MeltDown The Original Draft

Chapter #5 Counter attack

"We end the Unity here!!" A Guard Squad soldier shouts at the top of his lungs.

We were all gathered around the center. I felt kind of sleepy after Edgar acting like a total freak of nature. I did not get any proper sleep that night.

We were all lined up in perfect rows. We had our weapons on the ready and we just finished prepping our gear. We are going to be supplied with intel.

"Alright men. You will be assigned as the 'Tip' of the Spear!" He then said.

"Damn we will be sent to the Front lines." Xander said in disappointment " I wanna retire.But I cant!"

"Shut your hole!" Fyodor said "This is Important!"

"We expect a stiff enemy resistance at The Prospects." The soldier said

I was curious The Prospects was one of the Towns the USRR lost during the lightning advance of the Unity. I wonder how the town looked like.

"The 44th Penal Battalion will lead the charge! The rest of the Battalions and Platoons stay behind!"

"Holy shit..They are using us as meat shields" I told myself I thing 'Tip' of the spear is a way the USRR sugar coats 'Suicide Mission'.

I looked at the faces of Angela,Xander,Edgar,Gavrill and Fyodor They seem to know they are sending us as expendables. I feel betrayed

"But!" The man said "Since you will be sent to such mission. You will be given permission to use Grad and Katyusha Missiles. I will man the radio myself" The man stood straight and proudly "Men..Women? Are you ready to make history?!"

We raised our Kalashnikovs and shouted "HORRRRAAAAHHHHH!!!"

Then we made the trip. Fyodor was assigned as the leader of the 44th. Fyodor then said "Alright guys we will have to divide ourselves six! So we wont be insta killed by one mortar blast got that?!"

"Yes sir!"

"Roger!"

"Good!" He said. And we soon left the captured town. We were going to bring the fight to Unity soil after weeks of being pushed back. We passed by the Yellow zone. We saw Mutated animals and Amphibians living in their habitat. We also cross by the occasional wanderer and destroyed buildings then and there.

Then the Giger counter of some of our team members started to crackle. That was a sign we were crossing a Radiation zone.

"Guys gas masks on!" Edgar shouted. I soon drop my backpack and grab my GP-5. I pulled back the rubber back and inserted a Filter in my Mask. I was breathing fresh air.

"Guys quick rest! 5 minutes!!" Fyodor ordered us.We stopped at a forest. There are giant pine trees that have burn marks from the atom bomb but they are still intact.We still had our masks the entire place was a radiation field.

"Finally!"

"Thank god!"

Many of the Conscripts fall over like flies. Many of us started to eat and take a cat nap.

"That's strange.." Edgar said "There has been no resistance..What is going on? We have been traveling for 5 hours whats wrong with them?!"

"Yeah! That is totally strange." Gavrill said "There should be defenders they know from our artillery strikes that we are coming why are they not here?"

I then said "Well..There might be a trap."

Angela said "Yeah..I agree to think of it.." She said "They might have soldiers camouflaged around waiting for us." She then deployed the radio and turned it on.