Ghost spotted Vanessa and walked over to her.
"We have a mission, the team is preparing." He pointed to the helo that was being packed with supplies.
"we are defending a town from a predicted russian attack."
Vanessa was talking to Ghost when she heard a familiar voice shout from behind her.
Vanessa turned around to see her brother Kevin running up to her. She hugged him and looked him over. He had a healing cut across his nose and a badly scraped cheek that was healing nicely.
"Nothing just a dust up." Kevin let out a hearty laugh and turned to Ghost. He had met this soldier before, and Kevin remembered quickly that he had not gotten along with him. "Hey." He mumbled to Ghost to be polite.
"Why are you here? I thought you were at Base Omega?" Vanessa wasn't upset, just curious.
"I am accompanying you." Kevin said with a smile, and he saluted Ghost, trying to make a joke of it.
Ghost grinned, he normally didn't like americans but he wanted to make peace. He stuck out his gloved hand to Kevin.
"Glad you'll be accompanying us."
Kevin frowned for a moment, wondering if this was going to be a prank, then shook Ghost's hand. Out of the corner of his eye, Kevin noticed his sister blushing. Why is she blushing...? Must just be that I'm here..., unless she has feelings for this brit!! Kevin quickly withdrew his hand from the shake and became serious.
"Let's just get on with it."
Ghost nodded and jogged over to the helo that was preparing to take off.
"Oi! Kevin can you kill more ruska than me?" Ghost half challenged and half joked as the two helos took off toward the town.
"Oh yeah of course I can!" Kevin barreled his response to the british man. "But I might be feeling a little under the weather today. Shall we make it a bet?"
"you're on!" Ghost yelled his response to the american. "I will bet an equivalent of 200 US dollars in pounds!"
Kevin laughed heartily and was merry all the way until they got to their destination. He hopped out of the helo once it landed and turned to Ghost.
"We wait and set up a perimeter." Ghost hopped out of the helo and started walking down the street following some soldiers carrying movable turrets. The whole town was empty prior to the team's arrival the town's people were evacuated. What a suprise the will get when they find out the civilians were replaced by elite soldiers. Ghost almost chuckled aloud but caught himself.
"We need to set up a base of operations." Ghost looked at Kevin.
"The market square? Kind of in the open though.." Kevin thought out loud.
"What about like an apartment building or something? Narrow hallways and lots of doors to duck in and out of." Vanessa said.
"I don't know." Kevin frowned. "How would we escape from an apartment if we were overwhelmed? Some sort of tower perhaps?"
"What about central hall?" Ghost pointed to a wide building that had a small tower at the top. "Gotta have some open spaces and tight ones."
Both Vanessa and Kevin nodded their agreement then followed Ghost towards the building that was to be their HQ.
"So how many russians we talking here?" Kevin asked nonchalantly.
"Oh I don't know." Vanessa said, not realizing that her brother was talking to Ghost.
Ghost watched the soldiers setup.
"Intel suggests a platoon, so little less than 100 and some humvees." Ghost checked the ammo in his clip. "So we'll need to ambush then cut off escape and hope they surrender."
Vanessa and Kevin both checked their guns.
"So when are they coming?" Kevin asked.
"Thats the only thing we don't know." Ghost chuckled. He checked his digital watch, 4:00. "Probably soon they will be expecting civilians, we hide until they get here then we ambush them."
"Alrighty then." Kevin nodded to both Ghost and his sister. "Time to go and find a good hiding spot."
"I'll do the same." Vanessa smiled at Ghost then ran a different direction.
Ghost was about to say that it needed to co-ordinated but the two were out of sight. He radioed them.
"The ambush needs to be co-ordinated."
"Oh right." Vanessa smacked her forehead. She made her way quickly back to where Ghost was waiting. "Sorry about that.." She began to blush but noticed that her brother wasn't there, and she hadn't heard him acknowledge on the radio. "Kev?" Vanessa spoke into her radio but there was no answer. She turned and raised an eyebrow at Ghost. "Why would he not answer?"
Then gunfire filled the air.
"let's go!" Ghost said to the squad and ran toward the sound of the gunfire.
Vanessa ran with Ghost towards the sound of the gunfire. What did my brother get himself into??
Kevin kept firing the machine gun at the russian troops. There were so many just trying to run up to his fortified position on the high wall of the building. He fired more and more but his gun was running out of ammo. "Fire in the hole!" Kevin hucked a grenade that landed right next to a group of troops. BOOM! Then Kevin kept firing.
Ghost burst out into the open and saw Russian troops."They're early!" Ghost exclaimed and scanned for Kevin, he was firing a machine gun down at the Russians he was on a building. Ghost fired his rifle to get the Russian's attention as a grenade went off in the midst of the Russian troops. Ghost threw a grenade and slowly made his way over to Kevin's building utilizing every cover point.
"Theyve got snipers setting up in that apartment across the square!" Kevin yelled to his comrades as he gunned down two more men.
"Kev watch out!" Vanessa yelled at her brother as an RPG came flying towards them.
Kevin rolled and jumped out of the window just in time. The RPG exploded sending Vanessa flying sideways into Ghost. Kevin had survived the blast but now he was on the ground with all the russians.
Ghost fell over from Vanessa colliding into him. Not sure if she was unconscious, he got up and started firing his gun at the russian troops. He got down and reloaded, he beckoned to his team.
"I'm gonna get those snipers." He said to his squad-mate. "Cover me and this position."
Ghost got up and made his way to the apartment.
Kevin rolled behind a crate that was near a fountain and crouched quickly. Bullets whizzed everywhere around him and he took a deep breath. He stood up and fired his rifle at the incoming russians. He felt a thumping on his chest and he tripped backward. He quickly crawled forward and groaned in pain. Good thing I'm wearing Kevlar.