It was a cold night in the desert we were ordered to destroy the Taliban in the city of Kabul they managed to beat our forces in Kabul it was estimated we took 700 casualties but most of the unit was ordered to pull out most reinforcements were to far away an we did not expect them to attack the city there are reports of single squads still stuck in the city who were cut off from the rest of their unit. The Taliban brought the city under their complete control but that is where they fucked up due to massive amounts of military hardware they've been receiving and manpower. Taliban was starting to fight in a more conventional way they still use their Guerrilla tactics against us but they some how got themselves more firepower many of us believe that they are receiving aid form a different county most believe its Russia supplying the gear.

Its ironic back in the cold war we supplied a resistance group the err dammit cant remember their names,wait the Mujaheddin I think. To fight against Russian occupying force back in the cold war and some of the members decided to form the Taliban or known as Al-Qaeda. I let out a chuckle at that thought it was around 4 AM we were supposed to be assaulting the city at 5. Many of us were preparing for what is to come me and the rest of the squad only spent 2 years here and every month the Taliban were not ambushing American troops as often every month we thought we were beating them but we were wrong they were building up for the attack on Kabul.

It is estimated that there were 25,000 Taliban members in Kabul many were expecting this to be a bloody city assault I agree with them. We were in Bradly IFV on the east side of the city where most of their defenses were artillery bombardments were ordered on the defenses on the outside of the city not he inside if we did there would be massive amounts of civilian casualties due to the bombardments.

We had an entire Tank Battalion supporting the assault there are around 100,000 American troops in the assault which roughly translates into 10 Divisions. Even with the numbers we expected fierce resistance from the 25,000 in the city but there is a chance that our Intel is wrong and there are even more in the city. We are also expecting not a single one of them to surrender to us we are expecting them to fight to the last man trying to take as many of our soldiers with them.

It was 4 AM I could hear artillery beginning their bombardment of the outside defenses of the city shells began to rain on positions located outside of the city there were a lot but it was expected there to be even more in the city. The sounds on artillery shells going off reaches us waking some of the others who were sleeping. The assault will consist of M2 Bradleys, M1126 Infantry Carriers ,Humvees , M1A2 , and some M1A3 Abrams Tanks.

I was sitting Kyle was sitting in between me and Noah Kyle was our squad gunner so he had a SAW our Squad lead Sergeant Blackburn was sitting across form me me and him were sitting next to the ramp. To his right were Private First Class Sweets and Private Marlowe. I had my headphones in my ears listening to Sakkijarven Polkka Hard Rock Edition I looked at my watch 4:47 AM we felt the engine start and felt it too we began to start moving we were all silent all hoping that we dont get taken out by an RPG or an IED. It was becoming a very bumpy ride as we drive to one of the entrances of the city.

It was pretty dark there was only small red lights lighting up the compartment the engine was very loud was we were waiting until we reached our drop off point then it started gunfire, the sound of the 30mm bushwhacker, and the 120mms start to fire back. We heard pullets ping of the armor of our Bradley then an RPG hit the front of our Bradley I believe which ends up tossing me and Marlowe out of our seats.

"You guys okay back there?!" The driver yelled at us I still had ringing on my ears from the explosion Blackburn yells back "Were fine continue moving." We began to move again "Alright, thank god for reactive armor!" The Gunner remarked. I got back up at sat back down on my seat as we continued moving on under fire from Taliban fighters. It was reported that we lost 6 Bradleys and 4 Infantry Carriers but we continued on.

Then the Bradley stopped and the ramp began to lower the sounds of fighting became more clear. When the ramp finished lowering we all rushed out of the back and began to look at our surroundings there were men taking cover in building and in ally ways and behind an M1 Abrams driving down the street then bullets began to land around us we rushed into a building closest to us. The Bradley began to fire its 30mm cannon at a building at the end of the intersection. I kicked down the door then looked around the bottom floor of this building there were a small bit of civilians hiding in this building but we paid them no mind as we began to secure the building on the last floor we ran into contacts as soon as we were up the stairs we were shot at from down the hall to the left.

I leaned against a wall and quickly peaked and say that there were 5 armed men down the hall I could not afford to throw a grenade down the hall their might be civilians in the blast radius. Gunshots were still coming from down the hall I quickly lean around the corner with the gun an fire at an armed man in my sights then get back into cover I heard a scream of pain and a thud come from down the hall.

I look down into the stairwell to see the rest of my squad I looked back down the hall to see 1 body on the floor and the doors closed I began so swear internally that we were going to have to clear the rooms one by one. I told the rest of the squad of what we were going to have to do the rest of the squad was as displeased as I was. Blackburn had us split up into 3 teams of 2 and clear every room in the hall.

There were 10 rooms in this hallwa-

I was interrupted by Nobuna rasping her hand I was telling everyone of a Combat Mission during my time in Afghanistan everyone was in my room sitting down in a half circle in front of me Riku,Maeda,Nobuna,Sagara, and Niwa, Goemon was here but she was in the roof dont ask how I know. I let a smile form on my face "Uh I dont understand most of what you said what are, well everything you talked about?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

I grab my laptop and place it in front of me for later "I think ill show you all what I am talking about what do you all want to know?" Riku immediately blurted out that she wanted to see the weapons we used. I nod "I grab my M4 "This is one of the standard issue rifles that my army uses." I began to disassemble my rifle in front of them everybody is watching how fast I was able to disassemble it in 4 minutes everyone sees all the parts that are in the rifle "Wow you gunsmiths must have a hard time trying to produce these!" Nobuna was looking at every single part of the rifle in front of her. I did not fully disassemble the rifle but there were still a lot of parts on the floor.

I simply began to slowly assemble the M4 "These rifles were not produced by hand these are produced by hand they are produced in factories how are supposed to arm and supply over 1 million active soldiers?" Everyone's eyes widen and let out statements of disbelief "Well over one million active personnel I believe we have around 2 million men in the reserves I have not checked recently."

"So if your nation was to call upon its reserves you military will have 3 million men!" Nobuna yelled in disbelief. Sagara decided to speak up "The United States of America is the most powerful nation of earth there are many rivals to that position though but there there two notable ones China and the Russian Federation," he stood up and walked next to me "in our time Japan is close allies with the USA but that was not the case for a long time ago during the second world war."

"Then how were our relations with the States during the so called second world war?" Niwa asks "if I were to take a guess we were fighting the United States. I nod "That is correct during the second world war the Japanese Empire the the USA were at war during the second world war." Maeda asked us who won the war. Sagara answered that "We lost to the United States an unconditional surrender was sighed in 1945 and the Japanese mainland was occupied by American Forces till around 1950," Everyone was looking at us.

"Then how are us the USA close allies then if anything we should be bitter rivals constantly trying to destroy one another." Riku asked. I nodded at Sagara he continued "Well the thing is the United States during the occupation helped rebuild Japan and revive its economy which made it a prosperous nation that produces many products that are bought around the world."

I simply smile "Were getting off topic now anyway ill show you my side arm," I pull out my 1911 "Almost every soldier is armed with a secondary weapon most common one is a pistol like mine today we use the M9 Beretta but the Colt was allowed to be used by service men." I place my sidearm back into my holster. "We also are armed with knifes in case we get into melee combat with our enemies, " I pull out my K-bar "Most soldiers have just one knife either its a K-bar or a Bayonet."

I show them the K-bar "The K-bar can also work as a Bayonet," I fix the K-bar on the barrel of my rifle with a click "this allows me to be able to use my M4 as a spear," I let them all see it "also we have Grenades," I pull out a Frag Grenade "these are Grenades Goemon has some but they are mainly explosive and not that deadly but this one right here can kill everyone in this room if I were to pull the pin and let it go but of course I will not do that I dont want to die and neither do all of you," I show them the Frag Grenade "It has two safety measures in place so that you dont blow off your own hand first you've got to pull the pin," I pointed at it "Then you either let go of it or throw it," I pointed at safety lever "This is the safety lever or and other like to call it the 'spoon' you hold it down with you thumb when you are holding it our else you will light the 5 second fuse in the grenade."

I let out a yawn and looked at my watch it was already 10 PM "I think thats enough for today ill continue this tomorrow. They seemed disappointed "Mr. Elacion is right it is getting late and we have things to do." Niwa says behind her fan. They all get up and leave the room. I let out another yawn as I stretched where I was sitting Sagara began to leave "See you in you morning man." I look at him "Same here see ya."

Authors notes: Found the time to create this chapter hope you all liked it is currently 2 AM right now and I am very tired school will be starting soon so that will affect how many hours I can work on the chapters. Also I like the Idea ill think about that Guest also i recommend you listen to Sakkijarven Polkka hard rock edition it is Awesome also check out the Glitch hop remix as well I think i'll place the name or try to reference one of my favorite songs in the beginning of each chapter for fun cause why not any way this is Rodavlas signing off!

P.S Also i know that the Taliban never got complete control over Kabul during american combat missions in Afghanistan I think for this story I think ill make some changes in history I dont know if I should go for major changes or small ones also about the question about AU there will be sometimes a lot or none at all one difference in this story is that Sagara never used his phone :P soo yea the AU will differ