From the Author of SC: A story set in the EU on the Oslo Line. I am always honored to receive fanfics and this is no exception. This particular story the author's first language isn't English so I had to go through it and make a lot of corrections. I didn't change any of the story and tried to keep it as true to the author's vision. Anyways thank you and enjoy! 28102012.
From the Author: "Here is my SC story about the Oslo defence line, you might find some spelling mistakes or some grammar errors, i had to use google translate. also i couldn't find any pictures, so if you have some suitable pictures please add them to the stories. I hope you enjoy reading my stories.
Sincerely, Carl Rosen."
Written By: Carl Rosen of Sweden
SCFF: The Viking Homeland
Sweden, European Union, Earth [Sol] 10072062
‘‘Please don’t go.’’
‘‘I have to go, we are being invaded, they are calling in everyone.’’
‘‘But you’re going to die, we can go away somewhere else, as far away from the war as possible.’’
‘‘Where can we go? The war isn’t going to stop here, the Hegemony isn’t going to stop until they've taken over the entire world. I promise... I promise you, I won’t die. I am going to come back. you have my word on it.’’
‘‘I love you John.’’
‘‘I love you too Sandra. I’ll be back before you know it.’’
As he walked away from the house to the commandeered city bus that waited for him on the street, to take him to the EUFOR draftee processing center, he knew he had just lied to his wife. That was a promise he knew he couldn't keep, he took a seat on the bus next and decided not to think about it.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 13072062
He walked towards his assigned HG bunker and all he saw along the way were deep fighting trenches, pillboxes, artillery batteries and reinforced bunkers. What was once a beautiful wilderness had been carved up and converted into an elaborate fortification. The millennial old forest had been cleared in front of the line that would protect Scandinavia. Soon enough even the thousands of tree stumps that is the only evidence of the mighty forest would disappear when the line became hell on earth. He walked into his HG bunker and saw a collection of military personnel with different uniforms and ranks, but there were two men that stood out from the others. He walked up to them and saluted them both.
‘‘Admiral Ström, Major Matsson. Sergeant John Karlsson reporting for duty.’’
‘‘At ease soldier. What do you have for me? Ström asked while staring at some maps of the surrounding region laid out on a table in front of him.
‘‘I got ten thousand soldiers from Karlskrona. And another eight thousand civilian volunteers.’’
‘‘That’s great, get them to the armory so they can get some weapons and body armor. Then deploy your men along the trenches wherever you can find a gap, understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir. Forgive me for asking but what are up against?’’ John said with a bit of hesitation.
‘‘The enemy is expected to arrive within 96 hours. The satellites we have still online estimate that the enemy has about 5 million infantry, some fifteen thousand tanks and those CFR walkers. Is there any problem with that Sergeant?’’
‘‘No problem at all Admiral.’’ John said trying hard to conceal the fear in his voice.
Trench 641, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 17072062
‘‘INCOMING!’’ a Bosnian soldier yelled out in a thick Yugoslavian accent as he ducked for cover.
‘‘Get some fucking anti-tank fire on that bitch.’’ A Norwegian soldier yelled out as he pointed to the target. Suddenly a volley of missiles flew over their position and hit the CFR tank and destroyed it in a flash of light. What was left of the CFR tank and its crew rained down on them in a mist of heated flesh and metal.
‘‘Fuck yeah! Let’s finish off the rest of these fuckers.’’ A British soldier shouted while firing his machine gun on the retreating enemy. He managed to hit a few before they ran out of range. The impact of his bullets tearing through their armor and felling them on the cold snow covered ground.
‘‘Sergeant you should report to Major Matsson about the attack. It must be the sixth damn attack today.’’ A Swedish corporal told John.
‘‘Good idea corporal i'll radio him.’’ John said while he reloaded his empty, but still smoking Ak5. He swung the rifle on his back and spoke into his headset. ‘‘Major, this is Sergeant Karlsson at trench 641 we just hit the advancing enemy. It looks like they're retreating for now with large casualties inflicted. Ourselves? Only forty men... Yes sir understood, thank you sir.’’
‘‘What did he say?’’ the Bosnian asked.
‘‘He said that we are doing an amazing job holding the enemy off and that the lines are holding everywhere. And get this, he is giving us a day’s leave.’’
‘‘No way, really?’’ the Norwegian soldier asked.
‘‘Yes, as soon as the other relief unit arrives you are free to do whatever you want. I suggest that you get some sleep that’s what I’m going to do.’’
Bunker 64, Sweden, European Union, Earth [Sol] 18072062
‘‘How long have i been sleeping?’’ John asked the Norwegian sitting next to him who was busy cleaning her rifle.
‘‘About twenty hours, its looks like you got a good sleep.’’ She replied with a slight smile.
‘‘What’s your name soldier?’’ John asked while he took a sip from an instant coffee he had mixed for breakfast.
‘‘My name is Moa Strömfeldt I am a Corporal in the Royal Norwegian Army.
‘‘That’s a nice name corporal, but let me tell you this, there is no Norwegian Army anymore, neither is there a Swedish Army or British, we are one united European Army now, no longer fighting for our land or seas but for our very survival as a people. Keep that in mind when you’re out there Corporal.’’
‘‘Yes sergeant I will remember it.’’ She answered with her sweet smile still on her face.
‘‘Good, now let’s get back out there.’’
Trench 148, The Oslo line, Swed-Norway border, European Union, Earth [Sol] 30-07-2062
They all stood silently in the trench and watched over no-man’s land for any sign of the enemy. For hours on end all they could hear was the wind howling through the cratered moonscape and torn enemy vehicles. Suddenly a bright light erupted all across the other side all along the Hegemony’s trenches and a stark alien voice was heard echoing across the trenches.
‘‘What the fuck is that?’’ a Finnish Private said while looking at the bright light from across no-man's land.
‘‘It’s Arabic and they are praying, and those lights... spotlights, you better prepare yourselves.’’ Corporal Strömfeldt said as she loaded her rifle with AP rounds, she knew what was about to happen.
‘‘What the fuck is the HIE doing here, I thought it was the CFR that was supposed to attack Scandinavia?’’ the Finnish Private said nervously.
‘‘Apparently they got reinforcements, does anyone here have sniper training?’’ John asked to the soldiers around him.
‘‘I do’’ an Irish soldier said raising his hand.
‘‘Good I want you to take this sniper rifle and shot the Imam giving the rag heads a lecture.’’
‘‘What?!’’ the Irish soldier said, looking at the rifle that John held in his hand.
‘‘Take this rifle and shot that Imam encouraging the enemy to kill us.’’
‘‘But it’s just a Priest?’’
‘‘I AM GIVING YOU AN ORDER SOLDIER. NOW TAKE THE RIFLE AND BLOW HIS FUCKING BRAINS OUT!’’ John yelled.
The Irish soldier took the rifle and climbed to the top of the bunker for a better angle. The Irishman adjusted the sights of the rifle and took a deep breath, held it and then pulled the trigger. All went silent and the spotlight shut off filling the trenches with darkness.
‘‘That wasn’t so difficu...’’ John was drowned out by the sound of hundreds of thousands of Islamic soldier’s rushing across no-man's land in a rage over the death of their Imam.
‘‘Corporal Strömfeldt man the machine gun and fire at the enemy, call for some goddamn artillery.’’ John shouted as he shoot off into the darkness.
‘‘Sergeant the artillery is inbound. Six seconds.’’
‘‘Keep your heads down’!’ John shouted as the artillery shells flew over them and smashed into the ground with a loud bang, killing everyone within range of their blasts. The sounds of hundreds of men calling out in pain together could be heard clearly through the darkness.
‘‘Corporal Strömfeldt finish off the stragglers and the retreating enemy.’’ John said looking at the enemy that was running away from the battlefield, and seeing the bullets rip through them as they tried to escape the wittering machine gun fire.
‘‘Call HQ and tell them that we’re okay.’’
‘‘Yes sergeant.’’ A soldier with a Scottish accent said out of breath. The battle had lasted no more then a minute, but it took every bit of energy out of everyone involved.
‘‘How are you feeling Corporal?’’ John asked Moa who was staring out over no-man’s land watching for any enemy soldiers that might have been wounded or played possum.
‘‘I’m okay, just a little shocked.’’ She answered him, still staring over no-man’s land.
‘‘You are doing good Corpo...’’ Again John was interrupted, but not by the enemy, it was the Scotsman that had the radio. HQ wanted John to return to HQ for a special debriefing. “What could they want from me?” He said to no one in particular.
John made his way towards the EUFOR Olso Line HQ. On the way there he saw that the other units didn’t have as much luck as he had, heavy casualties and numerous destroyed tanks and armaments. John arrived at the HQ and already mass gathering of hundreds of other squad-leaders, Officers and sergeants were assembled in the underground bunker.
Admiral Ström began and addressed the assembled leadership of the Oslo Line. ‘‘Ladies and gentleman, my fellow soldiers, I am here to tell you that three days ago on July 27, France surrendered to the Hegemony.” An audible gasp erupted from the crowd. When the murmuring stopped Admiral Ström continued, and while we are talking out millions of Hegemony forces on this line... they are encircling our European Allies at the Hamburg line. Because of these dire circumstances we are evacuating all of the civilians and most of the military and equipment to the British Isles and Scandinavia. It also means that you and your men will be fighting more and a this fight will get a whole lot tougher. Unfortunately the soldiers from the Hamburg Line won’t come to help you here, they are going to stay on the main European landmass to provide allow us to evacuated what we can out of Europe. Those few military units that do cross into Scandinavia will stay in the south and west coast of Sweden. They will protect us from getting encircled by the Hegemony. I will not lie to you. These years to come will be hell so I wish you good luck.’’
John arrived back at trench 148 shortly after and he told the soldiers everything that the Admiral had told him. Nobody said anything when he finished, they just went back to their positions and stayed quiet.
From the Author: "Here is my SC story about the Oslo defence line, you might find some spelling mistakes or some grammar errors, i had to use google translate. also i couldn't find any pictures, so if you have some suitable pictures please add them to the stories. I hope you enjoy reading my stories.
Sincerely, Carl Rosen."
Written By: Carl Rosen of Sweden
SCFF: The Viking Homeland
Sweden, European Union, Earth [Sol] 10072062
‘‘Please don’t go.’’
‘‘I have to go, we are being invaded, they are calling in everyone.’’
‘‘But you’re going to die, we can go away somewhere else, as far away from the war as possible.’’
‘‘Where can we go? The war isn’t going to stop here, the Hegemony isn’t going to stop until they've taken over the entire world. I promise... I promise you, I won’t die. I am going to come back. you have my word on it.’’
‘‘I love you John.’’
‘‘I love you too Sandra. I’ll be back before you know it.’’
As he walked away from the house to the commandeered city bus that waited for him on the street, to take him to the EUFOR draftee processing center, he knew he had just lied to his wife. That was a promise he knew he couldn't keep, he took a seat on the bus next and decided not to think about it.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 13072062
He walked towards his assigned HG bunker and all he saw along the way were deep fighting trenches, pillboxes, artillery batteries and reinforced bunkers. What was once a beautiful wilderness had been carved up and converted into an elaborate fortification. The millennial old forest had been cleared in front of the line that would protect Scandinavia. Soon enough even the thousands of tree stumps that is the only evidence of the mighty forest would disappear when the line became hell on earth. He walked into his HG bunker and saw a collection of military personnel with different uniforms and ranks, but there were two men that stood out from the others. He walked up to them and saluted them both.
‘‘Admiral Ström, Major Matsson. Sergeant John Karlsson reporting for duty.’’
‘‘At ease soldier. What do you have for me? Ström asked while staring at some maps of the surrounding region laid out on a table in front of him.
‘‘I got ten thousand soldiers from Karlskrona. And another eight thousand civilian volunteers.’’
‘‘That’s great, get them to the armory so they can get some weapons and body armor. Then deploy your men along the trenches wherever you can find a gap, understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir. Forgive me for asking but what are up against?’’ John said with a bit of hesitation.
‘‘The enemy is expected to arrive within 96 hours. The satellites we have still online estimate that the enemy has about 5 million infantry, some fifteen thousand tanks and those CFR walkers. Is there any problem with that Sergeant?’’
‘‘No problem at all Admiral.’’ John said trying hard to conceal the fear in his voice.
Trench 641, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 17072062
‘‘INCOMING!’’ a Bosnian soldier yelled out in a thick Yugoslavian accent as he ducked for cover.
‘‘Get some fucking anti-tank fire on that bitch.’’ A Norwegian soldier yelled out as he pointed to the target. Suddenly a volley of missiles flew over their position and hit the CFR tank and destroyed it in a flash of light. What was left of the CFR tank and its crew rained down on them in a mist of heated flesh and metal.
‘‘Fuck yeah! Let’s finish off the rest of these fuckers.’’ A British soldier shouted while firing his machine gun on the retreating enemy. He managed to hit a few before they ran out of range. The impact of his bullets tearing through their armor and felling them on the cold snow covered ground.
‘‘Sergeant you should report to Major Matsson about the attack. It must be the sixth damn attack today.’’ A Swedish corporal told John.
‘‘Good idea corporal i'll radio him.’’ John said while he reloaded his empty, but still smoking Ak5. He swung the rifle on his back and spoke into his headset. ‘‘Major, this is Sergeant Karlsson at trench 641 we just hit the advancing enemy. It looks like they're retreating for now with large casualties inflicted. Ourselves? Only forty men... Yes sir understood, thank you sir.’’
‘‘What did he say?’’ the Bosnian asked.
‘‘He said that we are doing an amazing job holding the enemy off and that the lines are holding everywhere. And get this, he is giving us a day’s leave.’’
‘‘No way, really?’’ the Norwegian soldier asked.
‘‘Yes, as soon as the other relief unit arrives you are free to do whatever you want. I suggest that you get some sleep that’s what I’m going to do.’’
Bunker 64, Sweden, European Union, Earth [Sol] 18072062
‘‘How long have i been sleeping?’’ John asked the Norwegian sitting next to him who was busy cleaning her rifle.
‘‘About twenty hours, its looks like you got a good sleep.’’ She replied with a slight smile.
‘‘What’s your name soldier?’’ John asked while he took a sip from an instant coffee he had mixed for breakfast.
‘‘My name is Moa Strömfeldt I am a Corporal in the Royal Norwegian Army.
‘‘That’s a nice name corporal, but let me tell you this, there is no Norwegian Army anymore, neither is there a Swedish Army or British, we are one united European Army now, no longer fighting for our land or seas but for our very survival as a people. Keep that in mind when you’re out there Corporal.’’
‘‘Yes sergeant I will remember it.’’ She answered with her sweet smile still on her face.
‘‘Good, now let’s get back out there.’’
Trench 148, The Oslo line, Swed-Norway border, European Union, Earth [Sol] 30-07-2062
They all stood silently in the trench and watched over no-man’s land for any sign of the enemy. For hours on end all they could hear was the wind howling through the cratered moonscape and torn enemy vehicles. Suddenly a bright light erupted all across the other side all along the Hegemony’s trenches and a stark alien voice was heard echoing across the trenches.
‘‘What the fuck is that?’’ a Finnish Private said while looking at the bright light from across no-man's land.
‘‘It’s Arabic and they are praying, and those lights... spotlights, you better prepare yourselves.’’ Corporal Strömfeldt said as she loaded her rifle with AP rounds, she knew what was about to happen.
‘‘What the fuck is the HIE doing here, I thought it was the CFR that was supposed to attack Scandinavia?’’ the Finnish Private said nervously.
‘‘Apparently they got reinforcements, does anyone here have sniper training?’’ John asked to the soldiers around him.
‘‘I do’’ an Irish soldier said raising his hand.
‘‘Good I want you to take this sniper rifle and shot the Imam giving the rag heads a lecture.’’
‘‘What?!’’ the Irish soldier said, looking at the rifle that John held in his hand.
‘‘Take this rifle and shot that Imam encouraging the enemy to kill us.’’
‘‘But it’s just a Priest?’’
‘‘I AM GIVING YOU AN ORDER SOLDIER. NOW TAKE THE RIFLE AND BLOW HIS FUCKING BRAINS OUT!’’ John yelled.
The Irish soldier took the rifle and climbed to the top of the bunker for a better angle. The Irishman adjusted the sights of the rifle and took a deep breath, held it and then pulled the trigger. All went silent and the spotlight shut off filling the trenches with darkness.
‘‘That wasn’t so difficu...’’ John was drowned out by the sound of hundreds of thousands of Islamic soldier’s rushing across no-man's land in a rage over the death of their Imam.
‘‘Corporal Strömfeldt man the machine gun and fire at the enemy, call for some goddamn artillery.’’ John shouted as he shoot off into the darkness.
‘‘Sergeant the artillery is inbound. Six seconds.’’
‘‘Keep your heads down’!’ John shouted as the artillery shells flew over them and smashed into the ground with a loud bang, killing everyone within range of their blasts. The sounds of hundreds of men calling out in pain together could be heard clearly through the darkness.
‘‘Corporal Strömfeldt finish off the stragglers and the retreating enemy.’’ John said looking at the enemy that was running away from the battlefield, and seeing the bullets rip through them as they tried to escape the wittering machine gun fire.
‘‘Call HQ and tell them that we’re okay.’’
‘‘Yes sergeant.’’ A soldier with a Scottish accent said out of breath. The battle had lasted no more then a minute, but it took every bit of energy out of everyone involved.
‘‘How are you feeling Corporal?’’ John asked Moa who was staring out over no-man’s land watching for any enemy soldiers that might have been wounded or played possum.
‘‘I’m okay, just a little shocked.’’ She answered him, still staring over no-man’s land.
‘‘You are doing good Corpo...’’ Again John was interrupted, but not by the enemy, it was the Scotsman that had the radio. HQ wanted John to return to HQ for a special debriefing. “What could they want from me?” He said to no one in particular.
John made his way towards the EUFOR Olso Line HQ. On the way there he saw that the other units didn’t have as much luck as he had, heavy casualties and numerous destroyed tanks and armaments. John arrived at the HQ and already mass gathering of hundreds of other squad-leaders, Officers and sergeants were assembled in the underground bunker.
Admiral Ström began and addressed the assembled leadership of the Oslo Line. ‘‘Ladies and gentleman, my fellow soldiers, I am here to tell you that three days ago on July 27, France surrendered to the Hegemony.” An audible gasp erupted from the crowd. When the murmuring stopped Admiral Ström continued, and while we are talking out millions of Hegemony forces on this line... they are encircling our European Allies at the Hamburg line. Because of these dire circumstances we are evacuating all of the civilians and most of the military and equipment to the British Isles and Scandinavia. It also means that you and your men will be fighting more and a this fight will get a whole lot tougher. Unfortunately the soldiers from the Hamburg Line won’t come to help you here, they are going to stay on the main European landmass to provide allow us to evacuated what we can out of Europe. Those few military units that do cross into Scandinavia will stay in the south and west coast of Sweden. They will protect us from getting encircled by the Hegemony. I will not lie to you. These years to come will be hell so I wish you good luck.’’
John arrived back at trench 148 shortly after and he told the soldiers everything that the Admiral had told him. Nobody said anything when he finished, they just went back to their positions and stayed quiet.
Trench 291, The Oslo line, Sweden, European Union, Earth [Sol] 17-08-2062
‘‘Get to the west flank.’’ Corporal Strömfeldt yelled out to a bunch of his soldiers.
‘‘Sergeant! We got 3 CFR walkers heading this way and we are out of anti-tank missiles.’’ A soldier shouted as bullets whizzed past him.
‘‘Radio for some artillery strikes.’’ John replied while emptying his clip on an Islamic soldier rushing towards him.
‘‘Radio is all busted, shot to pieces.’’ The soldier replied as he swore in his native tongue.
John desperately looked around for something he could use against the walkers that was crossing no-man's line. John spotted a cluster of grenades on a dead Finn and snatched them up. ‘‘Corporal cover me while I blow those walkers to hell.’’
Corporal Moa nodded and started to shot at the enemy walkers with her machine gun and the other soldiers did the same. John jumped up onto no-man’s land and started to run towards the walkers while at the same time trying to dodge the incoming bullets. He reached the first walker and took a grenade and threw it underneath the walker. When it exploded the walkers torso flew high into the air and came crashing down a few CFR infantrymen, killing them and the pilot. He did the same to another walker which doubled over in the path of the remaining walker. The last walker distracted by incoming fire from the bunker tripped over the second walker and crashed into the snow. The pilot ejected from the walker and was greeted by John and his sidearm. John pumped two bullets into the pilots face and tried to scramble back into the relative safety of Trench 291. John was half way there when he was hit in the back by a bullet and fell to the ground. He rowed onto his back and looked up and there were three Islamic soldiers about to stab him with their bayonets, when suddenly a salvo of bullets ripped them apart. He looked back and saw that corporal Strömfeldt and three other soldiers had jumped up onto no-man’s land to save him. He stood up with much effort and they all ran back together to the trench while the other soldiers covered them.
Once in the trench John asked, ‘‘How are we doing?’’
‘‘The enemy is falling back to their trenches again.’’ The soldiers answered him still firing his machine gun.
‘’Good. Pick off the stragglers then when you can take a nap. Understood?’’ John told the machine gunner as a combat medic took a look at his wound.
‘‘Understood Sergeant.’’ The soldier answered him.
John was drinking some water when a soldier caught his attention, it was Major Matsson that stopped right in front of him, and John immediately stood up and saluted him.
‘‘That was a mighty fine job you did with those walkers. I am recommending you for a medal.’’ He said with a smile on his face.
‘‘Then you should also recommend these four soldiers for saving my ass out there.’’ John said pointing at Corporal Strömfeldt and the other three soldiers.
‘‘Very well.’’ The Major said and was about to walk away when he was interrupted by a soldier asking him. “Why was this attacked to much larger than the other attacks?’’ the major became quiet for a moment and then replied. ‘‘The Hamburg line has fallen, and the Hegemony wants to take all of mainland Europe in a single strike, but we won’t let them.’’
HQ bunker, The Oslo line, European Union, Earth [Sol] 24-09-2062
‘‘You are today awarded for bravery, for yourself taking out three enemy walkers and aiding your fellow soldiers on the field of battle.’’ Admiral Ström said while giving Sergeant Karlsson, Corporal Strömfeldt and the three other soldiers there medals."
‘‘Thank you sir.’’ They all said and saluted the Admiral and Major Matsson.
They were about to leave when John asked the Admiral.‘‘Sir you wouldn’t happen to have any cigars do you?’’ the Admiral looked at the Sergeant with a smile on his face and said.‘‘Of course I have, how many do you want?’’ John looked around and said.‘‘Well there are five of us... so five cigars would do.’’ The Admiral laughed and took out five cigars out of his coat and gave it to the soldiers. They thanked the Admiral and left the bunker.
When they left Corporal Strömfeldt asked John.‘‘What are we going to do with these?’’ John looked at her with a smile and said. ‘‘We are going to save them until the fat lady sings.” He walked away towards the cafeteria as Strömfeldt followed him.
‘‘Sergeant if you want you can call me Moa.’’
John turned and looked into her eyes and said, “Alright Moa, but you can still call me Sergeant.”
15 km east of Oslo line, European union, Earth [Sol] 24-12-2062
‘‘Can you now please tell me who our target is sergeant?’’ Moa asked as she cleaned her sniper rifle.
‘‘Alright I’ll tell you, but then you have to be quiet, there are enemy patrols all over the place. Our target is a CFR General that will arrive tomorrow to give a speech to his troops, our mission is to assassinate him. Understood?’’ John said while cleaning his own sniper rifle.
‘‘Yes sir, understood, I knew I agreed to be silent, but what’s with that rocket launcher you have in your rug sack?’’ she said pointing at the rocket launcher sticking out of John’s rug sack.
He took it out and said, ‘‘This is a Carl-Gustaf rocket launcher made in 1948 by the swedes, it’s still effective against small armor and CFR walkers.’’ He said with a smile. He handled the weapon almost like a kid playing with a toy in a toy store.
‘‘Why did you bring that along, isn’t it heavy?’’ Moa asked.
‘‘Well Moa, you see when we have killed the General we have to get out and that isn’t going to be easy without a distraction. So when you have taken the shot, I will blow up that gas silo.’’ John said as he pointed towards a huge round shaped building.
‘‘Ah I understand, well goodnight sergeant.’’ Moa said as she crawled into a small igloo shaped hole that they had constructed in the snow for shelter.
15 km east of Oslo line, European union, Earth [Sol] 25-12-2062
‘‘Wake up, we have thirty minutes until the general makes his speech.’’ Moa said to John as she hit him lightly on the foot with the butt of her rifle. ‘‘I spotted a good position to take the shot from, that water tower over there.’’ Moa said pointing at a water tower about 15 meters away.
‘‘Good, you go first I got your back, remember only use silenced weapons.’’ John said while attaching a silencer onto his pistol.
Moa silently and slowly crawled towards the water tower, she arrived undetected, and climbed up the tower followed minutes later by John.
‘‘Okay set up your sniper rifle and wait for the General to enter the Stage.’’ John said while readying his Carl-Gustaf.
Moa picked up her Sniper-rifle and adjust the scope and watched the winds direction and speed on the flags that flanked the stage. The Generals car pulled up next to the stage and the General left the car under heavy escort.
‘‘Merry Christmas Sergeant.’’ Moa said and pulled the trigger. The bullet let out a soft crack and the .50 caliber round whisked across the air and connected with the Generals head. The General dropped to the floor, but most of his head flew high into the air and landed around his body in bits and pieces. John fired his rocket launcher and hit the gas silo. The silo exploded into a ball of fire that incinerated more than forty enemy soldiers.
Both Moa and John immediately slid down the ladder on the water tower and started running towards their pre-assigned LZ. John's radio came alive and spoke out to him.
‘‘Assassins, this is Hornet two-five were taking that ball of fire as a sign. We are heading for the primary LZ, meet you there.’’
‘‘This is assassins, roger that two-five, we are heading to the LZ but the enemy is not far behind we would appreciate if you would hurry, assassins out.”
Moa and John ran for about a minute until they arrived at an open field where a helicopter was waiting for them with 4 soldiers covering them as they ran inside the open side door. When they got aboard they take their sidearm and cover the soldiers as they got into the helicopter and lifted off.
‘‘Hey, you did good Moa, now get some sleep.’’ John said.
‘‘Thank you sergeant.’’ Moa said and closed her eyes and fell asleep immediately.
The Oslo line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 08-02-2063
John and Moa was sitting and eating in the food barracks when a soldier walked in and said to John. ‘‘Sergeant, The major is requesting that you are to report to the HQ.’’ John stood up and started to walk towards the HQ. When he arrived he saluted the Major.
‘‘At ease soldier, I am ordering you to take two thousand soldiers and go down to the city of Gothenburg that has been suffering from eight days of naval-bombardment, we fear that this is the beginning of an invasion by the enemy.’’ The major said handing John a dossier.
‘‘Do I get to choose the soldiers?’’ John said looking through the dossier.
‘’The soldiers has already been briefed about the situation, but you will be their commanding officer.’’
‘‘At the very least I want Corporal Strömfeldt to come with us.’’ John said.
‘‘All right, I’ll send her the order right now, she will be waiting for you at the troop-transport. Good luck down there.’’
‘‘Thank you sir.’’ John said, saluted the Major and then left room.
Gothenburg, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 10-02-2063
John entered the HQ bunker and saw that all of the soldiers inside were sort of panicking, he saw the Colonel he was told to report to, he walked up to the Colonel and saluted him and said. “Sergeant John Karlsson reporting for duty I have a detachment from the Oslo line.’’
‘‘Good. We need all the soldiers we can find.’’
‘‘What’s our situation Colonel?’’ John asked the Colonel.
‘‘The bombardment stopped about two hours ago and immediately the CFR started to ship in troops to the city, they have already taken the west-side of the city, but what I want you to do is to take your soldiers and take back the shopping mall called 'Nordstan' just 2 kilometers to the west, the CFR paratroopers managed to capture it recently and we haven’t been able to take it back. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir I understand.’’ John said and then left the room.
When john came back to his soldiers he explained the plan and divided the soldiers up into four squads Echo, Bravo, Alpha and Beta. He then said. “I will take command over Bravo, Corporal Strömfeldt you take command over Echo, Sergeant Anderson you take Alpha and Sergeant Cooper you take Beta, everybody know what to do?’’
‘‘Yes sergeant,’’ all the soldiers said.
‘‘Good now move on, squad leaders come here.’’ John said waving at them.
The three squad leaders stood next to John while he said. ‘‘Listen, when we are 2 blocks from the mall I want Corporal Strömfeldt to take your soldiers and climb up on the roof and then blow the roof on my signal, Cooper you take your soldiers and go secure the garage and Anderson you and your men are going to the main entrance and attack the enemy when you hear an explosion, I will go to the east wall and blow a hole in it and attacking the enemy from the rear. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir’’ they said and then returned to their squad’s.
After forty minutes of walking they arrived 2 blocks from the mall, the squad’s split up and headed for their positions. When John and Bravo was in position he radioed the other squad-leaders.
‘‘This is Bravo team, we are in position, what’s your status?’’
‘‘This is Beta team, we’re in position at the garage.’’
‘‘Alpha team are ready at the main entrance.’’
‘‘This is Echo team, we’re in position on the roof and the explosives are ready to go off, just waiting for you orders Sergeant.’’
John told his soldiers to ready up to attack the enemy.
‘’Okay Corporal detonate the explosives in 5 seconds, Anderson wait 10 seconds after the explosion before you charge.’’
Just as John finished talking the explosives on the roof detonated and hundreds of soldiers roped down from the holes in the roof, about five seconds after that John detonated his explosives on the east wall and soldiers ran into the mall, capturing the enemy of guard and drawing their attention from the main entrance, with nobody defending the main entrance Sergeant Anderson and his men attacked the confused enemy that was now surrounded by the advancing Allied soldiers.
‘‘Take no prisoners!’’ John yelled out to the soldiers around him that spread the word to the soldiers next to them.
‘‘Sergeant, this is Cooper, we have secured the garage and we are moving to your position from the west, I repeat, you have friendlies coming in from the West.’’ John heard on his radio.
‘‘Roger that.’’ John said.
‘‘Sergeant the enemy is retreating deeper into the mall, should we hunt them down?’’ Moa said over the radio.
‘‘Roger that Corporal, Anderson go with her.’’ John answered her over the radio.
The fighting in the mall continued for half an hour with low casualties for John’s soldiers. When John and his soldiers had secured the area John radioed Sergeant Anderson.
‘‘Sergeant what’s your status?’’
‘‘we caught up with the remaining enemy and killed them all, we are working our way back to you now.’’
‘‘Roger that, what’s Corporal Strömfeldt’s status?’’
‘‘I’m okay sergeant, I took a bullet to the arm but I will survive. You should radio the Colonel and tell that the mall is secured.’’ Moa answered him over the radio.
‘‘Roger that Corporal, there will be a medic waiting for when you return here.’’ John says relived that Moa is alive. He then radios the Colonel and tells him that the mall has been secured. The Colonel says him.‘‘Good job sergeant, what's our casualties?’’
‘‘We have accounted about one-hundred-seventy casualties and some four-hundred wounded’’ John said looking around on his soldiers.
‘‘Roger that, I’m sending some evac-birds to pick up the dead and wounded, you and the rest of your soldiers are to advance to the west-side of the city to aid in its defense and hold on until our navy arrives in 48 hours. Over and out.’’
West Gothenburg, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 13-02-2063
‘‘Sergeant the enemy is retreating to the harbor and the shoreline.’’ A Danish soldier said to John.
‘‘Push on and we just might liberate this city before night falls.’’ John said to the soldiers around him.
‘‘SHIT! Enemy tanks and walkers incoming from north!’’ The Dane yelled out.
John looked to the north and saw nearly four dozen enemy armor coming towards him. He turned around to the soldier next to him and said, ’’Get on the radio and call the navy for a missile strike against the enemy armor!’’
‘‘The navy is engaging the Hegemony ships outside of the harbor, no one is going to respond.’’ The soldier replied.
‘‘Do it anyway, someone has to respond or we all going to be dead in about fifteen seconds.’’ John said to the soldier.
The soldier took out his radio and said, ‘‘Any ships hearing this message, this is Gothenburg ground forces requesting a missile strike on the advancing enemy armor at the harbor and shoreline.’’
Nothing was heard from the navy. The soldier turned to John and was just about to speak when a voice came from the radio.’ “Gothenburg ground forces, this is HMS Copenhagen, Roger on the missile strike, missiles are inbound in 4 seconds.’’
John who had heard the message yelled to his soldiers, ‘‘TAKE COVER!!!’’ All of the Allied soldiers jumped for cover as the missiles hit the enemy armor and infantry on the shoreline.
‘‘Thanks for the help Copenhagen, you just saved our lives. Good luck out there.’’ John said over the radio while looking out over the sea filled with hundreds of battleships waging war against each other.
John then turned and said, “Secure the area, take no prisoners.’’
‘‘Yes Sarge.’’ The soldiers said and started to secure the area and shooting any wounded enemy soldier they found laying on the ground.
‘‘Colonel this is Sergeant Karlsson. The enemy has been neutralized. I repeat we have liberated Gothenburg.’’ John said over the radio.
‘‘Roger that Sergeant good job, but there are still CFR Snipers in that city that refuse to surrender, but don’t worry, they will be dealt with. Now report back to HQ. Corporal Strömfeldt has recovered completely and will be waiting for you when you arrive back here. Over and out.’’ The colonel said satisfied.
Gothenburg, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 12-12-2064
‘‘You wanted to see us Colonel?’’ John said standing outside the door to an office with Moa.
‘‘Ah yes, sit down.’’ The Colonel said with a smile.‘’I have some good news, about two months ago the yanks managed to take back New York City, we first found out yesterday because of communication difficulty’s.’’
‘‘That’s great news, but that doesn’t help us right? ’’ Moa said.
‘‘Actually it does, you see the yanks never could have taken over the city without an advantage.’’
‘‘And what kind of advantage is that?’’ John asked the colonel that was now leaning back in his chair.
‘‘The H.I.E has back stabbed the Hegemony and are attacking them on all fronts.’’
Both John and Moa looked surprised at the Colonel that was now smiling and laughing. He then said. “That’s why I’m sending you back to the Oslo line with reinforcements, I think it’s about time that you get back there now go there will troop transports outside that will take you to back, Admiral Ström will be waiting for you when you arrive, Dismissed.’’
John and Moa stood up and saluted the Colonel and went out to the trucks outside and hopped on, and about fifteen minutes later the trucks started to drive towards the Oslo line.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 15122064
When the trucks arrived at the Oslo line it was night and Moa was sleeping, John decided not to wake her up so he carried her to the barracks and laid her on a bed that was empty. He was just about to get some sleep himself when a soldier came in and told him that the Admiral wanted to speak with him. John got out of the bed and walked towards the HQ. On the way to the HQ John noticed that there wasn’t any soldiers in their trenches then he suddenly stop and stared across no-man’s land where the Hegemony's trenches was, He saw an EU flag tied to a metal pole that was waving beautiful in the wind. John smiled and continued his walk toward the HQ. When he entered he saluted the Admiral.
‘‘Welcome back Sergeant, it’s been a while since we last saw each other.’’ The admiral said.
‘‘Thank you sir, yes it’s been a while, I noticed some changes on the Battlefield.’’
‘‘Yes, ever since the H.I.E back stabbed the Hegemony we have been making progress, I have also been informed about your work in Gothenburg, nice job, I’m promoting you to Lieutenant congratulations. You may choose yourself who is going to be sergeant.’’ The Admiral said with a smile on his face.
‘‘Thank you very much sir, I know who is the best for the job.’’ John said. He was just about to leave the room when the Admiral stopped him and says.‘‘Lieutenant I have another thing that you need to know, three months ago a small group of CFR battleships on the way to Germany stooped by your hometown Karlskrona and bombarded it, it lasted for two days. Your wife was among the dead.’’
John turned around. The smile on his face was gone.‘‘Why would they do that, there is no military targets down there?’’ John asked the Admiral.
‘‘We believe that they we’re trying to trick us into thinking that they was going to attack there.’’
John didn’t say anything he just left the room and walked back to the barracks. When he arrived back, Moa was awake and she looked at John that clearly was trying to hide something in his mind.
‘‘What’s happened?’’ She asked john.
John looked at Moa for a long time and then when he finally was able to open his mouth he said, ‘‘I’m a Lieutenant now.’’ Moa smiled and gave him a hug. ‘‘That’s amazing! Congratulations.’’ She said. John hugged her back and said, ‘‘And you are now a Sergeant.’’ Moa stoped hugging John and is now looked at him with an even bigger smile, she then gave John a kiss on the cheek and then gave him a bigger hug than the first time.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 14-02-2065
John and Moa walked towards a group of soldiers that were fooling around with a football. When they arrived John says. ‘‘Attention!’’ All the soldiers lined up and saluted John and Moa. ‘‘At ease soldiers, I am Lieutenant Karlsson and this is Sergeant Strömfeldt, I will be your commanding officer during this attack on the small town just 2 kilometers to the northeast of here, right now the CFR and the H.I.E is fighting over control of the town, when either of them is victorious we will move in and kill the rest of the enemy, understood?’’ John said.
‘’Yes sir Lieutenant.’’ The soldiers said.
‘’Good, we will split up into two groups, all the soldiers to the left of me will come with me, all the soldiers to right of me will go Sergeant Strömfeldt, Move out.’’ John said and the groups separated and followed John or Moa their position just outside of the town.
‘’Sergeant are you in position?’’ John asked Moa over the radio.
‘’Yes sir, we are in position in the forest just outside the town, and the fighting has stopped, it looks like the HIE is victorious, should we attack?’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Not yet, I have a surprise for the rag heads, look to the sky, Sergeant.’’ Suddenly out of nowhere six EU bombers appeared in the sky and carpet bombed the enemy on the streets, killing everyone out in the open. ‘‘NOW, GO, GO, GO.’’ John yelled to his soldiers and ran to the first house, and kicked in the door and killed everyone inside. John turned around and said, “Clear all the streets house by house, no prisoners!’’ The soldier snodded and walked out and told the other soldiers to clear the rest of the houses.
‘‘Sergeant what’s your status?’’ John said over the radio.
‘‘We’re pinned down by an enemy machine gun nest, there’s no way around it, we need back-up.’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Roger that, stay put I’m coming to you.’’John runs out of the house and signal some soldiers to follow him. When they arrive at the house where the gun nest is located he signal a soldier to kick in the door on the count of three.
‘‘One, two, three.’’ The soldier kicked in the door and captured the Islamic soldiers inside of the house, when they killed everybody inside they proceeded to the second floor, they entered a room where the machine gun was, a Islamic soldier that didn’t hear John and his men breached the house, was still firing the machine gun. John took out his knife and slit the soldiers throat, blood squirting everywhere from the wound. John wiped his knife of on the dead soldier’s clothes, he then looked outside the window and gave Moa the all clear sign. John then radioed Major Mattson.‘‘ Major, this is Lieutenant Karlsson reporting, the town’s outskirts and first streets are clear, you can move up the armor now.’’
‘‘Roger that Lieutenant, nice work.’’ The Major said over the radio. And almost immediately Allied tanks rolled in to town.
When John was done talking, Moa came walking towards him, when she stood next to him they both looked at the town that was now almost liberated. “I don’t know about you Lieutenant but I have a good feeling about this.’’ Moa said. They both smiled at each other.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 06-04-2065
John, Moa and a bunch of other soldiers were sitting in the cafeteria and eating, when suddenly they heard cheering from outside. A soldier came rushing in and yelled out, ‘‘AMERCIA HAS BEEN LIBERATED!’’
John and Moa looking at each other in amazement and then ran outside. Outside all the soldiers were celebrating the victory in America, a voice boomed through the camps loudspeakers. ‘‘Soldiers of Europe! As you may have already heard, the Americans have pushed the Hegemony out of North America, and as soon as the Americans can they will come to Europe and help us defeat the CFR and the HIE. We ask for your patience until they do, but let me tell you this, from this day we are no longer sitting on our asses and waiting for the enemy to come to us, from this day we are taking the fight to them!’’ All of the soldiers burst into cheers, some of them started to sing the old song ‘‘we are the champions’’ and soon after, all of the soldiers were singing the song.
Treriksröset, Swed-Norw-Fin border, European union, Earth [Sol] 19-12-2066
John and Moa were walking towards the field HQ, on the way there they walked by more than 6 dozen INS firing at the last Hegemony stronghold in the Scandinavia. When they entered the field HQ they saw Admiral Ström along with Major Mattson and someone else with a lot of military medals on his coat. They saluted the Admiral and the Major.
‘‘Lieutenant, Sergeant, thank you for coming this is General Shepard from the US Army, they will be joining us in this attack.’’ The Admiral said.
John and Moa saluted the General that saluted them back.
‘‘It’s an honor meeting you Lieutenant, I’ve been hearing about your work here.’’ The General said
‘‘Thank you sir, we appreciate your support here today.’’ John said shaking the General’s hand.
They got interrupted in there handshaking by the Admiral that said. “If you look on this map you can see that the Hegemony is surrounded on all sides. There is no way out, we have bombarded them for two days and in about three hours we are going to launch the attack, remember that this is the last Hegemony stronghold in Scandinavia. When we take it, we have liberated Scandinavia. Lieutenant, I’m giving you command of Charlie company that contains of five-hundred soldiers, and don’t worry Sergeant Strömfeldt is one among them. Now get out there and win, and here take this EU flag with you, I want you to raise it when you get to the tower in the middle of the stronghold.” The admiral gave John the flag which he put in his bag.
John and Moa then saluted the Admiral, the major and the General, and left the HQ. Five minutes before the attack was going to be launched John assembled his soldiers to explain the plan.
‘‘The plan is like this, when the attack is launched our artillery will blow a hole in the strongholds wall, after that we will rush in and clear the courtyard so the other units can move in, but keep it in mind that we will be under heavy fire from the enemy and there will be anti-soldier mines all along the ground at the wall. Everybody understand?’’ John said.
‘‘Yes sir Lieutenant’’ the soldiers said out loud.
‘‘Good, now get to your positions....’’ John was interrupted by a loud bang from their artillery.
He then turns to the soldiers and yells.‘‘That’s the signal, go, go, go’’
John, Moa and all the other soldiers ran to the hole in the stronghold wall, it happened that a soldier got shot or stepped on a landmine on the way to the wall. When they arrived at the wall they rushed in to the courtyard and looked for cover as they were trying to dodge the bullets that were shot at them.
After thirty minutes of fighting, the Hegemony had lost more than half of their forces and retreated into the stronghold tower and sealed the big metal door behind them.
‘‘Lieutenant what are we going to do? This door is 50 inches thick.’’ Moa asked John while looking at the big metal door.
John looked at the door and then said, ‘‘Give me your explosives.’’ Four soldiers gave John their explosives. They watched as John placed it on the door. John then gave them the signal to get to cover.
‘‘What are you doing? That door will never break.’’ Moa said to John.
‘‘I know, but those screws that the dumb fucks put outside will.’’ John said. He then pressed the detonator and a loud bang was heard that was the sound of the big metal door falling to the ground. John signaled two soldiers to throw in two flash bangs into the tower, when the grenades exploded John and his soldiers rushed into the tower and killed the blinded CFR troops. They worked their way to the top of the tower and when they reached it John pushed the last CFR soldier over the edge.
He looked down on to the battlefield and saw his fellow soldiers celebrate and dancing. He then took out the EU flag from his bag and tied it to a makeshift flagpole and raised it. When the flag hit the wind it unfurled and whipped in the wind. John and Moa looked deep in each others eyes, and she suddenly kissed him in the lips.
‘‘I’m sorry Lieutenant.’’ She said.
‘‘Don’t be sorry Moa, and you can call me John now.” He said and kissed again.
‘‘Do you hear that?’’ John said.
‘‘No, what is it?’’ Moa asks.
‘‘It’s the fat lady singing.’’ John said, and took out the cigar that has been resting in his breast pocket for over 4 years.
‘‘Is this the end?’’ Moa asks.
‘‘Not yet, but it’s the beginning of the end.’’ John said, and took a smoke from his cigar.
Note: Treriksröset - Three country point. It’s a point where Norway, Sweden and Finland borders comes together.
‘‘Get to the west flank.’’ Corporal Strömfeldt yelled out to a bunch of his soldiers.
‘‘Sergeant! We got 3 CFR walkers heading this way and we are out of anti-tank missiles.’’ A soldier shouted as bullets whizzed past him.
‘‘Radio for some artillery strikes.’’ John replied while emptying his clip on an Islamic soldier rushing towards him.
‘‘Radio is all busted, shot to pieces.’’ The soldier replied as he swore in his native tongue.
John desperately looked around for something he could use against the walkers that was crossing no-man's line. John spotted a cluster of grenades on a dead Finn and snatched them up. ‘‘Corporal cover me while I blow those walkers to hell.’’
Corporal Moa nodded and started to shot at the enemy walkers with her machine gun and the other soldiers did the same. John jumped up onto no-man’s land and started to run towards the walkers while at the same time trying to dodge the incoming bullets. He reached the first walker and took a grenade and threw it underneath the walker. When it exploded the walkers torso flew high into the air and came crashing down a few CFR infantrymen, killing them and the pilot. He did the same to another walker which doubled over in the path of the remaining walker. The last walker distracted by incoming fire from the bunker tripped over the second walker and crashed into the snow. The pilot ejected from the walker and was greeted by John and his sidearm. John pumped two bullets into the pilots face and tried to scramble back into the relative safety of Trench 291. John was half way there when he was hit in the back by a bullet and fell to the ground. He rowed onto his back and looked up and there were three Islamic soldiers about to stab him with their bayonets, when suddenly a salvo of bullets ripped them apart. He looked back and saw that corporal Strömfeldt and three other soldiers had jumped up onto no-man’s land to save him. He stood up with much effort and they all ran back together to the trench while the other soldiers covered them.
Once in the trench John asked, ‘‘How are we doing?’’
‘‘The enemy is falling back to their trenches again.’’ The soldiers answered him still firing his machine gun.
‘’Good. Pick off the stragglers then when you can take a nap. Understood?’’ John told the machine gunner as a combat medic took a look at his wound.
‘‘Understood Sergeant.’’ The soldier answered him.
John was drinking some water when a soldier caught his attention, it was Major Matsson that stopped right in front of him, and John immediately stood up and saluted him.
‘‘That was a mighty fine job you did with those walkers. I am recommending you for a medal.’’ He said with a smile on his face.
‘‘Then you should also recommend these four soldiers for saving my ass out there.’’ John said pointing at Corporal Strömfeldt and the other three soldiers.
‘‘Very well.’’ The Major said and was about to walk away when he was interrupted by a soldier asking him. “Why was this attacked to much larger than the other attacks?’’ the major became quiet for a moment and then replied. ‘‘The Hamburg line has fallen, and the Hegemony wants to take all of mainland Europe in a single strike, but we won’t let them.’’
HQ bunker, The Oslo line, European Union, Earth [Sol] 24-09-2062
‘‘You are today awarded for bravery, for yourself taking out three enemy walkers and aiding your fellow soldiers on the field of battle.’’ Admiral Ström said while giving Sergeant Karlsson, Corporal Strömfeldt and the three other soldiers there medals."
‘‘Thank you sir.’’ They all said and saluted the Admiral and Major Matsson.
They were about to leave when John asked the Admiral.‘‘Sir you wouldn’t happen to have any cigars do you?’’ the Admiral looked at the Sergeant with a smile on his face and said.‘‘Of course I have, how many do you want?’’ John looked around and said.‘‘Well there are five of us... so five cigars would do.’’ The Admiral laughed and took out five cigars out of his coat and gave it to the soldiers. They thanked the Admiral and left the bunker.
When they left Corporal Strömfeldt asked John.‘‘What are we going to do with these?’’ John looked at her with a smile and said. ‘‘We are going to save them until the fat lady sings.” He walked away towards the cafeteria as Strömfeldt followed him.
‘‘Sergeant if you want you can call me Moa.’’
John turned and looked into her eyes and said, “Alright Moa, but you can still call me Sergeant.”
15 km east of Oslo line, European union, Earth [Sol] 24-12-2062
‘‘Can you now please tell me who our target is sergeant?’’ Moa asked as she cleaned her sniper rifle.
‘‘Alright I’ll tell you, but then you have to be quiet, there are enemy patrols all over the place. Our target is a CFR General that will arrive tomorrow to give a speech to his troops, our mission is to assassinate him. Understood?’’ John said while cleaning his own sniper rifle.
‘‘Yes sir, understood, I knew I agreed to be silent, but what’s with that rocket launcher you have in your rug sack?’’ she said pointing at the rocket launcher sticking out of John’s rug sack.
He took it out and said, ‘‘This is a Carl-Gustaf rocket launcher made in 1948 by the swedes, it’s still effective against small armor and CFR walkers.’’ He said with a smile. He handled the weapon almost like a kid playing with a toy in a toy store.
‘‘Why did you bring that along, isn’t it heavy?’’ Moa asked.
‘‘Well Moa, you see when we have killed the General we have to get out and that isn’t going to be easy without a distraction. So when you have taken the shot, I will blow up that gas silo.’’ John said as he pointed towards a huge round shaped building.
‘‘Ah I understand, well goodnight sergeant.’’ Moa said as she crawled into a small igloo shaped hole that they had constructed in the snow for shelter.
15 km east of Oslo line, European union, Earth [Sol] 25-12-2062
‘‘Wake up, we have thirty minutes until the general makes his speech.’’ Moa said to John as she hit him lightly on the foot with the butt of her rifle. ‘‘I spotted a good position to take the shot from, that water tower over there.’’ Moa said pointing at a water tower about 15 meters away.
‘‘Good, you go first I got your back, remember only use silenced weapons.’’ John said while attaching a silencer onto his pistol.
Moa silently and slowly crawled towards the water tower, she arrived undetected, and climbed up the tower followed minutes later by John.
‘‘Okay set up your sniper rifle and wait for the General to enter the Stage.’’ John said while readying his Carl-Gustaf.
Moa picked up her Sniper-rifle and adjust the scope and watched the winds direction and speed on the flags that flanked the stage. The Generals car pulled up next to the stage and the General left the car under heavy escort.
‘‘Merry Christmas Sergeant.’’ Moa said and pulled the trigger. The bullet let out a soft crack and the .50 caliber round whisked across the air and connected with the Generals head. The General dropped to the floor, but most of his head flew high into the air and landed around his body in bits and pieces. John fired his rocket launcher and hit the gas silo. The silo exploded into a ball of fire that incinerated more than forty enemy soldiers.
Both Moa and John immediately slid down the ladder on the water tower and started running towards their pre-assigned LZ. John's radio came alive and spoke out to him.
‘‘Assassins, this is Hornet two-five were taking that ball of fire as a sign. We are heading for the primary LZ, meet you there.’’
‘‘This is assassins, roger that two-five, we are heading to the LZ but the enemy is not far behind we would appreciate if you would hurry, assassins out.”
Moa and John ran for about a minute until they arrived at an open field where a helicopter was waiting for them with 4 soldiers covering them as they ran inside the open side door. When they got aboard they take their sidearm and cover the soldiers as they got into the helicopter and lifted off.
‘‘Hey, you did good Moa, now get some sleep.’’ John said.
‘‘Thank you sergeant.’’ Moa said and closed her eyes and fell asleep immediately.
The Oslo line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 08-02-2063
John and Moa was sitting and eating in the food barracks when a soldier walked in and said to John. ‘‘Sergeant, The major is requesting that you are to report to the HQ.’’ John stood up and started to walk towards the HQ. When he arrived he saluted the Major.
‘‘At ease soldier, I am ordering you to take two thousand soldiers and go down to the city of Gothenburg that has been suffering from eight days of naval-bombardment, we fear that this is the beginning of an invasion by the enemy.’’ The major said handing John a dossier.
‘‘Do I get to choose the soldiers?’’ John said looking through the dossier.
‘’The soldiers has already been briefed about the situation, but you will be their commanding officer.’’
‘‘At the very least I want Corporal Strömfeldt to come with us.’’ John said.
‘‘All right, I’ll send her the order right now, she will be waiting for you at the troop-transport. Good luck down there.’’
‘‘Thank you sir.’’ John said, saluted the Major and then left room.
Gothenburg, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 10-02-2063
John entered the HQ bunker and saw that all of the soldiers inside were sort of panicking, he saw the Colonel he was told to report to, he walked up to the Colonel and saluted him and said. “Sergeant John Karlsson reporting for duty I have a detachment from the Oslo line.’’
‘‘Good. We need all the soldiers we can find.’’
‘‘What’s our situation Colonel?’’ John asked the Colonel.
‘‘The bombardment stopped about two hours ago and immediately the CFR started to ship in troops to the city, they have already taken the west-side of the city, but what I want you to do is to take your soldiers and take back the shopping mall called 'Nordstan' just 2 kilometers to the west, the CFR paratroopers managed to capture it recently and we haven’t been able to take it back. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir I understand.’’ John said and then left the room.
When john came back to his soldiers he explained the plan and divided the soldiers up into four squads Echo, Bravo, Alpha and Beta. He then said. “I will take command over Bravo, Corporal Strömfeldt you take command over Echo, Sergeant Anderson you take Alpha and Sergeant Cooper you take Beta, everybody know what to do?’’
‘‘Yes sergeant,’’ all the soldiers said.
‘‘Good now move on, squad leaders come here.’’ John said waving at them.
The three squad leaders stood next to John while he said. ‘‘Listen, when we are 2 blocks from the mall I want Corporal Strömfeldt to take your soldiers and climb up on the roof and then blow the roof on my signal, Cooper you take your soldiers and go secure the garage and Anderson you and your men are going to the main entrance and attack the enemy when you hear an explosion, I will go to the east wall and blow a hole in it and attacking the enemy from the rear. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir’’ they said and then returned to their squad’s.
After forty minutes of walking they arrived 2 blocks from the mall, the squad’s split up and headed for their positions. When John and Bravo was in position he radioed the other squad-leaders.
‘‘This is Bravo team, we are in position, what’s your status?’’
‘‘This is Beta team, we’re in position at the garage.’’
‘‘Alpha team are ready at the main entrance.’’
‘‘This is Echo team, we’re in position on the roof and the explosives are ready to go off, just waiting for you orders Sergeant.’’
John told his soldiers to ready up to attack the enemy.
‘’Okay Corporal detonate the explosives in 5 seconds, Anderson wait 10 seconds after the explosion before you charge.’’
Just as John finished talking the explosives on the roof detonated and hundreds of soldiers roped down from the holes in the roof, about five seconds after that John detonated his explosives on the east wall and soldiers ran into the mall, capturing the enemy of guard and drawing their attention from the main entrance, with nobody defending the main entrance Sergeant Anderson and his men attacked the confused enemy that was now surrounded by the advancing Allied soldiers.
‘‘Take no prisoners!’’ John yelled out to the soldiers around him that spread the word to the soldiers next to them.
‘‘Sergeant, this is Cooper, we have secured the garage and we are moving to your position from the west, I repeat, you have friendlies coming in from the West.’’ John heard on his radio.
‘‘Roger that.’’ John said.
‘‘Sergeant the enemy is retreating deeper into the mall, should we hunt them down?’’ Moa said over the radio.
‘‘Roger that Corporal, Anderson go with her.’’ John answered her over the radio.
The fighting in the mall continued for half an hour with low casualties for John’s soldiers. When John and his soldiers had secured the area John radioed Sergeant Anderson.
‘‘Sergeant what’s your status?’’
‘‘we caught up with the remaining enemy and killed them all, we are working our way back to you now.’’
‘‘Roger that, what’s Corporal Strömfeldt’s status?’’
‘‘I’m okay sergeant, I took a bullet to the arm but I will survive. You should radio the Colonel and tell that the mall is secured.’’ Moa answered him over the radio.
‘‘Roger that Corporal, there will be a medic waiting for when you return here.’’ John says relived that Moa is alive. He then radios the Colonel and tells him that the mall has been secured. The Colonel says him.‘‘Good job sergeant, what's our casualties?’’
‘‘We have accounted about one-hundred-seventy casualties and some four-hundred wounded’’ John said looking around on his soldiers.
‘‘Roger that, I’m sending some evac-birds to pick up the dead and wounded, you and the rest of your soldiers are to advance to the west-side of the city to aid in its defense and hold on until our navy arrives in 48 hours. Over and out.’’
West Gothenburg, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 13-02-2063
‘‘Sergeant the enemy is retreating to the harbor and the shoreline.’’ A Danish soldier said to John.
‘‘Push on and we just might liberate this city before night falls.’’ John said to the soldiers around him.
‘‘SHIT! Enemy tanks and walkers incoming from north!’’ The Dane yelled out.
John looked to the north and saw nearly four dozen enemy armor coming towards him. He turned around to the soldier next to him and said, ’’Get on the radio and call the navy for a missile strike against the enemy armor!’’
‘‘The navy is engaging the Hegemony ships outside of the harbor, no one is going to respond.’’ The soldier replied.
‘‘Do it anyway, someone has to respond or we all going to be dead in about fifteen seconds.’’ John said to the soldier.
The soldier took out his radio and said, ‘‘Any ships hearing this message, this is Gothenburg ground forces requesting a missile strike on the advancing enemy armor at the harbor and shoreline.’’
Nothing was heard from the navy. The soldier turned to John and was just about to speak when a voice came from the radio.’ “Gothenburg ground forces, this is HMS Copenhagen, Roger on the missile strike, missiles are inbound in 4 seconds.’’
John who had heard the message yelled to his soldiers, ‘‘TAKE COVER!!!’’ All of the Allied soldiers jumped for cover as the missiles hit the enemy armor and infantry on the shoreline.
‘‘Thanks for the help Copenhagen, you just saved our lives. Good luck out there.’’ John said over the radio while looking out over the sea filled with hundreds of battleships waging war against each other.
John then turned and said, “Secure the area, take no prisoners.’’
‘‘Yes Sarge.’’ The soldiers said and started to secure the area and shooting any wounded enemy soldier they found laying on the ground.
‘‘Colonel this is Sergeant Karlsson. The enemy has been neutralized. I repeat we have liberated Gothenburg.’’ John said over the radio.
‘‘Roger that Sergeant good job, but there are still CFR Snipers in that city that refuse to surrender, but don’t worry, they will be dealt with. Now report back to HQ. Corporal Strömfeldt has recovered completely and will be waiting for you when you arrive back here. Over and out.’’ The colonel said satisfied.
Gothenburg, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 12-12-2064
‘‘You wanted to see us Colonel?’’ John said standing outside the door to an office with Moa.
‘‘Ah yes, sit down.’’ The Colonel said with a smile.‘’I have some good news, about two months ago the yanks managed to take back New York City, we first found out yesterday because of communication difficulty’s.’’
‘‘That’s great news, but that doesn’t help us right? ’’ Moa said.
‘‘Actually it does, you see the yanks never could have taken over the city without an advantage.’’
‘‘And what kind of advantage is that?’’ John asked the colonel that was now leaning back in his chair.
‘‘The H.I.E has back stabbed the Hegemony and are attacking them on all fronts.’’
Both John and Moa looked surprised at the Colonel that was now smiling and laughing. He then said. “That’s why I’m sending you back to the Oslo line with reinforcements, I think it’s about time that you get back there now go there will troop transports outside that will take you to back, Admiral Ström will be waiting for you when you arrive, Dismissed.’’
John and Moa stood up and saluted the Colonel and went out to the trucks outside and hopped on, and about fifteen minutes later the trucks started to drive towards the Oslo line.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 15122064
When the trucks arrived at the Oslo line it was night and Moa was sleeping, John decided not to wake her up so he carried her to the barracks and laid her on a bed that was empty. He was just about to get some sleep himself when a soldier came in and told him that the Admiral wanted to speak with him. John got out of the bed and walked towards the HQ. On the way to the HQ John noticed that there wasn’t any soldiers in their trenches then he suddenly stop and stared across no-man’s land where the Hegemony's trenches was, He saw an EU flag tied to a metal pole that was waving beautiful in the wind. John smiled and continued his walk toward the HQ. When he entered he saluted the Admiral.
‘‘Welcome back Sergeant, it’s been a while since we last saw each other.’’ The admiral said.
‘‘Thank you sir, yes it’s been a while, I noticed some changes on the Battlefield.’’
‘‘Yes, ever since the H.I.E back stabbed the Hegemony we have been making progress, I have also been informed about your work in Gothenburg, nice job, I’m promoting you to Lieutenant congratulations. You may choose yourself who is going to be sergeant.’’ The Admiral said with a smile on his face.
‘‘Thank you very much sir, I know who is the best for the job.’’ John said. He was just about to leave the room when the Admiral stopped him and says.‘‘Lieutenant I have another thing that you need to know, three months ago a small group of CFR battleships on the way to Germany stooped by your hometown Karlskrona and bombarded it, it lasted for two days. Your wife was among the dead.’’
John turned around. The smile on his face was gone.‘‘Why would they do that, there is no military targets down there?’’ John asked the Admiral.
‘‘We believe that they we’re trying to trick us into thinking that they was going to attack there.’’
John didn’t say anything he just left the room and walked back to the barracks. When he arrived back, Moa was awake and she looked at John that clearly was trying to hide something in his mind.
‘‘What’s happened?’’ She asked john.
John looked at Moa for a long time and then when he finally was able to open his mouth he said, ‘‘I’m a Lieutenant now.’’ Moa smiled and gave him a hug. ‘‘That’s amazing! Congratulations.’’ She said. John hugged her back and said, ‘‘And you are now a Sergeant.’’ Moa stoped hugging John and is now looked at him with an even bigger smile, she then gave John a kiss on the cheek and then gave him a bigger hug than the first time.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 14-02-2065
John and Moa walked towards a group of soldiers that were fooling around with a football. When they arrived John says. ‘‘Attention!’’ All the soldiers lined up and saluted John and Moa. ‘‘At ease soldiers, I am Lieutenant Karlsson and this is Sergeant Strömfeldt, I will be your commanding officer during this attack on the small town just 2 kilometers to the northeast of here, right now the CFR and the H.I.E is fighting over control of the town, when either of them is victorious we will move in and kill the rest of the enemy, understood?’’ John said.
‘’Yes sir Lieutenant.’’ The soldiers said.
‘’Good, we will split up into two groups, all the soldiers to the left of me will come with me, all the soldiers to right of me will go Sergeant Strömfeldt, Move out.’’ John said and the groups separated and followed John or Moa their position just outside of the town.
‘’Sergeant are you in position?’’ John asked Moa over the radio.
‘’Yes sir, we are in position in the forest just outside the town, and the fighting has stopped, it looks like the HIE is victorious, should we attack?’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Not yet, I have a surprise for the rag heads, look to the sky, Sergeant.’’ Suddenly out of nowhere six EU bombers appeared in the sky and carpet bombed the enemy on the streets, killing everyone out in the open. ‘‘NOW, GO, GO, GO.’’ John yelled to his soldiers and ran to the first house, and kicked in the door and killed everyone inside. John turned around and said, “Clear all the streets house by house, no prisoners!’’ The soldier snodded and walked out and told the other soldiers to clear the rest of the houses.
‘‘Sergeant what’s your status?’’ John said over the radio.
‘‘We’re pinned down by an enemy machine gun nest, there’s no way around it, we need back-up.’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Roger that, stay put I’m coming to you.’’John runs out of the house and signal some soldiers to follow him. When they arrive at the house where the gun nest is located he signal a soldier to kick in the door on the count of three.
‘‘One, two, three.’’ The soldier kicked in the door and captured the Islamic soldiers inside of the house, when they killed everybody inside they proceeded to the second floor, they entered a room where the machine gun was, a Islamic soldier that didn’t hear John and his men breached the house, was still firing the machine gun. John took out his knife and slit the soldiers throat, blood squirting everywhere from the wound. John wiped his knife of on the dead soldier’s clothes, he then looked outside the window and gave Moa the all clear sign. John then radioed Major Mattson.‘‘ Major, this is Lieutenant Karlsson reporting, the town’s outskirts and first streets are clear, you can move up the armor now.’’
‘‘Roger that Lieutenant, nice work.’’ The Major said over the radio. And almost immediately Allied tanks rolled in to town.
When John was done talking, Moa came walking towards him, when she stood next to him they both looked at the town that was now almost liberated. “I don’t know about you Lieutenant but I have a good feeling about this.’’ Moa said. They both smiled at each other.
The Oslo Line, Sweden, European union, Earth [Sol] 06-04-2065
John, Moa and a bunch of other soldiers were sitting in the cafeteria and eating, when suddenly they heard cheering from outside. A soldier came rushing in and yelled out, ‘‘AMERCIA HAS BEEN LIBERATED!’’
John and Moa looking at each other in amazement and then ran outside. Outside all the soldiers were celebrating the victory in America, a voice boomed through the camps loudspeakers. ‘‘Soldiers of Europe! As you may have already heard, the Americans have pushed the Hegemony out of North America, and as soon as the Americans can they will come to Europe and help us defeat the CFR and the HIE. We ask for your patience until they do, but let me tell you this, from this day we are no longer sitting on our asses and waiting for the enemy to come to us, from this day we are taking the fight to them!’’ All of the soldiers burst into cheers, some of them started to sing the old song ‘‘we are the champions’’ and soon after, all of the soldiers were singing the song.
Treriksröset, Swed-Norw-Fin border, European union, Earth [Sol] 19-12-2066
John and Moa were walking towards the field HQ, on the way there they walked by more than 6 dozen INS firing at the last Hegemony stronghold in the Scandinavia. When they entered the field HQ they saw Admiral Ström along with Major Mattson and someone else with a lot of military medals on his coat. They saluted the Admiral and the Major.
‘‘Lieutenant, Sergeant, thank you for coming this is General Shepard from the US Army, they will be joining us in this attack.’’ The Admiral said.
John and Moa saluted the General that saluted them back.
‘‘It’s an honor meeting you Lieutenant, I’ve been hearing about your work here.’’ The General said
‘‘Thank you sir, we appreciate your support here today.’’ John said shaking the General’s hand.
They got interrupted in there handshaking by the Admiral that said. “If you look on this map you can see that the Hegemony is surrounded on all sides. There is no way out, we have bombarded them for two days and in about three hours we are going to launch the attack, remember that this is the last Hegemony stronghold in Scandinavia. When we take it, we have liberated Scandinavia. Lieutenant, I’m giving you command of Charlie company that contains of five-hundred soldiers, and don’t worry Sergeant Strömfeldt is one among them. Now get out there and win, and here take this EU flag with you, I want you to raise it when you get to the tower in the middle of the stronghold.” The admiral gave John the flag which he put in his bag.
John and Moa then saluted the Admiral, the major and the General, and left the HQ. Five minutes before the attack was going to be launched John assembled his soldiers to explain the plan.
‘‘The plan is like this, when the attack is launched our artillery will blow a hole in the strongholds wall, after that we will rush in and clear the courtyard so the other units can move in, but keep it in mind that we will be under heavy fire from the enemy and there will be anti-soldier mines all along the ground at the wall. Everybody understand?’’ John said.
‘‘Yes sir Lieutenant’’ the soldiers said out loud.
‘‘Good, now get to your positions....’’ John was interrupted by a loud bang from their artillery.
He then turns to the soldiers and yells.‘‘That’s the signal, go, go, go’’
John, Moa and all the other soldiers ran to the hole in the stronghold wall, it happened that a soldier got shot or stepped on a landmine on the way to the wall. When they arrived at the wall they rushed in to the courtyard and looked for cover as they were trying to dodge the bullets that were shot at them.
After thirty minutes of fighting, the Hegemony had lost more than half of their forces and retreated into the stronghold tower and sealed the big metal door behind them.
‘‘Lieutenant what are we going to do? This door is 50 inches thick.’’ Moa asked John while looking at the big metal door.
John looked at the door and then said, ‘‘Give me your explosives.’’ Four soldiers gave John their explosives. They watched as John placed it on the door. John then gave them the signal to get to cover.
‘‘What are you doing? That door will never break.’’ Moa said to John.
‘‘I know, but those screws that the dumb fucks put outside will.’’ John said. He then pressed the detonator and a loud bang was heard that was the sound of the big metal door falling to the ground. John signaled two soldiers to throw in two flash bangs into the tower, when the grenades exploded John and his soldiers rushed into the tower and killed the blinded CFR troops. They worked their way to the top of the tower and when they reached it John pushed the last CFR soldier over the edge.
He looked down on to the battlefield and saw his fellow soldiers celebrate and dancing. He then took out the EU flag from his bag and tied it to a makeshift flagpole and raised it. When the flag hit the wind it unfurled and whipped in the wind. John and Moa looked deep in each others eyes, and she suddenly kissed him in the lips.
‘‘I’m sorry Lieutenant.’’ She said.
‘‘Don’t be sorry Moa, and you can call me John now.” He said and kissed again.
‘‘Do you hear that?’’ John said.
‘‘No, what is it?’’ Moa asks.
‘‘It’s the fat lady singing.’’ John said, and took out the cigar that has been resting in his breast pocket for over 4 years.
‘‘Is this the end?’’ Moa asks.
‘‘Not yet, but it’s the beginning of the end.’’ John said, and took a smoke from his cigar.
Note: Treriksröset - Three country point. It’s a point where Norway, Sweden and Finland borders comes together.
North-West Finland, European Union, Earth [Sol] 21-02-2067
‘‘Lieutenant we have to fall back, those walkers are tearing us up’’
‘‘Negative, we need to hold this position until reinforcements arrive, is there anything we can use against those walkers?’’ John said while he was firing his gun at the enemy.
‘‘We are all out of anti-tank rockets, were down to using our grenades’’ The soldier said that had a german accent.
‘‘Try to radio the air force and tell them to bomb the enemy’’
The German took out his radio and began to talk into the radio.‘‘Any plane hearing this message, this is Alpha squad, we need immediate carpet bombing on the enemy forty meters south of our position, I repeat we need immediate carpet bombing on the enemy infantry and armor forty meters south of our position.’’
Nothing was heard from the Allied air force. Suddenly a voice was heard from the radio.‘‘Alpha squad this is command. The air force is fighting off the hegemony air force just about ten kilometers from your position and will not assist you. But additional reinforcements are inbound in one minute, hold on.’’
‘‘You heard him soldiers fight on until reinforcements arrive’’ John said that have heard the message through his own radio.
John and his soldiers fought on as well as they could but nothing could stop the walkers that were shooting their way to John and his soldiers. One of the walkers was now only a few meters away from John and his soldiers and was just about to unleash a volley of missiles when it suddenly exploded followed by the other walkers that one by one exploded into small bits of warm metal and flesh. John turned around and saw three Leopold 4 tanks that were firing at the retreating enemy. John stood up from the bomb crater that he had been taking cover in and saluted the tank commander. The tank commander saluted him back and said.‘‘I heard you could use some help here Lieutenant’’. John just smiled and waved at the tank commander.
John turned around again and looked out over the broken street that was all shredded and full with blown-up cars and dead bodies, then a voice was heard from the radio.‘‘Alpha squad this is command what’s your status?’’
‘‘Command this is Lieutenant Karlsson. The city has been secured, the Hegenomy is retreating and our tanks are pursuing’’
‘‘Excellent work Lieutenant, report back to your field HQ. Command out’’
John walked towards the HQ when he met Moa that had been fighting in another part of the city. They kissed each other and together continued to walk towards the HQ. When they arrived at the HQ they saluted Admiral Ström and Major Matsson that was staring at some maps.
Admiral Ström saluted John and Moa back and said.‘‘Lieutenant, Sergeant we all know about the work you have been doing in Scandinavia and your repetition proceeds you. I called you both here so I can inform you that our Allies in the west have successfully fought their way thru northern and southern France and are now about eighty kilometers from Paris and the Generals have requested that you two assist them in the battle for mainland Europe. So pack your things, because you’re going to France’’.
They both saluted the Admiral and the Major and left the HQ, when they had walked a distance Moa said.‘‘I always wanted to go to France I heard it’s lovely this time of the year.’’ John laughed and kissed Moa.
Unknown, European Union, Earth [Sol] 01-03-2067
It was quiet in the Hornet, all that was heard was the sound of the propellers in the wind and the engine, the helicopter was one of the most quiet helicopters in the world but inside of the helicopter you could clearly hear the engine. The voiceless atmosphere inside the helicopters was broken when Moa woke up and said to John.‘‘You know, we have never had a chance to talk.’’
‘‘What are you talking about, we have had conversations before.’’ John said to Moa.
‘‘I mean we never had a real conversation.’’ Moa answered.
‘‘Okay, what do you want to talk about?’’ John asked Moa.
‘‘Well I don’t even know how old you are, and where you come from so let’s start with that.’’
‘‘We don’ know each other age?! That’s crazy! Well I’m twenty-nine and my hometown is Karlskrona. How about you?’’ John answered.
‘‘I’m twenty-eight and my hometown is Oslo. Why are you here John, I mean why are you fighting in this war?’’
‘‘I always wanted to be a soldier so when I turned eighteen I joined the Swedish army. So why are you here?’’
‘‘Back in 2058 me and my family was going to Israel for our vacation, but the day before we was supposed to leave I got sick. But I told my family that they should go so they did. Some days after that I watched the TV when the news went on that said that the HIE had invaded Israel and all the civilians caught behind enemy lines were executed, I tried to call my family but no one answered, and then a soldier came and knocked on the door and said that my family had been killed in Jerusalem. After that I joined the army and when the war in North America started I volunteered to go there. I stayed and fought in Canada but when I heard of the invasion of Europe I was flown home.’’
Moa’s eyes started to fill with tears, she tried to hide the sadness in her face but it was impossible. John hugged here and tried to comfort her, but the tears kept on coming.
‘‘Don’t worry, in the end all will be okay.’’ John said.
‘‘But it’s not okay.’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Then this isn’t the end. Let’s gets some sleep, you can rest your head on my shoulder’’ john said.
Northern France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 02-03-2067
‘‘WAKE UP, COME ON MOA WAKE UP!!!’’
Moa was awaken by the sound of John’s yelling and the Hornet’s violent shaking and all of the soldiers in panic.
‘‘What’s going on, why are we shaking.’’ Moa asked while she was readying her gear.
‘‘An HIE kamikaze pilot crashed into our rotter blade, we are going to haft to jump!!’’
John walked to the side door and opened it and jumped out followed by Moa and the other soldiers. About one-hundred meters from the ground John, Moa and the rest of the soldiers opened their parachutes and silently soured to the ground below them.
When John touched the ground he took off his parachute and looked around were they have landed. When John had looked around he turned on his radio and said.‘‘Command this is Alpha squad our helicopter was kind off shot down. Do you have our location? Over.’’
‘‘Alpha squad this is command. Roger that we are picking up your distress beacon we are sending a helicopter to pick you up. Command out.’’
‘‘Okay soldiers secure the area for extraction’’ john said to the soldiers that stood around him.
John looked around the area and tried to notice if anyone was missing but all the soldiers was there even the two pilots that had flown the Hornet. Suddenly a load bang was herd, and then another and suddenly one of the pilots dropped to ground.
‘‘LIUETENANT, ENEMYS INCOMING FROM THE SOUTH!!!’’ A soldier shouted out with a Spanish accent.
‘‘Return fire! We have to hold out until the helicopter arrives!!’’ John said and started to shoot at the advancing enemy.
The fighting continued when suddenly a spotlight aimed at the ground started to sweep the area. Then john heard a voice in his radio.
‘‘Alpha squad this is evac-chopper two-fifteen. We do not have a visual contact of you, suggest you pop a flare so we can see you.’’
‘‘John immediately cracked a flare that let out a green smoke up in the sky. The Hornet pilot noticed the smoke and landed next to it. All the soldiers climbed onboard the Hornet that immediately lifted. John that was manning the machine gun saw two Eurofighters carpet bomb the area where the enemy was still shooting from. The bombs touched the ground and let out a loud bang. After that it became quiet.
10 kilometers North of Paris, European Union, Earth [Sol] 03-03-2067
The helicopter landed on the helipad and John and the other soldiers walked out. John and Moa walked towards the field HQ. When they entered they saw Admiral Ström and Major Matsson, John and Moa saluted them.
‘‘Ah. Lieutenant, Sergeant welcome to France. I heard you got in some trouble on the way here. You’re okay?’’ The Admiral asked them while he was looking at some map of Paris.
‘‘Nothing we couldn’t handle sir’’ John answered him.
‘‘Good, we are going to need you at your best. Our forces here have been able to advance several kilometers every day. Mostly because the HIE backstabbed the Hegenomy, but let’s not forget the help from the yank’s they been doing great so far. If you look at these maps you will see that we have the city completely surrounded, but the enemy is still a major treat, we estimate that the enemy has about ten-thousand infantry and about eight-hundred armor they may also have some helicopters hidden in the ruins. Lieutenant you will not participate in the first battle for the city so you can take some time off, now please leave I need to discuss a mission with Sergeant Strömfeldt.’’ John looked up at the Admiral but then saluted him and left the room.
‘‘Sergeant you will lead a team to the Louvre and secure a famous painting from the building before we will begin an artillery-bombardment of the city. We also need to keep this discreet so you will not have any transport in to the Louvre, you are going to haft to use the city’s sewer system that will take you under the museum. We expect this mission to take two days, until then we will have no radio-contact. Understood?’’ The admiral said to Moa.
‘‘Yes sir.’’ Moa said and saluted the Admiral. She was just about to leave the room when the Admiral said.‘‘Two days sergeant, if we can’t get in contact we will proceed with the bombardment.’’
Moa nodded at the Admiral and left the HQ. Outside John stood and waited for her when he saw her he walked to her and asked.‘‘What did he say?’’ Moa faced John and said.‘‘ I can’t say that but I will be back in two days.’’
Moa kissed John and walked to the armory to get the equipment for the mission.
When she arrived at the armory she saw five other soldiers, three men and two women. Moa recognize the soldiers from the pictures that she had been received in a dossier from the Admiral. She stood in front of the soldiers and said.
‘‘I am Sergeant Moa Strömfeldt I will be your commanding officer during this mission, any questions?’’
‘‘No ma’am!’’ The soldiers said.
Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 04-03-2067
‘‘It fucking stinks down here’’ A soldier with British accent said.
‘‘That’s because your mouth is too close to your nose’’ A Italian soldier said
The solders all laughed at the British soldier and didn’t focus on the ground and one of the soldiers tripped. Moa that is walking first in the line turned around and said.
‘‘Shut the fuck up and focus on the mission, or we will all get killed before we even got near the museum.’’
‘‘Why are we risking our lives for some painting?’’ The British said
‘‘Because someone in command tells us to.’’
Moa and her team walks for about six hours in the sewers until they arrive directly under the museum.
‘‘Okay the time is 1: am. We will continue in the morning. Gets some sleep.’’ Moa said.
‘‘Down here in this stinking sewer?’’
‘‘Do you rather sleep up there?’’ Moa said and pointed at a hole in the roof that showed the dark night over the city.
Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 05-03-2067
‘‘Wake up Sergeant, we have to get the painting before the artillery shells starts to fly over us.’’ A Soldier with a Spanish accent said to Moa and shock her shoulder.
‘‘Alright let’s move up.’’
The soldiers climbed up a ladder that took them to a storage room inside the museum. Moa that was first in the room secured it and gave the all clear sign to the rest of the soldiers that climbed in to the room.
‘‘Okay follow, the vault shod be this way. Use silence weapon only, we don’t want the enemy to hear us.’’ Moa said and attached a silencer to her rifle.
Moa and the soldiers went through the museum before they arrived the museum vault, Moa walks in and comes out again and says.‘‘There’s nothing in there, the fucking vault is empty, why the fu….’’
Moa was drowned by the sound of hundreds of explosions all over the city.
‘‘THEY STARTED THE ARTILLERY-BOMBARDMENT!!!’’ The Italian soldier yelled out.
10 Kilometers north of Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol]
John wakes up by the sound of hundreds of artillery guns firing at the city. John immediately runs to the field HQ. When he arrives at the command room he walks up to Admiral Ström and says.‘‘You can’t start the bombardment before Sergeant Strömfeldt and her team comes back!’’
‘‘This isn’t my call, this order comes from top, and also we haven’t been able to get in contact with sergeant Strömfeldt and her team.’’
‘‘But you can’t just leave them there to die.’’ John said.
‘‘I’m sorry Lieutenant but my hands are tied.’’
John runs out of the HQ and runs to the helipad, He sees an American Pilot and his crew sitting beside a Hornet. John runs to them and says.‘‘I need to get in to the city to save a group of soldiers trapped at the Louvre.’’
The American pilot looks at John and then puts on his helmet and says.‘‘ Let’s go then.’’
The pilot, John and the crew jumps on to the Hornet and fly away towards the city. As John is manning the machine gun he sees Admiral Ström on the ground that is saluting John.
Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 05-03-2067
‘‘Why the fuck have they started the bombardment?!’’ one of the soldiers said.
‘‘Get in the vault, it should be able to protect us some time!’’ Moa yells out trying hard to over voice the explosions.
The group runs in to the museum vault and shuts the big round metal door behind them. Moa takes out her radio and says.‘‘Command this is Sergeant Strömfeldt at the Louvre, We need immediate evac, I repeat we need immediate evac!’’
Nothing was heard from the radio,
‘‘It must be this thick walls!’’ The British soldier said.
‘‘That doesn’t explain why they started the bombardment without contacting us first.’’ Moa said.
‘‘What should we do sergeant?’’ one of the soldiers asked with a Greek accent’
‘‘We will try to wait out the bombardment in he…’’
Suddenly a voice outside of the vault was heard, and a loud banging on the vault door.
‘‘Are you in there Moa, I’m here to get you out of here.’’
‘‘I’m here John, I’m opening the door.’’ Moa said and opened the vault door and ran into the arms of John.
‘‘Come on we have to get out of her, the helicopter is waiting for us.’’ John said to Moa and ran outside were the Hornet waited for them.
All of the soldiers jumped on to the helicopter and it lifted from the street just as an artillery shell hit the museum.
‘‘Are you okay?’’ John asked Moa while he was checking for any wounds on here body.
‘‘I’m okay, thank you for saving us.’’
‘‘I would always save you. I love you.’’
Moa looked up at John’s face with a smile and said.‘‘I love you to John.’’ Moa kissed John on the lips for a long time as he kissed her back.
When the Hornet landed at the HQ John thanked the pilot and the crew. Halfway back to the barracks John and Moa was stopped by a French soldier that said.
‘‘You did not have the authorities to us that helicopter, and certainly not to use it to fly in to Paris.’’
‘‘And who are you?’’ John asked the French soldier.
‘‘I am General Bonaparte, Commander of the Allied artillery in this region.’’
‘‘So you was the one who ordered the artillery to start the bombardment of the city?’’ John asked.
‘‘Yes that was me.’’
John suddenly hit the Frenchmen in the face that dropped to the ground.
‘‘Not only do you and your country betray the rest of Europe and leave us to fight the Hegenomy ourselves but now you almost killed the very soldiers who is trying to free your country from the enemy.’’
John and Moa left the Frenchmen on the ground and walked to the barracks.
10 kilometers north of Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 09-04-2067
‘‘Lieutenant, as you may know the battle for Paris has begun and we are making good progress. But high command want’s to throw in everything we got against the Hegemony. But we got ourselves a situation, the Hegemony has built a heavy defense around the Eiffel tower and we haven’t been able to take it out, and we have tried everything. So you and a group of thirty soldiers are going to parachute down on to the Eiffel tower and take out the enemy from the behind. But be careful the artillery-bombardment blew of one of its legs so the tower is leaning. Understood?’’ Admiral Ström said to John while they were looking at some maps.
‘‘Yes sir, how many helicopters are going to transport us in?’’ John said.
‘‘Not a single one, you’re going to be transported in to the city by an old Airbus 747, we have rebuilt it so it can work as a military troop transport. Now move out’’ The admiral said.
John walked out of the HQ and walked to the airfield were the Airbus stood. John walked to the back of the plane were the rest of the soldiers stood and waited for him. In front of them stood Moa and Major Matsson. John walked up to the Major and said.‘‘I didn’t know that you would join us in this mission.’’
‘‘You think that I would let you take all the credit? Besides I have been sitting on my ass and done nothing for too damn long.’’ Matsson replied.
John laughed and stood next to the Major as he informed the soldiers about the mission. When he was done all of the soldiers took a seat on the rebuilt Airbus. John, Moa and Mattson sat at the back of the plane just a few meters from the ramp at the back of the plane. John looked around in the plane and said to Mattson.‘‘ Let’s hope this old thing can keep us in the air.’’
‘‘Don’t worry, I’m sure we will make it. The plane took off and flew to Paris.
After fifteen minutes the plane was flying over the city. It shocked violent as AA shells exploded all around the plane. Suddenly the loudspeaker went on and a voice was heard in American English that said.
‘‘My fellow soldiers. Let no one question our place in human history. That we are here right now is not coincidence or accident, it is our faith, and this war our birthright, our legacy. Our generation was born to fight the Hegenomy, and you my fellow soldiers were born for this very day. Today the enemy will hear the roar of democracy, freedom and you who represent it and defend it with your lives, and they will fear us.
Immediately John discovered that the voice was not only heard in the plane, but in the radio of every soldier, on the ground or in the air. All over the city the allied forces began to cheer and roar. The sound of his fellow soldiers cheering and roaring almost drowned the sound of the explosions and the guns firing.
John was interrupted by his cheering when a green light went on inside the plane. Major Matsson stood up from his seat and went to the back of the plane and pushed a button, the ramp lowered and the first saw the soldiers saw was a city in ruins.
‘‘Lieutenant we have to fall back, those walkers are tearing us up’’
‘‘Negative, we need to hold this position until reinforcements arrive, is there anything we can use against those walkers?’’ John said while he was firing his gun at the enemy.
‘‘We are all out of anti-tank rockets, were down to using our grenades’’ The soldier said that had a german accent.
‘‘Try to radio the air force and tell them to bomb the enemy’’
The German took out his radio and began to talk into the radio.‘‘Any plane hearing this message, this is Alpha squad, we need immediate carpet bombing on the enemy forty meters south of our position, I repeat we need immediate carpet bombing on the enemy infantry and armor forty meters south of our position.’’
Nothing was heard from the Allied air force. Suddenly a voice was heard from the radio.‘‘Alpha squad this is command. The air force is fighting off the hegemony air force just about ten kilometers from your position and will not assist you. But additional reinforcements are inbound in one minute, hold on.’’
‘‘You heard him soldiers fight on until reinforcements arrive’’ John said that have heard the message through his own radio.
John and his soldiers fought on as well as they could but nothing could stop the walkers that were shooting their way to John and his soldiers. One of the walkers was now only a few meters away from John and his soldiers and was just about to unleash a volley of missiles when it suddenly exploded followed by the other walkers that one by one exploded into small bits of warm metal and flesh. John turned around and saw three Leopold 4 tanks that were firing at the retreating enemy. John stood up from the bomb crater that he had been taking cover in and saluted the tank commander. The tank commander saluted him back and said.‘‘I heard you could use some help here Lieutenant’’. John just smiled and waved at the tank commander.
John turned around again and looked out over the broken street that was all shredded and full with blown-up cars and dead bodies, then a voice was heard from the radio.‘‘Alpha squad this is command what’s your status?’’
‘‘Command this is Lieutenant Karlsson. The city has been secured, the Hegenomy is retreating and our tanks are pursuing’’
‘‘Excellent work Lieutenant, report back to your field HQ. Command out’’
John walked towards the HQ when he met Moa that had been fighting in another part of the city. They kissed each other and together continued to walk towards the HQ. When they arrived at the HQ they saluted Admiral Ström and Major Matsson that was staring at some maps.
Admiral Ström saluted John and Moa back and said.‘‘Lieutenant, Sergeant we all know about the work you have been doing in Scandinavia and your repetition proceeds you. I called you both here so I can inform you that our Allies in the west have successfully fought their way thru northern and southern France and are now about eighty kilometers from Paris and the Generals have requested that you two assist them in the battle for mainland Europe. So pack your things, because you’re going to France’’.
They both saluted the Admiral and the Major and left the HQ, when they had walked a distance Moa said.‘‘I always wanted to go to France I heard it’s lovely this time of the year.’’ John laughed and kissed Moa.
Unknown, European Union, Earth [Sol] 01-03-2067
It was quiet in the Hornet, all that was heard was the sound of the propellers in the wind and the engine, the helicopter was one of the most quiet helicopters in the world but inside of the helicopter you could clearly hear the engine. The voiceless atmosphere inside the helicopters was broken when Moa woke up and said to John.‘‘You know, we have never had a chance to talk.’’
‘‘What are you talking about, we have had conversations before.’’ John said to Moa.
‘‘I mean we never had a real conversation.’’ Moa answered.
‘‘Okay, what do you want to talk about?’’ John asked Moa.
‘‘Well I don’t even know how old you are, and where you come from so let’s start with that.’’
‘‘We don’ know each other age?! That’s crazy! Well I’m twenty-nine and my hometown is Karlskrona. How about you?’’ John answered.
‘‘I’m twenty-eight and my hometown is Oslo. Why are you here John, I mean why are you fighting in this war?’’
‘‘I always wanted to be a soldier so when I turned eighteen I joined the Swedish army. So why are you here?’’
‘‘Back in 2058 me and my family was going to Israel for our vacation, but the day before we was supposed to leave I got sick. But I told my family that they should go so they did. Some days after that I watched the TV when the news went on that said that the HIE had invaded Israel and all the civilians caught behind enemy lines were executed, I tried to call my family but no one answered, and then a soldier came and knocked on the door and said that my family had been killed in Jerusalem. After that I joined the army and when the war in North America started I volunteered to go there. I stayed and fought in Canada but when I heard of the invasion of Europe I was flown home.’’
Moa’s eyes started to fill with tears, she tried to hide the sadness in her face but it was impossible. John hugged here and tried to comfort her, but the tears kept on coming.
‘‘Don’t worry, in the end all will be okay.’’ John said.
‘‘But it’s not okay.’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Then this isn’t the end. Let’s gets some sleep, you can rest your head on my shoulder’’ john said.
Northern France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 02-03-2067
‘‘WAKE UP, COME ON MOA WAKE UP!!!’’
Moa was awaken by the sound of John’s yelling and the Hornet’s violent shaking and all of the soldiers in panic.
‘‘What’s going on, why are we shaking.’’ Moa asked while she was readying her gear.
‘‘An HIE kamikaze pilot crashed into our rotter blade, we are going to haft to jump!!’’
John walked to the side door and opened it and jumped out followed by Moa and the other soldiers. About one-hundred meters from the ground John, Moa and the rest of the soldiers opened their parachutes and silently soured to the ground below them.
When John touched the ground he took off his parachute and looked around were they have landed. When John had looked around he turned on his radio and said.‘‘Command this is Alpha squad our helicopter was kind off shot down. Do you have our location? Over.’’
‘‘Alpha squad this is command. Roger that we are picking up your distress beacon we are sending a helicopter to pick you up. Command out.’’
‘‘Okay soldiers secure the area for extraction’’ john said to the soldiers that stood around him.
John looked around the area and tried to notice if anyone was missing but all the soldiers was there even the two pilots that had flown the Hornet. Suddenly a load bang was herd, and then another and suddenly one of the pilots dropped to ground.
‘‘LIUETENANT, ENEMYS INCOMING FROM THE SOUTH!!!’’ A soldier shouted out with a Spanish accent.
‘‘Return fire! We have to hold out until the helicopter arrives!!’’ John said and started to shoot at the advancing enemy.
The fighting continued when suddenly a spotlight aimed at the ground started to sweep the area. Then john heard a voice in his radio.
‘‘Alpha squad this is evac-chopper two-fifteen. We do not have a visual contact of you, suggest you pop a flare so we can see you.’’
‘‘John immediately cracked a flare that let out a green smoke up in the sky. The Hornet pilot noticed the smoke and landed next to it. All the soldiers climbed onboard the Hornet that immediately lifted. John that was manning the machine gun saw two Eurofighters carpet bomb the area where the enemy was still shooting from. The bombs touched the ground and let out a loud bang. After that it became quiet.
10 kilometers North of Paris, European Union, Earth [Sol] 03-03-2067
The helicopter landed on the helipad and John and the other soldiers walked out. John and Moa walked towards the field HQ. When they entered they saw Admiral Ström and Major Matsson, John and Moa saluted them.
‘‘Ah. Lieutenant, Sergeant welcome to France. I heard you got in some trouble on the way here. You’re okay?’’ The Admiral asked them while he was looking at some map of Paris.
‘‘Nothing we couldn’t handle sir’’ John answered him.
‘‘Good, we are going to need you at your best. Our forces here have been able to advance several kilometers every day. Mostly because the HIE backstabbed the Hegenomy, but let’s not forget the help from the yank’s they been doing great so far. If you look at these maps you will see that we have the city completely surrounded, but the enemy is still a major treat, we estimate that the enemy has about ten-thousand infantry and about eight-hundred armor they may also have some helicopters hidden in the ruins. Lieutenant you will not participate in the first battle for the city so you can take some time off, now please leave I need to discuss a mission with Sergeant Strömfeldt.’’ John looked up at the Admiral but then saluted him and left the room.
‘‘Sergeant you will lead a team to the Louvre and secure a famous painting from the building before we will begin an artillery-bombardment of the city. We also need to keep this discreet so you will not have any transport in to the Louvre, you are going to haft to use the city’s sewer system that will take you under the museum. We expect this mission to take two days, until then we will have no radio-contact. Understood?’’ The admiral said to Moa.
‘‘Yes sir.’’ Moa said and saluted the Admiral. She was just about to leave the room when the Admiral said.‘‘Two days sergeant, if we can’t get in contact we will proceed with the bombardment.’’
Moa nodded at the Admiral and left the HQ. Outside John stood and waited for her when he saw her he walked to her and asked.‘‘What did he say?’’ Moa faced John and said.‘‘ I can’t say that but I will be back in two days.’’
Moa kissed John and walked to the armory to get the equipment for the mission.
When she arrived at the armory she saw five other soldiers, three men and two women. Moa recognize the soldiers from the pictures that she had been received in a dossier from the Admiral. She stood in front of the soldiers and said.
‘‘I am Sergeant Moa Strömfeldt I will be your commanding officer during this mission, any questions?’’
‘‘No ma’am!’’ The soldiers said.
Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 04-03-2067
‘‘It fucking stinks down here’’ A soldier with British accent said.
‘‘That’s because your mouth is too close to your nose’’ A Italian soldier said
The solders all laughed at the British soldier and didn’t focus on the ground and one of the soldiers tripped. Moa that is walking first in the line turned around and said.
‘‘Shut the fuck up and focus on the mission, or we will all get killed before we even got near the museum.’’
‘‘Why are we risking our lives for some painting?’’ The British said
‘‘Because someone in command tells us to.’’
Moa and her team walks for about six hours in the sewers until they arrive directly under the museum.
‘‘Okay the time is 1: am. We will continue in the morning. Gets some sleep.’’ Moa said.
‘‘Down here in this stinking sewer?’’
‘‘Do you rather sleep up there?’’ Moa said and pointed at a hole in the roof that showed the dark night over the city.
Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 05-03-2067
‘‘Wake up Sergeant, we have to get the painting before the artillery shells starts to fly over us.’’ A Soldier with a Spanish accent said to Moa and shock her shoulder.
‘‘Alright let’s move up.’’
The soldiers climbed up a ladder that took them to a storage room inside the museum. Moa that was first in the room secured it and gave the all clear sign to the rest of the soldiers that climbed in to the room.
‘‘Okay follow, the vault shod be this way. Use silence weapon only, we don’t want the enemy to hear us.’’ Moa said and attached a silencer to her rifle.
Moa and the soldiers went through the museum before they arrived the museum vault, Moa walks in and comes out again and says.‘‘There’s nothing in there, the fucking vault is empty, why the fu….’’
Moa was drowned by the sound of hundreds of explosions all over the city.
‘‘THEY STARTED THE ARTILLERY-BOMBARDMENT!!!’’ The Italian soldier yelled out.
10 Kilometers north of Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol]
John wakes up by the sound of hundreds of artillery guns firing at the city. John immediately runs to the field HQ. When he arrives at the command room he walks up to Admiral Ström and says.‘‘You can’t start the bombardment before Sergeant Strömfeldt and her team comes back!’’
‘‘This isn’t my call, this order comes from top, and also we haven’t been able to get in contact with sergeant Strömfeldt and her team.’’
‘‘But you can’t just leave them there to die.’’ John said.
‘‘I’m sorry Lieutenant but my hands are tied.’’
John runs out of the HQ and runs to the helipad, He sees an American Pilot and his crew sitting beside a Hornet. John runs to them and says.‘‘I need to get in to the city to save a group of soldiers trapped at the Louvre.’’
The American pilot looks at John and then puts on his helmet and says.‘‘ Let’s go then.’’
The pilot, John and the crew jumps on to the Hornet and fly away towards the city. As John is manning the machine gun he sees Admiral Ström on the ground that is saluting John.
Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 05-03-2067
‘‘Why the fuck have they started the bombardment?!’’ one of the soldiers said.
‘‘Get in the vault, it should be able to protect us some time!’’ Moa yells out trying hard to over voice the explosions.
The group runs in to the museum vault and shuts the big round metal door behind them. Moa takes out her radio and says.‘‘Command this is Sergeant Strömfeldt at the Louvre, We need immediate evac, I repeat we need immediate evac!’’
Nothing was heard from the radio,
‘‘It must be this thick walls!’’ The British soldier said.
‘‘That doesn’t explain why they started the bombardment without contacting us first.’’ Moa said.
‘‘What should we do sergeant?’’ one of the soldiers asked with a Greek accent’
‘‘We will try to wait out the bombardment in he…’’
Suddenly a voice outside of the vault was heard, and a loud banging on the vault door.
‘‘Are you in there Moa, I’m here to get you out of here.’’
‘‘I’m here John, I’m opening the door.’’ Moa said and opened the vault door and ran into the arms of John.
‘‘Come on we have to get out of her, the helicopter is waiting for us.’’ John said to Moa and ran outside were the Hornet waited for them.
All of the soldiers jumped on to the helicopter and it lifted from the street just as an artillery shell hit the museum.
‘‘Are you okay?’’ John asked Moa while he was checking for any wounds on here body.
‘‘I’m okay, thank you for saving us.’’
‘‘I would always save you. I love you.’’
Moa looked up at John’s face with a smile and said.‘‘I love you to John.’’ Moa kissed John on the lips for a long time as he kissed her back.
When the Hornet landed at the HQ John thanked the pilot and the crew. Halfway back to the barracks John and Moa was stopped by a French soldier that said.
‘‘You did not have the authorities to us that helicopter, and certainly not to use it to fly in to Paris.’’
‘‘And who are you?’’ John asked the French soldier.
‘‘I am General Bonaparte, Commander of the Allied artillery in this region.’’
‘‘So you was the one who ordered the artillery to start the bombardment of the city?’’ John asked.
‘‘Yes that was me.’’
John suddenly hit the Frenchmen in the face that dropped to the ground.
‘‘Not only do you and your country betray the rest of Europe and leave us to fight the Hegenomy ourselves but now you almost killed the very soldiers who is trying to free your country from the enemy.’’
John and Moa left the Frenchmen on the ground and walked to the barracks.
10 kilometers north of Paris, France, European Union, Earth [Sol] 09-04-2067
‘‘Lieutenant, as you may know the battle for Paris has begun and we are making good progress. But high command want’s to throw in everything we got against the Hegemony. But we got ourselves a situation, the Hegemony has built a heavy defense around the Eiffel tower and we haven’t been able to take it out, and we have tried everything. So you and a group of thirty soldiers are going to parachute down on to the Eiffel tower and take out the enemy from the behind. But be careful the artillery-bombardment blew of one of its legs so the tower is leaning. Understood?’’ Admiral Ström said to John while they were looking at some maps.
‘‘Yes sir, how many helicopters are going to transport us in?’’ John said.
‘‘Not a single one, you’re going to be transported in to the city by an old Airbus 747, we have rebuilt it so it can work as a military troop transport. Now move out’’ The admiral said.
John walked out of the HQ and walked to the airfield were the Airbus stood. John walked to the back of the plane were the rest of the soldiers stood and waited for him. In front of them stood Moa and Major Matsson. John walked up to the Major and said.‘‘I didn’t know that you would join us in this mission.’’
‘‘You think that I would let you take all the credit? Besides I have been sitting on my ass and done nothing for too damn long.’’ Matsson replied.
John laughed and stood next to the Major as he informed the soldiers about the mission. When he was done all of the soldiers took a seat on the rebuilt Airbus. John, Moa and Mattson sat at the back of the plane just a few meters from the ramp at the back of the plane. John looked around in the plane and said to Mattson.‘‘ Let’s hope this old thing can keep us in the air.’’
‘‘Don’t worry, I’m sure we will make it. The plane took off and flew to Paris.
After fifteen minutes the plane was flying over the city. It shocked violent as AA shells exploded all around the plane. Suddenly the loudspeaker went on and a voice was heard in American English that said.
‘‘My fellow soldiers. Let no one question our place in human history. That we are here right now is not coincidence or accident, it is our faith, and this war our birthright, our legacy. Our generation was born to fight the Hegenomy, and you my fellow soldiers were born for this very day. Today the enemy will hear the roar of democracy, freedom and you who represent it and defend it with your lives, and they will fear us.
Immediately John discovered that the voice was not only heard in the plane, but in the radio of every soldier, on the ground or in the air. All over the city the allied forces began to cheer and roar. The sound of his fellow soldiers cheering and roaring almost drowned the sound of the explosions and the guns firing.
John was interrupted by his cheering when a green light went on inside the plane. Major Matsson stood up from his seat and went to the back of the plane and pushed a button, the ramp lowered and the first saw the soldiers saw was a city in ruins.
Matsson turned around and said.‘‘Alright soldiers let’s do this. GO, GO, GO.
The soldiers ran slowly two and two to the ramp and jumped out into the air. John and Moa that jumped first opened their parachute about fifty meters above the Eiffel tower and landed careful on the towers top floor.
John and Moa secured the floor while the rest of the soldiers landed on the tower. When Major Matsson landed on the tower he took of his parachute and said.‘‘We are going to walk down the stairs nice and careful, we don’t want the tower to fall over. When we are on the ground you find an enemy and you shot first and think after. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir.’’ The soldiers said. The group started to walk down the tower. For every floor they passed John became more certain that they would make it down alive. When they arrived on the ground the group began to shot at the enemy that now was exposed at their rear.
They exchanged fire for about five minutes until the CFR forces were all dead. The Allied forces began to cheer. John walked to Moa and kissed her on the lips.
‘‘What was that for?’’ Moa asked John.
‘‘I’m just glad that you made it. I love you.’’ John said.
‘‘I love you to John.’’ Moa said and kissed John back on the lips.
East Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 09-07-2067
John and Moa was sitting in the food barracks and eating when they heard a loud noise from outside the barrack. They walked out of the barrack and when they came out they saw a group of soldiers standing in a circle around two others that was fighting each other. John walked up to the group and said.‘‘ Okay break it up, what’s going on?’’
‘‘One of them is from Ireland and the other one is from Northern Ireland.’’ An American soldier said.
‘‘I don’t care where you from, we don’t fight each other. Now get in your trucks we’re moving out.’’ John said.
John got into an APC with Moa, Major Matsson and a group of soldiers. The APC drove about thirty minutes until it suddenly stopped, the driver turned around and said.‘‘You are going to haft to go by foot from here, the terrain is too hard to drive on.’’
John opened the back door and jumped of the APC and watched the terrain around him for any enemy.
‘‘All clear let’s move on.’’ John said.
The group started to walk across the dead burnt land. After fifteen minutes of walking they stopped dead. The land ahead of them was burnt, scorched and dead there was some fires burning on the ground, they could see some destroyed tanks and bunkers almost reduced to ash, the smoke from the fires was like a thick fog, it was impossible that any life could exist in this hazard environment.
‘‘Oh my god, what is this hell on earth?’’ A Spanish soldier said.
‘‘I don’t know, but I’m glad I wasn’t here when it became like this’’ John said.
‘‘This was the Hamburg line.’’ Major Matsson said.
‘‘Holy mother of god.’’ The Spaniard said and did a cross sign on his chest.
‘‘Let’s move on.’’ Major Matsson said.
The group was just about to move on when they spotted a Islamic soldier in the smoke.
‘‘Get down on the ground!’’ Major Matsson shouted.
The Islamic soldier didn’t do anything.
‘‘I will not repeat myself again. Get down on the ground!’’ Matsson shouted again.
Again the Islamic soldier didn’t do anything. Matsson then shot the Islamic that fell to ground.
‘‘That super-drug is messing up their min…’’
Matsson’s voice was drowned by the sound of a dozen of Islamic soldiers running at them with explosives attached on their chest, as they were running they yelled out.‘‘ALLAH U AKBAR!!’’
John and the rest of the soldiers began to shoot at the approaching enemy soldiers.
There was only one HIE soldier left, the soldier was running at John, Moa and a large group of soldiers unaware of the danger that was approaching them. Major Matsson saw the HIE soldier and emptied his sidearm clip on him. The soldier didn’t die of it and was still running at the large group of Allied soldiers.
Major Matsson then ran at the HIE soldier and tackled him to the ground that exploded instantly. John and the group was thrown to the ground by the explosion.
John stood up and looked around to try to find Matsson but didn’t see him anywhere, and then when he looked at the ground he saw Matsson’s dog tags.
‘‘Why did he do that?’’ An American soldier said.
‘‘To save our lives.’’ John said.
On the evening of that day, Admiral Ström arrived just as John, Moa and a large group of soldiers was putting a Gravestone on the ground. On the stone it said.‘‘ For the brave men and women who’s lives was lost on this battlefield, let their death not be in vain and may they never be forgotten.’’
John turned around and walked to the Admiral and gave him Major Matsson’s dog tags.
‘‘He was a good friend of mine. I promised his family that he would return one day.’’
‘‘We all made that promise to someone Admiral, but he gave his life so other people could keep that promise.’’ John said and walked to Moa that was waiting for him.
‘‘I’m going to need a new Major, you want the job?’’ Admiral Ström said.
‘‘I’ll take it.’’ John said and walked to the APC with Moa.
Nurnberg, Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 30-07-2067
‘‘Major we got three enemy walkers coming at us!’’ A Norwegian soldier yells out.
‘‘Get on the radio and call for some air support!’’ John answers while shooting MP7A4 assult rifle at the enemy.
‘‘The radio isn’t working, the enemy must be disrupting the channels.’’
‘‘Damn it! Do we have any anti-armor rockets.’’ John said while he was in cover.
‘‘we have two anti-armor rockets.’’ The Norwegian soldier said.
‘‘Do not fire at the walker in the middle.’’
A soldier fired his rocket against one of the walkers, followed quickly by another soldier that fired her rocket. Both missiles flew through the smoke from some fires. The missiles hit two of the walkers that exploded into a ball fire that incinerated the middle walker.
‘‘Nice work soldiers, move on we haft to find that radio disruptor.’’ John said and jumped up from the hole where he had been taking cover.
John and his soldier fought their way through the city and linked upped with more and more units as they liberated street after street from the HIE’s forces. John and the rest of the soldiers fought on and killed every HIE soldier they could see. John and some other soldiers ran after some retreating HIE soldiers, when they made a turn into another street they were met by hundreds of HIE soldiers about one-hundred meters away that had set up a defense around a big tower shaped dish.
‘‘That has to be the radio disruptor.’’ John said to himself.
‘‘Do anyone have a rocket?’’ John said to the soldiers around him.
None of the soldiers raised their hands.
John looked up from his cover to try and spot anything he could use, he suddenly spotted a fuel truck next to the HIE soldiers. John thought a little while then he said.‘‘Listen up, I’m going to try and run to that fuel truck and throw a grenade underneath it, you are going to cover me while I run over there. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir!’’ the soldiers said.
John quickly jumped out of his cover and began to run to the fuel truck, he could hear the sound of bullets flying pass him as he ran from cover to cover and trying to dodge the incoming bullets coming at him. When John arrived at the fuel truck he pulled out the sprint of the grenade and threw it underneath it. Then John ran for his dear life as the grenade ticked down. John was about halfway back when he suddenly got hit in the leg by a bullet. John fell to the ground just as the grenade went off and blew the fuel truck up in the air and killed more than half of the HIE defenders and threw the others to the ground. The Allied soldiers jumped out of their covers and ran to the enemy lines and killed them before they managed to do anything. A couple of soldiers stopped at John and carried him back to a medic that took a look at John’ leg. Suddenly the radio went and thousands of voices were heard in his earpiece.
John felt as the medic hit lightly on John’s helmet, John faced the medic that said.
‘‘I can’t get the bullet out, we have to get you to the field hospital outside the city.’’
John was lifted up on a stretcher by two soldiers that carried him to a truck.
Nurnberg, Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 01-08-2067
John was sitting on a hospital bed when Moa came rushing in. When she arrived at John’s bed she said.‘‘I found out today that you got shot, are you okay?’’
‘‘I’m fine, calm down.’’ John said.
‘‘I was so worried, it’s not the first time you got shot, how long is you luck going to hold.’’ Moa said.
‘‘Don’t worry, I’m not planning to die anytime soon.’’ John said with a smile.
‘‘When are you coming back out to the battle?’’ Moa said.
‘‘The doctor said that the bullets went through my bones. They haft to rebuilt theme somehow, I didn’t understood that part. But they said that it would take about seven days.’’ John said and looked at his leg.
‘‘Okay I see you in sixth days.’’ Moa said and kissed John on the lips.
Berlin, Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 08-08-2067
John was walking towards the field HQ when he stooped to look over the burning city lighting up the night sky.
John walked into the HQ and when he got into the command room he saw Admiral Ström and some other high ranked soldiers.
‘‘Ah Major, good that you are here. You may have seen that we have been able to push into the city, but we’re having a problem, the HIE has pushed us back from several locations in the city and large groups of our forces are in danger of being surrounded, so we are sending in the rest of the forces we have stationed outside the city, you are going in with the Americans. There is a Hornet outside waiting for you. Move out.’’
John saluted Admiral Ström and went outside the HQ to the Hornet that waited for him at the helipad. John walked in to the Hornet and saw that the American soldiers was saluting him, he immediately understood that he had the highest rank.
‘‘At ease soldiers. Does everyone know what we’re doing?’’ John said.
‘‘Yes sir!’’ the soldiers said.
‘‘Good. Lift of.’’ John said and tapped the pilot on the shoulder.
The Hornet lifted and flew towards the burning city. The helicopter shocked every time an AA shell exploded near it.
John was manning the machine guy when he suddenly heard Moa’s voice on the radio.
‘‘This is Sergeant Strömfeldt with Alpha company, we’re surrounded by the enemy on all side with no way of escaping, we need immediate reinforcements or evac, I’m dropping a green flare to indicate our position, please help us!’’
John desperately began to look for the green smoke, but he couldn’t find it. Just as he was about to lose hope one of the pilots said.‘‘Major I got visual on green smoke, I’m bringing us down.’’
When the Hornet was near the ground John let out a long salvo of bullets at the enemy below him that was approaching on Moa and Charlie Company. The bullets from the machine gun ripped through the flesh of the HIE infantry and smattered their blood on the ground.
John turned to the American soldiers inside the hornet and said.‘‘ Alright soldiers, get ready to mo…’’
John got interrupted by the sound of cracking and stones falling to the ground. John looks outside the machine gun glug and he saw a house falling down over them, John quickly turns around and kicks open the side door and yells out to the soldiers.‘‘WE HAVE TO JUMP THE BUILDNIG IS COMING OVER US, GO, GO, GO. The Americans ran to the side door and jumped out of the Hornet onto the ground a few meters down.
John was the last in the Hornet, even the pilot made it out, John jumped out of the Hornet and landed on the ground. John was about to run away from the falling building when a small cement stone hit him in the head and knocked him to the ground. Moa and some of the American soldiers saw what happened and ran to John and pulled him away from the falling building with no time to spare as the building fell to the ground and buried everything in range of the fall area.
‘‘John are you okay?’’ Moa said.
John wasn’t responding. The cement block that hit him in the head knocked him unconscious.
‘‘John wake up, you have to wake up, please don’t die john!’’ Moa yelled out.
‘‘Sergeant we must leave while we can, The HIE will be back soon, we have a Hornet inbound to pick us up.’’ One of the Americans said.
‘‘No! We can’t leave him here!’’ Moa said.
‘‘I’ll carry him on my back but we need to get out of here now!’’ The American said.
The American lifted John up on his back and began to run slowly to the Hornet that landed a few meters away from them. When he got inside the Hornet he laid John on the floor next to Moa. The Hornet took off and flew out of the burning city. Moa sat down on her knees and prayed for the first time in her life.
London, European Union, Earth [Sol] 22-08-2068
John opened his eyes and a bright light blinded him. He suddenly heard a voice.
‘‘The eyes are responding to the flashlight. He is waking up, go get the General.’’
‘‘Where am I?’’ John said, still blinded by the light.
‘‘You’re in a military hospital in London, you have been in a coma for little more than a year.’’ The nurse said.
‘‘What happened, why am I here?’’ John said.
‘‘You saved a lot of my soldiers Major, Unfortunately you got injured.’’ John recognized the voice.
‘‘General Shepard.’’ John tried to get out of the bed to salute the General but was stopped by the nurse.
‘‘Take it easy Major you need to rest.’’ The General said.
‘‘I’ve being resting for more than a year General. It’s time for me to get back to the battle.’’ John said.
‘‘In time Major. The war is going great, we are fighting down in former Yugoslavia and we are almost at Moscow. Now get some rest.’’ The General said.
John went back to sleep.
South-west Bosnia, European Union, Earth [Sol] 16-04-2069
‘‘We’re soon at the base Major. ETA five minutes.’’ The Hornet pilot said with a Danish accent.
‘‘Roger that Lieutenant.’’ John said and checked his gear.
The Hornet landed on the helipad and John walked out through the side door to be surprise that Moa stood and waited for him. When she saw him she ran into the arms of John and hugged him hard.
‘‘I thought I would never see you again, I missed you so much.’’ Moa said still hugging John.
‘‘I would never leave you, you’re my favorite Sergeant. And we still got a war to win and I’m planning to be there when we do. I love you. John said.
‘‘I love you to John. But it’s Lieutenant now.’’ Moa said and smiled.
‘‘That’s fantastic. Congratulations!’’ John said and kissed Moa.
‘‘Thank you. Admiral Ström wants to talk with you. He’s in the field HQ.’’ Moa said and kissed john back.
John walked to the field HQ and when he entered he saluted the Admiral.
‘‘It’s good to see you back on your feet again Major. Let’s not waste anytime standing around here. Your mission is to liberate the small city of Mostar you will be given command over Delta squad that has about one-hundred and fifty soldiers. But your mission priority is to kill or capture the HIE General. You will be aided by the Bosnian resistance in the village. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir.’’ John said and saluted the Admiral.
John walked out of the HQ and walked to Moa and said.‘‘ Do you have any mission right now?’’
‘‘No, why do you ask?’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Come on beautiful, you’re coming with me.’’ John said and smiled.
John, Moa and the rest of the soldiers hid in the forest up on a hill outside the town when night came.
‘‘Why aren’t we attacking them, we’ve been here for five hours.’’ A Portuguese soldier said.
‘‘We have to wait for the resistance to give us their signal.’’ A British soldier said.
‘‘Ding, ding, ding we have a winner. John said and the group of soldiers began to laugh. They got interrupted by a loud explosion in the town.
‘‘I’ll take that as a signal.’’ The Portuguese said.
‘‘Bosnian resistance this is Major Karlsson with the Allied forces what’s your status. Over?’’ John said over the radio
‘‘Allied forces this is the resistance our location has been compromised we need help.’’ A man said over the radio.
‘‘Where is the HIE General?’’ John said.
‘‘The General is escaping via a boat at the river.’’
‘‘Command this is Delta squad we have the location of the HIE General, but the Bosnian resistance is taking heavy casualties.’’ John said over the radio
‘‘Delta squad this is command, your mission priority is the HIE General.’’
‘‘What about the resistance?’’ john asked.
‘‘They are considered acceptable losses Major. Command out.’’
‘‘Acceptable losses my ass. Lieutenant Strömfeldt, take half of the squad and chase down the General, I will take the rest and help the resistance.
‘‘What the about orders?’’ A soldier with Scottish accent asked.
‘‘Fuck the orders, I won’t leave the resistance to die. Now move out!’’ John said and checked his weapon.
The Squad split up in half and walked separate ways. John and his soldiers worked their way down to the town and started to shot at the HIE soldiers. John then talked in to his radio.
‘‘Resistance this is Major Karlsson, we do not have your location, suggest you send up a flare.’’
Immediately a red flare lit up the night sky and sored down to the ground slowly.
‘‘Come on soldiers, let’s save those souls.’’
John and the soldiers fought through numerous enemy soldiers and worked their way to the resistance. When they arrived at the resistance they killed the last of the enemy and waved a white flag and john said.‘‘ Don’t shoot we’re friendlies.’’
‘‘Thank god you’re here, we wouldn’t survived if you didn’t had come.’’ A man with Bosnian accent said.
‘‘You’re welcome, what happened here?’’ John asked.
The soldiers ran slowly two and two to the ramp and jumped out into the air. John and Moa that jumped first opened their parachute about fifty meters above the Eiffel tower and landed careful on the towers top floor.
John and Moa secured the floor while the rest of the soldiers landed on the tower. When Major Matsson landed on the tower he took of his parachute and said.‘‘We are going to walk down the stairs nice and careful, we don’t want the tower to fall over. When we are on the ground you find an enemy and you shot first and think after. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir.’’ The soldiers said. The group started to walk down the tower. For every floor they passed John became more certain that they would make it down alive. When they arrived on the ground the group began to shot at the enemy that now was exposed at their rear.
They exchanged fire for about five minutes until the CFR forces were all dead. The Allied forces began to cheer. John walked to Moa and kissed her on the lips.
‘‘What was that for?’’ Moa asked John.
‘‘I’m just glad that you made it. I love you.’’ John said.
‘‘I love you to John.’’ Moa said and kissed John back on the lips.
East Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 09-07-2067
John and Moa was sitting in the food barracks and eating when they heard a loud noise from outside the barrack. They walked out of the barrack and when they came out they saw a group of soldiers standing in a circle around two others that was fighting each other. John walked up to the group and said.‘‘ Okay break it up, what’s going on?’’
‘‘One of them is from Ireland and the other one is from Northern Ireland.’’ An American soldier said.
‘‘I don’t care where you from, we don’t fight each other. Now get in your trucks we’re moving out.’’ John said.
John got into an APC with Moa, Major Matsson and a group of soldiers. The APC drove about thirty minutes until it suddenly stopped, the driver turned around and said.‘‘You are going to haft to go by foot from here, the terrain is too hard to drive on.’’
John opened the back door and jumped of the APC and watched the terrain around him for any enemy.
‘‘All clear let’s move on.’’ John said.
The group started to walk across the dead burnt land. After fifteen minutes of walking they stopped dead. The land ahead of them was burnt, scorched and dead there was some fires burning on the ground, they could see some destroyed tanks and bunkers almost reduced to ash, the smoke from the fires was like a thick fog, it was impossible that any life could exist in this hazard environment.
‘‘Oh my god, what is this hell on earth?’’ A Spanish soldier said.
‘‘I don’t know, but I’m glad I wasn’t here when it became like this’’ John said.
‘‘This was the Hamburg line.’’ Major Matsson said.
‘‘Holy mother of god.’’ The Spaniard said and did a cross sign on his chest.
‘‘Let’s move on.’’ Major Matsson said.
The group was just about to move on when they spotted a Islamic soldier in the smoke.
‘‘Get down on the ground!’’ Major Matsson shouted.
The Islamic soldier didn’t do anything.
‘‘I will not repeat myself again. Get down on the ground!’’ Matsson shouted again.
Again the Islamic soldier didn’t do anything. Matsson then shot the Islamic that fell to ground.
‘‘That super-drug is messing up their min…’’
Matsson’s voice was drowned by the sound of a dozen of Islamic soldiers running at them with explosives attached on their chest, as they were running they yelled out.‘‘ALLAH U AKBAR!!’’
John and the rest of the soldiers began to shoot at the approaching enemy soldiers.
There was only one HIE soldier left, the soldier was running at John, Moa and a large group of soldiers unaware of the danger that was approaching them. Major Matsson saw the HIE soldier and emptied his sidearm clip on him. The soldier didn’t die of it and was still running at the large group of Allied soldiers.
Major Matsson then ran at the HIE soldier and tackled him to the ground that exploded instantly. John and the group was thrown to the ground by the explosion.
John stood up and looked around to try to find Matsson but didn’t see him anywhere, and then when he looked at the ground he saw Matsson’s dog tags.
‘‘Why did he do that?’’ An American soldier said.
‘‘To save our lives.’’ John said.
On the evening of that day, Admiral Ström arrived just as John, Moa and a large group of soldiers was putting a Gravestone on the ground. On the stone it said.‘‘ For the brave men and women who’s lives was lost on this battlefield, let their death not be in vain and may they never be forgotten.’’
John turned around and walked to the Admiral and gave him Major Matsson’s dog tags.
‘‘He was a good friend of mine. I promised his family that he would return one day.’’
‘‘We all made that promise to someone Admiral, but he gave his life so other people could keep that promise.’’ John said and walked to Moa that was waiting for him.
‘‘I’m going to need a new Major, you want the job?’’ Admiral Ström said.
‘‘I’ll take it.’’ John said and walked to the APC with Moa.
Nurnberg, Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 30-07-2067
‘‘Major we got three enemy walkers coming at us!’’ A Norwegian soldier yells out.
‘‘Get on the radio and call for some air support!’’ John answers while shooting MP7A4 assult rifle at the enemy.
‘‘The radio isn’t working, the enemy must be disrupting the channels.’’
‘‘Damn it! Do we have any anti-armor rockets.’’ John said while he was in cover.
‘‘we have two anti-armor rockets.’’ The Norwegian soldier said.
‘‘Do not fire at the walker in the middle.’’
A soldier fired his rocket against one of the walkers, followed quickly by another soldier that fired her rocket. Both missiles flew through the smoke from some fires. The missiles hit two of the walkers that exploded into a ball fire that incinerated the middle walker.
‘‘Nice work soldiers, move on we haft to find that radio disruptor.’’ John said and jumped up from the hole where he had been taking cover.
John and his soldier fought their way through the city and linked upped with more and more units as they liberated street after street from the HIE’s forces. John and the rest of the soldiers fought on and killed every HIE soldier they could see. John and some other soldiers ran after some retreating HIE soldiers, when they made a turn into another street they were met by hundreds of HIE soldiers about one-hundred meters away that had set up a defense around a big tower shaped dish.
‘‘That has to be the radio disruptor.’’ John said to himself.
‘‘Do anyone have a rocket?’’ John said to the soldiers around him.
None of the soldiers raised their hands.
John looked up from his cover to try and spot anything he could use, he suddenly spotted a fuel truck next to the HIE soldiers. John thought a little while then he said.‘‘Listen up, I’m going to try and run to that fuel truck and throw a grenade underneath it, you are going to cover me while I run over there. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir!’’ the soldiers said.
John quickly jumped out of his cover and began to run to the fuel truck, he could hear the sound of bullets flying pass him as he ran from cover to cover and trying to dodge the incoming bullets coming at him. When John arrived at the fuel truck he pulled out the sprint of the grenade and threw it underneath it. Then John ran for his dear life as the grenade ticked down. John was about halfway back when he suddenly got hit in the leg by a bullet. John fell to the ground just as the grenade went off and blew the fuel truck up in the air and killed more than half of the HIE defenders and threw the others to the ground. The Allied soldiers jumped out of their covers and ran to the enemy lines and killed them before they managed to do anything. A couple of soldiers stopped at John and carried him back to a medic that took a look at John’ leg. Suddenly the radio went and thousands of voices were heard in his earpiece.
John felt as the medic hit lightly on John’s helmet, John faced the medic that said.
‘‘I can’t get the bullet out, we have to get you to the field hospital outside the city.’’
John was lifted up on a stretcher by two soldiers that carried him to a truck.
Nurnberg, Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 01-08-2067
John was sitting on a hospital bed when Moa came rushing in. When she arrived at John’s bed she said.‘‘I found out today that you got shot, are you okay?’’
‘‘I’m fine, calm down.’’ John said.
‘‘I was so worried, it’s not the first time you got shot, how long is you luck going to hold.’’ Moa said.
‘‘Don’t worry, I’m not planning to die anytime soon.’’ John said with a smile.
‘‘When are you coming back out to the battle?’’ Moa said.
‘‘The doctor said that the bullets went through my bones. They haft to rebuilt theme somehow, I didn’t understood that part. But they said that it would take about seven days.’’ John said and looked at his leg.
‘‘Okay I see you in sixth days.’’ Moa said and kissed John on the lips.
Berlin, Germany, European Union, Earth [Sol] 08-08-2067
John was walking towards the field HQ when he stooped to look over the burning city lighting up the night sky.
John walked into the HQ and when he got into the command room he saw Admiral Ström and some other high ranked soldiers.
‘‘Ah Major, good that you are here. You may have seen that we have been able to push into the city, but we’re having a problem, the HIE has pushed us back from several locations in the city and large groups of our forces are in danger of being surrounded, so we are sending in the rest of the forces we have stationed outside the city, you are going in with the Americans. There is a Hornet outside waiting for you. Move out.’’
John saluted Admiral Ström and went outside the HQ to the Hornet that waited for him at the helipad. John walked in to the Hornet and saw that the American soldiers was saluting him, he immediately understood that he had the highest rank.
‘‘At ease soldiers. Does everyone know what we’re doing?’’ John said.
‘‘Yes sir!’’ the soldiers said.
‘‘Good. Lift of.’’ John said and tapped the pilot on the shoulder.
The Hornet lifted and flew towards the burning city. The helicopter shocked every time an AA shell exploded near it.
John was manning the machine guy when he suddenly heard Moa’s voice on the radio.
‘‘This is Sergeant Strömfeldt with Alpha company, we’re surrounded by the enemy on all side with no way of escaping, we need immediate reinforcements or evac, I’m dropping a green flare to indicate our position, please help us!’’
John desperately began to look for the green smoke, but he couldn’t find it. Just as he was about to lose hope one of the pilots said.‘‘Major I got visual on green smoke, I’m bringing us down.’’
When the Hornet was near the ground John let out a long salvo of bullets at the enemy below him that was approaching on Moa and Charlie Company. The bullets from the machine gun ripped through the flesh of the HIE infantry and smattered their blood on the ground.
John turned to the American soldiers inside the hornet and said.‘‘ Alright soldiers, get ready to mo…’’
John got interrupted by the sound of cracking and stones falling to the ground. John looks outside the machine gun glug and he saw a house falling down over them, John quickly turns around and kicks open the side door and yells out to the soldiers.‘‘WE HAVE TO JUMP THE BUILDNIG IS COMING OVER US, GO, GO, GO. The Americans ran to the side door and jumped out of the Hornet onto the ground a few meters down.
John was the last in the Hornet, even the pilot made it out, John jumped out of the Hornet and landed on the ground. John was about to run away from the falling building when a small cement stone hit him in the head and knocked him to the ground. Moa and some of the American soldiers saw what happened and ran to John and pulled him away from the falling building with no time to spare as the building fell to the ground and buried everything in range of the fall area.
‘‘John are you okay?’’ Moa said.
John wasn’t responding. The cement block that hit him in the head knocked him unconscious.
‘‘John wake up, you have to wake up, please don’t die john!’’ Moa yelled out.
‘‘Sergeant we must leave while we can, The HIE will be back soon, we have a Hornet inbound to pick us up.’’ One of the Americans said.
‘‘No! We can’t leave him here!’’ Moa said.
‘‘I’ll carry him on my back but we need to get out of here now!’’ The American said.
The American lifted John up on his back and began to run slowly to the Hornet that landed a few meters away from them. When he got inside the Hornet he laid John on the floor next to Moa. The Hornet took off and flew out of the burning city. Moa sat down on her knees and prayed for the first time in her life.
London, European Union, Earth [Sol] 22-08-2068
John opened his eyes and a bright light blinded him. He suddenly heard a voice.
‘‘The eyes are responding to the flashlight. He is waking up, go get the General.’’
‘‘Where am I?’’ John said, still blinded by the light.
‘‘You’re in a military hospital in London, you have been in a coma for little more than a year.’’ The nurse said.
‘‘What happened, why am I here?’’ John said.
‘‘You saved a lot of my soldiers Major, Unfortunately you got injured.’’ John recognized the voice.
‘‘General Shepard.’’ John tried to get out of the bed to salute the General but was stopped by the nurse.
‘‘Take it easy Major you need to rest.’’ The General said.
‘‘I’ve being resting for more than a year General. It’s time for me to get back to the battle.’’ John said.
‘‘In time Major. The war is going great, we are fighting down in former Yugoslavia and we are almost at Moscow. Now get some rest.’’ The General said.
John went back to sleep.
South-west Bosnia, European Union, Earth [Sol] 16-04-2069
‘‘We’re soon at the base Major. ETA five minutes.’’ The Hornet pilot said with a Danish accent.
‘‘Roger that Lieutenant.’’ John said and checked his gear.
The Hornet landed on the helipad and John walked out through the side door to be surprise that Moa stood and waited for him. When she saw him she ran into the arms of John and hugged him hard.
‘‘I thought I would never see you again, I missed you so much.’’ Moa said still hugging John.
‘‘I would never leave you, you’re my favorite Sergeant. And we still got a war to win and I’m planning to be there when we do. I love you. John said.
‘‘I love you to John. But it’s Lieutenant now.’’ Moa said and smiled.
‘‘That’s fantastic. Congratulations!’’ John said and kissed Moa.
‘‘Thank you. Admiral Ström wants to talk with you. He’s in the field HQ.’’ Moa said and kissed john back.
John walked to the field HQ and when he entered he saluted the Admiral.
‘‘It’s good to see you back on your feet again Major. Let’s not waste anytime standing around here. Your mission is to liberate the small city of Mostar you will be given command over Delta squad that has about one-hundred and fifty soldiers. But your mission priority is to kill or capture the HIE General. You will be aided by the Bosnian resistance in the village. Understood?’’
‘‘Yes sir.’’ John said and saluted the Admiral.
John walked out of the HQ and walked to Moa and said.‘‘ Do you have any mission right now?’’
‘‘No, why do you ask?’’ Moa answered him.
‘‘Come on beautiful, you’re coming with me.’’ John said and smiled.
John, Moa and the rest of the soldiers hid in the forest up on a hill outside the town when night came.
‘‘Why aren’t we attacking them, we’ve been here for five hours.’’ A Portuguese soldier said.
‘‘We have to wait for the resistance to give us their signal.’’ A British soldier said.
‘‘Ding, ding, ding we have a winner. John said and the group of soldiers began to laugh. They got interrupted by a loud explosion in the town.
‘‘I’ll take that as a signal.’’ The Portuguese said.
‘‘Bosnian resistance this is Major Karlsson with the Allied forces what’s your status. Over?’’ John said over the radio
‘‘Allied forces this is the resistance our location has been compromised we need help.’’ A man said over the radio.
‘‘Where is the HIE General?’’ John said.
‘‘The General is escaping via a boat at the river.’’
‘‘Command this is Delta squad we have the location of the HIE General, but the Bosnian resistance is taking heavy casualties.’’ John said over the radio
‘‘Delta squad this is command, your mission priority is the HIE General.’’
‘‘What about the resistance?’’ john asked.
‘‘They are considered acceptable losses Major. Command out.’’
‘‘Acceptable losses my ass. Lieutenant Strömfeldt, take half of the squad and chase down the General, I will take the rest and help the resistance.
‘‘What the about orders?’’ A soldier with Scottish accent asked.
‘‘Fuck the orders, I won’t leave the resistance to die. Now move out!’’ John said and checked his weapon.
The Squad split up in half and walked separate ways. John and his soldiers worked their way down to the town and started to shot at the HIE soldiers. John then talked in to his radio.
‘‘Resistance this is Major Karlsson, we do not have your location, suggest you send up a flare.’’
Immediately a red flare lit up the night sky and sored down to the ground slowly.
‘‘Come on soldiers, let’s save those souls.’’
John and the soldiers fought through numerous enemy soldiers and worked their way to the resistance. When they arrived at the resistance they killed the last of the enemy and waved a white flag and john said.‘‘ Don’t shoot we’re friendlies.’’
‘‘Thank god you’re here, we wouldn’t survived if you didn’t had come.’’ A man with Bosnian accent said.
‘‘You’re welcome, what happened here?’’ John asked.
‘‘We had a man undercover inside the HIE field HQ building when he cover was blown they came out and began to shot at civilians, we had no choice but to stop them.’’ The Bosnian answered.
‘‘You did the right thing. What information did you get from your undercover man?’’ John asked.
‘‘The super drug that the HIE is giving to their soldier is losing its effect because of the two front war the HIE is fighting in Europe. Their soldiers have lost their capability of thinking correct, making it hard for them to see who is the enemy and who is the friendly, hell one soldier even began to shot his friends before.’’
‘‘Good work securing that information.’’ John said and right after john heard Moa’s voice in his radio.
‘‘Major this is Lieutenant Strömfeldt, we intercepted the General and managed to shot the engine on his boat but he killed himself before we could capture him.’’
‘‘Roget that Lieutenant, radio command and tell them we secured the town.’’ John said over the radio.
Just when John was about to leave a soldier shouted from a building.‘‘Major! We got a CFR prisoner here!’’
John walked in to the building and saw a man sitting on his knees with bruisers and scars over his whole body.
‘‘Name and rank please.’’ John said with a strong voice.
‘‘Alexander petrenko, I am private in the Great Russian army.’’ The man said with bad English.
‘‘What is so great about your army.’’ John said.
‘‘We have great soldiers that lose.’’
‘‘And yet you are the one that is sitting here on your knees.’’ John said.
‘‘I stayed behind so civilians in New Stalingrad could flee from the fucking HIE that betrayed us.’’ The Russian said and spit on a dead HIE soldier besides him.
‘‘Where were you stationed before that?’’ John said.
‘‘I was in Scandinavia and attacked the Oslo line.’’
‘‘I lost a lot friends in Scandinavia, and I think that you have their blood on your hands.’’ John said.
‘‘I to lost a lot of friends in this war. But I can give you information, we can make a deal. The Russian said and watched as john took out his knife.
‘‘What kind of information do you have to bargain with?’’ John said and looked on his knife.
‘‘In Estonia we have a POW camp that houses over thirty-thousand European troops that was lucky enough to face us instead of the HIE. They may still be alive.’’ The Russian said.
‘‘We already have liberated that camp, we only found fifteen-hundred alive soldiers.’’ John took his knife and was just about to slit the Russians throat when he yelled out.‘‘ Please do not kill me! I have family in Russia. I hate this war as much as you do, I just follow orders!’’ John took a step back and put his knife back into the folder.
‘‘I’m going to let you go, but you’ll have to hurry because there are a lot of soldiers heading this way, and unlike me, they will not hesitate about killing you.’’
The Russian stood up on his feet and was just about to leave the building when he turned around and said.‘‘Thank you Major.’’ The Russian then left the building and disappeared in the dark night.
East Greece, European Union, Earth [Sol] 23-11-2069
There were soldiers as long as the eye could see, and the sky was full of helicopters and airplanes. John and Moa was standing in front of a big stage with thousands of other soldiers.
‘‘What kind of soldiers are they?’’ Moa said and pointed to a group of soldiers with an old Greek helmet painted on their chest.
‘‘That’s the Spartans. They are the Greek resistance, they took the name from the old Spartan elite warriors.
‘‘Oh, were they any good?’’ Moa said.
‘‘They stopped the forces of Asia more than two-thousand years ago. So yes, they were good.’’
When john stopped talking a man walked up on the stage. They all recognized the man. It was General De-Tierra and he began to talk into the microphone.
‘‘My fellow soldiers, I want you to remember this day for two things. Today is the day that we liberate Europe, after seven hard years of fighting on the ground, in the air and on the oceans we stand here on this ground. Also remember that this is the ground where the HIE invaded Europe, and this is the ground where we will take the fight to them. When the Hamburg line fell all of you Europeans promised that you would come back, today you have fulfilled that promise, now let’s take one step more. Today is the day we take the fight to our enemies, when you stand in the boats or sitting in the helicopters remember this, stay focused, stay calm and stay alive.’’
All of the soldiers began to cheer. And then the soldiers jogged to their squads to prepare for the assault on Istanbul. In the distance they could see Allied planes and ships bombing the city that they were about to take over and from there continue to crush the HIE.
John and Moa gathered their gear and jogged to the Helipad and was directed to the Hornet that was going to fly them in. John and Moa was divided into different squads. John then turned to moa and said.
‘‘I’ll see you on the other side.’’
‘‘I will hold you to that.’’ Moa said and kissed John.
THE END.
‘‘You did the right thing. What information did you get from your undercover man?’’ John asked.
‘‘The super drug that the HIE is giving to their soldier is losing its effect because of the two front war the HIE is fighting in Europe. Their soldiers have lost their capability of thinking correct, making it hard for them to see who is the enemy and who is the friendly, hell one soldier even began to shot his friends before.’’
‘‘Good work securing that information.’’ John said and right after john heard Moa’s voice in his radio.
‘‘Major this is Lieutenant Strömfeldt, we intercepted the General and managed to shot the engine on his boat but he killed himself before we could capture him.’’
‘‘Roget that Lieutenant, radio command and tell them we secured the town.’’ John said over the radio.
Just when John was about to leave a soldier shouted from a building.‘‘Major! We got a CFR prisoner here!’’
John walked in to the building and saw a man sitting on his knees with bruisers and scars over his whole body.
‘‘Name and rank please.’’ John said with a strong voice.
‘‘Alexander petrenko, I am private in the Great Russian army.’’ The man said with bad English.
‘‘What is so great about your army.’’ John said.
‘‘We have great soldiers that lose.’’
‘‘And yet you are the one that is sitting here on your knees.’’ John said.
‘‘I stayed behind so civilians in New Stalingrad could flee from the fucking HIE that betrayed us.’’ The Russian said and spit on a dead HIE soldier besides him.
‘‘Where were you stationed before that?’’ John said.
‘‘I was in Scandinavia and attacked the Oslo line.’’
‘‘I lost a lot friends in Scandinavia, and I think that you have their blood on your hands.’’ John said.
‘‘I to lost a lot of friends in this war. But I can give you information, we can make a deal. The Russian said and watched as john took out his knife.
‘‘What kind of information do you have to bargain with?’’ John said and looked on his knife.
‘‘In Estonia we have a POW camp that houses over thirty-thousand European troops that was lucky enough to face us instead of the HIE. They may still be alive.’’ The Russian said.
‘‘We already have liberated that camp, we only found fifteen-hundred alive soldiers.’’ John took his knife and was just about to slit the Russians throat when he yelled out.‘‘ Please do not kill me! I have family in Russia. I hate this war as much as you do, I just follow orders!’’ John took a step back and put his knife back into the folder.
‘‘I’m going to let you go, but you’ll have to hurry because there are a lot of soldiers heading this way, and unlike me, they will not hesitate about killing you.’’
The Russian stood up on his feet and was just about to leave the building when he turned around and said.‘‘Thank you Major.’’ The Russian then left the building and disappeared in the dark night.
East Greece, European Union, Earth [Sol] 23-11-2069
There were soldiers as long as the eye could see, and the sky was full of helicopters and airplanes. John and Moa was standing in front of a big stage with thousands of other soldiers.
‘‘What kind of soldiers are they?’’ Moa said and pointed to a group of soldiers with an old Greek helmet painted on their chest.
‘‘That’s the Spartans. They are the Greek resistance, they took the name from the old Spartan elite warriors.
‘‘Oh, were they any good?’’ Moa said.
‘‘They stopped the forces of Asia more than two-thousand years ago. So yes, they were good.’’
When john stopped talking a man walked up on the stage. They all recognized the man. It was General De-Tierra and he began to talk into the microphone.
‘‘My fellow soldiers, I want you to remember this day for two things. Today is the day that we liberate Europe, after seven hard years of fighting on the ground, in the air and on the oceans we stand here on this ground. Also remember that this is the ground where the HIE invaded Europe, and this is the ground where we will take the fight to them. When the Hamburg line fell all of you Europeans promised that you would come back, today you have fulfilled that promise, now let’s take one step more. Today is the day we take the fight to our enemies, when you stand in the boats or sitting in the helicopters remember this, stay focused, stay calm and stay alive.’’
All of the soldiers began to cheer. And then the soldiers jogged to their squads to prepare for the assault on Istanbul. In the distance they could see Allied planes and ships bombing the city that they were about to take over and from there continue to crush the HIE.
John and Moa gathered their gear and jogged to the Helipad and was directed to the Hornet that was going to fly them in. John and Moa was divided into different squads. John then turned to moa and said.
‘‘I’ll see you on the other side.’’
‘‘I will hold you to that.’’ Moa said and kissed John.
THE END.
SC: The Viking Homeland
Sun, 28th October, 2012
The European Union fights the invading Hegemony along the Oslo Line. A fan fiction written by Markus Malmström of Sweden. A story set in the Shattered Citadel Universe. Comments greatly appreciated.