Jormungand: Mercenary Joins HCLI

Pulsar Arc

Somewhere in a certain eastern European country bordering Russia, Koko was unable to get any reception on her phone in order to meet up with Tojo, Valmet and Daniel while being escorted by the local border guards. The squad was driving in HCLI 2004 Scania R-Series Toplines which were carrying but Koko and Lutz were in a car between the two toplines trucks. Koko was wearing a white coat with a feather-like collar while her bodyguards were wearing dark green battle dress uniforms or just long sleeve shirts but they did have on their chest rigs.

"Damn it! I can't get through to them. Is this signal being jammed?!... Don't say 'maybe'! 'Maybe' doesn't cut it! Identify the problem now!"

"Look out world, the little lady's pissed off again." Lutz said with a chuckle.

"Those idiots at HQ were useless," said Koko when she got off the phone. "I'm so sick of this shit! How are we going to meet up with Valmet, Daniel and Tojo if I can't reach them? And something else I want to know... who are those guys?"

Koko was curious about the 1996 GAZ BRDM-2 M96 [41-08] in front of the trucks.

"That's one of the border police," Lehm answered. "How do we play it?"

"Don't bother stopping. If they want to pit an LAV against a twenty-ton truck-"

Koko was cut off when there was an explosion on the police's vehicle in front of the squad's trucks which made them lose control and have to make a hard stop. After they stopped, Koko got out the car and started running. Lutz tried to stop her.

"What are you doing?! Get back here!" Lutz yelled.

Still, Koko continued running to the valley and then stopped when she noticed that there was smoke coming from it which made her very upset.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"

When Koko's team caught up with her, they looked at what Koko was looking at. They were looking at a town in smoke miles away from the valley they were in.

"They're fighting for that pipeline," Lehm answered. "We landed ourselves smack in the middle of a live battlefield. But, hey, at least that explains why the phone wasn't working, right?"

Lehm showed Koko sites while she looked through her binoculars. "We got GMS mobile phone base stations, relay towers and microwave transmission sites, all blown up by whoever got there first. Crap like this goes down when both sides want to control information. Even satellites aren't perfect. It's a covert war."

"You know an awful lot about this, Lehm," said Koko.

"I guess."

Koko was still getting pissed and acting out like she was having a seizure when unknown soldiers wearing multicam uniforms and grey berets, armed with AKS-74Us surrounded the team. The team held their hands up showing the soldiers that they weren't a threat.

"It's alright, boys! We're not the enemy... That doesn't make us friends though," Koko said to the soldiers.

Koko and her team were in a town of ruins by the war with a military faction from this certain eastern European country. The soldiers had already set up a perimeter and gathered their supplies. The weapon that the team was selling, an MIM-104 Patriot SAM Launcher, was already out of the HCLI trucks and was being given to the soldiers. Koko's bodyguards were already spread out in security formation and keeping an eye on their surrounding and on the soldiers. Koko was with a man who was fair skinned with light blond hair and blue eyes and was wearing a light colored collared shirt with a medium colored jacket and light colored cargo pants.

"I'm glad you could make it, Miss Hekmatyar. It's a pleasure," said the man as he and Koko shook hands.

"I must say you're a lot younger than I expected."