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Deiter turned to his squadmates in the back of the truck. His Sergeant turned up the Portable Television strapped to the seat. The squad all leaned in as Lazerus gave his speech: "...Even now, our CrusadenKampf Soldiers march toward our neighboring lands to the east and west. Soon these beasts shall be wiped from this, God's earth. But they can not do it alone. I call upon all of the Fatherland's people, as well as our sympathizers in other lands, to rise up! Rise up against the Anthros! Those furry demons have done the devil's work too long! Victory shall be ours!"

"Hail Lazerus!" Shouted the soldiers in the truck, as well as the neighboring one. Dieter didnt really care about this "Holy war" or "Anthros" or any of that. He just fought whoever his Fuerher told him to.

It was a perfect day. Too nice to be fighting, but there was no real way to change that. The Fuehrer wouldnt call off a war for a little sunshine.

A shreak sliced through the air and a mortar blast landed on the nearby truck, which errupted in a mass of smoke and fire. Deiter's squad hopped out of the back and sides of the truck, and none too soon. Their truck was soon after hit by another round from the mortar. The mortar began peppering the hillside that sloped into the Potolov town.

Dieter's sergeant called his men forward. "We must move forward! The hill is much to exposed!"

"Ja Oberfeldwebel," confirmed the squad, who immediately began moving forward and downhill.

One of the building's windows swung open and a machine gunner -- an anthro -- began spraying at the squad. As the rest of the squad ran, Dieter took a knee and aimed at the machine gunner's window. He sprayed a few rounds which peppered the gunner's wall. It didnt hit him, but it sure enough got his attention.

As the Anthro turned to shoot Dieter, a shot hit the window sill, exploding and shattering the wall below the window into a cloud of dust. An APC had fired it's 25mm cannon at the gunner. Dieter wasted no time catching up to the squad who had found shelter at the base of the structure. They were trying to piece things together.

"Herr Oberfeldwebel, where is our preliminary airstrikes or air support?"

"They were held up by pockets of AAA's and SAM's that our satalites missed. They should catch up with us at some point."

"Some point?! We need them now!"

"Private, get a hold of yourself. We must do our duty, and right now, that duty is eliminating these blasted mortars," The Sergeant turned to Dietrich Koffman, "Koffman, take your detatchment up the middle. I will take my squad down the road to the left and we will meet up in the town square as planned. It is likely that the mortars will be there. Hopefully one of us will destroy them first."

Dieter saluted and replied, "Ja, Herr Oberfeldwebel!"

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Billy stepped off out of the plane at the Dardansk International Airport in Dardansk City. He filed in with the rest of the class as customs checked them in. This place seemed tense. There were more guards than usual, or at least it appeared so. You could never tell in foreign countries what their "usual" was.

The soldiers from the Motherland Communist Federation had already taken up defense of Dardansk. It was not their home turf, but it was a communist country on their border that was at risk of attack from the Fatherlanders.

"Class, file in in front of the gate. A trolley will soon come with our luggage."

"Yes missus Hinkle" the students droned in unicen.

There was an uproar in the airport. Civilians and guards gathered around the Televisions positioned in terminal waiting rooms. Billy walked over to the nearest television despite the protest of his teacher.

A speech was being given by the leader of the Fatherland. A man named Lazerus. The speech was said in the Fatherland Dialect, with a Motherland dialect subtitle underneath. Billy had been taking Fatherland Language classes and understood most of what was being said.

"...Even now, our CrusadenKampf Soldiers march toward our neighboring lands to the east and west. Soon these beasts shall be wiped from this, God's earth. But they can not do it alone. I call upon all of the Fatherland's people, as well as our sympathizers in other lands, to rise up! Rise up against the Anthros! Those furry demons have done the devil's work too long! Victory shall be ours!"

Billy heard the roar of Jet engines overhead. It was not unusual to hear that sort of thing, this being an airport, but these engines sounded different. They sounded more high pitched and passed overhead much faster, although the jets still sounded very high up. As Billy looked up through the glass roof of the terminal, he saw the jet trails of the planes as they moved on.

Explosions erupted all around, the glass above shattered as bombs fell through them. The entire airport erupted in chaos as survivors of the attack evacuated the ravaged airport en masse.

As the din of the explosions faded, screaming and fire alarms filled Billy's hearing.

As the bombs began falling on the Internation Airport, Commissar Androv ran to the AA section of the battalion. "Why aren't you shooting?! And how deed they get so close?" The man in charge of the Anti-Aircraft section was cursing and in a near rage. "Comrade Commissar! The Fatherland has hidden its identity and used false transponder codes. If we fire now the missiles could target the civillians and the flak is not in range. I am sorry comrade."

Aleksey waved him aside, "We must be more careful then." Now what do we do? The air port is in ruins and I don't know if we should adavnce... Then he made a decision. "Mechanized Assault group one, we are going to help the civilians. The rest of the battalion will remain here as a reserve."

The Commissar climbed into the back of the truck and began riding off with then men and Anthros under his command. As they arrived at the airport the Commissar gave orders. "Squad one and two form a perimeter, squad three and four begin removing civilians from the wreckage."

(( I'm waiting for an opportunity to jump in ))

((There is fighting in Potolov as well. Feel free to jump in to help the nation's security))

The carnage inside the airport was horrendous. My god. The rubble inside was strewn about haphazardly and the wounded were groaning in pain. "Squad three search the lower levels, squad four with me." He stepped into an area that had be affected pretty badly by the bombs. "Is anyone here alive?" As he looked around he realized this was a terminal for foreigners. A message came across the communication system. "Comrade Commissar, there appear to be Panzers rolling toward us. Many of them." Aleksey growled quietly. "Set up defenses as much as you can. We must defens the civilians and the Motherland." He though he heard a groan come from ahead and to the left. He moved over toward the sound. The squads were pulling the injured who could move from the wreckage. Aleksey saw that among the dead and wounded were school children, though the term children was pushing it. Again he heard a moan of pain. "Is some one here alive?" he asked loudly.

Billy wandered around looking for his class which was nowhere to be found. Still disoriented by the attack, he wandered down the halted escalator to the ground floor. He sat down on a bench in the airport lobby, not noticing the blood dripping from a gash accross his forehead.

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Deiter looked through his binoculars at the pair of Potolovish mortar teams in the plaza as they loaded and fired their weapons. He looked to the sniper next to him as they stood on the third floor of a building and said, "Thats them alright, get a fix on them and wait for my command before firing."

"Ja, Wul!" Replied the sniper, who began sighting in on the mortars.

"Now, fire!" The sniper fired a shot and hit one of the mortar crewmen. An anthro. The other crewmen began reacting and began to look for cover when five blasts simultaneously rocked the mortar position.

The sergeant walked into the room from downstairs. "How foolish are you, Koffman? Using a single sniper to take out the mortar teams? They would have found you and called for support to take you out. You have much to learn about being a leader young Dietrich."

"I am sorry, Herr-"

"Dont apologize to me, Dieterich, appologize to your detachment who, if it hadn't been for me, would have all been dead by now."

"How did you take out the Mortars?"

"A Panzer 2000, a self propelled gun, made it close enough to the town to give us support. It fired 5 shots at different angles so that they would all hit the same target at once. Pretty ingenious, but not the important part."

"What?"

"I noticed something while making my way to the square. There was a Republican Soldier here, but he was unarmed. So I deduced that he was on leave from the embassy and thought nothing of it. But there was something else."

"What do you mean?"

"Dieter, look at the Potolovish Mortar team and tell me what guns they have."

"Why... they are M16s!"

"Indeed, it seems the Republicans are helping the Potolovish. They are probably ammassing forces at the Embassy. It is our duty to our brothers to see to it that those republic soldiers do not leave the embassy. We will take the Lynx APC and the Panzer 2000 and we will bottle them up in the embassy until we are given authorization to attack and destroy it, is that understood, Dieter?"

"Ja WUL!"

"Good... get the rest of your detatchment together and ready to embark in the APC."

((OOC: Now would be a good time for Republic Forces to jump in.))

Aleksey pulled a teenaged human from the rubble. He noticed the insignia of the Kingdom on the kid and in broken English asked. "Are you... good? Are you... have injuries?" Battered, the kid shook his head no. "Good. You need help us. The Fatherlanders are coming to... here. Go to trucks in back, tell them you are... not soldier. Help them load trucks with injured. You understand me?" The boy nodded and walked off in the right direction. Good.

"Comrade there is no-one left here we can find." Androv nodded. "Report back to the trucks. We must be ready to move soon. The Fatherlanders are coming. Prepare for maximum reistance. The Panzers will stab as deep as they can into the battalion. Have the communications officer warn the battalion. They must be ready or the battle is already over. I will collect third squad." The sergeant of the fourth squad nodded and saluted, "Dah comrade commissar."

He headed for the elevator, but realized they obviously wouldn't function. Snorting to himself he moved toward the escaltors. He saw something at the bottom and called out in his native Russian, "Comrade. what is down there?" He began walking down the escalator toward the seated figure.

Billy looked up, a blurred figure approached him. Billy called out for help but only let out a small wheeze then blacked out from loss of blood

Aleksey raced forward and checked the boy. Half anthro? Androv asked himself. No matter. He picked the kid up in a fireman's carry and began walking to the exit. "Squad three regroup on me and prepare to give covering fire. The Fatherlanders are almost here." Already he heard the grinding of treads. The squad began falling out with him, most helping some wounded. Aleksey dropped the boy in the back of one trucks. Already all four trucks were filled with wounded. "We must go now. Squad four stay with the trucks. The remainder of the men will stay back. We will hold off the Fatherlanders as long as we can."

Commissar moved into a recently fortified crater. "Hand me an RPG." As one was placed in his hand he radioed to his men on an encrypted channel, "Don't shoot until they pass us. Target priority is troop transports, Panzer tanks, and then artillery pieces." The first Panzers rolled by. Androv whispered "Hold your fire." Nearly twenty Panzers rolled by, followed by some transport trucks. Androv fired his rocket into the back of one of the trucks after it passed. The rest of the squads fired rapidly after the first truck exploded. Chaos erupted. Fatherlanders began jumping out of their vehicles. "TAKE THEM OUT!" Aleksey began firing his AK at the soldiers. "Get close to their Panzers so they can't shoot!"

About 3 minutes after being dumped onto the back of a truck, billy's truck hit a bump and he rolled out of the back into a ditch. A minute later, he awoke in a daze and crawled up onto the road. The convoy had moved on. Already this field trip is rubbish he thought. He stood up and cupped his hand across his brow to give shade to his eyes as he looked towards the airfield in the not-too-far off distance. Explosions erupted and smoke plumes began to billow. Without thinking he ran. Ran towards the fighting.

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Dieter popped open one of the two hatches on the APC. His squad leader was already in the other hatch looking towards the embassy through his binoculars.

"It is worse than I thought," exclaimed the Sergeant, "Koffman, they have two abrams tanks idling by the main gate."

"Can the Panzer 2000 destroy them, Herr Oberfeldweber?"

"Yes, but only if it remains unseen. We will have to coordinate fire for it. That is if we fire."

"If?"

"Yes. Those tanks are within the embassy limits. As long as they stay in there we can not fire upon them unless the Fuerher gives us the Okay. For now, we will have the P2000 fire on anything that happens to be unfortunate to step out of the embassy compound."

After about a half hour of waiting in the building across from the embassy, a humvee patrol vehicle finally approached the gate.

The Sergeant called into the radio to the 2000, "We will give them a warning first. Fire ahead of it only. Do not hit it directly unless they fire upon us. Give them a chance to flee."

The gate opened and the Humvee wheeled out of the compound's borders. As dieter watched from the window, a shell screamed towards the Humvee and cratered the ground in front of it. The vehicle spun to avoid the crater and the stream of incoming rounds and flipped onto its side. The soldiers inside of it vacated the vehicle and ran for cover within the embassy's borders.

"Objective accomplished, cease the barrage," Confirmed the sergeant.

Dieter heard a faint "DukaDukaDuka" noise grow slightly louder.

"OberfeldWebel! look! They are launching two Apache Helicopters!"

"The APC's rocket can take out one, but the other we will have to eliminate. Have your rocketeer come upstairs and take out the helicopter."

"Ja Wul!"

As Dieter brought his Rocketeer upstairs, the helicopters passed overhead and headed directly towards the 2000. Dieter heard the discharge of several anti tank rockets and a following explosion. The Sergeant furiously tried raising the tank on the radio.

"Panzer 2000, are you still there? .... Panzer crew, can you read me? ... Panzer, come in!" The Sergeant finally gave up, "Dieter, take those Helicopters out of the sky."

"Herr Oberfeldwebel?"

"Until the rest of the division makes it past the lines, we are on our own."

Ket with his team of demolishioners took out the panzer 2000 during the explosion. He come on the radio that he pick up from one of the guys. And in there tounge. "Panzer Crew here, what did you need?" His team moves closer to the sergeants group staying quiet and ready to kill.

(OOC:Ket is the name i gave this char. finally and i hope this is ok for me to destroy the panzer 2000!!!)

((The apache's had supposedly taken it out, but whatever.))

The Sergeant was relieved to hear the response. "Panzer crew, suppress the Republican Embassy's gate. Let them know we are still alive. Bleckmann out." Sergeant Bleckmann switched over to another channel, "Ja Fieldmarshall I am still here. Ja, the Republic's helicopters fired on the '2000 but it is still operational. Ja, we took down one of the helicopters in retaliation and the other one fled but... Nein Fieldmarshall, I suppose there is no reason to hesitate firing then. Ja, we will eliminate the embassy."

Ket's Crew Fires a rocket not at the embassy but right at Bleckmann and his crew. The Snipers in the group fire on what ever of his crew is left. Ket sneaks up to Bleckmann. Has a knife to his neck and starts to place an exlosive on his back. "Well, well, well who do we have here. Ummm... Mr. Bleckmann I think it was over the radio. Nice to see a person who doen't like Our Kind running a muck Mmmm... Well...."

((Just so you know, Bleckmann is not my character))

Dieter hit the ground as a rocket ripped the building open. As he stumbled up to recover, he saw a man -- no, an anthro, a panther, bring a knife to his sergeant's throat. Dieter rolled behind an overturned table then came up from behind it with his G36 up.

"he lassen Sie, Panzer, das Messer zu Boden fallen und kommen weg vom Oberfeldwebel!"

((Translation: Hey you, Panther, drop the knife to the ground and come away from the Sergeant!))

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Billy neared the fighting, as he passed through the main gate to the airport, he found a Motherland soldier lying dead. He picked up his AK-47 Rifle which was a bit large for him, but at least Billy could hold it. He ran up towards the tarmac, but a Fatherland Soldier popped out from behind a luggage trolley and fired at Billy. Reacting quickly, billy spun around and hid behind a truck. The Fatherlander continued peppering the truck, then the fire ceased. Before Billy could peek around, a round green-grey object rolled along side of the truck... A grenade.

Ket look up at the solider and smiled. He put his hands up after done with the expolsive. then he kick the sargeant toward the solider set off the explosive right in front of the solider. In their Tounge again "Well he hand an explosive personality" as he said this he throws the knife aiming for the solider head then diving back into cover.