The Bog

The mission began with the emblem of the marines which spined a few times, before it showed the audience a map.

The camera began zooming down as Lisa's Lavender's voice spoke up, "After heavy fighting today, Atlesians Marines began to push into the city where Cinder Fall is making her last stand. Fighting has intensified in the Capital City. Anti-aircraft fire and burning buildings light the night."

"Cinder is already making her final stand? She should've prepare her soldiers better. Not that I'm complaining about it." Qrow stated.

"Yeah. They're kicking her ass, so far." Yang agreed with her uncle.

"At least it means she is going to pay for what she did to those civilians." Summer said, remembering the atrocities Cinder's men committed in one of the earlier missions.

A small green screen appeared on the screen and it showed them the gunfire lightning the sky.

Then, the camera zoomed in on the city, and a small screen showed them the tank, as a voice spoke up, "Roger on location. Repeating: Map Grid five-two-seven-six-one-niner, over."

"Bravo Six copies, sir." Winter replied.

"Bravo Six, we have an Abrams dead in the water. Callsign War Pig. Lieutenant Schnee, your unit is shotgun, over." Command said.

"War Pig? Seriously?" Cardin asked, laughing with his teammates.

"Hey Jimmy! Your soldiers couldn't came up with something better?" Qrow asked, assuimg that Winter, Penny and Ciel must've been Ironwood's soldiers, even though he didn't made an appearance, yet.

"General." Winter corrected Qrow.

"Whatever." Qrow said with a shrug of his shoulders.

As the camera showed them the location of the War Pig, Winter answered, "Copy. Bravo is inbound. Tell War Pig to stand by. We're on our way out. Out."

When Winter said those words, the camera began to lower itself down at the tank, before the screen went white. A moment later, when they could see everything through Penny's eyes, they saw that Winter was standing before Penny, along with a few marines, as they were most likely heading to help War Pig.

"Alpha's Company tank is stuck have a click north of here. We gotta hustle, hurry!" Winter shouted, waving her hand to her soldiers, as they began to run along the street.

B sighed, as wiped out his fake tears off his mask, remembering that this mission was a demo to this game.

"What's wrong?" Ruby asked him.

"Oh, it just this mission was a demo of this game. I remember replaying this mission so many times, until the full game came out." B answered, as the nostalgia was going through his veins, then he thought to himself, "I feel so old now, even though I'm in my early 20's."

As Penny, Winter and the rest of their squad were getting closer to the house, three machine guns that were heavilly covered by boards at the windows began to shot at them. Knowing, that there wasn't much they could do to get rid of that, because when they eventually managed to get rid of one of the enemies that were firing at them from those machine guns, a new one came just a moment after.

The squad decided to try their luck, and rushed out of their covers and headed towards the stairs which were leading to the ground level, with Penny being in the front of the group. Two, or three people from her squad weren't lucky enough to make it to the stairs and died, but most of them were lucky managed to make it there, and were safe from the gunfire of those machine guns.

'That's a way how to start a mission." Coco stated.

"Switch to night-vision now!" Winter shouted, as Penny did as she was told to, while the ground shook as a helicopter was shot down, causing it crash somewhere close to this place.

"Night vision again? Sweet!" Ruby shouted, the part when she and Yang used the night vision in one of the earlier was her favourite part so far.

"But I don't think it makes sense here, because when you used it, the enemies didn't know where you were, and now I'm pretty sure they're aware of you." Weiss stated.

Penny walked into the apartament building, or at least what was left of it, Penny noticed through the hole in the floor that there were two enemies above her. They didn't even had a chance to see her, as she shot down them, then someone began to shot at her. She looked at another hole, which this time was in the wall, and could easily say that a few enemies were hiding

She quickly rushed to what was left of that wall, and took a cover behind it, as Winter did the same, taking the cover right next to her. She leaned out of her cover, and tried to locate them, but it was too hard with these goggles, especially when it came to their gunfire, so she decided to take them off.

Of course, sometimes enemies were making it much easier for her to locate them, when they just popped out of their cover, and tried to take their chance, but in most of the cases in ended badly for them.

When they were finally done with them, without having big loses on their side, Winter and Penny lead the marines out of the place that most likely used to be an apartament building or a hotel, it was hard to tell, to what seemed to be a very thin hallway.

"Polendina, you and Roycewicz head upstairs. We'll cover the entrances go!" Winter ordered Penny, and this Roycewicz guy.

Penny and Roycewicz walked over to the set of stairs, and Roycewicz blindly ran up the stairs, and almost immediately ran into the enemy. As they began to wrestle, Penny reacted to that as quickly as she could and shot the enemy down, probably saving Roycewicz's life.

"That was close." Blake commented to how this guy was close to death.

"He could at least thank her for saving his ass." Nora said, crossing her arms.

When Penny and Roycewicz, who were followed by Winter and the rest made their way to the next floor, which was filled with Cinder' men who were lined up right in front of them, as they were shooting at someone, most likely at other Atlesian's soldiers.

"Watch your fire! We're on the second floor!" Roycewicz's voice sounded on the screen, as the enemies were taken down by him and Penny, without even spotting them.

"Roger that, shifting fire." An unknown voice responded.

As the marines began to move along the hallway, passing the lifeless bodies of their enemies, one of the enemies poked his head out of the door, and tried to take his chance, but he didn't do much as Winter already took care of him. They moved to their left, which lead to them to a small room with a few enemies inside, which were quickly taken down by them, then Penny, Winter and Roycewicz moved to a really small room, to see if someone was hiding there, and it was a good thing that they decided to check it because one of Cinder's men was hiding a couch.

"Hit their flank with their machine gun!" Winter ordered as Penny knelt down before the machine gun and began to use it to spray the enemies that were in another building in front of her down. Why she could see them? Because w huge part of it was destroyed, making them visible for the person behind that machine gun.

"These guys probably didn't even knew what hit them." Yang stated.

"Someone just began to shot at them with a machine gun from another building. It's pretty obvious, blondie." Roman stated.

"Clear!" Roycewicz cried out.

"Be advised, more enemy troops are converging on the tank. Get there A.S.A.P." Command's voice rang through the radio.

Penny got off the machine gun, and Winter replied, "Roger that, we're working on it! Out!"

Winter, Penny, Roycewicz and the marines began moved out this floor, into the stairs which would lead them to the hallway, they passed two marines who storming a room. Penny stopped for a moment and considered if she should help, but she knew that they were going to handle it on their own, so she went down the stairs, joining Winter and the rest in the hallway.

The marines were now moving through the doors which were closed the last time they were in that hallway a few moments earlier. This doors were leading them to the side of the building which was leading them outside, into the area they haven't been before, but for now, Penny, Winter, Roycewicz and the rest decided to stay indoors because going outside seemed to be a suicide for now, because the enemies seemed to be everywhere.

"Winter, there's a tone of them there!" Ciel's voice rang through the audience's ears, as Penny turned towards her, noticing Ciel taking her cover behind a wall, occasionally leaning out to try her chance to take some of Cinder's men. Sometimes, she shot down one or two, but for most of the time, she spent

"Shut up and keep'em pinned down!" Winter told her.

"They seem to be pinning you down at this moment." Goodwitch pointed out.

"They're going to find a way how to get out of that situation. After all, I'm certain that Penny and Winter are going to join me, Yang and Weiss later in our chase after Sienna after they'll deal with Cinder, right?" Ruby asked, looking over at B.

"Yeah, yeah." B said with a nod of his head, trying not to make it sound forced, then he thought to himself, "Oh, Ruby, in a few missions you're going to find out that no matter if you're a good guy or not, you're not safe in the story presented to us in this story. You and your sister are going to be one of the best examples."

"Roger that! Suppressing fire!" Ciel said back, as Penny shot down an enemy that was shooting at them from the balcony, then she threw a flash-bang grenade in the air, which landed in the middle of a few cars, which were outside, and when it exploded, it blinded a few enemies. Knowing that it was her chance to take some of them down, she quickly threw normal grenade into the same place, killing a few of her enemies, along with it's explosion.

With that being done, Penny moved across the place, to one of the doors which were leading outside, but decided to stay inside, at least for now. This was also the place where Roycewicz and one marine which was unknown for the audience took their cover, and were eventually leaning out of it, to take their chance at making sure that Cinder's men wouldn't cause them anymore trouble.

Penny looked around the place, trying to spot a enemy, and when she did manage to spot two of them, hiding behind a trashcan, she took them down, without them spotting her. She then felt someone walk past her, so she turned around and saw that a few marines were moving to the last room, which had a door, which would lead to them to a good cover outside.

She now knew that it was time to move out outside, so she, followed by Roycewicz followed the group of marines, and made their way outside, taking a cover behind a wall of a building which was in front of them. She didn't stay behind that cover for a long time. She, Roycewicz and one other marine moved into the building, and quickly ran over to the windows, which they assumed to be giving them a pretty good look at where their enemies were.

They were right. This place gave them a pretty good advantage against their enemies, and helped them to take some of them down, but they when spotted that Cinder's men began moving backwards, out of their sight. The three of them moved across the building, and were suprised when an enemy popped out of the door.

Unfortunely the enemy managed to shot down a marines that accompanied Penny and Roycewicz, but his death was quickly avenged by both of them, as Winter, Ciel and a few other marines made their way outside of the building they were hiding themselves in, because most of the enemies that were keeping them pinned that in that building were now dead.

"Contact! On the overpass!" Suddenly, one of the marines shouted as Penny and Roycewicz joined Winter, Ciel and a few other marines that decided to push into the street.

Penny looked up, at the highway bridge, and saw that it was filled with enemies that began firing at them.

As she and the rest began to fire back at them, Winter said, "UAV recon's spotted enemy tanks headed this way. Private West, get on that roof and hit'em with Javelin!"

"A what now?" Jaune asked,

"I assume that it must be a rocket launcher, or something like that." Pyrrha said.

West who was one of the marines that went outside, along with Winter, and Ciel yelled, "Right away, si..." but didn't even got a chance to finish the sentence as one of the enemies shot him down from the bridge.

"Private West is down! West is down! Polendina! Get the Javelin!" Winter ordered Penny, who didn't wasted more time, and quickly ran over to the lifeless body of Private West. Next to his body, laid a huge rocket launcher.

"Wow..." Ruby was in awe of that weapon.

"This weapon seems to be useful." Sun stated with Neptune nodding his head in agreement.

"Funfact, the cost of a single Javelin missile is $88,000 USD." B said, saying one of quotes that were appearing on the screen when the player died.

Penny picked up the Javelin from the ground, but made her way to the second floor of the building that Winter ordered West to go into, before the Private was shot down by their enemies.

"It doesn't seems to be a safe place for that weapon to be used." Oobleck said what was on the minds of some of the people in the audience.

She quickly locked her launcher onto the tank, and stood, just stood, aiming for it a few moments. Some of the people in the audience were about to to make why she's not firing the rocket, but decided to stay silent as the rocket finally went out, but instead of heading for the tank, it flied into the sky.

"Alright, I stayed silent when she just stood, instead of firing that rocket, but now I'm confused. Why did it went into the sky, instead for that tank?" Winter asked.

"Just wait." B told her.

As Penny loaded another Javelin rocket, as the rocket changed it's direction, and began to head down, and a moment later, it hit the tank, causing the upper half of it to fall down the bridge.

"Target destroyed!" A marine shouted.

"Wow..." Ruby repeated herself.

"Hmm, this could be useful for Atlas." Ironwood said, taking mental notes of this rocket launcher.

Penny repeated the action one more time with another tank that came into her view, and when it exploded, enemies in both tanks and foot began to flee from the view of the marines.

"Good shoot, Polendina!" Roycewicz complemented her, once the enemies disappeared from their view.

"Bravo Six! We're taking heavy fire on our position north of the overpass! Where the hell are you!" A marined which most likely was one of the soldiers defending War Pig voice called out.

"We're almost there! Just hang on!" Winter quickly answered, as she, Penny, Ciel, Roycewicz and other surviving marines ran over to the fence. One of them pulled out a spray can. He began moving the can across the fence, making a circle on the fence. He stopped after a moment, and put the can down, then he started pulling the fence to himself, making a hole in the fence that was big enough for them to go through it.

Once the squad made their way through the hole in the fence, they moved through the area which looked like a slums. It had a few buildings, which looked to be in worse condition than most of the buildings in the city which were in the parts of the city that were a war-zone between the marines and Cinder's men.

As they continued to move forward, Roycewicz said, "The tanks on the other side of that overpass! Come on - let's get back to the squad."

A moment later, Penny, Winter, Ciel, Roycewicz and the other marines finally made their way to the squad which was defending War Pig, then Winter asked, "Alpha Six, what's your status, over?"

"We're right here. Why would I ask them that?" Winter wondered out loud why this version of herself asked that, even though they were finally reached their task.

"We're still surrounded! There' just four of us left but the tank's still ok, over!" One of the marines that were defending the tank replied, as Winter's squad took their defensive positions around the tank.

"Contact to the east and more flanking to the south. Hold the perimeter!" Winter nodded her head to that.

Then, a voice which seemed to be very relaxed by the fact that Winter and her squad arrived, said, "Bravo Six, this is War Pig. The main gun's offline but we still have out machine gun."

"They're moving in with det-packs! Don't let'em get close to the tank!" Winter told her squad.

"A det what?" Velvet asked.

"It's faster to say than explosives." Fox said to his teammate, who nodded her head in understanding.

After a minute or two of defending the tank from Cinder's men, Winter said, "Two Charlie! This is Bravo Six! Requesting air support for fire mission, over!"

"Uh, negative Bravo Six. There's an enemy ZPU to the south of your position. Until you take it out, we can NOT risk sending any more choppers over." Command replied.

Winter's reaction to the news was quick, "Polendina! Find that ZPU and take it out so we can get some air support! Lopez! Gaines! Roycewicz! Cover her!"

Penny's answer to Winter's ordered was quick, as she began to push forward. For most of the time, she had to run from cover to cover, while taking down her enemies that tried to kill her, but when she finally reached an old bus, she saw that something was firing into the sky, immediately coming to realization that it was air support from helping them.

She quickly moved to the container that was almost right next to the bus, taking down one of Cinder's men in the process. She looked at the place, which she assumed would led her right to the ZPU. She knew that she couldn't waste anymore time, behind that cover, so she began to push forward, followed by Lopes, Gaines and Roycewicz who were helping her in taking care of the enemies that were trying to keep them away from the ZPU.

When she finally walked into the building through through the wide entrance without any doors, she saw the ZPU, which was a very, very old anti-air gun. She walked towards it, and took care of the man that was firing at the sky with it, and two other men that were there for his protection or something like that.

With the anti-air gun being completely defenseless, Gaines called out, "Polendina! Plant the C4 on the gun move!"

Penny did as she was told to. She placed the C4 on the gun, and walked to safe distance, where they explosion would not harm her, and pressed the button on the detonator.

As the explosion destroyed the anti air gun, Winter said to Penny, "Polendina, I've got air support on the way but they need out exact location. Plant the IR beacon and get their attention. Out."

"Am I the only one who noticed that Penny does most of the job?" Yang asked.

"You're not the only one." Blake agreed with her teammate.

Penny nodded her head, understanding Winter's ordered, as she began to run towards her new task. She was being careful with her every step, and took cover behind every container she came across, to avoid getting shot by Cinder's men.

When she finally came across a spot which seemed to very pretty good for placing that IR, she put it on the ground, and ran to the closest cover, hiding behind it along with Ciel.

"Ok, positive ID on your sparkle. We're comin' in hoy from the northeast. Standby." A pilot's voice came through the radio.

Penny stayed in her cover for most of the time, not really wanting to lean out of, but when a familiar sound multibarrel miniguns rang through her ears, she decided that it was a good time to lean out to see what was going to on.

What she saw was actually a really good sign. The process was rather fast. A few rockets were launched into the buildings, making a huge holes in their constructions as the miniguns shot down the enemies at the windows. If there was any enemy left in that building, which was rather unlikely, he wouldn't cause them anymore trouble.

"Uh, two, you see anyone left down there?" One of the pilots asked, jokingly.

"Negative, we got them." The other pilot answered.

"Roger that, all targets destroyed, and we're outta here. Good luck, boys. Out." The pilot said.

As the two helicopters began flying off, Winter said, "Command. LZ is secure. Bring the engineers and let's get the tank moving."

"Roger that. They're on the way. Good work. Out." Command said as Penny began moving towards the tank. Some of the people in the audience assumed that she was probably to reunite with her squad.

"Squad, regroup at the tank. Let's go!" Ciel confirmed their assumptions as Penny made their way over to Winter, Ciel, Roycewicz, Gaines, Lopez and other surviving marines, joining them by the tank.

It was when Winter took out a piece of chalk from one of her pockets and started drawing on the side of the tank. When she finished the drawing on their locations, she began to tell them what they were going to do until the engineers will arrive, "Listen up. We don't have much time to get this tank out of here. We'll take up the defensive positions around the bog, here, here and here, and buy the engineers some time to get this tank moving. Oorah?"

It was the last thing that Winter said, before the screen went to black, telling the audience that another mission was over.

"Well, they're kicking Cinder's ass." Neo said as Miltia and Melanie nodded their heads in agreement, causing the said woman to glare at her, "You may good at doing speeches, but you should've prepared your soldiers better."

"You better watch your mouth, Neo." Cinder told Neo who shrugged her shoulders.

"But you know that she's telling you the truth, right?" Adam said to Cinder.

"It's been like two missions since they came after you, and if what Lisa Lavender said is true, you're already making your final stand." Ilia added her part as well.

"I bet that Sienna is going to burst in and save her ass. After all they were showed them to be partners in the mission where she executed Lionheart." Coco assumed.

"I don't know what to think about this. As I said in the last mission, I have a bad feeling about this. Everything is going so easy for Winter and Penny, for now. It makes me believe that something will happen sooner or later." Pyrrha said.

"Same here." Fox agreed with her.

"I guess, we're going to find out in the next few missions." Blake said.

B just nodded his head to their words, before pressing the button.

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