Days Of Ruin9…Never Ending
I do not own Advance Wars or any of the series…if I did I would have added small buildings to spice up the terrain a bit more.
"The enemy's rockets are destroying our lines!" The soldier replied, his blue military gear had scorch marks.
"Send in the helicopters to attack!" The Orange-haired leader ordered.
"But, the enem-" The soldier tried to explain but was cut off.
"All helicopters! Charge and crush the rockets!" She yelled violently into the radio. Soon Helicopters flew past her and toward the besieging bandits at the north side of the city.
She knew her aerial forces were top notch so she sent them in without a problem, expecting her air forces to return quickly she faced the soldier. "There! Problem solved! After they come back we need them to help take out their tanks too. They have more things to deal with than rockets!"
The soldier stared back in despair as his commander said those words, he had to tell her. "They had Anti Air units with them!" He screamed. No wonder he was the only soldier that came back, those units had torn through his infantry and will destroy her copters if she didn't pull them back.
"Helicopters! Get back!" She screamed into the radio, as she knew she made the worst decision.
-We were met with anti air units, over- She exhaled a sigh of relief at the response, but her relief was cut short.
-We're the only unit that made it back- She heard this and her hopes dropped as she saw the lone copter return out of the numerous she had originally sent.
-Commander Tasha! There are additional raider reinforcements a few miles up north! - The commander, now known as Tasha, felt her troops' morale drop at the report. They knew that they originally had three helicopter units, and many infantry units, but now they were left with a single copter and severely crippled infantry. She saw the helicopter hover high above her, launching missiles at the nearby raider group.
-Commander! We can see the enemy reinforcements! It's…A WAR TANK! – The nervous voice screamed out the last words. Tasha's morale hit rock bottom when she heard those words.
She readied the radio "Get ready to retreat! Evacuate the civilians!" She was furious at how the raiders managed to acquire one of those and even angrier at how they had a manually operated one. The IDS had the only soldiers who were trained to manually operate those things. Tasha remembered past battles where she had to make those tanks with automated systems instead of manual controls, those things just moved in perfectly straight lines, unlike the slight turning motions the War Tank ahead made.
The blue haired man next to her held up the removed scope of his sniper rifle. "Look closely at those colors they bear. Its best if we wait to see their actions."
"And be slaughtered? I'm not telling my men to die here!" She angrily yelled.
"Lets prepare to retreat and evacuate but we'll leave if they join forces with the enemy." Gage's calmness got to Tasha and she agreed, the scope trained on the approaching tank to get a better look. She didn't notice the reinforcements moving cleanly through the wasteland like a hot knife through butter.
Back at the green convoy Zene was looking ahead with anticipation. 'Finally food and a chance at avenging my men!' He grabbed the radio and informed his men.
"Get ready for a fight! We have to pay our old friends a visit!" Zene's voice lifted the spirits of the men and the War Tank leading them also aided this morale shift.
-We're ready when you are! Hahaha!- John's laughing could be heard by Zene.
In the center of the formation was the War Tank with two biker units, one each on to the left and right of the charging tank.
-Boys! Don't do anything rash! Come back alive!- The shopkeeper's voice lessened the men's war cries a bit after he finished.
"We'll be using our same old strategy! Lets break nature's wall and crush them!" Zene's voice was now a bit muffled with his Gas mask on.
The sound of the tank's engine coupled with the roaring of the motorbikes rose up into the air as the group of 2 bike units and one war tank charged forward. Zene turned the radio's dial, shifting to the main channel for all to hear his declaration.
"This is Zenith of the Green Legion! Prepare to die!" Zene declared his group to the bandits, who soon shifted their attention to the new threat.
The stretch of wasteland between the bandits and the Legion seemed to calm the bandits down a bit. But the bandit's morale dropped as the saw the form of the war tank sharpen, various units lined up as they approached.
"Dew! We're pinned on both sides!" The bandit panicked.
The Bandit leader, Dew, gave orders to his men. "I want the tanks to continue their assault on the city! Get the artillery and rockets to fire when they slow down at the wastelands!" He boarded one of the nearby tanks headed to the city.
The bandit joined his artillery unit and gave orders to the ranged units to fire at his mark at the approaching enemy.
"FIRE!" The bandit roared the word before pulling the trigger. A pair of Artillery and rocket units fired their weapons, letting lose shells and explosives at the point where the enemy would slow down.
"Stick close guys!" Zene said into his radio. His commands now relayed to his men on a private channel.
The bikes formed a line on each side of the tank, the men braced them for an explosion that never came…directly on them.
Explosions erupted where they were a minute ago, where the plains met the wastelands. The cloud of smoke catching up to them, obscuring them from sight. What rained down on them wasn't shells or explosives, just pieces of dirt that bounced off the vehicles.
"Spread out and take down their units once we exit the smokescreen!" The bikes spread out forming a line parallel to the bandit's defense line.
"Lets return the favor! FIRE!" After giving the command Zene went inside of the war tank to meet with Tabitha, her hands quickly controlling the rotation of the turrets and angle of the barrels. He gave her a nod and the serious Tabitha grinned as she pressed down on the triggers of the cannons. The blast shook the inside of the compartment and Zene headed back to the top to man the machine gun.
The men on their bikes momentarily lost control when they heard the simultaneous blast of the War Tank's cannons. John cursed under his breath as he regained control of the bike, his gunner to the side still dazed.
Ahead of their position the raiders believed that they had dealt a fatal blow and readied themselves to pick off the survivors. They were definitely surprised to see that they all emerged unharmed, but they began to feel fear as the bikes began shooting their units down, knowing that their only defense was their first attack.
The raider that felt the fear of death even more as the War Tank burst through the smokescreen, he had noticed that it had no gunner at the top, but that was the last thing he would ever notice. Both of his artillery units were blasted to oblivion as the full body of the tank finally exited the smoke.
The remaining raiders tried to flee with their rocket units but were also engulfed in explosions as the bikers took care of their targets.
-Dew! Bikes! An- The radio fell silent after a large explosion was heard. "Damned idiots!" The raider leader commanded the group of tanks and anti air units to turn around and face in the direction of his fallen men. "I'll lead the tanks! I want the anti air units to my right and left!" The sound of treads echoed through the streets of the city.
'So he is the one in charge' His calm expression still on his face. He lowered the scope of this rifle and entered a building.
"We did it!" The men were celebrating their victory against their previous enemies, cheers and shouts evident.
"Lets start scavenging! Who's with me!" One of the men shouted, his voice grabbing the attention of the bikers, who were aware of their growing hunger. They sped forward into the city down the main road.
The War Tank stayed behind and Tabitha exited the tank to eye her handiwork. 'Hmph even other war tanks would be hard pressed to fight me!' She smiled at the thought of regaining her military power.
"Tabitha…what should I do?" Zene was sitting off the edge of the upper turret surveying the damage, his mask now off to the side.
"What do you mean?" Tabitha lifted herself out of the turret hatch to stand up and look down at Zene.
"I'm asking what do I do no-" Zene's words stopped then the radio inside the turret came alive.
-BOSS! WE WERE AMBUS- The crackle of the radio immediately fell silent.