After minutes of running, Alexander found his Platoon Leader black hair and indigo eyes inside their platoon building who is busy organizing his platoon "Lieutenant Morris Sir, I'm Private First Class Arthur Morgan, I'm assigned to to your platoon, ready and able sir" He saluted and spoke in a formal manner where the lieutenant who is slightly older than him nods "At ease Private, it's too bad for you to be call out during your vacation but war waits for no one, I'm assigned you to Bravo Squad and look for Sergeant Winters, your dismissed Private and welcome to 1st Platoon, 1st Company, 1st Battalion" The lieutenant dismissed him and continue organizing his platoon
After asking, he found the Sergeant silvers hair and grey steel eyes inspecting equipment "Sergeant Winters, I'm Private First Class Arthur Morgan, I was assigned to your squad by Lieutenant Morris" The Sergeant turns around an look at the young man as if evaluating if this guy can even survive the upcoming war "At ease Private, come let's get you gear up" So he follows the Sergeant as they headed for the armory where he was given A450 Assault Rifle with an 6x Scope with integrated ballistics and tripod, P-45 Pistol with it's 12 round maganizes of .45 ammo, a bulletproof vest made with nanomaterials with Level 4 Armor Plates with a full body coverage inside and lastly helmet made with special nanomaterials with integrated augmented virtual reality
After finally geared up, Alexander looks now a proper legionnaire, then Sergeant introduce him to the rest of the squad where a familiar face seen "Amari my man! It's been a minute since the last time I saw your black ass!" He rushed to his friend not waiting for the Sergeant, Amari who is talking with another members turns around happily and responded back "Yo! Arthur! Come to papa!" He spreads him arms and hugs the latter, "Hm.." Sergeant Winters clears his throat where the two stops then stand in attention so as the other members
"Squad listen up! We have a final new member Private First Class Arthur Morgan who is the replacement for Lance Corporal Adam Stevens, show him the ropes and take care of him, dismissed!" As the Sergeant leaves, the rest of the squads starts flocking towards him "Hey Private, I heard you're in the first place in marksmanship both during Basic and Airborne course, is that true?" The Lance Corporal the same one who Amari talked to previously, orange hair and green olive eyes, has large body build and 6.5ft tall 'Is he a former basketball player or something?' Alexander wonders as he answers him "Yes Lance Corporal" Before showing his tabs on his right biceps with a word "Marksman" below of his Airborne tab
"(Whistle) This man his a shooter! Wait a minute! If you are a Marksman then why the hell are you carrying an Assault Rifle!?" As the Lance Corporal wonders why a voice chimes from behind "That's a modded A450 AR for marksmanship you fucking idoit plus have you ever seen a regular rifleman carrying an 6x Scope and a tripod?" The group turns around and immediately stand in attention upon seeing Sergeant Winters with a horrified face "We have a emergency briefing in 5 minutes from now, so don't be leave"
[Five Minutes Later]
Inside the massive briefing hall where all Airborne legionnaires waits for the emergency briefing then a Colonel enters the hall and climbs up to the stage as he immediately start "Lets cut to the chase, as of 20 minutes earlier high command received an overwhelming emergency distress call from the different National Guards where they are fighting against demons, yes you heard it right! Demons!" Shock and disbelief spread across the hall as an holographic display shows monsters attacking the cities but the Colonel continues
"According to the lastest intelligences, the city of Goldenburg and Waulkze is near being overrun by those disgusting creatures, so high command tasked us to help the National Guards to hold the line of this two cities during the main reinforcement arrives! 1st and 2nd Battalion will hold Goldenburg while 3rd Battalion will hold Waulkze alongside with advance element of 18th Infantry Division, good luck to you all and Glory to the Empire!"
Goldenburg City, 1st Foreign Airborne Regiment, Greater Pomelian Empire
October 13 2030, Tuesday, 1424H (2:24PM)
Inside the AT-30 Attack/Transport Helicopter, nine men anxiously await to the drop zone while hearing dozens of reports of crashes and deaths "2 Minutes to Drop Zone!" The pilot announced on their radio, Alexander is extremely nervous and lots of thing are playing on his head, what if they are hit? What if they are dead? And worst what if they are captured?, Alexander clears those poisonous thoughts and steel his resolve 'I will back back alive! For Alexandria Sake!' Then the helicopter finally arrived at the drop zone "Go! Go!" The pilot shouted as Sergeant drops the rappelling rope then repels down
It didn't even take a full minute to all of them drop off from the aircraft "Thanks for the ride!" Amari thanked the pilots as the helicopter return back to base "Bravo Squad on me!" Sergeant Winters orders as they follow him to the objective which is 200 Meters from them, as they move in a Squad Column and utilizing building as covers, as they nearing the objective site, they heard countless of gunshot and explosion rocking the streets "It's must be a hell of a fight" Amari commented on the radio channel while moving on the front wedge of the formation
After minutes of travelling, they finally arrived at the defensive area in the center of the city where they are lots of broken car serving as barricade to slow the demonic advance "Finally your here, Sergeant! I want your squad to go the left flank and help those boys! GO!" Lieutenant Morris ordered them immediatey, so Sergeant Winters and his squad rushes to the left flank while dodging bombardment, when Bravo Squad arrives they immediately got cover inside of an two makeshift pillbox where the remaining National Guards located at then open fire their guns at the horde of monsters, as they are firing against the horde Sergeant Winters orders Alexander "Bravo 8, This is Bravo Actual, go to the place that I marked and provide us overwatch over!" Alexander look at the map on his HUD (Heads Up Display) where the place Sergeant Winters (Right pillbox) pinned which is a building just 10 Meters away on his 8 O'clock
"Copy that Bravo Actual, over and out!" Alexander runs from his original position (Left Pillbox) to go inside the building, after climbing at the 3rd floor and cleared it he found the perfect angle where it overlook his squad position so he remove his racksack and to put it on the beside him and lay down "Bravo Actual, This is Bravo 8, I'm on the position over" Alexander radioed Sergeant Winters before the latter radioed back to him "Copy Bravo 8, you have two objectives first is to relay information for us beyond our visual range and second is to terminate this targets..." An data pocket dumps several pictures on his HUD from humanoid insect to an human but with horns, wings and tails "The pictures that I send you are based on the intelligence gathered are possible leaders of this incursion, if you found one of those targets kill them on sight, over and out" Then abruptly ended the call
"(Sigh) He didn't even wait for me my reply, they must be really busy down there" He mutters before scanning to area to find HVT (High Value Target), after several minutes of waiting and relaying information, he finally found targets 740 yards away (676 Meters) where he double checks on the photos, when the description matched he change his muzzle break to silencer, an ashes color demon with black hair in a medieval armor arguing with a fellow demon but with longer hair and a feminine build, then he's adjusting his scope range setting, he checks the wind speed and direction and other information for long range precision shooting provided by the integrated ballistics software within the scope
'Inhale, Exhale, Inhale...' Alexander holds his breath and wait for opportunity, when the target aligned his head with his fellow demon, he press the trigger where the bullet enters the first demon (man) skull at the back before it enters to the second one's frontal lobe (female) killing them both in just one bullet, then and only then Alexander finally exhale "I can't believe it actually works! Hahaha" Even himself is surprised to his accomplishment, when the monsters sensing their master demise they immediately scatteres away and some start attacking their fellow monsters thus making the defenders jobs such easier and even more much more when the main reinforcements arrives
When the defensive zone are cleared, the platoon gathered inside the building where Alexander set up his post previously "Good work legionnaires!, I don't know what happen to those monsters and what triggers them to fight with themselves, but I'm grateful that no one died in this mission so rest up and good evening! Dismissed!" Lieutenant Morris leave the building to report to the company commander after he finished his small talk to the platoon, then the platoon after eating dinner sleep soundly for tomorrow's mission