Commander Zygi Payne. Drafted into World War 3 on the Polish-Russo Front on the side of Poland and Nato. Russia has invaded Eastern Europe allied with North Korea and China starting the war in 2023. The Middle East and Africa have fallen into turmoil as the dead across the world are sure to outnumber the grains of sand in the deserts they fight in.
Two years into the war, Poland has been lost along with many other territories in Eastern Europe as the United States still contends in the Pacific, holding off China's advance into the ocean. Commander Zygi has become a battle hardened soldier and now leads a small squad of commandos in occupied Poland.
Commander Zygi and his squad of commandos now hold up in the corpse of a destroyed Russian tank in a ditch. They are deep in enemy territory in a field outside of a major city waiting, listening to the radio for their next mission from HQ.
Zygi sits in one of the few trees in the golden wheat field, watching for enemies. He is dressed in camouflage with his face painted green and black and is wearing a black beret.
He turns his head back and forth with a pair of binoculars in his hands surveying the area. On one of his hands, he has rosary wrapped around it. The day was beautiful despite the burning hollowed out tanks dotting the field and the smoke from distant fires in the city burning. The sky was a light blue, and no clouds could be seen. The sun shined bright, hanging in the sky, and a nice breeze blew through the air, ruffling the leaves of the tree he sat in.
"Commander!" A young soldier dressed similarly to Zygi exited the tank from a gaint gash in the steel and called to him in Polish.
Zygi slowly looked down from his spot in the tree to the ditch the tank rested in, "Command?"
"Yes, sir," the young soldier called up.
Zygi scanned the landscape once more before climbing down the lush, full tree and entering the ditch.
Five soldiers sat around the tank's interior, listening to the encrypted message on the radio. A soldier sat down on a charred seat, writing down the message on a piece of paper.
Zygi and the other men watched the soldier as he finished writing down the message, and the radio returned to static.
The soldier looked at the paper and read the message out loud, "Near where the birds lay their nest, where the bear sleeps, a fox lurks hidden in its hobble, ready to attack with weapons unknown to it. Urgent, destroy the den. Die forgotten if must."
The soldiers all looked to their commander. Zygi looked back at them, "is there an airstrip nearby?"
A soldier wearing goggles with headphones took out a map and slid his finger against it, looking for the nearest airstrip, "not far, only ten klicks from our current position."
"Any base near the airstrip?"
"None, except in the city."
"It's not in the city. there must be a hidden base near the airstrip."
"How do you get all this from the message, Commander?" The young soldier spoke.
Everyone turned to Zygi, "The closest airstrip is where the birds make their nest, we are in the sleeping bear, and the den is their base. And if you wonder what the rest means, its self explanatory."
"So what's the mission?" Another soldier asked.
"This 'fox' has some sort of weapon, perhaps an experimental one, I don't know, but we must destroy everything."
"Don't know about you boys, but it sounds like the Russians are about to use nukes," a soldier cradling a sniper rifle spoke up.
"Might be the case, Fletcher, especially when the message said this might cost us our lives."
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