Misadventures of a regular grunt

[IceMoonPirate]

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Vanu Occupied Forseral
2100 HOURS 1 klick north of the Eadon Amp station


A quick glance at the strategic map of Forseral told me I was probably the only Loyal Terrain left it what was now a seething hive of alien converts.

I put my Cycler to my shoulder and scoped the station one last time. Just the Vanu flag flying over empty battlements, maybe no one was home this deep into the belly of the beast.

Then I was up, slinging my rifle over my shoulder I dashed for the stations south gate. Legs pumping, I gritted my teeth waiting for some hidden sentry to put me down for my boldness. Stamina spent I reached the gates force screen and dove for cover just below the gate turret. Cycler up I scanned the court yard. "Frag those Vanu scum!" the court yard was a well planned spitfire shooting gallery. My estimated chances of getting in that way low, about three paces beyond the force screen and I be a bloody speed bump for the next Vanu buggy that rolled out of there.

Time to pull back and think about this. Directly behind me lay the Stations south east Tower. Sweeping wide around the structure I took out to remote gun placements, careful to screen my self from return fire, by pulling back slightly behind some small hills. Then I was at the Towers south Door, REK out a few short seconds in the open and I was inside the Tower.

Cycler at ready I sweep the Tower bottom to top, Empty! Then REK out again, skin at the back of my neck crawling I hacked the Tower. Now it was time to get my boots up on the roof and see who showed up to do something about it.

Exiting the top platform of the tower I sweep around to the low slope of the roof and began to clamor up. Contact! Even as feet found purchase, a Harasser came flying out of the Amp Station, petal to the metal it roared past my Tower. I spun toward it, bring my Cycler up and scoped the buggy, and squeeze of one sort controlled burst, just like the sarge taught me back in basic. I had the satisfaction of scoring a direct hit on the back of the buggy, before it disappeared into the gathering gloom.

Wasting no time I scrambled to my perch at the top of my Tower and waited for them to swing around and attack at some oblique angle. A few tense minutes pasted�.NOTHING. huh... oh well.

Turning my attention back to the Amp Station I looked it over from the commanding heights of the Tower. NOTHING! Ok them, Target practice time. Siding back down the slope of the roof a bit I could have at the Stations turrets and the return fire would hit the side of the Tower, about level with my concealed midsection. A few clips later one turret was blown and it was time to return to the basement for some more ammo.

Big mistake! As I hiked up all those stairs a security force of Vanu came ridding out to do something about my after hours gun fire. I busted a gut to get back up on the roof as they circled my Digs trying to get a bead on me. A short game of cat and mouse later and they got tired and parked it. That�s all I needed! I stepped up and let fly a few rounds in contestant number one as she exited the vehicle. My fun was short lived as the passenger, disembarked and let a rocket fly. I stepped back and avoided death, but was rewarded by a blinding flash and a face full of hot fragments and the projectile hit the Tower. "F That, I say" and put a burst into Rocket boy before he reached the safety beneath the overhanging Tower balcony.

What to do? In a moment they'll be hacking their way in here. Oh well, guess I'll shoot the tires of their ride while they watch. Like Zeus on Mount Olympus high, I struck down with my thunderbolts, smiting the chariot of the wicked. HEH!

They were coming for me, and now it was time to deal with that. I reentered the Tower and found the traitorous Vanu creeping up my stair well. I though they made a cute couple and let them know with a few bursts of my Cycler. My shots were hasty as well as their return fire and I was forced a minute later to retreat back to the dubious safely of Tower balcony to lick my wounds.

Poking my head back in the door to exchange a few rounds with the Vanu and toss a couple of grenades back and forth I was forced back out, having to admit I was out gunned and nearly out of heath and ammo.

Briefly I toyed with the Idea of leaping to my death from the Tower to deny the Vanu their kill. But that�s not the Terran way! I was going out guns blazing and a curse on my lips to all who turned their backs on the Terran Republic.

I swept around the balcony, so as to re enter the tower from the other sided and maybe catch them by surprise as they covered the door. But as fate would have it was already too late for that move.

Enter the Calvary. As I played my final gambit and the Vanu rushed the door to deliver their final strike, a Terran Mosquito had swooped in, so as the Vanu emerged onto the balcony it was straight into his gun sites! The Vanu Duel opened up with everything they had and a few intense moments of gunfire later, Rocket boy was down and his girl friend was back in my Tower running for it!

I waved a hardy salute to one P149U3, Outfit officer of the USKTA, My Hero!

Just one last detail�.

Shot all up, a few last rounds in my Cycler, I reentered my Tower. Down by the Tower terminal control I found her, REK out hacking my Tower. She had a great body, that�s for sure, but an UGLY face! "In the name of the Terran Republic I find you guilty of Sedition, sentence to be carried out IMMEDIATELY". I emptied my Cycler.


That wasn�t the end of the Battle, just the beginning�.P149U3 called in Hestaby and the battle was on as other Terrans came through my Tower to Bolster our little attack. We lost allot of Loyal Terrans, but that�s a story for another day.

That�s the way I came to be hooked up with the USKTA. NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT!

IceMoonPirate

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