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Chapter 2 The Reapers
+The next day, on board the Dawnshadow, drop pod docking station+
Sergeant Davian Thule was in his fortys had a square jaw, balding and held an air of authority around him. He looked at his squad, lined up out side of their respective drop pods, though he had 5 other squads under his command for this mission his was the best, each member being experts at their jobs.
Private Benjiman Armus the engineer/driver he preferd a up close fight so used a gnasher shotgun as his main weapon, he also had overall control of the squads bot JOE,
Corpral Gordian Milius is the medic he is the oldest in the squad and a veteran of many battles, his right arm is a bionic inplant replacing the one he lost in a war long ago,
Leuitenant Nord Horiatus carried the long range radio for the squad and worked to keep the squad connected with the ship and other squads on the battlefeild,
Private John Siddig is the explosives expert and pyrotechnic "he like when things go boom" and prefers to use a scorcher flamethower in battle,
Private Frank Durio likes guns especially big ones which makes him quite fit to fill the role of heavy weapons, his size helped too, the big man carried a mulcher chaingun and his beloved rocket launcher which he loves more than his wife he says "it saved his ass more times than that cheatin' b****",
then Private Liah Fendris she covered the squads scouting role and a expert marksman useing a longshot sniper rifle,
and Private Lorenzo Caius, he has no real combat experience but was part of an experimental urban warfare specilists squad that are trained to use "COMBAT sheilds", looks like a riot sheild cut in half and turned sideways, to protect themselves when their is no cover avaliable, even to use them as weapons when needed. Davian thought the trianing in urban warfare would come in handy in serra's mostly urban warzones.
Davian looked on, he knew that not all of them would be coming home alive, but he would do his best to make sure they get everybody off the planet when the war was over. He never left a solider behind.
+Inside drop pod bravo 3, still onboard the dawnshadow+
Renzo was stapped into his seat in the drop pod with Frank staped into the seat behind him, each drop pod carried 2 soliders, a fire team, Renzo and Frank are the 3rd fire team in bravo squad, all sqauds are split into fireteams, they are called bravo 3, just as the rest of the squad are numbered from 1 to 4.
A red light turned on above his head, signaling that they had 30 seconds until drop time.
Renzo quickly went over some major breifing details in his head, the landing zones gonna be hot and the COG didn't know they where comeing and they where going to land in a city called Ephya, in what used to be a park.
a voice came on the comm network, starting a coundown at 10, Renzo relaxed his mucles and went though some exercise movements to keep the blood flowing to his hand and feet dureing the fall to sera.
+COG military base, command room+
Colonal Hoffman couldnt belive it, the subordnite was right, there was signatures of a class-a battle cruiser holding orbit over sera, he just didn't belive it was true, that TDN sent an army to aid them even after how previoust governments fought for independence.
"shit" he thought "once president Prescott found out he'd be in trouble" he sent the distress signal without permission, and against orders.
warning signals flashed on the sceen displaying the ship, it was fireing at the planet, no it was dropping solider down to sera.
he'd have to send a squad of gears to welcome them and probablby have to go himself to give a situation report, but now he had more important matters to attend to, he had to tell the president what was floating over their heads.
+sera atmoshere, bravo drop pod 3+
Damn! the count down started late and Renzo's drop pod was realeased 2 second faster than he thought, his stomach lurched in the free fall, he could hear Frank behind him laughing and enjoying the ride, while Renzo held onto his seat for dear life.
He could see the distance from the ground on the HUD in his helmet, it counted down from 30 thousand feet to 20 thousand feet in a matter of seconds, he only had a minute before he landed on his own little peice of hell.
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Next chapter is the firt battle in the story.