Writing PlanetSide Novel - Vol. 1 - VERY LONG [Merged] and [Merged] again - Page 2

NewCong. Marine · 2003-11-13, 10:04 PM

Gig, 4 of those 25mm's must do a buncha damage, wouldnt you think? a bunch of reavers would go down quickly if the gunners focused on 1 at a time.

FraudulentBob · 2003-11-13, 10:26 PM

Ch. 1 Finished!

PlanetSide - Chapter 1 - Taking the Base

The ground forces commander prepared the troops under his command for infantry insertion at Mulac. The Vanu commander had been terminated, and this was a standard sweep and take mission. The infantry anxiously awaited the command to begin the assault on Mulac.

One infantry struck up a conversation as they waited in the bunker, he was a senior, and he started conversing with a lower, newer grunt, with fresh blue armor. "So, this your first attack?" "Yeah, I've been through basic training, but I've never been in the field" "Well, you're in for a surprise, things get pretty messy out here in the field". Excitedly, the grunt asks, "Hey, your a senior officer right? Tell me one of your war stories!" "Well, I don't know, maybe another time.""Ah! Come on sir!"

"Ok, ok. One time at Hanish on Ishundar, the Terran Republic had taken both towers and they outnumbered us 10 to 1, so we were at an obvious disadvantage, we called in reinforcements from the Sanctuary barracks, but their ETA was 10 minutes, enough time for us to lose the base." "Tell me more!" "OK, we fought off the Terrans with all our might, and fought as hard as--the attack klaxon buzzed loudly--"Here we go, time for war." From sheer anxiety, the new grunt vomited his rations, covering the bunker floor.

"Hey soldier! Watch your spew there!" Wiping his face the grunt repiled,"Sorry about that sir." "Yeah, you should be, don't ever do that again, grab your Jackhammer and follow me."
They both exited the bunker with the rest of the battalion as the attack command was called and formation was made.

They left the bunker and headed for the main entrance, the vehicle tunnel, as they approached the tunnel, Vanu artillery fire shelled the main area, killing three of the soldiers in the battalion. The Sergeant, the main battalion leader barked "Keep moving! This wasn't in basic training!" They all followed, after seeing their comrades fall to the wrath of Vanu technology.

The Corporal, second in command of this battalion, shouted, "Open the door and blitz down to the secondary door, don't let any stinkin' Vanu get in your way! Then await the Sergeant's further instructions, go go go!" They approached the second vehicle tunnel door and waited for the Sergeant to come from behind, he shouted "Open the door and lay down some cover fire for the Combat Engineers! They'll blow the blast doors open for us, then we follow!"

The Combat Engineers laid some Boomer heavy explosives on the second vehicle tunnel blast door and awaited the blast command from the Sergeant. The Sergeant shouted "Hit the deck, its gonna blow!" The Combat Engineers detonated each of their Boomer HE mines simultaneously to blow the door down with ease. Once the debris cleared, the foot soldiers made their way in, mowing each stunned Vanu soldier down.

The battalion ran a weapons check, and saw what each soldier had equipped, and made the decision that the Jackhammer wielding soldiers should be the first in, while the others laid down covering fire with their Gauss and Sweeper Shotguns. The new grunt from the bunker, having been weapon certified in the Jackhammer, was shocked to find that he would be one of the pioneer attackers in this internal conflict. The Sergeant pointed at the new grunt and said "You, get with the program!".

The grunt replied "Yes sir." and charged ahead with the rest of the Jackhammer wielding soldiers. Now feeling more comfortable, being with his fellow comrades, got into the feel of war. The new grunt got over confident and charged ahead of the group, just as a Vanu with a Lasher went strafing across the hallway, letting several orbs fly. Two missed their mark, but the third didn't, they struck the new grunt directly in the chest, laying him out before his comrades. The superior officer behind the new grunt, the one that was telling him the war story earlier in the bunker, quickly aimed and fired one Jackhammer slug at the kamikaze Vanu, striking him in the lower right leg, accounting for his aim, the superior officer aimed higher and let another slug fly, hearing the resounding boom of the Jackhammer, several more Vanu came running from the higher rank meeting room of Mulac.

Once the Vanu from the Superior Meeting Room exited into the corridor the troops were in, they realized they were cornered. Although, no problem goes without a sum, the very last Jackhammer troop in the battalion pulled a plasma grenade from his side pouch and let it fly. The explosion set each Vanu ablaze with compressed plasma, eventually killing each Vanu soldier and Commander.

The Corporal repositioned himself in the building, straight
ahead was the door leading to the Command Console. The door to the immediate left led to the Air Vehicle terminal. Several Vanu soldiers awaited outside the vehicle tunnel, primarily Vanu snipers, firing on the Mulac tower. The only Jackhammer grunt still alive crept outside behind each Vanu sniper, letting a Jackhammer slug fly into the back of each. The last Vanu sniper realized what was happening and pulled his Beamer sidearm out, in a last ditch effort to stop the attacking NC.

He let a few energy bolts fly from his Beamer, one found its mark, striking the NC in the leg, merely slowing him down. Now more pissed off, the Jackhammer wielding NC plowed down the Vanu sniper with his vengful Jackhammer. Now surrounded by corpses of fallen Vanu, the NC grunt loots the backpacks of each Vanu, obtaining his own Lasher, Pulsar, and Beamer.

The NC grunt now walks back inside, to find the rest of his battalion in a bloody mess, lying on the floor in front of the Command Console. The grunt, nervous enough, walks over to a computer in the Air Vehicle terminal and pulls up the flight log. Four bombers and three Reavers scheduled a flight pattern about an hour ago, just before the NC bombing campaign. He then checked the return flight log, they were scheduled to arrive at Mulac in five minutes. 'Five minutes?!?' he thought to himself. The NC grunt looked around desperately at his fallen comrades, looking for some sort of anti-aircraft weapon.

Luckily, he discovered a Phoenix and some rockets in the backpack of the fallen Sergeant. He abruptly loaded a rocket into the cumbersome Phoenix, and went out on the vehicle terminal once again, where the fallen Vanu snipers still lay, to await the arrival of the enemy aircraft.

The grunt could hear the dull roar of the bombers coming in, they were strangely at bomb speed. 'Hm, wonder why they are at bomb speed. They're coming in for landing aren't they? Aren't bombers sitting ducks at bomb speed anyway, they must not know I'm here yet. If that's so, then I can knock them all out without them knowing what hit them!' he thought to himself once again.

He heard the clicking of a radio, behind the dull roar of the bombers engines. He prepared to fire a Phoenix missile after the Liberator, the Vanu bomber. He prepared for the loud report of the Phoenix, and fired on sight. Once fired, the NC grunt switched to missile cam, via the camera mounted on the Phoenix.

As he was guiding the missile at the Vanu bomber, he noticed the bomb bay doors opening, shocked at this sight, he detonated the Phoenix in mid-air and tried to run back inside. But the NC operative was blocking the door, with radio in hand, through the blast door, the NC grunt heard a faint broadcast "I've got him blocked outside, he's on the terminal bom--(radio static)."

The bomber, the sound which was a dull roar before, was now a whining noise, much like a shrieking banshee. The bomb bay doors were now completely open, and several bombs were coming down upon him. He knew the end was coming. He radioed back to the tower and said "Everyone is dead! All of them!", just as the bombs struck ground, detonating all the area around him.

The infiltrator, still in the vehicle tunnel, after hearing all of the gunfire, now that it had ceased, decided to go upstairs and check it out. He slowly crept up the stairs and found his way past the fallen battalion members and then the Vanu snipers. He noticed the smirking NC operative still sitting at the door, and decided to wait to see what he was about to do.