Rina aimed her rifle into the fog. The sun was nothing but a dim light. It was a very cold morning with dues forming on the grass blades. Just moments ago, her team and three others were Para dropped onto Okinawa Island. The fog was supposed to be good cover for their landing, but it was also hard for the teams as they couldn't see where to land. All Rina knew was that she landed at an observation point with distinctive features such as concrete railings, floors and behind her; a wall of rock of the mountain. She took out her hand-held GPS from her pouch and checked her coordinates. According to her hand-held GPS, she was facing the East side of the island and the other teams were scattered all around the West side.
"I hope they're okay," thought Rina. Then her radio crackled.
"This is Commander Kai. Rina, is it true that you're at the observation post on the East side of the mountain?" asked in the radio.
"Yeah, kind of," replied Rina. The place was still hazy and Rina can barely see anything beyond the steps that were leading down the mountain and the city that was supposed to be at the foot of the mountain.
"Hold that position until we arrive. That is a good place to observe the city and the base once the fog clears off," replied the radio. Rina took out her knife and cut the straps of the parachute that held her when she floated down. Then she heard footsteps coming up the steps. She quickly grabbed her rifle and ran to the edge of the observation point, where the cliff face bends to create a blind spot. Out came two Nationalist guards, one smoking and the other looking around. They were on guard duty. One of them kicked something and looked at the floor. It was the parachute bag that Rina took off. At the corner, Rina flipped the switch on her HKG36MkV rifle to set it to sniper mode and glanced off the corner.
"What's this?" said the guard as he picked up the bag.
"Looks like the enemy's parachute. I'll tell HQ," said the other guard as he grabbed the radio from his belt pouch. Rina quickly shot him on the head and pulled the bolt for the bullet casing to come out. The other guard was shocked and tried to run away but Rina shot him at the back. The guard tried to move away but Rina shot him again. The guy gave an ear-splitting yell before Rina had to shoot him again to silence him. Now that everybody knows that she was here, she quickly grabbed her radio and called in.
"Nationalists know were here. Sneak up here if you have to," said Rina before turning off the radio. She waited at the corner of the cliff face and aimed at the steps. More footsteps were heard running up.
"Great, more of them," muttered Rina. Five Nationalist troopers came up and discovered the guards' bodies. Rina quickly shot at the troopers and managed to disable one. The other four fired back, pinning her down. Rina flipped the switch to automatic fire and fired at them like a machine gun. She managed to kill off three of them when the remaining two threw a grenade at her position. She quickly jumped out of the position and fired at the remaining troopers. She managed to kill the fourth one and was about to kill the fifth when her rifle jammed.
"Damn!" she quickly pulled out her pistol and aimed at the trooper. The trooper, whose rifle ran out of bullets, pulled out his pistol as well. They both shot each other. Rina was hit on the shoulder blade, so she dropped her pistol and fell down. The trooper, however, looked shocked as blood trickled from his forehead. A bullet wound. The trooper flopped on the ground with a heavy thud. Rina tried to get up and looked at her bullet wound. Luckily her Kevlar stopped the bullet from going any further, so all she got was a sore shoulder. She pulled the bullet out of the Kevlar and began dumping the bodies over the observation post. She also dumped the parachute she used so it would be lost at the foot of the mountain.
"I bet they won't find them until we take over," thought Rina. She grabbed her jammed rifle and hid behind the same corner and started fixing it.
Kai and the other team members raced up the steps toward the observation post that Rina landed. Kai told Delta 6 to keep guard at the steps entrance while he and his team, Epsilon and Delta 7 ran to the observation point. He had his FAMAS rifle in front of him, ready to fire at anything that moves. They reach the top only to be met with dried blood on the ground of the observation post.
"Rina! Rina! You here?" called out Saya.
"I'm here, Saya. Behind the cliff face," replied Rina as she popped out from the corner.
"What happened?" asked Kai.
"Patrols found me, but they haven't called back to base. We might have to change our tactics because they might realize that we arrived, and also…..." explained Rina as she pulled out her rifle. "My rifle's busted."
"Now the rifle failed?" asked Kairi in astonishment. "Now that's a three-year service length." Kai was a bit distraught about Rina's busted rifle and wanted to offer his.
"Don't worry, Kai. I got the enemy's rifle and ammo," said Rina as she pulled the bolt on the Bushmaster ACR and rested it on her shoulder.
"Alright then. Let's go. Delta 7 will take this position," said Kai as he took out his radio and begun descending the steps. Arthuria went close to Rina.
"What did you do with the bodies?" whispered Arthuria.
"Dumped them down there," replied Rina, pointing at the edge of the observation post.
"Right," muttered Arthuria.
"There are six gun positions that need to be taken out so that our forces may land. Two of them are currently pointing North, the rest are pointing West at Kadena AFB," reported Delta 7 on the radio.
"Roger that, Delta 7. Keep me posted," replied Kai as his team prepared with Epsilon and Delta 6. He looked around to see trees and the boundary of the forest, where a cliff looked out onto the deserted Okinawa City.
"We'll go through the city. Delta 6 will go and take out the northern guns," said Kai. Rina tied her laces of her boots and then grabbed her rifle.
"Isn't that a bit bold, Commander Kai? To walk into a deserted city? Where enemy snipers are everywhere?" asked Rina.
"It looks deserted to me," replied Kai, looking through the forest boundary and at the ghost town below the cliff.
"I wouldn't count on that. And don't get me started on Tehran," said Arthuria.
"Yup, that one almost got her if she didn't trip and fall down over a pebble," said Rina, pointing her thumb at Arthuria. Arthuria could only set her hands on her hips, closed her eyes, smile and shook her head.
"Lucky girl," commented Kai before giving a hand signal for the teams to begin moving.
Kai's and Epsilon teams slowly crept through corners of dilapidated buildings at the abandoned Okinawa city. It started to rain heavily, clearing the fog but completely blurring their vision to a distance of a few meters. One of Kai's teammates, Mao, a brown haired girl, looked up front on her sniper scope and tried to spot for enemy snipers. Rina looked around the corner of the building they were hiding behind. She spotted two Nationalist troops walking with their backs at her and then disappearing at a corner. She signaled Arthuria to come closer to her.
"Can you spot any snipers at any buildings over there?" asked Rina, indicating the buildings around the corner. Arthuria quickly popped her head around the corner and came back. She has been reputed to have eagle vision.
"Not much I can see in this weather. But I'm a bit suspicious about that building with half a Jusco sign dangling above the entrance of the building," replied Arthuria. But that was good enough information. Rina called Namine to peek around the corner with her sniper rifle, poised at that suspicious building. Rina then called Kairi to come towards her.
"See that shingle over there? That should provide you some cover," said Rina, pointing at the shingle at the middle of the road. Kairi nodded.
"Go!" exclaimed Rina as Kairi dashed towards the shingle. A shot rang in the air, muffled by the pattering rain, hitting Kairi in the Kevlar as she dodged for cover. It gave Namine some time to find and kill the sniper, which was hiding in that suspected building. Rina wanted to rush to check on Kairi but two sets of faint running footsteps were heard. Rina could only see through the rain that Kairi was putting a thumbs-up at her. Namine, on the other hand, was looking through the scope, aimed at one of the soldiers. Arthuria grabbed her and pulled her off the ground.
"No, Namine. Wait for them to come closer," said Arthuria. Rina peeked around the corner and the soldiers were pointing towards them, only unable to see them. Kai came up with his FAMAS fitted with a silencer. Kai tapped Rina's shoulder to get a go ahead. Rina nodded. They waited for the soldiers to come very close to the shingle.
Kairi could do nothing but lie on the shingle she couldn't be spotted. Her breathing grew deeper as she became nervous as the footsteps grew louder. She gulped on her own saliva and tried to look up. Then the bodies fell down like bricks over her. Kairi wanted to scream but sealed her mouth shut. She tried to get up but the weight of the two bodies pushed her down. Kai and Rina raced to her to lift the bodies away.
"Whew! That was close. I almost screamed," commented Kairi. Kai signaled the other members to run across the street into another corner. Rina lifted her up and carried her to the other corner.
"Did you get shot?" asked Rina.
"Yeah, right in the Kevlar. I swore I could've outrun that bullet," commented Kairi.
"Hey, no one's Superman here. Next time, that tactic won't happen again," replied Rina.