By now our situation at the Alpha objective was deteriorating; Bradley was wounded, our reinforcements had been decimated and Major-General Stenson was starting to lose his mind to the shell-shock of the ruthless ambush by the T-99. We all saw it, our reinforcements jump from the careering UH-1Y Venom down to their deaths. There was nothing we could have done to prevent the T-99 from shooting out the Venom, we had our revenge when Brad and Eragon avenged our dead comrades with a brutal double-rocket to the T-99's fuel tanks, I watched as the whole of the multi-storey car park burned down from the wreckage of the helicopter.
"Okay guys! We're done here!" Harry said, reloading his GOL.
"I could've figured!" Laughed Eragon.
"So where do we go now?" Asked HP.
Before anything else could be said, A US MRAP pulled up beside us, the heavily armoured rear doors opening. An assault jumped out of the open doors, his boots meeting the war-torn tarmac of the road.
"Need a ride?" He yelled.
I walked up the MRAP, tightening the sling on my SCAR-H, strapping it to my chest. I looked at the assault.
"We'll take that offer." I said. Clambering into the MRAP.
Harry climbed in, struggling past me and into the passenger seat in the front. Eragon and HP jumped in and sat next to eachother opposite me. Brad struggled in, clutching his wound, followed by the assault, who then sat at the controls of the deadly remote-operated .50 Cal atop the MRAP. I pulled the doors shut. The engine of the MRAP roared as it powered us along the road. I watched as we sped away from the burning Alpha objective and then manoeuvred through the labyrinth of abandoned cars and building rubble along the roads.
"Thanks for the ride. Any idea where we're going?" I said to the assault.
"You're welcome. We are heading for objective Charlie. That big ass skyscraper." He said, not taking an eye off the control panel for the MG.
I said nothing else, everyone checked their weaponry, checking the chambers and the magazines. We all had plenty of ammo, we hadn't fired much.
The trip in the MRAP was quick, we were only sat in there for two minutes.
"We're here!" shouted Harry.
Inevitably, bullets started flying into the MRAP, the metal pings leaving us nervous. The .50 Cal on top of our MRAP hurt our ears with it's metallic cracks as it fired it's deadly rounds on the assault's demand. We were about to walk out those rear doors into a heated urban battle zone.
I peered out of the small side window. We were stopped in the main road in the forecourt of the massive skyscraper. I could see flashes of gunfire within the foyer. Squads of US soldiers ran around frantically from one piece of cover to the next, returning fire. Tracers of all colours zipped everywhere, dust flew up from the roads and walls and sparks erupted from our MRAP as bullets collided with everything. Some of our US soldiers lay dead in the open areas.
I continued to watch out of the window as I assessed the battlefield. There were concrete walls we could take cover behind. Civilian car wrecks littered the roads, offering yet more cover, there was a little open space in between the two roads. There were tall concrete blockers and military supply crates within that space; we could set up in various places, supporting our fellow soldiers with heavy suppressive fire.
"Okay guys! Follow me!" I screamed over the noise.
I kicked the rear doors open, I jumped out into the main road, the rest of my squad mates jumped out behind me, ready for combat. Bullets screeched over our helmets as we dived behind the nearest car wreck. I quickly aimed my SCAR-H at the foyer as I peeked over the bonnet. I could see two Chinese targets opening fire on another US squad, who the Chinese soldiers had pinned with their SAR-21's.
I didn't spare a second, I pulled the trigger, sending merciless 7.62's soaring from the barrel of my SCAR-H directly towards the two Chinese soldiers. My quick, precise shots hit both targets in the kill zones. They collapsed slowly on to the cold, hard pavement, both dead. The US squad they had suppressed jumped up from cover and opened fire on the foyer.
"Thanks!" I heard through my radio.
By now it was safer to move up, I left the cover of the car wreck and moved tactically to the concrete blockers, then the wall bordering the road closest to the skyscraper. Another US squad was beside me. The three of them utilizing suppressing fire at the Chinese soldiers in the foyer. Harry set down next to me as I swiftly reloaded my SCAR-H, throwing the empty magazine into the mud.
Whilst I was reloading, a squad of Chinese soldiers attempted to counterattack us, they sprinted from the foyer towards the wreck of a US M1 Abrams, trying to reach cover and assume an offensive position. They didn't reach. Harry almost instantly shot one of the doomed soldiers through the neck, leaving him slowly dying on the floor, the other Chinese soldiers were mown down ruthlessly by the numerous US squads around us.
"Nice shooting!" I shouted.
It was time to move again, the Chinese fire had thinned down and the other US squads were edging closer to the entrance of the skyscraper. I and Harry vaulted the concrete wall and ran across the narrow road in front, taking cover behind the wreck of the M1 Abrams.
"Brad! We need some explosive ordinance on the Chinese!" Harry yelled through the radio.
Just a few seconds after, a rocket soared past us and into the foyer, the explosion ripping apart our ears. The sounds of concrete, glass and metal hitting the ground followed. The gunfire had stopped, leaving us with an eerie silence. The other US squads left their position and cautiously moved up on the foyer, I left the cover of the Abrams and advanced with them; we reached the entrance with no further resistance. Brad, HP and Eragon regrouped with me and Harry.
"Okay. Keep your heads on a swivel!" I said to the squad before running into the lobby with the other soldiers.
The burning lobby was littered with Chinese corpses, annihilated by Brad's SMAW. Furniture lay everywhere and the walls of the lobby were blown apart. I took point and advanced towards the elevators. The other US squads went their own ways as they checked all over the lobby. It was extremely quiet, our heavy footsteps being the only sound to break the silence.
I walked up to one of the elevators and pressed the button, the wait for the elevator was short, but petrifying. However, when the doors opened, we weren't expecting for there to be a Chinese Special Operations soldier to be standing there, ready to reap hell with his Hawk 12G Shotgun.
"HOLY SHIT!" I screamed, jumping back.
I thought I was dead at that point, but before the Chinese Spec Ops soldier could even aim, he was riddled with a barrage of hot lead from Eragon's MG4. His blood splattered all over the inside of the lift as he was violently thrown into the door by the sheer power of Eragon's MG4. My ears rang from the roars of CQB gunfire. I was shaking as I struggled back up.
"You alright?" Asked Harry.
"I'm fine!" I answered.
"He just got fucked up!" Laughed Brad.
"Let's go up to the top then!" Said Harry.
We all went into the elevator, kicking the dead corpse out. The doors closed and the elevator headed up to the top floor. We all reloaded our deadly works of weaponry and readied ourselves for some intense CQB.
After a few agonizing seconds, the doors finally came open. Our elevator was filled with a world of noise. Pops and cracks of gunfire hit our ears.
"GO! GO! GO!" I growled.
I did a dolphin dive on to the hard wood floor in front of the elevator, an unlucky Chinese soldier was running down the corridor towards me, he had no time to react as I opened fire with my SCAR-H. I filled him with lead mercilessly and he tumbled down to the floor. I jumped back up and ran down the corridor with Harry and Eragon. Another Chinese soldier blind fired at us with his pistol behind one of the walls at the end of the corridor, his bullets missed my leg by inches and popped in my ears as it flew past. Harry dived behind a fallen shelf and Eragon retreated to the elevator.
The enemy had stopped blind firing. I only had a few seconds to take him out. Instead of running around the wall, I decided to blow it apart instead. I frantically loaded a 40MM grenade into my M320, mounted on the under barrel rail of my SCAR-H. I fired the grenade at the wall, it's small yet powerful explosion tearing the wall to pieces and throwing shrapnel in all directions. The Chinese soldier was thrown unforgivingly into the corridor by the explosion. He lay there, dead.
We had now cleared our side of the skyscraper, but now we had a bigger issue.
Shaking violently, the floor beneath us began to slowly tip forwards; the skyscraper was collapsing.
"GET OUT NOW!" Shouted Eragon, jumping out of one of the windows.
I dived out of one of the windows instantaneously. I watched as Brad, Harry and HP all jumped out shortly after. I pulled the cord on my parachute and started slowly descending back down into the streets of Shanghai.
The skyscraper jolted forwards again, then, within seconds, collapsed into the water in front of it, shrouds of concrete dust rose up into the air and pieces of the skyscraper fell all over the place. A massive concrete crack echoed through the streets, sirens went off in the background. The siege of Shanghai was over. It was time to go home.