"Captain is everyone ready? you better check it I don't want to go back to find one missing person" said the co-pilot as he opened the cockpit door.
"Ah, okay then I should go and make the roll call," said the sarge as he also stands up at the same time "Are you ready soldier" shouted by sarge.
"Sir, yes sir," said the soldiers.
"Okay, now on the list Private Jacky"
"Sir, yes sir" answered Jacky.
"Private Reine" he continues.
"Sir, yes sir" answered Reine.
"Now, private Lowe" he continues.
"Sir, yes sir" answered Lowe.
The event repeats again and again until the six-row of a soldier, where one soldier on the row was still fast asleep in his small iron armor.
"lieutenant Aster... lieutenant Aster," Asked the Sarge.
"..." no sound was heard across the back of the plane.
"Eh? is he in the back," said one of the soldiers.
"Yeah, Sarge it looks like he is directly behind me" answered one of the private.
"What is he doing now?" asked the Sarge.
"He is... He is asleep sir..." answered the private.
At first, Sarge was angry but after a few moments, he could only sigh relieving himself not knowing what to do as he put his hand on his forehead.
"Please wake him up, private" ordered the Sarge.
"Understood sir" answered the private.
The soldier on the side of Aster quickly tried to wake him up.
"Hey Aster, Aster hurry and wake up" as one of the soldiers tries to wake him up.
"Hmm... eh?! Sir, ready sir" Aster half-awake quickly shouted as he wakes up.
With his shout lieutenant with half-asleep, he quickly wakes up and saluted with his hand at the same time he shouted as loud as he can.
"Yikes?!" "Agh!!!" as the two soldiers in front of him were surprised by the shout.
"Aster, I already knew you were asleep so no need to pretend" as the sarge rebuked him.
"Understood James," said Aster before finally letting go of his breath.
"Yeah, yeah... eh?" said half lazily while looking at Aster with one eye before continuing
"Is that everyone?" asked the Sarge.
"Sarge you forgot one" raised his right hands.
"Who," said the Sarge.
"Reslent Zacuvian sir," answered the soldier.
"Eh... sorry, I didn't see your name here earlier" as the Sarge was a bit surprised not seeing the name on the panel in his right hands.
"all right... ehm, so today's mission objective is to conquer the territory led by a commanding officer named Kzet from the Celia Confederation" said the Sarge.
"Ah, so it's Kzet," said one of the soldiers talking unconsciously.
"What is it Private Elgard?" asked the Sarge.
"No, Sarge it seems that I did hear about him once" answered the soldier.
"Yes, as you said... I would explain and clear up your memories, he is the leader that made our army having difficulty and hard to kill. You guys must understand the HQ had concentrated almost all of its force just to after this individual which lasted for at the very least three years no more no less but his shrewdness he always succeeds for several times until today and now we had his latest location your task today is to get down and secure the landing area then wait for your replacement" said the Sarge before continuing "any question? yes, lieutenant Aster" he looks at Aster.
"How many enemies were predicted on the town sir," asked Aster as he raised his right hand.
"Oh, according to the newest information we found it at least around two hundred soldiers in the city and we found they have Mecha arsenal located on the place" answered the Sarge before inquiring "Anyone else?"
The Sarge who later on touched the Hologram Panel located on his hand which later revealed a video in front of the soldier's helmet which shown the task what they must do later as it revealed an arrow inside it.
"As you see, you guys will land on this place then secure the location then covering each other
you must neutralize the anti-air gun near the place, based on the intelligence we got they place the gun inside this building which used to hold back any plane or ship from crossing the defensive line" said the Sarge as he later showed a large dessert which has a small city with a red cross on it.
"Before you guys proceed and destroy the gun, at the very least you must destroy the MG nest that located not far from the building" showing the concentrated hot zone between the anti-air gun as he continues "Even though it would be a difficult task but you must neutralize it to ensure much easier mission.
"Hey, Aster felt nervous?" said the nearby soldier.
"Nervous? of course not, I just felt tiresome dealing the chores as this Chris," said Aster.
"Chores? you are one sick of bastard Aster, you know that right" said Chris as he smiles wryly.
"This... I have been worst" said Aster as close his eyes.
Before ending the briefing, it has shown an image of Mecha Fighter of appears to be the fifth class shown from spy satellite from the air before hearing a knocking noise from the cockpit located nearby Sarge which followed by the voice of the co-pilot behind it "We have neared intended the destination, get ready"
"Did you guys hear it secure your mask so it won't fall off or have a hard time breathing," said the Sarge at the same time he put his mask covering his entire face.
Hearing the order, the entire soldier inside the plane quickly locked their helmet while ensuring no oxygen escaping it before they turned to check their iron armor.
"Okay, now don't die on the battlefield and came back home safe all right," said the Sarge.
"Understood Sarge" answered all the soldiers.
With his hand put on top of his forehead, the Sarge gives a salute toward the soldier who will be sent to the battlefield as some of them may not come back and meet with him again.
"For Earth Federation!!!" shouted the Sarge.
"For Earth Federation!!!" shouted the entire soldier.
Sarge pulled down the lever which located at his left side which then opened the door below the entire soldier and followed with a loud noise of gunshot and the anti-air gun not far from their destination before suddenly one of the bullets narrowly pass the body of one of the soldiers on the right of the bay as it shocks the nearby soldier near him.
"Ah, to close for comfort the bullet almost killed me," said the soldier who almost got shot by the anti-air gun from the ground.
"That's mean the bullet didn't like you that much" as the soldier behind him retorted.
"Please, don't joke around" he shouted back at him.
Not wanting anymore delay the Sarge quickly smacked the large button on his right which caused the release of the many small armors started from the front row and continued to the back section then a sound of the rocket was heard behind of the dropped flying to their last destination at the same time sweats started to appear on Aster face as he said to himself in a bit of fear.
"Aster, I'm going first see you there," said Chris as his armor launched.
Chris's armor started to drop to the ground before added by its propelled rocket to increase the speed of the drop for faster insertion.
"Please don't detach, don't detach" as he looks below.
In a minute before the drop unknowingly he did glance at the Sarge in front of him on the eye to eye contact as he waves goodbye at him and revealing his smile before suddenly a small but loud enough for him to hear were heard.
Clack
Suddenly hearing the sound, he feared for, Aster turned pale as he looks at the Sarge as the gravity push-started to kick in as he felt being launched to the ground.
"Oh, no... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" as he screams.
As Aster plunge in from eighty thousand and seven-meter high above the ground, he screamed as loud as he can even the sound of his fellow soldier who dived first managed to heard the scream.
"DDDDAAAAAMMMMMNNNNN!!!"
For a moment he saw a small light projectile coming from the small town that passed through Aster then followed by a loud explosion above him, felt curios he quickly turned his head to the plane that he previously rides on suffered quite severe damage along with other transport aircraft as they return to orbit leaving the hot zone.
After learning the fate of the other airplane, Aster returned his eye to the battlefield on his front before noticing a location near his drop point which is his target are the place of his fellow soldier is located which made an acceleration gone ahead of Aster. Where he still dropping from an altitude of Four thousand four hundred and seventy above ground where many of his colleagues had landed and already made an assault on the Celia confederation where some of his comrades were killed by the enemy and few lefts of his colleague were turned into a lump of meat as a result of the explosion of the anti-air gun bullet.
Upon entering the height of three thousand and five hundred above the ground, Aster sees more clearly of the safe point along with the most strategic point to neutralize the enemy key position where he immediately changed his direction then followed with acceleration upon the landing site which is the MG nest of the confederation noticing the sudden change of navigation many of the anti-air guns changed their target towards him where he proved to be more deadly than his others nearby soldier.
Closing in on one thousand and five hundred altitudes above ground Aster immediately release himself from his landing gear where the device landed directly on the building which resulted in a huge crashing noise, causing the machine gun operator was turned instantly into a paste as his flesh and blood were splattered to the machine gun nest and at the same time it colored the wall and the floor in red.
Aster who successfully landed in the room with haste pulled an iron stick stacked into one which that was located on his waist when he put on his front he pressed what appears to be a button on top of it as it slowly changes into a Standard Universal Rifle (SUR) type three an easy to put away and the most advanced weapon ever produced by Earth Federation and its allies whereas the enemy weapon was still using an old weapon and mostly no longer produced while others were a leftover prototype but still efficient in ammo consumption.
With the rifle in his hand, Aster quickly walks to the door on his right-side view before suddenly a huge creature which is much bigger than himself appeared, the enemy who goes out from the door was he believed has the form of a crocodile from the face until its waist but its hand and legs were shaped like as a human.
Aster who was half-prepared on the appearance of the enemy with haste quickly pulled the trigger as the bullet projectile flew towards the left side of the creature cheeks followed with the second bullet landing on the chest as the creature slowly falls down to the ground lifelessly and at the same time the second creature who came out of the door from his back quickly aim his sight at him.
Aster who noticed it quickly evaded the first shot as he takes cover on the nearby wall as the shot stop he looks at the creature who is also taking cover where he quickly comes out from the hiding and takes a quick shot of it causing the creature to be killed right on his left forehead with his body fall sideways but suddenly another creature appeared and planning to shoot him but Aster first shot on his chest as he slowly limps down on the nearby wall while looking at Aster then opening his mouth.
"Ah, you... are going to die... we'll not going to... let you guys live..." as the creature smile wryly "we going to... turn you... guys as... our food" as he continues talking and laughs a bit before dying.
After saying his last word, the creature released his last breaths, Aster quickly stands from his place then wipe down the sweats from his forehead before paying attention to the dead body of the creature, before suddenly hearing what appears to be the sound of a gunshot from the next building which has an MG nest is being neutralized by his other teammate.
Afterward, Aster immediately grabs the Machinegun where the operator has turned into a lump of blood and flesh where Aster takes it and followed with a jump to the roof from the hole, he made previously so he would have a larger observing area where he later put and fixes the Machinegun to the operating and active status.
His fellow soldier who has cleaned the location of the second MG nest with haste they run to the outer field of a building before suddenly they were ambushed by another MG nest that is located in the T-junction as Aster who is on top of the building found the location of the gunshot as he released a load of volley upon the building to relieve the other and give them the chance to move for better cover.
After a few minutes later near the site as there is no longer a sound of a gunshot after his fellow soldier storm in the building where most of them gave thanks for the support to Aster before they continue walking to their specific destination, Aster who is on top of the building look to his surrounding to find the anti-air gun as then he made a jump to the ground running and following his teammate who also aiming to neutralize the anti-air gun before suddenly hearing a loud noise not far from his current position.
A couple of his teammate had thrown their grenade at the enemy who operated the anti-air gun as they not noticing the sound of the grenade impact to the nearby ground as it exploded the place instantly become their resting place for the anti-air gun operator but few of the enemy survived the explosion as they quickly stand and pulled their pistol from their waist.
After seeing the federation soldier in front of them they spontaneous pulled the trigger as Aster came in and surprised the survived operator with a stab on his back with Aster's combat knife killing gravely injuring but his opponent was surprised then turned his head to his left before falling to the ground where he later sees Aster grab his pistol then aim its sight on the operator's forehead before pulling his trigger killing the man instantly ending him from the suffering.