It's time for the mission you've been waiting for.

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The screen begins with the YMC emblem as usual. It shifts to the overhead view of the Sargonian continent from the satellite, tracking down Lin's current position.

The following inscriptions appear.

Tracking...

Sgt. Lin Yuhsia
1st Force Recon

Sargonian Southwest Region
Day 3  - 18:00:02

The screen then shifts to the Chinook helicopter, the one that Lin board in, taking off out of the previous city. The screen changes to an overhead view of the chinook.

"Marines, we have a possible fix on Drudge Tulla in the capital city. 1st Battalion is en route." Lee responded as Lin's Chinook was accompanied with four other chinooks as they all head towards the city that are miles away.

The screen then shifts into the middle of the capital city as the satellite is tracking Drudge Tulla's palace. "Intel gathered by Rhodes Island indicates that Tulla may have an Ursusian warhead. Speed is critical. NEST teams have been deployed to the area." Lee informed.

"NEST teams? Wonder what that means?" Noir Corne wondered.

"Well it had to do something with this 'Ursusian Warhead'." Yato said.

The screen then looks over to the capital city as dozens of Yanese fast aircrafts flew across the city. The audience were awed seeing all of those aircrafts flying all over the city like hornets.

"Those are a lot of MIGs." Amiya said, astonished.

"They really are going all out." Doctor replied.

"Force Recon and Wild Weasel units have taken out most of the air defenses but Tulla's ground forces still pose a serious threat." Lee finished as the camera changed through different areas of the city with the Yanese jets flying across it. 

The satellite also scans the buildings that reads out the ministries of communication and defense, knowing that they are also obstacles of the assault.

The satellite even shows a battalion of Type 99 tanks on the ground heading towards the city. While the satellite was showing all of Yanese's firepower, Swire spoke up. "Looks like we're rollin' in with everything we got. We get Drudge Tulla, we end this war, right here, right now. 

"Lock and load, Marines!" She declared as the camera focus back on the five Chinooks, the camera closing in to the one that Lin and her squad boarded.

"Okay, Drudge and his army will not stand a chance at all." Blaze declared after seeing the onslaught of Yanese jets and tanks heading towards the capital city.

"Yeah, i mean did you see all of those aircrafts?!" Franka exclaimed. "It's enough to level a whole city!"

"And they even took out almost all of the air defenses which leaves Drudge's ground forces to defend the city." Liskarm pointed out.

"Not a chance they would." Sesa said. "Those group of Yanese tanks just now would demolish those forces." 

"The true power of Yan is now at his doorsteps." Swire smiled proudly, while amazed seeing all the vehicles attacking the city.

"I wonder how many Yanese troops are attacking the city?" Hoshiguma asked.

"With all of those aircrafts and vehicles, along with city being pretty large, I say there would be about... 30,000." Ch'en claimed.

"Makes sense." The LGD oni acknowledged.

"30,000?" Amiya said, surprised from the amount. "Sure is a lot of troops."

"Which is enough for this operation." Kal'tsit stated. 

Knowing this, Amiya knew there would be deaths from both side. Hopefully this mass assault will do well to the Yanese.

The screen then zooms in to Lin's perspective. She is currently looking through one of the windows of the Chinook with a turret launcher. Looking outside, she saw the four Chinooks that were with her along with several more choppers. 

They were the CAIC Z-10, the attack helicopters for the Yanese military. Much like the Z-19s, they are pretty ruthless and dangerous. The group of choppers are flying across some kind of Oil factory that once occupied by the enemy.

Looking past the helicopters, Lin could see various Yanese fast aircrafts making a bombing run to the city's landscape. The ones she had noticed were the Shenyang J-11s, one of Yanese's advanced fighter jets, purpose for air superiority.

Accompanied with the Shenyangs were the Xian JH-7. A fighter jet that is also a bomber. As in the name, their purpose is to drop their bombs on the enemy forces, attacking them in surprise while dismantling them.

"Holy moly..." Kroos said in awe by all of those fighter jets.

"Look at all of those MIGs..." Bagpipe replied.

"Yeah, no way Drudge is surviving this onslaught." Franka said.

"Like how is he gonna do it anyway?" Chard asked, doubting of Drudge taking down all of those aircrafts.

"You know, they are putting us to shame in terms of aircraft." Doctor said.

"Yeah, we don't seem to have the air superiority anymore." Closure uttered.

"Oh, I can tell there's gonna be a lot of explosions involved." W smiled gleefully.

"In formation. Approaching objective. 30 seconds." Outlaw-two-five announced. 

A familiar female voice from one of the Z-10s spoke up. "Outlaw, this is Deadly. We'll take out the big targets, mop up any troublemakers with the Mark 19."

Obliging, Lin then loads up the Mark 19 launcher by putting the belt of grenades on the gun before closing the lid and cocking it.

"Interesting weapon..." W observed with great interest.

"Looks like it would come in handy." Vulcan said.

"By the way did anyone catch that voice from one of the pilots of that attack helicopter?" Swire asked.

Doctor thought for a moment before they realize who it was. "Oh, i think it was FEater." 

"Is that the Ursus girl with those big gauntlets?" Folinic queried.

Doctor give her a nod of approval. 

"I think I met her in a few occasions, mostly in bars." Hoshiguma said.

"Let's see how she's gonna perform in that gunship." Closure remarked.

After readying the Mark 19, Lin could see the battalion of Type 99 tanks on the ground, heading to the city just like her. 

The Yanese forces are getting closer to the city as Lin could see the road and to the overpass. 

Lee spoke up. "All callsigns, this is Overlord. We're seeing enemy armor on the bottom grove west of the river." 

Lin then saw two T-72s tanks by the bridge, but she didn't have to take them down as the Z-10s did all the work. She then saw three Harbin Z-19s flying above the bridge whilst firing their missiles to the OpFors below.

As soon as Lin's Chinook made it across the bridge, they were immediately fired upon by the OpFors below, mostly from the BMPs.

"Taking fire." Outlaw-two-five said, which prompted Lin to turn her Mark 19 turret towards the enemies.

When she fires the turret, it unleashes 40mm grenades that could take down any light armor and infantries in an Area of Effect. Lin did just that.

The Pink-haired Zalak manage to take down two of the BMPs that were firing at the Chinook along with several OpFors by the ground. The rest were dealt with by the other Chinooks and Z-10s that split up across the city.

"I like that thing." W said about the Mark 19.

"You always love something that explodes..." Doctor muttered, which was heard by Kal'tsit as she nodded in agreement.

"I'm glad the weapon means that the helicopter could protect itself." Hoshiguma said.

"Well, only from one side by the looks of it." Swire argued.

Outlaw-two-five is now making it's way towards the street. In one of the roofs, Lin saw an Anti air gun nest, possibly a ZPU. Said ZPU begin to fire at the Chinook, but Lin quickly took care of that with a few shots.

"RPGs on the rooftops." Outlaw-two-five called out as Lin could see a few RPG troopers from the next roof of the destroyed ZPU. With just five shots, Lin killed them all.

As Lin kept firing to the OpFors, the audience could hear the Shenyang J-11s making a fly by across the city, letting out their ear-piercing engines like always.

"I do wish those jets can be a little quieter..." Amiya said after covering her ears.

"I agree." Kroos replied.

"Me too..." Popukar let out a grumble when she had to cover her ears again after hearing the loud sound of the Jet engines.

Spot took notice of this. "Since there's gonna be loads of loud sounds in this whole mission, do you want me to cover your ears for you?"

The one-eyed Cautus nodded excessively. "Uh-huh."

Spot did what she offered and covered her cautus ears along with her human ones (He still wonders why Cautus' have four ears, same goes for most of the other ancient races of Terra). Popukar relaxed and let out a sweet smile.

Spot couldn't help but let out a small smile on his own, but it dropped when he glanced to Midnight and Catapult smirking and chuckling at him.

"My-my, dear Spot. I haven't seen you caring for your teammates like that. Especially to young Popukar." Midnight teased.

"You might as well be her big bro." Catapult laughed.

Spot's face turned to his usual glare. "Shut up."

Lin's Chinook was making it's way to the courtyard in the middle of the town as more gunfire came out from the AA guns and the BMPs. There was also a statue, which was untouched.

"Light armor, take it out, Yuhsia!" Outlaw-two-five ordered.

She did just that and took out the BMPs along with the AA gun. "More ground infantry, watch it." Outlaw-two-five called out, seeing dozens of infantrymen by the courtyard. 

Lin took out most of them as a nearby Z-10 is also dealing with the enemies, said Z-10 belongs to FEater.

"Anti-air battery, rooftop. Hostiles with RPGs." Outlaw-two-five informed of the nearby building, which its roof was occupied by a ZPU and atleast three RPG troopers.

One of them fired at the chopper, but fortunately it missed. Lin responded by annihilating the AA crew with ease.

"We've got RPGs on the rooftops." 

Lin turned to the next building and saw several more RPG troopers. Firing the Mark 19 frequently to the roof, the RPG team were all killed. 

The helicopter then reached a small gas station where an oil truck was parked. Right beside it was another BMP, firing at the Chinook.

Lin decide to shoot the oil truck. When she did, it created a large explosion that cause a chain reaction to the BMP, blowing it up aswell.

"That was some explosion." Sesa remarked.

"How did it explode?" Adnachiel asked on how the BMP blew up when Lin wasn't firing at it.

"Chain reaction from the oil truck it seems like." Liskarm responded.

The helicopter then makes a 180 turn as Lin could now see the other side. Granted, there were dozens of enemies that are firing at her, including two BMPs that appeared from the road.

Lin quickly took care of them as she shifted to the infantry. She took out a few of them from the nearest building. When she was about to take care of the others, another Z-10 took care of them, firing its rockets to the roof.

Lin focused back on ground and take care of any stragglers that tried to retreat. She then saw about a dozen of them coming out of an unfinished building in a construction site. 

As she was about to kill them, FEater swooped in and annihilated every one of them with her rockets, leaving their dead bodies on the road. 

"She stole her kills." Swire snickered.

"You gotta share, man." Beehunter said.

"I am very impressed by that." Sesa smiled

"Command this is Outlaw Two-Five. Infantry is making a run for it. We are clear to land." Outlaw-two-five informed as they are slowly descending to the ground.

"Uh...Roger that. Ok. Bachelor Two-Seven, let's get those Type 99s to the front." Lee said.

The Chinook made another turn as it was descending to the side of the main road. While doing that, Lin was under fire by another BMP by the courtyard. It was quickly dealt with by one of the Z-10s with a direct hit from their rocket, destroying it to pieces.

"They did not even stood a chance." Melantha said.

"Yeah, and trying to shoot it down raised the chance of you getting targeted." Steward replied.

"I'm surprised none of them thought of shooting the pilot." Rangers remarked.

"I think they tried doing that, gramps. But maybe the window is just resistant." Noir corne claimed. 

Outlaw-two-five then landed to the side of the road as Lin then could see two more of the Chinooks landing on the courtyard. 

Lee spoke up again. "Outlaw, this is command, unload half your chalk and take the rest 2 klicks to the west. We need you to evac an advance team pinned down in the city." After he said that, Lin hears the ramp of the chopper open up.

"Down the ramp! Move out! Go, go, go!" A male voice spoke up in the chopper as Lin could then see a Type 99 tank crushing down a broken down car until it was flat.

"That's gonna leave a mark." Vulcan said.

"I feel bad for whoever owned that nice car." Blaze replied.

"Roger that command. Outlaw Two-Five is en route." Outlaw replied to Lee's response as he waits for half of the soldiers to come out. 

Lin then saw the five marines from before heading towards the courtyard with a few more marines from the two other Chinooks. Another Type 99 tank was seen going along of the main road.

After unloading half of the troops, Outlaw begin to take off. As he did, Lin could see gunfire coming out of the buildings and are firing at the marines. One of them took out an AT4 rocket and fired at the building, but it did minimal damage. 

Seeing this, Lin fired a few shots to the building, assisting the marines as they proceed to the courtyard.

"Marines! Listen up! One of our forward recon teams has gotten pinned down and needs out help!" Swire declared.

"Guess this means their job isn't over yet." Dobermann stated.

"Saving the men comes first." Bagpipe said.

"Are we still gonna kill Drudge, though?" Swire asked.

"Probably not." Ch'en answered, earning a grumble from the tiger. 

"There is still a chance though." Hoshiguma remarked. "I still wish i was here too in the action."

"Ah, who knows. Maybe it would end up saving your life." Closure said.

Swire immediately turned to the Sarkaz. "Are you saying that I am gonna die in this mission?" She scowled.

"Well, no! Not really....maybe." Closure nervously smiled while rubbing the back of her neck as Swire kept glaring at her before turning back to the screen.

Outlaw then fly out of the courtyard and headed westward. Just then FEater spoke up. "Outlaw, this is Deadly. Returning to base to refit and refuel. You're on your own for now, 2-5."

Lin could then see her chopper flying out of the city and out of her view. 

The helicopter then flies further into the city and went above a small hill. Lin then saw three Xian JH-7s making another bombing run to the city. 

W let out a ecstatic chuckle seeing those jets in action.

"Advance team is pinned down in a hot area. They are popping green smoke to indicate their position." Lee informed.

"A good idea." Liskarm said.

Franka nodded in agreement. "It would lower the chance of friendly fire by those bombers we saw."

As Outlaw is making their way to the next section of the city, Lin could see a cloud of green smoke by a construction area, indicating that those are where the advanced teams are located.

"Roger we have a visual. Outlaw Two-Five out." Outlaw replied as he is heading over to the designated LZ. While doing that, Lin took care of any stragglers that tried to shoot down the helicopter.

She saw a few more that were beside an oil truck gas. Knowing what had happened to the BMP, she fired at the truck which caused a large explosion and killed any OpFors that were beside it.

Outlaw finally landed the chopper as Lin got out of the turret and equipped her T91 rifle with the same attachments from last time. 

"Watch for friendlies near the colored smoke. Let's get our guys evac'ed and get the hell out of here!" Swire asserted as she got off the Chinook with Roycewicz, Lopez, and Gaines.

Lin comes out last, but before she got out, she glanced at the man that was ordering them to get out. He was the crew chief of the Chinook, goes by the name of 'Volker' - a beige furred anthro feline that is also wearing shades.

"He looks like a professional." Chard commented.

"And he has some sweet shades." Dylan said.

As Lin got out of the Chinook, Mortar fire erupted near the helicopter.

"Mortar fire, incoming!" Volker shouted.

Hearing what he said, Outlaw responded. "LZ is too hot. We'll circle back in 3 minutes."

Swire nodded as she gestured to Lin and the rest to move up. Roycewicz took point as he was the one with the machine gun, with Lin following him.

When they went into the street, they saw a lot of OpFors  waiting for them. Quickly, they dive to cover and open fire. 

"Sure is a lot of enemies." Fang said.

"They can take care of them." Lava replied.

"I'm still surprised that these guys still want to fight even though they are outnumbered and outgunned." Greythroat remarked.

"Well, if you're going down, atleast go down fighting." Sesa replied.

Lin manage to kill about two OpFors by the main street as the rest of them fired back at her. More hostiles kept appearing to the main street. 

She turn around as Swire and Gaines went left to flank the hostiles while Lopez stayed at the street.

Lin decide to use her M203 launcher and fire a round, killing about one OpFor, which felt like a waste.

Switching back to rifle mode, she decide to join in with Swire and Gaines as she went left. There they saw the two of them taking cover by each sides of a broken wall. 

There were about three enemies infront of them. Crouching down to avoid the gunfire, Lin then threw out a flashbang. When it exploded, she stood back up and fired.

Two of them were killed by her as the last one was taken care of by Swire. She, Swire and Gaines then vaulted to the wall and head towards the building. Lin took a glance to the main street and saw that Lopez and Roycewicz had dealt with the enemies and are advancing.

"Watch for friendlies near the green smoke on the second floor! Let's get our guys outta there! Move!" Swire urged as the squad move closer to the building with the green smoke. 

"I wonder how long those marines had been holding out?" Beehunter asked.

"No longer than a few minutes, probably." Hellagur responded.

The squad turn left as they saw two OpFors going to the entrance of the building. Lin quickly took out one of them as his friend turn to the marines and try to fire his G3 at them, but was quickly put down by Swire.

Lin then stack up to the door. Knowing that she would get in a close quarter fight, she switched her T91 to her M1911 as she proceed. 

When she move forward to the next area, an OpFor appeared infront of her and tried to hit her with his rifle. But Lin was quick enough as she fired her pistol until it was out of ammo. 

Since she saw more enemies by the next room, she retreated and take cover by the room to the left as she reloaded. 

"She should've kept using the rifle." Swire said while shaking her head from that near-death experience.

Lin then switch back to the rifle as she proceed from the room she was in. Gunfire was heard, indicating that Swire and the rest were engaging with the hostiles by the room.

Seeing that her side of the room was clear, Lin decides to flank the hostiles. Going to the room where there is a set of stairs, Lin threw another flashbang to the room full of hostiles.

When it exploded, she rushed in and hip fire her T91 which killed three of the enemies. 

"That is more like it." Swire smiled.

"She wasted all of those ammo though." Dobermann pointed out. 

"Eh, pretty sure she still has more ammo to spare." Blaze said.

Lin regroup with the rest of the marines as they heard a voice from the radio. "Hold your fire! Hold your fire! Friendlies up on the second floor! I repeat, we're up on the second floor!"

Indicating that those were the recon team, Lin and the rest move up to the stairs, with the Zalak taking point. 

After going upstairs, Lin was met with a marine aiming his gun to the stairs incase of any incoming hostiles. But since Lin was an ally to him, he lowered his gun and allowed them to enter.

Lin saw four more marines by the holes in the wall, firing at the OpFor hostiles from the other side.

"Put some fire on that balcony!" Another marine shouted, which seems to be the leader of the team. She appears to be a fair-skinned Lupo with grey hair - much like Lopez.

The third member of her team obliged her order as he took out his AT4 and fire at the balcony by the building from the other side. 

 After that, the Lupo captain turn to Lin and the squad as she head over to Swire and asked. "So you're our ride out of here?"

Swire nodded. "We're it, Captain. Let's move out before they regroup."

The rest of the marines then move up to the holes in the wall as they assisted the recon team from the incoming hostiles. Suddenly two enemy Helis arrived and started dropping off more soldiers.

"That doesn't look good." Bagpipe said.

"They still have the resources to hold back, huh?" Noir Corne remarked.

Suddenly, one of the helis was shot down as FEater's Z-10 appeared, indicating that she shot it down. 

"Outlaw this is Deadly. Refueled and fully loaded. You guys miss me?" FEater said.

"Hell yeah!" Lopez replied. Some of the audience also smiled seeing that FEater is there for their support.

"About time she showed up." Ch'en said.

"Good thing too. With her around, she could give the marines an easier time against the OpFors." Amiya noted.

"It's a shame she didn't stop the second heli though." Doctor pointed out.

Lin then took aim by the windows of the nearest building, taking down the hostiles that peeked. She then used another M203 grenade to take down a group of hostiles by a container.

Swire then shouted. "Move out! Let's go! Let's go!" Obliging, Lin and the rest of the marines drop down from the building and to the field. 

Lin took cover behind a container and threw a frag grenade to the OpFors by the other side. After it exploded, whilst hearing the death screams of the OpFors, Lin went to the right side towards the door of the building.

A few more enemies were coming out as Lin had to hip fire them, killing the ones by the door. When her T91 was out, she quickly switched to her M1911. 

At the same time, another OpFor rushed out of the building infront of Lin. The Zalak put a few bullets before he even get to fire. 

She stopped by the wall to reload both of her weapons and pull her T91 out again. She then saw one of the marines from the recon team heading over to the building.

Suddenly, she was shot on the spot. 

"Crap, they lost a man." Catapult said.

"Hope they can all make it..." Popukar replied, ears still being covered by Spot incase any of the fast aircrafts arrive.

"The main character and her squad would." Spot remarked.

Peeking in to the room, Lin saw an OpFor by the stairs, which she then quickly took him down. Knowing there are hostiles by the second floor, she proceed upstairs.

She then went over to the next room as she saw about three OpFors firing at the marines from the windows, unaware of her presence. Lin decide to use her M203 grenade launcher, killing all of them in one shot.

Lin then rushed out of the building, joining up with the rest of the marines.

"Get to the LZ! Let's move! Go! Go!" Swire urged. As they head over to the LZ, two more OpFors tried to ambush them, but they were quickly dealt with by the Lupo Captain and Swire.

When the squad reached the LZ, they saw Outlaw two-five landing at the spot with Volker waiting by the ramp. 

"Yuhsia, get back on the Mark 19!" He ordered since she was the first to reach the helicopter. Obliging, Lin went inside and manned the turret whilst Swire and the other marines boarded the Chinook.

"That was a job well done." Folinic said.

"They lost one of their men though." Closure pointed out. 

"Why didn't they bring the body?" Kroos asked.

"There would be no time since they are in the middle of a war." Dobermann stated. "But it's alright, when this battle is over, they can just retrieve it and bring it back home."

After all the marines board up the helicopter, Outlaw begin to take off - with FEater joining by his side. 

"Outlaw, be advised, we have a situation here, over." Lee spoke up.

"Go ahead Command, over." Outlaw said.

"Sea Dragon Commandos has located a possible nuclear device at Tulla's palace to the west. NEST teams are on the way. Until the device is verified safe, all forces are to fall back to the east, over." He informed.

"Nuclear device? That doesn't sound good." Amiya said.

"And by the tone of Lee's voice, he seemed serious about it." Kal'tsit replied.

"What would a single nuclear device could do to them?" Closure asked.

"I don't know...but i'm worried." Doctor said.

As the two helicopters were about to go eastwards, a stray rocket appeared and hit FEater's chopper by the tail rotor. 

The Z-10 begin to lose control as FEater called out. "We're hit we're hit! I've lost the tail rotor!"

"Oh no!" Popukar exclaimed, her loud shot surprised some of the audience since she had been a bit quiet in this entire session.

"That was a good shot though, I have to admit." Sesa said.

FEater's Z-10 begin to lower down, which ended up worse to her and the marines when the Z-10 crashed into one of the roofs, causing the main body to explode.

The Z-10 begins to spin around aimlessly as FEater tried to control it. "Mayday mayday, this is Deadly, going in hard! We're going down."

The CAIC Z-10 finally crashed to the ground near a set of buildings. 

"We have a Z-10 down. I repeat, we have a Z-10 down." Outlaw reported as it begin to circle around the crash. "Deadly this is Outlaw Two-Five, come in, over!"

"Is she dead?" Kroos asked, concerned.

"I mean, no one could survive a crash like that, right?" Catapult said.

"Well there is a chance of survival." Dylan stated. 

Meanwhile some of the other ops focused on the name of the helicopter that outlaw just mentioned. 

"Z-10, eh? Odd name for a helicopter." Closure commented.

"Wonder what it means?" Hellagur asked.

"I don't know, but i don't like it. We should probably refer it to something else." Blaze said.

"Like what?" Amiya queried.

"Like...'Fierce Thunderbolt'." 

"Hmm, good name." Doctor said, earning a smile from the feline.

"Weird for a military vehicle though." Dobermann remarked. The lungmenites nodded in agreement.

When Outlaw was circling the crash, Lin could see gunfire coming out of the cockpit, which implies that FEater had survived.

"Looks like she did survive." Vulcan stated, earning a sigh of relief from the squinting Cautus.

"Though she is definitely injured from the crash." Folinic said. 

"Command, I have a visual on the crash site. I see small arms fire coming from the cockpit. Request permission to initiate search and rescue, over." Outlaw said.

While waiting for a response, Lin fired at the incoming hostiles that are heading towards the Crash site. 

"Copy 2-5, be advised, you will NOT be at a safe distance in the event that nuke goes off. Do you understand?" Lee questioned.

"Okay, now I'm very worried about this 'Nuke' they are talking about..." Amiya said.

"You and I both." Doctor replied.

"So I assume this Nuke is some sort of explosion?" Ch'en spoke up.

"It seems so. Lee did say the nuke would 'go off'." Dobermann said.

"Explosion, eh?" W said, with a slight smile. "Well i want to see the destruction of that."

"Not a good idea since it would put danger to the main characters." Adnachiel remarked.

"Ah, c'mon. They can get out of there in time." W replied, spreading her arms out. 

"Roger that. We know what we're getting into." Outlaw asserted.

"All right 2-5, it's your call. Retrieve that pilot if you can. Out." Lee responded.

As Outlaw was about to land into the town, he called out to FEater. "Deadly, do you copy? What's your status, over?" He asked.

"I'm here!" FEater replied, albeit coughing from the smoke of the crash whilst gunfire was heard. "Keating is KIA! Hostiles moving in fast! I sure could use some help down here!"

"I'm guessing Keating was her co-pilot?" Chard asked.

"Sure was." Dylan confirmed.

"Hold on. We're coming to ya." Outlaw declared as he is landing the Chinook to the landing zone. While doing that, Lin could spot several more enemy soldiers along with a few T-72 tanks coming to their position.

"Crap, that doesn't look good. They gotta move up fast." Bagpipe said.

"And hope they reached the east side on time before that nuke goes off." Amiya added.

After the Chinook landed, Lin got off of the turret and equip her T91 rifle. She saw Swire and the other eight marines rushed out of the helicopter, determined to rescue FEater. 

Lin soon joined in as she got out of the helicopter. Up front, she could see of what remains of the Z-10 helicopter along with FEater seen on the cockpit firing her gun.

"Be advised, 2-5, hostiles advancing parallel southwest of your position towards the crash site." Lee informed about the soldiers and the tanks that Lin saw before.

"We got 90 seconds, Yuhsia! Get the pilot! NO ONE gets left behind!" Swire declared, getting some smiles and nods of agreement from the audience.

With that, Lin rushed in to the crash site, with Roycewicz, Lopez, and the Captain accompanying her. 

As Lin headed towards the crash site, a few OpFors appeared beside her, also going to the crash site. Not noticing her presence, Lin quickly took them out. 

More OpFors appeared up front, but they were dealt with by Roycewicz and Lopez. 

"Man, they really want her dead." Barty said.

"It doesn't excuse why send a bunch of soldiers and two tanks to take out a pilot." Rangers remarked.

"Well we know that most of these guys are nothin' but maniacs." Noir Corne replied.

"Still, they're wasting men." Yato commented.

Lin continue to move up with the Captain beside her, the latter was then ambushed by an OpFor, but she overpowered him by slamming him to the ground and shoot him dead.

Lin finally made it to the crashed helicopter as she sees an injured FEater firing her Type 77A1 at the hostiles while Keating lay dead behind her.

Swire then shouted. "Yuhsia! Pull her out of there and get back to the LZ! Do it!" Lin did just that as she went over to the cockpit. FEater stopped firing her weapon as she lets Lin to pull her out and carry her by her back.

"Get to the Chinook! We'll hold down these corners. Go!" Swire said as Lin begin to carry the injured Ursine pilot to the LZ with no struggle whatsoever.

"I'm surprised of how strong she is." Swire commented.

"Well after what happened in Dossoles, I am not surprised." Ch'en said.

Lin continue to carry FEater to the Chinook as the rest of the marines fall back aswell.

"Lt. Schwire, this is Outlaw Two-Five. Now would be a good time to get the hell outta here, over." Outlaw said.

"Roger that. We're on our way!" Swire replied.

"Keep moving!" The Captain said before firing back at the hostiles behind. 

Lin kept getting shot from behind, but she is still standing and carrying FEater to the Chinook. Swire and the rest tried their best to cover her. She then saw one of the recon marines got shot to the head.

"We got a man down!" Gaines exclaimed.

Unfortunately, they don't have time to get the body as they all have to fall back. The Captain and her squad went to the Chinook first with Lin catching up.

Passing by Volker, whom is giving them cover fire with his T75 pistol, Lin set FEater down. The Ursine gave her a smile as a thank you before focusing on firing at the hostiles with her Type 77A1 SMG. 

Lee then spoke up. "Outlaw this is command. We have a probable nuclear threat at the capital. Proceed to the minimum safe distance until the all clear has been given by the NEST team.

"Go! Go!" Swire shouted.

"Well, now i feel a bit worried of this nuclear threat." Kal'tsit said.

"But what harm would it do?" Closure asked.

Lin took out her T91 rifle as she fired at the hostiles up front. Swire, Lopez, Gaines, and Roycewicz were still outside, but knowing that all the others were in the chopper, they start to board up one by one.

Lopez and Gaines were the first to go in. Swire followed suit, but not before patting Roycewicz shoulder, in which he then went in the chopper aswell.

Lin and Volker kept firing at the group of enemies since there were a lot of them. The former decides to use her M203s, which she manage to kill about a dozen of them.

"Ladies and gentlemen this is your Captain speaking. We're in for some chop!" Outlaw announced. "Hang on! Jake gimme max power." 

The Chinook then begin to take off. The OpFors tried to shoot it down, but to no avail as the aircraft left the area.

Amiya sighed in relief. "They made it."

"All they need to do is get to the east side before the 'Nuke' goes off." Kal'tsit said.

"Speaking of which, the way it was mention it feels like it is a pretty big deal." Closure pointed out.

"And they sounded a bit paranoid too. Okay, now I'm pretty worried of this Nuke." Ch'en said.

"Yeah, me too..." Hoshiguma replied.

Swire is also worried that her character and Lin was in the city with this Nuclear Warhead. Even the mention of it's name sounded dangerous.

"Oh no need to worry. I mean what kind of damage would it do?" Swire interjected, trying to lighten the mood. Besides, she is one of the main characters, and like Spot had said before, they would survive.

The Chinook went to the air and fly out of the city. The audience could see a bunch of other Chinooks and Z-10s joining them.

Lee suddenly spoke up in an urgent tone. "All Yanese forces, be advised, we have a confirmed nuclear threat in the city. NEST teams are on site and attempting to disarm. "

Most of the audience felt worried from the tone of his voice as he recited.

"I repeat, we have a confirmed nu-"

Suddenly, the feed was cut off as a bright light exploded from the horizon. It was so bright, that Lin and Volker had to cover their eyes, most of the audience had to do it aswell. When they all glance back, a shocking sight occurred.

After that bright explosion, they saw a giant mushroom cloud rising to the air, the sky had went red, and worse of all - a giant shockwave emitted from the explosion, downing any of the helicopters through it's path.

All of the operators (aside from the robots) stared at the scene with wide eyes and mouth agape. Not a single word were said when the scene unfolded.

Unfortunately to Lin and the rest of the marines, Outlaw-two-five was close to the shockwave too, the latter heading towards the chopper like a plague.

"Everyone hang on!" Swire shouted.

The shockwave finally caught up to the Chinook as it launched Lin back. Lin look back up front to see Volker hanging on from the side, but then she saw Gaines sliding out of the ramp.

 Lin quickly grabbed the Liberi's hand as she tried to pull him up, but the force from the shockwave was too strong causing her grip to loosen as he slipped.

"NO-" Gaines was then dragged out of the Chinook and to his demise. 

Failing to save the marine, Lin then put an arm under one of the seats and hung on to it. She glanced to the rest of her comrades as she saw three more of the marines getting launched out of the helicopter, one of them being the Lupo Captain.

They let out screams, but they were immediately ceased after they were dragged out. The Zalak turned to Volker as she noticed that he was losing his grip of the seat he's holding on to.

Lin couldn't do anything but watch as Volker became the next unfortunate soul to be dragged out of the chopper and possibly falling to his death.

Lin kept hanging on to the seat as all she could hear was the alarm blaring from the Chinook, but she noticed that the aircraft was getting closer to the ground.

With nothing left to do, Lin braced for the impact. 

And after a few seconds, the screen went dark, ending the mission.

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Usually, after the mission ended, the operators would begin to talk about what happened and expressed their thoughts of it.

But in this case, it wasn't. After seeing the Nuke explode and decimated everything in it's path it seems, all of the operators were left shocked and appalled. 

That explosion was nothing they have ever seen in their entire lives. Seeing everyone using firearms and the Terra in this MW universe was two other things, but that nuke explosion scene was different.

Those that were sitting on the couches sunk back on it, after witnessing such a sight. 

Popukar trembled like crazy after seeing the explosion that she immediately turn away from the screen and hugged Spot.

The Rebbah, whilst still shocked from the explosion, comforted the Cautus. 

W, the Sarkaz girl whom has a thing for explosions, is also left in total shock. She had never seen an explosion that large before in her entire life. She didn't even know a thing like that can be possible.

Even Kal'tsit was left shocked. For most of the time she had kept a straight face while observing the alternate world of Terra in this MW universe and observing how they fight with the firearms.

Every battle and gunfight she saw, she wasn't amazed or anything but just kept a straight face. But that Nuclear explosion changed all of that. 

"What...the fuck...just happened?!" Blaze shouted, speaking everyone's thoughts after that scene.

"Was that...the nuclear warhead?" Franka said, still in shock.

"I...I think it was." Liskarm replied.

"All those helicopters...destroyed like butter..." Dylan muttered.

"And those poor marines that flew out from the shockwave..." Rangers joined in.

"That one warhead did all of that?" Hellagur said in shock, who would've thought that a single warhead had done all of that damage to the city and the troops. This was entirely new to him. And this is coming to a man who fought in various fronts in Ursus' war against it's opponents and the demons of the north.

"Wait...Bagpipe in this universe said that Ursus had about 15,000 nuclear warheads at stake..." Noir Corne recalled, earning a few shocked looks to those around him.

"There are still loads more..." Yato uttered, eyes went very wide that you could see a glimpse of it under the mask. She could not imagine 15,000 of those warheads blowing up like the one that Drudge has. 

"You seem in shock, miss W." Lancet-2 pointed out when she is staring at the shocked Sarkaz.

W was spaced out after that explosion, but quickly went back by shaking her head. "I-I'm fine..."

Adnachiel would let out a remark that she was anticipated to see more explosions but to be left in shock from that nuke, but like everyone else he is also in a state of shock that he decide to keep quiet.

"So Drudge had that the entire time and knew what he was doing?" Amiya spoke up about the nuke.

"It appears so..." Kal'tsit stated. "And I guess that was the trick up of his sleeve..."

"Does that mean that he is dead?" Doctor thoughted. "He...sacrificed himself?"

"We didn't see the body, but it is a possibility." Blaze said, a bit disappointed of how he died.

"Hey, guys.... The next scene is loading." Bagpipe pointed out to the screen

Everyone turn back to the screen as they notice that there was a small green bar which acted as a loading screen since it was halfway through.

"Amiya, did you accidentally press the button?" Doctor asked.

Amiya shook her head. "No. I-I didn't." 

"Wait, so it isn't over?" Swire said, fearfully while wondering if her character had survived along with Lin's character.

"I...guess not."

As on cue, everyone stare back at the screen with a look of worry and fear after what had happened from that nuke explosion. 

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Cliffhanger!

Yeah, guys. I'm gonna end the chapter right here. 

Like I said before, this chapter along with Aftermath will be separated. The latter is going to include a short story after they witnessed that nuke. 

And of course, It's gonna change to the perspective of everyone watching that specific scene along with their reactions.

And for the Aftermath chapter, I'm adding some elements that would make the mission more longer, and for the Terrans to witness the aftermath of a nuclear explosion even longer.

Let me know of your thoughts of how I did with the reactions from that nuke explosion.

See you in "Aftermath".