Tazirbu, Libya. 2020
South east, 25km away
14:50

Griz PoV

https://youtu.be/iY7Jo2oMS9o

As the portal opened I started to fall to the ground.

Griz: AAAAAHHHH!!!

*CRASH*

I crashed on to the ground hard, by ground I meant sand.

Griz: Oww... What the hell was even that?

With a bit of creaking I got back on my feet. I then placed my right hand on the side of my helmet.

Griz: Anvil squadron, this Anvil 01 come in.

Static only fills the radio.

Griz: Anvil, come in.

Static yet again.

Griz: Damn it, Command, this is Anvil 01 come in.

Static.

Griz: Fucking- This is Anvil 01 to any and all UNSC units in vicinity respond!

There was nothing but static on all channels.

Griz: *sigh* Damn it!

I continued to cycle through all the radio channels.

Griz: Come on...

Until finally...

I got a transmission through to me.

???: This is Captain Abby of the US 3rd armored cavalry, we request immediate reinforcements! Anyone, please respond!

Griz: Captain, this Anvil 01 of the UNSC's 1st mechanized regiment, reply with you position over.

She didn't respond, tracing back the transmission I manged to get the location.

Griz: Hang on over there, I'm on my way.

I activated my systems.

Griz: Onward.

Time Skip

I had managed to get to the location where the transmission came from, the place was a town and it's devastated from a battle.

Griz: What in the hell happened...?

I treaded further through the ruined city.

*Boom*

My attention was diverted to a booming sound from my right, looking there I saw what believe two  tanks.

Griz: Excuse me!

I slowly approached the two tanks.

Griz: Any idea what is happening here-

*BANG*
*PHTEW*

A round slammed right into my chest.

Griz: Unf!

I stumbled backwards, luckily my armor managed to stop the round.

Griz: I guess you're the enemy.

I slung out my main cannon on to my right arm and aimed it at one of them.

(The cannon barrel and not that you sick fucks.)

I pulled the trigger and fired the cannon.

*BOOM*

The miniaturized 188mm APFSDS zoomed at the black tank and penetrated the armor thus blowing it up.

Griz: You want one too?

The white one shot at me with it's main cannon. To my surprise it was a laser weapon. The thing fired and luckily it grazed my armor, I retaliated by firing my main gun at it, it managed to survive the first shell but the autoloader managed to load another shell in time.

https://youtu.be/LlHKJn7AWy0

After firing the second shell, the hostile tank explodes.

Griz: Now, what is happening here...

I continued to tred through the town carefully.

Griz: Hello? Anyone still here?

I continued down the street, until I could distinctly feel a barrel being pointed to the back of my head.

???: Don't move.

Griz: Easy there. I'm not hostile.

???: Turn around.

I turned around to face her.

She's almost as tall as me, but she was shorter by some. I could guess she's also a tank but I can't tell what type she was.

???: State who you are.

Griz: M850A2E5/V2 Grizzly Main Battle Tank, callsign Anvil 01, UNSC 1st Mechanized Regiment

???: UNSC? Heh, quit the bullshit.

Griz: I'm not, look.

I showed her the emblem on my shoulder armor.

Abby: Well you ain't lyin, I'm Abby, Captain of the US Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry. I'm an M1A2 Abrams.

Griz: Well, was going to point that out. So what's happening here?

Abby: I was sent to liberate this town, it was occupied by extraterrestrials we call The Covenant.

I took a look at an alien corpse just to the right, doesn't seem to be Covenant to me.

Griz: Hardly looks like The Covenant.

Abby: That's... Because the UNSC where you come from... Exist from a Video Game.

I look at her dumbfounded.

Griz: Okay, I have heard many good jokes but I really don't easily believe in anything that you actually just say.

Abby: *sigh* I know I know, I pointed a cannon barrel to the back of your head and you don't trust me. But please, you have to trust me on this one!

Griz: Is there any evidence of this?

Abby: I- *sigh* After we're done here, I'll take you back to our base.

Griz: Fine by me, but any funny moves and you'll eat a 188mm shell to the face.

Abby: I got I got it.

End

(Picture asset for Abby is from the artist BP on X/Twitter)