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Author's infos Gender: Male Age: 53 Location: Las Vegas, Nv |
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| Introduction: Fighting Demons | ||
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I walked off the shuttle with returning men and women on leave. I crossed to the sergeant on the orders desks and slipped my ID tags across. She looked at me for a minute before touching them and then smiling, “the Demons have been waiting sir.” I smiled, “so I was told sergeant.” She handed the tags back, “My cousin top sergeant Samantha Morgan said you were nice.” I looked her over, “how is Sam?” She grinned, “suffering a term teaching the basic training course.” I laughed and glanced back, “let her know I’ll ask for her when her tour is up.” She laughed, “she would like that.” I nodded and headed through the hatch. This time I was taking a battalion in fifth regiment called Fighting Demons. I headed towards the line units area and walked into the large regiment headquarters. I was wearing a class C uniform and stopped at the regiment commander’s sergeant desk. A senior sergeant looked up and smiled, “what can I do for your sir?” I nodded to the commanders door, “I need to report.” He sat back, “you aren’t in the proper uniform sir.” I smiled, “he was notified sergeant.” He nodded before touching the intercom, “Light Colonel England is here sir.” “Send him in.” I headed for the door and knocked before opening the hatch. Colonel Sarah Marie McCandless sat back and smiled as I approached the desk, “you are a bit of a disappointment colonel. You seem shorter then you should and you aren’t breathing fire and spitting bullets.” I smiled, “I’m saving up.” She laughed and stood to lean over her desk and hold out her hand, “welcome to the fifth regiment.” I nodded and shook her hand and she gestured to a chair, “your executive officer is on her way.” I sat and leaned back, “I received a couple of briefs from her before I got here. The Demons are scheduled for an op?” She sat and turned to bring up an operation holo above her desk, “hopefully it will be nothing more then a show of force. Fifth is headed out in one week to a twin sun system called Sirus. The eighth planet is mostly jungle with some nastys that have been causing problems. According to the settlement charter the colonist are restricted to a single continent. They claim they have but the Siruness say otherwise.” She glanced at the door as a commander walked in, “We are going to land along the coast by the largest colony town. Your battalion will be to the north by a second town called Trollhome.” She grinned, “named for what they thought the Siruness looked like.” She glanced at the holo, “as you see the other battalions will occupy similar positions. We were warned to shut down all unshielded electronics when both suns are up.” The colonel shut the holo down and looked at me, “we don’t want incidents if they can be avoided but we don’t back down if we are right.” She rubbed her temples, “the problem is we don’t know we are right.” She waved, “go meet your people.” I smiled and stood, “thank you.” I followed the commander out of the regiment headquarters area and down a wide vehicle corridor. Commander Vicky Torres had been my pick for executive officer out of all the available officers in the regiment, she and Sergeant Major Duncan. I nodded to the six captains at attention when we walked into the battalion headquarters office. I glanced at the almost tiny sergeant major talking to several top sergeants. I relaxed and gestured, “relax, as the sergeant major obviously knows I prefer a more relaxed atmosphere in barracks.” I looked at each of the captains, “we can get together tonight at eighteen hundred to get to know each other. What I need right now is a training status of your company and don’t pad it.” I nodded to commander Torres and she waved, “back to work.” The captains grinned and I headed for sergeant major Duncan with the commander beside me. She grinned as I stopped, “so the fifth’s hero returns.” I smiled, “had to go someplace and the admiral said this was the only place that would be insane enough to want me.” She laughed and turned, “meet my boys and girls.” One week of paperwork and training and another in transit before I looked at the bright bluish green world of Sirus. I turned back to commander Torres as the regimental commander whispered in my ear, “time to earn our princely pay.” She grinned as Duncan laughed and turned to nod to the comm tech, “go.” Thirty five shuttles dropped away from the shadow of the carrier and joined the other sparkling clusters of ships heading towards the planet. My shuttle was the first down in my battalion and I walked off and glanced towards the small city of Trollhome. We were along the coast north of the city. I slipped my new command holo glasses on and watched as the companies moved into place to form a perimeter. I waited for the sergeant major before starting towards the city. After my first meeting with the city mayor and his council I knew something shady was going on. Trollhome was a coastal town barely fifty kilometers from another occupied continent the Siruness use for farming. It was eight hours before the second sun began to rise and most of our electronics would normally start to be effected. I had talked to a couple of friends about the electronic interference and had each company shield their comms and scans, the rest of the electronics were shut down. Ten minutes into the double sun exposure the battalion comm sergeant contacted me, “Sir, we have several out going vessels from what looks like the city docks.” I was eating dinner and set everything aside as I stood, “heading?” The sergeant major stood with me as the sergeant answered, “northeast at about fifty kilometers per hour.” I glanced at the sergeant major before opening a comm to colonel McCandless, “we may have something here colonel. Several surface vessels are headed out towards the continent to the northeast.” There was a moment before she answered, “I am looking at your scan data and you may be right. The shuttles are shielded, send a company after the vessels and turn them back.” I smiled as commander Torres began to give orders to our reserve company, “I’ll let you know what they were up to.” “Try to intercept them before they reach land, we have sats reporting an increase in Siruness along the edge of that continent as well as the one to the southeast.” I turned to watch my Delta company lift in their shuttles and accelerate after the surface vessels, “put the battalion on readiness alert amber sergeant major.” She nodded and relayed the order. I glanced at commander Torres when she came in. I straightened when I saw the sudden surge of air vehicles lift from the other continent, “Go to red alert for a pending attack and get Delta back here.” I turned and opened the comm to the colonel, “We have what looks like two regiments heading this way from the other continent.” She was calm as she answered, “we have another three hitting us from the southeast. Hold if you can, I already sent out...” There was static as the comm stopped. The scan tech looked at me, “there was an explosion at HQ.” I fitted my command holo glasses, “sync up the grav screen generators. As soon as Delta is down bring them online.” I looked at the sergeant major and commander Torres as I switched to the regimental command net, “this is Pendragon.” It was quiet before a commander from the Wolves answered, “Commander Tibbs here, colonel Harris is dead and we have casualties.” The others came on as our grav screen took the impact of several kinetic strikes. The reports were the same, all the battalion headquarters had been hit. I waited but colonel McCandless or her executive officer were either died or out of the picture, “alright get the damn grav screens up. Heavy weapons switch to marker fire. Commanders use your line troops to mark incoming vehicles for the heavies.” I turned to Vicky, “take the battalion.” She nodded and began barking orders as the sergeant major headed out. I followed with my rifle as I started updating the info into my command glasses, “Serpents use concentrated fire to overwhelm the Siruness. Paladins sweep the right flank with heavy weapons, you have a battalion trying to maneuver around you.” I continued to give orders as I moved around. I had to kill a few Siruness when they broke through and pulled two of the battalions in the south together after they were hit hard. It seemed like forever before the second sun set and we had solid comms to the ships. I didn’t even have to think as I ordered large kinetic strikes on concentrated enemy positions as well as those massed along the edge of the two other continents. I pushed a medic away when she tried to check a minor fragment wound in my shoulder, “treat the worst injured.” I turned back to what I was doing, “Admiral Peters we need any air or surface vehicle taken out as soon as your scans have them. If possible I need your destroyers in close for a brush fire just outside our lines.” He nodded calmly, “warn your people to keep their heads down colonel.” I smiled grimly, “they already are sir.” It was a couple of minutes before plasma rained down just outside our perimeter. I could see the same thing happening to the south around the other battalions. I nodded as the fighting almost stopped completely, “okay, now sir if you would, I need a small kinetic strike on the southern continent. The target will be the royal Siruness cave complex at Mount Dragon.” The admiral hesitated and then nodded, “I see what you are doing, very well.” An hour later the Siruness retreated and I let them go, “consolidate and send your shuttles up with the wounded and dead. Have them start resupply protocols including all the regiment powered armor.” I nodded to the sergeant major as she started barking orders to the battalion supply clerks, “I need a star comm to Fleet Admiral McGuines.” I saw the comm light flicker in my glasses, “This is Light Colonel England in command of the fifth, I need to speak with Admiral McGuines.” “Report colonel.” I sat as the medic was back trying to open my battle vest, “sir we came under attack by the Siruness after several surface vehicles headed towards one of their continents. We have moderate casualties and are consolidating. I ordered a kinetic strike on the royal Siruness cave complex at Mount Dragon to convince they to pull back. I am resupplying and bringing our combat armor down. I would like permission to take the fight to them if hostilities resume.” He chuckled, “just hold colonel. The second and fourth will be there within two days with a battalion of Marauders from the ninth. Use what force you deem necessary to protect your people until they reach you.” I flinched as the medic probed my wound and pulled the shrapnel out, “understood sir.” The comm light died and I glanced around as shuttles started lifting, “Vicky?” She appeared a moment later, “sir?” I nodded to the city, “Go find out who and why those vehicles violated Siruness territory.” She nodded grimly, “my pleasure sir.” I smiled and started putting my shirt and gear back on as the medic left, “I need a complete status commanders and someone find out what happened to colonel McCandless.” It was almost three days before we were relieved. The Siruness remained on their continents but built up their forces. Colonel McCandless and half her staff were alive but wounded. For my actions I was given another Wounded Lion and of course another wound strip. I also continued to command Fifth for another three months before being relieved. |
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