major-general, David M. Tague, dress in his blue uniform, with the main screen showing a satellite view of Kuo Kuana.
"ATTENTION!" said a soldier, saluting, follow by the squad leaders.
"At ease" said David.
"Alright, you all know the situation, a class-3 Grimm horde is attacking Menagerie, from what we know, the first defense line in Kuo Kuana has started to fall and grimm are starting to pour into the city and the satellite is showing that aquatic class Grimm are about to reach to port sector of Kuo Kuana" said David, the map showing the advance positions of the Grimm and their direction
"So, the plan is to sent first the infantry and knightmares to clean these 4 drop zones" said David, with the map showing 4 points highlighting their drop zones. "After you have cleaned these zones, we will be sending the artillery and the APCs to reinforce the positions." said David. The map showing infantry and knightmares signals, then the Grimm signals disappearing and APCs and artillery IFVs showing in the map.
"Then when all the forces are in the secondary line of defense, you are going to push the Grimm back until you reach the first defensive line and hold them back until the fleet and the rest of the air force arrives to send them to hell" said David, the map showing all signals and IFVs moving to the position of the first line of defense, with the fleet and fighters signals showing up and all Grimm signals disappearing.
"Now, to your transports soldier!, move move move!" said David, with his hologram vanishing.
All the captain stan up and started to go to their units and started to board the VTOL "vampires" (C) transport troop, with the "condor" (C) and "ogre" (C) variants for the vehicles transport, which started to take of after a few minutes, with a fighter escort.
In the helmets of all pilots a transmission started to play, to which specify that they are not authorized to attack the Grimm flyers, which confused them, but they remember that because of almost no mayor negative emotions in the area most of the enemy flyers would by old enough to tank a few missiles with their armor. So, their mission it's only to protect the transports.
When they were in reach of Kuo Kuana, some of the VTOL's droop drones, to have a better visual and send a live transmission to the fleet and Pentagon, they could see all the damage, multiple fires in what's left of the first line of defense, destroyed houses, with what looks like to be multiple shock points in the second line and in the port sector.
With the orders to commence the operation, the infantry and knightmare VTOL's go to their designated drop zones.
MENAGERIE, KUO KUANA, CENTRAL SECTOR.
Joshua and Michael, are in the middle of the second line of defense, shooting at the Grimm, while Ghira is fighting a Ursa alpha, with the rest of the defenders are trying to hold on the line so that the Grimm don't kill their families.
Joshua sees that the line won't hold on much longer, and their ammunitions are running low.
'For the love of God, hurry up!" thought Joshua, when he hears a buzz and smiles.
He sees in the sky the recognizable silhouette, of the American VTOL's, with men and nightmares drooping out of the sky.
"move men, move, let's sent these bastards back to hell!" said a soldier, aiming his gun at the Grimm.
Soon all men started to shoot the Grimm, making the defenders take a little rest, as well to see in awe the robotic suits that literally ripped a new one on the Grimm.
Michael and Joshua sighted in relief and they see Ghira coming as well with a big gash in the shoulder dripping blood in the ground.
"Boss!" screams Joshua, running at Ghira, with Michael in toe. They both support Ghira to bring him to safety.
"Medic, we need a medic over here!" scream Michael, to which a group of soldiers come running to them and they scan him.
"We had multiple bruises in the right arm, deep gashes in the shoulder, possible broken humerus and severe aura exhaustion" said a medic, analyzing the situation of his patient.
"We will take care of him from here, you return to the battle" said the other medic, taking Ghira with them, with both Michael and Joshua with worry faces.
After that, they run to the line to start shooting at the Grimm, to which they saw that they have stop their advance, they search for any squad leader or commanding office.
"Who is in charge here!?" ask Joshua, screaming over the sound of gunfire.
"The sergeant it's over there!" said a soldier, as he guns down a beowolf.
They run to the sergeant location, to which it's seen giving orders to the soldiers and knightmare squads
The sergeant sees them. "Who are you, identified yourself?" ask the sergeant.
"Sergeant, Joshua Martinez, delta force team, sir" said Joshua, with a salute.
"CIA agent, Michael Silva, sir" said Michael, with a salute.
The sergeant salute as well, and they then focus on the battle that had right now.
"What's the ETA for more reinforcements, sir?" ask Joshua.
"The rest of the reinforcements will be arriving in 5 minutes, with the fleet in 10 minutes, the rest of the force consists of a battalion of APC's and a few pieces of artillery" said the sergeant.
"The best position for the artillery is the west and east sector, from what I know those sectors the Grimm haven't been able to breach the line of defense or the very least the defenders are holding up" inform Joshua to the sergeant, and a nod from Michael.
"Thanks for the information, let's see if the engineers had installed the hologram map, so we can see a better layout of this place" said the sergeant, making a signal to follow him, to which they nodded.
They arrive to a tent, to which they see that the holographic screen was already in place, before they can talk, Joshua coughs loudly to gain the attention of the sergeant to which he looks at him.
"Sir, I want to know the situation in the beach" said Joshua, to which raised an eyebrow from the sergeant.
MENAGERIE, KUO KUANA, COSTAL/PORT SECTOR, 5 MINUTES BEFORE REINFORCEMENT ARRIVE.
"Come on, come at me you son of bitch!" scream Matthew, as he run to a mirelurks.
To which the mirelurks charge at him, screeching at him. The 2 collided each other, with Matthew taking the pincers of the mirelurk, as the mirelurk tries to stab his legs with his forwards legs. The 2 trying to overpower each other.
Until he sees a opening in the lower part, he uses that opportunity to kick one of the legs, breaking it in the progress, but at the same time loosing the grip in one of the pincers, giving the mirelurks time to return the same treatment, using the pincer to left a deep gash in his left eye, which he scream in pain, but give him the enough momentum to take the pincer with his hand and breaking it.
Now with the mirelurk distracted, Matthew rolls over to the side and picks one of the swords that are in the ground and rushes to mirelurks, penetrating the armored face and killing him, but at the cost of sword breaking.
He sees in front of him and sees multiple Grimms that are coming in his direction, but before he can do anything, he hears a buzz and smiles, and turns his head in time to see two "condors VTOL" transport drooping 2 knightmare that start shooting the Grimm immediate, with more transport landing behind him.
He drops to his knees, because of exhaustion, and smiles as he sees his comrades shooting the Grimm, he sees that one of the soldier's knees near him.
"You look hammer shit, my friend" said the soldier, with a smile of sympathy.
"Hu, you could say so" said Matthew, trying to chuckle, bit the pain start to comeback.
"I better call you a medic, just stay still" said the soldier.
"Like I have anything else to do" said Matthew.
He can only wait a few minutes after which a couple of medics arrive and take him to medical house (one of abandoned houses) to which they put him on top of a table and start to treat his eye.
At the same time the captain that is in the medical house receives a call asking about a soldier that was in the beach sector, he goes inside, finding the soldier in the table.
Matthew open his right eye seeing the captain talking with the medic and then coming towards me.
"Are you sergeant Matthew, of the spec ops team?" ask the captain.
"Yes, sir" said Matthew.
In the captain's face, a small smile appears. "Well that's good, your superior was asking for you"
MENAGERIE, KUO KUANA, TEMPORAL HQ, CENTRAL SECTOR.
In the HQ, Joshua receives the news that Matthew is alive and stable, but that he has lose his left eye. Joshua sights in relief, to know that at least he is alive.
5 minutes later, more reinforcements appear with the APC's and artillery pieces, to which they were position in the sector with less Grimm, and the APC's move to the defensive line, preparing for the advance.
After everything was ready, they started to push, with the few Menagerie warriors that can help, thanks to this army, they were cleaning the devastated part of the city, fast with most of the Grimm dying pretty easy, and with the help of those robots and vehicles, most of the bigger and dangerous Grimm.
After a few minutes, they reach to the first line of defense and stop, the Menagerie faunus asking why they stop, with the response saying that their objective is to protect this line of defense (or was left of it), the faunus respect their orders, so they ask if they can search for any survivors, to which they were authorize.
And after 8 minutes they started to hear the sound of jets and high caliber weapons, to the Americans a sense of pride and to the Menagerie faunus of awe and wonder, because they were watching a fleet of ships appear in the horizon on top of the mountains destroying the airborne Grimm like they were paper, with planes taking out more Grimm more inland.
To which they were received with cheers and screams of joy from the civilians and guards, to which also earn a smile of the American army.
The first victory of the American, ear the trust of the Menagerie populace and in the future something more. But for the admiral and the ambassador (that already in direction to Menagerie) the most important and dreaded part of this… politics.
AUTHOR NOTES:
Well this turn out to be a longer chapter that, I was expecting, so…
First of all, I'm sorry if the battle wasn't what you are expecting, I spend a week trying to do it more detail, but nothing work so I use the one that "could" work and it was this one. (and I need help for big battle, so any ideas that I can improve, those kinds of scene will be welcome).
The new chapter for the codex will be out, before the end of February.
So, for the next chapter will be the aftermath of the attack and politics (shudder, I try my best on that part).
So that's all, I hope that every last one of you had a beautiful February and a wonderful March.
See you around.