Nightmares and Monsters

Part 6

Previously in Chapter 5:

Epps had by now gotten most of the info to the guys on the other end and rattled off, "Seven-man team north of orange smoke! Attack direction west! You're clear and hot!" as he threw an orange smoke gas grenade out towards the monster and awaited the attack. As soon as that was done Caliene and Lennox heard Epps yell, "Lennox! The heat's coming!"

And now onto Chapter 6 enjoy.

Qatar, Middle East: Still fighting Scorponok

"Laze the target! We got a beam-rider incoming! Laze the target!" was yelled by Lennox to anyone who could hear him, and Cali sighed as she stopped firing directly at the Scorpion looking robot and activated the green laser on the side of her guns barrel. Beam-riding missiles were difficult to control once they were launched from the planes that fired them a in this case that would be the A-10 Warthogs that had been called in, since they required the beam of light to be sat on the target that was to be hit, if they were just one millimeter off it could wipe out a large area and anybody in it.

For this reason there were more than five laser beams aimed at the Scorpion robot, at least it wouldn't miss the target that way. As all this was going through her mind, that damnable Scorpion robot was still firing on them and the others, taking down walls, homes and the occasional life. Cali decided that the sooner this battle was over with the better, and smirked when she heard Lennox yell "Ready! Heat's coming!" and then she smirked as she heard Epps yell a rather happy "What? Bring it!" as he searched the skies for their air support.

She glanced up as she heard the unmistakable sound of the A-10 as one of the pair fired their 30mm Gatling guns at the Scorpion robot and strafing the area around it as close as possible without hitting any of the troops on the ground, then she saw the other A-10 fire its missiles at the Scorpion robot and she held her breath as she awaited the impact of them, hoping against hope that they had finally taken the menace out.

What met her eyes after the smoke cleared was not a good sight: there still moving but definitely damaged somewhat was the Scorpion robot. Cali heaved a resigned sigh as she quickly thought up a plan. She heard Epps exclaiming that "No frigging way, that thing's still not down."

That was when her idea struck her. Turning to Epps she tapped his arm and gave him her idea, if normal ammunition didn't work and missiles only hindered it a bit, then what about using something that even a ''tank couldn't survive. She was talking about using 105 sabot rounds, definitely not something to play around with at any rate.

She smiled when Epps picked up the cell phone again and contacted the person on the other end by saying "Spooky Three Two, use 105 shells. Bring the rain!" Cali mentally cheered when she heard that and watched for the gunship to arrive and take out the annoyance with some of the best shells that could be fired from a gun, even if they were 40mm high-heat shells.

The squad watched as Spooky Three Two fired upon the Scorpion robot with multiple bursts of 105 shells, they really couldn't tell much since it disturbed a lot of sand and dust back into the air, but once it had cleared enough, she noticed the robot rolling around like it was in agony. She groaned though when she spotted it fleeing under the sand to escape the shelling it was getting, but then noticed that it had left behind some of it's tail... the same tail that she had seen it kill Donnely with. They might finally catch a break with what they could learn from this specimen of the robot that was left behind.

It was soon after that Cali was brought out of her musing by Lennox yelling "Where's Fig?"

At this point every remaining squad member jumped to and started looking for the Spanish speaking goofball they all loved. Lennox was climbing and looking around whilst yelling out "Fig? Fig?" It was Cali who heard Fig yelling "Oh, God! God damn it!" and yet it was Lennox who found him, laying on the ground holding his midsection as if he could stop his internals from falling out, from this Cali could deduce that he had suffered a rather bad gut wound. If he was lucky he might survive it, if not he would be dead within a short few hours. She made up her mind there and then that she would seek revenge on the creatures that caused this to one of her fellow soldiers.