Lewis takes point, he moves forward. The others follow him close behind. I sit back and scout for any curious heads to fire at. I put the rifle down next to me and grab the radio on my chest, I press and hold the button and tune the channel to the commander.

"Sir, we are advancing on Alpha objective. I will radio in when the objective is cleared of hostiles."

COMMANDER: "Okay Major. Keep up the pressure."

"Will do."

I put the radio back into the slot on my chest. I then look back up. My squad had crouched next to the corner and were waiting for me to give the thumbs up to move out. I look again to check for peeking hostiles. I see no movement and come out of my cover. I start to move up to the corner where the others were.

"Radio check."

BRAD: "I'm up."

LEWI: "I'm up."

ERAGON: "I'm up."

HP: "I'm fucked up, but I'm up."

I stand up and peek my rifle around the corner.

"It's clear guys, let's move."

I clear around the corner and take out my Glock. I needed some close range power.

We continue to move up. We split into two. Me, Brad and Lewi take the stares to the top part of the car park, whilst Eragon and HP go around to get to the back of the car park. We all had silenced secondary's, so the enemy won't know what hit them. I move up the stairs and stop near the top so my head didn't poke out. I watch as HP and Eragon round the back. As soon as I lose sight of them, I pop my head up and look directly into the room. It's empty of hostiles. I move forward with my Glock stuck out in front of me. My two squad members closely behind me. I get to the glass door and push it open swiftly but silently. I let the others through first before coming in and leaving the door open.

"Brad, take point."

Brad lifts his Desert Eagle to eye level and crouch walks up the stairs, with Lewi and I closely behind him. Brad gets to the top of the stairs.

"Three contacts, armed with AR's."

I get next to him.

"Alright, you two left and right. I've got the middle one."

I pull the Karambit knife from my pocket and spin it in my fingers as I silently creep up to my target. The other two had their knives out too. As soon as I am behind the guy I cover his mouth with my left hand, pull him into my chest and drive the knife below his right collar bone, I then rip upwards through to his shoulder, cutting the capillary and ripping his dog tags from his neck. I keep my hand on his mouth till his eyes that were staring at me, roll into the back of his head. I rip the knife from his shoulder, pulling the dog tags with it. I let go of the body and it flops down to the floor. The other two had used their Weaver knives to take the Chinese's tags. I wipe the blood from my knife. We hear shouting for a moment, then gunfire below us. The top was clear, they must all be downstairs. I then heard Eragon shouting for HP to get to cover, as his MG4 tears rounds through the Chinese.

"Alright, you two, take the stairs we saw to get to the lower level. I'll go on the other side, we'll surround them."

LEWI: "Got it."

I watch as the others run, holstering their sidearms and bringing their primaries out. I run towards the other side, I holster my Glock and grab one of the Chinese QBZ-95-1's as I run past it. I pull the bolt back and look into the chamber, the mag was full, I let go of the bolt and grab the gun with both hands. I run downstairs then turn left and run down more stairs. Now on the lower level. I heard the shots from Eragon's MG4 stop, and lots of shouts from Chinese soldiers. I quickly rush left and through a hallway, then right towards a doorway. I stop just before it and peek around. I see about 10 plus Chinese foot mobiles slowly advancing on Eragon and HP's cover. They were in a shithole. I look towards Brad and Lewi across the way. Brad had his SMAW out and was looking at me for clearance of when to fire. I put my three fingers up and count down to one.

3.

2.

1.

I put my finger on the trigger as Brad fires a SMAW rocket at the infantry, blowing all of them to pieces. I rush out the doorway and look right, I see two more foot mobiles. I aim down the 3.4x zoom scope and pop them both before they had time to react to what just happened. We hold our positions for a moment. To check for hostiles.

"It's clear guys!"

ERAGON: "Phew, thanks for the support there."

"I'm going to contact the commander."

LEWI: "Alright, make it quick."

I pull the radio form the slot on my chest and speak into it.

"Sir, Alpha is clear for the support to come in."

COMMANDER: "Roger Major, a Venom is inbound with ten Assault and Engineer troops. They are waiting for a flare, pop it in any appropriate place. Standby."

"Roger, alright guys, hustle up."

The squad look at me.

"We got a friendly Venom with ten foot mobiles coming in for support. We have to escort them to Bravo objective which is located under ground."

ERAGON: "Roger, let's move."

We exit out the north end of the car park and turn left, we walk towards a road and setup there. I strike a red flare and toss it. It burns brighter. A few moments later we see the helo coming in. I wave my arms and they hover a little in front of us.

ERAGON: "HOLY SHIT! TANK!"

I turn around and look behind us at a Type-99 tank with its barrel aimed right at the helo. It fires a round and it hits the Venom's tail as the troops were about to rope down. As it goes down behind us I scream to run.

"MOVE MOVE MOVE!"

I run forwards back towards where we came, my squad following us close behind the tank fires another shot at the helo, making it explode into a massive fireball. We get to cover in time, before another shot narrowly misses Eragon, who was last to get around.

"Don't stop! Keep going!"

I carry on running, I turn left towards Bravo. I see a turn off just left between two buildings. I go down it and into an entrance to the building closer to Bravo. I wait ofr everyone to get in.

"Alright, Brad get that SMAW reloaded. We gotta take down that tank."

BRAD: "On it."

Brad loads the fresh rocket into his SMAW launcher.

"Weak points on that type of tank?"

BRAD: "The back end, dead in the centre. That will disable movement. Then one more round to get through to the fuel tank."

"Alright, let's move."

We exit out the other side of the building. We are just behind the tank. It was looking right at the wreckage. Scanning for survivors.

Brad lines up for a shot.

BRAD: "Alright, Harry, take one of the spare rockets on my back. Eragon get ready to take out this round. You can load the next round for me Harry."

Eragon and I go next to Brad. Whilst HP and Lewi get clear of the blast radius.

I tap Brad on the shoulder and cover my ears. Brad immediately fires the SMAW, hitting it directly in the centre of the tanks engine bay. It becomes disabled. Eragon immediately rotates and pulls out the rocket, I snap in the next rocket and Brad flicks the automatic safety to fire. He takes the next shot as the tank's main cannon is turning around. it explodes in a huge fireball sending shrapnel everywhere. One piece of flying metal hits Brad. Impaling him. He drops next to me, dead.

"Well shit. HP! Do your thing."

HP comes up to us and pulls his defibrillators out from his backpack. He charges them up and shocks Brad's chest. He opens his eyes and shivers.

"Okay, c'mon Brad. We still got our objective to do."

BRAD: "Where's my SMAW?"

I look down to the ground. I pick up the SMAW and hand it to him as he stands up.

"Let's go."

Quick author's note, my friend Lewis will be collaborating this story with me, and the next chapter is to be written by him. (Yes, the Lewis from this story.)