"All in?" Asked Corporal Dergo, pilot of our skimmer. "Then let's go!" He exclaimed. The skimmer took off, sending the other skimmers to take off too. We then left the hanger of the Forage Of The Dammed and felt the heat of the atmosphere of Rewdo.
"Ah shit, this is too hot for this power armour" Said Kitty, a close friend to many of the troops on the outing today. "I swear, the Sky Marshal should of at least considerd my idea of cooling systems in the armour..." We all managed a quick chuckle of his joke. The skimmers fell into formation, following the retrival ships. There was constant radio chatter occuring, so we couldn't manage much talk without missing some information.
"Jumper-3-4, this is Striker 9-0 we have noticed a small fire coming out of your engines, can you solid this information for us?"
"Striker 9-0, this is Jumper 3-4, we copy that message however there is no fire. Check your windscreen for damage maybe?"
"Jumper 3-4, negative. Nothing is wrong with our windscreen, chec...Holy shit! Get down!"
"Striker, do you copy? I repeat, do you copy?"
"What the hell happened?" Asked Burner
"Shit knows, maybe there was a small mishap in their HUD." I responded
"At least they're still in the air" replied Sweat
"Jumper 3-4, do you hear us? We have had a small fire on the dashboard. We need to land now, do you copy?"
"Solid Copy Striker, all calsigns fall in and descend on the mine, we will be making our own enterence here!"
"Solid Jumper, Kickback and Reviver are standing by for evac, lock and load and don't forget to live forever, you apes!"
"Hold on tight boys, the descent has begun!" I shouted, the engines getting louder as we started falling in altitude.
The skimmers then landed on the ground, sending dust around the skimmers.
"Move move move!" I shouted, sending all the skimmer riders to set down and form a tight circle around the landed skimmers.
"Kung, get the engineers to set charges on the mine halway, Everyone else move up into the mine. Lights on, fire to the mininim. Look out for miners. We are on a rescue mission people! Live forever apes!" I shouted.
"Hooah!" everyone screamed
"Spike, Burner. Take point!" I shouted, they both ran through the mine.
"Shit, we need a medic up here! We have a miner!" Shouted Burner, who himself is a medic.
"Burner you faggot, you're the medic!" Some trooper shouted.
"Hold fire, we are coming out with the miner!" Shouted back Spike.
"Shit, what happened to you then?" Asked Burner to the miner
"Bugs, bugs fuckin' everywhere..."
"We have a positive bug infestation, dammit!" Shouted Burner
"Shit, Bugs inbound!" A trooper shouted.
"Screw it, shoot the lot of them!" Shouted a SMS commando.
"Shit, I'm hit. I repeat I am fuckin' hit!" Screamed a SSU operative. "Crap crap crap, my fucking arm... Blimming medic fix me up!"
"Got my own problems here, sorry buddy" Shouted back Burner
"Tight formation, spearhead. Let's move up!" I shouted
"I got a kill! Wooo!" Shouted a rookie.
"Good for you, only four hundred and sixty more and we get the amount of civilians killed by a plasma bomb." Said Lewis, he hated the bugs since they killed hundred of civilians who he knew most of his life.
"Screw it with your life story Lewis" Shouted the rookie.
"Woah, it's dark now" Kung whispered to me.
"Yeah, and hardly any sound" I whispered back
"Zero bugs incoming, all clear sir!" Shouted Spike.
"Copy, all units move up into the mine, set the pace Rookie."
"Sir, Yes sir!" Said the rookie, leading all the units to a gentle jog to the mine fork, where two mine tracks lead off. We all surrounded the fork with 19 men each side, with the exceptions being Burner and the SSU operative. Darkness filled the mine, even with the lights turned on. We heard a retrival ship loading the miner on so he could get a full medical treatment.
"Metal 0-1, this is Kickback, the miner said he was the only survivor. Seems like you can place your tactical nuke and get off this planet. The miner also mentioned there being a lack of materials, so it's a definate okay for blowing that shit hole up."
"Copy that Kickback" I heard Kung reply. "Alright, engineers set the charge. The nest is just up the right here. Do not get too close to the nest, place it behind a rock."
"Copy that sir." Said the two engineers.
"Right then, four men give them backup"
"Yes sir." I heard men volunteer.
I watched as they ran off through the tunnel, still hearing nothing but the buzzing from our lights.
"Sir, we have set the charge and are coming back through the tunnel" I heard over the radio. "Shit, bugs have spotted us! Get out of here, we are dead men now!" Said Kitty
"Copy that Kitty, you did well." I said, like I could manage more words? He was like a brother to me.
"Sir, you did well." I heard over the radio, then the screams.
"Move out guys, we have five minutes before this shit blows up!"
We all ran to the enterence to the mine, where the skimmers were waiting for us.
"Shit man, that material burns" I heard one of the SMS commandos say to his friend on a different skimmer.
"Yeah, it's like mini-nuke burn" Replied his friend
"Shit" I said, "All skimmers move out of here and get aboard the Forage ASAP" I shouted through the radio.
"Negative sir, we are still having problems with the dashboard." Replied a skimmer
"Just get as far from this site as possible!" I shouted
"We will try jumper. Live forever..." And that's when the nuke set off. And that's where we all realised the mine was digging for Plutonium.
YOU ARE READING
Mobile Infantry: Life after death is often misread.
Science FictionSeveral veiws on what happened on a disaterous week. From a Private's veiw, to a General's.
