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The Gene Corp War
Introduction:Remnants of the past
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A few years before the events of the HTTYD Movie
Isle of Berk; Hooligan Village
The Village Elder gots the all clear message from a viking to allow the young children out of the security of the cave after a dragon attack. Astrid Hofferson was the first out; there a few huts are burning that were being fought by teenage vikings.. Rather than going to find her parents,Astrid went into the nearby forests. Once deep inside the forest; Astrid saw something sticking out of a tree, shining in the moonlight. She walked over to the tree, it was a Black Piece of strange metal. It was stuck high in the tree; but Astrid climbed up the tree and tuged on the piece of the metal, she pulled it out after one try, It was suprisingly light and easy to carry, so Astrid was able to quickly climb down the tree to the ground and ran back to the village and took the piece of metal to The Village Elder
"What is this?" Astrid asked the Elder as she handed her the metal; on the metal has strange text on that was barely readable, the Elder smiled as she read it "American People's Military Air Corps"
"That is a good find, Astrid." The Elder said as she looked at the metal "Where did you find it?"
"In the forest it was sticking out of a tree, so I climbed up to get it." The young Astrid replied; in the background, two larger Viking youths were picking on a smaller one named Hiccup.
"This is a artifact from long before even I was born." The Elder Said "Do you even know what this says?" The Elder pointed to the text on the piece of metal
"No." Astrid replied
"Come on child, I'll teach how to read it." The Elder said as she smiled
The Story so far: Edit
A year after the heroic actions of the viking dragon riders at Dragon Island ended the Viking-Dragon War, The Hairy Hooligans find themselves being attacked by a Technologically Advanced enemy equipped with sticks that belch out hot metal and death, tracked armored fighting machines, and two different types of flying machine that attack for only reason: To kidnap dragons and take them away to a distant place. The Vikings despite their technological disadvantage fights back with courage and feriously against the Invaders with their axes, spears, swords, arrows, and Dragons.
But unknown to the Hairy Hooligans,in another world. A very powerful group of people are taking notice to the actions of the very same group of people besieging them, the American People's Party.
Over the past several months across the globe, Some of the best pilots available to the three most powerful countries including the United States are disappearing without a trace. While at the same time; A large and mysterious corporation named Gene Corp lead by Larry MacTavish has hired the Blackwater PMC lead by Charles Luger to "protect" their trans-dimensional expeditions and also provide them the funds to buy better gear and to increase the size of their army of mercenaries. Gene Corp has had it's previous conflicts with the APP leading the leaders of the American Government to worry about this sudden military build up; forcing a reaction that will set the course of history, change the rules of warfare forever, and send Americans, Vikings, and Dragons alike to the depths of a unexpected war.
Note to readers: I am trying to aim for a Tom Clancy-like Military/Sci-Fi Thriller. Although I am nowhere near the level of Tom Clancy. I also take influence from games, books, and movies (Command and Conquer , The Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove (I also play tribute to him later in the story.), Battlefield , War of the Worlds , and ETC) One of the main influences through would be John Birmingham's Axis of Time Trilogy. And there is a character who I based off myself and named after my account that will be mention and later appears in the story. Also Raptor, I am using the names for the dragons you did for Venegance of Altantis since I couldn't think of anything better for them.
BackgroundEdit
Major Factions: United States of America: Welcome to 23rd Century America. The American's People Party has complete control of the government and there are no opposing parties. All citizens are required to sign up for the draft and serve in the military for a maximum of seven years when they turn twenty. All news channels now project a steady stream of propaganda for the government. The government has a tight leash on the economy, controlling the prices and flow of commerce in and out of the country. The streets are lined with uniformed citizen, secret police, and propaganda.. There has not been a presidential election since 2012, but the president has changed only three times since 2020 due to advances in life extension research.
Despite possessing the appearance of a dictatorship, the United States is prospering due to the production of goods (both military and civilian) and the large export market for American goods. Puppet governments in South America and China are controlled by the United States, who is also a member of the Coalition, a peace keeping alliance that relies on brute force to maintain the peace since 2063. The current president is largely powerless, relying on his experienced cabinet and advisors to control the country and it's large military. As long as the people are happy, the American's People Party does not change any policies.
Gene Corp: A multi-million dollar corporation, Gene Corp has gained a monopoly in genetic experiments and leading trans-dimensional expeditions to study the wildlife in other dimensions. Lead by Larry MacTavish, Gene Corp has become even larger and is now in conflict with the policies of the American's People Party. Its interest in Project Nova and dragons has further fueled this conflict.
Blackwater International: An infamous private military contractor formed in 1997 and temporarily renamed as Xe Services LLC, but renamed back to Blackwater in 2050 as the Clan Wars broke out. After the end of the Clan Wars and World War III, Blackwater remained afloat by providing security for the Private Sector during the peace of the ending decades of the 21st, 22nd, and early 23rd Centuries. With it's long term contact with Gene Corp, Blackwater has increased in size and has been upgraded with old, but still effective military-grade equipment.
Hairy Hooligan Tribe: The Vikings and retired dragon-slayers, the Hairy Hooligan tribe has been struggling to find a new purpose for itself after its long lasting war with the dragons ended. Lead by Stoick the Vast, the village has grown in population and size due to the end of the war. But a strange and technologically advanced people are now attacking Berk and kidnapping dragons. The Vikings now must adapt to fight their new enemies, unknowing that they are already on the trail leading to an even larger conflict.
Minor Factions:
Russian Federation
European Federation
Israel
South American Union (SAU)
Central American Union (CAU)
South African Federation (SAF)
United Arabian States (UAS)
United Asian Federation (UAF) [Formerly the Mafian Empire (China)]
Australian Union
Canada
Other Viking Tribes
Alliances:Edit
Coalition: United States, Central American Union, South African Federation, Russia, European Federation, United Asian Federation, Australian Union, Canada, and Israel
The American Union (Economic, not mentioned): United States, Central American Union, Canada, and South American Union
Previous Events mention in StoryEdit
Second American Civil War: Decade-long struggle between the Democratic, Republican, and the later APP that tore United States apart and led to the APP's coming to power after the Republican and Democratic parties failed to grant the peoples' wish of seeing a unified country resulted in the collapses of both party's support by the public and the APP's victory and dissolving of the old parties.
Clan Wars(America)/CW/The Third Great War(Europe)/ The Second Patriotic War(Russia): Decade-long violent conflict between the Axis that consisted of Facepunch (Made up by former Republicans), WCA (former Democrats), 3v0lution (Oppressive totalitarian ship that controlled most of South America), and the Mafian Empire (Chinese Mafia-led Government that controlled most of the Asian continent via brute force and intimidation and Coalition that consisted of Russia, Israel, USA, The European Federation, Canada, Australian Union, and the South African Federation. Ended with a Coalition victory in 2059 with the Mafian surrender at the Tokyo Peace Conferences.
World War III (WWIII): Short three year conflict between Russia and Europe at first, then Europe and United States and it's allies against Russia and then finally The European Federation, Russia, and the United States against France, who was responsible for the events that dragged America into the war. Finally returned the balance to the world after nearly six decades of political and economical instability (Started by the Second American Civil War in 2012 that brought the APP to power in 2020) and created a lasting peace between the world powers and their allies.
Operation Bodyguard: After a weapons experiment with dark energy resulted in the creation of a trans-dimensional rift over a Kansas Farmland in 2111. The Coalition(The peace-keeping alliance between the world powers and their allies) sent a joint scientific expedition to study the new world on the other side of the rift. The main focus of the scientists were the native dragons that were long thought to only exist in human legend and Mythology. However the war between the local Viking-like Human population and the dragons threatened the security of the expedition resulted in a increase military Intervention under a Operation called "Bodyguard" by coalition war planners.
The operation was originally meant to protect the scientists by hopefully intimidating the dragons and Vikings to stay away from the scientists. But the presence of the coalition military forces only attracted more dragons and led to a three month violent struggle between the Coalition, the dragons, and Vikings. The Coalition pulled out in Late 2111 and further Coalition-led expeditions were banned under the Kansas City Agreement, but expeditions by the private sector continued without the protection of military forces, so the corporations that funded the expeditions hired well-equipped PMCs to protect their expeditions from the Vikings and dragons. The failure of the operation was blamed on the Coalition's poor Intel on the dragons and the collapse of Coalition-Viking relations during the operation resulted in a guerilla war between the Vikings and Coalition forces.
Part One: InvestigationEdit
{C}December 26th, 2240
Cape Girardeau, MO
178 Years since the end of World War III (The Last Earth-bound War)
The locals of the national capital of the United States, Cape Girardeau go about their daily lives while above them, three Cape Girardeau Class Airships hover above city. Aboard the airship named after the city below, the President of the United States and his Secretary of State, Laura Chavez are having a conference
"This better be good." The President of the United States of American and Leader of the People's Party, Nicky Garter said with a grim face to his Secretary of State Laura Chavez and SoD Redfield. Garter is a tall man in his early thirties; he has short brownish-blonde hair and light blue eyes. Chavez is a woman of Hispanic descent she has black hair that is in a pony tail and dark brown eyes. Redfield is an older man in his late 40s. He has thin gray hair and cold green eyes.
"Trust me, me Mr. President; this could be a matter of national security…" Redfield replied to the President as he handed him a folder with the word "Classified" stamped on it with bright red ink. That Garter grabbed and opened and then looked at the contents which are satellite photos of a Gene Corp research facility in Phoenix, Arizona. There are also several objects circled on the photos
"Is the CIA and Military Intelligence sure about this?" Garters said with his eyes now wide open and face pale white as he looks at Redfield
"Yes…the CIA has indentified them as a Monstrous Nightmare, Gronckle, Deadly Nadder, and Hideous Zippleback, the most common dragon species in the other dimension." Redfield replied
"This comes at the same as the Blackwater arms build up?" Garter said as he looked up at Redfield from behind the folder
"Yes sir, along with Gene Corp's interests in the facilities involved in Facepunch's "Project Nova" during the Clan Wars." Redfield replied
"When did this start?" Garter asked Chavez
"Several months ago…strangely around this time both Russia and Europe notice a series of disappears of their best pilots and several of our pilots have also gone missing." Chavez replied
"We have had our pilots disappearing! Why wasn't I notified about this earlier?" Garter yelled he slammed his fist on the conference table.
"Because our Intel is rather weak about what Gene Corp's intentions are with their dimensional operations since MacTavish came to power back two years ago." Chavez said as Redfield helped Garter clam down
"I was hoping that Gene Corp would fall on their faces by now…are they brining in any other types of creatures or just dragons?" Garter asked Redfield
"They did at first, but now they are only bringing in dragons." Redfield replied as he picked up the folder that Garter dropped on the floor when he slammed his fist and slips them into his briefcase
"What does the public know?" Garter asked Chavez as he tapped on the wooden conference table with his index finger on the desk
"Nothing outside of their contract with Blackwater, who has been providing their security for their operations in the other dimension since the Treaty of Kansas City after Bodyguard ended in 2111." Chavez replied
"Are there any other bases that Gene Corp is using for their operations?" Garter asked Redfield
"It's just their Phoenix facility and some of the secondary facilities in the Phoenix area." Redfield replied
"Then I want more recon flights, drone feeds, and any satellite imagery we can get on this base." Garter said to Redfield
"It shall be done, Mr. President." Redfield replied
"What is Blackwater using to bring in the dragons for Gene Corp?" Garter asked Chavez
"It's mostly old C-8 Globemasters and Russian An-124s that are escorted in convoys by SU-34s and MiG-21s…which neither us or the Russians have no idea where their getting this tech." Chavez replied
"What do we know about the kidnappings and their interest of the secret weapons facilities?" Garter asked Redfield
"They all occurred late at night when they were off duty by themselves. What they are getting from Bunkers…we have no idea." Redfield replied
"If Blackwater is using this kind of aircraft to transport the dragons then they must have a base of operations somewhere in the other dimension…find our best available squadron for the Op…I want nobody outside the room or the squadron we choose to know about this operation…because if Gene Corp finds out they will try to cover their tracks." Garter said to Chavez and Redfield
"Yes Sir…I believe that our only available squadron is the 502nd…their currently doing R&R at the Airbase." Redfield said to Garter
"Ah…Barnes' men, they're perfect for this type of mission. Get them here." Garter Replied, Redfield nodded in reply as he pulled out his cell phone.
Part Two: The 502ndEdit
A few minutes later in the Cape Girardeau Airbase and Civilian Airport's pilot lounge, the best five pilots in the American's People Military Air Corps (APMAC) are sitting at a booth talking to each other while drinking. They're the famous (or infamous, depending on the country) 502nd Special Operations Fighter Squadron (SOFS), A squadron designed to operation behind enemy lines with no support for long periods of time.
"This place isn't as full as it used to be…" Major Barnes said as he took a sip of his root beer. Barnes is the leader of the 502nd, his eyes are a light emerald color and his hair is a mixture of light and dark browns. His call sign is Dice-1
"That's probably because of the disappearances. There have been six pilots that have gone missing, three of them were stationed in this airbase and were fellow F-45 pilots." Lieutenant Carmen said. Carmen Luca is an Italian-American with light blue eyes and blonde hair. He is third highest ranking member below Barnes in the 502nd His call sign is Dice-3
"The disappearances are scaring people away…what a pity." Captain Ramirez said. Jack Franz Ramirez is one of the two African Americans in the 502nd. He has a short shaven black hair, some facial hair, and brown eyes. He is the second in command of the 502nd; his Call Sign is Dice-2
"I knew of the one pilots that were kidnapped, Walton Krueger, we were very good friends." Sergeant Newell said as nodded his head sadly. Gabe Newell the Second is the descendant of the famous early 21st century video game developer and leader of the Valve Corporation, Gabe Newell. He as dark brown hair, blue eyes and is the biggest of the squadron, his callsign is Dice-5.
"Who is skilled enough to hold any kind of APM official and hold them this long?" Sergeant Louis said. Louis is the second African American in the squadron; he has no hair and blue eyes. His call sign is Dice-4.
On a nearby TV there was a news report about a nearing severe winter storm that was threatening the capital, but nobody was watching it. Outside, there was already a thin layer of snow covering the ground.
"We need to stick together during these times. Otherwise one of us will be the next victim of the kidnappers." Barnes said to his wing mates, who nodded in agreement
"Uraa…" Ramirez silently said
Outside a HMMWV motorcade rolled up, a APM general and his two APM bodyguards wearing their A-1 Powered Combat Armor armed with GK-44 Pulse Assault Rifles (GK stands for George King, the developer of the original GK Assault Rifle) entered the lounge
"Are the 502nd present?" The General asked the people in the lounge with a thundering voice
"We're right here, Conrad…" Barnes replied as he and his squadron got up their booth and approaches General Conrad. Marshal Conrad is a elderly Second Civil War veteran who has seen service in nearly all the wars the APM has thought since it's creation in 2011. He is a tall man with a thick, gray, and bushy mustache, his hair is white and sticking out from under his officer's cap, his eyes are a cold dark green.
"Uggghhh…I was hoping you guys would be better dressed…" Conrad said looking at the 502nd who were wearing tattered and worn out Dress Winter Uniforms
"Why is that, General?" Barnes asked Conrad
"Because the President has requested your presence on the USAS Cape Girardeau, bring your fighters." Conrad replied before the 502nd stood at better attention
"Tell Garter that we will be there as soon as possible!" Barnes said quickly
"Good, do not keep him waiting…these orders sound very urgent." Conrad replied before he leaves with his body guards to the HMMWV, after it rolls away, Barnes turned around to face his squadron
"Return to the barracks, wash up, get better uniforms on, and get nice looking and we will regroup at the hangars. DISMISSED! " Barnes yelled in an orderly voice. The 502nd quickly left the pilot lounge for the pilot barracks that are across the road from the lounge.
A few minutes later the 502nd rallied at the hangars. Preston Marlow, the 502nd's crew chief ran over to Barnes.
"I know you guys don't want to hear this, but the control rods on Newell's and Carmen's planes are dead and they need to be replaced." Preston said to Barnes. Preston is a young APM cadet who dreamed of becoming a pilot in the 502nd. He is in early twenties; he has dark red hair and green eyes.
"Get those replaced as soon as you can, we need to get to the Cape Girardeau to meet with the President." Barnes replied
"Don't worry, sir. It won't take long!" Preston said as he orders the rest of the Repair crew to begin replacing the Fusion reactor on Newell's and Carmen's aircraft
"He's a good kid…he'll make a good pilot some day." Barnes says as he watched Preston opened the hatch to the compartment that held the F-45's fusion reactor. Preston had been given immunity treatments that make him immune to the radiation emitted from the F-45's reactor.
"I haven't seen Sam in a while, are you guys still together?" Carmen asked Barnes about Samantha McNally his long time girlfriend
"Yes we're still very much together…she is on a cruise in the Caribbean with Katie (Samantha's best friend). She won't be back for four months." Barnes replied
"Oh…" Carmen said
"You guys have been together since 2062, you guys even sleep and live together, and you two still aren't married or even engaged." Ramirez said to Barnes
"Sorry…but it's isn't your choice on what I and Sam decide to do with our relationship, captain." Barnes replied in an annoyed voice
"Sorry sir." Ramirez said to Barnes, apologetically
"You're forgiven captain. Just keep you're nose out of my business." Barnes said to Ramirez
After a few minutes, the bad control rods in Carmen's and Newell's F-45s are replaced, the pilots got to their assigned F-45.
The F-45 Ultra-Eagle Joint Strike Fighter was first introduced in 2062 after nearly 10 years in development. Equipped with the latest weapons and defenses, including automatically recharging pulse cannons, built-in automatic missile and rocket Assembly device that provides a nearly unlimited supply of missiles and rockets for the F-45's, all the F-45's weapons are located in weapon bays where they can be extracted and extracted when needed, they also help improved the F-45's Stealth that is also further improved by a built in radar jammer. The F-45 is also provided with a near unlimited flying time and operating range due to its powerful fusion-powered Pulse Engine. The F-45 is only in limited production and is only supplied to the best SOFS Squadrons in the regular APMAC, the While the air branch of the APMSF is fully equipped with F-45s. But the APMSF disappeared with the Reaper twenty Years ago.
Barnes climbed into his F-45, once inside, he put his hand on the scanner so the F-45's computer can scan it. The F-45 recognized his DNA and the instruments in the F-45's cockpit come to live, Barnes then closed the canopy as he begin pre-take off preparation
"Activate Engine!" Barnes said to the F-45's computer that activated the pulse engine which roared to life with red flames that then turned to a quite bluish-white flame. The F-45 taxied out of its hangar. Barnes then activated the turbofan that lifted the F-45 off the ground vertically like a helicopter; the other F-45s do the same.
"You guys know where we're going! Last one to the Cape Girardeau buys dinner when we come back!" Barnes said over the radio to his wing mates happily before he took off in full speed, the other F-45s followed
It only took a few minutes for the F-45s to reach the USAS Cape Girardeau; Carmen is the last one to reach the USAS Cape Girardeau.
"I swear…you guys cheat." Carmen hissed over the radio to his wing mates who begun to laugh as they approach the landing bay of the hovering airship. Barnes and Ramirez's F-45s are the first to touch down in the landing bay. But they do not dismount in till the others had land. After everybody lands, the pilots turned off their engines, opened the canopies on their F-45s and climbed out on the small ladders that deployed.
An APM Officer approached Barnes after he finished climbing down
"The President is waiting for you in the bridge, Conference Room A." The Officer said to Barnes who nodded in response
As the pilots left the landing bay, Several APM Engineers rushed past the pilots with metal containers headed towards the F-45s. Barnes stopped the officer that led the engineers
"What the hell are you guys doing to our planes?" Barnes asks the Engineer with concern
"The President told us to upgrade your F-45s with cloaking devices and radio-listening equipment for your upcoming mission." The Engineer replied with a New York accent, Barnes then lets him past. The Pilots continued down the corridor that went to an elevator that went straight to the bridge
"If they are upgrading our fighters with APMSF cloaking devices, this mission must be important." Ramirez said to Barnes
"Yeah I wonder what kind of mission this is then…." Barnes replied in a concerned voice
"Do you think we're going to war?" Carmen asked his wing mates uneasily
"I doubt it…last time I checked we were getting along with everybody." Newell replied
"We'll find out when get there." Barnes said to his wing mates as they arrived at the elevator and got in it and headed up to the bridge
A few minutes later, the 502nd enter the Conference room, Garter and Redfield are waiting and were sitting down in chairs at the opposite end of the room from them
"Gentlemen…please take a seat." Garter said to the 502nd who then sat down in the chairs across from him and Redfield
"Redfield…tell them what they need to know for their mission." Garter said to Redfield who nodded
"We believe that Gene Corp and Blackwater are responsible for the disappearances for your fellow Russian, European, and American pilots." He said to the 502nd as he handed out folders with the word "Classified" stamped on them in red ink to each pilot who took a few minutes to read the contents. After they're done, they set the folders down in front of them.
"So you want us to find out where their main base in the other dimension is for you guys?" Barnes asked Garter and Redfield
"Yes…The location of their base will help us with the continuing investigation of their intentions with the dragons they're importing and the reasons behind the recent Blackwater arms build up." Redfield replied
"Barnes…we want to keep this operation covert…We want you to keep your weapons cold unless Blackwater or any dragons engage you first." Garter said to Barnes in a serious voice, Barnes nodded in response
"I understand…what do we do if they attack us and we can't fight them?" Barnes asked them
"You are to fall back and await further orders." Redfield replied
"Just in case you will be equipped with a full weapons load out for any problems you might face while you're there." Garter said
"Before you leave, you may want to read up on your dragons." Redfield suggested to Barnes; who nodded
"When do we leave then?" Barnes asked the two politicians
"As soon as the engineers finish upgrading your F-45s with those cloaking devices in three hours, we want you to be in the air and on your way to the Kansas Rift Zone." Garter replied
"And how are we going to find this base?" Ramirez asked
"You will follow one of the scheduled Blackwater air convoys that go back and forth between their base there and the main Gene Corp facility in Phoenix." Redfield replied
"We have told you all we know about this situation and what you need to do to help us…come back safely." Garter says to Barnes and his wingmates who get up and salute the President and SoD before they leave
"…I suggest we take Redfield's advice and read up about the dragons since we weren't deployed in Bodyguard…" Barnes said to his wingmates
"Yes Sir…" Ramirez replied
"Dismissed…we'll regroup in the hangar in three hours." Barnes ordered to his wingmates as they went their separate ways
A few minutes later Barnes is in the library of the airship looking at the APMAC's Field Manual to dragons that contains basic information about most known dragon species
"Monstrous Nightmare…largest known dragon, extremely aggressive with spines going from neck to tail and uses the claw at the tips of their wings to crawl along the floor. The Monstrous Nightmare is the first dragon species to enter a fight and usually the last to leave. It is well known for setting itself on fire creating a "fire jacket" that makes it dangerous to attack at close quarters. It is extremely dangerous, it is preferred that you wait in till the Monstrous Nightmare is on the ground when you can bomb it." Barnes said as he read the description of the Monstrous Nightmare
Barnes turned the page on it there was a description of a Deadly Nadder
"Deadly Nadder…most common dragon encountered. It is a two legged dragon that is aggressive and has a quick explosive temper. It usually attacks in groups of four or five. Can shoot venomous quills out of its tail if threatened it will also and rattle its tail like a rattlesnake. It is preferred to attack it head on. It breathes magnesium fire that can melt most tank armors at close range." Barnes said in his mind reading the description
Barnes turned the page again, on the next page there is a description of the Two-Headed Hideous Zippleback
"Zippleback…evasive and devious two-headed dragon that can trick its prey, one head breathes flammable acid, the other ignites it with a large-enough spark. Both heads has it own personality and brain. It is known for the heads to argue with each other, when this occurs the Zippleback will be vulnerable to attack." Barnes said in his mind reading the description
Barnes read the description of the Gronckle, Terrible Terror, Timberjack, Bone Knapper, before he reached the vague description of a Night Fury that featured a sketch drew by the only APM Soldier to have survived an encounter with one.
"Intelligent and stealthy dragon, the Night Fury is only known dragon that will aggressively go after F-45s and similar jet fighters. The Night Fury only appears at night and dives bombs ground targets and remains unseen. If engaged by a Night Fury, it is a game of luck, only the best pilots should go after the Night Fury and even those have little change of returning." Barnes said quietly as he read the description. After he is done reading the manual he looked at his watch and puts the book back into its shelf.
Three hours later, the 502nd shot out of the landing bay in full speed as they headed west towards Kansas
"Maintain formation!" Barnes said as the F-45s sped through the skies, the sun setting below the horizon.
"God…I hope we don't run into any Night Furies." Ramirez said gravely over the radio to wingmates who agreed quietly
Part Three: The Defense of BerkEdit
Earlier that Morning in the Other Dimension
On The Isle of Berk, the Hairy Hooligan tribe is trying to repulse another attack by the mysterious and technologically advanced invaders and their war machines.
Several Viking warriors ducked into their trench as a flying machine flies overhead, firing its weapons at them, some Vikings attempt to flee as the invading soldiers and their tracked armored beasts approached the Vikings aggressively
"HOLD YOUR POSTIONS!" Stoick the Vast, the leader of the Hairy Hooligan Tribe yelled to his fellow Viking Warriors
The invader soldiers charged into the Viking Trench and a brutal melee fight began. Stoick used his War hammer to smash in an Invader's soldier head as the village's blacksmith; Gobber the Belch watched his back
"Where are Hiccup and the dragons?" Gobber asked Stoick after he used the Mace he has attached to his prostheses right hand to whack a invader soldier in the side of the head
"They're helping the others hold off a push by the invaders on the other side of the village! But they should be here soon!" Stoick replied
"Here come their armored beasts!" A Viking yelled
The armored beasts stopped and began firing their weapons into the trench killing both Vikings and their fellow soldiers alike
"FALL BACK!" Stoick yelled as he helped Gobber out the trench as the armored beast pushed forward while still firing weapons
The Viking warriors falls back to another set of trenches deeper in the village, the officers of the invader army shouted orders to the others in their strange language to pursue the retreating Viking. The Vikings jump into their new trenches as behind them the catapults threw boulders and burning balls of sticks at the attackers that shattered their ranks and smashed some of their armored beasts. But they still continued their ruthless advance into the village.
The largest of the armored beasts increased their speed to crush the Vikings under their treads, but before they could reach the Vikings, there is a ballistic sound that is heard before a indigo-colored fire bolt hits the machine in the side and exploded, the explosion disables the armored beast and its main weapons, the hatch on the top of it's turning head opens as the invaders that operated the machine abandoned it as it began to burn.
The attackers are Hiccup and Toothless, his riding Night Fury and his best friend with the other Viking dragon riders that come down from the early morning sky to attack the invaders from above as Vikings that were hidden in forests flank the invaders. Astrid on her Deadly Nadder, Thorn lands on top of another invader armored machine, Astrid pulled the hatch open and Thorn breathes his magnesium fire into the compartment killing the invaders inside. Thorn then jumps off and flew away as something in the machine exploded, destroying the machine.
Snotlout and his Monstrous Nightmare, Firefang attacked the invader soldiers from behind with Firefang going after the armored beasts and Snotlout used his mace to attack the soldiers that were tried to kill him and Firefang.
Then the twins, Tuffnut and Ruffnut on their Zippleback, Billy Bob appeared and sprayed flammable acid onto a large group of armored beasts and invader soldiers as they flew past, which Thorn ignites from the top of a Viking hut with a burst of fire and the resulting explosion destroying the armored beasts and the nearby invader soldiers.
Then Fishlegs' and his Gronckle, Stella arrived last. Stella ripped off one of the weapons on the top of the turning heads of one of the armored beasts as she flew past to allow two other Viking to climb onto it. One of them opened the hatch on the top of the turning head and the other threw a captured invader throwing bomb into the compartment inside the armored beast and then closed the hatches before they jumped off and take cover in their covered spider holes. One of the invader operators that were inside reopened the hatch and tried to escape before the armored beast exploded and sent the turning head flying into the air that lands on top of a invader soldier crushing him to death. One of the invader officers' ordered a retreat and the invaders began to fall back to their fly machines at their landing zone while under the cover of their supporting attacking flying machines.
"CHARGE, DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!" Stoick yelled as the Viking warriors chased after them, Toothless uses a fire blast to take down a flying machine that goes spiraling out of control. It hits a Viking totem pole that ripped off its tail off before it crashed out of sight and exploded. The Vikings managed to catch up to a few invader soldiers who have fallen behind their comrades and then overpowered and captured them, but the other invader soldiers are evacuated in their flying machines that then took off and disappeared into the night sky, the attacking flying machines followed after them. The Vikings begun to celebrate their victory
"Those "spiderholes" and trenches were a good idea, Spitelout." Stoick said to Spitelout, his second in command and Snotlout's father, congratulating him on his idea
"I don't know, something about that just seemed right about those." Spitelout replied as he looked at the trenches and spiderholes behind them
The Vikings began to round up the captured invader soldiers, some them of are being allowed to treat their wounded friends as the Vikings counted their dead and gathered their wounded, and some Vikings began to fight the numerous fires across the village.
The Dragon riders land, Hiccup, Stoick's son approaches him
"That was the best victory we have had so far against the invaders." Hiccup said to his father happily
"I agree, they didn't kidnap any dragons this time either." Astrid Hofferson said, smiling
"But the invaders are still a problem, they will be back soon, with better tactics to counter the trenches, no doubt and their going to keep coming in till they get Toothless" Gobber said replacing his mace with a claw that allows him to pick up things.
"That is unless we stop them once and for all." Stoick replied "We need to find where they're coming from and rip out their heart."
"Stoick, all of our past attempts to find where the invaders are coming from has failed and most of the ships we send to find it, have never returned" Spitelout replied gravely
"Maybe we should send a team of dragon riders this time rather than ships?" Gobber said
"We'll go and try to find where the invaders are coming from." Hiccup said to his father
"No…Hiccup these people are after you and Toothless, we cannot risk losing you to the invaders." Stoick replied
"I'm a dragon rider and Viking, it's an occupational hazard." Hiccup said to his father; who covers his face with his hand
"Do as you wish, but I and Gobber are going with you, no butts or ands." Stoick replied
"I prefer we go at midday that is when flying conditions are the best." Gobber said
"Agreed, we need to get our rest then." Stoick said
That Midday,the Dragon riders begin to prepare themselves for their quest to find the Invaders' base as Berk prepared for the next inevitable invader attack. Stoick has his Timberjack, Paul with him and Gobber has his Bone Knapper, Saxton were both preparing to take off
"This is a suicide mission…" Snotlout said as he loaded the equipment needed to cook over a camp fire in a sack on Firefang
"Do you want the invaders to keep attacking us continuously?" Astrid hissed at Snotlout, who doesn't reply. Hiccup mounts Toothless after making sure everybody is prepared
"Are you guys ready?" Hiccup asked them
"We're ready." Stoick replied
Toothless snorted in response
"Then let's go!" Hiccup said before shifting the artificial tail flap so Toothless can take off, who jumps into the air, expands his wings and starts flying, they are soon joined by the others.
"Something big is on the horizon, I can sense it." Astrid said to the others
"I can too, but I don't know what it is." Hiccup replied
"If there is, may Thor and Odin be with us." Stoick said as they flew into the horizon as the flew over the harbor, Hiccup looked down into the harbor and sees the wrecks of downed flying machines that he and Toothless or the other dragon riders and their dragons had taken down in past attacks by the invaders.
"I wonder why we never encountered the invaders before their first attack." Astrid said "We have ships travel all around the Archipelago and we never encountered these people before."
"I've heard of legends about people from another world with high tech technology visiting the Archipelago through a black hole in the sky a very long time ago." Fishlegs said "They said they fought a war against us and the dragons and then disappeared without traced."
"Well our ships have never found a black hole in the sky during their voyages." Hiccup said
"Yeah, they're just legends that the elder talks about during her stories to younglings." Astrid said as she thought about something
"Is something wrong Astrid?" Hiccup asked Astrid
"No…just thinking about something." Astrid replied
"A lot of questions will be answered when we find where the invaders are coming from." Stoick said as they flew southwest towards the horizon
Part Four: Zero Hour and MobilizationEdit
The 502nd have already crossed the rift and were looking for the supply convoy they are supposed to follow, they're also cloaked
"Does anybody have radar or visual contact with the Gene Corp convoy?" Barnes asked as he looked at his surroundings.
"That is a negative, Dice-1. My radar is clear." Ramirez replied
"Increase the range of your radars!" Barnes said to his wingmates over the radio as he adjusted the range of his radar to cover a larger area.
"I have a radar contact! I have them, their moving twenty kilometers due west and their only forty miles away from us." Newell said
"Roger that, Dice-5. All fighters head towards the radar contact, keep your cloaking devices on." Barnes said over the radio
"Have any of you heard the stories from the old Bodyguard veterans about the dragons?" Louis asked his wingmates
"I have and they're not something to talk about during this particular mission, Dice-4." Barnes replied
"I know, but I like listening to ones who encountered the Monstrous Nightmares." Louis said
"Yeah those are interesting stories, defiantly when in the ones, when they set themselves on fire." Carmen replied
"That kind of shit can win wars, Shock and Awe and apparently the dragons know that kind of warfare very well." Ramirez said
"I always think as the Nightmares as the marines of the dragons, they are first ones in and last ones out and their scariest dragons of all the dragons, we know about." Newell said "Well, besides the Night Fury that is."
Everybody agreed with Newell
"The Night Fury is what we should be worrying about at this time of day, because this is when they're on the hunt." Ramirez said
"I doubt the one or ones that boys saw in Bodyguard are still around, Dice-2." Barnes replied
"Yeah, but their descendents are probably out there." Ramirez said
"I have visual contact with the Gene Corp Supply Convoy." Carmen said to Barnes
Below the 502nd, three Gene Corp C-8 Globemasters protected by three squadrons of Blackwater SU-34s and two squadrons of MiG-29s appeared in the night sky flying slowly over the ocean
"Yeah that's them alright, keep them in your sights and don't lose them." Barnes said to his squadron
Meanwhile in Phoenix Arizona, Gene Corp CEO, Karen MacTavish is listening to Blackwater CEO, Charles Luger talk
"The 502nd are nearing our trap, the EMP bombs we loaded onto the UAVs have a motion sensitive trigger, so even if cloaked, the bombs will detonate if a F-45 or anything else bigger than a large bird gets near one of the planes. We also have our best PAK-FA squadrons waiting at safe distance to finish the job." Luger said to MacTavish
"All we want is Barnes; any of the other 502nd pilots are a bonus for us." MacTavish replied "After we have Barnes, I want you to tell the commander to deliver the final killing blow to the Hairy Hooligan tribe and captures that damn Night Fury, both him and that dragon are needed for Project Titan."
"Sir…what about the rumors surrounding Barnes about his close ties with certain power figures in the APP?" Luger asked MacTavish
"They are only false rumors, Luger. Just get the job done." MacTavish replied as he sorted through a packet of papers
Meanwhile the Dragon riders are trying to set up their camp to spend the night on a small island, near where the 502nd are operating
"We can't be that far from their village since we have been seeing more of their flying machines." Hiccup said
"That also means we have to be quieter." Stoick said as he opened a map of the area "Their village is probably on the largest island west of here."
"But then they will probably have small outposts on the surrounding smaller islands, air patrols, and maybe their own ships." Gobber said
"Then, we'll have to wait till tomorrow night before we can start moving again." Stoick said as he rolled the map up and stuck it into a sack.
Tuffnut and Ruffnut appeared running from the forest, they're out of breath and their faces were beet red
"I thought you guys were supposed to be collecting more firewood!" Astrid yelled at them as they catch their breathe
"We found something in the forest!" Tuffnut said between breathes
"What did you find?" Stoick asked them
"Go look for yourself, keep heading that way and you'll find it in the marsh." Ruffnut said after she caught her breathe
Stoick, Gobber, Astrid, Hiccup, and Snotlout go into the forest in the direction Ruffnut pointed towards in till they find the marsh and see what the twins were talking about, a old rusted crash flying machine with the skeletal remains of it's operator still in the cockpit,.
"Then isn't one of flying machines the invaders use." Astrid said as she waded in the water towards the flying machine followed by the others
"If doesn't belong to them and it surely in Thor's name doesn't belong to us or the other tribes, then who does it belong to then?" Gobber said looking at the dead operator, who is wearing the shredded remains of a jumpsuit and a rusted helmet.
Next to the compartment that the remains were in, there symbols that said "R.A.F" that were barely visible
"Can anybody read this language or recognize?" Hiccup said as pointed to the symbols that Stoick and Gobber began to look at it
"No, I haven't seen this language before in my life." Stoick said as he shook his head "But it looks like some form of Latin."
Astrid looked the strange text on the wreckage
"I have, I found a piece of metal that had similar text on it back on Berk when I was a toddler." Astrid said as she looked at the text "I took it to the elder, she translated it, and it said "American People's Military Air Corp, she also shortened to APMAC."
"Did she teach you how to translate it?" Stoick asked Astrid
"Yeah, sort of, but I can barely remember any of it. But I think this says R.A.F, it must be some kind" Astrid said as she translated the text
"Maybe those legends you were talking about Fishlegs weren't stories after all." Gobber said as he looked at the skeleton behind the controls of the flying machine
"Look at this huge hole in the side of it." Snotlout said as pointed to the massive hole in the side of the aircraft
"Looks like a Night Fury did this." Hiccup said as he looked at the hole
"Well it could not have been Toothless; this has been here for a very long time, judging by the way the foliage looks around it and the remains of operator." Astrid said as she touched the skeleton, which falls over and activated one of the contraptions that surprisingly still worked inside the operating compartment. As soon as it activate, voices began to emit from the strange device inside
"Dice-1, Is it alright if I do a thermal scan of the convoy to see what it has in it?" A voice asked to another over the device
"Go ahead Dice-2." Dice-1 replied
"This must be some kind of communications device they use to talk to other fly machine or their ground forces." Astrid whispered to the others as they listened
"Well so far, we haven't seen any dragons, so I guess luck is with us." Somebody else said over the radio
"Don't jinx us Dice-5." Another voice replied
"These are not the invaders; they talk like us, but what is with their accents?" Gobber said to Stoick
"These people must be here because the invaders are here." Hiccup said
"Is there any way we find out where this is coming from?" Stoick asked Astrid who has climbed on top of the flying machine was looking down into the compartment
"There seems to be some kind of compass that is pointing to the west that is lit up." Astrid replied
"Get the dragons ready, we're going to find these people." Stoick said as the Vikings headed quickly back to their camp
Meanwhile the 502nd are still following the Gene Corp Supply Convoy
"Sir, I have just completed the thermal scan and there is nothing alive any of those planes, not even the escorts!" Ramirez said over the radio
"What, can anybody else confirm this?" Barnes asked over the radio
"My infra-red scanner is saying the say thing, Dice-1" Newell replied
"They're UAVs then" Carmen said
"I'll go check this out, you guys stay up here!" Barnes said over the radio as his F-45 banks left towards the Gene Corp Supply Convoy "Dice-2, your in charge if something happens to me and you know the back-up plan." Barnes said to Ramirez
"Yes Sir." Ramirez replied
Meanwhile the dragon riders have found the convoy that 502nd are following, they see the invader aircraft and hid in a nearby cloud
"There are some of the invader's flying machines. We've never seen this type before." Snotlout said as they looked at the giant flying machines and their smaller escorts
"Stay out of sight, we don't want them calling for help." Stoick said
Meanwhile Barnes has gotten close enough to one of the Globemasters to see inside the cockpit, he sees that there were no pilots inside the cockpit
"Ramirez your right, there are no pilots. Their freaking UAVs, this means this is a set…!" Barnes said right before the Globemasters and their escort exploded and released several EMP Pulses that disabled the 502nd's cloaking devices, pulse cannons, missile targeting systems, ECMs, and trans-dimensional communications devices. Barnes' F-45's engine have also been severely damaged by the blasts
"DICE-1 PLEASE COME IN, OVER, BARNES?" Ramirez yelled over the radio to Barnes
"I'm fine! But my F-45's engine is in pretty bad shape!" Barnes replied over the radio as he coughed between words.
"Those were freaking EMP bombs, because everything is down except our radar and short-wave communications!" Carmen said over the radio "Good news they're rebooting, but it's going to take a while!"
"Speaking about radar, we have multiple incoming bogies, they look like PAK-FAs and there're is lot of them!" Newell yelled
"I see them too and we can't defend ourselves, everybody separate and go in different directions they can't follow all of us, we'll regroup once our systems can recover from the EMPs!" Barnes said over the radio
"But Sir, your engine can't hold out much longer!" Ramirez replied
"Just do it Captain! I'll be alright!" Barnes replied over the radio as the first PAK-FAs appeared in the night sky and began to strafe his damaged F-45, the rest of the 502nd bugged out as Barnes tried to escape the Blackwater fighter jets
Meanwhile the dragon riders watched as new and fast moving invader flying machines appeared and began to attack the black colored flying machines that appeared from thin air right after the other invader flying machines exploded
"That must be the people we heard over the communications device! The invaders don't like them either!" Astrid said as the Vikings watched the other flying machines flew above them at shockingly high speeds as they left their damaged comrade behind who was being attacked mercilessly by the invader flying machines
"Oi, that one flying machine isn't going to last much longer with all those invader flying machines attacking it." Gobber said as the damaged flying machine attempted to flee from its attackers that have ganged up on it
"Maybe we should we help him? If the invaders don't like them, maybe they're friends." Hiccup asked Stoick
Stoick took a while to think
"We'll follow it, but we cannot risk having all those flying machines go after us." Stoick said as the dragon riders crept out of the cloud and followed the battered flying machine and it's pursuers
Meanwhile Barnes is struggling to control his F-45 while under fire from the pursuing Blackwater PAK-FAs
"Come on baby, I know you can make it." Barnes said to his F-45 as he heard the engine began to stutter. A missile hits the engine; lights begin beeping to indicate an complete engine failure as the F-45 began to fall out of the sky. "#$%#!"
Barnes then guided his F-45 toward the nearest island before he ejected out of the falling F-45. While he slowly fell to the ground, he watched his plane F-45 on the Eastern beach of the island.
Shortly afterwards, Barnes landed in a small clearing in the thick forests on the island, he quickly cut off his parachute and grabbed the emergency supplies from the crate that was ejected with him that was carrying a 9mm Pistol, six clips, a machete, medical kit, rations, compass, and signal flares whose's color could be modified to suit the purpose they are needed for.
Barnes cocked the pistol, put the extra rounds in a pouch he had on his belt, put the machete in the holder that came with it which he then puts on his back, and then put the other supplies in the backpack that came with them, before he started to walk into the thick forest. Above him a Blackwater Hind with a search light flew overhead as it headed towards where his F-45 had crashed that the Blackwater PAK-FAs are circling over as they celebrated their victory
"Enjoy your victory, while it lasts (#$holes." Barnes said as he disappeared into the forest
Meanwhile APM Command
"Sir, we just lost contact with the 502nd and the last thing we got from their sensors was the detection of an EMP!" An APM Officer Panickly said to General Conrad and Garter who are on a catwalk that overlooked the Nerve Center that was in the basement of the APM Command Bunker.
"What? Can an F-45 survive an EMP?" Garter asked Conrad who was the deputy leader of the program that developed the F-45
"Yes, but only their radar and short-wave communications will operate, but the other systems are designed to reboot after several hours, but during his time the F-45s will vulnerable to attacks from conventional aircraft" Conrad said to Garter
"Do we have any available aircraft that we can send to find the 502nd?" Garter yelled to the APM Officers in the Nerve Center below
"There is an air force unit that is active in Saint Louis that just came back from training exercises in the South Pacific." An APMAC Officer replied as he looked on his computer.
"Get them in the air and to the other dimension and find the 502nd!" Garter yelled to the Officer, who got on the found next to the computer "Conrad, I want you to mobilize the Cape Girardeau Garrison and any US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, and additional APM units you get your hands on and evict Blackwater and Gene Corp from their island base as payback for this treachery!"
"It will be done, Mr. President!" Conrad said as he ran out of the nerve center and to his office, where he picked up the phone and called Admiral Herald of the APMNC in Pearl Harbor
Meanwhile Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Admiral Herald was asleep in his chair with his white Admiral cap over his eyes and feet on his desk, snoring loudly, the phone began to ring, Herald fell backwards in his chair and quickly got up and picked up the phone without looking at the Caller ID
"WHAT IS IT?" Herald asked loudly over the radio, without knowing who it was
"Don't you dare talk to me in that tone Herald; unlike you I have actual power here!" Conrad replied angrily
"Oh, Conrad, it's you. What do you want?" Herald asked Conrad as he rubbed the back of his head with embarrassment.
"I need you to mobilize your fleet and prepare it for a transition to the other dimension." Conrad replied
Herald's face turned pale white
"What for Conrad?" Herald asked Conrad
"We've lost contact with the 502nd while they were doing a covert operation to find the main Blackwater and Gene Corp base in the other dimension so we could do a investigation." Conrad replied "We detected an EMP Pulse before we lost contact. So the president has give me the order to mobilize the Cape Girardeau garrison and any other unit I can find to locate this base and then neutralize it."
Herald looked out the window behind that overlooked Pearl Harbor where the battleships, the USS Missouri, Iowa, and New Jersey have just recently returned from exercises with the Australian Navy in the South Pacific
"How long do I have?" Herald asked Conrad "And what kind of investigation are we talking about?"
"All further information about their mission is classified. Eight hours. If I was you I'd get started right now." Conrad replied
"I'm on it." Herald said before hanging up and then looked out at the ships in the harbor "This is going to be a long day."
Herald picked up the phone again
"What is it Admiral?" An APMNC Officer asked him
"Get me the harbor master, we got orders to mobilize." Conrad replied
Unknown to both Conrad and Herald, their entire conversation was being listened to by Russian FSB agents located in a Fishing boat off the shore of Honolulu.
"Looks like our American friends have some serious issues with Gene Corp and Blackwater." One of the FSB agents said to another behind him "Maybe we should tell the director?"
The Other FSB agent nodded before picking up a wireless and bug-proof phone
"Get me the director; tell him this is of high importance!" The other FSB Agent said to the assistant on the other side
Meanwhile the motor pool of the Cape Girardeau Air Base
"MOVE MOVE, get to your vehicles!" An APM Officer shouted as the vehicle crews rushed to their vehicles.
A crew climbed onto it's APM M7A5 Enforcer Main Battle Tank, opened the hatched and climbed into the compartment of the tank that shortly afterwards began to move towards the exit of the Motor Pool and joined other Enforcer tanks and APM and US Military vehicles as they headed for the VTOLs and Heavy Cargo Planes that would take them to Pearl Harbor to be loaded onto ships that would then be transition (or teleported) to the other dimension.
Part Five: Hunted Edit
Meanwhile Barnes was using his machete to hack his way through the thick foliage of the forest, while he held the 9mm in his free hand just in case. Above him, storm clouds were gathering and lighting danced across the sky, but there was no rain
"I need to find shelter before this storm kicks in." Barnes said quietly as he looked at the gathering storm over him. Two Blackwater MI-8s with Search lights flew overhead; Barnes could see the men operating Machine guns in the doors on their sides. "Their base must be somewhere on this island."
Barnes continued to hack through the foliage before he finally came across a small cave in the side of a cliff.
"I guess this will have to do for now." Barnes said in his mind as he looked at the cave, he put machete away and turned the flashlight attached to the 9mm and shined it into the cave and looked to see if there weren't any dragons living in it, but luckily for Barnes, there wasn't any. But before Barnes could celebrate his new change of luck, it began to rain heavily and Barnes rushed into the cave, he was drenched from head to toe. "I will wait here for the storm dissipates and then I will go to the crash site and use the radio in my F-45 to radio in for help if it still works." Barnes then leaned against a rock and fell asleep
Meanwhile The Dragon riders and their dragons have found themselves caught in the middle of the storm after they landed on the beach were the black-colored fly machine had crashed after they waited for the invader aircraft to go away.
"We need to find shelter!" Stoick yelled over a loud bang on thunder
"What about that?" Astrid replied as he pointed to the downed flying machine on the beach that was emitting smoke. The Dragon riders ran over to it and with the help of their dragons, they lifted the surprisingly light weight flying machine and moved it away from the surging ocean, they then lifted it and put it on top of two rocks and then they sat down under it
"I hope the operator is having better luck that we are." Astrid said as she shivered, like the rest, she was drenched
"When this storm clears up, Tuffnut, Ruffnut I want you to take Billy Bob back to Berk and tell Spitelout to rally more men and ships come here to help us destroy the invader village and find this machine's operator." Stoick said to the twins.
"Yes Sir." Tuffnut replied
The dragons and their riders huddled close together to stay warm as it rained heavily and they stayed awake through the night on the watch for invaders.
That Midnight, a United States Air Force Squadron arrived at the site of where the 502nd were ambushed the Blackwater PAK-FAs
"Command there was defiantly some kind fight here, scans are showing debris in the waters below." The Squadron Leader said to his superiors at American Military Command
"Roger that Ghost Rider. Continue the mission and keep us informed of your status." The mission's commander replied
"Sir, My Infa-red is detecting the light radiation in the vapor trails of the F-45s, looks one headed west and the others turned tail and headed East during the ambush." One of the squadron's leader's wingmates said
"Follow the trails that go east, we'll find the one that went west when we find the others." The Squadron Leader ordered to her wingmates who turned and headed east. In the opposite direction, a distant storm was raging.
Meanwhile a Blackwater Search Party that was searching for Barnes in the forests is struggling with the weather
"The Weather has gotten too bad for this; we're calling off the search in the storm passes." The Blackwater Officer leading the party yelled over the sound of thunder.
A lightening strike hit a nearby tree and split it in half.
"Whoa!" A young Blackwater soldier yelled as he dived out of the way when one half of the tree hit the ground where he was.
The Blackwater search party turned around and headed back to their base on the island
Meanwhile Gene Corp HQ
"We've shot down Barnes' aircraft and he is on the island that has our main base on it, but a major storm system has moved into the area and is preventing our forces there from launching an effective search and recovery operation. Also we have failed to eliminate the rest of the 502nd that escaped the ambush and fled east." Luger said as he reported the situation to MacTavish
"Excellent, tell them to continue the search and recovery operation when the storm ends, then after that we will finish off the Vikings and get our Night Fury. Then we'll worry about the 502nd later." MacTavish replied
"That isn't' needed, one of the pilots that shot down Barnes reported seeing the Night Fury along with the other dragons and their riders landing on the beach where Barnes' F-45 crashed, but the storm has also prevented us from going after them." Luger said to MacTavish
"So we can kill two birds with one stone. I want both the Night Fury and Barnes to be ours by the end of tomorrow." MacTavish said as he got out of his chair to look out a window that overlooked the Gene Corp Phoenix facility
"It will be done." Luger said as he turned around to leave MacTavish's office
After he closed the door behind him, a fearful Blackwater Officer ran over to him and quickly handed him a intelligence report to him about the most recent American Military movements
"Are we sure about this?" Luger asked the Blackwater officer uneasily after he read and saw the contents of the Intel report
"Yes sir, the Cape Girardeau Garrison along with five US Marine Expeditionary Units, ten US Army Divisions, and the 5th Fleet have been mobilized under the commands of Admiral Herald and General Conrad. Their objective is to forcibly "evict" us from our base in the other dimension!" The Blackwater Officer replied "Also the APM has taken control of an Air Force squadron and sent them to the other dimension to locate the 502nd!"
"How long do we have?" Luger asked the officer, who shook his head in response
"We don't know and there are also reports of strategic bombers being equipped for saturation bombing operations at several air bases across the country according to our agents inside the Pentagon" The Officer replied .
"I'll take this to the big guy; you go back to your station and update me about any other changes." Luger said to the Blackwater Officer before he turned around to renter MacTavish's office
The officer saluted Luger and turned quickly around and left
"The Americans shouldn't be mobilizing this quickly." Luger said in his mind as he entered MacTavish's office
"What is it Luger?" MacTavish asked Luger
"The Americans are coming." Luger replied as he handed MacTavish the Intelligence Report "They have mobilized the entire garrison defending Cape Girardeau along with several US Army and Marine units and the 5th Fleet."
MacTavish quickly scanned the intelligence report and then sat it down on his desk
"We need to get Barnes and that Night Fury before this force arrives in the other dimension." MacTavish said to Luger
"Should we send more reinforcements?" Luger asked MacTavish
"No, that kind of move would make the People's Party aware that we have infiltrated their ranks and the military more than they currently think and will probably force them to launch a purge or even a larger retaliation. But warn the commander of the forces in the other dimension to cancel all further raids against the Viking village and to begin digging in." MacTavish replied
"Yes Sir, our forces in the other dimension is no where near prepared for this. They lack the most of the heavy weaponry and supplies to hold the island against even a light attack by a modern military." Luger said
"Increase our weapon orders from our contacts within Russia and I want your men here to be ready if the APM and US Military decides to evict us here." MacTavish said
"Yes Sir." Luger replied before he left MacTavish's Office "I am starting to think we are biting off more we can chew."
The next morning
Barnes came out of the cave; he scanned the tree line with his pistol before he began to move east towards the beach his F-45 crashed on.
"I just hope that the radio works by the time I get there and there aren't any dragons between me and there." Barnes said in his mind as he began hacking through the foliage with his machete.
Meanwhile the Dragon Riders have set the crashed flying machine back onto the ground and have started to look at it. Tuffnut and Ruffnut have already left to get reinforcements from Berk.
"This thing is in perfect shape besides the contraption that powers it. Why didn't this one blow when it hits the ground like the invader's aircraft does?" Gobber said as he kicked the destroyed contraption that once propelled the flying machine
Astrid was in the cockpit trying to get the flying machine to work for her, but a device in the operating compartment kept on saying "Access Denied" in a strange female voice
"I give up!" Astrid yelled at the flying machine as she climbed out
"I guess they must have set it so it only works for its true operator." Gobber said
"What kind of material is it made out of it?" Stoick asked Gobber as he looked at black metal material the flying machine is made out of "I don't know but it is almost as hard as a diamond." Gobber replied as he watched Snotlout hit the flying machine with his axe that shattered when it hit the armor of the flying machine
"What the?" Snotlout said as he looked at his broken axe "This thing is made out dragon scales and steel and it shatters like pottery when you hit it against this machine!" Snotlout then threw his broken axe into the ocean
Toothless snorted as he looked at his deformed reflection in the glass of the operating compartment of the flying machine, then jumped down, as he came down, his tail flap opened a compartment below the cockpit of the flying machine
"What's this?" Fishlegs asked as he looked into the compartment and saw its contents
"Don't touch anything, it could be booby trapped!" Gobber replied
Astrid reached into the open compartment and pulled out a glove, she then looked into the cockpit of the flying machine and saw the hand-scanner contraption she was trying to use.
"I got an idea." Astrid said as she turned the glove inside out
Meanwhile the 502nd are regrouping as their systems finally began to reboot from the EMP
"I am not seeing or detecting Barnes." Ramirez said gravely to his wingmates
"He's survived some pretty intense things, I bet he is okay." Carmen replied
"That doesn't mean he's invulnerable Carmen." Ramirez said
Newell and Louis' F-45s appeared and group with Ramirez's and Carmen's aircraft
"Have any of you gotten any word from Barnes?" Ramirez asked them
"Nope, I haven't seen or heard from him since last night." Newell replied sadly
"I did detect his F-45's distress beacon on my way here, and you know what that means." Louis said
"And I don't want to think about." Ramirez said as he shook his head
"I just hope he didn't crash in the ocean." Carmen said
"Dice-1, come in over, Dice-1 come in. This is the Fifth Fighter Squadron please respond over." The Leader of the fifth squadron says as her squadron approached the hovering F-45s
"Ghost Rider, this is Dice-2, Dice-1 is MIA, but Dice-3 reports that he detected his distress beacon on the way here." Ramirez replied.
"Roger that Dice-2, your new orders is to return to Cape Girardeau for debriefing." The Fifth Squadron Leader said
"Negative, Ghost Rider we're not leaving without Barnes, dead or alive." Newell replied s to the USAF Pilot; the other 502nd pilots agreed and refused to go
Meanwhile APM Command
"Sir, the Fifth Fighter Squadron has found the 502nd, but their refusing to follow orders in till we recover Barnes." An APM Officer said to Garter
"Turtledove has brainwashed his policy into them very well it's going to take hell freezing over to make them leave one of their own behind." Conrad replied
"Do we know Barnes' whereabouts?" Garter asked Conrad
"The 502nd say they haven't heard or seen of him since they were ambushed last night, but Sergeant Louis says he detected an F-45 distress beacon on his way to regroup with his wingmates and the distress beacon will only come on if the pilot successfully ejected from the aircraft or survived the crash." Conrad replied as he looked at a clipboard with the specifications for the F-45 on it
"How long will it be in till your strike force is ready to transition? Garter asked Conrad
"Six Hours." Conrad Replied
"Good…" Garter said
Meanwhile Barnes has found a lone Blackwater soldier patrolling a dirt trail that cut though the forest; there is evidence that tanks have used this path due to tracks in the mud
"If I can take this guy out, I can probably use his radio to contact command or my squadron." Barnes said to himself "And I could also use his weapon."
Barnes pulls out his pistol and quietly approached the Blackwater soldier from behind, he then hit the Blackwater soldier as hard as he could with the butt of his pistol and knocked him out, Barnes then dragged the unconscious Blackwater soldier into nearby bushes and took his gun and radio and then took his boot laces and tied them around his hands and ankles.
"Thanks for the radio." Barnes said to the unconscious Blackwater soldier as he took the extra AK Clips off of him and batteries for the radio.
Barnes then got to a safe distance from the soldier and began trying to use the radio
"Dice-1 to Dice-2, come in over, Dice-1 to Dice-2, Ramirez if your hearing this you better pick up or I am going to have Court Martialed with I get off this island." Barnes said over the radio
"Barnes! Are you alright and where the $%## are you?" Ramirez replied over the radio, the chattering of the rest of the squadron can be heard in the background
"Yes I am alright besides a few minor scratches and bruises. I have crashed on the island that Blackwater and Gene Corp have their main base on and they're aggressively looking for me." Barnes said hearing a hind flying the distance
"Roger that, command is preparing a full scale invasion of the Island led by General Conrad and Admiral Herald according to this Air Force Squadron that command sent to find us." Ramirez replied over the radio
"An invasion, how long do we have until it starts?" Barnes asked Ramirez uneasily
"Six hours, but a pre-invasion saturation bombing of the area near the designated invasion beaches is planned in commence in the next two hours." Ramirez replied
"And where are the beachheads?" Barnes asked
"We don't know yet, command is sending UAVs to map the island for the invasion." Ramirez replied over the radio
"Damn, what should I do in till then?" Barnes asked Ramirez
"Hold on, Conrad wants to answer that for you." Ramirez replied as he switched the channels
"You are to get to your F-45 and report what state it is in before the bombing starts. If the damage is light enough, we'll send Preston and your maintenance team to its location and do the necessary repairs, if otherwise, wait there for extraction." Conrad said to Barnes after Ramirez patched Barnes through to him "If your F-45 is repairable and you get back into the air, we want you to regroup with your squadron and then meet up with the invasion force when they arrive for debriefing and R&R, and then after that you will assist the landings."
"I understand general." Barnes replied over the radio quietly
"Good luck." Conrad said before he signed out
"Well you heard him, Barnes." Ramirez said over the radio
"I need to get underway, my F-45 crashed on the eastern shores of the island and I am halfway across the island from that." Barnes replied
"Well I wish you good luck, if you need any help; we're just a radio call away." Ramirez said
"Good to know you have my back, over and out." Barnes replied before he put the radio in this backpack and began to move towards the direction of his crashed F-45
Meanwhile, Astrid used the glove she found in the compartment to get passed the DNA scanner in the F-45 and allowed herself and the other dragon riders to tap into the conversation between Barnes, Ramirez, and Conrad
"Dear Odin, more of them are coming here." Gobber said as he looked to the skies and out to the ocean
"We need to find this "Barnes" man before the invasion force arrive sand try to sort out some kind of peace with them." Stoick said
"What does Saturation Bombing mean?" Astrid asked
"Well when I think of Saturation is when a sponge cannot hold any more water and bombing means their going to drop bombs, so guess that means their going to bomb the living daylights out of the area near wherever their landing." Snotlout said as he looked into the clear skies above them, there were only a few seagulls in the air
"Well if we want to get Barnes, our best choice is to wait here for him, since he is coming this way." Hiccup said as he looked at his father who nodded in agreement
"I hope Spitelout and his reinforcements get here before these people do." Fishlegs said to his friends
"I do too." Astrid replied
Meanwhile Barnes was whacking his way through the foliage with his machete
"Damn trees." Barnes said in his mind after a branch whacked him the head
Barnes sighed in relief when he enters a large clearing, but loses that relief when he realized that there is an entire platoon worth of Blackwater Soldiers that occupied the clearing
"GET THE AMERICAN!" One of the officers shouted in really bad Russian as he pointed towards Barnes, who had already turned around and was running in the opposite direction
"TODAY IS NOT MY DAY!" Barnes yelled as bullets cracked around him
Barnes dived behind a boulder on the other side of a shallow creek, the Blackwater soldiers set up their positions across the creek
"Surrender or Die American!" The leader of the Blackwater Platoon yelled over a megaphone to Barnes, who flipped him off from behind the boulder and brings it down when a sniper tried to blow his middle finger off. Barnes cocked the AK-74 he captured the from the Blackwater Soldier he had knocked out earlier
"I'm not going down without a fight!" Barnes yelled to the Blackwater soldiers who responded with flying bullets
Meanwhile the dragon riders can hear the distant firefight between Barnes and the invader soldiers and they mounted their dragons and took off in the direction of the sound
Meanwhile, Barnes has called for air support
"Roger that Dice-1, we are in route with cluster bombs, hold on a little bit longer!" Ramirez replied over the radio that Barnes sat down next to him and fired his AK blindly over the top of the boulder
As Barnes reloaded, he started to hear screaming from across the creek
"What the hell is going on over there?" Barnes asked himself as he peered from behind the boulder, he sees a Monstrous Nightmare with a Viking youth riding it attacking the Blackwater soldiers, who were scattering and retreating back into the forest. "Ramirez, cancel that support request, I just got some help from the locals." Barnes then sneaked away back into the forest
"Roger that Dice-1, but we'll stay in the area just in case you need us." Ramirez replied
Meanwhile the dragon riders regroup after chasing off the invader soldiers; they realize that Barnes has escaped
"He must have escaped when we were distracted." Snotlout said as the dragon riders looked around for Barnes
"I'm sure that isn't the last time he will encounter the invaders. We'll get him next time." Stoick said as he finished off a wounded Blackwater soldier who was trying to pull out his handgun
Meanwhile Barnes has gotten to a safe distance and was trying to describe what happened to Conrad and Garter over the radio, who were now interested in the event
"Fascinating, you said that there was a Viking was riding the dragon?" Conrad asked Barnes
"Yes Sir, there was a Viking riding the Monstrous Nightmare that chased off the Blackwater soldiers that attacked me." Barnes replied "The rider was about sixteen, fifteen, seventeen or eighteen. He and his dragon obviously knew what he was doing"
"Well I guess this means our Intel about the dragons and Vikings being mortal enemies is outdated." Garter said to Barnes "Did you tried to make contact with them?"
"What? No, are you crazy?" Barnes replied "I thought we had orders to avoid contact with the locals?"
Garter sighed
"Well now those orders are cancelled, next you encounter the dragon rider, who is surely not along; you are to make contact if they don't try to kill you first." Garter said.
"It will be done sir." Barnes replied before putting away the radio "Well If I successful make peace with these guys that will be one less problem for me to worry about, but if Garter thinks if I am going to actively LOOK for them, he is mentally insane. Ahhh, what I am kidding all politicians are mentally insane these days that must be why the peace has been lasting." Barnes laughed lightly before he continued on
Part Six: An Alliance Is FormedEdit
Three hours later Conrad and Admiral Herald are on the bridge of the flagship, USS Missouri, the legendary Iowa Class Battleship that has been upgraded with the latest equipment and serves in the fleets of the APMNC along it sisters ships that are also present in the fleet being assembled outside Pearl Harbor
“Why Garter just doesn’t knock down the front door of the Phoenix Complex is beyond me.” Conrad said as he looked at a fishing boat that is in the distance that had been following the fleet since it left the harbor
“Well probably because unlike the base we’re going to hit, that is one our own soil and there are American employees that work there.” Herald replied
“Sir, we have an unidentified fleet coming off starboard!” An APMNC Sailor yelled
Admiral Herald picked up his binoculars and looked the ships, above them he saw the Banner of the Russian Navy flying over them
“Hold your fire, it’s the ruskies.” Herald said to the sailor
“What the hell are the Russians doing here?” Conrad asked Herald, who shrugged in reply
“Sir, the Russian command ship is trying to contact us.” An APMNC Communications officer said after taking of his earphones and looking back at Herald. Russian voices were coming out of the transmitter
“Put them on my radio.” Herald replied as he grabbed the transmitter of his own radio
“Yes Sir!” The Communications Officer said as he flipped a few switches on the machines in front of him
On the radio, the voice of Russian Admiral, Arkhip Klovensky is heard
“I heard from our “contacts” within your government that you Americans are preparing to attack a Gene Corp and Blackwater base in the other dimension. We also heard that Blackwater has been using our weapons against you, so our government has requested that we join you on your mission.” Klovensky said over the radio
“Good to know that the Russians still can’t mind their own business.” Herald replied. Klovensky laughed
“You never can be too sure who your friends and who your enemies are, you Americans should know that very well.” Klovensky said Herald nodded in agreement
“Well your welcome to join us, we’re going to leave as soon as the teleporter is charged to full capacity in thirty more minutes. What is the strength of your ground and fleet?” Herald asked Klovensky
“With us we bring six naval infantry divisions along with four armored divisions, but there are more ships coming that bring with them, three more infantry and two more armored and mechanized divisions along with a single Spetsnaz squad and four VDV brigades, and we have a total of twenty-five ships.” Klovensky replied
Meanwhile Barnes was hacking his way through thick foliage before he fell down into a ravine, he got up and checked himself to make sure he wasn’t injured, but sighs in relief when sees no wounds, then he tried to climb out of the ravine, but lost his grip and fell back down
“Dammit!” Barnes said after he landed, Barnes looked around the ravine to see if there is another way out, there isn’t “You got to be kidding me!”
Barnes got his backpack off his back and pulled out one of the signal flares “I can’t believe that I’m doing this!” Barnes said as he set the color of the flare’s glow to red and lit it and then threw it on the ground hoping to attract the Dragon riders
“I just hope it doesn’t attract any more Blackwater Soldiers!” Barnes said as he sat down in the shadow of a rock that hung over the ravine “If I get killed I am going to haunt Garter’s ass for the rest of his life-extended life.” He looked in the west as distant explosions are heard; dark smoke began to rise from above the trees into the sky
“Looks like the bombers are beginning their runs, I actually feel sorry for any poor Blackwater *$#$*%$ that gets caught up in that.” Barnes said as he watched
Meanwhile the dragon riders are in the sky as they watch from a safe distance as the promised saturation bombing commenced and set ablaze to almost half of the island’s forests
The dragons whimpered at the distance droning of the bombs being dropped on top of the Blackwater forces below by the large, black, and sinister American flying machines that flew overhead in large groups of five. Every once in a while a Blackwater anti-air batteries hidden in the forests would open fire on the flying machines, but with no noticeable effect. A large group of Blackwater flying machines flew upward to engage the American flying machines, but fell quickly fell victim to fast-moving and predatory-looking American flying machines that were escorting the larger ones; one by one the Blackwater flying machines came down as burning wrecks
“We better be glad that we’re not those poor Blackwaterians, or whatever you call them.” Gobber said as massive forest fires began to break out across the area being bombed
“These people know how to rage this kind of war.” Stoick said as he watched a firestorm consume a distant Blackwater camp
“Hey Look!” Astrid said as she pointed to a red glow and smoke that was rising from a distant ravine in a part of the forest that was not being bombed by the flying machines
“Should we go check it out?” Hiccup asked his father
“You go ahead, we’ll stay here.” Stoick replied
Hiccup and Toothless went towards the source of the red glow, Toothless landed on one of the edges of the ravine, the source of the red light is a red stick emitted a strange red flame; Hiccup looked in the ravine as he slid carefully down the edge, Toothless snorted and refused to follow him down.
Hiccup approached the red stick and watched it burn
“It seems to be some kind of torch.” Hiccup said to himself
“We call it a flare.” A voice said from the shade at the opposite edge of the ravine
Hiccup turns, sword drawn as a man appears from the shade, and he is wearing strange armor and has a machete in a holder on his back and a gun in its holster. The man is thinner than most Viking warriors but not as much as Hiccup is and much taller.
“Are you Barnes?” Hiccup asked the man
“Yes, how do you know my name?” Barnes replied as he looked up at Toothless who was peering at him with his cat like yellow green eyes like a creeping predator at Barnes and then looked back at Hiccup
“We heard you talking to your friends over your communications contraption in your flying machine.” Hiccup said as he still pointed the sword at Barnes, who was acting unusually calm
“No need to for the weapon, I have orders to negotiate with you guys now.” Barnes said as he looked at the long sword that Hiccup has “And plus if you think that scares me. I have had larger weapons pointed at me before. How did you get past the DNA scanner in my aircraft?”
“We used a glove we found and turned inside out.” Hiccup said as he put the sword in it’s shaft
“Hmmm, strange I figure you would have a much harder time understanding the DNA scanner.” Barnes said before looking at Toothless again with a cautious look, Hiccup realized that Barnes had one of his hands on the holster of the small weapon in it’s holder on his belt
“Don’t worry he won’t attack as long as you don’t threaten him or me.” Hiccup said to Barnes, who took his hand slowly off the holster of the gun
Toothless snorted at Barnes and then jumped down into the ravine slowly approached Barnes and sniffed him before realizing he wasn’t a threat. He then sat up on his hind legs and watched Barnes
“You’re not like the inv- I mean Blackwater soldiers.” Hiccup said as he looked at Barnes’ armor
“Yeah, they’re equipped with much older equipped, at least in our standards, to you guys however.” Barnes said
“Yeah, they seemed high tech to us, at least until we met you people..” Hiccup replied
“I know you’re a bit too young be out here by yourself, so I guess there are others with you because your not the same rider I saw on the Monstrous Nightmare earlier.” Barnes said as he looked at Hiccup
“Wait, you know the dragon species?” Hiccup asked when Barnes mentioned the Monstrous Nightmare
“Yeah, we’ve been here before, well a long time ago though. Way before even your grandfather was probably born.” Barnes said as he rubbed the back of his neck
“No, I’m not the only one here, there are six of us, and there were eight when we first arrived. But we sent the last two on their Zippleback to get reinforcements.” Hiccup replied to Barnes
“Hmmm, so you’re the one that rides the Night Fury?” Barnes said as he looked at Toothless, who had turned his attention to the flare that was beginning to fizzle out and die, but turned to face Barnes
“Yeah his name is Toothless.” Hiccup replied
“Why do you call him Toothless? He has the teeth of a *$#$ing shark!” Barnes said as Toothless retracted his teeth into his gums “Never mind, so what’s your name since you already know mine?”
“My name is Hiccup; I’m the son of the tribe leader, Stoick the Vast who is with us. There is also Astrid, Snotlout, Gobber, and Fishlegs. The two we sent were twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut.” Hiccup replied “We’ve been looking for you, my dad wanted to get a peace sorted before your people and started their invasion and since you have your “Orders”, that is going to make it a lot easier.”
Barnes nodded
“Apparently you have been unable to climb out.” Hiccup said as looked at the dirt that covered the front side of Barnes’ armor
“Uhhh…yeah, which is why I lit the flare to attract you guys.” Barnes replied
“Well you’re welcome to come with me on Toothless.” Hiccup said
“Uhhh, kid, I’ve never ridden a dragon before.” Barnes replied in a concerned voice as he looked at the saddle and riding gear on Toothless
“Do you want to stay here and let Blackwater find you?” Hiccup asked Barnes
“Let me gather my things, be sure to tell your friends that you found me.” Barnes replied
“I will, just stay here.” Hiccup said as he mounted Toothless before taking off
“How am I supposed to go anywhere? I’m stuck down here!” Barnes yelled at Hiccup as he and Toothless flew away “I swear, the *$%$ my government makes me do!”
Hiccup and Toothless got back with the others
“So what was the light?” Astrid asked
“A flare and I found Barnes.” Hiccup replied
“He’s down there, why didn’t you bring him?” Stoick asked Hiccup
“He’s gathering his things, don’t worry he can’t get out of the ravine by himself.” Hiccup replied
“I want to see the American myself.” Stoick said as he steered Paul towards the ravine, Hiccup and Gobber follow him
When they arrived, Barnes has slung the AK over his shoulder and has his back pack on.
“Is this your father?” Barnes asked Hiccup
“Yes…I’m his father.” Stoick replied looking at the American, who is half his size
“Well I guess you know who I am and your son said your name is Stoick, so need for introductions I presume?” Barnes said
“You’re not very old, what’s you position in your tribe?” Stoick asked Barnes
“I’m a Major…I lead a Five-man squadron and I fly for the American’s People Military Air Corp, the air of the American’s People Military that is armed branch of our government and the American’s People Party that is leads the United States of America, a very large tribe that we call a country” Barnes replied
“Interesting, what country does Blackwater come from?” Stoick asked
“They don’t have one, their mercenaries or what some people call a “Private Military Contractor” working for the private sector, a specific corporation we call Gene Corp who has been stealing dragons and taking them to our world for unknown reasons, we also believe their responsible for several disappearances of pilots from the major nations in our world.” Barnes replied
“They’ve been taking the Dragons they kidnap to your world?” Hiccup asked, shocked
“Yes, which is why my leaders sent me and my squadron to find their base, but they knew we were coming.” Barnes replied “Our fighters were EMP’ed by the blast that disabled most of the systems of my fighter and damaged the engine, which is one of the reasons why I crashed.”
“What about the language these mercenaries have been speaking?” Gobber asked
“They’re speaking Russian, but not all of them are from Russia, Blackwater is a collection of mercenaries from almost every country in our world, including mine.” Barnes replied “They probably took up Russian to make it harder for you guys to predict their actions.”
“So they’re traitors?” Gobber asked
“Not quite, the people employed by Blackwater are usually Military rejects who were discharged for disorderly conduct or in most cases criminals who just got out of prison and need a job, so there is a usually a reason why people join Blackwater or similar corporations.” Barnes replied
“I see. So we have been fighting mercenaries who have been working for this “Gene Corp” from your world.” Stoick said “Do you know why they want the dragons and the pilots they have been kidnapping?”
“No, that’s the reason that our leaders decided to start the investigation on Blackwater and Gene Corp.” Barnes replied “But look we need to get out of here, I have orders to get back to my aircraft and make sure it’s still in flying condition.”
“We know, we heard that over your radio thing.” Hiccup said to Barnes
“Well, the only thing that is destroyed is the thing that powered it.” Gobber said
“You mean the engine? Well I need to get a closer look to see if the engine can be repaired, if not, it can be replaced easily by my squadron’s maintenance crew.” Barnes replied “I also need to contact my squadron and let them know I’m with you guys, if they haven’t been following you.”
“I think we would have noticed if we were being followed by aircraft.” Hiccup said
“Trust me; our aircraft are nothing like Blackwater’s.” Barnes replied “They have special technology that allows them to well, go invisible.”
“Oh…” Hiccup said
“Well I guess this alliance is settled then?” Barnes asked Stoick uneasily
Stoick stuck his hand out to Barnes, Barnes and Stoick shook hands
“It’s settled.” Stoick replied, Barnes nodded
“Let’s go then before the bombers start hitting this area.” Barnes said as the sounds of the saturation bombing began to come closer
Stoick mounted onto Paul and took off into the sky. Hiccup mounted Toothless as Barnes approached
Barnes climbed onto Toothless behind Hiccup, who took off immediately after Gobber and Saxton and flew towards the other Dragon Riders
“I’m going to try contacting the rest of my squadron to see where they are!” Barnes yelled over the sound of the bombers overhead as they began to drop their massive payloads. The Dragon Riders began to head towards the F-45 crash site as fast as their dragons could fly. Stoick nodded as Barnes pulled out his radio “Ramirez! Come in over!” Barnes yelled over the radio
“What is it Sir?” Ramirez replied over the radio
“Tell Garter that I have secured an alliance with the locals and we are in route to my fighter, I want you and the others to meet us there!” Barnes yelled to Ramirez
“Roger that! We’ll be there ASAP!” Ramirez replied.
Barnes put the radio away and held onto Hiccup as Toothless flew at full speed as the sounds of the bombings and the bombers began to fade in the distance, but the dark smoke from the fires still rose
When they arrived at the crash site, the dragon riders dismounted as Barnes climbed off Toothless he fell into the sand of the beach and quickly got back up. He ran to his fighter and checked the engine of the F-45. Above them the rest of the 502nd uncloaked and hovered over the crash site as he keep on the look out for Blackwater aircraft and ground forces
“Dammit this thing is FUBAR!” Barnes yelled as kicked the engine with hits foot
“What’s FUBAR?” Astrid asked Barnes
“It means that it’s #$##$# beyond repair, meaning that we will have to replace the entire damn engine.” Barnes replied to Astrid
“Oh.” Astrid said
Barnes jumped into the cockpit and put his hand on the DNA Scanner.
“Access granted” The F-45s computer said as the instruments in the F-45’s cockpit activated and lit up. Barnes grabbed the transmitter of the radio and contacted command
“Barnes to Command over.” Barnes said into the transmitter
“This is command, what is it Barnes?” Conrad asked Barnes over the radio
“I have found my aircraft; the engine is destroyed and needs to be replaced, so send Preston and his boys down here to repair it.” Barnes replied
“Roger that, we have on them on the USS Reagan and we’ll send them as soon as we complete the transition in a few more minutes, if I was you, I would start digging in right now, because I have no doubt that Blackwater will detect their Mallard on radar and will send whatever they can to stop you from getting back into the air. I’ll also dispatch the Iowa and New Jersey to provide Fire Support; also our UAVs have detected a large Viking fleet entering the area coming right towards you. It looks like the Hairy Hooligans.” Conrad said
“That must be our reinforcements.” Stoick said quietly
“Roger that command. Do not engage the Viking fleet, they’re friendly now, ask the President.” Barnes replied over the radio as he switched the channel
“Ramirez! Patrol the perimeter and make sure nobody tries to stop us from getting this hunk of metal back into the sky!” Barnes said to Ramirez
“Roger that Dice-1! WE are Oscar Mike!” Ramirez replied as the F-45s sped away at full Speed, they go supersonic and a sonic boom is heard
Billy Bob with Tuffnut and Ruffnut riding on him land, they see Barnes in the cockpit of the F-45
“Who is he?” Tuffnut asked Hiccup
“That is one of our new American allies.” Hiccup replied
“Oh, also the Village elder is with the ships and she may want to see him.” Ruffnut said
Barnes climbed out of the cockpit
“Well command is going to dispatch the repair team to repair this hunk of metal and their also going to dispatch two of our battleships to provide fire support for us.” Barnes said to the Vikings
“What are battleships?” Gobber asked Barnes
“Let’s just say they’re almost the biggest guns in our fleet.” Barnes replied
In the distance, Several Viking ships appeared of the horizon.
“We need to dig in, because it is very possible that Blackwater will try to attack us with whatever forces they can to stop us from getting me back into air, so we need to be ready for them when they come.” Barnes said to Stoick
“Spitelout has brought shovels and other stuff to build trenches and spiderholes with.” Tuffnut said
“Good because we’ll need those.” Barnes replied “And we’ll need to start building them right away.”
Part Seven: Total War Edit
After a few minutes, the Viking ships landed on the shore and the Viking warriors under the leadership of Spitelout dismounted Stoick and Gobber greeted
“Who is that?” Spitelout asked Stoick quietly as he motioned to Barnes, who was working with a keypad on his F-45 to open up a compartment carrying more supplies
“He is one of our new allies against the Blackwater and Gene Corp invaders, his name is Major Barnes, he’s what we can an American.” Stoick says, Spitelout nodded “He said that we need to start digging in, you know what that means.”
Spitelout nodded again and looked back to the Viking warriors behind him
“Get the shovels out! I want trenches dug up around the downed flying machine.” Spitelout yelled to his warriors who went back to the ships and grabbed their shovels and began digging trenches around the F-45. Barnes opened the compartment and pulled out a box, he then reached into of one of his pockets and pulled a key out that he used to open the box, he then pulled out the GK-44 with thermal scope and grenade launcher attachments.
“Is that one your weapons?” Astrid asked as she looked at the Pulse Rifle as Barnes flipped a hidden switch to turn it on
“Yes it is, we call a GK-44.” Barnes said as he loaded a grenade into the M203.
Barnes also pulled out four APM stick grenades that are based off the old German World War II-era Model 24 grenade that were on a strap that he put around his shoulder. He also pulled out four extra 9mm Clips and a small shovel that had sharpened edges, Barnes smiled as he looked at the shovel
“The Good Ole Spade.” Barnes said as he swung the shovel at a imaginary enemy with one hand
“Is that a shovel?” Gobber asked Barnes looking at the spade
“We call it “entrenching tool” or “spade” we use it to dig trenches like that, but it also has another use in combat, a melee weapon when you sharpen the edges like with this one.” Barnes replied
“Can I see it?” Astrid asked
“Sure, just don’t cut yourself, the edges are extra sharp and it is also made out of the same material as my plan” Barnes said as he motioned to the F-45 as he hands the spade to Astrid, who looked at, Barnes looked back into the compartment of the F-45
“Huh? I forgot I had this” Barnes said as he pulled out a strange looking knife and looked at it.
“It’s just a knife.” Gobber said
“It’s a ballistic knife, if you press the button here, the blade launches, really effective as a last resort, a Russian Spetsnaz Officer gave it to me as a gift after we defeated the French in World War III for saving his life, I modified if with a different made out as the same material as my aircraft and spade.” Barnes replied as he looked at the Ballistic Knife
“Interesting.” Astrid said as she handed the spade back to Barnes
Barnes put the spade back in its shaft and puts it on his back next to his Machete, the ballistic knife in its special holder on the back of his armor on his leg.
“You Americans have a lot of weapons to use.” Snotlout said to Barnes as he got up
“What kind of material is your aircraft made out of anyway?” Hiccup asked Barnes
“Something we call Kletonium, can only be cut by weapons made with Kletonium or a high powered laser. It is a Synthetic Fiber, meaning it is made by man. It is nearly impossible to destroy with conventional weapons like the ones Blackwater uses” Barnes replied
“What’s a laser?” Fishlegs asked Barnes
“A Device used to emit concentrated light, they vary in power, the only the ones powered by fusion reactors like that powers my F-45 can cut Kletonium. There are also laser weapons…which I have no experience with outside of laser-guided bombs.” Barnes replied
“Interesting. I’m sure they’re very effective against the enemies of your country.” Stoick said
“Yeah, but it depends on who were fighting.” Barnes replied “We’re not the only ones with lasers anymore.”
“Barnes come in over.” Conrad said over the F-45’s radio, Barnes ran to the F-45 and jumped into the cockpit and answers
“What is it Conrad?” Barnes asked
“The repair team is in route to your location, we have also dispatched the Iowa and New Jersey. The Repair team should be there in six minutes and the battleships in twelve Minutes.” Conrad replied
“Roger that Command.” Barnes said
“Spitelout, hurry up we don’t have very much time!” Stoick yelled to Spitelout
“We’re working on it as fast as we can Stoick!” Spitelout replied
Meanwhile Gene Corp HQ
“Sir the combined APM and Russian have transitioned to the other dimension and our intel indicate the Americans and Vikings have established any alliance. But we still have one last chance capture Barnes and the Night Fury. Their both at the crash site with the other dragon riders and their recently arrived reinforcements and they’re digging in.” Luger Said
“Tell your commanders in charge of the forces there to hold out as long as they can and do whatever he can to capture Barnes and the Night Fury before it is too late.” MacTavish Replied
“Yes Sir.” Luger said before he started to pick up his papers, but MacTavish motioned for him to stop
“Luger, is it within our capabilities to launch a long siege of a city the size of Cape Girardeau?” MacTavish asked Luger
“Sir…?” Luger replied
“You heard me can your men take Cape Girardeau and hold it? It may give us enough time to launch an attempt to capture the Night Fury and Barnes if the commander fails to get them and the APM and Russian Forces overrun our island base in the other dimension.” MacTavish said
“MacTavish, we don’t have the manpower and weapons…but we cannot even expect to hold off the APM and U.S Military when they retaliate.” Luger Replied
“Then we launch a distraction, maybe start a war somewhere that will distract their forces elsewhere while we attack Cape Girardeau and maybe launch an attack against the Arizona National Guard here. We do have many investors and stockholders in the government of the UAS to influence them.” MacTavish said
“I’ll try contacting our representative inside the UAS Governments, to see if he can do something.” Luger replied as he continued to pick his papers back up
“Good, order your commanders to begin arranging the forces necessary to attack the National Guard garrison here and the one defending Cape Girardeau.” MacTavish said to Luger as he left
Meanwhile Barnes has joined in with helping the Vikings dig their trenches in preparation for a evitable Blackwater attack
“Where is the elder? I thought you said she was wit the fleet?” Stoick asked Tuffnut and Ruffnut
“She is on a Long boat that is waiting out in sea; it’s too dangerous to bring her in.” Spitelout replied
“Look! Astrid said as she pointed to a dark flying object that was heading towards the shore, Barnes used his binoculars to look at it.
“No need to panic, it’s one of ours.” Barnes replied
The Vikings sighed in relief as the American UH-55 Mallard Transport VTOL lands and the repair team led by Preston dismounted, Preston ran over to Barnes, who climbed out of the trench
“We’ve brought a new engine!” Preston said as he saluted Barnes
“Pres, you don’t need to salute me. Just get the repairs done!” Barnes replied
“Barnes! We have incoming bogies and ground forces!” Ramirez said to Barnes over the radio
“Engage the enemy!” Barnes replied, Barnes then looked at the dragon riders
“Do you have any extra radios with you?” Barnes asked Preston
“Yes Sir, they’re in the back of the Mallard in the red supply locker.” Preston replied pointing to the Mallard
Barnes went into the Mallard and opened the crate and pulled out eight radios and ran out to the dragon riders
“Take these and help the rest of my squadron! Press this button to talk and they’re already tuned to the right channel.” Barnes said to the dragon riders as they took the radios
“I won’t be going in the air; I’ll stay here and help defend.” Stoick said and Gobber nodded. But other dragon riders took the radios and quickly took off towards the ongoing battle as the 502nd engage the incoming Blackwater attack air craft. The Vikings quickly finished the trench system and got into them. Barnes got into the first trench with Stoick, Gobber, and Spitelout
“Stoick I got an idea, use Paul and cut away the tree line, it will remove some of their cover.” Barnes said to Stoick as he remembered the description of the Timberjack he read back on the USAS Cape Girardeau
“Good idea” Stoick said as he gets on Paul and took off and began cutting down the trees in front of the crash site
Barnes uses the built in range finder in thermal imaging scope on his GK-44 and sent the coordinates of a firing zone for the battleships that will arrive in five minutes
“What did you just do?” Spitelout asked Barnes with suspicion
“I marked targets for the Battleships when they come, so I won’t have to do it during battle.” Barnes replied as he aimed his GK-44 toward the tree line
It is quiet for a few minutes before Blackwater infantry began to charge out of the tree line into the open stump filled field, Barnes fired his GK-44 on fully automatic, Barnes pulled out one of the Stick Grenades, pulled the pin out and twisted the top three times before he lobbed it towards a tightly packed group of Blackwater Soldiers, the Grenade exploded killing some of the Blackwater infantry and injuring a few others. Some of the Blackwater Infantry reached and jumped into the trench and a bloody melee battle began
Barnes used his Spade to stab a Blackwater Soldier that was sneaking up on Stoick with a knife and then pulled out his 9mm and shot a Blackwater soldier who was jumping into the trench, who fell down dead into the trench. Barnes felt the ground shake and he looked up out of the trench to see several Blackwater BMP-3s and two BTR-80s rolling out of the tree line.
“SON OF A #($#@ they brought armor with them!” Barnes yelled as one of the BMP-3s began to fire its cannon into the trench.
Barnes heard an AK fire next to him, he looked next to him see Spitelout who had picked the AK he discarded to shoot at the incoming Blackwater soldiers.
“So that’s how you use these things.” Spitelout said in disgust at the weapon
“Watch out!” Barnes yelled to Spitelout as he fired his GK-44 at a Blackwater Soldier that was preparing to shoot Spitelout from behind
“Thanks…” Spitelout said to Barnes as he looked back at the dead Blackwater soldier
“No Problem.” Barnes replied
More Blackwater infantry appeared from the tree line as they fired their weapons. Shells began to fly overhead as the distant Iowa-Class Battleships, the Jersey and Iowa fired their first fire mission and destroyed the BMPs and BTRs and vaporized a lot of Blackwater infantry.
“Preston, how long do you have before the repairs are done?” Barnes yelled to Preston over the sound of the shells flying overhead
“Not very long all we’re doing is a diagnostics check to make sure it works properly!” Preston replied from behind the mound of sand that was protecting him and the repair team as they repaired the F-45
“HURRY IT UP!” Barnes yelled as another wave of Blackwater soldiers and T-95 Tanks appeared
“These are new!” Spitelout said as he looked at the T-95s
“They’re T-95s! They’re Old Russian tanks.” Barnes replied “They must be getting desperate!”
Another fire mission began as the Jersey opened fire again, shells began to barrage the attacking Blackwater forces
“She’s ready!” Preston yelled over the sounds of battle
Barnes jumped out of the trench while another fire mission from the Iowa flew overhead and got behind the mound of sand; he quickly off his battle gear and handed it to Preston
“Take that with you when you take off!” Barnes said to him as he put his pilot helmet back on and jumped into the cockpit of the F-45 and activated it, the F-45’s engines roared to life after he closed the canopy and activated the turbo fan and began to lift off the ground as bullets and tank rounds bounced off the Kletonium armor as the F-45 rose from behind the sand mounds. Barnes turned the F-45 to face the attackers and fired both of the F-45’s Pulse Cannons and rocket pods at the Blackwater attackers. The Vikings and repair team cheered as the F-45 took off at full speed towards the air battle as the Vikings and the repair team retreated back to the Mallard and their ships
Meanwhile the dragon riders were helping the 502nd fight off the attacking Blackwater aircraft when Barnes’ F-45 joined the battle
“What did I miss?” Barnes asked over the radio
“Not much! These guys fall too easily!” Ramirez replied as he shots down a Blackwater MI-28 Havoc with the Pulse Cannons
“Easy is not how I describe!” Hiccup yelled over the radio as a PAK-FA chased after him and Toothless, Barnes then pursues the PAK-FA.
“Hold on I’ll help you with that.” Barnes said as he lined up his sights with the PAK-FA using the holographic HUD of his pilot helmet
“Pay back time mother #$#@(#!” Barnes said in his mind as he launched an Air-to-Air Missile at the PAK-FA that hit it and shot it down. The remaining Blackwater attackers retreated, the F-45s and the dragon riders regrouped over the former crash site as the Vikings and Repair team vacated the area and headed towards the two American Battleships that were now off shore as they lifted anchor, one Viking ship was alongside the USS Iowa tied to it by ropes, the village elder with her two escorting Viking warriors were talking to the captain.
The other Viking ships quickly docked alongside the Iowa and New Jersey before both battleships began to head out to sea towards the invasion armada
“I am glad that crusade is finally over.” Hiccup said over the radio to the others
“Hiccup, we’re only out of the frying pan now, and we’re now going into the fire.” Barnes replied
“What does that mean?” Astrid asked
“It’s means that things are only just beginning.” Ramirez replied.
“Oh…” Astrid said
“Good to see that you’re back in the air again, Barnes” Conrad said to Barnes over the radio “Get to the fleet and land on the Reagan, get checked out by a doctor to make sure you didn’t catch something, and get some rest, because god knows you need it after your time on that island”
“Roger that.” Barnes replied as the F-45s, the two battleships with the Vikings ships tied to them, and the dragon riders headed towards the setting sun
That Night the group arrived at the fleet where American and Russian Ships were preparing fore the invasion scheduled for early morning
“What are the ruskies doing here?” Ramirez asked command
“They decided they wanted to join in.” Herald replied over the radio as the F-45s landed on the USS Reagan being guided by a man wearing a White Jersey and helmet with two red flags, the dragon riders also land on the busy deck of the Aircraft Carrier and get the attention of everybody on the flight deck for a minute before they continued to work again.
Barnes climbed out of his F-45 along with the rest of his squadron; the dragon riders dismounted their dragons and ran over to them.
“So, you have never introduced us to the rest of your squadron.” Hiccup said as he looked at Ramirez, Carmen, Louis, and Newell
“Well this is my second in command, Captain Ramirez, then that is Lieutenant Carmen, Sergeant Louis, and Sergeant Newell.” Barnes replied as he introduced his squadron to the dragon riders who greeted them
“Well I am going to go the doctor so I get that check up.” Barnes said as headed for the island (Command Bridge) of the carrier “Ramirez, help them get comfortable, this is their first time on a Carrier
Hiccup looked around and sees various types of aircraft being loaded with weapons by men wearing red jerseys and helmets with earplugs in their ears.
“Follow us, you can put your dragons in the under deck where they will be safer” Ramirez said as he and the others guided the dragon riders and their dragons to a strange looking platform, a man wearing a blue jersey on the platform helmet pressed a red button and the platform began to move down and stopped at a large opening to the under deck that contained more aircraft including five other F-45s that belong to the 432ndnd SOFS that were being worked on by men that wore green jerseys and helmets.
“What kind of ship is this?” Hiccup asked Ramirez
“Aircraft Carrier, the type of Ship that carry and support aircraft out at sea, they’re the largest and most expensive ships in the entire fleet” Ramirez replied. The Dragon Riders and the 502nd entered a corridor with many rooms and other corridors that protrude off of it The corridors are too narrow for the dragons to follow them, so the dragons stayed behind and lied down in a large empty space in the below deck
“Why is it so cramped down here?” Hiccup asked Ramirez as he moved out of the way so an APMNC officer could pass by, who looked back at the dragon riders as he continued down the corridor
“So we can fit more weapons and planes on it.” Ramirez replied “You will have to sleep in the Officer’s lounge because there are no other available quarters for you guys to sleep in and your dragons will have to stay in the below deck.”
“Oh yeah and we also want to thank you for helping Barnes get off the island.” Carmen said to the dragon riders.
“You’re welcome.” Snotlout replied
“We’ll go get you some blankets and pillows to help you guys sleep, if you need any help, we’ll be down the corridor.” Ramirez said
Meanwhile Barnes was in the Reagan’s infirmary receiving a medical check up by a doctor
“Everything seems normal and you have no major injuries.” The APM Doctor said as he checked for injuries, while a nurse used a handheld scanner on him “But I will provide treatment for those scratches on your face so stay here while I get the proper medication and tools.”
Conrad and Herald come into the infirmary as the Doctor went into another room to get the supplies to treat Barnes’ injuries
“God Barnes, you look like # ($#.” Conrad said to Barnes, who had one black eye, numerous scratches, and bruises on his face. Also his pilot armor is covered with dirt, dust, sand, and dried blood from the melee fight
“Sorry Conrad, but I’m a soldier and I’m supposed to get dirty.” Barnes replied to the comment, Conrad and Herald laughed. Herald is ten years younger than Conrad; he has black hair, and bright green eyes.
“Well at least you are okay and back with us. The new alliance with the Vikings has proven to be helpful; Stoick has given us vital Intel about Blackwater’s tactics and armament.” Conrad replied “But we still have no idea what they want to do with the dragons they kidnapped, which is why Garter wants us to capture the commander of the Blackwater forces on the island.”
“The Invasion will commence at noon tomorrow. We will move into position over night, when we do, your squadron will join the other aircraft in the fleet and attack Blackwater’s Main Airfield before the invasion.” Herald said to Barnes who nodded
The Doctor came into the room as he carried anti-bacterial cream and bandages to use on the scratches that covered Barnes’ face
That night the dragon riders were trying to sleep on the couches and chairs in the officer’s lounge, despite the fact it was late at night, the carrier was still alive with activity as the crew prepared for the invasion.
“Dear Odin! Do these Americans ever know when to stop working and sleep?” Astrid said as she covered her face with a pillow
“I can’t sleep!” Hiccup said, he accidently laid his head down on a strange contraption that activated a device with a screen on it that a person that wore a suit and tie appeared on, he was talking about military build up in a area called the “Middle-East” in the other world
“Israeli-Arabian tensions boil as the Arabian military gathers on the border near Baghdad threatening the American-controlled oil fields and the long lasting era of international peace.” The man said as he looked at the dragon riders from the other side of the screen, then footage of tanks rolling in endless deserts with helicopters and jet fighters flying overhead, they bear a flag that has white background show with two solid blue bars below and on top of a blue star that was between them “Currently, Coalition leaders are meeting in Vienna to issue sanctions against the UAS as Coalition forces including the American Military forces stationed in North Africa prepare for a war that now seems inevitable.” Several APM Officers who were in the lounge, joined the dragon riders as they were watching the report
“Dear god, what is the world coming to?” One of the officers’ said with an uneasy voice
“What’s the UAS?” Hiccup asked the officer
“It’s the United Arabian States; they’re another country in our world.” The Officer replied “
“Are they always hostile like this?” Tuffnut asked the APM Officer
“No, kind of strange that this is all happening at the same time as the bull crap here is going on.” The Officer replied
Meanwhile APM Command
“What do know about the Arabian arms build up?” Garter asked Redfield
“Not much, it just began for no reason, nearly half of the UAS military has been mobilized and we have mobilized our forces stationed in our North African Territories.” Redfield replied
“Doesn’t Gene Corp have investors within the UAS Government?” Chavez asked Redfield
“They do and quite a lot of them, they defiantly have enough to influence the decisions of the government.” Redfield replied
“So you are saying that Gene Corp may have bribed UAS Leaders to do this?” Garter asked Chavez
“It is a possibility.” Chavez replied
“If MacTavish is involved, it is most likely a distraction from something else, something much larger.” Redfield said
“But from what?” Garter asked himself out loud as he looked at map of the world that was behind him
Meanwhile Gene Corp HQ
“The preparations for the war are going quicker than we thought, the UAS build up has indeed distracted the American Government, but that won’t last long after we hit the capital in three days.” Luger said to MacTavish who was looking out the window at the amassing Blackwater Army that was now being reinforced via the use of reverse engineered Facepunch cloning vats and modern Russian and American Military gear and equipment
“Excellent if we lay siege to Cape Girardeau. It will disorientate APM Forces long enough for us to make large gains here and if we capture Cape, we will gain control of the APM’s Orbital Weapon Systems that will prevent foreign intervention against us.” MacTavish replied
“What if the Americans start to use their Nuclear weapons?” Luger asked MacTavish
“I doubt that Garter will be willing to go that far, unlike his predecessor.” MacTavish replied as he turned to face MacTavish “Then when we finally complete Project Titan with the capture of the Night Fury and Barnes, winning this war will be made a lot easier for us.” MacTavish then sat back down in his chair.
“And what if the APMSF and the APM’s endless legions of Stormtroopers return before then?” Luger asked MacTavish
“Lets just it doesn’t go that way.” MacTavish replied
The next day in the other dimension, the 502nd and the other squadrons from the fleet took off from their ships and into the early morning sky as the fleet prepared for the amphibious landings as they entered the visual range of the island’s shores
“All fighters maintain attack formation!” Barnes said to his wing mates over the radio as the Russian and American fighters and bombers headed towards the island
The ten F-45s from the 502nd and 432nd SOFS squadrons were at the head of the attack as it made landfall, Anti-Air guns began to fire upon the planes, but the outdated Blackwater anti-aircraft systems were ineffective against the modern fighters of both the American and Russian air forces, the AA guns all revealed their positions to the offshore American Battleships that began to fire at them.
“Heh, these mercenaries aren’t so smart if they’re firing while in the range of the battleships!” A Russian Pilot said over the radio that was translated into English over American radios, but nobody replied
“We’re approaching the target!” The Squadron leader of the 432nd SOFS said over the radio “We have bogies in the air, looks like their returning from a patrol!”
“Roger that Talon-1.” Barnes replied
“All squadrons now have clearance to engage at will.” A Officer said over the radio
“Dice-2, FOX-1!” Ramirez said as he fired his first missile
“Dice-5, FOX-1!” Newell said as he did the same
Barnes increased his flight speed and flew over the Blackwater airfield as he strafed it his Pulse Cannons and rockets, he hits a fuel truck that was refueling a Blackwater SU-25 that explodes destroying the plane, the hangar it was in and the truck, Blackwater Anti-Air guns around the airfield opened fire upon the incoming American and Russian aircraft as they began to attack the airfield.
The Main Fuel tanks of the airfield exploded after they’re hit by a missile launched by a Russian ground attack jet that deployed flares as it flew back around for another run on the airfield, Barnes, Ramirez, and Louis dropped cluster bombs on the living quarters for the pilots and the personnel on the airfield. The attack lasts for six more minutes before all the American and Russian aircraft ran out ammunition and went back to base
Later that day, Stoick and Gobber were riding towards the beaches on a Viking Long Boat that was trailing behind a Russian BTR-105 while battleship shells and cruise missiles screaming and flew overhead {C}“The Americans have probably bombed the life out of there area near the beaches, I won’t be surprise if we face no living opposition.” Stoick said as they came closer to the beach
The Long Boat beached itself on the beach as American and Russian Forces dismounted from their amphibious transports, the second wave began to make its wave towards the beaches with the third wave right behind it. Smoke was rising across the island as the Battleships continue bombarding the island. Besides the sounds of the shells flying overhead and the few aircraft and cruise missiles that flew overhead, it was quiet as the first squads of APM Shocktroopers followed by squads of US Marines made their way inland cautiously. The trees as far as the eye could see have been burnt to black crisps. There are a few burnt out wrecks of Blackwater tanks and other vehicles nearby and there is also the smell of burnt flesh in the air as the rising smoke has turned the morning sky into a blood red as ashes fall from the sky, The glow of distant fires could be seen
“Tell General Conrad that is beach is cleared and that we can start rolling in the Heavy Equipment.” An APM Officer said to one of his subordinates.
A few Russian Soldiers and US Marines put their gas masks on to block the smell of the battlefield
“You were right, Stoick. The Americans bombed all the life out of this area.” One of the Viking warriors said to Stoick as they looked at the Hellish landscape in front of them
“At least it did it’s purpose to prevent Blackwater from resisting the beaches landings.” Stoick replied quietly
There was the crack of a gun going off as Blackwater infantry in red camouflage ambushed an advancing Russian Marine squad, but they didn’t last long as a US Army soldier with a Flamethrower incinerated them. A few wounded Russian soldiers cried out in their language as Russian Marines with Red Cross arm bands ran over to them.
The Second wave lands and brought more Russian and American Soldiers with it to the shores and was followed by the Third and fourth waves, and finally the heavy cargo hovercraft, which deployed Russian and American Armored Vehicles arrived as the guns of the battleships went silent
Meanwhile back on the Reagan, the 502nd have just returned from clean up operations against remaining Blackwater aircraft and air bases on the island
“Sir, Conrad has requested your presence on the bridge” The officer said to Barnes, who nodded and followed him to the bridge, there Conrad, Herald, a US Army General, Marine General, US Navy Admiral, and Klovensky were in the command the bridge and were surrounding a holographic projector that was showing a 3D map of the island with the area controlled by friendly forces in Blue and Blackwater in Red. Conrad turned around to face Barnes after the officer turned to face Barnes
“Ah, Barnes I have a favor I need to ask you, I believe you are familiar with Alpha Squad of the 1st Shocktrooper Company?” Conrad asked Barnes
“Yes I am…what about them?” Barnes replied with a curious look
“Well Sergeant Haggard has come down with a bad case of the stomach flu, and is incapable of leading his squad. When he learned that you were here; he requested that you took his place. Think about it, I know how much you hate CAS (Close Air Support) missions and with that attack on the air field and those clean up operations your squadron has been doing, that is almost the only available mission for the air squadrons involved in this campaign.” Conrad said to Barnes
Barnes thought about it for a minute
“I’ll do it.” Barnes replied happily to get out of a CAS Mission
A minute later Barnes was talking to Ramirez about his temporary reassignment
“I need you to take over while I’m gone Ramirez. Take good care of the dragon riders, Stoick has entrusted us with their lives.” Barnes said to Ramirez
“They’re in good hands, Sir.” Ramirez replied
“Good, just making sure.” Barnes said as he headed towards the island
“Good luck out there!” Ramirez yelled at Barnes as he left
Barnes went down into the bowels of the ship and to the locker room where Alpha squad was waiting for him
“Barnes? Is that you?” Corporal Galveston asked Barnes with a welcoming Australian Accent. Galveston is the son of Australian Immigrants; he has Light Blonde hair and blue eyes. He was Alpha Squad’s Designated Sharpshooter and Anti-Tank Specialist. He was wearing A-2 Armor that allowed him to carry the bulky and heavy M-995 Guided Missile launcher along with his XM147 Sniper Rifle w/ FLIR Sight and built in Target Designator, and a GK-44 Pulse Rifle. He was a Heavy Shocktrooper due to the A-2 Armor
“Yeah, Conrad has appointed me as your new squad leader for the remainder of this operation.” Barnes replied
“I haven’t seen you since Sinai when you were still a new face.” Corporal Redford said. Redford was an African American with dark brown eyes and braided brown hair; he was the descendent of South African immigrants. He was Alpha’s Squad’s medic and carried a Remington 870 Shotgun with him that was slung over his shoulder. He was wearing A-1 Armor with Red Cross shoulder pads
One of the other Heavy Shocktroopers in the squad picked Barnes up as he hugged him; it is Wells, the Squad’s Secondary Anti-Tank Specialists and Demolitions Expert. He has a GK-44 Pulse Rifle slung over this shoulder and an M-995 ATGM Launcher on this back Wells was a bit younger than Barnes and has light brown hair with emerald eyes.
“Welcome Back!” Wells said as he puts Barnes down
“Good to see you too, Wells.” Barnes replied
A short and Stubby man with black hair with red streaks in it and dark green eyes was leaning quietly against the lockers; it was Corporal Hartmann, a Regular Shocktrooper with a GK-44 next to him wearing A-1 Armor
“Hi Hartmann.” Barnes said to Hartmann, who waved back “I also see there a few new faces in the squad since I was last here; Barnes said as he looked at the two young initiates, Private Paterson and Corporal Birmingham, who wave at Barnes. Initiates are Shocktroopers who have not earned their A-1 Armor yet and wore older APM uniforms and used older gear
“It’s an honor to serve under you, Major.” Birmingham said to Barnes, Birmingham is just Nineteen years old; he has pimples that covered his face along with warm and inexperience green eyes, and yellow hair
Paterson nodded; Paterson is just as young as Birmingham and has red hair, brown eyes, and freckles that dotted his face.
"I heard you met a Night Fury." Wells said to Barnes
“I did and its name is Toothless, it belongs to Hiccup, the son of the Viking tribe leader, who I also met.” Barnes replied {C}“Conrad said that you guys have my old A-1 PCA. Where is it?”
“It’s over there; your crew chief stopped by and dropped off a few things.” Wells said as he motioned to the set of A-1 Armor on the bench
Barnes walked over to the A-1 armor and put it on, he looked at the stuff that Preston dropped off for him, and it’s his GK-44 Pulse Rifle, spade, and ballistic knife. He grabbed the GK-44 and a slung it over his shoulder, picked up the spade that he then put it’s in holder that Preston also left and strapped it to his back, and put the Ballistic Knife in a pouch on the belt of the A-1 Armor.
{C}“I’m ready to go.” Barnes said to his squad before they left.
They go up to the flight deck where a UH-55 Mallard VTOL is waiting to carry them, they board it and it takes off for the beach where a camp is being set up. When they arrived at the camp, a column of M7A5 Enforcer Tanks were preparing to roll out. The Enforcer is the Primary MBT of the APM that has been in service since the Clan Wars, meaning it is the oldest tank in service, due to the fact it was beyond it’s time when it entered service and is lethality is upgraded through various upgrades to it’s weapons, armor, and equipment. The A5 was the latest version of the Enforcer is equipped with TUSK Armor, a laser point active defense system, a rifled main gun that could fire shells and ATGMs, a autoloader, electrified Kletonium armor, and two heavy mini guns. The Enforcers were painted with a camouflage that suited the environment of the island and dozer bladed to protect against land mines. The command variant Enforcer at the front of the column has a medium rail gun instead of a cannon.
“What are our orders?” Barnes asked the commander of the 130th Shocktrooper division who was supervising the preparation of the Enforcer Tanks by their crews
“Well we’ve been attached the 2nd Armored Division and we are to escort these tanks through the forest as they advance to the Main Blackwater base at the other end of the island.” The Commander replied
“What are we facing?” Barnes asked the Command
“We don’t really know yet, Blackwater has fallen back to their defensive positions along the river that divides the island and the fly boys have been blowing the shit out of them. All we have been running into as of right now is Blackwater Units that have been separated or were unable to retreat in time, and they usually surrender.” The Commander replied
Barnes nodded
“Wait a second, are you Major Barnes?” The Commander asked Barnes
“Yes Sir.” Barnes replied
“Welcome back to the 130th, Thank you for taking control of this squad while Sergeant Haggard is recovering from his sickness, these are my best men and I would hate to give them to somebody else.” The Commander said
“They’re in good hands, sir.” Barnes replied
“We will leave in a few minutes, feel free to jump on one of the tanks and ride it; it’s going to be a long trip.” The Commander said to Barnes
“Well you heard the commander let’s go.” Barnes replied as he motioned to the Enforcer tanks, Barnes and Alpha Squad went to one of the Enforcer tanks, Barnes climbed onto the tank and helped Galveston onto the tank, who helped Barnes get the rest of Alpha squadron board the tank.
“So are you still seeing that Drop Trooper Supply Officer?” Galveston asked Barnes
“Samantha? Yeah, she’s on a cruise in the Caribbean with Katie, one of her friends” Barnes replied
“Why aren’t you with her?” Wells asked Barnes
“Because she was invited by Katie and she only had two tickets.” Barnes replied
“And now you’re stuck in this mess.” Galveston said to Barnes
Meanwhile the 502nd were escorting the dragon riders as they flew over the island. Unlike the land near the invasion beaches, the land below is still lush with green foliage
“So, I know you guys didn’t come here looking for us, so why were guys here when we were ambushed?” Newell asked the Dragon Riders
“Well we were here to find their base, but we found a crashed R.A.F Plane on a nearby island and we heard you guys talking over its radio so we went to check out.” Astrid replied
“Ah, that’s probably a left over from Operation Bodyguard, there are probably more wrecks around the entire Archipelago” Ramirez said
“What’s Operation Bodyguard?” Hiccup asked
“What we call the first time we were here to defend our scientists from the dragons and your ancestors, it didn’t go very well for us or our allies. We weren’t involved since we were training other SOFS Pilots how to fly the F-45 at the time.” Louis replied
“Yeah, the Elder told stories about the war that happened.” Hiccup said “We always thought they were legends and stories until now that is.”
“Nope, it’s completely true we pulled out after three months of action, we could kill the dragons, but they just kept coming.” Carmen said
“We know one of the veterans, Lieutenant Adam Wensky, he doesn’t like to talk about it a lot, and it’s what some people consider to be the only war America has lost since the APP came to power.” Ramirez replied
“Wow, all this technology and you get defeated by dragons and our ancestors?” Snotlout said
“Because our weapons were never made to kill dragons, they were made to kill, well you know that story. We actually killed more dragons than our allies, it’s just there were more dragons than American Soldiers involved and the President at the time, Reaper didn’t like the idea was sending more troops or the other idea some of the proposals that our general put on his desk.” Ramirez replied
“What kind of proposals?” Astrid asked the 502nd,
“The largest and most well known one was that we started using Poison gas against your ancestors, which was rejected since the Coalition agreed not to use chemical weapons. Another one was to use nuclear weapons against the dragons and Reaper wasn’t a fan of using Nuclear weapons since he saw some being used in the Clan Wars.” Ramirez said
“What are Nuclear Weapons?” Fishlegs asked the 502nd
“Clan Wars?” Hiccup asked
“Reaper?” Astrid asked
“Well nuclear weapons are some of our most powerful weapons, The Clan Wars is the largest war the APP has involved in and still remains the most destructive and costly war since the Second World War and Reaper is man who was a general during the war and the president for a very long time before he disappeared.” Ramirez replied
“You forgot about the rumors with Barnes about Reaper.” Carmen said to Ramirez
“Yeah, But I’m sure Barnes won’t appreciate if we told them about that.” Ramirez replies
“We won’t say anything about it.” Tuffnut said
The other Dragon Riders said the same
“Well the rumor is, that Barnes is possibly the Reaper’s son since they look a lot alike each other and Reaper has been with Barnes on several occasions.” Ramirez said
“Well was Reaper married?” Hiccup asked Ramirez
“Yes, but his wife was assassinated before the Clan Wars. I believe her name was Catherine Smict, she’s was the daughter of another famous APM General, General Earl Smict. It has always been believed that they had a single child because they were at the hospital when she was killed and she was reported to be pregnant before that.” Carmen replied
“But all those are just rumors that have been spoken inside the US and the APM since Barnes because a well-known figure.” Ramirez said
“Yeah and before he disappeared with them, the APMSF was almost always around Barnes all the time.” Newell replied
“Shut up Dice-5.” Ramirez said to Newell
The group flew over the river that divided the island and came under Anti-Air fire from Blackwater positions below that were hidden below cover of the trees, the dragons maneuvered to avoid being hit and the rounds bounce off the Kletonium armor of the F-45s, but the F-45s still maneuvered to avoid having their engines shot out
A Flak shell exploded near Hiccup and Toothless before they could fly away from it, both of them were shaken and dazed, while a few scales fell off Toothless and into a Blackwater Machine Gun position below
“HICCUP!” Astrid yelled
“I’m Fine!” Hiccup said as he regained focus and the ringing in his ears stopped. Toothless snorted and whined
“Okay…it is way too dangerous for you guys up here! Find Barnes, I believe he is with the 130th Shocktrooper Division escorting a column tanks nearby, go to him “Ramirez said to the dragon riders
The Dragon Riders agreed and went to the friendly-controlled side of the river
Meanwhile Blackwater Machine Gun Position
“Sir! Look what I Found!” A Blackwater soldier said as he picked up one of the fallen Night Fury scales
“Let me look at that!” A Blackwater officer said as he took the scale from the soldier “This is what all we need from the Night Fury! Get the commander on the horn.” The Blackwater Officer smiled as he looked at the scales
Meanwhile on the ground, Barnes, Alpha Squad, and the rest of the 130th Division were riding the Enforcer Tanks into battle next to the tanks an endless column of APM, US, and Russian Infantry passed by. Barnes sees the Vikings being lead by Stoick, Gobber, and Spitelout and waved to them as the tanks passed by. They waved back
“What are you doing here? Aren’t you supposed to be in the air?” Stoick asked Barnes as the Enforcer Tank passed them
“This is just a temporary assignment Conrad gave to me!” Barnes replied
The Enforcer tanks increased speed and thinned out as they forded across the river, once on the other side the shocktroopers dismounted from the tanks, that began moving uphill alongside them, Blackwater machine guns opened fire upon them and the Shocktroopers took cover behind the advancing Enforcers, some Enforcer tanks stayed on the other side of the river and provided fire support for the advancing tanks. APM Mortar Teams sat up and begin shelling the Blackwater positions.
Once the Enforcer tanks had scaled the hill, they fired their weapons at the Blackwater machine gun positions to suppress their occupants as American soldiers with grenades crawled to them. Once close enough the American soldiers threw their grenades into the positions and then dived behind cover as the grenades exploded and destroyed the positions. A UAZ with a Blackwater officer riding in the back escaped into the forest, but the Ural behind it isn’t as lucky as it gets destroyed by an ATGM launched from the barrel of an Enforcer Tank killing all inside as the Enforcer tanks provided covering fire, The American and Russian infantry prepared to charge the remaining occupied Blackwater Positions
“Attach bayonets!” Barnes yelled as he took the M203 off his GK-44 and replaced it with a Kletonium bayonet, the rest of the Alpha does the same, except Redford who pulled out his 870 Shotgun and pumped it.
“CHARGE!” An APM Officer shouted as his Russian Counterpart yelled the same in his own language
The American and Russian Soldiers charged the positions and began to storm them, Barnes stabbed a Blackwater officer trying to shoot him with his Saiga Shotgun with his Kletonium bayonet in the throat and tried to pull the Bayonet out, but the bayonet was stuck, so Barnes detached it from his GK and pulled out his spade and used it to bash a Blackwater soldier in the head that was trying to stab him with a knife. He fires his GK at another that was trying to doing the same behind him. A heavy Shocktrooper with a Minigun appeared with barrels spinning and began firing into a entrance of a underground Blackwater barracks gunning down the Blackwater infantry that tried running out of it as a APM Engineer threw a satchel charge into the entrance that explodes, Blackwater soldiers carrying a white flag came out with their hands behind their heads except the one carrying the flag, screaming in Russian and english, APM Soldiers began round them up. The cries of wounded Blackwater soldiers are heard within the barracks as American and Russian Soldiers went in to carry them out
“Somebody get a transport to take these prisoners to the beach!” An APM Officer shouted
The Vikings arrived at the battle scene as the POWs had restraints put on them to prevent them from escaping
“You Americans and Russians move too fast for us!” Stoick said to an APM Officer as he caught his breath, he was half soaked from having to wade across the river
“Somebody also call command and tell we have secured a crossing over the river and get a pontoon bridge built here to make it easier to cross.” An APM Officer yelled
“Sorry for leaving you guys back there.” Barnes said after he pulled the bayonet out of the dead Blackwater officer. He cleaned it with a towel that he pulled out of his pouch and put it back into the pouch with the bayonet. He has the visor of his helmet flipped up and his face is visible. “I really hate using bayonets.”
“INCOMING!” Wells shouted as the dragon riders landed
“What are you guys doing here?” Barnes asked Hiccup
“Ramirez said it was too dangerous for us up there and told us to go with you.” Hiccup replied, Barnes nodded “Hi dad.”
“Company Regroup and prepare to advance!” The Company commander yelled over a megaphone
“Well that’s us, if you guys want to come, feel free to join.” Barnes said as Alpha squad headed for the amassing group of APM Soldiers
“You two did very well; you will no doubt be Shocktroopers by the end of this operation.” Barnes said to Birmingham and Paterson, who were exhausted as he passed by them.
The Shocktrooper Company assembled near the Enforcer tanks that reorganize back into their previous Column formation, The Dragon Riders and the Vikings joined them as they began advancing alongside the tanks
“Why aren’t you riding the tanks like you were earlier?” Gobber asked Barnes as they walked deeper into the forest
“It’s because we don’t want to be one those tanks, if we were to be engaged by Blackwater Armor.” Barnes replied “Watch the trees! This is perfect Sniper terrain.”
Several APM AH-57 Crow Gunships flew overhead
The Minigun turrets on top of the Enforcers turned to look at the tree line, there was still the sound of distant warfare as the tank column advanced through the forest, and the terrain becomes more mountainous as the column moved along a path that runs on the edge of a cliff that overlooked the ocean. The battleships and their resupply ships could be seen as they were moving into new firing positions so they could fire upon the Main Blackwater Base that was only twenty miles away, the tanks suddenly stopped moving.
“Major! A rockslide is blocking our path and there is not away round it, looks like explosives did this!” A Tank commander said to Barnes over the speaker on his Enforcer tank. “We will need to get a bulldozer to clear this!”
“Roger that, is there another way we can go?” Barnes asked The Tank Commander over the radio
“Not with us,. But the map says that the cave we passed back there has an exit on the other side, you should probably go check that out.” The Tank commander replied
“Roger that.” Barnes said “Alpha squad on me! We’re going to go take a look at this cave, the rest of you stay here and protect the tanks!” Barnes goes back in the opposite direction of the tanks as Alpha Squad followed along with the Dragon Riders
When they found the cave, Barnes turned on the flashlight on his helmet and looked inside the mouth of the cave
“Yeah, this is it.” Barnes said as he looked into the cave
“Dear GOD! What is that awful smell?” Birmingham yelled as he pinched his nose due to the horrendous odor being emitted from something in the cave
“I don’t know, but it does smell familiar.” Hiccup said as he did the same
“I’ll go in first! You guys stay behind me!” Barnes said as he pointed his GK-44 at the Entrance of the cave as he went inside
As Alpha Squad follow to Barnes, Several shells fired by the USS Missouri flew overhead, the vibrations caused the cave entrance weakened by earlier bombs that went off earlier to cave in; Toothless tackled Barnes into the cave as the entrance collapsed
“TOOTHLESS!” Hiccup shouted with fear
“We’re alright!” Barnes said over the radio between coughs, Toothless could be heard snorting and making various noises in the background “We’ll try to find the exit; you guys go back and stay with the tanks Galveston you are in charge in till then!”
“Yes Sir! Galveston replied
Meanwhile inside the cave, Barnes cut the transmission and got up and then grabbed his GK-44. Toothless shook the rock dust off him and got it on Barnes
“Thanks” Barnes said to Toothless as the Night Fury made laughing noises at him
Barnes took off his helmet that was damaged when the cave collapsed and he discarded it into a nearby pit, he puts his backpack down and opened it and pulled a pair of old Night Vision Goggles and puts them on before he moved deeper into the cave, Toothless followed alongside him.
“Stay with me, Toothless, you don’t want to get lost in here.” Barnes said to the dragon, which made a strange whine-like noise in response; Barnes scratched Toothless between his ears to calm him.
A few minutes later, the two found a large cavern in the cave, there is an opening in the ceiling that had been opened by a large bomb that allowed light into the room, Barnes pulled off the Night Vision Goggles and sat down against a rock, and Toothless lied down next to him.
“Lets stop here for a while and catch our breathes.” Barnes said to the dragon, who snorted in reply. Its Dark Blue scales shined in the light of setting sun. Barnes heard something moved in the dark shadows at the edge of the cavern, he saw glowing eyes for a quick second; he pulled out his GK-44 Pulse Rifle and pointed it into the shadow, Toothless looked up and started growling at the shadow “I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE!”
A Small Green dragon with small spines that ran down from its neck to the edge of its long devil-like tail, it has a small horn above it’s two nostrils, and two longer horns on the top of it’s head. Its yellow cat-like eyes stared at him; its growls sounded like that of a Chihuahua, Barnes lowered his GK-44 while he laughed a little bit at the Terrible Terror. Toothless growled at it with his teeth showing. Barnes saw that the Terrible Terror’s stomach was smaller than it should be and it is covered with scars that looks it was cut with knifes.
“Poor thing must have escaped from the Blackwater base or they threw it down here to let it die.” Barnes said as he looked at the Terror and felt sorry for it
Barnes remembers seeing Toothless eating a fish; he opened his backpack and pulled out a can of tuna that he opened with his Kletonium combat knife. He slid the opened can over to the Terrible Terror, which looked at it with curiosity and sniffed it before it started to eat the Tuna. Toothless stopped growling and looked at Barnes
“I have one other can of tuna, but I think that isn’t big enough for a dragon of your size.” Barnes said to Toothless, who snorted and lied his head down
The Terrible Terror finished eating the last of the tuna, it licked the edges of its mouth and looked up at Barnes with a non-aggressive look before it walked over to him and climbed into his lap, lied down and fell asleep
“You’re safe now, little guy.” Barnes said to the sleeping Terrible Terror as he stroked it. Before he fell asleep himself
Meanwhile on the USS Missouri
{C}“Well Arabian tanks have just crossed the border into Israel and are laying siege to Baghdad.” Conrad said after he got off the phone with Redfield “But the Israelis say they have the situation under control.”
“We need to wrap this operation up then, comrades.” Klovensky said as he looked at his American counterparts from across the holographic projector; the blue part of the island has expanded as Blackwater resistance on the island collapsed as American, Russian, and Viking forces closed in on their main base
“If you think this is the end of your problems, you are gravely mistaken.” The Villager elder said, she had been on the bridge of the USS Missouri watching the generals and Admirals lay out their plans
General Conrad nodded in respect to the villager elder
“I agree with the village elder, our most recent satellite photos of the Phoenix Complex and the nearby Gene Corp facilities have not been very encouraging, they are showing a increased level of alertness in Blackwater Forces. “ The US Army General said as he looked at Conrad and Herald
“I doubt that MacTavish and Luger will take a serious Military action against us, they’re only two corporations with extremely large egos.” A Competent US Marine General said
“Then explain why we have proved that Blackwater has somehow gained controlled of Megathon MKI Tanks!” The US Air Force general said angrily to the Marine General, his face turning red, the both him and the US Army General and the US Air Force general began to argue
“Easy you guys, we’re all on the same side here.” Conrad said as he looked at the Air Force, Marine, and US Army Generals who were now just exchanging evil looks at each other from across the holographic projector, Conrad had his hand on the 357. Magnum in its holster
Meanwhile somewhere else on the island, a platoon APM Enforcer tanks supported by a Megathon MKII Heavy Tank were traveling down a dirt road
“It looks like we have a large clearing up ahead!” The Tank Commander on the leader Enforcer said over the radio to the other tanks
“That’s strange, maps say there shouldn’t be a clearing there!” The Commander of the Platoon that was the Tank Commander of the Megathon MKII replied
“Should we stop and find an alternate route?” The Tank Commander asked the Platoon leader
“Negative, continue on your current route, it was probably created by bombs going off.” The Platoon Leader replied
“Roger that Command, we’re moving up.” The Tank Commander said as his tank entered the clearing
“This is a bad idea.” The Gunner said to the commander
“Shut up and activate your thermal imaging and scan the tree line!” The Command replied
The other tanks in the platoon followed the lead Enforcer into the clearing while maintaining their column formation, suddenly a Blackwater T-95 fire it’s main gun at the Enforcer Tank behind the lead one, but the shell bounced uselessly off the Kletonium armor
“CONTACT, we have enemy armor hidden in the tree line! All units engage at will!” The Platoon leader said as the Enforcer tanks quickly broke up and began to fight the Blackwater tanks that came out from the tree line, one of the Enforcer tanks hit a land mine as it maneuvered that penetrated the weaker armor at the bottom of the Enforcer that caught fire, its crew quickly dismounted the tank as it burned
“1-4 is down! I repeat, 1-4 is down!” The Tank Commander yelled over the radio as the crew of the burning Enforcer tank retreated to safety while the remaining Enforcer tanks continued to fight on
“Command this is Ripper 1, we have been engaged by enemy armor and we need reinforcements!” The Platoon Commander said over the radio as his Megathon fire one of its rail guns at a Blackwater T-90 that went up in flames
“Roger that Ripper-1, we have gunships and infantry support in route, please hold on.” The APM officer replied over the radio
“Ten-Four.” The Platoon Commander said
“We have enemy foot mobiles!” The Tank Commander yelled as Blackwater infantry with RPGs appeared from the tree lines, a RPG bounced off the front armor of the lead Enforcer as it fired its mini guns and coaxial machine gun at the infantry
“Ignore them! Just make sure they don’t get a clear shot at your rear armor!” The Platoon Command yelled. Two APM Gunships arrived and began to destroy the Blackwater tanks with their ATGMs and rocket pods as Shocktroopers with supporting armored vehicles arrived, the Blackwater infantry retreated into the forest as the last Blackwater tanks were destroyed “All units hold your fire, let’s get to the assembly area!”
That Night, Barnes, Toothless, and the Terrible Terror found the exit of the cave, Barnes pulled out his canteen and took a quick drink from it, The Terrible Terror looked up at him and licked it mouth, Barnes opened the canteen again and pulled out a metal plate that he had in his backpack and poured some water from his campaign into it, the Terrible Terror started to drink from it. The Moon is full in the star-filled sky above them. Barnes looked at Toothless and the riding gear on him
“I may have to ride you, if it’s alright.” Barnes said to Toothless, who snorted in reply “Is that a yes or a no?” Barnes asked the Night Fury who snorted again and lied down. Barnes got onto Toothless after the Terrible Terror finished drinking from the metal plate; it climbed into Barnes lap as he tried to get Toothless to take off.
“Okay giddy up, PLEASE DO SOMETHING!” Barnes said to Toothless who snorted and motioned back to his tail flaps
Barnes looked back and saw the folded mechanical flap next to Toothless’ original flap
“Oh.” Barnes said as he shifted the riding gear and the flap expanded allowing Toothless to take off and fly, Toothless used his kin sense of smell to find Hiccup who was with Alpha Squad and the dragon riders rallying for the final push. When they land, Barnes picked up the Terrible Terror and carried it,. Hiccup ran over to Toothless to see that he is oaky
“Thanks for taking care of him for me.” Hiccup said to Barnes.
“You’re welcome.” Barnes replied
“Where did you get the Terrible Terror?” Hiccup asked Barnes as he looked at the Terrible Terror that was sound asleep in Barnes’ arms
“I found it in the cave, it was starving to death so I fed and watered it. Now it is following me everywhere.” Barnes said as cuddled the Terrible Terror “I’ve kind of fallen in love with the little thing.”
“Yeah, Terrible Terrors are very easy to please if you know what they want.” Hiccup said as he looked at the small dragon
Redford ran over to Barnes and checked him out for any injuries.
“Nice dragon.” Redford said to Barnes as he looked at the Terrible Terror
“I need a new helmet.” Barnes replied
“I’ll requisition one from the company commander for you.” Redford said as he left
An hour later, Barnes was looking at the Blackwater camp that was burning after being shelled by the battleships and ground-based artillery. The Terrible Terror was sleeping in his helmet that was on a tree stump next to him. Nearby Birmingham and Paterson were getting used to their new A-1 Armor and GK-44 Pulse Rifles.
“Be ready to charge!” Barnes yelled as he saw an officer got off the radio and picked up the whistle that was on a necklace around his neck.
The APM, American, Russian, and Viking soldiers prepared their weapons to charge, APM, American, and Russian tanks rolled into positions behind them. The Whistle blew and the allies rushed out from their positions toward the Blackwater Camp.
An hour earlier in the Blackwater camp in a underground command center. The small underground room shook as explosions went off throughout the camp as the American and Russian Navies bombarded them
“Use this captured Marine uniform to get past enemy lines and take these Night Fury scales to the other side of the island where a captured American VTOL is waiting to pick you up and take you to Phoenix.” The Blackwater Commander said to the Highly Train Blackwater Infiltrator that wore a captured US Marine Uniform
“It will be done sir.” The Infiltrator said as he exited through a dark narrow tunnel with a metal suitcase that was quickly buried by two Blackwater soldiers
Present Time; after accepting the surrender of the camp’s defenders Barnes and Hiccup were patrolling the Blackwater camp; they found the entrance into a underground chamber
“I’ll take point, watch my back.” Barnes said to Hiccup as he went into the tunnel, when he entered the chamber, he was hit from behind with a metal chair, he was knocked off his feet and he dropped his GK-44 that slid across the floor and into the corner out of reach, he pulled out a combat knife, but the Blackwater commander stepped on his hand and kicked him.
Hiccup charged with his sword, but the Blackwater Commander turned around and hit Hiccup with the back of his hand and knocked him back into a wood table. He then focused on Barnes and grabbed the Kletonium Combat knife that he then stabbed Barnes’ leg with.
As Barnes cried out in severe pain, the BW Commander pulled a 357 Magnum out before Hiccup hits him from behind with a lamp, but the BW Commander quickly recovered and slapped Hiccup and prepared to shoot him with the 357. Barnes despite being in pain reached into the pouch on his belt and grabbed the ballistic knife with the Kletonium blade and pointed it at the back of the BW commander’s neck.
“HEY DUMD@##!” Barnes yelled to the Blackwater Commander
The BW Commander looked at Barnes with angry eyes as Barnes pressed the button on the Ballistics’ knife handle, the blade shot out and hit the BW Commander in the neck, killing him instantly. Hiccup got up as Barnes blacked out from the pain and blood lost
“Somebody help!” Hiccup as he ran out of the underground chamber
Two nearby Russian Spetsnaz Operatives heard the cry and came with Hiccup into the room and called for a medic over the radio, one of them was the Russian Spetsnaz officer that gave Barnes the Ballistic knife who has been taking life extension that was optional for veterans in the Russian military and saw the used knife in Barnes’ hand
“Хороший выстрел (Good Shot, I think)” The Spetsnaz officer said as he looked at the blade that was in the throat of the BW Commander
A few minutes later, Barnes was carried on a stretcher with the Terrible Terror sleeping on his chest into a UH-55 Medevac VTOL by APM Medics. Alpha Squad and the dragon rider watched as the VTOL took off, the 502nd joined the VTOL as they escorted it back to the fleet, and the dragon riders took flight and joined the 502nd
“So what is going to happen now? “ Hiccup asked Ramirez over the radio
“We’re probably going to be sent back home.” Ramirez replied
“Barnes is probably going to make it, but is going to be put on medical leave for several months as his wound heals, he is also going to get another Purple Heart, a medal that you get for getting wounded by the enemy in combat.” Carmen said
“You guys give medals out for being wounded?” Astrid asked bewildered by the concept
“Yeah, to show their country appreciates him for putting his life on the line.” Ramirez replied “It was invented by the first president of the United States.”
“Oh, it still sounds like your encouraging people to get wounded.” Astrid said
“Yeah it’s a medal you don’t want to get. Well it was nice meeting you guys.” Ramirez said over the radio as the fleet came into the view.
The Mallard landed on the deck of the USS Reagan, the men wearing white jerseys and helmets carried Barnes out of the Mallard on a stretcher, another man is carried the Terrible Terror right behind them. Barnes was carried down into the infirmary where he was surrounded by APM Doctors with medical equipment, the Terrible Terror got up and started to growl and hiss at the doctors as they got near Barnes and scared them. Soon APM Firefighters that wore protective gear and carried Kletonium blast shields were in the room, protecting the scientists and nearby patients as the Terrible Terror breathed fire at them, The Dragon riders entered the room as an APM Officer loaded a tranquilizer dart into a M14 Rifle
“What is that?” Hiccup asked the Officer
“Tranquilizer dart, we’re going to use to knock out the dragon so the doctors can treat Barnes’ wound.” The APM Officer said as he took aim at the Terrible Terror before he fired
The Terrible Terror shuddered when the tranquilizer hit it, it acted drowsy and exhausted for two minutes, before it finally fell down unconscious, and the APM Firefighters put down the blast shields as doctors ran to Barnes and put the Terror on a nearby table as they took Barnes’ PCA Off him. They gave Barnes a dose of anti-biotics to prevent infection after they removed the Knife from his leg and sewed the wound up with stitches before they put a cast over the wound.
“He’s going to make it.” The lead doctor said as the 502nd entered the room, who sighed in relief. The Terrible Terror got up and went over to Barnes and lied down on his chest and fell back asleep. Hiccup went over to it and carefully removed the dart from its side. “He will have to use crutches for a month and then he can switch to a cane before he will be able to walk normally again.”
Conrad and Herald entered the room and looked at the unconscious Barnes and the Terrible Terror
“Well I see Barnes made a new friend.” Conrad said as he looked at the Terrible Terror
“So are we going home?” Ramirez asked Conrad who nodded
“You’ve guys have been here long enough you’re going home as soon as Barnes wakes up.” Garter said as he entered the room. The 502nd salute him
“Who is this?” Hiccup asked the 502nd Garter laughed
“I’m their main boss.” Garter replied
“Oh, it’s nice to meet you.” Hiccup said to Garter
“Well instead of giving Barnes a Purple Heart that he would have to explain to Samantha when she comes home in two months, I’m going to make the arrangements to let Barnes keep the Terrible Terror.” Garter said“Samantha?” Hiccup asked Garter
“His girlfriend, she is on vacation.” Ramirez replied
Barnes spook in gibberish in his sleep and swung at an imaginary fly on his face
Stoick and Spitelout came into the infirmary and sees Barnes with the Terrible Terror
“What happened to him?” Spitelout asked the 502nd
“He was wounded and we’ll be going home as soon as he wakes up.” Ramirez replied
“I have a personal request then to make to your leader.” Stoick said as he looked at Garter, who nodded and left with him.
Four Hours later; Barnes woke up from his sleep, a doctor sees him getting and came over before he started to shine a light into Barnes’ eyes
“Everything seems normal.” The Doctor said after he put down the pen light and began writing something down on his clipboard “I also have some good news and bad news.” T
“Tell me the bad news first.” Barnes said to Doctor as he stroked the Terrible Terror that was still asleep
“You’ll have to walk on crutches for a while, then you will be able to switch to a cane, and then you then you’ll be able to walk normally again.” The Doctor replied “The Good news is that you will be keeping that little fiery terror when you go home. But then, there is your other problem that you will be taking home with you.”
“What is that?” Barnes asked the Doctor
“Stoick has requested that you take his son and his friends to Cape Girardeau to help with the investigation on Gene Corp.” Garter, who was leaning against the wall in the far left corner, replied “Hiccup is a Dragonolgists as you can say and knows a lot about dragons and the information he could provide could help us in the investigation, and you and your squadron will be responsible for their welfare.”
“Sir, what about the winter storm that will be hitting Cape in the next a few hours? Reptiles and cold weather don’t mix.” Barnes asked Garter
“We’re working on that.” Garter replied
“Well look at you.” Sergeant Haggard said, Haggard was on the cot next to Barnes’, His face was pale white, and he had black hair with grey streaks and green eyes. “I thought I got bad luck when I was hit with this flu. But you got your leg stabbed. So I guess I am the luckier one.”
“He and Alpha squad will also be leaving with you so will I.” Garter said to Barnes
“Where are the dragon riders now?” Barnes asked Garter
“They’re receiving immunization shots as we speak.” Garter replied
Barnes got up and a doctor gave him a pair of crutches and helped him get in them.
“Take me to my quarters so I get can ready to go.” Barnes said to the doctor who helped him leave the infirmary and to his quarters where he got dress into heavy winter clothing, among his personal possessions was a picture of him with Samantha that was taken three years ago, he looked at it for ten minutes and then put it into the pocket of his heavy winter coat before picking up his crutches and leaving.
Part Eight: Cape GirardeauEdit
An hour later
The Dragon Riders and their dragons were recovering from their immunization shots as they prepared for their trip to the other world with the 502nd, Alpha Squad, and Garter
“Why did they have to do that?” Tuffnut said as he rubbed a area above his buttock where he was injected with the immunization shot for several different diseases, most of them the Vikings have never even heard of
“At least we won’t catch a disease while we’re in their world.” Hiccup said as Barnes followed by Haggard, the 502nd, Alpha Squad, and Garter left the island of the USS Reagan with wearing heavy winter gear and clothing on. The Dragon riders got up and joined them as they headed for a Heavy VTOL to take them back to the island
“We’re going to use a C-5 Galaxy to transport us and the dragons, since that is the only plane we have than transport all of us and the dragons that the airstrips at the airport back home can handle.” Garter said to the group as they boarded the VTOL with, the dragons that took them from the carrier to the rebuilt Blackwater airstrip on the island where a large plane had landed and was waiting for them. Once they’re ready, they loaded the plane; the dragon riders are amazed at its massive size
“This is the largest fly…I mean plane I have seen.” Hiccup said as he and the other dragon riders looked at in the massive cargo bay of the plane, the dragons went to the far end of the cargo bay and lied down
“Our airships are bigger.” Garter replied as he looked at Hiccup who looked back at him bewildered
“You guys have ships that fly?” Hiccup asked Garter as he tried to picture an airship in his mind.
“Yeah, we have twenty, their all named after cities and towns in the state of Missouri, which is where we’re heading.” Barnes replied
“We’ll send your F-45s back when the winter storm ends back home.” Garter said as the cargo bay door closed as the group sat down and buckled in, Barnes’ Terrible Terror popped its head out from under his coat looked up at him, he pat on the top of its head and it receded back into the warmth of his coat
“Our engineers designed special collars for your dragons that will keep them warm in the cold weather we are having back home.” Garter said to the dragon riders “You’ll see them when we land.” The C-5 taxied to the airstrip and took off into the sky. Once the C-5 started to fly steady, the flight became smooth and the pilot said it was safe to walk around over the intercom. Hiccup pulled out his sketch book that he brought with him when he left Berk two days ago and sketched the F-45 and all the weapons he saw during the battle in memory, Barnes who is sitting next to him watched
“You’re very good at that.” Barnes said as he watched him sketch
“Thank you. The Elder taught me how to do it.” Hiccup replied
“So do you have any brothers and sisters?” Barnes asked Hiccup
“No, my mother died after I was born.” Hiccup replied
Barnes sighed and shook his head
“Trust me; I know how it feels to grow up without a mother.” Barnes said as he looked up at the ceiling of the C-5, Hiccup didn’t look at Barnes, but he was thinking back to what the 502nd told him about the rumors
“So Hiccup I heard you’re the one that ended the war between the Vikings and dragons, how did a kid your size and age pull that off?” Galveston asked Hiccup
Hiccup told everybody the story about him and Toothless and how the peace came to be as the Galaxy prepared to enter the rift
“You guys better settle down back there and buckle up, It’s about to get rough!” The pilot said as the group rushed back to their seats and buckled up as the Galaxy entered the Rift. The Turbulence was intense tough as the C-5 traveled through the rift , the dragons whimpered and cried, Garter threw up into a bag and so did Haggard After a minute, the C-5 came out of the rift and the shaking stopped, the pilot said it was okay to get up again. Everybody was shaken except the 502nd.
“How do you guys stand that?” Garter asked Barnes
“Years of pilot training and preparation help.” Barnes replied “Plus it was a lot worse when I went thought it with my F-45.”
Garter’s cell phone rang; Garter checked all the pockets of his heavy overcoat before finding it and put it to his ear
“Garter here, oh…oh…yeah I’ll tell him.” Garter said before hanging up and looking at Barnes “There has been a change in your situation, Major.” Barnes looked at Garter
“What do you mean?” Barnes asked Garter “I’ve already been ambushed, shot down, chased by mercenaries, rode a dragon, trapped in a cave with Toothless over there, got my own pet dragon, and then finally to top all that I got stabbed in the leg, how can this day get any better?”
“Heh, Samantha’s cruise was cancelled due to bad weather and she’s at the airport waiting for you.” Garter replied, Barnes’ eye go wide
“Please tell me you’re kidding…” Barnes asked Garter, who shook his head
“Nope, good luck explaining the Terrible Terror, the dragon riders, and your broken leg to her.” Garter replied
Barnes leaned back in his seat, the dragon riders looked at Barnes
“Oh come, how bad can it be handling an angry girlfriend after all you’ve been through the past two days.” Snotlout said to Barnes, who looked at him
“You obviously don’t know women like Sam.” Barnes replied with his eyes closed as the C-5 flew towards Cape Girardeau
A hour later, as the C-5 approached the Cape Girardeau Airfield, the 502nd, Alpha Squad, and Garter were dead asleep as the Dragon Riders talked to themselves
“I wonder how it’s like down there.” Astrid said “We’re the first Vikings to visit another world!”
“All I know it’s going to be a completely different world down there, a world in which dragons only existed in legends until our worlds were linked with that rift thing the Americans keep on talking about.” Hiccup replied as he looked Barnes, who’s was leaning back in his chair asleep, while the Terrible Terror slept in his lap with Barnes’ hand on top of it’s head
“Are you guys still alive back there? We’re beginning our final approach to Cape Girardeau.” The Pilot asked over the PA system
But the 502nd, Alpha Squad, and Garter remained asleep, impervious to the PA system.
“Uhhh, yes?” Hiccup replied
“Okay, just making sure.” The Pilot said “We’ll be landing in a few minutes so I would buckle in; wind conditions are a bit choppy so it’s goes to be a bit bumpy on the way down!”
Hiccup tapped Barnes on the shoulder; Barnes woke up partially and looked at Hiccup with half opened eyes
“The Pilot said we’re getting ready to land.” Hiccup said to Barnes
“Okay.” Barnes replied as he stretched, Barnes elbowed Garter to wake him. “Since you’re the one who got me into this mess Mr. President, I am going to let you tell the story to Sam.”
Garter nodded
“I can understand that.” Garter replied
“Okay everybody get your butts up, we’re home.” Barnes yelled to wake everybody else up, who responded quickly as the C-5 began it’s descent towards the airstrip, turbulence began once again as the C-5 entered a patch of rough winds
“How does this thing stay in the air?” Hiccup asked Barnes
“It’s designed to stay in the air.” Barnes replied
The C-5 finally touched the ground as it landed on the salt-covered airstrip of the Cape Girardeau Airfield, it then taxied to the tarmac where APM Heavy Trucks and HMMWVs with APM Military Policemen (MPs) led by a APM Officer, sitting down on the hood of one of the HMMWVs, two female APM officers talked to each other while drinking hot coffee. The plane stopped and turned off it’s engines before the cargo bay door opened and Barnes was the first one to slowly limped his way out with his crutches with Garter helping him, one of the female officers got up and ran over to Barnes
“What the hell happened?” Samantha McNally asked Barnes. Samantha was the same age as Barnes with dark brown hair and blue eyes. She was a Second Lieutenant
“He’s already agreed to explain that to you.” Barnes replied as Samantha gave an evil stare to Garter, who laughed uneasily
“We’ll talk about this later.” Samantha hissed to Garter as Barnes took control and began to limp by himself as the dragon riders with their dragons came out of the HMMWV, the MPs, the Officer leading them, and Samantha and the other female officers looked at them in shock
“Heheh, Sam I want you to meet the dragon riders, if it wasn’t for them or their people I probably would not have made it out alive.” Barnes said to Samantha , who looked at him
“Why are they here?” Samantha replied
“They’re going to help us with something important.” Garter said
“Hi, you must be Samantha, I’m Hiccup.” Hiccup said to Samantha, who nodded
“Hi...” Samantha replied
“You better get used to them; they’re in our care while they’re here.” Barnes said to Samantha, who looked at him
“What the hell happened over there?” Samantha asked Barnes
“It’s classified and I’ll explain when we get home.” Barnes replied “Well, let me do the introductions to the others, That’s Astrid, Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Fishlegs, their dragons are Toothless is Hiccup’s Night Fury, Firefang is Snotlout’s Monstrous Nightmare, Thorn is Astrid’s Deadly Nadder, Stella is Fishleg’s Gronckle, and Billy Bob is the twins’ Zippleback.” Barnes’ Terrible Terror pops its head out from Barnes’ coat, Samantha screamed in Terror as the small dragon quickly receded back into Barnes’ coat
“Whose was that?” Samantha asked Barnes
“That would my Terrible Terror, I’ll explain that too.” Barnes replied
“Okay, can we wait to finish this somewhere else? Because it is very cold out here and I don’t want to get frostbite!” Carmen said as he shivered
“I agree.” Garter replied “Lieutenant Wensky lets get this show on the move…oh wait before I forgot, the collars for your dragons I talked about are in the back of the trucks.”
“Thanks.” Hiccup said as he and the dragon riders and their dragons went to the heavy truck
“So, have you named it?” Samantha asked uneasily as she looked at the Terrible Terror that looked back at her
“No and don’t be scared of it, Sam. It’s quite friendly.” Barnes replied as he pet the Terrible Terror that purred as he stroked it, Samantha reached her hand out and began to pet it too, Barnes lifted his hand off it as she petted the dragon, the Terrible Terror looked at Samantha and continued to purr before closing its eyes, and Samantha laughed
“It maybe a fire breathing iguana, but it’s a sweet little thing.” Samantha said as she petted it
“I have fond memories of those little fiery shits from Operation Bodyguard; they like to attack your face.” Wensky said as the woman officer put the key into the ignition and started the HMMWV’s engine that roared to life. But the HMMWV did not start moving yet
“Oh shut up Wensky.” Barnes replied as Samantha cuddled next to him “So Katie, Sam how was you two’s time in the Caribbean?”
“It was well needed.” Katie replied, Katie had Blonde hair and blue eyes similar to Samantha’s, Wensky would sometimes look over next to at but would turn away when she looked at him
“Barnes, in return for the hell you went through in the other dimension, I’m promoting you to Colonel; I know you’re skipping a rank, but you deserve it.” Garter said to Barnes as he handed him a small velvet black box with two silver colonel’s eagles inside
“Thank You, Mister President.” Barnes replied as he replaced his Major leaves with the Colonel eagles.
Samantha kissed Barnes on the cheek
“If you think this means you’re out of the woods, you’re for a big surprise when we get home.” Samantha whispered into Barnes’ ear before laying her head on his shoulder, Barnes’ eyes go wide, but he still wrapped his arm around Samantha’s waist
“Garter it isn’t too late to request a transfer to North Africa?” Barnes asked Garter, who laughed and Samantha looked up at Barnes as Toothless jumped onto the back of one of the heavy trucks
“We’re ready to move.” A Security Guard said to Wensky over the radio as he and his partner jumped into passenger and driver seat of the truck that Toothless jumped onto
“Roger that, follow our lead to command, there is already a lot of roads in the city that have been closed due to snow and ice.” Wensky replied as Katie started to drive the HMMWV out of the air base and onto I-55 where outgoing traffic was being blocked on by a semi truck that flipped over.
“Weather has gotten worst since we left.” Barnes said
“Yeah, the main storm is going to hit either tomorrow or the day after.” Wensky replied “The temperature is expected to drop below zero tonight.”
“Wow we choose a perfect time to come back home did we?” Samantha sarcastically asked Katie, who nodded as she turned onto Kingshighway that went into uptown Cape Girardeau, they passed by a police officer who was giving a ticket to somebody for speeding, both he and the person he was giving the ticket to stopped to look at the dragons on the backs of the heavy tucks as they passed, the cop dropped his ticket book onto the ice-covered asphalt as Thorn snorted at him
“Welcome to Cape Girardeau.” The APM MP said to Hiccup and Astrid as they continued deeper into the city attracting the attention of pedestrians of all ages and races.
“Wow I never imagine that this many people could live this close together.” Astrid said quietly to Hiccup
As they began to enter the Historic downtown district of Cape Girardeau, a young girl with her mother watched as the trucks with the dragons passed by them
“Mommy I want one!” The little girl said to her mother that her looked at her with wide eyes as other pedestrians began to take pictures with cameras
“NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY!” The APM MP manning the Heavy Pulse Machine Gun on one of the HMMWVs yelled to the pedestrians as a helicopter from the local news station started to follow the convoy as it traveled through Downtown Cape Girardeau
“This is going to be a long day.” Samantha said quietly to Barnes as they looked out the windows of the HMMWV
“We’ll get used to it.” Barnes replied as the convoy finally began to pull up to the entrance of the Cape Girardeau Command Bunker that was built into a large hill, A Security Guard went up the convoy and checked everybody’s identification papers, Garter also showed them papers for the dragon riders, once he completed his check, he opened the security gate and waved the convoy through the entrance and to the large steel doors of the Command Bunker that opened up enough to allow the convoy to enter the bunker before closing again, once inside the passengers disembarked from the vehicles, Garter went to the dragon rider
“Here have these, they’re minimum access security IDs, wear them at all times if you don’t want to get in trouble with the MPs and security.” Garter said as he handed them Security IDs “These IDs will only grant you access to your living quarters that the 502nd will show you, and the cafeteria.”
“Thanks.” Hiccup replied as he clipped his ID onto his vest
“Now excuse me, I have to attend an emergency briefing over the situation in the Middle East.” Garter said before he left
“Ramirez, Carmen, and Newell, show the dragon riders to their rooms and how to use everything, we will be in our quarters if you need us.” Barnes said to the 502nd as he and Samantha left with the Terrible Terror following right behind them.
“Yes Sir.” Ramirez replied “Come on you guys, we’ll take you to where you’ll be staying.”
The Dragon Riders followed Ramirez, Carmen, and Newell to their living quarters while Barnes and Samantha went to their’s. Once inside Barnes sat down on the bed and put his crutches against the wall before explaining to Samantha what had happened in the other dimension
“Holy shit, Barnes, this is really big.” Samantha said to Barnes after she recovered from hearing the story before she sat down next to Barnes on the bed “I should have been here.”
“It isn’t your fault that I got wounded Sam.” Barnes replied “And I doubt it’s over, we still have to find out what Blackwater and Gene Corp are planning to do with the pilots and dragons they have kidnapped.”
“Which is why you brought the Dragon Riders here to help with this investigation?” Samantha asked Barnes, who nodded “I just hope Garter doesn’t send you and the 502nd on another mission like that.”
“I hope so too.” Barnes replied “We need to be careful, because while I was on that island, Blackwater was looking under every rock for me. Which is why is I am starting to think that Blackwater and Gene Corp probably set up that entire trap to get me and me only and they’ll probably try again.”
“Have you told Garter or the others?” Samantha asked Barnes, who shook his head “BARNES! They need to know that you maybe their next target!”
“If I do, they’ll relocate me to a secure location, and if they can’t find me, Blackwater will probably only go after somebody else, probably one of my wingmates.” Barnes replied “I’ll just make sure that I’m never by myself and always have a gun with me.”
Samantha sighed and wrapped her arms around Barnes
Meanwhile Ramirez was showing Hiccup how to use the bathroom plumbing
“This is what we call a toilet, it has the same function as an outhouse, latrine, or whatever you guys used on Berk.” Ramirez said as he showed Hiccup the toilet. “After your done using it, pull this lever here to flush everything down.” Ramirez pulled the level on the toilet and it flushed, Hiccup jumped at the sound, Ramirez laughed “Don’t worry, it’s just noise, it’s harmless unless somebody plants a bomb in it or clogs and it overflows.”
“If you say so…” Hiccup replied “Where does the water and the other things in it go after you do that?”
“I don’t know, I’m not a plumber.” Ramirez replied “That over there is a sink, to use it, you twist one of these knobs, the one on the left is for hot water, and the one on the right is for cold water, twist both for warm water. You use it to wash your hands, clean your face, or whatever.”
“Then I guess this is the soap?” Hiccup asked Ramirez as he grabbed the blue bar of soap
“Yes.” Ramirez replied “And finally that is the bath tub and shower. The bath tub works the same way as the sink and the shower, you press this button right here to turn it on. The shower is for when you want to get clean quickly.”
“Interesting…” Hiccup said as he looked at the shower nozzle
“If you need any help, get me, Barnes, or anybody else.” Ramirez said to Hiccup, who nodded “Are you comfortable being by yourself now?”
“I think so.” Hiccup replied, Ramirez nodded and left the room.
Later that day, Samantha and Barnes were going through the hallway
“You should really use a wheel chair.” Samantha said to Barnes “It’s much quicker than using those crutches.”
“I’m fine using these crutches Sam.” Barnes replied “It’s not like I’m in a hurry to get anywhere.”
Hiccup came running out of his living quarters to Barnes
“Something is wrong with the toilet thing!” Hiccup said to Barnes panickly
“Should I?” Samantha asked Barnes
“No, I’ll check it out. What’s wrong with it?” Barnes asked Hiccup as he led him into his living quarters
“I don’t know.” Hiccup replied as they entered the bathroom, Barnes sees that the toilet is clogged
“God dammit Hiccup! How much toilet paper did you put in it?” Barnes asked Hiccup
“I don’t know!” Hiccup replied as Samantha entered
“Should I got get a janitor?” Samantha asked Barnes
“Yes.” Barnes replied as he shook his head, Samantha left the room
“I swear I did not know that this was going to happen!” Hiccup said to Barnes
“I know you didn’t.” Barnes replied “Just don’t much as much toilet paper as you did.”
A few minutes later, a Janitor came into the room with a plunger and began to unclog the toilet
“This isn’t the first Viking to do this today.” The Janitor said to Barnes after he finished unclogging the toilet
“I guess Ramirez forgot to tell them how much toilet paper to use.” Samantha said to Barnes
“I’ll take it from here you two.” The Janitor said, Barnes nodded and left with Samantha
A few minutes later; Barnes, Samantha, the dragon riders, and the 502nd were in the Officer’s lounge watching a news reporter about the ongoing war between Israel and the UAS
“Today, the IDF with the support of Coalition forces has struck several major blows to the UAS military outside of Baghdad, effectively stopping their push west. Also Russian aircraft have bombed several major Arabian cities including Tehran and the capital, Islamabad and important military installations as UAF forces pushed east facing only light resistance from a demoralized and shattered UAS military.” The News Reporter said as the TV showed footage of burning UAS vehicles, advancing Israeli and Coalition forces, and cities being bombed by Russian aircraft “As we speak Arabian and Coalition leaders are meeting in Fallujah hopefully to bring a peaceful end to this conflict.” The News Report ended and went to commercials
“At least this war is coming to a quick end.” Samantha said “My question is why the UAS started the war in the first place. The Israelis didn’t do anything to piss them off as far as I know.”
“It could have been a rogue Arabian officer.” Ramirez replied, in the corner of the room, the Terrible Terror was chasing after a small beetle.
“I heard Garter saying that Gene Corp had many of something called investors in their government.” Hiccup said to Barnes “Could Gene Corp and Blackwater had started the war?”
Barnes shrugged
“I don’t know, I’m not a politician.” Barnes replied “But it’s possible.”
Hiccup then looked at the Terrible Terror that had finally caught the beetle
“So have you named him yet?” Hiccup asked Barnes and Samantha
“No, we’ve been talking about it.” Samantha replied “I’ve never had to name a dragon before.”
“I personally like the name Terry.” Ramirez said to Barnes
“Terry sounds good enough to me.” Barnes replied
“I like Terry too.” Samantha said as the Terrible Terror looked up at them after it had ate the beetle
Meanwhile Gene Corp Phoenix Facility, MacTavish and Luger were arguing over the situation
“We need to strike Cape Girardeau now, before the UAS signs that damn cease fire.” MacTavish said to Luger
“Our forces are not ready yet! We need more time!” Luger replied
“We’re running out of time and we don’t have any other way of earning more time!” MacTavish said to Luger
“MacTavish, when we hit Cape Girardeau we are going to awake a sleeping giant that will be unstoppable once it starts moving!” Luger replied “Even if we do capture the city, the APM will have burned it to the ground and we have no way of holding on to it after we capture it.”
“Then we only hit Cape Girardeau to at least temporarily cripple the APM enough for us to gain enough territory in our attacks here and fortify it.” MacTavish said to Luger “We can also capture Barnes and the Night Fury while we’re at it.”
“That is a bit more feasible than a long siege, but what will we do when the APM recover?” Luger asked MacTavish
“Hold on as long as we can until Titan is finis-.” MacTavish replied as a Blackwater infiltrator entered the room wearing a ripped and tattered US Marine uniform and carrying a metal briefcase, MacTavish’s receptionist chasing after him
“I’m sorry Mr. MacTavish, but he refused to wait!” The Receptionist said to MacTavish
“It’s alright; I’ll take it from here.” MacTavish replied, the Receptionist left
“What is it soldier?” Luger asked the Infiltrator.
“I believe you guys need these.” The Infiltrator replied as he threw the briefcase on MacTavish’s desk, MacTavish opened the briefcase and almost gagged at its contents “I went through hell to get this to you people.”
“How did you get these?” MacTavish asked the Infiltrator as MacTavish looked at the intact Night Fury scales inside
“We got them after a flak shell exploded near the Night Fury during the battle in the other dimension.” The Infiltrator replied “I got out right before the enemy overran the camp.”
MacTavish looked at the Infiltrator
“I’m glad you got these to us at this time, I also have another assignment for you.” MacTavish said to the Infiltrator
Two days later
Somewhere in Cape Girardeau, MO
Barnes, Samantha, and the 502nd were at a diner near the southern edge of town, waiting for the food they ordered for the takeout breakfast they ordered for themselves and the dragon riders. A waitress, who was a off duty APM Initiate fresh from training camp came up to them, they could tell she was a initiate due a APM pin she wore on her uniform
“Are you guys the ones taking care of the Vikings that are staying over at the command bunker?” The Waitress asked them with a southern accent
“Yeah.” Ramirez replied
“So the Vikings are riding dragons now instead of killing them?” The waitress asked the 502nd again
“It’s a long story.” Carmen replied
“Don’t worry they’re absolutely harmless.” Barnes said to the waitress
“Oh, I knew that, it’s just that I wanted to know why you guys brough-“The Waitress replied before she stopped and look blankly at the window behind the 502nd
“What is it Private?” Ramirez asked the Waitress as he and the 502nd turned around to look out the window and saw Blackwater soldiers with parachutes descending down to the ground, one of the Blackwater soldiers that had a machine gun aimed at the diner
“EVERYBODY HIT THE DIRT!” A Police Officer that in the booth behind the 502nd shouted as he and everybody else in the diner took cover as the glass shattered and bullets threw overhead, the police officer and his partners along with other APM and US Military personnel that were in the diner pulled out their weapons and exchanged fire with the Blackwater soldiers outside as air raid sirens began to wail across the city
“We need to get back to command!” Samantha yelled to the others over the firefight as the waitress climbed under the table with them
“But that’s halfway across town!” Ramirez replied as a chef of the diner came out of the kitchen with a 12-guage Remington shotgun and joined the firefight, the building shook as two Blackwater fighter jets flew overhead
“But we’re not going to make it, if we stay here!” Barnes said to the others
“Agreed!” A Police officer replied after he fired two rounds at the Blackwater soldiers outside “We don’t have the firepower to fight these guys!”
“Okay on three, we make a run for our cars, once we get moving, do not stop until we reach the command bunker!” Barnes replied “One, Two,…Three! GO”
Everybody in the diner took off for their cars parked outside and fired whatever weapons they could at the nearby Blackwater soldiers as Samantha and Ramirez dragged Barnes, the 502nd and the initiate reached Barnes’ car that they used to get there and got inside, Barnes pulled out his keys and put the car key into the ignition to start the car, he quickly backed out and hit a Blackwater paratrooper that had just landed, then he shifted gears and put his foot on the accelerator and sped out of the parking lot, followed by a police car and three other vehicles.
Barnes swerved to avoid a ambulance that had stopped in the middle of the street as paramedics, despite the surrounding chaos were treating the victim of a car accident. Barnes hit another Blackwater soldier that was running across the street, the Blackwater soldier went over the roof of the car and landed behind and was hit by the police car and the other vehicles behind it. Behind them, the sounds shattering and then a scream was heard
“Carmen’s hit!” Newell shouted as Carmen held his arm, Ramirez was tearing off a piece of his uniform and used it to bandage Carmen’s wound
“It’s only a flesh wound!” Ramirez said to the others as Barnes turned his attention back to the road as a Blackwater paratrooper landed on the hood of the car, Samantha screamed as Barnes swerved as he tried to throw the Blackwater paratrooper off that held on to the window wipers, Barnes made a quick turn that threw the paratrooper off, the paratrooper went through the window of a antique store where several civilians inside the store began beating on him in panic
“Do you have any bigger weapons in here?” The initiate asked Barnes
“I have something in a metal box in the back!” Barnes replied as the initiate crawled to the back of the car and came back with a metal that she opened and pulled out a GK-45
“A GK-45?! How the hell did you get one of these? I thought only APMSF Stormtroopers got these?” The initiate asked Barnes, as the rest of the 502nd and Samantha looked at Barnes
“It was a gift from Conrad! Stop asking so many damn questions if you want to make it alive!” Barnes replied as the Initiate turned the GK-45 on and fired it at two Blackwater soldiers as they passed them and continued the rest of the way to the command bunker with the rest of the vehicles that survived the trip that parked in the motor pool of the command bunker where the dragon riders were preparing their dragons for the battle that was starting outside, the dragon riders ran over to the 502nd as Samantha helped Barnes out and the initiate and Newell helped Carmen.
“Thank the gods you made it!” Astrid said to them as two APM Medics ran over to Carmen and took him with them.
“Where’s Garter?” Barnes asked Hiccup
“I don’t know.” Hiccup replied “I heard something about him going to something called a conference at some place called Salt Lake City.”
Barnes shook his head
“Okay, Everybody to the armory!” Barnes shouted as Ramirez handed Barnes his extra set of crutches that were in the trunk of the car before a diamond-tipped artillery shell tore through the roof of the motor pool and exploded, knocking out the Dragon Riders
A few minutes later, Salt Lake City Center of Commerce, as the 52 members of the board of states of territories sat down at their assigned city, a panicky APM Officer ran over to Garter and whispered into his ear, Garter looked at the Officer shocked
“What do you mean Cape Girardeau’s been invaded?!” Garter yelled at the officer
“The news just came in sir, we don’t know what’s going on right now and we’re also getting reports of Blackwater forces attacking the National Guard Garrison in Phoenix and the surrounding area.” The Officer replied
Garter slumped down into his chair and put his face in his hands as the members of the state board(It’s like a Congress/Parliament) looked at the president
“What now Garter?” The Representative of New York asked Garter, who looked at him, his eyes red
“We do what needs to be done.” Garter replied before he looked at the Representative of Missouri, who was a former APM General “I want you to get your ass back to Jefferson City and tell the governor to mobilize the National Guard!”
The Representative nodded
“Yes Mr. President.” The Representative replied
“I also want you to report to Cape Girardeau and take control down there!” Garter said to the Representative before he left, the Representative stopped and turned around to face Garter
“Let’s just hope there is still a Cape Girardeau to defend when I get to Jefferson City.” The Representative replied before he left
At the same time; USS Reagan
Sirens wailed across American Ships in the fleet as the Viking ships were preparing to sail back to Berk
“What’s going on now?” Spitelout asked Stoick
“I don’t know.” Stoick replied
“General’s Quarters, General’s Quarter! Man your battle stations! This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill, Cape Girardeau has been hit by hostile forces and war has been declared!” An APMNC officer shouted over the PA system of the USS Missouri that was nearby
Stoick jumped out of the Viking long boat and ran through the ship to the Command Bridge, where Conrad, Herald, Klovensky, and the other commanders were already assembled
“What’s going on?” Stoick asked Conrad
“Cape Girardeau, our capital has been hit and according to the reports I have received from the pentagon and the Secretary of Defense by Blackwater airborne forces.” Conrad replied “There also other reports coming in about Blackwater forces going on the offensive in Phoenix.”
“Where is my son and his friends?” Stoick asked Conrad
“We don’t know all direct communications to Cape Girardeau has been lost. The reports have been coming from indirect sources, meaning its civilians reporting the attack, not the Central Command Bunker.” Conrad replied
Part Nine: The Battle of Cape Girardeau Edit
That Night
East Cape Girardeau, Across the Mississippi River
Hiccup woke up in a bed in a Field Hospital, nearby Illinoisan National guard Field Surgeons treated a wounded child, and the sounds of war were coming from the west
Hiccup pulled the cover off him and looked at himself to make sure he wasn’t wounded, he only had minor scars from where medics had pulled shrapnel from his body. Hiccup jumped up and quickly walked out of the Field Hospital was in the school, he got of the way as two civilian volunteers helped a wounded APM officer into the hospital
“HICCUP!” Astrid yelled as she hugged Hiccup
“What’s going on and where are the others?” Hiccup asked Astrid
“I don’t know, I keep on asking the Americans here, but they aren’t replying.” Astrid replied “All I know is that Cape Girardeau is being hit hard and there are a lot of causalities coming from across the river. Most of them are non-combatants, like children, and the elderly.”
Four APM Doctors rushed past carrying stretcher with a teen about Hiccup’s age on it, one of his arms had been blown off and had major burns across his body, and he was screaming in pain
“Those ($#%ing Blackwater animals fire bombed a freaking school.” One of the doctors growled as he ran past
The sound of jet engines was heard as American jet aircraft flew overhead
“I want to see this.” Hiccup said as he ran for the exit, Astrid followed him, they found that the school was surrounded by Field Hospitals and other tents as they made their way for the shores on their way there, they found Snotlout and Tuffnut who joined them. They reached the banks of the Mississippi River, which was filled with boats going from and to Cape Girardeau carrying supplies, reinforcements, refugees, the dead, and the wounded, they looked across the river, where on the onside, Common Pleas Courthouse was illuminated by burning buildings as anti-aircraft guns fired into the sky and explosions lit up the skies. Despite all this, it was snowing heavily as the winter storm raged overhead
“Dear Odin, it’s worst than I thought it would be!” Astrid yelled over the sound of two National Guard Helicopters that flew overhead at full speed
“We need to find the others and get on one of those boats!” Hiccup said as he watched a young child being put into a black body bag
Hiccup looked around and saw a the APM officer that was in charge of the boats coming in and out and the Dragon Riders ran over to him
“What do you guys want?” The Officer asked them as he directed a group of refugees to their proper destination “I’m kind of busy here.”
“We want to know where our friends and dragons are!” Hiccup replied, the officer looked at them
“They’re on the other side of the river, they were injured enough that the infirmary of the Command Bunker was able to treat them over there. You guys are over here because they ran out of room.” The Officer said to them “If you want to go back into that hellish inferno that used be Cape Girardeau, get on one of the supply boats, I won’t stop you!”
The Dragon Riders went towards the bank of the river and got on one of the supply boats before it began its journey to the other side, the Capitan of the vessel maneuvered to avoid artillery shells, other boats, and sinking ones. In the water, there was ice, bodies, and debris everywhere as the boat sailed across it, the boat docked at a make shift dock that the Dragon Riders climbed onto the dock the gates of the flood wall were opened as they went through them and over the railway tracks and into the riverfront district that had been converted into a forward base, they found a truck that was bound to the command bunker and got onto it, when the truck arrived, they saw Barnes overlooking a table with a map on it as he gave orders to a group of APM Officers
“Blackwater has a self-propelled artillery battery in this area here that has been pounding the evacuation site at Capaha Park; we need you to take your battalions, locate this battery and destroy it!” Barnes said to the Officers, who saluted Barnes and walked away, Barnes saw the Dragon Riders “You guys are stupid to have came back here, you know that?”
“We don’t care, we want to help.” Hiccup replied “Where are the others and the dragons?”
“The Dragons and your friends are in there.” Barnes said motioning to the motor pool, that was serving as a Supply Depot, Hiccup, Astrid, Tuffnut, and Snotlout found their dragons and friends together in the back of the Motor Pool
Toothless jumped up and tackled Hiccup and licked him as the other dragons happily greeted their riders
“I see that you guys are okay.” Ruffnut said to the others “What should we do now?”
“We need to ask Barnes that.” Hiccup replied as Toothless stopped licking him and helped him got up, the dragon riders went back to Barnes as he got a field report from Samantha, who was a member of his new command stuff along with the rest of the 502nd, and they also saw that Barnes now had braces around his wounded leg to replace his crutches.
“Let me guess you want to know how you guys can help us?” Barnes asked them as looked at the Field Report
“Yes.” Hiccup replied, Barnes put down the Field Report
“The Battle is centered in midtown, where we have multiple evac sites trying get civilians and our wounded out of the city. But it seems like the Blackwater Commander in charge of this attack, is trying to prevent that and has been attacking the evac sites with artillery and aircraft.” Barnes said as he pointed to several locations on the map “Also Blackwater is using South Kingshighway as a forward airbase for their fixed wing aircraft and has numerous anti-air batteries there to protect it, so I suggest you avoid that general area. But for right now, evacuating civilians and the protection of the evac sites are our first priorities.”
“Where are these evac sites?” Hiccup asked Barnes
“The Main one is a Capaha Park, but we have others at Missouri Park, SEMO, Show Me Center, and Fort D.” Barnes replied “Our forces are stretched thin trying to protecting these sites and holding the line at the same time, and that’s preventing us from launching an effective counter attack to force Blackwater out of the city! But luckily the garrison is due to arrive at 1345 Hours tomorrow afternoon and that will give us the firepower and the numbers to stop and then destroy them, the problem is holding Blackwater off until then.”
“What about the airships you and Garter were talking about.” Astrid asked Barnes
“The fleet we had stationed here is in the other dimension helping the garrison pack up quicker.” Barnes replied “The other airships are still in the Middle East preparing to be transferred here, but that is going to take awhile since our entire command structure is in chaos due to this attack and the second front in Arizona.”
“There’s a second front???” Astrid asked Barnes
“We don’t have time to go over the entire damn war.” Barnes replied “If you guys want to help, we need you in the area protecting the evac sites!”
Barnes and the dragon riders ducked as a Blackwater attack plane flew overhead before being shot down by the Anti-Aircraft guns mounted on the roof of the command bunker
“We don’t have any radios!” Hiccup said to Barnes
“Newell! Go get some communication headsets for them!” Barnes yelled back to Newell, who ran into the supply depot “Once you’re in the air, I’ll provide with any updates with the situation down here.”Newell came out of the supply depot carrying six sets of wireless communication headsets for the dragons rider, who took them and put them on their heads
“Thanks.” Hiccup said to Barnes and Newell as the dragon riders mounted their dragons
“Be careful out there, guys.” Barnes replied
“Danger is an occupational hazard for us.” Hiccup said to Barnes before they took off
“They have guts to do this.” Samantha said to Barnes as the dragon riders disappeared into the night sky
“Barnes! We’re getting reports that Blackwater mechanized forces are attacking the Capaha and Fort D Evacuation Sites!” Ramirez shouted to Barnes “There are reports of heavy civilian causalities from both sites!”
“Tell all battalions to delay their current orders and assist the forces protecting the evac sites!” Barnes replied
Meanwhile Capaha Park Evacuation Site
A National Guardsmen rushed a family of six into a helicopter and closed the cargo bay door before the helicopter took off as another helicopter loaded with civilians was shot down by attacking Blackwater infantry as it also took off, killing all onboard
“HOLD THEM OFF!” A National Guard Officer shouted to his men as Blackwater tanks and infantry advanced
A Blackwater attack helicopter appeared from the dark smoke and headed toward the last of the helicopters that were still on the ground, but before it could fire a single shot from it’s weapons, a blue fireball hit the helicopter in the fuselage near the cockpit and exploded, the helicopter fell apart as it burned, the National Guardsmen yelled in celebration as the Dragon Riders joined the defensive of the Evac Site as reinforcements arrived in the form of National Guard armor and infantry, Billy Bob landed on top of a Blackwater tank, Ruffnut forced open the commander’s hatch that one head sprayed the flammable acid into, then Tuffnut opened the loader’s hatch that the other head ignited the acid, Billy Bob and twins flew away before the tank exploded as on, Firefang and Snotlout along with Astrid and Thorn concentrated on the Blackwater infantry and armor, while Toothless and Hiccup with the support of American Anti-Air weaponry kept the skies clear over the evacuation site as the last helicopters took off along with them the remaining civilian refugees, the Dragon Riders left as the National Guardsmen defending the site fell back to defensive positions
A few minutes later, Fort D Evacuation Site, Blackwater Infantry with the support of mechanized vehicles advanced uphill towards the National Guard and APM held Evacuation Site that was heavily fortified, Artillery positions across the river fired upon the advancing enemy as it tried to take the evac site.
A Blackwater BMP exploded after it was hit by Javelin fired by a group of APM Initiates in a trench. An Evacuation helicopter took off went and safely flew across the river as other helicopters were being overloaded with refugees trying to cram onto them. Reinforcements from the Riverfront began to arrive as another barrage of artillery shells pounded away at the Blackwater attack force. Another helicopter took off and as it began to go across the river, a Blackwater fighter jet hit it with a missile and the helicopter exploded into flames and crashed into the river an destroyed several supply boats that were crossing the river, survivors of the crash quickly swam out of the helicopter as it sank into the muddy water and climbed onto nearby pack ice and the boats that went to their aid. Angered National Guardsmen and APM Soldiers charged at what remained of the Blackwater attack force and a bloody close quarters battle began, eventually Blackwater retreated from the evacuation site
Meanwhile St.Louis, Garter was being briefed of the situation in Cape Girardeau by Redfield and a small group of APM and US Military leaders
“Along with targeting important military and industrial targets, the Blackwater forces are trying to take out the evacuation sites, but military intelligence thinks this is a ploy to force us to use some of our forces to protect the sites and weaken the defenses of their main targets.” Redfield said as he pointed to the Evac sites on the holographic “We have received confirmation that the evacuation of civilians from Capaha Park was finished successfully and a large mechanized attack on the Fort D Site was repulsed by the National Guard, but the other sites are being hit by artillery and aircraft.”
“What about the Missouri National Guard’s Counterattack on Blackwater’s flank?” Garter asked the Military leaders
“It has run into stiff resistance and it is only making limited gains and progressing slowly and the weather isn’t really helping, but hopefully once the Cape Girardeau Garrison reinforces them, they will be able to breakthrough to Cape Girardeau.” The US Army General replied
“We may also want to position some of our heavier weapons to support the attack.” An APM General added “I also think it is time we reassemble the Shock Armies again, Mr. President.”
“I agree.” Conrad replied “Although it will delay our response to both fronts considerably, but it will ensure a more effective response against Blackwater and Gene Corp.”
“Well we can’t reassemble the Shock Armies with the APM Command Structure being like it is right now.” Garter said to the Generals “But once we finally reorganize command, I will order the Shock Armies to be assembled and deployed.”
“Securing Cape Girardeau will speed up the process of reorganizing APM Command.” Another APM General said to Garter “But that is easier said than done. But first we need to lift the Siege of Cape Girardeau. But until we do that, we can’t really do much.”
Meanwhile Phoenix Complex, Luger is angry at the Blackwater Commander of the Cape Girardeau Attack Force as he talks to him over hologram
“Why the (#$# are your men killing civilians? Are you trying to get the APM even angrier?” Luger yelled at the Commander “You know you have to occupy Cape Girardeau after this battle and defend it from American counter attacks, and the last you are going to want is a long-lasting insurgency from the populace!”
“Sir, the attacks on the Evac sites are to force the enemy to divert some of their forces away from our main targets.” The Commander replied
“Then explained why we are getting pictures and footage of dead children being pulled out of rubble that used to be a school!” Luger yelled back at the Commander
“The bombings and shelling of the schools were errors on part of the pilots flying the aircraft and the artillery commanders.” The Commander replied trying to keep his temper “Most of those reports and pictures are probably American propaganda.”
“Errors my ass, you tell your officers and men that any further unnecessary civilian deaths will be punished severely!” Luger growled at the Commander “And also you should remember that I am still the one who signs your ($$#ing paycheck.”
“Yes…Sir.” The Commander replied
A hour later, Cape Girardeau Command Center, the Dragon Riders had landed to take a break as Barnes scratched a Evac site from the map
“There is only one evac site and from what I have been hearing from the people there, Blackwater has stopped attacking it and pulled their forces back.” Barnes said to the dragon riders “They have also done the same thing along the entire frontline, which means they’re preparing to do a major push to the river.”
The Dragons Riders approached the table that the map was on
“What’s the plan to hold them off then?” Snotlout asked Barnes
“We fight them for every inch.” Barnes replied “It’s our only option at this point. So this battle is promising to get very ugly.”
“How long do we have until reinforcements arrive?” Hiccup asked Barnes
“Well its 3:09 A.M right now, so we have 10 Hours and 36 Minutes.” Barnes replied as he looked at his watch “And that is only if there aren’t any delays.”
“How long have you guys been up?” Astrid asked Barnes
“At least for 21 Hours.” Barnes replied “We’ve been running on coffee and rations.”
“21 Hours? You guys really need to get some rest.” The APM General in charge of the Defensive Operations of Cape Girardeau said to them “Don’t worry I’ll get somebody to cover you.”
“Sir, that isn’t necessary.” Barnes replied as he yawned
“Well I don’t a tired and exhausted colonel leading my men.” The General said to Barnes, Samantha, and the 502nd “Go get some rest, that’s a order.”
“Yes Sir.” Barnes said as he began to limp his way into the command bunker with Samantha and the rest of the 502nd
“Are you Hiccup?” The General asked Hiccup
“Yes Sir.” Hiccup replied
“Well I just got word from the president that your father has met with the other Viking chieftains of the Barbaric Archipelago and has formed an alliance against Blackwater and they’re supposedly coming here.” The General said “I don’t really get why Garter is letting them come here, but I guess the situation must be that bad.”
The Viking Dragon riders looked surprised at each other and then at the general
“When?” Astrid asked the General, who shrugged
A minute later, Barnes and Samantha along with the rest of the 502nd reached Barnes’ living quarters, they came into the room, and Barnes sat down on the bed as Samantha helped him remove the braces from his legs.
“Barnes I know that Conrad didn’t give you that GK-45 as a gift, where the hell did you get that?” Ramirez asked Barnes
“Should I tell them for you?” Samantha asked Barnes quietly
“No.” Barnes replied “Conrad got it from an APMSF General and he gave it to me as a gift for my service in the F-45.”
“Sure he did.” Ramirez said quietly under his breath as Barnes put his legs carefully up on the bed, Samantha climbed onto the bed from the other side, and Terry came out from under the bed and climbed on it and lied down at Barnes’ feet
Early Morning, as the sun began to rise in the east. The APM General in charge of defending Cape Girardeau met with his command staff
“All units are reporting a new push by Blackwater forces towards the river, this is it. The real Battle of Cape Girardeau is about to begin.” One of the Commanders said as he looked at the map of the Cape Girardeau
“We cannot lose Cape Girardeau, gentlemen.” The General replied “We will either come out victorious or die trying. Cape Girardeau must not fall, no matter the costs.”
Somewhere near Cape Girardeau-Bollinger Country border, APM and US military forces were preparing to break the siege of Cape Girardeau as the Viking forces arrived in US Marine helicopters, in the distance; the early morning sky was being lit up by distant explosions and Anti-Aircraft rounds
The helicopter carrying Stoick, Spitelout, Gobber, and several other Vikings landed and the Vikings jumped out as a column of APM armored vehicles moved past them, nearby a massive APM six-inch railway gun fired at a distant target as three airships pounded other targets with their plasma cannon batteries and cruise missile launchers.
“The Americans weren’t joking about bringing out the big guns for this attack!” Gobber yelled as three F-45s flew overhead
Nearby a APM officer shouted words of encouragement and battle cries through a loudspeaker to passing US and APM forces as they headed to the front
"We will fight our enemies in the streets, we will fight them in the hills, we will fight them in the skies, and we will fight them in the deserts!” The Officer shouted “We fight until the job is finished and those who are foolish enough to stand against the might of the American people will cease to exist! Avenge your fallen comrades in Cape Girardeau with the blood of Blackwater’s so called “soldiers”! For our country, for our families, for the APP, we will prevail!”
“This is worse than I thought it would be.” Spitelout said as he listened to the almost insane cries of the APM Officer
“What are you guys doing just standing there?” A US Marine officer yelled at the Vikings “We have more helicopters coming in that need to land and you’re taking up space! Get moving!”
The Vikings moved out of the way and began boarding trucks that were bound to the frontlines, on the same truck that Spitelout, Stoick, and Gobber got on a Viking archer toyed around with his new weapon, the Crossbow
“How in Thor’s name do you load this?” The Viking Archer asked Gobber as he tried to load a steel-tipped arrow onto the Crossbow
“First you put your foot in the stirrup and use the rope cocking device to pull the string back.” Gobber replied as the Viking followed his instructions to load it
“Thanks Gobber.” The Viking said as he finished loading the Crossbow and the trucks started moving, also on the truck, the daughter of the chieftain of the Bog Burglar tribe, Camicazi was looking at the distant battle
“So is that where we’re heading?” Camicazi asked Stoick
“Yes.” Stoick replied “Don’t worry we know how to fight these people now.”
Two American Militia pickups with heavy machine guns in the back sped past the convoy followed by an APM M274 Amphibious MLRS
A burning Blackwater attack jet crashed and exploded in a empty field on the side of the road as the convoy passed it, the USAF Fighter Jet that shot it down flew over the convoy and tipped it’s wing as the pilot looked at the Vikings and dragons in the back of the trucks before it took off for the rising sun
“This is going to be a long day.” Spitelout said, Stoick nodded
Part Ten: LegionEdit
Meanwhile in Cape Girardeau, APM, the Missouri National Guard, the local militias, and the CGPD were trying to stem the Blackwater advance toward the river as the sun rose behind them
“If you any of you try to retreat I’ll (#$#ing shoot you myself!” A APM Officer shouted to the initiates he was in charge of that were forced into a early graduation from training camp.
Meanwhile Barnes, Samantha, and the 502nd were back in the rear as they helped Barnes command his men
“Our guys on North Benton Street are reporting that Blackwater has Russian T-100 Heavy Tanks in that sector!” Ramirez yelled as he listened to the cries of the people on the other side of the receiver
“God dammit, tell the general that we need air support assets in that sector!” Barnes replied “Where are the god damned dragon riders?”
“They’re busy trying to help our guys at South Hanover Street!” Samantha said to Barnes as she read a report that was coming in
“Why did Garter have to take the entire garrison out of Cape Girardeau?” Barnes said under his breath “Try to get the general to give us some of those god damn air support assets!”
“I’ve been trying that, but he says that all assets are unavailable.” Samantha replied
“God dammit, he gave me men to control to help defend the city, but yet he won’t even give me some god damn air support!” Barnes said “Tell them to hold their positions until we get them some heavy firepower to take those tanks out, how long do we have until the relief force arrives?"
“One hour and thirteen minutes.” Carmen replied as he looked at his wrist watch
Meanwhile Stoick, Camicazi, and Gobber were in a destroyed American town with a squad of US Marines, pinned down by three Blackwater machine gun positions located in the top floor of a convenient store up ahead
“How in Thor’s name are we going to get passed those guns?” Gobber asked as machine gun rounds passed over his head.
“We’re working on that!” A US Marine Forward Air Controller said as another told coordinates to a US Marine Officer on the other side
Two USAF and Blackwater fighter jets shook the building as they flew overhead as the Blackwater fighter tried to shoot down the USAF fighter
“Dammit, we lost the signal! They have a signal jammer somewhere!” The US Marine FAC with the radio said as threw the radio away
Terrible whistling noises were heard as Blackwater mortar rounds began to pound at the pinned down Vikings and Marines
“This is it man! We’re screwed!” A young US Marine said as he ducked
As he ducked, Stoick heard a loud roaring noise of a large tank engine and the machine gun rounds stopped flying overhead, but the guns were still firing, Stoick lifted his head and saw a massive black-colored APM Megathon slowly turning it’s turret to face the machine gun positions as APM soldiers clad in black armor and wearing electronic gasmasks with red lenses advanced using the protection of the Megathon’s large size and armor. Stoick then saw on the back of the Megathon’s turret that faced him as it turned its turret the abbreviation “APMSF” with a whitish-gray eagle that hat it’s beak open while it carried a hammer in one set of talons and a lightening bolt in the other and a sword that looked it impaled the eagle through the head and came through the bottom
“Ah, hell! It’s the $#*$ing 1st Stormtrooper Legion. Where the hell have those guys been during all this?” The US Marine Officer said as a small mortar popped out from a hatch on top of the APMSF Megathon’s turret and fired a single small round charge that annihilated the machine gun positions along with most of the convenience store’s second floor. The APMSF Stormtroopers then quickly took the chance to advance and storm the ruins as the Megathon scanned the other buildings on the block as it turned it’s turret slowly as the US Marines slowly moved out from the cover of the ruined diner they were in, another squad of APMSF Stormtroopers led by a officer appeared and greeted them
“What division are you from marine?” The APMSF Officer asked the US Marine Officer with a light German accent, an ID badge on his armor said “Karlson” and his rank was a Colonel, his face was hidden behind his electronic gasmask, The Commander of the Megathon opened up his hatch and poked his upper body out of the tank as he observed the surrounding area
“2nd Marine Division, we were separated from the rest of our division and we are trying to regroup.” The Marine Officer replied
“Well we’re heading to our assembly point, the general is getting ready to retake the Cape Girardeau Airport and Blackwater has turned the fortifications there against us.” Karlson said to the Marine before he turned his attention to the Vikings “I guess you’re the Vikings we’ve been hearing so much about from the communications we’ve been listening to since this #*$#ed mess began?”
“I guess?” Camicazi replied
“Well we can’t keep the general waiting.” Karlson said “Feel free to join us.”
Meanwhile as Blackwater turned it’s attention away from the city and went to fight off the incoming relief force, the Dragon Riders returned to the Command Bunker and found Barnes, Samantha, and his command staff gone and the Command Bunker was quiet
“Something’s not right here.” Hiccup said as the dragon riders dismounted their dragons and entered the Command Bunker.. As the entered the hallway, The Dragon Riders then heard the sounds if a firefight
“Oh gods, I think Blackwater’s here.” Astrid said as the dragon riders and their dragons began to run down the hallway, they found Ramirez and Wensky who were dragging Barnes, who was unconscious with a syringe in his neck as Samantha, Katie, and the rest of the 502nd along with other APM Personnel exchanged fire with Blackwater soldiers.
“How did those guys get into the bunker?” Hiccup asked Ramirez as he took cover behind the wall
“They used the escape hatch that went into the sewers! Ramirez replied, Terry poked his head out from behind the flipped over file cabinet he was using and shot out a single fire ball at a Blackwater soldier, who dodged it “They’re after Barnes, because they #($#ing injected something into him when they ambushed us!
Wensky took out the Syringe that was in Barnes’ neck and put it on the ground
An APM Security guard fired their grenade launcher attached under the barrel of his assault rifle at the Blackwater soldiers that exploded when it hit the wall, the explosion killed three of the soldiers and injured two more. But the five that were left continued to fight.
“Use your grenade launchers!” Wensky yelled to the security guards who began to use their grenade launchers against the Blackwater soldiers
“I’ll get Barnes a doctor!” Astrid said before running towards the motor pool
“CHARGE!” Wensky yelled as a barrage of grenades pounded the Blackwater soldiers.
The Security Guards led by Wensky ran down the hallway toward the surviving Blackwater soldiers, Wensky punched one in the face and knocked him to somebody’s living quarters and followed him to finish the job, the Blackwater soldier pulled a syringe out a metal case he had filled with a blue liquid before charging Wensky and tackling him
“This was meant if we captured somebody else of the 502nd, but I guess you’ll have to do!” The Blackwater soldier hissed before he injected Wensky with the syringe, Wensky kicked the Blackwater soldier off of him and pulled out his sidearm and fire two Kletonium-tipped rounds that pierced the body armor of the Blackwater soldier and killed him. Wensky then pulled the syringe out of his arm and looked at it, it was empty
“What the hell was in this thing?” Wensky said as he felt the part of his arm in which he was injected at. Wensky then unconscious and fell to the ground
An hour later, Stoick, Gobber, and Camicazi arrived at the APMSF Assembly point with the US Marines and APMSF Stormtroopers and the Megathon as the APMSF Forces there were preparing to attack the airport. An APM General wearing a black mask with a white skull painted on it approached Karlson
“We need to put off the attack of the airfield; Blackwater is redirecting everything they have at us.” The General said to Karlson, his voice muffled by his gasmask, his eyes hidden by the lens, he had a Doubled Barreled Shotgun slung around his shoulder, dismantled machine gun on his back, and a GK-45 Assault Rifle in his hands, under his heavy trench coat was Kletonium Vest above a regular Kevlar vest and then a regular uniform underneath. “We have also reestablished contact with the command bunker inside Cape Girardeau; Blackwater Special Forces were engaged in a firefight with the security forces after attacking my son with some kind of syringe and before they were wiped out, but my son and some lieutenant were injured. So I am sending you and your Viking friends into Cape Girardeau to investigate this report, I’m giving you two more Megathons and several Enforcers from the 4th Armored Regiment and a APC to assist you in breaking through Blackwater’s lines.”
Karlson nodded and saluted the general {C}“If it wasn’t for the occasion, I wouldn’t take this order lightly, but this is special since I helped raise him.” Karlson replied
“Good luck out there Karl.” The General said to Karlson
“Wait a second; did you say the armor was coming from 4th armored? Isn’t that Tes-?“ Karlson asked the General
“It is, but her unit is the only one available and she volunteered, don’t let you’re personal problems get in the way of your mission!” The General replied
“We won’t Reap.” Karlson said to the General “But I don’t appreciate this.”
“Well too bad, Karl.” The General replied “Just get this mission done with.”
“Yes Sir.” Karlson said to the General before he left
“Who was that?” Stoick asked Karlson
“Oh that would be Reaper, I believe you’ve already met his son back on the island campaign.” Karlson replied “Well come on lets moving.”
The group moved towards the nearest interstate exit where they found the armor from the 4th waiting for them, half way outside the Commander hatch of a APMSF Command Variant Enforcer, a women with near-white blonde hair and green eyes was looking through a set of binoculars up the interstate, she was wearing a modified variant of the A-1 Armor designed for the crew of Tanks
“HEY COLONEL!” Karlson shouted at the commander a bit angry
The Commander of the tank lowered his binoculars and turned to face Karlson
“Hey Karl, I guess you’re the ones the general told us to escort.” The Commander replied
“I don’t like this as much as you do Tesla.” Karlson said to the Tank Commander “But we have a mission to do for the general.”
”Well then what are we waiting for?” Tesla replied “Let’s get this train wreck on the move?”
Tesla receded back into her Enforcer tank, the engine came on with a roar as it’s fusion reactor kicked on and the rail gun began to charge
“Did you use to have some kind of relationship with her?” Camicazi asked Karlson
“Yes, we used to date.” Karlson replied as he headed for the nearest Megathon that did not have a commander and its hatch was wide open “Get in the APC with my squad; it’s going to be a long and dangerous trip to the Command bunker.”
Karlson climbed onto the Enforcer and into the crew compartment as the Vikings and the APMSF Stormtroopers went towards the APC, as they entered the APC; the Vikings had to take off their helmets just to fit inside, the door closed behind them and the APC began to move with the rest of the tanks
Meanwhile in Tesla’s Command Tank, Tesla was looking through her commander sights as the tank went onto the interstate
“Why did you and Karl break up again?” Robin, Tesla’s driver asked Tesla
“I don’t want to talk about that, Robin.” Tesla replied
“Well I thought you two were a cute couple, you were perfect for each other.” Robin said to Tesla
“I SAID I DON”T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT! NOW STOP WORRYING ABOUT MY PERSONAL LIFE AND DRIVE!” Tesla replied, Robin turned her attention back to her position.
“Foxtrot 5, this overlord please respond.” Reaper said over the radio before Tesla picked up the transmitter
“This Foxtrot 5 to Overlord, what is it?” Tesla replied
“Tesla, I know that that the Colonel is one of the last people you want to see these days, but you two have the unfortunate problem to be in the same division, so I don’t want any $(#$ fuck ups because of your personal problems, just get to the Command bunker and see what the hell Blackwater did to my son!” Reaper said to Tesla
“We’ll try not to rip each other’s throats out, Reaper. I promise.” Tesla replied before putting the transmitter away
Meanwhile in the Command Bunker’s Infirmary, Barnes was rushed into the infirmary and put onto the nearest available cot by the 502nd and Samantha, doctors, both civilian ran over to Barnes. One hooked him up onto medical equipment as the other opened up his one of his eyes and shined a light into it, he then closed the eye and wrote something down as Wensky was rushed into the room and put onto another cot, then the other doctor pulled out his Stethoscope and lifted Barnes’ shirt and listened to his heartbeat and then felt his pulse and then wrote something down in his clipboard, then the other one put a needle attached to a clear tube and extracted blood from his veins and into a container, once it was halfway full, the doctor remove the needle and quickly walked away
“What’s wrong with him doc?” Samantha asked the doctor eagerly
“We’re going to do a blood test to see what we can find.” The Doctor replied “The only things we have noticed out of the normal are a slower heartbeat and his eyes are dilated.
The Head of Security came into the bunker
“We searched every inch of this facility for any more infiltrators, but it appears that the team we wiped out was the only one. As we suspected they came through the sewers and no important files were missing and no important systems were damaged, so they were after the Colonel.” The Head of Security said to the APM General “The Lieutenant over there was just unlucky and we’re placing guards in and around the facility to make sure there aren’t any more breaches in our security.”
“Good, we’re also getting word from our scouts behind Blackwater lines that a detachment from the 1st Legion is in route.” The General replied “So that is probably a sign that is mess is about over.”
“The 1st Legion?” Ramirez asked the General “Aren’t those Reaper’s men?”
“Yes, Reaper has his men surrounding the airfield and they’re the reason that Blackwater is pulling their forces back.” The General replied “They also have three Vikings with them, including Stoick. I’ve already sent the dragon riders out to find them and escort them to our lines.”
A few minutes later, Karlson is in the commander seat of his Megathon as it goes down a street cramped with rubble, burnt out wrecks of vehicles, and other debris
“This is why I wish they would install bulldozer blades on these things!” Karlson’s Tank Driver, Gordon said as the tank crushed an abandoned police car
“Shut up Gor.” Karlson replied as he turned the sights of his remote operated chain gun with the X-Ray Imaging activated allowing him to see through the walls of the nearby buildings and debris
“Where the hell did Blackwater go?” Clayton, the tank’s gunner asked Karlson
“They all must be heading for the others at the airfield.” Karlson replied “Basically, they’re all heading to their deaths, because we all know that most of the known munitions Blackwater uses can’t penetrate our armor and not to mention nearly the fact they only have probably two days of experience while we have two-hundred something years under our belts.”
There is a loud thump on the top of the Megathon’s turret; Gordon stopped the tank as Karlson pulled out his AA-12 Assault Shotgun
“What the hell was that?” Gordon asked Karlson
“I don’t know, let me check.” Karlson replied
Karlson turned the remote machine gun to face whatever landed on the turret and saw the yellow green eyes of a dragon looking directly at him, Karlson jumped and bumped his head against the hatch before he opened it and poked his head out
“Are you the one in charge?” The young Viking riding the dragon asked Karlson
“Yes.” Karlson replied “I guess you’re one of those Viking dragon riders we’ve been hearing so much about?”
“Name’s Hiccup, is a Viking named Stoick here?” Hiccup asked Karlson
“Yes, he’s in the APC with two others, Gobber and another named Camicazi.” Karlson replied
“Well the general sent us to lead you to the Command Bunker.” Hiccup said to Karlson “Because we know which roads haven’t been booby trapped by the defenders.”
“Then lead the way.” Karlson replied
Meanwhile near the Cape Girardeau Airport
A loud and spine-chilling shrieking noise filled the air as APMSF Hover MLRS Batteries bombarded the Blackwater forces trying to break the APMSF encirclement of the airfield as Reaper watched the battle through the commander sights of his Megathon tank
“These Blackwater @$#holes may look tough, but they collapse like a house of cards when they come under sustained fire.” Reaper said in his mind as he watched a squad of Blackwater soldiers retreat as another barrage of rockets pounded their positions, Reaper leaned back in his chair, he had his gasmask off and it was lying down in his lap. Reaper looked like he was in his late thirties or early forties and he had dark brown hair and emerald eyes
“This is command to Overlord, please come in over.” General Smict said to Reaper over the radio, Earl Smict was Reaper’s father in law and close friend, a former Republican Army General that defected over to the APM after the marriage between Reaper and his daughter, Catherine Smict, Barnes’ mother. Reaper picked up the transmitter
“What is it Smict?” Reaper replied
“This battle is finally about over, UAVs are detecting friendly forces come up from Sikeston and State Highway M and from St.Louis.” Smict said to Reaper over the radio “Most of Blackwater’s remaining forces in the area are beginning to disintegrate and an Alfa squad has apprehended the Blackwater Commander in charge.”
“Roger that. After we’re relieved I want the legions to concentrate on removing any remaining cells of Blackwater resistance in the area and hunting down any stranglers.” Reaper replied “I’ll regroup with Karlson’s men at the command bunker and see what Blackwater did to Barnes and also get our best interrogator to work on that commander, he may provide us some information on MacTavish’s beloved “Project Titan.””
“Ten-Four.” Smict said to Reaper before cutting off
Reaper put the transmitter away
“Driver takes us to the command bunker as quickly as you can.” Reaper said to the tank driver who turned the tank’s reactor on and began to move
A few minutes later, at the Cape Girardeau Command Bunker Infirmary, a Doctor was giving Samantha, the 502nd, the dragon riders, Stoick, and Karlson a medical report
“We’ve never seen anything like this before.” The Doctor said to them “We have detected a unknown substance in his bloodstream along with nanobots matches nothing in our data bases and they’re starting to make some physical changes to the Colonel’s body.”
“What kind of physical changes?” Karlson asked the doctor, Karlson had his powered gas mask off.
Karlson was a German-American and former special forces who immigrated to America after being discharged from the military for disobeying orders during a tour of duty in Afghanistan and settled down in Missouri shortly before the outbreak of the second civil war. He is considered to be one of the many founding fathers of the modern APM. He had light brownish-blonde hair with light blue eyes.
“Take a look for yourself, colonel.” The Doctor said as he handed his PDA to Karlson who looked at the contents of the screen before he handed back to the doctor
“We need to move him to a secure location where…more qualified officials can look at him.” Karlson replied “Can we move him without problems?”
“I think so.” The Doctor said to Karlson
A APMSF Officer approached Karlson whispered in his ear, Karlson nodded and whispered back
“Well the general is on his way here to see this for himself.” Karlson said as the APMSF soldier left “I don’t know how he’s going to react to this.”
A hour later, Reaper’s Megathon tank arrived at the command bunker, Reaper opened up his hatched and quickly climbed out of the tank with the help of Hiccup who had guided Reaper to the command bunker safely
“Thanks kid.” Reaper said to Hiccup as he climbed down from the Megathon and ran into the command bunker as the rest of his tank crew climbed out
“For a man of his experience I thought he would be an elder like General Conrad.” Stoick said to Hiccup
“I did too.” Hiccup replied “He looks like he’s the same age as Barnes, but that’s probably due to their life extension treatments.
”Their what?” Stoick asked Hiccup
“We overhead doctors talking about some life extending treatments that the Americans and a few other nations give their soldiers to maintain a large pool of experience soldiers, I don’t know the mechanics behind it.” Hiccup replied “You’ll have to ask Reaper or one of the doctors.”
A minute later in the Command bunker infirmary, Reaper arrived and saw his son on the cot
“What’s wrong with him?” Reaper asked the nearest doctor who gulped
“Well, we don’t know yet general.” The Doctor replied “We’ve done as many tests as we could on him here, but nothing. So far we have detected an unknown substance in his bloodstream and nanobot and their starting to cause some kind of physical change in the body.”
“Nanobots, and of what kind are we talking about, and about these physical change?” Reaper asked the doctor
“We don’t know, they match nothing in our medical and scientific databases and the changes are like nothing we have never seen.” The Doctor replied “We have sent a request to the medical director to send him to a more advanced facility.”
“Screw the $$%#ing medical director! I want him and the lieutenant that was also injected moved to research facility in Nevada!” Reaper said to the doctor as he picked up his radio “KARLSON! Get the Mallards here immediately; we’re transporting Barnes and the lieutenant to A51 with or without permission.”
“Ten-Four, Reaper you may want to get down to the main officer’s lounge, Samantha’s down here.” Karlson replied
“I’m on my way down.” Reaper said to Karlson “Prepare him for transport doctor.”
“Yes Reaper sir.” The Doctor replied as he ordered the nearby nurses to prepare Barnes and Wensky for transport as Reaper left the infirmary and headed towards the Officer’s Lounge on the way there he passed by the bodies of the Blackwater infiltrator squad that were being put into body bags by APMSF Stormtroopers “Did you find any intel on them?”
“Possibly, one of my men found a PDA on the officer and we have our best technical specialist trying to splice into it right now.” The APMSF Officer replied
“Good, I want to be notified as soon as the specialist cracks it.” Reaper said to the officer
“Yes Sir.” The Officer replied as Reaper continued on to the Officer’s lounge where Tesla was trying to comfort Samantha while Karlson talked to the 502nd and Katie
“How is she?” Reaper asked Tesla as she approached
“I’m fine, Reaper.” Samantha replied “Thank you for coming out of hiding as well.”
“You’re welcome; I wasn’t going sit on my ass and let Blackwater attack Cape Girardeau.” Reaper said to Samantha “We’re going move Barnes and the Lieutenant to A51 so we can do a closer examination on their conditions.”
“Area 51, is it really that bad?” Tesla replied
“The docs have been unable to find out what these nanobots and the unknown substances are, so we’re going to take them to our top-notch guys in Nevada to see if they can find out what those infiltrators did to Barnes and the Lieutenant.”” Reaper said to Tesla
“When are we leaving?” Karlson replied
“Whenever the Mallards arrive to pick us up.” Reaper said to Karlson “Ramirez, I want you and the rest of the squadron to come as well.”
“Yes Sir.” Ramirez replied
“I’m going with you.” Samantha said to Reaper
“I have no problem with that.” Reaper replied
“General, the tech officer has successfully spliced into the PDA of the Blackwater Infiltrator Squad Leader, she’s in the mess hall.” An APMSF Officer said over the radio to Reaper
“Roger that, I’m on my way.” Reaper replied as he got up and left the room followed by Samantha, Karlson, Katie, the 502nd, and Tesla. When they reached the mess hall, the PDA was connected to the Tech Officer's own PDA. The Tech Officer was looking at the contents of the Blackwater PDA as the dragon riders along with Stoick, Gobber, and Camicazi, when the Tech Officer noticed Reaper, she stood up and saluted him as he approached
"Reaper Sir! I have successfully spliced the enemy's PDA." The Tech officer said to Reaper as he approached her
"Well done, does any have useful material?" Reaper replied as looked at the PDA
"Yes Sir, I have also sent copies of the contents to military intelligence, the president, and Area 51 for further analysis." The Tech Officer said to Reaper
"Good, what have you found so far?" Reaper replied
"Well I managed to get an ID on the substances injected into Lieutenant Wensky and Colonel Barnes, according to the orders given to the infiltrators; it was Night Fury and Deadly Nadder DNA." The Tech Officer said to Reaper, who gave the officer a mixed look of surprised and shock
"Are you certain of this?" Reaper replied, the officer nodded
"I'm sure, because it's in pure text right here." The Officer said as he picked up the PDA and pointed to the text on it that Reaper read
"*#$#, what the hell is MacTavish up to?" Reaper replied after he finished reading
"Karlson tell those Mallards to double time it here, if this information is true, we only have several hours before the changes induced by the nanobots accelerates."
"Yes Sir." Karlson said to Reaper as he got on his radio
"Should I get back to my unit?" Tesla asked Reaper, who nodded and Tesla left, the 502nd, Katie, and Samantha was standing quietly, shocked by the news
"Sam, are you sure you still want to come with us to A51?" Reaper asked Samantha
"Yes...Sir." Samantha replied quietly
"The transports are coming here as fast as they can, ETA, three minutes." Karlson said as he put his radio away
"Okay, send an order to all units of the 1st Legion to regroup and prepare for redeployment in southern Nevada as well, if what I am hearing from the media is correct, Blackwater is trying to take Las Vegas and we can't afford to lose that city due to it's close proximity to Area 51, several missile bases with who knows how many nukes inside them, and the two interstates that run through the city." Reaper replied, who nodded "And are the Orbital Weapons back up?"
"Yes, they were brought back up two hours ago." Karlson said to Reaper
"Good, because we're going to need them." Reaper replied
"Do you mind if we join you on your journey to Area 51?" Stoick asked Reaper
"No, we could use all the help we can get these days." Reaper replied.
Part Eleven: America at WarEdit
Four Minutes Later, Barnes and Wensky were loaded with Samantha and Katie onto a heavily armored APMSF Stealth Mallard that took off and was joined by the 502nd who were going to escort to A51 as Reaper, Karlson, Tesla, and the Vikings took off in other transports to go to Las Vegas
“Okay I have a question? Where in Odin’s name is this “Las Vegas” city?” Spitelout asked Karlson as their VTOL closed the side doors as it increased its speed and went super sonic
“Ever heard of a desert?” Karlson replied
“Yes, but only in stories that we would get from occasional traders from the outside world.” Spitelout said to Karlson “They don’t sound like very good places to live in if you ask me.”
“Well we’re going is right in the damn middle of one.” Karlson replied “Las Vegas is one of our major cities located in the Southwestern region of the country, is it is also now a battleground between us and Blackwater forces trying to push north to take Area 51, our primary military research and development center! If Blackwater takes Area 51, it will put nearly 200 hundred years of weapons research and development in their filthy hands and not to mention that is where all the weapons the APMSF uses are made!”
“You make it sound like if we lose Las Vegas, we lose the war.” Gobber said to Karlson
“Exactly!” Karlson replied “And if they take control of Las Vegas, it gives them access to an Interstate that could allow them to push all the way to the Canadian border and attack several other major cities including Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Seattle. Meaning, if we lose Vegas and we are unable to prevent Blackwater from advancing any farther, they might be able to take the entire damn Southwest and the west coast and if they take Area 51, we might be facing a dangerous extremely dangerous enemy.”
“What about these so called “Missile silos” I heard your general talking about?” Spitelout asked Karlson
“Let’s just say if they take control of those, it will give them the ability to wipe out every major city and military installation in the United States, if not the world.” Karlson replied
Meanwhile in Gene Corp HQ, Luger and MacTavish were viewing their situation
“With the end of the battle of Cape Girardeau, the APP will rapidly recover and we could lose our initiative if we don’t take Las Vegas before then.” Luger said to MacTavish “Las Vegas holds an extremely important strategic position. If we capture it, it will give us a FOB to attack Area 51 from and it will also give us control of several missile bases in that region that will allow us to prevent foreign intervention. Then there is also Interstate 15 that will allow us to go all the way to the Canadian border if we wanted to and also attack Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.”
“What about the Infiltrators?” MacTavish replied
“They managed to inject Barnes and an APM Lieutenant with both Night Fury and Deadly Nadder DNAs, so their mission was a success, except they got wiped out by the Command bunker’s security guards. They are now being brought to Area 51 via APMSF stealth transport, which we have no way of tracking.” Luger said to MacTavish
“Isn’t the 1st Legion in route in Las Vegas?” MacTavish replied
“Yes, they also have the dragon riders and Viking warriors with them.” Luger said to MacTavish “And the terrain of Las Vegas is a disadvantage for us, since the 1st Legion is reliant on combined arms, which the terrain is well suited for and not to mention orbital weapons support.”
“Divert all forces in the area to Las Vegas; I want that city in our control even if the APMSF arrives.” MacTavish replied “Hell, I don’t care if you’re facing the entire APM Airship fleet, take Las Vegas at all costs!”
Two hours later, The APMSF Stealth transport and the 502nd arrived at Area 51 which was under air attack by Blackwater aircraft that were being attacked by the defensive Anti-Air batteries and squadrons of APM and US Aircraft
“Two are their spouses, right?” A APM Security Guard asked Samantha and Katie as they got into one of the armored cars
“I’m the Colonel’s girlfriend; she’s just a close friend.” Samantha replied “Get us out of here!”
The Security guard pulled a lever that closed the back door of the armored car as both armored cars started to make a run for it towards a bunker that was entrance to the massive underground research facility
“One of you man the Minigun and keep those damn fighters off of us!” The Driver yelled back to the guards, Samantha, and Katie in the back of the armored car before one of the guards got onto the control console of the remote operated Minigun turret of the armored car and began firing at the attacking Blackwater aircraft
“Don’t you guys have something here that can just kill all these $*$#ers at once?” Katie asked a scientist that was in the armored car
“I’m not with the weapons department, I’m a medical researcher!” The Scientist replied “But I’m sure we do somewhere.”
The Minigunner ducked as a Blackwater fighter that was being pursed by Ramirez’ F-45 flew overhead, the driver put his foot on the acceleration and sped up and entered the bunker before skidding to a stop, the back door opened, Samantha and Katie were the first ones out as Barnes and Wensky were quickly unloaded and taken to a elevator that Samantha and Katie and got on, the elevator began to go down
“Is it safe to use the elevators while under attack?” Samantha asked one of the APMSF escorts
“I guess so if we’re using it.” The Escort replied
“Where are we going?” Katie asked one of the scientists
“To the 5th Floor, Medical Research and Development, we already have a team ready for the colonel and lieutenant.” The Scientist replied
Meanwhile over Las Vegas, the Heavy VTOL carrying Reaper’s Megathon along with the dragon riders stopped in midair
“Why did we stop?” Astrid asked Reaper as he climbed onto his Megathon and opened the commander’s hatch
“Because this is our stop, Astrid!” Reaper replied as he jumped into the commander seat of the Megathon and closed and sealed the hatch behind him as the cargo bay door of the Heavy VTOL opened
“I think I know what he wants us to do! Everybody mount up!” Hiccup shouted to the dragons before he got onto Toothless, the dragon riders quickly got onto their dragons
When the door was completely opened, a light next to it turned green and the dragons jumped out of the Heavy VTOL, expanded their wings and allowed the updraft to pick them up and started to fly as Reaper’s Megathon tank slide towards the exit and fell out, halfway to the ground, several large airbags opened up from a special compartment below the Megathon before it landed, absorbing the impact, therefore not harming Reaper and the crew inside
“I always hated doing that.” The Driver said to Reaper as he started up the Fusion Reactor, ejected the airbags, and started moving
“Well nobody asked what you hated.” Reaper replied “
Meanwhile the dragon riders were flying around the city picking out targets and hitting them
“This city is larger than Cape Girardeau!” Snotlout shouted to Hiccup as the dragons maneuvered to avoid flak blasts from Blackwater Anti-Air guns
“At least it isn’t cold and snowy!” Hiccup replied as Toothless dived attack a Blackwater Anti-Air vehicle
Meanwhile somewhere else in the city, the side doors of Karlson’s VTOL opened as the APMSF Assault Mallards went into attack formation
“The LZ is hot! Get ready back there!” The Pilot shouted from the cockpit
“You heard him! Lock and load troopers!” Karlson shouted as the Stormtroopers readied their weapons and armor, Blackwater water anti-air rounds bounced off the Kletonium armor of the Mallards as they increased speed. Two Crow Gunships flew past and fired ATGM missiles and their chin mounted Miniguns at unseen Blackwater targets
The VTOLs stopped and several ropes came down from the roof the of the VTOL and hit the ground below, the Stormtroopers attached the ropes to special latches on their belts and fast roped down to the ground, one of the VTOLs were hit directly in the engines and began to spiral out of control and sent it’s passengers flying out
“We’re hit! We’re hit! This is Delta five, we’re going down! I repeat we’re going down!” The Pilot of the damaged VTOL shouted over the radio as his VTOL went down and crashed into a nearby five star resort and exploded as Stormtroopers dove to take cover from the incoming enemy fire
“God dammit! Take out of those anti-air guns!” Karlson shouted to the APMSF Stormtroopers as several Advanced Stormtroopers clad in heavy A-3 Armor jumped down from heavy VTOL and began firing their weapons at the Blackwater soldiers and vehicles firing at the VTOLs and landing Stormtroopers and Vikings, a F-45 flew overhead and dropped a cluster bomb on a Blackwater Machine Gun Positions, several APMSF VTOLs landed on a roof of a hotel behind the Blackwater positions and deployed sniper teams that began to pick off Blackwater soldiers, in the distance, the USAS Jefferson City bombarded Blackwater-controlled parts of the city with it’s Plasma batteries as the night sky lit up with large explosions and anti-air tracers
“I’ve always want to come here, but not like this!” A Stormtrooper shouted over the chaos, several APMSF Super Crow gunships arrived and began to plaster the Blackwater troops and vehicles with rockets, missiles, and explosive Minigun rounds, destroying all the vehicles and killing most of the troops before flying off, Spitelout reluctantly fast roped from the VTOL along with Gobber and Stoick
“Somebody tell command we have secured the LZ and it is safe to bring in the heavy weaponry!” Karlson shouted
“Where are we in the city?” Stoick asked Karlson as he pulled out a handheld holomap projector that projected a holographic map of the city
“We’re right here in this parking lot, that over there is the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and that is East Hamom Ave right there.” Karlson replied as he pointed to positions in the map as several Heavy VTOLs carrying Enforcer and Megathon tank began their descent down to the ground “I am saying that our mission objective is to find and knock out those Blackwater Anti-Air batteries to secure additional LZs for reinforcements. We’ll move out as soon as all the tanks are here.”
“Hey look shooting stars!” A Viking shouted as he pointed to the air as objects with red streaks behind them began to fall from the skies in distance
“Those aren’t stars, those are orbital drop pods.” Karlson replied “Don’t worry their ours, because we’re the only country to use them as of right now, at least as far as we know, we are.”
“Drop pods?” Stoick asked Karlson
“They’re single personnel infantry carriers that are dropped from beyond the sky.” Karlson replied “They carry a single Shocktrooper, usually a woman; because they’re smaller bodies allow them to fit in the pods better and carry more equipment. If I’m correct, it must be the 30th Orbital Drop Division, same division that Samantha, Wensky, and Katie are or were apart of.”
“Should we regroup with them?” Spitelout asked Karlson
“Nah, they’re too far out.” Karlson replied “They probably have their own mission to do anyway, like we do.”
Meanwhile else where in the city, Reaper’s Megathon advanced down South Rainbow Blvd. that had destroyed military and civilian vehicles with debris and corpses from all sides scattered across as buildings on either side were either destroyed, damaged, burning, or untouched
“Shit, FLIR is useless with all these fires.” The Gunner said to Reaper, who was keeping an eye on the rear of the Megathon with the remote operated Minigun on the roof
“Use that damn experimental motion sensor then.” Reaper replied “We need to use it anyway.”
“I’m activating the Motion Sensors.” The Gunner said to Reaper “Whoa…I have five unidentified contacts of the motion sensor twenty or nineteen meters, 12:00 a’ clock!”
Reaper turned the Minigun to face the contacts and zoomed in
“Hold your fire, they’re friendlies. It’s a squad of US Army Rangers.” Reaper replied
“Eh? But I thought we landed in a Blackwater-controlled zone of the city?” The Driver asked Reaper
“We did, it must be a recon team.” Reaper replied “Keep moving forward.”
The Driver continued to move forward as the tank got ready to pass the rangers, the Ranger squad leader waved the tank down
“What do they want?” The Gunner asked Reaper, who was opening his hatch as the squad leader climbed onto the tank
“What are you doing all the way out here?” The Ranger Squad leader asked Reaper “I thought you’re guys were landing over near the Mandarin Hotel?”
“We kind of missed our drop zone.” Reaper replied, below him, the driver and the gunner looked at each other
“Hmmm, well. Can you give us a ride then?” The Ranger asked Reaper “We got separated from our unit during a ambush.”
“Sure, hop on.” Reaper replied as he closed the hatch
“Why didn’t you tell us that we missed the drop zone?” The Driver hissed at Reaper
“Sorry. Hey in this thing, we’re almost invincible unless a Blackwater tank commander gets luck enough to gets the drop on us and fires an AP round up our ass.” Reaper replied “But we all know the chances of that are nearly 20% with all the improvements we’ve made since the Clan Wars. Just keep driving and get us to the rendezvous point.”
“Yes Sir.” The Driver said to Reaper as he continued to drive after the last ranger got onto the tank
Meanwhile in the air, the dragon riders were covering an APM Drop Pod Trooper Sapper squad trying to blow an overpass of Interstate 515 that was part of Blackwater’s main supply route into the city
“Can one you guys please TAKE OUT THAT BMP THAT’S SHOOTING AT US!” The Engineer Squad leader shouted to the dragon riders over the radio, the sound of a autocannon of a BMP-5 firing in the background
“I’m on it!” Hiccup replied as he pointed out the BMP to Toothless, who dived attacked it and took it out with a single fire blast.
“Thank you.” The Squad Leader said to Hiccup “We’re about to finish setting the last charge, shouldn’t be long now.”
“Okay, hurry it up; there are probably other places where we’re needed in this city.” Hiccup replied
“Charge is set, I repeat the charge has been set, we are falling back to a safe distance to watch the fireworks, thanks for the assist you guys!” The Engineer squad leader said as she and her squad started to make a run for it
The Dragon Riders stayed long enough to watch the demolition of the overpass that crumbled as several C4 charges were detonated on the concrete support beams before continuing on
Meanwhile Karlson was leading an attack on a battery of self-propelled Blackwater Anti-Air guns that were attacking incoming APM and US aircraft bringing in supplies and reinforcements
“Keep them suppressed!” Karlson shouted as the APMSF Stormtroopers fired their weapons on fully automatic to suppress the Blackwater soldiers defending the anti-air guns as the Vikings and other Stormtroopers crept up to them
“CHARGE!” Stoick shouted once they were right top of the Blackwater soldiers. The Vikings and APMSF Stormtroopers charged the Blackwater soldiers and caught them by surprise as Karlson’s men followed under the fire support of Tesla’s tanks and mechs, three rail gun-armed Advanced Stormtroopers used their jump jets to soar over the Blackwater soldiers and into the middle of the anti-air position and began to attack and destroy the anti-air guns, several mounted Vikings riding Monstrous Nightmares joined the attack as Viking reinforcements led by Camicazi and Bertha arrived
“*$%# this!” A Blackwater Officer shouted before fleeing the battlefield with his men, other Blackwater soldiers followed after the last anti air gun went up in flames
“That is three batteries down and two more to go.” Karlson said as he used as marker to put a strike on the wrist piece of his armor, above them, the USAS Jefferson City fired a barrage of cruise missiles at another of the Blackwater Anti-Air batteries
“Make that four down and one to go!” Stoick replied as the sound of distance explosions as the cruise missiles struck their targets
“We’ll let somebody else take out that last battery.” Karlson said to Stoick “But for right now, we need to find Reaper, he and the dragon riders missed their drop zone, we know where the dragon riders are, but not Reaper.”
“Does this always happen?” Stoick replied
“Depends on the situation, but this time I think it was accidental.” Karlson said to Stoick
“Do you know that you left your comm channel on?” Reaper asked Karlson over the radio
“Reaper! Where the hell are you?” Karlson replied
“I’m on East Sunset Road near the McCarran International Airport and I have a squad of Army rangers riding on my tank.” Reaper said to Karlson “I’m doing fine by myself and I was actually on my way to the LZ. Where are you guys?”
“Believe it or not, we’re on the other side of McCarran in an empty lot near East Tropicana ave.” Karlson replied “Let’s regroup at the Bali Hai Golf Club on S. Las Vegas blvd.”
“Roger that, I’m in route.” Reaper said to Karlson
Meanwhile in Area 51’s Medical Research Department, APMR&D (American’s People Military Research and Development), Katie and Samantha were receiving the status on Barnes and Wensky, Garter and Chavez were also present
“We have been unable to purge the nanobots from neither the Colonel’s and the Lieutenant’s bloodstreams, they were resistance to everything we launched at them including EMPs.” Doctor Emily Lu said to Samantha and Katie “Whoever designed these nanobots made sure we would not be able to remove them once they were inside the bloodstreams.”
“But what are the nanobots doing to them? Samantha asked the doctor, upset
“We have been exchange multiple theories, so far the most likely one is that they’re being turned into the dragons whose DNA was injected into them in this case, the colonel is turning into a Night Fury and the Lieutenant, a Deadly Nadder.” Lu replied “I’m sorry; we tried everything we could without seriously endangering the lives of both the lieutenant and the colonel. We can just hope that they survive the change and still remember their past lives afterwards.”
“Well if there was no change they would survive the change, I doubt Blackwater and Gene Corp would have injected them in the first place.” Garter said to the doctor “Doctor Wong, I want you to monitor both their progress and each stage of the transformation and send any data to me and Reaper, whenever he comes back from the war.”
“Yes Mr. President.” Wong replied before leaving, Samantha started to cry and Katie tried to comfort her
“Take Sam to her living quarters, I’ll tell Reaper when he arrives.” Garter said to Katie, who nodded, helped Samantha get up from her seat and take her to her assigned quarters, Garter then sat down and buried his face into the palms of his hands “What are the latest reports from the front?”
“Our forces are engaged with Blackwater along most of Arizona’s state borders, Blackwater was also shelled several positions on the border with the CAU, meaning-.” Chavez said to Garter before he interrupted
“Meaning that this war is no longer an internal affair, it’s turned into an international crisis.” Garter replied “Which also means our allies have to get involved as members of the Coalition. I can’t believe we didn’t see this coming!”
“The signs were in front of us and we chose to ignore them.” Chavez said to Garter, who shook his head “Which was due to the ignorance of both our military and political leaders.”
Garter sighed
“Schedule a conference with the Coalition leaders tomorrow.” Garter replied “I want a total mobilization of our armament industries, more funding to be dumped into recruitment and propaganda, I want all Gene Corp products and property outside of Arizona to be seized, I also want the CIA, APMSF, and Military intelligence to start a investigation to find Gene Corp’s hidden allies in and out of the country, and I also authorize the full use of our military arsenal outside of WMDs except our orbital weaponry.”
“Yes Mr. President.” Chavez said to Garter
“Also send a message to Reaper that I want him to report to me after he’s done with Las Vegas.” Garter replied “If we’re going to fight this war I need somebody that the militaries and the public can rally behind.”
Meanwhile in the skies over Area 51, the 502nd and other American aircraft squadrons were still dog fighting with attacking Blackwater aircraft
“Dice 3 you have a bogie on your six!” Carmen shouted to Louis over the radio, who had a Blackwater PAK-FA chasing after him, firing at him with it’s chain gun
“I see him, Dice-4!” Louis replied as he began to maneuver his F-45 to avoid the rounds being fired by the aircraft as Ramirez began to chase after the PAK-FA
“DICE 2, FOX SIX! THIS IS FOR BARNES YOU BLACKWATER $%$#!” Ramirez yelled over the radio as a missile broke off from Ramirez’s F-45 and went after the PAK-FA that exploded into a fireball when the missile hit its engine
A few hours later, back in Las Vegas, The 1st Legion and the Viking Expeditionary Forces (VEF) were advancing towards the Nevada-Arizona State board backed by the recently arrived USAS Cape Girardeau, Jackson, St.Louis, and Sikeston that came with the 5th and 9th Legions, the 3rd Army, and APM Forces under the commander of General Smict.
The attack was spearheaded by the combined armored division from the three legions along with APM and US military armor including several Mammoth ultra-heavy mechs and two divisions of recently activated M-009 Anti Matter (AM) tanks in front of the tanks were remote controlled mine clearing vehicles that cleared the way through minefields for tanks as well as took enemy fire
“Okay guys! We’re going to push Blackwater out of Nevada once for all! I want all units to stay in formation and keep your front armor facing towards the enemy at fall times!” Reaper said to the other tank commanders over the radio “Also make sure Blackwater doesn’t get a clear shot at those AM tanks because we know happens when those things explode!”
“Blackwater is no doubt going to throw almost everything they have at us! So stay frosty, and keep your hands on the trigger and keep firing until you see your barrels glow!” Karlson replied
“I have visual contact with Blackwater forces! We have at least twenty platoons of T-90 and 95 tanks and two platoons of T-100 tanks approaching us! I can also see enemy infantry in the abandoned motel and garage ahead of us!” A USMC Tank commander yelled over the radio “Where the hell did they get all of this firepower?”
“All units engage at will, anything we see beyond this point is to be considered a hostile!” Reaper replied as the tanks began firing their guns as the Blackwater tanks retaliated, nearby a US Army tank exploded after being hit by an ATGTM
“They’re using javelins! All units activate your ECM and APDSs!” Karlson yelled as a Enforcer went up in flames
Several Deadly Nadders and two Monstrous Nightmares flew overhead followed by two APM Gunships
“I hope the Vikings know what they’re doing when they decided join in this battle.” Reaper’s Gunner said to the others
“I’m sure they do, they’ve been fighting these guys longer than we have.” Reaper replied “Just keep firing!”
“INCOMING ARTILLEY!” Karlson yelled over the radio as artillery shells began to explode around the American tanks “Don’t stop or they’ll zero in on you!”
“Smict, we’re taking fire from enemy artillery! Can you do something to silence those guns?” Reaper asked Smict over the radio
“The Airships are on that right now!” Smict replied as the airships began to fire a barrage of plasma and cruise missiles at the enemy artillery
Four A-15s flew overhead as they fired their heavy pulse cannons and rail guns at the Blackwater tanks
“We need to bust those T-100s; they’re tearing the other tanks apart!” Karlson said to Reaper as a Blackwater T-100 tank fired its twin 125mm guns at the incoming APM and US military tanks
“All Megathons concentrate fire on the T-100s!” Reaper replied as the gunner turned the turret to face the nearest T-100 tank and fire one the rail gun, but missed
“*$#$! I missed by two meters!” The gunner yelled as he hit the side of the control console for the FCS
“Try again and be sure not to miss this time!” Reaper replied as he fired the remote operated chain gun at a Blackwater tank crew as they abandoned their disabled tank
The Megathon shook as a SABOT round fired from a T-100 bounced off the front turret armor
“Hell if we take a few more shots like that they will probably penetrate the armor!” The Driver yelled to Reaper
“I know! Take out those damn T-100s!” Reaper replied as the gunner fired at the T-100 again and destroyed it
“T-100 neutralized!” The Gunner yelled as he turned the turret to face the next one
A Deadly Nadder landed on top of one of the T-100s behind it’s turret with a Viking and a APMSF Stormtrooper riding on it, the APMSF Stormtrooper placed a timed sticky bomb on the top of the turret before the Deadly Nadder flew off, the bomb exploded and disabled the turret of the tank before a Crow Gunship finished it off with a ATGM
“Hard to believe we and the Vikings used to be enemies!” Karlson said over the radio as his Megathon took out another T-100
“Times changes and I guess situations change as well!” Reaper replied
“This is taking too long!” A APMSF Megathon commander said over the radio
“I agree!” Reaper replied “Calling in for an Orbital bombardment! This is Paxton Actual to General Smict, request permission to laze target for a Kinetic strike!”
“Paxton Actual, you have green light for orbital strike.” Smict said to Reaper
“Roger that.” Reaper replied as he turned on the laser pointer and painted the abandoned motel as the target as the other tanks stopped, the dragons and the APM and US aircraft retreated
Meanwhile at the Orbital Weapons Control Center in Cape Girardeau
“We have an incoming request for a Rods of God strike from the 1st Legion outside of Las Vegas!” An APM Officer yelled to another
“We have a lock on the laser target!” Another APM Officer replied
“Engage the Kinetic Strike!” The Main APM Officer yelled to the two APM Officer
“KS-56 has been engaged and is homing on target!” A APM Officer replied
Meanwhile in Sub orbit, the weapons satellite KS-56 activated after lying dormant for almost two centuries and locked on to the target that Reaper had painted with the laser designator and released a single rocket propelled tungsten rod, after a few minutes, the motor on the rocket activated and sent the rocket speeding into Earth’s atmosphere, halfway to the surface, the motor fell off and the rod went into free fall as it began to heat up in Earth’s atmosphere.
Back on the ground, Reaper opened the commander hatch and watched as the dragons and attack aircraft retreated to a safe distance, Stoick and Paul landed behind his Megathon tank as the massive rod that now appeared as fire that lit up the night sky as it fell to earth at terminal speed, when the rod hit it’s target, it sent a cloud of dense dust into the sky and a wall of debris and sand going outwards from the impact zone in all directions, Stoick put his hand in front of his face as the wall hit the tanks, it took half a hour for the dust and debris to settle down, Reaper looked around at the other tanks and then at Stoick who climbing up onto the Megathon to face what remained of the Blackwater forces
“This is going to a long bloody struggle.” Stoick said to Reaper
“I agree.” Reaper replied “But eventually all roads will lead to Phoenix.”
Nearby a sign said “Welcome to Arizona!”, while another said “Phoenix 286 Mi. /460 km
“Sir! The President is requesting your presence at Area 51!” The Driver said to Reaper “He has sent a VTOL to pick you up, he wants you to bring the chieftains with you.”
“Okay.” Reaper replied “Anything about Barnes?!”
“They said he’s stable and they have found out what’s wrong with him, but they’ll wait to tell you once you’re their.” The Driver said to Reaper
“Thanks.” Reaper replied “Karlson, I want you to take the men back to Las Vegas and regroup before heading to A51.”
“Ten-Four.” Karlson said to Reaper as a VTOL landed nearby that he, Stoick, and the other Viking Chieftains got onto before flying to Area 51
Meanwhile Samantha was with Katie in the A51 Officer’s lounge watching a news report about the American victory is Las Vegas and the international response to Blackwater and Gene Corp’s aggression
“After news about the victory in Cape Girardeau, the international response to the war was quick; all Blackwater and Gene Corp property outside the United States was seized by Coalition forces with most of their financial assets being frozen. Meanwhile, near the border. The CAU Government has been setting up refugee camps for displaced american civilians fleeing from the war and sending aid to numerous American resistance groups fighting against the Blackwater Occupation.” The News Reporter said as she read her report “On the frontlines, APM and US forces have won several major victories near Las Vegas with the support of several Stormtrooper legions and the newly created Viking Expeditionary Forces or VEF that have defeated Blackwater’s invasion of Nevada. However, this does not mean the war is anywhere close to finished as Blackwater has begun to solidify their positions within the state of Arizona.”
“This is going to be a bitter fight.” Katie said as she turned off the TV with the remote
“I just want to kill MacTavish and Luger for what they’ve done.” Samantha replied
“A lot of people do.” Katie said to Samantha “But that isn’t going to speed up this war, we won’t be able attack until the Shock armies are fully assembled.”
“Then why don’t we use our orbital weaponry and wipe them off the map?” Samantha replied
“From what I’ve heard, Blackwater and Gene Corp have placed their assets in civilian areas and Garter doesn’t want to risk the lives of civilians.” Katie said to Samantha “But until the Shock armies are assembled, this war is going to be defensive.”
A few minutes later on the surface, Reaper and the Viking Chieftains disembarked from the VTOL as clean up crews cleared away debris, A security officer and Redfield greeted Reaper
“Welcome back to Area 51, general.” Redfield said to Reaper
“Where’s Garter?” Reaper replied
“5th Floor Conference room, he’s preparing to brief the Coalition leaders on the situation.” Redfield said to Reaper
“The Coalition?! I thought they could only get involved if it was a international crisis.” Reaper replied
“Blackwater shelled several positions on the CAU side of the border.” Redfield said to Reaper “There also unconfirmed reports of a Blackwater invasion as well coming in.”
“Damn…” Reaper replied “It must suck to be Garter right now. What’s going on with my son?”
“He’s stable and I believe you got the Email I sent to your PDA?” Redfield said to Reaper
“I did and I couldn’t believe it.” Reaper replied
“Couldn’t believe what?” Stoick asked Reaper
“You’ll see later, we need to get to Garter.” Reaper replied as he began making his way towards the entrances to the underground research facilities followed by Viking Chieftains, Redfield, and the Security Officer
“Sorry for the mess general, Blackwater bombed us during their attack on Las Vegas.” The Security Officer said to Reaper “But we are still fully operational and none of the important assets have been damaged.”
“Good.” Reaper replied “I want an increase of perimeter security to make sure Blackwater doesn’t try to send infiltrators to get my son and the Lieutenant.”
“We have already increased perimeter security.” The officer said to Reaper “We have also scrambled the jets to make sure they don’t airdrop any infiltrators as well.”
“Good.” Reaper replied as they got on the elevator that began to go down
Once on the 5th Floor, Reaper, the chieftains, and Redfield left the elevator, while the Security Officer stayed behind, they found Garter and Chavez in the Conference Room trying to make a report to give to the Coalition leaders, they made their way to the table and sat down. Reaper noticed that Luke Twones, the director of the CIA was leaning against the wall with his arms cross, Twones nodded at Reaper and he returned the gesture
“Reaper! Thank god you’re here!” Garter said to Reaper “I need somebody to sort out this %#$%ing mess for me.”
“How bad is this mess?” Reaper replied “I leave the office to you for fifty years and while I was gone you have let the world go to hell.”
“This war caught us all by surprise, general.” Chavez said to Reaper “We didn’t expect that Luger and MacTavish would be willing to start a war to cover their tracks.”
“My apologies then.” Reaper replied “But doesn’t fix the current situation, we need to learn more about MacTavish’s intentions with this “Project Titan” of his’ before we do anything else.”
“I agree.” Stoick said to Garter “We can’t fight this war without knowing what our enemies’ plans are.”
Generals Smict, Conrad, Powell Lars, and Howard Granger entered the room and sat down in the remaining seats. General Smict was Barnes’ grandfather, he had light gray hair and blue eyes with a bushy mustache, Powell was an APMSF General from the 2nd Legion, he was bald and had green eyes with a scar that went across his right eye, Granger was the general in charge of the APMAC, he had black hair and blue eyes
“I agree with Stoick.” Conrad said to the others “But first we need a source for information, the Blackwater commander that Alfa Squad Six captured at Cape Girardeau had no idea what Project Titan even was and neither did the commander at Las Vegas.”
“Our Russian friends in the FSB are putting more effort in the investigation to find Blackwater’s arm dealer, maybe he could provide us some information if apprehended.” Twones replied “We also need to find the contact Blackwater has in our own ranks because they didn’t just happen to know how hit Cape Girardeau and to disable the F-45s during the island campaign.”
“True, only a high ranking member of the APP or APM has access to the F-45’s blueprints and specifications.” Smict said to the others “We also need to find out what to do with Barnes and the Lieutenant after they wake up.”
“I suggest we let Hiccup and his friends train them, and then we set them loose against Blackwater once we’re ready to go on the offensive.” Reaper replied “Dragons have proven themselves to be effective assets in modern warfare.”
“And not to mention Barnes’ and Wensky’s battlefield experiences will give them a advantage.” Smict said to Reaper “It could also give us a counter to whatever MacTavish has planned with the other…”Post Human” Dragons.”
“But then we will need to give them away to communicate with humans.” Stoick replied “That is what I was about to say.” Reaper said under his breath
“We’ll get our scientists and engineers working on that as soon as they wake up.” Garter said to the others “But in the mean time, we need to learn more about Project Titan.”
“I’ll get my men working on the intelligence work.” Twones replied “And Reaper, I have no doubt that we’re going to need the help of the APMSF with this.”
“I’ll give you whatever you need Twones, for old times sake.” Reaper said to Twones
“Sounds like we have our plans all sorted out, we’ll reconvene tomorrow when the Coalition leaders are here.” Garter replied
Part Tweleve: Awakening Edit
Two Months later on the 5th Floor of Area 51, Barnes slowly began to regain consciousness, unaware of what has happened to him. His eye sight was blurry, his ears were ringing, and his body ached all over. He also realized that he felt much heavier than usual.
“Oh god what the hell happened to me and how long was I out?” Barnes asked himself in his mind as he tried to regain focus.
Barnes sat still for several minutes allowing himself to regain his eye sight and his ears stopped ringing, he realized he was lying on the floor of a clean white room with no visible doors or windows
“Where the hell are I and what is this place?” Barnes asked himself “Hello is anybody here?!”
There was no reply as Barnes shook his head
“Dammit.” Barnes said to himself “Maybe if I looked around, I could find a door.”
Barnes used his hands in an attempt to lift himself off the ground, but he could not get his legs to cooperate
“What the $%$# is wrong with my legs?” Barnes asked himself as he looked back and the body of a Night Fury, he then quickly looked away “OH SHI-“
Meanwhile somewhere else in Area 51, Reaper walked into Garter’s Office and found him drinking a bottle of scotch while doing paperwork
“Garter, we might have found a lead. Two Years ago, Blackwater hired a German genetics scientist named Gustav Magnusson and hear this, Twones did a background check and one of his previous employers was the Weapons and Research and Development branch of the Facepunch Military during the Clan Wars.” Reaper said to Garter, who looked up at him after he closed the door
“Finally, some good news worth hearing. Do you know where Gene Corp is keeping him?” Garter replied
“He lives in a condo outside Phoenix, Twones is briefing SEAL Team Six right now.” Reaper said to Garter
“Good, they’ll get the job done right.” Garter replied “Why aren’t we sending a Alfa Squad?”
“Because this mission would be a waste of a Alfa Squad, the condo is only defended by Gene Corp Security Forces.” Reaper said to Garter as he picked up and looked at the bottle of Scotch that Garter was drinking “You know this is over hundred years old right?”
“It is?” Garter replied “Why does it matter, some scientist was keeping it frozen in cryogenics. Feel free to take a drink.”
Reaper put the bottle back on Garter’s desk
“Sorry, I don’t drink alcohol.” Reaper said to Garter “And you shouldn’t be drinking it either during times like this, important people need to get reasonable answers from you.”
“I know.” Garter replied “It’s just that I was never meant to be a wartime president, that’s your job.”
“What do you mean it’s my job? The one serious war I was president during was World War III in the last five months of the war.” Reaper said to Garter
“What about Bodyguard?” Garter asked Reaper
“That was a Coalition affair.” Reaper replied “And don’t mention that %#$# up around me, I should have never let the Coalition leaders talk me into fighting a limited war.”
Garter nodded
“Sorry.” Garter said to Reaper
“So the Coalition leaders have agreed not to send troops?” Reaper asked Garter
“Only if we keep Blackwater contained within Arizona and we end the war before the end of the year.” Garter replied “Good news is that Conrad has said that the 1st Shock Army is about ready for action and Smict has reported that the 2nd Shock Army is not that far behind.”
Reaper’s PDA that was in it’s holder on his belt beeped, Reaper picked it up and looked at it
“Doctor Lu just said Barnes woke up a minute ago and he just found out what happened to him and he’s throwing a fit, she wants me down there to calm him down before he hurts himself.” Reaper said as he got up and quickly put his PDA away
“If you need me, I’ll be in here!” Garter said as Reaper left and closed the door behind him, Garter then looked at the bottle of scotch and sighed; he put the cork back into it and started working on the paperwork on his desk
Meanwhile, Doctor Lu, her assistants, and Hiccup were trying to get Barnes to calm down
“Colonel! You need to settle down before you hurt somebody!” Lu cried to Barnes, who didn’t seem to notice her as he panic, he was sitting up on his hind legs, screeching and crying loudly, and his tail was flailing around, Hiccup ducked to avoid his tail
“If I can get to his neck area I can knock him out!” Hiccup yelled as Barnes continued to panic
“What do you mean?” Lu asked Hiccup
“I don’t know, if you scratch a dragon near its neck, it knocks them out cold!” Hiccup replied, Lu nodded
“Only way you’re going to get close enough to even touch him is if he knock him down first!” One of the Scientists yelled as he ducked to avoid Barnes’ tail “And I don’t know how you’re going to do that!”
Reaper ran into the room with two of his APMSF Stormtrooper bodyguards
“What the hell!” Reaper yelled as he saw Barnes panicking “He’s worst than I thought he was going to be!”
“Should we get a PR sir?” The Stormtrooper asked Reaper
“Yes, but only use it if I say so!” Reaper replied, the Stormtrooper nodded and the left the room
“PR?!” Hiccup asked Reaper
“Pain Ray, its real name is a Handheld Active Denial System, makes the target feel extreme pain, but it causes no major injuries.” Reaper replied “We usually use it against prison riots or in some cases torture!”
Reaper began to yell at Barnes to calm down, but he continued to panic as the Stormtrooper trooper returned with the pain ray
“Set it to low intensity and fire!” Reaper said to the Stormtrooper, who adjusted the power level of the pain ray “Forgive me for this Catherine.”
The Stormtrooper fired the pain ray, Barnes fell down and began flailing against the ground as if having a seizure before the Stormtrooper turned it off, Barnes stopped flailing, but he was breathing hard and moaning
“Wow, are you sure that didn’t hurt him?” Hiccup asked Reaper as Doctor Lu and her assistants approached Barnes and began to check him for injuries
“I hope not, it’s probably the first time we’ve used one of those on dragon.” Reaper replied
“He’s alright, just got a few bruises and cracked scales from the fall, but he’s fine.” Lu said to Reaper “But that doesn’t say much about his mental condition right now.”
Barnes cried weakly, his eyes were narrowed as he looked at the ceiling
“We can suspect a similar response from the Lieutenant when he wakes up.” One of the assistants said to Reaper, who nodded
“We’ll take the proper precautions. Do you know where Sam is?” Reaper asked Hiccup
“No, last time I saw her she was by herself in the mess hall.” Hiccup replied
“See if you can find her and bring her here.” Reaper said to Hiccup
“Okay.” Hiccup replied before leaving as Reaper approached Barnes and kneeled down next to him; Barnes looked at him, his cat-like pupils narrowed when he saw him
“Look at the mess you got into now.” Reaper said under his breath
Barnes whined and closed his eyes before fainting, Reaper looked at Lu
“Don’t worry; he just fainted from the stress.” Lu said to Reaper “But I prefer we keep him in a low-stress environment until he can grow used to the changes for now on.”
Reaper nodded
“Okay, I’ll be putting armed guards at the door to make sure no uninvited guests come in.” Reaper replied
Meanwhile in the firing range of Area 51, Samantha was shooting at practice targets with her 9mm sidearm
“When I get my hands on MacTavish I’m going to put a freaking bullet in the middle of his %$%ing forehead.” Samantha said in her mind as she emptied an entire clip into a target
Hiccup entered the firing range and ran up to Samantha; he tapped on Samantha’s back, who looked back at him
“Barnes just woke up, Reaper told me to find you.” Hiccup said to Samantha, who quickly ran past him after holstering her gun. Hiccup followed her back to the room, where Barnes was lying down on the ground, unconscious, while Reaper was leaning against the wall
“He fainted right after Hiccup left.” Reaper said to them as they came into the room “The doctor said he should be alright, but we’ll have to keep in a low-stress environment until he’s completely used to his body.”
“He’s bigger than I thought he would be.” Samantha said as she looked at Barnes
“He’s about the same size as Toothless.” Hiccup replied “Speaking about size, we may have to move him to a larger room; this one is a bit small for a dragon of his size.”
“This is the biggest room we have available and we can’t move him to the surface until he’s used to his body.” Reaper said to Hiccup
“Can’t you just knock down the walls?” Hiccup replied
“No, there are labs on the other side of that wall, solid rock on the other side of that wall, and then there is Wensky on the other side of that wall.” Reaper said to Hiccup “This will have to do until we can move him to the surface.”
Barnes’ tail twitched as Samantha carefully approached him
“Be careful not to wake him up, you’ll spook him and make us go through the same mess we went through earlier.” Reaper said to Samantha, who looked back at him
“What mess?” Samantha asked Reaper
“He panicked after he saw his tail.” Reaper replied “We had to use a Pain ray to calm him.”
“You shot him with a pain ray!?” Samantha asked Reaper “What kind of father are you?”
“I had no choice; he could have hurt the other people in the room.” Reaper replied “Do you think I wanted to use it on him?”
Samantha looked back down at Barnes
“Can he fly?” Samantha asked Reaper as she looked at his wings that were at full length on the ground
“Don’t know yet.” Reaper replied
Samantha sat down next to Barnes’ head; she carefully lifted Barnes’ head and put it down on her lap
“How much does he weigh?” Samantha asked Reaper “Just with his head on my lap, he feels like I have a dumbbell on my lap.”
“I don’t know.” Reaper replied “But from how much we know about Night Furies by studying Toothless, he’s probably about the same as Toothless. We should probably get out of here and let him get his rest.”
Samantha nodded and carefully put Barnes’ head back on the ground before leaving the room.
Two hours later, Barnes slowly regained consciousness
“That was heck of a dream.” Barnes said in his mind as he got up and then looked at his body and realized he was still a Night Fury, he then laid his head back down “Okay stay calm this time, don’t want to be hit with that damn pain ray again.”
Barnes slowly got up as he tried to remain calm
“At least I know I’m in friendly hands.” Barnes said again in his mind “Or at least I hope they're still friendly.”
Two Doctors came into the room
“You’ve been out for two and a half hours.” One of the Doctors said as they approached Barnes, who whined “Can you walk?”
Barnes slowly began to walk; he stumbled after the first three steps, but continued until he was able to walk normally on all four legs
“That’s good enough for now.” The Doctor said to Barnes as he looked at his PDA as the other wrote on his clipboard “I’m know you’re probably still shaken about what has happened to you, but we need to be sure you can be used to combat despite the changes.”
“Combat??” Barnes said in his mind “Is the situation that bad?”
“Can you please try folding your wings?” The Doctor asked Barnes, who looked back at his wings that were limp on the ground, Barnes struggled to fold them and after three attempts, he successfully folded his wings. “Well you seem to be able to use your new body parts quite well. Well, we’ll leave you alone right now. I suggest you try getting some rest to recover your strength.”
The Doctor and his assistant left, Barnes looked back at his folded wings and tail
“This is going to take a while.” Barnes said in his mind
Meanwhile the Dragon Riders were flying near the USAS Cape Girardeau that was at the Area 51 Airship dock for resupply and minor repairs.
“They’re even bigger up close!” Astrid said as she looked at the massive airship “How do they build these things and where?”
“Reaper said it’s classified on how they build them, but he said they’re built at a facility near here, but he said the exact location was also classified.” Hiccup said to Astrid “I don’t even know what “classified” means, but I’m guessing it means super secret or something like that.”
“If that is what it means, then I guess the Americans don’t want their allies to know how their build own airships.” Fishlegs replied
“Or learn their weak spots.” Snotlout said to Fishlegs, who nodded
“So we’re going to train Barnes and Wensky once they’re ready?” Astrid asked Hiccup
“Yeah.” Hiccup replied, Toothless looked up at him “Right now they’re being kept in the observatory rooms so the Americans can finish their studies; it surprises me how little they actually know about dragons.”
" Well I hope they don’t poison them by accident.” Astrid said to Hiccup as Toothless looked to the skies ahead of them
Meanwhile on the frontlines, Stoick, Gobber, and Spitelout were in a trench with US Army Infantry and APM Shocktroopers during a mild sandstorm. To protect their faces from the storm, the US Army Infantry and the Vikings had clothes wrapped around their faces, baklavas, or gasmasks on. The APM soldiers had their visors of their helmets flipped down to protect their faces.
“I can’t believe people live out here!” Spitelout yelled to Stoick over the roaring winds of the storm “
“We’ll get used to it.” Stoick replied “If the Americans can survive out here, so can we. We also need to be on our toes, because Blackwater can use the sandstorm to cover an advance.”
“Isn’t that why the Americans installed those motion sensor contraptions out there?” Gobber asked Stoick
“But those have proven to be so reliable in the past.” Stoick replied “Like yesterday, when the Americans shelled a herd of jack rabbits that was mistaken for a Blackwater strike force by one those sensors.”
“Oh yeah, can’t believe I forgot about that incident.” Gobber said to Stoick
The Vikings passed by a American reading a electronic newspaper saying “Stalemate in Southwest continues! No end in sight!”
“I just hope we get out of this trench sometime, don’t know how much longer I can stand all this sand.” Spitelout said as they continued on
That Night, Near Phoenix, Arizona, SEAL Team Six prepared to raid the facility where Doctor Magnusson lived
“We have two snipers on the roof with a machine gun nest, four guards on the balconies, and eight guarding the garage. The windows are tinted enough that we can’t see inside, so who knows how many guards are on the inside.” A Sniper that was observing the compound with his spotter said over the radio to the SEAL Team Six Leader
“Roger that, we’ll begin approach as soon as Bravo squad shuts the power off.” The SEAL Team squad Leader replied
“How long will that?” One of the SEALs asked the leader
“As long as it takes soldier.” The SEAL Squad Leader replied
“This is Bravo squad, we’re getting ready to shut off the power, I hope you guys are in position.” The Leader of Bravo Squad said to the Leader over the radio
“Roger that Bravo squad.” The SEAL Squad Leader replied
A minute passed before the power went out in the facility and the surrounding buildings
“Okay, operation is a go! Get in and grab the objective and get out.” The SEAL Squad Leader said to his men as they moved towards the facility, use their suppressed weapons to neutralize the guards that get in their way as the snipers neutralized the guards in the sniper nest. The SEAL Team stopped when they reached the back door, one of the SEALs tried to open the door
“It’s locked!” The SEAL Said to the Squad Leader
“There’s other ways to open a door soldier. Prepare to breach!” The Squad Leader replied as another SEAL placed a breaching charge on the door, the SEAL Team got into position and then set off the charge that sent the door flying into the room, two Navy SEALs threw flashbangs into the building and then SEAL Team Six stormed into the building neutralizing any guards as they searched the building for Magnusson
“Be sure to collect any possible Intel on Project Titan while we’re here.” The SEAL Team Six Squad said to his men as they searched the building
“Alpha squad! We have a visual on the target, he’s trying to flee and he has two armed escorts!” The Sniper said over the radio
“Do whatever you can to slow them down!” The Squad Leader said as he has squad quickly left the building after Magnusson and his escorts that took cover behind a dumpster as the snipers fired upon them, the escorts fired their AKs at the SEALs, who took cover and returned fire “Be sure not to hit the scientist, we need him alive!”
One of the snipers with a Anti-Material rifle fired a armored piercing around that penetrated through the dumpster and hit one of the escorts, then one of the SEALs shot the other guard that had gotten up after the other escort was hit, Magnusson who had a metal briefcase handcuffed to his wrist tried to flee, but one of the Navy SEALs put a round in the back of his leg
“Good shot.” One of the SEALs said to the one that shot Magnusson in the leg as they rushed over to retrieve him
“Command, we have the objective.” The SEAL squad Leader asked Command over the radio
“Good work, proceed to the extraction point.” The Officer on the other side replied
The SEAL Team quickly exfiltrated the facility with Magnusson
An hour later, MacTavish was receiving the news about Magnusson’s capture from the Head of Gene Corp Security
“Who the $$%# was in charge of security there?” MacTavish yelled at Head of Gene Corp Security Forces
“It was SEAL Team Six sir, no matter who was in control of security would not have been able to protect Magnusson.” The Head replied
MacTavish slumped down in his chair and rubbed his temples
“With Magnusson in their filthy hands, the APM can learn everything about Project Titan!” MacTavish said to Luger who was also in the room “He also knew who our arm dealers were! This is going to hurt us really bad if Magnusson breaks and not to mention all the information they’re going to get from his briefcase.”
“Maybe we could call our conta-“Luger said before MacTavish interrupted
“He can’t, with the war in full motion, politicians can’t get involved in military operations and planning as according to APP policies, the APMSF won’t let him get close to Magnusson.” MacTavish replied “That includes interrogations. I want our scientists to have far more protection than Magnusson did so that this will never happen again!”
Meanwhile in Area 51, Reaper and Twones were interrogating Magnusson
“We can do this two ways doctor, the easy way or the hard way.” Reaper said to Magnusson “It’s your choice.”
Magnusson looked at Twones that leaning against the wall with his arm crossed next to a collection of interrogation tools
“All the information you need about titan is in my briefcase.” Magnusson replied
“We know that, but we want to see if you know anything else that could help us!” Reaper said to Magnusson
Magnusson sighed
“Okay, I do know a few of the arm dealers that Blackwater has been using to get their weapons including their most important one, he’s a Russian general named Vladimir Medvedev stationed in a minor base in the northern Urals.” Magnusson replied “One of the subjects that Blackwater captured for Titan was a close relative of his’, MacTavish promised to return him if he sold Blackwater weapons at a cheap price.”
“But something tells me that his relative isn’t human anymore isn’t he?” Twones said to Magnusson
“I see you Americans know what’ve been doing now, no doubt from the subjects that Blackwater failed to deliver.” Magnusson replied, Reaper’s left eye twitched when he said subjects “But yes, the relative is the general’s nephew, Pentrov Medvedev. The general raised him after his father died in a plane crash; Pentrov was one of the best pilots in the Russian Air force comparable to your Major Barnes, which is why we choose him for Project Titan. We would have turned him into a Night Fury, but unfortunately Blackwater hadn’t got their hands on the DNA sample we needed at the time, so we turned him into that one two headed species.”
“A Zippleback?” Twones asked Magnusson, who nodded
“Yes that one.” Magnusson replied “The process for that species is the most stomach wrenching to watch out of the other species.”
“Do you know what MacTavish’s future plans are for Project Titan?” Reaper asked Magnusson, who shook his head
“No, he wouldn’t tell us his entire plan. I didn’t even know he was planning to start a damn war.” Magnusson replied “I doubt even Luger knows what MacTavish is planning half of the time.”
“Can you write us down a list of the weapon dealers that is supplying Blackwater?” Reaper asked Magnusson as he slid a notepad towards him with a pencil; Magnusson picked up the pencil and began to write a list down, Reaper looked at Twones, who smiled, Reaper then turned his attention back to Magnusson “When we were looking through your briefcase, we couldn’t find anything about how you guys were controlling the people you kidnapped after you turned them into dragons, can you gives us some insight.”
Magnusson looked up at Reaper
“They put some kind of mechanical collar around their necks that allowed them to control them somehow, I don’t know, I wasn’t the one that developed them and I don’t know who did.” Magnusson replied
“Can you describe these collars?” Twones asked Magnusson
“I never paid any real attention to the collars, but MacTavish griped that they cost alot of money to produce and they seemed to put the subjects in extreme agony.” Magnusson replied “I think the collars maybe tapping into their spinal cords and controlling the electr-“
“That’s all we need to know.” Reaper said as he picked up the notepad with the list of the arms dealers on it and the pencil “The guards will be here momentarily to take you to your cell.”
Reaper and Twones left the room and closed the door behind them
“He defiantly wasn’t lying.” Twones said to Reaper as the stopped and looked at Magnusson through the window
“I want you go through our databases to see if you can find anything that matched the collars he was talking about.” Reaper said to Twones “Me, Karlson, and our men will take care of the arms dealers.”
“What about Magnusson?” Twones asked Reaper
“We’ll deal with him after the war; he maybe of use later.” Reaper replied “I also want you to do a background check of the other Gene Corp Scientists that we know are involved in Project Titan and the other pilots they kidnapped.”
“I’ll get on it.” Twones said to Reaper
“Good. We’ll leave this Medvedev guy alone for now, we’ll use him to test Barnes and Wensky once they’re ready.” Reaper replied “And maybe one of these arm dealers will give us information on the traitor in our ranks.”
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