Nuclear Weapons Stolen! (Open/MT)

[Ketrily]

The town, despite the best effort's of the attackers, was ablaze, the citizens were fleeing from it without hesitation.

But the military had succeeded in delaying the convoy of trucks, one of them completely unable to move, the other three were badly damaged, and their progress was slow.

The town was burning, but the terrorists were not escaping now... Only the final blow needed to be delivered.

[Gnobar]

The convoy was under constant heavy fire from the insurgents. The Black-Hawks had to pull out due to RPG strikes only barely missing them. The convoy hadn't made it too far, only about 6 blocks up the street. Ever alley and every window seemed to be covered by the terrorists.

Cackett had ordered the convoy to a halt and to take up defensive positions. They were easy targets in the transports. Cackett screamed at a young private who was suffering from the shock wave of a near by exploding grenade.

"Soldier its not the time! Your not being at your position is going to get us killed! God dammit! Everton where the hell is my back up!"

One of the Aldarminian troops was hit and lying just out in front of the transports. Cackett saw this and wasted no time in risking his life for this unknown comrade. Unfortunately Cackett took two stray AK rounds, one in the leg the other in the shoulder. But the third shot was not a stray. It was a perfectly placed high calibre round that went straight through his back and out his chest. Cackett collapsed just at the doorway.

"Sergeant Cackett is down! Pull him back in here! Johnny get over here with that medi-kit! Some one get on the radio!"

Everton looked down at Cackett who was clearly dead. The exit wound in his front from the bullet was rather large. He died before he hit the ground. Everton walked over to the Aldarminian man Cackett had saved.

"Don't let his sacrifice be in vain!"

[Aldarminia]

OOC-Ketrily, does ur last post mean the terrorists are at the Aldarminian eastern blockades?))

Harel tried to find cover, but there was none to be found. He saw the Gnobarian try save the downed soldier. Harel wondered why. There was no point. That soldier would die either way. Strange foreigners thought Harel.

Harel noticed more and more of his men were dropping. He estimated about dozen. If Colonel Edanik was dead, these were the last Aldarminian troops in the town. The major knew he needed to call for reinforcements.

Major Harel comm-linked General Yezkonich, even though he had no authority to do so, "General Yezkonich! This is Major Harel, sir! Requesting reinforcements immediately! Colonel Edanik is nowhere to be seen! He is either MIA or KIA! Send reinforcements to my position immediately!"

General Yezkonich said his reply hastily so as to save lives, "Sending. Colonel is okay."

Yezkonich ended the comm-link with Harel, and comm-linked Colonel Kedero at one of the blockades, "Kedero, move your men to Harel and the Gnobarians' positiion. Give them the support they need. And get a move on it!"

Kedero simply answered, "Yes sir."

Kedero's men loaded back into their humvees. They formed a convoy formation of 40 humvees, 20 in each lane. They rolled out through the city to Harel's position. They were bombarded constantly by RPGs, machine gunfire, and grenades. They stopped just a block away from the Gnobarian position. They had lost seven humvees and all of the men inside them. The front and rear humvees had been lost, so the convoy couldn't move. Kedero's men unloaded. Some men went through the alleyways and others went through the buildings clearing them out to get to the Gnobarians.

[Ketrily]

@Aldarminia, they are not at the Eastern blockade, but they are close. They aren't moving very well...

[Aldarminia]

I guess they were the ones that Kedero's convoy first encountered.

[Aldarminia]

OOC-bump

[Lonara]

Arpke moaned and clutched his pistol to his chest,

"Hey...is backup coming? Shit..."

The roar of the IL-76's could be heard above, signifying what Arpke had been hoping for that entire time.

"That's the Fallschirmjager. They'll be dropping in soon, but that's no good because I'm not going to be able to command them with a bullet in my shoulder. Dammit."

[Aldarminia]

Edanik smirked. When Arpke wasn't paying attention, he dug two fingers into Arpkes shoulder. Within moments he pulled out the bullet. Edanik put it up to Arpke's face.

"No excuse now. It's out, so command your men. When you're a medic for most of your life you figure out how to do that."

Edanik picked himself up. He fell back to the ground. Groaning, he reached down to his leg. A piece of shrapnel jutted out. He yanked it out. He quickly applied pressure.

"F**k! Thank god you did carry me."

[Lonara]

Arpke yowled in pain.

"Motherfucker! AGH, God DAMMIT!"

He panted, breathing hard. The first Fallschirmjagers began to reach the ground as Edanik finished digging the bullet out of his shoulder. His bone was still shattered, but it was his left arm which was non-dominant. He could still shoot his handgun with his right arm.

"...Thanks for that Edanik. A real precise medical job you did there."

Arpke sucked up the pain, thrived on it, and then let it go.

"Fallschirmjager! Push forward with the remainder of the Ersatzgruppen troops and take those god damned trucks!"

[Aldarminia]

General Yezkonich had had enough. He comm-linked the four colonels still at the blockade.

"Benketz and Miniix, get your men to Kedero, immediately! Vephko and Farat, get to-Who is it? Ah! Yes!-General Arpke's position, now!"

The colonels did as they were told. Benketz and Miniix had the same fate as Kedero. Their convoys got close and were stopped. Now their men wer forced to fight their way through alleys and buildings to get to Kedero and the Gnobarians. Vephko and Farat were a lot luckier. They arrived at Arpke's position without losing a single man. Now all four hundred of their men surrounded the Lonaran position. They went building-to-building killing everyone inside. Vephko and farat found Arpke and Edanik.

Vephko said, "It is damn good to see you Edanik."

Farat agreed, "It is. Looks like you're injured."

Edanik replied, "It's good to see you two. And I am. This is General Arpke."

Farat and Vephko saluted, "Sir."

[Lonara]

Arpke wiped blood from his sleeve with his good hand,

"Pleasure to see you gentlemen. We ran into a bit of a mess here. We weren't given a good estimate of the forces we were running into here, and our paratroopers arrived a bit late. Our allies were blind as a bat, and I was sitting on top of a roof with empty magazines when Edanik landed next to me."

He lifted up his mask spat out another glob of blood,

"Regardless. My men are pushing towards the trucks, and I personally disabled the lead vehicle in the convoy."

[Aldarminia]

Vephko nodded, "Good. Hey, Edanik. You know they say that we founded a colony on some landmass. Supposed to be a paradise."

Edanik grinned, "That's where I'm retiring after this. Do either of you want to relieve me? Cuz, I can't do anything right now. I'm sure Harel's doing a good job with the last of my men, but when they replenish my ranks. Ah!"

Farat said pitifully, "I'll ask Yezkonich later sir. General Arpke, do you have a vehicle that we could use to transport Colonel Edani out of here with?"

[Lonara]

Arpke rose an eyebrow,

"I'm wounded and you're asking me if I have a transport to get your man out of here with."

Arpke laughed under his breath, the sound came out as a low foreboding hiss through his mask. He put his goggles back on after wiping the blood off on his jacket,

"Cheeky bastards. I'll see what I can do."

Arpke set his gun down held his hand up to his ear,

"Ersatzgruppen, this is Arpke. I need a dustoff at my coordinates. Two wounded, one ours, one Aldarminian."

He put his hand back on his gun, and sighed.

"They'll be here in about ten minutes. It's hard with all of the damned humvee's clogging up the roads."

[Aldarminia]

Edanik had fallen asleep. His job was done. His career was over. He'd be killed by the Secret Police within a week. He had failed horribly here.

Vephko frowned, "If you knew what our country does to people like Edanik, you'd be willing to give him an armored escort."

Farat roared to the stopped convoy, "Move outta the way! Medical transports coming through!"

The humvees moved to the sides of the street. Some parked halfway on the sidewalks. Farat looked around. He thought -Damn place. Haven't seen a damn Ketrilyan soldier yet. If they're not gonna help, what's the point of being here?-. He shook the thought away. Farat watched as, slowly by slowly, the buildings were being cleared. He saw through a window a terrorist killed execution-style with a pistol. Another ran towards a humvee which still had its gunner on board. Seconds later, the terrorist was mangle by .50 caliber rounds. It was completely unrecognizable now.

"I love when our boys get in a frenzy.", Farat said proudly.

[Gnobar]

Sorry. Have had homework and stuff the past few days.

Meanwhile the convoy of the captured Nuclear weaponry was moving again. The insurgents firing a barrage upon the GSOF and the Aldarminians, had begun to fall back. My guess was that they had either run dry on ammo, or they were regrouping for another ambush. Sergeant Everton directed the remaining Gnobarians and Aldarminians.

"Private patch me through on the radio to command. You three! Load up the wounded and dead onto the remaining transport."

A voice crackled in Sergeant Everton's ear.

"Sergeant Cackett, what is your situation? Over"

"This is Sergeant Everton, Cackett is KIA. Out of the 18 Gnobarian operatives we have 4 KIAs, 5 wounded unable to continue to fight. And well sir, I think were all hit in some place. Over"

"And the Aldarminians you linked up with? Over"

"They didn't fair up much better. Permission to proceed to the blockade with air support? Over"

"Sorry Sergeant, General said area is still to hot for air support. Recommend proceeding as you are. Over"

"Proceed as we are!?!? I don't think you understand command! Everyone of us is hit! Your going to lose this convoy if we get hit again"

"Sergeant hold your position. We'll see about getting some friendlys into assist you."

[Lonara]

Arpke waited for the Schneller to arrive, he clambered into the back of the truck and took in a deep breath. Edanik was loaded in next to him, and they would be taken back to the Lonaran command IL-76's still parked in the desert for medical attention. For the first time since landing, Arpke took off his helmet, mask, and goggles at the same time. He preferred breathing out of his own mouth, although the air was quite dry and arid. He slapped Edanik on the shoulder,

"Wake the fuck up. We're not out of this yet."

[Aldarminia]

Edanik stirred from the slap. He woke up. He tried to stretch his arms and legs. He succeeded with his arms, but came to no avail with his legs. He remembered that one of them was wounded, but which one?

Edanik said groggily, "My battle is. Now two new rook colonels are gonna get the glory of being war heroes, while I'm going to be seen as the man who nearly brought this entire operation to disaster. Even though it was the C-130 pilots who dropped us too deep in. All I can do now is kill as many oppurtunity targets as I can. And I think I've done enough."

In truth, Edanik wanted tto do more, but he couldn't. Every single man that he had command of is either dead or unreachable. He could only leave this to the other five colonels, who were having more success than he could've hoped of. His eyes were getting heavy. It was more due to blood loss than actual exhaustion.

Edanik got angry at himself. He had griped to an allied general. He said in a prouder voice with a demanding tone, "Where exactly are we going, Arpke?"


Meanwhile, Kedero and his men finally reached the Gnobarian position. Benketz's and Miniix's followed. Major Harel was bleeding out from a hip wound in the street. He was valiantly defended by a handful of the last surviving men that he had regrouped with. Kedero took up the commanding position.

Kedero found a Gnobarian and hoped the man would understand him, "Where's your commander?"

[Gnobar]

The Gnobarian pointed to a truck carrying the dead and wounded.

"We'll he is in there, but he's dead. Sergeant Everton though is the highest ranking member left. He's up at the top.

Kedero was quite shocked to find the Gnobarian speaking his language fluently. But due to conscription being law in Gnobar this was not uncommon to have someone who was quite an achiever in school. In fact to be even considered for Gnobarian Special Operations Force you must be fluent in one other language. This was so teams operating in foreign territory would at least be able to gather intel and speak to the locals if they needed.

"He doesn't speak Aldarminian though. Unless you speak Gnobarian he's not going to have a clue what your saying so I'll bring you"

The Gnobarian took the lead and entered a side street butchers which the Gnobarians and others had made into a defensive building. The young Gnobarian Corporal didn't salute his commanding officer, and opened conversation very casually in Gnobarian.

"Oy! Everton, some reinforcements have arrived. Or well at least they ain't shooting at us"

[Lonara]

Arpke smiled and activated his microphone,

"Fallschirmjager. This is Arpke. Kill the two Aldarminian rook colonels. Make it quiet, and do it from long range. Make sure no one sees you do it."

Arpke laughed his devilish laugh,

"And thusly the hand of god reigns down upon those who are not befitting of glory."

[Aldarminia]

Kedero was surprised. Now he was angry. He had to get some private to translate for him.

Kedero said unhappily, "Tell him that we'll provide covering fire for the trucks. We'll also clear out most of the area ahead if he needs us too. After that, tell him I'm Colonel Kedero."



Vephko went without hesitation. He died instantly and painlessly. The bullet going through his head in less than a second. Farat, though, was hit just below the neck. The blood spurting out painted everything around a bright scarlet. He tried to astop the bleeding, but it was in vain. He tried to point out the shooter. A Lonara soldier came towards him. An Aldarminian private came as well. The Lonaran told the private he had to put the colonel out of his misery. The private didn't argue. The Lonaran stabbed the Farat in the heart. Farat died just then. The Lonaran turned and stabbed the private in the heart. The private died immediately.



Edanik laughed, "And here I thought I was going to retire and die with a bullet hole in the head from some man all in black. I'm going to pretend I never heard your conversation. You just gave me a pay raise. Got any cigars?"

[Lonara]

Arpke smiled and handed Edanik a cigarillo.

"The Fallschirmjager do their jobs without hesitation, they are all trained to kill anyone anytime without a single thought otherwise. They are completely loyal to two people, me, and the Kaiser. Only us two command them."

Arpke lit the cigar for the man.

"Your colonels are most likely bleeding out into the sand as we speak."

[Gnobar]

Encryption: High
To: Head of State Peter Travis

Due to unforeseen events I am afraid Gnobar must temporally pull out of this conflict. Today just as offices took there lunch breaks a car bomb exploded in the capital city centre killing dozens and injuring hundreds. This terrorist act was traced back to a violent minority group known as the Lilliputian Freedom Fighters. A group allegedly supported by an unfriendly regime, despising Gnobar for its heathenish ways and political bent, but more particularly for supporting the recent events within the homeland of an ally.

We have traced the foreign backing to the Kingdom of Chamlec. As I speak now, my nation is mobilizing. The declaration of war has been unanimously received complete backing from the governing parties. As such the GSOF will be required for duties to protect the homeland of Gnobar.

These our truly terrible times when mad men give the orders to kill dozens of innocents and steal weapons of mass destruction. We understand fully if you our unable to provide support, but we would gladly accept your assistance.

God speed and may you emerge unharmed.

Aidan Bennett,
President of The Federation of Gnobar,
The Federation of Gnobar

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