Rasczak and Thomas join the other stunned roughnecks to see thousands of bugs on the march from every direction. Bug batteries open up in the distance.
Rasczak: "Warm it all up! Everything you got! Levy, collect the big guns from the towers. Watkins, put General Owen with the wounded. 2nd Lieutenant, where's my communications?"
Thomas: "What's going on, Diz?"
Dizzy: "I got power! Gimme a minute!"
Thomas runs for the communications room.
Thomas: "We don't have a minute!"
Dizzy has the board up. Outside the battle has begun. Nukes go WOMP! and pulse guns chatter.
Dizzy: "What frequency?"
Thomas: "All bands."
Dizzy: "Roughneck patrol to battle group...Roughneck patrol to battle group..."
Rodger Young: "This is the Rodger Young...What's going on down there? We're taking plasma! We have Orion P-11 as clear!"
Thomas: "Sure as shit isn't! We need pick up now!"
Rodger Young: "What is your position?"
Thomas: "Landing zone is extremely hostile. Come down on this transmission!"
Rodger Young: "Inside 4th brigade compound? That's crazy!"
Thomas: "Then I hope you have a crazy pilot! Keep the line open, Dizzy!"
Thomas races out the door.
The compound is white hot as roughnecks on the walls unload nukes. Thomas crosses the compound, landing next the Rasczak on the wall.
Thomas: "Boat coming down, sir!"
The roughnecks stop firing as they run out of nukes.
Roughnecks: "I'm empty...all nuked out...Me, too!"
Thomas scans the battlefield. Nukes have turned the surface into dark glass. Now, out of the smoke, come the bugs, steaming glass cracking beneath millions of marching feet.
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The Two Rico's (Starship Troopers Male Oc)
FanfictionThomas Rico has been in the mobile infantry for three years now. What will he think when he hears his little brother Johnny has decided to follow in his footsteps much to their parent's dismay.