CHAPTER 3: Cloaked Threat
SYSTEM STARTING UP...
BOOTING SYSTEM...
USERNAME: OVERWATCH
PASSCODE: ************
UNITED FEDERATION FORCES
BRIEFING SYSTEM V9.03
"All right. Here are your current orders for sitrep and deployment." Said Kovlarov as he booted up the briefing system.
"The Chinese government has been reporting acts of terrorism happening frequently in Wenzhou, one of the cities located south of China. The terror attacks are linked to a group who call themselves the USEAN uprising group."
"Relax. We believe they aren't related to the USEAN army 5 years ago. But anyway, the reason they hired us is because they don't want to scare their people. If the Chinese army turned up in China for no reason, or for reasons unknown, it would cause panic."
"But I digress. Anyway, the Chinese government spotted mutiple drones flying over the outskirts of the city on the past few days. Good ones." Kovlarov finished his sentence as he showed mutiple photos of MQ-1 Predators flying over the city's outskirts.
"So, why wait until so late to deal with this threat you ask? They had to get permission to shoot down anything unknown from the 's why."
"Ah. I've said too much. Just remember, this is just a grab a quick buck type of mission. So don't expect much action. Dismissed." The commander said as he shut the system down and prepared his equipment and wore his headphones while the squadron prepared for launch.
"And here I though we'd finally get some serious action..." Anderson complained as the squadrons Ryujins flew into Chinese Wenzhou airspace.
"Shut it Hunter, complaining isn't going to get you more action." Kovlarov referred to Anderson by his code name.
"Booooooooring." Jackson said as he sped up.
"*Sigh* Stop complaining. Overwatch to Shadow Squadron, do you have contact on the drones?" Alekxander gave a huge sigh as he asked for visual confirmation on the drones.
"Hang on... I see em." Replied Matthew, the squadron leader.
"All right. Shadow Squadron engage."
"Engaging." Andrea's plane launched a missile as she got in range of one of the drones.
"Fox 2." Micheal destroyed 2 drones.
"Shadow 1, Fox 3." The flight lead launched 4 missiles and scored direct hits.
"That's all of them I gue.." 6 more drones appeared on radar.
"More of them. Shoot the down." Kovlarov ordered.
"Got 2." Jackson's plane flew pass 2 burning and falling wrecks of the Predators.
"Whoa. These are armed." Anderson said as a drone's IFF targeting system locked on to his plane.
"Got your back 4." Andrea shot down the drone that targeted Michael.
"Leave the rest to me." Douglas shot down all the remaining drones as their wrecks fell into the sea below.
"Looks like this is the last batch. Finish them off." Kovlarov said as 4 more drones appeared on radar, looking like the last batch.
"They're mine." Micheal said as he switched to Burst missiles and took them out.
"All drones in the area destroyed. Good job team. All aircraft, return to base. Overwatch out." Kovlarov said as he shut down his comms.
"Easy money I guess." Said Jackson as the aircrafts flew in formation back to base.
Steve McLaughin watched the news on the tv, waiting for the Chinese presidnt, Huang Song En to give his speech about the terrorist attacks on Wenzhou.
"My fellow people of Wenzhou, I come here to talk about the terror attacks that were happening in Wenzhou. And I can safely say, that there will no longer be anymore terrorist attacks happening there. The area has been declared safe by the UN and you are safe once more. There will no longer be anything happening there. That is all, thank you." President Huang finished his speech as reporters mobbed him with questions.
"Mr Huang, what exactly happened in Wenzhou...
"President Huang, who was responsible for...
"Sir, what has...
"Such bullshit. No wonder the world has been blinded by people like these, one of the old corrupt dogs of the UN." He said in disgust and turned off the tv.
But no matter. In the coming weeks, we will replace them as the world superpower. We'll change everything. He thought to himself as Operation Checkmate came into his mind.
Although he did question some aspects of the plan.
Murdering thousands of innocents for the "Future"? He thought to himself, now that's just a load of bullshit. He still had feelings.
But he thought he needed to fight for this cause. Fight the corrupted UN.
He grunted as he got up from the sofa and walked towards the hangar for deployment. Best to get this out of my head, i've already made my choice. He thought as he prepared for part 1 of Operation Checkmate.
"For the future." He whispered to himself as he got up to his plane and got ready for takeoff.