Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 56

The Beater Wolves actual main base was some ways away from the base the Rangers had raided but that being said it didn't mean the Rangers were going to stop their aggressive advance against them. If anything, Kommando293 quickly had everyone load up their choppers again, uproot their spawn point, and then immediately make the way towards the base as the Rangers were not seemingly thrown into a chaotic movement towards the Beater Wolves.

Sinon clung to the Blackhawk she sat in next to Kommando293 as she could hear him talking into his radio as she sat next to him before he said to her, "They've set up in some ruins... it's going to likely be a rough fight to dig them out."

Sinon nodded her head as she then watched the pilot begin to take them down hard and fast as suddenly the shape of some Wasteland ruins began to jut up from the ground as she noted the explosions and fighting around it. The Beater Wolves were embattled by the other Squadrons wanting revenge and as Kommando293 saw it, he ordered their limited Air Support to begin hammering the Beater positions.

The helicopters, even straining under the weight of dragging along some hefty tanks, began to descend as swiftly but safely as they could as Kommando293 said, "The other Squadrons are ganging up on them but aren't making any headway! Now is our time to shine people!"

The moment the aircraft touched down, the Rangers scrambled out and began to deploy the tanks and mortar tubes as they were relatively close to the ruins and therefore once the mortar tubes were set up, they began to immediately fire a small stonk of High Explosive 8cm bombs into the ruins as the Sinon scrambled from the helicopter behind some ruins as she watched the explosions dazzle the horizon while the Rangers set up on the very outskirts of the ruins the Beater Wolves had sway over, the other Squadrons between them and the Beaters somewhere in a wide ring around the ruins.

Kommando pulled out some binoculars as he began to slowly calibrate the Ranger mortar fire more accurately into the Beaters ranks and positions. The fire blossomed like destructive flowers as the various ruins scattered around the larger, skyscraper ruins soon were crumbling down as the mortars destroyed them. As they did so, Kommando took time to note the messages from the other Squadrons as a few of their leaders thanked him. Not surprising they had someone looking out for the Rangers it was standard to keep two eyes in the back for everyone one forward.

He watched as the Rangers tanks began to come forward and put rounds downrange as their shots cracked open the bunkers of the Beaters before Kommando293 suddenly said, "Alright let's get this done! Rangers! Advance up! Push them back to their base!"

With the Spawn Beacon up, the Rangers began to jump from ruin to ruin as Sinon followed Kommando through them as they occasionally poked their heads into windows or doorways to fire at either the Beaters own snipers or stiffer resistance points that stalled the Rangers in combat. The two darted from alley to alley as they got closer to the Beater base, in fact at one point they got close enough for them to see it and it made Sinon swallow hard.

The base was a semi-constructed fort of rock, metal, and sandbags in the shape of a star as it was in the remains and ruins of a couple different ruined buildings, skyscrapers, and other things to make its shape up. It was also very much armed to the teeth as she could see launchers. Some pits for long dead mortars thanks to what she assumed was the Ranger air support that had come through and even now once again flies low and hits the fort with more 30mm cannon fire that shreds apart its outer walls like it was nothing.

Sinon and Kommando soon found themselves amongst the Rangers no more than 500 meters from the Star fort as the assault seemingly had ground down and Kommando got his binoculars out as he looked all the way across to see what was going on. The enemy squadron was fleeing into the fort as the other Squadrons were gathering around but that's when he noticed several dead bodies and vehicles already around and when he watched the Beaters retreat in, something very bad poked its head out.