Yien-US Army
"Sir, the tank column is moving on the harbor!" I shouted to Captain Marcos, and he came forward.
"They're gonna need more cover than the fleet is managing." Marcos looked out through a pair of binoculars, "Yien, I'm giving you clearance to engage enemy troops headed towards the harbor."
"Understood, sir." I pulled up my sniper rifle and looked back through the scope. It took only a moment, before I spotted a man rushing down a road towards cover across from our defensive line on the harbor. I pulled back my pin, and heard the heavy round load into the chamber. Then I compensated for wind, and held my breath as I pulled the trigger. The man took the shot clear in his chest, and fell immediately. Then I moved on to the next.
"Sir, what about those tanks?" Liapold asked Marcos.
"We haven't received any order regarding the tanks, but we've got enough Javelins stored here to make life hell for them, so let's be ready just in case." Marcos had just finished talking and I had just fired off another round, when I heard a girl crying. The young girl from last night was cowering in a corner, and I nearly bolted from the rifle to help her. Then I spotted her grandfather moving to her, and I returned to the rifle.
Gneiss-US Special forces deployment, STORM
I shot the last soldier manning the barricade, and then roadie ran my way to the next car. We we're a good third of the way across the bridge, and we were nearing a point where we could spot for the fleet. I peeked over the hood of the car, and saw more Soldiers trying to head us off. I grabbed a grenade, pulled the pin, and then counted to three. I threw the metal orb into the air, and it burst over the heads of the men. Two dropped, and the rest opened fire. The moment they turned to me, Igneous and Ridge snapped up on my right, and dropped two more. Then as they turned to him, Marble and Renner cropped up on my left, and they cleared the final three.
"Come on, we've gotta get eyes on those subs!" Ridge jumped over a K-rail that made up a barricade, and ran to the edge of the bridge. I followed, and leaned over the edge. He was gazing a few thousand yards out, and I spotted a sub. It was a dark ovular shape moving into the harbor.
"Marble, have you got the SOFLAM?" I asked, and Igneous ran up with a pair of large binoculars.
"I've got them right here."
"There's your target." I pointed, and he followed my gaze. Then he raised the binoculars, and pressed the targeting system on the side. I heard a series of beeps from the device, and suddenly the radios emitted a loud warning.
"Target locked, Missile inbound!" A female voice announced, and I looked back towards our fleet. I watched as a large silver object flared from the deck of a ship, and arched out, then flew under the bridge. Then it slammed into the water and we only glimpsed a shadow of it as it plowed into the Russian submarine. Then the water exploded upward like a geyser, and Igneous whooped loudly.
"Hit confirmed, Overlord." Ridge muttered into his radio.
"Affirmative, STORM we have intel saying there are two more subs, do you have eyes on, over?"
"Negative, Overlord." Suddenly a burst of automatic rifle fire caused us all to scramble, "We've been engaged, out."
"We've got men on the bridge!"
"Open fire!"
Suddenly we were back in a firefight, and I was pinned against a massive metal beam on the side of the bridge. I fired a few shots of before getting pinned again. Renner was doing the same behind a car nearby, and I looked at him. He looked back, and we shared a glance. Then I peaked out, and the troops started firing at me, giving Renner a window to move to a different position. Then suddenly Marble shot up with her grenade launcher, and a hybrid car that had been resting on the bridge exploded as she unloaded downrange.
"That got 'em." Renner announced, and came back my way, "Thanks for the distraction." I was not thinking about my reply. I'd spotted a large ovular shadow in the water near the bridge.
"Not a problem." Then I shouted to Igneous, "Hey, toss me the SOFLAM!" Igneous grabbed it, and threw the device to me. I turned back to the edge, and zoomed in through the binos. Then I held the button, and a small square appeared over the shadow with a flashing X, then the binos beeped and the X became solid.
"We've got your coordinates, firing now!" The woman firing the missiles announced over the comms, and I watched for a second time as a silver projectile blew the sub into pieces. This time the water spouted so high that it crashed right against the bridge, and we were misted with salty air.
"Overlord, hit confirmed, the second sub is down." I spoke through the radio, and waited for a response.
"Roger, STORM." Overlord paused suddenly, "STORM, the Russian tank column is diverting armor to your position, you need to secure the third firing solution and evac, how copy?"
"Overlord, we can't see any sub, we need more time, over!" I didn't care what overlord did, but they had to do it fast.
Yien-US Army
"Captain Marcos, this is Overlord, we need to to provide suppressive fire on any tanks approaching the bridge, over."
"Yien, get off the rifle, and grab a Javelin!" Marcos shouted over his rifle. He and Liapold were covering the injured soldiers as they and the civvies were evacuated. I dropped the sniper, and grabbed the large missile launcher off the floor, then I went to a hole that had been blown in the wall, and pulled off the cover of the Javelin.
"Watch my back blast!" I shouted, and gazed at the targeting screen. Multiple tanks were highlighted, and I focused on the one closest to the bridge. The screen flash as it locked onto the heat emissions, and then the moment it locked, I pulled the trigger. My shoulder was thrown backwards as a large rocket was launched ten feet forward, then the projectile shot fins out of it's sides, and moved straight upward. I didn't take time to watch it impact. I was loading the next missile, then I heard a shout.
"Liapold is down!" Marcos announced, and I turned back to the bridge. I followed the same method as before, and launched my second missile out of the building. Then I opened the comm channel, and called out.
"Renner, this is Yien, do you copy?"
"This is Renner, over!"
"Renner, we're being overrun, I need you to provide cover for whoever is on the bridge." I was loading my next shot, and waited for a response
"That's a negative, Yien, I am on the bridge, over!" Renner sounded under stress, and I hefted up the Javelin. The screen's infrared picked up men all over the bridge, there was a massive firefight.
"Fox is overrun, Liapold is down, but the civvies are out!"
"Yien, you can make it out, go now!"
"I need to provide as much cover as I can." I targeted the next tank and pulled the trigger. A bullet flew through a door, and caught me in the thigh, I screamed.
"Yien! Are you with me?"
"R-renner. My little girl, her name is Caitlyn Yien, tell her daddy loves her, promise me Renner!" I said as I shakily raised the Javelin.
"You'll see her again, Yien, come on!"
"Promise, you son of a bitch!" I aimed the last shot, and just as I went to pull the trigger a small clatter was heard, and Marcos dropped dead behind me. Then a grenade came rolling through the door, and I fired my last shot, a moment before it detonated.
Yien-US Army (Status: KIA)
Gneiss-US Special forces deployment, STORM
"Yien!" Renner screamed into his comm, he got no response "Yien… I promise."
"There goes our cover fire!" Igneous shouted, and Renner came up next to him loudly shouting profanities as he engaged the Russian soldiers.
"Overlord, we lost our cover!" Ridge was on the radio, and Marble was next to him reloading her assault rifle.
"STORM, you have bigger problems, our sensors just went off Russians are priming multiple missiles, at least one of which may be nuclear, we need to nail that sub, over."
"Rodger, Overlord." Ridge turned to me, "Gneiss, find that sub now." I nodded, and ran to the bridge, but just as I approached a tank shell plowed through the supports in front of me. Time seemed to slow, and the ground started giving way beneath me. I fumbled, and the grabbed onto one of the smaller metal support wires, and the bridge dropped from under my feet.
"Gneiss!" Igneous had started moving toward me, and I grabbed my gun from my hip. I turned and fired on two soldiers who were engaging him and he moved the last gap of distance. He started to reach out towards me, and then I spotted it. The sub was directly under the bridge. Igneous had grabbed onto my belt, and pulled me towards him. I lost sight of the sub, and I turned to him.
"Push me!" I ordered, and he looked shocked, "Swing me back out, I've got eyes on!" He nodded, and pulled me back another foot, then with a forceful shove I was swinging out over the water. I held the SOFLAM as steady as I could, and I held the button down, then the large beep sounded, and the radio announced another missile being fired.
"The sub is armed, there will be a large radius of damage, danger close, missiles away!" The voice muttered, and just as I landed my boots back on the asphalt of the bridge, I felt the explosion beneath us. Then the ground was unstable underneath all of us.
"Not again!" I shouted, and the bridge snapped right along the mid point between the support and the shore. I turned, and started to run along with my squad, and then the bridge broke loose, and dropped degrees right towards the water. We were all slammed downward, and were sliding towards the water. I couldn't grab anything to stop my descent, and I prepared to fall, but then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up and saw Igneous being held by Renner. Renner had his gun jammed against a pipe, and was using it as a handle. Igneous was holding onto his belt, and his hand was on my shoulder. I turned the other direction and saw the Russian tank that had previously shot at me slide off into the ocean beneath us.
"Hang on!" Renner shouted, and I reached up to grab Igneous. Then another beam gave way somewhere beneath us, and the bridge lurched. Igneous lost his grip, and I was sliding downward again. I scrambled for a handhold, but found none. So I instead focused on avoiding any falling debris. I slid out of the way of a car, and made my way under past a tilting school bus just before it crashed to the bridge surface. Then I flew off what remained of the road, and managed to bounce of a metal beam at the bottom of the structure. The water wasn't to terribly far below me, but it was still quite a fall. I heard the wind rush in my ears, and I blocked the impact with my forearms. Then I slammed directly through the surface, and went a few yards under. My head was pounding, the air had been knocked from my lungs, and the beam I'd hit had given me a throbbing pain in my shoulder, but I could move and I didn't feel any broken bones. So I turned towards the surface, and immediately had to dodge as a giant metal I-beam crashed in behind me. Then I started swimming upward. I surfaced, and the sunlight washed over my face.
"Gneiss!" I heard Igneous shouting, and I coughed up a mouthful of water.
"I'm- I'm up!" I shouted upward at the remains of the bridge, "I'm good."
"How the hell did you survive that?!" I didn't answer the question, and I just turned to the surfacing remains of the submarine. It was bobbing bit by bit to the surface, and a large oil fire had started on the surface. It's destruction had caused an impact on the structure above it, and caused the bridge to snap under the strain.
"Gneiss," This time it was Ridge who shouted down to me, "sit rep?"
"I'm fine… sore, and treading water, but good to fight." I responded, and waited a few seconds.
"We're gonna get you, we've already got boats inbound hang in there!"
"Make sure Overlord knows that I didn't destroy any landmarks this time." I sat in the water, and floated on my back, gazing up at the clouds above me.