Time: 1500

Location: Kloden Wildwood

"Sniper team, report."

"Soldiers stationed as watchers. Need to take them down all at once."

"Do you need a Scout for assistant?"

"We have enough. Going dark for a second."

Uni turns off the comm, and takes aim at a soldier's head, followed by Marina with another. Nearby, Oscar is targeting one stranded nearby.

"On my mark. Three...two...one."

Three silenced shots cut through the air, embedding themselves into the Imperial Scouts' heads. No alarm is made, given that no one else knows about their existence. Though, just to be careful, the snipers move to the locations of the corpses and hide them away. Scanning the area again, Uni calls back: "The hill's clear."

"You see any possible ways to sneak up?"

"Sorry, but through this kind of forest? You have to find them on your own."

"Well, that's our luck running out." Tapping his right foot, Kuro looks at the main road. "Take a look over the road. Call us if you see anything changes."

"So we're stuck here?" Rosie complains after Kuro turns off the comm.

"If you want to fight, go ahead. But we don't have much covers between us and the gate of the base."

Largo: "The sniper team can't give us a better way?"

"What we're looking for is a hidden path. Which is definitely not created before." He then notices Welkin looking at a bundle of grass. "What are you doing Welkin?"

"Come and take a look, guys." The soldiers follow the commander's order, as the later points at the grass. "The grass here is trampled. Not by human, but animals. It could be our answer for this."

Largo is not understanding everything. "So? It could lead us to anywhere."

Welkin: "Better that, or nothing. Alicia, can you lead a small group to try and sneak into the base?"

The second-in-command nods and starts picking the members for herself. But then Vyse covers Alicia's mouth while she's whispering. "Sh. Heat signal, in the grass meters from us."

That causes everyone to instantly prepare their weapons and point to the grass Vyse mentioned. Rosie then whispers back: "Can you make it out what it is?"

"Something lying on the ground. Small, but could be enemy." Vyse ducks behind a tree while continuing observing. Then his grip on his weapon tightens. "It's coming to us."

Activating his own Heat Vision in his glasses, Kuro holds a knife with his left hand under his revolver and focuses on the dot. Yes, he knows what it is, but he's still cautioning about what could happen after.

Then... about seconds later, a little pig with wings coming out of the grass, making nearly everyone face-fault. Kuro sighs, then puts his knife away, but still points his gun towards the grass. He then puts his index finger on his lips, signalling everyone to be quiet, while himself starts walking into the grass. About a moment later, he finds what he actually doesn't want to see: a dead body of the creature of the same type with the pig. He kneels down, and sees the lifeless eyes, before praying for its soul and closes the eyes. The work's done, and he returns to the group.

"What did you find there, Kuro?" Welkin asks while patting the pig, which is in Alicia's arms.

"Death." Simply ending the matter there, he asks back: "What kind of pig is he?"

"Porcavian piglet." Isara answers. "A rare type. Never thought we find one this far."

Rosie: "We can't let it go with us. It could slow us down."

Isara talks back: "We could put him in Edelweiss. He won't cause much troubles in there."

"So be it." Kuro then turns on the comm and calls: "Uni, status?"

"I see a tank inside the base. Thick armor plates, no weak points. Our current snipers won't do much against it. Have to leave it to the Lancers."

"The road ahead of us?"

"Free of soldiers. But there's a watchtower with soldiers. You could be detected if you get out of the wood."

Kuro then looks at the big road, then to the hidden trail. Then he orders: "Uni, tell Oscar to prepare the thermal vision. One group will head into a hidden path with strobes. Tell Oscar to avoid those markers, and some others to look after that group."

"Got it!" The voice of Oscar and the rest of snipers can be heard from the background.

Welkin has picked up the people for the operation, and he turns to Kuro. "We're all set here."

And with that, Kuro gives the 'special group' the strobes. "Wear it on your shoulder all the time, so Oscar could see you as friendlies."

Rosie looks over the object before saying: "How can he see us? Wrong question. How can he deter us from the enemies if this thing's not lightened up?"

"It is. But its light can only be seen by either Vyse's thermal vision, or Oscar's." Seeing the Shocktrooper nod understandably, Kuro then aims his sniper towards the road ahead. "Let's get this fight started."

Time: 1515

Location: Imperial Supply Base

"Reporting, sir! A Gallia company-sized unit is heading towards our base!"

"Hm? Already?" Jaeger stands up from his seat. "Deploy our units. Let's give them a proper welcome."

Getting inside Lupus, he orders the soldiers to ride the tank towards to the gate and start firing its machine gun to the Gallian soldiers. Most of them have either covered behind rocks or trees, while the tank is shooting towards his soldiers. One of his tanks has a shot on the blue tank, but the shot just knocks off the metal and flies away, in his surprise and amusement. 'Unique design comparing to the rest. Now I can see why it could bypass ours in Bruhl.'

Then he notices one person that doesn't look like the rest, given the whiteness all over him. Then he remembers about the reports. 'So this is the help Gallia got. Let's see what that person can do.' He sees the person poke out of his hiding spot, then throws a grenade towards his soldiers, causing all of them to jump away. However, when it explodes, only red light spreads through the area around it, and covers his soldiers in that light without causing damages. His soldiers go back hiding, while checking if they could put those lights away... only to end up getting their heads blown away by shots coming from the hill. Taken by surprise, the others try to change cover directions, but their efforts come to waste as some bullets manage to penetrate through the wood-material. Also, Jaeger notices that he could see his soldiers as well, despite there's a big rock between his vision and the soldiers. 'They could see our positions even when in cover? What kind of grenade was that?'

To Gallian

"That grenade works..." Welkin speaks to himself. Even inside the tank, he could see the red light all over the opponents' side.

"Not for long. But it could make them cautious to us and not the back lines." Kuro talks to the radio, while peeking out and shooting a few shots. "How much time do we need to delay them?"

"About a few more minutes." Calling a shot towards, Welkin answers.

Kuro then notices the sniper team sliding down and joining the front line. "All of you are back? Any weak points?"

Marina reports: "Oscar stays to help the other team. Not a single weak point on that tank. Not with that armor still up."

Largo: "Don't you have that Lancer of yours? Why don't you use it?"

Kuro: "Needs clearer view and better protection." He then pokes out again to see the battlefield. Then he notices a Ragnite tank laying near the gate. He pulls out his Barrett M99. "Well, let's see how that tank fares to Ragnite." But, from the corner of his eyes, he sees something flying from their left side, across the lake and then gazes over Edelweiss' armor. "What the? Anti-tank shots?"

"Isara, reverse back a bit so that we're not in clear view." Then he calls the other team: "Alicia, there's an anti-tank gunnery from your side. Can you find it?"

Alicia's group

"We heard the shot and we found the camp." Slowly walking further, the group looks at a hidden camp of the Imperial, with said gunnery firing across the lake. Taking position behind the tents, Vyse uses his new goggle and sees three soldiers, one controlling the gunnery and two guarding him. However, in the last moment, Oscar calls and warns that there's one inside the tent Rosie is leaning against. They start aiming their weapons, with Rosie directly into the tent for the spray, Jane to destroy the gunnery, Vyse and Susie aiming at the guards...

To Jaeger

"Well, the anti-tank gunnery is doing their work." He praises the soldiers, as he sees the shots heading to the tank of Gallia. "Let's see how they deal with them."

An explosion occurs, and he checks to see smoke coming from the supposed camp. Judging by the tank's reaction to the first shot, he could say the Gallian don't know about it, but then how... 'Come to think of it, the ones on the hill didn't report back... the Gallian must have separated their soldiers into small squads. Clever, but not enough.' But then, one of the warehouses nearby the tank suddenly blows up, causing nearby soldiers to die instantly. That nearly catches him off guard, but he still manages to order: "Soldier, report!"

"One of the Ragnite tanks exploded, sir! Just after that deafening sniper rifle sound!"

'Snipers?' He diverts his focus back to the tank of the Gallian, to see that white man standing directly on the hatch, with no covers, aiming his gun towards his soldiers... or to him, because the next shot gazes just over the hatch, but that causes his ears to ring up because of the vibration of the shot. 'Okay, that's unexpected.' Now knowing what the cause is, he orders: "Start gathering as much as possible and retreat. I will hold them off for a while."

To the front line

Through the scope of his weapon, Kuro sees Lupin starting to back off and going inside the base. 'Retreating part? Hm... How to convince them...' He then calls through his comm: "Be careful, Alicia. The Imperial Tank is going back. Don't go into its line of sight." Hearing a confirmation from the Scout, he knocks on the hatch to get Welkin's attention. "I'm running up. Aim the main cannon towards me and shoot." Hearing shouts of surprise from inside and around the tank, he assures: "I know what I'm doing. Just leave the work to me." Changing his guns into his katana, he jumps off the tank and starts leaping towards the enemies.

Welkin knows that Kuro already has something to work with if he have made that kind of plan. But, even if it's just a small part of him, he doesn't want to do so. However, he's still in the mission, so: "Isara, start aiming at Kuro. Fire on my mark."

Back to Jaeger

"So he decides to fight head on." Looking through the binocular, the general sees the white-coat man running towards his soldiers with his left hand grabbing a sword. Seeing the threat coming, Imperial soldiers start shooting him, but all are deflected by his swing speed that normal eyes can't keep up. When he's near one of the soldiers, the man roars in anger and tries to use the stock of his gun to bash the other in the head, but the opponent quickly swings the sheath (with the sword in it) and swats the gun aside, before spinning and drawing the sword out, and cuts the soldier in half at his waist. After finishing him, the merc runs to another soldiers and cuts them down like cheese. Then, from the corner of his eyes, Jaeger sees the cannon of Gallia's tank starts moving and aiming at... the merc himself. 'What are they thinking? Trying to kill their own allies?' With no more seconds to waste, the air is filled with the sound of the shell coming out of the cannon and heading straight towards to the man... and to soldiers of both sides' surprise, in the last tick of second, the man is suddenly covered in a light blue flame before disappearing, leaving the Imperial soldiers to be killed because of the blast. Then, one of the soldiers is cut in half vertically by the man reappearing right in front of him letting him no chance to even scream in fear.

'A male Valkyria? Impossible.' Having heard stories from Maximilian and Selvaria, Jaeger knows that the Valkyria is an all-female race. Seeing a male using these power is a warning sight if Maximilian wants to get what he needs. Not going to let more of his soldiers die, he starts ordering them to retreat, before hearing another explosion sound from behind. He opens the hatch and looks out to see that one squad of the Gallia Militia is already behind them and kill the unexpected soldiers. He immediately turns Lupus cannon and aims at them, then opens fire, but the blue soldiers have already seen that coming and dodged out of the shot. "This is not good. Never thought Gallia could give me this much troubles. All soldiers, abandon the base! Retreat now!"

Time: 1600

"Well done soldiers, the mission is a success."

"Thank you, Captain Varrot. But the glory should go to him."

"Hey, Welkin. Don't forget our newest member here. He's the one giving us the alternative route for the mission to succeed."

"Kuro's right. Hans' help has gotten us this victory!"

"Moink!"

"Um, who named the bacon Hans?"

"That aside. Mister Kuro, might explain why you ordered Welkin to shoot straight at you, and how you dodged the shots?"

"Already planned it. Me attacking is a diversion so Edelweiss could freely shoot. With me being in front and causing troubles, they have to make a fifty-fifty guess on where the tank will shoot next. About I dodged, it's just a quick leap here and there, nothing biggie."

"But it's really a risky plan. You could have died."

"*Laugh* Not today, Isara. Alright, let's go back and have a little rest before the next mission."

Sounds like this story will be my own enjoyment huh? Well, hope you guys still like it somewhat. For now, bye bye!