User:Delta Team Curt/Battle of Arras

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// Battle of // Alpha Eridani Star System // 21 DEC 2569 0524 Local Time

First Lieutenant Freeman counted down from ten, closing his eyes as he prepared for what a normal person would consider to be suicide. The whine of a fifteen-five filling his ears, the UCC artillery perched several kilometers away had their position zeroed in and weren’t letting up.

The area around the relatively small service road had become nothing less than an all out warzone in the past 72 hours. The various housing developments, buildings, and fields that surrounded the road had become a breeding ground for death and destruction, serving as the perfect environment for the UCC to halt the defenders attempt to retake what they had won.

Springing from the foxhole, he sprinted across the field as the shell landed only nine or so meters from him. The shockwave rippled through the ground, Freeman just able to maintain his run as the ground shook beneath him. In almost the same instant a 14.5x114mm APFSDS round passed only inches above his head, the Marine passing through the mini-mushroom cloud of dust and debris unharmed. Ten meters away he slid down into a foxhole, three other ODSTs pressing themselves as close to the deck as physically possible.

“Did you get the SOBs position?” he shouted over the various explosions and gunfire

“Calling it in, sir” responded McKay.

“Target confirmed 3/1 Bravo” the sound of the FDC commander coming over SQUADCOM.

Within a minute the building was struck with four massive artillery rounds, the structure giving way and collapsing as its supports were blown away, a fog of dust surrounding the area around the former structure.