"It was like they knew we were coming," Craig said once he had caught his breath.
"It was Frank's fault," Terry responded, "He is always going off half cocked."
Craig gave the scout a black look before turning back to the captain.
"When we got into their tunnels Kayla, sorry Lt. Moore, took Sam with her, Tom had moved ahead on his own and without orders Frank took off too. Terry and I moved up together in case they had any heavy armor," Craig reported.
Captain Everheart regarded the tankhunter. Things must have gone badly in the tunnels. Tunnel fighting was exceptionally distressing for soldiers anyway, his troops were usually more up for it than most of the opponents they faced and he had sent some of his best in. Still the tankhunter regiment was more reliable than almost anyone in the American army and Craig was an unusually reliable soldier even in that group.
The American forces: Top Lt. Kayla Moore with her hacking device, Frank Kolaski, volunteer engineering battalion, and
a scout and two tank hunters, camouflaged. Bottom: SAS operative Tom Carruthers.
And the four soldiers without their camo markers:
From left: SAS, scout, tankhunter Craig, tankhunter Sam
To see him and the scout bolting out, alone, after sending six men in, Everheart could only think that they must have faced some serious opposition.
"Why was there such a problem? What did you face down there? Did they have a specialized TAG in the tunnels that we don't know about?" the captain quizzed.
Frank moving off
"Nothing like that sir. The first shot I heard came from a head of us in the direction Frank ran. It must have hit him because I heard him curse. Then I heard fire from what must have been a multirifle and a short reply from one of our rifles and heard Frank's voice utter his last curse that went into a scream."
Frank fired at by the hidden Croc man.
From the Croc-man's point of view
An Orc troopers enfilades Frank
"After that things fell apart so quickly. We heard fire from the direction Kayla and Sam had moved off. It was difficult to make out but there was at least a short burst from Sam's HMG. Sam yelled out over the coms that Kayla was down, then another burst of fire and Sam wasn't responding anymore either."
A lone fusilier takes out both Lt. Moore and Tankhunter Sam.
"We heard Tommy whisper that he was going for the computers and rifle fire from far ahead then his coms went off line too."
We heard the footsteps of heavy armor moving towards us and Terry saw one of those sneaky Aboriginals moving towards us trying to cut us off. We were no where near the terminals so we decided to leave. We were the only two left."
The river bank was no place to hand out judgment and a patrol had just flown over head, so Captain Everheart just nodded.
"Terry, find us a way out of here that doesn't get anyone else killed. I'll expect a more full report when we go through the details on your coms regarding timing."
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checks out some 10/15mm railroad tracks for wargaming.
