Arknights: Starsfall I

Chapter 47

"Rumors of an Iberian Heart"

2nd Lt. Micheal Middleton

"Micheal!" Smoky on yelled out, his helmet buzzing as he was given something over the Intranet that their Helmets have, "You're Fireteam Bravo, take the rifleman and a L A T and move up to the north side!" Micheal gave her a quick 2 finger salute.

"You got it, hey!" He called out, his Fireteam members showing up with a B over their heads on his HUD, "Let's go!"

Quickly, 3 Riflemen, as well as an Light Anti-Tank unit with an M919 Multi-Purpose Rocket Launcher, stepped forward, the latter coming over, "Where do you need us sir?"

"Go!" He yelled out, pointing in a direction, "We have to push North and try and regroup with he downed bird, we got 28 Marines over there!" Leading his fire team. The old cobblestone streets and the derelict buildings being their corridor. One of the marines he's leading, a regular Ol' rifleman, came up and pointed roughly towards the downed bird.

"You saw what took down Jumper 2?! Looked freaky as shit man!" He reported, holding up his M5 and flagging every building. Micheal tapped him, "Listen man, stay fucking Frosty! There's hostiles in this damn city and we don't know anything! Black Hornets," he checked his hud, tapping a button on his goggle, looking at what looks like a blank square, "are not up yet, so we don't have a good amount of intel on this Sector!"

Growling was heard in front of them, sometime after they walked up a few blocks worth of distance. "The hell..?" All of them had their rifles, or in Michael's case his M320, out and facing forward. Some sort of pattering was heard before the culprit was revealed, coming out of a sewer grate.

A strange creature ran in front of them. It looked like the skeletal remains of a dog, but mixed with the bones of a alligator. It had a strange and unnatural body and it was now looking at Michael's team. A Marine behind Micheal breathing heavily, his PEQ-10 laser pointing right at it center mass, "T-The fuck is that thing?!"

It faced them, letting out a growl, its bones shaking, before it made a barking like noise and charged at them. Micheal called out fast and panicked yelled, "It's not friendly, IT'S NOT- FIRE FIRE!" his grenade launcher went thump, coinciding with the 6.8mm Rounds that began to fly out of the weapons of the Marines. The Bullets began to impact the creature, causing it to cry out a great deal of distress, before following to the ground.

Micheal loaded an M320 HE round into his weapon adn shot it at its body,, "Just in case, can't be too careful with a creature like this..." a reassured, half-terrified, half-happy laugh come out of the marine behind him. "Hol fuck dude that was... god..." he breaths out again, getting his magazine and putting a fresh new one into he mag well, the somewhat spent clip going into his combat uniofrm.

"Lets keep moving, this place is fucking freaky man..." Micheal declared, getting the group moving again.

One of the marines went over to poke the thing's decaying corpse, "Looks like some some of water dog go if you ask me."

Micheal just gestured a 'Get over here' to him.

He listened, not wanting to keep the group waiting. Stepping over, Micheals starts leading the group again towards some buildings. He noticed however, that has he went on, the place looks more derelict the closer they got to the downed bird.

Soon, they began to pass by a structure that seemed to have remained safe, and not damaged terribly by whatever the hell happened here.

Judging how there seems to be a wobbly radius of no damage around it, Michael made a call, "Let's stop here, we need to wait for the Black Hornets to get up and going before we can make any moves." The Marines let out a groan, going over to him and sitting down. "Gator 1-1 Actual, where the hell is your Marines?!"