Rainbow Squad

The Red of the Rainbow

As we entered New York it was a hell hole. I could smell the stench of burning garbage cans, Being on my Humvee's mini gun only made me nervous. 'Rainbow lead?' called Corey over the radio, nervous as usual. "Yes, Rainbow-7?" I said back attempting to keep my voice steady as I saw bodies hung from street lights, 'Are these riots going to kill any of us?' sighing I replied quickly "No. None of you will die. Not under my command, Go into Orbit mode for now.". The Drone began to slowly orbit and I ordered the Convoy to a full halt, "Jackson, Robert. Get the bodies down." They went to work and I spun up my mini gun getting ready, We were authorized to use our guns to suppress. As they got the first body down I saw it, the pride flag wrapped around him like a cape. This is why they made us, Protection. "Overlord!" I called, Our Colonel answered in no time. "Go ahead,Rainbow lead." her voice shaky, She was picking up all our camera's meaning she saw the dead, "Drop a Reaper Drone." almost as soon as I said that it fell from it's orbital relay, A quad-pedal drone with legs made like dogs with a back mounted machine gun, I linked us all to the drone and set it to riot suppression mode. 

After all the bodies were down the medics loaded them onto the van we used as our morgue. The column moved slowly, Upturned cars mixed with smoke like I was in some horrid dream. The fumes of the burning fuel brought us to cross a bridge across the river, We had caught up with the riots. The Humvee's turned slowly to act as barricades, "Corey." I called over the radio, 'Y-Yeah?' he seemed a bit shaken from the things we were seeing, "Get me a view and assume control for the Reaper." He radioed back down to me, "I don't think I can do that..." as I sighed angrily a firebomb hit the side of my Humvee, I swiveled the gun. This made them all back up. "Give me fucking control of that Reaper!" I yelled, As he did my heads up display in my glasses showed the controls. "Deploy tear gas!" I shouted and Robert and Jackson launched tear gas grenades into the riot, Another fire bomb hit my Humvee. "Motherfucker!" I yelled and started spinning the gun, grabbing my controls of the loud speakers I shouted. "Attention! You are to cease your violent rioting! I saw the bodies you all hung!" A fire bomb hit the Reaper, With the gun spinning I fired a burst into the air, "You are officially threats the United States Rainbow Task Force!".  A UH-60 Black Hawk came quickly overhead and hovered, "Rainbow! I'm Eagle 4-5, You're gonna need to pull out, The AO is too hot! Repeat, AO is too hot!" Our Column quickly moved back, The Reaper jumped up into the Helicopter. Jackson and Robert hung off the sides of my Humvee and looked up to me teary eyed, "I know boys...I know." We made our advance onto the freeway and moved toward the established Forward Operating Base, I couldn't sleep that night. The rage brewed in me, I wanted revenge. 

The next morning we had our Colonel visit with good news, We were officially commissioned as the over watch unit for anything to do with LGBT. I didn't mind, So long as I was able to prevent New York from happening again I'd be able to sleep at night.