Movement Thirteen: Temple of Boom
Location: Third Ambush Area
AH-1 Cobra is pouring large-caliber bullets onto where the commandos get their mortars deployed, 150 rounds of 12.7 mm slugs turn the smooth and solid ground into moon's surface. Although follows an appropriate plan of evacuation at the first sight of enemy gunship plus equipped with heavy-duty flank jacket, but war has no referee. A slug penetrates kevlar fiber of flank jacket, crushes plate of ceramic armour, digs into Lieutenant Cylon's abdomen from right. "I'm hit! Liver damage! Intestine leaking!" Cylon is exceptional composed in this situation while a civilian can be scared to death, but it won't help him to stay awake. "Cylon is hit by enemy chopper, we're retreating to frontier command." Among smoke and dust stirred up by gunship, Commander Matrix holds her wounded comrade with all strength, runs to the intended destination. However AH-1 won't grant them a chance, it flies over commandos, takes a turn like a drifting racing car, aims targets again in order to turn them into hives. But inside helicopter's cockpit suddenly an alarm emerges, indicating an incoming infrared homing missile. Gunship promptly takes countermeasures, it breaks attack run, executes a series of evasive actions, activates infrared and ultraviolet jamming devices as well as releasing firework-like flares. The stinger missile, launched from a crane in Sector B, cannot cope with those tricks, after a narrowly course correction, it misses target then self-destruct.
Location: Seaside Road to Tokyo Harbor
A Javelin-Class Anti-Tank Guided Missile is launched, goes up directly into sky, when reaches apogee of ballistic trajectory, its infrared homing node finishes mapping the battlefield, highlights the target-a rushing M2 Bradley IFV on the seaside street which had been emptied by tsunami warning. Missile enters terminal guidance, charges to IFV from high altitude meteorite-like, as if an arrow determines to penetrate its prey's head. Just 0.5 second before impact, active defense system mounted on IFV responds, ejects an interception projectile. With an explosion, IFV collides into roadside laundry after laminated a dozen of parking automobiles and rammed light posts and benches away. "No personnel casualties, vehicle weaponry functional, but driven system needs major repair-we can't do it here." "Get off and engage hostiles!" Lieutenant Zaku picks up MGL-140 grenade launcher, exits from ramp first. Lieutenant Boomerang sets M249 machinegun in the stair hall which is considered relatively more protective while Captain Duke, climbs out from hatch, issues a brief order: "500 meters to harbor, we'll go on foot after clear this area." Heavy machinegun roars from a building sits on diagonally opposite, 12.7 mm armor-piercing incendiary slugs cut their ways through thin periphery walls of Japanese civilian structures, bouncing off everywhere. There are also sounds of declarations of various light arms as well as rolling engines and rotors and are getting louder, all of there phenomena mean a large quantity of JSDF is coming to commandos' position in fast-and those Japs are obviously in a very very bad mood.
Location: Sector B
AH-1 Cobra is outraged after barely dodged the FIM-92 Stinger, it unleashes twin chains of death from its twin rocket hive-pods, directly to the source of previous attack-the crane-where Major Skynet stages. Main girder of crane sustains mortal damage, completely fractured, cockpit is also shocked to disjoint and falls, luckily Skynet had already diverted to another place-but still on the crane. This fifty-meter-tall colossal loses one leg, shakes, then collapse to the direction of its lame, the good leg is brutally pulled by swingeing force, steel beams are being bent, screams in the voice of metal fatigue. Now like the protagonists of action movies, Skynet runs along the crossbeam, pays no attention to that he almost fall off for several times, the closer to the other girder, the shorter the distance he'll fall with the structure, the better outcome he'll get. From the commando's angle of vision, containers on ground are getting bigger speedily, from colorful matchboxes to colorful bricks, when the grooves on those containers' surfaces can be seen, Skynet flings himself forward, tightly buckles ladder by his gun, drops down inside the build-in corridor of crane. The other side of crane contacts ground hard, mighty vibration throws him up, thanks to hands holding the gun which clings to ladder, he is not threw away, but his grenades and pack with maps are not that lucky for they fell on the ground tens of meters below.
Location: Seaside Road to Tokyo Harbor
Police Command Squad is vehemently exchanging firepower with charging JSDF for they cannot risk letting enemies follow them to harbor-namely adding more pressure to frontier command. The small-sized building their fortified is taking enemy fire from almost every direction, forcing commandos retreat from second floor to third floor then to fourth floor, from windows to walls then to stair hall. But commandos are specialized combatants after all, even get pinned down by way quantitative superior enemies, they are still laying massacre to hostiles. Major Deuterium once again manipulates mighty AS50, however this time he mainly picks adversaries' vehicles and helicopters, ignites their ammunitions, engines and fuel tanks, also nails down pilots. One shot, an AH-1 Cobra's ordnance explodes, takes half gunship's structure with it. Another shot, a CH-47 Chinook's front engine begins smoking and ceases functioning, hurry-scurry pilot controls this airborne coffin to make a sharp turn in order to avoid further attack, then crashes into a complex hundreds meters to commandos' stand, decimating all JSDF soldiers in its compartment. Following shot, transfixes the driver in a Hummer, the vehicle clashes into a wall on side. Next shot, directly slices through a LAV-25's fuel tank, causing an internal conflagration, IFV crew hurries to flee from this burning inferno via hatch and ramp, but are promptly brought down by Duke's M24, one shot one kill or single shot multiple kills, never trashes a slug. Lieutenant Blazkowicz hides in an appropriate place, remote-control M2's armaments from his portable terminal, he had destroyed two hostile IFVs a couple kilometers away by launching BGM-71 TOW Anti-Tank Missiles, currently is sweeping JSDF infantries using M2's 25mm automatic cannon. Although JSDF units constantly get their sorry-asses pulverized by commandos, but they do have one thing on their side-that is, dominant number, this aspect rules on almost every battlefield, and unlike chicken-hearted policemen and S.A.T. forces, JSDF is disrespectful to individual lives and packs toys much more of kick, they are advancing, very slow, but they do advance to commandos' stand from several directions. "Auto-Cannon depleted, no missiles." Says Blazkowicz, upon seeing M2 Bradley stops firing, JSDF is overjoyed and initiated an all-out aggression, pouring out dozens-time-intensified firepower to stranded commandos. Duke, like Deuterium, is concentrated on snipping job, suddenly a slug, fired by enemy, bounces from wall and hits his leg. "Artery damage, need medical treatment." Duke's language shows no emotion for he had prepared for this both physically and psychologically years ago. "I'll get it, no worries." As Zaku starts first aid procedures, Duke renders his decision: "We are stranded here, gotta break out to the harbor." Zaku: "They had laid out a barrage of blockade, we'll be hives if get out from here." Major EЛиМинко: "Japs will overrun here anyway, I rather take a chance. I had said that I'm not for kamikaze mission." Duke: "Decision is made. You are going to break out blockade and race to harbor, frontier command needs reinforcement after all. Leave me the IFV remote, I'll cover you from here." "We stand and move together, you are not going to be left behind." "I'll slow you down to endanger your chances, leave me here, that's an order." "Yes sir!" "Major Deuterium takes command, you must reach frontier command." "Understood." "Now go, they don't have much patience." "May the Force be with you sir." Zaku fires last four rounds of HE grenades to clear a path, meanwhile under Duke's control, IFV launches all smoke shells and fires its only available weapon-machine gun, to cover his comrades' diversion, when this last vehicle-mounted weapon runs dry, he switches to personal weapon-a M249. Thanks to his skill, the weapon in his hands which is designed for sweep-fire now is performing with a sniper rifle's precision-also retains a machinegun's rapidity. One by one, JSDF soldiers are blew down with high rate-and are immediately replaced by replacements-and are quickly blew down again, meanwhile inside "fog of war" , Deuterium leads commandos on a swift move, and suppress proximal enemy fire by grenades-gunfire is too risky to expose their position.
"We had entered harbor, no casualties, now advancing to frontier command." As Deuterium's voice comes through com-link, feeling his purpose has achieved, Duke takes a deep, relived breath, still firing at enemies to buy more time for other commandos, firepower pouring to him is getting denser and denser, luckily no bullets or other objects with killing capabilities hits him-so far. The muzzle of M249 is red-hot, and the last ammo-belt is getting shorter, when the last cartridge flies from ejection port and hits floor with a jingle, Duke can make out that JSDF main battalion is almost on him-they had reached the opposite of the road in front of the building he garrisons, through evanishing smoke. "So guess this is it? My Kobayashi Maru?" Captain calmly watches a JSDF soldier on roof of a building across the road reloads weapon and points to him, commando put his finger on the detonation switch that will erase the immobile M2, as well as this fortified building and himself. Everything in Duke's sight is consumed by a storm of ash and dust generated by a proximal explosion, when his vision restores, the structure with JSDF trooper is reduced to heaps of rubble, other hostiles are being purged by a M1A1 MBT and another M2 IFV come out from nowhere.