Disclaimers: I do not own anything of Konami or MGS4, other than a few of the made up characters, and vehicles, and factions I've made up.
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Metal Gear: Engagement
Chapter 4
Darren fired his rifle out of the building at several PMC soldiers who ducked behind the remains of a vehicle that had been struck by an air strike.
A sharp burning pain entered his back. He turned his head back to see a Scarab had latched on to him and was trying to shock him to death. Emerson pulled out his pistol and fired several rounds in the three arm machine. The Scarab then let go and fell lifelessly to ground.
"Thanks for the help." Darren said as he looked back out the window firing his rifle at PMC soldiers in the building ahead.
The Screeching Eagles were in the building along with Hawk squad, commanded by Sergeant Dave. The building was a two storey house which was relatively intact which provided a good defensive position against most threats, although all that was needed was a single high-explosive shell, or a missile strike to take out everyone inside of the building if properly place.
Darren loaded a rifle grenade and fired it before taking cover again. He heard the sound of distinct sound of sniper rifles being fired and saw a few PMC soldiers who were foolishly outside drop. Victor and Wiseley were stationed on the second floor; their job is to mainly kill people in the buildings while Darren, Emerson, and Kelvana are on the first floor, keeping people from entering the building. Dave's squad was also split between the first and second floor.
"This is really going to be a long day; we can barely get the enemy out of that building." Emerson remarked as he fired his rifle out the window at the soldiers in the other building with no effect.
"Well it may be short for us if those Scarabs come in greater numbers; I heard those things often take people down by swarming them." Darren replied.
Gunfire from the PMC stopped, the soldiers quickly packed their gear and left their post with their equipment.
"Why are they running?" Emerson asked, clearly confused. "Something bad is gonna happen, I know it."
The ground shook, the sound of large thumps on the ground, everyone knew what it was.
"I think it's time to leave." Darren said as he started to back away toward the exits.
Darren grabbed the radio that was set up and turned it on. "Forward command we've got several of those walkers coming down the street. I thin-..." Darren was cut off as a building beside them exploded, hit by missiles. Darren heard the chatter of T.F.E soldiers yelling for everyone to pull back running down the alley behind the building, most likely fleeing from other buildings due to the sight of the meancing walkers
"Holy, son of a bitch!" Emerson cursed as he backed up several steps."They walked through the building the PMC soldiers were garrisoned in!"
The building ahead had crumbled as several walkers advanced towards them.
"Out, out, out!" Darren heard Dave shout, as everyone ran toward the exit before the walkers fired their missile salvos which decimated the building they were once in.
Darren got back on the radio as everyone ran toward the nearest friendly location. "We've got walkers advancing into combat, we need support out here." Darren said through the radio as he ran as fast as he could through the back alley.
"We've got Armadillos and several squads on ahead of your current position." Vespes replied through the radio. "More support will arrive when needed."
He looked ahead after they turned through the alleyway and saw the Armadillo tank destroyers reversing so they would be able to hit the walker, and keep outside their minimal range, two additional platoons of infantry were around the tank. "I hope those things are good against armoured walkers and infantry because if it's not it will have an extremely short service life." Darren commented as everyone regrouped around the tank destroyers which had just destroyed an ECM tank ahead.
The Armadillo had a slightly higher profile compared to an Abrams, while it carried a large 150mm gun. The front part of the vehicle was sloped and armed with a 12.6mm machine gun located in a protected turret on the top of the vehicle. The vehicle was surprisingly fast for it's bulk as the tank destroyers moved forward towards PMC forces.
The main road was long, and it passed through the entire center of the city. Darren could see enemy armour coming in from a distance, led by a Humvee, and behind it were several Strykers, ECM tanks, and Gekko.
The walkers then appeared blocking the view of advanicng PMC forces firing their rockets at the tank destroyers. One of the tank destroyers was hit directly by the missile, but when the smoke around it cleared there was just a large dent in the frontal armour of the tank.
The Armadillos fired back with their main guns, the vehicles chassis rocked back due to the guns recoil. The first shell took the head off a walker, while other shells just went entirely through the other walkers, some fell while others kept advancing, their vital AI still intact.
An Armadillo then exploded from several rockets, not from the walkers. The soldiers looked up to see an attack helicopter strafing them with rockets and cannon fire. Everyone fired their rifles at it while an Avenger AA vehicle near the Armadillos fired its Stinger missiles at the helicopter, which dropped chaff before lowering itself out of sight, most of the missiles smashed into nearby buildings.
Darren readied his Javelin for a top attack against those walkers, but before he was ready, someone forced him to duck as something else strafed the area, cannon fire from an aircraft, which appeared to be a V.T.O.L craft, poured around them killing soldiers around the vehicles, the aircraft soon found itself being chased by two F-15s after it had pulled up.
Several more of those fighters then came behind the F-15s, and fired their cannons, causing one F-15 to explode in midair as its fuselage was struck, while the remaining fighter tried to pull back to base with the fighter it was chasing now engaging it.
"HQ where did those aircraft come from?!" Darren asked through the radio as he got ready to use the Javelin, other soldiers behind him were firing Stinger missiles in hopes of bringing down the fighters.
"We've got a small airbase down the main road ahead; most of their aircraft are V.T. so this will be tough since they can land like helicopter, avoiding AA fire by lowering behind buildings." Vespes answered through the radio. "Air control will send bombers in to destroy it and will mop up the rest with attack copters. Your new objective is to hold the road and push the enemy back till air support arrives."
Darren fired his Javelin then ducked back down, removing the launch tube with Emerson loading another launch tube on.
"What do they want now?!" Wiseley called out through the sounds of battle.
"They want us to hold the main road down." Darren replied, as a nearby walker toppled into a building, destroying the entire side of the structure.
Darren then turned around to see crew members bail out of an Armadillo its tracks had been shot out, and its turret soon was engulfed in flames from a shaped charge attack. The ammunition then exploded shaking the ground around it and deadly pieces of shrapnel flying away from the wreck.
"We've got infantry on the roof tops and balconies!" a soldier shouted as he tossed a grenade up onto the roof of a nearby building which sent several bodies flying off the roof.
"Adjust fire, on those infantry units!" Dave called out as his squad started firing at the PMC troops.
The PMC walkers popped a smokescreen covering them from the Armadillos main gun. A small missiles barrage flew out of the smokescreen and destroyed an Armadillo with deadly accuracy, hitting the turret of the vehicle.
"This isn't good we've already lost three Armadillos, and the enemy has got us outgunned out here, we need some fucking support!" Emerson yelled as he fired at a soldier on the roof, managing to wound the soldier.
"Hold on I'm getting Weston's artillery to use a creeping barrage on the main road where the enemy is located." Darren replied through the radio.
"Roger creeping barrage confirmed, barrage is on the way." Darren heard Weston reply.
"How are we going to deal with the soldiers on the roof?!" Victor asked as he brought out the sub-machinegun that was holstered around his back, his sniper rifle empty.
"Just keep shooting we'll take them yet." Wiseley responded as he picked up a rifle from a dead T.F.E soldier and fired the weapon at a PMC soldier on one of the many roofs and balconies.
The shriek of approaching shells screamed through the air as artillery shell landed several feet away, from the T.F.E position followed by several other shell, each landing slightly further than the previous shell.
The PMC walkers were now retreating trying to get off the main road, but the shells just came too fast as several walkers took hits from the artillery. While the shells didn't land directly on top of them, the walkers were gradually being worn down by constantly being hit by flying debris, and from Armadillos tank destroyers which were now scoring several kills on the PMC forces, including some infantry, hit by Armadillos using high explosive rounds or canister rounds.
"Check your ammo people, check your ammo!" Everyone heard Dave shout who loaded a fresh clip into his rifle.
Darren just noticed he had only one fresh clip left, he cursed as he took cover again against the soldiers on the roofs.
"Anyone got a spare clip, I'm running low?" Darren asked as Kelvana tossed him a clip. "Thanks!" Darren said gratefully as he put the clip in one of his pouches.
"Atleast there is a considerable amount of ammo for us to steal ammo from dead soldiers, it's just too bad we can't use PMC weapons, damn SOP." Wiseley commented as he took several clips from a dead soldier beside him.
Darren turned his head to the street when no more shells landed. There were toppled buildings, destroyed walkers; craters all lined the entire road ahead. He then saw several Strykers drop troops in; they weren't like the Praying Mantis soldiers. They wore heavy body armour, and their fatigues were a desert green. The enemy advanced even though Armadillos were firing in their direction.
"Shit those are Raven Sword troopers, what are they doing here?" Victor said as a bullet narrowly missed his head causing him to duck.
Darren picked up his radio, attempted to contact forward base. "Sir we need support here we've got soldiers on the roofs trying to gun us down, and more enemy forces coming up the road, they just don't stop!"
The radio then came to life. "Just hold fast, support is on the way." Vespes replied as Darren put the radio down and fired his rifle into a PMC soldier who then fell off the roof onto the ground. "Additional forces are En route with infantry units and supplies. Air control tells me the birds should be inbound with Apache helicopter on the way to provide close ground support."
"Roger that." Darren responded as he let the radio fall from his hands and on the ground while he took cover behind one of the vehicles. The Strykers were endlessly firing their machine guns, only pausing to let the barrel cool for a few moments.
Darren brought out his Javelin, and set it to direct fire. He targeted the one of the vehicles and fired, a sharp pain then entered his leg, a bullet had just past through him. He dropped down onto his wounded leg as the explosion from the Javelin totalled an IFV.
He then saw Kelvana fire at the PMC soldiers who were, firing from the roof bringing down five off them with one round for each soldier with a well placed shoots per soldier.
"She's pretty good makes me shoot like a rookie." Darren commented as a medic moved him to a safer location away from the front and then started to patch up his leg. "I'm surprised that those female soldiers didn't shred us back at base."
"Five soldiers with five shots, what kind of training did they give her?" Emerson said as he loaded his last rifle grenade and fired it, blowing a small section of a roof off.
"INCOMING GET DOWN!" a soldier screamed as he hit the dirt behind a fallen stone.
Everyone hit the dirt with a few soldiers carrying Stingers running for cover, so they can get a shot off.
Three V.T.O.L fighters came down and strafed the area with their cannons, killing entire squads of soldiers and wounding many other.
"Where is the goddamn air force?! We need support against those fighters." Emerson shouted as an Avenger fired a volley of Stinger missiles managing to strike down one of the fighters while soldier fired Stinger missiles into the air, unfortunately the fighters had dropped chaff stopping the handheld AA missiles.
An Armadillo then fired at one of the buildings with a high explosive round which caused the front of the building to collapse, the PMC soldiers there had already pulled out. Most Tank destroyers were only scratched from the cannon fire.
The radio came to life again as Darren reached for dead soldiers clips beside him then immediately inserted one of the clip into his rifle. Emerson handed him the radio beforefiring abck at approaching forces. "This is Zeta Platoon we cannot reach your position at this time. The enemy has brought down several buildings onto the main road effectively blocking it. We're clearing rubble with a dozer as we speak, but it will take some time. We can, however provide mortar fire to support you, just give us coordinates and indirect fire is yours."
"Well then, I need mortar fire on the buildings as well as on the main road." Darren ordered as he passed the radio back to Emerson who shouted the coordiantes for him, using a map grid to help with aiming the mortar barrage.
Several moments later mortar fire came raining into the area killing PMC soldiers on the roofs and forcing Raven Sword soldiers to keep their heads down. T.F.E rounds were not hitting their marks as the PMC soldiers used the craters from the artillery barrage as cover.
The radio went alive again this time from an Armadillo commander, "We'll take on the advancing infantry and vehicles you focus on the guys on the buildings." the tank commander ordered as an Armadillo fired its machine gun at several soldiers before following up with what appeared to be some kind of canister round from the main gun that ripped apart several PMC soldiers blood and gore splattered across the road.
A sudden bone chilling howl filled the air followed by crying. The wolf-like soldier jumped off the roof of a building and landed right into the middle of the T.F.E forces. It crushed soldiers by jumping on them while bullets bounced harmlessly off the black armour.
"Adjust fire on that thing!" Dave shouted as every soldier started fired at it.
Darren fired several rounds at the before he moved out of the way as it charged towards him.
"What's the world coming to?! Will we have freaking biological tanks next?!" Darren yelled as he aimed his rifle at a soldier who was trying to shoot him and brought the soldier down in a burst
"Shit that's Crying Wolf; we've got to take her out before she pulls back and uses that railgun!" Kelvana warned everyone.
Darren, saw a machine gunner firing his SAW machine gun Crying Wolf the rounds were having a slightly greater effect, as he saw blood trickle on the ground, but the thing just kept going, trampling and crushing all in its path.
"It won't go down, it won't go down!" a soldier screamed.
Suddenly grenades came down upon the T.F.E soldiers from an enemy soldier with a jetpack, which had wings on it. The soldier was surrounded by a bunch of winged drones.
"Who the hell is that?!" Emerson questioned as several Stinger missiles raced towards it.
The thing folded its wings infront of the soldier. The missiles struck, but when the smoke cleared it was still in the air altough it was pushed back abit, with little damage. The drones then fired light AT missiles at the T.F.E Armadillo crippling most with shots to with the cannon or engine compartment.
"Kelvana who is that?" Darren asked.
"That's Raging Raven, the Ariel specialist of the B&B corps." Kelvana replied.
"Wait who's the B&B corps?!" Darren shouted again before he took cover behind a destroyed Armadillo with Kelvana.
"I'll tell everyone later, if we can get out of this hell hole." she said before firing her rifle at Crying Wolf trying to hit a weak spot in the armour.
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Commander Joseph looked through his scopes as the crew in the turret were busy placing a loading another shell into the gun. Unlike most vehicle guns, the Armadillos gun took up most of the turret, and part went outside to the back of the turret, where the casings of shells were ejected from. The vehicle, wasn't cramped even though the gun took up a considerable amount of space. There was more than enough room for the crew, the variety shells and ammunition, and a few comforts. The only thing he hated was that the crew was rather spaced apart, making it hard at times to communicate and the fact the gun was slow to elevate.
Nothing was going well for the first day the Armadillos seeing action. It was bad enough they were fighting in urban combat, but with a wolf-like soldier, battle walkers, and a soldier that had a jet pack which could not be harmed by missiles when the wings went up. All this coupled with most tanks being damaged, or destroyed, and ammunition running low, made most remaining tankers hoped this would be the last engagement they will ever see for a long time.
"Gunner, get a round into that ECM tank coming up behind those Strykers!" Joseph demanded as the 150mm gun fired tearing a large hole into the ECM tank before the ammunition exploded on board turning the vehicle into a funeral pyre.
Joseph then spotted another walker coming towards them. "Enemy assault walker, 2 O'clock, load AP, I want a hole in that things head!" James ordered again as the loader got another shell into the breach.
The tank rattled again as the shell tore a hole right through the head of the walker causing it to fall to the ground.
"Beta-Three aim for the Stryker on the right side; we've got the tank beside it." Joseph said as he felt a shell bounce off the front armour of the vehicle. He felt rather safe with most AT weapons and shells bouncing off the thick frontal armour or exploding with no penetration into the hull.
"Sir we're running out of shells! All we have are five AP rounds, two HEAT, and ten high-explosive rounds!" the loader shouted through the vehicle as the sound of a casing being ejected rung through the vehicle.
Joseph opened the radio channel to all his remaining vehicles. "All vehicles check your ammo we need to make each round count till we get resupplied. If you should run empty get behind the line of T.F.E soldiers and support them with the machine gun. Hit Strykers with high-explosive, due to their thin armour, tanks AP and walkers with HEAT. All we need is a good shot through any of them to take'em down."
"Roger that Beta-One." another tank commander replied.
Joseph got back onto his scopes. A plane just exploded in mid-air a direct hit from a flak round from a 150mm gun near forward base had taken it out. All that was left was some debris and an engine that crashed into the main road. "Damn that seemed like overkill must've sucked to be the pilot." Joseph muttered to himself before he found a target coming up ahead.
"Enemy tank, Twelve O' Clock and approaching." Joseph said as the gun fired sending the enemy tanks turret into flames. "Confirmed kill gunner good job."
Something then smashed into the side of the vehicle.
"What's going on out there?!" Joseph yelled through the radio. "I don't appreciate the enemy scratching the vehicles paint job."
"You've got a wolf-like enemy smashing against your tank, and the small arms are not doing any good." someone replied through the radio.
"Someone get onto the machine gun!" Joseph demanded.
"Right away." a crew member replied as the machine gun started firing at Crying Wolf which managed to drive her back for a few moments.
Several anti-tank grenade then hit the top of the vehicle the vehicle rattled as a small explosion happened in the turret, luckily none of the shells were hit. Joseph heard the screams of a of the crew members before he was then knocked out of his seat by another round hitting the top of the vehicle.
Several moments later Joseph managed to get back in his seat "What's the damage in the turret?!" Joseph then shouted hoping for a reply.
"They've crippled the loading mechanism for the gun, and Wessel's dead! Machine gun's busted as well. We're combat ineffective" the loader replied.
"Goddamn it!" Joseph cursed "Driver back up so we are behind the T.F.E soldiers, we can't take much more of this." Joseph ordered as the vehicle started backing up away from combat.
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T.F.E soldiers were being picked off by PMC soldiers on the streets, with Crying Wolf driving them out of cover. The PMC forces were advancing, even though the tank destroyers were still firing. It would only be moments till the PMC was right in the T.F.E forces faces with fully-automatic weapons with higher calibre rounds compared to M-16 rifle and M-4s carbines and although the Armadillos were doing a good job at keeping them back, the remaining Armadillos were running low on high-explosive shells, some where even firing armour-piercing in a desperate act, but the shell was simply not accurate enough to hit a single soldier.
Darren picked up a radio off the ground and tried to get a hold of the artillery. "Weston! I need another barrage on the road, if we don't get it now we're dead!" Darren shouted as he pulled down his pistol and fired at a PMC soldier who got to close causing him to stagger before Wiseley put a round into the guy who was several metres away. "If you wait any longer the will be right on top of us!"
"Negative, I repeat we have no go on your fire-mission, I have to reposition my artillery, the enemy has just smashed into our defensive line and we're pulling out till we are out of danger, over and out." Weston replied as the radio fell silent.
"Goddamn you!" Darren cursed as he saw a PMC soldier infront of him aim his rifle at him before, being killed by Kelvana from a shot to the head.
Screams then entered the radio from Zeta platoon's channel. "This is Zeta platoon we're under fire, they've flanked us, I repeat we're under fire, we can't hold we need back-up, there's a strange soldier with a helmet with octopus like arms, she keeps hiding via releasing some kind of ink." the soldier paused as curses and gunshots were heard in the back ground. "...Fuck It's just snapped Joe's neck!..... Goddamn you keep shooting we've got to kill that son of a bitch before-" the radio then went silent.
Vespes then got on the radio channel and cleared his throat before speaking. "Zeta platoon and its armour has just been reported to have been demolished, most soldiers are reported KIA."
"Is there any good news?!" Darren replied loudly which was soon answered, as he saw a soldier look to the sky and point towards the approaching T.F.E air force.
"The flyboys made it! They finally made it!" someone shouted as several F-22 Raptors swooped into the area overhead dropping bombs onto designated targets from high-altitude.
"Well it's about damn time!" Dave exclaimed as he bashed a PMC soldier in the face with his rifle before firing several rounds into the soldier's body.
Several bombs landed on the main road forcing PMC troops to scatter and begin pulling back.
Several attack copters then entered the area firing at the PMC forces on the grounds. Crying Wolf, in all the confusion had disappeared like a ghost with no trail while Raging Raven pulled out to avoid AA missiles, however several of her drones appeared firing AA missiles at the Apaches, but their missile moved slowly allowing the Apaches to drop chaff and evade the missile while returning fire, shredding the fragile drones.
"You just can't seem to hold without us can you?" a pilot said through the radio. "Hold on we'll clear the advancing forces for ya. The F- 22 are handling the aircraft in this area and bombing the PMC base so no need to worry about enemy air cover."
The Apaches fired their cannons on infantry killing many of the PMC troops who were now retreating., or finding what cover they could.
Darren looked to see several aircraft go crashing out of the sky, the burning wreckage of PMC V.T.O.L fighters fell into many parts of the city. He hoped that none of the wrecks crashed onto T.F.E forces.
After several final burst from the Apache's cannons and T.F.E rifle fire there were no PMC forces in the area all had either retreated or had been killed, with several soldiers gathering the wounded.
"We've got new orders!" Dave shouted to everyone's surprise. "HQ wants us to reach the PMC base of operations, capture it. Now let's get a move on." Dave finished as everyone got ready to move again.
"I guess we'll never get a rest at this point." Emerson commented as he checked his ammo before getting back on his feet.
"Alright, everyone rally on me we're going." Darren called out to the rest of his squad as the sky overhead darkened.
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"Sir we should get ready to leave, we can't afford being trapped here." one of Johnson's officers said as he started packing what equipment he could into the Humvee. "The remaining soldiers will have to fend for themselves if they don't make it for extraction."
Johnson let out a sigh. "We've lost one-fourth of our forces trying to take out the T.F.E on the main road and the B&B Corps has just disappeared like they always do. Well atleast we've taken out all the T.F.E here." Johnson commented as he looked down a street to see smoking wrecks of T.F.E armour, and dead soldiers from the T.F.E all around. These T.F.E soldiers were trying to bulldoze their way to reinforce the Armadillos, and the infantry platoons ahead of them. Most of the T.F.E were killed by surprise from their own mortar fire from Strykers, and Laughing Octopus disturbing their lines when she appeared right after she caused a vehicle to explode from an explosive charge.
Johnson felt sad for the soldiers on the T.F.E that had die, but he felt some joy that most of his men had survived in this skirmish, they've only lost a single squad, with few wounded.
He heard a groan nearby; he turned his head to see a wounded T.F.E soldier trying to get back on his feet. He had miraculously survived after all that has happened here.
"Sir should we shoot him?" a soldier asked as he raised his rifle.
Johnson gestured to soldiers to stand down. "Take him as a POW, we aren't heartless bastards. Now let's go before those stealth soldiers pop up again."
The T.F.E stealth soldiers have been conducting raids on PMC forces on the way to the front with deadly precision, and the fact they didn't know how many stealth soldiers were actually in the city, made even experienced commanders like Johnson wanting to get out as soon as possible. Johnson knew it wouldn't be much longer till those stealth soldiers find them and send him and his men to their deaths.
Several soldiers ran up and took the soldier as a prisoner and took him onboard to a modified Stryker ment to treat injured soldiers.
"Are all of our remaining troops ready to leave?" Johnson asked his officer.
"Yes sir, they've already departed, we're the last ones here sir. All we're leaving here are our Scarabs, to delay T.F.E forces. They've been set to self-destruct when damaged enough or come in contact near enemy troops." the officer replied.
"Good, now let us leave before they come after us. We can get revenge back in Europe when we have our full fighting force." Johnson said as he entered the Humvee and took one last look at the carnage that lay before them before he slammed the door closed.
The Humvee, with several Strykers behind it, left for the escape route at full speed, out of the now ruined city.
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Darren peered from behind a stone wall right outside the PMC's base of operations. They've not encountered a single soldier in the entire city. It has been reported that all remaining PMC forces had escaped when several companies attacked a defensive line completely overwhelming and air support did very little to stop the attack due to all the walkers and AA vehicles, recon even stated there was an specialized version of those assault walkers meant solely for AA purposes.
"Clear! I repeat area is clear nothing here." a soldier reported to everyone as Darren then gestured for his squad to enter the base.
"Well they've locked the door." Emerson stated as he kicked at the entrance. "Stand back." he said as he started setting a small charge on the door. The squad backed away as Emerson detonated after he moved to the side of the entrance.
Emerson then kicked the door down, which fell off its hinges completely.
Several squads entered the building and began searching it for any enemies till Dave gave the all clear. Everyone was relieved there was no enemies inside.
Everyone then regrouped at the front waiting for engineers to enter the building and analyze the data on some computers that several soldiers found. They were to keep the building secure till then.
The sound of something scurrying in the building filled the air and got louder and louder, it appeared to be coming from a room ahead of them, which was the command room.
"Sounds like Scarabs, lots of them." Kelvana stated as people made sure their weapons are ready.
A single Scarab entered into sight followed by dozen others. Everyone open fired with their weapons managing to destroy several, but their places we're taken up by more of Scarabs.
The Scarabs got closer and closer till one managed to get close to two T.F.E soldiers then self-destructed killing both of them in a shower of shrapnel.
"Fuck they're set to self-destruct when they get close to us. We can't keep them all away, we don't have the ammo for this!" Emerson stated as he launched a grenade right into the horde destroying dozens of the small black machines.
"There's too few of us for this!" Darren shouted. "These things are essentially meant to be sent to pointless destruction, since they're so easy and cheap to build these days. Eventually we're going to run out of ammo before these things stop coming."
"Point taken, pull back everyone!" Dave replied as soldiers started moving towards the exit.
Another Scarab, this time one on the top of the ceiling jumped into the middle of the T.F.E squads self-destructing killing several more soldiers and knocking over several others.
Several soldiers then entered the building; they were T.F.E paratroopers, and stealth soldiers who appeared right beside the T.F.E troops.
"Aren't you guys supposed to be back at base?" Dave asked as he reloaded his rifle. "Who's in charge anyways?"
"Sergeant Ned, 23rd T.F.E airborne division. We're all that's left of the paratroopers sent here; we've gotten no response from any others." Ned replied.
"Well you sure picked the perfect time, trying to be a hero and enter at the most opportune moment? I thought we were the ones going to help you, guess I thought wrong." Dave said as several stealth soldiers fired away with their light machine guns shredding advancing Scarabs, the things had finally stopped pouring out of that entrance.
"No we were actually hiding from PMC forces while the stealth soldiers raiding PMC forces till one of them got the order to take this HQ, we can leave if you want us to." Ned said with a small laugh as the Scarabs numbers dwindled.
After several minutes all the Scarabs had been destroyed, all that was left of all of them were bits of scrap metal and the occasional robotic arm.
Darren looked around and picked up what was left of a Scarabs arm and almost slapped Emerson with it on purpose after giving a quick warning.
"What was that for?" Emerson asked as Darren laughed.
"I need to do something stupid before the days complete, besides after all this fighting I need something to make me laugh." Darren replied as he threw the robotic arm away and made sure everyone had regrouped in the squad.
Dave just got off the radio again before calling out to everyone about the message he had just received. "I just got word from HQ, they want us back at the main base apparently they're going to send us off to some other place, hopefully somewhere cooler." Dave said to everyone as several transport copters approached and landed near the PMC base dropping off engineers, while picking up the T.F.E soldiers to take back to base for R&R and their next assignment.
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Well that's all for this chapter, if anyone has ideas they want to put out go ahead I just may accept them also any tips to help me improve in writing would be nice. I'd prefer the latter over the former.