Girls Frontline: Echelon: 463

Mission 1: Beginning

2060, somewhere in the northern, formerly Chinese territory. dense forest.

Crack, Crack Crack. The Springfield T-doll fired her rifle up the hillside. swung back behind the the tree, and loaded a fresh clip into the weapon. click. the bolt was knocked forward by the soldiers hand, and raised to her right eye. She took a breath, and swung around the tree, pieces of bark flying off from stray gunfire. 

crack. 

the rifle fell to the ground, as the girl was thrown back behind cover, her right arm  disintegrating into small fragments from the impact of the heavy caliber machine gun round. she knelt back down onto the ground, quickly placing her hand over the now disheveled shoulder. as she screamed in pain, her internal systems alerted her allies, and soon enough a combat engineer arrived, running and diving under the cover, bullet still flying around the tree. 

"Hey, Hey, get up! We still have to take down the force on top of the hillside!" The combat engineer shook the Springfield's tan skin arm, as its shoulder past section fell off to smithereens. the T-Doll began to scream in sharp pain, as oil and mechanical parts fell out by the second. She had been hit hard by one of the machine guns encrusted on top of the hill, managing to blow off the Springfield's limb. It was worse than he had anticipated. 

"Please, do something about it, it hurts! IT HURTS!" she continued to cry out in pain, clutching what had remained of her shoulder. the combat engineer had some tools with him, but he had to remove what was still attached, to ensure nothing could be further damaged. he took a stick from the ground, and some cloth lying around from the remainder of her sleeve, and wrapped it around the piece of wood.

"chomp down on this, you're gonna need to endure the pain, bear with me!" He yelled as bullets whizzed by them, other T-Dolls returning fire. Damn those Sangvis bastards!  He thought. The Springfield pressed as hard she could with the stick in her jaw, and in a quick snap, the Engineer broke and sliced off the remaining steel skeleton. The T-Doll cried out in pain, but still clenching with dear life onto the stick. He soldered down the rest of what was left, wiring and small tubing, and covered it with some medical cloth, to prevent any dirt coming through.

"how does it feel?" He asked her, propping her against a tree a bullet grazing the tree.

"it hurts a ton, but I think I'll get through it." she responded, smiling up at him. they locked eyes for a second, the engineer blushing a bit.

"alright, that's good to hear. rest here for a little while alright? try not to cause more damage to yourself!" he got up and took the rest of his equipment with him, but as he began to run Springfield interrupted.

"hey, I know how to make muffins you know. I could make some for you later if you'd like. and the name is Springfield. to return the favor." He turned back to the one armed T-Doll. He nodded with a smile, and ran to the next possible T-doll that could have been in danger, needing his expertise. The Springfield got up, shaking a little from the shaken motors in her system. She ran diagnostics on her systems, progress bars appearing in her vision. Seems like everything checks out, well, except for the missing arm. I should be OK. She thought, picking up her rifle. She tried to cock it, but it simply fell out of her arm. Huh, this could be worse, could have no arms. Suddenly, someone tapped on her shoulder, and instantly swung the rifle backwards toward the attacker.

"Whoa, relax! it's just me Spring, Ak-47! Kalash for short, remember?" She was taken aback by this for a second, but regained herself.

"oh right, heh, sorry about that." Springfield replied. Kalash shook her head.

"everyone is on edge, it's a battle, I can't blame ya-look out!" she tackled springfield behind a nearby rockwall, Machine gun fire raging above them.

"you alright?" kalash asked.

"yeah. we have to take that hill, otherwise we are gonna lose the north passage through the mountains!" Kalash nodded, then lit up.

"I have an idea! I just reloaded my gun, so it should have full ammo in it. Ill snipe from back here, providing cover fire! if you only have your left arm, you should be ok!" Springfield jumped aback.

"that's gonna get me killed and not to mention, my rifle really only works with my right hand!" Kalash looked down, her plane shot down as usual.

"darn. well, what else can we do?" she said,

"well, we could do the reverse, but I could try going one of the trees, thus allowing me to be not seen by the machine gunners." Kalash nodded. "only problem is, getting up the tree so I can get to a proper vantage point. Can you try boosting me up?"

"got it!" Springfield jogged over to one of the trees, and leaped to grab a branch, catching onto one. Kalash got below her, and pushed her up by the heels. Kalash threw up the rifle through the branches, and landed it in Springfields arm. carefully propping herself against the tree, and the rifle inline with her eye. flipping it over on its side, she carefully cocked the next round into the chamber. She had only one chance, as reloading a second time would take too long, and get her comrade killed. Springfield met eyes with kalash, and nodded, signaling to begin the strategy. kalash propped up her grenade launcher on her gun at an angle, and fired toward the mountain, creating a plume of smoke from the rocks dust, but only temporary. She ran up the hills rocks, while Springfield aimed her rifle toward the assailants. Suddenly one propped out, recently reloading their machine gun, a fresh belt inserted, right as kalashed crested the hill of their  fortification, a solid line was created between the barrel, and the Sangvis soldiers skull.

Click.

the explosion of metal and synthetic T-Doll skin exploded, the bullet having landed exactly where it needed to be. Kalash jumped in with a thumbs up, and the sound of 7.62 x39mm bullets hitting their targets.

sighing in relief, Springfield carefully jumped from the tree, wobbling a little. she began to walk toward the hill to join her comrade, but suddenly she heard another click.  A pistol was cocked against her head. she dropped to the ground, kicking the aggressors feet out from beneath them, the shot missing and hitting the tree. she picked up her rifle, and wacked her rifle butt against the soldiers helmet. she kicked over the unconscious body, and ran for the hill before he would wake up, realizing what had happened to him. She picked up the pistol and put it into one of her empty ammo packets.  She heard a ringing in her com-link, tapping the side of her hear to receive the call as she kept working her way up the hill. It was from the head commander. 

"all units come in, operation hillside has been successfully completed, the Sangvis scum are retreating back, check in at the mountain top as soon as possible." Springfield collapsed on the ground, grasping the empty air where her right arm had formerly been. It was finally over. she picked herself back up, wondering where that life saving engineer had went. She shook her head, and focused on regrouping with the others.