A note to anyone who noticed I deleted chapter one because it was just a real shitty intro that I wrote when I thought of this idea on the subway.
2065 December 8th – Camp Pendleton California – I Day
Corporal Patrick Bowman inched his head around the corner and quickly ducked back in as another ripple of heavy Lacerator fire screamed down the alleyway he and his squad were taking cover in. The crouched spider looking structure at the head of the alleyway was sending a steady stream of fire down the alleyway making it impossible to advance a further. This was the fifth encounter that the squad had had in the last twenty minutes with one of these Strogg emplacements. The Strogg seem to have some way of chucking these things down from orbit with near pinpoint precision. The things would slam into the ground from orbit then splay out their spider legs, and extend the barrels of eight heavy Lacerators and set up shop all in about five seconds from when they hit the ground.
Turn around to his squad, "looks like were gonna have to take this one down guys there's no other way across. Here's the plan, Mike you toss one of those EMP grenades you got down the road and at the feet of that turret, that should scramble it up long enough for me and josh to run down there and plant an HE charge on it. You three stay back here so we don't loose the entire squad at once and also cover our backs, got it? Good. Let's go." CPL Michael then leaned around the corner and tossed his scrambler grenade down the alley, which proceeded to detonate and scrambled the circuits of the alien turret for hopefully long enough for them to plant the bomb. As the grenade detonated in an electrical cloud he and his buddy started tearing down the alleyway and skidded into the base of the turret. Patrick then reached behind him and pulled out one of his all purpose HE charges, set the self adhering charge to the turret and started keying in the code on the detonator.
As he was doing this several dark forms started to come down the adjacent alleyway and started to blast at the two soldiers at the turret. PVT Beeler then opened up with his GPMG and forced the Strogg back and even managed to knock down a few. Patrick then tapped him on the shoulder and josh proceeded to tear back down the alley to the squad. After letting loose a couple more bursts and launching one grenade from the launcher he too then started to tear down the alley. With shards form Lacerators flinging about him he dove in the alleyway with seconds before the HE charge exploded and took the turret and the Strogg around it up in a glorious fireball.
He sent a message on the BattleNet to his commanding officer that the area was secure and got a order that he and his squad were to regroup with the main force for a final push on the alien LZ. Two hours later after ghosting their way through the wreckage of the base and ultimately they hooked back up with the main force in the beach town of San Clemente which was just a couple of miles outside of the base and was also where the Strogg had touched down.
Hey guys sorry that this is a real short one. I have been gone a while and needed to get the creative juices flowing again. I hope to get another chapter of this and my Crysis one up in the next week or so. Oh and for those of you who really don't know anything about the Strogg play quake 4 or enemy territory quake wars. Anyways I am going to spring one of the Strogg's big secrets next time.