SilentNight's Report

[Schenkanator]

Team setup:

Red Team:

SilentNight (SN)

Dayanderer (Day)

Gold Team:

Hagbard (Hag)

Saintachrist (Saint)

Kits:

SN: HK 36/GL, HK USP sidearm (silenced), Claymores

Day: HK UMP .45 Silenced, Stun Rifle, Hand Grenades

Hag: WA2000 Sniper rifle, silenced, HK USP sidearm (silenced)

Saint: HK 36/GL, HK USP sidearm (silenced), SEMTEX satchel charges

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The rain bore down on the two armoured vehicles as they lurched through the muddy fields surrounding Venta.

They reached their destination, the hills surrounding a small bombed out village. As they parked in a small cluster of trees at the foot of a hill, four men leapt out, scanning the horizon with their gun sights.

"Saint, get to it" the team leader said though his helmet microphone, and one of the black clad men turned and began to affix his large explosive satchels to the undersides of each vehicle, careful to cover them with mud and dirt, to camouflage them from any probing eyes.

Safely tucking the remote detonator in his webbing, he gave a nod to the team leader, SN. "Right" SN said over the radio, "You know the plan, watch for snipers and the UAV's, OP is this way." With that the four men spread into a line, the two pairs covering each other, and advanced out into a field ridden with craters.

As they passed a decrepit farmhouse, SN again spoke over the radio "Take note lads, that’s the emergency rally point." There was no reply from the others, none was needed. Each man carried his weapon high, ready to fight.

"Boss"Saint hissed into his radio "UAV 7 o'clock" All the men dropped, and SN turned, looking back in the direction they came, at the 2 Stryker armoured vechiles.One of the enemy's unmanned helicopter drones was hovering low near the trees, but looking in the opposite direction.

"Hag, there's the bait, take it down" SN instructed."Right" replied Hag as he crawled up to the lip of a shell crater, resting the barrel of his gun on the edge. The UAV was still hovering, surveying the land to the west. Hag lined up, and fired a single shot. The bullet clipped the UAV's body, the force pushing it sideways and onto its side in the air.

Unable to right itself, the little helicopter ploughed into the ground. "Gold, go get that UAV, make sure its dead, Red will secure the OP." The four men split, Gold team heading to the UAV and Red towards the bombed out church, their OP.

Saint was the first to reach the downed UAV, with Hag covering him from behind a tree stump. Saint could hear a wiring noise coming from the little chopper, the rotors were destroyed from the impact, but the little engine was still trying to gain lift. The bullet had hit the central computer, severely damaging it.

Saint pulled out his USP sidearm, and fired two shots into the CPU. The noise stopped, and the UAV was now a useless lump of metal. Together, he and Hag carried it off towards the church.

The church was well and truly ruined; Red team skirted the rubble, and then quickly entered what was left of the structure. Day entered through the doorway, and SN went feat first through a window. Inside they found a man and his son, huddled in the corner. "You can’t stay here" SN said, and he pulled an MER meal pack from his webbing and gave it to the man, who thanked him profusely before taking his son and running off into the rain.

"Red, this is Gold, we have struck trouble. Enemy patrol of 6 men has moved between us and the church."

"Hold position and wait until they move on" SN replied

"No can do, they appear to be digging in, they are setting up a heavy machine gun, and two have broken off, heading to your position."

"Right, this is what we're gunna do. Gold is to split, and try to out flank the main group. Red will take out the two approaching the OP, then move up and engage the main group from the rear."

"ROE?"

"Do not fire until I give the word, unless they see you first. Try to stick to silenced weapons, hopefully we can get this done without waking up the cavalry"

Orders issued, Hag and saint split up, moving left and right. Red took up defensive positions inside the church, awaiting the two breakaways.

Red were the first to engage, the two members of the patrol were looking for somewhere sheltered to start a fire, and didn’t even see the two black clad men who dropped from the

rafters above them, silently slitting their throats with razor sharp bayonets. After hiding the bodies, SN and Day went out behind the church, SN held his pistol high, Day his UMP. They saw the patrol up ahead, only the tops of their bodies could be seen above the edge of the crater.

Scanning the land to the left and right, SN saw Hag and Saint, moving slowly. When they were in position, the enemy would be encircled on three sides, the only side left open was where the heavy machine gun was pointing, so it was best left empty.

"Hag in position"

"Day in position"

"OK, targets, Hag, take the machine gunner and the guy with hood. Saint, the one sitting down, he is drinking from his canteen right now. Day, get the two that are smoking, and I'll get the one wearing the cap. Clear?"

All the men were ready, they silently advanced towards the enemy group. The silence was broken by the sudden crack of a gunshot. The enemies in the crater all snapped up, and saw the shadowy figures in the rain.

One of them yelled, but was cut short by a bullet to the head. Day was up and running, spraying the enemy position with the violent fire from his HK USP submachine gun. Saint leapt forth, taking out two men with his pistol. But one of the remaining men inside the crater had grabbed the heavy machine gun, and was firing wildly. Saint was forced to dive backwards to dodge the fire.

The enemy soldier abruptly leapt backwards, as Hag opened fire with his sniper rifle, getting off three shots into the man's chest. The remaining man in the crater leapt up, a grenade in his hand. He was yelling in his native tongue, but he had removed the pin from the grenade, and help down the spoon with his hand. Day and Saint froze; Hag held the man in the sights of his sniper rifle, frustrated that he couldn't take the shot and kill the man.

The stand off seamed to last forever, until SN popped up behind the man, knife in hand. He crept silently up behind the man, then quickly reached out and grabbed his grenade hand, keeping his thumb over the spoon. He then thrust the knife up, through his ribs and into his lungs, stifling his cries. The man dropped, and SN quickly ran away with the grenade, before pelting it into the air.

"Sniper took out my radio" SN said as he turned, pointing to the wrecked radio hooked onto the back of his webbing.

"I got the sniper," said Hag "That’s why it took me a minute to get into it with you blokes."

"Ok, we gotta get back on track,Gold go back and get the UAV, Day, you go back to the OP, and I'll wait here, and cover Gold"

The men spit up again, and before long they were all crouched in the church.

SN began to brief the men again.

"Day, get the UAV out there, and get in position. I’ll set up the left claymore, saint you take the right. Hag, try to get into the church spier, when you see the tank, signal, ill be watching.

And remember, don’t hit the general. Day will hit him with the stunner, and then get him out of the way. We'll then pull back. Saint, make sure you get a satchel charge on that tank, cover our escape."

Within 5 minutes, all was ready. The UAV sat in the middle of the road, with claymores hidden on the roadside facing it. Hag was in the church spire, Saint below him in the church, Day across the road in a bombed out building,

and SN in smashed building with a collapsed tree over it, next to the church. The tension was high as they waited for the target.

They saw roving patrols off in the distance, and another UAV appeared to be investigating the grenade explosion. No one had gone near the crater where the patrol had been wiped out though.

After about ten minutes, Hag spotted a tank in the distance. As it negotiated the heavily armed roadblock, he saw the white markings on the rear, this was their target.

"Target coming in from the West" He said over the radio, and used hand signals to tell SN, who responded.

Hag re-laid his message to the team "Read leader says stay sharp, and don’t move until he sets of the Claymores, remember, don’t harm the general, and get to the farm house if you get lost"

The tank slowly approached, the ground rumbling. As planned, the tank commander spotted the UAV, and halted the tank. He and one of the crew members dismounted, and walked towards the UAV, both were holding pistols.

SN watched on as they stood around the UAV, looking at the damage. He held the detonator for the claymore, ready to go, as another patrol came out of nowhere. They walked between his position and the church.

There were six men in the patrol, and they greeted the tank crew, and gathered round the UAV. SN waited, and the patrol leader ordered two of his men to pick up the UAV, this meant that all his men were now inside the lethal range of the claymores.

Two other men climbed from the tank, one sat on the turret, and lit a cigarette, an AK47-su on his lap, and the other hopped down, and walked towards the men at the UAV. He was the general.

Now was the time, he had to blow the mines before the general was inside the arc of fire. He squeezed the trigger, and both mines blew. The men around the UAV were caught in the middle, torn to shreds by the steel ball bearings that shot through the air at supersonic speeds.

The general was knocked of his feat by the blast. SN leapt out from his cover, and sprayed the tank with his G36. Hag hit the soldier sitting on the turret with a well-placed rifle shot.

Day ran out and hit the dazed general with a blast from the stun gun, the two little darts got his arm, and the electrical current forced him to spasm, then slump to the ground. SN joined day, and they both dragged the over weight general to cover.

"Blow the tracks on that tank" SN ordered day, who turned and ran back out to the tank, as the turret began to rotate. He jammed a hand grenade in the track, then took cover.

The explosion blew the track, so when the driver began to reverse, he rolled straight off the track, making the tank immobile. Another crew member popped out of the turret, and tried to man the machine gun. Saint took him down with a burst from his G36, then ran out and stuck two satchel charges to the hull.

"There’s another patrol comin in, I'm engaging" said Hag, as he began to lay down heavy fire on another 6-man patrol coming in from the fields.

"Get the general towards the evac"SN told Day, who signalled to Saint to help. SN ran back across the road, and came into the church under Hag, who had the patrol pinned.

"Hop down Hag, time to go" SN yelled up to the sniper. Hag dropped down next to him, and covered his back as he aimed his Grenade Launcher over the churches low wall. He launched one off, and the men leapt from the crater as it landed. Hag had killed two, and the grenade took out two more. SN then laid down more fire with his G36, wiping out the last two.

"Let’s go call a man about a helicopter"SN said to Hag, smiling.

"Viper Flight, This is Red leader, Red and Gold teams are ready for extraction at primary evac over"SN said over the hags radio to the waiting airmen.

"Red Leader this is Viper Flight Leader, we are in bound to your position. pop smoke in 2 minutes, and stay clear of the village over"

"Received Viper Flight, see you soon. Red Leader out"

They both ran over the road, catching up with Day and Saint, who were dragging the general towards the evacuation point.

"Light it up" said SN to Hag, who then ran ahead, and chucked a blue flare onto the ground. He ran to the rest of the team, who had taken cover under some trees.

"Do you wanna do the honours?" said Saint to SN, as he held out the remote detonator for the satchel charges on the tank.

"With pleasure" SN replied, as he took the remote, and hit the button.

There was a huge fireball above the village, as the tank and surrounding buildings were blown sky high. They heard the thumping of the chopper rotors, as they swooped in low.

The gunships engaged the roadblocks, and finished levelling the village. The lone Blackhawk dropped away, and the four commandoes plus one general climbed aboard as it touched down.

The STRYKERS would be extracted later, the general was a bit battered and confused, and SN had some small splinters of plastic in his shoulder from the busted radio.

Overall, the mission was a success.

SGT SilentNight