Cold as Steel (A Flexible Survival Fan Fiction) Teaser
Flexible Survival Fan Fiction Teaser
US NATIONAL GUARD 40th Infantry -- Transmission Transcription Readout... Date P-Day Plus 2
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-C Company, this is Colonel Bryant at Op Com, things are getting noisy over there. Report in, over-
-Colonel Bryant, this is Dagger's Edge of Charlie Company, we're under heavy attack by unidentified coming from the southernmost urban area of the city and we're taking causalities. Fuckers are trying to flip our tanks. We cannot hold this position much longer. Requesting immediate Q.R.F to our pos! Do you copy?-
-Dagger's Edge, we have you loud and clear. Unfortunately, all our air is tied up further north. I'll try to divert available Delta Company armor to reinforce your sector. Try and hold on! E.T.A. on backup, five minutes-
-That's not gonna help us right now! We'll be dead in 3... What the fuck is that? Gunner, target, 3 o'clock!-
-Target acquired-
-Light it up!-
-HEAP round, no effect, sir! It bounced off him!-
-Pop smoke, lets whip around and put a HEAT round up his ass!-
-Target acquired-
-Fire!-
-That's a hit! Helluva shot Cur... Oh shit... There's another one! Eva...<static>-
-Dagger's Edge you are weak and unreadable. Say again, over. --
-<Screams and a roar before the line goes dead>-
-Dagger's Edge this is Painted Rook, Delta Company, come in, Over. -- Daggers Edge, come in, this is Delta Company, we are in rout to your position, give a sit-rep. -- Colonel Bryant, be advised that Charlie Company is not responding-
-Affirmative. Proceed to their last known location and confirm status. Over-
-Solid copy. -- I can see smoke coming from over the next burn... Holy shit-
-Go easy. Scan your sectors. Possible heavy weights in the area. Be prepared for C.Q.B. contact, over-
-Colonel, we have a breach! I say again, we have a breach! Charlie Company is dead in the water! This sector's been overrun. Attempting to secure the area with A Company in tow. Be advised we have hundreds of enemy units fleeing the quarantine zone heading south! A Company is doing their damndest to suppress their advance, but it looks like we're gonna need the calvary. -<silence>- The area appears secure for the time being. Requesting permission to initiate search and destroy, over-
-Negative, Painted Rook. We can't leave that sector without armor support in case of another attack-
-We have civilians in harms way, sir! Outside of the quarantine barrier...-
-Yea, son, I read you, Lemma Charlie, but you need to do what you can to plug that hole until the 181st get there. Inform those A Infantry boys they're to do the same and let the Marines and F Battery worry about those freaks that escaped... Any survivors from Charlie?-
-Affirmative. We have multiple wounded being cared for at this time, but it looks like we lost one Abrams and several L.A.V.s. Whatever hit this area knew what he hell it was doing-
-Any signs of the contagion?-
-Roger. I see the remains of several torn up B.D.U.s in puddles of what looks like bodily fluid. Looks like some of our boys are no longer ours. -- Be advised some of the wounded are beginning to show various infections as well. I recommend the 181st pack MOPP gear. Over-
-Roger, they are equipped. Any K.I.A. from C Company that you can see?-
-Affirmative... A Company medics are pulling bodies out of destroyed vehicles now, sir... They didn't deserve this...-
-I know it... Nothing we can for them now except pray-
-God help us...-
-<On another channel>-
-...All stations this net- all stations this net- sit-rep to follow... Unidentified hostiles have breached defensive lines in the south and are converging on several small population centers to the southwest. All available 1st Marine units are to respond immediately and commence evacuation of civilians in the affected region... Thermal imagery shows- enemy units numbering in the hundreds- no final numbers. Hostiles have destroyed armored vehicles including one M1A2- expect heavy resistance. Rules of engagement remain- feral combatants, expendable. Medevac all infected showing signs of maintained or regained humanity...-