Book Marksman: Chatper 1: The Mission

Just a mini series I'll be doing for a little bit till I get bored with it. For those of those who are wondering, no, I currently am not writing my CROW series, partly because Mafias resigned and left, and he was the one person I really wrote it for, and partly because I hit a writers block, and don't know where to go with the story. Thanks for reading guys!




Marksman: Chapter 1: Afghanistan

Soulless looked up the moment he heard the helicopter. In an instant he was alert, AR-15 rifle yanked snugly against his shoulder, aimed at the sky. His heart was pounding.
The sound of the helo was growing louder. His inter-squad comm system crackled in his ear, and Dark spoke up. “I have one unidentified MI-24 Hind entering our airspace. Distance, 600 yards."
“Copy." Soulless responded. “Evil, get a Stinger out here."
“With pleasure." Evil replied.
Soulless kept scanning the skies, searching for the Hind. He couldn't see it yet, but he could hear it. He felt horribly exposed in the small clearing on the side of the mountain.
Evil scrambled up the side of the small hill next to Soulless, Stinger launcher held on his shoulder with one hand. He dropped to one knee and powered up the launcher's systems, then he turned his eyes up to the sky, searching for the Hind.
“300 yards." Dark informed.
The helo was loud now. Soulless could hear the engine chugging away.
“150." Dark relayed.
The leaves on the trees were beginning to shake furiously.
“100. 50. It's right on top of us."
“We have a visual." Soulless confirmed.
The Hind was hovering up and above where Evil and Soulless were. It was equipped with a forward chain gun, and a minigun mounted on the right side, manned by a soldier in full body armor.
Evil raised the Stinger and took a sight picture, but Soulless muttered, “Wait."
The Hind hovered over its spot, and Evil took a target lock, but left the safety engaged. The gunner on the side was scanning. Soulless held his AR-15 steady, holographic sight set on the gunner, hand wrapped around the foregrip. His knuckles were white.
The gunner on the Hind turned his head and said something to its pilot, and the Hind spun and lurched in a new direction.
Soulless released his pent up breath and lowered his AR. Evil slid the Stinger launcher onto his back in a sling clipped to the weapon, then drew his Desert Eagle from an underarm holster. “That was a close one."
“You can say that again." Soulless chuckled, letting his AR-15 slide out of his hands and hang across his chest in its sling. “Let's get down to Dark."
Evil turned and slid down the side of the small hill, and Soulless followed him down. Their slide ended near an opening into a large cave. They turned and strode into the engulfing darkness.
The darkness continued for a few minutes, then some bronze light began to shine around a bend in the cave. Evil rounded the corner first, and holstered his Desert Eagle under his left arm. Soulless kept one hand on the pistol grip of his AR.
Dark sitting in front of a laptop hooked up to a portable databank which contained all of the data they would need for their mission. A laptop was connected to it, and Dark was going through some data bases.
Evil motioned for Dark to move, and the two swapped spots. Evil began tapping away at the keyboard, and a serial number popped up. Soulless recognized it as the one on the side of the Hind that had appeared. The number flew to one side of the screen, and numbers began popping up on the page.
Evil leaned back in the chair and relaxed. “Just searching the databases to find out who owns that Hind." he explained.
Soulless set both his hands on top of the butt stock of his rifle and watched the screen with a blank expression. Then, unslinging his AR and setting it against the cave wall, he turned and began going through a weapons crate, one of many around the cave. The team had been given a lot of resources for an extended S&D mission. Soulless stuck a couple of pistol magazines into his digital camouflage Kevlar vest, and then pulled his Glock 17 out of its holster, dropping the magazine into his hand, checking that it was fully loaded. Sliding the magazine back into the mag well and replacing the handgun in its thigh holster on his right side, Soulless rummaged through the crate some more, but didn't find what he was looking for. Then, the computer console beeped, and Soulless turned to view the results.
Evil raised his eyebrow suspiciously in that cool yet calm way of his and leaned forward to type commands into the computer. He then leaned back and cocked his head, eyes analyzing the results.
“Well, it appears our good friend from above belongs to a private military corporation." Evil said. “Thing is, the chopper was reported shot down three weeks ago."
“Interesting." Dark said. “And we don't like interesting things, do we?"
“No, we don't." Soulless murmured, deep in thought. He then turned to the crate of weapons and began digging again. He came out with a pair of suppressor and a Vortex competition grade rifle scope.
“What are you doing?" Dark asked, confused.
“Can you find the forward observation base the Hind came from?"
“I can, but-"
“Do it." Soulless cut him off. “I'm going to go infiltrate take a look through their files. I want to know why this Hind is reported shot down, but it flew over us minutes ago."
Evil and Dark shared a look. “Why don't you go with us too? You can provide us cover fire while we infiltrate the more. . .manual way."
“That's because I need you two to call in Platinum and Titanium, the twins. Get them out here and be ready to come when I need you. I'll be gone for a few days. Don't try and radio me."
Dark swallowed and nodded. Evil just pinched the ridge of his nose and shook his head. Soulless did have the training to do a one man operation, he knew, but he did it way too often for his liking.
Soulless finished removing the muzzle compensator on his AR-15 and started screwing on the suppressor. He twisted it tight and slung the strap over his shoulder so the rifle hung over his chest. Then he pulled his Glock 17 out and screwed the suppressor onto the threaded barrel. He began to remove the fasteners to take his holographic sight off the AR-15 when Evil's hand landed on his shoulder.
“You don't have to do this alone." Evil muttered in his ear.
“I know." Soulless said calmly, placing his own hand on Evil's shoulder. “But I'm the best one for the job. Besides, I need you here to help Dark and the twins. You and I have been friends for the longest time, bro. That's why I trust you to take care of things here."
Evil nodded solemnly. “Take care, Soulless."
Soulless laughed. “Don't go all soft on me now. I know that kind of yours is working out a way to prevent me from going."
Evil grinned, and Soulless finished attaching the scope to his rifle. It consisted of the scope in its holder, but on a side rail, a red dot sight was mounted at a forty-five degree angle, so the rifle could be twisted over and used at close range. That was one of the advantages of having an angled foregrip, which Soulless attached now.
Looking back at Evil and Dark, he nodded to them, and they nodded back. “See you soon."
Evil yelled as he left. “Don't make me come save your sorry ass again!"
Soulless chuckled, then, yanking back the charging handle on his AR, left the cave.

The end.



Tags: @MR_EVIL_OVERLORD @DarkTitan_
@TheTitaniumTitan @ThePlatinumTitan - twins, soon to be featured.
@rocktomb34, also soon to be featured.

 

I'll continue it if I can. I have a ton of free time because I'm on a trip right now. Let's see if my enthusiasm lasts.