Gaara and his team advanced up the mountain. They came upon a large group of enemies, apparently suspecting a team to be sent in to clear out the RPGs. They took cover.
"Shit, there's a lot of 'em, I count a minimum of 10 dudes in there." said Choji.
"Then that's a minimum of 10 dudes Lee will be suppressing until we can get an airstrike on those fuckers. They're holed up in two huts, no way we can kill them all in time alone." said Gaara.
"Yes, sir!" said Lee.
Lee sprayed bullets with his SAW over the two buildings, hoping to keep the enemy down, while Gaara, Choji, and Shino were huffing it up to the buildings to put some red smoke on them.
Shino radioed command.
"We need an airstrike in the mountains just before the village, two huts, danger close, marking with smoke."
"Roger. The strike will come in when target is marked."
Lee was doing a good job of keeping the enemy down so far. Gaara and his team were almost up to the building.
"Fuck it, Shino, just chuck it!" said Choji.
Shino did. It landed squarely between the two buildings.
"Smoke is popped."
"Roger, we see it, 20 seconds to impact."
"Quickly, get away from the buildings!" ordered Gaara.
They quickly huffed it down, and took cover next to Lee.
"3...2...1...splash."
The airstrike came in, creating a most fantastic explosion, destroying a good portion of each building. Debris from the buildings flew everywhere. The buildings then crumbled on top of each other. Stifling, dark black smoke was everywhere. Gaara and his team came out coughing. There were a few stragglers, still trying to gain their wits about them, others crying in pain from various wounds the airstrike inflicted. Gaara and his team finished them.
"Aw, shit. Nice one!" said Choji, still coughing.
"We do aim to please. We do have enough for a second pass, so just mark another target again should you need it."
They walked a little past the building. A cry came from the left, and Gaara whirled around before getting tackled to the ground and getting hit in the face by the rifle butt of an AK. Gaara could see intense fear in his attackers eyes. The man then pointed the gun at Gaara's head, screaming at the top of his lungs, but was quickly executed by Shino before he could pull the trigger.
"Saved your life." commented Shino.
Gaara grunted. He didn't expect any of these terrorists to be able to so rapidly regain their bearings and senses after such a rattling airstrike. He'd have to be more careful. The guy hit pretty damn hard.
"Come on, one hit to the face and your out, you little pansy ass?" taunted Choji.
"How 'bout I hit you straight across the face with an AK, then tackle you to the damn ground? Only, in this iteration, I'll pull the trigger when I have the gun in your face." retorted Gaara, jokingly. Or so Choji hoped.
"Ah...I'll pass." responded Choji.
"Anyways, let's get moving. Our buddies down there aren't gonna last forever."
They hiked up the mountain, and came upon the site of the guys who were raining the RPGs on the choppers that the Rangers flew in on.
"Take 'em out." said Gaara.
Lee had already started tearing into them with the SAW. Choji and Shino each started shooting into them with their M4A1 Carbines. Gaara was equipped with an M21 EBR. A few of the survivors of Gaara's squad initial wave of fire pulled out AK's and started returning fire, but not fast enough. They were quickly ended by the far more trained Rangers.
Gaara radioed in the primary force of the Rangers.
"Do you have the ambush down there taken care of? We have the RPG situation handled."
The reply that came back sounded tired.
"Yeah, we managed to counter the ambush. Lost 3 guys, quite a few wounded. Listen, you guys are gonna have to compensate for the guys that are out of the action, the section you people were to take on with two squads is now gonna be handled by one, you guys. You can get there from that mountain you are on, hurry it up. The rest of the Rangers are moving into the villages. God damn...we haven't even gotten to the village and this ops all fucked up to hell."
"Roger, moving to our target."
"So, what's the story, Gaara?" asked Lee.
"We are taking on the sector assigned to us by ourselves, our buddies down there got banged up pretty bad, and have quite a few wounded."
"Ourselves, eh? Doesn't that just sound like the most fun we'll ever have in a long while?" remarked Choji.
"You were the one who was pissing your pants about not being able to get to work an op in this sector, now you're getting all whiney?" said Gaara.
"I was hoping the op wouldn't involve explosives being shot at our chopper before we even get to the target."
"Who's being the god damn pansy now..." Shino quietly remarked. Choji didn't catch wind of the remark.
They began working their way through the mountain and into their target area.
"Eyes peeled, there could be more men in this mountain." said Gaara.
As they advanced through the mountains, they saw rapid movement in the bushes.
"Keep your weapons trained on those bushed. Don't take your eyes off of them." instructed Gaara.
The movement stopped. Gaara and his squad stared at the bushes, tensely waited to see what they held. A single terrorist popped out, whom was quickly silenced by a wave of bullets. Gaara and his squad moved on. They encountered a few guys here and there, but the mountain seemed otherwise devoid of enemy activity. Gaara and his team arrived upon a dead body. His arm had been blown off, he had apparently died from bleeding out or shock. There was also a huge indent in the wall of rock behind the man.
"Sniper. 50 caliber rounds. Guy never stood a chance." said Shino.
"A sniper, armed with a 50 cal., taking out Orochimaru's guys? Must be a godsend." said Choji.
Gaara stood quiet. The op never detailed a sniper armed with a 50 cal. to support them. They saw that there was also two dead bodies up on a faraway ridge, one with his head obliterated, the other with a huge hole right in his torso. It was a sniper team that had apparently been waiting to ambush the Rangers.
"...Let's keep moving. Our objective is right down there."
Choji looked.
"...Two huts, surrounded by open field and mountains. Perfect."
"We're clearing that hut closest to us. Move." instructed Gaara.
"Lee. Kick down the door."
Lee moved and did it. They heard a strange noise.
"Shit! LEE! Get DOWN!" exclaimed Gaara.
The whole front section of the hut exploded. Lee was knocked backwards. They weren't sure if Lee was still alive.
"Fuck! Choji! Drag him behind the piece of wall from the hut that's still left! Hurry up!"
They took cover behind the wall. Choji dragged Lee behind it. Inspecting him, they could see that he was still alive, but was on the brink of unconsciousness. He was beginning to recover from the disorientation.
"Shit, man. Kevlar saved his life." said Choji.
"Lee! Can you still shoot? Get the hell UP, man!" said Gaara.
"I do not know..." Lee said, still disoriented by the explosion.
"Choji! Take his SAW and give him your M4."
Choji and Lee swapped weapons. A large swarm of men were coming from the mountains.
"Choji, spray over those damn sons-a-bitches! Lee, quit grovelling on the ground and get shooting!" Gaara ordered.
Lee managed to pick himself up and begin shooting at the men. There was a whole shit storm of 'em. The once-large piece of wall that was left of the hut was slowly being destroyed by the bullets.
"Shit! Shino! Radio in for airstrikes, another shooter, anything!" said Gaara.
"Right. Command, this is Shino, we need another airstrike. Is that second pass still ready?"
"It is. Go ahead and designate target, but note that he can NOT make another pass."
"Right. Gaara, we've got one and just one pass. There's no way it will take out all of them, so we just have to make it count."
"Right, Shino. Designate them, hurry up about it."
Shino marked them down for the airstrike using the binoculars.
"Roger, targets marked. 5 seconds. 1...2...3...4...5...splash."
The airstrike hit and obliterated a lot of the men. It seemed like a relief at first, but just as many men came back out of the mountains to replace them.
"You've gotta be fucking with me!" said Choji.
"We are losing our cover!" said Lee. "We should move to that other hut over there."
"Right. Come on, let's move!" ordered Gaara.
They got in the hut. They returned fire at the growing number of men.
"Shit...Shino, we need another shooter or something! Radio in the main force!"
"Right. Ok, we are pinned down and need another shooter. High number of men. Send anybody. Be snappy about it." Shino said to the rest of the Rangers.
"Right. We've got a shooter sent to you." responded someone, for Gaara and his squad were too deep in shit to care.
They were taking out guys by the dozens, but several more continued to replace the men they killed.
"Oh fuck! RPG! RPG!" said Choji.
And sure enough, the front section of the hut they were just returning fire behind exploded, getting obliterated completely.
"Damn it...fall back to the second room of the hut..." Gaara said in between coughs. "I want you shooting ANYONE you see with an RPG, Shino."
Shino, also coughing heavily, took a while to respond, disoriented. "Yes, sir."
They fell back to the second room of the half destroyed hut, and continued to return fire. The terrorists still continued to advance upon their tiny little hit. Shino kept his eye out for RPG's, and took out the one who had just destroyed the hut and two more who were getting ready to take shots.
"Damn it, they are closing the distance quickly!" said Lee.
A large number of men bumrushed their little hut. Choji sprayed SAW bullets into them, quickly dropping them.
"Here comes an RPG! Get down!" said Shino.
They all dove, and the wall to their left got obliterated in a manner like-wise to the first room of the hut.
They fell back to the only remaining wall of the hut.
Shino didn't need orders from Gaara.
"This is Shino, call back your shooters. We're not making it out of this one."
"...Yes, sir. Kick some ass while you still can." replied the Ranger who was about to send them a shooter.
The squad continued to hopelessly fire into the approaching horde of enemies.
"I am out!" said Lee.
"Last mag, Lee. Make it count." Shino handed his last mag to Lee.
Choji, too, was running out of bullets for his SAW. Gaara had already ran out and was now just spraying pistol bullets from his M9 into the advancing foes.
"I'm all out." said Shino.
"I am as well." said Lee.
Only Gaara and Choji had ammo to shoot with now, and Gaara was just using an M9.
But then large explosions racked among the advancing terrorists. A lot of bodies flew into the air, and the mountain was being racked with explosive fire. Dust and grime was being sent everywhere. A huge dust cloud rose up, and the only thing Gaara and his squad could see was that the terrorists began retreating. A man had sneaked up behind them, and got Gaara in a chokehold, but before he could even begin to pull out his axe his head exploded and sent blood all over Gaara.
"Shit...what the fuck was that?" said Gaara.
They looked skyward. An AC130. But that didn't explain the 50 cal. Barret bullet. Someone was a really good shot with the thing.
"Nice hits, Viper 1. You can pull out now." said Shikamaru.
The AC130 responded.
"Alright, I'll just be buggin' out for now. Happy hunting."
"Man, Sasuke. That was risk of friendly fire. I must say that was an incredible shot, especially considering all that dust." said Shikamaru.
"Those Rangers down there owe us big time, on TOP of the drinks Naruto already owes us when we obliterated that MG position. We're on a roll today, Shikamaru." said Sasuke.
"Right, let's get moving. We are officially done here."
Sasuke and Shikamaru headed out to their designated extraction point. Naruto had radioed that he and Kiba were already there. Clearing the LZ for the Rangers had been nice, quick, and easy, apparently.
"We never had an AC130 ready for us, did we?" asked Choji.
"Can't say we did. Who cares, though. We fucking MADE it!" said Gaara.
"Let's just get to the LZ." said Shino. "Our time here is over."
"You can sure as hell say that again..." said Choji.
"Whaddya think of those Rangers?" asked Kiba.
"They did kick quite a bit of ass, all things considered. Taking on a whole village, only 2 huts for cover, etc." Shikamaru responded.
"Let's get out of here. I'll buy you those drinks, Sasuke." said Naruto.
Sasuke smirked.