NationStates Jolt Archive

It was a warm night, and the wind blew softly as mist rose from the ground. It was eery, yet typical for Lunaria, an inland city in the country of Dashie. Cold, stoic mountains rose above the plains in the distance, and were freely visible on such a clear night.
Private Blake crawled gently against the grass, making a low swishing noise. He was a chameleon; nothing more than a woodland animal that blended in with his surroundings. Even the light of the moon ignored his body, or at least blended it with the ground.
He was American. A patch on his soldier, a sword slicing through a triangle, bobbed up and down as the predator slowly stalked his prey. He was not moving fast, but he did not need to. Dashie militiamen were freely sillouetted against the hills. The glow of their cigarettes and marijuana gleemed angrily against the darkness around them. He could hear them blabbering, laugh, and then blabber again. He understood Dashie, but did not care what they were saying. They were nothing more than pieces of meat to Blake, and he had to butcher them.
A militiaman, with an automatic assault rifle raised, walked toward Blake. He was drunk, and stopped short of a tree to urinate.
Blake's eyes glowed red. He wanted to strike. Yet, he would wait. Now was not the time.
A fellow soldier arose from 3 o'clock of Blake. He had not seen this soldier before, but Blake had the senses of a hardened soldier. His mind was a fearsome, all seeing weapon.
The soldiers grouped together, and began to talk. There was nothing but darkness around them - a complete absence of light despite a full moon. Blake made his move. A .45 caliber pistol emerged from his side, fully loaded with a silencer. He aimed at the first militiaman's head, and pulled the trigger. The militiaman gasped quickly as the bullet penetrated his brain, and he quickly fell lifeless. The second militiaman had no time to react. Blake fired two more shots, each striking the doomed man's chest. He tried to scream, but failed. His lifeless body fell as a massive quantity of blood poured out of his chest and to the earth below.

"Alpha Team, move in." Alpha One and Two charged forward, and stopped short of the militia camp on a nearby hill. They knew that the militiamen were dead meat, even by just them alone.

"Charlie Team, move in!"

The first shot, a loud, carbine shot that entered the skull of a Dashie militiaman, was deafening. Blake was the only one with a silencer. Their M4's roared over the hills and interrupted the silent night.

The Dashie effort was futile. 5 militiamen were killed instantly when Alpha and Charlie opened fire. Blake provided covering fire in the opposite direction. They were fish in a barrel.

"We surrender!" yelled a Dashi, raising his hands in the air. Alpha Two fired a single shot, hitting the militiaman in the head. 4 more militiamen remained, cowering with their AK-47's at their feet.

Charlie One yelled in Dashie, and the men got to their feet and walked with their hands interlocked on their head. Four more shots rang throughout the hills.

"Black Widow is enroute, hold your position," said Black Widow, flying a Black Hawk to the extraction point. The LZ would not be hot, and would in fact, be colder than ice. Those who were not sleeping were dead.

The commandos had a long trip that night. Black Widow would not stop cracking jokes, and Charlie Two had motion sickness. Dashie itself was asleep, but would soon awaken to a terrifying new world.

Upon the Ship Kingdom Heart he awoke to see his dimly lit room only to find himself in his room. He looked out a nearby window to see the stars just passing by. He got to his feet and was about to walk towards his bathroom only to be interrupted by a voice coming from the communication board.

"Bridge to Captain"

As he looked at it he pondered whether to answer it or not bother. The voice spoke again.

"Captain are you there?"

This time he knew he had to answer the voice, he walked towards the communications board and pressed the button to talk.

"Yes what is it?" he asked

"You are needed on the bridge immediately" the voice replied

"Understood I’m on my way."

He finished talking and looked towards the window again and kept silent as he watched the stars. 20 mins later he was in a lift heading for the bridge from deck 12, before he knew it he had arrived at the destination as he looked at the bridge he felt uneasy for some strange reason. He walked out to be greeted by his first officer Zack

"Captain we have a situation." Zack said quickly

"Ok I’ll take it I’m my ready room" he replied

The both of them walked into the ready room that was to the left of the bridge deck. When he sat down in his chair he looked at Zack as if to say "Well what is it?" Zack looked back at him then realized at what he had to do.

"Captain we have been asked by headquarters to do 3 tasks, 1 we have to go and settle a dispute between the people of Kakin, 2 next we have to go to the Xeion Space station and get the ship serviced...it seem a little over due" as he gave out a little laugh

He looked at Zack and replied

"And what is the third thing?"

Zack looked at him with a serious face and answered

"We got a recording from a field agent that was working undercover on Lunaria, unfortunately he is dead and that’s why we have to go and investigate into this matter, this order has been given from the King himself."

He looked at Zack and asked

"Was the F.A a special ops and do we have any ideas upon who, what and why this has happened?"

Zack answered

"His name was Jett Meca he was an S.Q.U.A.D, his mission was to research the people and land of the planet but one night he is out for a walk and the next thing he is dead. So we have been given the order to find out why using any means necessary."

He looked at Zack for a few mins then stood up and nodded and the both of them walked out of the room onto the bridge and ordered to a crewmate

"Set a corse to Dashie" he turned to Zack "get a team of the best ready."

Zack took off towards the lift to do his job, as he sat back into his seat and watched the view screen waiting to get to there destination.

Charlie One had finished dusting his boots, when new orders came in. It was not something to be taken lightly. New orders coming in meant that they would have to move out ASAP. The Commander demanded such speed, and those who could not keep up were out of the Delta Force. This was a well established fact. The screen of the control room flickered, and Alpha One and Two gathered around. Charlie One attempted to place his boots back on, but stumbled clumbsily. Charlie Two would have normally laughed, but the Commander was watching. He remained stoic. Bravo entered the room, and sat down in front of the screen. He and the Commander locked eyes.

"What is the situation sir?" He inquired.

"Well son, the mission was a success. We sent a clean up crew, and they found some interesting documents. One especially points to a possible planned assassination of a high level target. We are unsure of what this means of the moment, but we are sure as hell not waiting to find out."

"I hear you sir," said Bravo, stroking his chin. "Did you send the grunts to read it over and see what they could find?"

"Of course Bravo," said the Commander. "Analyzed every last damn bit of the thing. Some was encoded, but we broke their code long ago. Wasn't hard. Charlie Brown in back of you probably could have done in a jif."

Bravo laughed. He was not a brown noser. He and the Commander had a great relationship. On Sundays they played poker, and almost never were caught not sharing a drink.

"So, anyways, here's the facts," said the Commander, with a straight face. "There's a uranium enrichment facility to the North of Lunaria. It is well hidden, but the intel is solid. The last guy we practically had to drown to get so much as a peep out of, so look for some more documents when you go in.

"Yes sir," said Bravo.

"Alright Gentlemen." said the commander, pouring scotch into a shot glass, and lifting it toward the screen. "Black Widow takes off in two. Be there or be square. Dismissed."

A few hours later in the briefing room of the Kingdom Heart he sat looking at the 5 people who was chosen by Zack. He looked at each one of them Zack to begin with then shifting his gaze to 1st armoury chief Leo then to Quatios the head of the medical bay on to Head of security Leon and finally to S.Q.U.A.D operative Shadow. He thought to himself “I thought I asked for seven people? And all these people are important people on the ship so why get them?” he stood up and began to talk.

“Thank you for coming I know you all have busy tasks around the ship. The reason I asked you all up here is to go on a mission to the surface of this planet and investigate why one of the kingdom forces under cover operatives was killed. And when we find out who our orders are to apprehend them and take them to a high court. A briefing file has been given to you all these should tell you all you need to know just now”

As he saw a few of them reading the files Quatios stopped reading the file and looked at him and started to ask.

“Captain this man is half Lessheart and half human this could mean bad news for the Kingdom Force if this doesn’t get solved soon.”

Leon interrupted Quatios to answer her question

“Unfortunately we don’t really have much choice but to solve it soon we can’t spend more than 4 days…my guessing, before an outburst by the darkness region within our land. They will be in uproar about this.”

Leo looked to Leon in confusion and asked

“I don’t understand why would the darkness be in uproar about a half breed being killed?”

He answered Leo’s question without hesitation

“Because his father is a respected admiral for the darkness, he commands one of the powerful battle ships they own…Sin Fury…we already have been told that it is being prepared to travel here and if we haven’t and caught the person responsible within 2 days the Kingdom Heart has to pull out and return to base…this ship is in no condition to fight that battleship.

There was a pause then Zack asked

“So are we going in weapon less or armed to the teeth?”

He replied without missing a beat

“Armed but only with pistols, when we depart to the surface the Kingdom Hart will hide behind the moon just in case. The sky bomber will be armed with rifles but we wont have the use of those…I hope. We will hide our weapons as we travel to point A to the inner city. So if we are agreed we will depart ASAP”

As they all agreed and stood up and left apart from him and Zack, the two were silent while looking at each other.

“Get Saphi Hataki and Saffire get them into teams Shadow Saphi and Leon will be team 2 Leo and Quatios will be team 3 and you me and Saffire will be Team 1. And make sure that we are properly prepared for this mission. I’ll be down in 20 mins”

As he said to him while he gave a smile to Zack, Zack nodded and walked out the room leaving him all by himself with his feelings of agitation. 20 mins later the group was in the docking bay getting aboard the Sky Bomber Saffire asked him while walking aboard

“So do u think they have a king or president in the city?”

He looked at Saffire while sitting down and he replied

“I don’t know but there our first objective is to get to them at all costs!”

As the sky bomber door closed and it took off heading to the surface of the planet.

The ground was cold and wet. Once again, the earth was shrouded in the blackness of night. The moon was once again full, but the night was darker than usual. Everything was still, and nothing seemed right. This was not good for the operators. The whirring of the Blackhawk's engines would be heard from miles away, and attacking the uranium mine would be hard enough. There were 10 guys tops, but still, the mine was more fortified than usual.
It was located on top of a cliff to the North of Lunaria. 2 .50 caliber machine guns silouetted in the night, as well as a long, 125 milimeter cannon.
"Alright gentlemen, best of luck," said Black Widow, doing a salute to the men. Charlie One and Two jumped out of the chopper onto the grass below, followed by Alpha One and Two. All landed perfectly. Bravo finally jumped out, and rolled onto the grass. With the dull thud of Bravo's feet hitting the earth, the Black Hawk swerved off into the night.
"Team Alpha, hill. We're going to... wha... Fuck!" yelled Bravo. Suddenly, an anti-aircraft gun opened fire on Black Widow, tearing mortal wounds into the doomed aircraft. Black Widow fell out of the sky like a fly hit with a flyswatter, and crashed with a loud, earth shattering metallic sound into the jungle below.
"Dammit. Damn." said Charlie. "We gotta get over there and get Black Widow now!"
"Okay, Okay," said Bravo. Charlie was right. The mission was doomed anyway. The uranium mine was likely alerted, and attacking it would be suicide. Bravo knew from his senses that enemy soldier were likely already manning the .50 caliber machine guns at the top of the hill.
"Stay low men," said Bravo.
A crackle came over the radio, and then a voice. "King 6, this is Black Widow. I'm smashed up here. I can walk, but I'm bleeding pretty bad." The commander replied, "Okay. Okay. Just hold your position. All teams, move to Black Widow's position. ROE is to shoot anything that moves, but watch your fire around the crash site. Move out!"
The commandos rushed down toward the crash site unnoticed, but a heavy firefight was almost inevitable.

The journey to the surface seemed to take forever, as the craft got nearer to the target zone Shadow called out to him

"Captain there is a Hot Zone near the LZ!"

He stood up and ran to the front of the craft where shadow was piloting. When he looked at the map that was gridded Shadow informed him

"There seems to be something going on, a craft has gone down and a fire has erupted where it crashed apparently, so what is we going to do?"

He thought about it for a second then calmly replied

"We go down to the point next to the HZ and pick out survivors and move them to a safe point"

Zack over heard the conversation and walked into the front and asked him

"I thought getting involved with the people’s problems before they know us was forbidden by the Kiser Core?"

He looked at Zack and replied

"Remind me to launch a protest! Shadow get as near as you can to the HZ and when you do me, Zack and saffire will get out and rescue any survivors, when were done we will meet up at the original LZ."

Shadow nodded and continued to pilot while he went back into the back of the ship, he grabbed a two pulse rifles and tossed one to Zack and Saffire. Both of them grabbed the rifles and looked at him and understood what they had to do. He grabbed another pulse rifle and spoke to the two

"This a search and rescue, if we run into any hostiles we shoot to disarm not to kill, this isn’t a part of our mission so I don’t want a body count if there are more hostiles in the area we pull out understood."

Saffire and Zack nodded there heads a few silent mins had past when shadow shouted back

"Get ready for drop"

The door opened and the three jumped out heading for the HZ, it had taken them 15 mins of striate running but they reached the HZ that was a light with the fire from the wreckage. He turned to Saffire and asked

"Saffire any life forums?"

Saffire looked and replied

"One but I can’t tell if there are more something in this area is interfering with my scanners."

The three moved in closer to find a male body upon the floor in I pile of blood, Saffire picked the man up and placed him over his shoulder. He spoke in a loud tone for the roar of the flames was deafened.

"We should get out of here now before anybody gets here, the last thing I want is confutation because we are at a disadvantage."

Zack and Saffire nodded and replyed

"Captain this man has broken bones, torn mussels and an open wound I think we should take him to Quoatis so she could heal him up."