{"sf1_id":310884,"sf2_id":"YnLwqGGm","title":"Wake-Up Call - Part of a larger story","author":"HonkIfYourFurry","words":1403,"posted_at":"2011-11-26T19:14:00.000Z","tags":["Anthro","Fighting","Human","Soldier","Violence","War","airborne","world war 3"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/310884-wake-up-call-part-of-a-larger-story","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/YnLwqGGm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/b0/43/b043dd23-7db6-459e-9d63-ae29455c94b2","description":"","content":"\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBefore you read, this is part of a larger story I've been working on. These two chapters are part of my entry for a contest on another forum, I've been wanting to post on SoFurry for a long time so, here ya go.\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n_There it was again, that familiar whistling..._\n\n_BOOM!_\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"C'mon, wake it and shake it! Ivan's bringin' your bacon!\" The Lieutenant yelled. I was sleeping in the back of a burnt out\u0026nbsp;Russian lorry. I immediately grabbed my rifle and ran for the defensive position down the street we had set up the night\u0026nbsp;before. In the old house a met my squad. 2nd Lieutenant Hayes, my CO, was fiddling with Corporal Oppums radio, trying to\u0026nbsp;get a hold of Bravo Company, who was carrying all the battalions extra ammo, he was worried about a possible counterattack.\u0026nbsp;\"Hey, you guys hear that?\" I shouted over the sound of mortars impacting the street in front of us. I thought I heard\u0026nbsp;something that sounded like one of our fighter-bombers and looked up. When i did, I saw Russian anti-air fire flying over\u0026nbsp;the buildings in front of us. I heard an explosion and I saw something that hit me in like a punch in the face, I saw a\u0026nbsp;Grumman F-B 2 spiraling towards the ground far ahead of us outside the town, missing a wing. As soon as the mortars stopped we stood up and looked out the windows again.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Did anyone see a parachute?\" asked Reeves in\u0026nbsp;a quiet voice.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"No.\" I said.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Shit\" said Reeves, sighing.\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWe slowly walked out of our hiding place with weapons drawn, we\u0026nbsp;knew the Russian 38th Guards Rifle Division was still in the area. We were hoping they wouldn't show up again, we were\u0026nbsp;fighting them all last night during the drop. The 38th preferred to raze everything to the ground before moving in to mop\u0026nbsp;up. And when they got to whatever position they had pounded to pieces, they were very brutal, paticularly towards our 42nd\u0026nbsp;Division soldiers. When my unit was in Korea holding a small town just outside of Pyongyang, towards the end of the\u0026nbsp;fighting the North Korean military was getting desperate, they asked for reinforcements from Russia. They sent the 38th\u0026nbsp;Guards. The Russians took the town from us and we had to retreat, all we could do was watch from the hills. They beat and\u0026nbsp;tortured everybody, they didn't even kill them, they were tortured and left to die after the Russians were done destroying\u0026nbsp;our equipment.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs we walked out onto the street, some of us who saw action there were flooded with memories, all terrible. \"We need to\u0026nbsp;find those mortars sir.\" said Jenks.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"I agree. Keenan, I want you to set up with Sergeant Hostetler in the church tower,\u0026nbsp;see if you can locate the enemy reinforcements, we'll worry about the mortars. Jenks, grab some more of that 7.62mm for\u0026nbsp;\n\nthat MG-3 you found, ditch that crappy SAW, we're gettin' those mortars.\" said Hayes\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n--end of chapter--\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nGoing Hunting\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWe searched the outskirts of the town first, not a thing changed since last night, burnt bodies, bomb craters, spent shell\u0026nbsp;casings and empty magazines and ammo cans littered the ground. Slowly making our way across the field into the trees,\u0026nbsp;Jasper caught our attention. \"What did you find Jas'?\" I asked. \"Take a look at this poor bastard\" he says. I look at the\u0026nbsp;bunker he is pointing to, and i read whats left of the sign on it, it says:\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n'Utilities Shed A2'\n\n'Warning, High Voltage\u0026nbsp;Emergency Generators, Keep Door Closed, Authorized Personnel Only.'\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThen I look at the inside of the bunker. The roof is\u0026nbsp;missing and it had rained the night before, I looked down and see a Russian soldier burnt almost to a crisp laying in at\u0026nbsp;least 6 inches of water, he had been electrocuted. He had probably taken shelter in here during the pre invasion bombing\u0026nbsp;runs. \"Shocking, isn't it?\" said Jasper with a smile.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nContinuing into the trees, we spread out, 12 meters apart. When we came to a road, and a very large hedgerow on the other\u0026nbsp;\n\nside of said road, we gathered at its base. \"Ready?\" asks Hayes. We all nod and push through the hedgerow at the same time,\u0026nbsp;which a few seconds later I realized that easily could've killed us all. We started taking massive amounts of fire from a\u0026nbsp;large concrete bunker as soon as we showed ourselves. I immediately ran for a bomb crater in front of me. As I reached the\u0026nbsp;edge, a bullet grazed my Kevlar helmet, my head jerked hard to the right and I fell, hard, into the crater. I shut my eyes\u0026nbsp;for what seemed like a few seconds lying on the bottom of the crater and when I opened them, Oppum was shaking my\u0026nbsp;shoulders. \"Wake up Sarge! C'mon!\" he shouts. I find my helmet on the ground next to me, I put it on. \"I'm okay Corporal,\u0026nbsp;just dazed.\" I say. I notice Jenks jump into the crater with us. \"Jenks, I need covering fire, I'll distracted the machine\u0026nbsp;gunner so Reeves can get a shot in!\" I shout over the gunfire. \"I gotcha Sarge! On my go!\" he pauses. \"Go!\" He stands up\u0026nbsp;and sprays the bunkers firing port, I get up and circle right to get to the side door. The enemy MG turns to fire on me,\u0026nbsp;and just like I thought would happen, Reeves puts a .30-06 into his skull.\u0026nbsp;I get to the doorway, heart pounding, adrenaline rushing, I lean into the doorway of the bunker and promptly killed a soldier\u0026nbsp;trying to load his shotgun. Another enemy machine gunner leans out from his hiding place and sprays his PKM down the short\u0026nbsp;hallway, chipping away at the reinforced concrete. I throw a grenade and run in after I hear the explosion and take cover\u0026nbsp;behind a supply crate. I hear Russians screaming in the back rooms: \\\u003cDmitry, Jakov! Take the mortar rounds! And you three,\u0026nbsp;take positions in the dugout!\\\u003e\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI see my squad moving up outside, I run out and tell them there are soldiers in the dugout out back covering the mortar\u0026nbsp;teams retreat. We then split up to take them out. \"Oppum, on me!\" I say. The rest of the squad goes around the other side\u0026nbsp;of the bunker to wait for me to throw a grenade, that's their signal to fire. A few seconds later, BOOM! We all storm the\u0026nbsp;dugout at once and turn the soldiers into swiss cheese. \"This is definitely the place, look.\" says Carmine. We see him\u0026nbsp;pointing to empty 60mm mortar round crates. Oppums radio then comes to life.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*static\\* \"Bravo 2, this is Sierra 2, pick up, over.\" \\*static\\*\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nLieutenant Hayes gestures for me to take the handset from Oppums radio.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*static\\* \"This is Bravo 2, Sierra 2 go ahead.\" \\*static\\*\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*static\\* \"We are tracking a heavily armed company size unit heading in your direction, break, \\*static\\* we are waiting for\u0026nbsp;vehicles to come closer, break, fog is making things difficult, break, we will take out the mortar teams for you, over.\"\u0026nbsp;\\*static\\*\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBefore I replied, I heard the boom of her 18mm anti-material rifle in the distance.\\*\\*\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*static\\* \"Interrogative, what do you advise we do, over?\" \\*static\\*\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*static\\* \"Dig in, no time to run, over\" \\*static\\*\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*static\\* \"Wilco Sierra, out.\" \\*static\\*\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"What's the word Sergeant?\" asks Hayes. \"We're screwed, heavily armed company size unit moving in to wipe us out, no time\u0026nbsp;to run.\" I say. \"What about the mortar teams?\" he asks. \"Keenans' taking care of it\" I said. We then heard engines in the\u0026nbsp;distance, Hayes looked through his binoculars and swore from A to Z. \"Shit! We got a T-110 Medium headed our way! Take\u0026nbsp;cover now! Don't move a muscle!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n--to be continued--\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*\\*I can draw her rifle for you if you want to see it, that thing is a beast.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThanks for reading. If you want more, say something and I will post, but I'll be starting from the beginning. Also I'm not an experienced writer so if you have suggestions they are welcome.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\*\\*\\*EDIT\\*\\*\\*\n\nAs pointed out by otakuman, I wasnt clear on who 'her' was. I forgot that this is about halfway through the story and I havent posted anything else yet. So, 'her' is 2nd Lieutenant Elizabeth 'Liz' Keenan. She is in a sniper team with her longtime friend Sergeant Steph Hostetler. Their callsign is Sierra 2.\u0026nbsp;\n  \n  \n\n"}