Rise of The Shadow Wolf Knight: Prologue
Just outside the city of Black Sage, our brave warrior is
preparing himself and his squad for the upcoming battle, which his army was about
pushed into. Their mission was to recapture the city from the invading enemy
who was slowly taking over the Kingdom of Tavrinth, and so we join our warrior as
he receives his orders.
"Squad
7 report in" yelled a large canine looking commander as he looked over the
maps and battle plans trying to find any holes that may be exploited. While he
yelled out six foot robot looking canine raised up arms stretching out some as
he headed over to receive his orders. His head suddenly peeling back revealing
that it was only a sliding helmet, and revealing to all the black fur, red
eyed, canine that was inside the giant lump of metal.
While
the commander looked over his order, the wolf slowly approached with the
clanking of metal as he made his way over. "Sir Squad seven, squad leader
reporting" his ears twitching as he waited for a response. "Ahhh
Darelan good to see you again, you know I hate being spoken to formally by my
favorite personal" the commander said as he made a couple marks on the
map. "Yes sir I know but our squad has some new rookies, and they still
need to learn respect." Replied Darelan while he lean over and glanced at the maps and then asking "So
what is our part into day's operations or will it be the normal night raid
again to try and slim them down some more?" "Well tell me, is your
squad's power suits fully powered up or are ya still in need of charging?"
the commander questioned as he looked up towards Darelan. Chuckling Darelan
shook his head quickly saying "Sir we are fully charged and ready to jump
in the middle of hell if you like."
The
commander scratched his ear a little sighing softly before saying "Hmmm
well then I guess today your squad is going to earn their pay. I want you and
Squad 7 to hit the middle, I know it sounds crazy but with your suits you
should be able to appear like six squads and that's what we need while our demo
crews sneak around the sides and destroy the shield generators. After that we
can then do some precision bombing and finish off their artillery crews."
Blinking Darelan tilted his head asking "You want us to play lead fodder
while the tweeks get the easy jobs?" His head shook with some amazement
while he then continued to speak "Why is it you always give us the crazy
jobs? You know at this rate we won't be the expert squad anymore, we'll be the
holey squad."
As they
both couldn't help but start to chuckle the commander then replied, "I
know, I know, we've been pushing you guys, but then again everybody being
pushed. You know we've been losing this war and we need the best man power up
front and in this case I know your guys can cause the biggest distraction. You're
cleared to bring anything you want and are even cleared to change out your
packs to any specs you wish."
"Are
you sure on that?" Darelan asked as he went over the battle to come in his
head. "Yes take what you need for at least a minimum of ten minutes, if
not longer, I will need your entire squad in constant contact till we give you
the signal to pull out." As Darelan looked over the map a little more, he
let out a soft sigh and nodded "Yes sir we will do what we can for as long
as we can Sir." Quickly turning and moving away Darelan shook his head
again at the task given thinking to himself, "This is impossible to many
of my men are still green, god I'm going to lose somebody again today if we're
not to careful."
After
leaving the commander, he made his way straight over to his squad while his
left wrist sounded out having received the official orders in full from the
commander along with the authorizations given. As he arrived he looked over his
squad and then suddenly shouts "ATTENION!!! We have orders!" HIs
laughter sounding out as his four new squad members nearly leaped out of their
fur and suits. "We are order to make a forward push into the enemy's front
lines and to maintain contact till order to pull back. While we engage the
enemies, two teams will be flanking in on the sides to place explosives on the
shield generators in order for us to drop their shields, any questions?"
As they mumbled to themselves, one member then spoke up "How many squads
are joining us and what packs are we using?" Darelan responded as he typed
way on his wrist com "We're the only ones making the forward push, we will
be spread out extremely and will need to act like 4 squads. This means no one
can slack and we have been authorized to use whatever we choose, so today we
will have no DM, I want everybody packing either rifles or machine guns, lasers
are off limits since they will drain your suit power faster than your solar can
charge, and yes we are going full suits nobody is going light. If anybody is
wounded and still able to walk you are order to stay in the fight, otherwise
set your suit to auto return in the event you are unconscious, and finally
remember should you die on the battle field, the suit will self destruct in one
minute of the flat line. I know it sounds cruel and that there are times when
revival could be possible, in those events we have away to pause the self destruct,
however we may not always able to get to you if you die and we need to keep our
suits a secret, it's the only advantage we have against the enemy. "Any
other questions?" he asked.
After
waiting a few more moments with no replies and just mumbling he yelled out
"Ok squad eat up, then suit yourself up and report to the north of camp in
one hour for deployment until then DISMISSED!" Being alone now and with
his thoughts Darelan slowly made his way over to the weapons depot to arm up.
Walking
into the make shift building of sandbags and canvas, he glanced threw the
supplies and massive amount of weapons available and then pressed the AI start up button on his suits com system
causing a few sounds to ring threw his headset. "A.C.I.S starting up one
moment..." a few more beeps are heard and then the computer sounding voice
became soft and feminine as it spoke once more "A.C.I.S. start up complete
good morning sir Kitty is ready to pounce one moment while I review battle plans
for today." "Sure Kitty go right ahead it's a doosey today and
wouldn't be surprised if we all end up dead." he simple said. "Sir
when haven't we been at risk, so what do you recommend for today's suit
up?" she replied. "Well lets take the max weight the suit can handle,
we don't have to worry about being silent so no worry there. Lets hook up the
expanded pack and in it I want 10 mags for my rifle, 20 mags for my pistols, 10
HE rounds for the M503 grenade launcher attachment, and 10 stander hand
grenades." he replied while going through the rest of his supplies trying
to figure out what else he wanted. Kitty mean while listening to his requests
was also going threw his suits systems reading it for battle and asked on the
side "Are we going to include any laser combat with today engagement or
will it just be kinetic and are you sure you don't want any rations in the
pack?"
Shaking
his head, he simply replied "No not day, it's going to be a prolonged engagement
so we will need all the power we can keep in the suits, be sure to include both
kinetic and laser shielding in the suits power up systems, we're going to need
all the survivability that we can get. Also Kitty send out a mandatory order to
all the other AIs in our squad to set up with power ups and no laser
weapons." "Yes sir, so would you like rifle or machine gun
then?" she asked while she made the suit go through combat alarm tests.
"Lets go with the 50 cal rifle and of course attach the grenade launcher
on it. It may be a bit over kill for the infantry but will give use some armor
combat ability as well. Fill the water tanks to max and add four ration packs
to the hips. Also fill up the med foam tanks to max." he tilted his head
thinking and trying to figure out what else he wanted as he looked threw there
the screen.
"Sir
I'm ready for movement testing now please finish your request and move us into
the arming bay please" She asked quietly while he cont to look threw the
list of items causing him to chuckle some as he responded "Giddy for
battle are we? Well soon enough sweetie, soon enough, include my stander 4 9mm
pistols, two on the hip, two on the chest. Also stand shotgun fully loaded with
one in the chamber, also make sure the rifle is the same, I want all rifle
slots loaded with buck shot clips and of course fill the four pistol mag slots
as well as the six grenades with the same as in our pack. Is there anything I'm
forgetting?" "Hmm well lets see sir, you have expanded pack with 10
mags for the 50 cal rifle, 20 mags for the 9mm pistol, 10 rounds for the
launcher, 10 stander grenades, along with rifle full loaded, shotgun fully
loaded with six mags, 6 additional grenades attached to suit, 4 additional
rounds for the launcher, 4 9mm pistols with holster both fully loaded, 4 additional
mags on suit for pistol, max water, 4 food rations, med foam to full that's
about it sir, what about your sword? Do you want it and do you want it with or without
a hand guard." Blinking some he quickly replied "that should be a
given, of course I want it, but without the hand guard, right hand draw from
the pack." she acknowledge him and then requested that he move into the
bay for arming.
"Also
while we are setting up would you like something hot to eat or drink while I
finish the set up and testing sir?" she had asked while he made his way
over to his bay and turned around slowly backing his way in till the lid
started to close around him. "No thank you on the food but a cold beer
would be nice while I wait, I give you full permission to move the suit as you
need during combat set up mean while I'm going to rest after drinking" he
closed his eyes some as the helmet once again flipped over his head as it
folded back out from its hiding place locking in place while his ears slide out
of the two holes, and once the suit detected them in place, then extended the
ear shields.
45
minutes later, with one beer and a long nap Kitty lets out a loud alarm to wake
him up. Groaning and blinking a little he slowly woke up. "Sir I am finished
with the combat set up its time to wake up, the crew has met up with us and are
finishing set up as we speak, what are your orders?" Shaking his head inside
his suit he yawned a little waking up slowly "Start log recording" he said as
he blinked a little the shield in front of him suddenly going transparent looking
as the screens took over and showed the outside of his suit and a beep was
heard as the recorder started. "Star date 182558.8, stander calendar June, 10th,
2140, time 11:30 am, In 15 minutes we will be setting out and pushing north
towards the city at with in 30 minutes of moving out we should encounter combat
with the Draconic enemy forces. Our mission is simple; we are to be a diversion
for the demolition squads to take out the shield generators. Let me make an official
statement on this log, as to the fact that I think this mission is suicide and
that at least two more squads should have been deployed, other than that, I have
informed my troops to kit out to max as I have Kitty, my A.C.I.S. will include
a document of my power suit load out. With my current orders I am expecting
anywhere from light to heavy Casualty, if not my entire squad being wiped out,
this is why I am presenting a pre engagement log in the event something happens
to me so that command knows what truly happen. With that I say good luck and
god speed to everybody today..... Kitty end recording." With a beep it had ended and the door in front
of him open out allowing him to exit the bay "Kitty go ahead and upload the log
file to HQ and send a message to the squad
to report for duty ASAP. I'll take full control now, put
systems into combat mode, activate FFI systems and prevent friendly fire
mode on, also power up all shoulder scout drones, finally engage GPS and locator
beacons on allies and inter link radars" with that said he then made his way
out of the bay and towards the north side of camp.
45 Minutes later
Explosions
and gun fire can be heard all over, dragon looking creatures scrambling
everywhere and taking cover where they can while returning fire, having been
engaged by the 7th squad, the fighting had been fierce and drawn out
over a giant area.
"Sir what's
taking them so long, the demolition teams should have already finished!" yelled
out one of the element leads over the coms. "I know I know just keep engaging I'll
get a hold of command and find out" Darelan lean out from the corner and using
the digital combat scope sent ten rounds down range wounding 1 and killing 3
others "Kitty connect me to command and give me an ammo and power load out"
he yelled as he once again lean over and sending more rounds and a grenade down
range. Once more he took cover as he started changing his mags out having empty
another clip "Kitty hurry the fuck up" he yelled glancing over the bio readings
for his squad. Four of them had already
been killed and the fighting was getting fiercer by the minute. "We've got the
whole damn enemy company bearing down on us we need fall back sir!!!" another one
of the squad members yelled out. He
sighed as he lean out opening up again with his rifle. He was about to yell
again when Kitty finally spoke up "Current power is 25%, ammo remaining 5 rifle
mags, 4 hand grenades, 6 launch grenades, 8 pistol mags, and suit is undamaged
because of shielding. However I am unable to reach command, radio is operating with
in parameters so I'm guessing the issue is on their end, without the explosions,
and communications lost with command I would suspected that they expected our
plan and possible flanked us and moved towards our FOB. I recommend we with
draw back and assist there if we find it destroy then a full retreat." She said
while her subsystems locked on to target after target. Sighing he shook his
head some "Recover all drones and then form on me." He said to his remaining
members of his team while looking around seeing them almost a line, the only
remaining element lead alive waving at him while bullets flew by, causing
Darelan to shake his head and chuckle.
Upon
getting the green lights from all remaining members, letting him know all
drones had been recovered, he yelled out "Fall back to base on my lead" as
Kitty then said "Sir I'm having to shut down the shields we don't have the
power to support them currently while on the run so avoid the bullets at all
costs." As the squad stacked on him , he
leaned around the edge and sent the rest of his clip down range in rapid fire
mode, yelling out "Element Lead cover me!!!" as he took off running towards a
set a buildings down the road way, south of them.
Just as
he took off, the element lead notice a rocket team setting up nearby and time
he yelled out to Darelan, he was already down the road halfway to cover, and at
the same moment the lead yelled out "GET DOWN MISSILE IN BOUND!!" It was
already too late the rocket team had fired and sent its missile streaking threw
the air heading right for Darelan. Darelan, last moment, turned around and seen
the rocket flying towards him not being able to do anything.
When
element lead yelling out "DAR Nooo GET DOWN...."
Darelan disappear completely from the lead's eyes as a giant fireball
engulfed him. As remainder of the squad covered their eyes from the blinding blast,
the sound of the explosion reverberated everywhere. When they finally look down
towards where Darelan had been, and yelling out for him over the coms. All they
got saw was a crater and smoke, and all they heard was static. No debris remained
from his suit. It was as if he simply never existed.