Operation: Saber Strikes

The return of the Beast

Your POV 3 weeks later
We were standing on the tarmac at Six's request after we made a full recovery, I looked at him "Is it the same specs as mine?" He nodded "Luckily you keep extensive record over what you changed to your viper before the accident. The marines did the same to this new one" I sighed with relief as Eliza grabbed my hand and smiled at me. I smiled back before turning back to the tarmac as the C-17 crew started unloading our new Viper. I glanced at Zach to see him barely holding his excitement, I chuckled gaining the attention of Eliza before she started giggling at Zach's anticipation. After a painful amount of time for Zach and I, she was unloaded and infront of us. I looked at six "Can we?" He nodded as Zach and I ran to our new chopper and slowly climbed in almost like we're scared it'd disappear, when we finally got in we felt the snug hold of the seats as we hit on the displays I smiled like a child when it all lit up. We climbed down wearing smiles as Six, Eliza and Monika walked up "Happy?" I nodded "thank you.... Harry" he seemed shocked as I grabbed Eliza "Come on, you gotta see the new toys they gave us" she looked surprised as Zach did the same thing with Monika I helped Eliza into the cockpit "Do you see anything different?" She shook her head no "They gave us more missiles, new gyros, they even gave us stronger rockets!" She tried to find them on the display as I pointed she looked at me "So you're happy with the new chopper?" I nodded as I helped her out "it's awesome" she grew a smile as we walked to six "Can we take her for a flight?" He looked at me "Have doc check you and Zach out if he clears you go ahead" I looked at the chopper "Zach! Come on let's go get check out so we can fly again!" He nodded and we took off towards docs office. When we arrived we flew through the door "Doc we need you to clear us so we can fly again!" He nodded tiredly "Sit down and we'll get it done"
Time skip
I sighed as we walked out "come on let's get our helmets" as we ran to our room grabbed them before running to the tarmac and blasting past six and the girls dropping the note that clears us as we climbed into our chopper. I sighed sitting at home once again as I started flipping the necessary switches and fastening my harness I gave Harry and Eliza a two finger salute as I heard Zach in my headset "Saber, this is striker over" I decided to play along "Striker, go for saber over" he chuckled "What do they call you?" I laughed out "Snake shit" he asked "Why do they call you Snake Shit?" I replied "Cause I fly lower than snakes shit!" As I lifted off getting comfortable again as I fed fuel into the chopper and we quickly accelerated to 285mph. I heard six on our frequency laughing "Good to hear you boys still have your humor, how does she feel?" I sighed in contentment "Sir, she's as good as the day I lost her, better even" as I pitched it skyward climbing before rolling inverted and diving pulling out of it perfectly flying 70 feet above the ground. We came and landed infront of the three turning her off slowly not wanting to get out. We dropped to the ground as I wore my signature smirk again "Well she's perfect, she responds the same, accelerates the same, dances the same everything" Six smiled "Good, There's a raid being prepped on a white mask stronghold in the Middle East next week, I want you 4 to enjoy your weeks because you'll be sent to help support the squads being sent to raid it" I gave a short salute as Eliza grabbed my arm and started dragging me to the sim room "Let's do a 2v2, losers make the winners dinner" I looked at her "Do you think we'll go easy on you because we're dating?" She laughed "God, no I know you two will try even harder because of it. It's just friendly competition" I sighed as I heard Zach and Monika talking about a similar thing. When we got to the room I walked to quartermaster "can I get my ump, my m17 and barbed wire?" He nodded and went to get them, when he came back with them I thanked him and waited for Zach to get his gear. When Zach got his gear we entered the building after selecting the layout of consulate, "Upstairs or downstairs?" He paused "Downstairs, let's go to the servers, we can reinforce the hatches and set up more choke points" I nodded "Servers it is" when we arrived we heard the announcer "45 seconds remaining in prep phase" Zach ran to get the hatches I reinforced the blue hallway and set up my barb wire in the hallway. We regrouped in the servers room "So how do you think they'll attack?" I chuckled "Eliza is very forward and aggressive in her approach, Monika might be able to get her to temper herself but I think they'll come from the garage and do a straight push." He nodded "Why don't we hold the two doorways from the garage and see if you're right? If you aren't we can just move around and reset for the new push" I nodded and moved to the doorway crouching and mounting my smg on the doorway pointed towards the garage when I heard the announcer "Attackers moving to secure the biohazard container, protect it" waiting for a sign of where they were I heard Zach "We were wrong, they're above us!" I spun and moved back into the blue hallway resting my gun against the wall waiting for someone to enter my sights I felt a hand on my right shoulder "they can only come in this door and the main one, Don't come to my help unless I call your name. Call signs from now on" I gave a thumbs up as he ran back to his spot as we waited. I saw the barrel of a g36 start coming around the corner when I squeezed the trigger sending a burst through the doorway, the barrel quickly disappeared back around the corner as I heard my barb wire getting destroyed. I sighed softly as I grabbed another magazine holding it as I waited for them to push again. I saw a couple flash bangs come flying into the hallway as I smirked and flipped down my polarized visor, I could still see pretty well considering everything. I flipped my visor back up and took aim again waiting for the push until I heard "(F/n)! On me!" With a sigh I pushed up to my feet and ran into the room sliding into a piece of cover across from Zach "Let me guess, the flash bangs were distractions?" He nodded as I sighed "Where are they?" He pointed to a supply closet "They went in there probably setting up a breach" I looked over "Think you can hold this?" He nodded confused "Why?" I reloaded figuring the extra couple rounds would help "I'm gonna push up to the server corners and hold a close angle hopefully they won't notice me and I can tag them" he smiled "sounds good, watch out for drones." I gave a wave as I slowly moved to my corner, I saw a lot of dirt and dust get kicked up as the wall exploded in 2 places. I crouched and held an angle waiting before a drone rolled up to me and I smiled picking it up as I saw the light turn off "Saber, give me your c4" he tossed the packet to me as I took my tape out of my pocket and taped it to the drone I heard some gun fire from the breach points as I stood and threw the C4 drone into the hole "Blow it!" I heard the detonation and the soft plastics bounce around the room as the announcer spoke "last enemy standing" I hadn't heard Eliza's rifle for a while and was beginning to get suspicion to where she was. I slowly pushed through the breach and saw Monika laying on the ground breathing heavily. I checked my corners and started heading towards the blue hallway when I heard a large gunfight in the room I went running to get there to support Zach when I heard "last friendly standing, complete the mission" I readied my Ump and came around the corner catching Ash looking the wrong way I carefully crouch walked behind her, all sneaky beaky like as I pulled my m17 and put it to her head "Got ya" she sighed "Yeah, I guess you did. I surrender" I lowered my gun as Zach and Monika stood up and swore as the pain hit. I looked at Eliza who looked like she was running everything though her head "I could've won, I should've won" I spoke "Liz, it's okay. No one wins 100% of the time, you're a great operator come on let's get some food." She sighed as I took her hand and we followed Zach and Monika out. "Liz, it's okay. Stop beating yourself up over it, it was a sim. You were expecting me from a different direction it's okay, that's why we do missions in squads of 5 so that doesn't happen." She sighed "Yeah, but I messed up in more places than just there" I cocked an eyebrow "Really? Where?" She looked at me "In the hallway, when you fired and I pulled back I could've won that fight." I nodded "Maybe, maybe not. Why don't we talk about what your decision did? You kept me in that spot holding that hallway for half the round because we figured you'd come through it. You guys almost overwhelmed Zach, it was the right call falling back" she groaned "Yeah, I'm sure it was." I rested my hand on her shoulder "Just trust your gut, you made the right calls" she nodded slowly as we sat on our couch and started a movie while Zach and I went to the kitchen to make some food I heard Monika "I thought we were supposed to cook? We lost" I laughed "We were gonna make the food regardless, have either of you ever had venison?" They both shook their heads "Todays a treat then, you both get to taste the glory that is venison" they chuckled as they put in a movie "what're we watching?" Eliza answered "Toy story 4!" I looked at Zach "Did you know we had that?" He shrugged "No fucking clue, maybe it was in one of the airdrops from the kids in school, they send us random things all the time" I nodded as we went about cooking the venison. While Zach did the venison I walked into the living room "Y'all want chips or fries?" Eliza answered "Fries" while Monika answered "chips" I sighed and walked back into the kitchen to start making the fries. When we finished we walked into the living room and handed them their plates as we sat down with our own and watched Toy story.