Naruto and his team walked out the tent at an hour before midnight, and loaded up into the Chinook. They saw 5 other operator teams loading up into different choppers as well.
"What's our form of extraction gonna be?" Naruto asked.
"We'll send in 1 humvee for each different operator team. You'll meet with the humvee at your drop-off point." answered the chopper pilot.
Naruto sat back down. He hated flying into enemy territory on a chopper. RPGs were frequent occurrences.
The Rangers back at the base where watching with longing. How much they wanted to get in there and kick some ass with the famed operators. A few more mortars were hitting around the base. It was almost laughable now. Several of the Rangers were playing board games or basketball, or some baseball with quite primitive bases and bats, despite the dark of night. A few went off to sleep.
Just then a scout team Asuma had sent to scout the area around the valley returned. They reported there was a massive infestation of enemies in a village just a few clicks west of the valley. Asuma sighed. The operators were gonna pull a double op again. Asuma radioed Naruto.
"Sir?" said Naruto.
"The ops been changed. Once the valley gets cleared out, you operators have been ordered to take out an enemy infested village west of the valley."
Asuma heard an audible "WHAT?" from Kiba in the background.
"An op right on top of the other, sir? How are we gonna get to this village?" asked Naruto.
"The Humvees that were supposed to bring you home are taking you there, and then the Chinooks are instead gonna extract you when you're done with the village op."
Naruto was quiet for a while. Asuma knew he was probably pissed the hell off.
"...Sir, yes, sir. Naruto out." Naruto eventually said.
Asuma sighed. The old man Naruto's team extracted was getting up now.
"Good morning, sir. Well, I suppose it'd be good night. It's 2300 hours right now."
The old man grunted and went off to get cleaned up.
"What a jerk." commented Asuma.
Asuma knew his ops and orders were probably gonna conflict with this guys wishes, and he was the higher-up. Damn.
Back on the Chinook, Kiba was getting awful pissed, and Shikamaru was groaning.
"A goddamn op RIGHT on top of this one! You have got to be kidding!" exclaimed Kiba.
"Nope. Those are our orders." responded Naruto.
Shikamaru just gave a deep sigh.
"What about ammo? There's no way we can complete two ops with this much!" asked Kiba.
"The humvee taking us to our second op is gonna have fresh ammo for us."
"Oh, Sasuke, once we get this valley op done with, your switching over to an assault rifle and directly helping us with the village." said Naruto.
"Right." said Sasuke.
He seemed uncaring about this new op, thought Naruto. Then again, Sasuke never did show much emotion beyond the occasional smirk or frown.
"How close are we to our first ops LZ?" asked Naruto.
"It'll be about 15 minutes before we get there." responded the pilot.
"Alright..." said Naruto.
Asuma was unsure about this. Two ops in rapid succession. He knew the Rangers couldn't be sent in. It would cause too much trouble for the operators.
Naruto and his team arrived at the valley. They climbed up it, and Sasuke and Shikamaru perched on top on of the highest points on the mountain. Sasuke pulled out the 50 cal. Naruto and Kiba started heading towards their target. They saw a scouting team, and hid behind a rock.
"Wait for them, Kiba. When I say go, we take out our axes and kill them. I get the left guy, you get the right."
Naruto pulled out his axe. Kiba did the same. The scout team was slowly approaching. They passed the rock. Naruto and Kiba slowly advanced on them. Naruto put his hand around the left guys mouth, and drove the axe into the neck. Kiba decided to do it a little more viciously, and drove it straight down through the cranium. Both scouts lay dead. They continued silently advancing throughout the valley, until they saw a piece of the AA guns barrel pointing up. Asuma was right. It was impressively fortified. Naruto primed his M4 CQB, and Kiba did the same on his SAW. There was a slight slope upwards, and they could clearly see an MG position at the top.
"We need to find a way to sneak past that..." said Naruto.
"Only way I'm seeing here is to use the dark to our advantage, dart between the few hiding places there are up this slope." said Kiba.
Naruto thought about it. If they did that, they would eventually be right in front of the machine gun position.
"I dunno..." said Naruto.
They started doing as Kiba suggested. A sniper bullet suddenly bit in the ground next to Kiba.
"You have to got to be kidding. A damn sniper. Kiba! Take cover!"
The alarms sounded. They already got spotted. What excellent luck. Naruto spotted the sniper, and took him out. The MG started firing on them.
"Fuck! Sasuke! Can you take out this MG operator?"
"I've already got tons of targets the other teams want me to take out. It'll be a while." replied Sasuke.
"Kiba. Suppress the damn MG with your SAW. Don't stop shooting, just spread as many bullets over the fucker as you can!"
"Right. Commencing suppressive fire."
Kiba started shooting bullets at the machine gun.
Naruto advanced up a little, and took potshots at anyone other than the MG who might shoot Kiba.
"How much time, Sasuke?"
"Hold on. It'll be just a little longer."
Kiba was losing his cover.
"Kiba, move to a different position."
"Right."
Kiba moved, and continued firing on the MG.
Naruto neutralized a few more guys.
"I've gotta reload!" said Kiba.
The MG operator obviously capitalized on this, as he got out and started suppressing Kiba. Kiba couldn't dare to get back out and shoot back.
"Alright. Taking the shot." radioed in Sasuke.
He took the shot, obliterating the metal plate on the MG and scoring a headshot. The operators head exploded like a melon, sending blood everywhere. And made a statisfying sound.
"Thanks." said Naruto.
"You owe me a few drinks when we get back." replied Sasuke.
"Tsk..."
Naruto and Kiba continued advancing. There was a group of buildings, they'd have to carve their way through them, and then there was a large open field, likely being defended before they could reach the anti air. They approached the first building.
"Kiba. Stack up on that building, we're going to flash and clear."
"Roger. Flash and clear."
Kiba popped open the door just a little, threw a flashbang inside, and then shut the door. When the flash went off, he opened the door and he and Naruto entered and took out enemies in the building. It looked like a pretty cheap place. Little furniture, just a mini-fridge and a microwave. These guys obviously didn't get the best of accomodations. The walls were cracked everywhere, and it looked like rain had been seeping in through the roof. Tough floors, no carpets or anything. These guys apparently slept on the floor.
"We're clearing every single floor of every single building, Kiba. You check upstairs, I'm checking the basement. Kiba went up stairs. The stairs were old and creaky. Kiba did a general check of the upper floor.. There were three rooms. He decided to take the leftmost one first. He kicked down the door. Nothing there.
"Make sure you have your NODs on. These guys could be hiding anywhere." said Naruto.
Kiba turned on his NODs. He went to clear the room in the middle of the hallway. He kicked the door down again. There was a guy who charged him with an AK, and tried to bash Kiba. Kiba dodged, and quickly pulled out his axe and cut sidewards into the abdomen of his foe. Kiba then tackled him to the ground, and drove the axe deep in the guys forehead, right down the middle. He died immediately. Kiba exited the room. He went to the rightmost room in the old hallway. He kicked the door down yet again, and entered. Suddenly, one of Orochimaru's terrorists jumped at him and tried to kill Kiba with an axe. Kiba caught the dudes axe hand, however, Kiba's other hand was occupied by the mans other fist. It became a power struggle. Kiba grunted as he tried to wrestle away the axe from the mans hand. They both fell to the floor. Kiba quickly rolled so he was on the top, and headbutted the man right in the nose. This caused him to lose his grip on the axe, which Kiba then took and dug into the mans cranium, just as he did the other one.
Panting, Kiba said "I always did do better when I'm on the top...".
Kiba then laughed at his poorly made joke.
"Sounds like you were having fun up there." said Naruto, over the radio.
"Indeed. Wait...you were listening to all that?" replied Kiba.
"Well, I've got the basement cleared out. There was just one guy, easy kill."
"Lucky bastard..." muttered Kiba.
"Regroup at the back exit of the house, we're then going to take on the two buildings to the left and right of this one. I'm taking left house, you'll be taking right.
"Roger."
They regrouped and exited the building. Naruto went to the left house, Kiba went to the right.
Naruto kicked down the door, then immediately hid behind the wall of the house, avoiding the inevitable wave of AK fire that followed. Naruto then chucked a grenade inside, and once it exploded he peeked around the corner and finished off any stragglers. He examined the house. It looked awfully similar to the previous one, though the guards were apparently playing card games on a table until the alarm sounded back from the MG placement. He examined the house. Unlike the previous one, it had only a basement and no second floor. Naruto went down and checked the basement. Nobody there.
Kiba went over to the rightward house. He opened the door by a crack and threw a flash inside, shut it, and once the flash went off, he opened and took out the enemies inside. 3 guys. There was an upstairs. He checked it, and there was one room. He walked up to the door, and just before he kicked it down, he heard someone prime an AK. He quickly dove to the left, just before the AK fire spread through the door, obliterating it. When the fire stopped, Kiba poked his head through the hole in the door and headshotted the enemy. He was apparently reloading. The man also had a Dragunov. Convenient.
"Naruto, I've found a Dragunov and a decent sightline. Do I have permission to use this to my advantage?"
"Right. You'll cover me as I take down that final house up there. Shoot anyone that enters it while I'm in there."
"Sir."
Naruto went to clear the house. When he entered, it was empty. He heard Dragunov bullets being fired. They had an ambush planned for him. How lucky that Kiba got his hands on that Dragunov.
"Woot! 3 targets down, Naruto." said Kiba.
There was an upstairs. Naruto went up the stairs, and when he get to the top stair he saw a tripwire. He cut it with his axe, and just as he stepped up to where the tripwire was, a man came out and tackled him. Or tried to. Naruto rolled out of the way, and pumped bullets into the man as he hit the ground. The man had come out of the only room upstairs. Naruto checked the room. There was one thing in there. A picture of the man he had just killed, with a woman who was of similar age and a little girl. Wife and daughter, most likely. Naruto sighed. He hated seeing belongings to the people he killed. It reminded him that they were people too. Naruto exited the house.
"Alright, Kiba. Ditch the Dragunov and get down here, we're not far from the AA gun. We just have to cross that field."
"Yes. Cross the wide open field with tall grass everywhere. They could be hiding in there."
"Well, that's where we'll be hiding too. We're crawling through."
"Oh god..." muttered Kiba.
"Quit your damn whining. You're getting to be like Shikamaru."
They began crawling through the high grass. They were making good progress, until halfway through the field a 5-man patrol or so started passing.
"Shit. Kiba, don't move. If you have to get out of the way, do it real nice and slow."
"Right."
The first man in the patrol passed. They were probably looking for them, having heard the Dragunov fire. And they will find the bodies. Ah, well. The second one passed awfully close to Naruto. The third stepped right between him and Kiba. Kiba had to maneuver a little to get out of the way when the forth ones boot landed right in front of Kiba's face. Kiba froze.
"Don't...fucking...move..." Naruto said.
The forth man stopped. The fifth stopped right in front of Naruto, and asked the forth some questions. These guys spoke English.
"What's going on? Why did you stop? We have to find those men." said the fifth man.
"I thought I heard something shift in the grass. I don't know." replied the fourth.
"It must have been your stupid imagination again. Keep going, you uneducated monkey. Can't even tell the difference between wind shifting the grass and people moving through it."
"Implying your education was much better!"
Dawn had broken out a few hours ago, they suddenly realized. And they moved on. Naruto and Kiba continued advancing. They finally hit the AA gun. Naruto planted the C4 on it. They exited the field and took a shortcut through the valley back to their original LZ, and waited to blow the gun.
"Asuma. Mission accomplished."
"Wow. You guys work fast. That was less than a day."
"Right. Send the humvee now, so we can blow the damn AA gun up."
"Hold your horses. You have to wait for the rest of the operator teams."
Sasuke had been taking out several targets. The operators had plenty of requests to keep him busy.
"Well, they are almost done. Time for us to move, Sasuke."
Back at the base...
Asuma was getting pissed at the old man, whom was now commanding them.
"Sir, we can't! The operators are already almost done, and they can soon take out the vil-"
"I don't care! Send in the bloody Rangers and take out the village! The operators won't get it done fast enough, and that village is a major pain in the ass! Command wants it gone NOW!"
"Sir, the operators already have charges on the AA gun, and have a lot of the valley cleared! They don't need the damn Rang-"
"Like I said, a large force like the Rangers can just CRUSH the village while the operators go about their shit! We don't need to wait for the operators to get there!"
"Sir, the Rangers will just compromise the operators mission!"
"Send in the damn Rangers, Asuma! This is an ORDER!"
Asuma grudgingly silently radioed Naruto.
"Naruto, the old fart wants to insert the Rangers into the village. Now."
"What? That would compromise the op. The Rangers would lose a lot of men! Stall him!"
"...Right..."
...Goddamnit, I knew something like this was gonna happen, thought Asuma.
"I want the Rangers inserted in that village. Do it. Now."
"Hold on! Damn." said Asuma.