Chapter 5 - Ch 1.1: A Short Skirmish

--2:18 PM--

--Unkown Location Southeast Of The JFB, Unkown route near the village--

Recon 1

--Unit/ Squad leader- Sgt. James Norvik-29-male

Grenadier- Cpl. Cole Merrick-29-male,

Medics- Cpl. Elijah Hillary-28-female

Radio operator- Sgt. John Tanner-29-male

Machine Gunner- PFC. Micheal Hall-25-male

Riflemen- PFC. Ela Harashi, PFC-28-Female. Smid Lavender-24-male, LCpl. Dan Merton-27-Male-USMC--

--Tech Specialist- Sgt. Ramos Monriva-31-Male--

M3 Crew

--Driver- PFC. Mic Grant-26-Male--

--Gunner- Cpl. Nico Perez-28-Male--

--Commander- Sgt. Lexi Poole-30-Female--

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

"The fuck!?" Norvik said as his heart jumped after hearing that loud ass scream of some woman behind the small mountain sounding like trouble or some stupid shit happening.

"Shit! Something might be going down!" Merton shouted as they all grabbed their guns up and ready and safeties off as they all ran up to the small mountain as well as Monriva setting up his drone again and the Captain of the Bradley popped his head up on the commander hatch pretty much waiting for a go order.

All five ran up to the mountain to maybe oversee what's happening to the village behind it.

"Fuck!" Merrick cursed as he tripped on his own shoes trying to run up but having his ass grabbed by Merrick pulling his ass back up and pushing him.

Norvik has a lot on his mind of what might be happening behind the small hill in the village, and it could be a false alarm. It could be Bandits, some assholes saying they need to pay their taxes or some idiots screwing around. And hell they need to be sure.

"Please not mommy!" another voice shouted, and it sounded like a fucking kid pleading. A literal fucking kid, sounding like his mother is gonna get fucked which caused his blood to boil up a little, and his heart beating fast, activating his adrenaline, as well as the others too as they quicken their pace.

"What the fuck is going on what the fuck is going on what the fuck is going on" Smid was kin of heard whispering

those words over and over again to his self sounding confused of what is actually happening. And it could be anything, and it's obvious after hearing a kid's plead giving a meaning some shitheads are doing something bad.

"GET off her you bastards!" another voice was heard and fuck Norvik thinks it c oi uld be a husband gonna be attempting something reckless that could get him killed and shit.

The five got up seeing the view of the village, and hell seeing the shit was a little shocking.

A whole platoon of black clothed and uniformed armored clad men with swords smiling pretty sadisticaly on a female woman with cat ears and in front of the villagers having similar appearances of ears and tails, and some of the villagers armed with pike forks, spears and one with a bow and arrow all out and pointed at each other while an elderly guy with a pair of cat ears too restrains a kid away from the villagers and the medieval looking soldiers having their weapons out, and this dudes has an intent to rape and pillage. And behind them was a cage wagon that can fit some people in it meaning they were on a slave hunt this time but targeting demi-humans, and hell the village was all filled with Demi-humans.

Norvils sight goes slow mo and shit meaning his reflexes is gonna pull up. He quickly looked at a soldier with his helmet off who was gonna slit the throat of the female catgirl, aimed his standard M4A1 at him, aiming towards his head and then.

*Bang*

The medieval armored soldier dropped dead with a big hole on one side and small hole on the other. Red pool of blood spilling off his melted brain and pieces of it scattered on the ground and the cat woman which caused the villagers and the soldier's to jump in fear as they all looked at the direction where the group of US soldiers and the marine are and Norvik's barrel smoking as well as the rest did.

"Wha-"

"SHOOT THOSE ARMORED FUCKERS!"

Norvik ordered as all five of them open fired at the group of soldiers near the villagers while the husband grabbing his wife off the line of fire as well some of the villagers looked terrified and stunned about their guns and yet they're gonna call it a migc staff or magic shit.

"GET THE FUCK OVER HERE!" He shouted and signaled the rest of the group to get over to them and help out. And behind him is Monriva getting on the driver seat as well as Tanner getting on the driver seat of the humvee while Hall aims the M2HB up and ready to shoot anything hostile and Poole banging the Bradley's roof turret signaling them to move up the small hill to assist.

*PAH PAH PAH*

The sounds of M4 Carbines firing down on the medieval looking soldiers getting screwed by lead. Some attempted to charge at them but only getting shot instead.

"Merrick, Lavender stay here and watch over us the rest of you on me and watch your fire on civilians!" He ordered and the two nodded as they continued firing at the armored clad soldiers killing more of them that attempted to charge at them as the three ran their way down the small hill while the villagers watches the armored soldiers drop down whilst hearing the small explosions from the small force.

"EVERYONE ITS OUR CHANCE TO RETALIATE!" A farmer looking dude shouted, saying that it's their opportunity to strike those guys asses and hell it sounded like they've been hating those guys ever since.

While he said that one of those medieval soldiers pulled out a bow and arrow out of his ass and readied it and aimed at him.

Ela practically saw this and shit she has to tackle that villager down so he won't get an arrow on his head, or neck, or thorax.... Whatever.

"GET THE FUCK DOWN YOU DUMBASS!" Ela shouted as she ran towards the male Feline Demi-human, the demi-human looked at her in confusion as she tackled his ass to the ground as the arrow whizzed behind her neck and hits a bunch of wooden barrels.

"Watch yourself fuckin idiot!" she said as she quickly pulled out her M18 and fired a few shots which she luckily shot the fucker in the face which pretty much made the other demi-humans to be shocked of what she did.

"Watch out for anyone with bows or magic shit and just take cover!" she said but the person pretty much didn't like what she did and hell it's because of hate and racism to each other, just like how command predicted it after rescuing a bunch of demi-humans before.

"Why should I listen to a-" he tried to berate her for tackling his ass down, an yet he can't tell if she's a woman or not because of her kind of cute face but looking flat because of her IOTV and still he doesn't even think about the differences of appearances of boys and girls and well girls have their shoulders allighed to their hips and boys doesn't. And well he isn't that observant.

"Do you want to die and let your family grieve on your body or what?" She said to him aggressively and yet mad ehim realize how reckless he was recently. She got off of him and took cover on a nearby wooden pile of barrels, and her 2 comrades on a nearby wagon as they continued to open fire at some of those soldiers trying to charge at them, but still couldn't manage to hat them close quarters and as well the villagers watching and thinking their guns are magical staffs that spits out fire since they can see some tracers of bullets.

"TRAITORS!" a soldier yelled at the US soldiers, but still made Norvik say what to his self as well as Ela and Dan.

One of those armored medieval soldiers started running towards them and made some magic shit and well a magical shield showed up on his front.

"SUPRESS THAT FUCK" Norvik shouted as they focus fire at the random armored soldier making some magic shield in front of him while some others converged behind his back, and all the shots that hit Ted his shield seems to slowed his ass down. And as well one of those bozos smirked as one of them pulled out a bow and arrow, over 6 of them behind the normal looking foot soldier making magical shield but something might interrupt them....

*VROOOOM*

"What the-" a sound was heard from the small mountain, and they all looked at the direction from where the sound was and hell they all looked in shock at the sight..... 3 vehicles, a Humvee, an JLTV M-ATV, and M3 Bradley charging through the small mountain, and as well call them beasts.

"Wha-"

*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOMF

*BABABABABABABABABA*

"WHAT KIND OF DE-

"AAAA-"

All their screams was cut as they got absolutely fucked by the M3's 25mm and the 50. Cals of both light vehicles as almost all of them got shot, cutting and blowing off their body parts off and scattering it's bits everywhere, especially that one dude who made that magical shield had his body cutted in half and the rest of his comrades had their heads blown off and some of their other body parts and small bits of their meat flew off.

After that shit there was like a few remaining armored soldiers hiding behind the tree line, all scared as fuck. Norvik got out of cover as well as the two did all pointed their weapons at the tree line.

The remaining medieval looking soldiers still hid on the trees, still think in gif they get close they'll have that chance to slit their throats but no. They're not stupid, but that's what they think of them.

Norvik signaled the boys up on the small mountain to come down which they did.

The 3 vehicles got down from the small mountain as well as Cole and Smid while the three approaches the trees slowly while the villagers watches them with their weapons in hand.

"ALRIGHT YOU GOTTA SURRENDER ASSHOLES, THERE'S NO POINT ON WAITING FOR US TO TOWARDS YA'LL!" well for their stupidity they all widened that they knew their plan and it's so obvious that they know but still think it would work.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF YOUR COVER WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR, RIGHT NOW!" he shouted as the vehicles arrived right behind them with the Bradley aiming it's main turret at the remaining medieval looking soldiers behind the treeline as well as the two other vehicles had their turrets aimed there too.

Monriva stays inside the Oshkosh while Elijah got out of the

"IM NOT GONNA SAY AGAIN ALRIGHT, COME ON OUT!" he shouted again as Elijah stopped aiming her Carbine and heads over to the villagers as Tanner exited the Humvre with his M4 now aiming at the treeline.

"ALRIGHT YOU GUYS, WE GOT ALL DAY HERE!" Norvik shouted again informing them that he has all they to stand and shout at them, unlike most of the cops back on earth just immediately shoots a dude thats black or maybe some teenager, and the local government defending it which is bullshit, which caused the government to make a task force to deal with them, including the government removing the police immunity shit which arrested a shit ton of police officers, sheriffs, other law enforcement members, and a lot of them charged but continued to "protect and serve" and hell there were multiple shoot outs of the FBI and some local cops who didn't want to get arrested.

"Hey are you all ok?" Hillary asked the group of villagers. They all looked at the female Medic, still terrified of what they did yet still they might be a little hostile to them, but they saw the red plus on her vest and her shoulder, and not understanding what her role is but she seems friendly on how they see her and the ton of her voice.

"No need to be afraid and..." she paused as she saw a kid behind him traumatized of what he saw, especially the damn gore, and yet she realize this is bad.

"Can you guys get the kid in their homes, cause you know" she pointed at the kid behind the recently reckless villager behind him which was his son. He looked at the kid she pointed at which was his kid behind him, and he realized how bad it is for a kid to see all that shit. He saw her crouched in fron tof him and looks at his kid behind him and puts up a friendly smile.

"Hey kid, go back to your mother and guard her ok, your dad will help us protect your village ok" she said in a friendly manner to his son, and his kid actually listened to her and nodded. The kid ran back towards their house which kind of impressed the father from her tone.

"So as I said, are you all OK? no one's injured some shit like that yeah?" she asked again to the group. The villagers looked at each other, all not injured except for someone which was the reckless villager will say.

"Y-yeah I think so, my brother, he got stabbed but he's still alive but we-" he was explaining to her bu she cuts him off kind off rudely.

"Where? Lead me to him" she said, pretty much demanding but still unsure.

"Over here, follow me" he said as the demi-human led her to his brother, while the rest is just gonna deal with the shit heads hiding behind the trees.

"LOOK, WE WON'T KILL YA IF YOU SURRENDER, BUT IF YOU TRY TO KILL ANYONE OF US THEN THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY FOR YA!" Norvik shouted at them again, still telling them to surrender. The thing is, Tanner already called for back up and shit, which was the nearest recon Boys, which was Recon 2, and the members are slowly moving up behind the remaining dudes which Norvik and his men noticed.

There was 8 US soldiers sneaking on their back, and Norvik makes hand signals and pointing where the remaining dudes are, and the one leading the group of US soldiers that's about to sneak up to them nodded as he saw one of them peaking at Norvik's squad.

The leader of the 8 soldiers was wearing a green T-shirt and his good ol standard issued pants and a Patrol cap and bearing the rank of 1st Sergeant, and his name patch visible on the top middle of his IOTV saying Prawly, which was his last name.

Prawly got into position as well as his men right behind the remaining soldiers which was just four of them hiding behind the trees, and they weren't noticed yet.

*Crack*

One of his guys snapped a stick on the ground by accident since they are under the trees and off course there'll be stick and rocks everywhere and shit.

And the time it snapped one of the medieval looking soldiers looked behind him and saw one of Prawly's dudes.

"ENE-"

"GET THE FUCK DOWN ON THE GROUND!" one of Prawly's mean shouted as all of them got out of their concealment and all pointed their guns at them even though they don't know what a gun is but hopefully they know its a weapon that can fire quickly.... Or think it will take time to fire because they might call it magic staffs or wands and shit.

One of the surviving medieval soldiers pulled out his sword and attempted to charge one of the soldiers which was a dude with an M870 on hand which was ready to blow some heads off to bits.

"I SAID GET DOWN ON THE FUCKING GROUND"

"RAAAAA-"

*BANG*

*SPLAT* (Ooooohohohoh.... His face is gone haha... No his head is)

The soldier armed with a M870 MCS deleted the soldier's face scattering the bits of his face except for its hanging jaw, and hell the rest of the three as well pulled their swords out and supposed to charge at them but stopped after having one of their comrades face blown off to bits and his jaw hanging.

The three Medieval soldiers are both terrified and angry at the same time and unsure of what to do next after seeing that shot and starting to lose will to fight.

"DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND HANDS UP MOTHERFUCKERS!" the soldier with the MCS ordered as he clocked his shotgun and aimed at the three as well as his other buddies did so too.

The three soldiers didn't yet complied because of fear, yet unsure if they should get their selves killed or not, and because if they are captured, all they think is they will torture them, use them as toys, or some fucked up shit.

"I SAID HANDS UP!" the soldier ordered again and eventually all three dropped their weapons and got both their hands up high.

"Good, out on the open and disperse" Prawly then ordered in a non-aggressive tone but the three are confused and doesn't understand what disperse is and they're shaking as well.

"I said out on the open and di-don't be close to each other" he said again and avoiding more confusion just because some words doesn't exist in this world, including Ancronyms. The three complied as they got to the open, trembling in fear of what might happen to them. They followed Prawly's instructions to them, stand still on the open with their hands in the air and not close or too close to each other, for safety reasons of course, while the rest of the soldier's aims all their barrels at them.

"Hands behind your head, and lay down on ground" Prawly then orders to them and they did obey, the three placed both hands behind their head and lays down belly first

"Cuff em" he then ordered to his men as three soldiers with zip cuffs on their hands came close to them and zipped tied them pretty tight, making sure they won't escape.

"Sit down" one of the soldiers ordered the three as they all obeyed as everybody stopped pointing their weapons, and standed down and some placing their weapons on safety.

"Tan! I didn't know you called for back up?" Norvik questioned as he smirked and a bit proud at the shit he did. But they could've dealt with it even without backup.

"Yeah I know, sorry for not informing you, but I made our job easier didn't I?" he answered as the two chuckled.

"Yeah you did" he said.

Sgt. Prawly walked towards Norvik lookin glike he has a question or he has something to say. And hell he ain't sure if it's something bad or Prawly's worried for some shit

"Norvik" he called Norvik by his last name as they both raised their hands up for a high five.

"Yeah, what's up?" Norvik said as they both high fived. While some one of Prawly's men contacted the rest ofhis squad.

"These guys you shot at" and hell he sounds like he's gonna say some bad news.

"Yeah? What about em?" he asked and a little worried. Or meybe Prawly is worried about numbers and magic stuff.

"These fucks has the same uniform of the fuckers that attacked us at the village me and my boys found" he explained which made Norvuk raise an eyebrow.

"You guys found another village?" Norvik asked since this is like the only village seen or found and reported back to base but another one was missed... Or maybe the village they found was a little too far for the drones.

"Fuck yeah we did, it was damaged and the villagers are rebuilding, we asked the locals what happened and wd offered our help till these uniformed guys showed up and tried to make us surrender with sticks and swords and wanting ti enslave the demi-humans populace on the village"

"You guys shot em?" he asked if they did and Prawly smirked.

"Yeah we did, only shot their officer in the face and got em scared till their second CO came to us pointed his sword on me and said "You shall pay for the captain's death! Duel me!" and then there he said it" he said mocking the line of the second officer he and his men encountered before, and hell the villagers are eavesdropping on their conversation.

"You shot him too?" he asked.

"No"

"Oh"

He said and he was quite dissapointed he didn't shoot him though, since the medieval dudes are stupid even though they shot their Commanding officer they would still go on.

"But I chopped his head off with an E-Tool" Prawly said and chuckled and hell thats a way to go for that dude.... Getting your head chopped off by a small shovel, and hell it's sharp.

"Man the thing's sharp ain't it" the two chuckled for it

"Man you gotta love the shovel" Norvik said and hell the villagers were stunned about what they heard.

"So uhh... I'm gonna call this shit a skirmish, but we ain't at war with these guys" Prawly said, since this is just a skirmish of a small military units that are members of a large force. And hell they are unsure if they will have war already if they get in contact to whoever their leader is.

"And the chances of them or their country trying to kill us and call our actions of defending our selves and helping and defending the weak and innocent an act of war bullshit while all they do is this kind of shit about enslaving demi-humans for what reason? None, they call em freaks just because they have some additional ears or a tail and shit and call slavery is a symbol of power which is not" Norvik made a small and calm rant which surprised the villagers of his words, even though humans treated demi-humans like shit, but these guys are different in their view, and hell they're from another world.

"And its a symbol of inhumane shit and suffering, not power, it just shows how they're not human anymore and how fucked their morals are" and hell what they said makes sense, and after all finding out what the whole base was in, and knowing how the world works here.... Or how humans work in this world.

"And we'll go to war with them because of their fucked up shit but it depends if the Ltg. Would want to and change their country to a Republic, but we don't have enough man power to hold up a big country since it's only a near hundred thousands of us" Prawly explained and since it's only like 80 thousand of them with a big ass base near a missile sight.

"C'mon, we got Intel to gather"

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And tell me.... What makes a human being, an actual living being.